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Mickey Drexler, CEO of privately held retailer J. Crew, appeared in an interview on CNBC September 13 as part of Fashion Week in New York. Discussing the state of retail, Drexler suggested that there are "too many retailers, too many brands, too many designers, and too many discount stores." Amen to that, brother! America could lose half the retailers operating today and it wouldn't skip a beat. In fact, we'd be much better off. Who should disappear from the retail landscape? I'll offer up a short list of candidates.
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Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF), American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO), and Aeropostale (NYSE:ARO) have a combined total of almost 3,000 stores in the United States, each possessing a similar number of locations. All three companies market to the same younger demographic. It's these kinds of stores that boosted the fortunes of retailers like Chico's (NYSE:CHS), Ann Taylor and even J. Crew. Adults over the age of 30 no longer want to shop in places that cater to high school or university students. They want clothes that make them look good without feeling as though they're 12. Given Abercrombie's sexist past, I don't think the world would miss it.
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This next one is a classic Mitt Romney, private equity kind of situation. Body Central (Nasdaq:BODY), a Florida-based specialty retailer was acquired by Westview Capital Partners and other investors on Oct. 1, 2006. The founders (the Rosenbaum family) kept a 17.3% minority stake in the company. As is typical with private equity deals, Body Central had no debt prior to the acquisition and $50 million three months later. By the time it went public at $13 a share on Oct. 14, 2010, it had whittled the debt down to $31.5 million. Its stock hit $25 by May 2011 and went over $30 as recently as April 2012. Then the wheels fell off the bus.
On May 4 it forecast full-year results that were substantially below analysts' expectations; the shares lost 49% of their value that day on the news and another 39% since. What started out as an isolated incident has turned into an operational nightmare that's seen the former CEO, Allen Weinstein, retire. So low was its stock at the end of June that my value radar got the better of me and I recommended Investopedia readers take a look. It might still recover under new management but clearly the damage has been done. Meanwhile, Westview Capital Partners has moved on, selling most of its shares between $13 and $17 for a decent, if not spectacular, return. Body Central spent five years in bankruptcy protection in the mid-1990s. I don't think it will survive a second trip to bankruptcy court. Perhaps we're all better off if it just went away.
Dead As a Dinosaur
It seems like only yesterday that RadioShack (NYSE:RSH) was bragging about its "The Shack" moniker. Today, it's on life support. The ailing electronics retailer launched the fateful branding campaign Aug. 6, 2009. Since then its stock lost 82% of its value. RadioShack bondholders now must pay $3.8 million for a credit default swap to protect $10 million in notes, up from slightly less than $1 million in January. It has an 84% chance of defaulting on the notes within five years. Both Kodak (OTC:EKDKQ) and AMR (OTC:AAMRQ) hit that number within six months of filing for bankruptcy. Given the fact that Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) is also fighting what many think is a losing battle, isn't it time "The Shack" be retired? I mean, do we really need another tired electronics retailer? I don't think so.
Discount Stores
One of Drexler's points in his CNBC interview was that there are too many discount stores. He was actually referring to the fact that retailers discount too heavily, but when you look at the discount store industry itself, he's unknowingly highlighted the obvious - Americans spend too much money on junk. In the last 12 months, Dollar General (NYSE:DG), Family Dollar Stores (NYSE:FDO) and Dollar Tree (Nasdaq:DLTR) generated $31.7 billion in combined revenue. That's about five times the sales of Ralph Lauren (NYSE:RL). Considering all three sell their merchandise at less than $10 an item, we're buying a bunch of things we don't need. If people spent a little more time worrying about the price they pay for a new car or home and less time seeking out a good deal on Post-It notes, the country might be in better shape financially. With Walmart (NYSE:WMT), Target (NYSE:TGT) and Costco (Nasdaq:COST) already providing reasonable prices, these other stores are simply overkill.
The Bottom Line
Some might think Drexler's comments are self-serving. After all, if there's less competition, there's more business for J. Crew. Mickey is 68 years old, however, and not as prone to hyperbole as someone in his or her early 30s. No, Drexler is spot on. Many of today's retailers wouldn't be missed if they went to retail heaven. Hopefully this will happen sooner rather than later.
At the time of writing, Will Ashworth did not own shares in any of the companies mentioned in this article.


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June 1, 2016
The Lauderdale County Board of Supervisors has granted a request to significantly lower the tax appraisal of the Super Wal-Mart property for tax year 2001.
Several weeks ago, Andrew Mattiace, told supervisors the appraisal was too high. The board Monday approved the request 4-1.
"To go back now and assess the value as it is now is a whole different ball game," said board president Craig Hitt of District 3, who opposed the change.
"I feel like we need to be developer-friendly in this area," said District 1's Hank Florey, who voted to lower the appraisal. "These are outside dollars being fused into our local economy and we need more of it."
The board action reduced Mattiace's county, city and school taxes by $143,000.
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Tougher Texting While Driving Laws Kick In July 1
The first of July will bring new laws that crack down on texting while driving and DUI. Texting behind the wheel will be a primary offense, meaning an officer can pull you over if you're seen doing it. Sunni Brown of the DMV says a DUI becomes a felony if a driver has already been convicted of some other charges that result in injuries.


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Delhi has a savior in Tata Power. The company's arm, Tata Power Delhi Distribution, plans to launch a unique rooftop solar initiative that will allow residents of north Delhi to produce solar power and even sell it to the discom at a profit if they have a surplus or do not wish to use it.
The plan, which would be voluntary, involves setting up of small capacity solar (photovoltaic) panels on rooftops. Starting with 1 kw, such installations can go up to a few megawatts.
These would then be converted into power stations that are permitted two-way flow of electricity (between consumers and discoms and back) with the use of micro controllers.
This is a unique initiative that we are planning to launch sometime next year after completion of a US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) funded study. The idea is to create 200 mw of this capacity in three to four years time, said TPDDL CEO and executive director Praveer Sinha.
He said that the company would facilitate the entire process by tying up with solar PV vendors and also approach the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) to fix tariff for power produced from these consumer driven solar panels.
The company is also looking at some subsidy from the state government for consumers interested in participating in the scheme. The Centre currently provides 30% capital subsidy for solar installations and also investors get accelerated depreciation benefits.
A 1 kw of solar PV installation roughly costs between Rs 70,000 to 80,000 and generates 4 to 5 units a day. Such installations take up roof space of about 10 to 12 square metres. If TPDDL plans to produce 200 mw of solar power under this route, it will have to get close to 2 lakh consumers on board for the 1 kw PV panels. The numbers could be lower on bigger capacity solar PV panels.
Sinha said that all rooftop PV systems could have a single bi-directional meter to measure the import and export of electricity. Consumers could be charged on the net consumption of at the end of the billing cycle. In case a consumer is a net generator and exporter, he/she can be paid for such supplies at tariff determined by the regulator. The regulator could either have separate tariff for solar power generated by domestic and commercial consumers or could


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About five years ago, The Droppers began playing for their own personal entertainment. Joe Puccio (vocals/guitar) and Mike Fitzgerald (drummer) are two original members who have aided in the band's musical identity. Two years after the founding, Ramsey Sindaha, a.k.a. Dr. Shred, (lead guitarist) joined the band.Read more...
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I can't seem to find the answer to this. I have a Windows 7 (64bit) machine that is a company laptop. Company policy is very strict about adding machines to the network. I need to run a Linux server to do some Rails development.
Anyway, what I would like to do is have the
Ubuntu 11 guest use my laptop as it's internet gateway. So that
corp only sees my one allowed IP address.
How can I do this?
I don't know why this was closed and down-voted. I have explicit permission from the IT network manager to use VirtualBox. I am just not allowed to have an additional IP from the network router because they are scarce with the amount of equipment we have.
In fact, here is the exact email I sent to him:
So I have this new Windows laptop. I'm connecting to the wireless just fine.
I would like to run this program called VirtualBox which is an open source
virtual environment similar to VMWare. On this, I would like to run a Linux server.
Well, all's working but then I noticed my Linux server got its own IP address
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What is the official position on this? I can configure the VirtualBox to share
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I imagine this is the way to go?
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Preventing crime by solving it.
In an average year in California, over one thousand homicides go unsolved – 46% of homicide cases are never closed – and 56% of reported rapes go unsolved. Killers walk our streets free and threaten our safety, while we spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a select few who are already behind bars forever on death row. These resources would be better spent on violence prevention and education, to keep our families safe.
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Fill county probation positions
The public usually sees the front end of the criminal justice system - arrests and court proceedings. But the back end - prison administration, probation and parole - usually flies below the radar unless something goes wrong.
Last week Lackawanna County Judge Vito Geroulo, a member of the county prison board, offered an early warning about the potential for things to go wrong on the back end of the system.
Due to the resignations of just two county probation officers in July and early August, caseloads for the remaining 11 officers have risen to as many as 150 each. That has all sorts of implications.
As office director Thomas Early put it to the prison board, such a caseload is "just exceedingly beyond the reach of any individual officer."
The high number of cases resulting from the departure of just two staffers also indicates that the caseloads are too high to begin with. According to Mr. Early, each officer already was handling 80 or more cases before the resignations.
Several officials at different points along the corrections continuum noted that a reduced staff, counterintuitively, could increase costs.
Mr. Early said the caseloads almost guarantee overtime requests, especially when the relatively slow summer court season ends.
And prison Warden Robert McMillan said the high probation caseloads slow processing and actually keep some people in prison longer than they have to be there, which is bad policy as a matter of principle, and also expensive.
County Chief of Staff Maria Elkins said after the meeting that discussions have begun to fill the vacancies. Once that happens, the commissioners should extend the conversation to ensure that probation staffing ensures justice, economy and efficiency for the courts, the prison, the convicted and taxpayers.
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In February, Warner Bros. purchased the movie rights to all 11 volumes of the Fletch novel series written by the late author Gregory MacDonald, and they're finally getting to work on their first installment.
Of course, audiences are more familiar with the character of investigative reporter Irwin M. Fletcher because of the 1985 adaptation of Fletch, based on the first of MacDonald's novels and starring Chevy Chase as the incorrigible title character. Warners doesn't plan to remake the original movie, but rather "re-imagine" the movie, and the first order of business was to hire Seinfeld writer and Curb Your Enthusiasm producer and director David Mandel. The move seems to say that the studio is looking to highlight the comedic aspects of the books, though reportedly Warners is looking to "make a smart action comedy that plays out on a bigger canvas than the previous movies."
Whether the next Fletch movie will start by adapting the first MacDonald novel or with a later novel is unknown, though the 1985 original liberally borrowed dialogue from MacDonald's novel, and starting from that point would seem to be more along the lines of a remake and not the "re-imaging" that Warners reportedly wants to make.
Mandel could choose to start with MacDonald's 1985 novel Fletch Won, the eighth novel in the series that went back to the early days of Fletch's career, though both writer/director Kevin Smith and producer Bill Lawrence separately attempted to adapt the novel into a movie and both projects languished instead.


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I passed this today with a score of 96% with approx 1 hour and 20 minutes left on the clock :-
From memory – there were a lot of questions that were identical when I sat it a year ago.
For example there was still a question in there on position preference which has long since ceased to exist, and a question on the stand alone keyword tool which as far as I know is no longer available…
There were a couple of new questions, but if you use AdWords on a daily basis, and have a fair idea of what Google want you to regurgitate you should find it easy. (Hint – you will *never* *ever* be charged for invalid clicks – and if you do ever get charged for any – then they were almost certainly not invalid clicks and merely people doing 'comparison shopping' or else an ISP who has assigned the same IP address to more than one person..)


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A few years ago the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams suggested in an interview that "elements" of shari'a law could "possibly" be incorporated into the juridical practice of the UK, with its substantial Muslim population. Despite being uttered while the politically correct Labour party was in power, Williams' words created a furore that for a brief moment united conservative Anglicans, Catholics, Jews, atheists and even some Muslims in opposition. Introducing religious dogma into what is essentially neutral civic law can have far-reaching consequences – and tear society apart.
Now the Russian Orthodox Church seems to have landed in a situation similar to the one the Archbishop of Canterbury found himself in – but in a much more difficult context. It is already embroiled in a controversy surrounding the arrest of three young female rock musicians who tried to perform what they termed a punk prayer entitled "Holy Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!" in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral.
As if that was not enough, a new scandal has now erupted. Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, who is chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations Between the Church and Society, said in an interview that he supports introduction in Russia of shari'a law and of laws drawn from other faiths. He said that in fifty years' time this will be the norm in Russia and the EU.
Chaplin was reacting to incendiary statements made on a TV talk show by Dagir Khasavov, a Chechen Muslim lawyer, who happens to work as a legal advisor for the Russia's upper house of parliament. "If shari'a is not introduced, we'll make the streets of the cities run with blood," Khasavov shouted during a heated exchange in the studio.
For a Christian cleric to support shari'a is a bizarre thing to do at the very least. It flies in the face of Christian practices and ideas (acceptance of polygamy in Islam is but one major difference). Many Russians are generally suspicious of Islam and Muslims, despite having lived side by side with them for hundreds of years. The church's official stance is that Islam is its natural ally in a fight against "godless liberalism."
However, it is one thing for the patriarch and the bishops to state that all of Russia's "traditional" religions share their views on abortion, pre-marital sex and euthanasia. It is something else entirely for a leading church representative to call for a radical overhaul of Russia's legal system.
In a twist of irony, one of Russia's best-known imams criticised Chaplin's suggestions. He said that religiously neutral law ensures everyone's equality before the law. Chaplin's musings on the usefulness of shari'a follow a previous proposal to introduce an "Orthodox dress code" for Russia and assertions that Mozart was a mediocre composer.
This could have been written off as one eccentric's views. However, he is one of the most famous priests in Russia (if 'fame' is an appropriate word here) and in the eyes of the public he speaks for the whole church.
His remarks provoked a firestorm. Intellectuals accuse the church of intending to turn Russia into an Orthodox version of Saudi Arabia. Gay activists, who have been repeatedly refused the right to stage gay pride parades in Moscow, compare the situation to Nazi persecution of homosexuals. Atheists claim that in some Russian regions being "outed" as a non-believer could result in ostracism at work.
The church, in its turn, says it is under attack from aggressive secularists who want to marginalize Christianity and make it just another lifestyle choice. When it comes to religion, the atmosphere in the educated segments of Russian society borders on the hysterical and accusations on both sides of the invisible barricade verge on the grotesque.
And yet public opinion surveys show the Russian Orthodox Church and Patriarch Kirill enjoy popularity ratings between 60 and 70 percent – something most European churches could only dream of. At the same time although up to 80 percent of Russian citizens describe themselves as Orthodox, only 65 percent say they believe in God, and fewer than 10 percent partake in communion and go to church at least once a month. In the absence of distinct post-imperial identity Orthodox Christianity turns out to be the only spiritual tradition and cultural phenomenon that defines the elusive quality of "Russianness" – without necessarily making people closer to Christian ideals of love, humility, charity and spiritual freedom.
Polls conducted by Public Opinion Foundation for the sociological research group Sreda (Habitat) show a slow but steady growth of indifference toward the church in Russia. And this trend is most visible among educated and well off urbanites and young people.
"This is a dangerous symptom which usually serves as a precursor of future crisis", says Alina Bagrina, who heads Sreda. These people are not anti-Christian, she said, but rather do not see the Russian Orthodox Church as responsive to their spiritual needs.
While the church leaders are content with high popularity figures, they see no need to engage in a conversation with the critically minded intelligentsia. They largely prefer to stay within the confines of their comfort zone and adopt the "Pay, pray and obey" attitude towards laity. This may prove to be a costly mistake.
Russia is an urbanized society. Seventy-five percent of the population lives in the cities, and at least half of that in cities with a population of over one million people. Urban intellectuals and business people, although a minority, form public opinion, attitudes, and lifestyle trends. For the church not to engage with these truly "new Russians" means nothing less than remaining on the sidelines as this monumental process shapes Russia's new identity.
But it is still not too late. Just as the Roman Catholic Church used Dan Brown's anti-Catholic "Da Vinci Code" to tell the world about itself, the Russian Orthodox Church could use this recent wave of mostly adverse public interest to its benefit – by opening up to society and starting a conversation with it, rather than sticking with the monologue it has preferred until now.
The views expressed in this article are the author's and may not necessarily represent those of RIA Novosti.
What is Russia's place in this world? Unashamed and unreconstructed Atlanticist, Konstantin von Eggert believes his country to be part and parcel of the "global West." And while this is a minority view in Russia, the author is prepared to fight from his corner.
Konstantin Eggert is a commentator and host for radio Kommersant FM, Russia's first 24-hour news station. In the 1990s he was Diplomatic Correspondent for "Izvestia" and later the BBC Russian Service Moscow Bureau Editor. Konstantin has also spent some time working as ExxonMobil Vice-President in Russia. He was made Honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
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Dr. Joseph Giacchino Defrauded The Department Of Justice For The Outfit
Posted on 17. Jun, 2010 by Joseph Fosco in Organized Crime
In the first week of July 2002, Chicago Outfit Underboss, Nicholas J. "Buddy" Ciotti, Jr., was released from FCI Oxford Camp. Then Ciotti was known as inmate number 11728-424.
As a condition of his release from Oxford, Ciotti was ordered to spend at least one month in the halfway program at the Salvation Army building on Ashland Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. However, on his way to the Salvation Army, Ciotti made contact with Rudy Fratto and Willie Messino, Sr., in order to obtain a huge favor from their trusted associate, Joseph L. Giacchino, Jr.
The favor was granted by Fratto and Messino. Ciotti was cleared to meet with Giacchino to get what he wanted.
Upon meeting with Giacchino, Ciotti paid Giacchino 25-thousand dollars in cash. Giacchino said it had to go to Fratto and Messino, but who really knows where it went. In exchange for the money, Ciotti received a doctor's note from Giacchino. With this note Ciotti was able to leave the Salvation Army for approximately 12-hours a day over nearly the entire month that he was ordered to reside there.
Where was he supposed to be spending these 12-hours? Would you believe under the doctors care? Well, that was certainly what Giacchino and his Outfit friends wanted the Federal Bureau of Prisons to believe. Giacchino masterminded a way to use an earlier medical aliment that Ciotti suffered from 6-months earlier as a reason Giacchino would need to treat Ciotti for over 300-hours during the month of July 2002.
The note was extremely vague and did not make much sense. However, the ambitious and hard-working employees of the Salvation Army (in connection with the Federal Bureau of Prisons) seemed to buy it without any problem, just as Giacchino suspected.
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Having cancer is a traumatizing experience in itself, but losing ones' hair makes the experience that much more difficult.
This wonderful organization gave me several knitted caps in my time of need. I was not only relieved of the insecurity that I was feeling, I was also comforted by the fact that there were individuals that really cared for cancer patients like me. This organization has used thousands and thousands of balls of Lion Brand Wool Ease, which helps a great deal with the quality and soft comfort of each cap.
These beautiful "chemo. caps" are made by generous volunteers who give their time and hard work to this project/ Headed by founder, Jenny Carp, Knitting Pals By The Bay has fifty volunteers who have created over four thousand caps for cancer patients across the San Francisco Bay area.
The project is on-going and the volunteers, or Pals, as they like to be called, consider their contributions as a gift from the heart. Many knit full-time and make each and every cap as if they were making it for themselves. The color, style, and craftsmanship of each "chemo. cap" is equal to a knitted cap that one would find in a fine department store, which makes a wonderful gift to a cancerpatient in need, and the need is tremendous.
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Voting rights still uncertain
The notion that America has resolved discrimination at the polls is laughable, yet the Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case that could eliminate the principal protection for millions of voters.
In a case from Alabama, plaintiffs seek an end to the protections under the Voting Rights Act. The 2012 presidential election, however, demonstrated why the law remains essential.
Part of the law requires states with histories of discriminatory voting laws to obtain Justice Department approval before implementing any major changes. Just last year, the DOJ rejected Texas' effort to implement a voter identification law and Florida's effort to eliminate early voting, which likely would have disenfranchised many poor minority voters.
The 15th Amendment, ratifiedin 1870, ensures the vote for all citizens. Its Section 2 states: "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
That would be the Voting Rights Act. Congress passed it in 1965, extended it for 25 years in 1982 and for another 25 years in 2006. Less than seven years ago, Congress compiled a vast record of voting rights abuses and voted overwhelmingly - 390-33 in the House and 98-0 in the Senate, to extend the act to 2032.
Since 2006, there have multiple efforts to restrict the franchise. The Supreme Court should accept Congress' judgment and keep the law in place to ensure that the 15th Amendment remains more than mere words.
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'Catastrophic' web security flaw exposes passwords, private data
Major internet companies like Yahoo and Amazon scrambled to update their networks this week after security researchers discovered a critical flaw that could expose user emails, passwords, and other sensitive data. The flaw involves a coding error in an encryption standard called OpenSSL that is used by half a million websites.
OpenSSL employs an encryption key to scramble and decode passwords and other critical information sent over the internet for services like online banking, email, and instant messaging. Users can normally tell that a website is using encryption if they see a small padlock displayed in their browser.
But on Monday, a team of researchers from Google and cybersecurity firm Codenomicon revealed that, for some websites, that padlock may have been faulty for the past two years. Using some malicious code, a hacker could have intercepted email passwords, usernames, online banking credentials, trade secrets, and other critical data from websites using OpenSSL.
Since the attack would leave no trace, experts say they have no idea which websites may have been hacked—if any—or how many people may have been affected.
"You are likely to be affected either directly or indirectly," they wrote, nicknaming the problem the "Heartbleed" bug. "Your popular social site, your company's site, commerce site, hobby site, site you install software from, or even sites run by your government might be using vulnerable OpenSSL."
On Tuesday, multiple Web services announced they had either fixed the problem or were in the process of doing so. Yahoo said it was working on patching the flaw across its web properties, including Flickr and Tumblr. (Earlier, researchers demonstrated how they could exploit Heartbleed to extract dozens of Yahoo user passwords.) Amazon Web Services, Google, and Facebook said they had fixed the issue. However, there is no way to tell whether sensitive data has been stolen in the past.
To fix the Heartbleed flaw, web technicians simply need to upload the latest, patched version of OpenSSL. Since the vulnerability left open the possibility that a hacker could have stolen an encryption key, allowing him to decrypt past data sent over some websites, experts advised websites to update their security keys as well. They also advised website users to change their passwords—but only after the Heartbleed bug has been patched.
"We have no evidence of any breach and, like most networks, our team took immediate action to fix the issue," wrote the Tumblr staff on Tuesday. "This might be a good day to call in sick and take some time to change your passwords everywhere."
Jonathan Bailie, a Web administrator for WORLD, told me the organization hadn't identified any security vulnerability to members on its network. "We do not store financial information on our website," he said.
At least one expert speculated Wednesday morning that government intelligence workers might have made use of the bug. "At this point, the odds are close to one that every target has had its private keys extracted by multiple intelligence agencies," wrote security researcher Bruce Schneier. "'Catastrophic' is the right word. On a scale of one to 10, this is an 11."
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htaccess combined: http://www.htaccesstools.com/htaccess-authentication/ & http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/That'll
block any access to a restricted set of users.
Quote Scramble:What's the
website? World United Paranoid Conspiracy Theorists?If you're worried about
someone guessing the filename just give it a hard-to-guess name.
Quote Scramble:It might be nice
to trust your bandmates. You know, to promote band harmony and all that.
Quote OneWorld:Yep, thanks, that
seems to make more sense, only a logged in user could do a guesswork search on a filename?
eg........www.mysite.com/directory.phpSo each php page on the
website would begin with a sessionid check and if that is empty then the user is
redirected to login page?eg...login at index.php sessionid[1]
=> directory.php if sessionid[1] esle if sessionid[] then index.php?Anyway I think I get it now and seems a much safer way of doing things, thanks
Quote Neokoenig:Whilst it's not
a glamorous solution (and your data protection policy may prevent it) - many people have
solved this issue simply with a shared Google spreadsheet
Quote fieldrecords:By the sound
of it you just need to set a variable in session and if it is not set redirect to a page
that tells the user that they are not logged in. You could also look at a CRM
like Sugar which has a free version and will give you lots of functionality.
Quote OneWorld:Has no one ever
got round to telling you - don't come to conclusions based on assumptions. The site has
nothing to do with bandmates, it is a completely separate venture relating to a charitable
cause I am volunteering for and privacy is a profound issue.
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Tat looks really odd on a xc bike. It would look even odder with a bigring.
Nice buy anyways. Those are nice cranks.
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I just scored a set for my SS/fixie hardtail for $180, the double like yours. They look extremely funny on an XC hardtail but it was a killer deal compared to the MSRP. Plus now that the little ring is removed they made an excellent crankset for my SS Trek. I could have gone lighter but most of my drivetrain is gone anyway. Also I use this bike as my all-mountain SS and it sees some light urban riding when I'm bored on campus between classes so I wanted a stout crankset. The strength to wheight ratio is what sold me, a bit heavier but, man, are they bullet proof.
Wow sick cranks, but they really do not fit your bike...your probaly better off just giving them to me.
thats cool... man those are so fat
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When it comes to education, few days in recent years could rival last Thursday, when the state learned in the morning that it is a "Race to the Top" finalist and the Kentucky House voted overwhelmingly that afternoon to begin raising the high school drop-out age from 16 to 18.
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Wednesday, March 10
Children's Story and Craft hour every Wednesday from 10 to 11 a.m. at Pleasureville Christian Church. Also, the community library at the church is open to the public.
The Henry County Middle School SBDM Council will meet in the conference room at 4:30 p.m.
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Free adult scrapbooking offered at the Eminence Community Life Center from 10 a.m. until noon on Thursdays.
Alicia D. Heimback, 33, Pleasureville, to Donald S. Brown, 35, Pleasureville.
Lawren C. Pettit, 35, Smithfield, to Larry W. Heitzman Jr., 31, Smithfield.
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Gary Dees, 595 Main Street, Pleasureville, 2/13, Garage, fee $86, value $5,100.
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Today, she runs around with other children her age, but just over a year ago, life was very different for one young Port Royal resident.
For nine-year-old Shyann Quickert, the migraines started in 2008.
When medication failed to relieve the debilitating headaches after three months, Quickert's family doctor suggested an MRI.
Alone with Shyann in a room at Louisville's Kosair Children's Hospital, Cheryl Quickert said four doctors walked in to deliver the news.
On Saturday, March 13, 2010, a benefit for 9 year old Shyann Quickert will be held at the Henry County Fairgrounds. Shyann has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The benefit will be from 4 to 9 p.m and will include a live auction, raffle items, door prizes and The Longshot Band will entertain. The cost is only $5 and will include a bowl of chili, hot dog and a drink. Desserts will also be available for sale. For further information contact Karen Phillips at (502) 321-9230 or Tracy Kemper at (502) 667-0208.
The New Castle Festivals Committee will have a bazaar from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, April 17, as a fund raiser for the festivals. The bazaar will be held in the Locker on South Main Street in New Castle. We will have arts and crafts, flea markets, antiques and yard sale booths. This coincides with the annual yard sales on Kentucky 55.
Trying to bring a more consistent approach to the Henry County track program with a long-term focus, Sedrick Williams has taken over the reigns as the head coach.
Williams, who was born in North Carolina but raised in New York, was officially given the position in October. He started coaching the squad on Feb. 22 with the first meet scheduled for next Thursday at Carroll County.
Shanna D. Stivers, 46, New Castle, to Kamlesh C. Dave, 49, New Castle.
Rita Carol Marsh, 59, Campbellsburg, to Phillip Wayne Brown, 59, Campbellsburg.
Daphne R. Wirth, 39, Pleasureville, to Christopher J. Banks, 47, Pleasureville.
Property Transfers
The City of New Castle, by and through Mayor Judylee V. Diederich, to Henry County Public Schools. Property in New Castle; $10,000.
In a vote of the 8th Region's basketball coaches, Henry County High School seniors Connor Jeffries and Kelsey Mings were named to the All-Region Teams which were announced early Monday morning.
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Speaker Larry Leifer and Jan Chong
Affiliation Stanford Center for Design Research, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
Host Jim Larus, John Spencer
Duration 01:22:40
Date recorded 20 March 2006
Several academic and industry studies have documented substantial improvements in code design and defect rate when programs are written by pairs of programmers (two people working shoulder-to-shoulder at a single computer) versus individual programmers working independently (solo). Collateral benefits are reported to include improved morale and project knowledge shared efficiently across the development team in a manner that improves productivity in subsequent development cycle.
In our initiative to better understand and manage pair-programming phenomena, this study examines professional pair-programming practices in detail to understand when, how, and when pair programming is most effective. The presentation shares preliminary findings from Phase-1 of the project, a six month ethnographic observation of professional programmers working in pairs using eXtreme Programming software development methodology. Based on fieldwork, we present six hypotheses about the social and cognitive mechanisms that appear to drive pair programming success. We also present the design of a controlled lab experiment under development to test the hypotheses. We are particularly eager to discuss the findings and refine forthcoming experiments.
Pair Programming Re-Design will be presented from the design-thinking-research perspective of the new Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (the d.school). An introduction to the d.school is included.
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Tonight is shaping up to be a big one for Drake. After snagging the Best Rap Album Grammy for Take Care, he released a hilarious visual for his song "Started From The Bottom." In it, Drake shows how far he's come from being a shop clerk to vacationing with scantily-clad ladies in a mansion. The he topped that off by revealing the title of his third album.
Like his "HYFR" video, the Little X-helmed clip keeps it close to Drake's October's Very Own family, with guest appearances from producer 40, friends OB O'Brien and Ryan Silverstein and even Drizzy's mom.
While on the Grammy red carpet, Drake also revealed that he has a title for his new album, Nothing Was The Same. From the sounds of it, the album will be retrospective and likely emo. Fans on Twitter were divided on the title itself. "KINDA UNDERWHELMING AUBREY" said a fan while another threw in " Shoot me now please -__-" Regardless of title, Twitter was overwhelming excited for the new effort from the rapper. "I'm amped for Nothing Was The Same to drop!," tweeted a fan and " Looking forward to it" said another.
Drake wasn't present to give an acceptance speech when he won his first Grammy award ever at the pre-televised event in Los Angeles tonight."I dropped a new video about 20 minutes ago. We won a Grammy for Best Rap Album," the Young Money MC told MTV News correspondent Sway Calloway as he walked the red carpet.


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In addition to the above, the Prevention and Planning Unit develops and submits applications in response to program announcements on behalf of the Division of Behavioral Healthcare Services. The Unit also conducts annual surveys of youth access to tobacco products and semi-annual surveys of youth access to alcohol beverages.
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Renewable energy solutions to remote areas. Renewable energy system rentals, solar water pumping, ...
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ISEC's Farm Project, a month-long experiential education program, offers participants the opportunity to immerse themselves in this ancient culture, while gaining a deeper understanding of the economic, environmental and psychological costs of the global economy.
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Supports grassroots groups working for environmental justice and sustainability around the world. Our grants fund grassroots action in some of the worlds most despoiled and impoverished places.
Today, less than 2% of U.S. giving supports projects outside U.S. borders. This means that over 96% of humanity, including most of the world's poorest and neediest people, are denied access to the largest pool of philanthropic capital in the world. This is nuts.
The mission of the Wallace Global Fund is to catalyze and leverage critically needed global progress towards an equitable and environmentally sustainable society.
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Improve the environment by promoting waste recycling activities in the country. Conduct research, experiments on solid waste management, recycling, clinical and hazardous waste management, waste water treatment and organic farming,...
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If we're not yet sure whether we want to go with Option 1 or Option 2, I would think we'd want to go with a discussion paper. Steve Kelley (CC:DA) 7/23/2013
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Tinted and toned as colour content:
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Tinted and toned as production method:
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Collateral given by the promoters and directors of Kingfisher Airlines may not be enough if banks resort to recovery by sale of assets and other measures. Loans guaranteed by directors and others of Kingfisher Airlines is Rs 4,146 crore while its total borrowings (both long term and short-term) were over Rs 8,000 crore, according to Kingfishers Annual Report for fiscal 2012.
The troubled airlines long-term borrowings alone amounted to Rs 5,695 crore, it says.
The loans were secured by hypothecation of all movables assets of the company (both fixed and current) other than fixed assets acquired on hire purchase/lease basis and aircraft but including helicopters, all trade marks and goodwill of the company, all credit card receivables, IATA collections and other receivables of the company and mortgage of Kingfisher House, the report says.
However, as the company has stopped operations, the security cover for banks doesnt mean anything as there are no receivables or collections.
In effect, the pledged assets may not be worth more than Rs 1,500 crore to Rs 2,000 crore, said a banking source.
The company has also furnished non disposal undertakings in respect of aircraft taken on finance lease/hire purchase aircraft.
Its auditors report says estimated unpaid overdues to banks and institutions as at March 31, 2012 aggregated to Rs 797.74 crore including devolved guarantees/letters of credit unfunded. Interest aggregating to Rs 51.07 crore for the calendar year 2011 were due to debenture holders as at March 31, 2012.
As part of the restructuring plan in 2011, 13 banks that had lent money were issued 750 million compulsorily convertible preference shares which gave banks 116.33 million of the companys equity shares at a premium of about 35 per cent to the closing price of the scrip (Rs 48.05) on April 6, 2011. The value of the share subsequently plunged, resulting in huge mark-to-market losses for banks.
Stressed loans of Kingfisher Airlines were then repackaged into subordinated debt.
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Florida -- Stu Pepper, lawyer for Scott Vincent Sica who's charged with murdering Sgt. Greg Martin 16 years ago, says his client did not kill Martin.
Pepper told News 2's sister newspaper, News-Press in Ft. Myers, FL, Sica didn't even know about Martin's murder until he was arrested last week. The lawyer said Sica was surprised by the arrest, and that officers still haven't shown the two any evidence police have against Sica.
On Oct. 5, 1996, Martin, 30, of the Jonesville Police Department, saw a man police now believe was Sica standing behind a strip mall near the highway.
Police say the man drove away, and Martin pulled him over around 2:40 a.m. A state trooper later found Martin lying on the side of the road with multiple gunshots to the head; the shots were close-range.
Sica is charged with first-degree murder.
Sica was arrested in 1998 and convicted of two armed bank robberies in Tennessee. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $10,000 restitution.
During that sentence, a judge also connected him to an armed robbery at a Home Depot in Fort Myers, FL.
Pepper told the paper his client admitted to the robberies, but would not admit to shooting Sgt. Martin.
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The third annual 4A's CreateTech, October 2–3, Brooklyn, NY, was an honest and open discussion among creative technologists and innovative thought leaders, providing them opportunity to share emerging trends, the newest ideas and coolest innovations in the field. 4A's CDO Chick Foxgrover and the 4A's Creative Technology Committee worked to develop a unique and eclectic program.
This Research Insights, written by 4A's Information Specialist Christine Pelosi, discusses some of the many highlights of CreateTech 2013; the 22 presentations were videotaped and are available for viewing at the 4A's YouTube channel.
Three important themes emerged from the two-day CreateTech2013 conference:
These takeaways are discussed in the following report along with highlights of presentations focused on the creation of innovation labs, ways to empower creativity and the characteristics of the modern creative director.
During the "Creativity, Technology and Education" panel , the panelists discussed that by educating our agencies and our clients we can gain the knowledge that allows us to satisfy consumer expectations and create advertising that is relevant to them.
You don't have to be an expert to use technology
The key to getting clients and agency peers engaged with technology is to break down the fear associated with it, and education is a way to get over that fear. Allowing people to take even baby technology steps (without judging) will build confidence and the desire to learn more and fuel ideas. The goal is to get people involved and excited about projects.
Invest in people
On the same panel, Mark Avnet, Dean of 360iU, said that while it's often difficult to find people with full technological skill sets, his agency is willing to spend resources to educate and invest in its current staff.
Mark said that education is the missing piece in getting people comfortable with technology. He gave several tips on how to best teach your agency about tech, a view that was supported by his fellow panelists, including Limor Fried, AdaFruit Industries; Georgia Krantz, Guggenheim Museum, NYU ITP, MoMa; and Zach Lieberman, School for Poetic Computation:
Educate your clients
A job of the creative technologist is to educate clients to help steer them to the right solution. Many CreateTech speakers agreed the biggest challenge concerning clients is they don't understand the time and effort that go into their projects. One way agencies can bring clients into the design process is to show them something concrete; it's easier to understand a high concept idea when you can actually view something and see how it works. It's valuable to educate clients about how long the creation process takes and what goes into developing a new technology or product so that both parties will have the same expectations.
Since continual learning is a part of the culture of creative technologists, mistakes should be embraced. In her presentation, Wendy Clark, SVP, Global Sparkling Brand Center, The Coca-Cola Company, said that we have to be willing to pursue agendas that make us fail because you're not on the edge if you're not failing.
Failure should be expected and accepted as part of the process
Unfortunately, failure is not rewarded at agencies, declared John Lax, partner at teehan+lax, during the "Agency Innovation Labs" discussion. Failure needs to be reframed; making mistakes should be encouraged. Lax explained that the majority of items in an innovation lab go nowhere. If a project isn't working, stop what you're doing, discuss the issues, shelve it, and come back to it later. You might fix the problem or find another use for it in the future. All that matters is you're learning something and moving forward.
Stop being embarrassed
The outcome of overcoming embarrassment is creativity. Stacey Mulcahy, Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, said in her presentation that design should be a collaborative process. By sharing ideas and work with peers, people will overcome their embarrassment, which will foster more creativity. When things don't work out, colleagues can build on top of each other's ideas and create a new solution to get around the problem.
Get out of your comfort zone
Tight, collaborative groups force people out of their comfort zones. Such environments have immediate feedback and rapid successes and failures that many are not used to; we all know when we work very closely on a project that we can lose perspective. During "Game Design as Creative Development," Phoenix Perry, Adjunct Professor at NYU, Poly, ITP and Steinhardt, said that the key is to kill your ego and let the product be tested. In her experience with game design Perry has found that it's best to throw projects out into the world and allow colleagues and even consumers to give input. You will quickly discover any issues. Getting out of your comfort zone allows people to redesign, refine and move on.
The act of making comes from the merging of creativity and technology—it's not about what is made, it's about the act of making. Ryan Habbyshaw, Senior Design Lead at IDEO, shared that the key to foster creativity is to make something every day, work out in the open and share the work within the agency. Such sharing sparks conversations and leads to inspiration for future client work. Habbyshaw said that creativity is a reflex that needs to be conditioned. All you need is some time (and maybe some breakthrough technology) to do something cool and keep your brain engaged.
Passion Projects
Bring your passions to work. Everyone likes good ideas and likes making fun stuff. Passion projects should not be isolated to the innovation lab. An open-door policy allows everyone in the agency to participate. You never know where the next great idea will come from; giving all employees a chance to share their passion and have it actually made is very inclusive and powerful.
Solve Real Problems with Technology
Create something that solves a real problem. Gela Fridman, VP of Technology at HUGE, said that the usefulness of a new tool matters because if users perceive a value in it, they will adapt their habits and incorporate it into their routine.
Relevant insights help solve problems, e.g., in the "Toyota Makes Car Shopping Social" panel, Toyota revealed that they gleaned the insight that car buyers seek advice from friends and families when purchasing a car. This is a problem for dealerships, so Toyota teamed up with Saatchi & Saatchi LA and Google to create a new online tool where buyers, their friends and family (and even car salesmen) can meet online to discuss the car, share opinions and create their ideal car in real time.
Don't Use it Just to Use it
Technology has to make sense and be central to the story. Quite a few speakers discussed that it's too easy to get caught up in the hype of the coolest, newest, shiniest innovations and technologies on both the client and agency side. The onus is on the creative technologist to step back and make sure the technology works and makes sense to the story they are telling.
Innovation Labs
The Agency Innovation Labs segment provided many agency insights. The panel, which included Tom Nolan, BBH Labs; Rick Gardinier, Brunner, Jon Lax; teehan+lax; and Imari Oliver, McGarry Bowen, gave advice that will help others who are planning such labs at their agency.
How to Create a Lab
The agency needs to dedicate money, time and staff to the creation of an innovation lab. Document your process; it's very easy to waste time early on playing around, and you want everyone on the same page. Realize early that it's okay to not turn out a lot of ideas and product because the real purpose of an innovation lab is to foster creativity. More importantly, it needs a purpose to exist.
The Mission of the Lab
The core purpose of the innovation lab is to gain new knowledge, share discoveries and solve clients' biggest problems. Innovative labs are there to make agencies smarter and to stay ahead of what's next. Another purpose of the lab is to extend further than clients are willing to go. In the future, when clients are ready to push boundaries further, agencies will be able to support them. The lab should also be fun and participatory for those within the agency. While not everyone will gravitate towards the lab, the option should be there to contribute to its output. The excitement and sense of community in lab participation can also be a tool for employee retention.
A Lab's Physical Space
An open, collaborative space is essential when creating the physical space for an innovation lab. It was the consensus that the traditional office space broke the flow of communication and collaboration that nurtures creativity. There is no substitute for the physical proximity of co-workers for generating ideas. It's important to bring a variety of people together. You never know what kinds of solutions will be found when people with different skill sets and perspectives come together.
If creating a separate space for an innovation lab is not feasible in your agency, give employees breaks between projects so they can work on something they are passionate about. No formal lab is necessary; just make sure they have the tools they need and leave them alone to create.
Empower Creativity and Be Quick About it!
The insights that Pete Stein of Razorfish and Coca Cola's Wendy Clark shared about advertising in the post-digital era can be useful not only to creative technologists, but to the entire agency community.
Stein reiterated that the consumer's day-to day activities are now totally incorporated with technology. Because of the proliferation of tech in everyday life, consumers' expectations have changed and they feel that advertising is no longer relevant to them. To fix this problem, Stein's solution is to put the consumer at the center and create a predictive consumer experience. This means that creative technologists should help find solutions to consumers' daily problems.
Five ways to market to consumers in the post-digital era:
Wendy Clark's motto at Coca-Cola is "embrace creativity." She said that agencies should let creativity exist and be more concerned that they're not breaking things along the way. Her presentation focused on how advertisers and agencies can no longer control the message. Social media has established a dialogue between consumers and brands, but sometimes the conversation is happening in real time without brand involvement.
According to Clark, in order to engage in the social dialogue with consumers, brands should stop simply creating more content, they must create more good content.
Modern Creative Director
Stacey Mulcahy, Technology Evangelist, Microsoft, thinks that the role of the Creative Director needs to change. She listed the characteristics she believes make a great Creative Director:
Multilingual: Creative Directors must be able to speak strategy, design and tech. They need the ability to communicate what they want to both creatives and technologists.
A Google Hangout with Matt Jones and Ray Kurzweil
A highlight of the conference was the virtual talk between Matt Jones, Interaction Design Director, Google, and Ray Kurzweil, Author, Inventor and Director of Engineering, Google. Kurzweil encapsulated the main theme of this year's CreateTech—technology enables creativity. He said that the tools we have created have expanded our mental reach. Technology is changing at a rapid pace and we need to keep up with it and use education to enhance our skills to remain competitive.
Kurzweil also said that creativity is like the Grand Canyon; one little stream can alter the entire landscape. All it takes is one small insight to change everything. By converging technology, education and creativity, agencies will remain innovative and continue to stay competitive.
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AuthorMarsha Appel, SVP, 4A's Research Services
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October 1, 1997
Aaron Allen can talk at length about why recycling is the "right thing to do." Sending renewable materials to a recycling center diverts waste from the landfill or incinerator. Recycling materials into new products also reduces our use of natural resources and uses less energy than virgin materials.
These reasons are powerful, but it's the money saved that clinches any argument in support of recycling, concedes Allen, president of the Tulane Green Club and a senior majoring in music and environmental studies. That's why Allen and co-Green Club officer Alicia Lyttle, a senior environmental studies major, spent the summer compiling data on the uptown campus's recycling program. A grant from the Center for Bioenvironmental Research and the Tulane Environmental Studies Program paid for the two students' salaries this summer.
"We've come up with our baseline figures," Allen says. "Now we can make the recycling program better."
Working with the Keith Hook, recycling coordinator; Mike Stringer, support services supervisor; and Ken Symonette, director of physical plant facilities, Allen and Lyttle compiled five years of data and analyzed the costs of the recycling program, the program's income and--an often overlooked item--the savings realized in paying fewer "tipping fees" at the landfill. The data-intensive report took the entire summer to conceptualize and compile, Allen says.
The effort was worth it, he adds, since the data show modest, but nevertheless positive, savings for the university. With all variables taken into account, the total costs of the existing recycling and refuse program for fiscal year 1996-97 was $234,921, which is $418 less than the hypothetical cost of a refuse program without recycling ($235,339). The savings from recycling were the greatest in 199394, when the difference was $38,626.
The major reason for the differences between the years, says Allen, was the curbside recycling program in Uptown New Orleans, which was initiated in 1995 and reduced the amount of recyclables brought to the Tulane Recycling Center behind the Stadium Place residence halls by nearly 500 tons.
Another reason for the lower savings is the volatile market for recyclables, which has decreased steadily over the years with the exception of the aluminum market. Although the savings are slim, the fact that the program is beneficial to Tulane's bottom line is often overlooked because savings from sending fewer tons of refuse to the landfill isn't considered, Allen says. "These numbers show that there is no justification for doing away with the recycling program as it now stands," he says. "Plus, we're missing so much that can be recycled. We can easily double what we take in now."
Allen proposes adding student workers to the recycling office, which consists of Hook and two full-time staff members who are responsible for collecting recyclables throughout the entire campus. More bins in dorms and around campus, coupled with education about how to recycle on campus, could make the program even stronger, he adds. But the biggest boost to recycling would be a coordinated campus-wide effort, Allen says.
"We have to make recycling a community-wide university policy," Hook agrees. "We already have a lot of resources and people in different departments who can help us recycle on campus." Anyone interested in the recycling data report can contact Allen at the Green Club office, 862-3198.
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Saturday Morning Hoodie Knit-Along, Part 3: The Fronts – Left, Right, Forward and Reverse
February 10th, 2011
With the back of my Saturday Morning Hoodie finished, it's now on to the fronts! It certainly is not too late for any of you to join in, because with a stitch gauge of 2 1/2 stitches to the inch, this hoodie "grows" very quickly. I really like working the back of a sweater (especially a cardigan) first for a few reasons. Usually, they are symmetrically shaped and for a cardigan, you can just work the fronts to correspond the back when it comes to the underarm and side raglan shaping.
A great addition to this hoodie pattern (since it became our Winter KAL) are the detailed instructions for the right front as well as the left. Many times, knitting patterns with a left and right front won't include full instructions for the second front, but rather tell you to just "reverse" the shaping directions of the first side. Sometimes this isn't a problem, but this hoodie has the pocket facings (the fronts of the pockets) made simultaneously with the rest of the front, so it can be nice to have them spelled out for you.
The instructions start with the left front, and I thought I would take some pictures along the way to show how that front along with the pocket facing progresses. Sometimes a picture (or two, or three) makes the instructions much easier to comprehend.
OK, so I worked the ribbing for my left front then after a couple rows of stockinette stitch, I placed the side stitches called for on a holder. The ones on the needle are for the pocket facing (which is the outside, or front of the pocket). Then I knit on just those stitches for 9″. (To enlarge any of these photos, simply click on them.)
Then, the facing stitches were placed on another holder, and I did a "switcheroo" by placing those originally held stitches back onto the needle. Then I cast on stitches to this needle that will be the part of the left front – behind the pocket.
The front stitches are knit up for 9″, and then the stitches I had just cast on are bound off. (This creates the back of the pocket.) On the next row the stitches on hold for the pocket facing are joined with the rest of the stitches. This makes a nice, seamless join–and as long as I am careful sewing the inside of front to the facing–it will look great. (I'll do that a little later.)
Then, after working a few more inches of stockinette stitch, I followed the instructions for the raglan shaping when the front measured the same as the back to the armhole. Of course, I will only shape on the armhole side. The pattern calls for shaping at the neck about 2″ less than the back. I found I still had to do about 3 more decreases at the raglan edge as well before it was all finished. When I had 2 stitches left, I just worked them together and fastened off.
The right side is worked just like the left, only that the pocket facing is on the right side as you can see below. The instructions give all the numbers – so it is much easier! Both of the fronts curled quite a bit, so I again just lightly blocked them with a spray bottle and let them dry.
Later, I will be picking up along the pocket edges and lightly sewing those pockets on the inside. Since this is a raglan, I'm really not able to do any seaming yet as I need to make those raglan sleeves to join the fronts and the back. The sleeves are both the same, so no reverse shaping will be necessary this upcoming week. Forward, knit!
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- Saturday Morning Hoodie Knit-Along, part 1: A Truly His & Hers Hoodie
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Cue Sonny and Cher, everyone, because it's... Groundhog Day!
Yes, it's time to celebrate the event that gave its name to a film that gave its name to the feeling that something's recurring over and over again. And as a result, we think it's time to celebrate the work of Bill Murray.
Bill Murray - quite possibly the most laconic actor ever to grace the big screen. Bill Murray - a movie star who's always great, even if he's in a big pile of stinking cinematic doo-doo (see also: Eugene Levy, Sam Rockwell, Alison Janney, Judy Greer and Steve Buscemi - but we digress). Bill Murray - the dry-witted man of our dreams. Sigh.
Here are clips from our 10 favourite Murray movies - and if we missed yours out (Stripes? The Royal Tenenbaums? Charlie's AngeIs? Maybe not) then let us know in the comments below. Because, as he says himself in Groundhog Day: the man is a god. Though not the God... I don't think.
"This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather." From meeting Ned Ryerson to being slapped by Andie MacDowell, enjoy the best bits of weatherman Phil Connor's day-on-repeat.
Witty Ghostbuster Peter Venkman is possibly Murray's greatest on-screen creation - and while there are a wealth of classic Venkman moments to choose from, we just had to go for "Cats and dogs living together..."
'Bill Murray is back among the ghosts - only this time, it's three against one.' So ran the tagline for this '80s reworking of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, now a seasonal favourite for just about everyone between the ages of 25 and 45.
We'd like to tell you what we think of Lost In Translation - but that would involve us whispering in your ear and everyone else wondering what we said. So instead, we give you... "Suntory time!"
Quite possibly the finest film about golf - though we realise there are very few contenders - Caddyshack was Harold 'Ghostbusters/Groundhog Day' Ramis's first feature film. In it, Bill Murray plays greenskeeper Carl Spackler - who spends most of the movie trying to kill a gopher.
Hugely overlooked, the 1990 comedy Quick Change marked Murray's first - and so far only - foray into directing. And as this opening sequence shows: you can dress Bill Murry up as a clown - but he's still unmistakably, wonderfully, always Bill Murray.
Like the rest of the cast of this comedy classic, Bill Murray is note perfect as Dustin Hoffman's flatmate/confidante/pretentious fellow actor, Jeff. Check out this scene in which Jeff holds forth at a party - and this one for his unforgettable "nutty hospital" one-liner.
Rushmore didn't just bring Wes Anderson to everyone's attention - it also marked Bill Murray's move into 'serious' acting (albeit with a comedic twist. Always.) Here's one of our favourite moments, in which he takes to a diving board... with a cigarette and drink in hand. Of course.
A scene from the musical-turned-movie which doesn't just feature Bill Murray as a masochistic patient - but also Steve Martin as a sadistic dentist! Boom!
It's Bill Murray! Bowling in a wig! In a Farrelly brothers movie! Sorry - was I talking out loud?
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About the Leopards of Londolozi
The Leopards of Londolozi are primarily descendants from various different lineages. The most prominent lineage comes from the Mother Leopard, the first leopard properly seen on Londolozi in the late 1970′s and with whom John Varty spent twelve years filming and documenting. Other noteable lineages include the River Female lineage, Saseka Female lineage and Sunsetbend lineage.
There are also leopards present who do not form part of any recorded lineage at Londolozi. Owing to the dynamic nature of leopard populations and their territorial behaviour individual animals have a tendency to move around into ares where they can secure a territory for themselves. On occassions this means they move away from Londolozi, whilst at times new leopards will move into it, thus enhancing the gene pool of leopard populations in general.
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Our happy-hour mail bag this month came with a few digs at Belltown, in addition to questions from a wine lover, a scotch lover and a couple looking for a cheap date place (that's not in Belltown). Questions were edited for brevity or clarification. Send queries to email@example.com (For readers emailing with a complaint about a bar or service, let's go easy on the exclamation marks and "Caps Lock" key, eh?)
Q: We're such an awesome beer city, but you would never know that hanging around Belltown. It's harder to find a decent craft-beer bar there. Are there any?
A: You got two good spots that moved into this 'hood about two years ago: The Whisky Bar, 2122 Second Ave., and Rocco's, 2228 Second Ave., the latter with an admirable collection of Belgian beers in the cooler, which no one seems to know about. Despite its name, the Whisky Bar draws more patrons for its stellar 24 beer taps than its scotch offerings.
Off the main drag is Bambino's, 401 Cedar St., a pizza joint that locals visit for the standout beer selection (18 beers on tap and a menu of bottled beers from around the world.) Nearby is the recently opened Twisted Pasty, 2525 Fourth Ave., which has an underrated beer list, featuring many local brews.
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Q: You talked about the new Chuck's Hop Shop being a big hit with the beer crowd in the Central District. But we have just as many wine drinkers here, too. We desperately need a wine hangout.
A: You already have a wine bar. Bottlehouse
, 1416 34th Ave. in Madrona, above Wilridge Winery. Check it out.
Q: We're looking for a cheap date night, away from the madhouse that is Capitol Hill and the way too-young-and-too-drunk Belltown crowd. Suggestion?
A: The underrated Brass Tacks
, 6301 Airport Way S. in Georgetown — is that far enough away from Belltown for ya? — features a burlesque show, no cover on some Thursdays. Starts at 9 p.m. Check georgetownbrass.com
for schedule. The bar/restaurant takes reservations for the show, though some tables are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. No food purchase required.
Q: We usually grab some whiskey after work at F.X. McRory's Steak Chop & Oyster House, but the place gets rowdy on game nights. Where else can I find good scotch around downtown?
A: Try The Bookstore Bar & Cafe, 1007 First Ave. inside the Alexis Hotel, where the shelves are studded with bottles and books. The boîte boasts 136 whiskeys, about half of which are single malts.
If you like Japanese whisky, I think Japonessa, 1400 First Ave., close to Pike Place Market, offers some decent deals, from $12-$15.
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