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The Curiosity Mars Rover developed memory problems with one of its two identical computers. Control was switched to the second system to enable repairs on the first computer. However, the second system suffered a software-based malfunction on 16 Mar and put itself on standby. Finally, as of the evening of 19 Mar, the second system was commanded back into safe mode, and repairs of the first system continue, [Source; Henry Fountain, *The New York Times*, 20 Mar 2013, PGN-ed]
Israeli officials have been claiming success rates up to 90 percent. Analysis by weapons experts suggests it is more likely 40 percent at best, with some incoming rockets merely crippled or deflected and still able to do considerable damage. [Source: William J. Broad, *The New York Times*, 21 Mar 2013, PGN-ed] [This of course should remind readers of Ted Postol's efforts at MIT in demonstrating that the Patriot defenses were perhaps at best 20% effective rather than the officially regarded 95%—i.e., mostly failing to properly eliminate the scud missiles (R 13 19 and R 13 32). PGN]
Computer networks running three major South Korean banks and two of the country's largest broadcasters were paralyzed on 20 Mar 2013 in DarkSeoul virus attacks suspected of originating from North Korea. This affected ATMs, newcasters staring at blank screens, and so on. DarkSeoul is malware designed to evade popular anti-viral products. Kim Jong-Un was quoted as threatening to destroy government installations in the South and American bases in the Pacific. [Source; Choe Sang-Hun, *The New York Times*, 21 Mar 2013, PGN-ed]
Boulder, CO newspaper "The Daily Camera" reports that the Boulder Community Hospital was without a functioning clinical healthcare information system for several days (http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_22819319). The outage effected the hospital, eight laboratories, and six imaging centers, according to the article. The hospital is: "using manual paper record-keeping systems and traditional paper charts for its inpatients. Hospital officials say the system allows them to continue treating patients, provide diagnostic services and collect important clinical information that will be entered later into each patient's electronic health record." Although a hospital physician reportedly said he doesn't think the outage is compromising the health or safety of patients, the backup system "seems a little haphazard, and it's not an organized plan." One patient is reported to have commented "If they can't keep their computer system running, how can we trust them to perform surgery?" "We apologize for the delays, but this was an unavoidable situation," a hospital official reportedly said. COI declaration: I was the lone dissenting opinion in the Institute of Medicine's report on clinical healthcare information technology (available at http://www.ctlab.org/documents/CookDissent.pdf). Clinical healthcare information technology (CHIT) is a complex endeavor and there are wide differences between the good CHIT and the bad CHIT. Richard I Cook, MD, Professor of Healthcare System Safety STH (Skolan f?r teknik och h?lsa) KTH (Kungliga Tekniska h?gskolan) Alfred Nobels All? 10, 141 52 Huddinge, SWEDEN mobile: +46 70 190 42 16 email: firstname.lastname@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>
As reported by DreamHost: http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2013/03/19/power-disruption-affecting-us-west-data-center-irvine-ca/ Update from our CEO on the March 19/20, 2013 power outages affecting services in our US-West (Irvine, CA) Data Center I would like to share more details with our customers concerning the power outages and resulting network and systems issues that impacted our services on March 19/20 in our US-West (Irvine, CA) Data Center (the Irvine DC for short). A third party, Alchemy Communications, manages the Irvine DC. We lease a large secure space in their facility. Alchemy is responsible for providing power, cooling, security and related infrastructure services and maintenance. The facility has a good track record on all of these responsibilities—including providing reliable power. However, yesterday at approximately 3pm Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), there was a failure in their Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) system that completely shut down power to all network and systems housed in the Irvine DC. This power outage affected all tenants and was not limited to just DreamHost's equipment. The power systems at the Irvine DC are designed to be redundant. The UPS system is in-line and in the event the power grid feeds go down, the UPS provides power until the diesel-powered generators kick in. We believe, at this time, that Alchemy was performing unannounced maintenance on their UPS systems and the systems failed—resulting in a complete power outage. In addition to their UPS systems failing, their generators did not kick in. The power failure lasted just a few minutes, however it created a number of major issues with our network and systems in the Irvine DC that took many hours for our operations teams to recover from. Not the least of which was the loss of several critical pieces of networking hardware which did not survive the power event. Complete details of these issues will be shared once we have completed a detailed review over the next couple of days. All customer-facing systems were largely restored from the first power outage by early this morning 20 Mar 2013 PDT. After the first power outage, we were assured by Alchemy that their power systems would not be worked on further until a detailed, tested plan was in place that would guarantee no additional loss of power. However, at sometime around 4:30am PDT today their UPS system failed for a second time. This resulted in another complete power outage and another intense period of reboots, restores and system checks from our team. The time to restore most services in the wake of this second power outage was much quicker, mainly because there were no resulting hardware failures and we had learned from the first failure. Alchemy has opted to run the Irvine DC on generators until the UPS issues are fully identified and resolved, and we are monitoring the situation closely to do our best to ensure that there are no further power outages or issues that will affect our services in the Irvine DC. Corrective Action: Alchemy has a team of UPS specialists and Edison power engineers on site who have identified potential points of failure in the existing UPS infrastructure. They are currently in the planning phases of a repair to the UPS systems. The proposed power system enhancements will be subject to rigorous review and testing before being implemented. If all goes as planned, the facility will be able to switch back from generators to grid/UPS power. At this time, we do not believe that a public grid power failure contributed to either of these incidents. DreamHost will have additional network, systems and data center engineers assigned to monitor all systems in the Irvine DC during the UPS system upgrade. We also have oversight of the proposed UPS system repair plan being structured by Alchemy. We will post an update on dreamhoststatus.com as soon as the timing of any planned power system maintenance is known. We are working diligently to ensure that the planning and implementation of any UPS upgrades, maintenance and/or the cut back to grid/UPS power will not affect continuous power to our systems and will not impact our customers. Last, but not least, I want to apologize for these service disruptions. I know how critical our services are to our customers and their livelihood. I fully recognize that any disruption to services can affect important production environments and projects. Our team will work diligently to ensure that we mitigate the power issues going forward, including a full audit of all facilities that house DreamHost customer data. We will learn from this event and continuously improve our operations and services. All customers impacted by these service issues can apply for credits or refunds in accordance with our guaranteed uptime policy by contacting support through the panel. Simon Anderson, CEO, DreamHost
[From Dave Farber's IP and elsewhere] Sean Gallagher on Brian Krebs, 18 Mar 2013 Take a "booter" site survey, earn attacks like ones that targeted Ars, http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/details-on-the-denial-of-service-attack-that-targeted-ars-technica/ Last week, Security Editor Dan Goodin posted a story about the "swatting" of security reporter Brian Krebs and the denial of service attack on Krebs' site. Soon after, Ars was targeted by at least one of the individuals behind the Krebs attack. On Friday, at about noon Eastern Daylight Time, a denial of service attack struck our site, making connectivity to Ars problematic for a little less than two hours. The attack continued to run throughout Friday. At 9pm EDT, when our hosting provider brought down one of the filters that had been put in place to thwart it, it quickly became apparent that the attack was still underway, and the filter was restored. The most aggressive filters were finally removed on Saturday. At least in part, the offensive used the same attack tool and user credentials that were involved in the denial-of-service (DoS) attack on Krebs On Security, as Krebs himself revealed in a blog post. The attackers used multiple accounts on TwBooter, a "booter" site that provides denial of service attacks as a paid service (ostensibly for security testing purposes), to launch an automated, denial of service attack on Ars. And at least one of those logins was also used to attack Krebs' site. TwBooter masks all of the complexity of launching attacks against sites. Users of the site can, depending on how much they pay, launch up to three simultaneous automated attacks against sites through a simple Web interface. TwBooter users can even set up multiple accounts and fill up the queue of the service's "attack server." It doesn't cost much to get in on the ground floor with TwBooter—an account with rights to a single automated attack of up to 60 seconds in length is $10 for a month. This means you can launch as many 60 second attacks as you want, one at a time, all month long. The "license" to launch up to three attacks at a time of up to two hours duration is $169 a month -- but there's a 20 percent discount if you pay through Liberty Reserve instead of PayPal. There's also a free plan that allows for attacks up to 300 seconds long. That service requires users to pick an attack type from a pull-down menu in a Web form. PayPal payments for the site are routed to Sebastien Lariviere, a former IT technician for the county government (MRC) of Pierre-De Saurel in Quebec (now operating as Lariviere Security). Lariviere did not respond to e-mails from Ars for comment. Obviously, sites like TwBooter generate a lot of ill will and are ironically the target of DoS attacks themselves. Like many legitimate and "black hat" sites—such as the site exposed.su, a website that recently posted the personal information of many public figures—TwBooter runs behind the CloudFlare content delivery network as a way of shielding itself from attacks. TwBooter may not have been the only service used to launch the attacks on Ars and Krebs. "There are dozens of these booter services out there, most of them based on the same source code," Krebs told Ars. But Krebs received a tip pointing to a dump of TwBooter's customer database—openly accessible on the services' website. It's clear the TwBooter site was part of the attack. A snippet from the SQL dumps Krebs provided to Ars show that multiple attacks (including Slowloris, TCP amplification, and SYN flood attacks) were queued up by multiple accounts on the site. [...]
http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-closed-generic-05feb13/pdfVMmmFgwpbw.pdf Disappointing - no sense that the DNS is problematic because it guarantees the Internet will unravel. How can we have any long term persistence when the very bonds that hold the Internet together a designed to melt away like surgical thread. I understand that ICANN profits form leasing our identities and thus has every incentive to continue this practice but where is the pushback for a problem so real and obvious? There are other issues in the document like the assumption that words can have persistent meaning out of context like "For example, when you go to a .map domain name you will be confident that you will see some sort of map." The Google search team knows how difficult it is to pin down meaning. But for the moment the high order bit is the lack of stable identifiers. Bob Frankston http://frankston.com
[FYI—Didn't Google just get into a heap of hot water over doing exactly the same thing with WiFi?] Scott MacFarlane, WPXI, 20 Mar 2013 TSA tested, scrapped program that tracked Bluetooth devices http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/tsa-tested-scrapped-program-tracked-bluetooth-devi/nWyfh/ Lines can be long at airport security. The Transportation Security Administration knows too. Documents obtained by Eyewitness News showed TSA tested a project to measure how long. Sensors in the terminal found Bluetooth devices, honed in on the signals and tracked how long it took people to get through security. An internal TSA document stated it worked by "detecting signals broadcast to the public by individual devices and calculating a wait time as the signal passes sensors positioned to cover the area in which passengers may wait in line.'' It said the information would be encrypted and destroyed within two hours to protect people's privacy. TSA tested the technology in 2012 in Las Vegas and Indianapolis, but bailed on it. "This is an expensive and needlessly complicated way of estimating wait times, compared with say a ticket agent writing the time at the front of the line," said Julian Sanchez, author of "Wiretapping the Internet.'' TSA has taken criticism in the recent months for its handling of passenger privacy, including enhanced pat downs and whole body scanners. A spokesman for the Association of Airline Passengers Rights said his group isn't comfortable with Bluetooth tracking and TSA has a history of saying it's keeping passenger information private and then changing its story. TSA documents show the agency considered posting warning signs alerting passengers that Bluetooth sensors were active, but officials didn't return comment when Eyewitness News asked if the signs were posted at the cities where the technology was tested. A spokesman confirmed they've scrapped the program before it became public.
"Adoption of this amendment is a gross intrusion into the widely-respected, independent scholarly agenda setting process at NSF that has supported our world-class national science enterprise for over sixty years," the association said in a statement. "The amendment creates an exceptionally dangerous slippery slope. While political science research is most immediately affected, at risk is any and all research in any and all disciplines funded by the NSF. The amendment makes all scientific research vulnerable to the whims of political pressure." http://j.mp/Z3sWWY (Huffington) - - - An information and research control abomination by the Senate, in the finest tradition of Stalinist thinking, Comrade Coburn.
This article reminded me of a wonderful historical episode described by Bazhanov - directly relevant to the voting security. In 1920-ies the Soviet citizens were divided into 2 classes: Party members, who enjoyed full democratic freedoms, and non-members, who were completely at the mercy of the political police. Policy decisions were made by party members by voting on a platform (the Central Committee platform vs the Opposition platform). So, each local organization voted on the issue and sent the results to the Central Committee, and these results were published in the official newspaper Pravda. Stalin, who, allegedly, later said that "it matters who counts the votes, not who votes", came up with a brilliant scheme: Pravda published all results as if they came in favor of the Central Committee platform. E.g., if the local organization A voted 11 votes for CC, 17 votes for Opposition and organization B voted 20 votes for CC and 12 votes for the Opposition, then B was reported as is and the votes in A were switched and reported as if 17 voted for CC and 11 for the Opposition. This way the appearance was that the Central Committee's platform was clearly more popular, and if the chief of A noticed the "typo" and complained, the next issue would carry a small apology (obviously not as prominent as the election results). This way the Party was constantly bombarded by "evidence" that the Central Committee's platform was more popular, which would swing the opportunist vote (also there was always a risk that the supporters of the Opposition might be expelled from the Party). Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) http://www.childpsy.net/ http://iris.org.il http://dhimmi.com http://www.PetitionOnline.com/tap12009/ http://pmw.org.il http://truepeace.org
As a postscript to Bruce Schneier's fascinating "Hacking the Papal Election" analysis (RISKS-27.20), I would add that it has been widely reported that Vatican authorities laid a false floor in the Sistine Chapel to cover electronic jamming equipment. This was intended to protect against electronic eavesdropping...or unauthorized Cardinal tweets. See: <http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/10/4086176/radio-jammers-in-the-sistine-chapel-will-protect-secrecy-of-papal>.
"Bob Frankston" <firstname.lastname@example.com> > I'm not sure what the worry is since we are collecting much of this > already. Steve Loughran <email@example.com> writes: > In Risks 27.19, Dag-Erling Smorgrav considers the fact that the Boeing > 787s will generate 0.5TB of data per flight, and asks "what could > possibly go wrong"? You both missed the most important part of the quote I provided: "every piece of that plane has an Internet connection" I sincerely hope Bulman misspoke, and that these devices are in fact connected to a closed network, although that is no guarantee in itself. Dag-Erling Smørgrav - email@example.com
If the half-terabyte of data per Boeing 787 flight is going to be used for anything important, I'd want it to be kept forensically secure, certain that the data kept are the data gathered, unmodified. And that, I think, is a solvable problem. I'd say the same should go for any important black box data, including cars and trains.
The only surprise here is that anyone should consider this news. And you don't need an expensive 3D printer and the complex software and know-how to operate it to create a prosthesis. In this case, I suspect they just took casts (since they were impersonating accomplices rather than victims). However, given a good copy of the victim's fingerprint, a hundred dollars' worth of hobby electronics supplies and a teaspoon of ,liquid latex, you can trivially create a piece of prosthetic skin which, when glued onto your own finger, will fool fingerprint scanners with liveness detection. Allegedly, some scanners can even be defeated by pressing a balloon filled with warm water onto the sensor plate, causing it to scan the latent fingerprint left behind by the previous user... Dag-Erling Smørgrav - email@example.com
Both Senator Cornyn and the Ted Samson at InfoWorld display a marked lack of understanding in how sentencing for federal criminal convictions works. The news media is very bad about this in general, and has been very bad about it specifically with regards to the Aaron Swartz case. Ken White at the Popehat blog wrote a clear, detailed explanation of how sentencing works and why it's almost always completely bogus to look at the maximum possible sentences for all of the crimes someone has been indicted for, add them all together, and pretend the total bears any relation whatsoever to how long the defendant's sentence will actually be if s/he is convicted. This is required reading for anyone who wants to be an educated news consumer who deals in facts rather than baseless hyperbole: http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence-eleventy-million-years/
[Relatively self-contained response to a message in Dave Farber's IP distribution.] Not sure what the surprise here is. If you don't control your information, you don't *control* your information. That's why I waited for Palm when many others were using dedicated phonebook/note devices - it was open enough that I could backup and view the info. When Palm went to a cloud-only solution, I switched to the iPhone. I bought ToDo for it to manage reminders because Apple won't back them up locally; when an update to ToDo required cloud-backup, I ceased tracking updates.
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Inclement weather conditions force courthouse to be closed
Because of the inclement weather the Schuylkill County courthouse was closed today and the commissioners' public meeting has been rescheduled for next week.
The commissioners will hold a public meeting next Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 9 a.m. in the courthouse in Pottsville and this will be followed by the regular scheduled work session beginning at 10 a.m.
All hearings scheduled by the county judges were also rescheduled to other days. President Judge William, E. Baldwin, who had 12 senentencing scheduled for today, has rescheduled them for Thursday and Friday.
Despite the weather the 9-1-1, Rest Haven Home and Hospital and other public agencies remain open.

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WHO SHE IS: Now Panacea "Miss Pussycat" Theriac is half of the wildly danceable electro-organ-rock duo Quintron and Miss Pussycat, but her music career really began pulling the strings of puppet bands like her mid-90's project Flossie and the Unicorns.
WHY YOU'VE HEARD OF HER: Her puppet film "North Pole Nutrias" is a local Christmas classic that runs yearly on WYES in New Orleans; her creations have also been exhibited at the NOMA, and in the collection of Heather Henson, daughter of Muppet mastermind Jim.
WHAT SHE'S UP TO: Putting the finishing touches on the sequel to her puppet film "Trixie and the Tree Trunks" to debut this summer - and crafting 100 new puppets to exhibit in the fall at Le Dojo Gallery in Nice, France, as part of a traveling version of hers and Quintron's "Parallel Universe" show that debuted at NOMA last spring.
WHERE TO SEE HER: The first ten episodes of her serial "Trixie And The Tree Trunks" is available on DVD and online at vice.com/video. The feature-length next installment, filming now in New Orleans, will be out this summer.
Q: How did you get into puppetry?
A: I started doing puppetry in the Christian puppet youth ministry in the Southern Baptist Church in Antlers, Oklahoma, when I was in junior high school. Then I kind of let it go, but when I moved to New Orleans and started a secret nightclub called Pussycat Caverns, we booked a lot of bands to play there but nobody wanted to play first. It's an age-old problem. So I made a puppet band called Flossie and the Unicorns, and the puppet band would open up for the real bands.
Q: And you haven't stopped since. Why do you enjoy the medium so much?
A: It's an amazing medium because it's sculpture, it's recording, painting, writing. It's very open art form. And I don't think we've even found all the ways we can use it. One of the great things about puppets to me is they're like analog cartoons. I couldn't do cel animation, but I could make a puppet.
Q: Your new film is a continuation of the Trixie and the Tree Trunks story. Can you catch us up on who they are, and what they did in the first film?
A: Sure. Trixie and the Tree Trunks is a band that was started by Trixie and Marcia, who are woodland animals. They survived a terrible snowstorm in the magical forest, which was destroyed. They planted some seeds that grew a tree that could talk, which was called the Happy Tree, and it gave them a secret message from the center of the earth telling them to adopt all the stray cats and also to start a band.
Q: Since Trixie and the Tree Trunks are a rock n'roll band, is their show appropriate for kids?
A: You know, a lot of kids like it. To me - I think some parts of it are really scary and terrible, but they don't seem to faze the kids or their parents. So it's kind of at your discretion. It's not necessarily made for children, or not for children. I do try not to cuss. I think you shouldn't have puppets that cuss.
Q: "Trixie" is your first story that has multiple episodes and sequels. What's it like to keep going with the same characters?
A: It's my Mickey Mouse. With these characters, I want to find out things that I don't even know about them and about everyone that they know. But I do like making new stuff - that's why I'm going to make 100 new puppets this summer, just to make a bunch of fun new toys to play with. And then they're going to take me to France.


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A Des Allemands man was arrested after police say he threatened to kill himself and any deputy who arrived at his home to stop him.
According to St. Charles Parish Sheriffs Office spokesman Capt. Pat Yoes, 36-year-old Lee Robichaux threatened to harm his wife, children and himself and was asked by his wife to leave. Robichaux then armed himself with two loaded rifles and said that he would kill himself and any officers who responded to his wifes call to police, Yoes said.
Robichaux reportedly took the rifles into a shed near his home, but deputies were able to disarm him and place him under arrest.
Robichauxs wife and children were not injured during the incident. He added that one of the deputies who responded to the call also received lacerations to his arms during the scuffle.
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Health / Millions of cigarette butts find their way onto our state's beaches and nature trails, into city parks and on sidewalks and school playgrounds every day. Cigarette butts–the most littered item in the nation and the world–are more than an eyesore. They contain toxic filters made of cellulose acetate that small children sometimes eat after smokers carelessly flick them from car windows. And they can take decades to degrade.
Not only does cigarette litter ruin even the most beautiful settings, the toxic filters can kill fish, leach into the environment and cause numerous fires.
"Have you ever stopped at a stoplight and noticed all the cigarette butts right at the storm drain?" asks City and County of Honolulu Recycling Branch Chief Suzanne Jones. "That happens when smokers stop at a stoplight, open their door and then empty their ashtrays onto the street under their car."
"Cigarette butts are the most-littered item in America, representing nearly 30 percent of all items collected in cleanup initiatives," says Adam Roberts, executive director of the Arkansas Beautification Commission. His organization offers free pocket and portable ashtrays to smokers.
Ironically, the increase in cigarette butts throughout our Islands is partially a consequence of the Smoke-Free Hawaii Law, established Nov. 16, 2006, which bans smoking in all public places such as restaurants, bowling alleys, malls and airports. The law made it illegal to light up in partially enclosed areas, bars and less than 20 feet from doorways and windows.
Today, the cigarette ban is fairly well accepted among tourists and residents alike, although some bar and restaurant owners complain it limits the time smoking customers linger in their establishments.
Jones admits that cigarette butts can be a problem here. "Tourists are sitting on a beach in Hawai'i, where they couldn't be more connected to our beautiful environment, and they discover a pile of partially buried cigarette butts. What kind of connection about Hawaii does this make in their minds?"
Recycling cigarettes
A recent study by Chinese researchers recommends expanding community recycling programs beyond newspapers, beverage containers and other conventional trash to include "tiny trash"–cigarette butts–that the study calls "one of the most ubiquitous forms of garbage in the world."
Jun Zhao and his colleagues suggest that recycling could solve those problems, now that a practical use for cigarette butts has been discovered. The team claims that extracts of cigarette butts can be applied to certain types of steel used in the oil industry, protecting the steel from rusting and saving oil producers millions of dollars annually. A fashion designer in Brazil has perfected a method for transforming cigarette filters into wool to make clothing, and an Ohio inventor has discovered a way to turn cigarette butts into adhesives and sealants.
If a bill recently proposed by New York City Assemblyman Michael G. DenDekker passes, NYC will soon have a cigarette butt recycling program funded by a one-cent deposit on every cigarette. His mission is to create jobs and help clean up the state's environment. Establishing a recycling program will not be easy. He's looking for a way to dispose of the non-biodegradable cigarette filters.
In many European cities, street sweepers are hired to dispose of cigarette butts.
The real deal–changing behaviors
Jones has a different view. The Chinese study doesn't make sense, she points out. "It appears to be much ado to collect and process cigarette butts for recycling when the real problem is littering."
If smokers would properly use ashtrays or other receptacles for their cigarette butts–or if they stopped smoking altogether–the problem would be minimal.
Oahu's H-POWER, a waste-to-energy facility, can efficiently process all the cigarette butts along with general trash, and the process also benefits the island with local power generation, according to Jones.
"The advent of a recycling program for cigarette butts, however, would probably not alter the butt-flicking behavior of many smokers," Jones adds. "The bottom line is we have to help smokers change their behavior."
The city has engaged Doug McKenzie-Mohr, Ph.D., an environmental psychologist and author of Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing. McKenzie-Mohr conducts training classes for city and county recycling crews and works with various local community and academic groups battling illegal dumping and littering. (His website: [www.cbsm.com].)
Environmental psychology, a relatively new field, predicts the environmental conditions under which humans will behave in a responsible and creative manner. The focus is on how people form their relationships with the natural world, including how they make environmentally-related consumer decisions.
"Environmental psychology teaches you how to change your environment to improve the quality of your life and experience peace, joy and prosperity," says one student.
Overcoming smoking and littering, like other self-destructive behaviors, requires people to deal with issues honestly and be willing to shift their beliefs, according to Brad Klontz, Psy.D, past president of the Hawai'i Psychological Association. "Sometimes, the wake-up call can be a health crisis, which creates an opportunity to change. But other people choose to ignore it."
In the case of cigarette butts, the wake-up call can be an environmental crisis. In either case, three conditions must be met for people to succeed in making important behavior changes, according to Klontz. "The person has to believe it's important to change, have the ability to change, and feel ready to do so."
Nobody can make you change, Klontz points out. "You have the freedom to change your behavior–or not. But with that freedom comes responsibility. There might be some negative consequences for deciding not to change."
In the case of smokers, the result of the behavior can lead to heart disease or other life-threatening medical conditions.
Jones continually asks herself: How do we get people to stop smoking, eat a healthier diet and exercise–or stop smokers from using the beaches as a big ashtray?
"The simplistic thing might be to ban them from smoking on the beaches, but is that the kind of society that we want to have? I think it's time for the general public to think about their personal responsibilities. We're just saying, 'Hey, you guys gotta take a look at this.'"
How much is too much?
Eight years ago, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg began an anti-smoking campaign that now bans smoking outdoors in city parks, beaches and even plazas like Times Square. Starting in summer, after the mayor signs the bill into law, smoking will not be allowed on the 14 miles of city beaches or into the city's 1,700 parks.
"All of this takes the mayor's nannying too far, even for those of us who want to avoid the hazards of secondhand smoke," says a recent New York Times editorial. "They need to remember that we tried prohibition 90 years ago. They called it a noble experiment but it turned into a civic disaster."
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Hey cowboy, don't flip those butts
How did cigarette smokers get the idea that cigarette butts are not rubbish? Did the Marlboro man flip butts on the Wild West range? Would Wyatt Earp allow cowboys to throw butts on a Tombstone street?
Seriously, don't we have littering laws punishable by fines already on the books? Is there a minimum size for rubbish? We have tough no-smoking laws, and now we need tough no-butt laws.
Smokers know better. They gather together outside in the rain and wind, commiserating with each other while smoking, because they can't quit. The problem is not cigarette butts, it's smoking.
In 1983, I joined a quit smoking group at Kaiser Clinic that helped me kick the habit. I learned that smoking is an addiction. Nicotine is the most addictive of all the drugs, but there are dozens of programs to help people quit. When you feel you can't quit or you don't want to, it's the drug talking, not your better half. Like any drug, the voice and cravings diminish as you get farther from your last hit…until you eventually have no cravings at all, just the insane idea that one little cigarette can't hurt." —Alvin Ku


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My chihuahua had a bald spot under his neck which we assumed to be from his collar. However, now she also has one on his stomach and his hair is no longer soft but dry and coarse. Any ideas? (Billie Johnson - Colorado)
There are several possible reasons for hair loss in dogs. As you first suspected excessive rubbing/scratching can cause localized hair loss as can flea/mite allergies, mange and hormonal imbalances. The ailment that seems to fit best with your dogs symptoms is ringworm which is an easily treatable fungal infection. It is often detrimental to the rest of the coat, as well as causing patches to fall out. It is hard to diagnose however without seeing the animal and it is possible that the ailment is mange or one of another dozen possibilities. A veterinarian can do a examination/skin scrape to get a definitive diagnosis. It is important to treat both ringworm and mange very quickly as both are highly contagious.
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text: I had high hopes for this tea, which this tea didn't quite hold up to. I brewed it as a cup of tea (no milk or sugar). Maybe it needs to be used as a chai tea latte, but it's not quite strong enough of an apple flavor to be called apple chai, and not quite enough spices to be a spiced chai. I think if I added some other tea/spices to this it may be better, but before giving it a rating I will try it as a traditional chai with milk on the stovetop and see how that pans out. Darn, was really hoping for a good apple cider flavor.


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Even for the casual sports fan, it's been hard to avoid the chatter surrounding the latest Major League Baseball doping sanctions. For Don Hooton, the crusade against steroids has been ongoing over the last decade.
His son, Taylor Hooton, a pitcher on the Plano West baseball team, was 17 when he committed suicide in 2003.
Hooten and his wife, Gwen, say they think the suicide stemmed from depression following Taylor's decision to stop using steroids. The tragedy led to the family's move to McKinney from their home in Plano in 2009, Hooton said.
"Taylor died upstairs," Hooton said. "His momma couldn't, wouldn't go back upstairs."
Soon after Taylor's death, Hooton established The Taylor Hooton Foundation in his son's memory to promote awareness of youth steroid abuse. Before Taylor's death, the family had no idea his son was using steroids.
Hooton has bared the pain, sharing his son's story everywhere, including steroid-awareness seminars in local school districts, legislative panels in Austin and congressional committees in Washington, D.C.
"Everybody's always sympathetic," said Hooton, 63. "But if we talk about it at a tactical level, there's not even a brochure that's been printed."
In 2005, Hooton testified alongside Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and other major leaguers at the 2005 congressional hearings before the House Committee on Government Reform, pressuring Major League Baseball to toughen its steroid policy. On July 18, just a few days after the 10th anniversary of Taylor's death, Hooton sent a letter to every member of Congress, criticizing the government's lack of action since the hearings.
"After all the grandstanding before the TV cameras that day, our federal government has not instituted any form of education program for our children, and it hasn't invested any time or effort in raising awareness about scope of the problem," he said in the letter. "As a result, the steroid usage problem by our children has not gotten any better."
One base at a time
Hooton initially focused his efforts on local school districts but said he wasn't always well received.
Even today, Hooton said, there is some "residual resentment in the schools."
Since 2008, Frisco ISD has hosted a back-to-school sports medicine symposium sponsored by Baylor Medical Center at Frisco, where Hooton was invited to talk to all the coaches, athletic trainers and health teachers in Frisco and neighboring districts. They canceled the program this year. Average attendance was around 100, said Chelsea McCullough, the medical center's SportsCare Outreach Coordinator, and this year, she said, "We decided to channel our resources in a different manner to capture a wider audience."
Frisco ISD is one of the few districts that performs its own random steroid tests six times annually in addition to the random testing conducted by the University Interscholastic League.
The district has been drug testing its athletes for the last 13 years, said Frisco ISD Athletic Director David Kuykendall.
Though the district has yet to have a positive steroid test, Kuykendall said, "We're worried about anything that's out there that the kids have access to."
Hooten worked alongside Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to pass "Taylor's Law," which mandates steroid testing of high school athletes. Gov. Rick Perry signed the bill into law in 2007, allocating $6 million over two years.
That amount has dropped to $1 million allocated for two years in the latest budget.
The program has faced criticism on many levels — it's considered expensive at around $125 per test, and tests are only able to detect a fraction of the drugs available.
But when some public officials see the test results — just nine athletes tested positive for steroids, out of 3,331 tests conducted during the school year ending May 2012 — they diminish the problem's significance, Hooton said.
"The program was designed to be a deterrent to the kids, not a way of measuring whether or not we've got a steroid problem," he said.
Up to bat
Today, with its staff of six, Hooton estimates the foundation reaches more than 150,000 students per year in places such as Venezuela and Rhode Island, where it was recently awarded a grant to bring programming to every school in the state.
The foundation also recently began developing an online educational program targeting coaches and volunteers for Little League Baseball. That program will allow the foundation to reach — and influence — more kids, via coaches and volunteers, than anything else they've done before.
At the time of publication, Hooton had received no response to his letter to Congress.
"For the moment," he said, "we're the only ones fighting this battle."
Allen/Frisco/McKinney editor Eden Stiffman can be reached at 214-977-8486.
What: 10th annual Taylor Hooton Golf Tournament
When: Sept. 6 at The Tribute Golf Club, 1000 Lebanon Road, The Colony.
More Info: Registration and lunch begin at 11 a.m. The shotgun start is at 1 p.m. Dinner, awards and auction at 6 p.m. The price for an individual is $175, foursomes pay $700. Sponsorships are also available. For more information or to register, call 972-403-7300 or visit taylorhooton.org


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Hi everyone, i'm trying to research and find out the differences between Korean, Chinese and Japanese soy sauce and the differences it will make to a dish.
I've only tried the Chinese and Japanese ones. But i'm very intrigued by the Korean soy sauces. Does Korean soy sauce taste differently or if they make any differences to the dishes i do?
I'd love to know too.. does anyone know? If I don't have Japanese soy sauce, should I use Chinese or Korean one to substitute?
Please, Maangchi or anyone correct me if I'm wrong. I know a lot of this is just from my family's personal use and preferences.
In my household there are these types of soy sauces:
jo seon gan jang = the korean soy sauce
this is our soy sauce. the korean soy sauce. this soy sauce is really salty, super earthy, very pungent. its a direct biproduct of making doenjang (korean miso).
'normal' ganjang = kikkoman soy sauce (japanese soy sauce)
my parents are from a batch of korean's that immigrated here in the late 70's and early 80's. back in the day there wasn't a lot of Korean products that they could get without having to make it themselves. So, I think for many Koreans who immigrated at that time this became their 'normal soy sauce' . My parents and all my parents' korean friends used this soy sauce. i think it was the most similar thing that they could find from their mainland without having to make too much sacrifice in flavor.
jin gan jang = has a lot of flavor, its a premade variety
i honestly don't know too much about this soy sauce other than its not just 'salty'. it has a lot of other flavors in there that dont' make it your typical soy sauce. My family doesn't use this soy sauce all that much but typically it is used in banchans (not main dishes or soups)
gook gan jang = soup soy sauce.
this is the soy sauce for soups. it gives soups that salty taste without compromising the broth to a darker hue.
There is a very informative article on Crazykoreancooking.com on Korean soy sauce:
And another one on seriouseats.com on the difference between Chinese and Japanese soy sauces:
Both are pretty informative.
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Two wonderfully restored Victorian homes overlooking the scenic Delaware River and Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The guest rooms exude a sense of warmth and romance no matter what season you visit. The Country Cottage provides two all-suite apartments with kitchens for those guests who prefer to be alone. Both houses have access to the beautiful river front terraced gardens, deck and dock. River access is nearby so bring your boat, canoe, kyack or tube. Many guests enjoy bringing their lunch or dinner back to the inn to enjoy one of the many dining locations provided by the river's edge.
4.0 on November 08, 2016
My family and I have stayed here multiple times and love Rob and Linda and their home. We have recommended and sent quite a number of couples here for special getaways and continue to whole-heartedly endorse them! Please do note that they do NOT accept bedandbreakfast dot com gift certificates. I just called them to confirm. The listing on this site should be updated so as not to mislead people interested in visiting with gift cards as payment! This B&B is beautiful at all times of year but Christmas is a special treat with all of the incredible decor and events in the surrounding area.
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5 on July 22, 2014
We have stayed at Chestnut Hill on the Delaware many times because it is such an amazing place. As soon as you pull up to the property, you begin to relax. The view from the front porch is beautiful and serene. Linda and Rob are the perfect hosts. They are warm and friendly and do everything possible to help their guests have a relaxing and peaceful time. The rooms are immaculate and tastefully decorated. Every morning the delicious breakfast are served. The are not only tasty but the presentation of the food is great. We really enjoyed going out with Rob on the pontoon boat. We highly recommend Chestnut Hill on the Delaware and will definitely be returning many more times.It is our favorite B & B. Eileen and Mike
5 on August 20, 2012
My husband and I just spend a wonderful getaway weekend at Chestnut Hill and couldn't be happier. We had a beautiful room with the most wonderful jacuzzi. The gardens were beautiful - we can't wait to go back with some wine and cheese and eat by the water. We will definitely be back.
4.6 on August 13, 2012
I was attending a week-long class in the area. To come back to this wonderful B&B each evening was like Heaven! Just wish I had more time to enjoy the place.
5 on August 06, 2012
We have stayed at Chestnut Hill on the Delaware many times and it just keeps getting better. This visit we were joined by 4 of our friends. Linda and Rob are the best hosts. They do everything possible to help their guests. The rooms are beautifully decorated and very clean. The breakfasts are fantastic. We especially love sitting on the front porch in the comfortable rocking chairs and looking out at the Delaware. Special thanks to Rob for taking us out on the pontoon boat. The ride was enjoyable and we really loved Rob's discussion of the history of the river. We plan on returning to this wonderful bed and breakfast as often as possible. It is the best! Eileen and Mike
5 on July 13, 2012
I'm about to book our 3rd trip to Chestnut Hill. Rob & Linda treat us like family. We have stayed in Summer Morning and The Paradise Suite; both were wonderful! The town of Milford is charming. It's great to get the early (6am) morning cup of coffee, and go sit by the river. It's even better to be able to walk to dinner. We just finished a cruise. I can honestly say we had a better time at the Chestnut Hill Inn! Kim & Dan W.
5 on May 20, 2012
I never bother to write reviews, but, like the previous reviewer, I had to take the time and give credit to this wonderful inn. Milford is a quiet town and the inn is right on the Delaware. Linda and Rob make you feel at home as soon as you step on the front porch. We stayed in Summer Morning, a glorious, spacious room with fireplace, king sized bed, and large bathroom with a two-person jacuzzi and lovely stained glass window. The weather was perfect and we slept with the windows open - a cool breeze blowing. Just perfect. Linda makes delicious breakfasts, the coffee is perfect, and directed us to some local out-of-the way places to visit. We tried two of the local restaurants - both were within walking distance and delicious! It is hard to believe just an hour or so drive across the State would brings us to such a tranquil place - it was just what we needed. Highly, highly recommend and we will be back!
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I have never written a review before and to be honest I can stand doing it. I usually ask my wife to do it, but I wanted to do this one. The bed and breakfast at Chestnut Hill on the Delaware in Milford, NJ is amazing. The main reason it's amazing is because of the innkeepers, Rob and Linda, and their attention to details. Some details include: fresh baked cookies, personalized notes, fresh flower in the rooms, and chocolates by the bed to just name a few. What really blew me away was when Rob showed up to our dinner at a local restaurant with an umbrella knowing that we had walked there and it started to rain. I was blown away. These are the personal details I have come to know while staying at Chestnut Hill along with an impeccably clean room. Words cannot describe the great hidden gem that is Chestnut Hill. John Teacher: Age 28 NY P.S The breakfast is delicious. Last time I told myself I would write a review, this time I am keeping my word.
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Nestled in the small town of Milford a century's old home waits for you with warmth & good food. Loving innkeepers look for ways to make your stay memorable and complete.
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Our yearly visit is enchanting, thanks to Linda & Rob making us feel so cherished & pampered in "Teddy's Place." Breakfast was outstanding!
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TALLAHASSEE -- The House created a special panel Monday to look into alleged backlogs in child abuse investigations, lack of contract oversight and other questions about the Department of Children of Families.
The committee is also expected to review what happened at an Orange County center for the mentally ill where foster children were sent and in some cases stayed for months because, according to newspaper reports, the state had nowhere else to put them.
"I highly respect the Legislature's oversight role and welcome the opportunity to meet with them and show our progress," Children and Families Secretary Kate Kearney said in a statement released by her office.
"Several of the issues the committee will look at were uncovered by the department and are at the center of current department review," Kearney said.
Kearney last week questioned the accuracy of the media reports about the mental health center, Lakeside Alternatives, saying that children in the center needed to be there.
"Those children being admitted ... kids who have been abused and neglected -- have significant mental health and behavioral issues," Kearney said. "Because of the abuse most of the kids in care are in need of (mental health) treatment."
The questions about contracting oversight and procedures follow the agency's firing of an outside nonprofit organization hired to help eliminate a backlog in child abuse investigations.
The agency last month fired The Florida Task Force for the Protection of Abused and Neglected Children amid allegations of shoddy investigations and falsified records.
Task force Vice President Tracy Loomis has said the contractor was being "scapegoated" by the department and that the state was to blame for most of the problems.
"Although in the last three years DCF has made dramatic improvements, residues of some other significant problems appear to be unresolved," House Speaker Tom Feeney said in a statement announcing the creation of the panel.
Rep. Sandra Murman, R-Tampa, will be the chairwoman of the committee, which hasn't scheduled any meetings yet.
Jack Levine, the president of the advocacy group The Center for Florida's Children, said the House panel's creation was highly unusual.
A frequent critic of DCF, Levine said Feeney was taking a "very significant step (by) considering the crisis big enough to appoint an oversight committee when most of these folks (on the panel) are looking to go home and run for re-election."
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Washington - President Barack Obama will argue for tax increases on the
wealthy and new spending on roads and other infrastructure projects, as he lays
out a campaign-year budget on Monday that will draw a populist battle line with
his Republicans opponents.
the fourth year in a row, the annual US budget deficit is expected to exceed
$1 trillion but the White House will project an easing of the shortfall next
year in the fiscal 2013 budget Obama will unveil at 16:15 GMT.
vulnerable over the weak economy as he campaigns for re-election in November,
will call for deferring major deficit cuts until the economic recovery is
securely back on track and will outline steps to decrease it over time.
think there is pretty broad agreement that the time for austerity is not
today," White House chief of staff Jack Lew told NBC's Meet the Press on
in control of the House of Representatives, have already declared the budget a
non-starter and plan to seize on it to try to paint the president as a
tax-and-spend liberal. They warn that tax hikes will kill jobs while doing
nothing to halt the climb in the crushing level of national debt.
nation is just drowning in red ink," said Representative Jeb Hensarling, a
Republican from Texas.
look forward to seeing the details, but I'm afraid it may be more of the same,
and that is: red ink, fewer jobs, less employment, and less opportunity,"
Hensarling said.
Romney, the frontrunner in the Republican race to challenge Obama in November,
called Obama's budget an "insult to the American taxpayer".
announcement of the budget grants Obama one of his biggest platforms before the
November 6 election to lay out his vision for America's future, casting Republicans
as the party of the rich as he tries to convince voters that he would do more
to protect their interests.
a push for spending on popular programmes like education, Obama will visit a
community college in Virginia to deliver remarks on the budget at 16:00 GMT.
consistently show that even as the economy has demonstrated surprising strength
in recent weeks, Americans are still unsure of Obama's economic stewardship, a
major problem for him as he seeks to persuade them to give him a second term.
Buffett rule
will repeat a demand for millionaires to pay a minimum tax rate of 30%,
the so-called Buffett Rule named after billionaire investor Warren
Buffett. He will also identify $4 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years
that broadly mirrors a plan he laid out in September.
budget projects a deficit of $901bn in 2013, representing 5.5% of
gross domestic product (GDP), down from $1.33 trillion or 8.5% of GDP this
year, White House officials said.
pledged in 2009 to have cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term,
but his budget does not anticipate getting it back under 3% of GDP until
deficit projections are based on growth forecasts that will be released along
with the rest of the budget at 16:15 GMT.
White House has already declared its budget prediction of an 8.9% 2012
unemployment as "stale", after an improving labour market lowered unemployment
to 8.3% in January.
say Obama uses gimmicks to massage the deficit numbers, pointing to savings
from winding down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which they complain amounts to
counting funds that were never going to be spent.
president will propose using half of the money from ending Americas' two
foreign wars to subsidise investment in infrastructure as part of his request
for over $800bn in multi-year spending on job creation and
includes tax breaks for companies and individuals that would be worth more than
$300bn in 2012 if passed into law. That could provide additional fiscal
stimulus for economic growth as Obama campaigns around the country for
of the biggest boosts would come from extending a payroll tax cut for 160
million Americans for all of 2012, which expires on February 29 unless Congress
acts. The White House estimates this could add a percentage point to 2012 GDP.
the budget proposes raising $1.5 trillion over a decade through higher taxes,
with around half coming from allowing tax breaks for families earning more than
$250 000 a year to expire at the end of 2012 - a longstanding Obama goal.
So the republicans point fingers at Obama for trying to sort out a mess that they created and he inherited. He got handed a dogs breakfast on a silver platter from previous incompetent republican administrations. mmm who comes to mind, Bill, George, seriously they just made the situation worse.
The republicans with their old white money syndrome should catch a wake up!
You might want to Google what party Bill belonged to there Johann.
Bill is a pure democrat
Considering that the wealthy in america are currently only required to pay tax at the same rate as the middle class while earning anything up to 400 times more, its time the 1%ers started carrying their own weight, something they have never done. Of course the vote is a hollow thing as the candidates all come from the same upper class level, so irrespective of how the public votes the 1%ers are always guaranteed to have someone they want in power.
actually he should be negotiating incentives to encourage the rich to create more jobs so that more people are employed.
the fact that the rich gets taxed at a higher level will cause four things 1- reluctance to invest by the rich. 2-the increased taxed money look after the unemployed. which inevitably creates a socialist setup and government. 3 the gov will feel obliged to employ the umemployed themselves which will lead to greece. 4. this will bring the world back to this point but ten times worse.
there are other minor things like:
1. you dont work then you dont eat
2. selfworth will be lost because you cant earn.
3. a whole bunch of immature citizenry because of the nanny state.
how absolutely appalling.
the resonable way to survive is to tighten the belt, pull together and work your way out of the hole.
Sorry Brent but those championing Obama and all this entitlement policies aren't even going to begin hearing your argument. Great comment - sums it all up. But when you hear that in America there are now more people who don't pay tax than those who do it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise who they will vote in next time.
As long as the poor will get sooome relief like here. That would atleast buy them more meaty suppers.
The rich will still impulse another R60,000 Birkin only to forget it exists.


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I just thought I'd share my custom display which I made for my Team GB Minifigs collection ...
Lego Team GB Olympic Minifigures Display by bigospedros, on Flickr
As a collection, they're a really nice set of figures. The printing is superb and the quality of the figures is great. Not many new pieces, apart from the horse riders headpiece ... this is rubbery to the touch, rather like the material used for Kit Fisto's headpiece. The baseplates are in white and custom printed with "TEAM GB" and the Olympic Rings logo.
As for the display ... it uses a 16 x 16 baseplate and an 8 x 16 baseplate and then some 1 x 4 modified bricks with studs on the side to create the angle and contact for the minifigure baseplates to attach to. The rest is just to make it look nicer!
As for the availability of these figures ... I've so far found 1 box in WHSmiths. They're charging £2.49 for each figure, which is a sad thing, since previously, Colletible MFs were not subject to their Lego markup I think other stores and certainly [email protected] have them for the usual £1.99.
For those that have asked me if I can help get them a box (or several) or just a complete set, I'm trying my best to find more boxes and if you've asked me I'll be in contact if and when I get them.
I do have a few spares in my Bricklink store (link is in my signature) but no longer a complete set as they've already been sold.


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ORLANDO -- When it came to choosing a place to retire, Neil Hineman weighed the cost and convenience of buying a house before settling on a mobile home park with a golf course, three clubhouses and three swimming pools.
Florida continued to lead the nation in the number of mobile home and trailers, according to 2000 U.S. Census data released this past week. The state's 842,701 units made up close to 10 percent of the United States' mobile home stock.
The number of mobile homes and trailers in Florida, in line with the state's population boom, increased by more than 86,000 between 1990 and 2000. But the percentage of Floridians living in them dropped from 121/2 percent in 1990 to 11.6 percent in 2000,
That change in housing patterns was fueled by repossessions, a subsequent clampdown on financing for mobile home owners and Florida's housing construction boom in the 1990s, experts said.
The mobile home industry has been in a downturn in recent years due in part to the recent recession that caused many mobile homes to be repossessed after their owners couldn't make payments, said Lori Killinger, director of government relations for the Florida Manufactured Housing Association in Tallahassee.
"The consumers who purchase our homes are the first ones to be affected by layoffs," Killinger said.
But there also has been competition from homebuilders.
"One view is that the homebuilders have figured out how to make a less expensive product and have succeeded in tapping into our market," she said.
Nationally, 8.6 million people, or close to 71/2 percent of the nation's population lives in mobile homes or trailers. The states with the highest percentage of residents living in mobile homes are South Carolina (18.5 percent), North Carolina (18.1 percent), New Mexico (18 percent) and West Virginia 17.3 percent), according to the Manufactured Housing Institute, a trade group.
As in many Sunbelt states, a substantial number of Florida's mobile home residents live in retirement communities with upscale amenities such as golf courses and swimming pools.
But the national trend over the past decade has been toward private property as mobile homes have gotten bigger with doublewides and triple-wides having several units joined together.
A decade ago or so, about two-thirds of mobile home owners lived in communities. Currently about two-thirds of owners live on private property, said Bruce Savage, a vice president of the Manufactured Housing Institute in suburban Washington.
"The mobile homes are more houselike and people want more property," Savage said.
In addition, mobile home residents have gotten younger with the increased size and amenities now offered in mobile homes, said Don Hazelton, president of the Federation of Manufactured Home Owners of Florida.
"In Florida in the late 1980s and 1990s, it was predominantly senior citizens," Hazelton said. "What has happened in the last four or five years is the demographic population is younger."
Hineman, 72, chose the Fairways Country Club community for people age 55 and older because he didn't want to deal with neighbors who had children or dogs. He owns his 1,150 square-foot mobile home and pays $230 a month to lease the land.
"When you get my age and retire, you get damn sick of kids," Hineman said. "If I were to have the same square-footage on a house with a golf course, it would cost me a lot more."
Others choose to live in mobile homes and trailers out of economic need.
Louis Lago, 77, paid $1,500 for his trailer four years ago after moving from Michigan to Bithlo, a community in Orlando that has one of the highest concentrations of mobile home residents in the state.
"It suits my income," Lago said.
In Florida, the counties with the largest percentage of residents living in mobile homes or trailers were Gilchrest County (57 percent), Glades County (54.9 percent) and Dixie County (54.1 percent).
The Lakeland-Winter Haven area and Ocala were the metropolitan areas with the largest concentration of mobile homes and trailers, more than 28 percent, while the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area had the lowest at 2.6 percent.
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ApproachSee the Getting There section of the main page to get to the trailhead. Also, see the McClellan Mountain Trail (West End) route of Fields Peak to get to the same trail.
Route DescriptionFrom the trailhead, go 1.5 miles to a fork. There will be a small square piece of plywood on a tree with an arrow pointing to the right. If you want to bag Fields Peak, head left and then come back or go cross country to get back on the ridge to Moore and Moon Mountains. If you want to go straight to Moon Mountain, take the right fork and you'll head to the saddle between Fields and Moore. The trail goes around to the left (north) side of Moore and then back to the ridge. Or, if you are hiking early in the season and there is snow on the north side, you can tramp onto the south side and traverse around there. You might catch some game trails or faint paths also there.
Once you are on the ridge again to the east of Moore Mountain, it is only a short distance to another smaller hump on the ridge and from there, a ridge heads north to Moon Mountain. Head north off trail here and walk the ridge to the summit. There is a faint path that goes just below Moon's ridge on the right (east ) side or you can just walk the ridge and easy scrambling to the summit and a small cairn that marks it.
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If you're like many Americans, you've accrued vacation time that you're not sure when you'll ever use. You might feel guilty about taking time off when there's so much work to be done, or just not foresee a slower period that will allow you to get away. But taking occasional breaks from work is crucial to maintaining your quality of life, and sometimes your quality of work too, since many people burn out when they're never able to get away.
If you're one of the many who doesn't know how you'll find time to go on vacation, here are five tips for making it happen.
1. Stop waiting for a "good time" to go. The nature of many jobs is that there will never be an easy time to take time off, no matter how well you plan for it in advance. But that's no reason to not go at all. It's in your employer's best interests to have well-rested and recharged employees, and vacation time is a benefit that you've earned, just like salary, so you should use it. So instead of waiting for the perfect time - which may never come along - decide that you will use your vacation time this year, and make the question one of what accommodations should be made, rather than whether accommodations can be made.
2. If your manager balks, be assertive. It's certainly your manager's prerogative to say that you can't take time off at a certain time of year (because it's the company's busiest time or because two other people on your team will be gone then), but she shouldn't say that you can never take time off. If you're getting the sense she doesn't want to approve vacation time, no matter when it is, address the issue head-on. Say something like, "I haven't been able to have a vacation in two years because it's so hard to get away, and obviously that's not sustainable in the long-term. Time off is part of my benefits package, and I'd like to use it. Can we talk about how to arrange things so that I can plan for some time off with confidence?" Sometimes some bosses are so caught up in the day-to-day rush of work that they need prodding to step back and look at long-term needs like this. (And good managers know that great people will eventually leave if they're working in a culture that doesn't support their quality of life, and good management is about getting results in the long run, not just the short-term.)
3. Be sure your office is prepared to handle anything that might come up in your absence. This means making sure that you've documented how to do the key elements of your job that could be done by someone else in a pinch; enlisting co-workers in helping cover pieces of your job that will need to be covered while you're gone; informing your boss about those arrangements so that she's in the know; and making sure that your outgoing voice mail message and email auto-reply both let people know that you're away, when they can expect a response, and/or whom to contact for help in your absence.
4. Try to unplug completely. Much of the benefit of vacation time comes from truly being away from work - mentally as well as physically. If you're still checking work email and taking work calls, you'll lose this benefit, especially since it takes most people a few days of doing no work to get out of work mode completely. So don't be tempted to check in to make sure you're not needed. In all but the rarest cases, your office can survive without you for a week or two.
5. But if you really can't unplug completely, limit the ways in which you're checking in. Don't offer your office constant availability; you shouldn't take work calls when you're relaxing on the beach or enjoying your dinner. Instead, if you can't unplug altogether, let co-workers or your boss know that you'll check voice mail or email once a day (or once every two days) and only respond to messages marked "urgent."
Alison Green writes the popular Ask a Manager blog, where she dispenses advice on career, job search, and management issues. She's also the co-author of Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Manager's Guide to Getting Results, and former chief of staff of a successful nonprofit organization, where she oversaw day-to-day staff management, hiring, firing, and employee development.
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PYONGYANG, North Korea, July 18 (UPI) -- The two Koreas' latest round of talks on reopening their industrial complex failed again, raising questions whether operations there would resume any time soon.
The two sides in their fourth round of working-level talks in the North Korean border city of Kaesong, where the idled complex is located, could only agree to meet again Monday for the fifth round.
North Korea, reacting to Wednesday's developments, again blamed the South, Yonhap News reported.
"The South side took such very dishonest and insincere attitude as creating artificial hurdles in settling the issues, insisting only on the blame for the crisis in the zone and unilateral assurances against recurrence," the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency said. "It only pretended to have the talks and keep them going on, thus making them fruitless."
South Korea, however, said Wednesday's talks ended without a breakthrough because there is still a wide gap between the two sides.
The 10-year-old Kaesong facility, the only economic link between the two Koreas, with 123 South Korean firms participating, was shuttered in early April after North Korea, maintaining its belligerent posture, unilaterally pulled its 53,000 workers and banned the entry of South Korean representatives and supplies into the complex.
North Korea, an impoverished isolated Communist country whose nuclear and long-range missile tests and other provocations have escalated tensions on the Korean Peninsula, last month accepted South Korea's proposal to hold talks on resuming operations at the Kaesong complex.
The main sticking point relates to whether the North will commit itself to providing safeguards so the complex can be kept running without being affected by political and other non-economic developments and provide institutional and legal guarantees for the safety and property rights of South Korean investors and workers at Kaesong.
South Korea says the North only wants the complex to be reopened immediately.
Analysts told Yonhap the current dialogue may not lead to the resumption of operations any time soon because of the wide disparity in opinions between the two sides.


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Sheriff's deputies want to know who cut the cheese.
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In what seems to be the latest in a rash of crimes against meat, an employee at a Foothills Safeway reported a man with a knife in the store cutting open packages of cheese, meat and other perishables, causing $700 in damage, according to a Pima County Sheriff's Department report.
The incident, earlier this month, "originated from the individual coming in and stating that he had bought meat and wanted a refund. However, he did not bring the product he wanted a refund for," the deputy reported. The man didn't have a receipt either and was refused a refund.
The man, who was seen on surveillance video, became angry went into the meat and deli section of the grocery store and "vandalized packaged meat and other foods for sale."
After attacking the meat, the disgruntled man went to the frozen food section where he went after packages of sausage before moving onto the refrigerated section where he cut the cheese.
The man is described as being in his mid-60s, balding and wearing glasses.
Earlier this month, at a south side Walmart Neighborhood Market, a man unsuccessfully tried to boost a shopping cart full of beef.
In late September two incidents of meat thievery were reported to the sheriff's department.
The first thief made off with five packages of meat from a north side Safeway.
The second wasn't as successful. The man stole a rotisserie chicken from a display at the front of a north side Walmart, but as he peddled away on his bicycle, he dropped the chicken and lost his cowboy hat.


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Q: water is sloshing around above the blower
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the ac drain is not blocked water drips from somewhere above the ac evaporator behind the glove box
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I would make sure your cooling system is full. I had a 99 Jeep in last week with the same problem. The customer said the system was full. I put 2 quarts in the radiator and it went away. I have also seen the holes blocked for the vents under the wiper cowel and water was stuck in the wiper linkage area
I recentaly bought a 1998 Jeep GrandCherokee 5.9 with water sloshing around and water filling up the passenger side floorboard.I searched and found many answeres that did not work for me. BUT I finally found the cure. These ins. will be lenghty so please bare with me. first I had to pull the carpet passenger side back and split the ruber cover that covered the drain outlet on passenger side firewall just below heater box. The drain cover will have a plug in it . The cover is round about the size of a 50 cent piece. Pull the plug out and see if water drains out, If not there is an obstruction from that point up to the evaporator[ heater box]. I drilled a half inch hole just to the left of the plug hole and carefully ran a coat hanger slowely up drain to clear drain. This was not my problem. I than ran a long coat hanger through the hole where the plug hole is to clear any obstruction, for me this was still not the problem. I still was getting lots of water in floorboard? Than I found the Problem. If you run your fingers around behind the round drain cap that has the plug in it that connects to the fire wall, you will notice there is a seam where two pieces of plastic pipe connects. If you can, run your A/C unit and watch to see where the water is going. For me It was seeping from where the two pipes connected at the firewall. The one pipe exits through the firewall. I took some auto weather strippin sealer that comes in a string and worked it into the seam and kept watching until all the leak had stopped. Next you will want to check the drain out side of the car where the water exits. on my 1998 Jeep 5.9 the water exits through the frame just below the passenger side front door through the frame. I also took a coat hanger and cleaned the passage way. I know this was long but I hope this will help you. It took me a lot of effort to finally fix this problem.
I have found that my heater coli is constantly on ,causing the car to be in defrost which makes more water.
I removed the fuse and run in recirculate this creates less moisture,haven't fix the sloshing yet but close.
PS my son has 2002 Jeep and his heater is on all the time?
I removed the fuse and run in recirculate this creates less moisture,haven't fix the sloshing yet but close.
PS my son has 2002 Jeep and his heater is on all the time?
This is a common problem with similar year jeeps. Cut the rubber from around the firewall and the black circle which is the drain under the passenger dash. Use a small screw driver or a nail to scrape the black foam from behind the drain and the fire wall. It will most likely crumble away. Spray the area with brake cleaner run the car with the ac off for awhile, the heat on the firewall will dry the area. Must be dry. , Then squirt alot of black silicone gasket maker in-between the drain and the wall. Make a smooth layer with your finger all the way around. Use alot, Its not pretty but it works and will never be scene anyways Let dry for at least an hour before driving and do not use AC for 24 hours. This is from a mechanic friend who has seen this numerous times. $6.00 fix or hundreds for a new seal. Caused by the heat breaking down the seal. Its not clogged and u will not find the hole under the car anyways. Its in the frame.
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Fuller information:Sir John Poultney or de Pulteney, Lord Mayor in 1330, 1331, 1333 and 1336, founded Corpus Christi College in the parish of St Lawrence and his name was given to the church. The chapel of Corpus Christi probably stood to the north of St Laurence in Candlewick Street by 1392. A lane has been known to exist here since the mid C13th, later called Laurence Pountney Lane after the church. According to John Stow, in 1370 the churchyard was used as the place where Flemish weavers were to gather for the purposes of hiring, whereas weavers of Brabant were to gather for the same purpose in the churchyard of St Mary Somerset (q.v.). The reason for this separation was due to disputes among the weavers. The church and college were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and not rebuilt, the parish then united with that of St Mary Abchurch (q.v.). A plaque on site recalls this as the site of the church and College.
Sources consulted:Simon Bradley & Nikolaus Pevsner, 'The Buildings of England, London 1: The City of London', 1997 (1999 ed.); George Godwin & John Britton 'The Churches of London: A history and description of the Ecclesiastical Edifices of the Metropolis, Volume II', London, 1839; London Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches data; Gerald Cobb 'The Old Churches of London', Batsford, 1942.
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Time: October 3, 2013 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: Labyrinth Puzzles & Games
Street: 645 Pennsylvania Av SE
City/Town: Washington, DC 20003
Website or Map: http://www.labyrinthgameshop.…
Event Type: demo
Organized By: Ryan Hackel
Latest Activity: Oct 7, 2013
Looney pyramid veteran Ryan Hackel will be teaching pyramid games, both old and new. Come and earn your wings!
Labyrinth was packed! Mike and I played:
1x Zark City (loooooong game! Went through the deck many times.)
2x Ambush (New game for Mike's list)
1x Conquest of Mars (didn't really work with two players, needs work)
2x Treehouse
We also played non-Looney non-pyramid games... Wanderlust and Love Letter.


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If you ask me, it's no coincident that Manic Monday and Sunglasses Day collide today. I mean, we all know the feeling of needing to hide our tired eyes behind some shades come Monday morning, don't we?
So in order to celebrate this shady holiday, here's a neat little list of movie characters who know how to sport those helpful glasses with style, grace and, of course, utter coolness.
Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
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The Reservoir Dogs (1992)
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Dracula in Dracula (1992)
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Eilis in Brooklyn (2015)
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Trinity, Neo and Morpheus in The Matrix Trilogy (1999-2003)
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Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
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Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (2000)
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Eve, Adam and Ava in Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
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Kay and Jay in the Men in Black franchise (1997 - )
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That's it. Who are your favourite sunglasses wearing movie characters?


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