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In the Shield project, we propose using "data patch" at the network or host firewall or above the file system to protect the vulnerable window between the vulnerability disclosure and code patch application. This vulnerable window has been exploited by all major worm outbreaks to date, such as CodeRed and Blaster.
Software patching has not been an effective first-line defense preventing large-scale worm attacks, even when patches had long been available for their corresponding vulnerabilities. Generally, people have been reluctant to patch their systems immediately, because patches are perceived to be unreliable and disruptive to apply. To address this problem, we propose a first-line worm defense in the network stack, using shields -- vulnerability-specific, exploit-generic network filters installed in end systems once a vulnerability is discovered, and before the patch is applied. These filters examine the incoming or outgoing traffic of vulnerable applications, and drop or correct traffic that exploits vulnerabilities. Shields are less disruptive to install and uninstall, easier to test for bad side effects, and hence more reliable than traditional software patches. Further, shields are resilient to polymorphic or metamorphic variations of exploits
In the Shield project, we're showing that this concept is feasible by implementing a prototype Shield framework that filters traffic at the transport layer. We have designed a safe and restrictive language to describe vulnerabilities as partial state machines of the vulnerable application. The expressiveness of the language has been verified by encoding the signatures of a number of known vulnerabilities. Our evaluation provides evidence of Shield's low false positive rate and impact on application throughput. An examination of a sample set of known vulnerabilities suggests that Shield could be used to prevent exploitation of a substantial fraction of the most dangerous ones.
This work is published at SIGCOMM 2004 [paper]
Generic Application-Level Protocol Analyzer (GAPA)
Applications such as intrusion detection systems, firewalls, and network management and monitoring tools use protocol analyzers to parse messages and keep track of protocol state. The current practice of writing such analyzers in C or similar languages incurs high development costs and often yields analyzers that are vulnerable to memory corruption and resource consumption attacks. The large and growing number of application-level protocols motivates a new approach. We therefore have architected and prototyped a Generic Application-level Protocol Analyzer (GAPA), consisting of a protocol analysis language (GAPAL) and an analysis engine (the GAPAL run-time) that operates on live network streams or traces. GAPA allows rapid creation of new protocol analyzers that are both memory-safe and DoS-resilient. To support rapid creation, our language provides built-in abstractions for message parsing, protocol state machines, session dispatching, and layering. GAPAL's message parsing supports both text and binary messages with a BNF-like syntax similar to that found in many RFCs, easing message format specification. To bound state accumulation, our analysis engine uses a stream processing model, allowing multi-packet messages to be analyzed without buffering the entire message. We have specified 10 commonly used protocols in GAPAL and found it expressive and easy to use. We measured our GAPA prototype and found that it can handle an enterprise client HTTP workload at up to 60 Mbps, sufficient performance for many end host firewall/IDS scenarios.
This work is published at NDSS 2007. [paper]
Exploit Diversity Study
Remote code injection exploits inflict a significant societal cost, and an active underground economy has grown up around these continually evolving attacks. We present a methodology for inferring the phylogeny, or evolutionary tree, of such exploits. We have applied this methodology to traffic captured at several vantage points, and we demonstrate that our methodology is robust to the observed polymorphism. Our techniques revealed non-trivial code sharing among different exploit families, and the resulting phylogenies accurately captured the subtle variations among exploits within each family. Thus, we believe our methodology and results are a helpful step to better understanding the evolution of remote code injection exploits on the Internet.
We published this work at IMC 2006. [paper]
ShieldGen: Automated Data Patch Generation for Unknown Vulnerabilities with Informed Probing
In this work, we tackle the problem of automatic data patch or vulnerability signature generation for an unknown vulnerability, given a zero-day attack instance. Unlike previous approaches that employ program analysis, we leverage the knowledge of the data format to generate new potential attack instances and use a zero-day detector as our oracle. With such informed probing and feedback loop, we construct vulnerability signatures. We have implemented a prototype called ShieldGen and experimented with three known vulnerabilities. The generated signatures have no false positives, but may admit a small amount of false negatives largely due to the imprecision of the data format specification. By comparing with the vulnerability signatures generated by the existing schemes, our signatures are noticeably superior. We also conducted a detailed vulnerability study on 40 vulnerabilities over the past three years, and estimate ShieldGen to have a significant coverage with superior signatures to those generated by existing schemes.
This work is published at Oakland 2006. [paper]
BrowserShield: Vulnerability-Driven Filtering of Dynamic HTML
Vulnerability-driven filtering of network data can offer a fast and easy-to-deploy alternative or intermediary to software patching, as exemplified in Shield. This approach provides protection for the time window between patch release and patch application. This time window is critical because attackers often reverse engineer newly released patches to gain vulnerability knowledge and then launch attacks against unpatched machines. In this paper, we take Shield's vision to a new domain, inspecting and cleansing not just static content, but also dynamic content. The dynamic content we target is the dynamic HTML in web pages, which have become a popular vector for attacks. The key challenge in filtering dynamic HTML is that it is undecidable to statically determine whether an embedded script will exploit the browser at run-time. We avoid this undecidability problem by rewriting web pages and any embedded scripts into safe equivalents, inserting checks so that the filtering is done at run-time. The rewritten pages contain logic for recursively applying run-time checks to dynamically generated or modified web content, based on known vulnerabilities. We have built and evaluated BrowserShield , a system that performs this dynamic instrumentation of embedded scripts, and that admits policies for customized run-time actions, such as vulnerability-driven filtering.
We published this paper at OSDI 2006. [paper]
Shield: Vulnerability-Driven Network Filters for Preventing Known Vulnerability Exploits
Helen J. Wang, Chuanxiong Guo, Daniel R. Simon, and Alf Zugenmaier ACM SIGCOMM, August, 2004 Portland, OR [pdf][talk]
A Generic Application-Level Protocol Analyzer and its Language
Nikita Borisov, David J. Brumley, Helen J. Wang, John Dunagan, Pallavi Joshi, and Chuanxiong Guo
The 14th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
San Diego, CA, Feb, 2007 [pdf]
Finding Diversity in Remote Code Injection Exploits
Justin Ma, John Dunagan, Helen J. Wang, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker
Internet Measurement Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October, 2006 [pdf]
ShieldGen: Automatic Data Patch Generation for Unknown Vulnerabilities with Informed Probing
Weidong Cui, Marcus Peinado, Helen J. Wang, and Michael E. Locasto
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Oakland, CA, May 20-23, 2007 [pdf]
BrowserShield: Vulnerability-Driven Filtering of Dynamic HTML
Charles Reis, John Dunagan, Helen J. Wang, Opher Dubrovsky, and Saher Esmeir
Usenix OSDI, Seattle, WA December 2006 [pdf]
Technology transfered
GAPA has become the foundational software or platform for several lines of Microsoft's security products including Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 (released in December 2009) and Microsoft Security Essential. Numerous GAPA-enabled products are in the pipeline.
In the press
December 4, 2006, InformationWeek: Inside Microsoft Labs
August 2006, Microsoft Research News & Highlights: BrowserShield: Helping Make the Web Safe for Surfers
September 4, 2006, eWeek: Microsoft Research Builds 'BrowserShield'. The same article is alos posted at Slashdot, newwin.net, OSNews.com, cgisecurity.com, IT professionals, clipmarks, The NewTech
September 5, 2006, Windows IT Pro: BrowserShield Defends Browsers At Network Borders
September 5, 2006, Ars Technica: Microsoft hefts a heavy mithril BrowserShield
September, 2006, Softpedia: Microsoft Reveals the BrowserShield Research Project
September, 2006, download squad: Microsoft's BrowserShield to nullify malicious sites
March 04, 2004, Seattle Times: Microsoft's researchers display wares at TechFest
June 9, 2004, IDG News Service: Microsoft research targets security, searching. PC World, Info World, Australian Reseller News.com , NetworkWorldFusion, Computer World, PC World Magazine (Australia) Computer Weekly
June 10, 2004, CNet: "Microsoft Researchers Dream Big", news.com, New York Times, Silicon.com (UK), ZDNet UK, CNet Asia, ZDNet,
June 10, 2004, Vnunet.com: Microsoft 'shield' to fight off worms
June 10, 2004, SearchExchange.com: What Microsoft gets for its $7B R&D budget
June 10, 2004, InternetNews.com, What's Under Wraps at Microsoft?
June 11, 2004, SearchWin2000.com: Microsoft grabs spotlight even when it stands pat
June 13, 2004, CRN: Microsoft Research: Beam Me Up Scotty?
The name of our research project coincides with our company's "shield" security strategy. In fact, our research project started before the Microsoft "shield" initiative. Some of the news articles listed here have drawn some connections between the two, which are inaccurate.


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I'm a member of a fan-based, nonprofit development team of the sequel to the 9th installment of the popular Might & Magic RPG series. Ubisoft, the current owners of the Might & Magic franchise, have stated that they will not be continuing the Might & Magic RPG series from where it left off in Might & Magic IX (The Writ of Fate), so a group of dedicated M&M fans have taken the project into their own fans.
If you're interested in some of the material we've developed so far-
-Here is our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Might-...34591446605146
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Time Constraints
None as of now! We are running on a very loose schedule, although I would expect that it wouldn't take longer than a few weeks for a busy cartographer to help us design our world map.
Style of Map
I have come here because I am in need of a skilled cartographer to help draft out and design our world map. I'm thinking of making the map in the style of the MM9 map of Chedian - Here is a quite large (1500 x 1157) version of MM9's map of Chedian: http://www.heroworld.net/artwork/map/mm9_Chedian.jpg. If you would like to have the freedom of designing it with your own artwork, we can definitely talk about doing that. I am completely open to a different style of map than in MM9's Chedian.
Description of Map
I'm not able to disclose our maps directly, but I will be happy to share our top secret maps with you through email or messenger, so you can help us design our world!
Contact Information
If anyone is interested in helping us out, please contact me on my email at email@example.com, or on MSN/Windows Live Messenger at email@example.com.
Important Note: Even though you will not be paid for your artwork, we will make sure to feature your name and any affiliation in the finished game's credits.
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Family Law
Family Law Questions? Ask a Family Lawyer Online.
Thank you for your question and thank you again for requesting me, Nick. Glad to assist you again if I can.This is very much the crux of the issue and one that many attorneys struggle with in obtaining the right answer. The rules of professional conduct require the attorneys to use their own judgment and the language also gives attorneys so wiggle room. "Shall be reported' is not the same as "must be reported", and similarly the attorney has to believe that the violation affects their competency or trustworthiness allows other attorneys to claim that they did not deem this violation to rise to such level. I realize that this is splitting hairs, but attorneys tend to make calls to their respective disciplinary boards fairly often to obtain clarity (I personally made such calls in the past about very similar issues and also to obtain guidance as to whether I should or should not report), and there is also this element of professional courtesy that disfavors attorneys reporting each other. I am not stating that it is right, but this is why many attorneys do not want to file complaints against judges (as they would likely see those judges again), or other attorneys since the profession is very interconnected. The best person here to report is the spouse who can most definitely seek her own damages, but with attorneys there is more flexibility in choosing to not pursue this by claiming that it was not quite as serious as expected.Good luck.
Thank You Very much for your answer...I agree with your viewpoint, and do realize , in essence....The Rules of Professional Conduct has been written, in such a manner as to allow that wiggle room....but that does not make it right, it just allows and attorney to take the easy way out, and not necessarily, do what may be difficult and unpleasant, demand the highest level of professional service and behavior from their peers, unfortunately its usually the clients that have to suffer the consequences of poor representation, and they are the ones who have entrusted to their attorney's , their confidence that the attorney will provide the best possible service and representation....Nick
Nick,I do agree with you, but at the same time it is very much as with any profession, be attorneys, doctors, police officers, accountants, and the like--there is some measure of professional courtesy afforded. The language is also not so clearcut as to demand reporting since a judgment is still left to the reporting attorney. At the same time the client does still have the ability to pursue via disciplinary reporting or a malpractice suit, or both.Good luck.
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Good evening. I'll be glad to assist you with your question.
Do you have a copy of your association bylaws?
OK. Assuming you have a current version, or, at least, that the provisions have not changed that deal with how to challenge the board and force an accounting, what you will have will do.
The first place you should look is at your bylaws. First, there should be a way by which the members can request an accounting. If there isn't, there should be a mechanism by which you can amend the bylaws to allow for an accounting.
She does, but you first have to exhaust your remedies under the HOA bylaws first. But, as you've said, you sent a certified letter and they did not respond. Your second step is litigation.
Homeowners have the right to have the community association exercise ordinary care, in reasonable and good faith manner in the performance of its duties. For breach of these fiduciary duties, an association may be held liable by an owner.
In a case like this, you would not be looking for damages (yet). Right now, you would be asking for specific performance. Specific performance is a type of equitable remedy by which a judge orders a party to take some specific action. In this case, disclose the records.
To answer your question, though, you can do that in small claims court.
...and without a lawyer.
Specific performance will only be ordered in situations where the payment of money will not adequately compensate the person bringing suit. Clearly, that would be the case here, since no amount of money can replace access to the records.
Yes, you can. Also, if you did hire a lawyer, you could ask for attorney's fees. A judge has the authority to award attorney's fees in cases where, essentially, one party has no defense to the action. That may be the case here since they are just ignoring a statutory obligation.
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Study on the Licensing of Massage Schools
Study on the Licensing of Massage Schools
Report No. 97-17
This study was conducted in response to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 128, Senate Draft 1 of the 1997 Regular Session. The resolution requested the State Auditor to conduct a study to determine whether continued regulation of massage schools by the Department of Education or some other state agency is appropriate. The study was to also consider whether repeal or transfer of massage school licensure functions would impact eligibility and participation by massage students receiving federal student aid and other grants and loans. In addition, the study was to consider the impact of changes in licensure on massage school accreditation by private accrediting agencies.
We found that there is a reasonable need to continue state licensing and regulation of massage therapy schools to maintain minimum education standards and to protect students. The federal government also requires that schools be legally authorized by the appropriate state agency or official and accredited before participating in any student financial assistance programs authorized by Title IV of the 1965 Higher Education Act.
New legislation is needed to statutorily define the current purposes for licensing. The statutes do not now include the legislative purpose of licensing nor does the law clarify the Department of Education's responsibilities.
We found that the Department of Education has failed to properly manage the licensing program. It has adopted administrative rules that are inadequate to govern and guide the program. Furthermore, the department's lack of commitment to the program has resulted in assignment of insufficient resources, poor communication with schools, and inadequate record keeping. Also, the department does not certify instructors in a timely manner and has licensed schools that do not meet state requirements.
We concluded that there is no single state agency that is comprehensively appropriate to oversee the licensing and regulation of massage therapy schools. We considered and assessed the appropriateness of three agencies: the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, and the State Board for Vocational Education. Each agency was found to be appropriate to some degree, however, based on our analyses we believe that the State Board for Vocational Education is the most appropriate alternative of the three.
Recommendations and Response
We recommend that the State continue to require that massage therapy schools be licensed and that the Legislature consider amending the statutes to define the purpose of private trade, vocational, and technical school licensing and regulation. If licensing and regulation of massage therapy schools remain with the Department of Education, we recommend that the department revise its administrative rules that govern the program to ensure the maintenance of minimum education standards and to protect student consumers. We also recommend that the superintendent ensure that the administrator of the program address the deficiencies pointed out in the study. Should the Legislature consider transferring the massage school licensing program to the State Board for Vocational Education, we recommend that any amendments to the statutes include a definition of the purpose of regulation. Finally, we recommend that if the licensing program is transferred to the State Board for Vocational Education, the board should take into account the above recommendations addressed to the Department of Education.
The Department of Education concurred with all the recommendations presented in the study. The department was especially supportive of the recommendation to transfer the massage school licensing program to the State Board of Vocational Education and recommended that licensing and regulation of all private trade, vocational, and technical schools be placed with the board. The University of Hawaii responded that it is open to discussing with the Legislature the possibility of transferring the massage school licensing program to the State Board for Vocational Education. The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs responded with two points of clarification, one of which was incorporated into the report.


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Nutritional support for brain function and memory.
Mental decline can begin relatively early in adult life' due to a variety of causes. These causes include neurological disorders' such as Parkinson's disease' Alzheimer's disease' Cerebrovascular disease and senescent changes in the brain and nervous system. Impairments in mental agility can vary greatly from episodes of simple forgetfulness or "blocking of thoughts"' through to complete states of mental vegetation or dementia. The elderly population is exploding in numbers in Western society. Up to one in four of these elite citizens suffer from varying degrees of poor brain function. Although these disorders of general cognitive decline are commonly viewed as an inevitable consequence of old age' there are several natural first-line options that can be used to help maintain "cognitive vitality" (good brain function). There are many risk factors for poor brain function. The risks include: cardiovascular disease' chronic stress' poor diet' lack of both physical and "brain" exercises and head injury.
Population studies show that diets high in saturated fats and low in Omega-3 fatty acids (which are commonly found in fish oil) may contribute to cognitive decline. It is important for many people who seek cardiovascular and brain vascular health to consider increasing the amount of Omega-3 fatty acids in their diets' by eating fish and/or by taking high quality fish oil supplements.
While some interventions for improving brain function are obvious' others are so obvious that are often overlooked. Sleep deprivation' for example' causes both physical and mental disability' largely because it disturbs biological rhythms' affects cognitive function and causes hormone imbalances. Physical exercise also confers benefits on general body health and mental function. The type and amount of exercise required for health in mature people does not have to be strenuous' but it will differ greatly among individuals. Exercise should be undertaken on a regular basis' at a level matched to aerobic fitness.
While the body needs to be exercised and kept in peak condition' the brain requires "exercise" by activity that challenges thought processes. Games such as chess' crossword puzzles or simple arts and crafts can serve as "mind exercises." In fact' there are studies showing that people who engage in these types of activities ("mind exercises") are less likely to develop advances in Alzheimer's disease.
Dietary supplements are commonly used in conjunction with these aforementioned positive lifestyle exercises as a natural approach to the nutritional support of healthy cognitive function. The idea that single supplements or natural substances can support the complex structures and functions of the brain is an incomplete approach to the nutritional support of brain function. Clinical Cognition™ is a complex combination
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Friendly Traditions
Is Daylight Savings Time messing with anyone else like it's messing with me?! At 7:00 p.m. last night I was ready to konk out in bed!! A 12 hour shopping spree may have had something to do with that…
Yesterday Heidi and I gallivanted around Chicago and hit up all the major hitters – IKEA, Crate and Barrel, Nordstrom, Lululemon, J. Crew, Pottery Barn, and on and on
(disregard creepy look on face!)
Oh, and of course Auntie Anne's:
Heidi and I do a huge shopping trip twice a year, and we have it down to a science. We take turns driving. Leave as early as possible (read: 9:00 a.m.) shop powered by Starbucks for the first half –
(red cups!)
And then shop powered by Auntie Anne's for the last part. It's a beautiful thing we've got going on.
Lastly, we always end the trip with a stop by Trader Joe's:
I'm proud to say I'm fully stocked on cheap wine, delicious chocolate, pre-cut organic veggies, and heat and eat meals.
Traditions w/ Friends
This twice-a-year shopping trip is my friend Heidi and my tradition (This year's first trip.) We obviously get together a lot year round, but these shopping trips make our friendship different from others. Heidi has a little adorable 2 year old and a baby on the way, so I'm incredibly grateful she makes time for our trips.
I think it's important to have certain traditions with friends and family you're close with. It reminds me also of the tradition my friends Destiny and Kim and I have of spending the weekend in Chicago over the Frank Lloyd Wright 10k weekend:
However, one tradition that my closest girlfriends from home and I have is our Secret Santa Girl's Christmas. We started this tradition on accident our last year of high school, but decided to make an effort for everyone to get together, trade gifts, have some drinks, and party it up – slumber-party style every Christmas. It's a tradition I wouldn't trade for the world!
Last year's Girl's Christmas:
Love these girls
And here's a major flashback to our very first Girl's Christmas!! This was back in…2004 I think:
And the 2nd annual Girl's Christmas:
Ha! Recognize a few faces??
Welp, that's enough memories for one Monday morning. Have a great Monday, friends!
What's a tradition you have with one of your friends or family that's memorable to you?


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A couple of red tandems.
New co-motion.
Old burley.
A couple of red tandems.
New co-motion.
Old burley.
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First is my 93 Dreesens w/ Campy Athena 11spd
Second is my new Colnago CLX 3.0 w/ Campy Record
1974 Paramount, I was the original owner;
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When I ride my bike I feel free and happy and strong. I'm liberated from the usual nonsense of day to day life. Solid, dependable, silent, my bike is my horse, my fighter jet, my island, my friend. Together we will conquer that hill and thereafter the world.
DSC01098.jpgDSC01096.jpgDSC01091.jpgMy 2007 Buenos Aires when I bought it in December 2008.. I'll take a picture of how it looks with the upgraded wheels and red bar tape
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Red, like the color my hair used to be.
Lemond Buenos Aires(Broke) Madone 5.9 for sale,Navigator 2, S-Works Roubaix
Hello everyone. Just joined the forum. I have been riding road bikes since my college days at UC Davis. My first was a Schwinn Varsity which I rode to class. But my current pride and joy are my 1989 Cinelli SC with Campy C Record and my 1990 Bottecchia with Campy Chorus Syncro. Bought both new. Each ridden on one century before putting them away. Currently I ride a blue Vitus 979 with Campy Chorus Syncro.
Welcome to Bf and the 50+ gang. those are some nice bicycles you have there. You should also look into the Classic and Vintage (C&V) forum for more bicycles like yours and older. Several very knowledgeable members for Campagnolo everything there as well as Italian steel. Enjoy your stay here and post up often, we love pictures of everything Bicycle here.
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Here's one that I didn't have long - just sold it this weekend to a fellow who will use it for commuting. But it was a real eye-catcher! Selling_March2012 036.jpgSelling_March2012 033.jpg
Already have two forums I have posted it in but it was a new find, it is mine and I ride it so here it is.
1990-91 Klein.
Dura Ace 7403 shifters, Dura Ace cranks, chainrings and bottom bracket, dura Ace front and rear derailleur, Dura Ace seat post and head set. Dura Ace brakes. Looking for a Dura Ace quill stem. Speed play clipless, Open Pro rims, Dua Ace hubs. Gator Skin 23s. Cinelli Bars.
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My only red bike at the present:
Shimano "Coasting" automatic three speed. Found at the local Performance Bike shop on super discount. I just had to have it for the uniqueness of the auto shift system.
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This badboy has not been ridden in awhile, but just received new wheels, saddle, and stem. Different bars are on the way. It's going to be used this summer for sure. The candyapple paint really pops in the sun.
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Not all red but I hope it still qualifies.
Here is a photo of my 1992 Bridgestone RB-1.
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1977 Schwinn LeTour II. Bought this a few weeks ago for nostaglic reasons (I had on back then!). Took it apart for a thorough cleaning and relube, and the original magenta-colored paint was starting to flake off in areas, so I had it powdercoated 'lipstick red' (the frame is in great shape, with no dents, dings, or interior rust that I could see). Changed a few other things on it that were worn out and its a fun ride that I'll gladly put in the rotation. And it'll be my back-up commuter, too.
Another splash of red... not quite as aged as my CCM.
I am glad someone started this thread.
When I bought Capo #1, it had a dull red aftermarket paint job. After seeing a Montana gent's Capo w/ its original candy apple red paint job w/ white head tube, I decided to have mine painted similarly, to show off the great lugwork. When I walked into CyclArt I saw an Italian bike which had just been painted in a deep metallic, "almost candy," red, and I fell in love w/ the color, which fortunately is a CyclArt standard.
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Capo [dschaw'-poe]: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger, S/N 42624
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1981 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
"Early to bed, early to rise. Work like hell, and advertise." -- George Stahlman
Capo [dschaw'-poe]: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger, S/N 42624
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1981 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
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A replacement for my poor dead Lapierre,
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If you think about the bank payment system as a process during the day you'll realise that payments and deposits move around in a variety of different ways completely un-coordinated with each other and turning up at completely different times. Additionally it can take time before a payment requested in one system is recorded as a receipt in another.
Therefore the payment system is actually a specific implementation of a system pattern known as the Producer-Consumer problem The reason the problem is a problem is because of what is known as the 'boundary conditions' - what happens when there is nothing in the buffer or the buffer gets full. That is where it gets its other name - the 'bounded buffer problem'. I've probably spent most of my career trying to implement near optimal solutions to this problem.
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Ready For Baby? LeAnn Rimes Talks Going Off Birth Control (VIDEO)
In this week's edition of TMI: Things You Never Wanted to Know About LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian, we've now learned that the country superstar has decided to go off birth control and hopefully give her husband the third child he doesn't actually want.
During last night's all-new episode of LeAnn & Eddie, the couple was faced with the same baby dilemma they've had all season. LeAnn really wants to have a baby and Eddie isn't really feeling it — but when LeAnn's mom revealed fertility issues run in the family, the 31-year-old singer went straight to the doctor.
When the results came back and LeAnn's fertility levels were on the lower side of normal, she decided to confront her hubby and ask him how he felt about trying for a baby very soon. "Who knows how long it will take us to try?" she said. "If I wait too long I will be more pissed off about not being able to than having it a little too soon." In the end Eddie agreed she should ditch the birth control.
But LeAnn's baby drama wasn't the best thing about the episode. The couple also sent their dog, Precious, to a doggie life coach to help deal with suspected depression. Someone get these two a baby, stat!


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Rackley resigned Feb. 20, effective June 1.
"And I mean accountability from students, their parents and the PISD staff," he says, explaining that when he took over as superintendent in 1995, the district was handicapped by a laissez-faire philosophy of grading on a curve if a student didn't pass a test, reducing the number of assignments if students didn't finish all of them and granting "magical credit" to allow failing students to pass.
"That's not educating students," Rackley says, "that's empowering them."
The result was an "unrecognized" report card from the Texas Education Agency for the district, which is comprised of students from both Bee and Karnes counties.
Rackley says it didn't take him long to recognize the problem and to initiate steps to change it.
"We require students to be accountable for everything that we ask them to do. Some staff members would not buy into this new philosophy; they moved on to other pastures."
It took Rackley less than a year to start seeing results. Today, the TEA has ranked PISD as "Recognized" for the past two years and given the district its Gold Performance Award for college readiness in math and language arts. In addition, the national news magazine, U.S. News and World Report, lists PISD as one of the top 125 districts in Texas.
Also during his tenure, the schools installed central air conditioning, switched out chalkboard for white boards and installed new lighting in all sporting facilities.
In the last seven years, enrollment has increased slightly more than 29 percent.
Rackley's retirement is a double broadside; his math-teacher wife, Debbie, also is retiring.
"When we came here, the math scores were 40 percent," he says. "Today, they're 100 percent."
It runs in the family: daughter Abigail teaches math in the Katy ISD; daughter Allison teaches math in Bryan. Both graduated from A.C. Jones High School.
His link to the Beeville high school doesn't stop there. When he turned in his resignation letter to the PISD board, it was the regretful task of board president Jaime Rodriguez to read it. Rodriguez also is the principal at A.C. Jones.
"Tucker has been a good friend for 20 years. He has been a mentor to me. It was... difficult... to read that letter to the board," Rodriguez says.
The board accepted it unanimously but, admits Administrative Secretary Debbie Moreno, "we didn't want to."
The PISD board is advertising for a new superintendent and hopes to start paring down the selection in about three weeks.
"Whoever we get, it's important the new superintendent agrees with the district's philosophy. If it's not broken, we don't want to fix it."
Any Rackley regrets?
"I wish I could have gotten here sooner," he says. "Of all the places I have worked, this is the best."
That includes assistant coach at Angleton High School, athletic director at Ingram High School, athletic director and football coach at Rockport-Fulton and later at Ganado, principal at Moreno Middle School in Beeville and principal at McMullen County school.
"Debbie and I always thought 35 years in the business would be a good cutoff point," he says. "We wanted to retire while we were still young enough to travel."
First post-retirement destination?
"The East Coast, then taking a railroad trip across Canada to Vancouver."
After a year, he suggests, "I might be open to getting some experience as an interim superintendent – if any are available."
Meanwhile, he has his hobbies: playing the guitar (a decoration on his office wall is a cutout of Elvis performing) and his prison ministry at the McConnell Unit.
He leads the music during services there.
Which goes a long way in his choice of explaining how he summarizes his time at PISD: Colossians 3:23 from the King James Bible.
"And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men."
Bill Clough is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 122, or at email@example.com.


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Fire caused by lightning burns 9,521-square-foot mansion in north Oklahoma City
A north Oklahoma City mansion went up in flames early Wednesday after it was struck by lightning.
The home's residents, two adults and five children, escaped safely. But the three-story, 9,521-square-foot structure — that according to online records was valued at $2.8 million and owned by Villa Amore LLC — was severely damaged, fire Maj. Tammy McKinney said.
The Oklahoma County Assessor website lists Frank Love, president of Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores, as a previous owner. Fire officials have not yet confirmed the names of current residents.
Fire crews responded to the home, 7444 N Country Club Drive at the Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club, about 5 a.m. amid heavy smoke. Firefighters had difficulty locating the source of the blaze because it was in the attic, Woodard said.
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HAWLEY, Mass. Efforts to conserve Massachusetts' forests are paying off. Today, 60 percent of the state is covered with forests. That's more than any time in the last 200 years.
But there's a price to pay for protecting our woodlands. And the question is: Who pays?
Large conservation organizations argue that the forests they own and maintain should be tax exempt. But small towns that are heavily forested say they need the revenue.
Now the state Supreme Judicial Court is wrestling with the thorny issue.
Heavily Forested Hawley
In the northwest corner of the state, 110 miles from Boston, is the town of Hawley. Its population: 337.
Henry Eggert is the head of Hawley's Board of Assessors. His office — in fact, the town's entire government — is located in what had been a one-room schoolhouse. In its pre-Colonial heyday, Hawley was bigger than the city of Springfield. But its fortunes diminished as its population declined.
"There is no commerce here," Eggert said of Hawley. "We don't even have a post office."
But Hawley does have a lot of trees. Most of the town — 30 square miles — is covered with trees.
If all the land were privately owned, it would generate hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in property tax revenue. But half the land is state forest, and Massachusetts pays Hawley just $35,000 a year for it.
Which means the town, with its million-dollar-a-year budget, needs to make every other acre of taxable land count.
$173 — Too Little, Or Too Much?
Eggert says some of that money should come from land owned by the New England Forestry Foundation, a nonprofit conservation group. NEFF bought the land in Hawley 14 years ago. In the spring it's perfect for hiking; in the winter, for snowmobiling and cross-country skiing.
A sign at the edge of NEFF's land is a sore point for Eggert. Because it marks conservation land, it means NEFF gets a 90 percent break on its property taxes, compared to what a private landowner would pay.
"So for this 120 acres of woodland," he said on a tour, "the nonprofit pays just $173 a year."
Eggert says he's looked for evidence the nonprofit deserves the tax cut. He doesn't see it.
"They're not saying on that sign that they're educational programs, just opportunities," he said. "They have not provided educational programs up here."
And without those programs, Eggert says, NEFF — nonprofit or not — needs to pay its share of property taxes.
But Bob Perschel, NEFF's executive director, sees the forest and the trees a lot differently.
"We want to ensure that that piece of property stays forest forever," he said.
Perschel's organization manages more than 1 million acres of forest in the region, most of it in Maine. And besides the small parcel in Hawley, the group has forests in more than 50 Massachusetts towns.
"We love this region," Perschel said. "We want to make sure it continues to be and look like it did when we were children and when our parents were children, and that won't happen because we've got population growing and a lot of development, unless we protect land."
Perschel says NEFF is doing forest conservation work that the state would otherwise have to pay for. So about five years ago he decided NEFF should be tax exempt. Even $173 a year in Hawley property taxes is too much.
"Every dollar that has to go into paying taxes on the lands that we own is a dollar less we have to buy the special property in your town that could be developed and people would like us to protect it, but we can only do as many of those as we have the funding to do," he said.
Hawley's tax assessors fought back, and the small town turned out to be a formidable foe; it took NEFF to the state tax board, the trial court where matters like this are settled.
To save money, Hawley's part-time assistant administrator, Virginia Gabert, represented the town before the tax board — even though she has no legal training.
"The idea of being pushed into backing down because we're a small town and we can't afford to defend ourselves is pathetic," Gabert said. "They sent us an exemption letter. We denied it. We went to the Appellate Tax Board and won."
And NEFF appealed that decision to Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court. Oral arguments were heard in January.
A High-Stakes Court Case
It's not exactly high courtroom drama, but the stakes are high: It's a test case that could turn Massachusetts property tax laws upside down. TWEET Here's how:
— If Hawley loses, the financial fate of small forested towns across the state could be in jeopardy.
— If NEFF loses, Perschel says that could threaten some of the largest and oldest conservation organizations in Massachusetts.
"What's really important to us about this case is that we get to continue our historic mission that we've been on for 70 years," he said.
Backing NEFF's court case are The Nature Conservancy, the Mass Audubon Society and The Trustees of Reservations. They stand to save millions if the court's decision goes their way.
The case could turn on a definition: In terms of forest conservation, what is a charity?
Perschel acknowledges his organization has made $25,000 selling wood from its Hawley forest, but argues it's forest management for the public good that keeps the land productive.
"Productive in the sense that there's sufficient wildlife habitat, that the water runs clear in the forest, that there's enough trees to absorb carbon and produce oxygen," he said. "These are all benefits the people of Massachusetts get without paying for. We want to make sure that those benefits continue to flow."
But Hawley's Eggert has issues with that argument. He says charity begins in Hawley.
"If they want to be a charitable organization and be tax exempt they've got to be charitable," he said. "So they've got to be donating something other than clean air and clean water to the town of Hawley. I provide clean air and clean water to the town, but I'm not tax exempt."
The Supreme Judicial Court will decide the matter by the end of this month.
And other states are watching. There's not a lot of case law when it comes to conservation and tax exemptions.
So, what started as a dispute over a $173 tax bill in Hawley could have implications far beyond the borders of this small New England town.


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Since my last blog was a little negative I decided to post another blog today. A more positive one. I have so many things to be grateful and positive about. The first one is really important. My husband is really starting to focus on living healthier and getting fit. He is on 2 softball teams now, playing outfield, and he has started to go to the gym after work with a friend. Luckily, his friend is a semi pro wrestler and is training him. He seems to be happy about it. So am I. He is now starting to focus on eating healthier too. He has completely given up soda. He is trying to drink a gallon of water a day and the only other thing he drinks is Gatorade. I am trying to make him healthy lunches and dinners everyday. I am really pushing towards waking up as early as him to make him breakfast in the morning too. He's also cut back a lot on cigarettes. (Such a bad habit I am lucky to never have picked up). He was a pack a day guy, now he is trying to make a pack last him 3 days. He's tried to quit cold turkey in the past and it never works. I think this will be the best way for him. I think once he cuts back enough he will switch to the gum or e-cig. He's taking it slow.
Another amazing thing to be positive about is my friend dropped off all her turbofire stuff the other day!
I am going to start the program on Monday. I am super excited and nervous to start. I got to push myself to stick with it. I have trouble with that. The bad voice is strong in this one... LOL
I have let a bunch of people know that I'm starting though, so hopefully that will help. I'm going to have to ask people to push me too. Cause I am very good at talking myself out of stuff. With this, I just need to figure it out and do it! I am writing a meal plan and making a grocery list of all the food I am going to need. It's kinda cool cause I read the little book on nutrition and I was pleasantly surprised that I already eat almost all the things they recommend. I also stay away from all the foods they say to limit or avoid. I did the calculations they have you do for how many calories I should be eating during the program. It said 1600! That sounds so high! I've moved my calories up to 1300 recently. I am going to start at 1400 the first week. Then move up as I go along. Ill probably try for 1500 in week 2 or 3. I know it is important to eat enough though. My friend who gave me the stuff said she had done it before and didn't eat as much as it said to. She didn't get very good results. This time she followed the plan and got great results. It's so hard to accept that to lose weight you have to eat more. I guess its important though....
Well I am going to take before pictures this weekend. Then I want to take after pics every 30 days! I can't wait to see results!!!
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Turbo Fire... I will look for your blogs about this one. I'm not familiar with it.
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Good for you! I find that when I talk out loud to myself in positive wording only, and actually hear myself say wonderful things I am going to do or that I'm worth it, I follow through with NOT eating the crap and I exercise more, and I care more about me! JUST DO IT!! YOU ARE WORTH IT! Post some little diddies around that inspire you to keep it movin and eat healthfully too!
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Very exciting to be starting Turbo Fire! I'm looking forward to reading about your success!
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Yes, I think eating more is crucial--especially eating more of good stuff. Your metabolism I've heard is like a furnace and needs fuel to burn. Try experimenting, make sure you get enough protein, and see what works. I'm excited to hear how you like Turbo Fire! You CAN do it! Don't be afraid to stick to the program. You can do it!
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Tuesday, 11 March 2014
by stephen trimble
Even cars have broadband connectivity now, but the modern jet airliner – perhaps our most technologically evolved mode of transport – still exists in the age of radio.
WHY is a normally safe aircraft – the Boeing 777-200 – missing over the South China Sea, with all 239 passengers and crew on board Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 presumed dead?
I'l tell you why: it was a fireball ignited by faulty lithium-ion batteries carried on board by cellphone-wielding passengers.
No, it wasn't. It was a bomb planted by terrorists – possibly the passengers who were reportedly carrying stolen passports.
Rubbish: it was structural failure triggered by internal damage sustained in an airport fender-bender involving the same aircraft two years ago.
These, of course, are not answers. It would be generous to call them theories. They are really a tiny sample in an online orgy of wild guesses that erupted on social media over the weekend, in the hours after the aircraft was reported missing off the coast of Malaysia.
As search teams continue scanning the waves for signs of debris, these online truth-seekers should be asking a different question: why couldn't the plane itself tell us exactly what happened when it went off-radar?
In one of the most galling anachronisms of modern aviation technology, the "black box" that carries most if not all of the answers seems to have vanished, too.
Depending on the location of the wreckage, it could be days, months or even years before anyone turns up the black box – which is usually orange – and there remains a remote possibility that the device and its precious recordings of audio and flight sensor data will never be found at all.
The ongoing mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is the fault of a bizarre quirk in our networked society. Even cars have broadband connectivity now, but the modern jet airliner – perhaps our most technologically evolved mode of transport – still exists in the age of radio.
Air traffic controllers today must orchestrate the most congested airspace using primarily voice commands. You can send and receive text messages from most aircraft, surf the web and even stream House of Cards. The system that powers the plane is limited to pre-dial-up Internet connection speeds.
There is simply no datalink on board an aircraft with the bandwidth to continuously stream the volumes of data collected and stored during every second of a flight by the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder.
The result is a dangerous silence in the immediate and sometimes extended aftermath of what appears to be the worst airline crash in more than a decade. In the absence of data, the biological temptation to seek patterns within the flimsiest of available evidence is overwhelming.
In the aftermath of the Air France Flight 447 crash in 2009, speculation focused on particular technologies with the Airbus A330.
It took nearly two years for an international search team to locate and raise the flight recorders lying at the bottom of 4,700m of water.
The actual data told a different tale of a bizarre sequence of fatal errors made by a confused and disoriented flight crew attempting to fly through a major storm.
Until the wreckage of Flight MH370 is found, it is impossible to know how long it will take to recover that little box inside the 777-200.
We shouldn't have to wait at all. There are technologies in existence or development today that can address this glaring gap in the aviation safety net.
To be fair, it's not quite that easy. It's relatively simple and cheap for a black box to gather and store megabytes worth of flight data every second. It is much harder and much more expensive to continuously transmit that information by satellite or radio transmission.
But even a little data is better than almost none, which the disappearance of Flight MH370 makes clear.
It should be rather straightforward to install a processor connected to the black box that can select a subset of the most relevant data. A recent patent application filed by Boeing describes such a system, which specifies a limited data set including the precise location of the aircraft and the flight control inputs by the pilot or the automation system.
There will be costs to mandating such a system, but the benefits are clear. Multi-national search and recovery teams involving a fleet of ships and search aircraft should no longer be necessary. Critical safety data could provide clues of system or structural failures much faster, making the entire air transport system safer.
Most of all, the commercial aircraft upon which we depend for transportation and economic growth need to finally enter the Information Age. Then searches for missing planes won't have to resemble the hunt for Amelia Earhart. – Guardian News & Media
> Stephen Trimble is an author and journalist on aviation issues based in Washington DC, where he manages the Americas bureau of the Flightglobal news and data services company. This article appeared in The Guardian newspaper's Comment section on March 9.
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Save My Oceans aims to educate through art, film
Published: Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 2:22 p.m.
Saturday's Slightly Stoopid and G. Love and Special Sauce concert is part of the Save My Oceans Tour, an environmental-awareness campaign that is traveling the nation and making stops at seven college campuses including the University of Florida. Eddie Donaldson, who produced the tour for Participant Media, a social-action media group, said the tour sponsors art exhibits, concerts and movie screenings at each university to draw attention to such issues as plastics pollution, overfishing, and the importance of marine protected zones.
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Save My Oceans art installation
What: Marine-life sculptures created from recycled plastic
When: Today through Friday
Where: Plaza of the Americas, in front of Library West, UF campus
Cost: Free
What: Advance screening of new documentary
When: 8 p.m. April 7
Where: Reitz Union Cinema, UF campus
Cost: Free tickets available at www.savemyoceans.com
The tour's events at UF include a display of marine-life sculptures in the Plaza of the Americas, which continues through today.
The turtle-shaped sculptures created from recycled plastic will be on display from 10 a.m. until dark and are designed to make a statement about the effects of plastics pollution on marine life.
A table manned by the Save My Oceans Tour and other environmental organizations will accompany the display and provide information about how students can help to protect the oceans.
Saturday's concert by Slightly Stoopid and G. Love and Special Sauce with Gainesville's 3rd Stone is expected to draw thousands to Flavet Field, where information about the campaign will be available as well.
The tour's stop at each school feature a concert with nationally known headlining bands organized mainly by the student government of that school.
Kyle Calhoun, vice chair of promotions for Student Government Productions at the University of Florida, said that his organization has been planning for the event since December. It's expected to be the largest free, concert project ever undertaken by UF student government with a price tag of more than $90,000.
After the concert, the final event of the Save My Oceans tour's visit to UF will feature a free, advance screening of the new environmental documentary "Oceans," set for April 7 at 8 p.m. at the Reitz Union Theater. The movie, created by Disneynature, was film using high-tech, underwater filming technology to showcase the beauty of the undersea world. It will premiere nationally in theaters on Earth Day, April 22.
Part of the proceeds from the film will be donated to create marine protected zones, and the Save My Oceans Tour was created out of support for the film and its messages. Eddie Donaldson, producer of the tour, said that the idea was to educate students about issues relating to the movie so that they would not only enjoy the film, but be inspired to action by it.
Bailey Kilbourne, a UF senior and head of the student-government-organization Gators Going Green, which was responsible for securing UF's spot on the Save My Oceans Tour, said she hopes the tour will entertain students and give them an important message to think about.
"Water is a really big part of our daily lives, and students need to start thinking about how they can make a difference," she said.
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Whether you look at the last year, the last quarter, the month or the year-to-date , the rupee is near the bottom of the heap when it comes to performance against the US dollar, with only the Brazilian real doing marginally worse.
After all, the Indian currency has weakened almost 20% since a year ago and despite RBI pumping in close to $1 billion over the past eight weeks, the rupee is testing new lows every day. From controls on exporters stashing dollars to regular market intervention, the central bank is trying everything to check further depreciation but to little avail. In Asia, the rupee is the worst performer.


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Linebacker Clayton Whitley sacked Hitchcock's quarterback, forcing a fumble recovery by Scott Rosenbaum with two minutes and twenty seconds remaining in the game to preserve the victory. The O-line again led the way for the Longhorn backs to rush for 396 yards on 61 carries. Ends Cameron Moore, Albert Gamez, Travis Walker, Robert Kerr, Lucas Rannefeld; tackles Donovan Grimes, Aaron McCabe, David Torres; guards Trey Preece, Joey Leal; and center Holden Holm dominated the line of scrimmage against a big and talented Hitchcock defense. Individual rushing leaders for the Longhorns were Shannon Taylor with 179 yards on 19 carries; Joseph Lopez with 74 yards on eight carries; Cayleb Holt with 70 yards on 12 carries; Scott Rosenbaum with 54 yards on ten carries; and Seth Pipkin with 17 yards on three carries. Colton Tindol completed three passes for 33 yards. One was to Cameron Moore for 19 yards, one was to Shannon Taylor for nine yards and one was to Albert Gamez for five yards and a TD. Tindol did throw two first-half interceptions that led to Hitchcock touchdowns.
The Wrecking Crew Defense had their hands full trying to contain the spread offense wide-open attack of Hitchcock. They were able to limit the Bulldogs to only 66 yards on 19 rushes, but the high octane passing attack of the Bulldogs led by quarterback Morris Tuck completed 14 of 28 passes for 230 yards and four touchdowns.
George West received the opening kick-off of the game and scored on their first possession on a 42-yard Cayleb Holt run. Hitchcock scored next but missed the PAT and George West led seven to six at the end of the first quarter.
Ty Jimmerson opened the second quarter with a 31-yard field goal and was also successful on five of six extra point kicks. Hitchcock then scored the next 14 points before George West added a touchdown just before halftime on a beautiful five yard pass catch by Albert Gamez from Colton Tindol. This brought the halftime score to Hitchcock 20 and George West 17.
Hitchcock scored the first touchdown of the second half and led 27 to 17. George West followed with two touchdowns. The first was on a Scott Rosenbaum two-yard run and the second on a Joseph Lopez 20-yard dash to regain the lead 30 to 27 by the end of the third quarter.
The wild fourth quarter began with Hitchcock scoring to take the lead 33 to 30. George West responded with a touchdown of their own to retake the lead at 37 to 33. On the ensuing kickoff, the Longhorn's Zane Schorp recovered a perfectly executed on-side kick and the Longhorns were able to score their final touchdown of the night on a Joseph Lopez 12-yard run.
Hitchcock scored the final touchdown of the night and a two point conversion was successful which brought the final score to 44 for the Longhorns and 41 for Hitchcock. The last five minutes of the game were loaded with fireworks as the Wrecking Crew defense forced a Hitchcock fumble, but the Longhorns returned the favor moments later with a fumble of their own. After two Hitchcock incomplete passes, Whitley's big play of the night sealed the Longhorn victory.
The hard-fought victory was at a high price. Backs Chayson Holt, Albert Gamez, and Marciano Sanchez all received injuries that make their return for the playoffs unlikely. Several other Longhorn players received various injuries, but are expected to play next week in the quarterfinal round of the playoffs against the undefeated Altair-Rice team. This third round match-up will be played Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 1 p.m. at Memorial Stadium in Victoria. This 2008 edition of the Big Blue Wrecking Crew is a special group of kids and if you aren't supporting them with your attendance at the games you don't know what you are missing. Hope to see you in Victoria to watch another Longhorn victory.


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In the early-morning hours, deputies knocked on 26-year-old Andrew Lee Scott's door without identifying themselves as law enforcement officers. Scott answered the door with a gun in his hand.
"When we knocked on the door, the door opened and the occupant of that apartment was pointing a gun at deputies, and that's when we opened fire and killed him," Lt. John Herrell said.
Unlike the man that these cops were looking for, Scott hadn't hurt anyone. He was only sleeping. Still, folks, when someone's pounding on your door at 1:30 a.m., you shouldn't be scared.
"He was pointing the gun at the deputy and if you put yourselves in the deputy's shoes. They were there to pick up someone who was wanted for an attempted homicide."
Officials said the deputies did not identify themselves because of safety reasons.
The cops can feel terrified, of course. That's sensible. Imagine that poor deputy. But if you're scared, you're asking for it.
"It's just a bizarre set of circumstances. The bottom line is, you point a gun at a deputy sheriff or police office, you're going to get shot," Herrell said.
So, to sum up: when it happens that angry people knock down your door in the middle of the night, don't you go arm yourself. That's legal suicide. Okay, got it.


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Dylan Cozens, a defensive end from Scottsdale Chaparral High School, picked Arizona over Washington and Boise State this morning.
Cozens made his pick on a live webcast on FoxSportsArizona.com.
Cozens (6-5, 235) played one only year of organized football, but his senior season production (seven sacks for the Class 5A-II state champs), his athleticism and upside intrigued major colleges.
"At first I didn't know what to expect," Chaparral teammate Cody Ippolito said of Cozens on FoxSportsArizona.com. "He just did work on the field and showed his athletic ability."
Cozens also is a baseball player of note and could be a draft pick this June.
Arizona has a big connection with Chaparral this season (and beyond) thanks to new coach Rich Rodriguez and his staff. Rodriguez, who took two of the school's best a few years ago while he was at Michigan (defensive end Craig Roh and offensive lineman Taylor Lewan) hired Firebirds coach Charlie Ragle to be on his administrative staff as a liaison for in-state recruiting.
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Benteke extra determined to help Villa break home duck
Christian Benteke is determined to repay the Villa Park faithful after admitting Saturday's clash against Newcastle was a missed opportunity.
Benteke dragged Paul Lambert's team back in to the Magpies game with a headed equaliser to cancel out Hatem Ben Arfa's first-half effort.
But it took just five minutes for Yoan Gouffran to restore Newcastle's lead, meaning Villa will now have to wait a bit longer for their first home Barclays Premier League points of the campaign.
Benteke admits the squad must share responsibility for the defeat as a group.
And the Belgian striker is determined to repay the home supporters by helping the claret and blues break their home duck.
"We feel disappointed because we are still looking for our first points at home and we got the chances to take some points but in the end we still lost the game," said Benteke.
"The fans give me a lot of confidence and I try to give them something back but sometimes it is not easy, especially when you lose.
"It is nice to score but it is a shame for the team. It is about the team and I think we deserved more if you look at our second half. But we came back with zero points and it is a shame.
"When we win it is easy to play but when we lose everybody has to take responsibility."
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According to the Jewish calendar, god created the Universe 3760 BC
Scientists claim the world was formed 15 billion years ago.
Australians now have discovered primitive life forms in Australia 3.4 Billion years ago.
China discovered Yuanmou Man that is dated 1.7 million years old or
Peking man 500,000 to 200,000 years old.
They can't all be right.
Fossil microbes give sulphur insight on ancient Earth
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
The fossils were found in sandstones found at the base of these prominent ridges
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Tiny structures found in 3.4bn-year-old sandstones in Western Australia represent some of the oldest, best preserved evidence of life on Earth.
Scientists say their analysis of the microfossils clearly shows the organisms were processing sulphur for energy and growth – not oxygen.
They report their discovery in the journal Nature Geoscience.
The team says the microbe remains offer a fascinating insight into conditions on the ancient Earth.
"At last we have good solid evidence for life over 3.4 billion years ago. It confirms there were bacteria at this time, living without oxygen," said co-researcher Professor Martin Brasier at Oxford University, UK.
"Such bacteria are still common today. Sulphur bacteria are found in smelly ditches, soil, hot springs, hydrothermal vents – anywhere where there's little free oxygen and they can live off organic matter," he explained.
The fossils were first identified in 2007 at Strelley Pool, a remote location of the Pilbara, a dry region about 60km west of Marble Bar.
Their host sandstones were laid down in what would have been a shallow-water beach or estuary.
They measure just a few millionths of a metre (microns) across and have been subjected in recent years to a series of advanced analytical techniques to probe their origin.
The scientists say they are now confident that the spheroidal and ellipsoidal forms buried in the rock are the remains of bacterial cells, along with the protective tubes that once housed them.
Parts of two tiny fossils seen with numerous crystals of pyrite
Form and behaviour are good indicators. The shape and clustering are reminiscent of bacterial cells. But more than that, the fossils are associated with tiny crystals of "fool's gold" – the pyrite mineral composed of iron and sulphur.
The types of atoms, or isotopes, present in these crystals point to the pyrite being formed as a by-product of cellular metabolism based on compounds of sulphur.
"Life likes lighter isotopes, so if you have a light signature in these minerals then it looks biological," said lead author Dr David Wacey from the University of Western Australia.
"There are ways to get the same signature without biology, but that generally requires very high temperatures. So when you put together the light isotope signature with the fact that the pyrite is right next to the microfossils – just a couple of microns away – then it really does look like there was a whole sulphur ecosystem there," he told BBC News.
At the time these microbes flourished, the Earth was an extreme place. It would have been very warm; even the water temperature of the oceans would have been about 40-50C. There would have been few large landmasses, and circulating currents would have been very strong.
A 3D reconstruction of what the microbes might have looked like
The atmosphere would probably have been rich in carbon dioxide and methane, and so the ability to "breathe" something other than oxygen would have been a major requirement for any organism. Processing sulphur would have been one route to success.
The Strelley Pool fossils are not the oldest claim for life on Earth.
Some researchers argue that rocks at Isua in Greenland show the imprint of life at least 3.75 billion years ago.
Back then, the sediments that gave rise to these rocks were also submerged. Thin layers of black sediment, separated by distinct layers of volcanic ash, look like they could be composed of the debris of ocean-dwelling microbes.
There are no fossil forms, but the nature of the carbon is consistent with the idea that it was processed by living organisms. It is a controversial claim, however.
Researchers are keen to trace the story of the first microbes on Earth, partly because it should provide clues in the hunt for possible life elsewhere in the Solar System.
A region of Mars' Northern Hemisphere known as Nili Fossae has been described – from orbital images, at least – as a "dead ringer" for Australia's Pilbara.
Nili Fossae on Mars looks from orbit like a "dead ringer" for Australia's Pilbara
It has a huge abundance of clay minerals, which are formed in the presence of water. For a while, Nili Fossae was a candidate landing site for the US space agency's Curiosity-Mars Science Laboratory rover, due to launch in November.
The location was eventually dropped in favour of Gale Crater, another site with abundant exposures of clay minerals.
The Pilbara study has demonstrated though just how difficult it is to identify ancient lifeforms, and proving the existence of fossil microbes on another planet is going to be extremely challenging.
"Some of the instruments we used can fill a whole room, but some of them can be miniaturised," said Dr Wacey. "A rover could narrow down the targets but then you'd really have to bring samples back to Earth to study them in detail."
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for the Tour of California. That would help alot and provide panoramic view of the coastline, yes?
for the Tour of California. That would help alot and provide panoramic view of the coastline, yes?
It would help just as a cut away from the palsey inflicted motocycle cameraman. The guy on the back of the bike who's been on the front of the race has been just awful. That guy can't hold his shot for anything.
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So true. My wife got motion sickness the other day thanks to that cameraman.Originally Posted by 2Rodies
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What I don't understand is why they didn't switch cameramen. The guy on stage two and three on the second bike was much better. But the lead bike cameraman just sucks. If I were directing this show I'd yanked him after stage two.
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It's not a man with a camera on the back of the motorcycle. It's a drunk monkey.
You know I was sort of wondering if it was a remotely operated camera on the lead bike in stage 1. The motion was so jerky and stop and start it sort of made sense. It would have the riders going down a straight but then when they went around a corner the camera would stay in position and film the houses and stuff...not even trying to stay on the riders. Could they have a fixed/remote camera on one of the bikes?
Oh and I agree it sucks.
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For the record (I'm sure you know this), it's not ESPN that's producing the program. THey're just selling the time to air it.
The production is done by a freelancers hired by AEG to put together the package each day.
These descents have been insane (I've been in the caravan every day. Yesterday, I was on Johan's bumper), so I'll allow the camera guys a little latitude in holding on for dear life. While there are numerous challenges to producing the program, I have to admit I'm underwhelmed by the programs.
The rumor for today's stage is that "Yes, we'll have a helicopter for Route 1 along the coast."
Let's wait and see.
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Hey I'll cut any of these guys slack on a twisty mountain road. But this guy was all over the place on a straight run into town. The thing I don't get is that the camera operator on bike two was rock solid and they still didn't switch them. I've been in this industry for a long time, even started my career as an ENG camaraman, and on just about any shoot I've ever been on this guy wouldn't have been asked to come back on day two. He just can't do it.
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Stage 4 deserves a heli cam for sure. The visuals are too stunning not to get those shots.
The only advertising i see is for Amgen and the cities that are
hosting the stages, so that may be a factor. OTOH, when
someone famous is getting married they never have a problem
finding helicopeters etc..
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Hold on Oscar prognosticators, "The Social Network" isn't a lock for Oscar just yet.
Last night, the Producers Guild Awards were handed out and this time it was "The King's Speech" that came out on top, snatching up a Best Picture win and ensuring that the Oscar race is going to be a very close one. While "The Social Network" has seemed unstoppable recently, and a clear favorite among pundits, Tom Hooper's film is far from down and out. Some have speculated that while David Fincher's film is an accomplished work, its characters are cold and not particularly likeable whereas Tom Hooper's film plays like a perfectly calibrated old-school Oscar fave: an uplifting period piece that's impeccably shot and acted. Meanwhile, in the animation and documentary categories the winners came out as expected: "Toy Story 3" and "Waiting For Superman" won their respective trophies.
The Oscar nominees will be announced on Tuesday morning and if you want an idea of who will earn recognition, the Producers Guild nominees are about as good as a forecast it gets. Check out the nominees and winners below. [GoldDerby]
"127 Hours
"Black Swan"
"The Fighter"
"The Kids Are All Right"
"The King's Speech"
"The Social Network"
"The Town"
"Toy Story 3"
"True Grit"
"Despicable Me"
"How to Train Your Dragon"
"Toy Story 3"
"Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer"
"Earth Made of Glass"
"Inside Job"
"Smashes His Camera"
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Monday media watch [22.07.13 PM]: Westwood on goals alert
Sky Sports: Ashley Westwood is relishing the chance to impress in front of the Aston Villa faithful after scoring his first goal for the club. The 23-year-old midfielder netted for Paul Lambert's men in their 2-2 friendly draw against Wycombe on Saturday. And Westwood, who impressed during a difficult 2012-13 campaign for the Midlands club, admits it would be extremely special to increase his tally in front of the raucous Holte End.
Express & Star: Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert today claimed star striker Christian Benteke won't have a problem winning back the club's supporters. The Belgium international is waiting to return to playing after his astonishing transfer U-turn having returned to pre-season training last week. He was given 10 extra days leave and had a transfer request lodged when he came back on Thursday but, on Friday, signed a new double-your-money four-year contract.
Clubcall: Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert is keen to move on following Christian Benteke's decision to sign a new deal at Villa Park. Benteke had seemed set to depart earlier in the summer but has since performed a U-turn by signing an improved four-year deal, worth a reported £56,000-a-week. Lambert now hopes to move on after the 22-year-old Belgian withdrew a transfer request and has called on the fans to show the striker their support.
Express & Star: Aston Villa have added another two to their injured list after strikers Andreas Weimann and Jordan Bowery were hurt in Saturday's friendly at Wycombe. Weimann left in the first-half of the 2-2 draw nursing his ribs after he tumbled over the outstretched leg of Wycombe defender Charles Dunne, while Bowery's exit near the end left Villa with 10 men. Weimann re-appeared in the dugout after the break but was in pain with Villa boss Paul Lambert revealing the forward hurt his back and hip, which will sideline him for "the next few weeks or so." Bowery was also sporting his back when he trudged off, while full-back Joe Bennett missed the game after picking up a knock to his calf in training on Friday.
Clubcall: Aston Villa striker Andreas Weimann has suffered a hip injury in pre-season and faces around two weeks on the sidelines. Weimann suffered the blow during the first half of Villa's 2-2 friendly with Wycombe on Saturday. Boss Paul Lambert admits he is unsure as to how long Weimann would be out of action for but remains hopeful it is not too serious, although the injury could potentially put him in doubt for Villa's opening Premier League fixture at Arsenal on August 17.
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BBC Sport: Manchester United have made a second bid for Barcelona and Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas. United confirmed a £25m offer for the 26-year-old last Monday and have increased that to £30m plus add-ons, with executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward leading negotiations.
Sky Sports: Brendan Rodgers has confirmed Luis Suarez is in 'great spirits' after arriving in Australia and has reiterated there is nothing to consider about the striker's Liverpool future until an offer that meets the club's valuation is made.
BBC Sport: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan says signing another striker is his top transfer priority this summer. The Hammers spent a club record £15m on Andy Carroll last month but still want to boost their attacking options.
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USS HARRY S. TRUMAN, At Sea (NNS) -- Singer and actress Jessica Simpson visited USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Oct. 1 during the ship's current deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
The visit, sponsored by Navy Entertainment and the United Services Organization (USO), included several autograph sessions, meals with the crew, and a performance in the ship's hangar bay.
During her visit, eight Truman Sailors and Marines performed for Jessica and several hundred of their shipmates for the chance to perform a duet with her at the Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting in November.
The eight Sailors had been selected to sing based on the results of their audition during the carrier's "Truman Idol" talent search, a program modeled after the popular TV show.
Although temperatures in the hangar bay reached well into the upper 90s, the gifted singers had no trouble singing Jessica's special request song: "I'll be Home for Christmas".
"When I auditioned for her I was nervous at first," said Yeoman Seaman Marshondra Miller, the contest runner-up. "After a little while, I realized that she's a person too, so I became more comfortable. I had a really good time singing in front of her, and she gave all the singers nothing but compliments."
Aviation Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class John Britt, USS Harry S. Truman Air department, V-2 division, emerged as the contest winner. Britt's wife and child will be accompanying him to New York to watch his performance and share the experience.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I'm honored to be part of it," said Britt. "I'm excited to be able to represent Truman, as well as the entire Navy. My family and shipmates are proud of me, and I couldn't ask for anything better."
Britt's duet with Jessica will also be featured in her upcoming Christmas album.
"She knows the sacrifices the military men and women are making on behalf of their country, and she wants to do what she can in return," said Joe Simpson, Jessica's father and manager. "She's proud to be able to sing with someone fighting for our freedom."
Capt. Craig Clapperton, USS Harry S. Truman executive officer, said he was honored to have Jessica on board as a guest, and felt she boosted the crew's morale with her heartfelt appreciation of their professionalism and service.
"I got to get my picture taken with her," said Operations Specialist Seaman Jeroy Williams. "It was really amazing to meet a celebrity. She's a lot prettier in real life, but she's shorter than I thought she'd be. She was really nice to everybody, and I'm really glad I was able to meet her."
During a performance in the ship's hangar bay, Jessica thanked the hundreds of Sailors and Marines for their service and shared love of country and sang "God Bless America."
"I've never meet anybody famous before," said Operation Specialist Seaman Alison Wagner. "It's really great that she took the time to come out here to visit us while we were deployed. It definitely lifted my spirits and made me feel a lot better being on deployment."
During a tour of the ship, Jessica also participated in a 50 cal. gun shoot, served as a helmsman on the bridge, and spoke to the crew on the 1-MC. Although she enjoyed everything during her visit, her favorite part, she said, was meeting the crew members.
"I've been on many USO trips," she said, "and I always enjoy sitting and talking with service members. To be on board Truman has been a blessing. I've met so many amazing people, and everybody has been so welcoming and made me feel like I'm at home. I can't express enough how much I appreciate the sacrifices you make for our country."
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San Diego-based XIFIN, which develops cloud-based financial software for the healthcare industry, has acquired Irvine-based PathCentral, a developer of software for the pathology community, the company announced Thursday afternoon. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to XIFIN, it acquired the product and service assets and related intellectual property of PathCentral in the deal. PathCentral had been venture backed by Arboretum Ventures, Baird Venture Partners, and Okapi Venture Capital. XIFIN's investors include Boulder Ventures, Enterprise Partners, and Windward Ventures.
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Currently have a Domino 5.5 on IBM OS/2, yes that's OS/2. I'm running LDAP on port 389. Server is up and running in production. When running the migration tool version 22.214.171.124 for domino, I can connect to my Zimbra server but when I try to connect to the Domino server I get "Unable to bind to LDAP server. PCANotes at port 389. Error Code :0x51.Server Down"
Any clues to what may be wrong with the Domino LDAP server that would throw this error ?