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East Bay commuters got a reprieve from another potential transit strike Tuesday when Gov. Jerry Brown ordered a 60-day cooling-off period between AC Transit and its unions.
The move Tuesday came less than two days before 1,600 drivers and mechanics were to walk off their jobs in protest over rising health care costs, wages and other issues. The strike would have affected about 181,000 riders in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
"Another strike in the Bay Area is the last thing we need," Brown said. "I urge the parties to resolve their differences, keeping the bus-riding public in mind."
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo will consider the governor's request Wednesday morning.
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 was scheduled to strike Thursday morning, after a seven-day cooling-off period expired Wednesday at midnight. During the seven-day period, the governor appointed a three-person panel to investigate the broader issues and make a recommendation.
The panel released a report Monday concluding that a strike would cause "significant disruption in public transportation services and significant harm to the public's health, safety, and welfare."
Talks since March
AC Transit and Local 192 have been negotiating since late March, at times with the help of a state mediator. Twice they've come up with agreements, and twice union members have rejected them.
The most recent rejection was Oct. 2, and last week the union gave strike notice. The union and management have not met formally since before Oct. 2, and no new talks are scheduled, said district spokesman Clarence Johnson.
The primary dispute is over wages and health care costs. Management is offering a 9.5 percent pay raise over three years but also expecting increased contributions to health care costs. The union is asking for higher raises to offset the health care contributions.
Drivers and mechanics earn $16 to $31 an hour, and would have to pay a maximum of $283 a month in health care costs, depending on their coverage.
Bus riders said Tuesday that their lives would be upended by a strike.
"I'd be stranded," said Ajman Thrower, 21, who takes AC Transit from his home in Oakland's Laurel district to Merritt College in Oakland and his job a few miles away on International Boulevard. "I'm all for workers getting their due pay, but this would be a disaster for everyone in this city. How are you supposed to get to work? To school?"
'My only option'
Larrolyn Parms-Ford, 19, takes the bus from Mills College, where she's a student, to downtown Oakland for an internship at Rep. Barbara Lee's office.
"The bus drivers might go on strike? Oh Lord," she said. "I don't have a car. The bus is my only option. ... I understand they're doing this for fair wages, but I don't know how I'd get around."
The last time AC Transit workers went on strike was for 78 days in 1977, said Yvonne Williams, president of Local 192.
AC Transit, which replaced the old Key System in the 1950s, derives most of its funding from local sales and property taxes. Income plunged during the recent recession, at one point hitting the district with a deficit of $56 million, and union members agreed to pay cuts for several years to help offset revenue losses.
But now that the economy has begun to recover, union members want to see their loyalty rewarded, Williams said.
"It's very tough work," she said. "Our members want to know they're respected."
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With it's left hand, the government is trying to pass laws banning assault rifles and your ability to protect yourself. With it's right hand, it is ordering assault rifles to arm DHS thugs.
Well, at least we know why they got those millions and millions of rounds of ammo. They must think some kind of domestic war is coming. Do you?
Department of Homeland Security to Purchase 7,000 "Assault Weapons"
Via Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
The hypocrisy of the government knows no bounds. I have said repeatedly, and continue to say, that I am against all gun control at the moment because our government is extremely violent and not only do I not expect it to protect the American people in general, I believe it is far more concerned with protecting the status quo from the people. It has become crystal clear that the political and financial oligarchs are quite intentionally attempting to disarm the populace while arming themselves to the teeth in anticipation of some horrible economic event they know is inevitable. From the Blaze:
The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to acquire 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO "personal defense weapons" (PDW) — also known as "assault weapons" when owned by civilians. The solicitation, originally posted on June 7, 2012, comes to light as the Obama administration is calling for a ban on semi-automatic rifles and high capacity magazines.
Citing a General Service Administration (GSA) request for proposal (RFP), Steve McGough of RadioViceOnline.com reports that DHS is asking for the 7,000 "select-fire" firearms because they are "suitable for personal defense use in close quarters." The term select-fire means the weapon can be both semi-automatic and automatic. Civilians are prohibited from obtaining these kinds of weapons.
That being said, it is reasonable for the Department of Homeland Security to request these rifles as they are indeed effective personal defense weapons. The agency is tasked with keeping Americans safe from those who wish to do the country harm, and its officials should be equipped with all the tools they need to do so effectively.
See the meme being pushed here? These guys want the entire population completely domesticated. They want us to depend on the government for food. For healthcare. For self-defense. Two sets of laws. One for the "rulers" and one for the "ruled." This is the opposite of how things function in a free society.
I am sorry, but unless you think the DHS is preparing for an invasion by Al Qaeda, it is quite clear these weapons are being bought for future use against the citizenry of the United States. The writing on the wall couldn't be clearer.
The Department of Homeland Security Is Terrorizing American Citizens!
by Gary D. Barnett
As reported recently, heavily armed agents of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stormed a Leesburg, Florida Social Security office. This supposed drill was unannounced, and was understandably frightening to the local visitors to that office.
The armed DHS thugs arrived in swat team fashion, surrounding the building with their blue and white SUVs, and posting at the door of the Social Security building a guard with a semi-automatic weapon. Some began randomly checking the identification of locals, while others with drug sniffing dogs rifled through the rest of the building. One can understand their caution and hard-handed behavior due to the extreme risk posed to our country by Florida retirees.
There was obviously no cause to accost any of these innocent citizens, but when in this day and age, given the police state we now live in, do the feds care about cause? Apparently, the governor, the attorney general, and all the state police forces were absent, probably hiding behind their desks until the feds left after their fascist style raid!
The DHS had the audacity to call this assault "Operation Shield." This sounds more like a name of a war operation in the Middle East than a raid on the elderly. This was done under the guise of a surprise drill with a mission to detect the "presence of unauthorized persons and potentially disruptive or dangerous activities." None of these existed of course, but why should that matter to the DHS, the most abominable agency of the federal government. The real mission of the DHS is to intimidate and terrorize innocent people so as to habituate and control them. It will be necessary to break down the resistance of the citizenry, so that the people will not take aggressive action against the state when civil unrest becomes the norm, and Martial Law is implemented. Obviously the government plan is working.
These DHS "checkpoints" are becoming far too common. What began just recently in Tennessee as a test has now spread to many other parts of this country. This was expected by those of us who understand the nature of the federal government's aggression against freedom, but the speed at which it is progressing is dangerous. These checkpoints will continue to increase in number, and will continue to expand in area. A pattern is already obvious, and allowing this invasion of our rights to go unanswered is a fool's game.
The remedy lies with individuals, and with individual states. We as sovereign individuals have to be prepared to resist the fascist advances of the federal government, and its preferred agency of force, the Department of Homeland Security. Most still cringe at the thought of Nazi or Stalinist enforcers who detained people and demanded to see their papers, but what difference is there between those enforcers of old and the DHS? When a heavily armed DHS or TSA thug dressed in combat gear and armor forces you to submit to his orders, and without any provocation, what else can that be called but tyranny? Refusing to acquiesce to this assault on our liberty should be the first step taken.
The individual states also have an obligation to protect their residents from federal invasions and bad laws, and should take immediate action to stop the feds from terrorizing citizens with these criminal raids. When DHS thugs come into any state to set up these fascist checkpoints, the sheriff's office, and all other state police forces, by order of the governor or states attorney general, should immediately instruct them to leave. If they do not obey, then they should be arrested and jailed.


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Welcome to the HomeLink Australia HomeChat newsletter. You are receiving this because you elected to receive newsletters when you became a "Registered Visitor" on our site. If you do not want to receive any further newsletters please click here to unsubscribe.
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Personal HomePage for Members - Update HomeLink India
FrontLine - stories from members Exchanges to Albuquerque and Loveland!
SpotlightOn Denmark
You may recall that we launched our own personal homepage website last month. This free extra service for members has been very well received, with many members having already set up personal homepages.
Visit the homepage of Sonia & Bob Kennedy to see a good example of what can be done with this great new service.
Last month we announced that HomeLink Australia had just launched the HomeLink service in Japan. This month we are pleased to announce the second stage of this expansion phase, with the launching of a new website for India - www.india.homelinkasia.com.
HomeLink International Associates ("HLIA") has long sought to increase membership within Asian countries and cultures. HLIA recently awarded this challenge to the team at HomeLink Australia, with the assignment of Geographic Marketing Rights for India and Japan.
If you know anyone with a home in India, maybe an expatriate, friend, or business colleague, please let them know that HomeLink now has a full service especially for Indian-resident customers who may be interested in home exchange.
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Our third hospitality exchange was in Albuquerque, New Mexico where we spent 3 days with Liz, another wonderful Homelink person (joined Homelink a few weeks before and we were her first Homelinkers!) in her lovely adobe home at the foot of the mountains. We were there when the International Balloon Fiesta was staged with over 900 balloons taking to the air over Albuquerque - a magnificent sight and the largest balloon fiesta in the world! After a week and a half in Texas we headed for our base in Loveland, Colorado, 60 miles north of Denver near the foot of the Rocky Mountains. This was a straight exchange -- we would be staying in our very comfortable and pleasant Loveland "home" for two weeks and the Coloradons (Kent & Nancy) would be using our home in Sydney as a base for a month. We also spent a memorable time in Loveland, with three lots of friends of our hosts calling around to meet us and invite us out for dinner and sightseeing. From Loveland we travelled (we had arranged to exchange our vehicles too) in their car down through New Mexico, Arizona and Utah visiting the many national parks in those states. We were fortunate to meet up with our Kent & Nancy, and spent a fun-packed three days with them in their own home when they arrived back in Loveland from Australia, and before we left for California and eventually home. We have since had the opportunity to reciprocate the wonderful hospitality we had with Liz in Albuquerque when she spent five days with us in Sydney, where we were able to show her the sights of our fantastic city. She was very impressed with her first Homelink venture!! We are now looking forward very much to showing Bob and Vic (from Washington) and Marjorie (from New York) Sydney and environs when they come out here next year. In the meantime, we thoroughly enjoy each others' newsy emails and photos, and keep in touch regularly. We all feel that we have found close and perhaps lasting friendships through Homelink and will rejoin when we can look forward to planning more travel in the future. Thanks Homelink! Jennifer & Kevin Gowen
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The HomeLink Australia team can personally vouch for Denmark as a fabulous exchange destination. We enjoyed the hospitality and atmosphere of the capital, Copenhagen, where the HomeLink International AGM was hosted in 2003. Friendly people, lovely sights, a fascinating history, and a long tradition of home exchanging - we personally recommend it!


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Whole document tree The Links-Lua bookmark systemWhat you need to get
Installing1. First Links-Lua must be installed. 2. Copy bm.lua into your ~/.links/ directory. 3. Now we have to edit some things in the ~/.links/hooks.lua file. I will assume you have followed the pwhooks.lua example file for your own configuration. Also, systems functions must be enabled. Somewhere in the file, we have to load the bm.lua file. So add this line: dofile (home_dir .. "/.links/bm.lua") Now you may set some options. Set any of the following you want. The defaults settings are shown. -- Default location to save and load bookmarks from. bm_bookmark_file = home_dir.."/.links/bookmark.lst" -- Set to non-`nil' to see URLs in the generated page. bm_display_urls = nil -- Set to non-`nil' to show links to category headers. -- Only useful while sorting categories, otherwise just annoying. bm_display_category_links = 1 -- Set to non-`nil' to automatically sort bookmarks alphabetically. -- Do not set this if you care about the sorting of your bookmarks! bm_auto_sort_bookmarks = nil We also have to bind some keystrokes. These are my own keybindings, feel free to change them: bind_key ('main', 'a', bm_add_bookmark) bind_key ('main', 's', bm_view_bookmarks) bind_key ('main', 'Alt-e', bm_edit_bookmark) bind_key ('main', 'Alt-d', bm_delete_bookmark) bind_key ('main', 'Alt-k', bm_move_bookmark_up) bind_key ('main', 'Alt-j', bm_move_bookmark_down) When we start up, we would like to load our list of bookmarks from disk. So we need this line: -- Be careful not to load bookmarks if this script is being -- reloaded while in Links, or we will lose unsaved changes. if not bm_bookmarks or getn (bm_bookmarks) == 0 then bm_load_bookmarks () end For reasons too complicated to explain here, add this function too: function follow_url_hook (url) if bm_is_category (url) then return nil else return bm_get_bookmark_url (url) or url end end Finally, when we quit Links, we would like our list of bookmarks saved to disk. Find your quit_hook function, and put in bm_save_bookmarks somewhere. For example, mine looks like: function quit_hook () bm_save_bookmarks () if tmp_files and remove then tmp_files.n = nil for i,v in tmp_files do remove (v) end end end If you have done all that but can't get it to work, please see the pwhooks.lua example file. UsingAdding a bookmark is simple. Press the key you have assigned, and you will be presented with a dialog box with three fields. The first one is the category to put the bookmark in, the second is the name of the bookmark, the third is the URL. Please don't tell me that the "Category" field being mislabelled. I know about it :-) Category auto-completion will come later. I do not know how much later. Viewing the bookmark list is simple. Press the key you have assigned, and Links will go to a generated web page with all your bookmarks in it. Browse, search, follow links as usual. Deleting a bookmark is simple. While a bookmark is highlighted, press the key you have assigned it, and the bookmark will be deleted (no confirmation!). Warning: you can also delete entire categories at once, by highlighting the category. Sorting a bookmark list is painful. While a bookmark is highlighted, press the key you have assigned for moving the bookmark up or down, and it will be moved up and down the list bookmarks in that category. You may also sort categories. The painful bit is because your cursor will be jumped to the top of the page every time you do this. If you have automatic sorting turned on, these keys will do nothing. Editing a bookmark is simple. While a bookmark is highlighted, press the key you have assigned to it, and a dialog box (just like the one you saw when adding bookmarks) will pop up. You may again edit the Category, Name and URL fields. Editing the category is how you move bookmarks around. WarningsThis code is very fragile. Do not edit/delete/sort bookmarks in different Links windows at the same time. Most likely you will lose bookmarks, and get pissed off at me. Before you start editing bookmarks, make sure you are using an up to date copy of the generated bookmark web page. You can do this by simply pressing the key assigned to View bookmarks. Editing bookmarks from old copies of bookmarks pages (that reside in Links' cache, for example) is a sure way to have a bad day. If you make a mistake, and want to revert to the bookmarks you have saved on disk, run `bm_load_bookmarks()' from the Lua Console. It's probably a good idea to back up your bookmarks. This code hasn't got much testing yet... And finally,Enjoy. $Id: bookmark.html,v 1.8 2001/10/28 21:47:07 tjaden Exp $ |


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The Egyptians were advanced in medicine for their time. The Egyptians had a basic knowledge of organ functions within the human body and were effective healers. They were masters of human anatomy and healing mostly due to the exchange mummification ceremonies. This involved many organs inside the body. Practices of medicine ranged from embalming to faith healing to surgery and autopsy. Surgery also evolved from a knowledge of the basic anatomy and embalming practices of the Egyptians. Egyptian healers engaged in surgery and many other healing practices still found today.
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Crush a hog's tooth and put it inside of four sugar cakes, and eat for four days. |
Create a mixture of milk from someone who has borne a male child, gum, and ram's hair. While administrating this mixture, say: "Thy son Horus is burnt in the desert. Is there any water there? There is no water. I have the water in my mouth and a Nile between my thighs. I have come to extinguish the fire." |
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Edith Sutterlin, Congressional Research Service, wrote: My job is that of Librarian, or Information Resources Specialist. I work at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Every day I use computers for several different functions.
1. When I get requests for information or for a bibliography (list of sources of information) from Members of Congress or their staff, I need to be able to find the answers quickly. I search several computer databases. Several of the databases are created right in the Library of Congress itself: the Library of Congress Information System, which I use mostly to get references to books or serials, the Congressional Research Service Products file [which we use to keep track of what CRS analysts already have written for congressional use], and the Public Policy Literature File [which my section builds in anticipation of congressional information needs]. Some databases which I search are commercial, meaning they charge fees for the time I am connected looking for an answer. Some are available at no charge to our Library, as they are databases available directly from another agency in our U.S. federal government. I use Boolean logic and traditional questioning skills to try to find out exactly what information the requester really wants to know, and then construct a very narrow or broad search to find the references that I need. Different databases use different commands, and some are easier to search than others, but familiarity with each helps me to work efficiently and to know what kinds of sources I might expect to find. Sometimes I use Internet sources, although these vary widely in their reliability and ease in use. After I download or print out the references to the information sources, I sometimes just send these out to the congressional office who asked for that information. Other times I combine the information I have found and actually publish a bibliography or finding aid on that topic.
2. Electronic email is another daily use for the p.c. at my desk. I find out about meetings or answers to questions this way, and can subscribe to subject listservs if I want to follow a topic of interest.
3. I also use my p.c. as a basic word processor--to type memos or cover letters to go with the information I send out to the requester. Some forms at my office are already pre-loaded on the computer, so no separate trip to a supply shelf is necessary. For example, theres one form for our monthly personnel reports and another for suggesting new vocabulary terms for our own in-house data base.
4. Sometimes I use the computer to sign on and to search our in-house file, then order a print from the optical disk while I am right online. It is amazing how the computer can send the command to a remotely located jukebox which gets the correct optical disk location for that previously scanned article, and prints me out a copy. I can also ask to fetch a book from the stacks where they are stored, and my message is sent directly to a terminal in the appropriate area. After a staff member pulls the volume from the shelf, the book travels in a preprogrammed basket through several buildings, tunnels, and conveyor systems to arrive close to my office area, following information precoded as to the best route & each necessary turn.
5. There is a database which I work in for cataloging, abstracting and indexing the journal articles, congressional publications, and monographs that I want entered into our public policy database. It is set up so that many workstations can access the record sequentially, each one adding, parts until the record is complete and ready to send to the mainframe computer for adding to our Public Policy Literature data base.


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Project: Repair and Replacement of Large Water Meters
Client: City of Atlanta - Watershed Management
Location: Atlanta, GA
Objective: This project was initiated to replace outdated or damaged water meters to properly account for the water usage of larger clients.
In 2005, Metals & Materials Engineers (MME) was awarded an annual contract for the repair and replacement of large water meters and related components throughout the City of Atlanta. Many of the existing water meters were out of calibration to the extent that they were not functional and some were so corroded that their moving parts had rendered them irreparable. The lack of functional meters to record water usage from these large clients was costing the City quite a bit in lost revenue. These and related conditions were slated for correction under this contract as well as re-orchestrating the City's approach to polling data.
The City's current system (at the time) of retrieving meter data was a direct-read (touch) system that functioned adequately, but required a work force of significant size to acquire timely data. The system MME proposed revolves around the concept of Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) that functions on a radio frequency tuned to the receiver on a Monitoring Vehicle that traverses the area bi-monthly to collect water usage data for each address. The AMR concept cuts the necessary workforce by as much as 50-80% among other benefits that contribute to lower water rates for City clients. Such accessory benefits are:
1. Greater accuracy as polling occurs at least once per billing cycle, eliminating the need for utilizing "historical" estimates. 2. Reduces the error derived from the "human element" by digitizing the data acquisition process. 3. Increases City safety by eliminating the need for City employees to access residents' properties to collect data each billing cycle. 4. Greatly reduces the possibility of fraud as the technology is advanced and difficult to tamper with.
Utilizing a true contractor-municipality team approach, the City of Atlanta is working with our engineers to develop a much more advanced technical approach to meter data acquisition.


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Thomas F. Riley Terminal
In order to meet the growing needs of the traveling public, the Orange County Board of Supervisors approved the policy, environmental and financial foundations for the construction of substantial new facilities at JWA in 2005.
In 1990, the Orange County Board of Supervisors named the newly-constructed terminal facility in honor of Fifth District Supervisor Thomas F. Riley, who was instrumental in negotiating the Settlement Agreement which allowed for additional facilities and operational capacity while establishing landmark environmental protections for the local community. Consistent with the 1985 Settlement Agreement, the Riley Terminal was designed to accommodate 8.4 million annual passengers ("MAP").
A 2003 amendment to the Settlement Agreement allowed the County to proceed with design and construction of facilities to accommodate 10.8 MAP. The 282,000 square-foot Terminal C and related facilities are the result of that amendment.
John Wayne Airport, October 2011
Today, all three terminals that make up the Thomas F. Riley Terminal total 730,505 square feet and include a set of ticket counters, security screening checkpoints and a baggage claim area. The Riley Terminal also boasts 20 bridged passenger gates commercial passenger service. Two smaller terminals, one at the north end (Gates 1A, 1B, and 1C) and one at the south end (Gates 22A, 22B and 22C) of the Riley Terminal are available for commuter passenger service.
Ticket counters for Alaska, American, Continental, Delta, and WestJet Airlines are located in Terminal A. Ticket counters for United and USAirways are currently located in Terminal B and Frontier and Southwest Airlines are located in Terminal C. Continental Airlines will move to Terminal B as a result of its merger with United Airlines.
A new International Arrivals facility is currently under construction and will be utilized when regularly scheduled service to Mexico begins at some future date.
For information about passenger amenities available in the Riley Terminal, including ATMs, electrical outlets, and our wide variety of food & beverage and retail concessions, please visit www.ocair.com.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Drake vs. Nardwuar (Video)
This is hilarious... and in case you guys didn't know, DFE has collaborated with Mindbender on our track "Tight Spot" from our album Invasion.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Jeff Spec - On My Feet (Video)
Fresh for the sneaker fiends...
Monday, July 19, 2010
Moka Only live in Calgary - Aug 11
Check out Moka Only, returning to Calgary on Wednesday, August 11th at the Marquee Room. Guest openers are Deezuz along with Comrade & Sargeant.
cgy live,
hip hop,
marquee room,
moka only
Ricca Razor Sharp - Where You Come From (Video)
Missed this video when it debuted late last year. Dopeness from the CGY!
hip hop,
ricca razor sharp,
Thursday, July 15, 2010
D-Sisive - Lost Sight (Video)
Old school (1997) D-Sisive and Abdominal!
Friday, July 9, 2010
D-Sisive - West Coast (Video) + Remix
D-Sisive is killin' it with his new album Vaudeville. Check out the lead video plus remix featuring the West Coast's most prolific.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Twin Peaks - And What About Drake? (Audio)
The National Post hit up Twin Peaks (Muneshine & Ghettosocks) for an exclusive song detailing the history of Canadian hip hop... and it name drops DFE (big ups). Check it out HERE.
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Say I have booted a Linux using Live cd or something, and I cant modify any windows file since the windows ntfs file system is in a read only mode. So this is how we can remount it in a read write mode:
umount /mnt/hda1
modprobe fuse
ntfsmount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
else find the google cache if the page is unavailable :(
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Mount an ntfs drive with read only permissions in Linux
Commands to set network settings in Ubuntu
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.24 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
echo nameserver 192.168.1.10 > /etc/resolv.conf
ifconfig eth0 up
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Manual Removal of sguza.exe and shey.exe worms
New malwares in town. Not much info available on Google.
Again my AV failed to recognize a malware, but when I saw autoruns and hidden folders named muza and carpet in my pen drive, I got suspicious. These files and folders are system files, so if you cant see them, then you need to go to Tools->Folder options->View and set the following settings:
enable Show hidden files and folders
Hide protected operating system files.
Malwares often attribute themselves as system and hidden to stay invisible.
Unfortunately Autoruns and Autoplay were enabled by default on my new system. And it popped the option of "action=Open folder to view files using Windows Explorer". Which could be misleading
as I found the same action in autorun.inf as well. After inspecting the autorun.inf, I believe even if you right click and explore/open its copy gets executed. It has variants in the name of shey.exe and sguza.exe and moves through removable drives. Once its executed you cannot remove the autorun.inf or the hidden folders. I took the help of utility Handle (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx) by Sysinternals to find out which app has opened the Autorun.inf.
Execute Handle.exe using command prompt and output the results to a text file. And search using CTRL-F for autorun.inf.
explorer.exe pid: 540 administrator
6E4: Section \BaseNamedObjects\MSCTF.MarshalInterface.FileMap.ECE.B.NMKKAD
6F0: Section \BaseNamedObjects\MSCTF.Shared.SFM.ECE
6F8: File (RWD) C:\Documents and Settings\lada\My Documents\Downloads
700: File (---) E:\autorun.inf
And as always it was explorer.exe:
which means the malware is using explorer.exe as a host.
I killed and restarted explorer using task manager.
Alternatively we can use Process Explorer (a tool by sysinternals, which is kindof an advanced Task manager) to inspect the explorer.exe and search for SHEY.EXE or other handles and then close them.
Start process explorer and do a CTRL-F search for any handle with the names: SHEY.EXE, SGUZA,EXE, mrpky.exe 194.EXE, 21782259.EXE OR KITA375[1].EXE, OR autorun.inf:
Search for the file names.
If found, close those handles.
After you kill the malware instance, using Proc Explorer OR by restarting explorer.exe, you will be able to delete the muzo and carpet and autorun.inf files.
I deleted the autoruns and the hidden folders named muza and carpet.
The next step was to clean the registry. So you search for all occurrences of shey.exe and sguza.exe and delete them. The malware may use some other names as well, which I found here:
I found the malware still running inside the explorer with the name : MRPKY.EXE
This file is located in C:\Documents and Settings\your_username\Application Data
Again searching the registry I found an entry in the WinLogon startups: (You may use Autorun and ProcessExplorer tools from Sysinternals for this)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Taskman with a value of C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\mrpky.exe
So I deleted this registry entry and deleted the mrpky.exe as well. I searched for other names but as of now couldnt find any.
I restarted my system, and I am not seeing any weird behavior as of now. If I insert a pen drive, it doesnt show any autorun.inf. Nor I am seeing any suspicious exe or dll in explorer. (using process explorer)
Thats all for now.
1. If you cannot delete the hidden folder muza or carpet, then kill the explorer.exe using task manager and restart explorer.exe. This will kill the malware instance.
2. Now delete the hidden folders muza or carpet and then delete then autorun.inf as well from your removable drives.
3. Open registry and search for all keys containing sguza.exe or shey.exe and all other probable names here : http://www.prevx.com/filenames/X285138109880396664-X1/SHEY.EXE.html and delete them.
4. Disable autorun and autoplay.(use links section)
5. If at all, the malware still works then it suggests we missed a copy of it. So when you restart your computer, it will be executed again. But all the instances use explorer.exe as a host, so if you want to kill them, restart explorer. But any undeleted registry entry will restart the malware when you restart windows. That doesnt sound good, but we can wait for the AVs to create a tool or reverse engineer it for more details.
Prevention tips:
Disable autoruns and autoplay for all removable drives. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715
For more details about the malware, you can upload the exe on virustotal.com which provides the AV detection results from various Anti Viruses.
Here are the results from the unpacked mrpky.exe:
Handle by SysInternals: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx
Turn off autoplay: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715
VirusTotal: http://www.virustotal.com/
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Getting root/administrator on a Windows XP
Getting root/administrator on a Windows XP
Well this is my old school trick, the Sticky keys hack. I kindof discovered (though I wasnt the first person to do it, but it was pretty less known hack a few years back) it years back, and I am surprised to see that it still works. This is not a one-click kiddie stuff, though its simple and easy.
In the end, I will also show you how to stay STEALTHY and cover your tracks.(to some extent)
Let me explain you the case precisely:
You have a guest account or any other NON-ADMINISTRATOR account.
And you want admin privileges. Naturally I assume, your admin doesnot want to share the admin password with you.
There is ATLEAST ONE CONDITION for this hack to work (apart from this, I aint aware of any):
Your non-admin account must have write permissions for the system32 directory. That is you should be able to write/modify any simple file in the system32 directory.
Dont worry, we are not going to mess with the ugly SAM and SYSTEM files.
Now I would like to explain some basic mechanics, if you are not interested you may skip it. But if you understand it, I believe you should be able to find many such hacks.
Basic mechanics:
When a user logs in, and a process is executed, it runs generally with the privileges on the current user. So if you are the user named "Guest" and you run a firefox exe,
in the task manager, under the process list you can see the username as "Guest" for the firefox exe. Now if no user is logged on, and a process is executed, then what will happen?
Our best guess is that it would run with system privilege. So if you can find a file that runs/can be made to run before a user logs in, then it should do our dirty job.
Sometimes it happens that certain softwares like to run their files before a user logs on. If somehow we could replace such files with our shell or any bat file, our dirty job
could be done again :). But its not that easy. The shell is not necessarily executed as expected. Nevertheless, its a possibility. If you like to experiment you can try to find any such files. I ll let you know later,
how to get a sample list of such files.
The Sticky keys Hack
There is something called Sticky keys in Windows XP. If you press SHIFT key >=5 times, a window should pop up,
check the setting for "Use shortcut". Good news is that you can enable it from a Guest account as well:
Now if you press SHIFT >=5 times, the file responsible for firing this window is under system32 with the name sethc.exe
You got it, take the backup of this sethc.exe and rename it to say sethc_original.exe. Now copy cmd.exe from system32 to somewhere and rename it as sethc.exe.
Copy the new sethc.exe (which is in fact cmd.exe, our shell) in system32, and press yes, when it asks for the confirmation to overwrite.
You can test by pressing SHIFT >=5 times, and you will see a command window being opened. Its not of much use since the privilege of this shell is the Guest or the
no-admin only.
(We cannot use the following commands from the Guest account,unless we have the admin/system privilege, if you try to do that, you will see an error of type:)
To escalate the privilege, restart you windows, but do not login to any account. And when you are at the logon screen,
press the SHIFT key>=5 times and boom, there you got you shell with SYSTEM privileges.
Now you can add a new administrator account "hacked" with a password "hax0rpassw0rd" using the commands:
net user hacked "hax0rpassw0rd" /add
net localgroup administrators hacked /add
And now you can logon to your new admin account now.
You can also reset the administrator password, using the shell, but I wont recommend that for obvious reasons. Our job should be to stay as stealthy as possible.
Just install your software and clear your tracks. Wwith this SYSTEM privilege shell you can also see the files that execute before a user logs in.
Use the command tasklist for that and save the output in some file, for later viewing.
How to stay stealthy.
Your new account can be easily seen in the Control Panel-> User accounts and in the My Computer in the form of documents as well. This isnt a good sign.
But we can hide our account to a certain extent.
Beware of the Registry, Dont mess around!
Open the registry by regedit, and navigate to the Folder:
HKEY_LOGON_MACHINE->Software->Microsoft->Windows NT->Current Version->WinLogon->SpecialAccounts->UserList
Create a new DWORD value here, set the name as your newly added username, "hacked" in our example, and let the value be zero.
This will stop the display of your user account in Control Panel->User accounts and in the My Computer documents.
However for the expert eyes, your user directories can still be seen in "Documents and Settings" and through the command net user.
So you may need to do some additional tasks, like removing your backdoor account entirely before leaving.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Crontab error "/bin/sh: root: command not found"
Crontab error "/bin/sh: root: command not found"
Today I struggled with making the crontab work on my system. I am using cron jobs for the first time.
Although I always wanted to understand how it works, esp as I heard that they are good for periodic backups.
But it was quite frustrating for me to make it work, especially if you prefer to google without reading the man pages
thorougly. Let me just explain what I was trying to achieve and how the error got resolved. Now I realize I
could have saved a lot of time, had I read the man pages :(
But sometimes we are in a hurry and we are not at all interested in understanding how things work, but in
making it work as quickly as possible.
For those who want a quick look at resolution of this error I would say,
check your cron syntax:
1. If you are making changes in a local cron file using crontab -e, the job entry should contain 6 fields (not the username)
like this:
* * * * * /home/build_auto/echo.sh
A wrong entry like this:
* * * * * root /home/build_auto/echo.sh
would cause cron to interpret "root" as a command.
THe syntax "* * * * * root /home/build_auto/echo.sh" is valid for system crontab file /etc/crontab.
Most of the syntax related examples can be found by reading the man page for crontab files:
man 5 crontab
Creating a simple cron job to run a shell script
I am simply trying to create a cron job and which would execute a shell script for me at regular intervals.
So first I read through a simple tutorial from where I learn about the basic syntax and the fields.
Now for my simple cron job, I create a simple shell script which will output some data in another text file.
And for simplicity I would like to run it every minute. (so that I can quickly confirm how it works)
So here is my simple shell script which will append a string ("test") to another text file (test.txt)
echo "test" >> /home/build_auto/test.txt
This way everytime the script echo.sh is executed, it will append a string "test" in a new line in test.txt.
So when our cron job executes perfectly i.e. every minute, we see "test" in every new line.
Say I save my echo.sh in a location : /home/build_auto/
Now you can add a cron job at two places:
1. In the system cron file /etc/crontab
2. And in a new crontab file using the crontab command.
This file is will be stored in /var/spool/cron with the same name as the username.
Editing the System cron file /etc/crontab
This way is not advisable as you would be directly interfering with the system cron file which is required by cron daemon.
Still if you would like to add an entry, open /etc/crontab in an editor and add an entry like this:
* * * * * root /home/build_auto/echo.sh
THere are seven fields seperated by spaces. For details on the fields read the man page.
The first field is for minute, second for hour, third for day of month, month, day of week, user account which will be used for execution and command name which is the full path of our shell script.
The *s indicate the job will be executed every minute, every hour and so on. Save the /etc/crontab and your job should execute every minute. There
is no need to do any service restart.
Editing the user level crontab file using the crontab command
The other way is to create a new crontab file using the option -e (edit) with crontab, which is mostly meant for non-root users.
This file will have the same name as the username and can be found at the location: /var/spool/cron
The crontab syntax is similar to the previous one, except that instead of 7 fields, there are only 6. The username is not required.
Create a new crontab file using the command:
crontab -u root -e
or simply
crontab -e
and add an entry like this:
* * * * * /home/build_auto/echo.sh
Remember, no username here, the crontab command has already taken care of it through the -u option. (or through the current user if -u is omitted)
Save the file and now your cron script should be executed every minute.
Confirm your entry by listing down the crontab list for user root:
99EP68903:/home/build_auto # crontab -u root -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.XXXXosSNdV installed on Mon Apr 5 22:03:11 2010)
# (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $)
* * * * * /home/build_auto/echo.sh
You can also see the same in the file /var/spool/cron/tabs/root.
Making mistakes
In case, as a noob you create an entry "* * * * * root /home/build_auto/echo.sh" using the crontab -e command, you will get mail error messages like this one:
From firstname.lastname@example.com Mon Apr 5 22:01:01 2010
X-Original-To: root
Delivered-To: email@example.com
Received: by linux.local (Postfix, from userid 0)
id CC5ED320408; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 22:01:01 +0530 (IST)
From: email@example.com
To: email@example.com
Subject: Cron
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
Message-Id: <email@example.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 22:01:01 +0530 (IST)
Status: R
/bin/sh: root: command not found
This can be misleading, and it can be easily misunderstood as if the cron is unable to locate /bin/sh. But in fact cron is trying to execute a command with the name "root", which does not exist.
This is because cron expects a command in the sixth field.
After a few minutes, upon successful executions of the cronjob the test.txt should look like:
99EP68903:/home/build_auto # cat test.txt
And one more thing, ensure that in your shell script the PATH of all files resolves to absolute path, any relative path like ./test.txt would
resolve through the home directory of the user that is executing the cron job.
#end of post
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Getting root on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
So this turns out to be the lamest posts of all time. When I am high I just run a list of kernel exploits to gain a local root on my Ubuntu. A bit of uname here:
uname -a Linux r00t3r 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:42:44 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Download the exploit:
Result is in the screensh0t:
As far as I remember it didnt work on kernel 2.6.31, Ubuntu 9.1.
#end of p0st
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Automotive Expo Bangalore 2010
I visited the event, it was quite an experience and I am posting some of the pics here. Along with the event, there was a freestyle bike stunt performance as well.
Chevrolet Camaro (Transformer fame):
Suzuki Intruder M1800R:
Suzuki Hayabusa, GSX 1300 R:
Kawasaki Ninja 250:
Ducati Monster 1100:
And some wheelies:


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From: | Paul Brook |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU as a "virtual smart card"? |
Date: | Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:08:08 +0100 |
User-agent: | KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.30-1-amd64; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) |
> Assume that I wanted to protect a secret algorithm in some C program. You're never going to be able to do this. At best you're going to add a few levels of obfuscation. At worst you're going to give yourself a false sense of security, while actually making it easier to defeat. The reason the Windows DRM stuff works is because it's protected by the lowest level of the OS/hardware, and that protection extends up the whole software stack. As soon as you loose this link (e.g. by running inside a virtual machine, or as a userspace application without host kernel magic) then you're vulnerable to anyone with a copy of gdb. The whole point of a smartcard is that it's a black box where you can't observe its operation at all, only its output. > Normally this is compiled into the machine code of a certain processor > and there are standard tools (disassembler, debugger) that can be used > to figure out what the secret algorithm does. > A virtual machine has a virtual processor. Assume now that I was to > shuffle around machine instructions both in the processor of the > virtual machine and in the back-end of my c-compiler. I imagine that > it would be possible to automate this process (some refactoring tool?) > and to do some random shuffling. This is no different from a simple bytecoded execution engine, and fairly straightforward to reverse-engineer. An experienced hacker will have no problem writing their own reverse engineering tools to strip away your obfuscation. Remember that your "encryption" is still native host code, with any keys plainly visible. Paul
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Style File: Drive-in Movies
Reported by:
Angela Caraway
Archived Reports:
It's throwback Thursday. And what's old is new again. Drive-in movie theaters are making a comeback and in tonight's Style File, 7's Belkys Nerey puts the car in park for an old-school movie in Miami.
Michelle Mendoza: ""First drive-in ever. I grew up watching movies about drive-ins."
Or maybe the old-school drive-in brings you back to a simpler time.
Kevin Brady: "I'm a small town boy, that's what you did."
Many drive-ins have gone dark across the nation, but now you can get that 50s feeling at the new Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-in located in the Wynwood Art District.
Josh Frank-Owner, Blue Starlite: "Drive-ins didn't sort of phase out because people didn't want to go to them, it's because they hadn't really innovated and changed with the times. And that's what the Blue is about."
Belkys: "What's not to love about the drive-in? You come in your own car, you can load it up with friends, you're in air conditioning. You pull up to your spot, they bring you your speaker and it's movie time."
Josh Frank-Owner, Blue Starlite: "I have 20 car spaces. We keep it small and intimate so that every car that comes in, feels like it's their drive-in for the night."
Chris Cawley: "You get to sit in your own car, be comfortable, take your shoes off. Just be the ones you like."
Movies are projected from a vintage Chevy truck in a grassy lot and the drive-in is sticking to it's retro roots by showing vintage movies.
Josh Frank-Owner, Blue Starlite: "Anything from Bogart, Elvis, Marilyn, to Pulp Fiction, Ghostbusters, Back To the Future, Goonies. Movies you never thought you'd see on a big screen again."
Yoni Markhoff: "We thought it would be a great date night with the convertible. We even have the anti-mosquito thing. We are prepared."
You can either reserve a car spot or walk in and have a seat at a table in the grass.
"Josh Frank-Owner, Blue Starlite: "You can walk in and sit in our grass area for $7 to $10 dollars. Car spaces range from $25-$50 depending on how many people you have in your car."
Kirstin Frueh: "Very rustic, very old fashioned and I love it."
They sell concessions out of a flatbed truck or you can bring your own.
Michelle Mendoza: "We got chips, Gobstoppers, Twizzlers. Please don't look inside my car."
Of course there are some "rules" to obey when you're at the drive-in.
Josh Frank-Owner, Blue Starlite: "We encourage making out. But management asks that you keep your clothes on at all times."
Keep it classy, Miami.
The Blue Starlite will be open four days a week Thursday through Sunday. And you will need to reserve a car spot in advance.
Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In
70 NW 29th St. in Wynwood.
2 doors down from the "O Cinema."


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My Carry Potty was invented and designed by a mom for moms, to help with the challenges of potty training.
Whether its at home or out and about, the My Carry Potty is the only potty your toddler will ever need. Its lightweight, leak and odor proof, and uses no bags. Its designed with a unique lid that provides a completely watertight and odor proof seal making it neat enough to take anywhere and perfect to use at home. Available in three different color combinations, its more fun than a regular potty, and much more attractive.


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At school both of the boys participate in the Gifted and Talented Program. As much as it is one of those "my kids are smart" bragging points, I like what it does for my kids for way more than my bragging rights. The boys get to do a lot of fun events and projects while in the project. For example last school year Wesley got to mummify chickens.
This school year that we just got out of however there were not Egyptian themed projects used an as an excuse to mummify chickens but they did get to do a lot of other fun stuff. For example throughout the year we took trips to UIL competitions and even went to Dallas to participate in a Destination Imagination competition.
There was more though at the end of the year the kids got to put on a G/T Products Fair and Antique Roadshow. Hal's group actually started a restaurant and they actually cooked hamburgers for the teachers and parents. This was pretty awesome because the burgers actually tasted good and well honestly it taught Hal how to use a counter top grill and I figured he could put those skills to use and cook dinner.
The look on his face in this picture when I told him so tells me that he things otherwise:
Wesley on the other hand participated in the Antique Roadshow portion of the fair and displayed his Great-Great Grandfather's Antique Pocket Watch. He really enjoyed his project and was thrilled that his grandpa allowed him to bring it to school.
This is another one of those "mom don't take my picture," pictures that Wesley is so famous for. Anyway I thought it was really fun to see what all the kids brought one kid even brought an old Atari system. That was pretty cool, if not for that they came out when I was toddler and it made me feel old. But overall I thought it was neat looking at the antique items and it made me want to go out and buy beautiful estate jewelry. Because well I love old and beautiful things.
It was a fun even thought and we had a lot of fun this year and I can't wait to see what happens next year when school starts back up.


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Companion Herbs For Landscaping And Garden
The herb garden can often provide a complete atmosphere of a florist's shop, culinary marketplace, and scented garden all in one. For those with extremely limited gardening space an herb garden can supply color, a contribution to a larger garden, flowers, scents, and varied interest in the comings and goings of birds and insects. This brief discussion is something of an overview of some possibilities presented by a few of the more common herbs.
The art of companion planting includes knowledge of which plants make good neighbors and which do not. Traditional combinations of herbs with other plants include basil with tomatoes, savory with beans and borage accompanying strawberries. Pungent herbs can also be planted among small patches of brassicas to mislead pests such as the cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae) and similar pests, which find their way to our cabbage patch by smell.
3 Basic Garden Landscaping Ideas
If you want a beautiful garden with a personalized touch, check our simple garden landscaping ideas and enjoy the new look in your garden!
1-Add ground covers. Ground covers are really the heroes of your garden. They add lots of green to the surroundings, they prevent erosion, and they even keep the weeds down. They reduce the necessity to water and mow. They don't require much care, and they survive easily almost everywhere.
You can try ground covers where grass doesn't grow, for instance narrow spaces, sloping hills, along the driveways or under trees that provide shade. Or if you want a big change, replace your lawn with ground cover. Don't worry, it will spread fast and it is easy to grow. The right type of ground cover would be one that fits your water and light conditions.
2- Work on the design. For a nice combination of nature, use different textures, shades and heights. Prefer small leaved plants and smooth covers in broad for a feeling of largeness. If you prefer a cozy effect, use large leaved plants and rough textured ground covers. Work on the shapes and patterns of your garden by starting sketching on your computer or on paper. If possible, check with experts to make sure they are possible to implement.
3- Create your own vegetable patch. Nowadays everyone is talking about healthy food. A vegetable patch is great especially if you like to cook. Add fruits, vegetables and herbs that can be cultivated in your region, and incorporate the patch with the landscape design. This might turn out even more beautiful than you ever thought.
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No matter what size house you have, whether a cozy cottage or a waterfront mansion, well considered landscaping can make your home stand out from others in the neighborhood. There are various types of plants, shrubbery, and trees available that complement any style of house. Not only does beautiful landscaping make a home look better, it also increases resale value. Buyers relish the idea of moving into a home with a well-manicured, established lawn with carefully selected plantings.


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Ottumwa point guard Ashley Salgado committed today to play basketball at Marshalltown Community College.
The senior led all of Iowa last year in assists recording nearly seven a game.
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- 48 major drug interactions (128 brand and generic names)
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SDN Announces Winners of Call for Entries on Global Awareness
SocialDocumentary.net is thrilled to announce the five winners of the Call for Entries on Global Awareness.
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) Photography Fellowship Grand Prize
Gwenn Dubourthoumieu, France
Mark Tuschman, United States
SDN Documentary Prize
Fausto Podavini, Italy
Honorable Mentions
Suvra Das, Bangladesh
Carol Allen Storey, England
Click here for complete details on the winning entries.
From a pool of 140 submissions from across the globe, the jurors chose this outstanding work for recognition. We very much want to thank the jurors for support of this project:
- Shahidul Alam, Founder, Drik Photo Agency, Bangladesh
- Barbara Ayotte, Director of Strategic Communications, Management Sciences for Health, Boston
- Dimitri Beck, Editor-in-Chief, Polka Magazine, Paris
- Manoocher Deghati, AP Middle East Regional Photo Editor, Cairo
- Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel, Director, Anastasia Photo, New York
- Glenn Ruga, Founder and Director, SocialDocumentary.net, Boston
Mark Tuschman and Gwenn Dubourthoumieu, the MSH Photography Fellowship Grand Prize winners, will each receive a $4,000 honorarium and an expense-paid two-week assignment to document MSH's global health projects. Fausto Podavini will receive a $1,000 cash award. SDN will have an exhibition of all the winners' work at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, NY February 27-March 23, with an opening reception on February 27, 2014.
SDN would like to thank all the photographers who submitted to this call for entries. We would also like to thank our NGO partner, MSH, an international nonprofit working on global health issues in more than 50 countries. (www.msh.org)


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Call #1: Reiterate Long-Term Overweight of Corporate and Municipal Debt Over Treasuries
In today's low rate environment, many investors are looking for fixed income opportunities. As I've discussed in the past, for long-term investors, I favor corporate and municipal bonds over Treasuries.
Here are two reasons why I like corporate debt:
- Yield: Corporate bonds currently offer a rich yield relative to US Treasuries. Today, the spread between an index of Moody's Baa-rated bonds and the 10-Year Treasury is 330 basis points, roughly twice the sixty-year average.
- Strong Balance Sheets: At the same time that corporate yields are high relative to Treasuries, corporate America's balance sheet looks exceptionally strong. US companies are holding more than $2 trillion in cash, which represents roughly 7% of company assets and the highest level since 1963.
Here are also two reasons why I like munis.
- Yield: First, similar to corporate bonds, municipals currently provide a rich, after-tax yield versus Treasuries of a similar duration. An index of national long duration GO bonds is yielding roughly 3.8%. On a tax adjusted basis, that's roughly equivalent to a 6% yield for a theoretical taxpayer in the 35% bracket.
- Unfounded Dire Predictions: Plus, while munis potentially offer investors a significant pickup in yield, I don't believe investors in munis are taking on much more risk. As I've stated in the past, some of the more dire predictions for munis have turned out to be unfounded. Last December, we all heard predictions that 2011 would see hundreds of billions of dollars in defaults. Year-to-date, municipal defaults are running at less than $1 billion.
While both municipals and corporate bonds look cheap, by most accounts Treasuries look very expensive. While I hold a neutral view of Treasuries in the near term, I hold a negative longer-term view of Treasuries. Unless you believe that the United States is about to, or has already, entered a Japanese-style deflationary spiral, it is hard to justify accepting a 2% nominal yield and a negative after-inflation yield while taking on significant duration risk. (Potential iShares solutions: MUB and LQD).
Disclosure: Author is long MUB and LQD
Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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Annual 9Health Fair April 16, 2011
BRUSH, Colo. (March 3, 2011) – Own Your Health. The 9Health Fair encourages people to take charge of their health. This year's health fair offers 15 free and five low-cost health screening and education to help you keep your health in check.
The 9Health Fair pre-draws are available March 14 -18, from 7:00 – 10:00 a.m. at the Morgan County Fairgrounds, 4-H Building. To make an appointment for blood chemistry, blood cell counts, prostate specific antigen, or Vitamin D call 970-842-6720.
Anyone 18 and older is encouraged to participate in this year's fair by attending the volunteer-run 9Health Fair in Brush, April 16, from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., Morgan County Fairgrounds, Mark Arndt Event Center.
"With jobs and health care weighing heavily on most people's minds today, it has never been more important for people to really start understanding and owning their health," said Jim Goddard, president and CEO of 9Health Fair. "Because our community-driven program is a safe, friendly and affordable way for people to learn more about their health, this year, we want people who regularly participate in 9Health Fair to bring their loved ones so that they can start taking action to live a long, high quality life."
Low-cost screenings available at 9Health Fair Brush site include:
- $30 Blood Chemistry screening; provides information on blood sugar (glucose), cholesterol, triglycerides, liver, kidney, bone and muscle function and may show signs of diabetes, heart disease or other concerns
- $15 Blood Cell Count: checks the health of your blood
- $25 Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) screening: checks for prostate gland issues and cancer
- $20 Colon Cancer Screening Take Home Kit: checks for human blood in the stool, which can lead to colon cancer. Volunteer 9Health Fair nurses and doctors will call participants with abnormal results.
- $40 Vitamin D: This vitamin helps maintain normal blood levels of calcium and phosphorus and aids in the absorption of calcium
In addition, to ensure proper hydration for a smooth blood draw experience, and to continue its focus on "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle," this year, participants should plan to bring water to the 9Health Fair.
"Drinking plenty of water the night before and morning of your 9Health Fair is really the best way to prevent any issue during your blood draw experience," Goddard said.
Free screenings include:
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Blood Pressure
Body Fat Skinfold Measurement
Body In Balance
Bone Health
Eye Health
Finger-Stick Glucose
Height/Weight/Body Mass Index (BMI)
Lung Function
Oral Health
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Participants with serious health issues are notified by volunteer nurses and doctors within 72 hours of their 9Health Fair visit and encouraged to seek immediate medical attention. Follow up resources are available for those with little or no health insurance.
Each year, over 175 local 9Health Fair volunteers serve more than 800 people in and around Morgan County. These volunteers are comprised of doctors, nurses, and other medically-trained individuals, who help you, understand your health.
Educators from health-related organizations are on hand to answer questions about a variety of health issues ranging from prescription drugs to diabetes to diet and exercise and more.


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Millions of web users are being asked to reset their passwords as concerns spread over a major hacking attack.I hope this doesn't apply to my readers, but if one of these dumbasses that uses a stupid password like one of these, you probably deserve to be hacked. I found the most interesting one to be 'monkey', I never realized how many people loved monekies, I guess they are pretty adorable.
Documents show that the most popular password among Gawker users was "123456", followed by "password" and "12345678".
Other common terms, used by hundreds of people, included "monkey", "qwerty" and "consumer"
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Fact Sheet - Climate change endangers human health, and costs us money in both lost and interrupted lives and increased health care. In a study published in the journal Health Affairs, a team of scientists from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) partnered with university economists to investigate the health costs of six climate change-related events, and found the estimated costs totaled more than $14 billion.
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The Alpinestars GP Pro Motorcycle Racing Gloves are currently available in the colours shown in the product variation above, if there is no variation option, they will be available in the colours as shown in the pictures above.
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These Alpinestars GP Pro Gloves are available in various sizes, some sizes may also be suitable for kids. Please use the guide below to help determine your correct size preference.
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