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Welcome to St Michael's CE Junior School
Executive Head Teacher - Mrs L Priddle
Joint Head of School - Mrs L Majumdar
Joint Head of School Mr A Bayford
Ofsted Inspection December 2013
"Pupils, regardless of their starting points, make good progress across the school."
"Teaching assistants make a strong contribution to the good learning taking place."
"Pupils behave well in lessons and around the school."
"The very strong leadership of the executive headteacher, supported well by the heads of school and the effective governing body, is responsible for continuing the significant improvements that were seen in the last inspection."
"Pupils have very positive attitudes to learning and they work hard in lessons."
"Teachers and additional adults use imaginative methods that capture pupils' interest and so pupils enjoy their lessons."
Term Dates 2013-2014 and 2014-2015
Term dates for the current academic year (2013-2014) can be accessed here
Term dates for 2014-2015 can be accessed here. Please note that Staff Development Days have not yet been set for 2014-2015.
Bel Air Children's Home
We are delighted to have set up a link with a children's home in Grenada. All proceeds from the sale of Christmas cards will be going to the Bel Air charity. If you would like more information about the children's home - Bel Air - please follow the link below:
Water Aid
Thanks to Mrs Brown, organising a variety of exciting and entertaining events, the childern of St Michael's raised money for a wonderful charity. Please click on 'children's activities' to see a selection of photographs from the day, read year 6's thought provoking poems and the beautifully written prayers from Cedar Class.
School Information
St Michael's Church of England Junior School is situated near Maidstone town centre. To see our exact location click on the link below:
St Michael's Church of England Junior School was originally built during the reign of Queen Victoria. Today, it caters for children between the ages of 7 and 11. There are 5 classes, and approximately 150 children attend the school. Directly opposite the school is St Michael's Church of England Infant School. St Michael's Church is close by, and both the infant and junior schools have very close links with it. We also have close links with the local community.
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BancTec, which specializes in business process outsourcing for financial transaction automation and document management, has announced the expansion of its Center of Excellence in Dallas to accommodate growth of the company's BPO business.
The Dallas center that has provided accounts payable processing and document management services will now add remittance processing to its offerings. The Dallas operation will process both retail and wholesale lockbox services.
BancTec's four major remittance processing centers are located in Dallas, Chicago, Charlotte, and Phoenix, with three additional satellite facilities in Columbus, Ga., Philadelphia, and the New York metropolitan area. For the Dallas expansion, BancTec expects to hire approximately 50 new employees and contractors.

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Radio City Music Hall in New York City
Start time: Thursday, May 8, 8 p.m.
TV: ESPN, NFL Network
Streaming: WatchESPN, NFL.com.
Time per draft selection: 10 minutes
Prospects attending the 2014 NFL Draft:
Odell Beckham, WR, LSU
Blake Bortles, QB, Central Florida
Teddy Bridgewater, QB, Louisville
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, S, Alabama
Jadeveon Clowney, DE, South Carolina
Brandin Cooks, WR, Oregon State
Kony Ealy, DE, Missouri
Eric Ebron, TE, North Carolina
Mike Evans, WR, Texas A&M
Kyle Fuller, CB, Virginia Tech
Jimmy Garoppolo, QB, Eastern Illinois
Justin Gilbert, CB, Oklahoma State
Ra'Shede Hageman, DT, Minnesota
Cyrus Kouandjio, OT, Alabama
Cody Latimer, WR, Indiana
Marqise Lee, WR, USC
Taylor Lewan, OT, Michigan
Khalil Mack, LB, Buffalo
Johnny Manziel, QB, Texas A&M
Marcus Martin, C, USC
Jake Matthews, OT, Texas A&M
Jordan Matthews, WR, Vanderbilt
Morgan Moses, OT, Virginia
C.J. Mosley, LB, Alabama
Calvin Pryor, S, Louisville
Greg Robinson, OT, Auburn
Bradley Roby, CB, Ohio State
Ryan Shazier, LB, Ohio State
Jason Verrett, CB, TCU
Sammy Watkins, WR, Clemson
Round 1
1. Houston Texans
2. St. Louis Rams (from Washington Redskins)
3. Jacksonville Jaguars
4. Cleveland Browns
5. Oakland Raiders
6. Atlanta Falcons
7. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
8. Minnesota Vikings
9. Buffalo Bills
10. Detroit Lions
11. Tennessee Titans
12. New York Giants
13. St. Louis Rams
14. Chicago Bears
15. Pittsburgh Steelers
16. Dallas Cowboys
17. Baltimore Ravens
18. New York Jets
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20. Arizona Cardinals
21. Green Bay Packers
22. Philadelphia Eagles
23. Kansas City Chiefs
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28. Carolina Panthers
29. New England Patriots
30. San Francisco 49ers
31. Denver Broncos
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There was . . . a serious and weird feeling, on Hallow E'en night, not felt so much on any other night; witches and evil spirits were believed to be more numerous than usual; fairies were believed to be unusually active; ghosts were supposed to make their appearance on this night; and a full-dress performance of the watch in the church-porch on that night was capable of teaching the watchers that the Angel of Death is sometimes nearer than they imagine.
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Behind the Scenes in Hollywood: Cynthia Childs
AE: Can you put an Asian in the cast? In all the complaints about diversity, it never feels like they mean Asians.
CC: I know! That's one I never hear. And I know a lot of Asian lesbians living in Los Angeles. I don't get it. Why wasn't there an outcry for Asians?
AE: We're the low-key minority. Can you go on the record that they want to bring back two cast members from Season 1?
CC: I can't talk about that at all.
AE: What if we speak Pig Latin? Do the names Itney-way and Acy-tray mean anything to you?
CC: I can only say I loved all the cast members from Season 1. I thought they were all amazing women and had great stories. I would have been happy to tell more of them.
AE: You are a supervising producer, which sounds self-explanatory, but, for readers who don't know a lot about production, can you detail what that really means?
CC: It varies from show to show, but for The Real L Word, I was story boarding out the episodes. So, as far as people saying, "Hey. This feels like it was story-boarded by straight people" – no, that was me.
Childs (R) with partner, Sasha Berman (L)
AE: Wow, harsh. I'm sorry.
CC: I'm not going to summarily dismiss all of it, but at the same time, we can't make everyone happy. I wish [they] could be happy for the people who like the show! [laughs]
AE: What footage did you see that we didn't get to see?
CC: Hmm. I think the saddest thing that got cut from Season 1 was a scene with Whitney, Scarlett and Tor, all in the shower together. And then, the trainer, Miranda, was washing them off with salt. I was shocked and horrified that it didn't make it into the show.
AE: [laughs]
CC: Whitney was like, "Miranda! Come wash us off." And Miranda was like, "Uh, OK." It was hilarious. That's the thing about Whitney. She had no lack of story.
AE: Not that Whitney needs a reason, but why were they in the shower together?
CC: Corn lube wrestling. There was an industrial grade animal lube in that pool, or something insane.
AE: Is there such a thing?
CC: [laughs] It was an insane amount of lube. That White Trash Party was epic. It went on and on and on. But we had to pick our battles and couldn't show all of it.


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Don't turn the other cheek and fume quietly; know what to say when someone throws out the snide backhanded "compliment," subtle insult, cruel criticism, or outright verbal blow. Inside these pages is an arsenal of tools for fending off that attack and neutralizing the harm spiteful words inflict. Learn to identify modes of verbal assault, such as laying blame, and to recognize when someone is about to launch a linguistic strike and the motivation behind it. Sample scripts prevent you from getting tongue-tied, and...
Don't turn the other cheek and fume quietly; know what to say when someone throws out the snide backhanded "compliment," subtle insult, cruel criticism, or outright verbal blow. Inside these pages is an arsenal of tools for fending off that attack and neutralizing the harm spiteful words inflict. Learn to identify modes of verbal assault, such as laying blame, and to recognize when someone is about to launch a linguistic strike and the motivation behind it. Sample scripts prevent you from getting tongue-tied, and a progress journal helps you use voice and body language for maximum effect. Find out how to handle the eight most common types of verbal violence, and redirect and defuse potential verbal confrontations so skillfully that they rarely happen. Special suggestions are included for college students, men, and women, and for handling emergency situations such as an angry crowd.
The reason we don't have enough money to do the things we want and need to do is that we spend so much of our money dealing with physical violence and its consequences. We spend enormous sums on law enforcement, on jails and prisons, on the legal system and the courts, on security, on insurance, on preventing and dealing with domestic violence, on the ininsured medical costs of violent criminals and their victims. We all know that those costs keep growing, and how out of control they are. But the "words can't hurt you" idea keeps us from noticing the obvious: that almost all physical violence starts as verbal violence–as hostile language. Sane people don't just walk up to other people and start hitting. First there is an exchange of hostile words; then the physical violence starts. Even in cases where someone walks into their school or church or workplace and starts shooting, there is almost always a history of hostile language leadiing up to that final tragic event. Once violence becomes physical, we need professionals to deal with it–police officers and emergency personnel and medical experts; it's out of our hands. But while the violence is still "only words," every person who speaks a language can learnhow to deal with it and how to keep it from escalating into physical violence. To get a handle on physical violence and stop wasting our resources on it, we need to tackle it where it starts, while it's still hostile language. That means learning verbal self-defense. It means learning how to establish and maintain a language environment in which hostile language is very rare; it means learning how to deal with hostile language effectively and efficiently when it truly cannot be avoided.
The Link Between Language and Health
Sometimes things that seem obvious and self-evident–like the flatness of the Earth when you look at it as you're driving through Illinois–are only illlusions. Sometimes we aren't able to see that, because we don't have the right technology for working with the data. The link between language and health is like that. Only recently have we been able to get a good, clear look at that link and begin to understand what it means.
We used to have to study medical histories with paper and pen and calculator, and that gave us one picture–one very limited picture–of what was going on. Today, the powerful computers that can show us hundreds of thousands of medical histories over the course of decades give us a very different picture: they show us that over time, hostile language maims and kills just like sticks and stones and knives and guns maim and kill. We couldn't see that before, because we didn't have enough data. Now we can see it, and the data tell us that hostile language is perhaps the most dangerous of all "risk factors." More dangerous than obesity, more dangerous than smoking, more dangerous than high cholesterol, more dangerous than all those things we put so much effort into avoiding. The information that appears when you look at enough medical data to see long-term patterns tells us unambiguously that people who are chronically exposed to hostile language get sick more often, are injured more often, take longer to recover from illness and injury, and die younger. And there's more, thanks to those same powerful computers. We now know that hostile language isn't dangerous just to those who are its target. It's also dangerous to the person dishing it out, and it's dangerous to innocent bystanders who can't avoid it. That changes things dramatically. That means that it's just as important for verbal abusers to learn how to communicate without hostile language as it is for verbal targets to learn how to defend themselves against their attackers. Hostile language is toxic; to keep it out of your life, you need to learn verbal self-defense.
The Link Between Language and Success in Today's World
There was a time when most people got jobs and stayed in them for many years; there was a time when most people worked for one company, maybe two, until they retired. Individuals might move up through the ranks over time, but the company was like family; everybody knew everybody else.
In those days there was plenty of time for people to get used to one another at work. When new people were hired, somebody would fill them in. Like this:
As long as you showed up every day for work and did your best, you could assume that you'd get ahead, even if your communication skills were poor. That has now changed dramatically. Now people change jobs, even change their whole careers, at a moment's notice. Within a single job, they move from project to project, and from team to team. To succeed today you need to be able to make a good impression immediately, establish instant rapport, and communicate successfully with people you've only just met. The luxury of lead time for gradually adjusting to others in your workplace has disappeared. Poor communication skills today are a serious barrier to success. You may feel that this doesn't matter to you personally. You may already have succeeded in your chosen field; you may already have climbed high enough on the ladder. But if you have children and/or grandchildren, I assure you that it still does matter. If you want a tranquil retirement, free of children and grandchildren desperate for your help because they can't earn their own livings in today's world, you need to learn verbal self-defense so that you can make sure their language skills are topnotch.
Developing your verbal self-defense skills is in your own best interest, and it will repay your investment of learning time and energy many times over. To learn verbal self-defense, you need only your fluency in your native language, your common sense–and this book. The book will teach you the following things:
It's not true that these accomplishments are limited to people with advanced degrees in communication, language arts, and linguistics, or to people "born with a silver tongue in their mouths." You are equipped to do all these things, no matter what your present level of expertise may be, simply because you are a native speaker of your language.
Welcome to the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense.
Please see the author's answers to frequently asked questions here:http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/Verbal_Self_Defense_FAQ.html
Posted November 13, 2004
I have spent all my life defenseless against verbal attacks; not one to attack others, I was always caught by surprise by an unkind remark. I just never had the mentality to prepare to defend myself. Reading this book has changed my life. I learned that it is okay to defend myself against snide comments (previously believing that to do so was ungraceful and coarse) that left me feeling sad, weak, and unsure of myself. While it will take me a while to learn all the techniques, I am encouraged that I no longer have to laugh off veiled 'jokes' made at my expense, or wish later that I had a more appropriate response to a negative comment.
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Posted April 12, 2010
I purchased this book as a present for my Daughter. Her work environmnet is fairly rough, and I felt she might benefit from reading this book. In her "Financial Institutes" work place who ever can through someone out first is the winner. I believe this book helped her to menage these "barracudas" in a very appropriate way, not reciprocating in kind. She was and is more able to take the high road, without loosing her position. It should be available to all employees at every work place.
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Posted May 15, 2010
While the book was at times very interesting and eye opening, I found that one of the themes was reverse sexism. Having never quite picked up the male patterns of verbal confrontations, I thought this book would be helpful. It was to some degree, but nothing even close to what I expected. The For Men chapter was downright insulting, and I can honestly say after coaching my daughter's soccer team for eight years, some of the things in the For Women chapter made me chuckle.
The author seems to pattern most of the confrontations around things familiar to her and her scope of being. However, having said that, there are some practical tips that I did find to be useful and interesting. Not a waste of time by any means, but not the guide that it is made out to be either.
Posted January 26, 2006
Speak is an inspiration to woman who are stuck in sticky situations where they can't figure it out themselves and need the guidance from some one who has already experianced it.I enjoyed evey moment of suspence and day of her triump to let her secert go. The pain she felt was very emotional because you could feel as if you were right there in her position trying to figure out what to do and if you do it what would happen. In the middle of the book it starts to take a turn where she finally relizes that she has more to live for and that if she keeps this secret bottled up inside then she'll always have the guilty conscience of not telling anyone what happened the night of the party.
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Posted July 21, 2004
Ms. Elgin explains basic linguistics, rhetoric, and psychology that we use everyday. Her book contains real-life examples of verbal attacks that we've all seen and explains not only how to respond to the attack, but also how we can better communicate to reduce conflict. This book is helpful for students, teachers, parents, attorneys, and anyone who has to deal with people.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted April 18, 2003
this is a fascinating book with terrific details for both men and women. This book does not only tell you how to defend yourself, but also why people say the things they do. With many specific examples for the work place, at home, in public or with a group, followed by the right and wrong responses, this book could not be more straight forward. Because this book was written by a professional, it has many psycholinguist tips that are sure to help you grasp the full intent of a single sentence including it's hidden meanings . I recomend this book for anybody who finds the subject interesting.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted September 10, 2001
I got this book from a friend who had 'read it so many times, it's memorized.' And after I read it, I understood why. It IS a bit muddy...sometimes I felt like Elgin was talking over my head...sometimes she was right at my level. Sometimes I couldn't find a way to apply her situation to my life, sometimes she was right on. Sometimes I re-read a sentence because it was muddy, sometimes I re-read it just because I enjoyed her phraseology so damn much! I highly recommend this book...it taught me a lot. I've read it three times -- it's one of those books where if you read it more than once, you get something new every time.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted October 22, 2000
While I prefer _You Can't Say That to Me_ as a basic Elgin primer, there is a reason why this book has sold several million copies and why almost anyone doing counselling has a copy. If you are dealing with the normal types of verbal abuse, with the standard patterns of baiting, or with the other conflicts that most people deal with, this book is right on point. Now, if you are the cause of your own problems, if you refuse to work on solutions (the book sets out how to work on solutions, with drills and concepts and practice and such), or if you are dealing with out and out advanced sadists, this isn't the book for you. But if you want to deal with 95% of the human experience as it relates to verbal violence in every day life, you need this book.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted July 21, 2000
I received this book yesterday, and I eagerly grabbed and peeked through it hoping it would be a good read. I bought this book because I have been finding lately that certain people were baiting me into arguing with them and I didn't realise what they were up to until it was too late. 'The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense' sounded like the perfect solution to this. Unfortunately this book doesn't live up to the 'reviews' and promo on these pages. It seems to be targeted to certain people/backgrounds instead of the general public, and while on the surface the areas covered appeared to be very broad-spectrum they are not. Many books that are 20 years old (or older!) contain a lot of fabulous information, but this one is outdated and useless. It's clumsy to read (you find yourself trying to translate the strange, perhaps outdated, metaphors used) and the sections aren't clear-cut. Personally I could only see using the so-called hints and tips on certain people, not in everyday life. I wish I didn't have to, and with all due respect to the author (who I am sure is a wonderful and talented person) but I'm sending this book back. It's just not what I expected or was lead to believe it would be.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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So it's finally here. Awaited with fervent passion by those desperate to own the Holy Trilogy on shiny disc format - and those ready to sigh, tut and point out exactly why the Special Editions are a blight on the face of cinema.
But let's accentuate the positive. A New Hope is frankly beautiful on DVD: every frame has been run through a digital scrubbing brush until it gleams, with THX sound to match. As the Rebel blockade runner and Star Destroyer come rumbling ahead, you can't help but get that same old tingle of excitement. And despite the occasionally annoying tweaks, Star Wars holds up as pure pulp entertainment, shoving heroic mythology into airtight tin-cans and blasting it off into the darkest depths of space.
What Lucas lacks as an actor's director (and he lacks plenty, trying to draw decent performances from a mixed bag of newcomers, established talents and stalwart British thesps), he more than makes up for in spectacle. As Luke makes his first, faltering steps from dusty home planet Tatooine into galactic civil war, you're rooting for him all the way. Search your feelings... Hell, you know the rest.
When those Special Editions came around, The Empire Strikes Back needed the least work. That's because, despite a troubled, over-budget shoot, it arrived in cinemas perfectly formed. Lucas' post-Star Wars exhaustion meant he handed the scripting and helming chores to others. The results make us wish he'd done the same for the prequels as well.
With noir writer Leigh Brackett contributing a first draft and a then-unknown Lawrence Kasdan doing the rest, the story that would shape the future of the franchise slowly took shape. The man charged with directing this vital turning point was also a shock: Irvin Kershner, Lucas' old filmmaking tutor.
The choices worked and they brought fresh eyes to Empire. We're presented with richer, more `human' characters and confident, mature treatment of the rebel-endangering plotlines. Ignoring filmmaking wisdom that movies must leave their audiences on a high, Empire blends the Flash Gordon serial inspiration buzzing around Lucas' head with the bleak moods more often found in '70s cinema. Vader may be Luke's father, but Empire's still the daddy.
It had to end somewhere, but it's still a shame that, despite its Death Star-destroying finale, Jedi rounds out the trilogy with more of a whimper than a bang. Sure, we're treated to some pulse-quickening scenes: Luke's final confrontation with the Emperor and Vader and the huge space scrap around the unfinished battle station. But when the high points feel like reheated servings of the first movie's memorable moments and the rest is a bunch of Muppets, this is a serious climbdown from the earlier heights.
Endor's forest allowed for plenty of opportunities, but when the planned Wookie home was cut in favour of the fan-loathed Ewoks, it was another sign that Lucas was thinking more with his marketing mind than his creative brain.
This new DVD release comes with yet another change - - Hayden Christensen's head added to the ghostly apparition of Anakin Skywalker. We're assured there are other minor changes, but at time of going to press, we were kept from seeing them by Fox's PR Stormtroopers...
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Ozzie Guillen's epic and pedantic fuss over the amount of pine tar on Bryce Harper's bat on Sunday was perhaps the highlight of the weekend. The Nationals accused Ozzie of trying to intimidate the 19-year-old Harper. Ozzie said Harper was being "unprofessional," while seemingly becoming the first person to make a big stink over pine tar since Billy Martin. But, come Tuesday, everything was all forgiven, thanks in part to a prank that helped bring levity to the conflict.
Not too long after Ozzie made his fuss, the Nationals felt like getting under the Marlins' skipper's skin even more. Nats first baseman Adam LaRoche had Harper, without knowing LaRoche's intentions, sign a bat for him, after which LaRoche inscribed, "To my hero, Ozzie, love you," next to the autograph. The Nats then smeared pine tar all over the bat and had it delivered to Guillen.
If you thought Guillen flipped his lid in another one of his patented hissy fits, you'd be mistaken. He actually loved it.
"It was funny," Guillen said, according to MLB.com. "I've got a few friends on their side. All those guys were making fun of me. I found out later they made the kid sign the bat. They put the rest."
Guillen went on to clarify that, despite what happened on Sunday, he's got nothing but love for Harper.
"To make this thing clear, I don't have anything against the kid," Guillen said. "I don't. Whatever happened, happened. Whatever I say, I say. Whatever my reaction was, it was. But I think this kid is going to be good for the game. No doubt. This kid is very good. We need players like that to come out and play the game right. That's good. I think what he did, maybe he did because he's a kid. I hope he learned from that."
Somebody got mad at somebody else. The problem got resolved. Now everybody loves each other again. It's like an episode of "Full House."
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Enough already. Mountains and molehills!
Gold shoes, and now a pine tar bat? This kid's a blow hard. Just another little baby playin' with the grown ups. He'll learn.
Did you even read the article? He had nothing to do with it, he signed a bat with nothing on it. It was LaRoche and other players that sent it...He's a blow hard because he had gold shoes?? He's been nothing but professional since getting moved up. Little baby playin with grown ups?? Hate much?
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Mark Ballas says "Of course" he gets excited working with 17-year-old Shawn Johnson on "Dancing with the Stars" ... though we already knew that, he just didn't quite catch our drift.
too funny! He's human!
She is way too young for him, perv.
you guys are totally disgusting. One question; what were you doing looking there in the first place.? Whether you know it or not, exercise eg dancing can cause an erection in men and women can feel orgasmic due to the hormones that are released in physical exertion. DUMMIES!
How disguisting! His dance partner must have been horrified!
OMG he didnt mean his comments in a bad way but he also didnt realize that she's 17 and he could go to jail. God this story is soooooooooooo yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's amazing he kept his "Ballas" in those shorts at all...
Oh that poor guy. He was so excited to be getting some attention from the paps and you were goofing on him. I'm embarrassed for him.
wow baby meat!
kinda feel bad for him...i'm hopeing he just got caught in the moment...
he really must have been into it...i mean on national tv...to get a semi-boner!!!
I'm betting the geek stuffed his shorts with socks to cover his small package and it ended up in the wrong place.
Either way he'll never live that picture down.
AHAHAHAHA!! I feel bad for Shawn Johnson!! First there was the stalker, and now this! She's gonna need a bodyguard to fend off all those overly friendly men!
Least Shawn now knows she doesn't only and I mean only attract a stocker. Way to stroke the egos, partners
actually hes just a couple of years older than her....i have become addicted to that show...he is wicked cute! i hope they go far in the competition!
jesus, when we are watching them now, we'll see him pokin it to her,lol. yikes!


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Food manufacturing plant gets LEED Gold
August 11, 2010
Kettle Foods's new 73,000-sf potato chip manufacturing plant in Beloit, Wis., has earned LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Green features include: collection and reuse of wastewater for general plumbing needs, such as toilets; extensive daylighting; installation of 18 rooftop wind turbines that will generate enough energy to produce 56,000 bags of potato chips each year; converting used cooking oil into biodiesel; and use of Green Seal-rated materials and finishes. The Building Team included Madison, Wis.-based Affiliated Engineers.
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The new gay mecca of the Mediterranean is unfailingly sunny and tirelessly tolerant.
The new gay mecca of the Mediterranean is unfailingly sunny and tirelessly tolerant.
Resorts aimed at gay and lesbian travelers tend to be in expected places: Provincetown, Key West, Mykonos. Which is why the new Villa Capelli, off the ancient Roman road Via Appia in the conservative southern Italian region of Puglia, is such a surprise. Paul Capelli, the founder of the Manhattan advertising agency The Ad Store, puchased the property in his grandmother's hometown, Terlizzi, in 2003, and set to work transforming the 14th-century villa and surrounding terracotta-roofed farmhouses into a luxurious retreat.
As a travel editor, I've never been very interested in breaking down travel into "markets." Girlfriend Getaways, Guys' Golf Weekends, Nakations for Nudists — um, no thank you. But lately it's been hard to dismiss the deluge on my e-mail inbox of subject lines like "first gay couples-only retreat" and "New York's rainbow pilgrimage." If nothing else, GLBT travel is a faintly flickering bright spot on the horizon these days: according to a recent survey by Harris Interactive, 38 percent of gays and lesbians in the United States plan to stick to their vacations this year, compared to 34 percent of their straight counterparts. And 25 percent of the respondents said they'd be traveling by air, versus 19 percent of heterosexuals. Not that gays and lesbians haven't been gallivanting in earnest for some time — Rosie's Family Cruise, anyone? — but now that four states recognize the right to marriage of a group whose collective buying power is approaching $835 billion, the business better brace itself for a lucrative little something called the Gay Honeymoon.


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A creatively inclined soul, such as Tracy Hellenbrand's, needs to be in a creative environment. As a Boston, Massachusetts native, Tracy Hellenbrand finds that she flourishes in the historical, culture-rich city. A librarian with artistic talents, Tracy Hellenbrand has a variety of interests to keep her busy. Tracy Hellenbrand brings many skills to her role as librarian at one of Boston's many public libraries. Her tenacity and determined character make it easy for Tracy Hellenbrand to deal with the many responsibilities that come her way. Tracy Hellenbrand is in charge of putting together many events, and her favorite is Banned Book Week, which she has been in charge of for the past five years.
Tracy Hellenbrand earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature in the early 90s. After spending a year studying in England, Tracy made the decision to enroll in a Master of Library Science program, so she could spend the majority of her time in one of her favorite places: the library. Tracy Hellenbrand is also gifted artistically and can be found sketching and painting when she is not at work. Believing her best work comes from reality, Tracy Hellenbrand bases much of her work on the people and animals that surround her every day. Someday, Tracy Hellenbrand hopes to work as a freelance illustrator for children's books.
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A young Tibetan man has died after self-immolating in protest of Chinese occupation, becoming the sixth to do so in just two days. Phayul reports that Kalsang Jinpa, an 18-year-old nomad, set himself on fire in front of Rongwo Monastery in Rebkong on Thursday. He died at the scene.
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1977 the year the first personal computer was demonstrated to the world,also the year i introduced myself digitally to planet earth i came in analog and switched to digital halfway through birth!I do not really exist as i am a social experiment that defaulted on memory shortage in the meantime catch my messages via spam and viruses thats smartly camouflaged behind the name Rushay
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Trevor"s letter to Jimmy
Checking out records as the sun rises over downtown Kumasi.
Lion and I have learned to respect the outside forces of the supernatural and their influence on our record hunting. We have "seen" it for ourselves all too clearly.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian readers out there! Here's a look at Sunday night's games.
Phoenix Coyotes- 5 Carolina Hurricanes- 3
Coyotes goals scored by: Mikkel Boedker, Rob Klinkhammer (2), Lauri Korpikoski, and Shane Doan
Canes goals scored by: Eric Staal, Riley Nash, and Jeff Skinner
3 stars: Rob Klinkhammer (1st), Shane Doan (2nd), Mike Smith (3rd)
Los Angeles Kings- 3 Florida Panthers- 0
Kings goals scored by: Daniel Carcillo, Justin Williams, and Jordan Nolan
3 stars: Ben Scrivens (1st), Daniel Carcillo (2nd), Jordan Nolan (3rd)
New Jersey Devils- 0 Winnipeg Jets- 3
Jets goals scored by: Evander Kane (2) and Andrew Ladd
3 stars: Al Montoya (1st), Evander Kane (2nd), Dustin Byfuglien (3rd)
Ottawa Senators- 1 Anaheim Ducks- 4
Sens goal scored by: Bobby Ryan
Ducks goals scored by: Corey Perry (2), Ryan Getzlaf, and Nick Bonino
3 stars: Corey Perry (1st), Ryan Getzlaf (2nd), Hampus Lindholm (3rd)
I have no goal song of the day today but we will start those again tomorrow. Stay tuned for this week's TV schedule and come back tomorrow for the results of all your thanksgiving games!
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The main difference between flat tappet and roller cam types is how they interact with the lifter. A flat tappet is so named because the lifter surface appears to be a flat plane. It's actually very slightly convex (and the cam lobe is ground with a corresponding taper), which helps it rotate as the cam lobe slides across it. Failure of the lifter to rotate would actually result in very accelerated cam and lifter wear that would eventually cause failure. Roller cams, on the hand, look like a tiny caster. The wheel rolls across the cam lobe so spinning is not required to reduce wear. Moreover, roller lifters are always keyed in place by the lifter bore or through link bars that attach one to another.
While there are obvious wear benefits to a roller versus a flat tappet, there are performance gains to be had as well. From a practical standpoint, flat tappets are limited mostly by spring load and rpm. They are still used by many successful racers, but the trade-off is in longevity of the parts. With conservative valvesprings, flat tappets can last many miles, but aggressive profiles and high rpm require much heavier springs and the pressure increases wear dramatically. There is definitely a point at which it is too great for real-world hot rodding applications. Rollers, on the other hand, can tolerate much higher spring loads and rpm thanks to the wheel and the different geometry of the cam lobe. Essentially, you can spin harder with higher lift and duration for longer with a roller cam. That geometry and greater control tends to tame an aggressive cam relative to a comparable flat tappet. Another practical benefit to a roller cam is that is does not require the traditional break-in that a flat does, which eliminates one possible source of early engine failure. The break-in is extremely critical for flat-tappet engines and must be performed properly to ensure a good lifespan. Don't ever skimp on the lifters either, always go with a reputable brand of flat tappet lifter to ensure its surfaces are sufficiently hard to survive the pressures.
So are there any benefits to flat tappet cams? Yes. First and foremost is cost. Flat tappets are always the cheaper route due to their inherently less complex manufacturing. Flat tappets also offer the opportunity for increased ramp speed on the cam lobe (how fast the valve opening event begins to happen) because the surface area of a flat tappet lifter is greater, which can be beneficial in some applications.
From a hot rodder's perspective, the key trade-off between a hydraulic and solid cam will be rpm and valve lift potential versus increased maintenance and wear. The key difference between these two types of cams is mostly in the lifter design. Hydraulic cams, whether flat tappet or roller, use a lifter that feature an internal mechanism that continuously adjusts to maintain zero valve lash. That's ideal for creating a very quiet, maintenance-free valvetrain, which is why they are far and away the most common style of lifter found in any street engine from vintage muscle car to new sedan. That very same mechanism is also the limiting factor when rpm begins to exceed 6,500 rpm (or the cam profile becomes extremely aggressive with high lift or velocity); it can lead to instability in the valvetrain and valve float because the hydraulic internals can actually begin to compress when overstressed.
Solid cams use a lifter than has no such internal adjustment, which gives them an extremely precise transfer of the cam profile to the valvetrain. Their tolerance for high rpm and aggressive profiles means you'll see them almost exclusively in racing circles and applications where high power and performance are the primary goals. As with hydraulic flat tappets, solid flat tappets are limited in how much spring pressure they handle without severely accelerated wear, but they do have a higher rpm potential. Solid rollers offer the increased spring load capacity of their hydraulic counterparts while offering 7,000-plus rpm stability with ease. The big trade-off with both types of solid lifter cams is that periodic valve lash maintenance is required to keep it within spec, or engine damage can occur. That same direct transfer of the cam profile without any damping also results in increased valvetrain wear, so longevity of parts is diminished versus a hydraulic. Both points are definitely something to keep in mind if you plan on dropping the engine in a daily driver.
One last point to note is that solid and hydraulic cam specs on a cam card are not directly comparable. That's because the standards are measured at different points on the lobe. For example, COMP Cams' advertised ratings are usually checked at .008 on a hydraulic, but at .020 on a solid. Even the industry standard .050 measurement isn't a direct comparison since the requisite lash of the solid roller must be taken into account. That means that a solid and hydraulic cam could have the same duration numbers listed at .050, but the solid cam would actually deliver slightly less effective duration because of the lash ramp and would need to be increased slightly to deliver the same duration at the valve.
The shape of a flat tappet cam versus a roller can be misleading as well. The wheel of a roller cam interacts in a 1:1 relationship to the cam lobe following it exactly while the cam lobe slides across the entire surface of a flat tappet lifter. Essentially, a roller cam requires a physically larger lobe to create the same valve opening and closing events as a similarly spec'd flat tappet. This fundamental difference favors the roller cam as rpm and spring pressure increases.


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My fandoms include: Friends, Psych, Castle, Fringe, Leverage, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Agents of SHIELD, Parks and Recreation, Once Upon A Time, Person of Interest, The Americans, Orphan Black, Bates Motel, Elementary, Sleepy Hollow, Arrow, Outlander, A Song of Ice and Fire, Marvel Universe, etc.
all my jokes aside how can you possibly hate boromir or be glad for his death
boromir is literally the representation of what we all are- the mixture of inherent goodness and natural flaws that all of us have. he is a being of pure good intention and hope and faith and loyalty and determination to do what is right, to secure a safe and prosperous future for those he cared about, his people, his friends, his family
the things he did that make people so frequently dislike him- primarily going after the ring for himself, to use it for the good of gondor- are things driven by those good intentions. there never was a single malicious bone in boromir's body. even his mistakes were mistakes of love, misguided actions borne of an inherent desire to protect. do any of you that hate him really think you would have been any better, would have been perfect and resisted the allure of trying to use the ring to protect your loved ones? i don't know about you, but if i'm being honest, i don't know if i would have been strong enough to resist it. because we all want to protect those we love.
boromir was not among the men who wanted the ring for his own personal power. selfless from the start and selfless even to his death- dying, in the end, to protect two hobbits, the little folk, the halflings so frequently overlooked by the other races and even his own- he was not seeking glory. he never was.
boromir is every one of us- the hope and pain and frustration and loyalty and fear and doubt and passion and perfection and flaws that make us all human. and in the end, it was always some form of love guiding his actions- love for his home, it's citizens, for his land. so much of it that it drove him to the extremes that it did.
he was far from perfect, like all of us. and for me, that's why he was perfect.


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Porter County Conference tournament at Washington Township: LaCrosse vs. Morgan Township, 5 p.m.; South Central vs. Boone Grove, 6:30 p.m.
Bishop Noll at Griffith, 6:30 p.m.
Highland at Chesterton, 6:30 p.m.
Munster at Portage, 6:30 p.m.
River Forest at Clark, 6:30 p.m.
Roosevelt at E.C. Central, 6:30 p.m.
Wheeler at Andrean, 6:30 p.m.
Crown Point at Lowell, 7 p.m.
Hammond at Lake Station, 7 p.m.
Kankakee Valley at North Newton, 7 p.m.
Mishawaka at Marquette, 7 p.m.
Morton at Hanover Central, 7 p.m.
Penn at Michigan City, 7 p.m.
Football Schedule
E.C. Central at South Bend Adams, 6 p.m.
Lew Wallace at Fort Wayne South, 6 p.m.
Andrean at Lowell, 7 p.m., WTMK-FM (88.5), rrsn.com, WRTW-FM (90.5), regionsports.com (video)
Bishop Noll at North Newton, 7 p.m.
Bowman Academy at Griffith, 7 p.m.
Chesterton at Merrillville, 7 p.m., WJOB-AM (1230), WEFM-FM (95.9), rrsn.com
Clark at Hammond, 7 p.m.
Gavit at Morton, 7 p.m.
Hobart at Highland, 7 p.m., rrsn.com
Lake Central at Valparaiso, 7 p.m., rrsn.com, WVLP-FM (98.3), regionsports.com
Portage at LaPorte, 7 p.m.
Michigan City at Crown Point, 7 p.m., USA-365.com
Munster at Kankakee Valley, 7 p.m.
Rensselaer at Benton Central, 7 p.m.
River Forest at South Central, 7 p.m.
West Side at Roosevelt, 7 p.m.
Wheeler at Calumet, 7 p.m.
Whiting at Lake Station, 7 p.m.
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One Contractor's Experience with Wider Membranes
Rick Chaffee of Chaffee Industrial Roofing in East Providence, RI, believes there are advantages and disadvantages to wide single-ply membranes, depending on the circumstances. "Ten-foot rolls are faster to install on large roofs with few penetrations," he says. "But six-foot rolls are more convenient on roofs with numerous penetrations." Six-foot rolls are also lighter and easier to handle – one Chaffee foremen was injured lifting a 12-foot roll. And while he thinks wider membranes do save labor costs on fully adhered and ballasted installations, he points out that with fast-welding, mechanically attached, TPO membranes, the savings in time and labor aren't usually significant.
Since their introduction in the late 1990s, wide thermoplastic single-ply roofing membranes have been touted as the best thing since the staple gun. But is wider really better?
Wider roofing membranes first came out as un-reinforced EPDM for fully adhered or ballasted applications, and became popular among roofing contractors for installation efficiencies. As EPDM manufacturers entered the thermoplastic arena, they brought the "wider" mentality with them in order to appeal to EPDM contractors.
Although building owners might benefit from lower installation costs when wide membranes are used as fully adhered or ballasted systems, the benefits are less clear for mechanically attached installations.
But one thing IS very clear: Wider membranes have placed the integrity of the roofing system squarely on the shoulders of the roof deck and its attachment method. Consider that the wind load on each fastener in a mechanically attached 6.5-foot-wide membrane fastened every 12 inches in the seam is approximately 540 pounds of force in a Factory Mutual FM 1-90 design. The wind load goes to 855 pounds of pressure per fastener for the same system on a 10-foot-wide sheet and to 1,055 pounds of pressure on a 12-foot-wide membrane.
As such, the performance of mechanically attached 10- and 12-foot-wide membranes remains questionable, as they have yet to be tested by a significant wind event such as a hurricane. As Rene Dupuis, president of Structural Research Inc., of Middleton, WI, points out, "Wider sheets make wind uplift resistance more difficult, as a single row of fasteners has to take up more load and transfer it to the deck." And while wider membranes have received FM approvals, FM wind testing is a static pressure test, not a dynamic load test, and therefore may not mimic real rooftop performance.
As a result, caution should be used when mechanically attaching wide membranes on existing decks – or on new construction projects where the deck fastening has not been enhanced – because many steel decks may not be able to accommodate the increased lateral load of a wide membrane simply because the deck has not been designed and attached to the structural members sufficiently to withstand the added pressure.
Put all that aside, and sheet flutter is a concern. Since fasteners on wide membranes are spaced further apart, simple geometry suggests that there is a greater likelihood that the membrane will flutter or billow on the roof. Not only can this dynamic flutter create an annoying slapping sound, but it may also cause foam insulation to pulverize and compress over time. As such, the damaged insulation can cause the fastener and stress plate to lose proper loading with the membrane interface and leave tented fasteners and potential puncture points on the roof. Additionally, this reduces the wind uplift resistance of the system, leaving it susceptible to wind-related damage or blow off.
With all of these potential problems, it's no wonder why Wal-Mart has revised its roofing specifications to limit membrane width to seven feet, and other retailers limit sheet width to eight feet. If these building owners are cautious about using wider membranes, perhaps you should be, too.
Steve Moskowitz is vice president, Technical and Warranty Services, at Stevens Roofing Systems (www.stevensroofing.com), Holyoke, MA.
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This course will provide you with a good working knowledge of Adobe After Effects including: interface layout and tool set; integration with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator; utilising bitmaps; vector graphics; and alpha channels. Using these tools you will have the opportunity to create an animated logo of your choice within a 3D space. Following this, you will develop a title sequence animation for the opening of a fictional film of your choice, utilising text and video to create a composite. Throughout the course you will be introduced to the fundamentals of colour grading and colour keying for utilising green screen footage. You will also gain an understanding of screen resolutions and correct export settings for both professional video formats and web formats.
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Counseling from a health care professional trained in genetics before genetic testing takes place may improve the quality of health care.
A blue-ribbon team of national experts stated that professional pessimism and out-of-date myths rather than current science may compromise the care of patients with brain cancer.
Cancer cells decide whether to live or die after a short period of intense exposure to targeted therapy, opposing the current requirement for continuous treatment, according to a new study.
Many patients skip doses or stop taking medication entirely when their share of the costs becomes too high.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has published its latest annual report on cancer incidence and mortality, and the news is good.
A new challenge for health care providers is emerging from the improved prognosis for patients with cancer: the need to include this growing group of patients in health promotion campaigns.
Women with breast cancer who undergo surgery rate persistent postmastectomy pain as the most troubling symptom.
An investigational new PARP inhibitor, BMN 673, is showing early responses in patients with advanced, BRCA-related breast and ovarian cancers.
A definitive trial has indicated that low-level laser therapy (LLLT) reduces the occurrence of canker sores and improves quality of life in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Oncology nurse navigators (ONNs) are clinical professionals acting as a map or compass through the confusing process of diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
New findings that run counter to federal recommendations indicate that women should be encouraged to initiate regular mammographic screening before age 50 years.
Persons with head and neck cancer who are undergoing radiation or chemoradiation can preserve swallow function by exercising involved muscles before, during, and after treatment.
Researchers have not only confirmed that tamoxifen induces cognitive dysfunction in users, they have also found an existing treatment that can prevent this adverse effect.
The US cancer care delivery system is in crisis and changes across the board are urgently needed to improve the quality of cancer care, concludes the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in its new report.
The Oncology Nursing Society has released a joint position statement on key issues surrounding the implementation of screening programs for psychosocial distress in cancer centers.
Changes made 5 years ago to accelerate time-to-initiation of clinical trials sponsored by the National Cancer Institute have paid off in the form of faster activation of studies.
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Differences in the impact of aspirin in various forms of cancer are highlighted in two studies recently published in the oncology literature.
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When I moved into my first home I desperately needed a new kettle, I shopped around for quite a while looking for a stylish inexpensive model and finally decided on this Russell Hobbs number.
The Brand
Russell Hobbs is best known for kitchen products and as a trusted brand I was happy to purchase a Russell Hobbs kettle. Russell Hobbs products are sold at many different retailers, however I chose to purchase my kettle through Amazon as it not only offered the kettle at a great price, but Amazon also offer multi product deals. I bought Russell Hobbs toaster from the same range and Amazon gave me money off because I purchased two products. This is brilliant if you are setting up home for the first time and need a lot of new equipment.
The Cost
The RRP of the kettle is £34.99 which is mid to high range for a kettle, I would recommend shopping around as I bought this kettle from Amazon for £29.99 saving myself £5. As mentioned previously Amazon will also give you money off if you buy more than one product in the range. I was hoping to pay no more than £25 for my kettle, however for the price this was one of the most stylish kettles I could find.
The Kettle
This kettle is part of the Russell Hobbs colours range, I purchased my kettle in cream as it was the colour I liked best and the one that suited my kitchen the most. Aside from cream other colours within the line include black, red, purple and storm grey. I must admit i do find the choice of colours slightly strange, black, cream and grey are fairly obvious, but purple and red are an odd choice especially when there is no blue or pastel colours available.
The kettle has a very simple, modern look, the main body is a cream colour with a metal base, lid and spout. The open handle is made of black plastic making pouring easy and also allowing you to touch the kettle when hot. The kettle has a 1.7litre capacity and 3kw concealed element. I find this capacity more than enough for us, the kettle handily has a water fill indicator on the side so that you can see how much you are filling the kettle up. This saves water as I will only fill the kettle up as much as I need to and prevents overfilling.
Living in a hard water area the fact this kettle has a removable washable limescale filter is great, I haven't had to remove the filter yet, but it seems easy enough to remove and I'm sure given time I will need remove and wash this part.
This kettle boils quickly which is great if you are in a rush. I don't notice this kettle being noisier than any other kettle i have used. As the kettle has a painted surface it does become quite hot after use so you have to be sure to only touch the plastic handle, rather than the main body of the kettle when using.
This is a great, sturdy kettle. It has all the factors I want in a kettle: stylish, inexpensive, water fill indicator. I am really thrilled with my purchase and it looks great in my kitchen with the matching toaster.
The Russell Hobbs Cream Colours Kettle has an iconic modern design that will suit any modern or contemporary kitchen / Its classic eye-catching coloured finish will add a touch of class to any kitchen / Simplicity and classic design are key to this kettle / while excellent performance will wow you with great results / Features include a generous 1.7L capacity power-on indicator and removable washable filters / Its open handle design is great for easy pouring while a 360 degree base makes it suitable for rig / Short name: Russell Hobbs 18943


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BOFH: Who's been naughty and who's been nice?
Love the story...
Although "The silence of the servers" is your masterpiece.
Bummed-out users give anti-virus bloatware the boot
... new to routers. Most slow data transfer in the world and I am not even mentioning that USB 2 is faster. But then again... a NAS from Lacie sounds like something French.
I for one...
... am quite happy with ZA. But 256 MB?????? Are you running Windows 1.0 on it?
For me...
NOD32 still works fine. Fast and it even tells you before the windows automatic updates start that your system needs one or more fixes.
Like it.
Leave my jacket there, buster!
are the times that Norton (Symantec now) was such a respectable name? I cling on to my Windows Commander, now called Total Commander. Best shareware softie I ever had.
... I am a bit of a noob, but why would any software just decide the file type based on a file name extension? No doubting your story, but I would really like to know. Obviously storing raw data in a .htm(l) file should not fool any AV or any other security software just by its extentionsion. That's just opening the gates to malware anyway. Sending out a .jp(e)g without the receiver knowing what is really inside it while it tries to find wholes in let's say Irfanview or so, is potentially lethal.
BTW: forgive me my ways of using the English language... I am not a native user of the language and still have to reinstall my spell check on my browser.
... users just need local admin rights. Most of them in software development or validation. You just need an AV that cannot be turned off without a master password known to the IT dept only.
For personal home usage I had no problems paying for an AV, being ESET NOD32, which comes out of tests as thrustworthy and is blazingly fast.
Mine's the one with the money those friendly people at ESET gave me in.
'Wear levelling' - a bedroom aid for multi-layer cell Flash
Just my two cents...
SSD is just not mature yet. It will eventually become and then I'll get some, but before that time, we are talking the Golden optical disc from Philips in the eighties... They ended up making cd's of which one cannot say they are dead (unless they are (r)w(r)itable) promising but yet not mature enough.
Interesting article though. Always wanted to learn a bit more about SSD's.
Could someone tell this noob what an 80 GB SSD disk should do as holder of let's say my win XP? In terms of lifetime and tools to tell me that the time has come to replace it.
Thank you,
PS: Paris for she knows as much about SSD's as I do.
Microsoft nails Silverlight's future to Windows Phones
MS... learn
Can't MS come up with something new? Apple launches the iPod, MS years later comes up with Zune. Adobe has Flash. Years later, MS comes up with silverlight. The whole world had Java, but years later MS came up with J++
I am not a microsoft basher, but if they keep doing this, then they're a dead company. Lucky for them that Windows 7 did well, but let's hope Windows 8 will not become a new Vista or ME. As far as I can see, MS is way behind on good ideas. And the only strong point they still have is their windows desktop platform.
Sad to see the emperor crawling in the dust...
BOFH: Key performance undertakers
This is going to be good...
I do expect a January episode of this series that will make the PFY wish it was still 2009.
Great episode and thank you for all the laughter, Simon.
BOFH: Spontaneous Legal Combustion
Thank you, Simon
BOFH: Defiling the profile
no further comments.
Co-op IT workers vote to strike
@ /spin
"i would hope that they have started looking for work to get out of that morale-raping environment ASAP, rather than rely on a strike changing the minds of managers who only see them as numbers on a spreadsheet."
Unite's point is just that the times now are quite hard to find another job.
Microsoft marks Windows' anniversary with Windows 7
Nice to see those images again....
I used to have an XT with windows 1.0 and GEM installed. We were thrilled when windows could use more than the usual DOS 640KB memory boundary.
Oh well... happy today with win XP pro and for real work I'm happy with CENTOS linux. :-)
Tech gadgetry brings about pet-o-geddon
That dog...
"Although there's much hilarity to be had watching stunned people as your dog craps out little cars/golfers/Disney characters or pisses a blue line down a wall..."
Tiny MyCar named electric vehicle of the year
electric yes...
...but does it fly?
Washington and Microsoft declare war on scareware
Only now?
Those scarewares have been around for ages. Via the messenger service and on lots of sites as well.
Back in the days it was even funny to see on my win2000 pro box how I got such pop-ups in winXP layout.
If they act now, I guess they will start to tackle spam somewhere around 2050.
Paris, because she would even embrace protective measures sooner.
Adobe cites bad blood for closed Flash
I can understand... or not...
I love open source and all it brought.
I can understand that a company that invested strongly in patents will not give that away for free. They have to make a profit, don't they. Although I hate PDF. I am a dumb guy that would like to have some HTML standard that can do everything PDF does rather than having PDF. But ok...
Guild wars: Java enabled people fighting the other sorts of people. My god... Why am I happy with Perl? Java stinks as much as .net does. They are both competitors in a world that needs one or two programming langs. I want to grab back my initial C and C++ books. Perl or PHP rules the world, dummies.
Paris Hilton because she even knows how to behave cross-platform.
Chrysler intros electric trio
yes, electric...
... but do they fly?
Mine's the one with the wings attached.
BOFH: Back in the saddle
I admire the BOFH stories, but this one was not as good as it should be.
I mean... the axe. Come on Simon, you have written far more subtle revenge techniques.
BUT...! I lolled at the manager's Bonsai though.
Still: "Silence of the servers" remains my fav one and it should be the way to go...
Signed: a big fan of yours.
Toyota unveils Segway rivals
@ Bez
Love your first commemnt in this section. Great writing.
Microsoft to kill Windows with 'web-centric' Midori?
Next step
Maybe they can force computer makers to stop selling machines and only lease them on a monthly basis. Maybe jpg files should also stop working if you don't pay your subscription for them, etc...
Some thoughts...
* More and more ISP's can't live up on the performance of their broadband connections anymore, having failed to invest in their networks as opposed to their growing and more bandwith demanding userbase. They really must love the idea of an internet-centric OS. As will the users once they see the performance of this baby. Plenty of people already complain about Vista performance. Now go and play your high-end games on a cloud OS. Maybe a simplified version of Pacman would still do, but that's only for two days when the ISP puts you on smallband for using up your monthly bandwith limit.
* Some people said this before: company leaders will love the idea of throwing out their firewall since the OS is outside of the company LAN anyway and their data and actions are "safely" with MS. Oh dear... they are now already refusing to roll out Vista...
* MS is clearly losing the pedals. post-Vista-launch panic strikes... They clearly need to rethink some things or I wouldn't give a penny for their shares at all from now. Com'on Beast of Redmond, think, think! Perhaps a linux-based OS with nice windows-like "hey we know this interface" thingie and direct-X included for games... now there we would have a killer windows 9.
Paris, because she' a killer app too. aaawrrr ;-)
McKinnon loses Lords appeal
This is ridiculous
Ok, he's a hacker. We've had our fair share of (black hat) hackers, virus writers and spammers already. Some of them should burn in hell.
However, from the coverage I had, I understood he was curious. He did not use his power to cause damage and I never read that he sold security information to "bad guys". Readers are free to prove me wrong.
So the UK is playing a political game here. Knowing that he could get up to 70 years of prison in the US, knowing what his crimes were, it would be just horrible just to deliver him to the US, a country known for wanting to "set examples". Can't he be judged in the UK? Why does the UK wants to be the puppy of a US president that claims he would never extradite US soldiers even if proven they committed war crimes?
But then again, I might be misinformed on what exactly he did to the US defense systems. As far as I know, he's a bloke with a little less developped sense of what you can and cannot do, but he did not harm the US. Well except for some BOFH's that had to go out and actually patch and secure their systems becauses of a bloke that was looking for information about UFO's on Defense and Nasa systems and probably a sick sense of "I do it because I can do it" kind of childless pride.
And don't get me wrong... I hate hackers etc... but I think that guys that make botnets to infect millions of computers so they can rob the bank accounts of your average "Joe" or "Darren" should face far more severe punishments than this guy.
All I say here, is of course under the assumption that I am well informed about what he did and why he did it. If he's not the child-minded but gifted hacker that I think he is, I would erase my post. But well... We've seen such "I can do it because I can hackers" before and as long as they do not severely damage things, I think punishment is good, but long-life sentence in prison is a bit too hard.
PS: not a native English speaker here, so forgive me if some of my texts are not up to decent English standards ;-)
Banking Trojan hides in fake Alonso F1 crash story
And when...
... will spam/trojans/virusses be considered as equal to murder? Time to show maffia hackers that we cannot allow the internet to be killed like this anymore.
I meant that.
Mine's the one with the kevlar coating, the gas mask, the fake cyanide tooth and the AK-47 as a means of discussing things.
BOFH: The admin gene
So true
All I have read here is so true...
Paris, because she can make things work for me.
Who will be the next Doctor?
Let it be...
... either David Tennant again (isn't the good doc nearing his max times of regenerations?) or if not, please let it be Chris Ecclestone again.
@ David H.
I can't wait for the doctor to shout "I can't hold her anymore" with such accent :)
Cardiff 'copter coppers give chase to UFO
... reference to Doctor Who or Torchwood?
Paris, since even she would have done that.
BOFH: Dealing with engineers
@ the RPITA engineers description
Russell T Davies bows out of Doctor Who
1. Thanks, RTD for bringing back the good doctor. I hope Torchwood will still continue now.
2. If Steven Moffat only brings 10% of the pure genius of an episode like Blink to the complete series, then I am so gonna love that fifth season.
3. fifth season is only due spring 2010? :-( :-( :-(
BOFH: Shiny new computer room
Thank you, Chris
Thanks, gonna remember that one...
I am not a native English speaker, so allow me to ask whether:
"when encountering a goldmine one must prepare oneself for the shaft"
is an existing expression or did Simon make up this beauty?
PH, for feeling stupid now...
El Reg celebrates 10th birthday
Happy Birthday!!!
El Reg is and will remain my fav tech site!
PS3 firmware adds HD audio
Get a PC!
All of that stuff can be done on a pc. A games console that wants to connect to the internet, play HD video's, can have blue-ray, eventually lets you watch movies on demand... that's about what a pc can do.
A games console had a nice niche of being cheap to let the kids play games while you use the real computer... now they are turning consoles into PC's (but without flexibility) and the things get more expensive.
Oh well... played with game consoles in the past with friends. But I would never consider buying one until I have kiddies. And if I have kiddies I will re-install my XT computer with MS-DOS and GW-BASIC so they can learn. And if they learn, they can play C&C 3 Tiberium wars for a while as a reward.
Yes, I am mean.
Paris, because she does not know what I am talking about and I would like to keep that naive thing in bed too.
BOFH: The London Underground vending machine conspiracy
First boss ever to live long and prosper?
Is it just me or has the current boss been passivily agreeing with and knowing of the evil plans of the BOFH and the PFY? This is not a normal BOFH-boss relation anymore. Something is rotten in the state of that company...
Paris, since she has as much a clue about anything on earth than I have about where this boss is going to end and why/how his end will be.
El Reg offers cut-and-paste comments service
eh... ROFL...
Lonely Paris Hilton seeks new best friend
@ all
US firm demos 'thought into speech' neckband
Re: "Strap one onto Hawking"
If has to start explaining the secrets of the universe using only 150 words, his books would really be popularizing science...
IBM gets back into PCs
Fighting MS with Lotus Notes???
PS: Paris since she has brighter ideas than that.
Japanese joggers to get exercise earphones with attitude
Paying for something that nags at you? I already have a girlfriend.
BOFH: The Silence of the Servers
Loved the style of the story!
Great work, Simon.
Barron Hilton donates fortune to charity
not ruined
She already has her own little imperium, so she'll be fine. No need to start singing agian, Paris, no need at all.
Video games blamed for England Euro flop
re: paris hilton
"Maybe we'd do better with Paris Hilton in goal?"
Indeed, they'll try to hit her.
Lost HMRC discs pop up on eBay
Employee sacked for texting in sick
Sick Line
ehrm... English is not my native language. Could someone tell me what a sick line is?
Sun: MoD has Bond/Potter/Klingon cloaking device
amanfrommars posts
Can El Reg at least put them in another colour, so it's easier to skip them?
BOFH: A foray into HR
"Seven interviews later and I've spotted the slight flaw in our plan in that the first questions we should have asked of our new director were "Are you a violent maniac after you've had a few pints?" and "Did you know that punching someone in the face for using the words 'total cost of ownership' is not technically an approved interview technique – funny though it may be?""
GMail shakes IMAP out of coma
sub title
> "Mail protocol wasn't dead, only sleeping"
You mean it was not pining for the fjords?
Fight malware by upgrading to Vista, urges MS
So what they mean is ... ?
... that even malware writers cannot get their software to run properly on a Vista box?
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