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Man in the middle attack compromises authenticators
Going to share this news with everyone. Kody over at World of Raids has said it the best so I'm just going to repeat what he's said over there.
Anyone who has an authenticator attached to their account should run a search (and probably an antivirus scan in case it's on the threat list already) immediately and ensure the file emcor.dll does not exist on your computer. This file is one reported to be allowing hackers to access World of Warcraft accounts that have authenticators attached to them. It's also possible there are other variations of these suspicious files, so if anyone has additional information please respond in the comments.
Based on this thread, the file may be found in /users/username/appdata/Temp. Since the file is fairly new (first mentions of it are only a few days ago), and the common source is unknown, I urge everyone to not log in to World of Warcraft or the account management site until you've run a scan. Confirm your computer is secure before using your authenticator, because this DLL file is allowing hackers to crack through it and access your account.
A warning sign that you're currently infected with this keylogger is that WoW will say your authentication code is incorrect, even if you know for sure you typed in the correct code. Thanks to Cameron for posting about this in our forums, too.
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Coreinsanity Apr 09, 2010 at 17:11 UTC - 0 likes
More like "HAH! Idiots who don't know how to use a computer and keep getting viruses FTL!"
Seriously, OS has little to do with it. I have been using a Windows computer for years and never get spyware/viruses, and never get my account accessed by anyone but me. Not to say Linux is bad, and it is very secure, but quite frankly if people educated them self instead of just getting on the computer and "lololololololol INTERNETZ!" like idiots we wouldn't have this many account hacking problems...
Probably about 15 years on Windows and I have never had an account/etc hacked on anything. Nor have I gotten Viruses/etc.Last edited Apr 09, 2010 by Coreinsanity
Major_Nuggs Mar 23, 2010 at 04:48 UTC - 0 likes
@Nevcairiel: Good luck getting us to compile and then run it as root. :p
Suddendeath2000 Mar 06, 2010 at 15:47 UTC - 0 likes
According to most of the sites I've checked about this, Malwarebytes does detect it.
Nevcairiel Mar 02, 2010 at 09:36 UTC - 0 likes
/me writes a linux virus just to hack mrruben5
Dashsmash Mar 01, 2010 at 12:28 UTC - 0 likes
HAH! unix/linux/osx ftw!
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Stacey Spangler, a horse trainer from Red Bluff, recently received a bay gelding mustang from the Twin Peaks Herd Management Area northeast of Susanville, officially numbered 04219000, from the Bureau of Land Management as the first step in the Western States Mustang Challenge.
Spangler is one of 33 specially selected Challenge horse trainers from California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona who have 90 days to gentle and train their assigned mustangs in the competition. Spangler will compete for a part of the $7,500 purse at the Mustang Challenge, which is a new addition to the 10th Annual Western States Horse Expo being held at Cal Expo in Sacramento on June 6-8.
Judges will evaluate each horse and trainer on conditioning, groundwork and how the horse maneuvers through an obstacle "horse course," which simulates trail and recreational riding situations. The public is invited to participate in adopting one of the Mustang Challenge competition animals June 8.
The Western States Mustang Challenge is a spin-off of the highly successful Extreme Mustang Makeover held last year in Fort Worth Texas. The Mustang Heritage Foundation in partnership with BLM created the events to highlight the value of American mustangs and showcase the beauty, versatility, and trainability of these living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the American West.
Wild horses and burros are managed in California in accordance with the Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971. This act gave the Bureau of Land Management the responsibility to protect wild horses and burros while ensuring their populations are managed to maintain or restore a thriving ecological balance.
For more information, visit http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/wild_horse_and_burro.html or call 866-4MUSTANGS.


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Kathleen Parker's column about Sarah Palin was dead-on. I was reminded of the Miss America Pageants when the current Miss America passes the crown to the newly crowned young lady. As the tune swells through the air and the new Miss America glides down the stage, how does her predecessor behave?
It seems that Michelle Bachmann is the newly crowned "it" girl. Did the former "it" girl respond graciously? What was that bus tour really about? It seems girls, that Sarah wanted to show up in the same dress.


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Mount Tabor resident Ray Horton, a retired graphic artist who calls himself "one of the most left-wing people in Portland," has had it with Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Steve Novick. He's filed petitions to recall the two officials and is confident he'll be able to round up the roughly 35,000 signatures he'll need for each. In part, this is because he plans to gather them online, to which end he says he'll have a website soon.
Both of Horton's prospective petitions list the same rationale: "Failure to exercise fiduciary duties of his office, specifically regarding management of public funds and initiation and application of taxes." The city's spending decisions could, at times, tempt even Donald Trump to pull out his hair, from opening the checkbook to establish the Portland Streetcar while basic road infrastructure crumbled to lavishing $56,000 on a cushy diversity retreat reserved for white men, including Hales.
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What's really motivating him isn't the taxes, Horton says, but, rather, simple disrespect. He points to the street fee championed by the mayor and Novick, who oversees the Portland Bureau of Transportation. "During the rollout," Horton says, "Novick and Hales just did such a poor job of introducing this whole idea, and their attitude at the initial public meetings was so arrogant and almost hostile." It almost seemed, he said, as if they were "sneering" at those with reservations about their proposal.
Novick, in particular, is prone to pugnacity, observing at one point that those who disagreed with the fee could always vote him and Hales out of office in 2016. And when Commissioner Nick Fish had the audacity to ask some pointed questions, Novick addressed him as "Captain Renault" in a written response. Captain Renault is a corrupt cop in the movie Casablanca.
It's one thing to ask your constituents for higher taxes or impose new fees after taking the time needed to establish your case and assure taxpayers that you've exhausted other alternatives. It's quite another to act as if taking other people's money is a personal entitlement for which skepticism justifies disparagement. And to turn around only weeks later and spend $56,000 on a diversity junket ... well, you get the idea. That stuff makes people mad, and rightly so.
Still, none of this justifies recall. Hales and Novick have stumbled, they've rubbed a lot of people the wrong way and they've seemed at times completely out of touch with taxpayers. When all is said and done, they may prove to be terrible commissioners, though we hope not. So far, however, even their most controversial decisions have been consistent with the authority of their offices. Recall should be reserved for moral turpitude, malfeasance and other truly egregious offenses.
Yes, voters can recall them if they want to, but doing something simply because you can isn't always such a hot idea. Ask Novick and Hales, who learned that lesson this year with the street fee.
Besides, recalling commissioners doesn't produce better representation. It produces vacancies, which will be filled eventually by means of elections. That's where dissatisfied Portlanders should focus their efforts. People who don't like the representation Novick and Hales are providing should identify qualified candidates to oppose them during regularly scheduled elections.
Novick and Hales, meanwhile, should take the criticism of Horton and others to heart.


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What should we think about the fighting in Iraq? Will Baghdad fall? Who are the insurgents and which Muslim religious sect, if any, should The United States, support? There is no shortage of questions but few answers.
Why? The short answer is we Americans have been trained to be Politically Correct and we don't have the will to project our national power.


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Baton Rouge Blues Festival 2013 might go down in local history as one of the best editions of the festival celebrating Baton Rouge's blues heritage. Moving to a tiered schedule this year, which allowed more artists on the schedule than ever before, gave festival-goers the happy difficulty of tearing away from one great performance to see another in downtown Baton Rouge on April 13, 2013.
Here's a collection of some of those great moments, but feel free to share yours in the comments below.
- "Getting to play with so many of the greats ... you learn early on. Don't take my thing, you gotta find your own thing. ... It's important to know all (the history) so you have the license to change it. The tradition down here is to change it." — C.C. Adcock on the blues tradition in southern Louisiana
- Henry Gray, holding court over a crowd of Baton Rougeans. He's at home on-stage. (Missed it? The Louisiana-native now holds a regular gig at Mud and Water every Wednesday in Baton Rouge.)
- The families. Kids took advantage of the sunshine, shedding their duds to run around in the various fountains in Baton Rouge's Town Square when they weren't clapping along to the music. Check out a gallery of the kids of the festival here.
- "The blues will never die. ... Sound like yourself. You have to dig down deep in yourself. You gotta find that voice." — Lavelle White
- The weather. OK, it's basic, but in Baton Rouge this late in the year it's a roll of the dice as to what kind of day you'll get. The blues gods happened to smile upon the city today with blues skies, holding the rain back until late Saturday night.
- "We all modify (what we do). When I grew up, we had to go to the bathroom outside. ... Now I've got eight or nine bathrooms inside my house. They all look nice and they all smell nice. But guess what? You do the same thing in 'em. We all modify." — Bobby Rush, on adapting old music to new times
- Robert Randolph and the Family Band rocked it, bringing a young, fresh vibe to the crowd. Randolph managed to make the festival after playing at Madison Square Garden last night with Eric Clapton at the Crossroads Guitar Festival.
- Sassy, hip-swinging Lavelle White. She might be living proof that doing what you love keeps you young.


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FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-4th) is increasingly being called out by liberal groups to be the voice of reason in a contentious Congress.
Members of the Jersey Shore Chapter of Organizing For America protested in front of Smith's Freehold Township office on Thursday, calling for the congressman to support the Affordable Care Act and end the government shutdown that has entered its 11th day.
"Chris Smith is one of the holdouts in terms of a clean resolution that would get the government functioning again," Chapter Leader Marianne Clemente said. "He is also a reasonable person, he doesn't seem like he should be one of the people playing Russian roulette with our lives, health and economy. That is why we're going after him to forge a compromise."
The contrast between Smith's strong conservative credentials and the relatively liberal New Jersey electorate make Smith a natural target for liberal groups.
"I can't believe he's our congressman and he's against the law," Tinton Falls resident Ray Karaty said. "With all the good things that Smith does, he's against lowering the cost of healthcare and for shutting down the government."
Organizing For America, an issue-oriented political action organization spun off from President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign, is the third liberal group to call on Smith to be the voice of compromise in recent months.
In August, the pro-gun control group Moms Demand Action called on Smith to support universal background checks on all firearms purchases. Last week, labor and immigrants' rights groups asked Smith to support comprehensive immigration reform after a Freehold march.
Thursday's protesters said the congressman could be the one to stop the shutdown paralyzing federal agencies right now.
"It seems like common sense that we want more of our citizens to have access to health care," said Peggy Brady, of Hazlet. "I don't understand why Smith blocks it, he's pro-life."
They said that Smith's opposition to some aspects the 2010 healthcare reform law that provide birth control measures to women, though principled, isn't a sufficient reason to oppose the law.
"He's letting that one little thing prevent him from supporting a law that is going to do a lot of good," Karaty said. "In other words, he's helping his party hold up the government for one trivial reason. If you want to shut down the government, give me a good reason."
All of the protesters said Smith and his colleagues in the Republican Party should accept that the law, often referred to as Obamacare, is now in effect.
"They had three years and an election to stop the law, and it was held up by the Supreme Court," Brady said. "I don't think it should be on the table anymore, or if so, it shouldn't have anything to do with the budget."
Requests made to Smith's staff for comments on the government shutdown have not been responded to as of Friday afternoon.
The Jersey Shore Chapter of Organizing For Action, covering Monmouth, Ocean, Atlantic and Cape May Counties, is planning similar protests and activities throughout the fall to spread information about and rally support for the Affordable Care Act.


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BRIDGETON — Family members cried and expressed disbelief Friday at the five-year sentence handed down to a Milmay woman convicted in the 2011 death of a Vineland resident in a drunken driving crash.
Mary F. Pappas pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and driving while intoxicated in August.
Pappas ran a stop sign at the intersection of Chestnut Avenue and New Panther Road in Vineland around 10:30 p.m. on July 30, 2011.
JoAnn Guzzi, 59, of Vineland, died instantly when Pappas' Toyota Tundra struck her Honda Civic. Pappas had a blood-alcohol level above .15 percent, according to authorities.
Courtroom statements were made by family members Friday as a video slideshow of Guzzi was presented.
"Because of your poor judgment, you took away our daughter, our sister, our friend," said Guzzi's sister, Holly Guzzi Durbick. "Because of you, we had to plan a funeral without a proper goodbye. Because of you, some of JoAnn's neighbors want to move because they can't stand the thought and reminder of what happened."
Durbick began to break down in tears, with some in the crowd joining her in her sorrow. She told the court how her family and those who knew Guzzi can no longer laugh or sleep at night.
"There are holes in our hearts, aches in our stomachs," Durbick continued. "Not for a moment did you care to think of anyone but yourself when it came to your drinking. It's time for you to go, to enjoy your ridiculously short sentence. Sweet dreams in your temporary home."
Then came Pappas' turn to address the court.
"I stand in front of you today with a wholehearted apology," Pappas said. "What I did that night was not intentional. It was an accident. But I will have to live with this forever, something that I will never forget. I cannot take back what I did. I can only hope that with time, the sorrows of the family will ease. I am truly sorry."
Judge James R. Swift noted that this was not Pappas' first DWI offense, but that she was cooperative during the legal process, including the night of the crash.
"Because she had a prior DWI, there is the potential for this to happen again," Swift said. "I hope she understands the effect of alcohol and will not drink in the future. Not only does the defendant need to be deterred, but we need to send a message that if people commit this type of crime involving alcohol, they are going to face serious consequences."
Under Pappas' plea agreement, she must serve at least 85 percent of her sentence followed by three years of parole. Along with a $5,000 fine, Pappas' driver's license will be suspended for an additional five years upon her release.
Afterward, family and friends made a statement and expressed little relief.
"They need to be more severe with first-time DWI offenders, so this never has to happen to another family," Guzzi's brother, Tom, said. "We hope to get involved with some kind of activism and have been in touch with New Jersey legislators, including Jeff Van Drew. Five years is not enough, and I do not feel her apology was sincere at all. This whole event has been a nightmare, but we are pulling together and supporting one another to get through this."
Prosecutor Mike Ostrowski hopes he never has to prosecute another drunken driving case, though he knows that isn't realistic.
"It's such a senseless and avoidable act," Ostrowski said. "Drunk driving crashes do not discriminate. Age, race, gender, wealthy, poor — anyone is capable of inflicting this kind of harm."
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July 31, 2007
Inmates use their smuggled cell phones to order feasts
A fun story from the Birhmingham Mail, about inmates using smuggled cell phones at a minimum security facility - not to organize crime on the outside - but to order take out! The prison smells delicious.
"The orders are massive - because the prisoners have got money, every dormitory smells delicious and that just winds up the other prisoners to order food for themselves.
A spokesman for the Prison Service said "prisoners are not permitted to order a takeaway and will be disciplined if they are found doing so."
iPhone interface appears on Nokia
You don't need an Apple iPhone to get the iPhone experience it seems, writes Technology news first.
"Other mobile device enthusiasts are now trying to emulate the iPhone's unique touchscreen interface by developing their own version - the latest example being reported on the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet.
"... The Nokia N800 iPhone-style virtual keyboard has been followed up by an appearance on YouTube of a Nokia N800 running an iPhone-like screen scrolling application. Apparently, the open Linux platform used on the N800 allows it to be customised relatively easily, so further iPhone-clone apps could be making an appearance on the device soon."
New EU rules to slash mobile phone calls abroad come into force
New rules aimed at slashing the price of mobile phone calls made abroad in the European Union come into effect this week, with EU regulators promising Monday to name and shame non-compliant companies. [via the AFP]
" Mobile phone operators had until midnight Monday to offer the new so-called roaming rates and by September 1 must bring them into effect whether customers request them or not.
An EU commission spokesman said that the mobile phone operators who did not offer the new rates would be named and shamed."
Analysts Ponder iPhone Sales Forecasts
Apples announcement last week that it sold 270,000 iPhones in the products first 30 hours of availability popped the bubble of several excessively exuberant analyst reports. The (WSJ) Numbers Guy explains why.
"Many publications (including the Journal) reported that WSJ was disappointed because analysts had expected sales as high as 700,000.
But did Apple miss analysts forecasts, or did the forecasts miss reality?
Analysts I spoke to after Apple released the official numbers offered several explanations for why their numbers were so far off the mark. Among them: flawed in-store checks using small samples; one-upmanship resulting from the iPhone hype; and an emotional reaction from Wall Streeters to the iPhone.
People get emotionally involved in the product and start thinking its going to be a bigger number than it actually is, said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray."
July 30, 2007
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Latest headlines from around the Web:
-- TV shows market at Comic-con - not just for Comicbook fans anymore
-- TV downloads 'use underhand tactics'
-- Mobile Phone Concert in New York
-- Nokia to launch music download store to rival iTunes
-- First-Ever Ringtone Deal With Comic Book Icon Stan Lee
-- Buzzwire Launches Beta Service
-- Malaysia Cracks Down on Camera Phones to protect national security
match.com mobile
The leading online dating site match.com - with over 15 million subscribers - has a mobile version.
match.com mobile enables mobile users to connect anonymously with singles nearby. [via the Associated Press]
Rape Case In Kuwait Becomes SMS Contest
According to an article in All Headline News, "a Kuwaiti company started a media race to take advantage of the Egyptian man's case in which he is accused of raping 18 children. The media company started a SMS contest, includes one question "what do you think the just ruling in the Hawali monster case should be?"
"Haggag Al Saadi, 27, is accused of raping 16 Egyptian and two Jordanian boys in the tiny gulf state.
Local newspapers refer to the Egyptian as "the Hawali monster" as most of the crimes took place in the Kuwaiti town of Hawali. "
What's not clear is whether the text messages are meant to rouse the public against the accused, or whether the media company is making money out of this.
July 29, 2007
Apple files thief deterrent patent
According to recent patent application, it seems Apple may have found a way to deter people from stealing mobile phones. Engadget reports.
"Essentially, the technology would invoke a "guardian" recharge circuit, which would disable any further charging if the computer (or "other recharger") it was paired with was of the unauthorized variety.
According to Apple, this type of limitation would "serve as a deterrent to theft," and while we can only assume that it would be applied first to the iPhone and iPod, the application does insinuate that other handheld, rechargeable devices could eventually benefit from the invention."
Cell phones light up operating room during blackout
The light from the cell phone screens allowed surgeons to complete an emergency appendix operation during a blackout in a city in central Argentina, reports Reuters.
"Leonardo Molina, 29, was on the operating table on July 21, when the power went out in the Policlinico Juan D. Peron, the main hospital in Villa Mercedes, a small city in San Luis province.
"The generator, which should have been working correctly, didn't work," a hospital spokesman, whose name was not given, told TN television news station.
"The surgeons and anesthetists were in the dark... A family member got some cell phones together from people in the hallway and took them in to provide light," he said."
A similar incident occured in Vietnam last March - Vietnamese doctors use mobile-phone light to finish surgery
July 28, 2007
Bush Wants Terrorism Law Update
President Bush wants Congress to modernize a law that governs how intelligence agencies monitor the communications of suspected terrorists. The Associated Press reports.
"This law is badly out of date," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.
Bush noted that terrorists now use disposable cell phones and the Internet to communicate, recruit operatives and plan attacks; such tools were not available when FISA passed nearly 30 years ago. He also cited a recently released intelligence estimate that concluded al-Qaida is using its growing strength in the Middle East to plot attacks on U.S. soil.
"Our intelligence community warns that under the current statute, we are missing a significant amount of foreign intelligence that we should be collecting to protect our country," Bush said. "Congress needs to act immediately to pass this bill, so that our national security professionals can close intelligence gaps and provide critical warning time for our country."
... Caroline Fredrickson, director of the Washington legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union, contends the White House is asking for more power to conduct warrantless domestic and international surveillance.
The ACLU said the legislation backed by the administration would give immunity from criminal prosecution and civil liability for the telecommunication companies that participate in the NSA program. The ACLU urged lawmakers to find out the full extent of current intelligence gathering under FISA before making changes.
"The only thing more outrageous than the administration's call for even more unfettered power is a Congress that would consider giving it to them," Frederickson said.
iPhone: The Missing Manual (by David Pogue)
Since iPhone: The Musical, there is no one more wonderful than David Pogue by me. His latest? he's written a book called iPhone: The Missing Manual, available on Amazon (Though he needs no endorsement from me, if you're my friend, buy!)
"The book is supposed to show you how to get the most out of your new Apple iPhone. It's full of humor, tips, tricks, and surprises", according to i4U News.
The book that should have been in the box.
iPhone Class Action Lawsuit
In what appears to be completely misguided, a Cook County, Illinois resident has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and AT&T over the iPhone, reports TechCrunch.
"Jose Trujillo is claiming that Apple and AT&T misled iPhone buyers by not clearly informing them that the iPhone battery was sealed, and could only be professionally replaced.
... According to TechCrunch, "the suit would appear to have little credibility; the sealed battery issue was reported extensively prior to the iPhone being launched and was certainly never kept as a secret".
July 27, 2007
In the 1982 film Namak Halal , Amitabh Bachchan famously declared: "I can talk in English, I can walk in English...because English is a very funny language." This statement is no more a metaphor since the Cellphabet 1.0 - a radical new system to convert the movement of a mobile phone into plain English text.
The system will now be demonstrated publicly and all are invited to witness a first in history - a man walking to write an SMS text message, without touching his phone. As he walks, you play a game of words like no other...
Where: Kala Ghoda Art District's Parking Lot, Mumbai
When: 1PM, Saturday 28th of July 2007
For SMS, the days are numbered
The days of SMS are numbered now that mobile email access is becoming a commodity, research firm Gartner says, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
Long the preserve of businessmen in power suits, mobile email is about to hit the masses with one in five email users accessing their accounts wirelessly by 2010, according to Gartner.
... Today there are less than 20 million wireless email users worldwide, but this will grow to 350 million, or 20 per cent of all email accounts, by 2010, Monica Blasso, the firm's research vice-president said.
"Once email becomes available more or less free of charge by default on your mobile handset, people will gravitate to that rather than just continuing to use SMS," Robin Simpson, mobile and wireless research director at Gartner Australasia said."
July 26, 2007
Flood, famine and mobile phones
Technology is transforming humanitarian reliefand shifting the balance of power between donors and recipients. The Economist reports.
"My name is Mohammed Sokor, writing to you from Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab. Dear Sir, there is an alarming issue here. People are given too few kilograms of food. You must help.
A crumpled note, delivered to a passing rock star-turned-philanthropist? No, Mr Sokor is a much sharper communicator than that. He texted this appeal from his own mobile phone to the mobiles of two United Nations officials, in London and Nairobi. He got the numbers by surfing at an internet café at the north Kenyan camp.
As Mr Sokor's bemused London recipient points out, two worlds were colliding. The age-old scourge of famine in the Horn of Africa had found a 21st-century response; and a familiar flow of authority, from rich donor to grateful recipient, had been reversed. It was also a sign that technology need not create a digital divide: it can work wonders in some of the world's remotest, most wretched places. Read full article.
Polish Bus fired for sending 1,200 SMS a day
Leszek Wojcik ran up the bill by by sending more than 38,000 SMS messages, about 1,200 a day, in an effort to win a contest, according to the Associated Press.
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iPhone hitting Europe September 30
According to Engadget, the iPhone should be in France, Germany and the UK by September 30th, because Apple confirmed that some of Europe would be shipped by Q4 2007. The rest of Europe will have to wait until 2008.
Engadget thinks the delay may be "retribution for recent seasons of Eurovision". They're probably right.
Apples New Text-to-Voice Patent Bypasses GSM Protocols
According to The Macintosh News Network, on July 26, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apples patent application titled Multimedia data transfer for a personal communication device, a system for providing multimedia data to a mobile personal communication device such as a cell phone, walkie talkie and so forth.
"The unique aspect of this patent however, rests with technologies and methodologies that could translate text messages into voice messages while in transit to other devices without using traditional Short Message protocols as defined in GSM."
Full details on The Macintosh News Network.
Apple's profit surges 73% boosted by iPod sales
According to Finfacts, "Apple reported impressive third quarter results on Wednesday fuelled by demand for iPods and Macintosh computers.
Apple said record sales of iPods and Macs helped the company report a 73% increase in its fiscal third-quarter earnings and a 24% rise in revenue.
Apple also said it sold 270,000 iPhones in the period and reiterated its target of selling 10 million of the mobile phones by the end of next year. "
Femtocells should end bad cell phone reception
There is a new home technology on the block, known as femtocells, and if the hype is to be believed, it will end signal problems forever. The BBC reports.
"The paperback sized-boxes are essentially a compact, personal mobile phone base stations that plugs straight in to your internet connection.
Make a phone call on your mobile, and instead of routing the call through the network of base stations and masts that cover most of the country, it sends the call over the internet using your broadband connection.
Until now, they have been the preserve of big business, but sometime in the next two years they could come bundled with your mobile phone contract. "
NY City Council votes to let students carry cell phones to school
Parents who say their children need to bring cell phones to city schools have gotten a boost for their cause from the City Council, reports Newsday.
"The council passed a measure Wednesday that gives children the express right to carry cell phones to and from school. The measure didn't change a long-standing ban on cell phones inside school buildings in the nation's largest school system, but it could help buttress legal challenges to the policy or help force the education department to compromise and find a solution. "
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July 25, 2007
Phone mast allergy 'in the mind'
Mobile phone masts are not responsible for the symptoms of ill health some blame them for, a major UK study says, reports the BBC.
"Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials.
However, the Environmental Health Perspectives study stressed people were nonetheless suffering "real symptoms".
Campaign group Mast Sanity said the results were skewed as 12 people in the trials dropped out because of illness.
In the trial, many of those who blame masts for their symptoms reported greater distress when they thought the signal was on, suggesting the problem has a psychological basis.
"Belief is a very powerful thing," said Professor Elaine Fox, of the University of Essex, who led the three-year study. "If you really believe something is going to do you some harm, it will."
The study was funded by the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research programme, a body which is itself funded by industry and government. "
Google creates iPhone-specific search page
According to TUAW, Google has created a brand new just-for-iPhone demo page for their search engine.
"It's all Javascript, as well, so it's fast and simple. The one drawback is that you can't actually go back after you've done a search (since it all loads in the same window), but it's Google, so odds are you'll find what you're looking for right away."
Cellphone for the Blind Has Angled Keys, No Screen
Spotted on Gizmodo, "a cellphone concept design by Peter Lau enables blind users to easily dial numbers and make calls. It doesn't rely on Braille, but instead has differently angled keys that users can learn to recognize".
AT&T rolls out mobile backup service
AT&T today provided a helping hand to some of its subscribers with Mobile Backup, a new online service meant to assuage cellphone users that may store valuable contact info only on their handsets.
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Second Life walkie talkie walks
Second Life walkie talkie walks is a project for the Conflux Festival 2007
Simultaneous walking tours for Second Life avatars and real people, connected to each other using a pair of walkie talkies. One operating from Second Life, the other running on an internet enabled mobile phone.
Second Life residents can pick up an in-world walkie talkie at the 0031 area in Second Life
Real people can check out the availability of activated virtual walkie talkies and by surfing to slwalkietalkie.com on their mobile phone.
The project is initiated and carried out by Sander Veenhof, a multi-media artist from the Netherlands with a fascination for the cross-over between the virtual and the real.
Cell Phones Help Bring Down Infant Mortality
A project called Pesinet, currently running in Mali, provides a preventive medical diagnostic for childred aged 0-5 thanks to mobile phones. UnionNetwork.org reports.
"Local staff transmits information about the infants weights and symptoms such as fever via a Java application on their cell phones to pediatricians. The objective is to facilitate the quick identification of children that are at risk.
In the Senegalese version of the program, the infant mortality rate fell from 120 per 1000 to 8 per 1000. In 90% of cases, if the disease is quickly reported, the child will survive."
More on the project from Balancing Act Africa
July 24, 2007
Young keep it simple in high-tech world: survey
While young people embrace the Web with real or virtual friends and their cell phone is never far away, relatively few like technology and those that do tend to be in Brazil, India and China, according to a survey. Reuters reports.
"Only a handful think of technology as a concept, and just 16 percent use terms like "social networking," said two combined surveys covering 8- to 24-year-olds published on Tuesday by Microsoft and Viacom units MTV Networks and Nickelodeon.
Young people don't see "tech" as a separate entity - it's an organic part of their lives," said Andrew Davidson, vice president of MTV's VBS International Insight unit.
"Talking to them about the role of technology in their lifestyle would be like talking to kids in the 1980s about the role the park swing or the telephone played in their social lives -- it's invisible."
The surveys involved 18,000 young people in 16 countries including the UK, U.S., China, Japan, Canada and Mexico.
... The surveyors found the average Chinese computer user has 37 online friends they have never met, Indian youth are most likely to see cell phones as a status symbol, while one-in-three UK and U.S. teenagers say they cannot live without games consoles."
Verizon customers sent/received over 10 billion SMS in June
Verizon Wireless customers sent and received more than 10 billion text messages in June 2007, a company record and the highest reported total of any wireless service provider in the nation.
Also in June, Verizon Wireless customers sent and received more than 200 million multimedia messages (MMS), which include picture and video messages.
Both monthly figures represent an increase of more than 100 percent from September 2006, when the company broke the five billion monthly text message threshold for the first time.
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Adingabea Zuzenbide Penalaren aurrean: 5/2000 Lege Organikoarekiko hurbilketa kritikoa
LANDA GOROSTIZA, Jon-Mirena (2002) Adingabea Zuzenbide Penalaren aurrean: 5/2000 Lege Organikoarekiko hurbilketa kritikoa. Eleria: Euskal Herriko Legelarien Aldizkaria (9). pp. 25-39. ISSN 1137-1951
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The Law on Minors Penal Responsibility (LO 5/2000) is now in force, and this is a good time to analyse its governing principles. Even though it is still necessary to count on a similar penal regulation to that existing in several western European countries, the Law that has finally been approved in the Spanish State contains considerable flaws, especially after the latest legal reform that affects serious offences and terrorism. The present article examines the mode of responsibility envisaged for young people in comparative law, in international law and making reference to the contribution of social sciences, while making both a positive and a negative criticism of the mentioned law.
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In what will likely amount to a symbolic gesture, Hillsboro City Council on Tuesday voted to deny a liquor license application for Gems, the city's only strip club.
Ultimately, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission issues liquor licenses to businesses. According to the OLCC's explanation of the process, cities and local governments are allowed to offer input or suggestions. But there would need to be a stated safety concern or proof of mismanagement to issue a denial.
There was no public reason given for the 3-2 denial that saw councilors Aron Carleson, Megan Braze and Steve Callaway vote no. But Council President Carleson explained her reasoning in an interview after the meeting.
It's the only voice the council has to object to "business that in my perception can be very harmful," Carleson said.
The Southeast Tualatin Valley Highway establishment was once known as the Cooler Club. Last summer, owner Frank Hurliman remade it as a strip club to drive new business.
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The Insider caught up with Kellan Lutz in New York City last night at the launch event for iD gum, a new gum from Stride made just for teens. The gum comes in a magnetic closing folding pack, each pack featuring one of 18 pieces of original artwork from young emerging artists.
"What really is captivating is the artists who have worked hard hours and really showed their creativity in making the packs of gum," Kellan says. "There's some really cool designers."
Of course, Kellan was also happy to talk about the highly anticipated final film of theTwilight franchise, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, where he confirmed that there will definitely be a bonus scene for fans following the credits of the movie!
"They're gonna love it, and Bill [Bill Condon, the director] even told me that, stay for the credits -- there's a really special thing happening."
He also dished that Condon took some liberties with the original book written by Stephenie Meyer.
"Every film's been building and building, and Bill Condon really had a great idea with ending the series with Breaking Dawn 2, and just adding a little more flavor to parts of the book that weren't there, but he elaborated more on," he says. "I think the fans are really going to enjoy it."
Clearly, he could only be talking about Breaking Dawn's original ending -- i.e. the most anti-climactic battle in the history of literature.
Check out the video to hear which Twilight cast-members Kellan still remains close to, nearly two years after filming has wrapped Here
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text: I resorted to the radioactive moth last night and finally slept but don't feel rested. It's hot, my body hurts, it's fire season so there's no set schedule anymore, gripe gripe gripe. You're right snarky, I can get through it. It's like this every summer (usually not so hot though). Yeah for the radioactive moth.


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It didn't make many headlines, but Wednesday was probably the most depressing day in Citigroup's (NYSE: C ) history: the day its massive conversion of preferred to common stock finally began. When all is said and done, taxpayers will own 34% of the hobbled banking giant. Lucky, lucky us.
And unlike other banks, I really mean own. While preferred stock kept the government at a relative arm's length, taxpayers now have direct ownership with voting rights. This gives Uncle Sam power to start making high-level changes, which will dictate Citigroup's future.
What's it all mean for the company? A few things -- some good, some bad, some potentially disastrous.
Money for nothing ...
First, the conversion considerably boosts Citi's tangible common equity (TCE). No new capital is being injected, but the shift strengthens the portion of equity that can absorb losses. Before the swap, Citi's TCE was basically negligible, which could have (and would have) put it on the edge of blowing up, had these actions not been taken.
Post-swap, Citigroup will gain $61 billion of TCE. Using data from last quarter's balance sheet, this should boost its TCE ratio to about 4.8%. While that's still below the historical banking average of 6%, it's also higher than rivals JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM ) , US Bancorp (NYSE: USB ) , Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC ) , and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC ) -- at least, before they went on a massive capital-raising campaign. By most measures, Citi is now a fairly well-capitalized bank.
And that's where all the good news ends
Not surprisingly, this comes at a price typically associated with Mafia activity. Current shareholders are being diluted by slightly more than 75%! When the dust settles, Citi will have more than 23 billion shares outstanding, compared to 5.5 billion before the conversion.
This simply means that what's left of the company is split so many ways, it'll be hard to create even trivial shareholder value. This is especially true when you remember that Citi sold most of its only stable unit, Smith Barney, to Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS ) , and that it's drastically delevered in recent months. There just simply isn't an earnings-power mechanism anymore.
That sad truth becomes clear when you look at its individual operating segments. During the boom years, Citi had three units it could count on for big profits: credit cards, consumer banking, and institutional clients. (The latter houses the investment banking unit largely responsible for pulling the company down the toilet.)
Now, the credit card unit faces oppressive new regulations and exploding delinquencies that will grow as unemployment rises. Consumer banking has been hemorrhaging money faster than any other segment. And much of the institutional client group is being forgotten about and shoved into Citi's "bad bank" entity, known as Citi Holdings.
CEO Vikram Pandit recently told BusinessWeek: "We want to be Citicorp, not Citigroup, going forward. Citicorp is our global bank for consumers and businesses." To do so, large chunks of the company are not being revived -- they're being killed. Investors hoping for an eventual profit recovery should keep this sobering fact in mind.
The beginning of the end
Tie everything together, and you get a serious trifecta: Citigroup was built on a defunct business model, owns many assets incapable of turning a profit, and now calls the government its largest shareholder. So while it will not fail thanks to government ownership, an eventual breakup of the company looks fairly likely.
Why? Citigroup found itself in these dire straits because its overwhelming size and complexity nearly destroyed the economy last fall. Its new top shareholder, the government, is an organization oblivious to profits, but extremely conscious about the stability of the financial system. It wants nothing more than to bury the words "systemic risk" six feet under. And just as it's doing with AIG (NYSE: AIG ) , a slow, stable, and controlled dismemberment of Citigroup would achieve the government's goal of eliminating the "too big to fail" problem for good.
Sayonara, Citigroup? As we know it, yes. This is a failed company taped together by a government whose sole mission is to ensure that a disaster of this magnitude never happens again. After the past 18 months, there's essentially zero chance that Citigroup will be allowed to remain in its current form indefinitely.
And you know what? Good riddance.
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Sony DEV-5 video binoculars pictures and hands-on
Are you a twitcher? What about an ornithologist? Or maybe you simply like to call yourself a birdwatcher? If that's you then Sony has just launched the gadget that you're going to be lusting after. Sod the iPhone or the latest tablet, you'll want... >>
Sony upgrades binoculars by adding 3D and HD recording
Sony has launched the world's first Digital Binoculars with HD video recording giving wildlife, bird spotters and peeping toms the chance to not only see what's happening far away but also record it too. The Sony DEV-5 and DEV-3 from Sony are the... >>
Trust launch digital binoculars
Trust, following in the footsteps of Pentax last year has created a set of digital binoculars called the Trust DB-2180 Binocular LCD Digicam. The water-resistant pair of binoculars comes with an integrated digital camera and a 4cm colour LCD screen, offers... >>
Trust has launched a pair of binoculars that have a built in digital camera.
Trust has launched a pair of binoculars that have a built in digital camera. The Trust 580Z Binocular DigiC@m bring the most distant of objects up to 8x closer and the integrated digital camera can then be used to take photographs up to a further 7x closer... >>


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A tragic story from Ohio over the weekend.
According to a report from the Warren (Ohio) Tribune Chronicle, six teenagers were killed Sunday morning when the SUV they were traveling in hit a guardrail and overturned into a pond.
Two other teens who were in the vehicle survived the accident, according to the Tribune Chronicle report.
Read the Tribune Chronicle report HERE.


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More than 1,000 gallons of raw sewage poured into pristine waters off Oahu's west coast. But why it happened is still a mystery.
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The link below is to an article (with photos) that looks at Japan two years on from the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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The following article reports on a massive earthquake off Aceh in Indonesia. The earthquake measured 8.7 and tsunami warnings have been issued around the Indian Ocean.
The following article is an interesting report on debris from the Japanese Tsunami event of March 2011.
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I don't have any non profit organizations that I support on a regular basis. I do support various non profit organizations from time to time, but it tends to be a bit all over the shop.
I have supported such environmental organizations as Bush Heritage Australia and WWF, among others. I have also supported Compassion and other similar organizations from time to time, such as when the appeal went out for assistance during the tsunami crisis on Boxing Day a few years ago.
I do have an interest, should I have access to any money, to start a foundation-type organization for diabetes research and support. The reason for this interest is that a dear friend died a few years ago who suffered badly from diabetes.
News has been released from the disaster area in Japan following the earthquake and tsunami that is truly horrible – there are multitudes of bodies unable to be collected from within the exclusion zone around the stricken nuclear power plant.
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The link below is to 20 unforgettable pictures of the disaster as posted in a National Geographic daily news article:


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MAC Group congratulates Isle of Man Aircraft Registry
Local provider of aircraft insurance, MAC Group would like to offer its congratulations to the Isle of Man Aircraft Registry on the addition of its 500th aircraft, describing it as an enormous milestone for the Isle of Man's flourishing aviation sector. The aircraft, a Bombardier Global 5000, was delivered new from the factory in Montreal, Canada, last month despite the Aircraft Registry having only being operational since 2007. The achievement is reflective of both the entrepreneurial and innovatory drive that positions the Island amongst the world's leading jurisdictions for asset management and provides an outstanding incentive to those wishing to do business with and within the Island.
Brian Kirkland, a leading Aviation Consultant with MAC Commercial and Professional Risks, commented on the development: "This is a tremendous achievement both for the Aircraft Registry and the Isle of Man as a whole. As Europe's only dedicated corporate aircraft register, the Aircraft Registry is further testament to the Isle of Man's growing reputation as a globally competitive centre for enterprise and to the tremendous capacity for the Island's business community to confidently accommodate such a consistent influx of global clients."
Mr Kirkland continued: "The diversification of the Island's economic base is vital to sustaining our relatively privileged economic status and I believe that, certainly amongst the domestic aviation industry, there is a shared objective in its pursuit. The corporate aviation industry is somewhat unique in both the variety and range of its complementary industries and the manner in which the industry's economic benefits percolate throughout the local economy. Areas such as manufacturing, financing, administration, ownership structuring, support services and bespoke aviation insurance frameworks, all contribute towards the Islands economy, its employment base and of course global status. As a member of the Island's business community, I believe that reaching this milestone is an invaluable contribution towards making the Isle of Man one of the world's premier centres for enterprise."
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iPhone 5 spec to match the iPad 2
Some details on the specification of the much rumoured iPhone 5 have appeared suggesting that it will match the power of the iPad 2.
The latest reports indicate that the iPhone 5 will feature the same processor as the iPad 2 along with 1 GB of RAM.
This would make it the most powerful handheld on the market trumping even the PS Vita's 512 MB of RAM and 128 MB of video RAM although this may balance itself out with the iPhone 5 having to run the demanding iOS frontend.
An official announcement in the iPhone 5 is expected soon with the launch believed to be scheduled for some time in October.
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Congratulations to Billy Savage for winning the "How Do You Skate the City" contest with his story on downhill skating. Savage came to the KCET studio lot and brought along his Dogtown skateboard circa 1978, a perfect match for his prize, a new Santa Monica Airlines board designed by Zephyr co-founder Skip Engblom. Dogtown Skateboards was founded by former Zephyr skate team member Jim Muir in 1977. We thank all of those who shared their skateboarding stories and still encourage you to contribute yours.
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I'm old, scarred and banged-up from skating. Now in my late-40s, I still get skate (a little) and regularly embarrass myself in front of new generations of skaters. I've been at it for well more than three decades and the sad truth is, I've just never been very good... but that never stopped me from having a total blast. This weekend I just had another birthday, and I simply asked my wife for some time on my 'special day' to skate. For a quick rush, I sometimes hike the trails of Griffith Park and skate down the road from the Observatory. I decided I'd do just that for my birthday... I blew past them, gnats collecting on my teeth as I couldn't contain my smile.


text: This paper reports on the influence of individual reflections on the auditory localization of a loudspeaker in a small room. Two previous papers [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 1717--1726 (1995); ibid. (in press)] have reported on the influence of individual reflections on timbre of reproduced sound. The sound field produced by a single loudspeaker positioned in a normal listening room has been simulated using an electroacoustical setup. The setup models the direct sound, 17 individual reflections, and the reverberant field. The threshold of detection was measured using the method of adjustment for five reflections using three subjects for noise and speech. The thresholds have been measured for two simulated situations: (1) A loudspeaker with frequency-independent directivity characteristics and frequency-independent absorption coefficients of the room surfaces and (2) a loudspeaker with directivity according to a standard two-way system and absorption coefficients according to real materials. The results have shown that subjects can reliably distinguish between timbre and localization, that the spectrum level above 2 kHz for individual reflections determines their influence on the localization of the main source, and that only the first-order floor reflection will contribute to localization of the main source. [sup a)]Present address: Bang and Olufsen A/S, Peter Bangs Vej 15, DK-7600 Struer, Denmark.


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MOBILE, Alabama – Jurors in the robbery-attempted murder trial of Jackeith Harrison this morning saw and heard the March 2012 shooting of a police officer from multiple vantage points, including a camera worn by the officer and 911 calls.
Harrison, 20, faces a charge of first-degree robbery and five counts of attempted murder.
Officer Chad Wynne, who was off duty but in uniform because of his side job as a security officer for a Dauphin Street bar, was the first officer to arrive at the Midtown Mobile Winn-Dixie store on Government and Catherine streets on March 2 of last year.
The Mobile County Circuit Court jury saw a 25-minute video from his city-issued body camera. It was dramatically different from the store surveillance footage that jurors watched on the first day of the trial Monday. That video had no sound and showed Wynne crumpling to the ground from a bullet fired off-camera.
The recording the jury saw today included sound and began just after the gun had been fired. Wynne testified that he must have activated the camera as he was crawling outside.
The officer made guttural groans and writhed on the ground as his breathing became labored. Those groans evolved into loud screams that continued during the entire ride to the hospital in a patrol cruiser. Most of the recording is black, but the sound makes it clear Wynne was in intense pain.
"Hold on man, I'm gonna get you to the hospital," one officer said at one point.
Once at the hospital, doctors and nurses rushed Wynne to the operating room. The jury could see their faces and the ceiling as the staff wheeled Wynne down the hallway.
The officer testified that he spent the next 12 to 13 days in the hospital and underwent four surgeries.
As the tape played for the jury, police Chief Micheal Williams and several officers watched form the first row of the Circuit Judge Rick Stout's courtroom.
During cross-examination by defense attorney Robert F. "Cowboy Bob" Clark, Wynne acknowledge that he was not wearing a bullet-proof vest and said he could not see the shooter's face.
"All I saw was a person standing with a hood over his face and what appeared to be a bandana," he said.
Jurors also heard several 911 calls, including one that Winn-Dixie employee Lara Duke made from the store's freezer. Duke, a worker in the store's bakery, testified that she saw a man with a gun and figured the store was being robbed. She said she shut herself in the walk-in freezer and called 911 on her cell phone.
Duke testified that she heard three or four shots, shouts and sirens during her time in the freezer. She said she finally left when the SWAT team arrived.
Clark confronted her during cross-examination with a statement to police in which she described the gunman as a much smaller man than the defendant.
Ernest Paige, an overnight stocking clerk at the store, testified that he saw the taller of the two robbers – whom prosecutors allege was Harrison – walk toward the exit and fire "a lot" of shots.
As he has done with other witnesses, Clark pressed Paige for a description of the shooter. Paige testified that he could not identify the gunman because of the mask over his face.
Clark also pressed Paige during cross-examination for a more precise estimation of the heights of the short and tall robbers.
"I didn't have a tape measure," he said.
Jurors now are listening to more 911 calls and communication by police reporting "officer down."Follow Brendan Kirby on Twitter: Follow @BrendanKKirby


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- Planting practices: a major impact on corn performance
- More uniform stands, vigorous early growth
- Rotation increases yield potential, reduces costs
- Excessive planter speed can affect spacing
With corn planting for the 2011 season just around the corner, what growers do at this critical time can have a major impact on the crop's performance, says Erick Larson. "While early planting is often a significant factor in success with corn, growers who rush the process and don't follow sound practices can end up costing themselves yield," he said at the annual Delta Ag Expo at Cleveland, Miss.
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Excessive planter speed can affect spacing
"I believe many growers have room for improvement with plant spacing," he says. "Corn is much more responsive to spacing than our other row crops."
For dryland corn, he suggests 24,000 to 28,000 plants per acre, and for irrigated corn up to 34,000 plants per acre.
A major factor in stand variation, and thus crop performance, is often due to how the seed is planted, Larson says.
"I believe the most prevalent factor in non-uniform seed distribution is excessive planter speed. I like to keep planter speed well below 5 mph, and many top producers will not exceed 4 mph."
Going faster than 5 mph can result in poorer seed spacing, less uniform depth, and more double seed drops, he notes.
"Most producers do a good job with seeding depth, but many times fail to properly calibrate their planters for seed size. I saw several instances last year of growers changing from one hybrid to another, but failing to recalibrate planters for the difference in seed size."


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Brazil 2014 sees Colombia return to the World Cup after failing to qualify for the last three tournaments. With their attacking talent and flair, they are sure to entertain in Brazil. Here, Bleacher Report picks the five best team goals in Colombia's history, including examples of their trademark fluid passing and one acrobatic volley.
Top 5 Colombia Team Goals of All Time
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1-1 with 20 seconds remaining in injury time in the Bolivian capital, La Paz. Then Radamel Falcao secured victory for Colombia. Falcao came off the bench to finish a quick counter-attack from Los Cafeteros after good work from James Rodriguez and Dorlan Pabon.
The goal was significant as it ensured Colombia began their 2014 World Cup campaign with a good win in a tough away fixture. From then, despite the chaos of the 96-day reign of coach Leonel Alvarez, Colombia hardly looked back.
No compilation of Colombian goals could exclude a day forever etched in the memory of Colombian fans: 5 September, 1993. The location: el Estadio Monumental, Buenos Aires. The score: 0-5.
Adolfo "El Tren" Valencia scored the final goal on 84 minutes, finishing a move that began with a nonchalantly stylish pass by Carlos Valderrama.
Argentine coach Alfio Basile commented: "I never want to think about that match again. It was a crime against nature, a day when I wanted to dig a hole in the ground and bury myself in it."
Victor Hugo Aristizabal is fondly remembered by fans of the Colombian national team for three feats: six goals in Colombia's Copa America triumph in 2001, a hat-trick in Asuncion against Paraguay in 2002, and for this acrobatic goal against Chile back in 1993.
This was Colombia's golden generation of Rene "El Loco" Higuita, Andres Escobar, Carlos "El Pibe" Valderrama, Freddy Rincon, Adolfo "El Tren" Valencia and Faustino "Tino" Asprilla. This goal typifies the exuberance and audacity they brought to the game.
Flying winger Juan Guillermo Cuadrado profited from a great team move, stretching out a leg to meet James Rodriguez's centre. This is neat passing at its best, appreciated by the crowd, who shouted 'ole' at every completed exchange.
Freddy Rincon's goal against Germany at the 1990 World Cup has gone down in Colombian folklore. Colombia, playing for a draw to qualify for the knockout stages, had just gone 1-0 down. Nevertheless, even in injury time, the team stayed true to their passing philosophy, and after Valderrama's neat turn and pass, Rincon's lung-busting run was found by the playmaker. Rincon applied the finish to a great move started from the back.


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Acta Cryst. (2013). E69, m629-m630 [ doi:10.1107/S1600536813029413 ]
Abstract: In the title linear homo-trinuclear complex, [Cd3(C19H18Cl2N2O2)2(C2H3O2)2], the central CdII atom is located on a centre of inversion and has a distorted octahedral coordination geometry formed by four O atoms from two bidentate/tetradentate Schiff base ligands and two O atoms from two bridging acetate ligands. The coordination geometry of the terminal CdII atom is square-pyramidal with the tetradentate part of the ligand in the basal plane and one O atom from an acetate ligand occupying the apical site. The six-membered CdN2C3 ring adopts a chair conformation. The acetate-bridged CdCd distance is 3.3071 (2) Å. The crystal structure is stabilized by C-HO hydrogen bonds, which form C(7) chain motifs and give rise to a two-dimensional supramolecular network structure lying parallel to the ab plane.
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While serving as secretary of state in New York in 1790, Jefferson purchased a good deal of furniture from local cabinetmakers, particularly Thomas Burling. The attribution of this chair to Burling is based upon a very similar chair, now at Mount Vernon, that Burling made for President Washington. Jefferson's chair is located with his writing table in the Cabinet at Monticello.
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Join us in the West Wing of the Hillsborough Public Library, 379 South Branch Road, for a wonderful evening enjoying the music of "Seasons", a unique fusion of Celtic, folk, original and a "bit o' the blarney,' today, March 13 at 7 p.m.Refreshments will be served!
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Once a season, typically, Appleseed Productions presents a light comedy, as fluffy as possible but with the great redeeming gift of laughter.
This season the show is "I Shot My Rich Aunt," in which playwright Mark Chandler tackles -- and pretty much succeeds at -- the tough job of comically fusing two vastly different eras in Great Britain.
First, there's the era of P. G. Wodehouse, whose fictional hero, the feather-brained Bertie Wooster, is steered through life by his unflappable manservant Jeeves.
Second, there's the modern era of vanishing house servants, labor unions, dwindling family fortunes, women with serious careers, and ancient castles now sustained by the tourist trade.
Appleseed's fine production of the show, directed and designed by Jon Wilson, neatly captures the fusion of styles.
A good farce like this one defies plot summary, and I won't even try. But Wilson and the talented cast deftly negotiate the story's twists and reverses.
Imperious Lady Valonia (Nora O'Dea) has guests, including her nephew Dustin (David Hubert), his fiancee Judy (Anne Freund) and his pal Bingo (Gerrit Vander Werff, Jr.).
Not invited -- but very much present -- is Dustin's strong-willed ex-fiancee Vivian (Rachelle Clavin).
At some point, Dustin and Bingo -- both of them Bertie Wooster types, and both portrayed with fine light-comedy skills -- come to believe that Dustin has accidentally killed his aunt, and start a cover-up.
You'll hear many intentional echoes of Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," including similar names and characters, a forgotten handbag, a reference book to be consulted.
And at the end, as in "Earnest," there's an absolute gridlock on all the weddings, which Chandler solves in his own summary and startling fashion.
The actors do a reasonably good job with the fluting style of upper-class British accent, but I often wished for less fluting and clearer projection.
Strong work comes from Korrie E. Strodel as Eloise, the maid who switches from fixing dinner to taking her shift with the servants picketing the castle; David Vickers as a repressed clergyman; Richard D. Harris as Mayhew, the family lawyer; and Wendy Sikorski as Gwendolyn, a sexual loose cannon. "Yes," Mayhew tells his wife over the phone. "The Gwendolyn."
What: "I Shot My Rich Aunt."
Where: Appleseed Productions. Atonement Lutheran Stage, 116 West Glen Ave., Syracuse.
When: Seen at Wednesday preview.
Length: Two hours, 20 minutes, including intermission.
Next Performance: Opens Friday, May 1.
Information: Tickets $12 to $15. (Mothers Day Dinner and Show $27 to $30.) 492-9766. www.AppleseedProductions.org.


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There are plenty of things present for a football team to be distracted by during homecoming week. But the Clovis Wildcats might have their biggest distraction in what's currently missing.
As practice has progressed this week, the Clovis players have walked by what used to be a circular team sign on the locker room floor. Instead, they only see a concrete slab, and a note that says, "There used to be nothing tougher than a Clovis Wildcat," taped to the top of the slab.
"It's kind of disappointing," junior running back Kamal Cass said of the missing sign, and the two-game skid that inspired its removal. "I know we're a better team than the way we've been playing.
"We just haven't reached our full potential yet. We'll come out and play well one half, and the other half we're dummies."
It's the bad halves that have Clovis (2-2) at .500 with a two-game skid. The Wildcats will probably need two exemplary halves just to hang with Rio Rancho (3-1).
While the Wildcats have been grounded, the Rams are flying high off a 42-21 victory over top-ranked Las Cruces High — a convincing win that happened across Rio Rancho Friday night at the same time the Wildcats were losing 27-20 to Cleveland — the second of three road games in four weeks. Tonight's game against Rio Rancho is the lone home affair of the four, before the Wildcats head to Roswell next week to face Goddard.
"It's our toughest stretch of the year," Clovis coach Eric Roanhaus said. "I'd like to come out of the stretch 2-2, but it doesn't look like we're going to get that. The last two teams we've played aren't as good as Rio Rancho or Goddard. They run the spread better than Cleveland or Manzano."
Other than the Wildcats' special teams, which have four touchdown returns and two others inside the red zone, there's been a lack of execution on offense and defense.
"When we haven't been very good defensively," Roanhaus said, "we've always been good enough offensively to keep the ball away from the other team. Right now, our offense can't consistently keep the ball from the other team, and our defense can't consistently stop them."
Cass knows teams are going to start doing as Cleveland did last week, and simply give up field position by kicking and punting the ball out of bounds to avoid returns by Cass, Shaprei Bryant or Traivon Sopila. And this week, Roanhaus said, Rio Rancho isn't concerned about kick returns because it has the best kicker in the state in senior Carlos Garcia, who will simply send the kickoff past the end zone for a touchback.
That means the Wildcats' offense needs to be better.
"We need to pass a little more," Cass said, "and when me and (Bryant) get the ball, we have to take advantage of those chances."
Along with other staples of the Wildcats' locker room, the center glass sign has been used before as a source for motivation. In 2009, with Clovis in the midst of a two-game losing streak, the sign was covered up with butcher paper and masking tape as a source of motivation.
For whatever reason, that move wasn't replicated this time.
"It's gone," Roanhaus said of the sign, "and it's not going to be back until we start playing like Wildcats."
Rio Rancho (3-1)
at Clovis (2-2)
7 p.m. today
Leon Williams Stadium
On the radio: KCLV-AM 1240, KCLV-FM 99.1, KTQM-FM 99.9.
Coaches: Clovis, Eric Roanhaus, 35th season, 312-118-5. Rio Rancho, David Howes, 4th season, 23-16.
Last week: The Wildcats dropped to .500 with a 27-20 defeat at Cleveland. The Rams recovered from their first loss of the season, and beat Class 5A favorite Las Cruces High 42-21.
Last meeting: 2011, Rio Rancho beat the Cats at home 27-14. The Wildcats lead the series 6-2, with the Rams taking two of the last three.
Rio Rancho players to watch: Tristen Foley, Jr., 5-9, 150, WR; K.J. Jiggets, Jr., 5-8, 155, WR; Carlos Garcia, Sr., 5-8, 160, PK.
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Martin Brodeur is usually slightly amused by suggestions that most NHL goaltenders cheat by using illegal pads. After all, the Devils goalie has always played with some of the game's smallest equipment.
But Brodeur, one of only eight Devils players to participate in Friday's morning skate at the Prudential Center, said it is tougher than ever to cheat even if a goalie chose to do so.
"I don't understand why people think we're cheating," Brodeur said. "It's impossible."
Brodeur pointed out that every piece of equipment an NHL wants to use must be inspected and approved by the NHL before it can be implemented in a game. Sometimes it even takes a few days. He said the league is most vigilant about oversized leg pads and shoulder pads.
He is concerned only about safety.
"Pads don't really concern me," Brodeur said. "For me it's the arm, chest and pants."
In addition to Brodeur, goalie Kevin Weekes, rookie Petr Vrana, defensemen Andy Greene and Sheldon Brookbank, and the fourth line (Mike Rupp, Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond and David Clarkson) participated in the morning skate.
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MILLVILLE — A city couple, one of them injured, was displaced New Year's Day morning after a fire ravaged their 11⁄2 story home on North 7th Street.
The woman of the pair, who was the only one home at the time of the fire, was taken to Vineland's South Jersey Healthcare-Regional Medical Center for treatment of smoke inhalation and released, according to Millville Fire Department Captain John Wettstein.
Neither of the two residents of the single-family home at 315 N. 7th St. were identified.
The couple declined help from the Red Cross; it is believed they are staying with friends or family.
The cause of the fire has been investigated, but was undetermined.
However, it is considered non-suspicious and accidental in nature.
The blaze, which was reported at 11:30 a.m. and was brought under control an hour later, started in the front living room area, Wettstein said.


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The Dixon City Council discussed a few topics during a special meeting Monday night, but the theme of the night was a debate about beauty vs. functionality.
The City Council reviewed three options for parking along the south side of First Street, on the block between Hennepin Avenue and Galena Avenue. The City Council decided to go with all diagonal parking, which created the most parking spaces but reduced the aesthetics of the block because of narrower sidewalks and fewer trees.
That debate was covered in Tuesday's editions.
However, a second discussion during the meeting was cut from Tuesday's article because of space constraints and the fact that no action was taken.
But it was an important discussion.
That second discussion was about the northwest corner of Peoria Avenue and First Street, and again dealt with a debate about beauty and functionality.
Scott Brown, of Wendler Engineering Services Inc., one of two firms working with the city on the streetscape design, presented council members with a new plan for the intersection, one that created more landscaping and allowed for a proposed John Dixon statue to be presented in a way preferred by the sculptor and the Historic Preservation Commission.
But to do that requires more space, even more than the revised plan that was presented on Monday night.
The design presented includes 48 parking spaces in the lot at the intersection, which would be two more than are currently there, Brown said.
The proposed design for the Dixon statue shows the town's founder sitting on a stool with his left hand extended to offer a piece of candy.
The inspiration for the statue, Brown said, came from stories of Dixon sitting in downtown and handing out candy to children and talking with residents.
The new design for the corner, which deviates from the original plan, creates a small seating area around the statue and more landscaping. But there could be more landscaping and an area more ideal for the statue if the city decides to reduce the parking spaces.
That was the debate between beauty and functionality.
Earlier in the meeting, council members, although not unanimously, sided with functionality in adding the parking spaces to a block of First Street.
Commissioner Dennis Considine said he didn't think the city should add parking spaces in one area – on First Street – and take them away in another area of downtown.
Commissioner Dave Blackburn said he wanted to get a sense of what residents thought about the idea of losing one or two parking spaces to create a larger area for the statue.
The City Council is expected to get an additional presentation about the new design, as well as any additional costs that could come about from the change in work.
That could happen at the next City Council meeting, Brown said.
So the debate about beauty vs. functionality will continue.
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A landfill just south of Willow Run Airport in Wayne County was scheduled to receive 36 tons of low-level radioactive waste last week from a fracking operation in Pennsylvania.
According to a report in the Detroit Free Press, the Wayne Disposal landfill between I-94 and the airport was approved by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to accept radioactive material in 2006.
The radioactivity levels of the waste produced by hydraulic fracturing are typically low, according to the report, but local residents and environmental activists have raised concerns about bringing the materials to the area.
Washtenaw County has seen an increase in conventional oil drilling in Saline and Scio Townships but has not seen any recent fracking activity.
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729 Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Tips
- Dressy 5
- Casual 2
- Formal 1
- Arrive early 3
- Take public transit 2
- Parking is expensive 1
- Food and drinks for purchase 3
- Dine before you go 2
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Little Tokyo Grill, parking structure, take Right, then next Right.star this tip starred
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Wear comfortable shoes because almost always have to park under county buildings across the street when go to opera. Takes you to level 8 which is a level with elevator to pavillion.star this tip starred
I wore I wore an ankle length dress with warm shawl. Glad I did. It was a bit cool. I was glad I dressed up. .star this tip starred
Parking is a hurdle you can avoid by arriving at least an hour before showtime.
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The weather was sunny and then a little overcast. I wore velvet, Its nice to dress the kids up.star this tip starred
Pre order food for intermission. Break is too short to wait in line. No food in theatre
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Pinot Grill from Patina is right across from Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, but it gets BUSY, so give yourself at least 2 hours before the show.star this tip starred
The weather was warm. I wore A suit - many people dressed up, but many were more casual..star this tip starred
take the red line to the civic center station, exit toward the dorothy chandler/disney hall. it's a quick walk and saves you from dealing with the hassle of driving to downtown LA and parking!!star this tip starred
The weather was Warm evening. I wore Dress pants and dressy top.star this tip starred
The weather was cool. I wore casual dressy but some were in fur and bling.star this tip starred
There are a couple of venues at the Music Center, so it might get a little confusing if you've never been. There are people around to ask to make sure you're headed in the right direction. The elevators inside the opera house are slow. We sat pretty high up in the balcony. The view was still good, considering.
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There are snacks and drinks for purchase. There are also restaurants nearby, but they're pricey. Consider dining before you go.
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They have a large underground parking structure. Arrive early. I drove down several floors, but the parking attendants were good and the traffic within the lot was moving at a good pace. I can't remember on which level I parked, but I had to walk a bit to get to the stairs/escalators. I appreciated that everyone was moving quickly.
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I wore nice pants and blouse, not too dressy, not too casual..
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Unless you give yourself enough time, it is not worth it to eat at the main Patina group restaurant. One does not want to have to wait for a table or cram in at the bar and then rush. Not at those prices where you can't experience the taste. They may as well put a Denny's there.star this tip starred
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Immigration reform has been a big topic in the national news. Sunday, we featured a story about one local family who is among the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in hiding.
We asked local stakeholders to weigh in on the issue. Below are the thoughts of
Jerry Dennis, president of SEIU Local 200 United; and U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei. We also asked former U.S. Rep. Anne Marie Buerkle, other labor leaders and immigration advocates to weigh in. We'll add their thoughts as they come in. And feel free to join the debate.
Jerry Dennis, president of SEIU Local 200 United:
SEIU was founded more than 90 years ago by immigrants who dared to dream they could become stronger together as a union. Today, our dreams are no different.
SEIU fights for all workers, no matter where they come from. The time is now for our government to pass commonsense immigration reform.
First, it's the right thing to do for hard-working immigrants who aspire to be citizens and participate in our democracy. Second, it will raise the wage ladder for all workers and make employers pay everyone fairly, above the table. Lastly, it will allow our immigrant community to continue contributing to our economy as customers in local businesses, as voices against economic injustice, as tax payers and as Americans committed to working hard for our future.
U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei: Our current system and approach to immigration is not working, but I am encouraged by the bi-partisan approach taken by the Senate, and look forward to ongoing debate in the House.
We need comprehensive immigration reform that increases security along our borders, and ensures that high-skilled and talented workers can stay and work in the US to keep American companies competitive. We need to make sure a fruit farmer or a dairy farmer in Central New York does not have to break the law in order to keep their farm running.
Contact Marnie Eisenstadt at email@example.com or 315-470-2246.