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NVIDIA Delivers Massive Performance Boost to Linux Gaming
New GeForce Drivers Optimized for Linux Double Frame Rates, Reduce Game Loading Times
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Nov. 6, 2012—NVIDIA today announced the latest NVIDIA® GeForce® drivers – R310 – double the performance1 and dramatically reduce game loading times for those gaming on the Linux operating system.
The result of almost a year of development by NVIDIA, Valve and other game developers, the new GeForce R310 drivers are designed to give GeForce customers the best possible Linux-based PC gaming experience – and showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system.
Available for download at www.nvidia.in/drivers, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today.
"With this release, NVIDIA has managed to increase the overall gaming performance under Linux," said Doug Lombardi, vice president of marketing at Valve. "NVIDIA took an unquestioned leadership position developing R310 drivers with us and other studios to provide an absolutely unequalled solution for Linux gamers."
The R310 drivers support the newest GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs, which have redefined gaming for desktop and notebook PCs by combining revolutionary performance and gaming technology features with an incredibly power-efficient design. Gamers with previous generation GeForce GPUs, including the 8800 GT and above, are encouraged to download these new drivers as well.
For an up-to-date third-party listing of games and applications that are currently in development for Linux, visit the Marlamin site.
For more information on how GeForce GTX GPUs are dramatically changing the way games are played and experienced on Linux, visit www.geforce.co.uk. For more NVIDIA news, company and product information, videos, images and other information, visit the NVIDIA newsroom. The NVIDIA Flickr page hosts the entire lineup of GeForce product photos.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) awakened the world to computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. Today, its processors power a broad range of products from smartphones to supercomputers. NVIDIA's mobile processors are used in mobile phones, tablets and auto infotainment systems. PC gamers rely on GPUs to enjoy spectacularly immersive worlds. Professionals use them to create 3D graphics and visual effects in movies and to design everything from golf clubs to jumbo jets. And researchers utilize GPUs to advance the frontiers of science with high performance computing. The company has more than 5,000 patents issued, allowed or filed, including ones covering ideas essential to modern computing. For more information, see www.nvidia.in.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the impact and benefits of GeForce Drivers; and the effects of the company's patents on modern computing are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including its Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended July 29, 2012. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company's website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
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1 Comparing 304.51 driver performance of 142.7 fps versus 310.14 driver performance of 301.4 fps in beta build of Left for Dead 2. All tests run on the same system using Intel Core i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz with 8 GB memory, GeForce GTX 680 and Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit.


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Immune system has an on/off switch 'in the mind' …?September 8, 2012 at 9:08 pm | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 2 Comments
Tags: arthritis, autoimmune diseases, immune system, new scientist, placebo effect, psychology, R.A., RA, rhematoid arthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), rheumatology
According to this article in the New Scientist (6 September 2012) the "the immune system has an on-off switch controlled by the mind". On reading the article, one feels that this isn't actually as daft as it sounds at first. The point is that, "the immune system is costly to run – so costly that a strong and sustained response could dangerously drain an animal's energy reserves."
Hmm, does that start to explain the fatigue felt by so many RA patients and dismissed by so many doctors? Given that RA is apparently caused by an over-active immune system, then surely a strong and sustained over the top response must be pretty fatiguing?
Anyway, back to the article … given that the immune response is energy sapping, the theory is that the immune system will only bother kicking in to fight a mild infection if it feels the reserves it will drain can be re-stocked. Apparently Siberian hamsters will fight a mild infection in the summer, when food supplies are plentiful, but won't do much to fight it in winter conditions.
This leads to the idea that the mind has an ability to play up/down the immune response depending on whether it feels there is help available … and that leads to an explanation of why the placebo effect works. If you think you're taking a drug to help fight an infection, say, that makes it worthwhile to put up a fight and bring in the immune system, the theory goes.
The theory has now been supported by some computer modelling, which is all explained in the article but which I won't go into here.
It leads to some interesting questions, to my mind, about autoimmune diseases.
Being a little flippant here, does this mean that all sufferers of autoimmune diseases are optimists who are so confident that help will always be at hand, that we bring our immune systems in on the flimsiest pretexts?
Is the reason autoimmune diseases seem to have become so much more prevalent in the last few decades (so I'm told) because we're all generally pretty healthy (until we're not) and so the body/mind doesn't have to question whether there are resources available?
And finally, if there's an on/off switch in my mind, then why can't I just turn the damn thing off and get on with life?
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For a student planning to repeat a course or to replace one course for another, the following procedure must be followed:
A Repeat/Replacement Form must be obtained from the Records Office or via the web and completed.
The student's advisor must sign the form.
The form must be submitted with the registration request form to the Academic Advising and Support Center (AASC, located in MH 138). Students cannot register for a repeat course via WebAdvisor.
All grades for a repeated course are included with the original grade in the computation of the cumulative QPA. Both the original grade and the new grade appear on the transcript. When a major is changed, major courses in the original major may be replaced with major courses in the new major. The grade for the replacement courses replaces the original grade in the computation of the cumulative QPA; however, both the original grade and the replacement grade appear on the transcript.
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Sara Hacala, author of Saving Civility: 52 Ways to Tame Rude, Crude, and Attitude for a Polite Planet, will be on campus to meet with students, faculty and staff Nov. 13 and 14 as a guest of the IUPUI Common Theme Project.
Hacala will present a lecture entitled "From Me to We: Discovering our Common Ground" to the students, faculty, and staff of IUPUI at 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 13th in 450 Campus Center. This event is also open to the public. There will be ample time for discussion and questions as a part of the event. Barns & Noble will hold a book signing (with books available for purchase) after the presentation.
Hacala will facilitate a workshop on "Our Civil Discourse – A Vital Element for our Human Sustainability" for faculty and staff from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, in 450 Campus Center. This workshop is co-sponsored by the IUPUI Office for Intergroup Dialogue and Civil Community and the Common Theme Project.
The IUPUI Common Theme, "Find your Voice: Hear My Voice," invites IUPUI students, staff, faculty, and the community to engage in a two-year discussion and deeper exploration of civil discourse in the classroom, work place and public sphere. This theme will provide opportunities for rich conversation across the campus and our communities on communicating about diverse viewpoints in ways that validate our shared humanity and connection.
For more information about Hacala's visit, contact E. Jane Luzar at email@example.com.


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OXFORD, Ohio - On Saturday, the Engineers put the finishing touches on their third consecutive top 20 finish at the NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships while senior Doria Holbrook closed her career as the top diver in Institute history behind her eighth All-America honor in as many tries.
Holbrook finished fourth overall on the three-meter with a score of 490.40 two days after earning a third-place finish on the one-meter. Despite easily topping her championship score of last year, Holbrook slipped from first to fourth after the prelims as the first three finishers shattered the existing national record.
MIT participated in only two events on the final day of the meet, with senior Sasha Brophy and freshman Amy Jacobi returning from strong efforts earlier in the weekend to compete in the 100 free. In the final race of her collegiate career, Brophy delivered another solid effort by placing 25th in the prelims with a time of 53.13. Jacobi finished 36th during the morning session in a clip of 54.05.
MIT finished 19th out of 52 scoring teams to earn its highest finish at the NCAA Championships since securing 16th place during the 1988-89 campaign. Behind the strength of seven, top-five finishes on the final day of competition, Kenyon College cruised to its 22nd national title in the past 25 years.


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And now for a Long-Expected Announcement! There is to be an Event of Special Magnificence! Perhaps you have already heard the rumors?
Perhaps you have heard of another special event ... Weatherstock? Well, this event isn't going to be like that one at all. Weatherstock is still six months away, anyway.
This event will be held this coming January, when it is snowy. It will be held over the weekend of January 17th through the 20th on the Landroval server, to be precise. Our Dwarven hosts would want me to be precise about that. Yes, yes, Dwarven hosts ... the event will be held at wintry Thorin's Gate!
There shall be music!
There shall be ale!
And there shall be pie ... of course!
And there shall be snow!
Did I mention music?
Did I mention the name of the event?
Silly me ... Can someone give me a drum-roll, please?
This Event of Special Magnificence ... is entitled ... The *WINTERSTOCK* Music Festival! Hosted by the Lonely Mountain Band.
With performances by ...
The Andune Ensemble
Animal House
Bara Bahau
Bards Beers and LongBeards
Bright Star
Les Beaux Chapeaux
The Breakfast Club
Les Chantefables
The Chosen Few
Hobbiton Philharmonic
Die Meisterbarden von Bree
Mornie Alantie
Muckin Fuddle
No Whole Bard
Old Winyards
The Remediators
A Rock and a Hard Place
Runic Knights Orchestra
The Shades
The Songburrow Strollers
The Starlight Orchestra
Under The Sunlit Sky
Please note that performing bands are subject to change. Times/Days to be announced. Also, unlike Weatherstock, there will be *no* band competitions during this event ... just a weekend chock full of great music!
So, join us the weekend of January 17-20 for *WINTERSTOCK*! Winterstock will be held on the frozen pond next to the Silver Deep Mine at Thorin's Gate. Please remember to mark your calendars! And you might want to pack some warmer clothing, too.


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Contemporary Slavery: You Can Make a Difference
Young, small children working in deplorable conditions take raw material from silkworm cocoons, help to make the thread and assist at the looms. Some children in the silk industry work seven days a week for ten to twelve hours a day.
I was shocked when I learned that it is quite likely that there are slave made products in all of our homes. I was shocked when I realized that I benefited from slavery. The facts about contemporary forms of slavery are shocking to many Americans; it has been and is invisible to us.
Many people believe that slavery is in the past. Slavery has been outlawed throughout the world and is illegal in almost every country. Nevertheless, slavery has been a rapidly growing phenomenon since 1945 (Bales, 2001). The commonly accepted figure is that there are 27 million slaves today. There are slaves in almost every country including the United States.. Forced laborers have been found in 90 of our cities, including two Pennsylvania cities. At any given time there may be 10,000 people working as forced laborers in the U.S. (www.freetheslaves.net).
What do we do with this knowledge? How do we deal with our own unknowing complicity in this hidden, violent practice? Slavery mocks our Unitarian Universalist principles. How do we affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person and justice, equity and compassion in human relations in the face of contemporary slavery?
Some suggest that using the word "slavery" is an exaggeration or that it should be thought of as a metaphor. Some use the word "slavery-like." Yet, slavery is not a metaphor for far too many human beings. Slavery has several key defining characteristics:
- It is an economic and social relationship between two (or more) people. One is forced to work by the other for no pay or a token pittance.
- Violence and threats of violence control the laborers.
- There are no choices for the slave who lives in constant fear of violence and is often physically restrained. The laborer has no control, no free will. They are not free to leave.
- The slave is exploited, dehumanized, and treated as a commodity. Slavery is about profit. The buyers and sellers use these people so that they may make more money.
Three things have led to the growth of modern slavery and to its changed character. The world's population has tripled since 1945 especially in the developing world. Globalization has led to rapid economic and social change. Changed economies have led many poor rural people into debt and into the cities seeking work. They are vulnerable to being tricked and enslaved.
Contemporary forms of slavery are different than historical forms. In the antebellum United States, the investment in a slave cost the equivalent of about $50,000; now a slave can be obtained for $100.00 or less.
At today's costs, the slave is a cheap and disposable tool. There is no need to assert legal ownership, and there is no need to protect the investment through medical care or nourishing food. If the laborers can no longer do the work, they can be thrown away. These relationships are much more likely to be short term. There is no need to spend money if a worker is missing; that person can easily be replaced.
Historically, large initial investments and high maintenance costs contributed to keeping profits low. With contemporary low investments, high profits can be made. A slave can be worked to illness, disability or death, and the slave may be abandoned when there is no more work.
The psychology of contemporary slavery is an important aspect. For families in hereditary debt bondage, the perception has been that this is simply the way life is. Many have not learned psychological and life skills for independent adult life. They may have been sold into a country where they do not know the language or the culture. all are psychologically and emotionally battered.
American activist and Director of Free the Slaves, Kevin Bales stated that slaves often know that they are illegally enslaved. What they do not know is that they can be free and survive. Freeing the mind and spirit is not an easy task.
India, where this beautiful fabric came from, is "home to more slaves than all other countries of the world combined" (Mehta, p.1). "India has the largest number of child workers in the world. . . . A significant percentage of these 44 million children are bonded laborers" (USAID India). Debt bondage is the most frequent form of slavery in India as it is in the world today (Godrej, p. 5).
A person becomes a bonded laborer to repay a loan. The loans are incredibly small by our standards; a child became a bonded laborer because the landlord had given the child's father a blanket. This child laborer was Keshav Nankar who is now an effective adult anti-slavery activist (Godrej, p. 5).
Once the loan is made, the laborers are then tricked into perpetual slavery. They are paid a pittance (perhaps 17 cents a day), charged excessive interest, perhaps given additional "loans" for emergencies, and told that the debt is never paid off.
Slavery thrives in India because the government can be weak, and legislation is often not enforced. In some cases, local police and low-level government officials may be involved in trafficking, slave holding or enforcing debt bondage. They have returned child bonded laborers to the silk workshops. Sometimes when the spotlight is shone on child bonded labor, the factories and workshops are closed but the bonded labor continues. It is moved into more hidden place.
Intimidation and physical violence, including sexual assaults, are used. The workers are sometimes chained or tied up. When asked why he did not run away, Keshav Nankar:
gives me an indulgent smile before replying that with no money, no education and no experience of life beyond his village this wasn't a possibility. And, he adds, all the landlords of the surrounding villages were related to each other, so it would have been impossible to stay undercover. (Godrej, p. 5)
Keshav Nankar was the child who was enslaved for a blanket. He was freed by Vivek and Vidyullata Pandit, a husband and wife team of New Abolitionists. For more than twenty years, they have worked to free more than 1500 bonded laborers in 450 villages.
Vivek Pandit "is adamant that real liberation takes place in the mind, that physical freedom isn't enough" (Bales, 2002, p. 4). The bonded laborer "must be made to believe that it is possible to stand up to their former landlords and to adjust to a life of freedom" (Bales, 2000, p.62).
The Pandits have a program of education designed to teach self-worth, curiosity, thinking and problem-solving. They teach that power must be taken and teach the skills to face conflict (Godrej, p. 6). Unitarian Universalists have partnered with the Pandits through the Holdeen India program.
I focused on India because this is where our altar cloth came from, but slavery thrives in the United States, too. The 2004 report Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States documented that conditions are not much different for forced laborers here.
As Unitarian Universalists, we are called to act in the world. We affirm the inherent worth and dignity of all human beings. We are called to bring justice, equity, and compassion to the world. We are called to do what we can to repair and transform the world.
But defining right action can be hard in the real world. How does one help another out of a condition that that person sees as deserved? Are we being cultural imperialists? How do we face the ethical situation that we have a beautiful altar cloth probably made by child slave labor? That we have slave made products in our homes? How do we confront the fact that we benefit from slave labor whether or not we wish to do so? What power do we have to create change? "If responsibility for slaveholding is extended to those who profit from it, we have to confront a shocking ethical problem. Those who profit from slavery might include you or me or anyone. . . . How much is the average person willing to pay to end slavery?" (Bales, 2000, pp.20-21)
We come from a prophetic tradition. UUs have an abolitionist history, but some historical Unitarians profited from slavery and opposed abolition. Where we will stand in the 21st century? And how do we stand for abolition?
Contemporary Unitarian Universalism can again become abolitionist. Education is the key. We need to know in order to act. Problems of this size can easily feel overwhelming to an individual or to a congregation. We can be tempted to return to denial and ignorance. We are called to address denial and ignorance. Get the facts. We can organize to educate ourselves and to educate our communities.
Kevin Bales stated that most people assume that the problem of slavery ought to be addressed by governments and the United Nations but that consumers actually have more power (Bales, 2001, p.21).
Investigate your retirement and investment funds. Communicate with corporate boards. Spending with consciousness makes a difference. Buying and selling SERRV International products helps the abolition process. Ten Thousand Villages and SERVV are both members of the International Federation for Alternative Trade. These organizations are NGOs whose purpose is to assist artisans rather than to maximize profits. They promote fair trade, justice in international trade, sustainable development, and independence for the workers. They support decent working conditions, gender equity, and respect for the environment (www.ifat.org).
We can buy carpets (Rugmark), chocolate (Divine Chocolate) and coffee (Equal Exchange) that are guaranteed not to have been produced with slave labor. These products do usually cost us more because the producers are paid more fairly. On the web, one can buy food, clothing, gifts, and interior design items from retailers who are members of the fair trade association.
Congregations can organize fund raising drives to support abolitionist organizations. Individuals and congregations can write to companies and ask them to be accountable. We are close to the headquarters for Hershey Foods. We could ask them what they are doing about the problem of slave labor in cocoa production. We can lobby, write letters and sign petitions.
We can encourage and support training for U.S. law enforcement officers, health care and social service providers to recognize forced labor. We can be educated about how to help survivors.
While globalization plays a part in the increasing of human slavery, it also creates opportunities and tools for opposing slavery. Much of what I have read, I gathered from the internet. Opportunities to financially support anti-slavery activists are just a few clicks away.
May we be inspired by the courage of those who give so much to bring freedom and dignity to those who have been denied human rights. Let us work together for the day when slavery is truly abolished.
Anti-Slavery International. www.antislavery.org
Anti-Slavery International. "Vivek and Vidyullata Pandit Biographies." At www.uua.org/international/holdeen/panditbio.html.
Bales, Kevin. New Slavery: A Reference Handbook. Contemporary World Issues Series. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Bales, Kevin. "Going Cheap." New Internationalist 337, August 2001.
Bales, Kevin. "The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery." Scientific American, April 24, 2002.
Free the Slaves. www.freetheslaves.net.
Free the Slaves and Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley. Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States. September 2004. www.freetheslaves.net
Godrej, Dinyar. "Of Human Bondage: Outrage and Unity Can Combat Slavery." New Internationalist 337, August 2001.
Human Rights Watch. Small Change: Bonded Child labor in India's Silk Industry. Vol. 15, No. 2. January 2003.
International Federation for Alternative Trade. www.ifat.org.
Mehta, Swati. "Pulling the Rug Out From Under Us: A Report on Debt Bondage, Carpet- Making and Child Slavery." At www.iabolish.com.
USAID India. "Combating Child Labor in India." At www.usaid.gov/in/aboutusaid/projects/childlabor.htm.
Zucchino, David. "Transforming the Lives of India's Broken People." UU World, Vol. XV, No. 3. 18-27.


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JoshB needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 36 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
We are looking for a professional yet good looking brochure for upcoming trade shows. The brochure will be 2, 8.5" x 11" pages. The inside will give an overview of the products / solutions we offer while the front and back will have our contact info and logo.
The target audience for this brochure will be potential customers so it needs to be professional and clear. We want to give people an idea of the products / solutions we offer while not flooding them with too many details. Therefore, well chosen pictures should be used rather than lots of text to describe our products. Also, please give preference to images related to transportation, specifcally buses.
- Brochure: 2 pages, each 8.5" x 11"
- Unfolded size: 17" wide x 11" tall
- Folded size: 8.5" wide x 11" tall
- Final design should be at least 200ppi.
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- Front: This should have our logo and some good looking graphics. Keep it professional looking and not too flashy.
- Back: This should also have our logo and our contact info (http://www.syncromatics.com/page.scrx?contact)
- Inside: These two pages will give an overview of the products / solutions we offer. Please try to use pictures to describe each solution rather than lots of text (although, some text will be necessary).
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- Real-time vehicle tracking: We use GPS and cellular networks to track the buses in realtime. Bus positions are updated every 6 seconds.
- Automated passenger counting: we use sensors in buses to automatically count people entering and leaving the bus
- Arrival predictions: Using GPS on the bus and cellular networks, we can tell when a bus is going to arrive at a stop (i.e. Route A arrives in 4 minutes). We display this information to riders using many different methods, public website, SMS text messages, cell phone (via mobile browser), regular phone line (call in and hear when the next shuttle will arrive)
- Interactive voice response (IVR): people can call a phone number and hear when their shuttle will arrive. They can choose from a listing of routes and also stops to find out when their shuttle will be at that stop.
- Route analytics: we track different parameters and provide reports to customers. For example, they can get excel reports showing the entire listing of the passengers entering and leaving each bus stop for the last month. Or they can get a report that will average out the time the bus was idle at each stop. Or the time it took the shuttle to do a loop. Customers can then see if during certain times of the day their shuttles run slowly or take long breaks.
- Vehicle history: you can see a complete history of your vehicles plotted out on a map. Or you can play back their history as if it was happing in realtime and watch it on a map.
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A Dark Hour
This is what happens when Alice sees Bella dying in New Moon. It starts out with alot about Alice and Jasper's love.
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We sat by the fireplace, the warmth felt wonderful on my cold skin. Jasper and I were in Denali with the other clan that didn't drink from humans. Carlisle and Esme were here as well, but they were on a hunting trip along with the other inhabitants of this house, making us the only two at the house. I loved these moments I had alone with Jasper.
It was so good to just sit around all day with the one I loved. We were on the couch and Jasper's arms encircled me protecting me from anything. His lips softly brushed mine, and my breathing turned ragged. Being with Jasper alone like this was the closest thing I could come to alive. Come to think of it being with my love gets me feeling like that. "I love you." He whispered into my ear.
"I love you more." I murmured. "Oh, I highly doubt that." He said as he playfully kissed up my neck. I giggled and pulled him to me, kissing him passionately on the lips. There was not one thing in this whole world I would trade for my Jasper. No one could take his place. He is the light of my life and I could never live without him.
He made me forget my worries. We were in the middle of another tender kiss when I suddenly went rigid. Jasper knew exactly what was happening so he pulled back a little, but readied himself to comfort me if it was needed.
Nothing in this whole world could have prepared me for what I was a bout to see. If I could have cried I surely would have. Because I saw Bella, saw her jump into the fury of the ocean from a frightfully high cliff. I heard her scream and then saw her disappear into the dark murky waters.
She was on top for a little bit, but soon the waves drug her down. I waited and waited for her to come up, petrified and not making any movement. But she never did. That's when I knew she was…dead. I froze in place, hoping for some reassurance. Someone just had to save her.
I just had to have another vision. I couldn't grasp that she was actually dead. A sob ripped its way through my torso as my mind tried to comprehend. No, it couldn't be Not Bella. Then my agony grew as I remembered my brother. This would kill him for sure. Edward could never live with that knowledge.
Through all of this Jasper sent waves of comfort, but little was done to soothe me. I collapsed into his open arms and he ran his fingers through my hair. "What happened?" He asked, but his voice was strained, from absorbing my pain. "Bella,"
I managed to choke out, and then more sobs made there way through my body. Jasper's waves of comfort soon soothed them and I took a long breath in. "What about Bella?" He asked. His face masked his worries, but I could see right through it from all the years I had been with him. "She's…dead." I whispered my voice tortured.
"Are you sure?" He pushed gently, but I could see in his eyes that he had no hope. I nodded weakly against his chest, my vision clouding in and out. "Shhh…Shhhh," He tried to soothe me, but he was barely calm himself.
My hands grasped his silky shirt, tightly, and all I wanted to do was just sit there with my husband forever, but my mind told me something else. I couldn't just sit here and do nothing! I had to do something.
Jasper sensed this new determination in me and I looked up to see the exaggerated look on his face. He knew better than anyone that something was up. "I'm going to Forks." I declared. Jasper sighed, knowing that there was nothing I could do now that I'd made my decision. "I don't approve."
He said just giving me his opinion. He knew I was going to go anyway. "And neither will Edward." I just rolled my eyes. Edward is just going to have to deal with it. I thought. I wondered to myself what I would do. Maybe I would be of some use to Charlie. He was probably taking this very hard.
So I said my quiet goodbyes to Jasper and took off in Carlisle's Mercedes. I drove very fast making the usual around 1 day trip to Forks in 4 hours. The rain that was pouring down confirmed it, I was definitely in Forks. I took a deep steadying breath and then drove past the Welcome to Fork's sign. I smelled a few humans on the way, which reminded me of how thirsty I was. I hadn't hunted in a while.
Oh, well that would have to wait. Soon I was in front of Bella's house and that brought a fresh wave of grief. I saw immediately that no one was home. Both cars were gone. So I parked the car across from the house (didn't want to give Charlie too much of a shock) and took the key out of the ignition then walked swiftly to the door.
The key was under the mat as always so I let myself in and walked down the hall, shutting the door behind me. With the sight of the bright yellow cupboards a small sob escaped my icy lips. This was going to be harder than I had imagined. But now the hardest part was here. I had to wait.
Almost 10 minutes later I heard a truck. But not just any truck. I knew that truck. I could tell you everything about that truck. The color was faded red. It had big rounded fenders and a bulbous cab. Days before we had left Emmett had installed a new radio in that truck. That was Bella's truck. How strange?
Why would Charlie be driving Bella's truck? I listened intently and then my mouth dropped open. I heard Bella's voice. It sounded as if she was arguing with someone, a boy, maybe a man. But how was that possible? She was dead. I crept to the end of the hallway still listening when suddenly her engine stopped and footsteps started toward the door.
My breath stopped and I wondered if this could truly be Bella. I was overjoyed and a little angry. She had put me through so much. But maybe it wasn't even her; maybe my mind was just playing tricks on me. As I was considering that the door opened. I tensed staring directly at the door.
A pale hand appeared, followed by chocolate hair and a heart shaped face. I gasped so softly a human had no chance of hearing and stared at the cause of this whole problem.
I blinked rapidly wondering if this was all just in my head, but the figure just stood there feeling blindly for something on the wall. Soon I realized she was looking for the light switch and walked quietly over and flipped it up.
Her eyes widened and the next thing I knew I was being slammed into, by a very delicious smelling human (and I hadn't hunted in quite some time) who was supposed to be dead! Oh Boy, this was going to be interesting.
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Once upon a time, there reigned in East Java a king named Sindureja. He had a prime minister named Sidapaksa. Sidapaksa had a very beautiful wife.
Sidapaksa loved his wife deeply. They lived in a complete happiness. However, Sidapksa's mother didn't like her daughter-in-law. Each day she tried to think a way to separate Sidapaksa from his wife.
One day, King Sindureja asked Sidapaksa to search for the bud of a magic flower on Mount Ijen. It was a long and dangerous journey. The assigment from the king was so important and urgent. Sidapaksa had to leave his pregnant wife.
Not long afterwards, a son was born. The baby's birth gave too much happiness for the young mother.
However, one day, while this yong mother was bathing, her evil mother-in-law threw the baby into the river. Knowing that her baby disappeared, the young mother was very sad. She could neither eat or sleep. She became very ill.
Two years passed and Sidapksa returned from his journey. He succeeded in doing his duty. Just as he was about to enter his house, her mother told him that his wife had thrown their baby into the river.
Sidapaksa believed his mother's story. He was too angry to use his common sense. He drew his kris and approached his wife who was lying weak on her bed.
"Ah, wicked woman. Tell me why you threw our new-born child into the river, Tell me!" he said in a rough and angry voice.
"Oh, my dearest husband. I am innocent. I love you, and our baby. I didn't kill our child. If you don't believe me, carry me to the river. I will prove that I didn't do it," replied his wife calmly.
Sidapaksa took her wife to the edge of the river. Suddenly, his wife leaped up and threw herself into the river.
"Oh my God! How will I know who killed my child?" moaned Sidapaksa.
Then he looked down at the water. Suddenly, two pure white flower-buds appeared, one larger and taller than the other. A sweet fragrance came from them.
"Sidapaksa, look here! Beside me is our child. He himself will tell you who drowned him," the taller one spoke.
"Father, my mother is innocent. Gradmother threw me into the river. Now I'm happy because my beloved mother has come with me," the smaller one spoke. Then, the two flowers vanished into the water. They left their fragrance behind.
Since then, people call the city on its banks of the river Banyuwangi. Banyu means water and wangi mean fragrant.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-based global companies are increasingly shifting profits into tax havens like Bermuda and Switzerland, a government report said, a finding likely to fuel debate over the taxes corporations pay and their flexibility in locating profits.
The Congressional Research Service analyzed profit data from multinational companies and compared reported profits and other business activity in lower-tax jurisdictions versus higher-tax countries like the United Kingdom and Canada.
Among the findings: American multinational companies reported 43 percent of their overseas profits in the tax havens studied - Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Switzerland - in 2008, the most recent year data was available.
At the same time, these same companies hired only 4 percent of their foreign workforce and made just 7 percent of their foreign investments in these same countries.
"By all indicators examined in this report, profit shifting has generally trended upward over time," the report, dated January 18 said.
The analysis found this trend increasing since 1999.
CRS, a nonpartisan research arm of Congress used by lawmakers, analyzed data compiled by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, a unit of the Commerce Department that collects economic data from non-financial companies with foreign affiliates.
U.S.-based corporations have griped for years about paying what is now the steepest corporate tax rate among all industrialized countries. At the same time, U.S. companies do tend to enjoy more generous tax breaks, including deductions and various loopholes.
To address this, President Barack Obama and Republicans alike advocate trimming the top 35 percent corporate tax rate, while scrubbing the code of favored tax breaks.
Most Republicans back moving to a 25 percent tax rate, while Obama has called for a 28 percent top corporate rate.
The consumer group Citizens for Tax Justice said the report proves that companies are manipulating their financial reporting to avoid U.S. tax.
The report acknowledged that the high U.S. tax rate gives an incentive for companies to move profits abroad.
"If companies did not respond to tax rates that would be surprising," said Will McBride, an economist with the Tax Foundation, which backs lower business tax rates.
But McBride took issue with the report's assumption that cutting the corporate rate would hurt tax revenue, arguing that the right tax rate would generate additional revenue, offsetting that effect.
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3x -- Mahjoun by DSH
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I recorded almost nothing in October, but still. 79 different scents worn *Good Lord!!*
7x -- Tolu
5x -- Cardamom and Khyphi (DSH)
Yay, this is the first month I stuck to keeping track of all my wears! Whoo hoo!
Wow, it's officially less than a week before the July Sniff & Speak! I didn't order a sampler of greens from the Perfumed Court, but got some ideas for greens from them (from the deluxe green sampler, mainly). I got four samples (plenty for a Saturday!):
- Celadon : A Velvet Green by DSH Perfumes (an aromatic green classified by Fragrantica);
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Hi. My credit scores are 720, 720 and 659. I have no credit cards or debts. However, I do have a judgment pending in dispute dated from 2008. Would I be approved for a regular credit card or more likely for a secured one? Should I even apply and possibly drop my score?
- Amy
Dear Amy,
ou must have done something right in the past because your current scores aren't bad at all. In fact, assuming these are FICO scores and not some others that have a different scale, they're quite respectable.
FICO scores range from a low of 300 to a high of 850. What is considered poor, fair, good and excellent fluctuates. In general, though, those in the mid-600s to the mid-700s are deemed "good." Higher than that and you're in the "excellent" range.
Because your scores are nearly what most lenders, credit card companies and banks find attractive, it won't take much to push them into the top tier. Here's what you need to do:
Deal with your judgment. It's 2012 now, which means that the matter ought to have been settled long ago. If the outcome of the dispute was in your favor, it should no longer be listed on your reports. Contact the bureaus to have it removed.
However, if the creditor did win the case and you do owe money to them, it will remain on your report for seven years from the date the judgment was filed. It is getting on the old side, so its impact is lessening, and sometime in 2015 it should drop off completely. Still, while they may not report it after that, they may be able to renew the judgment and come after you for the money. Paying it off will be to your benefit, both to get it off your shoulders and to improve your credit rating.
Apply for the right credit card. You can either jump in now or wait until after you've satisfied the judgment. Banks offer credit to people with scores ranging from poor on up. Mind you, though: They base their decisions on income as well as payment history. If you don't have a job, they won't feel confident that you'll be able to repay what you borrow.
Presuming you are employed, check out the credit card deals that are available to people with the type of credit that you have today: good. Like what you see? Great. Apply to the most appealing one and only apply for one card. Shopping for credit is not like shopping for clothes, where you can buy a bunch of sweaters and return those that don't fit with no repercussion. A mass of applications will reduce your score. Not by a tremendous amount, but since you are trying to boost your scores, go easy. If you get denied, move on to the next.
Oh, and you can get a secured account, but you probably won't need to. In general, they are for people who have lower credit scores -- either because they are new to credit or have already damaged it.
Charge to your advantage. Once you have a credit card, use it well. In theory this is easy, but in practice it can be a challenge. My best advice is for you to choose an expense to charge once a month, like groceries or gas, and then pay it off on time and in full.
When you're comfortable, loosen up and charge other items, too, but continue to pay the balances off every month. Not only will you be establishing a great habit, but all that activity will be recorded in your credit files and your scores should rise.
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Our company SiREAL is in need of a logo for a iVATAR product that we are producing. Our product is very future forward and focused around the Augmented Reality space so we are looking for something that reflects this nicely. (Youtube Augmented Reality if you are unfamiliar) Potentially we are interested in seeing some aspect of light or glowing associated with this logo.
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text: I have a program that is called from a perl batch script. The program is non-MPI aware so I have been using mpprun to execute the perl program. The perl program can start from 1 - x processes depending upon the arguments to the batch file. I currently call the batch file as: mpprun -no-local perl batch.p 1 2 3 & 1 2 3 cause the perl program to start proceses 1 2 and 3 in three different directories. (The different directories are necessary because of the nature of the program being run.) The results is three processes all running on one node. (Each node has two processors and there are 3 nodes for now for a total of 6 processors.) I have tried supplying the -np x option but this simply starts starts the same three processes over an another node once the initial three processes are complete. The same thing occurs if I use the -map x:x:x option. I have also tried batching the commant via the "batch now" interactive command line interface and the results is the same. Is there anyway to indicate to the cluster to load balance these processes across the nodes? Or do I need to start each process with a seperate mpprun command? Also, it appears that the NO_LOCAL=1 option does not work with the "Batch" command. Does that seem correct? The cluster consists of a dual processor (2 Xeon's) master node with three compute nodes each with 2 Xeon processors. Eventually we will have a number of additional nodes up but I am testing for now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Bill


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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Waiting in line is part of life in post-storm New Orleans, especially when it comes to health care.
"There are no great options for the people that we see in this clinic," says Dr. Ravi Vadlamudi.
Nearly every day, people stand in front of Common Ground Health Clinic in the Algiers neighborhood. Patients come from all around the city to get free health care in this former corner grocery store with barred windows. They come early, wait eagerly in line, sometimes swapping stories of where they were during Hurricane Katrina.
Two years later, people still talk about Katrina. It's the greeting, the icebreaker, the common bond. Where were you? Where did you work before it hit? Where did you evacuate to? Quickly, conversation turns to the painfully slow rebuilding of the city: violent crime, lack of schools; a shortage in housing, access to doctors. Sitting in the makeshift waiting room, patients chat with each other and the clinic workers, often shaking their heads in disapproval or disbelief.
"It's so tough in this city. We can't get back on our feet."
"We've thought about leaving, but we don't know where to go or how to get there."
"I'm glad we found out about this place. Maybe we can finally get some help."
Before the storm, the uninsured turned to the famed Charity Hospital. Housed in a mammoth art-deco building, it provided reliable medical care for the poorest inhabitants of the city.
The storm floods engulfed the first few floors of Charity and the doors were shut for good. Only three of the city's seven hospitals have reopened. Only one of those reopened facilities operates at full pre-storm capacity. A mere fraction of the doctors have returned to the city. Dr. Ravi Vadlamudi is one of them.
He's the medical director of Common Ground. Everyone here calls him Dr. Ravi.
"Our clinic is a tiny Band-Aid to a small piece of a huge problem," he says.
It's hard to believe that there was ever a time when Dr. Ravi felt unneeded in New Orleans.
As the storm approached two years ago, he sought refuge in his home state of Michigan, with his young daughter, Anjali, and his wife, who is also a physician.
In the immediate aftermath of Katrina, he returned to the city as quickly as he could. Within days, he cleaned up their apartment and reopened the doors of his private family medicine practice at Tulane in the East Bank area of New Orleans. His office sat virtually empty.
Back then, like many New Orleanians, he wondered, "Would anybody ever come back? Is our life over here?"
But soon he crossed over to the West Bank. He waded through the chaos by joining a team of street medics, community activists and volunteers providing care to whoever came, whenever they needed it.
At first, it was a tent, providing emergency services in a city without any emergency rooms. Today, it's a full-service health clinic serving about 200 patients a week, with four full-time staffers and a good number of volunteers. Two years later, it is a cornerstone of health care in this city. Watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta report on New Orleans' looming mental health crisis »
"There are no great options for the people that we see in this clinic," says Dr. Ravi, who spends two days with Common Ground and maintains his private practice for the rest of the week.
"When people think about a free care clinic they think about poor lazy people and that's a complete misperception. Most of our patients have one job, if not two jobs -- they just don't have insurance."
A huge multi-layered problem is the best way to sum up health care in New Orleans.
A recent study published by the American Medical Association found a 47 percent increase in the death rate in 2006. "Our study showed an excess mortality, meaning these are people that would not have died, had it not been for Katrina," said Dr. Kevin Stephens, who is director of the New Orleans Health Department and the study author.
Stephens was forced to use newspaper obituaries for the study because state vital statistics were unavailable to him at the time. He maintains that the death rate in New Orleans is still elevated.
But Dr. Fred Cerise, the secretary of Louisiana Health and Hospitals, disagrees on the exact rate of the increase and says there is no sustained elevation in the death rate.
But doctors on the front lines, like Vadlamudi, say an elevated mortality rate isn't surprising, "People end up in the hospital sicker and end up dying probably more often. In addition, I think that without the health-care resources, people get fed up, they don't wait in the lines."
From fewer doctors, sicker patients, scarce health services to violent crime, it's hard not to think about death in this city.
"I'd run out of fingers and toes if I tried to count how many close friends or patients have been murdered, attacked, jumped, shot at or left for dead," says Dr. Ravi.
He and his wife are expecting their second child soon. He says his biggest concerns are good schools and the threat of violent crime. Dr. Ravi says they make the choice to stay in New Orleans every single day. Some days, the choice to stay is easier as he sees progress with the clinic and his patients. Other days are more difficult -- such as the one last January when he learned of the brutal murder of his colleague's wife.
"I worry about [crime and violence] in my heart. We're staying and we're committed to this community, but it weighs on my mind every single day whether I may wait one day too long." E-mail to a friend
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MSN Money Partner In an effort to boost the popularity of its mobile payment system, Google this week announced that it is integrating Google Wallet with Gmail. Customers who've linked Google Wallet to their bank account or maintain a balance with Google Wallet can simply click the dollar icon on their Gmail to make a payment.
It's not the first time Google Wallet introduced new features. Last year, it launched a pilot Google AdWords business credit card for small businesses in the U.K. and flirted with the idea of a Google Wallet card for consumers too.
But there are signs that there is untapped demand for mobile payments. Just one-fifth of young Americans ages 18 to 30 always carry cash, according to a new survey by CouponCodes4U, a discount code website. Nearly half said cash would not be used in the future.
"It's a generational trend," says Brent Shelton, a spokesman for deal site FatWallet.com. And some 72% of Gmail users are under the age of 34, according to a survey by Hunch.com, a personalized recommendation site.
"The younger generations are adopting this technology in droves," he said. PayPal and Google Wallet, for example, connect to a bank account or a debit or credit card through a person's smartphone.
"It's early days for mobile payments," says technology analyst Jeff Kagan. "I have children in their early 20s who rarely carry as much as $5 in their wallet." That's just enough for tips. "Today, we leave the house with a wallet, car keys and smartphone," he says. "There will come a time when it will only be our smartphone."
Google still faces hefty competition. PayPal has an Android and an iPhone app and, on Tuesday, said it would waive fees for the rest of the year for businesses that sign up for its service. Verizon Wireless, one of the country's major cellphone operators, stopped supporting Google Wallet in 2011. Instead, it's now part of the rival Isis mobile payment system it launched with AT&T and T-Mobile. Square Wallet, a mobile app for Android and iOS launched by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, last year signed a deal to access some 7,000 Starbucks stores nationwide.
Thus far, PayPal appears to lead. Some 72% of consumers are aware of PayPal, and 48% say they've used it, according to a recent survey from ComScore, while only 41% say they've heard of Google Wallet, and 8% say they've used it.
Since its release in September 2011, Google Wallet has had a bumpy ride. Thousands of merchants are still not set up for mobile payments, making it more difficult for smartphone evangelists to cut up their plastic. What's more, some consumers are still concerned about security issues of making payments via mobile phone. One U.K. survey found that 44% of people were reluctant to adopt mobile wallets due to fears of phone hacking; only 17% of those surveyed say they would use mobile wallets. (Google did not return requests for comment.)
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Google on Monday withdrew as a sponsor of next month's Pwn2Own hacking contest, and will instead put as much as $1 million up for grabs if researchers can exploit Chrome.
The company will run its own exploit challenge at the CanSecWest security conference, the venue for Pwn2Own, because it objected to what it said was a change in the rules by contest organizer and prime sponsor, HP TippingPoint's bug-bounty program, Zero Day Initiative (ZDI).
"We decided to withdraw our sponsorship when we discovered that contestants are permitted to enter Pwn2Own without having to reveal full exploits, or even all of the bugs used, to vendors," said Chris Evans and Justin Schuh, two members of the Chrome security team, in a Monday post to the Chromium blog . "Full exploits have been handed over in previous years, but it's an explicit non-requirement in this year's contest, and that's worrisome."
Pwn2Own's rules say nothing about not handing over complete exploits or all bugs to vendors at the close of the contest, but a Jan. 23 tweet by ZDI said, "To clarify, if a team demonstrates 0day at Pwn2Own 2012, but doesn't end up as a winner, the vuln[nerability] is still theirs and will not be reported."
Previously, Google had promised to pay $20,000 to any researcher who managed to exploit Chrome by leveraging browser-only flaws, and $10,000 for a "partial" exploit that relies on a bug in Chrome in addition to a bug in the operating system.
Because Chrome is "sandboxed" -- an anti-exploit technology that isolates malware -- a hack of the browser typically requires two or more exploits. The first is necessary to get attack code out of the sandbox, and the second is needed to actually exploit a Chrome vulnerability and plant malware on the machine.
But Google is ditching that $20,000 maximum scheme, and will put up to $1 million on the line at CanSecWest, said Evans and Schuh.
"We've upped the ante," said the engineers.
For what they called a "full Chrome exploit" -- one that successfully hacks Chrome on Windows 7 using only vulnerabilities in Chrome itself -- Google will pay $60,000, which is equivalent to Pwn2Own's top prize for that three-day contest.
A partial exploit that uses one bug within Chrome and one or more others -- perhaps in Windows -- earns a researcher $40,000. Finally, Google will pay $20,000 for "consolation" exploits that hack Chrome without using any vulnerabilities in the browser itself.
The only limit Google has put on the challenge is a maximum total payout of $1 million. "We will issue multiple rewards per category, up to the $1 million limit, on a first-come-first served basis," said Evans and Schuh.
For the bigger rewards, Google will require more from researchers, who must demonstrate that the bug(s) are reliably exploitable, of critical impact and true "zero-days" that are unknown to Google and have not been shared with any third parties. Both the vulnerabilities used as well as the full exploit must be handed over to Google so that it can, as Evans and Schuh said, "Enhance our mitigations, automated testing, and sandboxing."
Google's rules also effectively eliminate that few if any working Chrome exploits will be used in Pwn2Own. "Contestant's exploits must be submitted to and judged by Google before being submitted anywhere else," said Evans and Schuh.
Although HP TippingPoint was not available late Monday for comment on Google's departure from Pwn2Own, a Twitter exchange sounded like the split was amicable.
"Nice to see over that after 5 years of Pwn2Own vendors are finally stepping up and offering big $ for vuln[erabilities]," said Aaron Portnoy , the leader of TippingPoint's security research team and the organizer of Pwn2Own.
The difference in TippingPoint's and Google's goals -- the former seeks vulnerabilities it can add to its intrusion prevention system appliances, the latter wants exploits it can examine -- appeared to be behind the latter's decision to bail out of Pwn2Own.
"We want to study full end-to-end exploits, not just the bugs but also the techniques," said Evans, also on Twitter .
Google tacitly acknowledged that the money it has offered at previous Pwn2Owns -- $20,000 last year, $10,000 in 2010 -- had not been enough to shake Chrome bugs and exploits from the researcher tree.
"While we're proud of Chrome's leading track record in past competitions, the fact is that not receiving exploits means that it's harder to learn and improve," said Evans and Schuh in the Monday blog post.
Chrome's record at Pwn2Own has been impressive: No researcher has been awarded prize money for exploiting Google's browser at the contest. Apple's Safari, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox -- the other browser targets -- have all been hacked one or more times.
It's possible that that may change this year.
French security firm Vupen, which took home $15,000 at last year's Pwn2Own for exploiting Safari, plans to bring at least one Chrome zero-day to CanSecWest. Last week, Chaouki Bekar, Vupen's CEO and head of research, said that a team from his company would be at Pwn2Own; earlier he had claimed Vupen had zero-days for not only Chrome, but also Firefox, IE and Safari.
Vupen's appearance at Google's CanSecWest table could be awkward: Last May, the French company boasted it had figured out a way to hack Chrome by sidestepping the browser's sandbox and evading Windows 7's own anti-exploit technologies.
Google was unable to verify the claim because Vupen does not report flaw to vendors.
Any vulnerabilities in non-Chrome code revealed by money winners will be turned over to the appropriate vendor, Evans and Schuh promised.
CanSecWest, Pwn2Own and Google's exploit-reward program will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, March 7-9.
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Robin sent me the below story of how she had been the victim of cyber bullies. Her story of how these attacks take place and the repercussions of them is becoming an all too familiar one. What can we do to stop vicious impersonation attacks and the theft of our identities. It is a hijacking of our life through the internet and reputation is one thing we have that is very difficult to recover ~ Alan Eisenberg.
It started back in 2004 I was talking to not one but three people who I thought were my friends at first but then they started bullying, harassing and spreading ugly rumors about me online that weren't true. One was a guy from Elgin,IL and the other two were a girl from Largo,FL and her Mom also from Largo, FL. Anyway they all three were making threats about my family and friends threatening to tell them ugly lies and rumors about me and my friends.
It got to the point where they almost destroyed everything I had work so hard to get in life, they started judging me for the way I dressed,what I was listening to and what I was into and how I live my life. They called me horrible things all over the internet the Mom started telling people that I was her real daughter, which was not true and the girl and the guy started telling others that they were my real brother and sister which they are not. They almost destroyed a relationship I was trying to start with a man I really liked a lot.
The girl was basically trying to turn herself into me even dyed her hair and cut it like mine and everything. This went on up until the beginning of 2011 when I finally decided to change all my online information I'm talking about e-mail address, passwords and all that. The bullying got so bad that I started to take the pain out on myself but cutting myself I cried almost every night because I was lost on how to stop these people from hurting me even more.
They ever hacked my old e-mail, Myspace and Facebook accounts to spread more lies and rumors and to turn my friends and family against me. I took a stand like I said I changed my e-mail,passwords and all my Facebook and Myspace pages and made new ones and set my privacy settings to where they can't get in then I reported the three people that put me though all that pain and depression. I took back what those people had taken from me and got my esteem, life and reputation back again.
All I ask to others including children,parents,teens and adults be carefull who you become friends with online and do not give out any information or passwords to anyone you do not know What happened to me shouldn't happen to anyone. I am 32 years old now and have been a victim of cyberbullying and it hurts when people do it. I was suicidal once because of the three that had done it to me and its time to put a stop to bullying and help to keep it from happening to others.
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Life Fitness Center
The LFC is located on the third floor of the SBCC Sports Pavilion.
The Sports Pavilion is ADA compliant.
LFC Director: Ellen O'Connor
Phone: (805) 965-0581 X 3568
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General Information
Hours of Operation
How can I use the Life Fitness Center?
What equipment is in the LFC?
Life Fitness Program Orientation (Mandatory for New Students)
What's new in the Life Fitness Center
Human Performance Lab
Open Lab Classes
Traditionally Structured Courses
Athletic/Personal Fitness Training
General Information about the Life Fitness Center
The Santa Barbara City College Physical Education Department is proud to offer students the opportunity to take Physical Education classes in the campus Life Fitness Center (LFC). The LFC is a state-of-the-art physical fitness facility designed to improve the health, fitness, and well being of students all ages and abilities.
What equipment is in the Life Fitness Center?
The Life Fitness Center has three major areas of focus. The cardiovascular area features recumbent bikes, treadmills, elliptical cross trainers and an arm ergometer. The strength training area features both plate loaded and selectorized equipment for every muscle group. In addition, power racks, dumbbells, power lifting platforms, resistance bands, stability balls, balance training apparatus, and other free weights are available for more specialized training. Power lifting and Olympic lifting equipment is also available. The third area features the "Aerobic Super Circuit" considered by many fitness experts to be one of the most effective ways to train and improve physical health. The Super Circuit combines selectorized weight training equipment and stationary bikes that students use in an alternating fashion to generate a full body workout!
How can I use the Life Fitness Center?
To use the LFC, you must be enrolled in a class that is taught in the LFC. The Physical Education Department has two different types of Physical Education Courses that are taught in the Life Fitness Center: Open Lab courses and Traditionally Structured courses. You can choose a course from the Life Fitness Program of open lab classes that have a more flexible class schedule or choose one of the traditional instructional format classes to suit your needs. Please see the schedule of classes or the college catalog for course descriptions. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT YOU MUST COMPLETE A MANDATORY PROGRAM ORIENTATION THE FIRST TIME YOU ENROLL IN ANY OF THE OPEN LAB LIFE FITNESS PROGRAM COURSES.
Open Lab Classes: The Life Fitness Program!!
The Life Fitness Program offers a series of "open lab" (can enroll up to the 10th
week of the semester) courses that allow each enrolled student to use the LFC during
the open lab hours to complete the course curriculum. The Life Fitness Program "family"
of courses includes:
PE 149 - Life Fitness (1.0 unit)
PE 166 - Life Fitness Strength Training (1.0 unit)
PE 169 - Training for Power (1.0 unit)
PE 177 - Weight Management (1.0 unit)
PE 179 - Aerobic Super Circuit Training (0.5 unit)
PE 195 - Functional Fitness (0.5 unit)
PE 196 - Myofascial Release Techniques in Exercise (0.5 unit)
PE 277 A/B - Fitness for ESL students (1.0 unit)
The goal of the Life Fitness Program is to teach students basic fitness concepts and skills related to the improvement of health and wellness through entry level courses (PE 149 and PE 179). After the successful completion a basic or entry level course, students are encouraged to take other courses in the Life Fitness Program to develop additional fitness skills to meet the individual student needs. With each class, students learn more skills and strategies, building their personal "fitness toolbox". Each of the open lab courses have specific course curriculum and requirements that students must complete in order to remain enrolled and earn credit for the course.
Mandatory Orientation for Students new to the Life Fitness Program
If you enroll in any "open lab" Life Fitness course (see above), you MUST ATTEND A MANDATORY ORIENTATION SESSION. Students should have the course syllabus and the LFC Educational Manual when completing the orientation. The course syllabus is available on the course webpage along with instructions for completing the orientation session. The LFC Educational Manual (and required lanyard) is available to purchase in the campus bookstore.
Traditionally structured Courses using the Life Fitness Center:
PE 143 - Integrated Training for Fitness (1.0 unit)
PE 144 - Beginning Weight Training for Women (1.0 unit)
PE 144A - Beginning Weight (1.0 unit)
PE 144B - Intermediate Weight Training (1.0 unit)
and PE 144C - Advanced Weight Training (1.0 unit)
PE 143 and PE 144 courses follow a traditional class schedule where students attend class on a specific day and time. See the schedule of classes for times/dates.
The LFC is also home to the Human Performance Lab where you can find out how fit you are! The lab features measurements of cardiovascular health (Heart and blood pressure), oxygen consumption, body composition, flexibility, muscular strength and endurance. The HPL also features information and assessment for nutrition, posture, and back care.
Interested in Athletic and/or Personal Training? Check out the SBCC Associate of Arts Degree in Athletic/Personal Fitness Training:
The Life Fitness Center, the Human Performance Lab, and the Athletic Training Room provide excellent teaching facilities for students interested in careers in athletic and/or personal fitness training (AA Degree in Physical Education with an emphasis in Athletic/Personal Fitness Training). Check out the link to the NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) Certification.
What's new in the Life Fitness Center?
Students can now enroll for classes online.
See www.sbcc.edu for details. A helpful enrollment hint: Summer session is very short, so we recommend taking one of the half unit (0.5 unit) Life Fitness Center courses. Plan on exercising about 3 hours per week for a half unit class and 7 hours per week for a one unit class.
PE 196 - Myofascial Release Techniques in Exercise! This half-unit (0.5 unit), self-paced class teaches self-myofascial release (self-massage) techniques in exercise. Students will learn to utilize various equipment to manipulate soft tissue for injury prevention, rehabilitation, pain reduction and sport performance. Check it out!
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Hello All,
I feel privileged to be an armchair letterboxer with access to the Forum, a status I hope to change into active virgin letterboxer in future.
At present, as editor of the inflight magazine of All Nippon Airways, Wingspan magazine, I wanted to get in touch with those veteran letterboxers who posted the following 8 photos in the gallery, to ask them whether we can use their photos for our January 2015 issue, in which our main feature concerns Dartmoor and its moors, Conan Doyle's Hound of The Baskervilles, ancient stone circles, and letterboxing:
5 Dizzy_SonAtBonehill.sized, 9 there_s_a_box_here_somewher, 21 first_ammo_box, 22 Andy_Letts.sized, 23 Found_it_Ducks_Pool, 24 Jo_Letts, 25 Now_where_s_the_stamp, and 26 double_ammobox.
I've already contacted our valued Administrator by email about this request, but now that I have access to the Forum, I thought I might try to speak directly to the people above and, at the same time, ask whether anyone has photos of Dartmoor letterboxing that they might wish to share
in our magazine.
Family and friends and pets are welcome subjects of the photos, but in particular, searching and finding and opening the letterbox would be just the sort of content I am hoping to find in a ridiculously short of amount of time.
Wishing you all well in your letterboxing, with praise for holding charity events and continuing this marvelous tradition of an outdoor adventure for family and friends, I remain
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Author Notes: Summer literally means MANGOES to me. Love for the mangoes are in my genes, really – In my dad's family every single member can just eat/sleep and drink mangoes in every form (Well that includes me as well). Believe me, my Grandpa was diabetic but he never gave up on mangoes.
When it comes to mangoes, my dad picks the best ones (he really does) and of course mom makes the best out of it. In fact every summer the guest bedroom was used to just store the dozens of mangoes. We just love it. I don't remember a single day we spent without eating mangoes in summer.
Raw mangoes are used to make salads, chutneys, sherbet, juice etc…and ripe ones Pureed mango juice, mango curry, mango juice, mango shake, mango lassi, mango salad, mango salsa etc… the possibilities are endless. But of the all I really love pureed mango along with mom's double padi chapatti. Simple and heavenly! No doubt why mango is the king of the fruit.
We only get the best mangoes back on India. Here in USA we have to compromise it with Mexican mangoes, which are just OK. No offence but it is true. Once you try Indian mangoes, you will agree with me. So talking about Mexican mangoes, supermarkets are literally overflowing with them. I think it is because Mexicans are celebrating their "Cinco de Mayo" festival on May 5th in USA and back home in Mexico. And as per wikipedia the date is observed in the United States as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride, and to commemorate the cause of freedom and democracy during the first years of the American Civil War.
So I thought let's create a drink to celebrate another culture! Although I am not aware of their culture a lot but I do love their food. Plus the weather has been pretty crazy lately over here. It's really HOT! And this type of weather demands for some sensational, almost sugar free and refreshing kid friendly drink! Sensational because it has mangoes, refreshing because it has mint, hint of ginger and lime juice and almost sugar free because I have used Organic Agave nectar as a sweetener but I also have used ginger ale which I am sure has some sugar in it. And at last it is kid friendly because there is no alcohol in it. Because we do not drink alcohol!
So here I present to all of you Mango-Pineapple non-alcoholic sangria!
—Grishma Shah
Makes: a large bitcher
liter caffeine free Ginger Ale
cup freshly pureed Pineapple
cup freshly pureed mango
cups Organic Agave nectar
Zest of 2 Limes
juice of 2 Limes
cup freshly chopped Mint leaves
teaspoons freshly chopped Ginger
teaspoon or more Sea Salt
cup chopped Pineapple and Mango
- In a large pitcher, combine pureed pineapple and mango along with agave nectar.
- In a mortar and pestle crush mint leaves and ginger along with salt and little bit of lime juice. Crush it really well so you get all the juices out of it. If you do not have mortar and pestle, use food processor.
- Add this paste to the pitcher along with rest of the lime juice and lime zest. Mix well and add ginger ale right before serving. Stir and check on salt and sweetness. Add more if needed. Or else serve over crushed ice filled glasses and ENJOY!
- Oh do not forget to garnish with chopped fruits and mint leaves!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Mangoes
More Great Recipes:
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|Front cover of Bruce Spizer's Sgt. Pepper book.
Here is a link to the web page where you can send in your stuff: Beatle.Net
The book will be out in May. We previously announced two other books about the album.
Also, Ken Orth will have a 2-part article in Beatlefan about the creation of the album cover, and then there's the unofficial documentary film by Alan G Parker, who we recently interviewed. But of course the biggest event has yet to be officially announced: the anniversary edition of the album itself. And don't fool yourself thinking that it's going to be just the album with the single tracks Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields added. I assure you, this will be something special to look forward to for all of us.
In addition to this, there will be Sgt Pepper concerts arranged in many countries, featuring local cover bands and/or well known local heroes performing the Pepper songs. "A splendid time" ...er, well, you know the drill.


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Monday, September 17, 2012
Fail Harder
Are you prepared for things to not work?
Fail Harder.
Are you willing to put yourself out there?
Take the chance to Fail Harder.
Wieden + Kennedy is an advertising agency that used 100,000 push-pin tacks to create an art installation in their offices. Check out this short video of it being made: Fail Harder.
Pablo Picasso knew something about failing harder when he stated, I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Carol Dweck knows it, too, and said,
Failure is important to understand because success involves repeated setbacks. If you don't know how to welcome failure, grapple with it and ultimately overcome it, you're not going to develop your potential to the fullest.
Students need to integrate a mistake or setback as not failure. Rather, just a step closer to realizing the attainment of a task, goal, or dream. We all need to look through a different lens so as to not perceive a setback or mistake as a failure.
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