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Here at s8int.com, we've always liked this Viet Nam story. We don't know why. We do know we have a bias against UFO stories because we don't believe in extra-terrestrials. We also have a theory that some of these sightings could be explained by the continued existence of nocturnal creatures such as pterosaurs and or large bats.
We first came across this story several years ago, we thought at first; the use of controlled or illegal substances is a likely explanation--or secondly; battle fatigue. Of course, it could be that he did see something extraordinary on that night.
Not to long ago, we came across this ancient book (see table on the left) and a description of a creature which perhaps could have been mistaken for a "mothwoman". Reckless speculation? Yes. Certain repeating elements are there: animal faced, humanoid, winged, nocturnal....
The Winged Lady In Black....a very weird episode from Vietnam
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Investigator Don Worley of Indiana conducted this interview back in 1971 with a 21-year-old military man who described to him a very strange experience he had near Da Nang, Vietnam, in 1969.
Worley had known this young man all of his life and noted "he has no unusual interest or knowledge of the paranormal and had never heard of such a thing as this before in his life." Adding: "He is a reliable observer.
He swears this event is well beyond the capacity of his imagination." The event happened before the monsoons in either July or August of 1969, approximately 1 or 1:30 a.m. Following are excerpts from Worley's interview of this soldier:
Witness: There were three of us. And all of a sudden, I don't know why we all three looked out there in the sky and we saw this figure coming toward us. It had a kind of glow and we couldn't make out for sure what it was at first. It started coming toward us real slowly.
And all of a sudden we saw what looked like wings, like a bat only it was gigantic compared to what a regular bat would be. After it got close enough so we could see what it was it looked like a woman. A naked woman. The color; she was black.
Worley: Her skin was black?
Witness: Right, her body was black, her skin was black, the wings were black, everything was black. But it glowed. It glowed in the night-kind of a greenish cast to it.
Worley: You mean she glowed or there was a glow around her?
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The Bat, Which for its Body size is Called the Flying Cat.
In the realm of Mogar, there is a Province called Casmir, which has the mildness of climate as close as can be to that of Europe, in which you will admire the variety of animals and plants and fruit, more than in others, very much like India which does not excel it by much.
It was said that in this very place, among the thickest trees of the mountains, "flying cats" were seen and captured, which firstly appeared to me as a fairy tale, and then after having examined the thing much closer and in all circumstances, I finally discovered that those flying cats were nothing more than large bats, which size is - if not bigger - the same as the hen and goose, as they look very much like cats, with hair all over their body and their head similar too, people named them flying cats, meaning they are approximately provided with feathered wings; they must not be heard as things which are against the dictates of nature, which in fact cannot become airborne; never it has been seen an animal or perfect quadruped provided with a pair of wings; this comes from animal history, except that by chance some who go back to the fabulous ancient times could imagine sphinxes, gryphon and similar chimerical monsters as true in reality; what they imagine to be is gratifyingly right before me.
The bats have wings this way; non-feathered but cartilaginous, with which and similarly to our common birds they float in the air; the cartilaginous membranes of their wings are actually separated by many osseous fibers along the wing extension, which very closely represents feathered wings:
covered by these membranes as a sort of bag during the day within hollow trunks and on the tree branches as in the cave furnaces, they hung up themselves with the claw; you would say that not animals are dangling, but bags protected in this way against insects-tiny animals which are their enemies.
I understand that the natives of the desert of India do hunt these night cats as a food delight, and in China and nearby islands as well; in Brazil as well, monsters of this kind have been discovered, which attack herds of sheep and cows during the night, sucking blood and milk for their survival; the very eminent explorer of regions, Mr. Francesco Emanuele Lusitano, here in Rome with me, has this narrated and illustrated here the very figure of the flying cat.
Witness:There was a glow on her and around her.
Everything glowed. Looked like she glowed and threw off a radiance. And we saw her arms toward the wings. They looked like a regular molded arm with the hand and fingers and everything, but they had skin from the wings going over.
And when she flapped her wings it didn't make any noise there at first. It looked like her arms didn't have any bones in them or anything because they were limber just like a bat.
She started going over us and we still didn't hear anything. She was right straight up and when she got over top of our heads she was maybe 6 or 7 feet up.
Worley: What did you guys do--just stand there?
Witness: We couldn't do anything--we didn't know what to do. We just froze. We just watched what was going over cause we couldn't believe our eyes.
Worley: Nobody went into panic, dove for the bunker?
Witness:No, we just looked because
Worley: Nobody fired at her?
Witness: No, it's amazing what you would do under certain circumstances. And we just looked at it. We couldn't believe it because we had never seen anything like this before in our lives.
So we watched her go over. We looked right straight up over the top of us and she still didn't make any noise flapping her wings and here she was right over the top of us and we still didn't hear nothing.
She blotted out the moon once--that's how close she was to us. And in the dark she looked like pitch black then but we could still define her shape then because she just glowed.
Real bright like. And she started going past us straight toward our encampment. And we watched her and all of a sudden she got maybe about well it would be about 10 feet or so away from us and we started hearing her wings flap.
And it just sounded you know like regular wings flapping. That's exactly what it sounded like. And she just started flying off and we watched her for quite awhile.
The total time when we first saw her and could almost define her till we lost sight of her and be able to define her was in between 3 or 4 minutes.
Worley: How fast was she going when she came over you?
Witness: It seemed like she was just --I don't know she was flapping her wings. She was almost--she was real slow. She blotted out the moon for I don't know, maybe 10 seconds.
Worley: In other words, her speed was very slow.
Witness: Yes.
Worley: How would it compare with a walking man, a running man, or what?
Witness: It would have to be a walking man. Cause she was just almost floating over top of us.
Worley: How did she move her wings? Like an ordinary bird?
Witness: No, they rippled. You know, when they flap them how they ripple. That's exactly how it was. That's the reason I didn't think she had any bones in her arms.
Worley: Let me see if I can understand her arms. She had them outstretched like this and they were like rubber?
Witness: Right.
Worley: Well where did the wings come at.
Witness: They came right to her shoulders.
Worley: Well, yeah, but you got an arm there.
Witness: Well I guess her arms were different because the way they were moving they would have to be.
Worley: Well, where was the rest of the wing.
Witness: Well it was fastened down here by her thigh or mid-thigh, or little closer to her knee. Then they come up to her arm and straight over to her shoulder. She had them straight out like this with the bottom part hanging down and she was just flapping 'em like that.
Worley: Well what makes you think this was a woman?
Witness: Well it looked like a woman. You could see her, she was naked.
Worley: What parts did you see of her?
Witness: Her whole--well if you were standing towards a person it would be the same thing as looking at the front of her.
Worley: Well which position was she flying in?
Witness: She was flying just like she was supposed to flythe bottom part down, which meant that we saw her face, her chest, and her legs.
Worley: You mean you seen things here.
Witness: Right! She was a very well developed woman. She was true.
Worley: See anything else anywhere else?
Witness: Well she was just like an ordinary body.
Worley: What about the legs part?
Witness: It looked just like an ordinary woman. But she had wings. She glowed. She had down all over her body.
Worley: Down?
Witness: Right, you know like fur. Or whatever it was. I guess it had to be fur cause it didn't look like feathers.
Worley: But then still she looked dark?
Witness: Right. Looked like she was of the negroid race. Cause her skin tone was black.
Worley: Who did you tell this to the next day?
Witness: Everybody. Nobody would believe us.
Worley: Did you report this officially to any officers?
Witness: Of course we did, to our lieutenant and junior executives, and they kind of just looked at us and then walked off. Like we had been on dope or something. That night after it happened we called the next post down the perimeter and asked them if they had seen anything in the sky and when they said no, what are you guys talking about, we shut up and didn't say anymore.
Worley: What color was her hair?Witness: It was black, but it was straight, it was straight like the Caucasian race and not kinky like the Negroid. But it was jet black.
Worley: But I thought you said there was green here somewhere?
Witness: Well that's the radiance she was giving off. A real light green like a green white. Whitish green.
Worley: Did she especially seem to want to come to you guys?
Witness: No, she was looking down at us when she was flying over you know, but then she put her head back like she was looking to where she was going like she had someplace she was going.
Worley: She looked down at you as she went over?
Witness: Right. She didn't veer her course at all. She came right over the top of us.
Worley: When she came at you how was her head?
Witness: When she was coming at us she was looking straight ahead. When she went over she glanced down, then looked back up and went straight on.
Worley: You seen her move her head?
Witness: Right, she didn't look like somebody was flying a kite over us or anything. She looked like a person with wings!
Worley: Did she move her feet?
Witness: No, everything was still except her head and of course her arms. The skin of her wings looked like it was molded onto her hands. Looked like the way she was born or something I guess.
Worley: Was she a skinny, big or little woman?
Witness: She looked medium sized to me. If standing up I'd believe she'd be about 5 foot something.
Worley: Did you see her eyes?
Witness: I don't remember if I did or not. I saw a face. I saw a regular face but I don't remember anything about the eyes. I know it was a woman because of these breasts.
Worley: Didn't have any clothes on?
Witness: No, none whatsoever.
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US meat eaters dealing with record prices before peak in demand for summer grilling, as domestic cattle herd the smallest since 1951 following years of drought and high feed costs, spread of piglet-killing disease that's tightening hog supplies
March 25, 2014
(Bloomberg LP)
– Competitive eater and restaurant owner Jamie McDonald had no problem downing almost a dozen 11.5- ounce hamburgers in 10 minutes, or 9 pounds, 7.4 ounces of pulled pork. It's the cost of the meat that's making him gag.
McDonald, who used $70,000 of his eating-contest prizes since 2012 to open Bear's Smokehouse BBQ last June in Windsor, Connecticut, plans to raise menu prices 10 percent to limit the profit squeeze on 5,000 pounds (2.27 metric tons) of weekly meat purchases. His bill reached $12,000 as beef costs jumped 30 percent in six months and pork surged 20 percent in March.
"That's not going to be the last increase," said McDonald, 37, known as "The Bear" and the All Pro Eating Promotions title holder in apple pie, fried pies, hamantash, hamburgers, onion rings, pulled pork and (hands free) pumpkin pie. "There's not really an end in sight yet."
At a time of year when U.S. prices usually are at seasonal lows, meat is rising faster than any other food group, even before the peak in demand for summer grilling. The domestic cattle herd is the smallest since 1951, after years of drought and high feed costs, and the spread of a piglet-killing disease is tightening hog supplies. Cattle and hog futures in Chicago reached record highs this month.
While higher wholesale prices are a boon to suppliers including Tyson Foods Inc., they are eroding profit margins at Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. restaurants and at Hormel Foods Corp., the maker of Spam meat spreads. Vienna Beef Ltd. and Best Chicago Meat Co. said they are charging customers more for their hot dogs and sausages.
"This is very unusual to see this kind of price increase this early in the season," Donnie King, the president of prepared foods at Springdale, Arkansas-based Tyson, the largest U.S. processor of beef and chicken, said in a March 13 presentation to analysts.
Cattle futures reached an all-time high of $1.46825 a pound on March 5 on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, up 25 percent from last year's low in May. Hog futures surged to a record $1.33425 a pound on March 18 and are up 48 percent this year, trailing only coffee among 24 commodities tracked by the Standard & Poor's GSCI Spot Index.
Domestic wholesale pork is up even more, gaining 56 percent this year to $1.315 a pound on March 21, while beef advanced 20 percent, after touching $2.4406 a pound on March 18, the most since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began using its current measure in 2004.
As of Feb. 25, the USDA predicts retail beef and poultry prices will advance 3 percent to 4 percent this year, faster than the 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent increase forecast for all foods. Steve Meyer, a consulting economist in Adel, Iowa, for the National Pork Board, said the government's meat forecasts are too low, and that pork will jump as much as 10 percent.
"With the kind of supply situation we're going to be in this summer, I don't think there's any way we're going to avoid records" for beef and pork, Meyer said.
At Vienna Beef in Chicago, which has been making sausages and deli meats for 121 years and produces more than 150 million hot dogs annually, Co-President Jack Bodman said he's been surprised by the surge in costs before the grilling season starts and that retail prices may increase until demand slows.
"We've had to raise prices more than once this year," Bodman said. "This type of market shift will affect all processors and all consumers eventually. It may not happen immediately with everybody. Eventually, the cost goes in."
Higher meat costs reduced fourth-quarter profit margins at Premium Brands Holding Corp. to 18.4 percent from 19.9 percent a year earlier. The Richmond, British Columbia-based maker of pre- packaged sandwiches and burgers boosted prices twice during the quarter in most products, Chief Executive Officer George Paleologou said on a March 13 call.
Costs will keep rising in the second half of the year, according to Chicago-based Hillshire Brands Co., the maker of Ball Park hot dogs. "We're taking broader pricing actions than we anticipated," Hillshire President Sean Connolly said on a Jan. 30 call.
At Best Chicago Meat, which sells 20 million pounds of pork and beef to 400 grocery stores, including Moo & Oink ribs and David's Kosher hot dogs, prices have been increased to reflect costs that are up as much as 10 percent since the end of December, President David Van Kampen said.
"We've had to cut back on some promotions and things like that to keep our margins where we need to stay above water," said Van Kampen, a four-decade veteran of the meat business. "We're hoping that we're going to see some relief coming into April and May. If not, then we're going to have to go for another round of price increases going into early summer."
Consumers may balk at the increases. A survey of 1,900 people last year showed 39 percent are eating less red meat, citing higher prices as the lead deterrent, behind health concerns, according to researcher Mintel Group Ltd. in Chicago. Red-meat consumption will drop to 101.7 pounds per person this year, from 104.4 in 2013, according to the USDA.
"I don't think people totally quit eating beef or pork," said John Nalivka, the president of Sterling Marketing Inc. in Vale, Oregon. "They just buy less."
The higher costs may spur a switch to chicken. The USDA estimates poultry consumption will increase to 100.1 pounds per person this year from 99.1 pounds in 2013.
"When you look at beef and pork, the competing meats, it does give chicken a window to step up and seize a little bit of the market," said Bill Roegnigk, an economist for the Washington-based National Chicken Council.
Higher prices also may encourage cattle- and hog-herd expansion. About 1.65 million cattle were added last month to U.S. feedlots, where the animals are fattened for slaughter, a 15 percent increase from February 2013, the USDA said March 21.
Hedge funds and other large speculators are betting Chicago futures have yet to peak. Net-long positions in cattle reached 136,951 contracts on March 18, the highest since September 2010, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Net-bullish wagers on hogs were at 70,878 contracts, up 84 percent since mid-January.
Herd expansion won't expand supplies right away. It can take three years to breed a cow and raise a calf to slaughter weight, including four to five months on a feedlot.
"It's probably going to be another one to two years before things start to taper back" for consumers, said Ann Marie Bosshamer, executive director of the Nebraska Beef Council based in Kearney.
For hogs, supplies have been reduced by the spread of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, known as PED, which was first confirmed in Iowa in May. The disease, which is deadly to piglets, has since been reported in 27 states with 4,757 total cases. It can take two years to expand production.
Consumers may be reluctant to cut back on eating their beloved burgers or beef tips, even with higher prices, said Mike Miller, senior vice president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association in Centennial, Colorado.
"I really can't see people giving up bacon because of the price, unless it was extreme and causing troubles," said Marianne Clark, a 42-year-old Santa Barbara, California resident who runs fan website RoyalBaconSociety.com. "Prices are still reasonable."
Americans eat more beef than any other country, with consumption this year expected to reach 11 million metric tons, according to the USDA. Pork demand will total 8.8 million tons, behind only China, government data show.
Beef costs will rise 4 percent to 8 percent this year at Ruth's Hospitality Group Inc., the Heathrow, Florida-based owner of the Ruth's Chris Steakhouse chain, CFO Arne G. Haak said on a Feb. 21 conference call.
Rising meat costs and food inflation may force Denver-based Chipotle to raise menu prices 3 percent to 5 percent, CFO John R. "Jack" Hartung said on a conference call Jan. 30.
"Beef's at an all-time high in some categories," Richard Galanti, the chief financial officer at Issaquah, Washington- based Costco Wholesale Corp., the largest U.S. warehouse-club chain, said on a March 6 earnings call. "That's raining on everybody."
That includes Bear's Smokehouse BBQ, where owner McDonald said he'll work extra shifts to save on labor costs, though it won't be enough to cover the extra spending on meat for the likes of his bacon-wrapped meatballs, dubbed "moink balls." He's also looking to generate some cash from eating contests as he sticks to his plan to open two more stores in the next six months.
"It's going to be a tight few months until prices start coming back down," McDonald said. "It's only going to be getting worse before it gets better."
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James Seymour was a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in history and political science and the University of Kentucky with a MA in history. He became first involved with computer technology in 1965 with the mainframe environment at North Carolina.
While in the United States Army during the Vietnam War, he was on the small team which worked with the mainframe setup at the Pentagon for various military strategic scenarios.
Since 1972, he was involved on many, varied computer environments with the second point-of-sale and inventory control project in the retail industry, analytical programs and database initiatives in the insurance and benefits industries, loss control start-ups, and many other inventory control and sales tracking projects throughout many different industries.
From 1987 through 1995, Mr. Seymour was an instructor of database management in the community college system of the state of Kentucky. In this capacity, he created the first database management and C programming courses in the state of Kentucky and helped both public and private entities with urgent training needs including the programming of guidance systems on cruise missiles for Desert Storm.
Before 1985, he was a system administrator, network administrator, programmer, and database administrator. Since 1985, Mr. Seymour has been a senior enterprise architect, senior data architect, and senior database administrator working primarily with DB2 and Oracle DBMSs on multiple platforms plus SQL Server beginning with version 7.0. During this time, he has successfully developed and managed several major business and information technology projects for a Fortune 100 corporation in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
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For those who may not know, a zero clearance fireplace is described as being completely enclosed on all sides, except of course for the front, where heat escapes. These fireplace doors are made of quality iron and calculated to be a perfect fit for your hearth, done right here on our homepage to ensure a perfect fit. Since there is usually very little room for discrepancy with zero clearance, we want you to feel safe with us – because we'll get it done right the first time.
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Pre-fab fireplaces are built to go, or "prefabricated." This means that they don't require any assembly, and often times they're "zero clearance" (meaning that they can be put up against flammable surfaces on all sides besides the front, without danger of causing a fire.) Pre-fab stock doors are built for specific manufacturers and models, so as long as you've got a pre-fab fireplace, we'll have a door to match your style and hearth.
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Starting at $500 and ranging up to $800, these fireplace doors are a lower price without sacrificing a higher quality. You don't have to spend the highest amount to get the best product; we've made sure that no matter how much you spend with us, you'll get every bit of quality your dollar deserves. From free standing mesh gates to classic-style glass doors, we do our best to give you variety, substance, and industry excellence.
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Nothing communicates such rugged durability as graphite. Though we offer dozens of designs and finishes, here you'll find an assortment of graphite fireplace glass doors to give your hearth the edge and refined strength that you're after. A little goes a long way, and all it takes is a bit of rawness to perfectly contrast a brighter color scheme.
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In March, federal energy regulator Bundesnetzagentur (BNA) ordered Germany's four TSOs to improve co-operation between their so-called balancing zones, a move that is good for the electricity system as a whole, but also for renewables in particular.
As electricity can be stored only to a limited extent, each of the four TSOs must ensure that inputs and outputs to the electricity supply network in each of their zones are balanced, since otherwise network frequency will deviate from the required frequency.
Inputs and outputs to each zone become imbalanced when consumers use less or more electricity than had been predicted in the zones. The TSOs correct the imbalances by using expensive balancing power, which is called up from power stations that are under contract for that purpose.
The power stations supply positive balancing power by generating extra power when the TSO has a deficit in its zone. Or they reduce their generation output - effectively creating negative balancing power - when a surplus of electricity exists.
Since July, three of the TSOs - Transpower, 50Hertz and EnBW Transportnetze - have co-operated to ensure that situations do not arise where one balancing zone has a deficit in electricity supply and needs positive balancing power at the same time as the neighbouring zone has a surplus that requires negative balancing power. They balance out such differences against each other.
The BNA has instructed the TSOs to create a single tendering procedure for acquiring the various types of balancing power from generator companies. This is expected to increase competition and reduce prices for balancing power.
The cost saving when all four TSOs cooperate amounts to around EUR260 million per year. This is progress.
But, in particular in the marketing of wind and renewable electricity, much more could be achieved to reduce the costs if the TSOs acted as a single unit, says the BNA. This is due to the mechanics of trading electricity on the energy exchange.
In Germany, most electricity from renewable sources must, by law, be sold on the day-ahead and intra-day markets of the electricity exchange Epex Spot. Selling the electricity on the exchange is currently possible up to 75 minutes before physical delivery of the electricity.
Beyond that, deviations in renewables feed-in from forecast feed-in can no longer be dealt with by normal trading - that is, buying or selling power on the intra-day market - in order to meet delivery commitments. Instead, the deviations have to be ironed out using more expensive balancing power. If the 75-minute period could be shortened, the amount of balancing power needed could be significantly reduced and large costs saved.
For instance, RWE's TSO Amprion revealed in documentation provided to the BNA that if the 75-minute period could be reduced to just 15 minutes before delivery, the need for balancing power in its zone alone could be reduced by several hundred GWh a year.
Improved accuracy
This means that the deviations in wind and renewables supply from the forecast amounts could be dealt with by trading on the intra-day market up to 15 minutes before delivery. More expensive balancing power would only have to be used in the final 15 minutes before delivery, and these amounts would be very small as wind forecasting becomes much more accurate the closer the forecast is to real-time.
But achieving this benefit would require the TSOs to operate as one entity, eliminating the time-consuming scheduling activities that currently go on between them. So far they have resisted the idea of a merger. And electricity consumers have suffered accordingly (for more see 'how consumers bear the brunt of TSO conflict and possible solutions).


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Tip #8: rehearse!
I always do a dry run-through of my presentations the evening before I give them. If it's a longer, multi-hour seminar, I probably won't – but I WILL look through my slides, give some thought to how long each section should run, make sure I have time for Q&A at appropriate places, etc.
But if it's an hour-long presentation or under? Yep – I'll probably run through it once or twice. I know – some of you are saying "well, gee David. Glad that works for you – but I don't need to do that.â€
Really? Sure, your presentation might be fine. Yay for you. But I'm guessing this – if you DID rehearse, even just a little bit – your presentation would be that much better.
For the rest of us – if you don't rehearse, it shows. Here's why I rehearse:
- To make sure my transitions work.
- to make sure my timing is accurate (ever seen someone get the 5-minute warning at the end of a presentation, and they freak out because they still have 20 slides to go over? Sure sign that person didn't rehearse).
- To practice saying any specific things I want to say, and to make sure I can actually talk coherently over each of my points.
- OK – and to feel better about the whole thing, too.
So go rehearse – your presentations will rock that much more if you do.


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After protracted wrangling, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG ) will on Wednesday begin the second round of audit of Reliance Industries spending on the flagging eastern offshore KG-D6 gas block.
CAG officials are scheduled to reach RIL's Navi Mumbai office on January 9 to begin the scrutiny, sources privy to the development said.
The audit was initially scheduled to begin on January 2 but was deferred to January 9.
It had agreed in May to do a second round of audit of spending in KG-D6 block for years 2008-09 to 2011-12 but that could not start due to differences over scope with RIL.
RIL had insisted that government can appoint any auditor including CAG to do a financial audit of its spending in KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block in Bay of Bengal but the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) does not allow a performance audit.
CAG on the other hand believed that its constitutional mandate does not provide for any restrictions on the nature of audit.
Sources said the Oil Ministry had given in writing to RIL that CAG audit will be strictly as per Section 1.9 of the Accounting Procedure to the Production Sharing Contract (PSC).
Following this, RIL has agreed to cooperate and provide full access of its books of accounts to CAG. It has also dropped its contention that report of CAG be not made public.
The PSC provides for a financial audit - checking of the contractor's accounts in order to verify the charges and credits - but not a performance audit that scrutinises efficacies of processes or technology used in the complex deep sea operations.
CAG has agreed for a financial audit of RIL's KG-D6 spendings and a performance audit if it has to be conducted will be done of the Petroleum Ministry and/or the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), sources said adding RIL will provide any document needed in doing such an audit.


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Before joining Nu Skin, I worked 36 hours a week in an office, but I did so without any enthusiasm. I was just a "normal" person, going to work, coming home, watching television, going to bed, waking up the next day and starting it all over again. I wasn't happy, I never liked to work for someone else. Having free time to spend with my family and friends were rare and I couldn't see any future with this kind of life.
My first feelings about Nu Skin was immediately very positive, I had no idea what it was about, but I knew I wanted to do it. Since that moment, I started working 24 hours a day because I knew it was the job for me. What first impressed me about Nu Skin was the compensation plan. I directly saw the freedom I could have by applying it and the possibility to help other people reach the same freedom. Being used to an unfriendly environment at my work, imagine my surprise when I went to my first event and met very nice and kind people no matter how high their pin title.
My family is not that big, but they are spread out around the world and ever since I was young my dream has been to have a huge house where we can all gather together. But my dream is not only to get them reunited but to also give them everything they have always wanted. My success and happiness go through them and making them happy makes me feel successful and motivates me to go further and want more.
My biggest motivation has always been freedom. As soon as I discovered Nu Skin, I saw it and while starting and developing the business, I began to understand the potential I had in my hands. The more I worked, the more I was successful, the more I was free, the more I wanted to work. The Nu Skin business has changed me from top to bottom. My life has changed, I wake up in the morning happy, I do what makes me happy, I have time to spend with my family and friends. And personally, I'm continuously growing, learning and challenging myself by reaching goals I couldn't even imagine before by stepping out of my comfort zone. My most memorable experience was my first Success Trip in Utah in 2018, I have been able to experience things that I would never have thought I could before. The fact that I could share this amazing trip with other leaders from many different countries, hear their stories, visit the company and meet Sandie Tillotson was an experience that I will never forget.
A goal is a dream that becomes reality, to realise it you need a clear plan and vision of it. That's why it's so important to not only write it down on paper but to also illustrate it by adding images, drawings and pictures to make it as realistic and as personal as possible. A precise action plan is necessary to keep your business growing, constant recruiting, a good follow up with your team, giving all the training they need and recognising them for every step they reach will make the business grow continuously.
If you want to succeed you need to keep your primary goal in focus every day and it's not the easiest thing to do. From my side, I've always reminded myself of the life I had and how unhappy I was before joining Nu Skin. Thanks to this image, I managed to always turn the negative into positive and to get out of my comfort zone and achieve higher goals.
Leading by example is very important, that's why I have a plan with different steps to ensure a good evolution of the team. Every week, I organise life trainings so that I can provide them with the best knowledge and tools they need to develop their business, in order to recognise and motivate the team they have the opportunity to give the trainings so that they learn and get out of their comfort zone. Once a month, I ring my team to set goals and to do follow-up, thanks to this I can easily spot the people who are has a positive vibe and encourage them to continue that way or those that are facing challenges so I can try to help them to change that negative energy into a positive one.
Thanks to Nu Skin, the sentence "if you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together" has taken new meaning and this is just the beginning…


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Last year, we were all drooling over the MX–5 Superlight at motor shows. It was actually a nine-year-old car. It was nothing but the Mazda Miata Mono-Posto from 2000 in new clothes.
On the plane back home from the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, I tallied that fall's new crop of cars and realized I only really longed for one: the Mazda MX–5
Superlight. My time with the Superlight was blessed time. On the early morning of the day after the big press rush, I had thirty minutes with nothing but the car and Mazda booth personnel for company. Ample time indeed to study the car's wonderful wealth of cheeky racing details and lament the inevitable fact of its one-way trip to the factory museum.
I should have known better. Mazda weren't cheeky for their use of lustworthy racing bits but for essentially pulling the same trick twice, as readers less philistine in late '90s concepts pointed out in the comments. For the 2000 SEMA show Mazda had already built a study very similar to the Superlight. It was called the Miata Mono-Posto and it looked like a million dollars.
Mazda can certainly build wonderful cars but they're not usually in the million-dollar business. To remedy that, inspiration for the Mono-Posto came from a car which very much is, as surviving examples usually sell for around $1,000,000:
Ferrari's mid-50s sports prototypes. They came in many iterations with two things in common: the name Monza and the supremely un-Ferrari inline-four engine. The latter was designed by Aurelio Lampredi and went all the way up to 3.4 liters in displacement, a monster of an inline-four.
Inline-fours are rare in Ferraris but very common in Mazdas, specifically in Miatas, so to stick to the Monza's twist of using an alien engine, the Mono-Posto had its 1.8-liter inline-four turbocharged. Only used in certain special edition Miatas, the turbo was supremely un-Miata but it was a definite boon to horsepower, boosting it to 190.
The Mono-Posto suffered the same fate as its 2009 kin would, never entering production. What a shame. And what a supremely cheeky way to make both the Mono-Posto and the Superlight rarer and more expensive than any old '50s Ferrari.
Photo Credit: Mazda (Miata Mono-Posto), Giorgio Ferretto (Ferrari 750 Monza), Peter Orosz (MX–5 Superlight)


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Patriots lose to Bills for first time since 2003
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Hold on to your seats, the Buffalo Bills are showing they're for real.
Rian Lindell hit a 28-yard field goal as time expired to cap a stunning comeback for a 34-31 victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday. The win snapped Buffalo's 15-game losing streak against the Patriots that dated to 2003, and sparked a wild celebration in which stadium officials guarded the goal posts to ensure fans didn't bring them down.
As Lindell's kick sailed through the uprights, holder Brian Moorman jumped on Lindell's shoulders, and receiver David Nelson went running down the other end of the field pumping his fist.
The Bills (3-0) won courtesy of yet another Ryan Fitzpatrick-led rally, overcoming a 21-0 second-quarter deficit. It was reminiscent to what the Bills did in a 38-35 win over Oakland a week earlier, when they scored touchdowns on their final five possession to overcome a 21-3 deficit.
This time, they did it against their longtime AFC East nemesis.
Tom Brady went 30 of 45 for 386 yards and four scores for New England (2-1), which had a 10-game regular-season winning string ended. Wes Welker had 16 catches for a franchise record 217 yards and two scores.
Despite setting a league record for most yards passing over a three-game stretch, Brady matched a career worst with four interceptions. That included Drayton Florence's 27-yard interception return for a touchdown with 10:22 left that came 14 seconds after Buffalo's Fred Jackson tied the game at 24 with a 1-yard plunge.
Though Brady led the Patriots back to tie the score at 31 on a 6-yard touchdown pass to Welker -- on fourth-and-goal, no less -- the Bills would not be denied.
Getting the ball back with 3:25 remaining, Fitzpatrick needed only three plays to get the Bills into scoring position.
Facing first-and-10 at the Patriots 39, Fitzpatrick hit Jackson on a short crossing pattern over the middle. Jackson broke lose and was attempting to dive into the end zone before being tackled from behind by Devin McCourty.
Officials initially ruled Jackson had scored before having it overturned on video review.
That wound up an advantage to the Bills, who ran down the clock by kneeling. The Patriots ran out of timeouts -- and composure as an unsportmanlike conduct penalty against Vince Wilfork gave Buffalo another set of downs at the 1.
Dating to 1950, the Bills became the only team to overcome deficits of at least 18 points to win in consecutive weeks, according to STATS LLC. In fact, only six teams have won twice in one season when trailing by 18 or more points.
The last team to do so: the Patriots in 1996.
This comeback started before halftime. Down 21-0, Fitzpatrick capped a 96-yard drive by hitting Stevie Johnson for an 11-yard touchdown. Brady's first interception came on the following possession, which led to Lindell's 42-yard field goal.
Johnson had eight catches for 94 yards and a touchdown for Buffalo. Tight end Scott Chandler also scored on a 3-yard catch.
It was a back-and-forth game featuring two of the NFL's top-scoring teams. The Bills racked up 448 yards on offense and 24 first downs. The Patriots were even more productive, finishing with 495 yards offense and 30 first downs.
Brady's 387 yards passing gave him 1,326 in three games. That eclipsed the record of 1,257 set in 2006 by New Orleans QB Drew Brees. It was also Brady's 37th 300-yard career game, moving him into ninth place, one ahead of John Elway.
Brady's four touchdowns gave him 272, one short of tying Joe Montana for ninth place on the NFL list.
The Patriots extended their franchise-record streak to 11 games of scoring 30 points or more, three short of matching the NFL record set by the St. Louis Rams in 1999-2000.


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The campsite is next to the 12 mile set of mountain bike trails. It is a great mountain biking/camping getaway. The trails are easy, so for all levels. Nice camping for families. There is also a very nice children's playground near the campsite.
Close to the town of Yellow Springs, Ohio.
The sites are close together and not much privacy, but convenient.
Facilities are fine and there are nice outdoor fireplaces.
The mountain bike trails are all-purpose so you can enjoy hiking them also. They are very well-maintained.
Great location close to Dayton and Wright-Patterson AFB, we stayed for 5 nights. The grounds are well kept and the owner is friendly, there is a fishing pond on the property and an active shooting range. (No issue with noise at all) The spots are VERY un-level, took several blocks and boards to get my TT leveled for the stay and there wasn't much room in my site, but other than that it was a nice stay. I did have trouble when trying to empty my black tank at the end of the stay, I couldn't get anything to go down the full hook up spot I was in amd had to dump later.
Overall, good experience, I would stay again. Prices are fabulous, but cash or check only.
Very nice and clean Campground. The lot we stayed in was a good size and was right on the spring. The staff was very friendly and helpful!
Beautiful hiking, great views of the lake. Nice place to put a boat/kayak in the water. Downside, very few sites have water/sewer hookup. They do have locations to get potable water and a dump station on the way out of the park, we were just hoping to have a water hookup on site.
This was a last minute reservation and only available due to a cancellation. The campground was full for the weekend. The campground is pretty big with different types of sites. Some are smaller, close to neighbors while other have seclusion with trees. From past experience, if it rains, some of the sites do flood. We had great weather this weekend. The site we reserved had a hill right next to the passenger side/door side of your camper. If you had a big camper, it might be tight to open your slides and an awning. You most likely would not sit right outside your camper door. In fact, the fire ring is behind the site and up a small hill. We set up our ez-up in the back and out of the way, it worked for us. There was also a path that led you into the playground. Speaking of playgrounds, you will hear a lot of kids if the weather is nice. We were right across from the camp host (very nice lady) and very short walk to the bathhouse. The bathhouse had 4 flushable toilets and I think 3 showers. The showers did not have benches in the stall, only on the outside directly across. With a full campground, the bathrooms were kept very clean with the amount of people using it. We walked around and noticed a lot of bathhouses and another playground. We took a hike that led us to the lodge - it was an in and out and just under 5 miles. On our way back we stopped at the camp store which was well stocked with items you may need or not. There is a putt putt course, frisbee disc course, horse trails, dog park, nature center, golf course and more trails nearby. There are plenty of things to do if you like to keep busy or are trying to keep kids entertained. (The bees and stinkbugs were out and about while we were there.)
For us this campground didn't work, so much so we left after the first night of a 3 night stay and threw away $80 essentially. We had zero cell reception on both our ATT and T-Mobile phones (huge problem since my husband works from home), there was no water hookups (problem for a family of 6), and the nearest potable water you had to Drive careful to, and the grey tank dump closest to us was in the middle of the campground (couldn't drive there, so not sure how that was supposed to work). If you want just electric and enjoy peaceful/quiet, this is probably okay for you, but for us we will not be returning nor recommending this campground.
Deer Creek State Park Campground is aptly named. There are deer all over and you can see them from many campsites…though we haven't seen any deer tick yet. There are many heavily shaded sites and another side is fairly open. Many sites off the main road have hills you need to go down to set up a tent. Comfort Stations (read flush toilets) are usually close by and several Shower Houses are scattered throughout the grounds. Shower houses are in great shape and have plenty of hot water but only 3 showers per house and are fairly small. Campsites are mixed in sizes. Some are great for a small group (3-4) to camp together and have a common area while others are pretty spacious. We are in 109 and have plenty of privacy and overlook a small fishing pond. Nothing close by so pick up any gas, groceries or snacks you want before you get here. Nice place and we'll definitely come back.
Great tent sites on mowed lawn under old growth trees. Our night's rest was interrupted multiple times with airport noise—airplanes and helicopters. Note that at this time (COVID) you cannot just pull in and occupy a site. You must call in for a reservation.
Very nice campground with larger campsites. Campers varied from tents to large RV's. Most sites are shaded with large trees and at the end of the cul de sac's were canals that let you access the lake from the campground. Even had docks for boat campers. A very pleasant and relaxing atmosphere here. Park and restrooms were clean and the showerhouse in "B" section seemed to have been just remodeled. Some fast food and restaurants were close by with unique places like the "Tiltin Hilton" which offered a selection of sandwiches and beer. Nice large playground for the kids as well. Always seemed to have a breeze through the campsites.
My wife and I love this small state park. There are two main camping areas, wooded and shaded for smaller rv's, trailers, tenters while the other section caters to larger RV's and Motor homes with pull thru and longer pads. This section does have some trees but mostly sunny. There is one main bath house that is quite nice and kept clean. Several restrooms are scattered throughout with flush toilets. Camp hosts are friendly and helpful and do a great job of keeping the campground clean when folks leave. There is a small camp store, though its been closed this summer. There are places to get firewood and prices vary from $5-20 per bundle or stack. Marina is on the other side of the lake but only rents small boats and pontoons. The lake is limited to 9.9 hp motors. OK fishing from the beach area and docks. There are a few hiking trails and they do have cabins that have been updated recently. We are there several times a year camping with our teardrop.


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Pat G'Orge Walker
Hello Pat how are you!
1. Tell us, what led you to write "Somebody's Sinning In My Bed"? I was led to write my current title "Somebody's Sinning In My Bed" as a result of my curiosity. I'd often read St. John 8: 3-11 and wondered if the woman was caught in the very act of adultery then what happened to the man? The church folks dragged her from the bed and were about to stone her when Jesus came along and turned things around. However, the man's name nor his involvement were ever addressed. So I wanted to explore hypocrisy, forgiveness and self-worth as a platform for discussion.
2. What genre is it? It is Inspirational
3. What is "Somebody's Sinning In My Bed" about? A pastor and First Lady learn the hard lessons of playing with God with different outcomes brought about by their acceptance of responsibility and forgiveness. That's my uppity answer On the real side, pastor and first lady played one time too many with God and He set His house in order. God used the punishment of a reprobated mind, a murder and ultimately shining daylight on some church folks while still forgiving, reshaping and using them for His glory and purpose.
4. Are any of the characters you or someone you know? I believe there's a little bit of the writer involved when we write fiction. However, yes, there was one or two characters in this book that were based upon someone I know.
5. Introduce us to your characters and what do you like most about them? Hmmm… Reverend Grayson Young. Narcissistic, he is the extremely handsome and talented young pastor of a Brooklyn, NY mega church. He is what I call a church puppetmaster. I didn't really like him. He represented the unidentified man who got away with adultery in the Bible.
Chyna Young. She is the wife and First Lady. Seemingly she has it going on. She's beautiful and adored but at home sexually and emotionally abused by her husband Grayson. If there is one thing I truly liked about Chyna was her ability to go through the steps God set in order for her to return to a place where He could use her. Even though God gives new mercies, and new graces daily, she was truly repentant and it was almost as though God had to work overtime to convince her that He'd forgiven her. Some folks dismiss the idea that sometimes we must be reshaped to be used.
Of course, there's my favorites: Janelle; she's Chyna's older sister. She's a rebel and when it came to a sense of decorum, Janelle had none. I loved her feisty spirit even when she faced cancer. And finally, there's old Deacon Pillar. I didn't set out to make the old wizen fella a favorite with the readers but he certainly stepped up to the plate in this story. His habit of saying what needed to be said, doing what needed to be done even when he shouldn't have said it or have done it and his own brand of serving God made him priceless. He's based upon two deacons I know and I love them both.
6. You have another book coming out also, Don't Blame the Devil, let's chat about that
7. What were the easiest and the hardest parts to write? Because I was battling cancer during this story I found the humor the easiest part; I needed and wanted to laugh so much during this time, and the relationship between mother and son the hardest.
8. Has writing Don't Blame the Devil given you any AHHH HAAA moments? There definitely a few. Because I'd been separated from my mother from the age of nine to nineteen I had a chance to see her side of the situation when I wrote Delilah's situation. It was my biggest AHHH HAAA moment. Then there was a few with Deacon Pillar. For all his boasting and thinking he had a relationship with God that couldn't be challenged…. Well folks will have to read the book to have those AHHH HAAA moments… but I promise the reader, they will have them.
9. Has a fan, ever realized a point in your book, that you failed to realize? All the time.
10. Has your journey been what you expected? Not even close.
11. How many books have you written? I self published two books. For Kensington I've written seven and I've contributed to two anthologies.
12. Not calling any of your babies ugly, but which was your favorite? Somewhat Saved is my all time favorite.
13. As a writer, what has been your epiphany? I must say that my epiphany came about when I started writing for a major publisher. I learned quickly that it was no different than the music business… it's a business and it's called a business because that's how it is set up. Once a writer accepts that then I believe they won't be so thin skinned or buy into "I'm the greatest author because my publishing company told me so and other myths."
14. Have you ever written anything that left a bad taste in your mouth? I haven't done so thus far… although there was a scene with Grayson Young that came close.
15. What else do you have brewing? In addition to the upcoming release of Don't Blame the Devil in September 2010, in July I will be honored by the AA Geneological Society for the creation of Sister Betty and my other literary works. I will also later in the year celebrate thirty-five years of writing and performing Sister Betty.
16. Who are some of your favorite authors? Well, there are so many. However, those who know me will tell you that I'm a huge fan of Jacquelin Thomas. There's also Tracy Price Thompson, Angela Benson, James Patterson and Vanessa Davis Griggs… those are just a sample.
17. Why do you write? I write because I must. It's akin to being constantly pregnant… ya gotta push that baby out!!!!
18. What makes your book stand out and entice a reader pick it up? I believe that it's different for each reader. However, I've been told that it's been everything from the covers to the synopsis. I'd love to think it was because my name was attached to it but I won't
19. Where do you get ideas? Where you receive motivation? The church and observations of life laced with my own experiences.
20. What do you do while writing? Music etc? My writing environment depends on what I'm writing. For instance when I'm writing Sister Betty stories it's best that I have music… sometimes those chURch folks will make me crazy if I don't have a counter balance. For the most part I like to write in quietness where I can hear my characters and how God wants me to portray them. That is very important to me.
21. When you finished writing Don't Blame the Devil-? How did you celebrate? I celebrated by going to a neurologist.. I'd gotten a pinched nerve in my neck from sitting and writing for hours. Thank the Lord I'm better now but it scared me.
22. Which of your books was the most difficult to write? I believe Cruisin' On Desperation was the most difficult. There were so many strong women in the story and each vied to tell their part. I won't be doing that again.
23. Which of your books has bought the most responses from readers? All of the Sister Betty books brings a ton of emails, letters, etc. However, when I tried something different such as Somebody's Sinning… some didn't know what to think. There was still the humor and the message but I'd gotten right up in the reader's face with this one…
24. Do you read you? No. Once I finish with copy edits I move on. It's probably why sometimes I forget a character's name, etc.
25. Thus far what has been your greatest reward? For me there's been many but to have God place into what I call my unworthy hands the gift of Sister Betty is just amazing. He's done everything from allowing me to create a new genre of literature to winning awards for my comedy performance and writing. Yet on another note, when I receive letters from those who are suffering and they tell me how one of my books brought them through…well that's just too amazing for me, but I accept it and thank God for it.
26. What are a few things you've done to promote your work? One of the most effective things I've done to promote is to create the Sister Betty One Woman comedy show. I've received awards and traveled extensively performing which cross promotes the books. I've also cross promoted with other authors as well as used Simply Read promo materials… was that too shameless of me?
27. Who are your mentors? I've several. One of my first ones (although it was only a two-three minute conversation) is Dr. Maya Angelo. Another mentor is my third grade teacher, Ms. Bobbi Madison-Mackey (Williamston, SC) and Dr. Rosie Milligan (Milligan Books in California).
28. What advice do you have for aspiring authors? The publishing industry has changed since I've started. However, some things don't change. My advice to aspiring authors in addition to prayer is to know your craft, limit your circle of friends and follow your own voice. Don't try to be anyone but you.
29. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? In five years I would like to see myself possibly putting out a book every 3-4 years apart. I love that about J. California Cooper. When you hear she has a new book coming you start to salivate.
30. What do you want people to know about you? I want people to know that I LOVE the Lord. I'm also a very accessible person. What you see is what you get. I'm also a wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother.
31. What are your future plans? My future plans are under wraps at the moment. I hope to be able to share some good news in the forseeable future. Any new books? I have the sequel to "Somebody's Sinning in My Bed" coming out in September 2010. It is called, "Don't Blame the Devil." Upcoming book signings? I have several book signing/performances coming up. My whereabouts can be found on my website. www.patgorgewalker.com Other literary events I will be at the Capital Bookfest in Largo, Maryland. There's also the Harlem Bookfair on Long Island. I will be limiting some signings this summer as I finish up the Sister Betty Christmas novel. The working title is "The Last Noel."
32.If you could have been a co-author, with any writer living or dead who would it be? I would love to co-author with Zora Neal Hurston, JJ Murray, Andrea Michelle Bowen and Bernice McFadden.
32. What has been your greatest challenge? Trying to marry family and career is a big challenge. Some days are just better than others but it keeps me in prayer.
33. What do you do for fun? Fun? What's that I love going to plays and concerts. Some days fun for me is just being quiet and doing nothing.
**Other than the Bible
1. One book that changed your life: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelo was a definite life changer for me. It showed me I wasn't as strange as I'd been portrayed by some family members.
2. One book that you've read more than once: "Their Eyes were Watching God." I could read it over and over.
3. One book you'd want on a deserted island… The Coldest Winter… was and is an awesome book.
4. One book that made you laugh: "Grandmothers, Inc." by L. Barnett Evans & C. V Rhodes.
5. One book that made you cry: I make it a practice not to read sad stories if I can help it. Right now I can't think of one that's made me cry with the exception of perhaps a sad scene or two in "Sugar." I didn't cry but I sure could've tear up and whupped some butt.
6. One book that you wish had been written: "Sugar" by Bernice McFadden
8. One book that you are currently reading: Game Change by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin.
9. One book that you've been meaning to read: Samson by Jacquelin Thomas
10. One book you've been meaning to finish:
11. One guilty pleasure: Karaoke
12. What's your theme song? "Victory" by Ty Tribbett
What is your Book and Contact information?
I do not have a literary agent. I can be contacted through Kensington Books/Selena James @ 212-407-1500 or EDC Creations (Ella Curry) firstname.lastname@example.com. When all else fails I can also be reached through my attorney Christopher R. Whent, 212-679-8710. For those who wish to have a Sister Betty performance or for motivational speaking please call 516-502-6405.


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Alec Baldwin is directionaly challenged. And apparently, that's just the beginning of his problems.
The actor was arrested Tuesday for disorderly conduct in New York after a dust-up with police, who stopped him for riding his bicycle against traffice, the New York Daily News reported.
The actor was photographed being handcuffed and loaded into the back of a police car.
It all started when police officers asked Baldwin for identification when they stopped him around 10:15 a.m. "He became belligerent, yelling and screaming at the officers. 'I don't have ID. Just give me the (expletive) summonses,'" a police source told the Daily News.
Baldwin reportedly continued arguing with officers after arriving at the police station, even saying, "How old are these officers? They don't even know who I am."
Well, not everyone is a fan of "30 Rock" or reads TMZ on a daily basis.
Baldwin was released after receiving summonses for riding against traffic and disorderly conduct. He is scheduled to appear in court on July 24.


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Technical Paper
Wavelet Analysis of In-Cylinder LDV Measurements and Correlation Against Heat-Release
Wavelet analysis was used to calculate turbulence and mean velocity levels for LDV measurements made in a four valve spark ignition engine. Five different camshafts were tested, and they produce significantly different flow behaviour. The standard cam gives tumble and with valve deactivation, swirl is produced. One camshaft with early inlet valve closing and two camshafts with late inlet valve closing were also tested. The wavelet toolbox for Matlab version 5.1 has been used for the wavelet calculations. The wavelet technique produces both time resolved and frequency resolved velocity information. The results indicate some influence of the turbulence frequency content on the rate of heat release. Correlation against heat-release can be seen for different scales of turbulence. The breakdown of the tumble (low frequency turbulence) into high frequency turbulence can be seen clearly.


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This week over at the Paper Cupcake's Challenge Blog the challenge is brought to us by Sheng Vang. She wanted us to use to make our own flowers and then use them. Since I didn't start making my card until 10:30PM this evening I decided to go with punched. I have always loved my punches and this is why; so easy peasy. The image I used was "Girl with Pumpkin" by Paper Cupcakes and the ticket is from the "Summer Ticketes" by Paper Cupcakes as well. It is a great fall image, but I already had it all colored up and really liked it so I thought I would just use it and save some time. I colored my girl with colored pencils and the pumkins and flower with Bic Mark-its. All the papers/cs used were scraps except the base of the card. I kept it fairly simple, mainly because I want to head for bed!
Well, I almost didn't do my card tonight I am extremely tired from this past week and weekend. I worked most of the week doing a faux finish and then Saturday we had to be a the soccer field to play the first game in a tournament at 8:00AM. Our team didn't end up playing the last two/three games. It was just too much for 7 year old little boys. By the end of the 3 game most of out little guys were just wiped and in tears. We had just enough boys to fill the team to play so they never got a break from playing and got little rest between the games. Then 2 boys left which left our team with 4, which is two short and we thought that is just too much. So we decided as a team to leave the tournament. They still had 2/3 more games to play. Yes, it was too much and at that point the fun was gone. Then we had 2 open houses to attend for some graduates which were our niece and nephew and we didn't get home until after 11:30PM; because one was on one side of town and the other on the other side of town. Needless to say we were exttremely tired today. Avery slept until 10:00 the next morning and then we went off to church where he fell asleep again during the service. OK.. well I am sure that is way more then you care to read so I am thinking I should head for bed now!! :O)
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you can find some kindness to leave me a note if you stopped by! Have a great week!
May 23, 2011
Magical Monday - Let's make our own flowers
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The Tangled Web of PCI Compliance
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Fear and loathing will dominate when Best Practice 6.6 of the PCI Data Security Standard becomes a requirement June 30.
The regulation requires that merchants dealing with debit and credit cards tighten up their security by both conducting application code reviews and installing Web application firewalls.
It was put forth by the PCI Security Standards Council, which issues, maintains and enforces the PCI security standards that govern payment account data security to which all corporations that deal with payment cards must adhere.
However, while stating that "proper implementation of both options would provide the best multi-layered defense", the Council says, in essence, that some merchants won't be able to implement both. The solution: select the best option for their needs. This is leading to compliance problems.
"We're addressing the problem in two ways," said Bob Russo, general manager of the PCI Security Standards Council. "If you have custom application code, it needs to be reviewed for common vulnerabilities, either by yourself or by a company that does application code reviews by a standard like OWASP. The Open Web Application Security Project, OWASP, is a worldwide free and open community focused on improving the security of application software whose materials are available under an open source license.
For off-the-shelf software, "installing an application layer firewall in front of a Web facing app will work as well," Russo explained. "You need security in the application itself if you can do it but that's not necessarily the way you need to look at this; either way will suffice."
In essence, it's going to have to be a business decision. And which option merchants choose depends on how much money they have.
"Bigger merchants have more budget and can afford to do both; but when you get into Level 4 merchants, which Visa describes as "any merchant processing fewer than 20,000 Visa e-commerce transactions per year," margins tend to be thin. (By contrast, Level-1 merchants have more than 6 million transactions a year.) Level 4 merchants "don't have lots of staff," said Ryan Barnett, director of application security at Breach Security and an instructor at the training-focused SANS Institute. "They're forced to choose between the two options."
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