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No-one will be listening harder and urging the Southbank Sinfonia on more tonight at the Rose Theatre than former newsreader and Classic FM presenter John Suchet.
The concert will feature pieces from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Beethoven's Symphony No.3, 'Eroica'.
As a Beethoven fanatic, Mr Suchet tells the Surrey Comet: "Every orchestra in the world plays the 'Eroica', but I want to hear it attacked fearlessly."
Introducing the symphony, he will be telling the audience what to listen for, and giving them some background on Beethoven.
He says: "I want to know: was he in love, was he drunk when he wrote it, and I think young people want to know that too."
The Southbank Sinfonia was established in 2002 and is conducted by musical director Simon Over. It consists of 33 young music graduates representing 17 nationalities.
This year's orchestra will be accompanied by British actress Patricia Hodge for its theatrical programme.
James Murphy, Southbank Sinfonia managing director, says: "Anybody who thinks classical music is for old people should come and watch them.
"They make classical music very cool."
The programme will also feature soloist Harvey de Souza, who was leader of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Mr Murphy says: "We love The Rose. It is sort of based on an old Shakespearean theatre in the round, but it is also modern.
"We think this is a great match for us, because the orchestra is an old institution of heritage, but it is made up of young people, the stars of the future."
Southbank Sinfonia at The Rose, Saturday January 26, 7.30pm. Tickets £12-25. Call 08444 821 556.
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POLICE are hunting car vandals after a string of thefts from several vehicles in Bridgwater.
The thefts took place overnight on February 10/11 and February 22/23, mainly in the Sydenham area.
Sgt Gary Young of Bridgwater police told the Mercury: "There has been a recent rise in thefts from cars in the Sydenham estate.
"I would urge people not to leave valuables on display in vehicles and to please report anything suspicious using the non-emergency number, 101."
Vehicles were broken into and items stolen include four black angle grinders, a large red toolbox containing multiple electrical terminals, three-draw toolboxes with sockets, spanners, Allen keys, a jump pack, a Navman satnav, various DEWALT and Makita tools and equipment including drills and a Paslode nail gun.
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Banks across the country are facing an April 8 deadline to update or further protect their ATMs before Microsoft cuts off tech support for its Windows XP operating system.
If your eyes just glazed over from all the tech-y words, let's break it down:
1. An estimated 95 percent of the ATMs in this country run on an old operating system called Windows XP. (Windows XP debuted 12 years ago, which is ancient in tech terms.)
2. Microsoft has been saying for a while that it will stop offering support to Windows XP on April 8.
3. This means that after that date, Microsoft will no longer issue security updates when it discovers a vulnerability in Windows XP.
4. Therefore, any ATMs that don't upgrade their operating systems by April 8 could be more vulnerable to hacker attacks.
"After end of support, attackers will have an advantage over defenders who continue to run Windows XP," Tim Rains, director of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Division, said in a blog post in October.
Hacker heaven?
It's unclear just what will happen after the April 8 deadline, but some experts predict the situation could be a major liability headache for companies whose ATMs run on that system.
Rains says in that blog post that the infection rate on systems running Windows XP is likely to jump after April 8. He notes that the last version of Windows XP to go out of support, Service Pack 2, saw a jump of 66 percent in malware infections in the two years after Microsoft discontinued its support. (The current version that's about to go out of support is Windows XP Service Pack 3.)
Jason Fossen, a trainer for SANS Institute and an expert on Microsoft security, says the price of an exploitable vulnerability generally goes from $35,000 to $160,000, depending on whether it's a newly discovered vulnerability and how well it works, among other factors.
"Now, imagine you have recently discovered a new vulnerability in Windows XP," Fossen says. "If you hold off selling the vulnerability until after April 8, when Microsoft will stop releasing any new XP security patches, then that vulnerability should be useful longer (theoretically, forever) and the price should go up.
"I wouldn't be surprised to see the price of some types of XP vulnerabilities double," Fossen says. "And as the price of XP vulnerabilities goes up, this motivates hackers to work harder to find new ones."
Not many ATMs will be ready
A spokesman with NCR Corp., one of the largest ATM suppliers in the U.S., says it expects only about a third of ATM deployers to meet Microsoft's deadline for upgrading. However, others will come up with different ways to protect themselves.
For instance, JPMorgan Chase bought a one-year extension from Microsoft to continue offering updates while it works to upgrade its ATMs, according to Business Insider. Other companies are buying security packages or making other changes to boost ATM security and stay compliant with the regulations of the PCI Security Standards Council.
Waiting and watching
Consumers should know that ATMs will continue to function after the April 8 deadline, the NCR spokesman says. Plus, consumers have protections in place if their account information is attacked. (See some of Bankrate's recent blogs about this here and here.)
"There is nothing practical consumers can do about ATMs running Windows XP other than to make sure they are customers to banks which will reimburse them for any losses related to ATM hacking," Fossen says. He says banks are the ones who should be more concerned about the deadline.
"For banks with ATMs running Windows XP, the biggest risk will probably be to their reputations if an ATM hacking story hits the media," Fossen says.
Banks, consumers and others using Windows XP have known for a while that the end-of-support deadline was coming, Fossen says. However, upgrading ATMs can be a lengthy, expensive process, experts say.
Terence Devereux with Wincor Nixdorf, which provides services, hardware and software to retailers and retail banks, said in a recent webinar that even if banks "had got their act together and placed orders" for all the necessary equipment to upgrade the ATMs, "it would have been a tough bet for the ATM vendors to supply it."
The NCR spokesman says expenses could include a license for the newer Windows 7 operating system and the cost of buying, testing and distributing new software. He says that older ATMs also may require hardware upgrades or need to be replaced completely.
Have you received any communications from your bank about ATM upgrades?
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Choosing to join the Oregon State University community obligates each member to a code of responsible behavior which is outlined in the Student Conduct Code. The assumption upon which this Code is based is that all persons must treat one another with dignity and respect in order for scholarship to thrive.
If you have received an email stating you allegedly violated the Student Conduct Code visit The Conduct Hearing Process.
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Kevin Smith's gut is a terrorist
Clerks director Kevin Smith was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight Saturday night after a flight attendant essentially deemed him too fat to fly. The airline has a policy about not allowing passengers on who can't put both armrests down which they used as a benchmark for their decision. The incident turned into a PR nightmare shortly afterward when they allowed Kevin to catch another flight which proved he wasn't a flight risk and they basically embarrassed him in front of plane full of passengers for no reason.
If you've gone within ten feet of the Internet in the past 24 hours, you've probably been bombarded in the face with Kevin Smith's non-stop documenting of the incident where he's been kicking Southwest in the plane testicles. Obviously the airline picked the wrong fatty to kick off for sport – Whatever gets you through the day, that's my philosophy. – but in hindsight, you'd think they'd want more fat people on board in case the plane went down. A.) Blubber is filling, no questions there and B.) if Lost has taught us anything, it's that the heavy-set are hilarious and have magic powers. Back me up, rotund gentleman I paid to sit next to me and cover himself in butter. Hey, look, he's wheezing. Will that summon the dragon?


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BizTalk 2006 deftly connects enterprise apps
Boasting across-the-board improvements, BizTalk 2006 carries on product line's rich EAI heritage
Suppose you're the new CIO at an enterprise-scale company that has "islands of automation" for accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory control, sales, support, and HR, and your goal is to integrate all business processes.
Make the nightmare more realistic: Your 35 major suppliers use a variety of ordering and billing systems, hosted on every operating system and database that has been in use for the past 10 years. They don't even all use the same data exchange standards. Cap that all off with a mini-rebellion by your independent customer representatives, who have started to use Salesforce.com for customer relations.
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What to do?
If you have your IT department build custom point-to-point connectors for every current pair of internal and external systems that needs to be integrated, it might be finished sometime in the next decade -- and by then most of the end points will have changed. What you need is some kind of hub-and-spoke or bus architecture to make the tangled problem manageable.
BizTalk acts as a hub to connect many different systems through a central XML-based messaging and orchestration engine. Through the use of adapters, messages can be connected to the various systems, represented as different shapes below the Messaging box. BizTalk 2006 ships with about 23 (see "Highly Adaptable" infographic). Additional adapters -- for Salesforce.com, for example -- can be purchased from Microsoft ISVs.
BizTalk acts as a hub to connect many different systems through a central XML-based messaging and orchestration engine. Through the use of adapters, messages can be connected to the various systems, represented as different shapes below the Messaging box. BizTalk 2006 ships with about 23 (see "Highly Adaptable" infographic). Additional adapters -- for Salesforce.com, for example -- can be purchased from Microsoft ISVs.
BizTalk has functionality for many different roles. Developers build BizTalk applications in Visual Studio 2005, consisting of a number of artifacts, including XML schemas, mappings, orchestrations, pipelines, and business rules. IT professionals deploy, configure, and monitor BizTalk applications using the BizTalk Server Administration Console, and possibly Microsoft Operations Manager. Business users can view business activity through a customizable Web dashboard or through an Excel add-in.
The bundling of BizTalk artifacts into deployable applications is one of the major improvements in BizTalk 2006 over BizTalk 2004. Others include significantly easier installations and upgrades, a management console for IT, the aforementioned business dashboard, and integration with SharePoint. BizTalk 2006 ships with a much enlarged suite of adapters, including adapters for many line-of-business applications. It also takes full advantage of 64-bit processors, and it leverages the improved performance of SQL Server 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 over their predecessors.
Get down to bizness
Developers who struggled with installation of BizTalk 2004 will appreciate how far it's come. In one afternoon, I was able to install BizTalk 2006 from a DVD onto my 3.2GHz Pentium 4 computer with 1GB of RAM, already running Windows XP SP2, Visual Studio 2005, Internet Information Server (IIS), and SQL Server 2005. During most of that time, the BizTalk installer ran automatically, while I worked on a different computer.
BizTalk's graphical tools for developers make quick work of many of the routine tasks for connecting systems. The Mapper, for example, allows you to draw lines to connect related variables in the source and destination message schemas, and the Orchestration Designer allows you to drag shapes from the Orchestrations toolbox onto a design surface and then configure the properties of each shape. There are times you do have to write code, but it is often a simple relational expression.
Many of the configuration decisions will be transparent to developers. You do need to know whether an end point is a database, flat file, Web service, or line-of-business application, but not the exact URL or location of the production end point; that can be configured at deployment time by an IT professional using the 2006 Administration Console and then modified when external conditions change.
Developers also don't need to know whether a BizTalk application will run on a single computer along with its SQL Server message store or be deployed to a separate cluster. An IT professional can independently design and modify the deployment details later based on the application monitoring information.
In many organizations, business analysts determine much of the logic of an integration project. Analysts are often uncomfortable writing code in any programming language, or even running a development tool such as Visual Studio. BizTalk addresses this audience with a stand-alone Business Rule Composer and a downloadable Orchestration Designer for Business Analysts that acts as a Visio plug-in.
Something for everyone
The BizTalk 2006 Administration Console makes life relatively easy for IT pros responsible for BizTalk monitoring and deployment. By right-clicking on an application, you can start it; stop it; delete it; configure it; import another application or set of bindings; export this application, its policies, or its bindings; and add assemblies, scripts, resources, policies, or references. I was impressed with its ability to import and export whole applications packaged as unified MSI files. The Group Hub view gives you a high-level overview of all your applications and allows you to drill down to any items of interest.
Many business processes require human intervention; the classic example is purchase-order approval. BizTalk's Human Workflow Services (HWS) is implemented using Web services that can be used by many clients, including ASP.Net Web sites, Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and InfoPath. It essentially offers a way to create BizTalk workflows for approvals and rejections by authorized parties. Developers can include HWS workflows by connecting the human actions to send and receive ports in their orchestrations.
The BizTalk 2006 component for business users is called BAM (Business Activity Monitoring). From the business user's point of view, this is most often a customizable Web portal or Excel dashboard. These are just the two out-of-the-box presentation layers for what is a quite complicated and capable component.
BizTalk 2006 offers amazing scalability, which will make enterprise IT departments very happy. You can scale out by adding more systems to run BizTalk components and/or SQL Server components, or you can scale up by running components on multi-way servers. BizTalk 2006 can take advantage of 64-bit processors, offering a major speed improvement over BizTalk 2004. The components can also be clustered and the network load balanced.
Security is a major issue for b-to-b e-commerce. BizTalk 2006 supports message sender authentication by certificate or Windows security, as well as message receiver authorization. BizTalk can encrypt messages using encoding components such as S/MIME and a certificate store.
Several of the WS* standards support security. BizTalk Server 2006 natively supports only the WS-I Basic profile stack, but the WSE (Web Services Enhancements) 2.0 adapter adds WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, WS-SecurityPolicy, and WS-Policy support. This allows a developer to connect secure Web services to BizTalk with moderate effort. When Windows Communication Foundation is released next year, along with the BizTalk adapter to support it, the effort required to create secure Web service connections will drop significantly.
The core BizTalk 2006 product supports the EDI standard for b-to-b connections. BizTalk "accelerators" available at additional cost support GDS (Global Data Systems), HIPAA, RosettaNet, HL7 (Health Level 7), and SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), which apply to manufacturing, health care, supply chain, patient information, and financial information, respectively.
Choose wisely
Competitors to BizTalk include Bostech ChainBuilder, Contivo VMS, IBM WebSphere MQ, Iona Artix ESB, Magic Software iBolt Business Integration Suite, SeeBeyond eGate Integrator, Tibco BusinessWorks, webMethods Fabric, various products from iWay Software, and CastIron Systems integration appliances.
It would be difficult to compare the BizTalk Enterprise and Standard Editions to all of these products; as a first step, however, an evaluator might want to make a list of the company's internal and external end-point applications for integration and see whether all of the applications can be connected to each integration product under consideration.
If the integration product passed that step, the second step might be to price out the configuration, including all the necessary adapters and the cost of the needed server infrastructure.
A third step would be to evaluate the capabilities of the remaining candidates in depth from the viewpoints of the developers, analysts, administrators, and business users of the system.
BizTalk Server 2006 is a huge product, and I have only hit the high points of describing its capabilities. It appears to be much improved from BizTalk 2004. The updated product has more capability, better tools, better scalability, better security, better value, and cleaner deployment. Enterprises that support Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000/2005 in their server infrastructure and have developers familiar with Visual Studio 2005 would do well to consider BizTalk as the centerpiece of their EAI and b-to-b e-commerce solutions.
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might just get myself an iPad 3, if those rumors are true though!
To be honest I'm extremely happy with my iPad 2. I use it in college to write all my classes and it works really great, also 720p video looks nice in it's screen, audio is just as good, I don't think I need it to be improved at all. I barely ever use it's camera since I prefer to use my iPhone's camera. iPad 2 is still pretty hot.
What is unfortunate about that?! The iPad 2's design is great. If only the iPhone and iPod Touch had that lovely matte aluminium back . . .Unfortunately, Apple seems to agree that the iPad 2 is a hit and they might not intend to change that design for the iPad 3.
iPad 2 design with a retina display and iPhone quality cameras? Hello my first tablet!
Do you really want a thinner ipad?
I wouldnt mind if the hardware was way better with ipad 1 design.
Cameras still ofcourse.
how bout a basic FM tuner?
I am very happy with my iPad 2, I just got it recently but still even if I didn't I would need something more than resolution and camera to upgrade. Someone mentioned basic fm tuner, that would be a cool feature.
I don't think I'll ever get an iPad since my iPhone is enough for me, but having a retina display on a screen that size would definitely look great!
I also think that everyone is still a little disappointed about the iPhone not getting a redesign, so if the iPad 3 doesn't get one, I think most iPad 2 users will stick with their iPad 2.


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A weeklong celebration of peace begins at 5 p.m. today as residents and community leaders march through Central Long Beach neighborhoods for the sixth annual Peace March at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 1950 Lemon Ave.
Each year the annual candlelight march helps to spread the vibration of peace throughout Long Beach, said 6th District Councilman Dee Andrews.
"This Peace March provides the community an opportunity to stand united. Walking together, we represent peace, love, and understanding, which is the true meaning of community," he said. "I hope to see all the churches, families, schools and community organizations at the march."
As part of Peace Week, six Peace Maker Award recipients have been selected and will be honored Tuesday during the Long Beach City Council meeting. The award recognizes the legacy of King.
The honorees were chosen based upon their background of volunteering in the community and promoting messages of community engagement, nonviolence and unity, event organizers said.
The 2013 honorees are:
Youth honoree - Christopher Covington;
Community female honoree - Nina Allison;
Community male honoree - Logan Baughman;
Community organization honoree - the Wrigley Area Neighborhood Alliance
Corporation honoree - Steve Goodling from the Long Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau; and
Corporate Spirit Award honoree - Alejandro S. Angulo from Rutan & Tucker, LLP.
Activities celebrating peace continue throughout the week and will include:
Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.: Community groups and neighbors cleaning up along the parade route area beginning at McBride Park, 1550 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.
Saturday, 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.: The Gift - Local residents receive free gifts, which include food, clothing, services and accessories at Washington Middle School, 1450 Cedar Ave.
Saturday, 3-5 p.m: Peace Fest - In honor of global peacemakers King, Ghandi, Ikeda and Chavez, the Peace Fest celebrates with music, arts and crafts, local vendors, and neighborhood organizations at Peace Garden, DHHS Central Facilities Center, 1133 Rhea St.
Sunday: Personal Reflections - all places of worship in Long Beach are encouraged to participate in recognition of King's legacy in the form of their choice to help promote the dialogue and reflection of King's message in the community.
Monday, 6 p.m.: Dance For Peace - an evening of dance and art in motion with special performances from local Long Beach artist at Manazar Gamboa Community Theater, Homeland Cultural Center 1323 Gundry Ave.
Tuesday, 4 p.m.: Martin Luther King Jr. Presentation and Peace Maker Awards - recognition of local community leaders who have continued the message of peace, Long Beach City Council Meeting, City Hall, 333 W. Ocean Blvd.
Wednesday, 6-8 p.m.: Vision of Peace - an evening of poetry and short story readings from the Vision of Peace Project at Martin Luther King Park, 1950 Lemon Ave.
Thursday, 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.: A Day in the Life with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - a panel of community members who have been in contact, connected and interacted with King will share their personal stories at Martin Luther King Park, 1950 Lemon Ave.
Jan. 19, 10:30 a.m.: 25th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Peace & Unity Parade Celebration.
Free parking will be available for the Peace March and the parade at Long Beach City College. For more information on Peace Week activities, call 562-570-6816 or go to www.longbeach.gov/district 6.
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This article was published 8/3/2013 (1627 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
She wondered if I would remember her.
Of course, I did.
How could I forget Krystal Simpson and the story I'd written more than a decade ago about the Sisters of Hope, as I like to call them?
Obviously, she hadn't forgotten me, either.
"I just recently heard you were battling colon cancer," Krystal wrote in an email sent in mid-January, "and I wanted to first tell you our thoughts and prayers are with you."
She also wanted to tell me something else. She wanted to share what had happened in the 11 years since I had first written about Krystal, Tara and Nicole Stratton, as they were all known before being married.
In 2002, the column, and the cautionary tale that went with it, made front page news. It told of how the youngest sister, Nicole, had seen four physicians over two years, all of whom assured her the ever-growing lump on her breast was "nothing." Ultimately, Nicole would be diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer, and tell other women who find lumps on their breasts to never take "nothing" for a doctor's answer.
Nicole was only 29 back then.
What made it all the more heart-wrenching was the emotional whiplash of Nicole's biopsy results arriving on the same day in May that her daughter, Kate, was born. That and the sisters' story of being orphaned as youung adults after their mother, Audrey, died of colon cancer in 1987 and their doctor dad, the highly respected dermatologist Tim Stratton, had a fatal heart attack in 1994.
Nicole was only 13 when her mom died and it would be largely left to Tara and Krystal to act as the mother they all still needed, but no longer had.
Which brings us to the rest of the story, the update Krystal shared in her email.
As it turned out, a year after Nicole was diagnosed, Tara was also diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer and underwent the same six gruelling rounds of chemotherapy, plus 30 radiation treatments.
"The cancer treatments left them weak, vulnerable and scared," Krystal recalled, "and I watched in awe as they fought their way back to life and helped them celebrate each year that passed cancer-free."
Then it happened again.
Just days before her 37th birthday, Krystal received the same diagnosis.
Three sisters, three Stage 3 breast cancer diagnoses, three identical regimes of treatment.
And through it all, the sisters were there to support each other, just as they had been when they lost their parents.
As it turned out, that experience of being there for her two sisters was especially important for the middle sister, the last to be diagnosed.
Krystal said there were times, during the fifth round of chemo, when her self-confidence began to disappear like her hair, she wondered if dying would be easier than what she was going through. But her calm and reassuring sisters gave her the strength she didn't think she had.
"Just knowing they got through it helped me," Krystal said last weekend, when we all gathered at Nicole's North Kildonan home.
The sisters are all in their early- to mid-40s now. Nicole has been cancer-free for almost 11 years, Tara nearly 10 and Krystal just passed the six-year mark.
"The fact that we're all still here," Krystal said, "fills us with gratitude every day."
"You cling on to the hope," Tara said, "and that's what carries you through."
And women in general have reason to be hopeful when it comes to surviving breast cancer, because while the number of cases has increased since the 1980s, the death rate has declined. The five-year survival rate was 88 per cent between 2004 and 2006, according to the Canadian Cancer Society.
For Tara, Krystal and Nicole, that kind of hope extends to more than themselves, of course.
Tara doesn't have children, but Nicole has Kate, the baby born when Nicole was diagnosed, and Krystal has two more daughters and is pregnant with a third, which she considers a miracle, given the chemo treatments she endured.
I asked Krystal if they had selected a name for her, and when she said no, I offered the word that Tara has tattooed on the back of her neck: "Hope."
Krystal smiled.
We all smiled.
Funny how one word tends to do that for cancer survivors, like the Sisters of Hope.
And me.


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NFC flaw allows easy hacking of Android and Nokia phones
13 Comments
1. Lucas777 (Posts: 2137; Member since: 06 Jan 2011)
hmm.. one seemingly easy solution would be to enforce user permission as an option… that way users would have to check the screen and agree to anything nfc-related. it would not be as ideally easy, but it would solve the all-access problem
3. cptbeatstix (Posts: 101; Member since: 19 Jul 2012)
Even then, you still only have a password guarded connection. Encryption would be awesome, but would limit the capabilities of NFC to where it would be pointless to have it. New tech is always going to have flaws.
2. cptbeatstix (Posts: 101; Member since: 19 Jul 2012)
This really isn't too major of an issue seeing that distance is the biggest issue. On top of that the NFC would have to be on and I'm willing to bet (for right now) most people won't even be using NFC for a while until more support for it comes later on.
11. nadar.bsm (Posts: 32; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
u r right... most people dont use NFC... but majority of users dont even know what NFC is.. this is where problem arise... as they dont know what it is.. NFC is turned on(by default on Android) & can be accessed by hackers..... more users know about the TECH the tight the security of the device can be obtained......
4. tedkord (Posts: 14132; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Fortunately, I keep NFC disabled, just like S-voice.
5. Veigald (Posts: 290; Member since: 13 Jan 2012)
Some click-baiting headline... android and "Nokia" phones, when in fact it is one model only, which even has the functionality off as default. And Android is an OS, Nokia a manufacturer, so combining them makes no sense.
Please change this headline to "Android and MeeGo phones" and make better headlines in the future...
6. Dunknown (Posts: 84; Member since: 23 Jul 2012)
It is a bit dangerous once more and more people used NFC as a Credit or Debit Card. Hope Nokia could strengthen the security and introduce the NFC payments. This will attract those busy people. At the same time Nokia can venture through the hardship like what it has happen now.
7. ChafedBanana (Posts: 394; Member since: 20 Sep 2011)
So then keep NFC turned off.
8. Samsomesh (Posts: 195; Member since: 11 Jun 2012)
Yeah.. keep it off.!
9. Jimstar (Posts: 259; Member since: 24 Oct 2011)
1 of the 3 reasons I don't really care about NFC yet
10. moronman66 (Posts: 162; Member since: 09 Jan 2012)
This makes me think perhaps NFC isn't quite as good as I once thought it to be... Well, I'll keep my GNex's NFC turned off until I need to use Wallet then, excellent heads up!
12. khiko (Posts: 8; Member since: 07 Apr 2012)
hacking and malware? that's android. lol.. 1.. 2..3.. android fans? attack!
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text: According to family records, Jay served in the army as an orderly at Bellevue Hospital in New York during the Civil War. When the war was over, he enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City, and graduated in 1866, as a physician. He then practiced medicine in the upstate New York community of Hemlock Lake in Livingston County. He was very involved in the county medical society, as an officer and participant in their efforts to eradicate "quackery" and bring modern medical practice to this area of the country.


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South African health spas also include several mineral spas located near natural hot springs.
Health and spa accommodation in South Africa is typically divided into three categories: stay spas, resort spas and dedicated health hydros. Stay spas are easily the most abundant of the South African health spas, as they're usually day spas contained within hospitality establishments that also offer the option of overnight accommodation.
The locale of these spas varies greatly, from hotels in the major cities to bush lodges, quaint country houses, intimate boutique hotels, river lodges and wine estates. City and suburban spas are usually contained with the establishment, while spas in more exotic locations tend to have separate – and even open-air, outdoor – treatment spaces. Try the Amani African Spa at the Radisson Blu in Sandton, Gauteng; Librisa Spa at the Mount Nelson in Cape Town, Western Cape; The Spa at the Oyster Box in Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal; and the Amani African Spa at Thornybush Game Lodge in Limpopo.
Resort spas offer more than just spa facilities and accommodation. As the name suggests, they're located in leisure resorts that generally offer a range of facilities and outdoor activities that can be combined with the wellness therapies on offer. So days are structured around treatments and steam, sauna, hot tub and swimming sessions, interspersed with nature walks, horse rides and hikes.
These spas are typically found on golf estates, in game reserves and in the mountain resorts. Try Pezula Resort Hotel and Spa in the Garden Route, Western Cape; The Cavern Resort and Spa in the Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal; Avalon Springs Hotel and Spa in Montagu, Western Cape; and Umngazi River Bungalows and Spa on the Wild Coast.
Health hydros differ slightly again in that they're generally full-service spas but with the added benefit of expert-run programmes designed to assist with specific lifestyle-related issues, such as weight loss, detoxification, stress and overall wellbeing. Top hydros include Hoogland Health Hydro in Gauteng; The Hydro in Stellenbsoch, Western Cape; and Fordoun Hotel and Spa in KwaZulu-Natal.
Health spa accommodation in South Africa ranges from simple rustic retreats to five-star luxury rooms and suites with private splash pools and open fireplaces.
Similarly, the list of treatments available at these spas is endless, from conventional massages and facials to new therapies incorporating cutting-edge technology. If you're looking for a real taste of Africa, try those health spas offering African treatments. These include traditional African massages and therapies that use products produced from local ingredients.


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ROBINS boss Alun Rossiter knows from experience the Elite League play-offs are still well within his side's reach despite their difficult start to season.
The Blunsdon club currently sit ninth in the table after seven meetings, with only two wins to their name, but have the chance to move up the table this evening when they host bottom club Birmingham.
The poor start to the campaign has led some fans to brand the Robins' season to be over already, but Rossiter passionately disagrees and used his 2010 title victory with Coventry as evidence for the post season still being a real possibility.
"I've been in this situation before when I was at Coventry and we came back into it, made the play-offs and then went on to win the league," Rossiter said.
"There are a few things that need tweaking but there is no magic wand, so people need to stay a little bit positive and understand the situation.
"So far we have raced against the teams who are favourites to win things this season, and have been to Lakeside twice, while other teams have gone against the sides lower down the table.
"I have full confidence in the team and, looking at the bigger picture the play-offs are certainly still within our reach."
Despite his confidence in his side, Rossiter knows there are issues which need to be sorted but is happy with how things are progressing.
"Simon is on a new engine this week which should really help and, with respect, Nicolai's average went down and Simon's has gone up," he said.
"I'm comfortable and happy with the decision to bring Dak (North) in and he's had spark and life about him. He will certainly get better.
"I'm positive and comfortable with the team."
Birmingham may have endured a rotten start to the season, with only one win to their name, but Rossiter isn't taking the Brummies lately.
"We will be treating Birmingham like we have any other side," he said.
"Yes, they have found things hard at the start of this season but when you start taking teams lightly, that's when they come back and bite you."


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text: Gauntlet Hair's self-titled debut is less a collection of individual songs than it is an endless loop of blissed-out reverb. The record is mired in shimmering harmonies and chamber-echo vocals that become less and less discernable with each listen. But that's sort of the point here, isn't it? The kids call it chillwave for a reason, and even though that term is debatable, there is something to be said for Gauntlet Hair's ability to just chill out. Like a ripple into a tidal wave, the album crests and then starts again, tracks washing into each other in impetuous crashes and quiet movements. The effect is calming, and emphatically so. There's a tranquility in all the din, a natural cadence to the unnatural synthesized rhythms. The standout tracks "Keep Time" and "Lights Out" make good use of clattering basslines and handclap tempos. Both thunder on, then noisily fade out, an almost-homage to the shoegaze school of thought. But the record's real appeal is its hypnotic dance from one track to another. The worst of it? It's a mess of over-processed noise that sounds like one really long song. Incidentally, that's also what makes it such a layered, interesting listen.


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My farther was injured in the Pacific when a motor round landed next to him. It Blew off the top of his head and riddeld his back with shrapnel. They took him back to the med station close to the battle line and tended to him but did not think he would survie. 1 week later he was still hanging on then they sent him furhter back to the medical hospital where they treated him and shiped him on back to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC. Their he was one of the first to recieve a metal cap and a cadavers scalp. They couldnt remove all the shrapnal so he had alot of pain in his back the rest of his life. He spent a year in recovery at Walter Reed and was a successful recovery patient.
He made SSG twice and was busted down to PVT Twice. He was demoted for striking an officer in the face and laying him out. I never was told why he striked the officer in the face, being a daughter he didnt go into details.
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NICK Morris will begin the season in the Premier League after being re-signed by Somerset today.
The young Australian looked set to miss out on second tier racing after the Rebels let him go earlier in the winter to accommodate Brady Kurtz' average, but the Oak Tree Arena side have now released Ty Proctor in favour of bringing a member of last season's league winning team back into the team.
Robins boss Alun Rossiter was always confident Morris would be fixed up with a Premier League spot sooner rather than later, but didn't expect it to happen quite so quickly.
"It's great news for Nick because riding in both leagues and having time on the bike is crucial for his development," he said.
"I always said to him he would be sorted out soon enough but I didn't really expect it to happen quite so quickly.
"Somerset is just down the road and there's a great set-up there so it should all work out well."
Unlike in previous years, the Robins will now have first call on Morris' services when the two sides have fixture clashes.


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ABOVE my desk hangs an engraving that portrays wives and mothers waiting for news at the mouth of the Llanerch colliery, after the explosion deep underground there on 6th February 1890.
That day, my grandfather was off work, and was therefore most likely saved by his illness from joining the 176 men and boys who lost their lives.
He used to tell me of the miners and other working people who rushed to the area to help, of the coffins stacked in his living room in the dreadful days that followed, and of his return to the coalface less than a fortnight later.
The picture reminds me of the enormous debt of gratitude that I owe to my grandfather and father. It was at their insistence that I had a decent education and forged a life free from the daily pain, suffering and loss that they endured underground. It is in their honour that the proud mining heritage of our valleys must not be forgotten.
At the site in Abersychan, a modest plaque pays tribute to the dead. It can be viewed as part of the attractive Blaensychan storywalk. But I can't help thinking that a fuller narration of the tragedy and tribute to its survivors is needed, given the monumental shadow the tragedy cast over the Eastern Valley.
Other families in our area will have similar stories to tell of loss to accidents at work, in the mines, iron and steelworks and factories of our valleys. Many will be a lot sadder than mine. These are stories of our heritage that should be told to our younger people, so that they recognize that we have a proud history of strength and of community spirit - something that no "constructed reality" programme from MTV could ever subvert.
The grounds of St. Peter's Church in Blaenavon, which are being renovated by an inspiring team of local volunteers, also contain signs of the bravery and loss of our people - from the seven war graves on the site to the headstone I noticed of a young man killed in an accident at Big Pit.
That there are people willing to do this renovation work is again evidence of a spirit of community-minded selflessness and generosity in our valley. That there are signs of such loss should once more remind us of our heritage, but also about how far we have come since mothers, wives, sons and daughters sent their men off to work fearing that they may not return. In an age where "health and safety" has become something we sometimes scoff at, that is worth remembering.


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Chefs' Secrets: Lincoln and Lee Pudding
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Dear Pat: In the early 1960s, I worked at J.T. Brackenridge Elementary School, where they served a pudding named Robert E. Lee. The cafeteria manager gave me the recipe and I frequently prepared this pudding for my children. After they grew up and left home, I stopped making the pudding.
I don't remember too much about the pudding other than it was divine. I recently received a call from my daughter Loretta Porter who lives in Dallas asking for the recipe. I looked and looked for it but never found it. Do you think you can locate Robert E. Lee, pudding that is? Thank you.
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Dear Carmen: We contacted the nice folks at the San Antonio Independent School District, and with the help of Rosie San Miguel of the Food and Child Nutrition Services, found our way to Rosie Guerra, who has been with the San Antonio Food and Nutrition Department for 38 years. She recalls that the pudding was called "Lincoln and Lee" rather than Robert E. Lee. Guerra's original recipe is in storage, but she says that the following recipe, adapted from two online recipes at cooks.com and theeasyrecipe.com, "should produce a comparable product."
That said, Guerra notes that these recipes are "not in compliance with the USDA nutritional guidelines we now follow." No doubt, the pudding contains more sugar than current guidelines suggest, but a small serving is most satisfying. To my palate, the pudding cries out for a scoop of vanilla ice cream, or at the very least, a tall, cold glass of milk.
A caramel syrup is prepared and poured into the baking pan. Next, a dumpling-like batter is made, quickly, by hand, and dropped by spoonfuls onto the syrup. As it cooks, some of the syrup soaks into the pudding, melding the two components.
I tried to uncover a bit of history on the pudding, hoping to find that the troops in the Civil War had enjoyed this treat, or at least why Abraham Lincoln's and Lee's names are attached to it, but to no avail. The list of rations for the soldiers does include the biscuits called hard tack, sugar, salt, dried fruits (for Union troops), and molasses (for the Confederate army), so we could imagine a fusion pudding of sorts similar to this one.
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I bought a truckload of seasoned oak this morning for my smoker. Some of it was moldy. I intend to cut away the bark and most of the moldy sections. Will a little mold on some of my wood cause any problems with my food?
A great deal of it may burn off in the chimney starter anyway.
I can't wait to try my first run with all hardwood smoke.


text: Im 6 foot tall 167 shooting to weigh 175 pounds. I live in oahu and surf white plains on all days i surf 5-7 days a week and i plain to start surfing diamond head soon. im currently riding a 6'6 northern alliance plasma cutter will attach a picture if needed. Im looking at either a pod dumpster diver or neck beard. Im looking for a smaller board open to boards othere than the ones im looking at i do prefer quad fin though. I am a better tha average paddler according to my freinds. and i would rand my self inbetween novice and intermidiate i can catch waves i can turn and im getting to learn the ocean fairly well. Im looking for a board i can ride both spots but i mostly surf white plains and i go no matter the conditions. any suggestions and sorry i ramble.


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Dear Carolyn • I've been thinking of asking my girlfriend to marry me, after several years of happy and fulfilled dating. The other day, for the first time, my girlfriend expressed that she really didn't like that I work at home. I freelance and really love it. She said she couldn't understand the perspective of someone who didn't go in to an office every day and who didn't have to bear the burden of working under a boss. She made it clear that she wouldn't care if I made less money, only that I had somewhere to go in the morning and that I wasn't my own boss. She then compared me to her former boyfriends, who apparently had more "grit" and who had to work for a paycheck. As someone who works at least 50 hours a week, I am really bothered by the idea that I'm somehow deficient, especially since I'm doing the work I want to be doing and fulfilling a unique career niche. Her lack of respect for what I do has made me reconsider whether I want to marry her. I definitely feel insulted and misunderstood; is it the sort of thing that can be talked out, or is career disrespect a deal-breaker?
Dear Confused • Lunkheadedness sure is, or at least ought to be, and that underlies her lack of respect. Undercuts its importance, too: Truly, she'd prefer that you demote yourself because she loves a man with a big commute? The value of her respect is in free-fall. Still, those "several years" say she deserves a carefully if skeptically offered chance. Tell her you're grateful she said this out loud, since you should be; just imagine if she kept harboring these doubts in silence. Then, spell out your confusion. "I'm struggling to understand. You would like me better if I ended my successful career and took any new job, as long as I had to leave home, work for somebody else and experience the discomfort of these two things?" Also look hard into your past few years together for context. Do this because, depending on her response, you might have nothing left to say to her but this: "I can't date someone who would ask me to change my fulfilling life just to meet her arbitrary standards of manhood."


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There's a dirty little secret in the computer security world that makes the dream of least-privilege access control very hard to attain: It's often literally impossible to determine who has what level of access to which objects.
How so? The access privileges granted to a person or any other security subject -- such as another computer, service, daemon, and so on -- are determined by the permissions configured on each individual computer and each individual object, such as file, folder, registry key, memory area, and more. Both can be difficult to check, but the latter is much more difficult, thanks to scale.
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Your basic access-control model
Overall access policies are defined for every computer. These include the types of access that are allowed, either for all users or specific sets of users. In Windows, more than a dozen different types of general access can be defined: logging on locally, using RDP, over the network, anonymously.
After access has been granted, the objects a user can view, read, delete, or modify are controlled by the individual permissions stored along with each object. In Windows, these permissions are called access-control entries, and the collection of all access-control entries is called an access-control list.
When the user attempts to access a particular object, Windows first checks to see if the user is allowed to access the computer via the method employed, whether local, network, or otherwise. Then it compares the access-control list's set of permissions to the access requested. If they match, the user is allowed to access the object.
That's the local machine. When the user requests write access to a particular file on a remote computer over the network, the user's "security token" -- holding his or her authenticated identity and group memberships -- is passed to the remote operating system along with the user's desired access request. A security mechanism in the remote operating system then queries the file's access-control list. The access-control list defines what users and groups are allowed to work with the object and with what permissions (read, write, and so on).
Let's say the user account is allowed read access only, but the user belongs to a group that is allowed write access. In most modern operating systems, that group membership would enable the user to write to the file. This is a pretty straightforward process -- or so it seems.
Who can do what
Now suppose a company wants to know all about a particular user's access privileges. Unless that has been meticulously documented, every computer system and every object on every computer system in the environment must be queried to generate an accurate list.
Now repeat this process for every user and computer within your environment. Even if you limit queries to important computers and important files, you can easily end up with hundreds of billions of individual queries and answers, even in a small-to-midsize business.
To obtain accurate results, the query must match the user and the groups they belong to against the object's allowed users and group memberships -- and understand how nested groups impact the answer. It's not unusual for a single user to belong to dozens or even hundreds of groups, and no small percentage of those groups are typically members of other groups. I've seen a user account that apparently belonged to 10 groups, but after taking nesting into account, the user actually belonged to more than 100 groups.
When an access-control query comparison is made, the querying tool must first build a master list of all the groups the person belongs to, including nested groups. This is no small task, since most companies I deal with have more groups than users. The real world is far messier.


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THE soldier who died at Tern Hill Barracks in Shropshire at the weekend was this afternoon named as Corporal Geoffrey McNeill.
Corporal Geoffrey McNeill of the Royal Irish Regiment was found dead in a building at Clive Barracks shortly after 9am on Saturday (8 March).
The 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment helped in the recent flood relief operation, including running the shuttle bus service in Upton.
A 23-year-old serving soldier from the barracks has been arrested on suspicion of murder by West Mercia Police.
Corporal McNeill, aged 32, was not married.
One of his three brothers, Jason McNeill, speaking on behalf of the family, paid this tribute to him: "Geoff was born in Ballymoney, Northern Ireland and dedicated his life to the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. He served his country with the highest degree of honour and dedication.
"He was a much loved son, brother, uncle and friend and touched the lives of all who had the pleasure of meeting him.
"The family would like to give thanks for the continued support of the army, police and all who knew and loved Geoff. Our love for him remains as strong as ever. Rest in peace soldier. Faugh-a-Ballagh."


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New York, NY, October 24, 2011 – Shoplet.com, one of the leading online office/business product suppliers and champion of the consumer, small, and medium-sized business, has partnered with Avery Dennison's Office and Consumer Products Group to offer its growing online customer base a full line of Avery® products – from Avery mailing labels, to binders, to organizing systems, to sheet protectors. Shoplet.com is known for its product selection, for competitive pricing, and for providing the highest level of customer service.
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I've taken a little break from the kitchen to take some photos of the pretty flowers I got for the weekend. I love having fresh flowers at home, especially on the weekend and these have a beautiful scent that is floating on to all corners of our home. The lush and sweet cherries were a perfect treat for the day too.
I also set up this temporary desk near the window. I have a bad habit of spreading my belongings all over our dining table so in attempt to keep it clear I set up this little desk just for myself. We live in a small unit so space is scarce - I used the deck of an old wooden trunk as a desk top and I'm temporarily resting it (steadily) on a small cabinet. I'm so excited to have my bits and pieces neatly organised in the cabinet and on the wire tray next to the desk. I have my little mood board set up too and I'm looking forward to filling the frame with some inspirational colours and patterns.
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CyberKnife is a robotic radiosurgery system commonly used for the treatment of cancerous and non-cancerous tumors in the brain or the base of the skull. It is also used in certain cases to treat cancers of the pancreas, liver, prostate and lungs. CyberKnife offers a non-invasive alternative to surgery. Without using scalpels or any cutting at all, the CyberKnife delivers beams of high dose radiation to tumors with pin-point precision. During treatment, image guidance software tracks movement of the patient and tumor to accommodate for adjustments and ensure patient comfort.


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With the nighttime temperature a chilly 16 degrees, those who attended a candlelight vigil for José Obeth Santiz Cruz were bundled up in coats, scarves, hats and gloves. They gathered in front of the Vermont Workers Center in Burlington, Vt., and then walked down Winooksi Avenue to a church.
They were there to honor the memory of a 20-year-old migrant worker who died Dec. 22 in an accident at a dairy farm.
There were 20 to 25 of them, mostly Anglo, which was rather ironic since the deceased worker was from Mexico. Many of his friends and relatives had been invited to attend the vigil, but none of them did out of fear of deportation or the fact that many of them had to work.
"Sadly, here in Vermont and throughout the United States, migrant farm workers cannot even gather as a community and mourn family members' deaths without fearing deportation," vigil organizer Brendan O'Neill told the group that night.
This incident illustrates what O'Neill and others are calling an "unjust, broken and oppressive U.S. immigration system." Fixing the system — maybe as early as this year — will prove beneficial not only to workers, but to the dairies that employ them.
Political realities
This is an election year, and matters of substance — especially controversial ones — usually don't get addressed in an election year.
But some people are optimistic that a pledge made by U.S. Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano will pan out. Speaking at the Center for American Progress on Nov. 13, Napolitano said immigration reform would be a priority of the Obama Administration in 2010.
"Over the past 10 months, we've worked to improve immigration enforcement and border security within the current legal framework. But the more work we do, the more it becomes clear that the laws themselves need to be reformed," she said.
She outlined a "three-legged stool" approach:
Tougher enforcement laws against illegal immigrants and the employers who hire them.
A streamlined system for legal immigration.
A tough and fair pathway to earned legal status.
But many observers are taking a wait-and-see attitude.
As of mid-January, Angelo Amador, director for immigration policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was pegging the chances of Congress passing meaningful immigration reform this year at 50-50.
"I think we will know in the next two to three weeks if there is something with a realistic chance of passing," he told Dairy Herd Management on Jan. 13.
Amador said he has been involved in discussions with U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), the two senators who are most likely to come out with a bipartisan bill. Besides the senators, he has been meeting with labor groups "to see if we can find some common ground or a compromise we can live with." Labor groups have been critical of the temporary and seasonal worker programs, such as H-2A for agricultural workers.
Amador says the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has no problem with labor safeguards or the concept of using American workers first. "We just want to be able to bring (immigrant) workers legally if you don't find enough American workers," he said.
Meaningful reform
O'Neill, who organized the candlelight vigil for Cruz, volunteers with the Vermont Workers Center and teaches English as a second language to migrant workers on dairy farms. He says he hopes the vigil would prompt a broader discussion of U.S. immigration policy. He said he would like to see immigration reform that "provides full human rights and dignity for workers."
O'Neill says he knows of workers who don't step off their employer's farm for a year at a time because they are afraid of being deported.
"It's just an inhumane system," he says. "Workers keep themselves hidden."
O'Neill says Cruz was one of the approximately 2,000 migrant farm workers who have come to work on Vermont dairy farms — farms, he says, which are in economic crisis and need the workers. Yet, despite these workers' contributions, they are forced to live and work "in the shadows" due to a broken and oppressive U.S. immigration system, he said.
Immigration raid
In November, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) audited five dairy farms in Vermont and asked them to provide records proving that their workers are legal. It was part of a national crackdown of 1,000 employers in various industries.
O'Neill doesn't work with any of these five dairy farms, but his colleagues have talked to him about some of the immigrant workers involved. Although ICE's action was an audit measure rather than a deportation measure, many of the workers at those farms saw the writing on the wall and left. They moved elsewhere in Vermont and tried to find work or they went home to Mexico, O'Neill says.
While some are opposed to these types of crackdowns, others applaud them.
Case-in-point: When two Mexicans were taken into custody following a traffic accident Jan. 5 in the "thumb" region of eastern Michigan, the local newspaper reported it and several readers offered their comments in a reader-comment section. Some were irate that a local dairy had hired these individuals and suggested that maybe authorities should go after the dairy owner, as well.
"The problem with this all lies with the employer of these illegals not getting charged with any crime," wrote one reader.
Another wrote, "I have heard that it is the Mexican workers that keep these big dairy operations viable. What's up with that? With the unemployment rate as high as it is in Huron County, I would think hiring local workers at these dairies would be easy."
But Tamar Jacoby, president of Immigration Works USA in Washington, D.C., would disagree with that assessment.
"The American workforce is actually changing quite rapidly," she says. In 1960, half of all American men dropped out of high school and wanted to do some type of unskilled physical labor, she adds. Today, less than 10 percent of American men want to do that. Yet, dairies, hotels, construction companies and other businesses still need that work done.
"It's much harder for dairies, hotels, construction companies to find Americans to do those jobs — not because we are lazy, but because we are becoming more educated and more urban," Jacoby adds.
Whether Congress addresses this dilemma in an election year is yet to be seen.


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Beyond Freedom and Dignity is a book-length essay written by American psychologist B. F. Skinner and first published in 1971. The book argued that entrenched belief in free will and the moral autonomy of the individual (which Skinner referred to as "dignity") hindered the prospect of building a happier and better organized society through the use of scientific techniques for modifying behavior.
Skinner's book joined the catalog of works which have called, always very controversially, for altering human nature through the use of scientific techniques. Skinner's proposal is somewhat unusual in that it advocates an approach based entirely on psychological techniques (primarily operant conditioning), without recourse to genetic or biological modification.
Beyond Freedom and Dignity followed Walden Two, a novel in which Skinner depicted a utopian community based on his ideas regarding behavior modification.
Linguist Noam Chomsky and writer Ayn Rand wrote influential works attacking Skinner's methods and conclusions.
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The latest round of answered questions for ESO are up at elderscrollsonline.com. Head here to learn about character creation and much more.
How many hairstyles does the character creator have for each race? What hair and eye colors are currently available? – Jeff Glover
There are currently 24 hairstyle choices per gender in the character creation system. Some of these choices are shared between races, but each race has some unique hairstyle options. Hair color and eye color are also specific to each race and align with established lore. For example, Wood Elves have an option for black eyes that is not available to any other race.


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Ilkley Grammar School held its own Question Time last week with two representatives from local politics.
John Grogan, Labour Party parliamentary candidate for Keighley and Ilkley and Kris Hopkins, Conservative MP for Keighley and Ilkley, joined the student chaired panel for some lively debate on both local and national topics.
The panel was kept in order by politics student Ed Saunders, who took on the role of David Dimbleby for the afternoon. Ed is in final year of sixth form and hopes to study politics at Aberystwyth University.
Jacqui Nicholl, head of economics and business studies, said: "We had a really wide selection of questions ranging from tuition fees and the bedroom tax to nuclear power and the European Union and UKIP. Our students certainly made the most of the opportunity to discuss politics with our guests."
A packed hall of sixth form students listened intently to the answers from the panel.
Ed Saunders, said: "It was a fantastic opportunity to chair a debate between the current Conservative MP and the Labour candidate.
"It was fascinating to hear both politicians responding to a wide range of questions from post-16 students and to see them interacting with a group of potential voters who they may not normally meet when canvassing."
Both Kris Hopkins and John Gorgan said they thoroughly enjoyed the event.
Mr Hopkins said: "I had a very enjoyable time and was particularly impressed by the quality of the questions from the floor, and the level of passion with which they were asked.
"It is really important that politicians seek to engage young people in the political process and give them the opportunity to challenge the decisions we make. We need to hear what we can do to improve their lives and shape their futures.
"I hope those pupils who came along found the event as useful as I did. Needless to say, I would also welcome the support of those eligible to vote come General Election day!"
John Grogan said: "Ilkley Grammar School has a long tradition of welcoming politicians from all parties into the school to debate and I was delighted to take part.
"I can only hope that events like this will encourage students to use their votes at next year's General Election, particularly as turnout nationally among 18 to 24 year olds was only 44 per cent in 2010. In fact this was the first opportunity for Kris Hopkins and I to debate with each other and I hope there will be other occasions over the next 12 months."


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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. –The Saint Leo University baseball team jumped up five spots to No. 23 in the latest Division II Baseball Rankings, according to NCAA.com and the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.
The Lions checked in to the rankings last week at No. 28 and following the 5-3 win at Albany State last Monday, the Lions were able to move up into this week's Top 25.
Off to the best start in nearly a decade, Saint Leo has been riding its starting pitching to win ball games. The Lions have a team ERA of 3.09—the lowest in the Sunshine State Conference. The offense has done its part as well though, leading the conference in hits, runs, doubles, triples, and total bases.
Charles Neely, Rick Teasley, and Brent Krauss have pitched the majority of the innings, but the Lions' bullpen has come up clutch when needed. Relief pitcher Adam Albers was last week's Sunshine State Conference Pitcher of the Week after notching two saves against West Alabama within a few hours of each other. Albers' three saves on the season is tied for the most in the conference. This week, Matthew Hewitt was named Pitcher of the Week after tossing six innings of no-run baseball against Albany State. Hewitt struck out seven and surrendered just three hits in the win.
The Lions have darted off to a 10-2 start and are currently riding a nine-game winning streak heading into tomorrow's regional showdown at No. 24 Florida Tech.
Live audio for tomorrow night's game will be available here.
For more information on the Saint Leo baseball team, be sure to 'like' us on Facebook!
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Senate Votes to Keep U.S. Out of UN Arms Trade Treaty
Written by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
In the pre-dawn hours Saturday, the Senate approved a measure "to uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty."
By a vote of 53-46, the Senate passed the amendment to the budget bill sponsored by Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.).
This reporter is in New York covering the negotiations at the UN aimed at drafting a treaty calling for the eradication of small arms trade, sale, and transfer by anyone other than UN-approved governments.
"We're negotiating a treaty that cedes our authority to have trade agreements with our allies in terms of trading arms," Inhofe before the vote on his amendment. "This is probably the last time this year that you'll be able to vote for your Second Amendment rights."
According to a story in The Hill, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) proposed his own amendment "that clarified that under current U.S. law, treaties don't trump the Constitution and that the United States should not agree to any arms treaty that violates the Second Amendment rights." Leahy's amendment also passed.
A resolution of similar intent sponsored by Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) is currently pending before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Moran's measure declares that it is the sense of Congress that:
the President should not sign the Arms Trade Treaty, and that, if he transmits the treaty with his signature to the Senate, the Senate should not ratify the Arms Trade Treaty; and
until the Arms Trade Treaty has been signed by the President, received the advice and consent of the Senate, and has been the subject of implementing legislation by Congress, no Federal funds should be appropriated or authorized to implement the Arms Trade Treaty, or any similar agreement, or to conduct activities relevant to the Arms Trade Treaty, or any similar agreement.
Representative Mike Kelly (R-Penn.) has offered a companion measure in the House.


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The specacular Jackie Talbott from Revision3 (twitter: jackietalbott) joins us in the studio today to chat about how girls like robots, but not nerds. We also recommend some other fine podcasts, talk about some of the new TV shows worth streaming, and discuss discovering new music with Songza's curated music lists. We also brielfy chat about Wreck-it Ralph, which is a pretty good movie.
Links from this week's episode:
- There are new TV shows! Try out the pilot of 1313 Mockingbird Lane, a reboot of the Munsters. You can catch it on Hulu. I know, the Munsters...but it's from Brian Fuller and Eddie Izzard is awesome as Grandpa. The CBS modern Sherlock Holmes show Elementary is quite good, too.
- Nate still doesn't like Avatar: the Last Airbender. We don't get it. He's just...wrong. That show is awesome.
- Did you know you get special discounts and goodies on Xbox Live now based on your gamerscore?
- If you want to know if you can stream anything, just check out canistream.it.
- Indie Game: The Movie is a fantastic and fascinating documentary, even if your'e not really into video games.
- Songza is Jackie's recommendation for discovering new music. It's all about curated music playlists to fit the time and mood.
- Somehow, Alex Wawro has not yet seen Amadeus. It only won 8 Oscars.
- Want to play a great puzzle game on iOS? Check out the charming Girls Like Robots.
- The Adult Swim app (iOS and Android) has loads of great video clips and episodes of all their content.
- Doodle God is available for almost all mobile platforms. You just mix and match thigns to make other things. It's more fun than it sounds.
- After listening to this fine podcast, check out Decode DC. It's a nonpartisan examination into the science and marketing and philosopy of politics. It's not political news, and it's fascinating.
Got something you want us to talk about, check out, or a guest you want us to try to book? Send us mail at email@example.com with the subject: Play This! podcast. Or, tweet at us @TechHive.
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Dorchester TOWN RESERVES 5
A LATE blitz saw Dorchester Town Reserves climb into second spot in the Wyvern Premier League.
The Testwood Stadium clash remained goalless with 20 minutes to go but once the Magpies got their noses in front, the floodgates opened and Robbie Taylor's youngsters ran out 5-0 winners.
Alex Andrews bagged the first before Alex Godfrey and Dan Way both hit doubles.
The reserve-team boss, whose side end their campaign at home to fourth-placed Gosport on Wednesday night (7.45pm), said: "It all happened in the last 20 minutes.
"The rest of the match was quite uneventful to be honest. We didn't create a lot of chances but we defended very well.
"We just seemed to fade when we pushed forward and we seemed to try and force it a little.
"There was also a lack of movement at times but the nicest thing about it was the patience we showed.
"We waited and waited and as soon as we got the first goal they caved in.
"Totton weren't a bad side, they had (ex-Magpie) Ryan Hill playing for them and two good forwards. But we coped with them.
"We were without Steve Walker and Lloyd Beals through suspension and we lost three lads to the first team, so we did have quite a few changes.
"But it doesn't really matter when we have players missing because the lads stepping in always do well. There is not a weak player in the squad."
Taylor added: "It's set up for quite a finish now and it'll be quite a battle in the last game on Wednesday.
"If we win we should hopefully finish second while the worst case scenario is that we finish fourth. Even then that wouldn't be a disaster.
"For me it's not important where we finish, it's just been so pleasing to see how much they have improved and grown since Christmas."
The only downside to Saturday's victory was an early injury to George Kimber.
Taylor said: "Unfortunately we lost George at the start after taking a nasty knock to the head.
"It wasn't a nasty challenge but he was sent to casualty and he had a brain scan. Thankfully he has been given the all-clear but it was a worry."
Magpies: Unsworth, Butcher, Brooks, S Buckler, M Buckler, Twyford, Gape (R Taylor 87), Way, Kimber (Vallier 2 (Turner 75)), Godfrey, Andrews.


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I come strapped...With the same gats from the Richmond trains
Niggas be coming from the hood but dont miss a thing
I'm coming from the pain like my bruh lil wayne
Imma tell you like this, niggas be dying for the fame, riding for the fame
I got my eye up on the game
Niggas seeing pass the bullshit but the night change
When the cops them came, your niggas fired at ya
You gon' retaliate or take it like a man?
You gotta stop the cycle its the personal plan
If you kill him...then he comin' for ya man
Ya best friend...circle of life becomes a square
Its unfair...when you ain't got that silver spoon
My neighborhood ain't safe...I was chillin' in the room
Til' I got my ass out and I see the days gloom
Daytime turned to noon...imma be home soon
There's a lot of blood and drugs in the streets
Mane I'm praying in my sleep just to stay close to me
Why do I feel like niggas switchin'?
I hold that chopper out the window like that Malcolm X picture
You niggas got me twisted...if you think this shits a game
Yall got me fucked...I play a dirty game
Love everybody...and no I won't complain
But when your talking licks bitch, don't speak my name
Because I'm the type of dude that'll bluise yo...
Sit yo ass on the...boy don't miss that train
I was dreaming of the top but...fuck it with the hassle
I hustle, tussle, and scrabble on the streets...
With lint in my pocket like a Pharaoh
Feeling like the scarecrow because the ____ walking past me
The dude in the hood asked me...why I'm so happy?
I told em'...I'm moving way past retaliation
I'm on another now I'm seeing life's faces
But I still load that (Shhh) up in them hearstes
And think before you move because most times it ain't worth it


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This article was published 18/1/2013 (1677 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
What with the lack, until now, of NHL hockey, Lance Armstrong admitting to being a big, fat liar and the continuing gloom and doom in the economy, we understand if you're a bit bummed out by the start of 2013.
Being The Weather Column That Cares, we would love to give you a reason to get out of bed, or, in other words, a tiny ray of light at the end of long, dark, bitterly cold tunnel.
But guess what we have coming down the pipe? If you guessed cold, snowy weather, you get a gold star. According to my buddy Dale Marciski at Environment Canada, a low-pressure system in northern Alberta is bringing us more snow -- about five centimetres this morning and another sprinkling on Sunday.
Today's forecast calls for snow in the morning, nasty northerly winds gusting up to 60 km/h early in the afternoon and a high of just -22 C, compared to the normal high of -13 C at this time of year.
The strong northerly winds, along with bringing some (bad word) Arctic temperatures, will whip up the fresh snow, reducing visibility and making highway driving 100 pounds of fun in a 50-pound bag.
On Sunday, look for another dusting of snow and a high of -23 C. By Sunday morning, a deep-freeze should settle on the area, bringing us lows in the -30 C zone for the rest of the week.
If you need another chilly reason to live, here it is: We have already had more snow this winter than last. As of Friday morning, the city had received 98 cm of snow this winter (from October 2012 to Jan. 18, 2013), compared to 43 cm in the same period last year and 81 cm in all of last winter (October 2011 to March 2012).
How shall we celebrate cementing our grip on icy weather? Off the top of my head, I'm thinking bagpipes. The Lord Selkirk Boys Pipe Band is holding a ceilidh (party) at 7 p.m. tonight at the Assiniboia Christian Centre, 3390 Portage Ave. Tickets are $15 for adults and $6 for kids ages 6-14. Call Karen at 204-895-9792 or email email@example.com .
If you don't feel the pipes calling, score tickets to SondheimFest 2013, a celebration of the biggest name in musical theatre. Passes are $80 at the MTC box office, 204-942-6537 or www.masterplaywrightfest.com .
I know you'll be watching the Jets hit the ice today, but for the sake of your future happiness, guys, walk down the aisle to the Wonderful Wedding Show at the convention centre this weekend. Yes, it means you'll have to spend several hours with your beloved eyeballing "wedding stuff," but it beats shovelling snow.


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COUNCIL chiefs have hailed a staggering fall in the number of smokers across Worcestershire - and have set their sights on bringing it down further.
Councillor Marcus Hart, the cabinet member for health, says the county should be proud of its record since the turn of the century.
The Conservative says 17.7 per cent of people in Worcestershire smoke at the moment - and back in 2002 it stood at 33 per cent.
He is now hanging future success on seeing it fall further, and believes despite budget pressures County Hall still has a key role to play.
"The council and its partners have recently agreed a tobacco control plan which aims to motivate and help young people to stop," he said.
"The figures do vary across Worcestershire but the most recent data I have shows that 17.7 per cent of adults smoke, compared to 19 per cent in England (as a whole).
"Over the past 10 years it's fallen steadily, smoking rates were 33 per cent in in Worcestershire 2002, that's a substantial drop over more than a decade."
Cllr Hart also says in some parts of the county where smoking is more prevalent, like the council ward of Warndon and Gorse Hill, 89 people have decided to kick the habit in the last year by accessing the stop smoking services.
Cllr Alan Amos, who represents that ward on the county council, said: "In low income areas the battle is not being won so easily."
The tobacco control plan, a national blueprint, calls for smoking rates of under 15s to be cut from 15 per cent to 12 per cent by 2015.
It also aims to slash pregnant smokers to 11 per cent, a fall of three per cent.
The county's current stop smoking service runs help clinics at various locations, including Worcestershire Royal Hospital and Evesham Community Hospital.
It is managed by the NHS, which says people who want to quit are four times more likely to do so after accessing the support.
To find out more about it call 0300 123 0619.


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Larry Hagman Dies At Age 81 [VIDEO]
Larry Hagman, the actor who played one of television's most iconic characters in J.R. Ewing, has died in a Dallas hospital at the age of 81.
Hagman died late Friday afternoon from complications related to his latest bout with cancer.
"Larry was back in his beloved Dallas, re-enacting the iconic role he loved most," the family says in a statement. "Larry's family and close friends had joined him in Dallas for the Thanksgiving holiday. When he passed, he was surrounded by loved ones. It was a peaceful passing, just as he had wished for. The family requests privacy at this time."
Dallas co-stars Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy were at his bedside when he died.Gray's agent told the the Sun of London "they had been friends for 35 years and they had worked together for many years, so obviously it is devastating."
"I can honestly say that we've lost not just a great actor, not just a television icon, but an element of pure Americana," I Dream of Jeannie co-star Barbara Eden said in her statement Friday night. "Goodbye, Larry. There was no one like you before and there will never be anyone like you again."
Linda Gray's agent, Jeffrey Lane, said the actress was at Mr. Hagman's bedside when he died, according to The Sun in London. He said another co-star, Patrick Duffy, was also present. "They had been friends for 35 years and they had worked together for many years, so obviously it is devastating," Mr. Lane told The Sun.
"Hagman in his role as J.R. was mythic, and as a human he was a hard-working ambassador for Dallas and the underdog.," Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said Friday night. "I had spent a couple of evenings with his recently, and he was working on his foundation, which he was focused on. And he always pitched in to help the city."
He had brought the oilman back to life in the TNT revival of Dallas which was seen not as a remake of the drama but rather a continuation of the series which focused on the sons of J.R. and brother Bobby. The show's second season is scheduled to begin airing in January.
Dallas peaked in popularity in 1981 when the entire country was gripped in the guessing game of "Who shot J.R?" after the previous season ended with a gunshot and J.R. on the floor. Hagman and the cast were sworn to secrecy and leaks were few in the pre-internet early 80s.
Hagman also played the role of Major Tony Nelson in the 60s sitcom I Dream Of Jeannie in which his character, an astronaut, uncorks a bottle containing genie Barbara Eden who comes to live with him in Florida. The show raised eyebrows at the time for how much of Eden's naval was seen on the show and the fact a single man lived with a single woman.
Hagman was diagnosed in 1992 with cirrhosis of the liver and acknowledged that he had drank heavily for years. In 1995, a malignant tumor was discovered on his liver and he underwent a transplant.
After his transplant, he became an advocate for organ donation and volunteered at a hospital to help frightened patients.
"I counsel, encourage, meet them when they come in for their operations, and after," he said in 1996. "I try to offer some solace, like 'Don't be afraid, it will be a little uncomfortable for a brief time, but you'll be OK.' "
He also was an anti-smoking activist who took part in "Great American Smoke-Out" campaigns.
Funeral plans were not immediately announced.
Hagman is survived by his wife, Maj Axelsson, and their two adult children, Heidi and Preston.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.


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Hamakua Heritage Corridor, Hawaii Island
Hamakua Heritage Corridor
- Name: Hamakua Heritage Corridor
- What: Scenic drive filled with gardens, waterfalls and small towns
- Where: Along the Hamakua Coast from Hilo to the Waipio Lookout
Take a memorable day trip along the Hamakua Coast and drive along sea cliffs, through lush valleys and tropical rainforests. The beautiful Hamakua Heritage Corridor drive begins in Hilo and ends at the Waipio Valley Lookout. Along the way you'll explore old plantation towns, see amazing waterfalls and discover scenic detours along the way.
Begin your journey just north of Hilo by veering off Hawaii Belt Road to take the four-mile Onomea Scenic Drive. This lush detour features moss-laden bridges, coastal views of Onomea Bay and the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden on the way. This renowned botanical garden features 2,000 species of tropical plants from around the world.
Travel further north and turn west onto Akaka Falls road to discover Akaka Falls State Park, home to Hawaii Island's most famous waterfall, the 442-foot Akaka Falls, and the 100-foot Kahuna Falls. Get back to the coast and drive north to the World Botanical Gardens. This jungle playground features more than 5,000 species of Hawaiian and tropical flora, a magnificent view of Maunakea and an overlook that reveals the lovely Umauma Falls, a triple-decker waterfall.
On the road again, steer carefully through the hairpin turns, then pull over at the scenic Laupahoehoe Point. This peaceful area was once devastated by the 1946 tsunami. Today, Laupahoehoe Point is still a beautiful lookout showcasing a rocky shoreline, tide pools and dramatic sea cliffs. Don't forget to stop off at the Laupahoehoe Train Museum, which honors the old Hawaii Consolidated Railway that hauled goods and passengers up and down the Hamakua Coast. Grab a bite to eat and have a picnic at Kalopa State Recreation Area, which offers great hiking through native forests.
Or save your appetite for the little town of Honokaa. Here you'll find a Saturday morning farmers market as well as an assortment of small restaurants and cafés including Tex's Drive Inn, a famous spot for malasadas. These Portuguese donuts are a local favorite and Tex's is one of the Hawaii Island's top spots to find them.
Reward yourself after a long journey at the Waipio Valley Lookout. One look and you'll see why this valley was so important to early Native Hawaiians. The stunning view reveals a lush landscape, waterfalls and a black sand beach surrounded by soaring valley walls. As a child, King Kamehameha I was hidden in this sacred place to protect him from a rival chief who wanted to prevent his rule. This unforgettable view is the perfect way to end your trip along the Hamakua Heritage Corridor.


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0496 Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Date: December 5, 2012 12:11:33 AM EST
Subject: Book Announcement: Shakespeare and the Shrew
Dear colleagues,
I am about as pleased as I ever have been about anything to let you know that my book Shakespeare and the Shrew: Performing the Defiant Female Voice is now in print, as part of Palgrave Macmillan's "Shakespeare Studies" series.
Here is the link to Palgrave's site:
I have identified twelve characters in Shakespeare's plays as being derived from the theatrical stock type, the 'shrew' (who is included and who omitted will most likely generate plenty of argument before we even delve into the content), and looked at both the text and how they have appeared in performances from around the last twenty years.
This is the dust jacket blurb:
Whenever Shakespeare wrote a 'shrew' into one of his plays he created a character who challenged ideas about acceptable behaviour for a woman. This is as true today as when the plays were first performed. A shrew is a woman who refuses to be quiet when she is told to be, who says things that people do not want to hear. She is constructed to alleviate male anxieties through ridicule, but like so many objects of comedy or derision, she is full of power because of her very ability to generate these anxieties. 'Shrew' is supposed to be an insult, but has often been used to describe women enacting behaviour that can be brave, clever, noble or just. This book marries an examination of Shakespeare's shrews in his plays with their history in recent performance, to investigate our own attitudes to hearing women with defiant voices.
Best regards,
Anna Kamaralli