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Why do we envision a future in which Christ is inddifferent?
Do not worry about tomorrow. This is not the promise of a trouble-free life. It is workflow management advice (Sufficient for the day is its own trouble, i.e., you've got plenty to worry over now, buddy). But it is also a command, which implies that worrying is a choice.
This leaves me puzzled and hopeful. I am puzzled because I am fairly sure that I hate worrying. It gives me stomach cramps, and yet it is like breathing to me. I am hopeful as well, because in Christ's command there is the implication that I can become someone who does not worry but is peace-filled, even within sight of the Valley of the Shadow.
As I write this, my wife and I are praying that our baby, Isaiah, does not have a brain tumor. There is something wrong with him, and though the odds are that he will be fine, we find ourselves defying this enjoinment not to worry, and praying over and over: Please, Lord, not another one. This is what happens after you have buried a child, you see prowling wolves in every shadow. You hear mortal illness behind every cough. You worry about tomorrow, because today's troubles are nothing compared to what might happen next.
So how did Christ manage it, I wonder, knowing what they would do to Him in the end? How was His mind not consumed with that dreadful tomorrow, seeing it as He must have, hearing its growl from the shadows of a foreordained future? He wept and prayed as the hour approached, yes, but that was practically, if not literally, the day it happened. How did He shunt aside worry all those years?
It must take discipline, this not worrying. I am wary of pull-yourself-up-by-your-spiritual-bootstraps theologies. There must be something else at work here than a steely nerve, because surely the Word who was from the beginning peered into me when He uttered this command. He saw my gut now churning with thick, cold fear, and my heart moaning: I can't do this again. The Lord must have been counting on more than courage when He chose the likes of me.
So what is the secret to not worrying? Perhaps someone has written a book about an obscure Bible verse that promises to protect me from suffering if I chant it like a mantra. Or maybe the secret resides in that scrap of Romans that the non-suffering sometimes throw out to the grieving: All things work together for good to those who love God, as if God's plan is a tidy sitcom, resolving conflicts to our liking and within our field of vision.
The truth is that we suffer, and sometimes we suffer without ever seeing, on this earth at least, any good come of it. It's hard not to worry, knowing the world is set against us. It's hard to trust, sometimes, a God who would send His own son to death. C.S. Lewis was right; Aslan is not a fuzzy pet, but wild, and sometimes dangerous.
And yet Christ, having lived in our frail flesh, knows what we can stand. Perhaps this is at least part of the answer, that the One who carried His cross up Golgotha out of love, the Savior who promises to blot out every tear, the man who wept for His dead friend Lazarus-this is the Christ who whispered, in plain view of His approaching murder: Do not worry, beloved.
Contrary to many popular preachers, Christ didn't promise deliverance on this earth from trouble. As Oswald Chambers noted, Christ promised deliverance in trouble. Perhaps He said not to worry because it constructs a future where He is absent. We imagine the suffering ahead, and not His comfort in the midst of it. We forget to commune with Him here, so deluded as we are by an imaginary there in which He is indifferent.
Still worse, worry affords no room for grace. Sometimes the worst does not come to pass. Sometimes, as happened between the first and last sentences of this essay, the doctor says our child is fine. All that worry wasted. All this grace ignored. I have overcome the world, says the Messiah. Do not worry about tomorrow. -Tony Woodlief lives in Wichita, Kan., with his wife and four sons.


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And you can debate me all you want.
I totally understand your position, Neni. I also do not really follow comments like this:
I still don't get it. I don't believe in Allah so I wouldn't take my kids over to a Muslim relative's house and celebrate Ramadan. Simply because I don't believe in it at all and wouldn't want to confuse my kids. I can surely tell my kids that Grandma is Muslim and she's fasting/praying but we don't have to actually partake in the celebration (for a lack of better word).
I am Catholic and I have attended all sorts of other religious celebrations, starting when I was very young. I think it's interesting and it had no bearing on my own religious beliefs.
save it.
Can I ask a question of OP: I'm curious - how do you feel when you recieve in the mail a friend's holiday card/pic of their kids that reads "Merry Christmas, Love xyz Family"? Are you offended?
Not offended but it doesn make DH and I feel sad. We only have one friend couple that does this, the rest think about us and send us Hanukkah cards (just like we think about them and send them Christmas cards), they even use Hanukkah wrapping papers for the gifts they give our kids.
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You "feel sad" when someone sends you a Christmas card? And yet you send Christmas cards?!
I don't think your point-of-view is all that prevalent within Judaism.
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So you would feel exactly the same about a Happy Diwali card as you would a Merry Chistmas card, because the Diwali-celebrating family didn't think of you?
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Paint play ushers Women's Basketball to Big 12 win
AUSTIN, Texas -- Victory, Texas asserted, must come through the paint.
The Texas Women's Basketball defeated Kansas State 59-40 on Saturday afternoon at the Frank Erwin Center, and the Longhorns scored 34 of their points in the paint.
Generally every valuable offense possession for UT, which shot 44 percent for the game, resulted from at least one post touch.
Nneka Enemkpali and Imani McGee-Stafford each produced double-doubles for the Longhorns, and it was Enenkpali with her ball in the hands and the shot clock dwindling as the Wildcats had just cut UT's late second-half lead to 11.
Enemkpali flung a pass to Empress Davenport, alone on the wing, and she sunk the jumper with 3:41 remaining.
"When they started doubling in, we were able to throw it back out," said Chassidy Fussell, who scored 10 on 4-of-11 shooting. "It was a great inside-out game."
Enemkpali recorded her ninth double-double of the season with 20 points and 16 rebounds, and McGee Stafford scored 18 to go along with 11 rebounds. Enemkpali and McGee-Stafford combined to take 26 of UT's 55 field goals.
"It was sort of like the Red Sea had parted and any shot those two wanted, by and large, they got," said Kansas State coach Deb Patterson. "So, we were spread and we allowed too many one-on-one isolations with the size mismatch. You're not going to win a lot of those battles. Those two got their confidence and got a lot of touches. Once they felt like they could score and they were going to get those touches, they really capitalized."
The Wildcats led by as many as nine in the first half. After hitting 16 3-pointers in a victory over ranked Oklahoma State earlier in the week, KSU hit its first three attempts from beyond the arc against UT.
UT however held KSU to just four points in the final 8:39 of the first half, and then Wildcats made just four field goals in the final 20 minutes of play.
The Longhorns outscored KSU 35-14 in the second half.
"Initially we thought we had to play safe to guard penetration," UT head coach Karen Aston said. "Once we realized we could put pressure on the ball and extend their defense more, they carried that over in the second half really well.
Aston emphasized the importance of preparation and teamwork.
"We played as a team, we shared the ball really well, and team defense was terrific," Aston said. "We had one of our best practices yesterday and seeing them rewarded for that preparation is great."


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A 168-year-old Cambridge church owned by Lesley University was moved 80 feet Thursday morning to the opposite corner of the site's lot near Porter Square. The university moved the 188-ton North Prospect Church to make room for a new arts center. It wasn't the structure's first relocation. Originally built in Harvard Square in 1845, the church was moved to its location at the corner of Mass Ave and Roseland Street in 1867.
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"If you can't stand up, stand out."
This man gave a presentation at my school today and it blew me away. He was shot in the chest at point-blank range and paralyzed from the waist down, condemning him to a future of life in a wheelchair at age fourteen. And yet, he played basketball Olympics. This man has survived on the outside by the help and support of his family, but he has survived inside by his always-cheerful attitude toward life. He is an inspiration.
His website: www.mikeschlappi.com/index.php
He held a writing workshop during 6th and 7th period today which I attended with my friend. Thirty kids were in that workshop when our school holds at least 2,000. Only certain kids who were serious about writing were chosen to attend by their English teachers. After a brief talk he gave us some time to write a paragraph or two of the first thing that came to our mind (a whole writer's block therapy exercise). He then allowed some volunteers to read what we'd written. I was the second to volunteer.
"The city never slept. At night it was anything but dormant. Every block, every building, every stray cat and dog, even the most civilized people who inhabited the concrete jungle were programmed to be nocturnal. Cars honked, ambulance and police sirens screamed, clubs pulsed out their energizing bass rich music. The airports, subways, freeways, parks, and supermarkets were just as busy as they were during daylight hours. The differences? Well, the air was slightly colder and the variety of usual sounds seemed to echo across the streets more ominously. One could say that the danger level rose to an all-time high when accompanied by the moon and deserted by the sun, but in fact that is not true at all. It was not the danger that arose. It was the fear within every resident of the city."
That was all I'd wrote. (Yes, I had Gotham in mind, but I let the people in the room think of N.Y.) Mike was impressed, and his astonished smile made my hearty glow with pride and guilty embarrassment. He commented on how well I can paint an image in the reader's mind. He said he seriously was picturing and hearing the city I described, and was extremely curious to find out why the fear rose at night. That made my week. He gave me a thumbs up and nodded as he rolled his wheelchair to the other side of the room. "You are a great writer! Keep it up!"
The little class clapped for me. I couldn't believe it. Was that rough little scribbled-down paragraph really that good? No way!
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CANNES 2001: Biz Buzz -- Considering Deal-making on the Rivera
by Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
(indieWIRE/05.23.01) -- Miramax's deal for "Tears of the Black Tiger" and
Paramount Classics' pact for Cannes closer "Les Ames Fortes" were among the headline grabbing deals signed in Cannes this year, not to mention numerous
late-Festival pacts by Sony Pictures Classics. But ask executives for their
take on the biz side of the Cannes Film Festival and you'll get as wide a
range of opinions as you do when you ask about the quality of the films
themselves. Interviewed yesterday as they began settling back into their
offices after two weeks of moviegoing on the Croisette, a handful of company
chiefs weighed in with their thoughts on this year's Festival International
du Film.
"As far as I am concerned this was the best Cannes ever," Shooting Gallery's
Eamonn Bowles said. However, he was referring to the stellar sunny weather
that greeted festival attendees for the duration of the event -- only giving
way to a cool rain as stragglers flew home on Monday morning.
"Lackluster," is how Bowles summed up the 2001 Festival. "There really
wasn't a lot to see; even in the Market, I was a little disappointed."
Explaining that he was surprised by the activity of some buyers this year,
Bowles added, "In a slightly stronger market, those movies wouldn't be
picked up at all." That said, Shooting Gallery is still pursuing a few
titles, according to Bowles, but Cannes was hardly as productive for his
company as Toronto has proven in recent years.
One of the active companies this year was Sony Pictures Classics; the
distributor made five deals at the Festival and in the Cannes Market.
Sony's three attending execs -- Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Dylan
Leiner -- nabbed Jacques Rivette's "Va Savoir!", Lieven Debrauwer's "Pauline et Paulette," John McKay's "Crush," Eric Rohmer's "L'Anglaise et le duc" and Zhang Yang's "Quitting."
"We were thrilled," Sony Classics' Co-President Tom Bernard told indieWIRE,
who said that he didn't see much competition from U.S. based buyers this
year. "The guard has changed," Bernard jabbed, adding that the acquisitions
execs at some of the younger companies "do not have a sense of the market or
the marketing -- they did not go after some of the pictures."
One buyer who has been in the business for awhile is Zeitgeist Co-President
Nancy Gerstman. "I had a good time this year," she told indieWIRE.
Commenting on the Festival in general Gerstman said, "I don't think I have
ever been to a festival where people are so uniformly so excited about the
films." She continued, "At Cannes...you just don't know what you are walking
into; it's really exciting just for that, just as a cinephile. As a distributor, we just watch and wait."
"The expectation is so great," Gerstman cautioned, "I don't think that it
could ever meet people's expectations."
The smaller companies, like Zeitgeist, have to sit back until the dust
settles after a festival like Cannes. Larger, or at least well-financed
companies -- typically the specialized divisions of the studios -- go to
the Festival with the ability to make deals on the spot.
"We're not buying anything during the festival," Cowboy Booking Co-
President Noah Cowan told indieWIRE. "Cannes is absolutely the most
important place to see new cinema, especially international cinema," Cowan
offered. For Cowboy, the Festival, like Berlin or Toronto, is an important
place to network and lay the groundwork for deals that will happen after
the event.
"We get more done in an afternoon at the Grand Terrace than we do the rest
of the year," Cowan added. "We seem to meet everybody there." But, he
explained, "There was weaker work by established directors and few
discoveries from first time filmmakers."
"This was not a strong year in Cannes," Cowan did admit yesterday. "There
was slim pickings in terms of what was there to be acquired." But he
added that he and Co-President John Vanco have their eye on a couple
of films.
A key challenge that all buyers must consider is the effect of mixed reviews
on the movies that they are pursuing. "Everyone is less reflective when you
are in the hot box of festivals," Cowan explained, adding that he can be
forced to pass on a movie that he and Vanco like if the U.S. reviewers
published negative reviews out of the festival. In the cases where they go
against the critics and take a movie with bad buzz, they have to develop a
strategy to effectively re-launch it and overcome the criticism. "There was
one film in particular in Cannes that both John and I think is a wonderful
movie," Cowan said, exasperated. "But the US press kind of shit on it."
"You have to look at the big picture," Zeitgeist's Gerstman said, offering
guidance that the smaller indie companies certainly take to heart. "The more
things change, the more they stay the same -- certain types of films are
harder to pick up -- we just have to find our niche." [Eugene Hernandez]


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You should begin your puppy's training as soon as you bring him home. When he is older, enrol in a puppy training class to learn how to teach him simple commands. When training your puppy at home make sure that everyone in the family uses the same commands. Keep training sessions for young puppies short and fun.
When toilet-training your puppy, remember to bring him outside to relieve himself immediately after eating, sleeping or playing. Never punish a puppy for soiling in the wrong place: he thinks he is being punished for what he did, not for where he did it.
Young puppies generally get all the exercise they need by racing around the garden and playing, but once your puppy is fully vaccinated you can take him for short walks away from home. This will help to familiarise him with different environments. The age at which 'real' exercise should begin varies from breed to breed, as does the amount. We will be able to advise you. Make exercise fun by taking along a ball or a Frisbee, so that you can play games. Avoid small balls which he could swallow, or sticks which could lodge in his throat and injure him.
Your puppy doesn't need expensive toys but make sure that anything you do give him to play with is safe. If any toys become worn or damaged, replace them. Don't give him an old slipper to play with or he'll think that all shoes and slippers are fair game. Puppies' minds need exercise as well as their bodies, so play games that make him think. He'll enjoy Hide and Seek, and "retrieve" games.
Establish a grooming routine as soon as you bring your puppy home. Not only will it give you the opportunity to remove dead hairs from his coat, grooming also reinforces the bond between you. Grooming sessions also give you the chance to check for fleas and ticks, and to examine your puppy's coat, paws, eyes, ears and mouth for anything that might require a trip to us. Make grooming sessions short at first as puppies will soon become bored. The amount of time you will need to spend on grooming depends on his type of coat and how dirty he gets while he is being exercised.
Your puppy needs your help to keep his teeth in good condition. Puppies' baby teeth (deciduous teeth) appear at around 4–6 weeks of age, and are replaced by the adult teeth by 6–7 months. If any deciduous teeth don't fall out naturally, we will need to extract them to prevent the adult teeth from coming through crooked.
If your dog needs a dental procedure he will need a general anaesthetic. His teeth will be scaled and polished, and any bad teeth will be removed. Don't be concerned that he won't be able to eat if teeth are extracted – dogs' gums are very hard and he will still be able to munch dry food without problems. If your dog is having difficulty eating, appears to be chewing on one side of his mouth, or paws at his mouth, he could have a dental problem, so make an appointment to see one of our Vets as soon as possible.
Vaccination protects your puppy from a number of serious and highly infectious diseases. It works by priming his immune system so that if he comes into contact with the disease later, his body is better able to 'fight back'. All puppies and dogs should be vaccinated against:
These vaccinations are given at approximately 8 weeks with a follow-up dose around 4 weeks later. After this he'll need annual booster vaccinations, to maintain his protection. Annual vaccinations also provide an opportunity for Cara Vets to give your pet a thorough health check to spot any possible problems early on.
Most puppies pick up fleas at some time. We can advise you on products to treat your pet and your home (to kill eggs and larvae in the puppy's bedding, the carpets, and soft furnishings). Fleas cause discomfort, and may also spread disease and cause allergies. Severe infestation can also cause anaemia, particularly in very young puppies.
Many people choose to apply regular anti-flea treatment to their dogs to prevent fleas rather than waiting until there is an unpleasant flea problem to fix in their homes.
Any dog can pick up worms, and puppies may even be born with them or pick them up from their mother's milk. Puppies should be regularly wormed and our vets and nurses will be able to discuss a programme for treatment and prevention.
A heavy infestation of worms can cause vomiting, diarrhoea, loss of appetite, weight loss, constipation and a dull coat. Some worms can be passed to humans, especially young children.
The main types of worms are:
If you don't plan to breed from your dog, having him or her neutered is the responsible thing to do. As well as preventing unwanted litters, neutering reduces the risk of a number of health problems, removes the dog's sexual urges and can also resolve or prevent some problem behaviours.
Puppies are generally neutered between 6 and 9 months old. The procedure in male puppies is called castration and involves removing the testicles, which produce sperm and the male hormone, testosterone. It is a straightforward operation performed under general anaesthetic.
The operation for female dogs is called spaying or "ovariohysterectomy". During the operation, the vet makes an incision in the dog's abdomen and removes the ovaries and the uterus (womb). Spaying is a longer operation than castration and the puppy or dog will need a couple of days' rest. She may need to wear an 'Elizabethan collar' to prevent her from licking her wound excessively.
Your puppy needs to have a means of identification in case he becomes lost – it's the law.Get him used to wearing a collar with an engraved identification tag on it and also think about having him microchipped. Microchipping is an efficient and irreversible means of identification and your vet will be able to carry this out for you. A tiny microchip the size of a grain of rice is injected under the skin at the back of the neck by the vet in a simple procedure. Each chip has a unique number which is stored on a central computer database. If your dog is found, his chip can be quickly read with a hand held scanner and the number checked against the database.
It's a good idea to take out pet insurance so that you won't need to worry about vet's bills if your puppy has an accident or becomes ill. In return for small monthly or annual payments the insurance company will pay for most of your veterinary fees – including the cost of operations, medicines, laboratory tests and x-rays.
Routine procedures like vaccination, teeth cleaning and neutering are not covered by insurance, nor are preventive measures such as worming or flea treatments. Shop around when you buy a policy, as policies vary and different levels of cover are available. More expensive policies generally provide increased cover and some cover a wider variety of treatments such as homoeopathy and acupuncture.
Check on the exclusion clauses before buying an insurance policy. You will probably find that conditions (and possibly related conditions) which existed before taking out the policy will not be covered. You may also find that some companies will cover a condition for only 12 months, while others continue paying year after year up to a maximum amount in any year. Most insurance policies include third party insurance in case your dog injures someone or causes an accident.
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So I had been thinking that food ovens remained in jets from a time that we used to get proper meals in flight. However last month I went on an almost new Frontier A320 and it had an oven. The only think I could see this being used for is to warm cookies - is this right? How much weight are they carrying around just to warm some cookies?!
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you just put the 2 things i hate the most together. i'm actually impressed.... it still sucks...
Now baby you can't HATE Star Trek anymore (at least the original series) remember Star Alliance. What would your pintrest pal George Takei think? AT is fair game for loathing though!
judging by the black and whiteness of the picture, it seems to be offical staff art
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How The Stars Rang in 2013
Jay-Z and Chris Martin
January 02, 2013
Across the country, Beyonce's hubby performed a concert at Brooklyn's Barclays Center with Coldplay. At midnight, Gwyneth Paltrow, Apple and Moses joined dad on stage to sing in the New Year. Later, the adults continued the party in the D'usse Lounge backstage.


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The development and implementation of the procedures described in the document are governed by these principles:
Academic Freedom is essential for the mission of the University. Academic, legal use of the network by faculty shall not be restricted unless a reasonable case for network or data security is presented for why an activity cannot be supported. OU is a community of scholars, and our infrastructure -- including IT -- must be aimed at supporting the pursuit of knowledge, and academic investigation and exploration.
Discipline Independence shall be maintained regarding academic computing. Faculty across disciplines will not receive differential access, control or level of service. E.g., a member of the Fine Arts faculty may access the same sites, deploy the same systems, and receive the same support as an Engineering faculty member. Faculty will not be restricted from academic technical pursuits based on discipline or other subjective criteria.
Security is always relative to the risk that a system presents. Best practices for security controls are always in the context of the particular industry and risk.
According to the presidential directive ("Directive One") on the unification of information technology services, dated August 11, 2009, all servers are now the responsibility of the Office of Information Technology. In some cases, systems, and the services they provide, will be physically moved to the central data center at Ohio University.
If there is undue risk associated with a service, then the system should be moved to the OIT data center.
Services that are intended for departmental, administrative, and/or university functions should be moved to the OIT data center.
If a service is already provided by OIT it should not be duplicated outside OIT.
If a service is part of the University mission of teaching, service, research, and creative activity and does not meet the criteria above, then it may be operated outside OIT subject to the provisions in this document.
The decision to move services will be made by the College Dean or designee and representatives from the Office of Information Technology (OIT) based on the above criteria. Appeals to this decision will be made to the Chief Information Officer.
Dr. Smith teaches a class in which she instructs students on how to develop dynamic web pages. She has set up her own web server running Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) so that the students can program on it. Since the creative and academic activity here occurs at the application development layer, the preferred solution is to have the management (patching, backup, etc.) of the LAMP stack itself performed by OIT (once OIT has the ability to dynamically provision LAMP instances). However, the professor will retain the ability to manage the accounts in the database, as well as start/stop the web server, and running code on the system. Since the system is operated by OIT, no registration is required. If creating and configuring the server is part of the educational purpose of the class, Professor Smith will continue to manage her server. If the servers exist beyond the academic term, she should register them with OIT.
Dr. Foster does research for the Department of Defense. The information on this system is of a highly classified nature, and requires clearance to access. The grant for the system details significant penalties if access is granted even to the operating system to individuals who have not gone through the appropriate government clearance process. Because this system clearly contains sensitive data, it must be registered. OIT will perform regular vulnerability scans, with the results being provided to the professor for appropriate remediation. Note that the access control requirements of the grant prevent the system from being moved to the OIT data center.
Dr. Singh has a system that is physically attached to an Electron Microscope. This system cannot be moved to the Data Center without significant change to all processes. She will maintain physical possession of the system, but may make arrangements with OIT to assist in managing the operating system. This system should, however, be registered.
Dr. Jones has a workstation that he is uncomfortable migrating to Active Directory due to some of the material that it contains. While the decision as to whether it should be joined is to be made by the College's Dean's office and OIT, if it is not joined, it should still be registered, in order to take advantage of the registration benefits.
System: A system is either comprised of the physical hardware making up a computer, or a virtual machine instance. The term system incorporates the operating system and applications running under that operating system.
Service: A service is housed on a system, and is defined as the application(s) and the data needed to provide some specified function to a user who accesses this function remotely via the network.
Server: A server is defined as a system that as its primary function provides one or more service(s).
Sensitive Data: If the loss or unauthorized disclosure of a set of data poses a significant threat to the reputation or mission of the University, or to intellectual property, legal compliance, financial health of the institution, or to life and liberty of its personnel, the data is considered sensitive for the purpose of this document. Data covered by HIPAA, FERPA, ITAR and other export controls, trade secrets, and classified data are all examples of sensitive data.
This document deals with any system that does not meet the criteria for being moved to the OIT data center; the express purpose of the procedures described herein is to insure that systems operated by faculty in pursuit of teaching, research, and creative activity are maintained in a manner that keeps these systems secure and prevents them from interfering with the operation of the Ohio University network.
To accomplish this goal, OIT has established a registration procedure for systems that are connected to the network, but are not administered by OIT. This registration requirement does not apply under the following conditions (although there is still some added benefit in registering such systems):
The system provide no services as defined in this document, or
The system has been joined to the Ohio University Active Directory domain, or
The system is "temporary", meaning it is intended to operate for no more than 30 days, and contains no sensitive data, or
The system is used during an academic term for educational purposes and contains no sensitive data.
The system is not hosted on the University network. However, these systems need to follow the Outsourcing Technology process as identified at http://www.ohio.edu/technology/security/Security-Standards.cfm.
All other systems must be registered with OIT using the procedure described below.
Security Threats generally fall into three categories.
These typically involve the "business processes" around the system. This can include:
How information is transferred from one authorized individual to another. The threat is the 'oops, I didn't mean to post it there'.
The handling of the data - accidental deletions, changes, etc.
Social Engineering attacks: These attempt to exploit part of the business process and/or trust of an individual to gain undue access to a system, data, or other valuable asset.
Technical threats includes those things that can occur over the network or on the system itself. These can include:
Malware: including worms, viruses and trojans, these programs exploit weaknesses in computer systems, or users trust to achieve a variety of results. These often (not always) require the user to perform some action to trigger the attack, such as browsing a web site or opening an e-mail attachment.
Automated scans: These run constantly on the internet, and are often used by individuals with malicious intent to determine weaknesses in systems. The motives vary from thrill seeking to financial profit. The purpose of the scan may be in itself an attack (attempt to gain access to the system), or to prepare for a targeted attack.
Targeted Attacks: Either as the result of automated scans or having a specific goal, these are from malicious individuals seeking to gain access to a specific system. They will often employ a variety of tools to achieve their ends.
Environmental: Flood, power outage, power surge, fire, etc. These can cause actual physical damage to a system as well as data loss or corruption.
Theft: If not adequately secured, the system could be stolen.
Vandalism: Even if a system is not stolen, it could be physically damaged (smashed, wires cut, etc.).
If a security incident takes place, it can have an impact both on the individual user as well as the University as a whole:
Benefits of Registration:
Every user of the OU network carries responsibility for data and system security. Faculty with access to sensitive data need to safeguard these data. In the case of research results, loss or corruption of data has a very immediate impact on faculty. In all cases, the University faces potential liability and expense if a breach occurs. Every system on the OU network can, if compromised, disrupt service for other users or be used by an attacker as a spring board to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data.
OIT has systems in place to detect many types of security breaches. The network is designed to disconnect compromised systems from the network. Without further information, the owner of the compromised system cannot be notified; rather, the system owner has to discover that the system has been disconnected and contact OIT to begin remediation.
OIT has a wealth of experience and expertise in securing a variety of systems. OIT also runs a suite of automated tools that can identify a system as being vulnerable to attack; however, without further information OIT cannot contact the system owner to suggest remediation steps before an attack on that system succeeds. If a system is found to be so vulnerable as to make a successful attack highly probable, the system may be treated as compromised and disconnected from the network.
Registration of a system accomplishes several goals:


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Hey everyone, just like to start off saying thanks for the insight I've gathered from this site in doing my first fixie conversion - a very nice '84 Schwinn World Sport that was about as good as I could ask for. I would have been pretty frustrated without all the help.
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Li'l Penguin wants to build a snowman cause it's winter! :)
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Illustration Friday: Winter
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Little Chick
I so love Little Golden Books illustrations! :) I love this book,
Funny Bunny
Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen
Written by Rachel Learnard
I looked at one of the little chicks on one of the pages and quickly tried to illustrate my own version of it. It's not nearly as wonderful as the original illustration, but I just thought I'd give it a quick try. Love love LOVE the little golden book style :)
OK, compare...but you'll see mine is nothing like the original:
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Illustration Friday: Mail 2
Now I know who Kitty was sending a letter to...his good friend Dog! :) It was a "Merry Christmas" letter to his old friend.
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Illustration Friday: Mail
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Illustration Friday: Phenomenon
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines on to droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere.
from wikipedia
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Jib Jab-Country Dancin' Elves
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Illustration Friday: Prehistoric
OK, OK, I'm not one for scary dinosaurs, so here is a cutesy one. He's all safe and ready to lick a lollipop. Why a lollipop? Why not!?! :) Thanks for viewing...
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Golden Gems blog...adorable artwork
Oh my, I am simply LOVING this! Just discovered this blog with Little Golden Books illustrations throughout. Beautiful images :) Check it out! (I especially LOVE this bunny book!) http://goldengems.blogspot.com/2008/03/funny-bunny.html
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OKLAHOMA CITY (December 26, 2007) - Oklahomans resolving to quit using tobacco this New Year now have the support of expanded services from the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline. In addition to free coaching sessions available over the phone at 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669), participants can access a 24-hour-a-day interactive Web site complete with personal tracking tools and discussion forums.
People calling the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline receive free coaching sessions with professional Quit Coaches∆ that focus on developing a quit plan tailored to participants' personal needs and critical support in sticking with the plan that includes up to four follow-up coaching sessions. Now, between coaching sessions, those trying to quit are also encouraged to access the Web site to get that extra support when they need it.
Web Coach™ allows participants to build a personal Quit Plan and complete self-assessment exercises. Responses are shared in real time with a Quit Coach, who uses that information to prepare for the next coaching session.
Just as importantly, participants can also interact on an ongoing basis with each other and Quit Coaches in the Web Coach Discussion Forums. These forums allow participants to learn behavioral tips from Quit Coaches and from others who are quitting or who have successfully quit in the past. Tailored motivational and educational emails are also sent to participants throughout the program. "We want to make sure that every Oklahoman who wants to quit has all the tools necessary to be successful," said Tracey Strader, executive director, Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, "With more people accessing the internet everyday, it just makes sense to provide Web support services that build on the extensive phone services already available. These expanded services are part of our commitment to helping people quit tobacco for good."
For a limited time, Oklahoma residents who call the Helpline for coaching will also receive a free two-week starter kit of nicotine patches or gum mailed directly to their homes. This combination of cessation medications and coaching more than double the chances of a successful quit attempt.
"Quitting smoking doesn't happen overnight," said Strader. "It takes a strong commitment and focused effort, but Oklahomans who want to quit using tobacco don't have to go it alone. Now they'll have the help of their Quit Coaches, nicotine patches or gum, and a network of support from other
Serving over 50,000 Oklahomans since 2003, the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline is funded by the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, with assistance from state tobacco tax funds made available through the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
The Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline's hours of operation are 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week, and staff will return any messages left after hours. For more information about the Helpline, go to: www.ok.gov/tset/Programs/Helpline.html. For more information about quitting tobacco use go to: www.smokefree.gov.
The Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust was stablished through a constitutional amendment approved by Oklahoma voters in 2000. While most state governments have failed to keep their promise to use tobacco settlement funds for tobacco prevention and other programs to improve health, Oklahomans have created an endowment to assure that funds will be available for these purposes for generations to come. To learn more go to: www.tset.ok.gov.


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Mediacom/Clone Zone to Carry Iowa State-UNI Football
AMES, Iowa - Mediacom announced that it will televise the Iowa State - Northern Iowa football game, giving Iowans live coverage of Saturday's 6 p.m. kickoff inside Jack Trice Stadium. In addition, because of Mediacom's relationship with Iowa State, those that do not have Mediacom will have an opportunity to watch the game live online via the Clone Zone, the multimedia arm of cyclones.com.
About the Mediacom broadcast
The game broadcast will be produced by Mediacom, airing statewide and in surrounding states on MC22, the Connections Channel. The channel is available to all Mediacom cable subscribers and is located at channel 22 (channel 12 in Mason City, Charles City areas).
Mediacom's game coverage will be led by veteran sportscaster BJ Schaben, who will announce play-by-play action. Ben Bruns, former ISU All-American center, will add color commentary.
"Mediacom's longstanding partnership with the ISU Athletic Department makes it a tradition to deliver live sports competition like this to a statewide audience using our own channel, MC22," said Steve Purcell, Mediacom regional vice president. "The combined rosters of these two teams include nearly 100 players from high schools throughout Iowa, and we know there's high interest in seeing this game."
In addition to the live action, Mediacom will make the game available for viewing in its local OnDemand programs on Sept. 28, and also will show full-game replays during the week of Sept. 27. View the MC22 program schedule online at www.MC22.net.
About the Clone Zone internet broadcast
By signing up for a monthly ($8.95) or annual ($79.95) VIDEO subscription, fans that do not have Mediacom as their cable provider can watch the game online via the Clone Zone, the multimedia arm of cyclones.com.
Because of unique scenario this week with its telecast partners, the Big 12 Conference has cleared this game on a pay tier for webcasting. This special clearance marks the second home Saturday football game able to be shown live online via webcast (2009 vs. Army).
The Clone Zone will show the live Mediacom feed as its audio and video source.
For information about Clone Zone and how to become a member, please visit the links below.
>> More info
>> Subscribe to Clone Zone (must purchase monthly or annual VIDEO membership to watch Saturday's game)
>> Launch Clone Zone Media Player
>> Live Event listing
NOTE: Fans new to Clone Zone are encouraged to sign up early in the week and watch archived videos currently in the system to ensure the flash streaming technology is supported by your computer


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ASUS Final Battle of the Year - Semi Final
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#1bobosus wrote at 15.12.2012, 19:00 CET:
Time of this game looks wrong. Its scheduled to 19.10 CET. (Same in navi game, scheduled to 21.00 not 22.00)
#2PaiN-- wrote at 15.12.2012, 19:01 CET:
fixed. source for navi game to 21cet?
#3what_sux wrote at 15.12.2012, 19:04 CET:
Virtus.pro clear favourites to win I guess
#4bobosus wrote at 15.12.2012, 19:07 CET:
There is a bracket with times. CET is -1 hour :)
There is a bracket with times. CET is -1 hour :)
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Germany Scores an Own Goal on Immigration
Migration helps us build a more integrated, dynamic Continental economy.
Until just a few years ago, the German Bundesliga used to be quite a boring affair. But recently, the excitement factor – and reputation – of the football league has risen significantly, largely thanks to an impressive number of foreign players from Central and Eastern Europe manning the teams these days.
It's a clear indication to Germans how beneficial open migration can be in the modern world. Unfortunately, when faced with the choice of allowing open migration from the populations of the eight countries that joined the European Union in 2004, the German government, was not so open-minded. Along with neighboring Austria, Germany has chose not to open its labor market to immigrants from those countries.
This of course has not stopped the flow of foreign workers into Germany. All the restrictions have done is to cap and erode the skill level of these immigrants – after all, engineers don't tend to sneak across borders, nurses are not the types to falsify papers, and schools rarely hire black market teachers.
Five years after the 2004 round of EU expansion, enough evidence is in conclude the policy rationales – and fears – that underpinned the German decision at the time have meant German government did not get what it bargained for – and even ended up shooting an own goal in the process.
While a touchy subject politically, immigration is an essential ingredient of Europe's history. In that sense, the EU expansion in 2004 represented a return to the old norm.
With real migration between Europe's east and west interrupted for decades by the Iron Curtain, wage levels between Eastern Europe and Western Europe were literally worlds apart. Once the eastern transformation from planned economies to market economies got underway, so were employment levels.
Between 1960 and 1973, Western Europe saw its share of foreign workers doubling to 6% from 3% of the workforce, driven by labor demand. But this freewheeling traffic ground to a near-halt in 1973 with the onset of the oil crisis. Germany was no exception, and until the 2004 EU expansion, legal immigrants to Germany were either rufugees, asylum seekers, reuniting families or ethnic Germans.
The 2004 expansion was meant to crumble the remaining walls between east and west, and allow Europeans to move freely about the continent.
Faced with so much change, worries actually abounded on both sides of the old divide. While Western Europeans feared downward pressures on wages and, more generally, a hollowing out of their welfare states, Eastern Europeans were concerned about brain drain.
In the real world, many of these worries proved to be either unfounded, exaggerated or counterbalanced by significant positive effects. There is no denying, for example, that the new EU members suffer from some brain drain. At the same time though, increased mobility of skilled employees is contributing to a better continent-wide matching of skills and available jobs, thus improving the EU's overall economic efficiency. This also helps rebalance existing demographic pressures.
Specifically with regard to Germany, despite the government's "closed shop" approach to immigration from new EU, there has been a steady inflow from Central and Eastern Europe – recently leveling in at about 50,000 immigrants per year.
That compares to an annual inflow of about 254,000 people into the 15 "old" EU member states since 2004, mostly to Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Those migrants who made it to Germany after 2004 are relatively older and less well-educated than the ones who came to Germany prior to that date. That is not exactly an outcome a modern competitive economy such as Germany should aim for.
In contrast, the more liberal-minded EU countries found their open labor market policies rewarded with an actual reduction in low-skills immigrants from new EU member compared arrivals in the pre-2004 time frame.
Furthermore, in Germany's case, those immigrants – primarily young men from Poland and the Baltic countries – were 23.1% less likely to be employed than their German-born counterparts This is almost double the pre-2004 level, when immigrants from these countries were only 12.7% less likely to be employed than Germans themselves. Again, not the trend one would wish for.
Again, this contrasts with the development in those EU countries that had the courage to opt for open labor markets. Their rate of employment for the post-2004 immigrants is actually higher than for the group of pre-2004 arrivals.
However one chooses to look at the data and trends, Germany's approach to dealing with immigrants from the new EU member states makes no sense in light of Germany's unquestioned need to attract expert professionals.
Open borders among EU member states do not lead, as often feared, to a deteriorated labor market. And since these immigrants do not have a higher propensity to receive welfare than the domestic population, neither do they further intensify the pressures already squeezing European social security systems.
Instead, this migration helps us Europeans build a more integrated, more dynamic continental economy. That is a record we should build on with great determination, if we want to secure future sources of prosperity.
Based on the available empirical evidence, Germany's so-far restrictive policy must be judged a complete failure. That may sound harsh, but how else can one describe a policy that fails to attract the required highly skilled workforce, while continuing to draw an influx of low-skilled immigrants? If that can't be considered a painful own goal, what would?
The new-found vitality in the German Bundesliga could show German policymakers the way forward to a brighter, more inclusive future. A move earlier this year allowing university graduates from all parts of the world to enter the German labor market suggests they are beginning to learn these lessons.
Mr. Zimmermann is the director of IZA, the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany, and co-editor of "EU Labor Markets After Post-Englargment Migration," published this year.


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07/11/2010, Anacortes
We leave Spencer Spit in low clouds and occasional fog. The trip back is fairly painless except for the 5 knot current we find approaching the Anacortes ferry dock. Dave steps on the throttle and takes it up to maximum wake speed. And hands the helm over to Melissa. Perhaps the kayaker we passed appreciated the wake we gave him to negotiate or maybe he gave us the finger. The wave he gave us seemed innocent enough. We get to Anacortes and fuel up. The boat took about 180 gallons of diesel. We then docked the boat and cleaned her up. Melissa went off to get some more Anacortes Beef only to find they left they "OPEN" sign on while being closed on Sunday. Bummer!
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07/10/2010, Spencer Spit
We separate from the Gemini and head off to Spencer Spit to position the boat for our final jump back to Anacortes. We show up early and find a mooring buoy open. Dave takes the dinghy to shore and pays the ten bucks. Hmmm - ten bucks to avoid anchoring. Dave is getting soft. Still - we are out every night without tying up to dock. Could have avoided tying up at all if it were not for customs and a bit more water conservation. Screw it - use the water. We are on vacation after all.
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07/09/2010, Jones Island
Dave decided that we should leave before low tide. Something about measuring the depth on the stern and determing that there would be only a foot clearance at low tide made him not want to sleep in. Dave rose and cast off a couple hours before low tide heading for Roche Harbor where we would become welcome to the United States again. We tie up at Roche to clear customs to find out that we have brought back black listed tomatoes. After searching the boat for more contraband CBD leaves with our tomatoes. We ask if we can stay to go replace the tomatoes and they comply directing us to back up with the end of the dock. Melissa goes up the dock to buy replacement tomatoes and returns with a bunch with exactly the same Canadian sticker. Sheesh. Off we go meet up with friends at Jones Island. We get there before noon but missed the last mooring buoy by minutes. Dave is sure he could have got it but a 10 knot wake from a 15 ton boat would not have been appreciated by others. We meet up with our friends on their Gemini 36 and they raft onto us for the night. OK - cats and dogs - powerboats tied to sailboats - what is next? Remember that Dave and Melissa have chartered more sailboats than power so they are what you might call switch hitters.
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07/08/2010, Portland Island
Dave has never gone through the west side of the Gulf Islands. Over to the government docks at Chamainus on the "Big Island" we went in search of water. Dave finally realized that we might need to get water before returning after all. It would be close but if we could find some convenient water, it was worth the stop. Dave had already approached two marinas in Telegraph enquiring if we purchased fuel could we fill the water tanks. Both rejected the notion so off we went to the government dock where we could get it for free. Chamainus is a cute little town - next time we will stay longer. Melissa did a little grocery shopping and after Dave filled the water tanks we slipped off for the next port. We poked our nose in Genoa Bay but did not like what we saw. Too exposed to the south wind we were experiencing. So we headed further south to Portland Island. A fabulous spot. We anchored stern to and took the dinghy all the way around the island. It is a great hiking spot.
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07/07/2010, Telegraph Harbor
Across the Straights we go again. The water was a bit stirred up from an earlier high-wind warning but perfectly comfortable. Waves were less than 2 feet but a bit confused. We were headed for Dodd Narrows near Nanaimo with a goal to hit it about slack. As planned, the passage was absolutely calm - only about a half a knot current was detected. Down to Telegraph Harbor - port of slime. A weird brown foaming stuff forms on the water down here. In this bay, it was everywhere. Gross even. Anyway, we motor up the bay to anchor easily enough. The hard part was going and finding some eggs and beer. Apparently these cannot be purchased on credit and we need to go back to the boat to get cash. Sigh. The bay had little to recommend itself. The cruise in the dinghy through the "cut" was entertaining but there is little to do in this bay. Probably not on the repeat list.
Breakfast was a sausage and egg scramble with fresh tomatoes. Mmmm.
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07/06/2010, Hardy Island
The trip back down through the inlet was spectacular. Dave is now three out of four - another painless passage through Malibu Rapids. Now all of the mountains were showing their snow covered peaks. The trip down was peaceful and no weather to speak of. Arriving at a very nice bay off Hardy Island amongst vacation cabins was quite nice. Figuring out how to rig the boat for stern tie took a little more getting used to. Dave really should remember to take his sandles to shore when stern tying. We invited the neighbor over for a glass of wine and had a quite enjoyable time.
Weather: Sunny and warm. Almost good enough for swimming.
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Irish director Lance Daly's award-winning feature "Kisses" has been acquired by New York based distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories. The company, which took North American rights for the film plans to open the feature in theaters "later this year."
"Kisses" is a romantic coming-of-age film about the "delights and difficulties of childhood with performances from its two young leads (newcomers Kelly O'Neill and Shane Curry). "Kisses" is the highest grossing Irish film of 2008 and premiered at Stateside at the Telluride Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival last year. The film won the Audience Prize at this year's Miami International Film Festival and Best Film at the Galway Film Festival.
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Market regulator Sebi has suspended the broker registration of Baba Bhoothnath Trade and Commerce for a period of 15 days in a case related to fraudulent dealings in initial public offer (IPO) of Taksheel Solutions.
Baba Bhoothnath is a registered broker with BSE and NSE.
As per Sebi, Baba Bhoothnath has allegedly violated regulations on 'prohibition of fraudulent and unfair trade practices' as well as norms for stock brokers by trading in Taksheel's shares using IPO funds of the company that it had received through a circuitous route.
Taking into account, among others, that the broker had already suffered a restraint of two years for its dealings in the scrip of Taksheel, Sebi in an order dated December 31 said that "the suspension of certificate of registration of the noticee (Baba Bhoothnath) for a period of 15 days would be commensurate with the violations found in the matter".
The suspension will come into force on expiry of 21 days from the date of the order, Sebi said.
Taksheel Solutions had come out with an IPO during the period September 29 - October 4, 2011.
Sebi probe into the matter had found that Taksheel Solutions through layered transactions, diverted a part of the IPO proceeds in a circuitous route to certain entities including Baba Bhoothnath.
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Dog Yellow Vomit
So, it's Saturday morning, the day you get to sleep in every week, and all of the sudden you hear that horrible retching sound from your beloved canine. You rise up from bed to see your pup in the corner, hunched over and clearly heaving. Any second now you know that she's going to puke. Now's the decision point: do you rush to get a towel under her, let her be, or go over and sooth her in her moment of need? Before you make a decision, it happens.
So you get up and go to the corner only to see that your pup has not just thrown up her food. There, in the corner, you see that she has thrown up the infamous dog yellow vomit. Something that looks as if it's from another planet lays in your floor. So you freak. What should you do? What's wrong with your dog?
First of all, take a deep breath. Vomiting is very common in the most healthy dogs, especially this dog yellow vomit. This vomit tends to be mostly clear and frothy with a neon yellow tinge to it. If this is what you see, know that your pup has just vomited bile.
PetMD explains that bile is necessary for the digestion of food and removal of wastes in your pet. The liver creates bile while the gallbladder stores it until food has been ingested. At this point, the gallbladder releases the bile into the intestines to work on the food for the digestion process. Sometimes, though, the bile enters the stomach from the intestines thus causing irritation which leads to the aforementioned dog yellow vomit.
The vomit is gross, yes, but it is less concerning than other types of vomiting. However, that does not mean that you shouldn't take action right away. When your pup disgorges this dog yellow vomit of bile, it is incredibly important to get food on her stomach as soon as possible. VetInfo.com, a website with basic veterinary information for dogs and cats, states that bile can irritate the empty stomach lining causing discomfort also called gastritis.
No one likes to have an upset stomach, and neither do our pets. If you notice that your dog regularly experiences the vile dog yellow vomit particularly in the morning or evening right before meals, contact your vet. If your dog only purges the dog yellow vomit every once in a while, it's probably just a bile irritation and not worth the cost and stress of a vet visit. Even so, if you are concerned, call your vet. They know what's best because they know your pet's medical history.
The good news, though, is that this dog yellow vomit is not something to get too excited about. It's normal and easily dealt with.
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According to GamesIndustry International, computer and console peripheral and accessories giant Logitech will stop manufacturing and selling video game console accessories. The exit out of the market is the result of a 14 percent drop in sales to $615 million for Q3 FY 2013.
As a result the company will sharpen its focus on PC and mobile accessories.
"We have also identified a number of product categories that no longer fit with our current strategic direction," said CEO Bracken P. Darrell. "As a result, we have initiated the process to divest our remote controls and digital video security categories, and we plan to discontinue other non-strategic products, such as speaker docks and console gaming peripherals, by the end of Calendar Year 2013."
"As we articulated when we started the third quarter, continued weakness in the global PC market was the primary factor in our disappointing Q3 results," he added. "These results are unacceptable and we are taking decisive action as an outcome of my strategic review."
So if there's a favorite Logitech console accessory you like, it probably wouldn't hurt to go out and buy it now… Hopefully the company will return to making console-related accessories after Sony and Microsoft release their next-generation consoles…
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A dignified transfer of remains found on Colony Glacier. Also available in high definition. Summary: The transportation of remains found on Colony Glacier, Alaska. These remains are believed to belong to a C-124A Globemaster that crashed in 1952 killing all 52 military members on board. The remains were moved from JBER medical facility to JPAC headquarters at Joint Base Pear Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.
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Yesterday Sony released firmware update 1.65 for the PS Vita… and then quickly yanked it offline. Apparently the 1.65 has some serious issues – namely problems with adhoc multiplayer. To deal with the issues caused by 1.65 and to add some new tweaks to the handheld, Sony has released firmware update 1.66. The 97MB update fixes the issue with adhoc wireless multiplayer on PSP games and adds an assortment of usability tweaks.
Chances are it also deals with some strange hacks related to some PSP games (which were pulled from the PSN store last week) that allowed users to play homebrew content on the platform. We have not confirmed whether the update deals with that problem or if Sony is still working on it..
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It's time to end death penalty for good
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January 2, 2014 at 03:42 PM
skari Abdullah Muhammad, formerly known as Thomas Knight, has exhausted his final appeal. He is scheduled to be executed by the state of Florida on Jan. 7. He has spent 38 years on death row.
"Thirty-eight years?" you might ask, and that may lead you to think that legislation Gov. Rick Scott signed in June, named "Timely Justice," makes sense. Under "Timely Justice," the governor must sign a death warrant within 30 days of the conclusion of a review for clemency, and execution must take place within 180 days.
"Timely Justice" will be timely. It will not be just.
First, there will be errors in executing the legislation: Florida has the highest number of death row exonerations in the country — 24 since 1973.
Second, in mandating the governor to sign a warrant within 30 days, there will be discrimination by ethnicity and class. Forty-five percent of the inmates on Florida's death row are African-American or Latino. If national data apply, they are all poor, and most will have been sentenced for crimes against whites — crimes for which prosecutors earn political benefit by appearing "tough."
Third, there will be discrimination by geography. A scathing American Bar Association report on the death penalty in Florida reports that death penalties come from only a small number of counties, suggesting that a definition of justice in sentencing rests with a local district attorney.
A new report from the Death Penalty Information Center demonstrates that this is true nationwide. "Contrary to the assumption that the death penalty is widely practiced across the country, it is actually the domain of a small percentage of U.S. counties in a handful of states — 2 percent in fact.
I am not claiming that every person on death row is innocent or that every prosecutor is motivated by self-interest. I am also not suggesting that we not have society bring those who murder before the courts.
On the issue of the death penalty, however, it is clear that states — indeed counties — have proven that they are not able to manage capital punishment in a way that is accurate and fair.
Twice we have tried to fix a broken system. In 1972, the Supreme Court, convinced by a series of cases in which race, class and geography had clearly influenced judgment, imposed a nationwide moratorium on execution. The justices called the system "arbitrary and capricious" and forbade execution everywhere — until individual states could demonstrate they could manage it fairly. That moratorium lasted four years. Beginning in 1976, states brought forward processes that on paper promised accuracy and fairness. As the situation in Florida proves, this "experiment," too, has failed.
The "Timely Justice" legislation will not "fix" capital punishment in Florida; it will make it worse. The only way to "clear out" Florida's death row is to abolish the death penalty and commute existing sentences to life in prison.
It is not likely that Florida will do that on its own. Most of the residents are like I used to be: disinterested, uninformed, and easily distracted by language such as "timely justice." The Supreme Court must do it. It is time for another moratorium on the death penalty. This one for good.
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Gas cutter was used to break open the vault, police said
Rough and polished diamonds worth Rs 22.5 lakh have been stolen from a manufacturing unit in Kapodara area of the city. Police said the theft took place on Saturday night and the factory owner lodged a complaint in this regard on Sunday night.
In the complaint, factory owner Bhavesh Vaghasia stated that when he went to his factory on Sunday afternoon, he found the lock of the main door broken.
When he went in, the safe vault was also broken and diamonds worth Rs 22.5 lakh were missing.
The factory is located at Somnath Society in Kapodara area.
Kapodara police inspector M V Kikani said, Gas cutter was used to break open the vault. Rough diamonds are cut and polished at Bhaveshs factory so he keeps both rough and polished diamond in his safe vault. We cant say anything on this right now. Our investigations are on.


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text: Murney acquitted over terrorism charges 24 Feb 2014 Éirígí press officer Stephen Murney has said he spent "14 months in custody for nothing" after being acquitted of a series of terrorism charges. Share Share Share Story by UTV Staff, Belfast Mr Murney, 30 and from Derrybeg Terrace in Newry, stood trial earlier this year on seven counts of publishing, collecting and possessing information likely to be of use to terrorists between August 2011 and July 2012.He was accused of publishing on his Facebook page photographs of police officers on duty.During the Diplock, non-jury trial held at Belfast Crown Court, the prosecution said the photographs were found on a computer, together with two videos on an iPhone, during a police search of his south Down home in November 2012.Mr Murney took photographs of police officers in June 2012, as the Olympic torch passed through the city. He also took images of officers who were policing a protest in support of Republican prisoners and against searches in Maghaberry prison which were taking place at the time.He was part of this protest and was the press officer for Éirígí, who organised the demonstration. He later published the images on his Facebook page.Mr Murney also published photographs in August 2011 and July 2012 of himself being stopped and searched by police, as well as collecting and making a record of the policing of a 12th of July parade in Newry, which showed the faces of officers present.My imprisonment for the past 14 months was as a direct result of my political views and my membership of Éirígí - an open and legitimate political party.Stephen MurneyDuring the trial, the court heard that when Mr Murney's home was searched in November 2012, photographs of police officers on duty in Newry and Belfast were found, along with a minute-long video of a police operation on the A1 where a bus believed to be carrying explosives was stopped and searched.When asked during the trial why he recorded the bus incident, Mr Murney said the bus had children on board and he was asked by parents of the children if Éirígí could be of assistance, adding it was his intention to capture on camera what was happening.Giving evidence at his trial, Mr Murney denied the photographs and videos were for terrorist purposes, stating he had them to report what was going on, in his role as press officer.When asked about the images of him being stopped and searched, Mr Murney made the case that he was recording the incidents to show the Committee on the Administration of Justice as he believed he was being harassed by the PSNI.In her ruling, Judge Corrinne Philpott said: "There is no evidence before this court that Éirígí supports violence, or has argued for violent action to be taken against the police, or that the organisation is directly linked to those that support terrorist activity."She said: "The prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the accused possessed information likely to be of use to terrorists and that he had no reasonable excuse for his actions."In the view of this court, the prosecution have not discharged that burden to the requisite standard, that is beyond reasonable doubt, and therefore the accused is entitled to an acquittal on all counts."As the Judge made her final remark, family, friends and supporters of Mr Murney clapped in the public gallery.Speaking outside the court, Mr Murney thanked his legal team, described his period in custody as "internment on remand" and vowed to continue his work as a press officer with Éirígí.In a statement issued on his behalf, Mr Murney said: "Those charges, of which I have been found to be innocent, were brought against me by the PSNI, who objected to the fact that I recorded, documented and publicised PSNI personnel abusing the human and civil rights of citizens in the Newry area." © UTV Share Share Share