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I sincerely believe that the Endangered Species Act, when passed, was done with only lofty motives and the best of intentions. Numerous species of plants, animals, etc., were reportedly fast heading toward extinction and man's activities were blamed.
Under the law as passed, habitat on government controlled land had to be protected and preserved. Destruction of habitat was seen as the chief culprit at that time.
Diversity among all species — no matter how useless — all varieties of every living thing should continue to exist. (Somehow "survival of the fittest" was dropped from the lexicon and equation.)
Man's progress was seen as uncaring greed in the eyes of many of the bill's early proponents and certainly so with many in the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and surprisingly to a lesser degree in EPA, which in its early days had "bigger fish to fry" (no pun intended!).
Notable confrontation took place. For example you all may remember a major canal/lock and dam project on the Tennessee/Tombigbee River was held up for years because of a (later discovered faulty) determination that the habitat for the "snail darter minnow" around the site for the Tellico Dam would be damaged and that this fish might become extinct since at this time this was its only known habitat.
The sad fate of the timber industry in the Northwest due to the "spotted owl" also brings to mind some of the absurdities in implementation of a well-intentioned law.
Most recently we have egregious examples of water being reserved for a sucker fish and farm lands dependent upon irrigation denied water from the lake in which the fish lives. After denying water until it was too late, the Bureau of Land Management finally determined that the calculation about how much water there was in the lake and how much the "sucker" needed were initially in error. Therefore, some water could be released.
Only a short few weeks ago there were reports — still under investigation — that alleged that the death of four forest fire fighters had been caused by a denial of permission for helicopters to withdraw in time water from a protected lake because of ESA considerations. Now this goes too far — when human lives were lost due to spread of a fire which could have been prevented had water been made available sufficiently early. The fire was allowed to get out of control while authorities dawdled.
All these events and countless other unlisted ones resulted from unintended consequences of illogical but unbending obedience by bureaucrats to the exact letter of the ESA. Such being the case — something needs to be changed. Because of environmentalists' pressure to date our Congress hasn't had the guts to straighten this mess out. The intent of the law was good but flexibility must be allowed.
The law doesn't have to be done away with — but it sure does need fixing!


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Ousted Egyptian leader's family denounces military
CAIRO (AP) — The family of ousted President Mohammed Morsi furiously denounced the military Monday, accusing it of "kidnapping" him, and European diplomats urged that Egypt's first freely elected leader be released after being held incommunicado for nearly three weeks since being deposed by the army.
The fate of Morsi, who has been held without charge, has become a focus of the political battle between his Muslim Brotherhood and the new military-backed government.
The Brotherhood has tried to use Morsi's detention to rally the country to its side, hoping to restore its badly damaged popularity. The interim government, in turn, appears in part to be using it to pressure his supporters into backing down from their protests demanding his reinstatement.
Those protests again turned violent Monday, with clashes breaking out between Morsi supporters and opponents near Cairo's Tahrir Square, and between pro-Morsi demonstrators and police in a city on the capital's northern edge. At least four people were killed.
More clashes erupted early Tuesday, with the Brotherhood claiming that one person was killed when police opened fire on a pro-Morsi march in Cairo. Police and health officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
So far, however, the outcry over Morsi's detention seems to have gained little traction beyond the president's supporters, without bringing significantly greater numbers to its ongoing rallies around the country.
Millions of Egyptians filled the streets starting June 30, demanding the president's removal after a year in office and leading to the coup that ousted him. Anti-Brotherhood sentiment remains strong, further fueled by protests that block traffic in congested city centers and by media that have kept a staunchly anti-Morsi line. Egyptian human rights groups have said he should either be freed or charged.
Behind-the-scenes talks have been taking place through mediators between Brotherhood figures and the interim government — centered around releasing Morsi and other detained leaders of the group in return for an end to protests by his supporters, according to Mohammed Aboul-Ghar, head of a liberal political party that backed the president's overthrow.
The military fears that Morsi's release "would only increase protests and make them more aggressive," he told The Associated Press. At least five other prominent Brotherhood members have also been detained. The military also has said that there is no way the measures taken against Morsi will be reversed.
The Brotherhood so far seems unlikely to make a deal, saying it cannot accept a military coup. It and other Morsi supporters vow they will not stop protests until he is returned to office, and they have said there will be no negotiations with the new leadership unless it accepts his reinstatement. They have denied any back-channel talks are taking place.
In a toughly worded statement Monday, the Brotherhood laid out a plan for resolving the crisis that was little changed from what Morsi proposed in his final days in office. It said Morsi must first be reinstated along with the now-dissolved upper house of parliament and the suspended constitution, followed by new parliament elections that would start a process for amending the constitution, and then a "national dialogue" could be held.
It denounced those behind Morsi's ouster as "putschists" and accused "coup commanders, with foreign support" of overthrowing "all the hopes in a democratic system."
Interim President Adly Mansour repeated calls for reconciliation in a nationally televised speech Monday evening. "We ... want to turn a new page in the nation's book," he said. "No contempt, no hatred, no divisions and no collisions."
Morsi was detained July 3, when Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the army chief, announced his removal. He is held at an undisclosed location and has had no contact with family or supporters. Government officials have said only that he is safe, is well-cared for and is being held for his own protection.
Two of Morsi's children lashed out at the military over his detention, saying his family has not been permitted to see him since then.
"What happened is a crime of kidnapping," one of his sons, Osama, told a Cairo news conference. "I can't find any legal means to have access to him."
The younger Morsi, who is a lawyer, called his father's detention the "embodiment of the abduction of popular will and a whole nation," and said the family will "take all legal actions" to end his detention.
In a statement read by Morsi's daughter, Shaimaa, the family said it held "the leaders of the bloody military coup fully responsible for the safety and security of the president."
European Union foreign ministers called for the release of Morsi and "all political detainees," saying it was among their key priorities for Egypt's new leadership.
The United States has stopped short of calling for his release. The White House repeated its call Monday for the end of politicized arrests and detentions. But spokesman Jay Carney said of Morsi: "We believe his situation needs to be resolved in a way that is consistent with the rule of law and due process and allows for his personal security."
"This is an issue that goes beyond one individual," he said, adding that resolving Morsi's situation wouldn't end the broader conflict in Egypt.
Prosecutors have said they are investigating allegations that Morsi and Brotherhood officials conspired with the Palestinian militant group Hamas to carry out a 2011 attack on prisons that freed Morsi and other Brotherhood leaders from jail during the 18-day uprising against autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
However, the prosecutors have not formally ordered Morsi detained for investigation, meaning his detention effectively remains outside the legal system.
Prominent rights activist Hossam Bahgat said a coalition of rights groups are preparing a joint call for Morsi to be indicted over the deaths of dozens of Egyptians in street riots and protests under his rule.
More than 40 people were killed in January in clashes with security forces. A month earlier, 10 others were killed when supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood clamped down on anti-Morsi protesters staging a sit-in in front of the presidential palace. Several activists, arrested in street protests, were killed during torture.
But Bahgat noted that charges on those deaths would put the new leadership in a difficult position because it would also require indicting the current interior minister, in charge of police, who held the post under Morsi as well.
Instead, authorities are turning to "more politicized cases," said Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. "All what is circulating now is more of a fiction than real."
"Now he is being held hostage to political negotiations and it depends on the deal, his fate will be decided."
Morsi's supporters have been holding protests and street marches nearly every day in Cairo in addition to sit-ins that have gone on for weeks in several cities. The marches have repeatedly turned violent, with dozens of mostly Morsi supporters killed.
Abdel-Sattar el-Meligi, a prominent former Brotherhood figure, said the group is hoping that protests can rally wider popular support. So far, however, "these are just very desperate attempts," he said.
"The Brotherhood failed to estimate the real anger in the street, the political weight of their opponents," he said. "The Brotherhood has exhausted all their credit in all levels."
In the pre-dawn clashes that erupted early Tuesday, Brotherhood spokesman Mahmoud Zaqzooq said a 35 year-old male lawyer was shot dead when police opened fire on a pro-Morsi march as it passed by a police station near the site of the main sit-in organized by the Brotherhood. Earlier, security officials said the armed forces had set up road blocks to stop the march from reaching Cairo International Airport.
Zaqzooq said clashes also erupted in the pre-dawn hours in Cairo's sister city of Giza when unidentified assailants attacked a pro-Morsi sit-in there. The police and military intervened to break up the fierce fighting between the two sides.
Earlier Monday, Essam el-Erian, deputy head of the Brotherhood's political party, urged protesters to "besiege" the U.S. Embassy and expel the ambassador, stepping up the group's accusations that Washington backed the coup. Morsi's opponents, in turn, accuse the U.S. of supporting his presidency.
Several hundred Islamists tried to march toward the U.S. Embassy hours later, passing near Tahrir Square, where Morsi opponents have been camped. Rock-throwing clashes erupted between the two sides, and gunshots were heard, though it was not clear who opened fire. Both sides were seen to have what appeared to be homemade pistols.
One Morsi opponent was killed and dozens of others wounded, some by birdshot and two by live ammunition, said George Ihab, a doctor at a field clinic set up by the anti-Morsi camp.
Several anti-Morsi demonstrators said the ousted president's supporters attacked their people guarding an entrance to Tahrir near a bridge over the Nile River.
"They attacked us from Qasr el-Nil Bridge with birdshot and live ammunition and molotovs," said Ahmed Korashi, whose hand was burned from what he said was a firebomb.
In a tweet, the Muslim Brotherhood denied its supporters attacked, saying its protests are peaceful.
Clashes also broke out in Qalioub, north of Cairo, when pro-Morsi protesters blocked a highway between the capital and the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria, security officials said. The security forces demanded the road be cleared, and protesters fired ammunition in the air. Clashes erupted with protesters throwing stones and security forces firing tear gas.
At least three people were killed, including a 15-year-old and an 18-year-old who died of gunshot wounds, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.
Security officials said the body of a 33-year-old textile worker, Amr Magdy Samak, was found near the sit-in with signs of torture. His body had bruises and his nails had been torn off, the officials said, adding that the death was under investigation.
In the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, suspected Islamic militants attacked security checkpoints in the town of Sheikh Zuweyid and the nearby city of el-Arish, killing a civilian and a soldier. Three soldiers were wounded, security officials said. A string of militant attacks in the Sinai since Morsi's fall has killed 15 members of the security forces and at least five civilians.
Associated Press writers Ashraf Sweilam in el-Arish, Egypt, and Raf Casert in Brussels contributed to this report.

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Cisco's Web 2.0 enthusiasm helps profits climb
CEO hails second major internet phase
Cisco Systems said yesterday that it saw a 25 per cent jump in net income in its fourth quarter, buoyed by the growing popularity of Web 2.0 technologies.
The San Jose, California-based networking behemoth reported a $1.4bn jump in sales (more than 18 per cent) for the Q4 period ended 28 July 2007 as customer demand for network upgrades rose.
It said web-based collaboration service WebEx, which Cisco bought earlier this year for $3.2bn, as well as its teleconferencing system Telepresence, were affecting a change in business operations.
Cisco, which has continued to go from strength-to-strength following healthy growth over the past few quarters, reported net income of $1.9bn or $0.31 per share.
In a separate statement, Cisco's chief executive John Chambers said yesterday the firm would raise the sales growth target to an ambitious 12-17 per cent per year. It had previously been aiming for 10-15 per cent.
Chambers said: "Most important in what we believe will drive Cisco's growth for the next decade is what we are calling the second major phase of the internet's effect on business and communications.
"We believe this phase two of the internet will result in dramatic innovation and productivity increases enabled by collaboration and Web 2.0 technologies."
The switches and routers giant diversified its investment interests somewhat during fiscal 2007 by swallowing up 11 businesses that have included social networking and email security companies.
Cisco also announced yesterday that the firm's chief financial officer Dennis Powell will be replaced by Frank Calderoni. Powell will retire at the end of January 2008 after handing over to Calderoni.
Chambers said: "Now - as we enter a new cycle for the business - is the time [to] evolve our financial leadership team."
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Charlize Theron carries her little guy Jackson through LAX Airport to catch a departing flight on Saturday (June 16) in Los Angeles.
The 36-year-old actress was joined at the airport by her Snow White and the Huntsman co-star Kristen Stewart!
Kristen headed out to Australia to prep for the premiere of Snow White, slated to take place on Tuesday (June 19). Also set to attend the premiere are Chris Hemsworth and the film's director Rupert Sanders.
Kristen and Chris will also make an appearance together on the popular Aussie morning show Sunrise later in the week!
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Inhalation of Anesthetic Isoflurane and Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathogenesis
Zhongcong Xie, M.D., Ph.D.
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Studies in animals have suggested that inhaled anesthetics may increase the number of amyloid plaques, one of the key pathological features of the Alzheimer brain. It is currently unknown whether this effect occurs in humans or whether inhaled anesthetics increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease or its rate of onset.
Several studies, including some performed Zhongcong Xie, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues, have found evidence that the inhaled anesthetic isoflurane can cause biochemical changes associated with Alzheimer pathology. Such changes include (1) activation of enzymes called caspases, which may contribute to the formation of neurofibrillary tangles, another key pathological feature of Alzheimer's; (2) production of beta-amyloid, the key component of amyloid plaques; and (3) the death of brain cells. These studies have been performed in cultured cells or other isolated model systems. It is not known whether isoflurane causes similar changes in the brains of living organisms.
Dr. Xie and colleagues have proposed to study the effects of isoflurane in the brains of mice that have been genetically altered so that their brains develop a disease that mimics Alzheimer's disease. The researchers will focus on how isoflurane affects the activity of caspases, the production of beta-amyloid and the survival of brain cells. They also propose to perform similar experiments in human brain tissue from patients who received isoflurane during surgery to remove brain tissue affected by epilepsy. These studies should help to clarify whether isoflurane anesthesia increases a person's risk for Alzheimer-like brain plaques.


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So now I'm going to have to hit you with a load of catch-up posts, the first of which is this rather cool London Bus we made.
It's easy-peasy. Really, really. And it looks great. And it's cheap. And infinitely variable. Really, what's not to like about a craft like this?
We did not entirely make this up - it's based on something we saw on Disney's Art Attack programme. But ours is better, so ner.
For the London Bus variation, you need:
- 2 large, empty egg cartons
- white card
- glue, scissors, felt-tip pens
- paint
First, stick the cartons on top of each other. I used a hot glue gun (my new favourite tool) because it's fast, but any strong glue will do.
When that's dry, paint the bus red. We used acrylic paints so only needed one coat to get pretty good coverage. I'd have done another coat, but Henry was having none of it.
While that's drying, make the windows, wheels and lights. We just cut out window shapes, outlined in black marker, and then drew on people. We also did a driver at the front. If I'd been better organised, I would have got us some Playmobil catalogues and cut out people from them, which would also, I think, have looked cool.
The wheels were circles of card painted black, with smaller circles of white card stuck in the middle. And the lights were small circles painted yellow.
When paint on the egg cartons has dried, stick on the windows and wheels.
Ta-da! Finished and ready to hit the London traffic:
You could do any number of variations of this: yellow school bus, trucks and lorries, taxi (using small egg carton), tractor (using small one stuck on a large one) etc.


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(Sorry Kimbo, that goes for fluffers too.)
Though the fighters involved in EliteXC's "Saturday Night Fights" event stand to make record amounts of money from sponsorship deals, the way the fighters represent those sponsors is being strictly regulated by CBS. As FiveOuncesofPain reports:
[W]hile fighters can wear hats during their cage-walk entrance, they must wear an EliteXC hat while in the cage during their post-fight interview. The respective corner of a fighter also cannot drape a banner on the inside of the cage. Banners can only be displayed on the outside of the cage and can only advertise the fight camp that the fighter is representing.
Of course, CBS must give their blessing before a sponsor's name is allowed anywhere in a fighter's appearance, and not all sponsorships have made the cut. The most prominent 86′ing is that of Reality Kings, the porn web site company that Kimbo Slice used to bodyguard for, and which has had a visible place on Slice's clothing and signage during his professional fights. As Gary Shaw said during a conference call on Thursday, "We understand what's socially responsible, and CBS has a very high standard for standards and practices. And every logo we put on or whatever we do goes through CBS in their standards and practices."
Disassociating MMA from porn is unquestionably a wise decision for this historic broadcast, and we can only hope that Mauro Ranallo has to submit all of his kooky metaphors for approval before the event as well. A girl-on-girl cagefight on national TV is edgy enough. Baby steps, people…Read More DIGG THIS


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I'm thinking you need to give a tutorial on your beautiful spot light photos. How do you DO THAT? Gorgeous display. I too put up the tree before Thanksgiving. <3ReplyDeleteReplies
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- AnonymousNovember 24, 2012 at 4:08 PM
Did you change out the art above your couch? It's gorgeous and so wintery! Wondering if you leave it up all year ... considering where I live, it would be pretty "in season" all year!ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, I did! It's from Target. I think I will leave it up all year, it's pretty neutral. And I love winter!Delete
We put some up today. We live in a small apartment so I've got a Rudolph door cover, a tiny hot pink tree, and two tubs for storage covered in winter fleece throws. It's not much, but it's fun. I went shopping Thursday night/Friday morning and my best finds were all at Kohl's. I love that store.ReplyDeleteReplies
It cut out of my comment, but I also love your stocking holders with the letters :) I cannot find a Q anywhere!Delete
love love love your christmas decorations! i really love the wreath on the mirror! happy holidays! xoReplyDelete
Ours were up before Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
So pretty! I love the decorations, especially the stockings! : ) Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
We're doing a homemade Christmas tree this year, with popcorn, cranberries, dough ornaments, and those lovely paper chains the kids love to make. I can't wait to get started!ReplyDeleteReplies
Popcorn!! I can't believe I didn't think of that. I wanted something different on the tree this year-that would be perfect.Delete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2012 at 8:19 PM
So fun!!! Check out 100percentmadebyme.blogspot.comReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2012 at 9:03 PM
Beautiful! And I love the bokeh. Maybe I'll get that down this year.ReplyDelete
Are those sweater slippers a diy? I've been wanting to try my hand at making something like that. They are super cute, and very cozy looking!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Your home is so beautiful Disney!! The wall color is really lovely with your Antiques sign and furniture and accessories. What is the art in the big white matted frame in your living room?ReplyDeleteReplies
It's just a picture frame that I got on Target clearance 8 years ago(wow). I hot glued small silk ranunculus flowers to the outside in a square shape. I'll have to show a better picture of it sometime!Delete
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2012 at 6:02 PM
These pictures are so, so pretty! Really lovely photography! And I love those slippers. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you so much! The slippers are from Costco. Love them!Delete
Beautiful! I'm way late starting my decorating. Normally I'm a Friday morning after Thanksgiving kinda gal. Thanks for the inspiration and gorgeous photos!ReplyDelete
I love gold and white Christmas decor! You are seriously so creative and inspiring! Thank you! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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- AnonymousNovember 26, 2012 at 2:45 AM
Absolutely love that you've had your decos up for two weeks and been hiding the fact from your neighbours. I made my front door wreath 3 weeks ago and so badly wanted to hang it but it was just too early. The minute I saw a neighbour up on his roof fooling with lights (possibly not even Christmas lights!) that wreath was on the door faster than you can say "whaddya mean you don't celebrate Christmas from mid-October". LOVE your bokeh Christmas light photos too.ReplyDeleteReplies
haha! awesome. I'm really trying not to care what people think when it comes to that kind of stuff...tough habit to break! :o)Delete


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Smartphone Credit Card Processing… Is it secure?
For the most part, smartphone credit card processing solutions have matured enough to the point where it's use is accepted by both merchants and their customers. But even with this widespread acceptance, concern regarding security remains an issue. We trust that the following material will help you put these concerns into perspective.
At the foundation of smartphone credit card processing is the need to keep the customers credit card data secure and unavailable to those that might use this information for fraudulent activity. Smartphones handle much of this by encrypting the credit card data when it's keyed in, only to be decrypted by the processing server. In more simple terms, the data is mixed up in a manner whereas nobody can read the data, except for the party intended, i.e. the processing server. Should anybody be able to capture this data, it would be of absolutely no use.
This is exactly how your internet browser keeps your credit card data secure when you are shopping on a website that starts with "https" vs. "http." When using "https" your browser uses something called "SSL" (secured socket layer) which encrypts the data when you submit the credit card payment form, and that data remains jumbled until it hits the payment server. If someone were to intercept this credit card data, it would be of no use. In fact, much of smartphone security relies on the same "SSL" as does your browser since all this is transmitted on the internet. That's right, your smartphone is using the internet, not your cell signal to process credit cards.
The PCI security standard, which is championed by the credit card industry, requires that credit card data remain encrypted from the point of entry, to the point of processing. This is absolutely imperative to understand when evaluating potential non-compliant applications. In the web example above, lets say the information was entered on a form and processed via a shopping cart connected to Authorize.Net or a similar gateway. That data has to be secure the entire journey, and only Authorize.Net should have the ability to decrypt and read the data. If so, it's PCI compliant. Actually, it's the SSL part of all this that is PCI compliant as that is the part which keeps the data secure.
A Simple Processing Example
1st National offers a series of free application downloads titled "Mobile Merchant Pro" which are available for the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry smartphones. These downloads are geared toward those that have a gateway such as Authorize.Net, Zoomgate, etc., and empower the users of these gateways to process credit card via their smartphones for keyed transactions only (no swipe readers).
The Mobile Merchant Pro application does this in virtually the same manner as an online shopping cart. The information is keyed into a form on the device, and when submitted, it does so through "https" (SSL) so the data is encrypted until it gets to the destination processing gateway. In fact, the Mobile Merchant Pro application doesn't store "any" credit card data at all. What it does store is a reference number for the transaction provided by the gateway. By using this reference number, it can cancel or refund a transaction without ever having to store the credit card information.
So… is Mobile Merchant Pro PCI compliant? No, and it doesn't need to be. Mobile Merchant Pro is doing just what your browser would do and that is to use "SSL" which "is" PCI compliant. Basically, smartphone applications using SSL should seek PCI Compliance if they are storing sensitive data OR if they are using a swipe device.
Swipe Devices & PCI Compliance
From the information above, it appears as though processing credit cards is every bit as secure as any general shopping cart transaction one might submit on the internet if using "https", and that is largely true. But keep in mind that this only applies when actually "keying" in the credit card data. When a swipe device is used, it should also be PCI compliant. That means, you guessed it… the data must stay encrypted from the point of "swipe" all the way to the processing server. The challenge now is that SSL only works on the internet, not on swipe devices so it has to use another method of keeping the data secure.
That means that the swipe device has to include some form of a unique "key" that is also shared by the processing server. It requires this "key" so that it can encrypt/jumble the transaction so that nobody else can decrypt/un-jumble the data. This is precisely why you can see the same type of swipe devices branded by different companies, yet they aren't interchangeable. Each swipe devices needs to be coded specifically for the processing gateway.
Well, lets say we had a smartphone application that worked like this:
- The card data is swiped and the data is encrypted
- The card data was "decrypted" on the smartphone then sent via SSL to the processing server.
Is that PCI compliant? No! It wouldn't be secure because we'd be decrypting that data on the phone, which we can't do. To be PCI compliant, we'd have to keep that data jumbled the entire journey from swipe to processing.
The Real Security Risks
Arguably, the most notable or likely security risk is going to be as it relates to "skimming" credit cards. This is the practice of reading the magnetic swipe information from a credit card which is then used to create a new card. This is the same practice we noted in our article about "Fraud at the pump… Don't be a victim of skimming" Basically, when a non-PCI compliant swipe device is used, the data from a swiped card can be clearly read. So if someone uses a non-PCI compliant reader for a card scan, a criminal can easily use that information to duplicate a consumers card. But if that were a PCI compliant swipe device, they'd get a useless jumble of letters and numbers as we mentioned earlier.
Not all that long ago, merchants could buy Bluetooth card readers that didn't need to be connected to the smartphone or computer. These were convenient for many, but unfortunately, many of those older wireless readers weren't PCI compliant and didn't encrypt the data. As a result, that data flowed through the card reader to the computer or smartphone in a manner that could be easily intercepted by anyone who knew how to hi-jack or monitor that Bluetooth signal.
And while 1st National only uses PCI Certified solutions for our customers, there are providers that offer solutions that are not PCI compliant. Most notably Squareup aka The Square don't have readers that are PCI compliant. But in deference to our competitors processing solution, lets put this into perspective as well. Unlike the Bluetooth example above, their swipe device plugs directly into the smartphone or pad so there's no real concern of that data being intercepted. And if they aren't storing credit card data on the device, or at least doing so securely, that also is not of much concern. So from a Merchants perspective, there isn't much exposure. But if that swipe device doesn't encrypt data, it is at least presumable that the device could be used to skim credit card data. So while the merchant might not be concerned, some customers might be. But alas, customers that don't trust the merchant are not likely to surrender their cards to processing. At least, we'd like to believe that's the case.
Credit Card Processing Security, PCI compliance, etc. are all very detailed subjects. But we hope this information has been of some value; at least in regard to understanding the impact to Merchant and Customer when a transaction isn't secure or compliant. In the coming years, those of us in the US will be migrating away from the magnetic stripe media used today in favor of EMV. The latter will rely on smart-cards embedded in your credit card which makes processing a great deal more secure. But this also means that smartphone processing solutions will also being seeing some changes as they'll require different hardware to read the new cards.


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Le Pen shocks France as far right hits historic heights
Latest update : 2012-04-23
Far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen obtained a surprising 18% of the vote in the first-round of France's presidential election Sunday night. But who will those votes go to in the second round?
Having secured nearly one in five votes cast in the first round of France's presidential election on Sunday, far right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen has the potential to swing what is likely to be a close second round on May 6.
But for the moment, Marine Le Pen is not asking her supporters to choose between incumbent centre-right President Nicolas Sarkozy or Socialist challenger François Hollande. Instead, she is basking in the glory of her surprisingly strong showing – more than 18% of the vote – and touting her party's central message: that the two main parties interchangeably represent the "elite", while she is the one true alternative to the status-quo in French politics.
"Tonight is historic," Le Pen gushed to her supporters gathered in the 15th district of Paris on Sunday. "We are the only opposition to the ultra-liberal, libertarian left-wing."
Smiling and putting her hand to her heart, the National Front leader led the room in singing the French national anthem. A little girl, carried away by the festive atmosphere on election day, ran through the crowds carrying a tricoloured flag.
French elections 2012
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- '100 days...now what?'
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Across the room, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the aging former leader of the party (and father of Marine) looked on with pride. "This is the start of a long road to a future victory," he told a group of journalists. "Marine is the only one offering a path of change."
Marine, the face of the new far right
More than 500 supporters came out to celebrate Le Pen's strong first-round showing on Sunday night. Couples, families, and groups of friends brandishing "Marine for President" banners and decked out in "I Love Marine" pins and red-white-and-blue outfits and makeup, sipped white wine.
The mood was one of pride and accomplishment. "Marine defends the values and traditions of France. That's why I voted for her," said 22-year-old Jérémie. "I handed out pamphlets, I did everything I could, and it paid off."
A more seasoned National Front loyalist, 42-year-old Jean-Christophe, explained his reasons for supporting the candidate. "I'm against legalising immigrants without papers, no exceptions….We're not able to welcome them properly, so we should offer them aid in their own countries," he said.
Others were eager to point Marine Le Pen as a symbol of an evolving, more inclusive far-right party. Whereas her father, who acted as party president from 1972 to 2011, was known for inflammatory racist and anti-Semitic statements, Marine ran a campaign tightly focused on economic protectionism and an exit from the Eurozone.
"People need to stop calling us fascists, Nazis, and racists – it's ridiculous," exclaimed Carl, aged 46, from Corsica. "I like everyone, no matter what the colour of their skin is!"
A 'turning point' in French politics?
According to her supporters, Le Pen's historically strong performance Sunday night catapults her to the centre of the French political scene, making her a force that cannot be ignored by Sarkozy, Hollande, and their respective parties.
"It's a major turning point in French politics," said Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Marine Le Pen's niece. "The candidates in the second round will be obligated to consider our policy proposals and solutions."
Le Pen is expected to clarify her position on the second-round face-off on May 1, just days before the final vote on May 6. National Front Vice-President Louis Alliot suggested on Monday that Le Pen would not formally endorse either candidate "as things stand".
But some National Front voters may feel they have no other option. Antoine, a 46-year-old Corsican, said that his priority was to prevent the left from taking over the presidency and therefore guaranteeing France "a future like that of Greece". He, as well as the four friends who accompanied him Sunday night, will therefore vote – grudgingly – for Sarkozy.
Others will stay home. "Sarko and Hollande are the same," one Le Pen supporter told France24.com. "They're both defenders of executives and big bosses, not the working class – unlike Marine. I'll stay in bed for the second round."
According to a poll published by Ipsos, a French market research company, 18% of National Front voters will vote for Hollande in the second round, while 60% will opt for Sarkozy.
22%, however, have not yet decided.
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An excellent book for you to read in this case would be "Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner", by Scott Cunningham. It has tons of good information in it. The only thing you need to bear in mind is that where Scott refers to "Wicca" he's talking about neo-Wicca. Naturally you won't find any inner-court Wiccan material in it. But other than that, it's a great guideline for a new solitary witch.
Fully agree! Scott's book was one of the first I've read.
Solitary ain't so bad....I've been Solitary from the get go.


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Pair admit guilt in counterfeit goods ring
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two New York residents have admitted their roles in what federal prosecutors in New Jersey have described as one of the nation's largest counterfeit goods smuggling conspiracies.
Thirty-seven-year-old Ke Dao Jiang of Queens and 31-year-old Wu Lin of Maspeth pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark on Tuesday to conspiracy to traffic counterfeit goods.
Prosecutors say ring members conspired to import hundreds of containers of counterfeit goods — primarily handbags, and footwear, and perfume — from China into the United States. These goods, if legitimate, would have had a retail value of more than $300 million.
Authorities say the pair served as wholesalers and worked with other conspirators to distribute fake goods to retailers in New Jersey and New York.
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"Firefox has just turned five, and it's doubtful anybody outside of Redmond begrudges Mozilla's celebrations. The open-source browser now accounts for 25% of the global market, according to figures from Net Applications, and has brought a radical rethink in what we expect from a browser. However, as Mozilla blows out the birthday cake candles, it might also be reflecting on the curse of getting what you wish for. Its success has forced rivals to raise their game, and the past two years have seen Microsoft, Apple and Opera close the features gap significantly."


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Serabi Gold plc ("Serabi" or the "Company") Operational Update
By: Marketwired .
Jan. 17, 2013 02:45 AM
LONDON -- (Marketwire) -- 01/17/13 -- Following the completion of a share placing, which resulted in the issue of 270,000,000 new Ordinary shares in the company and raising of gross proceeds of UK£ 16.2 million, Serabi Gold (AIM: SRB) (TSX: SBI), the Brazilian focused gold exploration and development company announces the following operational update on progress with the development and start-up of gold mining operations at its 100 per cent owned high-grade Palito gold mine, located in Para state.
Commenting on Serabi's recent and planned development work, Michael Hodgson, Chief Executive of Serabi, said, "The board of Serabi is extremely grateful to Fratelli Investments Limited for their support in underwriting the recent share issue. Their investment is a demonstration of their belief in the Palito gold project and the opportunity that the Company has to develop a robust and bigger gold company around this. Serabi has made substantial progress in recent months, and in particular with the dewatering of the Palito gold mine which is now essentially complete, two months ahead of our original schedule. This new funding has already allowed the company to progress towards bringing the Palito mine back into production, which we expect to start before the end of this year."
Project Update:
The company has begun the process of recruiting the personnel and acquiring the equipment required to develop the Palito mine. A project manager was appointed in November 2012 and a key team of senior mining personnel is arriving at site this month, initially to commence work on detailed mine planning and optimisation. An initial team of contract mining personnel will also start work during February with mine development activities.
The Company has entered into an arrangement to rent a jumbo drill rig and an underground loader. In the meantime orders for new equipment have been placed and this underground mining fleet is anticipated to be delivered in the second half of the year in time for the scheduled increase in mine development. Contract negotiations are currently being finalised with a contractor who will supply the specialist mining personnel whilst the Company's employees will undertake the ramp and gallery development activities. Engineering studies on the plant rehabilitation are also underway.
All ore that is mined from development activity over the next nine month period will be stockpiled on the surface. The Company intends to establish a sufficiently large, uncrushed, high-grade ore stockpile ensuring that, once the plant is commissioned in the fourth quarter, a guaranteed ore feed for the first few months of processing is available.
The immediate tasks in the mine are to re-establish mine services (power, compressed air supply and ventilation) and to commence work on ramp deepening and gallery development to establish new stoping panels.
On surface, work will be undertaken to overhaul the primary and secondary crushers, the principle ball mill will be refurbished and re-mounted, flotation cells refurbished or replaced and Serabi's management will be looking to optimise the configuration and operation of the Carbon in Pulp circuit and installing additional leaching tanks if necessary.
Exploration activity has been suspended since the early part of 2012 and it is not planned to recommence exploration work until positive cash flow is being realised from the Palito mining operations can be deployed to finance the next stage of exploration. The Company intends to use the cash flow from the mine to fund the resource drilling programme to further evaluate the discoveries made during 2011 at Palito South, Currutela Creek and Piaui. Management envisages a 12 month resource drilling programme at the end of which, the Company would be in a position to generate a new resource estimate upon which a commercial decision regarding the development and subsequent expansion of the production at Palito can be made.
Commenting on potential transaction-based activity, Michael Hodgson, said: "Looking at the bigger picture, the Tapajos region, where the Palito gold mine is situated, is a very exciting and undeveloped gold area. The Palito mine remains the only licenced hard rock mine and we believe that Serabi's ability to generate cash flow and secure the longer term future for the Company places it in a very strong position relative to its peers in the region.
"Serabi's board believes that given current market sentiment towards the junior mining sector for both explorers and producers, it is essential that some consolidation takes place to create a business of sufficient size to be attractive to a wider investment community. With the outlook for gold prices remaining strong the board feels that having production and therefore cash-flow will enable Serabi to be a core part of any such consolidation and at the same time allow the board flexibility to pursue the most value adding strategy for shareholders."
Serabi Gold plc Michael Hodgson Tel: +44 (0)20 7246 6830 Chief Executive Mobile: +44 (0)7799 473621 Clive Line Tel: +44 (0)20 7246 6830 Finance Director Mobile: +44 (0)7710 151692 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Website: http://www.serabigold.com/ Beaumont Cornish Limited Nominated Adviser Roland Cornish Tel: +44 (0)20 7628 3396 Michael Cornish Tel: +44 (0)20 7628 3396 Fox Davies Capital Ltd UK Broker Simon Leathers Tel: +44 (0)20 3463 5010 Jonathan Evans Tel: +44 (0)20 3463 5010 Blythe Weigh Communications Ltd Public Relations Tim Blythe Tel: +44 (0)20 7138 3204 Rob Kellner Tel: +44 (0)20 7138 3204
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Don't be fooled by all the pretty snow that's fallen in recent days and that's forecast for this weekend: Minnesota remains in a deep drought with no end in sight.
State Climatologist Greg Spoden says the drought has not improved one bit over the winter in Minnesota.
Updated data from the U.S. Drought Monitor on Thursday shows 98 percent of Minnesota is still in a moderate to extreme drought, and the map hasn't changed significantly since late November.
Spoden says the snow on the ground will help recharge Minnesota's wetlands, lakes and streams a bit when it melts. But he says little of it will soak into the frozen soil. So without abundant spring rains, he says, agriculture, forestry, horticulture, tourism and public water supplies could all be in trouble.
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From the stableyard comes a fully armored and chain-swathed Bryce Caron, and if he looked sturdy and heavy before, it's nothing compared to the rather brutal plate and chain he wears now. Heavy gauntlets, thick leather swordbelt that is clasped with a steel buckle, yellow and black surcoat with the songbirds of House Caron, brown gambeson. He carries his helm in his left hand, a rather plain full helm, and in his right hand, he carries a pair of armored boots that usually accompany his armor, but he seems to have switched into his normal boots for the walk. He looks older, more rugged and alot stronger and heavier than his usual garb in discreet doublet and breeches.
There is the sound of clopping hooves across cobblestones, and thereafter the looming presence of a black beast of a horse. Atop his back is quaintly a delicate creature, who looks barely able to climb upon the beast, let alone direct his course.
A groom in Baratheon gold and sable accompanies her, standing well back on his smaller courser as Elanna Penrose draws her mount to a pause. She turns in her saddle.
"I like this new saddle. I feel much more secure. I shall send for Master Lake and thank him. It was most kind," her voice is airy and pleasant in this late afternoon, and she draws aside the veil that mists her features to observe the yard. It is with a quirked brow she notes the presence of the Caron knight.
Bryce stops to give her a bow, followed by clanking of steel and the typical tch-tch of chain mail against chain mail. "My lady Elanna," he says, raising a gauntleted hand to try to wipe off some sweat from his brow with the plate bits, not succeeding very well. "Enjoyed your ride? I thought I saw you when I came in with Frost."
"It was pleasant, as always," Elanna nods her acknowledgement, "And you, Ser Bryce, was your own…exercise sufficient?" Nightmare eyes Bryce's hand with interest as he waved it around, wiping the sweat.
Bryce offers a mildly suspicious look to the huge beast in front of him, but shrugs it off. On his forehead, several droplets of sweat run down and makes the Caron knight blink as they make it past the eyebrows. Even if it isn't completely apparent, the exhaustion in his eyes and his appearance tells of some enormous heat beneath all that armor. "It was sufficient," he says, frowning slightly as he tries to wipe away some more sweat and failing yet again. He looks up at her with a thoughtful gaze. "I shall not wish to keep you, if you were headed to the stables now", he finally says.
"I was," Elanna continues dryly, "You appear as though you could quite do with a dunking in the bay yourself. Has those weeks about ship caused fitness to suffer, Ser, or is it all that equipment you have on? Perhaps I should advise my brother to attend to his own."
Bryce nods. "A month on that ship was not good for me or Frost, and it seems that the sickness on board has weakened me," he frowns at that, shrugging lightly. "I expect it to be back shortly, but for now, the riding does me well." He tilts his head. "Your brother to attend his own.. mount? Or armor."
"His fitness, ser," Elanna answers, with a quirk of amusement upon her lips, "You suffered from movement sickness. A most unfortunate circumstance! It must make any journey of such length a misery indeed. Fortunate are those with cast iron stomachs." Nightmare took a pace or two toward the knight, the yellow tunic seeming to catch his interest.
Elanna twitches the reins, "Now, Nightmare, play nice."
"I see," Bryce says, inclining his head and quickly taking two steps back, resulting in a few more sounds emanating from his armor. It's well fit to his body, however, so it isn't bad at all. Pretending that nothing happened, he nods again. "I suffered for over a week, and then the weakness had me in bed for another." A scowl at the memory, and another attempt to wipe some sweat away that finally results in him, angry and frustrated at the silly gauntlets, unfastening it and tossing it aside so he can finally run a naked hand across his forehead and through his hair to keep it back.
"Well, now at least you have the chance to grow your strength and learn about Nightsong, and what it is to be a Stormlord," Elanna rests her gaze easily upon the man, "I know you heard what I said to my kinsman, Ser Tancred the other day. Did you agree with him?" She quirks a brow.
"I tried not to listen," Bryce admits with a nod, looking back at her as he considers her question. "I find it impolite to intrude in the matters of others like that, but I saw merit in both your words and Ser Tancred's." He pauses to chew some on his lower lip. "I have, however, always held duty in the highest regard, and duty to your House and your father.." He frowns and adds: "Or grand father, as some have it.." Another brief pause, then he is back on track: "Shall always come first."
"If I had not minded my words to be heard, I should have taken Tancred off privately. But you are Stormborn and might do well to regard them. I care not what any say, but no teenager is wholly ready to assume leadership without first being aware of who his supporters are." She pauses for a moment.
"That is how it should be, ser, your duty comes first. Duty to crown, duty to house, duty to your head of house…duty to family. Some make up their own minds as to which order they set those in."
"A supporter only goes as far as his honor, my lady. I would not want to be supported by the sorts who would drag my name through the dirt by offering their support, yet even I have learnt that the Crown needs said individuals.., and that some Houses have taken the role of recruiting along those principles," he offers with something that sounds more like a mutter than well articulated speech, at least the last parts. "But you are of course right, I have also learnt to include 'duty to my elders', at least when it comes to Stormlanders, in that list."
Elanna frowns slightly, "Which supporters do you speak of, Ser? I confess curiosity." Nightmare shifts boredly on his feet, but Elanna taps his flank with the loose end of a rein. He tosses his head grumpily.
A set jaw and a slight frown comes the reply, and the Stormlander knight doesn't reply at first. After a few moments, he wipes some sweat away with his bare hand and leans down to pick up the gauntled. He still doesn't say anything, but finally he offers: "The obvious ones, I do not wish to darken our meeting by uttering the sort of men I speak of."
Elanna sighs, "Ser Bryce, I am no chaste maid to be protected. I never ask a question I would not care to hear the answer to. Is the the Ironman's company you speak of? Is it he that offends? Or are there others closer to home that you are wary of?"
Bryce shrugs lightly. "His kind. I would not want to be the person to associate with them to win their support, yet they are needed. And you could not know of what I meant, sometimes a question is asked where the answer is both unexpected and unwanted," he carefully says while inclining his head in respect.
"Perhaps," Elanna replies enigmatically, she leans forward in her saddle, "Tell me, Ser Bryce, have you spent much time with the Iron Serpent? Or his kind?" She tilts her head queryingly.
"We spent time on the ship together, and I have spent time with many others like him in the war. It could not be avoided." Bryce admits a bit grudgingly, glancing at her to see whatever she might want of him now.
But Elanna just nods thoughtfully, "Lessons can be learned in unexpected places, Knight of the Stormlands. Remember this." She gives him a small smile.
"Be not so proud that those who seem beneath you become beneath your notice also," her words are gentle, "Your pardon now, as I go to the stables. Nightmare does not do well standing so long and still." She nods her head by way of farewell.
-Bryce- does not do well, standing so long and still in the unrelenting heat. He hurries to bow and offer a "I shall remember that, be well my lady," to the mounted lady before he quickly walks away in his full armor, towards the Kitchen Keep and the south to finally be rid of the armor.


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Skip to comments.Church in Wales Recommends Action Against 'Homophobic' Clergy
Posted on 03/18/2011 8:25:51 PM PDT by marshmallow
UPDATE: the full report is here.
The relevant paragraphs would appear to be 22, 29 and 35:
22. It is necessary to provide a policy with guidance to clerics on the dangers of emotional abuse arising out of the inappropriate use of pastoral supervision or theological teaching.
29. The cleric as role model, as seen by children and young people is significant. This needs to be fully recognised and appreciated by the Church in Wales. Inappropriate and unacceptable conduct such as discriminatory behaviour involving aggression, bullying or attitudes such as homophobia should not be tolerated and can in some instances be emotionally abusive. This should be a professional development issue and where necessary, subject to disciplinary procedures.
35. Reference has been made earlier to the need for policy and guidance in relation to certain approaches to ministry within the Church in Wales (see 21 and 22 above). It would be appropriate to initiate a debate on the subject which would include exploring the importance of ensuring responsible attitudes towards age appropriate emotional and spiritual growth. This would ensure that the Church in Wales exercises its duty to protect children and young people from spiritual and emotional abuse.
From the Church of England Newspaper, March 18th:
On March 9, the church released the findings of an 18-month investigation conducted on its behalf by social worker Elaine Cloke of the Childrens Commissioner for Wales office. It called for stricter sanctions for clergy engaged in physical, emotional and spiritual abuse, including homophobic attitudes.
The investigation reviewed 1381 clergy files. Of these 219 were referred for further action.
However, the majority of these referrals related to incomplete service records and other complaints in relation to clergy conduct and personnel issues. Of these cases only five files were identified as containing information relating to child protection and safeguarding which required further action. These were referred on to the appropriate agencies following discussions with the relevant Bishop, the report said.
The police declined to take any action against the five clergymen.
The report offered 36 recommendations for strengthening the Churchs child protection policies, including compulsory child abuse prevention training, increasing awareness of domestic violence, and providing guidance to clergy on the dangers of emotional abuse arising out of the inappropriate use of pastoral supervision or theological teaching. [My italics]
Hmmm. Any further information, anyone?
So, if we disagree with them, we're phobic?
Associating mental diseases with a difference of opinion is what Stalin did.
I agree that clerics should not discriminate against anyone -- this is Biblical. But the Bible also gives rules for dealing with someone who is in the congregation and refuses to live as they should. HOWEVER, the cleric still has the responsibility to preach what is taught in the Bible, regardless of how it is received.
Not a fear, just disdain.
HomoPhobic? Not even close.
My deophobia exceeds my homophobia.
I agree that clerics should not discriminate against anyone — this is Biblical."
Not "discriminate" against anyone? To discriminate against is to treat differently - how about pedophiles? Murderers? and, of course, sodomites? These are all abominations. A clergyman who doesn't discriminate against them inside and outside the pulpit in both word and deed is unfit for office. I would also add that failing to "discriminate" is not Biblical. Our actual obligation is to use Biblical standards when we do.
Discrimination in favor of, and against, some things and some people is not only necessary and unavoidable, to fail to do so would be grossly immoral.
As I stated earlier, the congregation (not necessarily the cleric) has the responsibility to keep it membership free from "defect" (so to speak), and this is Biblical. By the way, when a congregation excommunicates a person, it is a JUDGMENT, not descrimination.
I'll assume you mean that in the sense that "Our God is an Awesome God".
With all that this implies.....
The Anglican Church is losing members at a record pace. Many in England are converting to Catholicism and joining the new ordinate.
Homosexuality is an intrinsic disorder. It is unnatural. It is an illness. Marxists turn everything upside down....they want to destroy Christianity...That is there no. 1 item to destroy, along with the natural family because "roles" for human beings have to be destroyed to create complete equality.
Biology is denied, Natural Law Theory is denied by these insane people....It is to make the Bible, "Hate Speech" and deny people the freedom of religion—the one religion (with Judaism) which teaches individual rights and dignity to all men and women.
They want to destroy freedom of thought —which this does—it also creates UNJUST law....forces unnatural acts to be embraced which goes against nature—which is unconstitutional in this country because our legal system is based on the laws of nature.
Marxists LIE — they are redesigning the human being to be just an animal with no moral agency. That means they can herd and enslave you. THe homosexual agenda is a Marxist one.
It implies that Scripture provides all we need through faith in Christ, to perform every good work He has ever predestined us to perform.
This is a hope available to the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Whether believers accept what He provides independent of any other, is for them to decide on their own volition, through faith in Christ.
Almost. Agree on the responsibility to share and on being flexible on how that is done!
The cleric and the congregation both have an obligation, not just the congregation. "Discrimination" is judgment plus action. Excommunication is clearly discrimination.
My apologies, I confused this thread with another.
Technically, my AGAPE for God exceeds my fear of homosexuals.
I stated my DEOphobia or fear for God exceeded my homophobia or fear of homosexuals.
"Associating mental diseases with a difference of opinion is what Stalin did."
That should tell you a lot about sodomites and their fellow travellers.
We agree in principle on the approach. I will argue that you are taking words not used in the Bible and applying them to Biblical situations where other Greek words are used. Nonetheless, your approach seems to be one I concur with.
Sorry, I wouldn't have asked had I seen your tag line.
We do have an atheist contingent here on FR as I'm sure you know. Their fear of God is quite different from yours and mine.
One, I have never met or even heard of anyone who had a fear of homos. Not one, ever. Disgust, yes, but that's hardly the same as fear.
Two, parsing that word literally means a "fear of sameness". Does this imply then, that those who insist on 'diversity' must then be 'homophobic'?
So... are they Atheistic or Theophobic?
Satan is claiming victories he has not won, through his mouthpiece, the newspaper. The juxtaposition of unrelated paragraphs creates a false context, making it seem like the report is saying something it is not saying.
Paragraph 22 does NOT establish that disapproval of homosexuality is a form of child abuse, theological, emotional or otherwise.
Paragraph 29, which suggests that "homophobic attitudes" may be a form of "emotional abuse" refers to bullying by others. The role of the priest as a role model, divorced from Paragraph 22, appears related to his role in correcting the abuse of others. Properly read, then, Paragraph 29 calls for proper intercession by the priest to prevent bullying and emotional abuse among children, such as homophobic bullying. It does NOT establish that recognizing the sinfulness of fornication, such as homosexual sex, constitutes homophobia.
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Salve, Alati.
Other than to suppose it's, as you say, a mistake, I for one can't explain it.
Illud exsequi ego certè non possum, nisi tecum idem reri erratum esse.
Junya wrote:Hi.
Now I am thinking I may buy a book of such kind to use when I am off PC. Such a book that gives the original Latin text on the left page, and English translation on the right.
Do you have any recommendation?
I suspect you mightn't achieve what you hope for by practising only one approach, Junya. Would you not imagine both the reading approach and translation exercises are needed? I like to think that you reap the fruits of hard work further down the line (as long as the work is directed).Junya wrote:I hope just reading the sentence with its answer translation will give me the same amount of progress with less labor as tackling the sentence by myself with much labor will.
Apologies, Junya. You already said that you do all three things. I should pay more attention before posting.Junya wrote:I do these 3
paulusnb wrote: Also, what are you more likely to pick up and read at night when you go to bed? I, for one, cannot really see someone going through Cataline as they fall asleep or when they are sitting on some beach in Florida. Catullus maybe, Cicero ...


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Garry Rayno's State House Dome: Hassan to initiate state budget battleBy GARRY RAYNO
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 10. 2013 12:45AM
This week, the real work of the 2013 Legislature begins when Gov. Maggie Hassan unveils her proposed 2014-15 state budget.
Hassan will give her budget address to a joint meeting of the House and Senate at 10 a.m. Thursday in Representatives Hall.
The challenges Hassan and lawmakers face are well-known: little money and growing demands on those resources, and that means difficult choices ahead.
While the challenges are no secret, there are many unknowns: Will the state end the current fiscal year in the red? Will Medicaid expansion be in the budget? Will revenues from expanded gambling or a gas tax and auto registration increases be included?
There are smaller questions, as well. How much additional money will go to the University and Community College systems and to uncompensated care for the state's largest hospitals, and will the Children in Needs of Services (CHINS) program be restored?
Will the Medicaid managed care program finally begin after hitting a road block when hospitals, mental health and other care providers balked at accepting the payment plans proposed by the three companies administering the program?
Several settlements with federal regulators over past Medicaid practices will also have to be addressed in Hassan's budget.
Several lawsuits are outstanding and could have a huge effect on the budget concerning hospital Medicaid payments and mental health services, but those will not be included in the proposed budget because they are not settled.
Unless there is a quick settlement with the State Employees Association on a new master contract, which is unlikely, that also will not be included in the budget Hassan proposes, although governors in the past have hidden money in such things as debt service to cover the cost.
The only likely tax increase included as new revenue would be the tobacco tax, which will automatically increase 10 cents next summer because it will not attain the revenue goals established when it was reduced two years ago.
One area to watch in the budget address will be the assumption about this year's budget and whether there is a surplus or deficit.
With January's revenues taking a nose drive - particularly in business tax returns, though it is a small-revenue month - and with $14 million in refunds for business and interest and dividend taxes pending, the state currently faces a nearly $50 million shortfall at the end of this fiscal year.
Some legislative budget writers have been urging Hassan to address the potential shortfall through an executive order to reduce spending.
Also being eyed as a potential source of money is the state's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Fund, which has about $15 million and is expected to see an additional $15 million soon when the latest carbon allowance auction is held.
The money is supposed to be used for energy efficiency projects, but has undergone some changes from the last legislative session.
Having a pot of money around is always dangerous at budget time, just ask the physicians and providers in the malpractice insurance fund begun by the state several decades ago. Former Gov. John Lynch tried to tap the fund several budgets ago for additional money for his budget plan.
When Hassan gives her address, there will be disappointment for many of the constituencies that supported her in the last election.
That should not be too much of a surprise, however. Since before she became governor, Hassan has been sounding the alarm about the state's financial situation, so her budget is likely to be lean by most standards.
In many ways, it is unfair for a new governor to have so little time to craft a budget proposal, but all first-term governors have to do it.
Hassan will have the spotlight Thursday, and her address will set the tone for the next two years.
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THE DAY: The governor's budget address may be the opening round, but those who want to see what the budget battle really looks like need to be at the State House on Tuesday, Feb. 19.
On this day, Hassan will present her budget to a joint meeting of the House and Senate finance committees at 10 a.m.
This is often a condensed version of the earlier budget address, but budget writers will be able to ask specific questions and raise concerns.
One hour earlier, Sens. Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, and Chuck Morse, R-Salem, will present their expanded gambling plan, Senate Bill 152, to the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
And House Public Works and Highways Committee Chairman David Campbell, D-Nashua, will present House Bill 617 at 10:30 a.m.
Campbell's bill would increase the gas tax from 18 cents to 26 cents a gallon over a three-year period in increments of 3 cents, and increase vehicle registrations by $15 over a three-year period in increments of $5.
The money from Campbell's proposal would be used to pay for the completion of the Interstate 93 widening from Manchester to the Massachusetts border and to fund repairs to the state's crumbling roads and bridges.
The Senate gambling bill would establish one high-end casino along the Massachusetts border, which Hassan has said she would support.
According to the bill, the license holder must invest at least $425 million in the facility.
Although the state is not likely to see any revenues from gambling itself over the next two years, application fees are $500,000, and the license holder would have to pay $80 million. That money would go into the state's coffers during the next two years.
The state would receive 25 percent of the money not paid out in winnings, with the funds used to fix roads and bridges, for higher education aid and for North Country development.
The casino's host community would receive 3 percent, and 1 percent would go to Health and Human Service to establish a program to help problem gamblers.
The battle lines are drawn: gas tax and registration versus expanded gambling. And the budget is the battleground.
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GAMING, TOO: The other gambling-expansion bill, House Bill 665, will have a public hearing the same week on Feb. 21 at 1 p.m. before the House Ways and Means Committee.
The bill's prime sponsor, Rep. Edmond Gionet, R-Lincoln, would have two casinos in the state, one along the Massachusetts border and one in the North Country.
He's wondering why two prominent North Country politicians are not backing his bill and instead are backing the Senate proposal.
Sen. Jeff Woodburn, R-Dalton, is a sponsor of the senate bill which allocates an estimated $5 million annually to North Country economic development.
Executive Councilor Raymond Burton, R-Bath, is also supporting the Senate bill.
Gionet said while the Senate bill provides about $5 million for the North Country his bill would have a casino in the North Country which will create jobs and new businesses while the revenue will go for road and bridge projects.
"This dedicated money will provide construction industry employment opportunities on a statewide basis, including projects on unnumbered state roads, of where there are many in our area towns," Gionet said


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Strategists continue to struggle with many of the perennial issues they identified in the 2011 survey—developing effective implementation plans and aligning corporate and financial objectives. In regards to implementation, the focus is on developing an effective procedure for execution that includes standardized metrics and milestones. Companies newfound focus on long-term planning—looking ten or more years out for game changing opportunities and threats has strategists endeavoring to integrate future or Mega Trends within their planning process. In addition, this emphasis on long-term strategies requires strategists to demonstrate the value of Mega Trend initiatives, even though they may not show financial results for a few years.
When strategist's challenges were analyzed by business model, strategist in B-to-B companies cite challenges with strategy implementation and integrating future or Mega Trends.. However, strategists in B-to-C companies stress additional problems such as: aligning divisional and corporate strategies and integrating sustainability into the corporate plan, in addition to strategy implementation.
To better understand the top challenges, respondents were asked to "root cause" them in terms of staffing, process, technology/systems, or strategic alignment. The root causes ran the full gamut of options from insufficient staff to a lack of strategic alignment on common objectives.
Companies continue to be cautious about resource allocation and corporate strategy functions are not exempt from this. Respondents foresee both budget and staffing levels remaining constant in 2012.
Given the perennial struggle with getting strategies implemented, respondents were asked a series of questions about their implementation practices. Strategists indicate they use a variety of best-in-class implementation practices:
- Employing a dedicated implementation team
- Ensuring that divisions—both business (profit centers) and service units (support functions like Human Resources)—create annual strategies that are aligned with the corporate strategy
- Conducting quarterly strategy execution reviews within the strategy team and with senior management
Despite using these best-in-class practices, most respondents graded their companies as "Average" regarding strategy execution. The divergence between best practices and effectiveness can be explained by additional findings from the survey:
- Implementation teams are understaffed and/or members of the team lack the "right" skill sets
- The clarity of roles between participants in strategic planning is only rated as "Average"
- Technology systems for strategy monitoring are outdated and insufficient for strategists' needs
In conclusion, the interest in Mega Trends for planning coupled with meeting the financial expectations of stakeholders, requires strategists to develop and apply implementation and monitoring processes. To strengthen strategy implementation, strategists need to first set their own house in order: ensure the department has the appropriate people, that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined, and the supporting technologies are up to the task. Secondly, corporate strategy functions need to create greater transparency around roles, metrics and expectations.
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Another View -- Gerald Dumoulin: Banker attacks on credit unions really target consumer choiceGERALD DUMOULIN
March 28. 2014 11:58PM
NEW HAMPSHIRE'S bankers want a greater share of the financial services market. That's quite natural and that's what people who run successful businesses do, but it should not be done at the expense of consumer choice.
The New Hampshire Bankers Association is spending time and money on an effort to restrict the financial choices that the people of New Hampshire have when it comes to choosing where to bank. Rather than winning the business with outstanding products and services, they are wasting time, money and energy trying to impede credit unions, which they view as a competitive threat.
A March 22 Union Leader article by Dave Solomon titled "NH banks to challenge credit unions' tax status" gives air to those complaints. The banks' recent push to tax credit unions relies on a study commissioned by the bankers, which shows that credit unions are growing faster than banks in New Hampshire. It then attempts to show that this growth is a function of the credit union income tax exemption, and it uses the questionable measure of branch location to attempt to demonstrate that credit unions aren't serving low-income New Hampshire residents.
The study connects tenuous points with thin threads. What the story fails to mention is that while bankers are concerned about credit unions taking over the financial services space, New Hampshire credit unions have just 14.7 percent of the total market share of deposits of financial institutions, compared to 85 percent for banks. Credit unions are also locally owned and operated. In contrast, out-of-state banks control 56 percent of deposits of financial institutions in the state, an increase of 12 percent over the past two decades.
The bankers' own study shows 45 percent of the deposits in the top 25 banks and credit unions are held by foreign-controlled banking companies such as Citizens (Royal Bank of Scotland), TD Bank (Toronto Dominion), and Santander. Add the 17 percent that Bank of America has and the percentage climbs to 62 percent.
Much of the out-of-state banking growth is attributed to larger banks acquiring smaller banks over the years. We have no issue with out-of-state banks serving New Hampshire consumers, but those same consumers should have the choice to bank with a local credit union.
There is no question that New Hampshire credit unions are growing, but they are growing because they meet members' needs. Credit unions are there for New Hampshire residents in the good times and the bad. Credit unions did not alter their underwriting policies during the economic downturn, like many other financial institutions, to serve only the best of credit applicants. New Hampshire credit unions have one of the highest loan growth percentages in the country, at 10.39 percent, because they work hard every day to make affordable credit available to members. That benefits not only the members, but also the economy of New Hampshire.
Through cooperative ownership and efficient operation, credit unions help their members save money. Credit union member households in New Hampshire saved an average of $226 over those who did not use a credit union for the period between September 2012 and September 2013.
Reporter Solomon quotes the bankers as saying that this movement toward credit unions "may be good for a group of mostly well off consumers in the short term."
Our data show that more than 40 percent of New Hampshire consumers are members and more are joining credit unions every year. We are certainly not geared to a small slice of the population.
Local cooperative ownership keeps credit unions focused on Main Street, not Wall Street. Consumers get this.
They understand that credit unions look out for their interests, not the interests of shareholders.
In a study conducted in January of this year, a group of New Hampshire voters was asked which type of institution was owned and operated for the benefit of its members or customers - 75 percent indicated credit unions, and 7 percent indicated banks. When asked which kind of institution looks out for the "little guy," 69 percent chose credit unions and 5 percent chose banks.
Credit unions do not want to put banks out of business. We believe in a strong banking system, but New Hampshire also needs a strong credit union system. And most importantly, consumers need choice. We urge the New Hampshire Bankers Association to stop worrying about credit unions and our 14.7 percent of the financial institution deposit market and start worrying about serving their customers.
Gerald Dumoulin is CEO of Guardian Angel Credit Union in Berlin and chairman of the board of the New Hampshire Credit Union League.


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Copyright: Anatra for Antionline.com 2003
We learn to know better them to fight more effectively them
From a few years to this part we are assisting to a great evolution of the computer technologies turned to the safety, and particularly antivirus and firewall have become tools of diffusion of mass, especially with the use of some geographical nets as internet.
Problems caused by virus and by other malignant programs (malware) are by now on the mouth of everybody, and sometimes speak of it (often to blunder) also newscasts and telecasts.
Some years ago to create a virus was indeed an arduous assignment: it needed to have specific knowledges of low-level languages as the Assembler, besides it was necessary to boss in detail the architecture of the systems IBM compatible to be able to check the memory RAM and to be resident in it (TSR) with the purpose to be reproduced themselves on other Files and to infect the whole Computer.
The concepts to be held to mind are simple and proceeding with order we will examine all the principal techniques of viral attack.
Categories of
First of all it needs to distinguish the virii in numerous categories, classifying them as we would do with some biological fetterses, with the purpose to be able to delineate differences and peculiarity.
Departing from the origins the term virus has been coined a few decades ago and therefore today a lot of things are changed and numerous malwares are often considered like virii.
Particularly different from the virii was considered the logical bombs and finally the Worms (today very diffused).
For Logical Bomb we intend a program servant to the purpose to bring damage activating itself in determined conditions.
Numerous of they has often been considered virii, and they have given some bothers to the consumers in determined days of the year, in opportune recurrences chosen by the authors.
The rabbits was called all that programs that, today with modern terminology we would define Denial of Service (DOS). In practice their intent was that to saturate the resources software of a system as time of the CPU, memory, net, etc. Lately we have assisted to bug as that of some controls ActiveX that for a problem of Buffer Overflow could exhaust the resources of system provoking a crash of the whole PC.
Characteristic common to the two introduced typologies it is the fact that both cannot be reproduced themself contrarily of the Worms whose principal purpose is essentially this.
The Worm has the ability to propagate itself online and to install itself on other machine and it often exploits some known bugs that the incompetent or lazy system administrators have not resolved with any patches yet.
Sometimes it is even assisted to real epidemicsto world level that in the arc of few times have struck strategic server and paralysed the traffic of numerous Intranet.
Under categories of Virii
In the eternal struggle to avoid to make to be identified by the antivirii the authors of Malware have given more and more variations to their codes. Here are some examples:
Mutants Virii : they modify their own code every time that they are copied so that not to be able to easily be identified by the antivirii.
Monogrammed virii : the code of the virus is ciphered so that the harmful instructions not to make from the antiviruses recognizable. Before the esecution the crittographic motor decodes all and performs it.
Virii Multiparty : they act both as virus of the boot sector because they enter execution to the start but they spread attaching themself to .exe File.
Polymorphous virii : they are a more sophisticated evolution of the mutants virii.
Trojan and Keylogger
Another category of reference of which I would like to speak to separate way is that of the Trojans of which today there is especially a real thick diffusion from all those people who assuming themself to Hacker tries to cross the road briefest to enter the computer of the victim.
Trojan some years ago meant program that it apparently had function to complete one determined operation while in reality it was destined to mine the safety of a system and to create a breach to be able to enter you an any moment (same meaning of Backdoor: accessed the door of service left open from the malignant author).
Today however the things are changed and in fact the Backdoor or the trojans are often more and more assuming characteristics Stealth disguising themself to the eyes of the consumers (often also of the more sceptics) and allowing a full control of the PC from remote both for what it concerns the visualization of the keys (Keylogging) both through the listen to some conversations of the unaware consumer through the microphone of system.
Examples of backdoor to ample diffusion are Back Orifice and Netbus.
Other programs with function of trojan are really the already quoted Keylogger, applications also used in the investigations developed to computer (computer forsenic) in degree to capture every key pressed by the consumer and able to memorize some vital information as the criptographic keys of programs as PGP.
Macro Virus : with the introduction of new and you advance functionality in application as software of video engages and of spreadsheet has spread this type of attack even unthinkable some years ago.
Rav Antivirus has a page with the statistics of diffusion of the virii adjourned in real time
http//:www.rav.ro/ravmsstats /
another interesting source is the encyclopedia of the virii of AVP that is:
If you look for some information on the antiviruses these pages of the Cert are a good point of departure: there are Links to the present documentation on the various sites of various producers of antivirus, university and public and private corporate body:
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Another new stats page: Mean, Median and Mode from Grouped Frequencies
All feedback welcome!
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
That was a lot more than I knew about it. I will use the page for notes, thanks!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
hi MathsIsFun,
Another good page. I'd not met those formulas for median and mode in grouped tables; I've always worked from a sketch of a cumulative frequency graph; so I derived my own.
For continuous data, taking the median as the (n+1)/2 th value I get
It doesn't make much difference and it's only an estimate anyway, but, for example, with the baby carrots example I get 172.0, compared with your 171.7.
I drew a cumulative frequency graph and found the median from that as 172.
I've done some 'googling' and both formulas came up.
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