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The night of Sept. 13 St. Anthony police posted a missing person alert to their Facebook page.
Some St. Anthony residents and some former residents forced out of the city when the Lowry Grove mobile home park closed last year were in vocal attendance at the Aug. 28 St. Anthony City Council meeting.
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The owner of the former Lowry Grove mobile home park in St. Anthony has scrapped planned redevelopment that's been years in the making.
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Back in 2015, about a year after Walmart vacated its former 150,000 square feet of retail space in St. Anthony, the owners of the the building felt confident it would soon be filled.
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Last festival, the Irondale Dance Team took a break from walking the parade route to show off their dance moves. City Hall's parking lot turned into a food court during the festival. Visitors to the festival could make their own sand creation, complete with a fuzzy topper. A hit with the kids was the inflatable bouncy house, complete with slide.
Last festival the area behind City Hall by the water tower once again filled with cars of all shapes, sizes and years for the annual car show.
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At the July 24 St. Anthony City Council Meeting, St. Anthony Police Chief Jon Mangseth said that police-worn body cameras had been ordered and were on their way.
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KHOU: A Baytown (Texas) mother fought back – and won – when an armed robber threatened her and her two young sons, according to police.
Dorothy Baker was just driving home from CVS with her sons, ages 5 and 2, when a man crept up from the third row of their minivan with a knife. He demanded money.
"So I asked him how much he needed and he said $200," Baker said. "And I told him I didn't have that kind of cash, I had about $20 in my account, and he said I better figure out a way to get it, or my kids were going to get hurt."
Thinking fast and acting even faster, the mother of six ignored his request at one point to make a turn. She said he then leaped up to the front row and realized she had dialed 911 on her cell phone. Instinct took over and she was able to rip the knife out of his hand.
She said she then pushed him to the passenger seat and punched him in the face, all while they were still moving. "And I told him to get the hell out of my car," she said. "And he said 'fine.' He got out and started running and the next thing I thought was if he gets away he can do this to somebody else."
So she pursued him. "He kind of 'zagged' and I turned, intending to clip him in the side or something to get him to stop," she said. "And I ended up running completely over him."
Baytown police identified the man as 53-year-old Ismael Martinez. He was taken to Memorial Hermann via Life Flight, where he was listed in stable condition. Records reveal he served time in the TDC after a 1976 rape conviction.
Many people are praising the mom, who is now covered in scratches.
Baker does not see why. "I see myself as a mom trying to protect her kids," she said. "That's it." She believes Martinez had spotted her family earlier in the day when they were at a Kroger across the street from the CVS.
She said he was smoking a cigarette and watching them, and that she recognized him the moment she saw him in her van.
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If I ever go on a diet, the one thing that I would really find hard, if not impossible, to give up would be the flaky, buttery, mood boosters, Croissants. And, I am willing to gamble that this delicate French pastry evokes similar allegiances in many. A friend of mine who recently decided to turn vegan still cannot give up these delicacies, neither does he plan to! :-)
I remember reading somewhere on the blogosphere that this particular pastry has been ranked high on the list of the Most Difficult Recipes. Since then they have been on my mind, tucked away in a corner, but never forgotten.
Then, a few days back, I came across Tracey's gorgeous blog listing her top 10 favorites from 2010. And, the pride and joy of the list was.... you guessed it, flaky Golden Croissants. I decided then and there that these beauties would be one of the first things I baked this year!
So, I did! That is, once I was done balking over the copious amounts of butter needed in making these pastries as flaky as they are meant to be. :)
I had made puff pastry for my first Daring Bakers challenge, Vols-au-Vents, which, was a fun adventure in itself. The technique to make the croissant dough is pretty similar, actually. So, I was rather comfortable with it.
The layers of flakiness in a perfect croissant (as also puff pastry) comes from the even distribution of the butter into the dough. The method to do that is to tuck a flattened slab of butter into the rolled out dough, fold like a business letter and re-roll. Then, you repeat the process over about 4 more times.
The trick here is ofcourse make sure that the butter stays cold throughout the process and if ever, you find the warm sun streaming in or an overenthusiastic heater cramping your style, pop the dough into the refrigerator for 30 minutes to an hour to allow the butter to harden up sufficiently but still remain pliable.
Now, a good question to ask is, if the technique is really the same, what is the difference between the croissant dough and puff pastry? Can one not interchange the two? The only difference I noticed is that the croissant dough has yeast in it. But, unlike typical bread dough, you don't see a significant rise in volume before the dough goes into the oven.
I don't know how the chemistry works, and if someone can explain, I am all ears, but the amount of yeast is really low and even while proofing the rise is just barely there. But, once the shaped dough hits the oven, it rises beautifully creating height and a lot more airiness during the baking process. I also think that the yeast contributes to the softer and cake-ier texture of croissants compared to the crunchier puff pastry.
I pretty much followed Tracey's recipe, who in turn used the one by James Peterson, except I used a tad less butter and hid a stick of chocolate in some of the croissants, just to make it a guessing game when I pick one for breakfast :)


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Disillusion – Austria 1940
By Hans Ternes
Translation from German to English by Connie Dahlke
Many years ago, when our entire village was relocated from Romania (Bessarabia) and resettled in Germany, we lived for a short time in a castle in Austria. At that time, we celebrated St. Nicholas' Day on December 6, as Geschenktag. Unfortunately, St. Nicholas, also called Father Christmas, was always accompanied by his companians, Knecht (the servant), Beelzebub (the one traditionally dressed in black and usually wearing a tail (a switch). St. Nicholas had a List whereon all the misdeed were written.
As a child, I was not particularly good (obedient), and so my list of offenses (misdemeanors) was rather long. Therefore, I naturally had an incredibly large fear of Geschenktag, because I knew what awaited me.
In my memory I see myself all alone in a large room in the middle of which a huged tiled Kachelofen (bake-oven/furnace) stood. Somehow I thought I could get behind that Kachelofen and hide. But then the thought occured to me that Beelzebub, the evil one, would discover me behind the Kachelofen and would pull me out. In desperation I grabbed a piece of kindling wood from a nearby bucket and was ready to defend myself against the man dressed in black (Beelzebub).
The door opened, and as I expected it to be Beelzebub, I threw the piece of wood with all my force at the person entering. But it was not Beelzebub who entered, but, unfortunately, it was St. Nicholas. And, believe me – this is true - the wood met with Santa Claus in the middle of the forehead! It gets even worse! Blood dripped from the wound. The list of my (past) misdeeds was never read. Beelzebub laid me over his knee and gave me a good thrashing, which I really deserved this time. The surprise came the next day when my mother had a barely healed wound on her forehead. I knew then that there really is no St. Nicholas or Christmas-man. What a pity, is it not?


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By the mid nineteenth century the desire for more representative and responsible government in colonial Australia permeated the community. It was fed by the ideas of the great reform movements (Chartism, Republicanism, etc.) which swept Europe, the United States of America and the British Empire, and by the colonists' spirit of practical self-reliance.
The end of convict transportation made the introduction of responsible government to Australia a realistic development and progress in this direction accelerated in the 1840s and 1850s.
Colonial legislators were influenced in their drafting by the national democratic sentiment so clearly demonstrated in the events surrounding the Eureka Stockade in 1854.
The Australian Colonies Government Act of 1850 was a great landmark. It provided for the separation of Victoria from New South Wales and granted representative constitutions to Victoria, South Australia and Van Diemen's Land (renamed Tasmania in 1853) in addition to NSW.
This Act granted the colonial legislatures power to alter their constitutions and change the voting qualifications of electors.
These powers were soon exercised as the colonies entered an intensive period of constitution writing.
These constitutions produced were democratically progressive in many ways. South Australia, the only colony without a 'convict past', was the first colony to introduce universal manhood suffrage for its Assembly in 1856. G S Kingston, J Baker and J Hughes were among the most powerful and vocal advocates of adult manhood suffrage. Baker pleaded for manhood suffrage undiluted by property qualification for the lower house in these words:
A man came here to benefit himself and his family and the fact that a large family prevented a man from acquiring property is no reason why he should be disenfranchised.
The other colonies' colonial parliaments also introduced manhood suffrage, or initially applied modest property qualifications to the manhood suffrage ballot for their lower houses.
In other respects the new constitutions revealed a deep seated conservatism. Constitutional arrangements maintained the role of the colonial upper houses, the Legislative Councils, as representative of social and economic 'interests' rather than of the population. New South Wales retained a nominated Legislative Council into the 20th Century. The other colonies opted for elected upper houses, or part elected and part nominated, but retained property qualifications and often plural voting for them well in to the 20th century.
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'John Doe Duffle Bag' Arrested in Connection to Three New York Murders
(NEW YORK) -- The man known as "John Doe Duffel Bag" was arrested today in connection with the slayings of three shopkeepers of Middle Eastern descent in Brooklyn.
Salvatore Perrone, 63, was arrested following a long night of questioning by detectives.
Officials tell ABC News that Perrone has been charged with three counts of murders. He has made admissions to police in connection with committing two of the murders, but stopped talking before any discussion of the third, law enforcement sources said.
He had been brought into custody Tuesday evening when, acting on tips, police picked him up at a pharmacy he was known to frequent.
A search warrant was executed while he was being questioned and his duffel bag was seized and searched.
Inside it was a cutdown .22 caliber rifle whose ballistics matched those of the bullets that killed the three murder victims, a bloody knife, .22 caliber bullets, two other knives and women's stockings, law enforcement officials said.
All three slain men were killed by .22 caliber slugs and one was stabbed as well as shot.The murders took place in July, August and last Friday.
Perrone, a Staten Island resident has a rap sheet that includes stalking a former girlfriend and kicking in her door, burglary and driving while intoxicated on Staten Island.
The suspect had connections with the clothing business and possibly once had a clothing store, officials said. He reportedly carried merchandise in his duffel bag, law enforcement sources said.
Clothing or cardboard was used to cover the bodies of the murder victims, police have said.
The man was captured on video last Friday at 6 p.m. within a block and a half of the latest crime scene, a women's boutique on Flatbush Avenue. The latest victim, 78-year-old Rahmatollah Vahidipour, was killed sometime between 4:30 p.m. and 7:11 p.m. on Friday.
The second video, from Aug. 2, appeared to show "John Doe Duffel Bag" near the Bensonhurst shop where Isaac Kadare, a Jewish man from Egypt, was murdered with the same .22 caliber gun that was used to kill Vahidipour, sources told ABC News.
On July 6, clothing store owner Mohamed Gebeli, an Egyptian Muslim, was killed inside Valentino Fashion in Bay Ridge. Gebeli was shot in the neck and was found with several pieces of clothing on top of him. Police said $383 in receipts was missing, but $1,500 was found inside a cabinet.
The trio of killings took place within a five-mile radius, each occurred at a small shop that lacked security cameras, and each victim was over 50, police said. It was not clear whether the victims were robbed.
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Police in Thailand say they have arrested an Algerian cybercrime suspect sought by the U.S. FBI for allegedly making hundreds of millions of dollars by hacking banks' websites.
Immigration police chief Lt. Gen. Panu Kerdlarppol said Hamza Bendelladj was arrested during a layover at Thailand's international airport while traveling from Malaysia to Egypt. He and his family had been on vacation in Malaysia, he said.
Panu said that police confiscated two laptops, a tablet computer, a satellite phone and a number of external hard drives from Bendelladj, 24.
He said the FBI had been pursuing Bendelladj for nearly three years. U.S. authorities believe the suspect hacked private accounts in more than 217 banks and financial companies worldwide, causing about $10 million in losses per transaction, he said.
Panu said Bendelladj will be extradited to the U.S. state of Georgia, where a district court has issued an arrest warrant.
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By Aaron Rasmussen
"Cloud Atlas," "Skyfall" and now "Life of Pi" – there's a spate of book-based films in cinemas, leading to the perennial question: Read the book and then watch the movie or vice versa? The pitfalls of each decision are obvious – take too long with the book and the movie will be gone from theaters. See the film first and risk becoming bored with the book.
Irrfan Khan, who plays the adult version of Piscine Patel in "Life of Pi," assures audiences that there's no right or wrong way to approach the dilemma. "If they've read the book, the experience will be much greater," he says. "If they haven't read the book, the film will take care of the experience."
As for Khan, long before he found out Yann Martel's novel "Life of Pi" was going to be made into a movie, he wanted to read the book that follows the story of Pi, a teenage boy who becomes stranded at sea on a lifeboat with a vicious tiger. He never got around to it.
Then when the 45-year-old Bollywood actor was up for the role of the grown Pi, Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee told him he no longer had a choice. "Even then I didn't read the book," recalls Khan. "In the next meeting he asked me, 'Did you read the book?'"
The answer was still no. Khan, who has starred in Hollywood hits like "The Amazing Spider-Man," "Slumdog Millionaire" and "A Mighty Heart," told Lee that he would only delve into it when the director confirmed he had landed the part of Pi. "I never wanted to invest emotionally," explains Khan. "I just read the script first, because Ang sent it to me."


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Silver Sparrow
A Novel
Tayari Jones
Algonquin Books: 341 pp., $19.95
Tayari Jones has taken Atlanta for her literary terroir, and like many of our finest novelists, she gives readers a sense of place in a deeply observed way. But more than that, Jones has created in her main characters tour guides of that region: honest, hurt, observant and compelling young women whose voices cannot be ignored.
"Silver Sparrow," her third novel, is an astonishing leap forward. Thehistory of two families is inextricably linked to 1980s middle-class Atlanta, and the women she has created are indelible — many readers may have lived with women like them, but they're made achingly real to readers who haven't.
The two daughters who narrate the novel, equally divided and equally yearning, share a father, James. He is a bigamist — but it is not that simple, and therein lies the story. Their mothers' lives are separate, but Dana (the unacknowledged, the placated, the secret, the silver) is fierce in her desire to know her half-sister Chaurisse (not secret, not silver), and she befriends Chaurisse in a tense, fascinating series of events.
The two strands of the novel, the daughters' voices, are not woven, which might seem too simple but their characters bump into each other, setting in motion the plot. First, the reader meets Dana Lynn Yarboro, the beauty and intellectual, eloquently furious that she cannot be recognized and loved in public. Dana accidentally meets Chaurisse when both girls are 14, after Atlanta's science fair. Both girls are wearing waist-length rabbit fur coats — but Dana knows this is not coincidental. "It was the very same garment, right down to the crystal buttons on the sleeves. This was my sister… James was all over her face, from her narrow lips to her mannish chin. I looked so much like my mother that it seemed that James had willed even his genetic material to leave no traces." Dana's mother, Gwendolyn, was a beautiful young woman working as the first black gift-wrap girl in an Atlanta department store, only a month after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. She is divorced after a short marriage and meets James when she wraps a knife as a gift for his wife. They fall in love, and she gets pregnant.
James never courted Laverne, we find out during Bunny Chaurisse Witherspoon's narrative; Laverne, his wife, became pregnant at age 14 in a one-afternoon stand at James' grandmother's house. They married right away, and even though she lost that baby, they make a life together. Despite this, James takes Gwen to Alabama one day and marries her; thus the bigamy. (Laverne becomes pregnant at the same time.)
Secret daughter Dana first meets her grandmother Bunny on the day the older woman is dying, and on that day, her father hugs her in public. "You don't need a dress rehearsal to know how to lay your head on your father's shoulder, to inhale his tobacco scent. It takes no practice to know how to be someone's daughter." Dana and her mother live in an apartment in an increasingly shaky part of Atlanta. They get weekly visits, and they "surveil" Chaurisse and her mother, who live in a house with an attached beauty salon in a better part of the city.
Gerald Early, in his fine 1990 essay "Life With Daughters," wrote of black women and hair, daughters and self-image, and these themes are all dramatically, sensitively and most important, lyrically investigated in "Silver Sparrow." Hair and family and love are all ideas interwoven in delicate and very organic ways in the writing, and every conversation, every confrontation, every denial is absolutely believable.
And though Dana's voice seemed so perfect and righteous that I was worried Chaurisse couldn't match up, I was wrong. She just about broke my heart.
"I had been in kindergarten when I figured out that I wasn't pretty… At Christmastime, the ten prettiest girls get to be in the angel choir. Plain girls twirl in the candy-cane dance. Ugly girls pass programs. I never handed out playbills, but I never for a minute thought I would be in the angel choir."
The sisters measure each other initially by hair, when Dana maneuvers a meeting in a Rite Aid. Laverne has done a weave for Chaurisse for the first time. "What my mother stitched on to my head was sixteen inches of synthetic fibers, dark and shiny like motor oil." And in the Rite Aid, Chaurisse sees Dana shoplift. "'Silver' is what I called girls who were natural beauties but who also smoothed on a layer of pretty from a jar. It wasn't just how they looked, it was how they were." Dana, Chaurisse says, "had a good twenty inches of the real thing, thick and heavy. A Barbie doll dipped in chocolate, she was the silverest girl I had ever seen." The reader feels the tension ratchet up as Jones masterfully weaves the narratives, as Dana plays a dangerous game with Chaurisse, becoming a demanding "friend" who tests her and James and both mothers. It's Jones' talent for these two voices, so vulnerable and deep-hearted, and for plot — there is an aquamarine brooch removed from the dress of a dead grandmother and given to one girl, and there is a limo, and there are wigs "like the trophy heads of deer" — that makes her novel impossible to put down until you find out how these sisters will discover their own versions of family.
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After a quick jaunt to the UK, Twin Peaks have returned and they have a new video to share, the playful "Making Breakfast," directed by their regular collaborator Ryan Ohm.
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About Butcherer79
From census records @ http://exploredia.com/population-of-us-states-2011/ the population of total US territory is just over 312M.
Although this blackout may have raised awareness, the total percentage of the 312M that contacted is about 2.5%.
Maybe a longer protest is needed to raise awareness further, also out of the users of the tool, how many were duplicate users, how many were under voting age, how many were already aware of the bill?
I'm not trying to say that the blackout was unsuccessful, just that perhaps there's more successful ways of raising awareness, or perhaps the protest wasn't big enough?
You do realize that talk of overthrowing the government is still illegal and considered treason, right?
Is this Jon Stewart fella really risque, or is he the same as most 'Shock-Jock' DJ's?
Most of the latter are paid to appear to be against 'the machine/industry/rich'; the problem being, they're still paid by 'the machine/industry/rich' and you can bet your bottom dollar that there's only certain levels they can go to.
I'm not sure what annoys me more, the fact that the bosses of these Shock-Jock types think Mr & Mrs Public are stupid enough to believe they're against their own industry; or the fact that a lot of the listeners actually are...
I've never had a fornicating sandwich, though I may have seen some video's in my youth which would fit the bill...
It is "highly unlickly" that I will wait "intil" another of your comments before deciding that in future I will scroll straight over it at the sight of your name.
Well done on the theft of five minutes of my time...
I think ninja said he 'stole' it in what should have been an ironically funny way, the AC picked up on this word and launched the misinformed attack from there. I'm not defending AC's viewpoint, just saying he/she responded the the self accusation thinking he/she had some sort of foothold.
I think we need an irony tag to be introduced when the sarc one is implemented - it would save the AC's confusion, though I suppose would be less entertaining for the rest of us.
so they are redundant, cannot be enforced and so may as well not exist.
The battle cry above is insinuating that SOPA has the power to go back in time and somehow stop ninja from pirating in the first place.
For a pro-SOPA type response the AC should have said something along the lines of:
This is why we want SOPA to become law
I was under the impression that SOPA doesn't exist - yet
So the noise ordinance that prevents me from blasting my pro-same-sex-marriage diatribe is bad?
possibly why they're called private and not public... just a thought
I think this may just be another personal attack in place of a valid argument, possibly also in place of actually reading and comprehending the article.
You wouldnt copy a black hole
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/07/rupert-murdoch-stop-online-piracy-act_n_1135452.h tml
Posted on 07th December 2011 and updated on the 8th...
Perhaps the position of Murdoch's PA isn't for you...
Perhaps you should read previous posts (and there's a number of them) before coming out with false accusations.
Good, but not flawless, what if someone buys a ticket and can't make it through ill health/the car broke down/the train got cancelled.
Stubs at the door are not proof of ticket sales, just attendance.
You've also got to take into account the ticket touts who buy up as many as they can and sell them outside the venue, they sure as hell don't want to see the gig, just make a quick buck, any tickets that they have left are discarded and they still make their money.
you can get bacon flavour gum?
Do they mean narrow-mindedly crafted?
So you agree that people can make money without having to pay nobody after they bought something right?
Seriously, you're better than 'Word of the Day' toilet paper for my vocabulary, unfortuately though, you're not quite as useful in other areas, i.e. coherent, relevant commenting.
"First, is there a "European people" that I've somehow missed? -- In a period when the euro (currency) is said to be on the verge of collapse? Just when the whole notion is about to fall apart, you've adopted the false premise that Europe is somehow united..."


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In 2008, the first plane rolled down Australia's $46 million airstrip in Antarctica. Just four years later, that landing site is dangerously close to being unusable.
Australian officials said Wednesday that the Wilkins runway is melting due to global warming, the AFP reports.
The ice runway shaved the trip to Antarctica down from 10 days by ship to a quick 4-hour flight.
The landing strip is critical to supplying Australia's three Antarctic research stations as well as transporting scientists to the ice-covered continent.
The runway was originally supposed to handle 20 flights during the summer, but has only been able to receive six flights over the last two years because of warming temperatures and melt.
According to the AFP:
Meteorological stations have shown a temperature rise of two degrees Celsius in the past 50 years in the Antarctic peninsula, which is roughly triple that of the global temperature rise.
It must be at least 23 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 5 degrees Celsius) for planes to land safely.
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A pair of inventory trackers, including one resurrected after Apple demanded it stop collecting data from its online store website, help buyers locate scarce Apple smartphones and tablets.
Apple-Tracker recently resurfaced at a new URL after the original was taken offline by its creator, Mordy Tikotzky, when Apple lawyers filed a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notice, accusing the site of violating Apple's terms of service.
Tikotzky complied, saying on the site that he was "not really interested in picking a fight with Apple."
Later he posted the code he used to collect inventory status to GitHub, the popular repository.
On Nov. 12, Tikotzky pointed out on Twitter that, "Someone put up my code here," and provided a URL. The new site, not surprisingly, looks identical to the original.
Another product tracker has surfaced on Seaturtle.org, a website that supports sea turtle conservation. Its makers preempted questions about why the site hosted the tracker -- a tool that has nothing to do with sea turtles -- by saying, "We are Apple fanboys and we want to know when our favorite iPhone model will be available!"
Both browser-based tools show in-store availability of Apple's iPhone 5S, iPad Air and iPad Mini with a Retina screen, three of the new products Apple's launched since September.
The iPad Mini is in the shortest supply, with even Apple CEO Tim Cook uncertain whether his company will build enough this quarter to satisfy demand. Supplies of the gold-colored iPhone 5S also are tight.
Spot checks by Computerworld on both the restored Apple-Tracker and the one on Seaturtle.org showed that they accurately displayed available models when compared to the selected Apple retail stores' own status after choosing an item and beginning an ordering process that would result in an in-store pickup.
A resurrected Apple-Tracker shows which retail stores have the Retina iPad Mini in stock.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. His email address is email@example.com.
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Week 2 is done. I really had fun putting it all together. WAY to much fun, which is why it took me forever to put it together. I added things, took them away, moved stuff around, ect. I think I have figured out what I love and what I don't. So next week should go much faster. Let's hope. Here we go.
The first page :
Trucks. My iphone. Working on the computer. Patrick and Maddie on the ipad.
The pictures :
Noah's trucks that he loves to push around. The scalloped circle and heart from October Afternoon. I am in love with their farmhouse line. The colors are just about a perfect match to the Clementine kit. Monday sticker from Jillibean soup. ** Note : Learned this week that I need to buy a small heart punch. In love with these little hearts.
Patrick comes home for lunch when he works in the office. They spent some ipad time together. Days + Months Hand drawn brushes.
The journaling cards
Took a heart from Ali Edwards Life In Pictures Brushes And Stamps . Added the word iphone. Sticker from October Afternoon Flyer Pack . Love this pack.
This one is from This great freebie.
Changed the color of the star to match my week. This whole week was great and this card was perfect to sum up my feelings.
Used a doile from Little Yellow Bicycle. The circle sticker from Crate Paper. The black letters from Thickers. The blue letter stickers from October Afternoon.
This is one of those foldable journaling cards. I knew I needed more room for the story of taking Noah in to the ER and this was perfect.
I used the digital card as a reference for my journaling and just left some room in the middle of the card so that I could fold it. Ran it through my printer.
Continued on the backside. Included his arm band on the back.
I took the top off of the original pink card and put it on to a plain grid card so that I could have more room to journal. The arrows are from the Clementine digital extra elements set. Colored them in to match my colors for the week. Told two stories on one journaling card. Using the arrows to point to the pictures. Included the dates with the number stickers.
I added one inserts this week. We celebrated our 10th Wedding Anniversary this week. So I took Patrick out with the camera and tripod for a photo. It is 6x12.
The other side. I copied and pasted journaling from a blog post that I written that week. Used a Words and Stories 6x12 Layered Template. Moved some things around to meet my needs.Used some of my My Minds Eye stash. Simple and done.
The second page :
The park. Patrick at early morning rig up. The coil that Patrick works with. Playing trains on the floor with Noah and Maddie. Design team meeting. Anniversary food.
The pictures :
Go Outside Brushes And Stamps
Word morning from Everday Life Journaling Prompts Brushes and Stamps.
Everyday Life Journaling Prompts Brushes and Stamps
I LOVE that Patrick takes these kinds of pictures. This is his day and I love that I can include that in my album. This is the coil that they send down the oil well.
The Journaling Cards :
I love this thread. It's called Divine Thread and they have all the colors that match the Clementine kit. I used the star stamp underneath my journaling. Just stamped it on before sending it through the printer. The blue letter stickers are from Authentique. Small sticker from October Afternoon Farmhouse.
Smash pad sheet from here. Bought at Amazon but you can find them at scrapbook.com, ect. Letter stickers from October Afternoon.
I used another one of the foldable journaling cards. This one will be filled out by Patrick about the job he was working on. Scalloped circle from Jillibean Soup. Yellow thickers. Blue letter stickers from American Crafts. Added a rubon arrow.
Printed of a little strip of the digital paper from the Clementine digital paper kit. The yellow on the top. Need to maybe get the paper pack. Label from October Afternoon. Blue sticker words from Authentique. Creme letter stickers from October Afternoon. The red heart from October Afternoon Farmhouse Flower Stack. LOVE this pack !! The colors are perfect for this album and I am in love with these cute little hearts.
Well that covers Week 2. As you can see I used three main colors this week. Went with them based on my photos and love the result. See you all next time.


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Welcome, everyone, to the first annual FBTB MOC Madness Building Tournament, our most ambitious building contest to date!
Seeing as to how 2010 is the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, we've decided to use that as the backdrop of this building contest. One of the most iconic scenes from ESB is when the bounty hunters were on the Super Star Destroyer. It introduced Boba Fett to the masses, undoubtedly the most famous bounty hunter of them all, and also gave the audience a peek into their world. One of my favorite scenes from the movie was when the Star Destroyer dumped it's trash just before making the jump to lightspeed. Han released the Falcon's landing claw to float away with the debris and then flew to Bespin. Smart. Only, he didn't realize that Boba Fett in his Slave I was dumped along with the trash and followed him there. Smarter. So, how did Lord Vader find these bounty hunters? Heck, I don't know either but I imagine it involved a battle tournament of some kind, where the winners were each given a boarding pass to the SSD. Your challenge for this tournament is to build your very own original bounty hunter and bounty hunter ship.
Please read this entire post before asking any questions. Thank you and good luck!
Tournament Format:
- Tournament sign-ups (i.e. submitting your entry) are open from 8:00am July 1, 2010 through 11:59pm Tuesday August 31, 2010 Pacific Standard Time.
- All entries received will be placed in the group pool round. Voting by the community will occur for one week. The top 32 advance to the next round. In the event we get 100 or more entries, the top 64 will advance to the next round.
- After the group pool round, the top 32 (or 64) will be paired off into brackets and go head to head. Winners of each bracket will advance to the next round. Bracket play will continue until 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners are determined. Voting for each round of brackets will be open for 3 days.
- A special forum will be created for users to vote for each round. Up to date tournament standings and bracket pairings will be viewable at any time via an image linked to in this post.
- Final Four round: winners will advance to the finals to battle for 1st and 2nd place; losers will compete for 3rd and 4th place.
- Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Just like the Olympics, there is no prize for 4th.
Submission Process:
- You must have a flickr account.
- To enter, reply to this thread and in your post embed three pictures: one of just your bounty hunter; one of just your ship; and one showing the prisoner compartment of your ship. Please use the flickr urls for your images, and include link to your flickr account or flickr set of your entry. You may include a brief description of your bounty hunter including name, name of ship, and origin. Keep it BRIEF, no short stories.
- Your entry photos must be a single view of your bounty hunter/ship, no multiple views allowed. No special effects, no text/titles is allowed. Generally, no photoshopping or image enhancement is allowed but you may remove the background to isolate your model and balance for color.
- Posting your photos locks your entry in to the tournament. Replacing your images or modifying your MOC will disqualify you. Once you're in, you're in.
- Tag your photos with "MOC Madness 2010" and submit them to the FBTB: flickr Outpost group pool. You may submit as many photos as you wish to the pool.
Building Guidelines:
- Your MOC must be NEW. No recycled ships from past projects.
- Your MOC must not exceed 48 studs in length, 48 studs in width, or 48 studs in height. (The large gray baseplates are exactly 48x48 studs.) If there is any doubt about the dimensions of your MOC, you may be asked to submit a photo showing proof.
- Your MOC must be able to carry the pilot (your bounty hunter) and a passenger (the bounty).
- Your bounty hunter should follow minifig form: legs assembly, torso assembly, head at the minimum. backpack, cape, helmet, hair, weapons, accessories, etc, are optional. you may use droid elements for your minifig. The bounty is optional.
- Only use official, unmodified LEGO elements to build your bounty hunter minifig and his/her ship. You may use LEGO stickers. You may not cut the stickers. You may also include a prisoner minifig but it is not required. Real life models only please; computer rendered models will not be accepted.
- One entry per person.
- You must be at least 13 years of age.
- You must be able to receive packages.
1st place:
- Winner's choice of White Boba Fett minifigure OR Cloud City edition Boba Fett minifigure.
- Winner's choice of Chrome C-3PO minifigure, Chrome Darth Vader minifigure, or Chrome Stormtrooper minifigure.
- 1 copy of 8097 Slave I.
- 1 copy each 8083 Rebel Trooper Battle Pack and 8084 Snowtrooper Battle Pack
2nd place:
- White Boba Fett minifigure or Cloud City edition Boba Fett minifigure, whatever first place didn't choose.
- Choice of remaining chrome minifigure.
- 1 copy of 8089 Hoth Wampa Cave.
3rd place:
- Whatever chrome minifigure is left.
- 1 copy of 7749 Echo Base.
Prize Delivery
- FBTB is not responsible for lost, stolen, or damaged packages. By entering this contest, you absolve FBTB of any liability. A tracking number will be provided to the winners whenever possible and does not constitute a contract or agreement of responsibility. I'm only saying this for legal reasons, but honestly, 99.9% of my packages all get to their destinations and you don't have anything to worry about.
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Gary went to Otakon 2012 in this costume. A costume made almost entirely out of Nintendo 64 consoles, controllers and cartridges. He called himself King Nintendo 64, but just for today, he is also King of the Internet.
Memes in meatspace: Costumes inspired by the Internet [The Daily Dot, thanks everyone!]


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I need you to let me know if you have a problem and exactly what you were doing when that problem occured.
Note: Anything you see in the forums that is highlighted in blue letters is a 'clickable link'. If you place your mouse on it and click, you will be taken to a new page.
1. When you go to the Forum section of the website:
You will see a message toward the top right of the page that says either:
Or Logout, with your Forum username in brackets.
If yours says Login, then you are not logged in. Please login by either using the Login at the top of each forum page, or by clicking on this link --> Forum Login
Enter your Forum username and password. Now the message at the top right of the page should change to reflect your username.
2. Now you are logged in and ready to visit your forum. If you do not know which private Forums you have access to, you can see them by clicking on the --> User Control Panel link at the upper left of the page. That will open up a new page that shows your profile information.
At the top of that page, you will see some Tabs. One will say --> Usergroups. Click on that tab and a new page will open listing all the Groups of the Forum. They are broken down by Membership groups (ones you belong to) and non-Membership groups. Look under your Membership groups, and note which private Membership groups you belong to. You will have access to the corresponding Forums for that group.
3. Once you know which private forums you have access to, you will want to go to that corresponding Forum to enter your introduction. Simply click on the yellow Forum link or the Forum HOME link at the upper left of the page. A new page will open up showing you all the forums. Click on the private Forum title for the one you want to enter. A new page will open up showing all the topics posted to your forum. Toward the top, you will see a topic listed that says "Introduce Yourself". If you click on that topic a new page will open up showing you all the introductions that have been made on this forum. You can browse through them, but I strongly advise that you enter your own introduction. To do this.....
4. At the upper left of that page, you will see a 'button'' that says 'postreply'. Click on it and you will be taken to a new page that will allow you to enter your own introduction to the group. To reply to a post, you do not need to enter a Subject line, just go to the large box. This is the Message Body. Click your mouse inside that box and enter your introduction. When you are happy with what you have written, scroll down that page and click the 'Submit' button.
That's it!
If you have any questions or problems, you may enter a reply post here and I will help you, or you can use the --> Contact Admin link above to email me directly. If you choose the email option, you MUST look for the reply in your Inbox, Bulk, or Spam folders.


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A port of Douglas Crockford's command line JSMin in Perl. It removes extraneous whitespace and comments, but does not obfuscate the code.
Douglas Crockford's presentation on Advanced JavaScript. He covers topics such as inheritance, modules, debugging, efficiency and JSON.
Douglas Crockford examines the need for minimising the size of JavaScript code and compares minification and obfuscation. Obfuscation has the side-effect of introducing bugs because it changes variable names. The recommended approach is minification along with GZip compression. Since JavaScript is sent along in source form, it is impossible to hide that from a determined hacker


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This Mets team is just too hard to watch this season. We have a starter who should easily win 20 and this offense is so putrid he only has five decisions. That patchwork offense just isn't cutting it and i am just tired of hearing the Santana and Bay contracts as the reason they can't field a better team.
You don't post here either anymore?
We're losing people like flies
I wanted Yasmani Grandal, but I liked the Harvey pick. His stuff is electric.
Yeah Harvey is a beast. I liked what I saw from him in the AAA all-star game, but I didn't think he'd be this good so fast. I really doubt Wheeler can be as good as Harvey just yet, but if he is we are in some great shape.
Haha thanks, no doubt about it
Thanks for accepting my friend request, I know it' an odd "thank you" but am still a relative newbie so i appreciate it.
Good to see ya back Silver, was wondering if you were gonna post again..
Went incognito a bit but now I'm back. What a memorable season!
He pinched hit for Santana yesterday in the botton of the 5th and took three down the middle without getting the bat of his shoulder. You can only imagine what was getting posted after that disgusting AB. lol
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Directory Proxy Server provides a secure listener and a non-secure listener for communication with clients. For information about listeners for Directory Proxy Server, see Directory Proxy Server Client Listeners in Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition. This section describes how to configure the listeners.
This procedure configures the non-secure listener between a client and Directory Proxy Server. To configure the secure listener, perform the same procedure but replace ldap with ldaps.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help. In DSCC, you can configure this property on the Performance tab.
View the properties of the non-secure listener.
$ dpconf get-ldap-listener-prop -h host -p port
The default properties of the non-secure listener are as follows:
connection-idle-timeout : 1h connection-read-data-timeout : 2s connection-write-data-timeout : 1h is-enabled : true listen-address : 0.0.0.0 listen-port : port-number max-connection-queue-size : 128 max-ldap-message-size : unlimited number-of-threads : 2 use-tcp-keep-alive : true use-tcp-no-delay : true
Change one or more of properties that are listed in Step 1 according to your requirements.
$ dpconf set-ldap-listener-prop -h host -p port property:new-value
For example, to disable the non-secure port for an instance of Directory Proxy Server running on host1, run the following command:
$ dpconf set-ldap-listener-prop -h host1 -p 1389 is-enabled:false
If you plan to use a privileged port number, you must run Directory Proxy Server as root.
To change the non-secure port number, run the following command:
$ dpconf set-ldap-listener-prop -h host -p port listen-port:new-port-number
If necessary, restart the instance of Directory Proxy Server for the changes to take effect.
Changes to certain listener properties require a server restart. dpconf alerts you if the server must be restarted. For information about restarting Directory Proxy Server, see To Restart Directory Proxy Server.


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Microsoft to open 11 new retail stores by summer
All these Surfaces aren't going to sell themselves
Microsoft has announced that it will open six new retail stores in North America by summer 2013, in addition to five locations that were previously announced in December.
To be precise, only a few of the new stores represent brand-new markets for Microsoft. Several are permanent replacements for earlier holiday pop-up stores, either on the same site or at another location within the same city.
In early December, Redmond announced that it would extend all of its pop-up store locations into 2013, and that some of them would transition into permanent, full retail stores – but it didn't say which ones.
Between Microsoft's statement on Boxing Day and the new announcement on Tuesday, we now know that at least seven pop-up stores will definitely be replaced with permanent outlets, and brand-new stores will be built in at least four cities.
Here's the full list of all the forthcoming store locations, with cities that did not previously have a Microsoft retail presence marked with an asterisk (*):
- Beachwood, OH: Beachwood Place
- Honolulu, HI: Ala Moana Center *
- Miami, FL: Dadeland Mall
- Natick, MA: Natick Mall
- Portland, OR: Pioneer Place
- Salt Lake City, UT: City Creek Center *
- San Antonio, TX: The Shops at La Cantera
- San Francisco, CA: Westfield San Francisco Centre
- Schaumburg, IL: Woodfield Mall *
- St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Galleria
- Troy, MI: The Somerset Collection *
In keeping with its past practice, Microsoft is following Apple's lead as it expands into new markets. Each of the four new stores that aren't replacing existing pop-up stores will open in a shopping center that's already home to an Apple Store, as was the case with all but six of the 32 holiday pop-up stores.
In a blog post on Tuesday, Microsoft sales and marketing manager Jonathan Adashek said that grand-opening celebrations are planned for the Honolulu, Natick, Portland, Shaumberg, and Troy locations, with further details to be revealed in the coming weeks. ®


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Support Services Company Fired Employee Due to Pregnancy, Federal Agency Charges
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A Wayne, Pa.-based company providing support services to several Little Rock-area health care institutions, violated federal law by discriminating against an employee because of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
The EEOC's suit, Civil Action No. 4:10 CV 1221 JMM, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Western Division, asserts that Crothall Services Group d/b/a Crothall Healthcare, Inc., violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it terminated the employment of Taquesia Neal, who worked for Crothall Healthcare at Arkansas State Hospital in Little Rock, because of her pregnancy.
The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The agency's lawsuit seeks monetary relief in the form of back pay, compensatory and punitive damages, reinstatement and an injunction against future discrimination, among other items.
"The company failed to allow Ms. Neal to work in the position for which she was hired simply because of her pregnancy," said Katharine W. Kores, district director of the EEOC's Memphis District Office, which has jurisdiction over Arkansas, Tennessee and portions of Mississippi. "This type of blatant sex discrimination is a priority for the EEOC. Employers cannot refuse to allow women to work based on discriminatory stereotypes about pregnancy."
Crothall Services Group, a division of Compass Group North America, provides housekeeping and environmental services, patient transportation, laundry and linen services, plant operations and maintenance services and hospitality resource center/call center services to various health care, education, and business institutions. Crothall has about 1,500 clients in more than 43 states. Crothall Healthcare, Inc., part of Crothall Services Group, provides housekeeping and environmental services to a number of hospitals in Arkansas, including Arkansas State Hospital.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Fans have accused the Irish Football Association of scoring a massive own goal following the launch of the France-bound team's new home kit.
The international squad is riding high - having comfortably qualified for Euro 2016 - but almost 4,000 disgruntled members of the Green and White Army had by last night signed an online petition against a "monstrosity" of a jersey.
According to the IFA, the style is a throwback to the "classic navy blue and green design" which is "designed to create impact on pitch next summer".
It has already had in impact on social media with almost universal criticism of the shirt as, at best, unattractive.
The petition at Change.org was started by Banbridge exile Ian McKinney who now lives in Birmingham. It lambasts the £55 item as "an absolute monstrosity of a kit," and adds: "It has too many colours, a terrible design, and it's totally out of touch with what fans wanted."
The much-maligned strip will be on show for the first time at Windsor Park for the friendly against Latvia on Friday.
The IFA said: "The new home shirt design pays tribute to designs from the 80s when the team last reached a major international competition at the 1986 FIFA World Cup Finals in Mexico."
The online petition goes on to say: "Together we could force the IFA and Adidas to change. Let's get ourselves the kit we deserve, not this awful mess!"
Gary McAllister of the Amalgamation of Northern Ireland Supporters Clubs said the AONISC has lobbied both the IFA and Adidas "on a number of issues" relating to merchandise.
"We feel that there are issues around the affordability of kits and training gear, especially for those who are buying for a family. In addition to this, we believe that the quality of the items don't provide value for money, with iron-on badges having taken the place of embroidered crests.
"We also think that selected independent retailers around the country should be given an opportunity to stock Northern Ireland kits and the training range to allow as many people as possible to buy the items they want," he said.
The new kit is now available to pre-order exclusively from www.jdsports.co.uk/Northern-Ireland and will be available in store and online from early December.
Fans' verdict
The fans who used social media to air their views on the new kit design were overwhelmingly negative.
One said those responsible had "effectively just committed the shirt designing equivalent of Ronny Rosenthal's miss".
Other comments included:
• "Appalled by this shirt. Really? Like Really Really? Green & WHITE Army. Change.org petition signed."
• "@OfficialIrishFA please tell me this is not the shirt we will be playing in at the Euros next year?"
• "A 30 year wait for an International tournament and we're going to be dressed in a pyjama top. Sort it out IFA/Adidas."
• "As a block booker for over 10 years an a frequent attender to away games, I'm signing this petition because I think the new NI home shirt is horrendous."


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Life-Cycle Studies: Bananas
Bananas have been called "the world's most perfect fruit." They're high in potassium, low in fat, and a good source of vitamins and fiber. They're also one of the few fruits available year round. Today's sweet yellow banana is a mutant strain of the plantain, a starchy red-green cooking banana that is boiled, fried, or ground for use in staple dishes worldwide. Bananas likely originated in Malaysia, though one of the first mentions dates to 327 B.C.E., when Alexander the Great discovered the fruit during his conquest of India. A Spanish friar brought the first banana roots to the Western Hemisphere in 1516, and the fruit was officially introduced to the U.S. public at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, where each banana was wrapped in foil and sold for 10 cents. By the early twentieth century, bananas had become the most valuable fresh fruit in world trade, a position they held until the 1970s.


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The week in review
Clearest shot for David Toscano: Former vice-mayor Meredith Richards, former Albemarle County Democratic chair William Harvey, UVA clinical psych prof Peter Sheras, and even top-blogger Waldo Jaquith announce they won't challenge Toscano for Delegate Mitch Van Yahres' 57th District seat.
Best news for gay partners in Virginia: Businesses may extend health benefits to couples starting July 1, following Governor Mark Warner's signature on a bill endorsed by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce.
Best grocery surprise: Come July, the state drops its portion of the sales tax on food 1.5 cents, saving a family of four about $83 a year.
Worst gas pump surprise: Gas prices soar up to an average of $2.02 in Virginia, up 20 cents from last month.
Worst rash of alleged embezzlements: Albemarle County police arrest four people for unrelated thefts totaling nearly $25,000 in cash and equipment from the County, Reed Williams reports in the Daily Progress.
Worst flooding: Heavy rain closes at least five county roads March 28 and a minivan has to be rescued on Watts Passage Road at Preddy Creek.
Worst week for pedestrians: Ruby T. Keffer is struck in the crosswalk outside Giant at Pantops March 28; Joe Hans Heltzel Jr. is charged with reckless driving. A seven-year-old boy is hit riding his bike March 25 in Wilton Farms. No charges are filed against driver Vilma Paredes. And Brandon Page Shifflett is arrested March 22 for a pedestrian hit and run March 18 on Seminole Trail.
Biggest reward: Family and friends offer $10,000 for information about Jesse Morgan Hicks, 47, a Fluvanna man who hasn't been seen since September 1.
Worst spilt chicken: A tractor trailer carrying 35,000 pounds of "poultry product," according to an Albemarle police release, overturns March 23 on U.S. 29 just south of Interstate 64.
Latest Meadowcreek Parkway study: City Council approves $1.5 million March 21 for an engineering study of an interchange Council insists be part of the parkway.
Highest infant mortality: Roanoke leads Virginia in 2003 with more than double the state's average of 7.6 deaths per 1,000 live births, according to the Department of Health.
Fattest sandwich: Burger King offers the Enormous Omelet Sandwich– two eggs, sausage, bacon and cheese– weighing in with 730 calories and 47 grams of fat.
Fastest growing fat state: Virginia, which climbs from 9.9 percent of its adults being obese in 1990 to 23.7 percent in 2003, according to a survey by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. West Virginia is still the fattest state at 27.5 percent, followed by Mississippi and Texas.
Latest dot.com bubble? Real estate, according to the New York Times, which reports some economists find troubling the parallels in the current booming real estate market and the stock market of the late 1990s. Like investors who bought into unprofitable companies, experts worry about folks buying real estate with no intention of renting it, instead counting on the continuing rise in house prices.
Best combination of prep-meets-rap culture. UVA fourth years/twins Curtis and Otis Ofori spent spring break in Cancun filming an MTV spring break show with rapper Fat Joe that aired last week.


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General Motors is getting another $2 billion in federal loans, while Chrysler is trying to work out a deal to keep it out of bankruptcy courts.
The Treasury Department says it has provided General Motors Corp. (GM) (GM) with more money in federal loans as the giant automaker struggles to restructure. The Treasury said that the payment was made to GM on Wednesday and provides working capital to the company.
Meanwhile, with a government-imposed deadline for massive restructuring less than a week away, Chrysler LLC and Treasury Department officials are still holding out hope that they can reach deals to keep the troubled automaker out of bankruptcy courts, two people briefed on the talks said Friday.
The wounded automaker already is living on $4 billion in government loans and could get another $500 million in temporary financing. Chrysler must take on Fiat Group SpA as a partner, cut debt and reduce labor costs by Thursday if it wants an additional $6 billion.
A government report revealed earlier this week that the Treasury was prepared to provide GM with up to $5 billion more in federal loans and Chrysler with up to $500 million more in bailout support as they race against deadlines to restructure.
GM has until June 1 to complete restructuring plans that satisfy the government's auto task force, while Chrysler has until April 30.
Absent completed deals, the Obama administration has said it won't lend any more money, and without more cash, Chrysler almost certainly would be auctioned off in pieces under court supervision.
As talks continue, Chrysler and the Treasury Department are preparing paperwork for bankruptcy filings, one as a reorganization in Chapter 11 with government funding and the other as a liquidation if no government money is available, both people said.
Both spoke on condition of anonymity because the fast-moving negotiations are private.
The Canadian Auto Workers union said Friday it is close to a cost-cutting deal with Chrysler, and one of the people said the company also is nearing an agreement with the United Auto Workers in the U.S.
Under that deal, the union would take equity in the company for part of the $10.1 billion Chrysler must pay into a union-run trust that will take over retiree health care costs starting next year. Due to the size of the investment, the UAW could become the automaker's biggest shareholder.
Talks with Fiat to take a 20 percent stake in Chrysler in exchange for its small-car technology have gone well, but any alliance is contingent on the other deals, one of the people said Friday.
The only area in which Chrysler is far from reaching agreement is with banks and hedge funds that hold $6.9 billion in Chrysler debt. On Friday, a steering committee comprising the lenders delivered a new counteroffer to the Treasury Department, according to two people familiar with the matter who declined to be named because the negotiations are private. The terms of the latest offer were not immediately available.
Chrysler's creditors are negotiating with the Treasury over a possible debt-for-equity exchange involving a stake in a Chrysler-Fiat alliance. Most recently, the Treasury had asked the debtholders to forgive $5.4 billion and take a 5 percent stake in the alliance, while the lenders had been seeking nearly a 40 percent stake to forgive just $2.5 billion.
Members of the Obama administration's auto task force, which is watching over the negotiations, have told lawmakers that one stakeholder won't be allowed to scuttle the Chrysler deal, but the task force also will not extend the Thursday deadline, said one of the people briefed on the matter.
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers still held out hope for avoiding bankruptcy but conceded it was becoming more likely.
"My hope is that it's not a liquidation," Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Banking Committee, said Friday morning on the "Early Show" on CBS, "but what they call a debtor-in-possession, sort of Chapter 11 filing, which would allow for the reorganization of these companies."
One possibility is that a bankruptcy would allow the company to rid itself of unwanted liabilities. That would allow Fiat to pick the operations it wants to retain, according to bankruptcy experts.
"As we move forward in this process, we believe it's important to keep all options open," Chrysler said in a statement. "Chrysler will continue to work through the end of the month, based on the direction given by the Presidential Auto Task Force, to secure the support of the necessary stakeholders and reach a successful conclusion that the Administration and U.S. Treasury deems appropriate."
Messages seeking comment were left with the UAW and the Treasury Department.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said late Thursday she continued to oppose bankruptcy for Chrysler.
"With Chrysler, we want to see Chrysler/Fiat come together. We want to see GM be able to make it on their own," Stabenow said on "The Ed Show" on MSNBC.
She added that banks that have received government aid should "be willing to stand up."
"I wrote another letter today to them, saying they need to step up and do their part to make sure these companies can be strong," she said.


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NSA head: Europe spy reports false
National Security Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander on Tuesday called "completely false" press reports that the NSA had gathered information on millions of telephone calls in Western Europe.
At a House Intelligence Committee hearing, Alexander said the data in question came from foreign intelligence agencies and was usually gathered outside Europe.
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"This is not information we collected on European citizens," Alexander said, citing reports of snooping in Italy, France, and Spain. "It represents information that we and our NATO allies have collected in defense of our countries and in support of military operations."
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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sought to reassure a worldwide audience Tuesday that the U.S. is not cavalier about the privacy of Americans or foreigners.
"What we do not do is spy unlawfully on Americans or, for that matter, spy indiscriminately on the citizens of any country," Clapper said during the House hearing. "We do not spy on anyone except for valid foreign intelligence purposes."
The hearing came as European leaders and citizens are in an uproar about reports of widespread U.S. surveillance of e-mails and telephone communications both of average citizens and of prominent politicians.
Speaking in advance of the House hearing, White House press secretary Jay Carney would not confirm a Wall Street Journal's story that some snooping attributed to the NSA in other reports was conducted by French and Spanish intelligence services and then passed to the NSA.
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Citing documents provided by Edward Snowden, newspapers in Italy, France and Spain have reported in recent days that the NSA monitored tens of millions of phone calls in both countries.
"We have important cooperative relationships with the security agencies and intelligence agencies" of allies around the world, Carney said, but he declined to "get into the specific alleged intelligence activities."
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) sought to use Tuesday's hearing to case doubt on claims that President Barack Obama was in the dark about NSA surveillance of telephones belonging to leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Rogers asked if intelligence agencies were free to set their own priorities for intelligence gathering.
"We do only what the policymakers writ large have actually asked us to do," Clapper replied.
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"Would it be fair to say the White House should know what those collection priorities are?" Rogers asked.
"They can and do, but I have to say that does not necessarily extended down to the level of detail," Clapper said. He said intelligence agencies "don't necessarily" review with the White House the "selectors" — a surveillance term for a specific phone line or e-mail address — that produce information.
Clapper also said trying to determine the intentions for foreign governments and leaders was a "hardy perennial" for U.S. intelligence services. "It's invaluable to us to know where countries are coming from."
During the hearing a dispute broke out between Rogers and several Democratic committee members about whether panel members were kept informed about snooping on leader of U.S. allies.
"Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on?" Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois complained. "We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that."
Schakowsky said the spying on allies had done damage. "There has been some diminution of our diplomatic relationship around the world, naïve or not, disingenuous or not. That is just a fact," she said.
Rep. Adam Schiff of California suggested that the NSA may have run afoul of a legal requirement that Congress be informed of "significant" intelligence activities.
"Would you consider that a wiretap of a leader of an allied country would be a significant intelligence activity requiring a report to the intelligence committees?" Schiff asked.
"That's something I guess we could discuss as to whether that level of detail is required. I believe that we have lived up to the letter and spirit of that requirement," Clapper said.
Schiff said that because of the potential for "blowback," surveillance aimed at U.S.-allied leaders should have been reported to the committee. "I think we have a lot more work to do with you to make sure we're getting the information we need," said the congressman.


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DAWSONVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Hidden in a remote area at the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains, there's a new country club of sorts for the well-heeled. You won't find them driving golf balls down a fairway because they're too busy driving exotic cars. Fast.
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. (AP) � Hidden in a remote area at the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains, there's a new country club of sorts for the well-heeled. You won't find them driving golf balls down a fairway because they're too busy driving exotic cars. Fast.
After more than four years in development, Atlanta Motorsports Park has a growing membership to run its two-mile road course and a waiting list to lease garage space. CEO Jeremy Porter created the development based on the slogan, "Why Buy a Fast Car, You Can't Drive Fast."
"Our members are really just people that enjoy sports cars. Somebody that owns a sports car that wants to drive it fast and safe," Porter explained.
However, on a recent visit there wasn't a single car running the track that you would likely find in your neighbor's driveway: Ferrari F430 Scuderia, McLaren MP4-12C, a highly modified Mercedes gull-wing SLS with nearly 800 horsepower, and a Lotus Exige S240.
"It's like heaven here," remarked Lotus owner David Wert. "It's a place you get to surround yourself with likeminded people. Everybody here is passionate about cars."
In less than two years since the track became fully operational, it has resonated with collectors who want more room to show off their expensive toys. Membership has grown to 322 and construction has just begun on 40 more garages for lease. The club has tiered membership fee structure that tops out at $40,000 per year for unlimited track privileges. The fees include insurance.
A $3 million clubhouse is coming with 14 luxury garages and a lift so members can display their cars during parties and events on the main level.
If you can't afford a fast car but want a taste of the experience, Evan Halliday, AMP member and owner of Velocity Motorsports, can provide you with instruction and track access with their fleet of exotics.
"Here they get to push the car as hard as they want and get to drive one of their absolute favorite cars in the best environment," he said of participants who must have driver's licenses.
Founding member William Staab, owner of a highly modified Corvette Z06 with nearly 650 horsepower, points out there is a universal need-for-speed among members that precludes most leisure activities common to the country club crowd.
"You know there's a lot people that play golf, a lot of people play tennis, a lot of people travel, but there's some of us it's what I call adrenaline junkies. That is, we have this unbelievable passion to go fast."