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One Direction heartthrob Niall Horan has won his Twitter war with Welsh rugby star Mike Phillips hands down – after he was challenged to a training ground dust-up.
The Irish singer mocked the Lions scrum-half on the social network site after Ireland's 26-3 win over Wales in the Six Nations on Saturday.
Phillips was yellow-carded late in the game after a brawl with several Irish players following Paddy Jackson's last minute try for the home side.
Having cheered Ireland on via Twitter, the Mullingar superstar tweeted: "Mike Phillips is like a child throwing his toys out of the pram! his attitude is terrible, looks like a right arrogant idiot."
Phillips, 11 years older than the boyband hunk and twice his size, took exception to the remarks and tweeted: "Come down to training in the week big boy. Bring the rest of The Beatles with you."
The Irish Sun reports that an angry army of One Direction fans attacked Phillips on Twitter after he called Horan out.
Even Ireland full-back Rob Kearney got in on the act when he tweeted: "Don't worry @NiallOfficial — I've got your back!!"
Horan then compared Phillips to a Welsh TV star when he called the player: 'awannabe Steve Jones.'
He then joked: "Cool story big fella! only go and watch good rugby teams anyway so no thanks ! #wanabeestevejones"
Phillips eventually backed down when he tweeted an old photo of himself and Rob in happier times.
The paper says a contrite Phillips told the pair: "Where did it all go wrong! Haha congrats on the win @NiallOfficial @KearneyRob."
Kearney accepted the climbdown and said: "All a bit of Sunday fun!! Myself and Mike enjoyed a (night) out last night. Hope you boys got home safe and sound!"
Horan also enjoyed it and said: "His comebacks are very good though, natttt! He's some man to call out a 20 year old as well! he's cool."
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Of all the things for Jerry Sandusky to have named his 2001 autobiography, he had to name it "Touched." No really, the creepy Penn State football coach who's been indicted for molesting boys in the showers, titled his book "Touched." I know I've said this twice alreadly (thrice if you count the title), but that's because I can't quite believe it. You can't make this stuff up. No you really can't. You can find most of this ghostwritten atrocity on Google books by clicking here (I tried to embed it, but Open Salon doesn't like the code). I bet this thing is filled with real sick unintentional double entendres, but I'm not going to spend the day looking for them. Hey Internet, have at it. Have a ball.
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We report the crystal structure of the yeast protein Hpa2 in complex with acetyl coenzyme A (AcCoA) at 2.4 A resolution and without cofactor at 2.9 A resolution. Hpa2 is a member of the Gcn5-related N-acetyltransferase (GNAT) superfamily, a family of enzymes with diverse substrates including histones, other proteins, arylalkylamines and aminoglycosides. In vitro, Hpa2 is able to acetylate specific lysine residues of histones H3 and H4 with a preference for Lys14 of histone H3. Hpa2 forms a stable dimer in solution and forms a tetramer upon binding AcCoA. The crystal structure reveals that the Hpa2 tetramer is stabilized by base-pair interactions between the adenine moieties of the bound AcCoA molecules. These base-pairs represent a novel method of stabilizing an oligomeric protein structure. Comparison of the structure of Hpa2 with those of other GNAT superfamily members illustrates a remarkably conserved fold of the catalytic domain of the GNAT family even though members of this family share low levels of sequence homology. This comparison has allowed us to better define the borders of the four sequence motifs that characterize the GNAT family, including a motif that is not discernable in histone acetyltransferases by sequence comparison alone. We discuss implications of the Hpa2 structure for the catalytic mechanism of the GNAT enzymes and the opportunity for multiple histone tail modification created by the tetrameric Hpa2 structure.
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@MikeMason-- I'm not a doctor but I don't think that there are major negative lecithin side effects when used for the long-term. If you're getting your lecithin from foods, there certainly aren't any negative side effects. On the contrary, I heard that lecithin is good for the liver and basically every other organ.
The lecithin supplements on the market are usually made from soy lecithin. Even though I don't like soy products in general because soy is genetically modified, I think the soy lecithin supplements are very safe. I don't think you will experience any problems.
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It is wholly improbable that the so-called learned dogs, which are said to have been taught to count, have really been lifted to the abstract notion of numbers. They have simply been taught to associate certain signs or words of their master with par- ticular graphic signs, the geometrical figure of which has been impressed upon their memory. In the same way that the horse associates the words " gee ! " and " haw ! " with his right and his left, and dogs associate the sound of the horn or trumpet with the chase, they may associate with figures which are shown to them the names as j^ronounced of those figures, but without compre- hension of their numerical relations, and without distinguishing them in any other way than by the difference in their shape. They may be taught to arrange them when commanded in any particu- lar order, without it being necessary to suppose that they have any idea of their arithmetical significance.
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Sword of Divine is great with Infinite Duress and other things. I get it for the attack speed and the 100 more damage every 4 hits, since I don't really need half the stats on Phantom Dancer.
WOWOWOWOWOW never thought of getting it with the ult! Definitly trying it out this weekend, will post feedback!
atma's + wilts's end > infinity edge in terms of damage with his ult i really find your item selection too costly malady + sword of divine > Phantom Dancer i usually end games with only 4 items in my inventory boots included warwick is a great pusher so maximize it to finish it quick
so based on this guide i have tried quite some games with warwick, here's what i found: 1) i never got rally but flash instead with 2 purposes: flash to get in position for your ult if you fail to come close enough by running because the guy is at about 51% of health so blood scent doesn't kick in *rooooar* and ulti in, hunters call, strike - > flash out try to lose focus -> go in hungering strike again. 2) i used the following runes: red: armor pen yellow: dodge blue: -cdr i reckon a lot of people do and the feedback here seems to approve of this. 3) i tried a lot with masteries and i permformed best with a 0/9/21 setup which leads to... 4) i felt a semi-tank warwick was really amazing. so after the first game playing him merely as a ganker i started to make a gank-tank out of it and i was amazed. he was a really helpful asset to the team, could sustain himself in fights with lifesteal, hungering strike and 1 or 2 tank items and was fun to play usually i ended with bloodrazor, sunfire cape, merc treads and building my way to my 4th item of choice, never finishing it (either veil or some BF-sword item like BT). sunfire synergizes very well with duress as well i was amazed at how much longer i could stay in a fight. not to mention how much you can spam hungering strike with 9% cdr from masters, 6% from runes and the golem buff. also, i tend to prio hunters call over blood scent because i literally spam it especially if i got 2 or more other physical damage champs in the team. if it's more a caster team i prio blood scent though. thanks for your guide it made me play warwick again and realize how enjoyable he actually is. your jungle rotation is good as well. i tried around a bit witht he first small camp because of the delayed appearance of the golem but it ain't work well because you lack the mana regen without golem buff first.
Good guide first off. I usually get wraiths 1st, smite blue kill 3, get hunter's call as first skill, then go to small camp then golem, i can usually get this done shortly after he spawns. Runes i run, red atk speed, yellow dodge, blue cd per lvl, and quints armor pen. I think this works a lil betta cause u get a little bit of a jump. Just my opinion, other than that really enjoyed it, good job.
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Heritage will offer women's Bible study based on Brownback book
Heritage Church, a reformed Baptist church in Fayette County, will begin the study, "A Woman's Wisdom — how the book of Proverbs speaks to everything" by Lydia Brownback, on Fridays from 10 to 11:30 a.m. beginning Sept. 13 and continuing until Nov. 22.
All ladies college age and up are invited to attend.
Each week ladies will have light refreshments and discuss a chapter of the book. Childcare is provided for preschoolers. Cost is $15.
Lydia Brownback (Westminster Theological Seminary, M.A.R.) is a Christian book editor, a speaker at women's conferences nationwide, and an author of several books including the "On-the-Go Devotional" series, "Fine China Is for Single Women Too," and "Legacy of Faith."
The book addresses how women can face very real challenges such as:
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Starbucks is on a libertarian tear. After expanding beer and wine sales last week, the coffee kingpin released a letter to all partners in full support of same-sex marriage rights. It's a bold move considering just how much PR trouble other large brands like Home Depot are currently having with the issue.
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Like any good politician, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter always has his finger to the wind. And that's why he asked the organizers of the city's German Christmas Village at City Hall to put the word "Christmas" back in their sign this week.
He's also part of a trend that is seeing Americans yearn for a broader restoration of "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Hanukkah" greetings over mundane and secular dronings like "Happy Holidays."Continue reading...
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The American Family Association appears to be under the impression that the Gap is stealing Christmas. Why? Because the Gap's holiday ads use terms like "Go Christmas, Go Hanukkah, Go Kwanzaa, Go Solstice!"
The AFA, the organization founded in 1977 as the "National Federation for Decency" by ultra-conservative Rev. Doug Wildmon, called for a two-month boycott of Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy:
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The Funky Chef: Chef Juna Rorimpandey
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A téte a téte with a macho kinda guy who went far from what he originally tried to achieve and wound up being one helluva chef.
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Not many Indonesians have achieved respect as great chefs, especially overseas. Most chefs would start by studying in an F&B school in a country like Switzerland followed by years of internship around the world in renowned establishments before coming back home to open their own restaurant. Chef Juna Rorimpandey escaped all of that and had a totally different experience. He earned his reputation by working in impressive establishments such as the world renowned French Laundry in Napa Valley and ended up as executive chef for the prestigious restaurant Kenzo Sushi Bistro, in Katy, Texas. Such an amazing achievement by an Indonesian in Uncle Sam's land.
"My profession happened by accident. I went to the US (Brownsville, Texas) in 1997 for a flight school. I got my private pilot license, but in the middle of taking my commercial license, the school went bankrupt. So, I went to Houston to continue training, but then in early 1998 Indonesia fell into the economic crisis. My mother told me that she couldn't help me financially, so I had to survive working anything illegally (no working permit) so I could live."
"After a couple of jobs, I eventually worked in a traditional Japanese restaurant as a waiter (they paid me cash). After two weeks the sushi master asked me if I wanted to be his student, so I said yes. I started from the bottom, trained so hard and worked my way up. The owner of the restaurant was so impressed with my work ethic and performance that he sponsored me to get my permanent residency. In 2002, I took over as the head chef of the restaurant after my master chef left for another restaurant. Then in 2003, I went to work for the number one upscale sushi/lounge restaurant in Houston, called "Uptown Sushi. I entered as second in command right away and after a couple of months, I became their executive chef. In early 2004 I was bored with raw preparations and Japanese cooking, so I went to work for a French / New American fine-dining restaurant, worked my way up from the bottom to top, then I went to a couple of other places and did the same thing, working two jobs eager to learn more. Finally in August 2007, I was asked to open Kenzo Sushi Bistro from the ground up being their executive chef."
Of course, by saying French/New American fine dining, Chef Juna is referring to the famous French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley. Known as a restaurant that implements such high standards in the kitchen, it is quite remarkable that he was accepted as one of the cooks. "Yes, The French Laundry… they still have a position open for me there if I ever decided to go back with them. But I tell you, they are such a fine establishment, not just the food, but the management also. We work so hard and it's disciplined like the military. There is punishment for mistakes and it's so easy to get 'your butt chewed off' for a simple mistake. It is an honour to be able to work for them, I learned a lot of techniques, and how to handled proteins, seasonal ingredients, local and organic products, and of course, dishes that you wouldn't think could be so delicious and pretty".
French Laundry is the creation of renowned chef Thomas Keller, who is also the owner of the restaurant – a uniquely American restaurant whose inspiration lies in the countryside of France. In this restaurant, they create two unique, nine-course tasting menus everyday, including a chef's tasting and a tasting of vegetables. No single ingredient is repeated throughout the meal to give the sense of surprise and freshness. Their achievement has been acknowledged around the world. Michelin Guide awarded them three stars in 2006 and French Laundry also became the perennial top finisher in the annual 'Restaurant Magazine list of the Top 50 Restaurant of The World'.
Chef Juna's move to Kenzo has made this recently opened restaurant one of the most-talked-about newcomers in town. Though it is also a fine dining establishment like French Laundry, Kenzo has implemented more Japanese influence in its concept by having a full-fronted sushi bar. The menu ranges from modern Japanese to non-Asian. "Actually we can almost do everything The French Laundry can, except we have to choose to either make it as an appetizer or entree. It just that we (at Kenzo) can't do such unique products, as the clientele are different, and the prices are a little too steep for an upscale casual restaurant such as Kenzo compared to a fine-dining establishment like The French Laundry, where they can charged US$240 and up per person excluding beverages."
"In our region, we are a little different from any other Japanese restaurant. We are located in Katy, Texas (25 mins outside Houston) and it's a new developing area. We do offer something different, as the hot food is more towards New American/French influences and we are pretty elaborate with the raw stuff (sushi/sashimi) such as live sea urchin, live abalone, seasonal sashimi grade fish and shellfish, lobster sashimi and lots of other stuff. With the creative and delicious Kenzo specialty rolls, and martini and mixed drinks menu that we have we do have a good lounge crowd. Kenzo works well as most Japanese restaurants in the area are more like family restaurants with traditional Japanese food."
Since opening a year ago, Kenzo has been receiving many rave reviews from punters and critics alike. It seems that Juna's 12 years experience in some of the country's best kitchens has really made him one of America's great chefs. It is no longer just a job, it is something that he loves to do. He believes that in cooking, we have to respect the products and take care of them properly. It is important to try every dish or sauce before you put it out. Chef Juna understands that to achieve great creativity in the kitchen, you cannot cut corners. Instead, to work cleanly and be organized are the keys to success.
"Cooking is something that you love when you work in the kitchen, it is not just a job! It is your passion and it is a hard work. I love cooking, because I look at it as an art (I love art, but I can't draw or play music instruments), so when I create a new dish it is like you have finished an art project. Strive for perfection, make the dish delicious, and make it look pretty with colorful ingredients to create the final presentation on the plate. Every night when I cook in the kitchen, especially in a super busy night, I feel such a sense of accomplishment, because I make my customers full, happy, and give them a great dining experience."
"I also love the hectic atmosphere in a busy kitchen, the sound of a hot pan when you put the ingredients in, utensils banging, tickets coming out from the printer, people communicating to each other about what they're doing, all of that it just like music to my ears."
Chef Juna is really a one-of-a-kind type of chef. With fully tattooed arms and driving a big motorcycle, it wouldn't cross your mind that he is actually a great chef. He is returning to Indonesia to explore the opportunity of opening his own restaurant and we'll be lining up once he does to give it the once over.
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he's really amazing and really inspiring!!!!!!!!!! :D
I think i have a new idoL!! :P hihihiyLove u Junaaa:D
i love u soo much chef Juna…
Great achievemnt Juna, you make our family proud my nephew…
Kind regards from the Netherlands… -
what a long long journey to you… so it must be hard for you to be a judge in master chef to mentoring them (i think it is the best word for you not to be a judge, but, to be a mentor). ^_^
Gbu. -
Can't wait to taste his restaurant, please keep update RFV about this glorious stunning chef Juna (^_^)
I think you're the real chef…my dear chef Juna ^_^
Talented…Handsome…Fungky…Gorgeous…that's all is in you,
Indonesia have to be proud have a great chef like you. I'm really…really like the way you cook.
Be my good idol who have a kind heart always.
By the way honestly you have a sweet smile & cool eyes ;) I'm so jealous when you take a picture with aline :( hehehehe..
Hope someday you will come to Surabaya for cooking demonstrate and I'll be there.
I can't be patient anymore to see you on saturday (Master Chef-RCTI).
Good Bless You..my dear Juna!!! -
love u juna………
Sawasdi ka….. My name is jessica im fron thailand. Since a couple years ago i only have a one wish…that is come to indonesia for enjoying chef juna's signature. I watch every show on tv or internet and hunting his profile. I have one funny experience, that is for a last couple night i never sleep i spent my time for watch masterchef indonesia season 2.that because i love to see chef juna.so in the morning im always hurt in eyes.but i know i have to responsible to my own business. So i go to my office with hurt eyes everyday…


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I finally got around to building my own pc, mostly with the intent of gaming on it but also as a backup to my laptop... If something ever happened to it, I'd pretty much be stuck with a desktop having only 512mb ddr...It didn't hurt that this could replace that 360 I always intended on getting either since I already have a ps3 an wii...But here's some the specs if you're interested (am I doing this right? XD):
AMD Phenom x4 9850 2.5ghz
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Take a journey through time with the Rockettes, and see how they have evolved over the decades.
The Rockettes are one of the world's most famous dance groups, captivating audiences with precision dance choreography in performances at Radio City Music Hall. Dedicated to anyone who dances or loves to move, our website is where we share our love of dance and dance training as well as fashion, beauty, and fitness & health. We're giving you fitness tips on our most effective dancing exercise and some of our favorite dance fitness workout routines. We have plenty of recipes for healthy meals and snacks, plus tips on fashion and makeup, beauty tutorials, inspirational dance quotes, personal stories and a look at our latest costumes as well as costumes through the years. The site also includes dance in education information with details about our year-round and summer dance classes. These include classes for beginning and intermediate students, our summer dance programs for advanced students and dance classes for adults in private parties at Radio City Music Hall.


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Enthralled about the latest instalment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy? Fancy yourself as a bit of a Bat-fan? Well prepare to eat your words, as this mega (rich) fan eclipses all others, and prepares to embark on a $2 million renovation of his basement, transforming it into a 'Bat-cave' themed, home theatre.
The company carrying out the revamp, Elite Home Theatres have made this venture the focus for their Theatre of the month feature, and recently commented…
"Our goal was to fuse together the cosy elements of the Wayne Manor, with the Art Deco styling of Gotham City"
Dumbfounded by such an audacious project? Or are you, more likely, just a little bit jealous?
Thanks to some CG artistry we are able to see the provisional plans for this project, keep a close eye out for the final outcome. We'll be sure to keep you posted if we hear anything!


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How can I tell the difference between a cold, the flu and pneumonia?
If it's winter, it's also the coughing, sneezing, scratchy throat and achy body season. And with the non-stop news about the H1N1 virus, it's not surprising that people are more concerned than ever before about knowing the difference between colds, flu and pneumonia
In their early stages, these three illnesses have similar symptoms. Here are some ways to tell them apart. Remember, if you are in doubt about whether or not you should contact your physician about an illness, you probably should call.
On average, adults contract two or three colds each year and children as many as half a dozen. Coughing and sneezing often are thefirst outward signs of a cold, but by the time you notice these symptoms you will already have a cold and will be passing the virus to others. Other signs of a cold are sinus pain, a sore throat and mild body aches. You can "catch a cold" just by inhaling a virus that has been released into the air from an infected individual's cough or sneeze. And when infected individuals cough or sneeze into their hands, they keep the virus out of the air, but can then deposit it on doorknobs, handrails or elevator buttons. The next person who touches the same spot, picks up the virus and can then become infected by touching his or her nose or eyes.
The best cold remedies are rest and lots of fluids. If you have any chronic medical condition or take any prescription medication, check with your physician before taking an over-thecounter cold medicine. Also contact your physician if your cold persists for more than a week, if your cough suddenly worsens or you develop a fever
The flu, which is also caused by a contact virus, strikes suddenly and with more intensity than a cold. A sudden, high fever (above 100.4º) accompanied by significant body aches indicates the flu. The flu can also cause headaches, extreme fatigue and a mild cough or mild sore throat.
If you haven't gotten a flu vaccine, contact your health care provider or check with your local health department for free clinics. The H1N1 vaccine has been in short supply, but should be more plentiful in the near future. You will need that and the seasonal vaccine to give yourself the best chance of staying flu free this season. Flu season usually continues through early spring.
If you develop flu symptoms, rest and drink lots of liquids and take over-thecounter medications for fever and body aches. Stay home until you recover. You can continue to spread the flu virus for a full day after your symptoms disappear. Prescription antiviral medications may help you recover more quickly, but you will need to begin taking the medication soon after symptoms develop. Bacterial pneumonia, dehydration and a worsening of such chronic medical conditions as congestive heart failure or asthma are all potential complication from the flu.
A serious infection of the lungs that can be caused by either bacteria or a virus, pneumonia is particularly dangerous for people who have been weakened by other medical conditions. Early on, pneumonia may seem like a bad chest cold. But the combination of a fever, headache, fatigue and a strong "wet" or "dry" cough that makes breathing difficult, indicate pneumonia.
Contact a physician immediately if you suspect pneumonia. Your physician can diagnose pneumonia easily, but may order a chest x-ray to confirm the diagnosis and to determine whether it is bacterial or viral pneumonia. Prescription antibiotics are needed to combat bacterial pneumonia. Treatment for viral pneumonia consists of managing the symptoms and the use of anti-viral medications.
If you are older, experience frequent chest colds or have chronic medical conditions, ask your physician if you should receive the pneumonia vaccine.
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Hope in the Heartland Gala
The American Cancer Society presents "Hope in the Heartland Gala – A Derby Good Time with a Cure in Mind" this summer at the former grounds of the Ak-Sar-Ben Race Track to raise money in the fight against cancer. The event, which was recently recognized by Metro Magazine's The Big Event 2013 for "Best First Annual Event," will be held Friday, July 25, at 6 p.m. at Stinson Park in Aksarben Village with all proceeds benefiting the American Cancer Society. The event is noteworthy in Omaha for its casual, outdoor atmosphere and for the eclectic selection of food that guests can sample, prepared by local chefs and restaurants. Live musical entertainment will be provided by popular Omaha band Finest Hour.
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Form letter for changing personal information on your credit report
Names can change throughout the course of a lifetime. To ensure accurate credit reporting, inform the credit bureaus of the change. You want them to know you're the same person you were pre-name change.
Remember, in addition to changing your name on financial accounts, you also need to let Uncle Sam know; your Social Security card needs to reflect your new moniker.
Personalize the form letter below by entering your specifics in the areas in red. You can print out this Web page and make your changes by hand or copy the body of the letter and paste it into a document where you can make your changes on your PC.
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Equifax P.O. Box 740256 Atlanta, GA 30374
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Re: Request to change name on credit report
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My credit information with your company current is currently held under my previous name: Full previous name. However, I have recently changed my name and now am legally known as: Full new name.
This letter is my formal request that you change your records to reflect my new legal name. In addition to my new name, your data should indicate my new address. Below I have listed, along with my Social Security number, my prior name and previous address and my new name and address to which my records should be changed:
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It restores program applications that are closed by accident, like, OOPS! Then run it then restore! It's like the program state is still stored inside the RAM until 10 seconds, and GoneIn60s restores them! Pretty cool!
Nothing, just installer problems. It can't be running everytime you start your PC. Or maybe a faster way to run it. Solution to Running Everytime: See at Summary.
This program is great, but adding an installer is a way of this. GoneIn60s should have exceptions if a program asks to exit and save. And you click it. It won't run everyday you start your PC. Solution: Go to Registry Editor by Start>Run>"regedit">OK. Then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM)/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run then add a new value. The type is a String. Write the value name as you like. Then type the filename, example "GI60s-JaNa.exe" is your GoneIn60s file. So type the filename of your GoneIn60s executable with the .exe extension. at the "String value" textbox. Then press OK. Log-Off first, then restart. GoneIn60s will start itself!
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If you love bold, colorful design, these outdoor pillows are for you. The striking geometric print will infuse your outdoor living space with pattern and energy. Color, paired with the geometric pattern, can go a long way. Toss a couple pillows on solid-hued outdoor furniture cushions over a geometric patio rug to create a balanced space. These pillows are made with weather-resistant fabric to help keep your space looking fresh.
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Now debate starts on undoing it
PUBLISHED: 09 Nov 2011 00:02:00 | UPDATED: 09 Nov 2011 11:56:14PUBLISHED: 09 Nov 2011 PRINT EDITION: 09 Nov 2011Laura Tingle Political editor
Five solid years of talking about why it should be done, couldn't be done, shouldn't be done and why she couldn't possibly do it have come to an end. It is done.
Australia now has a carbon price. The debate now begins in earnest about why it must be undone, why it cannot be undone, and how he can't possibly undo it.
It was really only the Greens who seemed elated yesterday when the clean energy future bills finally passed through the Senate.
The government's relief was palpable.
Whatever you think of the carbon package – and the business establishment remains deeply unhappy about it, its high starting price, and lack of flexibility – Julia Gillard has achieved something that defeated John Howard, Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd. And she has done it from minority government, even if a big slab of that minority is Green.
The legislation was passed on a day when the polls seemed finally to be showing some light ahead for Gillard's prime ministership and Labor, and putting pressure on Tony Abbott's negative strategy.
In the Senate, all the heat seemed to have gone out of the debate, despite the Coalition's best attempts to do anything it could to delay the vote, an impression reinforced by the spectre of Tony Abbott leaving the country as the vote came on.
The Coalition says it will repeal the law, but the threat seemed a long way away yesterday.
The Coalition believes the carbon price will destroy Labor. But with the law now passed, the debate becomes much more complicated.
Labor will have to keep the new tax from being blamed for the murk of growing international economic uncertainty and rising electricity prices.
But the Coalition will now have to explain how it undoes such a massive package of both market-price reforms and compensation.
Its recent performance on other issues – notably its superannuation backflip – has given the backbench reason to be nervous about political management and quite terrified about where all the money will come from.
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Following an alleged feud with Kristen on his birthday, May 13, Rob reportedly lugged a number of his belongings and dogs out of K-Stew's house and took them back to his own. Oh no!
On May 19, Robert Pattinson, wearing backwards cap and driving a red pickup truck, was seen moving all of his things out of Kristen Stewart's Los Feliz, California house.
Robert Pattinson Moves Stuff Out Of Kristen Stewart's House
"He showed up early in the morning in a big red pickup truck and was in the house for maybe 30 minutes," an eyewitness told Life & Style magazine. "When he came out, the back of the truck was loaded with stuff. Suitcases, a bike, trash bags full of his things."
Shockingly, Rob was spotted taking the dogs he shares with Kristen, Bear and Bernie, with him as well, according to X17 Online!
Rob allegedly can't get over the fact that Kristen cheated on him in 2012. They've reportedly parted ways for a bit and now, according to our sources, Rob and Kristen are allowing each other to date other people.
Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Dating Other People
A friend of Kristen's tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively, "They are basically allowed to date other people and Kristen is super sad over the whole thing. She has absolutely no desire to date anyone and the thought of Rob possibly seeing other people has made her sick to her stomach. She's depressed and rightly so. Her good friends have been hanging out with her at her house giving her support. This is a tough time for both of them. But Kristen seems to be taking the split the hardest."
For those who were hoping that Rob and Kristen's split would just be a temporary break, these latest developments speak volumes. However, we're still holding out hope though that this time apart will give them better perspective on the relationship and will strengthen things in the long run.
What do you think, HollywoodLifers? Let us know!
WATCH: Robert Pattinson Packs Up Moves Out Of Kristen Stewart's House
— Chris Rogers
More Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Breakup News:
- Robert Pattinson: You Can't Live With Kristen Stewart After Break Up
- Kristen Stewart Hasn't Left 'House For Days' Since Breakup — Report
- Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Still Living Together Despite Breakup
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Samuelle 40
Posted at 1:39 PM on May 22, 2013
Further comment it now appears Rob has gone to work to start on Stars pre shoot.Kristens house on market so he had to move his stuff before he went , that's logical wonder if she will move into his while he's away and she has still got dogs .This may explain time delay why it took him so long to move himself if it all came to a head on his BDay.So not all as it seems as always only half a story which ever way you want to jump.Also might explain why Kristen smiling when out and Rob happily socialising when out the night before .Are they just on a break as first indicated or is it a permanent split as usual no words from Rob,Kristen or PR so I guess it's wait and see time again.
Samuelle 40
Posted at 8:27 AM on May 22, 2013
If anyone believes the Sun well say no more.Who was it reported they were going to Cannes together and then holidaying in France what happened to that story complete rubbish,so wait for the next rumours to emerge as they surely will.Once again all cheating scandle dragged up again but from other rumours neither of them will emerge from this squeaky clean .Things weren't right before Kristen went to NYC and the continual meets with Perry certainly couldn't have helped.
Just get back to work Rob before you make matters even worse didnt appreciate how quiet it was while you were gone.All can have their sanity back until you change the goal posts again Kristen did her best but obviously not good enough for you .(new moon this time)always tried to be fair to both but even I m sick of all this drama.


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While working on a Francis Francis in our repair center, we found out it's awesome little secret: It comes with an internal PID! You can't adjust it yourself, and some of the newer models like the X7 aren't designed to be adjusted at all, but it will keep the boiler's temp within 1 degree of the set temperature — unlike less sophisticated thermostats that have a varying range of about 20 degrees and, thus, require temperature surfing.


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April 17, 2013 by Texas Motorplex
Filed under Featured Articles, Latest News
ENNIS, Texas (April 15, 2013) – What does Mopar mean? What makes a car, a Mopar? And what creates the frenzy behind some of the most loyal car brand owners in the country?
The answers may vary greatly depending on whom you ask. Some would tell you that Mopar is an all-encompassing term to describe any Chrysler-built vehicle. That's not a small amount of vehicles, either. That could include: Dodge, Chrysler, Plymouth, Imperial, Desoto and even Jeep and Eagle brands.
There are others, however, that will tell you the term has developed an urban dictionary of definitions from its wildly enthusiastic audience. Mopar could mean: Massively Over Powered and Respected. It could mean: Move Over People Are Racing.
Texas Motorplex officials really like that last one, considering there will be a car show, show-n-shine AND drag racing when the Mega Mopar Action Series Mopars at the Motorplex comes to the historic facility April 26-27.
The Mopar-powered weekend starts with a Fast Friday street legal event open to any and all cars, makes, models and driving experience. What better way to get ready for a power display on Saturday than with a high-octane warm-up on Friday night? Gates open at 6 p.m. April 26, racing will go until Midnight.
Mopars at the Motorplex gates open at 9 a.m. for a full day of celebrating one of the most powerful muscle car brands on the road today.
People who drive Chrysler and Dodge vehicles don't just like their cars, after all. They are obsessed with them; making the Mopars at the Motorplex an especially popular event for the die-hards who drive Chargers, Challengers and more.
"To say the least, the fans who come out to support the Mopar event and the participants involved with the Mopar event are some of the most dedicated and excited that we see all season," Texas Motorplex President and GM Gabrielle Stevenson said. "All of our car manufacturer events are unique and special and filled with a serious enthusiasm, and the Mopars at the Motorplex event is a great way to kick off the four we host each year."
Mega Mopar Series presents Mopars at the Motorplex April 26-27, 2013
2013 Mopars at the Motorplex Categories and Pricing
Participant entry fee: All Mopars at the Motorplex participants will be charged $25 (or just $20 in advance) to enter the event (Gate 10). Participants in Car Show, Show-n-Shine, Swap Meet and Car Corral will not have to pay additional fees.
Participants in LX Class, Super Pro, Electronics, Pro, Nostalgia Super Stock and Modern Hemi Shootout and Test-n-Tune are required to pay additional fees as follows when picking up goodie bags and tech cards at the Registration Center.
Category Additional Fee Payout
ECA Modern Hemi Shootout $40 Win $1200, R/U $600
Texas Trailer Man Electronics $40 Win $1000, R/U $500
Nostalgia Super Stock $40 Win $1200, R/U $500
Nickles Auto Works Super Pro $40 Win $800, R/U $400
Pro $40 Win $700, R/U $300
DOT Tire- Sportsman $20 Win $400, R/U $200
Dealer Manager's Cup Race $10 Winner Takes Trophy for Year
Test-n-Tune $10 Prizes, giveaways
All judged car show $0 Plaques, goodie bags, prizes
Show-n-Shine $0 Goodie bags
Swap Meet $0 Goodie bags
Car Corral $0 Goodie bags
Spectator Ticket Prices: Adult/Crew: $15, Youth (Age 13-17): $5, Children 12 & under are FREE
- Every ticket includes a Pit Pass
Friday, April 26 – FAST FRIDAY: $15 to race, $10 to watch
6 p.m.: Fast Friday gates open
7 p.m.: Test-n-Tune
12 a.m.: Secure track
Saturday, April 27
8 a.m.: Gates open / participant parking
8 a.m.: Car show registration and setup (9 a.m. – noon)
9 a.m.: Open Time Trials for all race classes, tech in the lanes
10:30 a.m.: Car show judging seminar
Noon.: ROUND ONE ELIMINATIONS
12-2 p.m.: FREE Revell "Make-n-Take" for kids at the Car Show Tent
3:30 p.m.: Car show awards
Race Rules and Payouts
Evolution Custom Auto "MODERN HEMI SHOOTOUT" - ¼- mile
.500 full Tree, All Run, 2002 and newer
Win $1200, Runner-up $600, Semi $300, Qtrs $100, 8ths $50
Texas Trailer Man "Electronics"- 1/8th mile
All ET's Run , Full Tree, Dial Your Own Electronics trans-brake class (crosstalk on)
Electronics Class, box, trans brake, full tree, dial your own, all run field, no throttle stops, any power adder combo allowed, any tire size allowed, no weight limit
Winner $1000, Runner-up $500, Semi's $250, Qtrs $100, 8ths $50
Super Pro- 1/8th mile
7.70 and quicker, Full Tree, Dial Your Own Foot Break Class
Foot Break, full tree, dial your own, all run field, no throttle stops, no trans brake, any power adder combo allowed, any tire size allowed, no weight limit
Winner $800, Runner-up $400, Semi's $200, Qtrs $65
PRO – 1/8th mile
11.90 slower, Full Tree, Dial Your Own
No Electronics Class, no box, no trans brake, full tree, all run field, no throttle stops, any power adder combo allowed, any tire size allowed, no weight limit, must leave off footbrake
Winner $800, Runner-up $400, Semi's $200, Qtrs $65
DOT Tire- Sportsman – ¼ mile
DOT tires, All run Foot Break, Full Tree, Dial Your Own
No Electronics Class, no box, no trans brake, full tree, all run field, no throttle stops, any power adder combo allowed, any tire size allowed, no weight limit, must leave off foot brake
Winner $400, Runner-up $200, Semi's $80 Qtrs $45
Nostalgia Super Stock – ¼- mile All Makes Run
Indexed, .500 full Tree, Foot Break
Win $1200, Runner-up $500, Semi's $250, Qtrs $100
Class Description
Nostalgia Super Stock is an index-style foot brake only class for the year models, body styles, and engine combinations, which accurately represent those cars, which raced in the A/FX and Super Stock classes of the '60s. Certain exceptions in the authenticity of these cars will be allowed. Among those exceptions, but not limited to, are factors concerning safety, equality in performance, availability, and durability. Classification will be based on a visual inspection and an e.t. range. No modifications, which alter the car from factory stock, are permitted unless they are specifically allowed in these rules. Sandbagging, excessive braking near the finish line or excessive mph for a given e.t. is subject to result in a disqualification. Nostalgia Super Stock is an all run field, and will compete on an NHRA Sportsman type ladder. The class will qualify by elapsed time closest to index, be paired according to qualifying positions, and then advance to eliminations. All qualifiers in Nostalgia Super Stock must have a valid elapsed time recorded to be placed into eliminator competition.
Qualifying Information, Ladder Type, & Tree
All Run, NHRA Sportsman Ladder, .500 Full Tree, Handicap Start.
The following is a list of cars/engines, which are allowed to compete in the Nostalgia Super Stock class: • AMC AMX: 1968 – 1969; 390
• Chevrolet Full Bodied: 1959-64; 348 & 409s, Z11 427
• Chevrolet Full Bodied: 1965-67; 396-454
• Chevrolet Chevelle: 1964 – 1967; 396-454
• Pontiac Full Bodied: 1959-67; 389-455
• Tempest/GTO: 1962-67; 389-455
• Ford Full Bodied: 1959-67; 390-427
• Ford Thunderbolt: 1964; 427
• Fairlane/Comet/Cyclone/Falcon: 1963-67; 390, 427
• Dodge/Plymouth Full Bodied: 1960-67; 383-440 wedge
• Dodge/Plymouth Full Bodied: 1964-67; Hemi
• Buick Full Bodied: 1960-67; 401-455
• Skylark GS: 1964-67; 400-401-455
• Chevelle: 1964-67; 396-454
• Oldsmobile Full Bodied: 1960-67; 394-400-455
• Cutlass/442: 1964-67; 400-455
• Dart/Barracuda: 1967-69; 383-440
• Dart/Barracuda: 1968; 426 Hemi
NSS Classes: All NSS class participants must declare & have posted the NSS class of choice prior to the 1st scheduled qualifying run in their respective eliminator or at the time of technical inspection. No change of class is permitted after the first scheduled qualifying round for the respective eliminator.
Dealer Manager's Cup Race
Participants must be a Representative from a Mopar Dealership and use a street legal vehicle. Representative must check in at Registration Center, and give car description by 9am.
Judged Car Show Information:
Car Show Classes.
All Classes are winner only for the Car Show Categories
A Body- Stock
A Body- Modified
B Body- Stock (62-67)
B Body- Modified (62-67)
B Body- Stock (68- Later)
B Body- Modified (68- Later)
C Body- All
E Body- Stock
E Body- Modified
Early Model Stock (61 & Older)
Late Model RWD (77-Later)
Modern LX
Viper/ Prowler
Jeep/ AMC (All Years)
Wing Car
Race Car
Early Model Street Rod (61 & Older)
Young Guns
Stock Truck
Custom Truck
Front Wheel Drive
Survivor/ Un restored
Car Corral (Non Judged)
Special Awards
Best Wheels Best Paint Best Engine
Best Interior Peoples Choice Best in Show (Gold Cup)
• All Judged entries must be a Mopar or Mopar powered
• Race Car entries cannot be licensed or inspected
• No nitrous oxide systems, parts, or paraphernalia are allowed in stock class entries
• Project Class entries must show significant evidence of work in progress. Entrants limited to a maximum of two years in this class.
Class Criteria
The intent of the Stock Class is to simulate an original assembly line vehicle. It is recognized that most of the vehicles will have some changes and additions. To distinguish between Stock and Modified class entries, we adhere to the following guidelines.
1. A modification is considered any part, piece, or system of pieces, currently on the vehicle, that was not available from the factory's assembly line at the time of the entry vehicle's date of manufacture. This includes, but is not limited to: incorrect wheels, headers, chrome engine components, after-market gauges (including tachs), intake manifolds, non-factory carbs, lift kits, shackles, traction bars, competition shifters, deeply tinted glass, re-located exhaust systems, modern stereo/cassette/cd systems, and both interior and exterior changes that significantly alter the vehicle's appearance.
A Maximum of three (3) modifications will be allowed on "Stock" Class entries.
Texas Motorplex was the first all-concrete stadium-style drag racing facility ever constructed. Built in 1986, Texas Motorplex has been the place of many drag racing milestones and world record performances. The Billy Meyer-owned facility hosts a number of racing and car show events between March and November each year and also features the Champion's Club – an 11,000 square-foot facility – that serves fully catered events throughout the year.


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By the end of the day, she usually tallies a few hundred clicks, yielding about $300 a year."
"Yankee Group estimated that fraudulent means are involved in 1 of every 10 clicks on text ads, which translated to a $500 million problem last year, when pay-per-click ads generated a total of $5 billion. Other consultants estimate that click fraud is much larger, perhaps a $1 billion problem affecting 12 percent to 30 percent of all ad clicks."
Over time, they will move more of their operations online as print readership declines, or the cost of maintaining it becomes unjustifiable. This said, it's not in print media's best interests to cast stones at search engines or online ad networks because they will have increasing exposure to online ad fraud.
I agree with you, actually. What makes CPC (and CPM) more problematic than CPA is the ease at which they can be done. One doesn't even need sophisticated technology; one only needs coordinated strategically placed clicking in (network topologically) distributed locations that can create clickstreams that look like ordinary clicking. These can't be rejected outright. If they are, other similar clickstreams would be rejected as well, causing the engines and networks to lose money.
I believe that the engines and networks should charge fixed fees to drastically reduce their exposure to ad fraud, but mine is a minority opinion in forums like this.
maybe the cpa supporters are a bit naive in what concerns the abilities of online fraudsters. they will certainly not shy away from taking every obstacle to defraud the system independent of cpc or cpa. even if less widespread (which lacks evidence), the amount of potential damage committed by a single cheater in a cpa model is in no case less frightening.
why would it be more difficult to cheat sales/leads/actions? imo the opposite is the case. whereas google has the resources to track clicks, and every click is actually tracked and analyzed, there is no way to properly retrace every sale which has occured through publisher referral. google would have to deploy even more sophisticated tracking mechanisms than as yet. what's more, they would have to spread the tracking mechanism out to the complete online buying process, including cookies and monitoring each advertisers shopping system which offers a whole train of vulnerabilities (think of conversion reportings). and even then, as has been said, some user actions are still impossible to be technically traced down to their root.
you think they are able to deal with it, but do you really believe fraud is not at least as big of an issue in their programs?
apart from that, this is a game with several parties. advertisers should broaden their mind, that they are not the only players in town. i know, it must be difficult for you, because you are used to be treated favorably by the affiliate programs. but this is exactly the point why most of these programs are so weak compared to google. they do not recognize, that for a well working advertising market, it is essential to get the publishers into the boat. what's the use of an advertising program without advertising space?
as publisher, i naturally decide which program earns me the most money. just like advertisers, i want a steady and preferably secure income stream. most affiliate programs (which are ironically mostly cpa) don't offer me these qualities, in fact they usually earn ridiculously low money with fraud risk completely on my side. so characteristics are often a relatively respectable advertiser stock but most of them suffer from a serious lack of quality publishers who are willing to offer their ad space.
it's unbelievable that they still don't learn their lesson here in 2006 from googles overwhelming international success. google knows how to handle the parties and to distribute marketing risk equally so that every participant, be it advertiser or publisher has the chance to earn decent bucks.
[edited by: moTi at 11:39 pm (utc) on Oct. 25, 2006]
If that happens by click fraud, inflated circulation numbers, dead addresses in purchased lists, peolpe going to the bathroom during tv commercials or whatever does not make a diffenrence.
Move on...nothing to see here.
Rather than get into a long argument, I'll just provide a link to click fraud commentary [interesting-people.org] from an expert from the Internet technical community, Lauren Weinstein. He is not the only person who has made such commentary; others, such as Bruce Schneier [schneier.com], who made an argument based on security principles in favor of CPA over CPC. The more these lawsuits and news reports hit the press, the more the technical Internet community will become aware of the issues, and will offer expert commentary. If nothing I've written will change your mind, you can take it up with them. But note that they have analyzed all types of systems in their professional lives; they are quite capable of providing an accurate (and credible) analysis of AdWords/AdSense flaws.
In the long term, no one who is losing money will be convinced that they should continue to lose money.
Except the engines and networks that are fraud-ridden would rather have us believe that they have the situation under control.
Not to mention you had no idea if anyone saw the commercial or acted upon it or cared.
At least with PPC advertising you can measure the result of the ad campaign and correlate it to some further action. This means regardless of any or all fraud you can fairly accurately measure your ROI. Much, much better than has ever been possible with media in the past.
So even if the fraud is there, and even if it is out-of-control, people are not going to care if they are making money. The problem really does fall on the feet of google. Short term it can make them money. Long-term if the medium becomes less viable, advertisers will not use it and they will lose money.
i know you like throwing around with expert opinions, that's fine with me. but you don't get my point here. the point is, that google won't change its payout method, because as an affiliate in a cpa world, it would suffer from sales fraud just like its publishers. publishers would flee because of lousy cpa income streams, google would have to increase prices in order to absorb the higher marketing risk, that's less advertising space at a higher rate. boom, your bottom line goes down. you get the situation that maybe fraud is less but advertiser earnings down the drain, because you have transferred your share of default rate completely to the providers of ad space, that is google and publishers.
the point is not fighting a worthless fight against fraud. the point is retaining an efficient advertising marketplace with acceptable risk distribution for every party. but i know you won't get the clue, it's hopeless..
What I do for a living is irrelevant to the discussion. This is about the claims a technology company has made about its technology. Experts are refuting these claims.
Expert opinion says that CPA is less risky than CPC, and G is offering CPA in addition to its other options. Those who agree with the experts, especially if they've lost money, will switch to CPA.
We'll see. So far, I haven't seen any mass exodus of publishers. OTOH, there has been an exodus of advertisers from the content network. I'll note that expert opinion said that it was more risky than the search network as well.
If it is so efficient, advertisers would not feel the need to file lawsuits, seek the expert opinion of security technologists, etc. But you'll have to take it up with them. You'll have to convince them that they should want to continue to support the marketplace you claim is so efficient.
Probably because nearly all revenues for publishers is CPC.
Really? Google's 3Q 2006 earnings report showed a substantial increase in AdSense revenues. If advertisers were fleeing the content network, a whole bunch of new advertisers were coming in to take their place--or the remaining clueless or fearless advertisers upped their budgets by a tremendous amount.
I have noted that there are people who spend on CPC according to their budget, regardless of fraud. I have no problem with this; these people can do whatever they want. But at least those people who want to understand in what ways fraud could cause them to lose money can seek the advice of security experts and get it. Openness and freedom of information is good. Choice is good. People should have (and exercise) the right to be fully informed.
1. Allow customers to opt out of Seach Network partners. 2. Alow customers to opt *in* to selected Search and Content partners, instead of having to opt out. 3. Shut down AdSense for parked domains.
I agree with most of your premise, however the above is based on a faulty supposition.
Adwords advertisers are the cash cows of Google and Adsense Publishers. Advertisers like me supply the primary source of cash inflow into the Googleplex. Then google shares part of this revenue with adsense publishers.
The primary benefit of adsense for google is that it pulls traffic from competitiors. For instance, joe/jane searches for widget on Yahoo...clicks on an interesting website ...an even more interesting website listed under "ads by google" and clicks on it. Instantly cash is taken from the cow (the adwords advertiser) and split between google and the publisher.


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I tend to get annoyed with the instantaneous dismissal of creationism simply because the physical world can support itself by itself, similar arguments. Or just the general idea that theists are theists because "science can't explain this phenomenon, therefore God did it". Nobody seems to recognize that "God" is outside the box of the universe; he isn't just some finite entity made of dark matter who at random times manipulates the physical realm in ways that science can't explain... eh.. what i'm getting at is that so what if science does accurately explain event X, what if we can even use science to explain everything that happens in the entire universe!? When a creationist says that God set the world into motion, that doesn't mean that said creationist has to pretend centripetal force and inertia is made up by God-haters and it is actually the physical hand of God spinning the earth and whirling it around the sun... that means said creationist believes that the centripetal force due to gravity is God's doing. This idea can apply to the Big Bang theory as well, even evolution for all I know. When the Bible says that God created the Earth in 6 days and I hear a counter argument that goes something like "oh well the earth was actually formed in x amount of days so explain that" I just say "the hell if I know" because I don't know! Go argue against a fundamentalist! I don't know if the Bible is speaking literally at that instance or not, if so, maybe it really was? who's to say at what point in the earth's creation did God start counting? Who's to set the precise definition of the word "day" in that verse? The point is that there are too many dang variables for anyone to outright dismiss God because of what's in the Book of Genesis, unless YOU are the one reading the Bible like a fundamentalist.
What I personally get from the Bible has absolutely nothing to do with science. You can't just compare science against God like they are two conflicting views of what happens in the universe. From a purely scientific point of view, I'm saying that maybe the deists or agnostics have it right in the sense that God may or may not intervene in the physical world and who the heck knows or even cares if He's actually moving stuff around or not. Worrying over "proving" that He does or does not exists is not the point, because science simply can't do that either way! Its just an endless cycle of opinion.
The Bible isn't intended to leave you worrying about finding tangible evidence for God. Finding God is a heart issue, not a science issue. I think that is what the Bible is all about. :)
Why are atheists so obsessed with God and religion? Perhaps because they have spiritual, religious dispositions: but they explain the whole thing without using God. Most people, at least the ones I know, are just not interested in the whole issue of spirituality or religion or atheism.
As far as I'm concerned, there is room for your point of view. I think it is conceivable that there is a God whose character we humans are unable to properly fathom. Further, there may even be evidence for Him. I have observed that the law of karma appears to extend way beyond the world of the physically possible, into pure spookiness. How do I explain this? I don't have a good explanation.
However, I agree with Flower and others. I don't feel a need to worship or believe in God. I get along just fine without doing so. I remember the law of karma when I need to achieve something. I am very interested in Christianity because I value and respect the way that good Christians live their lives, and see that I can learn from it. I think I am probably a Christian who doesn't believe in God.
@Simon Paynton
I don't know why, or even IF, other Atheists are 'obsessed' with gods and religion - but I do have a vested interest in the subject. I have a vested interest because I lost my entire family for my failure to believe that supernatural beings are directly interacting with some of them, or that the Catholic Church offers the only acceptable rules for living and must never be questioned.
I have a vested interest because every year several young people take their lives due to being shunned by their family, fearing being shunned by their family, or because they have actually become convinced that they are worthless human beings and degenerates for their very nature.
I am concerned with religion because it impedes the teaching and progress of science. I am sickened by religion when the mentally ill finally find the courage to kill their children because seemingly sane people seem to be hearing the same voices. I am troubled by religion because wonderful children are told that a lake of fire awaits them, and that is what they deserve, unless they subscribe to cult doctrines.
I am horrified when crowds of people protest loudly outside of an abortion clinic, while some poor scared young girl cowers down the street, afraid to attend her appointment; an appointment she has for many reason, but partially because the conservative community in which she grew up has denied her sex education.
It sends shivers down my spine when world leaders stand before the electorate and proclaim that science can't be trusted, Atheists aren't patriotic or even worthy citizens, and go on to say that they believe the earth is 6,000 years old and evolution is a hoax.
To sum it up, I'm not obsessed with the lives of the religious or their religion - If I'm obsessed with anything, it's my right, and the right of my fellow decent human beings, to be left free of such a disgusting cognitive virus as superstitious thought and doctrine.
Well, that saves me the time of addressing the dismissive "atheist obsession" charge. Thanks!
No problem - that's just my warm up material.
@ Heather - I hear you. Thanks for enlightening me. Tough break.
It's not dismissive - it is a part of the picture.
PS I too had my life properly ruined by religion, and had to build it all up again myself. I seriously hated Christians for a long time, and wasn't proved wrong, until the last few years when I started meeting a few I could respect.
There are few of them that I hate - at least as a percentage of the total. Theism itself is what I truly despise though - and haven't met a theology yet that I view as anything other than repugnant.
@ Heather - I know one or two "modern"-type Christians, and I find that we agree on most things, and can respect each other. I would be happy to have them on my side and I could rely on them.
You can rely on them until you in some way come in conflict with their superstition - and at that point there is no reasoning through it; facts mean nothing to people who believe in invisible fairies.
If you looked around at the world and realized that 80-90% of people believed in the Norse pagan gods and organized their lives around this belief, wouldn't you, as someone for whom it is obvious that the Norse gods are a fiction, find it incredible and fascinating? Heck, don't Christians find it fascinating that more than half the world believes in the wrong concept of God and is going to burn for eternity? How can anybody NOT be interested in God and religion?
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Vendor Provided Validation Details - Tenable Security
Center 4.0
The following text was provided by the vendor during testing to describe how
the product implements the specific capabilities
Statement of SCAP Implementation:
SecurityCenter and Nessus component have the ability to import SCAP content. SCAP comprises multiple standards including OVAL, CVE, CVSS, XCCDF, CPE and CCE, as previously described in this document.
SecurityCenter and Nessus component support SCAP by integrating each aspect of the OVAL, CVE, CVSS, XCCDF, CPE and CCE to help organizations accurately test their infrastructure and ensure that it is configured with the correct settings.
OVAL, CCE, CPE and XCCDF define policies, configuration settings and testing methodology for these configuration settings.
Tenable customers use xTool, which is compatible with these standards, to produce audit policies for the Nessus vulnerability scanner. These audit policies are used by SecurityCenter to perform configuration audits of target systems and then report and analyze them.
SecurityCenter can be used to report and analyze many different types of configuration and vulnerability data for large and small enterprises. SecurityCenter also manages re-scanning of systems (also known as remediation scanning) to verify compliance.
In addition, SecurityCenter can also manage the Passive Vulnerability Scanner and multiple Log Correlation Engines. Each of these products can be used to monitor logs and network traffic for evidence that an asset has undergone a change that may indicate a non-compliant state. These checks may also indicate that new hosts have been connected to the network and may require auditing.
Statement of CVE Implementation:
Tenable Network Security uses Common
Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE) nomenclature for many different processes
accomplished by the SecurityCenter, including the following:
All vulnerabilities identified by Tenable's research group for the Nessus vulnerability scanner or the Passive Vulnerability Scanner have relevant CVE entries (if available).
Tenable publishes the total count of covered CVE entries online (Twitter) and also has a public web interface that can be used to search plugins by associated CVE entries. Newly released CVE entries are added several times a week and updates to older CVE entries are frequently made.
Any vulnerability displayed in the "Detailed Vulnerability List" mode in SecurityCenter lists all relevant CVE references. This data is also displayed through reporting and exporting via CSV content.
The text of any CVE value can be used as a search parameter within the SecurityCenter filters. For example, if the text "CVE-2002" is entered in the vulnerability text filter field, SecurityCenter will display all matching vulnerabilities that had a CVE entry from the year 2002. Specific CVE entries can be used in a search for more detailed results.
CVE entries are also displayed when vulnerability descriptions are browsed within the SecurityCenter,
Through the Log Correlation Engine, SecurityCenter employs CVE for vulnerability to IDS event correlation so that an IDS event from a third party product can be correlated with all discovered vulnerabilities that have the same CVE entry.
Statement of CCE Implementation:
The Tenable's support for CCE data starts directly with the Extensible
Configuration Checklist Document Format (XCCDF) content. To parse the XCCDF
content directly, Tenable employs a utility called the xTool that can read XML
content and generate a Nessus audit policy based on XML content.
As an XCCDF library is parsed within the xTool, CCE IDs, their descriptions and their associated reference material can be displayed. This information can be included in the actual audit policies generated for Nessus.
Within SecurityCenter, CCE IDs can be viewed in "Scan Results" and "Detailed Vulnerability Text" after an audit has been completed. CCE ID descriptions, the policy value from the .audit file, and the remote value from a scanned host are also included under the Scan Results.
As Nessus completes its configuration audit, the text files produced are gathered by SecurityCenter. Once in SecurityCenter, users can search the obtained data by CCE through the "Vulnerability Text" field.
Tenable's support for CCE data starts directly with Extensible Configuration Checklist Document Format (XCCDF) content. To parse the XCCDF content directly, Tenable employs a utility called the xTool that can read XML content and generate a Nessus audit policy.
As an XCCDF library is parsed within the xTool, CCE IDs, their descriptions and their associated reference material can be displayed. This information can be included in the actual audit policies generated for Nessus.
Within SecurityCenter, CCE IDs can be viewed after an audit has been completed.
As Nessus completes its configuration audit, the text files produced are gathered by SecurityCenter. Once in SecurityCenter, users can search the obtained data by CCE through the "Vulnerability Text" field.
Statement of CPE Implementation:
Tenable Network Security uses Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) to ensure
that configuration audits are performed on the correct operating systems. While
processing XCCDF content, relevant CPE checks for the audit policy are built
into the resulting Nessus audit policy. This ensures that if the wrong policy
is used on an operating system not intended by the audit, a detailed error
report will be produced.
Within SecurityCenter, an inadvertent scan of a system with the wrong policy can also be recognized and prevented. Although SecurityCenter has "asset logic" that can be used to ensure that XP Pro audits are run on XP Pro computers, it is very plausible to envision a customer simply auditing a network range that contains Windows XP Pro, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista systems. In this case, for the incorrect CPE platforms, the audit will not be performed but the correct audits will still be automatically enabled.
Statement of CVSS Implementation:
Tenable's research group uses CVSS version 2 scores available from the
National Vulnerability Database (NVD). The actual CVSS scoring strings and
scores are used to map severity ratings of vulnerabilities audited by Nessus
and the Passive Vulnerability Scanner.
When a test for a new vulnerability is produced by Tenable, there will often not be a corresponding NVD entry for it at the time of the original test. Tenable performs its own scoring according to NIST guidelines. When NVD entries or CVSS scores are available, Tenable synchronizes with NVD. If there is a discrepancy between what Tenable has scored and what NVD has scored, Tenable provides feedback to NIST.
Tenable Network Security uses the CVSS base score to select Nessus and PVS severity ratings for vulnerability plugins. Values from 1 through 3 receive a "Low/Informational" rating, 4 through 6 receive a "Medium/Warning" rating and 7 through 9 receive a "High/Hole" severity level. CVSS scores of 10 have a severity level of "High/Hole" but also have their risk factor marked as "Critical".
In some cases, Tenable is unable to synchronize scores with NVD. This may happen because a Nessus or PVS plugin checks for a vulnerability for which there is no CVE/NVD entry or because NIST has not scored the entry manually (NIST labels these as "approximated" scores). In these cases, Tenable will re-score the plugins using the v2 standard when resources allow us to do so.
Statement of XCCDF Implementation:
Tenable Network Security makes use of XCCDF content to generate Nessus
audit policies that can be used to audit the configuration of desktops, servers
and laptops.
A SecurityCenter administrator can download the XCCDF content from a given source (such as NIST, a third party product or a Tenable product) and then load the policy into Tenable's xTool. Within this tool, an XCCDF policy can be configured to generate an audit, including the amount of detail for each audit, a naming standard for the audit (such as including the CCE entries in the description or just as a reference) and many other parameters. The xTool implements the Open Vulnerability Assessment Language (OVAL) directly so that the audit policy generated for Nessus is based directly on the types of checks described by OVAL. The SecurityCenter administrator can then load the desired XCCDF audit policies into SecurityCenter and attach them to a scan policy.
Statement of OVAL Implementation:
While processing XCCDF content, the entire body of OVAL checks is analyzed to produce a corresponding Nessus audit policy file. Nessus supports all of the various OVAL check types from simple registry checks to the more complex logic checks that require multiple if/then decision trees.
If the tests described in the OVAL content change, the corresponding Nessus audit content will change as well. If the OVAL content contains an error, the corresponding Nessus audit policies will contain the same error. In each of these cases, xTool uses the OVAL definitions to produce the specific Nessus audit content.
As NIST updates the OVAL content for various tests, xTool does not need to be updated as it natively interprets OVAL.
Nessus component performs the checks described by OVAL through several proprietary methods that leverage remote credentials of target Windows and Unix systems.
No agents are required on the target platform to perform any of the required audits described by OVAL.