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PUNXSUTAWNEY — Punxsy and Clearfield's pitching staffs combined for 17 walks, and Punxsy head coach Mike Dickey said after the game, "It wasn't a pretty one." But the Chucks did what they needed to in order to pick up a 12-6 victory over the Bison's baseball team Monday evening in Punxsutawney.
Punxsy's offense was productive, and the Chucks took advantage of a few well-timed errors by the Bison, including two attempted pickoff plays which led to Punxsy runs, to put up their 12 runs.
PUNXSUTAWNEY — The Punxsutawney Area School Board held a budget workshop Monday to discuss possible budget cuts in order to save money in the next year's budget.
Instead of cuts, the board learned from Business Manager Susan Robertson that the district will possibly have to dip into its fund balance in order to finish the school year with a balanced budget, saying projections for expenses this year will probably outweigh the revenue.
She said how much to move from the fund balance depends on what happens between now and the end of the fiscal year.
PUNXSUTAWNEY — It was a mooo-ving experience Friday as students at Longview Elementary School welcomed members of the Punxsutawney Area High School Ag Club for a senior project.
"The focus of our senior project was to teach elementary students at Longview about the diary industry," said senior Shannon Carpenter, also a member of the Ag Club.
The goal of the project was to show the students how milk comes from cows.
Jack B. Elkin, 88, Delmont, died Saturday, March 24, 2012, at his home.
He was born Nov. 2, 1923, in Trade City.
He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Pacific Theater of Operations.
Mr. Elkin was a member of the Lions and the BPO Elks, and he was a 50-year member of John W. Jenks Lodge No. 534, Free and Accepted Masons.
Ellsworth Carl McCoy, 72, Punxsutawney, died Sunday, April 1, 2012, at Clarion Hospital.
He was born July 11, 1939, in Marion Center, a son of the late Howard S. and Naomi Kathryn (Jeffries) McCoy.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served in the medical corps.
Mr. McCoy enjoyed walking, gardening, reading and watching western movies on television. He was charitable to many organizations.
He was a member of the American Legion in Punxsutawney.
James E. Soliday, 66, Punxsutawney, died Sunday, April 1, 2012, at Jefferson Manor, Brookville.
He was born Aug. 28, 1945, in DuBois, a son of the late James Edward and Anna Gertrude (Wachob) Soliday.
Aug. 4, 1968, he married Ruth Manners, who survives, of Cloe.
He graduated from Punxsutawney Area High School in 1963 and immediately entered the U.S. Navy as a seaman recruit, retiring as a commander in 1992.
Mr. Soliday served in Vietnam from 1967-68, where he received two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star with Combat V.
SYKESVILLE — The slight amount of rain at this year's Run/Walk for Someone Special was not enough to stop the participants from smashing last year's record of 407 participants and $45,000. With 524 participants and $65,000 raised this year, the Run/Walk has continued its upward climb.
Run/Walk benefits the Arc of Jefferson-Clearfield Counties and Camp Friendship. The event was held at Town Hall in Skyesville, where men and women of all ages could sign up to run or walk a two-mile or five-mile distance course.
BROOKVILLE — Friday, the Jefferson County Commissioners said Winslow Township supervisors and residents have recently expressed their concerns about a signed lease for a saltwater disposal well in the township.
The lease, signed between Ridgway resident Steven L. Mitchell and EOG Resources, Inc., would allow for the drilling of "Saltwater Disposal Wells (SWD), maintaining, repairing and operating such SWD and all related facilities including meters, separators and pipelines to and from the SWD."
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HERSHEY — Last Saturday, seven Punxsutawney area wrestlers traveled to Hershey to compete on Pennsylvania's largest stage for grapplers their age — the Pennsylvania Junior Wrestling State Championship Tournament — and one grappler attained a long-awaited, highly-coveted prize when Kaleb Young was crowned state champion at 117 pounds in the 13- and 14-year-old class.
"We can't be happy enough for Kaleb," Punxsy coach Bill Burke said upon returning from Hershey. "I guess we can say 'the third time is a charm,' as he was a state runner-up twice previously."


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South Ocean Villa Apartments is a development with fantastic views of the Caribbean sea.Situated on the beach between Bridgetown and the night-life area of St Lawence Gap. Two twin bedrooms, can be changed into king size beds plus a pull-out sofa bed in the lounge, all bedrooms have air conditioning. Air conditioning available in the lounge (supplement) Fully equipped kitchen with American fridge/freezer. Pool with large sun deck and sun beds, steps down to the board walk, beach and sea. Walking distance to a choice of restaurants and bars and a wonderful quiet beach for fantastic snorkelling and swimming.Security, lift and underground allocated car parking. Maid service once a week.
10 min drive to Barbados Golf Club, 15-20min drive to Airport. Supermarket, bank, garage and the Coconut Court Hotel within walking distance. Beach walk to the Hilton Hotel for morning coffee, beach bar at the Coconut Court Hotel which provides lunches and happy hour. A GREAT PLACE TO BE!
Only 20 minutes from the airport: Taxis are available from the airport for approx. US$15
Buses to Bridgetown and other areas are available from outside the apartment.
Eating out / Shopping: Close by is the Marriott Hotel, KFC and Subway. There are many restaurants within walking distance.
A small shopping mall, The Lanterns, is in walking distance where you will find an IMart selling groceries and beverages along with many other items such as toiletries, make up, medical and newspapers
I'm Sally and my property partner is Ron. We both live in Dorset, UK and have owned the apartment since it was built and treat it as our holiday home.
In 1982 my husband and I visited Barbados for the first time and we stayed at the Coconut Court Hotel. It was a fantastic holiday and I remember saying to him that I would love to have a place here one day....Well 30 years later my dream came true!
We are so fortunate to own such a beautiful apartment. It really is a wonderful, relaxing place to stay. It faces the sea and from the balcony turtles and rays can be seen swimming across the coral. The sunsets are amazing to watch.The beaches are never busy and a favorite place to spend the day is just a stroll away at the Coconut Court Beach Resort Hotel where the swimming is great, the fish love to be fed and the beach bar is a place to meet new friends. Buses to the West coast, Bridgetown, the airport and other areas along the south coast, stop right outside the apartment.
The apartment is beach front with access from the sundeck onto the board walk which stretches all along to Accur beach. We hardly ever hire a car as the buses are so convenient and there are a number of restaurants and bars in the area.
A beautiful modern apartment, with wonderful views. The owners gave us a competitive rate. The servicing was excellent.
My Wife and I found the vacation apartment absolutely wonderful. Watching turtles swimming in the sea and very often a ray following behind whilst eating our breakfast on the balcony each morning was awesome.
No car required as the bus stops are right by the condo and takes you straight into Bridgetown or St Lawrence Gap and Oistins.
The beaches were great and no problem swimming. We fed the fish and enjoyed the beach bar at the Coconut Court.
Would certainly go back again
Thank you Sally and Ron for a great holiday
We stayed at Sally & Rons apartment back in 2011 and enjoyed ourselves so much that we are going back in December !
The apartment is a very good size and is directly on the seafront with the boardwalk backing onto it which leads down to Rockley beach which i'd argue is one of the best on the island.
The apartment itself has all the features that you would want at home & more. Washing machine , Dryer , fridge freezer and all the utensils you could ask for.
We hired a car for our stay as the apartment has it's own personal space in the secure underground car park.
The location of the apartment is in between St Lawrence gap and Bridgetown and has many shops , bars, restaurants and take aways within it's vicinity all within walking distance. There is also a drive through cash point across the road from bubbas sports bar which we found amusing :)
We are looking forward to going back and staying in the apartment and had no hesitation on where we were going to stop this time around.
You won't be disappointed if you decide to book !
Adam B.
Have been staying at this apartment for a few years now. As a family of 4adults. A pristine apartment. Full kitchen we only use it for breakfast, as there are numerous bars/restaurants to enjoy in stepping distance of the property. Underground Car parking is a bonus and a lift to the apartment.And a phone to keep in touch with family & friends who live on the island,looking forward to our next visit in May 2015
There cannot be many places in the world where you can watch rays and turtles foraging amongst the rocks, local fishermen throwing their nets from the boardwalk and even a pod of whales passing by and that's while you are having breakfast on the balcony!
Fabulous location on the boardwalk and just a few paces to a sandy beach.
The apartment has all you need ,kept very clean and well maintained. Personally we do not use the air con as the ceiling fans are quite adequate. We hire a car from the Airport on arrival but there are buses stopping right outside and taxis can easily be summoned.
A couple of local highlights are the walk along Carliyle Bay (the longest and our opinion the best beach on the Island) just a mile or so down the road towards Bridgetown and if you are going to take a catamaran for the day, go with Elegance . It only takes 14 people and will pick you up from the Apartment .
Cannot speak too highly of this apartment going back again in February for several more weeks.
Fantastic holiday. The apartment was wonderful, clean, spacious and the views to die for! We had everything you would need in the apartment.
A quiet place as we didn't hear any noise from other apartments. We found many times to be the only ones on the sundeck and around the pool area which was great.Car parking was on the lower deck and a small car is advised.
Will definitely be returning again. The rental price was very good and the owner did her best to make it affordable for us.
Can highly recommend this apartment.
New apartment on the beach situated very near to the Coconut Court Hotel. Fantastic swimming and snorkelling, feed the fish. Diving nearby. From the apartment watch the turtles and rays swim past over the coral reef. New board walk access from sun deck with two new beaches, Beach walk to the Hilton Hotel for morning coffee or drive 10 minutes to the Golf Club. Less than 5 min drive to the night-life area of St Lawence Gap for great restaurants and music. Public transportation available near the apartment.
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Extra maid service available (supplement) if required
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(probably simple) excel random number question
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Posted August 2, 2012 at 6:04PM
Good afternoon,
Excel 2010. Do you know a formula I can use for generating bingo numbers? I want it to randomly draw numbers from 1-89 but it can't randomly select numbers already drawn.
I hope that makes sense.
Thank you.
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Posted August 2, 2012 at 8:27PM
this formula; =ROUNDUP(RAND()*(89-1)+1,0)
will provide the number(s) you seek, but Excel will generate a new random number each time the sheet recalculates, so I'm not sure how you'd keep track of them, on the sheet, without a macro.
The RAND() function generates a random number between 0 and 1.
Info here, for assistance;
I've incorporated the "roundup" function into what I've suggested to give whole numbers.
Hope this helps.
I'm a bit rusty with macros... see if you can manage with what's above, to be going on with.
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Posted August 2, 2012 at 10:12PM
The problem is excluding duplicate numbers. That isn't "probably simple". You may well need a macro.
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Posted August 2, 2012 at 10:48PM
To get a list of 89 numbers in random order:
A1 to A89 Insert function =RAND() B1 to B89 insert function ==RANK(A1,$A$1:$A$89)
Column B should contain 89 numbers in random order without any duplicates.
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Posted August 3, 2012 at 5:47PM
Thank you for all the replies!
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Posted August 4, 2012 at 11:47AM
I have found some code that will do this (Thanks to Nimrod on MrExcel), do you know anything about how to insert VBA? I'll try and explain, apologies if I over simplify, but I don't know if this is new to you.
I've set up a grid of numbers on the worksheet (Sheet1) to choose from (1-89) in cell range D20:L29 with the number 1 entered in cell D20 then going left to right with 9 in L20 and then consecutive rows continuing down, so you have a solid grid 9 columns x 10 rows with the numbers 1-89 (I left the final cell blank)
It's important you use the specified range for the code to work.
Next, copy the following code to your clipboard. This is tricky to display properly on this forum, as it doesn't display single lines as they are typed, it lumps everything together, so I've had to add a space between each line which you can either ignore or clean up in Excel if you want, but it won't hurt. Ensure you don't miss anything, copy everything from and including Public Sub BingoV2() to the last End Sub.
Public Sub BingoV2()
Rw = Int(((29 - 19) * Rnd) + 20)
Col = Int(((12 - 3) * Rnd) + 4)
With Cells(Rw, Col)
If .Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone Then
Cells(Cells(65536, 1).End(xlUp).Row + 1, 1).Value = .Value
.Interior.ColorIndex = 6
If StillUnusedNumbersV2("D20:L29") Then GoTo TryAgain
End If
End With
End Sub
Public Function StillUnusedNumbersV2(Rng) As Boolean
For Each C In Range(Rng)
If C.Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone Then
StillUnusedNumbersV2 = True
Exit Function
End If
Next C
StillUnusedNumbersV2 = False
MsgBox "All Numbers used", vbInformation, "Game Over"
End Function
Sub Restart()
' Restart Macro
With Selection.Interior
.Pattern = xlNone
.TintAndShade = 0
.PatternTintAndShade = 0
End With
End Sub
Open up your VBA window in Excel (Alt+F11). In the left hand explorer window the look for your workbook name in bold (Probably VBA Projects (Book1)). Double click on Sheet1 to open up the main window for that sheet, and in the main window paste the code from above.
Nearly there now, all we have to do is insert a couple of buttons on the worksheet.
So, click back onto your main worksheet where your number grid is, or just close down the VBA window if you want.
On the ribbon, select the Developer tab. (If it is not there, you need to open Excel options via Office button top left corner, select Excel Options, and on the Popular tab, tick the Show Developer tab in the Ribbon check box)
On the Developer tab, Controls section, pull down the menu for Insert and select the top left 'Button' command and click and drag a button to what size and position you want on your sheet, it will immediately open the Macro window to select which macro this button will activate, select Sheet1.BingoV2
Repeat this again for the Reset button, but obviously selecting Sheet1.Restart for the desired Macro for the 2nd button, and Hey Presto, hopefully you should be done.
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Thank you ever so much! I've give that a go shortly
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They found antibodies specific for AD36 in 19 of the children. About 78 percent of the AD36-positive kids were obese. Children who were AD36-positive also weighed an average of 50 pounds more than those who were AD36-negative. In the group of obese children, AD36-positive kids weighed an average of 35 pounds more compared to obese kids without the virus.
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The Ravens, who have the 26th pick in the first round, have been linked to Colorado's Jimmy Smith, Miami's Brandon Harris and Texas' Aaron Williams in mock drafts. Virgnia's Ras-I Dowling, Louisville's Johnny Patrick and USC's Shareece Wright are among a handful of second- and third-round cornerback prospects.
The safety class isn't as deep, but DeCosta believes some productive safeties can be found throught the draft.
"The numbers are down there for sure at that position this year, but there are some good players," he said. "There are some guys that are going to be first-, second-, third-round-, fourth-round-type selections that are going to help you win football games, no doubt."
UCLA's Rahim Moore, who could go late in the first round, is the draft's top-ranked safety. Picking off 14 passes in three seasons, he was an interception machine in college. Moore is fast and instinctive with excellent ball skills, and like many young safeties, he idolizes Ravens Pro Bowl safety Ed Reed.
"Rahim Moore is a guy with a lot of pick production in his past," DeCosta said. "[He] had his past 10 picks as a sophomore and came out this year as a junior. [He's a] great player; great instincts [and] ball skills."
Reed, 32, is one of a few Ravens defenders who could be moving on in a year or two (along with Ray Lewis, Kelly Gregg and Cory Redding). Might the Ravens, anticipating that future need as they have often done in the past, select Moore late in the first round and pair him with Reed in their secondary?
Or what about selecting an inside linebacker early in this year's draft to replace the 35-year-old Lewis?
"The thing about getting a good young linebacker would be special teams," Ravens GM Ozzie Newsome said. "We want to have the best special teams in the National Football League. And if you get good young linebackers, normally they can run, they can hit, they can play in space and do some things.
"So, we'll always be looking for that. And whoever has that opportunity to be the one to replace Ray -- I don't know whether that guy is here now or will be in another class that we would draft -- but we will always be looking to draft linebackers because we want great special teams."
With the championship window for Lewis and Reed closing, the Ravens will likely take care of more pressing needs early in this draft. The Ravens need a big, physical cornerback -- heck, they simply need cornerbacks right now -- and they could certainly use one of the many first-round caliber pass rushers if one they like is on the board at pick No. 26. The Ravens say they feel no pressure to draft a defensive player in the first round -- the last was Haloti Ngata in 2006 -- but this may be a year where need, present or future, meets value on defense.


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On dashboard. If you click the button to make the side menu full size, the graphs just totally screw up. (the content window doesn't adjust to the difference in size from the side menu moving).
The Morris chart need be updated when the size changed, rebuild the morris chart.
can you tell me how?
clear the chart dom. and build the chart again. check the app.data.js. and you will see it have a rezise function to rebuild the Morris chart.
Hi all ,Can help me for use bootstrap file upload via jquery and php ?
Use this one. http://blueimp.github.io/jQuery-File-Upload/
Hello! Very wonderful template! Thank you for this job! There is one small problem with the left menu – if there are many elements that diverges layout.
I suggest rearrange your menus. but i will include a collapse menu in next update.
Hello, any plans to update to FontAwesome 4?
Yes. i will update it to 4, but seems have lot of rename work to do.
Awesome. Yeah, that's why I ask I hate when they do that.
There is bug in the current implementation. If you decrease the height of the browser, the footer gets messed up. Because of this the two buttons(compress-menu and lock-me) on the left side menu comes on top of existing menu.
Also, in the left menu if you click on 'UI kit' and then hover over 'Pages' the submenu for 'Pages' comes under the submenu for 'UI kit'. Ideally, the submenu for 'UI kit' should disappear.
i will include a collapse menu in next update in case of big first-level menus.
if you check more detail, you will see it's dropdown menu. only you click on sth it will disappear.
Thankyou Flatfull
I have one more Qs. Would I be eligible for the update if I buy it now? (Sorry, this would be my first purchase on themeforest).
Yes, you can get the update after the purchase. Thanks.
Love how everything looks on mobile devices.. You guys nailed it. On the landing.html page—any option to add a swiping feature to the slider?
Hi there,
Love the theme, well done.
One issue that I can't get my head around… The carousel on the landing page seems to have a conflict with jquery.appear.js when the js script is loaded on manual next arrow the page moves down. This is also the same on your demo. Is there a quick fix for this? Its very annoying when it moves down. I just want it to stay on the same place as it is.
Quick fix by edit the landing.js
$(document).on('click.app','[href^="#"]',function (e) { var $target = this.hash; if($target == '#c-slide'){ return; } });
Awesome thank you… I also have a license question. We're using the theme for an online webapp that people will buy a monthly subscription to use, it is still one project, will that mean we also have to buy the extended license?
Take a look at this page http://themeforest.net/licenses
you need a Extended License.
Great, thank you. We'll visit this once we're ready to launch the platform.
I would like to know where is the documentation in the template?
Check the docs.html or http://flatfull.com/themes/todo/docs.html
I'll be very appreciate if you could add a css when user clicks a submit button, it comes disabled and have a spinner on the right. This is a very very useful feature.
You can use the $().button('loading') and data-toggle="class:className", like
<button type="button" class="btn btn-sm btn-primary" data-loading-text="Saving..." data-toggle="class:show inline" data-target="#spin">Save</button>
and change the .inline{display:inline-block !important};
Hey there
I have an existing application that is already on Bootstrap.
I am curious if you provide the LESS files in a similar manner Bootstrap 3 did so I can integrate them easily:https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/less/bootstrap.less https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/master/less
Is it implemented in a Bootstrap 3 theme?
Are you doing @import on Bootstrap LESS files?
Thanks! Really beautiful theme and it will be wonderful if it can be easily integrated in my existing app.
The LESS files have the similar manner with BS3. actually i used some of the mixins from BS3.
but the LESS files do not compiled with BS3's LESS files. so customers can easy update the BS3 css. do not need to wait my update if there is some conflict.
Thank you!
I need to use a <form> tag(It's necessary to use in asp.net) just after the body tag. But this is damaging the style. How can i add <form> tag after anywhere without any impact on style. such as you have any nostyle class, i can use with.
Make the form 100% height.
<form style="height:100%">...</form>
I used this [<form style="height:100%">...</form>] in dashboard.html but still damaging the style.
Please suggest me another solution Or you could also write a nostyle class, so that i/others can use that anywhere in any html tag to overlap the css.
You need remove other form tag in the dashboard.html. like the navbar search form.
you can use a custom class, .h-f{height:100%}.
Yes, it's working. But any other solution for multiple form tag. Such as i also need to use navbar form tag along with i used after body tag.
It seems you used the remote url for the modal content, if so, follow this.
  put a empty

 at the end of the page.
BTW, the data-toggle="ajaxModal" not works.
Might be a silly question but, where is documentation? Can't find it anywhere…
Check the docs.html or online docs
Hello I am pleased to say that you have done everything everyone is looking for Question? is it possible to implement integration this admin panel to my website users ? so a user can register their social accounts and receive automatic updates regarding Twitter followers, followers, Facebook SoundCloud followers , downloads , Instagram followers ? Thank You!
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Comments about Cobalt Blue Depression Style Glass Cat Candy Dish:
I collect all kind of unique cat gadgets... I already have a pink cat candy dish, identical in shape to this blue one, so this was simply an expansion of my candy cat dish collection. :) Glass is heavy and sturdy, and looks beautiful whether in my curio or on my countertop, holding candy. Would like this item being available in more colors.
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Since I love cobalt blue glass and cats, this was a natural for my collection and I love it. The only problem was that it has a small chip on the rim of the dish. I'm afraid to use it for candy for fear someone may cut themselves. So, I will just look at it and enjoy it.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #297 – Jesse, Jenny, and Tamahome talk about NEW RELEASES and RECENT ARRIVALS.
Talked about on today's show:
Lowball : A Wild Cards Novel edited by George R. R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass, The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft edited by Leslie S. Klinger, a reference book readalong?, Marked: Servants Of Fate, Book 1 by Sarah Fine, conflict of interest, Until The End Of The World by Sarah Lyons Fleming, Until The End Of The World (movie), The Dark Thorn by Shawn Speakman, the Seattle underground, Entangled: The Eater of Souls by Graham Hancock, lots of research, Half-Off Ragnarok (InCrytpID Book #3) by Seanan McGuire, V Wars: Blood and Fire: New Stories of the Vampire Wars edited by Jonathan Maberry, a dime a dozen, Wildalone by Krassi Zourkova, At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, didn't Southpark adapt this?, annotations, pdf of original story with illustrations hosted by Sffaudio, Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters (editor?), not inspired by Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, similar short story overdose, The Playground and Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, killer baby, Tam remembers the Good Story Episode (#21) on Something Wicked, Ray Bradbury storytelling festival, Something Wicked vs The Night Circus, or maybe Good Omens (which is a BBC radio audiodrama now), "@DirkMaggs:
#GoodOmens we are thrilled that the series has been so enjoyed. The CD/Download version released in January runs nearly 50mins longer in all" (RT'd by @SDDanielson), British tests, Hypnobobs podcast on Christmas Annuals, The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, The Maker Of Moons by Robert W. Chambers, The True Detective tv series, The Last American Vampire by Seth Grahame-Smith, the picture of the navy guy kissing the woman, ATLAS by Peter Berkrot, Mech Warrior game, The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu and translated by Ken Liu, the three-body problem explained, (Ken Liu is a lawyer and programmer, Jenny), David Brin gave it 5 stars on Goodreads, The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales Of Hard Science Fiction edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi, that's hard!, The Year's Top Ten Tales Of Science Fiction 6 edited by Allan Kaster, The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick, Lock In by John Scalzi, why two audio versions??, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, |Listen to our readalong|, Proxima by Stephen Baxter, but Jenny wants to know the plot, Fahrenheit 451 (narrated by Tim Robbins), Plague Year by Jeff Carlson, The Long Dark game, two more quickly, WHITE PLAGUE: A Joe Rush Novel by James Abel, and Near Enemy: A Spademan Novel by Adam Sternbergh
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The SFFaudio Podcast #291 – READALONG: Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
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The SFFaudio Podcast #291 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, and Marissa van Uden talk about Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick.
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1964, first serialized as All We Marsmen, a pair of boxing insects, threads that lead nowhere, "a wonderful train-wreck of a novel", the two audiobook versions, repeating scenes are disconcerting in the audiobook, repeating moments, at Arnie's apartment, is this a byproduct of the writing process?, problems with marriage and plumbers, The Search For Philip K. Dick by Anne R. Dick, "Goodmember Arnie Kott Of Mars", Chinatown, The Two Jakes, developers, Heliogabalus, time travel, the broken Friendly Dad robot, the school is monitoring, when you're reading your Kindle Amazon is watching you, school is to make you conservative, preserving Earth culture, the time gate anthology, Robert Silverberg, autonomous robots, door to door salesmen, teaching machines, the different robot teachers, Immanuel Kant robot, with certainty he pointed down the hall, a western bias (the interests of Philip K. Dick), Aristotle, Abraham Lincoln, Julius, Winston Churchill, Tiberius, Thomas Edison, warfare, history, a million neat ideas, Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great, schizophrenia and autism, experiencing time at a different rate, derangement in a sense of time, A.D.D. and A.D.H.D., Camp BG, setting your watch by the stars and by the seasons, schizophrenia as a tendency but not a disability, daylight savings time, recipe for going to jail: act as if daylight savings isn't real, its what the novel is about, the Soviets, an American Mars, a Bradburyian Mars, Martians as elves, the Bleekmen, water witch, hunter/gatherers nomadic culture, the "tame" Bleekman, the dream-quest is payback, a "pilg" (pilgrimage), Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny, the trek through the desert, Tibor, Psychology Today, "oh, boy!", thiotimoline, reconciling realities, "gubble gubble", sharped tongued secretary, bicycles in outer space, she's the predator, he's the predator, Arnie and Manfred, sniffing around Doreen, they're from the "TOMB WORLD", Silvia is the most common female character name PKD uses, an analogy (or metaphor) for marriage, uppers and downers, drugs and coffee, back to the keyboard, Dr. Glaub is desperate to make some money, Dick's own financial concerns, Anne, webbed fingers, inside the minds of horrible people, the dialogue driven sex scene is kinda creepy, why is she with this guy?, access to all the booze, why does Jack go back to his wife?, the perfunctory affairs are unbelievable, unredeemable, somehow it seems to all work, the Swiss rocket, Bleekmen are homo-sapiens, the S.M. Stirling Lords Of Creation novels, Mars as California, Australian aborigines, "dreamlines dreamsongs and dreamtime", Ludwig Binswanger, psychiatry, psychology, Ellen had split her life, the "tomb world"," degenerate and degenerating", being trapped in your own body, "a narrowing a contracting", gubble as a marker, Being John Malkovich, "Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich!", our bodies with their low needs distract them from our purposes (if we have any), oblivious to suffering, depression, it's all brain chemistry, anorexia, obsession with death, Mafred's "sick" drawing, Amweb as the "tomb world", the Manfred illustration, the nightmare woman, "her tongue wants to cut", seeing into the future is seeing death, awesome imagery, a recurring image, The Minority Report, armless and legless (limbless characters), the movie adaptation of A Scanner Darkly, dialogue driven storytelling, what are they reacting to?, mental processes, "it was there to be found", Virgil Finlay, reading it harder, a post apocalyptic zombie novel, building up a picture, open to being expanded, PKD is concise, most books aren't dialogue driven, creative writing classes, showing off descriptive skills, novels vs. poetry, is J.R.R. Tolkien responsible for this?, a reverence for the landscape, what color is the dust?, visuals are everything has colonized Science Fiction and Fantasy in the last 30 years, eating meals and walking the landscape, this book isn't a distraction from life, a meta-description of life, what makes this a SF story?, "the chamber", the technology is your mind and your brain, even Mars isn't very different, mars rats, what do the bleekmen hunt?, water witches!, does the water witch protect Jack?, the pistol, the real SF idea behind this is PKD is trying top figure out what déjà vu is, the "I know what is going to happen next" feeling, we are very poor at capitalizing on our future knowledge, the slipped gear, "Oh, little Jackie.", Philip K. Dick's science fiction is Psychology Today, an ansible, this problem in science and the social situation between these characters, lying in bed in a hypnagogic state, doing dream style processing of mental white noise in a semi-conscious state, "all different all equally true", different angles, the broken mosaic, the fact that these books are dated doesn't age the books, the Brilliance Audio audiobook narrated by Jeff Cummings, Grover Gardner (Tom Parker) narration of Martian Time-Slip, the bicycles floating into space, a horrible human being (he wastes water), Heliogabalus -> Helio (sun -> son) will Gabalus (gubble) less, Elagabalus, the religion of the Roman Empire, a scene, W.A. 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Review of Bellwether by Connie Willis
Filed under: Reviews
By Connie Willis; Narrated by Kate Reading
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Publication Date: February 2009
[UNABRIDGED] – 6 hours, 30 minutes
Themes: / pop culture / scientific discovery / chaos theory / Robert Browning / office assistants / fads /
Publisher summary:
Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennett O'Reilly works with monkey group behavior and chaos theory for the same company. When the two are thrust together due to a misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad luck, they find a joint project in a flock of sheep. But a series of setbacks and disappointments arise before they are able to find answers to their questions – with the unintended help of the errant, forgetful, and careless office assistant Flip.
This is my favorite Connie Willis book, hands down. She blends pop culture, scientific discovery, chaos theory, Robert Browning, fads and an infuriating office assistant to produce a book where thinking for oneself gets you blank looks of incomprehension. Willis's books come in two flavors, either funny or grim (as she herself describes her serious works). This is definitely one of the funny ones.
This was written in 1996 so it is interesting to see that certain fads have evolved and that some have floated away. (It's been a long time since I thought about Pet Rocks or mood rings, for example.) Listening to the audiobook, I realized that it gave me a real sense of perspective on a lot of things that drive me crazy by reminding me that these are simply the most current fads (Paleo / gluten-free diets, smart phones, SnapChat, etc.). These too shall pass although the chaos will probably remain. And I'm actually okay with that.
Kate Reading's narration really brought the book alive. I especially enjoyed her characterizations of Flip, Management, and Shirl, all of which added extra fillips of humor to the story. Having read the book several times before listening, I was impressed how well she captured the main character that I "heard" mentally. I will definitely be listening to this the next time I need a dose of anti-fad sensibility.
This is a light, fun book which nonetheless has a core of common sense and deeper meaning.
Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?
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The SFFaudio Podcast #274 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Facts Concerning The Late Arthur Jermyn And His Family by H.P. Lovecraft
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The SFFaudio Podcast #274 – Facts Concerning The Late Arthur Jermyn And His Family by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Gildart Jackson (this audiobook comes to us courtesy of Blackstone Audio's Eldritch Tales). This is a complete and unabridged reading of the story (28 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Mr Jim Moon, and Samantha Wikan
Talked about on today's show:
The story was also published as Arthur Jermyn and The White Ape, Weird Tales, 1921, The Wolverine, the 1980s, "that's not a big deal", "our more enlightened times", Lovecraft's letter to Weird Tales, Rhodesia, "the Dark Continent", "our brothers and sister in the jungle", racism, Allan Quatermain, telegraphing the twist, is Lovecraft making a joke?, a more horrific reading, no Elder Gods, no Dreamlands, atavism and degeneration, great grandmother was a gorilla, miscegenation, bestiality, Dagon, Shadow Over Innsmouth, atavism, losing sanity points, Sir Wade Jermyn (African explorer with a "Portuguese wife" -> Philip Jermyn (a very agile sailor) -> Robert Jermyn (an anthropologist) -> Nevil Jermyn (runs off with a dancer) – > Alfred Jermyn (joins the circus) -> Arthur Jermyn (the poet scholar), Lovecraft became despondent when his family had to leave their home, Lovecraft's mom said he was "exceedingly ugly", Lovecraft's father (died in an asylum), a tainted heritage, fear of degeneration, the ape goddess, diluting the noble bloodline, Arthur was the most unattractive one that was allowed out of the bedroom, Nevil's siblings, a music hall singer of "unknown origin", a lack of respect for the lower classes, below or above one's station, a common sailor, the gamekeeper's daughter, Winesburg, Ohio, Ray Bradbury's inspiration for The Martian Chronicles, who is telling this story?, "demoniacal hints", oppressive science, a future echo to Pickman's Model, squamous eldritch adjectives, a gentleman in a club, "the gorilla boxing match death", a smoking jacket holding court, clubman tales, Lord Dunsany, Arthur C. Clarke's Tales Of The White Hart, Isaac Asimov's The Black Widowers Club, Supernatural (1977 BBC TV series), "the club of the damned", blood freezingly funny, "really ugly or unconventionally beautiful", Arthur's life story is quite sad, we really empathize with Arthur Jermyn, Victorian society, aren't we all Arthur?, a lot of people probably don't like the idea we are related to apes, maybe we should reject it even though its true, Douglas Adams "Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them around to dinner", digital watches, the ape city, hybrids, what of the other side?, S.T. Joshi's reading, "that last clause is critical", the white apes as the missing link, "the entire white race", the only explanation, miscegenation assumes certain things, eugenics, "he married that ape", "he made an honest ape of her", the illustration from Weird Tales, how pretty was she?, the community's contempt, judgements from a group of racist assholes, "that being said I'd rather be a poet than a sailor", the butler, the servants, the black nanny, "the aged Soames", the 1993 comic book adaptation by Stephen Phillip Jones, the visitor named "Seaton", the only one who survives is Alfred, the adaptation goes off on this weird tangent -> The Terror Of Blue John Gap (first published in 1910), Samuel Seaton is in both stories (The Facts Concerning The Late Arthur Jermyn And His Family and The Terror Of Blue John Gap, She by H. Rider Haggard, a more realistic version of that story, Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the lost city of Opar (a lost colony of Atlantis), the John Carter books, this story is underrated, the humour and the pathos, not going into purple overdrive, the Jorkens tales, dry British wit, take off the Cthulhu blinkers, Jesse would like Mr Jim Moon to read aloud The Terror Of The Blue John Gap, Blue John (the mineral), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "obviously its insane", Heart Of Darkness , Henry Morton Stanley, Dr. Livingston, Penny Dreadful is a mash-up of late 19th century horror fiction, Timothy Dalton plays a kind of Allan Quatermain kind of character, Mina Harker, demon possession, "raping their way across Africa", the Grand Tour, "sending sons to the colonies for hunting, drinking, and whoring", Sir Wade is the White God, the Congolese natives' stories are all true, what's in the box?, two statues?, a subterranean ocean, a fish man?, "I'm your great grandfather boy", the Spawn of Cthulhu, "Deep Ones can mate with any species", when we read Lovecraft we do a disservice to force connections to the Cthulhu Mythos, presenting it as a theory, "the locket!", "what's in the locket?", the locket was empty, they threw the locket in a well, interpretations, stopping the spread vs. just being horrified, putting them over the percentage, "they had to make it not be", having an ancestor delivered to your door, "Sir Wade collected things one wouldn't ordinarily collect", what did he bring back?, tending away from the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhu plushie, Lovecraft would never have said: "Sanity points?! Great idea!", The Hound by H.P. Lovecraft (and it's black museum), Lovecraft used the Necronomicon as "a backdrop and a reference and a flavour", appreciating the stories as stories, it's touching!
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The SFFaudio Podcast #266 – READALONG: When The Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells
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The SFFaudio Podcast #266 – Jesse, Luke, and Juliane Kunzendorf discuss When The Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells
Talked about on today's show:
Julianne's first SFFaudio Podcast, what do we call them?, readers and talkers, 1899/1910/1923, When The Sleeper Wakes, The Sleeper Wakes, The Sleeper Awakes, Blackstone Audio's audiobook version, the serialization in The Graphic magazine, the 1910 preface, "an editorial elder brother", going to the original sources, a forecast of technology, technological changes between the revisions, aeroplanes and aeropiles, the introduction to the 1923 edition, "fantasias of possibility", "suppose these forces go on novel", H.G. Wells thought the rich were evil geniuses (prior to meeting them), "rather foolish plungers", "vulgar rather than wicked", Ostrog, "a nightmare of capitalism triumphant", capitalist/socialism (kind of like Japan), The Unincorporated Man is pretty much the same story, yay Marxism!?, when Graham wakes up, Chapter 7, there only audiobooks in the future, The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling, The Madonna Of The Future by Henry James, Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, phonetic spelling, an H.G. Wells way of writing, is it the nature of a serial, the reader transplanted into the year 2100, The War Of The Worlds, suicide, Isbister, Warming, Ostrog, Lincoln, "body fag is no cure for brain fag", "while he was breaking his fast", the language, lying in a crystal box, a passive character, establishing the genre, space elevators, Buck Rogers has the same premise, Idiocracy, Eine Billion Dollar by Andreas Eschbach, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, the importance of money, the gilded age, wealth disparity, the labour company, a dystopia along the lines of Brave New World, the Martian invasion, The Time Machine, is this the start of the Morlocks and the Eloi?, 1984 by George Orwell, the proles, the pleasure cities, distractions, the value of work beyond being paid, a class trap, what is Wells saying?, Wells' ambivalence towards the proles, there are no more school examinations, is this a meritocracy?, technological dystopias (like 1984), social dystopias, Brave New World is a medical dystopia, genetic dystopias, knowing you live in a dystopia, North Korea, knowledge of other societies, the time before Big Brother, Julia, the Anti-Sex League, genetically dumbified, Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes, religious dystopia, advertizing Christianity, prosperity gospels, church revivals, advertising, the babel machines, movies and television, what will this culture do to the culture?, "people don't read", airplanes, heavier-than-air aircraft, smashing airplanes into other airplanes, aerial ramming, flying machine vs. aeroplane vs. airplane vs. aeropile, My First Aeorplane by H.G. Wells, rocketships, the pilot's union, the look of the airplane, the clothing, Victorian age dresses, the church, hanging in the air, the Thames has run dry, megalopolis, the building material, the Eiffel Tower, steel, concrete, plastic, glass, carbon fiber, biotech, Pandora's Star, a coral house, 3D printing, Ikea Hacks, print on demand houses, economics, factories and automation, The Roads Must Roll by Robert A. Heinlein, The City And The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke, slide-walk, edamite, Ostrog, Ostrogoths, Lincoln, foment a revolution, race and racism, Senagalese, ostrog as "fortress", a Serbian Orthodox Church, Ostrog will boss the show, "in bounds", are these are revolutionary names?, Che Guevara, Abraham Lincoln's freeing the slaves, thug force, Berlin, June 17th, 1953, the Berlin Wall, outside forces, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Gurkhas, "see we're all friends", smiling bright shiny teeth, "they are fine loyal brutes", racism is in there but it is not the point of the book, The War Of The Worlds, a little hypocritical, we can't see the issue, massive economic suppression, calculating boys, hypnotism, economic slavery, the wealth gap, the White Council, the blaring speakers, the media firehouse, talk radio, people wearing their headphones everywhere, podcasts, each one of those streams are newspapers, a newspaper for everybody, broadsheets vs. tabolids, your newspaper tells your class, daily free newspapers, Jack The Ripper, Melville Macnaghten, Michael Ostrog (thief and con-man), the symbolism of the aircraft, the three books, Helen is the Madonna of the future, it's a joke, the novel's end, 'my Graham dies without certainty of victory or defeat', ambiguous airplanes, "literally that's his dream", flying dreams, cliffs and high places, Isbister and Warming -> Lincoln and Ostrog, "its fun", "in such a fall as this countless dreams have ended", dream falling, the different endings, the future of that future, Olaf Stapledon's The Last And First Men, many futures, Olaf Stapledon takes what Wells does a little farther, Graham as a Christ figure, risen from the dead… etc., in Graphic detail, full colour holographic Jesus, the empty tomb moment, allusions to other literature in the Bible, Arthur C. Clarke, the Son of Man, A Story Of The Days To Come, the emptying of the countryside, the enclosures, Scotland, Canada, Glasgow, Berlin, well more than 50% of the world's population lives in cities now, Among Others by Jo Walton, Wales, the merits of country living, the economic theory behind everything, access to internet, staring at the internet, services, live entertainment, "my choice of Christian girls was three girls", poor Luke.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #256 – READALONG: Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
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The SFFaudio Podcast #256 – Jesse, Tamahome, Luke Burrage, Seth, and Mark Turetsky talk about the audiobook of Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein (as narrated by Mark Turetsky for Blackstone Audio)!
Talked about on today's show:
On the book title's proper spacing and hyphenation; Have Gun, Will Travel TV show; Heinlein's last "juvenile" novel; Mark "over the moon" about the opportunity to record the book; novel nominated for Hugo in 1959; parts of the novel are hard SF; Philip K. Dick's completely unrelated story The Father Thing; ways of manipulation in the novel; Mark's favorite character voices; correlations between the Earth characters and space characters; debunking the possibility that the story was all a dream or imaged à la Wizard of Oz; cross-novel characters in Heinlein's novels i.e. Space Family Stone; novel followed up by Starship Troopers; detailed description of the space suit possibly inspired by Heinlein's work on bomber pilot pressure suits during World War II; The Martian by Andy Weir; casual drug use in the novel; Mark didn't do the helium voice in space suit scenes; comparison to full cast audio version; Kip's conversations with inanimate space suit bear resemblance to Gravity; on the novel's setting in time and its world building flaws; slip sticks and slide rules; slide rule "the best invention since girls"; Kip's dad should "get off his ass and get a job"; Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat and its inspiration on Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog via its appearance in this novel's opening lines; Heinlein's infallibility; going Galt; the father is an asshole; the father is Heinlein; money in fiction; money baskets in Stranger in a Strange Land; old men hooking up with young women in Heinlein; Podkayne of Mars; Time for the Stars; Tunnel in the Sky is a mash-up of Lord of the Flies and The Hunger Games; the story's narrative perspective; on learning outside of school, "I'm gonna learn this shit on my own"; novel encapsulates Luke's life philosophy, "There's no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."; the novel's accelerating plot; The Puppet Masters; on adapting the novel to the silver screen; PBS's adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven; the relative weakness of the novel's last section; Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure; time travel "breaks" fiction; Lisa Simpson would read this book; John Scalzi's blog post An Anecdotal Observation, Relating to Robert Heinlein and the Youth of Today; people today don't read books (or read the wrong kind of books); is science fiction the most enlightened of fiction genres?; phone books are useful for starting fires; Luke tells an inspiring story about the Magellanic Cloud; "the cure for boredom is curiosity"; where animals keep their brains.
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Gaono, 20, guilty in cop's killing
Jury takes almost two days to convict gang member accused of firing fatal shot
NORTH COUNTY COURTS The shooting death of Oceanside police Officer Dan Bessant, 25, shocked the community and tore through several families two years ago.
It was devastating for Bessant's family, the Police Department and for the family of Meki Gaono, who was accused of murdering the officer.
Yesterday, Gaono, 20, was convicted of first-degree murder, and the deep wounds the case has inflicted were obvious again.
"It's not a happy day for any of us," Oceanside police Chief Frank McCoy said outside the Vista courtroom.
Seventeen relatives of Gaono's gathered in a courthouse hallway, crying and hugging each other. Gaono's 77-year-old grandfather, Meki Gaono Sr., who also is his adoptive father, sat on a bench, head bent low, sobbing.
Bessant's relatives said they felt relieved by the jury's decision. "It's the right thing," said Steve Bessant, the officer's father, "but it's nothing to be joyful about."
A jury of nine men and three women took nearly two days to reach a verdict in the six-week trial. In addition to murder, jurors found Gaono guilty of assault with a deadly weapon for firing at Officer Karina Pina, who wasn't injured. She was one of several police officers in the crowded courtroom yesterday when a clerk read the verdict.
The jury acquitted Gaono of a second charge of assault with a deadly weapon for firing at a civilian who was riding along with Pina. Jurors left the courtroom through a back entrance and were unavailable for interviews.
Gaono, who is scheduled to be sentenced May 19, faces a maximum of life in prison without parole.
Penifoti Taeotui already has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for his role in shooting at – but not hitting – the officers. He was convicted of one count of murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
Bessant's younger brother, Drew Bessant, 25, said it's "weird" to think he is now the same age as his brother was when he died. He said his brother was had a larger-than-life personality and is irreplaceable. "There's no filling his shoes," he said.
He said he once rode along with his brother and was so impressed to see him at work. "I'd never been so proud of him," Drew Bessant said.
Steve Bessant said his son's death would not have happened without Gaono's gang involvement. But he said he has "great respect" for Gaono's grandfather.
Bessant knew Gaono from when he was an assistant principal at El Camino High School and Gaono was a student there, and later as principal of an academy where Gaono was sent for an alternative-education program.
"He had an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other," Bessant said of Gaono. "And he listened to the wrong shoulder."
After crying and hugging each other after the verdict, Gaono's relatives gathered in a prayer circle, holding hands and asking God to keep him safe and give him peace while he is in prison.
"The Lord didn't tell Meki to associate with those guys," Gaono Sr. said. "Let the Lord be with him."


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Feds crack down on tech support scams as Wisconsin solicitations continue
The Federal Trade Commission has launched a major international crackdown on the tech support scam in which telemarketers pose as tech support staff from major computer companies and con consumers into paying them to remove non-existent viruses, malware or spyware.
Consumers in Wisconsin complained of the scam to the Journal Sentinel Public Investigator and the Better Business Bureau Serving Wisconsin as late as this week.
They say the telemarketer who called had a heavy foreign (Indian) accent and claimed to have detected malware on the consumer's computer. A reader told the Journal Sentinel Wednesday that he nearly fell for the scam when someone called him Tuesday morning.
"They were skillful in getting you to believe that they represented a tech support company, and that a series of things was wrong with my computer. The only thing that saved me from getting scammed was that our telephone is on its last legs, and I had trouble hearing them correctly to follow their instructions," the consumer told me Wednesday.
"It is very frightening to have these 'burglars' seemingly have access to our computer and home. I hung up on them because it was taking too long to follow their instructions," he said.
He told the scammer to call back later, but by the time the person did, the consumer had read the Public Investigator story on the scam and knew what the caller was up to. So he told the caller to go away and hung up.
"I'm angry I almost fell for the line," he said. "They are good."
According to the FTC, the telemarketers claim to be affiliated with national companies, including Dell, Microsoft, McAfee, Norton and Windows. They direct consumers to a utility area of their PC to "prove" the computer was infected. They then offer to get rid of the malware for a fee ranging from $49 to $450.
When consumers agree to pay, the telemarketers direct them to a website to enter a code or download a software program that allows the scammers remote access to the consumer's computer.
"Once the telemarketers took control of the consumers' computers, they 'removed' the non-existent malware and downloaded otherwise free programs," the FTC said in a news release Wednesday.
Some consumers who allowed the caller remote access to their computer reported having difficulties with their computer afterward, according to the Better Business Bureau Serving Wisconsin. The agency said victims paid fees ranging from $150 to $400.
The FTC said in a news release Wednesday that a U.S. District Court judge has ordered a halt to six alleged tech support scams that the FTC is targeting. The judge froze the companies' assets pending further hearings.
The FTC said the scammers hoped to avoid detection by using virtual offices that were just mail-forwarding facilities and by using 80 different domain names and 130 different phone numbers. The FTC has been working with Australian, Canadian and British entities in the investigation.
The FTC announced Wednesday that it has settled with one alleged tech support scammer, Navin Pasari, who will be paying back what he earned on the scam.
In the big scheme of things, Pasari is small potatoes. The settlement only requires him to pay $14,369, which is what he made in the scam, the FTC said.
The FTC is targeting 14 corporations and 17 individuals in six cases.
For more consumer stories, scam alerts, tips, viral stories and the occasional freebie, follow the Public Investigator on Twitter @GitteLaasbyMJS or like her Facebook page.
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Someday, Maria Menounos, you'll be texting me naughty little messages during your breaks on the set of Extra. Little tidbits of intimate need-to-knows like 'No Panteez Rite Now' and 'Home @6, clothes off @6:03′ and 'LOL, U R so funny I want to bang hell out of you'. And I will write back, 'Stop fucking with me Moron' because I'll know it's just my friend Marty Shinpants effin' with my mind with more fake texts. Still, for that half-second before my rational mind kicks in, I will be in Heaven.
I love you, Maria. Someday, when you see my three-story indoor shrine to you, the elaborate tattoos of you and me riding a unicorn in the sky on my body, and the hair of yours that fell off at The Grove that I wear baked into a clay amulet around my neck 24×7, that I'm not like all your other stalkers. I'm the biggest. Enjoy.


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Javelinas chasing Buffaloes in LSC
Men's basketball team trying to make a move in standings
With a chance to gain some ground on one of the teams in front of it, the Texas A&M-Kingsville men's basketball team heads north for games against Eastern New Mexico and West Texas A&M.
Meanwhile, the Javelinas women's team will attempt to end a nasty string of road misery when they face the Zias and Buffaloes on the front end of the doubleheaders today and Saturday, respectively.
The Javelinas men's team has been playing well of late, having claimed four of their past five contests and eight of the past 11. A&M-Kingsville is 3-1 in the Lone Star Conference South Division, a half-game behind second-place West Texas. Tarleton State, 17-4, ranked 25th nationally and third in the NCAA Division II South Central Region, leads the South with a 6-0 mark.
A&M-Kingsville (13-6), however, will be facing an ENM squad that is 8-12 and has claimed four it its past seven games and a West Texas crew that had won nine of its past 13 outings. The Buffaloes (15-5) barely fell to Tarleton last week 68-66.
The Javs' Remi Yusuf, who has scored in double figures in all 19 games, is second in the conference with an average of 18.5 points per game. Bobby Pandy and Ricky Huckaby bring 12.3 scoring averages into the weekend, with Pandy leading A&M-Kingsville in rebounding with an average of 6.2 boards per game. Yusuf's late 3-point goal provided the game-winner in the Javs' 60-58 win over Angelo State last Saturday.
A&M-Kingsville's women (0-6, 4-15) are 0-10 in road contests but have a legitimate shot to snap that skid against Eastern New Mexico (0-5, 8-11). During the past five games the Javs are averaging nearly 66 points per game, 16 points more than they had been in the previous six-game run. That has translated, however, into only one win, that coming over Texas A&M-Commerce, the No. 2 team in the LSC North.
Angela Trotter, who has averaged 19.6 points and 7.4 rebounds during the past five games, has a 13.3-point average for the season. Aasia Betts has been strong during that span as well, averaging 11.6 points. She leads the Javs in rebounding with an average of 5.7.
The Zias have won but twice in the past 12 games. Tiana Bryant leads ENM in scoring with an average of 17.6 points, third in the conference.
No. 18 West Texas (4-1, 15-3) had a five-game win streak halted at Tarleton State last weekend. The Buffs have the most potent offense in the LSC (77.5) and is second defensively (61.4).
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The New Heroes Issue #2
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29 M I C A H G A N S K E inDusTRial evoluTion Photos and Text by Ben Nicholas Interview by Thomas and Ben Nicholas Micah tacks a gigantic new painting to his studio wall in Long Island City. He's very excited about his new work. Past themes undeniably take form in these paintings, they being so much of w h o m M r. G a n s k e i s i n s i d e . H e a s t u t e l y o b s e r v e s our impermanent relationship with environments, but this time dramatically changes the perspective from where we view it, so much so that my 50mm lens is unable to fit his entire painting into one frame no matter where I stand in the studio. We're situated a few thousand feet in the air at a bird's eye point of view. His commentary has evolved in this new se- ries of paintings from what a location means to us, to what effect we have on a location. Micah is creating a series of massive paintings about our often disposable view of nature. Each work will be rendered as a sprawling aerial view, compiled through the use of Google Maps, of an area where human-kind has had a disasterous impact. These abandoned towns, ruined landscapes and pollut- ed cities are all examples of industrialization gone awry. Overlayed on these canvases will be mon- strous shadows of what Micah calls "aspirational technology", the future hopes held by our society that now loom over the wastelands. S ome people never make it to their dream des- tination in life. Their ideal vacation is lived vicariously through Internet photos and page spreads in Atlas books. Even if we are lucky enough to find our feet planted at our coveted latitude/ longitude, chances are we'll forget to take a deep breath and let the moment sink in. We scramble for devices deemed necessary to the imprinting of memories onto hard drives, protected for future e n j o y m e n t . Te c h n o l o g y o f t e n re s u l t s i n e x p e r i e n t i a l dislocation, so predominant in our culture that we could ask the question, 'Can we base the worth of a prospective experience on its potential for pho- togenic moments?' Picture travel agents, on the brink of obsolescence, selling framed pictures of Yo s e m i t e Va l l e y t o s u p p l e m e n t a c t u a l v a c a t i o n s t o the area. Honeymoons.com lists Hawaii, where Micah was born and raised, as the top vacation desti- nation in the United States, (tourist concentration and natural beauty exist, inevitably intertwined). The website suggests visiting the Polynesian Cul- ture Center before or after you shop at Hilo Hat- tie's, which boasts the largest selection of Ha- waiian fashion and gifts. In areas constipated by tourists we often see historic artifacts share equal importance with gift shop knick-knackery. Not only do we buy our invitation onto these lands, but also we refuse to leave empty-handed. Travelers use the land for brief stints of pleasure and then s a i l o f f , t h e i r r e t e n t i o n o f ' S u m m e r Va c a t i o n 2 0 1 0 ' determined quantitatively by a thousand jpegs of beaches, coves, mountains, forests, volcanoes, and the half-dozen hot pink tank tops for friends of friends. opposite page Sleeping Dragon Following page Micah & Thomas at his l.i. City studio Work in progress from the series Tomorrowland


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Thornhill Community Academy's straight-talking headteacher Jonny Mitchell showed the world what life in the classroom is really like in the award-winning TV documentary series Educating Yorkshire.
Now he writes exclusively for us.
Every week he will give us his take on life in and outside school from his hometown in Dewsbury.


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Yahoo To Offer Bug Bounty Rewards Up To $15,000 65
Posted by samzenpus
from the pay-me dept.
from the pay-me dept.
aesoteric writes "Yahoo is set to launch its first formal bug bounty system after Swiss pen testers complained about the $12.50 vouchers offered for locating XSS vulnerabilities. The web giant also said the voucher rewards were informal and actually funded out of the pockets of the company's own IT security staff."


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Jyothi, 32, was infected with HIV by her late husband, who later died of AIDS. Penniless, she was forced to put her two children into an orphanage while she took work in a garment factory. Desperately missing her children and with barely enough to live on, she turned to sex work instead. Now, she keeps her daughter at home and works in the afternoons: 'Though I got the disease from my husband, people will say that I am HIV positive because of my work. It is just for the sake of my children I am doing sex work. My children are already missing their father. I felt that they should not miss me.'
Christian Aid / Patrick Zachmann /Magnum Photos (India)
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So I just found out today that I have strep throat. Both the doctor and the pharacyst said the antibiotic is safe to take during pregnancy but I am still feeling pretty run down and in pain and wanting to know of some natural or safe remedies to deal with strep while pregnant. (my main symptoms are sore throat, hurts to swallow or talk, headache, fever)
Well, talk to your doctor about it, but I was told I should take tylenol if I have a fever, to bring it down. A fever isn't good for the baby. I'm sorry you're so sick, being sick AND pregnant is definitely no fun.
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