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Saturday, November 5: News this morning that Rooney passed away last night. Below is post put up just before his final 60 Minutes appearance on October 2:
Andy Rooney delivered his final commentary Sunday night at the end of 60 Minutes and while the now 92-year old curmudgeon's pieces usually dealt with non-serious topics, he should be credited for being able to recognize, unlike many of his prominent peers, that the media are liberal – even conceding his own "liberal bias." He declared Dan Rather "transparently liberal" and quipped people in the news business "were almost evenly divided" in 2004 – "half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush."
Shortly after 9/11 in 2001, he embarrassed himself when he mocked President Bush over a common metaphor. "This is an enemy that thinks its harbors are safe, but they won't be safe forever," Bush asserted in a clip Rooney played and then ridiculed: "Well, not too smart either. Afghanistan is landlocked. It doesn't have a harbor." (video below)
Two weeks later he apologized, showing letters from viewers who made fun of him: "If you didn't know the meaning of 'safe harbor' you probably thought the 'underground railroad' had tracks"and "if he really thought Bush meant seaports, Andy must think 'wildlife preserves' are breakfast jams.'"
Video of a portion of that initial September 23, 2001 commentary on 60 Minutes followed by the entirety of the one from the October 7, 2001 60 Minutes (bonus, I let the recording keep running so you can get a bit of flavor of the time with Dan Rather promising "the voice and spirit of America still rings loud and clear" as he ran a clip from the rehearsal for the just-cancelled Emmy show):
Recognizing liberal media bias. Discussing Bernard Goldberg's book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, on CNN's Larry King Live, June 5, 2002:
I thought he [former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg] made some very good points. There is just no question that I, among others, have a liberal bias. I mean, I'm consistently liberal in my opinions. And I think some of the, I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now, he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too, but I think he should be more careful.
Rooney on the November 7, 2004 60 Minutes: "I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush."
When Dan Rather left CBS News, Rooney scolded him during a phone-in appearance on MSNBC's Imus in the Morning on June 22, 2006:
"My problem with Dan was always that you knew where he stood politically. And the fact that he stood on my side didn't have anything to do with it. I thought he was a bad representative of the liberal side because he was so obvious with his opinions. There were just little words he used when he was on the air that made it apparent to everyone that he was a liberal Democrat. And Cronkite, for instance, was just, had just the same liberal Democratic opinions as Dan had, but you would never know it. No one knew it during all the time Cronkite was on the air."
Then there are those days when he wasn't a very good prognosticator, insisting on the September 29, 1991 60 Minutes that the Soviet Union would soon come back together:
"Here is what the continental United States would look like without California, New York, Texas, and Florida. Well, it won't happen, of course. Every kid dreams about running away. But if they do, 99 percent of them decide it was a bad idea and come home. My bet is that in a few years half those Soviet states that left the Union will come home."
That reasoning may be explained by an op-ed, a couple of years earlier, in the June 26, 1989 New York Times defending communism:
"Communism got in with a bad crowd when it was young and never had a fair chance," Rooney wrote. According to Rooney, "the original communist philosophy may have been wrong, but they didn't plan it as a totalitarian system... Communist governments have been dominated by men, not Marxist ideals." Rooney explained that the "communist idea of creating a society in which everyone does his best for the good of everyone is appealing and fundamentally a more uplifting idea than capitalism."
Rooney conceded that "communism's only real weakness seems to be that it doesn't work," but Rooney had less kind words to say about capitalism: "It seems sad and sort of a spiritual defeat for us all that an economic system based on doing it for No. 1 is more successful than one based on a noble ideal." Unthreatened by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 threat, "We will bury you," Rooney confidently contended, "Mr. Khrushchev didn't mean anything more evil than that communism would be the winner over capitalism in the competition to do the best for the most people in the world." Besides, Rooney concluded, "They aren't burying us; we're burying them. But it's no reason to gloat."
Some of Rooney's liberal observations over the years:
Likes those who like Bill Clinton:
"I'm surprised at how polarized our country is in relation to President Clinton. A lot of people don't think he's done anything wrong, or if he has that it's anyone's business but his own. And then there are the people who hate Bill Clinton. They've always hated him. Nothing he can ever do will keep them from hating him for the rest of their lives. They call him Slick Willie. You can't talk to these people. I'm glad everyone else is so sure of what they think about Bill Clinton because I don't know what I think. I do know I like the people who like him better than I like the people who hate him."
-- Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes, January 17, 1999.
Spend more on Amtrak instead of Iraq:
"The United States — our United States — is spending $5 billion, 600 million a month fighting this war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into. We still have 139,000 soldiers in Iraq today. Almost 2,000 Americans have died there. For what? Now we have the hurricanes to pay for. One way our government pays for a lot of things is by borrowing from countries like China. Another way the government is planning to pay for the war and the hurricane damage is by cutting spending for things like Medicare prescriptions, highway construction, farm payments, Amtrak, National Public Radio and loans to graduate students. Do these sound like the things you'd like to cut back on to pay for Iraq? I'll tell you where we ought to start saving: on our bloated military establishment."
— Andy Rooney on CBS's 60 Minutes, October 2, 2005.
Bush's phone intercepts of terrorists a "disgrace" to Rooney:
CNN's Larry King: "What do you make of the tapping of phones in the interest of national security?"
CBS's Andy Rooney: "Well, I think it's a disgrace, an absolute disgrace. And how the President has convinced himself or how the Vice President has convinced the President that this is a good thing to do, in the interests of American security, it's a disgrace....Our whole country was built on the idea that we are free from that kind of government. I mean, it is seriously wrong what's happening in Washington and how they're forcing it down our throats, I don't know....That's not the way to protect ourselves."
— Exchange on CNN's Larry King Live, January 6, 2006.
We brought 9/11 on ourselves:
"Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]....We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us."
— CBS's Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes, September 10, 2006. Video below:
Moral equivalence: No worse for Iran to have nukes than America:
"I don't understand why we think it's okay for us to have a nuclear weapon, but it isn't okay for some other countries to have any. I don't think any country should have nuclear weapons. And that includes ours....We're a little late getting exercised about this. North Korea has always been more of a threat to world peace than Iraq ever was. And if we were going to attack someone three years ago to make the world safer, we should have attacked North Korea, not Iraq."
— CBS's Andy Rooney on the October 15, 2006 60 Minutes.
Praises Clinton, derides Reagan, "hard to dislike" Carter, from January of 2007:
Prompted by the death of President Gerald Ford, Andy Rooney, in his commentary at the end of 60 Minutes, ruminated about all the Presidents since FDR and made clear he sees more to admire in Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton than in Ronald Reagan. Rooney praised Ford: "We were lucky to have such a good, normal American to step in to do the job." On Carter, Rooney characterized him as "smart" and contended "it was hard to dislike Jimmy Carter, even if you were a Republican." Rooney obviously wasn't a Republican in the late 1970s. "Ronald Reagan was the only movie star ever elected President," Rooney noted before snidely remarking: "A lot of people thought he was better in the movies than in the White House." Bill Clinton, however, "might have gone down in history as one of the best Presidents we ever had if it hadn't been for that one unfortunate incident that I don't want to talk about in case there are children watching."
Hailing Obama:
"The [Gallup] survey said that only 44 percent of us approve of President Obama's performance. Well, I surveyed nine of my friends, and eight of them said they liked Obama but didn't trust Gallup polls. As far as I'm concerned, Obama's doing the best job he knows how, and it's good enough for me."
— CBS's Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes, November 14, 2010.


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Lifesaver Cake
Recipe by HOUSEMANAGER Charle
Inspired once again by Anne Byrn the Cake Mix Doctor I have come up with a cake that tastes like a roll of lifesaver fruit candies. This is a moist sweet cake and serving it with a quality vanilla ice cream only enhances the flavor another notch! If you're having trouble locating the various extracts, contact your local Watkins dealer and I can assure you they will have them. In the meantime prepare yourself for sheer indulgence!
Top Review by Yvette14605
I love this recipe, it really has a christmas effect (in relation to taste). It tastes so much like rum cake, but it has more of a sweetness/ butter flavor. I never did find the pineapple extract, so I just left it out. I plan to use it the next time I bake this succulant/immaculate cake!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- vegetable oil cooking spray, for misting the pan
- flour, for dusting the pan
- 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package yellow cake mix
- 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package vanilla instant pudding mix
- 8 tablespoons butter, melted (1 stick)
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Butter Glaze
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup hot water
- 8 tablespoons butter, cut up (1 stick)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon rum extract
- 1 teaspoon coconut extract
- 1 teaspoon butter flavor extract
- 1 teaspoon pineapple extract
Directions See How It's Made
- PREHEAT oven to 350 F; lightly spray a Bundt pan with vegetable spray and dust with flour.
- COMBINE cake mix, pudding mix, melted butter, eggs, milk, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl; Blend with an electric mixer until the batter is thick and smooth; pour into prepared pan.
- BAKE until golden brown, approximately 60 minutes; meanwhile prepare the butter glaze.
- COMBINE sugar, hot water and butter in a small saucepan; cook over medium heat just until the butter melts and the sugar dissolves; stirring constantly, 2 to 3 minutes; remove pan from heat and stir in all the extracts.
- REMOVE Bundt pan from oven and place on a wire rack to cool for 15 minutes; carefully invert onto a cake plate right side up.
- POKE holes in the cake with a straw or use a cake syringe filled with the glaze slowly pouring or injecting the glaze directly in to the cake (depending on which method you use you may have glaze run-off, just soak up with a paper towel and discard) You want the cake to soak up as much as possible of the glaze; allow the cake to cool to room temperature before serving.
- STORE in a glass dome at room temperature for up to 1 week.

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Key Events in the History of Air Quality in California
This page last reviewed April 05, 2016
Significant milestones in the history of air quality improvement in California.
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|ARB makes changes to diesel regulations that protect public health, provide relief and flexibility to California business owners of on-road and off-road equipment.
|ARB approves the cap-and-trade regulation, marking a significant milestone toward reducing California's greenhouse gas emissions under AB 32. The regulation helps drive the development of green jobs and set the state on track to a clean energy future.
|California regulations reduce air pollution from 11 categories of consumer products including bug sprays and a variety of household and professionally-used cleaners.
|California adopts the Renewable Energy Standard. One-third of the electricity sold in the state in 2020 will come from clean, green sources of energy.
|California adopts goals of SB 375 for more healthy and sustainable communities that improve the way we plan and promote transportation choices.
|Based on a new U.S. EPA methodology, ARB determines that 9,000 people die annually due to the amount of fine particle pollution in California's air. The new methodology established that fine PM has a causal link to premature mortality.
|ARB acts to further slash toxic diesel emissions originating from four of the busiest railyards in the state.
|ARB and the Bureau of Automotive Repair jointly sponsor legislation that is signed into law on September 24, 2010. The new law will save consumers money and time, and provide further emissions reductions from the state's Smog Check program.
|The regulation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from do-it-yourself automotive air-conditioner refrigerant cans becomes law. The gas in these small containers is 1,300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in trapping heat from the sun.
|California regulates leakage of potent greenhouse gases from large refrigeration systems that will reduce emissions equivalent to removing about 1.4 million cars from the road per year.
|ARB adopts new limits for air fresheners, paint thinners and multi-purpose solvents. The regulation will reduce the release of volatile organic compounds and prohibit the use of several toxic air contaminants.
|ARB amends a landmark rule to reduce toxic emissions from the state's estimated 180,000 off-road vehicles such as tractors and bulldozers used in construction, mining and other industries. The amendments help business owners comply with the 2007 regulation.
|ARB passes a regulation mandating nearly 2,000 ocean-going ships that travel within 24 nautical miles off California's coast to use cleaner burning diesel fuel that reduces the emissions of oxides of sulfur and nitrogen and diesel particulate matter. The regulation aims to help coastal residents breathe cleaner air and reduce pollution in oceans and waterways.
|ARB adopts new standards for car windows that block the sun's heat-producing rays that will help keep cars cooler, increase their fuel efficiency and reduce global warming pollution.
|ARB adopted amendments to the Pavley regulations that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in new passenger vehicles from 2009 through 2016.
|ARB adopts the landfill methane control measure that will reduce 1.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in the state's landmark fight against global warming.
|ARB adopts the Low Carbon Fuel Standard aimed at diversifying fuels used for transportation which will achieve 16 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2020. The regulation is described as the most important early-actions called for under AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act.
|ARB adopts the tire pressure regulation that requires California's automotive maintenance industry to check tire pressure of every vehicle they service. The regulation will annually eliminate 700,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, reduce the state's fuel consumption by 75 million gallons and extend the average tire's useful life by 4,700 miles.
|ARB adopts regulations to control, and in some cases phase out, potent chemicals used in the manufacture of computer chips and other industries that contribute to global warming at many times greater than carbon dioxide.
|ARB adopts a regulation on do-it-yourself cans of automobile refrigerant. The regulation includes a deposit and recycling program that will cost an estimated $11 for each ton of greenhouse gases prevented from entering the atmosphere.
|CCAA was signed by Governor Deukmejian. The Act set forth the framework for how air quality will be managed in California for the next 20 years.
|ARB adopted regulations effective on 1994 model cars requiring they be equipped with on-board computer systems to monitor emission performance and alert owners when there is a problem.
|The SCQMD's maximum one-hour ozone concentration recorded is 0.39 ppm. The area exceeded Stage 1 Smog Alerts (0.20 ppm ozone) on 83 days this year, an improvement of 19 days since 1980.
|CA Smog Check Program went into effect identifying vehicles in need of maintenance and to assure the effectiveness of their emission control systems on a biennial basis
|CA's population reached 24 million people. Total registered vehicles surpassed 17 million and vehicle miles traveled is 155 billion. Cumulative CA vehicle emissions for NOx and HC remain at 1970 levels of 1.6 million tons/year despite a rise of 45 billion in VMT over these 10 years.
|Federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 were enacted. Required the review of all National Ambient Air Quality Standards by 1980.
|The South Coast Air Quality Management District was formed. It included portions of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
|The Toxic Substances Control Act was established by Congress in response to an increasing awareness of toxic substances used by industry.
|ARB limited lead in gasoline.
|Volvo introduced 1977 year car billed as "Smog-Free". Featured the first three-way catalytic converter to control HC, NOx, and CO emissions.
|The SCAQMD's maximum one-hour ozone concentration recorded was 0.39 ppm. The area exceeded Stage 1 smog alerts (0.20 ppm) on 118 days.
|The first two-way catalytic converters came into use as part of the ARB's Motor Vehicle Emission Control Program.
|The California Air Pollution Control Officers Association was created.
|USEPA Working Group established to develop strategies for State Implementation Plan activities.
|OPEC oil embargo resulted in rising fuel cost, the use of smaller, more efficient automobiles, and more cost conservative use of fuel by industry and corresponding lower air emissions.
|ARB adopted the first automobile NOx standards in the nation.
|USEPA promulgated the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulates, photochemical oxidants (including ozone), hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide.
|ARB adopted guidelines to control agricultural burning.
|CA's population reached 20 million people. Total registered vehicles exceeded 12 million and vMT was 110 billion. Cumulative CA vehicle emissions for NOx and HCs were 1.6 million tons/year.
|The SCAQMD's maximum one-hour ozone concentration recorded was 0.58 ppm, nearly five times greater than the health-based national standard of <0.12 ppm that would be adopted in 1971.
|Backyard burning was banned in selected areas of California.
|National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) was signed.
|USEPA was created to protect all aspects of the environment.
|The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970.
|Federal New Source Performance Standards for opacity were published.
|Federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 were enacted. They served as the principal source of statutory authority for controlling air pollution. Established the basic US program for controlling air pollution.
|Air Quality Standards were set by the new ARB for total suspended particulates, photochemical oxidants, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon monoxide.
|Dr. Arie J. Haagen-Smit was appointed Chairman of the Air Resources Board by Governor Ronald Reagan. First meeting of the State Board was held in Sacramento on February 8, 1968.
|Santa Cruz and Monterey counties combined to form the Monterey County Unified Air Pollution Control District.
|The California Air Resources Board was created from the merging of the California Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board and the Bureau of Air Sanitation and its Laboratory. The Mulford-Carrell Air Resources Act was signed into law by Governor Ronald Reagan.
|Federal Air Quality Act of 1967 was enacted. It established a framework for defining "air quality control regions" based on meteorological and topographical factors of air pollution. It allowed the State of California a waiver to set and enforce its own emissions standards for new vehicles based on California's unique need for more stringent controls.
|Auto tailpipe emission standards for HC and CO were adopted by the California Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board. First of their kind in the nation.
|Reliable measurements of ozone concentrations began to be recorded. The maximum one-hour ozone concentration for the year in the South Coast Air Basin was 0.58 ppm.
|Federal Clean Air Act of 1963 was amended by the Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act of 1965. Direct regulation of air pollution by the federal government is provided for, and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was directed to establish auto emission standards.
|First recognized episodes of smog occur in Los Angeles in the summer of 1943. Visibility is only three blocks and people suffer from smarting eyes, respiratory discomfort, nausea, and vomiting. The phenomenon is termed a "gas attack" and blamed on a nearby butadiene plant. The situation does not improve when the plant is shut down. See video clip.


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The NRA has set it's gun-sights on Barak Obama's two little girls. Their latest hate-filled ad blitz ad campaign targets the two children in an attempt to illustrate how hypocritical it is for the President to advocate for safer gun laws when his own girls have Secret Service protection.
Politico.com has the story:
The National Rifle Association released a video Tuesday calling President Obama an "elitist hypocrite" for being skeptical of armed guards in schools when his daughters receive armed Secret Service protection every day.
"Are the president's kids more important than yours?" a narrator asks. "Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards at their schools? Mr. Obama demands the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, but he's just another elitist hypocrite when it comes to a fair share of security."
The president's children are typically off limits, even in the grittiest political warfare in Washington. But the NRA salvo is likely only the first of many in what promises to be one of the toughest battles Obama has committed to fighting in his second term.
"Most Americans agree that a president's children should not be used as pawns in a political fight," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said. "But to go so far as to make the safety of the President's children the subject of an attack ad is repugnant and cowardly."
It's not bad enough these violent fanatics advocate for a "National Gun Appreciation Day" this Sunday, painfully close to the one-month Newtown CT tragedy and dead-center on the MLK holiday weekend – you remember him, the assassinated peace activist? – but now they drag the President's daughters into their ugly fight to hang onto their killing machines?
And it is Church Night, Amen! So Mike will spend time exploring these holy warrior hypocrites who seem to love Jesus – and their AK-47's – with a dichotomous equality that is incomprehensible to those of us who don't chug the Neocon juice.
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Back by popular demand, here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished.
Blasphemy, via McKenna: I was at MSG with my puck buddy, she is a NJ Devils fan. We this NY Ranger jersey with the Bon Jovi, had a good laugh."
Preview: New Jersey Devils at Toronto Maple Leafs, 7 p.m. ET. It's James Reimer vs. Not Marty Brodeur, which is the essential info from the Devils side. Well, that and they're looking to avoid their first five-game losing streak in more than two years.
Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Pittsburgh Penguins, 7:30 p.m. ET. Evgeni Malkin makes his return for the Penguins, after his concussion on Feb. 22. The Penguins have outscored the Lightning 23-9 in their four straight wins in the series. Mathieu Garon starts against Marc-Andre Fleury.
Preview: Anaheim Ducks at Phoenix Coyotes, 9 p.m. ET. It's like the Angels vs. the Diamondbacks! As in, it's the second of a three-game set between the teams. (Thanks lockout schedule.) It's looking like Jonas Hiller vs. Mike Smith.
Preview: Nashville Predators at Los Angeles Kings, 10:30 p.m. ET. The Kings are hot, winning five of six games. The Preds have lost four of five, but they've beaten the Kings twice this season. Darryl Sutter on the Kings' optional skate this morning: "I think we'll probably be in the same thing all week. Some guys want to. You can't say 'none'. Some guys want a handful of minutes. Some guys want to try skates, sticks, gloves, all those things. You've got to get them here, so it's not so much on-ice. Even yesterday, we had some guys out there for 15 minutes, some guys out for 30."
Check out previews and updated scores for all of today's games on the Y! Sports NHL scores and scheds page. For tonight's starting goalies, check out Goalie Post.
Evening Reading
Patrick Burke and Tracey Myers joined us on the podcast today, along with the NHL's most dive-y teams. [Marek Vs. Wyshynski]
In which Alex Ovechkin says what he wants from linemate Mike Ribeiro, i.e. control of the puck: "Of course when I have speed that's when I want it. I don't want to have speed and stop on the blue line and then slowly go to offensive zone and then lost the puck and then go back," he said. "It's kind of position you going to be struggling all the time. If I'm going to have that kind of position, puck in neutral zone and I can make a move we'll make puck deep and find it that way, I'm going to feel much better." [WashTimes]
Jim Cornelison reveals the secret behind his glass-shattering performance. (Hint: Fraud!) [DNAInfo]
Puck Daddy Reader Comment of the Day: Via Playboy Perry, on Stephen A. Smith:
This is what happens when ESPN asks someone who calls himself a "basketball analyst" a question related to hockey. I'm surprised Stephen A. Smith could even form a sentence that didn't involve LeBron or Kobe.
Bold Prediction: The Preds pull the upset in LA, in a shootout.


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Developers will soon face limits on the height and scale of developments along Melbourne's Yarra and Maribyrnong rivers. Victorian state government changes to rules for developing land around the Yarra River include a nine-storey height limit.
The new controls will also set guidelines for river setbacks, site coverage and vegetation removal. Similar rules will be introduced for the Maribyrnong River, which runs to Melbourne's west, in 2013.
In the past, development projects along the Yarra have attracted the ire of residents but the projects have also reaped strong sales for developers.
Large-scale developments along the Yarra River include Mirvac's Array project, Hamton's Haven development in Abbotsford, which attracted more than 1600 objections, and Beck Property's Riverwood project in Alphington.
Paul Hameister of Hamton said developments on the Yarra should ideally be out of view from the river itself, and blend with surroundings.
"Anything developed on the Yarra should be sympathetic to the natural environment,'' he said.
Mirvac Apartments national operations director, Christian Grahame, said sales showed there was still high demand for housing along the Yarra River.
Mirvac developments in Melbourne's Docklands, where high-rise riverside development is allowed, have generated strong interest and 11 of the 12 sub-penthouses in Array have already sold.
Victoria's Planning Minister,
The new regulations were officially added to the planning register yesterday and will be introduced in three stages in the coming months.
The rules will immediately apply to the City of Boroondara, which takes in riverside suburbs Hawthorn and Kew, and will apply for development applications which have already been submitted but are still undergoing the planning process.
The changes will then be brought in for Yarra, Stonnington and Banyule councils, which take in suburbs such as South Yarra, Richmond and Toorak, followed by stage three for the councils of Manningham and Nillumbik.
Similar controls will be drafted for the Maribyrnong River and will apply to Maribyrnong, Moonee Valley, Brimbank and Hume councils, and are expected to be introduced in the first half of 2013.
The community-based Yarra Riverkeepers Association, which has campaigned against development along the river, welcomed the regulations. Riverkeepers' Ian Penrose said the planning system had failed the river and suggested overarching management of the river, such as Perth's Swan River trust, offer better protection.
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Zone of the Enders HD Collection Review
Zone of the Enders HD collection is Konami's re-release of the original Zone of the Enders games ported by High Voltage Software.
Zone of the Enders one is set in the far future, focusing on an orbiting space station around Jupiter. A military group called BAHRAM raid the colony in an attempt to capture or destroy several orbital frames. The story follows a child named Leo who unintentionally stumbled inside one of these frames called Jehuty, an AI assisted robot. The story unfolds as Leo attempts to save the colony.Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner takes place a few years in the future, following Dingo who coincidentally also stumbles into Jehuty in an attempt to fight off BAHRAM in much the same way.
The gameplay is very unique with nothing else much like it. Jehuty is able to fly by controlling its elevation meaning that much of the fighting takes place suspended in the air. Combat is basic but allows room for tactical play, you attack by hitting the X button, however it's modified when holding down the dash trigger, when dashing the attack will become a powerful energy burst or close range stab, or you can just stand still and dash to create an even more powerful move, on top of this the attacks are also context sensitive depending on the distance to the enemy. This on the whole allows the gameplay to prove fairly simple but contains much more depth in terms of tactical play.
This is later emphasized by the inclusion weapons that can range from sniper rifles to shields to even devices capable of creating a field of lasers.Both game's controls are almost identical however the Second Runner actually utilises these elements. The second runner introduces many different enemies that force the play into thinking tactically on how to approach his opponents, disappointedly the first never does this and much of the game can be beaten by spamming certain attacks.
The level design of both games is one of the larger differences, in the first game players fly over an over world choosing which destination to help out, these areas are almost every time filled with the same 3 different types of enemies making the gameplay lose much of its value quickly. Much of the progression in the game is also littered with backtracking; making the player search the same area they have been over twice to discover a code to unlock a needed weapon.
The second game focus much more on a linear approach with the player moving constantly in new directions, and introducing new enemy types whenever the old ones have outstayed their welcome, furthermore this pacing allows the second game to be vastly more enjoyable than the first.
The first game uses a mixture of in game cut scenes and CGI to tell most of the story, the CGI scenes haven't aged well but are still alright to watch, the issues lie mostly in the in games sections where the player will be given the cockpit view of the robot with characters talking over the top, this alone is dull but only deepened by some of the poor dialogue and the main character reminding everyone of how he doesn't like the situation he is in. The in game graphics are much better, the HD improves them a fair amount but much of the game is very dark sidestepping chances of visual fidelity.
The second game takes many steps to improve over the previous instalments visuals. The CGI cutscenes have now been replaced with lush anime scenes; they also use the same cockpit view for much of the game however they add a window for players to watch the characters talking to each other, much of the dialogue is still silly but is enjoyable for its stupidity rather than annoying like the previous game. The in game graphics have also been changed up contain much more vibrancy in the colours used, this makes the combination of HD and the in game graphics create something gorgeous, it's a great visual display as the beautiful environments are littered with the electric light show given off by the games energy attacks.
Both games use a simple yet open combat system, however the second game takes the steps to actually make it enjoyable and requires more than just button bashing. The first game is also largely held back by its astounding amount of backing track3ing and repetition.
The HD adds much too both games, but most notably in the second. The HD graphics really amplify the almost cel shaded graphics. The weakest point of both games is the dialogue, while the first is bad the second one can still prove enjoyable as well as the story it has. Both games use a rather traditional music leaning heavily towards Sci-Fi style mixing in orchestral to create an immersive soundtrack.
Both games feature multiple difficulties and last several hours each, however much of the first game is hardly worth the time as a large part of the game is just padded out with backtracking to rediscover invisible objects or an item that was originally unobtainable.
A difficult one to recommend, while the second game is great and truly is a wonder to play, the first game is dull and tedious to play through. Much of the first game can thankfully be ignored however so you can easily ignore the first game and just enjoy the great experience that is The Second Runner.
One Extra is the inclusion of a demo preview version of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Not much can be said about the game; it plays much like normal spectacle fighters however it uses a very aggressive parry system as its main form of defence. The most notable part of the demo is the ability to slow down time and aim you cut with precision, this proves endlessly enjoyable as it allows you shred opponents into fine dust or even just scalp your foes with one fine swoop, either way it's well worth checking out.
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MOTORISTS face traffic disruption when a motorcycle rally travels across Weymouth.
The New Forest Branch of the Harley Owners' Group will hold the event on Saturday.
Police are warning motorists of road closures ahead of the parade.
Inspector John Mallace, of the Dorset Police , said: "Dorset Police motorcyclists will escort this rally and we will aim to keep the convoy as compact as possible to minimise disruption to other road users.
"I would encourage members of the public to avoid the route where possible between 11.45am and 1pm on Saturday 29 September 2012."
Up to 250 Harley Davidson motorcycles will start the ride at 11.45am from Littlemoor Road.
They will ride out along the A353 to Warmwell Cross, turning left along the A352 through to the Dorchester bypass.
It will then join the A35 heading west to the Monkeys Jump roundabout, taking the first exit onto the C53 Martinstown Road through to the B3159 before turning left.
The motorcyclists will then follow the B3159. It will end at Sea View Holiday Park at around 1pm.


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Sol LeWitt
American, born 1928
Four-Sided Pyramid, 1999, first installation 1997
concrete blocks and mortar
Gift of the Donald Fisher Family 1998.149.1
From the early 1960s to the present, Sol LeWitt has been at the forefront of minimal and conceptual art. LeWitt's "structures" (a term he prefers to sculpture) are generally composed with modular, quasi-architectural forms. For many of his works, LeWitt creates a plan and a set of instructions to be executed by others. Four-Sided Pyramid was constructed on this site by a team of engineers and stone masons in collaboration with the artist. The terraced pyramid, first employed by LeWitt in the 1960s, relates to the setback design that had long been characteristic of New York City skyscrapers. Its geometric structure also alludes to the ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia.(10 of 17)


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Movies: The Jurassic Park Series, Star Wars, Matrix Series, The Patriot, Enemy at The Gates, Saving Private Ryan, Inception, Full Metal Jacket, StarGate, The Fifth Element, V For Vendetta, 28 Days Later, Starship Troopers, We were Soldiers, Schindler's List, The Inglorious Bastards, Fight Club.
Shows: I don't watch a whole lot of TV but here goes..
The Big Bang Theory, 30 Rock, StarGate SG-1, Criminal Minds, Dexter, The Pacific, and back in the day Battlestar Galactica, Over There, Rescue Me, Nip-Tuck.
Music: Reveille, The Red, Red, Rob Zombie, Kittie, Slipknot, Korn, System of a Down, POD, Blindside, Sic Puppies, Breaking Benjamin, Linkin Park, Mindless Self Indulgence, The Dreaming, The Birthday Massacre, Lacuna Coil, Evanescence, DC Talk, Newsboys, Skillet, Audio Adrenaline, Family Force 5, ATB, George Acosta, Kredo, DJ Dubstep, DJ Mystic, DJ Dohboy, Switchfoot, Hawk Nelson, Creature Feature, The Dreaming, Eisenfunk.
Food: I have a love/hate relationship with food. I don't eat for pleasure.
1) My videogames
2) Music (in general)
3) My workout, (most ascertainly my running)
4) In relation to 3. my health and fitness
5) My two best friends I've had for more than 15 years
6) Giving up on my aspirations


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SOME OF THE MAGIC HAS BEEN LOST: Carnival Magic Cruise Review by awp529
Overall Member Rating
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Galveston
Having Platinum status in the VIFP made embarkation a fast and efficient operation. Again, I have to give a thumbs up to Carnival for handling the priority boarding in a very good manner. The cabins were also ready and at that point I was all set to enjoy a repeat of all the good memories of the past cruises on Magic.
On boarding I immediately noticed a different attitude from crew members than previously. Before there were smiles and warm greetings but this time the crew seemed stressed and tired. More Reaching the 12th deckwhere my cabin was located I noticed that the halls were still littered with dirty linens and dishes. The cabin itself was ok, but appeared to have been hastily done and not up to the standard I had enjoyed before. I didn't see a cabin attendant anywhere and it wasn't until much later that evening that one was in the hall. From the conversations I heard it sounded like the cabin attendants were doing double duty and were overwhelmed.
The Lido Buffet was the easiest option for lunch and as usual there was plenty of food, nothing special, but edible. I also noticed that the staff in the Lido area seemed to lack direction, many tables were in need of being cleared yet bus staff were standing around talking with each other. I don't want to be overcritical and realize this was embarkation day with a lot of extra work.
On my past cruises on the Magic one of my favorite times of the day was 5:30PM where you could get a glass of wine in the atrium and listen to the soothing music of Two-Tones. They had been on all the previous cruises but not this one. Instead there were two people with guitars who couldn't sing and certainly not playing music that was danceable or enjoyable to hear. I realize that music tastes are subjective but at least have people who can sing on key or play taped music. Just to be sure that I wasn't making a hasty judgment I went back the following night and heard the same exact song. The one evening these folk weren't in the atrium the band that replaced them wasn't all that great. I'm not knocking country or rock music, in fact I enjoy them, just don't sing "Who Shot The Sheriff" every other song.
The Dining room in the past had always been very enjoyable with Mr. Ante Kulsic as the Maitre'd. He was warm, friendly, and ran a first class dining room. Some people have called the singing in the dining room "cheesy," again music tastes differ and I always enjoyed hearing the young waiter Darwin sing. It gave the evening a feeling of class. Unfortunately, Ante is no longer the Maitre'd and the individual, Fernando, who replaced him is neither warm nor friendly. He never came around to any of the tables to say hello and when he did stand at the front door he didn't acknowledge anyone. I know everyone has a different management style, but from the service the wait staff offered and the unevenness of the kitchen something had changed drastically from several months earlier. The wait staff seemed to struggle to get orders correctly and often one side of the table would have their food while the other side sat with their hands in their lap. On past cruises the last thing you heard at the end of the meal was Ante making a short announcement about the upcoming day and closing with fun, fun, fun. I missed the warmth and humor he shared each night and hopefully this new Maitre'd can regain a little of the magic that was lost.
I can't say I didn't enjoy myself, rather I was just disappointed that this cruise didn't have the feeling of fun and enjoyment the previous three had. It was apparent that there had been a lot of cut backs in staffing or this was a new staff that had little knowledge of what they were supposed to do. As an example, I went to the hamburger grill when returning on a port day and took a hamburger with some French fries. They were both cold and greasy. I took them back to the young man and told him they weren't edible. He said he couldn't make anymore hamburgers until the ones in the tray were eaten but he did fix some fresh hot French fries. This is really a trivial thing but it is all the little trivial negative things that add up to making a big difference.
I had a maintenance issue with my balcony door. The plate at the bottom of the door had fallen off and was laying on the balcony. It was not only an inconvenience but also a safety hazard as you could easily trip. It took three requests before this was addressed, one with the cabin attendant and then twice with guest services. This may have been a case where there were too many issues being reported and too few people to address them. Another of those small things that add up.
It isn't fair to only be negative so here are a few of the really good things that still had the "magic."
**The staff of the Hat Tricks Bar were great as always. Jerome, Eko, and the lovely lady who's name I can't remember, always knew you by name, always smiled, and acted like they were pleased I had visited the bar.
**The young lady who was the evening hostess at Cucine del Capitano (again I can't recall her name but she was from Macedonia) was outstanding. She greeted us, led us to our table, explained the menu, and made a real effort to let you know they were glad to have you dining with them. The food was also very good, in fact, the Spaghetti Carbonara was excellent. This is a great evening alternative to the main dining room and a bargain at $12.
**The sea days grill on the 5th deck provided some tasty slider hamburgers with the salad bar inside also offering some enjoyable alternatives to what was offered at the buffet on deck 10.
**The Cloud Nine Spa is still a first class spa and was maintained well. The staff at the desk were alert to any problems and promptly took care of anything you needed. I now look for ships that have Cloud Nine Spas as the Thalassotherapy Pools and thermal suite are big plusses.
This certainly isn't one of those reviews that would make me say I won't come back again. I feel certain I'll continue to enjoy cruising; but the next time I'm on the Magic, I hope the magic is back. Less
Published 03/17/14
Cabin review:
Well situated close to the thermal suite and easy access to the Lido deck. No problems with noise and the no smoking in cabins and balconies is wonderful. These cabins are worth the extra just to be able to sit on your balcony and not smell second hand cigarette smoke.
Port and Shore Excursions
Submarine Tour
Cozumel is a place where you stop when you sail from Galveston. Even though, I been there over ten times in the last four years it is still a fun and interesting place to visit. I had not planned to take an excursion but at the last minute booked the Atlantis Submarine. Thoroughly enjoyed it and when I returned home felt that now I can take that off my bucket list. Suggestion: don't judge Cozumel by the shops at the cruise terminal. Find a couple of fellow travelers (or go it alone) get a cab and split the $7 to go into the central district. Its worth the money to just people watch, plus t-shirts and other souvenir items will be much less expensive. Cozumel is a busy place and if there are 4-5 ships in port it can be hectic. Just sit back and let the others rush by, you'll still have a good time.
After several previous visits there isn't a lot of new things to see. This stop I walked to the library and spent an inexpensive hour using the Internet. Nice people at the library and very inexpensive. Stopped by Capt. Morgan's to get Lemonccella and wound up with a bonus of a large Rum Cake. Grand Cayman is an interesting place if you like to shop for diamonds. For people like me who love mountains and rocky terrains it isn't much different than Galveston.
On this visit I took the hop-on, hop-off bus offered in the cruise terminal. Gives you an overview of the area. Previously I have visited Croydon Plantation and Dunn's River Falls, both very enjoyable. Montego Bay in my opinion is not one of the better Caribbean ports.
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McMahon Stadium (map it)
1817 Crowchild Trail NW
Calgary, AB T2M 4R6
Year Opened: 1960
Capacity: 35,650
There are no tickets available at this time.
Official Review by Jim Flannery, Stadium Journey Regional Correspondent
Since the University of Calgary came into being in the 1960s, the Dinos football program has been one of the most consistent performers in Canada.
The Dinos have been to the Vanier Cup eight times and won Canada�s university championship game on four occasions. They�ve won the Canada West division 11 times.
The program has also sent more than 60 players to the CFL as well as one to the NFL (Defensive Lineman Dan Federkeil played three seasons with the Indianapolis Colts, winning a Super Bowl along the way).
Needless to say, if you go to watch the U of C football team, you�re going to be watching a group of guys who expect to win.
Throughout their history, the Dinos have made their home at McMahon Stadium, on the south end of the university campus. McMahon is also shared with the CFL�s Calgary Stampeders, who have had plenty of U of C alumni in their ranks.
McMahon is over 50 years old now and is starting to show its age in some respects. But as a facility housing a Canadian Interuniversity Sports football program, it is more than adequate for the task.
The FANFARE scale is our metric device for rating each stadium experience. It covers the following:
Each area is rated from 0 to 5 stars with 5 being the best. The overall composite score is the "FANFARE Score".
The food options at the concession stands are typically priced but relatively limited. The smokie ($4.50) and french fries ($3.75) we had prior to the game were tepid, at best, which was a little disappointing. The freshly grilled Angus beef cheeseburger with fresh saut�ed onions ($6.75) is always very good, however.
The typical popcorn/peanuts/chips options are about all there is on the rest of the menu.
Adult beverage options are also fairly typically priced, at $6.50 per beer or $7 for a Smirnoff Ice and your beer choices are limited to either Molson Canadian or Coors Light.
While the items presented on this menu are exactly the same fare available at Stampeders games, I think a little more thought put towards modifying the menu to appeal to a university crowd might encourage more students to come out.
The good news, as with any Canadian football game, is that the game itself is superior to the American version. The nature of the game lends itself to more creative play-calling and more scoring, so you'll likely be entertained.
The not-so-good news is that university football north of the border is not the huge phenomenon that it is in the States. In fact, the U of C only opens half of McMahon when the Dinos are playing because half the stadium is more than enough stands for the 2,000-5,000 fans they'll typically get.
As a result, getting a strong, fired-up atmosphere in the stands is challenging. Having the crowd spread out around the lower seating section just doesn't create the same raucous energy that one might get if that same crowd were tucked in tight in a facility that only holds 5,000 people. The net result is a subdued, laid-back atmosphere more typical of a baseball game than a football game.
On the upside, you have nothing but great seats to choose from when you go looking for a spot to watch the game. It's all rush seating at Dinos games and the comfy spots in the first 40 rows all have an excellent view of the field.
One of the real challenges to the atmosphere at McMahon is Calgary's thin, northern air. As the weather turns cold in the fall (or even in some breezy evenings), McMahon can be downright frigid to sit in. Again on the upside, though, the Dinos only make use of the east stands which keep the audience in the sun for as long as possible during day games, helping to protect the fans from any cold weather.
McMahon is located well away from the traditional party venues in Calgary, so on first blush it might seem like the neighborhood might not be so great for pre- or post-game fun. However, look a little closer and you'll see that there are plenty of options at your disposal.
Directly east across Crowchild Trail from McMahon is a strip mall called the Hilltop Plaza with several restaurants. Big T's BBQ and Smokehouse is one of my favorite restaurants in Calgary. Big T's serves up New Orleans style barbecue and blues music is piped over the sound system. Come for the brisket; stay for the fried dill pickles.
Also in Hilltop Plaza you'll find a Dairy Queen, a Joey's Only, Saigon Y2K for Vietnamese food and there are a couple take-out options as well.
A block north of the Hilltop Plaza, you'll find a local institution, Nick's Steakhouse and Pizza. Nick's has won Consumer's Choice Awards for seven consecutive years and the bar is always lively.
The Hilltop Plaza is in the northwest corner of what is locally known as Motel Village, a collection of motels directly across from McMahon. Several more restaurants can be found among the motels, including a Denny's, a Boston Pizza, a McDonald's, a Phil's, and a Red Lobster.
Heading west a block from the stadium, you'll find the Stadium Shopping Mall and even more restaurants. Moose McGuire's Bar is a popular option for local residents and university students alike. The Keg and the Redwater Rustic Grille will both provide you with more upscale dining experience. Between The Keg and Redwater you'll also find a Wendy's if you have a craving for a Baconater.
Since the crowd at a Dinos game is typically only a couple thousand, there should be plenty of room at any of the many options available locally.
The crowd at a Dinos game is typically a blend of students and alumni, with a smattering of fans from the visiting school as well. The crowd tends to be very good natured, and being a fairly small group, it seems like there are lots of people who know everyone else.
Cheers come up at the right times, so the people there are definitely engaged in the game. Indeed, with as small a crowd as is in attendance, you can count on it that these are Dinos fans to the core.
So, while there isn't a lot of wild and crazy football fan antics in the stands, it is quite pleasant.
Parking around McMahon for Dinos games is excellent.
At Stampeders games the lot surrounding the stadium is reserved exclusively for season ticket holders. But the University of Calgary allows free parking at the venue for Dinos games and there is more than enough space there for the number of people.
No need to go looking elsewhere for other parking options as is the case for the Stamps.
Your other option is Calgary's Light Rail Transit system. The C-Train has a station a block away to the east, alongside Motel Village, and there's a big pedestrian overpass to get you across Crowchild Trail. The train can get you around town fairly quickly and easily, although it gets pretty crowded in the post-game rush. At $2.75 for an adult fare, it's a pretty good option.
The University of Calgary Dinos are ranked No. 2 in the nation at the time of this 2012 review, so you're going to see some quality football if you take in a game.
Tickets at the door are $12 per person for adults, $8 for youths and seniors. And if you're a U of C student, you get into any and every regular season game for every sport on campus for free. Free! Children under 6 are also free admission.
You really can't do better than that price with that quality of entertainment.
McMahon Stadium and the Dinos have a couple little extra touches to make the experience a little more interesting.
The Olympic Cauldron is on display in the northeast corner of the stadium. The opening and closing ceremonies of the 1988 Olympics were held at McMahon and anyone wanting to relive the memories of those days is welcome to check it out.
Rex, the Dinos mascot spends most of the game in the stands amusing the kids.
Music at the game I attended was courtesy of a DJ located down by the Dinos' bench and kept things bumping in between plays.
Dinos football is a great and inexpensive way to spend an evening. You'll get a great game in a great seat. And more people in the seats can't help but make it a better experience for everyone.
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B.C. Lions will host Calgary Stampeders in CFL Western final
The Calgary Stampeders are on their way to Vancouver to determine who's best in the West. The Stamps punched their ticket to next Sunday's Western final at B.C. Place Stadium with a last minute 36-30 victory over the visiting Saskatchewan Roughriders this afternoon. Receiver Romby Bryant hauled in a 68-yard touchdown pass with 20 seconds remaining to put Calgary in front moments after the Riders had taken the lead on a touchdown pass of their own.
The Lions won the regular season's series from Calgary beating the Stamps in two of their three meetings including the lone showdown in Vancouver. The Lions finished atop the West Division with a 13-5 record while Calgary was second at 12-6. The Stamps are led offensively by CFL rushing leader Jon Cornish—the New Westminster native is up for both Most Outstanding Player and Top Canadian in the CFL this season. Calgary was 5-4 on the road this year while the Lions boast an impressive 8-1 record at B.C. Place.
The Western final is set for 1:30 p.m. next Sunday (November 18). The winner will represent the West in the 100th Grey Cup in Toronto on November 25.


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By >Akihabaranews Contributor
4 Methods for a More Secure Smartphone
Hacking isn't just a problem reserved for computers anymore. The newest targets hackers are going after are mobile devices, including tablets and even smartphones. That's a scary thought when you consider how many messages, photographs, and even passwords are stored on your smartphone, but there are some steps you can take to make any mobile device hacker-proof.
Use a Smartphone Lock
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With so much personal information residing inside a smartphone, it's no wonder everyone from teenagers to business professionals are turning to smartphone locks as a way of keeping this information private. Locks are available on almost every type of phone, and they are relatively easy to use. Most smartphones have this lock feature under Settings. It's just a matter of finding the option and setting a lock code. As with any password, ensure that the lock code is something you can remember, but not a code easily guessed by friends, family, or co-workers. Once the lock code is in place, only you will be able to access your mobile device.
Use Passwords
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Aside from having a smartphone lock, use passwords whenever possible. For example, it's more convenient to check voicemail without a password in place, but not having one leaves you open to the possibility of someone else accessing your private messages.
It doesn't matter whether you own a 7 inch Android tablet, iPhone or Windows phone, most smartphones come with a default voicemail password. It's your responsibility to set up a new password, and it's always best to do this immediately after getting a new phone. Set up a password that is difficult to guess, and try to change it regularly.
Install Security Software
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There is no such thing as a virus for a smartphone, but there are malware apps going around that can steal your information. Many smartphones support mobile security software, which are apps that can notify you if there are any malware activities detected.
Try to use a security application that allows you to control your mobile device if it's ever stolen or compromised. This means you can wipe any personal data and track the phone's location when needed. As with every other aspects of your smartphone, protect any security app with a password so only you can access it.
Get Rid of Affected SIM Cards
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A SIM card is a smartphone user's identity. It serves to identity you to the mobile service provider, but it can also be a wealth of information for any hacker. If your smartphone ever begins to work slower than normal, this could indicate suspicious activity, and the device may be compromised.
In order to ensure a hacker doesn't access any SIM card information, discard the SIM and replace it with a new one. Even if you have a mobile contract, it's a good idea to regularly change the SIM card since it takes months for any mobile registry to associate you with a new one. This ensures you're always staying one step ahead of any would-be hackers.
Hackers will always work to find ways around security measures, but being mindful of your smartphone's capabilities and taking steps to hack-proof your phone cut down on the chances that you'll ever fall victim to these unscrupulous individuals.
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Healthy Appetizers, Hummus, Chickpeas, Red Pepper
The Back Story
· 3 cups chickpea puree
· 2 tablespoons olive oil
· 1 tablespoon fresh garlic
· 1 cup roasted red bell peppers
· 1 teaspoon black pepper
· 1 teaspoon salt
· ½ tablespoon parsley
-Mix together chickpea puree and olive oil
-Stir in garlic and bell peppers
-Season with salt and pepper
-Top with parsley and serve with a sliced baguette
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Chef Jeff Henderson rose from humble beginnings in South Central Los Angeles to become the first African-American executive chef at the Bellagio Hotel. He has gone on to become a successful TV host with a cable show on the Food Network, a nationally syndicated series called, Family Style with Chef Jeff and the host of Flip My Food. When he isn't cooking on TV he's a highly sought-after motivational speaker, sharing the secrets of realizing your potential at... (full profile)


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Jordan and Palestine, supported by other Arab states, helped secure Israeli acceptance of a UNESCO experts' mission to investigate and assess the status of heritage and conservation of the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday.
This breakthrough is the result of a recent agreement signed between His Majesty King Abdullah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, under which Jordan is entitled to take all the necessary legal procedures to defend Al Aqsa Mosque and Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, according to a statement sent to The Jordan Times by the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs later Tuesday.
Lobbying at UNESCO is part of these efforts to curb Israeli unilateral measures in the holy city.
According to the statement, the mission will embark on its Jerusalem job on May 15, 2013, and is expected to compile a report and recommendations before June 1st, 2013, just before the beginning of the World Heritage Committee's 37th session.
The Israeli commitment came Tuesday in an official letter presented to the UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova and in a statement read by Israel in front of the current UNESCO Executive Board's 191st Session in Paris.
"The experts' mission mandate will also include a follow-up on the progress of UNESCO action plan for safeguarding and conserving the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls," the statement said.
Jordan registered Jerusalem as a World Heritage Site in 1981 and a World Heritage Site in Danger in 1982.
The ministry added that Israel has also been pressured to participate in a UNESCO technical meeting regarding recent Israeli violations against the area of the Buraq Wall and Bab Al Magharbeh in Paris next month, adding that Jordan and Palestine have condemned the Israeli absence from a similar UNESCO meeting that was held in April 2012.
Jordanian and Palestinian representatives at UNESCO have made two previous statements warning against the continuation of recent escalatory Israeli violations against the holy sites and the authenticity of the heritage of the Old City of Jerusalem, the ministry noted.
"The two statements also warned Israel against violating its commitments to this mission, which were made in front of a UNESCO delegation." The two representatives emphasised that Israel must be fully committed to international obligations, the ministry said.
Claims over the bias of UNESCO are raised routinely by Israel and the US whenever Jerusalem is discussed at meetings, the official statement added.
Since 2004, Jordan and Palestine have issued annual UNESCO resolutions condemning the Israeli occupation's violations against Jerusalem and demanding Israel to facilitate the UNESCO experts' mission. According to the statement, "Israel has not complied to these calls until today in an attempt to keep its violations covert and to impose its occupation plans on the ground".
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While I was mindlessly surfing I came across a few interesting links I thought I'd share.
Justin Ho posted about the D-Link router emulator pages and Blue Lock.
The D-Link router emulator pages show you what the configuration pages look like for various models of D-Link devices, which makes it nice when remotely supporting friends and family and you can't see what they see.
Blue Lock is an open source program that locks your Windows PC if a particular Bluetooth device is not detected. For example, if you register your Bluetooth mobile phone with the program but then move away from your desk, the program will detect your phone is out of range and automatically lock your system, requiring the password to be entered to reactivate the system. Full Delphi source code is provided.
Dan Cunningham has released version 1.01 of his Workstation Migration Assistant program. As Dan puts it,
"The Workstation Migration Assistant is a visual wrapper for Microsoft's User State Migration Tool, designed to simplify the capture / restore process for your end-users, and at the same time being highly configurable so that it can be customised to suit your organisations needs. Some of it's features include:
- Migrate via a pre-defined network storage location, external USB drive, or user-specified location. USB drive detection is automatic, and you can decide whether drives below a certain size are ignored (ie, memory sticks)
- Optional Hard Disk Health Check will run a CHKDSK prior to capture and fix errors if any are found
- Optional Encryption using a pre-defined company encryption key, or per-user customised encryption (for highly sensitive data that can't be stored on a server without being encrypted)
- Use different configurations for "XP Only" (XP > XP) migrations via Standard (XP > Vista and Vista > Vista)
- Automatically run pre and post-capture / restore scripts and programs (very useful to further configure machine settings)
- Migrate domain only accounts, or domain and local
- Automatically exclude certain domain or local accounts from the migration
- Automatically send log files to an e-mail address via SMTP after the migration
- On-screen status during every stage of the migration, including ETA
- Option to limit migrations to a certain size, i.e. if over 20GB of data to backup, then fail and inform user. This is also overridable
- Automatic checks for USMT installation and optional download
- Command-line automation
- Super-pretty UI "
Cameron Fuller writes about his experience with Adding the first Windows 2008 DC running Server Core to a Windows 2003 Domain. I've previously used his data posted in Active Directory Stress Testing and Memory as a basis for sizing my virtual domain controller's memory allocation.
The Sean Blog discusses diagnosing Windows crashes (blue screens), and mentions the Crash Analyzer Wizard. I've played with this tool before, since we get it with our Microsoft Volume License agreement. The wizard is a component of the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset, which is available from Microsoft as a 30 day evaluation.


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Food Lion Believes 'Hunger Has a Cure'
Annual campaign aims to raise 1M pounds of food for local orgs
Food Lion has launched its 10th annual "Hunger Has a Cure" campaign to support Chicago-based hunger relief organization Feeding America and its local member food banks. The campaign, which enables customers to donate money and canned food and buy ready-made food boxes, runs through Dec. 25.
"Food Lion's 'Hunger Has a Cure' campaign helps alleviate hunger in our communities," explained Sherrii Webb, community relations manager for Salisbury, N.C.-based Food Lion, a subsidiary of Delhaize America, the U.S. division of international retail conglomerate Delhaize Group in Brussels. "During our holiday food drive, Food Lion and our customers hope to donate 1 million pounds of food locally, and raise $100,000 during our at-register campaign, to serve local food banks in our communities."
Available at all Food Lion stores for $4.99 each while supplies last, the food boxes contain five private label products. All stores also have a designated food collection area where shoppers can place the food boxes or other nonperishable items. Customers can additionally make cash donations at the register. All food donations remain within the local community.
So far this year, the grocer has donated more than 29 million pounds of food to local food banks. Since the food drive began in 2002, Hunger Has a Cure has raised more than $7.7 million in food and donations.
Food Lion operates more than 1,100 supermarkets and employs about 58,000 in 11 Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic states.


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Ok, the following are some articles that caught my attention this week. I suggest you check them all out, they are definitely worth the read. Then head on over to the comment section and practice a little self love by promoting your best posts for the week. I look forward to reading what everyone blogged about.
I would like to remind everyone that I am still accepting submission for Tell it – WOC Speak Carnival. Please make your submissions here. They can be about anything that you deem important, race gender, family, personal stories etc..you decide. What is important is that we send our collective voices out there and demand that we be heard! The submission date is June 25, and I will post the carnival here at womanist musings on July 1. The homepage for the carnival can be found here. Articles submitted by allies will also be accepted.
Ok get reading…and don't forget to promote yourself on the way out the door.
Don't Do That
Mammy, Aunt Jemima and the Welfare Queen may be collectively understood as a type. All three are typically depicted as fat, dark-skinned women whose uniforms include an apron and a kerchief covered head. Larger than life, their bodies are supposed to be de-sexualized, as they do not conform to the (white) norm of humanity and of idealized womanhood. Although the Welfare Queen is understood to be sexually undesirable, her many children indicate that she is a sexual being. The Mammy and Aunt Jemima icons are interchangeable in their desirability as the nurturer of other (white) people's children. They are paradoxically sexually undesirable, yet sexual beings.
The Female Impersonator
Dear, Conservatives, I'm Pro Abortion! And You Know What That Makes You?
So here it is, for everyone who cares to know: I'm Pro-Abortion. I don't dress my opinions up with fancy terms like "pro-choice" to distance my stance from the fact that I am supporting the systematic termination of a pregnancy that will result in the "death" of a fetus, embryo, fertilized egg, or a sack of cells that might be a human depending on your political agenda.
Brown Sugar
The Strong Black Woman is Dead
On August 15, 1999, at 11:55 p.m.,
while struggling with the reality
of being a human instead of a myth,
the strong black woman passed away.
Medical sources say she died of natural causes,
but those who knew her know she died
from being silent when she should have been screaming,
milling when she should have been raging,
from being sick and not wanting anyone to know
because her pain might inconvenience them.
The Curvature
What does it take
Is this about race? Um, yes. Absolutely. The fact that the victim is black has everything to do with the rape apologism surrounding this case and with the acquittal. Our racist/misogynistic society generally says that a black man accused of rape of a white girl/woman is clearly a natural born rapist. But a black man accused of raping a black girl/woman? Well she's a natural born slut and liar..
Racial Suicide Bombers
Doing the rounds right now in conservative circles is the documentary Demographic Winter: Decline of the Human Family, an alarmist documentary that makes last year's dark Children of Men look like a comedy. Screened by right-wing think tanks and pro-life organizations, it argues that the only way to combat the disappearance of homo sapiens – as if we aren't already killing ourselves by fouling our nest – is by bringing back "the intact married family," eliminating extramarital sex and banning contraception.It always comes down to confining women, doesn't it? The not-so-funny thing is, these people are constantly railing about how girls in less developed countries breed at a young age – which is, sadly, true – but complain about how women here wait too long, inviting fertility problems.
The f Word
Men Feminism Needs You
Entering a feminist space – whether that be commenting on a blog or attending a meeting – can pose some unique problems for men…The first thing we want to start with is basic courtesy. This one's important for commenters of all genders. Every community has a different threshold of what language is considered acceptable, and lurking for a while can give a good indication of what works in a particular area. Feminist sites are usually frank about anatomical terms (appropriately used) and even slang, but considering the pejorative appropriation of many of them, it pays to be on the safe side, especially if you are a male commenter.
There's just something more suspicious if someone presenting as male uses certain words, even if we as women try to reclaim them (words like 'cunt' come to mind, but there are others). This is because these words are used in the rest of the world and internet as a means of silencing, insulting and intimidating women, often – but not always – by men. Sarcasm and satire aren't always easy to get across, so it's probably safer not to start flinging around gendered insults.
Muslimah Media Watch
Sexuality and women's honor: there isn't a link
An even more important point is that the Qur'an unequivocaly speaks out against connecting women's honor with their sexuality. As was previously discussed on the blog, the Qur'an makes it difficult, if not impossible, to even prosecute for zina since most people do not have intercourse in front of four witnesses. In addition, the Qur'an also forbids speculating on a woman's sexuality. So you can't even start spreading rumors about it. Thus, a woman's virginity should be a non-issue for Muslims, just as a man's virginity is never an issue. Which is why it is so disturbing that these women have to prove to their spouses and their families that they are still virgins.
What About Our Daughters
Did Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Walmart and GM Pull advertising from BET? Maybe But Don't Tell Nobody
This would be a HUGE story. P&G is the largest advertiser in the world. Wal-mart, GM AND PEPSI.. that's HUGE. It is also newsworthy to know which advertisers have stayed ( Looking at you McDonalds). But I haven't seen a single article about this. So who is the purported secrecy protecting? The advertisers? BET? The advocates? because I know they aren't protecting Black women, men and children.
Latina Teacher Fired For Not Regurgitating The Same Old Crap
Keeping American students in the dark about America's wrongdoings, keeping Latino, Black and other students of color from truly understanding their histories in the U.S. – that's all key to maintaining white supremacy and white privilege in this country. If students need to go out of their way to learn the truth, they're less likely to get angry about it, less likely to do something about it. That's why community education is so crucial – to teach kids and adults alike everything that the schools are deliberately leaving out in an effort to exert control. And these elements of school curricula are so widespread, so normalized, so accepted that when an educator tries to break away from it even just a little, they're the ones being accused of brainwashing students.
The Angry Black Bitch
By Request The Primate Connection
We are not post racial…we do not have a population that stumbles over racial imagery like fresh faced chil'ren who have never ever ever seen that shit used in a negative way and gosh, sure didn't mean to say what they said when they did it.
These primate doll and monkey t-shirt people are not making a perfectly understandable mistake.
They are using imagery that is easily understood by the population they seek to reach.
For all the attempts to perfume it up with excuses and explanations, it stinks the same stink it did (insert last time some asshole used a primate to depict a black person who threatened their notion of racial superiority).


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Looking like a scene straight off one of those cooking competition TV shows, a team of chefs dressed in crisp white jackets and pleated hats stood before a panel of judges sharing details on their culinary creations.
Only here, no one was being "chopped" or eliminated from the contest. This meeting was much more friendly.
The judges were actually members of the product development team at Frick's Quality Meats Inc. in Washington — Cindy Frick, owner; Rebecca Guzy, director of food safety and product development; and Candice Schroepfer, product development scientist;
The chefs were students in the recipe development class of East Central College's culinary arts program;
And the contest was actually a collaboration — Frick's had approached the ECC culinary school last fall about working together to develop original recipes using a couple of Frick's products: a Hickory Smoked Bone-In Turkey Breast and a Boneless Ham Steak.
The two groups met last Thursday, Feb. 7, in the culinary school kitchen at ECC for the official taste testing and presentation.
Afterward Guzy described the collaboration as "a great match.
"We, at Frick's, were very pleased with the attention the students gave to the recipes," Guzy told The Missourian. "They took the time to consider how consumers would use our products in the home and put extra effort into making them with easy-to-source ingredients and simple preparation methods."
Watching the students present their dishes to the Frick's team last week, Chef Ted Hirschi, coordinator of ECC's culinary arts program, agreed that the collaboration had been a success.
"Look at the excitement on their faces!" he said. "This exceeded all of our expectations.
"You can't buy this kind of interaction."
'Real World Experience'
When it comes to selling food products, perhaps nothing encourages sales more than a great recipe. That's why the Frick's team turned to ECC on this collaboration, said Guzy.
"The idea was to give the students some real world experience, and Frick's some wonderful original recipes," she remarked.
"While we, at Frick's, are constantly developing new items, we are trained as food and meat scientists. Having a strong culinary arts program close by gives us the opportunity to tap into the creative culinary skills of the chefs and their students."
The collaboration began with the ECC students visiting Frick's facility for a tour and sampling of the meats for which they were being asked to create recipes. Frick's set the guidelines for recipes, as well as the target market — from people with minimal culinary skills to cooks who would enjoy a challenge.
"We gave them some background on our facility, products, and had a great dialogue with them . . . they had some good questions, good suggestions, like so many of our products are gluten free, so (they talked about) developing some gluten-free recipes for us," said Guzy.
"They had a couple of suggestions about why don't we label some things certain ways on pack, so we're taking a look at that . . . It's always good to have that conversation between two similar fields."
Chef Hirschi agreed.
"The fun thing is, we're dealing with food science in the area of production and more consumer palette through training, and there's more of a distance than I thought, so we're closing the gap" by learning about the differences, he commented.
After the students toured Frick's facility, they had one week to brainstorm ideas, one week to work on those ideas in the kitchen and one week to fine-tune their ideas, all the while working on their other class work, said Chef Hirschi.
The Recipes
The ECC students created four recipes for the Frick's team — a gluten- and allergen-free turkey wrap; a loaded ham and beans soup; and two types of quiche: a Southwestern turkey quiche and a ham and cheese quiche.
The students provided the Frick's team a packet of typed information on each recipe, including description of flavor, appearance and texture, how to eat, serve and plate the recipe; a grocery list; steps for recipe preparation; nutritional values; even their notes and results from their process of creating the recipe.
That's a standard format that they do in creating all of their recipes for the class, Hirschi noted.
Turkey wrap featured Frick's turkey poached in coconut milk then combined with other vegetables and placed in bibb lettuce.
"We tried to keep the home cook in mind when creating this," explained Chef Sarah Gleeson, "keep it easy enough that a home cook could make this, keep in mind what would a normal person have on hand."
The loaded ham and beans included extra ingredients, like bourbon, that took the recipe beyond traditional.
"I love the bacon on top too," said Guzy.
In describing how the team created the recipe, Chef Gary Williams said they started with the traditional ham and beans idea and "after that, it was just playing around with texture."
The bacon adds "smokiness," he said; "the corn and jalapeno is in there for a little snap and crunch, freshness; tomato paste adds richness; . . . rest are flavoring ingredients."
The students noted at one point they had some cheese in the soup, but ended up eliminating it because they found it didn't add anything to the recipe.
When asked why they opted for black beans, the students said it was mainly for color, "to break up monotony of the bowl."
Schroepfer enjoyed the final product.
"It's a nice play on comfort food with a little more pizazz," she said.
"I think it would be fun to make too, and people sometimes want to have fun cooking," added Frick. "Sometimes it's not so much that you're hungry, but you want to try to make something new."
Consumers can look for the ECC culinary students' recipes within the next couple of weeks on Frick's website, www.frickmeats.com
The goal for having the recipes on the packages is between April and June, said Guzy.
'Much to Be Gained'
The success of this first collaboration between Frick's and the ECC culinary arts program has both teams already looking ahead to future projects.
"Frick's would definitely like to continue the collaboration and will be discussing with ECC how we might even expand it in the future," Guzy told The Missourian. "There is much to be gained by both ECC and Frick's.
"We hope that the students gained solid real world experience in developing recipes for consumers and that perhaps it may interest some in a career as a research chef."


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Lauren Conrad has just guest designed a new collection of tote, clutch and coin purse for Linea Pelle.
Not only Lauren Conrad is a talented actress, but fashion designer as well. Goes from TV to fashion, the TV star once again puts her designer hat on, becoming the guest designer for Linea Pelle.
She among others helps designing coin purse, tote, and clutch.
"I love the bag (tote) because it holds so much and the leather is super soft," Lauren tells JustJared.com about her new collections. "It is available in 3 colors. There's also a clutch and a coin purse."
Lauren Conrad's Linea Pelle Collections are now available online for order exclusively through Lpcollection.com.
Turned fashion designer as well, Lauren has her fashion collection debuted by September 14th. The clothing line, simply called "Lauren Conrad", is available at laurenconrad.seenon.com.
On screen, Lauren is best known for her role in the MTV reality series, "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" and "The Hills."


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SPRINGFIELD, N.J. – The University of Pennsylvania men's golf team shot 310 as a team on Saturday and is in eighth place after two days at the Ivy League Championships. The 54-hole tournament has completed two rounds on the famed lower course at Baltusrol, which is playing to par-70 this weekend.
Columbia is in first place after shooting 276 as a team on Saturday; the Lions are at 578 and 11 strokes ahead of second-place Yale (289 on Saturday, 589 for the tourney). Penn is at 612 through the two rounds, four shots behind Princeton, five behind Dartmouth, and six behind Brown.
Ben Cooley continues to lead the Quakers; his 74 on Saturday was the team's low score and puts him at 147 for the tourney which is tied for ninth in the 40-player field. Dane Walton (75 on Saturday) is tied for 15th overall, at 150, while Patrick O'Leary (79) is tied for 26th at 154. Austin Powell and Tomas Agrest both carded 82 on Saturday; they are 38th and tied for 39th, respectively, with two-round scores of 161 and 165.
The teams will tee off for Sunday's final round beginning at 8 a.m. For Penn, Agrest will tee off at 8:00; Powell will tee off at 8:08; O'Leary will tee off at 8:16; Walton will tee off at 8:24; and Cooley will tee off at 8:32. The Quakers will be playing with Princeton on Sunday.
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Pharrell Williams Working With Kendrick Lamar + T.I.
Pharrell Williams is making music with T.I. and Kendrick Lamar, according to an image posted on Billionaire Boys Club that shows the guys hanging out in a Los Angeles recording studio.
There's no context to the photo, so we can only guess at what the trio was cooking up. T.I. sports a Hustle Gang sweatshirt, while Williams gives the "shush" expression, letting us know that he's not going to tell us anything about the music they were creating just yet.
The guys also got together in Austin last week at SXSW, where T.I. was performing a set for the BET Music Matters Showcase. Tip invited Lamar on stage to team up on a live version of 'Memories Back Then.' Later in T.I.'s set, he brought out Pharrell to perform 'What You Know.' Lamar, who topped MTV's 2013 Hottest MCs in the Game list, recently filmed a video with T.I. for 'Memories Back Then.'
Pharrell has been one of the hottest producers in hip-hop for more than a decade. He produced a track for T.I.'s 'Trouble Man: Heavy is the Head' album, and he's also been linked to upcoming projects by Miley Cyrus and Beyonce.
Watch the T.I. 'Ball' Video Feat. Lil Wayne
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Made with tender chicken, ham and parmesan cheese. Since 1827. Dated for freshness. Refrigerated for freshness. Inspected for wholesomeness by US Department of Agriculture.
Dough: Durum Wheat Flour (Semolina, Durum Flour), Water, Eggs. Filling: Cooked Chicken Meat (Chicken Meat, Water, Rice Starch, Sea Salt), Bread Crumbs (Flour, Sugar, Yeast, Soybean Oil, Salt), Proscuitto (Pork, Salt), Chicken Fat, Ricotta Cheese (Whey, Milk, Cream, Vinegar, Xanthan Gum, Locust Bean Gum, Guar Gum), Parmesan Cheese (Pasteurized Part Skim Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Chicken Broth, Water, Seasoning (Yeast Extract, Natural Flavor, Salt), Salt, Spices, Soy Lecithin.
Follow these instructions for the best quality & food safety. Cooking Instructions: 1. OPEN package. 2. ADD pasta and 1 Tablespoon olive oil to 4 quarts boiling water. 3. REDUCE heat and boil gently 8–10 minutes or until tender. (Stir frequently to prevent sticking). 4. DRAIN water from pasta. 5. SERVE with BUITONI® sauce or toss lightly with olive oil & enjoy. If frozen, do not thaw. Cook using instructions above. May be frozen. Must be kept refrigerated. May be frozen up to one month.
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By Emmett Berg
STOCKTON, California (Reuters) - California investigators digging up human remains from several burial sites that a convicted serial killer recently drew on maps have heard from the public about more than 60 unsolved missing-person cases, a sheriff's spokesman said on Wednesday.
After five days of excavation at the first site, a sealed, abandoned well 100 miles east of San Francisco, authorities have recovered nearly 1,000 human bone fragments as they sift through soil and other debris one bucket-full at a time, said Deputy Les Garcia, a spokesman for the San Joaquin County Sheriff.
Investigators also have unearthed a woman's ring, a purse, shoes and some coats from the 50-foot-deep well, located near a former cattle ranch in the community of Linden and known as weekend gathering spot for local teenagers, he said.
The well is one of five sites identified on maps drawn by Wesley Shermantine, who was convicted in May 2001 of four murders dating back to 1984 and is currently on California's death row.
Prosecutors have previously said they believed Shermantine and his co-defendant, Loren Herzog, a childhood friend who was convicted of three murders and committed suicide last month, were linked to as many as two dozen killings.
The pair were dubbed the "Speed Freak Killers" for the methamphetamine-fueled violence they were found to have committed. Herzog's murder conviction was reduced to a single count of manslaughter on appeal, and he was released on parole after 14 years in prison.
A Sacramento-based bounty hunter who has followed the case, Leonard Padilla, has said the directions pointing to the burial sites were furnished to him by Shermantine after Padilla agreed to pay the killer $33,000 for information leading to the location of his victims' bodies.
Garcia told Reuters the sheriff's department obtained Shermantine's maps and letters from the Stockton Record newspaper, which acted as an intermediary.
The sheriff's deputy said it was too soon to know how many victims might be found buried at the sites.
But a telephone hotline set up by state and local investigators assigned to the case has fielded queries about 65 missing persons who callers feared might have fallen victim to Shermantine and Herzog's killing spree during the 1980s and '90s, Garcia said.
Besides the trove of bone fragments retrieved from the well in Linden, remains unearthed miles away from two separate, single graves near San Andreas in Calaveras County have been identified as belonging to two of Shermantine's victims -- Cyndi Vanderheiden, 25, who disappeared in 1998, and Chevelle Wheeler, 16, missing since 1985, Garcia said.
Garcia said that once investigators are finished combing through the Linden well, they will turn their attention to two more sites charted by Shermantine, one of them a second well near the first that Padilla said he believes also could prove to be a mass grave.
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|OWC Mercury Extreme Pro-RE SSD SSDMXRE100
|Reviews - Featured Reviews: Storage
|Written by Olin Coles
|Tuesday, 01 June 2010
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ATTO Disk Benchmark
The ATTO Disk Benchmark program is free, and offers a comprehensive set of test variables to work with. In terms of disk performance, it measures interface transfer rates at various intervals for a user-specified length and then reports read and write speeds for these spot-tests. There are some minor improvements made to the 2.34 version of the program, but the benchmark is still limited to non-linear samples up to 256MB. ATTO Disk Benchmark requires that an active partition be set on the drive being tested. Please consider the results displayed by this benchmark to be basic bandwidth speed performance indicators.
Our basic bandwidth speed tests begin with the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro-RE SSD connected to the Intel ICH10 controller in AHCI mode, as the ATTO Disk Benchmark tools performs file transfers ranging from 0.5 KB to 8192 KB. The 100GB model we received reveals 286 MBps maximum read speed that plateaus from 64-8192 KB file chunks, and 276 MBps peak write bandwidth plateaus from 64-8192 KB. These exceeds the 260/260-MBps speeds suggested by SandForce, and are slightly better than specifications given by Other World Computing.
Drive Hardware
In the next section, Benchmark Reviews tests sequential performance using the CrystalDiskMark 3.0 software tool...
the agility 2, Vertex 2 and, i might be wrong, but the corsair are all cheaper.
the mistake here being that it is sold on a MAC website, which, instantly means you will pay more for it, because it is pushed as a MAC product.
she's fast, or dear is she fast, but its not the cheaper of the SF-1200 controllers.
Boot up time is more then twice as fast as before. Prior boot up average 52.6 seconds. Boot up average now 22.1 seconds. Applications even faster !
AS of 7/05/10 23.79gb Used 35.89gb Free Total 59.68gb.
Boot time reduced by about 40 to 50%.
At start up, the 7 or 8 apps I have set to auto-launch ALL open together within one or two bounces. I never used auto-launch at login before because it used to be so slow.
Even apps like OpenOffice 3.2 and Filemaker Pro 11 launch within 1 or 2 dock bounces. Mail launches and is usable within .5 second of clicking on it. Paging through large PDFs in preview is smooth and almost seamless, as is Coverflow or iPhoto preview of large groups of photos or PDFs.
Best upgrade I've made to any computer I can ever recall owning; been using them since the Timex Sinclair 1000 in 1980.


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LAST week we ran a story about a mystery 'Good Samaritan' who brought back a wallet lost at the side of the road.
Now the honest stranger has been revealed as Glyn Jenkins, 46, from Barry, after a reader recognised the story and got in touch with his contact details.
Argus reporter Jen Mills, 26, lost the wallet in Newport on June 11.
But thanks to Mr Jenkins, the wallet was returned with all the cash and cards inside.
From the address on her driving license he brought it to her Dewsland Park Road address, but Ms Mills was not at home.
Mr Jenkins said: "It's a bit sad that a person who does the right thing makes the news – it wasn't a big deal; I was just in the area."
Ms Mills said: "I'm very grateful to Glyn – and I'll definitely try to return any lost wallets to pass on the good deed debt."