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Born and raised right here in Columbus, Alissa lives in Pickerington with her husband. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Ohio University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and a certificate in Political Communication.
Prior to joining the CW, she was the Managing Editor for a daily webzine for three years. Afterward, she was the social media manager and photographer for Mayor Michael B. Coleman's (successful) re-election campaign. When that campaign ended, she went back to writing and was a popular freelance writer for multiple websites and her topics included celebrities, finances, and current events.
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Favorite Food: Pasta, especially tortellini
Obsessions: The color pink, social media, Apple products & celebrity gossip
Hobbies: Writing, shopping, reading, running and watching TV with my hubby
Random talent(s): I can dance pretty well
Favorite Movie: Sex and the City (the first one NOT the second)
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Favorite Music: Beyonce and Israel Houghton
One thing you can't live without: My iPhone!
Favorite Place In Columbus: Polaris Fashion Place and Easton Towncenter
Favorite CW Show: Carrie Diaries and America's Next Top Model
One of your biggest life lessons: When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
Where's the furthest place away from home you've been? I went on a cruise for my honeymoon and it stopped at Aruba, Turks & Caicos, Curacao and Dominican Republic. Best vacay ever!
Favorite Ice Cream: Coldstone Creamery
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What's in your purse? My phone, a mirror, gum, coupons and rewards cards to every restaurant/store that gives them out.
Bungee Jumping or Skydiving? Um...neither? Bungee jumping if I had to choose
Panera or Cosi: Cosi!
Facebook or Twitter: Twitter!
Favorite Season: Summer!
First Job: Grocery bagger at Meijer when I was 14.
College: Ohio University in Athens!
Place I'd Most Like to Travel To: Europe (London to see the castle, Paris to see the Eiffel Tower and Italy so I can eat tons of Italian food)
Favorite Thing about Cameron: He's incredibly creative, super high energy and fun to be around!


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A Look Back at the Grand Hotel's 125 Years of Rich History
This week, the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island celebrates its 125th anniversary. In honor of that, Bob Tagatz, Resident Historian and Concierge at the Grand Hotel, takes us on a journey through the history of the hotel and shows us that there's much to explore at this historic establishment.
Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel will be celebrating our 125th Birthday on July 10, 2012. It has been a privilege to serve as resident historian for this rare institution for the past 17 years.
Any business that has continuously served the public for over a century would be proud to achieve such a milestone. But a massive 385 room wood frame hotel that has never closed its doors to the traveling public through the industrial revolution, two world wars, economic depression, recessions, changes in transportation, travel, leisure and as structure survived the ravages of time and weather is nothing less than astonishing.
The hotel was originally built by two railroads and a steam ship company who needed to create a grand destination for the gilded age traveler to escape the scorching summer heat, dust and dirt of America's industrial cities. Mackinac Island provided a healthy robust environment with clean air and water but most importantly a constant cool breeze blowing in from the lake. The island's rich human history from the first native Americans, explorers, Jesuit priests, soldiers, fur traders, commercial fisherman, and finally Victorian tourists made Mackinac Island the perfect choice to build a large stately hotel. I often imagine the long ago conversations that once echoed down her long hallways, dining rooms, and stately front porch. By gone guests speaking about how they hoped to visit the new Washington Monument and recently opened Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. Endless discussions on how electricity would change the world. The superiority of internal combustion engines to steam in industrial uses and its adaption to the first four wheeled vehicle just two years before.
Do you think Mackinac Island National Park will ever become Michigan's first state park? How about the excitement of the first messages arriving to the hotel by telegraph and later by the telephone. The wide eyed amazement when Lou Owens of the Edison Photographic Company demonstrated his new machine that reproduced the human voice and music from a cylinder. The debate of when if ever the railroad ferries from lower peninsula will start carrying
automobiles across the Straits of Mackinac to upper Michigan. Did the hotel windows rattle when the first airplane flew over? With prohibition gaining nationwide prevalence thank goodness John Pemberton introduced new alcohol free beverages the very year Grand Hotel opened Coke Cola and later the click of dice from the hotel speakeasy referred to as back of the house entertainment. The clink of bottles in the illegal cases of booze being smuggled in from Canada. Grand Hotel is a summer resort about fun, escape and fantasy, but you can't help but wonder if there was a more solemn conversation about the United States entering into World War I and the hush tones about the unimaginable crash of the stock market in 1929. Was there patriotic music played to celebrate the end of World War II? Has anyone seen Esther Williams today, you know she is filming down by the hotel pool. From the hotel's porch you could watch a life size erector set being constructed as the Mighty Mackinac Bridge was being assembled between 1954 and 1957. I am relatively sure that a black and white TV was prominently placed somewhere in the hotel broadcasting a flickering image of the first man to set foot on the face of the moon and later the sound of a little Fiat sports car being driven up Grand hill by Christopher Reeves during the filming of Somewhere in Time. A sign of things to come, the humming of the first air conditioner on those rare occasions when the cool lake breeze failed us. Today the hotel halls are filled with a miracle of the Internet Wi-Fi connection, enabling our guest to access the information web and each other in a fraction of a second.
The sound I most remember from last year is the jingling of a row of brass bells on an antique Coke Cola bike being ridden by a young man on his very first day of work. The young man represents the fourth generation of the family that had been the steadfast stewards of this grand old lady.
Grand Hotel has been associated with the same family since 1919 and owned solely by them since 1933. W. Stewart Woodfill came to Grand Hotel in 1919 to work as a modest desk clerk and he worked his way up the ranks to manager and eventually owner. His nephew came to work fulltime the hotel in 1951 and like his uncle, ascended the ranks to president and wife Amelia Musser became the secretary treasurer, they ultimately purchased the hotel in 1979 keeping it in the same family. His son Dan Musser III is now President and his daughter Mimi Musser Cunningham is Vice President.
The hotel exists today because of the dedication of this family, their ability and vision to successfully guide this hotel into it third century of service against unbelievable odds. Its survival is tribute to their belief and dedication to this institution. The Musser families are the ultimate hosts.
We must never overlook the others who have been key to the hotel success. Our patrons, those loyal guests and conventions that have traveled a parallel path supporting this hotel through its evolution in hospitality. The next monumental event that this grand old lady will witness in the second week of July among countless celebrations will be the cutting of a 125 foot long birthday cake in her honor.
She has found a way to offer as many modern amenities as possible for today's traveling public but has never forgotten who she is, who she serves or where she has come from and if I may say so myself she has never looked better. Happy Birthday Grand Hotel!
Bob Tagatz is the Resident Historian and Concierge at Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel.


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Champaign, Ill. – The University of Illinois Division of Intercollegiate Athletics (DIA) announced Thursday that wrestling's Jesse Delgado (Gilroy, California) and soccer's Jannelle Flaws (Glenview, Illinois) are recipients of the 2013-14 Dike Eddleman Awards, which are presented annually to the top Fighting Illini male and female athlete. They were selected following a vote of Illinois head coaches and athletics administrators.
Delgado is the eighth wrestler to claim the honor and the first since Matt Lackey in 2003. Flaws becomes just the second soccer player to win the award, joining Leisha Alcia in 2004. As Fighting Illini Athletes of the Year, Delgado and Flaws become Illinois' nominees for Big Ten Athlete of the Year honors, which will be announced later this month.
Delgado is the 2014 NCAA champion at 125 pounds, successfully defending his 2013 NCAA title to become Illinois' first back-to-back national champion in 56 years. He posted a 3-2 decision over No. 2 seed Nahshon Garrett of Cornell in the title match. He also repeated as Big Ten champion at 125, defeating No. 1 seed Nico Megaludis of Penn State, 3-2, in double overtime.
Delgado compiled a 30-2 record during his junior campaign, his .938 win percentage ranking seventh in school history. He led the Illini with 80 dual points scored and was named Outstanding Wrestler at the Grapple at the Garden.
"This is a prestigious award for me to win as an individual, but it is way more important to the program as a whole on so many levels," Delgado said. "Nobody sees the pain and emotion that goes into this sport: the nights that you can't sleep – from both wrestlers and coaches; the literal tears and blood throughout the season; the partners in the room who help shape me for nothing more than me saying 'Thanks, man,' and the coaches saying 'Good job.' Everybody plays a role for the team and everybody helps each other in different ways. Wrestling is unique and it's great that our sport is considered to have one of the university's top athletes. No one is more important than the team as a whole, so I'd say in a way our whole team really is being recognized for this award. I love my team, coaches and the entire staff. I wouldn't be as successful as I have been without them."
Flaws was an offensive force throughout the season, scoring 23 goals to lead the nation along with St. John's Rachel Daly. Her 23 goals also eclipsed the previous school record of 18 by Emily Brown in 1999. Flaws was named 2013 Big Ten Forward of the Year and was a first-team All-Big Ten and All-Great Lakes Region selection.
Flaws found the net in 15 of 23 games and had six multi-goal games, including hat tricks versus Illinois State and Northwestern. She also notched five game-winning goals, none bigger than her golden goal against Portland in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, sending Illinois to its first Sweet 16 since 2008.
"To be selected as this year's athlete of the year is such an honor," Flaws said. "All the nominees had outstanding seasons and to be recognized for this is truly a special moment. Being the second soccer player to win and be in a category with Leisha Alcia is a great privilege but much credit to her because she helped lead me to this moment with her coaching over the past four years. Along with Leish, my teammates, coaches, athletic trainer and strength coach deserve a lot of thanks and credit, too. Coming back from two knee injuries made certain moments very difficult, but with their encouragement and support I was able to come back stronger and determined. My teammates make me better every day at practice and because of the players they are, I am able to succeed on the field. My coaches continue to teach me and by learning from them, my game has been elevated in a way I didn't even know was possible. I'm grateful to everyone who made it possible for me to receive this award and I am proud to be an Illini."
The University of Illinois Athlete of the Year was first awarded in 1940. The award was given annually until it was discontinued in 1973. Since 1983, the University of Illinois has recognized both a Male and Female Athlete of the Year. In 1993, the awards were named in honor of the 11-time UI letterman and former Olympian Dwight "Dike" Eddleman.
Delgado and Flaws join the list of all-time Fighting Illini greats that have been bestowed the Eddleman Award, including names like Dike Eddleman himself (football, basketball and track, 1948 & '49), Dick Butkus (football, 1964 & '65), Craig Virgin (track and cross country, 1977), Tony Eason (football, 1982 & '83), Mary Eggers (volleyball, 1987-89), Kendall Gill (basketball, 1990), Renee Heiken (golf, 1991 & '92), Ashley Berggren (basketball, 1997 & '98), Perdita Felicien (track, 2001-03), Justin Spring (gymnastics, 2004 & '06), Deron Williams (basketball, 2005), Angela Bizzarri (track and cross country, 2008-10), Scott Langley (golf, 2010), Andrew Riley (track, 2011 & '12) and Colleen Ward (volleyball, 2012), to name a few.
This is the final major honor announced by the DIA this year. Nathan Scheelhaase (football) and Vanessa DiBernardo (soccer) were recipients of the Big Ten Medal of Honor and Ross Guignon (tennis) and Jennifer Beltran (volleyball) took home the Spirit Awards at the All-Sports Celebration in April. Chandler Eggleston (gymnastics) and Kandie Bloch-Jones (track and field) won Newcomer of the Year, announced Tuesday, and men's golf and coach Mike Small, won the inaugural Team of the Year and Coach of the Year awards, announced Wednesday.


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A conference in Belgium invited 230 guests from 43 countries to 'brainstorm' on Europe's biodiversity research strategy. CEC member Anne Franklin shares this report on the event, also attended by Katalin Czippan, CEC Regional Vice-Chair for Europe.
By Dr. Articus-Lepage and Dr. Anne Franklin
How would we like to see our lives in 2050? What are our dreams for the future if we permit ourselves a positive vision for biodiversity?
Under this positive attitude 230 participants tackled the biodiversity crisis during a two-day conference 16 and17 November 2010 in Brussels organised by the Belgian Biodiversity Platform.
The participants came from various sectors and all played a leading role as stakeholder in their country as economists, artists, architects, philosophers, politicians, and scientists. They presented the wishes of society for our future regarding biodiversity. During a concerted brainstorming process, called the 21st Century Town Hall method and animated by the facilitator "Global Voices", the participants defined 10 main visions and the necessary steps to achieve these goals.
This stakeholder's conference was followed by an EPBRS meeting on 18 and 19 November 2010 by leading European scientists in order to discuss the research strategy in Europe. They analysed how biodiversity research can be shaped to meet best the challenges identified by the conference.
The conferences identified ten visions themes:
- Governance that is more transparent and effective and that balances global and local responsibilities
- Sustainable and participatory management of land, seascapes and urban areas
- A sustainable human population
- High technology that is used to build a low tech world that enhances and protects biodiversity
- Sustainable renewable energy and transportation
- Sustainable food production, using minimum energy and resources
- Efficient use of resources through responsible production and consumption, recycling and eliminating waste
- The integration of biodiversity into every part of life
- Transforming the economic paradigm to reflect fully biodiversity and human values
- Values and behaviours appropriate to a more harmonious way of life.
Staying positive while observing how fast biodiversity is decreasing and what damage this will bring to society is not obvious. However, it is probably the best way for keeping on finding solutions, for believing in that change is possible and to mobilise people.
This conference was really inspiring and it motivated participants to take their role within their networks to work towards a positive future. The conference website and Facebook page will function as a discussion forum to stimulate actions. The reports from the conference, as well as the comic strip contest on biodiversity, which took place in connection to the conference, are accessible on the conference website.
The event was organised by the Belgian Biodiversity Platform, the Belgian Science Policy Office, and the Steering Committee of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy. It was delivered in partnership with the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, the Department of Economy, Science and Innovation of the Flemish Government (EWI), the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB) the UNESCO Man and Biosphere Programme (MAB), the Biostrat project and the European Commission. It was also sponsored by Greenfacts and Thalys. The event was held in the context of the International Year of Biodiversity and with the support of the Belgian Presidency of the European Union.
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My thoughts...honestly my thoughts are that she needs to be socialized. This dog park is 100% dogs off leash. We do fence off the area during practice while the dogs are waiting their turn. But...you have to walk half way around the lake to get to the dock.
My suggestion would NOT to take the chance and use a muzzle walking through the park..it is HUGE and will let her get used to other dogs being around her and with a muzzle there would be zero chance she would hurt another dog. You would be doing her favor exposing her to other dogs in an off elash setting. Most dogs are less agresive off leash. Some great dogs are leash agressive. Those are my thoughts. Give her a chance in a safe setting..with a muzzle until you see what she will do.
I've emailed Ginger, my goddess of a trainer, to see what her thoughts are. But do you guys think a quick dash through a dog park while muzzled (and on-leash, obviously) is going to set back our training? I REALLY want to go teach Inara to swim and dock dive, but I need to make sure that her safety and mental health come first. Thoughts?


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The body of 23-year-old Chen Rong-yu sat in a crowded Taipei gaming center for nine hours before anyone noticed that something was amiss.
To misappropriate a meme, online gaming is serious business. How serious? Apparently serious enough that people will continue clicking away despite the presence of a decaying corpse only feet from their keyboards.
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Though the investigation is ongoing, local authorities believe that Mr. Rong-yu passed away due to a pre-existing heart condition and the low temperatures of his surroundings. These two factors, along with Mr. Rong-yu's lack of movement while playing and fatigue, may have created a blood clot, and subsequent heart attack.
While most would use this opportunity to warn gamers against the dangers of remaining stationary for extended periods of time, I think the real crux of this issue is that dozens of people failed to notice a deceased person in their midst for hours. Yeah, I get that clicking on your dudes is important, but man, where's the spatial awareness people? Would any of these gamers have batted an eye if a fire broke out? Would they have moved aside if a car crashed through the wall?
I'm not going to jump on the "videogames are dangerously addictive" bandwagon, but I'm suddenly a bit worried about our species. There are completely immobile thorn bushes in Kenya that have better survival instincts than LAN gamers. In the event of a puma attack, we're little more than squishy meat sacks, but at least previous generations would have thrown something heavy at the snarling beast. Now I wonder if we'd even grumble as our arms are torn off by oversized feline claws.
I couldn't help but laugh. This is genuinely funny because i can imagine the community screaming "omg gtfo noob he dun fukin no how to moov".
Are you kidding?
Whos going to get up and risk reducing their APM rating?
"Now I wonder if we'd even grumble as our arms are torn off by oversized feline claws."
Of course we would, we wouldn't be able to click anything then.
Actually, I have to wonder about any major urban environment causing this kind of desensitization to your surroundings. Does anybody notice if a homeless person dies on the street? No, they just think they're sleeping and walk right on by. Granted, this is more extreme, but the idea is the same. It's background noise. You're not paying attention to it, so you've tuned it out.
Few things can mask the smell of decomposition, but gaming geeks prevail yet again! :D
It's not uncommon for folk to sleep at some of these cafes, silly submitter. That said, nine hours is quite a long time for no one to notice the "sleeping dude" isn't breathing.
Man Asia countries don't stop gaming for shit do they? There's been more than a few cases of someone dieing in a web cafe and no one noticing.
only in Asia .....
nice to see all the laws they have to stop this kinda thing aren't working.
Nine hours is a lot, but there's many things contributing to the "not noticing":
Maybe people did look at the dead body, but all they saw was a person sitting in front of a computer using it. And nobody cares about a random stranger to check if he's actually playing...
Well, those things tend to be slightly more noticeable than a man sitting at a desk.
(Skims previous replies, notices several belittling lack of empathy from Asians)
Looks like he was in the wrong place...
'When one plays with death at the tips of his fingers, it might snatch from him those that he loves'
Or something. I don't know.
This is probably why you're told to take regular 15-minutes breaks every hour or so.
Well it depends, in asia the computer labs are partitioned and many computer players sleep in the chair. So if he was face down on a key board in a partition no one would really care. Also if they were al wearing headphones and focused who knows.
Oh shit I feel bad for laughing at that.
Man this is just like dieing while having sex!
but to be honest, its always sad when someone dies. But those "internet cafes" tend to have rather isolated littele cubibiles and sleeping there (breaking down after a night of gaming) isn't something out of the ordinary.
But man, in every "sport" or activity people die, this was just a coincidence is my guess.
I know the post-orgasm come-down is called the 'little death', but that's taking it a bit too far.
At least he died a happy man I guess, creepy though how this kind of thing is normal now.
What I find hypocritical is that the article pays very little attention to the deceased, but bemoans the fact that other people paid no attention to the deceased.
That's sad for his family and friends. Hopefully for those who need closure, an answer can be found. I'd imagine that at least the act of dying was relatively painless since he didn't cry out or spasm.
To the meat of the article: is the moral, then, that I should poke anyone taking a nap in a cafe? Just to be sure?
Also, this was an internet cafe, where everyone is predominantly motionless aside from their fingers. They attributed low movement as a contributing factor to cause of death, didn't they?
A smell wouldn't develop until after about 24 hours, unless it was particularly hot or humid; but the article says the cold may have been a factor in his death.
Anyway, a sad affair all around.
and this surprises you? from a country where a baby gets hit multiple times by passing cars at plain day and nobody wanted to stop cause they would be held responsible for funeral charges, this is nothing
This reminds me of a quote from one of my favourite movies:
No one really notices the world around them anymore.
To be fair, a lot of gamers totally look dead while gaming.
But yeah, this is a bit messed. I can see one hour of not noticing, but NINE? Some waitresses worked their WHOLE SHIFT WHILE HE WAS DEAD and they didn't notice that he wasn't... you know... PLAYING?
Could have been a rage stroke brought on by kill stealing.
I have been in a few LAN cafes, not all make the wise investment of air fresheners. The combined reek of mountain dew, various energy drinks and body odour can overpower that of death.
You saw it here first people, League of Legends kills
"Dood are u fuckin dead or something?"
No, seriously. This is a tragedy, though I could not help but laugh. And if I died EXACTLY like that, I could only hope that the world could find it in themselves to laugh at me.
I'll drink a tasty beverage and play some league in his memory. Didn't know the guy but he damn well deserves the respect.
I need to stop reading these articles. The comments you guys leave behind make me laugh and then I feel like a terrible person
Must...not make...map ..awareness..joke..
You'd at least think the waitress would have noticed!
But then if you ever watch someone playing a video game, unless they are raging they usually look dead anyway.
And another one added to the list of death by gaming.
It's nonexistant. And it is not just a gaming thing, it's a general thing of beeing in public.
I was once attacked by three dudes on an open area full of people during daytime. No one cared (good for me that I know enough martial arts to defend myself properly). There are videos of a old man who collaps in the middle of a street. No one cares. People are afraid to get in trouble if they start paying attention to their surroundings.
Yup, that's what I was thinking.
"Hey, what's up with him?"
"Oh, he's just in the zone."
Extreme gaming has spawned some bizarre deaths alright.
I feel bad, but i think he was probably reported for being AFK during a game.
Not sure if this should be considered a tragedy or a facepalm fest.
But nevertheless, condolences to whoever the man's family and friends are, and hopefully people in that cafe will be a little more attentive to what's going on to whom in the future, 'ey..
Shit! Beat me to it.
That was essentially the first thing that came to mind... that and "How did it take 9 hours for anyone to notice something was Rong?".
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IF: Sour
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- Connie said...
This is so incredibly slick, it was worth the wait. Would love to sit in on a tutorial about how you do that!
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Great work! You've got a lot of cool things going on here.
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Thanks for visiting, Josh. I always have a difficult time deciding which image to use. The frog one seemed to get a lot of responses from different areas of the art world...
Great movement in your piece...
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Love that rubber kisser!
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Ha! what a great take on the sour theme! Very clever!
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Mojitos and Cuba Libres tend to have that punch, a'la a large physical fist emanating from the drink itself and assaulting the patron.
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February 22, 2005 at 11:14 am #2935
After the recent exchange about The Confessions, I thought that this item might be of some interest. These comments on A.C. were by Eric Stephensen, Inky Stephensen's younger brother, and were written in 1970 after The Confessions were published. They were evidently sparked by a review of it in the Melbourne paper The Age, September 12, 1970, a copy of which is attached to the manuscript of the Comments. P.R.S. (Percy Reginald Stephensen) and Perc refer to Inky. Winifred was Inky's wife. Valentine Crowley was an electrician who helped form Australia First, an attempt at a nationalist movement in the 1930's.
Comments On Aleister Crowley
by Eric Stephensen. Sept. 1970
P.R.S. told me that one day while he was at the Mandrake Press, a fellow walked into the office and said to him, I would like you to publish my life story. Perc said Well, where is it? I've got it outside. So he walked out, and returned with a small boy pushing a wheelbarrow loaded with manuscripts. Whether this is true or not I cannot say, but this is what Perc told me of the way he met Aleister Crowley.
It took Perc a long time, and a lot of editing to sort out that pile of manuscripts, edit it and finally produce the first two volumes. Winifred said that the third volume would not permit itself to be published. She said, as far as I can remember, that it consisted of prophecies and many other remarkable things, but no matter how they tried, something or other kept cropping up to stop them from publishing it.
Now this may seem rather far-fetched at this time. But Crowley was a remarkable man, and there can be no doubt that he had quite an atmosphere about him. To illustrate the point, I relate a story: the only one I can remember about Crowley.
Crowley was an artist of sorts, and one day he brought one of his paintings into the office of the Mandrake Press. I can well imagine Perc's enthusiastic reception of this. At any rate he proudly hung it up in one corner of the room.
Now it may be remembered that Perc's partner was a Jew called Goldston. When Goldston walked into the room and saw this painting hanging on the wall, he nearly had a fit. He said to Perc, for God's sake take the thing down. If you have it there, something will happen.
However, Perc managed to calm him down, and they went home that evening, with the painting still hanging up. Next morning when he opened up the oiffice, Perc discovered that the painting was now face downward on the floor, and the ceiling in the corner of the room had fallen down!
It is noticed that The Confessions of Aleister Crowley is now to be edited by John Symonds. This is not a pseudo-nym for P.R.S., but a different person altogethor. But no doubt Symonds has a pretty high opinion of himself to find a re-editing necessary.
John Symonds was the man who wrote The Great Beast. This was largely a re-hash of The Confessions with other facts thrown in. At the time this appeared in Melbourne, I purchased a copy, and after reading it gave it to P.R.S. Perc was pleased to get it, but did not think much of the title. He said that Symonds would not have dared to publish the book whilst Aleister Crowley was alive. The book was in fact published after Crowley's death, and I have a notion that I have since read elsewhere that Symonds was one of the trustees of the Crowley estate.
It was an odd thing that later, in Sydney, P.R.S. should get to know another Crowley, two in fact, Valentine and Clarence. Clarence hardly came into it. Valentine was the one. In his Confessions Aleister made reference to and wrote in some detail on the mystical quality of the A of Aleister. Valentine had the V, an A upside down. One may pause, to wonder, whether Aleister helped to push P.R.S. up, and whether Valentine helped to pull him down.February 22, 2005 at 11:31 am #10924
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing that with us…
It is noticed that The Confessions of Aleister Crowley is now to be edited by John Symonds… No doubt Symonds has a pretty high opinion of himself to find a re-editing necessary.
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GNU/Linux offers a bewildering variety of flavors -- or distributions, as they're called. To a newcomer's eye, many of these seem virtually identical to each other.
Named for founder Ian Murdock and his wife Debra, Debian may be the most influential GNU/Linux distribution yet. From Ubuntu, Knoppix, and MEPIS through to Xandros and Linspire, many of the best-known distributions today are based on Debian, and the percentage holds roughly true in any listing of distributions. Moreover, with over 1,000 developers and some 20,000 packages, as well as support for 11 different hardware architectures, Debian has a strong claim to being one of the largest free software projects in existence.
Debian is distinguished by its repository system. Each new package enters the unstable repository, then passes through testing to stable status as it meets quality assurance standards. Each of these repositories is further subdivided into three sections: Main,which contains only free software; contrib, which contains free software that requires non-free software to use, and non-free, which contains software not released under a free license. This system allows users to choose the high dependability of official releases, or to choose the balance between cutting edge software and dependability that they prefer. Similarly, the subdivisions allow users to choose the level of software freedom on their systems.
Debian has a reputation for being hard to install and use, neither of which is true today. The new Debian installer released a couple of years ago has taken the pain out of installation, while the prevailing ethos today seems to be to accommodate all levels of users from newbie to expert. Similarly, the frequent complaint that official releases are slow to emerge is largely irrelevant, since most users can get the latest software simply by installing from the appropriate repository.
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Fedora's main reputation is for being the first distro to include new innovations. For instance, Fedora was the first distribution to include tools that allowed average users to work with SELinux's detailed security options. In the same way, Fedora 7 was the first to include Smolt, a program for collecting hardware information about users; Revisor, a program for creating custom install disks, and the Liberation typefaces that provide the metrical equivalents of Arial, Helvetica, and Times Roman in free fonts. Although some users on Fedora mailing lists suggest that this innovation makes Fedora unsuitable for servers and mission-critical operations, an increased attention to testing is starting to make that generality obsolete. After a slow couple of years, Fedora is also well on the way to realizing its goal of creating a thriving community in which Red Hat is important, but no longer completely dominates decision-making.
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Employ Secure CRT Functions in Your C/C++ Applications
C run-time libraries (CRT) functions like memcpy date back to a time when it was cool to wear your hair long and drop vowels from function names. These functions were conceived and implemented in a world of low-connectivity where attackers weren't scanning every port of your clients' and end-users' PCs over a broadband connection, attempting to find software vulnerabilities such as buffer overruns. In those good old days of the C runtime, the worst-case scenario for a buffer overrun vulnerability was an operating system crash.
Times have changed. The cleanup cost of major attacks such as Slammer and Code Red that exploit buffer overrun vulnerabilities is similar to that of nuclear reactor meltdowns (the cost of Code Red clean-up and lost productivity was $2.6 billion; approximately $973 million has been spent in the Three Mile Island cleanup). Thankfully, the use of CRT functions that make buffer overruns more likely is no longer required, and safer alternatives are available.
Non-secure CRT Functions in Legacy Code
Consider the venerable and widely used memcpy function, which allows the contents of one buffer to be copied to another. The standard memcpy function has the following prototype:
void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t count);
The function has an inherent problem: The size of the destination buffer is never specified to the CRT, which means that it is not possible to implement any safety check to ensure that the destination buffer is big enough to receive the data. Any sensible developer, of course, will check that the destination size is sufficient, but experience has shown that, in the course of complex software development projects that span many releases, the responsibility for which bit of code needs to perform the check can become unclear. As a result, the check can be missed entirely, leading to a vulnerability.
The extended version of the CRT adds an _s to the name of the function and a new parameter that allows the size of the destination buffer to be specified. The CRT function then can perform a quick check that ensures that the size of the destination buffer is sufficient to accommodate the number of bytes that need to be copied from the source buffer. In many cases, this destination buffer size check will already occur in the code that calls functions like memcpy, but it is the cases where sloppy programming or maintenance mistakes have neglected to include the check that the new secure functions will catch. The modified prototype of memcpy is:
errno_t memcpy_s(void *dest, size_t sizeInBytes, const void *src, size_t count);
Notice too that the return value has been changed from a pointer that returns the address of the destination buffer in the case of memcpy to an error code in the case of memcpy_s. If the destination buffer is of insufficient size when a call to memcpy_s is made, the invalid parameter handler is invoked. By default, this will result in an access violation, but you can change the invalid parameter handler with a call to _set_invalid_parameter_handler, which takes a function pointer to the new handler function to be used.
The Secure CRT in Use
While converting to the secure CRT functions is generally a good idea, the work involved in identifying all the CRT functions that now have a secure form, finding all the instances of these functions in a large code base, and then converting them is a fairly large task. For the record, the complete list of functions with secure versions in Visual C++ 2005 is available here. This list is obviously quite long, and it would be great if there were a way for the compiler to help. Thankfully, the compiler does provide some help by deprecating the non-secure versions of most CRT functions that have a secure alternative. This means that the compiler will produce a warning each time you use a non-secure function, as shown in Figure 1.
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Figure 1: Compiler Warning Related to the Use of a Deprecated Function
By working through each of these warnings, you can significantly raise the security level for a C/C++ application. In most cases, the value to pass in as the extra parameter will be obvious. For the cases where working out how long a particular buffer will be for all the different code paths seems impossible, a potential vulnerability likely has been discovered, which is one of the main points of the exercise.
Improve Application Security in 2006Although it may seem like a tedious and boring exercise, make improving the security of your applications via the employment of the new CRT security features a New Year's resolution that you actually keep!
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Pixie dust is sprinkling its way throughout Hollywood in the form of pixie haircuts, with Jennifer Lawrence being the latest celeb to bid adieu to her flowing long locks and say hello to the elfin look.
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Updates such as her new haircut, we suppose.
[Updated, 4:15 p.m. PST Nov. 6: At the fan event, the playful actress explained why she opted for the shortened look, first joking that it was to upset "Hunger Games" director Francis Lawrence.
"I just did it to make Francis mad," she joked (via the Daily Mail). "I did it just to annoy him. He totally thought it was me giving him the finger."
"But it's not," she admitted. "It's just fried from being dyed so much."]
Given her comically cheeseball smile in the photo, the 23-year-old seems thrilled about the new style.
"She loves it!" a source close to JLaw told E! News.
The new look has the Dior spokeswoman's blond locks cropped short in the back with a long side-swept bang in the front.
That same bang was peeking out from under her beanie at LAX on Monday and marked the return of her natural blond hue after she was filming "Catching Fire" as a brunet.
Still, is anyone else getting post-"Harry Potter" Emma Watson flashbacks too?