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Evidence? That is Necessary!
Feng Yu Heng said with a smile: "Grandmother was concerned for A-Heng and younger brother, since we have not spent the new year in the capital for many years. You specially sent eldest sister to Tong Sheng pavilion to remind A-Heng. A-Heng is very grateful. But I was in a rush to leave in the morning to pick up Zi Rui, so I did not even have a chance to look at the gifts that were brought."
She said this while pushing Zi Rui forward. The young child had spent a few months in Xiao Zhou, and he had become a little more clever. Seeing that his elder sister pushed him forward, he immediately ran over to the side of Feng Chen Yu's bed and knelt. Raising his clear and childish voice, he said: "Zi Rui thanks eldest sister for the concern. Eldest sister went to pick me up in kindness, but elder sister also suffered from the ambush. Zi Rui is very remorseful. But would eldest sister please be at ease. Grandmother will definitely get justice for us!"
The matriarch was still wondering when she had told Chen Yu to pass along a message, but she was given a great shock by what Zi Rui had said. She anxiously asked: "What did you say? Ambushed?" She then looked at the injury on Chen Yu's head. She originally thought that it was from a fall, but she never thought that it would be from an ambush.
Chen Yu lay in bed and cried. The matriarch felt that she had been wronged, so she could not help but say: "Chen Yu, don't worry. Grandmother will definitely not allow this matter to be ignored. To dare to take action against my Feng family's children, I will see which criminal is tired of living!"
Chen Yu's cries suddenly stopped, as though something had blocked her throat, making her unable to make a single sound.
The matriarch's words had given her a shock, but when she thought about it, there was nothing for her to fear. She knew that aside from the hawk that her third uncle was secretly raising, the people who had been sent to kill Zi Rui were all hired. Even if the matriarch were to investigate, she would not find out anything.
Thinking of this, the blockage in her throat cleared up, and she resumed her crying.
The matriarch was upset by her crying, but she also felt that the injury to the forehead was a bit shocking. With this bit of flesh missing, Chen Yu's appearance was wasted. The confidence that she had just regained in this granddaughter not too long ago was once again lost. She could not help but scold: "Stop crying. The doctor has already been called!"
Chen Yu once again had something block her throat and needed Yi Lin to help calm her down slightly.
The matriarch gave granny Zhao a look to help Zi Rui up. She then asked him: "How were you ambushed?" Thinking a little more, she looked at Feng Yu Heng, "How was it that only your eldest sister was injured?"
Zi Rui replied: "On the way back to the capital, I was ambushed by over ten people in black clothes. Fortunately, sister Wang Chuan hid me in a pile of snow. Only that allowed me to avoid this crisis. But… sister Wang Chuan was taken away by the bad guys. It seems that we were lacking in luck." Reaching this point, the child began to feel saddened, lowering his head in tears.
He had a deep relationship with Wang Chuan and Huang Quan, especially Wang Chuan, who took extra care of him after going to Xiao Zhou. She would often go visit him at the academy. Remaining alone and away from home at a young age, to say that he did not miss home would be a lie. Seeing Wang Chuan was like seeing family, which made him feel very comfortable.
Seeing that Zi Rui was reduced to tears and could no longer speak, the matriarch turned to Feng Yu Heng and said: "Your turn to speak."
Feng Yu Heng nodded, "That's how it was on Zi Rui's side. As for us, our horse was running perfectly fine, but it had its eye poked out by a goshawk that suddenly dove from midair. The carriage began bouncing, throwing me from the carriage. The goshawk dove once more and caused the wound on eldest sister's forehead."
Zi Rui interjected: "I think that the hawk was definitely set out by someone else. It was meant to make it so my elder sisters could not come to pick me up."
"Ah!" The matriarch was shocked just from listening. She then asked Feng Yu Heng "Then were you hurt in the fall?"
"Thank you grandmother for the concern. A-Heng is in a bit of pain, but there are no serious injuries. But eldest sister… grandmother absolutely must investigate this matter!"
The matriarch nodded, "I will investigate. Daring to injure the daughter of a first rank official near the capital, this sort of person should be flayed alive! Zi Rui is right. That hawk must have been deliberately sent out by someone. Otherwise, why would it suddenly peck at people while it was flying along? Granny Zhao" She began to give orders: "Send someone to make a report. Just say that the young master and young miss from the prime minister's manor were ambushed in the outskirts of the capital. Have the governor investigate this matter thoroughly!"
"Yes." Granny Zhao was about to inform another servant to make the report, but the matriarch added: "Tell the governor that Prime Minister Feng Jin Yuan will be returning to the capital tomorrow. He will personally be inquiring on this matter."
Granny Zhao nodded then quickly trotted out. She knew that since the matriarch was willing to use Feng Jin Yuan's name to scare the governor, it meant that she was quite angry. Thinking about it, that was the case. Feng Zi Rui had been ambushed! Presently, the Feng family only had this one heir. If something were to have happened, would the Feng family line not have been broken?
Hearing that the matriarch wanted to file a report, Chen Yu hastily said from the bed: "Grandmother, what use is there in reporting this? We don't have any clues for the governor. Those assassins did not leave any trace or any bodies. How should they investigate?"
Although the matriarch felt that Chen Yu was reasonable, as this sort of case was often reported but rarely solved, and she always knew about the governor's ability to get things done. But, she had heard that the previous governor had done something wrong, causing the Emperor to suddenly demote him. Now that a new one had taken office, she did not know if he would be capable.
Feng Yu Heng heard Chen Yu's words then looked at the matriarch's expression. How could she not understand what they were thinking. Unfortunately… she secretly smiled to herself. Because of the matter with the orphans, she wrote a letter to Xuan Tian Hua. She never thought that someone who appeared as calm and steady as Xuan Tian Hua would act quickly and resolutely. She had sent the letter in the afternoon, and the matter was resolved by evening.
The capital had a new head official, a notice was circulated. The government also dispatched people to report this to the homes of the large officials. Naturally, the Feng family was among the first to receive this news.
But nobody knew that the change in officials had been because of a few words from Feng Yu Heng.
"It's not like we are completely without evidence." She suddenly spoke up. Looking at Chen Yu, she slightly squinted, "There is no need for grandmother to worry about the thing eldest sister is contemplating."
These words caused Chen Yu to tremble in bed from the shock. Turning her head to look at her in horror, her heart had leaped into her throat.
She heard Feng Yu Heng say: "Something like evidence, granddaughter truly has it." Saying this, she changed her tone and shouted towards the outside "Huang Quan! Bring in the evidence!"
Huang Quan very quickly entered the room. When she came in, she was holding up a very large thing in her hand. Covered by a black cloth, the contents remained unknown.
Feng Yu Heng said: "Open up the evidence. Let grandmother and eldest sister take a look."
"Yes." Huang Quan complied and put down the thing in her hand. Lifting the black cloth, a cage was placed before everyone.
The matriarch took a look inside the cage then retreated in fear, nearly spraining her back once more! Fortunately, a young servant supported her from behind, but this allowed her to realize that the matriarch's entire body was trembling.
Not only did the matriarch tremble, the servants also trembled because the cage held a goshawk, and it was roughly half Zi Rui's size. Its sharp beak was half the length of a young child's hand. Although it lay in the cage with its eyes closed, it still caused people's hearts to tremble with fear.
"Thi-this is…" The matriarch suddenly reacted "This is the hawk that attacked you?"
These few words caused Chen Yu to suddenly sit up in bed. Looking at the cage in horror, it was as though she had seen a ghost.
Yi Lin held her down, fearing that she would hastily say something that she should not, thus she repeatedly said: "Young miss, please calm down. Although that hawk caused your injury, what's most important is your body. You absolutely must not get angry!"
Hearing her say this, everyone believed that Feng Chen Yu's actions were that of a person meeting their enemy and becoming angry. This was something that could be understood. But only Feng Yu Heng knew that Feng Chen Yu might be on the verge of collapsing from seeing the hawk, that she thought had flown away, suddenly appear.
"Grandmother." She kicked a couple times towards the cage, "Granddaughter will have a servant bring this hawk over to the government office and personally hand it to the governor. This sort of hawk is very special. Look, there is still a golden hoop on its neck. It was clearly raised by someone. As long as the governor is not too stupid, I trust that he will be able to follow up on this clue and discover some truth."
The matriarch truly took a look towards the hawk's neck. Of course, there was a golden hoop there. She nodded, saying: "Send it over! Have the governor make sure that he investigates this matter thoroughly. For there to actually be someone who dares to make an attempt on my Feng family's children. This absolutely will not be tolerated!" After she said this, she turned to Chen Yu then said: "Don't worry. Grandmother will definitely find the culprit and seek revenge for you!"
Chen Yu nearly fell from the bed in fear, but the matriarch only thought that she had been angered by the hawk, saying: "Take care and rest. A doctor will be here soon." She originally wanted to have Feng Yu Heng take a look first, but when she recalled the matter with Fen Dai's face, she was truly too embarrassed to speak. "Your father will be back tomorrow. At that time, he will also support you."
Chen Yu's eyes rolled back, as she completely fainted.
That night, Feng Yu Heng and Yao shi split time they would accompany Zi Rui into the first half of the night and the second half. The young child held Feng Yu Heng's hand and continued to tell her stories from Yun Lu Academy, and the siblings would occasionally laugh together. Zi Rui told her: "Headteacher said that I can participate in a provincial examination when I turn eight years old. Either way, it will just be playing around. There will not be much pressure. I will just be going to get a feeling for it."
"Eight years old?" Feng Yu Heng put her head in her hand, "Isn't that a bit early?"
Zi Rui tilted his head and asked her: "Is it early?"
Was it not early? It would be fine if he did not place well, but what if he scored well. Would that not cause the lonely students who have suffered hardships to die from anger?
She asked Zi Rui: "I remember that you previously said that you did not really want to become an academic, instead wanting to learn military tactics."
Zi Rui said: "Right now, I still like military tactics. Those subjects are simply things that I must learn. Every day, I spend four hours memorizing books before head teacher personally teaches me about military tactics. Elder sister, I can now recite two military books by heart. Although I do not have a full understanding, head teacher said that I should memorize it first. He will then teach me a little at a time."
Feng Yu Heng could only applaud this child's intelligence. Although she did not like the way Feng Jin Yuan conducted himself, he still took one step at a time and became the prime minister. The genetics for intelligence truly were not just for show.
That night, Tong Sheng pavilion was joyous and harmonious, while Feng Chen Yu did not sleep the entire night.
When she found out that a piece of flesh from her forehead had been eaten by that hawk, she nearly had a mental collapse. She hated Feng Yu Heng, and she also hated Chen Wan Lian; however, Yi Lin had to remind her: "We must inform third master about the hawk and have him find a way to swap out the hawk in the government office."
"Don't swap it!" Her face was contorted from the anger, and her voice was ragged, "Just let the governor find out about it! It would be best if they are all discovered and killed! Yes! Kill them! Kill the hawk! Kill the Chen family! Kill Feng Yu Heng!"


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(KUTV) -- Zion National Park is asking visitors to not bother one of its most startling, yet interesting residents.
Throughout the summer and fall, tarantulas can be seen scurrying around the park.
Being the largest spider in the Southwest, tarantulas are often feared by many, according to a Zion National Park Facebook post.
Movies often portray tarantulas as terrifying and dangerous. That, however, could be further from that. The desert tarantula is a "very docile and interesting creature." Also, don't let the long hair fool you. It's there for protection; not to gross anyone out.
Tarantulas are capable of biting a person, if they are harassed enough. However, tarantula bites are rare. And even if the spider were to bite a person, the venom is considered non-toxic to humans, Zion National Park wrote in the post. So, there is little to worry about.
Like most wildlife, if you don't bother them, they won't bother you.
Usually, males are seen more often than females. Males tend to travel far to find a female that typically lives out of sight. The males journey is not easy. Besides trying to avoid humans, these spiders have other living species to worry about. Foxes, bats, roadrunners and specialized wasps called "tarantula hawks" are constantly looking for their next meal, a.k.a. a big hairy tarantula.
For those lucky enough to survive and find a receptive female, some are eaten by the female after mating. Such is the tarantula life.
So again, if you happen to see a tarantula in the park, please leave it alone.

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On occasion I relinquish this space to others who have tales to tell. Some readers (hopefully at least half in jest) tell me that I'm taking the easy way out on those days, letting someone else do the heavy lifting while the (supposed) columnist turns narrator.
Today is one of those days: I received an email from Free Martin, a Bangor outdoorsman who has contributed to a few past columns. As I hope you'll agree, his story (and accompanying photographs) capture a slice of Maine life that is worth savoring.
A quick disclaimer: The story revolves around trapping. Some folks aren't fans of the activity, and may dismiss Martin's email on that basis. If that's the case, I'm sorry. Not for publishing this story … but because you're going to miss out on a neat tale about reconnecting with nature, spending priceless time with family, and creating memories that will last a lifetime.
Here, then, is what Martin had to say:
"My father, [Bob Martin], lives in Dedham and has for over 35 years. He is the ultimate outdoorsman. Even in my 40s I still have never met anyone close to loving, knowing, respecting and harvesting the outdoors the way he does," Martin wrote.
"He is what some would call hardcore. As his son growing up it wasn't always easy. Getting up at the crack of dawn to hunt all day or trap all night wasn't always the funnest thing to do. Dragging, cutting up and wrapping deer didn't exactly impress my grade school friends. Skinning beaver, muskrats and otter, fleshing them on the fleshing beam, stretching the fur just wasn't all that glamorous.
"The funny thing is, looking back at my youth, it probably is what I remember and savor the most out of childhood. None of what he taught me was rocket science but it was accurate, respectful and provided all the tools a boy needs to transition to a man that can be proud of knowing the outdoors and basically all of mother nature's offerings. It seems today that opportunities to partake in such activities are becoming rarer and rarer.
"As a father of three boys, they get to see small bits and pieces of what I learned from my dad. I have taught the oldest boys how to fish a little and I have worked with them on how to keep quiet in the woods and learn deer patterns. Real boring stuff compared to the Wii, the computer and
modern toys but they seem to enjoy coming along. It wasn't until about a week ago when it dawned on me that maybe I should give them a little more outdoor exposure.
"My boys and I decided to get in the truck and find an old dirt road. This was a couple days before the snow. Sometimes we just find an old dirt road looking for game, places to fish in the spring or whatever. Sometimes if they are good they get to sit up on dad's lap and do a little driving on their own. I control the gas and brake but they do get to steer (until we start to go into the ditch). They have a lot of fun doing that. So a week ago we were on one of our journeys when I saw my dad's vehicle parked off the road beside a bog. I stopped the truck, got out, called his name and he answered. He had just finished checking an otter set that I think produced a muskrat. He had caught eight muskrats that day already and has more traps to check.
"He exchanged pleasantries with his grandsons and asked them if they would like to go check a beaver trap just up the road. They became super excited, jumped in the truck and followed my father, the beaver trapper, up the road to his next spot. We all jumped out and dad started walking through the woods. My boys and I figured it was smart to follow. All he had on him was him pack basket and his chisel which he hit every ten feet or so to make sure the 3 to 4 inches of black ice was strong enough, which of course it was. Even if we had broken through there was only about two feet of water below the ice. Dad always taught safety first.
"So we went over to the trap which looks like nothing more than two sticks sticking out of the ice. My boys had never seen the process so I could see their confusion. So dad chipped about a five-inch hole in the ice right where he was supposed to to see if the trap was tripped or filled with game and asked me to take a look. It had only been about 20 years since I had checked any trap with him. I glanced down at the hole and said, "Nope, nothing." He took a look for himself and said, "What are you talking about," a phrase I was pretty familiar with growing up. I said, "Hey, it's been a while, I'm rusty." Soon he began to chip the trap out. I sat back with my camera phone taking pictures of my boys bubbling with excitement about what their grandfather might haul through the ice. Sure enough, with the assistance of my little guy Tristan, they pulled up a beaver. To the boys it was "HUGE." To a trapper it was medium-sized which isn't all that big.
"Now that the beaver was on the ice my boys started firing questions to their grandfather such as. How old was the beaver? How long do they hold their breath? How long has the trap been set? How many more can he catch? How did he know there would be a beaver there? What are you going to do with it now? And on and on and on. I of course know all the answers to their questions but have drifted away from trapping. I shot a couple more pictures and took in the great satisfaction of watching their excitement as they walked along with my dad as true
beaver trappers. They felt like participants in a worthy outdoor adventure which I must agree that they were.
"As we drove home I did a lot of thinking about the small window of opportunity a dad has to mold his children. Once that window closes, the world will take over. I thought maybe I should get a few traps, run a small trap line and give them the same type of adventure I had when I was
young. Right about then my boys asked me if we could do that again with Grampa Bob. It occurred to me I don't have to do all the work anymore. I can now just come along with my boys and our dog and watch as everyone has a great time.
"I told them we sure can, whenever you like. The next question was … Tomorrow?
"That was the only question where I wasn't sure of the answer," Martin concluded.


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Hey dude, don't you know? Mel Gibson doesn't want to talk about the past anymore.
A satellite TV interview to promote the release of Gibson's new film "Edge of Darkness" turned tense Wednesday when Chicago WGN-TV entertainment reporter Dean Richards dredged up the actor's dark personal history -- with a clearly rankled Gibson calling the "dude" an A-hole under his breath.
The train-wreck interview unfolded about two minutes into Richards' chat with Gibson, when the reporter asked: "Do you ever think the public will perceive you any differently after all that's been in the news about you?"
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"What are you referring to specifically?" Gibson answered after a brief silence.
Richards haltingly began to allude to Gibson's 2006 DUI arrest and the well-publicized Jewish slurs Gibson made at the time -- and later apologized for.
"You know, the drinking problems…what's been called the anti-Semitic rant," Richards said. "You know what I'm talking about."
"Ok, so. That's almost four years ago dude," Gibson answered tersely. "I've moved on. I guess you haven't."
The newsman tried to rephrase the question.
"I'm just wondering if you think the public moved on and will perceive you in the same light?" he asked.
Gibson: "I certainly hope so. It is a while back. I've done all the necessary mea culpas, so, umm, let's move on dude. Come on."
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Hannibal didn't take a bite out of the competition Thursday, but it did give NBC some life.
Bryan Fuller's prequel adaptation of Thomas Harris' novels premiered to 4.3 million viewers and a 1.6 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic. Though obviously low, the numbers are NBC's best in the once-revered Thursdays-at-10 slot since March 15 last year. Hannibal was also up from Rock Center's and Do No Harm's performances in the slot this season, both of which averaged a 0.9 rating. Compared to Awake's debut in the time period last year, Hannibal was down 2 million viewers and four-tenths.
Spring TV: Get the scoop on returning showsHannibal also improved on lead-in Go On (2.4 million, 1.1), which dropped a full point in its Voice-less Thursday debut. The Office (3.4 million, 1.7) and Community (2.4 million, 1.0) hit series lows, while Parks and Recreation (2.9 million, 1.5) dropped a tenth.CBS won the night, led by The Big Bang Theory (16.8 million, 4.9).American Idol (11.3 million, 2.8) was flat. Special episodes of New Girl (4.9 million, 2.0) and The Mindy Project (3.5 million, 1.4) were down from their Tuesday performances.Grey's Anatomy (8.3 million, 2.7) dropped a tenth, while Scandal (8.1 million, 2.7) inched up a tenth.8 p.m.
CBS: The Big Bang Theory 16.8 million (4.9); Two and a Half Men 13.6 million (3.8)ABC: Wife Swap 4.3 million (1.2)Fox: American Idol 11.3 million (2.8) NBC: Community 2.4 million (1.0); Parks and Recreation 2.9 million (1.5)CW: The Vampire Diaries (R) 1.2 million (0.4) 9 p.m.
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CBS: Elementary 10.4 million (2.1)ABC: Scandal 8.1 million (2.7)NBC: Hannibal 4.3 million (1.6)


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There have been many negative surprises recently related to the eco data in the U.S. and that is telling us something. Even though there have been some points that have been resilient (manufacturing), the overall results have not been very bullish. Yet, the markets are reading the positive surprises as reason to continue pumping money into stocks.
Over the years, there has been a reasonably high correlation to the performance of equities to the Economic Surprise Index (ESI). When that correlation breaks down there is usually a move to correct that within a few months. The first chart below shows a comparison of the trend of both the ESI and the S&P 500 index over the past year.
This next chart provides a comparison of the same information, over a longer time span, but with the S&P 500 lagged by 3 months. Note that there is often a period of overshooting by the S&P and then correction back toward the trend of the ESI. What we are now finding is that this overshoot is reason to be alert and looking for signs that this may be a time to keep some defensive positioning ready to implement.
The Citigroup Economic Surprise Indices are objective and quantitative measures of economic news. They are defined as weighted historical standard deviations of data surprises (actual releases vs Bloomberg survey median). A positive reading of the Economic Surprise Index suggests that economic releases have on balance been beating consensus.
The indices are calculated daily in a rolling three-month window.The weights of economic indicators are derived from relative high-frequency spot FX impacts of 1 standard deviation data surprises. The indices also employ a time decay function to replicate the limited memory of markets.


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* Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles.
CANIDAE Chicken & Rice formula meets the AAFCO Dog Nutrient Profiles for all life stages.
Nutrient Analysis for CANIDAE Chicken & Rice dry formula As Fed
Moisture 8.5 %
Protein 27.0 %
Fat 16.0 %
Omega-6 Fatty Acids 4.07 %
Omega-3 Fatty Acids 0.5 %
Ash 8.2 %
Fiber 3.0 %
Carbohydrate 37.3 %
Arginine 1.57 %
Histidine 0.61 %
Isoleucine 0.99 %
Leucine 1.91 %
Lysine 1.31 %
Methionine Cystine 0.98 %
Phenylalanine-Tyrosine 1.80 %
Threonine 1.00 %
Tryptophan 0.24 %
Valine 1.24 %
Calcium 2.00 %
Phosphorus 1.30 %
Magnesium 0.18 %
Sodium 0.20 %
Potassium 0.58 %
Chloride 0.45 %
Copper 11 mg/kg
Iron 300 mg/kg
Manganese 25 mg/kg
Zinc 200 mg/kg
Iodine 2.5 mg/kg
Selenium 0.20 mg/kg
Vitamin A 15,000 IU/kg
Vitamin C 50 mg/kg
Vitamin D 1,000 IU/kg
Vitamin E 200 IU/kg
Thiamine (B1) 40 mg/kg
Riboflavin (B2) 8.0 mg/kg
Pyridoxine (B6) 13.0 mg/kg
B12 0.14 mg/kg
Beta Carotene 5.75 mg/kg
Folic Acid 2.0 mg/kg
Niacin 66 mg/kg
Pantothenic Acid 25.0 mg/kg
Biotin 0.33 mg/kg
Choline 3,000 mg/kg
Taurine 0.10 %
Metabolizable Energy (ME) 4,125 kcal/kg (Atwater Calculation)
ME/cup 468 kcal/cup
Product Density 4.5 oz./cup
Digestibility 85.0 % 93 %
As Fed Digestibility (protein 84%, fat 95%, carbohydrates 91%)
PH Urine 7.0
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First ingredient is a named meat product, generally good quality ingredients
Minimum acceptable meat content
The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product in meal form. It is the sole meat ingredient in the food.
This is followed by four grains, suggesting that the product probably contains more grain than meat (users might consider supplementing this product with meat). This includes 3 forms of rice - such splitting of the rice ingredients is further suggestive that rice may in fact be the major ingredient in the food. Brown and white rice are decent quality grains, but rice bran is a grain fragment and we consider this filler.
Barley and millet are also good quality grains. Tomato pomace is filler, but a minor ingredient in the food. The food contains a small amount of fruit, and a good range of probiotics.
Overall, this product uses generally good quality ingredients. Meat content appears limited, however, and users might consider supplementing this food with real meat.
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This is the first national report to look at how effectively communities and hospitals coordinate care for some of their sickest patients—those with hospital discharge after a stay to treat an acute or chronic illness.
This Dartmouth Atlas report reveals striking variation in 30-day readmission rates across hospital referral regions and academic medical centers. Little progress was seen in reducing readmission rates over the five-year period 2004 to 2009. In fact, for some conditions, readmission rates have increased for the nation and for many regions and hospitals. This particular dataset is on surgical cohort on the Hospital Referral Regions.


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Gov. Terry Branstad has called on the Legislature to take action following an Iowa Supreme Court ruling that found school coaches cannot be convicted of sexual exploitation by a school employee under current law.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled 5-2 Friday to overturn the conviction of a former Bloomfield basketball coach who had sex with a 16-year-old girl on his team, saying coaches without teaching licenses are not considered school employees and therefore cannot be convicted.
In a statement Monday, Branstad urged lawmakers to pass legislation to include school coaches in the law to protect Iowa students from sexual exploitation.
Branstad says action should be taken now, while the Legislature remains in session.
The session has no specific end date, but lawmakers will stop receiving expense payments after April 22.


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NameBanking Standards Review, Consultation Paper - CC Project's Initial ResponseDate2014-02-14 00:00:00 +0000Text
Roger McCormick
Christopher Stears
Tania Duarte
1. The status of the "new organisation" (the "organisation")
1.1. We broadly agree with the Consultation Paper's ("the Paper") governance, disclosure and public reporting proposals.
1.2. We agree that its independence will be crucial to its credibility. It must not be (or look like) the "same old, same old" dressed in new clothes. This goes to its place in the overall social/political/industry structure and also to the composition of its governing body and relevant committees. It should be fiercely independent, sceptical of tradition and able (and feel encouraged) to ask awkward questions, not just of banks but also of regulators, politicians and others who may influence or be affected by bank conduct and behaviour.
1.3. This leads us to the conclusion that the organisation should not report to the FCA, the PRA or any body of politicians (such as a Parliamentary Committee). It has to report to someone, however. We would tentatively suggest it reports to the Governor of the Bank of England. Although the Governor is, of course, part of the regulatory structure, we feel that there is more public confidence in his/her independence and freedom from "regulatory capture" threat and political agendas than is the case with the alternatives.
1.4. We do, however, see the importance of the organisation having strong links with regulators. Subject to our comments at 2 below, we suggest that the organisation seek a Memorandum of Understanding with the regulator(s) covering matters such as mutual assistance and exchange of information. The organisation might also benefit from establishing a 'Regulatory Liaison Committee' charged within overseeing the MoU and maintaining a synergy between the organisation's objectives and the regulatory system.
1.5. We would like to see some representation from "challenger banks" as well as more established commercial/retail banking in the organisation. We would be sceptical about the need for many City Establishment figures.
2. The conduct principles being developed by regulators
2.1. The Paper attaches some understandable importance to these (see, for example, the foot of page 13). Whilst any standards adopted by a bank must of course be in conformity with what regulators require, we feel that the organisation should see such regulatory requirements as a minimum and steer away from an approach that relies too heavily on "reverse engineering" what regulators have laid down into a bank's own organisational structure and deeming that to be sufficient.
2.2. Banks should be encouraged to start afresh, notionally, with a "tabla rasa" when devising "ethical" rules for how they wish their staff to behave in the light of the experiences they have had. They should then, when they have developed some substance to such rules, check back against what is required by regulation and ensure that no regulatory requirements have been omitted. The difference in approach is important. One approach involves a mindset that poses, as a first question: what are the regulators making us do? The other poses the first question: what do we think is right? The banks' "restore trust agenda" (which should be more about deserving trust than simply regaining it) is not about an ongoing struggle to get the compliance function to work effectively. It is about re-thinking, for each person in the bank, why he/she goes to work every day and what makes him/her proud of a job well done.
2.3. It follows from the above that we would encourage banks to surpass the standards of regulators not merely to "meet or surpass" them. We agree that the organisation should benchmark the banks' efforts in this area against good practice. We see the organisation's role in the cross-pollination of ideas that lead to good practice as crucial.
3. Training
3.1. Whilst training in conduct matters is, undeniably, a "good thing", staff should not need to be trained in order to understand the importance of honesty - if they do, the bank really does have a problem. Sadly, however, it is want of honesty that seems to have given rise to some of the most prominent scandals of recent times.
3.2. Notwithstanding 3.1 above, we do think that all concerned in the industry (including regulators) need to develop a better common understanding (which they should share with the organisation and the public) of where some of the boundaries lie in relation to, for example, "manipulation" and taking advantage of another's ignorance or error (leaving aside consumers, who are a special case). To use a celebrated example of language from a recent scandal, is it ever appropriate to regard a counterparty as a "muppet" and milk him for what you can get? There is a danger that we set up training programmes for the sake of appearance and overlook some of the fundamental right vs. wrong judgement issues, which still require a more substantive debate in the industry – a debate that might include the continued efficacy and modifying the application of parts of COBS in regard to eligible counterparties.
3.3. The extent of the need for training in banks should, one would think, depend on how well the staff of any given bank understand (a) what honesty means and how it affects decisions and behaviour in their work and (b) how decisions should be taken in the inevitable "grey areas". A "programme" of training designed for all banks may, by its nature, be somewhat crude (looking as though it has been devised in a "one size fits all" workshop) and, as a result, not taken very seriously. We do not believe it is being suggested that all banks have the same training programme but we would caution that the idea of assessment of training by the organisation should not lead to this result.
3.4. Training needs to address the potential confusion for staff that can arise when there is a sharp change in values and the bank's judgement on right and wrong behaviour. What was OK yesterday, even encouraged, may not be today. And vice versa. No one criticised generous bonuses in years leading up to the Crisis and much of the now-condemned "excessive" and aggressive behaviour was well known and not regarded as a sign of serious moral decay or reputationally problematic for banks (or something to which regulators should respond). Now things are different. And the changes in culture that post-Crisis scrutiny of banks will require is not yet a closed list. The implications for conduct are fundamental.
3.5. We believe that on-line training should be discouraged (because it is unlikely to be effective) and face-to-face training encouraged.
3.6. We would suggest that training initiatives should include off-site "schools" where staff from different banks can compare experiences and seminars and workshops are arranged at which examples of best practice, "lessons learned" etc. can be openly discussed. Confidentiality of a bank's sensitive information needs to be respected but it is a characteristic of a "profession" (if that is what we are trying to set up) that fellow-professionals meet each other and talk about matters of shared professional interest (especially questions of professional ethics) reasonably regularly. (NB These occasions should not be arranged so as to be marketing opportunities for outside advisers).
4. Benchmarking
4.1. We believe that the organisation should place banks under a good practice obligation to record instances of conduct failure within a database accessible by the Board, Board Committees, Legal, Risk & Compliance and Sustainability & CSR. The organisation should work to promulgate a minimum level of detail (metrics) to be recorded in relation to a particular conduct failure.
4.2. Devising a system of regular reporting by banks on matters that relate to their conduct (such as the level of conduct costs experienced) and requiring the reporting to be done in a manner that enables comparisons to be made (even a "league table" to be drawn up) is of key importance.
4.3. We would like to suggest the following guiding principles in this area:
• "Concrete" indicators are always preferable;
• Behaviour counts for more than words;
• Facts count for more than opinions;
• Hard evidence of actual experience counts for more than surveys; and
• "Anecdotal" evidence is unreliable.
4.4. It follows from the above that we would not place as much reliance on surveys, interviews, codes of conduct and internal reports (or reports commissioned by bank management) as the Paper appears to be suggesting. As will be apparent, we place rather more emphasis on the "story" told by conduct cost history for each bank and are pleased to see that such costs would be part of the benchmarking exercise.
4.5. A definition of conduct costs will be essential. We have proposed one in the LSE Conduct Costs Blog.
4.6. We do not understand the reference to "relationships with, and interventions by, the regulators" at the top of p.18 of the Paper. What is this expression intended to cover other than conduct costs?
5. Disclosure and Reporting
5.1. We suggest that the organisation looks to hold banks to account on the adequacy of their conduct costs reporting.
5.2. We would like to see the organisation encourage a much greater degree of transparency, from regulators and banks themselves, about how and why conduct costs are incurred and what measures banks are taking in order to avoid recurrence of the problems that lead to them. It is, in our view, unacceptable for a major UK bank (for example) to announce that it has incurred several hundred million pounds worth of new "legal costs" but "decline to comment" on what they are for. We accept that where a bank makes provision for an as yet unsettled, but nevertheless anticipated, conduct cost, there is a sound commercial necessity for the particulars of that provision to remain confidential. However, as soon as the cost crystallises (the bank settles), the bank should disclose and report on the settlement – irrespective of its balance sheet 'materiality'. We do not consider the 'flood gates' argument to be a sound basis for the opacity in Bank conduct cost disclosure.
5.3. In connection with transparency, we would make the technical point that traditional accounting requirements as to materiality as a test for disclosure should be disregarded in relation to the disclosure requirements to be imposed by the organisation. Because the major banks are so big, many important costs (even, in theory, a record FCA fine) tend to be, or could be, aggregated into larger, more opaque disclosures than is in the public interest – because they are not considered 'material' enough to the balance sheet to warrant specific disclosure. All instances of misconduct should be recorded and reported to the organisation and within the banks' public disclosures.
5.4. We would suggest that the organisation should review the adequacy of bank reporting of conduct-related matters within their sustainability reports. We have observed that despite purportedly reporting pursuant to the Global Reporting Initiative Index, banks, in relation to the 'core conduct indicators' of EN28, SO8 and PR9, either i) do not report or ii) simply cross-refer to the annual report and accounts. Our various interviews with banks have not produced any credible defence of the excessive secrecy in this area and the lack of frankness on this topic in a document such as a Sustainability Report seems to us to work against the very image (of being a responsible corporate citizen) that banks are trying to project in that document.
5.5. We would suggest a code of practice for conduct costs disclosure and reporting, at least similar to that previously provided to the organisation.
5.6. Our experience suggests that much of the information on conduct costs is not currently easily found in the public domain and that banks will have to be required, in clear terms, to produce that information (which they are currently reluctant to do) if a comprehensive picture is to be produced for any one bank or the industry as a whole.
6. Membership of the organisation
6.1. We broadly agree with the approach suggested in the Paper, i.e. membership at bank level, at least initially. We do think, however, that a consequence of this is that the organisation must take positive steps to be accessible to the many communities that make up large banks and not channel all communication through "senior management". These communities could include (a) those who work on the sustainability and CSR sections of the bank (b) the younger employees (c) those who work in retail branches (d) those who have recently joined the bank and (d) those who work overseas.
7. Other
7.1. We would like to know what is proposed as a sanction for banks who do not meet the expectations of the organisation. Could this tie in, in some manner, with the rules regime of the regulators? Or does that make the organisation little more than a "meta-regulator"?
7.2. Consideration should be given to the organisation being given immunity from suit.
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Experts are warning that feral camels could die of thirst this summer as they fight for limited water during one of Central Australia's driest seasons.
Water scientist Jane Brimbox says camels are already taking over and polluting waterholes and could drink them dry.
She says the issue is environmental, but it is also a matter of animal welfare.
"My fear is coming across a waterhole, especially now as it dries up, if the camel densities aren't reduced, just coming across a mob of camels stuck in a waterhole dying and dead and seeing these animals die of thirst," she said.
"But I know it happens out there and we've certainly seen lots of bones to show that."


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When President Obama gathered his national security team in the White House situation room on March 15, the question on the table was Libya – to intervene, or not to intervene.
The debate was furious between the proponents and the skeptics of the United States undertaking a military operation – simply put, a war – in yet another Muslim country.
In the heated White House discussion, proponents of action against Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi warned of a pending bloodbath in the rebel-held city of Benghazi if nothing was done. Skeptics warned of unforeseen consequences and a slippery slope to deeper involvement.
Ultimately Mr. Obama gave the green light, and the US led the first week of airstrikes that culminated in the establishment of a no-fly zone before turning over international command and control to NATO. Addressing the nation on March 28, the president said the US had a "responsibility to act" to prevent a humanitarian disaster that would have "stained the conscience of the world."
For America to stand by and watch a massacre "of our fellow human beings," he added, would have been a "betrayal of who we are."
Obama's decision to intervene has led to speculation over the dawning of an Obama doctrine. Was Libya setting a precedent for future military actions under this president when other despots turned their guns on their own people?
The answer would seem to be a clear "no." In explaining his decision on Libya, Obama has emphasized how "unique" the Libyan case is as much as he has made the case for international action.
But what Obama has revealed – both in his response to Libya and to the turmoil across the Middle East more broadly – is, if not a doctrine, then a set of principles that guide his foreign-policy and national-security decisionmaking. Multilateralism figures at the top of the list, but it includes a new emphasis on the duties of other powers (and a growing array of powers) in the world as well as a hesitance to use military power – positions that some critics portray as an abdication of American leadership.
Obama's lofty images of an America that intervenes on the side of good aside, it was probably the private White House deliberations on Libya that gave a truer picture of this president's approach to foreign policy. As the debate proceeded at that March 15 meeting, Obama homed in on one overriding question: Can this work, and what would it take from the US for an international intervention to be successful? In particular, he focused on the need for a strong enough United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force to virtually guarantee that any international intervention could achieve its goals.
Still a cautious realist
His focus then on the practical limitations that would determine whether the use of force could be successful – rather than on the idealistic impulses for intervention – suggests that Obama remains what he was when he took office two years ago: a cautious realist in his worldview and in his conception of the uses of American power.
"I don't think a whole lot has changed in Obama's approach to foreign policy," says Charles Kupchan, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. "If you step back from the military operation in Libya and ask how this administration has responded to the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, they have been cautious, guided by likely outcomes rather than by an ideological agenda, and they have stayed behind the curve," he says. "That's all to say I see pragmatism in command here."
Which doesn't mean that Obama's invoking of moral imperatives to justify the Libyan intervention was not genuine. As Bob Woodward, the Washington Post journalist and chronicler of Obama's foreign policy decisionmaking, likes to say, the long-competing strains of US foreign policy – the idealism and the pragmatism, the interventionist tug yet the impulse to have the US mind its own affairs – occupy this president's head like two roommates.
Both the soaring appeals to America's moral authority in the world and Obama's pragmatism were on display in the president's March 28 address explaining the Libya intervention.
"Given the costs and risks of intervention, we must always measure our interests against the need for action," Obama said. Then he added: "But that cannot be an argument for never acting on behalf of what's right."
From the day the Obamas moved into the White House, presidential scholars and foreign-policy analysts have pored over this president's words and actions for signs of an Obama doctrine. Was it simply multilateralism, as opposed to George W. Bush's unilateralism? Was a willingness to engage America's adversaries or former enemies, like Iran, Syria, Russia, or Cuba, his defining principle? Or was it a return to a traditional American internationalism based on the global institutions whose establishment the US had spearheaded?
In the days following the launch of airstrikes on Libya, a rush of commentary focused on how "cool Obama" – who had maintained a steely focus on long-term strategic goals when Iranian protesters had faced their government's bullets in June 2009 – had this time been swayed by emotional appeals.
The liberal hawks of his national security team had prevailed upon the president to employ American military force to prevent a massacre at the hands of a regime. In short, the proclamations proliferated of a new Obama doctrine for using force in the name of humanitarian intervention.
But is that what it was? In reality, Obama's deliberations on Libya – what some critics called dithering – and his preoccupation with "what can work" told a different story.
It may just be that the word "doctrine" isn't right to use in conjunction with this president. As policy analysts and even members of the Obama staff have concluded, there is little that is "doctrinaire" about Obama's approach to foreign and national security policy.
A set of guiding principles
But Obama's actions over more than two years of an often surprisingly intense international agenda have allowed for gleaning at least a set of guiding principles for American foreign policy.
Among the key elements, in addition to multilateralism: American leadership is still often indispensable but must recognize – and even increasingly stand back in – a world of emerging new powers; and the use of US military power must not be a first impulse but only a last resort.
"If you had to sum up in a few words Obama's vision of international intervention, it would be 'multilateral if we can, unilateral only if we must, and the military should not be the first option,' " says Lawrence Korb, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington and a former assistant secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration.
Another hallmark of Obama's foreign policy, Mr. Korb says, is "distinguishing between a vital national interest, and what is nice to have." If Obama ended up siding with the interventionists in his midst on Libya, several administration officials have said, it was in no small measure because he concluded that a failure to prevent Mr. Qaddafi from carrying out his professed intentions could have had a potentially devastating impact across a roiling Middle East, and thus on US interests.
America in the back seat
Still, other foreign-policy experts take a dim view of Obama's vision of America's role in the world, especially in what they see as its encouragement of a world of increasingly diffuse power and its elevation of multilateral action to "prerequisite status" for US international involvement.
"Where the Bush doctrine was 'as much multilateralism as possible, as much unilateralism as necessary,' the Obama administration is establishing something very different: 'Unless there is multilateralism, we cannot and will not act,' " says Robert Lieber, a professor of government and international affairs at Georgetown University in Washington.
"What strikes me is an embarrassment about American power," he adds, "and that's something that sets Obama apart from his Republican and Democratic predecessors."
Mr. Kupchan of the Council on Foreign Relations agrees that if anything is new about Obama, if there is something that may end up distinguishing him from other foreign-policy pragmatists, it is his experiment with taking a back seat to other powers in leading the way on international interventions. "The governing mantra since World War II has been, 'America is out in front,' so it's quite striking how prominent the administration's focus is on letting others take the lead," he says. "It's really kind of revolutionary."
Indeed, Obama presents the hand-off of command of the Libya operation to NATO, and America's shift from the lead to a "supporting role," as accomplishments. "Real leadership creates the conditions and coalitions for others to step up as well," Obama declared in his Libya speech.
But Professor Lieber frowns on this new direction Obama has taken, saying it reflects an administration interested more in process – in this case, nurturing the emergence of responsible new powers in the world – over substance.
And he believes it is "naive" in its conception of power and of how international action is accomplished, even in the 21st century of the rising BRICs – Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
"There is nothing inevitable about a sea change in America's leadership role in the world, but a president who believes the time has come for America to take a back seat will certainly have an impact," Lieber says. "What they [in the administration] don't seem to grasp is that the alternative to American leadership is not that some other country steps in and continues in America's footsteps." Instead, he adds, it's that "the force behind America's unique position in the world would be lost."
Is Libya a precedent?
Another question raised by the debate over the emergence of an Obama doctrine is this: Does Libya now become the precedent for US intervention in future humanitarian crises? If Syria's Bashar al-Assad follows his father's lead and starts bombing rebellious villages, does the US lead the charge to stop him?
Would Obama's response be markedly different now if the Iranian regime again fired on its own people?
Many foreign-policy analysts think not. "I understand the argument suggesting an Obama doctrine – that intervention for humanitarian purposes and at the behest of the [UN] Security Council establishes a precedent that could guide US policy from now on – but my guess is that won't be the case," says Andrew Bacevich, an international relations expert at Boston University. For one thing, he says, there are just too many cases of repressive leaders raining terror down on their people.
Obama himself in his March 28 speech was clear about the factors that allowed the US to jump in this time. The Libyan people and regional organizations were demanding it, an international coalition was forming that could take over the lead role, and the conditions on the ground suggested an intervention would work.
Those are not circumstances that are likely to come together again anytime soon.
"I don't expect to suddenly see international military coalitions in Ivory Coast, Yemen, and Syria," says Kupchan. "Libya was a one-off for this administration, and not the beginning of a doctrine of humanitarian intervention."


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I got to confess, a few weeks ago while I was working on a rather challenging data-rescue project over the course of a week or so, I was having a blast.
Then I shifted gears and had the opportunity to work on a high-level workgroup and provide documentation support.
I really miss it when I'm not "getting my hands dirty" directly on systems.
Working an issue with trusted tools or searching for just the right new one to do a task better is so much fun.
Here's a well-rounded selection of security and forensics tools and resources that are almost certainly will have you scrabbling around for a system or two to throw them at.
- More Links - Windows Incident Response – Harlan has a most excellent and jam-packed post full of forensics goodies such as a reference to a new Windows memory imaging tool update for the free Win32dd. Also in that post was introduction (to me) of a new system info-gathering tool called MIR-ROR. Like similar "collective" tools such as his own RegRipper, Security Database's Evidence Collector, and Mandiant's First Response these multi-function info collection tools aren't solutions in themselves, but they can make the collection of first-pass level logs and information simpler. Armed with these after careful analysis by the responder, more surgical system analysis can take place with task-specific tools. I'll let Harlan's own words on MIR-ROR speak for themselves…
I recently heard about a tool called MIR-ROR, put together originally by Troy Larson and then expanded by Russ McRee, both of Microsoft. Russ blogged about it here, and there's a toolsmith article available on it, as well. MIR-ROR is a batch file that is useful for running tools on a system as part of incident response; what I like about this is that Russ isn't sitting back hoping that someone does something like this, he's taking advantage of his knowledge and capabilities to put this together. And he's made it available to the public, along with instructions on how to run it. I like tools like this because they're self-documenting...properly constructed and commented, they serve as their own documentation. As always, the standard caveat applies...use/deploy tools like this as part of an incident response plan. If your plan says you need to acquire a pristine image of the drive first, you will want to consider holding off on using a tool like this...
You will have to collect many of the executables that are needed and assemble them into the package. The documentation is great. As I recall I found a few references that were off but some patient Googling turned up the correct locations and I soon had it all put together.
- Memory Acquisition for First Responders – Forensic Incidence Response blog – Since I just mentioned win32dd this post by hogfly came at an opportune time. I believe that while memory acquisition and imaging is still primarily of use to forensic examiners, system admins can use the same lessons and apply them when doing incident response to a malware-infected system. As I say over and over again, too many IT Techs when getting a report of a virus/trojan/malware infection just run roughshod over the system with anti-virus/anti-malware cleaning tools and remove critical information to help understand WHAT is going on and WHY. There are LOTS of great Windows-based tools to capture memory images and data…many of them free (another post) so there's little excuse not to capture an image of the memory of an infected system before going to town on the cleaning. Getting a sector-based image of the physical drive could also be valuable as well. This gets the end-user up and producing again and lets the analysts have more time in the lab dissecting the cadaver without everyone breathing down their neck with impatience.
- Live Analysis Part I - Changing of the Guard - The Digital Standard – Thoughtful post by cepogue on just that prior theme. Sometimes some incidents (or organizational attitudes/processes just don't support the "by-the-book" Incident Response handling methodologies. Managers want the system cleaned and up and running, users complain about loss productivity, you can't convince anyone who matters about the need to determine what if any data may have leaked. So many techs (and "my-blood-runs-IR" analysts) have to do a crash-n-dash response. That said, with skill and pre-planning, you can still make the best of a bad IR situation and hopefully walk away with valuable info despite the organizational "head-in-the-sand" culture. I'm looking forward to Part II.
- Forensics 101: Acquiring an Image with FTK Imager – SANS Forensics blog – Great how-to post on using FTK Imager to perform a GUI-based image pull from a system or storage device.
- Directory Link Counts and Hidden Directories – SANS Forensics blog – This post was a neat review of Unix file-structure handling and how to leverage it for searching for hidden directories. I was wondering if there was a Windows-supported solution. I saw in the comments note that OSSEC has this ability and in poking around found an agent tool compatible with Windows in the Downloads section. Though not exactly the same there is Joanna's tool FLISTER from her invisiblethings.org tools page which might be worth looking into as well for Windows folks.
- Getting your fill of Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis - Room362.com. An outstanding collection of links to sites/sources for reverse engineering and malware analysis tools, techniques and news. Quite bookmark-worthy.
- New BackTrack 4 "Forensics Mode" - CyberSec.eu. News that the next version of BackTrack (security and pen-testing LiveCD) will offer a "forensics-mode" boot-option from the Grub loader. Nice to have this option available to a venerable security minded LiveCD. If you just can't wait, Remote-Exploit has made the BackTrack 4 Pre Release download ISO (fyi-DVD sized) available at that link. For even more info check out the release pdf and Introduction Video.
- Helix3 2009R1 FREE is once again available for download from the developers. Please see this GSD post Helix3: Thanks for the memories… to come up to speed on the issue. A recent comment by Lauren on that post got me looking around (and I did have to look hard to find it!) for the download link on the e-fense site. It can be found here. Registration is required to get to the download page, but if you hadn't already tucked away a ISO file of the last free version, you do now have a safe option to get it fresh. Of course, to e-fense's credit, they would rather you pony up some $ to get the newest (non-free) version of HelixPro and depending on your needs, that might be a better thing to do. Either way, it's nice having the choice again.
- Download HelixCE200401brc1.iso RC1!!! Updated – Meanwhile, out of the previous "Helix going commercial" drama mentioned above, Charles Tendell struck on a new Helix "Community Edition" version. Due to licensing and other issues (RE: IAMAL) , he had to strip out some e-fense specifically-developed apps from his build that were present in the original Helix project builds. However he continues to plug away at filling the voids with new tools from other sources. Check it out including these screenshots and application list.
- Explorer Suite (PE analyzer) III – NTCore – A jam-packed tool to allow analysis and review of executable PE files. From the developer:
Created by Daniel Pistelli, a freeware suite of tools including a PE editor called CFF Explorer and a process viewer. The PE editor has full support for PE32/64. Special fields description and modification (.NET supported), utilities, rebuilder, hex editor, import adder, signature scanner, signature manager, extension support, scripting, disassembler, dependency walker etc. First PE editor with support for .NET internal structures. Resource Editor (Windows Vista icons supported) capable of handling .NET manifest resources. The suite is available for x86, x64 and Itanium.
- Ophcrack 3.3.0 and Ophcrack LiveCD 2.3.0. – New versions of these password auditing/cracking tools are now available. Don't let the unsync'ed versioning fool you. The main program is version 3.3.0 and the LiveCD version 2.3.0 contains the program version 3.3.0. Go figure. Changes in the new version are described on their News page as follows:
Ophcrack version 3.3.0 includes support for our new tables vista_seven. These tables crack 99% of passwords of length 7 composed of almost any character including special characters. This table set will be included in our professional tables bundle.
New features have been added like the table size verification in order to warn the user if the tables have not been fully downloaded for example. It is also possible to tune how the preloading should be done.
An important effort was made to release a brand new LiveCD. A very interesting and refreshing distribution called Slitaz was customized to make a lighter than ever ophcrack LiveCD. It should enable us to update the LiveCD more often and to make your experience much better too. We would like to thank Slitaz team for their support in making this LiveCD. Do not hesitate to give a look at their stable distribution!
- NetworkMiner v0.88 – New release on this awesome packet-capture management tool. What I really like about it is the ability to parse PCAP files for offline study as well as the ability to extract and save media files (such as audio or video files) which are streamed across a network. Supported protocols for file extraction are FTP, HTTP and SMB. I don't have to packet-sniff often, but when I do and I need to analyze a lot of the content being moved, this is the first tool I reach for…hands down!
- Wireshark version 1.2 – Speaking of network packet capturing..Wireshark got a bump to version 1.2. According to the Release notice:
This is the new stable release branch of Wireshark and many new and exciting features have been added since 1.0 was released.
In this release
- Wireshark has a spiffy new start page.
- Display filters now autocomplete.
- A 64-bit Windows (x64) installer is now provided.
- Support for the c-ares resolver library has been added. It has many advantages over ADNS.
- Many new protocol dissectors and capture file formats have been added.
- Macintosh OS X support has been improved.
- GeoIP database lookups.
- OpenStreetMap + GeoIP integration.
- Improved Postscript(R) print output.
- The preference handling code is now much smarter about changes.
- Support for Pcap-ng, the next-generation capture file format.
- Support for process information correlation via IPFIX.
- Column widths are now saved.
- The last used configuration profile is now saved.
- Protocol preferences are changeable from the packet details context menu.
- Support for IP packet comparison.
- Capinfos now shows the average packet rate.
For a complete list of changes, please refer to the 1.2.0 release notes.
- VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1 released. – While Sun's VirtualBox public (stable) release version is at Version 2.2.4, this new 3.0 Beta 1 version brings a whole mess of exciting (and probably unstable) features! Along with lots of tweaks, bug-fixes, and enhancement, the following new features are on their way in this version:
Version 3.0 will be a major update. The following major new features were added:
- Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)
- Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental)
- Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
For more information on VirtualBox betas, drop into and monitor the VirtualBox Beta Feedback forum.
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me: Limi, please use your inside voice (i.e. stop shouting), dada is on a work call
Limi: it wasn't me shouting mama, it was Whimsidaisical. i keep telling Whimsidaisical to stop shouting over and over again but he just keeps on doing it.
me: so, it was Whimsidaisical shouting, not you.
Limi: yes mama.
uh oh, we have an unruly brown bunny in the house.
p.s. my mum knitted one of these scarf bibs for each of the girls. i love them.


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Seven residents and one firefighter were hurt Sunday night in a fire at a high-rise apartment building in Tribeca that caused heavy smoke to waft throughout the lower Manhattan neighborhood, officials say.
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At "Foreign Affairs Festival", Berlin at the Berliner Festpiele, there will be a Massonix live set:
Jeremy Deller
"Acid Brass"
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Sat 12-07-2014 |20:30 » Tickets
Jeremy Deller, London
"Acid Brass"
Of brass bands, raves and other resistant music
With The Fairey Band (concert), Massonix (solo live set by Graham Massey of 808 State), Jeremy Deller / Mike Figgis (film) and an intro of the English author and DJ Dave Haslam
In English
Acid house and brass band music? These musical styles are only very rarely connected. British artist Jeremy Deller – Turner Prize-winner and artist for the British pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale – has made it his mission to prove their kinship and historical parallels. In a gigantic pencil drawing, he charted their congruencies. Brass band music stems from the mid-nineteenth century, the era of industrialization; Acid House started in the 1980s and is effectively the soundtrack to de-industrialization. In the 1980s and 90s, both brass band and Acid House were the musical backdrops of great political protest movements: the big miners' strikes on the one hand and the gigantic raves around London, held in protest against the Criminal Justice bill, on the other. It was only logical, therefore, that at the end of the 1990s, the Fairey Band from Stockport near Manchester played brass versions of Acid House classics at Deller's request. Foreign Affairs presents the German premiere of "Acid Brass". Plus: a humorous lecture about the work by the legendary British DJ and journalist Dave Haslam, a live set by Graham Massey, whose influential project 808 State is included in Deller's map, and the rarely shown film about Jeremy Deller's re-enactment of the famous miners' strike, "The Battle of Orgreave".
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Living Essentials (the distributor of 5-hour ENERGY® shots) recently introduced the new, limited edition, specially marked raspberry flavor of 5-hour ENERGY® as a way to raise money for Living Beyond Breast Cancer. From now through December 31, 2013, Living Essentials will donate five cents from the sale of every bottle of raspberry flavored 5-hour ENERGY® to LBBC.
Living Beyond Breast Cancer is a national nonprofit education and support organization serving women and families affected by breast cancer. Living Essentials will be donating a minimum guaranteed donation of $75,000. To help spread the word about this great new flavor and the cause that goes with it, Splash Magazines Worldwide is giving two lucky readers a 12-pack of Raspberry 5-hour ENERGY®.
"Our company has a strong history of supporting causes that fight breast cancer," said Melissa Skabich, Communications Director for 5-hour ENERGY®. "This year we chose LBBC because we're so impressed with the great work they're doing to empower women affected by breast cancer, and we are working hard to help support the organization both financially and by raising awareness of the cause."
In addition to the donation, Living Essentials is launching a significant awareness campaign that includes national advertising, public relations and special events. The LBBC logo will be placed on the hood of NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer's No. 15 Toyota Camry for Michael Waltrip Racing at three upcoming races on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule. The logo will debut at the Sept. 29 NASCAR race in Dover, Del.
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ITEM: One signed copy of Adam Sutton's memoir Say It Loud: Journey of a Real Cowboy by Neil McMahon and Adam Sutton, published by Random House.
DETAILS: Adam is a masculine daredevil who survives on the strength of his boisterous character. He is 'the crazy bastard' – the maddest, bravest bloke in the room – who has faced tragedy, a prison stint, and five long years on the road, but who could not face himself. His extraordinary and unlikely journey from the world of cowboys, rodeos and stereotypes, to Hollywood and, finally, to self-acceptance, is a powerful reminder that sometimes truth is even stranger than Hollywood fiction.
'Ridiculously good.' – David Marr
'I loved this book. It's brave and touching.' – Rupert Everett
'A deeply moving journey that pays tribute to the superpower of a loving family.' – Lucy Clark, Sunday Telegraph
'It took the film Brokeback Mountain to coax out Adam Sutton's own amazing story. With the help of journalist friend McMahon, the mixed-up, angry kid unravels a complex story that involves a fatal traffic accident, extreme risk behaviour and a family that sticks by him. You wouldn't read about it in Hollywood.' – Sunday Times, Perth
'As commonplace as it is extraordinary. Extraordinary for the environment through which he makes his journey… on the evidence of this moving book he has come a long way fast.' – Robert Bevan, Sydney Morning Herald.
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'Dancing With the Stars' announces new cast
With ratings down and archrival "The Voice" returning March 25, "Dancing With the Stars" Tuesday announced a 16th season cast lineup designed to erase doubts, boost ratings and reverse impressions that ABC's dominant franchise is waning.
In other words, take a bow, Wynonna Judd. It's all on your shoulders now.
There are a few big stars, like Judd, a few marginal ones, a few ABC/Disney ones, and a couple that beggar the definition of "star." The new lineup looks (in other words) both traditional and safe. But for "Dancing," after a relative ratings drought during last fall's "All-Star" edition, that may be more than enough.
Here's the lineup:
EARLY FAVORITESAlexandra Raisman
U.S. Women's Olympics gymnastics captain, and a gold medalist. She should be considered one of the front-runners.
1976 skating gold medalist. Should also go far.
Jacoby Jones
Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl hero. "Dancing" loves gridiron stars, so . . .
Wynonna Judd
Five-time Grammy winner is the best-known name in this year's crop.
Ingo Rademacher
"General Hospital" star; "Dancing" has had a long love affair with soap actors -- particularly ABC's own.
Lisa Vanderpump
From "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills."
Zendaya Coleman
Star of Disney Channel's "Shake It Up!" Disney Channel stars have done well here.
Comedian with lots (and lots) of past legal problems, relating to substance abuse.
D.L. Hughley
Veteran TV comedian ("The Hughleys") who has moved into radio.
Victor Ortiz
Former welterweight champ from Garden City -- Kansas, not NY.
Season five "American Idol" contestant.
The fun starts March 18.


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USA Beat Korean Women 4-1 in their Hockey Junior World Cup Opening Game
July 27, 2013 – The commencement of the Ergo Hockey Junior World Cup in Mönchengladbach's Hockeypark Stadium began in a remarkable fashion for the U.S. Women's Under-21 National Team.
Team USA took the pitch against Korea, one of the most successful teams in Women's Junior World Cup history, having participated in all editions thus far and finishing on top in 2001 and 2005. Despite Korea's previous impressive record at the tournament, Team USA was able to break a 1-1 halftime score and finish the game 4-1.
Although first half Cup play bantered back and forth from end line to end line, Korea held more ball possession. Korea was able to maneuver past Team USA's defensive line and score when Eun Bi Cheon used a deflection from the bottom left corner in 29th minute mark pulling the team ahead 1-0.
The U.S. wasted no time in responding to the competition's goal. Tara Vittese (Cherry Hill, N.J.) found the back of the cage in 30th minute with a rapid restart and baseline pass from Maxine Fluharty (Millsboro, Del). With only a few minutes into the second half lighting and thunder belted from the sky creating a delay in the match.
"We caught a lot of momentum during the timeout for the lighting delay," said Steve Jennings head coach of the U.S. U-21 National Squad. "It gave us time to become really relaxed, settled and calm, having fun instead of being in a stressed environment. We didn't really talk too much hockey at that point, just a few key points, and once we got back on the field we were really ready to go."
Once the rain cleared the USA goals poured in. Anna Dessoye (Mountain Top, Pa.) started a flow of scoring in the 48th minute by breaking the tie with a hard shot past the keeper. The next beautiful goal came from Emma Bozek (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.) in the 57th minute with a reserve chip after rebounding an initial corner shot. Vittese closed the game in the 60th minute defeating the Koreans in the first round of Junior World Cup pool play.
"Once we took a 2-1 lead, I think we grew in confidence," said Jennings. "The Koreans played with more panic in their game and that just played more and more in our hands and we were able to capitalize. It was a great result today."
"Beating a team with such a great history at the Junior World Cup such as Korea puts us in a good place at the start of the tournament," said Vittese. "We look to continue this type of play as we move forward in the Cup."
Team USA will take the pitch again on July 28 against the Netherlands and will finish pool play against Ghana on July 30. The quarterfinals will be played on Thursday, August 1, the semi-finals on August 2 and the gold and bronze medal match on August 4. (Schedule and more news here)


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Today, the winners of the prestigious 57th annual World Press Photo competition were announced in Amsterdam.
John Stanmeyer from the U.S. received the prize for World Press Photo of the Year 2013. His piece shows African migrants on the shore of Djibouti city, raising their phones in an attempt to capture an inexpensive signal from neighboring Somalia. Djibouti is a common stop-off point for migrants in transit to Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
TIME photography featured prominently, with Sara Naomi Lewkowicz picking up 1st prize in the Contemporary Issues category for her series on domestic violence in Ohio, William Daniels winning 2nd prize in the General News category for his work on violence and unrest in Central African Republic, and Peter van Agtmael being awarded 2nd prize in the People/Observed Portraits category for his portraits of Iraq veteran Bobby Henline.


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