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In this enchanting Broadway hit, the delightful novel springs to life in a soaring musical about the healing power of love. This holiday treat weaves mystery, magic, and a melodic score into the quest of an orphaned English girl to revive a once glorious Victorian garden. In the process, she rekindles lost hopes and weary spirits, dispelling the ghosts of a troubled past with an indomitable joy of life.
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Arizona junior forward CHRISSY SANFORD (Newbury, CA/Newbury Park HS) recorded a game-high four shots, while junior midfielder BROOKE McMANUS (San Diego, CA/San Pasqual HS) and sophomore forward KIM McGEHEE (San Diego, CA/La Costa Canyon HS) had three shots each. Two Colorado College players - Kasey Clark and Corrine Roberge - registered two shots apiece.
Wildcat sophomore goalkeeper SHANNON MONTI (Phoenix, AZ/Shadow Mountain HS) recorded a pair of saves to earn her second shutout of the season. Tiger goalkeeper Kristin Masunaga tallied six saves and shutout number six on the year.
The tie ends a four-game losing skid for Arizona, which moves to 6-8-1 on the year, and Colorado College goes to 8-6-2 overall. The Wildcats resume Pac-10 play next weekend, heading for the Pacific Northwest to play at Washington State on Friday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m., then the Cats are at Washington on Sunday, Oct. 31, for a 12 p.m. PST match.
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Colorado College 8 4 24 6 - Masunaga
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Arizona 6-8-1
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ELMIRA, N.Y. — What started out as a fast, physical, closely-matched game turned into a route as Williams defeated St. Norbert, 6-1, in the Sunday matinee game of the East-West Faceoff.
Williams (2-2), down a goal, scored three times in a 2:20 span of the second period to take firm control of the game. Wes Fox opened the scoring bonanza at 12:02, taking a pass from Alex Garceau parked behind the net and tapping it in.
Once Williams had broken the ice, so to speak, the goals came in bunches. Dan Cotuno crammed in a rebound just 42 seconds later for the second Ephs goal. Jabe Bergeron wristed in a goal 1:40 after that to finish off the flurry.
St. Norbert (7-2) began the game playing very physically, hitting any white jerseyed Eph that moved on the ice. Williams rose to the occasion after a few moments and the bodies were flying up and down the ice for most of the first period.
"Williams' stick skills are very good," said Coghlin. "So we went more physical to counter that."
St. Norbert got away from its physical game as play continued, especially in front of its own net, and it cost it dearly in the second period. The Green Knights were unable to keep Williams from penetrating into the low slot, and all of the Ephs' goals came from the area between the faceoff dots and the net.
"The strength of our team has been the defense," said Coghlin. "But I thought they were average tonight. Williams was hitting the third or fourth man into the zone, and that is the forward's job to pick them up."
The Green Knights opened the scoring, tallying the only goal in the first period at 13:52. St. Norbert was digging away at a loose puck in front of Williams netminder Mike Aroesty, before Terry Wilson was finally able to chip it into the net for the goal.
After the flurry of Williams goals in the second period, the Ephs scored three more in the opening five minutes of the third to put the game away.
Williams split the weekend games, losing to St. John's before beating St. Norbert.
The Green Knights dropped both contests, after beginning the season 7-0.
"This was a very disappointing weekend," said Coghlin. "To come all this way and lose two games is awful."
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Hope In Christ
But there is also room for hope - hope for grace here and for immortal life.
Let us hold fast our confidence to the very end for he is faithful that has promised.
(Hebrews 10:23)
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- Brian West19 February 2014 at 20:47
Good to see you posting again, albeit with brevity and in weakness.
At our Bible Study yesterday -- a group whose age range is 78-83 -- we read Philippians 3 : "I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead, I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenwards in Christ Jesus."
You do not have to have the strength to press on ('pursue') with great force - just in the right direction, looking to Him who has called you.
Yes, it has been a difficult few months to hold fast our confidence; but thank you for the reminder that we have so much room for hope. Underneath us are the everlasting arms, He is faithful; and He will accomplish that which concerns me, and you, and all his other blood bought children. So thankful to hear something from you.ReplyDelete
Just happened to read this today in Streams in the DesertReplyDelete
"All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me" (Ps. 42:7).
They are HIS billows, whether they go o'er us,
Hiding His face in smothering spray and foam;
Or smooth and sparkling, spread a path before us,
And to our haven bear us safely home.
They are HIS billows, whether for our succor
He walks across them, stilling all our fear;
Or to our cry there comes no aid nor answer,
And in the lonely silence none is near.
They are HIS billows, whether we are toiling
Through tempest-driven waves that never cease,
While deep to deep with clamor loud is calling;
Or at His word they hush themselves in peace.
They are HIS billows, whether He divides them,
Making us walk dryshod where seas had flowed;
Or lets tumultuous breakers surge about us,
Rushing unchecked across our only road.
They are HIS billows, and He brings us through them;
So He has promised, so His love will do.
Keeping and leading, guiding and upholding,
To His sure harbor, He will bring us through.
--Annie Johnson Flint
Thank you Brian and Deborah. It is a huge encouragement to hear from you.ReplyDelete
- Jonathan Watson1 March 2014 at 16:36
Dear Douglas, I just wanted to remind you of certain things you know so well. These are the great anchor truths that keep our souls sure and steadfast. In these truths about Jesus our Saviour there is hope and rejoicing.ReplyDelete
We are saved from start to finish by grace: when we were 'without strength', 'ungodly', 'still sinners', and 'enemies', Christ died for us, justified, reconciled, and saved us (Rom. 5:6-11). 'For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, shall we be saved by his life.'
God commends his love;
Greater could not be;
While I was a sinner
Jesus died for me.
Justified by grace
I have peace with God;
In my heart the Spirit
Sheds his love abroad.
Thus, where sin abounded,
Grace did more abound;
And where death was reigning,
Life in Christ I found.
We have seen that grace of God superabound in your life, dear brother, and for this we give God thanks and the glory! God bless you and keep you, Douglas.
Dear Brother, thank you very much for your helpful remarks. May the Lord bless you.ReplyDelete
Douglas, praying you and your loved ones are being sustained. We're having a March blizzard; but the sun will come out tomorrow.ReplyDelete
- DrJohnNS25 March 2014 at 10:26
Bless you, my brother, Douglas. Can I share a short reading with you? My own recovery from The Stroke continues, but I live life one day at a time, not knowing how far I will rise up, if I have a job I can return to or whether I must now sell my house. But, I know Who knows. And I am lovingly forced to trust Him.ReplyDelete
Anyhoo, I have been reading through the OT, reaching page 431 in my Bible. It is 2nd Chronicles chapter 7, and King Solomon is dedicating God's House. The writer says,
"When Solomon had finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and burned up the sacrifice which had been offered, and the Glory of YHWH filled the Temple. The priests could not enter the Temple of YHWH's House because the Glory of YHWH filled his House."
When you entered into the eternal covenant with God, He bought you personally by the blood of Christ, and his Glory filled you. A glory so great that it raises you up from our passing flesh and blood, into eternal, everlasting fellowship in His presence.
Even now he goes ahead of you to prepare a place for you. You, like wandering Israel, have no lasting place on this old Earth. It will pass away as we are passing by. We are following Jesus as he leads us to the eternal Jerusalem, where there are no tears or crying, where He alone is our very light by his glory.
Earlier, in 1 Chr 28, we read that David gave Solomon the instructions for the Holy of Holies. Here there would be "golden cherubim with wings outspread covering the ark of the covenant of YHWH." Christ has stretched out his arms over you, covering you, and protecting the precious covenant which binds you to him. This covenant is eternal life, and no man can snatch you from his hand.
And the people sang as God's Glory filled his House: "Give thanks to YHWH for he is good, his love endures forever."


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Candidates' Surrogates Sling Mud
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain had their surrogates working overtime on the Sunday talk shows, and both sides were on the attack.
Speaking on ABC's This Week, Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty said, "I think Barack Obama's book The Audacity of Hope perhaps should be retitled 'The Audacity of Hypocrisy.' "
Meanwhile, over on CBS' Face the Nation, retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a Democrat, said: "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president."
Clark's comment was a salvo fired at one of McCain's key strengths, said Politico.com's John Harris, noting that attacks on John McCain's war record have not had traction in the past.
"That's a pretty ... audacious statement to seemingly challenge what is John McCain's most impressive personal and political asset, which is his war service." Harris said that although there are many liberal bloggers who question McCain's military record, he notes that mainstream political attacks have backfired. "This has not been fertile ground for McCain's critics, for pretty obvious reasons," he said.
At the same time, Harris said, McCain's campaign has been falling behind in the message war. "Obama has been getting vastly more media coverage and has been driving the narrative for several months." Using Pawlenty, whose very presence on a Sunday show fuels vice presidential rumors, could be a way for McCain to enliven the contest, he said. "If McCain can use this vice presidential selection contest to produce a little drama and attract some attention for his campaign, that wouldn't be such a bad thing for him."
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Evening Reading: Is Goldman Making a Mockery of SEC?
On Goldman's Facebook investment: John Cassidy writes: "A quick memo to Mary Schapiro, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission: Mary, once again the boys and girls at Goldman Sachs appear to be making a mockery of you and your colleagues."
Speaking of valuations: Square, the mobile payments service led by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, is raising a new funding round that values the company at an impressive $200 million, reports VentureBeat.
And the worst footnote of year goes to…: Tyson Foods.
Exits: PeHUB reports that last year saw more venture-backed M&A exits than any year since 1985.
In 2010, it was good to be a Third Point investor, reports Dealbreaker.


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In the past week, those of you who received payments through Axium in the 90 days preceeding the Axium bankruptcy filing may have received letters from Howard Ehrenberg, who is the Chapter 7 Trustee for the Axium estates. These letters assert that all such payments must be returned to the Trustee and that litigation may follow if such payments are not received within two weeks of the letter. These letters are appropriate under the law, but we believe that your wages paid in these circumstances fall within an exception to the legal rule.
Guild counsel has negotiated an agreement with the Trustee; if you notify the Trustee and the Guild that you have received such funds under a Guild contract, your situation will be referred to a separate administrative track, and you will have a three-month window within which this issue might be resolved without resort to ligitation. There may be additional time insofar as the Trustee has until early January, 2010 to file any lawsuits for recovery, but we recommend reviewing your records now concerning proof that ties your payment to specific employment.
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The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Esposito is the daughter of Robert Esposito of Humiston Drive, Bethany.
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Nov. 29, 2012
LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech Athletics is once again teaming up with Tech students to provide tickets for underprivileged kids to attend men's and women's basketball games over the Christmas break. Texas Tech students pay an athletic fee each semester and swipe their ID for admission at athletic events. Traditionally, student attendance declines over the Christmas break as students head home for the holidays. Tech Athletics is giving the students an opportunity to "donate" a ticket to those games simply by electing to do so online.
To donate tickets, students must login to their raiderlink account at https://www.raiderlink.ttu.edu, click on the TTU MyTech tab, and look for "Red and Black Give Back". Select the games you wish to donate and the Athletics department will make sure to make the tickets available for underprivileged kids in Lubbock and the surrounding communities (up to 500 per game). Games available over the student break include Dec. 19 MBB vs. Alabama, Dec. 28 MBB vs. North Carolina A&T, Dec. 31 MBB vs. Florida A&M, Jan. 5 WBB vs. Iowa State, Jan. 8 MBB vs. Baylor, Jan. 9 WBB vs. Kansas State, and Jan. 12 MBB vs. Kansas.
Youth groups and non-profit organizations who are interested in receiving these tickets over the break should contact Garrett Tressler, Assistant Marketing Director for Texas Tech Athletics, at 742-1195 or firstname.lastname@example.com to get on the list.


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After a long, long time from far, far away, "Star Wars" is coming to Netflix. EW.com reported on Feb. 13, 2014, that the lost sixth season and the rest of the whole animated series of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" will be coming to Netflix. It is set to premiere on Mar. 7, 2014.
Fans seem to be most looking forward to the sixth and final season of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" that has been dubbed "The Lost Season." All 13 of those episodes along with the entirety of the first five seasons will hit Netflix on Mar. 7, 2014.
The first five seasons will also include a number of director's cut episodes that had not been previously seen when it aired on Cartoon Network.
Netflix will also release the "Clone Wars" feature film.
"'Star Wars' is one of the most iconic franchises of all time and this series joins a long line of Disney content that Netflix members are and will continue to enjoy for years to come," Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said in a statement.
"The Lost Season" follows a rift in the Force causes by Ahsoka Tano's leaving the Jedi Order and the growing menace of Sith Lords and apprentices throughout the galaxy.
Last year, executive producer Dave Filoni teased that the the final set of episodes of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" would "really please the diehard 'Clone Wars' fans, especially with the story arc with Master Yoda."
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"Rosemarie Beck: Paintings, Abstraction into Figuration, 1952-1966," Lori Bookstein, New York, NY. Through Dec. 1.
In the NY Sun, John Goodrich reports: "Rosemarie Beck (1923–2003) enjoyed early success working in an Abstract Expressionist vein, but it left her unfulfilled. Her 10 paintings at Lori Bookstein show the intriguing progression of her work in the '50s and '60s, as it evolved toward the figurative, narrative-driven work of her later years....Beck's colors became more varied, and her forms more distinctly defined. 'Robert' (1965) is especially appealing — a fortuitous blending of careful method and eager observation. 'Studio with Lovers' (1965–66), too, boasts lively rhythms, though its complex meshing of opaque forms shows the intellectualizing tendency — of both compositions and subjects — that would increasingly mark her work. To my eye, the mythological scenes of her later years sometimes show literary impulses overwhelming purely artistic ones, but the paintings now at Bookstein catch the artist at a poignant point, when the act of representing was itself a wonder." Read more.
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The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits Chapter 4 Summary
The Time of the Spirits
- Clara, Blanca, and Férula travel to Tres Marías with Esteban for the first time, and they manage to bring an impressive amount of luggage. When they arrive, Blanca the toddler toddles off to play with Pedro Tercero García, the son of Pedro Segundo García. They play all day and fall asleep naked in each other's arms under the dining room table, where Clara finds them.
- Clara's intuition helps her pick up on the tenants' resentment and fear of her husband, and makes her suspect some of the shadier activities of his past.
- Esteban is no longer in the habit of visiting the Red Lantern or assaulting peasant girls, and the tenants attribute this to Clara.
- Clara feels called to help the residents of her husband's plantation, and puts aside her clairvoyant activities in order to work in the sewing workshop, the general store, and the school. The pious Férula organizes nightly prayer meetings for the women, after which Clara shares her mother's feminist ideas. To Clara's dismay, the peasant women merely laugh at her radical notions.
- When Esteban finds out about Clara's speeches at the prayer meetings, he throws a furious temper tantrum. Clara seems unperturbed by her husband's rant.
- Férula tries to convince Clara to go back to the city. Férula hates the country, where life seems barbaric to her, and wants to go back to "civilization." She has a couple of freak-outs when a mouse gets stuck in her corset and when the mayor of the town walks in on her as she's using the bathroom. Still, Clara is happy in the countryside and doesn't want to return to the capital. Férula doesn't want to leave Clara. So they stay.
- A plague of ants of Biblical proportions hits Tres Marías. Esteban Trueba and Pedro Segundo García use every trick in the book, but they fail to get rid of the little buggers. So Esteban hires a gringo named Mr. Brown, who promises to get rid of the ants with special products. When Pedro Segundo García hears that Mr. Brown's method will take a month, he asks the patrón if he can call in his father, who claims to have a remedy for plagues. Mr. Brown scoffs at the old man's methods, but old Pedro García succeeds in ridding Tres Marías of the plague by simply talking to the ants and showing them the way off the property.
- Clara loses interest in her schoolhouse activities and the women's meetings. Turns out she's pregnant again.
- Esteban takes his wife and daughter back to the city, to Férula's relief.
- Esteban takes up the narrative again at this point.
- On the way home from Tres Marías, Clara sinks into a silence that will last several months, and which Esteban understands to be part of her pregnancy.
- Esteban is bored and frustrated at home in the city, but doesn't want to leave his wife.
- Shortly before her delivery date, Clara begins speaking again to announce that she'll be delivering twin boys, and that their names will be Jaime and Nicolás. Esteban is furious and argues that at least one of the boys should be named Esteban, but Clara insists that repeating names only causes confusion in her "notebooks that bear witness to life" (4.31).
- Esteban Trueba gets drunk and goes to the Christopher Columbus, a brothel in the city. To his surprise, he finds Tránsito Soto there. She has grown more beautiful and offers to pay Esteban Trueba back the 50 pesos he once lent her, but he prefers to have her owe him a favor. Tránsito Soto says she has a million ideas to improve business at the Christopher Columbus, and Esteban offers her money to help her start her own brothel. Tránsito turns him down, explaining that she wants to start a cooperative of sex workers.
- Esteban and Tránsito Soto have sex, and it's not the delicate kind that he's used to with Clara. He likes it.
- Esteban the Narrator mentions that this episode is significant because Tránsito will play an important role in his life later on. In fact, without Tránsito, Esteban says that this story could not have been written.
- The narrative switches back to third-person here.
- Nívea and Severo del Valle are killed in a car accident a few days before Clara is due to have her babies. Despite her husband's efforts to shelter her from the bad news, Clara sees in a dream that Nívea was beheaded in the accident.
- Here we get some back-story on Severo and Nívea's adventures with the car, which they call Covadonga, and which has very unreliable brakes. One day, the brakes give out completely and Covadonga crashes into the back of a cart that's loaded with construction iron. Nívea is decapitated. The police are unable to find the head, so Severo and Nívea are buried without it.
- Many people attend the funeral to pay tribute to Nívea, who is considered the first feminist in the country.
- Esteban and Férula prevent Clara from attending the funeral, fearing it would upset her too much.
- A few days after her parents are buried, Clara convinces Férula to help her look for her mother's head. Clara's intuition leads them to where the head is hidden. They wrap it in a shawl and hurry home, arriving just in time to get Clara into bed before she gives birth to the twins.
- By the time the doctor and midwife arrive at the house, Jaime and Nicolas have been born and Clara is resting comfortably.
- To avoid a scandal, Nívea's head is kept in a hatbox in the basement. They want to wait for a time when it can be given a Christian burial without attracting attention.
- After the death of her employers, Nana comes to live in the big house on the corner. She and Férula become rivals.
- One afternoon three women appear at the house. They turn out to be the three Mora sisters. The women strike up an intimate friendship with Clara, who they feel is their "astral sister" (4.72). Clara begins to host weekly meetings in which she, the Mora sisters, and their friends summon spirits, exchange premonitions, and experiment with other supernatural phenomena.
- Esteban, Férula, and Nana fight amongst themselves for Clara's attention, but Clara and Blanca develop a close mother-daughter bond based on storytelling, similar to the one Nívea had with Clara.
- The twins Jaime and Nicolás grow apart from their mother and sister, asserting their masculinity in violent and active games.
- Esteban grows frustrated that Clara doesn't seem to need or love him as much as he needs and loves her.
- Every once in a while he grows angry and reverts to his former habit of raping peasant women, but he knows that if he were to tell Clara about it she'd be upset by his mistreatment of the other women, and not by his infidelity to her.
- Esteban grows increasingly jealous of Férula and her loving ministrations towards his wife. He stops going to the country so that he can keep an eye on his sister, and the atmosphere in the house on the corner becomes tense.
- The hatred between Esteban and Férula finally comes to a head when, after a forced visit to Tres Marías, Esteban returns without telling anyone. He dines at a club and, during his dinner, an earthquake occurs. At the big house on the corner, the earthquake frightens Férula, and she crawls into bed with Clara for comfort. Esteban returns home and finds the two women sleeping in bed together. He drags Férula from the room in a rage, accuses her of seducing Clara with her "arsenal of lesbian arts," and throws her out of the house.
- He promises to provide Férula with enough money to live decently, but vows that if she ever comes near his wife or children again, he'll kill her.
- Before leaving, Férula curses her brother, saying: "You will always be alone! Your body and soul will shrivel up and you'll die like a dog!"
- Esteban arranges with the local priest, Father Antonio, to deliver an envelope of money once a month to his sister.
- Clara tries to divine Férula's location, but is unsuccessful. Father Antonio tells her that Férula doesn't want to be found.
- The country experiences an economic crisis, but Esteban Trueba only grows richer.
- A plague of exanthemic typhus spreads through the city. Esteban wants to take his family to the countryside to protect them from infection, but Clara insists on staying in the capital so she can tend to the poor and sick.
- Esteban sends Jaime and Nicolás away to a British boarding school to shield them from his wife's psychic activities, which he doesn't consider to be appropriate for young men.
- Clara and Esteban argue over the idea of justice for the poor. Esteban is OK with Clara doing charitable work in the slums, but he argues that the poor live in poverty because they don't make the effort to become rich. Clara's ideas about justice sound crazy to Esteban, and remind him of the ideas that Pedro Tercero García is spreading around Tres Marías.
- Here the text transitions to tell the story of the time that Esteban Trueba discovers Pedro Tercero García passing out subversive pamphlets to the other tenants. As punishment, Esteban whips Pedro Tercero in front of his father.
- Blanca and Pedro Tercero love each other. The two play together, and Blanca encourages Pedro Tercero to learn to read by tempting him with the books from her Uncle Marcos's trunk.
- Blanca and Pedro Tercero sometimes visit old Pedro García, who is now blind. The children tell Pedro García stories from Uncle Marcos's magic books and, in turn, Pedro García teaches them useful things, like how to find water in the desert, and the curative properties of plants.
- Pedro García's knowledge of traditional medicine cannot prevent the death of his daughter, Pancha García. Pancha dies of illness, and is buried in a special plot in recognition of the fact that she bore a son to the patrón who bears his name. She also gave Esteban a grandson, named Esteban García, who is "destined to play a terrible role in the history of the family" (4.104).
- Parable alert! One day old Pedro García tells Blanca and Pedro Tercero a story about a group of hens that join forces to confront a fox that break into their coop every night to steal their eggs and to eat their baby chicks. The hens in the story join together to peck at the fox until he runs away. Blanca laughs at the story, but Pedro Tercero considers it carefully. The narrator speculates that "that was the night the boy began to become a man" (4.107).
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A calendar of LDS-themed events from around the United States and Canada.
Broadcasts: CES fireside, President Boyd K. Packer, Nov. 6, 6 p.m. MST
Phoenix: Time Out for Women, Nov. 4-5 (see deseretbook.com/tofw for cost, schedule and registration)
Temple Hill: "God's Plan for His Family," opened Aug. 6, Oakland Temple Visitors' Center; Temple Hill Symphony and Orchestra, Oct. 8-9 (see thsymphony.org); A-Day Commemoration Musical Fireside, Oct. 29, Oakland Interstake Center Auditorium, 7 p.m.
BYU Ballroom Dancers: Performances, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m., Three Stages at Folsom; Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m., Oakland Interstake Center, Oakland; Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m., Paradise Performing Arts Center, Paradise; Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m., Gallo Center for the Arts, Modesto; Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m., Great America Theater, Santa Clara; Oct. 21, 8 p.m., Lincoln Theater, Yountville; fireside, Oct. 16, 7 p.m., Pleaston Stake Center, 6100 Paseo, Santa Cruz (see pam.byu.edu or alumni.byu.edu/southbaybdc for ticket information)
Valparaiso Singers: Fall concert, "The British are Coming!" Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m., Menlo Park Stake Center annex, 1105 Valpariaso Ave.
BYU Management Society, Bay Area Chapters: 2011 Distinguished Public Service Award, Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m. (for ticket information, see ms.byu.edu/siliconvalley and click on the 21st)
Bay Area Genesis Group: Potluck dinner and speakers, Sterling Stevenson, Bill Davis and Deborah Gantt Flyer, Oct. 22, 4:30-6 p.m., Oakland Interstake Center, 4780 Lincoln Ave., Oakland; talent show, Nov. 12, 4-5:40 p.m., Oakland Interstake Center
Colorado Mormon Chorale: Fall concert, "Harvest of Song," Oct. 15, 7 p.m., Denver Stake Center, 2710 S. Monaco Parkway (see www.facebook.com/cmcco)
Denver: Time Out for Women, Oct. 7-8 (see deseretbook.com/tofw for cost, schedule and registration)
Jacksonville: Community women's conference, "Strengthen Our Community by Strengthening & Uniting Our Women," Oct. 22, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Orange Park High School, 2300 Kingsley Avenue, Orange Park, and LDS chapel auditorium, 461 Blanding Blvd. (see www.jaxwomensconference.com )
Polynesian Cultural Center: Haunted Lagoon, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday through Oct. 22, Monday-Saturday, Oct. 24-31, 6:30 p.m. (tickets required; see www.hauntedlagoon.com or call 800-367-7060 or 808-293-3333 for cost, information or reservations)
BYU football fireside: Dec. 2, Makakilo Stake Center, 92-900 Makakilo Drive
Idaho Falls Temple Visitors' Center: "The Healing Power of Christ" scuplture display by Angela Johnson, through Jan. 1
Kansas City: Time Out for Women, Nov. 4-5 (see deseretbook.com/tofw for cost, schedule and registration)
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Quick links:
Where to get Aquaponics stuff on Maui
Free Aquaponics Manual from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
Talk Story for the latest news
Connie's Videos
GrowingYourGreens.com Aquaponics No Ka 'Oi Video
Pomaika'i Elementary School Visit Video
Aquaponics No Ka 'Oi, since 2010. A small Mom & Pop backyard urban farm in Kahului, Maui, Hawaii. Less than 3 food miles (5 minutes) to the markets in Kahului and Wailuku. Guaranteed fresh. Local. Certified Organic. Non-GMO. No chemical pesticides. Dust and small insects do sometimes manage to get through the netting and endure our ice water dunk & rinse at harvest, so it's always a good idea to wash all produce before eating.
Now offering our Certified Organic Butterhead Lettuce Mix in Whole Foods Market in Kahului.
Our Lettuce Mix consists of Red and Green Butterheads, and Red and Green Oakleaf lettuce heads. Depending on the weight, we might not be able to get all four varieties into one bag, but we'll try. Oakleaf is also considered a Butter lettuce so we include it under the Certified Organic Butterhead Lettuce label. All of our lettuce at Whole Foods Market is Certified Organic.
The Red Oakleaf has been called an Antioxidant Superstar by http://www.healwithfood.org/health-benefits/red-oak-leaf-lettuce.php
If you don't see it on the shelf at Whole Foods Market, please ask for it! It may be in the cooler in the back.
In the past, we have offered our pure Certified Organic Butterhead Lettuce such as,
and we may offer this again some day, but to avoid mono cropping too much, and to offer a more nutritious lettuce mix, we've begun to offer more variety and color.
Here's what our covered growing troughs look like. As you can see, birds, animals, and most insects are kept out.
As most of you know, in aquaponics, the fish wastes provide most of the fertilizer for the plants. The fish wastes in the form of ammonia are broken down by nitrifying bacteria (nitrosomonas, nitrobacter, nitrospira which convert ammonia to nitrites, and then to nitrates, plant food), gammarus (detritivores which eat fish waste solids and decaying organic matter to add to the nutrient mix), and red worms (which also eat the fish waste solids and decaying orgainc matter in the biofilter, and add compost worm castings to the nutrient rich water). The plant roots in turn, absorb the nutrients in the water, cleansing and filtering it to recycle the water back to the fish. The fish play a very important role in this ecosystem, but sometimes they get too big or too many, and need to be culled to maintain the balance of the ecosystem. This provides another food source to consider. This particular breed of fish (Oreochromis niloticus, the White Nile tilapia) is self-perpetuating. In 2011, we started with 5 white tilapia, and had a hatch of about 3,000 fry. Since that time, we have never needed to obtain any more fish for our system. And we've sold hundreds of pounds to the community even if fish sales is not our primary business. It pays for the fish food. Here is a picture of Kalewalani, a University of Hawaii student who was doing research on aquaponics for a presentation (she got an A!), and helped to cull the system and take food home to her family (see Talk Story for more on her).
Why is an organic farm in the center of Kahului such a big deal?
Well, look at it from my perspective. I was raised in an Upper Paia sugar plantation camp called Nashiwa Village, close to Paia School, just below the Holy Rosary Catholic Church. This was a thriving community back in the 1940's & '50's. We used a 4-door outhouse that shared a cesspool with 4 neighbors on the 4-corners of the lots. Open grey water ditches ran between houses, our drinking water system used a Bull Durham tobacco bag over the faucet for a filter and got muddy during rains. The plantation sprayed DDT in the air frequently to control mosquitoes. My Mother used a large metal tub with a wooden paddle over an open fire to wash my Dad's really oily clothes from working as a mechanic in Paia Mill. The plantation owned everything, the house, the land, our healthcare, and even us. The land was fertile, and most everyone had a garden. Fruit trees grew wild everywhere, and there seemed to be no lack of freely accessible food.
Then in 1960 we were enticed by A&B, the plantation owner, to relocate to the 6th increment subdivision of "Dream City" in Kahului (currently that older subdivision across Ka'ahumanu Avenue from Maui College). The plantation wanted Upper Paia back to grow sugar cane and to cut back on the expense of maintaining the plantation camps. "Dream City" was non-arable land built on sand dunes. The 6th increment was offered to us at the affordable price of 25 cents per square foot. What a deal. The 6th increment was scraped of its top layer along with the kiawe trees right down to the bedrock of pure sandstone. My Dad built the house that I currently live in with the help of friends and family. I later found that the pH of the "soil" was 8.4, pure coral sand. I remember helping my Dad try to crush the sandstone with pick and shovel for years to make a plantable top soil. My Dad came from a pineapple sharecrop family in Ulumalu before working at Paia Mill so he wanted to make things grow for food. Solid sandstone is pretty hard stuff, it will bend your digging tools. We also hauled truckloads of dirt and manure from Paia and upcountry to try to make the soil more arable. To some extent we succeeded, but the land has a tendency to go back to its native bedrock, sand, which is also a pH buffer. Plus where we lived, sand was always blowing over the land, creating sand berms and burying the more organic soil that we built up. It was a losing battle. But I never lost my connection to agriculture. I picked pineapple for five summers around my high school years, and I swung a cane knife as a seed cutter in the cane fields of Puna Sugar on the Big Island before they went out of business.
Of course there is a lot more to this story, but just let me say that I have never seen this land thrive with abundant plant life until I installed this aquaponics system. I also use the fish water to periodically fertilize my in-ground fruit trees. I believe that this is the future of small scale urban agriculture as we lose our arable land and water resources. The more people that do this on Maui the better. I see an agricultural cooperative where a lot of smaller urban and traditional farmers will be able to provide for much of the food needs of Maui and decrease our dependence on imported foods. If it can be done in Kahului, it can be done anywhere.
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On Saturday and Sunday afternoon, Prophetstown State Park (link) hosted the first, and hopefully annual, maple sugar processing demonstration.
Mark and Jessie Eaton from Woodland Indian Education (link) were on hand processing "sugar water, AKA, maple sap, into maple sugar.
The area at the confluence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers was home to first peoples for thousands of years before it became the metropolis of Prophetstown. The demonstration included both pre-1700's and early 1800's processing.
Before the voyagers came from Canada, local tribes collected maple sap from hard maple trees in the spring. The trees were cut and the sap gathered once the days turned warm while nights were cold. The gathering time was based on weather. It could be as short as 2 or 3 days or as long as 2 or 3 weeks, longer in an odd weather pattern. Today, trees are tapped by a variety of metal taps and are often linked by plastic tubing.
Once the sap was gathered, it had to be boiled down. Today, it is boiled down in large pans (or vats commercially) with controlled heating elements. Before the introduction of metal cookware, it was boiled down in a wooden trough using hot rocks to heat the liquid. In the early 1800's, it was boiled down in metal pots made either in Europe or America.
The boiled sap evaporates, leaving syrup; around here the average is 14 gallons of sap for 1 gallon of syrup. Syrup is further boiled to become candy or sugar. For first peoples, granular maple sugar was the best form for storage for the year to come.
In addition to the maple sugar demo, Angie Manuel, the park naturalist, had a warming fire in the long house, taking the chill off of visitors. She also had a display on foods familiar to Prophetstown residents. She featured the hazelnut, which the park had a bumper crop of this year. Before Nutella and hazelnut coffee, hazelnuts (filberts) were a vital part of people's diets. The same was true of residents of Prophetstown.


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Let $M$ be a manifold with corners. Let $F_p$ denote the union of all the codimension $i \geq p$ faces of $M$. Then I have read that there is a form of Lefschetz duality that says that there is an isomorphism $$H_q(F_p \setminus F_{p+1}) \cong H^{n-p-q}(F_p, F_{p+1}).$$
(This was in the "Operads and Homotopy Algebra" paper of Getzler-Jones, though I assume that this fact is well known).
I have two questions:
- The usual Lefschetz duality that I am familiar with is for manifolds with boundary. It says $H_*(M, \partial M) \cong H^{\dim M - *}(M)$. Is the above isomorphism just this one in disguise, taking $F_{p+1}$ as the boundary of $F_p$? What is happening to the rest of the "corners"? It is also the case that $F_p$ is not a manifold as far as I can tell... it is just one with corners.
- If instead $M$ was a stratified space such that the $F_p$ were the codimension $i \geq p$ strata, with $F_p \setminus F_{p+1}$ a manifold, then does the above isomorphism hold? Here that strata $F_p \setminus F_{p+1}$ may be empty.


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Lalle, M; Rosati, M A; Bien, J; Hehl, A B; Pozio, E; Tosini, F (2011). Expression of Cryptosporidium parvum Cpa135/CpCCP1 chimeras in Giardia duodenalis: Organization of the protein domains affects the protein secretion pathway. Experimental Parasitology, 127(3):680-686.
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Cpa135 is a multidomain antigenic protein secreted at the sporozoite stage of the Apicomplexa protozoan Cryptosporidium parvum. Previous studies have shown that the protozoan flagellate parasite Giardia duodenalis is a suitable system for the heterologous expression of secreted proteins of Apicomplexa. Here, we designed three different Cpa135 variants fused to a C-terminal HA tag in order to test their expression in G. duodenalis under the control of the inducible promoter of the cyst wall protein 1 gene (cwp1). The three Cpa135 chimeras encompassed different portions of the protein; CpaG encodes the entire polypeptide of 1574 amino acids (aa); CpaGΔC includes the first 826 aa at the N-terminus; and CpaGΔN consists in of the final 833 aa at the C-terminus. Immunoblot experiments showed that CpaG and CpaGΔN maintained the epitopes recognized by anti-C. parvum-specific human serum. The intracellular localization and transport of the three Cpa135 variants were studied by immunofluorescence in combination with G. duodenalis-specific antibodies. CpaGΔC was mainly accumulated in the endoplasmic reticulum and the intact form was also excreted in the medium. Differently, the Cpa135 chimeras possessing an intact C-terminus (CpaG and CpaGΔN) were transported towards the forming cyst wall possibly and were not detected in the medium. Furthermore, the full-length CpaG was incorporated into the cyst wall. The data presented suggest that the C-terminus of Cpa135, which includes a cysteine reach domain, could influence the secretion of the chimeric proteins.
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Here's a statement from former New Orleans Saints and current Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fuijta on the new sanctions handed down by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in connection to the bounty scandal as Fujita saw his original three-game suspension reduced to a one-game ban:
"I'm pleased the Commissioner has finally acknowledged that I never participated in any so-called 'bounty' program, as I've said for the past 7 months. However, his condescending tone was neither accurate nor productive. Additionally, I am now purportedly being suspended for failing to confront my former defensive coordinator for his inappropriate use of language. This seems like an extremely desperate attempt to punish me. I also think it sets a bad precedent when players can be disciplined for not challenging the behavior of their superiors. This is an absolute abuse of the power that's been afforded to the Commissioner.
"For me, the issue of player health and safety is personal. For the league and the Commissioner, it's about perception and liability.
"The Commissioner says he is disappointed in me. The truth is, I'm disappointed in him. His positions on player health and safety since a 2009 congressional hearing on concussions have been inconsistent at best. He failed to acknowledge a link between concussions & post-career brain disease, pushed for an 18-game regular season, committed to a full season of Thursday night games, has continually challenged players' rights to file workers compensation claims for on-the-job injuries, and he employed incompetent replacement officials for the start of the 2012 season. His actions or lack thereof are by the league's own definition, 'conduct detrimental.'
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Mark Lewisohn sent out a series of Twitter posts Jan. 29 saying that the two-volume extended "author's cut" version of his "The Beatles: Tune In: All These Years, Volume 1" book is now sold out.
"The extended edition of Tune In has sold out and is now unavailable," he wrote. "Another print may or may not be scheduled at some future time. The e-book (issued in two halves) (see part 1 and part 2) is still available, but it's UK only. My U.S. publisher, Crown, wouldn't issue the extended book and couldn't agree terms for the e-book. I'm sorry about that, for me and for everyone in U.S. who wants to buy it, but I can do nothing about it."
Hopefully, it'll come back into print in the UK or become available in the U.S.
Abbey Road lectures return: Abbey Road Studios has scheduled a third installment of its "The Sound of Abbey Road Studios" lectures in April and May hosted by Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan, authors of the acclaimed book "Recording the Beatles." This talk will feature a special guest – former Abbey Road Studios engineer Ken Scott, who will speak in the same room where he recorded tracks by the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Jeff Beck. Tickets are £88.40 ($145.60 USD) including booking fee, available from SeeTickets.
Washington Coliseum concert tickets on eBay: Two ticket stubs from the Beatles' 1964 Washington Coliseum concert are now being auctioned on eBay. With still a couple of days to go, the high bid is just over $2,300. The concert is being celebrated with a special tribute Feb. 11 at the original site.
Boo on Billboard: The Billboard list of the top 10 2014 Grammy Award ceremony moments included Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Katy Perry and Pharrell's hat, but not Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.
Beatles 50th petition: Our petition asking President Obama to honor the Beatles 50th has been getting signatures all day since we posted it earlier today. Please spread the word and sign it if you haven't already.
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When does self-monitoring become a problem? When it constricts your life emotionally, mentally or socially. There was one woman in my study who learned to sleep on her back so she could wear false eyelashes to bed. She would whip out lipstick after just a few bites of food. She couldn't stop herself. Another woman who is a very accomplished professor was overly dependent on others' views of her when it came to her appearance. She went out and bought a new outfit, but when she wore it to work, no one in the office complimented her on it. The next day, she returned it, even though she liked it. She wanted strategies to stop being so affected by other people's opinions.
What advice did you have? The first step is to be aware of the self-monitoring and think of it as a bad habit you can break. Brain science shows us that the more you obsess about something, the more it gets set in the neural pathways, so you need to interrupt the thought process. I'm not saying you should stand in front of the mirror and say, "I love my wrinkles." But you can tell yourself, "Oh, I'm obsessing again. That's kind of silly." To break the habit, some people put a rubber band on their wrist and snap it when they are obsessing. Think of it as giving yourself the gift of relief from a way of thinking that ultimately makes you unhappy.
Any other strategies? Consider taking a beauty break, even if it's just when you go on vacation. I had one woman in my study who was a very high self-monitor. She never left the house without full makeup. Then the man she fell in love with persuaded her to take some of it off. Now she loves going without makeup at times. I've seen lots of women helped by just letting others see them with clean faces and realizing the world doesn't end.
Does this kind of self-scrutiny tend to lessen as we get older? When you're an adolescent, it's normal to be self-conscious about your appearance; your body is changing, and you are cementing your presentation to the world. Most people leave behind those intense concerns and develop new sources of stability, so anxiety about their position on the beauty ladder goes down. Aging can beget a new serenity about your personal appearance. That is one of beauty's most beguiling paradoxes: Body image can improve as you grow older even if objectively your looks haven't improved or are fading. Some people in the study jokingly told me that what happens is your eyesight gets bad. The truth is, we focus on other things in our lives, other accomplishments, and our sense of self is less driven by appearance. But for some women, aging can act as a trigger, especially those who feel their looks wouldn't change if they just took care of themselves. Some women are truly shocked when they see themselves aging.
How can we navigate that change? You don't have to give up on beauty, but you have to accept the transition or you're going to be unhappy. Make a conscious decision to cut down on the kind of self-monitoring that leaves you at the mercy of everyone else's ideas about how you should look. Giving all that power to others can make you feel bad about who you are when you should be celebrating your accomplishments and all the good things you've done in your life.
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His Message: understand that beauty is relative A professor of business history at Harvard Business School and author of Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry, Jones explains how the definition of beauty is constantly changing—and why that's a good thing for women today.


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food storage in plants
Storage in swollen tap roots is common in biennials (plants that grow and store food one year and flower and die the next). The carrot is an excellent example. By digging up the carrots at the end of the growing season, humans make use of the food that would have gone to make the next year's growth.
Root tubers are found in dahlias and the lesser celandine, for example. They develop from tiny buds at the base of the plant. They swell as food is passed into them and remain in the ground after the aerial parts have died down. Each tuber and its bud can give rise to a new plant.
Underground stems are the most common storage organs. They vary in structure but differ from roots in the possession of scale leaves and buds. Rhizomes are horizontal underground stems and are found in irises and many grasses. They do not always store food but when they do they are quite thick. The potato is a stem-tuber – a swollen part of a stem that stores food. When detached from the rest of the plant, the potato acts as a reproductive body.
Corms and bulbs are both underground storage structures and are often confused. In corms, the food reserve is stored in the swollen stem, while in bulbs, swollen scale leaves or the swollen bases of the previous year's green leaves contain the food.
Seeds are, of course, supplied with food reserves that enable the young plant to establish itself until it can begin to manufacture its own food.
The most commonly stored food material is starch but sugars and proteins are also stored. Fats are frequently important reserves in seeds while the reserve of the date seed is mainly cellulose.
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The Veterans Internship Program (VIP) was launched on May 16, 2007 on a motion brought in by Supervisors Don Knabe and Michael D. Antonovich and approved unanimously by all Board members. The program is administered by the County of Los Angeles Department of Human Resources and provides paid internships for qualified veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States. The internships were designed to afford veterans with on-the-job training and work experience with the County of Los Angeles that will enable them to effectively compete for permanent County jobs.
Depending on the job, veterans can be hired for a 12 to 24 month on-the-job training program in the following specialties:
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Eligibility Requirements
There is no experience required for this program. Eligible VIP applicants are veterans who have been discharged from the Armed Forces of the United States under honorable conditions. Discharged veterans must possess a valid DD214, Certificate of Discharge or Separation from Active Duty or other official documents issued by the branch of service.
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Sony kicks off Xperia Tablet Z preorders ahead of release on O2
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JAPANESE HARDWARE MAKER Sony has started taking preorders for its Xperia Tablet Z device ahead of its release in mid-April.
The Sony Xperia Tablet Z is available to order now from Sony's online store. The 16GB WiFi-only model is priced at £399, while the 32GB WiFi-only model will cost an extra £50 at £449. There's also a holding webpage for Sony's 16GB LTE Xperia Tablet Z, though this model's pricing has yet to be revealed, suggesting that it won't be released just yet.
Sony is promising to ship Xperia Tablet Z devices to buyers between 12-15 April, the first confirmation we've had of a release date.
What's more, we've spotted the Sony Xperia Tablet Z over on the O2 website. This means those of you who don't fancy handing over a wad of cash can grab the tablet on a contract - although O2 is remaining quiet on pricing and release date details.
The Sony Xperia Tablet Z was shown off at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC), as Sony touted its slim 6.9mm frame and waterproof feature. That's not all it's got going for it, as the tablet - which looks like an enlarged version of Sony's Xperia Z smartphone - also features a 10.1in WUXGA Reality display and Sony's Bravia technology.
The tablet is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 quad-core 1.5GHz processor and Google's Android 4.1 Jelly Bean mobile operating system. Sony said it roll out an update to Android 4.2 Jelly Bean shortly after the tablet's release.
Other specifications include an 8.1MP rear-facing camera with CMOS sensor, a 2MP front-facing camera, NFC support and a 6,000mAh battery.
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How genealogy data can lead to identity theft
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Irish Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes has stepped in to have a database of civil registration records removed from the website IrishGenealogy.ie. The problem is that the database contains information on living persons which is often used for identity verification.
That would include things like mother's maiden name and birth date. While these are public records, previously they had required payment of a fee, and it was not easily searchable on-line.
Of course, in the era of social media, these kinds of authenticators should have been disposed of long ago. Too many of them can be easily discovered by looking through Facebook accounts and the like.
This case also highlights the troubling nature of public records. In the past records were public in the sense that anyone could go to a government building and access the paper records. They could not be easily be searched as a whole, and the entirety of the records pulled into a private database. This is a kind of security by obscurity, but a useful one. With Internet records, many people are not comfortable with just how public much of this information is. The old inconvenience placed a low but real barrier to data access, effectively insuring that it was only done for specific people and for specific purposes. It is not at all clear how to get that without loosing all the advantages of Internet accessibility.
Personal details removed from site over 'identity theft' concerns
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What you need to know about credit protection services.
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Are Credit Monitoring Services Worth It? — Krebs on Security
Brian Krebs has written an excellent discussion and analysis of credit monitoring / credit protection services, and some steps you need to take to protect yourself. You should read it.
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The Privacy Blog Podcast – Ep. 13: Adobe, Russia, the EU, Experian, Google, Silk Road, and Browser Fingerprinting
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Welcome to episode 13 of our podcast for September, 2013.
In this episode I will talk about:
A major security breach at Adobe
How airplane mode can make your iPhone vulnerable to theft
Russian plans to spy on visitors and athletes at the winter Olympics
Whether you should move your cloud storage to the EU to avoid surveillance
Identity thieves buying your personal information from information brokers and credit bureaus
How to stop google using your picture in its ads
Why carelessness lead to the capture of the operator of the Silk Road
And how Browser Fingerprinting allows websites to track you without cookies.
Please let me know what you think, and leave suggestions for future content, in the comments.
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Stolen Credit Card website hacked
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Vendor of Stolen Bank Cards Hacked — Krebs on Security
Brian Krebs has an interesting blog post on how all of the credit card information was stolen by a hacker from a website that sells stolen credit cards.
This is in the "don't know whether to laugh or cry" department.
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Every Click You Make – washingtonpost.com
3 Comments · Posted by Lance Cottrell in Identity Theft, Internet, Online Privacy, Personal Privacy, Surveillance
This article discusses the risk from "deep packet inspection" by ISPs. The article states that at least 100,000 people in the US are being tracked with this technology right now. If true, the impact of this could be huge. Whereas a website can only track you when you are actually visiting that site, your ISP can see all of your activity on any website or other service you use. The idea is that the information collected could be sold to advertisers to better target marketing messages to you. If you had been looking at car sites, you might see more car ads next time you visit an advertising supported website like CNN.com.This is certainly not the realm of science fiction. The Chinese government is already using this technology on a massive scale as part of their national censorship infrastructure. They use it to detect forbidden words and phrases, "Tibet" being at the top of that list right now.Most of us assume that the bad guys are "out there" on the net, and assume that our ISPs are basically just passing our traffic along without looking at it. If they start this kind of inspection, it opens all kinds of additional risks. Once the equipment is there, a rogue sysadmin could tune it to watch for passwords, personal information, bank information, etc. It opens a whole new set of vulnerabilities.Anonymizer's Total Net Shield, and Private Surfing (with full time SSL enabled) provide significant protection against this threat. Both allow you to tunnel your traffic to Anonymizer without the ISP being able to inspect it, other than to see that it is going to Anonymizer.It is shocking to me that this kind of thing should be possible without explicit user consent. Maybe we need a "truth in labeling" law for Internet service providers. A bottle of Napa Merlot can not be so labeled unless it is from Napa and made from merlot grapes. Similarly, it should not be called an "Internet Connection" if you can't go everywhere (some ISPs are restricting certain perfectly legal protocols). If the ISP is going to spy on you, it should be in big red letters. Maybe I am OK with that, but I certainly have a right to know in advance.
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Resin – Have You Smoked It?
Everyone who considers themselves a pot head has smoked resin at some point in their smoking career.
If you haven't, you're either an extremely lucky person and you always have weed or you haven't been smoking long enough to know the extreme frustration of not having any bud. I have smoked a good amount of resin. It's gross, tarry, and just awful. Not only that but the high isn't great and it doesn't last long. So what's the point? I honestly think that merely smoking the bowl makes me feel better about being without Mary Jane. Sometimes, maybe it's just better to wait.
Most stoners say that resin is bad for you. And I really don't doubt that at all. Studies have shown that marijuana does contain tar and all that junk must go somewhere so what else do you think that sticky black stuff is on the inside of your glass? Sure looks like tar to me. However, there still in THC in that tar and you can smoke it providing that you can ignore the terrible taste. Not to mention that most people light their bowls with lighters, which means that you're probably inhaling more butane than you normally would smoking the good green stuff and that definitely can't be good for you!
Although I definitely don't condone smoking resin and wish that I never had to do it myself, it does assist in a pinch. I strongly recommend setting aside a gram or so just in case you run in to a dry spell, you have a little bit of backup. It's better to have something set aside than potentially subject your lungs to a ton of gross stuff from trying to smoke resin. Like I said, maybe in an emergency but it is highly recommended by the majority of stoners that you avoid puffing and just pass on resin!
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AFTER last night's match, Losing My Religion by REM pumped out on the St Mary's PA. Perhaps it should have been Keep the Faith.
There were the first murmurs of discontent among the Saints faithful since Gordon Strachan took charge.
It was probably only a vocal minority - at the end of the day Saints are still eighth in the table.
But nevertheless a few fans are getting worried.
And they let the team, the manager and a few of the players in particular know about it.
Singling out individual players for abuse didn't seem very fair at all.
This is a team game and it's as a team that Saints have shortcomings right now.
You can understand fans venting their frustration if an individual doesn't appear to be trying, but that's not the case for Saints.
They are working hard, very hard in fact, but they just aren't playing very well - especially at the business end of the pitch.
Once they get to the final third, there are a lot of players who have a crisis of confidence.
That's not just talking about strikers in front of goal but also players who need to produce a telling cross when they're in a good position.
Many of them look scared of making a mistake and that fear in turn inevitably leads to an error.
Maybe it's a matter of getting a bit of luck but probably a few players just need to be a bit braver.
How you go about instilling that confidence back into players is not easy - I don't have the answers.
But after four games without a goal and no more than a handful of shots on target, things need to get better soon.
Fabrice Fernandes was restored to the side last night and epitomised just where Saints are going wrong at the moment.
His presence added to the team. He provided an additional outlet, an out ball for the defence.
He gets the ball and he is skilful enough to keep it.
He can twist and turn and make intelligent runs and get into good positions and does so much good work.
But then it comes to that final pass, cross or shot and it all goes wrong.
It's that problem, that final ball that is costing Saints.
It's no wonder the strikers are nervy and short on confidence. They are aren't missing any chances because they aren't getting any.
And this is causing a vicious circle effect.
With their confidence hit, they don't want to go for that long range shot - instead, they'll look to make an extra pass.
Ian Walker in the Leicester goal only had one save to make when Kevin Phillips turned James Beattie's cross goalwards on 80 minutes.
Likewise, Antti Niemi was only in action once to stop Muzzy Izzet's first-half free- kick.
Saints' other best chances in a drab and dull match fell to Fernandes and Phillips.
Beattie played the French-man in on goal on 15 minutes and his shot went across the keeper but wide of the far post.
David Prutton's surge down the right and ball in presented Phillips with a tough chance on 58 minutes and the striker managed to back-heel the ball from behind him, but it went just wide.
Anders Svensson and Beattie also came close but missed the target.
However, Leicester probably had the best opening of the match.
After 24 minutes, Jamie Scowcroft's ball into the box was knocked back by Marcus Bent for Les Ferdinand, who had the goal at his mercy from ten yards out.
But he mishit his shot and the ball went wide of Niemi's post.
In the end, the draw was probably a fair result.
Saints will be pleased with a clean sheet against a high scoring side such as Leicester - that was the major positive to come out of the game from their point of view.
But at the other end, things still need to happen.
How you go about lifting players is hard to say.
But the one thing you know about football is that it only needs to click once and things could quickly get a lot better.
That's probably the reason Strachan has chopped and changed the midfield areas.
He hopes that somebody will just come in and set Saints alight.
David Prutton has done his bit but the rest of the midfield haven't joined him yet.
Perhaps it may be time to revert to something like the winning formula of last year and stick with it and see if that helps.
Whatever Strachan does, he will be aware that it needs to change soon before the players start to worry as much as some of the fans are now.


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Melbourne, FL – June 1, 2014 – As the summer of 2014 arrives on June 21st this year, it is time to shine up your bicycle and get it ready to hit the road or trail. Cycling over the past ten plus years has grown very popular. According to USA Cycling, here are a few interesting facts about their organization that may shed some light on to cycling in America.
• As a membership-based organization, USA Cycling is comprised of over 2,800 clubs and teams; and 74,500 licensees that include officials, coaches, mechanics, race directors, and competitive cyclists of all ages and abilities across all five disciplines of the sport.
• Each year, USA Cycling sanctions over 3,000 events across the U.S. Additionally, the organization administers 10 national-level calendars and manages 18 national championship events for all ages and skill levels in road, track, mountain bike, cyclo-cross and BMX.
• USA Cycling has seen steady growth over the last decade as participation in cycling continues to grow across the nation. In 2012 there were 74,516 Licensees (+5.2% Increase over 2011), 3,135 sanctioned events (+3.6% Increase over 2011), and 2,812 clubs (+9.5% Increase over 2011).
It appears to me that with more and more cycling events like the Tour de France being shown on cable television, the sport of cycling cannot help but gain in popularity. With so many different kinds of bicycles and places to ride outdoor recreation enthusiast have so many choices. These days it is not uncommon for bike riders to have many different bikes in their garage for each type of terrain that challenges them from a mad dash down a mountain to a leisurely ride along a beach side street. So where does the adventure start?
Beachside Cruising: The slow pace of riding a cruiser bike along a beachside street, wooden hiking and bike trails through forest canopies or along any of the amusement park boardwalks that dot the coastline of America, can just be magical. A cruiser bike has been set designed to give the rider no-hassle experience where you can wear sandals and flip-flops or even go barefoot. Cruiser bikes are typically single speed with flat pedals. When visiting locations like Atlantic City, NJ, Sandwich Boardwalk, Cape Cod, MA, Coney Island, NY, South Bay Bike Trail Southern California, and the Hollywood Beach Boardwalk, Hollywood, FL, you can rent cruiser bikes at each destination. Looking for the best cruise site go to http://www.bicycling.com/ride-maps/featured-rides/best-boardwalks-cycling
Road Cycling: As one leaves the slow and relaxed pace of beach-side cruising and is lured by blacktop pavement and road bikes with their skinny seats and multiple gears, this kind of riding appeals to group of cyclist who long for the open road where doing a 50 miler before lunch common place. If this is your cup of tea, did you know that there are about 5,973 miles of U.S. Bike Routes scattered across 12 states that include Alaska, Kentucky, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also more than 40 states are working to create U.S. Bicycle Routes (Adventure Cycling Association). These cycling routes have been broken down into three categories, Adventure Cycling Bicycle, Bicycling and Adventure Cycling Mountain Bike routes. One can purchase maps of all these routes in these 12 states on the www.AdventureCycling.org website.
Mountain and Trail Biking: This type of bike riding provides off-road experiences that take the rider on hair-raising rides down mountain slopes, over rivers and through forests. Mountain and Trail biking are not for the faint of heart, in fact it can be quite dangerous. The risk that comes with this kind of biking is what draws many cyclists to this kind of cycling. Mountain bikes are a breed apart from road and cruiser bikes. If you are looking for great places to hone your mountain and trail biking skills, you can purchase maps on the MTB Project web site. http://www.mtbproject.com/
Downhill Courses: For the more serious mountain and trail bikers, this is for you. Many of the east and west coast and rocky mountain ski resorts offer cyclist the opportunity to ride the ski slopes during the summer. Back in 2011, I had the opportunity to visit the Mammoth Mountain in October just before ski season started when I attended the Far West Ski Association Annual Conference. Mammoth was really hopping with downhill cyclist lined up two and three deep waiting for the chair lift to take them up the mountain which is part of the Mammoth Mountain Bike Park. Outside Magazine has named Mammoth Mountain Bike Park as the number one off-road downhill area. The park offers over 80 miles of scenic cross-country single track and heart-thumping downhill courses. Being the biggest bike park in the West allows them to offer terrain for every type of ability— even if you've yet to experience the fun of mountain biking (Mammoth Mountain Bike Park). If this is your sport, you will need a very special version of the off-road mountain bike to enjoy this wild and crazy sport.
What's New and Interesting? As the price of gas seems to be pegged by global pressures at around $3.65 a gallon, many commuters are turning to peddle power to get to work and to get around town. One segment of the bicycle marketplace that is getting more attention is the electric bicycle. Electric powered bicycles come in different configurations like power-on-demand, power assist and/or peddling the bike with electrical support. Companies like Electra, Currie Tech, Evelo, Stromer and Pedego all design, manufacture and sell electric bikes. If you already own a conventional bicycle and want to convert it to an electric bike, an aftermarket lightweight and highly efficient all-in-one design pedal assist smart wheel by FlyKly that fits on practically any bicycle may be your choice. The cost of an electric bike can be as low as $500 and as high as $4,000. Buyer beware, you get what you pay for with many of the top end electric bikes coming from European designers. Another interesting feature that is starting to trend are bikes that are designed to carry more things. The typical bike design does not give the rider many options to carry more of their, as George Carlin would say, your stuff with you when you bike ride. A company called Xtracycle has designed a cargo bicycle. Yep, I said it. A bicycle designed specifically to carry more of your stuff with you. This new kind of bike frame design has been named by Xtracycle as their "Cargo" bicycle and it comes in two different configuration, the Edgerunner and the Cargo Joe. The Cargo Joe folds in half to make it easier to carry or transport. They even have an electric cargo bike that was designed to climb the hills of Seattle and San Francisco. And of you cannot get enough of your stuff on a cargo bike, you can always get a bike trailer.
Where to Go? You would think that finding a great place to ride your bike would be difficult. Well, it is not. The Rails-to-Trails, Map My Ride, and Singletracks websites have bike riding location search engines where you can find great places to ride close to where you live.
And last but not least, while doing research on bicycles, I came across Mattias Fredriksson. Mattias is a freelance photographer who lives in Sweden. He travels the world taking amazing photographs of skiers, snowboarders, bikers and the great outdoors. You may have seen some of his work and not know it in Powder and Bike Magazine. Check out his work on his website, http://www.mattiasfredriksson.com/.
With the start of summer only a few weeks away, it is never too early to start planning your first summer bike trip.
Until next time, be safe in the sun and have a great day in the great outdoors.