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Body of US pilot found in Chinese lake
BEIJING (AP) — Divers have found the body of a missing U.S. stunt pilot whose plane crashed into a lake in northeast China while attempting a tricky maneuver in the rain, the head of the team searching for him said Friday.
David Riggs, whose U.S. pilot's license had been suspended, had been missing since Tuesday's accident outside the city of Shenyang in which his young female Chinese translator died. Riggs was in China to take part in an air show and was apparently rehearsing one of his tricks when the accident occurred.
Zhang Fang said Riggs' body was found during a search of the bottom of Lake Caihu by divers from the Dalian branch of the Beihai Rescue Bureau.
"It's likely he was killed on impact, but we don't know for sure yet," Fang said by telephone from the accident scene.
Riggs' high-performance single-engine Lancair 320 plane broke into pieces after hitting the lake and some parts had been recovered, including one of its two seats. The cause of the accident remains under investigation. The plane was not equipped with a "black box" recorder because of its small size.
Zhang said Riggs crashed while attempting a stunt in which the wheels of his plane were to drag along the lake surface at high speed. He had just taken off in a light rain, but there was no indication he had violated any flying regulations, Zhang said. Other reports said Chinese officials had urged Riggs not to take off, but Zhang said he had no information about that.
Riggs was a well-known Hollywood stunt pilot, and the center of considerable controversy over a string of legal problems and penchant for self-promotion.
Riggs' website touts his credentials as a holder of several aviation speed world records, but doesn't mention the fact his U.S. pilot's license had been suspended twice.
The first time was after buzzing the famed Santa Monica pier in Los Angeles in his Vodochody L-39 Albatros jet trainer. Riggs was sentenced to 60 days of community service and 60 days in jail for reckless flying.
He lost his license again in November for selling rides in his plane without permission. The prosecution came after a plane piloted by a business partner crashed, killing both people on board.
Riggs had a stack of other legal problems, including convictions for bank, wire and passport fraud. He aroused such contempt among some pilots that a website — aviationcriminal.com — was devoted to chronicling his misdoings.
His website describes him as CEO of California-based Mach One Aviation, Inc. and as a "Hollywood stunt pilot, movie producer and world aviation speed record holder." It said his aerial performances had featured in movies and television shows including "Iron Man," ″Jarhead," and the James Bond film "Casino Royale."
China's official Xinhua News Agency said other U.S. flyers scheduled to take part in Friday's opening ceremony had pulled out of the show. Pilots and aircraft from Sweden, France and Lithuania were due to take part in the show.
Online: http://www.davidriggspilot.com


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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:20 am
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How do you get to Jones Beach (OR/WA) from Portland?
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:18 pm
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If you want the best that the Jones Beach area has to offer, you want to go to the WA side of the river. Cleaner wind without the chop from hell.
Go north on I-5 and take the Longview/Kelso exit (first exit. RV dealership on right) bearing left over the Cowlitz river. Follow this (wa 432) all the way through town (around a small lake) until you reach wa 4 (you can only turn left or right. Turn left and follow 4 towards Longbeach for about 20 miles. You will pass County Line Park at about 16-17 miles. The road will climb up and stay above the river for a ways. As you come back down to the river you will see a small pullout on the right. The river will be on your left and you will be able to see Puget Island. Park on the right, beach access across the road. If it is going off, there will be some rigs there.
You can also take the second exit for Longview/Kelso and turn left. Follow the signs for wa 4.
This spot is worth the drive. I was there yesterday fully powered on my 5.3 from 4pm till 6:30 and it was still blowing.
If you want chop from hell, funky winds, and lots of sand, go to the OR side. Follow 30 to Clatskanie then about a mile or so out of town watch for signs. Kind of a convoluted trip to the water from the highway.
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:57 pm
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Thats debatable. I like several things about Jones Beach not readily available at the WA side, aka Nuclear Alley.
PRESUMING THE LOCAL REDNECKS ARE NOT ON THE WARPATH, Jones offers great camping, the best classic BEACH on the entire Columbia (miles of pure sand), and more ready access to more space than Nuke Alley offers. From Jones you have the chop (and it IS bad, but occasionally interesting), the nice swell across from Jones, and, of course, Nuclear Alley. Theres just more space off Jones than at Nuclear Alley, and, lets face it, most people who launch from the WA side dont venture away from it, rendering it more crowded. And you only have to brave The Chop twice each reach sailing from Jones.
Because the Alley is part of the Jones venue, the only REAL differences are the sandy beach, the great camping (which, for me, is its greatest appeal; nothing matches camping by the water, rigged, and just sailing, eating, and sleeping, in that order, for 5, 10, even a dozen non-stop days on end), and, if it occurs, the redneck problems that drove me out a decade ago. RUMOR has it some of the rednecks now WS, lessening that problem. Counter-rumor says crime there has increased that problem.
Recent first-hand reports on that issue are invited.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:09 pm
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The pulloff is just past Mile marker 41 on Route 4.
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 11:14 am
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I used to sail at Jones Beach a lot. Then I was out there one day, and witnessed a boat dredging the channel.
Know where all that nice sand comes from?
The bottom of the Columbia River.
Know what's in that sand?
All the heavy pollutants that wash downstream from farms, nuclear waste dumps, small towns, and the not-so-small town of Portland.
I haven't camped or sailed there since.
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windbabe wrote:
Know where all that nice sand comes from?
The bottom of the Columbia River.
Know what's in that sand?
All the heavy pollutants that wash downstream from farms, nuclear waste dumps, small towns, and the not-so-small town of Portland.
I haven't camped or sailed there since.
I'm more concerned there about the chemicals from the shipyards at Longview just upstream and the paper mill (dioxin) at Jones Beach, pus the eye and sinus congestion and infections I usually get after a few days there. But, ya know, it can be damn good sailing there sometimes, especially in August if the Gorge thermostat gets set on 110 degrees and the air is too calm to light a match. When guys can sail 3.x's 10 days in a row in the steadiest wind on the Columbia, what's a little sinus infection or a case or two of cancer that takes decades to materialize? Besides, that sand sure is purty, ain't it?
Once again, hough, I must ask, having just listened to "Dueling Banjos" from "Deliverance": how are the local trolls behaving the past few years?
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:38 pm
Post subject: Jones
I sail at Jones Beach (the WA side) about 5 days a week in the summer, and the wind seems more consistent in the afternoons there than anywhere else I've tried to sail (including 2 trips to Maui). I haven't had a problem with sinus infections, and I've spent a ridiculous amount of time receiving nasal douches from failed jibe attempts and my initial attempts at waterstarting.
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Keep out of Nuclear alley!
Thats for the locals..
Go to Jones beach ok
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The June 29, 2009, post in Hyde Park Progress took a look at Ann Arbor, Michigan with regard to the retail/commercial scene that serves the University of Michigan and neighboring area, and compared it with the University of Chicago/Hyde Park situation. Another place to look is the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. There's an east-west strip of Forbes Ave. between Murray and Shady Ave., and an abutting strip of Murray Ave., south of Forbes. The area is a few blocks east of the Carnegie-Mellon/University of Pittsburgh complex. In what follows, I look at Forbes/Murray in relation to Hyde Park's 53rd Street. I base this solely on visits to Pittsburgh over the past few weeks.
There are differences in the two settings. Forbes/Murray is wholly commercial, while 53rd is primarily commercial, with some residential property and a park. Forbes/Murray has several city bus routes, while 53rd has none. Package alcohol sales in Pittsburgh are restricted to "official" wine & spirits stores, while Chicago has no such restriction; and Squirrel Hill appears to be less diverse than Hyde Park.
However, there is enough similarity between Forbes/Murray and 53rd Street to draw some comparisons. Both are roughly the same distance from campus; both commercial strips are about a half mile long; both are in the middle of large old cities; both have wide sidewalks, two driving lanes, two metered parking lanes, and a shortage of parking; buildings are predominantly older two/three story structures.
The most striking difference is the level of store occupancy and activity. Even during the summer school break, Forbes/Murray bursts with life. I noticed no vacant storefronts. During good weather, the wide sidewalks on Forbes are dotted with outdoor café seating and store merchandise. Forbes/Murray is a magnet, drawing people of all ages from other areas, while 53rd is just there. It is almost impossible to imagine the Pittsburgh neighborhood tolerating the kind of interference and obstructionism that has stifled commercial life on 53rd Street. [Yeah, yeah, I know many people will take issue with my use of "interference and obstructionism." I don't care; that's what it has been.]
At this point, there is no alternative but to proceed with the planning efforts regarding 53rd Street, including Harper Court. But look how long they are taking, with years yet to go before any construction will be completed. I don't disagree with planning, but 53rd Street is wallowing in it. Some of it has been a delaying tactic by locals. While 53rd Street languishes -- to the delight of those who have stifled things in the name of preventing "congestion" or "density" or whatever -- Forbes/Murray thrives and is a true asset to the neighborhood, the universities, and the city of Pittsburgh.
Speaking of "congestion," most the arguments bemoaning it on commercial streets are baloney. There can't be stores and restaurants without people, and there won't be people without good auto access. That's just the way it is. Forbes/Murray has some congestion, and it is good. The streets aren't choked with traffic, but they are full of cars and buses. Traffic doesn't make the streets any more dangerous than, say, the present 53rd or 57th Streets. Yes, traffic moves a bit more slowly if there's a lot of it, but that's safer for pedestrians crossing the street. With signals and stop signs, people readily make the crossings.
On Forbes, there are mid-block pedestrian crossings, marked and signed. Further, traffic signal cycles have three phases: (1) north-south vehicles (no pedestrians), (2) east-west vehicles (no pedestrians), (3) pedestrians only. Phases 1 and 2 eliminate pedestrian-caused delays to turning vehicles. Phase 3 enables pedestrians to cross diagonally, allowing cater-corner crossings in a single move. It really works, and drivers in Pittsburgh are no more polite than those in Chicago. So Forbes/Murray attracts people, while we have 57th Street that you can't get to, and 53rd that has insufficient reason to get to.
Sure, the slow economy contributes to 53rd Street's lethargy, but it's not the cause. Maybe I'm being a bit simplistic and bombastic in this essay, but dontcha' get tired of other places having nice stuff, while we Hyde Park slog through molasses? When all the planning and fiddling is done, the result won't be materially better than a more streamlined process founded on good zoning instead of micromanagement would have already produced.


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2007 News Releases > January 2007 > Community Classroom Offering Courses for Winter
Community Classroom Offering Courses for Winter
PLAINVIEW – The Community Classroom at Wayland Baptist University will offer a variety of classes for the winter meant to enrich and expand horizons.
A class in conversational Spanish will be offered Monday and Thursday nights beginning Jan. 29 and running through March 9, set for 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the classroom, located at 708 Yonkers. The course aims to improve Spanish-speaking skills for residents and is especially helpful for those who work in the public sector and encounter non-English speaking residents. Cost for the course is $400, which includes all instructional materials.
A returning favorite is the quilting course in traditional handpiecing, offered on Mondays from Feb. 5 through March 26 from 6-8 p.m. Taught by Lee Baird, the quilting class is designed to teach the traditional craft of making quilts through handpiecing, including skills of selecting, marking and cutting fabric, designing quilt patterns, binding and piecing sections for a quilt top. Participants will create a six-block lap quilt at the conclusion of the class. Cost is $65.
English as a Second Language at the intermediate level is being offered Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30-8:30 p.m. through March 8. Led by Lynette Bowen, these courses utilize computer instruction as well as small group and individual instruction. Cost is $160 for the term.
Comedy Defensive Driving will be offered Jan. 29 and 30 from 6:15 to 9:15 p.m. This monthly offering must be attended both nights to receive the full credit, which is good for automobile insurance discounts or to dismiss tickets. Cost is $30.
The monthly Literary Lunch Bunch group will meet again on Feb. 6 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the classroom. There is no charge for this group, which meets to discuss books of interest, facilitated by Michael Summers. The February meeting will cover Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, John Grisham's The Innocent Man and Barak Obama's Audacity of Hope.
The Community Classroom continues to offer individualized instruction in computer skills, with offerings in Basic Computing, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Outlook, Access, Excel, Publisher and Quickbooks.


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We're told Dr. Murray feels so strongly about his innocence, even a plea with no jail time would be out of the question.
Fact is ... Dr. Murray shouldn't hold his breath, because no plea bargain has been offered and sources tell us the D.A. will not offer one.
As for Murray's defense ... we're told the centerpiece revolves around the fact that only two people were in the room around the time MJ died, and Murray insists he did not administer the fatal dose of Propofol.
The operating theory of Murray's lawyers -- when the Doc left to go to the bathroom, a frustrated MJ woke up and administered the fatal dose himself in a desperate attempt to get some sleep.
So we ask ...
I had thought Michael did slowly kill himself, with all his doctors that enabled him. Rabbi Schmuli has tapes of Michael and he was very unhappy and very aware of his actions. Dr. Conrad is guilty, but not of murder, but of neglect and greed. We lost the King of Pop by so many factors, he was a genius who was very intelligent.
It will never ever end, MJ's fans will always think of him as a God who was not a drug abuser, who was a SAINT, and was murdered. Others see him-some as a pedophile, where some kids have never come foward (and yes, I know, the last case was BS, a family smelling $$$$), a con artist that stole tapes from Paul Anka, (big embarrassment for the estate with that BIG Thing with the handcuffs and briefcase escorting the case to be delivered and it was an old so so song of Anka's, and Anka was NICE ABOUT IT). MJ was in deep debt when he died, but he still was a big enabler to his family ('cept Janet, maybe laToya, and not to Reba) Those idiot brothers NEVER GREW UP BECAUSE OF HIM. NEVER LEARNED RESPONSIBILITY. In Debt, he put his mother into a MANSION! She did not need a mansion, a nice house maybe, but not a mansion and all that money a month. HE WAS THE SUPREME ENABLER AND BECAUSE OF THIS, NOT ONE OF THEM HAD THE BACKBONE TO COME FORWARD TO TRY TO HELP HIM COME CLEAN. His death, HIS FAULT, BUT HIS FAMILY STOOD BY AND WATCHED! They did not want to lose their allowances, so it was better not to talk to him then to help him or keep him from DYING!!!! So, in guilt, they blame others!!!!
In my opinion Dr. Murray was at worst an "ENABLER", and is not a murderer, quite the opposite. Wether he died with the Propofol or not, it was going to happen sooner than later. I (being a former prescription pain killer addict), know that it was just a matter of time. This addiction leads to 2 things: Jail, or Death, and being Michael Jackson, you don't go to jail....
Enabling an addict is a crime, especially when it is a doctor doing it. Yes, Michael, like all people, are ultimately responsible for their own actions. But when others do actions that are obviously harmful (directly or indirectly) to another person they need to be held accountable. Basically, if Murray and other doctors refused to knowingly give him harmful medications Jackson would probably be alive today.
Dr. Murray accepted the position knowing full well what it entailed. He wanted all the perks that came with the job and along with that came the responsibility. He can't have it both ways. Dr. Murray took an oath to act in the best interest of the patient and he failed miserably. He should lose his license. MJ was a kind and gifted person. He was a humanitarian with a wonderful smile but he wasn't perfect and lived in a "bubble" at times. It's unfortunate he became addicted to painkillers and propofol for he was always against drugs. Unfortunately, it can happen to anyone as only too many know. It's a shame he couldn't find an alternative to propofol for his insomnia or at least taken better precautions.
Dr. Murray is guilty of failing to put MJ's health and wellbeing before everything else. Did Dr. Murray make MJ an addict? No, MJ did that but Dr. M certainly enabled, provided legal access to drugs and assisted MJ in his addiction. He deserves to be punished in an appropriate manner. That is to say, the public trial is not fair as had his patient been Joe Blow from Noweheresville, Arizona, none of this attention would be on him. He did wrong, but the prosecution seems to be geared to who the patient was not what the doctor did. He should be subjected to the same sanctions for his part in MJ's death as he would in Joe Blow of AZ.
MJ was a drug addict...no doubt about it..but Dr. Murray was a doctor who did NOT keep the oath he took when he became a doctor to 'do no harm'. He, along with others, supplied MJ with drugs and in Murray's case, Propofol-something that was NOT to be used outside of a hospital/surgical facility setting and more importantly is NOT used to treat insomnia. Of course he's responsible. He left the room and left his patient while giving him the Propofol. He's an a**. Heaven help the morons who continue to use him as their physician.
Here is a suggested defense for Dr. Murray that might get him out of trouble:
Dr. Murray was a paid employee of Michael Jackson's promoter company - whatever the name was. In other words, Dr. Murray was not free to act on his own, as an independent professional who had control on what treatment he can give to his patient, without the fear of loosing his job. He was rather, obligated to follow the instructions of his employer, or else get fired.
As such, Mr. Murray (not Dr. Murray in this case) can not be held responsible for injuries or death caused by his actions which were performed under immediate control of his employer. The state would have to prove that Murray injected certain drug without the consent of MJ, in defiance of MJ's instructions, and with the intention of harming MJ.
To prevent such tragedies in the future, the State of California would have to pass a law prohibiting employment of physicians by their patients.
I love Michael dearly, but he was an addict. I believe he was impatient, and frustrated, and likely gave himself a massive dose when he couldn't get to sleep. Having said that, Mr. Murray illegally brought Propofol into the house. He did not monitor Michael while he was under the influence of the drug, and he left the drug alone with the patient. These careless actions led to the death of Michael, therefore, he is guilty.


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One of New Bedford's greatest assets is its beautiful houses and buildings. It makes me sick to see these wonderful dwellings decay from lack of proper maintenance. Up and down just about every street you see house after house that is in need of repair.
One of New Bedford's greatest assets is its beautiful houses and buildings. It makes me sick to see these wonderful dwellings decay from lack of proper maintenance. Up and down just about every street you see house after house that is in need of repair.
The main problem is expense. The additional cost of complying with the lead laws makes it so homeowners are forced to watch their beloved homes turn into eyesores because of the cost to remove old lead-based paint.
One solution for many has been to cover them with vinyl or aluminum. This isn't a very good solution. All the wonderful details that make these houses special are buried. These coverings don't stop decay. They just delay and hide it.
Indeed, wood doesn't stop rotting if it's covered. Termites and other pest don't stop eating because you cover them with plastic. And the sad thing is that after a few years these man-made sidings fade and deteriorate and lose their luster. The only way to make it look good again is to paint it, canceling out the reason it was put up in the first place! The only real solution is to make painting more affordable.
The biggest problem with lead paint removal is all the extra specialized tools and materials that are required (by law) and the certification process. If a contractor goes through all the hoops and buys all the tools, he or she has to charge for the extra expense. Once he or she adds up all extra costs, the price is way out of the ball park of what your average homeowner can afford.
I asked around and the contractors I talked to were paying their guys about $10 to $12 an hour. Plus you have to get certified first and pay for it out of your own pocket. I was making $10 an hour 25 years ago. Ten dollars an hour is fine but the problem is that my rent has doubled along with everything else. Cheap labor does nobody any good.
It's not the contractor's fault and it's not the homeowner's fault. They didn't invent lead-based paint. Why should the burden fall on them? Make the paint companies pay for it. One thing that would help is for the government to let painters have free certification classes. Instead of hindering, the government should be helping. They bail out multibillion dollar corporations and predatory banks. (I guess we're too small to succeed.)
I'm not saying I have all the answers, but I am saying that there has got to be better way. Whoever started this mess should sit down and rethink the whole thing out before any more houses and buildings are neglected. The character of our city depends on it.
I don't think many tourists are going to want to come to Old New Bedford to see all of our deteriorating houses.


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Former U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill was the kind of Democrat that gives Democrats a good name.
He was strong-willed, a bit gruff and totally committed to the people who sent him to office year after year.
Although he was in charge of the House during the Reagan administration and often served as counterbalance to his conservative president's agenda, there is one sentence, one singular idea, that will probably long outlive O'Neill's legislative record.
I hope by now most of you have received your 2010 Census form and have taken the opprotunity to complete the form and put it in the mail. April 1 has been officially declared Census Day in the United States. On that day you can come to the courthouse to the Judge-executive office to complete your form (between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.) or the Owen County Library (between 9 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.) for assistance.
Every year about this time, I come down with a case of March Madness. You see, I absolutely love the University of Kentucky men's basketball team. If my Wildcats get knocked out of the running early for the championship, the salt goes out of living. If they do well in tournament play, euphoria lifts my flat feet until I fancy I could dance on rooftops.
As we enter the closing weeks of the 2010 Regular Session, the Senate passed legislation that will improve job opportunities for career and technical students, regulate methadone treatment centers, and crack down on meth traffickers. We also continued our work on the state budget, and I continued my work on more transparency in campaign finance reporting.
The Senate passed House Bill 288, another piece of campaign finance reform legislation that I was able to improve through my role as chairman of the Senate State and Local Government Committee.
On Saturday, the Owenton Manor Rehab and Nursing will be hosting an annual community Easter bash. We hope to have several thousand eggs to hide and lots of prizes. We would like to invite you to take part in the event. We are in need of candy and items to put into the eggs. If you or your business would like to be a part of this event, please contact Teresa Perry at Owenton Manor. We will be announcing all sponsors throughout the day and they will be listed on the calendar of events.
Recently my mother got an invitation from Lincoln Institute to attend her high school reunion. It was the secondary school in Shelbyville area where black people sent their children "back in the day" because there was no high school available to them in the county.
I mention this for a couple of reasons.
March 21 through 27, 2010, marks the 12th anniversary of Commonwealth Cleanup Week. Commonwealth Cleanup Week is an annual week-long event implemented by the Energy and Environment Cabinet (EEC), and it also kicks off the Great American Cleanup, spanning from March-May. Its purpose is to provide Kentucky communities an opportunity to "spring clean," recycle and promote personal responsibility across the Commonwealth.
This week, an old friend who lives on the other side of the continent dropped back into my life. We were classmates and sorority sisters during our college days at Transylvania, but we haven't seen each other in over 40 years.
Reunions are as sweet as ripe fall pears when you've reached our stage of life. We've talked non-stop about the old days, the new days, and many of the ones in between.
But we haven't talked about the elegant, wide brimmed felt hat I wore to the Freshman Tea. Because I can't, even now, do so without blushing.
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More Heads to Roll at the IRS?
Siobhan Hughes explains the possibility of additional fallout at the IRS, including Attorney General Eric Holder calling for a criminal investigation into the agency targeting Tea Party and conservative groups.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... all with this kind of behavior ... in a the agency but especially in the IRS ... given ... the power that it has in the rich that it hasn't all been a lot ... and ... as I said earlier it should not matter ... what political structure from ... the fact the matter is that ... the IRS has to operate ... with absolute integrity ... today is a very roots of the first step ... by requesting an accepted ... the resignation of the acting commissioner of the IRS ... because given the controversy surrounding this audit it's important to Institute new leadership ... the Can Help restore confidence going forward ... that was present Obama Abreast expressing saris outrage if they are the discovery that agents from the Internal Revenue Service inappropriately targeted conservative political groups ... the morning and welcome to the New Saab on Michael Casey ... the boy his joins us from Washington with more on a swirling controversy that has already claimed the resignation is he just that ... the acting IRS chief Stephen Miller ... one to one ... good morning to see one present Obama seemed angry ... Republican Congressman have been Andria which means the stand was lucky to have some legs ... what is it done next ... it is not going away just like he said were to have a whole bunch of hearings tomorrow we're going to hear in person from ... acting commissioner Steven Miller who testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee ... next week we get to more gains made on others testifying in the Senate Finance Committee that ... asset Grandpa scandal is going to be hearing for the first time from Lois Lerner she was the director of the tax exempt organizations in and ... she was the person who revealed last week that this was happening ... also Doug Shaw meant the former as commissioner ... and these people are all going to get a grilling from Republicans who as you say or I race ... so that contagion or third hole that has lost a cool investigation ... those who without that ... will ... do with them of them ... we got some more D tells yesterday in a separate hearing Mr holder is that he might be looking at two things one door ... criminal violations of the sale of rights that sheets and then perhaps that resonates more with their public hands ... whether or not there were any false statement violations ... Republicans feel that they were lied he they've been asking for years whether the IRS was targeting conservative groups every time they asked ... they got ... back very claims in a land says about how the just had procedures to go through ... as we know now these were not normal procedures and Republicans wanna know why that was withheld from them ... and really they are out for blood ... we had done posting but in somebody yesterday saying that he was the who's going to jail ... but what is the mood to public isn't ... but this this this ... for ... their Republicans are furious six ... but at the same time the Republicans ... see all that this is an issue ... that encapsulate is all amid suspicions they've had and that Mr Obama ... over the years gave the all these political they feel they've been given a lot of cap and say it's ... a fee on the government is over reaching the government is interested in people's lives ... and this is the narrative this is the story that actually gives me to their suspicions in the claims next part of the reason why this has legs as he said ... now I'm it's Stephen Miller in a very quick it seems the least that once the scandal ... broke ... victim ... aam ... did did he know things before this than what was that I did so quickly ... 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I am a big Star Trek and Star Wars Fan - read this opinion article and tell me what you think.
Charlie Jane Anders
It's hard to overstate how boring Star Trek seemed in 2008. A pointless prequel had sucked the life out of it, the movies were crud, and the whole thing become a source of bland jokes on late-night TV. There were comics, games and novels for the die-hard fans, but as far as mainstream culture was concerned, Trek was toast.
J.J. Abrams brought Star Trek back. And now, with Star Wars in a not totally dissimilar situation, he's been brought in to repeat the feat. Can he do it again?
So first of all, yes, the comparison between Star Wars circa 2013 and Star Trek circa 2008 does seem apt. This happens to every popular universe from time to time: malaise sets in, everything feels like a retread, and too many iterations of the same old thing have invoked the Law of Diminishing Returns, which is way more unbreakable than the Prime Directive.
True, Star Wars has the Clone Wars cartoon, which is keeping it exciting for a new generation. And the Expanded Universe has a bigger reach than things like Star Trek's attempts to create an extended continuity. But to most people, Star Wars is still mostly a set of six movies that first captured our collective imagination... and then starved it.
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I hope so, but Star Trek was never in as bad of shape as Lucas put the Star Wars franchise in. It's a long way to recover, but hey Christopher Nolan brought the Batman franchise back from a painful/nippley death.
I'm hopeful Abrams will do a good job, but waiting till its done to see whats hes come up with. Of course I'll watch it, and probably enjoy it. I fully enjoyed episodes 1-3, even though they were well below the quality of the original trilogy.
Wait and see.
That's true Ruth - we will find out soon.
I agree-- Seems much from Lucas (lately) started a death knell for the Saga. Though with the Clone wars going into a huge gap of 2-5 years seems that the tides should be turning towards ending the intermediate saga. I think JJ, will soar onto many new heights like he did Star Trek (even though he rewrote the ST franchise a new timeline). Though I wonder which story will be told and how will it be told. Will there be a cloned emperor? Grand Admiral Thrawn? I could go on... but Either way I will be happy for another round inside the Star Wars franchise. Btw James, nice touch in referencing the comical Batman flick.
Some good question Tony. Yes, JJ Abrams did change the Star Trek timeline.
Abrams' reboot of Star Trek was pure space opera. I seriously suspect that if Roddenberry had seen it, he would have FREAKED. There were so many screw-ups in his take on the original, so little respect for the characters that I came a hair's breadth from walking out of the theater.
Now ... on the other hand, Star Wars is pretty much space opera by definition. The question remains, though: does the writer or writing team they bring on board up to the challenge? Lucas clearly was out of ideas when it came time to do the prequels. They are, without exception, LAME, unimaginative, with the POOREST dialogue I have ever heard. That Lucas is out is good. The question is: will whoever replaces him be any better.
To date, the jury's out.
I'm surprised that you didn't like it but I was never a big original series fan. Where did he disrespect the characters?
I am an original Trekker, James, subscribed as of 8 September, 1966, episode: "The Man-Trap." I Grew Up With The Original Series! Kirk was 34 years old when he took command of the Enterprise and had paid considerable dues in lesser positions before he took command. Chekov was at least 12 years Kirk's junior and positively soaked behind the ears when he took the navigator's post. Most of all, Spock Did NOT Make Out With Uhura ... EVER! Give me time and I could very likely cite multiple other examples. Abrams' take on Star Trek was a bad joke to anyone who actually had any investment in the characters originally represented by Shatner, Nimoy, Kelley, Nichols, Koenig, Doohan and Takei, and it was those characters and the painstaking work that Roddenberry put into them which made them memorable and powerful in an age where science-fiction on television was largely characterized by camp (Lost in Space) and very nearly dismissed by most television network executives.
When I say there was no real science-fiction in Abrams' take on Star Trek, it's because there was NONE. The first season of TOS had more original thoughts, more creativity, and more reality as regards a somewhat uncertain thrust "where no man has gone before" by a nascent United Federation of Planets than J. J. Abrams has the remotest imagination for. Science-fiction isn't about whiz-bang displays or battles in space. It is about IDEAS. That is something Gene Roddenberry knew damned well about, even though he went astray as things progressed ... and it is something Abrams has demonstrated no substantial clue about.
The ONLY thing I like about Abrams' Star Trek (and I mightily doubt it was Abrams' idea) was the line Karl Urban delivered in introducing himself to Kirk - "All she left me was my bones" ... and thus a creative foundation for a very famous nickname ... but that by itself does not excuse the execrable noise which inflicted itself onto movie screens in 2009. The Original Series is the reason why Abrams had anything to work with in the first place. From where I sit, Abrams completely disrespected that foundation in favor of glitz, sizzle instead of steak.
Into Darkness may be an improvement, but based on the trailers I've seen, my impression is that we're dealing with more of the same ... and that is why I think Abrams is better suited to Star Wars than Star Trek.
I guess I felt a little different about where he was trying to go with the film. There was a change in the timeline which excuses any differences in when and where people were at the time. But more importantly, the whole movie seemed to put forth this idea that there was something special about that particular crew, that one way or another they were fated to end up together. He especially drew this point out through Kurk who was deprived of a lot of the influences that originally set him on the track to be captain, but ended up in that seat anyway. But I can't speak as any sort of authority because I'm more of a TNG fan. I can tell you that Abrams movie inspired me to watch a few OS episodes though.
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Information Technology Services offers equipment loans for academic projects and initiatives. With laptops, MiFis, digital cameras, camcorders, tablet PCs, and video projectors, the UIS community has technology resources available to check out and use for their academic needs.
Included below is a list of the equipment that members of the University community [with approval] may check out from ITS Client Services [lower level of Brookens Library, BRK 180].
UIS Faculty/Staff/Students
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Faculty, staff, and students may come to ITS Client Services [BRK 180] to checkout equipment. Off-campus networking arrangements and special requests must be arranged by Rick Geary [206-6322] prior to checkout. Depending on availability, arrangements can be made to reserve the equipment.
When checking out equipment, users will be asked to provide a valid I-Card and complete and sign a checkout form indicating the date and time of checkout and return.
The maximum checkout period is 7 days unless prior permission is obtained by an Information Technology Services supervisor. If you have reserved equipment and do not pick it up by the originally scheduled time, the equipment will become available for other users on an as-needed basis.
Late fees will be incurred if the equipment is not returned on time. If you are unable to return the equipment on the due date, immediately contact a Media Lab Supervisor [206-6550].
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- You are responsible for all of the equipment in the case [including the manual]. The equipment is inspected when returned.
- You are responsible for providing your own recording media such as a mini DV tape.
- The fine for late equipment is $10.00 per day with a potential loss of equipment loan privileges, regardless of who checks it out. If you need an extension, come in or call us at 217-206-6550.
- Loss or damage to the equipment during checkout is the financial responsibility of the person in whose name it is checked out.
- Equipment should not be exposed to adverse conditions.
- If you have not received training by class instruction, and have no prior experience with the equipment, you must receive training from a Media Lab employee before leaving the Media Lab with the equipment. Training may be done either in groups for campus classes with specific assignment needs, or individually by appointment.
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Students may now check out a Windows laptop for a limited time from ITS Client Services [BRK 180]. Patrons will need to provide a valid I-Card upon checkout and return and assume the following responsibilities:
- I agree to assume full responsibility for laptop and peripherals and must comply with the Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources policies.
- I understand laptop computers can only be checked out by currently enrolled UIS students and used by the borrowers and patrons who have fines or suspended borrowing privileges are ineligible to use this service.
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The BlackBerry® 10 Native SDK first arrived on the scene for our BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet. While it was a powerful tool for game development, it was still infancy in many ways, as it didn't have many of the strong APIs and functionality for building an integrated native experience with a rich UI. For the BlackBerry 10 platform, we evolved the NDK and added in the Cascades™ UI framework along with many new APIs. We have released several beta version of the Native SDK since BlackBerry 10 Jam in May. The infant evolved into early adolescence.
While these earlier betas offered significant improvements over previous editions, they were still a work in progress. We are finally at a stage where we can truly say that with Beta 3 of our Native SDK, our young child has finally come of age. Our APIs have evolved to a point where they are stable and functional enough to advertise backwards compatibility. We also support a full feature set of APIs in the Native SDK – from connectivity APIs such as email and calendar to APIs that support deeper integration such as invocation to social APIs such as BlackBerry® Messenger™ (BBM).
Beta 3 of the Native SDK contains numerous new and important APIs that many of you have been anxiously waiting for. Some of the highlights include:
If you attended some of our other conferences, the BlackBerry Jam 10 World Tour or BlackBerry Jam Sessions, you have probably heard us talk about the flow and deep integration that the BlackBerry 10 platform provides. The invocation framework provides a facility via cards through which you can incorporate some of this flow and integration in your app. With cards, you will be able to expose discrete functionality within your app to other apps as well as incorporate functionality provided by your other apps within your own. As an example, if you are developing a picture viewer app, you might expose a simple picture previewer card to the invocation framework. Any app that registers with the invocation framework can invoke your card to preview a picture. Likewise, your app can leverage existing cards on the platform to access various pieces of functionality, whether it is a simple preview of a video or other discrete functions like picking a contact or composing an email.
Visually, a card typically appears as a previewer that takes up most of the screen. However, it appears as part of the application on which it is stacked. Essentially, you can use a gesture to slide the card in, partially or fully into your app as seen in the picture below:
A Card is considered part of the application that invokes it and does not appear as a separate entity in the running applications grid. In addition, when the card's function is complete, the user is automatically returned to its parent. In this way, a card "feels" like part of the application.
BBM Social Platform
BBM has always been core to the Blackberry platform and it still remains a critical piece of our BlackBerry 10 portfolio. The BBM Social Platform APIs allow you to leverage the social features and functionality of BlackBerry Messenger from within your app. For example, you can initiate a BBM chat and share files such as pictures, voice notes, and music between users who are running your app. You can also stream data between users of your app for real-time applications such as communication, gaming and location tracking. As part of the BBM social platform, you will be able to harness BBM features such as BBM user profile, contact list, messaging and application profile box.
Email, Calendar and Contacts
There is a significant amount of interest from our third party developers for Calendar, Email and Contact APIs, and we are excited to announce their availability in this beta. The Message Center is a signature feature of the BlackBerry experience, and we are adding support on the API side for it as well. The Message Center APIs provide the ability to launch the unified inbox, send emails and receive task notifications. You can use our calendar functionality to create new calendar events, edit existing events, delete existing events and view existing calendar events. We also have the ability to notify third parties when events are being created, modified and deleted. Finally, our contact API allows you to create, edit, delete and view contacts as well as add additional meta information to a contact.
In this competitive world of app development, you likely care about creative ways in which you can make money off your apps and we want to help bring you the tools to do just this. After all, the success of our platform depends on your success. To facilitate that, we are adding an Advertising Service along with APIs that allow you to display banner and splash ads in your application or game. You can also create hot links to keyword advertising. Under the scenes, our Advertising service launches a Browser webview to display the advertisements. Along with our Payment and Scoreloop APIs that we introduced in earlier Betas, we believe that we have some powerful tools that can help you monetize your application.
At RIM®, we are proud of our Push technology, and we are now making our powerful Push framework available through the NDK. Through the APIs we provide, your app will be able to register with the Push service and receive push data. When the Push service receives incoming Push messages, it will invoke the application registered for the message using the addressing information provided during the registration. Any app that needs to be responsive to incoming data streams should strongly consider taking a look at our Push framework and associated events.
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On the 'Core Native' front, we've introduced a Bluetooth® API which supports Bluetooth on/off, power status, and retrieving paired and found devices. It also provides several Bluetooth profiles such as Serial Port Profile (SPP), Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) and Generic Attribute Profile (GATT). Other core native APIs include APIs for Holster detection, retrieving application info and for querying Wi-Fi® and battery status.
Our spell check engine now exposes APIs at both the C and C++ layer to allow apps to perform spell check functionality in their own customized UI.
At the Cascades™ layer, we have introduced a WallPaper API that allows users to set an image as the wallpaper. We have also introduced APIs for sensors, including support for rotation, orientation, magnetometer, gyroscope and accelerometer. The geocoding API allows the user to perform geocoding and reverse geocoding while the radio info API includes the ability to query available radios, their status, ESN/IMSI, Sim card info, Mobile Country Code and Mobile Network code.
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Nebraska women win 4th national bowling title
Nebraska women win 4th national bowling title
LINCOLN, Neb. —
The Nebraska women's bowling team has won its fourth national title.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln squad defeated Vanderbilt Saturday in the title match in Canton, Mich.
Junior Yan Ling led the Huskers in the title match with nine strikes and no empty frames. The team title is decided in a format where each team member bowls two frames, and the winning team wins the most games in a best-of-seven series.
Nebraska coach Bill Straub says his team held together well even when they got behind in the match.
Women's bowling has been an NCAA-sanctioned sport since 2003. Nebraska won national titles in 2004, 2005, 2009 and now this year.


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"Eat Like A Local In Los Cabos"
Ever travel to a tourist mecca and wonder what the locals eat? Rick does. So he joins his pal Hugo to find the best Mexican food in Los Cabos. Their first stop is at the municipal market in San Jose del Cabo for a quick mid-morning meal of sopes and beef soup. D
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|2008-05-03, 12:58
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Gratz on starting your thread escimo!
I like how you have a bit of everything here, it reminds me of Inno's thread.
And just out of curiosity.... is that you on the opening image? If I remember correctly, you were using a similar avatar not too long ago.
|2008-05-03, 13:02
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Actually my physical appearance is starting to carry some resemblance as well. Nice way to say that I look like a bum.
|2008-05-03, 13:07
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I guess it shows that I dont see that many movies. >_< !
|2008-05-04, 00:21
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Location: Northeast USA
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|2008-05-04, 02:37
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Canon EOS 300D/Digital Rebel, Canon AE-1 film camera and some are even taken with an old crappy Canon Poweshot S40.
|2008-05-04, 02:42
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I love your need for speed one, don't like the trees though; cut them down please. And the sky kind of looks odd but umm that just me. The cat eye looks fake, it is shopped right?
|2008-05-04, 03:18
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Seattle
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Congrats on opening your own thread here in fan creations
I must commend you on your black and white photos, they're lovely!
(and I disagree w/ Setsilya about the cat eye, 'tis real eh? )
Look forward to seeing more from you since you appear to be a jack of all trades. On your may sotm work, looks go so far! My only criticism of it right now is that it looks too matchy matchy with the same patterned background matching the pattern on the clothes. There's so much pattern it sortof puts me off, like if someone were to wear a full suit of hawaiian shirt material - cheesy, no?
*welcome cookies!*
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|2008-05-04, 03:36
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Pic without the flower-layer to illustrate.
Actually it looks kinda nice like that... Hmm looking into it as soon as I have some free time.
Full suit of hawaiian shirt material. ME WANTS ONE!
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I still need to read up on all of the lens statistics and what they mean, I suppose. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on it.
|2008-05-04, 17:26
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50mm macro can be a bit difficult. You usually need to get really close to the target, if you want shot's like the cat's eye, which can make lighting a bit of a hassle. With that short macro I'd say that macro flash is pretty much a must and they tend to be quite costly. Cheap ones are generally crap. I'd go for one with longer focal length for starters. Much less hassle as you don't need to stick your nose into the target. However the closest focusing distance tends to be rather long especially in cheap lenses as the magnification ratios aren't high regardless of long focal length. In my tamron it's about 35 inches or so. At that distance the magnification ratio at 300mm is 1:2. If I were a rich man I'd buy Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L USM Macro. 1:1 magnification ratio at 180mm is just insane. *drool*
I think the focal length in the cat's eye shot was around 180-230mm and god only knows the distance. Don't have the EXIF-data anymore.
Actually the crop helps with macro photography quite a bit. I think in Olympus the crop is 2 so you'd get an actual 1:1 magnification ratio with the 50mm as well and the F2.0 aperture is very tempting. Depth of field may be really shallow using the largest aperture size though...
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Atsuko Chiba/Paprika render for something I'm working on at the moment.
Feel free to use it if you find it useful.
Quick copy/paste sig made for a friend on a different forum.
Feel free to use here. AS-safe.
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Added a photo.
A friend of mine threw me a challenge as we were debating about b/w vs. color photography.
The challenge was making toilet paper look good.
Here's the result. Not sure whether it looks good or not but at least it's toilet paper.
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Another pic taken at the same session. Basically product photography test.
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|2008-05-06, 16:01
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Toilet paper indeed. At first I caught sight of what looks to be a wet part (the wrinkles) and that wasn't too pleasant, but then I realized that it looked sort of flower-like... almost. Very artistic, which in my opinion is what B&W/monotone photography really exists for. I can't imagine how you could make it look better with a color picture, unless you dyed the toilet paper exotic colors or used Photoshop to color it in.
The violin isn't bad, but it doesn't look quite as artsy. Unless someone's playing on it, I don't think an instrument can really look appealing unless you're taking the shots of specific parts or of interesting angles (sort of like macro photography, actually). Either way, nice work. You make B&W photography look really appealing. I'd previously shunned it as being something for situations where the colors aren't very nice, but I can see its artistic values in your shots. I'll have to start experimenting with it.
|2008-05-06, 16:34
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^If you're interested in B/W photography I'd recommend checking out Sally Mann's work. Subjects of the pictures may be a bit gross as she's most known for photographing her naked children but the finish of her pictures has been an inspiration to me. That's much thanks to her using glass plate collodion process in many of her pictures. Prehistoric technically but produces extremely interesting shade-scheme.
Guess what differentiates art from pornography (or in Mann's case child pornography) in photography is the B/W finish.
As for violin shot. It was basically just an experiment on lighting and levels (and I think they turned out quite nice). It was shot as a product photo and heavily retouched. Shooting macros is actually a very good idea I'll look into it. As a violinist (at least a former one, I'm trying to pick up on it again) the photo as it is may have a little bit different appeal to me and to me violin is one of the most beautiful instruments visually. Not as much found on it's sound which may be a bit funny. Like cellos more.
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Dave Bakke�s column on the passing of Jim Solenberger was a fitting tribute to an extraordinary man.
Jim came into my campaign headquarters as a volunteer in 1976. He struggled in on his walker with a manual typewriter in tow. He would sit hour after hour slowly typing letters and smiling as volunteers passed by.
Late one night it was raining, and I offered to give him a ride home. During that trip I asked Jim where he had gone to school, and he told me he had a Master�s degree in library science from the University of Illinois. I asked him where he was working, and he told me no one would hire him.
The next morning I called Secretary of State Alan Dixon�s office and asked my friend Gene Callahan if he would give Jim a chance to apply to work in the State Library. Alan Dixon gave Jim his chance, and he was hired at a time when it was rare for seriously disabled people to be offered that opportunity.
Jim worked there for 34 years before he retired.
We all saw Jim with his red helmet scooting around Springfield, but there are several parts of his life story few people knew. His devoted parents and family stood by him through all of his challenges, and when Jim bought his first home on the east side of town they were there planting flowers. Jim was especially proud of his volunteer work at a Baptist camp south of Springfield. He was a determined, courageous and caring Christian.
When I think of Jim I count my blessings, and one of them was my friendship with this special man.


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The hackers often struck late on Fridays, starting about a year ago, sending skeleton crews at more than a dozen European banks rushing to keep bombardments of digital gibberish from crashing their websites.
Damaging as the bandwidth-choking attacks were, they were merely smokescreens. Once employees dropped their guard to fight one attack, hackers struck again, exploiting the openings to steal account information and create counterfeit debit cards.
One attack was so fast that, within two hours, $9 million was withdrawn from automated teller machines in 46 cities, according to Francis deSouza, president of products and services for Symantec Corp (SYMC)., the Mountain View, California-based information security company that investigated the incidents.
Symantec's findings show that the attacks, which have been around for years, have evolved from nuisances causing temporary website outages into one of the cheapest and most effective ways to rob banks. They've become the online equivalent of a common street hustle, with the initial assault being the shiny object that distracts bank security teams long enough to pick customers' pockets.
Tens of millions of dollars were stolen in the past year in two-pronged attacks that banks didn't notice until customers complained or investigators later uncovered the breaches, said Samir Kapuria, a Symantec vice president who led the research.
"The problem is everyone is focusing on the fact someone has set fire to your front yard, and while you're staring at the front yard someone is coming in through the back door," said Tom Kellermann, a former security specialist with the World Bank and now vice president of cybersecurity for Trend Micro Inc., a Tokyo-based security software maker.
ING Assault
The attacks targeting banks are known as distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, in which hackers flood a computer system with information to shut it down. While some banks have acknowledged the attacks have damaged their websites, Symantec's research shows hackers have reached deeper than institutions have been willing to acknowledge.
The websites of U.S. banks were down a record 249 hours in six weeks in February and March, when they were being heavily attacked, according to Keynote Systems Inc (KEYN)., a San Mateo, California-based company that measures websites' response times.
The U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, in an alert in December, said DDoS attacks previously regarded as political statements have become part of broader invasions aimed at compromising customer accounts. It didn't give examples and Stephanie Collins, an agency spokeswoman, declined to comment beyond the alert.
Two Tiers
Symantec's research focused on European banks, which the company wouldn't name, and it's not clear what losses U.S. banks and their customers have sustained in similar attacks.
Only Citigroup among the largest U.S. banks has disclosed losses from DDoS and other cyber attacks to investors this year, and it characterized them only as "certain limited losses in some instances."
In one recent combination attack, hackers temporarily knocked out online banking at Amsterdam-based ING Groep NV (INGA) and iDEAL, a Dutch e-commerce system that includes the Netherlands' biggest banks, on April 5 and sent a wave of e-mails to ING customers during the attack trying to get them to reveal personal information.
Carolien van der Giessen, a bank spokeswoman, confirmed the attacks while declining to say whether ING experienced data- theft attacks at the same time.
Converged Interests
A group calling itself Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters has taken responsibility for attacks against Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM)., PNC Financial Services Group Inc (PNC). and others, claiming they were in response to a video uploaded to Google Inc.'s YouTube ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad and offending some Muslims.
Iran's government and its elite Qods Force were probably behind the attacks, retaliating against U.S.-led economic sanctions, U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, then chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and now retired, said in September.
The two-pronged attacks have taken several forms, according to Kellermann and Synmantec officials who have analyzed their patterns.
In the more common form, hacking groups plant malicious software inside a bank's systems, then wait until they notice another group, such as Izz ad-Din or Anonymous, mounting a distributed denial-of-service attack. At that point, they swoop in, activate their software and raid compromised accounts.
Effective Diversions
The approach brings together unlikely groups: cybercriminals who break into computers to steal money, and cyberwarriors who hack to make political statements.
"We are already seeing a convergence of DDoS attacks and fraud — in some cases by the same actors who are not the Iranians, but are other opportunistic gangs," Avivah Litan, a banking-security analyst with Gartner Inc., an information- technology researcher based in Stamford, Connecticut.
"We are also seeing the different actors borrow, buy and steal from each other, so that cybercriminals are using cyberwarrior tactics and code, and cyberwarriors are using cybercriminal tactics and code," Litan said. "The big question is whether the nation-state actors, i.e. the Iranians, will start stealing money out of accounts."
Some of the more sophisticated Eastern European hackers now mount both stages of attacks themselves, Kellermann said.
DDoS attacks can be effective diversions because they can overwhelm fraud-detection systems and banks react strongly to them, out of concern that prolonged website outages will damage their reputations, Kellermann said.
Phone Tie-Ups
The two-pronged approach also helps explain why bank websites often haven't crashed for more than brief periods: because hackers don't want them to.
Often they've crippled sites just enough so they can access target accounts while customers can't, and therefore won't notice their money's gone until after the attacks end, Litan said.
Many banks are now being hit with assaults on their phone and data networks at the same time, said Jim Grubb, a vice president at Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO)., the biggest maker of computer- networking equipment.
The idea is to prevent the banks' customers from being able to access their accounts online or over the phone while criminals are withdrawing money from ATMs or racking up credit- card charges.
At a Cisco conference last year, Grubb described an attack against a bank's phone network that prevented customers from calling in to stop fraudulent transactions.
In some cases, hackers have called banks' customer-service centers while online access is down and tricked representatives into wiring money out of people's accounts, Gartner's Litan said.
Botnet Use
The most common type of DDoS attack involves using "botnets," or networks of infected computers, to flood target websites with more traffic than they can handle, said Gunter Ollmann, chief technology officer for IOActive Inc., a security consultancy.
A more effective technique involves attacking database- heavy applications, such as a site's search function. Hackers might only need one or two computers doing lots of searches to bring down a site, Ollmann said.
A complicated approach involves manipulating the Internet's domain-name system to amplify the amount of attack traffic against a target site. The technique was used to start one of the biggest online attacks ever, with 300 billion bits per second of traffic hitting the website of Spamhaus, a European antispam group, on March 15 in retaliation for blacklisting a handful of accused spammers.
Limited Disclosure
Most of the largest U.S. banks have acknowledged the DDoS attacks in regulatory filings or annual reports. Most said they didn't have material losses or that customer data wasn't stolen.
None of the top banks have described DDoS attacks combined with data-theft attempts in the way the Comptroller of the Currency alert outlined or quantified losses from cyber attacks, though Citigroup, PNC, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC)and U.S. Bancorp identified DDoS attacks as a material risk.
Citigroup spokesman Andrew Brent declined to comment. PNC has said the DDoS attacks caused some outages but didn't lead to theft of customer data. Spokesman Fred Solomon declined to comment. U.S. Bancorp spokesman Tom Joyce didn't respond to messages.
Wells Fargo (WFC) said one aim of the DDoS attacks was to test banks' cybersecurity ahead of more advanced future attacks. JPMorgan Chase described the attackers as "sophisticated and well-resourced."
'Off' Button
Most banks don't disclose how much they spend on security, with JPMorgan Chase being an exception. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said in an April 10 letter to shareholders that the company spends $200 million a year on data security, a figure that will grow "dramatically" over the next three years, and said more than 600 employees are dedicated to security, a number expected to rise.
While there's no shortage of security firms selling products to help prevent breaches, helping fuel an industry that Gartner estimates will reach $65.7 billion this year, technology alone can't prevent all combination attacks.
To fight two-pronged assaults, banks must have sufficient staffing across multiple business lines for the duration of the DDoS attacks, the Comptroller of the Currency, the arm of the U.S. Treasury Department that regulates banks, said in its Dec. 21 alert.
Banks need denial-of-service protections that go beyond defenses offered by their network providers, which often can't detect attacks on the banks' specific applications, Gartner's Litan said. They also need to increase training for call-center staff to spot suspicious transactions, he said.
And in the worst-case scenario?
"An emergency 'off' button to stop all money transfers," Litan said. "This should never have to be used but is important to have — just in case."
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If you go
What: The documentary, "Tiny: A Story About Living Small," by Boulder's Merete Mueller and Christopher Smith. The 62-minute film produced by Speak Thunder Films follows the couple's attempt to build a 120-square-foot home with no construction experience, and touches on topics of sustainability, design and redefining the American Dream.
When: It will premiere at the Boulder International Film Festival at 10 a.m. Feb. 16 and will be screened at 7 p.m. Feb. 18 at the Denver Film Society's Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver
Cost: $12 for BIFF individual tickets; $12-$15 for DFS
Info: biff1.com (BIFF tickets go on sale Monday) and denverfilm.org
On the web
• For more information about two companies that build tiny houses, Tumbleweed Tiny House Company and Clothesline Tiny Homes, visit tumbleweedhouses.com or clotheslinetinyhomes.com, respectively.
• For more information about the documentary "Tiny: A Story About Living Small," go to tiny-themovie.com or facebook.com/tinythemovie.
Learn more
• "The Not So Big House," by Sarah Sushanka, is a book about a new way of thinking about what makes a home. She also published "Not So Big Remodeling: Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live," which offers ways to apply not-so-big principles to your existing house, regardless of its size.
• "A Tiny Bit of Advice," by Merete Mueller and Christopher Smith, is an eBook that offers tips and advice for people who want to build their own tiny house. Download it for $9.99 at tiny-themovie.com/ebook
Christopher Smith lives in a house smaller than a parking space, between a chicken coop and some beehives in his friend's backyard.
And the Boulder County man wouldn't want it any other way.
He built his 120-square-foot house by hand, even though he had no construction background.
He didn't want a fat mortgage to pay off for the next 30 years, and neither did his girlfriend, Merete Mueller. They'd never dreamed of a McMansion; Smith's lifelong fantasy was a humble, simple life in the mountains, with a small roof over his head and the world as his living room.
"People seem to forget that there's a big world outside the front door of your home," Mueller says. "As Americans in suburban America, we spend a lot of time in our homes. But there are libraries, parks, sidewalks, cafes — a big world out there in the community. And small spaces encourage people to get out more."
Less truly did end up being more for Smith and Mueller. They captured their unconventional adventure on film and turned it into a documentary that has taken them around the country on a screening tour. Smith sleeps in his tiny home in his tiny bed when he's not on the road promoting "Tiny: A Story About Living Small."
The film will premeire on the Front Range on Feb. 16 at the Boulder International Film Festival and Feb. 18 at the Starz Denver Film Center.
"Tiny" premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, last year. Since then, the film has garnered plenty of national attention and awards, including environmental and social change awards, and a spot in dozens of other film fests. Smith and Mueller have been speaking around the country, including a lecture last year at the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
"Tiny" recently had its U.S. television premiere on Al Jazeera America, and a deal is in the works for DVD distribution.
The trend toward tiny
When Smith hammered the first nail in 2011, he knew of about 100 other tiny homes across the country.
Today, he's aware of thousands. There's a long and ever-growing list of blogs, magazines and books dedicated to tiny houses, and the websites alone see thousands of hits every day.
There's even a crop of building and design companies that specialize in tiny homes, such as the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company in Colorado Springs, Tiny Diamond Homes in Morrison and Clothesline Tiny Homes, which has ties to Loveland but a base in New Mexico.
TinyHouseListings.com is a real-estate website dedicated to homes under 200 square feet, and Boulder County has a strong presence there.
A 136-square-foot wooden home on Grant Avenue in Louisville is listed for less than $50,000 — well below the price of a typical residence in CNN's "best place to live" in 2011, where the median home price is $372,900, according to the U.S. Census.
The cost of living in Boulder County is one of the major draws of a tiny house, says Smith. So is the freedom. Some tiny houses are built on wheels to give residents the flexibility to easily relocate, and to get around building codes — although it's not that simple. A structure permanently affixed to a trailer in the city of Boulder is allowed and not subject to building codes — but a building on wheels in unincorporated Boulder County is not permitted, in part because of the effect of high winds.
In the city, a tiny home with a foundation requires a permit and must follow code: It must have electricity, running water and sewer services. And, although one can find a list of tiny homes in city limits with a simple Google search, Dave Thacker, the city's chief building official, says he's never seen a request for a permit. But he's never shut down a tiny home, either.
The cities of Lafayette and Erie also feature tiny homes for sale, and Smith featured a tiny home in Longmont in his documentary.
The city of Boulder has the biggest selection of tiny homes for sale, ranging from a 160-square-foot North Street residence for just $14,000 to a 200-square-foot, two-floor, solar-paneled cabin in the mountains for $65,000.
Compare this to the median value of an owner-occupied home in the city: $354,300.
Variety of uses
Lorna Kellogg, a former Boulder resident who now lives in Massachusetts, is selling the North Street tiny home, as well as another that she built as a hobby. She has built about 40 tiny homes across the country during the past 30 years, she says.
It all started when she was 14 and her dad brought her a "dollhouse," a 6-foot-tall shed that she used as her bedroom in her parents' California backyard. This was common in Santa Barbara during the '70s housing crunch.
"Now I build one behind every house I have bought, fixed up and resold," she says.
She says the $2,000 cost for basic materials and electricity could increase property values by $20,000 or more.
"It was very easy to get an extra room added to the house," she says.
Use it as a yoga room or art studio. Kellogg has used her tiny houses as an office for her coaching business or a guest room. Sometimes, she says, she prefers to live in the tiny house instead of the main residence.
"The quality of presence you're able to bring to your life and relationships is extraordinary," she says. "What happens is you only have what you genuinely need, and the sense of peace and freedom that accompanies that streamlined life is indescribable. ... When there's no clutter, your mind becomes very clear, and it's very easy to think."
The tiny-home movement has a deeper significance, says Smith's girlfriend, Mueller. The average size of a new house in America has nearly doubled since the 1950s, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
This is about redefining the American Dream to value quality over quantity.
As they filmed the documentary, Mueller says she began thinking about the meaning of home. Settling down versus staying adrift. Developing land or preserving it.
"Tiny houses are a really great extreme example of a lot of the questions that can be applied to slightly larger square footage," Mueller says. "It's about priorities. And it doesn't have to be 120 square feet or 89 square feet for you to think more about the bigger picture."
Contact Staff Writer Aimee Heckel at 303-473-1359, firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter.com/Aimeemay.


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