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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zach Randolph had 26 points and 15 rebounds against his former team, and the Memphis Grizzlies overcame the first-quarter ejection of shooting guard Tony Allen to beat the Los Angeles Clippers 106-102 on Monday night in a rematch of their first-round playoff series.
Marc Gasol had 23 points, nine rebounds and eight assists to help put the Grizzlies (6-5) over .500 for the first time this season. Mike Conley scored eight of his 15 points during a 4-minute span of the fourth quarter.
Blake Griffin had 23 points and 11 rebounds for the Clippers. Chris Paul had 18 points and 11 assists for his 11 straight double-double, the most by any player from the start of a season since Magic Johnson in 1990-91.
Allen was charged with a flagrant-2 foul with 1:51 left in the opening quarter after he lifted his left leg in a vain attempt to impede Paul's drive to the basket and kicked him in the face. Allen walked over to Paul at the foul line to apologize while referees Bill Kennedy, Mark Ayotte and John Goble watched the replay at the official scorer's table to determine the severity of the foul.
NEW YORK (AP) — LaMarcus Aldridge scored 27 points, Wesley Matthews added 24 and Portland earned its seventh straight victory.
Damian Lillard finished with 19 points and nine assists as the Trail Blazers withstood the Nets' blistering start to win seven in a row in the same season for the first time since a 13-game run in December 2007.
Portland (9-2) is just a half-game behind San Antonio and Indiana for the NBA's best record. The Blazers will try to complete a perfect 4-0 road trip Wednesday at Milwaukee.
Shaun Livingston scored 23 points for the Nets, who stormed out to their best first quarter of the season and then seemed to run out of gas against the younger Trail Blazers. Kevin Garnett made all six shots in the 40-point first period, then went 2 for 13 from there to finish with a season-high 16 points.
CHICAGO (AP) — Luol Deng scored 21 points and the Bulls overcame a rough shooting night to record their fifth straight win.
Carlos Boozer had 12 points and 17 rebounds for Chicago, which is on its longest winning streak since taking eight in a row from Feb. 20-March 7, 2012. Jimmy Butler had 14 points and Derrick Rose finished with 12.
Deng's 3-pointer with 27.1 seconds remaining gave the Bulls an 85-81 lead. Gerald Henderson then missed for the Bobcats, and Rose had a free throw to help Chicago wrap it up.
Rose, who hit a career-high six 3-pointers in the Bulls' 110-94 win Saturday over Indiana, went 4 for 13 from the field. The Bulls shot 27 of 75 (36 percent) overall.
Jeffery Taylor led Charlotte with a career-high 20 points and Henderson had 16.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 38 points, Russell Westbrook had 30 points and 12 rebounds and Oklahoma City rallied for the win.
Westbrook also had seven assists in a terrific all-around game that helped Oklahoma City erase a 14-point deficit in the second half. Reggie Jackson added 14 points.
With the score tied at 105, Serge Ibaka pulled down an offensive rebound and found Durant for a 3-pointer that put Oklahoma City (7-3) ahead to stay. Jeremy Lamb and Derek Fisher each hit a pair of free throws in the final 14 seconds to help the Thunder hold on.
Ty Lawson led Denver (4-6) with 29 points and eight assists. J.J. Hickson had 18 points and 19 rebounds.
DALLAS (AP) — Monta Ellis scored 24 points, including 13 in the third quarter when Dallas took its first lead.
Dirk Nowitzki and Shawn Marion had 20 points apiece for the Mavericks, who began a stretch of seven of nine games in Dallas. Nowitzki had 10 rebounds, and Marion chipped in seven.
Ellis had 19 points in the second half and added a game-high 10 assists and two of Dallas' 11 blocked shots.
Two nights after a 35-point loss in New Orleans, the Sixers held the Mavericks scoreless for the first 5 minutes and led by 10 in the first half.
Even after losing its lead for good late in the third quarter, Philadelphia stayed close behind Evan Turner, Tony Wroten and some late 3-pointers from James Anderson.
Turner had 26 points, nine rebounds and seven assists while Wroten had 19 points and five steals.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 22 points for Golden State, and Klay Thompson and Harrison Barnes had 17 apiece in the Warriors' victory.
Curry had eight assists and made four 3-pointers before leaving in the fourth quarter after Utah's Marvin Williams landed on his head in a scramble for a loose ball. After a couple of minutes to gain his bearings, Curry got up and left the court under his own power with a towel draped over his head.
Curry is expected to be ready for Wednesday's home game against Memphis.
The Warriors made 12 of 22 attempts from 3-point range and led by as many as 28 points.
Gordon Hayward scored 18 points and Williams had 16 but the Jazz (1-11) dropped their third straight after earning their lone win of the season.


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To make sure a Complainant is someone who has a proper interest in the complaint, the process aims to test their rights to the domain name. This isn't a particularly high threshold test, but to pass it you should make sure you can provide evidence of the rights you are claiming.
Parties should also bear in mind that simply showing you have rights to a domain name isn't sufficient to win in a DRS complaint – the Complainant must also show the registration or use of the domain name is an abusive registration. Read more about abusive registrations.
Different forms of rights you could demonstrate include:
A trade mark of any type would be useful in demonstrating rights in a name that is the same or similar to the disputed domain name, but isn't required. If you hold a registered trade mark, remember to include proof of the registration with the submission of your complaint.
The definition of rights in the Policy covers all rights that can be legally enforced, so for example contract rights can be enough.
The party making the complaint needs to prove that they have rights in a name here and now.
It will often be beneficial to be able to prove that they had rights when the domain name was registered. Although this is not essential, it may be difficult to show that someone has made an abusive registration if you didn't have rights when the registration took place. For example, it's unlikely that a domain name registration was made in order to prevent you from having it if you set up your business after the domain name was registered.
The Policy only requires the Complainant to have rights, but it's also something the Respondent should consider. For example, if the Respondent also has rights in a name, which is either the same as or similar to the domain name, this may be useful in proving they didn't make an abusive registration.
To successfully make a complaint using our Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) you must be able to prove the domain name, in the hands of the current registrant, is an abusive registration. This means you must be able to prove the domain name either:
This means that the unfair conduct can happen at any point during the lifetime of the domain name, from registration onwards. The DRS doesn't require that both the registration and use of the domain name be unfair. It's also important to note that unfair use of a domain name covers use for any purpose, such as for a website or email.
For example, it could be that the registration was 'fair' (because the parties agreed at the time, or did not object), but the use later becomes unfair – because there is a change of use, a falling out between the parties, or a change of motive.
Not quite sure what constitutes an abusive registration? Take a look at these examples included in our DRS Policy:
The list above isn't exhaustive, and you may have another reason to make a complaint.
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Everyone sweats to some degree during exercise or other exerting activities. But for some people, profuse sweating is a constant that can quickly impact quality-of-life.
Sweating is a natural involuntary process controlled by the sympathetic nervous system designed to regulate human body temperature and remove toxins from the body. About three percent of Americans have what is known as hyperhidrosis, a condition characterized by excessive sweating primarily affecting sweat glands on the palms, underarms and soles of the feet.
Everyone sweats, but there are some people at the extreme end of the spectrum that sweat so much it seriously impairs their lifestyle. Sweating is more important to people when they become more socially active and enter the workforce. For someone with hyperhidrosis, even shaking hands can become an awkward situation.
Left untreated, severe cases of hyperhidrosis can impact a person's ability to do their job. For example, manual laborers required to use hand tools or nurses who must frequently make contact with patients when measuring vital signs. It can also affect practical tasks such as holding a pencil to write or a steering wheel to drive.
Most cases can be treated with over the counter dry rubs and antiperspirants or prescription medications. But for the most severe cases involving palm sweating, surgery is the only permanent solution. The procedure, known as endoscopic transthoracic sympathectomy (ETS), is only appropriate for a select group of hyperhidrosis patients and should be a last option. It involves making small incisions under each arm and inserting specialized tools to clip the nerve that controls hand sweating. There are numerous factors for determining if a patient is good candidate for surgery, including:
After the nerve is clipped, excessive sweating is almost immediately eliminated and the patient typically goes home the same day.
This article originally appeared in UC Health Line (7/16/2009), a service of the NetWellness.org Academic Health Center Public Relations Department and was adapted for use on NetWellness with permission, 2006.
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This post by Miguel
articulates very well something that I've been hoping for a long time that someone would say in the debate regarding ODF and Microsoft's OOXML format: that "ODF good, OOXML bad" is a GROSS oversimplification of the situation. Mainly because ever since it's release, ODF has been content to rest entirely on its laurels as the "Open" and "ISO Standard" office file format specification - completely ignoring the fact that on a technical level it just plain SUCKS.
Isn't the Open Source movement supposed to be all about making software that doesn't suck? Isn't Free Software supposed to be about the freedom to FIX problems? Aren't we supposed to be a meritocracy?
A spreadsheet format "standard" that doesn't define formulas? What the hell? How ANYONE with a straight face can claim that the problem of standardizing office file formats is "solved" by ODF and all we need to do is get people to use it, is beyond me. Maybe it's the best starting point - but where's the group working to fill in the glaring holes and get that standardized too? Free Software interprets sucky standards and glaring holes in standards as damage and routes around them... by forming other groups to specify the behavior, or by moving to other standards that don't suck. See WHATWG. See CORBA on the desktop. See XML Schema. Perhaps OOXML is that better standard, perhaps it isn't, but I don't see anyone on the ODF side even admitting there's a problem to be solved [UPDATE: Apparently there is such a group, called OpenFormula, working to fix that particular hole. That's great and I wish them every success, but it's mostly irrelevant to my main point. See the comments for more...] As long as that attitude persists, OOXML has a better chance of being that better standard than ODF does of evolving into it.
We take pride in the fact that our licenses will never discriminate against any person or organization or field of endeavor. Any licence that passes the DFSG or OSD is GUARANTEED to ensure that the software may be equally used by an evangelical Christian group or an abortion clinic or a gay rights group or a pornographer, by the United States government or by islamist extremists, by the EFF or by patent lawyers, by pacifists or by the military, by spammers or by antispam organizations... I could keep going, but you get the idea. But this isn't just a minor point, this is the CORNERSTONE of what Free Software is all about. Freedom means nondiscrimination. Including against people we as the developers of the software find distasteful.
So why is it that we make a point to treat pornographers, extremists, spammers, and even evangelicals ( ;) ) with fairness and equality, but the moment Microsoft is mentioned we forget all about that freedom and fairness and meritocracy, and immediately object vociferously and almost unanimously, EVEN when what they're doing is RIGHT?
Why is it that Groklaw, the site that earned a reputation for fairness and objectivity by making a point to give SCO's claims every possible benefit of the doubt and patiently examine every one of their claims including any time there was the ghost of a chance they might have some semblence of a real point - why is it that Groklaw had a fit when someone wanted to submit a Microsoft license to the OSI for evaluation, when by all accounts the license in question DOES pass the OSD and DFSG?
Why is it that Groklaw reported the MS-Novell deal with the headline NOVELL SELLS OUT - long before there was ANY chance for ANYONE to have examined the nature of the deal to know whether it was actually problematic or not? Why are otherwise reasonable people like Bruce Perens claiming that Novell is the next SCO, when it's completely obvious that Novell's lawyers simply made a mistake and are working with a perhaps intransigent group of MS lawyers to figure out a way to fix the problems? Even one of MS's lawyers has come out and said this outright.
So why are we vilifying Novell and treating them as outcasts, rather than recognizing that they, like IBM with patent lawsuits, like Sun until very recently with their Java licensing, like Canonical with binary drivers, and even I'm sure like Red Hat although I can't think of a blatant recent example - are a company that does a lot of good things but have made a bad decision?
And why are we treating Microsoft as the embodiment of pure evil rather than a company that does a lot of bad things but in the case of OOXML is actually doing the right thing - coming up with a file format that is by all accounts a vast IMPROVEMENT over ODF, is freely licensed including patents, independently implementable, doesn't have any HUGE GLARING HOLES in it, is actually documented and specified in detail, and being submitted to ISO for standardization.
Yes, there are problems with OOXML. It's stupid to standardize options for backward compatibility with old proprietary software when you've gone to all this trouble to invent an extensible format with all sorts of ways to embed extra proprietary information. Using that extensibility to support the legacy crap should be a no-brainer, and I hope this will be fixed in the ISO comments period. I'm sure there are other issues too. Maybe lots of them. But at least it's (almost) fully specified, open, and freely implementable - of which ODF manages only two out of three.
If you want a child to learn good behavior, it isn't enough to point out and punish the bad behaviors. You have to point out and reward the good ones too. It's well established that rewarding the good behaviors has a vastly greater effect, in fact. And punishing the GOOD behaviors is OBVIOUSLY counterproductive. Microsoft obviously isn't going away any time soon; to ignore them or think we can make them irrelevant is delusional. If we ever want them to be a good citizen, if we ever hope for them to become a productive MEMBER of the Free Software community, we should be pointing out the - perhaps small and rare - good things they do and making a HUGE deal about them.
I'd bet quite a large sum of money that in ten years time Microsoft will be the largest producer of Free Software in the world; that Windows and Office will both be released under Free, Open Source, DFSG-compatible licenses by that time. We can bring that day about sooner by working with the elements within Microsoft that are pulling in the same direction as us, or we can delay it by treating Microsoft as the enemy which only strengthens the elements within Microsoft that think of US that way. I know which future I'd rather see.
As a footnote: Microsoft just released the ASP.NET AJAX client libraries under a DFSG compliant license. I don't know if that will be the first package in Debian main with Microsoft as the upstream, but I am completely sure it won't be the last...
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Government Support for Unhealthful Foods
Agricultural Subsidy Programs
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) supports agricultural producers through a variety of programs29 that tend to favor, either directly or indirectly, the production of unhealthful foods. These are the same foods that are implicated in the diseases that have steadily increased over the decades and now impose a significant burden on Americans.
Commodity Crops
Between 1995 and 2009, USDA distributed more than $246 billion ($246,000,000,000) in subsidies.30 The subsidy system, updated approximately every five years, provides financial support primarily to producers of "commodity crops," which include more than a dozen nonperishable crops. However, five commodity crops—corn, wheat, soybeans, cotton, and rice—receive the vast majority of subsidies.
Corn and soybeans are largely used as animal feed for production of meat, dairy products, and eggs, either domestically or for export. Other commodity crops, including barley, oats, and sorghum, are also used for feed. Notably, waste materials from other crop processing—including cotton production and corn milling for ethanol—also are fed to animals.
Specialty Crops
The USDA refers to fresh fruits and vegetables as "specialty crops." Specialty crops do not receive subsidies. In fact, farmers who participate in commodity subsidy programs are generally prohibited from growing fruits and vegetables on the so-called "base acres" of land for which they receive subsidies. This provision, enacted in 1996, restricts the ability of both small and large commodity farmers from diversifying their crops and including fruits and vegetables as part of their production.
If Americans increased their consumption of fruits and vegetables to levels recommended by federal dietary guidelines, production of these crops would require an additional 13 million acres of land.31
Subsidies for Commodity Crops
The following is a brief description of the major subsidy programs for commodity crops:
- Direct payments: The current program of direct payments was established by Congress in 1996 as a temporary program intended to wean producers off subsidies. The program has since been made permanent. The direct payments are provided to producers or landowners based on historical usage of the land (i.e., prior commodity crop production), irrespective of current prices or conditions. This means that some individuals may receive direct payments for land they own, even if they are not currently producing commodity crops, and in some cases even if the land is no longer used for farming at all. Direct payments total approximately $5 billion per year. ($5,000,000,000)
- Counter-cyclical payments: Counter-cyclical payments are intended to compensate producers when the price of commodity crops drops below targets set by Congress. Like direct payments, counter-cyclical payments are tied to historical production, so agricultural producers may receive payments for crops they are no longer growing. The cost of counter-cyclical payments ranges from $1-4 billion annually, depending on price levels.
- Marketing loans: The marketing loan program guarantees minimum prices for crops. Producers can take out marketing loans, using their crops as collateral, in order to hold the crops and sell them when prices rise. However, if prices fall, the government will accept the crops as repayment for the loan. Producers may also receive a "loan deficiency payment"—essentially a subsidy equivalent to the difference between the market price and a guaranteed price.
Dairy Subsidies
Dairy products are also considered commodities, and milk producers benefit from their own set of federal subsidy programs. Subsidies in various forms to dairy producers totaled $4.8 billion between 1995 and 2009. This included emergency supplemental "market loss" payments of $1 billion to compensate dairy producers for low prices between 1999 and 2001. In 2002, Congress enacted the Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) program to make these supports permanent, which provides direct payments for dairy producers when the average monthly price of milk falls below a set level.32
In addition, through the Dairy Product Price Support Program, the USDA protects producers from price declines by purchasing surplus products from dairy processors. The federal government also artificially controls the price of milk through milk marketing orders, which set minimum prices that processors who sell milk must pay in specified areas, depending on the intended use of the milk.33
Sugar is also supported indirectly through import quotas and domestic marketing programs, but not direct payments.34
Some aspects of the dairy and sugar support programs, particularly those that take the form of trade barriers, are aimed at establishing a floor for the price of these crops and thus supporting producers who might otherwise be unable to sustain production. These programs affect availability and price by distorting the market for these unhealthful foods.
Direct Support to Livestock Businesses
USDA provides other forms of direct support for producers of agricultural products, including meat and dairy products.
Several programs provide emergency support as well as marketing and price supports to livestock producers, including:
- the Livestock Compensation Program;
- the Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance; and
- the Livestock Emergency Assistance Program.
Together these programs provided at total of $3.5 billion in funding between 1995 and 2009.35
In addition, many producers are eligible to purchase subsidized crop insurance to compensate them for losses due to weather or natural disasters, a program that cost the government more than $7 billion in 2009. Crop insurance is available to livestock producers, as well as producers of other specialty crops, including some fruits and vegetables. USDA determines the availability of subsidized insurance policies for particular crops based on geographic area and risk, and these policies are provided through private insurance companies.36
Livestock producers may also be eligible for financial assistance through USDA programs to counter the environmentally harmful effects of animal agriculture. Livestock producers and others can apply to participate in programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), which provides funding for environmental interventions such as cleaning up pollution or reducing soil erosion.
Under EQIP, corporate agribusinesses that operate intensive animal-feeding operations are eligible to receive as much as $450,000 in government funding to build manure lagoons to hold animal waste, even though in some cases these storage facilities would be necessary for factory farms to comply with environmental regulations.37 Through this program, the federal government absorbs some of the producers' cost of doing business.
Federal purchase programs
The federal government, through USDA, provides additional support to livestock and crop producers by purchasing agricultural products for use in the National School Lunch Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). Some of the purchased commodities are also donated to soup kitchens, food banks, and other institutions. According to the USDA, "[t]hese purchases also help to stabilize prices in agricultural commodity markets by balancing supply and demand."38
Products purchased include meat, poultry, eggs, dairy products (predominantly cheese and dry milk products), and fresh, processed, and frozen vegetables, fruit, legumes, and grains, among other food items. Although the federal government has purchased a significant quantity of fruits, vegetables, and nuts in recent years, purchases remain skewed toward meat and dairy products.
In fiscal year 2009, USDA spent more than $623 million to buy dairy products, with the vast majority (more than $340 million) for cheese as part of the dairy price support programs discussed above.39 In the same year, USDA spent more than $1.4 billion to purchase other agricultural commodities, including at least $793 million for beef, pork, poultry, eggs, and fish, $644 million for fruits and vegetables, $96 million for grains, and $50 million for oils and nuts. USDA also made $319.5 million in "emergency" commodity purchases intended to relieve farm surpluses in 2009, which included large purchases of pork and poultry.40
The federal government also assists industry groups—including meat and dairy producers—in marketing their products through so-called checkoff programs. These programs are administered by USDA, using funds collected from producers for marketing efforts (such as the "Got Milk" campaign). Although these programs likely make significant contributions to consumption choices, they are primarily supported by industry funds and will not be discussed further.


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For the second straight day at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Team Indoors, the 10th-ranked and seventh-seeded Duke women's tennis team came through in tiebreakers as the Blue Devils downed eighth-ranked California, 4-2, to advance to the finals at the Boar's Head Sports Club in Charlottesville, Va.
Duke (7-0) will make its fifth National Team Indoors final appearance and the second out of the last three years. The opponent for the Blue Devils will be fourth-seeded and fifth-ranked UCLA, who defeated Northwestern, 4-0, in the semifinals. Monday's championship match will start at 11:00 a.m.
"We've played them [California] here a couple times," said Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth. "We played them in the finals of the NCAAs a couple years ago. It was a battle there. We know that they're going to come out and swing. They're big hitters. Our goal coming into this weekend was to try to make a statement about where our program is. We've really felt like we were better than where we were [in the preseason rankings]."
Continuing its stellar play in doubles, the Blue Devils came out on the second court and took a 2-0 lead behind solid play from Ester Goldfeld and Alyssa Smith. California's Denise Starr and Kelly Chui would not fold easily as the duo won three straight games to take a 3-2 lead. Duke responded by winning four consecutive games to take the match, 6-3.
California's tandem of Lynn Chi and Alice Duranteau came back from being down 4-3 to Duke's Annie Mulholland andMarianne Jodoin to win court three, 7-5.
The doubles point came down to Duke's Beatrice Capra and Hanna Mar up against Maegen Manasse and Anett Schutting of the Bears. The Blue Devils came out and opened a 3-1 lead, but California came back to take a 5-4 advantage. Capra and Mar won two straight points to take a 6-5 lead, but the Cal duo came back to even the score, 6-6. In the tiebreaker, the Blue Devils would never trail en route to winning 7-4 and giving Duke a 1-0 advantage.
The victory for Capra and Mar was their fourth straight and improved their overall record to 7-2 on the year.
Coming off a victory on Saturday against second-ranked Jamie Loeb of North Carolina, third-ranked Capra never trailed against 15th-ranked Denise Starr of California and put the Blue Devils ahead 2-0 with a 6-2, 6-2 win on court one. A product of Ellicott City, Md., Capra moved to 18-3 on the season.
California responded by winning the next two points to even the score, 2-2. On court five, Klara Fabikova knocked offRachel Kahan, 4-6, 6-3, 10-3 and 16th-ranked Zsofi Susanyi defeated Smith, 6-2, 7-5 on court four.
The final three singles matches came down to tiebreakers on court two, three and six.
Mar, a senior out of Burr Ridge, Ill., clinched the victory on Saturday over third-ranked North Carolina and netted a 6-3, 3-6, 10-4 win on Sunday against 95th-ranked Chi on court three. The 49th-ranked Mar improved to 4-0 in dual match action with the win.
"With the way the format is set up, it favors the person that wins the second set," commented Ashworth. "To come back and put the second set out of your mind right away is a tough thing to do. Hanna does a really good job of not really playing to the score. She can compartmentalize really well. We talk about that with her and all the other girls all the time, just gather points. We're just trying to get as many points as we can."
Featuring an eight-match win streak entering Sunday, Jodoin dropped the first set, 6-1, to 31st-ranked Manasse and fell down 2-1 in the second set before getting hot. A product of Varennes, Quebec, Jodoin won five out of the next six games to win the second set, 6-3. In the tiebreaker, Jodoin built an early lead and ended up pulling out an 11-9 win to clinch the Duke victory, 4-2.
"Their singles are so good especially at the bottom of the lineup," said Ashworth. "Maegan has been playing great all weekend and really since she's been in school. Marianne hung in there after losing the first set. Even through the doubles, we had to battle."
Goldfeld, who is ranked 45th out of Brooklyn, N.Y., split the first two sets with 26th-ranked Schutting and was trailing 4-3 in the tiebreaker when the match was clinched.
Other finals appearances for Duke were in 1998, 1999, 2003 and 2012. The Blue Devils claimed the 2003 title with a 4-3 win over Florida.
"We've historically played pretty well here," said Ashworth. "No matter who we play, it's going to be a tough match. UCLA has a great lineup all the way through in singles and doubles."


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When AARP announced it was supporting ObamaCare several years ago, the organization — which purports to represent the interests of America's senior citizens — was flooded with cancellation. That may be why, prior to the presidential election, AARP expressed a willingness to consider benefit cuts in order to save Social Security and Medicare.
Then last week came an Associated Press news report noting that, instead of standing firm as it did on ObamaCare, AARP had buckled to demands from members and liberal groups to flatly oppose any benefit reductions for the nation's retirees. But what is more two-faced than this turnaround is AARP's lame pretense that by doing so it is protecting the interests of younger Americans, far from retirement age.
It would be one thing if AARP was simply drawing a singular line in the sand — no changes for anyone currently receiving benefits or someone nearing retirement age. Protecting those who no longer have the ability to significantly grow their retirement savings is a sane, sensible and fair position to take. Frankly, it is a no-brainer that drew bipartisan support during this past election season.
As a result, the real issue is the benefit schedule for younger Americans and whether — unchanged — Social Security and Medicare will exist in 40-50 years when today's twenty-somethings, also referred to as millennials, come of age.
A 2011 study conducted by the St. Norbert College Strategic Research Institute found that for those 18-29 years old 50 percent do not think Social Security will exist when their time comes. This belief is supported by numbers independently issued by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, if nothing changes.
The St. Norbert study was commissioned by iOMe Challenge, a professional and academic organization formed to engage and challenge young people to begin thinking about their future. According to iOMe, the findings suggest that "there has never been a more important time than now to engage millennials in helping to solve the financial challenges we face in the U.S. and the potential problems they face in retirement years." To that end iOMe Challenge says it is working to engage "young people to understand financial problems and find creative (emphasis added) ways of solving them."
Readers should note the emphasis we have placed on the word "creative." It is an overridingly important word missing from AARP's lexicon.
If AARP were to have its way, the horse and buggy would still be our primary mode of travel.
Now is not the time for Congress nor groups which honestly represent the interests of future retirees to emulate the Ludites of the 19th century who protested the Industrial Age.
Social Security and Medicare were appropriate bi-products of that age, of the Industrial Revolution. But just as much of that time has been outmoded by the Computer Age, so too will Social Security and Medicare if little or nothing changes — as AARP demands.
Truth be told, AARP looks to only be in it for the money. Spokesmen brushed off the massive number of cancellations after the ObamaCare announcement as largely part of its normal membership turnover. That leads us to think AARP leadership must have stood in greater fear of threatened cancellations when announced support for benefit changes last year.
Perhaps then, part of the answer to the Social Security/Medicare dilemma may be to allow AARP to go the way of the dinosaur so that a fair and open debate can take place. For those interested in an alternative, visit Amac — the Voice of Americans 50+ at amac.us.
AARP has become a dinosaur
When AARP announced it was supporting ObamaCare several years ago, the organization — which purports to represent the interests of America's senior citizens — was flooded with cancellation. That may be why, prior to the presidential election, AARP expressed a willingness to consider benefit cuts in order to save Social Security and Medicare.


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Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
Integrative Paleoanthropology Grants (IPG)
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Important Information for Proposers
ATTENTION: Proposers using the Collaborators and Other Affiliations template for more than 10 senior project personnel will encounter proposal print preview issues. Please see the Collaborators and Other Affiliations Information website for updated guidance.
A revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 18-1), is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 29, 2018. Please be advised that, depending on the specified due date, the guidelines contained in NSF 18-1 may apply to proposals submitted in response to this funding opportunity.
The Biological Anthropology and Archaeology Programs are pleased to invite investigators to apply for an "Integrative Paleoanthropology Grant." In 2012, contingent on availability of funds, the Programs plan to make a single award for a maximum of $1,000,000 to support a multi-year project of up to five years in duration.
The goal of the competition is to further innovative, integrative research to elucidate the principles which underlie hominin biological and behavioral evolution over deep time. While the intellectual scope of the competition is thus constrained, the potential methodologies and disciplines are not. It is understood, for example, that fields such as cognitive science, genetics or mathematical modeling may be directly relevant to such an endeavor. The competition is intended to stimulate integrative research which crosses normal disciplinary and intellectual boundaries in original ways and this aspect is a central criterion and requirement of the competition. Competition organizers recognize the difficulty in defining concepts such as "innovative integrative research" since much paleoanthropological research is currently interdisciplinary and integrative in nature. "Integration", for example, need not only be cross-disciplinary but might encompass broader perspectives on regional and large scale comparative issues. Proposals are required to address this issue directly in the project description by using up to two pages of the 15 to specifically speak to how the proposed research is both integrative and innovative beyond norms currently in practice and how the proposed research could not be accomplished otherwise. Reviewers and Program Officials will place significant weight on this criterion.
Applicants should submit their proposal to either the Biological Anthropology or Archaeology Programs by 4/18/2012. Proposals should follow standard Program guidelines (except for the listed target dates) that are available on the Program's web site, and should be identified by the inclusion of the "IPG" prefix in the application title. Please note the NSF requirement that proposals requesting postdoctoral support must include a postdoctoral mentoring plan. Also, NSF requires that all proposals contain a data management plan. Both of these plans have a specific place under Supplementary Documents on the Form Preparation screen in Fastlane. Proposals will be evaluated through both outside review and a specially constituted panel. In addition to the specifics discussed above, standard NSF review criteria apply.
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The last two springs, upsets have deprived us of a Bruins-Washington Capitals playoff series.
If the hockey gods are smiling on fans in the Hub and D.C., as well as across North America, we'll finally get that match-up in the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs.
After the third meeting of the year between the two beasts of the East– a 5-3 Washington victory tonight — it's pretty obvious these two clubs are the class of the conference. Even better, their contrasting styles make for dramatic contests, with Boston's suffocating team defense and timely scoring trying to overshadow the Caps' high-octane offense and bend-but-don't-break defense.
Playing a better defensive game than usual for two periods and forechecking with fury, the Capitals built their 3-0 lead tonight. Then in the third period, Boston awoke and took advantage of some of undisciplined and lazy play by Washington to even things out. It wasn't exactly how the Caps drew it up, but they exacting some revenge on the Bruins.
After all, Boston had dominated the first two meetings of the year between the two clubs — by a combined score of 7-2 — and kept Alexander Ovechkin off the score sheet. However, those two games lacked a key ingredient for Washington: Mike Green. A Norris Trophy finalist the last two years, Green is the engine that makes the Caps' transition game go. He showed that tonight with a goal and an assist to go with his obviously improved play in his own end taking the body and clogging the Bruins' passing lanes. To add to the effort, Ovechkin popped in a goal and added an assist.
As has been their habit the last couple years, the Bruins probably psyched themselves out before starting this contest, as they knew they had handled the Caps easily last month and rode a three-game winning streak overall into the Verizon Center. That's part of the reason why they reverted to the form of a team that couldn't get out of its own end nor win any of the key battles for the puck for 40 minutes. Heck, the Bruins gave up a 3-on-1 shorthanded goal. That's almost mathematically impossible, let alone something you wouldn't even see in a high school game.
If there have been two constants through the Bruins' first 10 games, it has been the stellar play of Tim Thomas in goal and the all-out effort of the grinding line of Gregory Campbell, Brad Marchand and Shawn Thornton. Thomas was spared the third period by head coach Claude Julien after his listless teammates hung him out to dry tonight. But Boston's banging line led the way in the three-goal comeback, including Thornton's second goal of the season that tied the game. He also drew the penalty that led to Boston's second goal.
Of course, when the fourth line is the best line, that tells you something about the Boston's team-wide effort.
The Bruins and Caps, by virtue of being non-divisional foes, now meet just one more time this regular season, Dec. 18 in Boston. That night, the Garden will be rocking, the Bruins will show that they learned their lesson from their loss in D.C. and the defensive stalwarts from the Hub and offensive juggernaut from the nation's capital will collide in another the league's most intriguing showdowns.
Unfortunately, the NHL season will play out over the course of the final four months without another Bruins-Caps game. If we're lucky, some time in May we'll get to see a best-of-seven rematch.


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Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge at night from the South Bank.
The Thames
The Thames River as viewed from Hungerford Bridge with the London Eye to the left and the Houses of Parliament in the middle.
Hungerford Bridge
People cross Hungerford Bridge footpath with the London Eye to the right.
The Shard
The lights of The Shard shine through the winter fog.
Millennium Bridge
The underside of the Millennium Bridge, leading across the Thames.
Trafalgar Square Fountain
Sunlight catches the droplets of water in one of[ the fountains in Trafalgar Square.
Bubbles, Trafalgar Square
A street performer blows bubbles in Trafalgar Square.
Winter Fog
A winter fog slowly lifts around Big Ben.
Trafalgar Square
Light shines through a fountain in Trafalgar Square
An old ship's anchor on the Wapping foreshore, only exposed at low tide.
Mallard Duck
A mallard duck on pthe North Bank of the Thames
Snowy Greenwich
The Naval College in Greenwich lies under snow with a foggy Isle of Dogs in the distance.
Cutty Sark
The Cutty Sark in Greenwich at night.
The sun sets behind The Shard
Sunset over London
The sun sets over the London skyline.
The Shard at Sunset
The suns sets with The Shard to the left and St Paul's Cathedral to the right.
Foggy Thames
A winter fog lies over the Thames with the London Eye just showing through to the left.
A winter fog lies over the Thames, with the London Eye to the left and Big Ben to the right.
A winter fog lies over Hungerford Bridge.
London Skyline
The London skyline shortly after sunset.
Pier Supports, Wapping
Old pier supports stick out of the Thames foreshore in Wapping, with Rotherhithe across the river.
isle of Dogs
Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs as viewed from Rotherhithe.
Tall Ships, Greenwich
The Tall Ships Festival in Greenwich. The ships left shortly after this to Portugal.
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MABTON - Effective Aug. 1, Mabton City Hall will be closed on Fridays.
The city staff will begin working 10 hours days Monday, Aug. 1, with city hall open Monday through Thursday, said Mabton City Administrator Ildia Jackson.
She said the Mabton City Council recently approved the change in part to help improve customer services and to give the staff more time to do its daily work.
For the past several years, Mabton City Hall has opened daily at 10 a.m. but was closed on Wednesdays.
Now, Mabton City Hall will be open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., with the doors open to the public from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. The office will be closed for lunch from noon to 1 p.m., Jackson said.
"By starting at 7 a.m., we can do the other city business as needed and still open early," Jackson said.
She said the suggestion to change city hall hours came from the staff. Staff has received a lot of grumbling from residents about the 10 a.m. opening, Jackson said.
"Now that we see that it is working in other communities, such as Sunnyside, our staff is more receptive to giving the new work week a try," Jackson said.
She said the Mabton Public Works Department will stagger its work schedule to make sure there is a crew member on duty on Fridays, in case of a problem. The department's Friday schedule will also allow the department to do daily tests and maintenance at the wastewater plant, as required, Jackson explained.
"We plan to review the new work schedule at the end of the year to make sure there are no unforeseen problems," she added.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fans who couldn't get into the packed Mumford & Sons concert at the reopening of the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium can request a refund.
The West Side Tennis Club, which owns the venue, said Thursday it will offer refunds "to those of you who didn't have an optimal experience" at Wednesday's concert in Queens, N.Y.
The show was the first in more than 20 years at the 90-year-old stadium, where the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones once performed. Some concertgoers had trouble getting into the packed venue, and the statement said the stadium is dealing with "growing pains."
Tickets cost $74. The 16,000 seats are all general admission.
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Summer vacation ended � as did the visit with Grandma and Grandpa � and Johnny and Mary went back home to their parents.
Editor's Note: This column concludes the story of Mary, Johnny and the broken glass statue, which appeared in the June 15 and June 8 editions.
Summer vacation ended � as did the visit with Grandma and Grandpa � and Johnny and Mary went back home to their parents.
Soon, school resumed and classes were in full swing. The incident of breaking Grandma�s favorite delicate glass statue was long forgiven and forgotten.
Eventually came Thanksgiving, Johnny�s favorite time of year � that meant another visit to Grandma and Grandpa�s house. Johnny always looked forward to the celebration. A delicious dinner was usually followed by a visit to the park and throwing a football with Dad and Grandpa.
However, as the family approached the grandparents� house, the child felt nervous. He recalled the glass statue incident, and the memory still haunted him.
The statue could never be repaired to its original splendor, which saddened Johnny. Grandma had said it was okay, that it was an accident, but that beautiful work of art was lost forever.
Before long, Johnny and his family arrived at their destination. The aromas of roasting turkey, mashed potatoes, different vegetables, pumpkin pie and apple pie made his mouth water and his stomach grumble.
After hugs and kisses, Johnny walked into the dining room. A glass sculpture on the table caught his eye. It sparkled like a thousand diamonds.
If he looked at it one way, it appeared like the sun rising above the horizon. If he looked at it another way, it appeared like snow-covered mountains with ice reflecting the sun�s sparkling rays. And if he squinted, it looked like a rainbow.
He turned and saw Grandma watching him. Breathlessly, he said to her, �Grandma! This is beautiful! Where did you find this?�
With a smile on her lips and a twinkle in her eye, she said, �Johnny, I know you don�t recognize it, but this little statue has been made up of all the pieces of the little bird in the nest that got broken this past summer. I took the pieces to a friend of mine who works with glass. This is what he did with them.�
Life sometimes throws difficult curves. Dreams we once held can be shattered. Yet, with our Lord�s loving presence and power, those broken pieces can be molded and reshaped into something unexpectedly beautiful.
Jesus can � and will � pick up the broken pieces and put them back together in a new and beautiful way.
The Rev. Mark Broadhead is Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church and First Presbyterian Church of Crestview�s pastor.


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Nog I Yam
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Source: Bartender Steven Yamada, Victory Bar, Tales of the Toddy 2011
New Orleans Victory Bar's Steven Yamada created quite a stir with his eggnog at the 2011 Tales of the Toddy—enough to score a tie for second in the eggnog competition. His drink includes a house-made sweet potato puree which becomes they key ingredient to a sweet potato eggnog, topped with a flambé marshmallow fluff, spiecd with cardamom/ginger simple syrup.
Nog I Yam
1/5 oz. Benchmark Bourbon
3 oz. Sweet Potato Eggnog
1 oz. Spiced Marshmallow Fluff
Sweet Potato Puree
1 sweet potato
2 Tbsp salt
1 cup Dark brown sugar
Sweet Potato Eggnog
3 whole eggs, plus 1 egg yolk
2 cups whole milk
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup Sweet Potato Puree
Spiced Marshmallow Fluff
3 egg whites
1 cup light corn syrup
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups Confectioner's sugar
1 Tbsp cardamom/ginger simple syrup
Sweet Potato Puree
- Peel sweet potato and slice into medium thick pieces.
- Place on baking sheet and cover with salt and dark brown sugar.
- Gently toss and then bake at 350 F for about 15-20 minutes or until potatoes are soft.
- Add all chunks of sweet potato and any juice into a food processor and thoroughly puree.
Sweet Potato Eggnog
- Combine eggs plus egg yolk in a medium saucepan and beat thoroughly with a whisk.
- Set burner to lowest setting and, while stirring, add whole milk, sugar, and Sweet Potato Puree.
- Continue to stir for about 20 minutes or until mixture reaches 160 F.
- Bottle and refrigerate overnight.
Spiced Marshmallow Fluff
- Beat egg whites, light corn syrup, and salt for about 10 minutes or until thick.
- Turn mixer speed to low and slowly add Confectioner's Sugar. Then add cardamom/ginger simple syrup.
Nog I Yam
- Combine Sweet Potato Eggnog and Bourbon.
- Top with Spiced Marshmallow Fluff. Lightly scorch fluff with a small torch and serve.


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By On Feb 13, 2018 Kids Coloring
This month our family goal has been to cut back on worry, but it's not easy. As new school groups form and back-to-school sign ups start piling up, so do the expectations and concerns. Are we teaching our kids by modeling that more stress equals success? How do we slow down and get off the merry-go-round? No sooner did I ask this than a package arrived from Colorit, the makers of adult coloring books. Excited to start creating, I made a coffee date with a friend who has been there through play dates and preschool day. Finally, our long-awaited moment had come. We get to actually sit and just catch up.
We are in mid-September and my five-year-old has started kindergarten. So far I have felt as though I am shouting in the wilderness when mentioning the thought of slowing things down. We have a girl who wakes up a 3 AM, thinking about school and all that can go wrong. There are new pressures for all of us, but, looking around, I don't think we are in this wilderness alone.
Take breaks, when necessary. Choose a time of day when you and the child are relaxed. Provide rewards (verbal encouragement, gold stars on "chore chart" checklists or awards for tasks that have been mastered) and change up the rewards when needed. Dont underestimate the "reward value" of one-on-one time with a loved grown up! Ten minutes of "homework time" with daddy after work can become a special ritual for both father and child
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This Week In Island History
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, May 30, 1913
At the Town Council meeting, the petition of the Rev. H.N. Jeter, for the use of the Town Hall, was granted, a nominal fee being fixed for the lights and janitor, for evening services. Councilman Hull was made a committee on the oiling of roads.
The Jamestown & Newport Ferry Company has been awarded the four-year contract for carrying the local mail.
The town presented a martial appearance Monday morning, there being about 1,000 sailors ashore from the ships for drill.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, May 28, 1938
At the meeting of the Board of Fire Wardens, it was recommended that the salary of Walter L. Marley, janitor of the fire station, be increased to the same amount of the school janitor, $1,200 per year, and the same was approved by the Town Council.
Twenty-six pupils of the eighth grade of the Thomas H. Clarke School went on a sight-seeing trip to Providence Friday in the school bus. Places visited were the State House, the Gilbert Stuart Junior High School, the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Journal office, and Roger Williams Park.
50 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, May 28, 1963
The Jamestown Town Council, acting as a council of defense, held a 20-minute closed session last night for the purpose of discussing the possibility of using Fort Wetherill as a fall-out shelter.
At the Town Council meeting the University Sports Car Club was given permission to hold a meet at Fort Getty on June 9, with the stipulation that two town police officers, to be paid for by the club, be stationed there, as has been done in previous years.
John H. Piva of Hamilton Avenue, a student at Georgetown University, was appointed lifeguard at Mackerel Cove Beach at a salary of $850. From the Newport Daily News,
May 29, 1963
Barracks 1557, World War I Veterans of Jamestown will meet at Shoreby Hill south entrance tomorrow morning at 10:15 to march in the Jamestown Memorial Day parade.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News,
May 28, 1988
Prospective developers of the former Vieira farm have appealed the denial of their application to build 26 homes on the property. The prospective subdivision abuts the former town landfill.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
May 28, 1998
The first report is in from the Fort Wetherill Committee on the state's plan to turn the area into an aquatic resource center, and the committee's list of "serious concerns" is long.
A bill in the General Assembly, that would allow Jamestown to charge a transfer tax on top of the sale price of a home on the island for the purpose of purchasing open space, seems to have stalled in the House of Representatives, at least for the moment.
10 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
May 29, 2003
The Town Council Monday assigned an eighth-grade suggestion on transportation for teens to Town Administrator Maryanne Crawford for follow up. Eighth-graders made their suggestion as part of their Project Citizens classroom work. They said special transportation might be a way for island teens to supplement the lack of things to do in Jamestown.


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JUNGLE babe Helen Flanagan was in tears last night after claiming the show had ruined her life.
I thought I was strong-minded but I didn't think it would be as tough as this. It was crazy
She broke down on being reunited with mum Julia and openly sobbed: "I'm so happy to see my mum."
The soap star had wanted to use her jungle stint to launch a big new career for herself after leaving Corrie.
But she has ended up a laughing stock and a hate figure with Twitter trolls even issuing death threats. Tearful Helen, 22, who got the boot on Monday night, said: "I feel like I've committed social suicide.
"I've felt so emotional today and completely overwhelmed and mixed emotions. All I did was be myself."
Helen, who played Rosie Webster in the ITV soap, was pushed to the limit during her 17-day stint in the Aussie bush.
The scaredy-cat got picked on by TV viewers to do seven Bushtucker Trials in a row.
Her squeamish behaviour, strops and refusal to do trials made her an easy target for punishment by fans.
She also angered her campmates by quitting the challenges and leaving them hungry.
Some even branded her "a fake" who was playing to the cameras.
During her jungle experience, fragile Helen also had to cope with panic attacks, malnutrition and sleep deprivation.
In her live TV exit chat on Monday with hosts Ant and Dec, both 37, she admitted: "I thought I was strong-minded but I didn't think it would be as tough as this. It was crazy."
Once the cameras stopped rolling, stressed-out Helen broke down as she watched the clips that millions of viewers had seen of her on the show.
After the emotional reunion with her mum, Helen was led away and given a health check by medic Bob McCarron, 62, and spoke to shrink Dr Sandra Scott.
Helen, her mum and dad Paul, both 54, were then chauffeur-driven to the six star Versace hotel on The Gold Coast.
Unlike the previous evictees this year, who happily posed for shots when they arrived at the hotel, teary-eyed Helen insisted the car did not stop outside the grand entrance so she was not seen as an emotional wreck by guests.
Producers for Daybreak, Lorraine and This Morning had also been expecting to film live chats with the soap beauty.
But she pulled out, sending word that she was "too emotional" and "too tired" to be interviewed.
Evictee Linda Robson, 54, stepped in to help out. Last night Helen's worried looking mum appeared in the hotel lobby alone.
When asked how her daughter was, she panicked and ran to a lift without saying a word.
Bosses said they hoped Helen would appear on ITV2 spin off Get Me Out Of Here Now due to air at 10pm tonight.


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Beware Of Texting Scams! Are Texting Scams Real?
Your cell phone chimes — a text message has come in. It bears your bank's name and has some disturbing news. One of your accounts has been frozen. Please call us at the following number to clear this up, urges the message.
You've just been "smished".
Smishing texts are the newest way scam artists can gain personal info.
An offshoot of "phishing"
Emails that try to trick you into disclosing personal or financial information — smishing is named for the SMS (short message service) technology used to send text messages. (There's even another variation, "vishing." Instead of a text message, you get a call with a recorded voice.)
As more people have gotten wise to computer-based scams, scammers are increasingly targeting cellphones. Their users are three times more likely to fall for fake messages than computer users, according to online security firm Trusteer, iPhone users are the most vulnerable.
When you call the number the text gives you for your bank, you're actually connecting to the scammers, who ask for your account number, PIN, Social Security number – the raw material of identity theft.
Bogus bank alerts…
Bogus bank alerts lead in smishing attacks. But you may also get texts promising a free laptop, mortgage assistance or lottery winnings. A message may just say, "Short on cash? Reply here!" One new come-on is a supposed free security app to get you to click on a link that in fact downloads identity-stealing software to your phone.
Whatever the method, the goal is the same: to get your personal information and money.
The Federal Trade Commission recently moved against a firm that was allegedly offering phony government loans by text. Five and a half million text messages were sent to cell phones in just 40 days — roughly 85 per minute, according to the commission. This firm also is alleged to have sold the numbers of people who replied asking to be removed from the list.
So here's your defense:
- Don't reply. Even sending a "remove" or "stop" response to a smishing text tells scammers that your number is active, meaning you may get more messages.
- Don't click on links in texts sent to you by unknown parties.
- Block suspicious numbers. Your cell phone provider may be able to block numbers where the texts and calls originate.
- Your bank is texting you? Look up its number yourself — don't trust the one provided in the text — and call.
- Don't store credit card and account login information in emails or notes on the phone.
- Set your phone to time out and lock after a short period. If it's stolen, thieves won't get personal information.
- Install updates. When you receive a bona fide notification of an upgrade to your phone's software, install it immediately. If you doubt the message is legitimate, call your cell or app provider.
Article: Beware Of Texting Scams! Are Texting Scams Real?
Article Source: AARP
Author: David Horowitz


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SAO PAULO (AP) — The confessed killer of U.S. nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang has been released from jail after serving less than nine of the 27 years he was sentenced to back in 2005, officials said Thursday.
The judiciary branch of the northern state of Para Thursday said on its website that Judge Claudio Henrique Rendeiro ruled that Rayfran das Neves Sales was entitled to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest. Neves is prohibited from frequenting bars, must sleep at home and find a job. He was released on Tuesday.
Neves, who served eight years and eight months, confessed that in 2005 he shot Stang six times on a muddy Amazon road. Two accomplices, Clodoaldo Carlos Batista and Amair Feijoli da Cunha, are serving 17 and 18 years, respectively.
Stang was born in Dayton, Ohio, and spent three decades trying to preserve the rain forest and defending the rights of poor settlers who confronted powerful ranchers seeking their lands in the Amazon's wild frontier.
Para state is notorious for land-related violence, contract killings, slave-like labor conditions and wanton environmental destruction.
In Brazil, killings over land are common and seldom punished as powerful landowners clash with farmers and others for control of lucrative farming and logging land. The killings are mostly carried out by gunmen hired by loggers, ranchers and farmers to silence protests over illegal logging and land rights.
According to Brazil's Catholic Land Pastoral group, more than 1,150 rural activists have been slain in the country over the past 20 years, but fewer than 100 cases have gone to court since 1988. Out of those cases, courts have convicted just 15 men for ordering killings.
Jose Batista Afonso, one of the group's lawyers, told the G1 news website that placing Neves under house arrest "gives the impression that crime pays and that impunity prevails."
Phone calls to the land pastoral group went unanswered.
In May, the Supreme Court has annulled the trial and conviction of Vitalmiro Moura, a rancher who was arrested on suspicion of ordering Stang's murder.
The court said Moura was not given enough time to prepare his defense in 2010 when he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. The court said Moura will remain behind bars until he his retried at a yet-to be scheduled date.
Regivaldo Galvao, another rancher, was also convicted of ordering Stang's killing. The Supreme Court ordered his release last year, saying he had the right to remain free pending the outcome of his appeal process. He was sentenced to a 30-year jail term in 2010.


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Police: Two Gorham Dunkin' Donuts break-ins done by same manBy JOHN KOZIOL
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February 11. 2014 8:16PM
GORHAM — A Maine man apparently liked the Dunkin' Donuts shop on Main Street so much that authorities believe he broke into it not once, but twice, most recently early Sunday morning when he was allegedly caught inside.
Glen Michaud, 51, of Norway, was arraigned electronically via closed-circuit video Monday from the Coos County Jail in West Stewartstown in front of Judge John Cyr in the First Circuit, District Division in Berlin, on multiple counts related to break-ins at the restaurant on both Jan. 30 and Feb. 9.
Berlin district court officials on Tuesday said Michaud was charged with two felonies — burglary and criminal mischief — as well as possession of criminal tools, a misdemeanor, in connection with the latter, alleged crime. He was also charged with felony burglary and possession of burglary tools, but misdemeanor criminal mischief, for the alleged former one.
Cyr ordered Michaud not to travel out of the state and to be held on a cumulative $10,000 cash or surety bond at the county jail pending a Feb. 25 probable-cause hearing at 10:30 a.m. in the Berlin District Court.
Officials at the county jail confirmed that Michaud was still in their custody as of late Tuesday afternoon.
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Most new traders read the standard trading advice that states "risk control, not trade timing or signal generation, is the key to long-term success." Yet most, myself included, completely ignore this advice.
"These are things I can pick up as I go along," was the thinking. "First, I need to sort out my entry signals."
My first account, like many first accounts, blew up; then my second and very nearly my third, before I started to think there might be something to this risk management thing so many successful traders talk about. Sure enough, I revisited my educational material, took risk management more seriously, and gradually my results started to improve.
I say "gradually" because it was not just a case of learning the concept. Knowing about risk and money management rules is not the same as implementing them consistently. Once I was able to do this, however, my third account recovered and remains the primary account that I trade today.
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The first rule relates to money management. There are a thousand different definitions of the term, but simply put, money management is the act of ensuring that no matter the results of your trading operations, you will always have enough capital to place another trade. The rule is to never risk more than 2% of capital on any one trade. By sticking to this rule, logic dictates that available capital will never dry up.
Imagine you open your first account and fund it with $10,000. Two percent of your account is $200. You place your first trade risking this this $200, and you lose. You now have $9,800 in your account and must recalculate. Risking $200 no longer represents 2% of your account. The most you can risk on any trade now is $196. You do so, and again you lose. You now have $9,604 in your account, and can only risk $192 on your next trade.


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It's not often that the heads of three Vatican congregations assemble for a press conference. It's happening next Friday, when the Vatican releases a "Doctrinal Note on Some Aspects of Evangelization."
On the dais will be U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which prepared the new text; Cardinal Francis Arinze of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments; and Cardinal Ivan Dias of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. They'll be joined by Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the doctrinal congregation.
A few things are worth mentioning here. First, the topic of evangelization — broad as it is — touches on issues that have been simmering at the Vatican for several years, including the relationship between mission, dialogue and inculturation. More specifically, the doctrinal congregation has long been concerned that in some areas where Christians are a small minority, evangelization has been watered down or "relativized," with not enough focus on Jesus Christ.
The three cardinals at the press conference will each speak to their area of expertise, sources said. It's obvious why Cardinals Levada and Dias would be present. It's a little less clear what Cardinal Arinze will address, although questions about liturgical inculturation — adaptations to local cultures — fall into his domain. All three are members of the doctrinal congregation.
Perhaps most interesting is that they're having a press conference at all. When the doctrinal congregation issued two documents earlier this year — one on the Catholic Church as the one true church, the other on nutrition and hydration issues — no one was there to answer reporters' questions. Church officials later complained that media reports on the documents were not always accurate. This time around, the Vatican is being more proactive.
The new document is said to be about 18 pages long, and will be released in six languages, including English. All three cardinals at the press conference are English-speaking, but if the usual Vatican format is followed, they'll be giving their speeches and answering most questions in Italian. When in Rome…


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Open source history suggests vendor-backed Eucalyptus will ultimately win out over the foundation-based Open Stack as the open source cloud platform of choice for IT going forward. 'History has shown that when an open source project is dealing with a valuable layer of the software stack, that project has tended to be controlled by a single vendor that can directly make money from the project,' Rodrigues writes. 'History also shows that when an open source project is dealing with a commodity layer of the software stack, the project tends to be controlled by a foundation.' The question then boils down to whether cloud platforms are indeed a valuable layer, and thus directly monetizable, as Red Hat proved with Linux, or are they a commodity layer, like Apache HTTP Server or Eclipse. Ultimately, Rodrigues believes that the private cloud will prove to be a valuable component of the IT stack, thereby favoring Eucalyptus' AWS-based private cloud platform.


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I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
I realize I've missed bit here, but are you one of those 'when the sperm meets the egg' = fully realized human being types?
You are a redneck blowhard, bro. I can see you being a blue collar union factory worker. ObamaCare doesn't seem to be going too well. They can't get their stupid website to work. Most everybody's premiums have skyrocketed and many people are losing their plans as a result of the law despite Obama's consistent promise people could keep their company plans if they liked them. Other peeople are losing their jobs or being reduced to part time as a result of the law. Free healthcare isn't a right. The main reason you work is to pay for your healthcare costs and your food and shelter. You are basically sayig people have the right to other people's money which seems like a violation of private property rights and wealth redistribution. You cry about the commi label but then you advocate Karl Marx.Poor people are already eligible for numerous government programs to help them that we have paid for with our taxes. We are overtaxed, so if the poor are not being supported with our tax dollars that is on the politicians who are throwing it at the special interest groups like unions to secure their votes. Obama's admin has thrown millions of dollars at solar power compnanuies who have since gone bankrupt because that isn't a profitable market. We are subsidizing corporate failures yet you claim we haven't paid taxes to support the poor. lol Nothing stops you and other leftwingers from paying more taxes if you think the government deserves more money. Pretty sure you don't do that and in fact you look for tax breaks and take them to save as much money as possible. So you are hypocrite on the tax issue. You are justing trying to make abortion issue about anything other than the abortion issue. Is it life. Should we terminate life simply because it is an inconvenience for the parents? All you are doing is trying to rationalize abortin but the solution to problems is not kill babies if they are alive. Civilized peoples understand this concept. Boom. I Am Legend.
Quote from: Anfauglir on November 06, 2013, 04:38:47 AMQuote from: DrTesla on November 05, 2013, 09:54:45 PM if people sayh abortion is ok why would they go adoption route.I'll ask it again. DrTesla, how many children have you personally adopted?Second question: if adoption is such a universal panacea for unwanted children, why are there any children currently in orphanages or foster care?How many of the former slaves did your great grandparents give shelter and food to when they were freed back in the 1860's? If none, does that mean we shouldn't have banned slavery?
Quote from: DrTesla on November 05, 2013, 09:54:45 PM if people sayh abortion is ok why would they go adoption route.I'll ask it again. DrTesla, how many children have you personally adopted?Second question: if adoption is such a universal panacea for unwanted children, why are there any children currently in orphanages or foster care?
if people sayh abortion is ok why would they go adoption route.
I will not apologize for loving babies.
I'll ask it again. DrTesla, how many children have you personally adopted?
PP,For the millionth time "lose" not "loose". You write "loose" for "lose" one more time, I'll smite you. It bothers me that my uneducated self can spell better than you and I'm on a phone that doesn't recognize actual words.-Nam
Quote from: Nam on November 07, 2013, 02:49:43 AMPP,For the millionth time "lose" not "loose". You write "loose" for "lose" one more time, I'll smite you. It bothers me that my uneducated self can spell better than you and I'm on a phone that doesn't recognize actual words.-NamI'm trying real hard to come up with a snarky reply while simultaneously admitting that somewhere along the line, probably in an English class where I always barely got C's, I missed the distinction between those two words. Or I forgot. You have my wholehearted permission to smite me the next time I do this, but I plan on cheating. I'm going to have a six year old check my spelling and word usage.Here, I'm gonna test myself. Lose.Got it. I'd thank you profusely but I don't want to damage your street cred.
Apparently so.
If the anti-choice people were truly serious about their crusade to 'save every embryo' then we'd be seeing real attempts at reduction of the need for abortion in the first place. Generally speaking that doesn't happen, which leads me to think it's a religious issue not based on critical thinking.
http://miscarriage.about.com/od/riskfactors/a/miscarriage-statistics.htmMost doctors agree that seeing a fetal heartbeat on ultrasound means the risk of miscarriage is much lower. Confirmation of a fetal heartbeat means that the baby has passed the initial stages of development wherein the majority of first trimester miscarriages occur.It's hard to pick a specific number for the risk of miscarriage at this point. Some cite numbers like a 4-5% risk of miscarriage at this point, but studies show a widely varying risk based on individual factors. The one thing that's safe to say, however, is that seeing the baby's heartbeat is a good sign. It means the baby is growing as it should be, and there's little reason to be concerned at this point.Unfortunately, there is one exception to this rule. A slow fetal heart rate (less than 100 beats per minute) may signal an impending miscarriage, though this isn't true in 100% of cases.The majority of miscarriages occur in the first trimester.Over 80% of miscarriages occur before 12 weeks, so the chances look good for a healthy baby once you've finished the first trimester. Again, many individual factors are in play, but if 15-20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage and 80% of miscarriages occur in the first trimester, a safe estimate would be that in the general population the risk of pregnancy loss after 12 weeks is 3-4%. After 20 weeks, when a loss would be termed a stillbirth rather than a miscarriage, the risk is around 1 in 160.
I will not apologize for loving babies.
We've got several of the most contrary kind of theists on the boards right now, and we're talking about smiting over grammar and/or spelling?
To touch on a previous point (and excuse me if this has been mentioned in the long thread of posts) but there is a disconnect with believers who are against abortion by point of fact that God has designed life in such a way that most fertilised eggs/embryos are spontaneously aborted naturally. Most of these are unbeknownst to the carrier.What this means is that God has ultimate responsibility for literally BILLIONS of aborted foetuses over time.Or in another way, God loves abortion.http://www.skepticink.com/tippling/2012/09/29/god-loves-abortion/


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