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Mobile devices and applications are no longer an accessory – they're central to our daily lives. Gartner predicts the number of mobile apps downloaded will double to 45 billion this year – and they're only getting smarter. Today's apps are increasingly essential to accessing critical business applications, connecting with friends on the go and even adopting digital wallets.
While these apps make our lives easier, they also give a wider group of application developers and advertising networks the ability to collect information about our activities and leverage the functionality of our devices. At the same time, the companies, consumers and government employees who install these apps often do not understand with who and how they are sharing personal information. Even though a list of permissions is presented when installing an app, most people don't understand what they are agreeing to or have the proper information needed to make educated decisions about which apps to trust.
More concerning is that many apps collect information or require permissions unnecessary for the described functionality of the apps. This is not the first time this issue has surfaced – reports of popular apps collecting irrelevant information or transmitting data when devices are turned off has led to significant backlash. However, less is known about the state of privacy across the entire application ecosystem.
To get a sense of the state of application privacy today, Juniper Networks' Mobile Threat Center (MTC) analyzed over 1.7 million apps on the Google Play market from March 2011 to September 2012.
Topline Findings
We found a significant number of applications contain permissions and capabilities that could expose sensitive data or access device functionality that they might not need. We also determined these apps had permission to access the Internet, which could provide a means for exposed data to be transmitted from the device. Of particular interest, free applications were much more likely to access personal information than paid applications. Specifically, free apps are 401 percent more likely to track location and 314 percent more likely to access user address books than their paid counterparts.
Advertising Tracking
When looking at the disparity between free versus paid apps, there is a common industry assumption that free apps collect information in order to serve ads from third-party ad networks. While this is true in some cases, Juniper examined 683,238 application manifests and found the percentage of apps with the top five ad networks is much less than the total number tracking location (24.14 percent).
This leads us to believe there are several apps collecting information for reasons less apparent than advertising.
Potential for Misuse of Permissions
Possibly more concerning are the other permissions being requested from applications like the ability to clandestinely initiate outgoing calls, send SMS messages and use a device camera. An application that can clandestinely initiate a phone call could be used to silently listen to ambient conversations within hearing distance of a mobile device. Similarly, access to the device camera could enable a third party to obtain video and pictures of the area where the device is present, as was recently presented with the proof-of-concept Spyware PlaceRaider.
Silently sending SMS messages can also be a means to create a covert channel for siphoning sensitive information from a device. Further, the potential for stealth SMS messages or calls can have monetary repercussions by communicating with services that will subsequently charge a fee, such as calling a 1-900 in the U.S. or sending premium SMS messages.
Apps Categories of Most Concern
The Juniper MTC also looked at different categories of applications and found some that seemed to be comparatively overstepping the needs of the applications when accessing certain permissions. For these apps, we cross-referenced the permissions requested with the functionality in the description of the apps. Our analysis noted apps that had the ability to do well more than a user could know and collect information not documented as necessary for the app to perform its intended use.
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Cards and Casino games include applications focused on imitating popular casino games for fun. In this category:
Racing Games
Racing Games are by far the most concerning category with an abnormally high number of apps removed from the marketplace over the time period of our analysis. Applications can be removed for a variety of reasons, including Google doing so for concerns over malware, questionable developers temporarily placing apps to phish for data, or for legitimate reasons, whereby an application is simply no longer being offered by a developer. During the manual portion of the research, this category contained the highest number of applications that the MTC would consider to be newly discovered malware.
Upon Further Review
Our research also led to some unexpected insights as to the legitimate use of permissions. We examined cases where permissions or data collection was justified even though the reasons were not immediately obvious. We did this by installing apps to fully understand their functionality, as well as contacting several developers.
The MTC's analysis of the Google Play market shows the pervasiveness of mobile tracking and where apps could do a better job of disclosing why they need information up front and highlight functionality as a genuine user benefit. Our hope is that this research can give a better understanding of the current state of application privacy and provide insight to ensure the best actionable information is available to understand the effects on user privacy and the protection of enterprise data. We have several suggestions that the industry should consider:
The research contained in this report was conducted on the Google Play market. Apple does not disclose related information about its apps, and questions regarding the Apple App Store and related privacy statistics should be directed towards Apple.
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The Pella baseball team continues to perform well at the plate, racking up 15 hits in a roller-coaster 16-13 win Thursday night at home against Saydel.
The Eagles put Pella in a deep hole, jumping out to a 7-0 lead in the first inning and were up 9-3 through two frames. The Little Dutch exploded for nine runs in the fourth inning, though, to take a 12-10 lead. However, they would have to overcome a deficit one more time to earn the victory in a long game under hot and muggy conditions.
Lead-off batter Trevor Wood paced the Pella offense, going 3-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs, a run scored, a walk and a sacrifice hit. Ryan Lanke also had two RBIs while scoring twice in a 3-for-4 performance that included a double and a walk. Schyler Kane also put himself in the two RBI club, going 2-for-3 and scoring twice.
The Little Dutch had to use three pitchers on the night, as Paul Anderson, Lanke and Brett Kingery scattered a combined 14 hits for Saydel. Pella's defense made it slightly harder on themselves by committing five errors; compared to two for the Eagles.
The non-conference victory improves the Pella baseball team to 14-13 overall and 10-8 in the Little Hawkeye Conference, with a Varsity doubleheader at Knoxville Friday night. The second game of the double-dip will be broadcast live on 1320 AM and streamed live at kniakrls.com [1].
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Pro-Russian fighters take position behind trees during clashes against Ukrainian forces near the airport in Donetsk on May 26, 2014.
Luhansk People's Republic: Detained journalists charged with espionage
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Fragile calm reigns in Luhansk (PHOTOS)
USA Today: Ukraine resumes military operations against insurgents (VIDEO)
Reuters: Novak says receives Oettinger request for gas talks on June 4 - report
Washington Post: Putin vows to defend Russian interests as Ukraine violence again escalates
Steven Eke: Rebuffing Moscow, three former Soviet republics inch Westward
The Telegraph: Ukraine launches new offensive to rid east of rebel 'parasites'
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Putin says West is using Ukraine crisis to destabilize region
Reuters: Putin accuses Ukrainian leader of shunning road to peace
Agence France-Presse: Russian journalists injured in Ukraine
Luhansk People's Republic premier: journalists could have been detained in absence of accreditation
Reuters: Putin vows to protect ethnic Russians abroad after Ukraine truce expires
Associated Press: Cease-fire over, Ukraine renews attacks on rebels
Reuters: Putin says Russia, Europe could not sway Poroshenko over ceasefire
Reuters: Putin accuses Ukraine of using 'blackmail' in gas talks
Washington Post: Ukraine forces press assault hours after ceasefire's suspension
Reuters: Ceasefire over, Ukraine forces attack rebel positions
Reuters: Russian Foreign Ministry says Kyiv must renew ceasefire, end military operation
Reuters: EU not ready to immediately impose new sanctions on Russia - diplomats
The Moscow Times: Journalist says reporters set up by separatists after cameraman killed in Ukraine
Deutsche Welle: Ukraine relaunches 'anti-terrorism' operation against separatists
Reuters: Russian parliamentary speaker seeks new ceasefire in east Ukraine
Editor's note: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko vowed on July 1 to launch a military offensive against Kremlin-backed "terrorists" in eastern Ukraine, ending a 10-day declared truce that Ukrainian authorities said was violated more than 100 times by the separatists who killed 27 Ukrainian troops. Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to make an appearance before Russian parliament today to discuss protection of Russia's national interests and the strengthening of international laws, according to Ria Novosti.
Putin addresses Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow
3.55 p.m. - Russian President Vladimir Putin has delivered a speech to Russian ambassadors, envoys and diplomats at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow, discussing the crisis in Ukraine and Russia's foreign policy goals.
"President Petro Poroshenko has taken a decision to resume military activities, and we – by which I mean neither I nor my European partners - were able to convince him that the path to lasting peace does not lie through war," he said.
Putin demanded an investigation into the death on June 30 of Russian journalist Anatoly Klyan, adding that he hopes Kyiv's promises of conducting such an investigation are kept.
"Of course what is happening in Ukraine is an internal matter for the Ukrainian state. We regret the fact that people are dying, including civilians. The number of refugees coming to Russia is growing, and we will offer unconditional help to all those who require it. But what is absolutely unacceptable is the killing of journalists," Putin said.
"In my opinion there is a deliberate campaign aimed at liquidating representatives of the press, which concerns both Russian and foreign journalists. Who fears objective information? Clearly only those who are committing a crime."
A transcript of the speech is available here.- Matthew Luxmoore
Standoff in central Donetsk continues
2.30 p.m. - A major standoff is continuing outside Donetsk police headquarters. Traffic on surrounding roads has been stopped by gunmen wearing camouflage and wielding anti-tank weapons, apparently members of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, although they are not revealing their affiliation. The scene is confusing, with residents visibly shaken and scared. Many are running to their homes, according to Kyiv Post reporter Christopher Miller who is at the scene. -- Matthew Luxmoore
Gunfight breaks out in central Donetsk
1:55 p.m. - A fierce gunfight has broken out in the regional capital of Donetsk as rebels attempt to take control of the local Ukrainian Interior Ministry headquarters, according to witnesses cited by Ukrainska Pravda and local news agency 62.ua. Ukrainska Pravda reports that the shooting began at 1p.m. on Postisheva street in the centre of the city.
The street has been closed off and ambulances have been arriving at the scene, witnesses report. Workers from the nearby "Green Plaza" office building have been evacuated and most shops inside the "Zolote Kiltse" mall have closed.
In the meantime, transport links have been cut between several towns across Donetsk oblast due to resumption of the ATO. Among them are Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, Krasniy Liman and Svyatogorsk, Ukrainska Pravda reports. -- Matthew Luxmoore
REN TV reporter injured near Russian-Ukrainian border
1 p.m. A REN TV reporter has been injured in Ukraine's Luhansk region near the border with Russia, a television station spokesman told Interfax on Tuesday.
"Our correspondent was injured in Luhansk region, one kilometer from the Russian-Ukrainian border. A REN TV news crew came under mortar fire near the Izvaryne border crossing point outside of Luhansk. Presumably a howitzer projectile exploded near the journalist. Correspondent Denis Lulaga suffered a concussion. He cannot hear anything. Blood is leaking from his ears," the TV station said on its Twitter account.
"Our cameraman suffered a concussion as well. The video camera was knocked out of his hands by the blast. The equipment went out of order," it said.
The TV channel said on its Twitter page earlier that its correspondent "was injured near the Izvaryne border crossing point on Russian territory."
"A projectile launched from the direction of Ukraine exploded near him," it said. -- Interfax
Poroshenko envoy: Next meeting of tripartite contact group on situation in Donbas may take place in Minsk
12:34 p.m. The president's envoy for settling the situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Iryna Heraschenko, said that the third meeting of the OSCE-Ukraine-Russia contact group may be held in Minsk.
"You know that a decision has been made to resume the work of the so-called tripartite contact group. I do not rule out that the next meeting of the contact group will not be held in eastern Ukraine. Perhaps, it will be [held in] Minsk," she told reporters on July 1. -- Interfax
Reports of rebels surrendering to government forces
12:24 p.m. - A number of separatist fighters have given themselves up to Ukrainian forces and requested a transit corridor to facilitate their return to Russia, according to reports by Ukrainska Pravda and Ukrinform.
"We are conducting negotiations with members of the Donbas self-defence group, who want to leave the area. Their number is currently unknown. At the moment we are simply checking them and letting them go," ATO spokesman Oleksiy Dmitrashkovskiy told Ukrainska Pravda, adding that three people were escorted out yesterday.
Zoryan Shkiryak, advisor to the Interior Minister, wrote on his Facebook page that rebels have begun giving up their weapons at various locations, "even in groups". The reports have not been independently confirmed. -- Matthew Luxmoore
Acting Kramatorsk mayor reportedly submits resignation
11:53 a.m. Kramatorsk's acting mayor Andrey Borsuk has submitted his resignation to the city council at a meeting held this morning, according to local media reports. As reasons for the resignation, Borsuk cites the impossibility of managing a city undergoing economic collapse and blocked access to treasury funds.
Mayoral duties will now be assumed by Andrey Pankov, the former deputy mayor for economic issues, according to Ukrainian news agency UNN. Borsuk's decision comes hours after an attack on a local bus in the city resulted in four deaths and five injuries. -- Matthew Luxmoore
Ukrainian journalist reportedly captured by Luhansk People's Republic
11:35 a.m. Hromadske TV journalist Anastasia Stanko and cameraman Ilya Bezkorovayniy have reportedly been captured by separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk.
According to Hromadske TV, on the evening of June 30, Stanko and Bezkorovayniy were detained by the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic while reporting in the region. There has been no official confirmation from separatist leaders there about their detention.
There are conflicting reports, however, that say Stanko may have been released. Ukrainska Pravda journalist Mustafa Nayyem wrote on Twitter overnight that she had been set free and was safe in Kharkiv. That information could not be confirmed by the Kyiv Post.
According to unconfirmed reports, the two journalists are being held in the basement of a separatist-held building in the central Luhansk.
Hromadske TV said in a statement that its staff is very concerned about the journalists and encourages those who are hold Stanko and Bezkorovayniy to provide information about their status, including their health, and the conditions under which the journalists may be released.
Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE representative on freedom of the media, weighed in on Twitter, saying the journalists' detainment was "unacceptable" and that "journalists' safety must be ensured." -- Christopher J. Miller
Donetsk regional authorities report four killed as bus comes under fire in Kramatorsk
11:15 a.m. Early in the morning on July 1, a bus came under fire in the city Kramatorsk, killing four and wounding five others, reports Donetsk news agency Ostrov, citing the Donetsk Regional State Administration press service. The wounded were transported to area hospitals and are currently being treated by medical professionals, the administration's press service said. -- Christopher J. Miller
TV Tower downed by rebels near Sloviansk; convoy of armored vehicles seen entering Luhansk
10:30 a.m. - A TV tower situated on Karachun Hill near the besieged city of Slovyansk was downed by rebels during heavy fighting overnight. The tower, built in 1979, stood 220 meters high.
Early in the morning on July 1, a bus came under fire in the city Kramatorsk. Four people are reported killed and five wounded.
In the meantime, both sides appear to be strengthening their military capabilities. A video purportedly showing a convoy of pro-Russian military vehicles entering Luhansk around 2 a.m. on June 30 appeared on social media.
CCTV footage from Luhansk shows military vehicles entering the city overnight.
Meanwhile, images and footage of Ukrainian army tanks being transported have also surfaced.
The above video, believed to have been filmed yesterday in Izyum, the headquarters of the government's "anti-terrorist operation" some 40 kilometers north of Sloviansk, shows a column of heavy artillery being transported to the front lines of the battle against the separatists. -- Matthew Luxmoore
Editor's Note: This article has been produced with travel support from www.mymedia.org.ua, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and implemented by a joint venture between NIRAS and BBC Media Action, as well as Ukraine Media Project, managed by Internews and funded by the United States Agency for International Development. The content is independent of these organizations and is solely the responsibility of the Kyiv Post.
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First in the "They're Burning Your Money" Series, appearing all week on the Fox Business Network
"Our rising debt levels (pose) a national security threat."—US Secretary of State Hillary Clintonto Council on Foreign Relations, Sept. 2010
"The biggest threat we have to our national security is our debt…the interest on our debt is $571 billion in 2012 and that's notionally about the size of the Defense Department budget. It's not sustainable."—Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, June 2010
"We've reached a point now where there's an intimate link between our solvency and our national security."—Richard Haass, president, Council on Foreign Relations
"Several months ago, a group of logistics officers at the Industrial College of the Armed Forcesdeveloped a national security strategy as a class exercise. Their No. 1 recommendation for maintaining U.S. global leadership was 'restore fiscal responsibility.'"—Washington Post, May 2010
"The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game..on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy," with the weapons being stocks, bonds and currencies..."it was the first time the Pentagon hosted a purely economic war game."—Politico.com, 2009
"The Russians made a 'top-level approach' to the Chinese 'that together they might sell big chunks of their GSE [Fannie Maeand Freddie Mac] holdings to force the U.S. to use its emergency authorities to prop up these companies'…the Chinese declined…'the report was deeply troubling--heavy selling could create a sudden loss of confidence in the GSEs and shake the capital markets. I waited till I was back home and in a secure environment to inform the president."—Former US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulsonto Congress, January 2010
"We hope that the US deficit will fall as a proportion of GDP as the economy recovers and reach a sustainable level."— China's Assistant finance minister Zhu Guangyao, May 2010
"The United States cannot force foreign governments to increase their holdings of Treasuries…The world does not have so much money to buy more US Treasuries."--Zhu Min, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, December 2009
"We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough. We have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much."—former US President Ronald Reagan
A consensus is growing among national security experts inside and outside the Obama administration: To preserve national security and its standing as the world's number one superpower, the US must rebuild its economic strength at home by cutting the federal deficit.
The US's $13.9 trillion federal deficit, the amount of its entire debt, is now approaching the size of its entire economy. And that does not include liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and Fannie Maeand Freddie Mac. And Goldman Sachs says the Federal Reservemay print $1 trillion more in a new round of quantitative easing, essentially buying next year's budget deficit. The Fed's balance sheet, now at around $2.3 trillion, has already doubled in size since the financial crisis began due to the central bank's rescue measures.
A debt-drenched US is vulnerable to a global run on the dollar that could begin overseas. Fears are growing, too, that governments overseas could force the US into making decisions it wouldn't have initially chosen by using their foreign Treasury holdings as leverage. Which has already happened, says former US Treasury secretary Henry Paulson.
As the US issues record amounts of debt, it is jolting our trading partners into reacting.
Chinais the largest foreign holder of US debt. A little over a year ago, after the president had a two-hour meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, the president requested that Chinastop manipulating its currency—but the Chinese in no uncertain terms quietly pointed out how much the US owes Chinain debt.
The US faces an estimated $8.5 trillion budget deficit -- the gap between annual revenues and annual spending -- over the next decade combined.
And that's based on rosy government assumptions from the Congressional Budget Office that the US will grow at more than 3% annually, that there will be no more recessions, and that Congress will enact even President Barack Obama's legislative proposals to cut down the debt -- and that those cuts will actually work.
Optimistic, given that the 2011 new fiscal year began in America on October 1st as it has done in five of the past seven years, without a budget, and as the US begins the new year with a budget deficit the size of Canada's economy.
Meanwhile, the estimated $571 billion in interest costs on the US debt projected for 2012 would surpass in size the economy of Argentina, and would fund about two dozen government agencies and departments, including the entire Legislative and Judicial branches.
But market analysts say this is not a problem just yet, because bond markets are not signaling any issues now with US debt issuance, as Treasury yields remain at historic lows. For now.
However, the US faces severe dollar devaluation, as the US is devaluing its way out of the crisis. The Federal Reserve's quantitative easing and the Treasury's massive borrowing has already dropped the US dollar to 15 year lows versus the yen, which is why commodities and gold are rising inexorably higher.
But the question is, would Chinadump its holdings in retaliation?
Paul Bracken, a professor and expert in private equity at the Yale School of Management who attended the economic war games sessions last year told Politico that he questions whether the Chinese would dump dollars on the global market to attack the US economy. Reason: Because it would harm their own holdings at the same time.
But Bracken added that the Chinese could take a middle way—they could sell dollars in increments.
Already, Chinahas steadily rotated out of its US Treasury holdings, which officially now stand at $846.7 billion, down from $939.9 billion in July of 2009 (market watchers believe Chinacontinues to own US debt via intermediaries in London and Hong Kong). Chinacould also simply threaten to roll over a slug of its $846.7 billion in US debt at faster intervals, to, say, a month from 90 days, which would roil the stock, commodities and currency markets.
Look at what happened with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Although they are not on the official US budget books, the US had to take them over. What went on behind the scenes? Fears that Chinawould join Russia in dumping Fannie and Freddie debt caused the US to take these two insolvent companies into conservatorship. Russia reportedly dumpedits Fannie and Freddie debt in 2008, after holding $65.6 billion of their debt, according to central bank data.
Much of the US deficit is being financed by China, which is selling the US hundreds of billions of dollars of goods, then lending the US those dollars back. Overall China's currency reserves amount to nearly a quarter of its purchasing power parity. And by suppressing its exchange rate, and underpaying its workers, Chinaeffectively subsidizes production of its exports.
However, Chinais not the biggest holder of US debt—the US is, through government agencies, households and nonprofits (see listing below).
We are funding ourselves sick. Which is why the US dollar is taking a beating.
If a US publicly traded company tried this "vendor financing style" of roundtripping of US money printing to buy US government debt, back to more demands at the Fed to print more, that would get a civil lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission, says Fox Business news director Ray Hennessey.
Tech and telecom companies were slapped around for this accounting shenanigan by the SEC during the dotcom bubble. It essentially involved companies lending other companies money to buy their products, which goosed the revenue line higher—and subsequently stock prices.
So, who should we worry about more? Derek Scissors of the conservative Heritage Foundation in the US says the irony is: "The biggest force undermining the dollar is the US Federal Reserve, and the dollar's biggest defender is the People's Bank of China."
Which is why the midterm elections are once again a rejection of Washington and a vote for gridlock, just when the US needs compromise in the halls of Congress, as the debt grows, as entitlement spending mounts and urgent action is needed now.
"It undermines our capacity to act in our own interest, and it does constrain us where constraint may be undesirable. And it also sends a message of weakness internationally...So I don't think we have a choice–it is a question of how we decide to deal with this debt and deficit….There is no free lunch, and we cannot pretend that there is without doing grave harm to our country and our future generations."--US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Top holders of US Treasury securities (as of June 30, 2010)
Source: US Treasury Dept.
1. US government: $4.6 trillion in intergovernmental holdings
2. US households and non-profits: $1.1 trillion
3. China: $843.7 billion
4. Japan: $803.6 billion
5. State and local governments: $511.8 billion
6. Private pension funds: $407.4 billion
7. United Kingdom $362.2 billion
8. Money market mutual funds: $351.2 billion
9. Other mutual funds: $281.6 billion
10. Commercial banks: $246.2 billion
1. Treasury Dept., "Debt to the Penny"
2. Treasury Department, TIC data, Major Foreign Holders of US Treasury Securities
3. Federal Reserve, Flow of Funds Accounts, L.209 Treasury Securities, September 17, 2010


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Running Around: Cheers to toasting a very important 21st birthday
It seems like only yesterday when I was 21 and buying my college boyfriend a beer because he was only 20.
Now, 30 years later, my daughter is turning 21, and — although my mother never would have done it for me — I have decided to take her out for her first drink.
Our plans include a fun night at the Pittsburgh Improv, dinner and then ordering her first cocktail exactly at midnight on her birthday.
I figure I will be there to keep her safe, and we will get to experience a milestone in her life together. She plans to order a cosmopolitan, like Carrie on "Sex and the City."
Unlike many college students her age, this truly will be my daughter's first real drink. She has stuck to her guns about not drinking, even though some of her college friends have left her out of their plans because they knew she wouldn't drink.
She says she doesn't plan on becoming a big drinker and really doesn't feel the need to overindulge. She doesn't see a purpose for it. I'm not sure what the future holds for her in that department, but my hopes are that she hangs onto that conviction.
We have talked many times about what happens if she does overindulge.
She has made a solemn promise to me never to drink and drive, and if she finds herself in a situation when she shouldn't be driving — but needs to get home — she will call me. In turn, I have made a promise not to judge her or get upset and to just be there if she needs me.
Although I'm aware that many times promises are not kept — and I've made my fair share of lapses in judgment — I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping my daughter keeps her lapses to a minimum.
Joanne Barron is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-324-1406 or email@example.com.
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Hardly two hours old, the nascent 2012 campaign of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has already been hit by its first embarrassment: It used of a stock photo for its website that first appeared on the website of the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, a liberal icon of the Democratic Party.
The photo, of a multicultural crowd of smiling faces staring at the sky and waving flags, was meant to leave the impression that a huge and diverse group of Americans were lining up to support Mr. Gingrich and his wife, Callista, whose faces were superimposed over the crowd.
It turns out that the same crowd shot first appeared on the Kennedy site with the words: "We are the Democratic Majority."
The faux pas was uncovered by Lauren Miller, who handles email services at a group called Blue State Digital. She flashed it on Twitter, where it was picked up and posted on the website of the liberal Center for American Progress.
The image was on sale at Getty Images under the title: "Large Crowd of People Holding Stars and Stripes Flags."
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text: DraftExpressProfile: Trey Zeigler, Stats, Comparisons, and Outlook Loading NBA Mock Drafts 2016 NBA Mock Draft 2017 NBA Mock Draft Complete Draft History My Mock Draft 2015 Early Entry List 2015 Extended NBA Mock Draft Rankings Top 100 Prospects NCAA Seniors NCAA Juniors NCAA Sophomores NCAA Freshmen International 1994 International 1995 International 1996 International 1997 NBA Draft Eligible Features DX T-Shirts Complete Draft History Measurements History NBA Player Salaries NBA Contract Calculator Player Agents Listings NBA Agent/Agency Affiliations RSCI Early Entry List Team Clubhouses Draft Pick Transactions DraftExpress Podcast NBA Draft Lottery History Videos Scouting Reports Group Interviews Highlights Interview & Highlights Interviews NBA Draft Workouts Newest Popular Practice Footage Slow Motion Dunks Stats NCAA Stats NBA Stats Euroleague Stats EuroCup Stats Spanish ACB Stats Italian A1 Stats French Pro A Stats Adriatic Stats Greek Stats D-league Stats Team Stats Stats by Team Articles Archives NCAA Draft Prospects International Draft Prospects High School NCAA Commentary International Commentary General Draft Commentary NBA Pre-Draft Camp D-League NBA NBA Summer Leagues NBA Team Needs Interviews Humor Mailbag Site Announcements Sections DX T-Shirts DX Home NCAA Home International Home NBA Home High School Home D-League Home Columnists Jonathan Givony Matt Kamalsky Mike Schmitz Kyle Nelson Derek Bodner Josh Riddell Jim Hlavac E Weiss Jacob Eisenberg DraftExpress User Menu Edit Profile Log In Log Out DraftExpress DX T-Shirts About Us Contact Us Opportunities Privacy Policy Our RSS Feeds Trey ZeiglerRecent TweetsAll TweetsDraftExpress: Other prospects to keep an eye on Tim Hardaway Jr Lamar Patterson Talib Zanna Trey Zeigler Mitch McGary James Robinson Jordan Morgan.2012-11-21 22:37:50DraftExpress: Who will be the first to write the very obvious story comparing the collegiate paths of Ray McCallum and Trey Zeigler? Place your bets now.2012-03-14 02:15:02DraftExpress: Central Michigan fires Ernie Zeigler. What will his son Trey Zeigler do now? http://t.co/BBTcVFpO2012-03-14 01:09:02 Team: TCU PhysicalsPositionsRankings Misc H: 6' 5" W: 203 lbs Bday: 04/20/1991 (24 Years Old) Current: SG NBA: SG Possible: SG RSCI: 35 High School: Mount Pleasant Hometown: Mount Pleasant, MI Predraft Measurements YearSourceHeight w/o ShoesHeight w/shoesWeightWingspanStanding ReachBody FatNo Step VertMax Vert 2011Kevin Durant CampNA6' 5"1966' 9"NANANANA 2009LeBron James CampNA6' 5"1836' 9"NANANANA 2009Paul Pierce CampNA6' 5"1836' 9"NANANANABasic Per Game Statistics - Comprehensive Stats - Statistical Top 25s YearLeagueNameGPMinPtsFGFGAFG%2Pt2PtA2P%3Pt3PtA3P%FTMFTAFT%OffDefTOTAstsStlsBlksTOsPFs 2014/15NCAATrey Zeigler3327.310.13.88.246.53.87.948.30.00.30.02.54.062.11.184.108.40.206.80.32.02.7 Player Page  | Player Stats | Related Articles  | Add to My Draft Express   adidas Nations Experience: 2010/11 High School ProspectsAugust 20, 2008One of the more well rounded young guys on the 2010 squad, Trey Zeigler (Unranked Scout, #64 Rivals, #50 ESPN) left an impression of being a very complete and fundamentally sound player in every minute he was out on the floor. 6-5, smooth, but not incredibly athletic at this point, Zeigler likes to beat guys off the dribble and take the ball strong to the rim, finishing fearlessly and having no problem taking contact. Hes a crafty guy, sometimes finishing with a floater, which helps considering that he isnt quite strong or explosive enough at this point to explode over players in traffic. Zeigler didnt shoot a lot of jumpers at this event, but appears capable of making shots from the perimetersomething well have to look closer at next time we see him. He can create for himself as well as for others, looking very unselfish, not forcing the issue and showing a nice feel for finding the open man, and competes very hard on the other end too, hustling for loose balls and trying to play good defense, which is nice to see from a player so young. Not surprisingly considering the way he plays, he is the son of a coach (Central Michigan head coach Ernie Zeigler), so college coaches will probably be after him hard knowing that they might be getting the type of all-around complete package they covet as far as theyre concerned. Its too early to say definitively, but it seems like hell be sticking around in college for at least a few years as well. [Read Full Article] © 2015 DraftExpress LLC All rights reserved.


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Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup Recipe
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When I have leftover ham in the fridge, I always like to make this soup. Just throw the ingredients in the slow cooker, turn it on and dinner is done. —Pamela Chambers, West Columbia, South Carolina
- 1 package (16 ounces) dried green split peas, rinsed
- 2 cups cubed fully cooked ham
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 cup julienned or chopped carrots
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 carton (32 ounces) reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 2 cups water
In a 4- or 5-qt. slow cooker, combine all ingredients. Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours or until peas are tender.
Freeze Option: Freeze cooled soup in freezer containers. To use, thaw overnight in the refrigerator. Heat through in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Yield: 8 servings.
Originally published as Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup in Taste of Home February/March 2013
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"This soup was easy and fantastic! My husband, who is a split pea fanatic said it was the best split pea soup he has ever had. I did add two potatoes cubed. Very hearty! Will definitely make again!"
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ENB - Region 3 Notices 09/29/2010
Public Notice
Public Hearing
Draft Dutchess County Local Solid Waste Management Plan
The Dutchess County Resource Recovery Agency (DCRRA) has prepared a Draft Local Solid Waste Management Plan for Dutchess County pursuant to New York Environmental Conservation Law §27-0107 to be effective January 1, 2011.
A public hearing on the Draft Plan will be held at the City of Poughkeepsie Common Council Chambers, City Hall (3rd Floor), 62 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 on October 12, 2010 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for the purpose of accepting public comments on the Draft Plan.
The Draft Plan is available for review on the DCRRA website: www.dcrra.org, at the DCRRA's offices, 96 Sand Dock Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, Monday - Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., and at other locations listed on the DCRRA website.
Public comments on the Draft Plan will be received through October 15, 2010 and may be mailed or delivered to the DCRRA offices, emailed to DCRRA at: firstname.lastname@example.com or faxed to DCRRA at: (845) 462-6090, Attention: W. J. Calogero or D. Walsh.
Contact: William J. Calogero, Dutchess County Resource Recovery Agency, 96 Sand Dock Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601, Phone: (845) 463-6020, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Negative Declaration
Dutchess County - The City of Beacon Planning Board, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Hudson Baylor Recycled Material Recovery Facility will not have a significant adverse environmental impact. The action involves a residential and commercial recyclables material recovery and sorting facility consisting of a 66,500 square foot industrial building and supporting utilities. The project is located at 508 Fishkill Avenue in the City of Beacon, New York.
Contact: Etha Grogan, City of Beacon, 1 Municipal Plaza, Suite 1, Beacon, NY 12508, Phone: (845) 838-5002.
Dutchess County - The Village of Wappingers Falls Board of Trustees, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Veterans' Memorial Park Master Plan will not have a significant adverse environmental impact. The action involves the adoption of the Veterans' Memorial Park Master Plan. The proposed plan provides a conceptual layout for future improvements and redevelopment of an existing municipal park. The proposed plan envisions new walking paths and benches, a fishing pier and boat launch, bus parking and drop off area, an area for a new community center/camp building, an area for an open sided pavilion, a play area with spray fountain, relocation of an existing basketball court, drainage improvements, shoreline stabilization, landscaping, and on-site parking for approximately 35 cars. No development is proposed as part of this action. If future development of the park is proposed, a separate site-specific environmental review will be conducted under SEQR. The proposed Veterans' Memorial Park Master Plan is consistent with the recommendations of the Village's adopted Comprehensive Plan and the Village's Parks and Recreation Master Plan. The project is located at 35 to 53 North Mesier Avenue in the Village of Wappingers Falls, New York.
Contact: John Karge, Village of Wappingers Falls, 2628 South Avenue, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590, Phone: (845) 297-8773, E-mail: email@example.com.
Orange County - The Planning Board of the Village of Montgomery, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Change of Special Exception Use from Inn to Private School will not have a significant adverse environmental impact. The action involves an application for a special exception use permit and site plan approval to allow a property and buildings located thereon to change its use from its present Bed & Breakfast Inn, Personal Service/Day Spa and single-family residence to a small private school (a Montessori School of 25-35 children - toddler to 8th grade) with the existing Personal Service and single-family residence to remain. No external building or site improvements are required except the installation of a handicap parking space and handicap accessible sidewalk in the existing parking lot located on the property. The project is located at 134 to 138 Clinton Street in the Village of Montgomery, New York.
Contact: Kevin Dowd, Village of Montgomery, 133 Clinton Street, Montgomery, NY 12549, Phone: (845) 457-9661.
Westchester County - The Town of Yorktown Town Board, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Granite Knolls Purchase will not have a significant adverse environmental impact. The action involves the purchase of 198.16 acres of vacant land for the purpose of protecting the land in its entirety as open space. The project is located on Stony Street in the Town of Yorktown, New York.
Contact: Susan Siegel, Town of Yorktown, 363 Underhill Avenue, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, Phone: (914) 962-5722 ext 200.
Notice of Acceptance of Draft EIS and Public Hearing
Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester Counties - The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS OPRHP), as lead agency, has accepted a Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Adoption and Implementation of a Master Plan for Clarence Fahnestock Memorial and Hudson Highlands State Parks. A public hearing on the Draft EIS will be held on October 13, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the Hubbard Lodge, 2880 Route 9, Cold Springs, New York. Written comments on the Draft EIS will be accepted until November 5, 2010. Comments may be e-mailed to: email@example.com. A hard copy of the Draft Plan/Draft EIS is available for review at the Park Office; at the offices of the agency contacts listed below; the Butterfield Memorial Library, 10 Morris Avenue, Cold Spring, NY; the Howland Public Library, 313 Main Street, Beacon, NY and at the Kent Public Library, 17 Sybil's Crossing, Kent Lakes, NY. The online version of the Master Plan/Draft EIS is available at the following publically accessible web site: http://www.nysparks.state.ny.us/inside-our-agency/public-documents.aspx.
The action involves the proposed Adoption and Implementation of a Master Plan for Clarence Fahnestock Memorial and Hudson Highlands State Parks. The draft plan includes natural resource management strategies and proposals for recreational use at both parks. Hudson Highlands will be designated as a Park Preserve and a Park Preservation Area will be designated within Fahnestock. Both parks will be designated Natural Heritage Areas and receive additional Bird Conservation Area designations. Improvements will be made to various recreational facilities including the bathing beach facilities at Canopus Lake, picnic facilities at Pelton Pond, the Canopus boat rental area and peninsula area, parking facilities and trail systems in both parks. A new park office will be constructed in Fahnestock and a new visitor's center will be constructed in Hudson Highlands. Natural resource protection will include invasive species and deer management plans, additional monitoring of significant natural communities and protection of rare, threatened and endangered species, streams, lakes and wetlands. Cultural resource surveys will be conducted and environmental and cultural interpretation will be enhanced. The Draft Plan/Draft EIS describes potential environmental impacts and mitigation of those that may be adverse. Areas that have been evaluated with respect to impacts include: land and water resources, biological resources/ecology, scenic resources, historic/archeological resources, open space and recreation, traffic and access, public health and safety, and growth and character of the community and neighborhood. The Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park is located the Towns of Carmel, Kent, Philipstown and Putnam Valley in Putnam County, New York. Hudson Highlands State Park is located in the Towns of Fishkill, Philipstown, and Cortlandt, the Villages of Cold Spring and Nelsonville and the City of Beacon within Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester Counties, New York.
Contact: Garrett Jobson, NYS OPRHP - Taconic Region, P.O. Box 308, 9 Old Post Road, Staatsburg, NY 12538, Phone: (845) 889-4100, Fax: (845) 889-8217, and Thomas B. Lyons, NYS OPRHP, Agency Building 1, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12238, Phone: (518) 474 0409, Fax: (518) 474-7013.


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Consumer Doldrums
Last month I wrote about the collapse in consumer confidence and its link to the economy. "Unfortunately, despite the recent evidence that the consumer was out in force spending from savings rather than income, the plunge in consumer confidence is rather concerning. Particularly at a time when Americans are growing increasingly worried about a weak job market, higher costs for food and clothing and recent stock market turmoil, the falling confidence numbers raise new concerns about their willingness to spend which is vital to economic recovery. As we have shown in past missives consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of U.S. economic activity."
This month the Conference Board stated that Consumer Confidence ticked up just a bit last month from the dismal reading of 45.2 to 45.4. So, while the index failed to deteriorate further it remains mired at very depressed level which continues to be a bad sign for the economy. The release also does not bode well for the September employment report as a full 50% of the Conference Board's sample say jobs are currently hard to get. That sub-index is up 1.5 percentage points from August and compares with 44.8 percent in July and 43.2 percent June. This trend may be signaling that the jobs market is pivoting lower which falls in line with our recent post on "why jobless claims are about to surge."
If there are any positives in today's report it is that the six-month outlook reflected a 1.6 point gain and inflationary expectations declined to 5.7. However, pessimism is still rampant in the index and income expectations remain very depressed. Primarily there is "hope" in the future subcomponents of the index that the economy will get better. Unfortunately, there is little evidence that these numbers won't reverse course in the coming months ahead.
As a reminder a reading above 90 indicates the economy is on solid footing; above 100 signals strong growth. As you can see in the chart above we have a long way to go to get back to those levels.
Last month we stated that "While the conference board stated that there were a number of factors contributed to the index's decline such as the downgrade of the U.S. federal debt and revived concerns about the health of European banks; the reality is that the majority of American's do not follow these economic/financial events closely and are responding in the survey as to how they FEEL about their current and future situations. Americans are plagued by economic worries such as keeping their job if they have one, threats of termination or layoffs, rising costs of food and energy matched against stagnant wage growth and home values remain weak."
The average American continues to struggle to make ends meet. The recent decline in commodity prices may provide a boost to the report in the coming months but we will have to wait and see. The offset by a weaker stock market and weaker employment may offset any decline in inflationary pressures and psychological trends don't change rapidly. The data tells us a lot about the state of the consumer and the economy. In the coming months it will be critical for the trends to reverse or our prediction of a recession in 2012 will become a reality.


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Group calls for boycott of Calif. grocery chain
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California-based grocery store chain that caters to Latino immigrants has come under fire for participating in a federal program that checks the immigration status of prospective workers.
A coalition of groups, including the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 5, on Monday called for a boycott of San Jose-based Mi Pueblo in part because of the chain's participation in the E-Verify program. The program is voluntary in California.
The company said on Friday that it joined E-Verify after federal immigration officials launched an audit of its existing workers' immigration status in August, the San Jose Mercury News reported (http://bit.ly/SA6jcp ).
The chain's founder, Juvenal Chavez, himself a former illegal immigrant, has briefed employees over the past week, the Los Angeles Times reported (http://sacb.ee/Q8GZVM) over the weekend. The company is also launching a radio show to educate families who could be affected by the audit and plans to conduct outreach to community organizations and churches.


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Prosper amounts of silica contribute to healthier skin. Overseas, DE is used extensively as a health and beauty product for hair, skin, nails, bones, and joints.Tissue degeneration accelerates due to aging when connective tissue develops an increasing inability to retain moisture when left unassisted. Silica can help slow the degenerative process of connective tissue. With silica, vitality and life, which are often lost as the years accumulate, can be naturally maintained or even restored to your skin. Collagen, largely made up of silica, is the glue that holds us together. If our body has enough silica, the collagen will make us look younger. Silica helps with skin problems and injuries including itching, rashes, abscesses, boils, acne, calluses, warts, eczemas, burns, frostbite, benign skin sores, insect bites and bed sores. If you regularly follow a silica regimen, your skin will keep its young look.
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proper levels of silica in the body do wonders, and the diatoms in diatomaceous earth are what do the extra magic. they spring alive in the body and trap parasites, heavy metals, bad bacteria, etc.. trace amounts go into your blood stream and break up plaque build up safely.
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A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savour and remember. Linking up with Amanda from Soule Mama
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Spinning a yarn for 'Spear' artistComment on this story
When the Brett Murray art crisis broke last month, artist Isabeau Joubert spent the weekend knitting woollen caps and a scarf in bright pink, purple and orange.
Before sunrise on May 22, when the court case around Murray's painting started in Johannesburg, she went to St George's Mall and decorated Murray's popular statue Africa, placing a woollen cap on each of the Bart Simpson heads, and tying a scarf around Africa's neck.
In doing so, she took part in isolated acts of love being displayed towards vandalised artworks and their artists which have not evoked public hatred, putting big smiles on the faces of passers-by.
Joubert is a so-called "yarnbomber", who creates pretty knitwork "graffiti" to brighten up grey city spaces.
With Murray under fire over The Spear controversy, Joubert wanted to do "something small" to compliment Murray on his contribution to art generally, and to Cape Town, his home town.
She said in an interview last week at her loft studio in Longmarket Street that Murray's Africa also created controversy when it was erected in 2000. Now, however, it was an accepted and much-loved statue.
Joubert was also responsible for legwarmers and a braai tong on the Jan van Riebeeck statue in Adderley Street on Heritage and Braai Day last year, and for the legwarmers on one of the pony statues displayed on the Sea Point Promenade.
Other yarnbombers have been spreading similar messages in Stellenbosch recently, decorating statues that form part of a radical outdoor modern art exhibition, Stellenbosch20. This follows the vandalism of some of the statues.
The yarnbombers "targeted" sculptor Angus Taylor and his exhibit, the statues of two naked warrior-like men named Grounded I and Grounded II. Grounded I was destroyed by vandals, but Grounded II still stands in Plein Street. A yarnbomber gave the remaining statue a scarf in what passers-by saw as some warmth for winter.
Yarnbombers have also decorated other statues in the exhibition, notably a scarf for the white statue of a female swimmer by Sue Pam Grant in the town's Botanical Gardens, and a scarf and a cap for Strijdom van der Merwe's The Accidental Tourist, which stands on a corner in Church Street.
The Accidental Tourist is a statue of an ancient piece of "nature", resembling either a rock or a tree stump arriving in modern-day Stellenbosch with two suitcases.
Andi Norton, project manager of Stellenbosch20, which consists of SA sculpture of the past two decades, said they encouraged this "charming" and "cute" public interaction with art.
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Anglo Australian Resources NL 100% gold rights
The Mandilla project consists of 100% interest gold rights attached to two mining leases and one exploration licence located 70km south of Kalgoorlie and 20km south east of Kambalda. The project is located on the contact of a sequence dominated by mafics and ultramafics with a sequence of felsic volcanoclastics and metasediments of the Mandilla Formation. The sedimentary sequence is intruded by the Emu Rocks Granite (a high level stock of porphyritic monzogranite). The western contact of the granite is faulted by an interpreted southern extension of a splay fault off the Zuleika Shear Zone, which hosts 1 million ounce deposits at Raleigh (Kundana) and Mt Marion (Ghost Crab).
Previous exploration by WMC Resources Limited and Anglo Australian Resources NL had defined a resource of palaeochannel gold mineralisation at West Mandilla, a number of zones of supergene gold anomalism located at the granite sediment contact and bedrock mineralisation at East Mandilla.
The West Mandilla deposit is a gold mineralised palaeochannel overlain by approximately 20m of overburden. The main gold-mineralised part of the palaeochannel defined at a 1g/t Au cut off is 5 -30m wide and is over 800m in length. In September 2005 Anglo Australian Resources NL announced that the deposit, based on extensive drilling to that date, was estimated using a top-cut of 100g/t Au to contain an in-pit Probable Ore Reserve of 70,100 tonnes @ 7.52g/t Au for 16,960 ounces gold.
Mining of the shallow, high-grade West Mandilla deposit commenced in July 2006 and completed in April 2007. Up to March 2007 30,493 tonnes of ore was processed under a custom milling arrangement at the third party Higginsville processing plant in Coolgardie, where ore is processed on a campaign by campaign basis. 12,450 ounces of gold at average recovered gold grade of 11.1g/t has been produced. Stockpiled ore continued to be processed in October 2007 with a total of 48,000 dry tonnes of ore processed at a calculated head grade of 5.22 g/t Au and a recovery of 95.7%, producing 7,701.29 oz for this final campaign.
While most of our exploration effort has been focused on the palaeochannel, bedrock targets remain a high priority for the company. Bedrock exploration in 2007 consisted of a two phase 61 hole RC drilling program of 5718m. Targets included Selene and East Mandilla. At East Mandilla the drilling program tested the potential for a number of very shallow south dipping lodes, which are flat lying in cross section. This new model has highlighted the potential for a shallow open pittable resource.
The drilling intersected a number of high grade intersections including 4m @ 105.1g/t Au (including 1m @ 383.2g/t Au), 5m @ 8g/t Au, 2m @13.8g/t Au, 2m @ 6.79g/t Au and 12m @ 2.89g/t Au. The drilling at East Mandilla appears to have confirmed the model and located a new very high grade zone 85m below surface.
BM Geological Services, an independent resource consultant, estimated a resource for the
Indicated Resource 356,805 tonnes @ 3.04g/t Au for 34,873 ounces (25g/t cut)
The resource was estimated on drilling spaced at approximately 50 x 20m. Wireframes were constructed using a 1g/t Au grade halo as the basis for interpretation, with internal dilution not exceeding 1m downhole. Inverse Distance Squared (ID2) interpolation was used for the grade estimation. The deposit is characterised by the frequent occurrence of very high-grade intersections and a 25g/t Au top-cut was used. As indicated in the June Quarterly Report, the Company assesses the bedrock gold potential at the Mandilla Project highly and intends conducting further drilling to test bedrock targets.
Recent drilling programs at
In 2008 Anglo Australian Resources NL completed an aircore drilling program this year consisting of 83 holes for 1632m, vertically drilled to refusal, designed to search for new bedrock gold targets south east of the West Mandilla Palaeochannel and the


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Precision-control technologies for underwater vehicles
Project lead/manager: Steve Rock (adjunct)
The goal of this effort is to explore high-risk technologies that could potentially enable a wide range of autonomy in controlling autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). At one end of the spectrum of autonomous activities are pilot aids for ROV operation, such as automatic stationkeeping, point-and-click manipulator control, and automatic generation of mosaic (small seafloor maps). At the other end of the spectrum is the capability for fully autonomous AUV missions and for ROV tasks that do not require the full creativity of a human pilot.
The immediate focus of this project will be in two technology areas. The first is the development and demonstration of automatic, vision-based feedback control, where the computer utilizes the camera to perform a control task involving the vehicle or the manipulator. This frees the pilot to do other tasks. The second area of endeavor is the development of techniques for high-performance, task-level control (e.g. point-and-click) of manipulators that operate either from a fixed basesuch as an ROV on the seaflooror from a small, free-floating AUV.
An additional goal of this program is to provide a path through which scientists, engineers, and pilots at MBARI can influence doctoral-level research at Stanford University, such that new technologies can be explored that are of interest to MBARI but considered too high-risk for near-term development. This arrangement will also allow interested scientists, engineers, and pilots at MBARI to implement, test, and evaluate new concepts developed at Stanford.
Next: Mapping project
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The Team at Hotel Chandler
Meet Our Staff
Meet the group of guest service-focused hospitality professionals that make Hotel Chandler a classic, clean and comfortable boutique hotel.
Hotel Chandler Staff Bios
Kate Martin – General Manager
Kate has been employed by Triumph Hotels since September of 1999. Born in Greece, where she began her career working in five-star resorts, she relocated to England to take up her studies in Hotel and Catering Management. In England, Kate worked with Inter-Continental Hotels of the World at several of their London-based properties. Upon completion of her degree she continued on to Toronto, Canada, to complete a one-year course in Hotel Management. She then joined the five-diamond Righa Royal Hotel in New York (now Hotel London) as Assistant Front Office Manager. In late 1999, Kate began working with the Iroquois Hotel as the Front Office Manager. Kate has progressed within Triumph Hotels through various management positions. In September 2010 she re-joined Hotel Chandler as General Manager, nine years after being part of the original opening team at the same property.
Neda Heffron - Director of Sales & Marketing
Neda earned a Bachelor's degree in Fashion and Apparel Design at Marymount University in Washington D.C. before deciding that her heart was in the hospitality industry. She began her career with Baywood Hotels serving as their area director of sales for five years. Neda continued her career in the Washington D.C. area for several years accepting an opportunity as the Senior Sales Manager at the Hilton Rockville Hotel before advancing yet again as the Director of Sales for the Morrison Clark Inn. After three years as Director of Sales and a brief stint as Senior Sales Manager at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Neda decided it was time for a change of pace. Neda moved to New York City with her family in 2013 where she began working as an Area Sales Manager for Hersha Hospitality before finding her true home at Hotel Chandler where she excels as the Director of Sales and Marketing.
Alicja Turula – Director of Revenue Management
Beginning in her native country, Poland, Alicja began her career in the histopathology department at City Hospital. During this time she graduated from medical school and following this completed her MSL in Law. In 1992, Alicja and family repositioned themselves in the US after which she started her hospitality career at the front desk of The Iroquois Hotel. She has since excelled with Triumph Hotel Group and has climbed her way up to Director of Revenue, for Triumph Hotels. She was also a finalist for the Frank W. Berkman Tourism Achievement Award, in the category of Revenue Management Executive of the Year, at the 2012 HSMAI of Greater New York Chapter Awards of Excellence.
Renata Maslach-Sroka – Director of Housekeeping
Continuing in the vein of European management at Hotel Chandler, Renata is from Poland. She graduated with her degree in Hospitality Management from the New York City College of Technology. After a three-year spell as Assistant Director of Housekeeping at the Time Hotel in New York, Renata joined Triumph Hotels in 2004. She started as a Assistant Housekeeping Manager at The Washington Jefferson Hotel before joining Hotel Chandler in December of 2010 as Director of Housekeeping.
Gary Skeet – Director of Engineering
Born in Mt. Vernon, New York, Gary has worked for 14-plus years in the New York Tri-State region. He began his hospitality career as a Security Officer and subsequently developed into Fire Safety Director. He has gained valuable experience with several luxury properties including Ritz Carlton Central Park, The Sofitel and The Muse. He commenced his training under the supervision of the Chief Engineering Director at The Muse Hotel, and it was this interaction that sparked his interest in the engineering field. Gary joined Hotel Chandler as Director of Engineering in early 2012, and is a highly valuable asset to the team.
Charlie Loor – Chief Concierge
Born and raised in New York City, Charlie graduated from John Jay College with an Associate Degree in Criminal Justice, but quickly decided to pursue a career in hospitality. Charlie began his hospitality career with City Experts in Manhattan. While working for City Experts, he served several Manhattan Hotels and quickly made a name for himself with in the industry. While serving these properties, he built key relationships with New York's hottest spots. Charlie brought these relationships to Hotel Chandler in 2012.


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I've ordered a month's supply of Slim & Save and hope to start in 11 days on the 17th March.
I'm just wondering how much weight you can expect to lose?
I've just lost 3 stone with Lipotrim and that was about a stone/month, but of course I was nearly 14st then and now I'm 11st so I'm expecting smaller losses x
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Help! Sacd Good Or Bad?, Does SACD ought to sound like crud?
Help! Sacd Good Or Bad?, Does SACD ought to sound like crud?
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I've listened to SACD once and it sure sounded good...
I've heard people say that SACD ought to fail in transient reproduction, (because it can only encode a rise and fall relative to the last time step) so I did some calculations:
'Sampling rate' of SACD = 2.8MHz = 64x 44.1kHz
For encoding tones up to 44.1kHz at full scale, it has to reach full-scale from 0 in 64 steps, that is, at any given time there can only be 64 possible positions for the waveform.
This gives it 6 bits resolution to CD's 16 bits??
OK, suppose you only need to encode up to 22.05kHz at full scale, the number of possible positions increases from 64 to 128--7 bits resolution, big improvement
I doubt this is how DSD actually works, but this article http://www.iar-80.com/page40.html (I linked to page 40, but it seems page 1-39 may be going on and on about the sonic flaws of DSD as well) seems to take this view seriously and goes on to talk about how you try to recover musical information from the 6 bit stream.
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QUOTE (ChristianHJW @ Sep 16 2002 - 12:41 PM)
There haven been a number of publications in the past 10 years about the capability of the Human ear to 'hear' sound > 20 KHz ( dont ask me for any links, i dont have any avaialble )
I only know of one study done by japanese researchers, where they "measured" different brain waves when the test subject was exposed to high ultrasonic levels. However, the subject didnt hear anything, and the different brain waves were present even after the utrasonic sound ceased. No one was able to repeat this experiment, iirc.
If you know of another REAL study about this, it would be interesting to know about it. But not of the type "I've heard" or "I've read somewhere" myths.
did tests with my own ears, almost 5 years ago :
- I was not able to 'hear' sine tones > 16.5 KHz ( maybe even lower now )
- in a blind ABX test i could easily detect a low pass filter of 4th order ( 24 db/octave , linkwitz ) with a -3 dB at 20 KHz on a high quality Stereo chain, with normal music ( hitrate : > 85 % ) .
Why ?
Maybe your filter with -3 dB at 20 KHz was something like -1 dB at 13 KHz, I don't know. This would be quite audible with harmonic-type musical signals.
The thing is that I can hear up to 18 - 18.5 KHz with sine signals, but can't differentiate an impulsive clip such as castanets attack brickwall-filter lowpassed at 15 KHz from non-lowpassed. Even have some difficulties with a 12 KHz lowpass. Just try at http://www.pcabx.com/technical/low_pass/index.htm. Just try to ABX any of the 18 KHz lowpassed clips, and tell me if you are able to hear them sound different. Go down into the lowpass until you can hear the difference.
This is because with this more complex real world signals, masking comes into effect, and the lower high frequencies easily mask the higher high frequencies. This doesn't happen with pure tones (sines).
About localization, what happens is that ear is very sensitive to interaural delays, but if you lowpass both channels the same way, the interaural delays remain the same. Even when ear is so sensitive to interaural delays, this doesn't has much to do with the upper frequency limit of hearing.
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bilby is a marsupial mammal which belongs to the bandicoot family
and is about the size of a rabbit.
have large ears, a silky light grey and white coat, and a long,
black and white crested tail. Bilbies have a long pointed snout
and a well-developed sense of smell to help them find food.
famous large ears of the bilby are hairless and help them listen
for predators and their strong front paws help them dig their burrows
and find food.
all marsupials, the female bilbies have a pouch in which they carry
their babies. Bilbies normally have one or two young at a time,
although their pouches have eight nipples and is backward opening
for an easy escape. Bilbies breed throughout the year as long as
food is plentiful.
The best places to see a bilby for yourself are at the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service centre at Charleville, Dreamworld, Ipswich Nature Centre, Featherdale Wildlife Park, David Fleay Wildlife Park on the Gold Coast, or try your local zoo.
live in underground burrows that spiral to about three metres long
and two metres deep and they come out under cover of darkness to
find food. The burrow protects them from the scorching outback sun
and predators.
bilby's predators include goannas, cats, foxes, dingoes, snakes,
large birds and large night birds of prey.
will find bilbies in isolated arid and semi-arid areas in Western
Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland. The Queensland
bilby population is scattered across a 100,000km2 area between Birdsville
and Boulia.
After dark, the bilby leaves the protection of
the burrow to eat plant seeds, fruits, honey ants, grubs, bulbs,
termites, insects, fungi and spiders.
Like the Australian koala, bilbies get most of
their water from the food they eat.
Because biblies sift through dirt to find seeds,
fruits and bulbs to eat, they digest a lot of soil. In fact, 20-90%
of their waste is made up of dirt!
Because of competition for food and habitat degradation,
bilby numbers have declined severely since the early 1900's
because of competition for food with rabbits and livestock, predation
from feral animals and changing habitat such as fires and grazing.
The bilby populations are now isolated and scattered
which means they are susceptible to ecological changes and are vulnerable
to natural disasters such as disease and fire.
The bilby was once found in 70% of mainland Australia,
living in most areas west of the Great Dividing Range. Now bilbies
are extinct in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The
bilbies in Queensland are now the most threatened and genetically
distinct population in Australia, with only 600-700 specimens left
in the wild. The bilby is considered 'vulnerable' nationally and
'endangered' in Queensland.
Saving the
Of the six bandicoot species that once lived in
the arid and semi-arid areas of Australia, only the bilby is left.
Because of this, it is very important that we do all we can to make
sure we don't lose the last of our Australian bilbies.
The Queensland Parks and
Wildlife Service (QPWS) has
invested a lot of time and money into saving the bilby. In particular,
Frank 'the bilby man' Manthey and
Ranger Peter McRae have been instrumental in the development
of a wild breeding programme based in the Currawinya National Park
in south-west Queensland.
Captive programmes like those in Charleville help
safeguard against disasters in the wild and provide an environment
where bilbies can live without fear of feral animals or habitat
damage from livestock. The site was chosen because of its reliable
and diverse food supply and it is operated by permanent staff members.
Opened in Easter 2001, the Save the Bilby Fence
was constructed by volunteers and funded
by donations from ordinary Australians.
The fencing project cost approximately half a million dollars.
Luckily the Queensland State Government has also
been working to save the bilby by purchasing habitat for reintroduction
of the species.
Find out more about saving
the bilby and how
you can help.


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The mobile stereo, the "boombox", the "ghettoblaster"– was as much a part of the 1980s as dayglo, greed and good hip hop. Fast forward to modern day, and the ghettoblaster is now a collectors item, sought after by a small subculture of vintage hip hop purists. While the ghettoblaster was a piece of technology that died with the boom of the Sony Walkman and Crack Cocaine, it has been reborn and updated to the iPod generation by the brilliant people at Lasonic. Their generically titled "High Performance Portable Music System" looks like the classic street boombox, but its design may have been a mistake. The Chinese designed Lasonic system is not intended to be a salute to vintage boomboxes, but an actual modern take on consumer audio. While it may have been a mistake that the designers were still stuck in the 80s, its no mistake that the Lasonic iPod BoomBox is ultracool, vintage ghettoblaster magic. If you're a fan of classic hip hop, Lasonic just inadvertently designed your ultimate iPod dock. Represent.
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BBQ contest highlights Auburn Hills Summerfest
Event runs June 21 - 22 in downtown Auburn Hills
Auburn Hills, MI— BBQ fans, buffs, and aficionados, get ready to smell the smoke!
The City of Auburn Hills is sponsoring its 5th annual Kansas City Barbecue Society (KCBS) sanctioned State Championship BBQ Cook-Off Competition this weekend (June 21-22) in conjunction with Auburn Hills' Summerfest celebration in downtown Auburn Hills.
The event, which features some of this region's top pit masters, has become one of the premier draws of the festival.
Competition will heat up as teams compete for $8,000 in cash, trophies, and the coveted title of "Grand Champion". The dedicated pit masters, include: 2011 & 2012 Grand Champion Motley Que Crew from Grosse Pointe Woods, along with Ribs Within from New Jersey, Johnny Fives Smokin' BBQ from Ohio, Steel Smokin' BBQ from Indiana, and the Q'n Chanucks from Ontario, Canada
On Saturday, barbecue entries are presented before a panel of judges for evaluation. Winners will be announced on stage at 3:00 pm.
The winning team will be considered for participation in the two largest invitational BBQ contests in the world: the American Royal World Series of BBQ in Kansas City in September and the Jack Daniel's World Championship BBQ Invitational in Lynchburg, Tennessee in October.
"The Auburn Hills BBQ Cook-Off attracts some of the best pit masters around," Keenan says. "The thrill of a world-class competition right in our own backyard is something barbecue enthusiast and Summerfest visitors will not want to miss!"
In addition to the BBQ Cook-off Summerfest will be host an array of attractions for all ages to enjoy.
Friday, June 21 ( 4:00 - 10:00pm)
Saturday, June 22 (10:00am - 10:00pm)
-Skate Park Competition (4pm)
-Classic Car Show, "By the River"
Stage Schedule (Friday)
Stage Schedule (Saturday)
4:00pm The Earth Angels
10:30am Amazing Clark Magic Show
For more information about the event visit www.auburnhills.org or call Auburn Hills Parks & Recreation at 248-370-9353.


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The Sephora Powell Street location in San Francisco (see photos below) has reopened as the Sephora Beauty TIP (Teach, Inspire, Play) Workshop, designed to offer customers both community and a revolutionary shopping experience.
Global beauty sales, already a nearly $400 billion market, is on the verge of explosive growth from emerging markets, but will see an industry influx as consolidation and technology disrupt channels of distribution, according to Fung Business Intelligence Centre's recently released Global Beauty Report.
Steady as she goes. That old nautical phrase—urging a firm hand on the wheel and an unwavering eye on the compass—seems especially apt for today's retailers. The economic waters remain troubled as the nation emerges from a year in which business activity and consumer confidence fell short of the levels requisite for the best sales environment. At the same time, an improved economic forecast should guide retailers to greater profitability in 2014.
Consumers love a good deal—but will be drawn to brick and mortars this holiday season for the experience, according to the recently released study "Amazon Can't Do That: Consumer Desire & the Store of the Future," published by WD Partners, a customer-experience expert for global retail and food brands.
The study identifies what consumers are looking for in a shopping experience and presents a road map for brick and mortars to beat online-only retailers.
Fifty-two percent of Americans are struggling to afford necessities—and for many even that is a stretch, according to WSL/Strategic Retail in its "How America Shops MegaTrends" report, "Moving On 2012."
Other significant findings by WSL/Strategic Retail, which is a leading authority on shopper behavior and retail trends, in its newest report that was released on March 1:
Shoppers think it is cool to get digital help finding relevant products and information—and navigating the store. But they are creeped out by digital capabilities that identify, track and use location and demographics, such as targeted advertisements, for consumers based on facial recognition, according to the new study, "Creepy or Cool," from RichRelevance, which provides omnichannel personalization to businesses.


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Just Flight FScene X Expansion Pack (PC)
The FScene series is an innovative scenery expansion that transforms the default textures of Flight Simulator X and 2004 to something with far greater realism. Mountains, forests, jungles and deserts take on a new 3-dimensional feel; the countryside is subtly transformed and urban areas look more authentic. The latest version now incorporates replacement textures for Flight Simulator X and 2004. The software covers a huge swathe of the planet's surface and will transform your simulated flying in all four virtual seasons.
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Add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator X
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E: Everyone
Rating Explanation
Titles rated E (Everyone) have content that may be suitable for ages 6 and older. Titles in this category may contain minimal cartoon, fantasy or mild violence, and/or infrequent use of mild language.
Flight Simulation
System Requirements
Supported Windows Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows XP (SP3), Vista
Minimum Processor Required
2.0GHz or Faster
Minimum RAM Required
2GB; 512MB for FS2004
Minimum Hard Drive Space
250 MB; 120MB for FS2004
Peripheral Devices Required
DVD-ROM Drive
Supported Video Card Chipsets
256Mb 3D graphics card for FSX with DirectX 9.0 or later; 64Mb for FS2004 with DirectX 8.0
API Supported
DirectX 9.0
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What's in the Box
DVD-ROM; Game manual
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