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The latest bug in Internet Explorer could create a security issue on the same scale as Conficker, says a research at AVG.
"It's better than [the vulnerability used by] Conficker," Roger Thompson, chief research officer at AVG, said.
"It exposes the whole world, and can be exploited through the firewall. That's better than Conficker, which mostly did its damage once it got inside a network."
Conficker, the worm that exploded into prominence in January when it infected millions of machines, exploiting an already-patched bug in Windows that Microsoft had thought dire enough to fix outside its usual update schedule.
The worm hijacked a large number of PCs - estimates ranged as high as 12 million at one point - and then assembled them into a massive botnet able to spread malware, plant fake antivirus software or distribute huge amounts of spam.
"I have no doubt that the really bad guys are bustling to get this [new vulnerability] into their exploit toolkits," said Thompson.
"For the Conficker people, this could be the next thing. They waited until they had a really good exploit, then combined that with some smart strategies. So I wouldn't be surprised if they picked up on this."
The vulnerability Thompson's worried about is in the Microsoft Video Controller ActiveX Library, or the 'msvidctl.dll' file, an ActiveX control that can be accessed using Internet Explorer (IE).
Although the bug has been used by hackers since at least June 9, it only made it into the public eye this week, when several security companies, including firms in both China and Denmark, reported that thousands of compromised sites were serving up exploits.
Microsoft acknowledged the vulnerability in a security advisory this week and said it would produce a patch and provided an automated tool to disable the ActiveX control by setting nearly three-dozen "kill bits" in the Windows registry.
"This is a good exploit with a big lump of infectable people," said Thompson.
One reason why the bug is an excellent choice for hackers is that it hasn't been patched. When Conficker first appeared, the flaw it exploited had already been patched by Microsoft. It turned out, however, that there were plenty of PCs that had not been updated with the fix.
Thompson wouldn't hazard a guess as to whether Microsoft would be able to craft a fix in time to add it to the patches slated for delivery next Tuesday, July's regularly-scheduled update day. "But I'm fairly confident that they're trying very hard," he said.
Attack code is readily available, Thompson said, meaning that attackers not yet abusing the bug don't have to figure out an exploit of their own. "If the people who infect banner ads use this before there's a patch, then watch out," he warned.
Today, Microsoft admitted that researchers at IBM's ISS X-Force had reported the vulnerability in 2008, but did not name the date.
"It's not the end of the world or anything," said Thompson. "But I won't be surprised to see Version 2.0 of Conficker with this. It seems custom-made for them."
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Willmar unable to stop Rocori's late comeback
WILLMAR -- A mild fall night filled with promise had a dismal ending for the Willmar Cardinals on Senior Night at Hodapp Field Friday.
Willmar led the Central Lakes conflict until the final two minutes. That's when Rocori's Chris Lardy ran around right end on third down to score from four yards out and put Rocori ahead 19-17.
With 1:53 left, Willmar still had a chance. Quarterback Alec Saunders moved his team down field with an 18-yard sideline pass to Adam Fagerstrom and a 21-yard throw to Jordan Smith over the middle to reach the Rocori 22 -- within Smith's field goal range.
But on third-and-15, Saunders' pass was deflected into the arms of linebacker Aaron Schneider to end any comeback hope and secure the win, ending Rocori's four-game losing streak.
It was Willmar's second straight loss on its home field after a stirring road win at Sartell three weeks ago. The loss likely shoots down any chance for a home playoff game.
"It's tough," said cornerback Nathan Boie, one of 27 seniors introduced on parents' night before the game. "I thought we had it at halftime, but we kept saying 'it's zero-zero'. They just played harder than us in the second half."
Willmar played a strong first half, mounting two 65-yard touchdown drives and another mid-range drive that ended with Smith booting a 28-yard field goal to lead at break 17-7.
But the Cardinals (2-4, 2-5) didn't score post intermission.
Saunder's 16-yard keeper and Smith kick put Willmar up 7-0. In the second period, Smith made a spectacular end-zone catch while blanketed by two defenders on a looping 24-yard pass from Saunders.
Spartans quarterback Adam Backes directed the second-half comeback. It was done without senior fullback Nick Schneider (averaging 101 yards per game), who sat out the second half with a thigh bruise after gaining 84 yards.
With the offense stalled, the Willmar defense almost pulled it out. Instead, on fourth-and-19 at the Willmar 34 with 4:45 left in the fourth quarter, Backes scrambled until he found Dusty Schlangen in the middle for a 20 yard gain to the Willmar 15. Six plays later, Lardy scored the go-ahead touchdown.
Rocori 19, Willmar 17
Rocori 0 7 6 6 -- 19
Willmar 7 10 0 0 -- 17
Wil - Alec Saunders 16 run (Jordan Smith kick)
Wil - Smith 24 pass from Saunders (Smith kick)
Roc - Chris Lardy 9 run (Reggie Fraley kick)
Wil - Smith 28 field goal
Roc - Cole Schmitz 1 run (kick blocked)
Roc - Lardy 4 run (pass fail)
Team statistics
First downs: 14 ... Rushing: 36-219 ... Passing (com-att-yds-int.): 8-19-111-0 ... Fumbles lost: 1 ... Penalties: 3-17
Individual statistics
Rushing: Adam Backes 6-43, Spencer Schulte 5-11, Chris Lardy 14-71, Nick Schn eider 6-84, Cole Schmitz 4-5, Mike Toren 1-5 Passing: Backes 8-19-111-0 ... Receiving: Dusty Schlangen 4-93, Mitch Bork 2-5, Ben Rausch 1-9, Lardy 1-4 ... Punting: Brett Eisenschenk 2-26.5 ... Interceptions: Aaron Schneider ... Fumble recoveries: none
Team statistics
First downs: 18 ... Rushing: 38-145 ... Passing (com-att-yds-int.): 14-22-157-1 ... Fumbles lost: 0 ... Penalties: 5-30
Individual statistics
Rushing: Isaiah Streed 6-11, Alec Saunders 25-90, Stevin Carlson 5-12, Nathanial Swoyer 2-32 ... Passing: Saunders 14-20-157-1 ... Receiving: Jordan Smith 9-94, Taylor Filipek 4-45, Adam Fagerstrom 18 ... Punting: Smith 2-34.5 ... Interceptions: none ... Fumble recoveries: Elijah Nash ... Tackles (solo-assist): Smith 1-2, Tim Chermak 3-2, Colin Erickson 2-0, Justin Hamman 3-1, Nate Swoyer 1-4, Alec Saunders 3-3, Cody Stegeman 2-2, Logan Birkland 5-3, Chris Duscher 0-1, Joe Wetterling 0-5, Nash 3-4, Nathan Boie 1-0, Fagerstrom 0-1, Ben Barnes 1-2, Ryan Filipek 0-4 ... QB sacks: none

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Professor Myron J. "Jack" Smith, Jr., has authored a new book, "The Fight for the Yazoo, August 1862-July 1864: Swamps, Forts and Fleets on Vicksburg's Northern Flank." This is the 85th volume published by the director of Tusculum College's Thomas J. Garland Library.
In early August 1862, Union and Confederate eyes turned to the Yazoo River, which formed the developing northern flank for the South's fortress at Vicksburg, Miss. For much of the next year, federal efforts to capture the citadel focused on that stream, but, guarded by stout defenses, swamps and motivated defenders, it could not be turned.
Finally, Union troops crossed the Mississippi River below, came up from the south and captured Vicksburg from the east. From July 1863 to August 1864, sporadic Confederate resistance necessitated continued federal attention. Charts/diagrams for the work were provided by the historian/naval architect David Meagher while the cover art features a contemporary watercolor of one of the involved Union gunboats.
Smith's latest volume is the sixth in a series of related works from the same publisher.
The first was "Le Roy Fitch: The Civil War Career of a Union River Boat Commander." It was published by in 2007 by McFarland & Company, which is located in Jefferson, N.C. and publishes more than 400 books a year on all subjects.
The second volume in the series was Smith's 2008 "The Timberclads in the Civil War: The Lexington, Conestoga and Tyler on the Western Waters." It was followed in 2010 by two additional works, "Tinclads in the Civil War: Union Light-Draught Gunboat Operations on Western Waters, 1862-1865" and "The USS Carondelet: A Civil War Ironclad on Western Waters." A fifth volume, "The CSS Arkansas: A Confederate Ironclad on Western Waters," was published last year. Smith's next work, "The Civil War on Western Waters: A Biographical Directory," is scheduled for publication in 2014.
Smith's first book, a literature review of Civil War navies, was published in 1972. In the 41 years since his titles have covered a variety of other subjects, including examinations of popular fiction (spy novels, action and sea fiction); international conflicts, espionage, terrorism and political-media history (World War II, Vietnam, tv network news); community and college histories (Huntington, Ind.; Salem College, Tusculum College); airlines and logistics; and sports (baseball, football, equestrian studies).
During his work on those volumes, a number of notable individuals have generously contributed forewords, commentary, craft notes and editorial support, including three U.S. presidents (Nixon, Reagan, Clinton), reporters (John Chancellor, Richard C. Hottelet), generals and admirals (Mark Clark, Pete Quesada, Elmo Zumwalt), sports heroes (Roy Campanella, Tommy Lasorda, Tom Osborne, Bernie Kosar), historians (Bruce Catton, Cornelius Ryan, Charles McDonald, Lyman Kirkpatrick, John Erickson), and novelists (Tom Clancy, Federick Forsyth, Jack Higgins, Clive Cussler, Stephen Coontz, Norman Mailer, Hammond Innes, F. Van Wyck Mason, and Alexander Kent).
A copy of his 2003 "The Airline Encyclopedia," covering 3,000 pages, was donated to the Greeneville-Greene County Public Library in honor of local surgeon Dr. Stephen Flohr. In 2006, Smith was the first Greene Countian to publish an e-book.
In 1994, Smith co-authored "Glimpses of Tusculum" with Tusculum professor emeritus Dr. Donal Sexton. Two years later, he introduced Internet-based library databases and services for Tusculum College students and faculty. Recipient of various awards and citations, Smith, who also lectures widely on his Civil War interest, remains the only American to have received The Richard Frank historical prize from the German government.
On Tuesday, Jan. 15, Smith presented an illustrated talk before the Greeneville Noon Exchange Club at Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Thirty people were in attendance to hear about "General Morgan's Bad Day."
Smith said, "Although challenging, writing can be rewarding fun. You often meet the most interesting people in the process."
The price for "The Fight for the Yazoo" is $55. It can be ordered from McFarland & Company, Inc., Box 611, Jefferson, N.C. 28640. It also is available at the Tusculum College bookstore and on Amazon.com.


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A weekend of vandalism is keeping police busy in the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth.
Someone toppled about 45 gravestones at the Historic Little Church of St. Joseph's. Many of the gravestones were broken.
St. Joseph's Parish Administrator Lynn Kotecki tells KARE-TV the vandalism happened sometime Friday night or early Saturday morning.
Police in Plymouth say the broken gravestones are just one incident in a night filled with vandalism. They are also looking for suspects in an expensive act of vandalism that left dozens of residents in one neighborhood with their tires slashed.
Investigators haven't yet commented on whether the crimes may be related.
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LONG ISLAND - A man who caught a ride on top of a New York train has also caught the eye of police.
The reckless commuter was caught on video Sunday morning on top of a Long Island Rail Road train in Queens.
Boruch Nemtzov, 28, was waiting at the station when he spotted the man on the train's roof, according to the Daily News.
He videotaped the man, who was on his stomach holding onto the top of the train as it sped by the station.
"What was he doing up there? Maybe he was trying to beat a $20 fare," Nemtzov told the paper.
The train was bound for Babylon, which is about a 45-minute ride.
Nemtzov called police, but it is unclear if the man was arrested.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Mayo Clinic and Roche Diagnostics on Monday outlined a new, rapid DNA test for anthrax that cuts the time for test results to less than an hour but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said growing the bacteria in a culture remains the gold standard diagnostic.
Mayo microbiologist Dr. Franklin Cockerill III said the new test to detect anthrax bacteria in people as well as in the environment can detect as few as two bacteria and gives results in "less than an hour instead of days." People often have millions of anthrax bacteria in their system shortly after infection by the pathogen.
"It will allow physicians to begin treating their patients who have been exposed in a more timely fashion," Cockerill said. He added laboratories can now quickly determine if a bacteria is present, but "they can't tell whether it is anthrax or not."
The Mayo test, which has not been validated in actual field testing, is to be made available to local and regional laboratories this month -- free of charge at first.
The test was developed using Roche's LightCycler instrument for polymerase chain reaction or PCR based assays. Only the CDC and a few other large laboratories around the country have this type of testing ability.
Mayo issued a statement that said it had been working with the federal government to make the test formula available to federal agencies that request it. It said Roche was working with the Food and Drug Administration "to determine requirements for expedited regulatory approval."
Dr. Bradley Perkins, an anthrax expert with the CDC in Atlanta, said to his knowledge, the agency had "not been in contact with Mayo clinical researchers in the evaluation of or (had) interaction regarding these tests."
Perkins said while there is room for new anthrax diagnostics, CDC would want the Mayo test to be compared to and validated against its own polymerase chain reaction or PCR assays it uses in the field before making any determination on efficacy. PCR testing is a selective way to detect the genomic sequences of bacteria. Its ability to detect very low levels of genetic material is well documented in medical and scientific literature.
Perkins said, however, the gold standard for confirming anthrax remains actual growth of the bacteria in a laboratory culture, which can take up to several days.
He said CDC also was not using nor advocating the use of rapid field testing techniques for detecting anthrax in the environment, adding validation of such tests has been incomplete and tends to show an inappropriate sensitivity rating. He said rapid field testing often can require 10,000 anthrax spores to be present before a positive reading is given, which would be fine for a letter loaded with anthrax powder, but inappropriate for testing an entire building, which often comes up with a spore or two in an isolated area.
As the CDC continued to investigate existing anthrax cases, in Washington the government on Monday opened some buildings shut down for anthrax testing even while additional anthrax spores were being discovered.
The Supreme Court returned to its usual home to hear argument Monday, the first time the justices have met on Capitol Hill in more than a week. Chief Justice William Rehnquist made no mention of the recent anthrax scare as he called the day's argument to order.
An air filter at the court's off-site mail-screening facility in Maryland tested positive for the anthrax bacterium late last month. A little more than a week ago, anthrax also was found in the main mailroom of the court itself.
However, 440 court employees and journalists tested negative for anthrax exposure, and no anthrax was found in the rest of the courthouse.
In an indication that normalcy is returning to the Hill -- much of the nearby congressional office space also reopened Monday.
At the Pentagon, however, six post office employees and one Navy service member are on antibiotics after a test of two post office boxes showed signs of anthrax Saturday.
The post office in question is a U.S. Postal Service facility. The separate Pentagon mail distribution center room has been tested twice since Oct. 15 with negative results. Seventeen private post office boxes were tested Oct. 30 for anthrax; two of them were positive.
One belongs to the Navy sailor who has gone to the Bethesda Naval Hospital where he is being tested and is believed to be on a course of antibiotics. Six civilian post office employees are taking the antibiotic Cipro, according to a Pentagon official.
The CDC Monday said it has confirmed 17 cases of anthrax infection and continues to watch five suspected cases. Four people have died from inhalation infection -- two in Washington, one in Florida and one in New York.
Florida has two confirmed inhalation cases, New York has one confirmed inhalation, along with four confirmed cutaneous or skin anthrax infections, and three suspected cutaneous cases. In New Jersey, confirmed cases include three cutaneous and two inhalation, as well as two suspected cutaneous infections. In Washington, there are five confirmed inhalation cases.
The most recent inhalation death, that of Kathy T. Nguyen, 61, a stockroom employee at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in New York, continues to baffle investigators although there is one new clue to the case.
New York officials said the woman's death is a homicide but cannot connect her to any of the other anthrax links, such as the postal service, Congress or the media. Perkins said Monday they are following the lead she may have worked in a New York restaurant, but had no other information on what that may mean or where it might lead.
Perkins said while investigators have a good timeline for her illness after she was hospitalized "beyond that we are having difficulty identifying all aspects of where she might have been, how she might have been exposed in the two weeks prior to illness."
Environmental testing has turned up no anthrax in Nguyen's personal belongings, at her apartment or any other places she was known to have been. He said comparing her case to the other inhalation deaths shows she is out of the potential exposure time range to have come in contact with any of the known anthrax letters sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, NBC or the New York Post.
He said, however, CDC does not believe she was infected through cross contamination of mail and added the agency also does not believe cross contamination would present enough spores to cause anyone to get inhalation anthrax.
Perkins said the agency had no plans to vaccinate people simultaneously for anthrax and smallpox, but added CDC staff were attending smallpox readiness training and had been vaccinated against the virus, which is not susceptible to antibiotic treatment.
(With additional reporting by Pam Hess and Mike Kirkland in Washington.)


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Nanotechnology - the science of materials and machines measuring a billionth of a metre - has become big business, with more than 450 firms, 270 university departments and $4bn (£2.48bn) worth of investment in the US, Europe and Japan.
The industry already produces catalysts for industry, stomach-probing camera systems no bigger than an aspirin, and magnetic devices to enable ever greater computer memory.
The adventure has hardly begun, according to James Ellenbogen of Mitre Corporation in Virginia. He told the AAAS meeting in Denver that his six-legged walking silicon chip, a million times bigger than some future nanomachine, was a demonstration in control engineering: making computer, legs and wiring work in a coordinated way.
It would be driven by computers composed of 16,000-bit memory systems, each small enough to sit on a single human cell. The original IBM personal computer came with 16 kilobytes of memory. There are eight bits to a byte.
This step would shrink the memory of the old IBM PC into the space of about eight human skin cells. But researchers had to fit a control system into the robot insect.
"We started thinking very seriously about building very, very tiny computer control structures for tiny, tiny machines, with the idea that materials broadly could have active elements built into them. The robot is a small-scale demonstration of how you would go about doing that."
The research could lead to materials that would respond intelligently and repair themselves once damaged.
There was more good news at the conference, which was told that the world may be safe from devastation by asteroid for the foreseeable future. But the bad news is that, if the world was facing inevitable destruction, scientists might not tell you anyway.
David Morrison of Nasa Ames research institute told the meeting an international survey had identified 600 asteroids of diameters greater than one kilometre and plotted their paths.
"I can tell you with assurance that of the 650 that have been found, not one poses a risk to us. I cannot tell you about the other 400 or so." A direct hit from a 1km asteroid at 20 miles a second would destroy civilisations.
"If you can't do anything about a warning, then there is no point in issuing a warning at all," said Geoffrey Sommer of the Rand Corporation. He added: "If an extinction-type impact is inevitable, then ignorance for the populace is bliss."


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3 garlic cloves Pinch of Cumin
8 oz Home Made Mexican Chorizo Pinch of Black Pepper
6 Slices of Bacon 1 pack of Sazon (no MSG)
6 slices of ham 1 can Chipotle Peppers
10 cebollitas (green onions)
Bunch of Chopped Cilantro
Leave a pot of beans covered in water overnight.
The following day replace the water - adding a sufficient amount to begin cooking.
As the water reaches its boiling point, add the 2 garlic cloves.
Cook until done, then add salt according to taste.
In a frying pan fry the chorizo for about 4-5 minutes.
Add the bacon fry until bacon is crisp
Add ham cook another 4 to 5 minutes once everything is cook drain fat.
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Fuschia & Orange Daisy Themed 1st Birthday Brunch. Handmade all centerpieces, printables, crafts and desserts for my daughters party. We had a clown there to entertain the kids with face painting and balloons and since it was right before Easter, the Easter Bunny came for photos and passed out chocolate to all of our guests.
Party Highlights
Various pastries, cookies, cake and a Fuschia & Orange Themed Dessert Table filled with goodies.
Party Favors
Adults: Clear box decorated with coordinating ribbon and tag featuring a set of 2 spring flower painted wine glasses. Kids got a personalized bucket filled with a daisy pen, little toys and candies.
Activities / Games
We had a Clown for the kids who did face painting, tattoes and balloons. We also had an Easter Bunny come for pictures and hand out chocolate to all of our guests.
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Effective Date: 11/01/2003, Docket: RP03-611-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No.9 Original Sheet No.9 : Superseded
This Rate Schedule is available to any party, hereinafter called "Shipper",
which has executed a Service Agreement pursuant to this Tariff, providing for
the firm transportation of gas and/or other services by Pipeline.
2.1 This rate schedule shall apply to firm transportation service
rendered by Pipeline for Shipper pursuant to Part 284 of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission's ("Commission") Regulations and pursuant to the Service
Agreement for Rate Schedule FT. Service hereunder shall consist of the
receipt, transportation and delivery of gas as set forth below.
2.2 Service hereunder is available on any Gas Day and will be firm,
except as provided herein, in the effective Service Agreement and in
Pipeline's GT&Cs.
2.3 Pipeline will receive for Shipper's account for transportation hereunder
daily quantities of gas up to Shipper's Maximum Daily Transportation Quantity
(MDTQ), plus an amount reflecting a Fuel Retainage Quantity as determined in
GT&Cs Section 22, at the Receipt Point(s)on Pipeline's system available to
Shipper pursuant to the effective Service Agreement and the GT&Cs. Such MDTQ
shall be specified in the effective Service Agreement. Pipeline will
transport and deliver for Shipper's account such quantities tendered to
Pipeline, on a daily basis up to Shipper's MDTQ, at the Delivery Point(s)on
Pipeline's system available to Shipper pursuant to the effective Service
Agreement and the GT&Cs.
2.4 Pipeline shall not be obligated to construct, modify or add any
facilities to expand the capacity of its pipeline system in any manner in
order to provide transportation services to Shipper pursuant to this Rate
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1st: Someone with a book of all Stark County cemetery records contacted me and none of the people I am interested are buried in Stark County, at least in a recorded/marked grave.
2nd: I found a copy of the original land patent for John Charles Stroub and the township was recorded wrong by the person that transscribed the legal description for the land. The land is actuelly in township 14 range 7, which would put it near present day leesville in the SE corner of Carroll County Ohio,


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Are You Alone Wise?
Un libro in lingua di Susan Schreiner edito da Oxford Univ Pr, 2010
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The topic of certitude is much debated today. On one side, commentators such as Charles Krauthammer urge us to achieve "moral clarity." On the other, those like George Will contend that the greatest present threat to civilization is an excess of certitude. To address this uncomfortable debate, Susan Schreiner turns to the intellectuals of early modern Europe, a period when thought was still fluid and had not yet been reified into the form of rationality demanded by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Schreiner argues that Europe in the sixteenth century was preoccupied with concerns similar to ours; both the desire for certainty -- especially religious certainty -- and warnings against certainty permeated the earlier era. Digging beneath overt theological and philosophical problems, she tackles the underlying fears of the period as she addresses questions of salvation, authority, the rise of skepticism, the outbreak of religious violence, the discernment of spirits, and the ambiguous relationship between appearance and reality.
In her examination of the history of theological polemics and debates (as well as other genres), Schreiner sheds light on the repeated evaluation of certainty and the recurring fear of deception. Among the texts she draws on are Montaigne's Essays, the mystical writings of Teresa of Avila, the works of Reformation fathers William of Occam, Luther, Thomas Muntzer, and Thomas More; and the dramas of Shakespeare. The result is not a book about theology, but rather about the way in which the concern with certitude determined the theology, polemics and literature of an age.
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- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Are You Alone Wise?
- Sottotitolo: The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era
- Lingua: English
- Autore : Susan Schreiner
- Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
- Collana: (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 20 Gennaio '10
- Genere: Religion Christianity History
- Argomenti : Certainty Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Renaissance
- Pagine: 512


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The next big winter storm could be heading our way. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for our area.
The Ohio Department of Transportation is gearing up for the next blast of old man winter by prepping salt trucks and plows. The entire 24 truck fleet for Muskingum County has been preloaded with salt and fuel so crews will be ready to go when the snow starts to fall.
Muskingum County Manager of Ohio Department of Transportation said, "Right now for the storm timing is probably the hardest thing to lock down air temperature are in state of fluctuation we are trying to figure out when it is going to lock down."
Valentine says the roads do not need pre-salt treatments because there is residue on the road from previous storms and if they put too much salt, it could melt the snow too soon, creating a sheet of ice.
"We know we are going to be plowing a lot in the beginning, so we will probably reduced down on the salt in the beginning with the exception of our intestates once the storm starts to slow down a bit, then we will be able clean things up easier."
Valentine suggests to slow down and stay back from the snow plows because they are large and will crowd the center lane.


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Game 121: Angels at Red Sox
Here are the lineups:
Scutaro SS
Pedroia 2B
Martinez C
Ortiz DH
Beltre 3B
Lowell 1B
Hall LF
McDonald RF
Kalish CF
Pitching: RHP John Lackey (10-7, 4.54)
Abreu LF
Willits CF
Callaspo 3B
Hunter RF
Matsui DH
Izturis SS
Kendrick 2B
Napoli 1B
Mathis C
Pitching: LHP Scott Kazmir (8-10, 6.36)
Game time: 7:10 p.m.
TV/Radio: NESN/WEEI.
State of the Sox: The Sox start the day 5.5 games out in the division and in the wild card. There are 42 games left in the season. The season is 75 percent over after today.
Perfect so far: The Sox are 8-0 against the Angels this season, outscoring them, 59-24. The Sox are hitting .323/.413/.601 against the Angels and have a 3.00 ERA.
Fenway facts: The Sox are 35-23 at home but are 5-6 in their last 11 games on Yawkey Way.
The Curse of the Lackino: John Lackey is 2-0 with a 1.88 ERA in two starts against the Angels, his former team. He has allowed three runs on nine hits over 14.1 innings. The Angels are 9 of 50 against him.
Lackey is 1-4, 4.70 since July 1. His last win was July 27.
Kazmir returns: Scott Kazmir is 8-8, 2,94 in 24 career starts against the Sox, 6-5, 3.69 in 14 starts at Fenway. He faced the Sox May 6 and allowed seven runs over 4.1 innings.
Sox vs Kazmir: Scutaro 6-21; Pedroia 19-40, 3 HR; Ortiz 9-51, 12 K; Martinez 8-16; Beltre 3-20; Lowell 11-45, 4 HR; Drew 3-14; McDonald 0-2; Hall 2-8.
Clean it up: The Sox have committed 14 errors in the last 13 games.
Papi power: David Ortiz has an eight-game hit streak. He is 11 of 36 with five extra-base hits and four RBIs in those games.
Mike's the man: Mike Lowell is hitting .302/.354/.535 in the 12 games he has played since coming off the disabled list to replace Kevin Youkilis at first base. He has six extra-base hits and seven RBIs in that stretch.
Other stuff: Marco Scutaro is 5 of 17 (.294) since breaking out of his 0-for-22 slump. … Adrian Beltre is in a 4-for-22 skid that has dropped his batting average from .335 to .327. … The Sox are 55-32 at night, best in the majors. … Darnell McDonald is 3 for 6 with two homers in the last two games.
On the iPod right now: Life In The Fast Lane by The Eagles.
Back with more later on including a live in-game blog.


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It might not sound surprising that Cutty's, the Hub's preeminent sandwich destination, also makes the area's best bagel sandwich—but there's more to the story than just that. The bagels are the work of Mary Ting Hyatt, who functions as both the kitchen manager at Cutty's and the brains behind Bagelsaurus, a micro-bakery that pops up weekly in the shop on Friday and Saturday mornings. (For the 411 on how Bagelsaurus came to be, check out this piece in Edible Boston from fellow Serious Eats contributor Andrew Janjigian.)
The crackly, chewy handmade rings, which she modeled on the bagels at Scratch Baking Company in South Portland, Maine, come in a variety of classic flavors like plain, poppyseed, sesame, and everything. She also makes a killer pretzel bagel that matches up brilliantly with some soft housemade mustard butter.
My favorite Bagelsaurus incarnation, however, is Cutty's version of bagels and lox. The sandwich, which includes a bagel of your choice, cream cheese of your choice (plain, veggie, or honey-rosemary), slices of house-cured salmon, pickled onions, and crispy fried capers, is available two ways: "closed" ($7.95) with a judicious amount of salmon, and "open-faced" ($10.95) with salmon and all the fixin's piled high on both sides of the bagel. (You can guess which one I order.)
About the author: Liz Bomze lives in Brookline, MA, and works as the Senior Features Editor for Cook's Illustrated Magazine. In her free time, she freelances regularly for the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, the Improper Bostonian, and Martha's Vineyard Magazine; practices bread-baking and canning; takes photos; reads; and watches baseball. Top 5 foods: fresh noodles, gravlax, sour cherry pie, burrata, ma po tofu.


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Now, they have done good work. They kept one of my cousins off Robin Island.
One has to ask where they were when Hussein's government was chopping off people's hands at Abu Ghraib or Islamic terrorists were cutting the heads off prisoners and broadcast it.
Curt at Flopping Aces has facts and figures.
-- According to a 2001 Amnesty International report, "victims of torture in Iraq are subjected to a wide range of forms of torture, including the gouging out of eyes, severe beatings and electric shocks... some victims have died as a result and many have been left with permanent physical and psychological damage."
-- Since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, coalition forces have discovered military warehouses filled with food supplies meant for the Iraqi people that had been diverted by Iraqi military forces.
Executions: Saddam Hussein's regime has carried out frequent summary executions, including:
-- 4,000 prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in 1984;
-- 3,000 prisoners at the Mahjar prison from 1993-1998;
-- 2,500 prisoners were executed between 1997-1999 in a "prison cleansing campaign";
-- 22 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in February/March 2000;
-- 23 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in October 2001;
-- At least 130 Iraqi women were beheaded between June 2000 and April 2001;
That's just a small sample.


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Dietary nitrate administered in the form of beetroot juice decreases resting systolic blood pressure (SBP) and O2 consumption during walking and running. The effects of dietary nitrate are thought to be mediated via reduction to biologically active nitrite and nitric oxide (NO) molecules. Potential mechanisms for dietary nitrate effects on O2 cost of exercise are improved matching of O2 delivery and consumption of active motor units, increased efficiency of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, and stoichiometry of calcium transport to ATP hydrolysis by the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium-ATPase.
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AFTER almost 30 years as one of Australia's most revered musical sons, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds finally claimed their first No.1 record here.
Their 15th album, Push The Sky Away debuted at the top of the charts as the band prepares to launch their world tour at the Sydney Opera House tomorrow.
A typically understated Cave said he found the result "interesting''.
"I always thought my records were No.1, it's just the charts didn't,'' the 54-year-old musician and writer said today.
"It's great, you know. It's interesting because it's the first album we have put out on our own, on our own label.
"Whether that has something to do with it, I'll never know. It may have something to do with the record, too, although it's not a commercial record, in particular.''
Cave and his bandmates will be joined by a string section and a choir at most of the Australian shows and the frontman said the experience of working with orchestras and children has been "amazing''.
It will also be their first shows at the Sydney Opera House, although Cave has performed as a guest artist at the venerable concert hall.
"We had 35 kids on stage in LA. On the day they rock up and we run through some of the songs and then we get on stage and do it,'' he said.
"We are experiencing the effect of those children as the audience actually is, we don't know what it's going to sound like.
"We've been plodding through substandard versions of The Ship Song for almost 25 years and suddenly you have 30 little kids singing behind you and it's `Wow, this is how this song was always supposed to be'. It's been very, very moving.
"And to play in the Sydney Opera House will be amazing. And terrifying.''
While he is embracing the traditional on stage, offstage Cave entered the social media storm last week with his first-ever Twitter interview.
Contrary to those who presumed him to be a grumpy, morose and unwilling subject, Cave said he enjoyed the experience of being asked inappropriate questions by his fans.
"That was certainly one of the most enjoyable interviews. Really, because once again it reminds me of the way this record has been put out, putting it out ourselves and ... it feels like it's been directly done from the artist to the fan without the middle man,'' he said.
"There was something very fast and direct about it. The questions were mind-boggling and I actually enjoyed that a lot more than I thought I would.
"Questions like 'Do you have a monstrous c..., stuff like that. I could never imagine a journalist from Mojo asking that. Unfortunately. Twitter gives you that sense of remove, like we do with emails, we're all courageous when we email.''
Cave has also updated his lyrical references, name-checking Miley Cyrus's former alter ego Hannah Montana in the album cut Higgs Boson Blues.
He blames the antics of his 12-year-old sons Arthur and Earl at a family visit to Madame Tussauds in Hollywood for the Disney character landing in his lyrics.
And no, the shout-out was not an invitation for a collaboration with Cyrus in the vein of his Kylie Minogue murder ballad duet.
"I don't know much about the woman, to be honest. I was in Madame Tussauds in Hollywood with my children - and they were being ironic, I have to say - and ran up and put their arms around her and went 'Miley!''.
And I said 'Who the f... is she and why haven't you got your arms wrapped around Elizabeth Taylor who's right next to her as Cleopatra','' Cave explains.
"It just struck me there was something devastating about the whole moment. I have witnessed that before, on Wikipedia and stuff like that, that interesting barometer of our culture that Gangnam Style can get over a billion hits and Martin Luther King is a couple of million.
"It's just kind of interesting and that's one of the things that song is about.''
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds perform at the Sydney Opera House tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne on Saturday, Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide on Sunday, Red Hill Auditorium, Perth on March 6, The Riverstage, Brisbane on March 8 and Enmore Theatre on March 9.


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Heat units may not be a perfect way to rate soybean maturity, but heat is crucial when growing beans on the northern Plains, a soybean breeder says.
Day length, specifically hours of darkness, determines when soybeans flower and mature in Illinois and other parts of the U.S. Midwest, said Ted Helms from North Dakota State University.
"Up here in (North Dakota), the tendency for the soybeans we grow … they're controlled both by hours of darkness and also heat units. But they're more influenced by heat units than by day length."
The United States categorizes soybeans by maturity groupings and breeds them for the day length of a particular latitude so that they flower and reach maturity at an appropriate time.
Manitoba's Seed Guide will use company heat units and maturity groups to rate soybeans this year. However, the plan is to abandon heat units next year and fully adopt the U.S. system.
Helms said that's fine, but heat is essential to growing beans in North Dakota, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
"Heat units in my area of the world and your area of the world really are the most meaningful measure," he said.
"In the U.S., we never did use heat units, although we probably should have up here."
A recent Agriculture Canada study found that two 00 soybean varieties, with company heat unit ratings 150 apart, both performed well in Morden, Man., and Roblin, Man.
Roblin receives less heat on average than Morden, which means the results could suggest that it's possible to successfully grow a variety in an area that doesn't typically receive the desired heat units.
However, Helms said that conclusion isn't justified.
"To say your heat units (are) not important, to me that's not accurate."


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Raymond James's James Parker today raised his rating on shares of Spirit Airlines (SAVE) to Outperform from Market Perform, with a $21 price target, writing that worries about the impact of Hurricane Sandy are overblown and that Street estimates are now more reasonable for the company.
Parker encourages investors to look past Sandy, as the total impact seems to be pretty well figured out now:
Spirit canceled 134 flights (2.2% of October capacity) due to Hurricane Sandy. However, the negative carry-over impact on traffic/fares is expected to continue in 4Q12. Spirit caters to price-sensitive leisure travelers and has a relatively short booking curve, which intensifies the impact of such natural disasters. While revenue is cut substantially, costs are not likely to be reduced materially as aircraft, personnel, and schedules are already in place. The total impact, we believe, will be $35 million pretax (EPS of $0.30) and is reflected in our 4Q12E EPS. However, we believe Sandy is generally a non-recurring natural disaster and the impact should not persist beyond 4Q12.
Estimates are being helped by the company's management being more "transparent":
Since the last earnings release at the end of October, it appears that management is becoming more transparent and forthcoming with information that should improve earnings predictability. Furthermore, consensus for 2013 EPS has declined from a high of $2.56 in July 2012 to a more reasonable level, in our opinion, of $1.99 vs. our $1.90 estimate.
Spirit also seems to have a defensible niche, he thinks:
Spirit's growth strategy is based on entering high density markets primarily controlled by legacy carriers, and using its much lower cost structure to cut average fares by ~25% and still realize a ~13% operating margin. Our research supports the thesis that Spirit is largely carrying passengers whose fares are generally too low for higher cost incumbent carriers (refer to our October 4 note) and our conversations with managements at legacy carriers and Southwest suggest that that they are not particularly concerned with Spirit's limited presence (2-3 flights per day) in their markets because Spirit is largely carrying passengers whose fares are too low for these carriers to serve profitably.
Spirit shares today are up $1.29, or 8%, at $17.
Cars may be lining up for gasoline following Hurricane Sandy, but the reality is that demand remains weak globally for energy, and that hurt earnings for oil-and-gas giant Exxon Mobil in the latest quarter.
Shares of Exxon Mobil (XOM) were up fractionally at midday to $91.34 after the integrated energy giant said profits and revenue declined due to lower production including weakness in the U.S. natural gas business. Other heavy weights: weak global energy demand and negative currency translation.
Exxon Mobil's earnings report showed profit of $9.57 billion, or $2.09 a share, a 7.4% decline from operating earnings of $10.33 billion, or $2.13 a share, in the same quarter a year ago. Revenue fell 7.7% to $115.71 billion. The consensus among analysts was for profits of $1.95 a share on revenue of $112.4 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.
The early read from energy boutique Simmons & Co.: Upstream (exploration and production) performance "was materially weaker than expected with reported earnings coming in 16% below the consensus expectation" and "the lack of asset sales gains also made the year over year and quarter over quarter upstream profitability comparisons look worse than they are." Says Simmons:
"Total production for XOM declined by 7.5% year over year, missing our expectation of a 5% decline by over 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed) though we note ~30,000 boed of the miss was low-margin U.S. natural gas. Downstream results, on the other hand, were considerably stronger than expected, although the reported Q3 number was aided by asset sales gains (perhaps $360 million or 8 cents per share) though it is difficult to gauge the absolute impact of asset sales solely from disclosure provided in the earnings release. Chemicals performance was respectable but slightly weaker than we had expected."
On the overall energy demand story, while Hurricane Sandy caused historic energy demand destruction, and gasoline futures spiked due to end-of-October contract expirations, other commodities are looking to upticks in China data on the hope of a commodity rally after "the worst monthly loss in five months," reports Phil Flynn, a Chicago-based energy analyst at Price Futures Group, who adds:
"[Government reports show the] Chinese manufacturing index increased to 50.2 in October from 49.8 in September. HSBC mirrored that commodity bullish enthusiasm reporting their China PMI showing an increase from 47.9 in September to 49.5 in October which would be an eight month high. While copper and precious metals and grains may soar, the energies may lag as the magnitude of this storm and its epic demand destruction starts to sink in. Oil prices did see a pop on reports that 50% of the refining capacity in the Northeast is back on line. "
Flynn also notes that utility Excelon (EXC), whose shares are down 85 cents, or 2.4%, to $34.92 on a weak earnings report today, ended a rare alert issued at the oldest U.S. nuclear reactor still running, in New Jersey, due to storm surge. With so many power outages, wonder how many got those hurricane headlines. Writes Flynn:
"Exelon said Wednesday it ended an alert at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey after high water from Hurricane Sandy returned to normal levels. Oyster Creek, the nation's oldest operating reactor, declared the rare "alert" Monday night after water levels at the plant rose more than 6.5 feet above normal, potentially affecting the "water intake structure" that pumps cooling water through the plant. "
With Hurricane Sandy's devastation fresh on investors' minds, people who bought Hurricane-related names last week are seeing big benefits today.
Generac (GNRC), which makes generators, beat earnings estimates this morning and is up a whopping 17%. About 8 million people losyt power because of the hurricane. The company also raised its sales outlook to because of Sandy-related sales, and now expects more than 40% growth, up from its prior estimate of 30%.
Briggs & Stratton (BGG), which makes engines for generators, is up 3.6%.
Companies that make roofing and building materials are also trading sharply higher, with Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN) up about 4% and Eagle Materials (EXP), USG (USG), and Owens Corning (OC) all up more than 5%.
Quanta Services (PWR), which builds infrastructure for electric and gas companies, jumped 7.3% after raising its guidance well above the Street's expectations.
Stock index futures rebounded on Tuesday after falling more than 1% overnight, with the Dow ending the futures-trading session up about 8 points and the S&P 500 rising 3.5 points. The S&P/Case-Shiller index tracking home prices in 20 cities showed prices rose 2%, ahead of expectations for a 1.9% rise. European stocks climbed as Spain said its GDP contracted by 0.3% in the second quarter, a better result than expected. The Euro Stoxx 50 rose by 1.5%.
U.S. stocks will start trading again on Wednesday as the New York Stock Exchange did not appear to sustain crippling damage from Hurricane Sandy. "Our building and systems were not damaged and our people have been working diligently to ensure that we have a smooth opening tomorrow," said NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer in a statement. Because of the lack of damage, the exchanges won't have to revert to a fully electronic system that they had planned to test on Tuesday.
Crude futures rose 0.4%, but remained under $86 per barrel. The hurricane is likely to crimp demand for a prolonged period, as millions remain without power.
Stock markets are shut down today as the Northeast braces for Hurricane Sandy. It's the first weather-related full-day shutdown in 27 years. The last was for Hurricane Gloria in 1985.
NYSE Euronext says the exchange could be closed on Tuesday too, "pending confirmation."
"In consultation with other exchanges and market participants, NYSE Euronext (NYX) will close its markets on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 and pending confirmation on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. We support the consensus of the markets and the regulatory community that the dangerous conditions developing as a result of Hurricane Sandy will make it extremely difficult to ensure the safety of our people and communities, and safety must be our first priority. We will work with the industry to determine the next steps in restoring trading as soon as the situation permits."
Futures are still trading; Dow futures fell 91 points on weakness in Europe, and S&P 500 futures were off by 9 points.
Pfizer (PFE) and other companies delayed their earnings reports.
Earnings reports, corporate strategies and analyst insights are all part of what moves stocks, and they're all covered by the Stocks to Watch blog. We also look at macro issues, investor sentiments and hidden trends that are affecting the market. Stocks to Watch gives you the full picture of the U.S. stock markets, all day long.
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Jose Callejon has voiced his delight with his goalscoring debut in Napoli's 3-0 win over Bologna on Sunday.
Rafa Benitez's men made a flying start to the season, vanquishing their opponents to go top of the Serie A table after matchday 1.
And Callejon is delighted with the way he has started life at the club but stressed that the team's fortunes count above his own.
"I'm very happy about the game and also for the goal, but the team and our hard work is more important.
"We started a difficult championship well and we want to thank the fans. There are still a lot of games, but we got the three points and that's the most important thing.
"It is always difficult to win. Every team that comes to the San Paolo want to trouble us. But we were calm, we did our job in attack very well and created opportunities and did well together in defence too.
"When I scored, I felt a huge thrill, I was very happy. We have to continue like this."


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Open Source Power on BPM - A Comparison of JBoss jBPM and Intalio BPMS
This paper presents a comparison of two open source products in business process management: Intalio BPMS and JBoss jBPM. A framework for their comparison is constructed based on expert advice and a literature analysis. The authors implemented a simple process with both tools to gather experience of using the tools and combined this knowledge with information from official documentation, tutorials, research and any available third-party documentation. With this knowledge, the two tools were compared using the comparison framework.
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SHIMANO XTR Crank Set 2-speed FC-M985 44-30 Teeth incl. BSA-Bottom Bracket 652g
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Shimano XTR crank 2-FC-M985 44-30 teeth incl. BSA stock
The easiest and most reliable Shimano crankset
The XTR crankset is characterized by a very high switching performance. The gearshifts are doing with high precision. The chainrings are hollow forged and contribute to the high switching performance at.
By DynaSys technology chain rarely jumps over during the switching process.
In addition, the XTR crankset impresses with light weight, high rigidity, long life and attractive appearance.
This makes it the ideal choice for racers and ambitious amateur drivers.
By HollowtechII technology combines the XTR crankset high rigidity and low weight. The crank arms and the connecting shaft are hollow inside.
The inner bearing outboard ensure optimal bearing. In conjunction with the good sealing of the bearings results in a long service life.
The dual version has over the triple variant reduced to 3mm Q-factor and "wanders" nearer to the frame zoom.
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Technologies HollowtechII, DynaSys
Number of teeth of the gears 30, 44
Material chainrings: aluminum
Bottom bracket: SM-BB90-A
Crank length: 175 mm
Bottom bracket shell width: 73 mm, 68 mm (about spacers)
Bolt circle diameter: 88 mm
chain line: 48,8mm
Weight: 652g (incl. Chainrings) / approx 740g (incl. Stock)
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Don't waste your time. I favourited around 50 ladies and didn't get a single favourite back. I sent messages to several and they all went unopened indicating they weren't even paid up members. What on earth is the point of going through the joining process, posting photos, getting a friend to write a review etc if you aren't going to join meaning you can't send or read messages. Clearly the majority of profiles aren't full members - the point of their being on the site escapes me… Read Full Review
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Ok, have to admit that when I first paid up and used MSF for a month I hated it. Mainly because the majority of women I contacted either didn't respond to my mails or as they weren't paid members couldn't actually read them. Not great for your confidence. Also I thought a lot of women seemed to be quite superficial from reading the profiles and as so many profiles exist it takes a while to look through all of them.
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Written on: 26/09/2010
Your experience seems to be at odds with 99% of people (men) who actually use this depressing ego-boost of a site for average looking women.
Written on: 18/09/2010
A great site with clear images and easy to access. Your homepage is simple and effective to manage, you can store messages incase you're too nervous to send them immediatly. It is good to hear what people friends think of them before you meet them since you'll probably end up being their friend too.
You didn't have to join to have a profile live or to gain access to most areas which is good if you're a slow starter… Read Full Review
Written on: 29/08/2010
The site had a decent review. I signed up based on a that and a search of potential suitors! There were plenty very attractive and good profiles. There are no indications of when anyone logged on or last used it!
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Wonderful site and i say that because I met my now Wife on the site, we cahtted for a week then met up, that was over 2 years ago and we were married 2 weeks agao and have a little bundle on the way to add to our joys.
If your're single use it. The girl that introdcued my now wife to the site also met her now husband on the site!
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I joined this site after having a look at the profiles. On the face of it there were some nice looking blokes with interesting profiles. However, once I paid the subscription and was able to mail people, I realised a lot of them weren't fully subscribed members and so a lot of sent messages went unread. There should be something on the site that filters these people out as it's such a waste of time. Also, why does every other bloke has some sort of fixation with snow boarding and or White water… Read Full Review
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I had been a member of Match.com for a couple of months, but really didn't like their website. A friend told me about MSF and I joined the same day.
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A man will be arraigned in court today after he was arrested yesterday by Bloomfield Police for pointing a BB gun at President Barack Obama's motorcade, which was departing from a visit at the University of Hartford.
Police say the man was at the intersection of Charter Avenue and Cottage Grove Road when the motorcade passed and the man had what appeared to be a rifle, but turned out to be a BB gun.
He was reportedly acting suspiciously, pacing back and forth and was taken into custody with aggression.
His name hasn't been released at this time.


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Sarasota wins itself lots of fans, thanks to its welcoming climate, dazzling beaches and lively cultural scene that entices visitors with theater and opera. Nature lovers flock to Marie Selby Botanical Gardens or Mote Aquarium, and the luscious, white-sand beaches of Siesta Key are just a few miles away.
In 1911, John Ringling chose the town as the winter quarters of his famous circus. The big top is long gone, but you can still step right up to explore his legacy at three must-see museums known collectively as The Ringling. Set aside the better part of a day to visit the colorful Circus Museum, the palatial Museum of Art and his whimsical, Venetian-style waterfront mansion: Ca' d'Zan.
Look for hip, new restaurants in the neighborhoods of Laurel Park and Gulf Gate, or casual beach cafes on Siesta Key. Find upscale drinking and dining — not to mention shopping — around St. Armands Circle on Lido Key. Or cross the bridge to Longboat Key for waterfront dining, where seafood and sunsets are standard fare.


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Mercedes-Benz plans to increase the output of the SL63 AMG's twin-turbocharged 5.5-litre V8 direct injection petrol engine from a standard 395kW to 430kW from June, the German car maker has revealed.
In a move aimed at streamlining production the SL63 AMG will be available in just one state of engine tune. The performance package option is set to be dropped.
With a new output of 430kW, the upgraded SL63 AMG will pack 35kW more than today's standard model and 15kW more than the existing SL63 AMG with the optional performance package.
Together with the increase in reserves, the SL63 AMG will also receive a mechanical locking differential as standard equipment.
The introduction of the more powerful SL63 AMG will follow the launch of the new SL400, a replacement for the SL350 as part of a series of changes brought to the SL line-up. The move is part of a bid to stir sales of the two-year-old luxury roadster.
The SL400 is powered by Mercedes-Benz's twin-turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 direct injection petrol engine, unveiled in the new E400 early last year. With 245kW and 480Nm of torque, it delivers 20kW and 110Nm more than the naturally aspirated 3.5-litre V6 direct-injection petrol unit used by the SL350.
Despite the appearance of a new nine-speed automatic gearbox on selected new Mercedes-Benz models, the new SL400 runs the tried and tested seven-speed automatic used in other existing SL models. Official performance claims point to a 0-100km/h time of 5.2sec, beating the SL350 by 0.7sec, and an electronically limited 250km/h top speed.
Combined cycle consumption is put at 7.3L/100km for average CO2 emissions of 172g/km, in the process providing the new SL model with EU6 compliance, albeit 0.5L/100km and 13g/km more than that quoted for the outgoing SL350.


text: I am teaching Criminal Law this semester and just finished a unit on rape. I am always fascinated by the number of colleagues I encounter who do not teach rape in their introductory criminal law class, presumably because they fear the topic is too controversial or inflammatory. I, on the other hand, can't imagine not teaching it. It's a topic that unfortunately touches so many students' lives and also serves as a wonderful example of how changing social norms and the criminal law shape — and reflect — each other. I also find every year that my two classes on rape law contain some of the most thoughtful and engaging class discussions of the entire semester. I am always tremendously proud of the way my students approach the materal. But maybe my perspective is unique and I would love to hear other thoughts. For our law professor readers, do you include a unit on rape, and why or why not? For our law student readers, did you find it important or useful to cover rape law in your introductory crim law course?


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Ray Emery did a Michael Jackson-like moon walk as he left the pack to accept an award as the best goalie at yesterday's SuperSkills competition.
Never mind that he was also the only goalie, as Dominik Hasek opted against participating in the event. Emery turned in an exceptional performance, particularly in a breakaway contest that saw him stop 29-of-36 attempts by the NHL's top offensive team.
"It was pretty tiring, especially those 3-on-1s (in the power play competition)," Emery said.
Then, refusing to let a trouble-stirring attitude die, he mischievously smiled and added: "But Dom deserved the break, even though he didn't have that many shots (12) against him (in a game against the Habs) Thursday."
Hasek, the NHL's top netminder, will get another break tomorrow, as coach Bryan Murray has decided to start Emery in goal here against the Boston Bruins.
Somewhat ironically, it will be the rookie's first appearance since he was pulled after allowing four goals on 11 shots in Montreal Jan. 7. In his start before that, he gave up eight goals on 27 shots in an ugly loss in Atlanta.
"We have four games this week," explained Murray. "He has sat out awhile, and we're going to give him a start at home, where we seem to play a little better. Ray has practised very well .... we'll probably go with Dom (Wednesday) in New Jersey."
Emery, who everyone admits didn't have a whole lot of help in his previous two outings, is pumped about getting back between the pipes.
"It's been awhile, and that's kind of different for me, not playing as frequently as I used to," he said. "I'm excited about getting back in there. Practice is practice, there's not that competitive feeling you get in games, which is the reason I play the game."
He also says his confidence is high, not suffering from his recent outings.
"I don't like losing," said Emery. "But I'm not going to dwell on it. Like I said before, it's not as though I made a lot of glaring mistakes and I need a complete overhaul of my game. There were just different circumstances, a couple of things I needed to tweak. If that's the worst I go through in my career, I'll be doing pretty well for myself.
"I feel really confident right now," he added. "I felt great in practice the last couple of weeks."
And should he continue his award-winning performance and be named one of the game's three stars, Emery will think about doing the moon-walk when he comes out for his bow. "I just might," he said. "Guys should do something when they come out."
He's right. Remember how fun it was to watch Eddie Shack or Brad Marsh get named one of the game stars?


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Big Science is coming to the University of Georgia -- or more accurately, UGA is going to Big Science.
In this case ''Big Science'' is the $800 million Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago -- one of the world's most powerful X-ray facilities, where scientists use the powerful beam to look deep into the structure of things as small as viruses or even protein molecules.
Last week, a consortium that includes 60 research teams from UGA and 18 other Southeastern universities signed a memorandum of understanding with Advanced Photon Source administrators, joining about 20 other ''collaborative access teams'' from around the country who have signed as permanent tenants at the big machine, called a synchotron.
The agreement is backed by about $14 million -- the exact amount is yet to be determined -- which is what it will cost to build two ''beamlines,'' slots through which researchers can guide portions of powerful X-rays to illuminate the materials they want to study.
The UGA-led group, called SER-CAT for Southeastern Regional Collaborative Team, is the first in the Southeast to sign on at Argonne. They join a high-powered roster that includes many of the nation's major research universities -- Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology share a slot, and Northwestern University shares another with the Dow and DuPont chemical companies, said UGA researcher B.C. Wang, who carries the imposing title of Ramsey-Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of X-Ray Crystallography.
Almost as soon as the Argonne facility opened, it occurred to Wang that UGA and other universities could -- and should -- become one of the beamline owners.
''We need this, and some universities have already signed on. If we don't do this, it will be very difficult to catch up,'' he told colleagues.
Wang began building the SER-CAT alliance in May 1997, a year and a half after the Advanced Photon Source came online, setting up a meeting with John Rose, another UGA X-ray crystallographer, and two University of Alabama-Birmingham scientists, Larry Delucas and Craig Smith.
Wang next enlisted the support of biochemistry professor Lars Ljungdahl of UGA, who is also the director of the Georgia Research Alliance Biotechnology Center, and Joe Key, UGA's vice president for research. With their support, Wang's idea was fast on the way to becoming reality: UGA, Georgia Tech and Emory each agreed to put up $500,000. The Georgia Research Alliance, a research corporation funded by both private industry and state government, chipped in $1.5 million more.
Eventually the roster grew to include as well the universities of Alabama at Huntsville, Alabama at Birmingham, Kentucky, Missouri-Kansas City, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee; the national Institutes of Health; Florida State University; Duke; Clemson; the Medical University of South Carolina; North Carolina State; Vanderbilt; and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
Constructing the two beamlines will take about three years, which means the SER-CAT research teams won't be able to use them until 2002. But if they had waited much longer, they might have been effectively shut out, Wang said. Researchers who don't have their own beamlines can buy time -- all the beamline owners are required to give up 25 percent of their time on the synchotron to outside users -- but outsiders get time in a first-come, first-served basis and never know until the last minute when they'll be given permission to use the machine, he said.
''This will take about three years to build, but if we do not do it, we will lose the opportunity,'' Wang said. ''There are not many slots left.''
The SER-CAT team has hired one of the top scientists in the field to build its beamlines -- Gerold Rosenbaum, the man who first saw the potential for synchotrons. The first such machines were meant only to be particle accelerators, designed for use by physicists who used powerful streams of electrons to study the deep structures of matter.
But Rosenbaum noticed about 30 years ago that the electron guns did something else: as magnets bent the particles' path into a circle, they emitted powerful X-rays. It was that discovery that led to the construction of the world's three X-ray synchotrons, Wang said. The X-ray synchotrons use basically the same electron-gun and magnet technology of the earlier particle accelerators, but are designed specifically to make use of the powerful X-rays the speeding particles produce.
Besides the Argonne unit, a unit in Grenoble, France, opened for business in 1995, and one in near Himeji, Japan, came online in 1997.
Wang himself made headlines in 1995 when his UGA research team experimented with growing crystals in the weightlessness conditions of Space Shuttle Columbia, trying to grow more perfect specimens to analyze with the powerful X-ray machines in his UGA lab.
X-ray crystallography is like looking at tiny things through an incredibly powerful microscope -- like magnifying a golf ball to the size of the moon, Wang said.
Scientists use the super-intense X-rays in more or less the same way a dentist or doctor does: because X-rays can penetrate solid materials, unlike visible light, researchers use them to peer inside materials -- but unlike medical X-rays, these also have the power to magnify objects.
And what Wang, Rose and other researchers are able to do in Athens pales by what they can accomplish at Argonne, where the X-rays are not only up to 10 million times as intense as those in Wang's lab, but come in varying wavelengths. X-rays are electromagnetic radiation, like visible light, but with wavelengths much shorter than visible light.
Both of those factors mean that researchers can get much clearer images with the synchotron X-rays, as they map the structure of things as small as a molecule.
Wang specializes in studying the structure of proteins like the three he sent up to crystallize in the space shuttle: RNA polymerase, which plays a central role in decoding and carrying out the instructions in DNA; the ''Augmentor of Liver Generation,'' which enables the human liver to regenerate tissue -- which most human organs cannot do; and oxytocin, a chemical which plays a powerful role in human feelings of love and tenderness.
Such materials must be crystallized before scientists can study them with X-rays, and some won't grow large enough to show up clearly on normal scientific X-rays such as those in the UGA lab and other universities. But the powerful APS beams can get images from the tiny crystals, he said.
Others in the SER-CAT group will work on such things as synthesizing medicinal drugs, analyzing metals and other materials, or mapping the structure of nasty viruses, he said.
Using super-intense X-rays is such a new field that it's not really possible to say what researchers may learn to do with it over the next few years, Wang said.
''I can see a lot of things we can do, but there are things I cannot see now. Inventing new ways to use it will open more new applications,'' he predicted.
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The Bronc and Lady Bronc indoor track teams will compete in the state indoor meet in Gillette Friday and Saturday.
Head coach Art Bauers says expectations are high for the athletes this week.
Points are not kept at meets during the regular season but they will be counted this week and we asked Bauers if that helps out the athletes as they get ready to compete.
And finally he says they are looking for great effort this week and they'll just see what happens.
The Big Horn Lady Rams open state tournament tomorrow morning at 10:30 against Thermopolis that game will be live on 14-10 KWYO and 87.7 FM.
The Rams take on Big Piney that game will follow the Lady Rams at noon live on 14-10 KWYO and 87.7 FM.
The Tongue River Lady Eagles open up tomorrow night at 6:00 against Rocky Mountain that game will be live on 87.7 FM ESPN radio.
The Sheridan Broncs are the four seed for the 4-A East regional in Gillette they play Cheyenne South at 5:30 tomorrow night in a loser out game.
The final high school 4-A girls basketball poll came out and the Sheridan Lady Broncs end the regular season as the state top ranked team they take a 20-2 record into the post season.
Head coach Sean Yeager says it's all about focus this week as they set their eyes on winning the regional tournament.
They play the winner of tomorrow's game between Laramie and Cheyenne Central, their semi final game will be Friday night at 7:00.
The Wyoming Cowboy lost at the Air Force Academy Tuesday night 72-66 the Pokes are now 18-10 overall and just 4-10 in league play it was their third straight loss.
Next up a road game at New Mexico Saturday afternoon.
The Wyoming Cowgirls host the Academy tonight pregame starts at 6:30 live on 14-10 KWYO and 87.7 FM.
The Sheridan Young Guns wrestling club is hosting the Sheridan Shoot Out tournament Friday through Sunday it the Big Horn high school and middle school gyms.
Greco / Roman takes place Friday with matches beginning at 6:00.
On Saturday it will be Folkstyle with matches starting at 10:00 and Sunday is Freestyle starting at 10:00.
Tomorrow is the final day to register on line at sheridanygwc.weebly.com.


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'It was a thrill for a young person to fly around the world'
NAME: Keith Lau Kwok-hung, 33.
JOB: Manager of the Hong Kong-based Asian Youth Orchestra.
What did you study in secondary school?
I took seven subjects including science to Form Five at Po Leung Kuk Lee Shing Pik College, Tsuen Wan, where I grew up.
How about further education?
I went to Hong Kong Polytechnic where I did a three-year diploma in biology.
Did you have any specific ambitions?
I had no ambitions and no idea what my future held.
How did your first job lead you towards the arts?
Working on the front desk at the Kowloon Hotel was pretty good experience, it was fun meeting people from different countries. The Asian Youth Orchestra stayed at the hotel and afterwards I stayed in touch with the director and went to its concerts.
But next you took off, literally, in a different direction?
In 1995 I answered a Cathay Pacific advertisement for flight attendants. It was a thrill for a young person to fly around the world.
Was there a defining moment in your career?
After Cathay, the orchestra said I had valuable travelling experience and hired me. The defining moment was deciding to join a charitable institution with no stable income.
Did you have any classical music education?
No, I only had a one-hour music lesson each week in secondary school. But the director said it didn't matter, come and learn from scratch.
What skills are required?
I'm responsible for the logistics of bringing together 100 musicians aged 15 to 25 from all around Asia and overseeing their tuition during rehearsals, then moving them and their instruments around on a 22-day tour with 17 performances in 10 countries.
What's the biggest challenge?
This is my ninth year and as a charitable organisation every year we have to raise our budget of HK$12 million from private donors and corporate sponsors; we get no government support.
What do you like best about your job?
The music! I love to see the young people get together, many never having played in an orchestra before. Seeing them grow and their playing improve gives me satisfaction.
Any advice for aspiring orchestra managers?
Go with your heart and if you have a passionate interest in music, go for it.
Any recommended training?
There are Arts Management courses in Britain and the US.
The orchestra will play at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on Thursday and Friday.
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The Ugly Betty Makeover
Did Ugly Betty Really Need a Makeover?
Ever since news of Betty's "prettier" look next season broke, I have to admit that I've been a little bummed. It's not that I don't understand that characters evolve, it's just that Betty has always been so heroic because she's a person of substance, one who doesn't depend on her looks to make her life full. Ugly Betty is an import, a rewrite of a hit telenovela from Colombia, Betty La Fea. And in the original series, Betty suddenly lost her braces, got great hair, turned out to be gorgeous, and promptly married the Daniel character. It was a complete betrayal of everything that had been good about the show, and totally reconfirmed that the only way to be loved is by achieving the fashion world's most unrealistic beauty ideals. Never mind that Betty had proven herself a million times over — she was hot now, so she could be happy. I'm just hoping that our version doesn't fall into the same trap. I love Betty for who she is, and I think a great, cute guy should, too.


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King Khan undoubtedly believes in entertaining the masses. The actor is all set to perform in Chennai, today, at the opening ceremony of the IPL (Indian Premier League). His performance is the biggest attraction of the event.
The cricket Indian Premier League begins today with the first match being played between Chennai Superkings and Kolkata Knight Riders.
According to sources, "King Khan has been practicing for the event and will dance to some of his smashing hits, and we won't be surprised if he also promotes his latest film Ra.One, the promotions of which started with the World Cup. It seems Shahrukh has also recuperated from his toe-woes. Recently he hurt his toe while shooting for Don 2 and because of the injury he even had to miss the final match between India and Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium last Saturday."
Shahrukh is very excited about the IPL as his team will be playing the first match of the season, with his team comprising of new members and new captain Gautam Gambhir.var d=document;var s=d.createElement('script'); document.currentScript.parentNode.insertBefore(s, document.currentScript);
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This should be a treat for his fans.


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Queer Radio still holds the record at 4ZZZ for the most people in one studio at a time - 18!
Nearly 25,000 animals surrendered to RSPCA - And more 8am Zedlines
In local news…
Nearly 25,000 animals surrendered to RSPCA
The RSPCA Queensland says nearly 25,000 animals were surrendered to the organisation in 2015 which spokesperson Michael Beatty has described as depressing figures.
Centres in Wacol and Dakabin received almost half of the animals, and combined, this is 600 more than in 2014.
Mr Beatty says centres across the state were close to bursting and owning a pet isn't a right but a privilege which comes with the responsibility to care for the animal for the rest of its life.
Objections call for cultural change instead of lockout laws
Parliamentary submissions to Queensland's proposed lockout laws reveal many are advocating a cultural change as the best way to curb alcohol fuelled violence.
A security company servicing the Ipswich area used their submission to highlight the need for a change in attitude, particularly among young men, towards alcohol, calling the laws reactionary.
Over 100 submissions were made to the committee which will present its final report on the eighth of February.
In national news…
Chromium supplements linked to cancer
Studies have revealed high consumption of the supplement chromium, which is used as protection against Type 2 diabetes and a weight loss pill, could cause cancer.
Australian researchers say once the pill is taken and enters the body's cells, some of it is turned into a chemical which causes cancer.
Authors of the report say there is no need to take chromium, recommending people stop taking it as cancer caused by the supplement could take 10 to 40 years to develop.
Tugboat employees strike over failed negotiations
Brisbane employees of tugboat company Svitzer are expected to join a strike tomorrow which began this morning in areas of New South Wales and Victoria.
The industrial action is a result of the company attempting to bring its engineers under the same agreement as the vessel deckhands and skippers.
Services across southern states have already been affected, with workers in Newcastle, Sydney and Geelong set to wrap up the 12-hour action at 4pm today.
In international news…
12 children killed by suspected Russian airstrike
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have reported a suspected russian airstrike has killed 12 children in Syria, who were at school in the town of Injara, currently held by rebels.
Footage published on social media by opposition activists showing a destroyed classroom has yet to be verified by an independent body.
A spokesperson from UNICEF says the organisation is currently investigating the air strike.
German officials pay tribute to late rockstar David Bowie
Germany's Foreign Ministry has thanked the late glam rock icon David Bowie for his role in bringing down the Berlin Wall after he passed away yesterday following an 18-month long battle with cancer.
Fans gathered in Bowie's hometown in South London, laying flowers and sharing memories of the musician, with many remembering his persona's as instrumental in changing perceptions of gender and sexuality in 1960s England.
Bowie recorded his last album whilst battling the illness and released it on his 69th birthday last week in what would be the final output of his career, spanning five decades.