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SALT LAKE CITY — Mitt Romney released a long list of the Utah elected officials backing his second White House bid on Wednesday that includes most of the state's congressional delegation, key executive officeholders and lawmakers.
"These endorsements represent the deep level of support that I have enjoyed over the years in Utah," Romney said in a statement accompanying the 1½-page list.
The former leader of the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City credited the bond he formed "with many Utah residents and officials during my time running the Olympics and continue to appreciate the level of support of so many in the state."
Only Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, the state's freshman senator, and the lone Democrat in the delegation, Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, are not on the list of Romney's Utah congressional supporters.
Lee has not endorsed a presidential candidate yet, his spokeswoman, Emily Bennion, said. But Sen. Orrin Hatch, Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Rep. Rob Bishop, all R-Utah, have backed Romney.
Hatch said Romney "has the proven record to lead our country and understands that middle-class families, small businesses and the private sector are the key to a bright future — not government."
Chaffetz, who announced his support for Romney Tuesday, called him "the right man at this critical time to lead us toward recovery." Bishop cited Romney's "record of job creation that the president lacks."
Also not on the list is Gov. Gary Herbert, who served as lieutenant governor under the other GOP presidential candidate in the 2012 race with ties to Utah, former Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.
Lt. Gov. Greg Bell, who is pushing for the state to fund an earlier presidential primary that would benefit Romney's campaign, is a supporter, as is Attorney General Mark Shurtleff.
Herbert has been careful not to endorse either Romney or Huntsman but has pointed out he backed Romney in 2008 and has encouraged him to run again.
Most of Utah's GOP establishment also endorsed Romney then, except for Huntsman, who backed the party's eventual nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain. Some of McCain's top aides are now working for Huntsman's presidential campaign.26 comments on this story
The Republican lawmakers supporting Romney include Senate President Michael Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, and the rest of his leadership team. But on the House side, House Majority Leader Brad Dee, R-Ogden, is the only member of the House GOP leadership on the list.
One lawmaker, Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, said his name "was mistakenly listed" by Romney because he is endorsing Huntsman, who "jump-started our state's economy by cutting taxes, reducing waste and passing market-based health care reform."
Utah has been a major source of campaign cash for Romney, who raised more than $5 million here in the 2008 campaign. Romney also won an unprecedented 90 percent of the vote over McCain in Utah's 2008 GOP primary.
Utah Officials Endorsing Mitt Romney:
Senator Orrin Hatch
Congressman Jason Chaffetz
Congressman Rob Bishop
Lieutenant Governor Greg Bell
Attorney General Mark Shurtleff
State Senate President Michael G. Waddoups
State Senate Majority Leader Scott K. Jenkins
State Senate Majority Whip Wayne L. Niederhauser
State Senate Assistant Majority Whip Peter C. Knudson
State Senator J. Stuart Adams
State Senator Curtis S. Bramble
State Senator Allen M. Christensen
State Senator Margaret Dayton
State Senator Lyle W. Hillyard
State Senator David P. Hinkins
State Senator Daniel R. Liljenquist
State Senator Ralph Okerlund
State Senator Aaron Osmond
State Senator Jerry W. Stevenson
State Senator Daniel W. Thatcher
State Senator John L. Valentine
House Majority Leader Brad L. Dee
Representative Johnny Anderson
Representative Roger E. Barrus
Representative Jim Bird
Representative Derek E. Brown
Representative Melvin R. Brown
Representative LaVar Christensen
Representative Fred C. Cox
Representative Bradley M. Daw
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The numbers don't look good when it comes to the Jaguars' pass defense entering Sunday's home finale against Tennessee.
Interceptions: 10 (tied for 23rd).
Yards per game: 249.9 (22nd).
Completions of more than 20 yards: 59 (Second-most).
The Jaguars' calculated gamble last off-season was to blow up their secondary to get younger, faster and more physical across the board. It included an almost entirely new defensive back group.
The model, of course, for coach Gus Bradley is the secondary Seattle built when he was the Seahawks' defensive coordinator.
In a span of three drafts, Seattle added safeties Earl Thomas (first round) and Kam Chancellor (fifth) and cornerbacks Richard Sherman (fifth), Byron Maxwell (sixth) and Walter Thurmond (fourth).
Last spring, the Jaguars drafted safeties Johnathan Cyprien (second round) and Josh Evans (sixth) and cornerbacks Dwayne Gratz (third), Demetrius McCray (seventh) and the injured Jeremy Harris (seventh).
Cyprien, Evans, Gratz and safety Winston Guy, who is added to this mix because he's a second-year player, have combined for 33 starts.
Compared to the Seattle secondary of 2011, Bradley said, "I do see some similarities. As we continue to go, we'll get more and more of a feel of what we're looking for and what we're asking from our corners. We're seeing glimpses of it."
Said defensive backs coach DeWayne Walker: "It's been good watching them grow. It's been a steady process."
Following practice Thursday, Walker was asked to evaluate how the four rookies (not including Harris) and Guy have played through 14 games.
The first pick of the second round, Cyprien has received the most attention among the young defensive backs and can at least be described as steady.
What's the story? The way Cyprien has been used — close to the line of scrimmage in Bradley's scheme as opposed to playing Cover 2 — has limited the amount of memorable plays he's made this year. He has 83 tackles, one interception and two forced fumbles. There's a ton to like, though, about Cyprien's immediate and long-term future. He's a vocal leader, is physical in run defense and has improved his coverage skills.
What Walker said: "He's getting better. He's learning how to be a pro, he's a hard worker and he's made progress. His understanding of the defense has gotten better. His tackling has really improved as the season has progressed and I'm happy to see that he's getting his hands on some footballs. If he continues to take the approach of working hard and being conscientious, he'll get better and better. He embraces the leadership role, embraces wanting to be out on the field all the time and wanting to be a key contributor."
Following a solid August, Gratz sustained a high ankle sprain in Week 1 that derailed him until around midseason.
What's the story? The positive for Gratz is that he has committed no enforced penalties and his two interceptions are in a three-way tie for the team lead. When Gratz has gotten into trouble this year, it's usually been due to a technique error — not a good enough jam out of the line, not shuffling the receiver toward the middle of the field, etc. What would be intriguing is if the Jaguars draft or sign a faster corner — do they try Gratz on the slot receiver?
What Walker said: "It took him a couple of games, and he would admit it, too, to get back in the groove, but it's been good to see he's caught up to where he was before the injury. He's a pretty mature kid that embraces the situation he's in. Anytime you put a kid in press coverage every play, it's a constant evaluation and it's constant progress. To me, it's something you're never going to master. [The next step] is playing the techniques properly and knowing when to look for the football."
An injury to Dwight Lowery gave Evans, who the Jaguars felt they stole in the sixth round, his opportunity a few months before it was anticipated.
What's the story? Evans played free safety for every snap of five consecutive games (Weeks 4-8) before seeing his time semi-split with Guy after the bye. Evans has 44 tackles, four penalties, no takeaways and no sacks. It's debatable if he has the speed to range from sideline to sideline in a single-high safety look. He may enter camp next year in a competition with Guy to start at free safety.
What Walker said: "Anytime you can get a lot of snaps as a young guy, you're learning on the job what you can and can't do. When [his playing time was reduced], most guys would have been [complaining] and moaning about it, but he used it to his advantage to try and save his body a little bit. It helped him to watch and see things from a different perspective."
One of two seventh-round picks, McCray had a great preseason finale against Atlanta, but has been limited to special teams this year.
What's the story? McCray's snaps have been limited because veterans Alan Ball and Will Blackmon have been durable. The Jaguars like how he's picked up the scheme but a likely role for him in 2014 is special teams ace and as a fourth cornerback.
What Walker said: "He's very smart so the reps he gets in practice, he really pays attention. Even though he hasn't gotten a chance to play as much as the others, he's used his time to watch and learn and make the most of the playing time he did receive."
Acquired from Seattle via waivers after the preseason, Guy is the wild card of the group.
What's the story? Guy gets to the football fast and gets there in a bad mood. Now it's getting him to do the right things when in position to make plays. He played four snaps in the first eight games before getting his chance. He's the best thumper in the Jaguars' secondary. Although Bradley said Guy's best fit is strong safety, it's possible he could be the 2014 Week 1 starting free safety.
What Walker said: "He plays fast and he's physical. Those are two attributes he brings to the table. He's still a young player, too."
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Efficient Yanks down Rangers
Efficient Yanks down Rangers
Despite collecting just four hits on the night, New York took a 7-4 victory against Texas, improving to 5-0 at Ameriquest Field this season. Mike Mussina pitched six quality innings, earning his team-leading 12th win of the season.
"You don't expect to get four hits and get seven runs," Mussina said. "Our guys did what we usually do when we're successful; we made them work and throw a lot of pitches. That's efficient hitting for only four hits."
The Yankees put on a clinic in two-out hitting -- or two-out walking, as the case may be -- by scoring six runs with two outs. New York plated three of those runs in the fourth with just one hit, while Aaron Guiel added three more with a home run in the fifth. Miguel Cairo also knocked in a pair of runs for the Yankees.
"That's what the role players are all about," manager Joe Torre said. "A lot of people really don't pay attention to them, but for a manager, it's nice to plug people in that know what they're doing. They're not going to carry a team, but they'll make very important contributions."
New York moved within a half-game of Chicago in the American League Wild Card race and remained 2 1/2 games behind the Red Sox in the AL East.
Texas took a 2-0 lead with runs in the first and third against Mussina, as Adam Eaton held the Yankees hitless through the first three innings.
Eaton, starting for the first time this season after tearing a tendon in his right middle finger in Spring Training, quickly retired the first two batters in the fourth. But his command inexplicably left him after that, as he walked two batters and hit another to load the bases.
Andy Phillips followed with another walk, forcing Alex Rodriguez home for the Yankees' first run. Phillips, who is mired in an 0-for-18 skid at the plate, impressed Torre with his plate discipline.
"There have been times when it's been really difficult to be patient, when I feel like I'm swinging at everything," Phillips said. "Tonight, I felt the swings I was putting on the ball were good swings, and that allowed me to be more patient. I was seeing the ball much better."
Cairo's infield single found a hole in the middle of the field, scoring Jorge Posada and Guiel to give New York a 3-2 lead.
"It was a huge inning for us," Torre said. "Phillips had a great at-bat, walking with the bases loaded, and Cairo, even though it didn't get out of the infield, he hit it up the middle where nobody could get to it."
Mussina sat the Rangers down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the fourth, sending the offense back to work. Guiel rewarded Mussina with a three-run homer against Ron Mahay, his sixth of the season and second in two days.
"When you score runs, you want to go out there and put up a zero, do the best you can to put your team back in there right away," Mussina said. "Guiel has two homers in two days, the other guys are getting on base and making the other side work. This is just an example of needing all 25 guys on the roster."
Mussina gave a run back in the fifth on Rod Barajas' solo homer, but he pitched through the sixth, leaving with a 6-3 lead. He was charged with three runs on five hits and two walks, striking out four.
"Overall, it wasn't the easiest day," Mussina said. "It was a lot of work, I got myself in some trouble a couple of times, but for the most part, I'm satisfied with it."
"Typical Mussina is all you can say," Rangers shortstop Michael Young said. "Typical Mussina doesn't bode well for the other team."
Ron Villone allowed a run in the seventh without recording an out, so Torre called on Scott Proctor with men on second and third and no outs.
Proctor, who has not allowed a run in his last six outings, got three straight outs, allowing one of the runners to score on Young's sac fly. Proctor, who also pitched the eighth, retired all six batters he faced.
"In that situation, you're trying to keep the game where it's at or as close to it as you can," Proctor said. "You want to pick up your teammates. It's a long season, but now is what we call 'Moneyball.' We're paid to get the guys out."
"You can't say enough about Scott Proctor," Torre said. "He's out there with a great presence. He came in with second and third and nobody out tonight and gave up a sacrifice fly; it was tremendous for us."
Mariano Rivera closed out the game with a scoreless ninth, notching his 24th save of the season.
Mark Feinsand is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Subject: William Stark Kelly Ireland to North Carolina
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:20:17 EDT
If anyone has a William Stark Kelly in their ancesters would you please help
me. He was born March 17, 1738/39 in Ireland. He married about 1770 in Wake ,
North Carolina. He died December 13,1824 in Pelhem , Franklin County , Tn. He
Mary Francis Durham, daughter of William Durham and Margaret Coleough. I do
not know where he was in Ireland and have been unable to find the ship he
came over on.
Where would the ship land if going to North Carolina. Thank you for all the
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...couldn't find my dream board: "Zoo York 20th Anniversary Spot Check".
(i live in Paris, and the Deck was simply unavailable)
a great depression was the result...
until i found it on skates.co.uk.
...hope...finally hope!!
but in my heart i thought: "...'ForbidenWord', what about the shipping coast?? let's check..."
...and it was truely very very reasonnable.
3 working days later i got my Zoo York. Eversince i make love to it by flipping it frontside and backside under my feet. sometimes the board likes it SM and hits me hard against my tibia. i shout, i cry, but then in the end, i flip it again, i grab it, i pop it...higher, better, harder.
Skates.co.uk Team: you rock!
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Self Magazine Will Nag You Via Text Until You Lose Weight
Self Magazine has a solution for you chronic dieters. All you have to do is sign up for their SMS plan, and they'll send you tips and gentle encouragement 5 times a day to keep you fit. Great idea. Until it starts stressing you out.


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St Croix Accused of Cashing-In On Steve Jobs Death With Turtleneck Promotions?
Clothing label St. Croix is being accused of falsely claiming former Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs wore its turtlenecks.
The company was pressed Tuesday after it was exposed that Jobs cultivated his trademark look with apparel from Japanese designer Issey Miyake, a longtime friend.
St. Croix avers that Steve Jobs was a "great innovator and fan." Just hours after Jobs' death the company put out style 1990, a classic black sweater priced at $175.
St. Croix's website put up a special "In memory of Steve Jobs" page along with a "buy now" button attached to a photo of the tech revolutionary. The site also reported it would donate $20 towards cancer research for every 1990 style sweater sold.
The style quickly went out of stock and the company reveled in an almost 100 percent increase in sales in the days following Jobs' death.
The founder of Knitchkraft (producer of St. Croix), Bernhard Brenner, said in an interview after Jobs' death, that Jobs would purchase 12 turtlenecks each year. Brenner also said Jobs would make personal calls to the company expressing his satisfaction with the shirt.
Representatives for St. Croix are saying that this is the first time hearing that Jobs' sweater is not made by them.
St. Croix spokesman Bruce Amster said he didn't know Jobs' looks was the responsibility of Miyake and the company's ties to Jobs was based upon "consistent feedback" that the sweater was by St. Croix.
In a biography of Jobs written by Walter Issacson, it is revealed that the sweater is the product of a design friendship.
Quoting a conversation with Jobs, the biographer writes: "So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a hundred of them."
St. Croix now appears to have taken down any mention of Steve Jobs from its site, according to a Daily Mail report.
Jobs passed away on Oct. 5 and was the genius behind Apple's revolutionary products.


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First NIH report on college drinking includes recommendations from Cornell counseling and student services experts
By Linda Grace-Kobas |
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The first report on college drinking conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was released today (April 9, 2002) at a news conference in Washington, D.C. The report, "A Call to Action: Changing the Culture of Drinking at U.S. Colleges," is the result of a three-year effort conducted by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).
Philip W. Meilman, director of counseling and psychological services at Cornell University, and Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, contribute chapters that explore the complexities of various factors that lead to binge drinking and the challenges for campus officials as they try to develop policies relating to alcohol use and abuse.
Their reports support the conclusions that more research needs to be done on why students abuse alcohol and that there is not one solution that will fit every campus.
Meilman's chapter,"College Factors That Influence Drinking," is co-written by Cheryl A. Presley of student health programs at Southern Illinois University and Jami S. Leichliter with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The three authors review the extensive research on alcohol abuse on campuses that has been conducted since 1953, when college and university administrators first reported alcohol to be a problem. Numerous studies, most prominently the national Core Alcohol and Drug Survey, have included student surveys. Researchers looked at factors ranging from age, race, gender, involvement in Greek societies, athletic participation, type of institution, geographical region and others to try to identify specific factors and/or patterns that lead to alcohol abuse by students.
Researchers have concluded that the students most likely to engage in the heaviest binge drinking are white males, especially those involved in fraternities and athletics; that students in the Northeast consume more alcohol and have a greater incidence of binge drinking than those in other areas of the country; and that the incidence of underage and binge drinking on a particular campus can be affected by environmental factors, such as the number of bars nearby and the price of alcohol.
"In spite of all the information researchers have compiled, there are still many questions we must answer in order to develop effective strategies to reduce alcohol abuse by students," Meilman said in an interview. "We must look at how various factors interact with each other and develop a model for action that includes the campus environment, the student culture on individual campuses and individual traits."
The authors write, "We believe that models need to be developed where the institution and the individual are examined in relation to each other."
For example, Meilman and his co-authors suggest that researchers more closely examine "self-selection," by which students choose campuses that they perceive to have heavy binge-drinking behavior by students and how they arrive at that perception.
A closer look at the density of bars and restaurants and the price of drinks also should be conducted, the authors recommend. Another factor that may be important, they write, is "the surrounding community's tolerance of drinking," exemplified in "easy carding" and drink specials that lure students. Many colleges and universities, including Cornell, conduct "social norms" campaigns that aim to educate students that most of their campus peers do not engage in binge drinking.
All these factors must be examined in relation to individual students' beliefs about drinking, their drinking histories and perceptions of risk, the authors conclude.
"So What Is an Administrator to Do?" is the chapter contributed by Murphy, who has been responsible for student life and academic support services at Cornell since 1994. She currently is chairing the Cornell President's Council on Alcohol and Drug Use.
"Fundamental to addressing the issues of alcohol use and abuse is a clear understanding of the mission and philosophy of a given institution," Murphy writes. "While all schools must comply with state and federal laws, no single policy can cut across the 3,000+ institutions of higher learning; they simply are too different."
Institutions vary in their approach to discipline on campus, ranging from "freedom with responsibility," which is Cornell's approach, to strict orientation toward discipline, as at many religious-affiliated schools. Whatever the approach, each institution must develop and widely disseminate rules and regulations, but only the ones that "the school is willing (and able) to enforce," Murphy writes. "There is much greater risk of liability for failure to enforce strict supervisory rules and regulations than there is for conscientious implementation of policies that emphasize student responsibility and that impose sanctions when students fail to fulfill their obligations."
She gives special attention to the challenges of regulating alcohol use among Greek organizations and among athletes, noting, "it is apparent that alcohol is closely associated with the athletic enterprise in this country." She supports intervention strategies to control alcohol at campus events, including those organized by fraternities and sororities, athletic events and alumni events.Institutions must set "realistic but visionary goals" in assessing alcohol use on campus and developing policies to control it, Murphy writes. Leadership, she writes, must come from the president of the institution.
"Often these goals will not be for total prohibition - in fact, one could argue that such policies have already failed miserably in this country," she concludes. "Yet, at the same time, a call for moderation should not be seen as an acceptance that the alcohol culture is intractable and simply a 'rite of passage.' In fact, change can occur and has occurred in several different ways. The true success is found when campus and community members come together to form solid coalitions and all key stakeholders, especially students, see that such change can be an improvement."


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A truly remarkable initiative was kicked-off this week in Abuja, Nigeria. If successful, it will protect millions of young children and pregnant women whose lives are at daily risk of being snuffed out by a single bite of a malaria-carrying mosquito. There are 57 million cases of malaria in Nigeria each year, resulting in 300,000 deaths; 85% of the fatalities involve young children.
What's remarkable about the new initiative is its plan to mobilize and train at least 300,000 (and potentially one million) imams, priests, ministers and pastors who will carry to the most distant, isolated villages of Nigeria the public-health message that "insecticide-treated bed nets save lives." In a stroke of luck, the particular species of African mosquito that carries malaria and bites humans is active only after dark, which makes the insecticide-treated bed net a life-saving intervention. Indeed, the treated net not only serves as a physical barrier, but it kill mosquitoes on contact; the upshot is that, if 70% of the population of a village is sleeping under bed nets, the remaining 30% benefit as well due to the sharply reduced number of mosquitoes in the village.
At this week's event, the Sultan of Sokoto (Nigeria's most senior Muslim leader) and the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja joined hands to kick-off the training of an initial, core group of 100 faith leaders. Members of this core group plan to fan out across Nigeria, and each member will transmit the training to a cadre of their peers, each of whom, in turn, will train yet another group, and so it will go until at least 300,000 have been trained by the end of 2010. Pretty amazing stuff.
Not that this volunteer army doesn't have its work cut out. Many Nigerians, especially those in rural areas, believe that malaria is caused by too much work or too much sunshine; so, the faith-leaders first task will be as health-educators. And, that's not their only hurdle. Nigerians have lived with malaria for so many generations that they tend to accept it as a normal part of life; overcoming this complacency will be a challenge.
Notwithstanding these challenges, there's reason for considerable optimism about the interfaith campaign. At the kick-off event in Abuja, the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for Malaria, Mr. Ray Chambers, said it best: "Working together, Nigeria's faith leaders have the credibility, influence, and reach to carry the message that 'bed nets save lives' to their nation's most distant villages. Their efforts will help ensure that the next generation of Nigeria's children will have the strength and good health to pursue their hopes and dreams."
Many experts believe that the Sultan's and the Archbishop's campaign--they've named it "Faiths United for Health"--will serve as a path-breaking model with broad applicability throughout Sub-Saharan Africa for instilling a cultural norm of valuing and embracing the consistent use of life-saving bed nets.


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I've been toying with the idea of switching over to Linux for a couple of years now, but being a forever OS optimist, I kept hoping Windows would get better. Turns out it didn't, so here I am!
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Welcome to the board and ask away.
Getting up to speed with Linux is a lot easier than it used to be, you'll be happy you did in the long run.
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I've taken this test thing to see which distro I should pick, and all the ones I was already considering came up, so I'm going to take your advice, Mizzle, and try Mint out
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I am kinda a noob too, been using Linux off and on since Red Hat first came out (I guess I bought discs at Comp USA)
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I have actually found many fixes and created many fixes in my short career with Linux...but I recently booted (kicked the habit) of using Windows and am now a full time Linux user
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Asse, Belgium
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Josse De Pauw (born 15 March 1952) is a versatile Belgian actor, film director, dramatist, author and columnist. He was married to modern dance performer Fumio Ikeda for over thirty years.
After graduating from the Royal Conservatory in Brussels De Pauw founded the mime theatre group Radeis (1976), and after that Schaamte, the theatre company that would be the start of the Brussels Kaaitheater. He both writes and performs in highly regarded theatre plays such as Larf and Weg (both with music by Peter Vermeersch, and has received many awards for his works, such as the Océ Podium Prize for his entire oeuvre in 2000. He has led theatre companies such as Het Net (Bruges), Victoria (Ghent) and Het Toneelhuis (Antwerp). WIth the latter company, he played the main role in "Tenebrous Heart", after Joseph Conrad's novel, performed in Paris in 2011.
Josse De Pauw played in about 50 movies, among them most of the movies by Belgian director Dominique Deruddere, including Crazy Love, Kaas (Cheese), Hombres Complicados, Wait Until Spring, Bandini and Iedereen Beroemd! (Everybody Famous). This last movie was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2000 Academy Awards. He played the Ringmaster in Philip Ridley's English-language thriller The Passion of Darkly Noon. De Pauw directed two movies of his own too.
- 2014 - Flying Home
- 2006 - Crusade in Jeans (Kruistocht in spijkerbroek)
- 2005 – Someone Else's Happiness (Een ander zijn geluk)
- 2004 - The Kiss (De kus)
- 2004 – 25 degrés en hiver
- 2003 – De vreemde Mann
- 2001 – Verboden te zuchten
- 2000 – Wild Mussels
- 2000 – Everybody's Famous! (Iedereen beroemd!)
- 1999 – Pour toujours
- 1998 – Hombres Complicados
- 1996 – Zwarte sneeuw, TV
- 1996 – Jeunesse sans dieu, TV
- 1995 – The Passion of Darkly Noon
- 1995 – The Flying Dutchman (De vliegende Hollander)
- 1995 - Last Call (Hoogste Tijd)
- 1994 – Just Friends
- 1993 – Aan Zee
- 1992 – L'Ordre de jour
- 1991 – Toto le héros
- 1989 – Wait Until Spring, Bandini
- 1987 – Crazy Love
- 1986 – De Wisselwachter
- 1985 – Wildshut
- 1984 – De stille Oceaan
Josse De Pauw has also published two books, consisting of his theatre plays intermingled with popular short stories from daily life: Werk (Work) and Nog (More). Werk was nominated for the Gouden Uil in 2000.


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- Jonah Kohn in the 13-14 age group (USA)—"Good Vibrations: Improving the Music Experience for People with Hearing Loss Using Multi-Frequency Tactile Sound." By creating a device that converts sound into tactile vibrations, Jonah's project attempts to provide the hearing impaired with an improved experience of music.
- Iván Hervías Rodríguez, Marcos Ochoa and Sergio Pascual in the 15-16 age group (Spain)—"La Vida Oculta del Agua (The Secret Life of Water)." Iván, Marcos and Sergio studied hidden microscopic life in fresh water, documenting the organisms that exist in a drop of water, and how those organisms influence our environment.
- Brittany Wenger in the 17-18 age group (USA)—"Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer." Brittany's project harnesses the power of the cloud to help doctors accurately diagnose breast cancer. Brittany built an application that compares individual test results to an extensive dataset stored in the cloud, allowing doctors to assess tumors using a minimally-invasive procedure.
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Route DescriptionTrailhead Elevation: 11481 ft
One Way Distance per my GPS: 2.7 miles
Approximate Hiking Time (one way uphill): 2:15 hours
At Boreas Pass, go toward the cabins on the east side of the road. Before the cabins, you will see a canal (a two foot wide ditch) that runs N-S. Follow the canal north about 0.5 miles on grassy slopes and level ground until you reach an area where a creek joins the canal from the east. This creek originates below the 12159 ft saddle. Turn east and follow a trail up a relatively steep slope among a bunch of Pine trees. You will soon go above the trees and the slopes ease up considerably. Follow the trail to the 12159 ft saddle.
Turn north and go up the crest of the gently sloped ridgeline to reach the summit. To save energy, you can bypass the false summits to the left of them. The route is obvious and cairns can be found along the way.


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Today, publishers Macmillan and penguin sent emails to eligible customers informing them that they could receive compensation from a settlement following the US Department of Justice antitrust against these companies, three other publishers, and Apple.
The notification follows a guilty verdict passed this Summer regarding the two publisher's collusion with Apple, and three others, to fix e-book prices.
Customers who purchased e-books between the dates of April 1, 2010 and May 21, 2012 may receive an estimated $3.06 for each New York Times bestseller. Non-bestsellers will only receive estimated compensations of $0.73.
The notification applies only to Macmillan and Penguin, and not to any of the others indicted in the lawsuit. The notification also indicates that this settlement is still being reviewed by the court, which has previously approved the settlements of the other publishers, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and the Hachette Book Group.
Currently, Apple is the only company left that refuses to settle with the Department of Justice and individual states.
Apple continues to deny its attempts to fix e-book prices with the latter companies.
Following the guilty verdict in July of 2013, an Apple spokesperson said, "Apple did not conspire to fix ebook pricing and we will continue to fight against these false accusations. When we introduced the iBookstore in 2010, we gave customers more choice, injecting much needed innovation and competition into the market, breaking Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry. We've done nothing wrong and we will appeal the judge's decision."
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After last night's segment on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" in which Maddow "slammed" Senator Orrin Hatch, the two had a little back and forth on twitter today:
@maddow (Rachel Maddow) ran me down on her show last night over my views on health care reform. Wonderful badge of honor. #utpol #utgop
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Dear @OrrinHatch: http://is.gd/9CnhP I didn't actually address your views, sir, just your misrepresentation of the facts.
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Archive for the 'OMG We're in Texas' Category
Mosquito control in the swap
Now that the drought is over we're back to swarm levels of mosquitoes. I don't really want to douse the yard with pesticides, it took years to get earth worms to move in after we bought the place. I'd hate to wipe them out again.
I'd be happy just keeping the mosquitoes out of the house.
Of all the things I've tried, what made the biggest difference was switching the irrigation system from spraying to drip. I guess there are not so many little pools of water around? idk.
Current attempt:
I purchased one of those electric room fresheners that you put in a bottle of liquid scent and some mosquito repellent. I picked a room freshener with plastic refills, they seal them up tight.
I drilled a hole in the bottom of the container, dumped out the scent, filled it with repellent and sealed up the hole.
There is an electric outlet right next to the back door, once the sealer dries I'll plug it in and we'll see how things go. If it works I'll have to find a better way to refill the container but this hack will do for testing.
Failed attempts at mosquito control:
— I planted a dozen citronella plants around the back gardens. Removing a leaf and wiping it on your arms does keep the mosquitoes away from you. It has no effect on the population in and around the yard.
— I planted lemon grass in the back gardens, no effect, and it grew like a weed and had to be removed.
— I tried placing mosquito dunks in places with standing water. There are too many tiny places, you can't get them all.
— I doused the hound with DEET to keep him from bringing in a cloud of mosquitoes every time he comes in. It helped a little, not enough to justify dousing the dog with neurotoxins regularly.
— I sprayed lemon grass oil around the front and back door frames. At first it seemed to be dropping the indoor mosquito population. But it turned out they were just down because it had been raining for a few days.
Lessons learned from the AC guy
Back home most homes don't have central air, and most have boilers instead of forced hot air heat. So this central heating and air conditioning is all new to me.
Today ours needed repair and I was able to follow ( stalk ) the repair guy all through and learn about the system.
If you have a built in electrostatic filter there are filters in there that need cleaning quarterly. If you have not cleaned yours Simple Green helps to remove the build up. If you put the filters back while they are wet you will fry the air filter unit.
If you have two units in a two story open home, set your first floor ac 2′ cooler than upstairs in the summer and 2′ warmer in the winter to properly balance the units.
If you use the extra good hepa filters you are probably not getting proper air flow through the system and you are beating the system up. The home ac units are not designed to push through that much material. Use the cheap filters.
A 15 seer is a good solid unit that will likely save 30%-35% over our current 10 seer units. After that energy savings per dollar spent up to 20 seer doesn't make much sense and the higher the seer the newer and flakier the technology.
A forced air heating and cooling system will last about 15 years with proper care. ( Don't forget to gently clean the fins on the outside units with a garden hose once a year )
A new system ( 15 seer 3-5 ton units ) will cost about 8k to replace. You need the outside compressor, the condenser in the attic, air filter and heater. If you skip the electrostatic air filter you can probably do it for about 6k.
If you need a good ac/heating guy in North west Houston give Proline a call.
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Brazo's Bend Trip
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Today we made another trip down to Brazo's Bend State Park. Going to Brazo's Bend is like falling into the land that time forgot. Everything there, the plants, the critters, the sounds are all like how you expected the earth looked millions of years ago. It is the kind of place where you wouldn't be surprised if a dinosaur wandered past you.
We were extremely lucky today, the alligators were quite willing to let us pose them and hold still for several close up shots. ( kidding of course ) We were able to get in several very good alligator shots while they were happily sunbathing.
If you go to Brazo's Bend, stop at the first parking lot after the gate and wander about the first pond. It's only about a mile or two hike. You'll be tripping over alligators if the sun is out and the weather is warm.
Huntsville State Park
Today we went to the Huntsville State Park. There are several trails, we walked about 4 miles and covered less than a third of them. It was dry there too, every thing is so dry this year. So we didn't see any alligators or water birds. There were lots of ravens and the usual woodland birds.
We weren't sure about the snake till we got home and id'd him. The yellow bellied water snakes flatten their heads and coil and make like a water moccasin when they get scared. Had I known he was faking I would've got some better shots. The round eyes are the give away.
If you like biking through the woods ( 10 speeds ) then this is a great park. There were mountain bikers on most of the trails and they are clearly welcome there.


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A collection of the best sketches from Warner Brothers' long-standing animated cartoon series, 'Looney Tunes'. This selection contains animations featuring the mischievous, speech-impaired protagonist, Daffy Duck. Episodes are: 'Duck Amuck', 'Dough for the Do-Do', 'Drip-Along Daffy', 'Scaredy Cat', 'The Duckster', 'The Scarlet Pumpernickel', 'Yankee Doodle Daffy', 'Porky Chops', 'Wearing of the Grin', 'Deduce, You Say', 'Boobs in the Woods', 'Golden Yeggs', 'Rabbit Fire' and 'Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century'.
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PENTICTON - Penticton Council gave the go-ahead for Skaha Lake waterfront development Monday, but citizen approval was anything but unanimous.
Plans for a major waterfront facelift at the south end of the city were first unveiled at the May 19 council meeting.
According to all reports, including postings on social media sites and a series of public meetings and information sessions held in the weeks leading up to Monday's meeting, feedback to Trio Marine Group's two-phase plan to rejuvenate the marina and add a waterpark was mostly positive.
So it was a surprise to many, including staff and council, when council chambers filled to capacity and well beyond with a large number of residents mostly opposed to the plan.
For more than three hours, council listened to one resident after another express disapproval, not for the development in general, but for Phase two — the portion of the development that would see waterslides constructed on some of the city's green space.
In spite of what former city councillor and realtor Gary Denton said was a difference of opinion over land use, the arguments boiled down development versus non-development, some people declaring: 'a waterpark can go anywhere.'
Several residents felt the developing Penticton Indian Band locatee lands across the channel would be the ideal place for watersides, with several expressing doubts about the economic viability of such a business in the long run.
Mayor Andrew Jakubeit said after the meeting Trio Marine Group came up with the idea of a waterpark in response to the city's request for ideas that would attract families and provide a venue for youth in the city. He said the developer felt it was an amenity that would complement other aspects of the marina master plan.
"Whether a waterpark would survive as on a stand-alone basis, I don't know, " Jakubeit said.
Other arguments against the waterpark included the voices of several residents of Regional District Okanagan Similkameen Electoral Area D, who argued the project had the potential to negatively impact the water quality of Skaha Lake. As representative of the residents surrounding a major portion of the lake, area director Tom Siddon requested the city bring the regional district into discussions surrounding lakeshore use.
Others objecting to the "signing over of public lands for private profit" included former Penticton Mayor Jake Kimberley, who twice warned council to perform its due diligence in ensuring the developer had deep enough pockets to see the proposal through. He also warned council not to destroy the hard work of past councils in assembling the parkland 30 to 40 years ago.
Council deliberated a set of four recommendations put forward by staff, wavering at times between delaying the project and adding further conditions.
Coun. Campbell Watt summed up their dilemma.
"We've been here three-and-a-half hours, beating the same drum. This has been a lot to take in. I've only heard one or two negative comments coming into tonight's meeting. I need time to absorb this, yet I'm very supportive of the waterpark."
Coun. Konanz voiced a similar opinion, noting the waterslides were the "biggest issue I've heard about. They've been used as a metaphor for the decline in youth activities in the city," she said, adding the marina needed and upgrade and the area needed a restaurant.
They opted to not delay it any further and voted 5-2 in favour of executing the Skaha Marina and Waterfront Development Agreement.
An amendment to set aside 100 per cent of the project's revenue sharing funds into a parkland-waterfront amenity fund put forward by Coun. Konanz also passed unanimously.
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It's ok to admit it—we've all been there. Your favorite actor just announced they are doing a sequel to a movie that you never thought would happen. Or maybe your best friend just told you they are having quadruplets. Or, my personal favorite, your 35-year-old sister just gave you the good news that she is moving into your spare bedroom! After you catch your breath and begin to realize that your life will never be the same again, you look at your calendar and realize what day it is…April 1st.
Well, the good news is you can use that spare bedroom for the pottery room you've wanted to create for so long. The bad news is that in a couple weeks, you will have to spend 24 hours deciphering every single thing your friends say in attempts to determine whether they are telling you the truth or just a clever little white lie.
In reality, April Fool's Day is a harmless, fun holiday that gives us an excuse to have a little more fun on a Tuesday than we would normally have. It's a day that helps remind us that we don't always have to take ourselves so seriously, and sometimes a little joking and laughter is the perfect remedy for an otherwise dull day.
In honor of this sly day of trickery, we've scoured the Internet to locate some of the greatest April Fool's jokes of all time!
Have it the right left way. Back in 1998, Burger King decided they wanted to pull a fun trick on their burger-loving customers. They announced that they were now going to be offering their beloved Whopper with an option for southpaws. The new "Left-Handed Whopper" featured all of the same condiments as the infamous Whopper sandwich they were known for, but all of the ingredients were rotated 180 degrees to accommodate lefties! Obviously this wasn't true, so for the 10% of those people out there who never mastered basic tasks using their right hands, it looks like you will just have to conform yet again to the needs of the 90%.
Houston, we have a liar. Who doesn't dream of going to space someday? The zero gravity feeling of weightlessness is something we can only access in our wildest dreams. Well, back on April 1 of 1976, British astronomer Patrick Moore convinced the listeners of BBC Radio 2 that for one brief moment, they could all experience that very sensation. He announced that at 9:47 AM, the planet Pluto (or, the rock formally known as the planet Pluto) would pass directly behind Jupiter. When this happened, a very rare gravitational pull would occur, causing the gravity on Earth to become slightly less "withholding" for just a few seconds. Now, of course this wasn't actually true, but that didn't stop dozens of listeners from calling in to the radio show telling them about their "zero-gravity experiences!"
Yo quiero el Liberty Bell. So apparently fast food restaurants really enjoy pulling a fast one on their faithful customers. Just two years before the "Left-Handed Whopper" fiasco, Taco Bell decided they wanted to get in on the April Fool's fun, and they wanted to do it up big. On April 1, 1996, Taco Bell bought out full-page ads in major newspapers across the United States declaring that the company had just purchased the Liberty Bell! To add to the chaos, they even announced that the precious American artifact would be renamed to the "Taco Liberty Bell". This enraged hundreds of citizens who called the Philadelphia National Historic Park complaining that this was an outrage. Taco Bell eventually came clean about the joke, and they even donated $50,000 for the upkeep of the Liberty Bell.
Locally grown, organic…spaghetti? Looks like the Brits are at it again! All the way back in 1957, the British news show Panorama showcased a news story unlike any the world has never seen. They broadcast a three-minute segment about different spaghetti farms in southern Switzerland that had begun their harvest. The reason they were able to do this? They had just experienced a very mild winter, and of course, they didn't have those pesky "spaghetti weevils" damaging their crops. Between the show's beloved and trusted anchor Richard Dimbleby selling of the story so convincingly and video footage of a Swiss family pulling pasta off of "spaghetti trees," Panorama received hundreds of phone calls from viewers asking how they could begin growing their own spaghetti! They were told to "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." Delicious.
Bonus round. This April Fool's joke is ongoing, and has been annually tricking gullible New Yorkers since 1986! Every year, the city of New York publishes press releases advertising the New York City April Fool's Day Parade. The catch? You guessed it—it doesn't even exist! Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 28 years in a row? Shame on me.
April Fool's Day is a great reminder that it is ok to have a little fun every now and then. This year on April 1, remember to keep your guard up, your senses alert, and maybe, just maybe, you can even trick a few friends of your own into believing that you just got chosen to be one of the first America citizens to go visit Mars…or something like that.
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The problem with the "Justice League" movie (and I think they'll end up calling it just "Justice League" and not "Justice League America", being that Hollywood can barely stand anything that would deem to "promote" America nowadays), is that I just don't believe it will ever get made. Forget, for one moment, about all the problems associated with the characters, and who has the rights to which characters, or that Superman and Batman have their own franchises and continuity to worry about, etc. All that stuff. I just don't believe a "Justice League" movie can be made because it would just be too complicated. But I hope I'm wrong, and in case I am, here's the latest news on the movie, specifically, George Miller is being rumored as taking the director's chair.
Firstshowing had this:
From two different sources, Collider and Latino Review, the same rumor has appeared: the Justice League of America movie might be directed by George Miller. Back in late February we brought you the news that Warner Brothers had announced that a JLA movie was in the works, just no further details. Well the rumor mill is running at full speed and it's saying that the man who directed Mad Max and Happy Feet will be taking on the JLA.
Collider also adds more, stating that the same source says that the movie will feature Superman, Batman, The Flash, Wonder Woman and the Green Lantern. Aren't they a little bit late on announcing major comic book movie news given that the San Diego Comic-Con just ended? The same source states that Warner Brothers is focusing heavily on the JLA movie and that it might (don't forget this is still a rumor) come before we even see the next Superman Returns sequel from Bryan Singer.
Also part of the report is that one of the characters, which will not yet be named, may be killed in the movie. That's right, Warner Brothers is planning continued spin-offs and sequels for almost all of the JLA characters except for one. However, this film is so far away from actually starting even pre-production, that it won't be for many years until we have solid story information.
So there you go. The latest rumor has George Miller, of "Happy Feet" and "Mad Max" fame, doing the movie. The guy certainly has an eclectic enough filmography to pull this off, although I have great doubt that a 62-year old man would preoccupy himself with the production of a comic book movie. Surely something this size would take at least two years of pre-production, production, and post.
If I was 62-years old and I could do any movie I want, I don't know if I would want to spend at least two years on a kiddie comic book movie…


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The task force will be responsible for drafting a revised City Charter which would become the governing document should the city and town actually consolidate.
The task force will consist of four town residents and four city residents, over 18-years-old, and not employed by either the town of the city. Spouses of city or town employees cannot apply.
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Many advocates also argued that kindness to animals distinguished a civilized culture from a barbaric one. Since cruelty to animals often led to cruelty to humans, teaching compassion for animals improved human society. Nearly all the early animal advocates were what we today would call animal "welfarists," dedicated to alleviating animal suffering without necessarily challenging their use by humans. Animal welfare remains the orientation of a large sector of today's humane movement.
The 1975 publication of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation is often credited with launching the modern animal rights movement. Very generally speaking, contemporary animal rights theory holds that non-human animals' interests should be given equal weight to those of humans; that they should have legal status in themselves; and that they are not ours to eat, to experiment on, or to use for labor or entertainment. (The animal rights purists known as "abolitionists" would abolish all exploitation of animals.) While a welfarist believes in alleviating animals' suffering without necessarily altering their legal and moral status, a rights advocate challenges our unequal relationship with animals as "speciesism," a term coined by the British animal-rights activist Richard Ryder.
The distinction between animal welfare and animal rights is sometimes seen as establishing a sharp divide among animal advocacy organizations. The ASPCA, for instance, is considered to be an animal welfare group and PETA, an animal rights group, while HSUS falls somewhere between them, though it is often placed closer to the rights end of the spectrum. But the actual nature of this apparent division can become very slippery to pin down.
Animal-rights advocates themselves approach the issue of rights from various perspectives. Philosophers debate at length about what a philosophy of animal rights might actually entail in both theory and practice. (A useful example is Animal Rights, a collection of essays edited by Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum.) The debate can be fractious, with abolitionists hurling the label "welfarist" at less extreme rights advocates and arguing that policies that fail to overturn animals' status as property only perpetuate a cruel and unjust system.
However, the majority of rights advocates work both to relieve immediate suffering and to make gradual changes in public opinion, rejecting such all-or-nothing logic. As Voltaire wrote, "The best is the enemy of the good." Singer co-founded the Great Ape Project, for instance, which seeks fundamental rights—life, freedom and protection from torture—for these primates. It could be said that, by singling out certain primates based on their similarity to humans, the project practices speciesism, but it has made significant advances toward the legally acknowledged rights of at least some animals.
When we move from theory to practice, to animal advocacy organizations' positions on individual issues, the distinction between animal rights and animal welfare becomes even more blurred. Take, for instance, the work on behalf of animals in our industrial agriculture system, arguably the most important issue within the humane movement today. PETA holds that "animals are not ours to eat," and promotes veganism. HSUS also encourages a vegetarian or vegan diet, and, like PETA, publishes vegetarian/vegan recipes. But both PETA and HSUS adopt strategies of gradual change; both support incremental approaches, encouraging people to begin by replacing some meat meals with vegetable ones, or at least switching to products from less inhumanely treated animals.
When it comes to legislation to reduce animal suffering in our factory farms—such as California's HSUS-sponsored Proposition 2, the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, which was on the November ballot, gained bipartisan support, and passed with 63.3 percent of the vote—differences between welfare and rights can virtually disappear. The act outlaws battery cages, veal crates and gestation crates. While abolitionists maintain that working for less inhumane farms actually perpetuates oppression by making animal farming seem more acceptable, PETA supported Proposition 2, as did many other humane organizations of various political stripes.
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On Jan. 12, Bil Corry thought he saw a cloud of doom hovering over his computer. Two of the biggest problems cluttering up Internet users' mailboxes are chain letters and spam. Chain letters are e-mail messages with an indefinite shelf life; often hoaxes, they can continue to circulate indefinitely by encouraging their recipients to forward them to everyone they know. (The most recent example is probably the hoax a few months back that purported to be from Bill Gates and offered recipients $5,000 if they would forward the message.)
Spam, as most everyone knows by now, is unsolicited commercial e-mail, the scourge of the Internet, which clogs Netizens' e-mail boxes and costs ISPs (and ultimately, you and me) outrageous gobs of money.
So when Corry, a former OC resident now living in Escondido, found in his inbox a message combining the two, he was appropriately horrified. The "chain spam," headed "$1,000 for sending an e-mail," was pitching a remote data-backup system offered by a company called AB Mailing, and it offered unwary recipients the chance to win $1,000 in a contest if they forwarded the message to their friends.
"This one is particularly insidious," Corry says. "It combines the 'Bill Gates will give you $5,000 so forward this message' spam with a get-rich-quick advertisement. It also violates the new state law regarding unsolicited e-mail advertisements. Ironically, by forwarding the message, your readers may then be liable under the new state law."
Corry says he promptly filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office; he's still waiting to hear back. (The attorney general's office confirmed that they had received a number of spam complaints, but they declined to state how many.) But further research has suggested that instead of having on our hands the birth of a new, virulent and irritating form of spam, we have a rather sordid tale of money, trickery and revenge.
Fun, huh?
The odyssey started when I noticed the chain spam contained an 800 number to call for more information, which struck me as particularly dim. Anti-spam activists have been known to call spammers' 800 numbers and ramble on for hours, thus racking up the spammers' phone bills and making spamming an intensely unprofitable exercise. So I called it, and instead of being connected with AB Mailing, I reached a company called Net Profit in Greenville, South Carolina. There, I spoke with a nice but frazzled woman named Melody Jolly, who confirmed that her phones had been ringing off the hook about the spam. She vehemently denied that her company was behind it.
"On Monday the 11th, I came to work and had 26 messages on my voice mail," Jolly said. "At first, we were just confused. But we're averaging anywhere between 25 to 75 calls per day. Some of the calls have been really interesting-I had someone call up and sing the ABCs 23 times in a row on my voice mail."
Jolly added, "We're talking about turning it over to our attorney, but every piece of information we've hauled up on this company [AB Mailing] is falsified. Every bit."
I tried to reach AB Mailing myself, but the phone number listed with Internic (the domain-registry agency) was disconnected. The company's Web site is down. And repeated calls to the company's upstream provider, SOSGLB, went unanswered.
I was inclined to believe Net Profit was on the up and up. John Mozena, co-founder and "PR droid" of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, an anti-spam organization, suggested several general hypotheses:
1. The spammer inadvertently typed in the wrong telephone number. "I see spams every day with the most egregious spelling errors, just stupid mistakes," Mozena said. "It doesn't fill you with a whole bunch of confidence in the offer when the name of the product is misspelled."
2. The spammer just made up a number to make the offer look legitimate, and it happened to belong to Net Profit.
3. The spammer deliberately included Net Profit's 800 number in order to wreak havoc on the company.
4. Net Profit really is behind the spam, and the company is just denying it to put an end to the harassment.
Evidence is leaning strongly toward hypothesis No. 3. Revenge spams are hardly unknown; one fairly common tactic is for spammers to forge the headers so it appears the message came from a prominent anti-spammer, thus guaranteeing the victim will be deluged with angry e-mails and/or mail bombs. The opinion among anti-spam activists who have been dissecting the mailing is that Net Profit is the target of a malicious forgery, and the chain-letter touch was thrown in just to spread the damage as far as possible. For one thing, the message was sent to many of the posters on the news.admin.net-abuse.email newsgroup, the heart of anti-spam activism on the Net-the people most likely to complain and cause Net Profit problems.
Second, Corry received the original spam advertising AB Mailing's services on Jan. 11; Net Profit immediately began getting phone calls. On Jan. 18, another message started showing up in people's e-mail boxes; this one advertised Net Profit's services and gave the same 800 number. The description of the company's services was identical to a description appearing on an industry convention Web page. Who out there believes Net Profit is stupid enough to send out a second spam identifying itself by name when it's already getting cussed out on its voice mail several dozen times per day? And why would the same 800 number be attached to spams advertising two completely different businesses?
Finally, SOSGLB, the company listed with Internic as AB Mailing's domain server, is well-known among anti-spammers as a "spam factory."
Which sounds like the more plausible culprit?
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A couple of days after our initial conversation, Jolly told me Net Profit had identified the person they believed to be behind the spam and was planning legal action. "They denied everything," she said. "But as of Wednesday morning, I've received no calls regarding the spam. The 75 calls per day we were getting dropped to zero."
It's small consolation for the folks at Net Profit that we seem to be dealing with the common revenge-spam vermin, rather than a new and troublesome life form. But Net Profit staff are no doubt taking a deep breath every time the phone rings. And of course, there's always the fear that some clever spammer will find out about this fabulous new method of clogging up our bandwidth.
May God have mercy on us all.
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|great review (5:13pm est wed apr 04 2007)
sounds like this is the game that will finally force me to persuade my wife that rpgs with magic aren't all bad.
i wondered how the two versions (360/ps3) would stack up against each other.
your point regarding additional development time is well made. however it's also notable that this is bethesda's first game on ps3. ps3's software development environment is quite different to that of pc games or xbox360 games where ms has made every effort to smooth the path from one to the other. not to mention all the propaganda that is frequently touted about ps3 being hard to develop for and sony's tools being crap. if that's so, then why is it that first wave games on ps3 are looking as good as they are?
no doubt though, the 360 developers are preparing another wave of gears of war like "wow moment" games.
how do you think that they will shrink this game to run on psp, since a version for psp has been announced?
|i have this for the pc (5:26pm est wed apr 04 2007)
great game, glad to hear its ported well, i too wonder how it compares to a 360 version (that has been patched and has all the dlc except si).
as for the psp version, its not the same game. if you go to www.elderscrolls.com and look up oblivion travels, even though it uses the title oblivion its not even regonisable as the same game, except the title of course :). – by a_brit
|a_brit (5:34pm est wed apr 04 2007)
thanks, that's what i was wondering. i couldn't see how they could even attempt to bring the same kind of game play to the psp, it's simply not powerful enough to manage it. although a good many first person games exist on the platform, and work pretty well. – by highlandcynic
|ahhh…. (5:37pm est wed apr 04 2007)
the psp version will be dungeons only. still sounds like a decent game though. – by highlandcynic
|how do the versions compare you ask…. (9:17pm est wed apr 04 2007)
we'll we've got all three versions: pc, x360 and ps3.
from what we can tell, the ps3 version is a port + expansion of the pc version. the x360 is a little different and not quite as polished as either the pc or ps3 versions.
by better, i mean the level of detail is higher, frame rates better and overall responsiveness a touch better on the pc and ps3 versions.
i think part of this is probably because the pc has plenty of storage to hold a huge game and the ps3 has that massive blue ray drive to hold this massive game with all those maps and still have a high level of detail. they obviously had to cut things back to fit the memory/disk (aka, on a single dvd) envelope of the x360.
overall its a "great" game, but maybe not the "best" game i've ever played.
still, it is possibly an interesting indicator. so far, when comparing titles on the x360 and the ps3 we've noticed that all the x360->ps3 ports look "at least" as good on the ps3 as they do on the x360. we've got mostly 2nd/3rd generation x360 games and those are obviously 1st generation ps3 games we are comparing them to. if typical console trends hold true, the ps3 should get substantially better while the x360 continues to improve at a much more modest rate. hard to say how it will turn out.
|re:netguy (10:09am est thu apr 05 2007)
doesn't the game also fit on a single dvd for the pc as well? – by notnormal23224
|xbox 360 controller too heavy? (10:27am est thu apr 05 2007)
"i know the sixaxis doesn't have rumble, but for a game like this i prefer its light weight to the heavier, rumbling xbox 360 controller. i was able to put in longer time in my sessions without getting tired. it may seem like a minor point, but i think it's worth mentioning if you are trying to decide which version to pick out."
i thought this comment was hilarious! my wife and can play our xbox 360s for hours at a time, and not once have i heard her complain about it making her tired.
this sounds like a cheap way of trying to defend sixaxis if you ask me… that, or james is just really weak! – by jeremy
|new controls (6:33pm est thu apr 05 2007)
with the new p$3 mouse/nunchuck controller, this game would probably be a lot better!
– by the_real_mark
|notnormal23224 (3:45am est fri apr 06 2007)
yep the game does come on one dvd, plus on the 360 version the downloadable content (dlc) is only capable of being stored on the harddisk so access times of reading that must be faster.
i wonder it netguy compared the patched version of the 360 and pc to the just released version of the ps3 as there has been improvements since its first release via 2 patches. the ps3 comes with those two patches already aswell as the standard downloadable content.
i imagine (but don't know) that transfer rates from the blu-ray is faster than the dvd drive on 360, so that could reduce loading times. – by a_brit
|rumble, sixaxis… (4:17am est sat apr 07 2007)
the wiimote has both accelerometers (2) and rumble, and jeez, i can barely lift it off the table!
i honestly have never cared for the ps controller. it's too cramped and (well light i guess) cheap feeling. functionally it does fine, which i guess is the important part. they've just never strayed from the "buttons" approach (other than dual shock). with the xbox controller, the triggers felt like, uh, triggers (or a gas pedal). – by the_real_mark
|controllers? (2:54am est mon apr 09 2007)
what has that to do with the topic?
how the heck can you call the dual shock too cramped and then opine about the beauty of the wiimote? good grief! – by highlandcynic
|hc (5:26pm est mon apr 09 2007)
don't worry, you'll understand once you play the wii…
and james complained about the x-box controller being too heavy. hence my comment.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Reliever Will Smith took over in the fourth and fired 4 1/3 scoreless innings Monday, lifting the Kansas City Royals over Seattle 3-1.
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Jonathan Adler Shows His Love For Animals in His New Pottery Collection
Jonathan Adler's New Pottery Collection Is Totally Wild
Chic designer Jonathan Adler, who produced one of my favorite pet bed designs, is showing off his love for animals in a new way — with pottery and home accessories! His line of place card holders, pottery, salt and pepper shakers and lamps made in the likeness of whales, penguins, giraffes and hippos is right up my alley — it's all wild, baby! These goodies are available for purchase on his website ($18-$700) now, but if we're really lucky, we may see a few of the items on the shelves at Target. I'm pretty sure I've already seen the bull place card holder and snail napkin ring there already. Although the dachshund up there on top can't be considered a wild animal, he sure could use some love. Just look at that swaying back!