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Rossini's "The Barber of Seville"
San Diego Opera
When: Opens 7 p.m. Saturday; continues 7 p.m. April 24, 8 p.m. April 27, and 2 p.m. April 29
Where: San Diego Civic Theatre, 100 Third Ave., downtown
Admission: $50-$275
Phone: (619) 533-7000
There are few mezzo-sopranos who have Silvia Tro Santafé's acquaintance with Rossini.
Many have sung "Il barbiere di Siviglia," as she has done repeatedly and will do again starting Saturday in the Civic Theatre as she makes her San Diego Opera debut in the role of Rosina.
Some have done "La Cenerentola" and "L'italiana in Algeri."
But few have also sung "Semiraminde," "Equivoco Stravagante," "La Donna del Lago," "Viggio a Reims" and "La Scala di Seta," and have the "Stabat Mater" and the "Petite Messe Solennelle" in their repertoire.
We asked the Spanish-born and Juilliard-trained singer: Why Rossini?
• The nature of her instrument is a good fit with Rossini.
"The brightness in the voice, the flexibility, the coloratura, makes (Rossini) very, very suitable for my voice."
• The music of Rossini is unabashedly oriented toward the voice (unlike a composer like Wagner or even Strauss, who are more orchestra-oriented).
"Rossini bases everything in his music on the singing, so you really have to make it interesting. He doesn't believe in a lot of accompaniment or a lot of music to fill up, and therefore it leaves you quite naked. You have to make an effort to make the singing beautiful."
• There's more to Rossini than you might expect.
"I've learned that he's a much deeper composer than people think he is. The serious Rossini is so different from 'Barber of Seville,' or 'L'italiana' or 'Cenerentola.' It's less known, but it is incredible. You can compare it to Bellini, Donizetti, even to Verdi."
• Rossini has a special feeling for Spanish singers, as many of his best works were written for the Spanish mezzo he eventually married, Isabel Colbrandt.
"He always writing for these women he was in love with. That's why he has written so much for mezzo that's fantastic."
• Rossini allows her to relate to the audience in a special way.
"What I want them to take away from a performance is real emotion. I want them to feel what my character feels. I want them to really have a physical emotion about the opera. I don't want the public just to see it from a distance. … I know some people like it from a distance. They are afraid of real emotions, so they detach and look at it in a cold way.
"What I want is people to be engaged."Copyright © 2019, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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I looked far and wide for the dimensions and features that the Dakine 101 has. This (mostly) had everything I was looking for - a side zip pocket that I could access w/o taking it off, a padded laptop compartment, lots of space & pockets, a water bottle external pocket, etc., all in a nice neutrally-colored package. However ***THE COLOR SHOWN FOR TAIGA IS ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT***!!! It is an ARMY GREEN color, NOT that light tan/beige color. I checked elsewhere and other places that carry this backpack have the exact same complaint, but I didn't know until too late. Now I have to spend even more hours trying to find one that has the features I want in the right color (and I hate the other colors available for this backpack). I might just keep the ugly army-green one even though it will clash with half of my wardrobe. But it's a huge hassle to return it. I understand that Dakine sends Backcountry the photos to use, but something needs to be done about this - a note if nothing else - because it is entirely the wrong color. For some of us, the color DOES matter. I am upset about this, but the features that this backpack has are cool enough that I will still give it 3 stars, even if I likely won't keep it. Is it that difficult to just show us what we're going to get in the first place? Sigh.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - With day two of the 2013 New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Swimming and Diving championships completed, the MIT men's team held on to the lead that they had established the day before. The Engineers won six of the seven events, bringing their point total to 750. Springfield College took over the second place spot with 438 points.
In the consolation final of the 200-yard medley relay, the MIT B relay touched first with a time of 1:31.98, just half a second off the NEWMAC meet record of 1:31.41. The A relay, that consisted of freshman Bo Mattix (La Canada, Calif.), sophomore Ben Bauchwitz (Hershey, Pa.), senior Wyatt Ubellacker (Georgetown, Ky.) and freshman Kale Rogers (Newberg, Ore.) won the championship final with a time of 1:30.42. The relay easily broke their own NEWMAC meet record of 1:31.41 that had remained untouched since 2009 and earned an NCAA A cut.
With his time of 3:58.17 in the 400-yard individual medley, Alex Lednev (Glenmont, N.Y.) broke the NEWMAC meet record of 4:01.05 and the NEWMAC open record of 3:59.64, both from 2012, finishing well under the B cut. Junior Remy Mock (Victoria, British Columbia) was second with his time of 4:04.36.
MIT placed five swimmers in the top eight in the 100-yard butterfly, taking the top four spots. Ubellacker touched first in 48.82, breaking his own meet record of 49.15 from 2011 and finishing well under the A cut. Freshman Sean Corcoran (Huntersville, N.C.) came in second with a 49.83
Senior Brendan Deveney (Newtown, Conn.) won his second individual title of the weekend when he touched first in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:39.87, just off the meet record and the NCAA A cut. Senior Tony Chen (Clemmons, N.C.) followed in second place in 1:41.10. Both easily earned B cuts. Senior Max Pruner (Sioux Falls, S.D.) finished in fourth with a 1:41.63 and freshman Daryl Neubieser (Saratoga, Calif.) came in fifth place with his time of 1:42.90.
In the next event, the 100-yard breaststroke, Bauchwitz earned a B cut with his time of 57.27, which placed him second. Freshman Dion Low (Valparaiso, Ind.) followed in third place with a 57.74, also earning a B cut. Sophomore Brendon Chiu (Monterey Park, Calif.) came in fourth with a 57.84 and junior Michael Liao (Newport Beach, Calif.) was fifth with his 57.91.
Mattix finished in first place in the 100-yard backstroke with his time of 50.40, breaking the NEWMAC meet record of 50.66 that had remained untouched since 2005. Senior Ron Rosenberg (Newton, Mass.) came in second with a 51.37 and Corcoran was fourth with a 51.84.
In the final event of the day, the 800-freestyle relay, MIT secured the win with a time of 6:48.84. Deveney, freshman Langston Fitts (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Mock and freshman Daryl Neubieser (Saratoga, Calif.) finished with a time of 6:48.84, earning a B cut.
Day three will commence tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. with the preliminary heats of the women's 200-yard backstroke. That will be followed by the 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard butterfly, 400-yard freestyle relay and the 1650-yard freestyle. The consolation and championship finals for these events, as well as the finals for women's 3-meter and men's 1-meter diving, will take place tomorrow night, starting at 6:00 p.m.
Men's Scores Day Two
2. Springfield 438
3. Coast Guard 356
5. Babson 278
6. Wheaton 220
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Can Anything Stop Netflix's Stock?
Netflix shares are topping the S&P 500 and are up around 240 percent this year. Steven Russolillo discusses the Netflix trajectory. Photo: Netflix.
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David published this article in the Nashville Business Journal. You can view the original article here. For those not subscribed, we want to share it with you here:
Earlier this year, I wrote what employers should share with their employees who received an IRS Form 1095. Since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon begin notifying employers about employees who are receiving advance premium tax credits (APTC) or subsidies on the ACA federal exchange, employers should get a little advice, too.
There is no mistaking what the HHS form is conveying based upon this sample employer notice, but the envelope will be unclear as to who it is from and there will be uncertainty as to whom at your business it will be addressed. In short, it could be perceived as junk mail, but it is definitely not. The employer must address the information and do so within 90 days.
These notices are not employer accusations; rather, they validate the accuracy of your employees' statements. So while you might have offered affordable and minimum value health coverage throughout the year, you also might have an employee who waived coverage, obtained it through the federal exchange and attested their employer failed to provide such coverage triggering two things: 1. a subsidy to the employee for their premium; and 2. a $3,000 employer penalty.
Employers have 90 days to appeal an HHS notice on an appeal form. If an employer receives a notice, you should act quickly and contact your counsel to get proper advice.
One final and important note to know. Other than providing accurate information, the employer cannot do anything that involves termination of the employee as there are ACA retaliation rules that impact the employer.
Complete and submit the form timely and wait for the IRS to determine any liability or payment.
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"And where more strongly than in photography, where the reality is that a photograph is either good or it sucks; there is no middle ground. But, if you accept that truth, then what's left to say about the thing, and when the saying becomes the point of the interchange of opinions, the truth, the worth of the picture becomes secondary.Rob C"Sounds like you are talking more about opinion than criticism.Good thoughtful criticism can be an art form in it's own right getting close to that middle ground where the "truth and worth" of a image is found.
And the question that is now popping up in my head is what will Leica and the makers of other "premium" lens brands do to counter the increase in IQ from Sigma/Tamron?Some of the newer Sigma/Tamron lenses are proving to deliver higher IQ than Zeiss, etc, so while there is still a certain amount of cachet with those premium brands, is that all that they have going for them considering that they pretty much never do auto-focus and a lack of new models with competitive IQ?
I, for one, studiously avoid 'auto' anything that I can, other than two 'autos' that are wonderful: auto ISO and auto diaphragm.;-)
What about auto-beating?
Must be something I eat: right over my head.;-)


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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is one in a series of excepts from award-winning author and historian, John B. "Red" Cummings Jr.'s new book, "Cream of the Crop — Fall River's Best and Brightest," which will be available for sale locally in June.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is one in a series of excepts from award-winning author and historian, John B. "Red" Cummings Jr.'s new book, "Cream of the Crop — Fall River's Best and Brightest," which will be available for sale locally in June. The book highlights Fall River-educated individuals in various categories such as business, military, religion, education and sports between 1850 and the present. The collection of more than 260 illustrated mini-biographies will be available at various local outlets and all branches of BayCoast Bank, with a portion of each bank sale going to local charity.
Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden was born in 1842 to Colonel Richard and Abby Durfee Borden. He married his relative Harriett M. Durfee and they had 7 children. Borden died at his summer home in Oceanic, N.J., in 1912.
He was referred to as M.C.D. Borden or by his nickname, "The Calico King." In 1865 he became a stock boy in a leading New York dry goods house. Within three years he had become a partner in a commission house where he represented American Print Works as a selling agent before its failure in 1879.
Together with his older brother, Thomas, he reorganized the firm under the name of The American Printing Company. In 1887, the Calico King bought out his brother and built three large print mills, The Iron Works, on 20 acres along the Taunton River (years later to be the site of two major Firestone fires). Eventually, the property was bought by Tillotson Corporation and Borden Remington, which owns the site to this date. The Iron Works produced 70,000 pieces of print cloth per week.
Local Fall River schools, Phillips Academy Andover and Yale University.
The Calico King was considered the largest manufacturer and printer of calico cloth in the world.
Also of Note
Borden's father, Colonel Richard Borden, founded Fall River Iron Works and was the first president of the Fall River National Bank in 1825. In 1893, while "another" Borden was being charged with brutal murders, it was M.C.D. who was making the greatest impact upon the Spindle City as the textile capital of the world.
In 1898, the Fall River Boys Club was dedicated as a result of a generous gift by Borden who was unable to attend. At the time, it was called by many "the finest building of its kind in the country, yes, in the world."
When Borden died in 1912 during the Fall River Cotton Centennial, his estate was valued at more than $5 million. All of it but $250,000 (a bequest to Yale) went to his sons.
Information gathered from Wikipedia and Victorian Vistas-Fall River 1890-1900. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia; Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden, Industrialist.


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First you have to create a svn checkout of the OpenWrt base system
Fetching OpenWrt trunk
svn co svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk openwrt
The command will fetch the OpenWrt base system and put it into the openwrt subfolder of your current working directory. From now on this HOWTO assumes that your working direcory will be the newly created openwrt folder.
cd openwrt
Add packages from extra feeds
Although this is sufficient enough to build an image for the freerunner you will not be able to build a lot of packages useful on your phone. Those packages are in extra feeds. To enable those feeds:
cp feeds.conf.default feeds.conf
Then edit your feeds.conf and enable the efl (for enlightenment) and phone (for fso, paroli, ...) feeds, by removing the '#' at the beginning of these lines, so that it might look like:
src-svn packages svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/packages src-svn xwrt http://x-wrt.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/package src-svn luci http://svn.luci.subsignal.org/luci/branches/luci-0.8/contrib/package src-svn phone svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/feeds/phone src-svn efl svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/feeds/efl src-svn desktop svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/feeds/desktop #src-svn xfce svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/feeds/xfce
Please mind that this config does not define what packages will be compiled - it just defines which package-descriptions (OpenWrt-Makefiles) will be fetched which will be listed within the menuconfig later.
After that update your feeds to download the OpenWrt-Makefiles of these packages and provide (install) them
scripts/feeds update -a scripts/feeds install -a
Configure target and packages
Now you'll have to select the target platform for the freerunner. Run
make menuconfig
and select s3c24xx as the Target System. As Target Profile you have to choice between
- Openmoko GTA-02 (full): This is the one you probably want since it has enlightenment and paroli preselected.
- Openmoko GTA-02 (minimal): This profile contains only the basic OpenWrt packages, so you'll only get a shell and some command-line utils.
You now can also select additional packages you want to be installed in your image. Make sure you select as build in [*] else [M] you'll only get the packages but they will not be in the image, but can be installed later on.
You maybe also want to change the IP address under which the freerunner will be reachable. To do so select "[*] Image configuration". In its submenu you can change the images network configuration.
Per default OpenWrt is using the uclibc as libc implementation. You can use another libc (e.g. the glibc) by changing that via "[*] Advanced configuration options (for developers)" -> "--- Toolchain Options" -> "LIBC implementation".
Enlightenment requirements
Currently to get the EFL (enlightenment and its libraries) compiled within OpenWrt you need to have recent executables of <eet> and <edje_cc> preinstalled on your host-system. This is just a temporary solution and will be changed soon. Common packages which distribute these binaries are named <edje> and <eet>. If your distribution doesn't provide any recent e17 packages you can use File:Openwrt build efl host tools.sh to fetch and build the required tools from e17 svn.
Warning: Openwrt_build_efl_host_tools.sh script doesn't halt on error, please check all build process.
Warning: Remember to execute `ldconfig` if you have installed e17 tools in "/usr/local".
Tips for Debian Lenny users: Install following packages before e17 buiding script :
- building tools: automake autoconf autotools-dev libtool pkg-config
- e17 requirements: libjpeg62-dev libfreetype6-dev x11proto-xext-dev libxext-dev libpng12-dev
Build your OpenWrt image
If your done configuring the image you can build it by just running:
Warning: OpenWrt build system have more or less requirements depends on selected packages. Using GTA-02 full profile, we need:
- subversion and git to retrieve some external sources. (On Debian Lenny: subversion git-core)
- full autotools suite. (On Debian Lenny: automake autoconf autotools-dev libtool pkg-config)
- dbus-binding-tool to be able to compile "gsm0710muxd". (On Debian Lenny: libdbus-glib-1-dev)
- autopoint and cvs is used by enlightenment building process. (On Debian Lenny: gettext cvs)
This will now take some time. Please make sure you have enough free space left (~4 GB for full-profile). Instead you can use "make V=99" to get debug output to see what's going on / went wrong.
Flash Neo FreeRunner
When the build process is finished you will find a rootfs (openwrt-s3c24xx-2.6-root.jffs2-128k) and a kernel image (openwrt-s3c24xx-2.6-uImage) in the bin/ subfolder of your OpenWrt installation, which can be installed on your freerunner with the dfu util as normal.
Try it !
After flashing both images, reboot your phone and depending on what packages were built into the image (=you've selected) you might be able to initiate / receive phonecalls with your FreeRunner running OpenWrt :)
You can also reach the freerunner over usb network via telnet. SSH is also available after you have set up password for the root account (Run `passwd` in a telnet session).
Please help us making this site better! Give feedback on the mailinglist (Openmoko as well as OpenWrt), change this site, file bug-reports or just tell us how much you love OpenWrt ;)


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Atypical Pneumonia Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Atypical Pneumonia Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Opinions View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message RoserayJoined: 19 Jan 2003Posts: 47 Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 6:18 am Post subject: Atypical Pneumonia It is so scaring that the epidemic virus spread all over the world. Today all schools are closed in Hong Kong. Few companies have to close down a few days for disinfection. Some people who infected the virus died for respiring disfunction. Many people wear masks in the street to prevent being infected. Life is so vulnerable indeed! I hope the virus will soon be under control and everything can be back to normal!! Back to top obelixJoined: 09 Feb 2003Posts: 304 Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 8:17 am Post subject: Hong Kong How come so much of this weird stuff starts in Hong Kong? It was only a few years ago that they had to kill about 10 million chickens there because some kind of chicken disease had crossed over to humans. Also there have been several epidemics of very bad 'flu in years past that also started in Hong Kong and was called, in Europe, "Hong Kong flu" or Asian Flu. Perhaps it is because so many people and animals are all crowded together in such a small space. What do you think? By the way, this disease, called S.A.R.S in Canada is starting to spread in the Toronto area. Panic Stations! Back to top DianaJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 494Location: Guam, USA Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 9:26 pm Post subject: Hope for a cure. I hope they find a cure soon before anymore people die. I hope Pugachev V. is okay. He lives in Canada. So far, there has been no report of SARS on my island and I live near the Asian region. Back to top RoserayJoined: 19 Jan 2003Posts: 47 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 9:15 pm Post subject: I don't know whether China should be blame for the outbreak of this deadly virus. Why I say this? This virus attack happened in Guangzhou, China on November and has caused many people dead. However, the Chinese government successfully covered up the incident. Not until the outbreak of virus in Hong Kong alerts the WHO to take it seriously. Under investigation, a professor who worked in a famous hospital in Guangzhou has infected this virus while treating the patients who have the atypical pneumonia. All doctors in the hospital have come down with this virus but he seemed healthy at that time. Unaware of the incubation of this virus, he made up his mind to attend a wedding in Hong Kong. After reaching Hong Kong, he settled himself in a hotel. However, the virus started to work. He became sneeze and cough while he was in the lift of the hotel. Soon, he went to one of the hospital in Hong Kong for help and told the doctors there he thought he had come down with the mystery virus which caused disfunction of the respiratory system and it was highly infected to humans. Not later than two days, he died of this virus. Luckily, the doctors there who quarantined him while treating him was not infected. However, the people who lived in the hotel were infected. One of them sent to hospital where the doctors did not know anything about the virus were infected afterwards. Another dweller in the hotel flew back Canada and was found she had been infected with the virus died and her family, family doctor and doctors in hospital were all infected. Two hospitals are temporarily close down. It seems that the epidemic virus is non-stopping to spread to the world. The WHO reprimands China not giving actual data of the casualties to them and refused them entering Gaungzhou to investigate the matter. I think transparency is important and fair to others though it will damage one's image and economy. Although Hong Kong tourism is seriously damge, I do appreciate the way the government cooperates with the WHO and keeps the transparency of the matter to the world. Rose Back to top DianaJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 494Location: Guam, USA Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 1:17 pm Post subject: The virus started in China?? OH NO!!! Wing is in China right now. I hope Wing is okay. Back to top wingJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 193 Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 2:37 am Post subject: :) Diana, I'm still alive. In JiangWi province one SARS case and a possible infection were reported. It is believed that is a cluster of people who work in GuangDong, Shanghai and other areas with the present of SARS return home and refuse to be in quarantine. Back to top pugachevVJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 2295 Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 12:00 pm Post subject: SARS It seems to me that, with unrestricted air travel, all governments should be more careful when they let people in to visit their country. It is very easy for a disease that starts in Beijing or London to be carried to New York or Sydney in less than one day. If the authorities in China had been more aware of this disease they could have stopped its spread. Toronto, Canada had an outbreak of it, brought in by a traveller from China, it is believed, but they were able to prevent it spreading into the general population. Perhaps they were just lucky, this time. Back to top wingJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 193 Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 6:02 am Post subject: Re: SARS I have checked and compared the weather in Toronto to Beijing's and Guang Dong's at CNN.com. It seems that China has a lot of bad luck in coping with the epidemic. Have the ice melted in Ontario yet, PugachevV? 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Frank wrote: This forum is for identification purposes, all other chatter belongs in the CafeFrank, with all due respect, much of what is discussed under glass paperweights is not about identification.'The Ebay effect on collecting, making, and selling glass paperweights' is a fine topic for the message board's sub categaory 'Glass Paperweights'.Rather than be a touchy or taboo subject, I think this should be discussed here as it is quite relevant and interesting.Why in the world would anyone be afraid or concerned about discussing this here?It's relevant, it's happening, it's about 'Glass Paperweights', so let's talk about it under 'Glass Paperweights'.That way, the people who make, buy, & sell 'Glass Paperweights' will be able to participate in the discussion with relative ease There are both positives and negatives to the Ebay phenomenom as it applies to the making, selling, and collecting of Glass Paperweights.Most Sincerely,
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Here's an unexpected new element in the perpetually ongoing struggle over whether you should buy a PC or a Mac: A newly-released report is claiming that malware is being installed on PC machines before they're even released from the factories – and the source of that new report is theoretically someone who would know: Microsoft.
The claim comes after researchers working for the software giant investigated the sale of counterfeit software in China discovered malware pre-installed on four out of twenty machines tested, with pirated or fake versions of Windows present on every single one of the tested machines. Each of the twenty machines were brand new, and had been purchased for the purpose of testing, and as such hadn't been used prior to testing.
According to the report, the most aggressive piece of malware found on any of the twenty machines was a software known as Nitol, which links machines to a botnet and has been found on systems as far afield as the US, Russia, China, Australia and Germany, with the malware apparently being controlled by servers in the Cayman Islands.
The investigation is believed to have started a little over a year ago, with Microsoft employees in China purchasing new PCs and laptops as part of a push to discover how widespread counterfeit Microsoft software was in the Chinese market. According to Microsoft's Patrick Stratton, a manager in the company's digital crimes unit and the author of the report revealing this information, the discovery of the machine pre-loaded with Nitol was most surprising – and most disturbing.
"As soon as we powered on this particular computer, of its own accord without any instruction from us, it began reaching out across the internet, attempting to contact a computer unfamiliar to us," he wrote in the report, adding that as soon as a thumb drive was plugged into the machine, Nitol copied itself onto that drive and then, when that drive was attached to another machine, copied itself onto the new machine as well.
The reason behind this information coming to light is a new lawsuit filed by Microsoft against a Chinese businessman known as Peng Yong, who it believes to be the man behind a web domain used by the malware to co-ordinate activities. "In short," the lawsuit reads, "3322.org is a major hub of illegal Internet activity, used by criminals every minute of every day to pump malware and instructions to the computers of innocent people worldwide."
Peng, perhaps unsurprisingly, denies any wrongdoing on his part, although it's worth noting that security firm Zscaler reported that 3322.org was responsible for more than 17 percent of malicious web transactions in the world during 2009. The lawsuit was unsealed by a federal court in Virginia yesterday.


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The Grosjean Brothers recently made a fun, short live-action video that showed us what Skyrim would be like if it was set in a convenience store.
Their big project is going to be a live-action Battlefield 3 movie. This is a clip of it, done in that moody-and-plays-in-reverse style popularized by last year's trailer for Dead Island.
Keep it up, Grosjean Brothers!
Battlefield : Movie Trailer 2 [YouTube]


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Modular wiring system
Softwire is a modular wiring system for lighting that offers a simple, fast, and inexpensive alternative to hardwiring. The ergonomic plug-in design and color-coded components provide the flexibility of complete modularity. The system is designed for fluorescent and recessed lighting in commercial and industrial buildings.
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Electronic ballasts
SmartMate Electronic Ballasts include four models that cover 15 major CFL 13W to 42W applications. Each model features color-coded, dual-entry connectors that permit push-in lead connection to the ballast's side or bottom. The multiple-voltage feature permits ballast operation on 120V or 277V systems.
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Lighting fixtures
The Minima MH fixtures are track-mounted accent lights and wallwashers designed for use with metal-halide PAR-30 and PAR-38 lamps. Developed for energy economy and optical precision, the fixtures use 39W, 70W, and 100W metal-halide lamps.
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Incandescent fixtures
The WFA incandescent fixtures are 120V-rated and can light construction sites, tunnels, bridges, and subways. They are UL-listed and weatherproof. They provide energy-efficient, bright lighting in areas where moisture, dirt, or corrosion is a problem. The heat-resistant glass globe extends fixture life.
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Lighting power unit
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Metal halide lamps
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(BPT) – Epilepsy is the nation's fourth most common neurological disorder, yet public understanding of it is limited – so much so that federal agencies and nonprofit organizations recently asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to study and report on the public health needs of people living with epilepsy. The recommendations the IOM put forth in the report, Epilepsy Across the Spectrum: Promoting Health and Understanding, include a call for expanding educational opportunities and resources.
Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) is a type of epilepsy that usually appears before the age of 8 and accounts for up to 4 percent of all childhood epilepsy cases. It is characterized by multiple seizure types and impairment of cognitive function and presents caregivers with unique challenges.
LivingwithLGS.com, a website made possible through the support of Eisai Inc., aims to provide educational resources, such as those called for in the IOM report. "Transitions of Care," a new educational video for caregivers of patients with LGS, recently launched on LivingwithLGS.com.
The video features Dr. E. Steve Roach, professor and chief of the Division of Child Neurology, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Ohio State University and former president of the Child Neurology Society (CNS), and Sam Warren, a parent and caregiver of a child living with LGS. The video provides tips for caregivers about how to navigate the transition of care from childhood to adulthood. In addition, Christina SanInocencio, president of the LGS Foundation, provides additional commentary.
Because LGS is a life-long condition, transition of care is not a single event, but a process, and families should start planning early to ensure everyone involved in their child's care communicates openly about their evolving needs. It is important for families to coordinate transition of care with their child's pediatric neurologist, the child and an adult neurologist – long before the child turns 18. The video explores the need to look to the future, assembling a team that can care for an adult with LGS, identifying residential living opportunities, managing finances and establishing guardianship.
While a young adult with LGS may not be ready to live alone or be responsible for his or her own care, legally he or she becomes an adult at 18. It is important for families to understand what a child's needs are likely to be in adulthood and prepare to meet those needs while they are still young. For additional educational videos, tip sheets and LGS resources, visit www.LivingwithLGS.com.


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A Look At How Many People Have Been Kicked Offline In Korea On Accusations (Not Convictions) Of Infringement
from the one-strike dept
So, now that the law has been in place for over a year, what's been happening in South Korea? Well, it turns out that people are getting kicked offline for accusations of filing sharing -- but worryingly, it appears they're being kicked off with one strike, not three. Glyn Moody points us to a report on the data behind what's going on in South Korea.
Now, it's important to understand the specifics of the law there. There are two ways a user can have his or her account suspended. The first is if the Minister of Culture orders the ISP to suspend the user. However, this can only come after the user has been warned three times (hence: three strikes). However, there's also a separate way, which is that the Copyright Commission can "recommend" that ISPs warn someone, block or delete materials believed to be infringing or suspend accounts. Deleting or suspending doesn't require any prior notice or warnings or anything. Basically, the Commission says "we recommend you censor this content and/or suspend this user" and the ISPs then have a choice to make. Guess what they do? That's right, they obey. Nearly every time. Out of over 65,000 "recommendations" by the Commission, ISPs have only declined to follow the recommendation 40 times -- 20 times in sending out warnings and 20 times in deleting content. It's never declined to follow a recommendation to suspend an account.
Below is the full chart of data concerning the Copyright Committee's recommendations, and what was done about them:


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Juror Number 6 is a conservative, law-and-order Republican. But she was appalled when she realized that in the United States, someone can be indefinitely detained not for what he has done, but for what he might do in the future.
Kathy Martin spoke to a news reporter after she and her five colleagues refused to civilly commit a convicted sex offender. Robert Richard Sanzone, age 34, had finished the prison term imposed in 2004 for having sex with one 15-year-old girl and trying to coax a second girl into sexual intimacies.
Martin said that she was struck by the similarities between the 2002 film Minority Report and Florida's Jimmy Ryce Act, under which sex offenders who are determined to still be a danger to society may be held indefinitely for so-called treatment.
"I didn't realize in America you could be given an indefinite sentence," the registered nurse told reporter Richard Prior of Florida's St. Augustine Record. "I'm not a bleeding-heart liberal, but I would like to think someone can't incarcerate me because they think I might do something."
Martin said she and the other members of the 5-woman, 1-man jury were skeptical of the reliability of the Static-99 actuarial risk assessment tool.
She also expressed concern about civilly committing someone for having consensual sex with a teenager.
"This is supposed to be about violent sexual predators, and I kept waiting for the violence to come up. I kept waiting for one of the witnesses to say he threw (them) against the wall or pushed (them) to the ground or pulled a knife. When I realized that wasn't going to happen ... well, I listened politely to the closing argument, but by that time I'd made up my mind."Florida's Jimmy Ryce Act was passed in 1998 after Juan Carlos Chavez raped, beat, dismembered, and murdered 9-year-old Jimmy Rye in 1995. Chavez is currently awaiting execution on Florida's death row. The Ryce Act parallels sexually violent predator civil commitment laws in 20 U.S. states.
The articulate juror said she understands why horrific crimes lead to new laws, but she doesn't like that knee-jerk practice.
"When a brutal case occurs, the public wants to do something. It makes us feel better that we passed a law. This law has unintended consequences that can come back and bite someone's behind. I think these laws are just feel-good measures."Two psychologists, Amy Swan and Mary Anne Etheridge, testified in favor of civil ccommitment for Sanzone. Dr. Etheridge diagnosed Sanzone with "fetishism" -- in this case toward underwear -- as well as the ubiquitous antisocial personality disorder.
Psychologist Deborah Leporowski, the lone defense witness, disputed the prosecution psychologists' estimation of Sanzone's risk, and said many of his early problems could be attributed to teenage impulsivity and immaturity.
Sanzone will remain on special sex offender probation for many years, and will be banned from schools, playgrounds, or other places where children congregate.
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NEW YORK—Alison Caporimo, a 24-year-old who lives in Manhattan's East Village, is undaunted by newfangled smartphones and computers.
New Yorkers have seen long lines to make calls from pay phones.
But as for old-fashioned, coin-slot pay phones? The magazine editor had never really trained her Warby Parker eyeglasses on the contraptions.
"I lost a lot of coins," confesses Ms. Caporimo, who didn't even know how to work a pay phone before Tuesday.
With power knocked out in her Sandy-ravaged neighborhood—rendering her cellphone useless—she got a crash course in the low-tech, low-status devices. She returned to her local pay phone Wednesday with more quarters and better knowledge of the pay-phone locations in her area.
"You miraculously get resourceful and start seeing them everywhere," she says.
Not since the birth of the iPhone has the pay phone experienced such demand, thanks to Sandy.
Natural disasters tend to vindicate the public pay phone. With their clunky bodies mounted high and sometimes behind glass stalls, they generally remain serviceable during power outages, even amid flooding. When times get tough, in fact, the biggest challenge is often keeping the devices free of coin overloads.
"Phones that normally do two dollars a day are taking in $50 a day," says Peter Izzo of Van Wagner Communications, one of 13 local pay-phone-operating franchises. "In times of distress, the people of the city love them."
After the storm struck, people under umbrellas waited in line at some pay phones downtown Tuesday.
"During disasters, we sometimes have to empty them every day," says Thomas Keane, chief executive officer of Pacific Telemanagement Services, a pay-phone operator whose New York locations include transit stations, hospitals and police offices. "It takes 300 to 400 calls a day for that to happen."
Like the terrorist attacks of 2001 and the blackout of 2003, Sandy has exposed the limitations of the cellphone. Not only does it require electricity for charging, but the cellphone also won't pick up service if a major storm has knocked out the telecommunications infrastructure that provides reception.
What is more, the cellphone's battery will drain faster if it is constantly searching for a signal.
On most days, New Yorkers breeze past corner pay phones with nary a glance. The devices are so foreign to many that the city's official website has a question-and-answer section about pay phones in New York: Does anyone actually use them? "Even though the usage has gone way down," it says, "the public pay telephones are still used for regular calls and long distance calls."
The last time Leslie Koch picked up a pay-phone receiver was during the 2003 blackout. Since then, she says, "I didn't even know they were working."
But on Tuesday, old was new again, as her BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad and two laptops were idled. After calling her mother on Long Island from a pay phone, she commemorated the occasion by tweeting a photo of herself from Instagram.
For all the wonders of the iPhone, it can leave a lot to be desired in a pinch. Unable to get reception on his, Jordan Spak plugged coins into a pay phone in downtown Manhattan Wednesday morning.
"It's funny what's hiding in plain sight," said Mr. Spak, a 32-year-old television marketer. "It's invisible, but when you need it, it's there."
Despite their seeming anonymity, the devices aren't extinct just yet. Roughly 12,000 public pay phones still exist in New York City, down from about 35,000 two decades ago, says the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, which regulates the pay phones on New York's sidewalks.
That number could dwindle further after October 2014, when the contracts expire for the 13 companies that own and operate pay phones here.
Of course, if pay phones were perfect, they would never have lost their cultural connection. In the West Village on Wednesday, Oscar Guzman had made a temporary office out of his corner pay phone, using it to seek out a pet-friendly hotel where he could stay with his two dogs.
With no electronic contacts at hand, Mr. Guzman, 34, had written down the phone numbers he needed on index cards.
"It's a nightmare," he said. "The audio is awful."
Terrence Ross, 64, was similarly displeased with the retro technology. It was bad enough that the phones didn't always work. But after gobbling up his coinage, they often failed to return the quarters. "They're an enormous pain in the butt!" Mr. Ross said.
The storm made casualties of some pay phones. Operator Van Wagner said that flooding left 35% of its phones in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn out of service. But other pay phones are uniquely wired and don't require commercial power.
Van Wagner also remotely programmed some downtown pay phones to work free of charge, as it did after the Sept. 11 attacks, said Mr. Izzo, the company's senior operations executive.
"You will lose phones during certain catastrophes," he said, "but the odds of losing all that communication is nil."
Already, though, there are signs of pay-phone disconnect.
A walk uptown Wednesday revealed empty phone booths plastered with advertisements for airport shuttles (useless to most this week), new television shows (ditto) and Heineken beer (quite useful this week). A receiver dangled from one device. The only sign of life at pay-phone stations near 14th St. was a half-eaten carton of Greek yogurt.
From 28th St. to 48th St., on the West side of Sixth Ave., not a single person was using a pay phone. The city looked like itself.
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The following statement was issued this evening by Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops:
Over the weekend, the US House of Representatives advanced major legislation to provide adequate and affordable health care to all. The Catholic Bishops of the United States have long advocated that adequate health care be made available to everyone. In an essential step, the House voted overwhelmingly to reaffirm the longstanding and widely supported precedent that no federal funds will be used to pay for elective abortions. In doing so, the Representatives honored President Obama's commitment to the Congress and the nation that health care reform would not become a vehicle for expanding abortion funding or mandates. The Conference will remain vigilant and involved throughout this entire process to assure that these essential provisions are maintained and included in the final legislation. We will work to persuade the Senate to follow the example of the House and include these critical safeguards in their version of health care reform legislation. We also thank the members of the House who took this courageous and principled step to oppose measures that would force Americans to pay for the destruction of unborn children, and the Democratic leadership for allowing the Representatives to vote on this amendment that protects the common good.
In the national discussion on how to provide the best kind of health care, we bishops do not claim or present ourselves as experts on health care policy. We are not prepared to assess every provision of legislation as complex as this proposal. However, health care legislation, with all its political, technical and economic aspects, is about human beings and hence has serious moral dimensions. Our focus is the concrete realities of families with children and their access to doctors, the poor and the elderly, those with limited means and those with few or even no means, such as the mother carrying a child in her womb. Our Catholic commitment to health care picks up the pieces of our failing system in our emergency rooms, clinics, parishes and communities. This is why we believe our nation's health care system needs reform which protects human life and dignity and serves the poor and vulnerable as a moral imperative and an urgent national priority.
We remain deeply concerned about the debate that now moves to the Senate, especially as it will affect the poor and vulnerable, and those at the beginning and end of life. We will continue to insist that health care reform legislation must protect conscience rights. We support measures to make health care more affordable for low-income people and the uninsured. We remain deeply concerned that immigrants be treated fairly and not lose the health care coverage that they now have. We will continue to raise our voices in public and in prayer; we ask our people to join us in making the moral case for genuine health care reform that protects the life, dignity, consciences and health of all.


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The Blackhawks weren't on the ice Monday as the team chose to use one of the last few days before the start of the season for a team bonding trip that included time on the golf course.
Meanwhile, Nick Leddy skated with his new teammates in New York.
In the aftermath of the trade that sent Leddy to the Islanders over the weekend, both sides are chalking up the move to get the Hawks under the NHL's salary cap as business.
"There were rumors for most of the summer, (and they) kind of kept growing and growing … (but) I didn't really know," Leddy told reporters in New York. "Hockey is a business, and anything can happen. It's a relief that's...


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Since the season began, Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs has kept a relatively low profile as he rehabbed his surgically-repaired right Achilles. He strolled through the locker room on occasion, saying very little and declining to update his status with reporters.
But the biggest sign that Suggs is getting closer to a return came Wednesday when the movie "Goodfellas" blared from his locker. Suggs, a film buff, watches movies as he gets ready for practice.
"You can hear it in the locker room now. There's already a change in the atmosphere with [Suggs] back," Ravens linebacker Albert McClellan said. "He's still himself so we're looking forward to getting our swagger back."
Suggs, the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year who tore his Achilles in late April during an offseason workout, remains a ways away from returning to game action. However, he took another important step forward Wednesday when he participated in practice for the first time since the injury, albeit on an extremely limited basis. Suggs is expected to speak to reporters Thursday for the first time since June.
"To what extent, to what he is able to do, we should just temper our expectations a little bit," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. "He's coming off a very serious injury, an Achilles tear. We'll just see how he does, but he will start today. This is the first time he is allowed to do it. He's worked really hard. He's done a great job with the rehab. He's followed the protocol. He had no setbacks throughout the course of the whole deal so that's a credit to him and a credit to the doctors and to our trainers."
Suggs, 30, was placed on the physically unable to perform list in late August, a designation that left him unable to play in the Ravens' first six games. Now that he's started practicing, Suggs can remain on the PUP list for another 21 days before the Ravens have to either add him to the active roster or put him on season-ending injured reserve.
That decision will have to be made a couple of days before the Ravens face the Oakland Raiders on Nov. 11. It would be extremely surprising if Suggs, who has vowed all along that he will play this season, returns any sooner than that. Still, Harbaugh called it a "positive thing" that the linebacker was able to begin practicing on the first day he was eligible.
As for Suggs' potential return to game action, Harbaugh said, "I don't have a timetable on that. It's going to really be day-to-day, it really is."
Suggs' return to the practice field came on the same day that the Ravens put their defensive leader Ray Lewis on injured reserve with a torn right triceps and just a day after top cornerback Lardarius Webb was declared out for the rest of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in his left knee.
The Ravens have made clear that they don't expect Suggs to be the savior for their defense, which is ranked 26th overall in the NFL and has allowed 200-plus yards rushing in consecutive games for the first time in franchise history. However, there is still a great deal of anticipation for his return.
Nine different camera crews awaited his arrival on the practice field, though Suggs, always the comedian, dodged them by coming out of a different entrance and having safety Ed Reed walk at his side. Reed then playfully taunted the photographers who were looking to get a shot of Suggs heading to the practice field.
Suggs, a five-time Pro Bowl selection who set a career high with 14 sacks and seven forced fumbles last season , jogged from sideline-to-sideline on an adjacent field and also threw the football around with Reed, wide receiver Torrey Smith and fellow linebacker Paul Kruger.
"He's really the biggest key. We need him right now. It's a huge thing to have him back," Kruger said. "He's just the type of player that can really change a game and change a season for you. He's also a leader and someone who can really change the attitude and the atmosphere."


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B.C. is one of the most beautiful places on the planet, but as residents, we tend to take our own backyard for granted.
To help kids appreciate what the province has to offer, and to celebrate British Columbia's first Family Day Weekend, the Vancouver Island Visitor Centre (VIVC) in the Comox Valley has planned its inaugural Kids Craft Day to celebrate B.C.
Kids aged five to 11 are invited to visit the VIVC on Feb. 11 to participate in a session of creative fun and collage-making. The event will include an interactive discussion about why B.C., Vancouver Island, and the Comox Valley are special places, then the children will get busy building their very own Super, Natural British Columbia collages.
Sessions will be held from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 2:30 p.m.
"The centre was designed with families in mind with interactive displays and lots of space," said VIVC manager Kelly Barnie. "So when we started to receive the new 2013 travel guides produced by many B.C. communities, instead of recycling the few we have left over from 2012, we thought we would do something different in celebration of Family Day."
Barnie is excited that this event will give the old guides a new purpose as art that kids can take home and enjoy.
While the kids are busy creating their masterpieces, parents can wander the exhibits, meet the staff and certainly beginning planning for upcoming trips or vacations. Throughout the day there will be free coffee or tea available for parents.
Registration for the craft day is required and can be completed by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com with your child's name, age and preferred time slot or phoning 250-400-2882.
The Visitor Centre is located at 3607 Small Rd. off the Comox Valley Parkway near Cumberland Road. It's open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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The Comox Valley's Vancouver Island Visitor Centre is the first stop to creating an unforgettable vacation.
Vancouver Island Visitor Centre offers friendly, knowledgeable staff; local, regional and provincial maps and tourist information; onsite booking for accommodations, attractions, events and transportation — as well as restrooms, a playground and picnic area with community barbecue; and an exciting exhibit gallery with a glimpse of the alpine, ocean, forest and agricultural tourism opportunities on the Island.
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Boehret: Write on Paper, Beam to iPad
The Targus iNotebook takes signals from a pen as it is used to write on paper, then beam what is written wirelessly to the iPad. Katie Boehret discusses on digits. Photo: iNotebook/Targus.
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... I ... the ... now it's three stories drawings ... which the eye notebook all your ideas can be captured wirelessly send to write ... organize a while E-mail your handwritten notes ... or share them on Dropbox or Apple airplay ... ok and of course I would love for me cuz my handwriting is so terribly ignited Conway did what the back to Digits I'm Simon Constable what all special K itself Katy Borat joining us now from Washington DC did talk about the I know book Katie ... thanks a bailout ... I didn't actually arrogant so with yours ... so I made this is that that guy Noble has a device that most of one's own handwriting which is be a disaster for me tell me more about this ... yes okay for people like you did on like their handwriting if if not at that Pradaxa planet is very nice though ... I it's really designed for people who love to take note keeping their own generating ... I'm very tired of typing everything or maybe they like trying and entertaining things as they go with their own kind of symbol that I think ... so as you write on regular paper to snap to be in a special kind of paper ... uses special and hand the fanfare that song this notepad ... chance it communicates that information over to the I pad ... eight digitizes your rating and you can see your handwriting instantly has your writing has about ten of them like a ghostly of apps like ... this the magic person riding in it if you can't be his writing ... so ... how did you enjoy this wasn't something that you think oh yes I'm going to use this instead of paper ... I'm ... not not for me really but I think some people had a lot of emails already this morning from readers to honor I just really excited about this and they're just not as good at typing very quickly and they prefer writing they think they can take that much faster ... some people say that they can pay attention better when you're taking notes ... using their on camera instead of typing ... aam and so there are some new cases for that but it's uh hundred and eighty dollars that that well but I'm not stop to this for a lot of people ... and that so it's very nice but I think for certain people it might be at great ... products and its units that were made of plastic and ... paper and you have to have an iconic and this is my iPad only private UConn use this on on nom although ... that's right for of for now it is just and I pad on a project that and we now in use that many times on its south ... I've had really are the tablet market right now so if you're if you have a tablet of any kind is most likely an eye pads that ... that's not a big problem for them but ... he added the I have not seen a foul and value would be to have fun at those prices to ... so many books I mean that that that surprise to me know if these things and selling well yet I mean it's um it's it's an interesting price points ... I found to be honest they feel like I've been surprised by the responses from my small sampling of readers that people who are not excited and interested in this project and ... and like I said it had been corresponding pass on the I pad that works with Vista by itself here says writing and that its you can actually do think that these net that you can highlight then you can ... add audio that say that you can send them to drop box you can email them to friends if they don't if it on your I pad and do not think they're actually meant it had to go along with your everyday work well and any use in your life so that that kind of an appealing thing I think this will be very embarrassing ... for me my handwriting is so ... formidable an even icon when it comes time so I would feel like Goby mounted by myself ... we have deleted that thank you very much special to as the euro and you can read more on mats on the vs day don't come


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Gerard Butler Crashes a Bachelorette Party in Australia
Gerard Butler keeps himself hydrated with water while out and about on Wednesday (March 19) in Sydney, Australia.
The 44-year-old Scottish actor was joined by a male pal, while taking some pics on his cell phone.
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A few weeks ago, Gerard was spotted grabbing a bite to eat in Bondi Beach.
It was recently reported that Gerard crashed a bachelorette party in Australia.
"We thought it was a stripper, because it was a hen's party. But then we saw [Gerard] standing on the boat. We all just started screaming," Dragana Ogorelica, a close pal of the bride, shared.
She added, "His accent, oh my goodness, it was so beautiful. You couldn't understand him half the time, but you didn't care because it was just gorgeous."


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The 6-year-old girl who was killed by a school bus on Friday in Kiryas Joel in Orange County was in the process of moving to the area, according to New York State Police.
Leah Mezzi of Brooklyn was killed when she exited the bus about 11:15 a.m., and proceeded to a south sidewalk and abruptly changed directions and began to cross the street in front of the bus, said Trooper Steven Nevel.
The bus driver did not see her change directions and she was subsequently struck by the front bumper and was pronounced dead at the scene, Nevel said.
The child's family were in the process of moving to Kiryas Joel and had already enrolled the child in the school district, he added.
A funeral was held for Mezzi Friday afternoon.
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Hi all,
If you like climbing, hiking, and skiing in Rocky Mountain National Park or around Estes Park, your visit may be altered forever if the US Department of Energy's proposed re-route of an industrial-scale power line is approved. To oppose the re-route up scenic Highway 36 entering the Estes Valley, visit:
A division of the DOE, Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), is planning to rebuild aging power lines, but instead of routing them through the Forest Service's designated Utility Corridor, they are planning to re-route them (creating *another* massive clear-cut with 110' steel towers and a web of lines) up Highway 36 where most Americans get their first views of the majestic peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park.
The comment period ends in just four short days: JANUARY 31st, 2012
Learn more at http://responsiblelines.org, a website put together by local residents of Estes Park that realized that WAPA planned the re-route to accommodate a single influential land-owner who currently owns most of the east end of Estes Park below Mount Olympus. They plan to re-route the original 1938 line out of the exclusively private valley, and instead right into the middle of the public's view.
There's a Take Action page where you can easily send a pre-drafted letter to all the relevant decision-makers, or even better, you can draft your own.
Thanks very much for your help. The views in Estes Park are worth defending. We hope you can visit without transmission towers blocking your view.
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A little blog about life, family, food, and living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad with Pork
(and I'm pretty good with a knife), I had a lot of time to run through various scenarios of said situation in my head. Plus, it's a good thing to get me to slow down a bit and enjoy the process, not just the end result. Ahem. But I digress. Back to the recipe. Once you have finished prepping everything, it comes together toot-sweet.
Here we go:
Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad with Pork
1 pkg Asian Rice Noodles - thin, vermicelli style
3 boneless pork chops, 1 inch thick, sliced ultra thin against the grain
2 teaspoons soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon powdered ginger
garlic powder
salt and pepper
1 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons canola oil
5 cups chopped romaine lettuce
4 carrots, sliced matchstick thin (I used one of those serrated veggie peelers)
2 cucumbers, peeled, sliced in thin 1/2 rounds
1 cup bean sprouts
2 green onions - chopped thin
1/4 cup white onion, sliced in thin 1/2 rounds (optional)
1/4 cup cilantro - chopped
1/2 cup salted cocktail style peanuts, chopped
6 tablespoons fresh lime juice or lemon juice
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons rice vinegar, or use cider vinegar is you don't have the rice one
6 tablespoons fish sauce (called Nouc Cham) (It's stinky, but tastes better than it smells)
1 clove garlic, minced
1 chili chopped, or 1/4 teaspoon chili flakes
6 tablespoons water
On a cutting board, toss the pork strips with the soy sauce, ginger, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and oil. Let sit and marinate while you chop the bazillion veggies.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch. I've always wanted to say that. Plus, just wanted to see if you were still with me. hehe Anyway, meanwhile, prepare the rice noodles according to package directions. NOTE: The noodles cook really quickly; take care not to over cook them. Drain and keep warm.
This is an interesting salad in that it is sweet, sour, salty, and spicy. It's also crunchy, soft, and chewy. Let's not forget that it has warm (noodles), hot (meat), and cold (veggies) taking place, too. Somehow, and I'm not quite sure why that is, it all works together beautifully. Plus, it's lovely to look at. It's great all year long, but I particularly like it in the spring and summer. It's a non-traditional salad (for us that is), and I love it.
What's your favorite non-traditional salad? Do share!
16 comments:
- DayPhoto said...
You are lucky to live where many cultures come together. What we have here is lots of Mexican food. Although, Colorado (western)
is really not known for food the locals mainly cooking 'cowboy fare' the mexican food makes a natural blend to what we already eat. The last 5-8 years has brought us lots and lots of Chinese food, so I am learning more tastes.
I would love to travel and just try out lots of local food, not the food fit for tourists, but local stuff.
Thanks for the recipe!
- May 20, 2010 at 12:52 PM
- Cathy said...
I know I will love this recipe, Paula. The dressing has all the flavors I like and, everything combined, is the perfect blend of textures and tastes. Can't wait to try it.
Can you believe this weather? It's hailing at my house.
- May 20, 2010 at 1:14 PM
- Linda said...
I love these kinds of dishes. I often eat at a Vietnamese place that serves something similar and I love it. I love the rice noodle soup that they make too.
- May 20, 2010 at 2:47 PM
- Bellini Valli said...
I have no issues to work out of my system but this sounds uber-delicious:D My daughter would be so happy if I made Asian.
- May 20, 2010 at 4:18 PM
- Marjie said...
We made a volcano about 2 weeks ago! It was bucketloads of fun! But we aren't going to anything related to Mt. Hood *sigh*.
Can you see me standing around and chopping stuff for about an hour to make enough for my hungry horde? Me neither. So I'll have to just drool on my monitor over yours!
(And, yes, we took Ryan Day off from school! I trust Little Miss will get similar treatment!)
- May 20, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- Julie said...
Looks scrumptious to me!
- May 20, 2010 at 5:33 PM
- Pam said...
My son loves science too... we just recently built a volcano and he thought it was so cool.
The salad looks amazing. So many great flavors and textures. MMMM good.
- May 20, 2010 at 7:58 PM
- grace said...
hone those knife skills, paula! what a beautiful dish. :)
- May 21, 2010 at 2:23 AM
- Mickle in NZ said...
I remember Mt Saint Helens - the video shots of before and of the big slump before she blew all the ash, rocks and mud. So like we are earned that our Volcanoes do, too.
Now - Vietnamese salad, oh yes! The versions I use have no soy sauce but plenty of flavour and liberal use of fish sauce - I love the stuff, kind of makes up for me loathing fresh coriander/cilantro and having to watch the fibre element of food. Must send you my own version of this salad - the marinade for the meat is so yummy.
Hope you have a very happy late springtime weekend,
Michelle and Zebbycat xxx and purrrrumbles
- May 21, 2010 at 7:02 AM
- Pam said...
This looks delicious. We live in a diverse area also and it's always interesting with the different foods.
- May 21, 2010 at 7:02 AM
- Mickle in NZ said...
earned should read "warned".
Mt Ruapehu is "quiescent" but never trust-worthy - has the 2 major North Island ski fields on it!
Iis okay - I never have, and have no wish at all now to "ski".
When I was about 3 my dear Parents took me up to the snow. I promptly complained that:
"It's all Cold and Wet"
- 42 years on and I'm still right!
- May 21, 2010 at 7:09 AM
- The Blonde Duck said...
Ben would adore this. He loves Asian cuisine.
- May 21, 2010 at 2:57 PM
- Manggy said...
I don't get it -- this is what a traditional salad looks like to me ;) (Asian commenter FTW!) I also always order this at the Vietnamese restaurants - not so much a soup person (unless I'm very cold or very sick). Love it!
- May 22, 2010 at 7:17 AM
- The Blonde Duck said...
Just let me know when the first meeting of the Pimento Cheese ADdict club is and I'll be there with a spoon!
- May 24, 2010 at 11:40 AM
- Cheryl said...
YUMMY, that is one of my top two favorites at my local Vietnamese place, I will be making this while on vacation!
p.s. puppy yet?
- May 27, 2010 at 4:45 PM
- Julie said...
Amazing...I know I would love this!
- August 30, 2010 at 10:20 AM


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After around 10 days of testing, Ubuntu has just notified us that it has placed Bible Analyzer in the Ubuntu Software Center. As of this writing it is not yet on the servers but should be soon. You should be able to find it by just typing Bible or Bible Analyzer
No default folder changes were required for inclusion. The primary folder is still
The app in the Software Center is the same as the last beta posted here in the forum. I'm not yet sure about how to submit future updates, but if Bible Analyzer gain users from the Software Center, we will regularly update it.
Those of you who feel Bible Analyzer is of benefit to the Linux community, please consider writing a review on Bible Analyzer's Software Center page.
Thank you all for your encouragement and help.