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In The Godfather, Part II, the gangster Hyman Roth recalls the killing of a colleague and says there's no point in complaining about it because "This is the business we've chosen." Murders are just part of mob business.
Government has its standard practices, too. Government programs in a mixed‐economy democracy are typically shaped by lobbying and marked by waste.
One recent Sunday (May 15), the entire Washington Post seemed to remind readers of that fact. Leading the paper was a big investigative story titled "Million‐Dollar Wasteland." Reporters Debbie Cenziper and Jonathan Mummolo wrote:
The federal government's largest housing construction program for the poor has squandered hundreds of millions of dollars on stalled or abandoned projects and routinely failed to crack down on derelict developers or the local housing agencies that funded them.… The result is a trail of failed developments in every corner of the country. Fields where apartment complexes were promised are empty and neglected. Houses that were supposed to be renovated are boarded up and crumbling, eyesores in decaying neighborhoods.… The Post found breakdowns at every level.
And on and on for three full pages.
Then, in the Metro section, columnist Robert McCartney wrote about the D.C. Council hearings on the hiring scandals in the administration of newly elected mayor Vincent Gray:
The main thing learned in the hearings so far is that Gray showed bad judgment in allowing [three close advisers] to guide so much of the hiring for patronage jobs just below the cabinet rank. Although all three advisers were longtime personnel executives, they blundered repeatedly by overpaying people, doing inadequate vetting and hiring children of officials [including their own].
And an article on Amtrak's annual billion‐dollar deficits included this gem: "Critics in Congress also have questioned Amtrak's management, asking, for example, how an employee with a $21,000 salary earned $149,000 in overtime last fiscal year."
Those articles reminded me of another investigative tour de force in the Post two months earlier, bannered as "A D.C. lawyer and her associates secured $500 million in federal contracts to benefit Alaska native corporations. Less than one percent made it back to Alaska." That article too had been prominently displayed in the Sunday paper but had not generated much online comment, and I asked at the time on the Cato blog: "Are we so jaded that a fullpage investigation of self‐dealing and corruption involving affirmative action, small business, defense contracting, and complicated financial maneuvers just doesn't get our juices flowing?" But surely I was wrong. Outrage ensued, right? Angry editorials, congressional hearings? No, not so much.
Newspapers are full of stories about serious people and clowns running for president, about who's up and who's down in political maneuvering, about Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan. All fine topics indeed. But if journalists spent even 10 percent of their time digging into how the federal government is spending $3,600,000,000,000 this year, who knows how many stories of waste and deadweight loss we'd find? If one diligent reporter could find that much fraud by one well‐connected contractor, how much could a hundred reporters find?
I generally don't think that "waste, fraud, and abuse" is the key to cutting federal spending; you have to go after the big programs, like transfer payments and military spending. But as Everett Dirksen almost said, $500 million here, $500 million there, pretty soon you're talking real money. There are reasons that government programs are often characterized by waste, fraud, and abuse. Politicians tend to respond to interest groups that stand to receive benefits from any particular program rather than to the average citizen who will pay very little for each program. Policymakers have less incentive to control costs and improve efficiency than do people in the private sector with their own money (or their boss's money) at risk. As government gets bigger, it becomes less and less possible to have meaningful oversight and transparency — though we can hope that new technologies may help somewhat on the transparency side.
Realistically, if you want the federal government to tax and borrow and transfer $3.6 trillion a year, if you want it to build housing for the poor and give special benefits to Alaska Natives, if you want it to supply Americans with health care and school lunches and retirement security and local bike paths, then you have to accept that such programs come with incentive problems, politicization, corruption, and waste.
For those who like such expansive government: This is the business you have chosen.


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Since their formation in late 2004, Brighton, England quintet ARCHITECTS have been on a continual ascendancy from the depths of the UK's metal and hardcore underground to leaders of the scene. Today, they are signed to world famous punk institution Epitaph and developed their current high-profile status via the albums "Ruin" (2007, re-released via CM in 2008), "Hollow Crown" (2009), "The Here And Now" (2011) and "Daybreaker" (2012), all of which were released on Century Media Records. In the course of 2015 these modern classics of British metal/hardcore will be finally released on vinyl for the first time ever. The band's unique trademark mixture of anthemic hardcore, complex metal riffing and inimitable groove and heaviness demands and deserves it. ARCHITECTS were unanimously hailed by media and fans as UK's brightest hope in metal, played every renowned festival worldwide and have enriched the heavy music scene of today immensely.
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"Go, Go, Phineas" was a song from the episode, "The Fast and the Phineas". It is sung by Isabella Garcia-Shapiro and the Fireside Girls. The guitar is played by Phineas Flynn and the keyboards are played by Ferb Fletcher.
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As we left, the Reptile handed me his card, asking us to come back and give him as chance to earn our business. We'll be happy to not oblige, and find someone else more eager to sell a new G8 GT.
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Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/11/2012 -- Leaps and bounds: The industry continues to rebound from the global financial crisis
Private Equity in Australia
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text: Crime / Prop 8 Prop 8 Backers Try to Un-Marry 18K Gay Couples They want to allow governments, businesses to treat them as unwed By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff Posted Jun 16, 2010 2:44 PM CDT Copied Opponents and supporters of same-sex marriage converge outside of the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) (Newser) – With the Proposition 8 trial entering its final stages in California, backers of the gay marriage ban are asking the judge to revoke all state recognition of the 18,000 gay couples who got married in the brief time it was legal. Doing so would honor "the expressed will of the people," they argue in the court filing. The conservatives aren't asking the judge to annul the marriages, their lawyer tells the San Francisco Chronicle, only to rule that government agencies and businesses no longer have to recognize them. Today the judge will hear final arguments in the case, in which gay rights advocates are suing to overturn the ban as unconstitutional. A ruling is expected in weeks, followed by a probable appeal to the Supreme Court within 2 years. (Read more Prop 8 stories.)


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One of Manhattan's favorite parlor games these days is to discuss the presidential prospects of Michael Bloomberg, New York City's favorite multi-billionaire ex-mayor. Although Bloomberg hasn't made any announcements yet about his 2020 candidacy, he has taken a number of meaningful steps in its direction—steps that make it clear he's serious this time and is not overthinking as he did in 2016. He donated $100 million to support a host of Democratic candidates in the midterm elections, helping to pick up 40 seats in the House, and purchasing plenty of goodwill in the process. In October he made it official, formally re-registering as a Democrat after running New York City as a Republican and then as an Independent. (The Democrats, he explained, can "provide the checks and balances our nation so badly needs.") Bloomberg also made quite the splash last week by announcing that he was donating $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins, his alma mater, to make it possible for low-income students to attend the university without having to worry about tuition. Bloomberg has now donated a total of $3.35 billion to the school—among the largest individual gifts ever made to support higher education.
These moves underscore a highly relevant fact about Bloomberg: he is the anti-Donald Trump. He is philanthropic, where Trump is not. He is actually very, very rich—with a net worth of more than $50 billion and counting—whereas Trump mostly pretends to be. He has meaningful and relevant experience as the chief executive of a global company and an international city, while Trump was woefully unprepared to be president and seems always to be learning on the job, and poorly at that. Unlike Trump, who at 72, claims to be the healthiest person who has ever served as president, Bloomberg, four years older than Trump, may actually be among the healthiest. In any event, he has some serious longevity genes: his mother lived to be 102 years old.
Being the anti-Trump in nearly every way, shape and form could prove extremely useful politically for Bloomberg should he decide to run in 2020. And there is little doubt that whoever the Democrats nominate to face Trump, the plan will be to draw as sharp a contrast with him as possible, hoping that by then a vast majority of Americans, as well as the Electoral College map, will have had quite enough of Trump and his presidency. The only unanswered question is whether the Democrats will nominate someone from its liberal progressive wing—in the Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke mold—or whether the nominee will be from the party's centrist progressive wing, in the form of, say, Bloomberg or Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts who has been a Bain Capital partner for the past three years.
No surprise, on Wall Street, Bloomberg has vast reservoirs of support. "Think he would be great for America, and therefore for Wall Street," one senior banker e-mailed me the other day. "Can't think of anybody else I'd rather see win frankly." Added Christopher Whalen, the founder of Whalen Global Advisors, an investment banking firm, and an astute economic analyst, "Oh, I'd vote for Michael in a heartbeat because he's competent. In most areas you and I care about, he would do a good job."
But for both men, the question remains: can Bloomberg win? The senior banker thinks Bloomberg could win the popular vote, although he's less sure about the Electoral College. "The number of voters who would want almost anybody (except Hillary) over Trump exceeds the number of core Trumpers," he wrote. "Bloomberg vs. Trump: he gets all of the Democrats and a big slug of Republicans as well."


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Started in 2016, the family-owned company launched Enteng Malunggay Pandesal to its initial franchise three stores located in North Caloocan, Valenzuela and in Meycauayan, Bulacan, with its Commissary strategically located at the center of its operation in Deparo, Caloocan City. The stores rapidly grew due to market demands.
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Today, June 16, is Bloomsday, the day James Joyce had his first date with the incredible Nora Barnacle, who became his long suffering wife and the inspiration for Molly Bloom in his novel Ulysses. According to the Writer's Almanac, Joyce choose this day for the action in his novel to take place based upon that first date, an afternoon walk along the River Liffey in Dublin.
Nora was also the inspiration for Joyce's exquisite short story, "The Dead," in his collection Dubliners. Read some Joyce today and be thankful for the muse Nora Barnacle.


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Made in Maya, rendered in Photoshop.
It was suggested to me that I should make a weapon based off of concept art, which is something I've never really done before. I chose do make this since it seemed simple enough. Some minor changes and additions were made from the concept, such as completely changing the charging handle, to adding on buttons near the rear iron sight.


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|May is Mary's Month -- On Mother's Day, we process into the chapel holding candles for our
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|Picture taken at the Bishop's Gala 2013.
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|Mother's Day Meal with everyone home!
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A question for those who know about music gear and stuff...
Does anyone on here have any experience with a Boss VE-20 Vocal effects pedal?
I'm thinking of getting one but they're not cheap. All I want is a permanent radio-filter type distortion on my vocals.
I don't own one but have mixed a few bands that use them.
They can be a real nightmare for engineers if your settings aren't spot on i.e. level wise. Dont change your settings mid gig as anything vocal wise with overdrive sounds can cause horrendous feedback.
Also, get used to DI'ing it. Don't plug it straight into the stage box/desk. Bring all your own connections to gigs (1/4">XLR, vice versa). Most engineers will have a stack of random connections but what some bands expect us to bring is ridiculous (fucking guitar tuners?)
They do sound really good though once all of the above is sorted out.
Sorry if this is obvious but nothing surprises me anymore.
The reviews I've read say it comes with XLR inputs/outputs
but yeah, good point.
It wouldn't be for changing sounds, it would stay on distorted. Not planning to move between this and a clean sound, but if I did I'd have a separate mic.
Bands expect you to have guitar tuners???
Yeah it has XLR outputs...
But bring an xlr>1/4" jack adaptor for the DI.
I had 2 bands on a 4 band bill friday night that didn't have a guitar tuner and asked me for one.
Also, every night theres at least one band who doesn't have a guitar cable.
I'm not bitter, just surprised at what bands think they can get away with having played in bands myself.
Yes, i have a guitar tuner. No, you cannot use it because it's at home and i have enough shit to carry already.
As always, drummers are the worst. "Do you have a kick pedal?". No, sorry you're meant to bring breakables. The look on their face is priceless. Mofos.
That's insane!
I feel bad if I need to borrow an extension cable.
It's kind of amazing who untogether about this some musicians are.
You do get some crazy bands who push it too, you know expecting to be able to borrow your stuff without even bothering to check with you before the gig.
One of the funniest things I ever saw on tour
was a band supporting us and the drummer hadn't brought cymbals. He ended up splitting his hi hats and using them as cymbals :')
As a (possibly) cheaper option (Tweezer to consider)
There's a band I loved who used one of these:
to take their mic through a normal Guitar distortion pedal.
I've tried using a regular overdrive pedal but it's hard to get the levels right, especially going straight into the pedal with a converting plug, whereas I think this possibly accounting for some level issues.
I also found that using the SM 58 through a distortion pedal didn't work really to give the right sound so I used a little cheap condenser like the PG-81.
It's just a stereo DI, which you can also run as 2 DI's if you need...
Assuming you dont need to link it to a bass amp for example.
I take one of these everywhere i go as both channels have a link http://www.thomann.de/gb/samson_sdirect_plus.htm
It's gonna be easier for the engineer to get a cleaner signal using a DI when effects are involved. Of course there is always the option of using a gate to stop any feedback but this depends on 2 things:
a) The band being at soundcheck to allow the time to get it just right.
b) There being a spare Gate in the venue, once kick and snare are taken out of the equation. Most mid sized pub venues (Underbelly, Dublin castle etc) will have 2-3 gates/compressors, not leaving much room for other crazy effects like vocal distortion unfortunately. I'm sure this VE20 would have an in built gate though? Anyone confirm?
I just wee'd a little.
We use one. I like it, and we haven't had any problems with it really.
Our singer is quite quiet, and we are quite loud, so she can get the vocals to the point we can all hear them.


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Lynette! Says the random number generator. I counted the numbers by chronological order of when I received each email. You are the proud parent of 2 bottles of rhinestones, 2 canes and a dotting tool (great for picking up rhinestones).
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Min Hee! Congradulations, girl! I hope you'll take good care of my minty dessert babies.
Thank you all for your participation. I promise that there are plenty more giveaways to come. I'm in the process of organising another one, in fact.
Onto my own nails. These were meant to be watercolour nails. You know, the ones that are dissolved by polish remover like how normal watercolour paint is dissolved by water. But my OPI Alpine Snow (Matte) base didn't seem to like having remover on it so these turned out as a dabbing effect instead. Still pretty awesome. I've invented a new nail art (wishful thinking).
Summer is fast approaching Sydney so I thought I should pick more floral tones to match how excited I am about summer!
These somehow remind me of the Qing dynasty pottery but in pink. Nonetheless, I am still very proud to have these happy accidents on my nails.


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Testing a WeSU in everyday life
In this article, we will use a WeSU in some daily common scenarios. In this way, we will propose some case of use of wearable device, testing also its mechanical robustness and its sensitivity.
For our tests we will use the remote data capture feature provided by the smartphone app: this is very useful because it allows to save data and send them to an email address allowing offline post processing. Before starting each test, we need to pair WeSU and our smartphone using bluetooth: launch the application (ST WeSU) then click on START SCANNING (see Fig. 1).
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Despite the worst nuclear accident in history occurring in Japan, the Nikkei Index rose 2.6% overnight. The news there is going from horrible to horrific as we learn more about the details of the condition of the nuclear plants at Fukushima. Intervention in the markets by adding liquidity is masking the reality of the situation. It's the exact same phenomena that is occurring in the U.S. markets – again yesterday we have horrid economic data in terms of home prices (recoveries never occur without the housing market recovering too) and falling Consumer Confidence, yet the reality of the situation is papered over… resulting in dramatically rising prices… which leads to LOWER Consumer Confidence as real people have LESS disposable money.
Yet on the release of the bad data yesterday our stock market began a most unnatural climb straight up and is still going all through the evening hours to gap higher this morning. Is it real? No, it's not real, it's liquidity to the max… liquidity that is finding its way into all the wrong places while not making it into the pockets of the Citizens who now have been denigrated in importance to "Consumer." This vernacular is now mainstream, just listen to your own President refer to you in that manner.
When liquidity froze up in 2008, it occurred because the banks were insolvent when marking their assets to reality. When allowed to mark them to fantasy, then everyone could pretend solvency existed again. Those trillions sent into the banks? That was nothing but robbery – but that "liquidity" is still finding its way into the price of most things "Consumers" need. This is the exact opposite of what needed to occur to produce a REAL recovery. The "Consumer" is still saturated with debt, primarily from buying homes, cars, education, and healthcare that are too expensive because the central bankers made them that way to begin with through the application of their never ending impossible math "growth" mantra.
Should even a portion of that money have gone to pay down the debt to remove the debt saturated condition, then we would be having a far different, way more positive discussion today. That didn't happen, and is not likely to happen due to WHO it is that produces and controls the money. The private banks cannot look past their own self-interests (bonus maximization) to see that in the end even they would have been better off if they used that money to liquefy from the bottom up, instead of from the top where it just sits at the top spinning prices to the moon.
A rising stock market will only "feel good" as a marketing tool for a short time – and that time is just about up. If it continues to rise unabated, then commodity prices will rise with it, and the majority of people will simply wind up with less and less, while the minority of people wind up with more and more. That moves our nation higher and higher on the despot scale – and there is a point on that scale at which the people will rise up and remove those who have unjustly profited on the backs of the majority.
Liquifaction Ain't no Satisfaction.
Oh yeah, and the banks are still insolvent, our nation is still insolvent, and regardless of how much money is thrown into the markets, the game of private banks creating never ending bigger numbers is almost over.
The conflicted, ridiculous, hideous, pathetic, and hypocritical Mortgage Banker's Association (yeah, I like those reprehensible bankers that much) reported that the Purchase Index fell 1.7% in the past week with the Refinance Index falling 10.1%... just as the wave of expensive usurious Jumbo Option-ARM loans begin to reset in earnest (promoted, of course, by the MBA weasels):
The Mortgage Bankers Association reports a 1.7 percent decline in purchase application volume in the March 25 week, ending what was otherwise a solid month compared to February. The month-to-month rise in purchase applications together with strength in Monday's pending home sales report and an easy comparison with very weak existing home sales for February point to strength for the March existing home sales report. The rise in rates during the week, up 12 basis points for the average 30-year mortgage to 4.92 percent, pulled down refinance applications by 10.1 percent.
As the MBA's ship sinks, the banks throw more and more "liquidity" into the boat. They aren't even smart enough to see that they are drowning not only the consumers, but also themselves in the end.
The Challenger Job-Cut report showed fewer mass layoff announcements for the month of March, falling from 50,702 to 41,528:
Challenger's layoff count fell to 41,528 in March vs 50,702 in February and 67,611 in March last year. Aerospace/defense, retail, and autos all saw significant month-to-month declines in layoff announcements, while telecommunications and media both saw increases. Quarterly layoff announcements come to 130,749 for the lowest first-quarter total since 1995.
This report together with the easing underway in jobless claims confirm that businesses are no longer cutting their workforces. But are they building them up? ADP's payroll estimate at 8:15 ET today will offer clues for March.
Baloney to Econoday once again. The mass layoff phase of the collapse has already largely occurred, it can't occur forever. The ADP report is about as accurate as animal sacrifices to forecast the weather.
According to ADP, Private Payrolls rose less in the month of March than they did in February, rising by 201,000 versus 217,000 respectively. Our economy is absolutely not creating any jobs, it is STILL losing jobs especially relative to our population growth. We have shed 7.5 million jobs since the peak in 2007.
The Consensus for Friday's Employment Report is that we added 200,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in March, up from 192k in February. Looking at the fantastical "Birth/ Death Model," March is a month with a middle-of-the-road addition to payrolls from this calculation – but the trend is that the additions are getting larger year over year (nonsensical). So, we're likely to be dazzled with bull, while the reality is that real job growth has died on the debt saturated, drowning in liquidity vine:
I want to keep talking about the situation in Japan because I believe that what's happening there is critical to humanity. TEPCO has been absolutely incompetent in their handling of the disaster, a disaster that was largely of their own making. The CEO cannot handle the pressure of the circumstances and has been hospitalized while the Chairman has taken over. Bad information and rumors have been the norm due to the lack of meaningful real information. But the damage has been obvious to me, and radiation in huge amounts doesn't just grow on trees, so the conclusion in my mind has always been that the reactors had been breached, that a melt-down was in fact in progress, and that there is simply no way that humans can perform the repair work necessary to stop criticality from continuing. If you can't stand that opinion coming from me, here's someone with some unbiased credibility on the subject:
I'm sorry, but it's already too late – the area surrounding the reactor is already contaminated and yet the contamination continues with no meaningful effort to contain it still. The result is that the area surrounding the plants is already a wasteland and will be uninhabitable for decades, maybe even centuries.
And what we are learning about how nuclear waste is handled here in the U.S. is simply frightening. Spent fuel is simply piled high into reactor cooling pools that now hold up to seven times their design capacity. The potential fallout from these pools is a far greater threat than even a nuclear bomb should the worse occur. Yes, that should scare us, and we should absolutely use this event to reevaluate what it is we're doing, and what we're not doing. My real fear is that we will fail to take action and that the politicians will allow the special interests to overrule common sense.
The markets? They are BROKEN. They are not real. They are to the point where they are inflicting pain instead of performing their natural functions. This will all be undone in time, but for now the liquidity is still flowing like a flooded river Nile. I note that the time since the last Hindenburg Omen has now expired, and that the McClellan Oscillator is positive once again. Bravo, great job, I hope everyone enjoys the ride – it's already wild.


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The BBC has apologised for a presenter's reference to Londonderry GAA during a Sunday sport bulletin, writes.
The BBC Radio Ulster 6pm bulletin ended by saying: "Ulster teams had a disappointing start in the opening games of the Allianz National League. Tyrone, Donegal, Monaghan and Londonderry all lost but there were wins for Fermanagh, Armagh, Antrim and Down."
The station received a number of complaints from Gaelic games followers, objecting to the use of Londonderry for what is officially, and widely known as, Derry GAA.
Still can't believe that your 6pm Radio Ulster News bulletin claimed that "Londonderry" suffered defeat in today's GAA NFL. Is this "policy"?— UlsterSchoolsGAA (@ulsterschools) January 28, 2018
BBC Radio Ulster Gaa Results defeats for Tyrone Donegal & Londonderry! Holy sweet God! @BBCSPORTNI— ciaran murphy (@murphysgloves) January 28, 2018
Why can't I tag @londonderrygaa ? @bbcradioulster— Caolán McGinley (@CaolanMcGinley) January 29, 2018
Am I hearing this correctly @BBCNewsNI reported on a loss for 'Londonderry' GAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's worse than @SkySportsNews reporting on the 'All England Final, between Dublin and Kerry— GAA Way of Life (@gaalover) January 30, 2018
"We were made aware of the BBC broadcast on Sunday evening," a Derry GAA spokesman told the Irish News.
"We raised our concerns with senior management in the BBC on Monday morning. We have since received both an apology and assurances that it will not happen again."
A BBC spokesman added: "This was in error and was corrected as soon as possible and not repeated in any subsequent bulletin."
The name is often a source of dispute between unionists and nationalists. The city's official name is Londonderry according to a 1662 Royal Charter, but the city's council and airport both dropped the London prefix during the troubles.


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SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Four men and a juvenile were arrested Sunday on suspicion of picking mushrooms at the Little Big Econ State Forest in Seminole County to get high, and one of them had an alligator in his backpack, wildlife officials said.
Rick Daniel Myers was arrested on drug charges and one count of possession of an alligator. Tyler Michael Salzma, Gregory Matthew Sansota, another man and a juvenile were also arrested.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, wildlife officials found the group picking mushrooms and discovered a 2-foot gator wrapped in a bandana in Myers' backpack.
Myers said he picked the alligator from a nearby field and planned to take photos of it before letting it go, wildlife officials said.


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text: Been a long while since my VX had had any issues. Probably also due to the fact that she only gets out maybe once a month now heh. For the last few weeks she's been in the garage napping on a trickle charger. I look beneath to find she had wet the bed in her slumber. Without crawling under to investigate thoroughly, the location appears to be above a center crossmember right around where the U-Joint marrys up to the tranny. Fits guess is possible bad U-joint seal (original), which isnt the end of the world. Second guess is... well, I dont have one, until I actually get up under there heh.


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6 Steps Improved Service QualityLet your staff do what they already do, writes ITSM Watch columnist Hank Marquis of itSM Solutions.
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Reports by various industry analysts claim that about 80% of service desk calls result from change-related failures self-inflicted by IT.
Many consultants advise adopting formal change management (CM) processes as a solution to this common IT organizational problem, explaining why one of the most common starting points for ITIL adoption is change management.
The goal of ITIL CM is To ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all Changes, in order to minimize the impact of Change-related Incidents upon service quality, and consequently to improve the day-to-day operations of the organization.
While many templates and examples exist to ease implementation of CM, few realize how hard it is to actually achieve the tight control required. In most organizations, staff is lean and formal CM is added work.
This is why most staff within IT dislikes CMthey feel it just gets in the way of what they know they need to do. There is merit in their feelings, as the very first potential problem described in the ITIL is how an over-bureaucratic process can diminish process effectiveness.
An IT organization improves service quality through CM without becoming overly bureaucratic by realizing what few consultants ever mention: that CM has two purposes: 1) limit change-related incidents, and 2) improve the efficiency and effectiveness of day-to-day operations.
The second purpose is what most consultants forget, and the result is often a process rightly perceived by staff as bureaucratic, unrealistic, and useable.
Most realize that slowing down and reviewing change requests results in better planning and implementation that, in turn, reduces failed changes. But the time required for this review and planning is often missing.
To gain more time, the CM system must handle fewer change requests. The trick is to split requests into two broad types: those that need approval (change requests) and those with pre-approval (service requests).
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Change requests require centralized approval and formal CM process review and control. Service requests are de-centralized, pushed as far down as possible, and performed by the lowest possible level within the organization.
The secret is the little known standard change. ITIL describes a standard change as ... a change to the infrastructure that follows an established path, is relatively common, and is the accepted solution to a specific requirement or set of requirements.
In other words, the generally accepted response to a service request is a standard change, not a change request.
Implementing a collection of pre-approved standard changes for the most common service requests can improve efficiency and effectiveness of staff, resulting in fewer change requests needing formal CM. It can also make IT staff more content and empowered.
The idea is powerful and simple: allow qualified staff to perform routine changes without going through the CM process.
Such changes require formal documentation and preparation of a procedure for action determination, execution, reporting, and control. The following example helps make clear the purpose and benefits of standard changes.
A user requests installation a new software application. Without any form of CM, IT installs the software without researching any potential issues. Then, after installation, the user starts having issues with a pre-existing application.
Over time, the normal response by IT is to disallow any new software installations without a change request and formal CM review. This is the safe bet, and will reduce occurrence of such issues, however, it is very inefficient because the user has to wait longer; IT Staff has to complete and process more paperwork; and CM gets bogged down with many change requests.


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- 2 cups peeled and cubed pumpkin (¾-inch cubes)
- 2 cups thin coconut milk
- 2 cups cubed sweet potato (¾-inch cubes)
- ½ cup wood ear or shiitake mushrooms
- ¼ cup thick coconut cream
- ½ raw peanuts, soaked in warm water
- ½ cup thinly sliced zucchini
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- Salt, to taste
- Fresh cilantro leaves
- In a deep saucepan, bring coconut milk and pumpkin to a boil.
- Cook for about 10 minutes, until pumpkin is half done (still too firm to be easily pierced with a knife).
- Add the sweet potatoes and mushrooms.. Reduce heat and simmer until sweet potatoes are tender.
- Add thick coconut cream, peanuts, and zucchini. Bring to a boil again, then remove from heat. Season with salt and sugar.
- Serve garnished with fresh cilantro leaves.
Tet Nguyen Dan literally means "first morning of the first day of the new period." It is believed that the course of these few days determines the events of the coming year. People stop quarreling; children vow to behave; and families make special efforts to gather together. Prior to the celebration, homes are cleaned and painted and decorated with yellow hoa mai (peach blossoms. Many Tet traditions concern Tao Quan , the Spirit of the Hearth or the Kitchen God. It is believed that the Kitchen God leaves the household during Tet to report on the family to the Emperor of Jade. (Cleaning is avoided during Tet, so good luck will not be "swept away.") New clothes are purchased, and old debts are repaid. Many superstitions and traditions revolve around Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year. One such belief is that when a watermelon is cut open, the redder the flesh, the more luck the family will have in the upcoming year. Families construct a Cay Neu (New Year's tree) from a bamboo pole stripped of its leaves except a few at the top and then decorated with red paper. (Red is believed to ward off evil.) The Cay Neu stands in front of their homes to protect them from evil spirits while Tao Quan is away.
Families prepare and partake in feasts that include such rare treats as sup bao ngu (abalone soup) and canh vay ca (shark's fin soup). People carry gifts of food to family and friends. The following recipe for banana cake might be considered the Vietnamese equivalent of fruitcake.


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Why settle for simple file sharing when the right router can do so much more with a USB drive?
NETGEAR's CES 2016 announcements include a mix of wireless routers, extenders and combo powerline products.
Consumers have generally resisted paying more than $300 for a high-end Wi-Fi router. So why are we seeing new models going for much, much more?
Updated - NETGEAR's Nighthawk X4 AC2350 Smart WiFi Router is the only AC2350 / 2400 router you can buy with working MU-MIMO.
Our tests show the latest AC3100 and AC5300 class routers might not be the cure for your Wi-Fi woes.
Updated - NETGEAR's Nighthawk X8 Smart WiFi Router is the first AC5300 router we've tested. It didn't impress.
NETGEAR has announced extensions of its network camera and ReadyNAS families.
Updated - The more powerful processor in NETGEAR's ReadyNAS RN21x family doesn't matter much with a single Gigabit connection.
We retested the NETGEAR R6400's Wi-Fi side and found improved performance.
NETGEAR has announced two 802.11ac access points with built-in central management.
Updated - Our first look at the performance of NETGEAR's RAX80 and ASUS' RT-AX88U shows little benefit functioning as AC routers.
Updated: The first draft 11ax routers are almost here. Take a little time to know what you might be buying into.
Updated - 160 MHz channel bandwidth is an essential feature of 802.11ax. We take a look at whether it means trouble for your 11ac network.
Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes when Wi-Fi devices roam, or more likely don't? We'll show you why the "seamless" roaming Wi-Fi gear makers promise is still as elusive as a Yeti.


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SETI and the search for life beyond the earth mirror long-standing questions. New facilities have quickened the search . By now many of the sun-like stars out to several hundred light years heve been scanned for signals. In the last decades more than 2000 extrasolar planets have been discovered. Radio SETI is on the verge of a breakthrough with the operation of the Allen Telescope. Optical SETI is underway at Harvard and Princeton and UC-Berkeley. Investigations of the possible origins of life have quickened. Exploration of potential sites beyond earth is underway on Mars, Titan, and Europa. Incredibly, atmospheres have already been observed around exoplanets. The hunt for signs of life beyond earth has been propelled forward in part by the potential importance to evolution of endosymbiosis as championed by Lynn Margulis and the rising appreciation of habitats like deep ocean thermal vents as homes to extremophile life forms. This optimistic picture is challenged by critics. "Rare Earth" posits that simple life may be common in the Universe but that higher life is not. The anthropic conjecture, often referred to as the Anthropic Principle, reasons that our Universe is just right for us . With all these cheerleaders and critics SETI and the origin of life have become extremely interesting subjects.
Types of SETI
Radio SETI
Optical SETI
Other SETIInterstellar archaeology
A philosophy for SETI
Cocconi and Morrison close their famous 1959 SETI article in Nature with the comment "The reader may seek to consign these speculations wholly to the domain of science-fiction. We submit rather, that --- the presence of interstellar signals are entirely consistent with all we now know. --- a discriminating search for signals deserves a considerable effort. The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero."
The Eagle's Child
The poem by Nancy Carrigan
On seeing Internet pictures taken by the Hubble telescope"I saw, with my astonished eyes-- a story told in ancient light--
of the birth of a star in the Eagle Nebula
celestial birth in distant skies--as our Sun-star once took flight.--
This nameless star, egg-like it grew..."
SETI messages
SETI Hacker
SETI history


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Configure Geodatabase Manager Exit Time
If Geodatabase Manager is shutdown while it is attempting to reconcile or post, it will try to finish the post or reconcile before closing. The TotalTimeToStop setting determines the amount of time allowed to Geodatabase Manager to finish posting or reconciling before the application exits.
If you have a slow system or process very large designs, it is best to set the TotalTimeToStop value to longer. This allows Geodatabase Manager to complete the post or reconcile before exiting.
- Open GeodatabaseManagerservices.exe.config. By default, this file is installed here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Miner and Miner\ArcFM Solution\Bin.
- Look for the following XML:
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<Miner.Geodatabase.Properties.Settings> <setting name="TotalTimeToStop" serializeAs="String"> <value>300</value> </setting> </Miner.Geodatabase.Properties.Settings>
- The Value tags contain the amount of time (in seconds) Geodatabase Manager waits for processes before shutting down. Set this value as appropriate. The default value is 300 seconds.
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Windshield Prices Near Me
Finding The Best Windshield Prices Near Me
Finding an Auto Glass Shop that combines affordability, professionalism and high quality service is a difficult task but not an impossible one. As a vehicle owner looking for windshield replacement services, there are a lot of factors that will determine how much you will end up paying. This begs the question: how do I find the best windshield prices near me? Below is some information as well as tips that should ensure that you get to enjoy great quality services within your budget.
Factors Affecting Windshield Replacement Costs
1. The shop itself
In this case, the shop owners determine the price based on their staff's level of expertise and experience. It goes without saying that when working with actual professionals you will end up paying significantly more for windshield replacement. However, you can always rest assured that you will be getting nothing but the best from them. Auto Glass Shop policies also determine whether or not you get to benefit from discounts and other offers affecting the final figure on the bill.
2. The quality of work
The quality of work you are willing to settle for will also determine how easy it is to find the best windshield prices near you. In this case, higher quality work will cost you more but will ensure that you get full value for your money.
3. The type of service being rendered
When tackling the best windshield prices near me challenge, you will also have to consider the type of service that you are looking for. In this case, options include windshield partial damage repairs, full replacements, tinting and so much more. Here different shops have different prices for the services offered. More often than not, full replacement services will cost you more than simple repairs. It is therefore a very important feature to consider when looking for fair prices from your local shops.
4. The mirrors involved
Finally, what you end up paying will also be determined by the car windows being worked on. In this case, it may be anything from the rear window to side glass and rearview mirrors. With this factor, size is important as it determines how much effort needs to be put in and as a result how much you will end up being charged.
How To Ensure You Get The Best Deal
Having understood what it is that determines the prices you work with when it comes to vehicle glass-related services, it is important to know what to do to get the best deal. Below are a few tips and guidelines that should ensure that you get the best services available locally without denting your accounts.
1. Do sufficient market research before settling on any shop.
2. Get formal quotes from a variety of shops for comparison.
3. Ask to see portfolios of previous projects to gauge the quality to expect.
4. If possible, go through reviews from previous customers.
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With all this information, it should be a lot easier for you to find and work with a professional yet affordable shop. That way, whether it is fully replacing your windshield or repairing a loose viewing mirror, you can be sure that your investment is worth every coin spent. Learn more about local windshield replacement.


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Hi All,
I always did my tax online, however since I left Belgium at the beginning of this year, I'm having to do it the old paper and snail mail way.
I am considering secondary registration in Belgium
1) Are the procedures and check the same as for full residency?
2) Can I use it to get into the health system?
recieved letter of nationality change and waiting for one more letter .
guys any idea how long does it takes
I left Belgium (de-registered and surrendered my ID card) in January this year.
Any of you gone Belgian recently? (this is sort of a rhetorical Q...)
hi i have recieved letter that says i became beglian and have to wait for calling letter to make card. but i already waited 1 month any idea how long does is it actually takes
Hi everyone,
Does anyone know of any house sitting opportunities in or around Leuven for summer? Or where I might be able to advertise?
hi there.
Just received tax papers in the mail. After submitting them, typically how long before the tax refund is paid? Normal employee.


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Primary study group results were presented at ASCO 2018.
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In a large clinical data setGPS increased AS utilzation
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Help Stage II colon cancer patients understand the power of genomics
Your Oncotype DX score can help you decide.
Oncotype DX has helped thousands of women find out.
Read what the Wall Street Journal is saying about the Oncotype DX Genomic Prostate Score test.
When Dan's Colon Recurrence Score came back low, he decided against chemotherapy.
If you have been diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer, discussing management options with your doctor is typically the next step. It's important that you give yourself time to understand what your diagnosis means, and what option will be best for your specific cancer at this specific time.
The Oncotype DX test gives you and your doctor more information for treatment conversations and decisions.
Oncotype DX is a genomic test, meaning that it measures the expression of certain genes in prostate cancer cells. The results of Oncotype DX are reported as a Genomic Prostate Score (GPS), which can help you and your doctor more confidently make decisions about a management plan that's best for you.
The Oncotype DX GPS test is called a genomic test. It measures the activity (also referred to as expression) of 17 select genes responsible for the growth and survival of tumor cells. The results of the test are reported as a Genomic Prostate Score, GPS.
This information allows the Oncotype DX GPS test to clarify how the tumor may act and whether it is likely to be aggressive (adverse pathology).
The test also predicts whether you are likely to die from your cancer or have it spread to other parts of your body (metastasis) within 10 years of surgery.
In addition to your clinical factors, the Oncotype DX GPS test will provide information for you and your doctor to discuss next steps.
Not all prostate cancers are the same—some are aggressive and require treatment with surgery or radiation therapy. However, many are lower risk and can be managed with regular doctor visits and monitoring called active surveillance—delaying or completely avoiding treatments like surgery or radiation.
It's important for you to understand your personal risk before deciding on a management plan—with this information in hand you can make a decision that is best suited to helping you live as long and healthy a life as possible. Oncotype DX GPS will help you and your health care team understand your individualized risk to better inform decisions about what happens next—active surveillance or treatment.
If you have been diagnosed with clinically low-risk prostate cancer, you may be able to delay or even avoid aggressive treatments like surgery or radiation. Instead, you may be able to safely monitor your prostate cancer through a program of regular check-ups and tests known as active surveillance.
Active surveillance is a treatment plan for patients whose tumor is not likely to be aggressive. It involves regular check-ups and ongoing testing, which may include1:
If you have been recently diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer or have yet to decide on a management option, your biopsy tissue may be used to provide additional information about the aggressiveness of your tumor, which may help you choose the right treatment plan. See if you could be eligible.
The Oncotype DX GPS test uses a tissue sample from a biopsy performed within the last three years. So, if you've had a recent biopsy, no additional procedure is needed.
The test can predict the aggressiveness and biology of the prostate cancer without additional tests or having to remove the tumor by analyzing a very small sample of the tumor tissue.
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Award-Winning Conference Brings Top Midwest Women Business Owners to St. Louis
The Midwest Women Business Owners' Conference (MWBOC), a semi-annual event presented by business consulting and coaching organization, Black Dress Partners, and premier accounting firm and title sponsor, Anders CPAs + Advisors, will take place on Thursday, May 17, 2018 from 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM at The Ritz-Carlton in St. Louis.
The conference's third year comes on the heels of being selected as one of the top three events of the year by the 2017 Stevie Awards for Women in Business. The Stevie Awards, an international competition, received more than 1,500 nominations in 25 nations for consideration in various categories.
"It was an honor to receive such an esteemed award and to know that the value we provide is of the same caliber as the world's top events for women in business," said Erin Joy, Producer of MWBOC and CEO of Black Dress Partners. "As a Stevie Award winner, we're confident that this year's event will unite women business owners in a more powerful way than ever."
The educational, interactive event is expected to bring more than 400 of the region's most influential women business leaders together to discuss crowdsourced, relevant, provocative business topics. The agenda is packed with high performers and regional influencers sharing invaluable insights including:
- True Stories: 1:1 Interviews with Entrepreneurs from Start-Up to Scale featuring Samantha Rudolph, Co-Founder & CEO, Babyation; Marissa Q. Paine, Principal, Painefree Coaching & Consulting; Teresa Katubig, Owner, HireLevel; Lorri Ripplemeyer, Partner, Anders CPAs + Advisors; and Linda Haberstroeh, President, Phoenix Textile Corporation.
- Entrepreneurial Empowerment: A Fresh Approach to Business and Personal Success featuring Erin Joy.
- Leadership: Defining, Communicating, and Executing Your Vision featuring Diane Butrus, Chief Operating Officer, Diba Imports, LP; Andrea Arco, President & Founder, Arco and Associates; Erin Joy; Zoe Robinson, Restauranteur & Entrepreneur, Zoe, Inc.; and Rolanda Finch, Founder, It's Your Birthday, Inc.
- Get on My Case: A Collaborative Business Performance Challenge featuring Erin Joy; Joan Newman, Founder & Master Coach, Joan Newman & Associates; Georgina Randazzo, CEO, Facilitec Corporate Furnishings; and Devika Christie, Entrepreneur, No Leash Needed.
The conference has more than 20 sponsors, including Anders CPAs & Advisors, Arco + Associates, MonetaGroup, and SmithAundsen.
Breakfast, lunch, and a networking cocktail hour are included in ticket prices. Event tickets can be purchased at www.mwboc.eventbrite.com.


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kætʃ.kæ.meɪt Kecske means "goat" ; while mét refers to "district " in Hungarian. Kecskemét – the capital of Bács-Kiskun County – fusing all the beauty and values of the Great Plain is situated in the middle of Hungary, approximately 85 kms from Budapest.
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Outdoor exhibition
The topic concerns the disables (mental and physical) as well as the homeless. These wonderful works were created by young artists from a local workshop ; while the event is organised by Vondafone Hungary Foundation .
Labels: Events, Street scenes
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- backpack_everyday said...
hi how are u???
- 11 April 2008 at 18:21
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- 21 May 2008 at 16:26
Hi Backpack everday,
hey, you're back online! me? i'm fine..we're in the midst of moving :)
thanks for the link :) I'll need help reading it though :D
- 24 May 2008 at 06:26
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All change for our surgical wards
Date: 03 July 2017
As part of the Trust's continued efforts to take our care from better to best and on to brilliant, the surgical directorate has made some major changes to how the surgical wards are organised at Medway Maritime Hospital. Recent pressures inspired our doctors, nurses and management staff to put their heads together to work out how they could improve patient care in surgery.
Ben Stevens, Director of Clinical Operations for the Co-ordinated Surgical Directorate, explains: "Over the winter our services were under a lot of pressure. We were seeing more and more people coming through our Emergency Department, including a substantial number who needed surgical treatment. We recognised that we needed to manage patients more effectively, changing how we ran our surgical wards to help us provide both an ef cient and high performing A&E and a high quality service for our patients who were coming in for planned operations."
The team put together an ambitious programme, changing the way that the different surgical wards work individually and together to get the most out of the available resources. The changes have included increasing the number of patients that can be cared for in the Surgical Assessment Unit, creating a new 'short stay' acute surgery ward and ringfencing elective orthopaedic surgery beds to ensure that patients with this planned surgery will continue to be treated even during busy periods.
Simone Hay, Deputy Director of Nursing for the directorate, said: "These changes will deliver two big changes to our patients. The rst is extra capacity in the system will mean that we can move people who need urgent surgical care through our A&E more quickly, get treated more quickly and get home more quickly.
"The second is making sure that more of our patients with planned surgeries are seen when we have arranged to see them, with fewer rebookings and delays. These are big improvements that will make a major change to our patients' experiences."
The changes have meant that some of our surgical wards are in different places to where they had previously been. Patients and the families will be given details of where they need to go from Trust staff as part of their admission process and in letters from the hospital, but are advised to ask their nurse or hospital doctor if they have any queries.
- Summary:
As part of the Trust's continued efforts to take our care from better to best and on to brilliant, the surgical directorate has made some major changes to how the surgical wards are organised at Medway Maritime Hospital.


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The Rebel Tours is a history and analysis of the seven cricket teams to tour South Africa between 1982 and 1990 in defiance of the international sporting boycott. These unofficial national teams played so-called "Tests" and "One Day Internationals" against "official" Springbok XIs.
The tours' genesis was the inclusion of the Cape Town-born Basil D'Olivera in the England squad to tour South Africa in 1968. Prime Minister Vorster declared that the team was "not the team of the MCC but the team of the anti-apartheid movement." The 1968 tour was cancelled but the 1970 South African tour to England was retained though also eventually cancelled due to the threat of civil disorder. In the event, a Rest of the World XI played, featuring five South Africans and captained by the West Indian Garry Sobers. Nobody objected to that.
Vis-à-vis apartheid, cricket was always more contentious than rugby because of the international teams of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and West Indies. With the exception of Maoris in the New Zealand team, there were no race concerns in the oval ball game. Golfers and tennis players – white ones, anyway – could visit South Africa without punishment. As May's chronological account makes clear, always there were double standards and Pharisaisms. Cricketers considered as rebels and traitors by some were seen as pioneers and crusaders by others. In the 1970s touring sides could field multi-racial teams but Springbok XIs, unlike the issue itself, were either black or white.
May's reporting is fair-minded, with neither side coming out very well. Peter Hain considered D'Oliveira to have come out of the 1968 fuss "very badly," thinking of him as having potentially condoned the all-white Springbok team by playing against them for England. Those on the inaugural 1982 tour were uniformly banned for three years. It ended Geoffrey Boycott's 108-Test career. The Warwickshire wicketkeeper Geoff Humpage had featured in only one match on tour but never played again for England. Those three years covered England matches against the "black" countries and meant the players would be available for The Ashes in 1985.
Apparently minded towards touring in 1982, the England all-rounder Ian Botham was dissuaded by his advisors because his heroics in the Ashes series of 1981 had made him a superstar and lucrative sponsorships had followed. In a national newspaper he gave his reason for declining the tour because "I could never have looked my mate Viv Richards in the eye this season…" But for most cricketers the sums offered for playing in South Africa were impossible to decline. May describes how many of the players involved "ignored or declined my enquiries; only one offered the unimprovable, irony-free response, 'What's in it for me?'" That is the attitude that led many to accept South African money, which, it turned out in 1986, was funded by the South African Cricket Union and its sponsors via 90 percent tax rebates from the ruling National Party.
Despite that revelation, the tours continued. It was not entirely disingenuous of players to say that they went to South Africa as professional cricketers to earn a living, not to condone or condemn apartheid. They broke no laws by playing cricket in South Africa. "Now just supposing the Russians played cricket…" wondered George Gardiner MP after Mrs Thatcher had promoted a British Boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Michael Brearley's response to such arguments was that "the system of government (in Russia) is not designed to oppress people on the basis of birth or race. South Africa's is." Despite the hype, rebel teams were typically half-first XI/half-second XI in representation and playing strength. Players such as Peter Willey – an effective England all-rounder but no Botham – were discussed in awed tones by South African newspapers.
The cricketing consequences were far-reaching and affected the balance of playing power in the 1980s. Just as the England team was weakened after 1982 by a three-year ban on the rebels, the Australian team was decimated by a combination of retirements and rebel tours, reaching its nadir in the mid-1980s. The West Indies of that decade, however, had virtually a spare team of outstanding (and impecunious) players that could not force their way into the first-choice Test squad. Alvin Kallicharan played for Transvaal and was immediately banned by the West Indies. With nothing to lose, he captained a rebel team in 1983. The rebel West Indian team represented what May calls "the greatest coup and the deepest affront." Were they showing that blacks could play cricket as well as, or even better, than whites or were they selling their souls to the Apartheid government? The 1983-84 team captained by Lawrence Rowe was the only rebel side to win a "Test" series in South Africa but many of those players faced professional and personal rejection when they returned to the Caribbean.
Mike Gatting went to South Africa in 1990 as captain of what turned out to be the last unsanctioned tour, when Nelson Mandela's release was imminent. As Ian Wooldridge wrote, "Mike Gatting finds himself in the wrong place at the very wrong time." Pictured on the book's cover, Gatting, Emburey and Graveney of the 1990 team all later assumed important roles in English cricket. That is just one of the many ironies in this book, which is throughly well-researched even if so many of the dramatis personae refused to speak to the author.
The great player and commentator Ritchie Benaud once remarked, "The Titanic was a tragedy, the Ethiopian drought a disaster, but neither bears any relation to a dropped catch." In cricketing terms, it is a tragedy that the brilliant South African team of the late 1960s/early 1970s did not have the opportunity to show its skills more often on the international stage. But Benaud, who managed an International Wanderers XI in South Africa in 1976, and others would probably admit that Apartheid was a greater and far more damaging tragedy.


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Imagine that the world around you is connected together by a network of data and software. Your location, your financial information, your family photos, your musingsare all floating out there up in the cloud. Now imagine that the pipes connecting all of your personal data are leaking and you have no way to patch them because it's not your house and you're not a plumber.
Unsafe is the state of the internet and web APIs right now. There is nothing inherently secure about any of the infrastructure built around the modern web, only what is purposefully and consciously designed. The old colors of browser security and plain text credentials are still dominating the modern internet and cloud-to-cloud infrastructure. Even modernization of these paradigms in updates like SSL 3 and OAuth fail to make us safer, introducing new untested exploits of their own into the mix.
Why is there such failure in security? The thinking that technology choices alone will protect data is proven wrong every time there is a major security breach. People are ultimately responsible for security and control the technology that implements our best and most thought through practices. Teams that are conscious of good security patterns will produce far safer systems that minimize risk and vulnerability. Human responsibility is the only solution to the turbulent forefront of digital safety.
Teams are not all the same, sometimes made up of all developers or all testers, and some a mix of developers, designers, testers, and operations people. Today however, a majority of these teams lack dedicated security personnel, and those that are fortunate to have such compliancy officers often don't have enough time to do thorough security testing against their APIs. "Design, build, ship" is the modern agile motto; but where is the testing and security approval in this attitude?
Security testing is often complicated and time consuming without the right tools and context. The last thing you want to add to your three week sprints is an additional compliancy check if it takes longer than a day to run. And who is going to run it, for those who don't have a security expert on hand?
Ready! API by SmartBear provides a platform of tools to test the security, performance, and function of your APIs from the early design phase all the way through to the final QC approval before release. Secure Pro is a powerful new API-specific security testing tool that empowers all members of your existing teams to quickly assess potential vulnerabilities in your APIs during the development, testing, and deployment phases of the delivery lifecycle.
Secure Pro includes security checks against REST and SOAP services like boundary, cross-site scripting, SQL and XPath injection, and fuzzing scans. With increasing adoption of RESTful patterns, Secure Pro also includes REST-specific scans like HTTP method fuzzing. The process of creating security tests and reviewing results has been designed with a non-security experts in mind, so that developers and testers can ensure the highest quality and safety in their APIs with the skills they already have.
Also included in Secure are important security considerations around API test data management. The new Weak Authentication scan check your data for credentials that do not meet minimum conformance guidelines, ensuring that your testing process matches expectations over production credentials.
Sensitive File Exposure is also a new way to check for the "dirty fingerprints" of poor security practices on the servers that host your APIs. You can scan for open directories, commonly used files that should not be visible to external clients, or provide your own custom patterns. This makes sure that the systems you deploy code to are truly worthy of your API.
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So it happened. Priceline and their 40% crazy sale. As always they took my money away.
There was no stampede of some sort like my previous experience and I was more organised this time, I can probably admit that I stayed calm and collected too. I even came with a list! Hallelujah! And I had a plan:
The Plan
1 - Create a list
2 - Google the products in the list
3 - Revise the list based on reviews
4 - Finish work on the dot (can't be a minute late)
5 - Pick-up child
6 - Pick-up food/snack/early dinner for child
7 - Head to Priceline
8 - Swatch the products by brand
9 - Walk around and decide
10 - Make sure child is fed or eating
11 - Continue browsing
12 - after 30mins - start making final decision
13 - Pay and leave
14 - And Don't forget the child
The plan was executed smoothly. However, I was there for almost an hour because I was looking for testers most of the time.The only thing that I hate during these sales is the testers go missing. It's like they go on strike because they are going to be swatched like crazy or people just nick them really.
While my list seemed endless and unreasonable, I've managed to narrow it down to the following items:
Models Prefer Weekender Bag set - This is what took me the longest. I was looking for this design and colour. The majority on display were neon bright chevron prints and I almost bought that until I saw a lady holding the monochrome set. This is what I've been wanting to take on the honeymoon to carry my essentials and hooray for the lady who told me where to get it from. This item is only sold in stores so hurrry!
L'Oreal Telescopic Unlimited Length False Lash Effect (Magnetic Black) - I've been loving the Telescopic range so I've been trying out the different types in the range. This has so much promise and I hope it delivers. I am taking it to the cruise with me so it better work.
Maybelline Fit Me Concealer (Medium) - a backup because why not.
And of course, 3 lip products.
Infallible Le Rouge (Ravishing Red) - This is what JLo wore on the ad campaign for the Le Rouge range. I've been eyeing this for the longest time but I waited for the sale. This is a warmer red and will compliment a tanned skin better and I aim to be more tanned that I already am in this trip.
Essence Longlasting Lipstick in Coral Calling and Natural Beauty - these are my first Essence lipsticks. They are always tucked away in the corner of the store but my research told me that they carry amazing longlasting lipsticks! This is normally AU$4.70 and with the sale it's now AU$2.82. I mean come on! I am telling you now, Coral Calling is a similar shade to Estee Lauder's Defiant Coral and before you go all gaga - I am just saying the shade and not the formulation. I still aim to get Defiant Coral through duty free shopping.
Here's are some quick swatches. Look how pretty!
|(L-R): L'Oreal Ravising Red, Essence Natural Beauty, Essence Coral Calling
So there you go, a very quick and small haul! What did you get from the sale?
I need to pack now! I'll speak to you soon! xx


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Underreported Income, Part 1: Responding to Robo-Notices
Every year, millions of taxpayers receive a computer-generated notice from the IRS about (supposedly) underreported income.
These notices are called CP2000 or automated underreporting (AUR) notices. They are generated (shall we say "spit out"?) by IRS computers based on a mismatch between the income reported on a taxpayer's return and information available to the IRS from third parties such as employers and banks.
If you get one, it doesn't mean you did anything wrong. But you do need to respond.
Look in the right-hand corner
As a first step, take a close look at the upper-right-hand corner of the notice. If it says Notice: CP2000, and has an AUR control number, that means the document was generated by an IRS computer without any human signing off on it.
Having verified this, you can breathe a little sigh of relief because a CP2000 notice is not an audit. To be sure, the IRS does initiate correspondence audits by letter, asking for more information about your tax return. But a CP-2000 notice isn't that. Instead, it's informing you that the IRS is proposing changes to your tax return.
Do you agree with the proposed changes?
If you agree with the changes, you can sign the response form and mail it back in. But if you don't agree, you have 30 days to tell the IRS that (or 60 days if you live outside the U.S.).
If you don't respond within the requisite time, and the IRS has determined you owe more tax, you will be facing a notice of deficiency. And in addition there would be interest and applicable penalties.
In other words, a CP2000 notice isn't a tax bill, but you could end up with a bill by default if you don't respond.
More difficult issues
If you did underreport your income by a substantial amount, the issues of course become more difficult. Was the underreporting the result of a good faith mistake, for which the IRS can waive any tax penalties? Or was the underreporting the result of willful tax evasion?
We will take up these questions in part two of this two-part post.


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Denomination : Silver siliqua. Mint :Trier, 2nd officina
Size : 16.0 x 17.0 mm. Weight : 1.83 grams.
Reference : RIC Vol. VIII, page 168, #363 variety.
Grade : VF with weak areas.
Obverse : Head of Julian II right, with DN CL IVLIANVS P AVG around (due to the clipping, parts of some letters are off the flan).
Reverse : VOTIS V MULTIS X in four lines in a wreath, with TR below.
This coin has several problems. First, at 1.83 grams it is about 0.4 grams lighter than one would expect on this issue. Second, the obverse inscription is slightly odd (it should be either D N CL IVLIANVS AVG or FL CL IVLIANVS AVG) on this issue. Third, the style is incorrect for the mint.
The coin is clearly ancient, so it pretty much has to be an ancient counterfeit struck in fairly good silver but low weight.
Quotazione: 08/07/20


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The success of Fresh Off The Boat is personal.
I'm not Asian American, but I have two primary points of investment:
1) My husband predicted that the show would be terrible and never be renewed, and I love it when he's wrong (he's capitulated on the first statement).
2) It represents people I love. There will probably never be a sitcom about a family that looks like mine. Mixed families are very specific, and television has only ever bothered to showcase an Asian American family twice in as many decades. Maybe my future children can watch sitcoms like The McCarthys and Fresh Off The Boat and see part of themselves represented in each. (Big Hero 6 is going to popular in this house).
I love Fresh Off The Boat, not only because I think the adults are hilarious, the children are adorable, and the stories are entertaining, but also because I love watching my husband relate to a family in an American sitcom for the first time in his life. The sound of my husband's laughter is the best sound in the world to me. It's worth ten seasons of any show.
In the season finale, Jessica Huang (Constance Wu) becomes worried that her family is losing touch with their heritage as they become increasingly seduced by country clubs, American television, and mac 'n cheese (no judgement there, Jessica). In the last few episodes, there's been a sense that everything has come full circle, with a reference to 1994's All American Girl in the penultimate episode and The Real Eddie Huang bookending the season with a scathing critique of the show:
Mr. Huang appeared to be reacting to an episode in which a teacher misinterprets a situation and reports Eddie's parents for potential child abuse. Incidentally, something eerily similar happened to my family involving Florida HFS and the misplaced concern of a teacher. Mr. Huang's frustration is understandable – it's not funny when social services wants to interview your parents; it's terrifying.
But I disagree with his critique of the sitcom genre as a whole. Mr. Huang seems to feel that the sitcom is auto-assimilating all of us into highly-processed white-flour Wonder Bread. I maintain that the sitcom has a unique and subversive power – the ability to actually redefine the concept of American normality itself.
That's a great thing, a powerful thing, and it's accomplished by getting images of different kinds of American families onto the TV sets of all Americans. And that's exactly what Fresh Off The Boat is doing. According to Nielsen Research, nearly 60% of Fresh viewers are non-hispanic whites, nearly 15% are black, and 11% are hispanic. The remaining 15% of viewers who are actually Asian American see some of their experiences reflected onscreen, and the rest of us are exposed to an American experience we may not have considered before.
I continue to be amazed by how wonderfully engaged this community is. The way Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, Jenny Yang, and so many others drummed up support for the show week after week is encouraging and inspiring. If nothing else, I can point my children to the amazing Asian American writers, actors, bloggers, and activists who worked so hard to help create a world in which they could envision themselves. Here's to hoping they'll get to grow up watching more shows like Fresh Off The Boat.
Tweet @ABCNetwork and tell them to #RenewFOTB