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Washington, DC – From creating jobs to supporting retirement and pension funds, America's oil and natural gas industry has long stood as a key pillar of our nation's economy. But only a few years ago, there were many who believed we may be running out of these important resources, potentially forcing our nation to further increase its reliance of foreign energy and threatening our nation's security, economy and national energy outlook.
Thankfully — thanks to the continued innovation and dedication of America's independent oil and natural gas producers — our nation has unlocked a newfound energy opportunity, a resurgence that Reuters columnist Chrystia Feeland describes as one of the "lone sources of growth — and of good blue-collar jobs — at a time of global economic stagnation."
More from Reuters:
"Until very recently, our collective assumption was that oil was running out. …Obvious — but wrong. Thanks in part to technologies like horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracking, we are entering a new age of abundant oil. As the energy expert Leonardo Maugeri contends in a recent report published by the Belfer Center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, 'contrary to what most people believe, oil supply capacity is growing worldwide at such an unprecedented level that it might outpace consumption.'
"At a time when the global meme is of America's inevitable economic decline, the surge in oil supply capacity is an important contrarian indicator. Mr. Maugeri calculates that the United States "could conceivably produce up to 65 percent of its oil consumption needs domestically." That national energy boom is already providing a powerful economic stimulus in some parts of the country — just look at North Dakota. Crucially, at a time when one of the biggest social and political problems in the United States is the disappearance of well-paid blue-collar work, particularly for men, oil patch jobs fill that void."
If fact, even communities that have banned shale gas development – despite its proven safety record – are reaping the immense benefits of neighboring production. As Bloomberg highlighted this week, Pittsburgh, PA has seen a long-awaited economic resurgence thanks to nearby development of the Marcellus Shale.
"'Local development officials credit the city's emphasis on expanding schools and hospitals to replace closed steel mills and foundries. And they look to gas extraction as a future key. 'The Marcellus and Utica shale represent a transformative opportunity for the Pittsburgh region,' said Dennis Yablonsky, chief executive officer of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.
"New methods of extracting natural gas and oil are boosting the economies of states from Pennsylvania to North Dakota and Texas. Unconventional gas production alone is forecast to spur almost $3.2 trillion in new investment by 2035 and support more than 2.4 million jobs in the lower 48 U.S. states, according to an IHS Inc. study released in June. It projected a 14 percent annual compound-growth rate in Pennsylvania jobs tied to gas.
"[Mayor Luke] Ravenstahl said balancing the industry and environmental concerns can be achieved. 'We can protect the environment and drill in a responsible way, while also creating tens of thousands of jobs for local Pittsburgh residents,' he said."
From job creation, strengthening our nation's economy while safeguarding our environment, the benefits of American energy production are incomparable. And as new sources of energy are explored, independent oil and natural gas producers are working to ensure the safe and continued production of the energy our nation relies upon. But the need for support, common sense regulation and access to reserves has never been more clear. It is time that our government – from the local, state and federal levels – recognize the unique opportunity that many deemed impossible only years ago.


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Boston Red Sox @RedSox
5/2 vs. OAK: Aviles SS, Sweeney RF, Pedroia 2B, Gonzalez 1B, Ortiz DH, Ross LF, Salty C, Middlebrooks 3B, Byrd CF, Bard P
Boston Red Sox @RedSox
5/2 vs. OAK: Aviles SS, Sweeney RF, Pedroia 2B, Gonzalez 1B, Ortiz DH, Ross LF, Salty C, Middlebrooks 3B, Byrd CF, Bard P
Here's my question about Cook though. They sent Tazawa down and brought up Iglesias. Then they sent Andersen down, which was initially to open a spot for Cook (since they only have 11 pitchers). I'm assuming they brought up Middlebrooks instead because Youk is more injured than they're letting on.
So will Youk go to the DL to open the spot for Cook? Or will they send Iglesias back down? I definitely think they should bring him up and go with the 6 man rotation with 20 games in 20 days. A buddy of mine just told me he suspects Buchholz will head to the DL with some sort of "injury" for a while as well.
Also, Sox signed Mark Prior to a minor league deal. I like it -- can't hurt, and he's got nasty stuff if he can stay healthy (big if).
I heard Cook will start in favor of Beckett on Saturday. something about wanting to rest Beckett after a 125 + pitch effort. I hope he does'nt sh!t the bed I have tickets behind home plate. I was hoping to see a Lester or Beckett vintage performance.
Middlebrooks with a decent 1st night in the bigs...A walk, stolen base, infield hit showing some good speed for a big guy, nice opposite field double. Keep it up and Youks days are numbered
Maybe they should trade gonzalez and put youk back at first when he comes back though. Dude left, what, 5 men on base in the last 3 innings? 0 for his last 14? He better start hitting again! Which he will. But jeeze, woulda been nice if it was last night.
Yeah its like Gonzales is so focused on going the other way that he is late on almost everything. Last year early in the season he was so good with just going where the pitch was thrown. I have'nt seen Gonzales go up the middle very often this year. Matter of fact Gonzales has'nt pulled the ball for much power yet either
Papi is raking go figure
Gonzales is a beast of a hitter. He's going through a slump. He'll start raking soon.
The sh!ttiest weekend of the season and no chatter at all, I went to the game on saturday I was so pissed I left in the 6th inning. If I had to listen to those stupid pink hat dumbasses sing Sweet Caroline I would have puked.
We started a 4 AAAA lineup a Triple A pitcher who goes out and gets spiked in a dumbass play at the plate. I think by the time this team gets healthy and gets its head out of its collective ass we are going to be so deep in a hole we won't get out.
Feast or Famine for this team. We get the pitching and the bats are cold or we hit and the pitching sucks. Or both the pitching and the bats suck.
Tampa has the pitching, Baltimore and Toronto have good young pitching and good lineups.
I ended my NESN Red Sox self-imposed moratorium in the 9th inning of the Sunday game. I got to watch 8 innings of the Red Sox not hitting, some pretty good defense, and good bullpen pitching until the Sox put up the white flag and brought McDonald. Adrian Gonzalez looked like he'd mentally taken the game off at the plate.
It was pretty entertaining baseball for a last place team. Kind of like being a Mets fan.
What's up with the Rem-Dawg? I have no idea who the color commentator was.
I was at the game yesterday. Stayed for the whole thing. They let everyone run out on the field and run the bases afterwards. Pic of my wife taking a pic of me rounding first
They looked pretty terrible though. Valentine was pulling pitchers too early (Andrew Miller struck out 3 of the 4 batters he faced and he pulled him in a game when the starter only goes 4? Huh?). Gonzalez was 0-8 and struck out against Chris Davis (yes, the Orioles first baseman) with 2 on in the 17th. You know things are going poorly when you get overmatched by a guy who hasn't pitched since high school I think there were 3 errors that led to Adam Jones scoring the 6th run (dropped pop up, overthrown stealing, and something else).
When they pulled Ortiz for Darnell McDonald to pinch run, I said to my dad "Great....now Darnell will score on a play that Ortiz would have scored on, we'll tie the game, and we won't have Ortiz to bat in the 10th". And that's exactly what happened....Ortiz missed out on at least 3 more at bats, and might very well have cost us the game
Terrible, awful game, but a lot of fun to be at Oh and Middlebrooks is a beast!
You guys lookin forward to football season yet??
... cant say I wont be happy when the Gmen open the season... considering the Yanks play so far.
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve"
The 6-plus-hour game yesterday reminded me of a game a few years ago.
Remember the game a few years ago where a cold front moved through during the game, the temperature dropped almost 40 degrees during the the game, and the concessions were selling sweatshirts like crazy? IIRC, it was about 70 at game time and in the upper 30s at the end of the game.
Looking at he stands last evening, it looked like the only people that stayed around were people that had sweatshirts.
Youk is in jeporady of being Sox version of Wall Pipp..Seriously Cherrington should be on the horn finding a trade partner for Youk.
Middlebrooks is the real deal nice easy swing power to all fields and he stays back and hits the breaking ball very well. I know it is a small sample size but he has put up better numbers than Youk in 4 games plus if Youk was pressing before the injury what will he be doing now??
Well maybe thats another alternative. Force Youk to have surgeury and come back healthy cause he sure is'nt right at the moment. I saw that line yesterday " Walking Program" Yeah walking right out the door
True but Middlebrooks has more potential than Youk IMO, this kid has natural ability and god given talent. I think Youk is a grinder who worked his ass of to get to where he got making up for natural talent. and his body is breaking down as a result.
I want a reason to watch the games a guy like Middlebrooks give you someone to root for. I think the Sox are a 3rd place team as constructed anyway. Other than Pedroia who is worth watching at the moment. Gimme something
If in 2 weeks Youk comes back and is still hacking and missing breaking balls looking like an old man he is just going to kill his trade value.
I think the secret is out but this year no one called it a bridge year. We need another solid injection of youth to pick this team up.
My wife just e-mailed that Babe Ruth's former home in Sudbury is for sale. It's a couple of miles from here.


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|T59. School Dropout Rate For Population 16 To 19 Years [3]
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Tabulation of data on school enrollment, educational attainment, and employment status for the population 16 to 19 years old allows for calculating the proportion of people 16 to 19 years old who are not enrolled in school and not high school graduates ("dropouts") and an unemployment rate for the "dropout" population. Definitions of the three topics and descriptions of the census items from which they were derived are presented in "Educational Attainment," "Employment Status," and "School Enrollment and Type of School."
The tabulation of school enrollment by employment status is similar to that published in 1980 and 1990 census reports. The 1980 census tabulation included a single data line for armed forces; school enrollment, educational attainment, and employment status data were shown for the civilian population only. In 1970, a tabulation was included for 16 to 21 year old males not attending school.


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HOUSTON – Halliburton cleared a 21 percent profit boost in the second quarter as demand for oil production equipment climbed in North America and drills kept spinning in the eastern hemisphere, the company said Monday.
The Houston oil field services company banked a profit of $776 million, or 92 cents a share, in the April-June period, compared to $642 million, or 69 cents a share, in the same period last year.
Revenue grew 10 percent to a record $8.1 billion over the same period as North American oil companies spent more on post-drilling processes that gear up wells to pump oil and gas, known as completions.
In the Middle East and Asia, drilling activity continued to grow, especially in Saudi Arabia, bolstering sales in the region 12 percent to $841 million in the second quarter, Halliburton said.
Halliburton's North American revenue grew to $4.3 billion, up 14 percent over last year, when U.S. drilling and production spending slowed.
"In our last call, some might have been skeptical when I said I was beginning to feel us turn the corner in North America," Halliburton Chief Executive Dave Lesar said in a call with investors early Monday. "That feeling was dead on. Today, we are not feeling the turn, we are in the turn."
In North America, demand for oil field services grew as completion volumes for every well increased more than 35 percent over the second quarter 2013, the firm said. Profit margins in the region could reach 20 percent in the third quarter, Halliburton said.
That's why it's the right time for Halliburton to bolster its hydraulic fracturing fleet and logistics capabilities, with fleets of its newly designed Q10 Pumps expected to arrive in the fourth quarter and throughout 2015, Lesar said.
Profits for hydraulic fracturing services had fallen across the U.S. market in the past few years after private equity firms and other players flooded the market with horsepower used to shoot water, chemicals and sand two miles underground to fracture shale rock to release oil and gas. But recent months have given fracture firms hope.
"We believe excess horsepower is below 10 percent now, and the market will require new horsepower to meet demand," Lesar said. "We'll be accelerating our Q10 build to meet customer demand."
The firm is expecting North American margins to outpace the increase in the continent's rig count because of its sizable foothold in the market, said Mark McCollum, Halliburton's chief financial officer.
Halliburton also announced it had promoted its chief operating officer, Jeffrey Miller, to president, effective next month. Lesar had held the role of president prior to the appointment, and said after knowing Miller for more than two decades, he had great confidence in Miller's abilities to manage Halliburton's leadership team.
Halliburton shares jumped by $1.70 in pre-market trading Monday to $72.05 on the New York Stock Exchange.


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Professor Nick R. Schott completed his BS in Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley and then went on for an MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Arizona.
Professor Schott has been at the University Of Massachusetts Lowell for the past 32 years. He has taught courses in Plastics Product Design, Plastics Injection Mold Design, Processing and Process Control. He is an active researcher and a worldwide lecturer on these subjects. Professor Schott was named a fellow of the SPE in 1986 and is a founding member of the SPE Product Design and Development Division. He is an editor of various books and has authored or co-authored numerous papers in the field of Plastics Engineering.


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What The Film?! is a new weekly column exclusive to Under The Gun Review that brings to light the plot holes Hollywood hoped you'd never notice. Written by comedy writer Dane Sager, this column shows no mercy to films that try and pull the proverbial wool over our eyes.
If you know a film with major plot holes that you feel needs to be exposed, tell us! Email email@example.com with the subject "What The Film" and we'll try to get your suggestion featured on the site.
This Week's Movie: 2007's Spider-Man 3
I have been a massive Christopher Nolan fan since I saw Memento when I was fourteen. When he was picked to direct 2005's Batman Begins, I had never been more excited for a director being hired for a project. I had spent much of my youth (and adult hood) reading Batman comics and had been waiting for a director to make the dark realistic Batman I've been dreaming of. As far back as I can remember, I've always been a huge fan of Batman and dinosaurs.
While Batman Begins was amazing and The Dark Knight definitely earned every single dollar of its $1,001,921,825 box office sales (done without a four dollar 3D charge added to almost every ticket price, 2009's Avatar, I'm looking at you), I'm horrified about this summer's The Dark Knight Rises. Why is that? Because with the exception of Men In Black 3, I honestly can't think of a third movie in a comic book series that was any good. 2006's X-Men 3: The Last Stand was awful and should have never been made, 1983's Superman III is almost bad enough to be funny (almost), and even as a child, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles In Time wasn't tolerable. Hell, it's hard to even think of a good part 3 in any movie series period.
This week's What The Film?! almost came out a week ago, but UTG's Justin Proper wrote an editorial called "Why the new Spider-Man is a good thing" which is what this WTFilm was originally going to be called going to be called. There was some definite overlap with our shared ideas, (a shared desire to see a new style of Spidey brought to the screen, our arrogant but awesome writing style, I also think we have the same underwear) but the majority of why I thought rebooting Spider-Man is a good idea is because Spider-Man 3 is just awful and should be forgotten.
For those who don't know who Spider-Man is, let me break this down for you: Spider-Man is the alter-ego of perpetual High School/College student Peter Parker who was bit by a radioactive spider and then given super powers because of it. I've replicated this experiment many times and all it has given me is a bunch of dead teenagers that I am in dire need of getting rid of (you can find my Craigslist posting under the catagories "Free" and also under "Food").
Initially, Peter uses his powers for his own benefit, trying to win money in a wrestling rings, but the person in charge gives Peter only $100 of the $3,000 promised. An armed robber shows up and steals the rest of man in charge's money and Peter spitefully allows him to leave rather than do anything about it. Later, Peter discovers that that very same robber killed his Uncle Ben (the closest thing he had to a father), causing Peter to feel responsible for his death. Peter then uses this guilt to devote his life to using his powers for good, fighting crime, and being a total unlikable dick to everyone in Spider-Man 3.
Spider-Man 3 does what most movies do in their third installment: cram it full of as much crap as possible and hope it's coherent (it isn't). The big draw in Spider-Man 3 is the introduction of Venom, a villain that Spidey fans have been wanting to see since the film franchise started. Venom is almost like Spider-Man's Joker or Darth Vader. He is not a character that you can half-ass (well, you can half ass it, they totally did, but you shouldn't). Venom could have easily been put into two movies, the build up needed to establish the character (as his origin would require more time than Spidey's did in Spider-Man 1) and finally lighting the fuse you could have laid in the prior movie. Spider-Man 2 and 3 introduced Dr. Curt Connors as Peter Parker's physics professor, someone Sam Raimi wanted to return to in his canceled Spider-Man 4.
They didn't do that, they crammed all of Venom's long and delicate origin in one movie leaving Spider-Man very little to do in the first two acts so they poorly shoehorned in a subplot with the Spider-Man villain Sandman.
Sandman was portrayed as best as he could, given the script, by Thomas Haden Church. They gave him a more human/emotional side by having him steal money to pay for his sick daughter's medical treatment, making an emotional anti-villain out of what started out as Marvel making their own cheap variation on Batman's Clayface.
Many people complained about the treatment of Venom or Peter Parker being a totally unlikable douche throughout the entire movie. Both of these are very bad and poorly executed ideas that should have been thought about, but here's the biggest problem: they changed Sandman's origin so he is the one who killed Uncle Ben. Spider-Man fights crime due to his guilt from feeling responsible for his Uncle's death. Spider-Man 3 completely unravels that. Congratulations, Peter, your motivation is gone, you have no reason to fight crime anymore other than maybe for fun. Spider-Man 3 totally invalidates Spider-Man's reason for being. This is like having a plot twist in The Dark Knight Rises where Thomas and Martha Wayne are alive. It's hard for Spider-Man to move forward when his reason to do so has been taken away.
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Week in Geek: Google Drive Desktop Client Allows Backdoor Access to Google Accounts
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Our last edition of WIG for October is filled with news link coverage on topics such as Microsoft may not issue a second Windows 7 service pack, Windows Media Center is free for Windows 8 Pro users for limited time, CyanogenMod logged swipe gestures used to unlock Android devices, and more.
Weekly News Links
- Yahoo will ignore Do Not Track for IE10 users
Microsoft's decision to turn on Do Not Track by default in the next Internet Explorer — instead of leaving users to opt out — prompts Yahoo to ignore it.
- Firefox beta introduces Social API with Facebook Messenger
Mozilla is introducing a new Social API in the latest beta version of Firefox, which provides the browser with the ability to integrate with social media sites. When enabled, the new social functions are displayed in a permanent sidebar alongside the usual page content.
- Safari users hit by Facebook certificate error
A hosting error for Facebook's embedded services resulted in a brief but widespread error for Safari users.
- Google renames Google Drive apps, releases them to Chrome Web Store
Google Drive users will find new standalone Web apps in Chrome for the popular software suite.
- How to get the Chromebook's free goodies
If you have a Chromebook, any newer Samsung Chromebook, you can get a free 100GBs of Google Drive storage and 12 free Gogo in-air Wi-Fi passes. Here's how to get them.
- Google brings Now functionality to Windows 8 with search app
The app, similar to those available for iOS and the BlackBerry OS, lets users search online without needing to fire up a browser. However, it will not work on Windows RT-based systems such as the Surface tablet.
- Microsoft will likely skip a second Windows 7 service pack
In a break with traditional release schedules, Microsoft will probably not issue a second Windows 7 Service Pack, according to The Register. The Service Pack bundles the company's monthly updates and also usually provides additional security and performance updates. It's meant to help IT managers (and many home consumers as well) install fixes in one fell swoop, without having to keep tabs manually on monthly updates.
- Microsoft Office 2013 RTM Available for Download
Microsoft has just released two different RTM versions of Office 2013 and Exchange on TechNet, allowing all those who have a subscription to download the new productivity suits.
- Office 2013 Web Apps final version now live on SkyDrive
SkyDrive users will find their online office documents now launching in the new and final edition of Office 2013 Web Apps.
- Windows Media Center Offered for Free to Windows 8 Users for a Limited Time
"If your PC is running Windows 8 Pro and you'd like to get Windows 8 Media Center Pack so you can watch and record live TV with Windows Media Center, you can take advantage of the following special offer: for a limited time, get Windows 8 Media Center Pack for free," Microsoft says on its website.
- Microsoft reverses 'Mature' games ban in Euro Windows Store
Games like Doom 3 and Bioshock were banned in the European Windows 8 Store over a ratings discrepancy, but now that's changed.
- Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.1 Released: Install in Ubuntu 12.10
The developer of Ubuntu Tweak, Tualatrix announced that the development and maintenance of Ubuntu Tweak will be continued and released Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.1 with bug fixes and Love Wallpaper HD.
- Canonical Hire 'Faenza' Designer to Work on New Ubuntu Icon Set
Canonical has hired Faenza icon maker Matthieu James to work on a new icon set for Ubuntu. James' squared Faenza icon set is one of the most popular third-party icon sets on Linux, having been downloaded 661,689 times from its DeviantArt page alone.
- Diablo III Linux Players Banned by Blizzard
Diablo III is the latest action role-playing game released by Blizzard Entertainment and more importantly, it can be played on Linux, under Wine. The only problem with this solution is that it will probably get users banned.
- Microsoft boss confirms more hardware on the way
As it set the stage to release its first branded tablet, the Surface, Steve Ballmer said that the software giant will develop yet more gadgetry.
- Yahoo acquires mobile recommendations startup Stamped
Yahoo makes its first acquisition under the leadership of new CEO Marissa Mayer: Stamped.
- E-book sellers sending settlement credit options to customers
If you bought an e-book published by Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster in the last two years, you might be eligible for some store credit.
- Dangerous Minds on Facebook's "bait and switch" for publishers: "I want my friends back"
Over at Dangerous Minds, Richard Metzger writes about the damage to indie web publishers wrought by Facebook's ever-changing policies about who sees your content, and what it will cost you to get your content in front of people who've already signed up as friends/fans.
- Software Engineers Are In Demand, And GitHub Is How You Find Them
GitHub's rapid adoption by coders means that it has become a one-stop shop for people looking for talent.
- State of Sexism in FOSS
Women's issues have become accepted concerns in open source. What is there to show for all the effort?
Security News
- Google Drive opens backdoor to Google accounts
The Windows and Mac OS X desktop clients for Google's Drive file storage and synchronisation service open a backdoor to users' Google accounts which could allow the curious to access a Drive user's email, contacts and calendar entries.
- Phony certificates fool faulty crypto in apps from AIM, Chase, and more
Researchers have uncovered defects in a wide range of applications running on computers, smartphones, and Web servers that could make them susceptible to attacks exposing passwords, credit card numbers, and other sensitive data.
- DoS vulnerability affects older iPhones, Droids, even a Ford car
DoS vulnerability affects older iPhones, Droids, even a Ford carThe iPhone 4 and a slew of older devices from Apple, Samsung, HTC, and other manufacturers are vulnerable to attacks that can make it impossible to send or receive data over Wi-Fi networks, a security researcher said.
- CyanogenMod logged swipe gestures used to unlock Android devices
CyanogenMod, an alternative open-source firmware distribution for Android smartphones and tablets, has been recording the swipe gestures used to unlock the devices, a developer involved in the open-source project said. The issue has been corrected in an update.
- Android apps used by millions vulnerable to password, e-mail theft
Android applications downloaded by as many as 185 million users can expose end users' online banking and social networking credentials, e-mail and instant-messaging contents because the programs use inadequate encryption protections, computer scientists have found.
- Offensive Facebook email leads to Blackhole malware attack
Facebook users are warned to be on their guard against unsolicited emails they might receive suggesting that someone has left an offensive comment about them on their wall.
- Spammers find way to link .gov domains to scams
The .gov domain is reasonably trusted by users as being a safe place, but spammers have recently figured out how to make .gov URLs redirect to malicious content.
- Backdoor in computer controls opens critical infrastructure to hackers
Software used to manage equipment in power plants, military environments, and nautical ships contains an undocumented backdoor that could allow malicious hackers to access sensitive systems without authorization.
- Lost+Found: Hacking keyloggers, honeypots and the return of TDL4
Too short for news, too good to lose; Lost+Found is a roundup of useful security news. This time: Hacking a hardware keylogger, setting up a free cloud-based honeypot with Amazon EC2, a GUI for ping.exe, the supposed return of TDL4 and a hotel master key disguised as a dry erase marker.
- French hacker captures 500,000 Euros with smartphone trojan
According to a report from the BBC, a 20-year-old French hacker has defrauded over 17,000 people with his custom-developed trojan disguised as legitimate smartphone applications, earning him approximately half a million euros.
- Service Sells Access to Fortune 500 Firms
An increasing number of services offered in the cybercrime underground allow miscreants to purchase access to hacked computers at specific organizations. For just a few dollars, these services offer the ability to buy your way inside of Fortune 500 company networks.
- Google, Yahoo and Microsoft fix email security flaw
The companies, which had been using insufficiently long keys to sign emails coming from their domains, have brought in longer keys after being warned of a serious spoofing risk.
- The snapshot of rising cybercrime
Based on a report from Verizon, snapshots of cybercrime can be viewed in the financial, health, retail and hospitality sectors.
- Security researcher experiments with patching Java
With Oracle planning to wait until next February, security researcher Adam Gowdiak decided to take matters into his own hands by developing a patch for a critical security vulnerability he had discovered in Java. He has posted a report on his efforts to security mailing list Full Disclosure.
- Java still has a crucial role to play—despite security risks
Java has its security flaws, but it isn't going away any time soon—after all, many important applications run on the technology, especially in business settings. Still, numerous users are worried enough about vulnerabilities that they restrict Java's ability to run on their machines.
- Top 25 common, attackable passwords: Stop using 'ninja' and 'jesus'
New data has revealed the 25 most common and easily crackable passwords on the web — is yours on the list?
TinyHacker Links
- Productivity Apps in Windows 8 – Are They Any Good?
Paul Thurrott published a good overview of the productivity apps included in Windows 8.
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Perhaps make a filter yourself? If you could send me some info I'd like to make the filter for you if i am capable (i think i will:p). Will send you the source once it's done.
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Weiner Lauds Treasury Department On Saudi Funds
Bowing to pressure from Represen tative Anthony Weiner (D-Queens & Brooklyn), the U.S. Treasury Depart ment has stopped releasing funds to the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), a front organization for Hamas.A0Before Weiner's intervention, the Depart ment's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had released approximately $1.5 million in frozen assets to the HLF, depleting funds being sought by victims of terrorism.
In 1996, Yaron and Efrat Ungar were shot to death by Hamas gun men a few miles from the West Bank. A0A0The family of Yaron Ungar, who held dual American/Israeli citizenship, brought suit against Hamas and it's agents, including the HLF, in the United States, seeking $250 million in damages.
In January, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island ruled in favor of the Ungar family, ordering Hamas to pay $116,409,123 in damages.A0
The Ungar family immediately moved to execute the judgment against frozen HLF assets under the control of U.S. authorities.
However, since 2001, OFAC has released approximately $1.5 million in frozen HLF assets to assist HLF law yers in covering litigation costs, thereby depleting the funds sought by the Ungar family.A0In 2001, OFAC controll ed $6,496,845 in HLF funds, a figure that has dropped below $5.1 million today.
In late February, Weiner called on the Director of OFAC, R. Richard Newcomb, to halt all payments to the HLF immediately.A0 OFAC has agreed to do so.
"The very last thing the United States government should be doing is helping terrorists plead their case," said Rep. Weiner.A0"Every dollar we release to the HLF is another dollar freed up for Hamas to pursue its deadly aims.A0It is about time this outrage stopped."
In 2001, the HLF was determined to be a "Specially Designated Terrorist" under Executive Order 12947 and a "Specially Designated Global Terror ist" under Executive Order 13224 be cause it was acting "for or on behalf of" Hamas.A0Accordingly, the Treasury Depart ment froze HLF's assets.


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I work in a ground floor office building in a downtown urban area. The foot traffic and drive-by traffic over the past 10 years has steadily declined in safety. I carry daily and have learned an incredible amount from all of you and refer to this site for guidance when something happens at or near work or home and bothers me enough to think about how I would react in any given situation.
One of my female employees thinks she is bigger, tougher, faster, and smarter than a bad guy. At 46, daughter of a deceased cop, she weighs maybe 95 lbs at 5'4" and is frail looking. She constantly works late and goes to her car by herself after dark and will sometimes sit in her car, door open or unlocked, and text or talk on the phone. I have warned her several times, coached her, asked her to get some carry lessons and a gun. I even bought her pepper spray but she leaves it in her car or loans it to her 15-year old son.
She was working alone tonight about 8:00 pm there were a couple cars in the parking lot with a few teenagers/young adults being rowdy. She was sure they were using and dealing drugs. Her office window faces the parking lot but she has shades drawn. When she heard them in the lot she peeks out the shades and they spot her. Pretty soon they're pounding on her window. She didn't call 9-1-1. She waited til she thought they were gone and left the building - they were at the end of the parking lot. She hurries to her Mini Cooper, gets in and locks the door and starts to drive away as they are harassing her. She called the sheriff's office, not 9-1-1 to have them drive by. Now she's mad at the bad guys for being in the parking lot messing around. Knowing the neighborhood crowd I told her she is lucky to be alive.
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This tutorial describes how to configure a Simulator using Oracle Sensor Edge Server.
Time to Complete
Approximately 35 minutes
This tutorial covers the following topics:
|Configure a Simulator
|Monitor the Event Data
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Oracle Sensor Edge Server provides companies that want to adopt Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology with a comprehensive set of capabilities to capture, manage, analyze, access, and respond to data from different sensors such as RFID, location, and temperature. On the basis of Oracle's mature, proven technology (including Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, and Oracle E-Business Suite 11 i), Oracle sensor-based services enable companies to quickly and easily integrate sensor-based information into their enterprise systems to gain near real-time supply chain visibility and leverage this insight to optimize business process.
The primary goal of the Sensor Edge Server is to transform raw data from the physical world into meaningful business events in your Enterprise Information System. This can be achieved in a closed loop, directly on the Sensor Edge Server, or by sending events to an Enterprise Information System. Access to the raw data and additional contextual and system information is always available through the data repository.
In this tutorial, you plug in a simulator driver in the driver framework to simulate the RFID reader. As a result of this integration, you see the events generated by the Sensor Edge Server and the simulation driver.
Before starting this tutorial, you should:
Have access to or have installed Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 (10.1.3). You can download Oracle Application Server 10g 10.1.3 software from here.
|Have access to or have installed Oracle Sensor Edge Server 10.1.3. You can download Oracle Sensor Edge Server software from here.
Oracle Sensor Edge Server collects sensor information, filters it, and performs local sensor event processing. Oracle Sensor Edge Server then securely and reliably dispatches event data back to the central applications or databases. You perform Oracle Sensor Edge Server administration, configuration, and monitoring using the SES console.
The Edge Simulator Driver generates events to simulate a real device. You use the Edge Simulator Driver to test configurations and deployment designs. You can also use the simulator for internal functional testing to see how events are processed throughout the system. The Edge Simulator Driver emulates a regular driver. Except that instead of connecting to a physical device to read events, it takes parameters from an input file as instructions on when to generate false events. This simulator driver is very useful for testing and to see how events are processed throughout the system.
Open your Browser and enter the following URL:
Log in as oc4jadmin/<oc4jadmin password you specified during installation>. Click Login.
Creating a device group is the first step to connecting the Oracle Sensor Edge Server instance to devices and filters. Once you create a device group, you populate it with devices (the instances of the available drivers) and then attach filter instances to the individual devices (or to the entire device group).
In the Group Management page, enter Streams in the Group Name field. Click Create New Group.
The Configure Group page appears for the new device group. Click Add new device to create a device for the device group.
The Search and Select: Add new device page appears, listing the drivers in the repository. Select Edge Simulator Driver. Click Select.
The Configure Group page reappears, listing the device in the Devices section. Click Edge Simulator Driver1.
The Device Configuration page appears, displaying the parameters specific to the driver.
The Edge Simulator Driver generates events to simulate a real device. The Edge Simulator Driver behaves the same way as any driver, except that instead of connecting to a physical device to read events, it takes parameters from an input file such as Simulation.xml. The input file provides instructions about when to generate events.
A sample Simulation.xml file looks like this:
The <EventList> element defines a loop. This element is also the main block that groups all the other instructions together. The <EventList> element has one attribute, repeat, which must be present to control looping. The value for repeat must be a decimal number from 0 to LONG_MAX.
The <EventInterval> element instructs the simulator to pause for a certain period of time before proceeding.
The <type> element represents the number value that corresponds to the type of event.
The <subtype> element represents the number value for the subtype. For example, the subtype value corresponds with a General Instruction Event, which is an event sent by the application or device to instruct a specific device to perform an operation. The value 1 turns on the device.
The <id> element represents a text value that identifies a tag (that is, a read or target) to an event instruction. One of the <id> values for a tag is 03ffff045679.
The <data> element is optional.
The <deviceName> element represents the name of the device or application that generates the event. The <deviceName> enables the simulator to appear as if it is another device when generating events.
When you make any change in an Oracle Sensor Edge Server instance, the SES Console displays a message notifying you to restart the Oracle Sensor Edge Server instance using OracleAS Enterprise Manager. Click Enterprise Manager link in the message.
The login page for OracleAS Enterprise Manager appears. Enter the OC4J user name and password. Click Login.
Click the home link in the Cluster Topology page.
Click Applications.
Select edge and click Restart.
Click Yes in the Confirmation page.
Oracle Sensor Edge Server instance has been restarted successfully.
Click Logout to exit from Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Verify that your OC4J server is running. If OC4J Server is not running, start the OC4J Server using the following command. Switch to the command prompt, change directory to <edgeserver_home>ORACLE_HOME\opmn\bin and issue the command:
opmnctl stopall
opmnctl startall
Open your browser, and enter the following URL:
http://< host name>.< domain>:< port>/edge
For example, http://localhost:8888/edge.
Log in as oc4jadmin with the OC4J administrator password that you specified during installation. Click Login.
The SES console enables you to know the condition of Oracle Sensor Edge Server from the event data that is displayed on the Monitor Events and Event Reports tabbed pages. Click the
Monitor Events tab to view the data currently in the queue. The inbound and outbound event data includes:
If no event has been generated, you will not view any event data under Inbound Queue and Outbound Queue.
In this lesson, you learned how to:
|Plug in a simulator to simulate an RFID device
To learn more about Oracle Sensor Edge Server on Windows, you can refer to:
|Additional OBEs on the OTN Web site.
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Australians should expect better run retirement funds as a result of reforms announced yesterday that take into account the real-life practicalities of investing through superannuation. The government should be applauded for its well-intentioned objective to improve the prudential regulation of the retirement saving system as well as its efforts to make super funds more user-friendly vehicles that are cheaper to run. The $1.34 trillion superannuation industry has grown fat off compulsory super by offering homogenised products with relatively high fees. It was in need of better regulation that would rein in its excesses and force it to focus on providing better outcomes and greater transparency for investors who must by law contribute 9 per cent of their salaries to a superannuation fund.
From July 2013, MySuper products will be available to replace existing default funds. It will be the new default option, offering a single diversified investment strategy. This is appropriate for the vast majority of super members who show no interest whatsoever in selecting an investment strategy, let alone monitoring its performance or assessing its value for money. All retirement funds will be required to transfer the existing default balances of members to a MySuper product by July 2017.
Financial Services Minister and Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten rightly resisted the down-to-the-wire lobbying that sought to prohibit an employer from negotiating cut-price fees from a MySuper fund for its workforce. Bulk discounts are an accepted part of all commercial activity and imposing a blanket ban on such deals would force workers to pay higher super fees than necessary.
The government has also sensibly allowed room for product innovation. One measure will give employers with more than 500 staff leeway to tailor a MySuper option, while another could allow investors to hold assets in their own name and hence avoid capital gains tax when others in their fund sell out.
Other measures, such as SuperStream – reforms to improve back-office administration – and a new requirement that employers tell staff when their contributions are actually paid to a fund, should make it far easier for the average person to administer their savings and so encourage them to review their strategies more often.
The new governance standards that will apply to trustees should not be too onerous to implement, especially as the concept of an office of trustee-director and the associated liability has been abandoned, and they should have the desired effect of making trustees more accountable for their decisions. Trustees' duties have been clarified – they must give priority to interests of members when that duty conflicts with other duties, and the standards of skill and diligence will be increased to those of a prudent person of business, meaning they have to be able to read a balance sheet.
The former rule should dilute the influence of the employers and unions which appoint trustees, although it would be more desirable for funds to adopt a policy that required an equal number of independent trustees on a board. This is a measure inexplicably absent from the government's own proposals, presumably because it chose to kow-tow to the powerful trade union interests that dominate the industry fund movement rather than adopt a best-practice governance standard.
Trustees who are unwilling to accept the extra responsibility that will flow from the reforms should reconsider if they are suitable for a position running a billion-dollar investment portfolio, and also whether it is in the best interests of their members to merge with larger funds more capable of operating in a proper prudential environment.
All these issues have been the subject of repeated debate that has turned them inside out and upside down in the hope of ironing out any controversy prior to implementation. Some may be subject to further consultation still.
But the government should issue draft legislation as soon as possible so that the industry has certainty as to the exact nature of the reforms that it has to implement, and can begin to do so in a timely and cost-effective way.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority should follow quickly with its new prudential standards as these are core to the new regulatory regime and funds will struggle to restructure their operations without sufficient guidance on the contents of the standards. Once the process is complete, the government should reconsider its intention to increase compulsory superannuation from 9 per cent to 12 per cent of employees' wages. It would be preferable to encourage greater savings voluntarily rather than through compulsion.
There will be some casualties from the reforms as small funds consolidate, and fund managers who cannot justify higher-than-average fees to trustees lose mandates. This is no bad thing. It should make the system more efficient. And at a time of market volatility the reforms should also help to maintain public confidence by raising operating and regulatory standards across the retirement savings system.
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I choosed to do this Cosplay since Ghost In The Shell is proberly my favourte Future Centuary series. I don't normaly go for all that high tec, Virus and Computer kind of Anime, But this one really spoke to me so yeah I think I'll defently try this one out sometime :)
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It's about time that I come clean. Not just with you, but myself. For the past year, I haven't been doing jack about my health. Last year, when I was living in PA, I had a healthy state of mine. I was 10 lbs lighter. My clothes fit perfectly, and most importantly, I was happy. I was doing Bikram Yoga about 4-5 times a week, with a 60-day challenge thrown in there too. I was at my peak. I even gave health advice to others who were struggling and gave them tips on how to be healthy. I ran the Wellness Newsletter at my previous place of employment. I was happy and so incredibly high with self confidence.
Ever since I moved back to Ohio, I've had the hardest time getting back into my healthy living groove. I quit going to Bikram because it was way too far for me to drive there every day. I tried to run again, I dabbled in some weight training, and a local yoga studio, but nothing stuck. I wasn't consistent. I haven't been consistent for awhile. I have created every excuse in the book for why that is.
My kitchen is too small to cook anything healthy.
I have a coupon to a restaurant so I'm not going to cook tonight.
I can't afford a membership to any fitness gym/studio.
I'm tired and need to nap.
I had a stressful day.
Blah, blah, blah. BLAH!
I am so sick and tired of telling myself these damn lies!!!! I look at that pitiful list of excuses and I feel ashamed. While the only excuse that is somewhat true is affording a membership, it shouldn't matter. This is my health I am talking about. Money should not get in the way of me becoming healthy and happy. Last year, when people asked me how I could afford Bikram Yoga, I told them that it was either paying for yoga now or paying for medication later. Staying healthy is preventative and I prefer that to the alternative. Besides, walks are free and it doesn't cost anything to pick up a set of free weights and do one of my Jillian Michaels videos, both of which I already own!
This is not about how I look or that I've gained weight. This is about how I feel. I feel like crap because my clothes don't fit right. I feel awful that I do not have the same level of fitness I did a year ago. What has happened to me? I miss the old Julie. I miss her so freakin' much that it hurts sometimes. And yes, I realize I just talked in third person. Whatever.
As I sit here, with tears in my eyes, typing out this post, I really hope that this is it. From this point forward, I am going to stop getting in between myself and who I want to become again. I hope that tomorrow, I will not come up with some lame excuse as to why I didn't run. Why I didn't go walking. Or, why I ate unhealthy.
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USB to Parallel Converter CMUSB-P
CMUSB-P is a converter for controlling CMC test sets with a parallel port via USB connection. It is the perfect solution for cases where existing notebooks and PCs are replaced by new ones without a parallel port.
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I cannot believe that DevCon is less than a month away – I am so excited! If you've never been, I thought I'd share the reasons I love DevCon…and maybe convince those of you still on the fence to book your ticket today and join us –
1. The jam-packed agenda of great sessions and speakers
We didn't get many complaints from last year's conference, but one piece of feedback was that it was often hard to decide what to attend. I can't say we've solved that problem. We tried to design the schedule so that if you are focused on using Alfresco in a particular way, the sessions you'd likely be interested in don't conflict. The mobile sessions line-up sequentially, for example. That doesn't mean there won't be hard decisions–looking over the session list for both Berlin and San Jose I'm already struggling with which sessions to attend. If you've got the budget and the bench, I'd bring a friend.
2. Seeing the "A-Ha!" moments in real-time
I get all kinds of ideas for my own projects, our product and our community when I listen to a DevCon talk. I like looking around and seeing the wheels turning in the other attendees' heads. The hastily snapped picture of a great idea eloquently expressed in a slide. The furiously scribbled reminder note to run a project improvement idea past the rest of the team. The code tweaked with a new-found insight. The revelatory tweet sharing the discovery with others who were stuck on the same damn thing. When I say DevCon is electric, that's what I'm talking about. You almost can't help but come away with at least a handful of things that you can apply to your projects. That's probably why 100% of attendees surveyed from last year (both EMEA and Americas) said the conference was useful.
3. I love hearing from the community of customers, partners and developers
We have so many smart, creative, innovative and interesting people in our community. I like hearing your stories. I like hearing how a blog post saved you a ton of work. Or how someone in the forums went out of their way to get you over a hurdle. Or how you've been struggling with an approach to a problem that was solved by attending a DevCon talk.
Beyond the community, I enjoy hearing how you are using Alfresco. The platform has such broad applicability, it never ceases to amaze me the myriad ways people are leveraging Alfresco to improve their organizations. This is something I know the rest of the senior management team, product management and engineering all love about DevCon–the opportunity to get your feedback and to talk with you one-on-one about what we could be doing better from a product, community and corporate standpoint is second-to-none.
4. I love hanging out with the engineers
Alfresco engineers are extremely active in the forums. Many of them write blogs that are often the best source of detailed technical information available. I can usually get them to do a Tech Talk Live on the first Wednesday of each month. And I've even spotted some hanging out in #alfresco. But most of the time they are busy, heads-down knocking out code. DevCon brings a necessary interruption to daily coding life as we bring as much of the engineering team to DevCon as we can. If you have a nagging problem, if you have a product enhancement idea, if you want help thinking through an approach to a customization or if you just want to know why a technical trade-off was made, you can get all of those questions answered at DevCon plus more by the people who wrote the code.
5. The focus time is vital to maintain perspective
All of us are going full swing almost every day. We're so far down in the weeds we forget to look up and think about the bigger picture. This is true for me and everyone at Alfresco and all of you. DevCon gives you a chance to step away from your projects for a few days and consider them more broadly. Is your approach sound? What are others doing on their projects that might make yours better? How can you leverage the direction of the platform to your advantage? Are there small things you could do that would have a big, positive impact on your customers and end-users? Regardless of where you are in your project's life cycle, bringing your team to DevCon can make a lot of sense for this reason alone.
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I get to collaborate with people all over the world on a daily basis. Our always-on, always-connected, work-from-anywhere world makes it easy to do that. But it means I "meet" and work with many people I rarely or never get to see face-to-face. I think it's vital to make that happen and DevCon is a great place to do it. I've seen people meet in-person at DevCon for the first time who have previously interacted only through the forums, knowing each other only by their username. These virtual relationships we establish in the Alfresco community are anything but virtual–they are real and important and, sometimes, long-lasting. Face-to-face meetups like DevCon reinforce these important relationships.
7. Just like our product, our conference continues to innovate
Last year we took DevCon to a whole new level. This year, based on your feedback, we've kept what worked and added a few new things to see how they fly. We've expanded the training offering, we've added a pre-conference hack-a-thon, we've got two sessions of lightning talks along with a few other surprises in store. Some will work and some may fall short, but I'm confident that if we continue to listen to your great ideas, DevCon is going to continue to be the place to get the technical low-down on the platform and to collaborate with others on best practices, tips-and-tricks and how-to's.
That's what makes DevCon special for me. You might have a different list. If so, I'd love to hear it. Looking forward to seeing you all this November in Berlin and San Jose!


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The amnesty period runs through February 9th. Most traffic and non-traffic citations that were delinquent on or before October 21st, 2012, are eligible for amnesty discounts.
Parking citations are not eligible, according to Presiding Judge Barbara Hartle, and there are other exceptions.
"The amnesty guidelines do not apply to previously adjudicated cases where the defendant failed to pay the fine or failed to take their defensive driving or failed to complete their community service. This is really geared toward the citizen who got the speeding ticket or who got the citation, put their citation in the glovebox and failed to come to court."
Judge Hartle says there are some 300,000 cases that need to be resolved.
"We are building a case management system and we want to resolve as many of the old cases that are currently in our current case management system before we convert over to a new cases management system. That's one of the reasons why we're offering the amnesty. The most important reason is we want to give citizens an opportunity to take care of delinquent citations."
You can find out if you have outstanding warrants by dialing Houston's Helpline at 311, or visit the court.
It's not the policy of Municipal Courts to arrest people who visit to inquire about their cases. But not resolving your case at all could lead to problems.
"And what they don't realize is that they could go to jail. People are taken to jail every single day on outstanding traffic warrants because they fail to come to court."


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State Police to conduct DWI checkpoints
New Mexico State Police will be conducting DWI checkpoints and patrol saturations throughout Chaves, Eddy and Lea counties, according to a [auth] news release issued on Thursday.
The projects will be conducted throughout the months of February, March and April.
The increased enforcement will target impaired drivers, underage drinking, aggressive and distracted drivers, according to the release.
State Police say these particular projects are an effort to reduce alcohol related crashes and alcohol related deaths within the community.
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When all you crave for supper is some of those luscious stone fruits ripening on the counter, go right ahead.
But you may wish to first turn them into this simple relish of sorts and serve it atop grilled salmon. The slightly sweet vinaigrette works wonders with stone fruits that are not quite ripe. You may substitute peeled peaches or red plums for the nectarines.
Servings: 4
- For the relish
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 nectarines, pitted and thinly sliced
- 1/3 cup fresh basil, thinly sliced
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- For the salmon
- 4 4- to 6-ounce salmon fillets, skin on or skinless
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Preheat the grill.
For the relish: In a large bowl, whisk together the honey, lemon juice and oil. Add the nectarines and basil and toss gently to coat. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Set aside at room temperature.
For the salmon: Pat the fish dry. Season with salt and pepper to taste. To grill, place skin side down, if applicable, on an oiled rack over direct heat for 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer the salmon to an area of indirect heat and cook until the salmon is cooked through and flakes easily. (To sear and roast, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Heat an ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Add the salmon and do not move or turn it for 2 minutes. If the salmon sticks to the skillet, it is not properly seared; cook for 30 more seconds and try again. Turn and cook until lightly browned and crisp but not cooked through, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer the skillet to the oven and cook to the desired degree of doneness.)
Serve the salmon with the nectarine relish (including the juices) spooned over the top.
Recipe Source
From "Tom Douglas' Seattle Kitchen" (William Morrow, 2001).
Tested by Renee Schettler.
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Meet Shay & Blue, London's newest boutique perfumery. The brainchild of Dom De Vetta (former Senior Vice President of Chanel and Global General Manager of Jo Malone – take that for a CV!) and perfumer Julie Massé, Shay & Blue is a new British fragrance house with a difference. Made by hand and with real flowers, fruits and spices, Shay & Blue use time-honoured artisanal expertise to create a number of timeless luxury scents available in both fragrances and candles – signature scents include Altropa Belladona, Blood Oranges, Amber Rose, Sicilian Lime and more.
Not only does Shay & Blue smell great, under the creative guidance Style Director and Brand Ambassador Julia Sarr-Jamois (the beautiful and stylish fashion editor of Wonderland magazine), it looks great too – the beautiful luxurious blue packaging makes this a perfect gift – perfect Mother's Day gift idea! Shay & Blue is available to buy online, launched at Harvey Nichols last week and they also opened the doors of their very own boutique in Marylebone just this weekend. Exciting times ahead for this new fragrance house!
To celebrate the opening of the Shay & Blue Boutique, I get to give 10 of my readers a 30ml bottle of Atropa Belladonna worth £30. Fancy yourself a bit of a fragrance buff? Simply visit the Marylebone boutique and snap or tweet a brief review of your favourite scent with the hashtag #AlexLovesShayAndBlue. You have until Friday the 8th of March to enter after which I will choose the 10 best entries!
Shay & Blue London
80 York Street
Old Marylebone
London W1H 1QW