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Published: Sunday 15th March 2015 by The News Editor
George Osborne will head into this week's Budget with a £5 billion pre-election war chest as tumbling oil prices help lower inflation and beef up the UK's growth outlook, economists predict.
The slide in oil – with a barrel of Brent crude today worth half as much as it was last summer – is largely responsible for the fiscal picture facing the Chancellor being better than expected at the time of his Autumn Statement in December.
Now Mr Osborne must decide whether to use the spare cash to fund pre-election giveaways or scale back austerity plans, or alternatively to salt away the windfall in order to boost his credentials on fiscal discipline.
Simon Wells, chief UK economist at HSBC, said: "Mr Osborne will be looking for vote-winning headlines.
"He stuck with a policy of fiscal austerity through the tough times of 2012 and early 2013. So he will not abandon austerity now that the economy is recovering, but with a general election on 7 May there is some scope for modest giveaways."
Lower oil prices have produced a double boost for the Chancellor.
Firstly, cheaper petrol is seen as likely to boost consumer spending, lifting the wider economy – leading to upgraded growth forecasts in Wednesday's Budget – and feeding through to Treasury receipts.
Secondly, oil is also largely responsible for another positive impact on the Government's coffers via its impact on inflation and therefore public sector debt.
That is because it has helped Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation fall to a record low of 0.3% and expectations that it will soon turn negative before remaining at around zero for much of the rest of the year.
Low inflation means lower payments by the Government to service index-linked debt. It also means lower increases on certain benefits.
Mr Wells predicts that lower inflation alone could reduce spending in the fiscal year from the start of April by £3.5 billion relative the latest December forecast by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
Lower oil prices will have a downward impact on North Sea oil tax receipts but this is expected to be more than offset by the positive impact on public sector finances from the wider economy.
Meanwhile revisions to official figures for earlier this year coupled with bumper self-assessment tax receipts producing a surplus in January mean 2014/15 borrowing looks likely to come in lower than expected.
The OBR predicted in December that the underlying deficit would fall from £97.5 billion in 2013/14 to £91.3 billion in the current fiscal year.
But HSBC expects this to be lower at £90.6 billion. They also see the OBR cutting its prediction for 2015/16's deficit from £75.9 billion to £73.4 billion.
They also predict official forecasts for growth will be upgraded from 2.4% to 2.7% for this year and from 2.2% to 2.5% for 2016.
Experts at consultancy Capital Economics said: "The recent downward revisions to borrowing, the drop in inflation (and inflation-linked debt payments) and a better growth outlook should free up around £5 billion for Mr Osborne to spend."
There may be a temptation to ease back on austerity after the OBR in December calculated that the fiscal plans he has pencilled in over the next few years would see the rate of spending as a portion of gross domestic product fall to its lowest since the 1930s.
"Of course, the Chancellor won't want to throw away his hard-won reputation for fiscal responsibility," Capital Economics said. "Nonetheless, he could scale back the planned spending cuts a bit.
"Although this would make barely a dent in their total size, it could counter criticism that he is cutting just on ideological grounds.
"And with the election just seven weeks after the Budget, he surely won't be able to resist the temptation to hand out a few billion in pre-election sweeteners."
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After several presentations, deliberations, and other stuff in between, the Council of Local Member Organizations have successfully elected more officers in the AMSA Philippines Executive Board for 2016-2017.
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To be or not – to be. This is Hamlet's famous question. Like no other literary figure created by the Shakespeare, Prince of Denmark is the type of the doubter. He gave the promise to the ghost of his murdered father to take revenge for his death, but all attempts to fulfil this vow are leading him further into misery only. William Shakespeare's tragedy, created in 1600, is perhaps the best example of his legacy and certainly the most powerful of his plays: Countless revisions and adaptations testify the timelessness of the substance.
"Something is rotten in Denmark" - The popular King lies dead in his garden, killed by a snake. On the throne now sits his brother Claudius, married on Hamlet's mother Gertrude. Hamlet condemns this hasty marriage. In addition, he learns from his father's ghost that he was treacherously murdered by Claudius. He calls his son to revenge and Hamlet says that he will do. Hamlet rages with fury, but does not act openly against the new king. Soon is Hamlet's death is decided by his enemies.
To disguise his intention Hamlet plays the madman, even against his beloved Ophelia. Everyone thinks Hamlet suffers from obsessive love. To know his thoughts and intentions, the royal couple has called two old friends of Hamlet, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern to the court. But Hamlet is continuing his play.
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As we approach July 15th, just about six weeks until the biggest move-in day of the year in Greater Boston, here's what you need to know…
If You're a Landlord
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See above. The rental timelines are the same – people should be looking no less than 8-10 weeks before they want to move in. If you're looking for a 9/1 apartment now, you may need to be more flexible than usual. Before you begin looking, set your list of priorities to make the process go faster and smoother (e.g., price, location, # of bedrooms).
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Annual Italian Festival in honor of St. Andrew is this week in New Haven
"New Haven is such a wonderful place to live with all of its history and culture. However, not many people know of the hard work and dedication that the Italian-American citizens of New Haven do in keeping their history alive," organizers said in a statement.
"The St. Andrew the Apostle Society was formed on November 1, 1900 by the Italian immigrants from the Town of Amalfi who settled in New Haven. The Society was named after their patron Saint of Amalfi. As some of you may know it is a common practice for Italian-Americans to commemorate the patron saints of their various villages and towns with liturgical feasts and festivals."
The St. Andrew Festival includes "great Italian food, free live musical entertainment nightly, and games and rides for children of all ages," the statement said. "Over the years the St. Andrew's Feast has grown to attract hundreds of people of various ethnic backgrounds. It is a great time to reunite and visit with old friends many of them from the historic Wooster Square area. It also provides an opportunity for people of all heritages to learn and enjoy the Amalfitani Italian culture."
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But I Also Wish....Life hasn't handed me the hand it delt. That's not to say I haven't had a wicked ride and have nothing to look forward too, just some people don't know how lucky they are. Drugs are the only thing I can truly trust. As long as it is what it's meant to b, wich it useusly is for me...
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I am really putting in the effort to have a great garden this year. My flower bed turned out so much better than I expected last year, so I'm going for a vegetable garden this year too.
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It's already being dubbed the wedding song of 2017, now Brett Young has a video to go with his alluring tune, 'In Case You Didn't Know.'
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I created this blog after 9 Black parishioners were murdered in Charleston. I was horrified, not just by the tragic event, but by my own passivity when it came to racial justice and how I was raising my kids. I wanted to change, to be accountable to the ways I perpetuated and participated in racism as a person and a parent, but I had no idea where to start. I started anyway.
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Melbourne, Feb 22 (PTI) Australia started their World Cupwith a resounding win but their struggle against spin bowlingonce again raised questions on the wisdom behind leaving outMike Hussey and skipper Ricky Ponting is hoping that theomission does not hurt them.
The Kangaroos, who started their title defence bycrushing Zimbabwe by 91 runs, could not gather any momentumagainst the African spin attack and were restricted to a scoreof 261.
The effort clearly emphasised the team''s need for anexperienced campaigner in the middle order who could keep thescoreboard moving in the middle overs, a role that the Husseycould have slotted into nicely.
The captain, however, hopes the decision by selectors toexclude the injured Hussey from Australia''s World Cup squadwon''t hurt the team''s bid to clinch their fourth successivetitle.
"Hopefully it (not having Hussey) won''t come back andhurt us at all," Ponting was quoted as saying by ''the HeraldSun'' when asked about the left-hander making himself availablefor the Sheffield Shield fixture.
Hussey was dropped from the Australian squad as he had asurgery a month back to repair the hamstring tendon thatripped off his knee bone during Australia''s first ODI againstEngland following the Ashes series.
He, however, had claimed that he would be fit by thesecond group match of the World Cup.
The 35-year-old batsman had a strong training sessionwith Western Australia and he was selected to play againstTasmania but had to be withdrawn when higher powers at CricketAustralia intervened.
The skipper though backed the selectors and reiteratedthat the team needs to move on. "We''ve got what we''ve got now,with the squad. We understand that Mike was disappointed notto be in this squad in the first place and we''re disappointedfor him as well.
"But all we can do now is move forward and move on withthe squad of players that we''ve got and do the best that wecan to try to get ourselves into the semi-final stage of thisevent.


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Today I realized that even as we grow, those around us do not. Age does not make us more intelligent or even more weary of how to treat others. It's only after we hurt and deal with certain situations in our lives do we realize that we need to treat people with a certain kind of respect. We don't do it for them, we do it because it makes us better human beings.
Last week I hooked up with a guy who I genuinely thought was 'nice'. I've known of him for years but never really reached out to engage in conversation until last month. So we got together and I thought he was god sent!! Not sexually because to be honest I felt he lacked a bit of experience but as a person. I got to his place after work and he let me take a long shower, he washed all my clothes and in the morning he even took me to breakfast. Fuck I thought, I could work with this! I could definitely help him improve sexually and was willing to overlook that for being such a nice guy.
But boy was I wrong!!
My issue right now is why did I misjudge him. Am I so fucked up that the first guy who comes with 'game' is able to so easily deceive me? I know that my id still seeks to find companionship in some way or form. I know I would like to have a constant in my life that is more than just the sexual component but how did I misread him so much?
Since last week (despite my leaving for 3 days on a Caribbean getaway) I have not spent any time with him. Normally it's not a big deal but we work the same hours and he is 5 minutes away from my job! I would think that he would seek me out at least for the sexual component.
I honestly think I'm out of touch with the world of men sometimes……


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In my adult life, the concept of 'roots' has always been an alien one. During the last 7 years, I've lived and worked in 8 different countries, and vacationed in 8 more. But recently, my roaming tendencies have reached a new peak: in the last 10 weeks alone, I've flown on 17 planes and slept on 23 beds. My suitcase is my only constant companion. And change has become my routine.
This nomadic chapter has been amazing, in many ways. But the strongest impression I'm left with isn't one particular experience from my travels, but rather, the only thing that unites all people and places: their impermanence. I've been forced to accept, on a daily basis, that the life I'm comfortable with will one day change. Possessions wear down, landscapes transform, people grow and move away. This may seem like a very basic truth, but I think that most people fail to embrace this concept in their daily lives. I know I did.
In September, I went home to New York for the first time in over year. I was expecting everything to be just as it always had been. It's my home, after all, which is supposed to be the greatest place of comfort and consistency. A place where I just 'fit' – no questions asked.
But it wasn't quite like that anymore. The house I grew up in – my home – was sold a month before I returned. Everywhere I stayed, I felt like a guest, not a resident coming home from a long trip. My brother, the love of my life, could only fit in one day to see me after my absence for an entire year. My friends had changed their jobs, priorities, and partners. The city was still as vivacious as ever, but I had to navigate "the scene" through tourist magazines rather than inviting emails from the groups to which I belonged.
The unexpected change tore through to my core. In my travels, I've always looked forward to strangers asking where I'm from, so that I can proudly tout "New York! The greatest city in the world," – with a beaming smile strewn across my face. But the Big Apple, as I had come to define it, had altered our relationship and tangled my roots. I felt unsettled and confused. It was the only part of my identity that had remained constant through my 25 years of existence.
My second week in NY, I went to a small, off-Broadway play called "We're Going to Die." This quirky show is the producer's attempt to relate some lessons she has learned from her personal experiences with grief. The moral is that, as humans, we all have those gut-churning, lonely, unhappy moments in our lives. The best remedy for coping with these feelings, she prescribes, is to continually remind ourselves that we will, one day, die.
Although the maxim may come off cryptic or depressing, its implications strongly resounded with me. When I'm feeling sad or unsettled, the last thing I want to hear from someone is that "it's all going to be ok," or "everything happens for a reason." You can't expect a restless heart to internalize that knowledge and be suddenly soothed. My angst about NY was something I needed to embrace, deconstruct, and wrestle with. The active awareness that I would one day die gave me the abrupt comfort that my sorrow will die too. And more importantly, the threat of nonexistence gave me immediate insight into the triviality of my troubles. Accepting that both my life and my feelings are impermanent liberated me from my disappointment.
I also realized that, as much as New York had changed, so too had I. The Indian culture had laid its handprint on my heart, remolding many of my feelings, perceptions, beliefs, and passions. The permanent notion I had of myself a year before in New York was a fallacy in my head. Since I had grown so much in one year, how could I have ever expected New York to stay that same? My parents are advancing into the post-parenting stage of their lives, when their decisions are once again their own. My friends are shaping their itineraries and communities to accommodate the professions and dreams that they had chiseled out for their lives. And New York City? Well she is stubbornly maintaining her reputation as an untamable beast – no matter how many times I have ridden her saddle. Between us all, the only thing that unites us is the surety that we will continue to transform, adjust, and mature. That we are all impermanent in ourselves and how we relate to our surroundings.
After several more stops in my nomadic expedition, I have finally put my feet in the sand in Mumbai. I plan to make this city my home – laboring to learn Hindi, study local politics, and embed myself in the social ecosystem. The fourth biggest city in the world, Mumbai is the commercial and entertainment capital of India. This metropolis is known for its eccentric energies embodied in graffiti murals, thief bazaars, floating mosques, spicy street food and bombastic, bright-light festivals. As a city of unbridled opportunity and limitless diversity, Mumbai holds the promise of a lot growth and success for both me and my company. But as I make my nest, I proceed with caution, not to become too shackled to the outcomes that I hope to achieve by living here. For every physical attachment I make, for every solid conclusion I draw – I try to balance it with the knowledge that the people, things, and ideas around me are dynamic, and will continue to change. If I accept their impermanence and resist the comforts of attaching myself to the static reality of the moment, then I believe that I will never be disappointed. Rather, every change that occurs will simply add another color to the canvas of my life. In this way, the mindset of impermanence has truly released me from my mental cages. I'm free to experiment, to fail, and to fight in my new home. My time in Mumbai, just like my entire existence, is after all, impermanent.


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New Delhi, July 2: Hazi Gulam Muhiuddin Dar could have been sitting in Parliament. Instead, he was arrested last night with three others for an alleged plot to attack the Palam air force base.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is scheduled to leave for the G8 summit in Scotland on Wednesday, uses this air base.
Delhi police, which said they had found a sketch of the air force station and an army combat uniform, claimed that Dar ' who is also known as Zahid ' and the others were planning a strike on the airstrip.
They have disclosed that the air force station was one of several targets they had short-listed. They have already carried out one recce mission to the base, deputy commissioner, southwest district, Ravindra Yadav said.
Besides Zahid, who had contested unsuccessfully against Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti from Pulwama in the 2004 general elections, the others arrested are Saqib Rehman alias Masood, 33, Basir Ahmad Shah, 47, and Nazir Ahmad Sofi alias Doctor Nazir, 37.
The arrests have come at a time when militants are feeling increasingly isolated because of the thaw in India-Pak relations. Security forces have been fearing loose-cannon, but high-profile, attacks aimed at derailing the peace process.
Police said the militants, from the Islamic Front, an outfit based in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, were intercepted soon after they entered Delhi in a Tata Indica. A joint team of Delhi police (southwest) and military intelligence was lying in wait after getting information that Zahid and Masood would be travelling in a sky-blue Indica (HR 26S 0440) on National Highway 8 around 12.30 at night.
After a two-kilometre chase along the Delhi-Gurgaon border, the joint team brought the car to a halt. While Masood, who was sitting in the front, fired two rounds from his gun, Zahid alighted holding a live grenade, the police said. But they were overpowered.
Police sources said the arms seized from the militants included a Chinese pistol, 35 cartridges of AK-47 assault rifles, fake currency of Rs 50,000 and two cheques of Rs 9.5 lakh of J&K Bank. According to the police, the militants had got the arms from another militant Abdul Bhatt. Several calls from satellite phones were also recorded on their mobile phones, the deputy commissioner said.
The police said the four are residents of Srinagar and Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir, where they were involved in looting banks, and had been living in and around Delhi for the last two or three months. They were also involved in circulation of fake currency.
According to the police, Zahid, an MPhil from Kashmir University, was a conduit for funds from the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and passed on information related to deployment of army and paramilitary units. Deputy commissioner Yadav said Zahid has been receiving large amounts of money from his mentors in Pakistan.
Masood, an ISI agent, was earlier associated with the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front. He joined the Islamic Front in 2000 and learnt how to use arms in PoK.
Basir, a commerce graduate from Kashmir University, had opened a company called Jhelum Agro Forest Finance in Srinagar in 1995 and had collected Rs 80 lakh from investors by promising huge returns. He later went underground.
Nazir, who has a diploma as a medical assistant, joined them as he wanted to make easy money, the police said.


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BREAKING: Bush drops opposition, will sign housing bill
With O-Force One in Jerusalem, the senator dons a yarmulke … Maureen Dowd on "messianic" Obama: "The One left them swooning in Jordan" … Entourage: 20-vehicle motorcade, 12 foreign policy advisers on the plane ... "There's not going to be any questions now" ... Sean Hannity praises KATIE COURIC for persistence with Obama ... Steve Schmidt in "Doonesbury": "We're not idiots" … "Bullet" also gets A1 WSJ profile, reveals McCain message for rest of campaign: Risk v. putting country first … New badges for McCain's "Left Behind" press corps … Secretary Gates op-ed in N.Y. Times … National Enquirer claims it confronts John Edwards leaving the Beverly Hilton at 2:40 a.m. after visiting a divorcee ... He runs, hides in bathroom until rescued by hotel security … No comment from JRE … Joe Hagin has his last official day at the White House … Ann Compton passes the gavel to Jennifer Loven … Jonas Brothers buy house in Dallas
Good Wednesday morning. Sunday smackdown: Senator Obama sits down with Tom Brokaw on "Meet the Press," vs. Senator McCain on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
Story Continued Below
AFP's Olivier KNOX is a birthday boy.
Washington-based "BBC World News America" anchor Matt Frei anchors from Berlin tomorrow at 7 p.m. Eastern, repeating at 10.
Michael GERSON is with Cindy McCAIN and the One Campaign in RWANDA: "Even if a first lady is not intrusively political, the whole White House responds to her priorities. Cindy McCain has had decades of personal contact with the suffering of the developing world. And in some future crisis or genocide, it might matter greatly to have a first lady who knows the smell of death."
BREAKING 1 -- AP: "President Bush has dropped his opposition to legislation that aims to calm the chaotic housing market despite his opposition to a $3.9 billion provision, the White House said this morning. Under the bill, the government would help struggling homeowners get new, cheaper loans and would be allowed to offer troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a cash infusion. The House was expected to vote on the bill Wednesday, and it could become law as early as this week."
BREAKING 2 -- Bloomberg News in Singapore: "U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met her North Korean counterpart for the first time in the highest-level discussions since six-nation denuclearization talks began in 2003."
USA Today A5, banner: "Obama promises focus on Middle East peace."
PUNDIT PREP -- Dee Dee MYERS, to John ROBERTS on CNN's "American Morning": "If [McCain] took a trip today, begrudgingly the network anchors now would have to go. … So far, so far, I think this has been everything and more that the Obama campaign hoped. … [There's] always a danger for somebody in Obama's position. He's now been built up. What's the next step? We'll see. It's a long campaign."
Politico's Carrie Budoff: Wearing a white yarmulke, Barack Obama appeared at solemn ceremony at Yad Vashem, Israel's chief Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem. He visited the museum for the second time in two years, an obligatory stop for foreign dignitaries. Obama appeared solemn in the Hall of Remembrance, where he stood with Avner Shalev, the museum's curator. As he rekindled the eternal flame, the clicking sound from a bank of five dozen still cameras — most were local — sounded rain in a strong downpour. When he laid a wreath, he stood over it for 15 seconds with his head bowed. He left without taking questions."
AP Ramallah: "Barack Obama's trip to the West Bank on Wednesday appeared to generate some goodwill among Palestinians, though deep skepticism about U.S. policy remains."
HOW THE WORLD SEES US -- AFP's Stephen Collinson: "AMMAN -- Barack Obama strode onto the world stage on Tuesday with trademark audacity, or as his political enemies would have it, a dearth of humility, in the symbolic shadow of Jordan's Temple of Hercules."
The voice of the McCain campaign's Steve "Bullet" SCHMIDT is in DOONESBURY for the third day in a row. Today, he's trying to fill a stadium for Senator McCain's acceptance, until he gets the, um, brief list of the celebrities supporting the campaign. Schmidt is named in Monday's strip. Money quote: "WE'RE NOT IDIOTS."
Wall Street Journal A1, " McCain's Message Gets Makeover: 'Sgt. Schmidt' Gives New Orders: Hammer, Then Repeat," By Laura Meckler and Elizabeth Homes: "Schmidt has settled on this formula: Sen. Obama represents a big risk, while Sen. McCain rises above partisanship to put country first. Expect to hear that sentiment nearly every day between now and Nov. 4."
THE OP-ED YOU HAVE – The N.Y. Times runs Robert M. Gates' first op-ed as defense secretary, a joint venture with Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's minister of defense: " Colombia's Gains Are America's, Too."
THE BIG IDEA – Bloomberg's Laura LITVAN: "Republican lawmakers striving to save their jobs are proclaiming their independence from the White House on issues from health care to the rescue plan for mortgage-finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
Politico's Patrick O'CONNOR says House Rs are cooking up a plan to RUN THE McCAIN OP-ED as an AD in the Gray Lady: "The letter, drafted by California Rep. Kevin O. McCarthy with the blessing of his leadership, is an attempt to paint the venerable newspaper as a Democratically-aligned media company."
BOOKMARK: Politico and Real Clear Politics launched an experiment: a joint blog covering House and Senate campaigns. The Scorecard, written by Reid Wilson of Real Clear and Josh Kraushaar of Politico, will live on both sites.
Jonathan E. KAPLAN on the big-screen TVs and other goodies members buy with their office allowances.
Elizabeth Holmes of The Wall Street Journal reports from the lonely McCain bubble in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: "On Tuesday evening, a campaign staffer handed out ID badges to the traveling press with the 'McCain Press Corps' moniker and a picture of the Statue of Liberty. But they added a little something special. The wearers of these badges were dubbed members of the 'JV Squad' with the following text: 'Left Behind to Report in America.' "
A McCain fundraising e-mail mocks the press for "a bizarre fascination with Barack Obama."
State Republican parties issue statements whacking Obama's trip in AR, CA, FL, GA, IA, LA, OH, ME, MA, MT, NC, NH, NV, VA: "As Obama Continues His Travels Abroad, GOP State Parties Attack His Continued Opposition To The Successful Troop Surge In Iraq."
FAIR AND BALANCED – Katie Couric gets "Evening News" exclusives with both Obama and McCain for what she called "kind of a long-distance debate," and CBS News puts both full transcripts online.
From Amman, Couric interviewed McCain in New Hampshire for " McCain: 'We Will Come Home In Victory.'" Asked if he's getting unfair coverage, McCain replied: "I don't think so. I think …it is what it is. I'm a big boy. And I'm enjoying every minute of the campaigning. And I'm certainly not complaining. And, in fact, I think it's fun to watch."
COURIC gets an ATTABOY from Fox's Sean HANNITY for repeatedly pressing Obama on how he could say he would still oppose the surge policy in Iraq if he had it do over again, during " Obama: Surge Doesn't Meet Long-Term Goals."
Couric asked Obama whether he gives "the surge any credit for reducing violence in Iraq."
OBAMA: No, no … of course I have. There is no doubt that the extraordinary work of our U.S. forces has contributed to a lessening of the violence. …
COURIC: But talking microcosmically, did the surge, the addition of 30,000 additional troops ... help the situation in Iraq?
OBAMA: Katie, as … you've asked me three different times, and I have said repeatedly that there is no doubt that our troops helped to reduce violence. There's no doubt. …
COURIC: I really don't mean to belabor this, Senator, because I'm really, I'm trying … to figure out your position. Do you think the level of security in Iraq would exist today without the surge?
OBAMA: Katie, I have no idea what would have happened had we applied my approach, which was to put more pressure on the Iraqis to arrive at a political reconciliation. So this is all hypotheticals.
ABC's Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller in Jerusalem: "At the fabled King David Hotel this morning, Sen. Barack Obama had breakfast with Israeli Defense Minister and Labor leader Ehud Barak. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was accompanied by senior advisers Dennis Ross, Jim Steinberg, former U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer; former Navy secretary Richard Danzig and Dan Shapiro. …
"Obama, wearing a blue-and-white striped tie, posed for photos with Barak. 'Where are we sitting?' Barack asked Barak. Barak motioned him to the other side of a large wooden table covered with orange juice, bread, fruit, cheese and salad. The next meeting was with Knesset member/Likud Party Chair Benjamin Netanyahu, who asked Obama how he was feeling. 'I could fall asleep standing up,' Obama said, according to Bloomberg News' Tel Aviv correspondent Jonathan Ferziger. ... 'Mr. Obama?' asked one of the reporters in the small pool permitted into these meetings. 'There's not going to be any questions now,' Obama said. And the reporters were escorted out."
Maureen DOWD, in the Obama bubble in Jerusalem, "Is 'The One' Cocky or Commander in Chiefy?": "Barack Obama wrinkles. Just slightly, and just when he has to wear a flak jacket over his blue oxford shirt. The media behemoth slouching after the senator is scouring his every word, expression, bead of sweat, basketball shot and accessory — are those hiking boots too Bremer? Are the sunglasses too rapper? Will he leave enough time for his glittery groupie, Carla Bruni? — for hints of imperfection that would foretell lacunae in presidential judgment. The One, as McCain aides sardonically call Obama, glided through Afghanistan, Iraq and Jordan, girding his messianic loins for the inevitable kvetching he would face in Israel …
"The king of Jordan personally drove the prince of Chicago from the palace to the airport on Tuesday night to catch his flight to Israel, leading a motorcade in his slate Mercedes 600 across the tarmac and right up to O-Force One, as The Chicago Sun Times mockingly calls the candidate's freshly branded 757, with the captain's chair embroidered with 'Obama-'08/President.' As the senator got out of the passenger seat, King Abdullah jumped out to chat some more, as though the two, who had only met in passing on the Hill, were old pals. …
"At moments, Obama was acting as though he were already 'on a coin,' as Jon Stewart would say. But cocky or not, he needs to swoop up to conquer so Americans can picture him in the role. The One left them swooning in Jordan … That old skill that Obama honed at the Harvard Law Review of listening until everyone at the table felt they had been heard (and agreed with) is coming in handy on his presidential dress rehearsal."
Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown reports on THE ENTOURAGE: "Barack Obama doesn't travel light. Halfway around the world, the Obama campaign machine appears as sprawling and seamless as it is on its home turf. As the presumptive Democratic nominee tours five countries in five days, he brings an entourage that would make a pop star envious.
"A dozen top foreign policy advisers are either traveling with Obama or doing ground work ahead of his arrival in each country. This group is supplemented by his usual contingent of almost a dozen traveling aides, including chief campaign strategist David Axelrod and communications director Robert Gibbs, and too many advance staff to count. With layers of Secret Service agents, they zipped through Amman Tuesday in a motorcade of 20 vehicles. …
"From the saturated media coverage to the one-on-one meetings with heads of state, the trip already had a White House feel. The scope of the traveling staff simply adds to an aura of a president-in-waiting. On Tuesday, aides attempted to invoke White House rules and traditions by requiring reporters to withhold the names of senior advisers who brief the press. But they were reminded twice by reporters that they were not in the White House, and Obama was not president.
"The makeup of his retinue also provides a window into Obama's leadership style, Democratic political strategists said, reflecting a tendency on his part to be inclusive and substantive."
McCain's BRIAN ROGERS: "Who does he think he is? Clay Aiken?"
FOR THE McCAIN PRESS CORPS TO FOLLOW UP – Army Times: "Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain appeared Tuesday to suggest rationing of veterans' health care may be needed so combat veterans can receive the care they deserve. At a town hall meeting in Dover, N.H., McCain talked about the need to 'concentrate' veterans' health care on people with injuries that 'are a direct result of combat.'"
ALSO – WashPost A1, " Big GOP Donor Faced Trouble Back Home," re Florida venture capitalist Craig Berkman.
ON THE RIGHT – Someone's collecting Obama gaffes.
HUGE ON THE LEFT – OUR 'BERRY WAS BLOWING UP LAST NIGHT – MSNBC's Keith OLBERMANN on "Countdown": "Breaking news tonight. Senator McCain says the surge led to the awakening by Sunnis in Iraq, except the awakening by Sunnis in Iraq came before the surge and before the 2006 midterms."
The quote in question, from a part of the Katie Couric interview not aired on "Evening News," but available because CBS News released the transcript in full: "actually happened. Colonel McFarlane (phonetic) was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks. Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening. I mean, that's just a matter of history."
More Olbermann: "Senator McCain is either wrong or lying. The military commander … briefed the media on the Anbar awakening on September 29th, 2006, at least two months before rumors about the mere possibility of the surge of U.S. troops in Iraq."
HuffPost: "McCain Gets History of the Surge Wrong."
The McCAIN CAMPAIGN CALLS THE CHARGE "COMPLETE BALONEY." Spokesman Tucker Bounds: "Senator McCain is correct. As General Petraeus has made clear, the surge is the reason why the Anbar Awakening was so successful in tearing up al Qaeda. … Democrats can debate whether the Awakening would have survived without the surge, or whether the Shiite militias would have unilaterally disarmed without US troops and our Iraqi allies disarming them by force."
SADNESS IN EDWARDS COUNTRY as The National Enquirer, powered by The Drudge Report, reports that "vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting" a woman who is not Elizabeth at the Beverly Hilton hotel from 9:45 p.m. (PST) Monday to 2:40 a.m. Tuesday:
"The Enquirer claims it was acting on a tip that Edwards would be there with the "blonde divorcée": "[W]hen he emerged alone from an elevator into the hotel basement he was greeted by several reporters from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER. … Senior NATIONAL ENQUIRER Reporter Alexander Hitchen asked Edwards why he was visiting … Shocked to see a reporter, and without saying anything, Edwards ran up the stairs leading from the hotel basement to the lobby. But, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement. As he emerged from the stairwell, reporter Butterfield questioned him…
"Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom. He stayed inside for about 15 minutes, refusing to answer questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER about what he was doing in the hotel. A group of hotel security men eventually escorted him from the men's room, while preventing the NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters from following him out of the hotel."
MAGAZINE EDITORS, FILE THIS AWAY -- PIC OF THE DAY – AFP: "Palestinian artist Walid Ayyub makes the final touches on a portrait for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at his shop in the West Bank city of Ramallah." A painting of Jesus is next to it.
VEEPSTAKES – CNN's Dana BASH hears McCain has been talking Tim PAWLENTY behind closed doors -- may be inching toward the Minnesota governor, his host for the Republican convention.
Start the chattering: Word out of the Hamptons set from this weekend is that Rep. Eric I. Cantor (R-Va.), a young fiscal conservative in the House leadership who has been a champion fundraiser for the McCain campaign, had a private LUNCH WITH SENATOR McCAIN while they were in New York to raise money over the weekend, joined by the congressman's wife, Diana. At one point, McCain and Cantor were seen laughing and passing a cell phone back and forth. It's not a BBQ in SEDONA, but it has people scratching their heads.
Also, Big Apple Playbookers tattle that CANTOR HAS BEEN ASKED TO HEAD UP A NEW YORK CITY FUNDRAISER FOR McCAIN WITH SENATOR LIEBERMAN. Date TBA.
Ann COMPTON of ABC News passes the gavel as president of the WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION to Jennifer LOVEN of The Associated Press at a meeting later today, after a year of peace, prosperity, and an increased and expanded scholarship program. The president the following year is Edwin CHEN of Bloomberg News, followed by David JACKSON of USA Today.
JOE HAGIN has his last day at the White House today or tomorrow, depending on packing. Including his service to President George H.W. Bush, the quiet but powerful Hagin has spent more cumulative years on senior staff than any presidential aide since the Roosevelt era. He handled many classified projects, including post-Sept. 11 changes to the presidency and a rewiring of the real Situation Room.
Mark KNOLLER of CBS News will have reports today on Hagin and his uniquely broad purview.
Hagin's successor: Blake GOTTESMAN, 28, who's back in the family after picking up a Harvard MBA.
PRESIDENT BUSH GOT BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE 55 MINUTES AHEAD OF SCHEDULE AFTER A FUNDRAISER IN ATLANTA for House challenger Goddard. From the pool report by Ken Herman of Cox Newspapers: "Tim Baker, general consultant for the Goddard campaign, reports there were about 200 people in attendance at $1,000 a head … Event was in a tent in what he called a 'side yard' at the Merrill home. … Baker said Bush spoke for about 40 minutes, highlighting the need to elect Goddard, re-elect Sen. Saxby Chambliss and put John McCain in the Oval Office. Bush then mingled for about 10 minutes, according to Baker, who said the president was enthusiastically received by the audience."
NATIONAL EDITORS: Newsday found that many of those clothing-collection boxes on the street don't go to charity.
SPOTTED: WJLA News 7's Rebecca COOPER in her native Oklahoma.
CHATTER: Host-with-the-most JAKE YUNKER'S "Summer of Fun" happy hours at Poste, on the terrace of the Hotel Monaco, last night is neck and neck to be the most widely attended "Summer of Fun" shindig ever. And the first with sangria.
ASK TOM HOARE why those girls thought he was Texan. (He's a flagrant Yankee – NORTH of Boston. Though not quite Philbrookian.)
ONLINE – "New York Times links up with LinkedIn" – The Guardian: "The New York Times will be able to serve targeted web stories to business and technology users following a deal with social networking site LinkedIn. Aiming to strengthen its audience among the business community, NYTimes.com will show five relevant headlines in a right-hand box, with stories selected based on the industry, location, role, company and gender of the user's LinkedIn profile. A LinkedIn button next to stories will invite users to share and discuss news with contacts on their LinkedIn network."
DESSERT, from AP: "Jonas Brothers buy house in Dallas-Fort Worth area: "The Jonas Brothers reportedly bought a house in a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb — and some young neighbors sound thrilled. Tarrant County records obtained by The Dallas Morning News indicate that the three band members granted power of attorney to their mother, Denise Jonas, to buy a $2.8 million, six-bedroom house in Vaquero, a gated community in the suburb of Westlake. The documents were signed June 12. …
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Psiloceratid ammonites from the Lower Hettangian of the Karwendel Mountains (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria) and their biostratigraphic significance
von Hillebrandt, Axel; Kment, Kurt
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen Band 277 Heft 3 (2015), p. 275 - 306
published: Sep 1, 2015
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Three Lower Hettangian sections in Austria that include the famous Callipyllum Bed are described. Below the Calliphyllum Bed in the Rissbach section, a limestone bed yielded Psiloceras angulocostatum n. sp. and Psiloceras cf. planorbis. In the Fonsjoch and Baumgartenbach sections, the Calliphyllum Bed is marked by a diverse and well-preserved ammonite fauna belonging to different ammonite horizons. The genus Neophyllites is represented by two species which are important for biostratigraphic correlation with NW Europe. Rare phragmocones of relatively large representatives of the Psiloceras tilmanni group are found in the Calliphyllum Bed and are probably reworked from older ammonite beds. Psiloceras calliphyllum, the most common ammonite in this bed, is most similar to P. erugatum, the oldest Psiloceras in Great Britain. Psiloceras strongolum is found below P. calliphyllum and micro- and macroconchs of both species are present. The microconchs of both species show a more complicated suture line than similar NW European species. The alpine Psiloceras cf. planorbis which has no nodes and a denticulated suture line, could be the forerunner of the NW European Psiloceras planorbis. Some of the Austrian species are related to South and North American forms.
jurassic • northern calcareous alps • ammonites • hettangian • stratigraphy


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1.55 Lingfield
TAKE THE HELM (best price 12-1) conclusively proved during the summer that he's not really in love with the turf, but as a result of many indifferent performances, he now rates a more viable proposition off a tumbling handicap mark back on Polytrack. The last time Brian Meehan's inmate set foot on an all-weather surface was when he finished a creditable fifth behind Haalik in a listed contest over today's course back in March and considering he was rated 89 at the time, he ran way beyond expectations against proper Group horses. Now 6lb lower, the Monsieur Bond gelding is clearly well treated on the basis of that form, and even though he's yet to prove himself beyond 7f, his price more than compensates the risk.£10 Free Credit and a £500 Deposit Bonus
2.40 Cheltenham
WEST APPROACH (best price 11-2) left the impression he might well have won on his seasonal reappearance had the race panned out more favourably, and he's afforded another chance to turn the tables on his old rival Wholestone. Confidently ridden in a slowly-run affair over today's course 20 days ago, Colin Tizzard's charge just got caught out as the race developed into a dash for the line rounding the home turn and although he stayed on strongly all the way up the hill, the more prominently ridden winner just got first run. Likely to be seen to better effect in a more evenly-run race over today's trip, the son of Westerner can reward solid each-way support.
3.15 Cheltenham
Having landed a nationwide punt with Quick Jack in this race several years ago, all eyes will be on TUDOR CITY (best price 4-1) representing the Tony Martin/John Breslin axis, and given how well this four-year-old scored on the Flat at Limerick when last seen, it would come as little surprise to see a similar welter of cash in his direction. Yet to reach his full potential over hurdles, the son of Yeats was a big disappointment the last time he tackled the smaller obstacles (heavy ground to blame), but given his current wellbeing and shrewd connections, it wouldn't be the biggest shock in the world to see him produce his best when it counts the most.
5.45 Wolverhampton
COMMANDER COLE (best price 2-1) improved significantly when stepped up in trip at Newcastle last time out and he can stamp his authority on this small, but select, field. Making his all-weather debut in the first time hood, Saeed Bin Suroor's charge posted a smart time in spread-eagling his field in the latter stages of the Gosforth Park venue and given that the strongest part of his performances was the last two furlongs, he shouldn't have too many fears racing over an extra furlong this evening.
7.05 Dundalk
One of the standout performances by a juvenile on the clock towards the backend of the season was by Cliffs Of Moher at Leopardstown in mid-October and in the shape of SHAHROZE (NAP) (best price 9-2), we get an early indication to see how whether the form is worth following. In-keeping with many of Michael Halford's two-tear-olds first time out, the son of Holy Roman Emperor was a pretty green throughout the majority of the race, but having seemingly been in a pretty hopeless position turning for home, it was encouraging to say the least how well he finished off his race to be a never-nearer sixth at the line. Given that time figure produced by the winner was better than the one achieved by the ever-reliable and solid Group-race performer Sovereign Debt over the same trip by a second, it just goes to show what the selection was up against on the day. Therefore, allowing for just normal improvement – especially over an extra furlong – it would come as something of a surprise if this well-bred individual wasn't heavily involved in the outcome with that initial experience tucked under his belt.


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Great rural setting with a nice 2 bedroom ranch home. Large Kitchen, enclosed porch, big 2 car garage with work shops, upstairs office plus another outbuilding that could make a nice studio, shop or extra storage. Nice views of rolling fields, good location.
Listing information
- Year Built: 1908
- Status: Sold on 9/30/2016
- New Construction: No
- County: Washington
- Property ID: 103919480
- Beds: 2
- Total Rooms: 6
- Total Square Footage: 1,600 ($93.69 per sq. foot)
- School District: Salem
- Style: Ranch
- Baths: 1 (Full: 1 3/4: 0 1/2: 0 Other: 0)
- Parking Type Description: Detached 2 cars
- Lot Area: 0.74
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Amenities Bilco Door, Satellite Dish, Wood Floors
Appliances Dishwasher, Range W Oven, Refrigerator, Washer Dryer
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Condition Excellent
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Sorry about no Brunch today. But with a late Saturday night game a brunch, followed by a Sunday afternoon game, I just didn't have enough time or thoughts for all three columns. If I do skip the Brunch column again, look for snippets of brunch thoughts to be laced throughout the Sunday a wrap.
And what a wrap we have. The Cubs come in losing two games in a row to the red hot Brew Crew, who are riding a 6 game win streak. Now before the game, Dale Sveum made some pretty strong comments aimed at Starlin Castro and Anthony Rizzo, even threatening to send the two possible core pieces of the Cubs future back to Iowa. I found these comments outrageous. And so did our friends over at Obstructed view....(Warning: Very, very, very explicit language.) I've cooled down since, but will ask: If you can't handle the task of working with Cubs young players, the job you were brought here specifically to do, then why are you here? Anyway, onto the game...
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Toshipa L550-00P Laptop will not boot suddenly
I was cleaning up my wife's laptop and installed a defragger from CNET and while in that program the screen went blank and now it wont restart - when I push the On button nothing happens. I'm in real sh...t, I broke HER computer.
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It's working OK now. I unplugged it from surge protect bar and plugged in another one and voila, it booted up. I also deleted the free defrag program, just in case.
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made things any more secure? Although that's an oversimplification,
that's the phenomenon in organizations: We're building stronger
doors but leaving keys all over the place. That's why the organizational
and managerial aspects of cybersecurity are so critical.
But cybersecurity has to be done across the value chain, doesn't
it? Because it's not enough if your company has great cybersecurity policies, if they don't extend to your suppliers.
MADNICK: You're right. People often use the expression "e2e" —
end to end. Your piece of the puzzle may be perfectly secure, but
nowadays, everybody is interconnected in one way or another.
For example, the break-in that Target experienced took place
through a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning maintenance
company, which had access to some Target systems. Likewise, the
SWIFT messaging platform for financial institutions was exploited
through vulnerabilities at Bangladesh Bank, which lost $63 million.
Is there any industry that you see doing a really good job at
managing cybersecurity issues?
MADNICK: I'd rate industries from poor to terrible. On that
scale, financial services is probably doing a better job than most
other industries. On the other hand, they're the ones who are
probably the targets of the largest number of attacks. So they may
be twice as good at cybersecurity, but if they have four times as
many attacks, that doesn't mean they're in great shape.
I don't know which industry is the poorest, but hospitals clearly
are vying for that position. According to one recent report, 88% of
all detected ransomware attacks [where computers are "held
hostage" unless the user pays] on organizations are targeted to
hospitals, because they're easy targets. If you're a hospital and you're
held up for ransomware, would you pay it or not? If your hospital's
computers are held hostage, the patients in the hospital are now to
some extent at increased risk. You no longer have access to up-to-date medical records, such as test results and changes to medication.
So by not paying, you are possibly putting people's lives at risk.
What cybersecurity advice would you like to give to MIT SMR's
audience of business executives?
MADNICK: Think in terms of a three-pronged approach: prevention,
discovery, and recovery. Gartner recently came out with a report
entitled "Prevention Is Futile in 2020." This is consistent with our
viewpoint that if the Pentagon can be broken into, if the NSA [U.S.
National Security Agency] can be broken into, if the Israeli Defense
Forces can be broken into, why do you think you can't be broken into?
That's why you need to think in terms of all three steps. Of course,you want to do as much prevention as you possibly can, withinreason. But the next two steps are detection and recovery. Accordingto several studies, the average cyberintrusion can go on for morethan 200 days before it is discovered. I also read a recent report thatsays in the Asia Pacific region it's 520 days — more than double.
So our ability to detect that something funny is going on is
pretty poor. By the time you discover the attack, the hackers have
probably been rummaging around, stealing documents, and
doing things for a long time.
I joke that if at 5 o'clock every day, one of the people leaving
the bank walks out with a wheelbarrow full of money, do you
think someone would notice after a few days? Yes, probably! But
things like that happen all the time in computer systems, and nobody is paying attention. Maybe it's not quite as visual, but there
are funny things going on, and often no one is even looking to see
if there's anything suspicious.
And then finally, recovery is very happenstance. By and large,
CEOs are caught unprepared when someone shoves a microphone in front of them to talk about the cyberattack that was just
discovered at their company. And that's just part of the recovery.
Other questions to figure out: Have we actually cleansed our
system, or is the attack still going on? How do we make sure it
doesn't happen again next week?
Much like my comment that industries range from poor to
terrible on cybersecurity, the same thing applies to the three
prongs. Most organizations are poor at prevention, pretty bad
at detection — and probably terrible at recovery.
I jokingly say that not that long ago, cybersecurity was a task
you assigned to the junior assistant programmer trainee, and his
job was to go desktop to desktop loading the latest Microsoft
patches. Now you're having the CEO of the company being interviewed by the news station when a cyberattack is discovered. So
it's been a total inversion, if you will, up to the highest level of the
organization. Until recently, most CEOs barely even knew how to
spell cybersecurity! So there are lots of issues to deal with. What is
the cybersecurity education needed at each level of the organization? What is the preparation needed? How do we deal with these
attacks? Executives need to take these questions seriously.
Back in 1979, I coauthored a book called Computer Security.
What's interesting is that the conclusion to one of the chapters
was, essentially, that if you don't address the people issues in
computer security, you're missing half of the problems. When I
repeated that message at a recent meeting with executives and
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contribution to the problem — it is far more than 50%!"
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Cheers for the info, DeepO! Good to have some thoughts confirmed.
I've just taken my first real journey amongst the forboding New Londo Ruins and what an intense few moments! From the thick smoky and dark environment, to the narrow bridge lanes and forlorn figures lurking about the shore in idle moments of torment. Worst of all, there's the dastardly ghosts with their baleful traps, long wispy armed attacks and fatal swarming points.
My first death deep in their territory dropped a load of just under 5000 souls.
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A long time ago, in a squarish galaxy far, far away... Aspyr media, in an effort to save Mac users of the planet Earth from certain doom and boredom, released a Universal patch for LEGO Star Wars.
That's right: it's been a while since we've had to write about an app (finally) going Universal (Adobe CS3 notwithstanding), and even longer since I've had the opportunity to make a Star Wars pun, so there it is. All joking aside though, Aspyr apparently released this patch earlier in the month, but I just caught it in today's newsletter. You can snag the 4.71MB update from Macgamefiles.com.