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Project Description/Scope: The Cape Fear Commutes 2035 Transportation Plan is the long range transportation plan for the urbanized area of Wilmington, North Carolina. It has been prepared by the Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (WMPO), which is the local organization responsible for regional transportation planning in this area. Federal law requires the preparation of this plan, and also specifies issues which the plan must consider. The Cape Fear Commutes 2035 Transportation Plan details how transportation needs should be addressed over the next twenty-five years. The plan establishes the goals and objectives for the improvement of travel conditions within the WMPO planning area and makes specific recommendations for transportation projects and funding sources. In accordance with federal regulations, the plan must be fiscally-constrained. In other words, the plan must identify funding sources for all of the proposed projects. The plan considers all modes of transportation, including automobiles, trucks, buses, trains, airplanes, ferries, bicycles, and walking.
Over the past decade, the WMPO area has experienced a significant amount of change, both economically and demographically. Such changes are expected to continue into the near future. To accommodate the changes in our society and to meet federal requirements, the WMPO will regularly update the plan to meet the community's needs.
Current Status: The final plan has been adopted by all member agencies. Amendments have occurred on an as-needed basis generally resulting from the WMPO's STP-DA Allocation Process.
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Final Plan ( 2.3MB) [updated 12/03/2010]
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These books are what we class as the cream of the crop in the urban fantasy genre. They're our very favourite reads and are mainly from series with a rating of 4 star and above. We will be adding to this list from time to time I'm sure so make sure you check back often.
Downside Ghosts Series – Stacia Kane
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter – Laurell K. Hamilton (Books 1-10)
Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead
Plague Town by Dana Fredsti
Mercedes Thompson Series – Patricia Briggs
Kate Daniel's Series – Ilona Andrews
Fever Series – Karen Marie Moning
Rhiannon's Law Series – J. A. Saare
Blood and Feathers – Lou Morgan
Tarnished – Karina Cooper
Rebel Angels – Gillian Phillip

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Tuition Assistance Program (TAP)
The Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) is a grant available to eligible New York State (NYS)residents who attend NYS colleges and universites. Most undergraduate students receive up to eight semesters of TAP as long as they are maintaining satisfactory academic progress. Undergraduate EOP students may receive up to 10 semesters of TAP.
To be eligible for TAP, a student must:
- Be a United States citizen or eligible non-citizen.
- Be a legal resident of New York state (for at least one year).
- Enroll in a minimum of 12 credits that are ALL applicable to the degree, declared major (and minor, specialization, or concentration, if applicable),
- Student may enroll in elective courses (that is, courses that do not count toward degree requirements noted in above item), but they must be IN ADDITION TO the 12 credits applicable to the degree.
- If a student retakes a course for a higher grade, it will only count toward the 12 credit minimum requirement if the student retakes it because the first time the minimum grade for course for the major was not met
- Study full time (at least 12 credits per semester) at an approved postsecondary institution in New York state.
- Have graduated from high school, or have a GED, or have passed a federally approved exam demonstrating that the student can benefit from the education offered.
- Be matriculated in an approved program of study and be in good academic standing.
- Have at least a cumulative "C" average after receipt of two annual payments.
- Be charged at least $200 tuition per year.
- Not be in default on a student loan guaranteed by HESC and not be in default on any repayment of state awards.
- Meet income limitations.
In order to be considered for TAP, you must first complete the FAFSA. Be advised that you must complete your FAFSA within the specified deadline located in this link: dates and deadlines.
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The social media campaign known as #GamerGate continues to "fight" for journalistic integrity in the video games industry, as it ramps up online abuse of game developers and critics.
A quick summary: The #GamerGate campaign began when Zoe Quinn, game designer of "Depression Quest," was accused of sleeping with a member of the gaming press for favorable coverage, based off questionable posts by her ex-boyfriend Eron Gjoni. Despite the fact Gjoni amended his original statement and that the journalist in question never did a review of "Depression Quest," or showed any explicit favoritism towards the game, it was enough for some to condemn the female developer and harass her online.
Following complaints of journalistic integrity being compromised, Polygon and Kotaku changed their policies on supporting independent game designers through crowdfunding sites like Patreon and adding a disclosure when a writer has communicated with a game developer. With its false sense of victory, the #GamerGate campaign was created by those seeking to rid the gaming world of "Social Justice Warriors," or people who dare to criticize a game for negative portrayals of sex and race. A criticism that's common in other mediums, but for some reason, is considered unjust and unimportant in the gaming community.
A popular target of misogynists is Anita Sarkeesian of "Tropes vs Video Games," as her online videos questioning the portrayal of women in video games have earned her countless death and rape threats. A recent death threat was so strong that it forced the video blogger to leave her home and seek safety at a friend's house. She too is victim of the harassment spurred by #GamerGate, as she continues to discuss and receive praise for her analysis of women in video games. Women aren't the only target of #GamerGate, like "Fez" creator Phil Fish was doxxed for supporting Quinn in her time of need and choosing to leave the industry because he was so disgusted by those who called themselves "gamers." However, #GamerGate supporters are often at a state of complete bliss, when they believe they silenced a good, female game writer. The same goes for game writers of color.
It's hard to take #GamerGate seriously when the originator of the hurtful movement comes from the video game section of 4chan, which openly advocates the destruction of "Social Justice Warriors" in gaming, while using sexist, racist, and bigoted language. The #GamerGate general threads there state it's not about hating or getting rid of women in the video game industry, despite the fact women are being victimized at their hands for merely stating their beliefs. 4chan's creation of a female character called Vivian James for a crowdfuned video game campaign is currently being used by members as a defense that they're not sexist. But that defense comes down, as Vice explains Vivian was not created out of sincerity.
Articles on the death of "gamers" have popped up in the media, following the disappointing events of #GamerGate. Despite the shame caused by a few and unfortunately loud online trolls, the term "gamers" is not at death's door. Quite the contrary, the meaning of who or what a "gamer" is has expanded in recent years. A gamer is no longer identified solely as an adult Caucasian male; being a gamer means you are among the men and women of different ages, races, and beliefs that loves to play video games. Statistics of women making half the gaming audience has only further proved that claim. For its claim on restoring respectful journalism to video games, #GamerGate is nothing more than an attempt to make the medium as exclusive as possible, by attacking those who treat it as an art form.
#GamerGate says it doesn't want game creators to be censored, yet it attacks game creators who speak their mind. #GamerGate says it doesn't hate women, yet it attacks women in the industry with death and rape threats. #GamerGate says it wants objective news reporting, yet the movement has been driven by pathetic and meaningless evidence on a game developer's sex life. #GamerGate says it wants video games to be taken seriously, yet it doesn't want anyone to take video games seriously.


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For just a cool $2.35 million, you can move your own 'modern family' into a house featured on the ABC hit. Perhaps Phil can help get you a deal!
According to The Huffington Post on Friday, the home belonging to Phil and Claire Dunphy and their three children on Modern Family is officially on the market. The exterior home, anyway, as interior scenes are done on a soundstage built to mimic the layout of the house. Located in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood on the west side of Los Angeles, the four-bedroom home clocks in at 2,792 square feet.
Paul Chiames, the current owner, purchased the home in 2006 for $1.97 million and has said that he gets visitors from all over the world who come to take a look at the place. He receives a fee each time the show uses the exterior for a shoot and the new owner will have the opportunity to continue the agreement if desired.
The whole thing's reminiscent of Fran and Louie Padilla, who own the Albuquerque home that served as thee exterior of Walt White's house on Breaking Bad. That house was also used only for exterior shots as well (Fran says her decor isn't 'hideous' like the show's), but that hasn't stopped hundreds of fans flocking to town every month to get a glimpse of it. Right before the series finale in September, the couple told TMZ that they never want to sell the place, which has been their home since 1973.


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The lucky lads at Toms Hardware in Taiwan have sourced a Bloomfield (Intel Nehalem) platform to play with in conjunction with a Gainward HD 4850 graphics card. Given what we know from early test runs of this platform, the 2.93GHz Nehalem setup should be more than enough to feed the 4850 the power it needs to show its full potential.
With this in mind, they decided to put the platform through its paces with several benchmark runs; these including 3DMark Vantage, PCMark05, 3DMark06, Crysis and more. The results are certainly very impressive.


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UNT Research Home | Teaching Future Educators
Mark Wright
Casey Harl spent nearly 15 years working in information technology for a Fortune 500 chemical and polymer company.
There was little to complain about. He oversaw multi-million dollar projects, served as a team leader, made important presentations to plant managers and their staffs and took home a lucrative salary.
But Harl gradually discovered he had a different calling — one that comes with a smaller paycheck and more hassles but a greater reward.
Harl is an eighth-grade math teacher at Lake Dallas Middle School.
"I am more fulfilled now than I ever was as a corporate employee," says Harl, who earned his teaching certification from the University of North Texas in 2006 and is nearing completion of a master's degree in secondary education from UNT.
A collaborative effort between the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education, Teach North Texas is UNT's newest initiative dedicated to preparing undergraduate math, science and computer science majors to obtain teaching certification in those highly sought areas. This new effort will train an additional 60 new math and science teachers each year.
"I decided I wanted to make a difference more than a dollar," he says. "The work is harder, but the knowledge that I am making a difference in the world and leaving behind a legacy trumps the money I was making."
Unfortunately, there are too few teachers like Harl. Schools across the state and the nation are dealing with a massive shortage of qualified math and science teachers in secondary education. The dearth of quality educators has heightened concerns that American students will find themselves at a disadvantage in a work force that is becoming increasingly more high-tech and globalized.
To combat the problem, UNT has instituted a variety of grant-funded programs, including the Robert Noyce Scholarship, the Transition to Teaching program and the recently announced Teach North Texas initiative. The university is not only striving to turn out well-trained educators with degrees and certification in the subject areas they teach, but it also is providing support to teachers after they finish at UNT to help them choose to stay in the teaching profession for more than a few years.
"There are plenty of certified teachers. They just are not teaching," says Pam Harrell, associate professor of education and program administrator for UNT's Secondary Post Baccalaureate Online Teacher Certification Program. "Although a lot of progress has been made toward increasing teacher pay, in general, the increases level out by the fifth year. Additionally, when the economy is robust, science and math teachers are drawn to high-paying careers."
Most of the attrition happens early on. According to statistics cited in a 2006 College Board report, 14 percent of teachers leave the profession during or after their first year in the classroom. Ten percent more quit during or after the second year; another 9 percent bail out during or after the third year; another 7 percent abandon the job during or after the fourth year; and 6 percent flame out during or after the fifth year. It all adds up to a 46 percent attrition rate after just five years.
"Although some teachers leave to raise a family or to change jobs, working conditions in schools are considered a major factor in teacher attrition," says Mary Harris, Meadows Chair for Excellence in Education and professor of teacher education and administration.
"New teachers are often assigned the classes or students that the veterans consider most challenging."
The support that teachers receive early can go a long way toward determining how likely they are to continue in the profession over the long haul, Harrell says.
She credits the historically low attrition rate of UNT-trained teachers — more than 85 percent of UNT teachers remain in the class after three to five years — with the steps the university takes to ensure the teachers receive proper guidance even after they've graduated into the classroom.
Harl credits the Noyce scholarship he received at UNT with helping him make the transition from the corporate world to the classroom.
"I think I had a leg up on other alternative- certification teachers because of the depth of knowledge presented at UNT," Harl says.
Recipients of the Noyce scholarship receive $7,700 a year for a maximum of two years. Students receiving the scholarship — which is funded by a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation that runs through August 2009 — must maintain a 3.0 grade point average, and they must commit to teaching at least two years in a high-need Texas school district for every one year they receive the scholarship.
But the Noyce recipients, who include undergraduates preparing for a teaching career and career changers like Harl, aren't just thrown into a challenging classroom environment. The teachers in training receive grade-level and assignment-specific professional development. And in the teachers' first two years on the job, UNT professors keep in close contact with them and arrange for mentor teachers to answer the fledgling instructors' questions and simply check in on them.
"I had mentor teachers the first year, and they helped me out a lot by coming to class and giving me feedback," Harl says. "They answered my e-mails and generally helped me out. Even though she wasn't required to help me after my certification, Dr. Harrell has been a tremendous resource for me."
UNT students will receive similar support through Transition to Teaching. The federally funded program, currently in a recruitment phase, is geared toward career changers pursuing certification — and in some cases certification and a master's degree — in their subject fields. The objective of the program is to annually bring in 15 candidates, who, in exchange for financial assistance, commit to teaching at least three years in Dallas, Fort Worth, Grand Prairie or Gainesville schools.
Throughout the commitment period, UNT faculty members will work with the teachers to steer them around potential pitfalls that often lead to poor retention rates. It's not uncommon, for example, for the job changers to feel overwhelmed at the seemingly chaotic classroom environment, Harris says.
"They plow a much harder path in which support is necessary," she says. "Some I think have always wanted to be teachers but didn't have a pathway."
"We think that our students will appreciate the connections between what they learn in Teach North Texas and the multiple field experiences they'll have practicing their teaching skills in public schools."
- John Quintanilla
In recent years, most of the math and science teachers UNT turns out are post-baccalaureate career changers. Harris admits that convincing undergraduate math and science majors to pursue teaching certification is a bit of an uphill battle.
"One of the barriers we face is the belief of some faculty that teaching is not the best use of their students' talents," Harris says.
The university learned earlier this year that it is one of 13 institutions to receive a $2.4 million grant to replicate the innovative UTeach program, which has been credited with more than doubling the number of math, science and computer science teachers graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. Grants from the Greater Texas Foundation, UTeach Institute and the National Mathematics and Science Initiative partially fund the program.
Co-directors John Quintanilla, associate professor of mathematics, and Harris project that the program, called Teach North Texas, will turn out 60 teachers a year. During the 2006-07 academic year, about 1200 students completed our certification programs for teachers, counselors or other leadership roles in schools.
"With Teach North Texas, future math and science teachers will be prepared for their profession with course work that is guided by current research and is specifically tailored for their field of interest," Quintanilla says. "We think that our students will appreciate the connections between what they learn in Teach North Texas and the multiple field experiences they'll have practicing their teaching skills in public schools."
A collaborative effort between the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education, the program will provide students with classroom experience as early as their freshman year.
Another key aspect will be students' interactions with master teachers. The master teachers are experienced high school teachers hired by UNT to teach courses, supervise field work and offer mentorship and real-world advice to the students.
One of the major aims of the program is for the students to earn degrees in science, math or computer science and acquire teaching certification in four years. Because that's a big career decision, the program will offer two free one-credit-hour courses to help students decide if they really want to pursue a teaching path.
Quintanilla and Harris are confident that dozens of students a year will say yes.
If Teach North Texas and other UNT teacher-training programs result in hundreds of career teachers who might otherwise have bolted for a cushy corporate job or perhaps never gone into teaching in the first place, the positive impact on the students they teach — and, by extension, the positive impact on the rest of us — could be enormous.
"I feel," Harris says, "as if this enables UNT to fulfill its obligation to society."
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Sustainable CUNY and its partners have been working to reduce barriers to solar in NYC since 2007. The information in this section of the website will help system owners and installers understand the NYC installation process for both solar PV systems.
Before going solar:
- Consult a professional prior to installing a solar PV system about home energy efficiency . Obtain an understanding of your energy use by looking at the last year of your electricity bills. A solar installer or general contractor should also check to see if your roof needs to be reinforced or replaced.
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Sirens and church bells are set to ring across Warsaw Friday to mark 70 years to the day since hundreds of young, poorly armed Jews rose up against the Nazis in a doomed revolt.
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski will lead a ceremony at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, with thousands of people including Holocaust survivors due to attend.
"The drama and the combat, this painful experience is part of both the Polish and Jewish traditions," the head of state said at a Holocaust-themed art opening ahead of the anniversary.
The crowd due to include European Parliament President Martin Schulz and Israeli Education Minister Shai Piron will proceed towards the Umschlagplatz monument where Jews were rounded up and taken to the Treblinka death camp.
In the massive ghetto purge of 1942, Nazi Germany dispatched around 300,000 Jews by train to its gas chambers.
Poland's chief rabbi Michael Schudrich said the 70th anniversary is special not only for the round number but because "we still have among us those who actually fought.
"There's a sense that we have an obligation to make sure we really remember to pay tribute now while we still can hear from (the fighters) and so we can thank them for what they did," he told AFP.
One of the last surviving veterans of the revolt, 89-year-old Simcha "Kazik" Rotem flew in from his home in Jerusalem Wednesday to join in on the ceremonies in his hometown.
Rotem made it through the month-long uprising by masterminding an escape through the drain system with dozens of comrades. Polish sewer workers guided them to the surface.
But none of the fighters had expected to live when they embarked on Europe's first urban anti-Nazi revolt, with the odds stacked against them.
"Because what is a pistol or a rifle or a grenade when faced with the German army that conquered all of Europe?" Rotem told AFP.
"As for me, I wanted to choose a nicer, more decent death than at the gas chambers."
Through the weekend, hundreds of volunteers will hand out paper daffodils in the capital's streets in memory of Marek Edelman, the last commander of the uprising.
Edelman, who died in 2009, had a habit of marking each anniversary with a bouquet of the yellow flowers at the ghetto hero monument.
On Sunday, candles in hand, Warsaw residents will form a human chain where the ghetto walls once stood and of which little remains.
The Germans razed the neighbourhood and the post-war communist regime later built housing quarters directly on the rubble.
"Below the buildings, below the asphalt of the new streets, you'll find (the ghetto's) roots, with thousands of buried victims," tour guide Jacek Leociak told AFP.
Once Europe's Jewish heartland, Poland saw 90 percent of its 3.3 million pre-war Jews wiped out by 1945.
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews opens Friday to bear witness to that thriving 1,000-year presence that was crippled by the Holocaust.


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As a son of retired General Motors worker, this always strikes me as very good news:
DETROIT- General Motors Co. announced today that it sold 224,314 vehicles in the United States in February, up 7 percent compared with a year ago.
Retail sales and fleet sales were both up 7 percent. The fleet mix was 25 percent of total sales, equal to a year ago, officials said.
"The housing sector has now joined auto sales in propelling the U.S. economy forward," said Kurt McNeil, vice president of U.S. sales operations. "More importantly, the recovery in new home construction is reinforcing the underlying improvement in auto buying conditions, especially for pickups.
All four GM brands posted higher year-over-year sales: Cadillac was up 20 percent; Buick was up 15 percent; GMC was up 10 percent, and Chevrolet was up 5 percent.
via GM: Cadillac, Buick lead to 7% February sales increase | MLive.com.
This is great news. I just hope the Detroit can keep up the sales and help spur the economy back to what it was, or at least as close as we can get it.


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College Hockey:Gibbons, Capobianco lead Canisius' shutout of Holy Cross
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Who's going to fade first in the Atlantic Hockey Association?
Right now, the even money is on no one.
By the end of Saturday's action, the second through tenth spots in the conference will be separated by a logjam of no more than eight points and theoretically, eight teams could be crunched within three points of each other.
Canisius did its part to keep the elevator to the three first-round playoff byes available behind runaway conference leader Niagara as crowded as possible on Saturday, knocking off Holy Cross 3-0 at the Buffalo State Ice Arena.
"We all keep a good eye [on the standings], but it's been so close, especially in the past three weeks," said Canisius captain Preston Shupe. "It seems like every week, teams are splitting, teams are going from seventh to third, third to seventh, and it gets kind of hard to keep tabs on everything."
The Golden Griffins (10-12-5, 9-7-2 AHA) were anchored by goaltender Tony Capobianco, who made 23 saves.
Capobianco, in turn, was buoyed by the commendable work of the nation's sixth-ranked defense. Canisius shut down a Crusaders' attack that entered the contest averaging 3.04 goals per game and held high-scoring senior center Kyle Fletcher without a point for the first time in five games.
"All of our [defensemen] kept it simple," said Canisius coach Dave Smith. "I thought we moved the puck north, we got it onto the tape of our forwards very well and we were able to get out of our zone."
Smith bristled when reminded that Saturday's shutout came on the heels of a three-game stretch in which Canisius had allowed 14 goals — easily its most over any three-game sample of the season — while posting a 1-2 record, including a 5-2 loss at Mercyhurst this past Tuesday.
"Playing defense is something that is important to us, but teams [in the AHA] are good," Smith shrugged. "Team are prepared. And sometimes, the bounces don't go your way. Tonight, it was a close game throughout. We had to get some big saves from Capo and we had to get some big plays throughout. The league is so even that you're going to have those times where you give up some more than you like and sometimes, you're going to get rewarded with a shutout like we did tonight."
The shutout — Capobianco's second of the season — marked the first time Holy Cross (13-10-2, 9-7-2) had been blanked since a 7-0 loss to AHA rival Air Force last Nov. 3. The Griffs earned their first regular-season victory over the Crusaders since 2008, adding a second win to an otherwise dismal 2-8-1 record against Holy Cross over the team's past 11 matchups.
The loss was a bitter pill to swallow for Holy Cross coach Paul Pearl, who held an extended closed-door meeting with his team after the game. Holy Cross averaged 3.4 goals per game and posted 10 wins through Dec. 31, the program's best start in years. The Crusaders, however, have squeaked out less than two markers per game in the new year while stumbling to a 3-6 record.
Holy Cross clearly did not offer its best work in Buffalo on Saturday.
"We need to play more consistently," Pearl said. "We've been too high and low over the past month. Give Canisius credit — they did a good job of getting back above the puck, they did a good job of taking away the middle of the ice, they did a good job of turning us over. But when I look just at us, we allowed some of that stuff to happen, too. We have to be grittier on pucks. We played in spurts where we had chances — and their goalie was good — but it wasn't a consistent effort out there by our team."
Shupe opened the scoring with what would be the game-winning goal at 4:07 of the first period. Freshman defenseman Chris Rumble's shot from the right point deflected off the skate of a Holy Cross defender directly to Shupe, who was cutting from the right circle into the slot. Shupe collected the puck, swung around Crusaders' goaltender Matt Ginn and stuffed a shot inside the right post for a 1-0 Canisius lead.
For a team that struggles to score more than two goals per game, a tally by Shupe has proven to be a good sign for the Griffs. Canisius is now 10-2-2 when Shupe — a senior with 33 career goals — collects a point and are winless in the 14 games in which he has been held scoreless.
"That's kind of a weird one," Shupe chuckled. "I don't know if there's too much of a correlation. I guess it's a good thing. I'd better keep scoring."
Griffs' winger Kyle Gibbons — one of the hottest scorers in Division I hockey since a two-point performance against Rochester Institute of Technology on Nov. 10 jump-started what had been a scoreless start to the season — took over from there. Gibbons, a junior who entered Saturday with 19 points in his last 17 games, collected his 12th goal on the power play at 8:56 of the second period and then capped the scoring for the day with his 13th of the season at 13:25 of the second.
Gibbons' 12 goals in 18 AHA games leads the conference.
"We really like our depth, top to bottom," Smith said. "We've been tinkering here and there to try to improve our scoring without trying to disrupt the scoring that is there. I thought tonight that went pretty well."
Neither team will have much of an opportunity to dwell on the result of Saturday's game or to put too much thought into the way the AHA standings settled by the end of the night — situations simply change too quickly in Atlantic Hockey.
The Crusaders have split conference series with Mercyhurst, Niagara and Bentley over the past three weekends, while the Griffins swept Sacred Heart, were swept in turn by Bentley and split with Mercyhurst.
In the relentless race for the top four spots in the conference when the final horn sounds on the regular season, every weekend tightens the screw a little more on each team. Every weekend brings a new look at the math.
"We got good kids in there," Pearl said. "They work hard. We'll see what we can do about it tomorrow."
"I'll go home and celebrate tonight and I'll say, 'Yahoo, we got two points,'" Smith deadpanned. "I know how hard it will be to get them tomorrow. We know we're going to get Holy Cross' best effort tomorrow night."
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IE10 is the safest web browser in one way; checkmate!
Subject: Editorial, General Tech | May 16, 2013 - 07:45 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: web browser, Malware, IE10
If you consider your browser security based solely on whether it will allow you to manually download a malicious executable: IE10 is the best browser ever!
Rod Trent over at Windows IT Pro seems to believe this when NSS labs released their report, "Socially Engineered Malware Blocking". In this report, Internet Explorer blocked the user from downloading nearly all known malware (clarification: all known malware within the test). Google Chrome came in second place with a little less than 17% fail rate and the other browsers were quite far behind with approximately a 90% failure rate.
Based on that one metric alone, Rod Trent used a cutesy chess image to proclaim IE the... king... of the hill. Not only that, he suggests Safari, Opera, and Firefox consider "shuttering their doors." After about a decade of Internet Explorer suffering from countless different and unique vectors of exploitation, now is the time to proclaim a victor for attacks which require explicit user action?
Buckle in, readers, it's a rant.
Firstly, this reminds me a little bit of Microsoft Security Essentials. Personally, I use it, because it provides enough protection for me. Unlike its competitors, MSE has next to no false positives because almost ignores zero-day exploits. The AV package drew criticism from lab tests which test zero-day exploits. Microsoft Security Essentials was ranked second-worst by this metric.
Well, time to shutter your doors Micr... oh wait Rod Trent lauded it as award-winning. Huh...
But while we are on the topic of false positives, how do you weigh those in your grading of a browser? According to the report, and common sense, achieving pure success in this metric is dead simple if you permit your browser to simply block every download, good or bad.
If a 100% false positive acceptance rate is acceptable, it is trivial to protect users from all malicious download. With just a few lines of code, Firefox, Safari, and Opera could displace Internet Explorer and Chrome as the leaders of protection against socially engineered malware. However, describing every download as "malicious" would break the internet. Finding a balance between accuracy and safety is the challenge for browsers at the front of protection technology.
-NSS Labs, "Socially Engineered Malware Blocking"
A browser that is capable of blocking malware without blocking legitimate content would certainly be applause-worthy. I guess time will tell whether Internet Explorer 10 is able to walk the balance, or whether it will just be a nuisance like the first implementations of UAC.
OK, Google did actually release exactly one native Windows application at Google I/O: It's called Android Studio, an application that helps developers create apps that run on Android, Google's answer to Windows. But don't worry, Microsoft fans: Internet Explorer (IE) flags the Android Studio download as potential malware.
-Paul Thurrott, Windows IT Pro
Ah crap... that was quick.
Now to be fair, Internet Explorer 10 and later have been doing things right. I am glad to see Microsoft support standards and push for an open web after so many years. This feature helps protect users from their own complacency.
Still, be careful when you call checkmate: some places may forfeit your credibility.
Samsung tops Apple for both buying chips and malware
Subject: General Tech | January 23, 2013 - 06:17 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Samsung, apple, andriod, Malware, fud
The good news for Samsung last year is that it bought $23.9bn worth of semiconductor orders in 2012, while Apple ordered a mere $21.4bn which implies that Samsung is buying more chips than Apple, or perhaps is just getting a worse deal. If the information from Gartner that The Inquirer picked up on is correct, Samsung accounted for 8% of the total semiconductor market in 2012, a very impressive feat. That is more than Dell and HP's market share combined which supports the theory that the falling sales we saw in PCs was not reflected at all in the smartphone and tablet markets.
Unfortunately that success comes at a price as Samsung's OS of choice, Android, is expected to see more than one million malware threats by the end of 2013. According to Trend Micro there were about 350,000 malware threats over 2012 with only one in five Android devices actually having any sort of security software installed. Perhaps it is time to start thinking more about protecting your phone, especially if you have banking apps or the so called "pay by bonk" enabled on your phone.
"Apple, thanks in large part to its hugely popular iPhone and iPad products, was the largest consumer of semiconductor chips, that is, until 2012. Gartner claims that Samsung has overtaken Apple to become the largest semiconductor user with eight percent of all chips sold going to the firm."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- AMD alllllmost promises profitability by year end @ The Register
- AMD's chip-supply reassessment leads to big quarterly losses @ The Register
- Micron intros high-endurance MLC SSD for data center storage @ DigiTimes
- Foxit outfoxes fiendish flaw to fix foxed-up Firefox PDF plugin @ The Register
- iPad 5 with iOS7 launches alongside JOBS film at Easter @ Kitguru
- Desktop PC: Intel Says the End is Near @ Benchmark Reviews
- Professional Graphics Creation on Linux @ Linux.com
You can't protect your PIN from a hacked POS machine
Subject: General Tech | December 14, 2012 - 07:53 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Malware, dexter
Just in time for last minute Christmas shopping comes malware designed to infect POS machines and record any PIN and credit card information stored on the machine. The US, the UK, and Canada are all affected with the US accounting for almost a third of the current infections. Instead of using RDP vulnerabilities this particular piece of malware will install its self on any networked machine that is running POS software and it copies the memory of that machine to a server which then parses the information and gives the crooks the ability to clone any credit cards that were used on that machine recently. Scare yourself by reading more about Dexter at The Register.
"You could be getting more than you bargained for when you swipe your credit card this holiday shopping season, thanks to new malware that can skim credit card info from compromised point-of-sale (POS) systems.
First spotted by security firm Seculert, the malware dubbed "Dexter" is believed to have infected hundreds of POS systems in 40 countries worldwide in recent months. Companies targeted include retailers, hotel chains, restaurants, and private parking provider"
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- DSLR trick lets you change focus after taking the picture @ Hack a Day
- Embedded Linux Distros Follow Yocto Project Lead @ Linux.com
- Rooting your AT&T U-verse modem @ Hack a Day
- Interview with Antec's Barry Loynes @ HardwareHeaven
- Think Tank Photo Urban Disguise 50 V2.0 Review @ Custom PC Review
- Spammers Make Fun of Microsoft Windows 8 @ NGOHQ
- Startup Launches Open Wi-Fi, Challenging ISPs @ Slashdot
- Is this the sleek new BlackBerry mobe that will save RIM jobs? @ The Register
- Worldwide Gmail crash was due to Google Sync bug @ The Register
- EpicGear & Thortech Competition – WIN WIN! @ Kitguru
- Have a Black Edition Christmas with AMD – win FX8350′s @ Kitguru
Internet Explorer 10 Exploitable: Both More & Less Than Hype
Subject: General Tech | September 9, 2012 - 08:19 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Malware, IE10, flash
Recent statements from Microsoft show that they are not afraid to wait a little bit before shipping patches with their bundled Flash in Internet Explorer 10. The issue is more contained than is let on by Ars Technica – but also raises a bigger security issue for all of us at all times.
By far the worst enemy for security is complacency.
I often pick on Apple for their security practices. They are perceived as being secure despite their horrendous record of handling security updates – delaying a critical patch for privately disclosed vulnerabilities until after its reveal at Blackhat because Apple could not devote the programmer to the task.
That mentality has been everywhere – from Sony to Microsoft in the Windows XP era to Macromedia & Adobe.
In this case the issue is that Microsoft has been delaying updates to the built in copy of Adobe Flash preinstalled with Internet Explorer 10. Once a patch has been released attackers are able to figure out what the patch fixes and potentially exploit it for those who have yet to update. There are quite a few subtle caveats with this story which need to be discussed before opinions are made.
... Relatively speaking...
First and foremost – Flash support on the Metro-based Internet Explorer 10 is limited to a whitelist. Flash is not exposed to websites which have not been flagged by Microsoft as safe and requiring backwards compatibility with Flash.
Websites become compromised all the time. Should one of the whitelisted websites get attacked it could become forced to serve a Flash applet to its users. The delay between Adobe and Microsoft patching dates gives the attackers a window to exploit all IE10 users until the whitelisted website notices. Attacks like these are very commonplace recently.
As an aside – there is quite a bit of confusion over Internet Explorer 10 on the desktop. According to the RTM evaluation it appears as though the only way to update Flash for Internet Explorer is through Windows Update even when not using the Metro browser. The whitelist is also in effect for Windows on the desktop although it seems like users are able to add their own exemptions. It appears like user-set exemptions is unique to the desktop version of IE.
It is disconcerting to see a platform become complacent to potential security issues intentionally. To be fair it is entirely possible that Google Chrome could have similar issues as they too handle Adobe Flash integration. Unlike IE10, Google Chrome does allow you to disable the built in Flash and manage your updates directly from Adobe although the process is far too complicated for most users.
Infectious fear is infectious
PCMag and others have released articles based on a blog post from Sophos. The original post discussed how frequently malware designed for Windows is found on Mac computers. What these articles mostly demonstrate is that we really need to understand security: what it is, and why it matters. The largest threats to security are complacency and misunderstanding; users need to grasp the problem rather than have it burried under weak analogies and illusions of software crutches.
Your data and computational ability can be very valuable to people looking to exploit it.
The point of security is not to avoid malware, nor is it to remove it if you failed to avoid it. Those actions are absolutely necessary components of security -- do those things -- but they are not the goal of security. The goal of security is to retain control of what is yours. At the same time, be a good neighbor and make it easier for others to do the same with what is theirs.
Your responsibility extends far beyond just keeping a current antivirus subscription.
The problem goes far beyond throwing stones...
The distinction is subtle.
Your operating system is irrelevant. You could run Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, the 'nixes, or whatever else. Every useful operating system has vulnerabilities and run vulnerable applications. The user is also very often tricked into loading untrusted code either directly or delivering it within data to a vulnerable application.
Blindly fearing malware -- such as what would happen if someone were to draw parallels to Chlamydia -- does not help you to understand it. There are reasons why malware exists; there are certain things which malware is capable of; and there are certain things which malware is not.
The single biggest threat to security is complacency. Your information is valuable and you are responsible to prevent it from being exploited. The addition of a computer does not change the fundamental problem. Use the same caution on your computer and mobile devices as you should on the phone or in person. You would not leave your credit card information on a park bench unmonitored.
Frankenmalware, an antiviral boss fight
Subject: General Tech | January 26, 2012 - 05:47 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: fud, Malware, Virus, Worm
Back in the ancient days of gaming and repeated in Skyrim's Draugr your enemies started out simple, a simple zombie or leever becoming a Infected Death Lord Zombie of Fiery Devastation. Another way to look at is a supervillain origin story where exposure to something that should have killed them instead grants them powers beyond mere mortals. There may have also been a dozen decent SciFi novels written about the topic (well, probably more like a gross) ... however you look at it, computer worms are mutating!
It seems that systems infected with a worm are being hit by certain viruses which inadvertently infect the worm, creating malware with twice the command and control servers, twice the backdoors and twice the methods to spread its self. The Register cites a specific example of the Rimecud worm which steals passwords becoming infected by Virtob which creates a backdoor on a system. At this moment BitDefender has found that 0.4% of the infected systems they detected had an infected worm present, a number you can expect to grow.
Be careful out there!
"Viruses are accidentally infecting worms on victims' computers, creating super-powered strains of hybrid software nasties.
The monster malware spreads quicker than before, screws up systems worse than ever, and exposes private data in a way not even envisioned by the original virus writers.
A study by antivirus outfit BitDefender found 40,000 such "Frankenmalware samples" in a study of 10 million infected files in early January, or 0.4 per cent of malware strains sampled. These cybercrime chimeras pose a greater risk to infected users than standard malware, the Romanian antivirus firm warns."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Real-time depth smoothing for the Kinect @ Hack a Day
- TurboTax Premier Online (2011) Review @ TechReviewSource
- pcAnywhere let anyone anywhere inject code into PCs @ The Register
- Jam a remote helicopter @ Hack a Day
- Nvidia hit by GPU slump, too @ The Register
New Trojan.Badminer Malware Steals Your Spare Processing Cycles To Make Criminals Money At Your Expense
Subject: General Tech | August 18, 2011 - 03:02 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: trojan, opencl, mining, Malware, gpgpu, bitcoin
A new piece of malware was recently uncovered by anti-virus provider Symantec that seeks to profit from your spare computing cycles. Dubbed Trojan.Badminer, this insidious piece of code is a trojan that (so far) is capable of affecting Windows operating systems from Windows 98 to Windows 7. Once this trojan has been downloaded and executed (usually through an online attack vector via an unpatched bug in flash or java), it proceeds to create a number of files and registry entries.
It's a trojan infected bitcoin, oh the audacity of malware authors!
After it has propagated throughout the system, it is then able to run one of two mining programs. It will first search for a compatible graphics card, and run Phoenix Miner. However, if a graphics card is not found, it will fall back to RPC miner and instead steal your CPU cycles. The miners then start hashing in search of bitcoin blocks, and if found, will then send the reward money to the attacker's account.
It should be noted that bitcoin mining itself is not inherently bad, and many people run it legitimately. In fact, if you are interested in learning more about bitcoins, we ran an article on them recently. This trojan on the other hand is malicious because it is infecting the user's computer with unwanted code that steals processing cycles from the GPU and CPU to make the attacker money. All these GPU and CPU cycles come at the cost of reduced system responsiveness and electricity, which can add up to a rather large bill, depending on where you live and what hardware the trojan is able to get its hands on.
Right now, Symantec is offering up general tips on keeping users' computers free from the infection, including enabling a software firewall (or at least being behind a router with its own firewall that blocks unsolicited incoming connections), running the computer as the lowest level user possible with UAC turned on, and not clicking on unsolicited email attachments or links.
If you are also a bitcoin miner, you may want to further protect yourself by securing your bitcoin wallet in the event that you also accidentally become infected by a trojan that seeks to steal the wallet.dat file (the file that essentially holds all your bitcoin currency).
Stay vigilant folks, and keep an eye out on your system GPU and CPU utilization in addion to using safer computing habits to keep nastly malware like this off of your system. On a more opinionated note, is it just me or have malware authors really hit a new low with this one?
Apple is da bomb! Vulnerability found in battery circuitry
Subject: Editorial, General Tech | July 26, 2011 - 02:24 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Malware, apple
Okay, so the title is more joke than anything else but security researcher Charlie "Safari Charlie" Miller discovered a vulnerability in Apple devices, sort of. This exploit, which appears to not actually be a security flaw and rather just an over-permissive design, allows an attacker to gain access to your battery control using one of two static company-wide passwords. Charlie has discovered many exploits in the past several years on the OSX and iOS platforms. One of the most high profile attacks he discovered involved a data-execution vulnerability in the iPhone's SMS handling: under certain conditions your iPhone could potentially confuse inbound text messages as code and run it with high permissions.
Malware assaults and battery charges.
(Image from Apple, modified)
So what does having the ability to write to a laptop's battery firmware mean? Firstly, remember the old advice of "Get a virus? Reinstall your OS!"? Well assuming you actually can perform a clean install without ridiculous hacking (thanks Lion) the battery controller can simply re-infect you if the attacker knows an exploit for your version of OSX. But how does the attacker know your current version of OSX? Well if you are installing from an optical disk they just need to know a Snow Leopard RTM exploit; unless of course you extract Lion from the Mac App Store and clean install using it – assuming the attacker does not know an exploit for Lion or simply just infects the reinstall media if you created it from the infected computer. True, malware is about money so it is highly unlikely that an attacker would go for that narrow of a market of Mac users (already a narrow-enough market to begin with) but the security risk is there if for some reason you are a tempting enough target to spear-phish. Your only truely secure option is removing the battery while performing the OHHHHHHHH.
You know, while working (very temporarily) on the Queen's University Solar Vehicle project I was told that Lithium cells smell like sweet apples when they rupture. I have never experienced it but if true I find it delightfully ironic.
While that would all require knowledge of other exploits in your operating system, there is a more direct problem. If for some reason someone would like to cause damage against your Apple devices they could use this flaw to simply break your batteries. Charlie has bricked nine batteries in his testing but has not even attempted to see whether it would be possible to over-charge a battery into exploding. While it is possible to force the battery controller to create the proper conditions for an explosion there are other, physical, safe guards in place. Then again, batteries have exploded in the past often making highly entertaining Youtube videos and highly unentertaining FOX news clips.
Attackers trying bold new things to get your PC
Subject: General Tech | June 17, 2011 - 06:37 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Malware
We have been long battling online menaces that are looking to generate money off of the grief of others. It used to be simple for the attack to be successful: release virus; ???; profit. Now that worms are much less common the focus has shifted from invading a person's computer to tricking the person to allow you in their computer or attacking the service they are accessing. Now, what was once a far-fetched joke by a popular comic strip is true: people are being contacted at home and told to infect their computer.
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The story for security has always been the same: be careful what you do, keep your attack surface as small as possible, and limit the damage in the event of a breech. You need to be aware, regardless of what platform you utilize, that you are only as safe as your level of complacency. If someone is attempting to get you to do something quickly, they likely are trying to play on your complacency by distracting you with an urgency. The disappointing part is that in the heat of the moment even someone aware of these attacks could still be susceptible to them because social engineering is simply very effective.
All of the above said, the silver lining to this whole problem is that the attackers are getting substantially more desperate which means that it is only a matter of time before the pool of attackers shrinks due to lack of profitability. The problem will never go away, but as the difficulty steadily increases for the attackers (which it is, otherwise they would not be so inventive) the draw of money will seem much less luscious.
Apple Defender: for better and for worse
Subject: Editorial, General Tech | May 26, 2011 - 01:22 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Malware, apple
Apple users have been dealing with a bad bout of malware over the last few weeks ironically called Mac Defender. Its modus operandi involves scaring the Apple user with claims of malware in a phony file browser and giving them a magical option to remove all problems. That option is actually the malware, but since the users are convinced they are downloading anti-malware they will often allow it to happen and provide their admin password. At that point, they are prompted to provide their credit card number to actually remove the now-present infection. Apple was actively quiet about the whole experience but has now gone vocal about the experience. Also, a new revision of Mac Defender just got substantially harder to avoid.
It should be noted that admin password or not; Apple or not; patch or not; this form of malware strikes the most vulnerable point of any system: the user's complacency. It does not matter how good of an antivirus solution you have, or how protected your operating system and programs are (though in many cases both of those are lacking as well) you need to be cautious about what you do with any device that accepts information that is not yours. Food for thought: software that can jailbreak an iPhone steal admin privileges from Apple and give it to you. Even in a locked down system such as an iPhone where the user does not have admin rights, what would have happened had you not been the recipient of the admin privileges?
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For many years people have been giving out the same home buying advice. The recent boom and bust cycle of the housing market, however, has turned a lot of that advice on its head. It's time for a lot of the old advice to be updated.
Old Advice: Move to the suburbs.
According to recent statistics, urban centers have grown in population faster than suburban and rural areas for the first time in several decades (usatoday). In short, people are moving into the city instead of away from it. Being in the city allows a family to stay close to stores, schools, churches, and other services.
Unlike past decades, many families and individuals now have to consider the costs of commuting. In addition to gas and wear and tear on a vehicle, there is also the time commitment involved with commuting to and from the suburbs. For this reason, real estate values in the cities have risen, while property value in the suburbs has fallen.
Old Advice: Take on a fixer-upper
So many so-called "fixer-uppers" were bought and flipped during the real estate boom that it can be hard to find a house that needs work in some parts of America. Furthermore, many buyers and sellers became more informed about how much repairs would actually cost.
Today, there are so many homes on the market at greatly discounted prices that it rarely makes sense to take on a home that needs a lot of repairs unless you can do the work yourself. Be careful not to make the mistake of taking on a house that needs more repairs than you can afford. Extensive damage to a home that is not quickly repaired can cause further damage and lead to more costly repairs.
Because of this, it makes sense to find a home that is in good repair and bargain with the seller to get a good price. There are too many good homes on the market to waste time and money on a fixer-upper.
Old Advice: Buy a home on the water
Waterfront property used to be considered a great investment. It was believed that real estate that was bordered by the ocean, river, or lake would always retain its value. In recent years, however, these properties have dropped in value significantly. In some areas, waterfront property has dropped in value by nearly fifty percent (usatoday).
There are several reasons for this trend. To start, a spate of recent hurricanes and bad tropical storms has made it next to impossible to find affordable home insurance for houses located in coastal flood zones. Furthermore, many cities and counties have imposed restrictions on how homes in these areas can be constructed. This makes it more expensive to build new houses, and to replace or repair a house located in one of these areas when it is damaged.
If you have your heart set on buying waterfront property, protect your investment as much as you can. Buy flood insurance and replacement coverage property insurance. Be sure to factor these costs into your budget when deciding on a price range for your new home purchase.


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Last month Robby Krieger played two nights in Chicago but it turns out he played more than two shows. Robby played Reggie's Music Joint in Downtown Chicago on June 17 and playing in an adjacent room was Black Flag so Robby joined in for a couple of songs.
The video at the top of this article is from a fan at the Black Flag show and shows the whole thirteen minutes Krieger jammed with the band. The video has a (probably unintended) effect of washing out the colors onstage but it has a fairly trippy psychedelic effect that adds to the performance. If there are any Black Flag fans out there we'll defer to them on which songs Robby is jamming on.
Black Flag in its latest incarnation features Greg Ginn the man who formed Black Flag in 1976 and was the creative vision behind the band. Black Flag is probably most famous for the period when Henry Rollins was the lead singer and has had several different incarnations post-Rollins (pre-Rollins as well). Since January 2013 Black Flag has been touring, and the shared experience of Krieger of involved in a lawsuit with past members of the band (including Rollins) over the use of the Black Flag name and logo.
If you would like to read a review of Robby's performance the next night in Joliet, Illinois please see the article "Robby Krieger at Mojoes" (see related articles below about Robby's ties to the punk group the Mau Mau's). If you would like to watch a video of Robby with Black Flag that is a little closer to the stage see this video on Youtube.
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Tongue Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine > Customer Reviews
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Gary Minns, Still the Best Tongue Diagnosis Book
This book is one of the Great Man�s earlier, and cheaper, offerings (being first published in 1987). As expected from Maciocia, there is a huge amount of detail with entire chapters devoted to the three key tongue diagnosis areas: tongue body colour, tongue body shape and tongue coating. A number of simple black & white drawings decorate the text and are generally clear and very useful. There is also an informative section containing case histories.
There are quite a few books on tongue diagnosis around but this one remains the best, even after more than 20 years in print.


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There are also some lovely areas to get away from the crowds and walk around the farm, we have a wonderful selection of wildlife on the farm, including deer, badgers, hare, foxes, owls, various duck, kingfisher, herons and many other bird species with the gorgeous River Cary running through the farm. Pets are welcome to stay with us also.
The rooms are all furnished to a very high standard and en suite. With comfort a priority. Beautiful Egyptian cotton bedding. Lovely complimentary toiletries and extras and very well stocked tea/coffee/drink making. We have a large four poster suite available. There is a lovely drawing room for guests use with open fires in the winter and comfortable sofas to relax and read or watch TV/DVDs. There is a large dining room also solely for guests use, together with plenty of outside furniture for use to relax on summer days.
There is plenty to do and see around Cary Fitzpaine. Including plenty of historic houses and gardens, including Lytes Cary, Stourhead, Montacute, Tintinhull, Barrington House, East Lambrook etc. Also Yeovilton RNAS Museum is 5 minutes drive and Haynes Car Museum 10 minutes drive. Wookey Hole, Cheddar, Wells and Glastonbury are within 30 minutes drive also. Bristol, Bath and the Coast are all within one hour from Cary Fitzpaine. Families are very welcome to stay with us and enjoy the farm. There are also plenty of superb Cycling routes to take from Cary Fitzpaine, Packed Lunches are available.
Cómo llegarVer las indicaciones proporcionadas por el hotel
Cary Fitzpaine is a small hamlet situated approx 8 Miles north of Yeovil. From A303 - at large Roundabout at Podimore take A37 North - Signed Bristol/Shepton Mallet. Cary Fitzpaine is exactly 1 Mile on right, and bed and breakfast is signed from A37.
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For years, both amateur and professional athletes loaded up on carbohydrates to improve their performance and energy level. Now South African endurance sports expert Tim Noakes, M.D., is challenging the concept of carb-loading with research indicating high fat low carb diets trump all those pasta and potato dishes, even for marathon runners, reported Runners World on Wednesday.
To date, 11 low-carb diet performance studies have surfaced. Nine of those research endeavors revealed that athletes achieved higher levels of performance on low-carb diets, according to Noakes, who teamed up with fellow low-carb experts Jeff Volek and Stephen Phinney for the new report.
Appearing in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the trio's essay note that a significant lack exists with regard to studies using keto-adapted subjects. Only one such study exists, points out Noakes, author of "Lore of Running."
Why is this significant? Because low-carb eaters require time for their bodies to shift to using fat for energy. "Studies of elite athletes chronically adapted to low-carbohydrate diets have uncovered one unexpected finding–their extraordinary ability to produce energy at very high rates purely from the oxidation of fat," wrote Volek, Phinney and Noakes.
Phinney and Volek have conducted their own set of studies in order to challenge the conventional wisdom that carbo-loading is the best option for athletes. They document those research results and their high fat low carb ketogenic diets in "The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance."
In addition, Phinney conducted a study on cyclists who consumed a low-carb diet for three weeks. Once they became keto-adapted, they burned more fat and benefited from a "four-fold reduction in muscle glycogen use."
Why is this significant? Because the human body stores limited amounts of muscle glycogen. For endurance athletes, that means depletion of glycogen after a certain period of time leading to "the Wall" for marathon runners.
Noakes has attracted attention for raising the level of attention to high fat low carb diets for both athletes and those seeking weight loss. It's become known simply as the "Noakes diet," reported Times Live on Thursday.
However, Noakes refers to it as the Banting diet, recommending it for shedding pounds while suppressing hunger pangs. "Already we're talking about restaurants needing to cater 50% of their menu to the Banting diet," he said in a speech at the Food and Hospitality World Conference in Cape Town.
William Banting was an obese man who, in 1862, lost significant amounts of weight after following a high fat low carb ketogenic diet. The plan is documented in "Letter on Corpulence."
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The site says actual (as yet unseen) nude pictures of Jepsen may be involved — NOT the 100% fake "topless" shots Gossip Cop busted earlier this month, and NOT the phony "sex tape" that Perez Hilton and other bloggers floated earlier this week.
Police in Vancouver are investigating "theft of electronic property belonging to Jepsen," according to TMZ.
Law enforcement sources say that Jepsen has indeed been hacked, although it's not been confirmed whether illicit photos or video were among the swiped digital content.
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The miniseries depicts the lives of the first four emperors of Rome (Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius) and their families, as told by Claudius, a reluctant ruler who was ridiculed in his day for his lameness and stuttering. The Roman imperial family is depicted unsympathetically, as a pack of murderous, adulterous and often insane schemers who would stop at nothing for a slice of power.
The cast, acting, writing, costumes and sets are all first-rate, and despite its 13-hour length, the series is engrossing, never slow or uninteresting.
There is surprisingly little information about I, Claudius online. The Internet Movie Database has some good info on cast and crew, as well as numerous rave reviews by IMDB users. John Woggon has put together an excellent I, Claudius website as part of a larger History in Film site. This site has detailed plot summaries and outlines for each episode, as well as lots of photos, audio and video files.
While watching I, Claudius, I found a family tree to be very helpful, since the imperial family's relationships by both blood and marriage become very complicated by the end of the series. Mr. Woggon includes a family tree on his site, but I found it confusing. So, to help myself and others, I came up with my own version. Here is the small version (scroll down for others):
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He is known as the brother of NFL quarterback and former Southern Utah star Brad Sorensen. But, former BYU safety Daniel Sorensen is beginning to make a name for himself -- by himself. Sorensen first burst on the scene with a scintillating performance at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis.
While there he wowed scouts with a 3.95 time in the 20-yard shuttle and floored them in the 3-cone drill. At BYU's pro day he ran a 4.54 40-yard dash and had a broad jump of 10-feet-2-inches. Those numbers should get him selected at some point at NFL Draft 2014 and on Tuesday, April 20 CBSSports.com predicted he will be drafted in the sixth or seventh round.
Considering the draft is right around the corner, that is good news for Sorensen, who began the pre-draft proceedings as a long shot. But a solid NFL Combine combined with a surprising Pro Day has catapulted his draft stock.
Looking at Sorensen's Twitter, you sense that he has a fondness for the head coach of the San Diego Chargers that his brother Brad plays for, or former Utah Utes star Mike McCoy. He retweeted a photo of McCoy -- essentially wishing McCoy a Happy Birthday.
While that may seem odd for someone who doesn't have an NFL team he's playing for yet, does it mean he's basically committed to the Chargers already? Probably not. The Chargers do have Eric Weddle at safety, Sorensen's likely position in the NFL.
So, his chances of going to the same team as his brother are probably slim at best. In the meantime, Sorensen will field his first interview from an NFL team this week as the Philadelphia Eagles will telephone him and ask a few probing questions.
Despite posting a picture of his brother's coach -- which some may attribute to a conflict of interest perhaps -- Sorensen seems to have a good head on his shoulders. He also is aware that the NFL Combine -- as well as the BYU Pro Day -- were just things he's good at doing. He knows he needs work in other areas.
"The drills I did well with were something I've always done well with — changing direction — and going in, I knew I would be putting up some good numbers," Sorensen said in an interview published on Monday, April 28 in the Deseret News.
Sorensen probably knows he won't be getting a guaranteed contract based on his current draft stock. And based on this Mock Draft published on Tuesday, April 29 he may not even be drafted. So there is always plenty of work to do to get ready in the event he'll have to prove himself -- as a free agent.
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Cassie P. writes, "Hey Outblush, So... First off, I gotta do the gushy fan thing and let you all know how much I love you! You're in one of my Google-Chrome-thumb-tacked-homepages and I'm probably on your site more than facebook (well that's a lie, but you're definitely a close second). Anyway, I'm starting my Sophomore year of college and am on the search (and have been for a while) for the perfect coffee tumbler to take to class. I've had OXO, Contigo, Aladdin, you name it. But I can't find the PERFECT one. It needs to keep my coffee/tea hot for as long as possible, have a no-leak lid, and definitely be cute and colorful. Can you guys help me out? Thank you! Cassie P"
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The absolute best travel mug I've found is the Contigo mug. Keeps coffee hot for hours (no, really), and it won't leak at all.
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Thank you guys so much! My Brugo is ordered and on the way :)
Woohoo! Have a great sophomore year, Cassie! Glad we could help out - I know how crucial caffeine is to a successful college career!
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Looks like the summer harvest is in full swing! My garbage tomato is thriving and my local CSA box shares are getting better and better. This week the box was pretty heavy again. That's a good sign! Means there's plenty of good stuff inside.
When I cracked the lid, I found beets, onions, cucumbers, red and green leaf lettuce, zucchini, little gourds, garlic and a whole bunch of red potatoes. Awesome! The cucumbers didn't even last an hour. I whipped up some avocado and destroyed them.
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On Friday 30 November 2007 09:02:26 gmaggro wrote: > I think it'd be interesting if we started a discussion on the selection > of high value targets to be used in the staging of attacks that damage > significant infrastructure. The end goals, ranked equal in importance, > would be as follows: [big snip] So, you wanted to send a little Christmas present to the NSA folks monitoring the Internet backbone? Make their unutterably boring lives a little more "interesting?" We live in "interesting" times (not a good thing). I was over at the Mycroft site, and noticed that there was a Firefox search extension for Scroogle that uses encryption. There was another encrypted search tool for Wikipedia. http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=scroogle&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes&submitform=Search http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=secure+wikipedia&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes&submitform=Search -- -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/


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A nurse at the private hospital treating the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge has been found dead in a suspected suicide three days after being duped by two Australian radio presenters in a hoax call.You know, when I go on about voodoo death, socially-induced death, and social suicide, I'm sure a lot of people think I'm being trivial in some way, but I'm not. This stuff is lethally real.
The body of Jacintha Saldanha, 46, a mother of two teenage children, was found at her lodgings close to the King Edward VII hospital, central London, at 9.25am on Friday.
It is understood Saldanha, who lived with her family in Bristol but had worked at the London hospital for four years, was the staff member who had answered a telephone call at 5.30am on Tuesday from Sydney's 2Day FM presenters posing as the Queen and the Prince of Wales. Believing them to be genuine, she had put the call through to a duty nurse, who then divulged intimate medical details of the duchess's condition to the presenters.
Police and an ambulance were called to a flat in Weymouth Street, central London, at 9.25am where they found Saldanha's unconscious body. Attempts to revive her were unsuccessful, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The two Australian DJ's who enacted the original hoax were engaged, whatever their excuses to the contrary, in an attempted mana-theft, and the negative ramifications of this will dog both them, and William and Kate, for a long time to come.
The future just got a little bit more ugly.


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H&M's Summer 2013 ad campaign is not to be missed--the fast fashion retailer worked with Beyoncé for the television and print ads, shooting the superstar in the Bahamas! The print and outdoor billboard photos were shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin and the commercial was directed by Jonas Åkerlund, with both featuring pieces from the H&M summer collection . The singer, who is also wife to rap megastar Jay Z and mother to their daughter Blue Ivy, is introduced in the ads as "Beyoncé as Mrs. Carter" to suggest that women can be strong, vulnerable, sensual, maternal, fun, and flirtatious. "H&M's summer campaign starring Beyoncé is an epic fantasy, with glamour, drama and also a sense of paradise," H&M Creative Director Donald Schneider said. "The campaign is the essence of Beyoncé, and also the essence of H&M this summer." The ad above is clearly hot, hot, hot--we can't wait to see the rest of them!
Patrick Robinson is back to working with a big brand again, having just signed on as Creative Director for Armani Exchange. The former Creative Director for Gap, who was considered "too high fashion" for the denim-and-khakis-centric chain, will be responsible for product development and creative direction in marketing areas, among other things. This will be the first time in the label's history that it will have a name other than Giorgio Armani's behind it. Robinson is no stranger to the Armani aesthetic--he was previously a design director for Giorgio Armani back in the 1990s, and helped the company's "Collezioni" line become more profitable. Congrats to Patrick!


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Mainstream - but without much extra revenue
<--- That would be my prediction.
There is no reason why the 3D technology should vanish again, all the technology to make it work is available and will be come more and more affordable. But I don't see why 3D should generate lots of extra revenue. People won't magically increase the time they spend on movies because there is 3D technology. And movies have always been about telling stories -- something that won't magically improve with technology. The wow effect works exactly once and then it's an old hat.


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If you are one of the many Angelenos vowing to drop a few pounds this new year, the Sweat Garage is a newly opened gym dedicated to trimming waist-lines and carbon footprints.
Unlike most gyms, Sweat Garage does not have any membership fees. Workouts are based around one-hour paid classes with certified personal trainers. Due to the nurture-based training method and elimination of the dreaded binding contract, Sweat Garage has already become a hot spot for those who have never joined a gym in the past.
What really puts the "icing on the cake" at the Sweat Garage is their steadfast commitment to a feel-good and sustainable workout experience. When entering the gym, you may notice that there is no bottled water to be found. Instead, stainless steel bottles (above) and complimentary usage of a purified water system by LifeSource are offered. There are no paper towels in the bathrooms; rather, energy-efficient Xlerator Hand Dryers are installed for your convenience. The Sweat Garage floor is made of 100% recycled rubber tires.
The passion and luster behind the Sweat Garage is attributed to the gym's fearless lead trainer and founder, Christopher Slevin. After working as a trainer at a high-profile LA gym for several years, Slevin was struck with Guillain-Barré syndrome, an extremely rare disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the peripheral nervous system, and was completely paralyzed within a week. After spending nearly three months in the hospital in early 2009, Slevin was released in a wheelchair and immediately got to planning for his recovery and vocational future. One year later, Slevin recovered well enough to walk again and founded the Sweat Garage!
"It was the most powerful experience of my life. I learned so much, from total surrender and acceptance to embracing the GBS in order to get better. One thing is for sure, I couldn't have started Sweat Garage without having gone through it" - Christopher Slevin, Sweat Garage.
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