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Two of the six suspects arrested for the murder of a 5-year-old Omaha girl were in court Friday morning. The cases of 20-year-old Vincent Hicks and 18-year-old Jaylen Montgomery were each bound over to district court for trial.
Hicks faces a first-degree murder charge for allegedly firing an AK-47 at a rival gang member on the street near North 45th Street and Bedford Avenue on January 15th. One of the bullets went through the wall of a nearby home and struck Payton Benson in the back as she sat on a living room couch eating breakfast. That bullet has never been recovered.
Montgomery is facing charges of discharging a firearm in city limits, possession of an illegal firearm and use of a gun to commit a felony.
Police say Hicks and Montgomery were accompanied by Jacob Brown and Adonus Moses at the time of the shooting. Brown and Moses waived their preliminary hearings in earlier court appearances.
On Friday, we discovered that the reason for the gunfire was apparently linked to a photograph.
Brown told investigators that they were purposely driving into rival gang territory armed. He said the four are members of the 38th Street gang and a rival gang member took a photo in 38th Street territory. That put everything in motion.
Investigators said the four were driving in a stolen Jeep and had made two stops prior to the shooting near 45th and Bedford: J and J Grocery and a gas station near 42 and Ames. Investigators say that's when they spotted someone they thought was a rival gang member and opened fire.


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General Info: PLEASE READ
Note: Observing is weather dependant -see Weather Information note at right.
BAS Meeting Locations: (not weather dependant)
Meetings happen at
ES Fox Observatory (June, July, Aug and September only in 2014) (washrooms are available) (map)
Grey Roots Museum (map) Meeting Room Side Entrance (March, April, May, October, November, December only) (washrooms are available)
Observing Locations: (all locations are handicap accessible)
Our events usually happen at either the ES Fox Observatory (click for map)
or the Grey Roots Museum (click for map) parking lot.
Both observing locations are "remote locations" meaning there are NO on-site washroom facilities.
BAS Observing Events (dates listed below) will occur at the ES Fox Observatory (3092 Bruce Rd 13) at the Bluewater Outdoor Ed Centre. Viewing at the observatory is WEATHER DEPENDENT. See notes below for more about weather.
To help with your observing plans with regard to moonlight, check the notation like (NM+3) beside various dates. This gives the approximate moon phase. NM+3, for ex. means the moon is 3 days after New, or LQ-2 means 2 days before Last Quarter.
Note: Some events are for BAS members and guests only, others are "public welcome events" and may or may not have fees. Refer to each entry for details. If you are coming from a distance we will try to accommodate you regardless. Contact us by phone (519-371-0670) ahead of time.
ALL observing events require clear skies. If it is overcast or raining, the observing event will NOT be possible. If you arrive at the venue, there may not be any BAS officials there. BAS monthly Meetings are not usually weather dependant.
If skies are partly cloudy, check the Clear Sky Clock (bottom of HOME page) or call 519-371-0670 to confirm the event.
This list was updated Sep 28, 2014 with events now included for September to December 2014.
Note: BAS meetings and observing events are held at the Fox Observatory (at BOEC) in June, July, August and September and back at the Grey Roots Museum for the remainder of 2014.
Stargazing at the Fox Observatory is only possible weather permitting. When visiting the observatory, park in the lot near the Learning Centre and walk to observatory please. Washrooms at the Learning Centre will be available for all ES Fox events.
Astronomical/BAS events for September to December 2014:
Sep 3 Wed BAS meeting at the ES Fox Observatory 7 pm. Our (remote) speaker is Tom Field, an expert on Spectroscopy and he will be hosting a webinar that night as the first part of our meeting. The regular reports and events follow the break after the meeting. Bring bug spray and come with warm clothes as the observatory is not heated. Viewing afterwards if the sky is clear. Note the public is welcome to come to our meetings but please read the information at the top of this page for specifics.
Sep 5 Fri (FQ+3) Public viewing at Grey Roots Museum parking lot, 9 pm. This is the last of five public viewing nights at GR. Note that due to logistic issues, the large Webster telescope will not be used at the museum for public viewing. Use of the Webster will be at public viewing events only at the ES Fox Observatory. However the Grey Roots viewing nights will feature several large (up to 12-inch) telescopes that will be manned by BAS members. There will be views of Mars and Saturn as well as the Gibbous Moon and Summer Milky Way objects like brighter clusters, nebula and galaxies. There may even be a comet or two.
If you have a telescope that you need help with, please bring it along and one of our members can give you some pointers. Public welcome (no charge).
NOTE: this event is weather-permitting. A few clouds are not a problem, but general overcast or rain means the event cannot be held and is cancelled. Contact email@example.com or email@example.com to confirm if you are unsure about weather.
Sep 5 Fri (FQ+3) Venus makes a very close pass (0.7°) to the brightest star in Leo tonight. This is a dawn event and can be seen even in bright twilight. Jupiter is also nearby-look upwards (about a handwidth) from Regulus/Venus for the brightest star in that part of the sky. Binoculars will show some of the bright moons circling that planet.
Sep 6 Sat (FQ+4) OSFN star tour/talk -a private tour for the Owen Sound Field Naturalists at ES Fox Observatory 7:00 pm Leader: TBA (alt. date Sep 20 (LQ+4) Note: this event has been moved to Oct 4.
Sep 9 Tue (FM) ☹ Night of the Full Moon "Harvest Moon". This is the name given to the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox in September. On average, the moon rises about 50 minutes later each day, but when a full moon happens close to the autumnal equinox, the moon (at mid-temperate latitudes) rises only about 30 to 35 minutes later for several days before and after the full moon phase. The narrow angle of the ecliptic this time of year results in a shorter-than-usual rising time between successive moonrises so the Moon appears prominently at about the same time each night during the northern hemisphere harvest season. Hence: Harvest Moon. More at Earth-Sky.org here: http://earthsky.org/space/harvest-moon-2#special
Sep 12 Fri (FM+3) Saturn's Moon Rhea occults a background star -rare! Rhea is the second brightest Saturnian moon (after Titan) and happens to pass in front of a fainter background star around 8:38 DST in E. Canada. The brightness of the star will drop from 7.8 to the moon's brightness of 10.2. This will be pretty noticeable in medium to large telescopes.
Sep 17 Wed (LQ) 3rd Anniversary of Fox Opening Happy Birthday Fox Observatory! The celebration will take place at the Sep 3 BAS meeting at Fox. There may even be cake!
Sep 20 Sat (LQ+3) Mercury 0.5° from Spica low in West after sunset. This is not a great apparition of Mercury, but it rarely gets this close to a bright star. If you have a flat western horizon, it is worth an attempt. It might be easier to find Mercury during the week prior to the 20th since it will be higher in the sky at the same time.
Sep 24 Wed (NM) ☻
Sep 27 Sat (NM+3) BAS viewing @Fox @dark. Members and guests welcome. This is the regular NM viewing night at the Fox, and, remarkably viewing Saturn and Mars is still possible. This time a thin crescent is found near Saturn which is quickly dropping towards the western horizon. Objects in the Milky Way are very near the meridian (highest) and prime targets for viewing. The sky is now getting dark earlier and earlier, but even twilight time is good for looking at the planets Saturn and Mars (Mars tonight is as close as it gets to Antares). A nice crescent Moon makes it a pretty trio above the western horizon this evening. By dark the clusters and gas clouds of the Milky Way are high and prime targets for the Webster.
Sep 28 Sun (NM+4) Moon occults Saturn, Ceres and Vesta all on same day (none visible locally). You need to be in East Asia, Hawaii, or the North Africa area for these events and it is not possible to see all of them from one place.
Oct 1 Wed BAS meeting Grey Roots Museum (not ES Fox this time!) 7 pm. Speaker slated for tonight is Mike Tettenborn, our local meteorite expert who will bring in some of his latest samples for display. We also encourage members to bring in items ("gadgets") you think might be of interest. This event is inspired by our own "Inspector Gadget", Robert Williamson whose 12-inch donated telescope is regularly used at the Fox.
Oct 4 Sat (FQ+3) OSFN star tour/talk -a private tour for the Owen Sound Field Naturalists at ES Fox Observatory 7:00 pm Leader: John H. (alt. date Oct 18 (LQ-2) Note: this event was moved from Sep 6 and now postponed to Oct 18 (sheesh!).
Oct 8 Wed (FM) ☺ Partial Lunar Eclipse viewing features the second of the two lunar eclipses of 2014. The start is viewable from the ES Fox Observatory but since the eclipse occurs as the moon is setting in our area a location along Lake Huron shore is better. We have used the washrooms/pavillion at 6th St. N and Lakeshore Blvd in Sauble Beach before and it is the obvious choice. The eclipse umbral contact is at 5:14 am DST Oct 8, and the total phase lasts from 6:25 am to 7:24 am DST. Last Umbral contact is at 8:34 am DST. The Moon sets at 7:37 am DST so we miss the second half (emergence from shadow) Theoretically all of totality is visible form this location, but the emerging twilight will interfere with the view. Hopefully the haze from the forest fires out west will not darken the event as much as in the last few months.
NEW: Oct 19 Sun (NM-4) Comet Siding Spring (C/2013A1) closest to Mars -photo op! (from Mars only...). This comet discovered by Australia observers at the Siding Spring Observatory on the edge of the Warrumbungle National Park near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, AU, is due to swing past Mars this afternoon 2:28 pm local time. Spacecraft in orbit around Mars could possibly be impacted (literally) by the passage of the coma which contains dust particles that could damage components. NASA operators have taken steps like fine-tuning spacecraft orbits to take them out of the danger path. The nucleus is not going to hit Mars as it will pass 132 000 km from the planet, but the dusty coma may extend much farther that that and pose some risk to orbiting spacecraft.
Oct 21 Tue (NM-2) Orionid meteors peak at 20/h during daylight (noon Oct 21), but this is a shower worth viewing since the Moon is only 5% illuminated (last crescent) and rises in the early morning hours. Observing the night before on Oct 20 and the evening after Oct 21 is recommended.
Oct 23 Thu (NM) ☻ Partial Solar Eclipse The second solar eclipse of 2014 is very reminiscent of the May 20, 2014 event and occurs at the same time of day with the Sun setting locally when the eclipse is only half through. Similarly, we shall be viewing from our favourite location in Sauble Beach (6th St N Washrooms/pavillion) as for the Oct 8 Lunar eclipse. First contact occurs at 5:36 pm DST, and the eclipse progresses as the Sun drops towards the horizon. The Sun sets at 6:26 pm DST. Mid-eclipse is about 13 minutes later but the Sun is below our horizon. Solar viewing glasses will be available for a nominal fee. The regular NM viewing at ES Fox follows after dark.
NOTE: Looking at the Sun without proper eye protection is dangerous and will cause eye damage. ALWAYS use approved solar viewing glasses that are approved for safe solar viewing. On Oct 23, BAS will have solar eclipse viewing glasses available at the viewing site for a nominal fee. More information on safe solar viewing and sources of eclipse glasses can be found here: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/safety.html
Nov 5 Wed BAS meeting Grey Roots Museum 7 pm Member's Night and Gadget Night. Bring a favourite gadget, observing tip, book or other item to share. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com to register a time slot for your item.
Nov 6 Thu (FM) Night of the Full Moon "Frosty Moon"
Nov 12 Wed Rosetta dispatches lander Philae to touch down on the surface of Comet 67/P C-G. This is the first time a scientific package has touched the surface of these enigmatic visitors from the outer solar system. Philae will anchor itself to the icy surface and drill into the surface, measure surface chemical makeup and do a host of other measurements from close up. These will be especially interesting as the comet warms up, becomes active and starts to develop a tail. Rosetta the mothership will be in orbit all along relaying data to Earth. Exciting times in comet research! More info on the ESA site here: http://rosetta.esa.int/
Nov 17 Mon (NM-4) Leonid meteors This is an off-year for Leonids which have an outburst every 33 years or so. The rate of 20/h at the peak time of 7 pm is a far cry from the 1000's /h of 2000 and 2001. The next major storm is not due until 2032 or so. The Moon is a last quarter and only 20% illuminated and waning, so if it is clear, it might be worthwhile going out to watch. Observing may happen at the Fox Observatory. Watch your email for notifications.
Nov 20 Thu (NM-2) Asteroid Juno (magnitude 9.1) occults 7.4 mag star SAO 117176. Drop in brightness of star will be 2.3 magnitudes, a substantial change. The ground track passes basically along the north shore of Lake Huron and the closest place to observe would be just north of Huntsville. This event is noted here mainly because of the bright star being occulted (easy to find) and the noticeable magnitude drop when Juno passes in front of the star. The distance is also not too far. Most of the other dozen or more such asteroid occultation events that happen every month are too faint or too far from our location.
Nov 22 Sat (NM) BAS viewing @Fox@dark. Members and Guest welcome! This is the regular NM viewing night at the Fox, with Mars and the two gas giants, Uranus and Neptune on the target list. Orion comes up before midnight and so does Jupiter. Best of all there are no bugs!
Dec 3 Wed BAS meeting Grey Roots Museum 7 pm. Topic: 2014 in images/Xmas meeting -a recap of 2014 happenings in pictures. This is our last meeting of the year until we meet again on March 4 at the Grey Roots Museum.
Dec 6 Sat (FM) Night of the Full Moon "Moon before Yule"
Dec 9 Tue (FM+3) Double Shadow Transit on Jupiter from 11:18 am to 11:27 am EST. This is just barely a double shadow transit and lasts only 9 minutes at best with both shadows near the limb. Possible but practically a challenging observation. Good luck!
Dec 13/14 Sat/Sun (LQ) Observing from ES Fox where we expect 120 shooting stars/h at the peak time of 7 am Sun. The Moon is in LQ phase and rises at midnight Dec 13, but the skies will be dark before then. If it wasn't so cold this time of year, this shower would be better observed. Members should watch your email for notifications about weather cancellations (if any) as the date approaches. Be prepared for a cold night if you decide to stick it and watch for several hours. If you do, the shower members in the past have been on the yellowish side and there are more than the normal number of slow fireballs.
Dec 20 Sat (NM-1) Winter Solstice 6:03 pm EST. BAS viewing @Fox@dark. Members and Guest welcome! This is the last in 2014 officially scheduled for BAS viewing and if you didn't get your fill of the winter Milky Way earlier in December or last month, here is another chance. Once again, come prepared for a cold night. It is after all winter in Canada!
Dec 21 Sun (NM) Last New Moon of the year 2014! See you all in the spring of 2015!

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APPENDIX B The Taxpayer as Customer Mary Batcher, Statistics of Income Division Paulette Sewell, Taxpayer Service Division Internal Revenue Service Many federal agencies have turned to total quality management as a means to improve the quality of their products and services and to make better use of their resources. The identification of customers and develop- ment of service standards for customer interactions are key components of total quality management. Unfortunately, the notion of having accountabil- ity to customers is somewhat novel in government. Funding is appropriated for agency activities as part of the overall governmental budget process, and there is little direct link to the customers each agency serves. Hence, with rare exceptions, there has historically been very little market pressure to build a customer focus into governmental operations. However, as agencies come under tighter fiscal constraints and closer scrutiny by Congress and the media, there is increasing interest in the quality movement (with its potential productivity gains) and, as a corollary, increased attention to the identification of customers and their needs. The question of how to develop a sense of the taxpayer as customer should be preceded by some assessment of who the customers are. A1- though in some sense taxpayers are the customers of all federal agencies, in reality the number of agencies that provide a direct service to taxpayers is probably limited. Some exploration of who the primary and secondary customers are would certainly be beneficial. The needs of the primary customers must be met, and taxpayers may enter the loop only indirectly through one of the primary customers, such as Congress. While the public is always there as a consideration, in some cases a primary focus on taxpay- ers may not improve service at all. 194
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APPENDIX B 195 For those cases in which the taxpayer is a direct customer, the experi- ence of the Taxpayer Service Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may be of interest. Within the IRS, the Taxpayer Service Division was created with the sole purpose of providing customer service to the taxpayer. It is the unit of the IRS that is responsible for answering taxpayers' ques- tions about filing their income tax returns and their account and payment status, providing assistance in filling out tax returns, distributing tax forms, operating outreach programs to the taxpayer, and so on. For most taxpay- ers, Taxpayer Service is the point of first contact with the IRS. The organization of taxpayer services into a separate division contributes to building a sense of the taxpayer as customer into the culture. The message that customer service merits its own separate structure is not lost on employ- ees of the Taxpayer Service Division. This message is first imparted during the personnel selection process, and it is reinforced through training, the performance review system, and the reward and recognition system. Employees who will have contact with customers are selected with customer interaction skills in mind. Not everyone is able to perform well in a customer-service role and selection factors reflect that. The training that customer assistance staff receive includes a heavy emphasis on the impor- tance of the taxpayer as the customer and customer-contact standards and skills, in addition to basic training in tax law, as needed. Customer-contact standards are considered a critical element in effective job performance, and employees are monitored against the standards by managers as part of per- formance assessments and by quality reviewers to identify areas where ad- ditional training or job aids may be needed. If training and managerial intervention fail, employees who cannot provide courteous and effective service are removed from customer-contact positions. By contrast, employ- ees who provide exceptional customer service are recognized in a variety of ways, ranging from cash awards to small items of recognition, like certifi- cates for correctly responding to a test question. The above are areas of strength for the Taxpayer Service Division that might well be emulated in other environments. Additional steps can be taken, as well, to strengthen the sense of customer focus and the quality of customer service. They include the following: . Develop a market segmentation approach whereby the various cus- tomers, internal and external, are identified, their needs are assessed, and strategies for addressing those needs are developed. . Create a career path for customer-contact staff. In most governmen- tal applications, customer-contact personnel are relatively low graded and must move into other areas to advance. � Involve customer-contact personnel in the development and commu- nication of standards for customer contacts. These standards should be
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96 QUALITY IN STUDENT FINANCIAL AID PROGRAMS continuously revised as the quality of service increases. Customer-contact staff should play a role in the revision of standards and should be as aware of the importance of the standards to the agency as are the top executives. All of the above are factors that contribute to the development of a culture that values the taxpayer as a customer. The related question we were asked to address in this paper is: How can an awareness of the taxpayer as customer be managed statistically? Before anything can be managed statistically, it must be managed operationally. This means that customer-contact standards must be developed and commu- nicated to the employees, and managers must do their job of observing behaviors and coaching. Given effective operational management practices, statistical manage- ment becomes a matter of measuring the system's performance. However, there are measurements that are designed to provide feedback at the work- unit level and measurements for the broader resource allocation and policy levels. At the work-unit level, measurement should be frequent, timely, specific, and detailed, and perhaps, it should only address key areas. Esti- mation procedures should be simple enough that staff in the work unit or local support staff can perform the calculations. There should be enough flexibility in the measurement system to allow the emphasis to change quickly based on operational needs or information from other indicators. To be most useful at the policy level, measurement should be frequent enough to assess trends and should sample across the universe, rather than addressing only key areas. Measurement at this level requires more strin- gent confidence and precision in the estimates. There is also greater toler- ance for statistical elegance in the estimation procedures. The test-call program for measuring the accuracy of the IRS telephone assistance service is an example of a measurement system designed to meet upper management's need for data to inform resource allocation and large- scale system management. Data are generated weekly at a level of detail adequate to provide overall accuracy rates by call site and by area of tax law nationally. Results are available to IRS executives by Wednesday morning for the immediately preceding week. This allows monitoring of overall accuracy and an assessment of call-site accuracy trends, but it does not provide the kind of detailed information that is useful in local management practices and deci- sions or that can be used to address a downward trend. That kind of detail is provided by local test-call and call-monitoring programs. Local call-site man- agers are held accountable for achieving a specified accuracy rate. They, therefore, support these local measurement efforts and use the results to guide improvement efforts. The merit of improvement efforts is determined by the national accuracy rates. Taken together, this combination of measurements, one at the national level and the other locally controlled, has proven to be an effective statistical management tool for the telephone assistance service.


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Spam Trends Worth NotingWritten by Jeff on September 20, 2012
Trends can tell us a great deal about what is going on in any particular industry.
Spam is no different. If we understand the trends that the bad guys are following, or creating, then we can better learn how to fight against junk email messages that are not only irritating, but also dangerous.
Below, some of the trends we have been seeing as of late have been broken in to different categories: spam levels, spam topics and phishing.
Spam levels
Before we begin talking about trends in spam levels it is important to note that these numbers are obtained by recording the number of emails that a spam filter identifies as spam. False negatives are not counted in these results and some numbers reflect false positives in their results.
In 2002 spam accounted for nine percent of all email messages. After that, spam levels spiked dramatically; growing to 40 percent in 2003 and then 72.3 percent in 2004. Spam levels fell for the first time in 2005 when they accounted for 68.6 percent of all email messages. This decline was short lived, however, as 2006 saw spam levels rise to 86.2 percent. The years 2007, 2008, and 2009 saw levels fluctuate from 84. 6 percent to 81.2 percent and then back up to 87.7 percent before climbing to an all time high of 89.1 percent in 2010.
After reaching that high, spam levels began a sudden decline falling to 75.1 percent in 2011 and 68 percent in 2012.
What we can take away from this is that while spammers have been hit hard by recent spam fighting technologies, they are still a rather dangerous threat. The numbers have not fallen to an acceptable rate; in fact 68 percent is still rather high when you think about it. In short, efforts to keep spam at bay still need due diligence by businesses of all sizes.
Spam topics
One of the more interesting trends to follow is the topics that spammers use when sending out their email campaigns.
Whenever there is a major world event, like the World Cup or the Olympics, you can be assured that the cyber criminals will take advantage of worldwide interest and use these as their subjects. Outside of these internationally appealing topics, there are some others that tend to be used more than others.
Originally, scams were a popular topic for spammers. The 419, or Nigerian Prince, scam was popular as were emails promising millions in the European lottery.
The topics have changed though. More spammers are trying to appeal to what people want, not their inner most greed. As a result, the most popular topics used by spammers are:
- Adult/dating – 41.3 percent
- Pharmaceutical – 29.3 percent
- Jewelry – 8.7 percent
- Diplomas/degrees – 4.8 percent
- Weight loss – 4.3 percent
Ironically, in these tough economic times the theme of jobs or work only captured 1.4 percent.
As more people develop online relationships through social media, their comfort level in finding a date online has also drastically increased. Spammers know this and use this to their advantage.
People are also more savvy about shopping online so high priced items like pharmaceuticals and jewelry are also common targets for spammers looking to hook their prey with money saving deals.
While the levels of phishing emails never quite reached the levels of spam, they are even more dangerous as they can lead to serious financial losses and damage to a company's reputation.
In 2004, phishing was only at .1 percent. It rose gradually over the next two years to .3 percent and .36 percent in 2005 and 2006 before reaching the all time high of .62 percent in 2004. Yet like spam, the numbers sharply fell over the next few years dropping to .41 percent in 2008 and .31 in 2009 and finally .23 in 2010. The year 2011 saw a rise back to .33 percent and 2012 dropped to .27 percent.
However, while these numbers look insignificant is should be noted that the .1 percent in 2004 equaled 18 million phishing emails. This downward trend also shows that cyber criminals have taken more to spear phishing, or attacking high value targets as opposed to an attack that casts a wide net.
We can also safely assume that the lower percentages of phishing emails means that their attacks are successful enough to keep the bad guys in business.
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I'll be very honest. It's not easy these days to differ spam from an actual e-mail. After all, not all spam gets filtered, and there are times when real e-mail ends up in the Junk Mail folder. But usually I base it on the name of the sender then the title. Does it sound like over the top? Normally spam mails do, perhaps to get you so excited to open the mail. Does it offer me huge amounts of money that I know I couldn't get without significant hard work? If I get to open spam, I make sure I report it (I'm using Gmail, by the way), so hopefully it gets filtered the next time.
I used to be very naïve when it comes to spam, especially when it concerns about jobs. You know, they sound so real! It took me a while before I figured out what a huge damage it could cause. Fortunately it never reached to a point that a malware was installed in my PC or someone hacked into my account. I just received more of them as time went on I had no choice but to leave that user account. I hope with blogs such as this, people will be more educated on how to deal with spam and phishing.
I bet news and celebrities as a whole are also a huge topic for spammers. Is there any statistics how much they amount to? I believe they outnumber weight loss but this is only a guess of mine.
This is such a nice list, definitely worthy to share to friends and family! I've been often asked by others what spam is or how it works. This will hopefully answer their questions, and they'll be a lot wiser on how to deal with them. But I definitely wish spam will be no more. It's just so annoying! They sometimes make up more than 50 percent of my email, and there are times when I was close to responding to one of them because they sound so legit! These people are really getting smarter, and it scares me to hell.
Very true Clarisse. That is why it is so important to have a solution in place that can help stop spam before it arrives in the user's inbox.
These are huge topics, you are right. I have written some articles about how big news items are often manipulated by spammers.
I can distinctly remember Olympics spam. I was hoping to get more news about how to obtain tickets for some of the games, and then I encountered an e-mail that mentioned it! I really thought that was it. Fortunately, I felt something was fishy since when I hovered over the link it doesn't lead me to a secure page. So I really think it was spam and deleted it immediately. I also reported it to Gmail (since I'm using Gmail at that time). I'm hoping it helped and that such types of e-mails were not received by others, especially those who were gullible.


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How long can frozen soups & casseroles be considered still edible?
- L nrs Oct 18, 2006 03:33 PM
I am pregnant (due in two months), made lentil soup a couple of days ago and froze the extra. I've never frozen meals before (always eaten extras as leftovers within a few days). I'm not sure if I start freezing extra portions of meals now, that they will still be edible in 2 1/2 months or so when I really need to just do something easy but want a home cooked meal.
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I think you'd be fine. As a student, I cook a LOT all at once and then freeze the rest. I have stuff frozen from ages ago and whenever I want it, I just heat it up in the microwave and am good to go. Don't have kids though, so someone else may shed some light in that area. Good luck with your new baby!
My experience with freezing has been more to do with taste... if something hasn't been solidly frozen the whole time it can get those little frosty crystals on the surface and the taste suffers.
There is also "freezer burn" which tastes horrible. But that takes months and months to happen if it does.
I think 2 1/2 mos. is fine. But always check for freezer burn - Open the container and look at the food while it is still frozen. When the top surface of the food inside the container has edges or small patches that appear stark, dull white, that is freezer burn caused by oxidation. Discard it. Or if when defrosted the food tastes stale - discard it.
If you've properly packaged your leftovers in airtight containers (ziplocs, tightly sealed plastic tubs, whatever), your lentil soup will keep for a long, long time...six months is reasonable for lentil soup. Freezing will change the texture of some foods, but beans of all stripe take kindly to freezing. Certain more delicate meats, esp small bits of chicken, cooked noodles, carrots, and potatoes all suffer when frozen, IMHO. I get around this by making a huge pot of beef stew with few carrots & potatoes--eat the carrots & potatoes & such on the first go-round--then freeze the meat & juices as a kind of "base" for the next incarnation of soup.
There's no way to answer that question unless you buy a thermometer and check the temperature.
By the book, you shouldn't be using a refrigerator's frozen food storage compartment for home freezing.
re: Robert Lauriston
I actually laughed out LOUD at this one! Literally millions of Americans use the "frozen food storage compartment" AKA the freezer to freeze leftovers...just think of all the working parents whose kids would have starved without the benefit of home-cooked frozen foods! If you visited every house in my suburban neighborhood, you would find freezers crammed with homemade frozen foods, ranging from deer sausage to peeled shrimp to redfish & speckled trout to gumbo, red beans, blanched tomatoes....the list is endless, the quality is damn good, and food borne illness aren't felling huge segments of the population.
In light of the industrial food supply's serious food safety issues, I'll put my trust in home-frozen any day.
re: Hungry Celeste
It's true that few people go by the book at home.
However, the tests I URL'd above found "freezers" as warm as 40 degrees. Until you check the temperature of your storage compartment or chest freezer with a thermometer, you don't know if it's safe.
re: Robert Lauriston
I think if your freezer was 40 degrees, you'd see that your food was, well, not hard.
When my fridge was having some trouble, I noticed it in two places. The milk was not as cold as I like (somehow it really shows up there) and the juice ice pops for the kids weren't frozen (cause of the sugar content). But the freezer was still well below 32 degrees (I think around 10 or 15, once I bought a thermometer to verify my sense). So what I'm saying is that I think someone would notice if their freezer was 40 degrees (which is a correct fridge temp).
re: DGresh
Probably so, but the recommended temperature for frozen food storage is zero degrees or lower. At 33 degrees food feels frozen but bacteria can grow.
Personally I'm very casual about food safety, but I'm not seven months pregnant.
I agree with the other posters, a couple of months should be fine. The only caution is to try to keep as much air as possible out of the container before you freeze it (allow a little headspace for expansion). This minimizes problems with freezer burn.
Since you say you just started freezing you should also know that liquids expand when frozen. If you fill your container right up to the top it will overflow and mess up you freezer. So leave about an inch at the top when you fill your container.
Good call. And use plastic. I embarassingly broke numerous glass jars trying to freeze the first chicken stock I ever made...
If you are going to become a serious freezer (ha ha) you should invest in a Food Saver or other device that sucks out excess air and lets you vacuum pack to go from freezer to boiling bag as well. Having a busy house, I freeze my spaghetti sauce in individual homemade bags. Then the kids can always have a meal by boiling some noodles and the freezer bag or nuking it in microwave. You may want refrigerate sauce first so it isn't too wet to seal. I have found bags from months ago and they were fine.
When you freeze in plastic containers place a plastic wrap before closing the lid it keeps it airtight.


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Amateur Russian Fashion Model Photography
Even if you are not a rich and famous professional photographer it is possible to travel internationally, find and photograph models you find inspiring.
A smaller budget actually will inevitably cut down on gear and eliminate lots of inconveniences.
These are not only unforgettable experiences and adventures but they can also improve the photographer's improvisational, compositional and all around creative skills.
Beautiful Young Russian Model Portrait
At first look foreign countries can offer cultural and language barriers, lack of contacts and networking opportunities, lack of familiarity with locations, models, make-up artists.
It is easy to get intimidated but it is not all that difficult with some planning ahead and by having an easy going attitude. (More tips at the end of this post.)
The first photo is a portrait of a Russian teen fashion model who I choose to photograph when I visited on1 Model Management in Berlin, Germany.
The beautiful soft lighting is courtesy of a courtyard of an old fashioned Berlin apartment building. I love the eye contact! Not all amateur models can be this confident and be themselves in front of the camera.
After choosing the destinations, the first step of planning an international fashion photography trip is to scout for models. This can be done by contacting local modeling agencies via email and asking if they need model portfolio photoshoots for their new faces. The answer is usually yes as there is nothing to loose for all parties involved because there is no payment for these sessions.
Another way is to directly contact models and make-up artists via ModelMayhem, Jurgita or other model portal websites. It helps if you have a decent online portfolio to convey the quality of work the model can expect from you.
Being referred by an agency is slightly better but direct contact is not unusual at all. The model may bring a companion with her for safety and it is usually understood that this chaperon "stays out of the picture" and offers no interruption during the photoshoot.
Beautiful Russian Fashion Model In Berlin
At the start of each photoshoot I prefer to step back and shoot from a distance to establish chemistry without immediately introducing intimidating concepts or close-ups.
This photoshoot with the young Russian model started at the fantastic Tiergarten area of Berlin with simple full body shots to get warmed up. This is the time to gauge the model's best angles and personality.
As always with these types of on the road photoshoots the model provides the wardrobe. Models are also knowledgeable about locations (which you can double check with Google or Flickr image search).
The improvisational adventure starts with matching never seen wardrobes and models with never seen locations on the spot. These kinds of challenges ensure every shooting day is fun, exciting and unique, full of unexpected details resulting in a very diverse body of photographs.
Beautiful Model In White Dress With Swans
On this photo I like how the white dress is in harmony with the white (and not so white) swans of the Tiergarten lake. This is still during the beginning few minutes of the photoshoot also not every model can block out if there are people around. As we lost the spectators and progressed with the photoshoot you will see how moods and comfort levels can change.
Beautiful Portrait Of Blonde Russian Girl
Still around the lake we found some privacy under some trees. There was no place to change but the white dress still nicely complimented the surroundings. Not having assistants means there was no reflector but I never mind the some natural shadows, they make portraits more real and often a bit sinister or evil. Much can be fixed and improved in Photoshop but I prefer keeping some degree of realism.
Fashion Model Posing In Pink Mini Dress
Adjacent to Tiergarten we found an office building with some interesting geometry. With no onlookers around us anymore we could have more fun with poses and compositions. The cute mini dress was chosen so its color would really pop against the gray walls of the building. We took many versions of different poses here, the model had a great personality!
Usually I do not give too many instructions to models about posing, I may describe the general feel or story of the photos but I prefer the model to be inspired by the make-up, wardrobe, location so in turn I can get my inspiration from the model.
It is a kind of non-forceful, always evolving, effortless creative process. The cute pose and the eye catching pink mini dress was a good combination here as well.
This is a fun collage … the Russian quintuplets! It shows how confident, intelligent models can change poses, hold them and move on to the next one giving the photographer only one problem: choosing a favorite image from too many successful shots.
There are countless versions to shoot one concept, when something looks promising I try to capture it from every imaginable angle.
In life the first thought is often the best one but in the case of taking pictures time and time again a series of photos usually keep improving. During the editing process I often choose the last version thanking myself that I kept on experimenting.
Teen Fashion Model Wearing Rainbow Mini Dress
The rainbow colored mini dress was the obvious choice to wear against the almost colorless walls.
In the courtyard of the apartment building where I stayed we found excellent soft light and perfect studio quality backgrounds in the form of old weathered walls.
Outdoor locations offer not only endless backgrounds but often exciting unforeseen props.
The small table in the courtyard gave us a chance to break up the rigid structure of photos against the walls and give the second part of the photoshoot a more high fashion editorial feel.


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It's time again for the 27th annual fireworks spectacular at the Pomona Fairplex. Start the night off with Monster Trucks and Big Air Freestyle Motocross extreme, but don't drink too much beer becaus at 9:20 p.m., one of the largest fireworks displays in the area will light up the night sky.
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Formerly one half of Kitsune Records' electro-rock duo Guns N Bombs (along with Ima Robot's Filip Turbotito), Johnny Love is now exploring his dark side solo. As Deathface, he's won fans in glitch-destroyer Alex Empire and Diplo's Mad Decentand in Trouble & Bass, who are releasing his new EP, The Horror. With Trouble & Bass's Drop the Lime, AC Slater, Star Eyes, and the Captain.
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Global Outlook
In The Age Of The Internet Media, Opinions About The Future Change As Quickly As Share Prices
A delightful cartoon that, judging from the "rabbit ears" aerial, was published many years ago in what I believe was the New Yorker Magazine, depicted a gentlemen watching the evening news on TV.
The caption suggests that nothing much has changed in the way that the media has to create an explanation for every "up-tick" and "down-tick" in the market:
"On Wall Street today news of lower interest rates sent the stock market up, but then the expectation that these rates would be inflationary sent the stock market down, until the realisation that lower rates would stimulate the sluggish economy, which pushed the market up before it ultimately went down on fears that an overheated economy would lead to the re-imposition of higher rates"
Is it any wonder that people are confused when the media does not know where they are, let alone where they are going, from one minute to the next ?
Before the market opening today, Bloomberg had an article on the weakness of the DJII futures, which were off 20 points. The reporter quoted a number of individuals who were negative on the markets, including one Heinz-Gerd Sonenschein from Germany who, despite the sunny disposition of his last name, was ready to take profits as P/E multiples on future earnings were too high.
By 11.15 am, the Bloomberg headline had changed to "U.S. Stocks Rise to Records on Housing, Confidence Data", and Heinz-Gerd Sonnenschein's comments had been removed.
However, my comments on the original article remain. Interesting how the media has so much sway over world opinion and, yet, it blows to and fro with the wind. The more things change the more they are the same.
My comment on Bloomberg follows:
Tony HAYES • 2 hours ago
The DJII is priced at significant discount to its dividend-discount value of 25,300 based on trailing dividends and at greater discount to its value of 31,800 based on the FED's model and trailing earnings.
The comments of Heinz-Gerd Sonnenschein, suggest that he has missed the last 10,000 points on the DJII and is likely to miss the next 10,000 points as well. The reason being is that he does not know where he is and, so, cannot possibly know where he is going.
As far as the FED is concerned, tapering or even contraction of the monetary base should continue to have little or no impact on the amount of the monetary base that is actually at work.
Of the total U.S. monetary base of just under $4 trillion only $1.35 trillion is at work. The balance is held at the FED by the commercial banks as excess reserves. In short, there is too much money and too little demand for it. Simultaneously, the demand for new and old debt instruments exceeds new supply. Hence, the price of debt is falling, i.e. interest rates. This could well continue for a number of years.
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With their first pick in the D-League draft -- the 13th pick in the second round -- the Mad Ants took Alfred Aboya, who had played at UCLA.
He is a 6-foot-9 forward.
He has a lot of international experience, having played with the Shiga Lakestars in Japan last season.
He has also played in France, Turkey, and Venezuela.
Born in Cameroon, he is 28 and played at UCLA from 2005 to 2009.
"He's a little bit older," said Ryan Blake, a draft analyst for NBA teams. "He's a big man who is versatile. Fort Wayne is one of my favorite teams and he's a guy with a lot of international experience. He played in Japan last year. He does a lot of the little things. He's 6-9, 240 pounds. Fort Wayne gets a good player with a lot of experience."


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Thursday, July 10th, 2014
Last month a friend posted a link to the Kickstarter page for Out of My Hand, a feature film shot primarily in Liberia. The plot follows a rubber tapper named Cisco who, after taking part in a heated labor dispute that goes nowhere, attempts to move to New York city where he becomes a cab driver.
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The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has discovered high-tech vessels with "EU numbers, indicating that they were licensed to import to Europe having theoretically passed strict hygiene standards" were not only operating without licenses in exclusion...


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