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That bracket-busting, wild first day of the NCAA tourney is rightly the talk of the Twitter-cooler.
Oh, Dayton, Harvard, North Dakota State — you crushers of early-retirement dreams. Four overtimes, a single-day record and three upsets pretty much make winning that $1 billion-Buffett prize look as likely as finding a stash of gold coins under a tree in your backyard, with a dog and a stick. As of now, only 0.2% of bracketeers are still perfect, says CBSSports.com. (It was Buffett himself who said no one should count on a No. 16 seed knocking off a No. 1. We'll see.)
Doing a pseudo markets bracket a few days ago, LPL Financial's Jeffrey Kleintop highlighted his own "Final Four" issues for investors to watch in these turbulent times: Economy, policy, fundamentals and sentiment. He also advised against betting too much on any particular one of these. Eyeballs everywhere, nibble at opportunities as they emerge, don't jump in with both feet or indiscriminately sell, said Kleintop.
So those who sold after the Fed meeting (policy/tapering), got to watch stocks reverse as markets brushed aside the three-word Yellen and focused on a bevy of upbeat data (economy). The S&P 500 is up 1.7% for the week so far, and Friday is setting up to be another positive session.
Eyes everywhere. It's quadruple-witching day, and it's Friday, and you never know what kind of saber-rattling (policy/Russia) will emerge over the weekend, after the U.S. opened what one Russian analyst called a "Pandora's Box full of sanctions." More China data (economy/China) will also cross the wires by Monday. (See chart of the day)
Still weeping over those brackets? Cheer up, there's always the Buffett backup plan: Put all your spare change in an S&P 500 index fund like Vanguard's. Eyes on the retirement prize.
The markets: It's all looking marginally OK, unless you are an investor in Russia, where stocks are feeling the boom lowered by Obama. Futures on the S&P /quotes/zigman/20258903/realtime ESH4 , Dow /quotes/zigman/14515889/realtime YMH4 indicate markets will stick to the positive run from yesterday. Asia /quotes/zigman/6959860/realtime XX:ADOW saw a mostly upbeat session. Japanese markets were closed for a holiday, but the Shanghai Composite /quotes/zigman/1859015/realtime CN:SHCOMP surged 2.7%, reportedly its best day in four months, on talk of looser restrictions for developers and a preferred-share scheme being announced. European stocks are in the green /quotes/zigman/2380150/realtime XX:SXXP , but Russia is limping along after those sanctions. Private gas producer Novatek /quotes/zigman/12916938/delayed /quotes/nls/novky NOVKY is leading the pain. Elsewhere, gold and oil are up.
The economy: No data on tap. But never mind, Fed speakers — in the spotlight after that meeting no one will forget soon — will fill up your day. Mind you, some are unlikely to rival even the lowliest NCAA pair-ups as entertainment.
Among the highlights, Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota has been explaining his policy dissent in the latest Fed meeting. St. Louis Fed President Bullard speaks twice: First at 11:45 a.m. Eastern, discussing a paper on debt and financial markets, and then he'll appear on a panel about Fed bond-buying at 2:15 p.m. Eastern. Fed. Gov. Jeremy Stein speaks at 7:20 p.m. Eastern on financial stability considerations and a monetary framework. In the middle, squeeze in former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke talking about Abenomics at 10 a.m. Eastern.
If nothing comes out of Friday's batch, there's always next week. That's when we'll get Lockhart and Bullard, to name a couple.
Earnings: Tiffany /quotes/zigman/243577/delayed /quotes/nls/tif TIF shares are down about 3% in premarket, after the luxury jeweler swung to a loss. It's a barometer for luxury retail companies so may have to some trickle-down effect later.
Darden Restaurants /quotes/zigman/151942/delayed /quotes/nls/dri DRI , which warned earlier this month, said quarterly earnings and sales fell from a year ago.
The buzz: A strong dollar is turning into a pain in the instep for Nike /quotes/zigman/235840/delayed /quotes/nls/nke NKE . Premarket, shares are tracking late-session losses after the company talked of headwinds and more headwinds.
Symantec /quotes/zigman/78627/delayed /quotes/nls/symc SYMC is getting crushed in premarket in the wake of news the company fired CEO Steve Bennett.
Zions Bancorp /quotes/zigman/80277/delayed /quotes/nls/zion ZION may see some pressure after it was revealed the bank is the only one of 30 that didn't meet the Tier 1 capital requirement of the Fed stress test.
Unwired Planet /quotes/zigman/9942961/delayed /quotes/nls/upip UPIP is surging after news it was selling a package of patents. Shares are rocketing over 60% higher in premarket.
Blackberry /quotes/zigman/19622165/delayed /quotes/nls/bbry BBRY is selling its Canadian real estate. The handset maker was also drawing attention on reports the White House, one of the last and biggest strongholds for the company, is testing other smartphones.
Chart of the day: Market sensitivity to Chinese data has been crossing new thresholds lately, and that's been especially true if you're Dr. Copper /quotes/zigman/678457/realtime HGK4 . Down 13% for the year, it's been tossed around over those Chinese-economy worries. Daily FX says if HSBC data misses expectations, that could send copper "on its next leg lower."
Call of the day: OK, early birds, Jones Trading's Michael O'Rourke says something's been up with S&P 500 futures trading. He's been noticing that lately, stops have been getting taken out for those futures, and it's happening more and more frequently. The pattern has been going like this: When futures test the intraday (including) overnight high or low, a volume spike occurs, triggering stops and furthering the move in that direction. Volume patterns at those times are atypical for the time of day, he says in a note.
"Taking out the stops is nothing new in markets, but the pattern is almost becoming predictable. In the big picture, such activity is noise, but we suggest investors remain cognizant of the levels to take advantage of the pattern, rather than be victimized by it," said O'Rourke.
Bonus call: We've been boring you with gold? Sorry, but Goldman Sachs says you can just forget gold making much more out of this year than it already has (up 11% year-to-date). Three unsustainable factors have been driving it higher: The slowdown in the U.S. due to weather, credit concerns that have driven up Chinese demand, and more tension on the geopolitical front. With that, they reiterated that $1,050 target for this year, saying it will be data dependent (h/t Business Insider)
Random reads: Justin Timberlake is looking for love. Well, at least the couple who got engaged to this song.
A vicious attack by the Taliban on a Kabul hotel end the life of nine diners, including an AFP reporter, his wife and two of their three children.
We knew they were around here somewhere. Mt. Gox finds 1/4 of its missing bitcoins. Maybe this crypto-sting plan will get the rest back.
Turkey banning your tweets? No problem.
Give me an A, give me two more. Fitch bumps U.S. back up to stable.
Here's what one Russian billionaire did in anticipation of sanctions.
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Bill Monroe, the man widely acknowledged as the father of bluegrass music, was in search of a new banjo player for his famed Blue Grass Boys when a young musician turned up backstage at Nashville's celebrated Ryman Auditorium during a 1945 Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast, hoping to audition.
Once Monroe and his guitarist, Lester Flatt, heard the sparks fly from 21-year-old Earl Scruggs' instrument, the bandleader asked Flatt what he thought. "If you can, hire him," Flatt told Monroe, "whatever the cost."
Upon joining Monroe's band, Scruggs solidified a lineup that came to define bluegrass, a rural strain of country music typified by the "high lonesome sound" of tight vocal harmonies and frequently peppered with fleet instrumental interplay among guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and string bass, while wholeheartedly adopting the precepts of solo improvisation and collective empathy of jazz.
Scruggs, who died Wednesday in Nashville at 88 of natural causes, according to his son Gary, brought a distinctive three-finger playing style that became the musical touchstone for thousands of instrumentalists who followed in his wake — among them actor, comedian and banjo player Steve Martin — and helped popularize the banjo far beyond its traditional home in Southern regional music.
Both with Monroe in the 1940s and later during his long partnership with Flatt in Flatt & Scruggs, the North Carolina innovator transformed the instrument from what often had been perceived as a novelty or a prop for comedy into a vehicle for virtuosos. Grand Ole Opry head George D. Hay often introduced Scruggs when the Blue Grass Boys performed as "the boy who made the banjo talk."
"He was one of the first and the best three-finger banjo player," Scruggs' 85-year-old peer Ralph Stanley said Wednesday night in a statement. "He did more for the five-string banjo than anyone I know."
Scruggs brought the instrument to stardom in mainstream America through hits including "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," a song he wrote, and even more broadly when Flatt & Scruggs played the theme for a new TV show that became a sensation, "The Beverly Hillbillies," with the song titled "The Ballad of Jed Clampett."
Series creator Paul Henning had heard Flatt & Scruggs at the Newport Folk Festival in the late 1950s and invited them to record the song for the sitcom, which premiered in 1962.
"Within three weeks it was rated No. 1 and eventually shown in 76 countries," Scruggs' wife, Louise, wrote in the notes for the 2001 all-star tribute album "Earl Scruggs and Friends." "It spread country music and the five-string banjo all over the world."
During the height of popularity of "The Beverly Hillbillies," Flatt & Scruggs' "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" gained a new following from its prominent use in director Arthur Penn's hit 1967 movie "Bonnie and Clyde."
Flatt & Scruggs were hired at the behest of star and producer Warren Beatty, who vowed, "I am going to get Earl a hit record from this movie." He succeeded, and it also earned the duo their first Grammy Award. Scruggs eventually won three more for various collaborations.
A generation later, filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen put a bluegrass band at the center of their 2000 Depression-themed movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and called the group the Soggy Bottom Boys, inspired in no small part by the name of Flatt & Scruggs' band, the Foggy Mountain Boys.
Earl Eugene Scruggs was born Jan. 6, 1924, in Flint Hill, N.C. His father, George, a farmer and amateur banjo player, died when Scruggs was 4, the same year the young Earl took to the instrument, as his four siblings had.
He developed his three-finger style on the five-string banjo by listening to players in the region including Don Reno and Snuffy Jenkins. The approach emphasized clean, fleet picking and syncopated rhythms in contrast to the "claw hammer" or "drop-thumb" styles that had preceded him.
While working as a teenager at a textile mill in Shelby, N.C., he would often play during breaks with a guitarist co-worker. "That's when I finally realized that what I was doing was of interest to other people," Scruggs once told the Nashville Tennessean. "They'd stand around and watch us pick. One of them hadn't heard nothing like that before and he took his hat off, threw it on the ground and said, 'Hot damn!' … That's hard on a hat."
Throughout his life, Scruggs showed as little regard for stylistic boundaries as he did for the strictures of the banjo playing styles that were most prevalent when he was learning to play.
Beginning in the 1960s, when the country music establishment eyed rock musicians with suspicion or derision, Scruggs exhibited his egalitarian spirit playing with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, the Byrds, R&B; sax great King Curtis, Elton John, the Eagles' Don Henley, John Fogerty and numerous other rock and pop world figures through the decades.
In the late '60s Flatt & Scruggs appeared at such non-traditional settings as the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco and the Miami Pop Festival at the height of the psychedelic era.
The duo disbanded in 1969. Scruggs then lined up his sons Gary and Randy and started the Earl Scruggs Revue, to which he later added his third son, Steve, and performed around the country and internationally. Flatt died in 1979.
While having hip surgery in 1996, Scruggs suffered a near-fatal heart attack, Louise Scruggs wrote. But upon recuperating, she said, "his health and physical well-being not only began to take flight, it soared. His love for playing and supercharged energy to his performing ability on the banjo became a miracle."
He remained active into his 80s, appearing at the 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio. Festival creator Paul Tollett made Scruggs a notable exception to his policy of not repeating acts from one year to the next.
Flatt & Scruggs were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985.
Scruggs is survived by sons Gary and Randy. Louise Scruggs died in 2006, and Steve Scruggs committed suicide in 1992 after killing his wife.


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This article is a travel topic
If you're traveling for pleasure, Internet access may be the last thing on your mind. You may even be glad to be free of it for a while. But it can be convenient way to keep in contact with the folks back home (without worrying about time zones or making appointments to talk by phone), it can be essential for business travelers, and there's no doubting the value of accessing Wikitravel.org for information wherever you are in the world.
Internet users have a wide variety of expectations and expertise regarding the internet. For some, a simple web browser and advice for where to find one is sufficient; for others, their needs may be more esoteric and technical, and they may be willing and able to jump through elaborate hoops to accomplish them. So in places this article will be simplistic to some, and technobabble to others. Sorry.
Access types
Public access computers
The simplest form of access for the broadest range of users are computers made available to the public, usually for a fee or included as a "free" service for patrons of a hotel, restaurant, or cafe. These are spreading quickly to even the most remote regions of the world, often driven by local demand for access to the Internet. In fact, they are often most common in areas where private, individual access to the Internet is least common. However, there can be difficulties:
If you've brought your laptop with you, you may be able to use the phone socket in a hotel room to connect to the Internet using standard dial-up technology. Some hotels use their own private digital phone switches, which will not work with analog modems. The phones may be hard-wired, or the sockets impossible to get at. (In olden days hackers would get around this using acoustic couplers, but this probably doesn't happen much anymore.) It can be very expensive to use modems on hotel phone lines, especially if it requires a long-distance or international call to access your ISP.
Many countries use nonstandard connectors for telephone lines, and you may need to buy an adapter between the jack on your laptop (the shape of which is called RJ-11) and the jack used where you are staying. Sometimes you can borrow the adapter used on the room telephone, and other times you must provide your own.
If you are staying in private accommodation with phone access, or having an extended stay, it may be possible to get an account with a local ISP. Dialup accounts can be very cheap at around US$10 per month or less. Pre-paid dialup is a good solution, as since you will not provide ongoing billing details there is definitely no risk of ongoing charges. Otherwise some flat-rate ISPs may be no contract, meaning you can cancel at any time; however you need to remember to cancel!
If you are traveling internationally, it is possible to set up a "global roaming" dialup account that has local access numbers in numerous countries. Depending on the location, there is often a choice between local numbers and country-wide toll-free numbers, the toll-free numbers costing more per hour in Internet fees. Before leaving, you will want to make sure the global roaming "dialer" software is loaded on to your computer, and that you can connect successfully from your home. Doing so will also ensure the most recent list of local access numbers gets downloaded onto your laptop.
One provider of international global roaming is http://www.ipass.com, based in Spain, which requires no contract but only offers service on a prepaid basis. A provider like this one has contracts with a network of local Internet service providers in each country, rather than operating a worldwide network itself. With any such provider, hourly rates vary by country and depend on whether you use a local or national access number. Before considering signing up for any type of global dialup roaming, ensure that the service provider offers service in the countries you intend to visit.
Many places do not support "touch tone" dialing. If after your modem dials, you continue to hear the dial tone (which could sound different where you are visiting) instead of getting a connection, change the settings on your computer to use "pulse" dialing.
Many North American computers don't recognize the dial tone in other countries, and will refuse to dial saying there is "no dial tone". If this is the case, you should be able to disable dial tone detection on your laptop.
Cellular phones
For GSM phones, the worldwide standard pretty much everywhere except Japan and South Korea, GPRS (packet data) roaming is becoming more and more common around the world. The successor to GSM, UMTS is also widely available. While GPRS offers basic modem speeds suitable for email and some browsing, UMTS offers speeds comparable to DSL broadband. As of 2007, the vast majority of phones is GPRS enabled, but using it may require activation with the provider. There are two basic ways of getting online with your phone:
Note that international GPRS/UMTS roaming can be ludicrously expensive, so check with your operator at home before you start downloading those multi-megabyte attachments.
In the USA and Canada, CDMA (the system used by Verizon and TELUS) is widespread, and arguably the most available service outside of metropolitan areas. CDMA phones can frequently be used as a computer modem with the purchase of an adapter cable, or increasingly they can provide Internet access to your laptop via their built-in Bluetooth. While not part of their basic cell phone service package, Verizon's "Quick 2 Connect" service provides 14.4 kbps Internet access at no additional charge to their customers using the phone and cable combination, and their BroadbandAccess and NationalAccess packages with additional laptop tethering add-on can be used to provide Internet access through many of their current phones.
Wired Ethernet
Businesses, universities, and perhaps private homes will provide standard RJ-45 Ethernet jacks which you can plug your computer into. With a dynamically-assigned IP address, you can be online in seconds. Internet cafes, libraries, etc. may not allow this kind of access, but it is increasingly common to provide it (sometimes even for an extra fee) given the growing popularity of laptops.
Wireless access is increasingly common, but often comes with strings (instead of wires) attached. They fall into five basic types:
Lists of wireless accesspoints
Accessing email
In many countries it is easier to use email to keep in touch with friends and family back home than it is to call home regularly. Email has advantages over phone calls: it doesn't require you to account for time zone differences before contacting your family, it doesn't cost any more to send e-mail around the world than down the street, and it's possible to contact a lot of people with a single email.
Webmail provides access to your email over a web interface. For most email users this is very convenient, as it means that they can check their email wherever they can get access to a web browser. Webmail interfaces are growing more sophisticated and suitable even for people managing high volumes of email (>50 messages per day).
An increasing number of email providers such as ISPs are setting up webmail interfaces for their users so that they can check their mail on the road. But many people choose to use one of the dedicated webmail providers, many of whom provide a free service. Recommended dedicated webmail providers are:
A very limited number of web access points will restrict access to sites known to host webmail. Examples include some universities and private businesses who wish to discourage users from checking their personal email during work hours. However, almost all Internet cafes and other access points aimed at the public will allow you to access your webmail: for many of their users, webmail is the reason they are there.
Shell accounts
A shell account allows you to login to a remote server's command line interface and use a text mail client (such as Pine or Mutt) which runs on the remote server. The advantage of a shell account, if you happen to have one, is that it is a alternative way to access email some your existing addresses that don't have webmail set up. If you have shell access you may not have to set up a special travelling webmail account and maintain two sets of inboxes. Another advantage is its usefulness with very slow Internet connections, an important feature when using a cell phone as a computer modem. It's uncommon for ISPs to provide shell access to your mail account, but if you buy web and/or email hosting through a dedicated provider, you are more likely to have shell access.
There are two normal ways to access a shell account:
Few Internet cafes will have port 22 blocked. Most use Microsoft Windows, so Putty is probably the easiest ssh client to use, assuming the computer's security will permit you to install it. Mac OS X workstations have the standard OpenSSH client available through the Terminal app. Depending on where you are, you may find the bandwidth horribly slow, making ssh almost unusable. Putty has an option to compress the connection, which may improve matters a little.
Circumventing Censorship
Content Filters
Some Internet cafes and Internet providers may restrict access to certain websites based on content. Common restricted content includes: sexual content, content unsuitable for children, commercial competitors and political content of certain types. The blocks can be wide-ranging, blocking for example, any site that includes the word "breast". They may also block access to certain types of traffic (for example, HTTP/web, POP or IMAP, SSH).
Political firewalls
Several countries (for example China) have a policy of blocking access to different areas of the internet at a country level. The description below is based on China's access policy, but applies to several other countries (namely Cuba, Myanmar, Syria, South Korea, North Korea, Iran, Thailand, Singapore, ...).
Typically the following sites may be blocked: human-rights NGOs' sites; opposition sites; universities; news outlets (BBC, CNN, etc); blogging / discussion forums; webmail; search engines; and proxy servers. Often they will duplicate the sites that have been blocked but (not so) subtly modify the content. Pages or URLs containing certain banned keywords may also be blocked.
Note that blocking may not be limited to stopping you from seeing certain pages: if you trespass on a blocked page in China, other sites may also be temporarily blocked for up to 30 minutes.
IP Geofiltering
An increasing number of services on the internet are restricted to IP address ranges corresponding to a certain country. If you try to access those services from outside that country, you will be blocked. Examples include video-on-demand (Movielink, BBC iplayer, Channel 4), web radio (Pandora), and News. Content providers want to make sure their service is only available to residents within its legislation, usually to avoid possible copyright breaches in other countries. IP geofiltering is a simple, if somewhat crude way of achieving this. For travellers this can be very frustrating, since the system discriminates based on where your computer is located, not on who you are and where you live. So even if you have legitimately signed up for a movie rental service in the US, you can no longer use it while you are spending a week in the UK.
Fortunately there are straigh-forward ways of getting around IP-geofiltering. Your best option is to re-route your internet traffic to an IP address in your country of origin. The service will then think that your computer is located there and allow access. One way of doing this is to sign up with a VPN provider. See below for details.
VoIP blocking
Certain internet providers and hotels around the world have started the practice of blocking all VoIP traffic from their networks. Though they usually justify this with esoteric explanations such as "to preserve network integrity", the real reason is normally much simpler: VoIP allows travellers to make free or very cheap phone calls over the internet, and the authority/company in question wants to force the user to make expensive phone calls over its plain old telephone land line. In the worst case, VoIP traffic can be blocked in a whole country (unsurprisingly this tends to happen in countries with a state telephone monopoly). Saudi Arabia is an example for this.
The best anti-VioIP-blocking measure currently available to an average traveller is a VPN provider (see below). Make sure that you choose a VPN provider with sufficient bandwitdh, otherwise your phone calls may suffer from poor quality/disconnects/delay.
Getting access
In general, if using someone else's connection you will need to be careful about evading their filters. Doing so will almost certainly end your contract to use it if you're discovered evading a firewall through a connection you're paying for, and might upset someone even if you aren't. In some areas evading firewalls may be a criminal offence; this even applies in some Western countries when evading content filters aimed at blocking pornographic content.
Proxy Servers
The most common (and straight-forward) way to avoid blocks on certain websites is to connect to a proxy server and have that proxy server connect to the blocked site for you. However, the organisations doing the blocking know this, and regularly block access to the proxy servers themselves. www.publicproxyservers.com is a list of public anonymous (or transparent) proxy servers, these can come and go quite rapidly however, and this list may not be up to date. If you are likely to need access to sites which are commonly blocked at your destination, it is most likely that you will be able to get access through an unadvertised proxy server you set up yourself or have a friend set up for you. There is a risk if you search for too many 'naughty' keywords (like 'counter revolution') you'll get the proxy taken down or blocked. Proxies that use the https protocol are immune to this however.
Some gateways (for example, that in China) are much more sophisticated than this: even when using a proxy server many sites are not accessible. One workaround is to use an ssh tunnel to connect to a proxy server outside the country via an ssh server, from a local port (eg 4321), then to connect to the proxy server like that.
If you're interested in seeing what might be blocked from inside the firewalls before you leave, it is sometimes possible to surf through a proxy server in the country you're going to be going to.
Personal VPN providers
Personal VPN (virtual private network) providers are an excellent way of circumventing both political censorship and commercial IP-geofiltering. They are superior to web proxies for several reasons: They re-route all internet traffic, not only http. They normally offer higher bandwidth and better quality of service. They are encrypted and thus harder to spy on. They are less likely to be blocked than proxy servers.
Most VPN providers work like this: You sign up with the provider who gives you an account name and password. Then you use a VPN program to logon to their server. This creates an encrypted tunnel that re-routes your internet traffic to that server. Prices range from €5-50 per month ($7-70), depending on bandwidth and quality.
Loging on to a VPN is very straight foward on Windows machines since they have a built-in VPN program. As long as you know your username, password, and server address, you are likely to able to use VPN from most internet cafes. Since VPN is encrypted, there is no way for the computer owner to filter the sites you are accessing. However, VPN offers no protection against snooping software installed on the internet cafe's machines, so it's always a better idea to use it from your own laptop.
VPNs are routinely used by millions of business travellers to connect securely to their office computers or to access company documents. Therefore they are tolerated in all but the most repressive dictatorships. It is unlikely that simply connecting to a VPN will attract attention in China for instance. Since VPN providers are niche companies, it is also unlikely that their IP addresses are blocked. Warning: In a small number of autocratic regimes (Cuba, Iran) the mere usage of VPN is illegal and can land you in prison, no matter what you use it for.
Here is a list of popular VPN providers
Tor is a worldwide network of encrypted, anonymizing web proxies. It is designed primarily for the purpose of making an internet user untraceable by the owner of the site he/she visits. However, it can also be used for circumventing filters and firewalls. Unlike other methods explained in this section, Tor automatically rotates the servers used to access the internet, making it harder to discover your identity. However, there are only around 1000 Tor servers in the world, and their IP addresses are public knowledge, making it easy for governments and organizations to block them. Even so, new Tor servers join the network all the time, and if you wait patiently, you may connect to one that isn't blocked yet.
Using Tor requires installation of software and usually also a plug-in for the browser.
SSH access
SSH (Secure Shell) is a good way of tunneling traffic other than http. However, you will normally need access to a server to use SSH. If not provided by your university, this can be expensive. An alternative is to enable your home PC for SSH access, but this will require a special internet connection (static IP) and some technial knowledge.


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5ct Diamond Veneer Asscher cut center w/halo settings set with zirconite half-moon sides sterling silver ring is a perfect ring for the charming lady who prefers exotic design – something different from the similar looking rings. The brilliant sheen and exceptional design of the Asscher cut ring will surely capture attention. The presence of premium-grade sterling silver platinum electroplate makes this zirconite ring elegantly in look and durable in construction. Men can also gift it to your lady on the anniversary and other special occasions. Wear it to complement both minimalistic and elaborate attires.
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Nihkiruks needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 108 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
VPS.ua is a new project being launched by hosting professionals on Ukrainian market to provide UA customers with affordable and reliable VPS (Virtual Private Servers) hosting solutions.
We're targeting geeks, early adopters and small business customers.
Logo has to include domain name (VPS.ua) and has to look professional and stylish. We like simplicity here. It may (or may not) include cloud icon 'coz we're planning to start offering cloud solution as well. Logo has to look good on both black and white background (inverted). We'd like to get both vector and raster images. Logo has to look good in small size (our current placeholder is 160x70 pixels, dark background) but you're not limited to horizontal only orientation.
No photos or stock images on logo.
Good luck!
Update: You may try to create a cloud using simplified map of Ukraine (google for it).
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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After several years of anticipation, the FDA has finally proposed a pair of guidelines for how drug and device makers should cope with some of the challenges and pitfalls posed by social media.
One of the so-called draft guidances offers instructions on how companies should attempt to correct product information on websites that are run by others, such as chat rooms. The otheraddresses how products – including risk and benefit information – can be discussed in venues such as Twitter, as well as paid search links on Google and Yahoo, all of which have limited space. This will involve using links to product web sites, for instances, that can be clicked.
"These are intended to have a beneficial impact on public health," Tom Abrams, who heads the FDA Office of Prescription Drug Promotion, tells us. "But these were not developed in a vacuum. They were developed with careful consideration and with input from industry and many other stakeholders. There was a lot of important consideration given to the issues."
For third-party websites, such as Wikipedia, the draft guidance suggests that companies should feel free to correct misinformation, but that any correction must include balanced information and the source of the revision or update must be noted, Abrams explains. This means a company or company employee or contractor should be credited with any additions.
"The information should not be promotional and should be factually correct. This is not an opportunity for a company to tout its drugs," he says. "The information [being added or revised] should be consistent with the FDA-approved [product] labeling and for it to be effective, you want it posted right by the misinformation."
The guidance also says that companies should contact writers, such as bloggers, to make changes when they learn of misinformation. Abrams notes companies will not be held responsible for those who do not make changes. If none of this is possible, he says companies should contact web site operators and suggest they delete the misinformation or open the site to comments so that corrections can be made.
The guidelines are being released nearly five years after the FDA held a well-attended public hearing to sift through Internet issues confronting drug and device makers. But the guidelines never materialized, despite repeated signals they may be forthcoming. Now, FDA officials must act before a July deadline set by a 2012 law requiring them to release guidance on product promotion on the Internet.
In the interim, the lack of guidance has vexed companies. Some have cautiously embraced social media, but others have largely shied away over concerns the FDA may scold them for violating promotional rules. In fact, among the 50 largest drug makers, half are still not using social media to engage consumers or patients, according to a recent survey by IMS Institute for Health Informatics.
"Since that 2009 meeting, there has only been partial insight," says Mark Senak, a senior vice president and partner at the FleishmanHillard public relations firm that works closely with drug makers, and who also writes a blog called Eye On FDA. "And we've needed clarity because pharma is unsure of the parameters. People need to know the guideposts."
For instance, some drug makers have instructed their employees not to communicate on third-party web sites, where opinions are frequently offered and information is swapped. The reasoning is fairly simple – there is concern that any interaction or changes introduced could later prompt the FDA to accuse the company of inappropriately promoting a product.
The guidances, however, are unlikely to be the last word. For one, the FDA will allow for a comment period in which still more input can be gathered before finalized versions are released. Moreover, FDA officials will use the guidances as trial-and-error blueprints themselves as they run across questions that were not answered or situations that may not have been anticipated.
"For the FDA," says Senak, "it's a process, not an event."
Source : http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2014/06/17/tweet-this-fda-finally-proposes-social-media-guidelines/


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When I read about Kailani's Island Life it's like a Calgon moment for me--suddenly I'm whisked away to a world that is much more exciting, more glamorous than my own and I'm relaxing on a sun-soaked beach with the waves nibbling at my toes . . .
Oh where was I?
The guest judge for this month's Write-Away Contest, Kailani lives with her husband and two darling daughters in Hawaii, of course that's only when she's not zipping around the country as a flight attendant to exciting destinations or hanging out with family on the world-famous beaches of Maui. She's like the James Bond of the mombloggers--only with an Aston Martin minivan--she's even seen the Cheetah Girls.
Married for eight years to a man who also happens to be a flight attendant for the same airlines (though that's not how they met, for the whole story you'll have to go here) Kailani has great reviews, contests and stories of life in paradise which she somehow manages to post while she's jetting from place to place. No I'm not jealous at all.
When I asked her about how she got started blogging I had to give her points for the most unusual answer, it wasn't to keep in touch with family or to further her writing career, basically she was trying to get free stuff (aren't we all?) To quote her directly:
I initially started blogging to get a free download of a Palm Treo Smartphone application. All I had to do was write a review post and I could keep the software. I didn't even know what a blog was! A fellow Treo user I had met in a forum helped me set everything up and I wrote the review thinking that would be as far as the blog would go. Boy, was I wrong! Blogging has become part of my every day life.So I guess what I'm hearing is that before she actually had a blog she had people approaching her to review products so she decided she ought to start figuring out what a blog is. Nice work if you can get it, right?
Her blog has grown wonderfully, even with a major setback about a year ago when a nasty security issue arose that forced her to abandon her original blog and start fresh with An Island Life (apparently mystery and intrigue follow her everywhere). I asked her how this episode affected her and if she has any advice for beginning bloggers as a result.
"It was a scary experience and a real eye opener. At first, I decided that I wouldn't post any more photos of my family, however, it's hard not to when it's a blog about my family. I would advise new bloggers not to get too specific about what your family does on a daily basis. For example, don't mention that your kids go to swim class every Friday and post a photo of the pool they swim at. Anyone familiar with your area could easily track you down."But as for other blogging issues she also had this to say:
"If you have a question, don't be afraid to ask. A majority of bloggers are more than willing to help out. I know I am! I can still remember when I first started blogging, I didn't even know how to insert a link! We all have to learn somewhere. Also, don't be afraid to leave a comment even if you're a new visitor to that blog. Most times, the owner will repay the favor. And who knows, you could end up being blogging buddies!"After reading An Island Life and enjoying Kailani's writing I'm glad I've got a chance to know her and to count her as one of my "blogging buddies."
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Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) is one of the nation's largest and most respected health care management companies, operating through its subsidiaries acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers nationwide. Founded in 1978, UHS subsidiaries now have more than 65,000 employees. The UHS business strategy is to build or purchase health care properties in rapidly growing markets and create a strong franchise based on exceptional service and effective cost control. Our success comes from a responsive management style and a service philosophy based on integrity, competence and compassion
Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System (SBHS) is a 178-bed acute care facility located in Streamwood,IL and has been providing mental health treatment to the Chicagoland community and the state of Illinois since 1991. We are dedicated to offering services to meet the ever-changing emotional and behavioral healthcare needs of children, adolescents, and their families.
SBHS has a Behavior Health Technician position available. The candidate selected will be responsible for the following:The Behavioral Health Technician is a member of the interdisciplinary team who assists in total consumer care through implementation of appropriate therapeutic approaches within the therapeutic environment.
An engaging three-day event you won't want to miss.


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When The Goldfields Australian Open begins on July 8, the name on everybody's lips has got to be current World Number one Neil Robertson.
The Wuxi Classic champion will be in his home town and is arguably in the form of his career as he hopes to bring home his second title of the season and third of the year after his China Open victory.
John Higgins and Neil Robertson have met twice in the first three tournaments of the 2013/14 season, Higgins came out on to in Bulgaria, sporting his new cue, whilst Robertson came out on top last week.
Other Players to look out for are World Number two Mark Selby, he was dismissed in qualifying in Wuxi and was narrowly beaten in the Yixing Asian tour final, and the former world number one will want to get some points on the board for the new season.
Players to look out for are Dechawat Poomjaeng, Joe Perry, Barry Hawkins, Marco Fu, Ding Junhui (who will be returning from the Asian indoor games the day before) and Robert Milkins. All have been in good form in the opening tournaments of this season and will be looking for their first title of the season.
The tournament runs from July 6 until July 18 with the final taking place on the last Sunday and being the best of 17 frames.
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Josephine Elizabeth Caley died at the Lake District Hospital in Lakeview, Ore., on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, at the age of 99.
Josephine Elizabeth Caley died at the Lake District Hospital in Lakeview, Ore., on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, at the age of 99.
Josephine was born to Manuel and Grace (Givan) Mello in Fort Jones on the family cattle ranch on Dec. 8, 1914. She grew up in Fort Jones, where she graduated from high school in 1932.
She lived in Mount Shasta until enlisting into the U. S. Marine Corps and served honorably from May 1944 until April 1946. She was very proud of her service and has her name listed on the Women's Service Wall in Washington, D.C., and also in the Living Memorial Sculpture Garden.
Jo and Arthur Ferl were married in Redding in 1949, with this marriage ending in a divorce. Then in 1976, she married Robert D. Caley. Jo worked for the U. S. Forest Service on the Klamath National Forest in Yreka from 1955 to 1975 with two years of that time spent in Ketchikan, Alaska. She moved to Lakeview in 1998.
She was a very talented artist. She thoroughly enjoyed gardening, was a member of the Lakeview Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was a licensed Ham radio operator.
Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Steven and Katheren Ferl of Lakeview; stepson and wife, Bob and Julie Caley of Redding; stepdaughter and husband, Bonnie and Jim Atkinson of Mount Shasta; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Robert Caley; sisters, Mary Lawrence, Agnes Nunes and Ann Self; and brothers, Carl Mello and Silveria Mello.
A recitation of the Holy Rosary will be at the Desert Rose Funeral Chapel on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2014, at 7 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Fort Jones on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014 at 11 a.m. with committal in the Fort Jones Cemetery with military honors.
Contributions in Josephine's memory may be made to the Lake County Museum Endowment Fund, 118 S E St., Lakeview, OR 97630 or to a charity of the donor's choice. Desert Rose Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.


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Evaluating pediatric abdominal injuries." Stapp Car Crash Conference. 2004:479-494."
Evaluation of pediatric use patterns and performance of lap shoulder belt systems in the center rear." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2004;48:57-72."
Evaluation of Restraint Type and Performance Tested with 3- and 6-Year-Old Hybrid III Dummies at a Range of Speeds. 2004 ed. Detroit, Michigan; 2004.
An evaluation of the effectiveness of forward facing child restraint systems." Accid Anal Prev. 2004;36(4):585-9."
Factors associated with front row seating of children in motor vehicle crashes." Epidemiology. 2004;15(3):345-9."
Incidence and clinical significance of abdominal wall bruising in restrained children involved in motor vehicle crashes." J. Pediatr. Surg.. 2004;39(6):972-5."
Optimal driving conditions are the most common injury conditions for child pedestrians." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2004;20(9):569-73."
Optimal restraint reduces the risk of abdominal injury in children involved in motor vehicle crashes." Ann. Surg.. 2004;239(1):127-31."
Predicting child PTSD: the relationship between acute stress disorder and PTSD in injured children." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2004;43(4):403-11."
A randomized, clinical trial of a home safety intervention based in an emergency department setting." Pediatrics. 2004;113(6):1603-8."
Recent trends in child restraint practices in the United States." Pediatrics. 2004;113(5):e458-64."
Using participatory research to develop a playground-based prevention program." Journal of School Psychology . 2004;42(1):3-21."
Acute traumatic stress symptoms in child occupants and their parent drivers after crash involvement." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005;159(11):1074-9."
Adolescent decisional autonomy regarding participation in an emergency department youth violence interview." Am J Bioeth. 2005;5(5):70-4; discussion W14."
Effect of increased rear row occupancy on injury to seat belt restrained children in side impact crashes." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2005;49:229-43."
Effect of vehicle incompatibility on child occupant injury risk." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2005;49:279-92."
Effectiveness of high back and backless belt-positioning booster seats in side impact crashes." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2005;49:201-213."
Effects of seating position and appropriate restraint use on the risk of injury to children in motor vehicle crashes." Pediatrics. 2005;115(3):e305-9."
Exploring e-Health usage and interest among cancer information service users: the need for personalized interactions and multiple channels remains." J Health Commun. 2005;10 Suppl 1:35-52."
Field investigation of child restraints in side impact crashes." Traffic Inj Prev. 2005;6(4):351-60."
Gender differences in relations of mental rotation, verbal fluency, and SAT scores to finger length ratios as hormonal indexes." Dev Neuropsychol. 2005;28(1):493-505."
Heart rate and posttraumatic stress in injured children." Arch. Gen. Psychiatry. 2005;62(3):335-40."
Initial neurologic presentation in young children sustaining inflicted and unintentional fatal head injuries." Pediatrics. 2005;116(1):180-4."
Injury prevention: is the pediatric emergency department the appropriate place?" Pediatr Emerg Care. 2005;21(7):460-7."
Injury risk to restrained children exposed to deployed first- and second-generation air bags in frontal crashes." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005;159(4):342-6."


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===Course Resources===
===Course Resources===
The "R for Beginners" book: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Paradis-rdebuts_en.pdf
The "R for Beginners" book: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Paradis-rdebuts_en.pdf
===Class 1===
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R Overview
R Overview
Revision as of 17:00, 4 September 2008
This page is to serve as a resource for the UConn community (especially EEB) to encourage the use of R in data analysis. It is also the resource site for the EEB Short Course in R, entitled "Introduction to R."
The R project for Statistical Computing
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. To download R, please choose your preferred CRAN mirror (http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html).
UConn UseR Group
We also have a google group to facilitate discussions, questions, and anything else that comes to mind. Check it out at: http://groups.google.com/group/UConn-useRs or subscribe by sending an email to email@example.com
Short Course
In the September/October 2008, we'll be offering a short course in R to beginners. The course will be on Fridays from 2-3:30 in TLS 301 from September 5th through October 17th.
The results of the survey to pick a time and of student R-status are here .
Course Resources
The "R for Beginners" book: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Paradis-rdebuts_en.pdf
The R "Cheat Sheet" (a great resource to print out and keep near the computer) http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Short-refcard.pdf
Class 1
R Overview Importing/exporting Data Types Data Manipulation Read through the description here:
Class 2
The R Project homepage: http://www.r-project.org/
Resources to help you learn and use R: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/
Analysis of Ecological and Environmental Data: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Environmetrics.html


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I thought I'd share more about the rest of my Seattle trip.
The main reason for the trip was Cat Bordhi's Visionary Retreat on San Juan Island, which was inspiring to say the least. The location and company couldn't have been any better.
I met a couple of the other men going to the retreat and caught the ferry to San Juan Island.
I could go on that scenic ferry ride every day (lots of good knitting time)! Also, it was the perfect weather for my knits to get some practical use before summer.
We got to stay in cozy cabins while knitting all day and talking about everyone's project ideas. How exhausting, right?
I was thankful for the time to escape for the week amongst other knitters.
I also managed to finish some new design prototypes and snap new photos of the Boneyard Shawl and my new Herbivore.
The week on San Juan Island provided much needed clarity and support for this upcoming pattern collection and I'm excited to continue working on it and seeing the other visionaries' projects develop.
At the tail end of my trip I managed to visit and teach a class at Wild Fibers in Mount Vernon, WA
and spent some quality time with one of the only male knitters in Mount Vernon, Sam. He finally wasn't the only guy knitting in Sarah's shop!
I was lucky to pass by the tulip fields in full bloom near Mount Vernon too!
It was hard to leave the Pacific Northwest, but I'm hoping to go back in the future to see much more of the Seattle area.
Friday, April 30, 2010
3 comments:
- Pinky said...
I'm glad you enjoyed your time in our lovely state. Please do come back! I missed the opportunity to meet you and now hope to keep updated with your blog.
- April 30, 2010 at 10:29 PM
We would love to have you come to the Portland area and bring all of your lovely hand knits and new patterns for us to see. Maybe come to the next Sock Summit in 2011 and teach there.
- May 22, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- norabrown said...
I love the scarf you are wearing in picture #2. Can you please tell me which of your patterns it is and what yarn/colors? I'd love to make this for my oldest son.
- June 19, 2010 at 10:28 AM
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Whilst the nation profusely bleeds and people keep dying daily, the Holy Catholic Church in Juba seems to be in some spiritual and moral confusion by inexcusably perpetuating its insensitive policy of allowing the two habitual 'sinners' in the forms of president Kiir and his vice Wani Igga to continuously desecrate the Holy Catholic Church.
Every Sunday and on other holy occasions of the Catholic faith, since 2005 when they came to town, Kiir and Igga have been accorded the un-sanctified privilege to spew from the Holy pulpit what can only be classified as mendacious and un-Christian statements without any shame or compunction.
But more importantly, however, since the start of their war of genocide on December 15, 2013 when they embarked on the killing of innocent citizens which continues up to this moment, Kiir and Igga have obviously been accorded absolute impunity by our Kator Bishops to keep committing the sin of lying against the 8th Commandment, which clearly states: "THY SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR."
Every Catholic and Christian, for that matter, has been taught since childhood by our priests and bishops that this particular Commandment absolutely forbids a Catholic or any Christian from 'telling lies' which is an abomination against the Lord and one's own Christian faith.
Furthermore, the Eighth commandment forbids misrepresenting the truth in our relationship with others, doing otherwise means refusal by an individual to commit oneself to moral uprightness.
The opposite, sad to say, is what the poor parishioners are exposed to every Sunday from these two leaders' regime of duplicity, dissimulation and hypocrisy.
Unfortunately, every Holy Sunday, right from the sacred pulpits of Kator's St. Theresa Catholic Cathedral and at St. Joseph Catholic Parish Church, either President Kiir or his vice, Igga, has been needlessly accorded the privilege to annoyingly regurgitate lies upon lies that are then widely beamed across the world via SSTV.
Personally, as a Catholic from the cradle, baptized in that Church in Juba, and amongst the first generations of Catholic children educated at Kator Catholic parish, our Italian priest in the late 50's steadfastly ensured that we never 'lied' or stole even a peanut at home (then our poor parents never had any money around).
In Psalms 120:2, it's says, "Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue." Unfortunately, our two heroically popular bishops in Juba seemingly are failing to deliver and save the poor souls of those devout Church goers being lied to and deceived by Kiir and Igga every Sunday, Christmas and Easter in perpetuity.
Moreover, never in the world, not even at the Holy See at St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome, has any Pope ever allowed crimes-tainted, genocide perpetrators or morally questionable Catholic and non-Christian presidents, politicians or even princes, ever step into that most Holy pulpit to commit a sin against the Eighth or any Commandments.
The problem, my most dear Bishops, is that, sincerely speaking and after hearing the speeches of those of Kiir and Igga for years, these two are the poorest motivational speakers one can ever think of.
Seriously, there is nothing ever that is inspirational or spiritual in those church speeches ever delivered by either Kiir or Igga, a sincere assessment is that all their tirades at that holy pulpit are very despairing, annoying, irritating and in most cases belligerent.
Whilst most Juba kids who attend these speeches describe Kiir as mundane, boring, confused and rumbling a lot of gibberish not completely understood, a chronically pathological liar who on many occasions promised 'heaven on earth,' but only to break his promises and instead brought terror and death, a true Lucifer!
On the other hand, Igga is a national disappointment whose comical and clownish theatrics especially in the church are utterly incongruous, deprecating and embarrassing but above all, boring; even children in the audience only sneeringly laugh just to please him. What a disgrace!
The point, my dear bishops, is that you and the Holy Catholic Church cannot continue being oblivious of the underlying sensitivities and emotions of your devoted church goers, who, let's be frank here, sacrifice so much just to go to church every Sunday so as to have their down-cast spirits uplifted in the uncertain future looming and the difficulties they confront daily in the country.
Every Sunday, both Kiir and Igga un-repentantly stand before the faithful promising to do so much but deliver nothing, while the people especially your devoted church-goers are starkly faced with harassment, insecurity, hunger and anxiety whether they and their families will wake up alive the next morning.
In all fairness to both your holiness, Archbishop Paulino Lukudu Loro and Bishop Santo, and with my utmost personal respect as an unwavering Catholic faithful, I wish to reiterate my utmost commendation of the great roles you played in saving the lives and souls of Juba Southern citizens during the long war.
Undoubtedly, as individuals and men of God, your Holiness have been exemplary and well-respected personalities across the country and history most certainly will laudably vindicate the great roles and sacrifices you both made in the country's evolution to total independence.
But, however, in the nation's current predicament, whereby the SPLM leadership of Kiir and Igga is allowing innocent lives to be needlessly eviscerated, where everyday living has become a life-or-death struggle, South Sudanese are certainly looking at you, my holy bishops, for salvation and divine intervention.
Surely, the Catholic Church is fully cognizant of the lies, the immorality and deviousness of the Kiir-Igga regime as visibly exemplified by the stubborn refusal and callous intransigence to concede to popular national and international appeal that they step aside and allow a transitional government be formed as resolution to the political and military stalemate.
On that fateful Sunday December 15th, 2013, before Kiir-Igga conspiratorially embarked on the genocide against fellow citizens, it must be recalled that His Grace, Archbishop Paulino Lukudu himself was at president Kiir's side during the SPLM Convention, praying for reconciliation with him at the church and at Nyakuron.
But, what happened that very shameful night? Kiir and Igga, as pathological liars, whilst publicly assuring your Holiness Archbishop Paulino Lukudu and other bishops of their willingness to peacefully and consensually resolve the internal contradictions within the mis-ruling SPLM and mis-governing GOSS and follow the rule of law, they instead unleashed their killer tribal SPLA and thousands were instantly butchered that very night.
Kiir, obviously, was totally subsumed with tribal hatred of a particular people in Juba and that can't be tolerated from a leader pretending to be a pious Catholic for that fact, a man freely accorded a privilege he never dreamt about, that of weekly addressing the faithful at St. Theresa Catholic Cathedral, Kator.
Critically, in the aftermath of the murderous SPLA campaign, the Catholic Church at Kator became a refugee camp for the victims of Kiir-Igga's terror and once again, Archbishop Lukudu and Bishop Santo, you exhibited your true Catholic virtues in saving and placating those poor souls now refugees once again inside their own supposedly independent country.
Psalms 31:18, reads, "Let the lying lips be put to silence." That, my dear Bishops, is what is now required from you, as representatives of God on the land known as South Sudan nation to speedily withdraw those 'lying lips' and terminate the misplaced privilege accorded these two presumed power-hungry leeches the use of the holy pulpit.
This is the gist of this article from a Catholic who considers himself a life-parishioner of Kator, that your holiness MUST stop those lying lips of Kiir and Igga misusing the church for their empty and irritating rhetoric, aka, lies.
Furthermore, Your Holiness, your close association with the Kiir-Igga leadership can be rightly or wrongly presumed that you have become inadvertently involved in the realm of the dirty politics of the nation by supporting and abetting this regime, and as such, must be prepared to expect some criticism.
Of direct relevance, your Holiness can't replicate the moral ineptitude of Pope Pius XII who despite colluding with the Hilter's Nazis in Germany in 1939, kept his silence while the Nazi persecuted even those Jews who had converted to Christianity.
In the face of the looting, failed leadership and killings across the country and especially in Juba today where fathers and mothers are shamefully forced to doing their toilet in bottles and cans in the bedroom at night in the presence of their children during the rampant insecurity, the Catholic Church cannot remain oblivious, or at worst, complicit in this criminality.
Whilst common people are barely scratching a living, Kiir and Igga are ostentatiously riding to Kator in expensive fleets of Mercedes limousines, their wives and children living in East Africa like princes and princesses driving nothing less than a Hummer or Porche car.
Destitution is rampant, thanks to failed government of Kiir-Igga, that generations of South Sudanese children are now inevitably condemned to life of misery in perpetuity.
If Jesus Christ ever came to Juba, certainly he would do us and the South Sudan nation the honor of driving these inept, corrupt and sinful leaders from Kator and St. Joseph, just as the Lord drove those exploitative tax-men from the 'house of His Father.'
Rightly, as reportedly circulated, one of your Catholic priests one Sunday years ago declared how some of these leaders came to Church on Sundays directly from their concubines' beds unashamedly 'uncleansed' and dare to stand up to lecture to the Sunday faithful about 'morality?….. that was deservedly a bitter statement that sent Kiir into self-imposed exile from Kator for nearly one year.
Finally, quoting again from the Holy Bible, Proverbs 12:22, "Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight."
How can the Holy Catholic Church, your lordships, Lukudu and Santo, be a mouthpiece and platform of a regime bent on perpetuation of terror and disaster on your very parishioners?
Silently and unquestionably, the majority of those parishioners are quietly begging your Lordships, Lukudu and Santo, that your continuous propping of these two on the holy pulpits is a painful and unforgivable reminder of their aggravated agonies.
One thing is sure, my most holy bishops, is that these opportunistic and unpopular duo, Kiir and Igga have found a free avenue and are expeditiously exploiting it for their deadwood speeches.
I bet both your Holiness, that in reverse, if Kiir and Igga were the Bishops instead in your places, nobody would ever voluntarily enter their churches. Take my word!
Seriously, your Holiness, our Bishops, the question is, are these two, Kiir and Igga, really morally sanctified and exemplary, or even motivational and inspirational, to be accorded these holy pulpits to vomit their lies every Sunday, and the next, and the next….?
In conclusion, the Holy Scripture tells us in Proverbs 13:5, that "A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame."
Don't we all hate lying and lies, especially coming from so-called leaders?
I beg for Your Forgiveness and blessing. Amen


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AP Source: Duncan back for Spurs in 2014-15
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A person with knowledge of the decision tells The Associated Press that Tim Duncan is exercising the option on his contract for 2014-15 and will return to play for the San Antonio Spurs next season.
Duncan turned 38 in April and won his fifth championship with the Spurs in June. That led to some speculation that he could retire after 17 seasons in the league.
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text: Deltaic Lake Sediments as Recorders of Past Carbon Export from Arctic River Drainage Basins SHARE THIS: Arctic Research Initiative 2008 Funded ProjectAbstract Northern watersheds store vast amounts of organic carbon (OC) for millennia, much of which is held within permafrost soils. However, increasing temperatures in the Arctic appear to be destabilizing these soils, potentially leading to abrupt carbon release from this major reservoir. A significant fraction of OC mobilized from permafrost may enter arctic rivers, resulting in increased fluxes to the Arctic Ocean, with implications for the global carbon cycle, as well as for Arctic ecosystems. In order to assess whether the flux and composition of fluvial OC is changing as a result of warming, we need to establish a historical context for river hydrology and carbon export from Arctic rivers. Lakes developed in Arctic river deltas receive fluvial sediment and particulate OC (POC) from flooding during the spring freshet, and the underlying sediments hold promise as excellent archives of past drainage basin dynamics. Preliminary sedimentological and stratigraphic analysis of a core collected from the Mackenzie Delta in April 2007 indicate that deltaic lake sediments contain exquisite, annually resolved records of past changes in fluvial supply. We propose to undertake new fieldwork and laboratory measurements through the Arctic Research Initiative in order to: (i) build a more complete picture of the deltaic sedimentation in the Mackenzie system to provide a better understanding of its hydrological history; (ii) perform detailed down-core geochemical analyses to assess whether the flux and age of POC discharged by Arctic rivers has increased from the pre-industrial era to the present day, and whether any variations over the past few decades exceed natural variability observed during intervals predating anthropogenic perturbation (e.g., the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age). The results stemming from this project will serve as a benchmark for assessing potential future changes in OC export as a consequence of accelerated warming of the Arctic.


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fish is a user friendly commandline shell intended mostly for interactive use.
Installation instructions
To install the package for fish using pacman (the package is in the community repository) run:
# pacman -S fish
To verify that it has been installed you can run:
$ less /etc/shells
If you wanted to make fish your default shell run:
$ chsh -s /usr/bin/fish
Pacman and fish
Context-aware completions for pacman and makepkg are built into fish, since the policy of the fish development is to include all the existent completions in the upstream tarball. The memory management is clever enough to avoid any negative impact on resources.
In arch, there are a lot of shell scripts written for bash, and these have not been translated to fish. It is advisable not to set fish as your default shell because of this. The best option is to open your terminal emulator (gnome-terminal, konsole, sakura, etc...) with a command line option that executes fish. For most terminals this is the -e switch, so for example, to open gnome-terminal using fish, change your shortcut to use:
gnome-terminal -e fish
With LilyTerm and other light terminal emulators that don't support setting the shell it would look like this:
SHELL=/usr/bin/fish lilyterm
Another option is to set fish as the default shell for the terminal in the terminal's configuration or for a terminal profile if your terminal emulator has a profiles feature. This is contrast to changing the default shell for the user which would cause the above mentioned problem.
To set fish as the shell started in tmux, put this into your .tmux.conf:
set-option -g default-shell "/usr/bin/fish"
Not setting fish as system wide default allows the arch scripts to run on startup, ensure the environment variables are set correctly, and generally reduces the issues associated with using a non-bash compatible terminal like fish.
If you decide to set fish as your default shell, you may find that you no longer have very much in your path. You can add a section to your ~/.config/fish/config.fish file that will set your path correctly on login. This is much like .profile or .bash_profile as it is only executed for login shells.
if status --is-login set PATH $PATH /usr/bin /sbin end
Note that you will need to manually add various other environment variables, such as $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH. It is a huge amount of work to get a seamless experience with fish as your default shell.
Configuration Suggestions
If you would like fish to display the branch and dirty status when you are in a git directory, you can add the following to your ~/.config/fish/config.fish:
set fish_git_dirty_color red function parse_git_dirty git diff --quiet HEAD ^&- if test $status = 1 echo (set_color $fish_git_dirty_color)"Δ"(set_color normal) end end function parse_git_branch # git branch outputs lines, the current branch is prefixed with a * set -l branch (git branch --color ^&- | awk '/*/ {print $2}') echo $branch (parse_git_dirty) end function fish_prompt if test -z (git branch --quiet 2>| awk '/fatal:/ {print "no git"}') printf '%s@%s %s%s%s (%s) $ ' (whoami) (hostname|cut -d . -f 1) (set_color $fish_color_cwd) (prompt_pwd) (set_color normal) (parse_git_branch) else printf '%s@%s %s%s%s $ ' (whoami) (hostname|cut -d . -f 1) (set_color $fish_color_cwd) (prompt_pwd) (set_color normal) end end
If su starts with bash (because bash is the default shell), define a function in fish:
~> funced su su> function su /bin/su --shell=/usr/bin/fish $argv end ~> funcsave su
Current state of fish development
The original developer, Axel Liljencrantz has abandoned the project. The rest of his team slowly took over and transferred the codebase to gitorius.
So far several bug fixes are available from the git repository. Also, there is an AUR package for the git master branch, which is considered stable for everyday use: fish-gitAUR.
On May 30, 2012 ridiculous_fish has announced a new fork of fish which has been adopted as mainstream later, and development is now relocated to github. The AUR package fish-shell-gitAUR follows the head branch of that, while the fish package in the [community] repository provides latest stable milestones as announced on the webpage.
Upstream git head already contains full completions for archlinux-specific commands like pacman, pacman-key, makepkg, cower, pbget, pacmatic.
Fish Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Axel Liljencrantz.
Fish is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
Fish contains code under the BSD license, namely versions of the two functions strlcat and strlcpy, modified for use with wide character strings. This code is copyrighted by Todd C. Miller.
The XSel command, written and copyrighted by Conrad Parker, is distributed together with, and used by fish. It is released under the MIT license.
The xdgmime library, written and copyrighted by Red Hat, Inc, is used by the mimedb command, which is a part of fish. It is released under the LGPL.
Fish contains code from the glibc library, namely the wcstok function. This code is licensed under the LGPL.


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Credit: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=21609Universal Pictures has set Jim Carrey to star in Sober Buddies, a comedy Carrey will produce with Stuber/Parent's Scott Stuber and Mary Parent and Michael Peyser, says Variety.
Andrew Kurtzman is writing the script, about a hard-partying software executive assigned a court-appointed Sober Buddy to keep him under control during a critical business trip to Las Vegas.
A perfect plan falls apart when the Sober Buddy (Carrey) falls off the wagon.
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Siats meekororum
First up is Siats meekororum, from the Late Cretaceous [1]. It lived 98 million years ago, which makes it the youngest (geologically) known allosauroid (like Allosaurus) from North America. It's also the first time a dinosaur from the theropod group known as the neovenatorids has ever been found on this continent. Siats was a top predator, living long before tyrannosaurs, and may have been as much as 12m long. It is known from a single incomplete individual, that was skeletally immature, and about 9m long, suggesting a fully grown individual would have been longer. Siats helps to fill a 25 million year gap between larger North American predators like Acrocanthrosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, and palaeontologists were trying to understand why no large predator fossils had been found in between. They also found evidence of small bodied tyrannosauroids living alongside Siats, the first time these two groups have been found living together. We now know that there were large predatory theropods throughout the Cretaceous, and the presence of these other large predators likely prevented early success of they tyrannosaurs until after these allosauroids had disappeared. This was an important find by extending the evolutionary range of allosauroids, furthering our understanding of tyrannosaur evolution, and revealing a new coexistence between two groups of predators.
For a picture and another post on Siats, see Brian Switek's post here.
Lythronax argestes
The second big theropod news of November was Lythronax argestes, meaning 'southern king of gore' [2]. Lythronax is the oldest known tyrannosaurid known from a single adult individual with a partial skull and bits and pieces of the rest of the body. It would have been about 8m in length, and lived during the Late Cretaceous, about 80 million years ago. As there is a partial skull known, we know a bit about it's behaviour. Lythronax had a similar skull shape to Tyrannosaurus, with a short and narrow snout, wide back of skull, and forward-facing eyes allowing for depth perception, which is generally considered to be a characteristic of predators. This skull shape was thought to be a derived characteristic, but this find pushes the appearance of this skull shape back by several million years. It had large serrated teeth that were used for slicing through flesh, but also capable of crushing bones with its well built skull and jaw. Currently, Lythronax represents the largest predator from the ecosystem it lived in, which was cut off from the rest of North America from the Western Interior Seaway. This find has changed some of our understanding of tyrannosaur evolution as it has features that were not previously found so early, which has changed how we thought certain tyrannosaurs were related. Lythronax will be a very important find in the understanding of tyrannosaur evolution.
For more details, check out Dave Hone's blog post in The Guardian about Lythronax, or download the paper itself, which is free and open access!
|Pictures and skull reconstruction of Lythronax argestes from Loewen et al [2]
1. Zanno and Makovicky. 2013. Neovenatorid theropods are apex predators in the Late Cretaceous of North America. Nature Communications 4.
2. Loewen et al. 2013. Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans. PLoS ONE 8: e79420. --> Freely downloadable here doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079420


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GENEVA – Members of the Kane County Board Finance and Budget Committee hesitated to spend $67,500 on drawing up architectural designs for a shooting range before vetting more financial details.
Kane County Sheriff Pat Perez is seeking to build a shooting range after floods at their existing shooting range on Fabyan Parkway in Geneva left the site contaminated with mold and lead, and therefore unusable. The committee decided Wednesday to let the Administration Committee review the proposal. The Finance and Budget Committee plans to revisit the matter next month.
Perez stressed the need to have access to a firing range to keep the more than 200 sheriff's employees certified to carry their weapons.
"We're the third-largest law enforcement agency in Kane County," he said. "It's appalling to me that we're rehashing this over and over. ... If they don't have certifications, they can't carry their firearms."
The shooting range would be built onto the existing sheriff's office building on the east wall adjacent to the building's sally port. It would not be accessible to the public, Perez said.
Perez said there was potential for partnering with a private business, but said that project isn't moving fast enough. He said his staff has only seven months to complete training for certification next year.
He said deputies could train at a facility in Aurora, but it would cost $5,000 and would allow deputies to use the facility only eight hours a day, twice a month.
He said that move would come with an estimated $40,000 in overtime costs because deputies would have to travel and train while not on duty.
He said if the Kane County Sheriff's Office had its own facility, there might be an opportunity to partner with other police agencies that could use it, as well, possibly recovering some expenses.
Committee member Cristina Castro said regional partnerships could help the sheriff's office build a small capital budget. She supported spending the $67,500 to draw up a preliminary design.
"I think we need to take this step forward. You don't know the real numbers until the conceptual parts are done," she said. "Let us see what it's going to be, then come back and identify funding sources."
Perez said the sheriff's office received about $200,000 for housing U.S. Marshals Service inmates for one month, which is a potential funding source for the building. He also noted that the project is eligible to receive a $100,000 grant from the state, but that funding can only be used if the entire project goes forward and couldn't be applied solely to the $67,500 for architecture specs.
Committee member Rebecca Gillam said she wished she had some of that information earlier in the discussion. She said spending the $67,500 is a commitment to build.
"You don't spend $70,000 and say, oh yeah, we don't want to do this," she said. "But I'm not against it if this is our best solution."


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Ron Brownstein may be the best in the business at reading polls, and here he explains a conundrum that has puzzled a fair number of political observers: why the President seems to be doing so much better in swing states than among the general population. The answer is pretty simple: because most of the spending and targeting and stumping is taking place in swing states, and the Obama campaign is simply doing a better job of it than Romney has. Specifically, Obama has targeted white working-class women–the so-called "waitress moms"–who are particularly sensitive to Romney's 47% gaffe; and he's running ads on the daytime programs that they watch–like Judge Judy and Doctor Phil.
Today's polls have the race tightening in several states, and that's bound to happen between now and November 6; Obama's margins in places like Ohio, Virginia and Florida have been stupendous, historic–and probably unsustainable. But he walks into the debate tonight with the upper hand in large part because he has been running the more subtle and sophisticated campaign.


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It may seem like "Twilight" is coming to a close -- what with thousands of fans descending upon Los Angeles Monday night for the premiere of the final film.
But the journey isn't yet over for the stars of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2," who will jet to Europe this evening after attending the film's Hollywood premiere.
"Knowing we have to go to London tonight and then to Madrid is so annoying," said Robert Pattinson, decked out in a green Gucci suit.
Kristen Stewart seemed more taken with the present moment. Asked how it felt to know the vampire franchise was finally coming to a close, she could only muster the word "surreal."
"I know the most go-to answer for everyone on these carpets is 'Oh my gosh, this is so surreal,'" she said, affecting a valley girl voice. "But to be honest with you, this time is so completely surreal. I'm trying to absorb it. I'm trying to be here."
Taylor Lautner, meanwhile, recalled walking his first red carpet for the original film in 2008, during which he said he was "freaking out."
"I was so excited I remember just diving into the fans," he said, flanked by security guards who didn't look pleased at the thought of the actor crowdsurfing.
"They might freak out a little, but you gotta do it sometimes," he said, eyeing his bodyguard with a smile.
His co-star Maggie Grace, who plays Irina in the film, said she understands the devotion Twi-hards feel toward the franchise because she felt that way about Jane Austen in high school. Yes, the 19th century British author.
"If there was an Austen-ite community, I would have been a big part of it," she said, noting that she used to own a "muslin afternoon tea dress" in honor of the famous novelist's characters.
The fan fervor affected director Bill Condon in a different way. The filmmaker, best known for the musical "Dreamgirls" before signing on to the last two "Twilight" movies, said he'll long remember the experience of working on a franchise with such a big fan base.
"Working on a movie that has such a direct connection to the audience I think gives you a heightened awareness of how what you do affects people when they see it," Condon explained.
And for those Twi-hards who are taking the ending of the franchise particularly hard, don't worry -- "The Host," a new film based on a Stephenie Meyer book, is set to hit theaters next year.
Though it may not star Bella and Edward, the film's star Saoirse Ronan thinks it will appeal to "Twilight" fans.
"It's still Stephenie and it's still the same kind of writing," the 18-year-old said. "She's still got that magic touch for storytelling, so hopefully they'll enjoy it."
Kristen Stewart and Stephenie Meyer talk five years of "Twilight"