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WILLMAR — Steve Gardner and Rich Taylor both believe there's a need for change on Willmar's City Council, and they weren't shy about saying so at a candidate forum Friday. The incumbent in the race was not at the forum to counter their views. The Willmar Lakes Area Chamber...
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WILLMAR — Lime green, bright blue, black, white, red and Vikings-worthy purple paint were mostly on the desks and a little bit on the students of the new DREAM Technical Academy in Willmar. Some of the school's 115 students and their parents gathered earlier this week at a maintenance...
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New London woman who was focus of search appears on charges of depriving another of parental rights
WILLMAR — A woman who was the focus of a multi-state search after she was accused of taking her 4-year-old son in violation of a court order made her first appearance Friday in Kandiyohi County District Court in Willmar. Amy Lorraine Winterfeldt, formerly Amy Gomm, 44, of New London,...
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Willmar woman accused of fleeing police, shoplifting
WILLMAR –– A woman accused of leading police on a chase after being accused of shoplifting 12 perfume bottles at the Family Dollar Store on Litchfield Avenue in Willmar made her first appearance in court on Friday. Susie Rodriguez Luna, 47, of Willmar, is charged with a felony...
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Plans for regional transit merger progress
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WILLMAR — The Kandiyohi County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday will hear an update on its aquatic invasive species committee, as well as an update on the investigation into a report of a zebra mussel being found in Green Lake. The regular board meeting begins at 10 a.m. Tuesday...
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FAIRFAX –– The victim in Monday's fatal power line workplace accident near Fairfax has been identified. According to the Renville County Sheriff's Department, Brett D. Binman, 26, of North St. Paul, died as a result of injuries sustained at a power line work site northeast...
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I recently came across an article in MSDN magazine called Regular Expression Denial of Service Attacks and Defenses. This article detailed a relatively new breed of Denial of Service (DOS) attack that exploits a feature of Nondeterministic Finite Automaton regex engines. This is the type of regex engine used by .NET, Perl, Pyton, Ruby and PHP to name a few. One thing that is so disturbing about this type of attack is how easy it is for malicious web users to find a vulnerability in your site if you are doing any kind of client side validation. I for one have lived by the motto, "Use client side validation for user experience and server side validation for security." Unfortunately with this type of attack sending your regex to the client will make it much easier for malicious users to find vulnerabilities in your site.
The problem regexs are ones that have something called exponential complexity. This basically means that the number of paths that must be evaluated increases exponentially with every character added. You run into this situation when you create a regex that has a grouping expression with repetition that is repeated itself. Typically this basic example is given: ^(\d+)+$.
For the purposes of our example we will use a slightly more complex regex that I found on RegexLib. This regex is used to validate email addresses (nested repetition has been bolded): ^([0-9a-zA-Z]([-.\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z])*@([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,9})$
I suspect that this is a widespread problem and I plan on reviewing my own code to see if I have put any vulnerabilities out there. To demonstrate this vulnerability I have put together a small application to run some tests against. First I created an aspx page with a TextBox, a RegularExpressionValidator, a Label and a Button:
For the purpose of this demonstration I have set "CausesValidation" to false in my Button. This control is only setup like this so that we can time processing time on the server side. Below is the code for btn_SubmitClick:
In this code we are just measuring how long it takes for the validation to take place. Lets give our page a run:
I know... not that exciting. But now lets take a look at the rendered HTML
Notice the area highlighted in red. This serves to make the life of any evil doers much easier. Since the regex is on the clientside they can examine each one and look for weaknesses. Think they will face the same delay on the client side? Not if they use something like BurpSuite to yank the javascript. Think you can limit the number of characters they enter into the text box? Again not if they use something like BurpSuite... Now that we have established that you are screwed lets take a look at what some sample inputs do.
First lets try 15 characters:
.012 seconds? Piece of cake... Lets try 20:
.39 seconds? Still not that scary... Lets try 25:
12.542 seconds! Now it's getting a little scary.... Lets push it to 28:
93.381 seconds... And lets take a look at my CPU during that time:
90 seconds of hell. I'll leave it to you to go beyond 28 characters, but I waited for quite a while at 30 characters before I gave up.
As you can imagine a few malicious users or a small bot net could bring a website to it's knees if they have vulnerable regexs out there. Unfortunately I don't know of a quick fix for this problem. The best solution I've seen so far involves finding all vulnerable Regular Expressions and rewriting them. The article mentioned at the beginning of this post goes over a good "Regex Fuzzer" (a way to find problem regular expressions), and it's definitely worth looking at.
Good luck!
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When floods impacted the Lower Huntington community, a select group of people joined police and fire personnel in offering assistance to residents — local religious leaders.
Fairfax County Community Chaplains routinely are on the scene with police and fire personnel to provide spiritual care and support to those affected by all sorts of tragedies.
The Fairfax County Community Chaplains are ordained and certified clergy of all faiths who practice in Fairfax County. According to its website, candidates are required to attend four trainings and participate in a Community Chaplain Steering Committee interview to complete their Community Chaplain Certification process. Candidates must also complete a series of training programs and certification courses including pastoral crisis intervention and Critical Incident Stress Management Training. Currently, there are 27 members of the Fairfax County Community Chaplains.
Pastor Jeri Fields is a member of the FCCC Steering Committee. Fields said the Community Chaplains are on call six times a year, and no chaplain is to self-deploy. They must be called to action when on call, and are solely there to listen and help people find the resources they need.
"We're there to provide a listening ear," Fields explained. "We work hard to get all faith traditions represented."
Pastor Bill Teng of Heritage Presbyterian Church became involved with the Community Chaplains because he was interested in working with the Fairfax County Police Department, but was concerned about the time commitment. When the Community Chaplains Corp was founded, Teng got involved.
"It's a ministry of presence, just being there so people know we care and do everything we can to serve them and encourage them," Teng explained.
Teng, who aided in the Huntington flood victim relief in 2011, said the most rewarding part is seeing other pastors who feel strongly about serving the community.
"Personally I believe a lot of pastors feel they need to somehow serve the community as well, and not just the congregations they pastor, and they didn't know how to do that. This is certainly one of the ways to get the pastors involved," Teng said.
Fields said that those who were deployed during the Huntington floods were able to go out in the community and learn about greater needs.
"They helped people get medical assistance and identified people who needed food," she said.
For more information about the Fairfax County Community Chaplains, visit their website.


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Dec. 25 may be an important holiday to many, but it also is a big day for movies.
HINESVILLE: Liberty Stadium Cinemas 9
Dec. 22 to Jan. 19: Don't just wait out that unexpected and unexplained delay in your career move. You could gain added respect if you ask why it happened and what you can do to move things along.
Legendary actor and director Robert Redford has a film new to DVD and digital download. Billed as an action-thriller, it's called "The Company You Keep."
Area churches, including ones from Long and Tattnall counties, will present two one-act dramas starting at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Glennville City Auditorium.
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Nov. 22 to Dec. 21: An early impulsive act causes confusion. But all is smoothed over once explanations are made. Expect a friend or family member to ask for your kind and always wise advice.
STATESBORO - Andrew Young will be the featured speaker at Georgia Southern University's 2014 MLK Celebration at 7 p.m. Jan. 22 at the Performing Arts Center, 847 Plant Drive.
It may be getting chilly outside, but I know a film that's completely frozen.
HINESVILLE: Liberty Stadium Cinemas 9
It wouldn't be Christmas in Savannah without the annual Homegrown Holiday Hoedown. Well, OK, it would still be Christmas, but since 2011 - when the Hoedown tradition began - the season's been considerably more festive 'round here.
In the middle of Market Street, just a stone's throw from Compton Park in Wilmington, Delaware, you'll find David Bromberg Fine Violins, a shop that specializes in appraisals, acquisitions and sales of rare instruments.
Developer Frontier Developments and publisher Microsoft Studios have decided to go wild with a new iteration of the video game "Zoo Tycoon." Like its predecessor, the game allows the player to create and operate a zoo while keeping guests and animals happy.
Woodcraft artist Guy Browning held his first art exhibition at the Hinesville Area Arts Council's Commerce Street gallery on Thursday evening. On display were about 45 of his wood carvings that could be categorized as wildlife, Native Americans, religious, historic and comical.
Nov. 22 to Dec. 21: Your keen instincts are once more on high alert as you find yourself being pressured to make a quick decision about a certain matter. More facts come to light by week's end..
Here's what the stars have in store for you this week:
The Hinesville Area Arts Council is accepting applications for barbecue connoisseurs to compete at the 11th annual Blues & BBQ Festival, set for 4-11 p.m. Sept. 20.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker recently approved a request by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries to allow limited recreational harvesting of red snapper in federal waters, according to Doug Haymans, policy coordinator with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
The Hinesville Area Arts Council is accepting applications for barbecue contestants for the 11th annual Blues & BBQ Festival, set for 4-11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20.
DVD's expected in stores an online next week include:
NASA is on a mission, but this one has more to do with Earth itself than what lies beyond.
The sing-along version of "Frozen" (PG) is the next outdoor movie at Holbrook Pond Recreation Area. It runs at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Snacks and drinks are available for purchase. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. For more information, call 767-4316.
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You know you're getting old when you read about a new Hoppe's No. 9 formula being introduced and the first thing you think is "It better smell just like the old one!"
For many of us old timers the aroma of Hoppe's No. 9 is as much a part of the outdoor pursuits as the smell of decaying leaves, wood smoke or wet bird dogs. There have been a lot of gun solvents developed in the past hundred years, but if they don't have that Hoppe's smell, us old guys just don't trust 'em to clean our guns.
We leave the new-fangled miracle products to the kids and dance with the one who brung us. In addition to being old, we can be a bit hardheaded us old outdoorsmen can.
We old fellas tend to stick to what's worked for us in the past even when the old ways don't work very well anymore. I know a lot of hunters who will sit for hours in a tree stand and see nothing rather than come to grips with the fact that the deer aren't using that particular trail anymore. After all that stand was productive for 40 years, why shouldn't it be productive for 40 more?
The same type of stubborn streak leads grouse hunters to continue to hunt covers that are long past their prime. Our minds know that a good grouse thicket only stays that way for a few years and then the trees mature too much and a great cover becomes not very good at all.
Our mind knows that but our heart tells us that there is always going to be a grouse hiding in the snag at the bottom of that fallen oak tree. There always was one there and there always will be.
Us old guys also tend to shy away from all the modern accouterments that are supposed to "improve" our hunting success. We don't need an expensive range finder to determine how far away that nice buck is, we have the experience of many years in the field.
We don't need a bow that you need a 300-page owner's manual to learn to operate. Fred Bear killed hundreds of big, and dangerous game using a simple long bow — why do we need 16 pulleys, four different sights and a high-tech release mechanism. The answer is we don't, or at least we think we don't.
We also tend to hop in a boat and go where the fish are rather than relying on several $100 worth of electronic fish finding gadgetry. Any fool should be able to figure out where the fish are going to be feeding on any given day….shouldn't he?
As I said, we old timers cling to our tried-and-true ways, even when it would make better sense to get into the 21st century. But hey, as long as we're having fun, why try to tell us any differently? It won't do much good anyhow, because we don't take advise very well either. Just leave us alone and we'll go away.
By the way, the very first line in the press release announcing the new Hoppe's formula reads, "The new Hoppe's No. 9 Synthetic Blend has the same recognizable scent and cleaning power of the traditional No. 9 formula."
Sure is nice to know that in our youth-oriented society, somebody still respects us old geezers!
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The Club Member Index and Member Interest Survey Provide Club Leaders with the tools they need to better understand usage among a diverse & changing membership.
Bend, OR (PRWEB) July 10, 2014
DRC Research and Prevo Health Solutions have licensed their respective intellectual property to the new entity which will be the exclusive provider of the Club Member Index (CMI) and Member Interest Survey (MIS) programs.
DRC Research, a 35 year family owned survey company and creator of the Club Member Index (CMI), and Prevo Health Solutions, the club industrys premier wellness solutions provider and executive producer of the Americas Healthiest Club certification program, have quickly migrated from a partnership to forming a new company to be known as the Club Member Index, LLC.
Rick Ladendorf, President of Prevo Health Solutions announced, Our recent success and requests from clients, industry associations and allied partners has prompted the need to form a separate entity that is dedicated to servicing the Private Club Industrys appetite for member retention and usage solutions. While the number of golfers and tennis players decline, and member demographics change, it is imperative the private club industry focus on relevancy by offering programming and amenities that cater to the various member populations.
Private Clubs are seeing a shift in how members use the club; 61% of all golfers are over the age of 50 (37% over age 60), 34% are between the ages of 30-50 and 5% of all golfers are under the age of 30. To remain relevant with these cohorts, private clubs have created Golf & Tennis specific conditioning activities, guest speakers, lecture series and programming that target specific age groups i.e. senior versus junior members. In addition, strategic plans call for capital improvements to include amenities that appeal to the coveted 55 and younger member.
According to a new report in the New York Times, investors with cash are buying distressed clubs and revamping their business models. Eric Affeldt, CEO ClubCorp said, While the right location and management is crucial, the golf clubs that are doing well have also evolved from being golf-centric to family-centric. Its now golf with a small g instead of a capital G. ClubCorp is refreshing food and beverage operations, relaxing dress codes and adding water parks, tennis courts and fitness facilities. Case in point: His home club, Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas. Kids are playing putt-putt golf and running around in their bare feet while grandmas do water aerobics, he said. Its the epitome of a multi-use, multigenerational club.
The CMI is a predictive index that measures relevancy and is used to better understand member usage, engagement and attrition. The CMI can also predict members who are at risk of resigning.
Rich Spurlin, CMAA Board Member and General Manager of Eugene Country Club, and CMI subscriber said, The Club Member Index opened my eyes! It objectively measures individual member engagement up and down the golf, social and sport member spectrum and is a tool that should be in every Club Managers toolbox.
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The loaction is good for the place you can work to towns martket etc. Airport pickup and drop off. They first room big but it smelt funny. We changed the rooms the same day to a small one. Overall it was good but not that good.
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Adequate only for a sleep-over between flights. The room smelt very strongly of stale smoke. However, the desk staff was very accommodating. Note that the Inn has an Airport pick-up service that cost considerably less than a taxi.


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Osaka is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshu. The city is the capital of Osaka Prefecture. Often dubbed the second city of Japan, Osaka was historically the commercial capital of Japan, and to date the heart of Japan's second largest metropolitan area of Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto, whose population is 19,220,000.
A unique title that the city of Osaka holds is the first place in Japan for day to night population ratio of 141%, a depiction of Osaka's economical and commercial centric character. While at night time the population ranks third place in the country at 2.6 million, in daytime it surges to 3.7 million, second only after Tokyo. Also, Osaka is traditionally considered the "nation's kitchen" or the gourmet food capital of Japan.
The city of Osaka has its west side open to Osaka Bay. It is otherwise completely surrounded by over ten smaller cities, all of them in Osaka Prefecture, with one exception: the city of Amagasaki, belonging to Hyogo Prefecture, in the north-west. The city occupies a larger area (about 12%) than any other city or district within Osaka Prefecture.
The two most crowded centers of the city of Osaka are often called by their synonyms: Kita (north) and Minami (south). Kita is roughly the area including or surrounding the business and retail district of Umeda. On the other hand, Minami is home to the Namba, Shinsaibashi and Dōtonbori shopping districts. The entertainment area around Dōtonbori Bridge with its famous giant mechanical crab, Triangle Park and Amerikamura ("America Village") is in Minami. The traditional business district, including the courts and regional headquarters of major banks, is primarily located in Yodoyabashi and Honmachi, between Kita and Minami. The newer business district is the OBP, Osaka Business Park, located in the neighborhood of Osaka Castle. Business districts have also formed around the city's secondary rail termini, such as Tennoji Station and Kyobashi Station.
"The 808 bridges of Naniwa" was a famous expression for awe and wonder in old Japan, an almost proverbial adage which was known all across the land. "Naniwa" is the ancient name of Osaka and "808" is a large number that in Japan symbolizes the concept "uncountable."
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History Crush: Susan B. Anthony
Today's History Crush guest post comes from the National Archives staff in New York City. Sara Lyons Pasquerello, education technician, and Angela Tudico, archives technician, don't care about clichés! Their love for this suffragist will never falter—and might even expand!
As we enter Women's History Month, it is only fitting that we reveal our history crush—Susan B. Anthony. She may seem a cliché choice, but since our office holds the Susan B. Anthony court case for illegal voting, she is hard to pass up. The case is one of the most notable ones we hold relating to women's history. And if you scratch below the surface, there is more to this story than most people know.
Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820 into a Quaker family with strong ties to the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and upstate New York. The Anthony farm in Rochester, NY, served as a gathering place for community activism and nurtured Susan B. Anthony as she began her lifelong mission for social change.
One of the things we admire most about Susan B. Anthony is the combination of idealism and pragmatism that her work for the vote represented.
Her idealism hearkens back to the principles of the Founding Fathers and the belief in a government deriving its powers from the "consent of the governed," implying a confidence and trust in a … [ Read all ]
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Application Checklist for Non-Degree Graduate Students
1. Completed graduate application
2. Final, Official transcript from the regionally accredited college or university awarding your most recent degree. This must be submitted in a sealed envelope sent from the registrar's office. (Piedmont College transcripts are on file.)
3. If you plan to take education courses, please complete the following steps:
-Cleared Certified Background Check.
-Proof of Current Background Check. If you are a full-time employee of a school district, you may complete this form instead of the background check.
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• Non-degree graduate students may take a maximum of three courses or nine semester hours as a non-degree graduate student. Non-degree graduate students who wish to take more than three courses or nine semester hours must receive permission from the Dean of Academic Affairs.
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Pa. denies proposals for cyber schools
PHILADELPHIA – State education officials denied applications for eight new cyber charter schools on Monday, citing significant deficiencies in their planned curricula, finances and overall operations.
The proposals left Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis questioning the would-be operators' ability "to maintain a long-term, viable educational program for the benefit of Pennsylvania students."
"The proposals submitted by the applicants lack adequate evidence and sufficient information of how prospective students would be offered quality academic programs," Tomalis said in a statement.
Court to weigh secrecy of turnpike lawyers
HARRISBURG – The state Supreme Court on Monday announced it would hear arguments in March about a dispute between the attorney general's office and the turnpike commission over disclosure of records in a public corruption investigation that has lasted more than three years.
The turnpike commission wants the high court to overturn a decision by a grand jury supervisory judge who had sided with prosecutors who want access to communications between the agency's lawyers and the commissioners or employees.
The commission argues that those exchanges are protected by lawyer-client privilege, while the attorney general's office says their disclosure is needed to keep the government honest.
Aide says judge told her to ditch files
PITTSBURGH – The chief of staff for former state Sen. Jane Orie has testified the senator and state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin, the legislator's sister, both told her to remove political material in files the aide took home in the early days of a corruption investigation.
Jamie Pavlot testified Monday she took the files out of Orie's legislative office on
Nov. 1, 2009, because they related to political activity that Orie's state-funded staff had done for the senator and Melvin – then a Superior Court judge about to be elected to the state's highest court two days later.
"Anything political of mine I want you to pull out of those boxes," Pavlot said Melvin told her, echoing Sen. Orie's words in a three-way call Pavlot said she received at home that Sunday.
Pavlot's testimony was the first revelation in her daylong testimony about political work that Orie's staff allegedly did when Melvin lost a race for the Supreme Court in 2003 and again in 2009, when she won.
Earlier, Pavlot had testified that the former Republican lawmaker told her, "You need to follow that as though I were telling you myself," whenever Melvin or the judge's aide and sister Janine Orie needed her help for campaign work.
Melvin, 56, and Janine Orie, 58, of Pittsburgh's North Hills suburbs, are on trial on theft of services, conspiracy and other charges for allegedly misusing Melvin's former Superior Court staff and Sen. Orie's former staff – both of which were taxpayer-funded – to campaign for Melvin.
Melvin is suspended because of the charges she faces and Janine Orie is suspended as Melvin's aide.
Jane Orie, 51, is serving 21/2 to 10 years in prison and resigned from office after she was convicted last year of using her state-paid staff to work on her own campaigns.
Man jailed after fight with at bookstore
GREENSBURG – A man has been jailed on charges that he fought with state troopers and tried to disarm them of their stun guns when they responded to a disturbance at a Greensburg bookstore.
Online court records don't list an attorney for 38-year-old Michael Haugh, of Apollo, Armstrong County, who was arrested Saturday evening.
That's when troopers from the Greensburg barracks say they were called to the Barnes & Noble store on Route 30 in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County.
Police said Haugh was wanted for making unspecified threats and fought with two troopers who tried to subdue him, grabbing for their stun guns in the process. Instead, both troopers stunned Haugh and arrested him, but not before about $500 damage was done to a store display.
Haugh faces a preliminary hearing Feb. 5
Bucknell admits SAT scores inflated
LEWISBURG – The president of Bucknell University said an internal investigation has revealed that school officials falsified students' average SAT scores.
Mean SAT results for incoming freshmen were overstated by an average of 16 points between 2006 and 2012, according to President John Bravman. The motive behind the misrepresentation is unclear, he said, though college entrance exam scores often figure into national rankings.
Bravman disclosed the problem in a letter Friday to students, staff and alumni of the selective liberal arts school in central Pennsylvania.
Bravman attributed the inaccurate figures to officials who no longer work at Bucknell.
School makes students ask for toilet paper
MAHANOY CITY – An eastern Pennsylvania high school says vandalism forced it to create a policy in which toilet paper has been taken out of the boys' bathrooms.
Boys at Mahanoy Area High School in Schuylkill County now must go to the school office to request toilet paper and sign it out. Principal Thomas Smith said that's helped solve a major problem of bathroom vandalism that's been going on for two years.
Smith said boys must sign out the toilet paper and then sign it back in. But the Republican-Herald of Pottsville reported some parents are protesting the policy.
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Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat entschieden, eine Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen den massenhaften Abgleich von Kfz-Kennzeichen in Niedersachsen aus formalen Gründen nicht zur Entscheidung anzunehmen. Die 2008 eingereichte Beschwerde sei wegen Versäumung einer Frist unzulässig. Allerdings stellten sich in der Sache "gewichtige verfassungsrechtliche Fragen".
Denmark, the UK, and many other EU governments have so far refused to
follow April's landmark ruling by the EU Court of Justice annulling
the Data Retention Directive, which required Telecommunications and Internet Service Providers
to store detailed records about all of their customers' communications and Internet use. But
civil liberties campaigners AK Vorrat have now obtained internal documents showing that
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the European Court of Justice's ruling on the Data Retention Directive "suggests that general and blanket data retention is no
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This is what you can do to help stop the indiscriminate collection of information regarding our communications:
The EU data retention directive aims at enabling the retracing of who contacted whom via telephone, mobile phone or e-mail for a period of 6 to 24 months. In the case of mobile calls or text messages via mobile phone, the user's location is also to be logged.
The data that is collected about the entire population allows our movements to be traced, any calls or communications with personal and business contacts to be monitored and removes privacy in our personal relationships. Information regarding the content of communications can be deduced relating to personal interests and the individual life circumstances of the persons communicating. Access to the data is granted to the police, public prosecutors, secret services and foreign states which hope for better prosecution of crimes.
Until 2007, telecommunications providers were permitted to retain only data required for billing purposes. This is not the case with location data and information regarding e-mails, for example. Customers could request the deletion of billing data as soon as the monthly invoice had been sent out. By using a flat rate, one could prevent the collection of traffic data altogether, which can be important for journalists, counselors and others.
The current scheme regarding the collection of information about citizens' communication, movements and use of media constitute the greatest threat yet to our right to an independent and private life.
We are all suffering from data retention:
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Charlotte officials and Duke Energy are still considering Charlotte Douglas International Airport as a site for millions of tons of coal ash now at Mountain Island Lake.
Exxon Mobil says it'll follow new anti-bias rules
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US consumer prices up 0.3 percent in June
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Pictured: Shoupe Glacier in Alaska. The team behind the Alaska LNG project has submitted an application to the U.S. Department of Energy for exporting liquefied natural gas.
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New York state environmental regulators are proposing shutting the giant Indian Point nuclear power plant to protect fish in the Hudson River during summer months, when demand for electricity for air-conditioning is greatest.
Halliburton sees North America margin growth on ri...
Halliburton Co , the world's No.2 oilfield services provider, said it expect higher margins in North America in the current quarter due to strong drilling activity, signaling an industry-wide recovery in the region after a two-year slump.
Halliburton 2Q profit climbs 20 percent
The Houston-based company said earnings increased to $774 million, or 91 cents per share, from $644 million, or 69 cents per share, a year ago.
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Friday's heavy rain caused sewage lines at the Exxon Mobil Refinery in Beaumont to overflow, spilling sewage into and around the refinery's property.
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In a bowl place the flour "Harina PAN", salt, vegetable oil and water. Mix with your hands to form a dough. Then knead for about 10 minutes.
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Place the arepas on a hot pan and brown well on both sides. Finish cooking in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
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The Associated Press reports Honeywell International Inc. and DuPont Co. have formed a joint venture to make a new refrigerant for use in automobile air conditioning, the companies announced recently. The companies will share financial and research responsibilities to jointly design and build a factory for the refrigerant, which is named HFO-1234yf. In a statement, the companies said the refrigerant has 99.7 percent lower global warming potential that current chemicals used in air conditioners. Honeywell and DuPont said the new product meets European Union requirements for lower global warming potential. The companies developed the refrigerant together, but they will sell it separately, the statement said.


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There are over 18 million known substances in our world. We will begin by assuming that all materials are made from elements, materials which cannot be decomposed into simpler substances. We will assume that we have identified all of these elements, and that there a very small number of them. All other pure substances, which we call compounds, are made up from these elements and can be decomposed into these elements. For example, metallic iron and gaseous oxygen are both elements and cannot be reduced into simpler substances, but iron rust, or ferrous oxide, is a compound which can be reduced to elemental iron and oxygen. The elements are not transmutable: one element cannot be converted into another. Finally, we will assume that we have demonstrated the Law of Conservation of Mass.
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Thursday, November 20, 2003Valparaiso University placed four student-athletes on the Mid-Continent Conference First Team, while Cyndi Norman (Minooka, Ill./Minooka H.S.), Sara Silcox (Michigan City, Ind./Michigan City H.S.), and head coach Carin Avery all earned top individual awards at the league's annual banquet held on Thursday evening.
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---- — TRAVERSE CITY — The Dennos Museum Center will continue its concert series highlighting world cultures when it presents Cimarron at 7 p.m. Sunday in Milliken Auditorium.
The Smithsonian Folkways and Grammy-nominated recording artists from Colombia, South America, are steeped in the sounds of "Los Llanos," a grassland plain region where life revolves around country ranches and where music accompanies daily tasks like milking and cattle drives.
"The cimarron is the bull that knows no rope, corral, nor iron, the steer that has not been lassoed nor branded and ranges free on the savannas and surrounding forests," band harpist and composer Carlos Rojas Hernández has said. "That concept always struck me; nothing can be closer to the creative spirit that constitutes the essence of plains music, than that feeling of freedom."
In keeping with the mestizo people that inhabit Los Llanos — descendants of Spanish settlers, African slaves and Indigenous Indians —Cimarron explores and experiments with its rich heritage while retaining the essence of the tradition. Particularly striking is the festive dance music called joropo, a virtuoso display of rippling melodies played on harp, bandola and cuatro, accompanied by bass, cajon and maracas. The rapid and joyous music is sung with high-pitched voices reminiscent of Andalusian gipsy roots.
Considered the most accomplished llanera group in Colombia, the seven-piece Cimarrón has been performing around the world for over 20 years. In Traverse City, it will offer a second performance for schools at 9:30 a.m. on Monday.
Tickets for the group's Sunday concert are $28 at the door and $25 in advance at the museum box office, 995-1553 or online at www.dennosmuseum.org. Ticket-holders can visit the museum's galleries an hour before the concert and attend a post-concert reception with the performers.


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Lafayette will celebrate Women's History Month in March with events focusing on the theme of "Domestic and International Intersections."
The month captures the spirit of International Women's Day on March 8 by featuring events on and speakers from Africa, Russia, the Caribbean, and Asia and exploring Native American topics, spirituality, body image, feminism, sexual assault, and women in the STEM fields.
"We'd like the campus community to consider the complexity of issues that face women, not just here in the U.S., but across the world," says Gene Kelly, associate dean of intercultural development and director of gender and sexuality programs.
A highlight of the month will be two talks by Russian author and journalist Masha Gessen March 11. "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" will be at noon in the Gendenbien Room of Skillman Library, and "The Anatomy of a Crackdown: The Laws, Slogans, and Practices of the New Russia" will be at 4:15 p.m. in Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104. Gessen is the director of Radio Liberty's Russian Service and the author of The Man Without a Face, a biography of Vladimir Putin. She has written for The New Republic, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, and U.S. News and World Report, and contributes a weekly entry to the Latitude blog at The New York Times.
Other events include a staged reading of Eve Ensler's The Good Body 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, in Colton Chapel; the photo exhibit "Is Feminism Still Necessary?" March 18-22 in Farinon College Center; and a trip exploring the Lenni Lenape Native Americans 11 a.m. Saturday, March 16, at the Sigal Museum in Easton.
The month's events are sponsored by the Office of Gender and Sexuality Programs; the Africana studies, film and media studies, international affairs, and women and gender studies programs; the Religious Studies Department; the Office of Intercultural Development, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, Information Technology Services, International Students Association, Hillel, Association of Lafayette Feminists, Counseling Center, Kaleidoscope Peer Educators, and NIA. For more information, contact the Office of Gender and Sexuality Programs at (610) 330-5819.
Women's History Month Schedule:
- March 4, Noon, Farinon College Center: Women's History Month Kick-off
- March 6, Noon, Gendebein Room of Skillman Library: "Gentle, Loving, and Assertive: The Visual Self-Representation of the Hungarian Home-Birth Movement," with Katalin Fabian, associate professor of government and law
- March 7, 4:30 p.m., Hugel Science Center room 100: "Young Sunni Women in Contemporary Senegal," with Erin Augis, associate professor of sociology at Ramapo College of New Jersey
- March 8, Noon, Interfaith Chapel of Hogg Hall: International Women's Day Celebration, "What is the Gender Agenda, Internationally?"
- March 11, Noon, Interfaith Chapel of Hogg Hall: Women and Spirituality discussion
- March 11, Noon, Gendebein Room of Skillman Library: "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin," with author and journalist Masha Gessen
- March 11, 4:15 p.m., Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104: "The Anatomy of a Crackdown: The Laws, Slogans, and Practices of the New Russia," with author and journalist Masha Gessen
- March 13, 8 p.m., Colton Chapel: Staged Reading of The Good Body by Eve Ensler, $5 donation to benefit Landis Center Women's Outreach
- March 14, Noon, Interfaith Chapel of Hogg Hall: "The Good Body and Body Image in Women" discussion
- March 15, 4:15 p.m., Interfaith Chapel of Hogg Hall: Women in STEM Fields discussion
- March 16, 11 a.m., Sigal Museum: Easton Teepees and Wigwams: Learn the Lenape Way, RSVP to email@example.com by Friday, March 8
- March 18-22, All Day, Farinon College Center: Photo Displays, "Is Feminism Still Necessary?"
- March 19, 4:15 p.m., Hugel Science Center room 100: "Afro-Caribbean Migration in North America," with Amoaba Gooden, associate professor of Pan-African studies at Kent State University
- March 19, 7 p.m., Oechsle Hall room 224: Viewing and Discussion of The Invisible War
- March 20, Noon, Portlock Black Cultural Center: "Is Feminism Still Necessary?" discussion
- March 21, 7:30 p.m., Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104: "The Virgin (?) Mary and Her Saucy Sisters," with Claudia Camp, Weatherly Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University


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Newton restructure sees Frikkee lose Higher Income fund
by Emma Dunkley on Dec 10, 2012 at 12:11
Newton Investment Management's Richard Wilmot is taking over the reins of the firm's Higher Income fund leaving current manager Tineke Frikkee facing an uncertain future.
Frikkee is in discussions about her role at the company after being taken off the fund which she has managed since 2004.
The news comes as the firm announces a raft of fund mergers and following a significant shift by investors away from UK equities.
Simon Pryke, chief investment officer at Newton, said: 'We believe the UK equity team, under Richard's leadership and working closely with our 17-strong global sector research analysts, will be well positioned to continue to successfully manage our UK equity portfolios going forward.'
Recent months have proved challenging for Frikkee and her Higher Income fund, and October saw the manager raise cash to a record level on fears quantitative easing would have little impact.
Over three years she sits in 66th position out her 97 peers in the UK equity income sector, according to Citywire data.
Announcing the changes, Newton said it is consolidating its product offering in UK equities as investors shift away from these towards global stocks, fixed income and absolute return.
The firm merged the Newton Income, Newton Growth and Newton UK Equity funds into a single vehicle and redeployed resources to other areas of the firm to take account of this shift.
Under the last three years of Frikkee's rein, the Newton Higher Income fund, formerly in Citywire Selection, has delivered 26% versus a 29.8% rise in the FTSE All Share TR index.
Newton acknowledged that the environment has been difficult for investing in higher yielding stocks of late, and in the UK the number of attractive higher yielding equities available to investors has shrunk.
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Open 4-Person Relay EventStart: 6:30 a.m. Sunday, May 3, 2015
For on-line registration, submit one entry per team and follow the directions on the registration website.
The Relay Team packets will be distributed at the P&G Health & Fitness Expo and will contain all materials and supplies for each of the runners on the team. Only one member of the team may pick up the packets for the team, but all team members are advised to come help in the pick-up and distribution of team packets and premiums.
Substituting Relay Team Member. If you need to substitute a participant on your relay team, have the substitute complete the Switching Relay Participant Request Form and bring to packet pick-up at the Expo. There is a $15 fee to make the substitution.
At the Start
Leg 1 runners start at the same time as the other marathon runners - 6:30 a.m. There is not a separate start for the Relay Teams.
Leg 2, 3, and 4 relay runners will be bused to their respective exchange zone. They should report to the relay bus loading area on Eggleston and Butler, located 1.5 miles from the marathon start. Volunteers will direct these runners to the buses. Buses for the second runner will depart from 5:50 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. from the relay staging area Buses for the third runner will depart from 6:20 a.m. to 6:40 a.m. and buses for the fourth leg will depart from 7:00a.m. to 7:20 a.m.
Completing Your Leg
When relay runners have completed their leg of the race, they will be bused to the Finish Line area. All relay runners returning from the exchanges will be allowed in the Recovery Area of the Finish Line for food, beverages, medals, goodies, etc.
Meet your teammates at the Relay Reunion Area in Yeatman's Cove. Team photos may be taken here.
See the relay baggage exchange instructions that let you control the retrieving of your gear. Please do not leave valuables.
Relay runners need to keep up a 16:00 minute per mile pace or risk being caught by the sag wagon. Runners caught by the sag wagon have a choice of getting on and ending their race, or moving to the sidewalks.
Relay Baggage Exchange
Each runner will create 2 bags: one to take with them to their zone, with their pre-run gear, and another bag of post-run gear to get when they reach the zone at the end of their relay leg.
Relay runners will have the previous runner's clothes bag with them and hand it to the incoming runner.
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SAN ANTONIO -- The U.S. Olympic Committee is asking San Antonio, Houston, Austin, and Dallas along with 31 other cities if they are interested in bidding to host the 2024 Summer Games.
The USOC sent letters to the mayors of those cities Tuesday to gauge interest in a potential bid to bring the Summer Olympics back to the country for the first time since 1996.
Other Texas cities that received the letter include Austin, Dallas and Houston.
"Our objective in this process is to identify a partner city that can work with us to present a compelling bid to the IOC and that has the right alignment of political, business and community leadership," USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said in the letter.
Mayor Julian Castro received San Antonio's invitation Tuesday afternoon.
"It was a pleasant invitation to receive but it's also something that we have to give a lot of thought to before we say yes or no," says Castro.
Following failed bids by New York and Chicago for the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, the USOC is taking a measured approach before moving ahead with a new campaign and wants to be sure it has a good chance of winning.
"This letter does not guarantee that the USOC will bid for the 2024 Games, but rather is an initial step in evaluating a potential bid," the committee said.
In addition to the four largest Texas cities, the letters were sent to mayors of the country's 25 largest cities -- including New York, Chicago and former Olympic host cities Los Angeles, Atlanta and St. Louis.
According to the USOC, the cities must be able to accommodate:
• 45,000 hotel rooms.
• An Olympic Village that sleeps 16,500 and has a 5000-person dining hall.
• Operations space for over 15,000 media and broadcasters.
• An international airport that can handle thousands of international travelers per day.
• Public transportation service to venues.
• Roadway closures to allow exclusive use for Games-related transportation.
• A workforce of up to 200,000.
The USOC has also said it would consider whether to bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics, although the bigger and more prestigious Summer Games would seem to be the preference.
The U.S. hasn't hosted the Summer Olympics since Atlanta in 1996; Salt Lake City was the last American city to stage the Winter Games in 2002.
Los Angeles, Dallas and Tulsa, Okla., are among the cities that have expressed interest in hosting the 2024 Games. New York, Chicago and San Francisco have either bid or expressed interest in bidding in the past and could also get in the mix.
New York finished fourth in the international bidding for the 2012 Olympics, which went to London. Chicago suffered a stinging first-round exit in the vote for the 2016 Games, which were awarded to Rio de Janeiro.
Chicago's defeat was blamed partly on the revenue-sharing feud between the USOC and IOC. The two sides have since resolved the dispute and signed a new agreement that clears the way for a U.S. bid. USOC leaders have also worked hard to improve the committee's standing in the international Olympic community.
"Now more than ever, we need to use the power of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to encourage our youth to be active and engaged in sport," Blackmun wrote.
Other cities around the world that have expressed interest in bidding for the 2024 Games include Paris; Rome; Doha, Dubai; and Durban, South Africa. The IOC vote on the 2024 Games will be in 2017.
The USOC is skipping the bidding for the 2020 Olympics. The three candidates for those games are Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo, with the IOC to vote Sept. 7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The USOC said Tuesday it has 2 1/2 years to decide whether to submit a 2024 bid and would do so in an "economically efficient way."
While New York and Chicago were selected by the USOC after a domestic bid process that cost up to $10 million, the USOC said it would embark on any new bid through "a thoughtful but more efficient process."
The USOC letter sought to remind the mayors of the huge undertaking involved in hosting the Olympics. Blackmun noted that the operating costs would be in excess of $3 billion, a figure that does not include venue construction and infrastructure costs.
The city would also require 45,000 hotel rooms, an Olympic village for 16,500 athletes and officials, an international airport and a workforce of up to 200,000, the letter said.
"The games have had a transformative impact on a number of host cities, including Barcelona, Beijing and London," Blackmun said.
According to Mayor Castro, regardless of what happens in San Antonio, the invitation definitely sheds new light on the way outsiders are viewing South Texas.