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Zero patience for yard sales or classifieds? Send us your maternity and kids' clothes, we'll take care of the rest. The best part? You don't have to wait for your items to sell to get paid. Unlike consignment stores, we pay upfront!
Get paid for the clothes your kids have outgrown - get started today, it's simple and free!
Pack the clothes in one box (up to 5 kg).
We will only buy items that match our selection criteria and only pay for the first 5kg, so be very selective when filling the box and pack a minimum of 20 items.
When you're ready to send, choose one of our 1,200 drop-off points nationwide.
Fill in the form below with your email, cellphone number and chosen drop-off point and you'll receive a waybill (valid for 30 days) to print and attach to your parcel.
Drop the box at your selected drop-off point. The first 5kg are FREE, shipping costs are on us!
Make sure your parcel is scanned in before leaving the drop-off point. Your waybill number is your parcel tracking number.
As we do not work on a consignment basis, you'll be paid for the full amount before the items are listed, either via EFT or in-store credit for a higher payout - your choice.
New or gently used maternity wear and 0 to 8-year-old clothes
We also accept kids shoes that are new or in excellent condition. We will only accept baby grows, sleeping bags, pyjamas, socks, tights, hats, hair accesories and bandana bibs that are in new condition. The maternity clothes have to be maternity-specific wear, not just "large" clothes.
On-trend and in-season
Styles should be on-trend and in-season - think of items a friend would buy for their kid. Even if it is new with tags we will not accept clothing that is out of style.
Freshly-cleaned clothes
Clothes must be and smell clean. We DO NOT accept clothing with mothball smell.
Clothes marked with the name of the child
As long as other labels are still readable and the writing isn't on the fabric itself, we will accept marked clothes.
Over 8-year-old clothing
If the clothes are over size 8y, we won't buy them, except for maternity wear. We do not buy adult-size shoes and adult clothes that are not maternity-specific wear.
Used undergarments, blankets and bathwear
We also won't accept underwear, bras, slippers, blankets, bathrobes and towels.
Well-worn clothes and shoes
No clothing with tears, stains, holes, pilling fabric, damaged and cracked logos or prints, missing buttons, broken zips, damaged seams or with signs of excessive wear will be accepted.
Homemade garments and fakes
We have no doubts on your sewing talents, but only accept professionally manufactured items. All clothes identified as fakes will be rejected.
Clothes without a size label
The size of the garment must be clearly identifiable.
What kind of box can I use to send the clothes?
Any box will do, as long as it is not bigger than 40cm x 40cm x40cm. It must not weight more than 5kg. Our courier company charges us per volume and kilogram, so please note you will be charged R40 for every 5kg over the first 5kg. We will also charge you R75 per additional waybill.
These weight and volume limitations do not apply to Cape Town customers who do not need to request a waybill. They can drop-off at:
- Petit Fox Headoffice in Woodstock (Old Castle Brewery, 6 Beach Road, Unit A108 First Floor), 9am-12pm on weekdays.
FESTIVE SEASON TRADING HOURS - Friday December 20 is the last day with normal opening hours (9m-12pm). Aftter this date it will be on appointment only until January 6th.
Collection can also be arranged.
What should I pack in the box?
We will only buy items that match our selection criteria so please be very selective when sending us the clothes. We also require a minimum of 20 items matching our selection criteria to be sent to us. If too few items match our selection criteria we reserve the right to reject the whole box and you will be charged to have the whole box sent back to you.
How much will I get and how do you decide on the amount?
The amount we give is for the whole box. It depends on style, original price, brand, quality, quantity and category of each item. If the items are judged to be in high demand or a high-quality brand, we will pay you more. We also pay more for items that are new and still have the tag attached, provided they meet our selection criteria. We also take into account the work required to sort, freshen up, style, photograph, list and store clothing and then attract and serve buyers.
Why should I sell to you when I can make more on the classifieds?
You can probably make more money selling individual pieces on the classifieds, but most moms find it's not worth all the extra time and effort required. It's easy to forget how long it takes to take pictures, price items, upload pictures, create ads, answer phone calls and wait for buyers that never pitch up. Selling to Petit Fox often nets more money for much, much less work!
What is the difference between consignment stores and Petit Fox?
When selling kids and maternity clothes to Petit Fox you get paid up front, before the items are sold. With consignment stores, you have to wait for your items to sell to get paid and you have no guarantees that they will sell - or that they will sell at their original price, since they do markdowns to push the sale of your items.
How long will it take before I get paid?
We try really hard to process each parcel as fast as possible. Once the package reaches the Fox Cave, you'll hear from us within 4 weeks and EFTs are made within 15 working days thereafter. Unfortunately we have no control over courier companies and how fast they deliver, so we can't guarantee their time frames, although most parcels reach us within two weeks.
Petit Fox is not a courier company and cannot be held liable for losses incurred by the negligence of the courier company. For any problem during the transport of your parcel, do not hesitate to contact us at the email address email@example.com so that we can trace the information to the courier company and make every effort to assist you with them.
How do you decide on the items you accept?
We are very strict on quality. For your own satisfaction we only buy items that meet our selection criteria. We do not accept low-quality clothing and will select clothes at our own discretion.
What happens to the items you reject?
What might not be sellable on Petit Fox can still be very wearable. The items we did not buy will be donated or sent back to you (R75 per 5 kg box, payable into our account). Please note that clothes not claimed/collected within 10 days will systematically be sent for donation.
If you'd like to get all the clothes back, a R150 fee per box (R75 if you collect from our Woodstock premises within 10 days) is payable into our account, plus any other additional cost linked to the weight of your parcel. If too few items match our selection criteria we reserve the right to reject the whole box and you will be charged R150 to have the whole box sent back to you (to cover shipping costs both ways).

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Friday, July 20, 2007
Unfair sales
Unlike federal antitrust law, the Act protects individual competitors, not competition, and discourages pro-competitive price cutting. In particular, the Act subjects vendors to civil liability - including treble damages and a substantial fine per violation - for cutting prices even if there is no likelihood of harm to competition, and even if the vendors have no intent to engage in anticompetitive conduct.If you need much more proof that it's protecting competitors, look at a position paper of the Wisconsin Grocers Association. they argue that minimum prices are good for consumers, without any explanation for why.
The Institute for Justice is now seeking to help Raj Bhandari, who is being fined $2,500 per gallon of gas he sells below cost. IJ is arguing that retailers like Bhandari are being denied their due process rights in two ways, first by singling out a good for disparate treatment (namely, gas) and second by blocking people engaging in a common commercial practice.
Our friend David Strom from the Taxpayers League will have Lee McGrath and Bob McNamara on their show, Taxpayers League Live, at 10am tomorrow to discuss the case. I suggest you tune in. If you are in Wisconsin, write to your legislators and get them to repeal this law. It would be a good example for us in Minnesota to follow, where there is also a minimum gas price law.
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Bet you didn't know that Rohnert Park has roots (yes, pun intended) as a seed cultivating farm.
We like to play! We have 19 public playgrounds featuring a variety of amenities sure to delight and entertain your entire family.
Our Public Safety Officers have multitasking down. They are highly trained to serve you in both police work and firefighting.
We love animals! There are over 4,100 dogs and 1,200 cats currently licensed in Rohnert Park.
On July 1, 2018 building, planning and engineering fees will be increased. Check out the new pay schedule.
Water Supply
Sonoma County Water Agency (SCWA)
The main source of drinking water for the City of Rohnert's Park comes from the Sonoma County Water Agency. Most of the SCWA's water originates from the Russian River. Approximately 70% of the City's water is supplied by SCWA.
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The remaining 30% is supplied by a series of groundwater wells located throughout the City that are supplied by the local aquifer.
These combined sources supply an average of 1.7 billion gallons of drinking water annually and a daily production average of 4.7 mgd (million gallons per day).
Additionally, Rohnert Park has seven water storage tanks with a total capacity of approximately five million gallons of treated water.
The Water Production Division operates and maintains water storage, pumping, and treatment facilities throughout the water system located within City of Rohnert Park. This division includes five Certified Water Treatment Operators.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
MCT Favorite Stamp/Die of the Month ~ thanks!
9 comments :
- Joan Smith said...
Love your cards they are both so sweet and love too how you shared different ways to use Miss Emma's Stamp/die set of the month I too love this set and your clever and creative ideas are outstanding. YOU so ROCK!!
- February 24, 2015 at 3:05 AM
- Crafting Katie said...
Awesome cards!!! Love the plain bubbles with the layered thanks sentiments on the first one, and your bubble with the phone is too cute on the second!
- February 24, 2015 at 5:00 AM
- jessica said...
Your cards are AWESOME Liz!!! Love all the fun speech bubbles!
Awesome job!
- February 24, 2015 at 5:32 AM
- katieo said...
2 outstanding cards. I love the layers on the first one. The wood grain background looks awesome behind the phone and speech bubble.
- February 24, 2015 at 8:40 AM
- quilt4fun2 said...
I like the vellum shadow with the thanks...like a chalkboard technique. I like the bubbles as an embellishment background. Love the gold dial on the phone...how CAS for both cards. Beautiful job!
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- February 24, 2015 at 11:27 AM
- snappy scrappy said...
Love them both...the first is my fav!!!
- February 24, 2015 at 3:19 PM
- Ruthie @ SeptemberNinth said...
Really cute cards Liz! I love the first one with all the colored speech bubbles.
- February 25, 2015 at 6:34 AM
- Mary-Anne V said...
wow I just found your blog and love your work! Funny I was at the My Creative time blog and pinned 3 of your cards and then discovered they all belonged to you when I got to your personal blog! I am a new follower via email!
- February 26, 2015 at 4:36 AM
- Kim H said...
Liz ~ well I think both of these cards are simply PERFECTION! I especially LOVE the first one ~ so bright and cheerful against the white card base! BEAUTIFULLY done!
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The Moon from Chrysalis tarot. Very pretty, but almost too overembelished at first sight. It annoys me that I can't see the text written on the moon but then I check the LWB and she states that the moon is a message just to you. It is up to me to fill in the words here. And the human on the island, is she happy or desperate to get off it?
The tide is out, the water is low and the moon is not full. But it is changing right now. Someone will listen to me but only if I can hear myself first and be clear with what I need.
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Google's new line of Pixel phones have the shape, pricing, and some of the features of Apple Inc.'s iPhone. In fact, it is so similar that if you remove or hide the 'G' logo on the back, the Pixel feels like an iPhone wannabe. But critically for investors, the Google Pixels not only resembles the iPhones in design and pricing, they also have Apple-like margins.
Google's Pixel and Pixel XL phones are priced comparable to high-end Apple and Samsung products. This drew some ire from loyal customers who were expecting mid-range pricing, which the company previously employed for its Nexus line of devices. Many were thrown off with the steep prices, however that doesn't seem to have affected the sales as much as Google's own low expectations.
According to market research firm IHS, the Pixel XL smartphone, with 32 GB of storage, costs $285.75 in material and manufacturing, and the retail price of the phone is $769, excluding other R&D costs, which means that the phones make a profit of about $483.25 per unit, which exceeds the Apple's entry-level 32 GB version of the iPhone 7 profits.
The cost to manufacture the Google Pixel phone closely matches that of its intended rivals, a logical and expected move, especially since Google's new offering figures to target the same class of high-end users that normally flock to flagship smartphone models from Apple and Samsung.
"The Pixel clearly targets the same top-end flagship space occupied by the Apple iPhone and top-end Samsung Galaxy lines, with retail pricing points that directly compete with these products."
Andrew Rassweiler, senior director of cost benchmarking services for IHS Markit says, that the bill of materials (BOM) cost for the new Google Pixel XL 5.5-inch phone with 32 gigabytes (GB) of NAND flash memory comes to $278, according to a preliminary teardown estimate from IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions.
After including $7.75 in basic manufacturing costs, the total cost to manufacture the Google Pixel XL rises to $285.75. With an unsubsidized price of $769, the direct manufacturing cost-to-sales-price ratio is in line with those of direct competitors in the smartphone market, such as the Apple iPhone 7 Plus and the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. The Google Pixel is also available as a 5.0-inch model.
Google's first independent design of smart phones Pixel profit margins show that the company not only in the idea of playing the Apple user base, but also aimed at the latter's profits. Andrew Rassweiler, also notes that Pixel's profit margins indicate that Google's purchase price for parts is the same as for other tier one handset makers because, "They have as much pull as any of the big guys."
This may not be a very accurate assumption however, because Apple can order parts in bulk, so to ensure the lowest price. Google can not, like Apple, make quantitative commitment to the supplier, the company's new hardware executives say they're aiming to accumulate such supply chain heft in the future.
We all know one of the selling points, if not "the" selling point of the Google Pixel is its camera which Google claims is the best in a smartphone. IHS estimates that the cost of all the Pixel XL camera components is $ 17.50, lower than the cost of the iPhone 7 camera system, which is estimated at $ 19, but has a similar function.
The priciest component inside of the Pixel XL is its 5.5-inch AMOLED QHD display by Samsung Electronics Co., coming in at $58 per unit, according to the IHS analysis. At $50 per unit is Qualcomm Inc.'s Snapdragon system-on-a-chip, the brains of the device. Like Apple, Google has tapped NXP Inc. for the phone's near-field-communication payments chip and Samsung for storage.
It should be noted however that Google's internal development costs, as well as the Android operating system on the development of various functions such as unlimited online storage and 24/7 live support that for sure add on the cost, are not reflected in the IHS analysis.
Google is already the second most profitable brand, but yet far behind Apple, and they've done this purely on software and services. Now that Google has jumped into the hardware game, with such profit margins, it can be a real threat to the most profitable company of the world, because who better knows the importance of brand value than Apple.
Until now, the highest profits per unit by an Android smartphone manufacturer has been by Sony. Surprising, I know. But hear this, compared to over $400 profit margin per unit for Apple, Sony only had about $23. So if Google's Pixel phones succeed, as they seem to be doing, the Android scenario might change forever.
As a Google/Android fan-boy, as a customer, or as just you, what do you think of these high profit margins? What are your thoughts?
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Welcome to Cabrillo Tennis Center
Home of Match Point Tennis Academy
Cabrillo Tennis Center is located off the 5 freeway at 4th Street and Cabrillo Park Dr. It is conveniently located 10 minutes away from John Wayne Airport and Disneyland.
The center features 9 hard courts and 1 beautiful "RED CLAY COURT". Cabrillo Tennis Center is home of Match Point Tennis Academy which is a year-round tennis academy directed by Elson De Cantuaria.
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To provide all Match Point Students with the best possible tools to help them overcome all technical, tactical, strategic, and mental shortcomings on the tennis court as well as to help our players to develop the proper work ethics that will help them on and off the court in their future endeavors.


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We sometimes struggle in our search to find the causes of our bad habits and our inability to overcome them. Why can't I wake up early in the morning? Why can't I control my temper? How can I stop wasting so much time on email?
We search for major causes that could be responsible for our problems, yet overlook the minor causes that are, nevertheless, contributing to our bad habits.
When you're on a leaky boat, you might search for a massive hole that's bringing the boat down, even though you can see some small holes in the boat. You ignore them because you think that there must be something larger that's causing the boat to sink.
However, it's possible that the only cause for the boat sinking is the collection of small holes that you can already see!
Your obsession with a "hidden hole" that you have yet to discover distracts you from what you can already do with the problems (small holes) you know about. Even if there is a large hole that's sinking your boat, addressing the small holes would mean that you are making progress in overcoming your problem.
Suppose you are struggling to wake up early. You might attribute this to lack of motivation, not having a strong sense of purpose or another "high level" reason. But the real cause could just be that you over eat during dinner (and, therefore, you feel sluggish in the morning), or drink caffeine late at night or you aren't getting enough sleep, or a combination of these factors. These are visible factors that could be contributing to your bad habit and which you can easily do something about.
Rather than trying to motivate yourself to wake up early, make a few changes to your diet and your schedule, and you could easily overcome your bad habit with an ounce of willpower.
Don't overlook the small changes you can make while searching for major causes of your bad habits. Small holes can have the same damaging affect as a big hole.


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You don't need to go through a lot of mess just to keep your pet rabbits comfortable and safe as you travel. With this portable rabbit carrier, your bunnies will definitely have the most enjoyable and carefree travel of their lives.
Built with machine washable polyester fabric, this unit is designed with your pet's convenience taken into perspective. Why do we say so? This is because it features a robust metal frame that can protect your bunny from any sudden halts or movements.
Another great thing about this carrier is that it has lots of space for any added accessories or treats. It even includes a removable mat that makes them feel more comfortable throughout the travel.
With two entrances, you will never have any troubles getting your pet ready. Simply decide to have him slip in and out through the front door or have him lowered through the top entry.
To make sure you can carry your bunnies in the carrier with comfort, this comes with two hand straps and an extra shoulder strap, too.
In cases of accidental spills brought about by sudden stops, do not fret as this carrier can resist water damage and is very easy to clean. Once this is no longer needed, just collapse the sides and keep it in its rightful box.
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Minnesota Second Chance Coalition
Minnesota Community Corrections Association
Moving Forward
Legislative Update and Discussions Toward Future Progress
We will be reviewing a legislative update and how that affects our work. We will also present some exciting news about new partnerships and merging with one of partners, Minnesota Second Chance Coalition. As we both began the progress of strategic planning we realized that we were moving in the same direction and we could do more together. Join us in a discussion about moving forward, next steps and making a lager impact on reducing mass incarceration.
o Learn about new laws and policy, what impact they have & what we can do
o How we can have a bigger impact by working together, the rewards and challenges of this
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By guest columnist Michael Roskiewicz
Founded in 1851, The New York Times has enjoyed large amounts of readers throughout the years. It's success has been connected with the trust it once had for bringing honest journalism to its readers.
Unfortunately however, like many mainstream traditional media outlets, editorial boards have been taken over by left wing political operatives. What was once a high quality news outlet has eroded into left wing radical propaganda. Time and time again The New York Times has been caught manipulating information and twisting facts to suit their secular "progressive" views.
Trending: Man Shoots Buck Only to Find It Has Two Heads – But Not In The Way You Think!
Just take a moment to remember their analysis of the 2016 election. For weeks up until election night they claimed Hillary Clinton had a 90% chance of winning. This is a classic example of an attempt to manipulate readers.
Trying to take a different (more desperate) approach, the Times has decided to blatantly become a Political Action Committee. On Tuesday it released several Tweets exposing the telephone numbers of undecided Republican senators asking readers to call them to vote against tax cuts (& reform).
I'm not sure if there will be calls to have the Times become registered with the Federal Election Committee for the political action they have taken. This is probably a long shot.
As an ordinary working class American citizen trying to fight back against an elitist organization (that' using everything they have to sabotage the president), I have no other option but to call on businesses to stop selling the Times and to boycott their products until they do so.
Next time you step in to Starbucks, check for their newsstand in front of the shop. If you notice The New York Times, exit, take a stand for freedom and find another shop.


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Man Selling Fake Oscar Statuettes on eBay Ordered to Pay $375,000
A Texas judge has ordered Jaime De La Rosa to pay $375,000 in statutory damages to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for selling replicas of Oscar statuettes on eBay and Etsy.
AMPAS filed a copyright and trademark lawsuit this past February after discovering an eBay item for an "Academy Award Hollywood Metal Movie Acting Trophy Prop Replica." The search for further information led them to De La Rosa, whom they submitted had completed nine sales.
VIDEO Oscars: Inside the Workshop That Makes the Statuettes
When contacted by the Academy Awards group, De La Rosa was asked to surrender all replicas in his possession. He appears to have cooperated at first, but AMPAS reported in its lawsuit that he then sold more statuettes online.
About a month after the lawsuit was filed in Texas federal court, De La Rosa submitted an admission in court to the charges. He also included some sales records that indicated that the statuettes sold for a few hundred dollars each.
De La Rosa still could have mustered some kind of defense that contested whether consumers were really confused about the source of his counterfeit statuettes, but the court never registered any documents of this kind. So AMPAS brought a motion for judgment on the pleadings.
"Given the willful and recidivist nature of Mr. De La Rosa's copyright infringement and his prior misrepresentations under penalty of perjury, the need for deterrence is especially acute," stated the plaintiff.
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For copyright infringement, AMPAS could have sought a maximum of $150,000 per infringement, but citing De La Rosa's "limited means to pay," it only requested $75,000. For trademark infringement, AMPAS believed itself entitled to millions of dollars but requested $300,000 for his use of the Oscar statuette design, the "Oscar" word mark, and the "Academy Award" word mark.
On July 11, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks agreed with those amounts, plus he ordered him to come forward about the source of his replicas, deliver all statuettes in his possession, and submit a report under oath about his compliance. The judge further temporarily enjoined him from manufacturing and selling Oscar statuettes.
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Community involvement
Developers must carry out a pre-application consultation with the community at least 12 weeks before any national or major planning application is submitted.
This means communities will have the opportunity to express their views and have an input to the application at an early stage. Community Councils have a statutory role in the process.
Download guidance on the pre-application consultation process and the planning concordat (PDFs)
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You can view current and previous consultations using the planning and building standards services advanced search. Choose proposal of application notice from the application type drop down menu.
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Once a major application has been decided all those who were involved in the pre application consultation will be asked to complete a survey on the process and how well the engagement achieved its purpose.
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Every year, snowboarding's best and beardiest riders roll into Baker for the Legendary Mt. Baker Banked Slalom. And, every year, they find out that, yes, they still have souls. Baker holds the record, from 1998 to 1999, for the most snowfall in a season: 1,140 inches. And some guy in the parking lot surely holds the record for most large dogs in a van. Just go there. You're not a snowboarder if you don't. Hint: try to rent the Method Cabin if it's available.


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McColo shutdown won't stop spam, malware, warn security experts
Increased cooperation among security researchers and ISPs are resulting in victories against spammers and botnet operators. But, cybercriminals move to new spots on the Internet.
For years, security experts, antispam activists and law enforcement agencies have known where to find the Internet's worst spammers and malware distributors, but there was little they could do with that knowledge. The patchwork of international laws governing computer crime, along with the reluctance of some Internet service providers to pull the plug on customers accused of wrongdoing, have contributed in keeping many of these illegitimate businesses operating.
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But now the tide is beginning to turn. First came the news that ICANN had decided to de-accredit EstDomains, an ISP notorious in the security community for serving as a haven for malware authors and spammers. Then earlier this week, the upstream providers for McColo Corp. killed their connections to the hosting provider, which has been known in security circles as another home base for malware and spammers, as well as alleged child pornographers. This effectively cut McColo off from the Internet, resulting in a significant drop in global spam levels. Symantec Corp. said on Thursday that it had seen spam levels decline 65% since Tuesday, and other messaging security providers reported similar drop-offs.
These are rare success stories in the fight against spam and malware, but security experts have no illusions that this is the beginning of the end of spam and malware, or that the drop-off will even last more than a few days.
"There are a lot of different issues involved. The folks involved in spam gave up on whack-a-mole model, where as soon as you take an ISP down and malware hosting and command and control along with it, then they move to another network," said Danny McPherson, vice president and chief security officer at Arbor Networks Inc. "Everyone understands where they are for a while and then they move somewhere else. They just take their address space and announce it elsewhere and they're back in business."
In fact, McPherson said that some of the people involved with McColo, which is based in San Jose, Calif., are trying to get their address space announced somewhere else on the Internet right now.
"When that happens, they'll be right back at it," he said.
McPherson, who has been studying the spam and botnet problem, along with his colleague at Arbor, Jose Nazario, said that part of the reason there have been a string of wins recently against spammers and botnet operators is the increase in cooperation among security researchers, ISPs and others interested in stopping the problem. There has always been a loose-knit community of activists working to take down phishing sites and spammers whenever possible, but the level of cooperation by ISPs and law enforcement has been spotty, for a variety of reasons.
For ISPs, the problems arise from the contracts they have with their customers. Simply pulling the plug on a suspected spammer or malware-hosting service is not usually an option; the ISPs need solid proof. And gathering that proof takes time and effort, which many service providers don't have the resources to handle.
But that attitude is beginning to change, as ISPs see the negative effects that having their brands associated with spam operations and malware distributors can have, McPherson said.
"A big part of this is that the security community came together. The fact that the security community is collaborating and saying these are the worst neighborhoods on the Internet, then the community acts," he said. "A lot of the ISPs act on these before they become huge issues. The majority of them actually take immediate action when they see this kind of activity. The security community and research firms are doing a better job of sharing information now."
Dig Deeper on Malware, virus, Trojan and spyware protection and removal
Record levels of virus-laden spam emails hit the internet in the third quarter following a six-month surge in total spam, says Google.
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Patricia E. Enciso is a Professor of literacy, literature, and equity studies in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio USA. Her research focuses on middle-school youth and the ways they mobilize cultural repertoires, imagination, and the arts in the production and interpretation of their own and others' storyworlds. Dr. Enciso has served as an executive and board member of the Literacy Research Association since 2011, as the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacies research director (2011–2015) and chair and board member of the NCTE Research Foundation (2002–2005). She is coauthor of Reframing Sociocultural Theory in Literacy Research: Identity, Agency, and Power (2007), coeditor of The Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature (2010), and coeditor of the (forthcoming) Handbook of Research on Reading: Volume V. Her most recent research is published in English Teaching: Practice and Critique (2016) and the Journal of Literacy Research (2017).
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Associate Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the former director of the Latina/o Studies Program (2011-2016). He received his A.B. from Harvard (1991) and M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia (1999). He is author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (2009), Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails (2009), Abolición del pato (2013), and A Brief and Transformative Account of Queer History (2016). He co-edited an issue of CENTRO Journal on Puerto Rican Queer Sexualities (Spring 2007) and is currently writing on Puerto Rican transgender and drag performance and activism. He performs as Lola von Miramar since 2010.
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs is a Professor in Modern Languages and Women and Gender Studies, and the Director for The Center for The Study of Justice in Society at Seattle University. She is a poet, critic, cultural worker and mother. She is the author/editor of eight books of poetry, criticism and culture, and multiple articles, encyclopedia entries, opinion pieces. She received her MA and PhD from Stanford University, and studied Masters degree work in Mexico, Spain, France, Portugal and Brazil. She is first editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia, and Rebozos de Palabras: An Helena Maria Viramontes Reader, as well as Word Images: New Perspectives on Canícula and other works by Norma Elia Cantú. She also authored the forthcoming poetry collections: The Runaway Poems, (Finishing Line Press) and How Many Indians Can We Be? (Mango Press). She is the author of A Most Improbable Life and The Plastic Book. She has presented her work all over the world, multilingually, and specializes in expanding subjectivity. She is a Commissioner for the Arts for the state of Washington.
Louis Mendoza is Director of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, where he is also a Professor of Latina/o literary and Cultural Studies. Louis received his Ph.D. in English with a concentration in Ethnic and Third World Literatures from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include Chicana/o Literary and Cultural studies, U.S. immigration literature, prison literature, and oral histories. He is the author of A Journey Around Our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S., Conversations Across Our America: Talking About Immigration and the Latinoization of the U.S., and Historia: The Literary Making of Chicana and Chicano History, as well as the editor of raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine: My Weapon is My Pen, and the co-editor of Crossing Into America: The New Literature of Immigration and Telling Tongues: A Latino Anthology on Language Experience. He is also the director of a short film based on his research entitled, A Journey Across Our America: Observations and Reflections on the Latinoization of the U.S. He is lead editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina/o Literature (forthcoming 2018) and he is compiling an (auto)biography of raúlrsalinas, a project he was collaborating with the poet on before his death in 2008.
Chon A. Noriega is a Professor in the UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media. He is also Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and Adjunct Curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He has published eighteen books on Chicano/Latino media, performance, and visual art. Noriega is co-founder of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP, established in 1999) and served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Independent Television Service (ITVS). He has helped recover and preserve independent films and video art, including the first Chicano-directed feature film, Please, Don't Bury Me Alive! (1976), which was added to the National Film Registry in 2014. In addition to his work in media, Noriega has curated numerous art exhibitions, including: Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, L.A. Xicano (four concurrent exhibitions at three museums in 2011-12), and Home—So Different, So Appealing (2017-18) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is editor of A Ver: Revisioning Art History, an award-winning series on individual Latina/o artists, which now has ten books in print.
Mariana Ortega is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department and Women's, Gender, and Sexualities at Penn State University. Her main areas of research and interest are Women of Color Feminisms, in particular Latina Feminisms, 20th Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology (Heidegger), Philosophy of Race, and Aesthetics. Her research focuses on questions of self, identity, and sociality, as well as visual representations of race, gender, and sexuality. She is co-editor with Linda Martín-Alcoff of the anthology Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader (SUNY, 2009) and author of In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self (SUNY, 2016). She is the founder and director of the Roundtable on Latina feminism, a forum dedicated to discussions of Latina and Latin American feminisms.
Rafael Pérez-Torres, a Professor of literatures in English at UCLA, has published numerous articles on Chicano/a literature and culture, postmodernism, multiculturalism, and contemporary American literature in such journals as Cultural Critique, American Literary History, Genre, Aztlán, and American Literature. He has authored three books: Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins (Cambridge University Press); Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture (University of Minnesota Press); and To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back: Memories of an East L.A. Outlaw written with Ernest López (University of Texas Press). His most recent projects examine embodied racialized discourses in UNESCO World Heritage sites and the formation of historical memory and futurity in Chicanx culture.
Alvina Quintana received her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her publications include the new Feminist Cyberspaces: Pedagogies in Transition, edited with Sharon Collingwood and Caroline J. Smith (Cambridge Scholars, 2012), Reading U.S. Latina Writers: Remapping American Literature (Palgrave/Macmillan Press, 2005), and Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices (Temple University Press, 1996), as well as various articles on multicultural literature and cinema studies. Her research interests focus on feminist theory; sexuality and difference; new technologies, transnational gender studies with a particular emphasis on the intersections between U.S. Latino/as and Latin American cultural practices; multiculturalism in the U.S.A and abroad; the internationalization of American Studies. An active member of the American Studies Association, Quintana has served as Chair of the Women's Committee, the Minority Scholar's Committee, the 2006 Program Committee's Chair in Chief, a member of the Nominating Committee, the International Women's Task Force, Executive Committee and Council. She was also elected to serve a three-year term as the Modern Language Association's delegate for Ethnic Studies.
Eliana S. Rivero was born in Cuba, and immigrated permanently to the U.S. in 1961. She received her B.A. magna cum laude in 1964 and her Ph.D. in 1968 from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. She has done scholarly work and teaching in the area of Latin American and U.S. Latino literatures, especially poetry and women's writings, for fifty years. Rivero is Professor Emerita in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She has authored and/or coedited six scholarly books, and has published over one hundred articles, chapters in books, review essays, notes, bibliographies, and collection entries, on topics ranging from Caribbean authors to Mexican colonial nuns. Since the early eighties she has been writing about the experience of Chicano/as, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and other U.S. Latino/as, and has published numerous scholarly pieces as well as autobiographical essays on these topics. Rivero has been invited to give keynote addresses and lectures in over fifty university campuses in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Cuba, and Chile, and has presented papers at over 75 national and international conferences. Her poems and autobiographical narratives are included in several anthologies in the US, Cuba, Argentina, and Spain. She is coeditor (with Tey Diana Rebolledo, Distinguished Professor at the University of New Mexico) of the best-seller Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (University of Arizona Press, 1995, now on its third printing), which has been featured as a "must read" item in Latina Magazine and is widely used in colleges and schools across the country. With the Chicana writer Margarita Cota Cárdenas, Rivero is also coeditor of Siete Poetas, a pioneer text of Latina women poets (published in 1978 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts). She also coedited the award-winning Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Duke University Press, 2001), with the Latina Feminist Group collective. In 2005, her collection of essays Discursos desde la diáspora appeared in Spain. Rivero has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Rockefeller Foundation, among others.
Dr. Andrea Romero has a Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology, and is Fitch Nesbitt Professor in Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona. She has affiliated positions in Mexican American Studies, Gender & Women Studies, Latin American Studies, Psychology, and Public health. Dr. Romero has a strong interdisciplinary background in social psychology, Latino/a Psychology, family studies and human development. Dr. Romero has written two books on Latino adolescent health "Youth-Community Partnerships for Adolescent Alcohol Prevention" and "Preventing Adolescent Depression and Suicide Among Latinas". Her research primarily examines social, cultural, and familial factors that are associated with adolescent health and development. A goal of her work is to improve the health of young people, and she has worked toward this goal in partnership with youth and community leaders. She uses a participatory action research methodological strategy in most of her work in order to center youth and community voices. Her current funded work by the Spencer Foundation is examining how perceptions of equality are associated with civic engagement among young adults.


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The Racing Comments Introduction Thread for New Members
Posted 10 September 2013 - 23:19
Posted 11 September 2013 - 14:44
it's nice to be needed
Posted 12 September 2013 - 13:48
Hullo friends.
First off, a big thanks to the Autosport administrators for allowing me to be part of what looks like an incredibly well informed and fun F1 forum.
I'm Kushal, from India, an F1 enthusiast and a racing fan in general. Look forward to a great time on the forums and hopefully make a few friends along the way!
Posted 12 September 2013 - 22:03
hello everyone i am a new member and cannot wait to discuss f1 with other fans alike
Posted 17 September 2013 - 05:28
Hello people, I have been an F1 fan since the 80s. I have been a Ferrari supporter, but I love a good race and at times will root for drivers who are not in a scarlet car. For instance I would have loved to see Kimi be more successful. I live in California USA. Greetings to you all.
Posted 18 September 2013 - 11:43
Hello people, I have been an F1 fan since the 80s. I have been a Ferrari supporter, but I love a good race and at times will root for drivers who are not in a scarlet car. For instance I would have loved to see Kimi be more successful. I live in California USA. Greetings to you all.
Welcome to the forums!
You're lucky to have witnessed F1 back in the 80s. Though I have some flashbacks from that era, since I was only a child I can't really say I remember it well. Nevertheless, I have photographic memory from F1 starting in the early 90s when it was still awesome.
Posted 18 September 2013 - 16:29
It seems this is wher the adventure begins...
Hi all, JohnCooperF1 reporting for duty.
Basic Bio, My name is John from London and have been following F1 for a fair few years now usually favouring a few drivers rather than teams, I hve bben known to watch tin tops but I have never really gotten into bike (no offence to those that do, I am sure the loss is mine). I suspect that F1 forms the bulk of the forum chat and if I'm being honest that is where I will be most likely be found.
The drivers I have been supporting over the last few seasons are young Vettel (ducks down) and young Hamilton... I must admit I always expected Lewis to be doing what Seb is (ie back-to-back championships) .
While I welcome another win for Seb and potentially another championship, I think we are overdue a new champion... Although not my driver I'd be happy to see Alonso complete the dream and win in a Ferrari, it would be good for the sport.
Posted 18 September 2013 - 16:39
Welcome John!
I agree with you. Though I won't mind too much about seeing Vettel taking his 4th title, I surely believe it would be much more interesting if Alonso or even Hamilton could do it.
Posted 18 September 2013 - 18:29
Thanks Gluon
Well with 7 races left it is not cut and dried... it would make for a fantastic season end if Lewis and Alonso could close down the gap... or even Kimi (but I think Lotus have shot their bolt for this year)
I will of course cheer a 4th title should Seb manage it but while I like Schumacher I was delighted when his run of 5 ended, it's a boost when new faces make the podiums.
Edited by JohnCooperF1, 18 September 2013 - 18:32.
Posted 18 September 2013 - 18:55
Yeah, Lotus seems definitely out of the equation now. Seems like their development of this year's car has stagnated and there's not much Kimi can do now. Between Alonso and Hamilton my preference goes to the British driver, however I reckon Alonso would probably be the most deserving champion this season. Especially taking into account his past seasons with Ferrari, always fighting for a podium without the best car out there.
I was a fan of Schumacher myself, yet I got bored in 2004.
Posted 21 September 2013 - 02:42
Hello everyone
I'm Lewis by the way. No, not that Lewis!
But I share the same christian name as Mr.Hamilton but sadly not his driving ability!
So my username is a (as you no doubt will all agree, hilarious) play on that fact and that Mr.Hamilton is my favourite current driver.
Posted 24 September 2013 - 13:41
Hello everyone
I'm Lewis by the way. No, not that Lewis!
But I share the same christian name as Mr.Hamilton but sadly not his driving ability!
So my username is a (as you no doubt will all agree, hilarious) play on that fact and that Mr.Hamilton is my favourite current driver.
You do have good taste regarding F1 drivers.
Posted 24 September 2013 - 21:17
You do have good taste regarding F1 drivers.
And thank you!
Posted 26 September 2013 - 09:16
Hi all!
I'm Alexey from Russia.
Sorry for my English
Posted 01 October 2013 - 09:39
I'm Jeremy from France. I'm 28, love F1 and all motorsports in general (that's usually how you end up on this kind of forums I guess ^^)
If I have to pick some favourites, I'm a Kimi fan, but I generally like all the drivers that are not too stupid on track, and I'm of course an admirer of the other top F1 drivers like Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel. As for teams I don't care much.
About other motorsports, I mostly like DTM, F3, rallying and MotoGP.
I'm very happy to be a member of this forum where the level seems to be extremely high.
Posted 07 October 2013 - 11:56
I'm Richard from York, England. I have been a fan of F1 since my Dad and Uncle introduced me to it at a young age in the late 80's. I was a fan of Schumacher throughout the 90's and 00's.
I've always loved the technical side as much as the actual racing, which was why I got interested in engineering and am now researcher in an engineering department.
I've been a frequent reader here for a while now because you guys seem to be more informed than a lot of the professional journalists and finally decided to join.
Posted 07 October 2013 - 15:56
Hi there y'all,
Long-time racing fan from Germany here. Still proudly carrying a torch for the most inspiring racing driver ever - Alex Zanardi
Posted 07 October 2013 - 18:07
Welcome on board all; it's non-stop fun here :-)
Posted 16 October 2013 - 19:43
Posted 21 October 2013 - 19:36
I think this .gif of an awesome entrance best describes my entrance to the forum
Posted 24 October 2013 - 18:57
Hello. New forum member. Maybe next year's rule changes will make for a more exciting F1.
Posted 29 October 2013 - 12:34
Posted 26 November 2013 - 03:36
Hello to everyone here. Signed up to get my F1 fix over the winter. Hoping for some good discussion to forget how many days left before Oz!
Posted 30 November 2013 - 13:44
Looking forward in participating one of the most mature F1 forums around. Been following F1 since Schumie / Benetton days. See you guys.
Posted 03 December 2013 - 15:25
Posted 04 December 2013 - 13:06
Hello to you all, another new member here. Looks like a lot of fun, can't wait to join in
Posted 05 December 2013 - 15:27
Looking forward in participating one of the most mature F1 forums around.
Posted 06 December 2013 - 15:47
Looking forward in participating one of the most mature F1 forums around. Been following F1 since Schumie / Benetton days. See you guys.
Can you let me know where that is, it'd be a welcome distraction.
Posted 11 December 2013 - 18:17
Hi everyone
Sorry its not my first post but I seemed to have overlooked this page.
My name is Dave and grew up watching Jim Clark, Graham Hill and John Surtees among others on the tv. Keke was my ultimate hero, the epitome of an F1 driver for me. A man of his times and no bullsh*t. Loved Nigel's attitude on the track but not quite so much off it.
Of the modern drivers I'm really impressed with Seb, he's already an all time great and only 26!
Posted 11 December 2013 - 19:09
My kinda guy, this demet06
Also amazed how he was able to peck out such an eloquent introduction with his head smacking the keyboard like that.
Posted 11 December 2013 - 19:32
My kinda guy, this demet06
Also amazed how he was able to peck out such an eloquent introduction with his head smacking the keyboard like that.
Its the only way I can type!
Posted 20 December 2013 - 19:04
Hello everyone,
I came back after seven years. I think I will participate much more in 2014.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for all of you.
Posted 29 December 2013 - 18:33
Hello everyone,
my name is Maikel Joosten, 19 years old, from Belgium
I've been a big F1 fan for as long as I can remember. Some of you might know me from F1 fanatic (force maikel) or Gppits.net (maikel0230) where I'm part of the editorial staff. I have been looking for another forum to broaden my mind and to meet more F1 fans in general. I am still a major Ferrari fan but not anymore like in the Schumacher years. So that's me, I hope to a nice addition to the forum and I'm looking forward to the converstations I will have here.
Posted 30 December 2013 - 17:10
I'm not new - I've been on here for about 18 months, but have only been posting with any sort of frequency for the last couple of months but I hope to stick with it so I will introduce myself.
I'm Kate, my age is somewhere between 20 and 30 and I am from the UK. I haven't been following F1 for many many years (only since 2005), but it has become my biggest interest. I don't get to talk about F1 with my friends and family as most of them are not interested, so I do hope to get more involved in the discussions on here.
Please be nice to me - I'm shy
Posted 22 January 2014 - 04:32
Hello, my name is Ákos, I live in Budapest, Hungary. I've been lurking around here for a while, mostly in the Nostalgia section.
I've been following F1 ever since I can remember, which is the early 80s. The drivers I've been rooting for over the years were at first Lauda, then Senna, then Schumi. After his first retirement I've found myself just watching F1 for the sake of it, although having been a Schumi fan pretty much made me a Ferrari fan as well. After his 3 ha-humm years I guess that's where I'm now again.
Looking forwrd to the discussions with the knowledgeable people here.
Posted 27 January 2014 - 09:01
Hi, I'm Bob and I'm a speedaholic.
Posted 29 January 2014 - 22:23
Hello there,
My name is Peter, 26 years old from Emmeloord, the Netherlands. I'm following F1 since GP of Belgium in '98 and since then I'm loving it!
At the beginning I was a Schumi fan, until he leaves the F1. When Kimi come to Ferrari I was supporting him. After a couple of years he leaves Ferrari and Alonso came. So guess what? Supporting Alonso. And now Kimi is back to Ferrari. I think they are the best 2 drivers in one team since Senna/Prost!
So that is my introduction. Hope I have a lot of fun here!
Posted 30 January 2014 - 22:04
Edited by Mat13, 30 January 2014 - 22:04.
Posted 03 February 2014 - 20:48
Hello everyone,
My name is Brendan , I am obviously an F1 fan, and given how long ago I created this account it is more than likely a bit late to be joining the first post party! I actually used to frequent this site when it was AtlasF1 - before it became the offical autosport web precence. I even wrote an "article" for it back in the day: http://atlasf1.autos...view/index.html . Mines the one about McLaren - how wrong I was!
Nice to meet you all and hope to enjoy some interesting conversation while following an exciting season. Lets hope Kevin gets a win in his debut year!
Edited by bmd, 03 February 2014 - 20:49.
Posted 08 February 2014 - 21:28
I'm CJ, from the UK (sort of) and I must have signed up about a year ago now, and then almost promptly forgot my password, so I haven't posted much, but thought I should pop into this thread to say hello. I'm on my gap year before Uni, and I've been watching F1 since 2007, so, somewhat naturally, the driver I support to the hilt is Lewis - ever since that gravel trap at Nurburgring! I'm slowly branching out into other forms of motorsport, so MotoGP the last few years, F3, GP2, and now Endurance racing. I love reading this forum as it just seems to be a mine of information, and of course the photoshop threads are brilliant!
Posted 09 February 2014 - 02:45
Hello everyone.
I'm Craig from Nottingham, England.
I'm a massive McLaren fan, so more of a team supporter rather then driver fan so it gives me a laugh to read the driver V's driver threads and the biased opinions.
Love the technical bits, although me mates think I'm sad when I go on about a new turning vane and upgrades.
This is the first forum I've joined so hope I don't annoy everyone with my unique sense of humour (read sarcasm)
Mods have I had some sort of warning or summit?
Edited by sarcasticbarsteward, 09 February 2014 - 02:53.
Posted 19 February 2014 - 11:43
Hello from Ireland,
Long time lurker, first time poster!
Massive F1 fan, only been lucky enough to get to one race, Belgium Gp in 2002. I can still remember walking in paddock and being greeted with the ear splitting sound of an F1 car roaring up Eau Rouge.
Still makes my hair stand on end just thinking about it and that was only an Arrows on a installation lap.
Posted 20 February 2014 - 06:19
Hello from California!
My passion with motorsport began when my Dad brought me to the Indy 500 for my 7th birthday. Our visit the the yard of bricks ended up becoming an annual tradition. This year marked my twentieth race seen from Turn One Vista and Tony Kanaan took the win! I met Tony and Rubens Barrichello during Indy testing and the debut of the DW12 in Sonoma- class acts and two of my favorite drivers.
I began my affair with F1 over the last three years. Waking up every race weekend at 4:30am to catch the live broadcast. Over this last season it became 4:30am on both Saturday and Sunday mornings since Qualifying became to difficult to resist watching live. I am definitely a Kimi fan and still crack up when I think about Abu Dhabi in 2012.
Started to gather vintage F1 and LM books; just finished The Limit and am about to start Go Like Hell. If you have any recommendations- fire away!
I'm a huge gearhead and can be found at car meets ranging from aircooled VWs to AMGs.
Good to meet everyone & looking forward to reading more on motorsport!
Posted 20 February 2014 - 13:00
Michael, The Rumble Strip.
Edited by TheRumbleStrip, 16 March 2014 - 21:37.
Posted 24 February 2014 - 17:20
Hello everyone and thanks for the invite to be part of this forum. I just came across this website last week from the rock I have been under and have been skimming through the threads ever since. A little about myself, I'm from Arizona and work as a Firefighter/Engineer/Paramedic. In my off time I do a little motorsport artwork and just started restoring race cars a couple years ago (Off road cars). My major interests lie in Off Road Racing (Mint 400, Baja 500 and the Baja 1000) but am always interested in motorsports as a whole. The vintage stuff really intrigues me as of late as my buddy Jeff Furrier and myself have restored and raced a 3 time winning Baja 1000 buggy from the late 70's at the NORRA Mexican 1000 (Vintage off road race) in 2011 and won our class.
Mark Stahl Chenowth 1000 racer...
Right now I'm in the process of restoring on of Mickey Thompson's off road cars from 1977 and am in the final stages now. It has been about a 3 year project and will be completed by May of this year so I can run it at THIS years NORRA Mexican 1000. After the race it will get cleaned up and go on a museum tour.
Mickey Thompson's Challenger IV racer, old Valvoline ad...
On display at this years SEMA show in Las Vegas...
With all that being said, I'm excited to start exploring the forums and checkout the history of the older F1 and Indy cars from years past. Thanks for having me. Sincerely, Rory Ward.
Edited by wardy, 24 February 2014 - 17:24.
Posted 13 March 2014 - 12:34
Hello all,
Aaron here from Canada, eh. I have been follwing F1 off and on since I was a wee lad rooting for Gilles with my dad. Other motorsports as the interest takes me. I signed up mostly to get involved in the guessing games.
Thanks, and looking forward to this season.
Posted 13 March 2014 - 16:15
Hello All,
My name is Charles, I'm a 24 year old law student in New York. Been a long time fan of Formula 1 (if a 24 year old can even be a long time fan). Last two seasons I watched every session no matter what god forsaken time it was. I found this forum after the Codemasters forum shut down and needed my F1 discussion fix. I'm looking forward to an exciting season with lots of unpredictable results. My favorite driver is Kimi so I'm hoping the new rules give him a shot, but really I'll be happy if no one driver/team dominates the entire season. I entered a few of the guessing games which look like a lot of fun and having a place to discuss this crazy sport again will be fun.
Posted 20 March 2014 - 01:40
Hi everyone!
I'm a 17 year old student who's been a die-hard fan of F1 since I got a cable subscription to it 5 years ago, back when I didn't know the meaning of YouTube or internet streams. F1 is more than just a passion, it's also my dream job. I support Ferrari and both their drivers (especially Kimi), though I'd love for Massa to do well at Williams too. Given my age I don't know much about historical F1, but for all other aspects it's great to have found a forum filled with active and knowledgeable fans to discuss the world's best sport* with.
Cheers from Singapore.
Posted 20 March 2014 - 10:32
Hi guys and gals
I've been lurking awhile and had to register to reply to an outrageous comment that by the time I had posting priviledges I had forgotton all about I've been following F1 since the late 70's and been a Williams supporter since about 85, really excited with the turn around at team Willy thanks in no small part to the excellent Claire Williams, I have a bit of a crush on "our Claire" and I loved the look on her face after Bottas tagged the wall on Sunday, it's great to know that the team is in safe hands when she gets the top job but that will hopefully be a long time in the future.
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New poster here. I am 17, from Ireland and a die hard Lewis Hamilton fan. Been watching the sport since I was a wee chap so I'm well up to speed!


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A small Grey alder in the Hill Barton industrial estate of Exeter, UK. === The Grey alder is very common between the Alps and the Urals. It is often planted as a pioneer plant in landfills, waste dumps and to fixing escarpment. The alder can fix nitrogen from the air and release into the ground again, which leads to the improvement of the soil. It is a small to medium size tree 15–20 m (49–66 ft) tall with smooth grey bark even in old age, its life span being a maximum of 60 to 100 years. The leaves are matte green, ovoid, 5–11 cm (2.0–4.3 in) long and 4–8 cm (1.6–3.1 in) broad. The flowers are catkins, appearing early in spring before the leaves emerge, the male catkins pendulous and 5–10 cm (2–4 in) long, the female catkins 1.5 cm (0.6 in) long and one cm broad when mature in late autumn. The seeds are small, 1–2 mm (0.04–0.08 in) long, and light brown with a narrow encircling wing. The grey alder has a shallow root system, and is marked not only by vigorous production of stump suckers, but also by root suckers, especially in the northern parts of its range. The wood resembles that of the black alder, but is somewhat paler and of little economic value. Although tolerant of a wide range of soils, the Grey Alder is especially good on dry, infertile soils where little else will grow. It does, however, need good light to do well. Alder makes an attractive specimen tree and can be used for windbreaks, hedging and screening. It plays an important role in the reclamation of derelict land. The catkins of Grey Alder are an early source of pollen for insects, and the 'cones' provide food for birds in winter. Its ability to grow well on the poorest of soils – even on spoil heaps – where the nitrogen-fixing nodules on its roots improve the fertility of the soil, makes it invaluable for reclaiming derelict land. === Size Ultimate height Higher than 12 metres Ultimate spread wider than 8 metres Time to ultimate height 20-50 years === Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Rosids Order: Fagales Family: Betulaceae Genus: Alnus Subgenus: Alnus Species: A. incana Binomial name Alnus incana
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The young adult demographic is desired by many networks, but only MTV is able to consistently dominate in this area. It is the one channel where people in the 12-34 age bracket continually tune in to catch up with what is coming next in pop culture, music, and fashion.
MTV reaches 387 million households around the world and is considered the #1 media brand globally.
In the past, MTV made music videos become a mainstream media format to enjoy music. Today the network provides a variety of programming, ranging from politics to reality TV, and it is all targeted to the young adult demographic. This is what has allowed the network to transcend the media clutter that has developed over the last 30 years.
This is Why MTV Continues to Dominate
- Young adults consistently name MTV as the most recognized network in the US.
- 1 in 3 US citizens falls into the 12-34 age demographic, accounting for over 90 million people.
- The 12-34 age demographic has $250 billion in purchasing power and is 2x more likely to reside in a home that earns $75k or more annually if they watch MTV.
- 69% of purchasing decisions made by the 12-34 age demographic are based on brand recognition.
- In the average year, more than 40% of all retail shopping money spent comes from the 12-34 age demographic. This demographic spends more money shopping per person than anyone over the age of 35.
- 48% of young adults have a say in all family decisions.
For even older adults, if they own a television, then there is a good chance that they are at least familiar with the MTV brand. Many older adults, in fact, grew up watching MTV whether they did so openly or had to sneak in viewing time when their parents weren't around. Shows like Remote Control have been replaced with The Real World, but this evolution has kept the MTV brand strong and alive within their core demographic. This is also why advertisers who wish to target young adults should consider MTV as a top option.
What Are the Purchasing Preferences of MTV Viewers?
- On the average year, the MTV demographic is going to spend more than $8 billion on clothing and apparel.
- Nearly $1 billion is spent annually on video game systems and related products.
- More than $2 billion is spent every year on fine jewelry, usually gold or diamonds.
- Another $1 billion is spent every year on audio equipment.
- More than $5 billion is spent by this demographic on foreign vacations.
- The largest annual expenditure, however, is on personal computers, tablets, and smartphones so that communication is easier to accomplish.
Why is looking at these spending habits so important? At one point in MTV's history, they spent 26 consecutive quarters as the top rated basic cable network. Even though other networks have laid claim to that crown from time to time, the branding that MTV has still generates a large amount of loyalty within the 12-34 age demographic. Don't be fooled by a recent decline in ratings. When MTV finds a way to evolve onto the mobile platforms more consistently, their ratings will very likely come right back.
Nielsen Ratings Don't Mean Everything
- MTV has a Facebook fan base of almost 48 million at the start of 2015. This is 4.8x higher than Fox News and 4x higher than ESPN even though these two networks have higher network ratings than MTV.
- Advertisers are considering alternative audience measurements to reflect the true value of the MTV brand.
- Ratings for computers and mobile devices are not reflected in Nielsen ratings, which is where many of the 12-34 key demographic consume media content today.
- Despite these differences, the MTV Music Awards still showed an 18% drop in viewership from 2013 to 2014.
In terms of relevance, MTV has struggled to have a hit since Jersey Shore. That doesn't mean the network isn't trying. They just happen to be in a bit of a dry spell from a creative standpoint. With a new emphasis on scripted shows that are likely to appeal to their core demographic, there is a good chance that MTV could rebound in Nielsen ratings and online material consumption. They have a fan base that is 48 million strong, but right now are silent. If that sleeping giant wakes up, those who are involved with this demographic now will likely see the best overall returns.
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The original source code for the 1989 classic Prince of Persia has been discovered stuffed inside a cardboard box.
Old-time gamers will recognize the name Jordan Mechner as that of the man who created the classics Karateka and Prince of Persia. Less well known is Francis Mechner, who made the music for both games and who also happens to be Jordan's dad. Jordan, as kids often do when they move out, left a bunch of his crap behind at his parents' place, and his dad, as dads often do during frantic bouts of spring cleaning, finally got sick of having it lying around. So he stuffed it all into a box and shipped it to him.
"The carton arrived yesterday. My jaw dropped when I saw what was inside," he wrote on his blog.
"No, I don't mean the stacks of Spanish Drosoft versions of POP and Karateka (though those are cool too, especially if you have an Amstrad computer with a cassette player)," he continued. "I mean those three little plastic 3.5 inch disk boxes nestled among them... which appear to contain the ORIGINAL APPLE II SOURCE CODE OF PRINCE OF PERSIA that I've been searching for, off and on, for the past ten years."
From a gamer nerd perspective, this is an amazing find - not the Rosetta Stone, perhaps, but a legitimate piece of cultural history nonetheless. And those sealed copies of Karateka and Prince of Persia are very sweet in their own right too. Mechner said he's pestered Danny Gorlin, Doug Carlston and "everyone who ever worked at Broderbund" over the years in a quest to find the source but had given up on ever actually coming across it.
Now that he has, he's going to work with a "digital-archaeology-minded friend" on getting the data off of the 3.5" Apple ProDOS discs and onto a more modern, usable format. The process may take awhile but he promised to document the progress on Twitter and Facebook.


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When audio signals are sampled at a frequency of 44.1 kHz we have sampling frequency as :
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Songs which are usually 5mins have a size of 5 to 8 MBs when we download as mp3 , but the original song has its size more than 20 Mb at times ..This is because we have audios as lossless and lossy , lossless audios like wav formats have all the audio without any loss , but thats not the case in mp3 which is lossy type.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned health care providers and consumers about counterfeit surgical mesh being distributed in the United States under the C. R. Bard/Davol brand name. Surgical mesh products are used to reinforce soft tissue where weakness exists.
The warning is of particular significance to health care professionals and their patients with surgical mesh implants as well as hospitals and surgical centers, operating room medical professionals and staff, and purchasing and risk managers.
Investigations by the FDA and Bard show that the following products, sizes and lots of counterfeit flat sheet polypropylene surgical mesh are not manufactured by Bard. To date, four product sizes have been identified:
|0112650 – Bard Flat Mesh 2"x 4"
Lot 43APD007
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|0112660 – Bard Flat Mesh 10"x 14"
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|0112680 – Bard Flat Mesh 3"x 6"
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Lot 43HDP027
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Lot HUSF0763
Lot 43IOD011
Lot 43IPD038
|0112720 – Bard Flat Mesh 6" x 6"
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The FDA is recommending that health care professionals:
Do not use any counterfeit Bard surgical mesh from the lots listed
Carefully examine all manufacturers' polypropylene surgical mesh products and packaging for lot numbers and anything unusual that might indicate counterfeit mesh
Contact Bard at 800-556-6275 if they think they have one of the counterfeit products
Contact the particular manufacturer if they notice anything unusual or suspicious with any other brand of surgical mesh product or packaging.
The FDA also recommends that health care professionals continue to monitor patients for adverse events as they would any patient with an authentic polypropylene surgical mesh implant, if they suspect or know that counterfeit mesh has been implanted.
Patients should contact their surgeon if they experience problems that they think may be related to surgical mesh.
The FDA continues to gather information and data on the counterfeit mesh to better understand its potential public health impact. The agency also is working to determine who may be responsible and how the counterfeiting and distribution occurred.
At this time, the FDA does not know if the counterfeit surgical mesh meets the authentic product's specifications, including its strength, sterility, or clinical performance. The FDA assessment of the counterfeit mesh and its potential risk to health is ongoing.
Health care professionals who believe they have received counterfeit or suspect product are asked to contact the FDA's Office of Criminal Investigations at 800-551-3989 or by visiting the Web site at http://www.fda.gov/OCI1.
Prompt reporting of adverse events can help the FDA identify and better understand the risks associated with medical devices. If you suspect a problem with this or any counterfeit surgical mesh, the FDA encourages you to file a voluntary report through MedWatch, the FDA's Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program.
Health care professionals and consumers are encouraged to report serious adverse events (side effects) that may be related to the use of these counterfeit products to the FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program either online, by regular mail, fax or phone.
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Aberdeen City and Shire
With its captivating blend of unspoilt countryside, dramatic coastline and a bustling, cosmopolitan city, Aberdeen City and Shire offers visitors everything from crumbling castles to pristine beaches, riveting Highland games, delectable food and drink, amazing wildlife and more set against some of Scotland's most stunning scenery.
See why Queen Victoria fell in love with the region on a visit to Royal Deeside and uncover the region's fascinating past in superb museums, historic buildings and on Scotland's only dedicated Castle Trail which brings together 17 of Aberdeenshire's most iconic castles.
A breath-taking fusion of rolling countryside, rugged coastline, misty mountains and lush forest, the natural environment of Aberdeenshire is home to a marvellous array of wildlife. Explore the remarkable landscape of the Cairngorms National Park, the largest National Park in Britain, uncover tranquil nature reserves, and get up close to fantastic birdlife and marine creatures.
Discover the impressive architecture and cultural delights of Aberdeen, Scotland's Granite City. Learn about its proud maritime history and thriving oil and gas industry, take in one of the finest art collections in the country and enjoy fantastic live music, dance and theatre at superb venues across the city. Take in the city's splendid historic buildings and indulge in retail therapy at superb shopping centres and independent boutiques.
Explore the region's charming country towns and quaint fishing villages where you can sample a mouth-watering selection of food and drink including freshly caught seafood, and find quality arts and crafts created by talented locals in independent galleries and shops.
Pay a visit to some of the oldest whisky distilleries in the world and, and follow the Coastal Trail for miles of breath-taking cliff-tops, spectacular sunsets, secluded coves, beaches and historic lighthouses.
Experience a vibrant array of events and festivals throughout the year that celebrate everything from the region's seafaring heritage and unique dialect to internationally regarded arts festivals and centuries-old customs including the Stonehaven Fireball Ceremony and the Braemar Gathering.
Activities in Aberdeen City and Shire
Discover a fantastic range of activities across Aberdeen City and Shire. A region blessed with spectacular landscapes, you'll find activities to suit every terrain and every tastes. There are just so many ways available to enjoy the great outdoors in the north east.
Aberdeen City and Shire offers a variety of exciting and unusual sports to whet the appetite of even the most adventurous thrill seeker.
Try something with an edge at the Deeside Activity Park near Aboyne with high-octane quad biking, kart racing and paintballing on offer. Some of the more adrenalin fuelled activities you can try across the region include surfing, kite surfing and paragliding.
For the really brave at heart, you can scale rope bridges and ladders, Tarzan swings and zip wires 120 feet from the forest floor at Go Ape! near Banchory. Set in the grounds of beautiful Crathes Castle, Go Ape! also offers a unique tree-top perspective of this historical castle.
If you prefer a quieter pace of life, then cast you line in the rivers of Aberdeen City and Shire and experience some of the best salmon and trout fishing in the world. You can also enjoy a few rounds of golf as there are over 50 great courses to choose from including some of the oldest, best and most unusual golf courses in the world.
Strap on your boots and head for the mountains, forests and coastline. There are many walking routes to follow and they can be easily combined with a visit to one of the many castles, gardens and historic sites in the area. There are also a variety of riding and trekking operators that will take you exploring.
In winter you can enjoy skiing and snowboarding at Glenshee Ski Centre or the Lecht 2090 Ski & Multi Activity Centre. When spring arrives you can continue to hone your skills at the all-weather ski slope at the Aberdeen Snow sports Centre.
Whatever your preference, Aberdeen City and Shire offers plenty of opportunities to get active.
Arts and culture attractions in Aberdeen City and Shire
Plan a day spent visiting the arts and culture attractions of Aberdeen City and Shire. Spend the day visiting galleries and art shops and in the evening, head to the theatre for a wonderful performance.
Aberdeen City and Shire is home to some of Scotland's most treasured artistic and cultural attractions. Spread across a diverse array of art galleries, visitor centres, performance venues and more, visitors can take in everything from world-renowned paintings to cutting-edge contemporary artworks, fantastic live entertainment and engrossing exhibitions that bring to life the region's rich cultural heritage.
Uncover the region's superb artistic offerings at a wide range of galleries and museums. View one of the most important collections of artworks in the country at the Aberdeen Art Gallery, an elegant 19th century building that houses works by artists ranging from Raeburn and Ramsey to Monet and Damien Hirst.
Aberdeenshire's striking and varied landscape – in particular its dramatic south coast – has attracted many great artists and craft makers over the years and you can uncover an innovative, original artworks and beautifully designed crafts by talented local artisans at a number of excellent galleries and shops scattered throughout the towns and villages.
Enjoy acclaimed theatre productions and fantastic live music at world-class venues including the His Majesty's Theatre and the Music Hall, and discover more about the region's cultural heritage and its leading cultural figures such as celebrated novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon at fascinating visitor centres.
Aberdeen City and Shire has one of the most breath-taking landscapes in Scotland and is home to a fantastic array of wildlife. With everything from golden eagles soaring high above in the Cairngorms National Park to rutting red deer stags and dolphins frolicking off the Banffshire Coast, Aberdeenshire is a wildlife-lovers' paradise.
One of the best places to look for wildlife is in the Cairngorms National Park. The largest in the UK, this outstandingly beautiful expanse of rugged moorland, lush forests of Scots Pine and majestic mountains is home to a myriad of rare creatures. The golden eagle, osprey, dotterel, Scottish crossbill, pine marten, red deer and badger are just a few of the species you can spot here.
The region is blessed with a number of beautiful nature reserves where other rare birds and animals thrive. At Glen Tanar, south west of Aboyne, you can explore one of the last remaining remnants of Scotland's ancient Caledonian pine forest. Black grouse, goshawk and the elusive capercaillie all breed here and red squirrels are a common sight on this National Nature Reserve.
A unique mosaic of wetland, birch woodland and heather-clad moor, the Muir of Dinnet National Nature Reserve is a haven for wintering wildfowl including whooper swans, goldeneye, wigeon, and ospreys can sometimes be glimpsed fishing on the lochs.
The equally varied habitat of the Forvie National Nature Reserve with its windswept sand dunes also supports a diverse array of flora and fauna. Located by the Ythan estuary, here you'll find grey seals and nesting eider ducks alongside diving terns, oystercatchers and delicate flowering plants.
Watch migrating salmon battle their way up stream at the cascading Falls of Feugh, one of the region's best natural salmon leaps, and pay a visit to Scotland's only mainland gannet colony at Troup Head. These spectacular cliffs are also home to thousands of kittiwakes, guillemots and razorbills, along with several other species, including puffins.
The region's dramatic coastline, in particular the northerly stretch known as the Banffshire Coast, is a fantastic place to look for dolphins, seals, porpoises and even the occasional whale. You can get a closer look at these remarkable marine creatures by joining one of the many boat tours or wildlife cruises available.
Food and Drink
Aberdeen City and Shire is a region bursting with flavour and the unique tastes of the north-east can be found on restaurant menus from Stonehaven to Peterhead and beyond. Discover an excellent selection of world-class local produce including Aberdeen Angus beef and freshly caught seafood and purchase ingredients direct from the producers at farmers' markets, fish markets and country fairs.
With some of the finest seafood in the world caught just off the Aberdeenshire coast, as well as quality meats, dairy produce and seasonal vegetables, eating out across the area is always an experience, with a wonderful range of restaurants, cafes and bars to choose from. You can also enjoy the beers, ales and whiskies unique to the region and find out more during a behind the scenes tour.
For a foodie experience with a difference, learn how to create the perfect meal at Nick Nairn's Cook School in the heart of Aberdeen and enjoy the fruits of your labour at the end.
Throughout the year there is a packed programme of foodie events including festivals and farmers' markets which perfectly showcase Aberdeen City and Shire's excellent food and drink. Whatever your taste, you are guaranteed to find one to suit you.
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