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I appreciate the job Spamhaus do, everybody hates spam.. but I've got to agree, they are arrogant and their appeals process is clumsy.
Concerns over the rising tide of nuisance and malicious email from Latvia have sparked an acrimonious dispute between anti-spam organisation Spamhaus and the country's top-level domain registry. NIC.LV, which administers .lv web addresses, has branded Spamhaus "impolite, arrogant and even rude" after it added a large chunk of …
Thinking your ISP is too big to be blocked is arrogant. Spamhaus is right on here. If you have out-of-control spamming from a host's IP, and that host is unresponsive, what are you supposed to do, eat your spam?
The only people who think Spamhaus is "arrogant", and that their "review process is clumsy" are spammers, or hosts that don't think they should have to do their part to keep the net clean. News flash, it's 2010 and you can't get away with being lazy in how you handle spammers.
As more and more things are becoming you have to do it on-line or they make it as hard as possible if you don't (e.g. applying for jobs, tax etc.) - I'd say it is getting closer to the stage where you require Internet access to function in our society/not be disadvantaged therefore closer to needing to be a "right"
If we returned to the 'trees', you'd be at the mercies of the person or group of persons that held the biggest stick(s).
If they didn't like what you were saying they'd quite happily be rid of you. If you wandered into someone else's area, they might tortuture you and or kill you for doing so.
All these basic 'Human Rights' are utter b.s.
"No internet user should be punished for the actions of another internet user,"
I agree 100% ... I shouldn't have to burn bandwidth, CPU, disk and end-user time($$) on unsolicited email and other anti-social Internet traffic. Nor should my clients. That's why I block large swathes of IP space where anti-social traffic is known to originate. Including most of Latvia. And my clients are happy to follow my lead. Makes life easier over the long haul.
Don't like me blocking your IP traffic? Clean up your act; become a friendly net.neighbor, and maybe we'll start exchanging packets again ... *IF* someone using my blocklist asks me to allow your IP space again.
Internet balkanization? Absofuckinglutely. But here's the rub ... I'm in the rest of the world. The Internet version of the Balkans have chosen to become balkanized. Hopefully they are happy in their semi-isolation.
I am not Spamhaus, nor do I use them, but they are not alone.
My own servers & networks have large chunks of addresses blacklisted due to a high chance of crap coming from them. For example, China and Korea. I used to maintain a forum for my first employer and I set up large banlists there because of bots. I only had 1 legit user come out and ask why he couldn't register, and I added an exception.
I honestly hate it when people blame ignorance as a basic human right. I would say having the right to not be harassed by messages is more of a human right than to have internet access. If they cant sort it out boot them from it! im sure self respecting Latvian's will find another ISP that is willing to sort itself out.
If you are an ISP or a domain owner, you are legally bound to maintain your records so you can be contacted and it is only decent to monitor your [email protected] email addresses. Go spamhaus, if they are the biggest ISP in latvia then maybe they should check their emails.
Spamhaus has the right to shove addresses on its block list.
Spamhaus saw a plague carrier, issued a warning that they would slap on a quarantine notice, if no action was taken. The warning was ignored, so they slapped on the notice.
When the Latvians said, "this ISP is to big be treated that way," Spamhaus could, with reason, have replied, "and we're too important to be ignored." That is definitely arrogant, but probably accurate - as the Latvians have just discovered.
Moral: if someone can put you in quarantine, don't ignore emails from them, put them on a filter into an "Urgent" email folder. As an ISP that is, by its own account, that big and that important should have known.
so I could put [email protected] in the RIPE info as my abuse contact, and then start spamming away safe in the knowledge that spamhaus would block US government access to the internet. They should block the smallest IP/range that they can identify as originating spam and stop at that.
Their actions are generally pretty overbearing and arrogant.
I use blocklists/blacklists from organisations like Spamhaus to route dodgy emails away from my colleagues inboxes. I don't have any interaction with the source of the emails
In this case, were people blocking all traffic coming from those Latvian IPs rather than shunting emails into the great steaming pile of electronic dung that they are?
That bit aside, it does seem to me that whoever was in charge of handling abuse at the Latvian end should have done more to coordinate with blocklist operators before it went wrong.
And it seems the Latvians have a wounded pride more than genuine cause to complain. Not understanding that being the biggest ISP in a small country could also equal one of the smallest in a larger context.
... which I could perhaps do but since the article is a bit light on details anyway, here goes: Sometimes people, even by virtue of their job supposedly technically savvy people, will claim things like "can't access the internet" when their (users') email gets rejected with a "we don't like spamhaus listees here". That's one. Another is that spamhaus offers a "do not route or peer" list, in addition to their other lists of things to block. If network admins feed that into their routing configurations with a blackhole instruction, then that can cause pretty direct and curious failures beyond email rejections.
And yes, as someone who has on occasion monitored USENET groups like n.a.n-a.e, I can attest that plenty of people who found themselves on blocklists saw fit to "fight" that by mouthfrothing fury-fueled emails. So this nic.lv flunky's reaction doesn't really surprise me. Such a reaction is not a brilliant idea because it easily leads to ending up (forever) on countless private blocklists. Good luck getting off those since you don't know you're listed and don't know who to ask to get off. Unwise, yes, surprising, no.
Those latvians apparently let their contact info decay (sloppy), got bitten (happens), didn't believe it happened to them (oh well), and tried to bully spamhaus (that's gonna work). Now it's tears and complaints of high-handedness (like spamhaus is going to care), which even here in the comments appears to woe a few people who don't know what sort of flood of abuse shops like spamhaus deal with daily. I haven't had to deal with them, thankfully, but from what I've seen they're generally professionally detached and within the rules they put on their website. It's a clean operation in that respect, far more than some others I could mention.
Looks like the abuse department of NIC.LV is run by a bunch of thin-skinned academics so don't expect any acknowledgement that they might actually have made a mistanke. Or for that matter even knowledge of how the real world operates.
I'm supporting Spamhaus on this one. Be polite or people might decide you're not worth talking to. Kinda like outside in The Blue Room.
I'm not any sort of expert on anti-spam measures, but I do know something about academics:
It all depends on which academics were involved. If the university department involved has just been through some radical cuts (and I believe the Baltic states have been very badly hit by the current financial crisis) it's quite possible that the only person who really understood how the thing worked had just been made redundant by those in charge, who really hadn't the slightest idea what the department was doing.
And/or the whole thing was passed on to the newest member of staff, who said they understood it, but didn't.
And/or running this department was a job for 20 working staff and there were only 3 of them - they ignored emails because they needed to sleep.
And/or there's a "who cares anyway?" culture in that department/university/country. "Oh, I never bother with abuse emails - they're more trouble than they're worth and usually just banging on about something we all have to put up with. Golf anyone?"
And/or there's at least one abusive spammer actually in the department/institution who's cleverer than the people who supposedly run the operation, and they just re-direct the email into the "junk" box. Crime pays a lot better than universities.
And/or no one in Latvia sees why this sort of thing merits that sort of response - they may regard spam busting as "Just these Health & Safety Nazis trying to ruin things for small countries in a difficult world."
There's probably a Latvian equivalent of the Daily Mail claiming on the front page that. "EU bureaucrats are trying to block Latvian free access to the Internet" (and yes, I know Spamhaus is not only non-EU, but not an official body of any kind." - and they may know, but why waste good propaganda?) and inside that some poor businessman is overwhelmed by spam and someone should do something about it. Meanwhile they have a centre spread about how Latvian taxpayers are supporting idle academics just to keep some unnecessary geek fiefdom going, and to impose a lot of fancy rules on "the rest of us."
I do not claim that any of these things is actually happening - I have no knowledge of the workings of this ISP in particular or of Latvia in general. But human nature, and the behaviour of human organisations - especially in times of stress - is rather easier to generalise about.
Let's be clear here - it's not as if Spamhaus went into a data sentre and cut all the lines out of Latvia.
They publish a list of badhat IP ranges and admins who WANT to use the list decline to allow traffic from the IPs on it.
I seem to remember a similar furore when the Undernet network banned all of Malaysia from chatting on their (volunteer provided) network because of sustained abuse and a refusal of the 2 major ISPs there to do anything about the issue....it turned out that Undernet was the last of a long list of IRC networks to ban the country in-toto because of abuse issues.
If Latvians want to turn a blind eye to abuse coming out of their networks then they'll get a wakeup call - Ukraine had something nearly identical happen 6 years ago, but where's the big song-and-dance about that? or the one for Romania in the 1990s?
The Striesand Effect has some interesting echos in cyberspace. Latvia may get itself out of the Spamhaus lists but as a direct result of picking a fight with Spamhaus their Internet horizons are permanently diminished to the tune of at least a few ten-thousand admins who have added the IP ranges into permanent local firewall lists.
............country is the largest source of unsolicited e-mails on the face of the planet? I'll give you a clue, it is not an east european country or an asian country. It is the good old US of A whose legislators still refuse to pass any SERIOUS legislation against the spammers yet at the same time want to retain US control of the internet. When one considers that somewhere between 85 and 90 % of all e-mail traffic in world is spam it is a shame that the country that insists on retaining the power won't take the responsiblity of actually doing something *efffective* about it.
nic.lv is stupid and arrogant. Just try subscribing to their Latvia GIX updates list (it's so 1991!). I have had to deal with them. And I have had my IPs blocked by spamhaus because one of users on my network contracted worm and it was sending out spam via direct SMTP. If anything I appreciate them blocking my IPs as it helped to discover and track down that infection on our network
I'm one of the Spamhaus researchers that supposedly doesn't give their last names. :-) I usually avoid public comment, but after reading this article, decided to delurk. For the record, the following is my personal point of view; I am not speaking for Spamhaus.
I wasn't involved in the microlines.lv SBL listings. Nonetheless, when we received the broadside from nic.lv, I read it and winced. I wish that my colleague had not lost his temper. However, after reviewing the SBL listings involved and all of the correspondence, I think that except for the somewhat intemperate language, my colleague was completely justified in the actions he took and the SBL listings that he opened. I also suspect that I might not have been able to hold my tongue in face of statements that appear to me to assert that this ISP has the right to expect the rest of the Internet to accept its email despite its utter failure to deal with the abuse on its network.
I have occasionally lost my temper when communicating with with lax or abusive ISPs and web hosting companies. Most of them had tolerated considerably *less* abuse than the Latvian ISP and hosts of microlines.lv did, and had ignored warnings for a considerably shorter period of time. Further, most of them had their Whois records in order, making it possible to determine accurately who owned the abused IPs and who was the upstream provider responsible for abuse on those IPs.
Nic.lv and the host were seriously deficient in their management of abuse issues on this network. As a result, innocent internet users were recipients of significant quantities of criminal spam, and some were probably infected by the malware spread by that spam and hosted on these IPs. Since they would not deal with the problems that their users were causing, their IPs were rightly blocked to protect as many Spamhaus users as possible, until they dealt with the problem.
I hope that we do a better job in the future of keeping the tone our communications professional. However, organizations that ignore complaints while criminal spammers and malware distributors take over their network *should* face SBL listings of their IP space. They do not have the right to expose the rest of us to that level of abuse. And if they attempt to assert such a "right", they should expect to be told that there is no such right, and that they need to keep a reasonably clean network if they are to expect others to communicate with them.
The number of complaints you get does NOT match the number of legitimate correspondents you've blocked. Take a fairly obvious scenario: potential customer checks your website for your contact address, sends email enquiry, email gets blackholed by your rules, potential customer does not receive reply and buys from your competitor. It is only the rare and persistent user that reports the problem.
Living in Hong Kong I occasionally have to deal with such indiscriminate blocking, and I wish you guys would make things a bit easier...
i) Make your blacklists as specific as possible.
ii) Don't blackhole, respond with a 550 error at the end of the SMTP DATA phase. This does not cause backscatter - you are using the TCP connection to the actual sender, if it is legitimate, then the user gets an error message and knows their message has not been delivered. If you reply OK at the end of the DATA phase, you are promising to deliver the message, and later blackholing it is a violation of the SMTP protocol.
For this case, I think Spamhaus has acted correctly - they used their standard procedure, contacted the abuse addresses and escalated when they didn't get a response. However, did they use the official language(s) of Latvia when they sent the messages?
Perhaps each country's NIC or CERT should produce fill-in-the-blanks abuse report templates in their local language(s)?
"Living in Hong Kong I occasionally have to deal with such indiscriminate blocking,"
It's not indiscriminate. It just looks like it from your side of things ... from my side of things, it's kind of like Internet Judo ... "Bad" ISP throws a punch, I side-step it. "Bad" ISP throws another punch, I let it go again, but slap it on the way by. "Bad" ISP throws a third punch, and "bad" ISP finds itself on its arse, unable to communicate with me for the duration.
"and I wish you guys would make things a bit easier..."
And I wish the guys running the systems you're connecting thru' would stop allowing their systems to be a spam/malware sewer.
Again, I'm not spamhaus, nor do I use them, but I do protect my users.
You have assumed that the "the guys running the systems [I'm] connecting thru' {are] allowing their systems to be a spam/malware sewer". Show me the evidence of that for any Hong Kong ISP, and I'll take the evidence to OFTA and HKCERT, and do my best to get them shut down. Or you can send the evidence direct, check their websites: http://www.ofta.gov.hk/, http://www.hkcert.org/
Of course, I believe there are individual computers in HK that are botnet zombies, but that is difficult for an ISP to police if no-one reports it. I think that a user education message, "clean your computer and keep it clean, or you loose your internet connection" can work well at the individual level, because that is where the responsibility lies. If you just block an entire country, the local CERT doesn't know which users to talk to.
I'm not Spamhaus either, but I don't think they've ever blocked the whole of Hong Kong. Have you?
Anyway, if we agree to differ on whether blocking a whole country is indiscriminate, do you have any comments on my three suggestions for improvements: specificity; not blackholing; and providing abuse report templates in multiple languages?
"I'm not Spamhaus either, but I don't think they've ever blocked the whole of Hong Kong. Have you?"
Clearly, sir, you are unclear on the concept. I was discussing shielding my networks from IP ranges delivering spam/malware, regardless of country of origin. You, on the other hand, seem to be taking it personally.
"Anyway, if we agree to differ on whether blocking a whole country is indiscriminate"
Where did I write that I was blocking any "whole country"?
"do you have any comments on my three suggestions for improvements:"
Sure! I can comment on anything, if you ask :-)
My blocklists are very specific ... but then, being IP address ranges they would be, wouldn't they?
"not blackholing;"
Why not? Seriously. When abuse comes from specific IP space, I drop IP packets from that IP space on the floor. I've been doing that since January 1, 1983[1]. I am protecting *my* network resources, which don't exist to make *your* network owners a profit.
"and providing abuse report templates in multiple languages?"
I'd love to. Are you offering to provide this service? Or are you suggesting that I should spend *MY* money to provide it?
[1] Prior to that, I was doing similar things with NCP traffic ...
I even titled my comment, "@David Eddleman and everyone else who indiscriminately block countries", and you took issue with my description of this practice as "indiscriminate".
When I get a problem reported to me, I investigate, sometimes I end up in contact with an admin that admits, "we block everything from Hong Kong/China/Asia because we get so much spam from there and our users don't have any legitimate contacts there". They are wrong - there's at least one legitimate contact, the one with the problem I'm investigating, and their users don't know what they are blocking on their behalf. If an admin (such as yourself) told me, "we blocked a /24 because of a spam source" I'd have strong words with my ISP - if they continued to allow their IP range to be abused by some customers, I'd take my business elsewhere, and publicise why.
Thanks for your answers...
specificity - good, but many other admins are not so discerning.
not blackholing - please refer to my original comment. I was referring to the practice of accepting an SMTP message, then blackholing it, which violates the RFC and prevents legitimate senders knowing their message has not been delivered. However, to extend that into a general principle: we should not respond to abuse of the network with measures that prevent legitimate users knowing that their communications have been disrupted.
multi-language abuse report templates - no, I'm suggesting that each local CERT could do it for the local languages. We're on a global network, so we need better ways to communicate with admins that don't speak the same language.
NCP - I guess you mean Network Control Program, not NetWare Core Protocol
Not arguing with you ... Just providing additional perspective.
I have dropped two /24s. Twice. They needed killing. You can probably guess who ;-)
Admins who reply to me and act on abuse reports are never blocked ... even if it takes a week's worth of back and forth email to get to the heart of the matter.
That said, dropping received email is not blackholing, and a waste of bandwidth. When you're in my DENY tables, your mail servers can't even see my network. Any & all IP packets from you are dropped on the floor with no reply. THAT is blackholing.
Disagree on multi-language abuse reports. Like it or not, just as Arabic drove early science, Latin (Koin Greek, Aramaic, et al) drove early Christianity, Deutsch drove later science (etc., I won't continue. You are quite welcome), American English is the lingua franca of teh intratubes.
Yes on NCP ... I'm an old fart. I'm surprised you knew it was "Program", not "Protocol".
No one takes blocking swaths of address space lightly. However, when ISPs harbor customers who are preying on others, ignore repeated notices and fail to exercise due diligence, the question becomes "Who has the greater right - the ISP and their criminal customers or the rest of the users on the Internet".
I applaud Spamhaus for their actions and would tell the Latvians to either clean up their customers and act responsibly or prepare for a lot more blocking against their net space. Without Spamhaus and companies like them, unscrupulous providers would operate with complete immunity.
Sorry, but the Latvians are right - Spamhaus are a bunch of self-aggrandizing pricks - language barriers my arse.
I'm just glad I've never had anything we use blacklisted by them.
On the flipside though, most people don't use their most knee-jerky blacklists precisely because they are so inclined to cause collateral damage, so it's perhaps a bit excessive to claim that Latvia was cut off from the Internet. "Latvians prevented from mailing hopped up beardy portion of society by hopped up beardy blacklist" might be more apt.
Latvia is one of the countries where you can pay and perform your illegal activities with almost total impunity. Their ISPs reacted that way I guess because they were losing a lot of spammers' money.
Spamhaus is a service one decides to use or not, thereby it is free to block whatever it finds better to block - it is up to its users, especially the paying ones, to complain if it blocks legitimate addresses.
NICs should monitor their ISPs being compliant with Internet rules, not complain when they are caught with the hands in the honey.
I have impression that spamshaus and the likes are helping out much less than they pretend to. And just to remind of their existance they choose its prey for showcase. The smaller the country, the safer the showcase.
I suppose, Ukraine and Romania were blocked only because in respective time Internet there was in the cradle so potential damage to be expected - low. Or may be they just did not knew where these countries are or how big they are, which is not a big suprise knowing how poor is the general education in the West.
I'd may be trust them if I'd hear about loud cases of blocking some "too bit big to be blocked" country's significant ISP, except highly politicized cases. But I did'nt.
All, and I mean all cold-calling advertising by phone, fax, snailmail or e-mail should be made a criminal offence. The sheer scale of the unsolicited advertising industry is now a major problem for society all over the world and cannot be said to have any form of upside whatsover. The large majority of it ranges from at least dodgy (usurious loan offers etc) through to a large amount of directly criminal behaviour.
@Alan Brown, I have heard this argument and it's true but it's splitting hairs. It's true, spamhaus doesn't block anybody -- but it's a list of IPs that users of the list then block. Not that I'm complaining, I think spamhaus provides an important service. Just my 2 cents.
That said, my ISP now (within the last few years) wants to charge $5 for spam filtering. I said forget it. Rather than do ANY IP filtering, I use a bayesian filter only (I am using spamprobe) -- the filter gets better spam (for more accurate identification) than if I prefiltered by IP, and it avoids the problem of someone like spamhaus being overzealous in who they block (or pedantically, who *I* block based on their list.)
It's splitting hairs but fairly important. Spamhaus doesn't decide to act on the things they list, making blaming them for loss of service into blaming them for something they have no control over. In fact, if you'd sue them to force them to unlist you, you'd end up blocklisted in private blocklists with a snarky message telling you to sod off until the heat death of the universe. That's only unfair if you fail to realise that the internet is nothing but the continued co-operation of the operators that run all the internetworks that combine into "the internet". Failing to do the thing the rest of the internetworking world expected of you does that to you. Oh well.
Personally I have *no* spam filter on my email and I get very little spam, but then I'm very careful who I give that email address to. Speaking of failing the community: I do get some spam from a bunch of moreso than usually idiotic recruiters. *Everything* has been sent back through the appropriate contact, which is abuse at uk.uu.net. To no avail. Why am I not surprised?
The Lativian response tends to support the notion that old habits die hard in that neck of the woods - shoot the messenger it's so much easier than fixing the problem.
Being a small country it makes one wonder who personally knows who, do I detect sect 13 of the Old Mates Act being invoked?
UCE-Protect are another smaller blacklist, they they regularly automatically block entire address ranges. They then demand money from the non-spammers to be de-listed, suggesting they pay up or change ISP, which is often not an option. Scamming idiots.
At lease spamhaus has a legitimate removal procedure.
This is what happens when 2 bullhead roosters meet on the narrow bridge.
Mistakes (IMHO):
Both sides - aggressive communication, excessive self-esteem (we can not be wrong; even if we are, we do not admit it and do not say "sorry").
Latnet/LatnetServiss - seems that not enough attention/action to the repetitive information about abuse from the same sub-ISP;
SpamHaus - finding IP's of upstream provider using abuse e-mail domain - why?; probably you could afford a bit more non-automated communication and warnings before escalating and blocking upstream provider - you care about false positive rates, don't you?
The whole story reminds me old joke about US warship and lighthouse ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U33Xg91HAlo )
Malwarebytes when I last looked (last Christmas?) had an interesting relationship with the SystemRescueCD distro of Linux with PC fixing tools.
(1) SystemRescueCD was often recommended by Malwarebytes user forum staff as a problem solver.
(2) Malwarebytes software forbade you from opening SystemRescueCD's web site.
Apparently because SRCD's site was in an address range that also contained some bad citizens, so MB blocked them all.
This put me off from trying every Linux "live CD" that I get my hands on.
I want a method of checking the bloody things. Maybe boot them into a sandbox VM and then virus-check them from the outside?
I believe SRCD is just some French bloke anyway. Of course Knoppix is just some German bloke. Ubuntu... I think the bloke is from South Africa, or something?
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Re: st: Obtaining correct inference from within strata -att- estimation with -psmatch2-
Austin Nichols <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: Obtaining correct inference from within strata -att- estimation with -psmatch2-
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:23:28 -0500
Richard Herron <email@example.com> :
I think the advice given on matching within strata and then computing
the ATT in the -psmatch2- help file is bad advice.
[ http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/p/psmatch2.html accessed today ]
Instead compute your own propensity scores within stratum, then find
matches within stratum for the whole sample by constructing a new
score which is stratum id times 100 plus propensity score, and let
-psmatch2- tell you the ATT for the whole sample after matching on
that new score. Or better, use the propensity scores to reweight, or
use a double robust model. Either way, I think you should worry about
clustered errors. I hope you have more than 12 strata though...
webuse nlswork, clear
egen g = group(ind_code)
levels g, local(gr)
loc x collgrad union tenure age race
loc t msp
loc y ln_wage
qui reg `y' `t' `x', cl(g)
keep if e(sample)
g ps=.
qui foreach j of local gr {
logit `t' `x' if (g ==`j')
predict ps`j' if e(sample)
replace ps=ps`j' if e(sample)
g r=ps+g*100
psmatch2 `t', out(`y') pscore(r)
* mean comparison using matches
reg `y' `t' [pw=_weight], nohe
* mean comparison with CRSE
reg `y' `t' [pw=_weight], cl(g) nohe
egen m=mean(`t'), by(g)
g w=cond(`t',m/(1-m),ps/(1-ps))
ta `t'
ta `t' [aw=w]
ta g `t' , row nofr
ta g `t' [aw=w], row nofr
* mean comparison using PS weights
reg `y' `t' [pw=w], nohe
* mean comparison with CRSE
reg `y' `t' [pw=w], cl(g) nohe
* double robust
reg `y' `t' `x' [pw=w], nohe
* double robust with CRSE
reg `y' `t' `x' [pw=w], cl(g) nohe
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Richard Herron
<email@example.com> wrote:
> I am using -psmatch2- (SSC) to match on propensity score and would
> like to limit matches to the same strata. The example code in
> -psmatch2-'s help file iterates over strata with a -foreach- loop and
> -if- statements and returns -att- (average treatment of the treated)
> for each strata, which the code stores for every observation in each
> strata (I could also limit this to actually matched treatment and
> control). Then the example code finds the mean -att- with -summarize-.
> I would like to make inferences on the mean -att-, however there are
> many observations, so standard errors are small and t-statistics
> large. If I use one -att- observation per strata (similar to a
> Fama-MacBeth regression), then I get completely different inferences.
> Is there a better way to limit matches within strata? I have tried the
> -mahalanobis- option using the whole data set, but the data are very
> large and it takes quite a long time (more than overnight to perform
> matching on distance in the whole data set).
> Or is the correct answer to avoid these inference problems to _not_
> aggregate my -att- over strata and evaluate them strata by strata?
> Thanks! I provide an example below.
> In my case the strata are fiscal years, but in the readily available
> data the strata are industry codes.
> * begin code
> * ssc install psmatch2
> webuse nlswork, clear
> generate att = .
> egen g = group(ind_code)
> levels g, local(gr)
> quietly foreach j of local gr {
> psmatch2 msp collgrad union tenure age race ///
> if (g == `j'), out(ln_wage)
> replace att = r(att) if (g == `j')
> }
> * but -psmatch2- assigns same -att- to every matched observed in each
> group -g- (here grouped on -ind_code-)
> table g att
> * so the standard errors are very small and the t-stats too large
> summarize att
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Union College defeated Minnesota for the NCAA men's hockey title tonight, and Golden Gophers fans flooded the streets of Dinkytown to fuck shit up—especially all of KMSP reporter Jonathan Choe's live shots.
The Minneapolis Fox affiliate continued to go live to Choe, despite him being repeatedly interfered with by drunk students and bystanders. He was not having a good time. [KMSP]


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- 1. Support HB2115: No Payouts/Benefits for Public Officials Who Misappropriate Taxpayer Dollars!
Rep. Warren Petersen has crafted legislation that will have a chilling effect on public officials who illegally waste money and then walk away with lucrative benefits or severence pay. It's HB2115 Simple, straightforward, brief. (This bill is scheduled to be heard Jan. 28 at 9:00 am in the Government and Higher Education Committee. See ACTION at the end of this article.)
Should a public official who is caught and terminated for fraudulently, lavishly spending taxpayer dollars on meals, travel, hotels, entertaining, etc., go on to receive lucrative payouts, annuities, pensions, and other benefits?
Rep. Warren Petersen doesn't think so, and neither do the many other sponsors and co-sponsors of this excellent bill. HB2115 spells out that anyone who is found guilty would forfeit any future benefits. While there already are laws on the books against fraud and misappropriation of public funds, these cases don't always get pursued as the official is fired or even allowed to quit.
HB2115 ensures that these public officials forfeit any future benefits. States Petersen: "All too often, those who are caught and terminated leave with lavish payouts, annuities, pensions and other benefits. Termination from a high position in government office should not be like winning the Lotto. Rewarding someone for bad behavior can only encourage more of the same." See Petersen Seeks to Prevent Lavish Payouts to Errant Public Officials.Click here to read more
Two cases come to mind:
- 2. Media Spins a Good Law to Make Republicans Look Mean (again)
Arizona Republican Representative Warren Petersen (LD12) got an excellent bill signed by Governor Brewer. This bill will help employers who are victimized by fraudulantly filed unemployment claims. See how the malpracticing media (aka Leftist propagandists) cut out nearly everything Warren said. See who they interviewed and how they managed once again to demonize Republicans.
Here's the real story.
1. Over the last few years Arizona has given out over $434 million at the expense of the taxpayer in erroneous benefits (of which $1.1 million went to prisoners). 2. Business owners testified they are expanding in other states instead of Arizona because they constantly have to go to hearings to overturn false claims. 3. Arizona is ranked 46th in the nation in paying out correct claims (in other words they are 4th in paying out false claims). 4. Several business owners (especially restaurants) have employees that immediately quit to take unemployment instead of working.
Rep. Petersen took this reform on to address our system which has been rife with fraud and abuse. His hope is in two years we will become one of the top states in the proper payment of claims.
Here's the link to the Leftist Spin story: New Arizona law puts burden on jobless: Forced to prove they lost job to get benefits.
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there are some over at fal files. muttman
what's are over at Falfiles??
you mean pictures, the last pictures I saw were old and it was hard to tell if they were ffl receivers or true builds. I all honestly I stopped visiting that site due to the bullsh*t I went through by a loser assembler and regurgator of info who decided to deride my true build. I posted pic's there also, if there are new builds and there are, good luck to them! someone posted a 8mm FAL at weaponeer it looked like astandard 308 to me and he never backed up his build with a reply
if you mean true builders I would venture to say there are more true builders here, weaponeer, prexis homebuilder, roderus, IMHO FALFILES is assembler site, but thats my opinion.
I am not the first to build up a 70% fal receiver just the only one to post pic's of the start to finish process and to be the first to do it by hand with handtools and no milling machine ( unless a dremel is a milling machine)
In a vague way I believe you are taking shots at me by the questions or the way your asking the questions I could be wrong but future replies will tell the tale


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cast (one's) pearls before swine(redirected from casting your pearls before swine)
cast (one's) pearls before swine
To present something valuable to one who does not recognize its worth. The phrase originated in the Bible. Most of the time, playing classical music for high schoolers is like casting your pearls before swine. But every so often a few kids appreciate it. I can't believe he gave his brand-new convertible to that bumpkin—talk about casting your pearls before swine.
cast (one's) pearls before swine
Fig. to waste something good on someone who doesn't care about it. (From a biblical quotation.) To sing for them is to cast pearls before swine. To serve them French cuisine is like casting one's pearls before swine.
cast pearls before swine
Give something of value of someone who won't appreciate it, as in The old professor felt that lecturing on Dante to unruly undergraduates would be casting pearls before swine . This term comes from the New Testament (Matthew 7:6), appearing in Tyndale's translation (1526). It was repeated often by writers from Shakespeare to Dickens and remains current.
cast pearls before swineLITERARY
If you cast pearls before swine, you offer something valuable to someone who is not good enough or clever enough to appreciate it. He has written many fine pieces on the subject, although one suspects he is casting pearls before swine. Note: Verbs such as throw and toss are sometimes used instead of cast. He should know better than to throw pearls before swine. Note: You can also call something good that is not appreciated pearls before swine. The Musical Times, she tells me, is written for those with a genuine understanding of the finer points. I certainly hope so, or else my piece on Rossini will be pearls before swine. Note: This expression comes from the Bible, from the Sermon on the Mount, when Jesus is giving His followers advice on how they should live: `Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.' (Matthew 7:6)
cast (or throw) pearls before swinegive or offer valuable things to people who do not appreciate them.
This expression is a quotation from Matthew 7:6: 'Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you'.


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Tagged: Doug Mienkiewicz
5-29-09 PNC Park
I have been in a slump recently. The last decent day I had was May 11th in Cleveland when I snagged 9 balls. The past 2 weeks it has seemed like all I could manage was 2 balls. I needed to get back on track. I'd seen my average dip from 5.7 per game to 4.8 per game. Not good.
I attended today's game with my wife. We were third in line, and I was the first one into the seats, but there were no Easter Egg balls to be found.
I got 2 balls during the Pirates portion of batting practice, which isn't bad, since they only hit for 10-15 minutes while the gates are open.
Game: 8 Balls (5 hit, 1 thrown, 2 device)
Season: 130 Balls (57 hit, 56 thrown, 17 device)
Games: 26 Games (22 with BP, 4 without)
Average: 5.00 Balls per Game
Career: 296 Balls
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Authorities Release Sketch of Suspect in I-90 Assault
Law enforcement agencies in South Dakota are still asking the public for help in finding a suspect in an assault last Thursday night on Interstate 90 near Mile Marker 401, between Interstate 229 and the Brandon exit.
The Attorney General's office says a woman had parked her white Toyota Camry on the shoulder of westbound I-90 when she was approached and seriously assaulted.
The suspect is described as a white male, five-feet-nine to six feet tall with a medium build. He had a scruffy beard and a raspy voice, and he was wearing a dark-colored baseball cap and possibly boots that could be steel-toed.
He may have been driving a square-type vehicle, possibly an older diesel pickup.
Anyone with information is asked to contact CrimeStoppers at 605-367-7007 or 1-877-367-7007.


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It was controversial. Other players didn't like the long putter and tried to get it banned, Moody told me four years ago at the Baltimore Country Club. He was an unpopular pioneer. But for the first time in his life he could roll putts with consistency and confidence. An Army veteran, Moody soldiered on with the long stick.
I can tell you from firsthand experience that Orville was a character. He was funny and had more than a few golf tales. I enjoyed his company on a couple of occasions. Following is the story of how I caddied for Moody in 2007 at a Grand Champions event that preceded the Senior Players Championship.
Sure, I said to Orville Moody.
I was at a Grand Champions event in Baltimore, the prelude to the Senior Players Championship. I had been on the golf legends circuit throughout the year, attending events in Savannah, Hickory (North Carolina) and then Baltimore.
I'd had unique access to many golf legends—players I watched or knew of while growing up. Thanks to my association with Jack Fleck, I ate in the players' dining rooms, hung out in the locker rooms and shuttled back and forth to hotels where I rubbed elbows with several former tour pros. You can bet I heard plenty of golf stories, too.
Back to Moody, or "Sarge," my companion for 18 holes at the Baltimore Country Club East Course, a rolling, old-style layout with sloping greens created by famed architect A.W. Tillinghast.
Nicknamed Sarge because of his Army days, Moody was the last local qualifier to win the U.S. Open, coming from virtually nowhere to claim the trophy in 1969 at Champions Golf Club in Houston. It was the only tour win for a sweet ball-striker who couldn't putt.
When the Champions Tour (called the Senior Tour at that time) was cranking up in the mid 1980s, Sarge turned 50 and started winning tournaments in bunches, thanks, in large part, to his long putter, considered a novelty in those days. Moody is one of only four men who has won both the U.S. Open and U.S. Senior Open.
That weekend four years ago Sarge was partnered with Jack Fleck in a best-ball tournament that featured several legends—Jim Feree, Fred Hawkins, Gene Littler, Don January, Billy Casper, Bob Goalby, Dow Finsterwald, Doug Ford, Doug Sanders, Lee Elder and Billy Maxwell, to name most of them.
Caddie by Default
Many of the legends don't hire caddies for these events, so as we rolled down the second fairway I realized I could caddie for Sarge. I would steer clear of yardages, club selection and reading greens. I've been around golf, but I'm not going to pretend to be a real caddie. Still, for 40 or so years Moody had been accustomed to handing his golf ball and clubs to somebody. In Baltimore, I was that somebody.
There was some chit-chat, mostly initiated by Orville. I was not going to yap at him or do anything to distract him from his work, which I could tell he took seriously, even if it was just a legends best-ball event for a quarter-million dollar purse.
How serious?
On the 8th hole Sarge removed his shoe and sock to have a go at a ball in a greenside pond. He slipped on the bank and almost fell in the drink. Then he slashed at the ball with his 60-degree wedge, splattering mud on his dark slacks and pale green shirt.
There I was on the green toweling off his muddy, grassy bare foot. It seemed like the right thing to do. (Orville's lower back bothered him and I figured bending over to towel off and slip on his sock and shoe would be a problem.)
Sarge was a mess and a bit flustered, too. It was awkward. Yet my instinct was to help my player.
I enjoyed watching Moody's shot preparation. I did, in fact, give him yardages off sprinkler heads, adding and subtracting based on the pin placements. Once Sarge pulled a club and got over the ball there was no hesitation. His compact swing produced low straight shots with the hint of a fade. His speed on the slick, sloping greens was good. Determining the correct lines was another matter.
After coming off the 18th hole, I thanked Moody for allowing me to ride along. "I'll probably see you at the Legends in Savannah next April," I told him.
I knew Sarge wasn't thrilled about his play—especially on the back nine—but he said I made the day more enjoyable. I felt good about that.
Postscript: That was the last time I saw Orville Moody. After a massive stroke, he spent much of the following year in a nursing home. He died in August 2008.
−The Armchair Golfer


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(Acute Myocardial Infarction [AMI]; Myocardial Infarction [MI]; ST-Segment-Elevation MI [STEMI]; Transmural Myocardial infarction)
A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart muscle is interrupted. Oxygen cannot get to the heart muscle, causing tissue damage or tissue death.
Heart Attack
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A heart attack may be caused by:
- Thickening of the walls of the arteries feeding the heart muscle (coronary arteries)
- Build up of fatty plaques in the coronary arteries
- Narrowing of the coronary arteries
- Spasm of the coronary arteries
- Development of a blood clot in the coronary arteries
- Embolism that affects the coronary arteries
Risk Factors
Risk Factors
The risk of heart attack is greater in males and older adults.
Factors that may increase your chance of developing a heart attack include:
- Obesity
- Smoking
- High blood pressure
- Sedentary lifestyle
- High blood cholesterol —specifically, high LDL cholesterol, and low HDL cholesterol
- High blood triglycerides
- Diabetes
- Stress
- Family members with heart disease
- Using testosterone therapy medication
Symptoms include:
Squeezing, heavy chest pain behind breastbone, especially with:
- Exercise or exertion
- Emotional stress
- Cold weather
- A large meal
- Usually comes on quickly
- Pain in the left shoulder, left arm, or jaw
- Shortness of breath
- Sweating, clammy skin
- Nausea
- Weakness
- Loss of consciousness
- Anxiety, especially feeling a sense of doom or panic without apparent reason
Unusual symptoms of heart attack—may occur more frequently in women:
- Stomach pain
- Back and shoulder pain
- Confusion
- Fainting
If you think you are having a heart attack, call for emergency medical services right away.
Your bodily fluids may be tested. This can be done with:
- Blood tests—To look for certain enzymes found in the blood within hours or days after a heart attack
- Urine tests—To look for certain substances found in the urine within hours or days after a heart attack
Your heart function may be tested. This can be done with:
- Electrocardiogram (EKG) —to look for evidence of blockage or damage
- Echocardiogram —to examine the size, shape, function, and motion of the heart
- Stress test —Records the heart's electrical activity under increased physical stress, usually done days or weeks after the heart attack
Images may be taken. This can be done with:
- Nuclear scanning—show areas of the heart muscle where there is diminished blood flow
- Electron-beam computed tomography (EBCT)—to make detailed pictures of the heart, coronary arteries, and surrounding structures
- Coronary angiography —To look for narrowing or blockage in the coronary arteries
Treatment includes:
- Aspirin
- Oxygen
- Pain-relieving medication
- Nitrate medications
- Other antiplatelet agents
- Beta-blockers and/or angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor medications
- Anti-anxiety medication
- Cholesterol-lowering medications such as statin drugs
Within the first six hours after a heart attack, you may be given medications to break up blood clots in the coronary arteries.
If you have severe blockages you may need surgery right away or after recovery, such as:
- Balloon angioplasty with or without stenting
- Atherectomy
- Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)
Physical or Rehabilitative Therapy
During recovery, you may need physical or rehabilitative therapy to help you regain your strength.
Preventing or treating coronary artery disease may help prevent a heart attack.
- Maintain a healthy weight.
- Begin a safe exercise program. Follow your doctor's advice.
- If you smoke, talk to your doctor about ways to quit.
- Eat a healthy diet. Your diet should be low in saturated fat and rich in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.
- Properly treat long-term conditions, like high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol.
- Manage stress.
Ask your doctor about taking a small, daily dose of
- Although most people are able to tolerate such a low dose of aspirin, even this small amount can rarely lead to serious bleeding, particularly from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
- Aspirin may not work as well when combined with other pain medications.
Heart and Stroke Foundation http://www.heartandstroke.com/site/c.ikIQLcMWJtE/b.2796497/k.BF8B/Home.htm
Heart and Stroke Foundation http://www.heartandstroke.com
Updated September 2, 2014. Accessed September 29, 2014.
ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at:
Updated August 27, 2014. Accessed September 29, 2014.
What is a heart attack? National Heart Lung and Blood Institute website. Available at:
Updated December 13, 2013. Accessed September 29, 2014.
7/6/2009 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance
Antithrombotic Trialists' (ATT) Collaboration, Baigent C, Blackwell L, et al. Aspirin in the primary and secondary prevention of vascular disease: collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data from randomised trials. Lancet. 2009;373:1849-1860.
2/3/2014 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance
Finkle W, Greenland S, et al. Increased risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction following testosterone therapy prescription in men. PLoS One. 2014;9(1).
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wasn't Adam created with both good inclination and evil inclination?Originally Posted by RAM
expressed in the double "yud" with which "vayitzer" in Genesis 2:7 is written?
וַיִּיצֶר יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאָדָם, עָפָר מִן-הָאֲדָמָה, וַיִּפַּח בְּאַפָּיו, נִשְׁמַת חַיִּים; וַיְהִי הָאָדָם, לְנֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה. Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
the one "yud" standing for "yetzer hatov" and the second "yud" standing for "yetzer hara"?


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Swiss start up Carbomill specializes in the production of carbonfibre reinforced components.
Shortly after the company was established, production at Carbomill had to be up and running to satisfy customer expectations for rapid delivery of high quality products.
The company uses Dassault Systèmes' DELMIA Version 6 (V6) solution to create its components made of fibrereinforced materials and for mold design and construction.
Just 24 hours after installing DELMIA V6, the company was already milling high-precision molds.


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Thanks for supporting the project!Tinker Notes wrote:on the signup forum there was a little box that asked for my OC's/fandom name… Can you enlighten me on why you asked for that?
And secondly, could you kindly post an estimate of the books that were purchased/being printed…
There's no tie-in between the forums and the ordering system, so the OC/Fandom name field is just a quick easy way for us know who signed up. You might notice some people have a special flair for the FoE 1st/2nd printing and the Pink Eyes 1st printing, that's probably the biggest thing it's been used for.
We usually post some statistics like how many people signed up, countries shipped to, etc. after the end of the project.


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Plenty of people dream of owning a vacation property in a private province or around a concealed coastline at some point. When the recurring mortgage on their own key residence is paid and any of most of the other outlays happen to be addressed, on the other hand, there's barely adequate funds allowed to remain regarding their resources to fund a mortgage loan for any getaway. Many currently have realized the power of seeking out a person that holds their goals together with their monetary limitations with whom to split the cost of a vacation property. Siblings, cousins, co-workers or perhaps total strangers have the option of finding needless to say, they should be happy to meet half way over the features they would like this kind of place to offer.
An individual partner might like a sizable yard meant for hosting family and friends and the additional group members may very well be seeking a beautiful open fireplace for tranquil, romantic occasions. The particular participants might have to be happy with some sort of medium-sized outside area having an outdoor fire source to fuel the two applications. The lending backgrounds of individuals concerned will also come into play given that each of them shall be signing the bank loan. In the event that both physical and financial adjustments can be reached, those involved should be able to find a property that is ideal for their demands and wants.


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As the NRA wraps up its annual convention, the group is setting its sights on the 2014 midterms and telling members not to give up the fight for gun rights. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports.
As talks of gun rights and gun violence spark controversy throughout the nation and Chicago, a Houston-based gun advocate group is hoping to get into the line of fire.
The Armed Citizen Project, a nonprofit group that arms residents living in high-crime cities, reportedly hopes to put shotguns in the hands of residents living in Chicago.
The group is currently arming residents in the Houston and Tuscon areas, but made headlines after the National Rifle Association's convention in Houston this weekend when they announced hoped for expansion into more than 15 cities, including Chicago, according to DNAinfo.com.
The group's mission is to arm law-abiding citizens and train them in safety, legal, and tactical measures, according to ACP's website. All participants who to receive a weapon and take the training program will receive a shotgun, for free.
According to their website, the group's motto is "nothing in my house is worth losing your life."
Project founder Kyle Coplen, 29, an Indiana native, said he grew up visiting the Chicago area and was an avid Cubs fan, but is heartbroken by the city's violence, DNAinfo.com reported.
The ACP's website calls Chicago's current gun policies "overzealous" and an "utter failure" that results in "historically high levels of gun violence."
Though Chicago has been in the spotlight for the gun violence debate with the death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton and many others, Chicago recorded a 43 percent decrease in murders last month, according to police.
"The first four months of this year, we're in a position we haven't been in since the mid-'60s as far as the murder rate goes," Supt. Garry McCarthy told NBC 5.
McCarthy pointed to 84 fewer murders in the past seven months and about 180 fewer shootings so far this year.
So far this weekend, the city has recorded three people shot on the South and West sides.


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24 October 2011 at 9.55am | 8 Comments
Mal Barton, Costume Workshop Manager and Claire Calvert, First Artist with the Royal Ballet talk us through the revived Lilac Fairy costume from Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty. The materials, textures and made-for-movement design is all explained in detail by Mal whilst Claire demonstrates what the costume is like to move in and how "you can't help feeling like a ballerina when wearing a tutu."
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WKU researcher receives USDA grant for food safety project
- Author: Friday, April 25th, 2014
A WKU researcher will use a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a way to enhance the safety of locally grown fresh produce.
Dr. John Khouryieh, assistant professor of food processing and technology in the Architectural and Manufacturing Sciences Department, will use the $209,928 grant to fund the two-year study to develop strategies to reduce foodborne outbreaks due to fresh produce microbial contamination. He will be working with Dr. Amanda McKeith, Dr. Martin Stone and Dr. Todd Willian in Agriculture; Dr. Cangliang Shen in Biology; and Dr. Jerry Daday in Sociology.
"Small farmers are having difficulty implementing and documenting Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) on their farms due to the lack of resources," Dr. Khouryieh said. "While utilizing the USDA grant fund, we will been working to increase Kentucky growers' knowledge and participation in safe production and handling of fresh fruits and vegetables to reduce fresh produce microbial contamination."
Researchers will determine current food safety practices through social surveys administered at fresh produce farms and to farmers' market vendors, develop effective postharvest sanitizing procedures for fresh produce processing at farmers' markets, develop food safety educational materials for small farmers for training and distribution at farmers' markets and train small farmers and farmers' market vendors through workshops.
"My collaborators and I are working to provide education, outreach and training for growers in regards to the safety of fresh produce to enhance marketability of locally grown produce in Kentucky," he said.
The WKU grant is one of 35 grants totaling nearly $24 million announced Thursday (April 24) by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture through its Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's Food Safety program to improve food safety by helping control microbial and chemical contamination in various foods.
AFRI is NIFA's flagship competitive grants program and was established under the 2008 Farm Bill. The five AFRI challenge areas – food safety, global food security, childhood obesity prevention, sustainable bioenergy and climate adaptation – advance fundamental sciences and deliver science-based knowledge to people, allowing them to make informed practical decisions.
Through federal funding and leadership for research, education and Extension programs, NIFA focuses on investing in science and solving critical issues impacting people's daily lives and the nation's future. For more information, visit www.nifa.usda.gov.
Contact: John Khouryieh, (270) 745-4126.
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Ok, I've been doing a C programming assignment for a few months now. I found C hard to contend with, but scrapped together an assignment with hard work and help from friends and even some advice from this forum.
I work hard to present the assignment nicely and knew that I would have to explain my code to my lecturer in a 'little meeting' that he has with each student.
I've since found out that this meeting is what gets you all the marks for your assignment and if you do quite well then you've got a pass before even taking the exam.
I however did not know this until it was too late and so was unprepared for the 'chat' with my lecturer, in short i couldn't really explain my code and I ended up with less than 10%.
My lecturer is very arrogant and can be quite intimidating when grilling you on code, I just couldn't think properly or answer his questions and in short - I screwed up big time.
I'm then told that the actual paper assignment barely gains ANY marks and so I failed my assignment miserably because I screwed up on explaining the code.
As I said, I have scrapped the code together and when I completed a program I didn't really look at it again in detail. I did out in plenty of notes within the code to explain what's happening but that didn't save me at all with the questions that I was being asked. He was saying ''explain how this works", "what does this line do", "How would I do this" - and I just couldn't answer. My lecturer then starts accusing me of copying code as I could not explain it, which obviously I did not like to hear and so did 'bite back' a little bit.
It's very important I pass this as my company send me to uni on day release and if I fail I will lose my job. (I am however allowed a resit on all subjects - but don't look forward to continuing with C programming resits)
Any ideas or advice on what I can, should do or should've done?
Thank you.


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A philosophical approach
Every trip I make, I pay a sucker tax, but only once. After that, I keep my wits about me – until my next trip, when I fall into the same old trap. I've done this so often that I am beginning to believe in things like mini-destiny, mini-attentiveness and mini-stupidity. It usually happens in a taxi, and most often in the one conveying me from the airport to my hotel. Either because I forget to make sure the driver turns on his meter or because I don't know my way around, I often end up paying twice the going rate. For me, it's actually quite a relief to find I've paid the sucker tax so early on – and so cheaply. Being cheated out of 20 or 30 dollars puts more of a dent in one's dignity than in one's wallet. But 100 dollars hurts, as I discovered once upon a time in Tel Aviv. I walked out of my hotel on my way to a disco. The taxi driver said "No problem, Klaus," and kept that up for the entire journey because he thought I was the eccentric actor Klaus Kinski wishing to remain incognito. Not in his taxi! World fame has its price. We drove halfway around the city and even onto an expressway before he finally pulled up in front of the disco where I handed him 100 dollars without batting an eyelid, since the trip had really taken a long time. I only realized what an idiot I had been hours later, when I asked the bouncer to call me a cab. The Hilton, he told me, was just 100 meters down the street. I soon composed myself again, however, because what the taxi driver had really done was play on my pride, and pride is not only a great weakness, but also a sin, they say. In the realm of such failings, a 100-dollar penalty is surely not too much to pay. All's well that ends well.
Helge Timmerberg
Our columnist, Helge Timmerberg, an irrepressible globetrotter since 1969, writes travel books and contributes monthly to our magazine.


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Healing, Sickness and Being Well
Healing, we have learned that we rejuvenate and replace all the cells in our body each 7-10 years we are alive. When our bodies are sick our immune system fights the sickness until healing can be initiated. The healing process of rebuilding your body parts are time sensitive to the specific organ. The liver can take up to 2 years to completely rejuvenate. This healing is cell by cell replacement. The old diseased cell is replaced with a brand new cell until the entire organ is new again.
Many supplement users have commented that after two months they have not noticed "much change" in their overall consciousness. Let's determine why. The 2nd largest organ of the body is your skin. Of all the organs in the body, skin is renewed the quickest. Skin is completely replaced in 3-4 weeks. The skeleton takes up to 10 years to restore. All other organs are in between this range of 4 weeks and ten years. Kidneys can take up to 14 months to renew, red blood cells, 3-4 months, stomach, 12 months, heart 16 months. So as we understand that it took years of neglect for our bodies to get into a "weakened" condition, we can better understand that it will take the "allotted time" to repair and rejuvenate a complete body tuneup. One day, after caring for your body with preventative immune support supplements and whole food supplements, you will suddenly realize, "I feel good!" The discomforts you lived with for years fades away in the same manner that they crept into your body, SLOWLY.
Sickness can delay repair of the body and in some cases destroy the body. Antibiotics, steroids and some medications can inhibit healing, until these agents are eliminated from the body. Steroids can inadvertently be stored in the hips to later induce arthritis and weakened bone structure.
REMEMBER, the body heals itself while you are asleep. Don't ignore sufficient rest.
Being well is a conscious choice of lifestyle. Diet, correct supplementation, stress relief and the lack of medication can promote natural cell displacement, retard the aging process and allow us to have active lives with strong alert bodies and minds.
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Nutrient Content of Lettuce and its Improvement
Lettuce is a popular leafy vegetable and plays an important role in American diet and nutrition. Crisphead lettuce has much lower nutrient content than leaf and romaine types. As the synthesis or absorption of many nutrients is light dependent, the lower nutritional value of crisphead lettuce is due to the enclosure of its leaves in a head structure. In addition to varietal differences, nutritional quality of lettuce may be influenced by environmental factors such as light, temperature, growing season, cultural practices, fertilizer application, and storage conditions. The moisture content of the plant also affects nutrient concentration. Enhancing the nutritional levels of vegetables would improve the nutrient intake without requiring an increase in consumption. Genotypic variation in germplasm suggests that genetic improvement of nutritional value is feasible in lettuce. However, breeding efforts for nutrition are often hampered by the lack of analytical capabilities in most crop improvement programs. Biotechnology has the potential to markedly increase the nutritional value of lettuce. The commercialization of transgenic lettuce may largely depend on progress in transgene expression, public acceptance, economic and marketing challenges, intellectual property issues, and risk assessment.
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Libraries dean Connie Vinita Dowell said a lot of students had been asking for tablets to be added to the list of circulated items.
In a news release, the university said it was now lending iPad2 tablets on a first-come basis for three days per checkout.
Vanderbilt Student Government President Maryclaire Manard said the organization worked with the libraries to prioritize making tablets available. Manard said the decision shows the libraries are adapting to new technologies students use to learn.
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Have you ordered your copy of the latest five-ingredient-paleo-gluten-free-Nordic-kale smoothie cookbook yet? Me either.
You know why? Because nobody outside hipster man bun-loving enclaves in Brooklyn and Los Angeles actually eats that way. Just don't tell the publishing industry, which forever seems to trip over itself to get into ink whatever outrageous culinary fad crosses the editors' Facebook feeds. Surely there's a better way...
Until then, we're left to sift through the thousands of food books spewed forth each year. And we do it with particular fervor during this season of gifting as we search for books to satiate the foodies on our lists. So to save you a bit of trouble, I've assembled my list of the most useful, most inspiring and most interesting food books of 2015. In no particular order:
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"Kitchen Hacks: How Clever Cooks Get Things Done" by Cook's Illustrated magazine (America's Test Kitchen, $19.95)
The folks at Cook's Illustrated magazine have long collected kitchen tips and hacks from readers — the original culinary crowdsourcing. Now they've gathered their top 1,000 tips into one book (perfectly sized for stuffing in stockings). Nicely organized by circumstance (such as cleaning, food storage and how to transport things), the book is an amusing collection of ways to help you get the job done.
Ideas include how to tame the tears when chopping onions (burn a candle), what to do when avocado pits get stuck on your knife (tap it on the counter) and how to pit olives using an upside down funnel (you'll just have to see that one for yourself). There also are some easy recipe hacks, including my favorite — how to use dry sherry, vanilla and liquid smoke to improve the flavor of cheap bourbon.
"The Broad Fork" by Hugh Acheson (Clarkson Potter, $35)
This is Southerner-by-way-of-Canada Hugh Acheson's gorgeous ode to produce, and it is seriously inspiring. As in, the man makes a bowl of kohlrabi puree look (and taste) decadent, and that's no easy task. Blissfully, the book isn't vegetarian, but it does show you how to truly enjoy your veggies. Organized by season, then by vegetable, the book guides the reader through simple — yet sensual — ways to eat more plants. I mean, fried Brussels sprouts with lime vinaigrette? Poached eggs over sunchoke hash? Sauteed parsnips with country ham, parsley and basil? One of each, please. This is a prime contender for best cookbook of year.
"Spuntino: Comfort Food (New York Style) by Russell Norman (Bloomsbury, $45)
A London restaurateur idealizing New York City food and drink? Sounds like doomed carpetbagging. But Russell Norman captures if not a Big Apple vibe, at least a taste of comfort you will crave. The book, named for Norman's London eatery, is a gorgeous romp through visceral recipes you will crave. Things like mackerel sliders, eggplant chips with fennel yogurt, and a salad of ribbon steak, chicory and anchovy. Make no mistake: This is Brit gastro pub grub, but it's tinged with a New York flavor. And the section on Prohibition-era cocktails certainly ups the appeal.
"A Visual Guide to Drink" by Ben Gibson, Patrick Mulligan and Pop Chart Lab (Avery, $30)
This is a book I was prepared to hate. When you first open it, it seems like just page after page of charts and graphs that leave you feeling a bit like you've stumbled into a nightmare PowerPoint presentation. Then you start reading and you get sucked in by the minimalist presentation of gobs upon gobs of cools facts, figures and lesser known tidbits about everything booze.
The "Breweries of the United States" chart, for example, is just a two-page map of the country with dots indicating craft breweries. Simple and dull? Yes. And no. It's easy to get lost wondering things like, what the heck is wrong with North Dakota? And I could spend hours dissecting the family tree diagram of beer styles. No question — this is a weird coffee table book. But for the boozer in your life, it's going to be hypnotic.
"What Katie Ate on the Weekend" by Katie Quinn Davies (Viking Studio, $40)
Speaking of books I wanted to hate... There is a growing genre of cookbooks that seem to exist mostly to let you know that the authors' lives are more beautiful, more delicious and way more fun than your own. Australian food photographer and blogger Katie Quinn Davies is right at home here. Except I was drawn to her book anyway. And I became convinced her life really is more beautiful, more delicious and way more fun than my own.
In fact, her book — a follow to her first, "What Katie Ate" (also the name of her blog) — is beautifully photographed (no shock since that's her day gig) and the recipes are truly appealing. I want her spiced squash and apple soup with bacon, and her crab, lemon and chili spaghetti (even if I have to wade through dozens of pages of lifestyle photos to get to them). Get this book for the person who wants to get lost in — and inspired by — a cookbook.
"Milk Bar Life" by Christina Tosi (Clarkson Potter, $35)
If "What Katie Ate on the Weekend" is all about aspirational eating, Christina Tosi's book is dedicated to embracing your grubby inner child. Deliciously so. As the pastry chef and owner of Momofuku Milk Bar, she made a name for herself with crazy good creations like compost cookies, crack pie and cereal milk ice cream. Her latest book pulls her more into savory territory, but with the same sense of whimsy.
Many of the recipes are riffs on the banal eats she (and many of us) had growing up. And so she gives us slow cooker cocktail meatballs (complete with a bottle of Heinz Chili Sauce), desperation nachos (which allow for Cheez Whiz) and Spaghettios sammy (which is exactly what you think it is). Tosi has a sense of humor. The recipient of this book should, too.
"Olympia Provisions" by Elias Cairo (Ten Speed Press, $40)
Elias Cairo is a bit of an icon in the food world, particularly on the Portland, Oregon, scene, where his Olympia Provisions has become a revered institution. What started as a salumeria has morphed into a mail order business, two restaurants and now a book. This is a book to inspire carnivorous cravings. Are you likely to tackle its three-page recipe for homemade chorizo? Probably not. But you will LOVE the centerfold spread of 19 creative ways to dress hot dogs. Get this book for the meat geek in your life (because it also has ample recipes for using charcuterie, even if you're not ambitious enough to make it from scratch).
"The New Sugar and Spice" by Samantha Seneviratne (Ten Speed Press, $27.50)
And I'll wrap with something to satisfy the holiday sugar rush. Samantha Seneviratne has a fresh approach to what can feel like a tired niche — the baking book. She organizes her beautifully photographed cookbook by spice, so chapters are sorted by cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and so on. It's a different way to peruse — and be inspired by — a baking book. And tucked inside those chapters are approachable and creative takes on classic treats. So you get brownies laced with cinnamon, a frosted chocolate cake spiked with an impressive tablespoon of nutmeg, and an orange pull-apart bread flavored with cloves. Great for the home baker eager for fresh ideas.


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Adam Levine proved that his bromance with Blake Shelton is stronger than ever when he paid his "Voice" co-coach a compliment Monday. The Maroon 5 frontman, and former Sexiest Man Alive title-holder, told E! News' Sibley Scoles that his bestie deserves to snag that People cover one day.
"Listen, as far as I'm concerned, he is the Sexiest Man Alive. People magazine doesn't know all. They don't know the Blake I know. If they did, he'd be on the cover," he told us.
"I think he's going to get it someday. I just think you've got to work hard at it like I did," Levine laughed. "Just don't get down. I know that it's his No. 1 priority in life, so as long as he keeps working hard and being sexy-ish, like he kinda is with his thing, I think they're going to come to him. They're going to call him one day and be like, 'Blake, you're welcome. Here it is. You are now the Sexiest Man Alive. Country or no country. This is your country.'"
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Aside from the strong bond between Levine and Shelton, "Voice" viewers had their fair share of emotion from Monday's showcase.
One of the night's biggest performances came from Team Gwen, as Jeffery Austin closed the night with a powerful version of Robyn's "Dancing On My Own" that brought his coach to tears. Meanwhile, Levine scored with Amy Vachal's jangly, folk-y version of Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" that should definitely earn a tweet of approval from the singer/songwriter/pop goddess herself.
Other standout performances came from Shelton's Emily Ann Roberts, whose bluegrass version of the Judds' "Why Not Me" had the crowd dancing (and her coach hollering), and Pharrell Williams' Madi Davis, whose cover of U2's "Love Is Blindness" brought her dad to tears and prompted Shelton to declare it the "best performance of the night so far."
Find out who made "The Voice's" Top 10 when the live eliminations air Tuesday, Nov. 24 at 8 p.m. on NBC.
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A curious child waddles up to the man holding a brightly colored kite. She asks him a question but he can only sheepishly smile to show that he does not understand her language. She nonetheless smiles back broadly as he lets her hold the paper kite. Though they cannot speak with each other, they've just experienced what the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., is all about: cultural exchange.
Between the classic American landmarks, the Capitol building and the Washington Monument lay China and Kenya -- or, rather, a small taste of the culture and traditions that these countries have to offer. They're this year's featured countries for the annual festival, which opened last weekend on the National Mall and resumes July 2-6.
The festival attracts almost one million visitors each year, who come to see an array of performers and artisans.
Outreach to China
"We're bringing about 120 people from China - musicians, dancers, calligraphers, kite makers, embroiderers, batik dyers - to demonstrate and to share their traditions with our public," said Jim Deutsch, the Smithsonian's program curator.
Together, they provide a diverse picture of China's landscape.
Deutsch and his colleagues have been collaborating with the China Arts and Entertainment Group, the production arm of the Chinese Ministry of Culture. A performer from the Chinese production group, who gave his name as Zhao, said the Chinese artists have come from all over China.
"They are from 15 different provinces in China and they will present eight different kinds of performance programs and 16 handcraft programs," Zhao said. "Now, for example, you can see the New Year springs and the doll sculpture, and for the performance there are groups, companies from the Wu Opera and also the Inner Mongolian song."
Participants and performances are scattered throughout the festival for visitors to discover as they journey through the various tents. There are musical performances in the Moonrise Pavilion, cooking demonstrations in the Five Spice tent, and discussions in the Tea House Commons stage. There are also Chinese language lessons and martial arts demonstrations, all organized so visitors can interact and learn from the Chinese participants.
Hands-on experience
One hugely popular tent offers visitors the chance to see demonstrations of traditional Chinese calligraphy -- and to get samples of their names translated in caligraphy as free souvenirs. Visitors crowd the table and compete to peer closely at the scrolls.
One day last week, caligraphy artist Jong Wang sat calmly amid the clamor, churning out name after name. Originally from Taiwan but now living in metropolitan Washington, D.C., Wang said he came to the festival to demonstrate not only the artistic aspect but also the meditative qualities of calligraphy.
"If you can control the brush, then you are able to write," Wang said while taking a break between workshop shifts. "This practice is over a thousand years old. It takes a lot of control, just like our daily life. For example, when you move the brush backwards to the opposite position to where you want to go, it takes discipline.
"It is like how we must think of things in our mind first. Prepare and then stop," she said.
Desiree Sisitka, making her second visit to the Folklife Festival, called the Chinese exhibits and demonstrations "lovely."
"We just walked around and looked at crafts over there and the textiles and the clay and it was beautiful," she said.
Cultural preservation
As its title suggests, "China: Tradition and the Art of Living," the festival also aims to demonstrate how the featured countries preserve traditions.
Curator Deutsch said cultural preservation has become a focus in the face of China's rapidly changing landscape.
He initially visited the country in 2006, then returned in 2012 and 2013.
"What impressed me the most was the transformation," Deutsch said. "China is transforming more rapidly than anyone had ever imagined. And that's one of the things we're incorporating into this program: How is China maintaining its cultural heritage and maintaining its traditions in the face of this massive transformation? China is a global phenomenon, the 21st century may be the century of China."
The festival, Deutsch said, intends to help people understand "the global phenomenon that is China."


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Caz Shaw necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 210 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
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Shift Mind and Body is a start up business that's mission is 'to inspire and educate women to live fun, fit and fabulous lives'.
Launching next month, we focus on health, nutrition, fitness, mindset, goals, taking action and we aim to develop an 'Australian wide network of inspired women, happy in mind, body and life.'
Initially we'll offer personal and group fitness training sessions and from January 2011, we'll also offer 13 week coaching programs that will cover many things. Below is a list of what we'll do:
• Health – nutrition advice, food diaries, weight loss plans, eating well, great life habits, wellness, relaxation
• Fitness – group training sessions, personal training sessions, general tips on getting fit or fitter, individual fitness programs
• Mind – mindset, developing a positive mental attitude, how to think fitter, goal setting and achieving, time management, building confidence, encouraging action, living your dreams
• Body – beauty workshops, colour matching, style consultancy
• Social – Likeminded support group, events, retreats
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• Wild Workshops – first one Kokoda Trek June 2011
Our target audience is women in the 30-50's who are looking to get into great shape in both their mind and body. Women who are looking for inspiration in their life and have goals that they want to set and achieve with a like minded group around them. This is about getting of the sofa and stepping up in all areas of their lives.
We require a logo that can be used for print, online and on clothing and it needs to portray our top 10 values:
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I feel that the word 'Shift' will become the main name used when people refer to us (you know who we love to shorten things) - I'm therefore thinking this word should standout from the 'Mind and body' words (happy to look at anything thoough.
I'm also happy to look at any colours however they must reflect positivity and appeal to our target market. I'd prefer 2 or a maximum of a choice of 3 colours in the design - please do not use an array of rainbow colours.
This is the first of a few requirements. We'll also be wanting business cards, flyers, website design etc etc.
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