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A laser was a beam of focused energy operating under the same principles as blaster weaponry. Energy-rich gas would be converted to a glowing particle beam with the type of gas dictating the bolts color and qualities. The most common color was red because of its cheaper gas, green bolts are produced from a higher quality gas thus increasing price, blue bolts used ion based charges for more effectiveness against electronic and mechanical targets, such as droids, and orange being low powered and used more in training.[1] Although these lasers did not act like a normal laser of photons moving the speed of light as seen as laser trip wires, it was a projectile weapon that could melt through targets, create explosions and even disintegrate objects.[2] Throughout the galaxy, it was most often employed in the form of the laser cannon weapon.[3] The primary weapon of the Death Star was an exceedingly powerful superlaser capable of obliterating entire planets.[4] It was also employed on its followup.[5] Another laser weapon was the DLT-18 laser rifle.[6]
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Star Wars Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to a Galaxy Far, Far Away
- ↑ Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Incredible Cross-Sections
- ↑ Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide
- ↑ Tarkin in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑ * Death Star II in the Encyclopedia (link now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ IG-RM Thug Droids in the Databank (backup link)


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soon after we posted a news item entitled no usb 2.0 support in windows xp, microsoft has let it be known that it may in fact support usb 2.0 either during the release of windows xp or soon thereafter. if a large amount of usb 2.0 hardware becomes available before windows xp ships, microsoft will try to get support for usb 2.0 into windows xp. read more at eetimes and the inquirer.
another hot button for those interested in windows xp is the support or non-support of the mp3 file format. by default, microsoft media encoding software in xp will only support encoding of 56kbps mp3s, which are quite poor compared with the average 128kbps of most mp3 files in circulation today. currently, microsoft software doesn't support any mp3 encoding and mp3s are flourishing. it has been noted that windows xp breaks some of the current mp3 ripping software, but microsoft insists that there is no conspiracy against mp3 encoders and that with updates the encoders should work again. read more at canoe/wsj.
rob's opinion
microsoft reiterated its support for usb 2.0 after having a lot of nice things to say about firewire. firewire will be for digital video, and usb, even 2.0, will be mainly for keyboards, game controllers, and mice. where the contention lies for now is which standard people will select for connecting hard drives, printers, scanners, and other higher-speed peripherals. firewire maxes out at 400 mbps currently and usb 2.0 allows up to 480 mbps throughput, so the choice is not clear based on bandwidth alone.
as for usb 2.0 support in win xp, it certainly seems that microsoft just isn't sure what it will do about it yet, never mind the earlier reports. on the one hand the company is saying it may ship with the os support turned off, but they also mention it being available possibly as a separate patch. i think i speak for all of us when i say i'd rather see a complete and solidly working usb 2.0 implementation in xp than one that is half-baked. if it's not available until xp sp1, then so be it. now, where is that windows 2000 sp2 anyway?
as for the mp3 support in windows xp, i think a lot is being made of something that is not really that big a deal. it's a little spooky that mp3 encoding programs break with xp, but microsoft says that it's not intentionally disrupting them, so it may just be that some things have changed that require an update to the software. hopefully, those changes will not hinder the encoding of mp3s, or a lot of people will decide not to use windows xp. the cheesy 56kbps encoding microsoft will now offer is a step up from offering no encoding (as it does now), but i don't see it having much effect on the mp3 marketplace, other than possibly driving a few users away from mp3s who think that 56kbps is the best that mp3s can get.
the move is on to turn everything into microsoft's proprietary music format with digital rights management, but that move didn't start with xp, it started with windows me. for now, with auto-makers in detroit moving to put mp3-playing cd players in cars within two years, mp3s will have a long and full life, whether microsoft and real like it or not.
user comments 26 comment(s)
|question (9:37am est fri apr 13 2001)
what can ms do? i don't use windows media player anyway. when xp comes out, i will rip cd's using musicmatch and play songs with winamp.
what impact will ms's decision have on me?
this sounds like that stupid ms browser debate. at first, i didn't like ie 4(back in my linux days), but i just installed netscape and ran it on my win98 partition with no problems (other than ns's shoddy programming). why can't people do that when xp comes out? there are always alternatives to the defaults that ms packages. – by steven
|microsoft vs. intelligence (5:04pm est fri apr 13 2001)
windows 2000:
pros: amazingly (for an ms product) stable os reasonably secure, and priced. able to meet all of todays needs, while being flexible enough to meet future needs as well.
cons: you feed the beast known as bill.
os x:
windows xp:
basically, i think that some of these competing companies should use microsoft's product announcements intheir ads. it's almost like ms is forcibly pushing it's users away.
– by mr. cancelled
|wma (5:24pm est fri apr 13 2001)
i gotta admit, wma-8 is better than mp3's. you get cd qyality at 64kbps instead of mp3's 192kpbs…
as for liscences, you can turn them off when you encode them. – by
|re: wma (7:04pm est fri apr 13 2001)
you are probably right (not used or tested).
however, one thing to consider is that as i far as i know wma is not open, meaning that it is only availale to ms platforms, and it may not be available to users that choose to use other os's like bsd, beos, linux, … os-x? it could even happen that if you stick to win95 you may not have a player for it … since the wma-8 is new and win95 is not being supported.
in the other hand mp3, is widely available, and you have it almost in any other os.
for any company wanted to use wma in their devices or products, let's say in a non ms platform, would need to pay fees.
in the other hand there is a new audio format that seems (i have not used or tested) to be better than mp3.
bottom line: one should choose open formats vs. propietary and everybody can use it.
– by theshadowknows
|ok, i'm using whistler b2 (7:13pm est fri apr 13 2001)
and under the recording settings of media player v 8.00.00.4228 help section
it says
"protect content
specifies that you are turning on a personal licensing feature for all cd tracks that you copy in windows media format. each cd track that you copy has a license, which deters people from stealing or copying the content. when you use the player to copy protected (licensed) content from your computer to a portable device, the license is copied too. if you clear this check box, you might not be able to play some digital media files on a secure digital music initiative (sdmi)-compliant portable device. however, selecting this check box can prevent you from copying or playing digital media files on another computer, portable device, or cd.
note you should back up your licenses to a floppy disk periodically. if you reinstall or upgrade your operating system, your licenses could be lost. for more information about how to back up licenses, see related topics.
– by continued
|continued (7:33pm est fri apr 13 2001)
the lowest setting for winmed format is 48 kbps, there is one setting only for mp3, which is…….56 kbps, and the highest setting for winmed is 192 kbps
disk space* bit rate
i own a usb trackball but it's hooked up ps/2 adapter
480 mbps? damn : )550 mhz k62 :( damn
– by done
|almost i mean (7:57pm est fri apr 13 2001)
i just ripped the same song under musicmatch 56 kbps
winmed 8. 46 kbps
when i didn't check the protect box, before it would record it, you should have seen the screen that i had to read
first. kinda gave me chills, i swear. i almost took a screen capture of it and posted it, but then i realized that that would prolly be illegal or something.
i know that this was about fw and usb 2.0 but then when the above persons when off tangent, well..i guess i kinda followed. sorry again – by k, now i'm dun
|i need those extra kbits/s (10:46pm est fri apr 13 2001)
i have a huge subwoofer hooked up to my comp and i need the absolute best quality mp3s or it sounds like crap. when not causing a ruckus, i use my kick ass headphones which reveal even more of the suckicity of mp3s. haven't tried out wma8 yet, but hey, napster don't do that.
480 mbps? sweeeet :) 1.2ghz tbird? sweeeeeeeeet ^�^ – by yeah�
|48kbps? (10:57pm est fri apr 13 2001)
i put everything on minidisc. the lowest i'll go is 192. storage space not a problem. download, record, delete, repeat.
– by fdsafds
|windows xp (whistler) beta 2 personal (2:56am est sat apr 14 2001)
when i installed xp on my acer 500mhz celeron with 128 mb ram (8 shared w/onboard vid) integrated sound, and usb kybd & mouse, i noticed something interesting. it found every driver. even the volume knob on my kybd. this machine was designed for win98 with usb support in the bios for the keyboard, no ps/2 ports. me and xp both run fine on it, although admittedly i added 64 mb of ram to it. then i added a cdrw. xp has roxio/adaptec sw integrated for cdrw so you do not have to install anything to make your cdrw disc usable like a floppy. but it is shitty. i installed nero 5 minutes after i tried to use the xp version. but all in all, it is extremely stable, and anything that ran in 2000 will work on this as well. in other words, programs that will not install to an os with a winnt kernel will be sol with whistler, either professional or personal versions. the only complaints i have are: you must register within 14 days or shutdown. and editing msconfig leaves the window opening on every reboot. but it is very stable. office xp, on the other hand……. – by goatboy94
|bigger is better (8:44pm est sat apr 14 2001)
i want to say some crap .. so .. uhhmm
i have a web server ( small site ) that is on my oc-3 ( i loves it thanks ). my web server is ( a wussy ) amd k-6 2 450 mhz . now i get tons of web downloads // traffic // email users ! this little box never fails ! well .. i tried out your windows2k advanced server . what a flying box of shit that was ! it was slow clunky it was like tring to race a 79 caddy aginst a 79 vw , in a go cart track ( does that make sence ? ) thats how i feel .. it was tooo big ! it had all the stuff i dont need ! and it was sooooo sloww . and this was on my other server ( p-3 500 // 128 mgs rm // scuzzzy ) drives ) i mean .. for real does ms work for intel ? they are just selling p-4 chips right ?
i dont want to spend piles of money on getting a server ( im a cheap hoe ) .
when i see the sys req for whistler .. doood no crap .. 1 gig min proc spec .. really .. is bill selling crack ?
i thought the idea was to make smaller faster code ? that uses less of my system .. ohh well .. back to work .. .( tech support for msn :) … lmao .. pluck me ! austa fellas' – by -msn tech junkie
|no mp3 encoding in xp (9:27pm est sat apr 14 2001)
so claims paul thurrott in "wininfo".
it's only in the beta.
look for yourselves:
– by no conspiracy
|screw licenses (1:25pm est sun apr 15 2001)
quite frankly, i'm tired of licensing. i can do everything i need to do with linux, surf the web, write email, listen to good quality music…etc. sure the learning curve is a bit higher, but it's worth it. educating people is a good thing and will lead to better innovation and allow more people to be involved in the development process. this is part of the open philosophy. hand a linux machine to any high school kid and give them a month – they'll be a pro. ms simply has the belief that the public wants to be dumb and have everything spoon fed to them. this is a more elitist mentality than the open source movement which [m$] claims it to be.
don't support the evil empire of bill!! – by scavenger
|notice how (9:56pm est sun apr 15 2001)
when win98 was released, it required twice the ram and cost twice as much as 95. then with me ,the ram doubled again. what microsoft does is write their software to utilize new technology, or basicly give you a +1/2 increase in performance for double the machine and price. their code is getting to be as bloated as their company. as for the proprietary encoding in xp and me, no one cares. sure it encodes better than mp3, it's not the first to do that. the thing is that we like the mp3 format. it was the trail blazer, it is an open format, so there is loads of support for it. hell, if you wanted to, you could build a mp3 player for your car with an old pentium machine and dos or linux. you can't do that with wma, and no body's gonna support that anyway, not as much as mp3 anyway. if linux could become point and click like nt, it would take a bigger hold of the market than it has right now. that's what linux needs, a really good gui.
– by nsigma
|moop moop (9:17am est tue apr 17 2001)
nsigma, it's about time oss utilize all the extra horsepower hardware has to offer…
if i wanted, i could dos 5.0 as fast as it could possibly be run…what's the point
add a gui, add some more features, etc….use my machine – it's begging to become obsolete so i can upgrade again..
i haven't upgraded for a year, and have no plans since there's no software that's even remotely motivated me…nor will there be in the near future
my little slot athlon 784 + 256mb ram and a geforce sdr just keeps trucking away… – by boop boop
|utilizing (10:41am est tue apr 17 2001)
you're right that oses should utilize all the horsepower that they have, but they shouldn't bloat it so that it runs at the speed of a 486. if you buy a fast machine, it should run fast, right? my main computer is also a slot athlon with a geforce. i run windows on it because it runs well. i also have a 486 that i use as a gateway. using a 486 as a gateway is a good idea in my opinion, but it's running win98 just because i don't have the time to put netbsd or linux on it. i'd like to. you can do a lot of nifty things with old computers, but microsoft doesn't seem to think so. that's where linux and dos come in. – by nsigma
|win xp final perfissional (2600) (3:09pm est mon oct 08 2001)
had xp running for about 1 month now but now i am running into some problems, usb support sucks, and some of my gamez for example like diablo 2 wont install properly, xp is a bit lame. now it is startin to piss me off alot and ms seem to have no usb driver's that i know of and hard for me to play games, what really pisses me off about this os is that it wont let me install some of my proper drivers, even if i force it in and when i do it will put it back to the original because of this driver signing bullshit. – by w0lv3rin3
|upgrade xp mp3 (12:44pm est sun nov 18 2001)
winmed has a upgrade deal with cyberlink which is cheap and will let you go from 64kbps to 320kbps it called cyberlink power pack ! very good deal!
pi2leo – by pi2leo
|windows xp support (8:54am est wed jan 09 2002)
hello all,
im not as qualified as most about computers and ive had some problems that im hoping someone can help me with.
i have a packard bell iconnect computer, i upgraded to windows xp pro but when it all loaded in my usb keyboard and mouse wont work and i cannot find any updates on pb's website…..it appears that there are no plans to make new drivers so am i stuck or is there an answerplease let me know if you have a clue. email@example.com – by ash
|windows xp support (6:12am est fri jul 19 2002)
hi ash,
if you disable usb keyboard support in our bios, otherwise known as legacy usb support that clears up most xp related usb problems.
j. lowe
|audio probem w win95 and audio cds (4:01am est tue jul 30 2002)
the error msg said:
the disk you are trying to play is not
the "artist window says"
os win 95b osr2
cd-rom from lg to sony
have adj the following software
the motherboard bios was flashed the cd
the machine works in every other
– by email@example.com
|usb devices (7:35pm est mon sep 08 2003)
when i install my usb device into port1, then after i remove the device, if i plug the same device into the 2nd usb port win xp ask to install the drivers all over again.
has anyone seen this issue,
this is the problem on different machines, but only with win xp
– by ron
|how to use usb 2.0 (8:51am est tue feb 01 2005)
i do not know how to dowload videos, applications, games to my mobile phone (n6600) using usb 2.0. – by monette
|xp boot up (5:29pm est wed mar 16 2005)
i am running win xp pro, i have recently had a pc health check which entailed spyware and virus clean, win dr and disk dr clean up..
now my pc will not boot up in windows, i can slave it on to another system and the data is there but it will not boot – by winnie
|upgrades (4:01pm est wed mar 30 2005)
i have a windows 98 system and just recently got a i-pod mini and can't use it. i was wondering if all my information would be wiped out if i upgraded my computer to xp home version? – by sally
|ft8lmcxcvv (10:21am est sat aug 26 2006)
q2sstz8c037h sdevsiktc7c2kf hpnrusxdxodjyu – by ft8lmcxcvv

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This is adding hair to your own hair by means of fusion (strand by strand), weaving, braiding, bonding, seamless, clips and more. There are many variations to all of these techniques and stylists call these by different names. I will be educating you on the most popular terms. Extensions are usually applied by a stylist but many customers are doing this at home. Human hair extensions can be cut, curled and styled.
Fusion, or Pre bonded Hair - This is a process done strand by strand in small sections. Using heated adhesive sticks and glue gun made for hair extensions, extension hair is added directly to your own hair. Hair can be bought already cut, weft removed and pre tipped with adhesive, a purging tool is used to warm the adhesive and apply it to your hair. Your hair lies over the top for a natural look. We sell a starter kit with glue gun video and all items you need to use a gun and adhesive sticks method and we sell pre bonded hair with the tool.
Weaving - This is a process which you create a corn row or track around the head and close to the scalp. Extension hair is sewn on the tracks. Your own hair lays over the tracks for a natural look.
Bonding - This is the easiest method. A bonding glue is applied onto the weft of the extension hair and then applied at the root of your hair. This is a temporary method. We sell bonding glue and remover.
Clip ins - Clips have been sewn onto human extensions hair. You may clip these in and out yourself. Clips can be purchased from us and sewn on a ¼ pound of hair yourself or you may order Beautiful clip in extensions made by Raquel Welch already done.
Micro-Links - This method uses no glue, no heat, no remover and also no damage to the hair. Small circular links are used. Your own hair is pulled through in small pieces with a tool that looks like a crochet hook then the pre tipped hair is put inside the link and it is squeezed tight. To remove use pinchers to open the link. Hair can be reused. Weaves can be done with links. Make a row of links and sew extension hair to the links. You can also use a link in certain spots that may be lifting to hold it down or make it to your next appointment. Links are also used to make a circle and sew down a hairpiece or to hold down wigs. The plus is no glue and no heat and they are very small so they lay really flat and are hard to see.
Tape on seamless hair extensions - This is a hot new product. The wefted part of the hair is made from a polyurethane really thin flat strip that is already pre taped with a stick double sided tape. You just pull the backing off and apply the hair. Easy to do yourself. It lasts a few days or you can add the adhesive we sell and it lasts several months. Undetectable as the hair lies flat to the head no one knows you are wearing them if they touch your head. They are very comfortable to wear and easy to apply.
Each person is different depending on how thick the hair is wanted, where it is being placed, head size, how it is being applied, styled or cut etc. Since we cannot do a face to face consultation this is a guide only. If possible see a professional for guidance.
Seamless: We recommend 1–2 packages for thin to medium of hair.
Weft hair and pre tipped hair: We recommend: ¼ to ½ pound for thin to medium hair. Thicker hair and fuller longer styles may need more. Pre tipped hair: 130 pieces = approx. ¼ pound. Weft hair is sold by the ¼ pound weight and not the width.
You may need more hair if:
Choosing straight hair since it lays flatter.
Choosing 22" or longer since you get more hair in length versus width and fullness.
Your hair is thick, you have heavy layers or a bob cut.
What is a weft? A weft looks like a little curtain of hair attached together at the top and free flowing at the bottom. Wefts can be made by machine, but the best wefts are handmade. Your Extensions artist should be able to make them for you. The benefit of having them handmade is that you can match your own hair color perfectly as the color can be blended in the making process. Machine made wefts come in continuous widths and are then cut to size.
Handmade wefts are custom made to suit your head perfectly. Handmade wefts tend to last much longer and are generally thicker than machine made ones. Machine made wefts are usually made from the lesser qualities of hair and very rarely can you find European Hair machine made wefts. You cannot buy virgin hair machine made wefts.
The basic choices come down to quality and price. If you want your hair to look real go for at least European handmade wefts, and if you can afford it (and find it - it is very rare) definitely go for the raw/virgin hair. We exclusively deal with handmade wefts from raw/virgin hair.
Wefts are attached to your head by sewing them to a tiny braid (we will call it a track from now on) made out of your own hair. The track (known to hairdressers as a corn-row) runs horizontally around the back of your head. The tracks are done in the middle of your scalp underneath your hairline so you can't see them. The crown area of your own hair covers the top track making the extensions seem invisible. The number and size of tracks matches the number and size of wefts.
The wefts and tracks ideally should be made in different sizes in order to match exactly the way your hair would look if you had grown it that way yourself. Depending upon how much hair you need depends on how many tracks you have. For example: If I had hair to my chin and I wanted hair to my bra line (about 18" long) I might need 5 or 6 tracks/wefts depending upon my current haircut. If I had hair to my shoulders that was thin and stringy and I wanted it thicker and more luscious but the same length I might need 2 or 3 (or more) tracks/wefts.
Once the tracks are done, the wefts are sewn to them and then your own crown area hair is blended with and combed over the extensions. From now on you have to think of the extensions as YOUR HAIR..
You look after Hair Extensions the same as you would do long hair that you grew yourself. If you have never been able to grow your hair long before it is probably because you are killing it just as quickly as it grows.
Here's a few tips: Wash, condition and MOISTURIZE (very important) your hair every 2 - 3 days. The extensions do not receive your natural scalp oils and so need to have moisture added every wash. If you don't moisturize your hair extensions they will become brittle and break easily leading to split and ratty ends.
We recommend a good moisturizer for Hair Extensions. Treat them with respect. They will not grow back if you yank at them with a brush, burn them with the blow dryer, kill them with chemicals. Be nice to them - they cost a lot of money so make sure you get your money's worth. Always brush out all knots before you wash your hair, swim, or sleep. Start at the bottom and work your way up slowly using a paddle brush. Make sure you wash in between the braids to keep your scalp clean and free of bacteria.
Every 6-8 weeks (average) your own hair will have grown about 1 to 1 1/2 inches. The braids will still be intact and the wefts will still be attached to the braids. At this time you will need to return to your Extensions Artist and have the wefts removed from the braids and checked for any product build up, damage etc. The braids are then undone and redone back against your scalp and the same wefts sewn back on to the new braids. Voila! You look beautiful again.
You can have any length you want up to about 26"-30". Any natural hair over this length is about 8 - 10 years old at the ends (i.e. it took the person that long to grow it for you) and as such loses quality. Also, anything longer than this puts extra weight on your scalp which may lead to uneven pressure and damage to your own hair. The best looking hair extensions for average height women are usually around 22" or less. Our most popular length is 18" which is to your bra line.
How long is a piece of string? Someone will do it for you for a few hundred dollars while others will charge thousands. Ask questions.
Work out what kind of hair you need. Look at your budget. Remember - there is upkeep costs involved and these may range anywhere from $20 to $60 per track every 6-8 weeks. Don't pay thousands of dollars for cheap hair. Don't expect good hair for peanuts. Make sure you see the exact hair to be used first. You will pay more for better quality hair (European or Virgin) and you will pay more for handmade wefts. I believe it is best to get the best possible product and for that you will pay a premium price. But your hair will look great, it will last and you will feel terrific!
Sure, the Extensions should not be applied any lower than the base of your scalp (about even with the middle of your ears) and so your hair under this point covers the extensions while you wear it in pigtails, ponytails, French twists, French braids etc.
Now this is a hard one. Anyone can lie to you, so be aware. Ask to see photos (before/after). Ask if you can contact one of his/her long term clients. Most hair extensions clients like to remain anonymous but there is always at least one who would love to let the world know what a great job they had done on their hair. Ask how often the average client needs to replace the hair (6 months, 2 years etc). After reading this article, if you know more than the Extensions artist then goes find another one.
If it hurts get out of there! The Extensions artist should braid the tracks firmly but comfortably. The tension should be even all over your head with no points pulling or hurting. Do not put up with someone telling you it has to be really tight in order to be secure. Pulling your hair out is not the idea. You will know you have something on your head for the first day or two but after that you won't even feel that they are there.
The colorist just has to work around the extensions. This makes your color cheaper because effectively you only color the crown and hairline. It also means that the hair in the braid remains virgin and when you eventually have the extensions off your own hair is in brilliant condition.


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Illustration by Paul Rogers
Novelist Steve Stern wasn't raised in a traditional Jewish home—indeed, he says, his childhood in Memphis was virtually devoid of "heritage." But he has made up for that as an adult, delving deeply into Jewish history, fiction, liturgy, and mysticism in his work. All of that comes into play in The Frozen Rabbi, his ninth work of fiction, which Tablet Magazine begins serializing today. The story begins in the basement of one Bernie Karp, a pimply and spiritually bereft teen who, intent on pleasuring himself in the liver-aided manner of Alexander Portnoy, gets distracted when he discovers at the back of the meat freezer a 19th-century rabbi from the Pale of Settlement. From there, we are transported between the past and the present, along the way encountering shtetl kabbalists, Lodz peddlers, Lower East Side gangsters, New Age hucksters, and more. Stern spoke to Vox Tablet about Charles Dickens and Isaac Bashevis Singer, libel suits, and how he came to write this comic-tragic tale of modern European Jewry. The Frozen Rabbi will be published in May.


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Jammin' Bats to Keep Them Safe
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Alright, let me try to get this thing restarted...
Yes, yes, I've been away from here for a bit. Life. Rats. Leaky windows. Plumbing. Global financial meltdown. Kids. That's why...
But enough of that - what better way to get restarted than with me waving the flag of Contrast Podcast, which this week experienced Change thanks to Dearest Adam's theme. There's certainly much about metamorphoses on offer, but what hasn't changed is the fine mix of clever intros and rock-solid music choices. Download it here, and comment here, if you please. And if you want to see what you're getting:
(00:00) Dudley Moore - Goodbye George
Tim from The face of today
(04:23) Billy Bragg - Days like these (DC Mix)
Adam from Pretending life is like a song
(08:08) Steve Forbert - The change song
Natalie from Mini-Obs
(13:38) The Faint - Agenda suicide
FiL from Pogoagogo
(19:04) Julie London - There'll be some changes
ZB from So the wind won't blow it all away
(21:53) Moloko - Remain the same
Chris from Phosphorous.net
(27:05) John Betram - Change
Linda from Speed of Dark
(31:09) The Red Guitars - Good technology
John Q.
(36:16) The Charlatans - Everything changed
(40:04) Rancid - Tropical London
Eiron from The S+7 Method
(44:04) Pink Nasty - Don't ever change
Marcy from Lost in your inbox
(48:07) Fountains of Wayne - New Routine
Thom from Better in the Dark
(52:47) Ruut - Changes
James from Appetite For Distraction
(56:54) Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Are you ready to be heartbroken?
Greer from A Sweet Unrest
(01:00:33) The Low Scores & MF Doom - Change the beat
Bob from Gimme Tinnitus
(01:04:40) Dean Whitbread ft Danny Payne on drums - The other side
Dean from Pod of Funk
(01:09:02) Mildred Bailey and her orchestra with The Delta Rhythm Boys - There'll be some changes made
The In Crowd from I'm Learning to Share!
(01:11:36) Billy Bragg - A change is gonna come (live)
Dirk from Sexy Loser
(01:16:29) Leonard Cohen - Democracy
JC aka The Vinyl Villian
Given the then-upcoming US election, I figured there'd be many contributions inspired by the electrifying campaign of now-President-elect (oh YEAH, that feels so GOOD to type!!) Obama. I toyed with the idea of following suit, but opted instead for a story of personal change, and how music was its handmaiden. You'll have to listen to the podcast to hear the tale, but suffice to say it involved the near death of the soul and how a suicidal song helped forestall its demise. Another song that assisted was "I Am A Revenant" by LA punk outfit The Distillers. Singer Brody Dalle's harsh screams of rage reminded me that although I might be walking dead, I was still walking...
Distillers - I Am A Revenant (buy here)
I also considered posting an aptly named Style Council tune, and using it as a trope for describing how my love for The Jam changed to indifference during the career of the Council, then accelerated into derision after Weller frolicked into the wild Wildwood of Dadrock and wooden beads. But Dearest JC and Dearest Adam both had already echoed similar sentiments here and here, so I spared you my polemic.
The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods (buy here)
Finally, had I decided to wax hopeful about the election, I would have pinned my passion to an wholly apposite track by the multicultural marvel that is Cornershop.
Cornershop - Change (buy here or e-here)
Dearest Friends, I was indeed thrilled that the promise of change triumphed this past Tuesday. But my joy was tempered somewhat by change of the wrong kind: the passing of Proposition 8 in California, which removes the recently granted right of same-sex couples to marry. For goodness sake, why shouldn't two folks who love each other be allowed to commit themselves to each other formally and legally, regardless of their sex? What's that you say, Cardinal Mahoney? It's not "God's plan for people living upon this earth throughout time?" Well then, I hope you're following all the rest of God's plan, including banning cheeseburgers (Exodus 23:19 "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk"). Folks, there's still change to be fought for...
So at the risk of being rude, this one's for the 5,424,916 Californians who voted for Prop 8:


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English universities risk higher financing costs
The credit ratings of English universities risk being damaged by a slowdown in their enrollment of full-time students from outside the European Union, according to a recent credit outlook paper published by the Moody's rating agency.
The agency cited a recent report by theHigher Education Funding Council for England that said enrollments had stagnated for the past two years, following strong growth in previous years, raising fears that Britain might be losing out to rival international education providers in the United States, Australia and Canada.
The main reason for the stagnation was a 1 percent annual decline in post-graduate entrants from 2011 to 2013. "Declines are largely due to new student visa requirements, highlighting universities' exposure to external events," Moody's said.
The change hurts the credit rating of the universities, making it potentially more expensive for them to borrow money, because foreign students make an important contribution to revenues. Fees for students coming from outside the European Union were an average 12 percent of all university revenues in 2013, up from 8 percent in 2008, and were the fastest-growing revenue source from 2008 to 2012. — PATRICK BLUM
Students hurt in shooting ask for millions in damages
Two students injured in a shooting incident on March 6 at the York University student center in Toronto have filed a lawsuit against the school seeking a total of 20.5 million Canadian dollars in damages, alleging inadequate security on campus. Six witnesses have joined in the lawsuit against the school.
Annie Malik, 19, who was shot in the leg, is seeking 18 million dollars, or $16.4 million, for pain and suffering. Ms. Malik still has a bullet lodged in her leg. Namra Malik, 20, who was injured by shrapnel, is suing for 1 million dollars, while the six witnesses are each seeking 250,000 dollars.
Joanne Rider, a York University spokeswoman, said statistics showed that the university was as safe as, or safer than, other schools in the area. She said York had enhanced security patrols in important campus areas for the remainder of the semester. — ELAINE R. SMITH
French and Chinese schools offer program with Kering
The French business school HEC and Tsinghua University in China are collaborating with the French luxury goods company Kering to offer an 18-month executive training program for midlevel managers at Kering and at its brands in China.
"The rapid development of China's luxury and fashion industry means there is an urgent need for talent with sound knowledge of the business of fashion and arts, as well as expert managerial skills," said Xue Lei, director of executive education at the School of Executive Management at Tsinghua.
The program started this month with a first group of 27 students. Courses will be taught in Beijing, Paris, Shanghai and online. — CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE


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Citrus Chicken
prep: 20 min cook: 43 min yield: 4 servings
2-2.5 lbs meaty chicken pieces (breasts, thighs, and drumsticks)
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 Tablespoons cooking oil
1 cup chopped onion
1/5 cup chopped celery
2 cups water
1 cup uncooked long grain rice
1 Tablespoon grated fresh ginger or 1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
1 lemon, cut into thick slices
3 Tablespoons snipped, fresh, flatleaf parsley
Remove skin from chicken. In a shallow dish, combine flour, the 1/4 teaspoon salt, and the pepper. Coat chicken with flour mixture. Discard any remaining flour mixture.
In a 12" skillet, brown chicken in hot oil over medium heat for 20 minutes, turning occasionally. Remove from skillet, reserving drippings. Set Chicken aside. Add onion and celery to drippings in skillet. Cook and stir 3-4 minutes or until vegetables are just tender.
Carefully stir water, rice, ginger, the 1/2 teaspoon salt, allspice, and turmeric into vegetables in skillet. Bring to boiling; add chicken pieces. Reduce heat. Simmer, covered, for 20-25 minutes or until rice is tender and chicken is no longer pink. Top with lemon slices the last 5 minutes of cooking.
Just before serving, sprinkle parsley over chicken mixture. Squeeze warm lemon juice from the slices in pan over chicken for additional citrus flavor.
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What is your setting? What thought runs first, within your mind at the sight of danger? Where do you get answers from first? Is it the training you received in high school? Perhaps your psychology degree or sociology classes are the first thoughts that run within your mind. Who are you listening to?
If I were to ask you about relationships, would your experience define your truth or would your source be from another? If I were to ask you about an emotional problem, dealing with sickness or molestation what would you tell me? If I am single searching for the perfect mate and seem to only find abusers, what would be your words?
Would you immediately think about the Creator of heaven and earth? Would you secretly pray within your mind for the answer? Would you call on the name of the Lord?
Your default says a lot about, who, you depend on in times of trouble. Your default is clear evidence where you stand in your relationship with Jesus. For if he is the second, third, or fourth option, you are in trouble.
Whatever default your computer comes with can be changed, but not without the knowledge and time spent to change it. Spend time with Jesus and let him change your default.


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Ten is the new five in the canine set. An elderdog who goes by the name of Stump just won Best in Show at Westminster. The Sussex Spaniel has already survived a serious health crisis and came back to show the young whippersnappers how it's done. He even sat up on his hindquarters upon winning, looking a lot like he thought a snack should be forthcoming. Immediately after that he appeared to be taking a victory nap.
Congratulations to Stump and his family. Way to represent for the older folks of all species!


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14 Street/8 Avenue
|New York City Subway station complex
Street entrance
|Station statistics
|Eighth Avenue & West 14th Street
New York, NY 10011
|West Village, Chelsea
|40°44′23″N 74°00′09″W / 40.739779°N 74.002533°WCoordinates: 40°44′23″N 74°00′09″W / 40.739779°N 74.002533°W
| IND Eighth Avenue Line
BMT Canarsie Line
| A (all times)
C (all except late nights)
E (all times)
L (all times)
|Transit connections
|NYCT Bus: M12, M14A SBS, M14D SBS, M20
|Other information
|September 10, 1932[1]
|Station code
|Wireless service
|Passengers (2018)
|14,324,670 (station complex)[4] 1.2%
|18 out of 424
14th Street/Eighth Avenue is an underground New York City Subway station complex shared by the IND Eighth Avenue Line and the BMT Canarsie Line. It is located at Eighth Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan, and served by the:
The whole complex is ADA-compliant, with the accessible station entrance at 14th Street. This complex was renovated at the beginning of the 21st century.
This station had two artworks installed here. The first one was in 1989 by Ross Lewis named Parallel Motion. It shows images of moving bodies in the mezzanine drawn by brushstrokes using Chinese calligraphy. It was removed in 1995 and is now at the lobby of Public School 89 in Battery Park City. The second art installation by Tom Otterness, called Life Underground, was installed in 2001. It features whimsical bronze sculptures, including a sewer alligator, scattered about the station.
There are a number of MTA New York City Transit Authority training facilities located in the Mezzanine.
In 1999, this station underwent a major station renovation. On August 24, 1993, the contract for the project's design was awarded for $994,079. In May 1994, a supplemental agreement worth $203,435 was reached to allow the consultant to design the New York City Transit training facility to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. As part of the project's design, multiple options were considered to improve the station, including the construction of a free transfer zone between the Eighth Avenue and Canarsie Lines. As part of the supplemental agreement, the consultant was directed to design it.[5]:C-55, C-56
|Street Level
|Exit/ Entrance
|Fare control, station agents
Elevator at NW corner of 14th Street and Eighth Avenue
|Northbound local
|← toward 168th Street ( toward 207th Street late nights) (23rd Street)
← toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (23rd Street)
|Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
|Northbound express
|← toward 207th Street (34th Street–Penn Station)
|Southbound express
|→ toward Far Rockaway or Lefferts Boulevard (all except nights), or Rockaway Park (PM rush hours) (West Fourth Street–Washington Square) →
|Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
|Southbound local
|→ toward Euclid Avenue ( toward Far Rockaway late nights) (West Fourth Street–Washington Square) →
→ toward World Trade Center (West Fourth Street–Washington Square)
|Ramp from upper mezzanine to platforms
|Track 2
|→ toward Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway (Sixth Avenue) →
|Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
|Track 1
|→ toward Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway (Sixth Avenue) →
The station complex's three sets of entrances are located at the intersections of Eighth Avenue and 14th, 15th, and 16th Streets.[6] The northernmost one has an unstaffed bank of turnstiles, two staircases going up to the northwest corner of 16th Street and Eighth Avenue, and one going up to each eastern side of the intersection. A passageway leads to the front entrance of 111 Eighth Avenue (the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey building now occupied by Google) at the southwest corner.[6] A sign on the sidewalk outside the building indicates an entrance to the station is available inside. On either side the center of the mezzanine, a set of full height turnstiles leads to a staircase going up to either northern corners of 15th Street and Eighth Avenue.[6]
The full-time fare control area is at the south end of the mezzanine. On the east side is the transfer passageway between the platforms containing a ramp, staircase, and elevator. A set of full height turnstiles leads to a staircase going up to the northeast corner of 14th Street and 8th Avenue. The full-time turnstile bank has a token booth, two staircases to either southern corners of the aforementioned intersection, and one staircase and elevator going up to the northwest corner. There is a direct entrance/exit to the BMT platforms at one bank of turnstiles here.[6] This area has a signal training school for New York City Transit employees.
There was a fourth set of entrances located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and 17th Streets. These entrances have since been closed.[7]
14 Street
|New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Brooklyn bound platform
|Station statistics
|IND Eighth Avenue Line
| A (all times)
C (all except late nights)
E (all times)
|2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange
|Other information
|September 10, 1932[1]
|Station code
|Wireless service
|Station succession
|Next north
|34th Street–Penn Station (express): A
23rd Street (local): A C E
|Next south
|West Fourth Street–Washington Square: A C E
|Next north
|34th Street–Penn Station: A C E
|Next south
|West Fourth Street–Washington Square: A C E
14th Street is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line that has four tracks and two island platforms. Opened on September 10, 1932,[8][1] this is the southernmost Eighth Avenue Line station that is actually under Eighth Avenue itself. South of here, the line curves east to Sixth Avenue via Greenwich Avenue.
During daytime hours, C and E trains stop on the outer local tracks while A trains stop on the center express tracks. During late night hours, all service is on the local tracks. Both outer track walls have a medium Yellow-Orange trim line with a Terra Cotta Brown border and "14th" written in black on the white tiles below. Both platforms have yellow i-beam columns running along their centers. The original 1931 trim line was a deep yellow-orange set in a course three tiles high with no border. There are many staircases and one elevator from each side going up to the full-length mezzanine above, which has same style trim line, name tablets, and columns.
8 Avenue
|New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Canarsie Line platform
|Station statistics
|BMT Canarsie Line
|L (all times)
|1 island platform
|Other information
|May 30, 1931
|Station code
|Wireless service
|Station succession
|Next west
|(Terminal): L
|Next east
|Sixth Avenue: L
|Next west
|none: L
|Next east
|Union Square: L
Eighth Avenue on the BMT Canarsie Line has two tracks and one island platform. It is the western (railroad north) terminal of the BMT Canarsie Line. The station is served by the L train at all times.
Eighth Avenue station opened on May 30, 1931 and was the last station to open on the Canarsie Line, built as an extension from the main line that opened seven years earlier westward from Sixth Avenue, the previous terminal.[9]
Eighth Avenue uses a single island platform with two tracks[10] which are designated officially as Q1 and Q2; however, these chaining numbers are only used by train crew and MTA personnel as their main purpose is distance-marking. Originally, they were named QW1 and QW2 since Eighth Avenue was a western extension of the Canarsie Line, but the line has been re-chained simply as Q. Eighth Avenue is the zero-point of the Canarsie Line's chaining, that is, it is the starting point of all distances on the line. The tracks end at bumper blocks just past the west end of the platform.
The station was originally decorated in a more IND style than the rest of the Canarsie Line, which was built by the BMT. The original tile band was two-tone ultramarine blue with "8th Av" captions.[10] However, a 1999 renovation subsequently removed the IND style and replaced it with the BMT quilt-like tile pattern that exists on all other subway stations on the BMT Canarsie Line. The current tile color scheme is white with red stripes and historically-correct mosaics predominantly beige and tan, with an oddly "regular" pattern of red, yellow, green and off-white in the center. To signify the station's location, there are small "8" decorations set in teal-green hexagons, as found in other stations on the line.[10]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to 14th Street – 8th Avenue (New York City Subway).
|"Life Underground" by Tom Otterness, Metropolitan Transportation Authority; January 13, 2010; 2:34 YouTube video clip


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Allgon AB acquires the IoT-company Wireless System Integration Sweden AB
Allgon AB has signed an agreement to acquire Wireless System Integration Sweden AB, a fast-growing company within IoT (Internet of Things). In connection with this, the Allgon group also creates a new business area for industrial IoT where additional potential acquirements can be added in the future.
Wireless System Integration Sweden AB (WSI) is a design house developing wireless products and systems. The company has in recent years experienced a strong growth and influx of new customers. Before the summer, WSI was chosen as partner for development and manufacturing of products to American Nvidia, one of the largest companies for graphics processors used for artificial intelligence, deep learning and virtual reality.
WSI, based in Kista, Stockholm, currently has 20 employees. In 2015, WSI had a turnover of SEK 32 million with an operating profit of SEK 2,4 million while the turnover of 2016 is estimated to an amount of approximately SEK 45 million with an operating profit of SEK 4,5 million.
Allgon makes the acquisition, which is planned to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year, through buying shares of WSI from the four current owners at a price equivalent to SEK 41 million. The purchase price will be paid partly in cash of SEK 25 million, partly by a promissory note of SEK 11 million as well as a directed share issue of SEK 5 million.
– Through this acquisition, we are putting the first piece of the puzzle in establishing a new business area, Industrial IoT. WSI has an exciting business that complements the offers from other companies within our group. We have followed WSI for some time and are impressed by their success journey. We are looking forward to working with the founders and their team to develop the business further, says Johan Hårdén, CEO of Allgon AB.
– We can see that our major international customers as well as the smaller clients become more and more dependent on collaborations with flexible specialized companies to keep up with the ongoing global digitalization. WSI has a sound knowledge and an extensive experience in offering clients a full responsibility in the process from idea to final product within IoT, Virtual Reality and advanced radio solutions. This agreement with Allgon puts WSI into a larger context in which we can get further exchange on our continuous expansion and growth, says Jan-Åke Lindqvist, CEO of Wireless System Integration Sweden AB.


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The files of insurance.aes256 could conceivably comprise those files formerly rejected from the purpose-motivated releases, but which could be highly personally devastating to prominent elite individuals. Indeed sending such elitists the private key with directions on finding their particular peccadillo files could be a highly influential tactic.]]>
Yes, I recon you do have the password 'justme' and I also recon your mum ironed your pants for you this morning.
What you getting for Christmas? Stabiliser for your bicycle...]]>
Leaves the door wide open for speculation. If even righteous honest people with no hidden agenda start siding with the Government, must be bit time secret!]]>
thats the biggest part that scares me...
Im a u.s. citizen... and If my government wont do it... I want my tax dollars back ;}
Or so I hear. Friend might be bluffing. I'm trying it when I get to my home pc.]]>
The insurance is probably a piece of data that links a source to a report where this source has no choice but protect the outing of this information.
And, the only way the threat can be useful is if the named source has the Insurance file.
So, my interest is in tracking the players involved. Who would be a likely source-wishing-not-be-named? Spin the wheel... which name gets the most votes..]]>
and start decrypting, that will remove your doubts about the file...]]>
Lie. Flat out, lie.]]>
if some of Assange's associates actually knew the decryption password it should have "leaked" by now in a website called "wikileakleak.con". correction: "com".]]>
"Farsnews", the news agency that spread this around at the first place is a state funded media that has a reputation in Iran for making up stories based on conspiracy theory. It is not a reliable source in eyes of Iranians themselves.
Insurance, whatever it is, is not a trap from state departments, I say don't waste you time even thinking about this probability!]]>
But they know that the info's been widely distributed and are making the necessary changes to address any issues that might emerge from full disclosure.
There will be some future poo-poo'ing in the international press about things exposed, but so what? Life will go on, and the only thing this pasty skinned albino will have accomplished is to bring a gigantic, steaming load of law & regulation down on the interwebs.
Kind of ironic, isn't it?
Well, it isn't illegal (yet). And if they go trying to make it illegal before a key is released we'll know right away that they're planning on shutting Wikileaks down somehow, and probably soon. It would tip their hand in advance.
And what would they do to make it illegal? "Downloading any files claimed to be encrypted copies of leaked secret State Department documents is now illegal." At that point, the number of red-herring files that will be claimed to be such will increase significantly. Or maybe they'll wait until the key is released then immediately pass a law that using the key to decrypt anything is illegal? Or warning us that they will pass such a law retroactively should the key be released? They'd have to come up with a pretty convoluted law to try to prohibit people from reading the text once a key is released, and even then the law would only apply to US citizens. Suppose then a non citizen decrypts the whole package and publishes it in a volume, or just downloadable as plain text. No, it's not illegal, and it's never going to BE illegal, for the plain reason that if it was illegal, such a law would be ineffective at keeping much of anyone from access to the info once the key is out.
But it does make one wonder about the advisability of putting all the eggs in one basket-- once the key is released, will they no longer need any insurance? Seems to me, there would be serious repercussions from the release of such a key, and they'd need even better insurance to protect against that. I suppose the Rubberhose filesystem would allow them to release bits at a time, or claim that there's more there that can continue to be released, etc., and no one will know exactly how much more is there.
Regarding one-time pads: I suppose they could always say that it is a OTP, and the pad for the first segment is a WAV file rip of the song Number 9 from the Beatles White Album, byte reversed. The second segment is the Ascii text of the Declaration of Independence. The third segment is the Windows REGSVR32.exe for XP SP3 version 22.214.171.124 (or whatever). No need to cart around 1.4GB OTP files at all, and they could release it a bit at a time.]]>
encrypt the exact same bit of data 10,000 times with different keys.
show me two pieces of info so i can be sure it's not all the same
encrypt 50 pieces of information 200 times (hope you don't get really unlucky)
reveal more... but this is going down a bad way...
better counter-protocol...
encrypt all the messages with the same public key... also provide some sort of digital fingerprint that differs little with tiny tweaks(anti hash?) verify that no two are alike.
publish the plaintext of a challenged one
verify that the public encryption is correct.
verify that the anti-hash is correct.]]>
Yes, this is smart, but even smarter than that is to put together a stash of baffle material and instead create this delusion for all gov. agencies that they have already posted the code for the respective adversary. The point is every org thinks the docs have been leaked fro one of the other orgs out there.(NSA thinks CIA has been irresponsible to let it happen, CIA thinks FBI and so on) different organizations in US bureaucracy are so tightly competing that no agencies wants others to know that their loose security measures has allowed a fiasco,
The ultimate result is that all of us think we have sth top secret in our hands and gov agencies, in the other hand, are suspicious of each other more than ever.]]>
Well this is weird ...
This seems to work as well ...
#Using Blowfish Cipher
$ openssl enc -d -bf -in insurance.aes256 > out.dec
use ROUTER as password
I tried using different passwords and I get an error but not when I use ROUTER.
Just to add to the weirdness, you can also decrypt it by using "ONION" with blowfish: these
permutations could lead to something interesting.
That would be even more effective. Politicians are like Tanya Harding.]]>
That is my guess anyways. NSA not being able to pwn Wikileaks is a laugh.]]>
The "insurance file" contains the video footage of the "Granai airstrike" in Afghanistan.
The one that killed all those school children.
It really isn't a secret, it is even on wikipedia…click on the link.]]>
"What about using the DVD of Jurassic Park. Distribution problem solved"
It's "known Key Mat" which is an abslute no no in cryptography. Put more simply I would expect the likes of the NSA to "know" that is a possability (Book Codes) and to have tried some of it to see if the output statistics change.
The other thing is even compressed video has fairly predictable properties so does not make good "Key mat".
That said several years ago some one looked at applying book codes multiple times and found that around four different books applied in succession was virtualy indistinguishable from purely randomly generated Key Material.
As always with OTP or a stream cipher generating a sufficiently unpredictable (to an attacker) Key Stream is simple in theory but extreamly difficult in practice.
If you want to know how hard go have a look at NESSIE which was an EU initiative to provide amongst other things good stream ciphers. If I remember correctly all the entrants failed...
"Using the quantum properties of light, it is now possible to send information that is quantum encrypted and is guaranteed secure against eavesdropping by the laws of physics"
Sorry the "guarantee" is very very very limited to each Q-Bit and absolutly no more than that.
Which means there are all sorts of ways to probe the communications channel to get information about the Q-Bit without having to do anything to it at all.
In the simple case where the sending end sets a polarizor to a given angle, simply having an "out of band" light source whereby the polarisation can be probed is sufficient to know what position it is in.
Then there is the electronics that randomly positions the polarizor this will emit all sorts of EmSec signals or likewise be as equally susceptible to EmSec signals. "The laws of physics" puts the same guarentee on this.
Some successful atacks against commercial QKD devices has been shown and they are mostly low tech attacks.
Way way to many pepole look at that oh so very very narrow guarantee and assume incorectly it applies to the whole system. It does not, and the result is as with any other misplaced faith cause for embarrassment when it all goes wrong. As it usually does without any significant malintent.]]>
After you dive into secret-service reports for long enough, you will find *plenty* of references to the concerns expressed by U.S. Allies about the fact that the U.S. standards are so weak and the quantum computers (in use since 1990) so efficient.
Of course, 100% of those who have found this information started by bothering to search in the first place...
@BF Skinner
Tip: use your snorkel and fins to build yourself an opinion based on something else than the usual Academia rethoric or servile Press Releases.
The results of a regular practice are priceless.
In addition, the encryption code may be a one-time pad, making it practically impossible to crack no matter how strong your supercomputer.]]>


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The largest city of Gujarat, Ahmedabad has earned a reputation and recognition for its textile industry. Due to rapid growth in textile industry, it has earned a tile as the Manchester of the East. There are quite a few interesting places in and around Ahmedabad.
Budget Hotels in Ahmedabad
There are good budget hotels in Ahmedabad. Some of them are DRH Regency (Tariff – Rs.1500), Hotel Madhuvan (Tariff – Rs.1,000), Hotel Damjis (Tariff – Rs.1700) and Hotel Marshall (Tariff –1900).
The official language Ahmedabad is Gujarati. The other languages spoken include Hindi and English.
Events in Ahmedabad
One of the Important Festivals of Ahmedabad is Uttarayana (January).
Places to See in Ahmedabad
There are several places of tourist attraction in Ahmedabad. Some of the places include Lake Kankaria (4 kms from Ahmedabad),Bhadra Fort (7.5 kms from Ahmedabad),Dada Hari Vav (18 kms from Ahmedabad),Shaking Minarets (8 kms from Ahmedabad),Akshardham Temple (7 kms from Ahmedabad),Sidi Sayed Mosque(18 kms from Ahmedabad) and Kankaria Lake (3 kms from Ahmedabad).
How to Get There
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport is located 15 kms away from the city. The airport is situated 8 km from Ahmedabad railway junction.
Ahmedabad railway junction is also called as Kalupur Station. The railway line connects to major destinations of Gujarat. The other stations in Ahmedabad include Maninagar,Vatva, Gandhigram, Asarva, Chandlodia, Kali gam, Vastrapur, Sabarmati, Sarkhej, Naroda and Aaml.
Ahmedabad has buses well connected to all the major destinations of Gujarat. Some of the best bus operators that offer good experience for passengers are Shrinath Travel Agency, Angel Tours & Travels and Jay Bhavani Travels. Avail of bus ticket offers from Ticketgoose.com when you book your tickets online.
Navapur is a municipality in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra. It is the last town in Maharashtra, and shares its borders with Gujarat. Situated 100 km from Dhule as well as Surat, Navapur thrives well on agro based industries such as tuvar daal mills, sugar factories, poultry farming and animal husbandry. As per census 2001, the total population of Navapur is 29,979. The community mix of Navapur comprises of Gujarati, Maharashtrians, and Marwaris.
Places to Stay
Being a small city, Navapur does not have many hotels. Local home stays are available. However, 2 Star hotels are available in nearby Navapur such as Hotel Akash (Tariff – Rs. 800).
The official language of Navapur is Marathi. The alternate languages spoken here are English and Hindi.
Some of the annual festivals celebrated in Navapur are Ganesh Chaturthi in September, Dussehra in October, and Deepavali in November.
Places of Interest
Navapur is popular for Shabri Mata's Mandir located in the Subir village which is 35 km away from Navapur. Other tourist venues are Girmal Falls and Ukai Dam.
How to Get There
The nearest airport to Navapur is in Surat.
The railway station at Navapur lies on the Surat-Bhusaval broad gauge line. Sawantwadi is the nearest major railway station 16.6 km away.
Road transport is a vital source of connectivity in Navapur. There are frequent bus services plying from Navapur to Ahmedabad, Akola, Amravati, Dhulia, Jalgaon, Nagpur, Pune, and Vadodara. Uchchhal bus stand is a prominent bus stand from where buses are available. Few bus operators that run good frequency buses to Navapur are Disha Tours & Travels, Gurukrupa Travels, and Shreenath Travellers. Booking bus tickets is very easy these days through various bus booking websites like Ticketgoose.com.


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Calvin and the Colonel is an animated cartoon television series in 1961 about Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox and Calvin T. Burnside, a dumb bear. Their lawyer was Oliver Wendell Clutch, who was a weasel. Telecast from 1961 to 1962 for only one year, it's considered the animated version of AMOS N' ANDY because not only are they the same characters, but the same men who did the voices as well! This DVD includes four half-hour episodes.


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Success Coaching London 2019
Are you ready to achieve your goals? Are you ready to fulfil your true potential? What do you want to get out of being coached? What are your goals and dreams?
– What actions are you ready to commit to?
– What challenges did you face since the previous session?
– What will be the focus for the next session?
– How will you know when you are where you want to be?
These clarifying questions allow you to keep the momentum going and also help to focus on what's important. This step, completed prior to sessions, will give structure to what would otherwise be a disorganised process.
Here's a breakdown of each component for Max Kirsten's Success Coaching model:
S: Success Planning
U: Unlimited possibilities
C: Charting Your Goals
C: Creating Your Future Today!
E: Expect and Commit
S: Synergistic Connections
S: Success Pathways
It is important to be open to all possibilities. In an ever-changing world the most adaptive of us can thrive and survive almost anywhere!
Who has been successful before you. If you begin to do what they did you can get what they've got! This is a modelling behaviour that anyone can emulate.
Starting with Goal setting, what are the mile-stones etc you will pass on the way?
Obviously, it's all about moving forwards and achieving your goals.
What do you need to move forward today right NOW?
What specific opportunities exist or that you can create to accomplish your goals. What is going to get you there?
What do you expect to achieve?
Your desired change requires action and a commitment to action. You cannot expect to change, unless you're committed to change, which means taking daily action daily.
Being at one with yourself. So that even if you are following a dream alone, at least you feel good with it.
Being congruent, is an important key to achieving real lasting change. If you are incongruent then your goal may never be fully achieved or even if it is it may not last very long.
What are you really prepared to do or change in order to make sure that your dream comes true? Don't let the old version of you somehow hold you back from becoming the New Successful YOU. Seek allies and friends who are also on their success journey along the way.
Remember to enjoy the journey as well as the destination.
Usually 5-10 sessions.
Success Coaching London
- A unique combination of Success Coaching, NLP and latest cognitive behavioural techniques
- Transform the unwanted subconscious habit into a much healthier positive behaviour
- A powerful, refined and effective way to enhance your confidence
IMPORTANT: Please note that the effects of success coaching may differ for different clients. No coaching can give you a 100% guarantee of success only massively increase your chances of achieving success. Clients are usually required to complete a questionnaire form before undertaking Success Coaching London.


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- Press freedom remained restricted in 2009 as Sudan prepared for scheduled 2010 elections that would be the first held since 1986 and were set to include ballots for representatives at the local, regional, and national levels. An unresolved insurgency in the Darfur region and tensions surrounding the possible secession of autonomous Southern Sudan also continued to make reporting problematic for both foreign and local journalists.
- Article 29 of the 2005 Interim National Constitution, adopted in connection with that year's peace agreement between the Khartoum government and rebel forces representing Southern Sudan, nominally protects freedom of the press and citizen expression.
- In June 2009 the government replaced the highly restrictive 2004 Press and Printed Press Materials Law. However, media freedom organizations have criticized the new law for falling short of international standards. It states that "no restrictions will be placed on freedom of the press except on issues pertaining to safeguarding national security and public order and health," and contains loosely defined provisions related to the encouragement of ethnic and religious disturbances and incitement of violence. The law also gives the National Press and Publication Council the authority to shut down newspapers for three days without a court order. However, some of the most criticized components of earlier drafts—including fines of more than US$20,000 for violators of the law—were removed from the final version.
- Would-be journalists who are not supporters of the government have difficulty joining the profession, and all journalists must pass a challenging Arabic language exam regardless of the language they intend to use in their work.
- State-imposed prepublication censorship was a common occurrence for much of 2009. Officials from the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) were employed at each newspaper to review articles prior to printing. Authorities forced the newspaper Al-Maidan to remove dozens of articles, leaving it without enough material to publish on several occasions. The newspapers Ajras al-Hurriya and Al-Sudani also occasionally faced direct censorship during the year. In September, President Omar al-Bashir eliminated the direct formal censorship of newspapers by the NISS, but the decree did not apply to television or radio broadcasts. The decision had been encouraged both by internal pressure from media owners and unions and by the increasing presence of international organizations ahead of the elections scheduled for April 2010. Nonetheless, government officials continued to caution the media against coverage of certain topics and directly interfered with advertisers.
- Journalists faced harassment, attacks, and intimidation by both state and nonstate forces. Those who criticized the government publicly or privately risked arrest.
- Foreign journalists in Sudan have occasionally experienced difficulties in their reporting and are generally viewed with suspicion by the authorities. In addition to denying visas, the Sudanese government expelled two foreign correspondents from the country in 2009. Egyptian-Canadian journalist Heba Aly was deported in February in response to her research on the manufacturing of Sudanese weapons. In March, Zouhir Latif, a Tunisian freelance journalist working for France 24 and Al-Hayat, was expelled after being arrested by intelligence agents and having his videos and computer confiscated. Latif's arrest is believed to be linked to his work in Darfur.
- Press freedom conditions in Southern Sudan tended to be somewhat better than in areas controlled directly by Khartoum. However, in the run-up to the 2010 elections there were numerous reports of journalists being harassed and beaten by security forces and members of political organizations. In January 2009, Juba Post editor Isaac Billy Gideon was detained for nine hours after publishing a piece in 2008 that accused a senior Southern general of improperly selling land to Somali businessmen. In May, Southern military police detained and questioned journalists Abdulgadir Mohammed and Adil Badir, seizing their mobile telephones. In October, after false rumors that Southern Sudanese president Salva Kiir had died, Southern police entered the compound of the United Nations Mission in Sudan and demanded that the UN-affiliated Radio Miraya FM be temporarily shut down.
- There are several private daily and weekly newspapers that cover local and national news, but most operate in the north. Experts have argued that there is little difference between the private and state-run media, as all are subject to serious government interference. Newspapers are generally too expensive for most Sudanese. The government runs one Arabic and one English-language newspaper.
- The state dominates the broadcast media, which are the main source of information for much of Sudan's population. Television programming continues to be formally censored, and radio content must reflect the government's views. International broadcasters are quite popular in the country. The British Broadcasting Corporation is relayed in Khartoum and other parts of the north, and in Juba in the south. Some opposition and clandestine stations can also be received in the country.
- Authorities reportedly put pressure on advertisers, prohibiting them from placing ads in newspapers that are deemed critical of the government.
- Internet penetration in Sudan is relatively high for sub-Saharan Africa, with almost 10 percent of the population able to access the medium in 2009. The government is believed to monitor the internet, reading private e-mail and correspondence. It also blocks websites, especially those with explicit sexual content, ostensibly to preserve ethical standards. The Sudanese blogosphere is quite active, and despite the country's multiple conflicts, online debates are less adversarial than in neighboring countries such as Ethiopia and Eritrea.


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You can use the emergency firmware recovery tool to revive or recover your Galaxy device, if in case the firmware upgrade fails or some problem occurs in your device while updating the firmware. This guide will walk you through the entire process of performing an emergency firmware recovery for Samsung Galaxy Note 3 using the KIES.
You can also recover your Galaxy Note 3 from another computer. Both of these methods are tackled in this content, so you may opt to use either ways to recover your device when necessary.
Start here whenever you're ready.
A. Recover your device via Emergency Firmware Recovery/KIESFollow these steps to recover your device with the Samsung KIES Emergency Firmware Recovery feature.
1. Open Kies, then select Tools.
2. From the menu bar on top of the screen, select Emergency Firmware Recovery.
3. Now choose your device (Galaxy Note 3) from the given list. Please note that your device will only be shown in the list if it needs a recovery.
Another important thing you need to take note of is the Recovery Code. You will be needing this code to restore your device from another computer (when necessary).
4. KIES will then be prompting you with certain steps to switch your Galaxy Note 3 to recovery mode. Just follow the given instructions.
5. Finally, click on the Start Upgrade button.
B. Recover your Galaxy Note 3 from another computerYou can use a different computer to upgrade the device, if the emergency recovery process fails from the computer you originally used. Be sure to note the recovery code given to you in the prior procedures. Once you get the recovery code ready, follow these steps.
1. Click on Tools to get started.
2. Select Emergency Firmware Recovery.
3. Click on Emergency recovery using the recovery code you got from the original computer.
4. Now enter the recovery code.
5. Follow the steps displayed in KIES, to switch your device to recovery mode.
6. Click on the button to Start Upgrade. The firmware will now upgrade to the latest version.
Please let us know whenever you encounter errors when using the Emergency Firmware Recovery on your Galaxy Note 3, and we'll be glad to assist you further.


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Marc Faber : I still like my January investment picks. As a group, Singapore REITS look OK. Among them I like Mapletree Commercial Trust [MCT.Singapore], Frasers Centrepoint Trust [FCT.Singapore], K-REIT Asia [KREIT.Singapore], Mapletree Logistics Trust [MLT.Singapore], Ascott Residence Trust [ART.Singapore], Cache Logistics Trust [CACHE.Singapore] and Parkway Life [PREIT.Singapore].
I am also warming to gold shares. Gold corrected to $1,522 last December from $1,921 in September. It rebounded to $1,795 in February and is back down around $1,600. The correction could last longer, but given that governments will print more money, gold is relatively effective as a currency. My preference is physical gold, but I would also own some gold shares, which have been decimated. Goldcorp [GG] is attractive because most of its properties are in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The company isn't exposed to regimes that are talking about nationalizing resources. In general, stock markets are oversold. The U.S. government-bond market is overbought. The U.S. dollar is overbought, and gold is oversold near term. - in Barron's roundtable June 2012


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BCAA's are Branched Chain Amino Acids consisting of 3 essential amino acids leucine, iso-leucine, and valine. They are considered essential amino acids because human beings cannot survive unless these amino acids are present in the diet. Together they comprise approximately 1/3 of human muscle tissue. Studies have shown that BCAA's help to stimulate protein synthesis and inhibit its breakdown, so BCAA's have powerful anabolic and anti-catabolic effects on the body.
PhD Nutrition BCAA's, the exciting first product in their brand new "Recovery range" have been designed to the specific 2:1:1 ratio required to optimise the effects of Leucine, the most important of the three BCAA's.
PhD BCAA's are vital to protein synthesis (the ability to build muscle) and also vital in reducing muscle damage. Vitally, when we workout strenuously with weights, we oxidise amino acids (use them to fuel our training). BCAA oxidisation is rapidly promoted by exercise, so when we train hard, we use BCAA's. If we do not replace or keep topping these BCAA's up before, during and after exercise, we run the risk of increasing muscle damage indicators Creatine Kinease (CK) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and missing the opportunity of recovering in the optimum time. Slow recovery means slow progression, fast recovery equals faster progression, it's a simple equation.
Managing workout muscular stress and recovery
One of the reasons athletes fail to increase lean muscle size is down to their inability to manage workout stress and recovery. Studies show that intense training increases the presence of muscle damage indicators (CK and LDH). With high plasma concentrations of CK and LDH, we cannot recovery quickly and effectively (if we can't recover, we can't build muscle, get quicker, stronger or more powerful).
BCAA supplementation before and after exercise has beneficial effects for decreasing exercise-induced muscle damage and promoting muscle-protein synthesis; this suggests the possibility that BCAAs are a useful supplement in relation to exercise and sports. For those who do not want to use PhD BCAA's during their workout, simply split the total amount of BCAA capsules used per training session, for your body weight, into two portions. Example: 80-100KG athletes use 8 capsules prior to working out (in the manner recommended) and the remaining 7 capsules after working out (in the manner recommended). Great to use before workouts with PhD Wired, during workouts with PhD Battery+/-3 and post workout with Synergy-ISO-7.


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Manifesto to Solve Obesity
Current proposed solutions are piecemeal; nothing has proven effective in reducing the level of obesity and diabetes.
Foods are now discriminated against. Those declared "bad" are under attack for contributing to the health crisis.
Industry is accused of harming its customers.
Industry has the right - and necessity - to make a profit, and is under attack for doing so.
Most tactics employed insist on the consumer changing his/her behavior. This has proven ineffective, as witnessed by the inability to stay on diet plans.
The consumer is not making the necessary changes to improve their eating habits.
Government is increasingly involved in conjuring up solutions to the obesity problem with counterproductive results. Their approach is piecemeal - not holistic - and focuses on the symptoms and not the problem itself
Activists are pushing anti-capitalist and an Orwellian food agenda to eradicate "bad" foods
In regard to the Food Industry:
Industry is the only constituent capable of effectively solving the obesity crisis
Industry shall take Stewardship for its customers' health & well-being
Industry is entitled to profits, but shall Make Money Responsibly
Amnesty shall be granted to all foods & beverages declared "bad" by Activists and Government agencies
There are no "bad" foods & beverages, only inappropriate marketing executions, formats and presentations
Industry shall address all inappropriate executions, formats and presentations of "bad" foods in caring for their customer's well-being
Only by taking action on the most popular foods & beverages will any progress be made
Improving the nutritional composition while compromising taste will not solve the problem
In regard to Government:
Government involvement shall be limited to the setting of Overall Guidelines, not the execution of how food nutritional issues are to be addressed
Industry is to determine the best way to address the Government Guidelines
Banning, taxing and other means of penalizing the consumption of foods & beverages is prohibited
The State shall communicate in a clear and understandable fashion to properly inform consumers about healthier eating
As a result of #4, the Food Pyramid shall be terminated immediately and replaced by a simpler tool informing How, When and Where foods should be consumed
The use of the term "Serving Size" shall be relegated to countries still using the metric system
In regard to Food Activists:
Activists shall not engage in activities and wonton litigation to eradicate self-condemned foods enjoyed by the public
Activists shall forward constructive and workable solutions
Activists shall accept that the United States is a Capitalist society
In regard to Scientists & Researchers:
Timely, practical and non-conflicting information shall be provided for Industry's use so that actionable solutions can be achieved
In regard to Consumers:
Consumers shall have the freedom to pursue enjoyable eating without Government or Activist interference
Consumers shall have the right to expect foods to not have a deleterious effect on their health
Consumers shall have the duty to Eat Responsibly
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Xiaomi Mi Note 3: Limited Edition Dedicated To Wu Yifan Launched
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Xiaomi Mi Note 3 has been launched in a new Wu Yifan Limited Edition. In case you do not know, Wu Yifan is the brand ambassador for the Chinese company, he is one of the best actors and singers in China and he is also known as Kris Wu. Its 27th birthday has just passed and the company has decided to dedicate a version of its latest phone to him, as a surprise gift. Details about this version have been revealed by the Chinese giant, but we still do not know if it will be available to purchase for the public.
The Wu Yifan Limited Edition of Xiaomi Mi Note 3 has the same color as the normal version but it has the name of the actor printed on the back cover, in gold. It may be launched in a custom box with gifts included and there should also be an exclusive version of the UI dedicated to Wu Yifan. The hardware specs of the device are exactly the same as the normal variant, there is not any change except for the aesthetics and the UI. The phone can be considered a bigger version of Xiaomi Mi6, as the design is the same.
Xiaomi Mi Note 3 has a back side made of glass and a frame made of aluminum; its display has a size of 5.5 inches and it shows images at a Full HD resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels. On the hardware side, there is an octa core Snapdragon 660 processor by Qualcomm, there are 6 GB of RAM and 64 or 128 GB of internal storage depending on the variant that you choose to buy. On the back cover there is a dual camera setup with a 12 MP resolution, while the selfie camera has a resolution of 16 MP. The battery has a capacity of 3500 mAh and supports Quick Charge 3.0.


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Ed Harbison bio
Edward Jay Harbison was born May 12, 1969, to Magnolia and Boyd Harbison. Magnolia was a loving mother to Ed, spoiling him and spending as much time with him as she could.
Boyd, Ed's father, was a farmer and worked hard for a living. When Ed was old enough, Boyd wanted him to learn about farming and started to teach him his trade. Ed did what his father asked, but he didn't have any desire to become a farmer.
In high school, Ed started to work for a carpenter and found he was as good at it. He helped his father as much as he could around the farm, but he preferred his work as a carpenter on the weekends and during summer vacations.
Ed was an average student and had no interest in going to college. He wanted to start his own business as a carpenter. During his junior year, he met the girl of his dreams. Julie Webb was a transfer student from Huntsville, Alabama.
For Ed, it was love at first sight, and he asked Julie for a date, even though he knew his mother wouldn't approve. Magnolia didn't think any of the girls Ed had dated were good enough for him, and she told him so.
Ed and Julie dated for two years, despite his mother's feelings. Julie knew Magnolia didn't like her and she tried her best to win her over, but Magnolia only saw her as the person that was trying to steal her son.
In 1989, Julie and Ed were married in a small ceremony. Ed found a small house that was perfect for him and Julie. He was working steady and was happy to be out of his mother's house.
Ed and Julie have two sons—Justin, born in 1989, and Tyler, born in 1991—and a daughter, Kayla, born in 1994. Throughout the time the kids were growing up, their small house was noisy, chaotic and full of love.
In 2008, Ed's father died of a sudden heart attack. They were installing carpet at Ed's house when Boyd fell to floor. An ambulance rushed him to the hospital but it was too late. Both Ed and Magnolia were devastated.
A few months after Boyd passed away, Magnolia was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Ed knew she needed his help and felt he had no choice but to move back into his parents' house to take care of his mother. By that time, Justin was out on his own and Tyler was in college, so Ed, Julie and Kayla somewhat reluctantly moved out to the farm with Magnolia.
As time went by, Magnolia got more dependent on Ed for help because she was in pain and could barely walk. Ed and Julie both worked, so Ed hired a series of caretakers to stay with his mother during the day. But Magnolia didn't like any of them, and she let them know it. They quit faster than Ed could find someone to take their place.
Finally, Ed realized he couldn't afford to hire another caretaker and made the decision to move his mother into the Yoknapatawpha Acres nursing home, even though it was against her wishes.
Ed visits his mother often, and whenever he does, Magnolia never misses the opportunity to remind him that he threw her out of her own house and "dumped her in this place" because he doesn't love her.
Even though his relationship with his mother is strained now, Ed's home life with Julie has been a lot more peaceful since Magnolia moved.


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Sometimes the Fear You Feel is Not Yours
I woke up with a dream this morning that reminded me of some feelings that I had in elementary school. The primary feeling was fear, but there didn't seem to be any reason for the fear. I was reluctant to relate to… Read More


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Barclaycard is the biggest credit card provider in the UK. More than 12 million of us carry a Barclaycard – good news for the lender, bad news for any customers who want to transfer their balance to the market-leading Barclaycard 0pc credit card.
This is because Barclaycard do not accept balances transferred from its own cards. If you are one of those 12 million, your next best option is the new MBNA credit card, reviewed below.
MBNA's new card offers 20 months interest free on any transferred balances – and an innovative 20 months interest free on cash transfers to current accounts.
The card also allows three months interest free on purchases, after which there is a competitive rate of 16.9pc.
After the 0pc period is over on balance transfers there is an interest rate of 18.9pc. The card also features contactless pay technology.
You cannot transfer a balance from an existing MBNA card – including Virgin credit cards.
For more information and to apply, go to mbna.co.uk or call 0800 068 8788.
Barclaycard do offer a market-leading 22 months interest free on balance transfers, but this is no good if you are already a Barclaycard customer.
Kevin Mountford from MoneySupermarket said: "MBNA is making a welcome return to the market after a period of absence. Although this deal is not market leading, as Barclaycard's Platinum credit card offers 22 months interest free, this offer may appeal to anyone who isn't able to transfer an existing debt to Barclaycard."
Newcastle 50:50 Isa
Newcastle Building Society is effectively offering savers two accounts wrapped into one, with its new 50:50 Isa. It aims to offer the benefits of a fixed-rate Isa – high interest rates, and the flexibility of an easy-access account.
All deposits – from a minimum of £1,000 – are split equally between the two parts of the account.
The fixed-rate part of the 50:50 Isa pays 4pc for five years, while the easy-access part pays 2.25pc.
You get unlimited withdrawals from within the easy-access part, but any withdrawals from the fixed-rate part will suffer a loss of 120 days interest.
To apply and for more information, pop into your local branch or call 0845 600 4368.
Verdict It's innovation all round this week, with the Newcastle Isa. This is perfect for people who do not want to have to choose between access to their cash and a higher rate of return. Only catch? Transfers in from another Isa are not permitted, so if you have a large Isa savings pot it may be better locking that away that in a fixed rate Isa, and opening an regular easy access saver.
Sainsbury's Saver Special
Sainsbury's Finance has increased the interest rate on its online-only easy access savings account. The eSaver Special has been bumped up 0.15 percentage points, and now pays 2.9pc. You need to have a balance of at least £1,000 to qualify for the rate.
The account is not market leading, but unlike many other products, the 2.9pc does not include a bonus rate so there is no rush to switch after 12 months.
For more information and to apply, go to sainsburysbank.co.uk.
Verdict The account wins points from Andrew Hagger of Moneynet.co.uk, for its bonus-free rate. He said: "It's quite rare to see an instant-access savings account paying best-buy interest without relying on an introductory bonus. It is possible to earn up to 3.15pc with instant-access bonus accounts, but after 12 months the rate drops dramatically and you have the hassle of switching your account, plus in some cases there are withdrawal restrictions too."


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Where To Shop For Bedroom Furniture When You Possibly Are not GASP! Employing A Designer!
Of all the hassles and nuances you go via whilst selecting the right bedroom furniture and furnishings for your residence, reaching a 'stuck-up' circumstance can be the worst. If you already put a gigantic antique bed in your pint-size bedroom, don't make the space appear even smaller sized by adding a bulky Victorian chaise-lounge to it. Enable the bed to be the centerpiece and decorate the rest of the space with lean-seeking furniture. Be confident to come back and inform us what you like/don't like about your new baby furniture. All of our bedroom furnishings is hand crafted utilizing higher .. Read more


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Islamabad: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) administration on the directives of the federal government has decided to construct a safety wall around the newly created red zone.
It would be a three feet long concrete wall to be constructed till the Prime Minister House at Constitution Avenue and Parliament lodges to Margalla Road.
Followed by the construction of the wall, traffic would enter only from the main gate where Police personnel equipped with the latest weapons would be deployed.
The wall would be constructed around the Parliament House, Prime Minister House, Prime Minister Secretariat, Pak-Secretariat, Supreme Court, Parliament lodges, Constitution Avenue and other offices, sources said.
Likewise, Ministers Colony, Judges Colony, Punjab House, Frontier House, Balochistan House and Sindh House would also be inside the wall.
Source: The News


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PhD Planetary Science / Entry requirements
Year of entry: 2020
Academic entry qualification overview
We normally expect students to have a First or Upper Second class UK honours degree or international equivalent, in a relevant science discipline or a first degree with an additional UK Masters degree (or international equivalent).
English language
Overseas students would need to demonstrate competence in English Language, for example, IELTS score of 6.5.
English language test validity
Some English Language test results are only valid for two years. Your English Language test report must be valid on the start date of the course.


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Moscow confirms air strikes on Syria: Syrian rebels declares death of 24 people
on Wed Sep 30, 2015 3:00 pm
The Russian Defense Ministry confirms the information that the Russian Aerospace Forces have carried out airstrikes on Syria.
This was reported by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major-General Igor Konashenkov, Censor.NET reports citing RIA Novosti.
"In accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the planes of the Russian Aerospace Forces have started conducting air operation with pinpoint strikes on ground targets of ISIL terrorist groups in the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic today," he told reporters.
Konashenkov also said that the Defense Minister, Army General Sergei Shoygu informed his counterparts in CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) that the Russian Aerospace Forces were committing strikes on military equipment, communication centers, vehicles as well as arms, ammunition, and fuel depots of the Islamic State terrorists in the course of the air operation in Syria.
Meanwhile, sources of Reuters said that targets in the Homs area appeared to have been struck, but not areas held by Islamic State.
Syrian rebels and opposition media outlets claimed that Russian aircraft carried out strikes in the central provinces of Homs and Hama that allegedly killed at least 24 people, The Guardian wrote.
It was announced Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin filed a motion to the Federation Council requesting the consent to use the Russian Armed Forces abroad. The Federation Council has given its permission. The head of the Kremlin administration Sergei Ivanov told reporters that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had appealed to Russia requesting military assistance. Ivanov stressed that the Air Force operation was meant only by the operation of the Russian Armed Forces abroad - the use of troops in ground operations was excluded.
A U.S. official told Reuters earlier on Wednesday that Russia had started carrying out air strikes in Syria in the vicinity of Homs adding that Moscow gave the United States a one-hour advanced notice of its operations.
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Studying is not the sexiest part of being a winning poker player. But it is a necessary part, and poker writer and educator Eileen Sutton is on the podcast this week to share more effective ways to approach thinking about and studying the game of poker.
Author of The Total Poker Manual and regular blogger here at Red Chip Poker, Sutton has a unique perspective on how to integrate serious study into our poker routines. In addition to writing about poker, she is a dedicated player, and she speaks to her own revelations on how get more out of every minute of study you put in towards becoming a big winner in the game.