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Deer do some of their worst damage to your garden, landscape, trees and shrubs in winter, when other food sources are hard to come by.
"In the early 1900s, there were probably only about half a million deer spread out all over the country," says James Messina of Messina Wildlife. "Today, there are more than 15 million. Deer, it turns out, adapt quite well to life in suburbia. Keeping them away from residential and commercial landscaping can help everyone—deer and homeowners—to co-exist more happily together."
With no place to go and not much left to eat in the dead of winter, deer can wreak havoc in your backyard and destroy new buds and leaves before they ever have a chance to grow. As seasons change, the preferred food sources of deer change as well.
Deer develop new browsing trails as food sources change with the seasons, and repeatedly follow them through the season until new food sources begin to appear. That's when the deer drama begins.
Whitetail deer can consume, on average, 12 pounds of foliage a day. And in the winter, when natural food sources are scarce, they'll give homeowners more trouble than any other time of year. The more snow we get, the worse the problem becomes. A winter of consistent snow coverage is great for bulbs and perennials, but evergreens face the toughest challenge from hungry deer looking to survive.
Deer are creatures of habit, and contrary to popular belief, the majority of them do not migrate. Bucks are known to travel more than 100 miles, but does will stay within the same three to four square miles for their entire lives. This means the deer you see this year are probably the exact same deer you saw last year. It also means that once they've found a food source, potentially yours, they'll be back time and time again.
Fend off deer by applying repellents before you see the damage, encouraging the deer to move along and not include your landscape in their browse buffet.
Repellents rely on deer's strong sense of smell and range from commercial products to homemade concoctions of human hair, blood meal or chunks of deodorant soap. But traditional animal repellents have become less effective than they were decades ago, Messina notes.
"That's because many of those repellents rely on a bad smell—like the stench of a rotting carcass—to fool animals into thinking a predator's kill is in the area and the predator may be returning for it," he says. "But the number of predators out there has actually declined, and deer know it. They're much less afraid of predators, so relying on 'scare tactics' has a greater tendency to fail over time."
Some deer have also built up a resistance to chemical deterrents. Plus, increasingly eco-conscious homeowners prefer not to put potentially harmful chemicals into the environment.
More homeowners are turning to organic alternatives, like Deer Stopper, a repellent formulated from plant extracts. This organic option works because it confronts deer by using their natural repulsion to certain plant smells and tastes rather than relying on fear of predator tactics.
"We know that deer will eat more than 500 different types of plants," Messina says. "Normally, they're quite discriminating. But in fall and winter, they become less picky and much more of a threat to suburban landscapes. Still, like many wild animals, deer rely on taste and smell to judge if a food may be harmful to them. If your backyard foliage tastes or smells unpleasant to them, one bite and they'll move on."
Deer Stopper by Messina Wildlife Management is the only organic repellent in the country certified by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI). An effective taste deterrent, Deer Stopper is 100 percent organic and completely safe for use on all types of plants and shrubs. OMRI lists it as approved for use by organic growers. The smell- and taste-based technology also eliminates the need to use foul, odor-based repellent products, which can be quite unpleasant for homeowners' use.
Deer Stopper actually smells good to humans. Lightly misting vegetation once a month, even during the cold and snowy winter, will keep deer away all season long.
This winter protect your plants and shrubs and create your own boundaries for foraging bucks and deer. Now you're in control of the drama.
For more information on Deer Stopper, retail store locations and other wildlife management repellents visit


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What's in the " .mb" files????
I recently made the connection between deleting apparently unnecessary ".mb"
files and my notebooks turning up with all inactive cells. When I opened up
these .mb files in mma, there appeared to be only a line or two of code in an
inactive cell. Neverthe less, the .mb files take up a good deal of disk space.
Must be a lot of information that's not directly viewable in these files. Can
someone give me an idea as to what exactly is stored in these files and why
mma puts information it needs to evalaute a notebook in a different file?
Now that I've figured it out, I'll stop deleting these files, but I would
still like to understand what's going on with these files.
BTW, this is the Windows version, and it may be a Windows-specific problem.
If it is, my apologies in advance to Richard for bringing it up.

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Qu'est-ce que la garantie de sûreté FileHippo ?
Nous savons à quel point il est important de rester en sécurité en ligne, c'est pourquoi FileHippo utilise une technologie de balayage antivirus fournie par Avira pour aider à garantir la sécurité de l'ensemble des téléchargements sur FileHippo. Le programme que vous êtes sur le point de télécharger sur votre appareil est sûr.
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- Drag and Drop not working in some instances
- Deleting a bookmark closing/collapsing all folders
- Focus being lost when deleting bookmarks
- Integrated search performing searches in Google and not in the page
- The Opera O menu button reappearing when the Menu bar is enabled
- The Opera icon remaining in the system tray after closing Opera
- Minimized tabs not displaying after a restart
- Favicon not being added to Bookmarks due to a question mark in the filename
- Individual characters in Chinese text being rotated anti-clockwise
# Mail, News, Chat
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- A problem occurring when right-clicking entries under "All messages" and selecting Compose
- Chat notification appearing if a chat tab is active
- Ghost e-mails appearing in the Trash folder after emptying it and restarting Opera
- Message not loading when it is deselected and selected again
- Mail being blank when using fit to width
- Attached files not being sent if mail is sent immediately after attaching them
- Opera Mail welcome e-mail message not being localized
- The text part of HTML e-mails missing the reply character " > " for block quotes
# Display and scripting
* Improved
- Numerous improvements to the Carakan JavaScript engine
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- Icons missing from menus in 16-bit color mode
- Slow scrolling performance
- Incorrect font used for a UTF-8 encoded page without the language (CJK) being specified
# Security
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- Fixed an issue where the HTTP Content-Length header could be used to execute arbitrary code; see our advisory (http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/948/).
- Fixed an issue where XSLT could be used to retrieve random contents of unrelated documents, as discovered by crazypops; see our advisory (http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/949/).
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Austin Mahone Releases New Song, 'Say My Name': Listen
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By Hannah Perrin
It's official, we're Mahomies.
After Austin Mahone's new song, "Say My Name" leaked, the 18-year-old singer decided to fully release the song this week — and thank goodness.
Mahone's new track is an R&B-meets-pop slow jam and it's everything your ears have been craving.
The "All I Ever Need" singer shows off his smooth vocals as he tries to convince his girl to stay the night.
For more of the Texas-born artist's songs, you can catch him on tour starting July 25 with The Vamps, Fifth Harmony, and other special guests.


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It is possible for an adapter to support basic networking but not all features of BT. If your's is not compatible I would suggest: the Alfa 500mw
Seems to be accepted as the best one for the job supports everything and runs str8 out of the box (powerful long-range adapter as well).
Finally I would look into the BT4 VMWARE image I've just moved onto that on top of windows xp. Even a non-compatible wifi adapter can be made to work with BT (providing its compatible with windows) in so far as basic networking. For aircrack-ng etc you need a adapter that supports monitoring. BT4 is streets ahead and you'll find it a lot easier to work with.


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BMW Lease Wear and Tear Coverage with New BMW Lease Protection Program
BMW Financial Services has taken the next step in offering its Ultimate Lease customer a smoother, less-stressful lease-end experience and overall simpler leasing experience with the introduction of its BMW Lease Protection Program.
Our new BMW Lease Protection product , which some might refer to as extended-wear-and-tear coverage, virtually eliminates the potential out-of-pocket costs of common repairs at lease-end , thus making the leasing experience that much more pleasurable, explained Lisa McPherson, BMW Financial Services general manager of insurance. This is our latest program to make leasing a BMW (or a MINI) a pleasurable experience and minimizing issues surrounding wear and tear, tire and wheel problems and minor dings and dents which may become apparent when the vehicle is returned at the end of the lease.
BMW Lease Protection joins BMW Tire & Wheel Protection, BMW Paintless Dent Repair and BMW Windshield Protection to provide coverage for everyday mishaps. These same programs are offered to MINI customers.
One of the reasons people lease cars is for a virtually worry-free driving experience, one which enables them to enjoy their vehicles for the life of the lease and then either walk away or move into their next BMW or MINI, explained McPherson. We understand this and are continually upgrading the BMW Ultimate Lease to make the experience that much more pleasurable and rewarding for the BMW Financial Services customer.
Taking the costly surprises out of the lease experience by providing BMW-level protection is the obvious way to do just that.
The BMW Lease Protection Program, which must be purchased at time of new-vehicle delivery, covers up to $3,750 in billed excess wear and use charges at turn in (not during the life of the lease). Items covered by the program include:
The process for determining excess wear and use occurs at the lease-end inspection, generally performed at the BMW Center. There an inspector reviews the vehicle, noting if there are any items in need of attention. If so, the information is presented to the customer (who will receive a comprehensive lease-end inspection report) and the claim is submitted to BMW Financial Services directly by the dealer the customer does not have to do anything.
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REPORT: Cable Network Coverage Of Obama Speeches Lacks Balance
President Obama has given three high-profile speeches in July and August outlining an economic policy agenda for his remaining term in office as part of the White House's attempts to refocus the national media on pressing economic issues. An analysis of live coverage found that these speeches received unbalanced coverage across cable news outlets, with Fox News devoting by far the least amount of time.
President Obama Takes His Economic Message On The Road
Bloomberg: Obama Looking To "Regain Initiative On Economic Agenda." On July 23, Bloomberg noted the strategy behind the Obama administration's renewed campaign-style outreach to publicize its economic agenda:
President Barack Obama, looking ahead to renewed battles with Congress over fiscal policy and the debt ceiling, is seeking to revive his stalled economic agenda with a series of speeches over the next several weeks.
Obama wants to turn attention back to the economy -- and how his policies have added to job growth and stability -- following months during which the focus has been on the president's second-term job appointees, his push for a revision of immigration policy, attempts to block his signature health-care law and Republican-led investigations into his administration. [Bloomberg, 7/23/13 [1]]
Jay Carney: President Believes It Is Essential To Refocus On Economy. On July 24, en route to Galesburg, Illinois, aboard Air Force One for the first of the president's major economic addresses, White House press secretary Jay Carney explained that the economy "is the most important thing we can talk about, and that's why the President is giving this address today":
The President believes it's essential to refocus everyone's attention on the preoccupation of most Americans across the country, which is making sure that there are high-paying, solid jobs available; making sure that they're able to save a little bit for their retirement; that they can own their own home and that they can send their kids to college -- and afford to send their kids to college. These are the basic building blocks of what it means to be part of the American economy and the uniqueness of the American economy. So we think it is the most important thing we can talk about, and that's why the President is giving this address today. [The White House Office of the Press Secretary, 7/24/13 [2]]
Quinnipiac Poll: Voters Name Economy As A Higher Priority Than Alleged Controversies In Washington. On May 30, an updated Quinnipiac University National Poll showed respondents prioritized dealing with the economy and unemployment over further investigations of so-called Washington "scandals" by a margin of 73-22 percent. [Quinnipiac University National Poll, 5/30/13 [3]]
Network Coverage Of Obama Speeches Show Stark Contrast
Obama's Three Speeches Cover Broad Range Of Economic Agenda Issues From Job Creation To Housing. President Obama delivered major day-time economic policy addresses on July 24, July 30, and August 6 from Galesburg, Illinois, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Phoenix, Arizona, respectively. The first covered a broad range of policy ideas highlighting administration accomplishments and outlining an economic agenda for the remainder of the president's term in office. The second highlighted specific proposals aimed at stimulating sustainable job creation. The third focused on administration proposals to reinvigorate stable growth in the housing market. [The White House Office of the Press Secretary, 7/24/13 [4], 7/30/13 [5] and 8/6/13 [6]]
Huge Coverage Gap Among Networks. The three largest cable news networks -- MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News -- all aired live footage of at least one of President Obama's economic policy speeches. MSNBC provided more than two hours of live, unbroken, and uninterrupted coverage of the president's remarks. CNN allocated more than one hour of live airtime to the president. Fox News allocated less than eight minutes total to the three speeches.
Presidential Speeches Pass Fox Viewers Virtually Undetected
Fox, CNN Trail MSNBC In Coverage. The three networks were distinct from one another in total coverage allotted to the president's high-profile speeches. MSNBC covered the speeches more or less in their entirety, airing roughly 96 percent of the president's remarks live. CNN, after airing the president's first and longest speech in full, provided just less than 12 minutes of live coverage to the second and did not air the third. The network aired roughly 59 percent of the president's total remarks. Fox News aired just less than eight minutes of the president's first and most comprehensive speech, roughly 6 percent of his total remarks. The network did not cover his second or third speech.
Fox Cuts Away From Policy Speech For Royal Baby News. On July 24, approximately eight minutes into President Obama's hour-long policy speech, Media Matters noted that Fox News left the president's live remarks for a commercial break. Upon returning from break the network led with an update of the name chosen by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for their newborn son. The network did not return to live coverage throughout the remainder of Obama's speech. [Media Matters, 7/24/13 [7]]
Media Matters viewed network coverage of each speech live on CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. Further review of each was done via internal video database recordings of the following programs for July 24, July 30, and August 6: America Live with Megyn Kelly, Andrea Mitchell Reports, CNN Newsroom, Martin Bashir, NewsNation with Tamron Hall, The Cycle, The Lead with Jake Tapper and Your World with Neil Cavuto.
Segments were considered "live" if they included the full remarks of the president without overlapping commentary or analysis.
Due to varying network delays, percentages were obtained using official White House transcripts with timestamps as a control baseline.
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Roger Newland Shepard (born January 30, 1929 in Palo Alto, California) is a cognitive scientist and author of the Universal Law of Generalization (1987). He is considered a father of research on spatial relations.
Shepard obtained his Ph.D. in psychology at Yale University in 1955 under Carl Hovland, and completed post-doctoral training with George Armitage Miller at Harvard. Subsequent to this, Shepard was at Bell Labs and then a professor at Harvard before joining the faculty at Stanford University. In 1995, Shepard received the National Medal of Science for his contributions in the field of cognitive science. In 2006, he also won the Rumelhart Prize. Shepard is Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Stanford University.
His students include [[Lynn Cooper], Leda Cosmides, Rob Fish, Jennifer Freyd, Carol Krumhansl, Daniel Levitin, Geoffrey Miller and Josh Tenenbaum.[1]
Shepard is one of the founders of the Kira Institute.
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- Barber's pole
- Center for Evolutionary Psychology
- Deutsch tritone paradox
- Mental rotation
- Mental image
- Shepard tone
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- Biography at rr0.org (in french)
- Stanford faculty
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Custom Navigation Menus feature in WordPress 3.0 will make WordPress even more user friendly for beginners. This function let you organize your menu, create drop down menus, add new items to menu, and much more. The drag-and-drop function of this feature is what makes it extremely easy to use. This feature will not be available in older themes unless the theme author(s) update their themes. In this article, we will show you how you can enable and install custom navigation menus in your themes.
We see this feature as one of the most demanded feature in the future of WordPress themes. Below is a simple screenshot that shows you what you can do with this menu option.
You can create multiple menus, add existing categories or pages to the menu, and you can add custom links to menu as well. You can organize the menus and create drop-down menus with a simple drag-and-drop feature.
How to enable Custom Navigation Menus in WordPress 3.0
Like the custom background, header image, and post thumbnails, the custom navigation menus also needs to be enabled through your theme's functions.php file.
Simply add the code below to your theme's functions.php file:
add_theme_support( 'menus' );
If this code is not added in your functions.php file, the user will not see this as an option in the Admin panel.
How to Add Custom Navigation Menus in WordPress 3.0 Themes
Once you have enabled the feature, now you can add it in your theme. These menus are not limited for header.php file only. You can add them anywhere you like to fit your design's need by pasting the code below:
'menu_order', 'container_class' => 'menu-header' ) ); ?>
For custom themes: If you are using more than one menu, then you need to specify either the menu ID, menu slug, or menu name. The parameters are: $id, $slug, $menu respectively.
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This workshop is designed to offer you suggestions for managing your Distance Learning course and the accompanying web conferencing tools. We will review the physical locations from which you can teach, identify Web resources, review bookstore services, explain the process for materials distribution, briefly discuss testing and student assessment, grade distribution and course evaluation, provide an orientation to site directors and their roles, review the extended syllabus design, and briefly discuss copyright and fair use.
The goal of this workshop is to provide opportunities for faculty to become more informed about how best to manage a Distance Learning course. At the end of this session, participants will be able to locate and use administrative resources available to broadcast faculty.
Participants will feel confident in locating helpful resources and in managing the logistics or mechanics of delivering a Distance Learning course.


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This error means exactly what it says. Since 11.13.11, Armitage's dependencies have changed. BackTrack 5 has an install of Metasploit 3.7.x. This install does not contain the MessagePack Ruby Gem that Armitage requires and the Java used by Metasploit is missing cryptographic extensions necessary to connect over SSL. BackTrack 5r1 has a Metasploit 4.0 install. If you have BackTrack 5r1 then you're fine and you won't see this dialog.
The solution: get BackTrack 5r1 (reinstall it/download the new VM) or delete Metasploit and install it using a Metasploit 4.0 or greater full setup installer. Using apt to update the distribution isn't always the same as downloading the latest BackTrack. Please download the latest BackTrack.
Why the changes? Metasploit 4.2 (under development right now) is a big house cleaning release. db_autopwn was taken out, the methods Armitage uses to talk to the database are likely deprecated, and the XMLRPC server is going away too. I rewrote Armitage's backend to take these things into account. The only problem is the dependency changes. I'm a big (x 10) fan of BackTrack and because I care about this user community, I put messages like this one in the software to help point you in the right direction.
If you're ever lost: click Help in the Armitage setup dialog, read the change log (whatsnew.txt), read the FAQ, or read the manual. I updated all of these resources to explain this dependency change. You can find this stuff at http://www.fastandeasyhacking.com/
I hope this explanation helps.
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Preeclampsia - self-careToxemia- self-care; PIH- self-care; Pregnancy-induced hypertension- self-care
Preeclampsia is high blood pressure and protein in the urine after the 20th week of pregnancy.
What to Expect
If you are past 37 weeks, and your blood pressure is moderately elevated, your health care provider will likely advise you to deliver early. This may involve getting medicines to start (induce) labor or having a cesarean-section (C-section).
If you are fewer than 37 weeks pregnant, the goal is to prolong your pregnancy as long as it is safe. Doing so allows your baby to develop longer inside of you.
- If your preeclampsia is severe, you may need to stay in the hospital to be monitored closely.
- If your preeclampsia is mild, you may be able to stay at home on bed rest. You will need to have frequent checkups and tests.
Bed Rest and Self-care at Home
When you are at home, your doctor will likely ask you to be on bed rest.
- The best position for bed rest is on your left side. Rest on your right side if your left side gets sore.
- Lying on your side allows more blood to flow to the placenta, and this brings more blood to your baby.
- It helps to rest with your knees or hips bent. You may want to use a pillow between your knees to relieve stress on your back.
Most of the time, you will need to remain lying on your side except when you use the bathroom. Ask your health care provider if you can sit up or move around other times.
Your health care provider will tell you how much fluid to drink every day and what other changes you may need to make in your diet. You may need to limit your salt intake.
You may need to take medicines to lower your blood pressure.
- Take these medicines the way your health care provider tells you to.
- Do not take any extra vitamins, calcium, aspirin, or other medicines without talking with your health care provider first.
Often, women who have preeclampsia do not feel sick or have any symptoms. Still, both you and your baby may be in danger. You need to stay on bed rest to keep you and your baby as healthy as possible. You may be uncomfortable and feel stressed, but bed rest will get easier to cope with as you get used to it.
Monitoring You and Your Baby
While you are home, your health care provider may ask you to:
- Measure your blood pressure
- Monitor how much fluid you drink
- Check your weight
- Monitor how often your baby moves and kicks
Your health care provider will teach you how to do these things.
You will need frequent doctor visits to make sure you and your baby are doing well. You will likely have:
- Visits with your doctor once a week or more
- Ultrasounds to monitor the size and movement of and fluid around your baby
- A nonstress test to check how your baby is doing
- Blood or urine tests
When to Call the Doctor
Call your health care provider right away if you:
- Have swelling in your hands, face, or eyes (edema)
- Suddenly gain weight over 1 or 2 days, or you gain more than 2 pounds in a week
- Have a headache that does not go away or becomes worse
- Are not urinating very often
- Have nausea and vomiting
- Have vision changes, such as you cannot see for a short time, see flashing lights or spots, are sensitive to light, or have blurry vision
- Feel lightheaded or faint
- Have pain in your belly below your ribs
- Have pain in your right shoulder
- Have problems breathing
- Bruise easily
Sibai BM. Hypertension.In: Gabbe SG, Niebyl JR, Simpson JL, et al, eds. Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2012:chap 35.
Review Date: 8/23/2012
Reviewed By: Susan Storck, MD, FACOG, Chief, Eastside Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Bellevue, Washington; Clinical Teaching Faculty, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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Looking for a pro coach, who is regarded as one of the best in boxing. pref in London, but if people think that someone in maybe manchester or something is better, then lets have them too
Not looking so much for a gym, mainly a coach to help sharpen up someones skills and help them out with stuff.
thanks people. I have zero clue on boxing. I spoke with Adam Booth, but then after what seemed very promising convo, turned to nothing and not heard back since, so now looking for that kind of level coach...


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PaganSquare is a community blog space where Pagans can discuss topics relevant to the life and spiritual practice of all Pagans.
Hearth Witchery
It has come as a surprise to me, considering my relationship with Odin (the Wanderer and hedge-crosser extraordinaire), but I have been discovering lately that I am far more of a hearth witch than a hedge witch. Don't get me wrong; I do love wandering through the dark woods at night, threading my way through cemeteries, or exploring the Eugene wetlands. I love to explore these liminal places in a light trance state, letting the already-fragile boundaries between the worlds blur so that I can commune with the spirits there. This is part of my practice, and it always will be. (And in the case of the wetlands, I do this every morning on my walk to work, in the early hours when the human world is still barely stirring but the land wights--or land spirits--are awake and going about their day.) But at the heart of my practice, I am a Doorway for my gods and spirits, and to fulfill that function I must be anchored in this world, even as I work at blurring its edges.
I just had an entire week off from my day job, for the first time in years, and found myself spending much of it at my spinning wheel, or gathering supplies to make prayer beads, or in my kitchen learning to make salted caramels, or planning what I will need to begin producing candles and other non-yarn goodies for my Etsy shop. When given a choice between wandering outdoors and busying myself with activities at home, I nearly always choose the latter. Perhaps my physical condition pays a part in this (I have moderate to severe fibromyalgia, and at this point I still work full time so that saps a lot of my energy), but most of the time I find that I would rather be at home, tending a hearth for my gods and for the spirits I honor, rather than out in the world. My trips out in the world fortify and help to shape my hearth; they feed it and strengthen my center. In this I am like Frigga, who puts Her apron aside and rides with Her Husband in the Hunt during the dark half of the year, but the rest of the time concentrates Her efforts on creating a welcoming home for Him to return to after His wanderings.
To get back to the topic of setting up a hearth in your own home if you do not already have one, despite my previous definition of the hearth as a place of fire, there is always the option of interpreting "fire" symbolically. Along these lines, your hearth can be that place that anchors and nourishes your home, that feeds what you love most about it, the "flame" that makes your home a welcoming place. For some people, it would clearly be the kitchen table where the family gathers for dinner to share stories of their day. For some, it might be a place of literal fire, such as the woodburning stove (and do I ever wish I had one!) where herbal oils and brews are prepared.
If you practice seidhr (or seething, as it is sometimes called in Anglo-Saxon Heathenry), the hearth could be the place where you choose to position your high seat and/or working altar. This would be a very traditional choice, supported by Tacitus' observations that within the Germanic tribes each head of household functioned as that household's priest. In the Icelandic sagas, solitary seidhrkonur (sorceresses or witches) are referred to euphemistically as "women who knew a thing or two" and are always depicted as practicing their magic at home, near the hearth.
In my own household, the hearth has always been a communal shrine, separate from the individual and personal shrines kept for the gods and the dead. It serves as a focal point for lunar celebrations and other festivals, around which the family gathers for any shared rites. In Heathenry, a group that gathers regularly for religious observance is considered to be an extended family group regardless of whether the members are actually related by either blood or marriage. The names used for these groups reflect this: in Asatru there are kindreds, and an Anglo-Saxon group is referred to as an inhired (which means family or tribe), or sometimes simply as a hearth. Since our family consists of only two people (plus the furry members and the spirits) and is thus about as malleable and informal as it gets, I prefer the latter term.
We have always had a fully functioning hearth shrine right up until we moved into the little house where we live now. I'm not sure why it took us so long to incorporate one into our present dwelling. We were forced to re-home two of our cats prior to moving in, so that played a part, and we suffered the loss of another cat (Sassy) a year before Pringle's recent death, as well as the recent loss of my partner's grandfather (who lived back east). All of these things, among other factors, played a part, and the past year and a half has been, for us, a time of pulling in and paring down to basics. But a couple of months ago, when we began to build up the more active parts of our individual practices again, the glaring lack of a hearth shrine immediately became obvious. In order to begin truly celebrating festivals again in anything more than a solitary meditative fashion, we needed a place to do so. We needed to establish a hearth shrine at once!
I am a Virgo, and as such a born perfectionist; if I allow myself to, I will delay doing anything until I know I can do it perfectly. This trait is clearly not conducive to getting anything done whether religious, magical, or artistic, so my philosophy has become that it is better to begin simply and to elaborate later on. In this case, our beginning was a folding table we found around the house and positioned between our respective shrines to Odin and Poseidon. For our full moon feast of August, we decorated this shrine with a canning jar filled with fresh flowers, added a scented soy candle in a tin, and placed our plate of food offerings for the household's gods and spirits on the table. A simple beginning. Since then, we have added a little shelf, which sits at about eye level above the table and can hold the offering plate and the candle. (Due to the cats, if we are going to leave food out it needs to be as far off the ground as possible!) Perhaps at some point in the future we will purchase a piece of furniture to replace this set-up--a baker's cabinet with shelves, maybe--but for now, this will work.
All of this seems very simple and no frills, and for us, that's the idea. I love to accumulate religious paraphernalia and tools (generally either handmade or consisting of natural objects such as branches, bones or shells), but in this case, what we needed was a blank canvas, a shrine that can be customized for each lunar festival and each holiday. Like a kitchen table that needs to be kept relatively clutter-free if it is to be filled with dishes for the family every night, our communal altar cannot perform its function if it's loaded down with images and symbolic knick-knacks right at the onset. It will probably acquire some type of handmade covering eventually, and as I am a "woman who knows a thing or two," it is possible that my high seat will be set up somewhere in this viciinity when I am performing oracular seidhr. Your own household altar, however (should you choose to set one up) can be as simple or elaborate as you choose. Another great option for a household "hearth" would be a standing shrine that holds something representing each member of your family, or, if you have patrons among the gods, something representing each person's own patron. This would provide a great setting for a Heathen family's fainings or blots (offerings to the gods, ancestors or spirits). It's up to you!
A few suggestions for setting up your hearth shrine: I would recommend starting with a thorough physical cleansing, and then cleansing it spiritually. Especially if you are "repurposing" a table or other object of furniture from around your house, you will want to do this because spiritual muck accumulates along with dust, and you will want the symbolic center of your household to start off fresh and clean. You can cleanse it using may different methods, but being Heathen I prefer to use the opposing and complementary elements of fire and water. (The Heathen creation myths tell us that the world emerged from fire and ice, so by using these elements you are in effect creating your sacred space.) I carry a lit candle around the area in question, which is a traditional method of both claiming the space and sanctifying it. Then I place the candle on the atar and sprinkle salt water on and around the area, or sometimes I will use a condition water such as Florida water. Florida water is a recipe designed to clear away spirital muck and unwanted spirits and attract good spirits; it is certainly not Heathen, but it does work! You can find it in a Hoodoo botanica or in the Latino foods section of many supermarkets, or you can make your own by filling a bowl with fresh cold water and adding equal drops of orange, lavender and clove essential oils. Wipe the intended altar surface down with this mixture, sprinkle it around the general area, and cleanse your own aura with it for good measure by wetting your hands with it and swiping it down the front, back, and sides of your body, a few inches away, in a clearing motion. Another great method of cleansing the space and yourself is to burn mugwort, which is commonly used by Heathens for this purpose as a recels (incense) and is also sacred to Odin.
After purifying the space, I use runes and charged oils to dedicate it. For my Odin altar I use a special Nine Herbs oil blend I developed, but for a household altar you would want to use an oil designed either for home blessing or general altar blessing. There are many options for this; frankincense essential oil in a base of oilive oil with a few grains of sea salt mixed in is a good choice, but if you want to stick to more traditionally used Anglo-Scandinavian herbs a few drops of rosemary (for protection and purification) mixed with lavender (for peace and harmony) would also work nicely. Good runes for blessing the hearth shrine are Algiz (for protection), Othala (the rune of the home and the ancestors), and Mannaz (which stands for social interactions). I generally trace the chosen runes into the surface of a shrine with the oil.
After that, the choice of shrine coverings, what to put on your hearth shrine, and how to use it are all up to you! But whatever you decide, I think you will find that having a communal area to place offerings and around which to gather for celebrations can only enhance your household's religious experience.
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The Federal Trade Commission and members of the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN) are meeting in Jeju, Korea, on March 26-28, to discuss the progress of international efforts to combat cross-border fraud and explore new international initiatives to protect consumers around the world.
The FTCs participation in ICPEN is one part of the agencys ongoing effort to combat a rising number of cross-border fraud complaints from American consumers. ICPEN members discussed the results of a recent Internet surf for Web sites that are hidden traps online.
Over 30 countries participated in the international surf. In the United States, the focus was on Web sites with fraudulent claims advertising miracle cures for diabetes, with the FTC, FDA, and several states Attorneys General offices participating.
The FTC and its partners reviewed over 1,000 Web sites and identified over 150 with potentially misleading diabetes claims. The FTC will follow-up, sending warning letters to Web sites that appear to have deceptive or false claims.
More information can be found here.
"The European Commission launched a new website which aims to help consumers get a better deal when using their mobile phones abroad. For this purpose, the website makes public roaming tariffs from the operators in all 25 EU Member States. The launch of this site was signalled in July when Commissioner Viviane Reding highlighted the high cost of using mobile phones abroad and the need to ensure greater transparency of these charges. By means of tables of sample tariffs and direct links to EU mobile operators, the website intends to give EU consumers a concrete idea of the level of tariffs they are likely to face when going on holiday as well as guidance and tips on how to manage their international roaming bills. Since the announcement of the website before this summer, there are signs that competition is starting to develop, in particular with some operators offering special holiday and other tariff packages."
Owing the dangers of cybercrime and the need for common minimum technical and legal standards to fight such crime at a global level, the Convention on cybercrime (ETS N° 185) was prepared by Council of Europe member States and Canada, Japan, South Africa and the United States. It entered with force on 1 July 2004. Its Additional Protocol concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems (ETS N° 189) entered into force on 1 March 2006.
The Convention is the only binding international instrument dealing with cybercrime. It has received widespread international support and is open to all States.
The Convention provides for consultations of the Parties (the Convention Committee on Cybercrime (T-CY)). The first meeting of the consultation of the parties took place in Strasbourg, France from 21-22 March 2006. Documents and materials from the meeting are available on the T-CY website.
Activités de lUIT dans la Lutte contre le SPAM, PDF, Cristina Bueti, ITU Strategy and Policy Unit,21 March 2006, presented at the workshop on "Lutte contre le SPAM"(Rabat, Morocco).
The fight against spam, phishing and e-mail fraud should focus on economic incentives and aiding law enforcement, according to attendees at a conference examining the problem this week. Speakers at MIT's 2006 Spam Conference were notably cognizant of the recent proposals of white lists and AOL's Goodmail, a pay per e-mail service offering preferential treatment in e-mail delivery for marketers.
World Telecommunication Day (WTD) commemorates the founding of ITU on 17 May 1865. This year, WTD could carry added significance as 17 May has been identified by the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society as World Information Society Day.
While World Information Society Day is yet to be proclaimed, ITU, as the leading ICT agency of the UN system, upholds the idea and looks forward to its members to raise awareness of the role of ICT in achieving the development goals of all people.
For WTD 2006, the ITU Council chose the theme of Promoting Global Cybersecurity to highlight the serious challenges we face in ensuring the safety and security of networked information and communication systems.
In todays interconnected and increasingly networked world, societies are vulnerable to a wide variety of threats, including deliberate attacks on critical information infrastructures with debilitating effects on our economies and on our societies. In order to safeguard our systems and infrastructure and in order to instill confidence in online trade, commerce, banking, telemedicine, e-government and a host of other applications, we need to strengthen the security practices of each and every networked country, business, and citizen, and develop a global culture of cybersecurity.
The urgency of promoting cybersecurity has been called for by the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in 2002, the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-2004) as well as the United Nations General Assembly (resolutions 58/199, 2004, and 57/239, 2002).
Invitations to organize national programmes in the context of promoting the theme Promoting Global Cybersecurity for WTD 2006 were sent to all ITU Member States and ITU Sector Members. Sector Members represent over 647 public and private companies and organizations with an interest in telecommunications. Also in conjunction with WTD 2006, the ITU is conducting a survey of cybersecurity trust and awareness. A list of links to the related materials includes:
Internet service providers could face huge fines if they do not provide spam filtering or impose email sending limits under new rules set down by a communications watchdog. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) today registered the world's first legislative code of practice for internet and email service providers.
Information Week has an article entitled Microsoft And Eclipse: A Showdown For Ajax Leadership describing the growing battleground for Ajax-friendly tools for building interactive Web applications:
Web users are getting spoiled. Once they experience the Ajax-powered speed and interactivity of apps on Google or Flickr, click-and-wait Web interfaces won't cut it. Spurred by growing business interest, Microsoft and backers of Eclipse, the open source programmer's workbench, last week stepped up efforts to create Ajax-friendly tools for building interactive Web applications.
Web users are getting spoiled. Once they experience the Ajax-powered speed and interactivity of apps on Google or Flickr, click-and-wait Web interfaces won't cut it. Spurred by growing business interest, Microsoft and backers of Eclipse, the open source programmer's workbench, last week stepped up efforts to create Ajax-friendly tools for building interactive Web applications.
From today's Wall Street Journal Europe: How France Became A Leader in Offering Faster Broadband
"For years, France's telecommunications industry was a state-owned monopoly with one of the world's most backward broadband markets. But thanks to deregulation six years ago, French consumers have access to high-speed Internet service that is much faster and cheaper than in the U.S.
One telecom company in particular has exploited the changes and created competition in France -- a start-up called Iliad. Over 1.1 million French subscribers pay as low as 29.99 ($36) monthly for a "triple play" package called Free that includes 81 TV channels, unlimited phone calls within France and to 14 countries, and high-speed Internet. The least expensive comparable package from most cable and phone operators in the U.S. is more than $90, although more TV channels are generally included.
"We are coming into people's living rooms and changing the way they consume telecom services," says Michael Boukobza, Iliad's 28-year-old chief executive."
"For years, France's telecommunications industry was a state-owned monopoly with one of the world's most backward broadband markets. But thanks to deregulation six years ago, French consumers have access to high-speed Internet service that is much faster and cheaper than in the U.S.
One telecom company in particular has exploited the changes and created competition in France -- a start-up called Iliad. Over 1.1 million French subscribers pay as low as 29.99 ($36) monthly for a "triple play" package called Free that includes 81 TV channels, unlimited phone calls within France and to 14 countries, and high-speed Internet. The least expensive comparable package from most cable and phone operators in the U.S. is more than $90, although more TV channels are generally included.
"We are coming into people's living rooms and changing the way they consume telecom services," says Michael Boukobza, Iliad's 28-year-old chief executive."
Key to France's success has been the active intervention of ARCEP, the French communications regulator. At last week's ITU workshop What Rules for IP-enabled NGNs?, François Varloot of ARCEP presented an overview of the French marketplace and their views on emerging symmetric and asymmetric IP regulatory issues.
Michael Robertson, who founded MP3.com, is launching a series of PC web-based "standard desktop" applications using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) technology which he announces on his blog AjaxLaunch.com.
The first to be released is AjaxWrite (only runs on FireFox browser) which can read and write Microsoft Word documents.
Robertson says "For 90 percent of the people in the world, the need to buy Microsoft Word just vanished."
Also see Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications.
At a technology forum in Brussels hosted by EuroISPA - the European Internet Services Providers Association, and co-sponsored by Interpol, Neil Holloway, president, Microsoft (Europe, Middle East and Africa), inaugurated a global law enforcement campaign targeted at cybercriminals responsible for phishing attacks.
This is part of Microsoft's larger program dubbed - the Global Phishing Enforcement Initiative (GPEI), that aims at co-ordinating and expanding the company's anti-phishing efforts globally.
The Economist one said: "if the Net does have a God, he is probably Jon Postel." David Maher, Senior Vice President, Law and Policy at PIR has published his memoirs of the early day attempts to revamp the internet's domain name system, which he has entitled Reporting to God. Ten years later, it appears that decisions surrounding the DNS remain as equally controversial as in the mid-1990's.
On 23-24 March 2006 at ITU headquarters, the ITU Strategy and Policy Unit hosted a high-level experts workshop entitled What Rules for IP-enabled NGNs? focused on the policy and regulatory challenges related to the deployment of IP-enabled NGNs. The following materials are now available:
A public talk was given on 22 March 2006 at Michigan State University's Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law on "The Changing Face of Cyberspace" (Lara Srivastava, ITU).
John McDonald, a member of the ITU team that created the new VDSL 2 standard, will participate in an upcoming Webinar on this topic, Monday 3 April 2006.
The Webinar hosted by Light Reading will look at this development and explore the significance and implications of the new standard for both operators and the enormous installed base of DSL subscribers. ITUs new VDSL 2 standard (Very High-Speed DSL 2)(ITU-T Recommendation G.993.2) delivers up to 100 Mbit/s both up and downstream, a tenfold increase over ADSL (Asymmetric DSL). By doing so, it provides for so-called fiber-extension, bringing fiber-like bandwidth to premises not directly connected to the fiber optic segment of a telecom companys network.
VDSL 2 will allow operators to compete with cable and satellite providers by offering services such as high-definition TV (HDTV), video-on-demand, videoconferencing, high-speed internet access, and advanced voice services, over a standard copper telephone cable. As well as addressing fast-growing consumer demand for high-speed multimedia services, VDSL 2 offers carriers a solution that is interoperable with the DSL equipment many already have in place, expediting migration of customers to new VDSL 2-based products. VDSL 2 works with both legacy ATM networks and next generation IP-based networks.
Register for the online event to learn more about VDSL 2.
In light of the consultations on the convening of the IGF, the United
Nations Secretary-General will set up a multi-stakeholder Advisory
Group to assist him in this task. The Group will consist of about forty
members, representing governments, private sector and civil society and
include members of the academic and technical communities. The members
of the group will be chosen in their personal capacity. All
stakeholders are invited to submit recommendations for members of the
Advisory Group to the IGF secretariat by 18 April (email@example.com).
Relevant intergovernmental organizations are welcome to attend the
meetings of the Advisory Group. The first meeting of the Advisory Group
will be held after another round of consultations open to all
stakeholders. A date for these meetings will be communicated as soon as
possible. The first meeting of the IGF will be held in Athens from 30
October - 2 November 2006. More details on the venue and the logistics
of the meeting will be made available on the host country's website.
Update: A new round of consultations on the convening of the IGF
will be held at the United Nations in Geneva on 19 May 2006. They will be open
to all stakeholders and will focus on the substantive preparation of the
inaugural meeting of the IGF. The consultations will be followed by a meeting of
the IGF Advisory Group on 22 - 23 May 2006.
[via IGF news]
The 4th International Conference on Communications Convergence was held in Mumbai (India) and hosted by the Indian Merchants Chamber on the theme "Connecting India: The Global Challenge". Lara Srivastava (ITU) spoke on the topic of connecting rural communities in India in a talk entitled "Connect! Developing Rural Perspectives".
As part of its work on preparing an ICT Regulatory Toolkit, the Regulatory Reform Unit of ITU hosted, on 15 March 2006, a virtual conference on the impact of new technologies on TELECOM/ICT Regulation.
The conference recording, together with presentations from Tim Kelly (ITU), Anthony Rutkowski (Verisign), Sharil Tarmizi (Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission), Michael Best (Georgia Tech), Michail Bletsas (One Laptop Per Child) and Russell Southwood (Balancing Act) are available here.
Communications points to an interesting presentation
on reverse engineering Skype given by Philippe BIONDI & Fabrice
DESCLAUX at the Blackhat Europe conference in Amsterdam, March 2nd
& 3rd. Warning: 115 highly technical slides including this conclusion:
The « Direction du Développement des Médias (France), lAgence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (Morocco), lInstitut Francophone des Nouvelles Technologies de lInformation et de la Formation (Francophonie) et le Service Public Fédéral Economie, PME, Classes moyennes et Energie (Belgium) » are jointly organizing a workshop on the « Fight against Spam ».
The workshop will be held in Rabat (Morocco) from 22 to 23 March 2006.
More information can be found here.
Click here to see the agenda.
The draft agenda (PDF) for the 23-24 March 2006 ITU Workshop What Rules for IP-enabled NGNs is now available.
A related page of NGN Policy and Regulatory Initiatives around the globe is also available.
The OECD hosted a workshop entitled The Future of the Internet in Paris on 8 March 2006. Presentations given at the event will serve at "food for thought" for future OECD work.
The Economist has a related article entitled Reinventing the Internet.
The March 2006 edition of ITU News focusing on ICT for Development: Making it Work for All, brings attention to ICT penetration in Qatar, the host country for the 2006 ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC).
A peninsula on the western coast of the Arabian Gulf, Qatar is home to about 813 000 people. Despite its small size, it is a high-income economy with a well-developed communications infrastructure.
The ITU News article explains that "The expansion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Qatar has taken the country to a leading place in this field among its neighbors in the region. It comes fourth in ICT penetration rates among the Arab States, behind Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. The incumbent telecommunication operator, Qatar Telecom (Q-Tel), was partially privatized in 1998, and the Supreme Council for Communication and Information Technology (also known as ictQATAR) was created in 2004 with the mandate of regulator and enabler of the countrys ICT sector."
Qatar has seen particularly strong growth in the number of mobile phone subscribers, which overtook the number of fixed telephone lines in 2001.
Source: ITU World Telecommunication Indicators Database.
Read the full article featured in the March edition of ITU News.
ITU hosted a consultation meeting on WSIS Action Line C2 (Information and Communications Infrastructure) on 9 March 2006, from 2-5 pm, in Doha, Qatar, during the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference 2006 (WTDC-06). The meeting was chaired by ITU Secretary-General, Yoshio Utsumi.
The summary record of the meeting is available here. For more information, see the WSIS implementation page for action line C2 at: http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/c2/index.html.
"The case for promoting a global culture for cybersecurity was strongly emphasized at the World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) during an information session for participants conducted by ITU on Friday.
ITU pointed out that in an increasingly interconnected and networked world our societies are vulnerable to a wide variety of threats, including deliberate attacks on critical information infrastructures with debilitating effects on our economies and on our societies. In order to safeguard our systems and infrastructure, we need to strengthen our collective cybersecurity.
As this depends on the security practices of each and every networked country, business, and citizen, we need to develop a global culture of cybersecurity. According to ITU, cybersecurity is critical in the use and development of ICT. The lack of adequate security is an obstacle for using ICTs that rely on the protection and confidentiality of sensitive data. Unless these security and trust issues are addressed, the benefits of the Information Society to governments, businesses and citizens cannot be fully realized.
The information session was aimed at raising awareness on this very important subject and to contribute to bridging the information and knowledge divide between and within countries.
At that session, ITU launched a new reference guide on Cybersecurity for Developing Countries and informed delegates of ITUs initiative in Promoting Global Cybersecurity as the theme for World Telecommunication Day on 17 May this year. ITU will also assist developing and least developed countries in increasing cybersecurity and will conduct workshops and seminars to enable countries to exchange ideas and discuss common issues." [Via WTDC 2006 Highlights]
For more information about the World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC), please click here.
At a workshop on ICT Indicators for performance benchmarking, held in Delhi 1-3 March, under the auspices of LIRNEasia and TRAI, representatives from the region's national statistical offices and regulatory agencies committed themselves to developing a set of ICT Indicators for the region based around "core set of ICT Indicators" defined by the Partnership for Measuring ICT for Development. This methodology means that they will be able to apply the composite "Digital Oppoportunity Index", which has been developed by a multi-stakeholder partnership, including ITU, KADO and UNCTAD, for the measurement of the digital divide within the region and within individual countries.
The proceedings of the conference, which included presentations from TRAI, LIRNEasia, ITU, OECD and NRRI, are avaialble on the LIRNEasia website.
Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani said in his opening speech to ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference 2006 on Tuesday 7 March that "communication, especially information technology, has become a major pillar of the economic and social development of all countries."
"Sheikh Abdullah said WTDC 06 had a key role to play in bringing peoples together and help them live in peace and with mutual respect. However, he cautioned against misuse of communication technology and said a legal and regulatory environment must be set up to secure the optimum use of the resources of knowledge."
WTDC, held for the first time in the Arab region, is organized by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and hosted by Qatars Supreme Council for Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR).
For the full article featured in Gulf Times, please click here.
ITU and UNESCO are organizing a Global Symposium on Promoting the Multilingual Internet in Geneva from 9 - 11 May 2006.
Participation in the meeting is open to any organization or
individual from ITU or UNESCO member countries. Written contributions
are invited on the themes of the event and should be sent to multilingual (at) itu.int before Tuesday 25 April 2006.
The Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, adopted
at the Tunis Phase of WSIS, highlights the importance of
multilingualism for bridging the digital divide. It identifies ITU as
taking the lead role in the implementation of information and
communication infrastructure (WSIS Tunis Agenda Action Line C2),
ITU/UNESCO for access to information and knowledge (WSIS Tunis Agenda
Action Line C3), and UNESCO for cultural diversity and identity,
linguistic diversity and local content (WSIS Tunis Agenda Action Line
The symposium will examine issues highlighted in paragraph 53 of the WSIS Tunis Agenda, including:
The draft agenda of the symposium, background information and other information are available on the event website.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates said in 1998 that spam was "an annoying and sometimes destructive use of the Internet's unprecedented efficiency." Gates communicated the problem. The makers of Spam Cube created the solution.
The launch of Spam Cube gives everyday personal computer users a revolutionary new tool in the battle against unwanted email. Working in harmony with every operating system and nearly all email providers, Spam Cube protects up to four home computers with its breakthrough anti-spam technology. A technology spawned by the frustration felt by computer users worldwide, forced to endure invasive junk e-mail campaigns.
For more information, please click here.
Including data from some of the world's largest Internet Service Providers, MAAWG (Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group) has developed its first metrics report outlining the scope of the problem and validating that approximately 85 percent of Internet traffic today is abusive email.
The report, "MAAWG Email Metrics Program: The Network Operators' Perspective," provides data for the fourth quarter of 2005 and will continue to be updated on a quarterly basis as an objective tool for tracking the industry's efforts at controlling abusive email.
Efforts by governments to counter internet spam by tracking down and prosecuting spammers have had limited impact and require far more resources than most countries can muster, the United Nations telecoms agency (ITU) warned on Tuesday.
It says in a report that while all countries need anti-spam legislation so that spammers have nowhere to hide, a more effective approach would be to require the establishment of enforceable codes of conduct by internet service providers (ISPs).
For more information about the article, please click here.
For more information about the report "Stemming the International Tide of Spam", please click here.
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You got clear off with that money through your fire near Dunstable.
And Miss Dunstable looked round as though she expected that somebody would certainly have brought her dog in after her.
Like Stanning, Dunstable had demanded tea, and had been informed that there was none for him.
Falkes bade his brother, William de Bréauté fall upon the justice, who had been hearing suits at Dunstable, and take him prisoner.
"You can't expect us to know all your shady friends," said Dunstable.
He had been invited to take charge of the monastery school, but did not arrive in time, so he opened a school at Dunstable.
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Haider Ackermann Fall 2013
Moving stealthily through a veil of dry ice, Haider Ackermann's warrior women seemed all-powerful—from their Mad Max peroxide Mohawks to their thick-heeled boots. But the peplum of a khaki flak jacket folded back to reveal glistening purple silk velvet, and bitter-chocolate python jodhpurs caressed the calves in an anaconda's embrace.
"There are so many strong women that I'm surrounded by," Ackermann explained backstage at his show, "but as strong as they are, there's a lot of fragility in them, and I wanted to capture this."
Ackermann was particularly struck by an iconic image of Marilyn Monroe leaving a hospital, "one of the most admired women in the world in this loneliness and isolation was very touching for me." "We all need to be protected," he added, and this season, in an unusually pragmatic collection stripped of the brilliant color harmonies and grander evening statements for which he is justly celebrated, the designer focused instead on powerful coats and jackets that cradled the body.
There was a spirit of creative salvage to the khaki jackets, which seemed like army surplus elements, beautifully reconceived with shapely seams to transform them into midcentury couture statements. The outerwear was especially strong, and included mannish parkas and great coats, and flying jackets cut with enveloping collars faced in shearling.
In lieu of those singing color harmonies, there was an intriguing play of textures—rough-haired fur against the softest woolens or silken leather; platinum lamé against textured tweed; a black-and-white asymmetric silk top worn with wool trousers woven with the same gentlemen's foulard design.
A bias-cut slither of gray velvet, baring one shoulder and looped around the neck to finish in a scarf tie was the sole grand evening statement and reminded us of the softer side of this protean talent.


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Jesus, did I dream the previous forecasts?
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It is a tricky forecast and the models have not been consistent in showing the track of Sunday's L. If the L tracks south, we get a good NE fetch as the storm moves offshore. If it takes a more northerly track, we are SOL ($hit out of lefts...) If it drifts too far south, we lose the strong NE winds pointed at us. Tuesday models looked good. Wed not so good. Thur good again. today's puts the storm too far south to do us much good... Swell info model just reflects the uncertaintly in the model (s) it is based on.
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pmoos is right, hey it's mostly sunny now when the weather channel said mostly cloudy so as much as i love swellinfo i hope the current forecast is wrong and there is some ne fetch thrown at us, i checked the gfs this morning and the low is coming out 90 degrees to hatteras with north wind from long island down eh
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The weekend weather forecasts will have the same problem as with the wave forecasts when dealing with systems like this.
forecast dissapeared for DE too. Let's pray it sticks around for Tues.- Weds.
This is no weather phenomenon. The swell was simply jinxed by all the kooks who check this site 3 times a day and make a big deal out of a swell they see a week in advance. Nothing against Swellinfo, but everyone knows how quickly things can change within a day or two.
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'"It's nice to hit 20, but it's not something I was going into the season wanting to have 20 and it would be a great season for me," Vanek said. "I'm going to assess it after the year. Hopefully, I can get a few more and get up in the high 20s. But like I said, right now it doesn't mean much. It was a good victory."'
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Discussion in 'NFL Zone' started by cowboy_ron, Oct 2, 2012.
Doesn't this have to be the softest 3-1 start in NFL history? 3-1 by a grand total of 4 points
I'd take it tho.
We are an awful 2-2.
Who cares? This is football. You don't get points for winning pretty. Bottomline is they're 3-1 and we're 2-2.
they beat the ravens
lets see how we do against them before we talk
Come week 7 they'll be 5-1 and boys will be 2-3
They beat Ravens and Giants. Two formidable teams. I think Eagles play well when the opponent is strong. They up their game.
They were my favorites to win the division. If Vick doesn't get hurt, they will end up winning the division IMO.
I doubt that. They have at Pittsburgh this weekend. Yeah I know Pittsburgh isn't all that but neither is Philly.
I think Mendenhall is back as well. We'll see...
Agreed. If Philly couldn't handle Arizona's toughness on the road, they will have a very tough time @ Pittsburgh.
Especially, if Harrison and Troy comes back.
Both were @ home though and neither one of their victories have been dominating. We can't say that they were the better team on all 3 games they won.
The Eagles defense is better and despite their own o-line woes, they get it done. They have heart, the Cowboys, well...the are soft. It's the Eagles division to lose.
true it will be tough to win in pit. but i dont care who it is as long as pit losses im beyond happy lol.
You would rather have Pittsburgh lose than Philly lose? I'm going to have to go with never on that one.
Why don't you just go to an Iggles board all ready? I remember you being scared to death of Philly last season and they didn't even make the postseason.
I'm pretty sure the Eagles PLASTERED the Cowboys twice in the process of not making the playoffs. They were the hottest team in the NFL at the end of the season, they just ran out of games to win.
The Eagles are in good shape the D is fantastic and Shady Mccoy is devastating, he could carry an offense. Andy Reid will get the Eagles back to scoring points sooner or later as they're always pretty good at putting up points. Even this season the Eagles are one of the leaders in total yards, its just a matter of time.
Before some of you jump completely onto the eagles bandwagon, consider that they are a grand total of 7 points away from being 0-4 rather than 3-1..they are also the only team in the NFL with a winning record with negative net points (-17)...Vick just played the best game against the Ravens that he is likely to play all year...don't read to much into the 3-1 record at this point, they are just as likely to drop 4-5 in a row as anyone.
They played the Ravens at home
Doesn't matter. They still beat them. A win is a win.
No fan feels good about their team if they continue to win by the skin of their teeth. So yes it's a fraudulent 3-1 because they have 3 wins that all came late in the game. And the one loss which was a blow out


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New Program Will Boost Public Schools
A major campaign is underway in Bexar County to convince you to love public schools.
1200 WOAI news reports the 'Go Public' campaign will focus on the successes of public schools, and will be chaired by three local executives who have placed their own kids in public schools, Josue Robles of USAA, Kim Bowers of CST Brands, and Chris Nielsen of Toyota.
"The concept of educating all people regardless of race, class, or socioeconomic status is the engine that has made America a great nation and an economic power," Robles told a rally at Jefferson High School. "Society has asked public schools to carry a heavier load, to cut back their budgets, to pass all the tests, to feed the hungry, to minister to the sick, to be all things to all people. And you know what? They're doing a pretty amazing job. And they not only deserve our support, San Antonio's future depends on them."
In recent years it has become trendy to disparage public schools, and claim that private schools, religious schools, and home schooling turn out better educated kids.
The purpose of the three year campaign is to overturn those stereotypes.
"The county's school districts have a graduation rate of 90% and nearly 100% of its teachers are highly qualified according to federal standards," Bowers said. "In addition, these teachers have an average of 12 years of experience and 33 percent have a master's degree or above."
Bobby Blount, President of the Northside ISD Board of trustees said the effort will be the first of its kind.
"By pooling our resources and seeking private support, we will be able to do things that one district could never do on its own," he said.
The three year campaign will include billboards, radio and TV spots, talking points for all 15 school districts, even messages on cheerleaders' megaphones during football games.


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Last year was a busy year for the Republican candidates for president; it seemed as if they had a thousand debates. There was all the talk about who was running and who wasn't. Polls began showing Governor Mitt Romney as the front runner, and then a series of other candidates rose up to Romney's level only to eventually fall back ― with the last of those surging candidates has been Senator Rick Santorum. Despite all of this, the start of the presidential race didn't officially occur until the January 3rd Iowa Causus.
The Iowa caucas started in 1972 when the Iowa Democratic Party moved its caucus to be the first in the nation. That year, George McGovern performed better than expected. Although he finished second in those caucases behind Edmund Muskie, the momentum slung him forward, and he went on to gain his party's nomination. Four years later, in 1976, the Republican Party moved its caucus to the same date as the Democrats to join in the prominence that Iowa had gained. Candidates and media alike now view Iowa as the first real test of the presidential campaign.
This year's caucus was extremely close with Romney barely winning. He finished eight votes ahead of Santorum with 122,255 voters having turned out. Unlike most elections where the winner is the person with the most votes, Iowa is more about expectations. Finishing first is less important than what people will read into it. Both Romney and Santorum finished strong and met or exceeded expectations.
Santorum worked hard and earned it. He personally visited all 99 counties in Iowa, and it paid off. This close second place finish has the media talking as much about him as the winner. Romney put less effort into Iowa this year, but still carried a lot support from four years ago when he ran for president and finished second in Iowa. Both candidates will receive massive media attention going into New Hampshire where Romney is expected to win easy. Having been the governor of Massachusetts and owning a home in New Hampshire, Romney has "home court advantage."
Newt Gingrich finished fourth but faced heavy negative attacks along the way. After New Hampshire's primary, the next primaries shift into the South where Gingrich is expected to be his strongest. He didn't show well but can explain it away. Fourth place is where John McCain finished in these caucases four years ago before he went on to win the nomination. Expect Gingrich to stay in this race for awhile and also expect the negative campaigning to continue to attack him. He will throw a few elbows of his own.
Congressman Ron Paul showed very well finishing in third place but is still being questioned as a candidate that a majority of Republicans nationwide will support. Governor Rick Perry is rethinking his campaign after finishing in fifth place, and it is hard to see anything but disappointment with his showing. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who is a native of Iowa, finished in last place of the candidates who campaigned in Iowa. Governor John Huntsman did not put any effort into Iowa opting to go straight to New Hampshire.
So the final outcome of this year's Iowa caucus is that we are back to where we were before they happened. Mitt Romney is at the front of the pack running neck and neck with Rick Santorum, who is the conservative alternative to Romney. If anything became clear, Iowa has probably knocked a candidate or two off of the bottom of the list, but it is still wide open for the top three or four candidates.
January 10th is the New Hampshire primary. Expect it to be an eventful week.
Iowa Caucus Results:
|Mitt Romney
|Rick Santorum
|Ron Paul
|Newt Gingrich
|Rick Perry
|Michele Bachmann
|Jon Huntsman
|Herman Cain
|Buddy Roemer
|No Preference
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Bryant Neal Vinas
News about Bryant Neal Vinas, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Service to Both Al Qaeda and U.S., With Fate Hanging in the Balance
A judge sentencing Bryant Neal Vinas, a former altar boy from Long Island who later plotted attacks, had to weigh cooperation that dealt the terrorist network a staggering blow....
May 15, 2017, Monday
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2 Yemeni Men Are Charged With Conspiring to Attack American Soldiers
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said that Saddiq Al-Abbadi ambushed American convoys in Iraq, and that Ali Alvi fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan where American forces were stationed....
January 21, 2015, Wednesday
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In Terrorists' Testimony, a Rare, Intimate Look Into a Secretive World
Four admitted terrorists cooperated with prosecutors in the trial of Adis Medunjanin, and their testimony provided an unusually human look at what drew them to Al Qaeda....
April 30, 2012, Monday
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Homegrown Bomb Plot Is Rarity for Open Court
In one of the few credible terrorist plots to go to court, two men who admitted to planning attacks in 2009 are expected to testify in a suspected co-conspirator's trial, which starts Monday....
April 16, 2012, Monday
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One U.S. Prosecutor in Brooklyn Is Behind Many Terrorism Convictions
Jeffrey H. Knox has supervised nearly all successful recent cases involving post-9/11 activities by core operatives of Al Qaeda....
July 7, 2010, Wednesday
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U.S. Recruit Reveals How Qaeda Trains Foreigners
The testimony of Bryant Neal Vinas offered a rare window into the life and training of Al Qaeda recruits....
July 24, 2009, Friday
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L.I. Man Helped Qaeda, Then Informed
Bryant Neal Vinas, 26, also gave U.S. authorities information about a plot against the Long Island Rail Road....
July 23, 2009, Thursday
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Transcript of Vinas's Sentencing Hearing
Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis had to decide how to punish a criminal who had demonstrated a capacity for evil but who had also helped deliver a crushing blow to the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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