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Tomatoes of WrathPosted on Sep 26, 2011
By Chris Hedges It is 6 a.m. in the parking lot outside the La Fiesta supermarket in Immokalee, Fla. Rodrigo Ortiz, a 26-year-old farmworker, waits forlornly in the half light for work in the tomato fields. White-painted school buses with logos such as "P. Cardenas Harvesting" are slowly filling with fieldworkers. Knots of men and a few women, speaking softly in Spanish and Creole, are clustered on the asphalt or seated at a few picnic tables waiting for crew leaders to herd them onto the buses, some of which will travel two hours to fields. Roosters are crowing as the first light of dawn rises over the cacophony. Men shovel ice into 10-gallon plastic containers from an ice maker next to the supermarket, which opens at 3:30 a.m. to sell tacos and other food to the workers. The containers—which they lug to pickup trucks—provide water for the pickers in the sweltering, humid fields where temperatures soar to 90 degrees and above. Ortiz, a short man in a tattered baseball cap and soiled black pants that are too long and spill over the tops of his worn canvas sneakers, is not fortunate this day. By 7 a.m. the last buses leave without him. He heads back to the overcrowded trailer he shares with several other men. There are always workers left behind at these predawn pickup sites where hundreds congregate in the hopes of getting work. Nearly 90 percent of the workers are young, single immigrant men, and at least half lack proper documents or authorization to work in the United States. Harvesting tomatoes is an endeavor that comes with erratic and unpredictable hours, weeks with overtime and weeks with little to do and no guarantees about wages. Once it starts to rain, workers are packed back onto the buses and sent home, their workday abruptly at an end. Ortiz and the other laborers congregate at the pickup points every morning never sure if there will be work. And when they do find daywork they are paid only for what they pick. "I only had three days of work this week," Ortiz says mournfully. "I don't know how I will pay my rent." Ortiz, who along with many others among these migrant workers sends about $100 home to Mexico every month to support elderly parents, works under conditions in these fields that replicate medieval serfdom and at times descend into outright slavery. He lives far below the poverty line. He has no job security, no workers' compensation, no disability insurance, no paid time off, no access to medical care, Social Security, Medicaid or food stamps and no protection from the abusive conditions in the fields. The agricultural industry has a death rate nearly six times higher than most other industries, and the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that of the 2 million farmworkers in the United States 300,000 suffer pesticide poisoning every year. Advertisement Square, Site wide "We are standing on the threshold of achieving significant change in the agricultural industry," Marc Rodrigues, with the Student/Farmworker Alliance, tells me later in the day at the CIW office in Immokalee. "But if the supermarkets do not participate and support it then it will not go any further. Their lack of participation threatens to undermine what the workers and their allies have accomplished. They represent a tremendous amount of tomato purchasing. They wield a lot of influence over conditions in the field. For those growers not enamored of the concept of workers attaining rights and being treated with dignity, they will know that there is always a market for their tomatoes with no questions asked, where nothing is governed by a code of conduct or transparency. If we succeed, this will help lift farmworkers, who do one of the most important, dangerous and undervalued jobs in our society, out of grinding poverty into one where they can have a slightly more decent and normal life and provide for their families." The next major mobilization in the campaign will take place at noon Oct. 21 outside Trader Joe's corporate headquarters in Monrovia, Calif. This will follow a week of local actions to target supermarkets across the country. To thwart the campaign, the public relations departments of Trader Joe's, Publix and other supermarkets are churning out lies and half truths, as well as engaging in unsettling acts of intimidation and surveillance. Publix sent out an employee posing as a documentary filmmaker to record the activities of the organizers.
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By Irene @ SmilingGardener, October 26, 2011 at 5:24 am Link to this comment After reading this blog I appreciated my tomatoes more.
By Anne Mendelson, September 28, 2011 at 5:32 am Link to this comment Very telling reporting. But I wish Hedges had steered people to Barry Estabrook's book "Tomatoland," which did so much to bring this national disgrace to public attention. Everyone should read it!
By mebad, September 27, 2011 at 8:41 pm Link to this comment The conditions of many workers in the U.S. is sub-human. Look at the history of sweatshops in eras before better work conditions came along. That is the direction the nation goes today. Back to feudal state. The root of this problem today is due to the breaking down of sovereign borders, because of "universalism", "diversity", "globalism", and NAFTA. The amazing fact about "Diversity" is, that when you mandate this through laws, you actually start destroying diversity itself. Blending people and cultures kills the separate cultures, causes stress among people and nations, and creates a weird form of uniformity. All those in favor of breaking down borders, are supporting the very unjustness that this tomato worker is going through. I support all people by respecting the differences in people. When you want diversity, you get uniformity, which is a form of disrespecting another persons culture and heritage. As much as the Left thinks they are doing good, they are actually causing more harm than some of those whacko rightists they abhor.
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By George Weber, September 27, 2011 at 8:26 am Link to this comment We should do what we can to get these supermarkets
By m_bonfire, September 27, 2011 at 2:48 am Link to this comment Hey SoTexGuy, christian96, I have another Daytona Beach driving anecdote. I'm not from there but was visiting a few years back. Going south on I95, if you are in the far right hand lane, you will be shunted onto I4 going to Tampa. The signs were so poorly lit and ambiguous that if you are from out of town you have to quickly move to the left to avoid that exit. I finally saw that I needed to move over one lane to the left; however, to my left was some person in a pickup truck, and when I slowed down in order to move in behind him/her, he/she slowed down to. I sped up to get around him, but he then increased his speed to compensate for mine. So I get forced onto I4, and the next off ramp to turn around is 20 or 30 miles down I4. You cannot even begin to imagine how pissed off I was. I guess Florida is full of very evil drivers. Can't imagine what I would've done if confronted by the bimbo that SoTexGuy mentions. I probably would've lunged out of my car and attacked. Visions of crushing windpipe and jugular. That place sucks. I don't enjoy Christmas day when it's 86 degrees F out.
By Gringo, September 27, 2011 at 1:51 am Link to this comment There is just no end to the lies liberals spew.Everyone of the illegal aliens draw foodstamps,welfare,section 8 housing and each and everyone of them are entitled to free medical care courtesey of the U.S. taxpayer.They are criminal parasites not undocumented workers.If all the bleeding hearts are so worried about third world invaders then I suggest you renounce your U.S. citizenship and move to Mexico and see if you can't help them improve their country.
By chuckwagoncharlie, September 26, 2011 at 6:06 pm Link to this comment I am not familiar with the tomato farmers but did visit a cantalope farm 10 years ago where Mexican migrant workers were employed during harvest. Harvest was for a short period and the workers were paid $6 to $7 an hour. Compared to $5 a day in Mexico the workers were being compensated fairly since their efforts were not full time labor. No SS,Medicare,Medicaid or taxes were taken out of their wages so I was told.
By John Henry, September 26, 2011 at 1:17 pm Link to this comment Thank you Mr Chris Hedges for reporting on the sad situation in Florida. Also for the
By Sylvia Barksdale, September 26, 2011 at 12:09 pm Link to this comment My dad was an itenerate farmer in South Georgia. He was once put in charge of fields owned by a cousin of his. The crops consisted of cotton, corn and vegetables that his cousin collected for his table. I have never known a meaner person than Sam Barksdale. My recollection sees a man who would ride into the fields on horseback. not hesitating to lash a black youth across the back two and three times if he considered his work not up to par. I still see the drops of blood on the red earth. I still see my dad running wildly towards his cousin after he heard a shotgun blast, stopping just short of Sam when he leveled his gun on him. The following day our meager belongings were pack onto a mule drawn wagon and my dad went in search again of the work he knew. There is no more valid cause than the one portrayed by Chris Hedges here. Farm work is one of the most grueling kinds of work. These workers everywhere deserve the compensation and respect that they deserve. They earn it. Their work lines the pockets of landowners and Supermarket owners. What few dollars they're paid for work most Americans consider themselves above doing is disgusting and illegal. I, too, grow my own tomatoes and other vegetables. I love working with the earth. It keeps the spirit of my dad alive.
By billofwrites, September 26, 2011 at 11:45 am Link to this comment gee, laceration… so sorry the suffering of others "bores" you. eat cake.
By Bill Canton, September 26, 2011 at 10:33 am Link to this comment Excuse me while I go out to my local Trader Joe's and get some Tomato's…..and let them over ripen so I can THROW them at the next CIW protester I see.
By Textynn, September 26, 2011 at 9:49 am Link to this comment God bless all your efforts. Everyone should live in decent life and be paid for their work. I'll write the stores around here. We don't have Trader joes but we have Walmart.
By Larry Silverstein, September 26, 2011 at 9:36 am Link to this comment I am sick & tired of people bitching. There are only so many of THEM & millions of US. All it If you want to be screwed ALL your life, DO NOTHING! If YOU want Fair Play, get rid of the PARASITES!
By Tammy, September 26, 2011 at 7:16 am Link to this comment The farms that employ these workers pay these
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While on the road for their Take Me Home tour, Louis Tomlinson had a mind-lapse when he forgot the lyrics midway through a cover of Wheatus' "Teenage Dirtbag" during a concert in Cardiff, Wales.
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The uptake of CSS and general Web standards has been pitifully slow, a fact that is almost entirely down to the poor support in the popular Web page editors. The relatively few designers, who do care about such things, usually have to resort to hand coding.
Hopefully, that's all about to change.
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 still has the same familiar interface but it has two very significant changes from the previous version.
Firstly, it now works in CSS by default. If you want to design using tables, you still can but you have to make a change in the preferences. If you try to find a way to use the old <font face> tag, you have to dig for it. At long last, CSS is right up front.
The previous Dreamweaver MX supported CSS-P to a degree but editing it wasn't always easy. Certainly on my Mac, selecting text was a hit and miss affair with the characters and selection rarely in sync. Macromedia were obviously aware of Dreamweaver's rendering problems and for the new version, have borrowed upon Opera's rendering engine to do some of the hard work and it's now several magnitudes better. The latest version of Opera comes with the program, although the Mac version (6.03) is still some way behind the Windows 7.2.
Other new features in MX 2004 include secure FTP transfer, Microsoft Word and Excel copy and paste and on-the-fly cross-browser compatibility checking. You can also do simple image editing like cropping and tonal adjustments without leaving the program. Those are useful additions but it's the CSS editing that I'll concentrate upon here because that's what I've been looking forward to for a very long time.
The first thing I did was to open some previously produced pages, including last month's editorial, and tricky ones from the FunWithFonts site. I expected the editorial page to look much the same as it does in Opera. It didn't. But then the current versions of Opera on Mac and Windows don't agree what it should look like either! Anyway, although not totally accurate, it was editable and all the divs highlighted with red outlines as I moused over them. Nice. The more challenging test pages from FunWithFonts.com also displayed well and were easy to edit.
So far, so good.
Next, I thought that I'd try to build a new CSS layout from scratch. In the Layout 'Insert' bar, there are buttons to add layers, divs and tables to the page. What more could you want?
The 'layers' are not really what the name suggests but resizable, absolutely positioned CSS boxes (divs) that can be drawn onto the page just by dragging the cursor where you want them. The term 'layers' is a throwback to Netscape 4.x, but should not be confused with layers in Flash or Photoshop, which are completely different concepts. Now, for some strange reason, Dreamweaver inserts the layers' style definitions in-line, into the body of the HTML, instead of into the style definitions in the head or an external CSS file where I'd want them. I can't figure the logic of this.
Clicking on the 'Insert div tag' puts some placeholder text on the page at the insertion point. Unlike 'layers', there is no way to drag divs that end up in the wrong place, as they often do. This is where Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG concept starts to fall down. Apart from a red border when moused over, there is no visual indication of how divs fit together and the only way to rearrange them is in the code editor. I would like to have seen a background tint or an X across the rectangle, like text and picture boxes have in a page layout program. Another irritation.
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After working with the CSS page building in Dreamweaver for a while, I became very perplexed. Surely, there must be a simpler and more intuitive way to do all this? There's far too much jumping around the interface required. Instead of providing one really inspired WYSIWYG way to do things, it seems to offer a multiplicity of mediocre alternatives, almost as if the programmers couldn't make their minds up and say, 'Hell, we'll put it all in'. That is a recipe for camels, not thoroughbred racehorses. Elegant, it's not – nor is it a racehorse.
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Our opinion: Congressional games over a spending bill and disaster relief put the serious business of government at risk — again. How wonderful it would be if we could mark down Sept. 21, 2011, as the day Congress came to its senses and realized the difference between posturing and governing. Alas, we can't. In rejecting […]
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Irene leaves a flood of issues
According to the way climate experts measure dramatic weather, you could say that some parts of New York have had enough floods to last them 300 years. Unfortunately, what was once extraordinary now threatens to become routine. It's all the more disturbing, then, to learn that a task force set up five years ago to […]
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Weather bills will continue to grow
As bills mount for damages inflicted by Hurricane Irene, Heidi Cullen warns that weather-related economic costs will only continue to rise. "Our weather is getting worse, and not saying it won't make it go away," Cullen says in The Daily Beast.
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Irene shows we can all work together
Media attention and government response to Hurricane Irene is instructive, says Arianna Huffington in The Huffington Post. Together, Americans came together to help one another, an effort that could be duplicated on the jobs front if we muster the vision and will, she says.
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From one storm to another
Our opinion: Hurricane Irene's devastation is a reminder of why we need governments, and why we have to think through potential cuts. It's human to see the world through the tiny prism of our own experience. If we're high and dry in a hurricane, why would anyone else be wet? If our lights don't go […]
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Irene: Hoo-whee or ho-hum?
Even before the lives lost have been fully tallied, even before the billions of dollars in damages have been added up, even before the waters that continue to keep the New York State Thruway and scores of other roads and bridges closed have receded, even before power have been fully restored for close to 900,000 […]
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No more snow jobs
Our opinion: Albany cracks down on property owners who fail to clear their sidewalks after snowstorms. A more walkable and navigable city. Imagine. Trust us. The summer weather won't hold, not the brutally hot days and not the idyllically seasonable ones, either. Six months from today, it will be snow removal on your mind, not avoiding […]
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Pulling apart in a time of crisis
Our opinion: House Republicans try to divert money from high speed rail to Midwest disaster aid, forcing an unnecessarily divisive choice between recovery and progress, It brings a tear to your eye, to see how Americans pull together in a crisis. How, amid devastating floods in the Midwest, Congress has put aside its bickering and […]
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Most Underrated College Basketball Teams 2012
List Criteria: Please rank the team's based on how they flew under the radar during the 2012 season
There are plenty of familiar names on this list including perennial national championship contenders and best NCAA Basketball teams of the last decade like the Georgetown Hoyas and Michigan State Spartans. Normally, these teams wouldn't be on a list about underrated teams but for one reason or another they are no longer considered the elite, though one could argue they still are.
Whether these teams are among the top 25 men's basketball rankings or not, each has done something during the 2011-12 NCAA Men's Basketball season that has silently impressed. They may have a standout player, like the Weber State Wildcats who have offensive leader Damian Lillard, or the Siena Saints where defensive leader O.D. Anosike calls home. Alternately, they may just have the right combination of players, coaches and the drive for them to pull a major upset once March Madness rolls around.
But to even make it into the NCAA Tournament, these schools will need some help. Winning their respective conference tournament would give them an automatic bid into the Big Dance but outside of that, many will undoubtably be left off of the March Madness brackets on Selection Sunday.
For the teams that do make it into the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, it's anyone's game. Getting in is the hard part, but continuing from the massive field through the Sweet Sixteen, the Elite Eight and the Final Four is the real test of any team, overrated or underrated. It's where dreams come true and one of these days an underrated team like one listed here will take it all. It may not be at the 2012 tourney, but it's coming.
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Chesapeake Energy Corp. will cuts its workforce in North Texas by 8 percent, about 70 employees, as the energy producer reacts to continued low natural gas prices and shifts to more liquids-rich drilling and production.
Following the cuts, Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake will employ about 700 in the North Texas area, down from a peak at one time of 1,200.
In a letter to employees, Chesapeake noted that the company currently has two drillings rigs in the Barnett Shale will have only one or two in the foreseeable future, compared with 44 rigs during the peak of activity in 2008.
According to the release, the positions being released are "in support departments such as public affairs, marketing communications, community relations, legal, land, land administration, administrative services and information technology. These are the departments most directly impacted by reduced leasing and drilling activity."
Chesapeake officials also said that current area employees of Chesapeake Midstream Partners, in the midst of being sold to Global Infrastructure Partners, will move with the new company to the D.R. Horton tower in downtown Fort Worth. There are about 160 midstream employees in the Barnett Shale and about 60 of those have offices in Chesapeake Plaza. That move will probably take place in the summer, according to the company.
Regarding the rumored sale of Chesapeake Plaza, the letter from Julie Wilson, vice president of urban development for Chesapeake, said "[while] we will certainly remain open-minded to any offer that may come in, we are more interested in leasing some of the space that will be vacated and have been actively looking for tenants."
Chesapeake Energy is one of the largest producers in the dry-gas Barnett Shale, but has begun to focus on more liquids-rich plays such as the Eagle Ford Shale as natural gas prices have remained low.


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These 2 pics represent it's growth from May 7-9
What it basically looked like on the 7th of May.
And on May 9th |
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- Posted by panamajack 10 (email@example.com) on Thu, May 12, 11 at 14:04
Impressive :) |
- Posted by statenislandpalm7a 7a (My Page) on Thu, May 12, 11 at 17:08
Wow its gonna get huge this year |
No doubt....these are really fun to watch grow- along with the Thai giant and Castor bean plants. I also added E.Glaucum and E.Ventricosum(-: |
- Posted by tropicalzone7 7 (My Page) on Thu, May 12, 11 at 20:50
Im going to show a pic of your eneste to my eneste and maybe it will give it a nice kick to start taking off and growing lol! At least mine is finally making leaves again. Considering I had to cut it down inside about 4 times, I would say its not doing too badly. But your Eneste is going to be a beauty. I say that by early July, its going to be a giant! Good luck! -Alex |
- Posted by mastiffhoo 7 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, May 12, 11 at 21:35
wow, that looks great! How did you over-winter? |
LOL -Alex 12' last year,should be huge this year if the storms don't get it. mastiffoo It was kept in the cool basement,with a few friends. |
Great job Jim |
Big a$$ trunk! At what temperature do you keep it in the basement. I will have to overwinter my Siam Ruby this year? |
- Posted by mastiffhoo 7 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Fri, May 13, 11 at 15:04
Jim, what can I say? Simply impressive! Now that I know it is that simple (assuming it is that simple), I will most certainly give it a try. What type of TLC was needed, if I may ask?? Thanks!!! |
TLC-0 Temps 45-65 Just put it down there and come back in April(-: Chad Siam ruby is a tough one to overwinter and I would bet Rowe red is a similar banana in this regard,the 3 stalks all |
- Posted by islandbreeze 6b MI (My Page) on Sat, May 14, 11 at 19:04
That's a big boy! And some crazy fast growth for only 2 days. I'm trying another one of these myself (possibly 2) after not doing so well with one a couple summers ago. Apparently it's possible to overwater these and give them root rot...I just thought it needed to be treated like a typical musa. Apparently not. Now that I know better, maybe I'll have better results. |
I believe I have an Abyssinian also purchased last year. Labeled only as Bananna Ensette. Mine is in ground and gained little size last year. Is there a trick to growing these verses Musa? Have had success with my bananas but not this one. |
No tricks but as Ryan mentioned,they don't need as much water as reg Bananas,although in the heat watering well is fine. Mine is planted to close to a Maple tree so it probably won't get over watered with that much competition. |
Thanks for the feedback but one more question if you do not mind.Are they slow growers or do they grow at the same rate as bananas? I have Black Thai,Basjoo,Ice Cream, and a newly aquired mail order Saba pup which is already jumping into high gear and spitting out new leaves and height. All my bananas have done very well the first and second year but this one seems to be stunted unless they slow growers.Cannot find a whole lot of info on the web and trying to determine what I should expect as far as growth rate. |
Well......... Let's just say,they have their own style-for instance.... They also grow massive trunks,probably as much(or more)than Here is the history of the one I have. June 6 2009 First years growth-Aug 30, 2009 In front of a west window Feb 2, 2010 June 6,2010 July 7,2010-Thai giant in front of it. Oct 8,2010-just about ready to dig it up. Stored away,same day. May 9,2011 Yesterday(May 17th) |
Thanks Jim !! |
I tried to overwinter 2 under the crawl space of my house this past winter but they turned to mush. I love the Ensetes so much much so I went out and bought 2 more for this growing season. If I had to do it over, I would've cut it down and brought at least one inside. The trunk started to get some real girth the last month of our growing season (South Jersey). |
How big were the ones you brought in? As you can see above,I brought mine in after it's first year One thing you need to be careful about(o.k.2 things(-;)is damaging any part Some of my Bananas rotted in the middle just from being leaned,slightly I guess you could say it pays to be careful. |
Both plants PStems were about 4 feet. I chopped off all the leaves except one. Maybe the problem I had was laying them down in the crawl space. I brought in a Saba, Praying Hands, lots of Super Dwarf Cavendishes and several Zebrinas. Fortunately, I won't be able to try to overwinter the 2 Ensetes that are planted outside this year. The Army is moving me back to Hawaii so I hope I can get a couple more there and see how big it'll get with year round growth during the next 3 years. By far, this is my favorite banana plant. |
They are a lot of fun,I will have to post another pic of this one in a few days. I am sure yours will love Hawaii! |
Check out how much the beast has grown in exactly one month -(May 9 to June 9)since the first pic was taken. The longest leaf is 7'! |
It's getting big, I see you had to stake it! Those giant leaves are like sails. |
- Posted by tropicalzone7 7 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 10, 11 at 23:02
Wow! Yours is looking great! Im so angry at how much mine died back indoors. It probably wont look nice for the entire summer (its still not even a foot tall!). Yours will be a giant (actually it already is!). I think you will be getting blooms this year from it!! Good luck! -Alex |
- Posted by islandbreeze 6b MI (My Page) on Sat, Jun 11, 11 at 0:10
Jim, that's a great compilation of pictures of your banana. I appreciate you putting in that effort for the rest of us! Very nice, how is your Thai Giant doing? Mine are just starting to get noticeably larger than when I planted them. BTW...you don't want blooms on an Abyssinian. Blooms=death. I'm sure you know, but they don't pup like a normal banana. Not sure if there's a way to get them to bloom sooner, but you don't want it. I had a Ventricosum that bloomed at 5 or 6 feet tall, and then it died. |
I hope it doesn't bloom anytime soon,I would imagine some kind of profound stress might cause this but these can reach 30-40',I believe so,it shouldn't be on the horizon anytime soon-hopefully. Chad They really are like sails! Ryan Heres a pic of the big giant I had last year and one of a small The bigger one,biggest leaf is about 23"-it's getting big fast,next leaf that is just opening should be 30"+ |
- Posted by statenislandpalm7a 7a (My Page) on Sat, Jun 11, 11 at 14:03
nice pics jim. The Abyssinian is huge and it gre so many leaves in such a short time. |
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Ted Shred broke his back on a waist high wave. Small waves can F you up too.
Ted Shred broke his back on a waist high wave. Small waves can F you up too.
general common sense, but if you are paddling out in bigger stuff where you are pushing your limits, make sure there are other surfers in the water... A surfer saved someone's life in New Jersey last week, because he saw the guy laid out unconscious. If no one is there, no one will help you...
A lot of people say don't panic and just let the wave drown you until you float back up.. Well theres been to many times that if I didn't panic and and swim to the surface or push off the ocean floor, I would been done for.
I'm still cracking up about "you're a puss" and "let your balls hang out".
I agree about the shallow water days/small days. I think a lot more folks get injured on those days you take for granted, and the bottom is too close, whether sand or reef. As to hold downs, agree also that 18 seconds is a whole new ball game of turbulence under there, even at just head high. I still maintain that you have to relax under water at least for a bit, until the ragdolling subsides, then maybe scramble to get to the surface. I always make a point to try and ball up too, just in case I'm hitting head first or rolling around under there violently. I hit my hip on the bottom last week in Jersey on the SECOND big swoosh you sometimes get after the initial push under. Hit hard too! You definitely don't want to go in like a Lawn Dart. And those shallow days when it's really fun can catch you off guard and you'll do just that. So watch them. I think shoulder to even overhead is not as much a variable as is the nature of each swell, i.e. period size and general turbulence, sideshore current, all that stuff. When it's blowing 35 mph, drifting 5 knots north, and it's even just head high swell you can get a two-wave holddown, and if you're under there struggling the whole time, your CO2 levels are skyrocketing. That's what knocks you out. The general advice is to relax until you feel like you can propel yourself under your own power, like the spin cycle has hit a momentary pause. Maybe the bong hit helps too, so feel free to draw deeply from a two-foot Tokemaster first if that's your thing.
I agree with you, but I don't think people mean to just wait and hope...more just to relax and let it do its thing and then try to swim up. If you're flailing around trying to swim up immediately, you're wasting oxygen and just asking for trouble. I don't care how strong you are, if mother ocean doesn't want to let you up, you're not coming up. You've got to take your pounding and not panic. When it's over, stroke for the surface, but be ready for the next wave and grab a quick breath while you can.
Also, if you are so disoriented you don't know which way is up, let out a little bit of air and follow the bubbles up. This only works if you can actually see the bubbles(obviously). Sometimes there's so much churning and murkiness that this method will not work.
Great advice by most posters though - especially about not paddling into anything you can't swim in from.
That's sounds like a terrible ls idea lol, in nj I can't even see my feet when sitting on my board, I don't know how anyone would see air bubbles while getting rocked underwater.. Better advice tho is to follow your leash to the surface while disoriented, because at the end of the life line is something that floats alot better than you do.. #umbilical cord
A person uses a lot of energy getting into a panic and fighting the whitewater and turbulence. Our longtime practice has been to ball up so you don't rag doll. Also, there is no such thing as pushing off the ocean floor when it is anything but a known sand bottom... there might be rebar, coral or lava heads and holes, and who knows what else.
Before you paddle out at any break it is a good practice to figure out your exit strategy: what are the prevailing currents and rips, what obstacles to coming in are there (shallow reef, groins, piers), and what do yo do if your leash breaks (mentioned above). During some serious hold downs, even in 4 foot waves, you can move through the water quite a bit -- towards shore and laterally -- be prepared.
Unless you are in some heavy waves and your board tombstones hard--it's impossible to pull yourself up your leash. You're more of a piece of bait behind a trolling planer at that point and fighting it will only make it worse. If you don't know what I'm talking about, just tie a ski rope around your leg and get your friends in the boat at the other end of the rope to go just a couple mph and see how "easy" it is to pull yourself up the rope.
Just get used to waiting patiently until you can get some traction in the water, then focus on getting to the surface.


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Typical town house in Castellammare del Golfo in Sicily. The house is situated in a small quiet street without much traffic. From the front door you are in the 100 meters on a small square from where you have a beautiful view of the harbor and the sea. Via Minore is centrally located to the main shopping street (3 minutes walk) in a quiet part of the historical center of Castellammare del Golfo.
All aspects of daily life are within walking distance. A corner shop is just around the corner of the house and a day there is a baker at 9 clock through the streets and delivers bread and rolls.
It is equipped as follows: 52 square meters on two levels with an open gallery plus extra bedroom. A total of 6 beds in 2 double beds plus sofa (sofa bed for 2 persons). 2 bathrooms, one with a double shower plus bidet. Air conditioning (hot / cold), washing machine, dishwasher, oven, gas stove, large fridge-freezer, crockery, satellite dish with European TV, on demand internet use (WLAN) for a fee, Iphone dock, iron, safe and various kitchen appliances . Water, wine, spices, oil, vinegar and much more is available. We would like to keep it so that you do what is running out, replaced.
The house is best for 4 persons, as a family with 2 kids or a couple. It can accommodate up to 6 persons with the sofa bed, but due to the size of the house it gets quite close then.
The Owner of the house are German. We speak English and Italian fluent.
Size | Sleeps up to 4, 2 bedrooms |
Nearest beach | Town beach |
Will consider | Long term lets (over 1 month), Short breaks (1-4 days) |
Access | Car not necessary |
Nearest travel links | Nearest airport: Palermo and Trapani 46 km, Nearest railway: Castellammare del Golfo 3 km |
Family friendly | Great for children of all ages |
Notes | Some pets are welcome - please contact the owner, Yes, smoking allowed |
Luxuries | Internet access |
General | Air conditioning, TV, CD player, Telephone, Fax machine, Safe, Satellite TV, Wi-Fi available |
Standard | Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer |
Utilities | Dishwasher, Cooker, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine |
Rooms | 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms and 1 En suites |
Furniture | 1 Sofa beds, Double beds (2), Dining seats for 7, Lounge seats for 4 |
Other | Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair |
For the holidays, for the winter, as a retirement or second home - Castellammare of the Gulf with its many options and its privileged location is the ideal location. The town of about 15,000 inhabitants in north-western Sicily is the gateway between land and sea. Castellammare is located in the center of a magnificent Gulf and at the foot of a gently sloping hill to the sea. Once an important trading center of the ancient Segesta to Castellammare del Golfo has evolved into a charming harbor town, where in the morning at the pier, fishermen sell their catch. The Arabic-Norman castle, symbol of the city, is located on a spit of land protruding into the sea.
In the province of Trapani, with its 24 municipalities are some of the most gorgeous beaches in Sicily as San Vito lo Capo, Macari, Scopello and Castellammare del Golfo. From a historical perspective than the current Arab HIGHEST province of Sicily region is particularly interesting. On the salt flats upstream Mozia are the remains of one of the most important Phoenician, Punic cities in Sicily. Selinunte is one with the temple and the ancient seaside city of the largest archaeological site in Europe. The temple of Segesta, built by the Elymians, is considered one of the best preserved in the world. On display are a Doric temple, a Greek theater, held in the summer months in the performances and concerts from classical to pop. Deserve special attention in addition to the cities of Trapani Marsala, Marsala, Mazara del Vallo, Castelvetrano, Castellammare del Golfo and Scopello.
Whether sun, beach lovers, divers, hikers, lovers of culture or recreation seeker - the picturesque town has every season has its charms. Winters are mild, summers hot. In the east of the golden sandy beach and to the west of the rocky coastline is endowed with bays. From April to November can be there in the turquoise clear Tyrrhenian Sea swim or hire a boat to explore the coast from the water - for example, the Riserva dello Zingaro, Sicily's first nature reserve. In the many small coves where you can drop anchor at a safe distance to the land and snorkeling in the crystal clear water to swim or dive. The nature reserve is primarily for hikers paradise. Multiple paths of different length lead past untouched flora and fauna. Ever just the winter months are ideal to conquer the area around the Gulf migratory.
Relaxation of tourists is also found in one of the two spas near Castellammare. After a bath in the almost 40-degree warm Terme di Gorga or Terme Segestane you feel like a new person. The sulphurous water is good for a variety of ailments such as rheumatism, and skin diseases such as acne and eczema.


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HoopsHype Serbia rumors
Serbian point guard Vasilije Micic, whom the Sixers drafted 52d overall last week, will not participate in either of the summer leagues. The 6-5, 203-pounder will not play for the Sixers this season. Micic will stay overseas and play for Mega Vizura of the Serbian League for at least one more season. Philadelphia Inquirer
Serbian point guard Vasilije Micic, whom the Sixers drafted 52d overall last week, will not participate in either of the summer leagues. The 6-5, 203-pounder will not play for the Sixers this season. Micic will stay overseas and play for Mega Vizura of the Serbian League for at least one more season. Philadelphia Inquirer
Dangubic is still under contract with Serbian team Mega Vizura, but as Sportando indicated, his owner has a policy of an NBA opt-out once the NBA team is ready to bring him to the states. So with Dangubic being 21 years old and being drafted 54th in the second round, he's likely to be a draft-and-stash project like so many of the other prospects the Spurs have around Europe. ProjectSpurs.com
Aleksander Djordjevic was presented as a Euroleague legend at Milan, but he is also the coach of the Serbian National team. That's why we had to ask him about what the situation of Ognen Kuzmic. Djordjevic was really carefull in his choice of words, however one thing is for sure: Expect to see Kuzmic in Spain 2014 playing for the Serbian national team. As he said: "We are informed about the situation and the wish of the player. That's why we are in constant contact with him and also with the Golden State Warriors. Still, nothing can be considered finilized yet". EuroHoops.net
Ognen Kuzmic wanted a long time ago to play for the Serbian national team and he will probably do it this summer at Spain in the upcoming FIBA World Cup. The center of Golden State Warriors denied last year to play for Bosnia, though he's born in Doboj declaring that his wish is to play for Serbia. EuroHoops.net
Djordje Matic: Aleksandar Pavlovic just signed wi/Partizan & officialy joined team practices, confirmed his European agent @minja2011 . Twitter
Pavlovic will continue his career in Serbia with Partizan Belgrade. Pavlovic and the Serbian powerhouse reached an agreement that will be signed in the coming hours. Sportando
Yugobasket: At the press conference, Duško Vujošević confirmed that Partizan has a verbal agreement with Saša Pavlović until the end of the season. Twitter
Crvena Zvezda officially announced that Charles Jenkins extended the contract with the team for one more season. The American has an NBA out he could use by July 31. Jenkins moved to the Serbian powerhouse last summer and he is the second American in Crvena Zvezda's history to extend the deal with the club after DeMarcus Nelson. Sportando
Ivkovic at least can expect guard Nemanja Nedovic to re-join practices upon the return of the Serbian team from France. Nedovic picked up a groin injury in last week's friendly game against Russia but is now expected to be back in full fitness in a matter of days. Eurobasket 2013
"Being drafted to the NBA in the first round is the best thing that's happened to me and it has given me a tremendous confidence boost," Nemanja Nedovic told Reuters in an interview. "I am overjoyed and looking forward to my first season with the Warriors, but right now I am completely focused on the national team," he added after Serbia's 91-66 rout of Slovenia on Sunday in the final of a four-nation tournament. Eurosport
Charles Jenkins is officially a new player of Red Star of Belgrade, as Sportando reported last week. Sportando
The Warriors are still in talks with first-round pick Nemanja Nedovic in hopes that he will be able to join the summer-league team in Las Vegas, but he might be tied up with Serbian national team duties. Ognjen Kuzmic, who the Warriors drafted in the second round last season and stashed overseas, has a bone bruise in his right ankle and won't be able to play. San Francisco Chronicle
Derrick Rose, who missed the entire NBA season after the torn his ACL, will be in Serbia from July 7 to 10. Former MVP will spend three days in Chicago with his sponsor, Adidas, as reported by Mondo. Sportando
Few weeks ago Divac was admitted to the Clinic Center of Serbia in Belgrade, because of the problems with his ulcer, and his condition was stabilized there. According to Twitter message of his wife, Snezana Divac, the president of the Olympic Committee of Serbia Vlade Divac has been again admitted to the hospital because of the repeated problems with his ulcer. In Serbia News
His desire to help his loved ones is the reason why he left them in the first place at the age of 13. Milicic grew up the son of two parents with little knowledge of basketball. Sports and athletics were not a priority for the family in Yugoslavia. They were trying to make it each day in a war-torn country. "My parents did everything they could to survive," Milcic recently told CSNNE.com. "They did a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff. My mom was working a lot of jobs in her life, my father too. My father also worked on the side to make money." CSNNE.com
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Mark "The Pitbull" Tucker Vs. Tom "One Bomb" Breese in a Welterweight bout from BAMMA 9, held on 24th March 2012 from the NIA Birmingham. watch video >>
On July 18th Damon Jackson puts his unbeaten record on the line against Leonard Garcia for the Legacy Featherweight Title. Here he takes on Hunter Tucker in the AXS TV Fights' "Fight of the Week!" watch video >>
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From NEF Fight Night III, Buck Pineau takes on Tim Tucker. NEF Returns with Fight Night IV on September 8, 2012 at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston, Maine. For tickets, visit www.TheColisee.com. For more info, visit www.NewEnglandFights.com watch video >>
Jackson's MMA Series VIII will be held on June 2nd at 7:00 PM MST at the spectacular Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Albuquerque in New Mexico. Jackson's own and Strikeforce and Dream Veteran Joey Smokin' Villaseñor (27-10) will take on submission specialist Donnie Liles (13-5) in the Main Event. Hunter Tucker (2-0) will be taking on J.R. Sotello (3-6). Hunter discusses his match up in this interview. watch video >>
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George W. Bush never had to answer for his "youthful indiscretions." Michael Phelps, not so lucky. Having been caught red-handed with a smoking bong firmly pasted to his maw, the long knives are out for the Olympic hero.
Let's see if I've got this right. Phelps isn't a future Hall of Famer juicing himself with the "cream" and the "clear," or getting his gluteus maximus pin-cushioned with designer 'roids. He isn't a doped racehorse, or a testosterone-shooting bike nerd trying to turn his Lycra-Spandexed bum into a blur pedaling across France.
He isn't even the current president of the United States, who freely admits to having toked his share of tropical trumpets back in his Hawaiian hoodlum days, not to mention tooting some of the Big Island's finest imported disco dust.
He's a 23-year-old rock star who got caught smoking pot. How is Phelps going to do the breast stroke covered in tar and feathers?
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The song was released stateside this week, and, given the pop crooner's recent health scare with a bout of pneumonia in the winter, the lyrics seem rather poignant. "I'm alive, and I've got so much more that I want to do / was it music, was it science that saved me or the way that you prayed for me," Michael sings. Hear "White Light" below.
Michael closes pulsating dance jam "White Light" by singing, "Well, I thank you, I'm alive." Meanwhile, the 49-year-old Grammy winner revealed that his guardian angel in the song's upcoming music video will be played by none other than Kate Moss.
"By the way, in the video, a certain supermodel (our Kate) saves my life," he tweeted. "We shot two endings, one with the heimlich menouvre…and one where she gives me full on CPR. Mouth to mouth. Not really:} But honestly, she is my saviour, on film at least!"
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Okay, that title is a little dramatic but something is definitely wrong. I've been doing all I can to give it some TLC and it rewards me with fallen leaves, bare branches, and weird little brown spots. I have a variegated "pink lemonade" Eureka lemon tree. I got it a few months ago and repotted it in a terra cotta pot with Miracle Gro citrus and palm soil. Before you say anything, I NOW know that the soil is completely wrong (probably why it is mad with me). Since visiting the forum I've discovered Al's miracle mix recipes and now feel like I got taken by the big box stores. In my defense, how can a citrus newbie pass up a bag of soil that actually says "citrus" on the label?
As far a my care for the plant: I water about twice a week make sure not to let it sit in water. When it was warmer out I would let her stay outside in full sun, now that its colder (meaning 60's for the high and 30"s for the low)she is indoors by a window that gets good sun. I occasionally remember to turn a fan on her to give her a breeze. That's about it. I've notice that there are tiny brown spots on the leaves and on the stems. After researching, the best I've come up with is citrus scab but not sure. The leaves have been slowly falling for about 2 months. I've noticed some webbing so I've been spraying with a neem oil product about every 2 weeks. Yet the brown spots persist and so does the leaf drop. What do I do? Here are some pics |
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I wouldnt bring it inside until your lows are consistently in the high 30's, meaning for many hours. I brief dip for an hour or 2 at say 38ish wont hurt a thing. In zone 8 you might even be able to get away with planting in the ground and added some heat lights or protection during below freezing times. Put it outside while temps are above 40, watch your watering, maybe give it some food and repot into a better mix next spring. a combination of the heavy soil and being inside is causing the majority of your problems. mike |
- Posted by redecoratingmom 8 GA (My Page) on Wed, Dec 21, 11 at 9:40
Thank you Mike. Let me make sure I understand. It can stay outside as long as the overnight low is above appox 38? Okay. I've been bringing it inside when the temps dropped below 60, good to know she can handle lower temps than that. Also, what do you suggest I fertilize with and how often? Last thing, do you think this will get rid of the brown spots on the plant (what are they anyway)? Again, thank you for your help. |
- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Wed, Dec 21, 11 at 10:24
My variegated pink Lemon saw overnight lows of 27F before I finally moved it into my cold-frame. Yes, there was some damage to a few thin branch tips, but that's to be expected. Anyhow, even a sensitive lemon is tougher than most folks are led to believe. Mike's suggestions are solid. I don't know what the spots are. Do they have dimension? Are they raised off the plant?
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Got an instant read thermometer? Check your soil temperature. I don't like terra cotta pots; because evapotranpiration cools the soil. Listen to Josh, he lives in a colder climate than you. If I lived where you do, I would surely put the tree in the ground; but that's partly because I know very little about container growing and citrus are so much less tempermental when planted in the ground... for one thing they don't get moved around every 15 minutes... the likely cause of most of your problems. The "spots" on your leaves might be scale; but from your description you likely also have spider mites. Here's a link to citrus scale. BTW, if you treated me as badly as you are treating your tree, I might also hate you!LOL Ignorance is curable. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Scale on citrus
I've got a seedling that's similar to pic 2. It doesn't seem to be anything major (as in it's not effecting growth), but I do have some tiny black flies buzzing about so it could be those. Regards |
- Posted by redecoratingmom 8 GA (My Page) on Wed, Dec 21, 11 at 23:51
@Josh, yes the spots have dimension. I can actually scape it off and there is no apparent damage to the leaf underneath. @Johnmerr, thanks for the link. From that it looks like it maybe red scale on the tree. And,yeah, figured she was justified in her contempt of my care. Now hopefully she doesn't hold a grudge and tell the other plants. Can't have them all turning on me. haha |
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(Corrects spelling of prime minister's name in second paragraph in story published Dec. 17.)
Mongolia's government claimed control of a $2 billion coal project that BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP), Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU:US) and China Shenhua Energy Co. (1088) have been in talks to develop as prices of the fuel rose to records.
The government is the rightful owner of the Tavan Tolgoi project, according to a translation of Prime Minister Sanj Bayar's speech to Parliament on Dec. 13. ``Tavan Tolgoi has become an issue of national security and public interests,'' Bayar said in the inaugural address to parliament.
Tavan Tolgoi is owned by Energy Resources LLC, which had been in talks with BHP, Peabody and China Shenhua to sell the mine's development rights for more than three years, a period marked by populist demands to distribute more of the wealth generated by mineral reserves. Coal prices at Australia's Newcastle port, a benchmark for Asia, rose to a record last week.
Bayar ``is concerned that prices will drop and cause losses for Mongolia,'' N. Algaa, executive director of the Mongolian National Mining Association, which translated the speech, said in a phone interview.
Tavan Tolgoi, with resources of 1.5 billion metric tons of coking coal and 3.6 billion tons of thermal coal, will produce as much as 30 million tons a year for at least 30 years, according to Energy Resources. Tavan Tolgoi may be Mongolia's second- largest mining investment after the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine proposed by Rio Tinto Group (RIO) and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., which may cost $3 billion.
No Formal Talks
``The government will decide who and which company should invest and participate,'' Bayar said on Dec. 13.
``While Bayar has announced that the government intends to take control of the project, no formal negotiations had taken place between the government and the Energy Resources up to date,'' Lkhagvadorj, a spokesman for Energy Resources, said in an e-mail today.
Tavan Tolgoi is about 150 kilometers (93 miles) from Mongolia's border with China. Oyu Tolgoi is roughly between Tavan Tolgoi and the border.
As many as six companies were bidding for the Tavan Tolgoi rights, George Tumur, Energy Resources' acting executive director, told reporters at a Nov. 9 conference in the capital Ulan Bator. A decision on the partner was expected within three months, Tumur said at the time.
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Beth Sutton, a spokeswoman for Peabody Energy, declined to comment. Illtud Harri, a spokesman for Melbourne-based BHP, said he couldn't immediately comment. A call placed to China Shenhua's main switchboard outside of regular business hours wasn't picked up.
Brazil's Cia. Vale do Rio Doce, Japan's Mitsui & Co. (8031) and Itochu Corp. (8001) were also involved in negotiations earlier this year, Luvsanvandan Bold, chairman of the Mineral Resources and Petroleum Authority of Mongolia, said in an interview in March.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. was advising Energy Resources on the sale, Tumur said on Nov. 9. The coal will be sold primarily to China, with Russia, Korea and Japan as other potential customers, he said.
Bayar also told lawmakers on Dec. 14 that he wants an international organization with experience in mining projects to negotiate on the government's behalf with Ivanhoe on Oyu Tolgoi, Algaa said.
Oyu Tolgoi contains about 71 billion pounds (32 million metric tons) of copper and 31.3 million ounces of gold, based on measured, indicated and inferred categories, according to company estimates from 2001 through 2006.
Bob Williamson, a media contact for Vancouver-based Ivanhoe, said the company couldn't immediately comment.
Ivanhoe fell 69 cents, or 6.7 percent, to C$9.61 at 3:59 p.m. on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The stock has fallen 16 percent this year, valuing Ivanhoe at C$3.6 billion ($3.58 billion).
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Adobe today released updates to fix at least a dozen critical security problems in its Flash Player and AIR software. Separately, Microsoft pushed four update bundles to address at least 42 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Lync and .NET Framework. If you use any of these, it's time to update! Continue reading →
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Dec 12
Attackers Target Internet Explorer Zero-Day Flaw
Attackers are breaking into Microsoft Windows computers using a newly discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer, security experts warn. While the flaw appears to have been used mainly in targeted attacks so far, this vulnerability could become more widely exploited if incorporated into commercial crimeware kits sold in the underground.
In a blog posting Friday evening, Milpitas, Calif. based security vendor FireEye said it found that the Web site for the Council on Foreign Relations was compromised and rigged to exploit a previously undocumented flaw in IE8 to install malicious software on vulnerable PCs used to browse the site.
According to FireEye, the attack uses Adobe Flash to exploit a vulnerability in the latest (fully-patched) version of IE8. Dustin Childs, group manager for response communications at Microsoft, said the vulnerability appears to exist in previous versions of IE.
"We are actively investigating reports of a small, targeted issue affecting Internet Explorer 6-8," Childs said in an emailed statement. "We will take appropriate action to help keep customers protected once our analysis is complete. People using Internet Explorer 9-10 are not impacted."
As FireEye notes, this is another example of a "watering hole" attack, which involves the targeted compromise of legitimate websites thought to be of interest to or frequented by end users who belong to organizations that attackers wish to infiltrate. Earlier this year, I wrote about similar zero-day attacks against visitors to the Web sites of the National Democratic Institute, The Carter Center, and Radio Free Europe.
Update, Dec. 30, 9:25 a.m. ET: Microsoft has officially acknowledged this vulnerability in an advisory, which contains some advice for IE users about how to mitigate the threat. As IE versions 9 and 10 are not impacted, users running Windows Vista or higher can upgrade to the latest browser version here.
Update, Jan.1 8:56 p.m. ET: Microsoft's advisory now includes a link to a stopgap "FixIt" solution that may help to blunt attacks until the company issues an official patch for this vulnerability.
Dec 10
Exploit Published for New Internet Explorer Flaw
Hackers have released exploit code that can be used to compromise Windows PCs through a previously unknown security flaw present in all versions Internet Explorer, Microsoft warned today.
Dave Forstrom, director of trustworthy computing at Microsoft, said although the software giant is not aware of any attacks wielding this flaw against Windows users, "given the public disclosure of this vulnerability, the likelihood of criminals using this information to actively attack our customers may increase."
Microsoft's security advisory says the problem has to do with the way IE handles CSS style sheets. A posting on Microsoft's Security Research & Defense blog notes that the Metasploit Project recently published an exploit for this flaw that evades two of the key security defenses built into Windows Vista and Windows 7 — Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP).
Nov 10
Microsoft Warns of Attacks on Zero-Day IE Bug
Microsoft Corp. today warned Internet Explorer users that attackers are exploiting a previously unknown security hole in the browser to install malicious software. The company is urging users who haven't already done so to upgrade to IE8, which includes technology that makes the vulnerability more difficult to exploit.
According to the advisory Microsoft published, this is a browse-to-a-malicious-site-and-get-owned vulnerability. The company reports that the exploit code was discovered on a single Web site that is no longer online. But if past attacks against unpatched IE flaws are any indicator, it will probably not be long before the attack is stitched into plenty of other hacked and malicious Web sites.
Redmond says Data Execution Prevention (DEP) technology enabled by default in IE8 helps protect against attacks, and that the same protection is enabled on all supported platforms, including Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, and Windows 7. IE9 beta apparently is not at risk from this threat.
In a post to its Microsoft Security Response Center blog, the company said that it is working to develop a security update to address this attack against the flaw, but that at the moment it "does not meet the criteria for an out-of-band release." Microsoft is expected to issue another round of security updates next week as part of its regular "Patch Tuesday" cycle, which generally occurs on the second Tuesday of each month.
Symantec Corp. has posted a fascinating blog entry that details just how targeted the attacks have been so far. It offers a peek at how these types of critical flaws in widely-used applications can be used in pinprick attacks to extract very specific information from targeted organizations and individuals. From that post:
"One such case started few days ago when we received information about a possible exploitation using older versions of Internet Explorer as targets. Hackers had sent emails to a select group of individuals within targeted organizations. Within the email the perpetrators added a link to a specific page hosted on an otherwise legitimate website.
….Looking at the log files from this exploited server we know that the malware author had targeted more than a few organizations. The files on this server had been accessed by people in lots of organizations in multiple industries across the globe. Very few of them were seen accessing the payload file, which means that most users were using a browser which wasn't vulnerable or targeted."
Read more from the Symantec writeup here.
Oct 10
Demystifying KB976902, a.k.a. Microsoft's "Blackhole" Update
I've received several e-mails from readers concerned about a mysterious, undocumented software patch that Microsoft began offering to Windows 7 users through Windows Update this week. Some Microsoft users have been spinning conspiracy theories about this patch because it lacks any real description of its function, and what little documentation there is about it says that it cannot be removed once installed and that it may be required as a prerequisite for installing future updates.
Normally, when Microsoft offers a patch through Windows Update, it also will publish a corresponding "knowledgebase" article that describes in great detail what the patch does and why users should install it — and how applying the update may impact current and future operations on the system.
This fix went out via Windows Update on Oct. 26 as a "recommended" and "important" patch, but it lacked any additional details, prompting conspiracy theories and speculation on message boards from users wondering whether they should ignore or install this update — which for many users was sandwiched between the dozens of security patches Microsoft began offering earlier this month as part of its regular Patch Tuesday security update cycle.
To make matters worse, many Windows 7 users said the patch was no longer offered after they declined installing it the first time, leading some curious researchers to dub it the "Blackhole" update.
I have verified with Microsoft that this update is designed to smooth the way for the deployment of future updates on Windows 7 systems (read on to the very end if you'd like the official response from Microsoft). The confusion appears to stem from a timing mistake by the folks at Microsoft, but this incident illustrates the hysteria that can ensue when the world's largest software company fails — for whatever reason — to be fully transparent with a user base that has come to expect detailed advisories with every patch.
When I was researching this patch, I found an amusing thread on the Microsoft Answers forum — where several Microsoft most valuable professional experts urged other forum members to hold off installing the patch until more information was available. Others offered more speculative answers, suggesting that the patch was instead:
-A new service pack for Windows 7
-A "heuristic scanner to the machine that turned on whenever the machine went idle, and searched all attached storage devices for 'terrorism-related' information, then alerting 'somebody' over the Internet"
-The result of Microsoft having been hacked, with the patch being some kind of malicious third-party code being sent out to infect all Windows machines
-A new anti-piracy check from Microsoft.
Jul 10
Microsoft Security Updates, and a Farewell to Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft today released software updates to fix at least five security vulnerabilities in computers running its Windows operating system and Office applications. Today also marks the planned end-of-life deadline for Windows XP Service Pack 2, a bundle of security updates and features that Microsoft first released in 2004.
Four out of five of the flaws fixed in today's patch batch earned a "critical" rating, Redmond's most severe. Chief among them is a bug in the Help and Support Center on Windows XP and Server 2003 systems that's currently being exploited by crooks to break into vulnerable machines. Microsoft released an interim "FixIt" tool last month to help users blunt the threat from this flaw, and users who applied that fix still should install this patch (and no, you don't need to undo the FixIt setting first). Update 5:50 p.m. ET: I stand corrected on this — it looks like Microsoft won't offer the patch for this flaw if you've already used the FixIt tool.
Jul 10
Top Apps Largely Forgo Windows Security Protections
Many of the most widely used third-party software applications for Microsoft Windows do not take advantage of two major lines of defense built into the operating system that can help block attacks from hackers and viruses, according to research released today.
Attackers usually craft software exploits so that they write data or programs to very specific, static sections in the operating system's memory. To counter this, Microsoft introduced with Windows Vista (and Windows 7) a feature called address space layout randomization or ASLR, which constantly moves these memory points to different positions. Another defensive feature called data execution prevention (DEP) — first introduced with Windows XP Service Pack 2 back in 2004 — attempts to make it so that even if an attacker succeeds in guessing the location of the memory point they're seeking, the code placed there will not execute or run.
These protections are available to any applications built to run on top of the operation system. But according to a new analysis by software vulnerability management firm Secunia, half of the third party apps they looked at fail to leverage either feature.
As indicated by the chart to the right, Secunia found that at least 50 percent of the applications examined — including Apple Quicktime, Foxit Reader, Google Picasa, Java, OpenOffice.org, RealPlayer, VideoLAN VLC Player, and AOL's Winamp — still do not invoke either DEP or ASLR. Secunia said DEP adoption has been slow and uneven between operating system versions, and that ASLR support is improperly implemented by nearly all vendors.
"If both DEP and ASLR are correctly deployed, the ease of exploit development decreases significantly," wrote Alin Rad Pop, a senior security specialist at Secunia. "While most Microsoft applications take full advantage of DEP and ASLR, third-party applications have yet to fully adapt to the requirements of the two mechanisms. If we also consider the increasing number of vulnerabilities discovered in third-party applications, an attackers choice for targeting a popular third-party application rather than a Microsoft product becomes very understandable."


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Updrafts within thunderstorms push rain high into the cloud where very cold air freezes it. Once frozen it starts to fall but gets caught in another strong updraft where it gathers more moisture on its way back up making it larger. If the updrafts are strong enough they will continue this process for long periods of time allowing the hail to accumulate more moisture and more moisture. Updrafts can get so strong they even intrude into the stable stratosphere. When updrafts are this strong it becomes possible to suspend large hail for long periods of time further adding moisture to the hail, sometimes building it to incredible sizes.
Nice game at all, I LOVE the music, but yes, there is a lack of a free mode :(
Still, I will keep on playing it some times because of the nice idea and nice song :)
Like many others, I firmly believe that the lack of a free play mode hinders this game. The time limit is very brutal and could do with some loosening to increase the "fun factor". Also, the cooler sections of the atmosphere should grow the hail stones faster.
Overall, good game, but the brutal time limit and lack of a free play mode really bring it down.
Who would walk outside in a Hailstorm? Either though they did that, Still deserves 5 stars.
~Almost perfect~
Truly brilliant game, good graphics, mechanics and gameplay the only thing that would've made it a perfect ten is either the removal of the time limit or a sandbox mode (as other posters have cited as being it's one major flaw)
The song/soundtrack is "We are loud" by Shockwave Sound for those of you still looking for it.


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Dr Richard Hu to retire from GIC board from Nov 30
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Dr Richard Hu Tsu Tau will retire from the board of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) with effect from Nov 30.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is also chairman of GIC, paid tribute to Dr Hu in a three-page letter of appreciation dated Oct 31.
In the letter, Mr Lee lauded Dr Hu's exemplary record and hard work.
"Between July 1983 and December 1984, you were managing director of both MAS and GIC, effecitvely running the two organisations," said Mr Lee.
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Many of those proud "natural" products you see on the store shelves are starting to transform their visual identities into more earthy ones. Interestingly, Burt's Bees Gud packaging is not—at least not in the same sense. Plain cardboard and green ink have become the popular choices for organic product wrappings, but here we have a line of shampoo, conditioner, body wash, body butter and mist without a hint of that lush blended blue and yellow hue.
Instead, Baldwin& developed the image for Burt's Bees Gud packaging based on the charming intricacies of textile patterns. Cuttings of different colorful motifs compose the flowers and fruits of each haircare product's fragrance. The resultant effect provides an aesthetic explosion of stimulating shapes and vibrant inks, exuding a sensory richness and a natural source that outperforms every other item in its aisle.