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What if I told you dolls that the only thing standing between one loyal STF and her dreams of becoming a fashion designer (and um, meeting the Olsen twins!) are a few votes from all of you?
Back in February, I posted about a contest being held by Olsenboye, the new-ish juniors line at JCPenney designed by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. A few of you dolls submitted your sketches in hopes of being picked by the twins themselves for top 10 spots, and reader Jessica actually landed one of those coveted spots! "A while back, you put a link to the Olsenboye Design Contest on Facebook, and I thought, 'Why not?' So I entered (being the very oldest you can be to enter!) and just found out I'm a top ten finalist," Jessica writes.
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Everyone's had something to say about the Nicki Minaj-Mariah Carey American Idol tensions: Nick Cannon, Ryan Seacrest, even, believe it or not, Barbara Walters.
And it turns out, Barb is no Barbz.
In the wake of some particularly damning allegations spouted by the View headmistress this morning, Nicki finally broke her silence on the alleged altercation and took to Twitter to set the record straight.
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Mariah and Nicki's feud is the best news Idol ever received--here's why
Her comments came in the wake of Walters revealing on today's "Hot Topics" portion of The View that she spoke with Mariah over the phone in the wake of the headline-grabbing event. The TV vet relayed to the audience that Carey informed her Minaj was overheard saying, "If I had a gun, I would shoot that bitch," as she left Idol's Charlotte stage, where the cuss-filled incident transpired.
That, apparently, was the straw that broke the camel's back. And caused Nicki, in turn, to break her silence.
"Hey yAll," began the first of many morning tweets on the topic. "Lets just say nicki said smthn about a gun. ppl will believe it cuz she's a black rapper. Lmao. I'll then hit up Barbara n milk it."
Idol judges get back to work after blowout
"Ironically no camera or mic heard the gun comment tho. Lol @ the struggle. Not even the producers believed u. Say no to violence barbz."
And while she clearly wasn't happy with Mariah, the singer and her fellow judge wasn't the only one drawing her ire.
"Barbara walters didn't reach out from our team barbz. I guess we're too dangerous. Don't shake if u don't wannA get shook!!!! LmAooooooooooo.
Check out what Nick Cannon had to say about his wife's workplace altercation
"I don't call tmz n Barbara Walters cuz I stand on my own two feet," she went on. "Never needed an army. God is good. Insecurity is as cruel as the grave."
And while Nicki is clearly insinuating that the offending threat never left her lips, she clearly has a theory as to why that story is out there.
"I guess it hurts 2 have the producers tell u to ur face that nicki is the best judge we've had since simon. Awww, poor u. Keep them lies cmn.
"Tried to keep quiet but let's go!!!!...I thought we resolved it yesterday but I see u want ur pity party to continue. So I'm bout to po dot tea."
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Bogdan (2 Albums, 6 Tracks)
Bogdan makes the transition from experimental productions to dance music seem like child's play. He started with raw sound, collapsed into three-dimensional volumes, as a warning for the audio metamorphosis just around the corner. Then he left experimental in favor of the sublime: the contrast between the strict serialist principles and a warm, emotional timbre. In 2009 he surprised us with a wave of balearic edits and a superb balearic dub opening live for Lindstrom at the Rokolectiv 2009 festival, released by Local Records in 2010 and with an opening act for Byetone. His live is a true journey into his experimental beginnings and quenches your thirst for the contemporary. In 2010, Bogdan lights the fuse for local Romanian sound with another change in style - a cosmic techno hybrid. 4/4 dancing with a disco heart, it's an album that tells a story about dancing in zero gravity.


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U.S. 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rose for the first time in five weeks while interest rates on adjustable-rate mortgages dropped to record lows, according to a survey released on Thursday by Freddie Mac, the second-largest U.S. mortgage finance company.
While interest rates on mortgages are at or near record lows, demand for home purchase and refinancing loans has been tepid. A weak jobs market and flailing economy continue to weigh on consumer confidence.
Interest rates on U.S. 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, the most widely used loan, averaged 4.21 percent for the week ended Oct. 21, up from the previous week's record low of 4.19 percent, according to the survey.
Rates were also below their year-ago level of 5.00 percent. Freddie Mac started the survey in April 1971.
Meanwhile, 15-year fixed-rate mortgages rose for the first time in 14 weeks and averaged 3.64 percent, up from 3.62 percent last week, which was the lowest since Freddie Mac began surveying this loan type in 1991.
"Mixed inflation signals kept fixed mortgage rates at bay this week," Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist, said in a statement.
Mortgage rates are linked to yields on Treasuries and yields on mortgage-backed securities. The Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday U.S. mortgage applications slumped last week.
Freddie Mac said rates on 5/1 ARMs, set at a fixed rate for five years and adjustable in each following year were 3.45 percent, down from 3.47 percent last week, reaching the all-time lowest level since Freddie Mac began tracking this loan type in 2005.
One-year adjustable-rate mortgages were 3.30 percent, down from 3.43 percent last week. The one-year ARM has not been lower since Freddie Mac started tracking it in 1984.
Tom Porcelli, head of U.S. market economics at RBC Capital Markets in New York, said the drop in demand is a reflection of the inability of many homeowners to take advantage of record low interest rates.
"Lending standards are remarkably tight and while there is a strong desire by homeowners to refinance, the mechanism is not allowing them to," he said. "This is the sad truth of the environment we are in right now."
A weak labor market is also playing a large role, he said."Home prices could easily fall another 15 percent due to the supply and demand imbalance that is currently in place," he said.


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Today, I walked into the office building behind Hello Kitty Man again. Hello Kitty Man, henceforth referred to as HKM, carries a Hello Kitty lunchbox. It is metallic, has a sparkly pink handle, and the front of it is plastered with Hello Kitty's proud face. There are a couple of noteworthy things about HKM:
- He is not a ten year old girl. In fact, he is a rather distinguished looking gentleman sporting a fine selection of tailored suits.
- This is not a lunch bag that he stuffs discretely into his briefcase. Oh no. This is a large lunchbox. One which he carries proudly.
- This is not a one time occurrence. I'd be willing to overlook a one time breach. I may even find it charming. But nope. This is HKM's regular lunch carrying vessel.
- Most importantly, it is not 1993.
In the middle of making my mental list of violations, I realized HKM was holding the elevator open for me. "You coming?" he asked in the most amazing British accent. A fabulous British accent, wasted on a grown man carrying a Hello Kitty lunch pail. Such. A. Shame.
Running into HKM was funny because I was in no position to judge anyone this morning. See, I was eating fleur de sel caramels and spitting out paper as I chewed. Think, biker spitting chewing tobacco juice but well, with candy. Because I'm classy like that. This past weekend, I spent many hours making fleur de sel caramels. It sounds simple enough in theory. I mean, the recipe has five ingredients. Five. You really can't go wrong.
Except you can. So, so wrong. The first time, I cooked the sugar too long. The recipe said light golden caramel color but apparently, I skipped kindergarten the day they went over colors. I completely flew by light golden caramel and landed squarely in the realm of dark brown caramel before finally mixing in the cream mixture. Enter Exhibit A which definitely had a hint of bitterness from the overcooked sugar. I'd probably lose what little foodie cred I have by admitting I kinda enjoyed the burnt taste so I won't admit that. Except that I ate the entire pan before moving on to attempt 2.
Attempt 2. I somehow figured the instructions were wrong and I didn't really need to cook the mixture until it reached 248 degrees. Because never having made caramels (or any candy) before suddenly made me an expert on the matter. So instead, I cooked it until it looked like I figured it was supposed to. Then, I figured I'd keep the good times rolling so I poured the candy into a container lined with wax paper instead of parchment paper. Exhibit B was a sticky, delicious mess. Of course that didn't stop me. I ate that batch as well, spitting out paper as I went along.
Attempts 3, 4, and 5 were also problematic. At least I'm consistent, right? Somewhere around attempt 36, the stars aligned. The sugar syrup didn't burn, the cream didn't burn, and lo and behold, when I combined the two, the mixture didn't burn.
The finished product, sweet and creamy with flecks of salt, was nearly perfect. Come lunchtime, I imagine it would be the perfect treat to find in one's Hello Kitty lunchbox.
1 cup heavy cream
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1 teaspoon fleur de sel
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 cup light corn syrup
1/4 cup water
Special equipment: parchment paper; a deep-fat thermometer
Line bottom and sides of an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper, then lightly oil parchment.
Bring cream, butter, and fleur de sel to a boil in a small saucepan, then remove from heat and set aside.
Boil sugar, corn syrup, and water in a 3- to 4-quart heavy saucepan, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Boil, without stirring but gently swirling pan, until mixture is a light golden caramel.
Carefully stir in cream mixture (mixture will bubble up) and simmer, stirring frequently, until caramel registers 248°F on thermometer, 10 to 15 minutes (I found 248°F resulted in a harder caramel, almost toffee like candy so I cook it until it reaches 240'ish). Pour into baking pan and cool 2 hours. When slightly cool, sprinkle fleur de sel over cooling caramel. After cooled, cut into 1-inch pieces, then wrap each piece in a 4-inch square of wax paper, twisting 2 ends to close.
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Frozen Morning - Windermere, Lake District, Cumbria
Windermere is the largest natural lake in England. It is a ribbon lake formed in a glacial trough after the retreat of ice at the start of the current interglacial period.
Mouthful - Atlantic Puffin, Staple Island
Puffins are distinct in their ability to hold several (sometimes over a dozen) small fish at a time, rather than regurgitating swallowed fish. This allows them to take longer foraging trips, since they can come back with more food energy for their chick than a bird that can only carry one fish at a time.
This is made possible by the unique hinging mechanism of their beak, which allows the upper and lower biting edges to meet at any of a number of angles.
Mystical Morning - Mont Saint-Michel, France
Shot just before full sunrise which gives this photo some nice soft colours without a lot of saturation. I was lucky to get calm winds which alowed me to get a decent reflection. Love how the colour from the sky is reflected in the water and gives this image a balanced look.
Le Mont Saint-Michel is an island commune in Normandy, France. It is located about one kilometre (0.6 miles) off the country's northwestern coast. The tides can vary greatly (14 Metres), which is reason it was nicknamed "St. Michael in peril of the sea" by medieval pilgrims making their way across the flats to reach the abbey located at the top of the mountain.
Into the water - Derwent Water, Lake District
Long expo at Derwent Water, near Keswick in Lake District, Cumbria, England. The lake occupies part of Borrowdale and lies immediately south of the town of Keswick. It is both fed and drained by the River Derwent. Derwentwater is a place of great scenery. It is surrounded by hills (called fells), and many of the slopes facing Derwentwater are heavily wooded. Derwent means River with oak trees. The lake is believed to be the last remaining native habitat of the vendace fish. It was also the shooting location for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens for the scene "Approach to Maz Kantana's Castle, Takodana".
Dusk in the City of Lights - Paris, France
As dusk sets in on Paris, the city lights turn on. On a summers evening, the city lights overlap with the dusk golden light in the sky creating this amazing scene. This is a shot from the top of Tour Montparnasse
Paris is often referred to as "The City of Light" (La Ville Lumière), both because of its leading role during the Age of Enlightenment, and more literally because Paris was one of the first European cities to adopt gas street lighting. In the 1860s, the boulevards and streets of Paris were illuminated by 56,000 gas lamps.
Nest Building Class - Shag & Chicks, Farne Island
European shag or common shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) is a species of cormorant. It breeds on coasts, nesting on rocky ledges or in crevices or small caves. The nests are untidy heaps of rotting seaweed or twigs cemented together by the bird's own guano. The nesting season is long, beginning in late February but some nests not started until May or even later. Three eggs are laid. Their chicks hatch without down and so they rely totally on their parents for warmth, often for a period of two months before they can fly. Fledging may occur at any time from early June to late August, exceptionally to mid-October.
Skógafoss, Iceland
Skógafoss is located on the Skógá River in the south of Iceland at the cliffs of the former coastline.
After the coastline receded the former sea cliffs remained, parallel to the coast over hundreds of kilometres, creating a clear border between the coastal lowlands and the Highlands of Iceland.
A Storm Brewing - Paris, France
A 9 shot hand help pano from the top of Arc de Triomphe which is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the center of Place Charles de Gaulle.
Tripods aren't allowed on the top of the Arch so I had to open the aperture and go with a hand held pano. I took a lot of shots to make sure I had at least one which was sharp in each position, not sure of how the final image would turn out. I finally selected 9 images which panned the entire scene and were sharp enough to produce the final image and I think it turned out pretty well.
Bringing home the bacon - Puffin, Farne Islands
Puffins feed their chicks primarily with small marine fish several times a day. The prey species of the Atlantic puffin include the sandeel, herring and capelin.
The puffins are distinct in their ability to hold several (sometimes over a dozen) small fish at a time, rather than regurgitating swallowed fish. This allows them to take longer foraging trips, since they can come back with more food energy for their chick than a bird that can only carry one fish at a time.
This is made possible by the unique hinging mechanism of their beak, which allows the upper and lower biting edges to meet at any of a number of angles.
Celtic Sunset - Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland
Located on the northeast coast of England, by the village of Bamburgh in Northumberland, the site was originally the location of a Celtic Brittonic fort known as Din Guarie and the capital of the kingdom of Bernicia. The fort came under Anglo-Saxon control in AD 590 and was destroyed by the Vikings in AD 993. The Normans later built a new castle on the site, which forms the core of the present one.
Late medieval British author Thomas Malory identified Bamburgh Castle with Joyous Gard, the mythical castle home of Sir Lancelot in Arthurian legend.
Cruising the Seine - Le Conciergerie, Paris
A long exposure of the Seine and Le Conciergerie just after sun down. I took this log expo to show some movement in the clouds and to smoothen the water while a cruise boat with its bright purple and orange lights, entered the frame. I think it adds some intrest to the foreground and probably looks better than just an empty river.
Le Conciergerie is located on the west of the Île de la Cité (literally "Island of the City"), formerly a prison but presently is used mostly for law courts. It was part of the former royal palace. Hundreds of prisoners during the French Revolution were taken from the Conciergerie to be executed by guillotine at a number of locations around Paris. The Conciergerie was decommissioned during 1914 and opened to the public as a national historical monument.
All Lit Up - Pont Alexandre III, Paris, France
The Pont Alexandre III is a deck arch bridge across the river Seine in Paris. It connects the Champs-Élysées quarter with those of the Invalides and Eiffel Tower. The bridge is the most ornate, extravagant bridge in the city and is classified as a French Monument historique. The Beaux-Arts style bridge, has exuberant Art Nouveau lamps, cherubs, nymphs and winged horses at both ends.
Who goes there? - European Robin, Northwood
Known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles is an Old World flycatcher. In Britain and Ireland, it is relatively unafraid of people and drawn to human activities involving the digging of soil, in order to look out for earthworms and other food freshly turned up. This is because, here, the robin is considered to be a gardener's friend and for various folklore reasons the robin was never harmed. In continental Europe on the other hand, robins were hunted and killed as with most other small birds, and are more wary. Robin has an average life expectancy of 1.1 years; however, once past its first year it can expect to live longer and one robin has been recorded as reaching 19 years of age.
The Parisian Dream - Paris, France
A shot from Pont Alexandre III bridge at sunset looking towards the Eiffel Tower. I love how the lamps catch the golden light from the setting sun.
The Beaux-Arts style bridge, with its exuberant Art Nouveau lamps, cherubs, nymphs and winged horses at either end, was built between 1896 and 1900. It is named after Tsar Alexander III.
Razorbill with Chick, Farne Islands
Razorbill (Alca torda) is a colonial seabird that comes to land only to breed. It chooses one partner for life and females lay just one egg per year.
Razorbills nest along coastal cliffs in enclosed or slightly exposed crevices. The parents spend equal amounts of time incubating. Once the chick has hatched, the parents take turns foraging for their young and sometimes fly long distances before finding prey.
Razorbills are distributed across the North Atlantic. The total world population of razorbills is estimated to be at less than a million breeding pairs, making them among the rarest auks in the world.
Icelandic Horses Landscape
These small yet majestic horses are an integral part of the Icelandic culture (almost 100,000 of them in a country of 320,000 people).. They have 5 natural gaits: walk, trot, canter, tölt and flying pace.. Their sure footedness will get you across rough terrains.. These horses, moments after this picture was taken, walked right up to us and we got to experience just how friendly they are..
Mirror Image - Vik i Myrdal Church - Vik, Iceland
This cute little red and white church on top of a small hill in Vik in South of Iceland, is surrounded by a dramatic landscape and jagged peaks.
Reason i chose this composition is because the bright colour of the church perfectly complimented the foggy mood and I loved hot the shape of the church is a mirror image of the shape of the mountain in the background.
Goðafoss - A different perspective
A long exposure shot of Godafoss from the foot bridge. Most pictures of this iconic waterfall are from the foot of the falls or right on top. Here is Godafoss from a different angle - one of the most spectacular waterfalls in Iceland.


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Christian Therapeutic Boarding School for Struggling Teens
Boarding School, Therapy and Education in One…Restoring Teens and Families
Welcome to Abundant Life Academy in Eastern Virginia! We are a Christian therapeutic boarding school designed for teens who are struggling. Our goal is to provide teens and their families with the tools and resources to thrive academically, relationally and spiritually. We help once troubled teens to begin living a fulfilling life, equipping teens to become happy, confident, self-reliant, and successful adults.
Year-round enrollment in our East Coast Christian boarding school is for both girls and boys ages 13-17. ALA is a Christian boarding school in Virginia, designed for teenagers that are:
- Making poor and even dangerous choices
- Acting entitled and selfish
- Manipulating their family and others
- Lying, sneaking out, isolating from family
- Experimenting with sex, alcohol, or drugs
- Rebelling against authority
- Depressed or withdrawn
- Diagnosed with ADD or ADHD
- Academically behind or unmotivated.
If your teen is struggling and fits this description, call us at 888-305-6729 to speak to a boarding school admissions counselor immediately. To request more information about our Christian boarding school, click here for our online form.
Christian Counseling and Therapy for Teens in Crisis
Our chief goal is to facilitate the restoration of a positive relationship between the teen and their family through therapy, mentoring, and through modeling the love and hope of Jesus Christ.
We work with troubled teens that have had a disconnect somewhere along the line and have gotten off track in life. Academically, the teens we typically serve have been outstanding students in the past, or have the potential to be so, yet are not currently applying themselves; their emotional and conduct issues are getting in the way of academics.
Most of the teens that come our boarding school are struggling with selfishness, entitlement, and finding motivation primarily in the poor peer choices they are making. They are in need of restoration through a greater understanding of the value of who they are and where they fit in in their family and in the world (their purpose).
Boarding School Offering Troubled Teens Counseling, Care and Preparation for the Future
Our therapeutic school and program provides intervention for struggling boys and girls. We aim for a restoration of a healthy and positive lifestyle through intensive teen counseling and mentoring, as well as family training. Our therpaeutic boarding school for boys and girls offers:
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Call us now. Our therapeutic boarding school personnel will help your teen get on the other side of bad behaviors, anger and self-destruction. Allow our dedicated, professional team help revive the hope that was once strong in your now struggling child by providing a safe and healthy platform for their academics and their relationship with God and family to be restored.


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Scientific evidence versus outdated beliefs: A response to Brewin (2016).
(Journal of abnormal psychology, 2016-10)
We find Brewin's (2016) critiques of the narratives, power, and coherence measures in Rubin et al. (2016) without merit; his suggestions for a "revised formulation" (p. 1015) of coherence are contradicted by data readily ...


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Come From Away
This joyous new musical shares the incredible real-life story of...
Showing at Phoenix Theatre
Oct 2020 - May 2021
This bustling area infamously know as 'The West End' is London's entertainment district. Here, you can explore endless shopping streets, countless buzzing restaurants and bars as well as the world-famous West End Shows
London's West End hosts a spectacular line up of West End shows in some of the most notable theatres in the world. To name just a few: The Mousetrap at St Martin's Theatre; Les Misérables at Sondheim Theatre which was previously named Queen's Theatre before a redesign in 2019, Les Mis was also originally shown at the Barbican Centre; The Phantom Of The Opera at Her Majesty's; The Woman In Black at Fortune Theatre; Mamma Mia! at Novello Theatre (originally Prince of Wales Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof at the Playhouse Theatre; Hamilton at Victoria Palace Theatre; Waitress at the Adelphi Theatre; School of Rock at the Gillian Lynne Theatre (formerly New London Theatre); Tina – The Tina Turner Musical at the Aldwych Theatre; Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre; Only Fools and Horses at the Theatre Royal Haymarket; Come From Away at the Phoneix Theatre; The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre; 9 to 5 the Musical at the Savoy Theatre; Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre; Matilda The Musical at the Cambridge Theatre and The Book of Mormon at The Prince of Wales Theatre.
A trip to London's West End can't be complete without seeing a theatre show. With a reputaion that can only be compared to Broadway, it is fair to say London has some of the best plays and musicals in the world.
So which show will you choose?
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2007/12/19/hotel_kiosk_hijacks/
Man siphons info for 300 credit cards from hotel kiosks
Not bad take for three days work
Posted in The Channel, 19th December 2007 01:50 GMT
A former computer consultant has admitted to breaking in to more than 60 business kiosks at hotels and stealing credit card information during a three-day crime spree earlier this year.
Hario Tandiwidjojo, 28, of Lomita, California, pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000, although federal prosecutors agreed to recommend a maximum sentence of 10 months in exchange for pleading guilty. He is scheduled for sentencing on March 3.
Using credentials obtained from his previous employer, Tandiwidjojo bypassed four password checks that were used to restrict access to the hotel kiosks, which were rented to business guests by the hour. Once inside he installed a small arsenal of software that allowed him to intercept credit card information from customers who used the machines.
In just three days in February, his activities racked up $34,266 in losses and obtained credentials for as many as 300 credit cards, according to court documents.
Tuesday's plea agreement is the latest example of a computer consultant admitting to using his technical expertise to participate in a felony. Last month John Schiefer admitted using massive botnets to illegally install software on at least 250,000 machines and steal online banking identities of Windows users by eavesdropping on them while they made financial transactions. Both men were prosecuted in the same Los Angeles federal courthouse.
During a raid on Tandiwidjojo's residence in August, FBI agents confiscated a credit card writer used to encode information on magnetic strips, a credit card terminal used to process transactions and a California driver's license that bore Tandiwidjojo's picture but contained the name and other personal details of a different individual.
The Dell machines used in the kiosks were protected with a program designed to prevent changes to the underlying operating system, but Tandiwidjojo was able to override them and install keyloggers and other software. These transmitted credit details shortly after a customer swiped a card, according to court documents. He installed shared serial ports to streamline the operation. In many cases, the man used LogMeIn to remotely access the machines.
Showcase Business Centers, the company that operated the kiosks, estimated that more than 300 victims might have had their credit card details pilfered. Tandiwidjojo also attacked kiosks operated by a company by the name of Shuttlepoint, but only managed to make the machines crash.
Tandiwidjojo's previous work for a company that maintained hotel kiosks was instrumental in allowing him to perpetrate his crime. It supplied him with passwords needed to access the machines and also allowed him to pose as an authorized technical service provider. ®


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#RSL Tweets of the Day (@RealSaltLake)
Why is #RSL FW @al_saborio often overlooked / underrated by @MLS fans, media? … @SimonBorg examines: http://m.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2013/04/04/rsls-alvaro-saborio-set-long-term-stay-rsl-why-he-so-underrated-mls …
#RSL striker Alvaro Saborio inks new deal through 2015 http://sbn.to/13VVeZ3
Quite possibly. #Sabo RT @MLS Is this the most underrated player in MLS? http://soc.cr/jLmeo pic.twitter.com/YAellvKPw4
Plata, Saborio, Morales, Stephenson, Salcedo, Viana and Wingert all listed as questionable this week. Findley and Grossman are out or #RSL.
LOL. MT @chezgreen21: @RSLWUFC @kiraterry yeah I agree! the guy they got to do it was kinda a weirdo. #RSL is classy not trashy
Real Salt Lake @RealSaltLake3h
Year-long scoring drought ended a week ago for #RSL MF @luisitogil21, writes @DesNewsReal ... http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865577514/Real-Salt-Lakes-Luis-Gil-ended-year-long-scoring-drought.html …
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A bad week for homeopaths but a great one for the Nightingale Collaboration
The pen is mightier than the sword, unless you're Jerome Burne, who describes himself as a health journalist, who's written for most of the national newspapers and a variety of magazines, in recent years mostly for the Daily Mail. Last year he won an award from the Medical Journalists Association. He also co-authored a couple of Patrick Holford's books and is mysteriously described by Dana Ullman, of all people, as a 'leading skeptic'. I confess I'd never heard of him until last week but then I don't usually read the Daily Fail, so what would I know?
Being an award-winning medical journalist and having done all the careful, thorough and objective research that description implies, Jerome Burne will know all about homeopathy. He will know that it is based on fanciful pre-science notions about disease and he will know that most homeopathic products contain no trace of active ingredient. He will know that the homeopaths' belief that diluting and shaking an ingredient increases 'potency' is irrational because it breaks basic laws of physics and chemistry.
He will know that the totality of evidence thus far indicates that homeopathy works no better than placebo and that putting faith in homeopathy can lead to needless tragedy. Oh, hang on a minute…no, it seems he didn't know that last bit. He actually says of homeopathy,
Even its most virulent critics cannot claim is remotely likely to be harmful
Anyway, given that Jerome Burne should have already known of these tragedies, award-winning medical journalist that he is, it was disconcerting to see on his blog last week, an article entitled, 'Why hounding homeopaths is both batty and arrogant', in which he describes homeopathy as something "that might, to some, be mildly irritating", comparable to "people who misplace apostrophes, wear Croc shoes, do crochet, litter their sentences with 'you know' and text using their middle finger."
I wondered what on earth he had discovered that makes it OK for homeopaths to lure paying customers with the claims that homeopathy prevents pertussis and malaria and everything else under the sun, rendering those of us trying stop homeopaths (and anyone else) making false claims in healthcare advertising, "seriously potty", in Jerome Burne's opinion. He concludes,
Ultimately what Nightingale is attacking is the intelligence and judgement of people who are trying to find an effective way to heal themselves.
Alas, no, Jerome Burne hadn't suddenly got wind of the evidence that would finally persuade the scientific consensus that homeopathy is indeed a "highly effective system of medicine", as its supporters claim, so I won't bother revisiting the fantasy of just how wonderful it would be for all of us if only homeopathy worked.
It turns out that the reason "hounding homeopaths is both batty and arrogant" is that there are risks involved with taking pharmaceutical drugs. (Spot the fallacy!) We are not told why the risks involved in taking drugs are more important than the risk of putting faith in homeopathy for life-threatening conditions such as heart disease and cancer because, in spite of being an award-winning medical journalist, it seems that Jerome Burne hadn't done the minimal research needed to establish that people sometimes make this choice for themselves or for their children, with terrible consequences. So much for "the intelligence and judgement of people who are trying to find an effective way to heal themselves". (Note I'm giving Jerome the benefit of the doubt here. Either he didn't know or he doesn't care. Doesn't look good for him either way, does it?)
Talking of minimal research, Jerome Burne also writes,
I bring all this up because this week Nightingale was supposed to be protesting outside the Advertising Standards Authority (because they haven't been diligent in chasing homeopaths for making unsupported claims on web sites) and lobbying Parliament (because "something has to be done").
We just thought this was funny. Of course, as many commenters beneath Jerome's article pointed out, it was not Nightingale but the homeopathic group called HMC21 who staged a protest outside the ASA. Here's a pic showing the dilution of homeopaths that showed up, plus Martin Robbins, who has since posted this excellent report.
HMC21 are a group who, back in 2010, placed an ad promoting homeopathy in a supplement to the New Statesman, which attracted several complaints including one from the Nightingale Collaboration. (Ah! This must be how poor Jerome got so confused). HMC21 have spent the last couple of years wasting a monumental amount of the ASA's time, fighting for the right to be able to say whatever they like in their advertising, as have the largest professional body for lay homeopaths in the UK, the Society of Homeopaths, whose website was so appalling it was challenged by the ASA directly.
The final adjudications against both the SoH and HMC21 are published today on the ASA website and are covered in the latest Nightingale Collaboration newsletter, which explains that these two adjudications set the standard against which all complaints about homeopathy to the ASA will be judged in future and which calls these landmark rulings "a victory for consumer choice".
The issue of consumer 'choice' is just a common trope. The real issue is simply whether the advertiser can properly substantiate the claims made. And by ensuring advertisers can substantiate the claims they make, consumers are protected from misleading advertising that would otherwise deny them from making a fully informed choice. We want consumers to be allowed to make that informed choice.
Coming only a few days after NHS Lothian announced their decision to stop funding homeopathic treatment, it's been a great week for us batty and arrogant members of the public, who don't care to see good money wasted on cultish nonsense.
By the way, in case you don't know why the Society of Homeopaths who, like HMC21, would presumably have known of the adjudication against them for some weeks before it was published, didn't join the protest outside the ASA premises, read all about it here and be joyful (or mortified, depending on where you're coming from).
So, what was the HMC21 protest about? Some of the protesters were happy to tell me. "We think the ASA is a bit biased. We think it has an agenda," I was told by a charming woman from Conspiraloons R Us. If the folk on Planet Homeopathy are to be believed, there is enough evidence in favour of homeopathy to sink their own spaceship. Why, they've got anecdotes dating back 200 years! They've got studies based on patient self-assessment!
In the leaflet they were giving out at the protest, they whine that,
The ASA has gone on to endorse the position that the only valid evidence in medicine comes from randomised controlled trials (RCTs), and that evidence from patients' experience is not valid. This is a central argument of those opposed to homeopathy and other CAM therapies. It has no scientific or medical foundation, and it is dangerous.
There is no part of the above quote that isn't absolute crap. The argument about RCTs is not that they produce the "only valid evidence in medicine" but that the results of high quality RCTs provide the best evidence we can get about whether a proposed treatment can achieve what it's supposed to. This is because they minimise the possibility of bias, which the clinical experience and patient self-assessments that homeopaths are so fond of most certainly do not. This would be why the hierarchy of evidence that ranks systematic reviews and meta analyses of RCTs at the top is widely accepted by the scientific community.
I'm only a humanities graduate but even I can grasp this! All homeopaths have to do is come up with a study that convinces the scientific consensus that homeopathy works. In 200 years they haven't managed to do that. The excuses range from the RCT model being wrong for the homeopathic paradigm (or some such twaddle) or that the multi million dollar industry that is homeopathy can't afford to finance them. Hogwash!
Speaking of the scientific consensus, I was surprised to see, beneath Jerome Burne's piece, a comment from William Alderson of HMC21 suggesting that he doesn't know what is meant by this term.
There is an ALLEGED scientific consensus, but there has never been a study which defines who is included in this and why. Without such a study this is completely and unquestionably anecdotal evidence, both in scientific or judicial terms. A few "authorities" are quoted, but their competence is highly questionable.
For pity's sake, you don't need a "study" to define the term – just use a frigging dictionary. Or look it up on wiki.
Scientific consensus is the collective judgment, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of study. Consensus implies general agreement, though not necessarily unanimity.
If the scientific consensus is that homeopathic products are capable of doing what the likes of William Alderson claim they do, it should be very easy for him to show this and HMC21 wouldn't have had to resort to fallacious appeals to tradition and patient self-assessments in place of robust evidence.
The simple truth is that the evidence supplied by HMC21 did not meet the minimum standard of providing at least the one "adequately controlled experimental human study" very properly required by the ASA, therefore the ASA – whose remit is to protect consumers by ensuring advertising is truthful, not to help those trying to rip us off – had no option but to find against them.
I'll leave the last word to the supremely articulate and incisive spokeswoman for the Nightingale Collaboration, who responded on Jerome Burne's blog thus:
Our complaining about adverts may be perceived as an "attack" by those whose living depends on being able to make unsupportable claims about their products and services to the public; similarly, a mugger who is witnessed and reported to the police may also perceive it as an attack on his living. The bottom line is that it is they – not us – who are breaking rules…As ordinary consumers we have no power to influence the research, development, marketing or prescribing of pharmaceutical drugs – but we can challenge misleading claims made in healthcare advertising. Considering that a great many potentially dangerous misleading claims are made in healthcare advertising – well, at least in advertising by CAM practitioners – I am satisfied that campaigning for truthful advertising in healthcare is a worthy cause, however "seriously potty" or a "waste of valuable resources" it seems to anyone else.
I couldn't have put it better myself. 😉
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On the back of the ASA finding I got a list of local Homeopaths to me from here: http://www.homeopathy-soh.org/about-homeopathy/find-a-homeopath/
Checked which ones failed by claiming to treat ailments and emailed them all this:
Warning them to clean up their website or be reported to the ASA and Trading Standards.
I've had one terrified response so far. I urge everyone else to do the same.
Sorry I got carried away rubbing their face in it. One of them replied saying she'd removed the medical claims and that SOH had advised them that they're going to fully comply with the ASA.
For a blog that advertizes itself as a sceptic's web site your commentary seems very one sided. OK, you don't like alternative medicines, fair play. But to qualify as a sceptic you would need to be balancing your rants against homeopathy with a few posts on the criminality of the drug companies.
Part of the problem in trying to have any reasoned debate with a homeopath supporter is perhaps best demonstrated by citing a post from the comments on this site
Christine Jahnig
The ASA hired an expert to assess the homeopathic literature. That expert is trained only in………..pharmacology.
I imagine this is the same person commenting on the Pulse Today website in response to their article on the ASA adjudication.
The gloating seen here by those who want to deny patients homeopathic treatment is shameful. None can speak from a position of authority. None can claim that they have ever seen or been treated by a homeopath, are physicians, homeopaths, pharmaceutical chemists or trained in any of the health care science fields. The only thing they are specialized in is disinformation and cyberbullying.
Those who oppose homeopathy are nothing more than well-funded and highly-organized disinformation operations in full-swing throughout the internet. From forums to comment boards and even professional websites that have only one purpose: Defame, distract, and destroy the truth.
However organized, the tactics are very predictable in a world filled with lies and half-truths. This, sadly, includes every day news media, one of the worst offenders with respect to being a source of disinformation.
Source: http://www.realfarmacy.com/25-rules-of-disinformation/
Sandra your repetition of your dogma is rather boring, your fallacious belief someone has to be a certain profession or a homeopath to understand homeopathy is just plain nonsense, I am sure you will keep on repeating it though. And you have no idea what my qualifications are, or if I have ever been treated with homeopathy it is an irrelevance, knowing a study isn't double blinded, isn't adequately controlled etc.etc. doesn't require more that basic intelligence and not being deluded.
Cyber bullying ? Really… You are the one with a site encouraging people to visit pages you find, comment and leave, you say you and others will follow up. Hilarious…..
In terms of the article the ASA found the adverts in question, and the tweet to be in breach of UK advertising codes. You may not like that, but it is about truth in advertising. People who want to use homeopathy still can, they just can't advertise that is has any medical benefit. Simple.
Personally I would like to see homeopathy banned from use in the NHS. It is clear there is no credible evidence of efficacy, and as the NHS is publicly funded I and many other taxpayers don't want precious NHS resources wasted on delusion. If people want to pay for their own – fine but don't mislead people about what results can be expected. What you do in the USA is of course subject to different regulation.
What evidence can you present I or anyone else who has posted here is well funded with the purpose of arguing against homeopathy? What evidence do you have that we are formally organised? You are the one who looks like a zealot when you make wild unsubstantiated allegations. It seems to me you have to resort to such accusations because you can't produce credible evidence in support of your beliefs.
Perhaps you can't understand some people feel strongly about false advertising, promotion of quackery and the harm that can result. That's my motivation and guess what, the more nonsense I read from homeopathists the stronger I feel.
This is an actual post by me. I never posted any other comment on this site. The supposed comment by me (above) was added by someone who controls this site so that the members here would have a reason to post their childish comments. Not working. Just another example showing the ends to which you will reach to manipulate the truth. Guess this will be deleted. Better take a screen shot.
Sandra, that would sound so much more likely* if you hadn't posted similar comments on Jerome Burne's blog.
*It would still sound pretty far fetched.
The similarity between the posts, I.e. conspiracy theories, paranoia, unsubstantiated accusations even very similar sentences, posted and attributed elsewhere to Sandra, make me, erm, sceptical.
If the latest post attributed to Sandra is another wild accusation, without evidence. Even if we were to believe it, any sympathy she might of had evaporates with the comments about childish remarks. I think the rational amongst us can see some childish if not irrational behaviour. Bizarre.
Sandra – you complain that people writing against homeopathy in the comments section of this blog are somehow unqualified to write about homeopathy because they have never consulted a homeopath or undergone homeopathic treatment. I've never jumped out of an aeroplane either with or without a parachute – does that make me unqualified to comment on the stupidity of jumping out of an aeroplane without a parachute? Relying on homeopathy as a genuine form of medical therapy is the equivalent of jumping out of an aeroplane sans parachute.
I am a supporter of the Nightingale Collaboration and have reported many websites of homeopaths and other quacks to the ASA for making claims of benefit which cannot be supported by scientific evidence. I submitted so many complaints that the ASA asked me to back off while they investigated their "super-complaint", so I hope I have helped to bring about the investigation by the ASA! Why should homeopaths – or any other group of quacks – be permitted to get away with making claims of benefit that they cannot provide evidence for? Would you be happy with, say, a soap manufacturer making a claim that using their soap could reverse the ageing process for example? I hope you wouldn't. Stopping people from making such false claims is a major reason for us having consumer protection legislation.
To paraphrase Carl Sagan, ordinary claims may be made with ordinary proof but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. In case you don't understand this, I will explain. If I claim to have a pet goat, while you might think it odd there is a reasonable possibility that it could be true and would need little in the way of solid evidence (a photograph, maybe) to support such a claim. On the other hand, if I claimed to have a pet unicorn, I would hope you see that I might have a lot of difficulty in substantiating such a claim. Given the combination of scientific implausibility and lack of credible evidence of benefit for homeopathy, it is fair comment to describe it as utter nonsense. Therefore making claims of benefit for homeopathy fall into the extraordinary category and require extraordinary proof to substantiate. There is not even ordinary proof! I suggest you take a few lessons in understanding what is meant by scientific evidence and the process of evidence based medicine. Try http://www.cebm.net/ as a good place to start. Learn what is meant by the terms placebo effect and regression towards the mean.
Oh, by the way, I am a qualified physician of 28 years standing. I believe I am therefore sufficiently qualified to say that, given the current evidence base, homeopathy is bunk.
Sandra, if the first comment was not you, how do you explain the similar comments in other places which have the same avatar and name as your other posts there?
Occam's Razor indicates that the more likely explanation is that it's you. You are, after all, not a little crazy, claiming as you do that homeopathy definitely "saved your life" when afflicted by "mercury poisoning" from amalgam fillings.
Those of us of a more pragmatic bent will generally have no trouble understanding that when a charlatan wants to sell a fake medicine, the easiest thing to cure is a fake condition.
Guy, the expression Mad as a Hatter has its origins in mental aberrations as a result of exposure to mercury doesn't it?
Perhaps just for once there is a shred of evidence in an anecdote a homeopath tells? Not good either way.
There must be another analogy to be drawn about amalgams of myth, anecdote, blind faith etc. leading to mental confusion…


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Introducing LyncAutoAnswer.com - An open source remote worker's Auto Answer Kiosk with Lync 2010
Last month I did a blog post called "Introducing Lync 2010 Super Simple Auto Answer Video Kiosk with Full Screen" where I rewrote the original Embodied Social Proxy software that I'd borrowed from Microsoft Research and just made a better "auto answer client" for Lync. (Lync being the Microsoft Unified Communications software that includes phone calls, IMs and video chats. You get Lync with Office 365.)
This auto-answer software automated the Lync client. You'd still run the Lync client and see the Lync client show up in the Windows taskbar. However, sometimes you might want a simpler "kiosk" solution where the
manager end user can't even see Lync or know that it's there. Lync calls this "UI Suppressed" mode. In this mode YOU are Lync and you have to automate the entire solution, paint the video, and manage events. You are using the Lync transport but providing all the UI. The benefits of UI Suppressed mode is that the user can't mess it up or fiddle with Lync. This can be useful in CRM applications where you might want chat and video embedded in some larger system where the user doesn't need to know you're using Lync.
In my case, I want people to come by my physical office in Redmond, Washington - where I am NOT - and sit down and have everything Just Work™. I decided I needed both a Kiosk and a non-Kiosk version. I started coding and realized not only that I was in over my head but also that the idea of a UI Suppression in Lync was in need of an abstraction. The ideas were high level and general but the Lync 2010 SDK code was, in my estimation, rather too low level to make it super easy. Why not wrap Lync and make a reusable library.
I reached out to Tom Morgan in the UK who knows Lync backwards and forwards and works for Modality Systems, a Lync and Unified Communications consultancy. I pitched him the idea - remotely, over Lync, in fact - and we got to pairing. I though it was a problem worth solving that could help not only the Lync community but also Remote Workers everywhere. Big thanks to Tom's bosses at Modality Systems for trusting Tom's judgment with this little weekend project! Feel free to thank them in Tom's blog post on the subject. ;)
Tom created a project on GitHub called Lync-UISuppression-VideoAutoAnswer that includes a WPF control and Lync wrapper abstraction to make UI Suppressed Lync applications easier. Then we updated my LyncAutoAnswer GitHub project to use Tom and Paul Nerney's new library! The project now includes BOTH a UI Suppressed AND non-UI Suppressed version. Tom and friends also redesigned the UI Suppressed version to be more "kiosky" and brighter so people could walk by and immediately know if I was busy or not.
I am happy to announce (or re-announce) the LyncAutoAnswer client at LyncAutoAnswer.com as a collaboration by Tom Morgan from Thought Stuff and Paul Nearney from CodeLync and me.
Here's a few screenshots of the UI Suppressed version that you can download today to setup your own Lync based remote kiosk.
Here I'm away at a conference. Note that not only does the color change but my status message from Lync presence updated as well. The headshot comes directly from Lync and Active Directory.
The general idea is simple. You create a Lync account that is NOT you; it's an account for your cart and the one you will call. Mine is called "Cart #7." I made a Domain Account that does NOT have the ability to login to a desktop. It doesn't have file system or network share access, it can only use Lync. Then I setup my remote machine to auto logon when it boots up. I also disabled it's power management and screensaver as this is a dumb kiosk.
Then you change the Lync Auto Answer settings like this:
<setting name="sipEmailAddress" serializeAs="String">
<value>sip:firstname.lastname@example.com</value> <!-- THIS IS YOU -->
<setting name="LyncAccountDomainUser" serializeAs="String">
<setting name="LyncAccountEmail" serializeAs="String">
<setting name="LyncAccountPassword" serializeAs="String">
And that's it! The kiosk does the rest. You can read more about the UI Suppressed version on Tom's blog post and the non-UI Suppressed version on my site. Also, note that UI Suppressed mode needs a registry key changed, but we include those .reg files for ON and OFF, 32- and 64-bit.
Again, Big thanks to Tom, Paul, their bosses, and the spirit of open source. http://lyncautoanswer.com. We look forward to redesigns, forks and pull requests as well as stories of remote work.
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Fausto Rossi's strike 17 minutes in was the only goal of the game as Gerardo Martino's men failed to go clear of Real and Atletico Madrid in the Spanish league pursuit
Barcelona missed the chance to go top of La Liga and slipped up in the title race by losing 1-0 at Valladolid on Saturday.
The champions were sluggish throughout at Estadio Jose Zorrilla and Fausto Rossi's early goal ensured the initiative at the top is now with Atletico Madrid, who visit Celta Vigo later on Saturday, and Real Madrid, who host Levante on Sunday.
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Valladolid, meanwhile, move out of the relegation zone, overtaking Almeria on goal difference.
The build-up to the game was dominated by the news that Barca captain Carles Puyol will end his 19-year association with the club at the end of the season, and he was left out in favour of the returning Gerard Pique.
Valladolid put the champions under pressure early on as they won several set pieces in the final third, but their dreadful deliveries played into Barca's hands as they looked particularly dangerous on the counterattack.
Messi broke forward after an over-hit Valladolid corner and he eventually got a shot away on the edge of the hosts' area only for Marino to tip it over the crossbar.
Despite Barca's increasing control of the game, Valladolid broke the deadlock in the 17th minute as Rossi pounced on a ricochet inside the area before confidently slotting past Victor Valdes.
Unsurprisingly, the visitors' best opportunity to draw level came through Messi, as the Argentine cut across the edge of the area and drilled a left-footed shot at goal eight minutes before half-time, but once again Marino was equal to it.
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I was asked to create a card for a girl in the 4th grade...
No more details... Without knowing what she likes...
I chose the obvious - cupcake...
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Here Am I
Solos to Sing, Submitted Music
I did not kneel in rev'rence before the newborn babe.
I did not hear the Master's voice as he walked upon the waves.
I did not see the lame man walk, or blind man see the light,
Or abide with Him 'ere He walked to Gethsemane that night.
Yet, here am I. He made me all that I am.
Here am I and I can feed His lambs.
The life He's given me is just where He would have me be.
His words upon a hillside, they fell on others ears.
In glory and magnificence to many He appeared.
He blessed the children one by one, then prayed for them the same
And they could look up at His face, and call Him by name.
Still, here am I, I've never seen His face.
Here am I, but I have felt His grace.
And I could not ask for more than what I know within my soul.
He lived for me, died for me, left a path behind.
And He still helps the lame to walk and gives sight to the blind.
He is my Savior and my friend, I'll follow Him until the end.
And then, one day I will see what only faith could show to me.
For there He'll be, before my own two eyes.
That is enough. Until that day, here am I.
I have Not Seen, Yet I Believe
Words and Music by Sally DeFord
Topics: Savior, Faith, sacrifice, testimony, atonement
1. They heard His voice; they saw His face,
The promised Savior come to earth in days long past,
They saw Him heal the sick and cause the lame to stand,
They watched as wind and waves were stilled at His command,
And though I did not see him calm the raging seas,
His hand has calmed my troubled heart, and I believe.
They saw Him scourged, And mocked to scorn,
They heard the angry crowd, They saw Him crowned with thorns,
They watched Him bend beneath our burden in the streets,
They saw the bitter nails that pierced His hands and feet,
And though I was not there to watch with them at Calvary,
My spirit weeps, I have not seen, Yet I believe!
2. They heard His voice, They saw His face,
The risen Jesus, crowed with vict'ry o'er the grave,
And though I did not see His triumph over death,
Though I did not see Him draw immortal breath,
I know He lived and died and lives again for me,
My faith is sure, I have not seen, yet I believe.
3. They heard His voice; they saw His face,
They heard His teaching of forgiveness, love and faith.
He blessed their little ones, He taught them how to pray,
He fed the multitudes who hungered by the way,
And though I did not taste the bread He bade them eat,
His word is manna to my soul, and I believe.
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Artist: Kamie Jacobs Bolen


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Terry Engelder, professor of geosciences, Penn State, has been named one of Foreign Policy Magazine's "Top 100 Global Thinkers" for 2011.
Engelder, along with Gary Lash, professor of geoscience, State University of New York, Fredonia, with whom he collaborates, and George P. Mitchell, Texas oilman, were designated number 36 on the list "for upending the geopolitics of energy."
In 1979, Mitchell backed the idea that breaking up shale containing natural gas deposits -- fracking -- would release vast reserves of natural gas. While fracking took years to perfect, the approach reordered the global balance of energy and the political power that comes with it, according to the magazine.
In 2008 Engelder and Lash estimated reserves of the U.S. Northeast's Marcellus shale formation at 50 trillion cubic feet. In 2009, Engelder revised the reserve estimate up to 489 trillion cubic feet, making it the world's largest unconventional natural gas reserve.
In 1983, under a National Science Foundation grant, Engelder began looking into natural fracking to generate fractures in gas shale. With Lash, he subsequently mapped the process in the Marcellus and other gas shale of the Appalachian basin. Because of the physical nature of the fractures in the Marcellus shale, they suggested that horizontal drilling -- drilling across the natural fractures of the formation -- would allow companies like Mitchell's in Texas to recover gas from the shale at economic costs even with the added expense of horizontal drilling. Their discovery applies to gas deposits globally.
"The 100 Global Thinkers" appear in the current issue of Foreign Policy Magazine. Engelder will be honored along with the rest of the Global Thinkers at a gala hosted by Washington Post Company CEO Don Graham. Foreign Policy magazine is an award-winning magazine of global politics, economics and ideas published by the Slate Group, a division of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, LLC.


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Connecticut State Police investigate 178 accidents as of Thanksgiving night
HARTFORD -- Connecticut State Police say 23 highway-related injuries have been reported as of Thanksgiving night.
Police say they investigated 178 accidents as of Thursday night, made 742 speeding arrests, 27 DUI arrests and issued 1,455 citations for other hazardous moving violations such as tailgating, driving while talking on a hand-held cell phone and changing lanes unsafely.
No fatalities were reported.
Troopers are supplementing the patrol with more officers over the holiday weekend that began at midnight Wednesday and ends at midnight Sunday. Sobriety checkpoints and targeted DUI patrols will be in place over the weekend.
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Though outside observers who know Google very well describe Larry Page, in his first year back as CEO, as singularly impatient (Steven Levy) and "driven by his paranoia about Facebook" (Ken Auletta), Page offered a sort of serenity in a rare interview.
Speaking to Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone, Page said he didn't think former Apple CEO Steve Jobs really meant what he said about going to "thermonuclear war" with Google over Android because it was a stolen product.
"I think the Android differences were actually for show," Page said.
Page, in fact, is above the fray of mere earthly competition, he said.
"For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe that it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better."
Page did comment a little more directly on his competitors. He argued that Facebook declining to allow Google to import its friend lists — what's been called "contact reciprocity" — is "completely unreasonable." He also said Google+ is exceeding all expectations, and bragged that he has two million followers. And he said that suing people over patents is "a sad thing."
Stone asked, why aren't big tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon working together these days?
Because it's hard and doesn't often turn out that well, Page replied. For example, integrating Google Talk and AOL Instant Messaging was "a tremendous amount of technical effort" that he no longer believes was worth it.
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- What is PHP?
- Why PHP?
- How PHP Works
- What You'll Need
The World Wide Web can be a mysterious place. New technologies appear, often with little or no documentation or support. With the alphabet soup of acronyms out there--representing scripting languages and operating systems that change almost daily--it's easy to become overwhelmed.
Take the growth of open source software, programs that are free to anyone to distribute and improve upon. Open source software gives you the power and flexibility to create your own customized products, but they can be difficult to learn. They often lack beginner's manuals and easy-to-follow guides. As a result, these powerful technologies aren't as popular as they deserve to be. One example: PHP, an open source Web-scripting language and wonderfully utilitarian tool that, despite its value and general ease of use, has been daunting to pick up, until now.
Read on for what PHP can do for you--and why you shouldn't be scared of it.
What is PHP?
PHP was created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf to track the visitors to his online résumé; thus, it originally stood for "Personal Home Page. " As its capabilities grew (and as more people started to use it), it came to stand for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor," which basically means that PHP handles data before it becomes HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
According to the official PHP Web site, PHP is "a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. " This may sound like a mouthful, but it's fairly straightforward and meaningful when broken down into its parts.
Figure 1 This is the current appearance of the official PHP Web site, located at www.php.net. Naturally this should be the first place to look for most of your PHP questions and curiosities. It contains the latest edition of the PHP manual with other user comments added, as well as links to more resources.
First, server-side refers to the fact that everything PHP does occurs on the server (as opposed to on the client, which is the Web site viewer's computer). A server is simply a special computer that houses the pages that you see when you go to a Web address with your browser.
PHP is cross-platform, meaning that it can be used on machines running almost any operating system--Unix, Windows NT, Macintosh, OS/2, to name the most popular ones. Again, that's the server's operating system, not the client's. Not only that, but unlike with most other programming languages, your work can be switched from one platform to another with very few or no modifications.
To say that PHP is HTML embedded means you can put it into your HTML code--HTML being the code with which all Web pages are built. Therefore, scripting with PHP can be only slightly more complicated than hand-coding HTML. If you can make a basic HTML Web page, you can make a dynamic one, too.


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Hadoop-based RDBMS Now Available from Splice
Splice Machine today announced the commercial availability of its relational database management system (RDBMS) for Hadoop. By building a SQL-compliant RDBMS atop HBase, Splice Machine is giving customers another place to run workloads that are reaching the limits of standard databases running on commodity hardware.
When you think about Hadoop, chances are good that you think about analytic workloads running against large amounts of semi-structured data. It's for doing data mining against Web logs or running pattern matching algorithms against customer data or analyzing customer sentiment from the Twitter fire hose. You want online transactional processing (OLTP)? Then get yourself a regular database, not a fancy file system.
That's the conventional thinking, anyway. But the folks at Splice Machine are taking the road less traveled by building an ASNI SQL 99-compliant RDBMS that lives atop Hadoop. It may seem like an odd place to build a database. But it actually makes sense when you consider the massive investment that is currently going into Hadoop, says Splice Machine's CEO Monte Zweben.
"We have the Hadoop layer and Hbase underneath our platform and get to leverage the tremendous development community around the world, which is contributing and hardening Hadoop for the enterprise," Zweben tells Datanami. "The open source community is building all the ancillary tools around Hadoop for transferring and transforming data like Sqoop and Kafka and Storm, or the machine learning packages like Mahout–all that development is being done by the open source community and we leverage that."
In other words, Splice Machine gets to reap the benefits of the hard work the open source community puts into Apache Hadoop–ride the coattails, if you will–without having to make the investments or do the hard work itself. That gives it a leg up on the NoSQL and NewSQL database players, who are trying to solve the same problem that Splice Machine is—namely, providing the database to power big data applications that exceed the capabilities of standard database packages like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, and Sybase.
"The NewSQL guys have to build their own storage layer–their own key value store, their own distributed architecture, their own high availability architecture," Zweben says. "This is a hefty condition and requires a great deal of time to iron out all the kinks. We get to leverage the fact that Hadoop and HBase are maturing vastly and quickly."
Zweben identified two main types of customers during the Splice Machine private beta test period (the product is now in public beta, but that's not stopping the company from selling support against it.) The first type of customer has a "hair on fire" database problem that can only be solved by adopting the "scale-up" approach on expensive proprietary hardware ( i.e. running Oracle on Exadata appliances or DB2 on Pure Systems) or the "scale-out" approach using NoSQL or NewSQL databases.
"The other kind of customer is customer who has experimented with Hadoop," Zweben continues. "Maybe they bought a cluster and started doing some data mining or analysis. But maybe this data is sitting in a parking lot . It's just sitting there and they're not getting a lot of use out it. That's where we can say, 'You invested Hadoop. Now you can really power applications and get the value out of Hadoop by making it real time.' We can unlock the data that's sitting in that parking lot of Hadoop."
The market research firm Harte Hanks, an early Splice Machine adopter, had the first kind of problem. The $560-million company relied on the Unica marketing automation application (now owned by IBM) running atop an Oracle database to help it track leads and analyze opportunities. In addition to these components, it relied on Cognos BI tools and an ETL tool.
Harte Hanks wanted to boost the performance of Unica, but was having difficulty bringing all the pieces together at a price point that worked. After loading Unica onto Splice Machine and Hadoop, it found a possible solution, without a costly migration. "We are delighted with our initial results, which show queries executing several times faster with greater flexibility and efficiency," Harte Hanks managing director of product innovation Rob Fuller says in a press release.
Zweben is confident that Splice Machine is onto something with his RDBMS on Hadoop story. And so are the company's investors. Since its initial round of financing, the company has completed a Series B round, which netted a total of $18 million earlier this year. The company is looking to grow rapidly as the version 1 product is released (hopefully) later this year, enabling the company to recognize deferred revenues. Headcount is expected to grow from 30 now to about 80 by the end of the year, Zweben says.
Co-habituating analytic and transactional applications on the same Hadoop cluster makes sense in some ways–especially if both types of apps need access to the same giant pool of data, and it is problematic to move that data. In his Hadoop Summit keynote last year, Hadoop co-creator Doug Cutting said there's no reason Hadoop couldn't do OLTP workloads.
Zweben sees three use cases where blending OLTP and online analytical processing (OLAP) workloads on the same system makes sense. The first is digital marketing and advertising technology, such as campaign management, email personalization, and ecommerce personalization. "These are the kinds of apps that people have tremendous amount of first and third party data on their consumer and they want to power apps directly with that data," he says.
"That's a wonderful area for the Splice machine architecture because you can do very long running queries that help with audience segmentation and audience man agent and at the same time be real-time and transactional in dealing with the conversion and responses that come from the campaigns, the clicks that happen," he says.
Doing complex event processing with senor data originating from the Internet of Things is another potential use case. "Being able to do health monitoring applications on large-scale networks of devices, or set top boxes in the telecommunications world and so forth," he says. Lastly, the proliferation of digital health records from EMR and EHR systems, in combination with genome sequencing data and demographic data, is providing new opportunities to develop personalized medicine in the life sciences market.
Splice Machine is available for download now. The software is free to download and test on anything from a single desktop to a massive cluster (you must contact the company to receive the clustered version). If a Splice Machine database is put into production, an enterprise subscription is required. The list price is $5,000 per node.
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Angelo (AN-jeh-loh), a Viennese nobleman, the duke's deputy, a man who is cold, arrogant, and unbending in the knowledge of his own virtuous life. He refuses to look with sympathy on the offense of Claudio and stands firm for justice untempered with mercy. He is shocked to find himself tempted by Isabella, but he dismisses all moral scruples and attempts to seduce her, promising to free her brother if she will yield to him. Once he thinks he has had his will, he orders Claudio's execution to take place. Faced with the duke's knowledge of his behavior, he, still in character, asks death as the fitting recompense for his sins; mercy is still no part of his character, although it is that quality, meted out by the duke in accord with the pleas of Isabella and Mariana, that ultimately saves him.
Vincentio (veen-CHEHN-see-oh), the duke of Vienna, a rather ambiguous figure who acts at times as a force of divine destiny in the lives of his subjects. He has wavered in the enforcement of his state's unjust laws. Pretending to go on a trip to Poland, he leaves the government in Angelo's hands to try to remedy this laxity as well as to test Angelo's "pale and cloistered virtue." He moves quietly to counteract the effects of Angelo's strict law enforcement on Isabella, Claudio, and Mariana.
Isabella (eez-eh-BEHL-ah), a young noblewoman who emerges from the nunnery where she is a postulant to try to save the life of her condemned brother. Her moral standards, like Angelo's, are absolute; she is appalled to find herself faced with two equally dreadful alternatives: to watch her brother die, knowing that it is in her power to save him, or to surrender herself to Angelo. She cannot entirely comprehend Claudio's passionate desire to live, no matter what the cost. Virtue is, for her, more alive than life itself, and she cannot help feeling a certain sense of justice in his condemnation, although she would save him if she could do so without causing her own damnation. She learns, as Angelo does not, to value mercy, and she is able at the end of the play to join Mariana on her knees to plead for the deputy's life.
Claudio (KLOH-dee-oh), Isabella's brother, condemned to death for getting his fiancée with child. He finds small consolation in the duke's description of death, and he makes a passionate defense of life, describing the horrors of the unknown.
Escalus (EHS-keh-luhs), a wise old Viennese counselor, left by the duke as Angelo's adviser. He deals humorously and sympathetically with the rather incoherent testimony of Elbow, the volunteer constable.
Mariana (mah-ree-AH-nah), a young woman betrothed to Angelo and legally his wife when he rejected her because of difficulties over her dowry. She agrees, at the duke's request, to take Isabella's place in the garden house where Angelo had arranged to meet her. Claiming Angelo as her husband at the duke's reentry into the city, she asks mercy for his betrayal of Claudio and Isabella.
Lucio (LEW-shee-oh), a dissolute young man who brags of his desertion of his mistress and gives the disguised duke bits of malicious gossip about himself. He is sentenced, for his boasting and his slander, to marry the prostitute he has abandoned.
Mrs. Overdone
Mrs. Overdone, a bawd.
Pompey, her servant.
Juliet, Claudio's fiancée, who is cared for by the disguised duke.
Elbow, a clownish volunteer constable whose malapropisms make enforcement of the law more than difficult.
Francisca (fran-SIHS-kuh), a nun of the order Isabella is entering.
Froth, a laconic patron of Mrs. Overdone's establishment.
Provost (PROV-uhst), an officer of the state who pities Claudio and helps the duke save him, thus disobeying Angelo's orders.
Abhorson, the hangman, a man of rather macabre humor.
Barnardine, a long-term prisoner freed by the merciful duke.
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More tuberculosis cases in Washington state
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — State health officials say tuberculosis cases are on the rise in Washington state after several years of decline.
Last year, 209 cases of tuberculosis were reported. That was a 13 percent increase over the 185 cases reported in 2012.
Health officials say the tuberculosis rate in Washington state has typically been lower than the national average, but in 2013 Washington beat the national rate.
The bacterial infection, which can be fatal, is found most often in King, Snohomish, Pierce, Spokane, Clark and Thurston counties. Just 75 years ago, TB killed nearly 1,000 state residents every year. In 2013, there were 16 TB-related deaths.
In 2013, there were two cases of drug-resistant TB reported to the Department of Health. Drug-resistant TB can pose a public health threat.


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Expectant mother Doutzen Kroes and her husband DJ Sunnery James were photographed shopping in New York City on Tuesday (April 22). Doutzen and Sunnery are already parents to son Phyllon, 3.
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I realized that I never posted pictures of el scar, and now you have seen... well you have seen it all through the Disney World pics! So here are the pictures so far.
I'd like to post a few directly post surgery because it shows a few sweet friends who dropped by. Beware, this is a post-op picture...just a heads up. The picture isn't bad, but I don't know, maybe some of you weirdos are sensitive to medical stuff. L-R: Suzanne, me, Joanne (Army friends! Joanne brought me the boa, silver platter, balloon, and some flowers. Yes, that is Jello on the tray :) and Suzanne brought an awesome Gerber Daisey plant that my sweet Da planted when we got home and is still blooming its little head off! Thanks ladies!)
I don't seem to have pictures of the healing process... but you should be happy about that. In the above you can see where they stapled the dressings to me, and the tape is over the actual incision.
Here I am today:
No lumps! No cysts that look like an Adam's apple! What what y'all!
And yes, that is the new, shorter, lighter Claire hair! Minus 5 inches all told!
I think it suits the scar too, kind of frames it, hehe.
And I guess it will get more red for the next few months... tomorrow I'm 5 weeks post-op. At 6 months, it will be its reddest, but at 1 yr, it'll be sluth. I had my mom send me a bunch of scars so I could cover it, but I really haven't felt the need. Hopefully it doesn't freak people out... I have noticed people see it, and notice it, but none (as of yet) have shriveled back in fear, so ya know. It is so very small, I cannot complain one bit.
Anyway, not that you actually wanted to know, but I decided I'd force feed you my progress. Take it! Take it all!!!


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I just trimmed down a piece of copper tube and stuck it into the inlet on the cutoff, so it would pickup fuel higher in the tank,
so far, along with an inline fuel filter, inline from cutoff to carb, it has worked well for the last few years.
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Call me a cynic, but I don't see WikiLeaks changing much — for better or worse — about the way the government both classifies information and conducts diplomacy. But until the noise subsides, it remains a fascinating curiosity. That's why two of my favorite takes on The Great Cable Dump of 2010 haven't been about the political fallout, but about the literary merit of the cables themselves.
The two pieces, authored respectively by Reuel Marc Gerecht and Chris Beam, are at their most interesting where they diverge. Where Gerecht sees "bland and underreported," Beam sees, "cables read like their own literary genre, with an identifiable sensibility and set of conventions." I'd chalk that up to their differing backgrounds: Gerecht is a veteran of the CIA, while Beam, as far as I know, has never worked for the federal government in any capacity. One has spent a significant portion of his career mired in the American foreign policy apparatus, while the other comes to the cables, as most of us do, as outside observers getting a peek behind the curtain.
That's probably why I'm more sympathetic to Beam's assessment of the cables. For Gerecht, this is nothing remotely alien about the culture of American foreign relations, so there's nothing to report. But for the rest of us, even the mundanity of these cables (and many of them are staggeringly mundane) is news. The flashes of black humor or psychological insight are even more interesting news. Reading these documents is a little like reading the letters and diary entries of historical figures. They're history and state given individual character and personality.


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Crytek is on a roll with yet another highly successful game released for their adoring fans (so what if it did not break computers?) and on the heels of the release of Crysis 2 comes the announcement of the Crysis 2 editor for the modding community to go wild with (considering that some of the finest mods in recent times were of the original game, Crysis).
But that was not all that CEO of Crytek, Cevat Yerli, had to say in the extensive open letter published for the Crytek modding community. Yerli also mentioned that a free CryENGINE SDK (Software Development Kit) will be released for modders who wish to go above and beyond the normal modding capabilities and wish to make an entirely new game while building on the resources available in Crysis 2.
The meaty part of the announcement, however was that modders will get free access to the CryENGINE 3 (for non-commercial use) in August 2011. In other words modders and budding game programmers will be given free access to the same engine that powers Crysis 2 and the engine that is widely regarded as the most powerful gaming engine currently available. In his own words, Yerli says:-
This will be a complete version of our engine, including C++ code access, our content exporters (including our LiveCreate real-time pipeline), shader code, game sample code from Crysis 2, script samples, new improved Flowgraph and a whole host of great asset examples, which will allow teams to build complete games from scratch for PC.
This is an extremely good piece of news for both the modding community as well as the consumers who thrive on the creativity of the modding community that has spawned many-a-gem of a game. (Counter Strike was a mod, if you remember!)