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Electronic voting is a touchy issue
Even before early voting began, Homer Simpson foreshadowed problems with electronic touch-screen voting machines.
"Voting Machines Are Flipping Votes Just Like The Simpsons Predicted," an article posted on www.collegeotr.com, citing a clip of a "The Simpsons" episode, leaked online earlier in the month, that shows Homer Simpson trying to vote for Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
Every time he touches the "Obama" button on what he calls the "electronic voting dealie," it registers votes for Republican candidate John McCain. His frustration grows as he tells the machine "time for a change," and mashes the Obama button harder. The voting machine then sucks him inside, as Homer yells, "Hey this machine is rigged … This doesn't happen in America, maybe Ohio, but not in America."
If electronic vote switching doesn't happen in America, why are there so many reports of it, including two in Palo Pinto County?
Two Palo Pinto County residents reported touch-screen voting machine irregularities last week were added to a growing discussion around the county, state, nation and world on the topic of vote flipping or switching.
Should voters be concerned about the veracity of electronic voting technology that has no paper trail?
Do voters HAVA say?
Texans cast their votes by one of three methods – paper ballot, an optical scan system or Direct Record Electronic system. The Secretary of State approved three DRE machines – the Hart eSlate, Election Systems & Software iVotronic and Premier's Accu-Vote TS R6.
The DRE machines are intended to help counties comply with the 2002 Help America Vote Act. The federal act, also called HAVA, established a program to provide funds to states to replace punch card voting systems with improved voting equipment and to provide election standards as well as training for poll workers and election officials across the country.
A year-old headline from www.opednews.com reads, "US to NY: You Gotta HAVA Faulty Voting Machine." The article describes a U.S. District Court case, in which a Department of Justice attorney successfully argued, "that even though no electronic voting systems exist that meet NY's voting technology standards, NY must use the faulty technology."
"We had a perfectly good optical scan machine," Palo Pinto County Judge Mike Smiddy said of voting machines the county previously used for elections, "but it did not qualify [for HAVA compliance]."
Smiddy said the county started implementing the HAVA-compliant iVotronic voting machines "at about the time I came into office." He was sworn into office in September 2005.
The electronic touch-screen machine reads pressure from a voter's finger and selects a corresponding vote. For residents who vote by mail, the county uses an optical scan voting system. This system enables voters to mark their choices on pre-printed ballots and an ES&S M100 machine scans each ballot, automatically computing the totals for each candidate or issue.
While the county received funding to help put electronic voting in place, Smiddy cited this as a "federal and state mandate that everybody go to electronic voting [in] reaction to punch card ballots in Florida."
In the 2000 presidential election, almost two million ballots were reportedly disqualified because they registered multiple votes - "overvoting" - or no votes - "undervoting" - when run through vote-counting machines.
In response to the election confusion, "hanging chads" and "dimpled ballots," the U.S. Congress passed HAVA, which was signed into law by President Bush in October 2002.
According to County Auditor Sharon Allen, Palo Pinto County applied for four of six possible HAVA grants. Two of these - the Voting System Accessibility grant of $60,000 and the General HAVA Compliance grant of $199,913.65 - aided the county's original purchase of electronic voting machines for $238,431.
Allen said this included purchasing 25 HAVA compliant units, 40 regular units, storage carts, associated software, printers, scanners, training, computer system and various other accessories.
"In addition to that original purchase, we have bought a storage trailer, and outfitted it, and we have paid for annual maintenance," she added.
Past county technology
Smiddy served on the county's resolution board during elections "at least before 1992," beginning when the county started using optical scan voting machines. He said the board was comprised of two additional people - a Republican representative and a Democratic representative. Although they had "minor problems" with the machines, including "some occasional mechanical problems," he said they did not have issues with accuracy.
Overvoting - where a voter marks more than one candidate in a race - was one concern regarding past voting machines, but Smiddy maintains that the optical scan machine would kick out overvotes, which he said were easy to resolve.
"I never remember having a disagreement over voter intent at all. We very rarely had problems where we couldn't tell what a voter intended," he said. "We maybe had 100 ballots [in a general election] with problems. But it was real easy to resolve - you could tell voters intent if the machine spit out the ballot."
According to the county clerk's office, Palo Pinto still uses its optical scan machines, but only for residents who request ballots by mail.
A 2007 article in the Huffington Post suggested "optical scan machines be used nationwide, if supplemented by equipment to allow voters with disabilities to vote privately."
How DREs work
Touch-screen voting machines require calibration, which establishes the relationship between pressure from a voter's finger and a spot or "box" on the touch screen. Similar to how an ATM machine issues money in specific increments, the touch screen voting machines should match an individual's vote. Before each election, all Texas voting machines must be recalibrated and tested on all ballot variables.
Some say the machines can go out of calibration if moved or when they are delivered to a polling location, however ES&S spokesman Ken Fields from Fleishman-Hillard maintains that any miscalibration in a machine "will be evident" and "doesn't come and go."
Ashley Burton of the Secretary of State's office reported, "We have only received a handful of isolated complaints from voters regarding situations that, to our knowledge, could not be recreated."
Burton added that each voting system in Texas must be thoroughly tested before every election in which they are to be used. Information regarding these testing procedures are included in an advisory at: http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/laws/advisory2008-09.shtml.
As of Thursday afternoon, Burton said they have not received any voting machine reports from Palo Pinto County from early voting or from the March primary election.
However, since early voting began Oct. 20 there have been numerous reports dotting the nation - some similar to the two cases reported to the Index - in which voters said their straight-party Democratic votes turned up as straight-party Republican votes.
Many of these reports are sporadic and not all reports of voting machine irregularities resulted in permanent removal of machines. The reason - administrators could not replicate the situation voters reported.
"Election officials often say they don't have to take a machine out of service if they can't replicate the voter's problem on the machine," said Kim Zetter, a senior reporter at Wired News. "But flaws in computers can result in erratic symptoms that won't happen with every voter. It may require a specific sequence of events for a problem to manifest, and if officials don't repeat what the voter did exactly, they may not have the same result."
When asked if the Texas Secretary of State has provisions for a machine with occasional and irregular issues, Burton replied, "If a local election official determines there is a machine error, the machine should be pulled from the area and they should report that to our office. Depending on the nature of the problem, additional testing may be considered."
She added that there is a way to check the machines for proper calibration and maintenance as "part of the Logic and Accuracy test."
Zetter has written about electronic voting issues "since 2003 when the first report came out from computer scientists who obtained source code for the Diebold machines and found numerous security flaws in it," she told the Index.
When the company's code showed up on the Internet in 2003, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Rice University examined the code and concluded the voting system was "unsuitable for use in a general election."
They further asserted, "Any paperless electronic voting system might suffer similar flaws, despite any 'certification' it could have otherwise received. We suggest that the best solutions are voting systems having a 'voter-verifiable audit trail,' where a computerized voting system might print a paper ballot that can be read and verified by the voter."
"Russ Feingold has been trying since 2003 to pass legislation in Congress that would require all voting machines in the country to produce a paper trail. The legislation has failed for a number of reasons, not just the accessibility issue. Even when the legislation is passed, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology will be tasked with coming up with the best solution for a paper trail, which could take several years," Zetter said.
"Sadly, in Texas there is no voter-verifiable paper record of the vote," stated Ellen Theisen, Co-Director of www.VotersUnite.Org, a non-partisan national grassroots elections resource.
Fields said the ES&S makes a machine with a paper printout that shows voters how they have voted.
Burton maintained that no Texas voting machines provide a Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail. "Our office has previously examined options that would provide a VVPAT, but we were not satisfied that the options available would preserve the secrecy of the ballot," she said.
"Other states, however, have not needed a federal law to pass their own legislation requiring a paper trail in the meantime," asserted Zetter. "There's really no good reason for counties not to have machines that produce a paper trail."
Questions linger
For several years many have expressed concerns over HAVA-compliant DRE voting machines. Among the concerns are the DRE's lack of a tangible record, the possibility for tampering and overall security.
A February 2004 article in "Information Week" posed that, "A paper ballot … is a tangible physical object which can be indelibly marked. A computer byte, however, can be easily altered with no trace of its original marking."
In June 2006, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told "Rolling Stone" Magazine that he wondered how 2004 election exit polls, predicting an overwhelming victory for John Kerry, "had gotten it so wrong. By midnight, the official tallies showed a decisive lead for George Bush - and the next day, lacking enough legal evidence to contest the results, Kerry conceded."
In his interview, Kennedy cited specific concerns about DREs used during the 2004 general election.
"In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes, malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots. Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1 million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment - roughly one for every 100 cast."
"Why should the most important events in our democratic life (elections) be the subject of such benign neglect and lack of any interest in their security?" queried authors of one study on election irregularity during the 2004 general election in Snohomish County, Wash.
In the study, attorney Paul R. Lehto and Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman compared the county's parallel voting technologies - touch-screen voting machines used on election day to optically scanned paper ballots used for absentee and provisional voting.
One of their findings describes what at least two voters in Palo Pinto County and many throughout the nation recently experienced - "numerous persons reported that touch screens would appear pre-voted, or else would select the Republican box when the Democratic candidate's box was pressed either with a finger or the stylus provided."
In support of DREs
After overseeing six presidential elections in Dallas County, Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet has experienced technology peaks and valleys. However, for this election he said, "Voting technology is now better than ever before mostly because the human factor has been taken out of the process."
What he likes about the new voting machine technology is that the iVotronic "stores votes in three different independent areas."
Dallas County uses 500-700 electronic touch-screen voting machines - the same type as Palo Pinto County - only used during early voting. For election day, Sherbet employees optical scan machines.
So far, Dallas County has had over 370,000 voters at 26 polling sites, with no machines producing a problem. However, Sherbet said one voter reported a problem, which started his protocol - someone assisting the voter to see if they can replicate the reported problem, taking the machine out of service so a technician can check the machine's calibration and can check to see if they can replicate what the voter said happened.
"We checked [the machine with the reported problem] thoroughly to make sure there wasn't a problem and put it back in use," he said. "We err on the side of the voter if a voter reports a problem to us and show us what they say [the machine] is doing."
The imperfect paper trail
"Just having a paper trail doesn't solve the transparency problem with these machines if election officials don't look at the paper trail," warned Zetter. "That's why states need to also pass a law that requires all counties to conduct a mandatory manual audit of at least 1 percent of votes after every election. California and a number of other states have this law. This means that election officials would have to take 1 percent of the paper trails and compare them against the digital votes coming from the same machines to ensure that they match. In this way, they can uncover possible problems with the machines and investigate further if needed."
Sherbet said that having a printer hook up, which provides the paper audit trail, is "not an end-all-be-all" solution and has its problems. He explained that when a printer hookup is added to a machine it provides an "added point of failure."
He added that in the case of a recount, the machines would provide a printout, much like tape from an adding machine, which could be 2 feet per ballot for a presidential election. With 720,000 estimated voters, he said Dallas County's recount printout would be equivalent to the length of a trip from Dallas to San Antonio.
"Human error is way more prevalent," he said when relying on this type of recount system. He explained to recount iVotronic votes, an administrator could print out a report from the machine's files. This would show an image of the ballot and a count.
Sherbet noted that all electronic voting machines could benefit from more redundancy and audits.
He said machine audits could inform administrators if each is functioning properly and tell whether the machine's software is the certified version. Sherbet said that some computer experts have suggested they would like to be able to view the source code, or the proprietary "blue print" of the voting system - a trade secret electronic voting machine companies do not want to share.
Some say this type of auditing could allow computer scientists to determine if the machine's program performs the intended task without error.
With today's technology, Sherbet suggested there could be alternative ways to capture votes, like with video cameras.
The California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology teamed up for the multi-disciplinary collaborative project, the CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project.
Several articles on the collaborative's Web site (www.votingtechnologyproject.org/electaud.html) discuss systems for auditing votes via new technology, including "Voter Verifiable Audio Audit Transcript Trail," to improve DRE voting machine security. In addition to producing a transcript of ballots that can be counted either by hand, by computer or by both methods, the VVAATT system allows voters to confirm selections as they proceed, rather than after the fact. The audio transcript format makes it difficult for individual votes to be accidentally or intentionally separated out from the larger voting pool.
Software updates
When a company issues a software update, the Secretary of State must certified the update, according to Sherbet. Although ES&S issued an update for the iVotronic, he said he opted not to put it in place until tested more thoroughly.
"It took the state one-and-a-half years to certify a new version of [iVotronic] software," he said, adding that the secretary of state certified the most recent update sometime between April and June - after the state primary election.
"There was not enough time to go through [a lesser election]. We will change it after this election … I don't want to Beta test software going into a presidential election," he explained.
When asked if Palo Pinto County has a service agreement with ES&S, Fields said, "The agreement with the county is focused on repairing, not on an ongoing maintenance agreement."
Electronic Voting Tips
Both Ellen Theisen, co-director of www.VotersUnite.Org a non-partisan national grassroots elections resource, and Kim Zetter, a senior reporter at Wired News, suggest the following for all Texas voters, especially since the state does not require paper records:
• Avoid straight-party voting. If you want to vote for all candidates of the same party, select each one separately.
• Review all votes on the review screen very carefully, and make sure they are right before pressing the "Vote" button. "If the machine flips your vote, do NOT be intimidated into thinking you goofed," warns Theisen. "Vote-flipping is occurring all over the place in Texas and other states. It's YOUR vote. Make sure it's what you want it to be."
If voters encounter any problem with an electronic machine:
• Call a poll worker immediately. "If you're willing to give up your privacy, tell the poll worker what happened and try to reproduce the problem with the poll worker watching," Theisen said. [Note that poll workers should not suggest the name of a candidate or party to any voter – an issue also reported by a Palo Pinto County resident in early voting.]
• Record the serial number of the machine "if they can easily see it," Zetter said.
• Insist on using a different machine and let all the voters in the polling place know that the machine flipped your vote.
• Insist that the complaint be passed to the elections office, and then report it to the office.
• Insist that the problematic machines be taken out of service if more than one voter complains about a machine.
• Call your local newspaper [Palo Pinto voters can contact the Index at (940) 325-4465] and report what happened.
• Call the county elections office and report what happened.
• Report what happened by calling 1-866-MYVOTE1 (1-866-698-6831) and 1-866-Our-Vote (1-866-687-8683). "Our Vote" states theirs will be staffed with legal experts who can help you determine your voting rights.


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19:08, UK, Friday 29 August 2014
Google's secretive research laboratory has built a fleet of drones designed to bypass earthbound traffic and speed up parcel deliveries.
A video released by the firm shows the ambitious scheme in practice, with a farmer in Australia receiving a packet of dog treats carried by one of the self-flying vehicles.
It come amid an escalating technological arms race with rival Amazon.com, which is also experimenting with drones to carry products to customers of its online store.
Google has called the programme Project Wing, but warned it was unlikely to be put into action for deliveries in the near future.
Nicholas Roy, Project Wing founder, said: "It's years from a product, but it is the first prototype that we want to stand behind."
The firm said test flights in Australia had also delivered a first aid kit, chocolate, and water to two farmers.
The project is the latest to emerge from Google's "X'' lab, which has also been working on innovations including self-driving cars.
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Marcus is a Principal Lecturer and Field Leader in Exercise Physiology at the University of Chichester, having completed a PhD in 1998. Primary responsibilities include BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science Programme Leader and MSc Sport and Exercise Physiology Routeway Leader
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As an applied sport scientist working with the England Amateur Boxing Association his role developed from project assistant to sports science manager. During the period 1987-2004 he attended two Olympic Games, four Olympic Qualifying Tournaments, two Commonwealth Games, four Senior World Championships, four Senior European Championships, 15 multi-nation tournaments, 30 'Dual' Internationals and five overseas international training camps. He has also undertaken work with elite athletes from the following sports: hockey, triathlon, table tennis, wrestling, judo, weightlifting, football, rugby union and cricket.
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Is your dog a crooner? Are you a crooner? Or do you both just like to listen to good music and mingle with lots of other music lovers?
Central Bank Thursday Night Live is beginning again on May 6th. Concessions are open at 4:30 p.m. and the music begins at 5:30 p.m. For the next two hours, you and your dog can listen to the music and visit with old friends, and maybe make some new ones. The bands play in front of the Old Courthouse, but may also me moved under the newly constructed Fifth Third pavilion if it rains.
Dogtown Daycare provides water for your furry friend and will also talk to you about their services if you are interested.
As always, make sure your dogs are up to date on their shots and have a leash. If your dog does not do well with crowds, it may be best to stay at home. Thursday Night Live averages about 750 people. Your dog also needs to be well behaved and put on their good manners. Other patrons that come to hear the music really don't want to listen to your dog barking all night (unless of course he or she is a part of the band.) So, if your dog (and probably you too) are crooners, then maybe it's best to stay at home and pop in a CD.
Otherwise, come on out to the party, sit back, relax, and enjoy some live entertainment with your best friend by your side.
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The 485th birthday of Admiral Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles, St. Augustine's founder, will be celebrated February 27-29 in a setting that would have looked familiar to the 16th century residents of the oldest, continuously occupied European settlement in the United States.
Founded by Menendez in 1565 in order to establish Spain's imperial presence on the Florida peninsula, St. Augustine will host a birthday celebration that features a tribute to the city's Spanish heritage. The three-day event will not only occur within the shadow of the massive
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On Friday evening, February 27, Menendez and his fleet of sailing ships will enter St. Augustine's harbor where they will be greeted by a cannon fire salute from the Castillo. Disembarking at the bay front, Menendez and his men will be escorted by dignitaries from St. Augustine and his birthplace, Aviles, Spain, through the gates of the Spanish Quarter. Paso Fino horses, flamenco dancers, and Latin bands will entertain well into the evening.
On Saturday, visitors to the town will see authentic 16th century artisans at work within the Spanish Quarter while enjoying an outdoor shrimp boil, beer and sangria. At noon, the Grand Paseo begins with a procession of 16th century conquistadors, Paso Fino horses, dignitaries, clergy, townspeople, musicians, Native Americans, jugglers, and giant heads. Arriving at the Plaza de la Constitucion, Menendez will ascend to the balcony of Government House, the seat of government for Spanish Florida, to receive birthday greetings from the assembled multitude. Entertainment, including 16th century comedic skits, dancing by the Grupo Folklorico Es Rebost from Menorca, Spain, performances by world champion Paso Fino horses, food, drink and fun will continue throughout the afternoon and evening at Fiesta el Capitan in the Spanish Quarter Museum.
Colorful performances by international champion Paso Fino horses will take place on each day of the celebration. Horses and riders from the Paso Fino Breeders Club International will perform to the accompaniment of Luis Mario's Latin Band. Included in their performances will be the "Wine Class Demonstration" during which the horses will dance while their riders carry a glass of wine. The rider with the most wine remaining in the glass after the dance will be declared the winner.
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The "gimmick", if I may use that term, in Sqr is gravity manipulation. There are switches (arrows) around the level which you can hit to reverse gravity. Reverse it to get the keys to the door and extra point bars! Sounds reasonable enough right? So why my low score?
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You've heard it a million times: Don't click on links in an email unless you know who sent it and what it is.
But sometimes the link in an email is just so darned convenient. For example, you ship a package to a friend, and then you get an email with a link to track the delivery. It's safe to click that link, right?
Maybe not.
Scammers are sending emails that look like courtesy messages from legitimate companies — especially shipping companies — to spread a new ransomware called Cryptolocker. So what's ransomware, and why should you care?
Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents you from using your computer until you pay a certain amount of money. It's essentially extortion, with all the data on your computer at risk unless you pay.
Cryptolocker works by encrypting all the files on your computer — your photos, your documents, your tax refunds — anything you've saved to the hard drive or any shared folders. Once the files are encrypted you won't be able to open them without the encryption key — which you can get only from the criminals behind Cryptolocker.
After Cryptolocker has encrypted your files, it displays a message like this:
The criminals demand payment through an anonymous payment type like Bitcoin or Green Dot cards, and promise to give you the key if you pay the ransom in time (for example, $300 to be paid within 72 hours).
Unfortunately, once Cryptolocker has encrypted your files, there's no way to recover them. You could pay the ransom, but there's no guarantee you'll get the encryption key.
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Back up your files. Right now. And often.
An external hard drive is a good option, but be sure to disconnect it from the computer when you are not actively backing up files. If your back-up device is connected to your computer when Cryptolocker strikes, the program will try to encrypt those files, too.
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The best way to avoid downloading Cryptolocker — and other kinds of malware — is to practice good computer security habits.
- Instead of clicking on a link in an email, type the URL of the site you want directly into your browser. Then log in to your account, or navigate to the information you need.
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- Don't open "double extension" files. Sometimes hackers try to make files look harmless by using .pdf or .jpeg in the file name. It might look like this: not_malware.pdf.exe. This file is NOT a PDF file. It's an EXE file, and the double extension means it's probably a virus.
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That was a very interesting video. Can you suggest a malware protection for IMAC OSX 11.0 it's new & I have no protection for it except the Apple Lion, do you feel that is good enough protection for my IMAC, it's been running very slow the past 2 wks & sometimes I cannot close a window & have to use the: Option-Command-Escape to close the browser. Thank you for any info you can send to me:
I hope to get some positive feedback from you as soon as you possibly can...!
Hi Maggie, Macintosh's are not at risk for virusus since the OS language is different from Windows computers. To help with your "lagging" issue, there is an article on how to "stop the dreaded beach ball". I have used the steps to resolve the lag everytime it starts to happen, and it works. Just google it and it show up in your search results.
MAC's are not safe. As their market share has grown, they are a bigger target. Since OSX is UNIX based it is just as susceptible as Windows. In fact, on Feb 24 Apple had to issue an iOS7 patch due to the 'Gotofail' Security Bug. Stop Using Safari And Update your iPhone and iPad immediately. They will issue a patch for OSX soon. The "KitM" spyware infected MAC's in May 2013 so do not believe one of the biggest Tech Myths out there. To answer your question - Sophos offers a free anti-virus for the MAC.
Question: If I ship a package, how does this info become "hacked knowledge" or perhaps I should say "who" revealed this. Was it within the database of the USPO or the shippers where the hacker would access such knowledge?
The scammers behind Cryptolocker blast these emails out to as many people as possible in the hopes that a few people will have shipped a package recently. If you're one of the unlucky people who have just shipped a package, and you get what looks like a legitimate tracking message, you'll be much more likely to click on a link before your skepticism kicks in.
Did... you just title this online safety article based on the Lil Jon song, Get Low?
Well played, FTC.
I can't agree with you any more. Backup is very very very god damn important for computer no matter Mac PC or Windows PC. As a developer of lots of data recovery tools, I am always asked by many people, "How can I get my file back?" I would like to help them, I would like to send them the software. But the problem is that not every time the software can 100% to get the data back 'cause there are so many different reasons which lead to data loss. Right? So I can only tell people is that backing up your important files. Right now, right away! So they don't need to bother anyone and ask the same question.
My wife and me have been hacked (they even decimated a 501(c)(3) ) that I founded to help people in chronic pain. We disconnected from the internet for over 3mos. and our 2 phone lines rang constantly. Even though charity donations were diverted to them, my credit cards were used to buy things no authority would help in any way. The final advise was to get a subpoena to force PayPal into telling us who opened a PayPal account inside our charity's account! PayPal refuses to tell us who they were. I can't find an attorney who will obtain the subpoena for an amount that is affordable. I feel now, after 2yrs of this non-stop that I am being stalked. Keep up all your anti-virus and anything else you can get. They can be seriously psychotic.
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With so many schools cutting gym programs and obesity soaring worldwide, a lot of attention is being paid to keeping kids active. The National Football League has its Play 60 campaign and recently, India's health minister suggested making Yoga mandatory for all school children.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Today's archive page is from March 11, 1990. When police responded to a woman's cries for help at an ordinary-looking house on Wilson Avenue in Eltingville, they discovered a marijuana farm with as many as 275 plants being cultivated in the home's three bedrooms. Mary Ann Pendell-Kuczzynski accidentally locked herself in one of the rooms and was overcome by heat from lamps used to dry out the weed. When she became disoriented and screamed for help, police discovered the pot "farm."
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Notes by Steve Vander Ark and Michele L. Worley
Synopsis and links by John Kearns
U.S. hardcover edition: pages 81 - 104
U.K. hardcover edition: pages 81 - 102
Timeframe: Saturday, 13 July,
In which Harry talks with Mrs. Weasley (and later Mr. Weasley)
about the Ministry, we see Fleur and learn that she and Bill are
engaged to his family's dismay, and Harry tells Ron and Hermione about
Slughorn, his private lessons with Dumbledore, and the
prophecy, while they tell him about Fleur and Tonks. O.W.L. results
then arrive, with Harry earning seven O.W.L.s but realizing that Snape
won't allow him to take N.E.W.T. potions, and therefore he won't be
able to become an Auror.
Interesting facts and notes about the text of this chapter:
Rufus Scrimgeour has set up several new offices in response to the present situation
He said he'd be back around midnight
"What is your dearest ambition?"
"To find out how airplanes stay up."
all for ten Galleons!
"About one o'clock this morning."
"Today?" shrieked Hermione. "Today? But why didn't you -
oh my God - you should have said - "
Ordinary Wizarding Level Results
"Seven OWLs, that's more than Fred and George got together!"
"Yep - ten 'Outstandings' and one 'Exceeds Expectations' at
Defence Against the Dark Arts."
Characters introduced in this chapter:
Characters returning in this chapter:
Delacour, Fleur
Dumbledore, Albus
Granger, Hermione
Potter, Harry
Tonks, Nymphadora
Weasley, Arthur
Weasley, Ginny
Weasley, Molly
Weasley, Ron
Characters mentioned in this chapter:
Black, Sirius
Crouch, Jr., Bartemius
Delacour, Gabrielle
Fletcher, Mundungus
Lestrange, Bellatrix Black
Lupin, Remus
Malfoy, Lucius
McGonagall, Minerva
Moaning Myrtle
Moody, Alastor (Mad-Eye)
Riddle, Tom Marvolo (as Voldemort, You-Know-Who)
Scrimgeour, Rufus
Slughorn, Horace
Umbridge, Dolores
Weasley, Bill
Weasley, Fred
Weasley, George
Weasley, Percy
Settings and locations introduced or returning in this chapter:
Burrow, the
Fred and George's bedroom
Settings and locations mentioned in this chapter:
Beauxbatons Academy of Magic
Diagon Alley
Gringotts' Wizarding Bank
Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
Elephant and Castle
Ministry of Magic headquarters
St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
Exceptional character moments:
Still to come....
Backfiring Jinx
Stretching Jinx
(unnamed) misc. nonverbal cooking spells Mrs. Weasley performs
(unnamed) supposed defensive jinxes that actually make your ears fall off
(unnamed) charms Mrs. Weasley tries for fixing Hermione's black eye
Links and Resources:
The Healer's Helpmate
Daily Prophet, the
Death Eaters
N.E.W.T.s and O.W.L.s
food and drink
Hogwarts classes
items and devices, magical
Mrs. Weasley's clock
Puking Pastille
telescope, punching
Ministry of Magic
Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects
Triwizard Tournament
Memorable lines:
Mrs. Weasley ended her speech with a stern look, as if it had been Harry suggesting that it was natural to miss spark plugs.
"Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."
But when Harry arrived downstairs... it was to find Hermione sitting
at the kitchen table in great agitation, while Mrs. Weasley tried to
lessen her resemblance to half a panda.
Strictly British:
sitting room
Wellington boots
Ron says "it's been a month" since O.W.L.s finished, and the
exams probably finished on 18 June (OP31). We also know from HBP06
that Harry spends "a few weeks" at the Burrow prior to his birthday on
31 July - so it's likely that it's been a little less than a month,
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It was a night filled with laughter, hugs, tears, cheers and an overflowing crowd at Drew's Pastry Place as chef/owner, Andrew "Drew" Rogers celebrated his national TV debut on The Learning Channel's, Bakery Boss on January 20, 2014.
On this newly launched TLC Bakery Boss series, Cake Boss reality TV star, Buddy Valastro reaches out to fledgling family owned bakeries like Rogers to step up their business. In this episode, Valastro's Bakery Boss intervention results in newly created confections in addition to the Cannoli Cupcake available at Drew's Pastry Place.
Drew's Pastry Place is located at 10300 Louetta Road in Houston and was opened in 2003.
At the age of 40, Rogers closed his direct mail marketing business to enroll at LeNotre Culinary Institute to to fulfill a life-long dream of becoming a professional pastry chef. He worked as an assistant pastry chef for Master Chef Fritz Gitschner at the Houston Country Club for four years before opening his own shop in the Champions/Cy Fair area.
Rogers translated his classical French training into Italian to reflect his own family heritage. His cannolis, Italian crème cake, sfogliatelli, tiramisu, pignoli, and cucidati cookies are the tip of the iceberg. As a pastry chef steeped in European tradition, he was far less interested, though, in baking such treats as cupcakes, even if that meant hurting his bottom line sales.
Valastro, though he gave Rogers high marks for his numerous desserts, also pointed out where he could be more strategic in his dessert and food offerings. He also redesigned the shop to better showcase his merchandise for the local clientele.
The result was a better, more improved Drew's Pastry Place from top to bottom with inviting spaces and a widely varied menu of delectable delights from cupcakes to cookies and more.
"Buddy threw me some hardballs from the start and really challenged me on how I run my business and interact with my family, who are not only investors, but co-workers," said Rogers, who turned his passion for making Italian pastries into a second career in 2005. "Buddy may have riled me at times, but in the end, I think that's what brought me to come up with Cannoli Cupcakes, a brand new signature dessert idea," he continued.
Cannoli Cupcakes combine Rogers's love of creating traditional Italian pastry with the ever-popular American staple of cupcakes. "Buddy loved the idea and that comes through on the show," he said.
Following Valastro's advice was the chance to make Drew's Pastry Place a bigger and better business. "I've put my heart and soul into this place, not to mention mine and my family's savings. It's got to succeed," said Rogers. Investors include his mother, Joan Rogers, who retired from Compaq Computer and HP after 18 years and invested her entire 401-K retirement into her son's business.
Rogers' wife of 23 years, Carla Rogers added, "Buddy helped bring the conversation to a trigger point, spurring Drew's "Aha!" moment with regard to creating a signature cupcake that's a win-win. The 'Bakery Boss' pushed hard, but he finally got Drew see his business in a different light."
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"I am thankful for MTV�'s Awkward, one of the best shows I have seen in a long time. I am amazed by the brilliant writers and actors in this show, especially Ashley Rickards and Beau Mirchoff. They can take me through a whole gamut of emotions, from laughing hysterically to crying uncontrollably, in just a 30-minute episode."
"During this Thanksgiving season, I am thankful that Bones has returned. It is great to see the whole team back. Hmm, what is my favorite quote? Is it, 'I�'m Thurston, the asshat' or 'Damn, this is the best job ever!'? I really can�'t go wrong with either one!"
"All Hail the Musical Chair! Gossip Girl's awesome music soundtrack this season -- and the even more awesome Chair scenes -- has me gripping my (literal) chair."
"I'm thankful for blanket forts, alternate timelines, paintball games, finals, Dungeons and Dragons, W.W.B.J.D. bracelets, purple pens, bagels, chicken fingers, Cop Rock, Classic Wingers, secret handshakes, giant purses, lady bees, pepper spray, cootie catchers, notches, butt flags, priority registration and black felt goatees....
I am thankful for Community, and I want NBC to restore it to the midseason schedule and keep it on the air for #sixseasonsandamovie!
Greendale is where I belong."
"What I am most thankful for this TV season is Homeland gifting us with the top-notch acting duo that is Damien Lewis and Claire Danes. Those two are giving Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul a run for their money."
"I'm thankful for whoever figured out the key to Elisha Cuthbert's comedic timing. Girl has been killing it this season, which is super-impressive considering the cast she's surrounded by."
"I'm thankful for the sudsy, mindless fun of Revenge. Emily VanCamp is awesome (as always), and I love seeing her in a role that's less goody-goody than the ones she played on Everwood or Brothers & Sisters."
"This season I thank the Lord for ABC's Once Upon a Time, an adult fairy tale at its finest. I'm also thankful for kick-butt princesses that aren't just damsels in distress, like Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White."
"'m thankful for Glee's Kurt and Blaine, who show that being teenagers in love knows no bounds. I'm also grateful to Papa Hummel for being one of the best TV dads out there."
"It's like Gilmore Girls 2.0! She's great, he's hot -- Love! Love! Love!"
"I'm thankful to the producers of Ringer and Supernatural for bringing Jason Dohring back to my television. Now come on, Once Upon a Time -- you know he'd be a great prince!"
"I'm thankful for True Blood's Jessica in that Little Red Riding Hood outfit. If I have to explain why, I'm concerned for your physical health."
"I'm thankful that Klaus compelled Stefan to turn off his humanity. Paul Wesley has had his most interesting opportunities to date. Also, lots
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"I am thankful that Kyle Chandler won an Emmy!"
"I am thankful that Law & Order: SVU is still as entertaining without Chris Meloni, even though I miss the $#*! out of Detective Stabler."
"Protecting our Homeland since... um, September."
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"I am thankful this Thanksgiving that Chuck got one last season to go out with a bang -- not to mention the fact that Chuck and Sarah are married!!!"
"I'm thankful for the emotional and physical chemistry of Owen and Cristina on Grey's. Despite what new angsty storyline they have to deal with, this bond keeps me cheering and believing in them as a couple."
"I'm thankful that Castle is still going strong, and that Seamus Dever is still there, looking adorable and reminding me of the first boy I kissed."
"I am extremely thankful for Sons of Anarchy. The writing and acting on this beautiful show are both so fantastic that for one hour every week I feel like I'm part of this crazy, violent, loving group of bikers and old ladies -- and then I go into withdrawals waiting for the next week. I am thankful that I've got another season with these wonderful people, and the only thing that would make me more thankful would be if the show started getting recognized with some awards. Thank you Kurt Sutter, Katey Sagal, Ron Perlman, Charlie Hunnam... hell, the whole cast!"
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West Point, Miss. – After a thrilling sudden-death victory at last season's Old Waverly Collegiate Championship, host-club Mississippi State seeks to repeat as champion as they face off against 14 other squads on April 7-8, from the historic Old Waverly Golf Club.
The two-day, three round event will tee off at 8:30 a.m., on Monday with both days beginning with a shotgun start. Tuesday's final round will begin at 9 a.m.
"We are very excited about hosting the 2014 Old Waverly Collegiate Championship and being able to showcase one of the top courses in the south," Head coach Clay Homan said. "We have a very competitive field from eight states and several conferences. Many of these teams will qualify for post-season play next month, so it will be a good challenge for our team. We look forward to defending our title from a year ago and playing some really good golf."
The second-annual Old Waverly Collegiate Championship will play host to 15 of the top rising teams in men's collegiate golf. Austin Peay, Charleston Southern, Chattanooga, Cincinnati, Florida, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana Tech, Memphis, Ole Miss, Southeastern Louisiana, South Alabama, Southern Miss, Troy and Wichita State will join MSU at the historic Old Waverly Golf Club.
Nine teams from this year's field participated in post-season play last season.
The Bulldogs are seeking their third Top-5 card in a row going into Monday, with four already under their belt for the season. Homan's squad had four Top 5's last year before winning the Old Waverly Collegiate Championship.
This year's edition of the Old Waverly Collegiate Championship will feature some familiar faces on the Maroon and White scorecard. All five Bulldogs on the MSU scorecard played in last year's tourney, with newcomers Ben Follett-Smith, Dalton Conn and Jackson Dick making appearances as individuals at this season's Old Waverly Collegiate Championship.
The Bulldog's will be led by the senior quartet of Chad Ramey, Joe Sakulpolphaisan, Axel Boasson and Barrett Edens, with sophomore Ben Wood rounding out the lineup.
On the heels of back-to-back Top-5 cards, Ramey enters the Old Waverly Collegiate Championship hitting on all cylinders. The reigning Southeastern Conference Golfer of the Week is coming off one stellar spring break, finishing runner up (Tiger Invitational) and third (Seminole Intercollegiate) on the trip.
Of the five Bulldogs featured on the Old Waverly Collegiate Championship scorecard this season, three finished with at least a Top-15 finish at last year's event.
Admission is free to all rounds. Fans can enter the Old Waverly Golf Club through the main gate on Old Waverly road and can access the designated parking areas for spectators by following signs.
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Operating for over 35 years, FTCO currently provides custody services for over 130,000 IRAs with more than $7 billion in assets.
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FTCO is regulated by the Office of the State Bank Commissioner of Kansas (OSBC). The OSBC regulates all state chartered banks and trust companies in Kansas with the primary objective of ensuring the safety and soundness of state-chartered financial institutions, thereby safeguarding depositors' assets and maintaining public confidence. As required by Kansas regulations, FTCO's business is subject to an annual "agreed upon procedures" evaluation conducted by an independent CPA who reviews and reports on items set forth in the Kansas regulations. These reports are available for OSBC inspection.
FTCO partners with select Administrators across the country to jointly service self-directed IRAs. FTCO has access to all records and assets of accountholders for which it serves as custodian, including those jointly served. The Administrator may act as FTCO's agent, but ultimate control of the assets held on behalf of the accountholder, including cash, rests with FTCO as the custodian. Account asset ownership documentation is held primarily in FTCO's vault.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins say that cancers arising from epigenetic changes develop by becoming addicted to certain growth factors. They believe that blocking these factors can prevent cancer growth.
The gene for growth factor IGF-II (insulin-like growth factor two) is one of several in the human genome that is controlled by imprinting. Normally, the IGF-II gene from your father is turned on and the one from your mother is turned off. Loss of this imprinting causes the activation of the maternal copy, leading to activation of both copies of the IGF-II gene, which has been associated with a fivefold increase of intestinal tumors in people.
The Hopkins team tested mouse cells with imprinting intact and compared them to cells that have both copies of IGF-II activated. They found that normally imprinted cells respond to normal doses of growth factor and recover within 90 minutes. However, cells that had lost imprinting were activated by the smallest doses and continued to stay activated for more than 120 minutes.
"It's like they were on a hair trigger, which was totally counterintuitive to what we might have predicted," says Andre Levchenko, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Hopkins and co-director of the study. "You would expect in cells that have lost imprinting and therefore have twice the amount of gene product, that it would take higher doses to activate the cell. In fact, the cell becomes hypersensitized while having too much IGF-II around."
The researchers then gave mice that were created to develop colon cancer a drug that specifically blocks a cell's ability to respond to IGF-II. These mice developed 70% fewer precancerous lesions than mice without treatment.
The study will be published online in next week's Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.
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Pot offers hope for patients suffering from Parkinson's disease. So say the results of an observational trial published in the March/April edition of the scientific journal Clinical Neuropharmacology.
Investigators at Tel Aviv University's Rabin Medical Center in Israel assessed the impact of inhaled cannabis on patients with Parkinson's -- a progressive disorder of the central nervous system that results in tremor, slowed movement and muscle rigidity. Researchers monitored disease symptoms in 22 patients (13 men, nine women) at baseline and then again 30 minutes after smoking cannabis. The mean age of patients enrolled in the study was 65.
Scientists reported that inhaling whole-plant cannabis led to "significant improvement" in subjects' disease symptoms, including decreased severity of tremor, rigidity, and bradykinsea (slowness of movement). Subjects also experienced significant improvement of sleep and pain scores. No significant adverse effects of the drug were observed, researchers reported.
Despite anecdotal reports indicating that cannabinoids may be therapeutic in the treatment PD and other related movement disorders (such as Huntington's disease), a keyword search on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database yields few clinical papers on the subject. According to the results of an anonymous 2004 survey published in the journal Movement Disorders, an estimated 25 percent of PD patients have experimented with the plant and that nearly half of them reported some subjective improvement of motor symptoms. By contrast, a placebo-controlled study assessing the oral administration of a cannabinoid agonist in six PD patients reported no objective improvement in dyskinesia (involuntary muscle movements).
Israeli researchers acknowledged that their trial was the first to report the efficacy of cannabis in PD patients in a controlled setting. They concluded: "[T]his observational study is the first to report an amelioration of both motor and non–motor symptoms in patients with PD treated with cannabis. The study opens new venues for treatment strategies in PD especially in patients refractory to current medications. It may promote legalization of cannabis in other countries and should encourage pharmaceutical companies to conduct controlled studies with a more purified substance."
In recent years, Israeli researchers have conducted similar observational trials documenting the safety and efficacy of inhaled cannabis in patients with a variety of diseases, including Crohn's disease and cancer.
The Israeli government initially permitted the medical use of cannabis for research purposes in the 1990s, but only formalized regulations in 2012 allowing for the Ministry of Health to oversee the licensed production and distribution of medicinal cannabis.
Smoking Marijuana Can Relieve Parkinson's Disease Symptoms
Pot offers hope for patients suffering from Parkinson's disease. So say the results of an observational trial published in the March/April edition of the scientific journal Clinical Neuropharmacology.


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Came the news today that Cal State Northridge will cut its swimming programs after this season. Athletic Director Rick Mazzuto cited the continuing statewide financial crisis as the reason.
It is truly unfortunate. The swim programs were the most successful at the university dating back to the Division II days. The programs won more national titles than any other sport -- 13, nine men's and four women's under legendary coach Pete Accardy, who almost single-handedly built the program. Wonder how he's feeling today?
Another reason to be disappointed: The Matadors had just broken five team records at the Big West Conference meet. Junior Yulia Gavrilova won the 200 butterfly in 2:00.9, setting a school record in the process. Gavrilova also now owns the 100 backstroke record with a time of 55.55. Earlier in the meet, she set the record with a time of 55.93. The previous school best had stood for six years. And she became the first Matador swimmer since 2004 to win a conference title when she finished first in the 100 butterfly in a school-record 54.47.
The final school record set came in the 200 medley relay, as Gavrilova (who broke the 100 backstroke record here, too), Kimmy Rashleigh, Olesya Senicheva and Lysandra Carter-Aaron swam 3:52.64, smashing a record that had stood since 1988.
The school's own Web site even says that this season was "one of the most successful in the program's history." Now, it's gone. The university figures to save $300,000 once the swimmers have exhausted their eligibility and all scholarships have been paid out.
This is the second major program to be cut, after football in 2001. But football was never as successful as swimming.


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The arrogance of this Politician is almost off the chart. The idea of accusing this man as a plant, when Obama himself rallied up the SEUI, and Acorn, and they came storming into these town hall meetings on buses, probably paid for with tax money. We are fighting a ruling elite that will stop at nothing to impose their egalitarian utopia on America.
Now that the Democrats have found out the value of verifying someone's identity at a town hall meeting, I wonder if they'll continue that practice when the 2010 vote takes place and require a photo ID to make sure that the person is actually eligible to vote? I doubt it...the illegals will be allowed to vote as always!
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He'll be plugging his new $4,900 watch at a book signing at Barneys tomorrow.
We gave Mario Batali props for keeping his designer lunch bags cheap, but that ain't the case with the Ernst Benz watch that bears his name. Okay, so Batals is donating some of the money to the Food Bank for New York City, but who blows $4,900 on an orange alligator-leather watch? Anyway, you needn't buy one to meet him at Barneys tomorrow — he'll be signing copies of Spain ... A Culinary Road Trip from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the men's main floor.


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Nokia 5700 can run BlackBerry OS – video proves it
The 3-year old Nokia 5700 is, usually, running Symbian S60 3rd Edition – but I'm sure you already know that.
What you may not now is that the 5700 can run BlackBerry OS, too – more exactly, BlackBerry 184.108.40.2065 for the BlackBerry Pearl 8220.
A Chinese user (developer?) has somehow managed to port BlackBerry OS on his Nokia 5700, and has some photos, as well as a video, to prove it.
We don't know if BlackBerry OS 4.6 is fully functional on the 5700, but it looks like it works fine. Check out the photos and video below:
It looks real to me, so I don't think this is a hoax or something alike. On the other hand, running BlackBerry OS on a Nokia 5700 is not very useful, either, but it surely is interesting!
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September 14, 2011 | September 14, 2011
The plane piloted by Scott Veal after the fatal accident. photos courtesy of Megan Peters/AST
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a preliminary report on what happened on September 2, 2011 to cause the Cessna 208 Caravan piloted by Scott Veal to crash on the tundra near Nightmute.
Veal, age 24 died in the accident in a crash after colliding mid-air with another airplane. The other pilot, Kristen Sprague flying the other aircraft, age 26 of Idaho survived the mishap.
According to the NTSB, on September 2, 2011, about 1:35pm, a Cessna 208B (Caravan) airplane piloted by Veal for Grant Aviation, and a Cessna 207 airplane piloted by Sprague for Ryan Air, collided in midair, approximately 9 miles north of Nightmute, Alaska.
Both airplanes were being operated as visual flight rules (VFR) when the accident occurred. Both airplanes sustained substantial damage during the midair collision.
After the collision, the Cessna 208B descended, uncontrolled, and impacted tundra-covered terrain. A postcrash fire consumed most of the wreckage.
The Cessna 207 was further damaged during a forced landing on the tundra. Both airplanes were based at the Bethel Airport.
The Cessna 208B departed from the Toksook Bay airport about 1:25pm to Bethel. The Cessna 207 departed from the Tununak airport, about 1:15pm also returning to Bethel.
During separate telephone conversations with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge on September 2, the chief pilot for Ryan Air, as well as the director of operations for Grant Aviation, independently reported that both pilots had a close personal relationship.
During an initial interview with the NTSB IIC on September 3, in Bethel, Sprague reported that both airplanes departed from the neighboring Alaskan villages about the same time, and both airplanes were en route to Bethel along similar flight routes.
She said that just after takeoff from Tununak, she talked with the pilot of the Cessna 208B on a prearranged, discreet radio frequency, and the two agreed to rendezvous for the flight back to Bethel.
She said that while in cruise level flight at 1,200 feet, en route to Bethel, the pilot of the Cessna 208B flew his airplane along the left side of her airplane, and they continued to talk via radio. She said that the pilot of the 208B then unexpectedly and unannounced climbed his airplane above, and overtop of her airplane. She immediately told the pilot of the 208B that she could not see him, and she was concerned about where he was. She said the 208B pilot then said, in part: "Whatever you do, don't pull up."
Moments later, the next thing she recalls was the 208B's impact with her airplane's right wing.
The 207 pilot reported that after the impact, she saw the 208B pass underneath her airplane, and it began a gradual descent, which steepened as the airplane continued to the left and away from her airplane. Sprague said that she told the pilot of the 208B that she thought she was going to crash. The pilot of the 208B stated that he also thought he was going to crash. She said that she watched as the 208B continued to descend, then it entered a steep, vertical, nose down descent, before it collided with the ground. She said a postcrash fire started instantaneously upon impact.
The pilot, Kristen Sprague, emergency-landed her plane safely. photos courtesy of Megan Peters/AST
The 207 pilot said that while struggling to maintain control of her airplane, she was unable to maintain altitude, and she selected an area of rolling tundra as a forced landing site. She said that during the emergency descent, she had limited roll control, and the airplane's stall horn was on during the entire emergency approach. The airplane touched down on the soft terrain, and the nose landing gear collapsed.
On September 3, the NTSB IIC, along with an Alaska State Trooper, and a Federal Aviation Administration operations inspector from the Anchorage Flight Standards District Office (FSDO), examined the wreckage sites. The wreckage of the Cessna 207 was located about 1 mile to the east of the Cessna 208B. Both aircraft came to rest in an area of tundra-covered, hilly terrain.
The Cessna 208B's severed vertical stabilizer and rudder assemblies were found about one-half mile west of the main wreckage site, and along the two airplanes' reported flight route. A large portion of the Cessna 207's right aileron was found near the 208's rudder and stabilizer.
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In honor of this summer's new leap second, this patch series aim to fix the incorrect time values reported during a leap second. This second version of the patch series does not change the core time keeping code, but rather affects only the adjtimex interface. Of course, the POSIX UTC system is broken by design, and the Linux kernel cannot fix that. However, what we can do is correctly execute leap seconds and report the time variables (UTC time, TAI offset, and leap second status) with consistency. Since commit 6b43ae8a, the leap second is applied on the first timer tick after the actual deadline, resulting in incorrect time values from gettimeofday and friends. In contrast to V1, this series does not address that issue but rather adds extra checks into the adjtimex code path, with the effect of always providing correct UTC time values, even during a leap second. The first two patches merely clean up some cruft I noticed along the way while working on this series. John Stultz (1): time: Add CLOCK_TAI clockid Richard Cochran (5): time: remove obsolete declaration ntp: remove useless parameter time: keep track of the pending utc/tai threshold time: introduce leap second functional interface time: move leap second management into time keeping core(Continue reading)


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Defenseman Darnell Nurse of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds knows that those curious NHL scouts coming to see him play not only expect a steady game along the back end, but a fairly physical one.
"At 6-foot-4 and 189 pounds, I have to use every pound that I have … it's kind of expected being this size," Nurse told NHL.com. "You have to be someone who is hard to play against, and that's something I enjoy.
"When a player skates down his wing, looks up and sees me, I want them to say, 'Oh God, I have to go against him again.'"
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Hour of the Gun (1967) – full review!
Hour of the Gun (1967) – full review!
Overrated! I'd read that this was thought to be one of the best Westerns from the latter half of the 1960's a contention with which I would strongly disagree. I'd take virtually any of the Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns over this one in a heartbeat. Producer-director John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)) decided to revisit his much better directed Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) ten years later with a different cast of characters playing the historical figures – Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday and the Clantons et al. Whereas the famous shootout has been told and retold countless times throughout cinema's history writer Edward Anhalt (Becket (1964)) picks up the story where the others have left off to relate what happened between Earp (James Garner) Holliday (Jason Robards) and (specifically) Ike Clanton (Robert Ryan) after the dust had settled in Tombstone Arizona. Ironically Sturges had shown a fictional six minute long version of the gun battle in his original telling; he directs a more accurate 30 second version of it in this one whose opening credits claim "this is how it really happened".
After the gunfight city marshal come U.S. marshal Earp and gambler Holliday are accused of being cold blooded killers by Ike Clanton who'd lost his son Billy in the exchange and his paid for county sheriff Jimmy Bryan (Bill Fletcher). But Judge Spicer (William Schallert) finds them not guilty. However the personal feud continues as Earp's lawmen brothers – Morgan and Virgil – are gunned down one by one by Clanton's hired hands (including Jon Voight in only his second film and an uncredited Ben Johnson) while the new city marshal (Michael Tolan) watches from the shadows. Assisted by Holliday who's gotten remarkably healthier since suffering a near collapse from his fight with tuberculosis in Sturges's earlier film and the Tucson Sheriff (Monte Markham) among others Earp pursues each of the perpetrators under federal orders to bring them in for prosecution. But of course circumstances prevent this so that each of the accused can be eliminated by various means which are more dramatically pleasing to the director and Western movie audiences. But it's not over yet! Finally evidence of Holliday's condition is revealed and Earp still has to track down Ike in Mexico; whether historically accurate or not I think both of these storylines could have been cut or better incorporated in the final release. Also absent in this Sturges film is any reference to the stigma attached to Earp for his association with his gambling gunfighter friend Holliday.


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One of IMSA's main goals is to have upperclassmen serve as mentors for new students. Having others who have been through the same classes providing advice is an invaluable resource, and IMSA's member's are ready and willing to help their peers. IMSA also attempts to participate in dawah activities that educate the larger Wayne State School of Medicine community about Islam. Taking down any barriers towards understanding each other results in deeper and more meaningful relationships with our colleagues here at school.
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Yesterday The San Luis Obispo County Coroner's Office identified the victim as Christopher C. Tietjen, of Nipomo. They said the traffic collision happened on North Thompson Avenue, south of Willow Road, sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning.
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2010-05-18"Patients Will Not Stay in Such a Hospital; the Building Is Pulling Down"
The government of Georgia often boasts about the development of hospital sector in the country and about the construction of new hospitals in the regions. In fact, the doctors of the region-based hospitals know the real situation better of all. Nobody knows what will happen with the hospitals which are somehow working now; most of them require serious reconstruction.
Representative of Human Rights Center Participated in the 21st Strategic Meeting of the ICC in The Hague Human Rights Center (HRIDC) is announcing an opening for the full-time position of Lawyer in Tbilisi Prosecutor's Office Fulfilled Recommendation of Human Rights Center Defense Ministry Is Ordered to Reimburse Salary Arrears for Its Former Employee with Legal Advocacy of Human Rights Center Shida Kartli Region Was Hailed Six Times in May Archive
How has appointment of Giorgi Kvirikashvili on the position of prime-minister influenced state of human rights in the country?
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Unexpected surgery: Chloe's Story
Name: Chloe
Likes: Bath time, swimming, finger puppets, nursey rhymes, giggling.
Dislikes: Laying down -- she loves trying to sit up and roll around.
Her story: My husband and I brought our daughter to Cardon Children's Emergency department this past March. Terrified and exhausted, we were met by smiling faces. Even though it was flu and RSV season, we didn't wait too long to be seen. After some tests and a bit of waiting, our suspicions were confirmed: our daughter had pyloric stenosis. We were told she would need to have surgery as soon as her electrolytes were in balance and that we wouldn't be going home for a few days.
Dr. Ravindra Vegunta performed our daughter's surgery and he was really wonderful! He took lots of time to answer questions, he drew us a diagram of what our daughter's tummy looked like at the time and how it would look after the surgery and assured us that she was going to be OK.
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World Moto Z9 with AGPS pits itself against Nokia 6500 and Samsung U700
The news about upcoming Motorola Z9 RAZR slider has leaked last July.
Why it took Motorola almost a year since then to get Z9 launched, I have no idea. But now it's looks like this handset is finally almost ready to ship.
First it appeared in a Motorola Promo Video headed for CTIA, then Motorola got a nod from FCC to bring RAZR Z9 onto AT&T wireless network.
And now the promotional MOTO Z9 sales leaflet had appeared on the net, telling us why Motorola thinks we should buy it.
No real news here, just confirming the Motorola Z9 specs we already knew about and adding small details:
- GSM 850/19001800/1900, WCDMA 1900/850, 3.6 Mbps HSDPA
- 2.4″ 240x320px QVGA 262K color display
- 2 megapixel camera with flash and 8 x digital zoom
- AGPS support
- 45 MB of built-in user memory
- Opera 8/WAP 2.0 browser
- 950 mAh battery with 210-240 min talk and 280-315 hrs standby time
- Dimensions: 114×53.6×13.9
- Weight: 140 gr
What's interesting about the new sales promo, are the phones against which Motorola is pitched against and how:
It's Nokia 6500 and Samsung U700. And the main reasons why Motorola Z9 is better?
Well, it's AGPS connectivity and standard Windows Media 11 music manager (as opposed to the proprietary ones on others) a bit more internal memory 45MB as opposed to 20 MB, up to 8GB microSD memory card support and some esoteric Crystal Talk technology for better voice quality… Duh
Of course, when you have a phone with the inferior feature set to what your competitors have been selling for about a year, you have to think hard how to pitch it.
You'd shut up about your lame 2 mpx camera, wisely choose the GPS feature to highlight and carefully pick the competition products that do not have it, put some Windows Media player pixie dust and highlight the fact that that the phone now supports 8GB external microSD memory cards.
Conveniently ignoring competitor products that have even better GPS features, and not mentioning that 8GB of external memory comes from the same microSD card that fits into any other comparable phone.
Well, by some chance, I am that "…34-year old life chaser, whose phone is critical connection tool.." , to be sold on Motorola Z9 in 30 seconds.
And I don't think I'm buying it.
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