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Along the drive to Colorado we made a a two day pit stop in Taos, New Mexico for some Mexican food and to bag a peak. We set our sights on the highest peak in New Mexico, Wheeler Peak-13,159'. After making the drive up to the Taos ski area we found a free campsite in the heart of the resorts. The following day we headed out on the trail for the short 6.2 mile out and back to the summit. We extended our hike by exploring Williams Lake and the surrounding area; which I highly recommend. Although the hike is only 6.2 miles there is some serious switchbacks at elevation that suck the air out of you. The views from the top are worth the pain.
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At this point, it might be best to turn "Two and a Half Men" into a reality show. Less than two years removed from Charlie Sheen's infamous meltdown that saw him removed from the CBS Chuck Lorre comedy, the show's young star, Angus T. Jones -- the half-man in the show's title -- has blasted the series as "filth" and suggested that people should stop watching.
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"Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character," Jones says in a video for the Forerunner Christian Church, which is based in Fremont, Calif. "If you watch 'Two and a Half Men,' please stop watching 'Two and a Half Men.' I'm on 'Two and a Half Men' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it and filling your head with filth. People say it's just entertainment. Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch."
Jones continues with the testimonial, intimating that the show is part of the plan of "the enemy" -- presumably Satan. He adds, "If I am doing any harm, I don't want to be here. I don't want to be contributing to the enemy's plan ... You cannot be a true God-fearing person and be on a television show like that. I know I can't. I'm not OK with what I'm learning, what the bible says and being on that television show."
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Jones, 19, gave a testimony in October at the Voice of Prophecy in Los Angeles, where he attends services.
Jones earns about $350,000 per episode; in May he received a salary bump -- along with co-stars Jon Cryer and Ashton Kutcher -- when Men was renewed for a 10th season.
Jones' comments mark the latest brouhaha for "Men," which in addition to the Sheen debacle also saw former showrunner Lee Aronsohn step down after he came under fire for comments he made to THR about female-driven shows at a Toronto screenwriting conference.
"Two and a Half Men" producer Warner Bros. Television declined comment.
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What to Watch on Monday: Some love for animals in 'Unlocking the Cage' doc
Unlocking the Cage (8 p.m., HBO) – In this documentary by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker, lawyer Steven Wise and the Nonhuman Rights Project file lawsuits to give animals such as chimpanzees and dolphins limited personhood rights.
Supergirl (8 p.m., The CW) – A magical imp shows up on Earth and after declaring his love for Kara, begins to wreak havoc on National City.
24: Legacy (8 p.m., Fox) – Grimes has information for Carter that might lead them to the terrorist.
Bates Motel (10 p.m., A&E and Lifetime) – Norman tries to keep up appearances despite a troubling discovery.
Timeless (10 p.m., NBC) – In the season finale, the team chases Flynn to 1954 en route to a once-in-a-generation meeting of Rittenhouse leaders. No word on renewal.
Quantico (10 p.m., ABC) – A death leads to an FBI investigation at the Farm.
Humans (10 p.m., AMC) – Karen and Pete learn about a special Synth being sold on the black market.


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CraftingManager is probably the mod causing your recipe issue. If you remove it and the problem doesn't go away, then create a mod pack with just NEI, IC2, and GregTech, to make sure all the recipes are right there. If they are, then start adding mods back in until you find which mod caused the problem. (This is not a problem we have encountered here before, so you'll have to do some testing yourself.)


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Just in case your day hasn't had enough excitement, here's a video of some wingsuit pilots diving into a canyon.
Diving in the American Southwest, daredevils in Squirrel wingsuits were looking to pull up out of their dives to see how high they could fly back upwards into the air. They needed conditions to be just right and had no room for mistakes…
Awesome – so how do wingsuit pilots achieve such control in the air? And how do they climb to such heights?
"Flying a wingsuit is very intuitive, small inputs are needed," Matt Gerdes, Squirrel's chief test pilot who features in the video, told the Press Association. "We can fly them with precision, maybe not to centimetres but certainly to metres. Pilots can hit targets, for example."
"By diving for speed, and then changing our AoA (Angle of Attack), we convert that speed into lift and altitude," said Gerdes. "The best pilots in the best wingsuits can gain around 90m of altitude."
The makers say altitude gains shown in the video were measured based on calculations from multiple camera angles and, in some cases, using GPS tracking.
Squirrel is a collaboration between some of the world's top skydivers, wingsuit pilots and BASE jumpers. The equipment used by pilots in the video is all made by Squirrel, which makes wingsuits, parachutes and various gear for extreme sports.


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Aug 6 (Reuters) - Cardinal Health Inc reported a fourth-quarter loss compared to a year-ago profit, as the U.S. drug distributor was hit by an asset-impairment charge of $1.35 billion.
Net loss attributable to the company was $1.17 billion, or $3.76 per share, in the quarter, compared to a profit of $274 million, or 86 cents per share, a year earlier.
Revenue rose to $35.35 billion from $32.97 billion. (Reporting by Anuron Kumar Mitra and Tamara Mathias in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)


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New Yorkers forced from their homes because of Sandy will be able to vote by affidavit ballot at any polling site in the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
He ordered the "extraordinary" measure as a way to preserve Sandy victims' ability to vote, at least for president and U.S. Senate.
"We want everyone to vote. Just because people are displaced doesn't mean they should be disenfranchised," Cuomo said.
Voters living away from their homes will be able to vote for president and U.S. Senate from any polling place in New York state. Voters will be able to vote for candidates further down the ballot — candidates for Congress, state Senate and Assembly — only if they are voting in the same district where they live, Cuomo said.
"You can't vote for what we call down-ballot individuals," Cuomo said "Your vote will not be eligible."
The executive order permits voters displaced by Sandy to sign a sworn statement that they're legally registered to vote in the presidential and state races. They must first try to vote at their usual polling site.
Few details were released Monday. But a Cuomo spokesman said people using affidavit ballots won't be required to show any more identification than other voters, who don't normally have to prove their identity. The affidavit voters would have to be from areas declared a disaster because of Sandy: Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester counties. There was no estimate as to how many people might be able to vote by affidavit ballot.
That could play a role in several tight state Senate races in Queens, on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley. The races that are close, according to recent polls and to the campaigns, could result in deciding majority control of the Senate. Republicans currently have a 33-29 majority, having wrested control from Democrats two years ago.
Mark Dunlea of the state Green Party noted that the directive allows voters to cast ballots for president, where Democratic incumbent Barack Obama is already expected to get all of New York's electoral votes, or for Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has a commanding lead over Republican Wendy Long, but not the hotly contested state Senate races.
"It is better than nothing and ultimately its impact will be slight, but preserving the right to vote for two races not in doubt is not exactly a huge step for democracy," Dunlea said.
He said Cuomo's effort also could undercut the chance that New York would offer a second day of voting, as provided for in a never-used law, if turnout in a county was under 25 percent of total voter registration.
New Jersey had already allowed its voters to use provisional ballots at any polling site.
Earlier Monday, Common Cause-New York and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School urged the action after sending Cuomo a request on Sunday.
"Governor Cuomo has taken action to reduce the impact the storm will have on turnout for the Presidential Election," said a joint statement issued by the New York Public Interest Research Group, the New York Immigration Coalition and the Brennan Center for Justice. "Governor Cuomo understands that free and efficient elections are what makes this nation great. In this, their darkest hour, New Yorkers can trust that over 200 years of democracy will not be undone by a single weather event, no matter how disastrous."
"Sandy has taken so much from New Yorkers, but the right to vote should not be one of them," said Eric Marshall, manager of legal mobilization at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.


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A Fearless Guide To Manifesting, Launching, & Celebrating Female Entrepreneurship by India Rochelle
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India Rochelle is a best selling author in "20 Beautiful Women: Volume 3," a feminist, Huffington Post blogger, web designer, & "Inspirationista." She is also the Founder of She Freely Speaks! A non-profit that welcomes highly driven at-risk teenage girls experiencing abuse, homelessness, and suicide into an inspiring and uplifting community of teenagers helping other teenagers. By providing resources for teens by teens, She Freely Speaks! opens the doors for teenage girls to feel safe and engage positively with their peers in a confidential and empowering environment. India's life goal is to inspire, uplift, and teach women how to step into their personal freedom and launch successful entrepreneurial businesses. Her most recent work is "A Fearless Guide to Manifesting, Launching, & Celebrating Female Entrepreneurship" and the launch of "The Inspirationalist." A blogging platform designed to guide female entrepreneurs towards manifesting, launching, & celebrating their businesses. India is called upon for her optimistic outlook on life, business, and the universe. She resides in Coal Mountain, Georgia with her two children and fiancé. India enjoys writing, networking, and spending time with her family & friends. You can almost always find India on social media interacting with her tribe and family, and networking with entrepreneurs all over the world.
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I absolutely loved working with Julie, Ryan and their guests - I couldn't have asked for a better group of people to work with!!
Below are a few of my many favorites from their day!
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Hot pots: For those who cherish the planter as much as the plant
Guy Wolff hung his shingle in 1971, in a little barn in Bantam, Conn. (Local lore has it that it once belonged to actress Mary Pickford.) Since then — and even before — he has been a potter deeply devoted to and inspired by centuries-old design — Italian, French, and notably, English flowerpots from the 18th and 19th century. His pots are handmade, wheel-thrown and distinctly antique-looking. Far from baroque, they are elegantly rustic. In that studio, Wolff happily created pottery for locals, summer tourists and wealthy New Yorkers with country homes in northwestern Connecticut.
But in 1993, his profile shot through the roof.
That year marked "a perfect storm of publicity," says Peter Wakefield Jackson, vice president of Napa Home and Garden, a wholesale company. Jackson, a master potter himself, is also a longtime friend of Wolff.
"His pots were featured on the cover of Horticulture magazine," Jackson says. "Martha Stewart (from nearby Westport, Conn.) visited his studio, and Smith & Hawken put his white clay pots into their catalog."
Not long afterward, Stewart visited "The Oprah Winfrey Show," bearing a plant in one of Wolff's pots. (It should be noted that Wolff — who doesn't watch TV — had no earthly idea who Stewart was.)
Like many who have been touched by an Oprah show, Wolff was catapulted from relative obscurity into a world where his phone started ringing off the hook. In 1994, Smith & Hawken is said to have sold more than $1 million worth of his flowerpots.
As befits an art and a craft, the pots also are on display in the New York Botanical Gardens, the White House and the Japan Folk Crafts Museum in Tokyo.
Wolff made his pots by himself up through 1996. That's when he called Jackson in a panic. "He was afraid he wasn't going to be able to keep up with the orders," Jackson recalled. "He was afraid he was going to lose the business of Smith & Hawken."
So Jackson — who then had a factory — jumped in to help. A few years later, Jackson took Wolff to visit some of his potter friends in Honduras and got them started following the traditions used by Wolff. Eventually, as artisans in Portugal, Mexico and Vietnam joined the fray, this became known as the Guy Wolff Guild, a loose association of craftsmen. Today, the Guild pots are made in Honduras and China. (You can get a pot thrown by Wolff himself, but you'll have to make a trip to his new studio in Connecticut.)
With their antique look, solid and gradated colors, and sometimes scalloped rims, each pot looks specially made. They come in a variety of colors, sizes and styles, from rose pots, orchid pots and urns to seed pots (shallow pots ideal for growing bulbs and paperwhites) and Long Toms — tall, skinny pots whose depth provides great root support for year-round plants.
The most popular at Perfect Petal (perfectpetal.com) are Wolff's scallop-topped pots, which come in solid and gradated colors of moss, antique green, verde white, willow and white washed (which most closely resembles a terra cotta look).
On each garden pot, you'll find the "G. Wolff & Co." stamp on the body, as well as a number, which indicates the "wet weight" of the clay used to make the pot. For instance, a No. 2 pot is made with 2 pounds of clay, so it would be smaller than a No. 4 pot. The designation is a quaint throwback to Victorian times, Jackson says.
In the Guy Wolff collections sold by Napa Home and Garden, pots retail from $10 up to $100. For the Guy Wolff Greenhouse collection, the average retail price is about $12; for the Guy Wolff Guild line from Honduras, the average retail price is $20.
A few words about the care of Guy Wolff pots: They can be used indoors or outdoors, but they're not frost-proof, which means it's safest to bring them indoors before a frost — or if they're the larger outdoor pots, cover them. Also, natural salts, minerals, soil content and fertilizers will be absorbed by the pot and will evolve the finish over time, as Wolff intended.
Don't have a green thumb? Use them decoratively. They're also terrific for fresh floral arrangements or for holding napkins or flatware. Orchid pots make great luminarias thanks to the pre-cut holes used for root aeration.


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This is part 2 of hunting Red Team C2 Infrastructure. Part 1 covered finding Empire C2 end points. In this post, we will show how to do the same for Meterpreter. There were no immediate crashing bugs found in the Meterpreter HTTP/S handler, but there is still enough information to profile these end points.
Meterpreter is an advanced C2 infrastructure often used as a payload with the popular Metasploit exploit framework. It's cross-platform and highly extensible. In this post, we will focus on finding the reverse HTTP/S handlers for Meterpreter.
Meterpreter Headers
Using the HTTP request of GET / HTTP/1.0, the following headers were returned.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: close Server: Apache Content-Length: 44
The thing that stands out here (similar to Empire) is the general lack of headers that would normally be present in a request. Also, the fact that we used HTTP/1.0 as the protocol, but the reply is still for HTTP/1.1
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It works!

Hashes of defaul pageMD5: c7b4690c8c46625ef0f328cd7a24a0a3
SHA1: 12179caec26a089cabcbb75c4dbe0bdfe60951f7
SHA2: 8f3ff2e2482468f3b9315a433b383f0cc0f9eb525889a34d4703b7681330a3fb
Finding Meterpreter Listeners with Shodan
Shodan is a search engine for Security Researchers. They routinely scan common ports across the Internet, and make the data publicly available, and easily searchable. APIs are also provided for automating a lot of the tasks required.
Using the common headers, and default web page listed above, we are able to narrow down the list of possible Meterpreter C2 node candidates on the Internet with a simple query.
'Server: Apache' 'It works!' -'Content-Type' 'Length: 44'
You'll notice that the results returned all are HTTP/1.1 with matching profiles that we scoped out above.
Random URLsAnother characteristic that makes Meterpreter listeners easy to identify, is that all requests that aren't to the backend result in the same response. Random URLs will get the same response as grabbing the index. Legitimate servers will typically produce a 404 error.
GET /lkafjdklfjasdklfjalkdjflkajd HTTP/1.0
Changing default values
There's no excuse for leaving your C2 node exposed to the entire Internet. Use whitelisting of IP space in order to keep your tests in scope, and avoid having other people attack your nodes. In order to change the default server and page discussed above, these are all part of the advanced settings.
use exploit/multi/handler set payload windows/meterpreter/reverse_http set LHOST 127.0.0.1 set LPORT 8000 show advanced set MeterpreterServerName nginx set HttpUnknownRequestResponse httml_here
Going beyond Shodan
In case there are any questions about the servers found being Meterpreter listeners, the following is a valid URI that will download Stage1 of the Meterpreter session from any given reverse HTTP/S listener.
GET /huO7Mf9GbAoRFBAVSfkxDwLTm3Wcz8n3kuXycv7k4vWV-_dXg3aY1iQy83Cejls15IeYlhUZ0QMT8S1zHKR33-Ga1rVIiV6QNFjXzTgr4lwNq_YR1tqyIbl9ddVzJ8UeYWJ0MJnThtVJ7d46IZnwHYok-XXZJrhqgUaaJMQtmCGCQWFA9tXMVtZtQEaR9Hse2Muw-P5TX4M7LKtm93LLFCT5i1NshdiwcWOnVJq HTTP/1.0
As we discussed in part 1, we can use Scans.io data in order to get a broader search of HTTPS servers. If you still have a copy of the data, you can run a zgrep search like the following to identify possible C2 nodes from this data.
zgrep 'PGh0bWw+PGJvZHk+PGgxPkl0IHdvcmtzITwvaDE+PC9ib2R5PjwvaHRtbD4=' 20170221-https.gz > /tmp/results.json
This may take several minutes to run, as the datasets are generally several gigabytes in size. The result will be a file containing JSON data for each host that returned the default Meterpreter HTML. You can parse this file and extract each IP address that should be tested.Happy hunting.


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Scott Trust Foundation
The Scott Trust Foundation is the umbrella organisation for charitable activities taking place under the direction of our owner, the Scott Trust. Its remit reflects one of the trust's key objectives of "promoting the causes of freedom of the press and liberal journalism both in Britain and elsewhere". It has three separate arms: the Guardian Foundation, the Newsroom visitor and archive centre, and the Scott Trust Charitable Fund. The Scott Trust Foundation also funds 10 internships and bursaries for aspiring journalists each year. More information about the foundation can be found at gmgplc.co.uk/scotttrust.
Guardian Foundation
The Guardian Foundation is the Scott Trust's overseas training arm, supporting the creation and running of editorially independent newspapers. In the past year it has worked with journalists and news organisations from Syria, Egypt, South Africa, China, Bulgaria and the Balkans.
The foundation isn't a conventional training organisation. It doesn't lecture students. Rather, it tries to bring together news professionals from the Guardian Media Group with their opposite numbers from newspapers all over the world — in seminars or on visits — so that they can learn from each other's experience.
As well as supporting specific newspapers, the foundation sometimes helps a whole sector of journalism. For instance, after two visits to Damascus by the Guardian's Steve Bell, we were able to put together an exhibition of Middle East cartooning (in association with the British Council) and show it in the Guardian Newsroom last summer.
In China, a new relationship has been formed with the journalism department at Wuhan University, where the Guardian's east Asia correspondent Jonathan Watts has been lecturing on environmental reporting, as well as paving the way for future collaboration.
The foundation has been working in Slovenia for more than a decade and in 2008 executive editor Jo Confino and former readers' editor Ian Mayes spent two days with key editors and media business owners there to look at how our work on sustainability and transparency could be replicated.
Education and archive centre
Our education centre operates a range of activities that cater for up to 10,000 visitors a year. In term time, daily visiting school groups learn how to make a newspaper front page or build a website in a purpose-built education centre which mimics the workings of the actual newsroom. Other activities include Q&As with journalists for university students, adult learner days, exhibition workshops and teacher conferences. Notable events in the past year have included the annual Big Draw event and teacher conferences on raising boys' achievement.
The educational department is extending its activities to include projects with local community groups and arts organisations. GNM also operates a free exhibition space with a constantly changing programme. The Scott Trust Foundation also maintains and preserves an extensive archive relating to the histories of the Guardian, the Observer and theguardian.com. As well as official papers, the archive actively acquires material from people who have been associated with the papers and our collections include correspondence, diaries, original artwork and photographs. More information at theguardian.com/newsroom.
Scott Trust Charitable Fund
The Scott Trust Charitable Fund supports projects associated with independent journalism, journalist ethics, media literacy and journalist training, both in the UK and abroad. Last year donations totalled £54,000.
It funds organisations such as the Media Trust, which links charities with media professionals to support their communications needs, and Pavement magazine for homeless people in the UK.
Two new beneficiaries were the Anthony Sampson Foundation, which creates opportunities for young disadvantaged journalists in South Africa, and Women in Media, which is cataloguing the records of Catherine Mary Stott, the first and longest serving editor of the Guardian women's page.
The trust also covered the costs of bringing law students from Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone to the UK to participate in an international media law competition, organised by Oxford University centre for socio-legal studies. The purpose of the event was to promote media defence work and raise awareness of international standards of press freedom.


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Adeje's department of education is helping to fund student trips
The Adeje department of education, under councillor Andrés Pérez, say that about 300 students have benefited from financial assistance in travel and what is termed 'social tourism' as part of the academic cycle. This initiative, which has been ongoing for a number of years now, allows the council "work in conjunction with the borough's education centres to help fund different trips which have stated social and educational objectives", said the councillor.
To avail of this particular travel grant students have to be signed up on the Adeje 'padron' (residential register) for at least six months and currently studying in one of the borough's public schools, among other conditions. Pérez says, "the help the council is happy to give to this kind of project is not a new initiative. We firmly believe in any assistance we can offer to our young people in getting to know other cultures, a branch of learning which is fundamental to their personal development".
The councillor added that "the young people who take part in these trips become mini-ambassadors for our borough, and we are hoping to see these kind of initiatives continue for the school-going population as they give young people a different view of the world in which we live".
In parallel the Adeje department of education is also working in partnership with the AMPAS (the schools' parents associations) to assist in transport costs, etc, where and when necessary.
This year students from all the borough's primary schools – Adeje, Las Torres, Armeñime, Fañabe, Tijoco and Los Olivos – have been involved, as well as representatives from the secondary schools in Los Olivos and El Galeón. Places visited included Asturias, Lanzarote, La Palma, Italy and Barcelona.
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Target sued for refusing to make their website accessible
In early February the news broke about the US National Federation of the Blind (NFB) bringing legal action against Target corporation for not making their website accessible despite being made aware of the problems.
I first learned about this from Derek Featherstone's post Taking Aim at Target(.com), with Molly E. Holzschlag reinforcing the message in Targeting Target: this lawsuit needs to cost Target enough to make corporations realise that they too need to make their websites accessible.
There are a lot of strange comments on Derek's and Molly's posts from people who believe it should be up to every company to decide whether its website should be accessible or not. The worst comments I found via Bruce Lawson's post The webdev community's response to the Target Lawsuit where he links to the Target sued for poor accessibility thread at the Sitepoint forum. Oh boy, what can I say. I am absolutely disgusted by the attitude and complete ignorance displayed by some of the people participating in the discussion.
Just one day after the first post, Derek Featherstone posted a follow-up, Staying on Target, noting that Target's website had been updated since the previous day, removing one of the barriers. First nothing happens for nine months, and when the bad publicity appears they fix one of the problems in 24 hours. Talk about lip service.
It's been over a month now and I haven't heard more about this. Target.com is still missing
alt attributes for over 200 images just on the home page. A validation reveals no less than 526 markup errors.
Looks like they are just hoping for the whole thing to go away.
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Traveling to Atlantic City International Airport
Located a short 12 miles outside of Atlantic City, the airport offers flight service by Spirit Airlines and United Airlines.
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The following rental car companies operate at the Atlantic City International Airport:
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Traveling to Philadelphia International Airport
Located an hour outside of Atlantic City, the Philadelphia International Airport offers flight service by several airlines.
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The Septa High Speed Rail Line runs from Philadelphia International Airport to 30th Street Station.
The Atlantic City Train Station is located next to the Atlantic City Convention Center. New Jersey Transit provides service to and from 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. Estimated cost from Philadelphia to Atlantic City is $10.00. Philadelphia's 30th Street Station is serviced by Amtrak. Amtrak provides service from all major east coast destinations including New York, Boston, Washington D.C. and more.
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I got minorly stuck on my Leaflet cardigan and need to study the pattern more closely. Not really having time to do that, I picked up another Laura Nelkin beaded jewelry project, instead. See? Pretty!
This is the Ribband pattern, which is simple but versatile. You can wear it as a single-stranded long necklace or a double-stranded necklace (I don't have photos of these because I was taking photos myself). Or, you can wrap it around your wrist 4-5 times for a fun cuff, which is how I wore it:
Ribband is written for two yarn weights. You can use laceweight yarn and size 8 beads (that's what I did), or fingering weight yarn with size 6 beads. This yarn is left over from the Color Affection shawl I made this summer.
The strand is closed with a simple toggle clasp, which you can see here.
I know someone is going to ask me how long the strand is - it's 33.5".
This only took me two days to complete. Holiday knitting, people! Lay in a supply of beads!!!
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Occupiers throw Bibles, urinate on the Cross
Members of the Occupy Movement throw Bibles, urinate on a cross, and steal money from a church! Such "brave" thugs. I'd like to see them throw or urinate on the Koran and see what happens! There would likely be riots all over the world and everyone from Barack Obama on down would be pontificating on their horrible hate crimes. But since this was done against Christianity, and by a group admired by Democratic politicians and the liberal media, the story will probably die out quickly and no one will mention hate crimes. After all, hate crimes is a category that can be used very selectively for political purposes.
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Freegear Z
Freegear Z is a very nifty little game where you race around a long race track that seems to be in a future factory. The cars are so great to steer and they respond well. In fact when you go round the tracks, the vehicle goes into a drift which is a very lovely effect. The vehicles travel at a very high speed and this gives you the feeling of actually racing. One features of the game is that the character says a lot of comments especially when he passes the opponent. There will be a balloon at the top of the vehicle, like you would find in a comic book, and he would make some jeering comment. The graphics of the game are great since they are clear but do not take up a lot of resources. The game will show you the speed at which you are travelling at and also the lap and your position. The cars all have the same design although they do not have the same color and this makes it easy for you to tell your car from the rest even when afar. This is a free online racing game that is very fast and you will have an adrenaline pumping race. You start off at the bottom of the pack and you start picking off the racers one at a time. The race is 3 laps long and you need to be vigilant that the racers do not come and overtake you again. Try not to crash into the other cars because this will affect the performance of the car, and you will lose crucial moments. The control of the game does not give any problems, and the vehicles really hug the road so you will not fid any place where you will get off the tracks.


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Over Here Not Yet
Renée Rhodes and Shaghayegh Cyrous
On view March 10 – April 22, 2018
Over Here Not Yet
Exhibition Dates: March 10–April 22, 2018
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 10, 7–10 pm
NEW Gallery Location: 300 Jefferson Street, Oakland, CA 94607
Special Event: April 20, 7 pm, Artists in Conversation, moderated by curator Christina Wiles
Over Here Not Yet presents an installation by Shaghayegh Cyrous and two video works by Renée Rhodes. Both artists explore the literal and psychological ways digital technologies can expand, obscure, limit, and complicate our contemporary experience of place and our capacity for connection. The exhibition investigates how we try and try again to establish closeness and connection with the people and places we call home.
Cyrous's installation The Closest I Could Get to the Sun creates an immersive environment in which viewers watch and listen to a Skype video conversation between the artist in San Francisco and her mother in Tehran, Iran. Her mother walks around her garden, describing it for Cyrous, who can not return home due to travel restrictions in the United States and political threats in Iran. Oscillating between a hopeful potential for meaningful connection and a frustrating lack of closeness, The Closest I Could Get explores our ongoing attempts to substitute digital proximity for physical presence.
In Rhodes's Incorporations series, the artist erases the separation between her body and the natural landscape through an exercise in visual camouflage. Though her skin can not chameleon, Rhodes employs printed fabrics, measured movements, and digital imaging tools to mimic the colors and contours of the horizon line. Her work invites viewers to trace the visual and physical gaps between her body and the space she inhabits, drawing attention to moments of failure and the impossibility of a perfect connection.
The artists in Over Here Not Yet reflect on the digital technologies that influence our contemporary experience of place and home. Central to the works in the exhibition is a sense of effort, of trying to be near, of, and in a place, but never fully succeeding. At times optimistic and at times distressing, the works reflect on a familiar place of disjunction between attempt and failure, closeness and distance, which is facilitated and shaped by the technology of our times.
Artist Bios
Shaghayegh Cyrous (b. Tehran, Iran, 1987) moved to San Francisco in 2011. Since then, her work has dealt with the experience of cross-cultural communication and translation, addressing predicaments of estrangement and distance caused by political and cultural power dynamics. Cyrous is interested in the critical role digital media plays in the lives of exiles and immigrants. She has exhibited work at venues including Tehran East Art Gallery (Tehran), Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), For-Site Foundation (San Francisco), and SOMArts (San Francisco). In 2017 Cyrous presented work in conjunction with Escuela de Arte Útil at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Cyrous holds an MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts, San Francisco (2017) and a BA in Visual Art from the University of Science and Culture, Tehran (2010).
Renée Rhodes (b. Largo, Florida, 1984) makes performative walking tours, crowd-sourced memories of lost landscapes, and somatic practices for humans looking to understand their place in nature. Her interdisciplinary practice includes video, performance, installation, and writing. She has shared work at venues including B_Tour Festival (Berlin), 48 Stunden Neukölln (Berlin), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art (Napa), Soil Gallery (Seattle), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), and the Virtual Venues Symposium at University of California, Berkeley. Rhodes was awarded a residency at Signal Fire Residency, and in 2015-16 she was an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. Rhodes holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute (2011) and a BFA in Electronic Inter-Media from the University of Florida, Gainesville (2006).
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China media: Quiet on Communist Party Congress, gaga for U.S. election
BEIJING -- If you picked up a Chinese newspaper in the past week, here's a smattering of the details you could have learned about the U.S. presidential campaign: Mitt Romney might be tanning himself in a bid to appeal to minorities; at 7-Eleven convenience stores, Barack Obama mugs are outselling Romney mugs by a 60%-to-40% margin; and Candy Crowley is known as a tough debate moderator.
The two candidates have turned China into a political football this fall, waging verbal war over issues such as outsourcing and currency manipulation. And to be sure, this "China-bashing" element of the contest has not gone unremarked upon in the Chinese media.
"Politicians who always look for scapegoats are either stupid or cowardly," Ding Gang wrote an Op-Ed article in the Global Times. "If Barack Obama or Mitt Romney really won more votes by slandering or playing tough on China, it would be a shame for the American politics and trouble for the world."
But among ordinary Chinese, there appears to be only the mildest concern about the issues of the election. What's of much greater interest, it seems, is just how the whole contest -- and the surrounding hoopla -- works.
Ahead of the second U.S. presidential debate, the Chengdu Business Daily in Sichuan province devoted a full page to the event. The paper outlined the seven major rules of the debate, published a brief biography of Crowley, and explained the whole notion of "cookie bake-offs" between the wives of the candidates and how accurate a predictor they are of actual election results.
Four paragraphs were devoted to how the Obamas had already voted by mail (accompanied by a photo of the First Lady Michelle Obama holding a vote-by-mail ballot). An additional two paragraphs explained why Libya was likely to be raised as an issue in the debate. And then there was the blurb recounting the controversy over Pizza Hut's PR stunt (seeking to persuade attendees at the town-hall-style debate to ask the candidates whether they preferred pepperoni or sausage on their pies).
China is preparing for a major leadership turnover of its own during the second week of November, with Xi Jinping slated to take the reins from Hu Jintao as general secretary of the Communist Party. Yet propaganda officials keep a tight lid not only on the details of party officials' private lives, but even on basic facts surrounding the 18th Party Congress (the dates for the Congress itself were announced only a few weeks ago).
The rather remarkable upshot is that Chinese news hounds are getting more information about the American political transition -- and its personalities and sometimes pathetic sideshows -- than the one in their own country.
(The state-run New China News Agency recently took note of Obama's comments about the loss of privacy he's experienced since becoming president, how he misses going for walks, to the car wash and to the supermarket. Presumably, Xi will never have to air such a complaint, given the type of information blackout Chinese officials are afforded.)
In addition to covering the 7-Eleven mug contest, Saturday's Beijing News informed readers about an Ohio cupcake shop selling treats adorned with the candidates' faces, and ran a blurb about how Romney's eldest son made a comment about wanting to punch Obama. Readers also learned that Romney and Obama shared a table at a charity dinner on Oct. 18.
A poll launched Sunday on China's Twitter-like site Sina Weibo asked users which candidate they preferred. As of Monday afternoon, Obama was ahead of Romney by a 7-to-1 margin. The Sina portal also carried a music video mashup of the second debate, complete with Chinese subtitles.
The Chinese video portal Youku posted the first Romney-Obama debate in full, albeit without translation, prompting hundreds of users to ask for a transcript. But some viewers were able to follow along in English.
"Democracy is something that can be learned," was the take-away for one viewer by the handle of yisheng youni, perhaps alluding to the oft-mentioned idea that China would never be capable of adopting such a system. "People who are adept at studying can be taught what democracy is."
But another user noted that what U.S. candidates say, and what they are actually able to do, often differs.
"In Democratic countries, the president cannot decide everything himself; he has to seek the opinions of lots of people," commented one user, WKL999. "Because there are lots of opinions, it's hard to implement things. Some things are easier to implement in China."
Clashes in Beirut follow funeral for slain police official
Fatah dominates West Bank election amid low turnout
Bomb rocks Damascus as peace envoy meets with Assad
-- Julie Makinen
Nicole Liu contributed to this report.
Photo: Moderator Candy Crowley at the Oct. 16 debate between President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Credit: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images


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THE MARTYRDOM OF RIO FERDINAND by supporters of Manchester United began yesterday, although not perhaps with the fervour that the central defender might have hoped or expected. "Eight-month ban, you're having a laugh," the travelling band sang, but they made themselves more hoarse hailing the long-departed Eric Cantona.
It may be because they have yet to be fully convinced of Ferdinand's merits as the world's most expensive defender or it may be the dopey nature of his crime that largely restricted the chanting on Ferdinand's behalf to the beginning and end of yesterday's victory over Tottenham Hotspur. You have to kick someone to become truly a cult hero such as Cantona or Roy Keane.
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I had no idea what a quad belly was until yesterday when I saw it popping up here and there in the older threads. It seems that those confined to wheelchairs are more prone to get them, especially if they do not have full control over their ab muscles.
Well, I'm not wheelchair bound but I definitely notice a weakness in my core area. Sometimes I tend to slouch to a side (to my weaker sider) when I'm tired or when I'm sitting on the couch. I've also noticed that my belly has gotten much bigger, even though the rest of me has pretty much stayed the same. Sometimes I'd lose about 5-10lbs (whether intentional or not) but the belly/waist area stays the same width and refuses to go away. I've always attributed this to overeating but when I began to record my food intake, I realized I really wasn't overeating at all.
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Homeschooled student becomes youngest in Africa to earn black belt
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In 2011, homeschooled student Aasha Manns earned her black belt in Shotokan karate and received national recognition for being the youngest individual on the continent of Africa to do so. Now 11 years old, Aasha is still pursuing karate and currently teaches adult students along with her older sister Destiny, 12 years old, who has earned her black belt as well. Their younger sister Imakhus, 9 years old, will be testing for black belt in March 2014.
Aasha (right) and Destiny
Aasha Esi Manns makes historyModern Ghana, the nation's leading news source, covers the Shotokan karate ceremony where Aasha Manns, a homeschooled student, became the youngest in Africa to receive a black belt at the age of eight.
The Manns sisters are homeschooled in Ghana, West Africa. In addition to karate, the sisters have also joined a chess club team at the American International School and are active participants in the Ghana Homeschoolers Group. The group is formed by parents who have come together in Ghana to find activities and fun, but educational, things for our children to do together. We meet at each parent's house and mingle and enjoy the company of both the parents and the children. So far we have about 20 homeschool kids in this group that are in the grades ranging from kindergarten to 11th grade. We welcome all homeschoolers who are moving to Ghana to join us while we make homeschooling in Ghana more exciting for our children.
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I have typically used XAMPP on my windows PC for web development testing. This afternoon I plan to add LAMP to my Ubuntu. I would also like to try and install Apache Tomcat but I am not familiar if
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I dont know about you but last weeks The Walking dead episode has been on my mind all week. In my opinion, it was one of the best episodes in a long time! I ended up rewatching it and noticing some really awesome lighting techniques that they used on set.
I find myself drifting off on most movies and tv shows when Im drawn to the lighting so I thought, why not make this a fun learning game for my blog? As you may know if you follow me on facebook I am a Netflix binge watcher. For me, Its a great tool to zone into my shows while editing to help me focus, and I do alot of editing! So here are my thoughts on how they lit up certain scenes! If you think different please feel free to share your comments below!
I did really love the dramatic lighting in this scene Enid looks so pretty!
OH! and also you can check out these scenes and observe it for yourself on the AMC website
This one was fun to figure out!
I wanted to write about this lighting set up but I couldnt get great screen shots from watching the show.
This Sunday while watching the walking dead. Make sure to Observe all the Awesome lighting techniques! The cinematographer for AMC's The Walking Dead - David Boyd is Absolutly Amazing at what he does!
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Following screenings of The Sessions and Frankenweenie come two foreign language offerings that both know how to make an impression…
Amour (***)
After seizing the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, everyone wants to know whether Michael Haneke's emotionally charged Amour can go all the way to the Oscars. It follows Georges and Anne, a cultured, octogenarian couple whose lives are turned upside down when Anne suffers from a stroke that paralyses one side of her body. Georges must become her full time carer, but is tested by Anne's swiftly deteriorating mental state.
Fans of Haneke will already be aware that the director has never been afraid of silence, and Amour shows no sign that he's in any rush to fill the long pauses and contemplative silences that pierce much of the movie. As one might expect, this is careful and considered filmmaking that in one instance feels dull yet the next creeps up on the unassuming viewer with an image or moment of great poignancy.
Amour's narrative spoke particularly loudly to me as my own grandfather has recently suffered a similar fate as Anne, with my grandmother acting as his carer much like Georges does here. In this respect the steady deterioration of Anne's character felt incredibly genuine and very well written and acted. Emmanuelle Riva gives a bravura performance that reaches to the bones in its authenticity and raw power. Likewise Jean-Louis Trintignant matches her efforts playing Georges. His evident love for Anne placed in contrast with the frustration he feels at the fate she suffers is a tough but really quite magnificent thing to behold.
It is perhaps for this reason that I so strongly disliked the film's ending. For all of its early authenticity the conclusion Haneke gives these poor characters feels somewhat sensationalist and to a degree even conventional. It plays like a cheap emotional shot that sits in complete contrast to all of the careful storytelling that has come before it.
All things considered, Amour is still the undoubted frontrunner for this year's Foreign Language Film Oscar. It features a pair of powerhouse performances from two of France's finest veterans, and when on form is a deeply moving experience.
Wadjda (***)
From Saudi Arabia's first female film director comes Wadjda, a vivid and fascinating story about a young girl who dares to challenge her nation's strict beliefs. Played by Waad Mohammed, Wadjda is a charmingly defiant protagonist who wants nothing more than to own a bicycle like the boys her age do. Of course riding a bike is not a suitable pastime for a respectable Muslim girl so the scene is set for Wadjda to challenge the conventions put in place by her religion, and followed so scrupulously by her society, school and family.
Writer-director Haifaa Al-Mansour has put together an amusing yet thought provoking feature, that touches on a number of big topics, yet never quite gets under the skin of any of them. This wouldn't be such an issue should Wadjda not follow in the footsteps of last year's A Separation, which rewrote the rulebook on Middle Eastern family dramas, and exposes this as being comparatively shallow and not nearly as layered as it should be.
Perhaps this comparison is unfair but it's a natural contrast that many will make. On its own terms however Wadjda is still a worthy film. It possesses superb narrative flow and is well paced, with a steady stream of lighter moments delicately sewn into the wider drama. Performances are also strong, particularly from the younger cast members, making this a pleasant and surprisingly easy watch from a filmmaker who isn't afraid to flag up important issues.


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Brussels Sprouts: My Perennial Decoy
A couple of years ago I planted brussels sprout seeds in the front garden where I don't usually plant anything edible except herbs and horseradish (the produce gardens are in the back). I figured I'd give the brussels sprouts a go and if they didn't work out then it was no big deal.
I didn't have great luck with the brussels sprouts as produce. The buds didn't stay tight enough to be appetizing for my husband (who is the only brussels sprout lover in this household). But the blue-green broad shiny leaves were pretty in the winter garden so I left them there. When they withered and died, I cut them off at the base and threw the withered remains into the green can. So much for brussel sprouts... so I thought.
It was only a couple of months and the brussels sprouts were coming back! Silly me! I thought brussels sprouts were annuals. Apparently, they are perennials. They grew back from the roots just like any good little perennial should. I thought maybe we'd have better success with the buds being tighter and more appetizing. Wait, wait, wait... no such luck.
But I noticed something else going on. The roses in my front garden no longer had very many aphids on them--even on the new growth that aphids love to attack. Some roses had NO APHIDS! But the brussels sprouts were covered with them!
Then I noticed something else. Often as I looked out the front window I would see little flocks of bushtits come down and land on the brussel sprouts to dine on the aphid-feast. The over 3 foot tall brussel sprouts have very sturdy stems, so many little birds could land and dine without any trouble at all.
I left the brussels sprouts in, thinking I had a great companion planting situation going on. I was right. This year I haven't had aphids on my roses. They all went to the brussels sprouts. I've also had the wonderful little bushtits as regular visitors dining on the aphids on the brussels sprouts.
And my ladybug count is higher this year than in any of the previous years so far without me injecting the population with store-bought ladybugs EVER.
The brussels sprouts are apparently here to stay. They aren't doing what I originally intended for them to do, but they're far more valuable as an aphid decoy than as produce plants anyway (in my non-brussels-sprout-loving opinion).
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