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The California Public Utilities Commission has green lighted a program by Southern California Edison to incentivize the deployment of approximately 1,500 public electric vehicle charging stations. The plan also includes education and outreach in support of electric transportation. The approval by the California Public Utilities Commission's (CPUC) marks a change in policy. Previously, the state of California had banned utilities from becoming investors in public EV charging, saying they represented an unfair competitive threat to independent parties in the growing EV charging station market.
Audi is delivering an all-electric SUV with a 300-mile range and has announced a nationwide network of DC charging stations. The SUV will feature a 95 kWh battery pack. The SUV is Audi's first all-electric vehicle and will have a range of more than 300 miles.
India unveiled a plan to cut carbon emissions by 33 - 35% by 2030. They were the last major country to submit their long-term emissions-reductions plans before the start of the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Paris in December.
"This announcement marks the end of the solely combustion-engine-powered car," said Håkan Samuelsson, President and CEO of Volvo Cars, in a conference call outlining the company's global electrification strategy. "People increasingly demand electrified cars, and we want to respond to our customers' current and future needs." According to the release, the plan includes introducing electrification technology across their product line. The company also said it will develop a new range of all-electric cars.
In January, the California Clean Vehicle Rebate Program announced new income based caps for high-income buyers as well as increased incentives for lower-income buyers. The new rules are expected to go into effect in March. In January, the California Clean Vehicle Rebate Program announced new income based caps for high-income buyers as well as increased incentives for lower-income buyers. The new rules are expected to go into effect in March.
The Volkswagen brand has restructured its vehicle development organization. The new development structure is grouped into four vehicle types: battery electric, small cars, compact vehicles, and mid- and full-size vehicles. Battery Electric Vehicles will be headed up by Christian Senger, who moves to VW from parts supplier Continental AG. Other development groups include: Small Cars like the Polo and Up!, headed by Product Management Chief Klaus-Gerhard Wolpert; Compact Vehicles like the Golf will be developed by Electrical Systems Purchasing Manager Kalheinz Hell; and Mid- and Full-Size Vehicles like the Passat and Touareg will be led by Product Control Chief Dr. Elmar-Marius Licharz.
The California Public Utilities Commission approved a program that allows San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) to install 3,500 electric vehicle charging stations in 350 locations throughout the San Diego and south Orange County areas. SDG&E will install at least 10 percent of the chargers in disadvantaged communities.
In a press conference held at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2015, Audi of America President Scott Keogh outlined the brand's future electric vehicle plans. He called the moment a pivotal time in the marquee's history noting that electric was the future. During the presentation, he said that the company recognizes the importance of electric vehicles and that Audi expects at least 25 percent of North American sales to be electric vehicles by 2025.
When Sierra Club launched its "Beyond Coal" campaign in 2010, there were 523 coal-fired electricity generating plants in the U.S. To date, 222 of those coal plants have been closed. The group has also been instrumental in stopping the development of many new coal-fired plants. This is significant to environmental policy proponents because burning coal is responsible for one third of U.S. carbon emissions, which is a primary cause of climate change.
The latest issue of Electric Car Insider's comprehensive EV Buyer's Guide is now on sale at Barnes & Noble and independent bookstores and newsstands throughout the US and Canada. Featuring full page profiles of all of the new electric vehicles available for purchase and lease in 2016. Also updates on electric motorcycles and bicycles. The cover features a photo of the Chevrolet Bolt, which will be available for purchase at the end of this year. Also on the cover is the Energica Ego electric motorcycle and Optibike Pioneer Carbon electric bike.
Included as part of the tax bill signed into law in December 2015 is an extension of the federal tax credit for the installation of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE). The tax credit has been extended and will last until the end of 2016. Residential property owners are allowed a 30% federal tax credit - up to $1,000 - of the cost of the installation of the EV charging station.
Ford announced the improved 2017 Focus Electric will feature a complete redesign with 100-mile range and DC fast-charging capabilities. The additional range will put the Focus in direct competition with the new longer-range Nissan Leaf, the current mainstream battery electric sales leader. Ford showed their intentions to further expand their electric vehicle portfolio by committing $4.5 billion over the next 5 years. The company promised to deliver 13 new EVs by 2020, which would mean more than 40 percent of the brand's models will be available with an electric drivetrain.
The California Energy Commission will host a technology merit review workshop on Monday, April 25. Executives from ChargePoint and Green Charge Networks, two non-profits, one municipal utility district and one state agency will discuss the successes and challenges of electric vehicle charging technology in California. The workshop is open to participants both in person and by WebEx.
Electric Car Insider's 2015 Solar Charging Buyer's Guide is now available at Barnes & Noble. The guide contains a full-page profile - including specifications and photos - of the top solar panels and residential vehicle charging stations along with new electric vehicles, bikes and motorcycles. Our cover story is an in-depth review of the second generation plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt. Chevy has taken their class-leading PHEV and increased the all-electric mileage and improved fuel efficiency while giving it an all-new eye-catching exterior and redesigned interior. Also on the cover are the Empulse TT electric motorcycle from Victory, the storied American brand known for cruisers that compete with Harley-Davidson, and the NYX carbon fiber frame kit, an ebike frame that lets the rider choose their perfect components for a grail build.
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn declared "The time for debate is over" and the time is now to address climate change. The bold statement was made in a guest column he posted on Forbes.com in December 2015. The post was written following the 2015 Paris Climate Conference and helped explain why Ghosn and 12 other automotive CEOs committed publicly to help decarbonizing automotive transportation. In his post he wrote "If the world is to reduce manmade greenhouse gas emissions that are the cause of global climate change, we must accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy now, starting with cleaner transportation."
Chevy will unveil its production 200-Mile $30K all-electric Bolt compact car during the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in January. CES is an annual event that brings nearly 200,000 people from more than 150 countries to Las Vegas to view the latest in cutting-edge technology. A growing number of auto manufacturers and automotive technology companies are showing off their newest products to the early adopters who frequent this show.
The new U.S. budget agreement, approved in December 2015, renews incentives for solar and wind power that were scheduled to expire at the end of 2015. The bill, which includes a solar investment tax credit (ITC) extension, allows purchasers of solar power systems to continue to obtain 30% of the price of a solar array as a federal tax credit. The ITC applies to both residential and commercial installations and will be good through 2019. After that, the credit will taper off, declining to 10% in 2022 where it will remain.
Electric Car Insider's 2015 SUV and Electric Bicycle Buyer's Guide is now available at Barnes & Noble. The guide contains a full-page profile - including specifications and photos - of the top 30 electric bicycles and 4 new electric SUVs and cars from Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Cadillac and BMW. Our cover story is an in-depth road test and review of the new plug-in hybrid 7-passenger luxury SUV from Volvo: the XC90 T8. Also on the cover are the Optibike R8, a rolling sculpture that can tick off 100+ miles with ease, and the e-Joe Koda, a commuter bike that is thoughtfully designed and easy on the budget.
In an ongoing effort to better understand the serious health consequences associated with brown haze, ranging from mild eye and respiratory irritation to asthma and deadly pulmonary diseases such as lung cancer, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are studying the chemical makeup of the smog that hovers over cities on sunny days. This haze, known as atmospheric brown carbon (BrC), has been linked to climate change because it acts as a warming blanket, absorbing sunlight and trapping surface heat.
The Electric Car Insider Electric Motorcycle Buyers Guide is available at Barnes & Noble and several hundred independent newsstands throughout the United States and Chapters/Indigo in Canada. The e-motorcycle issue contains virtually every electric motorcycle available for sale in the western world. The cover features the Audi R8, Zero Motorcycle and Gocycle electric bike. Long distance world record setting motorcyclist Terry Hershner is profiled. New contributors Steven Thomas, Curt Robbins, Norm DeWitt, Lynn Walford, Arelys Alexander and Neal Gaborno make their debut.
Tesla Motors has revised the horsepower ratings for their dual-motor Model S performance sedans. Previously, the automaker had stated that the horsepower ratings for the electric cars with the D designation were calculated by adding the HP ratings for the front and rear motors to arrive at a combined figure. A battery-powered electric vehicle has three main components that make up its power system: the battery pack, the controller and the motor. Tesla revised their horsepower ratings to account for total system output under more realistic conditions.
Nissan and BMW announced on December 21, 2015 that they have partnered to help further the develop of the U.S. charging electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The two companies have installed 120 new dual-port 50 kilowatt (kW) DC fast-charging stations. Nissan and BMW use different charging standards, so the combo stations support CHAdeMO and Combined Charging Standard (CSS). The CHAdeMO standard is used by the Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi i-MiEV, and Kia Soul EV. The CCS standard is used by most U.S. and German manufacturers.
With a little planning your EV could be used to to get you to holiday dinner with family or out-of-town friends. According to the Department of Transportation, the average Thanksgiving long-distance trip length is 214 miles round trip, compared with 275 miles over the Christmas/New Year's holiday. Of the trips made, 44% are between 50 and 99 miles roundtrip while 56% are more than 100 miles round trip.
BlueIndy has put into service the first 50 of an eventual 500 electric vehicle car sharing program. The cars, located at strategic points in the city, provide on-demand transportation with the swipe of a membership card. The zero emission Bluecars run on Lithium Metal Polymer (LMP) batteries developed by Bolloré and have a range of 120 miles between charges. As of September 2015, 125 reserved parking spaces were equipped with charge points.
AAA began deploying EV charging trucks in 2011. Since then, they have deployed trucks to municipalities including Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Tucson. AAA Colorado unveiled their electric vehicle charging truck earlier this year.
NRG eVgo announced that they will expand their EV charging network in 2015 and 2016 aiming to double the number of markets served. The public charge network plans to ultimately create coastal charge corridors from San Diego to Seattle and Miami to Boston. The company announced that it had installed 120 Fast Chargers in California.
Solar and wind power continue to get cheaper. In its second annual Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report, the International Energy Agency predicts that more new electricity will be produced from renewables than from natural gas by 2016. "Renewables are now the fastest-growing power generation sector and will make up almost a quarter of the global power mix by 2018, up from an estimated 20% in 2011. The share of non-hydro sources such as wind, solar, bioenergy and geothermal in total power generation will double, reaching 8% by 2018, up from 4% in 2011 and just 2% in 2006."
BMW and VW will partner with ChargePoint to create EV fast charge corridors on east and west coasts. The companies announced the plans at the Washington Auto Show. The collaboration will install nearly 100 DC Fast chargers across both coasts, creating coastal charge corridors from San Diego to Portland and Washington to Boston.
A planned upgrade to its charging technology will allow Tesla Model S drivers to recharge in half the relatively speedy time it takes now. The 120 kW charging technology, which is in beta test now and is expected to be available to customers by September 2013, will enable 106 miles of freeway driving with a 20 minute charge. An 80% charge from empty will be able to be accomplished in under an hour.
Tesla has recently doubled the rate of deployment of its fast-charger stations. Within a year, Tesla aims to deploy a network that will enable a Tesla Model S driver to travel between every major metro area in North America. By 2015, the company plans to have every significant population center in the US and Canada outfitted with a SuperCharger station so that the entire country is within the Model S' travel range.
The Kailua-Kona National Drive Electric Week ride and drive is scheduled for Saturday, September 10th from 10 AM - 2 PM. The event will be located at the charging stations outside the former Sports Authority store location at 74-5450 Makala Blvd in Kailua-Kona
The Hilo event takes place Saturday, September 17th from 10 AM to 12 PM at the parking lot north of the WikiFresh restaurant and KWXX Broadcasting, 1145 Kilauea Ave. in Hilo.
A series of Electric Car Guest Drive gatherings were hosted by Electric Car Insider in cities throughout the United States in 2018. The meet-ups featured a total of nine Teslas and several examples of almost every electric car currently available for sale. The events were held in 22 cities from San Diego to the Upstate New York. Participants drove the Tesla Model X, Tesla Model S, Tesla Model 3, Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, Chevrolet Bolt and Volt, Nissan Leaf, BMW i3 and other electric cars. Local chapters of the Electric Auto Association also exhibited at several of the events.


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Rehab Care Center for Denton – Call (940) 291-3050 to Get Help Immediately!
There are people who are able to use drugs and alcohol without ever becoming addicted, or even dependent. However, the majority of people from Denton, TX use substances because they have certain problems in their lives, and they try to escape from these. When people use drugs in order to deal with problems, then the inevitable consequence is actually for those problems to become worse over time, as well as adding new problems, such as shame, helplessness, isolation, and depression.
If you believe you may have such a problem, or that a friend or family member does, then know that help is available. You may also benefit from learning more about drug and alcohol addiction, as this will give you a greater understanding of just how powerful the hold is that it has over people. Understanding the problem is essential in being able to resolve the problem.
Substance Abuse Treatment
There are many reasons as to why people experiment with drugs. For many, the first time is curiosity. They may have heard it is fun, their friends are doing it, and more. Others start to use to improve their physical fitness or because they have problems such as depression, anxiety, or stress and they feel they are better able to cope by using drugs. Not everybody who starts to use will also abuse drugs, and there isn't a specific moment in time at which point a casual user becomes a problematic user as well.
Essentially, substance abuse and addiction is not about how much people use or how often. Rather, it is about why they started to use, and why they continue to use. The same is true with developing a drinking problem. It is also very much about what happens as a result of their use. If problems start to exist in life, including at home, at school, at work, or in relationships, then an abuse or addiction problem is likely to be present.
Why Do Some People Develop an Addiction, But Not All?
The extent to which people are vulnerable to addiction differ for each person. A lot of factors are involved here, including social environment, family, mental health, and genes. However, there are a number of known risk factors that make it more likely for someone to become addicted. These include:
• Having a family member who has an addiction
• Going through traumatic experiences, including abuse or neglect
• Having a mental illness, including anxiety and depression
• Starting to use drugs early in life
• How drugs are administered, injecting or smoking, tend to lead to addiction more quickly.
Treatment Strategy for Drug & Alcohol Addiction Rehab
The first step towards recovery is recognizing that a problem exists. Nevertheless, even people who don't admit that they have a problem can still be helped. Admitting it, however, will make the difficult road to recovery a lot easier to travel. It is about no longer making excuses or minimizing the issue, no matter how overwhelming and frightening it may feel. Help is out there for everybody, enabling them to lead a clean, sober, happy, and healthy life.
Addiction is treatable, but it isn't simple. Addiction is classed as a chronic illness, which means that it is about more than simply being clean for a few days and being declared "cured". In reality, people need lengthy and often repeated interventions and care in order to truly recover. Some even suggest that someone can never be "cured" from addiction because of its chronic nature, although others disagree with that.
Drug and alcohol addiction treatment has to achieve three different things. The first is to get the patients to stop using their chosen substance. The second is for them to remain drug free. Lastly, they must learn to once again become productive in society, at work, and in their family.
Principles of Effective Drug & Alcohol Addiction Treatment
Since the 1970s, scientists have been looking at how addiction treatment is most likely to be effective. They have determined a number of key principles in addiction treatment:
1. That addiction may be complex but it can be treated
2. That the disease of addiction affects both behavior and brain function
3. That there is no one size fits all treatment solution
4. That access to treatment should be quick and easy
5. That all the needs of the patients are addressed, not just their drug use
6. That people must remain in treatment for the right length of time
7. That behavioral therapy and counseling must be offered as a treatment type
8. That medication may be used together with behavioral therapy to treat an individual
9. That a treatment plan should be regularly reviewed and changed to meet the needs of the patient
10. That mental disorders should be identified and treated
11. That the period of medically supervised detox is only the first stage of recovery
12. That people can also get help even if they don't want to
13. That patients must be continuously monitored for drug use
14. That patients should be tested for infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, hepatitis B and C, and HIV/AIDS
15. That treatment should also include education in terms of risk reduction
Through the above principles, effective treatment is now known to have to go through a number of specific steps:
1. Detox, whereby the body becomes physically clean of the drug
2. Behavioral counseling, to start to heal the mind
3. Medication, particularly for alcohol, tobacco, and opioid addictions
4. Evaluation of a co-occurring mental issue and offering treatment if it is found to be present
5. Long-term after care and relapse prevention
Crucial to the success of drug and alcohol addiction treatment is that various care options are available, that the treatment is tailored to the individual, and that they receive proper aftercare. Aftercare can be either family or community based, or both.
Medication in Drug & Alcohol Addiction Treatment
The use of medication, for many, is seen as controversial when it comes to addiction treatment. Some feel that this only leaves a person addicted to another substance. Research has shown, however, that if properly managed and administered, they can help reduce the severity of withdrawal symptoms, manage any co-occurring disorders, and prevent relapse.


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I mean, of course, I'm happy and grateful that I'm getting out so early. I definitely can tough it out for three more days. And yet...
These past few days have been going by so slowly. The clock seems to go by more slowly, as if just to smite me. Homework seems to have become more arduous (this is because it actually has, since all of the teachers are dumping extra homework on us now).
This feeling is inevitable. I have felt it practically every year. It sets in around the beginning of May and it doesn't let up until school ends and I know with certainty that school is finally over.
So this is the feeling that most people get as they wait for school to end. It's this weary feeling deep inside. It feels like you need more effort to wake up in the morning and to do schoolwork. Everything inside of you just wants to go on off mode and slack. You lack the energy that you had before. It feels like school should just be OVER already, and your brain, body and soul all scream for it to come to an end. Nothing can motivate you. You have two voices inside your head, the one telling you to keep on working and the other telling you to give up because you don't have much time anyway.
Sure, this school is definitely better than my other school. Yet this is the weariness of actually having to do work. It's even more difficult because this is even more work than I had when I was at my peak. But I can do this and keep up my work effort too.


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How can you drastically cut the cost of a weekend youth ski retreat from $130 to only $35? By doing it as a cluster group! The following article written by Rev. Bob Vale, pastor of the Osceola United Methodist Church, explains how his cluster group did just that…
Less is More!!!
Our cluster churches worked together this past month to host a youth winter retreat that was highly successful in many ways. The heart of the retreat between five different United Methodist congregations was to accomplish something we could do much better together than we could do as a single church.
The pastors and youth directors of the Mishawaka Best Cluster wanted to put together a spiritual winter ski retreat for the teens in our churches. As we began to work together to accomplish this goal we began to approach the typical plans and steps to put such a retreat together. We first selected a camp close to the ski lodge we wanted to attend. We also chose a very dynamic youth speaker from South Carolina to speak to our teens over the weekend.
As we put all the finishing touches to our retreat experience together, the total cost for each teen was about $130.00 per student, Which is about an average cost for such a retreat. The brochures looked amazing, the excitement was high, and we began to talk to the teens in our churches about signing up for this wonderful winter experience.
Because of the high cost for one weekend experience and the struggling economy, many of the teens were simply not able to go. Many of the youth pastors showed concern for the cost considering they were also saving scholarship money for summer camp for all of their students. Trying to raise funds for both winter and summer camping experiences seemed a bit daunting.
As the youth directors and pastors talked about the difficulty in getting teens to sign up, they decided to see just how cheap they could make the winter ski trip retreat for their teens. They knew the spiritual experience for the teens would be amazing, but the price of $130.00 per student seemed a bit too high. As we put our heads together we first decided not to stay at a camp in Michigan, but rather decided to stay at our own churches instead. We also asked each cluster church to donate one meal for the weekend. This was a savings of $80.00 per student.
We also asked each of the cluster churches to help pay for the speaker rather than place that amount on the teens. This was another savings of about $15.00 per student. Each church took care of their own transportation and publicity cost. The only expense that was left was the cost of the skiing. The individual cost to ski was $45.00 per student. However, by adding all of our teens together, the ski lodge gave us a group rate, which took $10.00 off each student's cost. Each student only paid $35.00 for both ski rental and lift ticket for a full day of skiing.
Therefore the total cost for the weekend was not $130.00 per student but only $35.00 per student. In December when we talked to our teens we only had a handful of teens who were interested. By reducing the cost down to $35.00, we had a total of 70 teens attend this wonderful weekend retreat. Less was Definitely More!
Our first night the teens were hosted by the Osceola United Methodist Church. The ladies and men of the church cooked a wonderful supper for all the teens. One of the churches had a great teen praise band who led the worship and a youth group drama was also performed during the evening of worship. The youth speaker (Chip Herring) was amazing and the teens absolutely loved him. After the evening worship service was over, many of the teens took showers at the church and parsonage and then went to bed.
Early the next morning, the Middlebury UMC cooked a delicious hot breakfast for the teens to get them ready for a day of skiing the snowy slopes. Each church was waiting in the parking lot with their church vans or busses to take the group to the slopes about an hour away. The Swiss Valley Ski Resort was more than happy to welcome our large group and give them special treatment. They even gave us our own eating area. The Albright UMC ordered 25 large pizzas, chips and canned drinks for all the teens for lunch. I don't think there was a slice of pizza left after 70 hungry teens dug into their favorite meal.
The teens finished skiing at about five p.m. and got into the church buses to go to the Mishawaka First UMC for an amazing supper prepared by the adults of their church. (The soft ice cream was a big hit with all the teens!) After supper we had our second worship experience. The youth praise team led worship for a second time and a different youth group preformed a meaningful drama. Our youth speaker challenged the teens and had them laughing and enjoying the experience. The evening ended around 9:15 p.m. and all the teens went home to get a good night's rest and were at their home churches for morning worship on Sunday. (End of Day two.)
Day three (Sunday) allowed us one more afternoon / evening experience at our third church. The Willow Creek UMC hosted the teens with a great supper meal prepared by the UMW of their church. Following the supper, the teens went to the sanctuary for their third worship experience. Because we had a lot of high school students, we asked a local Christian college if they would bring one of their traveling singing groups to perform and share a bit about their college. (Bethel College).
The Bethel College singers were amazing and the teens really enjoyed their music. The youth praise band also played for a third time. Our youth speaker challenged the teens one last time and touched their hearts. All in all this was a wonderful retreat and spiritually uplifting for our teens.
By working together as a cluster of churches and using our own facilities and gifts, we were able to do a "great thing together, that perhaps we could not have done as a single church." Many thanks go to the pastors and youth directors who all pitched in to do something different than the typical retreat. I like to think we "Re-Thought" a better way to make disciples for Jesus Christ to the teens in our churches.
To God be the glory for working together!!!
Pastor Bob Vale
Osceola United Methodist Church


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Flower Cupcakes
Serving Size / Yield
24 servings
- 1 vanilla cupcake
- 2 Tbs. frosting
- Pink and yellow sanding sugar
- pink candied Jordan almonds
- 1 red jujube
- 1 piece green fruit-by-the-foot
- For the cupcakes:
- 2 2/3 C. sugar
- 1 C. unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 2/3 C. milk
- 2/3 C. water
- 2 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 2 2/3 C. all-purpose flour
- 1 1/3 C. cake flour
- 4 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. fine salt
- For the frosting:
- 1/4 C. whole milk
- 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 10 Tbs. unsalted butter, softened
- 5 C. confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 C. marshmallow fluff
- Pinch fine salt
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For the cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line two 12-cup cupcake tins with paper liners. (To avoid cupcakes sticking if they overflow slightly, lightly spray the tops of the pans.) Put tins on a baking sheet. Set aside.
- Process sugar and butter in a food processor until very creamy, scraping sides as needed, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the eggs and yolks, one at a time, pulsing after each addition. Add the milk, water, and vanilla and process to blend.
- Whisk both flours, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Add the dry ingredients, in 3 batches to the wet, pulsing, and then scraping batter off the sides of the processor as needed after each addition. Process until the batter is very smooth and pourable like pancake batter, about 2 minutes.
- Evenly pour the batter into the prepared cups, filling them 3/4 of the way full. Bake until the cakes are just firm and spring back when gently pressed, and the tops are golden, 18 to 25 minutes. Cool slightly in tin, and turn out of tin when cool enough to handle. Cool cupcakes completely on a rack before frosting.
For the frosting:
- Whisk the milk and vanilla extract together in a small bowl.
- Slowly beat the butter and sugar, in another medium bowl, with an electric mixer until incorporated. Raise the speed to high and mix until light and fluffy, about 5 to 7 minutes. (Occasionally turn the mixer off, and scrape the sides of the bowl down with a rubber spatula.) Add the fluff and salt and reduce the speed to low. Add the milk and vanilla mixture, scrape the bowl down, and mix until fully incorporated. Raise the mixer to high and beat briefly until fluffy, about 1 to 2 minutes. Frost cupcake immediately.
For decorations:
Frost the cupcake. Top with pink sanding sugar. Place Jordan almonds on top in a flower petal pattern. Press a jujube candy in the center of the flower. Cut the fruit-by-the- foot to make the flower stem, press onto the cake.
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Is It Toast For Romney?: Presidential Politics of Lies and Deception
[Speaking Truth To Power]
Presidential pretender Mitt Romney has been bobbing and weaving from allegations he's hiding something from the American people by refusing to show his tax returns.
Is Mr. Romney's refusal an admission that he's engaging in lies and deception?
For the last week, Mr. Romney has been faced with unrelenting scrutiny regarding the lack of transparency relating to his tax returns. So far, the former Massachusetts governor has only turned over his tax returns for 2010—absent parts relating to foreign investments. Moreover, he is steadfastly refusing to hand over previous tax returns.
In fact, on Thursday, Mr. Romney—during an interview with the National Review—said this: "My tax returns that have already been released number into the hundreds of pages. And we will be releasing tax returns for the most current year as soon as those are prepared." And he add, "In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to distract from the failure of the president to reignite our economy. And I'm simply not enthusiastic about giving them hundreds or thousands of more pages to pick through, distort, and lie about."
But many agree he must turn over more tax records to protect his credibility in his run for the presidency and silence the voices of those who feel he is hiding something from the American people. It's a sentiment even some Republicans and conservatives are now echoing—especially, since, Mr. Romney insists he has nothing to hide.
Here's what several of them had to say, regarding Romney's tax return problem.
Former Republican Chairman Michael Steele said "If there's nothing there, there's no 'there' there, don't create a 'there.' Put out as much information as you can. Even if you don't release 12 years worth of tax returns, at least three, four, five."
Republican strategist and former Newt Gingrich advisor Rick Tyler said "Mitt Romney had an opportunity to answer these questions during the primary," and that "he did not answer these questions and now they're coming up again." Only Romney can provide that information or "we'll just have drip, drip, drip to November," he concludes.
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) said ""I think he should release his financial records and I think if he does it in July it would be a lot better than in October. He also added that, "whenever you are asking for the vote of the American people you need to fully disclose what your holdings are, if you have any."
Bill Kristol, conservative commentator and editor, said "He should release the tax returns tomorrow. This is crazy," and that "you've got to release 6, 8, 10 years of back tax returns. Take the hit for a day or two. Then give a serious speech."
Commentator Matthew Dowd commented "There is obviously something because if there was nothing there he would say have it...But I think the bigger thing is, its arrogance. Many of these politicians think I can do this, I can get away with this." And legendary conservative thinker George Will had this to say: "The costs of not releasing the returns are clear, therefore he must have calculated that there are higher costs in releasing them." Mr. Will's observation—followed by those of Mr. Dowd—is clearly, the most prescient point here. Indeed, what are these "higher costs" Mr. Romney "calculated" that made him decide not to release more of the tax returns?
Well, it's obviously about the money isn't it? Because, from the little we know, he has been paying a far less percent in taxes than many working Americans—the very people he claims he understands and can provide jobs for better than President Obama. Apparently, he knows his true tax returns would turn that notion upon its head.
For months, Mr. Romney has been maneuvering, spin doctoring and lying in his great ambition to become president. Now, the reality is: most American politicians have an aversion for the truth. Unfortunately, this is, partly, because American politics is corrupted by the influence of big money—a situation made worse by the Supreme Court's wretched Citizen's United Decision.
if there was a Pinocchio award for politicians, Mr. Romney's mendacity would easily take first prize. But instead of his nose growing, it's Mr. Romney's credibility that's shrinking. How can anyone who wants to be president refuse to show such records? Aren't these the very people who often wax eloquently about democracy? Doesn't this make a mockery of the idea of full transparency?
Ever since Mr. Obama became the nation's first Black president, many people who identify as Republicans and conservatives have continually raised questions about President Obama's birth papers. For example, Romney supporter Donald Trump is still pushing the retrograde racist "Birther" conspiracy rant—about President Obama being a foreigner.
One has to wonder: why aren't these same principled people hooting and hollering about Mr. Romney's decision to conceal his financial papers? These people—we'll get to Mr. Romney's wife's comments in a second—always find themselves in these kinds of hypocritical conundrums. If President Obama had to be treated like an illegal immigrant—just because of his Black skin—by being forced into an unprecedented presidential indignity, then why shouldn't Mr. Romney show us his tax returns?
There seems no doubt Mr. Romney is worried about tax avoidance tricks, and the like, in his tax returns—as well as what they'll reveal about his foreign investments. However, he, probably, also knows closer scrutiny will lead to more curiosity about his other financial dealings. There are other things the electorate might well want to know like: what is the extent of Mr. Romney's off shore finances? How much assets does he have in tax shelters, tax havens and other things like these "blind trusts?"
The truth is: the answers to all those questions may well cause his presidential candidacy to implode. Think of it: aren't Republicans and conservatives the ones always preaching about American exceptionalism within isolationist rhetoric?
Mr. Romney himself has, repeatedly, railed about "European-style socialism." So, how can he then release financial forms that may link him with massive foreign investments in these same countries? That would definitely undercut his message to the American people and illustrate that he's part of the greedy one percent—that the Occupy Wall Street Movement warns about.
And now we come to the comments of Mr. Dowd—and those of Mrs. Ann Romney. Mr. Dowd, correctly, talked about the "arrogance" of "many of these politicians." On Thursday, Mrs. Romney said this: "We've given all [that] you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and about how we live our life."
In other words, is the presumptive First Lady telling us to mind our damn business, as it relates to their finances? Her statement suggests the Romneys won't comply with the request to turn over more tax returns. This surely seems like impetuous impudence from someone who expects the American people to give them the keys to the White House come November.
In the final analysis, Mr. Romney, by refusing to turn over his financial statements, is doing the same thing he's has done in regard to serious policy matters: he's telling us to trust him—even, while he hides pertinent facts. This is unacceptable for someone who expects to become president in November.
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#1199 open enhancement
Playlist support
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Would it be too difficult to add the playlist support in FFmpeg in such way that it would help replace using "for", "while" and other loops, in batch scripts? Here is an example of possible implementation:
ffmpeg -f playlist -i list.m3u -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f mp4 %1.new.mp4
This would have an effect of looping through the entire list.m3u file, reading each file from the playlist and remuxing it into mp4 format, saving it to a new file name, using a file name pattern (just like -f image2 does with "img%03d.png"), where %1 might represent the original file name.
I'm willing to make a patch for this enhancement, I just need a little push in the right direction. Which files should I look at, to edit them? I'll try to write it and submit the patch here.
This enhancement could also be used with ffplay, to play a playlist instead of one file.
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comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by rogerdpack
I presume this was never implemented (yet)? I.e. ffmpeg *shouldn't* yet work for
$ ffplay -i http://audio-ogg.ibiblio.org:8000/wcpe.ogg.m3u
(for followers, in the meantime you can just parse m3u files manually: http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=614)
comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by richardpl
- Component changed from undetermined to avformat
- Status changed from new to open
- Version changed from unspecified to git-master
comment:3 in reply to: ↑ description Changed 7 years ago by cehoyos
Replying to burek:
This enhancement could also be used with ffplay, to play a playlist instead of one file.
Doesn't this work with the concat demuxer?
comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by richardpl
Playlist syntax (not just for m3u but for pls and others is different) and concat
demuxer added probing for different signature from m3u8, but code from concat could be used/base for playlist "demuxers"
comment:5 Changed 6 years ago by cehoyos
Example stream from ticket #3612:
comment:6 Changed 6 years ago by mbat
Would be really useful to have this feature for .m3u, .pls and .asx.
comment:7 Changed 6 years ago by gjdfgh
- Cc firstname.lastname@example.com added
There is a very old Libav branch that adds playlist support: http://git.khirnov.net/cgit.cgi/libav/log/?h=playlists
Please discuss this with elenril on #libav-devel. (And be civil. Anyone discussing ffmpeg vs. libav here please fuck off.)


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The retina is a thin layer of light-sensitive nerve tissue lining the back of your eye. Light rays are focused onto the retina from the cornea (the transparent layer in the front of the eye which covers the iris and pupil) lens, and pupil. The retina and cornea both coordinate to function like a camera. With the retina functioning like a camera lens, the lens of the eye focuses light and images onto the retina where they are sent to the brain. It is important for the eye's lens to remain clear so that light can effectively and clearly pass through. The retina converts the light rays coming through the eye into electric impulses that travel through the optic nerve to your brain. The brain interprets the impulses into the images we see. If the normal connection of the optic nerve between the retina and the brain is damaged, impulse transmission issues will result in distorted vision.
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For about two hours, families moved from room to room staffed with teachers equipped with hands-on activities to encourage interest in the topics of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. As one group of students learned about the mathematical properties of repeatedly rolling a pair of dice, others estimated the combined mass of different objects to reach a weight on a tableside scale.
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This lecture should be sprinkled on our breakfast cereals each day. It is a foundation for starting a day, a career, and a life. Demanding creativity is like yanking on a seed to pull out a flower.
One of my favorites, Jonathan Harris of We Feel Fine, gave a talk during CreativeMornings' Arts + Tech themed month done in partnership with RISD. Jonathan revisits different phases of his life and the medium that marked them in his work as an artist. Starting with paint, Jonathan speaks on data, life, himself, and tool(s) — addressing both the positives and negatives of each medium as well as what he hopes for the future of arts and technology.
Here's a great example – From Digiday:
"TNT gave a dream brief to Breakfast, a tech-hacker marketing boutique of sorts, to help promote its new psychological crime show "Perception": make something cool in a storefront space in New York City's Herald Square.
Breakfast hatched what it's calling a "real-time electromagnetic dot display," an updated version of old signs in train stations with letters and numbers that flip over as they change. The twist: The display changes based on motions of those in front of it. When walking by, the sign displays mirror images of the people in front of it, reacting immediately to their movements. You wave, your dot-matrix doppelganger waves back. The movements knock away words, revealing clues to anagrams that the star of "Perception" uses to solve crimes. The idea is to physically involve participants in experiencing the plot of the show."
A well-executed creative idea that's perfectly aligned with changing consumer demands.
Goertz, a former client, reinvented the shoe buying experience. According to digitalbuzz: "How does a German online shoe store grab some attention in the real world? Well, a virtual shoe fitting installation makes sense right? Yep, here it is, the Virtual Shoe Fitting Store from Goertz, an Augmented Reality, Microsoft Kinect powered installation that is plugged into a giant screen, then rolled out as virtual shoe stores at central stations and shopping centres across Germany.
Using 3x Microsoft Kinects, a beefy computer and giant screen, this virtual shoe fitting station is basically an Augmented Reality Shoe Store, tracking 3D versions of their entire range of online shoes to your feet, allowing you to choose your favourite brands, flip through colours, sizes and then post to Facebook for feedback before buying on your mobile via a dynamic QR code that is displayed on screen."
A good example how retailers can leave their static stores and create immersive product experiences.
Creativity says: "According to McCann Vice Chairman/Global Deputy Chief Creative Officer Andreas Dahlqvist, a key goal was to extend the life of the catalog in consumers' homes. Its average lifespan is about two weeks, but with the digital offerings, content can be added and updated on a regular basis, making the catalog relevant year-round.
The print pages tease the additional materials with a smartphone icon that encourages shoppers to scan to see more. The app uses image recognition software from Metaio, and not QR codes, which makes it convenient to add further content to other pages in the future. With those, viewers may be alerted to new content via billboard callouts, for example, said McCann Associate Creative Director Koen Malfait."
I'm dubious about that execution. In the age of ADD, it doesn't seem likely people will engage with the catalog as envisioned. Personally, I would have left the catalog mostly alone. It's a coffee table book, something you engage with as a still product. Aren't we asking too much from people to pull out their phone constantly to engage with us?
Data will give us the answer. No matter, the advertising innovation train continues to speed up. Hold on tight, it will only get faster.
Everybody is talking about creativity. When politicians start talking about creativity, you know we're in the middle of a creativity bubble.
What does creativity look like? Where should it come from? Who's responsible? How best to harness it?
In a client-agency relationship, the creative department is typically tasked to express creativity and keep it limited to that department. What's the purpose of creativity within an agency?
Is the model of creativity a new idea support model that we can sell to clients? Is it a model focused on consolidating creative output within core, traditionally creative functions? Resulting in hiring 'creative' people who act different than the rest of us.
Or should we expand this model and give everyone in the agency the opportunity to be 'creative', whatever your title or rank? This model requires that creativity becomes more accessible, more within reach for those who don't traditionally regard themselves to be 'creative' for whatever reason.
We need both.
I bet there's no agency in the world that doesn't want more creativity at its centre. At the same, viewing creativity solely as the preserve of a certain 'type' is all wrong, and probably cuts you off from potential value people can bring. Because a creative organization places creativity within the reach of everyone.
Creativity is about making new connections. And much more: Creativity is open-ended. Creativity is never finished, or a box you can tick. It relies on knowing more stuff so that you can make more connections.
Which raises an interesting question:
Do agencies really want creativity?
Creativity can actually be harnessed pretty simply given the right processes and a certain level of organizational commitment. If more connections come from knowing stuff, then agencies need to create a culture of curiosity.
Which is much harder.
Curiosity is an innate motivation. It's established early in your childhood. You can't brainstorm yourself to curiosity. It comes from people and can't be engineered. It might be stimulated through feedback. It shouldn't be considered as its own reward. It should be required as a basic mindset to be regarded for an agency job.
Should there be a Curiosity Director? A Curiosity department?
Only 25% of people believe they are living up to their potential to be creative, and more than 75% of people feel that their countries are not living up to their collective potential to be creative.
Are you a 25%er?
Tiger Woods was a planned superstar. When he was three he appeared on the Mike Douglas Show, at age five he appeared on Golf Digest. So far, he has won 14 majors and he might win more than Jack Nicklaus' 18. His career is about control and planning. Nutrition, swing, attitude, psychology: he's the poster child of planned success.
Enter Bubba Watson.
Watson has never had a coach, a trainer, a nutritionist, or a sports psychologist, and he's proud of it. He has never had a golf lesson. And he just won the Masters.
I'm sure he broke Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule, I'm sure he spent much of his waking time perfecting his game. But, it's apparent he did it on his own accord. Following his rules. His mindset. And he succeeded by being creative.
According to a new survey of 1,500 chief executives conducted by IBM's Institute for Business Value, CEO's identify "creativity" as the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future. That's creativity – not operational effectiveness, influence, or even dedication. Coming out of the worst economic downturn in their professional lifetimes, when managerial discipline and rigor ruled the day, this indicates a remarkable shift in attitude. It is consistent with the study's other major finding: Global complexity is the foremost issue confronting these CEOs and their enterprises. The chief executives see a large gap between the level of complexity coming at them and their confidence that their enterprises are equipped to deal with it.
Until now creativity has generally been viewed as fuel for the engines of research or product development, not the essential leadership asset that must permeate an enterprise.
If I was betting man, I'd put my future money on Bubba. He's good at improvising, not following the advice of experts. He's good at listening to his own voice, not listening to a coach.
Go Bubba.
As we all know and feel, America seems to be on the decline. GDP, education, infrastructure – misery all around.
Need further proof?
The recent Global Competitiveness Report from the World Economic Forum showed America slipping from 4th to 5th in the world.
When you consider the glass half empty, this decline is a permanent process.
When you consider the glass half full, this decline is a temporary dip. Something we can overcome by reinventing ourselves. Again.
The only way out is to dig deep into our creativity to maintain relevance in a shifting global landscape.
Unfortunately, new research coming out of Cornell, suggest our biggest stumbling block to be ourselves: Humans face massive challenges to accept creative ideas.
A few highlights from the Cornell paper:
– Because creative ideas are also new, they seem to give rise to uncertainty or even discomfort for others who depend on the tried-and-true way of doing things. To reduce uncertainty, subconsciously rejecting a creative idea may be easier than accepting it.
– Basically, everyone was evaluating an idea that their peers rated as being creative but the people who were feeling a sense of uncertainty were biased against the creative idea and favored the idea that is purely practical.
– "What we found is that people are perfectly willing to claim they want creative ideas but they can nevertheless hold a negative bias that causes them to reject creative ideas," Goncalo wrote. "That's what makes this so insidious for people who are trying to be creative [because] biases may lurk beneath the surface."
To survive and, hopefully, thrive in a global economy, America needs to become the biggest supporter of creativity and creative people.
In any environment.
In anything we do.
Creativity has to become the mission of this country.
It has to be taught in school.
Rewarded in professional life.
Celebrated in each community.
Creativity shouldn't be limited to a Creative Director.
An agency,
A division.
Something that's cool or weird.
It should be a mandate in our society, part of what we are.
Creativity used to be a rare object.
The starving artist.
The weirdo.
The crazies.
We need to weave the weirdness and craziness into the fabric of our lives.
We are all creatives now.
Do me a favor: Watch this video. Trust me, it's worth each of its 778 seconds.
You will hear fascinating stories about sodas (Sweet Blossom floral-sodas from Romania, made from real crushed rose petals, anyone?) You will learn that the CRV laws were made for the big soda companies, not for small shops. And, you will discover the golden past and the golden future of business: Providing value to customers. Value through great products, a passion for your products and industry that translates into memorable stories.
I've watched a lot of football yesterday. And even more commercials. I have problems remembering one.
But John Nese and his Galco's Soda Pop Stop will be with me for a long time to come. Makes me think, all this talk about 'media snacking' might be just a lame excuse for poor content.
Or as John Nese says: "The important thing is to set yourself apart and provide your customers with something that nobody else has."
P.S.: I live a few miles from the store, never visited it before. Guess what I'm doing this evening?
The World Cup is upon us and as a lifelong soccer fan and player, I reflected on a few insights that the soccer game taught me that can be applied to small and large businesses.
1. Embrace and live your culture
I started playing soccer when I was 5. We practiced twice a week and played each Saturday. Raised in Germany, our practice consisted of 90 minutes running and 30 minute playing time. Fairly insane when you think about it: forcing 5-year-olds to run for 90 minutes through the forest or doing laps after laps. But that's the German culture for you. We were no masters on the ball but my team could outrun anyone. We won 90% of our games in the last 10 minutes because we never tired. (I hope there's more balance in today's practices in Germany, though)
Each country has a specific soccer culture: the playfulness of Brazil, the physical intimidation of England, the defensive discipline of Italy, the exuberance of African teams. While you need to embrace and live your culture to be successful, you shouldn't fall in love with it and be always open to change. Brazil wasn't a dominant force in the 70's and 80's because they focused too much on playfulness and not enough on execution. Once they added execution into the mix, matches and World Cup's were won again.
2.) Hire entrepreneurs
Most soccer coaches last only for a few years. It's a tough job to gather all your players from clubs all over the world, fight internal bureaucracies and deal with the press. Coaches, just like players, are superstars. They have to take huge risks in order to succeed and most of them fail. Just to rise on some other bench to try it again.
Soccer is a team sport but individual decisions make or break a team. The collective approach to soccer will always fail. Both coach and player are entrepreneurs, and the more creativity they display, the more leeway they are given. Coach and players have two different tools of influence to impact the outcome of the game.
The coach can create a cohesive, yet competitive culture that rewards creativity and innovation, build team spirit and nurture team culture. He has strategic tools at his hand (formations, substitutions, etc.) but his input won't lead to innovation or moving the game to a new level.
This is done by 22 feet of 11 individual players. Players innovate on a daily basis to get a small but significant competitive advantage. They need to surprise other players with new ways of dribbling, moving, passing and reacting. The coach is there to create the right environment for players to innovate. Daily. With every move.
3.) Dramatic innovation is rare. Daily innovation a must.
As a soccer aficionado, it's very interesting to watch games from the past and compare them to today's sport. The game was much slower, formations not as fluid as they are today and positions have been redefined over the years. But, what's even more intriguing is that these changes take years to really come to life. Franz Beckenbauer perfected the position of "Libero", the "sweeper" before the goal-keeper, freeing him from marking a direct opponent. (Rather revolutionary, if you think about it: Instead of marking a person, you're defending a zone.) He played his first World Cup in 1966, not really filling the position of Libero yet. In 1970, he showed massive improvements on this new style of play but it took him until 1974, when he crowned his career with a World Cup win and a performance that showcased his evolution from support player to innovator.
Innovation didn't happen in one game. It happened over more than a decade. And influenced generations to come.
4.) Don't blame technology. Don't worship technology. Just use it.
Each time the World Cup comes around, there's a lot of talk about the new ball. Some people fear it, some embrace it. Most players don't care. The ball is just a tool they use to accomplish a task. Because it's new, players will have to find the challenges/dead spots when handling or shooting it. Introducing a new ball right ahead of the biggest sporting event seems wrong. But it is a great way to determine the best playing team and the team that answered this challenge with a strong creative approach. There's nothing to fear. And a lot to explore.
5.) Play. Hard.
I could write about the beauty of soccer, get all poetic and philosophical. But the real beauty of this sport is that's it's still a game. When players have a creative thought, they can implement this idea immediately. And fail. Or succeed. At the heart of American Football is strategy. Creativity is not rewarded. At the heart of soccer is creativity. (Based on a foundation of technical excellence, supreme conditioning and mental toughness.)
Tomorrow the World Cup begins. A clean slate. For all we know, North Korea might win it this time. Or South Africa. History exists only in the books and in our heads. On the grass, there's no history. Just opportunity. Possibilities. The best playing team will win the tournament.
And, that's the most important lesson soccer can teach business: Business is a game that reinvents itself each and every day. The basic rules remain the same, your team defines how to play with these rules creatively. As an executive, it's your responsibility to assemble the best players, to lay down the rules and develop plans. At the end of the day, the players have to play to move your business. Let them play. And enjoy each moment of it.


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Happy October!
Fall is officially in full swing, and I couldn't be happier. If I could live in this weather year-round, I would be in heaven.
A couple weeks ago my sister and I randomly decided to send each other some goodies, just because. I think we were more excited to see how the other person liked the gift we sent out instead of how we liked our own gift that we received ;)
My little sissy completely spoiled me and stocked me up with all the fall essentials!
This is what I sent out: A goodie from Lush, some pretty pink nail polish, Baby Lips, a Starbucks gift card {for PSL's of course} and a pretty card.
I loved that these gifts were totally random and helped to spruce up what would otherwise be a blah week full of schoolwork!
xo Ellyse


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urlQuery – Domain map, deobfuscated results, site preview, even IDS alerts
Quttera – Friendly UI with detailed reports
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Unmask iFrame – Find all iframes in a given URL
Sucuri SiteCheck – Blacklisting, malware, redirects, outdated software
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Unmask Parasites – Searches for long lines and hidden iframes
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HTML Sniffer – Check the content of a webpage with various requests
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PHP Deobfuscator – Decode common PHP obfuscation functions
CleanMX – Various different queries available with quick-updates
Malware Domain List – A complete list of malicious domains
urlVoid – Check with over 25 different engines
ScanURL – Check with 3 different url scanners
BadMalWeb – Find malicious websites in a virtually unlimited database
Google SafeBrowsing – Check for malicious activity
Webutation – Reputation check
RBL Blacklist – Check with over 25 private blacklists
RBLS Blacklist – Check with over 15 private blacklists
VirusTotal – Check with over 30 different url scanners
Latest Exploits:
Emerging Threats – The latest malicous exploits and trends
Malware Analysis Search – A custom google search just for analyst
1337day – database of exploits for security researchers
Intelligent Exploit – joomla, wordpress, and other common software exploits
CXSecurity – latest CVE exploits
Exploit Database – Various exploits, including remote, local, and web categories
CVE Details – Details of CVE exploits
Exploit Search – Search various CVE exploits
OWASP – Exploit algorithms explained and prevention
Comodo Analysis – events, mutexes, threads, and more
VirusTotal – Check against 40 different antivirus engines
CWSandbox – Arguably the most specific file analysis
Anubis -Network, file, and registry activities
Bleeping Computer Statups – List of good/bad statup entries
Malwr – Screenshots, process tree, behavioral analysis
Minotaur Analysis – Screenshots, domain information, video analysis
Shellcode 2 Exe – Convert shell to exe
Avast! Online Scan – Scan using avast's engine
Is This File Safe? – Check if file is blacklisted as malicious
Dr.Web Online Check – Scan using Dr.Web's engine
VX Vault – Search the file's MD5 in a top-notch database
Note that the above lists are in order based on how much I find the site useful. Maybe I'll have enough time to make an application featuring many of these sites' features. Many of these sites were found by Polonus.
Put these tools to good use,


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With photos being a quite important part of my life – both personally as a hobby and financially as a profession – loosing my photos would be a disaster. I have always been very thorough with making backups of my files, but things have changed the last couple of years, making my life a little easier.
The local backup
I really like disk-based backups, either by disk cloning or decremental backups, where I can easily verify, that everything is there. I couldn't do that with the tape-based backups in ancient times. A $4,000 disk-recovery more than a decade ago tought me an important lesson.
All my photos are placed on external harddrives attached with USB3 to my docking station. That works very well, but the next time I upgrade my storage, I will probably switch to a high-performance NAS. It's a little faster (I've measured it to 20%) and it will give me the added safety of RAID*.
For each attached harddrive I have an extra similar drive to which I make a backup once a month. I do this with the native Windows commandline tool Robocopy:
ROBOCOPY e:\ f:\ /B /PURGE /E /DCOPY:T /XJD /XD "$RECYCLE.BIN" "System Volume Information" /V
This will copy my disk E: to my backup drive F: and skip the recycle bin and volume information, that will make it choke.
It will only copy new and changed files, and remove those deleted on E, so I don't have to wait for a complete drive copy (which would take a day and a half).
My backup drives are all stored unattached and safely somewhere in the house.
In "the old days", which is more than a couple of years back, I made this backup once a week or so. I also had another set of backup drives that were stored at my parents' house close by. Just in case a fire or a thief would make me loose both the working drive and the backup.
Online backup
Neither of these measures would take care of photos taken between two backups. I could loose up to a week worth of work in the most extreme. Fortunately, I never have, but I did loose a couple of days a few years back, when a hard drive crashed.
Then online backup arrived. It's not a new invention, of course, and I have used it for other things in the past, but bandwidth limitations made it uninteresting until recently for backing up large volumes of data. Many terabytes of data doesn't work well on 1 Mbps upstream.
I tested many vendors of online backup services, and eventually I selected CrashPlan from Code42. The pricing was good, storage unlimited and they kept file revisions, so I would be able to restore both older revisions and deleted files. Upload speed wasn't impressive – not taking full advantage of my own bandwidth – but it was no worse than the speed at any other vendor I tested. What I liked the most, was their relatively lightweight background-service that would slowly backup all the selected drives without me even noticing it. It didn't actually matter how long it would take when it didn't interfere with my daily work. And as I would never trust a third party alone, I would still make the primary backup at home, so there was no rush. It took a little more than a year to make the initial backup.
A combination for me, thank you!
As mentioned, I would never trust a third party alone to be responsible for my files. If something happened to my drives, they could go into bankrupcy or get technical issues affecting my data, before I had restored everything from them. Furthermore, restoring files takes a long time – very long time. It would take both weeks and probably months to download my entire archive from CrashPlan, so I only see them as a protection against the very unlikely scenarios. I quit making the second backup for my parents' house, as this was also for the very unlikely scenarios.
The best part is, though, that after the initial backup was made, my daily increment in data is not higher than what can be backed up in a day – roughly 20 GB. So whenever a new photo or portrait session is transferred to my computer, the backup will start immediately and will be completed the very same day. This makes me sleep a little better knowing that I will never have to call someone to tell them, that I've lost their photos. And it doesn't matter that much anymore, if I forget one of the monthly backups to my local backup drives. I can still get the files from CrashPlan, if an accident occurs.
On top of this, the online backup protects me from an old nightmare: What if I accidentally delete something without realizing it, until all backups are overwritten? With the storage of file revisions and deleted files at CrashPlan, I don't have to worry about that anymore either.
Read more about CrashPlan here: http://www.code42.com/crashplan/
* Please be aware that RAID is NOT an alternative to making backups – I've had this discussion many times. RAID can protect you from failing drives and limit your downtime. It can't protect your data from fire or theft.


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You put Taylor Swift and Lorde in a room, and things are bound to happen. Creative things. Artsy things. Musical things. But never did I ever think that the two of them would be in some kitchen in Rhode Island making foodie things.
Yet there they were. At Ella's Fine Food and Drink in Westerly, Rhode Island. Making, well, something. It's hard to make out exactly what it is from Swift's Instagram picture. But you can definitely tell that they are laser focused with concentration and wearing super-official-looking black aprons, so I doubt it was something simple like Truffle Frites.
"Thank you to Chef Jeanie at Ella's Fine Food and Drink for giving us the best and only cooking lesson we've ever had! @lordemusic," Swift posted on Monday (Aug. 11) on her social networks.
It doesn't look like Lorde tweeted about the cooking class although she did post one picture. And Lorde's Instagram picture is more detailed than Swift's, so you can see the two singers might've been making tacos. "took a wonderful cooking class in rhode island alongside the already-super-good-cook, ms. taylorswift," she wrote.
The restaurant is near Swift's home on Watch Hill, and the chef's meals have been popular in Punta Gorda, Florida, for the past 10 years, according to the restaurant's website. They specialize in Asian-Fusion and French foods.
Chef Jeanie Roland is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, and hosts cooking classes to sold-out rooms. In this case, though, it looks like the maximum class size was two.


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The Fahrenheit 9/11 director has spent the past 11 days putting together this film to explain why, though he voted for Sanders in the primary, he is going for Clinton now
Despite some reassurance from polls, many are still worried about Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton. Some deal with this anxiety through prayer, others get on the internet and rage. If you are Michael Moore, you go and shoot a movie and have it debut in New York City 11 days later to tremendous international fanfare.
Moore, the most famous thing from Flint, Michigan besides Grand Funk Railroad and poisonous water, understands more than most just how appealing a fuck you vote for Trump would be. In his new emergency film, Michael Moore in TrumpLand, he thinks his way inside the head of a dejected working-class citizen from, as he puts it, one of the Brexit states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin or Ohio. All states that could still swing to Trump and lead to to an upset victory.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/19/michael-moore-in-trumpland-revew-trump-hillary-clinton-film


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ANTI-HS2 campaigners are urging the local authority to establish their position on a proposed £50billion high-speed rail link as soon as possible.
Members of Mid Cheshire Against HS2 want to hear Cheshire West and Chester Council's stance on the project after neighbouring council Cheshire East recently gave it their conditional support.
Spokesperson Ewen Simpson said the anti-HS2 group cannot understand the council's delay in producing a detailed consultation report.
"Surely they have had sufficient time by now," he said. "We need clarity urgently.
"The only response so far is 'we hope to be in a position to come to a conclusion by the end of the month', by which we think they mean January."
Mr Simpson said the group will be contacting councillors this week to ask a number of questions regarding their individual position on the proposed high-speed rail link.
"We will also strongly point out that no matter how far away from the proposed HS2 'corridor' your ward is, your vote will seriously impact on those of us who live near or within the HS2 corridior," he added.
A Cheshire West and Chester Council spokesperson said the authority is still considering its position, but expects to have reached a verdict by the end of the month.
Elsewhere, protestors from Mid Cheshire Against HS2 and All Cheshire Against HS2, pictured, greeted Chancellor George Osborne as he left a meeting with constituents at Winsford's Lifestyle Centre.


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Do you remember my reflection-tweets? The last weeks I have been tweeting several questions to reflect on 2010. Did it make you stop and think about your year? Well, I certainly hope so!! It's a good way to make a fresh new start in 2011. In this blog I will do some reflecting myself.
1. What was the most exciting, heart-stirring that happend in your life and/or business in 2010? This is an easy one. I gave birth to a daughter and along a whole new set of emotions was unleashed.
2. What was your biggest learning? Through the experience of giving birth I learnt to have even more respect for woman than I already had. Besides respect for woman in general I have gained a deeper understanding on the struggling my mother went through as a single mom with two small children.
3. How did you stretch yourself? I didn't know how much pain I could handle, before giving birth. Now I don't know if the pain of giving birth was more or less painful than the pains I went through during the three months after giving birth. So, yeah, I stretched myself, not because I wanted to, I had to. I had to recover so I could take care of my daughter.
Looking back at the goals for 2010.
4. Which ones were you most proud of accomplishing? Haha, off course, I am proud of having given birth to a beautiful daughter. It was hell, but very much rewarding! Also proud of packing and unpacking a whole household, because we moved from a one floor appartement to a maisonette.
5. Which goals were easier to meet than you thought? To let go of the goals I set. I asked a webdesigner to give my blogs and the Orchid of Life newsletter a make-over, but through circumstances from both sides we couldn't launch it before I went on maternity leave. Now it's finally done. I love the new 'outfit' of the blogs and the newsletter.
6. Which ones were more challenging? I wanted to continue working until I was supposed to go on a maternity leave. And I did. Though not with full-speed. When I was around four months pregnant I had a session with a man and mistakenly I named an ex of his differently. Oeps! He smiled and said: 'It's oke, it's because you're pregnant. Forgetfulness is normal. I have been there, done that.' Oefff….lucky me! A person who understood. There was even a woman who hired me as her lifecoach while I was heavily pregnant.
7. What did you enjoy doing that you want to do more off? Reading. During the last months of the pregnancy I started reading and I loved it.
8. What do you need to stop doing or let go off? Asking my partner to clean up all the things he leaves wandering in the house!
9. What new opportunities are available for 2011 and beyond? And beyond…well for this part of the question I can refer you to an earlier post 'Take time to dream'.
I will answer the first part of the question in a next blog. Still need to think about this one!