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An Oklahoma missionary who is accused of raping and molesting ten children at the Kenyan orphanage where he was working claims he was possessed by a demon named Luke, federal prosecutors say. In text messages released in court documents, 19-year-old Matthew Lane Durham talked to a friend about his supposed alter-ego: 'Literally he takes me at night and there is nothing I can do to stop him. Prosecutors have alleged that Durham of Edmond engaged in sex acts with as many as ten children aged 4 to 10 – including one who is HIV positive – while volunteering at the Upendo Children's Home near Nairobi from April to June 2014. Read more.
Broadway cast of 'The Lion King' takes over NYC subway, sings 'Circle of Life'
You might recall back in April when the Australian cast of The Lion King provided in-flight entertainment on their journey from Brisbane to Sydney, serenading passengers with "Circle of Life." Not to be outdone, The Broadway cast of The Lion Kingin New York City recently boarded an "A" train subway car and gave riders an unforgettable surprise. June 28, while on a break between a matinee and evening performance, nearly 30 cast members raised their voices and delivered an a capella rendition of "Circle of Life." Read more.
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Boko Haram Kills 100 As It Sets Fire to And Seizes Another Major Town
Extremist group Boko Haram has reportedly seized yet another major Nigerian town, killing at least 100 civilians in the process. Nigeria's Daily Post reports that Gwoza, one of the most populated areas in the northeastern Borno State, was seized by the group at dawn, who came in using armored tanks and Toyota Hilux pickup trucks. Local news agency Sahara Reporters says that the attack began at dawn, and the town was under Boko Haram control by late morning. Nigerian soldiers were reportedly outmatched by what SR calls, worryingly, Boko Haram's "increasingly sophisticated weaponry." Read more.
MSNBC's Joy Reid: Israel's Attacks on Gaza Equal to Hundred 9/11s
This week, MSNBC's Joy Reid looked at the number of reported deaths in Palestine and equated it to "the population equivalent to 100 9/11s." While Israel has been consistent in its framing of Hamas as a "terrorist" organization, Reid appeared to be saying that it was Israel's actions that more resemble "terrorism." Read more.


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There's a major shakeout underway in bitcoin cloud mining, with some firms shutting down or halting payouts to customers, while others are shifting their business models.
The fallout is being felt by data center operators who leased space to large mining operations, prompting one provider to sue a bitcoin customer for millions of dollars in unpaid hosting costs.
The turmoil is driven by an extended slump in the value of bitcoin and other virtual currencies. After soaring as high as $1,100 in late 2013, the price of bitcoin has plunged, hitting a low of about $225 on Tuesday.
This decline has wreaked havoc with cloud mining operations, who lease processing power to users. Many of these companies operate their own warehouse-style computing facilities, but some providers lease data center space from wholesale providers.
On Monday, C7 Data Centers filed suit against mining company CoinTerra, which has missed $1.4 million in payments. The suit seeks up to $5.4 million in damages, citing C7's costs for provisioning power and the balance of CoinTerra's contract. CoinTerra disputes the charges and says it has filed a counterclaim.
CoinTerra CEO Ravi Iyengar told us the company has defaulted on its debt as a result of C7 shutting down CoinTerra's infrastructure at its data centers. As a result, the bitcoing miner has halted operations and stopped payouts to its customers.
CoinTerra is also a major customer of CenturyLink, which has leased more than 10 megawatts of data center capacity to the mining firm. Its servers at CenturyLink data centers have also been shut down.
The Downside of Speculative Mining
Bitcoin mining has always been a speculative business, offering a way to mint digital money with high-powered hardware by processing transactions, with financial rewards paid out in virtual currency (hence the "mining" nomenclature). The network is based on a public ledger known as the blockchain, with each transaction verified using cryptography.
The returns on mining fluctuate with the price of bitcoin and network activity. As the price of bitcoin has plunged, even industrial-scale mining operations are unable to cover their costs. On Monday, the second-largest bitcoin mining pool said it was temporarily suspending operations, saying mining had become unprofitable.
Another mining company that has leased significant data center space is CloudHashing, now owned by Peernova. Customers have complained that the company is mining fewer coins and that payouts have become erratic.
"CloudHashing is very much operational," said Emmanuel Abiodun, president of Peernova. "We have simply pointed our mining machines to a larger mining pool to increase the block discovery frequency which is a good thing for all customers. The growth of the bitcoin network made that decision absolutely necessary. Customers will now be paid on a weekly schedule."
Shifting Focus Amid Mining Challenges
Peernova, like other companies in the ecosystem, has been changing its strategy. In December the company said it had raised $8.6 million in new funding and would use the money to accelerate its development of blockchain-based software products for enterprises. "A large amount of our efforts this year will be delivery of these applications," Abiodun said.
Another firm that has shifted its business focus is GAW Miners, which made a major push into cloud mining last summer. The company recently launched its own virtual currency called Paycoin, and some customers who continue to mine using GAW's cloud-based "hashlets" say their maintenance fees can exceed the returns from mining.
The turmoil has been felt most acutely among smaller players in cloud mining. Over the past month, a growing list of companies have either halted their cloud mining operations or curtailed payments to customers, including ZeusHash and PB Mining. In perhaps the most bizarre development, cloud mining service Hashie suspended operations and temporarily replaced its web site with an "alternate reality game."
For Data Centers, Credit Risk Comes Into Focus
The chaos makes the risks of the bitcoin sector stark. As we noted in July, the sector presents a challenge for the data center industry. As demand for bitcoin mining capacity soared in early 2014, some providers leased significant amounts of space and power to bitcoin specialists, while others skipped these deals, wary of the density requirements, economics and potential credit risk.
"Some investors don't want to touch the Bitcoin industry," data center industry veteran Mark MacAuley, a managing director at RampRate, said at the time. "The risk is outside the profile that's palatable to some investors."
Credit risk is not a new issue for the data center industry, which was hard-hit by the dot-com bust and the collapse of speculative startups. The wave of dot-com bankruptcies rippled through the colocation sector, leading to the collapse of major players like Exodus Communications, AboveNet, and MCI WorldCom.
As the industry recovered, data center providers tightened their credit standards and limited the scope of their construction projects, seeking to keep the supply of space in line with customer demand. After a lengthy period with few customer default problems, the industry's appetite for risk has been tested by the bitcoin sector.
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Just because the temperature has dropped, and snow blankets the ground in many parts of the world doesn't mean spring is a long way off. The fact of the matter is it's a whole lot closer than you think if you're planning a springtime wedding. With all the details you'll have to deal with in the coming months, now is the time to get a jumpstart on planning out your honeymoon fun.
If you haven't already decided where to go, that's the first detail you'll want to see to. In fact, it's one of the most important decisions to make now while you still have months to go before the big day.
Want to know why?
The truth is many of the world's top honeymoon destinations are often booked months in advance. It doesn't matter if you intend to go to Paris for your post-wedding escape, or you want to vacation at a dude ranch in Texas or Colorado, the earlier you decide, the better.
Haven't picked a destination yet? Here are a few simple tips to help you and your honey decide:
- Consider your budget – While no one wants to put a price tag on romance, the fact of the matter is budgets do matter. Before you set your destination, determine how much you'll have to spend. Remember, you can ask friends and relatives to help fund your trip. Honeymoon registries are becoming very popular options – especially with gift givers that want to make sure they give you something you truly want!
- Consider what you really want to do – Even if your budget is best described as a shoestring, chances are you can find a great place to go to suit your desires. Just list out the things you'd like to do in your time together. If you want to relax on a beach, for example, and funding is a concern, why not stay stateside? American beaches are stunning in the springtime. If funding isn't a big concern and you and your honey dream of exploring historic sites, why not plan a trip that features some of Europe's hot spots?
- Ask the Experts – Now is absolutely the time to get a honeymoon travel planner involved in mapping out your trip. Even if you don't know where you want to go or what you can afford with the money you have allotted, a pro that specializes in this type of travel can really help. An experienced advisor can assist you and your honey in figuring out the best places to go and stay to make all your getaway dreams come true. Chances are a pro can offer up ideas you haven't even thought of yet too!


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"All right," said classon, closing his book, after making a brief note.
classon and Driscoll listened eagerly to all that went on around them.
And now for yourself, classon, what have you been at lately?
"A gallant soldier, I have heard," chimed in classon, merely to lead him on.
"It might, or it might not," said classon, with a significant imitation of the other's tone and manner.
"It's chilly enough too," said classon, shivering, as he emptied the gin into his glass.
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In Honor of Shark Week – Kat Found the Perfect Swimsuit for Chandelle
Why the perfect swimsuit for Chandelle, and not for myself? Well… let me explain!
First of all, Chandelle is 100% into the whole Shark Week thing. She's been talking about it for weeks now! She even wrote a blog about songs that feature sharks in the lyrics because she loves sharks so much.
The second reason that Chandelle needs this suit is because she's on this whole "go to the gym twice a day for 12 hours a day" kick. Ok, so I may be exaggerating about how much time she spends in the gym, but she has been working out a lot and she looks great! I'm in awe of that girl! I sure don't have the motivation to work that hard! She really is inspiring.
Between her love of sharks and her new love of fitness, I think this suit should be called the Shandellini. Part Shark. Part Chandelle. Part Bikini! Take a look at the swimsuit from designer Bad Aby Designs. Unfortunately, even if you, me or Chandelle had the 100 bucks to shell out for this suit, it's currently on back-order. Apparently everyone wants to sink their teeth into this swimsuit!


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Evening Quickies: Nicki Minaj Quits Twitter In A Huff
- Nicki Minaj deleted her Twitter account in a huff this weekend after fan site NickiDaily leaked snippets of Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. [PopCrush]
- ZOMG, you guys, Michelle Obama's prom photo. [Uptown Magazine]
- Another reason why you should get a job: "marrying up" is on the way down. [Em & Lo]
- CNN has discovered pregnancy fetishism. [Nerve]
- More things that people are annoyed at "Girls" about: all the main characters are white. [The Hairpin]
- Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are "so not dating," says a friend of Mila's. Well, I'm still holding out hope. [Why?!?! — Editor] [Us Weekly]
- Mary J. Blige's tour rider specifies a "private toilet" with a new "toilet seat." Girl, I hear you on that one. [PopCrush]
- Science explains why dogs like to stick their heads out of car windows. [The FW]
- Of course celebrities are dressed like hobos at Coachella. [Crushable]
- Five adorable ways to wear your hair at music festivals. [Betty Confidential]
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British scholar C.S. Lewis is known for a famous line: "You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
I read it years back while in school. I stumbled across it again years later in a crowded Sunday market in London. Of course, it was plastered on a metallic sign board meant to be hung prominently in your home. What an odd match.
Then the other day, I again came across it. A never-ending friendship it seemed — a lingering line that keeps following me.
I've always been attracted to the thought. It's a rather simple one as well — you are not a body, you are a soul. And yet, so much of our life is focused on the body, not the soul.
We feed it endlessly, we adorn it daily, we accentuate it at times, we flaunt it at other times. We give what money can buy it — the most luxurious of fabrics, the most tantalizing food, the most captivating, shiny stones. Anything to beautify it.
But does it feed our soul? Or does it feed our body? Many times the excesses of life entice our body, not our soul.
At the beginning of the new year, we make commitments to our body — to nourish it, to take care of it, to treat it kindly. But what do we promise to our deeper existence? How can we nourish it — what will we do to live mindfully, to love deeply, to reawaken our spirit?
Sounds too philosophical? Not really.
After having traveled extensively with little luggage and the same five T-shirts worn over and over again, I realized what little I needed. After having lived in the smallest of apartments humanly possible, I realized what little I needed. After having sampled some of the best food from the most rustic of settings, I realized what little I needed.
What I remembered most from these memories was the state of bliss. It was that sense of stupefied happiness. And that was because I had fed my soul.
Buddhists have written extensively in their texts about mindfulness. It's something that's been refashioned in modern life; think young children in mindful yoga classes — yes, they exist. But mindfulness doesn't require a course, an instructor or a guiding text. It simply asks you to be. To be still within. To be quiet. To be absorbed in life.
And in a time when so much of life goes by in haste in tightly wound-up schedules, it's probably the most satisfying (and yet, at times, the most challenging) state of being to achieve for our modern ways.
It means standing still in the sun for five minutes. It means walking barefoot in the rain. It means digging your hands in soil. It means holding the hand of your elderly parents, assuring them that you're still there, you haven't disappeared. It means giving when it's easier to take. And it means being quiet and letting the world do the talking.
Clearly, these are not high-tech solutions. But they are the ones that feed you in the truest sense. And for the ambitious, there's the option to take it further, to make it your way of life, to infuse it into your work.
One doctor, whom I had the opportunity to travel with a couple years back, shared with me that she had been born with a cleft lip. And the care and attention that she received — at no cost — from medical professionals compelled her to develop a career in medicine.
Today, she returns that generosity by working with patients in her Kern Valley community who cannot afford the high medical costs, offering them care at no cost or minimal costs.
About four years back, she traveled with me to India for one of the polio trips. And it was on the long car drives and long layovers that I got to learn of her past. Actually, I had to pry it out of her.
She wrote an extensive diary, cataloging her trip, expressing her frustrations and angst at seeing such disparities in health. But she didn't reveal much about herself. It was only later, as our friendship continued to grow, that I learned about the work she did in her own community.
Though we often associate the greatest disparities with developing nations, there are just as marginalized communities at home. So she decided to address those cleavages by using her skills in medicine.
This year, I got a note from her asking if I'd like to join her for a massive health camp in Los Angeles for the uninsured. She spoke so excitedly about it, so enthusiastic about participating that I thought we might be going to a concert instead.
In fact, if you meet her, you'll wonder if she ever sits still (I doubt it). She is restless. But yet, mindful of what she has to offer, what others struggle with and how to connect the two to find a solution.
Her spirit comes from doing work that heals the body but feeds her soul. And that sentiment has become entrenched in her, propelling her to stray away from the temporal joys and gravitate to something, she says, that can help heal others' spirits as well.
Be mindful this year of the world you exist in. Be mindful of what your soul needs. And your pocketbook will probably be ecstatic as well
Read more: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/jan/07/chhabra-this-year-satisfy-your-souls-needs/?opinion=1#ixzz1iyNWe28q
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New Haven Restaurant WeekApril 17, 2013
Once again showcasing the city's array of remarkable culinary talents, New Haven will host the 10th installment of the popular bi-annual New Haven Restaurant Week presented by Bank of America from April 21 – 26, 2013. Patrons can whet their palates with a variety of mouth-watering menu options from 29 of the city's most sought-after restaurants.
Participating restaurants will offer three-course prix fixe menus for both lunch ($18) and dinner ($32) comprised of an appetizer, entrée and dessert. Prices do not include beverage, tax or gratuity (some restrictions apply). Advance reservations are recommended.
Park New Haven is offering parking at the Temple Street Garage or Crown Street Garage for a discounted rate of $3.75 during New Haven Restaurant Week, from 4 p.m. – Midnight, to coincide with the city's 375th anniversary.
Additionally, in celebration of this milestone, New Haven will offer diners opportunities to take historical tours, as well as experience a variety of community performances, children's activities and more.
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Sober homes in Hollywood, Florida
Types of Support Offered by a Hollywood Florida Halfway House
Halfway houses provide transitional living opportunities for men and women in the early stages of recovery. The time spent living in a halfway house serves as an adjustment period that offers support and guidance as recovering individuals utilize what they learned in treatment and grow in their recovery. Living in a halfway house provides the extra care recovering individuals need to continue growing in their recovery and achieve a successful, long term sobriety. The types of support offered by a Hollywood, Florida halfway house provide endless benefits for those seeking professional help in overcoming their addiction.
Generally thought of as an extension of rehab, halfway houses offer services that provide continued support and guidance as recovering individuals adjust to sobriety and transition back to work, school, family and other responsibility. Halfway houses are a vital part of the recovery process that is known to greatly reduce the likelihood of a relapse. Instead of being discharged back into the negative environment that hosted their addiction, recovering individuals can gain stability and confidence while living in a halfway house. The unique balance of structure and freedom that is offered in a halfway house allows recovering individuals to utilize what they've gained in treatment, but rely on the support of staff and managers when needed.
A halfway house in Hollywood, Florida offers full-time support that includes on site staff who are available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week to answer questions, address concerns, provide support and guide residents as they travel their paths to recovery. Staff and managers are on site at all times to enforce guidelines and house rules, which ensures that each resident safe and maintaining sobriety, providing an equal recovery opportunity for each resident.
Support is also available through relationships formed with other residents. Recovering individuals staying in a halfway house are able to connect with others who have experienced similar struggles through stories of shared experiences. These connections promote courage and confidence, reminding residents that they are not alone in their recovery; others have experienced similar struggles and have successfully overcome addiction. The relationships formed between recovering individuals, staff and residents, living in a halfway house will last throughout the treatment process and into sobriety. They help form the close-knit recovery community that Florida is known for today. The best gift of recovery and sobriety is being able to support others as they work to overcome addiction, as well.
Residents also benefit from the support offered through educational programs, which provide useful information and helpful resources regarding addiction, the recovery process, sobriety and the possibility of relapse. Residents are able to learn more about the disease aspect of addiction and utilize the recovery resources provided to better themselves through a variety of opportunities.
Recovering individuals who have recently completed treatment or those who are currently participating in an outpatient program can benefit greatly from the different types of support offered by a Hollywood, Florida halfway house.


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2014 Rose Festival Princess Interviews
The Rose Festival Court is comprised of up to 15 outstanding young women chosen from Portland Metro-area high schools. After their selection in March, Court Members attend after-school and evening orientation meetings during the month of April. Beginning May 6, they travel full-time 6 days a week for 6 weeks, visiting community events, business leaders, hospitals, senior living centers, youth organizations and civic groups. Court Members also receive one-on-one mentorship from Pacific Power's senior management team, a $3,500 scholarship valid for any accredited college, university or trade program, a complete wardrobe including shoes and accessories, and a lifetime of enduring friendships with their Rose Festival Court sisters. (rosefestival.org)
The morning after each Court Member was announced, one of her first live media appearances was on the K103 morning show with Bruce, John and Janine. Here are the audio archive clips.
Princess Annette Salgado from St. Mary's Academy
Princess Chazmyne Brown from Parkrose High School
Princess Samantha Westmoreland from David Douglas High School
Princess Theresa Galati from Central Catholic High School
Princess Amie Whipple from Madison High School
Princess Taylor Debnam from Grant High School
Princess Jasmin McKenzie from Benson High School
Princess Jasnery Valenzuela from Lincoln High School
Prnicess Callie Krevanko from Cleveland High School
Princess Isabella Rigelman from Franklin High School
Princesses Marlo Eckert (Metro West) from Glencoe High School and Emma Audrey Waibel (Metro East) from West Linn High School
Princess Deja Brooks from Wilson High School
Princess Amelia Ryan-Bell from Jefferson High School
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Accelerate (4h Lookin at Lucky x Issues, by Awesome Again) won the Grade II Los Alamitos Derby last season at…View Article
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Smart Strike – Private Feeling
Distance won over: 6f. to 9.5f.
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Winner of 9 races including Preakness Stakes-G1, Haskell Invitational-G1, Del Mar Futurity-G1, Norfolk Stakes-G1, Hollywood Futurity-G1.
"He's one of the best horses I've ever had." Trainer Bob Baffert.
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Lucky Player – G3 Iroquois Stakes winner
Breaking Lucky – G3 Seagram Cup Stakes winner, G1 & G2 placed
Lookin At Lee – Stakes winner & runner-up in the G1 Kentucky Derby
Try Your Luck – Dueling Grounds Oaks winner
Four Leaf Chief – Multiple Stakes winner
Good Luck Gus – Multiple Stakes winner
Protective Shield – Dual Stakes winner
Spider's Alibi – Stakes winner
Linda's Luck – Stakes winner
Diamond Oops – Stakes winner
Maybellene – Stakes winner & G1 placed
One Lucky Dane – G1 placed
Money Multiplier – G1 runner-up three times
"poised for a breakthrough year in 2017" Bill Oppenheim, TDN, 12/7/16
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Talented colt Diamond Oops (2c Lookin at Lucky x Patriotic Viva, by Whywhywhy) made it two wins in as many…View Article
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Unbeaten filly Wow Cat (2f Lookin at Lucky x Winter Cat, by Cat Thief) kept her perfect record intact when…View Article
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Lookin at Lucky just missed Grade I success in North America when Lookin at Lee (3c Lookin at Lucky x…View Article
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Quality colt Lookin at Lee (3c Lookin at Lucky x Langara Lass, by Langfuhr) ran the race of his life…View Article
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Lookin At Lucky was a remarkable juvenile as he became the first horse in America in 22 years to win three Grade 1 races at 2 years, despite being a May 27 foal. He then went on to become the first colt in 31 years to be an Eclipse Champion at both 2 & 3 years. Lookin At Lucky is one of the best sons of Smart Strike and is bred on a similar Mr. Prospector/Danzig cross to the leading sire Distorted Humor. He is now transferring his excellence, ranking among the leading first-crop sires
of 2014, second-crop sires of 2015 and third-crop sires of 2016.
Lookin At Lucky is just one of several sons of Smart Strike with Graded stakes winners to their credit, others being Curlin, English Channel and Square Eddie.
Smart Strike had 7 SW's, headed by Curlin and Tenpins, from daughters of DEPUTY MINISTER. Lookin At Lucky's Gr.2 winner Accelerate has a dam by AWESOME AGAIN and he also has a SW with a dam by DEPUTY MINISTER. Judging by the record of the similarly-bred Distorted Humor, Lookin At Lucky will do well with mares from the SEATTLE SLEW line. Two of Distorted Humor's best sons, Funny Cide and Any Given Saturday, are out of grand-daughters of SEATTLE SLEW. Curlin's classic winner Exaggerator has a dam by VINDICATION. Lookin At Lucky has the Gr.2 winner Madefromlucky from a daughter of PULPIT, and Gr.1-placed One Lucky Dane is from a mare by BOSTON HARBOR.
Distorted Humor's record suggests that Lookin At Lucky will suit the SADLER'S WELLS line. Distorted Humor's foals out of Sadler's Wells mares feature the Gr.1 winners Cursory Glance, Pathfork and Aesop's Fables while Travers winner Flower Alley has a second dam by Sadler's Wells and another of his Gr.1 winners, Bit of Whimsy, is out of a mare by EL PRADO. Smart Strike also enjoyed Gr.1 success with Sadler's Wells, via Minorette.
Smart Strike has four Graded stakes winners out of STORM CAT mares, including a Gr.1 winner, and Curlin has a Gr.2 winner with a STORM CAT dam. Lookin At Lucky's first Graded winner, Lucky Player, has a dam by STORM CAT. A GIANT'S CAUSEWAY mare mated with Lookin At Lucky has already produced the Gr.1-placed Maybellene.
Smart Strike worked well with mares from the NIJINSKY line and Lookin At Lucky has a Graded-placed stakes winner out of a SKY CLASSIC mare.
Smart Strike enjoyed considerable success with DANZIG line mares. He has Graded winners out of daughters of six different sons of Danzig.
Lookin At Lucky is suited by more MR PROSPECTOR. His Gr.2 winner Madefromlucky is out of a mare inbred to MR PROSPECTOR. One of his Gr.1 performers has a dam by UNBRIDLED'S SONG and a Gr.2 winner has a second dam by UNBRIDLED.
Lookin At Lucky
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Champion & Classic winner at 3 Years
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Oct. 5, 2006 - Kayli Sartain of Sulphur Springs is a new junior member of the American Angus Association, reports John Crouch, executive vice president of the national organization with headquarters in Saint Joseph, Mo.
Junior members of the Association are eligible to register cattle in the American Angus Association, participate in programs conducted by the National Junior Angus Association and take part in Association sponsored shows and other national and regional events.
The American Angus Association is the largest beef registry association in the world, with more than 34,000 active adult and junior members.
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When the date was Thursday 05 May 2005 23:17, Rick Jones wrote: > What settings, if any, did you use for -s, -S and in particular -m in > netperf? -s 0 -S 0 -m 16384 For both ends: /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max: 16777216 /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max: 16777216 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem: 16384 349520 16777216 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem: 16384 262144 16777216 > I seem to recall that some of the stack defaults for SO_SNDBUF (IIRC) would > result in netperf sending 16KB at a time into the connection - once you > sent the MTU above 16K you may have started running into issues with Nagle > and delayed ACK? The problem firstly appears at 12KB... > You could try some tests adding a test-specific -D to > disable Nagle, or -C to set TCP_CORK, or use -m to set the send size to > say, 32KB. I 've already tested -m 32KB and its the same as 16KB. I will try -D and -C too. > It might be good to add CPU utilization figures - for 2.3pl1 that means > editing the makefile to add a -DUSE_PROC_STAT and recompiling. Or you can > grab netperf 2.4.0-rc3 from: > > ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/benchmarks/netperf/experimental/ > > if you cannot find it elsewhere, and that will (try to) compile-in the > right CPU utilization mechanism automagically. I already did a custom CPU usage instrumentation (based on infos from /proc/stat -- the latest netperf does the same thing, doesn't it?) and it seems that system has plenty of idle time (up to 50% if I recall correct) -- Michael Iatrou Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. University of Patras, Greece
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A tale of two expos
[First things first: A huge get-well-soon to my good friend and Portales, New Mexico, Linux stalwart Bob McKeand, the indefatigable "Colonel Panik," who is recovering at home now after a short hospital stay. Here's to hoping that Portales LUG meetings at the Do Drop Inn — yes, that's the real name — will commence again shortly.]
Those of us living out here in the West have it good.
Other shows have taken root and blossomed in other parts of the country, like Texas Linux Fest at the end of May, Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus in September and SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF: Linux in the GNU/South) in Charlotte, N.C., in mid-June. But the best Linux/FOSS expos are here on the Pacific side of the continent: In order of annual appearance, we have the Southern California Linux Expo — everyone knows it as SCALE — in Los Angeles starting off the year, Linux Fest Northwest (LFNW) up in Bellingham, Washington, in the spring, and the O'Reilly Open Source Conference — better known as OSCON — in Portland, Oregon, in the summer. We're going to talk about one of those below, though all these FOSS events around the country are must-attend events, and if you can make one or more of them, you should.
We have another one to add to the mix, but we're getting ahead of the story.
Just after Ohio Linux Fest wrapped up a few weeks ago, the folks at SCALE 12X put into focus yet again the preparations for the 2014 show, to be held on Feb. 21-23 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel. The Call for Papers just went out, and much of the other pre-preparation activities are in full swing as the annual work to put on the biggest community-driven Linux/FOSS show in North America is now underway.
It is a huge source of pride, and a job I look forward to every year, to work on the SCALE Team. I am the publicity chairperson for the show, and while we have a lot in store, publicity-wise, for 12X, every year that I've been involved (since SCALE 8X) I'm awed at how a group of strong-willed people driven by a passion for FOSS come together and make this happen every year.
Like clockwork, the SCALE Team displays what great feats a dedicated group of people can produce year in and year out. So when you come to SCALE, over 100 booths await you on the exhibit floor and over 80 sessions are available for you to attend over the three days of the event. Sure there are more than last year, and more than the year before, and that's a testament of both the show's, and FOSS's, growth and staying power.
But as I mentioned earlier, this is a tale of two expos: SCALE and another, a new kid on the block.
Some folks in the Puget Sound region of Seattle seem to think that having one great show — LFNW — in the Pacific Northwest is nice, but it's not enough for the area. So they've taken a chunk out of the impending fall and winter between OLF and SCALE to host their own show, the 2013 Seattle GNU/Linux Conference — or SeaGL (and I'm assuming that's pronounced "seagull").
The two-day event will be held at Seattle Central Community College on Oct. 11-12. Of course, you may see a familiar name giving a presentation on Friday at 4 p.m. on CrunchBang. But there are far better speakers on the schedule than yours truly — I'm going to try to make it to both of Jesse Keating's Git presentations as well as to Deb Nicholson's "Delegate Like a Boss" talk — and from the outset, the inaugural SeaGL looks to be a promising springboard for future shows in the years to come.
SeaGL is at their own starting line, a point where SCALE was once 12 years ago. Hopefully, a dozen years from now (if not sooner), SeaGL will be where SCALE is today — with a hundred exhibitors and more speakers than you can listen to at one time.
If current trends persist, and if the staff at SeaGL is up to the task, there's no reason why we can't go to Seattle every October from here on in, just as we go to Los Angeles every February, Bellingham every April, Texas and Charlotte in May and June respectively, Portland every July, and Columbus every September.
See you at the conference.
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(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
Back in the saddle again
A few of you e-mailed me and/or pinged me on IRC last week and said, "Hey, Larry the Free Etc., where's the blog?" Sad to say, a variety of things kept it from happening last week — apologies all around — so I hope to make up for it with the outstanding piece of literature that currently graces your screen.
Included in these happenings that kept me from doing a lot of things I normally do, like blog for example, are the following: Software Freedom Day went off without a hitch around the planet, and I'm going to touch on that next week as the tales of great feats filter in and will be regaled at that time; and we started the AFE School's first Python for Web Development class, which went well.
But more importantly, getting to this week's more important announcements and observations, we have this:
Game on! The SCALE 12X Call for Papers is open. Last year, we turned it up to 11. This year, it's an even dozen. The 12th annual Southern California Linux Expo – SCALE 12X – takes place on Feb. 21-23, 2014, at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel.
The first-of-the-year Linux/Open Source software expo in North America – and the largest annual community-run Free/Open Source Software conference on that continent – SCALE 12X expects to host more than 100 exhibitors this year, along with nearly 100 sessions, tutorials and special events (if memory serves, there were 96 last year).
You have options at SCALE 12X, like presenting — see CFP above — or attending, with the same hotel discounts available this year as every year (registration opens tomorrow); or sponroring and/or exhibiting, with sponsors and corporate exhibitors contacting email@example.com, and dot-orgs contacting email@example.com. Also, you can get involved by volunteering — e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
But if you can't wait until February . . . .
SeaGL flies in Seattle: Silly Pacific Northwesterners . . . it's not enough to have one great show in the region in Linux Fest Northwest in Bellingham, Washington. Nope, there's an encore — FOSS advocates in Seattle want to bring that springtime Bellingham goodness down to the Puget Sound area by forming their own second regional show for a FOSS-starved area in Microsoft's backyard. It's called the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference, or SeaGL (I'm going out on a limb and assuming that's pronounced "seagull"). Yours truly will be giving a talk there on Friday (on CrunchBang, of course), and thanks to these guys and gals for wrapping up the expo year with a show in my favorite area of the country.
If you're nearby, come on over to Seattle Central Community College on Oct 11-12. Even if you're not, come anyway.
Thanks, Gabe: "It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming," said Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell said at LinuxCon in New Orleans last week. "It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope."
According to various reports, including this one from Ars Technica, Newell acknowledged that while Linux gaming generally accounts for less than one percent of the market by any measure, Valve is going to do its best to make sure Linux becomes the future of gaming by extending its Steam distribution platform to hardware designed for living rooms.
Wow. Now that's a huge boost for wider acceptance of Linux, clealry eclipsing by a light-year or two a nonexistent, community-funded super-ultra-mega-smartphone. Further, no Indiegogo donations were harmed in the making of this revelation.
See you next Sunday, if not earlier. Honest.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
Things that make you go "hmmm"
This has been an extremely busy week for yours truly — school has started and the curriculum for the Python for Web Development class is being finalized (class starts on the 20th for students at Alternative Family Education in Santa Cruz, and the loaner laptops have all had new installs of CrunchBang because, well, I'm the teacher) — and nothing terribly exciting jumped out in the FOSS realm that needed my immediate attention.
This is not to say nothing happened, of course, but not one topic will dominate the pixels on the screen you're reading. But a couple of things popped up on the radar, like . . . .
Intel to Canonical — Go to hell: Phoronix reported Saturday that "the mainline Intel Linux graphics driver has reverted the patch to support XMir — the X11 compatibility layer for the Mir Display Server in Ubuntu Linux." Hmmm. That seems to be a very quick 180 by the chipmaking giant which interestingly, as it turns out, is heavily invested in Wayland. From a practical standpoint, it just looks like Canonical is going to have to do the work itself; Alan Pope said something to this effect when he tweeted, "It just means more work for us (Canonical) to keep integrating xmir patches into x with each release/update." But the subtext, as far as I can see, is that Intel is saying this to Canonical: You want to go your own way? Fine. Do your own work, and good luck. Maybe Ubuntu's walled garden isn't looking so good after all.
Better not pout, I'm telling you why: Well, he knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you're awake. Yes, the previous sentences just scream out begging on bended knee for an NSA joke, but I'm not making it here (see, guys?). But I'm really talking about the jolly one in red — Santa Claus — who will not share a name with the Fedora 20 relase. The Fedora Project community has voted and F20 and the winner is Heisenbug, though I personally gave high ranking in range voting to Santa the Christmas Guy. Nevertheless, Fedora has released the schedule for F20: The alpha goes out in a little over a month on Sept. 17, beta on Oct. 22 with the final release scheduled for Nov. 26.
A must read: Bruce Schneider in The Guardian. Nothing else to say here, just read it.
One more thing: An interesting discussion is currently taking place in the LXer.com discussion forum regarding Katherine Noyes' articles and how she quotes the same people repeatedly. I'm not going to add anything that I haven't said already in this thread, but I think the original poster is right. I read Katherine's items often, and I'm going to ask: Please, Katherine, mix it up a little bit and ask more people — different people — for their opinions.
Felton LUG meets in about an hour. See some of you there.
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(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
Passing it along
Last week, one of my news colleagues posted on social media that her laptop had died, and her two boys were in need (so said their Silicon Valley school) of more than just the cheap tablet she had bought recently at a local big-box electronics store.
About the same time I read of her situation, I had been working on a ThinkPad T30 with a misbehaving wireless card — no, "misbehaving" is too kind, as it was definitely on strike — and I thought it might be a good idea to pass along this old guy, adding an old-school PCMCIA wireless card, so the boys would have something to use for the upcoming school year.
Calls were made, thanks were given, and my colleague — a columnist who works from home "over the hill" in San Jose — will pick up the T30 on Wednesday.
This old T30 was once my "road warrior" before I got the ThinkPad T60 that now fills this role. I think of the T30 in the same way that Neil Young thinks of his instrument when he sings "This Old Guitar" — "This old guitar ain't mine to keep / It's mine to play for a while" — and while the T30 may not be ideal for a couple of kids going back to grade school this month, it'll do until something better comes along.
So I added memory I had lying around, wiped the drive and set out for a distro that I think would be good for them. Knowing they have used Windows before and are used to icons and drop-down menus, I counted out both Unity and GNOME desktop environments right off the bat. Also, while splitting hairs here, I also passed up CrunchBang, which is Debian under the Openbox window manager, despite the fact I think beginners would easily adapt to it.
I'd like them to have a good Linux experience right off the bat, so I thought a lot about what to install on the T30.
I finally decided on, wait for it, Fedora 19 Xfce.
Why? A couple of reasons right off the bat: First, I get that I'm quite possibly the only person on the entire planet that acutally doesn't think that Fedora is solely a "bleeding edge distro only for the most brilliant and cutting-edge Linux users" — I firmly believe that anyone with a few IQ points to rub together, to say nothing of bright kids, can use it. Second, as I mentioned earlier, I wanted to give the boys something with icons and menus; in other words, something that was not entirely foreign to them.
Choosing a desktop environment was not easy. Though I only have it on one machine in the lab, I like KDE and all the great developments KDE brings to FOSS. But I am way more familiar with Xfce and have used it more often; my second distro back in 2006 was the Dapper Drake version of Xubuntu. So it's a matter of convenience: If anything goes wrong, I'd be able to help quickly. I also installed Flash — Fedora doesn't come with it natively, to their free-software credit, but it's necessary especially in a school setting until Gnash is up to speed — a necessary evil maybe, but still necessary. So it's there.
So on Wednesday, the cat's out of the bag: They get Schrodinger's Cat with the Xfce desktop on a T30 with a collection of stickers on it that rivals any NASCAR racer. They'll get the SELinux lecture upon my handing it over to them, and a few tips about how to handle the the flashing light of the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool.
I'm also going to give them a copy of "Snake Wrangling for Kids" with the hope that maybe one of them will like Python enough to start fiddling with it.
Let's see how this goes.
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All Israeli withdrawals are unilateral; otherwise the Arabs would never agree with them. Thus it was with the unilateral withdrawal from Southern Lebanon and the subsequent unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Despite the fears and the heartaches that Arab rockets from Gaza have since caused, few if any Israelis would like to see the Strip re-occupied.
What is not known generally outside Israel is that Ariel Sharon, who as Prime Minister in 2004-2005 orchestrated Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, was planning to follow up with a third unilateral withdrawal, this time from the Israeli-occupied West Bank. He had gone ahead with the planning and had assembled an informal team under the aegis of his chef de cabinet, Dov Weissglass, in order to implement the idea.* Unfortunately, at the end of 2005 he fell ill and in January 2006, he suffered a massive stroke that left him in a coma. The West Bank project has been in effect nullified.
It seems counter-intuitive that Sharon, Israel's quintessential hard-liner, would lend himself to the role of implementer of Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank, occupied in the war of June 1967. But the elder Sharon had undergone a sort of epiphany, reaching out for some sort of solution to this intractable conflict. Even in his earlier days, Sharon prided himself on his ability to understand and relate to Arabs. For example, he would address the late King Hussein of Jordan as "Your Majesty."
There is no denying that unilateral withdrawal from what would be most, but not all, of the West Bank, would be infinitely more complicated than Gaza, where the number of settlers was infinitesmal compared to the thousands of settlers now living in the West Bank. But it is also true that the continued occupation of the West Bank, after 45 years, is a cancer, eating away, day after day, at Israel's credibility and world status.
Perhaps Sharon's idea is a lesson for sometime in the future.
*From a talk by Prof. Asher Susser at Harvard University on April 4, 2012. Prof. Susser is the author of "Israel, Jordan, and Palestine: The Two-State Imperative" (Brandeis University Press, 2012).


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A BRIL-I-NT new game for C-R-STMAS
Dec 19, 2003 2003-12-19T12:35:09+0000
Sick of Scrabble? Cheesed off with crosswords? Then why not try Blank - a new board game invented by two nuclear physicists in the UK? Andy Briggs and Angela Ramsay from Oxfordshire decided to invent Blank because they were so dissatisfied with existing board games. Although the new game has nothing to do with physics, the inventors needed a sound knowledge of the subject to build the product itself.
In the game, players are presented with two rows of three letters, where each letter is spaced by a single blank. The aim is to make as many words as possible using the sequence of letters and blanks in a given length of time. So, for example, the letters I-blank-C-blank-R could be used to make INCUR, PINCERS or MINCE, while the letters O-blank-S-blank-L could be used to make CAROUSEL, DORSAL or TONSILITIS. Longer words score more points.
Although Briggs and Ramsay say that Blank is simple, a lot of physics knowledge was needed to build the game. The letters are presented to players on a special figure-of-eight track made of plastic, which allows them to be shuffled before each player's turn and so provide millions of possible combinations. Each letter appears on a chip - made of plastic rod cut into a disk.
"We had to be able to predict how the different materials would 'bind' to each other during operation because the mechanical forces between them are very complicated and have to be modelled", says Briggs. "The game had to have a low enough total friction to be operated effortlessly by hand. We also had to decide how to get mathematical variation into the game without having to constantly bring in new letters from a bag or shuffle the letters."
Briggs and Ramsay decided to invent Blank because they wanted something that improved on what they felt were unsatisfactory aspects of other word games. "For instance Scrabble is good, but it is boring if there are more than two of you playing." Briggs told PhysicsWeb. "There is no strategy because you cannot influence the other players. We also wanted to be able to use all the words in the dictionary and not be limited to words of merely seven or eight letters."
The duo hope that the game will appeal to physicists and non-physicists alike. "We designed the game to appeal to ourselves, so it should attract people from a similar background," says Briggs. "Words of any length can be played so you would be free to use all the interesting and elegant words you use in your own field of science."
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Matin Durrani is Deputy Editor of PhysicsWeb


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Twenty-two years ago I was an Intern at Writer's Digest Books and got my first national writing credit for a profile of a small press in the Novelist & Short Story Writer's Market. I indexed a book for mystery writers, combed through the slush pile for Story magazine, and did other interesting things. And now… I'm on their website. What comes around goes around. Anyway, it's cool to be featured by the company that gave me my start in publishing.
Since the folks in Cincinnati are driving a lot of traffic here, I wanted to explain why I might have been so honored.
One: I have fun extras for each of my books, particularly for Mudville and Mamba Point. Since I became a dad between books two and three, the subsequent books have suffered. But there is some fun stuff there for teachers using Mudville or Mamba Point in their classrooms and/or kids who enjoyed those books.
Two: I have some hard-learned lessons as a writer on my blog. See Five Ways to Write a Story, Writing and Publishing, and Writing in the Wedges.
Three: I have rarely sank my own money into publicity, but while I use a packaged theme for my website, I did pay an illustrator for unique graphics, and I love them. I think it's a good way to go for authors who want a unique design but work on a small budget.
Four: I am regularly on Twitter and Facebook and I mix self-promotion with a healthy dose of being myself and interacting with others on both.
Five: I know who my audience is. I scrapped my book reviews blog once I got published, and my "trying to get published" blog, and focused ever since on teachers, librarians, and book club facilitators as my primary audience; friends and fellow writers as my secondary audience. Having facilitated book clubs, I knew the kinds of things facilitators look for when boosting discussion of a book and keeping it front and center. So that's what I offered, or try to, and it's the best lesson of all. Keep in mind who your audience is and what you are trying to do with your author's website.
So, thanks Writer's Digest and I hope the folks coming from there enjoy their visit.


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The NASCAR racer has announced her separation from physical therapist Paul Hospenthal on Facebook.
NASCAR driver Danica Patrick announced that she is divorcing from her husband of seven years, Paul Hospenthal. On Tuesday, November 20 morning, Patrick wrote on her Facebook page to tell the world about the sad news but noted that they have split on good terms.
"I am sad to inform my fans that after 7 years, Paul and I have decided to amicably end our marriage. This isn't easy for either of us, but mutually it has come to this," the racing star wrote. "He has been an important person and friend in my life and that's how we will remain moving forward."
Patrick and Hospenthal were married in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2005 after a year of engagement. She met the physical therapist and personal trainer, who is 17 years older than her, when he was treating her for non-racing injury. Specializing in fitness and golfers, Hospenthal reportedly mended her hip after she injured it during yoga. The couple had no children from the marriage.
However, not everything is gloomy in Patrick's life. The 30-year-old former IndyCar racer was recently voted NASCAR's Most Popular Driver in a fan vote after completing her first full season in the series. "It's nice to win this in the meantime," she told ESPN, adding her ultimate goal is to win the Nationwide title. She recently finished 10th in the 2012 Nationwide standings.


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Miracle birth of baby elephant
A baby elephant that was thought to have died before birth has been born alive and well in a zoo in Australia.
After tests on its mum, vets thought the baby calf, who's been called Mr Scruffles, had died during the birthing process, which lasted six days.
So when he was born fit and well at Sydney Zoo you can imagine everyone's shock and surprise.
The zoo will now be keeping a close eye on Mr Scruffles to make sure he continues to stay fit and healthy.
Vets reckon the tiny calf was unconscious and not moving inside his mum when they tested to see how healthy he was, and that's why they thought he'd died.
The birth is good news for Sydney Zoo who are trying to breed more elephants in captivity to protect their numbers which are dwindling in the wild.


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Paris, France (ESA) Mar 30, 2012
Field measurements in the spectacular blue ice region of Antarctica not only provide confidence in the accuracy of ESA's CryoSat mission, but have also shown that this part of the ice sheet has increased in height.
Making sure that CryoSat is delivering accurate data to work out precisely how the thickness of Earth's ice is changing is a continuing effort, and one that takes teams of scientists to some of the harshest environments on the planet. These particular campaigns were carried out on a desolate plateau known as the blue ice region, which lies on the edge of Antarctica. As its name suggests, this unique region features a vast expanse of polished blue ice, devoid of snow.
It is precisely this lack of snow and unusual icy surface that makes the region very useful for determining the accuracy of CryoSat's radar altimeter.
The lack of snow in this part of Antarctica means that radar signals emitted by CryoSat's altimeter bounce straight off the glistening ice and back to the satellite.
The height of the ice is then determined from the difference in time between the signal being emitted and received.
Since ice is usually covered by a layer of snow, the signal normally has to penetrate this top layer before reaching the ice - a fact that might influence CryoSat's measurements of ice height.
Measurements from the hard shiny surface of the blue ice are therefore extremely valuable for checking against CryoSat's data.
While the field experiments are designed for validation purposes, the analysis of measurements from two campaigns in 2008-09 and 2010-11 has shown some surprising results: it reveals that this part of Antarctica actually increased in height by an average of 9 cm between the two periods.
Scientists from the Technical University (TU) of Dresden braved extreme weather to map subtle changes in the height of the ice over 2500 sq km. The measurements were taken on the ground with sophisticated GPS equipment towed by snowmobiles.
Scientists from the Alfred Wegner Institute also took measurements from an aircraft with an instrument that simulates CryoSat's radar altimeter.
After analysis of the data collected in the campaigns, and the fact that other datasets going back 20 years are available, the scientists determined changes in the height of the ice for three different periods.
In 1991-2000, there was a drop of about 5 cm, a trend that continued in 2000-08. However, the third period in 2008-10 shows this unexpected rise.
Reinhard Dietrick from TU Dresden said, "This interesting result showing the reversal in height is thanks to the campaigns before the launch of CryoSat in 2010.
"The results are, of course, preliminary but with this reversal in mind, it would be very interesting to see if the increase in height remains in the future."
At the other end of the planet, another campaign dedicated to CryoSat is taking off this week. Teams from ESA, NASA, Europe and Canada are now converging in the high Arctic to take measurements from the ice and from the air as CryoSat orbits above.
Launched almost exactly two years ago, CryoSat is dedicated to monitoring changes in the thickness of marine ice floating in the polar oceans and variations in the thickness of the vast ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica to improve our understanding of the links between ice and climate.
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(Spring 1861 - end of the war)
The August Arsenal was an established U.S. Arsenal at the time of the war however, it was the Confederates who greatly expanded its facilities and capacity. Captured by Georgia troops upon the session of that State in late January 1861, by the following summer Confederate Chief of Ordnance, Josiah Gorgas had decided to make it a "great arsenal".
Soon after the organization of his department in July of 1861 Col. Gorgas sent Major George Washington Rains, a scientist, professor and graduate of West Point on a tour of the South to organize the components necessary for powder production and to locate a site suitable for erection of a first class powder mill. On July 20th, after careful consideration of a number of potential sites Rains chose Augusta which would also include a Confederate arsenal. Gorgas placed Rains in charge of erecting the Powder Works and chose Capt. W.G. Gill to command the Arsenal both of which he intended be built with the old U.S. Arsenal as its nucleus.
Augusta made a very favorable location for the Powder Works due to its location away from probable hostilities, its railways, its canal which provided transportation and power, its temperate climate and its location near enough to the city for a source of labor and supplies yet far enough for safety. More uniquely, Augusta afforded a water supply free from earthy lime salts to insure the purity of the powder and an abundant porous wood required in making charcoal, another requirement for the manufacture of gun powder. Such a location, conforming to all of these requirements could be found no where else in the Confederacy but Augusta. However, Augusta lacked nearly all of the necessary facilities and machinery required for such large scale military production. These would have to be built.
Rains began constructing his Powder Works on the grounds of the old U.S. Arsenal between the Savannah River and the canal, just west of the city in the fall of 1861. Possibly due to poor health Gill was however, slow in getting production underway. Though he did have constructed a large castellated brick building, as late as the winter of 1862 the Arsenal still had produced only 30,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, some cartridge bags and knapsacks. In April 1862, Gorgas relieved Gill of his post and placed Rains, now a Colonel, in command of both the Powder Works and Arsenal. On April 10, 1862, in only seven short months official operation of the Augusta Powder Works began.
The Confederate Powder Works at Augusta would become one of the most amazing success stories in the history of American manufacturing. Armed with only a pamphlet describing the processes and machinery of the Waltham Abbey Powder Works in England, then the best in the world, Col. Rains in less than a year remarkably forged a complete powder production facility. This complex of twenty-six buildings, including refineries, laboratories, rolling mills and test ranges grew, by war's end, to rival if not surpass Europe's best facilities to produce, arguably, the finest grade of powder in the world.
Over the next three years came to be the central gun powder making plant in the South and an important western arsenal. Threatened by Sherman in his "March to the Sea", Augusta Arsenal production fell dramatically in the late fall and winter of 1864. Although never destroyed, by early spring 1865 it had become largely ineffective due to the crumbling Southern infrastructure, labor and material shortages. Throughout the war Augusta was a prolific supplier of all kinds of arms and equipment including horse equipment particularly curry combs and brushes and, arguably produced the finest grade of gun powder in the world!
Horse Equipment: During the war period, the Augusta Arsenal routinely issued horse equipment in "sets", consisting of mostly the Jenifer saddle until the fall 1863, then the McClellan. The complete set included a bridle, halter, saddle bags and probably a saddle blanket, although it did not always have a full compliment of every item. Additional equipment like the nose bag, curry comb and brush were often issued separately and usually in mass to various commands. In fact, Augusta was the Confederacy's single largest producer of curry combs and brushes. Descriptions in arsenal records of Augusta's horse equipment are vague but those of commercial contractors supplying equipment to the arsenal are more revealing.
The Augusta Arsenal Pattern Saddle & Horse Equipment: To obtain more information about Augusta Arsenal horse equipment production, patterns and issue numbers including Ordnance Manual specifications for leather and hardware send $10 to Ken R. Knopp, Confederate Horse Equipment, P.O. Box 1322, Hattiesburg, Miss. 39403.
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warrant less audio surveillance
Research involving Shotspotter surveillance microphones and why they don't have a search warrant. Silence in response from Oakland city council, city hall, and the company. Misrepresentation of the 4th amendment by OPD. Lies from OPD. I've presented in a handful of youtube videos why I believe shotspotter promotes this system with propaganda, not facts or data. This post has detailed information on why I believe Shotspotter needs a warrant. 11 minute video is linked
Shotspotter's warrant less audio surveillance.
I found this microphone directly in front of my apt. I found out in July 2013 , it was a shotspotter surveillance microphone. I've been asking questions since. I had to do my own research because I ran into a compartmentalized city, that didn't know anything about laws, or practices about almost anything, unless someone is holding their hand and pointing it out to them.
Every time this comes up in any type of conversation we here this. "There is no expectation of privacy when in a public place" THis is over simplified and not exactly correct. IN the body of this email, I will show the law protects people NOT places, and the extensive process it takes to obtain a search warrant to put up any type of audio surveillance. This includs a detailed description of WHO is being listened to, WHY they are listening in that particular area, and in detail the reasons why something else hasn't been tried first, or had failed. Even if you can obtain this warrant to record people in public, it is limited to 30 days!!
I can prove that these microphones are always on, like a red light camera, and can hear conversations, birds chirping, and highway noise.
How can this company get away with putting up warrant less surveillance microphones without a warrant?
THis is the main text of an email I sent to everyone at city hall, city council and staff, mayor and staff , city administrator and city attorney.
I would like to be present in these meeting with shotspotter officials, How can I do that?
I will have a handful of emails to come, please read them carefully. I have very serious concerns. These concerns have been brushed off by the OPD and I've been lied to directly by them. I am not OK with being lied to. I am not ok with being ignored by you either. PLEASE RESPOND
This first one will have to deal with WARRANT LESS SURVEILLANCE and the LAW.
Congress passed this act in 1968, trying to control warrant less surveillance.
If I am understanding this law correctly, installing a surveillance microphone directly in front of my apartment and recording my voice violates my constitutional protection against unreasonable "search and seizure" A search and seizure is illegal without a search warrant (7)
Recording, Storing, and Reviewing conversations on my own street in front of my own apartment(and all around this city and country) violates the "expectation of privacy."(8) 18 U.S. Code § 2518 - Procedure for interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications provides that a citizen such as myself is entitled to an "expectation of privacy" in speaking with a friend with nobody around, and that any law enforcement officials(or even worse private companies) using recording devices that can pick up these conversations are required to obtain warrants
I believe, We the people, deserve. Total disclosure.Transparent and available data, Not anecdotes.
WE deserve to see data that shows effectiveness of this expensive, intrusive system.
We deserve conversation about the capabilities of these microphones so we can make informed decisions.
After learning the capabilities of surveillance microphones, we would like to put in privacy policies.
After learning the capabilities of surveillance microphones, the public would most likely like to choose a location that is High above any street level conversation.
When I ask questions like this, I shouldn't be treated as an agitator, I should be treated like a concerned citizen and father of 2 daughters . I am concerned about their safety. I don't think when asking questions to city employees, whose salaries I'm paying,that I should be treated the way I am. Disgraceful.!
My research into this company is to follow. It is quite lengthy . I want to make sure I put in here ALL of my concerns. This information makes me
uncomfortable. It shows me that the city doesn't do it's research. Doesn't know the actual laws. Doesn't even make the public aware of any concerns, or think that there
is any, are manipulated by lobbyists.
Best practices, when "legally spying" is to put up signs to warn us that we MAY be recorded.
This is the bulk of my research with footnotes provided.
What I learned was pretty amazing.
1. These microphones have picked up people's conversations(1) ,
(1) http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120111/NEWS/201110339
as well as birds chirping and freeway noise(2)
(2 )http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/us/shots-heard-pinpointed-and-argued-over.html?pagewanted=all
a) The company denies this (3)
2. These microphones are always on, and has been described to be similar to a red light camera
"This system is very similar to the red camera technology"
a) the company denies this (4)
3. This company's VP claims he can listen, record, store and review ANY noise , even if it isn't given to the police as an alert.
" For forensic purposes, all loud, impulsive noises are logged by ShotSpotter systems, even if they do not trigger an automatic alert, in case those noises needed to be reviewed after-the-fact,"(5)
4. I was told by assistant Oakland Police chief David Downing that recording conversations is okay "because it's like a video camera," I was also told this in a information request #2577 stating
"There are no search warrants necessary as the equipment monitors areas that are in public space. It's the same as someone taking pictures in public". - Amber C Fuller (6)
5. the shotspotter reports have logged 6 incidents in my police district. (12x )since october. This includes the busiest night of the year NYEve----
area 5 where shotspotter has been for close to 8 years had 1532 incidents from april 2013-january 2014. IN the New expansion area, Area 2., in the same time period has 79!!!! 1532-79 ! why the expansion? and why are they considering another expansion. we have the biggest coverage area in the country. 13.3 sq miles ( times $40-$60K per sq mile)
I went to http://www.justice.gov/ to do some research on the validity of these statements made about needing warrants. I came across some interesting things.
United States Attorneys Manual Title 9
28 Electronic Surveillance—Title III Applications
"A It must be prepared by an applicant identified as a law enforcement or investigative officer. The application must be in writing, signed by the United States Attorney, an Assistant United States Attorney, and made under oath
B.It must identify the type of communications to be intercepted...."Oral communications" are communications between people who are together under circumstances where the parties enjoy a reasonable expectation of privacy.
C It must identify the specific Federal offenses for which there is probable cause to believe are being committed.
D It must provide a particular description of the nature and location of the facilities from which, or the place where, the interception is to occur.
E.It must identify, with specificity, those persons known to be committing the offenses and whose communications are to be intercepted.
F It must contain a statement affirming that normal investigative procedures have been tried and failed, are reasonably unlikely to succeed if tried, or are too dangerous to employ.
K. For original and spinoff applications, it should contain a request that the court's order authorize the requested interception until all relevant communications have been intercepted, not to exceed a period of thirty (30) days"
In light of the case law, the Department requires that every wiretap application seeking to tap a new facility or a new location meet a baseline standard of probable cause by showing both of the following:
• Criminal use of the facility or location within six months of the Department's approval.
• Circumstantial evidence, such as phone records or physical surveillance showing, respectively, that the facility or the location
has been used for criminal purposes within three weeks (twenty-one days) of the Department's approval.
It is not generally legal for law enforcement (or anyone else) to make audio recordings of conversations in which they are not a participant without a warrant.
Reading from the California penal code I found this.
632. (a) Every person who, intentionally and without the consent of
all parties to a confidential communication, by means of any
electronic amplifying or recording device, eavesdrops upon or records
the confidential communication, whether the communication is carried
on among the parties in the presence of one another or by means of a
telegraph, telephone, or other device, except a radio, shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars
As of now.
*We don't know what these surveillance microphones are capable of, unless I went to court.
As for locations of sensors, amount of sensors, and effective range we will not disclose any of this information unless compelled by a court order to release this information as it could hamper or hender ongoing or future investigations.
ShotSpotter audio sensors -- small computers with microphones that record and time stamp a certain sound
*There is NO data supporting efficacy.
"The record you asked for does not exist"
*There are no reports on data including false alarms ( Sgt. Holly Joshi said there were 0 false alarms!)
"This is not being tracked as there is no mechanism through radio or our report management system to produce or gather this data". - Amber C Fuller
*After 8 years in E.Oakland There is nothing to show, safer neighborhoods, less crime, less gun play.
* Shotspotter still promotes it's company by saying it's a deterrent, and claims a protective bubble of safety.
ShotSpotter gunfire location and alert solutions to provide a complete indoor/outdoor "bubble" of protection around any facility.
ShotSpotter Flex is used by law enforcement around the world to combat gun violence and restore public safety to communities afflicted with gun violence.
The company's deep domain experience, along with cumulative agency best practice experience, delivers measurable outcomes that contribute to reducing gun violence. SST is a proven solution provider with more than 90 installations across the United States and the world (UNLIKE ME, SHOTSPOTTER DOESN"T SHOW THEIR WORK)
* Oakland already has the most area covered by SST 13.3 sq miles, and is considering another expansion.
* SST wants to add these inside our schools and certain businesses.
*SST sells fear to inner city neighborhoods, selling non-effective hi-tech tools, taking money from other more effective efforts such as "Cease Fire" and Foot/bike patrol.
"Sandy Hook was a bit of a wake-up call for the country," he said.(CEO Ralph Clark)
"Sgt. Eric Smith of the Richmond Police Department said that in ShotSpotter alerts, he has heard in the background "doors slamming, birds chirping, cars on the highway, horns honking."
The apparent ability of ShotSpotter to record voices on the street raises questions about privacy rights and highlights another example of how emerging technologies can pose challenges to enforcing the law while also protecting civil liberties.
"James G. Beldock, a vice president at ShotSpotter, said that the system was not intended to record anything except gunshots and that cases like New Bedford's were extremely rare. "There are people who perceive that these sensors are triggered by conversations, but that is just patently not true," he said. "They don't turn on unless they hear a gunshot."
"ShotSpotter officials say their acoustic sensors, set up to detect gunfire, are not designed to record conversations on the street."
"This is a very unusual circumstance if (the sensors) actually picked up any voices," Barrett said. "In particular, I can't ever remember in the history of our technology the sensors ever hearing a fight or some kind of argument going on."January 11, 2012
"There is no way it can record voices,"(Ralph) Clark(shotspotter CEO) said. "It is just not possible technically.
"ShotSpotter's outdoor gunshot detection system helped solve a 2007 Oakland murder when the technology captured a dying man's last words "
James G. Beldock, a vice president at ShotSpotter, said"They don't turn on unless they hear a gunshot." /
It's an acoustic sensor. It's not a microphone, and it's only activated when a loud boom or bang happens," said Barrett, who added: "It's not listening. There is no listening."
"We don't record everything," he continued. "We're just listening to the 'booms and bangs.'"
For forensic purposes, all loud, impulsive noises are logged by ShotSpotter systems, even if they do not trigger an automatic alert, in case those noises needed to be reviewed after-the-fact, he said. (James Bedlock)....we assisted the East Palo Alto Police Department with the retrieval and storage of the audio captured by their system's ShotSpotter sensors for the seconds surrounding the impulsive noise
"For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection . . . . But what he seeks to preserve as private even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected," the Court stated. Building upon this reasoning, the Court held that it was the duty of the Judiciary to review petitions for warrants in instances in which persons may be engaging in conduct that they wish to keep secret, even if it were done in a public place"
The Court's ruling refined previous interpretations of the unreasonable "search and seizure" clause of the Fourth Amendment to count immaterial intrusion with technology as a search
Although he agreed with the majority opinion of the Court, Justice Harlan went further to provide a test for what is a constitutionally protected search. He said it was necessary to clarify when private actions, conducted in a public place, may be constitutionally protected. Expanding upon the general principles enunciated by the majority opinion, Justice Harlan proposed the following two-pronged test to address this issue: "My understanding of the rule that has emerged from prior judicial decisions is that there is a twofold requirement, first that a person have exhibited an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy; and second, that the expectation be one that society is prepared to recognize as 'reasonable.'"


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China reporter Lucy Gao reviews the major business news making headlines every day in both the Chinese and English language press.
China Securities Journal
■ China's mutual funds cut their stock holdings by three percentage points on average to 76.4 per cent by the end of the third quarter from the end of the previous quarter, as the sharemarket tumbled, according to quarterly reports from some funds.
■ About 700 listed companies in China have published their financial report for the first nine months, with combined net profits rising nearly 20 per cent year on year.
■ Beijing will not loosen nationwide curbs on the housing market, despite gains made in containing both home prices and inflation, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Saturday.
Shanghai Securities News
■ China will strictly control the consumption of non-renewable energy in the next five years by setting mandatory ceilings for local governments, a senior energy official said on Sunday.
■ The critical factor for China's industrial development over the next five years is to improve the industrial structure and upgrade technology, Su Bo, Vice-Minister for Industry and Information Technology, told a forum.
Shanghai Daily
■ China's trade with North Korea saw an 87 per cent increase year on year in the first seven months. This was announced on Sunday at the start of a visit to North Korea by Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang that reaffirms strong ties between the neighbours.
Economic Information Daily
■ China's real estate developers are facing a profit plunge and tight cash flow because of declined sales revenue and increasing house stocks, according to statistics from Wind Info, a Chinese financial data provider.
China Daily
■ Vice-Premier Li Keqiang started a three-day visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which was widely considered significant for regional peace and development.
■ Inflation in China in 2011 will stand at 5.8 per cent, and there will be no initiatives to further tighten or loosen the nation's monetary stance, said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to the central bank.
The Australian Financial Review


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New green business management certificate offered at CSUEB
- August 3, 2012 5:00am
California State University, East Bay is launching a new certificate program in Green Business Management for the fall quarter.
The CSUEB Green Business Management Certificate Program addresses the roles, responsibilities, and impact of "green management" in a continuously changing business environment. The competitive and complex domestic and international markets will be observed, and the program will look at these important factors to present new needed knowledge and skills. This program also will consider practical applications of "Green Management" in various industries. The program would be updated with new skills which ultimately produce and create competent managers for an aggressive and multifaceted market.
By successfully completing the Green Business Management Certificate Program, students will understand how to concentrate on the most important challenges of the tasks and projects, and achieve organizational goals more effectively by using "Green Management" principles. It also demonstrates how competent managers can make operational activities greener, make decisions more intelligently, avoid common mistakes, create a culture of trust, and ultimately lead the organization to achieve its goals effectively.
To earn the certificate, students must complete 5 required courses. These courses aim to provide the student an understanding of the mounting demand for business management practices to create not just financial value but to effectively respond as well to the environmental sustainability and social responsibility concerns of society, a knowledge of the current "best practices" of businesses in responding to this demand to create sustainable value and an understanding of the basic principles behind them, and to develop in the student an appreciation and a sense of commitment to practice greener business management practices in their future professional careers.
To learn more about this brand new program at Cal State East Bay, click here
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California State University, East Bay is the San Francisco East Bay Area's high-access public university of choice. CSUEB serves the region with campuses in Hayward and Concord, a professional development center in Oakland, and an innovative online campus. With an enrollment of more than 14,000, the University offers a nationally recognized freshman year experience, award-winning curriculum, personalized instruction, and expert faculty. Students choose from among more than 100 professionally focused fields of study for which the University confers bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as an Ed.D. in education. Named a "Best in the West" college, as well as a Best Business School, by the influential Princeton Review, Cal State East Bay is among the region's foremost producers of teachers, business professionals and entrepreneurs, public administrators, health professionals, literary and performing artists, and science and math graduates.