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Teen accused of sexual assault in Whitefish Bay High School
A Whitefish Bay High School student is under arrest after an alleged sexual assault.
The attack allegedly happened late last week, but many parents and students are just getting the news now.
WISN 12 News' media partners at the Whitefish Bay Patch were first to report the story.
The case is now working its way through children's court.
According to the Whitefish Bay police report, a 15-year-old boy is accused of forcing a 16-year-old girl to perform a sex act on him after school Thursday. The report said it happened in a stairwell.
Senior Emily Kelly said she doesn't know either of the students, but people are talking about it around the school.
"As a kid in high school, I kind of hear about this stuff on a regular basis. Not something really, but you just hear about stuff like this happening -- girls doing to guys, guys doing to girls -- but it's crazy that it happened at school," Kelly said.
The school district sent out a letter to parents telling them about the incident. The superintendent told WISN 12 News on Wednesday the boy has not been back at school since the incident.
In the police report, the boy's story is just the opposite of the girl's. He said she initiated the contact.
Kelly's mother, Jennifer Kelly, said it's unfortunate, but nothing surprises her anymore.
"I'm not surprised. It's just the stuff that's going on in the world right now. It's disturbing," Jennifer Kelly said.
Whitefish Bay police told WISN 12 News that after the 15-year-old was arrested, he was turned over to children's court, and his case is expected to be reviewed on Monday.
The school district said it is in the process of taking appropriate disciplinary measures as a result of the incident in accordance with district policy.


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In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in a U.S. Senate election Tuesday that left President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in doubt and marred the end of his first year in office.
The loss by the once-favored Coakley for the seat that the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy held for nearly half a century signaled big political problems for the president's party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.
More immediately, Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president's health care legislation and the rest of Obama's agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters.
Democratic fingerpointing began more than a week ago as polls started showing a tight race, with the White House accusing Coakley of a poor campaign and the Coakley camp laying at some of the blame on the administration. Obama flew to Boston for last-ditch personal campaigning on Sunday.
With 87 percent of precincts counted, Brown led Coakley, 52 percent to 47 percent.
The election transformed reliably Democratic Massachusetts into a battleground state. One day shy of the first anniversary of Obama's swearing-in, it played out amid a backdrop of animosity and resentment from voters over persistently high unemployment, industry bailouts, exploding federal budget deficits and partisan wrangling over health care.
For weeks considered a long shot, Brown seized on such discontent to overtake Coakley in the final stretch of the campaign. Surveys showed his candidacy energized Republicans, including backers of the grass-roots "tea party" movement, while attracting disappointed Democrats and independents uneasy with where they felt the nation was heading.
Turnout was relatively heavy for a special election despite a mix of snow and rain showers across the state virtually all day.
Though he wasn't on the ballot, the president was on many voters' minds.
"I voted for Obama because I wanted change. ... I thought he'd bring it to us, but I just don't like the direction that he's heading," said John Triolo, 38, a registered independent who voted in Fitchburg.
He said his frustrations, including what he considered the too-quick pace of health care legislation, led him to vote for Brown.
But Robert Hickman, 55, of New Bedford, said he backed Coakley "to stay on the same page with the president."
Even before the first results were announced, administration officials were privately accusing Coakley of a poorly run campaign and playing down the notion that Obama or a toxic political landscape had much to do with the outcome.
Coakley's supporters, in turn, blamed that very environment, saying her lead dropped significantly after the Senate passed health care reform shortly before Christmas and after the Christmas Day attempted airliner bombing that Obama himself said showed a failure of his administration.
While votes were still being cast, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president "was both surprised and frustrated ... not pleased" at how competitive the race had become in the final weeks.
Wall Street watched the election closely. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 116 points, and analysts attributed the increase to hopes the election would make it harder for Obama to make his changes to health care. That eased investor concerns that profits at companies such as insurers and drug makers would suffer.
Across Massachusetts, voters who had been bombarded with phone calls and dizzied with nonstop campaign commercials for Coakley and Brown gave a fitting turnout despite intermittent snow and rain statewide.
Secretary of State William Galvin, who discounted sporadic reports of voter irregularities throughout the day, predicted turnout ranging from 1.6 million to 2.2 million, 40 percent to 55 percent of registered voters. The Dec. 8 primary had a scant turnout of about 20 percent.
Voters considered national issues including health care and the federal budget deficits.
"We don't want health care just for the rich and the middle class. We need it for everyone," said Democrat Neicei Degen, 82, who voted for Coakley in hopes of saving Obama's plan that would extend coverage to millions of uninsured.
Fears about spending drove Karla Bunch, 49, to vote for Brown. "It's time for the country, for the taxpayers, to take back their money," she said.
For others, feelings about the candidates themselves shaped their votes.
Recalling that Brown once posed nude for Cosmopolitan magazine, Kaitlin Addams, 50, said she reluctantly voted for Coakley "to make sure the pinup boy doesn't get into office. I don't like his stand on issues. He's an extreme conservative."
Conversely, Elizabeth Reddin, 65, voted for Brown because she said she was turned off by the Democrat's negative advertisements, saying: "The Coakley stuff was disgusting."
As polls opened, Brown drove up to his polling place in Wrentham in the green pickup truck that came to symbolize his upstart, workmanlike campaign that in the past week pulled him into a surprise dead heat in polls.
"It would make everybody the 41st senator, and it would bring fairness and discussion back to the equation," the state senator said of a potential victory. He spent the rest of the day out of public view, crafting evening rally remarks that had the potential to be an early State of the Union speech for the national Republican Party.
Coakley, stunned to see a double-digit lead evaporate in recent weeks, counted on labor unions and reawakened Democrats to turn out on her behalf and preserve a seat Kennedy and his brother, President John F. Kennedy, held for over 50 years. The senator died in August of brain cancer.
"We're paying attention to the ground game," Coakley, the state's attorney general, said casting her vote in suburban Medford. "Every game has its own dynamics."
Liz Sidoti reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Beth Fouhy, Bob Salsberg, Steve LeBlanc, Karen Testa, Kevin Vineys and Stephanie Reitz also contributed to this report.

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(CNN) — Former U.S. House Speaker Tom Foley died at his home in Washington, D.C., his wife Heather confirmed Friday.
Foley, 84, was a Democrat who represented Washington state in the House for 30 years and served as speaker from 1989 to January 1995.
After his tenure on Capitol Hill, he was appointed U.S. ambassador to Japan by President Bill Clinton. He served from 1997 to 2001.
Foley became the 57th speaker in 1989 after then-Speaker James Wright resigned from office amid an ethics scandal.
Before taking that post, Foley served as House majority leader, majority whip and Agriculture Committee chairman, and was an influential member of the Select House Committee on Iran Contra.
He was first elected to the House in 1964, beating incumbent Republican Walt Horan, a 27-year veteran of the House.
Foley's career in Congress ended three decades later when he was defeated in 1994, the year Republicans retook the House in what is sometimes known as the "Republican Revolution." He was succeeded as speaker by then-Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia.
Current House Speaker John Boehner on Friday said Foley's rise to speaker was a "natural sequence for a natural leader."
"Forthright and warmhearted, Tom Foley endeared himself not only to the wheat farmers back home but also colleagues on both sides of the aisle," Boehner said in a written statement. "That had a lot to do with his solid sense of fairness, which remains a model for any Speaker or representative."
Foley had a largely liberal record in Congress, supporting Great Society programs and opposing the Vietnam War. He was pro-abortion rights, backed the Equal Rights Amendment, and opposed capital punishment, as well as a constitutional amendment allowing school prayer.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also said Foley had an "unrivaled ability" to build consensus and find common ground in the House.
"Our country mourns the loss of a leader whose authenticity, dedication, and diplomacy will forever serve as an example to all of us who strive to make a difference through public service," Pelosi said in a written statement.
Foley graduated from the University of Washington in 1951 and from Washington Law School in 1957. In his legal career, he served as assistant attorney general for Washington state and deputy prosecutor in Spokane County.
Before running for Congress, Foley worked as a special counsel to the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee from 1961 to 1964.
Foley is survived by his wife, Heather, whom he married in December 1968.
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Brewing Black Butte anniversary beers requires a bit more than malt, hops, water and yeast. Here, the brew house is staged for Black Butte XXIV brewing.
It was rare to see a blender at our weekly brewer's meeting. Usually, several bombers of barley soda make the trip from the brew master's private fridge to provide us inspiration for our next big idea. Margaritas? Definitely not.
Instead, Assistant Brewmaster Sean Garvin had brought in some of our specially propagated sour wort and a handful each of Medjool dates and Mission figs. It was an attempt to find a way to quickly and safely pump the figs and dates into the brew kettle for this year's Black Butte Anniversary beer.
He tossed them all into the blender and clicked the highest setting possible. A frothy maroon colored puree whipped up. He shut it off, pulled the pitcher out and drank heartily. A sly smile crept slowly across his face and as the sour fruit medley made its way around the table we laughed at the simplicity and marveled at the flavor of our time saving concoction. Surely this soupy blend would run through our pumps! We then proclaimed ourselves geniuses. It was premature.
Flash back to last year…
With our state of the art Huppmann brew house, brewing is usually a one man job. However, that's never the case with Black Butte Anniversary beers and unfortunately, the addition of figs and dates to Black Butte XXIV (a portion of this year's beer was brewed last year for barrel aging) didn't go very well. Almost 600 pounds per brew of figs and dates were diced up and tossed into several 55 gallon plastic buckets. When it came time to dump them in the kettle it required three brewers just to lift the buckets.
If it had ended there we wouldn't have had to break the blender out at the brewer's meeting. However, as the lucky three were holding the bucket over the kettle door they quickly realized the fruit had no intentions of leaving. It was like getting an enormous can of refried beans to slide out of the can into a pot.
As the couple hundred pound fruit wad crept towards the end of the bucket, brewer John "Abe" Abraham, straining against the weight of the bucket, realized to his horror that when this tasty mass finally dropped into the boil kettle it was going to splash boiling wort back up. It was like a giant cannonball waiting to drop! He also realized his back hurt and this was only the first of 10 buckets.
He warned the other brewers involved with pushing the limits of human fruit lifting and they all got ready to run once the figs and dates dropped. As the wad splashed down everyone ran different directions and Abe tripped over the floor drain, falling to the tile floor injuring his knee. The safety department got involved, paperwork was filed, a new plan was needed.
Back to this year…
The dates and figs were staged and mixed with the sour wort in large buckets the night before brewing.
Then on the next day brewer Owen Woods, specialty ingredient and facial hair guru, mixed the goods with the immersion blender. (Owen only enjoyed this for the first two buckets…)
A pump and transfer lines were set up in the brew house, ready to pump the mixture into the kettle. Nothing left to do now but simply turn on the pump…
Not exactly. After pumping a mere half bucket of puree, the pump began clogging up with partially blended fruit chunks. The inlet hose collapsed from the suction, genius status was revoked.
With seven and a half buckets left to toss the summer interns were quickly summoned! However, this year a special metal grate was hung inside the kettle door to prevent giant fruit blobs from splashing boiling wort into the faces of well meaning brewers…and interns. The remaining buckets were hoisted and dumped onto the grate which did its job…a little too well. See photo below:
Intern Kyle Spencer thinks this mess is funny.
Though lengthier than hoped for, the improvised method worked safely, no interns were hurt and the brewers didn't have to work very hard.
With the figs and dates added the rest was easy! A dash of Theo chocolate nibs (ok, so a few hundred pounds) and a pinch of date sugar (over 200 pounds) and we're knocking out to the fermenter!
Oh, except I forgot to mention the mash. Apparently, our mash tun wasn't designed to handle over 12,000 pounds of malt! Towards the end of each mash in, a huge pile of milled grain would rise up in the back of the mash tun requiring extensive spraying and agitation to knock down. Again, Black Butte XXIV proved no single brewer was capable of handling the creation of this annual libation alone.
Brewer Scott Birdwell battles the malt mound with inferior weaponry.
Even though our idea for adding the figs and dates did not go as planned and brew house limits were exceeded, the overall concept of this year's Black Butte anniversary beer came together nicely. The barrel aged portion tasted amazing, proper gravities and volumes were hit and the chicory spice and cubeb berries melded perfectly with the richness of the chocolate and fruit additions. When all the components were finally combined together and tasted, we felt like geniuses again. But that's for you to decide.


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- Madonna has flown a nanny and a nurse to Malawi to look after Mercy while adoption papers and visas are being arranged. The deal's not done and the kid already has an entourage! [The Sun]
- Newsworthy: Megan Fox wore a red dress with a slit up to there and no bra and says, "I'm currently what you would call single I guess." [The Sun]
- Rihanna and Chris Brown were both at Game 4 of the NBA finals in Orlando on Thursday, and Chris went over where Rihanna and her posse were sitting and shook hands with all of her friends. But Rihanna was at the game to see Magic forward Rashard Lewis, "whom she's currently crushing on." [Gatecrasher]
- Usher is singing "You make me wanna… file for divorce" to wife Tameka Foster. [NY Daily News]
- "Fragile Susan Boyle dramatically dropped out of the Britain's Got Talent tour yesterday." [The Sun]
- Officials say Susan Boyle's cancellation was just a "one-off rest day." [NY Post]
- SHOCKER: Jon and Kate did not spend their 10th wedding anniversary together. [NY Daily News]
- As previously mentioned, Bruce Willis' daughter Tallulah is an intern at Bazaar, but the Post points out that since she's 15 and unpaid, it's in violation of federal labor laws. Bazaar clarifies: "Tallulah is a guest of Harper's Bazaar, shadowing our editors for a couple of weeks." [Page Six]
- Behold: Bruce Willis and new wife in some kind of "fetishistic shoot." She seems to be wearing those ankle-wrenching Nina Ricci shoes; he seems to be wearing very little. Won't someone think of the 15-year-old intern??? [NY Post]
- "BRAD PITT GOES ON ART BUYING BINGE." Well, he bought one painting. [Page Six]
- Brad Pitt's brother Doug has announced that the The Brad Pitt family is donating $1 million to establish an endowment fund to pay cancer specialists at St. John's hospital in Springfield , MO — the the center will be renamed St. John's Jane Pitt Pediatric Cancer Center in honor of their mother. [News-Leader]
- Lady GaGa dyes her dark hair blonde because she was once mistaken for Amy Winehouse: "Amy is a badass but I want to be known for my own look." Oh, you are, dear. You are. [The Sun]
- Dolly Parton in a Girl Scouts uniform! [Star Tribune]
- Prince Harry is pining for ex Chelsy Davy and told a friend, "I lost the best thing that ever happened to me." New love interest Caroline Flack doesn't have enough Ys in her name, so she's out of the picture. [The Sun]
- Re: Chaz Bono's sex change: The only regret? He wishes he had done it sooner. [TMZ]
- Three words: Octomom The Musical. [People]
- The new Miss California USA, Tami Farrell, says: "I'm trying my best to kind of calm the waters… I think that everything in life happens for a reason, and I'm just blessed to have this opportunity." These statements were made while she was attending the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. Obviously. [CNN]
- Kelly Preston is in a PSA promoting healthy food for kids; you can watch it at the link. [People]
- Even though she's on tour with No Doubt, Gwen Stefani says: "My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing." [NY Daily News]
- SCANDAL: Justin "I'm A Mac" Long doesn't have an iPhone. [Page Six]
- Check out this silly interview with Shawn Wayans and his nephews, who are responsible for Dance Flick. Among Shawn's quips: "Obama is a superhero, man… Obama takes his kids to school and then he goes to work and saves the economy." [NY Times]
- Paul McCartney thinks you should go vegetarian at least once a week, to help the environment. Hence: Meat Free Monday. What's it gonna be tonight, folks? Mac and cheese? Falafel? Ice cream sundaes? [Telegraph]
- Sarah Silverman has a book of "autobiographical essays" coming out next April. [Page Six]
- Morgan Freeman is being sued for negligence regarding that horrible car crash last August; he denies the allegations. [E!]
- Though she stopped receiving treatment for anal cancer about a month ago, Farrah Fawcett's condition has not changed; she is still "stable." [Fox News]
- Does Sharon Osbourne owe $23,363.16 in California State taxes? [TMZ]
- Dennis Quaid has been cast as Bill Clinton in The Special Relationship, a film about the former president and Tony Blair — and Quaid's been "encouraged" to gain about 25 pounds. "It's Dennis's worst nightmare," says a source. "He is really health-conscious, but has been asked to follow the same diet as Clinton and gorge himself on Big Macs and Coca-Cola." The horror. [Telegraph]
- "Nine years, 18 seasons and 15 iterations of wilderness later, Survivor host Jeff Probst is a man of simple needs: A shower to call his own and a movie theater within driving distance." The ultimate Survivor? [LA Times]
- Tracey Ullman's show, State Of The Union, is available on Showtime in the US, but the BBC won't buy it. [Daily Express]
- Oh, dear: Those people suing Miley Cyrus for defaming Asians in her "slanty eye" picture got a judge who uses the word "orientals." Obviously they want him off the case. [TMZ]
- A lawsuit filed against Michael Jackson won't stop his comeback tour in London. [MSNBC]
- "The amusement-park rides, elephants and orangutans have been hauled away… Bats hang over the doorway to the building that housed Mr. Jackson's private arcade; guano stains the threshold." — from an update on the property known as Neverland, once the home of Michael Jackson. [WSJ]
- In a conversation with David Cross, he reveals that he has a publicist for the first time ever — at the urging of his girlfriend Amber Tamblyn; he has a book coming out in August,; and, he says: Alvin and the Chipmunks paid me more than all my other projects combined." He just finished the sequel. [LA Times]
- Katie "Jordan" Price on husband Peter Andre: "He's treating our split like a publicity stunt to relaunch his career." [Mirror]
- Hundreds of mourners gathered at a funeral for David Carradine in Hollywood on Saturday; music included The Beatles' "Let It Be" and Ludwig von Beethoven's "Requiem for a Fallen Hero." [AP]
- Oooh, Ghostbusters: Where Are They Now? [NY Daily News]
- John Amos, known for his roles in Roots, The West Wing and as the dad in Good Times, debuted his country single, "We Were Hippies," as part of the 2009 CMA Music Week in Nashville. [UPI]
- Did you know that David Bowie has a 38-year-old son, Duncan Jones? And did you know that he directed the new Sam Rockwell flick, Moon? [This Is London]
- "If you're going to be an actress you can't be coy. Breasts are sexy. I want to see them and audiences want to see them. I've had to do my fair share of it. If you're going to be an actress or a model it's usually part of the package. Men don't have to worry because their private parts don't make pleasant viewing, she thinks. "We don't want to see willies because they're ugly. We want to see breasts because they're beautiful." — Rachel Ward, whom you may have seen in The Thorn Birds. [Daily Express]
- "I stand by what I said. They did copy my song but I don't think they did it on purpose. I have even copied myself without even knowing I have done it. I'll write down what I think is a good melody and realise it's the same as something I have already done. I don't want them to think I am angry with them. I'd love to sit down and have a cup of tea with them and let them know it's okay." — Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens, on Coldplay. [Daily Express]
- "If any of you have a project entitled Everlasting Love With an Adult Stable Male, I'm at table 6 and my agents are at table 12!" — Jennifer Aniston, joking about her single status at an awards dinner. [E!]
- "Christina is basically a woman with a God complex that's really going to have to, like, get real. She's going to have to learn to take care of herself as intensely as the patients." — Jada Pinkett Smith, on her character in Hawthorne, who is the only African-American woman to carry an hour-long drama (along with Jill Scott in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency) since 1974. [NY Times]
- "It's dangerous to bring this up, I talked about him in an interview not long ago, saying that I still love him, and he was like, 'Please stop talking about it.'" — Sienna Miller on Jude Law. [Mirror via Vogue]
- "In some ways, I was waiting for that cyclical swing back. Everything has a time and a space. I feel like something's changing. Especially when Amy Winehouse came out, I'm talking to 17-year-olds that I know, and they're freaking out about her. That's when I thought, things are getting fresh." — singer Maxwell, on his return. [WWD]
- "Amanda's such a hot mess that it's a dream to play her, although now of course people assume I'm a bitch in real life, when I'm actually the least intimidating person around. I sometimes wish I could channel Amanda. I was in a store the other day and the cashier was mean to me. I felt like doing an Amanda and shouting, 'Listen, maybe you should learn to dress better!' but I just couldn't." — Becki Newton, who plays Amanda Tanen on Ugly Betty. [Daily Mail]
- "Family life revolves around Elizabeth. If we decided to go on holiday, the first questions are: can Elizabeth go? Will she be okay? Will she have fun? That's the way it's always been, and that's just fine by me." — Eva Longoria on her 42-year-old sister, who has Down Syndrome but is "highly functional" and graduated high school and is now a special education teacher. [Daily Mail]
- "I was Cornish Gamehen for a while, which was bizarre. But for the last couple years, I have been Meryl Inch — however, there is too much of a debacle going on there these days to continue that. So I have to come up with something creative." — Mandy Moore, on what name she uses when she checks into a hotel. [CNN]
- "Reality is an elusive seductress. I like watching her hips move." — Tori Amos. [Times Of London]
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The Nebraska State Patrol says a trooper pulled over a sport utility vehicle that had been speeding near the Roscoe interchange just after 5 p.m. Thursday.
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Back in January 2002, Microsoft launched "Trustworthy Computing," an initiative focused on securing the Windows platform. This directly impacted the release dates of the next wave of Microsoft products (grouped under .NET umbrella), but additional months of development effort resulted in products much more secure and stable than any of their predecessors.
This article is the first in a series that will cover these security enhancements introduced in Windows 2003 Server.
New features designed to offer increasing levels of security are present in nearly every area of the new operating system's functionality. We will start with the ones that affect a great number of Windows users and administrators.
Default NTFS and Shared Permissions
In the previous version of Windows, the default permissions granted Full Control to Everyone (in both cases), effectively leaving the file system entirely nonsecure (in case of a local access to the system). This has changed, starting in Windows XP Professional.
NTFS permissions to the root drive granted to Everyone group are limited to Read and Execute and apply only to the root folder. This means that Everyone group does not inherit these permissions on any subfolder created under the root directory. Everyone group is also excluded from the Access Control List for more secure file system areas such as Program Files or Windows folders. Users, in addition to Read and Execute, can create subfolders (inheritable) and files in the subfolders. (Note that this does not include the root drive.) The level of permissions granted to System account and members of local Administrators group has not changed -- they still retain Full Control to the root folder and all of its subfolders and files. Creator Owner is granted Full Control to subfolders and files in them, which allows users to fully manage subfolders they created.
Shared permissions to newly created shares are now limited to Read for Everyone.
In addition, Everyone group no longer includes anonymous SID, which further mitigates the possibility of unauthorized access to the file system. You can also quickly verify how well your NTFS security works by using the Effective Permissions tab on the Advanced Security Settings for a selected file or folder. This eliminates any guesswork and possibly complex analysis of the inherited and directly assigned NTFS permissions. However, this feature does not take shared permissions into account.
File and Folder Ownership
Now, you can not only take ownership of a selected file system object (file or folder), but you can also grant it to any user using the Owner tab of the Advanced Security Setting dialog box for that file or folder. This feature simplifies dealing with Windows disk quotas, which are based on the ownership property. For example, an administrator creating a new file a on user's behalf (e.g., via file copy or new program installation) results in the administrator becoming an owner of that file. Therefore, the new file size does not count toward the user's quota limit. In the past, this would require cumbersome workarounds or use of third-party tools. With the assignment of ownership functionality available through the user interface, this problem can be easily fixed (for any type of operating system using NTFS -- including Windows NT 4.0, 2000, and XP Professional -- as long as the change is performed on the Windows 2003 Server).
Note that the same functionality (effective permissions and assigning ownership) is also available for Active Directory objects managed from Windows 2003 servers (via Effective Permissions and Owner tabs on the Advanced Security dialog box within Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap-in).
Windows Services Configuration
Windows Services Configuration changes can be grouped into two main categories:
- Startup Type: Several likely exploitable services, such as Clipbook, Network DDE (and Network DDE DSDM), Telnet, or WebClient are disabled by default. Others are enabled only when necessary (e.g., Intersite Messaging during domain controller promotion; or Routing and Remote Access Service when configuring Windows 2003 server as a router, demand-dial, or remote access server).
- Log On As Account: Fewer services are running in the security context of the Local System because this account has unlimited local privileges. Instead, in many cases, Local System is replaced with the Local Service or Network Service accounts. Both have privileges only slightly higher than those of authenticated users. As their names indicate, Local Service account is intended for local system services (and has no capability to authenticate over the network), whereas Network Service is assigned to services that require network access. (It impersonates computer accounts when authenticating over the network.)
Authentication enhancements apply to authenticating against both local systems and Active Directory domains.
Default local system authentication settings limit the use of local accounts with blank passwords to the console only. This means that such accounts cannot be used for any type of access originating from a remote systems (such as drive mapping or remote desktop/remote assistance connections).
Active Directory authentication changes are most prominent when dealing with cross-forest trusts. Cross-forest trust functionality allows creating Kerberos-based trust relationships between forest root domains (which requires both forests operate on the Windows 2003 functional level, implying all domain controllers are running Windows 2003 servers and all domains are at Windows 2003 domain functional level).
Such trust relationships are transitive, which means that they extend to all lower level domains in each of the forests. This allows any user in one forest to securely access any resource residing in the other forest, including cross-forest logons (using UPN naming conventions). With the default settings, authentication is forestwide, giving all security principals from other forests the same ability to access local resources as users and computers from the local forest. In both cases, users are subject to permissions set on these resources.
If you do not feel comfortable with this type of scenario, you can configure selective authentication on a per-forest trust level that requires Windows 2003 forest functional level. In this case, you will be able to designate user or group accounts from the other forest that will be allowed to authenticate as well as select resources in your forest that these accounts will be allowed to authenticate against. This process consists of two main stages.
The first stage involves granting security principals from the other forest "Allowed to Authenticate" permissions on the Active Directory object representing the computer account containing the resource. For example, assume there is a trust relationship between two Windows 2003 functional level forests -- ForestA and ForestB -- configured with selective authentication. UserA in DomainA of ForestA must access ShareB share on ServerB in DomainB of the ForestB. To accomplish this, the following sequence of steps must take place.
- An administrator of DomainA creates a global group (e.g., GroupA) in DomainA and includes UserA as its member. You can also grant appropriate permissions directly to UserA (one advantage to this approach is transparency), but dealing with individual user accounts becomes inefficient if there are many.
- Launch Active Directory Users and Computers with the focus on the DomainB. Locate ServerB and double-click on its icon to bring up the ServerB Properties dialog box.
- Click on the Security tab and add the DomainA\GroupA to the list in the upper portion of the box. In the lower portion, select the checkbox in the Allow column for the "Allowed to Authenticate" and "Read" permissions. This will complete the first step -- and allow members of DomainA\GroupA to be authenticated when accessing DomainB\ServerB.
Cross-forest authentication can also be performed for user logins via Internet Authentication Service (although in this case, two-way cross forest trusts are required).
This concludes the first article in the Windows 2003 security series. The next installment will examine other topics relating to new Active Directory security features (such as SID Filtering) and look into application code control for managed and nonmanaged code.


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You have entered a maze of twisty twisty passages all alike! (TRAPPED!!!) (2008) - Nathan Hauenstein
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One Mile Scroll (2008) - Daniel Eatock
"The One Mile Scroll transforms virtual space into an actual, physical distance. Take your computer for a scroll."
Computational Poetics
Caleb Larsen's solo exhibition at Philadelphia's Esther Klein Gallery presents a series of conjectures, testing our assumptions, estimations, and in some cases naiveté with regard to digital information. His installation, Monument, constantly scans 4,500 English-language news feeds and drops yellow BBs on the floor each time it finds a report of a person dying. Over time, the tiny balls will pile-up and form a sort of monochromatic monument to the unknown dead. In a sense, it visually cashes-in on the death craze that often seems to grip the media. Many of his other pieces draw on appropriation and literary adaptation. Who's Life Is It Anyway? asks what it would mean to pilfer other people's Twitter pages for autobiographical lines of one's own (and here, the "auto-" seems tongue-in-cheek, if not ironic). In other works, Larsen has taken on the not-so-small feat of converting both Shakespeare's entire oeuvre and the Epic of Gilgamesh into new forms. In the former case, he's translated all of the text into a visual field of colored squares, while the latter is returned to orality when a computer is ordered to read the ancient epic aloud. Larsen's stated interest is one of using logic-based systems to explore the differences between digital and physical spaces. At times, the results are poetic and, at other times, he seems to be leading us to the discordant conclusion that the proposed affinities do not compute. - Marisa Olson
Image: Caleb Larsen, Monument (Detail), 2006
Structure over Style
In recent years numerous exhibitions have been mounted on the subject of "art and music." The Chicago Museum of Art's 2007 show "Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967" was an excellent example that explored the cultural and social crossovers between art and music and the stylistic effects they have had on each other. "Looking at Music," a current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (curated by Associate Curator of Media Arts Barbara London), also looks at these cultural synergies but illuminates them further by focusing on the structural and theoretical connections between not only music and art, but also writing, filmmaking and performance. By starting in the early 1960s, the show focuses on a time when the very nature of art was in flux, new forms of writing were emerging, new technologies were pushing the boundaries of moving image and sound recordings, and social attitudes about self expression and gender were radically changing the cultural landscape.
Early Computer Art from 1970's Bell Labs - Laurie Spiegel
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Exploring the Concept of Democracy in Latin America: Carlos Motta's "The Good Life"
Commissioned by Art in General, Carlos Motta's new Internet archive, The Good Life, is the latest part of a project the artist has developed since 2005, comprising 360 video interviews with pedestrians in twelve Latin American cities. In his essay, "Postscript: Civilization or Barbarity," the Colombian artist outlines the shift from politicized, creative practices, like those of Argentina's Third Cinema and Brazil's Paulo Freire, to increasing U.S. incursions, since the 1970s, into Latin American governments and economies. Attempting to close the divide "between democratic theory and practice" and reclaim, according to essayist Stamatina Gregory, an older conception of participatory politics, explored by Aristotle and revived by Hannah Arendt, Motta asks his interviewees about their own conceptions of democracy, democratization, and U.S. interventions in the region. Visitors can navigate the site via a variety of criteria, including interviewee occupation, location, and age group, as well as interview theme. The unedited, straightforward quality of the videos, Motta writes, renders "the process of the work's making transparent," foregrounding the many and varied stories and opinions that constitute the public community. While commissioned essays and texts, a forthcoming illustrated publication, and past exhibitions have articulated The Good Life's various facets and adaptable nature, Motta hopes the Internet will be "a way to reach a wider audience outside the field of art...and to make the work available to the individuals that responded to the questions" - Tyler Coburn
Image: Carlos Motta, Revolution is power for the people (Still from The Good Life), 2008
Art Keeps On Slipping Into the Future
Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) shares with artists like Josef Albers, Aldous Huxley, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Buckminster Fuller the legacy of having developed their practice at Black Mountain College, the creative mecca where these and other thinkers pushed the edges of visual art, music, literature, technology, and consciousness. His experimental films of the 1950s blurred dada collage and science fiction, and he was an early adopter of both analog processes and computer animation, establishing for him a godfather-like position in the origin-narratives surrounding new media. His often rough aesthetic anticipated glitch-fetishism by several decades and drove the surrealist aesthetic into new territory; yet this is not to say that his works didn't go down smoothly. (The internet is full of video evidence of his colorfully dreamy proliferations.) The artist is currently the subject of an exhibition at New York's Guild & Greyshkul gallery, where one can see VanDerBeek's contribution to the proto-history of digital copy-and-paste stylistics in the form of real copy-and-paste collages and his own reworkings of his early films. Much of the work in the show, including a "faux mural" he transmitted electronically to international venues, in 1970, was made in his days at MIT, where his immersion among scientists and engineers had a clear impact on his art. VanDerBeek had a futurist and almost cosmological approach to his work and was one of those artists known for spouting beautiful witticisms about finding universal modes of expression that transcended media and the confinement of traditional forms. At the end of the day, he also reminded us that "Art is the artifact of reality (not taken for granted)." - Marisa Olson
A Big New Space for New Media
As of today, the U.S. will have a bold new venue for new media art and performance: EMPAC. Short for Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center, the Troy, NY-based facility embodies state-of-the-artness and its affiliation with the highly regarded research university, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ensures that the installations, performances, and concerts presented there will always be ahead of the technological curve. The space, itself, is a masterpiece. The 220,000-square foot building, designed by Grimshaw, includes a 1200-seat concert hall with an adjustable fabric ceiling; a 400-seat theater with a 70-foot fly tower; two black-box studio spaces with tunable, tilting wall tiles; and acoustically isolated artist/researcher work spaces. Within these walls, and under the direction of Johannes Goebel (who helped found ZKM) and curators Kathleen Forde, Hélène Lesterlin, and Micah Silver, visitors will experience work that emphasizes immersion, interactivity, and time-based media. For the next three weekends, EMPAC will present a major festival full of provocative performances and installations by The Wooster Group, dumb type, Workspace Unlimited, Verdensteatret, Vox Vocal Ensemble and International Contemporary Ensemble, Per Tengstrand, Madlib, Cecil Taylor, Pauline Oliveros, Richard Siegal/The Bakery, Robert Normandeau, Fieldwork, Gamelan Galak Tika + Ensemble Robot, and others. This unveiling has been several years in the making but reservations are going fast, so you won't want to wait to get your tickets and get over to Troy. - Marisa Olson


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Attendance & Absences
Attendance at School
A student can be considered absent if he or she misses all or part of the school day, including late arrival and early pick-up.
Under Texas law, a student must be present for at least 90% of the time a class is offered. Students who don't meet this requirement, regardless of the reason for the absence, will lose credit in the class. Completion of a plan determined by the campus attendance committee will be required to restore credit.
Under Texas law, a student who experiences more than 3 unexcused absences (full or partial day) in a four week period or 10 unexcused absences (full or partial day) in a 6 month period, may be referred to the court for truancy. This includes unexcused late arrivals and early pick-up. Charges may also be filed against the parent in these circumstances.
What steps do I take if my child is absent?
Approval for planned absences should be requested from the campus at least one week in advance to ensure they are excused. Pre-planned absences on STAAR, EOC, or other state testing days will not be excused.
Pre-planned absence request form: English | Spanish
If your child will be absent for illness or another unplanned reason, contact your campus attendance clerk by phone or email that day to notify the school of the absence.
Parents should provide a note, documenting the reason for the absence, to the school immediately upon the child's return, and not later than three days after the absence. If the child was seen by a health care provider, a note from that individual is always preferred. If the student was present PART of the school day and missed the remainder for a health care appointment, a note from that provider should be given to the school within 3 days. In this circumstance, the time away from school is NOT considered an absence.
If a student is absent for four or more consecutive days for illness, a note from a health care provider is required to excuse the absence.
The district will accept parent notes to excuse an illness, personal, or pre-approved absence for no more than 8 full or partial day absences during the school year. No more than 6 of these absences may occur in a semester. Any additional absences will require a note from a health care provider or documentation of an absence exempt from compulsory attendance, in order to be excused.
It is important to take all required steps to ensure an absence will be excused. Unless the absence is for a statutorily allowed reason under compulsory attendance laws, the district is not required to excuse any absence, even if the parent provides a note explaining the absence. Unexcused absences are considered truancy and the grade for makeup work after an unexcused absence shall be zero. [See Board Policy EIA Local]
How can my child earn a perfect attendance award?
LISD has defined the following perfect attendance guidelines:
- Elementary: A perfect attendance award can only be earned if the student is present every day, for the entire school day, with no unexcused late arrivals and no early departures
- Middle School: A perfect attendance award can only be earned if a student is present every period of every day with no unexcused late arrivals to school
- High School: A perfect attendance award can only be earned if a student is present every period of every day with no unexcused late arrivals to school
The State Attorney General has ruled that a child who is absent for religious holy days or medical appointments cannot be denied a perfect attendance award if the child has made up all work missed during the absences. Medical absences must comply with the TEA attendance guidelines and the parent must provide the required documentation within 3 days of the absence. Additionally, other funded exemptions to compulsory attendance under TEC 25.087 will not impact perfect attendance.
Your campus attendance clerk can assist you in determining which religious holy days are exempt.
More information about attendance requirements and guidelines, including exemptions to compulsory attendance, can be found in the LISD Student Handbook.


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[Verse 1]
Had to be 18 or older just to check it
She got baby oil on in her bedroom
Bunch of dirty laundry all across her bed dude
The head rude, super dome
She backstage but she ain't no groupie homes
Now you know that's a lie, she ready for whatever
She'll fuck you good and if you pay her, she'll fuck you better
I'm a dog, bitch - can you take a bone
She on Model Mayhem with too much makeup on
Her and a girl, 2 going at once, plural
We in the hotel and I'm making it rain euros
She stop giving me head and said "What's these?"
I said "My bad, bitch. I just came back from overseas."
And while she out here tryna fuck for a buck
I got this other bitch tryna fuck for a truck
[Hook] x2
Shawty wanna be a model
She on the internet going full throttle
Shawty wanna be a model
She on the internet going full throttle
[Verse 2]
Bad bitch from Brazil, spoke Portuguese
She might even let you crack her if you worth some cheese
Out in Ibiza, we smoking trees
Ain't paying for that ho pussy, paying that ho to leave
Don't get me misunderstood, yes the pimping is good
Got a bitch in the 'burbs, got a bitch in the hood
Legs up, hit it from the front door
Gave her a encore and she still want more
This bitch talking 'bout take her out to eat on me
My Cali bitches got that EBT, they eat for free
Ain't nothing better than good food and crazy dome
She said fuck that R&B, go throw that Jay-Z on
Long as her hair together, long as her purse is Lou
Nighttime stripper, daytime nursing school
She put her favorite song on and ripped them clothes off
Told her girl to film on the iPhone while she goes off
[Hook] x2
This is a dedication to the females that go on the Internet to promote themselves to get to a high status. They want to be the Meagan Good and Melissa Ford in the industry and are willing to do anything to get to the top.


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I've been spending a lot of time, lately (well I should say a lot *more* time, really) reading books on habits and learning and thinking about how what I'm reading and learning applies to teaching and progress in general. After presenting on learning styles, and getting the first draft of a paper on feedback in, I have really started missing the day to day reality of teaching, and the opportunity teachers have to watch (and aid) the sort of small victories that gradually grow into big changes.
Those small steps to big changes come up in "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg. This book seems especially relevant right now because it deals with habits in three different areas: individual, corporate, and societal and lets its readers understand how habits exist on micro and macro levels. This is not a self-help book (although it does address (and follow up in the appendix) some methods that readers might use on their own habits or goals), instead Duhigg spends significant time explaining, from current research and historical perspective, how habits work–giving those who read it the understanding that enables change, instead of instructions on what to do–instructions that can't cover for every eventuality and therefore might fall down at crucial moments.
That, in fact, is one of the key take aways from the book. Habits are not changed by knowing a magic formula (although understanding the "habit loop" will help) or by sheer will power (although, again, knowing how will power can be affected by effort will help); habits are changed through an understanding of how they work and a series of small successes over the obstacles that can derail the best efforts. Duhigg works to make sure his readers understand the process of habit forming–something that I have found myself recently focusing on when talking about teaching and learning.
As exam season approaches, I've been giving a few talks on learning styles (and study skills) around the Uni (and to random people at the yard–I have a difficult time not teaching…), and one aspect I keep coming back to is that giving students an understanding of a process is often as important as helping them to understand content. Once students (or anyone!) understand how they learn best, they can not only seek out opportunities to learn but also are better prepared to compensate for anything that makes their learning more difficult. Differentiated instruction is not just about preparing lessons that allow all students to learn, it is also about allowing students to take control of their own learning.
Of course, nothing is that easy, especially nothing about teaching, learning, or self-awareness. Merely understanding learning doesn't make high level subjects instantly easier to comprehend, and understanding how habits work (at least a bit) doesn't make picking up healthier habits as simple as deciding to follow the appropriate feedback loop, but I think it is fascinating that success at forming new habits has something to do with finding the ability to overcome small obstacles and keep stepping towards a larger goal, much like the small steps students make in their learning. (Oh, and I also think that the book is definitely worth picking up! I'm sure there will be a more detailed Bookgeeks review of it sometime soon as well!)


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A few scenes from today's children's parade.
However, along the way, thes indigenous woman and infant were sitting on the sidewalk, begging. In Colombia, 5,000 children die each year from problems caused by malnutrition. 12 percent of Colombian children suffer from chronic malnutrition. And many of those children will suffer reduced lifetime mental development, all according to a recent UNICEF report.
Written by Mike Ceaser, of Bogotá Bike Tours


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The Giants Brian Wilson always keeps us guessing.
This time around, he's talking about his new catch phrase "Got him" (pronounced got heem').
"Got him, little accent at the end. Got hee-em," according to Wilson.
Wilson talks about the phrase on Showtime's "The Franchise".
He says there are many uses for the term.
"Basically it's when you're talking a little bit of fun trash," said Wilson. "Sorry, papa's feeling pretty delicious right now, going to step into the box, go three for four, 8 RBIs. Got heem.
"Three one pitch. Piping it down the middle. Got heeeeeem.
"Or when you talk trash to someone. Hey sweet shoes bro. Um. No. Actually they're terrible. Got heem."
Wilson swears the phrase is going to catch on worldwide.


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Sorry I haven't blogged recently after the rather frantic pace of blogging over the last week or so... In the last week I have:
- dyed parts of my hair blue. This has been covered but I still find it super-exciting!
- been at the zoo at 5am setting up vivariums
- been at an official zoo-section opening with all the ambassadors and dignitaries while still...
- not cracking an invite to the official "we set up a display!" party
- force-fed venemous snakes (not a first, but totally awesome!)
- been yelled at for being late at the zoo
- Sent volunteers to their doom - babysitting Thandi isn't a walk in the park anymore! It's more like a sprint through the zoo chasing the psycho monkey - literally!
as well as numerous other things I won't mention! It's been mildly hectic!
Last night I went off to Billy's in fourways to watch first project perform. It brought back a lot of memories, about 8 years ago I was a total First Project groupie! They're a lot like those blue guys in Las Vegas, where it's a bunch of guys on drums, and they're really amazing and they don't need anything else. The drums (and random bits of metal, like STOP signs) are all that they needed and they were really incerdible. To add to the fantasticness the performers are all relatively good lokoing guys who perform without any shirts on.
That may explain why Billy's started filling up with rather a lot of girls last night... by 'girls' I eman everything from the 16-year-olds who had snuck in at about 6pm to avoid the bouncers to 40 and 50-somethings who tended to behave a lot like the 16-year-olds, but with elss dignity as they couldn't be kicked out for being underage. One such aldy was dancing on the bar by about 8pm, and not getting the attention that she felt she deserved - an image that I would far rather remove from my brain!
So anyway after a few drinks from a fantastic waiter with an unintelligible accent that had us falling around laughing (seriously, we were drinking Coke for the first part of the evening and it was still funny!) and a few fantastic conversations, some of which were centred aroud Lara's fantastic chest-hair (for the record, she doesn't have any, but if she did, we would totally make it super-stylish!) we went off o the dance-floor stage area to grab a good spot close to the stage. We got one that was slightly too close - during the performance I was about a foot away frmo one of the performers, and my ears are still sore! Then we waited, and waited, even dancing to the rather awful remixes of Britney Spears and the Black-Eyed Peas, and nearly starting a fist-fight with some dodgy old guy who seemed to think he was destined to be a pirate, and who got a little bit too close to Nicola and me. While I was content to shove my elbow into his ribs and give him a look that would have melted glass, Nicola found it a little bit more difficult to find her 'happy place' and the guy was only saved by our reshuffling the group to move her away from him once he decided that it was funny to push past us every 5 minutes.
We spotted the performers about 10 minutes before they weer due to go onstage. So they have no excuse of waiting for traffic or any such rubbish, but they kept us waiting for almost an hour and a half, and when tehy went on there were only 3 guys, rather than the usual 5 or so that I remembered. Plus, they had backing music with vocals and stuff, which took away all the magic of the whole thing. It was still cool and I had fun, but I found myself wishing that I was 16 again, listening to the original stuff they used to do.
It also got me thinking, as I was stumbling around the zoo this morning cleaning out frogs and geckos and chatting to one of the volunteers, that I'm getting old. Or rather, behaving old. I used to be out every weekend listening to new south african artists and going to music festivals and all that sort of thing. Now I go out just as regularly, but by about 11pm I'm tired and I want to go home. And I've hardly seen any new south african artists in the alst few years - except the couple that were at MyCokeFest alst eyar. And even those weren't new, I remember hearing the Parlotones singing "Staring at the Sun" when I was about 16, so they're hardly anything new!
It is very sad indeed. So now for some nostalgia: does anyone remember Sarongas (before they became Seether), Just Jinger (before they moved overseas), Nemesis, Tweak, Cucumber Zoo and all those awesome bands we used to go and listen to? what happened to them? And who's around now that's worth going to listen to?
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I was just telling some friends how busy my schedule has been lately. I am sad I haven't been able to post much of the things on my mind but I have to stop and post about this.
While folding an endless pile of towels the other day I was also watching Undercover Boss which featured the Philly Pretzel Factory. Lets just say it was a mouth watering episode! So it got me thinking that although I am not the best cook and certainly not the best at making bread products they made it look very easy to make pretzels. I got online and found a recipe that looked simple enough for me to try making pretzel bites last night.
The dough was very easy to make using my KitchenAid mixer with the dough hook. I let it rise like it suggested and then got my son involved (after much hand washing) with helping me roll out the dough into the long strips. After cutting them into small bite size pieces they simply are dunked into boiling water for about 30 seconds, placed on a greased cookie sheet, brushed with an egg wash mixture and heavy salt and then they are ready to bake. Of course it smelled amazing but I was pleasantly suprised at how they tasted! Mine didn't come out looking as amazing as the photo but maybe with time I can master that too. The recipe also said you can do cinnamon and sugar instead of salt but I also think it is worth trying with butter and parmesean cheese! The recipe also has suggestions for dipping sauces. I had honey mustard on hand but my husband made an olive oil and Italian herb sauce too.
Click here for the recipe: http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/homemade-soft-pretzel-bites/
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|Yemeni President Restructures Army, Removes Saleh Cronies
|[An Nahar] Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi announced on Wednesday the restructuring of the army and defense ministry, purging them of relatives and cronies of former head of state President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
, state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Hadi took a series of decisions, including one scrapping the elite Republican Guard which was under the command of Saleh's oldest son Ahmed, the state broadcaster said.
Hadi took over the reins of power in Yemen less than a year ago, after veteran strongman Saleh stepped down as part of a power transition agreement, following a year-long uprising against his rule.
Under the new restructuring, eliminating the powerful Republican Guard, the army now consists of three main branches: ground forces, navy and the air force, the state broadcaster said.
Three new structures were also created and placed under the presidency's direct control: a presidential guard, special operations forces and a unit in charge of ballistic weapons.
The last two had been previously controlled by Saleh's son Ahmed.
Other changes ordered by Hadi include the sacking of deputy central security forces chief General Yahia Mohammed Saleh, a nephew of the former president, who was replaced by General Ahmed Ali al-Maqdasi.
Earlier this month tens of thousands of demonstrators took part in a protest march in Sanaa against Saleh, his family and close aides, accusing them of holding out for a comeback.
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Outside the window, Wang Chuan landed on the ground, heavily wounded. When she raised her head to look at Feng Yu Heng, there was still a bloodstain near the corner of her mouth.
Feng Yu Heng vigilantly looked all around. The night was silent, as all sides remained silent.
She was still a little worried and quietly said: "Ban Zou, cover the retreat."
"This servant understands." The voice came from an unknown location followed by complete silence. Helping support Wang Chuan, she finally calmed down.
When Wang Chuan heard Feng Yu Heng utter Ban Zou, she was shocked. She had obviously not thought that Ban Zou would actually end up at Feng Yu Heng's side. Only after hearing his voice did she understand how highly the Feng family's second young miss held this much weight with the ninth prince.
Since Ban Zou was present, Wang Chuan finally relaxed her constantly wound up heart. Not waiting for Feng Yu Heng to ask, she took the initiative to say: "All of the girls have been safely transferred. There were a total of twelve, and they are currently residing in a residence. This servant was attacked and chased while returning to the capital. They chased all the way to the capital, and it seems… they have entered the Feng manor."
Feng Yu Heng's heart sank slightly. She did not know how good Wang Chuan's martial arts were; however, even if they weren't as good as Ban Zou's, the difference would not be too great. Otherwise, Xuan Tian Ming would not have assigned them to her side. Someone with such proficiency in martial arts was chased all the way back to the manor. She worried that the enemy would not be easy to deal with.
"I understand." She nodded, "Let's not talk about that for now. Let me see your injuries."
Feng Yu Heng lit a candle and inspected Wang Chuan's wounds.
Her left shoulder had been hit by an arrow, but there was thankfully no poison. On her right upper arm, there was a deep cut. The skin and flesh had been split open and appeared like a blooming flower. The most serious injury was on her back, where she had been struck by a palm. She worried that the enemy had disturbed her internal energy and caused Wang Chuan's heart to shake.
"Come." She helped Wang Chuan over to her soft bed, "Sit down first. I will go fetch some medicine from the medicine room. You left for Xiao Zhou at basically the same time as the men sent by my father. The ones that pursued you are eighty percent likely to be his hidden guards. If the enemy decides to scope us out, leaving these wounds on your body will be inconvenient."
Wang Chuan felt a surge of guilt: "This servant has brought trouble to young miss."
"What are you saying." She chastised Wang Chuan, "Since you and Huang Quan are following me, I will treat the two of you as sisters. If you stubbornly remain distant, only a master-servant relationship will remain."
Wang Chuan felt grateful and did not continue saying such things.
Feng Yu Heng turned around and headed to the medicine room. After she entered, she directly went into the pharmacy in her space.
Wang Chuan's external injuries were easy to treat; however, the palm strike would take a long time to recover. She found some red salvia root pills and brought them along. She also found some Western medicine that healed the five internal organs, an anesthetic shot, medical-use alcohol and a needle with string for stitches. Only after collecting these things did she leave the space.
There was still a few bottles of the spray that she had given to Xuan Tian Ming, but she could not bear to use it. She had wanted to keep them for when she ran in to an emergency outside. Right now, she was at home. Using an anesthetic needle would have the same result.
After returning to her room, she personally poured some water and fed the medicine to Wang Chuan. She then explained how much of each medicine should be taken each day to Huang Quan, telling her to remember to take her medicine on time every day. 1
Wang Chuan looked at the odd medical pills in the small porcelain bottle. Countless questions filled her mind, yet she suppressed them and did not ask.
When Feng Yu Heng brought out the needles filled with anesthetic, Wang Chuan could no longer hold back and asked: "You-young miss, what are the things that you are holding? As for the things I just ate, were they medicine? Why was it not bitter?"
People that had become accustomed to drinking Chinese medical soups naturally would not taste the bitterness of Western medical pills. Moreover, two of the medicines were sugar-coated.
Feng Yu Heng had long prepared an explanation for her odd things: "That year when I was still in the mountains to the Northwest, I had once met a Persian eccentric. He lived in seclusion away from society in the mountains. Every time I went to collect medicinal herbs and mushrooms, I would see him. That Persian was also a doctor. The medicines and tools that he used were very eccentric, but they were also effective. I learned from him for three years until he left Da Shun. These were all gifted to me."
Wang Chuan did not doubt her, sighing repeatedly over Feng Yu Heng's truly good fortune.
"I can only help heal your internal injuries slowly with medicine. Improvement will be a little slower. Your external injuries must be properly taken care of tonight. Tomorrow, you must accompany me in offering incense. Leaving you alone here would cause me much worry."
Wang Chuan was still unaware that the Feng family planned to make a group outing. While Feng Yu Heng cleaned her wounds with alcohol, she also filled her in on the happenings of the past few days.
Xiao Zhou was not far from the capital. With a fast horse and riding at speed, it would take at most the better half of a day to arrive. Wang Chuan did not think that so many things would happen in the few days she was away, especially Feng Yu Heng entering the palace and meeting imperial concubine Yun. She could not help but sigh again and again: "If imperial concubine Yun is willing to speak for young miss, then young miss will be able to live worry-free from now on."
Feng Yu Heng did not understand: "Is imperial concubine Yun hard to meet?" Although they had met once in the palace, and imperial concubine Yun had spoken on her behalf multiple times, Feng Yu Heng did not feel she was someone that was easy to get along with. That beautiful face always seemed to be hiding many secrets, placing everyone else a million miles away.
"Not just hard to meet." Wang Chuan slightly shook her head, "She is someone that outsiders absolutely can not meet. Even the current Emperor, I worry that it may have been many years since he last saw imperial concubine Yun."
"Hm?" This was truly outside of Feng Yu Heng's expectations. "Even the Emperor can't meet her?" Then what sort of imperial concubine was that?
"It is said that after imperial concubine Yun gave birth to the ninth prince, she began to live more and more in seclusion. Everyone says that Winter Moon Palace becomes colder with each passing day. Even if the Emperor went, he could not warm up that palace."
"But I saw imperial concubine Yun doing well with the two princes." She did not appear to be a lonely sufferer.
Wang Chuan smiled bitterly. "There only remain the two Highnesses who can meet her at will. Although there is the Empress, it seems that imperial concubine Yun's temperament of standing by her word remains after all these years. If she says someone is not good, then even if they galloped on to the battlefield and killed the enemies of the state, they would never see a smile from the Emperor. If she says someone is not bad, then even if they led a rebellion, the Emperor would not utter a word of reprimand."
Hearing the things Wang Chuan said, Feng Yu Heng then thought of the words and actions of imperial concubine during the day. Very quickly, she understood where the words and actions led.
Indeed, imperial concubine was like that!
She suddenly became envious of this woman, even though she did not know what had happened to her body such that she did not want to see even the Emperor. Yet, there was still someone who favored her to such an extent. This sort of doting, even if she had lived in the 21st century, was just an illusion, hopeless.
She shook her head and stopped thinking about imperial concubine Yun, carefully taking care of Wang Chuan's injuries. When it came time to apply the anesthetic, she told Wang Chuan: "There will be some pain when I stick the needle in. Bear with it a little. It's a local anesthetic and won't affect your ability to talk."
Wang Chuan nodded. In this age where mafeisan2 was not very well used, she had absolutely never heard of an anesthetic shot. But Wang Chuan trusted Feng Yu Heng. She trusted her master, Xuan Tian Ming's judgement even more.
Anesthesia, cleaning, closing up, Feng Yu Heng focused on what had once been her most skilled profession. All that was missing was the nurse that would pass her tools and wipe her sweat.
Wang Chuan watched as the scars on her shoulder and arm miraculously became stitched together by a strange thread. Immediately after being pricked by that needle, her arm began to feel numb. It was numb enough that she felt no pain despite a needle and thread going through her arm. As for the other parts of her body, she could move them at will. It seemed that they were not affected. She could not help but marvel at the Persian doctor's magic.
"It's done." Finishing the last stitch, Feng Yu heng helped Wang Chuan put on her clothes and said: "These coming days, do not go in water. Also avoid rigorous exercise. It's good that we are only going out to offer incense. Just stick with me and don't worry about anything."
Wang Chuan nodded, "This servant understands. Thank you, young miss, but… how long until my arm stops feeling numb?"
Feng Yu Heng quickly calculated, "After two hours, it will return to normal. I will help remove the thread in twelve days. Anything you need to do daily, have Huang Quan help you. Also," She solemnly told Wang Chuan, "Aside from Huang Quan, do not let anyone see the closed up wound. Also do not tell anyone of the things I brought out today."
Wang Chuan was a little embarrassed: "I can't even tell master?"
Feng Yu Heng pondered a little, "If Xuan Tian Ming asks, then you can." She knew that this matter could not be hidden from Xuan Tian Ming; moreover, since she had the idea of improving medical knowledge in this era, relying on herself was no good. Xuan Tian Ming was a very good help.
After a busy night, Feng Yu Heng brought her things back to the pharmacy in her space, passing through the medicine room.
Quickly telling Wang Chuan to rest, she went to check the reserve supplies in her pharmacy.
When she first sent things in, Feng Yu Heng noticed something very strange. Thinking about it, after arriving in Da Shun, although she had not used many medical items, she had a habit of going to record it in the electronic records. The odd computer in the space had no internet connection and could only access the electronic records for the pharmacy. Whenever she had free time, as in her previous life, she would turn it on and take a look. After that, she would verify it in the pharmacy.
Recently, however, Feng Yu Heng noticed that the medical items that she had clearly used were automatically replenished at some unknown time.
For example, the case of bottled anesthetic spray she had taken from the military only held twelve bottles. She had given one to Xuan Tian Ming, so there should have been eleven remaining. She couldn't even bear to bring one out to use on Wang Chuan. Why was it that when she opened the case now, there were a full twelve bottles?
Going to look at the digestive medicines that she had used, a new bag had been added to the box even though she had clearly thrown away the bag. The new bag was filled with medicine. Only the heart disease medicine she had taken out earlier in the morning and the medicine she had just given to Wang Chuan were not filled.
She was surprised and suddenly remembered the nail medicine she had given to Man Xi, quickly running over to look. As expected, the amount used would be replenished. Even the nail polish remover was the same.
Feng Yu Heng suddenly had an expectation. Could it be that this space had an automatic refill ability? She decided to return the day after and see if the things she had used today would be automatically replenished. If it really had this type of ability, it would be a truly huge help in her future plans!
The pleasant surprise led to Feng Yu Heng not getting any sleep. Just leaving the space, she heard the sounds of servants already moving around.
She pushed open the door and found that it was just now daybreak. She lamented the inconvenience of ancient traffic. Leaving a room was truly a pain.
In fact, that night in the Feng manor, there were not many who could sleep soundly, especially Feng Jin Yuan. The hidden guards he had deployed to Xiao Zhou returned in the night, bringing an entirely unexpected report "When this servant arrived, the residence at Xiao Zhou was empty without a single person. All of the girls had been transferred ahead of time."
Feng Jin Yuan was very shocked. He could not figure out who would actually fight with him for those useless girls.
"This servant discovered a suspicious woman while returning. We chased her all the way to the capital and had exchanged blows. The enemy's left shoulder and right arm were severely injured by an arrow and sword, and her center of her back was hit by a palm strike."
"Do you know who that person is?"
"I do not dare be certain."
"Then who do you suspect?"
"This servant suspects… the second young miss' servant."
1: I believe the author needs to stop confusing the two servants.
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After being homeless for the past decade, Jessica Meyers can officially shed that title.
"I feel like I'm in a daydream," Meyers said. "I just feel like this was supposed to happen. It was a dream realized."
On Wednesday, the Public Housing Authority (PHA) signed over the deed to the abandoned rowhome Meyers had been squatting in for the past eight years.
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The 28-year-old won the right to buy the house at a PHA auction in July for $8,000 and, on Monday, she went to settlement to deliver outright the auction balance owed.
"It feels good to make someone happy who earned it," said Jena Marino, the transaction coordinator at Surety Title Company in Old City. "She deserves it. She's gutsy."
With her hair dyed blue, Meyers walked into the closing with a certified check for $7,496. She walked out with a manila folder, a copy of the paperwork and a big smile on her face.
"I have $50 in my bank account. I don't care. I have a house," Meyers said.
To raise the cash for the purchase, she posted two online fundraisers that netted about $4,000 in donations from strangers. Money from friends added another $3,000 to the pot and Meyers earned the rest from working odd construction jobs and selling the majority of her belongings at a South Jersey flea market.
Determined to make the purchase happen, Meyers raised all the money in just eight weeks for the rowhome she nicknamed "pop-a-squat."
As a teen, Meyers left Syracuse, her hometown, and traveled the country hitchhiking and hopping freight trains from California to Louisiana. She came to Philadelphia and put down roots as a squatter eight years ago.
"It's remarkable to go from street homelessness to homeownership," said Laura Weinbaum of Project HOME. "Hers was the kind of perfect storm, a person experiencing a ton of connections in the community and pooling of resources to help her get to this place and build toward buying the house."
Weinbaum estimates there are about 500 single homeless persons on the streets of Philadelphia and approximately 12,000 homeless persons total, based on the numbers of persons who presented themselves at shelters in 2012.
Now that the purchase of Meyers' home has been secured, she turns to the real problems associated with homeownership. She'll work to get the water, electric and sewer turned on, and fix up the interior.
Meyers also has to deal with an issue plaguing the abandoned home next door. A tree had been growing through the house and fell down earlier this month. She's hoping the Philadelphia Department of Licensing and Inspections will work to secure the property, which has a gapping hole in it.
There's at least a dozen boarded up houses on Meyers' block in Millcreek. While her friends call the neighborhood "dumpy" she sees it as a friendly, close knit community where people sit on porches and watch out for each other.
Her West Philadelphia neighbors adore her. She drove out the drug dealers that once occupied the abandoned house, and partakes in block parties and cleanups.
"If all squatters were like her, it would be wonderful," said neighbor Bee Maurer. "They are a welcomed addition. They weren't just taking from the neighborhood they were putting something in."
As Meyers is working to make the house livable, she plans to stay with a friend until those major repairs are resolved.
Meyers' journey has people divided over how she attained her new home.
Ave Maria Pospieck-Schnerr posted this comment on Sept. 10: "while I giver her kudos for "trying" to turn her life around....she did not have to "really" work for this....most of the money was donated...I would have respected her more for getting a job and paying for it herself....wish I could get strangers to donate money to pay my utilities and repairs...."
Meyers shrugs off the criticism because she believes she's doing something good, blasting the homelessness stereotype. She hopes to start a nonprofit one day to help the city and PHA create a program to help homeless people or organizations turn abandoned houses into livable places that offer housing for the homeless.
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• gambol •
Pronunciation: gæm-bêl • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Intransitive verb
Meaning: To leap or jump about joyfully, to frolic playfully.
Notes: It is difficult to understand why a word this beautiful in sound and sense can fade from a language but today's lovely word is, indeed, fading fast. This is Alpha Dictionary's attempt to keep it gamboling along. We no longer double the [l] when adding suffixes like –ed (gamboled), –ing (gamboling), and –er (gamboler) in the US but doubling is still acceptable and encountered more widely in Britain.
In Play: Gamboling is certainly more the prerogative of the young than their more staid and mature elders: "Claxton loved to watch his grandchildren gamboling in the backyard on the weekends." But gamboling adults are not unheard of by any means, "Gamboling crowds jammed traffic for hours after the home team won the championship."
Word History: Today's word is an adaptation of French gambade "skipping or frisking about" from Italian gambata "kick". This noun is based on gamba "leg", the Late Latin word for "hoof". It is also the origin of the English slang term gam "leg" and is a close relation of the French jambe "leg". The ending -ade apparently was confused with the then more frequently used –auld, which eventually lost its [d], resulting in gambol rather than gambade. (No, gamble is unrelated; it comes from game—better to gambol than gamble in Las Vegas.)
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