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Tax Stances Harden in Wake of Last Deal - The fiscal-cliff deal postponed until Friday the across-the-board cuts, known as the sequester, that would shave $85 billion from federal spending through Sept. 30
To understand why Republicans and Democrats remain far apart in averting automatic across-the-board spending cuts set for Friday, look no further than their last deal.
The agreement enacted Jan. 2 to avoid most of the so-called fiscal cliff's big revenue increases and spending cuts raised taxes by $620 billion over 10 years, mainly by letting temporary tax cuts expire.
Those tax increases have become bargaining chips taken off the table, which makes it more difficult for lawmakers to address other contentious fiscal issues, such as fresh spending cuts and an overhaul of the U.S. tax code.
The deal on the fiscal cliff "actually did hurt the chances of future reform because both sides feel they gave too much and don't want to give more going forward," said Roberton Williams, a fellow at the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and Urban Institute. The deal "will lead members of Congress to hold their positions even more strongly, leaving compromise even less likely than before."
The fiscal-cliff deal postponed until Friday the across-the-board cuts, known as the sequester, that would shave $85 billion from federal spending through Sept. 30.
President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats want to replace the sequester cuts with a combination of new tax revenue and additional, though more-targeted, spending reductions.
But most Republican lawmakers rule out raising taxes again. Democrats "just got the revenue package you wanted—now you are going to have cuts and no revenue," said Rep. Tom Cole (R., Okla.), a member of the House GOP leadership, referring to the January deal.
Democrats counter that recent tax increases are a fraction of the deficit reduction lawmakers adopted in the past couple of years. The rest—roughly $2 trillion over the coming decade—comes from spending cuts, Democrats say. "All we're saying is there should be a balanced plan to avert the sequester," said Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California.
Lawmakers' hopes of overhauling the tax system this year have also become more difficult to fulfill. Republicans and some Democrats want to lower tax rates and offset the revenue loss by curbing tax breaks, so that the overall plan doesn't affect the deficit. Mr. Obama in the past has suggested lowering rates and limiting deductions, but lately has emphasized the need to raise revenue to shrink the deficit.
But after promising to block any more tax increases, Republicans may have a harder time voting to limit or end tax breaks as part of any compromise. And after fighting to raise the top individual income-tax rates in January, Mr. Obama may be reluctant to lower rates.
By raising the top individual tax rate to 39.6% from 35%, the January deal also means Republicans would have to generate a lot more revenue to achieve their goal of lowering top rates to as little as 25% while not widening the deficit. "Clearly, politically the dynamics are harder now, because the individual rates have gone up," said Rep. Kevin Brady (R., Texas), a member of the House leadership.
The agreement over the fiscal-cliff included several limits on tax breaks that lawmakers could have used now to help offset the cost of reducing rates in a tax overhaul. Now, those effectively are off the table.
Still, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R., Mich.) said Tuesday that he plans to introduce tax-overhaul legislation this year and will still aim to lower the top tax rates to 25%.
Some lawmakers say the deal over the fiscal cliff helped the effort for a tax overhaul by clarifying the fate of many temporary tax provisions, such as Bush-era tax rates, most of which were made permanent. Looming debates over the sequester and other budget issues also could spur a tax rewrite.


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an episode or onset of illness.
anxiety attack panic attack.
heart attack
1. popular term for myocardial infarction.
2. any of various types of acute episodes of ischemic heart disease.
panic attack an episode of acute intense anxiety, with symptoms such as pounding or racing heart, sweating, trembling or shaking, feelings of choking or smothering, chest pain, nausea, dizziness, feelings of unreality, and chills or hot flashes. It is the essential feature of panic disorder and other anxiety disorders as well as other psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and mood disorders.
transient ischemic attack see transient ischemic attack.
vagal attack (vasovagal attack) see vasovagal attack.
A sudden illness or an episode or exacerbation of chronic or recurrent illness.
attack/at·tack/ (ah-tak´) an episode or onset of illness.
Adams-Stokes attack an episode of syncope in Adams-Stokes syndrome.
drop attack sudden loss of balance without loss of consciousness, usually seen in elderly women.
panic attack an episode of acute intense anxiety, the essential feature of panic disorder.
transient ischemic attack (TIA) a brief attack (an hour or less) of cerebral dysfunction of vascular origin, without lasting neurological effect.
vagal attack , vasovagal attack a transient vascular and neurogenic reaction marked by pallor, nausea, sweating, bradycardia, and rapid fall in arterial blood pressure, which may result in syncope.
An episode or onset of a disease, often sudden in nature.
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an episode in the course of an illness, usually characterized by acute and distressing symptoms.
attackVox populi An episode or event of abrupt onset. See Crack attack, Drop attack, Fatty food attack, Gallbladder, Panic attack, Sleep attack, Transient ischemic attack.
A sudden illness or an episode or exacerbation of chronic or recurrent illness.
an episode or onset of illness.
attack rate
the proportion of a population affected by the disease during a prescribed, usually short, period of time.
Patient discussion about attack
Q. what should I do to prevent heart attack?
A. The American Heart Association recommends that heart attack prevention begin by age 20. This means assessing your risk factors and working to keep them low. For those over 40, or those with multiple risk factors, it's important to calculate the risk of developing cardiovascular disease in the next 10 years. Many first-ever heart attacks or strokes are fatal or disabling, so prevention is critical. The sooner you begin comprehensive risk reduction, the longer and stronger your heart will beat. For the full article and a quiz to test your heart health: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3035379
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by Richard Paul and Linda Elder
In the previous two columns we introduced the idea of close reading, emphasizing the importance of the following:
In this column we will focus on the theory of close reading. We will discuss "structural reading" first. We will then make some basic points about the art of reading sentence and paragraphs. We will conclude with some domain specific theory: how to read a textbook, how to read a newspaper, and how to read an editorial. For examples of the theory we outline here, see The Thinker's Guide to How to Read a Paragraph: The Art of Close Reading. The following guideline is written directly to the student:
Structural Reading
To read structurally, ask these questions:
Reading a sentence consists, first of all, in finding a way to state what the sentence says so we can think the thought the sentence expresses. Further ways to make the meaning of a sentence clear are: elaborating the sentence, finding an example, and illustrating its meaning.
Finding key sentences means finding the sentences that are the driving force within a book. Structural reading is one way by which we locate key paragraphs and boil them down to key sentences, and thence to key ideas and key questions.
An important part of reading with discipline is to connect sentences to the broader context within which they are located, to see how they fit within the written piece. For every sentence you read, you might ask:
Good readers read sentences in relationship to other sentences, connecting each sentence with the purpose of the written piece. Taking a sentence out of context can pose problems because sentences read in isolation from the sentences that precede or follow them often overstate a point. The sentences that precede or follow usually clarify the author's true meaning, or bring it in line with supporting facts. Good readers read a text charitably and generously. They look for qualifications of points that otherwise might seem false or overstated.
How to Read a Paragraph
All paragraphs within a written piece should connect to every other paragraph so that we can see logical connections between ideas. All ideas should form a system of meanings. As you move from paragraph to paragraph, ask:
Look for paragraphs that focus on significant ideas or questions. Connect those ideas, when possible, to situations and experiences that are meaningful in your life. To actively connect ideas to life situations, ask:
How to Read a Textbook
Thus, there is no way to learn mathematics from a math textbook without learning how to figure out correct answers to mathematical questions and problems. There is no way to learn history from a history textbook without learning how to figure out correct or reasonable answers to historical questions and problems. There is no way to learn biology from a biology textbook without learning how to figure out answers to biological questions and problems. Any subject can therefore be understood as a system of figuring out correct or reasonable answers to a certain set of questions. We study chemistry to understand chemicals and how they interact (to answer questions about chemicals). We study psychology to figure out human behavior (to answer questions about certain human problems). All subjects can be understood in this way. All textbooks can be read in this way.
Most textbooks begin with an introductory chapter or preface that introduces us to the field of study: What is biology? What is physics? What is history? It is important for us to do a close reading of this opening chapter in order to acquire from the very beginning an insight into the most basic and fundamental concepts in the field.
Once we have a basic idea of the whole of a subject from the introductory chapter, we should be able to do some thinking within the system. Thus, with a basic idea of biology, we should be able to do some simple biological thinking. We should be able to ask some basic biological questions and identify some relevant biological information. This is crucial to success in reading the remainder of the textbook because if we do not have a clear concept of the whole, we will not be able to relate the parts (covered by the other chapters) to that whole.
Our reading strategy should not be whole, part, part, part, part, part…but, rather, whole, part, whole, part, whole, part. We first ground ourselves in a basic (though introductory) idea of the whole. We then relate each part (each subsequent chapter) to that whole. We understand the whole through integrating the parts into it. We use the whole as our tool of synthesis. We use our knowledge of the parts as a tool of analysis.
How to Read a Newspaper for
To become adept at reading the news, you first must understand that every society and culture has a unique worldview. This colors what they see and how they see it. News media in the cultures of the world reflect the worldview of the culture they write for. Suppose you have two persons reporting on the events of your life — your best friend and your worst enemy. Your best friend would highlight the positive things about you; your worst enemy would highlight the negative things about you. Both would think they were simply telling the truth.
If you understand this, you can apply that understanding to how the news is constructed by every country in the world. Within any country, the news media highlight what is positive about the country; its enemies' news media highlight what is negative about it. As a critical reader of the news, you must make adjustments for both of these biases. So if you are a Frenchman in France reading French newspapers, you must read the fine print to find out the negative things about France that are being suppressed or buried. If you are reading a newspaper from a country that considers France its enemy, you must, in a parallel way, read to correct for its one-sidedness (its predictable negativity about France).
At present, the overwhelming majority of people in the world, untrained in critical reading, are at the mercy of the news media in their own country. To learn how to read the news critically, you can begin with our guide entitled How to Detect Media Bias & Propaganda. It focuses on how to:
These are some of the skills that critical readers of the news develop. To take command of the way the mass media influence your thinking about the world, you must learn how to see through their biases and appreciate dissenting as well as mainstream points of view. Only then can you come to well-reasoned conclusions using a balanced approach. At present, few people have developed the skills to do this.
How to Read an Editorial
By contrast, critical readers recognize that they have been wrong in the past and may be wrong now. They recognize what they would like to believe while at the same time realizing that they may be prejudiced by that very desire. It is in this spirit of open-mindedness that we should learn to read editorials — especially the ones to which we are least sympathetic. We must learn how to step outside of our own point of view and enter points of view with which we are unfamiliar.
Of course, we should not assume that the editorials in our own culture's newspapers provide us with a full range of points of view. What we can expect is merely that these newspapers provide us with the range of views held by the mainstream readers within the society. The goal of a newspaper is not to educate readers concerning international and dissenting points of view but rather to make money. And a newspaper makes money only when it caters to the beliefs and preconceptions of its readers. Thus, newspapers rarely present radically dissenting perspectives, and when they do, they emphasize that these are merely opinions.
Critical readers read all editorials with equal sympathy. They read to discover and digest a wide range of points of view, especially points of view that tend to be ignored in the mainstream of the culture. To enhance their breadth of vision while avoiding ethnocentrism and sociocentrism, critical readers search out dissenting media sources. For examples of dissenting news sources, see The Miniature Guide to Media Bias and Propaganda.


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Interview with Bob Dickinsonby happenstance I spotted Bob and his wife at the Safety Briefing | 07.03.12
Kuki spied the elusive former Carnival president sailing on the Breeze and managed to get an interview
To people who have been cruising, or involved in the cruise industry for awhile, the name Bob Dickinson is synonymous with the modern cruise industry, and Carnival Corporation.
Bob was President and CEO of Carnival Corporation until his retirement 5 years ago. His book, Selling The Sea, is one of the most interesting written for those with a interest in the industry, and an excellent read.
And Bob believes, "the same principles still apply today".
Bob continues to sit on the Board of Directors at Carnival Corp., so obviously maintains a strong interest in the industry. Though now he is heavily involved in volunteer charity work; his top cause - among others - is attempting to rid the City of Miami of its homeless problem.
He spends 35-40 hours a week of his time, working tirelessly for the charity, and in speaking with him, it's obviously near and dear to his heart.
They have raised over 70 million dollars of the 80 million needed to finish a treatment center specializing in curing homeless people suffering from addictions and mental health issues; with an intended focus on women and the Spanish speaking homeless population; which Bob told me makes up nearly 80% of the homeless population in Miami.
(muster drill) the first day on board my current cruise on the Carnival Breeze. We spoke very briefly on the way out, but then I ran into him again on Deck5, at Ocean Plaza, a few days later. I asked if we could arrange a time for an interview. He invited me to sit down right then.
Do you have any memories of your own about Bob? Tell us in our forums.
When the CruiseMates website first went live on the Internet, the very first group cruise we put together for reader's of the site was a cruise with Bob Dickinson. He as so kind to our group. He dined with the group each night; and held several question and answer sessions for the group.
As this meeting, and pending interview, wasn't planned, I of course hadn't prepared any questions, as I normally would have to prepare for an interview.
As the "interview" began It seemed Bob was asking me as any questions as I was asking him, and I said to him... "this in an interview, who's supposed to ask the questions? But Bob Dickinson is a very smart man, and he likely remembers the old adage; a smart man is a man who listens.
I asked what he thought of the new Carnival Breeze in comparison to the older ships in the Carnival family. He responded by asking me what I thought; what were my opinions impressions of the ship, and what makes it different? Why do I like it, and what sets it apart in my mind?
When Bob talks about Carnival, he still refers to it as "we", which makes some sense since he's on the Board of Directors. But, it also displays his continuing love and interest in the company and the industry.
This discussion eventually led us to talking about the new more open design of the ship's interiors. We both agreed that one of the big positives on this ship are is the openness and airiness of the ship's public rooms.
Bob also said one of the keys in his mind is the new design of the Lido Deck Marketplace, and the vastly improved and changing signage, allowingguests to easily see what is being offered where.
Bob said "the design has been an ongoing evolution, and has been inspired by the designs of the ship's in Carnival's European companies; Costa Cruise Line, and AIDA".
I found it interesting that they have taken the lead on design from their European brands. Of course, we all know, by far, the vast majority of cruise ships are built in European shipyards. However, perhaps naively, I hadn't thought about the design updates being led by European trends.
It's been several years since I've sailed on a Costa ship, and I've never sailed AIDA, so my experience is very limited.
Bob went on to explain, "On those ships, the layout of public areas is very open. There are very few walls between lounges and bars. You don't go in or out of a door from one lounge to the next. The traffic just flows through the ship".
Do you have any memories of your own about Bob? Tell us in our forums.
I do recall from my trips on Costa that their ships have an incredibly active night life - in the case of European cruises, that night life doesn't even begin until after 10 P.M. and always runs well into the night, and next morning. We went on to a discussion of the cruise industry in general.
Bob feels, the industry as a whole, even in some of the difficult economic times, has been enjoying a very reasonable level of success.
He says, "the success has come somewhat because of our ability to attract large numbers of repeater customers fairly easily".
"Maybe we are not doing as well, or enough, to attract new first timer passengers".
"A big focus for us now is to attract multi-generational groups (which I mentioned to him seems to be very true of the demographic on this cruise).
All of the research tells us the most important thing for the vast majority of people when choosing their vacation is FUN, and fun is what we strive to offer".
"Of course fun means different things to different people. But there's no vacation like cruising that can provide different fun for each generation".
"Typically the most difficult group, in a multi-generational group, who feel their vacations are fun, is the middle generational group; the parents.
On non cruise vacations they are often the ones responsible for the driving, the choices, the decision making on what to do when, and where to do it, trying to make it fun for the others.
Yet, a cruise vacation relieves them of many of those stresses. There are programs on board for everyone to choose from which will provide fun for each them. It is Carnival's goal to attempt to meet every generations criteria of what is fun.
Cruising today is not exclusionary. There's no exclusive categories for cruisers, it's good for those from 8 months to 80. There no limitations as to social cast, or to financial position".
Bob, also spoke about Carnival making a conscious decision not to get into the "bigger is better" game. He said, "We made the decision not to step into building Mega Mega ships".
"We'd rather build more ships the size of the Carnival Breeze, at 130,000 tons. That offers us the ability to offer more itinerary choices, rather than have a ship that is 1/3 or 1/2 as large again as this, that must repeat only restricted itineraries.
I thank Bob for so generously allowing me to spontaneously disrupt his day in the midst of a cruise, for 45 or 50 minutes, and for so openly sharing his views on the industry and of personal life.
In that brief time I think he described very adeptly what why Carnival continues to be the most successful cruise line in the world, and continues to deliver the "Fun Ships".
Do you have any memories of your own about Bob? Tell us in our forums.


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Early Social History of Los Alamos Focus of 70th Anniversary Lecture at Bradbury Science Museum
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- TNMSU history professor Jon Hunner speaks May 8
The early social history of Los Alamos during Los Alamos National Laboratory's Manhattan Project beginnings will be discussed at a talk by Jon Hunner at 5:30 p.m., May 8 at the Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum.
The talk is part of the Laboratory's 70th anniversary lecture series.
Hunner heads the Department of History at New Mexico State University and is responsible for administering the department and teaching U.S., New Mexico and public history courses.
Hunner will talk about the "instant city" that was created when Los Alamos was selected as one of the Manhattan Project sites in the 1940s, how Los Alamos quickly grew to accommodate scientists, researchers and their families, and military personnel, and how these individuals worked at a feverish pace to create the world's first atomic bomb.
Hunner has received numerous awards for his work, including a Heritage Preservation Award from the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division and a Best Anthology Award from New Mexico Book Awards for his book about former New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici.
He is author of several publications, including "Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War and the Atomic West," "Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community," "The Early Years of Robert Oppenheimer," a chapter in "Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project," and "Rosie the Riveter, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American West Transformed," a chapter in "Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West."
Hunner has a bachelor's degree in philosophy from St. John's College in Santa Fe, and master's and doctoral degrees in history from the University of New Mexico.
About the 70th anniversary lecture series
Los Alamos National Laboratory celebrates 70 years of service to the nation in 2013. This free lecture series is part of a number of activities planed to mark the anniversary.
All events at the Bradbury Science Museum are free and open to the public. Bradbury Science Museum is located at 1350 Central Ave., in downtown Los Alamos. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday and Monday.
About Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, a team composed of Bechtel National, the University of California, The Babcock & Wilcox Company, and URS for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.
Los Alamos enhances national security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, developing technologies to reduce threats from weapons of mass destruction, and solving problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health, and global security concerns.


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SIDON, Lebanon – On a main road connecting the Lebanese capital with the south, Sheik Ahmad Assir kneels under a blazing sun to pray and then sits down with supporters at his anti-Hezbollah protest camp and launches into a new tirade against Lebanon's most powerful and well-armed force.
"By God, Nasrallah, I will not let you sleep at night," he vows in a fiery speech, addressing Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.
Few in Lebanon have dared take on the Shiite militant group in such a public way, but Assir, a hardline Sunni cleric, senses weakness. He sees a chance to push back against Hezbollah's domination of the country's politics.
The growing popularity among some Sunnis of the previously little known local cleric is a sign of how vulnerable Hezbollah has become as it faces the possibility of the downfall of its crucial ally, President Bashar Assad in Syria. Its reputation as a popular resistance movement has already taken a severe beating for siding with Syria against the anti-Assad uprising even after it supported Arab revolts in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Bahrain.
"This is the start of what will become Lebanon's Tahrir Square," Assir, wearing a long robe and white skullcap, told The Associated Press at his protest site, where some 150 Sunni conservative supporters have been camped out for some three weeks. "They have humiliated us for long enough. It's about our dignity now. I can't live like this, it's enough."
"May you triumph over the Party of the Devil!" came a shout of support to Assir from one bearded protester, who traveled from the northern, Sunni-dominated city of Tripoli to join in. He used a play on Hezbollah's name, Arabic for Party of God.
Assad's fall would be a nightmare scenario for Hezbollah. Any Sunni-led new regime would likely be far less friendly to the group, or even outright hostile. Regime change in Syria could heavily damage its ally's political clout in Lebanon and knock out a third of the "Iran-Syria-Hezbollah" axis of "resistance" to Israel.
Iran remains Hezbollah's most important patron, but Syria is a crucial supply route. Without it, Hezbollah will struggle to get money and weapons as easily.
Nasrallah admitted how crucial the alliance with Damascus is in a speech Wednesday night after Assad's regime suffered its hardest blow yet in the conflict -- a bomb blast that killed three major regime figures, including the defense minister and Assad's brother-in-law.
Nasrallah called the Syrian regime a "bridge" and a "critical support" for Hezbollah's "resistance" against Israel.
"The most important weapons with which we fought Israel in the July war came from Syria," he said, in reference to Hezbollah's monthlong 2006 war with Israel.
In the face of the Syria crisis, Hezbollah is treading carefully to retain the power it has built up over the past 30 years in Lebanon, a deeply divided country where its strength is resented by Sunnis and some in the Christian community.
The group's main strategy for doing so appears to be to lay low and avoid aggravating the volatile fault line between the Sunni and Shiite communities, which each make up about a third of Lebanon's population of 4 million.
Lebanon's sectarian tensions have already been worsened by the crisis in Syria, where the overwhelmingly Sunni opposition is struggling to oust a regime dominated by Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Regional shifts also weigh on Hezbollah. The so-called Arab Spring sweeping the Middle East has so far led to the rise of conservative Sunni Islamists deeply resentful of Shiite powerhouse Iran and its allies Syria and Hezbollah.
"Hezbollah has accepted that this is going to be a protracted crisis in Syria and by virtue of that, the group has been much readier to calibrate and reduce its footprint," said Aram Nerguizian, a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Over the course of Syria's 16-month-old uprising, he and other analysts have noted a subtle shift in Hezbollah's public position. Early on, Nasrallah embraced Assad, casting him as a reformer in speeches that infuriated Syrian protesters. He has since then somewhat modified his stance, calling on both sides to cease the violence and engage in dialogue.
Assir's rapid rise and growing following are symptoms of the deep frustration among Lebanon's Sunnis who resent the Hezbollah-led Shiite ascendancy to power in Lebanon.
The 44-year-old, bespectacled, skinny cleric with a long bushy beard was previously little known, a preacher at the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque in Sidon. Now he is openly challenging and taunting Hezbollah like few have dared before, even taking aim at Nasrallah, a revered figure usually considered a red line in Lebanon.
Assir calls his protest camp an "uprising" against Hezbollah's weapons, aimed at bringing the powerful arsenal of the group's guerrilla force under the control of the government. Hezbollah, the country's strongest armed force, has resisted pressure to do so for years.
Assir set up the camp blocking a main road in the southern coastal city of Sidon. The city is the gateway to Hezbollah's traditional stronghold in the south and links the group's command center in Beirut's southern suburbs with front line villages in the south.
Sunni bitterness still runs deep over clashes in May 2008, when Hezbollah gunmen swept through Sunni neighborhoods in Beirut after the pro-Western government of that time tried to dismantle the group's crucial telecommunications network. More than 80 people were killed in those clashes.
Moreover, a U.N.-backed special tribunal has accused four Hezbollah members in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Lebanon's most powerful Sunni leader. Hezbollah says the tribunal is a tool of Israel and the West.
Hezbollah still is Lebanon's single most influential player with considerable support among Shiites and unprecedented political clout. It holds a dominant role in Beirut's government and the prime minister is an ally, after the fall of the previous government sidelined Hezbollah's opponents, the U.S.- and Western-backed factions led by Hariri's son Saad. As a result, its extensive arsenal of weapons and rockets is virtually untouchable for the moment.
Hezbollah has not directly commented on Assir's tirades and has gone into great lengths to rein in members who might clash with his supporters.
Their reaction has also been muted to the abduction of 11 Shiite pilgrims in May by rebels in Syria who demanded Nasrallah apologize for pro-Assad comments. The kidnapping is seen as an attempt to draw Hezbollah retaliation,
"Hezbollah knows it's absolutely not in its interest to have a civil war in Lebanon," said political analyst Abdelwahab Badrakhan, writing in the Lebanese daily An-Nahar. Hezbollah and Iran's main goal is to preserve the political cover to ensure the group's hold on its weapons and freedom to operate.
Nerguizian said a new conflict in Lebanon could erupt if Hezbollah doesn't agree to a new formula to share power with its rivals. "The Shiites have to deal with the reality of what happens to a minority group when it takes on too much and doesn't share enough," he said.
At the camp in Sidon, Assir has a hero status among the protesters.
Maysa Sabbagh -- a 27-year-old who like other women at the camp was covered from head to toe in black, only a small slit revealing her brown eyes -- said she was once an admirer of Hezbollah for its fight against Israel but grew disillusioned when the party when it turned its guns on other Lebanese in 2008.
"Sheik Assir is speaking for all of us," she said, a Blackberry in her hand and an iPad perched on her lap. Assir "says what others do not dare say."


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NEW YORK -- A trial will be held next year for five of Bernard Madoff's (MAY'-dawfs) former employees who are accused of conspiring in history's biggest Ponzi scheme.
The Oct. 7, 2013, trial date was set Tuesday by a federal judge in Manhattan.
The judge listened as the defendants pleaded not guilty to a new indictment expanding the charges against them.
Prosecutors say some defendants were helping Madoff carry out his fraud as far back as the early 1970s. Madoff claimed when he pleaded guilty to fraud charges three years ago that he acted alone.
Prosecutors say it will take about two months to present all the evidence against those accused of helping him cheat thousands of people out of nearly $20 billion.
Madoff is serving a 150-year prison sentence in North Carolina.


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To configure the iSCSI Initiator to connect to an iSCSI drive on a Windows Server Core system, perform the below steps:
- Start up the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator service and then configure it to start automatically. You can use the sc (service control) command line tool to set the service for automatic startup:
sc \\<server_name> config msiSCSI start= auto
Next, run
net start msiSCSIto start the service
- Set the advanced features of the Windows firewall to allow for the iSCSI Initiator service. You can use the netsh command line tool or the Windows Firewall snap-in on a remote Windows Server 2008 system.
- Once the iSCSI service has been started, you will need to add a target portal to be able to add the server to the target server and assign LUNs for storage. The below command will perform this:
iSCSIcli QAddTargetPortal <Portal IP Address>
Next, configure the LUN information on the target. When the command has completed, run the
iSCSIcli ListTargetscommand to verify the target name. When the target has been identified, you should login to the target using the below command:
iSCSIcli QloginTarget <Targetname>
To ensure the target persists after reboots, execute the below command:
iSCSIcli PersistentLoginTarget <target_iqn> T * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 0
- Ensure that the target and list the mappings on the target have been persisted. The two commands for this are
- Confirm connectivity to the storage and then prepare the storage by using diskpart.
For more information on iSCSI on Windows Server please see http://blogs.technet.com/daven/archive/2008/06/19/iscsi.aspx


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Location. Elegy Hotel is located in St. Petersburg's St. Petersburg City Centre neighborhood, close to Vladimirskaya Church, State Russian Museum, and Kazan Cathedral. Nearby points of interest also include Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood and Summer Garden. Hotel Features. For a surcharge, shuttle services include a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a train station pick-up service. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available in public areas. Elegy Hotel features multilingual staff, tour/ticket assistance, and laundry facilities. The hotel serves a complimentary hot and cold buffet breakfast. Additional property amenities include express check-in, express check-out, and translation services. This is a smoke-free property. A total renovation of this property was completed in September 2010. Guestrooms. 15 air-conditioned guestrooms at Elegy Hotel feature windows that open and hair dryers. Accommodations offer city or courtyard views. Beds come with down blankets. Bathrooms feature complimentary toiletries. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. In addition to direct-dial phones, guestrooms offer free local calls (restrictions may apply). Cable television is provided. Guests may request irons/ironing boards, extra towels/bedding, and wake-up calls. Housekeeping is available daily. Notifications and Fees:Guests requiring a visa to enter Russia may be able to obtain help from the hotel where they will be staying. Guests should contact the hotel using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Hotels may charge for providing visa assistance even if guests subsequently cancel their reservation. All arrangements including any applicable charges are made directly between guests and the hotel. In addition, guests will also be liable for any applicable cancellation charges. No onsite parking is available. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property. The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out. Airport shuttle fee: RUB 1500 per vehicle (one way) The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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* China, Europe services PMI disappoint
* Tensions in Middle East offer support
* U.S. crude stocks fall unexpectedly - EIA weekly data
(Updates prices) By Simon Falush
LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Oil fell sharply on Wednesday as weak economic data from Europe and China dimmed the outlook for demand, adding to concerns arising from Europe's festering debt crisis.
Brent November crude futures had fallen $3.27 to $108.30 a barrel by 1454 GMT.
U.S. November crude shed $3.02 to $88.87 a barrel.
China's official purchasing managers' index for the services sector fell to 53.7 in September from 56.3 in August as growth in the manufacturing industry stabilised at a slower pace.
In Europe, dwindling new orders and faster layoffs marked a worsening decline for euro zone companies last month, according to business surveys that dented optimism the economy would return to growth before 2013.
Wednesday's purchasing managers indexes (PMIs) suggested it was almost inevitable that the euro zone returned to recession in the third quarter.
Highlighting the impact of the faltering economy on oil consumption, retail sales in the euro zone barely rose in August as motorists cut back spending on fuel during the normally busy driving months of the European summer.
"There's little to be cheerful about. There's worry about whether Spain will ask for a bailout or not and there's major uncertainty around China," said Filip Petersson, analyst at SEB in Stockholm. "It's difficult to be bullish at the moment."
Also adding to the bearish tone, Brent crude ended Tuesday below two significant technical support levels on charts of price movements - the 50-day moving average at $112.06 and the 200-day moving average at $112.09 - making significant rebounds harder to achieve.
Losses were compounded as U.S. traders began their day, with stronger than forecast ADP national employment data out of the United States doing nothing to improve sentiment on oil.
Oil prices are still more than $20 a barrel higher than they were in June as fears about conflict in the Middle East have kept concern about supply disruption simmering.
Investors were closely watching developments in Iran where riot police clashed with demonstrators and currency exchange dealers in the capital Tehran over the collapse of the rial, which has lost a third of its value against the dollar in a week, witnesses said.
Investors were also increasingly convinced that a dispute over Iran's nuclear programme would drag on.
"Prices are not going to fall that far, as the situation between Iran and Israel will keep the heat under the market until the end of the year," Tony Nunan, oil risk manager at Mitsubishi Corp in Tokyo said.
Data from the American Petroleum Institute showed that inventories rose less than expected last week, adding 462,000 barrels, against expectations for a build of 1.5 million barrels.
But the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed that crude inventories fell unexpectedly - by 482,000 barrels - last week.
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Concerns about global growth were already heightened after a raft of manufacturing data showed companies had yet to benefit extensively from stimulus measures by central banks and governments.
While manufacturing in the United States grew unexpectedly in September, the euro zone's factories suffered their worst quarter in nearly three years and China appeared to have lost steam.
The twists and turns in the European debt crisis are also keeping investors on edge.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Tuesday a request for European aid was not imminent, while Greece held a new round of talks with foreign lenders to bridge differences over disputed austerity cuts.
The impact of the crisis is also being felt in the oil business, weakening demand, analysts said.
"The independent European refiners have faced a sharp increase in their financing costs, and a general lack of credit availability, as European banks have cut back on their lending, particularly to companies in the commodity space," Goldman Sachs said in a report.
"Consequently, European refiners have kept their inventories lean and their runs low as they now require higher refining margins to cover higher funding costs."
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The gorgeous Lauren Cosenza (aka LDiva) of Divalicious blog asked me to take headshots of her as she needed one for Cosmo magazine where she will soon be a beauty contributor! I took about 200 photos and like every photographer, hoped that there would be that ONE great one. The One that would make her very happy. Well…she loved FOUR! And that made me swoon. 🙂
She put a poll on her blog to get her loyal follower's opinions and it's still a neck-and-neck horserace! But not for me. I have my favorite and here it is:


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It's training day and you've planned a 10K after work; that means you need a decent lunch to keep you going. Scanning the various options at your local café you opt for a large plate of carbohydrate-packed pasta, no added cheese. The perfect meal, you might think, but not so, according to the many nutritionists who have turned the concept of healthy eating on its head.
In recent years carbohydrates have taken a battering because they have been linked to the increasing incidence of obesity. A jacket potato or bowl of pasta, once seen as a healthy choice, became foods likely to increase your weight.
Health warning
A number of low-carbohydrate diets have emerged and become very popular, though the total avoidance of carbohydrate is still largely seen as potentially damaging to our health. This is especially so for those in training, as carbohydrates provide a vital source of energy, fibre, vitamins and minerals. Nonetheless, a few health experts maintain that some carbohydrates should be avoided - or at least eaten in moderation.
Digestible carbohydrates fall into two broad camps - simple and complex, both of which contain sugars. There are also indigestible carbohydrates - fibre - which are also integral to a healthy diet.
Simple carbs are made up of one or two molecules, which means they are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream. Fresh or dried fruit, milk and honey are ideal when you need a quick burst of energy - after a hard training session, or during transition.
In contrast, complex - or starchy - carbs are made up of many molecules, which are usually harder for your system to break down, so the sugars are released more slowly into your bloodstream, helping to keep energy levels on an even keel.
Avoid the sugar rush
That brings us back to the bowl of pasta you were planning for lunch. You don't need a nutritionist to tell you that refined, processed foods such as cakes, biscuits and pastries have little nutritional value, but many complex carbohydrates are also refined, which complicates the picture.
White bread, white pasta and white rice have been stripped of their outer bran coating and inner germ, and therefore also much of their nutritional content. Eat a bowl of spaghetti and you'll enjoy energy and calories, which are vital when you're in training, but you'll miss out on essential proteins, vitamins and minerals.
What's more, without the presence of whole grains, the sugars in carbs are more quickly absorbed, which causes blood sugar levels to peak quickly and then crash, which can leave you feeling weak, hungry and craving more carbs. This is not an ideal situation when you're halfway through a 40K cycle.
"The primary source of energy for an athlete is carbohydrate, because it's the easiest fuel for the human body," explains nutritionist Patrick Holford (www.patrickholford.com). "But if you load too much too quickly the body dumps the excess into the liver, to convert it into fat for storage. So you are better off having a steady supply of unrefined carbs that release their energy more slowly."
Old-fashioned eating
According to nutritionist Dr John Briffa, a simple way to discern the facts about food is to go back to basics and look at what our ancestors ate. It makes sense to suppose that the foods that have been in the human diet for the longest period of our evolutionary process are the ones to which we are best adapted genetically, physiologically and biochemically.
Therefore, the reasoning goes, these are the ones most likely to maintain our health and well-being. "It is perhaps easy to visualise our hunter-gatherer ancestors filling up with fruit, veg, nuts and seeds, as well as, occasionally, meat, fish and eggs," says Briffa. "But there's something not quite right about an image of early men and women sitting around campfires tucking into plates of pasta, bowls of processed breakfast cereals and stacks of bread."
The good food guide
Another indicator that can help when deciding how to efficiently fuel your body is the Glycaemic Index, or GI. Developed in 1981 by Dr David Jenkins, a professor of nutrition, it ranks foods based on their effect on blood sugar levels.
The rise in sugar levels is graded from 0 to 100; the higher the number, the faster the absorption of carbs. Foods such as oatcakes, strawberries and cashew nuts have a low GI (under 55), while bananas and baked beans are listed as moderate, as they fall between 55 and 70 on the scale.
The problem with this system, however, is that the index is based on a standard amount of carbs - 50g. To get that amount of carbs from some foods would mean eating more than most of us would normally eat in one week - let alone one meal. For example, you would need to consume a whopping 700g of carrots to hit the 50g target.
"GI gives us the first part of the story," explains dietician Nigel Denby. "It tells us that not all carbohydrates are created equal; some are absorbed more quickly than others, but it doesn't take into account how much carbohydrate a food contains. This means some very healthy foods are excluded."
Loading up the smart way
Enter the Glycaemic Load (GL). This takes the GI scale one step further, using its rating system but also taking into account the amount of carbohydrate in an average food portion. So food with a high GI but small amounts of carbohydrate will generally have a low GL.
"If we eat low-GL foods we store less excess energy and blood glucose levels are kept stable, giving a slow-release, prolonged energy supply," says Denby.
It's not just refined carbs that have come under scrutiny - the humble, versatile potato also has a surprisingly high GL. "I don't classify potatoes as a vegetable as they're not nutritious enough, but this doesn't mean you have to take them out of your diet," says Denby. "If you eat them with protein such as meat, and vegetables, this will balance out the sugar effect."
Cutting down, not out
The same goes for all other carbohydrates, so rather than shunning cheese on your pasta because of its calorie content, you should sprinkle it on as protein and fat, slowing down the rate at which the carbs are digested and absorbed. How you cook your food also
affects the way your body breaks it down.
According to Denby, over-boiling and baking breaks down the starch in carbs, making it more digestible and enabling sugar to be released far more rapidly into the bloodstream. Similarly, mashing increases the GL because it breaks the food down into smaller, more easily digested particles.
While sports nutritionist Claire Loades agrees that some carbs are digested and absorbed more quickly than others she is loath to label any food type as 'good' or 'bad' because she feels to do so only perpetuates fad diets.
"There are different carbs that suit different occasions - especially if you're an athlete. For everyday eating, low GL is preferable because it keeps blood-sugar levels stable and hunger at bay, but when you need refuelling after training, slow-release carbs just aren't going to cut it. A milkshake is one of the best post-training snacks, or just a glass of milk, as it provides protein, fluid and lactose."
Diet decisions
Deciding how much of your diet should come from carbs is another contentious issue. According to the British Nutrition Foundation we should get half our energy needs from carbohydrates, which is around 200g for women and 270g for men. However, Dr John Briffa disagrees.
"I believe that what represents an ideal diet varies from person to person, but one thing I'm clear about is that many health professionals and even our governments advise intakes of carbohydrate that are greater than is good for us."
Eat for your needs
Patrick Holford agrees that the amount of carbohydrate needed depends on the individual and a key factor is how much exercise you do.
"A practical guide for those in endurance sports is that a third of what's on your plate should be protein, a third fresh, raw or steamed vegetables and a third starchy carbs," he explains. "But try to go for brown rice and whole-wheat pasta because they are going to give you more nutrients, which means you use the food fuel more efficiently."
When you're training hard your body will use up the glucose that carbohydrates create, whether you're a white-sliced addict or a wholemeal fan. But if you take sport seriously, opting for wholegrain and unrefined carbohydrates will undoubtedly improve not only your performance but also your general health and well-being.
"By eating a low-GL diet you gain more energy," says Holford. "It gives you more stamina and, provided you choose foods with a high nutrient content, faster recovery."


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This report airs Dateline NBC Sunday, July 22, 7 p.m.
It happens so often TV commercials joke about it: a faceless stranger is able to get a hold of your credit card and go to town.
But for real people, it's no joke at all.
Leigh Morton, ID theft victim: This was cash out of my checking account. And it was just gone.
Chris Hansen, Dateline correspondent: All of it gone?
Morton: All of it.
Leigh Morton woke up one Sunday morning and decided to log on to check her bank account.
Morton: I was checking to see if I could afford to go out to dinner and I had no money.
Hansen: No money?
Morton: No money.
On Dateline, we'll put a face on a world-class crime and track down people actually involved in schemes to steal your identity—involved in crimes that add up to billions.
Craig Magaw, U.S. Secret Service, in charge of criminal investigations: It's huge out there ..
Magaw is in charge of criminal investigations at the U.S. Secret service which fights identity theft. He says there was a time when crooks would get your credit card number by stealing a purse or digging in the trash.
Hansen: 15, 20 years ago, we worried about tearing up the carbons of our credit cards
Magaw: Exactly. Dumpster diving.
Hansen: Now?
Magaw: Now, with technology, the criminals are able to hack into corporations, financial institutions, and get much larger amounts of information data.
Hansen: Hi-tech dumpster diving.
Magaw: You could call it that.
And, thanks to the Internet, once the thieves have your card number, they're off on an online shopping spree with your money.
It happens once every 4 seconds, thousands of times a day, millions of times a year: That's how many times experts estimate there's a phony charge made with a stolen credit card number.
Steven Yu: I heard a lot about identity fraud. But I never expect that happens to me.
Restaurant owner Steven Yu says he's been fighting with his bank for more than 8 months. After he woke up one morning, he discovered his account was overdrawn.
Hansen: So somebody was out there using your debit card number?
Yu: Correct.
In the end, Steven Yu says the bank tried to hold him responsible for more than $400 in charges he says he never made, even sending a debt-collector after him.
Hansen: So you're being treated like the criminal that these people actually are.
Yu: Yes.
It's an experience neither Steven Yu nor Leigh Morton would wish on anyone.
Morton: It felt as bad as if somebody had raped me, only financially. It was that devastating to me personally.
When you hear stories like those, it makes you want to track down the thieves, find out how they steal your identity, and confront them face to face.
On Dateline, we're going to take you along on an undercover investigation that start at a computer keyboard and travel across America and around the world.
It's a year-long probe into what's become a massive, multi-billion dollar, global problem.
We'll show you exactly how the crooks swipe your identity. And, once they have it, how fast and how much they can steal, as we try to catch a new kind of Internet predator— the identity thieves.
Our guide to the secret Internet underground is Dan Clements, president of "Card Cops", an Internet security company that monitors chatrooms where criminals go to buy and sell your most personal information.
Chris Hansen, Dateline correspondent: It's like a thieves' market?
Clements: It is a thieves' market.
It's a black market we're about to expose, though we'll be careful not to reveal people's private information.
In a matter of minutes, Dan Clements shows us just how much a crook can obtain in the wide-open Internet underground.
Want the password to take over someone's bank account?
Clements (with Hansen, in front of computer screens): We have guys that are advertising that they have log-ins to Wachovia Bank they have—
Hansen: Log-ins?
Clements: Log-ins. Online bank log-ins—
Hansen: So people can actually go log-in to someone's account.
Clements: Yes. They're selling log-ins to bank accounts: Barclays, Wells Fargo, HSBC, all the large banks are here to be bought and sold.
Hansen: So, somebody could get this information, log ocan n to somebody's account, and take their money.
Clements: Liquidate their money, drain their account: That's what these hackers are interested in.
And that's just the start. Want credit cards?
Clements: Well, here's somebody named Pepper Borah. He's saying that he has "dumps" for sale, which is the information on the magnetic stripe on the back of the credit card.
Hansen: That's amazing.
Clements: Yeah, here's somebody here that's selling the Royal Canadian Bank of Canada and Capital One log-ins. So, everything is available here.
There are so many thieves, crooks don't have to pay much for your personal information. You won't believe the deal this hacker is offering.
Hansen: How much is this guy charging?
Clements: He told us it's $5 to buy a full profile.
Hansen: Five dollars.
Clements: Only five dollars.
So for $5, a thief can buy a name, an address, Social Security number, credit card number, pin number—enough details to completely rip you off.
So where do the thieves get all that information? First, they can get it from stolen laptop computers. Next, "hackers" actually break into computers and not just big computers. Any computer system at any store, especially a small store with weak security is vulnerable. And, finally, the crooks sometimes fool consumers into helping them.
Remember Leigh Morton, the woman whose bank account vanished overnight?
She says she got an authentic-looking e-mail asking her to update some banking information.
Hansen: And did it look official?
Morton: It did. Only this one said, "Please update your personal information."
It's called "phishing," when you answer the fake e-mail, the information doesn't go to the bank—it goes to the thieves.
Leigh Morton doesn't know who stole her money. Neither do most victims of identity theft. The fact is most cases are never solved.
But we're going to try to find the crooks who steal your identity—we're about follow the trail back into that mysterious Unternet underground... and confront the thieves face to face.
To catch an identity thief, we'll need some bait, so we get a major credit card issuer to cooperate. We make up some names and they give us real cards under those fake names.
The next step is asking Dan Clements to go back into the Internet underground, pretending to be a thief who stole our credit cards.
He's about to put them into the thieves market—
Clements: We're gonna put it in here to 300 and 400 hackers in real time ...
Dan Clements and I are watching at the Card Cops office in California. Halfway across the country, a fraud investigator for the credit card company is standing by. Her computer will tell her every time our bait cards are used to make a fraudulent purchase. We even have a stop-watch to measure the time, second by second.
Clements tells us this is something that's never been done before.
Clements: It's kind of like throwing tuna to the sharks, and we'll see what happens. (laughs)
Hansen: All right, let's do it.
We test the waters, as Clements, pretending to be a thief, offers to sell some of our bait cards.
Hansen: I'm gonna hit the stopwatch. And we're gonna see how long it takes before somebody hits on it.
The response is almost instantaneous.
Clements: We have somebody saying, "Hey, bro."
Hansen: That's 12 seconds.
At first, the thieves appear to be feeling us out to see if we're for real.
Clements: Oh, we have another one. Nitro81 just said, "Howdy."
Hansen: 26 seconds.
But it doesn't take long for the thieves to take the bait. At the credit card monitoring center, the fraudulent charges are beginning to roll in. At first, they're small charges to make sure the card works.
Investigator (monitoring for Dateline): They checked it for a dollar.
Hansen: For a dollar? So, they're just probing to see if it'll work.
Investigator: Right.
They even make a small donation to the Red Cross to test the card.
Investigator: $11. American Red Cross donation site.
Once they're sure the card works, the thieves start making bigger purchases by the minute.
Investigator: There's been one authorization for $306.28.
Hansen: Wow.
Investigator: They've also hit it for $99.95.
Hansen: So, it's a thousand dollar credit line, and they've already eaten half of it up.
Investigator: Yeah.
Remember, we are watching Internet thieves at work in real time. Imagine it's your card they're using, buying from all kinds of stores.
Investigator: Another one just came in for $79.80 at Evertech Solutions. So, there's two from there.
Clements: And how much time has gone by Chris?
Hansen: Less than 10 minutes.
The illegal charges could go on forever, but our card has a thousand-dollar limit.
Investigator: Okay, they just got declined for over limit.
Hansen: Declined for over the limit. And that's less than 13 minutes.
But if you thought that was fast, you haven't seen anything yet.
Another of our bait cards carried the fake name Oscar Ernesto, with an address in Washington, D.C.—but in no time at all it's used a continent away.
Investigator: Okay. We have a handle on Ernesto for $723.74.
Clements: Wow.
Hansen: One minute, three seconds.
Investigator: In Chile.
Hansen: In Chile?
Clements: Wow.
Hansen: Do you know what they bought?
Investigator: It says pet shop. Food and supplies.
Clements: That's a lot of pet food.
Hansen: It's a well-fed dog in Chile.
Investigator: They've also hit it two more times.
Hansen: It's a minute, 40 seconds. And what's the total up to now?
Investigator: Almost 800.
Hansen: The card is almost maxed out. And we're barely two minutes into it.
And as we follow our bait cards, Chile's not the half of it.
Investigator: Islamabad—
Hansen: Islamabad?
Investigator: For $151.
Hansen: In Pakistan?
Investigator: Yes. So we've seen France, Pakistan, China.
Our cards are being used to make illegal purchases all over the world within minutes of being stolen.
This part of our investigation lasts less than two days but the illegal charges are astonishing: flowers in Latin America, cell phones in Canada, and airline tickets in Asia.
Investigator: 16 different countries over the two days.
Hansen: So over the two days we did this, we had purchases in 16 different countries?
Investigator: Every continent except for Antarctica basically.
Hansen: The level of activity is stunning. I mean I can't get over it.
Clements: Yeah. Identity theft, hitting Americans from foreign soil, is big business.
Just how big? Experts estimate that identity theft costs Americans nearly $5 billion dollars a year. And in most cases, the thieves get away with it.
By now, it's clear: catching the crooks won't be easy.
We figure our best shot at tracking them down is to follow the merchandise— all that stuff they're buying with stolen credit cards. And the best way to do that? Go into business ourselves, and set up our own online store. And when the thieves place an order, we set up our own delivery company. So we can follow the loot right to the thieves' doorsteps.
Dateline is about to set a trap for these new predators.
For nearly two days, we've been watching in amazement as Dan Clements of Card ops" has taken us inside a criminal Internet underground of hackers and identity thieves, where stolen credit cards are bought and sold and used to make illegal purchases with lightning speed.
Clements: It doesn't take days or months or years to have identity theft. It hits you—
Hansen: It's gone.
Clements: It takes seconds. It's gone.
The Internet thieves come from all over the world targeting Americans. They're rarely caught, almost never identified. But Dateline has figured out a way to lure these crooks out from the underground and put a face on this epidemic of crime.
The first step is to set up our own Internet company—"Hansen Discount Electronics." We're selling some popular items: Sony Playstations, Microsoft XBox-360s, mp3 players. But there's a catch: our Website is secret. We've programmed it so that normal Internet shoppers can't find it.
In fact, the only place we're going to advertise our new Website is back in those underground chat rooms full of criminals. It's likely the only ones to know about our online store will be identity thieves. And we let them know we're ready to take their business.
Clements: And the message says, "Cardable site. Hanson discount electronics.com. "
Hansen: "Cardable site," meaning we don't check very carefully. So if you've got a hot credit card number, you can use it here.
Clements: Right.
Remember, the only way to know about our new Website is to read the message in the thieves' underground—or have one of the thieves tell you about it.
But within hours, "Hansen" is a hotspot for crooks.
We even set up a special program to keep track of who's checking out our Website.
Clements: That shows where all the traffic is coming insert when it visits Hansen Discount Electronics. And when you go and do a click over here, if we mouse over here, there's one from Tunisia. There's one from Malta. If we come over here we see—
Hansen: Turkey.
Clements: Asia.
Hansen: Yep.
Clements: Come over here we see Romania. And we're gonna see that order from Macedonia here as well.
Hansen: Latvia.
Clements: Latvia.
Hansen: Spain. Nigeria. Indonesia. Singapore. Philippines. Nicaragua. New York. France. Germany. Italy.
Clements: It's pretty much like the United Nations. This is the global traffic that's hitting Hansen Electronics.
It doesn't take long for people to start ordering merchandise with stolen cards. Our first sale: a Sony Playstation, ordered with one of our own bait cards.
Clements: Yeah, so you've only been in business how long now?
Hansen: I could be a wealthy man.
Clements: An hour?
But the thieves aren't just using our bait cards. They're also using real cards stolen from real people.
Don't worry though—our online store isn't letting any of those charges go through. So, actual consumers whose credit cards may have been stolen are not being billed during our sting.
But as the fraudulent orders roll in, we get what we're looking for: the addresses where the illegally-purchased merchandise is supposed to be delivered.
And, if we follow those deliveries, we figure the trail should lead us to the thieves.
So, we set up another undercover business: CH Delivery.
We pack up some of the electronics matching what the thieves have ordered and set out to start making deliveries all across the country to see what happens to the loot purchased with stolen credit cards.
We've infiltrated a high-tech den of thieves, an Internet underground at the heart of an epidemic of crime. It's a place where people's stolen identities are bought and sold every minute, every day.
We've even lured some of the thieves to our own online store, where they're buying popular electronics items with stolen credit cards.
But what the thieves don't know is something else is coming along with the packages—something they surely don't expect: Dateline's hidden cameras.
As we criss-cross the country making deliveries, the first thing we discover is that some of the people seem genuinely surprised to be getting our packages.
One Pennsylvania man doesn't seem to know anything about the expensive video game he's getting.
Hansen (on hidden camera): So why would stuff be coming here if you're not ordering it?
Joseph: I don't know. I'm trying to figure that out myself.
So what's going on here? Authorities say some crooks have packages delivered to other people's addresses, especially when they think those people will be away. Then the thieves intercept the packages without the homeowners ever knowing.
Could that be the case with this package? It's a Sony Playstation from our online store - ordered with a stolen credit card and on its way to Savannah, Georgia and a woman named Angela Vater.
So, as "Chris" from "CH delivery," I head to her door, where I find an unusual note.
"Absolutely no packages to be left at my door or signed for…"
We decide to knock, anyway to find out what's going on. Remember, she thinks I'm the delivery man.
Hansen (as delivery): Hey. How are you?
Angela Cater: Hi.
Hansen: I saw your sign, but I just wanted to double check. I have a package for you. For Angela Cater?
Before we can even explain what's in our package, the woman inside says she doesn't want it.
And listen to the reason:
Cater: I 'm not gonna accept anything, 'cause I don't know for sure that it wasn't purchased with a stolen card.
Cater: And I didn't order these things.
Angela Cater, a single mom with four young kids is already suspicious about the packages that have been flooding her house.
Cater: Look at this crap....
Hansen: Wow.
There's an entire side room filled with boxes. And, after I tell her I'm really from Dateline, she invites us to take a closer look—digital cameras, computer equipment, home theaters systems, marine radios, expensive shoes... and more from retailers all over the country.
Cater: Check this out. When I open it up, is one heck of a nice watch.
Hansen: Wow.
Angela says she became suspicious after she got a phone call from an investigator who suggested that some of the stuff was bought with stolen credit cards.
But these packages weren't delivered by mistake, because angela knows who ordered them: a man from London named "Paul."
Cater: He said he had electronics business overseas. And that these would be for his business. He wants me to send it, he said an address for a South African store.
Hansen: For a South African store.
Cater: Yes.
She says she agreed to accept his packages because Paul isn't just any friend.
Hansen: Who is Paul Desmond?
Cater: Paul Desmond is my fiancé.
Hansen: Your fiancé.
Angela says she met Paul on the Internet. He's even sent her this picture and asked to marry her.
Cater: And the next thing you know, he's "Let's get married. You know, I really love you. I miss you." And it's mushy, mushy all the time.
Angela has picked out a wedding dress. And some of Paul's merchandise has been shipped to her, addressed as if they were already husband and wife.
It looks to us as if Angela is a pawn in an international theft ring. But is she alone?
Clear across the country we make another undercover delivery to Porterville, California, to Vickie Beebout another single mom.
It's a package of electronics ordered with a stolen credit card, from that online store we created.
And guess who the stuff's addressed to? A man named "Paul."
Hansen: This one is an X-Box 360. Now does Paul Williams live here?
Vicki Beebout: No, right now he lives in London. But he's coming over in January.
Turns out, Vicki Beebout also met her "Paul" over the Internet.
And, not surprisingly, he's been flooding her with packages too. And Vickie's gone a step further than just receiving packages, she's actually been re-shipping them overseas.
In fact, we saw DHL picking up one bound for Africa.
And when we ask Vickie to show us a picture of her Paul, we see a familiar face: Angela Carter's "Paul Desmond."
And guess what? He wants to marry Vicki too. Turns out "Paul" is engaged to two different women on opposite sides of the country. And who knows how many others in between.
So why would international thieves want to trick women into accepting and reshipping so many packages?
Experts says it's because many American retailers refuse to ship overseas, so, to collect their loot, the identity thieves need a middleman, a so-called "drop," somebody in the United States who can accept a delivery, then forward the stolen merchandise.
That's apparently how people like Vicki and Angela are being used.
And if a thief doesn't already have a drop site, Dan Clements says it's easy to buy one in one of those criminal chat rooms.
Dan Clements, Card Cops: So here I'm saying, "You want a valid credit card?" Give me a drop...
In the thieves' market, we negotiate to buy a drop address where the criminals tell us we can send stolen merchandise.
Clements: Oh! We have just got a U.S. drop here.
Hansen: Wow. It's South Avenue—
Clements: Penn Yan, New York? Is that really a city?
Hansen: Penn Yan? What's Penn Yan?
Turns out, Penn Yan is very real—a small town in upstate New York, a place we're about to become very familiar with, because back at our online electronics store, we're getting more and more orders with stolen credit cards—a lot of them telling us to ship the goods to that same address in Penn Yan, New York.
In fact, dozens of orders, electronics worth more than $10,000 dollars. The name on the orders were for Wendy Kenson.
So we head for upstate New York using that shipping company we set up: CH delivery.
But when we get to the address, there's no "Wendy Kenson" listed.
The house, proudly flying an American flag, actually belongs to a couple named Jeff and Therese Ball.
And as we make our delivery, we wonder: Are the Balls victims of a scam or are they scammers themselves?
Hansen: Hi! How are you? We have a delivery for Wendy Kenson.
Therese Ball: Ok. I'm not her. But her stuff is coming here.
Hansen: But this is an address where she can get it right?
Therese Ball: Oh, yeah.
The woman at the door knows the name Wendy Kenson.
Hansen: Does she live here?
Therese Ball: No. She'll be coming by.
Hansen: She comes by. Is she a relative?
Therese Ball: (inaudible, doesn't really answer)
Hansen: Thanks very much.
Therese Ball: Ok.
We make more deliveries to this house—Playstations, cellphones, mp3 players... but "Wendy" remains just as mysterious.
Mrs. Ball seems tight-lipped about "Wendy".
So who is this mysterious Wendy?
We're hoping that these people are middlemen who can help us answer that question and lead us to the mastermind of the identity theft operation.
Finally, on our fourth visit, a new face, and some new information.
Hansen: Hey how are you today? I've got some deliveries for Wendy Kenson.
Jeff Ball: Yah.
This time, Jeff Ball answers the door. Unlike his wife, he starts to open up about what's happening with all these packages.
Jeff Ball: They're going to Africa.
Hansen: What's that?
Jeff Ball: They're gonna be shipped to Africa.
Hansen: Oh they are going to Africa?
Remember all this stuff has been ordered with stolen American credit cards, and now we're finding out they're being shipped to Africa?
Hansen: What do you do with them in Africa?
Jeff Ball: We have a store there.
Hansen: Oh you have store in Africa? Oh Really? Well, that's cool. What, you get 'em over here and then you ship 'em over there.
Jeff Ball: Yeah.
Hansen: How's that business going?
Jeff Ball: Pretty good.
So there's a store in Africa, but that still doesn't tell us much about Wendy.
Hansen: Does Wendy live here?
Jeff Ball: She's in Australia right now.
Hansen: She's in Australia?
It turns out, Jeff says Wendy is actually his business partner. That store in Africa is doing so well, Jeff says, Wendy wants to open more stores.
Jeff Ball: That's why she's in Australia. She's opening a store in Australia.
Hansen: In Australia, too.
And as he tells us about the expansion plans, he drops a bombshell.
Jeff Ball: She's gonna be, she's gonna be my wife.
Hansen: Oh, oh - so Wendy is going to be your wife.
Jeff Ball: Gonna be. Gonna be.
Hansen: Well, congratulations then. Have you set a date?
Jeff Ball: Not yet.
So we've managed to track thousands of dollars in electronics ordered with stolen credit cards right to Jeff Ball's doorstep. But we don't know yet if he's in on the fraud or another pawn. Either way, we're hoping he can lead us to the kingpin behind the identity theft ring.
Jeff Ball says he's in business with a mysterious Australian named "Wendy Kenson."
And just look at the photos his big-time international business partner has sent, supposedly of herself.
He says a romance has bloomed and soon he hopes they'll get married.
Does Jeff Ball realize the merchandise he's receiving has been bought with stolen credit cards?
Is he in on it, or is he being duped?
To find out what's really going on, we decide we need to spend more time with Jeff. So we're telling him we have more packages — but to get them, he'll have to stop by our delivery company "office."
It's really just a room in a warehouse we rented, about a 30-minute drive from Jeff Ball's home.
We've wired the room with five different hidden cameras.
Remember, Jeff Ball thinks I'm with the shipping company, "CH delivery," and this is just our depot.
Chris Hansen (hidden camera footage): How is that business going- with the African thing?
Jeff Ball: Well, good.
So good he claims he just got paid thousands of dollars ...
Hansen: And it works. You're getting the money?
Jeff Ball: I'm getting the money.
Hansen: Yeah.
Jeff Ball: Last night someone deposited over $18,000 in my PayPal account.
Sounds like a lot to us—not a bad payday for reshipping stolen merchandise that could have been ordered with your credit card.
Next, we ask how come the orders are sent first to his house if they're ending up going to other countries. He says Wendy Kenson coordinates all of it. Jeff says Wendy's told him she has customers who live outside the U.S. but need to order American merchandise. It's easier to buy if friends or relatives here in the U.S. simply pay for it with their credit cards and let Wendy forward it overseas.
The way Jeff tells it, it's all on the up and up.
Jeff Ball: We're just like a middle person to get it to them in another country.
Hansen: So, these folks all have relatives in Australia, or London, or some other place and those relatives want this stuff.
Jeff Ball: Right.
But we know friends and family aren't buying it. The credit card numbers are really stolen. Remember ID theft victim Leigh Morton in Nevada?
Her stolen card was used to order a Playstation that was sent to Jeff's house in care of "Wendy Kenson."
Hansen: Do you know anybody named Wendy Kenson?
Leigh Morton, ID thief victim: No.
Hansen: Did you ever order a Playstation Value Pack for $262.75?
Morton: I don't even play video games.
Steven Yu's card was stolen, too—and used to buy more stuff for the mysterious Wendy.
So, back at the our delivery depot, we're trying to get Jeff Ball to tell us more about just who Wendy is.
Hansen: Wendy is your fiancée?
Jeff Ball: Yeah.
To hear Jeff tell it, Wendy seems too good to be true. He says she's a prize-winning model.
Jeff Ball: She just went into competition in Australia too. So, she just got $80,000--
Hansen: Wow.
Jeff Ball: --for winning.
And that's not all—
Jeff Ball: She's also a millionaire.
Hansen: Oh, she's a millionaire.
Jeff Ball: Yeah.
Hansen: Wow.
And for months, she's been sending romantic email after romantic email.
So how did Jeff Ball meet her? Take one guess.
Hansen: Did you meet her overseas in Australia? Or—
Jeff Ball: No, I met her on the Internet.
Hansen: Oh, on the Internet.
Believe it or not, Jeff Ball is about to give me a warning—and you may think it's a bit ironic. Because remember, he's on hidden camera and he doesn't know who I am, as he tells me about the dangers of meeting women over the Internet.
Jeff Ball: Be careful with the chat room. Don't start talking to girls that say 'Oh she's 20, but she's actually 12.'
Jeff Ball: Like you watch "Dateline"? A lot of these guys want to have sex with a 13-year-old and they show up and get caught
Hansen: Yeah… I've seen that show.
Jeff Ball apparently knows all about our "Predator" series, but it's obvious he doesn't know he's actually talking to someone who has more than a passing knowledge.
In fact, I learn he's quite a fan of the Dateline series. He knows all the "greatest hits."
Hansen: Did you see that one "Dateline" show where the guy came in naked?
Jeff Ball: Yup. I can't believe it. He took off his clothes, came in naked. I saw the one where the doctor showed up.
Hansen: --just recently, the doctor showed up, yeah.
Jeff Ball: Yeah, I'm like, 'a friggin' doctor?'
Hansen: Yeah.
Jeff Ball: One got busted twice. Did you hear that one?
Hansen: I heard about that.
Jeff Ball: Guy got busted on the first show. And, you know what? He got busted again on the second show.
Jeff Ball: Same guy.
I'm thinking it's about time tell Jeff who we really are and what we're really up to.
But that's when he gives us some news about Wendy.
Jeff Ball: She'll be coming home tomorrow, I hope.
Hansen: Who's that? Wendy?
Jeff Ball: Yeah.
This could be our chance to meet Wendy face-to-face and get to the bottom of this.
Hansen: I think we all ought to get together when she's in town.
Jeff Ball: I'll talk to her.
We hang around. But, not surprisingly, the mysterious Wendy doesn't show up.
So, we invite Jeff back to our "CH Delivery" office.
Hansen: Come on in. Good to see 'ya.
He's cleary disappointed his fiancee didn't come to see him. And he begins to open up. First, he admits he never got that 18,000 dollar payment as a partner in Wendy's business.
In fact, he hasn't made a dime....
Jeff Ball: All the stuff I been sending, I haven't got paid yet.
Hansen: Really? Well, how much have you had to invest in all this?
Jeff Ball: Everything I had.
Hansen: Ballpark?
Jeff Ball: About $40,000.
Jeff Ball: Savings, checking, everything.
It turns out, Jeff Ball has been duped all along. Overseas identity thieves have been using the picture of a beautiful woman to convince him to launder and ship stolen merchandise. They've even convinced him to pay for the shipping.
Remember he still thinks I'm Chris from CH delivery. I tell him I think he's been swept up in a scam.
And one by one, I show him the orders we uncovered and the people who told us their identities had been stolen to pay for all the expensive electronics being delivered to his home.
Hansen: So we've got one, two, three, four examples where we know stolen credit card or stolen debit card numbers were used.
Jeff Ball: I understand what you're saying. So all this might be bought by stolen credit card.
Hansen: Yes.
This isn't going to be a good day for Jeff Ball. Now that Jeff is beginning to realize he's caught up in a scam, we're about to tell him who we really are.
So far, the trail has lead to middlemen like Jeff Ball in Penn Yan, New York, who themselves may be pawns.
Jeff Ball: I've been scammed.
Chris Hansen, Dateline correspondent: You've been scammed.
He's been scammed with romantic e-mails and eye-catching photos—a woman he met on the Internet has convinced him to go into business with her and accept packages apparently ordered with stolen credit cards ..
Then forward them on to Europe and Africa.
Wendy Kenson has even convinced him to pay for the shipping.
Not only has Jeff Ball helped the thieves in their ripoff, apparently he's been ripped off himself.
Jeff Ball: I got caught up by listening to her.
Hansen: Listening to her. Did you ever suspect you were part of an identity theft ring or a credit card fraud ring?
Jeff Ball: No, I did not.
And remember, until now, Jeff thinks he's been talking with Chris of CH delivery. He still doesn't know I'm with Dateline - and that we're recording all this on hidden camera.
Hansen: Remember last time when you visited, we had that conversation—about chatting on the Internet and having to be careful because that program, "Dateline" is out there doing stories on computer predators?
Jeff Ball: Oh, that. Oh yeah.
Hansen: Well you know, I'm that guy. I'm Chris Hansen with "Dateline NBC." And we're doing a story on another kind of predator, a predator that steals people's identities, their credit card numbers, and uses them to purchase things and often resell them.
Jeff Ball: Hmm.
Hansen: And it appears, based upon our investigation, Jeff—
Jeff Ball: Yeah.
Hansen: —that you've gotten caught up in an international conspiracy.
Jeff Ball: I got caught up into a scam. I've been caught up in something—Oh man. I mean I might a lost all that money. (sighs)
But what about Jeff's new love and business partner, that swimsuit model, Wendy?
Hansen: Do you really know who Wendy is?
Jeff Ball: Hmm.
Hansen: Have you ever met her face to face? And you gotta tell me the truth.
Jeff Ball: No.
Jeff Ball now realizes it may all be a cruel hoax costing him thousands of dollars and threatening his marriage.
Now, he has a decision to make:
Hansen: We are gonna continue this investigation and try to show who is ultimately responsible for this. You're in a position to help me do it.
Jeff Ball: Okay.
Hansen: Will you help me?
Jeff Ball: Yeah, I will help you.
Jeff Ball not only agrees to help, he lets Dateline take over the e-mail account he uses to talk to Wendy the thief. From now on, when the Internet thieves think they're talking to Jeff Ball, they're really talking to us.
As you'll find out next week, the trail is going to lead us far from Penn Yan, New York, across the Atlantic—as we go on the hunt for Wendy and her gang of international identity thieves. Dateline, April 3, 8 p.m. on NBC.


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Abolish Death Penalty in Colorado
The Denver Post
By David Land
Re: "Capital punishment in Colorado: Foes weigh push to repeal," Dec. 26 news story.
It appears that the Colorado legislature is finally poised to give serious consideration to ending the barbaric, money-sucking relic of bygone years known as the death penalty.
Since 1968, Colorado has executed one person. The article in the Dec. 26 Denver Post noted that the death penalty annually costs Colorado taxpayers $1.5 million. It also quotes Attorney General John Suthers as saying that there are times we need the death penalty "for the safety of the people."
Mr. Suthers never explains how executing one person in the last 45 years, at a cost of approximately $50 million, has made our state safer. Spending tens of millions for one execution seems like the most preposterous waste of money imaginable, especially when one considers the law enforcement programs which could have been funded with those scarce dollars.
Mr. Suthers simply resorts to the time-tested tactic of whipping up hysteria over truly heinous crimes and offering a "solution" to the problem which involves the government spending more millions to kill people. There is not one shred of evidence that the per capita murder rate in Texas, which executes someone almost every two weeks at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, has been affected in any way by the regular imposition of the death penalty.
No one disputes the fact that the system currently in place as mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court makes the death penalty far more costly than life without parole. Mandatory appeals consume resources, as do penalty phase trials, which almost always involve complex testimony from psychologists, neurologists and other specialized professionals, all of whom must be paid by taxpayers, as no one facing the death penalty has the resources necessary to hire their own lawyers. The public foots the bill for the prosecutors, the defense attorneys and all of the experts testifying on both sides.
When Jared Loughner pleaded guilty in Arizona for the Gabby Giffords shootings and was sentenced to life without parole, the nightmare of court appearances ended for all of the remaining victims. They would not be forced to testify at trial, they would not have to endure endless appeals with the fear always lurking in their minds that he would get a new trial and they would once again be forced to relive the nightmare on the witness stand. He will be incarcerated forever, and the victims can focus on healing and not on a court case which will never end.
Nathan Dunlap has been on Colorado's death row for 20 years. Edward Montour's death sentence was reversed and he is back for a new trial 10 years after the crime. Even if he is again sentenced to death, 30 years will have passed between the crime and the punishment and millions of dollars will have been wasted.
It is time for the legislature to stop pouring money down this barbaric drain. As any responsible law enforcement officer will tell you, killing people is not the solution to crime in our society. The death penalty in Colorado should be abolished.


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"Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent!".
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Jude Mannion needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 56 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
A logo design that actually invites people to become participants in market research...because its good for them and other people...
It will attract on line candidates for a broad range of research ...who are happy to be guinea pigs because it meets their needs... as well as helping others
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SURF: Announcements of Opportunity
Below are Announcements of Opportunity posted by Caltech faculty and JPL technical staff for the SURF program. Additional AOs for the Amgen Scholars program can be found here.
Specific GROWTH projects being offerred for summer 2019 can be found here.
Each AO indicates whether or not it is open to non-Caltech students. If an AO is NOT open to non-Caltech students, please DO NOT contact the mentor.
Announcements of Opportunity are posted as they are received. Please check back regularly for new AO submissions! Remember: This is just one way that you can go about identifying a suitable project and/or mentor.
Announcements for external summer programs are listed here.
Students pursuing opportunities at JPL must be
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