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My first exposure to '"green"' cycling was superlative due to the excellent personal service by Rudy and Grahm ~
Upon G's ,suggestion to my needs ,the via Rapido was def a custom choice for my recreational/urban needs ~
Hav been by store a few times to scope out new accessiories (mirrors ,lites ,etc) ~
Rudy eats/sleeps electric bicycles ~ he is more than happy to finetune/ tweak to owners' personal needs ~
Recommended to anyone interested in putting a little '"zip"' into their ride ~ RUN ,DON'T WALK !
Great Bikes and Vibe. I have been looking for e-bikes all around LA and was stoked to find IZIP. Great atmosphere and customer service too, exactly what I've been looking for!
Superb Service. Had to get work done on a 5 year old scooter. Rudy was honest, friendly and knowledgable. Took care of everything with a great attitude, professional service, just a great place overall.
Thank you fro the warm review. I always love hearing about peoples great experiences and the service they receive (though when your working with Rudy I never have a doubt).
Thanks for your business and we look forward to seeing you here again!
Fun and Friendly!. I went to the IZIP store looking for a bike (not specifically for an electric bike initially) and some accessories. They have cool and cute bike accessories, cool helmets and such. At first, I decided to rent a bike. They do offer free test rides but I wanted to make sure I was 100% ok with the idea of even owning a bike, I'm more of a car girl, don't hate me! Anyway, I loved the fact that I could use my own energy to pedal the bike but when it came to the steep hills around Santa Monica,Venice and Los Angeles, I loved that I could use the electric bike for what it's meant to be used for - getting me over those hills without breaking a sweat. I'm now a huge fan of electric bikes, and love being able to get out an about, even used my IZIP electric bike to get to work the other day. Needless to say, I found the IZIP store here after an internet search and so happy I did. Customer service here, can't beat it either. The told me the offer it free when you buy a bike from them, probably won't need it though!
Best Bike Shop Rental I've ever been to!. I had the best time here! To prove how great of an experience I had, I made a citysearch account just to write an review!!! My friends and I have not really done anything special this summer and the idea to go biking came up. We found this place and got a great deal! made an appointment and when we got there, they (Rudy and a worker) had our bikes ready and explained to us how to use it in great detail! we've never ridden electric bikes but got the hang of it really quickly. we biked to the beach and had the time of our lives! we would most definitely come back again!!! Once you try one of the bikes, you wouldn't want to leave without buying one!!! I LOVE THIS STORE!!!!
Fun, Fitness, Environmentally Friendly...did I mention FUN?!.
We just moved back to CA from MA and needed a form of transportation to get me within 20 miles of home. Back and forth thinking about Vespas etc...just couldn't settle with the fact that there are so many accidents involving them, then there's the added cost of registration, license and insurance, it just didn't make sense.
My husband was at Floyds getting a haircut and came to pick me up a couple of doors down. In his hand a brochure for Izip..I thought wot? Nah, not me...that was until we walked in to check them out.
The store is modern, clean and stock filled...so many choices, I thought my head would spin, until Ethan asked me what I would mainly use the bike for...that narrowed it down to 2 bikes! Perfect...that makes it easy...next thing you know, I ask for a test ride, my husband, myself and Ethan took a spin. Me on a Izip E3 Metro and my husband an Izip Zuma.
We took a hill nearby, didn't know until I reached the top, I cruised there in top gear! Laughing all the way. The feeling is like nothing else, waaaay too much fun and just bizarre after cycling for years, this takes it to a whole new level.
We got back and I asked how much for both, yep, cycled out with both bikes, because they are bitching! It is THE perfect solution for me to travel around the beach and surrounding suburbs.
Better still for a car, paint and motor freak, my Metro was way beyond gorgeous...the paintwork, the styling, the comfort and it was just released the day I bought it...even the serial number is number 1.
OK, enough raving, Ethan & Rudy are so knowledgeable, no hard sell (there really is no need once you get on board one, it's a no brainer) beyond old fashioned customer service, it was such a friendly, pleasant experience. No question was too silly or could not be answered and we get lifetime service.
We took our bikes from Venice to Manhattan Beach yesterday, a breeze all the way, used about 70/30 pedal/electric and had a blast. We passed by people with a puzzled look on their face and probably upset more than a few die hard triathletes on the bike path when we took on the hills, giving into some throttle action!
By far the best bike rental at the beaches, beyond clean and in good shape, they don't provide clunkers that break down or just look downright dirty, they are quality bikes and very fair and reasonable pricing...recommended for singles, couples, friends and family.
Can't wait to take this home to Australia next summer...might even have to bring a few more along for family...will be awesome riding on the coast.
Thanks Ethan & Rudy for all your help, great ideas, forward thinking and just for being great blokes! We're still smiling!
Great Place to Shop for a Scooter. Zip 750 is a great! It has great acceleration. It gets me around town with ease. I'll buy another one of these for my mother and father when they travel.
BIKE LOVERS DREAM!!!!. This Izip Store is unique and super clean inside. I am so happy that Izip has finally brought some bikes down to the beach. There are so many bikes that you can purchase and the staff is more then helpful in finding the right bike for you, whats also great is if your not sure about what to do you can test ride or rent a bike so you KNOW its the right fit. I have had many Currie Technologies made products and I can honestly say that I love EVERY one. I wish that more people would get these bikes and save themselves some money (for gas) and our environment. Double thumbs up to Izip!!!!
Electric bikes -- Great experience and much fun. I recently bought a electric bike for myself as an alternative to driving the 12 miles each way in my car through LA traffic and the folks at the IZIP Store were wonderful to deal with. They set me up with a Via Rapido which is a great street ebike that is a pleasure to ride. I was unsure as to what model to buy but they allowed me to take extended test rides on all the models that I likes and this one was just right. Ethan and Rudy -- Thank you!
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Book Review: American Psycho
'repulsive, a bloodbath serving no purpose save that of morbidity, titillation and sensation… pure trash, as scummy and mean as anything, it depicts, a dirty book by a dirty writer'
'totally hateful … violent junk … no discernible plot, no believable characterization, no sensibility at work that comes anywhere close to making art out of all the blood and torture'
Amongst such reviews it is not exactly surprising that Bret Easton Ellis' 400 page social satire is still a literary icon two decades after publication. As we all know, the more scandalized the critics, the more piqued the curiosities of potential readers. 1.6 million of them to be exact. American Psycho has the sly appeal of pulp fiction mingled with brilliantly turning a horrific reflection of the consumerist lifestyle in on itself.
Patrick Bateman is a Wall Street investment banker and to this reader, possessed the desensitized eyes of the corporation. Towards the less fortunate he held not only lack of sympathy but a vicious contempt, not understanding why everyone who was not as wealthy and privileged as him had to exist and ruin the scenery for everyone who was.
Can you not see yourself preferring to buy the more expensive product, lounging in the more lavish restaurant, revealing yourself in sleeker clothes and wanting to experience the more extravagantly packaged services? Then you might just relate to Mr. Bateman.
The controversy was not around the fact that to Bateman 'surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in. This was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged'. The outrage was over the 16 pages of gore that would probably make you close the book and take a break from the inhumanity of it all. One critic points out that during this depiction of monstrosity there is conveniently no police, no screams heard, no smells of rotting corpses smelt. That is precisely the point- truer in this day and age than ever. No one is watching. No one places any value over sentiments. If suddenly your most 'interesting' colleague goes missing, no one bats an eyelash. It's simply not 'hip' to care. Bateman sees people the way corporations see people – not as unique snowflakes but as objects to be collected, depreciated and consumed. The reason no one suspects him is because there is no him. He is anonymous, one of millions – not even his own work colleagues can place a name to the face and vice versa.
As unpopular as reading anything over 140 characters is nowadays, this mirror on society is worth your time and the ensuing nightmares that will probably follow.
Most publishing companies prefer a paperback or 'softcover' book to be limited to 100-120 pages. 150-200 pages is pushing the unpublished author risk vs reward factor.
You could change the title to American Shopper.Suggest the author invest in the softcover book:
Writing Commercial Fiction by John Stevenson (120 pages)
Prentice-Hall 1983.If you are J..K. Rowling or Stephen King there's no need.
Oh. Sorry .
I thought American Psycho was the autobiography of George W. Bush.-
You can't quote 'reviewers' without pointing to who they are, and you certainly can't aggregate other people's opinion and call it a review. This is amateur book reviewing. Ms. Khursheed is probably some college girl who thinks this book is 'cool' because its so edgy and different.
Sorry. You're right. It was my first review and I really didn't know you couldn't do that. Thank you though. The first review is by Johnathan Yardley
The second is by John Leo. Additionally, I do not think it is edgy and cool [although I don't know why thinking that about the book is wrong] I think that it is an alternative way of expressing criticism about the world we live in.
I think you'll find incorporating other people's views with your own is called doing background research, Evlyn. As far as the book is concerned, it is a fascinating insight into the mental anatomy of a calm, calculated murderer who has been driven to his misdeeds due to the complete lack of social cohesion and morality. Moreover, as Ms. Khursheed astutely points out, this insanity hinges on the loss of identity brought about by the 80′s excessive "yuppie" culture. Furthermore, Ellis also analyses how the male psyche is deeply troubled through the rise of females in the workplace during the era; and finally the shocking disparity between the Wall Street ultra-elite and the abject poverty which exists in so many third world nations. Read the book, honey.
I read half of this book and it looked more like a journal of a brand obsessed executive. The plot was barely visible and entire book is overloaded with brands of various products along with their prices and descriptions that go on and on and on…. it would have been a great read if it was a 150-200 page Novella… the bulk of the book makes it loose impact!

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NJIT prepares its graduates for positions of leadership as professionals and as citizens; provides educational opportunities for a broadly diverse student body; responds to needs of large and small businesses, state and local governmental agencies, and civic organizations; partners with educational institutions at all levels to accomplish its mission; and advances the uses of technology as a means of improving the quality of life.
Online Learning at NJITNJIT online classes are virtual learning communities with instructor-led online classrooms that use rich platforms to present course material as well as both asynchronous and synchronous communication. Online courses are flexible and rigorous educational experiences suited to motivated students.
Course material can be accessed through the Internet via learning managements systems that use multimedia presentations. Students also download podcast lectures by using NJIT on iTunes U. Course materials is also presented to students as streaming video, CD ROM and DVD.
Online Learning is a convenient alternative for students who work, either part-time or full-time. It's also well-suited for those who want to either advance in their current company or change careers.
Today's civil engineers are problem solvers, meeting the challenges of pollution, traffic congestion, drinking water and energy needs, urban redevelopment, and community planning.
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Our curriculum, which is enriched by advanced research programs in environmental engineering and science, building sciences and materials, and transportation, will prepare you to function effectively and efficiently in a global economy.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt is back with a second season of her Lifetime Network series, and she teased a bit about how season two will start in a new interview with Extra TV. She said the following:
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Aug. 26, 2011 – CPA Practice Advisor has announced the recipients of its annual 40 Under 40 Awards, a program designed to identify and honor young leaders who are helping to positively shape the accounting and tax profession. CPA Practice Advisor is the only publication and online resource dedicated to providing tax and accounting professionals with the technology and workflow information and guidance they need to be more profitable and productive in their practice.
Through its digital and print editions, website, blog, webcasts and podcasts, CPA Practice Advisor provides independent technology reviews, implementation strategies, and advice for small and mid-sized professional tax and accounting practices. The complete list of this year's 40 Under 40 honorees is available below.
"These 40 professionals are among the most dedicated to developing and applying innovative and creative approaches to solving practice needs," said Executive Editor M. Darren Root, CPA.CITP. "As such, they are the leaders of the evolution of the professional practice, and it is our privilege to honor them as the 2011 40 Under 40."
A special digital edition with exclusive insight from these top 40 individuals is available at www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com/40u40/2011.
CPA Practice Advisor, also available as NSA Practice Advisor for members of the National Society of Accountants, is an independent information source for practicing public accountants and tax professionals, dedicated to providing them with the knowledge they need to implement technology, workflow systems and best practices in their firms. With an audited print circulation of more than 40,000, it is dedicated to helping professionals become more efficient, productive and profitable.
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Nestled alongside the breathtaking River Shannon, the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone treats guests to charming views of the bustling Athlone Marina and historic Athlone Castle. The hotel welcomes guests to relax in one of 128 rooms and suites, each furnished with such top amenities as Free high-speed, wireless Internet access. Guests can enjoy light meals, snacks and cocktails at Quayside Bar & Lounge, or savour local and international cuisine at Elements Restaurant. This Athlone hotel also boasts a relaxing Outdoor Riverside Terrace and modern meeting rooms perfect for events along the marina. All guests enjoy complimentary access to the hotel's on-site Synergy Health & Leisure Club, which features an indoor swimming pool, steam room and gym.
- Providing a picture-perfect setting for memorable events and holidays, this hotel in Athlone overlooks the historic Athlone Castle and Athlone Marina.
- Within easy walking distance of town centre, the hotel affords guests convenient access to the Athlone train and bus stations, which offer service to Dublin and Galway.
- The hotel features 128 rooms and suites, many of which offer delightful views of the River Shannon, charming Old Town and historic Athlone Castle.
- Quayside Bar & Lounge serves refreshing drinks and light meals in a casual atmosphere near the marina. The stylish Elements Restaurant features both local and internationally influenced cuisine.
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- Modern meeting rooms, some with marina views and terrace access, provide ideal venues for celebratory dinners and weddings as well as for business conferences and seminars.
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Umit Assistant
Clippit Everybody knows Clippit, the animated assistant that features Microsoft Office. It would be nice to have one a animated assistant to take care of helping users in some situations, and I'm sure that it is going to help Umit on every new feature that it might have in the future, showing to the user how to better analyse the scan results that he got, suggesting things that he can do with the result, and even what that result means. There are a lot of things that can be done with it. The student willing to apply for this idea, must take care of making it extensible in a manner that makes it easy to be used and integrated to future projects. Also, it is a good idea to support assistant switch, letting users switch the assistent from (for example) a animated pill to a animated HUB (??). Volunteers for the animations and designs are very welcome to help our studnet on this task! And, of course, we're going to give you the proper credits for your work on our website and at the Credits window of Umit.
Nmap Wrapper for Python
The wrapper intention is to provide a module from which you can create an Nmap instance, set the desired options and targets and run it without the need of executing it in another process. The wrapper must allow access of Nmap funcionalities like estimated time to finish the scan and runtime user interaction.
User's almost won't note any change with this wrapper. This is a feature that is going to make Nmap and Umit developers life's easier, while adding new features or even integrating with future Nmap options and functionalities.
NSE Facilitator
Last year we have a student working on this feature, and we get far with it. But still, we have a lot of work to make that couldn't be done in only one Summer. The goal of NSE Facilitator is to provide a good NSE experience for average users, who doesn't know NSE much but still need to use it to get their job done. And our work, is to help them have their job done quickly. We need some ideas on how to improve NSE, and ease its use for the average user. Students willing to apply for this project, are expected to interact with the plugins project, as they're closely related projects and one can benefit or injure the other project. If you're willing to work on a proposal for this project, take a look at where we currently are with NSE Facilitator at https://svn.umitproject.org/svnroot/umit/branch/NSEFacilitator .
Nmap OS fingerprint database system
The Nmap OS fingerprint database is a set of signatures which represents many TCP/IP stack implementations of operating systems. How this system works is not easy to understand, but Nmap always has a good documentation of its features. In this case the student that wish apply this idea must be familiar with the Nmap OS detect documentation[0].
This idea consists on a solution for two main problems:
- Nmap OS fingerprint system fails in some cases[1], but this is not because the database data, this happen because the design of the fingerprint matching algorithm. So, using a selective OS matching algorithm with the nmap-os-db file it's possible solve these problems without changes in Nmap code base.
- Nmap results of its OS fingerprint system only can analysed from user statically. It'll interesting if users can choose the signature fields and algorithm to use when perform OS matching.
The choose of the OS matching algorithm depends on the format of the input, in this case a signature from nmap-os-db file. If you want to convert this alphanumeric data into numeric values you will amplify the possibilities of OS matching algorithm that can be used.
UmitMapper new features
Idea it's add new features to Topology Network as called UmitMapper. Some topics that can be explored:
- How represent graphically the existence of services in hosts.
- Which others visualization techniques can be used to make visualization better.
- What more kind of information can be expressed by the map.
Look around for other network visualization tools[1,2] and see what they have, and what they don't have.
- [0] http://www.dca.ufrn.br/~joaomedeiros/radialnet/
- [1] http://networkviz.sourceforge.net/
- [2] http://linkanalysis.wlv.ac.uk/
Vulnerabilities database system
The Umit classification for vulnerability score of hosts is based only on the number of ports that Nmap found. This can be improved using each port information like its service and version. To do this task is interesting create a relational database SQLite[0] compatible and an API to easily access database information (e.g. functions that return a vulnerabilities set give an service and version). Not just the services can be search in database but the operating system detected by Nmap too. Good database candidates are the National Vulnerability Database[1] and The Open Source Vulnerability Database[2].
Beyond the database application interface would be good if the tool proposed has a user interface that give to the user the option of search for vulnerabilities and view them with a friendly form.
Look around some vulnerability search engines to see what they have, and what they don't have.
There are something in development. Please check: http://trac.umitproject.org/browser/nvdb
Zion Integration
In the GSoC (2009) we start to develop a tool to improve the OS fingerprinting classification performance. The tool named Zion is almost finished as a back-end and need to be integrated to Umit Network Scanner. There are two main documents related to current development status [0] and another one to help you understand the theoretical background of Zion [1]. The three main steps to do this project is:
- Adapt Umit Network Scanner to support Zion (and possible other backends);
- Finish Zion front-end and integrate the back-end to Umit Network Scanner; and
- Test Zion performance across a considerable number of operating systems and network configurations (real and virtual).
- [0] http://trac.umitproject.org/wiki/ZION
- [1] http://www.dca.ufrn.br/~joaomedeiros/gsoc/2009/proposal/node1.html
UMPA link-layer support
UMPA[0] is a library to manipulate packets over network. Basically, user can modify packets on each layer of OSI model. In current state of projet, link-layer (second layer) is not supported. An eperimental branch[1] adds this functionality but it still needs some improvements and testing. Porting to Windows and MacOSX is essential (in current state, only Linux is supported). Link-layer support should be also fully covered by unit-tests to avoid occasional bugs. In the end, the branch should be merged to main branch.
UMPA extra improvements
There are several features which would be nice to implement in UMPA[0].
- new protocols implementations (e.g. ICMP and other supported by PacketManipulator[1])
- finish auto-generation for some fields in already implemented protocols as IP, TCP
- rewrite XML extension to support SOAP instead of DOM
- IPv6 support
- close tickets related to UMPA[2]
- own suggestions!
- [0] http://umpa.umitproject.org
- [1] http://trac.umitproject.com/wiki/PacketManipulator
- [2] http://trac.umitproject.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=milestone&component=UMPA&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone
PacketManipulator - Improvements
- Create filtering mode (a better filter metadata-based and keywords) - filtering by MAC(dst, orig), IP, Port, protocol etc, with expression system supporting ranges in all fields, similar Wireshark.
- Improve drag-drop Packets: create an automatic-way to fill all stack automatically (but it should optional) - manual mode should works as well.
- Actually there is features just working with scapy patched under deps/scapy-patches, but PacketManipulator should can run without any patches. Just if features are available it should use.
- Finish my branch to integrate UMPA ( I already started but it's not finished yet)
- Improve PlotStatus plugin and integrate it (Just a small plugin that made with statistics)
- Improve Message Sequence Flowchart ( Plugin by Kasina) and integrate it [2].
- Create more decoders - passive audits [1] (Like HTTP/SMB decoder developed last GSoC by Francesco), ie - IRC, Jabber, VoIP (SIP, RTP, etc), SMTP, IMAP, etc.
- Customize colors in sniffed packets
- Test it on all platforms and fix bugs (ie, Windows)
- Other independent-features proposed by your own
[1] - See Audit Framework documentation (PacketManipulator)
[2] - http://trac.umitproject.org/browser/branch/MSC
Network Scanner - Priority
- UmitDB-NG was created to support Network Inventory. But Network Scanner have another old database containing all XML. Actually we're using XML stored on database and other database with each field stored. The idea is merge both and create a good approach for this problem. In this process UmitDB-NG should be updated, creating a layer to support more than one backend: ZION, Nmap, etc.
- Improve scheduling in Network Invetory (Cronjob syntax is not easier for casual user)
- Fix bugs founds on Trac (Integration, etc) - See open tickets of Umit in [1]
- Merge Preferences Window
- Merge NSE Facilitator
[1] http://trac.umitproject.org/report/1
PacketManipulator, a distributed approach using Audit Framework
Nowadays home-networks, enterprise and others is growing fast using high level equipment's: switching, routers and other moderns approach in operators world. For academic and industrial world the sniffing mode is used all the time. Unfortunately it's not easier to access to all the traffic in the networks because equipment don't flood traffic like old routers, but it could be done communication between machines in Local Area Network (LAN) - see figure.
A first approach is sending sniffed traffic (in each node) through the network to a centralized server. Unfortunately it produces other traffic to transfer so this extra traffic should be removed in final result. Another task that should be done is synchronize the clock using NTP protocol [1].
1. The first step of project is adding feature of PacketManipulator running in background ( no GUI allowed ) and loading audit extensions.
2. Developing an audit extension to exchange traffic between nodes in the network ( it just send the traffic to the monitor sniffer - centralized architecture)
3. Write a wrapper to receive traffic from other nodes
4. Connect with wrapper and showing the packets in Sniffing Prespective.
5. See all traffic in Local Area Network (LAN) - synchronize time.
Remote Network Monitoring
With rising of computers and networks our network have too many devices to be management. With the mobility, people works most part of the time remotely but they still have to management the network. The goal of this proposal is help users to management better their network and consisting in 3 software modules to implement.
- Agent: It can be a sniffer to monitoring events configured by user remotely (Example when HTTP arrive, when too many traffic is going around in the network etc) - It can use UMPA library.
- Broker: It receive SMTP messages and agent events (using ad-hoc protocol). It store all events in database. It will be available to access all stuff by the webservices. It is a kind of gateway between monitoring and agents.
- Plugin to Network Scanner - Remote Monitor (Viewer): view all events and details (alerts etc) - it can use Network Inventory to list alerts, traffic etc. It will be able to configure the Agents and send SMTP messages,
Usecase to help understanding idea, see figure.
NOTE: Instead the Plugin to Network Scanner it could be an extension to UmitWeb.
Small ideas for GSoC/USoC (could be merged on a proposal)
Other cool ideas for Network Scanner/PacketManipulator extensions or plugins:
- Send TCP Syn/Ack - estimating round-trip and put it graphically (see Nmap Network Scanning, page 131)
- Probe Rate graphics (see Nmap Network Scanning, page 133)
- Module to estimate time during the scan (it seems kind of impossible, do you think so? Not for ZION I guess)
- Extend Plugins System to Network Inventory and Topology
- Create a node list based on topology and then make another scanner (just a small feature)
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In Nanjie Village, locals still wake to loudspeakers blaring "The East Is Red," the classic anthem of People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. Nanjie, with more than 3,100 residents, is touted as one of the last models of communist China, where the principles of the late Chairman Mao still strictly guide the people's daily lives. In the 1980s, when the rest of China was introducing market reforms, Nanjie went the other direction, collectivizing its farms and industries. Aside from free housing, healthcare, food rations and education, locals working in the village's factories receive an average salary of 2,500 yuan (about $400 USD). Reuters photographer Jason Lee recently traveled to Nanjie, coming back with the photographs below.
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North Korea's economic dependence on China may have reached an all-time high, but Kim Jong Un is determined to set a course for greater political independence from Beijing. This has left China in a state that one insider has referred to as 'desperate' over its rocky relations with the country since Kim Jong Un came to power. But given that Beijing's priority is to maintain a stable and divided peninsula, it seems set to continue to bankroll its belligerent neighbor even as their once-close political relationship unravels.
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Just one day after an Oswego man drowned after jumping off a pier at Fair Haven State Park, his family is reflecting on his short life and the incident that ended it. Our Candace Hopkins has more from our Oswego newsroom.
OSWEGO, N.Y. -- Just one day after 27-year-old Marcos Peralta drowned while swimming at Fair Haven State Park, his family is remembering his short life.
"He's always right there close to us, you know, and he'd rather be with his family then wandering around, you know," said Marcos' father, Antonio Peralta.
Nearly the entire Peralta family had gathered for a Father's Day barbecue Sunday at the park. It was just after five o'clock when several members of the group decided to go for one last swim in the lake, jumping off the pier.
"Everybody was jumping off, my husband, I didn't even see Marcos jump in and I seen him struggling and gasping for air, so I went to him to try to help him and he grabbed me by my hair and took me underneath the water with him and I felt like I was gonna go," said Amy Phillips, Marcos' sister-in-law.
Phillips and several other relatives eventually pulled Peralta to safety, but it was too late. He was pronounced dead at Oswego Hospital. Now his family is left wondering why he would even consider jumping in the water, knowing he didn't know how to swim.
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Swimming is only allowed at Fair Haven in the beach area where lifeguards are on duty and the pier where Peralta died is lined with no swimming signs, but investigators say people constantly ignore the warnings.
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7th December 2012 Archive
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Tim Cook's 'One more thing': Apple TV rumor-stoker
Nebulous product refuses to die ... or live
Apple CEO Tim Cook has dropped the tiniest of hints about the company's ongoing interest in televisions. Cook gave an interview to NBC's Brian Williams, portions of which can be seen here, in which he reportedly says, "When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years …
Hardware 7 Dec 00:05
SoftLayer fires up MongoDB database service
Eyes Cassandra, Hadoop, your money
Privately held hosting and cloudy infrastructure peddler SoftLayer is tag-teaming with 10gen, the creator of the MongoDB NoSQL data store, to sell preconfigured MongoDB setups to park your big data on its 100,000-server data centers. The addition of a MongoDB service is just the latest in a line of infrastructure and platform …
Virtualization 7 Dec 00:32
New research cuts Kepler's exoplanet count by one third
Look out for those 'astrophysical false positive' impostors
A new study has shown that the number of exoplanets – planets outside of our solar system – discovered by NASA's Kepler may be inflated by over a third. The Kepler team's "Table of confirmed planets" (their emphasis) in that spacecraft's slice of the sky now stands at 105. According to the criteria used by NASA's Exoplanet …
Science 7 Dec 01:36
Republican staffer fired for copyright reform suggestions
Don't mess with Big Content big business
A Republican staffer who wrote a position paper suggesting that the current system of copyright legislation might benefit some market-based reform has been summarily fired. Last month the Republican Study Committee, an influential group made up of members of the US House of Representatives, put out a position paper saying that …
Government 7 Dec 01:41
Report blasts NASA for 'lack of consensus' on goals, plans
Future of US space program said to be at risk
A new US government report offers a damning assessment of the strategic direction and management of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), painting the space agency as a rudderless organization whose lack of well-defined goals could threaten US leadership in space sciences. The report, titled "NASA's …
Government 7 Dec 02:03
Google kills free version of Apps for business
Goes back on 2007 blog saying Standard edition 'will continue to be offered for free'
Google has killed off the free version of its Apps for business product. Google Apps offers gmail, Google Drive and a calendaring service, plus Google's in-browser word processor, spreadsheet and presentation graphics app. All the apps work in a browser. At launch, the service was free to organisations with fewer than 20 …
Applications 7 Dec 03:45
China admits $10 BEEELLION tech trade deficit
Still imports way more than it flogs abroad
Despite a growing trade surplus with the rest of the world and a claim to be the global centre of tech manufacturing, China's technology exports were worth $US10bn less than its imports in 2011. Zhou Liujun, a senior official with the Ministry of Commerce, told a press conference at the Shanghai International Technology Fair …
Financial News 7 Dec 04:01
EMC: 'Nope', XtremIO won't link to back-end arrays
Possible Tucci successors hinted at also
Not being happy with an interview write-up, EMC VP and Global Marketing CTO Chuck Hollis rewrote it in his blog with what he considered to be the right answers. This provided new information, to us, about EMC's coming XtremIO networked flash storage array. Answering the question if it will be possible to connect disk arrays to …
Storage 7 Dec 05:08
Google enables private Play stores
Roll-your-own app store means game on for BYOD
Organisations planning to give users access to curated collection of Android apps can now do so with their Google Apps account, after the advertising giant quietly threw the switch on what it has poetically dubbed "The Google Play Private Channel for Google Apps". The existence of the new feature was snuck out in a support …
Media 7 Dec 05:17
Cognizant filing stokes Indian outsourcer growth fears
Keep Calm and Hold Your Shares: growth will still be around 16 per cent
An SEC filing from IT services poster boy Cognizant has sent ripples of uncertainty through the entire Indian tech sector after some interpreted it as a sign the company is expecting slower growth in 2013. The filing from NASDAQ-listed Cognizant, whose revenues beat those of IT giants Infosys and Wipro in the last quarter, …
Business 7 Dec 05:27
'Build us a Death Star, President Obama' demand thousands
Would create more and better jobs than highways, maybe
A petition asking the Whitehouse to construct a "Death Star", has gathered over 5000 signatures on the American government's ePetition site. The petition 'Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016' was created by a John D of Longmont, Colorado, and has gathered 5,370 signatures in the 3 weeks …
Bootnotes 7 Dec 05:57
England and Germany square off for FIFA goal line tech prize
Let's hope it doesn't come down to penalties
Little known football teams Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Auckland City made history on Thursday after their Club World Cup match was the first ever official fixture to feature goal line technology. The game saw the use of GoalRef, a radio-based system developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits which works by …
Hardware 7 Dec 06:30
Speaking in Tech: So you've built a data centre - but is it UNDER THE SEA?
Podcast The things you come up with while in Amsterdam
Welcome back - it's another Speaking In Tech hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Ed has taken over the podcast with this special - and shorter - episode from Structure Europe 2012 in Amsterdam. Our special guests this week are Sam Johnston, director of cloud and IT services at Equinix, and Lane …
Data Center 7 Dec 07:05
The best tablets for Christmas
Surface, iPad, Nexus, Note - we were spoiled for choice in 2012
Thank God for Microsoft. Without it and its new Surface tablet this article would be nothing more than me running around having an Android versus iOS argument with myself. Thankfully, as with smartphones, the arrival of Windows 8, here in its RT incarnation, has saved mankind from a bipolar tablet OS nightmare. More …
Tablets 7 Dec 08:00
Microsoft Windows Server 2012: Why Bother?
Live today Two Reg readers provide many reasons
Join us today at 11:00 GMT, when we'll be broadcasting live from our London studio with Reg readers Chris Losch, from Newham Council, and Gary Collins, from Intercept IT. Between them, they're going to run through a raft of real-world projects and deployment scenarios where they've been using and abusing Windows Server 2012 to …
Data Center 7 Dec 08:22
Tearful, poetic Reg readers hail heroic, departed Playmonaut
The short 'naut who cast a long shadow
We're obliged to all those readers who've offered condolences at the loss of our heroic playmonaut, who disappeared in the English Channel last week during a Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) mission. Many of you were moved to quote from High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, and our man certainly "topped the wind- …
SPB 7 Dec 09:00
GPU-stuffed monster cracks Windows passwords in minutes
That's what you get for using a crap hashing algo
Security researchers have put together a monster number-crunching rig capable of cracking strong passwords by brute force in minutes. Jeremi Gosney (aka epixoip) demonstrated a machine running the HashCat password cracking program across a cluster of five servers equipped with 25 AMD Radeon GPUs at the Passwords^12 conference …
Security 7 Dec 09:18
Major £30m cyberheist pulled off using MOBILE malware
Eurograbber did just what it says on the tin
Cybercrooks swiped £30 million (€36m) from the banks accounts of 30,000 customers in Italy, Germany, Spain and Holland over the summer using an elaborate mobile banking fraud scam. The malware-based attack targeted both corporate and private banking users, performing automatic transfers that varied from €500€ to €250,000 to …
Security 7 Dec 09:39
Private cloud user in dialogue with Atmos, el Reg facilitating
It's a unique edge case, not a bug
Atmos user Michael Roney identified some difficulties he was having with an Atmos array on an EMC community website, saying he wanted to do ordinary-seeming things but couldn't. EMC has responded, saying he is trying to do things that are rarely, if ever done. Atmos is EMC's object storage system for public and private cloud …
Cloud 7 Dec 09:57
NetApp launches SECRET MARS MISSION, seeks egghead
We drill into storage biz's Red Planet development
The Reg storage desk has learned of a Mars project at NetApp. So we've sent our own Curiosity rover - specifically, a Google bot - to scan for job descriptions. This is what it transmitted back: Mars is an industry-leading next-generation product and one of the most strategic projects within NetApp. Mars is a clusterable and …
Storage 7 Dec 10:25
Datel: Reseller growing faster than its vendor master Sage
Gobbles record orders, belches, loosens waistcoat
Datel, Sage's largest channel partner in the UK, clearly isn't suffering similar growing pains to its vendor master after posting double digit growth for fiscal 2012. Sales saw an 18 per cent spike to £16.8m in the twelve months to 31 May and EBITDA rose 47 per cent to £1.67m. Pre-tax profits reached £1.14m from £588,000 a …
The Channel 7 Dec 10:55
'Facebook is completely undreamt of even by the worst spying nation'
QuotW Plus: 'Students who have iPhones don't work'
This was the week when Google+ head Bradley Horowitz told the world that that whole Facebook thing was soooo last year. According to the +er, Facebook is the "social network of the past", mainly because Zuck's ad strategies are so intrusive they're putting people off. When people are online socialising, they should really be …
Law 7 Dec 11:00
Emulex moves to snap up network-monitoring Endace
Yum yum, end-to-end app visibility
Storage networking and Ethernet vendor Emulex is making a bid for Endace, a New Zealand-based network monitoring company. The bid is worth $130 million cash, or 500 pence/share and, Reuters reports is 65 per cent higher than Endace's London Stock Exchange closing price on December 4. Emulex, facing a low- or no-growth Fibre …
Storage 7 Dec 11:26
Take it or break it: the return of the drop test
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Smashing technology
In flagrant negation of the forces of nature, I seem to be growing less clumsy as I get older. That is, I break fewer things and do it less often. This is partly the result of a series of conscious decisions to be more careful. One such was choosing to don my spectacles before making breakfast rather than after, thus cutting …
Hardware 7 Dec 12:00
2020AD: Space tourists will be FOUND ON MOON
To the moon for $700m. Jupiter and Mars? Don't even ask
A group of former NASA employees are planning to send two people to the Moon for $1.4bn as part of a new space tourism venture. The newly launched Golden Spike Company wants to use existing rocket tech to get the mission off the ground before 2020. The firm said the time was ripe for their business because of the private …
Science 7 Dec 12:21
Apple, Samsung patent judge: 'I feel like I'm in Groundhog Day here'
Samsung wants a retrial, Apple wants MORE damages
Samsung tried its very hardest to argue for a retrial in a hearing with Apple yesterday, as the fruity firm pushed for additional damages on top of the $1bn it already won. The hearing was ostensibly to discuss permanent bans on sales of Samsung products that a jury decided infringed Apple patents, but the South Korean firm's …
Law 7 Dec 12:58
I've got the 'fastest growing THINGY ever', boasts Google+ chief
You could be in Plus and not even know it
Google veep Vic Gundotra has described Google+ as "the fastest-growing network thingy ever." He claimed that 135 million people were now actively using it, while 500 million users have been signed up to the site. He added that 235 million peeps had used Google+ to do things like "hanging out" with their chums in Gmail. The ad …
Networks 7 Dec 13:29
Battle of the Clouds: Azure goes lower
What will Amazon and Google do now?
Windows Azure pricing is dropping by up to 28 per cent as Microsoft goes head to head againstAmazon's cloud storage. As announced in the Windows Azure blog by Steven Martin, general manager for Windows Azure business planning, there is a "price reduction for Windows Azure Storage by as much as 28 per cent, effective on …
Cloud 7 Dec 14:04
Data gobbling app lands Delta Air Lines in the dock on privacy charge
Biz faces $2,500 fine per download since 2010
California's Attorney General has taken an airline to court for not having a mobile app privacy policy, in the first case of its kind. Delta Air Lines' Fly Delta app collected user information including addresses, credit card details and their location, but had no policy on safeguarding this private information. That puts it …
Government 7 Dec 14:24
Rare critical Word vuln is the star of December Patch Tuesday
Microsoft cheese a bit less swiss this year
Microsoft is planning to release seven bulletins next Tuesday, five of which tackle critical vulnerabilities, as part of its final Patch Tuesday update of 2012. All currently supported operating systems (including Windows 8 and Windows RT) will need patching. The updates feature critical updates for Redmond's IE 9 and IE 10 …
Security 7 Dec 15:03
Arbitrators side with Foxconn in brain-damaged worker case
Fondleslabricator gets away with lower payout
Chinese layout arbitrators have ruled against the family of the Foxconn worker who was brain-damaged in a factory accident in Shenzhen. Zhang Tingzhen was injured while at work in October 2011 and had to have nearly half of his brain surgically removed. He has been in hospital in Shenzhen city ever since. Problems arose …
Government 7 Dec 15:55
Telcos and hosters add US jobs in November, semi manufacturers cut them
Hurricane Sandy didn't affect the national stats
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A photograph of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz (19222000) will be presented to the Smithsonians
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in a ceremony for invited guests Oct. 1. The event recognizes the cartoonists impact on millions of people worldwide and coincides with commemorations surrounding the 60th anniversary of Peanuts. The 1986 photograph, created by acclaimed portraitist Yousuf Karsh, is the Portrait Gallerys first image of the famed cartoonist. In the image, Schulz is at his drawing board with pen in hand. Before him is a partially completed Peanuts full-page comic featuring the perennially popular story line in which Lucy snatches the football away from Charlie Brown and sends him hurtling through the air. The photograph, with the accompanying original comic strip, will be on view to the public immediately following the ceremony in the museums New Arrivals exhibition.
The Portrait Gallery has many editorial cartoonists and their cartoons in its collection, but this is the first of Charles Schulz and his adored characters, said Martin Sullivan, director of the museum. Schulz dealt with lifes everyday moments with humanity and humor.
On Saturday, Oct. 2, the museum will host a friends-and-family day for all ages with programs inspired by the cartoonist and his characters. Snoopy will be available for photographs; Joe Wos, cartoonist in residence at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif., will offer workshops throughout the day; and Sean Lane and the Bay Jazz Project will provide musical entertainment. Children will be invited to join the band to play percussion instruments. Later in the day, the museum will screen the popular Peanuts special Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Lee Mendelson, a longtime friend of Schulz and executive producer of all the classic Peanuts specials, including Great Pumpkin and A Charlie Brown Christmas, will be on hand for a discussion and to answer questions from fans.
The Smithsonians National Museum of American History will also mark the 60th anniversary of the Peanuts strip with a case that will feature objects from Schulz, including drawing utensils, an animation cell from the television special Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and two comic panels that show the cartoons progression from rough pencil sketches to finished ink strips.
Schulz once described himself as born to draw comic strips. A Minneapolis native, he was just two days old when an uncle nicknamed him Sparky, after the horse Spark Plug from the Barney Google comic strip. Throughout his youth, he and his father shared a Sunday-morning ritual of reading the funnies. After serving in the army during World War II, Schulz got his first big break in 1947 when he sold a cartoon feature called Lil Folks to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In 1950, Schulz met with United Feature Syndicate, and on Oct. 2 of that year, Peanuts, so named by the syndicate, debuted in seven newspapers. Schulz died in Santa Rosa, Calif., Feb. 12, 2000just hours before his last original strip was to appear in Sunday papers.
Peanuts, one of Americas most beloved comic strips, ran without interruption for nearly 50 years. Encores of the comic strip appear today in more than 2,200 newspapers in 75 countries and 21 languages. Peanuts animated specials have become seasonal traditions, and thousands of consumer products are available. Charlie Brown kicking the football, Linus and his blanket and Lucy leaning over Schroeders piano are images to which everyone can relate. Phrases such as security blanket and good grief are a part of the global vernacular.
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Charlie Ann was devastated by the revelation that she shared blood with the smug Artie. Instantly, she was overcome with a strange feeling. Nausea? Dizziness? Anxiety? Perhaps a combination of each. She closed her eyes.
Then, it happened.
Her eyelids locked, and she was unable to pry them apart. Seated in the chapel pew at Aunt Shugs funeral, she lost the ability to sense her surroundings, except for the uneven tones of peoples voices. The conversations around her swirled, creating a cacophony of echoes and noise.
Suddenly her lids released. Pain overcame her. The glow of red emergency lights prevented her eyes from focusing fully on Aunt Shugs comforting face.
Dear, they pulled you out of this joint in the nick of time.
Confused, she blurted, Youre alive! Aunt Shug, youre alive.
Of course I am!
"Youre the one whos lucky to not be coasting toward the pearly gates. Were all lucky youre still here.
What happened? Charlie inquired.
Gas leak dear. You think owning an old home is romantic, and it is― if it doesnt kill you. If its not toxic mold dating to the Carter Administration, its a faulty gas line. You hit your head real hard when you collapsed, so theyll have to take you in for observation overnight. But Jake, that ever so delightful fireman over there assures us youll be fine.
As she spoke, Charlie interpreted Shugs expression. Shug never did shy away from the attention of younger men. Especially when they spent their days pumping iron and tossing around a football, just waiting for the alarm to sound to go save lives.
Aunt Shug, stop it! I know what youre thinking.
Charlie Ann. Now, Im a grown woman. And I dont know anybody whos ever been harmed by enjoying the scenery.
Shugs words were matched with the most mischievous of grins.
The fire engines red beams reflected off the glass door of Lady Hillingtons. Questions churned in Charlie Anns mind. Im just glad Bennett and Rick pulled you out of that building in time.
Bennett saved me?
God, dont make them start up again, Charlie!
Aunt Shug, what are you talking about?
Well, Rick claims he found you and alerted Ben. Ben, though, says Rick was too busy sizing up that back yard of yours to even notice something was wrong inside the flower shop. Ben says youd be dead if it werent for him. All that testosterone. Geez, male egos. Ill never understand them.
Meanwhile, Rick and Ben stood near blows behind one of the fire trucks. Separated only by Pox, the affectionate Dalmatian rescued by the Willoughby fire department several years back. Poxs attention was not on the mens heated discussion of who saved Charlie. He instead had rolled over, wanting both to call a truce and rub his tummy.
As he always did, Pox won the day, proving to provide the truce that the mens egos hadnt allowed to this point. After a couple minutes of petting Pox, Rick and Bennett joined Shug and Charlie.
We were so worried about you Charlie Ann. You were limp. I pulled you out of this place and sent Rick for help, Bennett chimed.
This comment was met with a glare from Rick, but he decided to maintain their canine induced truce.
Rick said, Were glad youre okay Charlie. You gave us a scare.
The next day, Charlie left the hospital, clean bill of health in hand. Her first stop was Aunt Shugs. It was time for her to sort out this mess. While, she had narrowly escaped a blighted fate, Lady Hillingtons future was now very much in doubt. Shug gave Charlie the bad news.
Fire chief says Miss Carolines old place is in worse shape than we all realized. The gas leak may have just been the beginning, dear. Theyre going to have to do a series of inspections. Probably will be weeks, maybe longer, before youll know if theyll condemn it.
Charlies emotions overwhelmed her.
Oh, Aunt Shug, coming back to Willoughby was such a mistake. While I was unconscious, I had the strangest dream. You died. We were sitting right here, in your house, and you died. And I found out you and Jasper have a son.
What? Ha! A son? Thats the best one Ive heard in quite awhile there Charlie Ann. Me and Jasper? Dear, I need to tell you something.
Oh no, you both have a daughter, instead?"
Charlie Anns attempt at humor was met coldly by her Aunt.
No! Listen to me. Willoughby isnt the same as it used to be. You know that already. But, the change isnt simply in the aesthetic. Theres something dark happening here. And I need your help, Charlie.
Anything, Aunt Shug. It looks like Ill have some extra time on my hands while Lady Hillingtons is out of commission.
Shug lowered her head. Bit her lip. Charlie braced herself for what Shug was about to say.
I know this is confusing for you. It is for all of us. Bennett rolling back into town. Jasper living here now. The truth is that your mother-in-law isnt dead. She got caught up in a mess. The whole Ragsdale family did.
Shocked, Charlie Ann probed for more answers.
What are you talking about? Glenda is alive? How do you know?
Jasper dear. He told me. Bennett doesnt know his mom is alive. Jaspers trying to protect him. Come on inside.
Both women arose from their seats on the porch. Shug entered the kitchen and put on some tea. A couple minutes later, she emerged with two cups of the hot, percolated beverage in her hands.
Here, Charlie Ann. This will make you feel better.
Aunt Shug, its going to take me awhile to absorb this. But I need to hear more.
Shug sat next to Charlie Ann, looking her straight in the eye.
Jasper was short on money several years ago. He began moonlighting. Selling real estate, or so he thought, to retirees. Trying to make a few extra bucks, you know. He thought it was an honest investment deal, but things went bad, and fast. Turns out his employers had unsavory connections. They were money launderers for the Desordenado drug cartel.
These words caught Charlie off guard.
Oh no.
Shug continued.
Well, a deal went bad. Some powerful, well-armed men got screwed out of a lot of money. Threatened the Ragsdale family. These are the types who follow through on such threats. Jasper knew the only option was to send his family into hiding.
Charlie Ann lit up.
Is that why Bennett left me?
Dear, Bennett doesnt know anything about this. I can tell you that Jasper filled his head with a lot of things. Bad things about you. All to try to coax him into moving far away. He didnt want you or Bennett to get caught in this. As they say, youre safer if you scatter than if you stay together. Now, Jasper is worried that theyre onto him. Those thugs may know hes been living in Willoughby.
Charlie Ann slumped in her seat. The gears of her mind spinning. Her heart breaking as she thought of her failed marriage. Where were those damned guardian angels when all this went down?


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