text: Counting bolts: Tommy's long ride August 25, 2002 Story Share SNOWSHOE ? Tommy Evans stood atop the 4,848-foot mountain at6:20 a.m., waiting for the bus to arrive, wearing a special badge so nobodywould lose him on the way to school. He clutched his father?s hand. Wind sailed through the pineboughs. Their dog, Jake, sniffed a trash can. Tommy is learning the hard truth about rural education at anearly age. He?s 4 years old. He attended preschool at the elementary school inMarlinton. He starts kindergarten Monday. He travels 1 hour and 20 minutes each way to and from school.He rides two buses, transferring at Slatyfork. He leaves at 6:30, returns homeat 4:40 in the afternoon. ?It?s hard on him, hard on any kid,? said Tommy?s father, Tom Evans, who works in the Snowshoe bike shop. Tommy?s mother, Joan, joined them at the top of the mountain.She put her arm around Tommy?s shoulder, made sure he had gone to the bathroom. Tommy hadn?t eaten breakfast. It was too early. He wasn?thungry yet. ?When we came here we didn?t have Tommy,? Tom Evans aid.?Wedidn?t realize what was involved. If and when we move from this mountain, itwill be because of the long bus rides.? A strobe light pierced the fog. A yellow bus rumbled up themountain. Tommy climbed on, slumped into his seat, waved out the window.His father and mother waved back, blew him kisses, as the bus coasted down themountain, Tommy already fast asleep. ?The Snowshoe kids are so tired? Parents in northern Pocahontas County want a new school. Theywant a community school where their kids could ride their bikes and studyforests, streams and wildlife. Intrawest, the company that owns Snowshoe Mountain Resort,offered to donate land for the new school. Snowshoe officials said theycouldn?t recruit employees with children because of long bus rides. Volunteers got in line. They invited nearby Randolph Countychildren to come to the school. Construction money would come from the stateSchool Building Authority. The proposed 90-student school didn?t meet the SBA?s ?economies of scale? guidelines, which require new schools to house at least 300 students.But SBA officials said they would consider the school because it would promoteeconomic development and serve children from two counties. ?I can?t think of a better way to serve kids than to keep themclose to home,? said SBA Executive Director Clacy Williams last year. But the school plans fizzled. Randolph County didn?t want toend its kids. School systems receive state money based on enrollment. Fewerkids means fewer dollars. So, for now, and perhaps for a lifetime, Pocahontas Countychildren must endure long school bus rides. That?s all they?ll know. ?When they leave it?s dark. When they get home, it?s dark,?aid Regina Erlwine, whose 4-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter ride the busto Marlinton. Regina must put her children to bed early, about 7 p.m. Shepicks out their clothes the night before. She dresses them each morning whilethey?re still sleeping. She sometimes slips them a snack to eat on the bus. ?It?s such a long day,? said Erlwine, who works in sales atSnowshoe. ?They don?t want to get up. They?re tired all the time.? Becki Furbee?s 6-year-old son, Max, will enter the first gradeat Marlinton Elementary Monday. Last year, she sometimes received notes fromMax?s teacher. Max seems sleepy, the notes aid. ?The teachers always tell us the Snowshoe kids are so tired. Nowonder,? Furbee aid.?The little ones say, ?I don?t want to go to schooltomorrow.? When I was young I loved school.? Counting bolts Tommy Evans dashed through the spring rain and hopped into hisbus for the ride home. He sat in the front seat behind the driver. The little children always sit near the front, the middlechool students in the middle, and high school students, if they don?t drive tochool, in the back. Some children open books and try to read or tackle homework,but it?s difficult on the bumpy, twisting ride. So boys play hand-held videogames, girls practice putting on lipstick. ?If you ride this two times a day, five days a week, man, itgets old real fast,? said Seth Morgan, 8, a second-grader at MarlintonElementary. ?As soon as I get home, I eat, drink, do my homework, go to bed. Idon?t have time for anything else.? Sometimes children urinate in their pants on the bus. Sometimesthey vomit. ?If they start to get sick, we know to get the trash can,? Sethaid. Around him, children used their fingers to scribble messages onfogged windows. They typed ?7734? into a calculator, then flipped it upsidedown to spell ?hell.? The older children played ?truth or dare,? the youngerones, ?bubble gum, bubble gum, in a dish.? There were games of ?mercy?and ?scissors, paper, rock.? ?The first person to bleed is out,? said Hanna Giddings, 12, aixth-grader at Marlinton Middle. They also counted bolts. They counted the bolts along a seam that seals two sections ofthe bus roof. ?Everyone on the bus can tell you there are 46 bolts,? saidAlexa Furbee, 13, Becki Furbee?s daughter, who has been on the same gruelingbus run since kindergarten. The bus splashed through Slatyfork, pulled up at a mobile homepark. A mother drove up on a lawn tractor to pick up her daughter, rain soakingher clothes. The bus barreled up Snowshoe Mountain, past the chairlifts andki slopes and mountain lodge. Tommy?s mother was waiting for him. He lookedout the window and smiled. ?Hey, hey, I?m almost home,? he aid. He was asked how long he rides the bus each day. ?It takes about eight hours,? he aid. To contact staff writers Eric Eyre and Scott Finn, use e- mail or call 357-4323. 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I have been using aczone gel 5% for the last 2 years.but for the last 2 months its been making my skin dry.I started using a non comedogenic moisturizer 15 minutes after the aczone gel dry's but my skin is still very dry so dry it has made some small wrinkles on my face and made a few other wrinkles I already had bigger.Anyway I want to know if I apply the moisturizer first then the aczone on top if this would help with the dryness and would it lessen the affects of the aczone?
Aczone and Dry Skin Can I Moisturize First?
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Combining Aczone With A Moisturizer
I usually tell my patients to apply the active, in this case Aczone, first and the moisturizer over it. However, if you are doing that already and the dryness persists, then you can apply the moisturizer first and then wait a few minutes and apply the Aczone over it. The Aczone will still be effective and you will minimize the dryness.
Learn more: http://www.barnettdermatology.com/conditions.php?id=15
Aczone may be combined with a moisturizer.
Dear writer, if you're experiencing dryness after aczone gel application, you may apply a thin layer of moisturizer first, and then apply the aczone. Cerave PM is a very well tolerated moisturizer, and it's available at most drug stores. You may also try using this combination every other night, and will still benefit from the effect of aczone.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.

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Jane Cundiff
Biology Professor, Global Educator, Volunteer Project Organizer, Naturalist & Gardener
Jane and her husband Ken have settled in Floyd after a life as international science educators. They are now adjunct science professors at Radford University and stay busy growing organic food and protecting local ecology. Jane is presently active in several community organizations in Floyd and runs the Wild Edibles Organic Garden Club.
Mike Burton
Attorney, Farmer, Conservationist
Mike received his Juris Doctorate from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1988 and practiced trial law in North Carolina for 10 years. He farmed in Floyd for several years before accepting the position of Director of SustainFloyd. He was an active and successful leader of the organization until 2013 when he left to work as independent consultant on local food systems development. He served as a board member of the Virginia Association for Biological Farmers and with the Community Foundation of the New River Valley. Mike lives in a straw bale, solar-powered, wood-heated home he constructed and is very engaged with the local community.
William Bell
Bill has lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains most of his life, and has made his living photographing the regional landscape. He and his wife, Joanne, own the Bell Gallery in downtown Floyd, where they showcase their own work as well as many other local artists.
Since attending his first Earth Day in 1970, Bill has continued to study issues related to sustainability, economy, ecology, and societal change.
Karin Grosshans
Banker, Community Volunteer
Karin lives and works in Floyd. She is the Branch Manager at the Floyd branch of Bank of Floyd (soon to be renamed!), and her favorite thing to do is to work with the many community organizations which do good work in our area. Karin is a member of Partnership for Floyd, an officer with the Rotary Club of Floyd, and a board member of the Floyd Chamber of Commerce and the Community Foundation of the New River Valley. She serves on the Development Committee for SustainFloyd.
Morgan Ohland
Sustainable Farmer, Chocolatier, Author
Morgan Ohland inherited her green thumb from her mother, a life-long gardener and military wife who has grown vegetables all over the United States. Morgan developed an interest in sustainable agriculture when she was 'transplanted' to Central Florida from the northeast in 1999. She spent the next 11 years cultivating vegetables and raising community awareness about food.
Her first commercial venture began in 2005 when she started a gardening service that set up and maintained private vegetable gardens for residents in Brevard County, FL. By 2006 she had leased her first piece of land in Cocoa, FL and founded Four Hands Farm, LLC – Brevard County's first CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program. Morgan specialized in small-scale (less than 5 acres), organic, sustainable vegetable crop production and CSA management and was a regular speaker at meetings and events around Central Florida, taught gardening workshops and classes to kids and adults and provided consulting services to individuals and organizations interested in local food production.
In 2010 Farmer Morgan relocated with her husband to Virginia and spent the next four years supporting small local businesses with their accounting and operations needs and the next two at VA Tech as a financial analyst. She is currently the Chocolatier at Floyd's new hand-crafted chocolate shop – Cocoa Mia – and is working on a book titled 'Opting Out of the American Food Machine'.
Marjory Wells
Retired Nurse-Midwife
Marjory Wells is a retired Nurse-Midwife. She lived in South Carolina for most of her adult life. She enjoys the art and jewelry classes at the Floyd Center for the Arts. She has been involved with Partnership for Floyd and the trails. She loves being in Floyd.
Mark Schonbeck
Consultant in Sustainable Agriculture
Mark lives in Floyd as part of the Abundant Dawn Community. He provides one-on-one consulting for farmers and homesteaders including soil test interpretation, soil health, and nutrient, weed, and pest management for ecological and organic production systems. He also works with National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition in advocating for more sustainable farm and food system policy at the federal level.
Barbara Pleasant
Writer, Volunteer
Barbara has been covering organic agriculture for 30 years, first with Organic Gardening magazine and now with Mother Earth News. Author of several award-winning books, she serves on SustainFloyd's Film Committee.
Tom Franko
Timber Framer
Tom Franko tree-planted for years to purchase a stake in a Floyd intentional community – Zephyr – then built a home from timber and stone and found a vocation in the local timber framing industry.
Tom is quiet but outspoken when necessary. He is a husband, father and grandfather. He loves to travel and still works to sustain that. Human connection is the true stuff of life and nothing like an honest community to provide opportunity for that.
Lydeana Martin
Floyd County Community and Economic Development Director
Lydeana grew up in Floyd County and is fortunate to still call it home. She works closely with the local Economic Development Authority on business development initiatives as well as with non-profits and the local Planning Commission. She serves on the SustainFloyd Stewardship committee.
Dave Albee
Dave Albee moved to Floyd in 2012 and is homesteading on fifteen acres. He serves on the Energy Committee.


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New Purchase
In honor of my sending my application for my concealed carry permit off, I decided I needed a new toy. Picked up a Kel-Tec P11 with two mags, kydex holster and Nemesis holster, out the door for 246.00. Looking forward to getting out to the range to try it out!
Congratulations on the new pistol! Post some pics and a range report, we all love gun porn. :)
i have a Keltec p32....i did have a Failure to cycle with it but i believe that was at the fault of the round.. the 32 auto is semi rimmed andk i may have improperly loaded magazine at the range being in a rush.
overall i am pretty darned impresses with keltec performance
Sounds like you got a good deal. How about some pics?
Time to shoot it & figure out if it " prefers " a certain ammo. Breaking it in, helps these little pistols. Remember, this is a very small concealed weapon, therefore, It will be harder to shoot accurately at distances. I always practice at 7-10yds.
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TWO weeks ago, Lionel Messi was still regarded as a player who had saved his best form for Barcelona and never quite reprised it in the stripes of his national side.
The people of Argentina have been rapidly revising that opinion since this World Cup kicked off with Messi scoring sublime goals for fun, which he continued to do yesterday.
His brace, which included a sumptuous free-kick, inspired Argentina to beat Nigeria 3-2 and ensure qualification to the knockout stages as winners of Group F.
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Messi's two goals were twice cancelled out by Nigeria's Ahmed Musa but Marcos Rojo's second-half finish made sure Argentina took all three points. Despite their defeat, Nigeria also progressed to the last 16 due to Iran's 3-1 loss at the hands of Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Messi's double means he is now joint top-scorer with Neymar on four and while the No.10 was substituted and spared the final half-hour of the game, his form carries Argentina into the last 16 in high spirits.
It took less than three minutes for the South Americans to break the deadlock. Javier Mascherano fired an incisive pass to Angel Di Maria and while the winger's shot was saved by Vincent Enyeama, the ball cannoned back off the near post and into the path of Messi - who shot high into the net.
One minute and 20 seconds later, however, Nigeria were level. Michel Babatunde broke from midfield and played the ball left to Musa, who skipped inside Pablo Zabaleta before curling the ball brilliantly past Romero and into the far corner.
Sergio Aguero's injury-plagued season continued as the Manchester City forward hobbled off in the 37th minute and was replaced by Ezequiel Lavezzi. On the stroke of half-time Messi chipped a free kick over the Nigerian wall to make it 2-1.
Nigeria drew level soon after the break as Musa ghosted through the Argentina defence before slotting past Sergio Romero. Rojo diverted a corner home with his knee to secure Argentina's third straight success.


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I think I've got a problem with charging my PocketBook Touch. When I connect it to PC and select to enter battery charging mode, it shows a "spark" symbol in the battery icon but the LED is not blinking. I've had it connected for hours and the battery icon is still empty when I disconnect the device from the computer. Also when I look into advanced setting in my Windows 7 system, it does not show the device and no USB controller shows any energy consumption, that means that no electricity enters the device. I tried multiple USBs on my PC, it did not help. I also tried to reset (click the reset button) the device when connected and reset it and then connect, again nothing. The version of the firmware on the device is D6126.96.36.199 which is newer than the latest on the website, which is D6188.8.131.52.
Is there any way how to solve this or what should I do? I'm going to try some wall USB charger if nothing helps but I thought that I will get along only with the USB cable and my PC. I haven't found anyone mentioning this problem anywhere in the deep waters of Internet.
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Sykes Enterprises' secret is out; now every other public company in town will want to know how they pulled it off.
Out of a cluster of more than 30 locally-based public companies tracked by the St. Petersburg Times, the Tampa-based call center operation spearheaded by the Sykes family was the sole one to end 2008 on the up side. Its stock closed Wednesday at $19.12, notching a 6 percent gain.
Even the best of the rest of the local stocks were losers for the 52 weeks, though second-best Brown & Brown rallied this week to avoid a double-digit percentage drop.
In a year the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed some 36 percent of its value — the biggest freefall since the Great Depression's 41 percent plummet in 1931 — how did Sykes avoid the carnage?
It helped to be in the outsourcing industry, which was fueled as companies cut internal costs. The result: in November, Sykes posted a 58 percent rise in third quarter profits and 18 percent jump in revenue with a strong Euro boosting its results in European call centers.
Brown & Brown, the general insurer with dual headquarters in Tampa and Daytona Beach, was next closest to respectable with a 9.8 percent drop. In December, while many credit-challenged companies were lying low, Brown continued its acquisition spree by buying five more small insurance companies in Indiana, Louisiana, New Jersey and New Mexico.
In the worst of the worst category, the hardest-hit stock wasn't a surprise: Clearwater boat seller MarineMax, treading water with a 78 percent stock drop.
MarineMax has been hammered throughout the year. First, many stopped buying boats because of higher fuel prices; then consumers were caught in the recessionary squeeze that put luxury items like a 30-foot sports boat somewhat low on shopping lists.
Some of the area's biggest losers narrowly avoiding the bottom five, but shedding billions of dollars in value, included Gerdau Ameristeel (down 56 percent), Jabil Circuit (down 55 percent), Walter Industries (down 51 percent) and Tech Data (down 53 percent).
The Times analysis omitted local companies that weren't public for a full year, such as home shopping's HSN Inc., which was spun off from parent IAC/InterActiveCorp and began trading independently in August. It also left out public companies now trading for less than a buck a share (mercifully sparing from the list Clearwater's Aerosonic Corp., down 87 percent for the year to close at 65 cents a share).
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Threat Description
Nimda is a complex virus with a mass mailing worm component which spreads itself in e-mail attachments named README.EXE. It affects Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 users.
The first variant in the Net-Worm:W32/Nimda family was found on September 18th, 2001, and quickly spread around the world.
F-Secure Anti-Virus detects the worm with updates released on September 18th, 2001 19:20 EET. Disinfection was added in the updates from September 19th, 2001 17:12 EET.
Manual Disinfection Instructions
F-Secure Anti-Virus with the latest updates can detect and disinfect Nimda infections. But full disinfection of the worm will require some additional manual actions.
The F-NIMDA tool was developed to automate these actions. If you wish to do them by hand, follow the instructions below. Otherwise, download F-NIMDA from:
- ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/fsnimda3.exe
If you're running Windows ME, you need to turn off the Autorestore functionality before starting any disinfection. Do this by clicking My Computer on desktop, then Performance->File System ->Troubleshooting->Disable System Restore. Turn it back on when done.
To disinfect the worm and restore security of affected workstations, please follow these instructions:
- 1. Disable all network sharing or temporarily kill the network. This is a must as the worm uses the network to spread itself.
- 2. Scan _all_ files (not just files with selected extensions) on all local hard drives and clean all infected EXE files using F-Secure Anti-Virus and the latest updates. It is recommended that you use one of the latest FSAV versions to remove infection.
- 3. Delete or rename (if not possible to delete instantly) all non-disinfectable or
locked files including worm droppers (typically 57kB in size):
- MMC.EXE (in Windows directory)
- LOAD.EXE (in Windows' system directory)
- ADMIN.DLL (in root folder of all local hard drives)
- RICHED20.DLL (in all folders on all local hard drives)
- All *.EML and *.NWS files (typically 79kB in size) that are detected as infected with Nimda should be deleted. Note that you might have clean EML files as well, for example if you've saved e-mails to file from Outlook Express, so only delete files that FSAV detects as infected. If an infected file is locked by Windows, complete disinfection, exit to pure DOS or boot your system with a clean system diskette and rename/delete the file manually. In case of NT/2000 based system the locked file(s) should be renamed with a non-executable extension to ensure that it doesn't start when Windows is booted next time.
- 4. Restart a system. Do not connect it to the network yet. It is advised to scan all files on all local drives with FSAV again to ensure that there are no more infected files in a system.
- 5. Locate SYSTEM.INI file in your Windows directory and open it with Wordpad or Notepad. Replace the string "shell=explorer.exe load.exe -donotloadold" with "shell=explorer.exe" string.
- 6. Delete all files with .TMP extensions from your local temporary directories - typically \Temp\ or \Windows\Temp\ or \documents and settings\username\local settings\temp.
- 7. Copy a clean RICHED20.DLL file to \Windows\System\ or \WinNT\System32\ folders.
This DLL file is used by many applications and they won't run if this DLL is missing.
You can locate a clean RICHED20.DLL file from a clean Windows machine, or extract
it from Office 2000 CD with this command:
- EXTRACT /A r:\office1.cab riched20.dll /L c:\windows\system
- 8. Remove all shares from all local hard drives and renew these shares with correct access rights if needed. This needs to be done because the worm affects shares security. Check especially the \\localhost\c$ share rights.
- 9. Remove 'Guest' account and renew it with correct access rights and group placement ('Guest' account should not be in 'Administrators' group).
- 10. Check all *.HTML, *.ASP, and *.HTM as well as files that have 'DEFAULT', 'INDEX', 'MAIN' and 'README' words in their filenames for the small JavaScript code referring to README.EML file and remove it or restore the affected files from a backup. This JavaScript code is located in the very end of affected files.
- 11. When cleaning a webserver from Nimda, the CodeRed II backdoor infections should
be removed as well. Please refer to 'CodeRed' description and cleaning instructions:
- http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/bady.htm
- 12. Correct Windows Explorer's settings concerning displaying of hidden files and certain extensions if necessary as the worm makes Explorer to hide certain files and extensions.
- 13. Restore network connections only after all workstations are disinfected or the worm will re-infected already clean computers!
About Infected Sites
A web site can get infected in two ways:
1) Infected htmls are copied the secure site. This can happen even if you're using a patched version of IIS or something else entirely (such as Apache or Netscape). If there are infected computers in your organization, their local html files get infected. Users might then later copy or upload such infected pages to your www server. Alternatively, if your www files are accessible via file sharing the worm might infect them directly from a workstation. To clean your site, locate all html pages which refer to "README.EML" and remove the extra Javascript code from the end of the pages.
2) Direct web worm infection. If your web site is running an unsafe version of IIS, the worm can infect your site by accessing it through http. After this it will restart spreading from your server. In this case, it is not enough to just clean the virus - your web server is unsafe and has been so for a while. It's likely there have been previous illegimate accesses to your site as well and it should be considered compromised. We recommend rebuilding the web server and applying latest patches before restoring clean copies of the html pages.
Remember, F-Secure Management Server 4.x uses IIS as a web server platform. Keep them patched. F-Secure Policy Manager Server 5.0 and higher do NOT use IIS.
Technical Details
Nimda uses the Unicode exploit to infect IIS web servers. This hole can be closed with a Microsoft patch, downloadable from: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-078.asp. The MIME exploit used by the worm can be fixed with this patch: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp
Nimda is the first worm to modify existing web sites to start offering infected files for download. Also it is the first worm to use normal end user machines to scan for vulnerable web sites. This technique enables Nimda to easily reach intranet web sites located behind firewalls - something worms such as Code Red couldn't directly do.
The worm has a copyright text string that is never displayed:
- Concept Virus(CV) V.5, Copyright(C)2001 R.P.China
It should be said that the worm has bugs that cause crashes or inability to spread itself in certain conditions.
The details below refer to the Net-Worm:W32/Nimda.A variant. For details of other variants in the Nimda family, please see:
This worm is especially relevant to F-Secure as around 15:00 GMT on 11th of October, 2001, hundreds of e-mails infected with Nimda.A was sent to various addresses around the world. These e-mails looked like they were sent by "email@example.com" (do note that F-Secure used to be called datafellows.com; company name and domain was changed in early 2000). Mr. Mikko Hypponen is our Manager of Anti-Virus Research. He naturally had nothing to do with this incident.
These e-mails were apparently sent from an infected machine located somewhere in Canada. For more information about the worm's spread, see https://www.f-secure.com/news/2001/news_2001091900.htm.
The actual lifecycle of Nimda can be split to four parts:
- Infecting files
- Mass mailing
- Web worm
- LAN propagation
1) File infection Nimda locates EXE files from the local machine and infects them by putting the file inside its body as a resource, thus 'assimilating' that file.These files then spread the infection when people exchange programs such as games.
2) Mass mailer Nimda locates e-mail addresses via MAPI from your e-mail client as well as searching local HTML files for additional addresses. Then it sends one e-mail to each address. These mails contain an attachment called README.EXE, which might be executed automatically on some systems.
3) Web worm Nimda starts to scan the internet, trying to locate www servers. Once a web server is found, the worm tries to infect it by using several known security holes. If this succeeds, the worm will modify random web pages on the site. End result of this modification is that web surfers browsing the site will get automatically infected by the worm.
4) LAN propagation The worm will search for file shares in the local network, either from file servers or from end user machines. Once found, it will drop a hidden file called RICHED20.DLL to any directory which has DOC and EML files. When other users try to open DOC or EML files from these directories, Word, Wordpad or Outlook will execute RICHED20.DLL causing an infection of the PC. The worm will also infect remote files if it was started on a server.
First, it should be noted that the worm behaves differently when started from files with different file names and with different command lines.
Starting on a server:
If the name of worm's file is ADMIN.DLL, the worm creates a mutex with 'fsdhqherwqi2001' name, copies itself as MMC.EXE into \Windows\ directory and starts this file with '-qusery9bnow' command line. Usually the worm is started as ADMIN.DLL on infected webservers. In this case the worm starts to scan and infect files on all available drives including removable and network ones. The EXE files (except WINZIP32.EXE) on these drives will get infected with the worm. The infection technique the worm uses is new - the worm puts an infected file inside its body as a resource. When the infected file is run, the worm extracts the embedded original EXE file, runs it and tries to delete it afterwards. If instant deletion is not possible, the worm creates WININIT.INI file that will delete the extracted file on next Windows startup.
The worm accesses the following key:
- SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths]
It reads subkeys from there and infects all files listed in the subkeys. The worm also reads user's personal folders from the following key:
- [Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
And infects files in these folders as well. The worm doesn't infect WinZip32.exe files.
The worm's file runs from a minimized window when downloaded from an infected webserver. This technique affects users who are browsing the web with Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.01.
The worm will also put *.EML and *.NWS files in almost all folders of computers it accesses. The RICHED20.DLL file with hidden and system attribute will be put in all folders where DOC or EML files are located. The worm will also try to replace Windows' original RICHED20.DLL file with its own copy.
Starting on a workstation:
If the worm is started from README.EXE file (or a file that has more than 5 symbols in its name and EXE extension), it copies itself to temporary folder with a random name that has 'MEP*.TMP' name and runs itself there with '-dontrunold' command line option.
When started, the worm loads itself as a DLL library, looks for a specific resource there and checks its size. If the resource size is less than 100, the worm unloads itself, otherwise it extracts its resource to a file and launches it. Checking the resource size is done to be able to detect if a worm runs from infected EXE files.
Then the worm gets current time and generates a random number. After performing a few arithmetic operations with this number the worm checks the result. If a result is bigger than worm's counter, the worm starts to search and delete README*.EXE files from temporary folder.
After that the worm prepares its MIME-encoded copy by extrating a pre-defined multi-partite MIME message from its body and appending its MIME-encoded copy to it. The file with a random name is created in a temporary folder.
The worm then looks for EXPLORER process, opens it and assigns its process as remote thread of Explorer. On some platforms the worm fails to run as Explorer's thread. The worm gets API creates a mutex with 'fsdhqherwqi2001' name, startups Winsock services, gets an infected computer (host) info and sleeps for some time. When resumed, the worm checks what platform it is running. If it is running on NT-based system, it compacts its memory blocks to occupy less space in memory and copies itself as LOAD.EXE to Windows system directory.Then it modifies SYSTEM.INI file by adding the following string after SHELL= variable in [Boot] section:
- explorer.exe load.exe -dontrunold
This will start the worm's copy every time Windows starts. The worm also copies itself as RICHED20.DLL file to system folder and sets hidden and system attributes to this file as well as to LOAD.EXE file. Then the worm enumerates shared network resources and starts to recursively scan files on remote systems.
When searching for files on remote systems the worm looks for .DOC and .EML files and then copies its binary image with RICHED20.DLL name to the folders where DOC and EML files are located. The copied DLL file has system and hidden attributes. This is done to increase the chances of worm activation on remote systems as Windows' original RICHED20.DLL component is used to open OLE files. But instead the worm's RICHED20.DLL file from current directory will be launched.
Also when the worm browsing the remote computers' directories it creates .EML and .NWS (rarely) files that have the names of document or webpage files that the worm could find on a remote system. These .EML and .NWS files are worm's multi-partite messages with a worm MIME-encoded in them. When scanning the worm can also delete the .EML and .NWS files it previously created.
The worm doesn't try to infect local or remote EXE files when started from a workstation.
The worm adjusts the properties of Windows Explorer, it accesses the following key:
- [Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
and adjusts 'Hidden', 'ShowSuperHidden' and 'HideFileExt' keys. This affects Windows' (especially ME and 2000) ability to show hidden files - worm's files will not be seen in Explorer any more.
After that the worm adds a 'guest' account to infected system account list, activates this account, adds it to 'Administrator' and 'Guests' groups and shares C:\ drive with full access priviledges. The worm also deletes all subkeys from the following key:
- [SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\Shares\Security]
to disable sharing security.
E-Mail spreading:
The worm searches trough all the '.htm' and '.html' file in the Temporary Internet Files folder for e-mail addresses. It reads trough user's inbox and collects the sender addresses. When the address list is ready it uses it's own SMTP engine to send the infected messages.
IIS spreading:
The worm uses backdoors on IIS servers such as the one CodeRed II installs. It scans random IP addresses for these backdoors. When a host is found to have one the worm instructs the machine to download the worm code (Admin.dll) from the host used for scanning. After this it executes the worm on the target machine this way infecting it.
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Lucid's Multi-GPU Wonder: More Information on the Hydra 100by Derek Wilson on August 22, 2008 4:00 PM EST
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Obviously it'll accelerate games. What about GPGPU? That's not the focus of Lucid right now. They said they want to look at the largest market for the part and target that first, and gaming is certainly where that is at. It is physically possible that the hardware and software could load balance other tasks across the hardware, but this isn't something that is currently being explored or developed.
It will also accelerate games using multiple GPUs while outputting to multiple displays. Imagine 4 GPUs sharing the load over 3 monitors for a flight sim. Neither NVIDIA nor AMD can pull something like this off right now with their technology.
This can end up on both GPUs and on motherboards, and they can be cascaded. There is a limit to how many you can cascade because you will start introducing latency (but Lucid didn't define that limit). But 1 level deep is reasonable apparently. And this means it seems like it would be possible (except for the power requirements) to build a motherboard with 4 slots that had 4 cards each with 2 GPUs (let's say GTX 280s) connected by a Hyrda 100 chip.
And if scaling is really linear, 8x GTX 280 would certainly deliver way more than we could possibly need for a pretty good while. We'd be CPU and system limited until the cows come home (or at least a good 2 or 3 generations of hardware out into the future). Well, either that or developers would catch on that they could allow ridiculous features to be enabled for the kind of super ultra mega (filthy rich) users that would pick up such a crazy solution.
Upgrading hardware would be stupidly simple. Forget PhysX or anything like that: leave your older card in the system and upgrade to the latest generation and they'll both contribute equally to the rendering of frames (and since graphics is usually the largest bottleneck in the system, this will improve performance more than any other solution anyway). If we added a GTX 280 to a card with half it's performance, we'd see a 50% performance improvement over a single GTX 280. Not bad at all. There would be less downside in buying a high end part because it could continue to serve you for much longer than usual. And low end parts would still contribute as well (with a proportionally smaller gain, but a gain nonetheless).
Lucid also makes what seems like a ridiculous claim. They say that in some cases they could see higher than linear scaling. The reason they claim this should be possible is that the CPU will be offloaded by their hardware and doesn't need to worry about as much so that overall system performance will go up. We sort of doubt this, and hearing such claims makes us nervous. They did state that this was not the norm, but rather the exception. If it happens at all it would have to be the exception, but it still seems way too out there for me to buy it.
Aside from utterly invalidating SLI and CrossFire, this thing opens up a whole realm of possibilities. If Intel adopts it for their high end motherboards, they would have the ultimate solution for gaming. Period. If it's up to board vendors, chipset will still be less relevant in at least multi-GPU performance than the inclusion or exclusion of the Lucid Hydra 100.
But can they really do it? And how do they even attempt to do it? They've told us a little bit, and we'll brainstorm a bit and see what we can come up with.
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pool1892 - Saturday, August 23, 2008 - linki think it is possible to build a solution like this, but this thing has a lot to do, on-the-fly qos and scheduling and optimizing and so on. with data in the gigabits/s. sounds like a heavy duty cisco switch.
i can imagine this working, but the chip will be a heavyweight - and it will be power consuming and expensive.
and it only has potential in the marketplace if the price premium for a mainboard with hydra beats the faster graphics you can buy for this premium. that will be tough.
larrabee is as usual a totally different animal, hydra could very well be a software feature for it (esp. with qpi in gen 2) Reply
pool1892 - Saturday, August 23, 2008 - linkgotta correct myself - after a little diggin: the hydra is a tensilica diamond based programmable risc controller with custom logic around it running at 225mhz. it uses about 5watt. this is a tiny chip, it might be affordable. (but how is liquid going to earn money? and: they have to optimize their driver and the the programmable parts of the chip for different rendering techniques in different games - who is paying for that?) Reply
Goty - Saturday, August 23, 2008 - linkI don't see this as a bad thing for GPU makers, personally. Since ATI no longer has anything like the "master card" for crossfire, as long as they're selling two GPUs to people running multi-card systems, they're not losing out. Sure, they may lose a bit of money on the mainboard side of things since consumers will be able to use any chipset they want with this technology, but the margin on the GPU silicon is probably higher than that on the chipset side, anyhow. Reply
yyrkoon - Saturday, August 23, 2008 - link"Lucid also makes what seems like a ridiculous claim. They say that in some cases they could see higher than linear scaling. The reason they claim this should be possible is that the CPU will be offloaded by their hardware and doesn't need to worry about as much so that overall system performance will go up. We sort of doubt this, and hearing such claims makes us nervous. They did state that this was not the norm, but rather the exception. If it happens at all it would have to be the exception, but it still seems way too out there for me to buy it."
Come now guys . . . if a CPU dependent game such as World in Conflict could offload the CPU 10%, would it not make sense that the CPU could do an additional 10%, thus offering more performance ? I am not saying I believe this is possible myself, but taking Lucid at their word, this just makes sense to me.
"The demo we saw behind closed doors with Lucid did show a video playing on one 9800 GT while the combination of it and one other 9800 GT worked together to run Crysis DX9 with the highest possible settings at 40-60 fps (in game) with a resolution of 1920x1200. Since I've not tested Crysis DX9 mode on 9800 GT I have no idea how good this is, but it at least sounds nice."
Just going from this review, and assuming you meant a 9800GTX/GTX+: 47-41 FPS average with 16x AF/ 0x AA.
"An explanation for this is the fact that the Hydra software can keep requesting and queuing up tasks beyond what graphics cards could do, so that the CPU is able to keep going and send more graphics API calls than it would normally. This seems like it would introduce more lag to us, but they assured us that the opposite is true. If the Hydra engine speeds things up over all, that's great. But it certainly takes some time to do its processing and we'd love to know what it is."
Wait a minute . . . did you not just mention on a previous page somewhere that the number of cards implemented were limited due to latency implications ? . . .
"Of course, while it seems like an all or nothing situation that would serve no purpose but to destroy the experience of end users, NVIDIA and ATI have lots of resources to work on this sort of "problem" and I'm sure they'll try their best to come up with something. Maybe one day they'll wake up and realize (especially if one starts to dominate over the other other) that Microsoft and Intel got slammed with antitrust suits for very similar practices."
OR, they could just purchase the company outright, which seems to me what Lucid may have been aiming for to begin with. After that the buying company could do whatever they please, such as kill the project. or completely decimate the opposite camp *if* the hardware truely does what it claims. At least where gaming is concerned . . . and we all know that IGP's make up for a very large portion of home systems.
Now what I have to say is that this totally smells like the gaming Physics "fiasco". Buy the hardware now, and the hardware is dead in a year or two. Sure a few games implemented features that leveraged these cards, but do you think developers are going to write code for hardware that has gone way of the dodo ? Probably not.
The idea is interesting yes, but I will believe it when I see the hardware on sale at the egg . . . Reply
DerekWilson - Saturday, August 23, 2008 - linkit was not 9800 gtx cards -- they were GT cards ... lower performance, single slot.
also game devs wont have to optimize for it, so there is no problem with them ignoring the situation -- if it works it works Reply
yyrkoon - Saturday, August 23, 2008 - link9800GTX/GTX+ benchmarks ---> http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-9800-gtx-512...">http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-9800-gtx-512... Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, August 23, 2008 - linkhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Sub...">9800 GT FTW!
Basically, performance is closer (identical) to that of 8800 GT. You know, this goes along with the whole "let's rename 8800 GT and 8800 GTS 512MB to 9800 parts, because after all G92 is GeForce 9 hardware." Why the 8800 GT was ever launched with that name remains something of a mystery... well, except that performance was about the same as 8800 GTX. Reply
yyrkoon - Saturday, August 23, 2008 - linkSo basically just a 8800GTS with fewer ROPs ? nVidias naming convention definitely leaves a lot to be desired : / Reply
Lakku - Saturday, August 23, 2008 - linkWho are nVidia and AMD/ATi supposed to strong arm in this situation? I don't think they would be in any kind of position to strong arm ANYONE, if this works as advertised. Why? Because they'd have to strong arm Intel (apparently a very big investor into this tech and company) to do so, and that's just not going to happen. Intel only need put this on their own Intel branded gaming or consumer boards, and/or Intel can strong arm Asus and the others into putting this chip onto their motherboards if they want Intel chipsets, still by far the best selling PC chipsets. If this works as advertised, it's probably Intel who will be the biggest winner... and maybe us end users in some way, provided Intel and this company don't charge outrageous prices for this tech. Reply
djc208 - Monday, August 25, 2008 - linkEasy, like the author stated nVidia just writes in some code that looks for the Hydra software or hardware and shuts down parts of the driver. Therefore you can't use their hardware on a system running or equiped with Hydra. If it was a unified front then Intel will have only Larabee to use with this for gaming.
Problem I see is that it could upset the market if the boycot isn't universal. If ATI let their hardware work with this and nVidia didn't then it could seriously hurt nVidia, as there would be even less reason to go with their chipsets or graphics cards at the high end, where nVidia likes to play.
More likely is that ATI/nVidia will quickly push out something along the same lines and now we'll have three competing solutions, and then ATI and nVidia will lock out Hydra since they offer an alternative, just like now.
All this assumes that Hydra works the way it's said to, if not then all bets are off. Reply


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After the Snow by S.D. Crockett
The valley look pretty bare in the snow. Just the house grey and lonely down by the river all frozen. I got to think what I'm gonna do now that everyone gone.
But I got my dog head on.
The dog gonna tell me what to do. The dog gonna help me.
The house look proper empty – don't it dog?
You just sit quiet in these rocks Willo.
Set in the haunting and barren landscape of a new ice age, After The Snow is the story of fifteen-year-old Willo, a "straggler" kid who loses his family in the opening pages. Completely alone, he is immediately flung into an icy journey of survival, adventure, friendship and self-discovery – with only the dog spirit inside his head to guide him. Meanwhile, across Britain, outlawed followers of survivalist John Blovyn are planning an escape to the fabled Islands talked of in a revolutionary book..
My Rating: 4 of 5 stars
My Thoughts : After days of continuous snowfalls, when Willo returns home everyone was missing, his father, his step mother, the entire village was gone. Cold and alone, Willo heads to the city to find his father. Soon he rescues a dying girl named Mary. Willo must save her; also he has to go to the city to solve this tangled mystery.
A Savage World
Set in a post apocalyptic ice age, After the Snow is a story of survival where civilization has fallen, humanity has deteriorated into savagery and barbarism, but still there is small beam hope. This post global warming era is somehow our mirror to the not very distant future. The streets are in chaos, people are trying to rob each other for food, and warm coats are luxury in endless winter. Undertaken by a ruthless government, author S.D. Crockett took us to a disordered society that runs on anarchism where everything is disoriented.
A Wild Boy
The story was told from Willo's point of view, his unusual way of telling the story felt disconnected first, but eventually his dialect melted with progress of story and made things more believable for readers. Willo is a strong character with a little wildness in him; he is wise and courageous enough to choose his own path. I was immediately impressed by him.
When his family was dragged away by government, he went in search for them with strange voice of a dog inside his head, giving him instructions for what to do. I loved how his character evolved and he has grown into this responsible young man who finally finds his own voice to make decision in the end. Also in his way he saved Mary, a thirteen years old girl who has lost her family just like him. Soon they developed a friendship based on sympathy, dependency and fondness. Their warm company in loneliness brought a ray of new hope, a new bonding in that cold hunger ridden dystopian world where humanity can be saved.
A world that is seemingly possible where surviving is the final word. I never thought I will like After the Snow this much. A chilling adventure of self discovery, I was absolutely thrilled by this book.
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I've had this one on my TBR list for a while, but I have to say that the way the narrator says things is a bit off-putting. But it's good to know that it fit with the story. Great review!ReplyDelete
Thanks Abdrea for stopping by. The narration is off beat, but it goes well with the story makes it more realistic and believableReplyDelete
wow that was great and theni like to read it ihave to see about itReplyDelete
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This is for all the ladies… You know when you are about to remove the nailpolish right? The mess it creates with all the cotton pads, remover spilling over something valuable (that might be just me though…) and fingers stained with that pretty red colour you used a few days before, now impossible to get rid of? I have the solution for you, as always. Depend does their dip-in nail polish remover and it is a miracle tool worthy of that label. Inside it there is a simple washing sponge with a hole in the middle. All you have to do is dip your finger in it, stir a bit and Voila! the nail polish is all gone. I swear by this one, and it costs a mere 65 SEK, (about 6£) so you dont even have to empty your purse for it.
Sorry for the absense btw, The English Blonde and I will get better.
I have my friend's wedding coming up (Okay, it's next May) and I want to get the dress sorted well in advance before I start uni and forget everything. I found a cute little blue number at ASOS.com that I thought about wearing with my Louboutins and an oversized patent black clutch….thoughts and suggestions mucho appreciated!
Everyone loves a designer label but that doesn't necessarily mean that they can afford the ridiculous price tag that accompanies those lust-after items. I fell in love with a dress by Fendi recently but, considering I'm a lowly student with no job, the £1010 price tag just a little *cough* lot *cough* out of my price range. I'd probably have to sell my car to buy it! But, the fashion beauties at ASOS.com have a very similar dress to the Fendi one that is a smidge of the price and comes in a cherry red as well as the generic nude (I chose the cherry red).
So what do you think? Highstreet vs Designer…who won?
Maxi dresses have been a summer wardrobe essential for the past few years and 2010 is no exception, especially as the UK and mainland Europe are set for 'an ice-cream summer' according to the Met Office, although their predictions tend to be far wide of the actual forecast. Anyway, enough English weather grumbling, back to fashion! Ah yes, the maxi dress…summer staple to celebs and civilians alike. I'm on the prowl for an awesome maxi dress suitably versatile for both day and night-time, on holiday or scouring the high streets for the next trend.
I've found that Miso at Republic.co.uk do some wonderful maxi dresses in a variety of prints.
Sorry! We know we've been bad blondes recently what with the lack of blogging or general activity on here but due to TSB's illness and TEB's exam revision, we've both been a little preoccupied 😦 However, we're slowly going to get back into the swing of things but don't expect new stuff everyday, we're a little out of habit at the moment.
In the mean time anyway, I'll restart the blogging and hopefully it will be worth the wait!
Thanks for being patient! The English Blonde xoxox
Ok, so maybe sat at home in front of the TV this summer is not the best place to look glamorous in a Vera Wang dress with a pair of Jimmy Choos, but there's no reason we can't wear our teams colours with pride and look good! Instead of just wearing the team shirt (so Euro 2008), Two Halves have created some tops for us to support our lads. So far there are only Italy, Brazil and England tops but I'm sure they'll be bringing out some more as there are way more than 3 teams in the World Cup.
WAGs are often at the forefront of fashion nowadays due to their better-halves having rather enviable credit ratings, and Alex Curran likes to head the WAG fashion pack, getting the best clothes and sporting the hottest trends before any of her WAG buddies. No exception here then, Alex was seen wearing the Balmain Military Canvas Jacket (worth £2920) the other day so naturally, all the other WAGs follow suit, this time in the form of Jane Given who was spotted wearing the exact same jacket yesterday. Same jacket, but who wore it best? I'm going with Alex because she's done the utility chic trend and is now moving on to incorporating her pieces into less statement-esque outfits by teaming the jacket with a pair of skinnies, flats and some cute aviators. I think Jane went overkill on the military theme but it does look like she's only just cottoned on to it so thumbs up for trying love, but don't give up your day job! Also, go get your hair done…being Alex Curran's body double is not a career.
Today's shoe is a little bit of leather magic by Giuseppe Zanotti. They may cost £670 but they're the perfect addition to a holiday wardrobe and can easily be incorporated into a range of outfits be it a dinner date or a night out with the girls.


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The Texas Longhorns remain at home in Austin, Texas to welcome the UNC Tar Heels in the Frank Erwin Center.
UNC (7-1) has been really tough to beat since it took home a surprising loss on the road against Northern Iowa three weeks ago. But the Tar Heels have their star player, Marcus Paige, back, and he's already helped lead them to wins against Maryland and Davidson.
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Texas had a much rougher start to its season, having lost three of its first five games. The Longhorns have found a winning formula recently, though, having pieced together three straight wins against Texas-Arlington, Samford and UTSA.
Below is everything you need to know about the game, including the UNC vs. Texas online live stream, TV broadcast information, game notes and prediction.
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"I don't think I change the team to the point where it's a night-and-day difference," said Paige, via ESPN.com. "But everyone is comfortable with me on the court. It's kind of a comfort zone for the team."
Paige will be critical against a Longhorns team hoping to prove they are more than their record. Texas has become a basketball school, but a few down seasons led to the firing of Rick Barnes and hiring of Smart. Texas has an athletic squad that simply needs to find their rhythm right now. With Smart, Texas is now a top 40 defensive unit as they have a knack for forcing turnovers. That could be trouble for North Carolina if they start off slow. The team is young right now with Kerwin Roach Jr and Eric Davis Jr trying to improve quickly. Cameron Ridley could be the x-factor in this matchup as he will be paired next to Paige for most of the game.
Texas is coming off three straight wins against weaker opponents. That has the team's confidence getting higher at the moment which will be a good thing with UNC coming to town. Meanwhile the Tar Heels are coming off two big wins against Davidson and Maryland. They are looking to remain title contenders as the season goes along.
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"Practically all the s.a. [sex appeal] habiliments of the femme fatale have been mustered for 'Gilda,' and when things get trite and frequently far-fetched, somehow, at the drop of a shoulder strap, there is always Rita Hayworth to excite the filmgoer. When story interest lags, she's certain to shrug a bare shoulder, toss her tawny head in an intimately revealing closeup, or saunter teasingly through the celluloid. She dissipates the theories, if any, that sex has its shortcomings as a popular commodity. Miss Hayworth will do business. The story is a confusion of gambling, international intrigue, and a triangle that links two gamblers and the wife of one of them. The setting is Buenos Aires. Sneaking in somehow is the subplot of a tungsten cartel operated by the husband, who also runs a swank gambling casino. A couple of Nazis are thrown in also. ...The direction is static, but that's more the fault of the writers. But this is another pic where the professional critics - those guys with the passes - can't do enough to detour the paying public." - Kahn, Variety, March 15, 1946.
"It is Miss Hayworth's business to portray a woman as bad as she is beautiful. On the rebound from a young bum (Glenn Ford) she marries an elegant bounder (George Macready), who falls desperately in love with her. She then spends a large part of the picture acting as much like a nympholept as the traffic will bear and, since all this transpires in Buenos Aires, the traffic is reasonably lively. ...All this senseless sinning makes for a fair amount of pulpy entertainment, nicely paced and aptly delivered for the first hour or so, more & more tortuously protracted from there on out. Glenn Ford has a good deal of style as the young scoundrel, though he looks a couple of decades too callow to browbeat tungsten tycoons. George Macready, looking rather like an icicle outfitted by Wetzel, does nicely by his questionable assignment - which is to make a Nazi glamorous. But all in all it is Rita Hayworth's picture, and people who don't bother too much about the last several reels will enjoy sharing it with her." - Time, April 1, 1946.
"If you aren't a stickler for common sense and significance, ?Gilda' is a lot of fun in a cluttered way. ...The love-hate pattern is finally resolved in a welter of subplots and subterfuge concerning cartels and Nazi skullduggery, Gilda's frantic determination to prove that the lady is a tramp, and Johnny's somewhat stuffy campaign to restrict her to the right bedroom. The dialogue about things past is cryptic enough to leave the audience a little befuddled and baffled. Nevertheless, ?Gilda' trumps up a spurious excitement and a productional glamour that can't miss as escapist entertainment. Macready makes a superior villain; Glenn Ford as Johnny combines a boyish appeal with Humphrey Bogart's badman technique. Miss Hayworth stays the same, including her appearance in an improbable black dress that somehow stays in place as she sings ?Put the Blame on Mame.'" - Newsweek, March 25, 1946.
"Miss Hayworth does all that one might expect in the title role of the tramp. But she never makes the character stand up with perilous and dynamic quality that it demanded. Glenn Ford is excellent as the stumblebum who runs a casino in Buenos Aires without any notion of the score. George Macready is altogether sinister as the villain of the piece and Joseph Calleia and Joe Sawyer add the melodramatic accents which are obviously demanded. Gilda has employed plenty of talent. It is still a boring and slightly confusing production." - Howard Barnes, New York Herald Tribune.
"When Judy Garland and Alice Faye got the urge for drama, they went the whole way and in their pictures The Clock [1945] and Fallen Angel [1945], respectively, they handed out the acting straight, without so much as a jazz note or a single twinkle of a toe, to highlight in. Rita Hayworth, going heavily dramatic for the first time in Gilda, proves herself a smarter show woman. For how this glorious pinup does emote in this one! What a glittering gamut of drama she reveals, plus much of her beautiful self while also singing and dancing! The result is an exciting, glamorous, rich, ruddy melodrama - and if the plot is most incredible at times, you will be more than willing to ignore it while concentrating on its star." - Ruth Waterbury, Los Angeles Examiner.
"The characters of the drama are interesting and well enough played and although the story has all the elements of high-class trash, director Charles Vidor and his experienced players have given it considerable holding power, by keeping the audience in suspense from one dramatic shift to another." - Kate Cameron, New York Daily News.
"This is a film with the intense surrealist qualities of a dream. Its Buenos Aires is a creation totally of the imagination, with its winding dark streets, its gambling hell, Mundson's white glittering house. The ambience is one of heat, decadence, sexual ferocity barely concealed behind civilized gestures and phrases. Maté's photography has a lacquered finish: the husband smoking a cigarette in silhouette, the first glimpse of Gilda, like every GI's dream, sitting on a bed and throwing back her head in ecstasy, the wedding scene glimpsed through windows streaming with rain." - Charles Higham, Hollywood in the Forties.
"Ford plays a drifting gambler who gets adopted by a German casino owner in Buenos Aires, only to become embroiled in a misogynistic ménage-a-trois with the German and his wife (Hayworth). The script is laced with innuendoes and euphemisms; and Ford finds himself as a character whose sexual attributes are not only ambiguous, but bordering on the perverse as his misogyny gradually gains the upper hand. Never has the fear of the female been quite so intense; and the themes that took wing in this extraordinary piece of cinema finally came to roost in such sexual noirs as Carnal Knowledge [1971] and Last Tango in Paris [1972]." - Geoff Samuel, Time Out Film Guide.
"Although the final sequence of Gilda presents the transcendence of true love over all obstacles, this culmination belies all the suspicion and sexual hatred which precede it. Women are agents of man's destruction and, if there's any doubt, just listen to the lyrics of "Put the Blame on Mame.'" - Marjorie Baumgarten, Cinema-Texas Program Notes, November 15, 1977.
"Highly charged story of emotional triangle - mysterious South American casino owner Macready, his new man - Friday Ford, and Macready's alluring wife (Hayworth) - unfortunately cops out with silly resolutions. Rita has never been sexier, especially when singing "Put the Blame on Mame.'" - Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide.
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Pinellas County Administrator Bob LaSala's aggressive approach to balancing the budget is being softened by his own County Commission.
Because of the recession, LaSala had pressed to make extra cuts this year so the reductions in 2012 would be easier. The county faces an $80 million deficit over the next two years, and LaSala was hoping to cut $60 million this year.
But three months after the board endorsed that plan, the commission has gravitated toward a weaker approach for the second year in a row.
"I'm not going to bring forward another two-year program to the board," LaSala said last week, standing in the hallway of the commissioners' offices after a daylong meeting. "When the horse dumps you … get off."
The commission was split 4-3 when it agreed Feb. 2 to seek the $60 million in cuts now. The biggest share, $29.7 million, was to come from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.
The slim majority fractured after Sheriff Jim Coats' proposed budget came in $9.6 million short of the goal. His proposals cover only his agency's proportional share of the 2011 deficit, not the 2012 reductions.
"I don't think there's a complete buy-in on the fact that we're not at the bottom" of the downturn, said Commissioner Susan Latvala, who supported a $60 million target but said she learned last week the sheriff needs time for deeper cuts.
While she didn't fault LaSala, she said the totality of the cuts must be considered, echoing other members.
"I like the concept of doing $60 million this year, but how disruptive is it to the organization? Can it be done? … Nobody wants to go war."
Despite projections that property tax revenue will drop again for 2012, other commissioners are stepping back, too.
"I think there's a big reluctance on the part of the commissioners to press for more cuts … because it affects how law enforcement officers are deployed," said Commissioner Nancy Bostock, another member who favored making more cuts now.
The board still has four months to decide how deep to cut, and commissioners may be more willing to accept deeper cuts when they see the proposed budget in July, LaSala said.
But the commissioners' current approach is turning it into a more expensive replay of last summer, when the board allowed Coats to come in $7.8 million under his goal.
Other constitutional officeholders — the clerk, tax collector, supervisor of elections — also came in below budget-cutting targets, arguing that legal mandates prevent them from further cuts. It's uncertain, if not doubtful, that commissioners will require them to meet their goals.
Commissioner Calvin Harris, who argued for fewer cuts, has said delaying $20 million in cuts would give workers who face layoff six more months of work. Commissioners Karen Seel and John Morroni also opposed cutting more than $40 million this year.
Meanwhile, the departments that LaSala controls are due to hit their targets, a combined $21 million that will affect services like street repair, health care and code enforcement.
"I can tell you under the county administrator, the departments are going to meet those goals," LaSala said.
Other differences are brewing between the board and LaSala.
Even though the commission backed fees of $5 per car to enter Fort De Soto Park and $3 at regional parks, it wasn't everything that LaSala sought.
He asked for $8 a car at Fort De Soto — a jump Commissioner Neil Brickfield called outrageous.
LaSala also wanted to be able to use the new revenue outside the parks system, which the board quashed as it heard his proposal to close 13 parks on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
On Friday, as e-mails blasting the fees reached commissioners, Latvala and Bostock said the board might have to re-examine new fees and closures. At least, Bostock said, they should consider staggering the closed days so all regional parks aren't locked up at the same time.
"Everything's a work in progress," Brickfield said, telling a reporter, "You know more than I know right now. … They're sifting through those menu of choices to get them there."
But for every dime the sheriff and other officeholders are spared, LaSala's departments could be forced to make up. And cuts put off this year could be more expensive and difficult next year.
"Does everyone in the game fully understand that? I don't know yet that the community, staff, all the commissioners and elected officials do," LaSala said. "There's finite resources. If you squeeze the balloon on one end, it pops up somewhere else."
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Samsung to Unveil Chip Spending Plan Monday
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, plans to unveil on Monday a much-awaited semiconductor investment plan, a source said, joining a growing list of firms raising spending on global economic recovery.
Market speculation on the size of the investment has grown since the South Korean firm said two weeks ago that it would sharply raise capital spending this year, with some media reports penciling in a record 20 trillion won ($17.7 billion).
That would be more than double the original budget of at least 8.5 trillion that Samsung earmarked for this year.
Samsung declined to comment but said it would hold a ceremony on Monday to start building a new chip plant, which would mark the first construction of its kind in at least four years, after shunning expansion due to the industry's worst ever downturn.
As the chip sector recovers, spurred by stronger than expected demand from China and booming sales of memory heavy devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs, companies are gearing up to increase investment, threatening to derail the rebound.
Toshiba Corp, the world's No.2 maker of NAND-type flash memory chips after Samsung, said this week it would boost capital spending, mainly in its chip and infrastructure businesses.
Samsung competes with home rival Hynix Semiconductor, Japan's Elpida Memory, and Micron Technology of the United States in computer memory chips.
Shares of Samsung, Asia's most valuable technology firm, closed down 0.4 percent at 810,000 won.
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In case it wasn't written on your calendars, today is World Teacher Day, your chance to make amends and show appreciation to the men and women who helped equip you for the "real world." Cliché or not, they really do have one of the toughest, most unappreciated jobs you could ask for.
One of our most important commitments as a company is giving teachers better tools to do their jobs. That includes more than merely giving them a better word processor or spreadsheet program. It's about helping them reimagine the classroom and make more of an impact on each of their students.
The above video is about a school in Bogota, Colombia that epitomizes this concept. Colegio Fontan is a K-12 school that has done away with the traditional classroom – instead, teachers work with each student one-on-one to develop a "personalized education plan" that they work on independently.
This frees up students to complete a grade in less time than the traditional nine months, so they can spend more time perfecting their backstroke. What makes it all possible is an on-line platform that shows the student's progress and teacher assessments. Students can also access their curriculum and assignments, or contact their teacher via Windows Live Messenger.
Colegio Fontan is part of Microsoft Partners in Learning, a program that looks beyond the traditional classroom setup for more effective ways to learn. Seven thousand schools around the world are in the program, and Colegio Fontan is one of 33 "Mentor" schools that are coaching others in trying to make similar changes.
Today, we announced the names of 80 or so schools that have been approved to be part of Partners in Learning. Participating schools can track their progress and share results or best practices with others in the program.
The video above, and others like it, are also available on the Microsoft Showcase Partners in Learning Channel. Pretty inspiring stuff.
Oh and on this day of all days, don't forget to give a shout out to your teachers – the World Teacher Day site has some ecards to help you with that and the hashtag for today is #WTD2011
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ADP® AdvancedMD, a leader in cloud-based electronic health record (EHR), practice management, medical scheduling software, and billing applications for medical practices and medical billing services, today announced AdvancedMD EHR 2011 Summer release is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as a Complete EHR on May 13, 2011 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable eligible provider certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The 2011/2012 criteria supports the stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
We are pleased to achieve this federal certification through CCHIT, which has been our certification testing body since 2007, said Raul Villar, President of ADP AdvancedMD. We are especially pleased to achieve ONC-ATCB certification, which is essential for meaningful use reporting.
The ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification program tests and certifies that Complete EHRs meet all of the 2011/2012 criteria and EHR Modules meet one or morebut not allof the criteria approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services for either eligible provider or hospital technology.
This is a landmark day for our customers, added Steven ZoBell, ADP AdvancedMD Vice President of Product Development. Starting with our next release in June, each of our 10,000 physician clients who log in to our application via the Internet will immediately be working in a certified EHR without the hassle of installing software or hardware. Our cloud-based platform allows us to continuously update our software for all clients making it easy for them to remain compliant with future meaningful use criteria.
ADP AdvancedMDs certification number is CC-1112-855300-1. ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification conferred by CCHIT does not represent an endorsement of the certified EHR technology by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services nor does it guarantee the receipt of incentive payments.
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Staunch Sporty
I first spotted Boris' Sporty when I turned up to shoot a sand-drag bike a fair while back, and it was still an ongoing project. But being so impressed with what I saw, I wanted to keep track on its progress, because I could see it was going to be another awesome machine from Boris, and also an obvious feature bike.
Boris has many Sporties, along with the previously mentioned sand dragger, a custom made lay down drag bike, an old XR powered road bike, a cool cafe racer, an old school flamed iron-head chopper, a purple Buell, and even a new black XR1200X, each unique to one another. There are some more too, but I just can't remember them!
This time around, Boris used a Nineties Sporty as a base, or should I say used its frame, because everything has been modified or upgraded so that's about all that's left! The fibreglass XLCR style tank and tail piece were all made by Boris, along with the custom made seat, which were all made to the flat track sort of theme. Kyle from Kyles Kustoms did a brilliant job with the airbrushing on all the glass.
Boris chose to power this machine with a Buell Thunder Storm motor as they're already a good source of strong reliable power, but Boris spiced it up even more, with Mark Hood also helping with further performance work being done to the heads. Ignition is now a Screaming Eagle unit, with a modified CV carby inhaling through a Hi Flo Buell K&N filter. Gases all escape via the dual Storz stainless pipes and lightweight Storz alloy mufflers. Power is transferred to the back wheel via a mostly 98 box using a Barnett clutch and a 520 chain.
Rising Sun gets the nod for supplying the upside down front end, modified again by Boris to fit. It runs twin 4 piston callipers and floating rotors tied up to an alloy mag with a 120 x 17 tyre. On the back Boris fitted a Chromed Centreline style 160 x 17 Harley rim with Custom 4 spot callipers and a Harley rotor.
Knowing of Boris' awesome riding ability, I can just imagine him rolling up to a fast flat track course with this bike, and doing awesome feet up power sliding, followed by long power wheelies on the straights! Boris has done it again, built yet another awesome, unique, custom bike. Well done once mate!


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JERUSALEM (May. 4)
A statement by Jordan's Prime Minister Zeid Rifai Sunday night that his country would participate in an international conference for Middle East peace drew mixed reactions in Israel.
Sources close to Foreign Minister Shimon Peres welcomed it as "an obvious indication that significant progress has been made." But Premier Yitzhak Shamir dismissed Rifai's announcement as "nothing new." He said the Arab countries wanted an international conference because Israel's position at such a forum would be weak.
Some observers said Rifai's statement was the first official acknowledgement by Jordan that King Hussein and Peres have agreed, through American mediation, to guidelines for holding a peace conference.
Others noted that it was ambiguous and gave no indication that Jordan accepted Peres' stipulation that the conference would be only an "opening" framework for bilateral negotiations between Israel and Jordan and other parties to the Middle East conflict.
It was reported, nevertheless, that Peres had informed Shamir in writing that he plans to present his proposals to the Inner Cabinet on Wednesday. The two men are scheduled to meet privately Tuesday. It was not certain whether Peres' position will be strengthened by the statement from Amman.
Rifai said there was no point in continuing efforts to convene a conference as long as the Israeli government is divided and cannot make up its mind, a reference to the ongoing dispute between the Labor and Likud coalition partners over the issue.
The Jordanian Prime Minister also denied reports that Hussein met in secret with Peres or any other Israeli leaders recently. He made clear that Jordan wants the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in the process, a condition unacceptable to Israel.
But Rifai said the PLO could participate only if it renounces terrorism and accepts United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, which imply recognition of Israel's right to exist within secure borders.


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February 24, 2004 12:00 am
In just four short years, the White Sox have gone from Pride of Chicago to second fiddle. The Cardinals look to improve a bit in 2004, if only because they've managed to shed some dead weight. And the Rangers, once again, looked to be a weaker sister of the AL West. All this and much more news from Chicago, St. Louis, and Texas in your Tuesday edition of Prospectus Triple Play.
February 12, 2004 12:00 am
Most of the excitement in Philadelphia has to do with an improved bullpen, recent versions of which have been the perceived bane of the city's existence. So out with Jose Mesa, in with Billy Wagner. Given how much of the blame for the Phillies' disappointing performances the last two seasons has been placed at the foot of the relief staff, it's easy to understand why fans, media, and the team itself is so eager to have the hard-throwing lefty closing games. I actually agreed that the move would help the Phillies, although not exactly for the reasons generally given. Closers are overrated as a class, and as great as Wagner is, using him solely to protect ninth-inning leads and the occasional ninth-inning tie is a suboptimal application of his talent. However, I also know that Larry Bowa is one of the most temperamental managers in the game, and I strongly believe that his emotional style has been a detriment to this team over the past two seasons.
While I've avoided saying so until now, the Phillies have to be considered the favorites in the National League East. It's not clear that any team is better than them, but this isn't the AL Central. There are basically five teams who look to be no worse than 75-87, and four who should be over .500. The Braves have fallen back to the pack, the Marlins should decline a little from last year's 91-71 performance, and the Mets could rise to .500 if their new acquisitions, Kazuo Matsui and Mike Cameron, meet expectations. Even the Expos have a chance to stay in the Wild Card chase, thanks to a balanced offense and Frank Robinson's demonstrated ability to get a lot from no-name bullpens.
August 19, 2003 12:00 am
The White Sox need to drop their ticket prices. A closer look at the Cardinals bullpen. The Rangers have a slew of options for the outfield and first base. These and other news and notes out of Chicago, St. Louis, and Texas in today's Prospectus Triple Play.
June 19, 2003 12:00 am
The Diamondbacks keep cycling through injuries. The Red Sox keep cycling through relievers. Lima Time has Royals fans cowering. Izzy returns to a battered bullpen. News, notes, and Kahrlisms from 21 major league teams in the latest edition of Transaction Analysis.
April 9, 2003 12:00 am
The Snakes bury John Patterson, the Red Sox sort through a batch of soft tossers, the Marlins vie for a 25-catcher roster, and the Devil Rays solve all their problems by grabbing Al Martin and Damion Easley.
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March 21, 2003 12:00 am
Fresh off PECOTA's maiden voyage into rotoland, Nate Silver publishes the PECOTA-generated roto values used by the BP team at the recent Tout Wars National League draft. Hint: pay the premium for studs.
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February 15, 2003 5:38 pm
The Cardinals and Padres will start the season without their closers. Here's a look at the injuries.
I hate closers.
October 10, 2001 12:00 am
Well, the Red Sox disintegrated, the A's have been the best team in baseball for a couple of months, and neither the Yankees nor the A's has gotten here by the expected route. Starting tomorrow, they'll be facing each other for five very short games in what could be one of the closest matchups in memory.
October 3, 2000 12:00 am
This series shapes up as an interesting experiment. How important is positive momentum going into October? The Yankees set a new standard for backing into a division title, losing their last seven games and 13 of their last 15. The A's, however, drove from out of a playoff spot to a division title in the last ten days of the season, winning 11 of 12 games and 19 of 22.
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