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Despite the vast emptiness of Sudan, Africa's largest country, the welcome you'll receive will be one of the warmest
Tony Kelly | Issue 58 | 58 june-july 2003
The vast, flat deserts of northern Sudan play curious tricks on your faculties. A shadow on the horizon becomes a shepherd's hut; a plastic bag skipping in the breeze resembles a prancing goat. But surely here, in the dried-up riverbed of Wadi Al Malik, that was a herd of camels lying in the sand ahead of us?
We pulled close and the mirage didn't falter - we'd stumbled across a group of Kababish nomads travelling across the desert, a caravan in the true sense of the word, transporting their cargo of a hundred camels to the Egyptian markets. We hung back cautiously but one of the nomads beckoned us forward. In the desert everyone is a stranger but no one is ignored. A solid handshake, a firm clasp of the shoulder, and the familiar ritual of greetings began:
"As salaam aleikum." Peace be upon you.
"Wa aleikum as salaam." And upon you be peace.
"Allah yisallimak." God keep you in peace.
"Allah yibaarik fiik." God bless you.
And on and on like this until eventually one of the nomads invited us to join them for tea, which another man wearing a stained jellabiya and long white turban was brewing up over a charcoal fire. We refused politely, not wanting to abuse their hospitality and knowing that their supplies probably had to get them to Egypt, or certainly to the next town.
"Have you just come from Ed-Debba?" one of the Kababish asked. "How long will it take us to get there?"
We had indeed just left Ed-Debba and in our 4WDs it had taken us just over an hour. But how long would it take by camel, and how could we begin to explain this in a way that the nomads would understand? This fleeting encounter, like so many that I was to have in Sudan, was a reminder that, for all our common humanity, the gulf between us was almost as great as if we had come from the moon.
For me, this was an emotional return to Sudan, a country where I spent the happiest year of my life teaching English in a small desert township in 1987. I spent much of that year ill, living on a monotonous diet of goat meat, beans and lentils. I never touched alcohol and had to get up early each morning to collect a trickle of water from a tap in the yard. And yet despite, or perhaps because of, these hardships, I came to appreciate the value of living in a community where people have almost nothing but will share everything they have with strangers; a place where water is so precious that not even a drop goes to waste. And I came to develop a strong respect for the traditions and values of Islam, so that when the time came to leave Sudan, one of the last things I did was join in the Ramadan fast.
I had always wanted to go back to Sudan, but civil war, refugee crises, terrorism, famine and poverty have not made it the most inviting of countries in recent years. Independent travel in Sudan is still virtually impossible - you need a permit to travel anywhere outside Khartoum and you are required to register with the police on arrival in each new town. So when I heard that tour groups were going back into the country on archaeological tours of the Nile Valley and the ancient region of Nubia, I leapt at the chance.
Landing in Khartoum, I was relieved to find that it was still the dirty, dusty, noisy, chaotic city I remembered. Wailing Arabic music drifted out of juice bars, and hawkers sold sunflower seeds and packets of Bringi cigarettes by gaslight around the edges of United Nations Square. There were perhaps a few more tarmac roads than the last time I was here, but there were still donkeys on the streets and coffee ladies on every corner brewing up sweet, strong coffee flavoured with cardamom and ginger.
We headed north out of Khartoum on a new toll highway financed by Chinese profits from the gleaming petrochemical refinery in the desert and also (it is said) by Osama Bin Laden, who lived in Sudan as a guest of the Islamic government in the mid-1990s. Leaving the road, we drove through a desert of strange, rocky hills and ploughed through wadis (valleys) still muddy after recent rain. As dusk fell, we set up camp in the desert and gathered around the table where our Sudanese cook, El Hadi, produced a delicious meal of peanut butter soup followed by grilled lamb. Distant sparks of lightning illuminated the night sky as we ate. Surrounded by total silence and darkness, I slept that night beneath a canopy of stars and woke to a neon sky.
We were now in the heart of the ancient kingdom of Cush, which ruled northern Sudan for a thousand years and briefly conquered Egypt. It is hard to imagine today, but to the ancient Egyptians this was a land of plenty, the source of ebony, ivory, incense, gold and slaves. Lions, giraffes and elephants roamed in the forest where now there is nothing but sand.
The Meroitic empires which flourished here created a unique blend of Egyptian and African cultures. This was brought home to us the next morning as we took the short walk from the campsite, first to the Temple of Amun, the ram-god who was one of the leading Egyptian deities, and then to the Temple of Apedemak, devoted to the lion-god of creation who was unique to Meroitic culture. The kefir, Amin Jama'a, carefully studied our permits and then led us around the temple, built by King Netakamani and Queen Amanitare in 12BC. On the outer walls, figures of the pharaoh and his queen were engraved into the sandstone together with eagles, lions and rams in human form.
At the nearby temple complex of Musawwarat, we found that we were not the first visitors. A certain Frédéric Gailliaud had come this way in 1822 as the envoy of Prince Ismael Pasha of Egypt, and Dr Koch had been here in 1837 on behalf of His Highness Mohammed Ali. In early acts of cultural vandalism, both men had kindly left graffiti to remind us of their visits.
Here too were hieroglyphs, ankhs (the looped cross which was the ancient Egyptian symbol of life) and delightful little cameos of people hunting, fighting and kissing, all etched into the stone. One wall of the Lion Temple, devoted to Apedemak, featured incense burners and goatskin water-carriers similar to those still used in Sudan today; another scene showed prisoners being led away in chains - glimpses of everyday life in Sudan 2,000 years ago.
We spent our second night beside the pyramids at Meroe, the necropolis of the Meroitic kings. There are actually more pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt, with some 30 pharaohs buried at Meroe, their tombs being slowly swallowed by the constantly shifting sand dunes.
We wandered undisturbed around the pyramids for an hour and were just commenting on the contrast with Cairo, the complete lack of commercialism and the absence of hustlers selling camel rides and postcards, when we became aware that small figures in jellabiyas were emerging from the desert and gathering around our cars. Children as young as five had spread out their rush mats on the sand, offering drums, knives, jewellery, miniature models of the pyramids and carved sandstone figures of Amun. The next morning, as we packed up our tents, the children were there again.
We drove north to Ed Damer where I drank fresh guava juice in the souk while El Hadi shopped for aubergines, potatoes, oranges and watermelons. From here, a creaking old ferry loaded with donkeys and bundles of grass took us across the Nile and into a sandstorm. We were in the Bayuda Desert, mile after mile of nothingness with a raw, elemental beauty - just boulders and dunes, some camels watering at a well, a pair of gazelles and a lone shepherd with his scraggly flock.
We took refuge from the storm inside a mud-and-thatch shelter while three generations of the same family slept nearby in a hut fashioned out of branches and camel hair, the grandfather watching over the women and children while the men roamed the desert with their camels.
Anyone who thinks that all deserts are the same has never travelled in Sudan. The landscape changed repeatedly, from lunar rock to black volcanic cones to dried-up wadis, to surprising patches of green. Eventually, after two days of driving, we arrived back at the Nile and took the ferry to Karima, at the foot of the sacred mountain of Jebel Barkal.
Here, as we traced the ancient processional route from the riverside to the temple of Amun, with its imperious granite rams, it was impossible not to feel slightly smug. Likewise, when we reached the Temple of Mut - a homage to nativity, where pharaoh's wives were thought to have given birth - I allowed myself a self-satisfied smile.
No sightseers posing in front of the pinnacle of phallic rock; and no hawkers selling plastic imitations of the two hieroglyphic-inscribed columns devoted to the goddess of motherhood. These were remarkable sights by anyone's standards - and we had them all to ourselves.
Just outside Karima, at the necropolis of El-Kurru, the tombs of the black Abyssinian kings are tunnelled deep into the rock. These were the pharaohs of the 25th dynasty, who ruled Egypt from their Nubian stronghold. The burial chamber of Tanwetamani, the last of the dynasty, contains vivid frescoes of baboons ferrying his boat, while that of his mother, Kalata, features the queen in the shape of a lion, lying languorously on a rope bed. The ceiling depicts the night sky, its bright yellow stars still shining some 3,000 years after it was painted.
Our two nights in Karima were spent at the extraordinary Nubian Rest House, beneath Jebel Barkal, built in the style of a Nubian village house, with baked-earth walls and conical mud-brick roofs set around a grassy courtyard. The manager greeted us with chilled kakadeh (hibiscus juice) and bouye (the fruit of the baobab tree). The rooms were decorated with ebony furniture, Sudanese water-pots and African prints. I stepped into the shower through a brick archway that looked more like the mihrab (niche) inside a mosque than a bathroom door, but instead of being adorned with Arabic inscriptions it was covered in gaily painted floral designs by students from the local art school.
Climbing Jebel Barkal at dusk to watch the sun set over the pyramids, we met some teenage girls, laughing and flirting in their Friday-best dresses, struggling up the mountainside in high heels before running barefoot down its dune-like sandy slope with their tobes - the all-enveloping lengths of cloth which Sudanese women wear to cover their heads and bodies - slipping off their shoulders.
Back in the hotel, there was a performance of Nubian folk music, with male dancers in jellabiyas and prayer caps clapping their hands and leaping high into the air while the waitresses danced sensuously and let out loud ululations, those high-pitched shrills that are usually reserved for weddings. This was a different, relaxed Sudan - one that I remembered, and a far cry from the images of Islamic fundamentalism which still dominate reports from the country.
After two days of hot showers and Western comforts, it was time to return to the desert. We set up camp at Old Dongola and wandered around Nubian villages on the banks of the Nile - small oases of green with date palms, rice paddies, irrigation ditches and bullock carts in the fields. We got stuck in sand dunes and had to dig the vehicles out before crossing the Nile one last time to reach the Western Desert.
Now there were no more oases, no more features in the landscape - just an endless expanse of shimmering sand. But it was here in this desert, with its silence and harsh beauty, its wide sunsets and clear night skies, its piles of camel bones and nomads lighting fires, that I found the Sudan to which I had been longing to return.
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Bloomberg View: Hedge Funds and Mad Men Don't Mix
The U.S. Congress probably didn't mean to turn the $2.3 trillion hedge fund industry into a breeding ground for fraud when it passed a law designed to make it easier for small companies to raise capital. That may well be the result unless the Securities and Exchange Commission steps in with new rules.
Congress passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act with bipartisan support, and President Barack Obama signed it into law in April. Among its provisions, this misguided piece of legislation allows so-called private placements and hedge funds, lightly regulated private investment pools that serve the wealthy and institutions, to advertise their wares to the public for the first time.
Not only is this a bad idea, it's unnecessary. High-performing hedge funds aren't having trouble raising money to invest. In September, the last month for which data are available, funds in the top 10 percent as measured by investment returns picked up an additional $10 billion to manage. The bottom 10 percent had an outflow of $6.4 billion.
It isn't hard to see what lifting the ad ban might lead to: Underperformers will flog their funds on the airwaves, on websites, and in the pages of the financial press, aiming at unsophisticated investors eager to get the same fabulous returns as the Wall Street elite.
The SEC should ensure that only accredited investors—those deemed sophisticated and wealthy enough to assess risks and absorb losses—can invest in advertised hedge funds. Generally, these investors must meet an annual income or net worth test, currently $200,000 ($300,000 for a couple) and $1 million, respectively. But these financial thresholds haven't been updated since 1982. To bring the benchmarks up to date, the agency should raise the income standard to $500,000 for individuals ($750,000 for couples) and net worth to $2.5 million, and then index them to inflation.
The agency can apply the same advertising and marketing guidelines to hedge funds that it already applies to mutual funds. For example, mutual funds disclose their fee structures, provide performance metrics based on standardized yardsticks, and reveal their underlying investments.
The potential risks to hedge fund investors are greater because of the funds' opacity and their compensation structure, which encourages managers to bet big and grab a share of any profits. Many hedge funds hold thinly traded or illiquid investments, making it impossible for investors to withdraw their money on short notice. Rules should require hedge funds to spell this out.
Markets benefit when smart oversight enhances transparency and promotes integrity. Allowing unfettered hedge fund advertising would be a significant move in the opposite direction. The SEC has a duty to write the necessary regulations to safeguard the investing public.
To read Simon Johnson on systemic risk and Jonathan Weil on Glass-Steagall, go to: Bloomberg.com/view.

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Memo from adult magazine to rivals: class sells
By Christine Kearney and Sharon Reich
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a darkly-lit cheap motel, photographer Jonathan Leder encourages a young female model posing semi-naked in a hot tub to lean toward the camera.
If that image of a nude young woman seems a tired cliche and cheap way to sell magazines, the makers of "Jacques" would beg to differ. For rival publishers it might pay to listen because "Jacques" is breaking a downward trend in periodical publishing where cost-cutting is the norm.
And publishers might be surprised to hear "Jacques" is not the latest high-end fashion magazine, but an adult publication that aims to be a kitschy vintage throwback to pin-up magazines of the 1960s and '70s with centerfolds of models such as a recent, topless woman posing on a vintage motorcycle.
"It's a question of quality," Leder, the magazine's creative director told Reuters about the reason "Jacques" had increased in popularity while other magazines were failing.
"Unfortunately, publishers, like many other people in this day and age, seem to think, 'why not, if we can do it cheaper, let's just do it cheaper and sell it for less.'"
The "Jacques" mantra: spend a little on quality, and your book will sell for more -- to more people.
In a frantic publishing climate where many magazines have struggled with the rise of the Internet, "Jacques" launched in May 2009, a year that would see some 282 magazines fold in the first nine months, according to Marketingcharts.com.
Just 1,000 copies of "Jacques" were printed on its first run and of those, 175 were sold at newsstands. Now, the new issue of the quarterly magazine, which has a cover price of $9, has a print run of 14,000, is sold at bookstores including Barnes & Noble and Borders and has an overseas distributor. Continued...


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Stabbing suspect convinced not to commit suicide
A magistrate this evening managed to convince a man who spent hours threatening to commit suicide to reconsider.
The man, Noel Calleja, has now been taken to hospital by ambulance.
Calleja, who allegedly stabbed and seriously injured a nurse in Qormi yesterday evening sat on a horizontal flag pole off a roof in Triq tal-Hlas, Ta' Farsina Housing Estate, Qormi for about four hours.
It is understood that the man took the police to the place where he claimed he hid the knife used in the crime and escaped their custody while inside the building.
Calleja has no connection with the building, which is down the road from where he committed the alleged crime. He told the district inspector and another police officer that he found the door open and went up to the roof where he hid the knife. The weapon has not been found.
A police superintendent, an inspector, a psychiatrist, Calleja's brother and other unidentified individuals, negotiated with him to try to convince him to get off the pole to safety. A young boy was also spotted on the roof.
The psychiatrist, David Cassar, was at one point heard telling Calleja "speak to me, speak to me, tell me what's bothering you".
Magistrate Ian Farrugia arrived on site at around 8pm, went up to the roof, sent everyone, except for Calleja's brother, away, and talked to Calleja.
A few minutes later Calleja got off the pole and was helped over the roof as the many curious passers-by who had gathered below applauded.
Two fire engines and an ambulance were on stand-by throughout the adventure.
The 33-year-old man from Santa Venera is believed to have attacked the 44-year-old nurse on Thursday down an alley in Wied is-Sewda.
Sources said Calleja was involved in a similar incident last year.
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Speaker: H. Kazemi, Professor, Colorado School of Mines
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In the last decade research activity and engineering analysis of oil and gas production from shale reservoirs have shed a new light on pore scale physics of flow in low permeability reservoirs. In this talk we will present laboratory and field data to explain the mechanism of hydrocarbon production from both shale and tight sand reservoirs. This information is important in assessing the prospect of improving oil and gas recovery from such low-permeability reservoirs.
Hossein Kazemi is the Chesebro' Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Colorado School of Mines (CSM) and Co-director of Marathon Center of Excellence for Reservoir Studies (MCERS). He received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Kazemi is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a Distinguished and an Honorary Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He retired from Marathon Oil Company in 2001 after serving as the Director of Production Research, Manager of Reservoir Technology, and Executive Technical Fellow. At CSM he teaches graduate courses and supervises research in reservoir modeling, well testing, and improved oil and gas recovery processes.
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High School Teacher Charged for Heroin Possession
Kerri Creegan, a social studies teacher at Massapequa High School, has been arrested for heroin possession.
During a routine traffic stop for a broken tail light, cops discovered a bag of heroin in the 33-year-old's car. The 9th grade teacher was then arrested and charged with possession of heroin.
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Indonesia is one of the most important BlackBerry markets, with north of 10% market share, so the government can certainly exert some pressure. While it might all be a retaliation about RIM building a new data service center in Singapore instead of Indonesia, the government's telecom watchdog did specify that it is a "security risk that it can't peak into the messages.
Recently we outed an inside scoop how a BlackBerry Bold 9790 launch event in Jakarta turned ugly with people ending up in a hospital, and RIM's Indonesia head is under investigation about it. The company's devices are apparently very popular there, and the government watching over your shoulder while typing could be offputting for many. Well, not as much as in Thailand, where people might go to jail over a text message insulting the king, but still.
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Observation of Side Effects and Effectiveness of Desloratadine (Aerius) Syrup in Filipino Children (Study P05634)
This study has been completed.
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
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First received: September 25, 2008
Last updated: July 15, 2015
Last verified: July 2015
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|First Received Date ICMJE
|September 25, 2008
|Last Updated Date
|July 15, 2015
|Start Date ICMJE
|March 2008
|Primary Completion Date
|May 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Investigator Assessment of Clinical Efficacy [ Time Frame: Day 15 ]
Investigator assessment of clinical efficacy of Desloratadine Syrup in relieving participants' symptoms of either allergic rhinitis or chronic idiopathic urticaria at final visit (Day 15). The number of participants categorized by investigator as: improved, no improvement, or worsened was reported at Day 15.
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Efficacy in relieving symptoms (Clinical Cure, Improved, No Improvement, Worse) [ Time Frame: End of treatment ]
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|Observation of Side Effects and Effectiveness of Desloratadine (Aerius) Syrup in Filipino Children (Study P05634)
|Official Title ICMJE
|Post-marketing Surveillance of the Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of Desloratadine Syrup Among Filipino Pediatric Patients
|Brief Summary
|The purpose of this study is to observe the side effects of desloratadine syrup and how effective it is in relieving symptoms of allergic rhinitis or hives in Filipino children. The participants will take desloratadine syrup for 14 days. At the end of treatment, side effects will be recorded, as well as how the participants tolerate the medication. Effectiveness will also be rated at the end of treatment.
|Detailed Description
|Physicians who commonly prescribed desloratadine treatment as standard care of treatment were selected enroll participants.
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|Observational Model: Ecologic or Community
Time Perspective: Prospective
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|A total of 3000 prospective outpatient pediatric participants with either allergic rhinitis or chronic idiopathic urticaria will be enrolled in the study coming from about 300 sites in the Phillipines
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Desloratadine (Aerius) Syrup;
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Rated 3 / 5 stars
Against my expectations, this is quite enjoyable because most pieces are very nicely drawn. Still, I would have liked an animation better.
MaterMerol's is animated... but it was meant to be an art collab, not an animation collab, so... sorry :(
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Fun to scroll through. Great job everyone!
Thanks! Glad you liked it :D
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Hmm, Nice.
Always did love collabs, and this one is no different. all of the pieces involved are well done, and the topic in general is just awesome. i mean... Cupcakes. Epic.
the only thing i really didnt enjoy, however, was the music, as it got annoying, and thats not a real big deal anyway. Bravo.
You can turn it down... or off completely! lol
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Whoever knew cupcakes could take on so many aspects. Cosmic Death was my favorite! Nice Collab!
We barely scratched the surface... every watch Cupcake Wars! The possibilities are endless! Thanks for the review :D


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Profits at the miner for the six months to June 30 slumped to $395 million (£254 million) from $646.1 million a year earlier, as the company was hit by falling demand from China, declining metal prices and rising costs.
Chief executive Diego Hernandez insisted the firm had delivered a "good start" to the year, with copper production up 8.4% and gold production increasing 19.7%.
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- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
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- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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- In a small heavy saucepan, whisk mayonnaise and milk until blended. Cook and stir over low heat for 3-4 minutes or until warmed. Add the lemon juice, peel, salt, and pepper; cook and stir until heated through. Serve immediately with asparagus or vegetable of your choice. Refrigerate leftovers. Yield: 1 cup.
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UCAR security policy requires that all sysadmins be capable of reading and writing email messages that are encrypted with PGP. GPG is the Gnu (free) version of PGP. On the Mac, you want to install GPGTools in order to get the command-line "gpg" command. You may also want GPGMail to give GPG capability to Apple Mail.
I had some success with Mailvelope, but it only handles mail messages, not files outside of a mail reader, so I settled on gpg.
With GMail, to decrypt a message, do this:
With GMail, to decrypt a message, do this:
There are several resources for information about PGP and GPG. Here are the ones I liked best:
As of 2013-01, install GPGTools by downloading the installer from http://www.gpgtools.org/.Clicking on GPGTools.mpkg will take you through the steps. It installs
/usr/local/bin/gpg2, and links
to it so "gpg" is the same as "gpg2".
which causes launchd to start gpg-agent as a daemon at
login time. See Managing my secret key with gpg-agent
When you installed GPGTools, you installed GPGMail as part of the package. It probably wasn't the latest GPGMail, so you'll want to install GPGMail separately to be sure you have the latest version. To see what version of GPGMail is installed, start Apple Mail and do Preferences -> GPGMail. Download the GPGMail installer from http://www.gpgmail.org/.
When you start Mail, you may get a dialog box that says
You don't have any OpenPGP key. You can't use GPGMail to encrypt or sign messages.
If you want to be able to encrypt or sign messages with OpenPGP, you need a personal OpenPGP key. To create a OpenPGP key, download and install MacGPG's GPG Keychain Access from http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/
I think this means that Mail needs access to your PGP private key, which means your USB drive needs to be mounted and the gnupg.dmg disk image needs to be mounted.
Once you're past that, and you've restarted Mail, Mail will read the bundle and you'll see new controls in Mail, like a "PGP" tab under "Preferences".I learned some of the rest of this at http://www.swissunixsupport.com/mactips. That webpage says that gnupg2 requires that a gpg-agent process be running and that you need a package called pinentry-mac.app to handle display of dialog boxes. I followed the directions and then found that I could decrypt messages even when gpg-agent wasn't running. I got pinentry at http://media.arthurkoziel.com/pinentry-mac.0.02-1.tar.gz. I copied pinentry-mac.app to /Applications, then put this in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf (create if it doesn't exist):
pinentry-program "/Applications/pinentry-mac.app/Contents/MacOS/pinentry-mac"
I have an account at Lighthouse that lets me access the mailing lists for the GPGTools. See 1Password.
Edit the ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file. Set:
default-key E4BA9BEC
keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve no-include-revoked
Verify your keys with
gpg --fingerprint
Generate a public key with
gpg --export --armor email@example.com > ~/.gnupg/my-key.asc
To allow other users to get your public key, you want to register it with keyservers.
If/when the UCAR hkp server is up, register my public key with the UCAR keyserver:
gpg --send-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ucar.edu E4BA9BEC
Register my public key with the public keyservers:
gpg --send-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu E4BA9BEC
First, register your public key with the UCAR keyserver as described above. Then get a paper copy of the form and fill in the fields with the key ID and fingerprint displayed by this command:
gpg --fingerprint
Hint: the fingerprint is 10 blocks of 4 hexadecimal characters, and the key ID is the last 8 characters of the fingerprint.
Once accepted, the UCAR security guys will sign the key that you stored in the UCAR keyserver, which verifies that it is valid. Then they'll send you a test email message that is encrypted. You'll have to read the message and respond to it to demonstrate that you can do PGP email.
Each person has a public key. To make your public key available so others can send you encrypted mail, you should publicize your public key on a keyserver, and/or put it on a webpage somewhere. To read signed or encrypted mail sent to you, you need to have the sender's public key. To ease the problem of accessing a lot of other people's public keys, gpg maintains a "public keyring" in ~/gnupg/pubring.gpg. You store people's public keys in your public keyring as you learn them, and the mail reader uses the keys to decrypt incoming mail and/or to verify signatures in incoming mail messages.
The GPG keyring is different than the Mac "keychain", even though the Mac keychain can store PGP keys. Most people don't use the Mac keychain to store public keys - they use the GPG keyring instead. This is mainly because the GPGMail system uses the GPG keyring, not the keychain. As I understand it, there's no benefit to storing public keys in the keychain.
The GPG keyring is stored in ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg. I need a copy of it on each machine that I readmail on.
There is also a secret GPG keyring, named secring.gpg, in which you
store your secret key. It is needed when you want to sign or encrypt
an outgoing mail message. UCAR policy says to store your secret key
on an encrypted disk image on a flash drive, so I do that. To
minimize the mounting/unmounting of that drive, I copy my secret to
gpg-agent when I log in, using a bash function I wrote named "ssho".
The details of this are described in the
To facilitate sharing keys easily, people can register their keys in a public keyserver. I use one of two keyservers: keyserver.ucar.edu or pgp.mit.edu. The first is the keyserver maintained by the UCAR security guys, and holds the keys of all the UCAR sysadmins. The second is the MIT one that is public.
GPG can be configured to look up keys on one keyserver automatically. GPG won't forward on key lookups - it only talks to one keyserver. I configured GPG to look them up from the UCAR keyserver.
Keys that you retrieve from a keyserver might be bullshit, so after you retrieve a key you have to assign it a "validity" or "trustworthiness" level. Once it's been trusted, Mail with GPGMail can decrypt mail messages from the person. You only have to import a person's public key and then trust it once - the trust level you assign is stored with the key in your public keyring.
Every once in a while, you'll want to update the GPG keyring, aka ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg so that you can verify signed messages. As of 2016-08-02, I receive signed messages from these people:
As of 2014-04-07, I have their keys in my GPG keyring, so I can verify their signed messages. If I receive a signed message for someone that I don't have in my keyring, here's how to add them:
DO THIS ON CISL-IRVING, where the "master" pubring.gpg resides, so it gets automatically copied to cisl-valencia when you do the next synchronize-petes-files.
first use the person's email address to find the their key ID:
Then, use the their key ID to load their public key into the keyring:
After you do that, if you click on another email message in Apple Mail and click back on the original message, Mail should show "The message has been signed with PGP" instead "Missing Key 0xaaaaaaaa".
To see the keys in your local keyring:
gpg2 --list-keys
To load a key into the local keyring, cut the key id from wherever and paste it into one of these:
gpg2 --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net 0xaaaaaaaa
gpg2 --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ucar.edu 0xaaaaaaaa
To sign a key that's in your keyring:
gpg2 --sign-key AAAAAAAA
To assign a trust level to a key, it's easiest to use GPG Keychain Access.
Use the
GPG Keychain Access app to
display/import/export/delete them. The alternative is the
"gpg" command.
If you want to assign a trust level (a.k.a.) validity, highlight an entry and do GPG->Update Trust Database.... It'll open a Terminal window to ask for the trust level - kludgy. Then, it doesn't let you assign trust levels for a specific key, but only for whatever keys don't have trust levels defined - so how do you change the trust level of a key?
Because GPG_Keychain_Access seems so kludgy, I downloaded Seahorse from http://seahorse.sourceforge.net/.
I got http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/seahorse/0.8/seahorse-0.9.1.tar.gz and Stuffit Expander created a seahorse-0.9.1 directory under Desktop. I copied it to /usr/src. When I tried to build it, it complained because XML::Parser wasn't in the Perl libraries. Seahorse seems to have lots of other dependencies, so I gave up. Sigh.
I keep my SSH keys and my GPG secret keyring on a flash drive. This section describes how to write my secrets to an empty flash drive.
CSAC requires that sysadmins keep their GPG keys on a flashdrive.
Greg Woods described how to do it on Macs in
Greg's description mentions FAT32,
but I use FAT16 because it's just as good for drives smaller
than 128GB, it's what the
NCAR best practice is to store my GPG secret key on a flashdrive in an encrypted form, so that if I lose the flashdrive, others won't be able to get the key. They recommend creating an AES-encrypted disk image on the flashdrive.
At this point, you're either creating your primary flashdrive, or making a backup flashdrive. Either way, you need to have a secret keyring file (secring.gpg) to put on the new flashdrive. This file is usually stored only on flashdrives - it is only on the Mac's hard disk while you are in the process of creating flashdrives. When you first create your primary flashdrive, your secring.gpg file is sitting in ~/.gnupg because you created it as described in the Generate PGP keys section of this document. When you are making a backup flashdrive, you need to put a temporary copy of the file onto the Mac's hard disk like so:
Now comes the one-time step: copying the secret key to the flash drive and deleting it from the Mac. From this point forward, you'll need to have your flashdrive inserted in order to sign or decrypt email. Also, to initialize new flashdrives, you'll have to copy the gnupg disk image from one flashdrive to another - like my ssh key, it's not anywhere on the Mac's hard disk.
Then configure GPG to get the secret key from the flashdrive. Edit ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and set
# I added these 2006-06-02 to implement getting my secret key from my
# flashdrive. See
# http://netserver.ucar.edu/intro/staff/siemsen/tools/gpg.html#diskimage
keyring ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
secret-keyring /Volumes/gnupg/secring.gpg
See my USB flash drive notes details.
Under Mail -> Preferences, GPGMail, under Reading, make sure "Enable OpenPGP/MIME" is checked.
This happened to me when I started Mail and I had a symbolic link named "~/.gnupg/secring.gpg" that pointed to "/Volumes/gnupg/secring.gpg" (on a USB drive) and I didn't have the USB drive mounted and the "gnupg" dmg mounted. Mounting them and restarting Mail made the error go away.
This happened to me when installing GPGTools and when trying to
when I had a symbolic link named
"~/.gnupg/secring.gpg" that pointed to "/Volumes/gnupg/secring.gpg"
(on a USB drive)
and I didn't have the USB drive mounted and the "gnupg" dmg mounted.
Mounting them and restarting Mail made the error go away.
If, when you click "Verify", Mail displays "Missing Key 0xaaaaaaaa", then you need to load the person's public key into your local public keyring. I use the command line. You can get the person's key from a keyserver, or as a block of text that you get from the person's webpage or something.
If, when you click "Decrypt", Mail displays
Enter the password. Then try again.
open /Volumes/PETES\ KEYS\gnupg.dmg
If, when signing or encrypting an an outbound message, you get a dialog box that says
PGP Encryption Failed
No valid personal key has been found. Either none
was selected, or selected key is revoked, disabled or
has expired.
Mail couldn't find your personal secret key, probably because you don't have the flashdrive mounted. Put the flash drive into the slot and do
Enter the password. Then try again.
open /Volumes/PETES\ KEYS\gnupg.dmg
Briefly, gpg-agent is a superset of ssh-agent - it stores secret (private) keys in a process so you don't have to keep a sensitive file mounted all the time.
As described above, UCAR policy says my secret key has to
be stored in an inconvenient place: in a secret keyring on an
encrypted drive on a USB flash drive. This means that to use
PGP, I have to go through this
This is so onerous that people wouldn't use PGP at all, so someone came up with a solution: gpg-agent. Gpg-agent is a daemon that stores your secret key so you have to go through the Royal Pain much less often. You endure the Royal Pain once at login time to save the key in gpg-agent. Then Mail/GPGMail and the rest of the gpg system gets the key from gpg-agent. The GPGTools folks anticipated that you'll do this, so they set up gpg-agent for you - it's started as a launchd daemon at boot time. The trick is to get your secret key into gpg-agent at login time.
So we assume gpg-agent is already running, and we just have to load our secret key into it. The new Less Royal Pain procedure is
ABKey is a plug-in for Address Book that shows GPG information in Address Book entries. See http://www.far-blue.co.uk/projects/keymanager.html. It works, but as the author warns, you have to move the mouse over an email address in an Address Book entry to activate it.


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Book Talk: "Gorky Park" author Smith sets new novel in Moscow
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GIJON, Spain (Reuters Life!) - U.S. author Martin Cruz Smith has just finished writing the latest in a series of novels about Moscow Detective Arkady Renko, who was played by William Hurt in the 1983 film version of "Gorky Park."
Called "Three Stations," a common name for a main Moscow thoroughfare for millions of commuters on the metro and railway, it is due out in August and delves into the underground world of the legions of homeless children in the Russian capital.
Since Renko's first outing in 1981, the character has witnessed the sweeping changes which transformed the former Soviet Union into modern Russia.
Cruz Smith has also written novels about gypsies, vampire bats and one, "Rose," deals with women working at the coal face in 19th century Wigan, in northwestern England.
Before taking up fiction writing, he tried studying criminology, journalism, selling ice cream and painting, among other occupations.
He spoke to Reuters on the sidelines of the Semana Negra (Noir Week) crime-writing festival in Gijon, northern Spain:
Q: Tell us about the latest Renko novel.
A: It begins with a baby being kidnapped, which is pretty rare. People generally dump their kids. Continued...


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Fun is plenty important. But what is fun sport driving for a 1% enthusiast is very different from what is fun sport driving for the 99% owner demographic. Guess who BMW is going to listen to
Mike, I've seen the videos. I think you are missing the point. Also, the audi is not smoking the F10...as others have pointed out the differences are marginal. The point is, BMW users spend less than 1% of their time on tracks so the videos are irrelevant (beyond their marketing vaue) for 99% of BMW driving. The car is designed to address the dynamic range of the 99% and not the 1%. This doesn't make it a Lexus. That 99% has different performance parameters and BMW has optimized for performance in that driving range. It means using electronics to create adjustable isolation so that drivers who don't want a bone jarring ride through the city can tune up isolation and dampness.
BMW is trying to give drivers a set of golf clubs instead of a single, well tuned 3 wood. That requires electronics. I think that makes it a better car. Plenty of options out there for drivers who want static road feel and mechanical handling, but I don't begrudge BMW for broadening it's engineering goals to include global preferences, environmental sensitivity, etc. The drive feels way better and better tailored to me than the E60.
There is nothing new with this discussion btw. Authors still argue vehemently that the typewriter provides better feel than a word processor. And the pen provides better feel than a typewriter. That's the enthusiast's prerogative, but in the real world it's pretty irrelevant! People vote with their pocketbooks.
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I am gonna play it for sure ;D
Just got email
I am gonna play it for sure ;D
Cool another MMO that failed as P2P turning F2P.
Good luck for anyone expecting anything more than a very badly gimped free version of a P2P game with 80% of the content locked. These P2P>F2P failures are nothing like true F2P games, nearly all endgame and other content is locked in these P2P>F2P games (DDO, LOTRO, EQ2) unlike F2P games where pretty much all the time you can play without spending a penny.
If you do plan on playing ANY of these P2P>F2P games your best off just subscribing.
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Lmfao @ pic.
But seriously, you know im right the F2P variants of these P2P games are nowhere near as free as they make out. I'm just warning people not to get there hopes up and think they are actually playing the entire game for free.
Nothing more than an over glorified trial.
Don't agree with what I say? Go f**k yourself.
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Oh, the lols...
Free - Basic Archetypes, Chat restrictions, no special costumes, and an incredibly hard time getting ANY kind of ****ing currency.
P2P (At which it failed miserably) - Free currency every week + everything else like the retails (Which I state again, it failed at)
Oh well...
Also, guy above me, you're not any better off with Rift either...
Now I've said that little line, I cant help but to keep looking at that picture, and I mega-wtf every time.
It's more for those who like decent combat and some customization, most people will play only to find that the costume itself is the only part of customization you get and thats only when you first make it.
Most people that play F2P games never reach Endgame in the first place. Also they play many games at once or in a short time so are not looking for tons form one game really.
Most on here play a game a few days/weeks then quit. Champions at least has a higher quality than standard F2P games, so it might keep players around a little longer or at least checking in every few months.
I think it is worth downloading and keeping around as a free game.
You can earn your way through a lot of content in most P2P to F2P games I have tried such as DDO and LOTRO, its not as if you
The thing I heard is, they're supposedly having a system where you can earn CS points, not as much as Turbine's system but somethings better than nothing I suppose. ^^
Like most its not actually F2P, but just another freemium game to get the stupid people of the world to flock to it since they are fooled into the "ZOMG ITZ GOT FREEZ STUFF NAO" marketing move.
If you go through that list and actually look at everything it doesn't seem THAT bad. Only big thing that stands out is Gold limit and 1 bag.
Aside from that, looks good for not paying anything.
Damn. I really thought that this was gonna be fully f2p ;/
People complaining about these newly F2P games having restrictions:
You do realize that unlike crappy F2P games, these games actually take effort to run and maintain? They DO need to make money, which is why all these F2P games seem like a glorified free trial: They WANT you to subscribe by showing you some goodies and keepijng the rest away.
Oooh I may try it out to waste some time. However once guildwars 2 comes around, I believe it's no turning back from there. Hopefully b2p mmo's will be the way of the future.
Ugh another p2p failure going rainbow free to play happy time.
If this game was awesome...Where are all the clones?!
Is the game itself free though? If it is, p2p sounds good. I was not willing to buy it AND p2p for it. Too big of a risk...
was there any news whats gona happen to old chars? ive got acc since beta but it was trial, i still can play in it, so i wondering are they gona lock some of my chars since some of powers i hawe wount be available for f2p
The game is definitely not p2p quality imo. Aside from the unique character appearance customization, it is very lackluster. PvP is extremely imbalanced. There is no open world PvP. I don't like it when you have to PvP in instanced rooms. The only point in PvPing is getting points to buy gear.
Right now due to OP builds everyone runs around basically like clones with the same build.
Maybe with the launch of archetypes there will be more balance, but at the same time with archetypes there is no skill customization at all so you will be like everyone else who chose the same archetype as you.
This game is fun to play if you have help with all the missions from a higher level friend but otherwise it's not an enjoyable game in my opinion. I hope this is still fun with all these restrictions
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I doubt you've played DDO as an F2P long enough to run into constant red icon premium quests, but yeah.
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This dog hooded sweatshirt uses three measurements, L (LENGTH FROM NECK TO BASE OF TAIL), and G (GIRTH AROUND CHEST), and N (SIZE AROUND THE NECK). The most important measurements are the GIRTH and NECK. Note that every dog is shaped differently. Please adjust the size ordered according to your dogs shape, size, and build
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The sweatshirt itself was made with quality and and looked exactly as we had pictured. The only problem was that it only went up to a size large. The back of the packaging says XL for a German Shepard but there was no Xl on the site. Luckily we have a seamstress in the family who will be able to alter it but we have to wait for her schedule to open up. We would love to refer all of Niner's friends but none of the clothing items will fit them. If you get more items in Xl we would be happy to try them.
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Biodiesel has come a long way since it first began as possible alternative to petroleum-based diesel fuel. Now in many countries, including the US, there are gas stations that offer it as just another option at the pump. If you happen to pass by one of these you may also notice that the fuel is actually a bit cheaper than regular diesel, making it soon to be a very effective competitor to gas companies in the future.
Aside form the low cost, biodiesel is renewable. Unlike fossil fuels, this petroleum alternative comes from plants and other organic matter that can be grown each year. Fossil fuels will eventually run out and so other choices for fuel need to be available. The US already produces a huge surplus of agricultural goods, so this fuel is a perfect substitute for gasoline. So running out of fuel is something people won't have to worry about.
Alternative fuels also mean greater energy security. As much of our petroleum and other fuel resources come from across the world, transporting this fuel is expensive in itself, not to mention the possibility of an interruption in the supply chain due to any number of disasters. With fuel production based in the US, this isn't a worry and it cuts down on the cost at the pump because each gallon used took a little less time making it to your local station. This also means greater economic security since our energy producers are all working here in the US. These are people growing the organic material, those refining it, and those moving it around the country. For a country with so much space to grow, it also means that the US can possibly again become an exporter of energy, improving our trade balance with the rest of the world.
Biodiesel is much better for the environment that traditional fuels. Though these fuels also release carbon dioxide, the farming involved in producing the fuel absorbs much of the excess emissions. Depending on farming practices, this production can improve the surrounding environment and make use of fallow land. This is one of the most hotly debated areas of discussion on alternative fuels and much still needs to be studied to determine the long-term effects.
Regardless, growing our fuel has changed the way energy, how it is controlled and managed, will be decided in the future. Furthermore, it is still an open market ripe for investment and innovation.


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Design Creative Of The Week: Sinéad Lawlor [Fashion/Textiles/Accessories]
The hottest new talent of the week brought to you by PSFK x Arts Thread. This week, a designer who combines crafts and print-making with high fashion.
PSFK's Creative of the Week, chosen from the ARTS THREAD online portfolios, is Sinéad Lawlor, a recent MFA graduate of the Fashion Design and Society program at Parsons, New York whose work shows a sophisticated use of colour and pattern.
Why we like Sinéad's work: Sinéad's work has a 3D depth to it through her mix of textures and patterns, yet the pieces have a lightness and elegance that makes them extremely wearable.
Tell us about yourself, your background and inspirations
I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. I've always been surrounded by art, fashion and craft as I grew up. My first involvement with fashion was probably seeing my grandmother make clothes and sew. My mother also loved to knit so as a child I remember winding yarn for her when she would make her knitwear to sell at craft fairs.
After high-school I went to Limerick School of Art and Design in Ireland where I got to study all the art and design forms. Prior to this I had done a short course in printmaking and graphic design. I finally decided to specialise in fashion as I liked the idea of incorporating the craft of making with design, as well as being able to draw and develop prints. After doing internships in London, I graduated from my BA in Fashion Design in Ireland before moving to Istanbul to work in fashion for a few years there for Marks and Spencer, and Turkish designer Gamze Saracoglu. After Istanbul I went on to start my MFA in Fashion Design and Society in Parsons, New York. In the summer between my first and the second year of my Masters I did an internship at Diane Von Furstenberg as part of the embellishment team.
I have always been inspired by people, their behaviour, society, culture…from the streets of New York to the street of Dublin or Istanbul. If I ever get a creative block the best thing I find to cure it is to go take photographs or what I like and see, go to an art gallery, exhibition or library. Another thing that constantly inspires me is National Geographic magazines, even as a child I loved them.
My final MFA collection which was shown at New York Fashion Week in September 2012. This collection was developed after I began examining the idea of self-camouflage and how we wear colours and prints to distract or enhance something. In my hunt for colours and the monochromatic range of one colour I discovered buckets of colour co-ordinated buttons that had been collected at a Psychiatric hospital over the years and I began to photograph them. The collection consists of digital printed pieces that I flock printed on top of. I used lace that I had also flock printed. I then embellished on top of the silk and chiffon shirts, pants and dresses to add more depth.
Between my first and second year of my MFA I did a knitwear collection of three pieces where I was sponsored by the yarn company Zegna Baruffa. That summer while interning at DVF this collection was exhibited at Pitti Filati in Florence Italy and an exhibition in Tokyo. Last year the same collection was exhibited at 'Emerging Talents: International Fashion Showcase 2012' at London Fashion Week in February 2012. This collection was originally inspired by African tribes and traditions. I began researching different African tribes and their rituals. From the bright colours and prints they wear to how the Himba tribe wrap their hair in a mixture of butter fat and ochre. I found it all extremely inspiring.
The final collection in my ARTS THREAD portfolio is based on the same inspiration as the knitwear collection only with this collection it was mostly woven and consisted of digitally printed pieces that were tailored following the lines of the prints. This collection was done at the end of the first year of my Masters.
What are you currently working on?
I'm currently working freelance and working with an exciting new label. After having a break since Fashion Week from my own design work, I am now, as of the new year, starting to work on a new collection for my own label. I'm also trying to get my website up and running.
How can people get in contact with you? What work are you looking for?
Via my email, it's on my website sineadlawlor.com. I'm currently looking for work where I get to work with exciting, talented teams who are driven and fun. I would like to continue working on my own collections and collaborating with artists and designers. The inspiring people I've met in New York give me new ideas for new collections everyday.


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The Second Debate and the Real Jobs Question
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Last night's debate left me a bit queasy. It wasn't Candy Crowley's implicit cheerleading of the president or her incorrect "correction" of Mitt Romney on the Benghazi question. Nor was it the fact that both candidates were interrupting each other so often that few coherent messages made their way to viewers. It was the first question that came out of the starting gate that had me reaching for the Pepto.
It was from a young man named Jeremy who asked:
"Mr. President, Governor Romney, as a 20-year-old college student, all I hear from professors, neighbors and others is that when I graduate, I will have little chance to get employment. What can you say to reassure me, but more importantly my parents, that I will be able to sufficiently support myself after I graduate?"
No doubt that his parents most certainly need assurance, especially since so many parents find themselves supporting their post-college adult children (see my recent study, "How are Baby Boomers Spending their Money?"
answered included the
"We have to make sure that we make it easier for kids to afford college." He then elaborated about the importance of keeping the Pell grant program going (thereby increasing the supply of potentially unemployed college graduates) before he got around to the jobs part, "When you come out in 2014, I presume I'm going to be president. I'm going to make sure you get a job…"
President Obama then provided his answer, beginning with:
"Number one, I want to build manufacturing jobs in this country again. Now when Governor Romney said we should let Detroit go bankrupt. I said we"re going to bet on American workers and the American auto industry and it"s come surging back."
I am fairly certain that Jeremy was not setting his sights on an assembly line job in Detroit, atlhough there are many skilled and hard-working people who do.
While the candidates pontificated on jobs, or the lack thereof, and what to do about it, they both missed important points: Is a college degree always necessary? And, should the federal government continue pushing college education as the primary path towards a job?
Every university wants to promote their area of academics, regardless of the demand in the job market. For instance, the more law schools can convince students that jobs abound for them, particularly jobs for graduates of their institution, the more money and talent they will get. Or to young people fresh out of high school who want to venture off and "find themselves," the appeal and variety of a degree in Interdiscplinary Studies may be just what they"re looking for. But when the time comes to move out of Mom and Dad"s basement and earn a little money, many are disillusioned. Why? Because many students rely on passions and feelings when it comes to career pursuits and pay little attention to what the job market demands. As a result, they are saddled with years of college debt and may get very little return on their investment.
This is not to say that students should pursue a career path in something they detest. And this is not an indictment that degrees are worthless. Oftentimes, having a degree on one"s resume signals to an employer that a person is willing to work hard and put in some effort, even if the degree does not necessarily match an employer"s skill requirement. But young people should do their homework. There are many jobs that do not require a college degree at all, or require only vocational training for two years and some on-the-job experience, at a much cheaper price. In fact, there have been several recent articles from high-profile publications listing jobs that do not require a college degree in a variety of fields.
And many of these jobs pay well. When a self-employed master electrician came to my house, removed some tract lighting and installed a ceiling fan to the tune of $400 for two hours worth or work, it made me realize he probaby isn"t doing too bad.


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A Rotation Full of Prospects at Indianapolis
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Last year it looked like the Pittsburgh Pirates would have a rotation full of prospects. Brad Lincoln was expected to start the year in Triple-A, while the "Altoona Four" of Rudy Owens, Justin Wilson, Bryan Morris, and Jeff Locke were expected to make the jump to the next level.
Only two of the Altoona pitchers made that jump, with Owens and Wilson getting the call, while Morris and Locke returned to Double-A to get more work at the level. The Pirates also added Brian Burres and Sean Gallagher to the Indianapolis rotation, providing immediate depth should the major league team have needed an extra pitcher early in the season. The Pirates never needed that depth. The only pitcher to go down early in the season was Ross Ohlendorf, and he was replaced by Jeff Karstens.
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"I wanted to act like I belong here. It's a dream come true. You see the stadium on TV, and you wish and hope you'll be out there like those guys." This is what Ian Kennedy was quoted as saying before his first start with the New York Yankees in 2007. And he acquitted himself well in that first major-league win, striking out six, walking two, and giving up five hits in seven innings. But it didn't go so well after that with the Bronx Bombers. After poor outings and health issues — including an aneurysm under his left armpit — he was in and out of the Yankees' minor-league organizations. He never pitched a full season until after he was involved in a three-way trade with New York and the Detroit Tigers in winter 2009. Pitching for the D-Backs against San Diego late last season, Kennedy struck out 12 Padres and gave up one hit and two walks in seven innings. It was the beginning of his resurgence, and by the time this season rolled around, he was named the Diamondbacks' opening-day starter. Now the ace of the Arizona staff, the Huntington Beach, California, native and University of Southern California alum was 13-5, with a 3.39 ERA, after the All-Star Game this season. With the Diamondbacks in the playoffs, they need Kennedy to produce. And he is capable. He's always had his share of strikeouts, with 168 last year and 113 this season. He's also capable of walking a lot of batters: 70 last year and 37 so far this season. An interesting side note: When Kennedy and his wife, former USC basketball player Allison Jaskowiak, were wed a few years ago, they left the church to the strains of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."
Residents of the 40-plus houses in the square formed at Weldon Avenue and Fairmount between 11th and 12th streets in Phoenix are hiding a secret. The subdivision, which opened in 1928, includes a three-acre private park in the square of land concealed by properties. The park originally housed a golf course, artisan well, tennis court, fireplaces, and a swimming pool made from native stone. The pool may be all that's left of the original plan, but the fact that most of Phoenix remains unaware of this hidden gem proves that the garden is still a safe, quiet, and secret place to play.
Sitting in a Valley watering hole sipping a few cold ones, it's hard to imagine that human beings not so different from us were here, doing things, hoping for things, dreaming of things long before we were ever around. Occasionally, we must stare history in the face to recognize how far we've come and, perhaps, realize how far we have to go. There's no better place to do this than the Holbert Trail at South Mountain Park. Here, petroglyphs inscribed in the living rock by Hohokam People centuries ago. See abstract depictions of animals and hunters. Many have attested to the petroglyphs' spiritual significance. We don't like to bring religion into things, but it's hard not to feel something (spiritual or otherwise) when one bears witness to evidence of those who came before us.
Long before urban scavenger hunts and geo-caching became popular, ASU had a built-in mystery search that was a rite of passage for coeds. In its early years, the location of the college's secret garden often remained a mystery until a student accidentally stumbled upon it while looking for a quiet place to study. But with the rumor-mill- slash-verbal-diarrhea-inducer that is the Internet, the secret garden started getting outed and, eventually, arrows indicating its location were spray-painted on sidewalks around the quad at Dixie Gammage Hall and West Hall. (Sorry, secret garden activists, but the jig is already up.) The mystery may be solved, but the grassy area, with its banana trees and passion fruit vines, is still beautiful, despite the now heavily trod lawn. And there still are secrets to be discovered within the garden's confines — for example, the white sapote trees have leaves that smell like fresh popcorn when scratched.
Whether you call it Hayden Butte, Tempe Butte, or "A" Mountain — all valid names, as far as we could tell from our research — this rock pile is sweet for the feet. If you live in Tempe or south Scottsdale, this is the closest you can to an experience that's in the same ballpark as Camelback Mountain or Piestewa Peak, the two most popular Valley mountains for hiking. But beyond the great workout and momentary escape to something akin to nature, hike this one for the scenic view — especially at night. Looking northeast, the bathtub-like Town Lake and vehicle lights on Loop 202 resemble a moving diorama of some futuristic dome-town, like a scene from the 1970s sci-fi movie Logan's Run. Later this year, the antenna and communications equipment at the top will be moved to the soon-to-be-finished West Sixth towers, formerly known as the Centerpoint Towers, which will give the peak a more natural feel. The big "A" will still be there — and still will change color every now and then. This year, not only did University of Arizona students paint the "A" red and blue again, but some folks excited about the death of Osama bin Laden turned the letter a patriotic red, white, and blue.
This place is not the American Museum of Natural History — let's get that out of the way up front. Night at the Museum Part Whatever ain't gonna be filmed anywhere in Mesa. But for locals craving a quick trip to the Cretaceous and other dino-filled periods, the Arizona MNH simply roars. In "Dinosaur Hall," the skulls of triceratops' relatives and various skeletons do wonders for our sense of wonder — it's easy to forget these magnificent, strange creatures once lived on this planet. Each time we're there, we take at least half an hour to wander past "Dinosaur Mountain," the three-story dino-rama with a cool waterfall and large, animatronic T.rex, stegosaurus, and other lizard-like creatures, large and small. The kids think this exhibit is even better now that they're older and not scared of it. They still aren't too old for the Paleo Dig Pit, though, a nifty spot in which tykes sift through rocks to "discover" dino eggs and bones. If you want a close encounter with dinosaurs, the Mesa museum delivers everything but the bite marks.


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Are your currently utilizing Chamber Video Conferencing?
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Would you like to grow your personal brand in your community, giving you more visibility and influence (without a lot of new work or expense)?
Chamber Video Conferencing
In this guide, I share with you how you can use chamber video conferencing, through Google+ Video Hangouts and Hangouts On Air, to do all of these things (and more).
And, the best part, it's free.
In this basic and intermediate guide, you will learn:
- How to easily put a long-lasting spotlight on your members that they will greatly value;
- How to save time and money from not driving everywhere to attend meetings, burning gas and putting wear and tear on the car;
- How to increase your (and your chamber's) influence in the community;
- How to attract more traffic to your chamber's YouTube channel and website;
- How to stand out from the crowd and offer something different.
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This image shows Mary Ellen Hunt Dombrowski, president of the Glastonbury Connecticut Chamber, discussing a chamber issue with a panel of chamber pros from across North America.
Mary Ellen was one of 10 chamber pros who participated in this edition of the Chamber Focus Show, a Google+ Hangout On Air.
Other participants in this episode included Greg Durocher, president/CEO of the Cambridge Chamber, who was in Ontario, Canada; Mark Sturdevant, president of the La Habra Chamber, who was in California; and Oregon residents Stephan Wurzburg of the Keizer Chamber and Lisa Farquharson of The Dalles Chamber.
Our special guest for the show was Annette Medlin of Membership180.
The Catch?
No catch. It costs nothing to produce, other than time.
The technology is a free tool from Google+. And because Google owns YouTube, the Show is recorded and posted to my YouTube channel, where the market can view it at their convenience.
It can even be viewed live by an unlimited number of people by embedding it to a blog or site.
You can also edit it after you're done, add an intro and exit, clean up hiccups, and then post it to your blog.
Here is an image from a recent chamber-focused interview.
Clay Rankin joined me from Chicago. I was near Portland, Oregon (but I could have been anywhere, including in the RV).
I interviewed him about his business, Broker Savant, and how it serves the chamber industry and chamber members. We also discussed how chambers could be, from Clay's point of view, of service to commercial property brokers.
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Sure, Microsoft and Google may be trying to murder each other when it comes to technology, but the two companies can always team up for a good cause. This week in London, the two companies along with others including Amazon, Dell, and Nokia came together to launch the brand new InterTech Diversity Forum for LGBT+ people (since when did we get a "plus" added?).


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Ask a Mechanic Online and Get Answers to Your Car Questions
Hi. I'm Dave.
Apparently, Tim is not online at the moment, and your question got "redirected" to the "open questions" list. So I will try to help you with the question you are asking.
First, The fluid only goes from the pump motor to the hydraulic cylinders. You can trust me when I tell you that if there is an external leak in this system, you will KNOW. There will be hydraulic fluid all over the back of the car.
The vehicle manufacturer does not provide any information for "checking" the fluid. The reason for this is because the motor, pump, lines, and hydraulic cylinders are only serviced as a complete unit. If you have to buy a new unit, it comes complete and already filled with fluid. Any external (or internal) leaks in this system that render it inoperable, require the replacement of the entire assembly.
Please download the PDF file HERE
Please note that this file will be deleted from the file server in a few days due to copyright restrictions.
Also note that this is NOT a mistake. I am fully aware that the file actually says "2006 PT CRUISER", not "2005". However the manufacturer's service information for these two years is EXACTLTY the same, with no changes between these two years.
You may want to read through these instructions, so you can get an idea of how this system must be diagnosed and/or repaired.
Let me know if I can assist you further.


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Help with formatting output
Mathematica junkies,
I would like to format:
{35,36,2,4,5} as
1 35
2 36
2 2
3 4
5 5
I have a list, such as {35,36,2,4,5}, and want two-column output,
where the first column is the position n the list, and the second
column is the actual list. I want just a space between the columns.
I have Mathematica, TextPad, and Dreamweaver at my disposal. Can
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All ages are welcome to compete in as many events as they would like or to just come and watch. The Greater Rockford Area Summer Track & Field Competition will be held at Rockford High School's Ted Carlson Memorial Stadium on Monday, July 18. Gates open at 5 p.m. with field events beginning at 5:30 and running events starting at 6 p.m. Admission is $5 per person, whether an athlete or spectator.
If there are enough entries, races will be broken down by the following age groups: 6-under, 7-10, 11-14, 15-18, Open, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-over. The order of the events are as follows, with the field events running simultaneously:
- pole vault
- discus (6-under and 7-10 Frisbee throw)
- long jump
- 5,000-meter run
- 110/100-meter hurdles
- 55-meter hurdles (6-under and 7-10)
- 400-meter dash
- 800-meter run
- 100-meter dash
- 100-meter dash (6-under and 7-10)
- 4×400 relay
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