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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - Whether his pain was mental or dental, Rory McIlroy walked off the course in the middle of his round Friday at the Honda Classic and invited even more scrutiny of golf's No. 1 player.
McIlroy already was 7-over par through eight holes when he hit his second shot into the water on the par-5 18th and didn't bother hitting another shot. He shook hands with Ernie Els and Mark Wilson, turned in his scorecard and walked straight to the parking lot.
McIlroy told three reporters who followed him that he's "not in a good place mentally."
An hour later, his management company issued a statement that the 23-year-old McIlroy couldn't concentrate because of a sore wisdom tooth.
His abrupt departure only added to the sloppy start to his young season, and raised concerns with the Masters just more than a month away. In three tournaments, he has missed the cut in Abu Dhabi, lost in the first round of the Match Play Championship and withdrew after 26 holes at PGA National.
"His demeanour looks a little different," said Graeme McDowell, one of his best friends. "I felt like he was a little off with his golf swing on the range. There were a few moans and groans coming from the bay next to me. It's normally a display. It's normally a clinic. It's superlatives coming from the coach and the caddie. That's the sign of a guy who's lacking a little technique in his swing and a little belief in his game."
In the parking lot, McIlroy was asked three times if anything was wrong physically and he said no. Golfweek magazine reported he was near tears.
"There's not really much I can say, guys," McIlroy said. "I'm not in a good place mentally, you know?"
Els also hit into the water on the 18th and was complaining to a rules official about the muddy conditions of the fairway when he figured out McIlroy was through.
"I was dropping my ball and I realized he wasn't dropping his ball," Els said. "I thought maybe his ball crossed further up (the hazard). When I hit my fourth shot, he just came up and said, 'Here's my card. I'm out of here.'"
McIlroy, who last year won the Honda Classic to go to No. 1 in the world for the first time, apologized to the tournament for his "sudden withdrawal."
"I have been suffering with a sore wisdom tooth, which is due to come out in the near future," McIlroy said. "It began bothering me again last night, so I relieved it with Advil. It was very painful again this morning, and I was simply unable to concentrate. It was really bothering me and had begun to affect my playing partners."
He was seen eating a sandwich on the 18th fairway.
"I'm a great fan of Rory's, but I don't think that was the right thing to do," Els said.
Told about McIlroy's statement about the sore wisdom tooth, Els softened his stance, not wanting to judge another player's pain.
"I didn't see anything, but if he had a toothache, that's what it is, you know?" Els said. "Hey, it's tough. If you ask him how he's feeling now, he's obviously feeling terrible for what's happened this morning."
"I didn't notice anything," Wilson said. "He wasn't playing the way the world No. 1 plays normally. Didn't hit the ball where he wanted to, and he's a true gentleman, though. He ... wasn't treating Ernie and myself in a different way. He was upset with his golf and I guess he had enough for the week."
Tiger Woods understand better than anyone in golf what it's like to have every move judged, though for Woods it started not long after he turned pro in 1996.
"You've just got to ... think about it a little bit more before you say something or do something," Woods said. " It can get out of hand, especially when you get into social media and start tweeting and all those different things that can go wrong. Jokingly saying something doesn't always come off as saying that, even though the intent was different."
McIlroy, coming off a year in which he won a second major with a record, already set himself up for scrutiny when he left Titleist to sign an equipment deal with Nike that was said to be worth upward of $20 million a year. Instead of taking a long winter break, he spent much of December trying to adjust to his new clubs. McIlroy said Tuesday it wasn't the clubs; his swing was out of sorts.
"I'm sure the guy has got a lot on his mind," McDowell said. "When you start trying to prove things to other people and you stop playing for yourself, it's a dangerous place to be. ... Any player would have did what he's done with regard to the equipment change. He's one of the most talented players I've ever seen. Once he starts believing in himself, he'll be back."
McIlroy won the PGA Championship by a record eight shots last year, making him the youngest player since Seve Ballesteros in 1980 to win two majors. McIlroy won the U.S. Open in 2011 by eight shots with a record score.
Nike introduced him with blaring music and a laser show in Abu Dhabi, but it's been all downhill from there.
After rounds of 75-75 in Abu Dhabi, he took a four-week break and spent time with tennis girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki. He was eliminated at Match Play in a sloppy performance by both of them. McIlroy returned to Florida and played 36 holes with Woods at The Medalist.
He said on Tuesday that it was no time to panic so early in the season.
"Even though my results haven't revealed it, I really felt like I was rounding a corner," McIlroy said. "This is one of my favourite tournaments of the year and I regret having to make the decision to withdraw, but it was one I had to make."
It looked more like McIlroy was sinking than rounding the corner, not difficult to do on a course with so many water hazards. And he found plenty of them.
McIlroy, who opened with a 70, hit two poor chips that led to double bogey on No. 11, and a wild tee shot to the right led to a bogey on the 13th. His round really unraveled on the par-4 16th, when he hit his tee shot to the right and into the water, took a penalty drop and then came up short of the green and into the water again on his way to a triple bogey. He three-putted from 40 feet on the 17th, running his first putt about 10 feet by the hole, for a bogey to go 7 over.
And then came the approach on the 18th that found water for the third time on his short day.
McIlroy is scheduled to play next week in the Cadillac Championship at Doral, which has no cut, and then the Houston Open. But on the first day of March, he left having completed only round of competition.
"I didn't think much of the equipment change. We've all made equipment changes before," said Els, who has used three brands of clubs to win majors. "I think there was a bit of criticism somewhere, and then I think he's further responding to that, and I think he's got a bit of pressure coming on him that way. I thought he played quite well yesterday. I thought he was pretty close to playing good golf, and unfortunately this morning ... hopefully he gets it together. We've got next week, got four rounds there. Such a talented player. He'll get it figured out."
Geoff Ogilvy always preached caution about rushing to judgment of Boy Wonder. A year ago, McIlroy missed the cut in four out of five tournaments, including the U.S. Open. He won four times from August to November, including the PGA and two FedEx Cup playoff events.
"Everyone is being a little hard on the equipment," Ogilvy said. "He has a plan. He had a plan last year, and it all worked out for him. He had a rubbish year, really, until late summer. In May, everyone was throwing him under the bus and everyone was claiming him at the end of the year.
"He'll probably go win the Masters by eight and we'll all go, 'He knew what he was doing.' "
It was the second straight year one of golf's biggest stars failed to finish a tournament on the Florida swing. Woods withdrew after 11 holes on the final round at Doral last year because of tightness in his Achilles tendon, raising questions about the seriousness of his recurring leg injuries. He won Bay Hill two weeks later.


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There are a number of userboxes are listed here. A-Dust 01:03, April 19, 2010 (UTC)
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Hey. I noticed your edit here. Next time, when the article is not spam or vandalism, please use {{prod}} instead of {{delete}}. See GTA Wiki:Deletion for a more detailed explanation. Thank you. Masterpogihaha 14:44, May 8, 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm still kinda new here. I just joined on April 17. I guess I should read the guidelines a bit more throughly :)
I just saw your message on another user's talk page. Whenever you want to put a template on a talk page you can use {{template|prod}}, and it would give you {{prod}} to use it as a link. This will provide a link to the template. When you used the template it put his talk page in the delete category. --Gta-mysteries Talk 17:43, July 14, 2010 (UTC)
Oops! Sorry, I didn't mean to. That's a big screw up on my part. MAINEiac4434 17:52, July 14, 2010 (UTC)
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Hey, just to let you know that no spoilers on Karen are allowed in the Michelle article. This is to prevent users who have not played the game yet from finding out about Michelle's true identity. Thanks :). Chimpso 09:11, June 4, 2010 (UTC)
What kind of GTA games do you have? TV112 2:00
I have GTA III, GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, GTA Liberty City Stories, and GTA IV.
User problem
Thanks for informing me of that but the user has been taking care of. --Gta-mysteries Talk 22:21, August 29, 2010 (UTC)
Mafis's original release date was before GTA3 but it was delayed and Mafia 2 just isn't a clone, don't just assume everything's a GTA clone because it's a bit similar. The Tom 06:29, September 28, 2010 (UTC)
- When was the original release date? MAINEiac4434 19:05, September 30, 2010 (UTC)
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Some good news for the AMD miners that want to mine SpreadCoin (SPR), there is a new fork of sgminer by girino (source) that increases significantly the performance for AMD OpenCL miners. We have compiled a windows binary from the source and on our test AMD Radeon R9 280X we've managed to get about 1.9 MHS with the new miner without overclocking the GPU. Increasing the intensity f the miner further than 20 could also help you get some more hashrate out of the GPU, do note however that this is a development version and it may not be very stable or problem free. While not quite as fast as Nvidia GPUs for mining SpreadCoin this is a good improvement over the previously available OpenCL miner. Have in mind that SpreadCoin (SPR) needs to be solo mined as it does not support pools, so you need to setup your wallet for solo mining and need to connect the miner to the wallet. This means no shares and you will know only when you find a block and that may take a while, depending on your luck, as the SPR difficulty is already quite high. Still, as we've got a request for a windows binary of the above OpenCL miner for AMD, you can download it from the link below and try what hashrate you will get with this performance improved miner.
– To download the new sgminer fork for SpreadCoin by girino for Windows OS…
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SpreadCoin uses SpreadX11 algorithm and does not use mining pools, you can only solo mine the coin, so you need to make sure that you have created spreadcoin.conf file with the required settings to be able to connect the miner to the wallet running on one of your computers. The config file needs to be placed in the Users\ YOURUSERNAME \AppData\Roaming\SpreadCoin folder and named spreadcoin.conf and then you need to restart the wallet, also make sure that you have downloaded the block information before trying to run a miner. You can find an example settings for the config file below if you haven't solo mined yet and this will be the first coin that you try and don't forget to set the username and password in the miner config to be the same and also allow any additional IP addresses or a range that will be connecting to the wallet:
For the moment you would probably want to try out the coin if you have an Nvidia GPUs as they are performing much better in terms of hashrate than what you can get on AMD GPUs. On a stock Radeon R9 280X we managed to get just about 800 KHS using the official OpenCL miner and with the Nvidia CUDA miner on a GTX 750 Ti card we easily got over 1400 KHS, trying it out on a GTX 980 we've managed to squeeze close to 4500 KHS. So if you have some Nvidia GPUs, especially Maxwell-based cards you might want to mine some SpreadCoins while the difficulty is not way too high to be worth mining with one or just a few cards. Also do not forget that with solo mining luck plays an important role as well and you might get lucky and find more blocks in short time or not and wait more for little blocks, so give the miners some time.
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A "Toxic Tour," led by an environmental justice group, circles Chevron's Richmond Refinery and passes through what the group's local members call the city's "petrochemical corridor." On Chevron's newly offered refinery tours, visitors don hard hats and safety glasses and hear of strict emission standards, exemplary safety records and jobs, jobs, jobs.
Chevron is the city's biggest employer and taxpayer, but in recent years its fortunes and the city's have diverged. The slowing economy trounced Richmond, while the oil price spike helped Chevron turn record profits.
The city and the corporation exist on entirely different scales — Richmond, with a population of 102,120 people, is lost among its larger neighbors, Oakland and San Francisco; Chevron is a global corporation with 62,000 employees operating in more than 100 countries.
That prosperity gap helped galvanize segments of the population against the company that has dominated the physical, economic and psychic landscape here for more than 100 years.
Gayle McLaughlin, rode the anger into City Hall in 2006. Ms. McLaughlin, the city's first Green mayor, is now Chevron's avowed antagonist. As Chevron's profits climbed, it provided more fodder for her attacks.
Until recently, Chevron had been doing well. The second-largest oil company in the United States, it earned $23.9 billion last year, topping off five consecutive years of record profits. Though Friday's third quarter earnings report showed profits down 51 percent, Ms. McLaughlin still brandishes Chevron's financial statements like weapons.
They contrast starkly with the poverty in this city, which has an unemployment rate of 18 percent and the third-highest crime rate per capita in the state.
"It always seems really obscene to me that we have such growing profits experienced by this large oil company while people here are struggling to pay for food and rent for their families," the mayor said in an interview .
A series of lawsuits and a key ballot measure passed since Ms. McLaughlin's victory show a city torn between the generally liberal, anticorporate politics of the Bay Area and its own history as a loyal company town. Environmental groups have so far been able to block a retrofit of the Chevron refinery while the city has tried to raise the company's taxes. Chevron, which says the changes to the refinery will reduce pollution, has appealed the ruling.
The taxes paid by the Richmond refinery account for 33 percent to 50 percent of the city's $144 million general budget this year. The refinery employs some 1,300 people, making it unclear what the city would do without Chevron.
But between the low profit margins for refineries across the country and the new taxes levied on the refinery, company leaders say they are considering doing without Richmond. While residents might not want anything that drastic, they do seem to want the corporation to do more for the city. Last fall, they passed a ballot initiative, Measure T, whose backers adopted the slogan "A Fair Share for Richmond."
The measure charged businesses an additional tax of a quarter-percent of the value of the raw materials used in manufacturing. For Chevron, that additional tax was $21 million this year. In February the company filed suit in Contra Costa County Superior Court arguing that the measure violated state and federal law.
The suit remains unresolved, but Chevron paid the additional $21 million in April. The city kept the money, though it refrained from spending it after the judge in the case warned not to. In February the company also agreed to pay the city $28 million as part of a legal settlement after a city audit concluded that the refinery had underpaid utility taxes.
Then, in July, another county judge halted Chevron's effort to retrofit the refinery, saying the company's environmental review was unclear on a crucial issue: whether the upgrade was designed to process a heavier grade of crude oil.
Lawyers for the nonprofit environmental groups who filed the suit claimed that the use of "dirtier crude" would result in more toxic air pollution and greater danger in the case of an oil spill.
While many residents and community leaders are happy with the status quo and grateful for the city's economic engine, others celebrate the campaign against Chevron.
"We will not accept the ongoing chemical assault on our people," said Dr. Henry Clark, executive director of West County Toxics Coalition, a plaintiff in the lawsuit and an organization that has long insisted that the health of area residents suffers from pollution emitted by the five refineries in the Bay Area.
The combination of delays in construction that could improve profits and a fight over taxes that could hurt them are likely to influence the company's decision whether to stay in the spot where Chevron has been since 1902.
The company does not disclose profit figures for individual refineries, but Mike Wirth, a Chevron executive vice president, said Richmond was in the "lowest tier of earnings," thanks in part to its city and state tax bills. "The government makes more money on the Richmond refinery than Chevron does," Mr. Wirth said.
"We want to be a good partner with the city, but we also have the reality that this facility needs to be competitive and viable," said Mr. Wirth, adding that the site must compete with other, less regulated and taxed locales like Singapore, China and India.
"Refineries that don't make money don't stay open," he said.
Brian Youngberg, a senior energy analyst at Edward Jones, said: "Refining is a tough business right now with more refineries coming on line in places like China and an economic slump driving demand down. Profitability in refining is the lowest it has been in years."
Closing the Richmond refinery would probably result in higher gasoline prices on the West Coast, Mr. Youngberg said.
Though the threat of closing is a nerve-racking backdrop for the city's tussles with the oil giant, nothing is imminent. For now, Chevron is working hard to ease the tensions in Richmond and win over the city's residents.
At the end of last year, the company hired a consultant to discover the root of residents' discontent with the refinery. With those survey results in hand, this year the company will spend $3 million— double what it spent in 2008— to support nonprofits, volunteer efforts and job training programs in the city. In an effort to demystify what goes on behind its gates, the refinery will also offer more public tours.
A flood of employee volunteers, wearing brightly colored Chevron T-shirts, has poured into city schools, parks and soup kitchens. To communicate its message directly to residents, the refinery went digital with its own Twitter account, Facebook page and YouTube videos.
Ms. McLaughlin said she viewed her struggle against Chevron not just as a local issue, but also as a global one. "We have solidarity with communities in Nigeria and indigenous folks in Ecuador who are also going up against Chevron for destroying their home in the Amazon," she said referring to the $27 billion Ecuadorean lawsuit against Chevron.
For its part, Ms. McLaughlin said, Richmond is now "a city that is growing in its awareness of its own empowerment."
In the midst of the hyperbole, much remains in flux: whether a judge will rule that the city can start spending the $21 million from Chevron in Measure T taxes, whether Chevron wins its appeal and completes construction on the refinery upgrade, whether the company will win over enough city residents by next fall to thwart Ms. McLaughlin's re-election.
On the map of Chevron's global operations, Richmond clearly remains, if not a sore spot, at least a problematic venue. Mr. Wirth, of Chevron, said he traveled around the world meeting with local officials where the company operates.
"Our relationships are stronger in some areas and more a work in progress in others," he said. "Richmond is a work in progress."


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I don't know how it is for most people, but I know so much more about the people I went to high school with now, than when I was spending 7 hours a day with them. Yay Facebook?
I felt gross typing that, excuse me.
Anyways, there was a pleasant drift for the years immediately following high school, but around six years ago when we started planning our ten-year reunion, I somehow started accumulating high school friends and acquaintances on Facebook. It's interesting to see who ended up with a completely different life than what you expected for them, who got knocked really young, etc.
Now, I like to observe people. I tend to stay back and not say much unless I know you well. I have several friends who thought that I was just this very quiet, sweet girl in the background and then were surprised when I felt comfortable enough around them to bust out my actual personality, which is typically heralded by a curse word or six.
The point I'm ever so slowly getting to is that I've been keeping an eye on my classmates lives for the past six years. Not in a weird way or anything–I just skim Facebook while making sure that I'm not missing any birthdays or posts that I'll be quizzed on later. As I'm lazy, most of my high school acquaintances and friends are still there. I weeded out the ones who pissed me off and just left it alone after that.
There are a lot of stories I could tell you about my classmates. There have been marriages, divorces, new jobs and new babies. Those who know me (AKA have made it to the "When does Christy ever stop swearing?" phase), know that babies and children aren't really my thing. They're great for other people, but I'm not a fan for myself.
That said, there have been a few kids who have captured my attention. My nieces, of course. They're cute little blonde horrors who giggle a lot, have plenty of personality and they promise to drive my sister to distraction by the time the youngest turns 18.
One of the other children on Facebook who has my attention is Lunden. I was vaguely aware of her mother's pregnancy, but didn't pay it much attention because honestly, I think there was just some sort of baby explosion going on at the time. It seemed like everyone was pregnant (except me, hurrah!).
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The performance started promptly at 8:00 p.m. when Timo Nuñez walked slowly on stage. There was absolutely no need for the ushers to remind the audience to be silent, as when Nuñez appeared on stage, all eyes were on him and all jaws were on the floor (it couldn't have been just mine!) Standing at well over six feet tall, his intense gaze and graceful movements immediately commanded the audience's attention. The first number was a martinete a dúo performed by Nuñez and La Pamela (Pamela Lourant.) Their taconeo (heel/footwork) and braceo (arm movements) were in nearly perfect sync and their chemistry is almost tangible. Their movements were sexy without being overly erotic, and their footwork was intricate without coming across as showy.
Alegrías were performed by La Pamela. Her unique style of dancing brings an air of individuality to the performance and there exists an almost sassiness about her which leaves the audience wanting more. In particular, her beautiful smile and graceful arm and hand movements kept the audience rapt for her entire dance solo (including my extremely restless seven year-old, who has a chronic case of ants-in-her-pants.)
The dancers were accompanied by Jesús Montoya on vocals and José Tanaka on guitar. Montoya's voice is the image of Spain, and in it he brings the love, pain and beauty which is flamenco to the audience, and together with the incredibly talented Tanaka (who left his native Japan to study flamenco guitar with Spanish gypsies at the age of 24) they provided the dancers with music as beautiful as their own movements.
At the end of the show, Nuñez recognized a familiar face in the audience, and brought out dancer Mizuho Sato for a solo of her own. Even in a sweater and jeans Ms. Sato blended right in with the rest of La Compañía (dance company), reminding us that flamenco is not about the clothes you wear, or the way you look - it is about the way you feel. And the way you feel when your walk out of a Forever Flamenco performance is pretty darn fabulous.


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One episode left before it's all over in Breaking Bad—you know what that means, right? It's practically impossible not to hypothesize over how it'll all end. Some theories are ridiculous, some theories are amazing, and if the rest of the show is any indication, almost all guesses will end up being wrong.
But hey, that doesn't mean we can't have some fun with it though, right? Here's Barely Political with a bunch of Breaking Bad ending possibilities, all delivered in musical form. Awesome.
Think any of these are plausible? Got your own theories? I'm kind of hoping Walt dies before he can actually use that M60. Who knows! He's certainly lost some vitality and vigor since the start of the season. And what's with all the Walt Jr. theories? Heh.
Oh, and here's something you might find curious...
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It was a relatively quiet trading session for corn and wheat ahead of Friday's WASDE report. Soybeans however found the first meaningful day of support in two weeks, probably from short covering ahead of the report release.
Even though soybeans were sharply higher, soybean oil was sharply lower. This was a direct result of the proposed FDA banning of all Trans Fat in processed foods today. This could potentially impact up to 16% of the domestic oil consumption. Of course meal found support from this very same news as export demand has remained strong and this puts could put extra stress on crush profitability.
Weekly export sales were released this morning and are as follows:
Estimated Range Actual
Corn 1.0 – 1.3 million MT 1.718 million MT
Soybeans 0.8 – 1.1 million MT 1.018 million MT
Wheat 350k – 500k MT 0.416 million MT
Corn sales were well above expectations but the market still couldn't respond positively. In our opinion this is because even if the final export demand increases by 200-300 million bushels, it still leaves us with a hefty carryout. On the September WASDE report, the USDA was estimating corn exports at 1.225 billion bushels. The total export sales to date accumulate to 71.5% of that estimate which is above the 5 year average of 46.4%. The USDA will likely raise that estimate slightly just to "keep pace" with the extra supply. The pace of soybean sales is even more dramatic. They have already contracted 89.2% of the current USDA estimate for 2013, this compares to the 5 year average at 59.6%. Either China will end up slowing down dramatically as they did last year or our exports will come in higher.
The report estimates have been flowing in and as an average they are well below Informa's estimates. In fact they are not much higher than what the USDA was estimating in September, even though field data and crop ratings have improved dramatically. In our opinion the analyst guesses are too low which increases the chance of seeing a bearish market reaction.
The average corn yield estimate is 158.933 and final production of 14.003 billion. The September report was 155.3 and final production of 13.843 billion. These yield and production estimates indicate a corn acreage loss of just over one million. We have to remember that the November report is historically very accurate. Whatever the report says will have a big impact on price, especially between now and January when the next stocks report is released.
Soybean estimates are also running below Informa's on average. The poll has final soybean yield at 42.407 with a final production of 3.221 billion. This also indicates an acreage loss this time for 445,000.
Between the corn and soybean estimates, there are a lot of moving parts to achieve these "relatively" low final production estimates stated above. The weekly USDA Crop Progress reports have already showed a significant increase in crop ratings during this same timeframe. We are bearish corn for two reasons, abundant supply and curbed demand from three years of high prices. We think demand is overstated for corn already and will have trouble achieving the higher feed without sustaining lower levels over a period of time. Soybeans prices will still depend heavily on South American production, but the high acres and good start down there have already resulted in a drop in Chicago prices.
The number one goal is to protect farm profitability before the report. We use the AgYield software for looking at this for each individual farmer. Try the software today at agyield.com. Have a great weekend!
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Relieved passengers of the Triumph are finally off the ship and headed home.
Bernalillo County Metro Court had 120 weddings scheduled yesterday.
Oscar Pistorius is now facing charges of premeditated murder.
Two more New Mexico children have died from the Flu. This brings the overall death toll up to 89.
Brangelina are entering the wine-making business.
The Farmington police are looking for a man who apparently threw semen on at least two women.
The Kangaroo golf course invasion of 2013!


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Re: The Elder Scrolls V: After the Oblivion Crisis
*Sorry this has been moving so slowly. If we must, we can call this one dead, at least for now. But if there's still some interested parties out there, maybe we can get this show moving again. Anybody willing?*
The ancient Vampire healer finally stepped back, his magica nearly drained. Ralin stood in the shadows nearby, watching the entire time as the Mage and done his work.
"I don't understand it."
"Understand what?"
"This.......man, if that's what he is, should be dead."
"I know that; that's why I brought him to you. I want answers. WHAT is he??"
"If I could tell you, my Lord, I would. All I do know is that he is not of this world."
"I know the Daedra; he is not one of them."
You would know better then I, my Lord. But he is no man, either."
Ralin studied the unconsious form before him. It's not possible. He couldn't be.......
Quickly turning, Ralin opened the heavy door to leave. Turning back, he eyed the man again as he spoke to the healer. "Let no one enter. Keep him asleep. I shall return as soon as I can."
Not yet loaded with plunder, Drakus led his Clan quietlly across the Gold Road noth of Anvil. As the Legion patrol neared, the last of the Clan reached the other side, and dissapeared into the night as they headed for their next target........
*A_A, if you're still up for the EVIL PLAN, here's your in to start moving north from your hideout. My Clan will camp outside of Fort Wariel *west of Kvatch* for the rest of the night to rest before our attack. You may stumble into us when ready *


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Study finds spear phishing at heart of most targeted attacks
Malicious file attachments are typically used as the payload, according to a report issued this week by Trend Micro.
Spear phishing attacks that target specific people at enterprises with the aim of gaining a foothold into the corporate network, often contain malicious file attachments and are at the core of most targeted attacks, according to a new report.
In an analysis of targeted attack data collected between February and September, Trend Micro found that 91% of targeted attacks involved spear phishing. Malicious file attachments were contained in 94% of emails, according to the report "Spear Phishing Email: Most Favored APT Attack Bait" (.pdf).
The custom malware is usually embedded deep within a document, such as a phony business report, spreadsheet or resume, Trend Micro said. "Employees in large companies or government organizations normally share files via email since downloading materials straight off the Internet is regarded as insecure," the security firm said.
Phishing is at the heart of many publicly reported data breaches, according to a variety of industry studies. A caseload review conducted by Verizon, which served as a preview to the 2012 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, noted that social tactics, such as phishing, were tied to over half of all data loss in the 90 breaches investigated by Verizon in 2011.
A computer forensics team also noted recently that a phishing attack sparked the massive South Carolina data security breach, but it is unclear whether it was a spear phishing attack or a run of the mill phishing campaign that gave a lucky attacker account credentials into the state's sensitive databases. Last year, spear phishing was technique used by the attacker that infiltrated the U.S. Chamber of Commerce breach. China-based hackers are believed to have carried out the attack.
Enterprises most at risk
The Trend Micro report found that .exe files are no longer popular among cybercriminals, since most enterprises filter out the file type with email filtering technology. The most abused file type: .RTF files, according to the report. Rich Text Format (RTF) is harder for organizations to block, because it is used to exchange text files between Microsoft Word and other programs and operating systems.
Government agencies and activist groups are most at risk of a spear phishing attack, according to the report. The public nature of the employees in the two sectors makes it easy for an attacker to find victim email addresses and target them with a convincing email containing a malicious file attachment. Companies in the heavy equipment, aviation and aerospace and financial industries are also at an elevated risk level.
Experts advocate user education, tighter social media policies, strong antimalware and email filtering technologies to mitigate the risk posed by spear phishing attacks. Employees can also undergo spear phishing drills to test the effectiveness of education.


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Is it redistricting time already? Some transparency please!Thursday, June 24th, 2010
The following story comes from OMB Watch:
The Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute convened an advisory board of experts and representatives of good government groups in order to articulate principles for transparent redistricting and to identify barriers to the public and communities who wish to create redistricting plans.
Redistricting is a legally and technically complex process. Access to district creation and analysis software can encourage broad participation by: being widely accessible and easy to use; providing mapping and evaluating tools that help the public to create legal redistricting plans, as well as maps identifying local communities; be accompanied by training materials to assist the public to successfully create and evaluate legal redistricting plans and define community boundaries; have publication capabilities that allow the public to examine maps in situations where there is no access to the software; and promote social networking and allow the public to compare, exchange and comment on both official and community-produced maps.


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On September 15, 2011, OCR resolved a complaint against the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Ohio. The complaint alleged that the District failed to provide limited-English proficient national origin minority (LEP) parents of District students with information concerning activities and other school-related matters in a language that they could understand, in violation of Title VI. The complaint also alleged the District failed to provide information to the LEP parents of a student related to his proposed expulsion in a language that they could understand, in violation of Title VI. Under Title VI, the District has an obligation to ensure "meaningful access" to its programs and activities to LEP parents. Specifically, under Title VI, the District has an obligation to "adequately notify" national origin-minority group parents of school programs and activities that are called to the attention of other parents. Prior to completion of the investigation of the complaint allegations, the District agreed to enter into a voluntary resolution agreement. The agreement requires the District to develop and implement a written plan to provide language assistance to LEP parents. The plan will include processes for: notifying LEP parents, in a language that the parents will understand, of the availability of free language assistance with respect to school programs and activities; identifying LEP parents who may need language assistance; ensuring that each school building has a centralized list of LEP parents identified as needing language assistance services; ensuring that the central administration maintains a District-wide list of LEP parents; ensuring that, when the children of LEP parents transfer from one building to another within the District, information regarding the language assistance needs of the parents is transferred to the building to which their children transfer; ensure that District staff that are likely to interact with an identified LEP parent are advised of the parent's potential need for language assistance; ensuring that District staff may obtain in a timely manner appropriate, qualified translators or interpreters; and ensuring that vital written documents are translated into the language of each frequently-encountered LEP parent group eligible to be served and/or likely to be affected by the District's program or activities. OCR is actively monitoring implementation of the resolution agreement.
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Once you recognize you want to make a change in a lifestyle behavior, such as the way you eat, the amount you want to exercise, or if you want to quit smoking, look at your expectations.
Are you still expecting quick results that last? Most of us need to change our expectations and realize that it takes time to make lifestyle changes.
And while this may be frustrating at times, the benefits are worth it. Positive lifestyle changes could give you more energy, reduced chance of serious disease, increased mobility, fewer colds and flus, improved memory, independence, stress relief, looking good and feeling good.
Even modest changes in middle age and later can have a dramatic impact on how long we live and how healthfully we live.
What is your reason for wanting to change?
"There can be thousands of reasons people might want to make change, but it needs to be internal, strong, and kind of gut level to be successful in the long term."
"I wanted to never have to diet again."
"I think as you get older, mortality starts to really matter. And I realize that without my health, I have nothing."
"My next two years I'm gonna retire from work, and try to be as healthy as I can be when I retire, so I can spend my retirement check."
If you are making the change for someone else, your chances of succeeding aren't good. the reason you want to change should be your own.
To determine your readiness to change, answer the following questions about yourself: do you really want to change at this time? is change a good thing for you at this time?Are you ready to take it one step at a time?
If you are ready to make a change, then you are ready for the next step in the lifestyle change process – making a plan to meet your goals.
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But if you aren't ready to make a change now, that's okay.
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Mussen, Beene Gerrits (d. 1783)
Beene Gerrits Mussen (d. in 1783 at an advanced age) was in 1727-1783 an elder of the congregation of Giethoorn-Noord, Dutch province of Overijssel. This was a Danzig Old Flemish congregation, and during Mussen's eldership still had contacts with the Flemish congregation at Danzig, West Prussia. Mussen guided his congregation according to conservative, strict principles. In 1768 he banned Berend Thijssen Rijkmans, who, being more progressive than his elder, had attended the meetings of the Giethoorn-Zuid congregation. A number of members sided with the banned brother. By the intervention of the provincial government of Overijssel and mediation of the Mennonite congregations of Haarlem and Amsterdam the quarrel was reconciled, but some years later the majority of the members of Giethoorn-Noord left the congregation to found a new, less conservative congregation at Zuidveen in 1774.
Mussen (according to tradition) did not write his own sermons, but read sermons written by the Amsterdam Danzig Old Flemish Elder Peter van Dijk, which sermons had been given to Mussen by van Dijk's heirs. Mussen taught from the catechism by Pieter Boudewijns.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1878): 14-26.
Naamlijst der tegenwoordig in dienst zijnde predikanten der Mennoniten in de vereenigde Nederlanden. Amsterdam: passim.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Mussen, Beene Gerrits (d. 1783)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 31 Mar 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mussen,_Beene_Gerrits_(d._1783)&oldid=108935.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1957). Mussen, Beene Gerrits (d. 1783). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 31 March 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mussen,_Beene_Gerrits_(d._1783)&oldid=108935.
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MoJ goes cloudy
Savvis picks up £14m
The Ministry of Justice is spending £14m on a five-year cloud contract.
The Ministry gets to use Savvis's "infrastructure as a service platform". Civil servants will use the platform to run Enterprise Resource Planning, from Steria and Accenture.
Some 80,000 people will use the ERP system, which includes a common model for human resources, finance, purchasing and payroll.
Savvis claims the system reduces the need for upfront spending and shortens project times; it said departments should get virtually instant access to the services they need. ®
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- A Loyola Law School memo advises students what not to wear to work-study jobs
- Peggy Drexler: Memo implies that women's looks and job performance are related
- She says the memo, while perhaps useful in spirit, was insulting in tone
- Drexler: Does school doubt women's ability to make common sense choices?
Recently, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles issued a memo to its students outlining what not to wear to work-study jobs. For one: low-cut tops. Another: those sexy Louboutins.
"I really don't need to mention that cleavage and stiletto heels are not appropriate office wear (outside of ridiculous lawyer TV shows), do I?" asks the author of a memo entitled "Ethics, Professionalism and Course Requirements for Off Campus Externs" but then goes on to mention it anyway. "The legal community is small in L.A. and judges and lawyers who have unprofessional experiences with externs talk freely amongst themselves about the experiences. It can be embarrassing."
It can also be sexist.
I'm talking about the memo, of course, which offers no such guidelines on appearance for men, if we're to assume that men aren't among those whose cleavage and heels are generating whispers within L.A. courtrooms.
The memo's implication is that there's a relationship between how women look and how well they do their jobs, and that it's okay to judge a woman on her appearance.
It's one thing to acknowledge that a bias exists in society, but quite another to insist on kowtowing to it, and to expectations that are, in most cases, initiated and maintained by men, but not imposed on men.
Women are very often reduced to, or at least measured by, their looks, in every industry, and the message can be infuriatingly contradictory.
Look good, but not too good. Pay attention to vanity, but don't be obvious about it. Be different, but about the same as everyone else.
The Loyola memo noted that the school had received "complaints from supervisors" about students' dress, though it isn't specific about the nature or number of the complaints. While it's possible that some women may go overboard, perhaps the topic could have been addressed with the individual(s) against whom the complaints were filed. After all, overboard is both subjective and confusing. At least one law professor advised women to get ahead by wearing "skirts to appeal to men, makeup to look healthy and competent, and heels to appear more powerful."
What's a constant, though, is that looks matter, and usually that attractiveness pays. So why shouldn't women, who face any number of disadvantages in the workplace, use what they can to get ahead?
According to research by Daniel Hamermesh, author of "Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People are More Successful," the top one-third of attractive females earns about 10% more annually than those in the bottom sixth of the genetic pool. A 2006 study from the University of Helsinki that looked at the role of beauty in politics found that the better-looking the candidate, the more competent, trustworthy and likeable he or she was perceived to be.
When it comes to dress, a recent Harvard Business School study found that dressing distinctly could make a woman appear confident and influential, two qualities especially relevant for courtroom lawyers.
We can't blame Loyola Law School for society's obsession with appearance, and if judges and juries are indeed forming opinions about female lawyers' abilities based on the length of their skirts, it's important for would-be lawyers to recognize that.
It's not right, but perhaps it's a reality. Law in particular is a profession that relies heavily on the opinions and very real biases of others.
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Printing an unsubstantiated extramarital affair allegation and questioning John McCain's citizenship status were just two of the more blatant examples of the New York Times's bias against the Republican presidential nominee, MRC's TimesWatch.org Director Clay Waters told FNC's Bill Hemmer on the September 23 "America's Newsroom."
Beyond that, the day-to-day coverage shows a persistent bias on the part of the Times. Waters, a contributing editor to NewsBusters, was on the program to comment on remarks by a McCain communications director Steve Schmidt lashing out at the Times. Below is an excerpt of the transcript [audio here]:
BILL HEMMER, host, "America's Newsroom": Give me some numbers, give me some facts, did you do a percentage breakdown?
CLAY WATERS, director, MRC's TimesWatch.org: I actually did a slight percentage breakdown. I did a month of looking at it, after Obama won the Democratic primaries. I looked at a month of stories, the ratio was pretty stunning. It was three-to-one positive-negative for the Obama coverage.
HEMMER: How do you gauge that, Clay?
WATERS: Well, it's just one person looking at the coverage, see who they quote, who they don't quote, what kind of slant they use in their terminology. Like the race, they're always accusing McCain of playing the race card. The Britney Spears-Paris Hilton ad, somehow the Times managed in their news reporting to suggest that there was a race factor there, and you remember the op-ed controversy, where Obama wrote this pro-withdrawal op-ed for the Times, and then McCain--
HEMMER: He submitted his and then they chose not to write [sic] it, that was the first thing that popped into my mind, just based on memory. They actually what, sorry?
WATERS: Exactly. They made this excuse that it wasn't in the proper format that they were looking for. But they were actually asking him for a timetable. The whole thing about McCain's strategy for Iraq, like it or not, is he doesn't advocate timetables. There was even a magazine story that managed to denigrate his prisoner-of-war record a little bit. It said, you know, we like his brave service in Vietnam, but maybe because he was a prisoner-of-war he didn't get the correct liberal line on Vietnam. He didn't realize that the Vietnam War was corrupt and doomed from the start.