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The X-Force 2011 Trend and Risk Report revealed a 50 percent decline in spam email compared to 2010; more diligent patching of security vulnerabilities by software vendors, with only 36 percent of software vulnerabilities remaining unpatched in 2011 compared to 43 percent in 2010; and higher quality of software application code, as seen in web-application vulnerabilities called cross site scripting half as likely to exist in clients' software as they were four years ago.
In light of these improvements, it seems attackers are adapting their techniques. The report uncovers a rise in emerging attack trends including mobile exploits, automated password guessing, and a surge in phishing attacks. An increase in automated shell command injection attacks against web servers may be a response to successful efforts to close off other kinds of web application vulnerabilities.
The IBM X-Force 2011 Trend and Risk Report is based on intelligence gathered by one of the industry's leading security research teams through its research of public vulnerability disclosures findings from more than 4,000 clients, and the monitoring and analysis of an average of 13 billion events daily in 2011.
"In 2011, we've seen surprisingly good progress in the fight against attacks through the IT industry's efforts to improve the quality of software," said Tom Cross, manager of Threat Intelligence and Strategy for IBM X-Force. "In response, attackers continue to evolve their techniques to find new avenues into an organization. As long as attackers profit from cyber crime, organizations should remain diligent in prioritizing and addressing their vulnerabilities."
According to the report, there are positive trends as it appears companies implemented better security practices in 2011:
· Thirty percent decline in the availability of exploit code – When security vulnerabilities are disclosed, exploit code is sometimes released that attackers can download and use to break into computers. Approximately 30 percent fewer exploits were released in 2011 than were seen on average over the past four years. This improvement can be attributed to architectural and procedural changes made by software developers that help make it more difficult for attackers to successfully exploit vulnerabilities.
· Decrease in unpatched security vulnerabilities – When security vulnerabilities are publicly disclosed, it is important that the responsible software vendor provide a patch or fix in a timely fashion. Some security vulnerabilities are never patched, but the percentage of unpatched vulnerabilities has been decreasing steadily over the past few years. In 2011 this number was down to 36 percent from 43 percent in 2010.
· Fifty percent reduction in cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities due to improvements in software quality - The IBM X-Force team is seeing significant improvement in the quality of software produced by organizations that use tools like IBM AppScan OnDemand service to analyze, find, and fix vulnerabilities in their code. IBM found XSS vulnerabilities are half as likely to exist in customers' software as they were four years ago. However, XSS vulnerabilities still appear in about 40 percent of the applications IBM scans. This is still high for something well understood and able to be addressed.
· Decline in spam – IBM's global spam email monitoring network has seen about half the volume of spam email in 2011 that was seen in 2010. Some of this decline can be attributed to the take-down of several large spam botnets, which likely hindered spammers' ability to send emails. The IBM X-Force team witnessed spam evolve through several generations over the past seven years as spam filtering technology has improved and spammers have adapted their techniques in order to successfully reach readers.
Attackers Adapt Their Techniques in 2011
Even with these improvements, there has been a rise in new attack trends and an array of significant, widely reported external network and security breaches. As malicious attackers become increasingly savvy, the IBM X-Force documented increases in three key areas of attack activity:
· Attacks targeting shell command injection vulnerabilities more than double - For years, SQL injection attacks against web applications have been a popular vector for attackers of all types. SQL injection vulnerabilities allow an attacker to manipulate the database behind a website. As progress has been made to close those vulnerabilities – the number of SQL injection vulnerabilities in publicly maintained web applications dropped by 46 percent in 2011– some attackers have now started to target shell command injection vulnerabilities instead. These vulnerabilities allow the attacker to execute commands directly on a web server. Shell command injection attacks rose by two to three times over the course of 2011. Web application developers should pay close attention to this increasingly popular attack vector.
· Spike in automated password guessing – Poor passwords and password policies have played a role in a number of high-profile breaches during 2011. There is also a lot of automated attack activity on the Internet in which attacks scan the net for systems with weak login passwords. IBM observed a large spike in this sort of password guessing activity directed at secure shell servers (SSH) in the later half of 2011.
· Increase in phishing attacks that impersonate social networking sites and mail parcel services – The volume of email attributed to phishing was relatively small over the course of 2010 and the first half of 2011, but phishing came back with a vengeance in the second half, reaching volumes that haven't been seen since 2008. Many of these emails impersonate popular social networking sites and mail parcel services, and entice victims to click on links to web pages that may try to infect their PCs with malware. Some of this activity can also be attributed to advertising click fraud, where spammers use misleading emails to drive traffic to retail websites.
Emerging Technologies Create New Avenues for Attacks
New technologies such as mobile and cloud computing continue to create challenges for enterprise security.
· Publicly released mobile exploits rise 19 percent in 2011 – This year's IBM X-Force report focused on a number of emerging trends and best practices to manage the growing trend of "Bring your Own Device," or BYOD, in the enterprise. IBM X-Force reported a 19 percent increase over the prior year in the number of exploits publicly released that can be used to target mobile devices. There are many mobile devices in consumers' hands that have unpatched vulnerabilities to publicly released exploits, creating an opportunity for attackers. IT managers should be prepared to address this growing risk.
· Attacks increasingly relate to social media - With the widespread adoption of social media platforms and social technologies, this area has become a target of attacker activity. IBM X-Force observed a surge in phishing emails impersonating social media sites. More sophisticated attackers have also taken notice. The amount of information people are offering in social networks about their personal and professional lives has begun to play a role in pre-attack intelligence gathering for the infiltration of public and private sector computing networks.
· Cloud computing presents new challenges - Cloud computing is moving rapidly from emerging to mainstream technology, and rapid growth is anticipated through the end of 2013. In 2011, there were many high profile cloud breaches affecting well-known organizations and large populations of their customers. IT security staff should carefully consider which workloads are sent to third-party cloud providers and what should be kept in-house due to the sensitivity of data. Cloud security requires foresight on the part of the customer as well as flexibility and skills on the part of the cloud provider. The IBM X-Force report notes that the most effective means for managing security in the cloud may be through Service Level Agreements (SLAs) because of the limited impact that an organization can realistically exercise over the cloud computing service. Therefore, careful consideration should be given to ownership, access management, governance and termination when crafting SLAs. The IBM X-Force report encourages cloud customers to take a lifecycle view of the cloud deployment and fully consider the impact to their overall information security posture.
"Many cloud customers using a service worry about the security of the technology. Depending upon the type of cloud deployment, most, if not all, of the technology is outside of the customer's control," said Ryan Berg, IBM Security Cloud Strategist. "They should focus on information security requirements of the data destined for the cloud, and through due diligence, make certain their cloud provider has the capability to adequately secure the workload."
IBM continues to work with its clients to step up security to address these new areas. Recommendations for helping clients improve the security of their IT department in light of these new threats include: performing regular security assessments; segmenting sensitive systems and information; training end users about phishing and spear phishing and secure computing principals in general, as well as examining the policies of business partners.
To view the full X-Force 2011 Trend and Risk Report and watch a highlight video please visit www.ibm.com/security/xforce.
About the IBM X-Force Trend and Risk Report
The IBM X-Force Trend and Risk Report is an annual assessment of the security landscape, designed to help clients better understand the latest security risks, and stay ahead of these threats. The report gathers facts from numerous intelligence sources, including its database of more than 50,000 computer security vulnerabilities, its global Web crawler and its international spam collectors, and the real-time monitoring of 13 billion events every day for nearly 4,000 clients in more than 130 countries. These 13-billion events monitored each day – more than 150,000 per second – are a result of the work done in IBM's nine global Security Operations Centers, which is provided as a managed security service to clients.
About IBM Security
With more than 40 years of security development and innovation, IBM has breadth and depth in security research, products, services and consulting. IBM has nine worldwide research labs innovating security technology and nine security operations centers around the world to help global clients maintain an appropriate security posture. IBM Managed Security Services delivers the expertise, tools and infrastructure clients need to secure their information assets from constant Internet attacks, often at a fraction of the cost of in-house security resources. The Institute for Advanced Security is IBM's global initiative the help organizations better understand and respond to the security threats to their business. Visit the Institute community at www.instituteforadvancedsecurity.com
For more information on IBM Security Solutions, please visit: www.ibm.com/security.
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Figure 43 shows an increase in mobile operating system exploits in 2011 due to an uptick in malicious activity targeting mobile devices. Because of the two-tiered relationship between phone end users, telecommunications companies, and mobile operating system vendors, disclosed mobile vulnerabilities can remain unpatched on phones for an extended period of time, providing a large window of opportunity to attackers.
Figure 51 shows a steady decline in the instances of input control related vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection since X-Force began recording these statistics in 2007. In 2011, the statistics suggest that the likelihood of encountering XSS in a given test continues to decrease but shows signs of leveling out at approximately a 40 percent chance of occurring. Injection vulnerabilities and specifically SQL injection appears to have leveled out at around a 20 percent chance of occurring in a given test.
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Poultry Meal, Chicken, Chicken Fat [Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols (Source of Vitamin E) and Citric Acid], Rice Flour, Plain Dried Beet Pulp (Sugar Removed), Wheat Flour, Herring Meal, Dried Whole Eggs, Brewers Dried Yeast, Lecithin, Natural Flavors, Salt, Fish Oil, Potassium Chloride, DL-Methionine, Ascorbic Acid (Source of Vitamin C), Yucca Schidigera extract, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Niacin, Vitamin A Acetate, Riboflavin Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfate (Source of Vitamin K Activity), Citric Acid, D-Activated Animal Sterol (Source of Vitamin D3), Folic Acid, Potassium Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Manganese Sulfate, Manganese Proteinate, Copper Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Sodium Selenite, Copper Oxide, Calcium Iodate.
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The first ingredient in the food is a meat product in meal form, however, it is an unidentified (by species) ingredient for which it is impossible to determine source and quality, and such ingredients are usually extremely low quality. We prefer to see only named meat ingredients used in dog foods. The second ingredient is chicken, but this is inclusive of water content (about 80%) and once that is removed it is likely that this ingredient would be more accurately placed somewhat further down the ingredient list (ingredients are listed in order of weight).
There is a further meat meal ingredient in the food (fish meal) 7th on the ingredient list, which although a little distant does serve to increase our confidence in the amount of meat in the food. We note that the manufacturer does not claim to use ethoxyquin-free sources (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish destined for meal, and is believed to be carcinogenic).
It is a concern to see chicken fat as the third ingredient in the food. Fat within the first four ingredients of a dry dog food is a factor that veterinary research at Purdue University has identified as increasing the risk of bloat in large breed dogs. Smaller breeds are untested.
Rice flour is filler, as is wheat flour. The use of wheat is a significant negative: wheat is believed to be the number one cause of allergy problems in dog food.
Beet pulp is a low quality ingredient and filler. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required. The preceding ingredient, tomato pomace, is also filler.
We appreciate the use of whole eggs, and the inclusion of probiotics in this food.
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On a stunning Tony Awards night for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, whose revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" proved triumphant in more categories than expected, "Matilda," the spunky, imported, heavily favored girl-power musical, could not kick the ebullient musical comedy of drag queens and shoes, "Kinky Boots," off the runway.
"Kinky Boots," which was first cobbled in Chicago, unexpectedly took the Tony Sunday night for best musical, even though "Matilda" earned British playwright Dennis Kelly an award for best book of a musical (and a trio of other Tonys). But at this year's Tonys, those boots were made for winning six Tonys.
Its director-choreographer, Jerry Mitchell, was a surprise winner for best choreography (beating out the heavy favorite Peter Darling of "Matilda") and "Kinky Boots" composer, Cyndi Lauper, won the Tony for best score. This danceable, hummable song suite was the illustrious singer-songwriter's first musical composition for Broadway.
"I can't say I wasn't practicing in front of the shower curtain," said Lauper, sporting a flame-red coif even as her famous voice choked with emotion. "I want to thank Harvey Fierstein for calling me," she said, "I'm so glad I was done with the dishes."
Diane Paulus beat out the directors of both "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" to take the Tony, her first, for best director for her circus-infused revival of "Pippin," which, as expected, also won the Tony for best revival of a musical. The veteran comedian Andrea Martin, whose trapeze act is one of the show's most remarkable moments, won for best supporting actress in a musical and waxed lyrical on the pleasures of being an older woman, caught and held every night by a much younger man, "and never dropped."
The Steppenwolf production of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," which premiered in Chicago and then became a critical hit on Broadway last fall, won the Tony for best revival of a play, and its director, Pam MacKinnon, won the Tony for best director of play. Steppenwolf artistic director, Martha Lavey, accepting the best revival Tony as the original nonprofit producing organization, thanked both her Broadway partner, Jeffrey Richards, and her town.
"A special nod," Lavey said, seizing the moment on national television on a remarkable night for Steppenwolf, "to the Chicago community where Steppenwolf has had its home for the last 37 years."
The 67th annual awards were presented by the American Theatre Wing at Radio City Music Hall in New York and televised live on CBS.
The star of "Virginia Woolf," Tracy Letts, did not lose out to Tom Hanks in the category of best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play as was widely expected. Letts, describing his fellow actors as peers rather than competitors, took home the award to Chicago.
"I share this with the actors in Chicago and in storefronts," he said. "We are the ones who say it to their faces and we have a unique responsibility."
Cicely Tyson, who certainly says it to people's faces, won for her acting in "A Trip to Bountiful." "Thou art the potter," she said. "I'm only the clay."
Hanks had starred in "Lucky Guy," a big hit at the box office that nonetheless was beaten out in the best play category by Christopher Durang's warm comedy "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike."
With the "Matilda" girls out of the running (they got their own special Tony), that opened the door for Patina Miller to win for best actress in a musical for her work in "Pippin." In another surprise, Billy Porter, the pride of Pittsburgh, won for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical for his starring drag role in "Kinky Boots," beating Bertie Carvel, the acclaimed onstage nemesis of those "Matilda" girls.
This year's Tonys benefited from the funniest and most entertaining opening number in living memory — a Mel Brooks-like ditty (penned by Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda) that managed to name check virtually every current Broadway show without sounding egregiously promotional. The song, flawlessly performed by host Neil Patrick Harris, featured neophyte cheerleaders, contortionists, chirpy newsies, a scene-hogging Mike Tyson and, in a Broadway season notable for the number of children in its shows, enough pint-size performers to fill, as Harris aptly quipped, a Chuck-E-Cheese.
There was even a spot for "jaded former Billys," a group of gruff, grown men who supposedly once played the leads in "Billy Elliot" but got fired for being too old. Harris, hosting for the fourth time, also got in some early licks at the movie version of "Les Miserables." "On Broadway we don't need extreme close-ups to prove we're singing live," said Harris, in extreme close-up.
A second, amusingly self-deprecating number (featuring Andrew Rannells, Megan Hilty and Laura Benanti and penned by Michael John LaChiusa) was dedicated to Broadway stars who had seen their TV shows canceled. "Kiss L.A. goodbye," went the changed lyric to "What I Did for Love." "It's back to four-show weekends."
Songs from musicals currently playing on Broadway were especially numerous this year: Even "The Phantom of the Opera," celebrating 25 years on Broadway and a stunning worldwide grosses of some $5.6 billion, got in on the act.
Other moments were more annoying (three commercials for the Royal Caribbean cruise line) or more weird (a shot of Alan Cumming and Scarlet Johansson playing pat-a-cake in the wings or the pairing of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sigourney Weaver as presenters). Stranger yet, the actors working on Broadway in shows like "The Lion King" got to make presentations, hyping their own show, but as their characters rather than themselves.
And any insomniac kid who thought there was only one "Spiderman" had his dreams shattered Sunday night by multiples. Then again, the Tonys would not be the Tonys without something to complain about, along with the ever-joyous spectacle of watching myriad wishes fulfilled.
Winners of the 2013 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards
BEST PLAY: "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" by Christopher Durang
BEST MUSICAL: "Kinky Boots"
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL: "Pippin"
BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL: "Matilda the Musical" by Dennis Kelly
BEST LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY: Tracy Letts, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
BEST LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY: Cicely Tyson, "The Trip to Bountiful"
BEST LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL: Billy Porter, "Kinky Boots"
BEST LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL: Patina Miller, "Pippin"
BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY: Courtney B. Vance, "Lucky Guy"
BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY: Judith Light, "The Assembled Parties"
BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL: Gabriel Ebert, "Matilda the Musical"
BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL: Andrea Martin, "Pippin"
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY: John Lee Beatty, "The Nance"
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL: Rob Howell, "Matilda the Musical"
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY: Ann Roth, "The Nance"
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL: William Ivey Long, "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella"
BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY: Pam MacKinnon, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL: Diane Paulus, "Pippin"
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY: Jerry Mitchell, "Kinky Boots"
BEST ORCHESTRATIONS: Stephen Oremus, "Kinky Boots"
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY: Leon Rothenberg, "The Nance"
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL: John Shivers, "Kinky Boots"
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE THEATRE: Bernard Gersten, Paul Libin and Ming Cho Lee
ISABELLE STEVENSON AWARD: Larry Kramer
REGIONAL THEATRE AWARD: Huntington Theatre Company of Boston
The 67th Annual Tony Awards were presented Sunday by the American Theatre Wing at Radio City Music Hall in New York. For more information, go to tonyawards.com


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Deal unites leading players in grit-removal market
Hydro International recently announced the purchase of Eutek Systems, Inc.
Founded in the early 1970s, Portland, Ore.-based Eutek is a leading provider of high-performance equipment that removes fine grit, sugar sands, abrasives and fixed solids from wastewater streams.
The deal pairs two experienced designers and suppliers of innovative, nonmechanical vortex grit-removal systems, giving customers a wider range of product choices and the market-leading strength of a combined business with annual revenues of approximately $60 million.
"This acquisition is a perfect fit for Hydro, giving us expanded market share in the U.S., a West Coast base of operations and product technologies that complement our existing wastewater grit-removal portfolio," said Steve Hides, CEO of Hydro International. "The market for grit-removal systems is expanding, driven by the growing need to upgrade and replace aging equipment and the rising demand for more efficient systems to remove grit from wastewater flows. We look forward to tapping our combined sets of expertise to capitalize on this exciting market opportunity."
Hydro plans to maintain the Eutek brand and use the company's Portland base as a platform to expand Hydro's U.S. wastewater business. Steve Tansley, current manager of Hydro International's UK Water and Wastewater Division, will act as operations director of the business, supported by existing Eutek management team.
"Hydro International has always been known as a strong supplier that provides reliable, high-quality products and solid customer service, and Eutek has had a very similar business model," said Marcia Sherony, national sales manager for Eutek Systems. "We look forward to merging our 30 years of experience and market presence with Hydro's many strengths to create an unbeatable combination."
Eutek managers will join Hydro International in the following capacities: Sherony as sales manager, Adam Neumayer as applications manager, Jeff Ginter as engineering manager and Brian Harrell as finance manager.
Eutek's leading brands include the HEADCELL, a modular, multiple-tray settleable solids concentrator that removes fine grit with minimal headloss; the TEACUP, an all-hydraulic unit that uses a combination of a free vortex and the boundary layer effect to capture, classify and remove fine grit, sugar sand and high-density fixed solids; the SLURRYCUP, a unit that uses a combination of an open free vortex and the boundary layer effect to capture, classify and remove fine grit, sugar sand, snail shells and high-density fixed solids from grit slurries and both primary and secondary sludge; and the GRIT SNAIL, a solids clarifier that discharges clean, low-odor solids with a low percentage of volatile solids.
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WILSONVILLE, Ore. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — February 3, 2010 — Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced it was honored by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) with the annual DesignVision award in the System Modeling and Simulation Tool category for its HyperLynx® PI (Power Integrity) product. This solution delivers fast-time-to-accurate-results in the analysis of AC and DC behavior for printed circuit board (PCB) power distribution networks. The IEC announced the winners of the DesignVision Award at DesignCon on February 2, 2010. The winning products were selected on the basis of innovative design, uniqueness, market impact, customer benefits and value to the industry.
"Our HyperLynx product suite, including power integrity analysis, enables us to provide the world's number one technology and market-share-leading PCB systems design solution," stated Henry Potts, vice president and general manager of Mentor's Systems Design Division. "Many of our advanced users need to jigsaw as many as 30 power distribution networks into their complex, high-performance designs. Delivering clean and sufficient power in these networks, while balancing product costs and designer productivity, requires a very sophisticated analysis capability."
Power integrity analysis is an essential part of modern electronic design. Over the past few years, ICs (integrated circuits) have gone from single 5V power supplies to multiple voltages down to less than 1V. The ever-increasing number of voltages being used by ICs, in addition to dramatic increases in power consumption, makes proper power delivery an exceedingly difficult task.
"HyperLynx PI can help an engineer create cost-effective design rules for the power delivery network and answer the important "what-if" design questions early in the design cycle, bypassing the expensive build-it and test-it route," stated Eric Bogatin, president, Be the Signal. "You can't beat the combination of accuracy, ease of use, and transparent integration with the rest of the PCB design flow Mentor has built into HyperLynx PI."
"The IEC is pleased to name the Mentor Graphics HyperLynx PI product as one of the most beneficial contributions to the electronic design industry as a 2010 DesignVision winner," stated IEC President John R. Janowiak. "This year's DesignVision Awards received a record-breaking 105 submissions and we welcome industry professionals to learn more of this impressive design solution at DesignCon 2010."
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Dear Mom: More chances to save the earth
Anybody remember Earth Day? Demonstrations against the war in Vietnam occupied the news on April 22, 1970, when Senator Gaylord Nelson's national environmental protest took place. He wanted "to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda." Twenty million Americans took to the streets, parks, and lecture halls that day to advocate for a cleaner, healthier, sustainable environment.
Unfortunately, the need for awareness of potential pending environmental catastrophes did not end with the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. Earth Day continues to be celebrated across the nation each spring on and around April 22.
In Charlottesville, UVA's Student Environmental Action is spearheading a week of Earth Day activities in which all members of the community are invited to get involved. Among the planned events are a number of family-friendly opportunities to get up close and personal with Mother Nature and efforts to protect her.
Folks can help build trails with Student Alliance for Virginia's Environment, create a bog garden at Booker T. Washington Park with Charlottesville Parks and Recreation, or take a Saturday morning hike with UVA's Outdoor Club.
The solar house that won UVA's architecture and engineering schools national recognition in the Solar Decathlon competition in Washington, D.C., last fall will be open and on display at its construction site in Crozet.
A benefit concert and open mic poetry reading are planned for Saturday evening. On Sunday, the earth-based spirituality group NatureSpirit will not surprisingly share ideas about nature and spirituality.
The week winds up with an information and trade fair on the actual Earth Day, April 22. From 10am-5pm, Newcomb Hall Plaza will be buzzing with community groups and activist organizations including Twin Oaks Community, Amazon Herb Company, the Nature Conservancy, UVA Recycling, and Integral Yoga.
EcoHouse, a new campus organization trying to create alternative, environmentally conscious living arrangements, will offer a workshop at the fair from 11am-1pm. City council member Kevin Lynch, Alexis Ziegler from Trade Local, and Stratton Salidis of Alternatives to Paving will discuss the interface of ecology, economics, and governmental policy-making from 3-5pm.
Earth Week 2003 offers the chance to inspire the next generation with environmental consciousness. There is still much to be done.
Earth Week 2003: Citizens of the Earth takes place April 18-22 at various locations around town. A complete schedule of events is listed on the Student Environmental Action website: www.student.virginia.edu/~enviact.


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The number of days lost to sickness absence has fallen by 47 million over the past 20 years, according to official figures.
The total has been cut from 178 million in 1993 to 131 million last year, an average of just over four days a year per worker.
The percentage of hours lost to sickness in private firms was 1.8%, compared with 2.9% in the public sector, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Workers in London had the lowest percentage of hours lost to sickness, at 1.5%, while the highest were in the East Midlands, Wales and the North East at 2.4%.
The main cause for working days lost last year was musculoskeletal conditions such as back and neck pain, leading to 31 million days lost, followed by minor illnesses such as coughs and colds (27 million).
Around 15 million days were lost because of stress, anxiety or depression, up from 11.8 million in 2010.
Men generally have lower sickness absence rates than women, although the new figures show falls among all workers and all age groups since 1993.
Sickness absence increases with age but falls after eligibility for the state pension.
ONS statistician Jamie Jenkins said: "On average workers had 4.4 days off due to sickness absence in 2013, down from 7.2 days in 1993.
"Sickness has generally been falling over the 20-year period, but since 2011 the fall appears to have levelled off with very little change over the past two years."
Dr John Philpott, director of The Jobs Economist, said: "Although the overall rate of sickness absence from work is on a broadly downward trend, more working days are being lost to the common mental health problems of stress, depression and anxiety, which accounted for 15.2 million lost working days in 2013, up from 11.8 million days lost in 2010.
"Given the possibility that people may cite other reasons for absence due to mental health issues because of the social stigma attached to such conditions, the underlying problem is likely to be even worse.
"Moreover, sickness absence statistics don't detect people suffering from common mental health problems who soldier on at work for fear that highlighting a condition might put their job at risk."
Managers, directors and senior officials take fewer days off sick, while the self-employed are less likely to have a spell of sickness, said the ONS report.
In the public sector, sickness rates are highest for those working in the health service, where around 3.4% of hours were lost to sickness last year, compared with 3% in central government and 2.7% in local government.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "These figures prove that there is no such thing as a sickie culture, with the number of days lost to ill-health falling as employers get better at managing sickness absence.
"The real health threat we face is the growing culture of presenteeism, where unwell staff are pressured into coming to work by their bosses. This can prolong illness, spread diseases and cause stress throughout the workplace."


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Tyler Price necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
I work in a high tech field. Primarily in the realm of telecommunications and equipment sales (Cisco, Avaya, etc.). I want my partners to be able to leverage their existing long term "trusted partnerships" with other partners whose core business in technology may be different. They can share relationships and the referral compensation associated with the sales made to each others customers. My goal is to brand this as a social media portal for the sharing of leads and knowledge.
Target audience would be anyone who sells in a high tech field (Phone Equipment, Routers, Network Services, Telecom, etc.). They can be on the direct and indirect sales side of their respective companies. This portal will allow them to create more powerful relatioships with their selling partners and a more comprehensive solution for their customers. They would offer not just their core service to the end user, whether that be equipment or software.. but also an ancillary service outside that core. Thus bringing the customer the total solution through partnering. Through channel swapping.
My growth goal would be to expand this offering outside of high tech industry and roll it out to all people in all industries as a way to share and source realtionships through trusted partners. What I call relational currency.
Please feel free to be as creative as you like. Themes should be strongly focused around an idea of partnership. A joining together to consult with a customer. Also central to the theme should obviously be an idea of the swapping of data and information ultimately leading to a sale and long term partnership. A channel for building relationships and swapping/sourcing connections.
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Have you heard about makeover? No! Don't you want to rejuvenate your personality? Yes, Great! K Hair Stylist Near Me in Midrand there are numerous beauty salons established in Miami to take care of individuals' appearances. Hair Salons Specializing In African American Hair some of these are sophisticated and high-quality. Beauty salons are now going out of their ways to focus on customized solutions to enhance individuals' looks.
You want to rejuvenate your personality? If your answer is yes then here is a list of Top 10 of Beauty Salons in Austin TX. Find A Hairdresser this list will guide you to find the best Beauty Salons in Austin TX compiled on the basis that how frequently the Beauty Salons are used by beauty conscious customers. The No.1 Beauty Salons on this list has been stored the most amount of times by Austin, TX area. Generally, people only store a business' information in their address books if they are satisfied with the provider's service and wish to engage in repeat business.
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The hair of women with African American descent is unique in characteristic. Any woman who wishes their hair to look at its best will admit to spending endless hours experimenting with their hair and possibly trying out many salons to identify the look and style that best suits them.
Until recently, that process has been even more difficult for an African American - due to the complexity of their hair and a limited amount of styles that can be carried out with ease.
It was of no help either that the products produced specifically for Afro hair were few and far between. You may remember having your hair braided by a relative or friend - a procedure that took some time but kept the hair neat and under control. This is still hugely popular between African Americans, but the time has finally come that they can opt for those styles that were once deemed an impossible.
The Pixie. The pixie cut is super short and easy to maintain. Give it an ultramodern twist by choosing asymmetrical lines. Halle Berry made this style popular among black women, and it will be a style that continues to be a classic.
Braids. Yes - it is the staple cut for African American women. Your hair will stay as close to its natural state with this style and is one of the easier ones to maintain without overdoing it on styling products. Check out images of Alicia Keys and Jada Pinkett Smith.
Sleek and Straight. Thanks to straightening irons strong enough to tame any Afro, the days of using chemicals to straighten the hair are long gone. Black celebrities such as Beyonce and Mary J Blige look stunning with their sleek looks.
Permanent Hair Straightening - Brazilian vs Yuko vs Opti-Smooth
Whether you are a hair salon employee, a hair salon owner, or a regular hair salon client, sanitation and cleanliness of the hair salon should always be important to you. This is because bacteria, viruses and various other types of microscopic organisms could be breeding and thriving in the various implements, tools of the trade and in the premises of the hair salon itself without your being aware of it.
How simple is it to contract something when you visit a hair salon for a trim? The comb that is used to smoothen out tangles in your hair could have just been used on another customer who has lice, yet the hairstylist may not have had the comb washed and disinfected. The rollers that the staff may use to roll up your hair preparatory to setting so that you wind up with bouncy curls could have been used beforehand on someone with a catching scalp condition like psoriasis. And the towels they use to wrap your head after washing may have been used on another client - which is just plain disgusting.
o Sneeze that hair out
You could also look at the hair accumulating on the floor - is it regularly swept up? Or do they let around five clients get haircuts first before they start sweeping the mess into a dustpan for disposal?
o Quality Check your hairstylist
Take a good look at your hairstylist too. Are his/her nails kept clean and tidy? Or are they long and kind of dirty? A hairstylist with dirty fingernails might have something catching living under those nails which could be passed on to you so if you spot that type of detail, say good bye politely and never return.
There are hair salons from hell and there are hair salons which are very diligent about practicing sound sanitation and cleanliness habits. Your best choice? The latter as your health depends on it.


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S.1848 - Sound Dollar Act of 2015114th Congress (2015-2016)
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Sound Dollar Act of 2016
This bill amends the Federal Reserve Act (FRA) to direct the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to: (1) pursue the goal of long-term price stability, and (2) establish metrics to evaluate whether long-term price stability is being achieved.
The bill also prescribes procedures for the establishment and evaluation of such metrics.
The Board and the FOMC shall: (1) make such information available to the public on a website, and (2) report to Congress each time such metrics are set or revised.
The Board must include in its semiannual report to Congress: (1) the results of the evaluation process; (2) whether the goal of long-term price stability is being met, and if not, why not, as well as remedial steps to be taken; (3) the main monetary policy instruments and strategy used by the Board and the FOMC to achieve long-term price stability; and (4) an analysis of how the policies of the Board and the FOMC are affecting the foreign exchange rate value of the U.S. dollar.
The Board must clearly articulate its lender-of-last-resort policy and make it public on the appropriate website.
FOMC membership shall consist of one representative from each of the Federal Reserve banks (in addition to members of the Board).
The FOMC shall release meeting transcripts to the public within three years after each meeting.
The Department of the Treasury stabilization fund is renamed the Special Drawing Rights Fund. Treasury shall liquidate all property in the Fund (other than Special Drawing Rights) and use all such amounts to reduce the public debt.
The Fund shall be available solely to stabilize exchange rates and arrangements. Repeals Treasury authority to deal in U.S. instruments of credit and securities. Permits only Special Drawing Rights to be deposited into the Fund. Requires funds that would otherwise have been deposited into the Fund to be paid, instead, to the Treasury to reduce the public debt.
The FRA is amended to authorize the FOMC, in unusual and exigent circumstances, by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of its members, to grant any Federal Reserve bank emergency authority to buy and sell U.S. debt obligations and revenue bonds in anticipation of the collection of taxes or the receipt of assured revenues by any state or local governmental entity, as well as obligations of, or guaranteed by, a foreign government or agency.
The Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 is amended to repeal: (1) Board funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from Federal Reserve System earnings (outside the annual appropriations process), and (2) the CFPB Fund. By this means the bill brings the CFPB into the regular appropriations process.


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Ortiz, Pedroia headline most popular jerseys
It's good to be the champs. Two members of the World Series champion Red Sox -- designated hitter David Ortiz and second baseman Dustin Pedroia -- are at the top of the current list of most popular Major League Baseball player jerseys at the outset of the 2014 regular season.
The list of the top 20 players was released jointly Thursday by Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association, and it features players from 13 teams. There's one other Boston star -- closer Koji Uehara -- in the top 20, and former Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury is No. 20.
The list is based on sales of Majestic jerseys from MLB.com/shop since the end of the last World Series, and the top 10 features players from eight teams. Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, entering the final season of his career, is the third-most popular jersey in baseball.
Two young franchise catchers -- Yadier Molina of the Cardinals and Buster Posey of the Giants -- are in the top 10, and so is Clayton Kershaw, the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner.
Seventeen of the top 20 players were All-Stars last season. Seven of the top 20 are infielders, five are pitchers, five are outfielders and two are catchers, with Ortiz the only designated hitter on the list.
Twelve of the league's top 20 most popular jerseys belong to players under 30 years old, and five -- those belonging to Manny Machado, Yasiel Puig, Bryce Harper, Mike Trout and Matt Harvey -- are for players 25 or younger. The Mets, Harvey's team, also have David Wright represented in the top 20.


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Example #1:
German railways (Deutsche Bahn) is deploying 300 Linux servers to manage the total messaging requirements of its 55,000 staff.
(reference: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119537,00.asp)
Example #2:
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) has shifted from expensive Sun gear to low-cost Linux servers, with excellent ROI and TCO results. Here are a few comments:
"Two years ago, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) was paying $20,000 to $40,000 for each of its Sun Microsystems Inc. servers running Solaris... Linux servers were priced at about $3,000 apiece, and a Red Hat Inc.
support subscription tacked on another $400 per box."
"But cost wasn't the sole metric in the business case... Transaction speed was another key driver. The CME makes money based on the number of trades it can process, so every millisecond it shaves off the round-trip trading time counts."
"Chicago-based online travel service Orbitz did a CPU-for-CPU comparison of Intel Corp. processors running Linux against Sun Sparc processors running Solaris and found that the Intel CPUs performed twice as well, according to chief Internet architect Leon Chism."
Example 3#:
North Carolina-based textile manufacturer, Glen Raven moved its mission-critical back-office systems from a 24-way HP Unix server to four-way Linux server. The results were impressive.
"Reports that once took five to six minutes to produce are now ready in 30 seconds," Glen Raven system administrator Jon Fraley said..." The replacement servers cost less than the support fees for the old hardware.
The Linux-based hardware "proved itself," he said, adding that more Linux servers are on the way for a disaster recovery site.
(reference: http://www.cio.com.au/index.php?id=800225882&eid=-601)
Example 4#:
And finally, just to prick the hot-air bubble that Microsoft has inflated in trying to show that Windows is actually able to cope in mission critical environments, you might want to take a look at the news story of the New
Zealand Ministry of Health dumping Windows because it just couldn't cope with real-world mission critical requirements.
"Windows can't support what we do, and its management controls aren't consistent with a datacentre operation," says CIO Warwick Sullivan.
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Continuing this week's coverage of IBM's 3Q announcements, today it's all about storage for our mainframe clients.
These new solutions will work with existing mainframes, as well as the new IBM [zEnterprise mainframe models] announced this week.
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June 1 at 1 p.m. at Gardner's Basin: Headliners: Midnight Star, Regina Belle and Chuck Brown's Soul Searchers with EU. Opening acts: Dave Cedeno's Latin Orchestra, Ray Smith's Calypso Band, The Burnsiders Reggae, and Justin & Alina
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Welcome back to my semi-regular column about the stuff that caught my interest in the last week or two.
I've been known to rant a bit and today is no exception. There are a number of things that irk me about blogs and message boards and one of the things that bugs me to no end is when a new writer is announced for a book how people start fretting about what he (or she) is going to do the character(s) in that book.
And this is months and months before a book is even printed mind you. Reams and reams of idle speculation is launched with all kinds of irrational ideas that they heard from someone or that a so-called "inside source" has leaked or whatever. Now I do realise that this is something that happens all the time but it does not mean that it is right. When I want to speculate I prefer to do so with at least some concrete factual information.
Take for example the speculation over what JMS would do with the Wonder Woman and Superman books, people worrying and getting inflamed with very little basis. A whole thread on Bleeding Cool wandered about like a spastic dinosaur until JMS had to come on and quash stupid ideas like Superman wandering across America like Jack Kerouac or Kaine in the series Kung Fu. I'm going to reprint what JMS said on that thread just in case anyone didn't get it.
"I wish to make several points very very clear.
It is absolutely and unequivocally untrue that I have at any time had any conversations at all with DC about Marc Guggenheim.
It is absolutely and unequivocally untrue that I insisted "that Superman only appear in the Superman book he's writing."
I have made every indication to DC that as and when Superman is needed during the time I am writing him, he will definitely be made available. You simply can't keep a character as major as Superman out of every title for the length of my initial run. It's impossible, and the idea that we could or would try is absurd.
It is absolutely and unequivocally untrue that Superman is "going to drop his Superman identity."
It is absolutely and unequivocally untrue that he "not use his powers."
So to those who have reacted (properly) to say that these are stupid ideas, you are absolutely right.
They are stupid.
Which is why we are not, have not been, and will not be doing any of them.
The only stupidity greater than those lay in the suggestion that we ever would."
So there you go, from the horses mouth as it were. Speculation is fun, but please, it is better to do it where its based on facts.
…Except of course when it comes to Bendis, Loeb and Millar where its better to think the worst. The worst will probably happen but at least you'll be prepared for it!
JMS on the other hand is a writer with more hits than misses so I think he's worth the benefit of the doubt.
The DC Implosion
Back in the late 70's DC canceled a couple of dozen of their poorer selling titles due to the bad economy of the time and other factors. This became known as the DC Implosion as it drastically reduced the amount of content that they were publishing.
Just in the last month DC have canceled the Red Circle titles, The Web and The Shield, they've canceled one of my favourite titles, The Warlord, and they've canceled The Great Ten (as of issue 9, so they are canceling a 10 issue series with one issue to go, great planning eh?)
It seems like its no coincidence that a new management and editorial team have come in and not long after a bunch of titles get canceled. So who's going to be next then?
Based on the sales charts, titles like Magog, Wildcats, Authority, REBELS (keep spreading the word on this title!), Doom Patrol and Batman Confidential have cause to be worried. Johnny DC titles will be ok as they mainly sell at supermarkets and newsstands and most Vertigo titles should be ok as they do big business in the Trade Paperback market.
The DC Explosion
Another story that came out recently was that DC were looking to expand their range of output in order to compete equally with Marvel on the comics racks and to take market share off of Marvel. Word was put out that it was a good time for freelancers to approach DC for work as a rapid growth was foreseen.
So, considering my previous rant about the current DC mini-implosion, what exactly are DC going to publish in order to ramp up their market share. It looks as if anything they publish that's quirky (Warlord, Doom Patrol) or non DCU-centric (Red Circle characters, possibly the First Wave characters) have weak sales potential.
What are your bets on what DC is going to do, will it be extra Batman (and surely there's more than enough already!), more Superman, more Flash and we know that there is at least 1 more Green Lantern title on the way. Just what franchises can DC mine to increase their production? Personally I can't see where long term growth is going to come from.
The Amazing Spectacular Amazing Spider-Man Price Increase
You didn't think I was gonna go a whole column without laying into Marvel over something right? One thing I noticed from last months Marvel Previews magazine is that Amazing Spider-Man comic has gone up in price to $3.99. They are gone up to 40 pages though with a 2 page Spidey Sunday story and a Kraven back up story but still, if you want to follow the main Spidey comic now you need to shell out 12 clams a month whereas just a couple of years ago you only needed to buy 1 issue of Amazing for $2.99 a month. Marvel seems to be out to exploit every segment of their fan base these days.
It used to be great back when you could buy 1 Avengers Comic, 1 X-Men comic, 1 Spidey comic and you didn't need to buy 4 or 5 of each a month. No wonder smaller titles can't get an audience now…
How does your nose get so brown?
Well if you shove it this far up Jeph Loeb's arse your nose would be brown too, just take a look at this video (oh and keep the sick bucket near by in case you upchuck).
Milestone Forever #2
I'd love to say that this comic got better with the second issue but I just can't. As with the first issue the cover is horrible and the packaging and design is terrible, I can't believe that Rian Hughes designed this thing. I did figure out what made me uneasy about the first issue though and it was that these two books felt more like shout-outs to old Milestone fans rather than something that could bring new readers into the fold.
After 2 expensive prestige format issues, I still don't really know who Icon, Hardware, Static and the rest are, what their powers are or anything about their personalities. That's a pretty bad indictment for any book. Regarding the art, Jean Paul Leon doing the framing sequence was good again and Denys Cowan and ChrisCross both did decent jobs on their sequences.
Brave and the Bold #32
After sledging a comic I like to follow up with a book I like, it freshens the soul or something, I dunno. Anyhoo, B&B 32 features Aquaman and The Demon teaming up against some underwater demons from hell…or thereabouts. After a Joker/Atom team-up that rather misfired this comic was satisfying on a number of notes. JMS had a handle on both characters, so much so that I'd like to seem him do solo books for either character….or at least backup features in either of his new books. Aquaman does much of the work carrying this issue with the Demon mostly standing around spouting rhyming couplets until the ending where he KABLAMMO'S the invading demon.
Jesus Saiz does another beautiful job on this issue, he's rapidly becoming one of my favourite artists, he has sort of a Ryan Sook mixed with John Buscema quality, there's a lovely sequence of Aquaman fighting a shark/demon on page 9 that works so well in its power and movement. Also the splash page of Aquaman backed up by thousands of whales, sharks and every other type of sea creature took my breath away. One of the best books of the month easily.
This is the tie in to the Rise and Fall of Arsenal that documents the post Cry for Justice JLA continuity. It was ok, certainly an improvement on the direness of the Blackest Night issues. Mark Bagley's art is certainly better, especially pages that seem to be inked by Norm Rapmund. The main problem with this is too-many-character-itis , I count at least 14 members which means that no-one gets any face time, except for Ollie who we learn likes curry, no not Arthur Curry, the Indian chicken tikka sort of curry.
One thing that does really annoy me about DC though… and this sounds like a contradiction of the last point I made….but DC editors obviously tell writers they can use characters and then 2 issues they take the fucking characters away because they're in another book. This completely ruined McDuffie's run and its affecting Robinsons already. This issue Starfire zoomed off to join the REBELS, why couldn't she just be in the 2 books, who the fuck cares much about continuity that a character can't be in 2 fucking books?
ZVR Aventure #1 and #2
Another Zombie book? Well yes it is but it's the continuation of Ashley Wood's Zombies versus Robots world, this time in the form of a 4 issue anthology book. Each issue has 3 eight page stories which continue from one issue to the next. Ashley Wood does the (amazing) covers and Chris Ryall writes all the stories.
The first adventure has Sgt Davis organising resistance to the zombie horde in a New York-esque city, the art is by Menton Matthews III and is a strange heavily photoshopped type of art. The second story is about a remote testing facility where the cook is the only person left alive and pilots an early Iron Man type costume/robot while trying to survive another horde, the art by Paul McCaffrey which is reminiscent of Juan Gimenez's style. The last story has art by Gabriel Hernandez which shows voodoo Zombies fighting normal zombies in Haiti. This is a great book for horror/aventure fans and considering the card cover and heavy quality paper its probably worth the $3.99
Echo #20
I never hear this book mentioned anywhere but it's a consistently enjoyable tale by Terry Moore. The main story is about a young woman called Julie who unexpectedly encounters a disastrous military test and gets part of her body covered by a strange living metal. She is forced to go on the run from the government and the company behind the making of the living metal who send various assassins and maniacs after her. The black and white art by Moore is detailed yet simple and elegant and the characterisation as one would expect is top notch. What I didn't expect is the constant tension because you feel none of these characters is safe.
Superman: Last Stand on New Krypton #1
The New Krypton arc that's dominated the Superman books for over a year is coming to an end, but this is a bit of a confusing mess. Brainiac invades New Krypton in a stupid looking gigantic robot head, cue thousands of killer robots invading New Krypton and we get page after page of Kryptonians fighting robots….yada yada yada. The art from Pete Woods looks rushed, some of the writing just makes no sense like Zod arresting the Legion of Superheroes who are trying to help, perhaps this is a double bluff by Zod but it just seems like brain-numbingly stupid writing to me. This book isn't terrible but I wouldn't heartily recommend it either.
Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers Unleashed #1
Lets end the reviews on a high note, the Pet Avengers was one of the best unexpected surprise hits of last year and I'm happy to say that this first issue of the new mini series carries on the charm of last years series. The Hairball/Ms. Lion duo is hilarious again and the art by Ig Guara and the colours by Sotomayor and Roberts is beautiful, really great work. This issue sets up the series when the rest of the Pet Avengers discover that Frog Thor is missing from Central Park.
Vlad the Impaler #1-3 (Topps comics, 1993)
This is a 3 issue mini-series from Topps short-lived foray into comics. Topps were more known for baseball cards but decided to get in on the act during the comics boom of the early 90's. Unfortunately for them they got their strategy wrong, they decided to put out well written and drawn comics when what the market was looking for was badly written and appallingly drawn crap like Youngblood. Vlad the Impaler was an excellent little 3 issue mini-series detailing the savage life of Prince Vlad Tepes of Transylvania and his eventual turning into Vlad Dracula.
Roy Thomas wrote it and did a great job worthy of his best Savage Sword of Conan work, and the art by Esteban Maroto is truly stunning. Even after 17 years this is a comic that I still cherish, it just reeks of quality. The lettering by John Costanza adds greatly to the atmosphere and the colouring by Paul Mounts is sumptuous adding to the sense of baroque horror. I've checked online and these issues can be found for $2 each, an incredible bargain and certainly better than most comics out now.
Dark Roasted Blend
This is a blog that I've been visiting for years, there is always something there to occupy the mind or the eyes whether it is hallucinatory architecture or sperm-racing. It also feeds my love for retro-futurism.
PostRock Xchange
This is another blog I visit heavily. Post Rock is a form of instrumental rock music that generally doesn't conform to the normal rock music song structures. In general its more mellow but it can't be incredibly intense also. This blog has LOTS of great music, some of my current favourites are Mooncake and 65daysofstatic.
It was Christina Hendricks' birthday this week so what better way to celebrate than with a video in honour of her!
The Doctor Who: Series 5 Episode 5 "Flesh & Stone" ThreadPosted: May 2, 2010 in CCW Open Thread, Television
Tags: BBC, Doctor Who
So, I have only been watching Doctor Who on a regular basis for the last few years but I am really enjoying the new season and it seems like some of our CCW regulars are too. Because of this Doctor Who will be getting a weekly thread through the end of the series (season) as long long as we have enough people participating. Should be fun.
Photo from The Doctor Who Official Website
The Doctor Who: Series 5 Episode 4 "Time of the Angels" ThreadPosted: April 25, 2010 in CCW Nation, CCW Open Thread, Geek Culture, Television
Tags: BBC, Doctor Who
So, I have only been watching Doctor Who on a regular basis for the last few years but I am really enjoying the new season and it seems like some of our CCW regulars are too. Because of this Doctor Who will be getting a weekly thread through the end of the series (season) as long long as we have enough people participating. Should be fun.
Photo from The Doctor Who Official Website


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The Annual Builders St. Louis Home & Garden Show is THE place to see, learn about and buy the latest home products and services under one roof. Hundreds of local companies and countless experts will be on hand to answer questions, share ideas and provide inspiration to help you with all of your home and garden projects and improvements.
The Builders St. Louis Home & Garden Show, produced by the Home Builders Association of St. Louis and Eastern Missouri, is one of the largest quality consumer home shows in North America. The Show has been in existence for more than 40 years, and is the place to shop, compare and buy everything for homes, yards and gardens. Approximately 400 companies in 1,400 booths fill almost 340,000 square feet of America's Center in downtown St. Louis to create this must-see event each spring!
The Builders St. Louis Home & Garden Show is actually six complete shows in one – Lawn & Garden, Kitchen & Bath, Interior Design, Pool & Spa, New Construction Zone and Home Products. This massive show gives you the chance to shop all the newest and best products and services that are available in the marketplace. Exhibitors and sponsors, you have an opportunity to put your product or service in front of tens of thousands of potential customers at this high-quality event.
The six showcase areas offer a great shopping experience. Enormous feature gardens, local and national celebrity speakers and family fun areas are just a few of the reasons you can't miss this show!
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Tour 55,000 square feet of beautiful, expansive gardens, as well as patio and landscape displays from dozens of companies. In addition to the magnificent outdoor living spaces, you will find lawn decorations, mowers and equipment, hardscape materials, fire pits, outdoor kitchens, nurseries, fencing, decking, playground equipment, plants, trees, shrubs and lawn and landscape services. The Lawn & Garden Showcase is also "home" to the Children's Garden Club, where kids can create free make-and-take projects and the annual Flower Show Competition.
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This area is approximately 10,000 square feet and features the newest products and ideas to make your home attractive and comfortable. Talk to interior designers and shop items such as furniture, flooring, window and wall treatments, beds, bedding and linens, home décor products, including artwork and accessories and game room items like pool tables, poker tables and pianos.
Pool & Spa Showcase
The Show features approximately a dozen pool and spa companies showing a huge selection of pools – gunite, fiberglass and above-ground – and a wide range of spas, from small three-person models to the ultimate in swim spas.
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Tour this new area of the Home & Garden Show for help finding the home of your dreams. Find the builder that meets your needs – for large, small and custom homes – and discover subdivisions from all over the St. Louis area.
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I will never forget Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian mining town on Svalbard that I visited last year. Walking over green grass unheard of in the Arctic and passing by building complexes that could be the homes of hundreds of people. The feeling that those who lived there had just gone out on a day-trip and would be coming back soon.
The citizens of Pyramiden won't be coming back, they haven't been on a day-trip and no children will be playing in the playground. Miners are no longer walking back from their shifts and no more ships load coal. The last coal miners and their families left Pyramiden in 1998 and it seems they left in a rush without bringing their belongings, as though they were threatened by a disaster and had very little time to pack. The town was a Soviet dream, food was for free, and the cultural palace provided workers and their families with entertainment. They had a cinema, a library, several music rooms and even a grand piano - said to be the most northern in the world. They also had a swimming pool, sports hall and a football field, along with greenhouses and cattle.
The coal in Pyramiden is difficult and costly to mine and it was decided to close it for good by the state owner Trust Arktikugol in 1998. Running the town was expensive for a government in transition to a new economy. An Arctic dream town fell off the priority list. In the time between 1955 and 1998 the mine at Pyramiden produced 9 million tons of coal, one million of which was used to support the town.
Today Svalbard is associated with science, wildlife and a seed vault, but throughout history, hunting, trapping and mining have been the main activities on the islands. The European superpowers of the 17th and 18th century came to Svalbard to conduct large scale whaling and the remains from that time can still be seen. The intensive coastal whaling, Svalbard's first large scale industry, led to whale populations nearing extinction; causing whalers to sail to other hunting grounds. The focus shifted to trapping and overwintering and trappers caught walruses, reindeer, arctic foxes, polar bears, seals and collected eggs and down.
The development of more effective equipment almost led to the extinction of some animals. In 1925 the Svalbard reindeer was protected and the International polar bear treaty of 1973 put an end to hunting for polar bears. Lonely cabins from this time can still be found all over the islands. With the industrial revolution rolling out in Europe in the 20th century, the new European industries craved for coal and a new era of development dawned on the islands. Before the Svalbard treaty in 1921 almost all land on Svalbard was annexed for mining operations and a Klondike-like atmosphere dominated.
Today there are only two countries involved in mining on Svalbard. The Russians run a coal mine in Barentsburg and the Norwegians operate both a small coal mine in Longyearbyen and a larger coal mine, Svea, in Van Miljenfjorden. As I write, the Norwegians are planning to open a new coal mine in Luncknefjell. It's a bitter irony, that a fossil fuel which accelerates both the melt of the Svalbard glaciers and the Arctic sea ice, is mined at the very place where climate change impacts most of all. For me coal mining on Svalbard should follow the footsteps of other industrial activities on the islands; it should be ended and frozen in time.


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Traveling Hair Stylist Prices in Duxberry before I go into the points to help you choose your hairdresser, I should first outline the definition of what is a mobile hairdresser? A Local Mobile Hairdresser is a hairdresser who usually works for his or herself visiting clients at their homes or place of work, or any other agreed venue and does not operate from a fixed hair salon or beauty shop.
Choosing a Mobile Hairdresser - 4 Simple Tips to Help You Choose The Best
1.When to consider using a mobile hairdresser. The services of a mobile hairstylist may often be required to be used at a home for a wedding when it may often be inconvenient for the bride to travel to a hair or beauty salon to have her hair and her make-up done, requiring her then to travel back to her home to put on her wedding gown. Instead, the hairdresser will travel to the bride's home in order to style the bride's hair for her special day. A Mobile Mens Hairdresser hairstylist is often in demand for Care homes, hospitals, prisons, the armed forces, and in many other situations where individual attention is required.
Portable Hair Salon Stations For Mobile Hairdressers
4. Always Use a qualified hairdresser. As with Salon hairdressers, your mobile hairdresser should hold formal hairdressing qualifications. The UK national Vocational Qualification in Hairdressing (NVQ) is the only recognized qualification system, and more than 60% of mobile hairstylists are now trained to this standard. They should also hold professional indemnity insurance.
Your mobile hairdresser should be happy and prepared to recommend the perfect hairdos and often make-up to accentuate and compliment the individual looks of the customer, and offer suggestions on what hairstyle or make up should best suit the client.
Traveling Hair Stylist Prices in Duxberry ?
Hairdressing is one of the many trades that can be carried out in a clients home. Hairdressers only need a pair of scissors a small stock of products comb and other accessories to cut and style a persons hair. But is it worth it? below I discuss some of the pros and cons of mobile hairdressing and perhaps uncover some little known truths.
I hope this article maybe useful to someone who is thinking of starting up in mobile hairdressing and help them to assess which is the best route to take salon based or mobile.
So you have a car, have all your tools a client list and decide to go into the flexible working of being mobile. You can book clients in when you want as much of what will allow get up late arrive home early?
Firstly nowadays if you use a car for business you must have the correct insurance often this will incur a higher premium. There could be an argument that the car is just insured for "personal" use social and pleasure and that if you had an accident that you would just say you where visiting a relative? Insurance companies are more and more tightening there belts and looking for people outside of the scope of this they may ask to prove you where on holiday from work or proof of travel.
Do your research
This is the most important part before going into any new venture and its also the part that most people get wrong partly because of their desire to live the dream. Be hard on your plan scrutinize the competition how many the what why where and how. Also look at the possibility of future competition and threat of reducing your market.
Allot of people do not really Analise there costs, when I mean costs I mean true costs down to the penny, here's an example.
Outgoings cost of car payment, car tax, insurance,fuel, wear and tear, cost of equipment and stock, fair wear and tear to equipment, necessary taxes. Add all this up on a yearly then monthly and drill down to a daily basis this will give you an idea of where you need to start from.
Best of luck
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There are a variety of methods used to start dreadlocks. The method and size selected mostly depends on the texture and length of the hair. Other variables that affect the lock starting technique include hair's thickness, fullness, and versatility desired. The methods discussed in the article give you insight into the most popular methods used and what works best on various hair lengths and textures. The methods discussed include: two-strand twist, three-strand twist, comb coil twist, palm rolling, latch stitching, and individual braids.
In the palm rolling method, the hair is sectioned and rolled between the palms. This is usually achieved on hair that is longer than 2 inches. For best results, you should not wash your hair until it has started to lock. As the hair grows, the new growth is twisted using a palm rolling or similar twisting method. Alternatively, the new growth can be groomed using the interlocking or latch hook method discussed below.
The comb coils is a method where the hair is sectioned and is twisted into coils using a (rat tail) comb or by hand. This is usually achieved on shorter hair. For best results, you should not wash your hair until it has started to dread. As the hair grows, the new growth is twisted using a palm rolling or similar twisting method. When hair starts to lock, it will begin to not look like comb coils and may start to get fuzzy or begin to poof. However, this is not a cause to create worry because it is all apart of the dreading process.
The last method we will discuss is back combing. Back combing is a common method on hair that is a straighter, less kinky texture. Back combing (also known as "teasing" or "ratting") means repeatedly combing the hair towards the scalp, causing the hair to tangle. For best results, the hair should be at least shoulder length. With this method, the hair cannot be washed until it starts to lock. Because of the straighter texture, it may take 4-6 months for the hair to start to lock. During this time, the hair should NOT get wet. Some type of product, like wax or honey, is usually added to the hair to help facilitate the locking of the hair.
No matter the method you choose to start your locks, understand the commitment you are taking by locking you hair. Happy Locking!


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We've seen an AT-AT act like a dog, now check out a dog masquerading as an AT-AT. This is Katie Mello's dog Bones, who's dressed up as the biomimetic death-bringer of Hoth. Is he aware of the terror he depicts? Yes. I can see it in his eyes.
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I had the pleasure of working with the folks at Blumberg Capital for the past year. Very down to earth people, not arragant. Willing to take risks, venture into unfamiliar territory and trust their guts when other VCs were hesitant. Blumberg Capital led our Series A and have worked very hard to help us build a great syndicate for this deal, help us build the business and help us network. They were willing to step in and roll up their sleeves when we needed more attention. They maintain a very select portfolio which allows them to really focus on each portfolio company, learn the business and add value. They are a real partner.PRIVATE: Members Only


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The knowledgeable and expertly trained surgeons and surgery teams at Lawrence General Hospital offer their services in the most modern surgical facility in our region. That means our patients in the Merrimack Valley and Southern New Hampshire and their surgeons have access to brand new, high tech surgical suites, providing the highest levels of patient care quality and safety available. You can be reassured to know that, if you or a loved one needs surgery, your surgeon can provide that care using brand new surgical facilities and technology, close at hand. Lawrence General offers a growing array of specialties, including but not limited to:
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