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Thu, 7 May 2015
I got a chance to talk to Mike Walls, Edgewave's Director of Cyber Operations and ex-Navy pilot on the floor of the RSA conference. I chose Edgewave to talk to specifically because of their marketing material and the number of buzzwords they used to discribe themselves. Mike does a fair job of defending and refining their meaning as well as highlighting some of the differences he sees between private sector and DoD incident responders. Still, he uses 'cyber' a lot, one of the tells that he really did work in government.
Direct download: NSP-RSA2015-MikeWalls.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:41 AM
Tue, 5 May 2015
I got a chance to sit down with Jason Straight, SVP and Chief Privacy Officer. Jason works on the legal side of security, meaning as a lawyer, not law enforcement. The conversation covers international legal concerns, privacy and communicating with your own legal counsel, just to mention a few of the topics.
The interview was recorded in a busy tea house and I've done my best to remove as much of the noise as possible.
Direct download: NSP-RSA2015-JasonStraight.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:31 PM
Wed, 18 June 2014
We'd suspected this day would come for quite some time, but it's time to make it official: The Network Security Podcast will no longer be a regular, weekly podcast, Rich Mogull and Zach Lanier will not be a consistant part of the podcast. The podcast will continue in some form, but it'll be Martin doing any of the publishing. Which isn't really all that big of a change anyway.
Basically, all three of us have become incredibly busy in the last year. Zach has a wedding to plan, a new job and has moved again. Rich has more business and work than any time in living memory and has had to cut out anything not related to work or family. And Martin moved to Europe and is on the road close to 50% of the time, further complicating everything.
There will still be microcasts and occasional interviews published through the podcast site, but for the most part we're shutting down production. It's a sad day as we've been doing this podcast in one form or another for nearly almost 9 years. We'll miss talking to each other and our audience, but the needs of life have intervened and require our attention elsewhere. You can catch all three of us at various conferences, either presenting or attending and know that we've always loved hearing feedback from you.
Keep an eye and ear open as there are already plans in process for what comes next. You didn't think Martin could stop talking, did you?
Network Security Podcast, Episode 332 - The End of an Era
Time: 50:58
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Direct download: NSP-061714-ep332.mp3
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Tue, 6 May 2014
It's been a while since we could last record a podcast, but at least we were able to get Rich and Martin together this week. Zach was supposed to join us as well, but got called away to fight a fire at the last minute. Such is life sometimes. But we got this episode recorded, so let's celebrate the small victories. We don't know when we'll have the time for another one as most of the hosts are galavanting around the world and having fun.
Network Security Podcast, Episode 331, May 6, 2014
Time: 38:05
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Direct download: nsp-050614-ep331.mp3
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Sun, 6 April 2014
This afternoon I had a chance to talk to two of the main organizers of one of the biggest security events of the year, BSides London. Paul Batson and Thomas Fisher have been working tirelessly (or maybe tiredly) for months to bring together all of the disparate elements required to make a conference come together. And it's no mean feat when the people you're working with are all volunteers and the money comes from sponsors, both of whom believe in your cause. This year will be my first chance to go to BSides London (this is the fourth) and I'm really looking forward to it.
Time: 18:00
Direct download: NSPMicrocast-BSidesLDN2014.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:38 PM
Mon, 31 March 2014
It only took 4+ weeks, but Martin and Zach are back on the air. Rich is back to his "(Inter)National Man of Mystery" routine, so he missed out on the somewhat lively discussion about drones, "secure" browsers, PCI, and, of course, the NSA.
Network Security Podcast, Episode 330
Time: 37:27
Show Notes:
Direct download: NSP-033114-ep330.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:06 PM
Sun, 23 March 2014
Most of the time my competitors are afraid to talk to me on the podcast. I'm a nice guy to the people I interview, so I don't know why they'd be afraid. And this year at RSAC, Jag Bains the CTO at DoSArrest took a chance and talked to me. While I did bring up that we're competitors, I let Jag explain to me how his company works and what they protect their customers from DDoS. I still think we do it better, but it's good to hear what other people in the same field are doing.
NSPMicrocast - RSAC2014 - DoSArrest
Direct download: NSPMicrocast-RSAC2014-DoSArrest.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:43 PM
Sun, 23 March 2014
I had a chance to sit down with BeyondTrust CTO, Marc Maiffret. I've had conversations with Marc before, but I haven't seen him since he has been at BeyondTrust, so I took this time to find out what they do and how it would be used by the average enterprise. As with all my interviews at RSAC, I asked Marc how he felt the spying revelations of the last year have affected the security landscape, his company and him personally.
Direct download: NSPMicrocast-RSAC2014-BeyondTrust.mp3
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Thu, 20 March 2014
I caught up with John Dickson and Dan Cornell from the Denim Group to talk about creating secure coding environments within companies, the importance of having trainers who are themselves coders and, of course, a little bit about spying. Which turned into a lot of bit about spying. I should have asked them where the name 'Denim Group' comes from.
NSP Microcast - RSAC2014 - Denim Group
Direct download: NSPMicrocast-RSAC2014-DenimGroup.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:07 AM
Tue, 18 March 2014
I spent a few minutes with the CEO of Utimaco, Malte Pollman at RSAC this year. Malte explains why Hardware Security Modules are important to the web of trust of the Internet, why lawful interception is a not in conflict with that web of trust. As with all my interviews at RSAC, I asked Malte how the last year's worth of spying revelations have affected his company and him personally. Also, I have a problem pronouncing the company name, which for the record is you-tee-make-oh.
Direct download: NSPMicrocast-RSAC2014-Utimaco.mp3
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Beverly Jones remembers her first horse, a small quarter horse named Blaze her father bought her when she was in the sixth grade.
ŌĆ£We kept him in the backyard, of all things,ŌĆØ Jones said. ŌĆ£He was still alive when I got married. I had many, many adventures with Blaze. (My own) kids grew up riding horses.ŌĆØ
Now that her own children are grown, Jones is ensuring that other children have the same opportunities she had growing up.
Jones is co-owner of J-3 Ranch near Artesia Road, where newcomers can learn to ride horses and veteran riders can give their horses a home away from home.
Beverly Jones runs the ranch with her husband, Nelson Jones, and both are co-owners with NelsonŌĆÖs brother Richard Jones, who lives in Florida. She said NelsonŌĆÖs father, T.N. Jones, bought the ranch in 1950 and named it for himself and his two sons ŌĆö the three Joneses.
ŌĆ£(T.N. Jones) bought this for his cattle ranch. We moved here in 1973, and then we brought horses and rode. T.N. said, ŌĆśMy cow ranch became a horse ranch overnight,ŌĆÖŌĆØ Beverly said, laughing.
Beverly said a riding instructor began working at her ranch in 1989, and around 1990, she and her husband began hosting competitive events up until 2001, the last two of which moved from J-3 Ranch to the Mississippi Horse Park. Each two-day event took about 100 volunteers, Beverly said.
ŌĆ£Needless to say, we were tired when we got through, but it was beautiful,ŌĆØ Beverly said. ŌĆ£We had to put flowers on all the jumps and decorate them. Now, (riders) can train some (at J-3 Ranch), but they mainly use the courses now for trail riding. Our place is a little unusual, because we have so many hills. People love that.ŌĆØ
During J-3ŌĆÖs stint as a competitive venue, Beverly said, the ranch also hosted clinics, some of which were led by Olympic-grade riders. She said she learned much from these clinicians, and combined with official certification, she learned enough to teach beginners and basic jumping.
ŌĆ£I have all ranges of people taking lessons, from 75-year-olds to 3-year-olds,ŌĆØ Beverly said. ŌĆ£The main thing is safety. We teach not only (riding) lessons, but also how to groom and saddle and (care for horses). (We) want a happy horse and a happy rider. We want it to be a mutually beneficial relationship.ŌĆØ
Lora Hanson, an associate professor in Mississippi State UniversityŌĆÖs College of Veterinary Medicine, said she had two children with horses who had learned to ride from Beverly. Like Beverly, she said she rode horses when she was younger, and she wanted to pass that love on to her children.
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs an excellent thing to do with your children. ItŌĆÖs precious family time. The children also learn responsibility with a living animal,ŌĆØ Hanson said. ŌĆ£(Beverly is) so relaxed and knowledgeable. SheŌĆÖs very good with the children, and she helps with absolutely everything.ŌĆØ
With an estimated 700 acres, 200 of which are set aside for cattle, Beverly said J-3 Ranch also offered boarding for horses. Hanson said boarding made horse ownership possible for those who didnŌĆÖt have places for horses on their own property.
ŌĆ£Starkville is a small town and a rural area, but one of the advantages, to me, of living in this town is being able to expose your children to horses,ŌĆØ Hanson said. ŌĆ£In a bigger town, it would be much more difficult.ŌĆØ
Beverly said MSU students who wanted to maintain the bond they built with a horse when they were younger sometimes brought their horses to the ranch so they could visit with them throughout the year. J-3 Ranch currently boards 77 horses, according to Beverly, and four of them are retired horses with owners living across the country, from New Hampshire to Utah.
ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖve got so many (horses) that have gone to heaven,ŌĆØ Beverly said. ŌĆ£Horses live so long, nowadays. I had one live to 35. A horse is an investment. In the wild, they live only (about) seven years. If (a horse is) taken care of, heŌĆÖll live and be part of the family for a long time.ŌĆØ

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Second-half horror show disastrous for Whitehaven
Last updated at 12:34, Monday, 25 February 2013
Dewsbury 46 Whitehaven 8: Whitehaven blew their chances thanks to a second-half horror show at Tetley's Stadium yesterday.
They looked set to run the Rams close after ending a fairly competitive first-half only 16-8 behind, playing up the slope.
But 12 minutes in to the second-half they had conceded another 24 points, and it was then a matter of damage limitation.
Dewsbury are not a bad side, with lively half-backs and forwards who run hard, but the Championship boasts a handful that are better, and unless Haven shape up, they are in for a long, painful season.
There was previous little invention in the side after the break, and even less push up front, skipper Lee Doran being a rare exception.
Craig Calvert produced a well-worked early try and enjoyed a couple of decent gallops, but it's difficult to have a huge impact from the flank.
Every time Jessie Joe Parker received a pass he was enveloped almost immediately, but at least he took a few passes.
Fellow centre Scott McAvoy, one of the club's best attacking weapons, saw little possession.
The early signs were ominous, centre Scott Hale brushing off weak tackles for a third-minute Rams' try, Dale Morton adding the first of his seven goals.
But Haven stuck to the task and Dewsbury were stretched four minutes later when Doran broke on a 50-metre burst.
On the next tackle, Rooney lofted a kick and Parker did well to smuggle the ball out of the tackle for Calvert.
He still had plenty of work to do but did it well, forcing his way over in the corner.
The try was a high point for Haven, who went on to concede two tries in three minutes. Former Super League paceman Karl Pryce showed he still had plenty to offer for the first as the Rams broke from deep.
The defence was turned inside out before Pryce fed centre Greg Scott for the try.
Second-row Lucas Walshaw then showed great power and determination to ground the ball under heavy pressure on 15 minutes. But he really should have been stopped.
Haven were able to turn the tables up front for the final 15 minutes of the half after props Dave Houghton and Seb Martins, and hooker Carl Sice, appeared off the bench.
Houghton earned a penalty with his first drive, from which Sice put in an attacking kick and the Cumbrians earned a repeat set.
From this possession, Lee Paterson charged on to Sice's short, dummy-half pass to reduce the deficit.
Doran soon produced another thrust through the line and Houghton went close, and the hosts must have been grateful when Paterson made a second grab at Makali Aizue as he tried a quick play the ball.
Morton obliged with the penalty to increase Dewsbury's lead at the interval.
Haven's minds must have still been in the changing room when dual-registered Bradford hooker Adam O'Brien broke from dummy-half on 42 minutes.
He fed Walshaw for his second try, and the Rams crossed again on their next set.
Second-row Rob Spicer, remarkably, went through Houghton and then full-back Neil Thorman, who is unlikely to be too happy with his attempted tackle, to go under the posts.
The visitors' performance went from bad to feeble moments later when scrum-half Jy-Mel Coleman danced through Haven's static defence to put the Rams out of sight.
And stand-off Aaron Brown then intercepted as Sice tried to push the pace as the hosts hit the 40-point mark.
Sice continued to try hard, though to no avail on the scoreboard, and Dewsbury produced nice handling for their final try, Morton finishing the move in the 70th minute.
Parker was moved to the wing for Chris Fleming in the closing moments and showed what he can do with space after being fed by Doran.
He went 40 metres before being hauled down, and when Thorman then put a kick through, seemingly only Houghton read it, as no one else chased.
It was typical of the half for Haven. Not good enough. When the only consolation to be drawn is that at least the hosts did not bring up a half-century, you know you are in trouble.
Whitehaven: Thorman, Fleming, McAvoy, Parker, Calvert, Rooney, Southernwood, Jackson, Newton, Cullnean, Clarke, Doran, Paterson. Subs: Sice, Cameron, Martins, Houghton.
Tries: Calvert, Paterson
Dewsbury Rams: Craven, Morton, Pryce, Hale, Scott, Brown, Coleman, Lillycrop, Wright, Hepworth, Spicer, Walshaw, Gallagher. Subs: O'Brien, Nash, Murphy, Aizue.
Tries: Hale, Scott, Walshaw 2, Spicer, Coleman, Brown, Morton; Goals: Morton 7
Referee: Matt Thomason
Attendance: 813
Star man: Lee Doran
First published at 11:37, Monday, 25 February 2013
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A private investigator or private detective (often shortened to PI or private eye) is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigations. Private investigators often work for attorneys in civil cases. Many work for insurance companies to investigate suspicious claims. Before the advent of no-fault divorce, many private investigators were hired to search out evidence of adultery or other illegal conduct within marriage to establish grounds for a divorce. Despite the lack of legal necessity for such evidence in many jurisdictions, according to press reports collecting evidence of adultery or other "bad behavior" by spouses and partners is still one of the most profitable activities investigators undertake, as the stakes being fought over now are child custody, alimony, or marital property disputes.
Many jurisdictions require PIs to be licensed, and they may or may not carry firearms depending on local laws. Some are ex-police officers, although many are not. They are expected to keep detailed notes and to be prepared to testify in court regarding any of their observations on behalf of their clients. Taking great care to remain within the law in the scope is also required, as this may lead to the individual facing criminal charges. Irregular hours may also be required when performing surveillance work.
PIs also engage in a large variety of work that is not usually associated with the industry in the mind of the public. For example, many PIs are involved in process serving, the personal delivery of summons, subpoenas and other legal documents to parties in a legal case. The tracing of absconding debtors can also form a large part of a PI's work load. Many agencies specialize in a particular field of expertise. For example, some PI agencies deal only in tracing. Others may specialize in technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM), or Electronic Counter Measures (ECM), which is the locating and dealing with unwanted forms of electronic surveillance (for example, a bugged boardroom for industrial espionage purposes). Other PIs, also known as Corporate Investigators, specialise in corporate matters, including anti-fraud work, the protection of intellectual property and trade secrets, anti-piracy, copyright infringement investigations, due diligence investigations and computer forensics work.
Increasingly, modern PIs prefer to be known as "professional investigators" or Licensed Private Investigators(LPI's) rather than "private investigators" or "private detectives". This is a response to the image that is sometimes attributed to the profession and an effort to establish and demonstrate the industry to be a proper and respectable profession.
Many detectives and investigators spend time away from their offices conducting interviews or doing surveillance, but some work in their office most of the day conducting computer searches and making telephone calls. Those who have their own agencies and employ other investigators may work primarily in an office and have normal business hours.
When the private investigator is working on a case away from the office, the environment might range from plush boardrooms to seedy bars. Store and hotel detectives work in the businesses that they protect. Investigators generally work alone, but they sometimes work with others during surveillance or when following a subject in order to avoid detection.
Some of the work involves confrontation, so the job can be stressful and dangerous. Some situations call for the investigator to be armed, such as certain bodyguard assignments for corporate or celebrity clients, although this will depend on the laws of the country in which the investigator works. Detectives and investigators who carry handguns must be licensed by the appropriate authority. In most cases, however, a weapon is not necessary, because the purpose of the work is gathering information and not law enforcement or criminal apprehension.
Former police officers, military investigators and government agents, who are frequently able to retire after 20 or 25 years of service, often become private detectives or investigators in a second career. Others enter from such diverse fields as finance, accounting, commercial credit, investigative reporting, insurance, and law. These individuals often can apply their prior work experience in a related investigative specialty. A few enter the occupation directly after graduation from college, generally with associate's or bachelor's degrees in criminal justice, police science or with a private investigation diploma.
The majority of states in the United States and the District of Columbia require private detectives and investigators to be licensed. Licensing requirements vary, however. Seven states—Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, and South Dakota—have no statewide licensing requirements, some states have very few requirements, and many other states have stringent regulations. A growing number of states are enacting mandatory training programs for private detectives and investigators. For example, the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs requires private investigators to be 18 years of age or older, have a combination of education in police science, criminal law, or justice and experience equalling three years (6,000 hours) of investigative experience, pass a criminal history background check by the California Department of Justice and the FBI (in most states, convicted felons cannot be issued a license), and receive a qualifying score on a two-hour written examination covering laws and regulations. There are additional requirements for a firearms permit.
While in a state such as Rhode Island an applicant would have to present a requirement of five years experience with an established private detective, an associates degree, be a police officer for five years, or an equivalent. Once one of the requirements is met one may apply to the local town council after which be given a license to conduct business.
For private detective and investigative jobs, most employers look for individuals with ingenuity, persistence, and assertiveness. A candidate must not be afraid of confrontation, should communicate well, and should be able to think on his or her feet. Good interviewing and interrogation skills also are important and usually are acquired in earlier careers in law enforcement or other fields. Because the courts often are the ultimate judge of a properly conducted investigation, the investigator must be able to present the facts in a manner that a jury will believe.
Training in subjects such as criminal justice and police science can be helpful to aspiring private detectives and investigators. Most corporate investigators must have a bachelor's degree, preferably in a business-related field. Some corporate investigators have a master's degree in business administration or a law degree, while others are CPAs. Corporate investigators hired by large companies may receive formal training from their employers on business practices, management structure, and various finance-related topics. The screening process for potential employees typically includes a background check for a criminal history.
Some investigators receive certification from a professional organization to demonstrate competency in a field. For example, the National Association of Legal Investigators (NALI) confers the Certified Legal Investigator designation to licensed investigators who devote a majority of their practice to negligence or criminal defense investigations. To receive the designation, applicants must satisfy experience, educational, and continuing-training requirements and must pass written and oral exams administered by the NALI.
Most private-detective agencies are small, with little room for advancement. Usually, there are no defined ranks or steps, so advancement takes the form of increases in salary and assignment status. Many detectives and investigators work for detective agencies at the beginning of their careers and, after a few years, start their own firms. Corporate and legal investigators may rise to supervisor or manager of the security or investigations department.
The median salary for a private investigator in the U.S. is $32,110 USD, according to 2004 data.
After Vidocq, the industry was born. Much of what private investigators did in the early days was to act as the police in matters that their clients felt the police were not equipped for or willing to do. A larger role for this new private investigative industry to was to assist companies in labor disputes. Some early private investigators provided armed guards to act as a private militia.
In the U.S., the Pinkerton National Detective Agency was a private detective agency established in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton. Pinkerton had become famous when he foiled a plot to assassinate then President-Elect Abraham Lincoln. Pinkerton's agents performed services which ranged from undercover investigations and detection of crimes to plant protection and armed security. It is sometimes claimed, probably with exaggeration, that at the height of its existence the Pinkerton National Detective Agency employed more agents than the United States Army.
During the labor unrest of the late 19th century, companies sometimes hired operatives and armed guards from the Pinkertons and similar agencies to keep strikers and suspected unionists out of their factories. The most famous example of this was the Homestead Strike of 1892, when industrialist Henry Clay Frick hired a large contingent of Pinkerton men to regain possession of Andrew Carnegie's steel mill during a lock-out at Homestead, Pennsylvania. Gunfire erupted between the strikers and the Pinkertons, resulting in multiple casualties and deaths on both sides. Several days later a radical anarchist, Alexander Berkman, attempted to assassinate Frick. In the aftermath of the Homestead Riot, several states passed so-called \"anti-Pinkerton\" laws restricting the importation of private security guards during labor strikes. The federal Anti-Pinkerton Act of 1893 continues to prohibit an \"individual employed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, or similar organization\" from being employed by \"the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia.
Pinkerton agents were also hired to track western outlaws Jesse James, the Reno brothers, and the Wild Bunch, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Pinkerton agency's logo, an eye embellished with the words \"We Never Sleep,\" inspired the term \"private eye.
It was not until the prosperity of the 1920s that the private investigator became a person accessible to the average American. With the wealth of the 1920s and the expanding of the middle class came the need of middle America for private investigators.
Since then the private detective industry has grown with the changing needs of the public. Social issues like infidelity and unionization have impacted the industry and created new types of work, as has the need for insurance and, with it, insurance fraud, criminal defense investigations and the invention of low-cost listening devices. In a number of countries, a licensing process has been introduced that has put criteria in place that investigators have to meet: in most cases, a clean criminal record. This has combined with modern business practices that have ensured that most investigators are now professional in outlook, rather than seeing the PI world as a second career opportunity for retired policemen.
The PI genre in fiction dates back to Edgar Allan Poe who created the character C. Auguste Dupin, who lived in Paris. The genre graduated onto cinema and television screens and is still a regular theme on stage, screen and book.


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Under private sector privacy laws, information can only be collected, used or disclosed by an employer with the consent of the employee, unless there is an exemption.
Employers must ask themselves, before any information can be collected, used or disclosed without consent, "does this information fall into the category of personal information?" and if the answer is yes, the next question will be "is there an exception or exemption that allows or requires me to collect, use or disclose the information without the consent of the employee?"
Obviously, an employer has to obtain and use certain personal information from an employee in order to hire and pay that person. For that reason, there is an exemption in the law that permits such collection, use and disclosure of information for purposes of establishing, managing or terminating the employer-employee relationship. There is a further exemption for the contact particulars of an employee, but only the business contact
information. It is not ok, for example, for an employer to give out an employee's home address, e-mail or phone number unless the employee has specifically consented. A third exemption is for personal information that is the "work product" of the employee.
It should be made clear that just because the employer has consent to collect information, it does not automatically follow that there is also consent to use or disclose the information, unless consent to such use or disclosure can be implied. For example, the employer will be obligated to disclose to Canada Revenue Agency that the employee is now on payroll, and may do so without express consent from the employee.
The issue of the disclosure of work product sometimes arises where reports are written by employees as part of the job. Such reports might contain negative comments about others, for example, and the writers might not want to be "caught in the middle." The Privacy Commissioner has dealt with this by saying that such reports may be disclosed with the writer's name, because the reports, although written by them, are not about them.
The prohibition against using or disclosing employee's personal information extends to other employees, so it is vital that employers keep employee files locked up and accessible only to those staff members with a need for access to establish, manage or terminate the employer-employee relationship.
Even something as simple as telling one employee that another employee had no more paid vacation time remaining for the year, can put an employer off-side.
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New York Fashion Week: Preppy redux in menswear
NEW YORK -- The menswear collections that came down the runway during New York Fashion Week were a crisp, colorful, pattern-packed bunch. Certainly, there were vestiges of the military and workwear influences of seasons past -- especially in casual outerwear pieces such as bomber and motorcycle jackets. But it was variations on the preppy aesthetic -- rendered in soft linens and puckered seersucker -- that moved to the head of the class for spring-summer 2013. Some of the most noteworthy menswear trends seen on the runways included these. Click here for more runway coverage.
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Bold stripes emerged as the predominant graphic element for spring during the shows, which ended Thursday. Michael Bastian showed workwear-inspired, railroad-striped denim pullover shirt jackets, five-pocket jeans and slouchy Confederate soldier style kepi hats (the latter a collaboration with Mr. Kim, Eugenia Kim's men's line). Michael Kors employed horizontal rugby stripes on men's pullover shirts and vertical, referee-like stripes on cotton blazers. The latter look also cropped up on Western-style shirts in the Joseph Abboud collection. Pictured is a look from the Joseph Abboud collection.


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"George Bush once proclaimed 'God is not neutral,'" writes Paul Krassner in his most recent book, Who's to Say What's Obscene?, "which is the antithesis," says Krassner, "of my own spiritual path...that God is totally neutral." It is one of the book's delights that the author, one of the few activists of the Vietnam war protest movement who has remained a relevant social commentator in the age of Obama, lets his thoughts flow effortlessly from politics to cosmic deliberation. In her foreword, Arianna Huffington, for whose website Krassner has written hundreds of posts, calls him a contemporary "investigative satirist extraordinaire."
In a rare messaging lapse for one of the founders of the Yippies, Krassner's title does the latest book a disservice. He is not rehashing the censorship battles of his younger days (Krassner was a close friend of Lenny Bruce, who was persecuted for the use of four-letter words in his comic monologues during the 1960s) but rather uses the concept of "obscenity" as a moral framing device to drive a series of free-form observations on war, drugs, sex, entertainment culture and connections between the past and the present. Krassner is not only concerned with identifying what is not obscene (in his view, pretty much anything to do with sex); he crafts a definition that instead encompasses greed, dishonesty, cruelty and murder.
On the very first page he makes it clear that his anarchic-comic moral sensibility (the word "irreverence" being his favorite shorthand) is not going to be restrained by George W. Bush's departure from the White House. He laments that Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, supported immunity for Bush administration officials who were the architects of justification of torture and indefinite detention without trial. "Now that's fucking obscene," Krassner writes.
Krassner retains the soul and wit of a comedian. A large portion of the book consists of his own witticisms as well as anecdotes (and observations) on the hip comic fraternity past and present, including Chris Rock, David Chapelle, Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, Bill Maher, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman, Harry Shearer, Dick Gregory and Mort Sahl. Sometimes Krassner's insights are in the form of quick zingers--for example, he delights in the image of Olympic medalist Michael Phelps smoking pot. But at other points he brings unusual depth to such tabloid fodder as Michael Richards's racist outburst in a comedy club.
Even when Krassner is writing about comedy, his progressive agenda is never far off. "After the invasion of Iraq," he writes disapprovingly, "the late-night talk-show monologues by Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien--helped demonize Saddam Hussein and these hosts served as cheerleaders for the war." Krassner notes that their jokes turned against Bush only as he declined in popularity.
In a chapter entitled "The War On Some People Who Use Some Drugs," Krassner, a frequent contributor to High Times who is unabashedly pro-psychedelic, shares his outrage over the continued criminalization of marijuana. Later, noting the convenient memory loss under oath by Bush administration officials such as former attorney g eneral Alberto Gonzalez, Krassner slyly refers to an interview with Colin Powell from a Saudi Arabian newspaper (this Yippie knows how to use Google!) in which the former secretary of state enthuses about the widespread taking of the sleeping pill Ambien by Bushies. In response to Joe Biden's views on medical marijuana--"We have not devoted nearly enough science or time to...pain management.... There's got to be a better answer than marijuana"--Krassner counters, "You mean like prescription drugs, which result in 100,000 deaths per year while marijuana has caused none?" (Krassner acknowledges that Obama's Justice Department does not interfere with states that have decriminalized pot. "States rights--it's not just for racists anymore.")
Krassner's first media job after college was working for Mad magazine during the Eisenhower administration, lampooning, among others, the original "mad men" of those days, and he does not shirk his duty as a senior spokesman. In a section called "Several Dead Icons," he reminisces about Allen Ginsberg, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer and George Carlin, among others, and he notes that on the thirtieth anniversary of the Grateful Dead's performance in front of the Egyptian Pyramids, he was there on the scene and that "a bootleg tape of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis doing filthy shtick was being used for a preliminary sound check."
Krassner also serves as protector of the Yippies' flame. He slaps liberal New York Times columnist Frank Rich for writing of Joe Lieberman's primary-election opponent, "A former Greenwich selectman like Mr. [Ned] Lamont isn't easily slimed as a reincarnation of Abbie Hoffman or an ally of Osama bin Laden." Krassner pungently reminds Rich, "Hoffman was a defendant at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, and bin Laden was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks.... When journalists link Yippies with misleading bedfellows at best it's careless shorthand, and at worst it's deliberate demonization. Osama bin Laden wanted an airplane to crash into the Pentagon. Abbie Hoffman merely wanted to levitate it."
Throughout the book Krassner retains the affect of a hip elder statesman with a perpetual twinkle in his eye, reminding his readers that politics without humor is boring and that laughter without a moral compass is lame.


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As we reported last week, Aria's (Lucy Hale) mom, the newly single Ella (Holly Marie Combs), will be getting her own love interest on Pretty Little Liars Season 3. Now, TVLine reports who will be playing the potentially sexy role, and one thing's for sure: He's everybody's type, whether you're 16 or 60.
Steve Talley, who you may recognize from the American Pie movies — he played Stifler's little brother — will be joining the PLL cast as Ella's suitor. In an odd way, Steve actually looks like a young Byron Montgomery (Chad Lowe), with the same sandy hair and quizzical expression.
TVLine also reports that Ella's new boy toy will make his debut in Season 3, Episode 7: "Crazy," which airs on July 24. We just hope the title of that episode doesn't refer to Steve's character!
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Re: Blizzard, Worse login server for a mmorpg I have ever seen.
So let me get this straight. Blizzard is
a monthly fee for their network service and they haven't managed to improve the thing?
I have had more then a few problems with battle.net in the years I had Diablo II. I had accounts on both US West and US East realms, lots of downages, games got deleted when chars were still in them...caused probs with chars "char not found" error messages when one tried to reload a char that got dumped in this manner (chars stored on server of course), lots of lag problems, etc...
There were all kinds of complaints on their forums, but to each message peeps were like "why complain, you don't pay a monthly fee, you whiners". Peeps replied "I did buy a CD".
Now many of those probs are gone in Diablo II, except it's bot galore with bots that whisper spam-vertized websites in games (to buy duped/hacked items for real cash, cheats, programs to hack the game, etc) and for everyone squelched...there's like a million spam bots on there, and another 5 can be there to take it's place.
So, no monthly fee was about the only reason they had to hold off peeps complaints of battle.net probs. And yet now, they charge a monthly fee and the network there is still like this?
That be the case, I could stick to EQ or what not for a subscribers fee...
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Wowhead's guide states that, while they're here today, these gifts will be gone tomorrow, so grab your last chance to get the Winter's Helper pets, the Mechanical Greench, the Snowman Kit or Jingling Bell. There's also some eggnog, cookies, wands, and roast dinners to be had, amongst other surprises. And, how could I forget, the achievements that go with them. Of course, any of these items that are limited to Winter Veil only have a day left in them, so make haste, don't tarry, open a present today! You can only enjoy the Mechanical Greench for so long.
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By Sara Kimberley, campaignlive.co.uk, Monday, 14 January 2013 04:49PM
Last year's Best Agency of the Year winner, Iris, follows closely behind, having been shortlisted nine times for work across clients including Quit UK and Sony Mobile. Wunderman has been shortlisted eight times for activity on clients including Levi's and Microsoft. Other front-runners include OgilvyAction and Haygarth, which have been shortlisted six times each.
In total, 45 agencies have been shortlisted across 33 categories, which include Best Advertising-led Campaign and Best Digital Innovation Within a Campaign.
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Other shortlisted agencies include Publicis Chemistry, Pulse Group, DraftFCB and Saatch & Saatchi X.
The shortlisted entries will be judged by a panel of experts and chaired by the former global senior vice-president of marketing for Nokia, Charmaine Eggberry.
David Harris, the executive creative director of Wunderman, will chair the creative judging panel.
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This game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and the New York Knicks was a benefit for Migdal Ohr, the largest orphanage in the world. But it looks like Maccabi Coach Pini Gershon was the one who needed some charity. He got tossed in the third quarter for getting his second technical but refused to leave. The refs needed to get the rabbi who spoke at halftime to push Gershon off the court and the tunnel.
I think Maccabi is playing the Clippers at Staples Center tonight. I hope it's as entertaining.
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A new 2K, a new My Player career. Time to dust off those Jordans and get back on the hardwood for a new year of glorious basketball!
So this time around I decided to not use my name and use a preset one so I could actually hear his name called in the draft and during games. Once I found that Hendrix was a name in the list, the rest just seemed obvious and so, Jimmy Hendrix was born. Unfortunately the name list didn't have it as Jimi, so I had to go with a more traditional spelling. One downside so far is the nba2k.com site is not up and running yet, so I am unable to upload my replays and screenshots just yet. As soon as I get this figured out, I'll be doing that in future updates. Now without further ado, lets get on with the story!
The Jimmy Hendrix Experience: Chapter I
After a successful career at Oklahoma University, Jimmy Hendrix decided it was time to take the next step in his career and declare for the NBA Draft. It was going to be a tough ride as he lacked the athleticism of some of his peers, but ultimately his ability to get the ball in the basket was almost unrivaled. A pure shooter, he had no limit on his range and by that skill he hoped he would be able to make a splash in the upcoming Rookie Showcase game.
As an exhibition of the nation's top talent, the Rookie Showcase did not disappoint. Prospects from all over the country vied for attention from NBA team scouts in hopes to impress someone enough to get them drafted to an NBA team. Hendrix was especially bright. His assists and rebounds were below the average for his height and position, but his pure scoring ability was hard to deny. Knocking down 52% of his shots from behind the arc, he was an absolute scoring machine helping his team to win the game. While he may not be the best all-around player, his talent for scoring should get some teams excited and so he watched his draft stock rise as he put on a show throughout the game.
After his impressive performance he was interviewed by the Milwaukee Bucks, the Utah Jazz and the Phoenix Suns. Aside from his scoring talent, scouts were most impressed with his drive and desire to fill any role he was needed to in order to help his team win. Of the three interviewees, Utah seemed the most promising as they were looking to make him a franchise talent and build a team around him. Phoenix wasn't too impressed with the way he viewed himself as having the talent to eventually become one of the NBAs greats, and so noted on his scouting report that he had delusions of grandeur in regards to his abilities and potential. Surely that will only add fuel to his fire.
Finally, the moment of truth was upon him. The Draft pundits pegged him in as the number 14 pick going to the Houston Rockets, but they had misjudged the impressions he had left on a certain Western team. After patiently watching his peers get selected, Jimmy Hendrix was chosen 12th overall by the Utah Jazz. He was thrilled to have been a lottery pick, although he knew ultimately that this gave him even greater expectations he had to live up to and, in all honesty, surpass.
Utah's expectations of him were highlighted in a billboard of him they put up in Salt Lake City to celebrate their new acquisition. It simply stated "The future has arrived." As a new rookie on the team his main responsibility is to provide some energy and scoring off of the bench. A few games in and he's doing that admirably, scoring more points than minutes played throughout the early season. Next on the to-do list is to work his way up to the starting line up and replace Raja Bell as their go-to scorer. Given his drive and determination to constantly improve his game, it's only a matter of time before we see him blossom into a regular starter for his team.
So that's it for the first chapter of Jimmy's new life in the NBA. I'll post some more in the future as his career develops, hopefully with some images and vids as well.


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So I'm at a point where I should start booking rooms. There's a few legs of the trip where we're stuck with short distances due to what we have the following day (places and things we'll want to have time to see along the way). For example, from Jackson, WY to Gardiner, MT it's only 152 miles, but the next stop after that is Red Lodge. Red Lodge is after Bear-tooth pass and there's no way I'm
going to allow ourselves enough time to stop along the way. Even with the short distances it looks like we'll have an extra 2 nights. I'd appreciate any feedback from anyone as to a few places you think we might want to spend an extra night.
Google maps reached it's limit as t how many points I can have on this map so I've split it into sections. This map
will give you an idea as to the route again though.
(and for the record, we've done the 400+ mile days thing in the past and that's NOT what this or any of our trips are about. If we're hauling ass, it's for fun and NOT because we're in a hurry to get anywhere
I lived in Wyoming (Lander, on the east flank of the Wind River Mountains) for many decades before moving to Virginia about 5.5 years ago, so I rode all that country you're planning to see many times. You've gotten a bunch of good advice about the desert SW portion of your trip, so I'll stick to commenting on the Wyoming and Yellowstone leg.
I like you're route generally, but would caution you about the Rock Springs to Pinedale stretch - it's flat, dry, wide open high desert with lots of oilfield truck traffic. Coming over the Uinta Mountains on Hwy 191 from Vernal to Rock Springs is AWESOME, you will not believe the switchbacks on the Vernal side, then you ride down an awesome mountain road on the Wyoming side, over Flaming Gorge Dam (nice visitor's center with clean potties
), through the Uinta foothills and up Little Mountain (awesome sweepers...) onto a GORGEOUS high plateau with incredible vistas all the way to RS. Watch for wild horses up there - it's open range (no fences) and we had a large herd run right between my buddy and I as we rode down through there one day (stallions, mares, colts running full-tilt across the road in front of me- you talk about a wild sight!). The wind can be atrocious up there, but the asphalt and scenery are unreal. If I were doing this route, I'd skip the RS to Pinedale stretch and head a bit west on I-80 until you hit Hwy 30 and go up through Kemmerer, Sage, Cokeville, then over Salt Pass into the Star Valley (Afton) for some incredible twisty scenic mountain roads. From the Star Valley you'll turn right at Alpine Junction (Hwy 26, I think), then up through the amazingly gorgeous Snake River Canyon to Jackson. It's longer, but much more scenic and once you're past Cokeville you are on some outstanding motorcycle roads all the way to Jax. If you go through Pinedale, it's pretty following the Wind River Mountains but pretty straight and boring roads until you almost get to Bondurant, then the Hoback Canyon is outstanding. The route I described above will intersect with your route at Hoback Junction just south of Jackson.
Yes, it's not very far from Jackson to Gardiner, Montana but traversing Yellowstone takes time. I have a suggestion for accomodation - skip Gardiner and go about 15 miles further north to Chico Hot springs resort and spend a couple nights there. Gardiner is kind of a dumpy little town with standard hotels and limited eating choices while Chico is fantastic with an OLD lodge (or you can get nicer rooms in their new section, and decent hotel-type rooms in another section). They have a five-star restaurant, HUGE hot springs pool, day spa, horseback riding, etc. If you stay two nights there you can take a liesurely ride through YNP on the Grand Loop (Mammoth - Tower - Canyon - West Thumb - Old Faithful - back to Mammoth - Chico) and then be refreshed for continuing your ride over the Beartooth Highway. I spent a lot of time riding and working in Yellowstone and am pleased to report that the NPS rebuilt all the roads in the last ~10 years so they are in great condition, but they really do enforce the 45 MPH speed limit. If you do your loop early you'll see lots of wildlife along the roads, and there are lots of viewpoints to visit as well. I miss Yellowstone
, I did a lot of bicycling there too and it's unbelievable.
From Chico (
) I'd head back into YNP to Fishing Bridge, then loop around the north side of Yellowstone Lake and go out the East entrance to Cody. You cannot believe how gorgeous that ride is, simply amazing. The roads around the north end of the lake are awesome, Sylvan Pass is stunning, and the highway from the East Entrance to Cody is phenomenal. From Cody head north on Hwy 120 and take the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway 296 over Dead Indian Hill and into the unbelieveable Sunlight Basin:
I have gotten "stuck" riding this highway for hours - ride through, turn around and ride back, turn around and repeat. Once you get tired of this section, head on NW to the intersection with 212 and be prepared to have your socks blown off by the ride over the Beartooth Mountains and down into Red Lodge. It is beyond words as a motorcycling highway (but not fast like Sunlight Basin) and Red Lodge is a cool little ski town with lots of good places to eat and stay. I caution you - wear lots of layers for this trip because you'll go through some extreme elevation and temperature changes through the course of the day, and drink lots of fluids! Yes, the date stamp on this photo is correct, June 1st on Togwotee Pass between Jackson and Dubois:
I rode over the Beartooths once on the 4th of July and was waving at skiers as I rode past - you'll see a Poma lift on the Red Lodge side accessing a big snowfield. The NE Entrance via Cooke City as shown on your map is very nice too, don't get me wrong, but the route I suggested above is 10X the roads and scenery. It's a long day of twisty roads but not all that many miles and it is truly an epic section of road.
Your route through Montana and Idaho looks great - you can't go wrong anywhere up there! I think you'll be fine traversing eastern Utah as long as you stay out of the Salt Lake Valley and the Interstate.
+1 on the suggestion to visit Mesa Verde, it is truly incredible. And you will not find a better 14 mile stretch of National Park Service road than the entrance road up to the mesa top - I am a total hoon on that road. It has incredible vistas, great asphalt, lots of RVs and tourons, almost all double-yellow lines, but on bikes you can pass because there are great sight distances. It's a national park so the speed limit is 45, IIRC, but I just can't go that slow on that road
Well, enough of that for now, I'm making myself crazy wishing I could go ride this stuff again! We have lots of great roads in Virginia and West Virginia (we're 10 miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway) but I do miss the wide open spaces of the Rocky Mountain West.
Have a blast!
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"It's style and substance in one dish. This delectable spaghetti squash is full of classic flavors placed in a modern arrangement. Sausage and spaghetti squash glazed over by sliced almonds and apples all baked in with a cover of Monterey Jack cheese seal in the flavor of this elegant dish and will impress your friends and family with its beautiful presentation. Make sure you're using apples from Washington!"
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spaghetti squash, halved and seeded
salt and ground black pepper to taste
1 cup
1 pound
Italian sausage links
2 teaspoons
extra-virgin olive oil
white onions, diced
1 clove
garlic, minced
2 teaspoons
Washington apples - peeled, cored, and sliced into rings
1 teaspoon
extra-virgin olive oil
4 ounces
sliced almonds
6 ounces
shredded Monterey Jack cheese
A big hit!!! I cut the cooking time way down by piercing the squash with a fork 5 times then microwaving it for 12 minutes. I let it cool while I prepared the rest and then scooped out the seeds and added the rest to the skillet. I also left the peel on the apple and added a little bit of sage along with the oregano. This is a fantastic recipe using seasonal ingredients. Yum!
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20 Ratings
This was excellent. My garden has an abundance of squash that was mislabeled as zucchini. I don't really care for squash. Found this recipe and I will definitely make again. My husband loved it too, though he thought you should rename it "Squashington."
I was really surprised by how good this turned out. I was a little leery. It just sounded kind of different. Things I did different: I chopped the apples and sauted them with the onions and garlic. I used one onion, 2 cloves garlic, no oregano (ran out last night) and some mrs dash. I toasted the almonds and put some brown sugar on them and used a fabulous white cheese on top called "Dubliner" that I got at Sams Club. Surprisingly DELISH!
i liked it i just did not put the nuts in some of the fam don't like them
I tried it without the sausage and used morningstar mealstarter.Reason my friend is a vegetarian and wanted to see if using this would work.All other ingredients were used.It was missing something maybe more seasoning or maybe the favor of the sausage.Next time will try the sausage for me.If anyone has an idea to make this a vegetarian meal please help me out.Thanks
loved this: easy and scrumptious. I used dairy free cheese so it's a go-to for a quick dairy and gluten free dinner.
This was a wonderful recipe! I sub'd walnuts for the almonds and old cheddar for the Monterey Jack just because that is what I had on hand. the flavours were even tastier as leftovers the next day.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Squashed Washington
Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 4
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 762
** Calories from Fat: 480
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8 years on, is it really still 'New'?
Posted by PlayDevil.com Staff on Feb 19, 2013 13:57 (Feb 19, 2013 13:57)
Written by: Alex
"New Super Mario Bros. U", takes the now familiar formula of the 'New' series and delivers it to the Wii U. In terms of gameplay it sets out to deliver the same experience as other titles in the series, making an accessible game for anyone who has ever picked up a controller. Luckily for long time fans the Wii U does offer some new twists on the formula, not least true HD Mario action.
It may not be groundbreaking, in fact it isn't, but the first twist New Super Mario Bros U offers is in its story. Bad old Bowser used to settle for just abducting Princess Peach for... undisclosed purposes... now he seems to have upped his game by attempting a full on coup. Capturing Peach in her own castle and disposing of all her supporters. This leaves Mario, Luigi and two Toads stranded on the other side of the Mushroom Kingdom and having to fight their way back across hostile lands. As they journey through the land they can see the tall castle becoming increasingly twisted by Bowser's presence. Okay, it may not be a huge twist, but at least we know for sure that the Princess is definitely NOT in another castle.
As is 'New's way, it borrows heavily from the previous games. In New Super Mario Bros U it even manages this with the story, blending together 2D Mario stories so indiscriminately that the fictions are now totally confused. It was probably bound to happen eventually, but now with the Kooper Kids and Bowser JR all playing a role (and Bowser JR believing Peach is his mum), the family pool of the Mushroom Kingdom has become disturbingly muddied. Still at least they have seen fit to dust off Bowser's old flying clown face helicopter, a nice nod for long fans.
However you feel about the 'New' Mario games and their art style, the impact of the Wii U's added horsepower is clear. While the overall look remains unchanged, the Wii U has allowed numerous subtle additions and flourishes to be made. For example, when dancing through illuminated areas or carrying a glowing baby Yoshi, the lighting shifts beautifully. Though this may not be the most impressive tech ever, it is beautiful and offers some interesting gameplay possibilities for future Nintendo titles.
Graphical tricks aside, the most impressive visual elements of New Super Mario Bros U come in the form of new environments. While each of the standard areas is present (snow, water, forest, etc), added detail and character motions make each feel less worn out than some previous games. Most notable among these is the haunted forest where direct inspiration is taken from impressionist art, creating something beautifully refreshing for a Mario title.
Change and evolution is of course expected in the next instalment of a flagship title, so while these changes should be applauded it is where things have stayed the same that attention is quickly drawn. The familiar sprites and music seem basically unchanged, which leave it feeling uninspired after four games in the series. This while touches like the Koopa Troopers (initially entertaining) little shimmies to the music's 'wah-wah's never change as the game progresses, eventually becoming tired and out of place.
I would say, with some certainty, that everybody reading this review will know what to expect from the gameplay of a New Super Mario Bros title (whatever the suffix). The reimagining of classic NES and SNES titles has proved incredibly popular since their first appearance on DS, and this Wii U version has stuck rigidly to the formula.
Every Mario title does have its own wrinkle however, and this time it is the Flying Squirrel Suit. Much like the Super Mario Land cape, this new power allows the wearer to float for great distances, enabling them to trade speed for height as they dip and glide through levels. This new suit also offers a spin to gain extra height (with the tap of a shoulder button) and the ability to cling to walls indefinitely… which is occasionally useful and occasionally frustrating, as you find yourself gripping to a wall above certain death.
Joining the Flying Squirrel Suit is the return of Yoshi and Baby Yoshi. Standard 'full grown' Yoshi remains unchanged from his/her previous incarnations, available to find and ride within some of levels. Baby Yoshis are now be found on the map screen, and follow Mario and Co into levels. Once inside they can be carried, giving access to their unique abilities. These abilities range from glowing (a god send in dark levels), to inflating into balloons to float over obstacles. Useful, but it does present a distinct trade-off as while carrying a Baby Yoshi other abilities are limited.
The slight downside to all these new elements is something I have been noticing increasingly more in Mario titles, which is that while they are introduced at the start of the game they tend to not populate later levels. This means to use these fun new abilities, regular trips must be made around the map to collect them. It maybe a small complaint but it proves an increasing annoyance in later levels as you continually find yourself backtracking.
Apart from this it is pretty much business as usual. Eight worlds, with eight sub-bosses and eight bosses all killed by three attacks. A fire flower, a warp pipe, some secret paths and ghost houses, are all present and correct. Excluding a few small tweaks to the physics, everything handles the same too, so it is left to the level design to make New Super Mario Bros U feel New. Which it does surprisingly well, with some devious and punishing levels with enough new twists on old formulas to keep you guessing. It may not be a reinvention of the wheel, or even a better version of it, but it is certainly different enough to change the feel of the ride.


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Synopsis: Boeing and the State of California settled alleged pollution violations in water running off the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, its rocket engine and nuclear test site located south of Simi Valley. The California Attorney General's Office sued Boeing on behalf of the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, alleging that Boeing had racked up at least 40 runoff violations from December 2006 to December 2009 when contaminants including chloride, radioactive material, iron, mercury, manganese, dioxins and zinc were found in elevated levels in the stormwater runoff. Boeing will pay a $200,000 civil penalty, as well as $300,000 to fund a supplemental environmental project and $75,500 for attorneys' fees and investigation costs.
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Lindsay Gendron, one of the most successful swimmers in Tennessee history, was awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship this week.
Gendron, a native of Bloomington, Ill., earned a record-setting 25 All-America certificates and was part of two NCAA championship relay teams in her four year career at Tennessee. She was also one of the team leaders in the classroom, collecting CSCAA Scholar All-American honors twice and SEC Academic Honor Roll accolades three times.
The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship is a one-time $7,500 award toward postgraduate study at a university or professional school. Gendron is graduating from Tennessee this semester with a degree in marketing.
Tennessee swimmers have earned NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships the last two seasons. Kelsey Floyd, a 24-time All-American, was an award recipient in 2013.
Gendron finished her career with a strong postseason finish. She earned bronze medals at the NCAA Championships in both the 200-yard freestyle and 200-yard butterfly and placed eighth in the 100 freestyle. She broke the school record in all three of her events and ended the meet with the maximum seven All-America honors.
As a junior, Gendron was part of Tennessee's winning 200 freestyle and 400 medley relay teams.
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2013 - 200 Freestyle Relay
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2014 - 7
2013 - 7
2012 - 5
2011 - 6
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Silver: 7
Bronze: 9
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2014 All-SEC (2nd Team)
2014 SEC Swimmer of the Week
2014 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
2014 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2013 All-American
2013 All-SEC
2013 CSCAA Scholar All-American
2013 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2013 SEC Swimmer of the Week (2 times)
2012 All-American
2012 All-SEC
2012 CSCAA Scholar All-American
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2011 All-American
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BMI View: We believe near-term growth in Myanmar's construction sector will remain at levels that are modest relative to its massive growth potential. The sector remains unable to achieve its full potential due to limited upside to foreign investment - the main driver of construction activity - and the numerous threats to the country's political environment before and during the 2015 general elections. In addition, issues with two of Myanmar's largest infrastructure projects have highlighted the lack of maturity in the country's business environment.
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In February 2014, US-based mobile turbine power firm APR Energy secured a contract to construct a 100MW gas-fired power plant in the central Mandalay region of Myanmar. The project was won through an open tender conducted by Myanmar's Ministry of Electric Power. The plant will have capacity to supply power to more than 6mn people. The power plant will be supplied with natural gas using the country's Shwe gas pipeline. Investment details about the project have not been disclosed.
In February 2014, United Overseas Bank (UOB) and Singapore-based Asiatech Energy signed a financing agreement that would see UOB provide financing for Asiatech to build a 230MW combined-cycle gas-fired power plant in Myanmar. The project will require a total investment of USD170mn, but UOB did not disclose the size of the loan that it will be extending to Asiatech. Asiatech was commissioned to build the power plant in Mawlamyaing township in Mon state by Myanmar Lighting IPP, and the plant is scheduled to start operating by end-2015. MLC will own and run the power plant, while Myanmar Electrical Power Enterprise will distribute the electricity.
In February 2014, the Ministry of Electric Power announced that Myanmar's IGE Company plans to sign a joint venture with China's Hydrochina Corporation to build the 1200MW Naungpha hydropower plant project on the Thanlwin River, reports Eleven Weekly Media....
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Can America Survive Mideast War?
by Freedom Watch" in today's issue.
But to pretend that the film was what really sparked this unrest makes it much easier for America's warmongers to validate what is about to come to a head in the Mideast region, while simultaneously covering more than 70 years of American hegemonic failure.
Less-informed Americans are led to believe some extremely nonsensical and historically contradictory things about the Nation's ambitions in the Mideast. These ambitions were solidified with a 1944 State Department memo describing Mideast oil as "a stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history."
Over the course of the following decade, American foreign policy in the Mideast was quite simply to remove anyone who displeased the Nation's puppet masters and to create a sense of celestial manifest destiny for Americans who might shun the idea of becoming involved in a region that had been embroiled in holy war for a large portion of recorded history.
President Harry Truman in 1946 ordered the Soviets to get out of Kurdistan and Azerbaijan in northern Iran under threat of a "super bomb." This was an effort to ensure that Iran would remain friendly to the United States in the future, and not object to imperialist U.S. objectives in the meantime.
Two years later in 1948, the United States manufactured what is, to this day, one of the primary publically acceptable reasons for the Nation's nearly perpetual war stance in a region worlds away even when the United States falters domestically under massive debts and economic woes.
U.S. and British interests worked with the United Nations to create the Zionist homeland of Israel by ceding 54 percent of Palestine to the Jews who made up roughly one-third of the population. This quickly prompted Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria, who opposed the newly proclaimed state, to attack unsuccessfully. The war ended in the exodus of nearly 800,000 Palestinians into surrounding Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Gaza and the West Bank. Israel promptly took control of 77 percent of historic Palestine and was vindicated by American support.
To put it into vastly oversimplified terms, what followed involved a series of upheavals and U.S. interventionist money-pumping in Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. Beyond proxy war with other major world powers like Russia, the United States has interest only in Mideast oil reserves and the avoidance of nations in the region throwing out brutal regimes in favor of ones that would upset the global wishes of Western monied elite.
The cycle has been a vicious one, the latest reincarnation of which was witnessed in the Arab Spring of recent years. But the result will be the same as it has for decades. The United States supported the party that would soon empower Saddam Hussein in 1963, al-Qaida boogeyman Osama bin Laden years before the 9/11 attacks (because he irked the Russians in Afghanistan), and the revolution that created the current situation in Iran. The United States also destroyed bin Laden and Saddam, and it will likely soon do quite a number on Iran.
Does the Nation simply like playing God with the Mideast and reaping the rewards of oil control and continual busywork for the military industrial complex? Surely, the best and the brightest in American foreign policy know well that Arab people will likely never accept Western culture and values and will continue to revolt against them in horrific ways.
Whether they buy into celestial reasons for blind support of Israel and its imperialist ambitions or actually think American intervention in the Mideast has ever been about peace, Democracy or nuclear weapons (none of which have been found in large quantities in the region), there is something that Americans should be very worried about right now: The situation, regardless of the Nation's arrogance, is very quickly becoming more unmanageable than before.
Israel continues to push the United States to aid in a strike against Iran, which has the backing of Russia and China. Meanwhile, Iran is gaining favor among the populations in Nations the United States has already gone to great lengths to destabilize in recent years: Libya, Egypt, Syria and Afghanistan. War with Iran could mean another 10 years of the past decade's wars at best and, at worst, all-out war in the Mideast that will spread across the planet, the likes of which Americans haven't seen in a long time.
Given the shape the Nation is in at home, one can only hope America could triumph in such a conflict. Then again, perhaps that isn't the goal.


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On April 2, 2013 after a long illness with family by his side. He leaves to mourn his mother Gloria Simpson; brothers Donald and David. He was preceded in death by his father John F. Simpson, Sr.; brothers John F. Simpson, Jr. and Michael K. Simpson, Sr. Visitation will be Sunday, April 7 from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at Lee Funeral Home, Inc. Branch Ave. and Coventry Way. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Mary's Catholic Church of Piscataway on Monday, April 8 at 11 a.m. Interment to follow Resurrection Cemetery Clinton, MD.
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Posted: November 07, 2012|
NEARLY a quarter of all cigarettes sold on Burton and South Derbyshire's streets are illegal, shocking figures have revealed.
Statistics from independent market research group MS Intelligence suggest more than 22 per cent of cigarettes consumed in the East and West Midlands were non-duty paid — more than five per cent higher than the national average.
The illegal tobacco trade is a major and ever-growing global problem and is estimated to cost the UK Government £3 billion a year in lost tax revenues.
Consumers are being increasingly exposed to brands which are not manufactured to the necessary safety standards.
Colin Wragg, Imperial Tobacco's head of UK corporate and legal affairs, spoke exclusively to the Mail about the data.
He said: "The research in April and May 2012 indicated that more than 22 per cent of cigarettes consumed in the West and East Midlands were non-duty paid — that is either legitimate brands smuggled into the UK for illegal resale or counterfeit product.
"This figure is more than five per cent higher than the national UK average.
"But the situation with roll your own tobacco is worse. Around 50 per cent of roll your own tobacco consumed in the Midlands is non-duty paid and this is in line with the UK average."
Research in the Midlands is undertaken twice a year by MS Intelligence, with the focus on different brands found in the area through pack collection analysis.
The results are then shared with HM Revenue and Customs and The Treasury.
The Mail revealed recently how smuggled tobacco with an estimated retail value of £6,000 was seized from the Ezee shop, in Horninglow Road North, Burton. The haul included 12,000 cigarettes and 6.5 kilogrammes of handrolling tobacco.
Staffordshire County Council launched a Fight the Fakes campaign in August to help take potentially harmful counterfeit products like tobacco and alcohol out of circulation.
Mr Wragg said: "The illicit trade is common across a wide variety of industry sectors and products and it is estimated that approximately 600 billion illegal cigarettes are sold worldwide each year, representing some 11 per cent of the global market.
"This trade benefits only the criminals involved — the Government is deprived of around £3 billion per year in lost tax revenues, and the livelihoods of tobacco retailers are threatened."
The UK has the second highest tobacco excise rate in the European Union behind the Republic of Ireland, and tax accounts for as much as 88 per cent of the recommended retail price of UK cigarette brands.
A typical pack of 20 premium brand cigarettes costs around £7.75 in the UK when purchased in a legitimate retail outlet, but costs just £3.60 in Spain and £2.50 in Poland.


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I think Triple H is a very tough man. I remember some years ago he was badly hurt in a tag match and continued until the end. He's very tough and very strong.
This thread seems familiar...
I went with Undertaker. Everything about him just screams "legit badass" to me.
Hey everyone,
In response to the recent forum topic about who is stronger out of Cena and Ryback, I thought it would be interesting to start a thread on who you think is genuinely the toughest/hardest or dangerous wrestlers in the WWE?
Personally, I would put my money on Lesnar. After his time in UFC he proved he's strong, tough and dangerous
This thread says hello
I'll merge you there :)