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The Data Breach Blog
BCBS of Tennessee shares personal data on 80K in marketing campaign
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee violated HIPAA when it mistakenly included the personal information of not-for-profit TRH Health Plan members in a marketing campaign.
Wisconsin chiropractic clinic notifies 3,000 patients of insider breach
A former employee and contracted chiropractor accessed and removed their personal information from the clinic, and promptly resigned after.
Malware infects payment card system at French Lick Resort
French Lick Resort announced on Tuesday that malware had infected its payment card system, and guests may have had their personal information compromised.
Former California pharmacist employee accessed data without business or treatment purpose
California Pacific Medical Center is notifying 844 patients that a former pharmacist employee may have accessed their records without a business or treatment purpose.
Albany health system notifies more than 5,000 patients of data breach
St. Peter's Health Partners is notifying more than 5,000 patients that a manager's cell phone, which contained their personal information, was stolen.
Grill parts website experiences system intrusion, payment card breach
Certain individuals who payment cards on a grill parts website are being notified that their information may have been compromised as a result of a series of cyber attacks.
Minnesota university warns of 'likely' breach
Metropolitan State University wants faculty, staff and students to know that an attacker may have breached its web server to access a database that contained their personal information.
Malware found on POS systems at four Wingstop locations
Malware was found on POS systems at four independently owned and operated Wingstop locations, and it could have enabled attackers to capture customer payment card information.
Payment cards targeted in attack on pet supplies website
Several thousand customers are being notified that unauthorized persons accessed the ValuePetSupplies.com servers and installed malicious files to capture personal information.
Payment cards used on Park 'N Fly website are at risk
The Georgia-based parking operator is notifying customers of a security compromise involving payment card data processed through its e-commerce website.
Connecting the Dots
Rebel with a cause: Glenn Greenwald is a doctor for America's conscience
Glenn Greenwald's new book recounts the human drama of his collaboration with Edward Snowden, the widespread sweeping up of communications and the consequences of the U.S. surveillance state.
Thanks for the memories
Today marks my final day at SC Magazine after more than 7-1/2 years.
Car hackers' appearance on the 'Today' show was important because they were on the 'Today' show
Ideas are needed on ways to improve the public's perception of computer security hackers who have no malicious intentions.
New plan to stop leaks: Squeal on your cubicle mate who may or may not be a whistleblower
An investigative report shows the Obama administration's insider threat program is far more expansive, and troubling, than even critics had thought.
Secret U.S. cyber actions exposed by Snowden leaks demand much larger debate
The leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal a massive global effort by the U.S. government to hack various entities, including civilian targets, actions that could lead to unintended consequences.
Why the AP phone records seizure and the LulzSec sentences are related
The U.S. government is sending a clear message: We won't tolerate secrets coming to light.
The power and danger of using the cyber "T" word
Referencing the Boston bombings as terrorism prompted an unprecedented manhunt for the suspects that included a citywide lockdown. What would a similar scene have looked like on the internet?
Here are eight cyber crooks who got less prison time than Andrew Auernheimer
The security researcher and self-proclaimed internet troll earned 41 months behind bars Monday for his role in using a script to retrieve data on roughly 120,000 Apple iPad users from a public web server.
The White House thinks Julian Assange and Jeremy Hammond are no different than Chinese cyber spies
Whistleblowing organizations like WikiLeaks and accused hacktivists like Hammond are not foreign spies lusting to plunder intellectual property from U.S. corporations and government agencies in order to profit and gain a competitive advantage.
Obama would prefer to prosecute leakers than discuss Stuxnet
The FBI and DoJ are targeting high-level U.S. officials in hopes of learning who released classified information about Stuxnet to the press. What the government is not doing is publicly explaining why it launched Stuxnet.
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Homeowners Get A Break On Some City Projects
Updated: 04/23/2007 - The interest rate cut passed by the Lansing City Council Monday night could affect more residents soon.
Updated: 04/23/2007 - The interest rate cut passed by the Lansing City Council Monday night could affect more residents soon.
Updated: 04/23/2007 - The polling places will change by the August election.
Updated: 04/23/2007 - LaSalle Bank holds close to 20 percent of deposits in Ingham County. Now its customers will find a new name at their branches.
Posted: 04/23/2007 - Workers are putting in rain gardens on Michigan Avenue between Pennsylvania Avenue and Larch Street.
Posted: 04/23/2007 - Michigan Supreme Court Judges all decide to give back free cars to help budget deficit.
Posted: 04/23/2007 - Analysts say there doesn't seem to be any pent-up demand among consumers.
Posted: 04/23/2007 - House Democrats say women are discriminated against.
Posted: 04/23/2007 - A brand new medical clinic just opened in Lansing, and it's free.
Posted: 04/23/2007 - Brighton's city council is considering relocating a sculpture of a nude man to a less visible spot.
Posted: 04/23/2007 - Bad fish increasing. Good fish decreasing.
Posted: 04/23/2007 - Renewable energy finds support in the auto company's executive suite.
Updated: 04/22/2007 - Michigan's state budget problems among nation's worst
Updated: 04/23/2007 - Some state parks offer yurts for camping
Updated: 04/22/2007 - Chief justice turns in vehicle, calls for fewer judges
Updated: 04/22/2007 - The owner of a carnival forced to shut down early after a massive fight gives his take on the situation.
Posted: 04/21/2007 - MSU football remembers George Webster, Virginia Tech victims
Posted: 04/21/2007 - With the Energy Information Administration predicting gas prices will rise next month, will boat sales decline?
Posted: 04/21/2007 - A lawsuit opens new front in battle over Great Lakes invaders
Posted: 04/20/2007 - Students meet at Michigan State University to show support for Virginia Tech Community
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Posted: 04/20/2007 - Threats are rattling schools across the state and country.
Posted: 04/20/2007 - A team of MSU veterinarians is directing a nationwide survey to determine which animals may have been affected by last month's pet food recall.
Posted: 04/19/2007 - "Today, We are All Hokies" was the theme of a prayer service held in East Lansing for the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings.
Posted: 04/19/2007 - It's an ethically charged topic, but an embryonic stem cell research bill, which would legalize the research, is once again making its way through the Capitol.


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Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China is ready to work with other countries to help stabilize international financial markets and promote growth, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in Beijing today.
China notes that "European countries have put forward important proposals to deal with the debt crisis," Hong told a daily briefing. He said the European Union has the "wisdom and capacity" to overcome the debt crisis.
"We are ready to work with the international community to stabilize international financial markets and promote recovery and growth," Hong said.
At a two-day summit in Brussels, European leaders outlined a "fiscal compact" to prevent future debt runups, accelerated the start of a planned 500 billion-euro ($666 billion) rescue fund and watered down bondholder loss-sharing provisions.
After overnight negotiations, the leaders added 200 billion euros to their crisis-fighting war chest and tightened anti- deficit rules, seeking to lure the European Central Bank into stepping up its rescue operations.
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For weeks now (since thresh patch) I have been having problems with the game not running well, massive FPS drops 7-10 mins into game resulting in a completely unplayable framerate. Intermittent high pings, but even when ping was low and steady the FPS was terrible. And the high pings themselves seemed to be for no reason considering i have had a steady, solid connection with no other traffic while playing LoL. I submitted a report ticket, and have exchanged numerous emails with tech support, following every suggested resolution they gave. I have attempted to repair the installation twice, and have completely uninstalled and reinstalled LoL 5 times now. Prior to Thresh, I had been playing @1366x768 with medium settings, no vsync, no shadows, and no problems aside from some occasional lag due to me wifi. When I started having issues, I lowered all graphics settings AND screen resolution to lowest possible and saw NO improvement, not even a slight improvement. I have the same problems with FPS regardless. I have submitted my R3D logs which contained numerous errors and tech support suggested that my installation may be corrupt. I followed the reinstall instructions TO THE LETTER. 5 times. Problem persists. I have also run multiple scans for malware and viruses, and performed 2 defrags. Latest suggestion from tech support was to free up system resources by disabling ALL services and ALL startup programs. Now, as I said, lowering the graphic settings had NO EFFECT, so i'm not sure how my problems are related to system resources. I'm also unsure how system resources would be related to the numerous errors in the log file (which remain after all the attempts to reinstall clean) that previously seemed to suggest a corrupt installation. To me this seemed to be like some kind of blanket one-size-fits-all fix, but I figured hey if it works it works. Unfortunately with all services disabled I could not connect to my network. Go figure. I'm going to miss LoL, but I'm done with this headache, time to move on.
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What is more upsetting is not just the screen glitches ruining game after game but there seems to be NO acknowledgement from Riot that this problem exists and many people are having this. It is horrible and all we really want is for the game to go back to a couple weeks ago stable release. What is the big deal? Every game company has rolled out some REALLY BAD CODE at some point or other. How hard is it to just go BACK and wait before you roll forward for proper code? Why would you KILL a good game with large audience out of pure stubbornness?
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ya i agree everything was fine for me till this last live maintenance yesterday (feb 5) so i have no clue what they did but i kept getting graphic glitches all over the place the longer i played the worse it got...thankfully it went away now but its the FPS thats killing me.........ugh i had no problems with my FPS till this maintenance :/


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20 Facts About Kate Middleton
Fact: She graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of Saint Andrews.
This is the same "fact" as before. It has been reported she had invisible braces and teeth whitening [as did Big Willy] in preparation for public life - check out before and after smiles :)


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hi guys, this will be my first time to make castle cake , and im not yet decided what to use for the tower . maybe i'll go for the paper towel tubes and use fondant. :)
wow thank goodness I found this thread. Will be attempting a Princess castle cake soon... was so unsure how to go about it til now
Thanks Everyone
I don't see a problem using RKT and covering 3 weeks ahead. I'm using papertowel roll and pringles cans with icecream cones. Now my niece baked cupcakes in the cone. Not sure how that would work? Please let us know how it turns out.


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Soon after, Teresa Sullivan was reinstated as president of the University of Virginia on Tuesday afternoon, donations began to arrive at a much quicker rate than usual.
Some of the gifts were large — like the two anonymous donors who each pledged to give $1 million each in support of Sullivan. And some gifts consisted of just five bucks submitted online. The total amount collected since the reinstatement, as of Wednesday evening: $2.5 million in major gifts. And $218,910.95 from 657 online donors.
Of the online gifts, 115 were earmarked for the President's Fund for Excellence, an unrestricted discretionary fund that's often used to launch special initiatives, address immediate needs and strengthen academic and student-life programs. In past years, the fund has paid to keep faculty members who had offers of higher pay at other universities.
The university passed along some of the comments that donors included with their online gifts:
"This is for the President and the University to spend on anything except intercollegiate athletics — however you see fit/wherever there's a need. Thank you for hanging tough President Sullivan." Arlington, Va.
"This small gift is a token of my appreciation that President Sullivan has been reinstated and will continue to guide the University into the future." Washington D.C.
"A gift in honor of the community coming together to make the right decision after adversity." Brookline, Mass.
"This gift is made in honor of President Teresa Sullivan and her courageous vision for the future of the University." Chicago
"Please make this gift IN HONOR OF President Terry Sullivan." Barboursville, Va.
"Thank you UVA for doing the right thing today." Charlottesville
"This gift is in celebration of President Sullivan's reinstatement." Denver
"Thank you for reinstating Dr. Sullivan." Jacksonville, Fl.
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Give your children your praise rather than your condemnation, because it is human nature for people to live up to the reputation that others give them.
~Napoleon Hill
-Think and Grow Rich
Give your children your praise rather than your condemnation, because it is human nature for people to live up to the reputation that others give them.
~Napoleon Hill
-Think and Grow Rich
I came across this guy months ago and thought his music is great. Have a listen and get his album.
I was just thinking about growing up in Fresno. As with every generation even I compare my upbringing to how kids are being brought up these days. I remember my parents and grandparents doing the same thing to me and my friends. At this moment I can't remember much about what they said besides the fact that we kids were spoiled and we have so much more than they had. The usual rant from grandparents seems to be 'when I was a kid I used to walk to school, up hill in the snow, both ways'. My parents would say 'you kids have all the best toys, video games' and whatever else we had that they didn't. Now, I say these kids don't get to think about a damn thing. They watch the TV for their opinions, they download porn to form their ideas about sex and are interrupted in the guise of being protected by their pansy ass parents from experiencing mistakes they might have a chance to learn from. There still might be a difference between the have and have-nots since some kids don't have computers, video games or parents that want them to lie around the house. Some kids still get to have adventures in their neighborhood.
Compare how kids play baseball today in contrast to how we used to play baseball. Today kids get a RIDE to a nice green baseball diamond with a backstop, bat and ball and everything. If mom or dad don't give them a ride so what, they just turn on EA Sports baseball on the Xbox. This is what it took for us to play baseball: we had to each go digging in each other's garages for something that resembled a bat. Sometimes we had a wiffle bat that wasn't too damaged from being run over by cars or our bikes or chewed up by the dog. Otherwise a broom handle worked just as well as long as we had a couple so moms wouldn't notice. Once we 'modified' the broom mom couldn't use it again. IF we found a bat the next problem was finding a ball. These were difficult to come by since we constantly lost them by hitting them in trees, in sewers or to total destruction. We knew better than to walk inside and ask for a couple bucks so we could WALK down to the store to buy a ball so we learned that a sponge wrapped in tape did just fine. Again, we 'borrowed' from mom's collection of sponges and went back to the garage to find a good sort of tape that could take a beating. Electrical tape worked the best but we had more ducted tape lying around so we usually ended up playing with an awkward gray ball-like object. The ball would sometimes rip and would require more tape so after a few games the ball got way too big and heavy which required some backup sponges for new baseballs. So now we had the ball and bat. We didn't even think about getting mitts for everyone and we drew the bases out on the street in chalk which needed to be retraced often. Play ball!! And watch out for that car!!!
Let's compare how the kids today play street hockey. Today kids get their parents to buy hockey sticks, roller blades, and again drive them to a nice park where there is a rink just for street hockey with goals on either side. WE never even thought about playing street hockey. Do you know what a hockey stick costs?? Neither did we but we knew it was more than the couple bucks we couldn't get from our parents for a baseball. We did play street hockey a few times though. Here is how it went:
One day when the street was littered with garbage anticipating one of those big garbage pickups, we saw a tree lying in the street. Bored out of our minds as we sat on a curb outside our homes and while waiting for a good idea to come to us we envisioned (more like a hallucination) hockey sticks in a that tree. It was a short discussion because we never had the opportunity to play hockey before. Off to the garage to find the saw that would craft our hockey sticks. The sticks turned out to be all awkward but since we made them ourselves there was no use letting that stop a good game of hockey. As usual another problem was the ball or in this case the puck. At first we did try a racket ball but the damn thing was way too bouncy and couldn't be reasonably controlled. We needed something different and I am sure it was my brother who had a perfectly good pack of bubble tape. For those kids out there who don't know bubble tape looks like a hockey puck. My brother distributed all the bubble tape to the players and fans (sometimes other neighborhood kids would show up to watch). We then took the container put some rocks in it and taped the edges all the way around the side with electrical tape. We used the garbage cans for goal posts; couple from one house and a couple from another. We didn't know what rollerblades were and roller-skates were out of the question. Nikes worked just fine. The games didn't last long for two reasons; we ended up breaking the puck somewhere between 30 minutes and an hour and most of the sticks weren't long enough so we got tired of playing the entire game running around constantly bent over.
The difference between our parents and us is I think our parents envied us for having the things we had and what seemed to them to be a more convenient life. I, like most people my age don't envy the kids these days. I rather, feel sorry for them. We had the sort of freedom that caused us to see everything differently. We didn't make due with what we had; we made what we had better and used it in ways only kids could imagine possible.
Of all the ways to measure something time as we know it is going to be the most inefficient way to measure the distance between events. We put our entire mortality in a length of time. We scale our intelligence and maturity by it. I am sure that most of us have had a health issue that we related to our age by saying something like "I am not old enough to have this happen to me". Some of us have said something like "When I get to be [of such an age] I hope I don't get cancer or alzheimers". If we were to take the linear aspect of time away from our experience we might expect to realize the same day over and over or we might be able to realize that a day is an event that doesn't relate to time but a turn of the moon which rotates around the Earth which also turns as it rotates around the sun which also turns. We have all been conditioned to believe there is an appropriate time to sleep and be awake. My dogs don't seem to get it but how can they, especially when they still haven't gotten around to realizing the ass licking thing should not be done while company is over.
I am not going to lead into a rant how time is useless or ineffective because it is nice to have a measurement to determine when things will happen so we can know when to show up for movies or when we can leave school and avoid detention. (remember I only made it to High School)
I am also not talking about how we take human years and dog years and prorate dog years so we can compare us to them. Who needs to relate to their dog that much?
Back to what I was going on about the Earth and revolutions. Lets recapitulate: A good place to start is with a year. The year is 12 months which is usually 30 days half the time, 31 days the other half and 28/29 for some reasons I don't know for one month. But at this point you can see how inefficient and we haven't even gotten to the complicated part yet. Then we have 24 hours in a day (one revolution of the Earth) which breaks down further to 60 minutes per hour and another 60 seconds for each minute. The point I am going to make will be leveraged off the revolutions of the Earth and not in the minutes of our days.
Most of us realize an entire year when the Earth travels around the sun once which breaks down to 365 Earth revolutions before we start celebrating again. Now consider having been on another planet. The entire Earth calendar is not going to work. The most practical planet to live on besides Earth is Mars at this point which is much smaller. A smaller planet means shorter revolutions (days) and it is farther away from the sun (longer years). If people were to populate another planet would they actually age slower because of the long year or faster because of the shorter days?? Of course not!
What it really comes down to is the phenomena of time is over rated and use to gauge too much more than a measurement between events. We use it to indicate what illness we might be expecting even to the point of when we might find it reasonable to contemplate death. How many 20 year olds have a will??
Of course this is an over simplification of the subject as I have other shit to do. Just thought it might be interesting to go over as I find another way to put this in better perspective.
Check back often as I might have better answers to the problems of time.
There has been a proposition 73 that was meant to be voted on today. The prop is to require doctors to inform parents of girls who are under age 48 hours before a medical procedure that would be an abortion. Obviously if there is a proposition about the issue there are people who believe a minor should be able to abort a fetus without parental notification (not to be confused with consent). Notice that people under age cant be given aspirin (e.g. from school nurse), sign contracts, vote or even consent to any minor medical procedure. Now with a big issue like abortion there are a group of people who believe kids should be able to choose and consent to making a decision as big as terminating pregnancy.
At first thought letting kids get an abortion without having to notify their parents is a ridiculous notion just by observing the basic laws about all the limits minors have for being under 18 years old. There is such thing as emancipation if you want to hit the age of majority before you reach 18. Unfortunately I am sure you need parental consent for that as well. One way or another my immediate argument would be for a child to renounce their dependency on their parents and become emancipated somehow or petition for a law to be considered an adult earlier in life for your emergency social condition that we will call knocked up since this is the issue that has been brought up by proposition 73. This would mean you have no need for parental support at all; monetary or emotional support.
I personally cant imagine raising a child all the way up to the point where she is a troubled teen who gets pregnant, becomes scared of me as a parent then takes it upon herself to dispose of a part of my family. Now that is a very simple way of looking at it and is how it would be if family is important. What is more important is the relationship I have with my child that she or he would come to me with a pregnancy in the first place. I would feel personally responsible at failing as a parent if my child didnt want my support in any endeavor she or he was involved in.
The San Francisco Chronicle has an article about this and one quote from a 16 year old wants to vote because of her pregnant cousin who wants to model and play basketball but can't because of her pregnancy. So this 16 year old has been raised to not value responsibility and that is a family value. To be irresponsible would be considered a poor family value by most people and getting an abortion for such superficial reasons is disgraceful. I am sure it is inconvenient to have a child at 16 and so is just about everything else in life outside of your bedroom.
What is not being conveyed to people these days is that they shouldnt be having sex in the first place at certain ages (parents should be passing along that value as well). Thanks MTV! If you cant have kids or really dont want kids dont have sex. As unrealistic as that seems it doesnt seem people are even making an attempt to dissuade their kids from having sex and have them realize what they are going to be responsible for if they decide to indulge in adult activities. That talk could be had for working (taxes), drugs (intoxicating stupor), alcohol (more intoxication) and other social activities that you arent meant to do by age of 17.
There is a divide again by what some people think about family and some people think about law and government. I am sure you can see by my above comments that I am partial to family and believe family is paramount to just about anything especially government. In a situation where family as a way to reinforce relationship is a priority the parents would insist that their children use them as a sounding board to encourage or discourage their kids. Yes, it is called parenting. Now the parents have a responsibility to their kids as well which is to make sure they, as parents arent to be feared as to keep communication open.
Even if the parent/child relationship is terrible and even if there is fear from the kids to the parents the parents should still be involved. To tell parents that you are pregnant is very uncomfortable and then to proceed to say that you are about to get an abortion has to be much more uncomfortable. Even with all that discomfort I cant imagine having life as we know it ripped from your body being less of a discomfort than confiding in your family.
Lets hallucinate that you dont want to tell mom and dad because you will get a severe beating. The only way you would know that you were going to get beat is if you have been beaten before. If you havent been hit or beat by your parents it would be unreasonable to project your fears onto their behavior. So lets say for this example that they have beat you once or more to give you the evidence you need to not tell them that you are pregnant in the first place. The element of a home where a child feels abused is a completely different problem and shouldnt be bundled with this one. What I mean is if there is abuse in the home why wait around to get pregnant to start making choices to keep yourself safe? Now if your argument is that she or he cant leave because those are his parents and that is all she or he knows then you should stay in your home and keep respecting your parents who you dont want to leave and let them be involved in your life just as they always have been. Although I ultimately believe this is a separate issue and I think fear of being beaten isnt just an argument for getting pregnant but it an excuse to not tell your parents anything.
If you dont care about the family unit I suppose you should get the age of majority reduced and understand that if there is no family than your parents become a government that doesnt do much to raise you besides give you food stamps and a social worker and all you have are consequences and no explanations.
What good do emotions cause? I was interested in thinking about why they exist and why people who show emotion are considered sensitive and people who hide their emotions are considered heartless. By most peoples standards I am one of the most insensitive people around. What do emotions prove? Do they demonstrate our humanity or are they the characteristic that causes the majority of poor decisions? I have seen more people make bad choices because of emotions. Instead of thinking about what should logically happen in a given situation people reflect on regrettable circumstance and say 'It felt right at the time'. In some cases people confuse impulses with emotion and blame one on the other when a bad decision is made. In my time I have seen a lot of poor decisions made and regretted more times when the decisions were based on how people felt about a situation rather than doing what they have been taught or even have experienced.
Which brings me to an interesting opportunity to suggest that emotions are the desire to experience even if we know how 'the story goes'. In the book "Conversations with God" there is a passage that explains we all need to experience ourselves not to learn but to remember. As if we know the truth or the outcome of how things are and how they will be but need to experience to remember the things we have supposedly forgotten. This is an interesting point and would lead me to believe this is what emotions do for us. They take us to the point of wanting to experience things for ourselves even though we know and we have seen the results of 'that' path before. That path that has such an obvious outcome, but we push the limits of our emotions to risk the possibility of pain in search of pleasure.
I would call a master someone who controls their mind so completely that they engage in activities they consider emotionally challenging or potentially painful and resolve the situation to think of it as a good experience regardless of how the majority of people would be affected by it. Everyone would agree that experience of any outcome is ultimately good. Remember the phrase 'We learn from our mistakes'? Most people I have known look back and learn a thing or two from their successes and failures alike. A master celebrates the success and the failure the same way immediately when they happen. Even though the success is instinctively or emotionally rewarding the master knows you can learn more from a mistake. In essence one gains more from a failure. Of course most people only learn from their failures after they feel sorry for themselves for a few days or even weeks. The fool never learns at all and repeats the mistake showing he/she didn't take anything from their experience.
What about the people who are considered heartless or cold? Can we determine those people are missing the fruits of life because they fear or think about the situation at hand? From what was discussed earlier it would seem so. If emotion is an indication of wanting to experience beyond the possibility of injury to mind, body and soul would thought, which would usually keep you out of harms way, be the same as fearing life? If we don't have experiences to live through, what are we doing in life? Are we merely spectators to the ones who are experiencing what they feel?
I have usually been the type of person who bases my decisions on what I have thought about. It can also be said that thinkers have a security in knowing how things will turn out. It is like a prediction. The thought isn't so much a guess or risk as it is a statistic based on what we or someone else experienced in the past.
I think that what I have determined so far, at 4:00am in the morning, is the thinkers aren't truly living. We think our way out of the experiences we would have had if we would have followed our heart. Thinkers want a sure thing. Thinkers try to predict what will happen from others experiences and not usually their own. If you agree with me about the greater the experiences the greater the life then you will know that there is a time to think and there is a time to live. Who is doing more of what? You can live or watch other people do what everyone was born to do. I said it earlier, that fear is to stop yourself from the experience. That experience is all we have to know that we live and then to find out if what we just experienced is what we were created for. How can we base our own entire lives on the results of other people? I hope you don't think that because someone is a good golfer that you can be too or that if someone failed in the restaurant business that you will too. You might hate the game of golf and you might be great for the restaurant industry. The point is you will need to experience both in order to know. You will need to live as much as possible before you remember everything you were supposed to be doing all along.
Can you imagine getting by in life doing as little as possible and being happy with it? Not only are some people living by 'minimums are maximums' they put themselves in an environment where their lack is normalized, sustained and even encouraged. Many people have been repelled from me because I push people to not forget their potential. Recently I have had a brief conversation with Amy about her excessive sleeping habits. I explain that she can't live by sleeping because sleep is not actual experience and there is no way to contribute to others while she is sleeping. I reiterated that she will not do the things she wants to unless she is awake and aiming towards achieving her goals. She said helplessly that she would never get to do the things she wants. Somehow she doesn't believe in rewarded effort. I was a little surprised at her hopeless attitude. I didn't think she would give up on herself. Most of her attitude stems from depression but I am not convinced she will renew her dreams after the depression passes.
I have often given an analogy of lost dreams. I use the example of how we think as kids and the things we own. As a kid I had all sorts of toys to play with and all sorts of posters on the wall. The things I had were completely similar to what most kids had. I had Star Wars, GI-Joe, posters of girls and cars. Kids have these things around their bedrooms because they believe these things are possible to obtain. In a boys case we believe we can have a girl that looks like the ones in the posters and own those cars. We even believe in flying through space killing the bad-guys. Somewhere between high school and college we are taught that we are foolish for playing with toys like that because that is not ever going to happen and we may as well throw those posters away because those things just don't happen for most people. It isn't any wonder most people don't ever accomplish anything they want in life. We go through a system of learning that is against our natural ability to dream the dreams of children.


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Welcome back to another edition of New Release Reviews. It's a fine week in comics from Dark Horse Comics but that's not the biggest news of the week. Not with the premiere of Iron Man 3 happening, today. Reviews are in and they're very positive. Which is a good thing for Joss Whedon (director of The Avengers), who has a new comic this week from his Buffyverse, as he needs momentum to make the next film even better.
Dark Horse has four new releases to look at including Angel And Faith. As always … titles are scored on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the
very best possible. We take the time to read these books so your time
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Angel And Faith - Issue 21
As this series continues to wind down, the end goal seems to be in reach. Will Angel and Faith be able to resurrect Giles? The way things are going it sure looks like it, though, that may not be a good thing. There have been enough hints along the way to suggest that this sort of magic isn't a good idea. The leads probably aren't spending enough time asking themselves why they really want this. The Giles replacement Alasdair seems to echo this though his motives are kind of murky, as well.
This issue was a mixed bag. The continuity between this series and Buffy is great. Especially in how they're dealing with Dawn's predicament. Not so great is all the angsty stuff with Angel as well as the argument with Alasdair. The battle at the end was kind of confusing as well. The interior artwork is solid with excellent layouts. The cover is lovely. It has a great style to it and does and outstanding job of conveying Angel's emotion.
Score: 7.5 out of 10
B.P.R.D. : Vampire - Issue 2 (of 5)
This issue, though moody and atmospheric, was mostly a rather dull history lesson about the owner(s) of a house keep. The investigative aspects of the tale were enjoyable but it didn't seem to need all the space devoted to it. The next issue should be more exciting. The interior art was fine. It was stylish and simple, though it handled backgrounds well. The cover deserves a lot of praise for design even if the actual line-work was soft.
Score: 7.5 out of 10
The Massive - Issue 11
This issue continues an arc about survival and characters coming together or drifting apart. The most pronounced aspect of this story concerns the second greatest predator on the planet. Sharks. The issue spends a fair amount of time exploring the ecology of sharks and it was extremely interesting. And extremely terrifying, especially the grand-daddy of them all that appears in this issue.
The last third of the issue is nerve-wracking and not all the characters make it through. It was, also, horrific given the ecological impact the crash had on life in general. Here was the apex predator of the seas and there's no sign they're going to last much longer. As this book is a warning to reality, this particular issue is very sobering.
The dialogue has a unique pace to it but the words spoken ring true. The interior artwork is solid and expressive. The cover is very stylish with inventive layouts and an odd color palette.
Score: 9 out of 10
Dark Horse Presents - Issue 23
This was probably one of the weaker editions of Dark Horse Presents in it's current run. There were only a few stories worth your time and rest were just alright or worse. There was an unusual and violent cover. The gem was Nexus: In the Past. This was beautiful, meditative, and slightly horrific. Villain House was funny and kind of weird. King's Road : The Long Way Home seems to have a fun set up, though it's not sure what's happening with Resident Alien.
A few were off the mark, and that made it more disappointing. Bloodhoud : Plain Sight is alright but it assumes the reader knows more than it wants to tell. Brain Boy has a faux hipness hinting at something better, but it's still very common. Gabe And the Sandpiper is probably the most disappointing given that it's well drawn and well written. It's just extremely derivative of just about an Humphrey Bogart film ever made and something more could have happened.
In the weak section are several stories. Arcade Boy is fun when action is happening but is dull the rest of the time. Eden is just about as cold, miserable, and cynical a story as ever published. Journeyman is very abstract, though this Doctor Who knock-off feels like it could become something. Tiger Lung looks great but is utterly pointless.
Score: 6 out of 10
Overall a decent week from Dark Horse. The Massive is the comic with the most potential this week and it's quite good (or, in the case, not in danger of jumping the shark.) Everything else is alright but you can go either way on them. Stop on back next week for more New Release Reviews from Dark Horse Comics.


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The GIR mailing experienced two separate failures as well as a late in the
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The first failure is that it appears to have attached itself to an Apache
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hours total to mail. Once launched, there is no way to fix this problem
except to kill the mailing and restart it from scratch - sending
duplicates to those who did receive it the first time. We have never had
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identified, it is too late to restart it because of the duplicates. This
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buried somewhere in the spaghetti mess of code that runs the overall
site. Normally the slow threads are killed off by myself or Mike on a
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The second failure was a campaign configuration issue. All campaigns have
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The one benefit of the slow campaign delivery is that everyone who is
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Gabriela Herrera wrote:
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Gaming the U.S. Elections
*By George Friedman*
Domestic politics in most countries normally are of little interest
geopolitically. On the whole this is true of the United States as
well. Most political debates are more operatic than meaningful, most
political actors are interchangeable and the distinctions between
candidates rarely make a difference. The policies they advocate are so
transformed by Congress and the Supreme Court -- the checks and
balances the Founding Fathers liked so much, coupled with federalism
-- that the president rarely decides anything.
That is not how the world perceives the role, however. In spite of
evidence to the contrary, the president of the United States is
perceived as the ultimate "decider," someone whose power determines
the course of action of the world's strongest nation. Therefore, when
presidents weaken, the behavior of foreign powers tends to shift, and
when elections approach, their behavior shifts even more. The
expectation of change on the burning issue of Iraq is based on the
misperception that the American presidency is inherently powerful or
that presidents shape the consensus rather than react to it.
The inability of Congress to make any decisive move on Iraq
demonstrates that immobility isn't built only into the presidency. The
two houses of Congress are designed to be gridlocked. Moreover, the
congressional indecision reveals that behind all of the arias being
sung, there is a basic consensus on Iraq: the United States should not
have gone into Iraq and now that it is there, it should leave. There
is more to it than that, though. The real consensus is that the United
States should not simply leave, but rather do it in such a way that it
retains the benefits of staying without actually having to be there.
To sum up the contradiction, all of the players on the stage want to
have their cake and eat it, too. We are only being a trifle ironic.
When all is said and done, that is the policy the system has generated.
The United States has been in roughly this same position with the same
policy since World War II. The first time was in 1952 in Korea, when
the war was at a stalemate, the initial rationale for it forgotten and
Harry Truman's popularity about the same as President George W. Bush's
is now. The second time was in 1968, when any hope of success in the
Vietnam War appeared to be slipping away and Lyndon Johnson's
presidency collapsed.
In both cases, the new president followed the logic of the popular
consensus, regardless of whether it made sense. In the Korean
instance, the national position favored decisive action more than
withdrawal -- as long as the war would end. In Vietnam the demand was
for an end to the war, but without a defeat -- which was not going to
During Korea, Dwight D. Eisenhower appeared a formidable enemy to the
Chinese and his secret threat of using nuclear weapons seemed
credible. The war ended in a negotiated stalemate. In the case of
Vietnam, the public desire to get out of Vietnam without a defeat
allowed Richard Nixon to be elected on a platform of having a secret
plan to end the war. He then continued the war for four years, playing
off the fundamental contradiction in the consensus. Adlai Stevenson,
who ran against Eisenhower, might not have been nearly as effective in
convincing the Chinese to close the deal on Korea, but we doubt that
Hubert Humphrey would have differed much from Nixon -- or that Bobby
Kennedy, once in power, would have matched his rhetoric with action.
Yet the fact is that the world does not see the limits of the
presidency. In the case of Iraq, the perception of the various players
in Iraq and in the region is that the president of the United States
matters a great deal. Each of them is trying to determine whether he
should deal with the current president or with his successor. They
wonder who the next president will be and try to forecast the policies
that will break the strange consensus that has been reached.
Therefore, we need to begin handicapping the presidency as we did in
2004 <http://Story.neo?storyId=+236371>, looking for patterns. In
other words, policy implications aside, let's treat the election as we
might a geopolitical problem, looking for predictive patterns. Let's
begin with what we regard as the three rules of American presidential
politics since 1960:
The first rule is that no Democrat from outside the old Confederacy
has won the White House since John F. Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy
Carter and Bill Clinton were all from the Confederacy. Walter Mondale,
Michael Dukakis and John Kerry were from way outside the Confederacy.
Al Gore was from the Confederacy but lost, proving that this is
necessary, but not a sufficient basis for a Democratic win. The reason
for this rule is simple. Until 1964, the American South was solidly
democratic. In 1964 the Deep South flipped Republican and stayed
there. If the South and mountain states go Republican, then the
Democrats must do extraordinarily well in the rest of the country.
They usually don't do extraordinarily well, so they need a candidate
that can break into the South. Carter and Clinton did it, while
Johnson did extraordinarily well outside the South.
The second rule is that no Republican has won the White House since
Eisenhower who wasn't from one of the two huge Sunbelt states:
California or Texas (Eisenhower, though born in Texas, was raised in
Kansas). Nixon and Reagan were from California. Both Bush presidents
were from Texas. Gerald Ford was from Michigan, Robert Dole from
Kansas. They both lost. Again the reason is obvious, particularly if
the candidate is from California -- pick up the southern and mountain
states, pull in Texas and watch the Democrats scramble. Midwestern
Republicans lose and northeastern Republicans do not get nominated.
The third rule is that no sitting senator has won the presidency since
Kennedy. The reason is, again, simple. Senators make speeches and
vote, all of which are carefully recorded in the Congressional record.
Governors live in archival obscurity and don't have to address most
issues of burning importance to the nation. Johnson came the closest
to being a sitting senator but he too had a gap of four years and an
assassination before he ran. After him, former Vice President Nixon,
Gov. Carter, Gov. Reagan, Vice President Bush, Gov. Clinton and Gov.
Bush all won the presidency. The path is strewn with fallen senators.
That being the case, the Democrats appear poised to commit electoral
suicide again, with two northern senators (Hillary Clinton and Barack
Obama) in the lead, and the one southern contender, John Edwards, well
back in the race. The Republicans, however, are not able to play to
their strength. There are no potential candidates in Texas or
California to draw on. Texas right now just doesn't have players ready
for the national scene. California does, but Arnold Schwarzenegger is
constitutionally ineligible by birth. In a normal year, a charismatic
Republican governor of California would run against a northern
Democratic senator and mop the floor. It's not going to happen this time.
Instead, the Republicans appear to be choosing between a Massachusetts
governor, Mitt Romney, and a former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani.
Unless Texan Ron Paul can pull off a miracle, the Republicans appear
to be going with their suicide hand just like the Democrats. Even if
Fred Thompson gets the nomination, he comes from Tennessee, and while
he can hold the South, he will have to do some heavy lifting elsewhere.
Unless Obama and Clinton self-destruct and Edwards creeps in, or Paul
does get a miracle, this election is shaping up as one that will break
all the rules. Either a northern Democratic senator wins or a
northeastern Republican (excluding Thompson for the moment) does. The
entire dynamic of presidential politics is in flux. All bets are off
as to the outcome and all bets are off as to the behavior of the new
president, whose promises and obligations are completely unpredictable.
If one is to ask whether the Iranians look this carefully at U.S.
politics and whether they are knowledgeable about the patterns, the
answer is absolutely yes. We would say that the Iranians have far more
insight into American politics than Americans have into Iranian
politics. They have to. Iranians have been playing off the Americans
since World War II, whatever their ideology. In due course the
underlying weirdness of the pattern this year will begin intruding.
Here is what the Iranian's are seeing: First, they are seeing Bush
become increasingly weak. He is still maintaining his ability to act
in Iraq, but only barely. Second, they see a Congress that is
cautiously bombastic -- making sweeping declarations, but backing off
from voting on them. Third, they see a Republican Party splitting in
Congress. Finally, they see a presidential election shaping up in
unprecedented ways with inherently unexpected outcomes. More
important, for example, a Giuliani-Clinton race would be so wildly
unpredictable that it is unclear what would emerge on the other side.
Any other pairing would be equally unpredictable.
This results in diplomatic paralysis across the board. As the
complexity unfolds, no one -- not only in the Iraq arena -- is sure
how to play the United States. They don't know how any successor to
Bush will behave. They don't know how to game out who the successor to
Bush is likely to be. They don't know how the election will play out.
From Iraq and Iran to Russia and China, the United States is becoming
the enigma and there won't be a hint of clarity for 18 months.
This gives Bush his strange strength. No president this low in the
polls should be acting with the confidence he shows. Part of it could
be psychological, but part of it has to do with the appreciation that,
given the strange dynamics, he is not your normal lame duck. Everyone
else is tied in knots in terms of policy and in terms of the election.
Bush alone has room to maneuver, and the Iranians are likely
calculating that it would probably be safer to deal with this
president now rather than expect the unexpected in 2008.
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UPDATED 8:13 AM CDT Mar 31, 2014Video TranscriptMORE TROUBLE FOR FIREFIGHTERS ON THIS WINDY, DRY SUNDAY. THIS TIME IN EASTERN COUNCIL BLUFFS, CREWS KEEP THE FLAMES AWAY FROM HOMES ALONG ASHLEY LANE... THAT'S JUST EAST OF THE BENT TREE GOLF COURSE. AS KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S TONY CORNETT REPORTS, A FIRE PIT SPARKED THE DANGER. A CONTROLLED FIRE THAT'S NEVER REALLY OUT YIELDS THE PERFECT SPARK FOR A --NEW--FIRE WHEN DRY WINDS GUST ACROSS PARCHED FIELDS...THAT'S WHAT CREATED THIS SCENE IN PACIFIC JUNCTION WEDNESDAY...AND THAT'S WHAT NEIGHBORS SAY HAPPENED IN BENT TREE SUNDAY AFTERNOON.WIND HIT THIS FIRE PIT, SMOLDERING EMBERS HIT THE DRY GRASS...AND FIRE RACED ALONG THESE BACK YARDSIT WAS PANIC TIME WITH GARDEN HOSES BEFORE VOLUNTEERS FROM THREE STATIONS KNOCKED THE FIRE DOWN...PRACTICALLY AT DOORSTEPS.A SMALL FIRE, BUT A BIG PROBLEM ACROSS TWO STATES. 82-PERCENT OF IOWA IS IN SOME KIND OF DROUGHT DISTRESS... NEBRASKA IS WORSE OFF AT 88- PERCENT...(Tony Cornett, Reporting, "You walk through this kind of material, and you can just hear how dry it is and how ready it is for a spark to set it ablaze. It only really takes three things: low moisture, gusty winds and this kind of crackly tinder.")URBAN DWELLERS CAN BE INSULATED FROM THE HEIGHTENED AWARENESS RED FLAG FIRE ALERTS BRING TO THE RURAL COUNTRYSIDE...(Sara Nelson, Knows Fire Danger, "No, I have no idea. I just know that a couple of years ago it was really bad.")NOW... AS THEN... --EVERYONE-- SEEMS TO SENSE THE LACK OF MOISTURE...(Annie Loring, Knows Fire Danger, "It's just so dry. You can just feel it under foot. It is so dry.")ANNIE LORING KNOWS... A VETERAN OF FIRE-PRONE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRE EVACUATIONS...(Annie Loring, Knows Fire Danger, "When I smell smoke on a windy day, I get a little nervous.")(Frank Wyzykowski, Knows Fire Danger, "Well, certainly when the wind is blowing as it has all week, kind of all spring, it's always kind of scary.") FIRES... LIKE THIS ONE ... --CAN-- BE PREVENTED WHEN THE RISK IS HIGH.(Brandi Hawkinson, Knows Fire Danger, "Just not light anything on fire, like a lighter or a match?")THAT'S A GOOD START.
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CHART OF THE DAY: Google is The Least Diversified Business In Tech. Google joue à la marchande. Une recherche en ligne vaudrait 0,5 dollar selon McKinsey. Google's Business Strategy: Have No Business Strategy. [This is the second in a three-part series of excerpts from Tim Harford's new book.
The first excerpt was "Why Do We Hold Fast To Losing Strategies? "] Google's CEO Eric Schmidt had a surprise when he walked into Larry Page's office in 2002. Google - Interactive Features - Portfolio.com. What Are The 20 Most Expensive Keyword Categories In Google AdWords? Google makes a heck of a lot of money from online advertising.
In fact, 97 percent of Google's revenue, which totaled $33.3 billion in the past twelve months, comes from advertising. WordStream, a venture capital-backed provider of hosted software that automates most of the manual work involved with creating and optimizing both paid and natural search engine marketing campaigns, has done some research to discover which keyword categories fetch the highest costs per click (CPC) in Google's AdWords solution. Marketers Root For Expanded Opportunities Represented By Google+ Marketers have had a close eye on the launch of Google+, and what I'm hearing at this point is similar to what I once heard about Bing.
In short, it's great to have a potential competitor to the behemoth in the space (Facebook, in this case), but how important Google+ becomes to marketers will depend on what kind of scale it achieves, and what kind of audience it ends up having. As Efficient Frontier's senior director of business analytics Siddharth Shah notes in a blog post: "While features and tools might draw advertisers to a platform, it's access to large audiences that is the biggest draw for advertisers when it comes to the adoption of a marketing platform." The most obvious Facebook analogue that was missing at Google+'s launch was the brand Page, which Google executives said would be coming soon, though they wouldn't indicate when the new feature would launch.
Google adds behavioural targeting to AdWords. Google has rolled out behavioural targeting for AdWords spots, allowing brands to target search ads based on users' previous browsing activity.
The search giant has been trialling what it calls "interest-based ad targeting" for the past year within specific verticals, but has now expanded it to all of AdWords. It's not clear whether ads will be automatically served to all Google users or whether people have to opt in, but Google said on its AdWords blog that ads will feature the new industry standard Ad Choices logo and it will be easy for consumers to opt out. Jon Krafcik, product manager for the Google Display Network, says: "As we've made interest categories available to more advertisers, we've remained committed to providing users with the highest level of control and transparency."
He adds that it will give advertisers an "effective way to reach more interested users, increase awareness of your products and services, and ultimately drive more sales". Google Now Reaches 1 Billion People Per Month [STATS] Google has become the first company ever to hit the 1 billion uniques landmark, according to comScore.
In May, unique visitors to Google's websites rose 8.4% compared to May 2010. Microsoft's sites were number two with 905 million uniques, a 15% rise. Google To Begin Charging For Directions Location Extensions. Google announced they will begin charging for searchers clicking on the directions of the location extensions found on some AdWords ads.
Location extensions add an address and phone number to your Google AdWords ads. In the past, clicking on a phone number via your mobile phone to call the advertiser or clicking on an address to bring up directions to the advertiser cost that advertiser nothing. Yes, clicking on the phone number was one thing Google eventually started charging for but not for driving directions. That is changing. Google poursuit son recul aux Etats-Unis.


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Happy Birthday, Mr. Pollini — And Mr. Brendel (And You, Mr. Michelangeli!)
There must be something pianistically felicitous about the 5th of January, because today not only marks Maurizio Pollini's 70th birthday, but it's also Alfred Brendel's 81st. And it would have been Arturo Benedetto Michelangeli's 92nd birthday today had he not passed away in 1995.
To celebrate all that virtuosity, here are three video clips that embody the artistry of these keyboard titans.
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Bestival - 10 to 13 September 2015
Bestival returns to the beautiful Robin Hill Country Park, near Newport on the Isle of Wight for its 12th year from 10 to 13 September 2015 with what we are sure will be another mega exciting and eclectic line-up! 2014's theme was 'Desert Island Disco' at they had the party of all parties to end the Festival summer including the officially the World's largest disco ball!
2014 acts including OutKast, Foals and Beck and Chic featuring Nile Rodgers. Other acts include Busta Rhymes (UK exclusive), Disclosure, London Grammar, Paloma Faith, Basement Jaxx, Candi Staton and literally hundreds more, check out our Facebook pages for the very latest news for 2015 or add your email address below.
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10 Essential Camping Tips
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scorching summer ahead with numerous other festivals, and the school holidays
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fields this summer, plus the lowdown on where in the UK, realbuzz.com thinks
the top camping sites are. We take the whole pursuit of being outdoors and
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realbuzz.com Top 10 camping tips and our list of top 20 UK campsites http://www.realbuzz.com/articles/top-20-uk-campsites/ - Use a checklist - there is nothing worse that arriving at your campsite http://www.realbuzz.com/articles/top-20-uk-campsites/ only to discover that you've forgotten the tent pegs, the loo roll, and the camping stove! - Practice in the garden - if you've never been before then make sure you give your tent a go in the garden. It's worth knowing what you've got in that little bag, and how it all fits together! - Protect your tent - tents can be expensive and you don't want to use it just the once. Protect the ground sheet with a sheet underneath, use protective products on the outside, and always wash and clean it when you've finished it. - Spares - always keep spare guy ropes, and tent pegs with you, you'll never know when you might need them! - Camping etiquette - ensure that whilst you're staying at the campsite that you respect your neighbours, don't park too close, keep the noise down after dark, and tidy your pitch before leaving. You want to be asked back don't you? - Food Storage - always, always keep your food in airtight containers - you really don't need wildlife rummaging through your tent at 3am! - Avoid Fire Hazards - never cook, smoke, or have candles or naked flames in a tent. Most tents and sleeping bag materials are extremely flammable, use a windshield to create a cooking area. - Keeping it handy - keep to hand torches, and loo roll when going to sleep. You don't want to be rummaging around and waking everyone else up when you need to use the conveniences... - Keeping it safe - never leave anything valuable in your tent. Lock them in your car, or take them with you wherever you go. You can't lock a tent... - Recognisable - especially at festivals, but can occasionally happen at busy campsites. You want to be able too recognise your tent when you are in a busy field, or at night time. You don't want to be tripping over the guy ropes into someone else's tent, ensure you know where you pitched, and give yourself a landmark to get back to your tent. Many tents are very similar...
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