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Note: The official Thai spelling for this market is Or Tor Kor. This, unfortunately, leads most westerners to the wrong pronunciation. Aw Taw Kaw is closer to correct for pronouncing but less recognized; so I've used both interchangeably here.
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The one place where I sometimes order Pad Thai for myself is at a stand at Or Tor Kor (or Aw Taw Kaw) Market (Talaat Or Tor Kor, in Thai) in Bangkok, which also happens to be one of our favorite markets in Thailand. Although Or Tor Kor is considered "high end" and the prices are higher than at other markets, the selection of food and the presentation makes it worth the extra few baht. I still find it very reasonable by United States standards. Our collection of Thailand market photos contains many pictures of this Aw Taw Kaw Market.
Or Tor Kor market is very near to the well-known Chatuchak Weekend Market. You can get there via the MRT subway – get off at the Kamphaengpetch Road station. The first picture above shows the outside of the market from the street. If you go on a weekend, you can also enjoy Chatuchak, with it's estimated 8,000 vendors selling any and everything you can imagine. We usually go to Or Tor Kor on a weekday because it can get very crowded indeed on a weekend.
If you're going to Aw Taw Kaw, eat lightly beforehand. As you browse the aisles you'll see pre-cooked food such as grilled prawns, satay, sour sausage, shrimp cakes as well as numerous kanom (snacks) such as sticky rice and kanom krok (rice pancakes) and it will be hard to resist grazing. There are, however, numerous food stalls that cook food to order in the back of the market and many of them are worth a taste.
The stand with the delicious Pad Thai is back in the eating area towards the outside edge of the market. The third picture shows the stand with the stall number (11/40) visible in the background. I actually had taken and delivered pictures of the woman making the dish many times before I actually ordered the dish, though Kasma had been ordering it for her trip members for many years.
Most Pad Thai recipes call for egg, usually (as in Kasma's Pad Thai recipe) scrambled lightly. This woman's adds eggs in a different way – she uses them to make a covering for the noodles in the center, sort of a Pad Thai omelette, if you will. Kasma tells me that this presentation is relatively common in Thailand, particularly when Pad Thai is served in a restaurant. In fact, there are as many different Pad Thai recipes as there are cooks. (Kasma's article on The Spirit of Thai Cooking talks a bit about how Thai dishes can vary a great deal depending on the cook.) It's served (as you can see to the left) with a banana blossom, some scallions (underneath), fresh bean sprouts and a lime. The lime is squeezed over the noodles and the fresh ingredients are eaten along with it.
As you can see, once you open up noodles it looks very delicious indeed. It bears little resemblance to some of the Pad Thai noodles you find in the states – it is savory and tasty and completely without Ketchup!
For more information about the origins of Pad Thai, check out Kasma's Pad Thai Notes and Pointers.
One other dish that the same woman makes is an mussel omelette. It is also very tasty (see picture below).
We've since done a whole blog post on Or Tor Kor Market.
Note: When asking for directions or taking a cab to Or Tor Kor, be sure to refer to it as Dtalaht Aw Taw Kaw – the usual spelling is talaat, meaning market, but dtalaht is closer to the actual sound in Thai. (See our Note on Thai Spelling & Pronunciation.)
If you are taking a cab, make sure that the driver takes you to the correct market. There is also an Aw Taw Kaw Market (Dtalaat Aw Taw Kaw) on Sukhumvit Soi 105 (Soi Lasalle, pronounced Soi "La-sahn") – it is not as interesting a market.
Written by Michael Babcock, April 2009.
Tags: Aw Taw Kaw, Bangkok, market, noodles, or tor kor, pad Thai, street food


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Repeating that this is the SIXTEENTH(!) Mountain Goats album isn't necessarily going to convince swing voters – 'oh well, if they've made 16, I suppose it's time to give them a try…' but what gave me pause for thought is that it's been ten years since John Darnielle graduated to the indie premiere league, with Tallahassee (2002), on 4AD. A few people who were at their peak then, documenting extremes of the human condition in symbolic language, are on indefinite hiatus now, including David Berman, Jason Molina, and David Foster Wallace (rapidly becoming the Kurt Cobain of postmodernism). Transcendental Youth therefore begs the question: what does it take to go on?
In the mid-to-late-Nineties, when lo-fi was loosely defined by Smog, Silver Jews, Sebadoh, and GbV, The Mountain Goats cropped up as the band who '…if you really like that sound, try this…' 'This' being: a guy yelping at his boombox as he battered an acoustic guitar, more percussively than anything else. With a history of substance abuse replaced by a compulsion to churn out cassettes for whoever would release them, Darnielle was poised somewhere between Jandek and Daniel Johnson in the obscurist's imagination. Even now, most of his songs are 'survivor's songs' – if not all – in that the surreal humour of some is self-defence, while others confront what happened straight on. Somewhere in between are snapshots of a criminal underworld: the fantasies that keep people stuck in their addiction, pretending it's all glamorous, two minutes at a time.
If Transcendental Youth is the best thing Darnielle's ever done, it's only because it's about five per cent tighter and better-played. All of the Mountain Goats standards we know and love are present and correct, whether it's the upbeat number for acoustic guitar, the upbeat number with barrelhouse piano, the downbeat with mournful horns, the downbeat with wildcard instrumentation. 'Amy AKA Spent Gladiator' is a shout of affirmation that seems all the more caring for avoiding an 'Everybody Hurts' sentiment; it's cutely personalized, like a child's hand-drawn birthday card. (If you're a newcomer, by the way, the idea of a gladiator called Amy is typical: the sweet side of surrealism, rather than the ironic side that seems more concerned with being funny than showing its feelings, viz Pavement or GbV.)
'Lakeside View…' shouts out to a different set of people: it's a tightly focused study of the moments before a dealer arrives; the narrator in his army surplus jacket, covering scrawny arms. When the verse subtly shifts to chorus – "lakeside view / for my whole crew" – it's desperate to claw some kind of gang mentality and heroism out of the grim reality of being users in a squat. The 'my' may be affectionate, but the 'crew' are anonymous, possibly no longer with us. 'Harlem Roulette' continues in this vein: yes, it clatters along jauntily, but the key lyric is: "the loneliest people in the whole wide world / are the ones you're never going to see again." In the last few years, several bands have referenced David Foster Wallace, but Darnielle's the only one writing Infinite Jest: the Musical.
As ever, Darnielle sings with the urgency of a busker who has to be heard to be paid, but his songs are worth a hundred stadium-anthems because they never lose sight of who they're for. Recently, Spin magazine named Darnielle 'Indie Rock's Greatest Lyricist', and while the accolade is quite probably accurate, there's an obvious bait-and-switch going on: these rudimentary songs with their tried-and-trusted hooks remain vehicles for the lyrics. That's not to say he hasn't developed as a musician – like Bill Callahan, the Smog of lo-fi has lifted after years of touring, and elaborate horn arrangements appear on the first single and title track – but Darnielle has figured out what allows him to keep writing, without pursuing the chimera of Relentless Innovation. In more ways than one, that's what matters, and what allows you to hear and feel fully what makes this vital, 16 albums in.
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In case you missed it, Apple announced a project called "OpenCL" a couple weeks ago.
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West Ham have failed with a challenge to the Football Association's decision to uphold Andy Carroll's three-match suspension, Press Association Sport understands.
An independent arbitral tribunal on Friday rejected West Ham's case, and Carroll's ban takes immediate effect.
West Ham are unhappy that the England striker's ban - a consequence of being sent off against Swansea last week after an altercation with defender Chico Flores - was not overturned by the FA, and took the case to tribunal in the pursuit of what manager Sam Allardyce claimed was "justice".
However, it is understood that the independent panel, at which the FA was also represented, turned down West Ham's submissions, and so Carroll will now serve his ban, starting at Aston Villa on Saturday.
Despite such an unsettled lead-up to the fixture, Allardyce expects a professional display at Villa Park as West Ham look to build on their draw at Chelsea and victory over Swansea to pull themselves out of the relegation zone.
"I hope the players are angry, as angry as I am, and I hope they take that anger out in a positive manner against Aston Villa to go and prove we can still win a game of football without Andy," he said.
"We are coming out of a very difficult period and are now proving that when everybody's fit and available, our results will turn.
"This is our best spell, a four-game run with seven points and we would like to continue from there.
"However, we must remember we have to maintain a level of performance which we have shown recently and try to better it, because that is the way forwards to try to get ourselves further up the league.
"We have all seen the benefit of a quick run of results with the way the table is laid out, so in the next few days, on Saturday and then Tuesday night (at home to Norwich), we could have ourselves in and around 11th or 10th position, if we do the job right and that will relieve an awful lot of pressure on ourselves."


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fiber ∞-bundle, principal ∞-bundle, associated ∞-bundle,
group cohomology, nonabelian group cohomology, Lie group cohomology
cohomology with constant coefficients / with a local system of coefficients
differential cohomology
The notion of cohomology finds its natural general formulation in terms of hom-spaces in an (∞,1)-topos, as described at cohomology. Much of the cohomologies which have been traditionally considered, such as sheaf cohomology turn out to be just a special case of the general situation, for objects which are sufficiently abelian in the sense of stable (∞,1)-categories.
Therefore to amplify that one is looking at general cohomology without restricting to abelian cohomology one sometimes speaks of nonabelian cohomology.
It was originally apparently John Roberts who understood (remarkably: while thinking about quantum field theory in the guise of AQFT) that general cohomology is about coloring simplices in -categories.
This is recounted for instance by Ross Street in
Parallel to this development of the notion of descent and codescent there was the development of homotopical cohomology theory as described in
The two approaches are different, but closely related. Their relation is via the notion of codescent.
There is a chain of inclusions
along which one can generalize the coefficient objects of ordinary cohomology. (See strict omega-groupoid, strict omega-category). Since doing so in particular generalizes abelian groups to nonabelian groups (but goes much further!) this is generally addressed as leading to nonabelian cohomology.
Depending on the models chosen, there are different concrete realizations of nonabelian cohomology.
For instance nonabelian Cech cohomology played a special role in the motivation of the notion of gerbes (see in particular gerbe (in nonabelian cohomology)), concretely thought of in terms of pseudofunctors at least in the context of nonabelian group cohomology, while more abstract (and less explicit) homotopy theory methods dominate the discussion of infinity-stacks.
Either way, one obtains a notion of cohomology on -categories with coefficients in -catgories. This is, most generally, the setup of "nonabelian cohomology".
This is conceptually best understood today in terms of higher topos theory, using (infinity,1)-categories of (infinity,1)-sheaves.
This perspective on nonabelian cohomology is discussed for instance in Toen 02
In an (∞,1)-topos every object has a Postnikov tower in an (∞,1)-category. This means that in some sense general nonabelian cohomology can be decomposed into nonabelian cohomology in degree 1 and abelian cohomology in higher degrees, twisted by this nonabelian cohomology. This has been called (Toën) the Whitehead principle of nonabelian cohomology.
Sometimes the term nonabelian cohomology is used in a more restrictive sense. Often people mean nonabelian group cohomology when they say nonabelian cohomology, hence restricting to the domains to groups, which are groupoids with a single object.
This kind of nonabelian cohomology is discussed for instance in
That and how ordinary group cohomology is reproduced from the homotopical cohomology theory of strict omega-groupoids is discussed in detail in chapter 12 of
For more see
For a topological space and an ∞-groupoid, the standard way to define the nonabelian cohomology of with coefficients in is to define it as the intrinsic cohomology as seen in ∞Grpd Top:
where is the geometric realization of and the fundamental ∞-groupoid of .
But both and here naturally can be regarded, in several ways, as objects of (∞,1)-sheaf (∞,1)-toposes over nontrivial (∞,1)-sites . The intrinsic cohomology of such is a nonabelian sheaf cohomology. The following discusses two such choices for such that the corresponding nonabelian sheaf cohomology coincides with (for paracompact ).
For a topological space and its category of open subsets equipped with the canonical structure of an (∞,1)-site, let
be the (∞,1)-category of (∞,1)-sheaves on . The space itself is naturally identified with the terminal object . This is the petit topos incarnation of .
be the global sections terminal geometric morphism.
Under the constant (∞,1)-sheaf functor an an ∞-groupoid is regarded as an object .
There is therefore the intrinsic cohomology of the -topos with coefficients in the constant (∞,1)-sheaf on
This is cohomology with constant coefficients.
Notice that since is in fact the terminal object of and that is in fact that global sections functor, this is equivalently
If is a paracompact space, then these two definitins of nonabelian cohomology of with constant coefficients agree:
This is HTT, theorem 18.104.22.168. See also (∞,1)-category of (∞,1)-sheaves for more.
Another alternative is to regard the space as an object in the cohesive (∞,1)-topos ETop∞Grpd.
with the further left adjoint to being the intrinsic fundamental ∞-groupoid in a locally ∞-connected (∞,1)-topos functor. The intrinsic nonabelian cohomology in there also coincides with nonabelian cohomology in Top; even the full cocycle ∞-groupoids are equivalent:
For paracompact we have an equivalence of cocycle ∞-groupoids
and hence in particular an isomorphism on cohomology
See ETop∞Grpd.
For a cocycle in nonabelian cohomology, we say the homotopy fibers of is the object classified by .
For examples and discussion of this see
A readable survey on nonabelian cohomology is
A useful motivation is
Early original references include
Paul Dedecker, Cohomologie de dimension 2 à coefficients non abéliens, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 247 (1958), 1160–1163;
(with coefficients in certain 2-group)
John Duskin, Non-abelian cohomology in a topos, reprinted as: Reprints in Theory and Applications of Categories, No. 23 (2013) pp. 1-165 (TAC)
Paul Dedecker, A. Frei, Les relations d'équivalence des morphismes de la suite exacte de cohomologie non abêlienne, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 262(1966), 1298-1301
Paul Dedecker, Three dimensional non-abelian cohomology for groups, Category theory, homology theory and their applications, II (Battelle Institute Conf.) 1969 (MathSciNet)
(with coefficients in certain 3-groups presented by crossed squares)
The standard classical monograph focusing on low-dimensional cases is
J. Giraud, Cohomologie non abélienne , Springer (1971)
(aspects of classification of -gerbes by cohomology with coefficients in the automorphism 2-group , but imposes extra constraints)
The correct definition using crossed modules of sheaves then appeared in
Raymond Debremaeker, Cohomologie met waarden in een gekruiste groepenschoof op een situs, PhD thesis, 1976 (Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven). English translation: Cohomology with values in a sheaf of crossed groups over a site, arXiv:1702.02128
Larry Breen, Bitorseurs et cohomologie non-Abélienne , The Grothendieck Festschrift: a collection of articles written in honour of the 60th birthday of Alexander Grothendieck, Vol. I, edited P.Cartier, et al., Birkhäuser, Boston, Basel, Berlin, 401-476, (1990)
Ieke Moerdijk, Lie Groupoids, Gerbes, and Non-Abelian Cohomology (journal)
Amnon Yekutieli, Combinatorial descent data for gerbes, Journal of Noncommutative Geometry Volume 8, Issue 4, 2014, pp. 1083–1099, arXiv:1109.1919 (webpage)
The classification of ∞-gerbes is secretly in
see the discussion at ∞-gerbe for more on this.
Carlos Simpson has studied nonabelian Hodge theory.
Carlos Simpson, The Hodge filtration on nonabelian cohomology (arXiv)
Carlos Simpson, Secondary Kodaira-Spencer classes and nonabelian Dolbeault cohomology (arXiv)
Carlos Simpson, Algebraic aspects of higher nonabelian Hodge theory (arXiv)
Carlos Simpson, Tony Pantev, Ludmil Katzarkov, Nonabelian mixed Hodge structures (arXiv)
Some links and references can be found at Alsani's descent and category theory page.
In as far as nonabelian cohomology is nothing but the study of hom-spaces between ∞-stacks, see also the references at ∞-stack.
The following thesis continues Street's treatment of nonabelian cohomology
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Mark Your Calendar for DePauwpalooza, September 20
September 13, 2013
The DePauw University School of Music is busily preparing for the return of DePauwpalooza, the annual coming-together of the School with the College of Liberal Arts at DePauw University. Begun in 2011, DePauwpalooza is an outdoor concert in a picnic setting with free pizza for the entire DePauw community. All students, faculty and staff are invited.
The 2013 event, which starts at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, September 20, will again take place on the lawn of Bowman Park, in front of the Green Center for the Performing Arts. This year the School is teaming up with DePauw Student Government and Greek Week Steering Committee as co-producers. The University orchestra, chorus, band, chamber singers and jazz ensemble will all perform.
"This is a great opportunity for the School of Music to come out of its house and to play on the lawn for the College of Liberal Arts," says Mark McCoy, dean of the School of Music. "Art and music should not be confined to concert halls and formal stages, and we are only too happy to get outdoors for this event."
"The DePauw University Chorus and Chamber Singers will preview choral numbers from the Adam Guettel concert later that night, along with What a Wonderful World and a couple of lighter pieces that we'll be singing on our October 6th concert," adds Gregory Ristow, director of choral activities at the School of Music. "DePauwpalooza is always great fun. We love singing our traditional concerts in the fine acoustics of Thompson and Kresge, of course, but it's a joy to have this chance to sing outdoors for the whole campus as they enjoy a picnic."
McCoy concurs, "This is a great opportunity for some free food, good music and frisbee or football, all while supporting DePauw."
The School of Music program will be preceded by the Greek Week Step Competition, which will take place at 5 p.m. on the stage in Bowman Park and WGRE will broadcast live from the park throughout the evening.
In the event of rain, a modified program and free pizza will be offered in the Great Hall of the Green Center.
Following DePauwpalooza, festivities continue inside with an 8 p.m. concert in Thompson Recital Hall by Tony Award-winning guest artist Adam Guettel, who will present a cabaret-style review of his work on Broadway. Tickets to the Guettel concert are free.Back


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ShopTrainer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 217 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
our communications- and e-commerce company is over 20 years old now - and so are its logo (we still like it, but it has become a bit dusty, you know) and the slightly old fashioned webdesign. see for yourself: http://www.adebahr.de
we want a positive, modern logo in a distinctive design, and friendly colours. we will use an excerpt of the logo's colours as the new website's colours.
existing and prospective customers
a modern logo in an eye catching design, with friendly colours for the site. no programming or webdesign is desired.
a stork as such is essential, as in german "master adebahr" is the old fairytale name for the stork, and the boss' nickname with customers is usually 'storky'. the stork may look totally different, though, but clearly has to be recognized as a stork and not some other flying species.
this is still a logo, however, not a picture of a natural animal. a logo needs some symbolic element in it, not the real thing. even though we like the stork as such, we are still a technical company.
anyway, go ahead and be creative: YOU are the designer ;-)
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Carl Frampton has warned Luke Jackson to expect a warm reception at Windsor Park at August 18.
The Australian challenges 'The Jackal' for the WBO Interim Featherweight World title at the Belfast venue and Jackson has upped the ante by starting a war of words on social media before the two meet.
Statements like 'looks overweight' and 'sluggish' have been used by Jackson but Frampton just smiled when asked about the comments at an open press session in Manchester yesterday.
"There's no grudge," explained Frampton, "It feels like he has to talk up a fight to sell it and he doesn't. He's said a few things that have got under my skin but that's it. It's hardly a grudge match, they've been minor."
Jackson also slated Frampton for underestimating him but Frampton says the Australian is in for a surprise if he believes that.
"I think he wants to believe that but I don't know if he really does. Maybe he's telling himself that but I'm not taking him for granted. I saw Josh Warrington saying I was but what would he know?
"He hasn't been in my camp, so what does he know? I'm not taking Luke Jackson for granted in the slightest.
"I've done that before against Alejandro Gonzalez and I ended up on my backside twice in the first round. I've learned from that fight.
"I believe I'm a better fighter than Luke Jackson, I've fought at a higher level.
"I believe I'm better than him but I've trained hard for the fight, I'm sparring well in the gym – we've got good sparring in – and I've been pushing myself to the limit.
"He needs to get it out of his head that I'm overlooking him. It's because it's at Windsor and the fights that come after it as well.
"I want to be world champion again. If I lose this fight my career is over, that's the truth, but I'm not intending to lose it.
"I want the big fights and I want bigger names than Luke Jackson – Leo Santa Cruz, Oscar Valdez, Josh Warrington.
"These are the guys that I want. These are the guys that I'm talking about but I need to get past Jackson first and I intend to do that."


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In all of my interviews, I only saw one standardized test and that was at International House. There were a few short-answer classroom management questions and then I was asked to prepare a written lesson plan for a particular grammar point which was given to me. The other job interviews were basically the same but just done orally during the interview.
Honestly, I don't think such a test exists because there isn't just one correct way to do things in a classroom. Yes, there are many mistakes that should be avoided but different people will have different solutions to the problems they face and different people are suited to different classroom styles.
Are you looking to become a teacher and you want to prepare for your interviews or are you looking to hire some teachers and you want to know the latest techniques to look for?


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Waiting for surgery with my nasal feeding tubeThursday, March 6th, 2014
Now that I have prepared for surgery the next step is now waiting for surgery. It is a daily wait and see now, usually starting with waiting for the team of Doctors to visit and tell me any updates about my condition, my well being and of course any information about when surgery may be happening.
So far a date for surgery has not yet been given, in my 15th day here which is also my 19th day straight in hospital it is becoming a longer wait than what we had hoped. Having said that there has been a few complications.


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The core problem of California's budget system is that there are too many rules.
Too many spending mandates. Too many tax limitations. Too many rules that have a ratchet-like effect -- ratcheting down revenues and ratcheting up spending.
Too many rules make a very spoiled budget broth indeed.
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The much-touted "realignment' reform efforts were supposed to be the first step in an attack on that system.
All the ratcheting had centralized power and fiscal authority in Sacramento.
Through realignment, local governments would again get responsibility over important government and budget functions. This realignment started this year with corrections and some other government functions.
Where has this reform left us? In a very dangerous place. Local governments got authority over more prisoners -- and many aren't happy. They are so unhappy that several local government groups have filed an initiative that... wait for it... imposes yet another budget rule on California.
This rule guarantees certain moneys for local governments to support new responsibilities they have under realignment. That may make some sense, until you read the fine print.
The new initiative actually blocks more realignment unless it comes with funding -- so locals don't want responsibility without money.
It imposes a new supermajority on California's supermajority-crazy budget system -- a fourth-fifth vote of the legislature would be required to reduce funding for corrections.
So a push to decentralize state government and realign services could end with an initiative that further centralizes fiscal power and puts another crippling supermajority in the budget process.
This is another example of why the piecemeal reform -- the style of reform favored by Calfornia elites of every partisan and ideological background -- won't work. When you tinker with a system as big and unruly as California's, it's very easy to make things worse.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah says Syrian rebels will not be able to defeat President Bashar Assad's regime, strongly suggesting his Iranian-backed militant group could intervene on the government's side if the need arises.
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says Damascus "has real friends in the region and the world who will not allow Syria to fall into the hands of America or Israel."
Hezbollah and Iran are close allies of Assad.
Nasrallah said Tuesday that now there are now no Iranian forces in Syria but added: "What do you imagine would happen in the future if things deteriorate in a way that requires the intervention of the forces of resistance in this battle?"
Syria's opposition accuses Hezbollah of fighting alongside Syrian government troops trying to crush the 2-year-old Syrian uprising.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
A powerful bomb ripped through a bustling commercial district of Damascus on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people, shattering store fronts and bringing Syria's civil war to the heart of the capital for the second consecutive day.
A day earlier, the Syrian prime minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt after a car bomb struck near his convoy, a few kilometers (miles) from Tuesday's blast. The bombings appear to be part of an accelerated campaign by opposition forces to hit President Bashar Assad's regime in the heavily defended capital.
In Washington, President Barack Obama, who has said the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime would mark an unacceptable escalation of the country's civil war, said the United States must be more certain of all the facts before he decides on how the country will intervene in the conflict.
The White House said last week intelligence indicates the Syrian military has likely used a deadly nerve agent on at least two occasions in the civil war. Damascus denies the allegations, and says Syrian rebels are trying to frame it.
Tuesday's bombing struck the Marjeh neighborhood, a bustling commercial area near the Old City of Damascus, Syrian TV said. It described the explosion as a "terrorist bombing," using the term Assad's regime uses to refer to opposition fighters.
The state news agency said 14 people were killed and 103 wounded in the attack.
"I heard a very loud bang and then the ceiling collapsed on top of me," said Zaher Nafeq, who owns a mobile phone shop in the Damascus Towers, a 23-floor office building. He was wounded in his hand and his mobile phone shop was badly damaged in the blast.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, but car bombs and suicide attacks targeting Damascus and other cities that remain under government control in the third year of the conflict have been claimed in the past by the al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra group - one of scores of rebel factions fighting to oust Assad.
The target of Tuesday's attack was not immediately clear, although the explosion took place outside the former Interior Ministry building that was also damaged in the blast.
Ambulances rushed to the scene and Syrian state TV aired footage firefighters trying to extinguish a blaze that engulfed several cars and buildings. A man was seen lying on the ground in a pool of blood while another, apparently wounded, was seen being carried by civilians into a bus.
Inspecting the site of the blast, Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar, who himself escaped a car bomb that targeted his convoy in December, told reporters the back-to-back attacks in the capital were in response to the "victories and achievements scored by the Syrian Arab Army on the ground against terrorism."
In recent weeks, government troops have overrun two rebel-held Damascus suburbs and a town outside the capital. They also have captured several villages near the border with Lebanon as part of their efforts to secure the strategic corridor running from Damascus to the Mediterranean coast, which is the heartland of the president's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Tuesday's explosion underlined the tenuous security in the Syrian capital, just a day after a remotely detonated roadside bomb struck Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi's convoy. The premier escaped the assassination attempt unharmed, according to state TV.
Also Tuesday, Syrian troops battled opposition fighters near a military helicopter base in the northern province of Aleppo, killing 15 rebels in a single airstrike against their positions, according to Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman.
The rebels tried to storm the Mannagh base late Monday but the regime deployed fighter jets to the area, pounding rebel positions around the base, which is near Syria's border with Turkey, Abdul-Rahman said.
In the northwestern province of Idlib, a government airstrike near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey killed one child and wounded several more people, the Observatory said.
An Associated Press journalist near Reyhanli on the Turkish side of the frontier described a huge plume of black smoke and reported seeing wounded people being rushed by ambulance from the Syrian side to the Turkish control point.
Thousands of Syrian refugees live in a makeshift camp known as the Bab al-Hawa refugee camp near the border with Turkey.
The state news agency said 14 people were killed and 103 wounded in the attack.
Syria's conflict began with largely peaceful anti-government protests in March 2011, but has since morphed into a civil war that has killed more than 70,000 people, according to the United Nations. Air power has proven to be Assad's greatest advantage in the civil war, and he has exploited it to check rebel advances and prevent the opposition from setting up a rival government in the territory it has seized in the north.
As the regime has pushed back against opposition fighters, it has come under allegations of using chemical weapons on at least two occasions dating back to December.
Obama, who has said that use of chemical weapons or the transfer of those stockpiles to terrorists would cross a "red line" and have "enormous consequences," has sought to temper expectations of quick American action since the White House announced the intelligence assessment last week.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, he reiterated that he needed more certainty before acting, but added that if it is determined that the Assad regime used chemical weapons "we would have to rethink the range of options that are available to us."
In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said that use of chemical weapons in Syria would also be a "red line" for Iran, but suggested rebel forces should be investigated rather than the Islamic Republic's allies in Damascus.
In the latest alleged attack, activists in the town of Saraqeb in northern Idlib province claimed the government bombed the town late Monday with chemical agents. It said the attack caused respiratory problems and other symptoms among a few residents which they claimed were consistent with a chemical attack.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was unable to confirm the purported use of chemical agents.
The Syrian state news agency offered a different narrative, saying "terrorists" brought bags of an unknown white power to Saraqeb and opened them, causing respiratory problems among those exposed to the powder. It said the terrorists then transported the injured to Turkish hospitals to "accuse the Syrian armed troops of using chemical weapons."
Border authorities in Turkey decontaminated a group of Syrians wounded in the Saraqeb attack as they entered the country and hospital staff treating them wore protective equipment, according to an aide to the governor of Turkey's Hatay province, which borders Syria.
The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity citing government rules that bar civil servants from speaking to journalists, told AP on Tuesday there was no indication that chemical weapons were used in Saraqeb attack.
Associated Press journalists Barbara Surk and Bassem Mroue in Beirut, Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, and Derl McCrudden in Reyhanli, Turkey contributed to this report.


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Chicago Receives Two U.S. EPA Grants to Improve Lake Michigan Water Quality
Release Date: 04/26/2014
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CHICAGO - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of two Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling $1 million to fund green infrastructure projects in Chicago. The projects will improve water quality in Lake Michigan. EPA Region 5 Administrator / Great Lakes National Program Manager Susan Hedman was joined today by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Sen. Dick Durbin, U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley and U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky to announce the grants.
"The city of Chicago will use these EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities grants for green infrastructure projects to prevent stormwater from carrying contamination into Lake Michigan," Hedman said. "Green infrastructure also helps to prevent flooding, which is occurring more often as a result of the increasingly frequent extreme precipitation events that have hit the Midwest in recent years – a pattern that may intensify as the result of climate change."
"We are pleased to receive funding from the EPA under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative for green infrastructure improvements that directly benefit residents, businesses and the environment," Emanuel said. "These two grants will help us to enhance Chicago's overall Green Stormwater Infrastructure Strategy, which we launched last year to improve our water and sewer infrastructure, reduce flooding and enhance our city's overall sustainability."
"Lake Michigan is one of Chicago's greatest assets, but it faces many challenges – from contaminated sediment to industrial pollutants to invasive species," Durbin said. "The Environmental Protection Agency has invested more than $70 million to ensure the lake stays beautiful and clean for years to come, and today's announcement is the latest example of the federal government's commitment to the lake. These grants will help stop almost 5 million gallons of untreated stormwater from running into the Chicago River and Lake Michigan, great news for the millions of Chicagoans who rely on the lake for drinking water or fishing. I'm proud to be a part of the efforts to preserve and restore Chicago's shoreline."
The city will use one Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant ($812,000) to install bioswales and permeable pavement in a parking area at Montrose Beach. This project will filter over 4 million gallons of stormwater each year, greatly reducing the amount of contamination that would otherwise end up in Lake Michigan. The city will use the other Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant ($188,000) to install green infrastructure along Leland Avenue, a street that runs through Chicago's Uptown neighborhood toward the lakefront. This project will prevent almost 900,000 gallons of untreated stormwater from entering the City's combined sewer system each year and will help prevent basement flooding in nearby homes.
"These innovative green infrastructure projects at Montrose Beach and along Leland Avenue will greatly reduce the amount of contamination that would otherwise end up in Lake Michigan," Schakowsky said.
"Sustainable infrastructure solutions are key to our long-term environmental health," Quigley said. "The projects supported by the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities grants will help reduce the risk of flooding and improve the ability to treat stormwater and urban runoff at its source, ensuring millions of Chicagoans and the broader Great Lakes community can continue to rely on the Great Lakes as a vital source of fresh water."
Chicago is among 16 cities to receive funding in the initial round of EPA's new GLRI Shoreline Cities grant program. These grants can be used to fund up to 50 percent of the cost of green infrastructure projects on public property. Green infrastructure uses vegetation, soil and natural processes to hold and filter stormwater and melting snow. This prevents flooding and keeps contamination from reaching surface water and groundwater resources. The first round of Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities projects includes rain gardens, bioswales, green roofs, porous pavement, greenways, constructed wetlands, stormwater tree trenches and other measures to improve water quality in the Great Lakes basin.
For more information about the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative or Shoreline Cities Green Infrastructure grants, visit www.epa.gov/grtlakes/fund/shoreline/index.html.
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Alternate Titles: La Storia Della Arcana Famiglia , アルカナ・ファミリア -La storia della Arcana Famiglia-
The story takes place on the small island of Regalo in the Mediterranean Sea. The island has been protected by a vigilante committee called "Arcana Famiglia". The members of the family have psychic powers gained by a secret ritual. Felicita is a 16-year-old girl who was raised by her strict mother. She visits Regalo to see her father who is the head of Arcana Famiglia. He tells her to become the leader of "Serie of Sword", the arbitrator section of the family. As one of the members of Arcana Famiglia, Felicita interacts with other handsome but eccentric members.


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Albion Engineering
At Albion, we engineer篮球论坛 Dispensing Solutions.
Acquired in 1929 by F. Karl Schneider, Albion is a third generation company with substantial USA quality control and manufacturing capabilities. Albion is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of dispensing technologies.
Albion supports multiple industries with innovative, high quality hand tools and accessories for the most demanding applications.
篮球论坛Challenge us! We want to be your source for dispensing solutions. We have spent a lifetime solving dispensing needs.
- FAQs - Get answers to your dispensing questions
- Videos
- Product Bulletins
- Catalogs and Manuals
- Schematics
- Technical Information
- Distributor Information
- How Dispensing Tools Work
The Albion Engineering Company is a full-service manufacturing company. Small enough to respond quickly but with all the resources to provide complete solutions.
篮球论坛Recognized as a leader in the field of dispensing guns for the application of sealants and adhesives, the company also has experience building mechanical devices for the food, chemical, pharmaceutical, and the craft / hobby industries.
篮球论坛Types of Services:
- Product Design
- Manufacturing
- WorldWide Distribution
Engineering History
篮球论坛Albion was founded in 1929 by F. Karl Schneider. In 1935, he patented the first smooth rod drive caulking gun. For three generations Albion has been in the forefront of engineering, innovation, and design excellence.
Patent No. 1986166Engineering TIDBIT
Swiveling Barrel
For applying material in difficult situations, Albion has engineered a special feature that allows the user to adjust the barrel and nozzle 360 degrees. By unloosening the adjustable lock ring, the user can modify the swivel resistance.


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Krug Baümen was established in 1997 and has been producing high quality Timepieces for over 15 years. Originally created to over bespoke watch designs that were not available in the general market, Krug Baümen has evolved to become a highly regarded brand in the market place. Starting with designs such as the Tuxedo and Regatta lines the brand has now evolved to over 250 different models including the Enterprise Diamond and Air Traveller Diamond which continue the tradition of stunning timepieces built to the highest quality. Split Time Chronograph with Tachymeter function and Slide Rule. 8 single cut diamonds & 3 eye chronograph display.The stainless steel case & bracelet have a highly polished finish for a perfectly stunning look. High quality, precise manufacturing process. Brand new in luxury Krug-Baumen presentation box. There is a slight possibility of cosmetic marks or blemishes; or missing box or paperwork; this in no way compromises the reliability or function of the timepiece. In most cases the item looks like brand new.
Any discernable features will be clearly stated on the listing. We can not guarantee the battery life or water resistancy on pre-owned watches. We will supply posting verification after seven days if item has not arrived on request. We dispatch every weekday, if item is paid for before 12 midday it will attempt to be dispatched that day.
Other Couriers - We use Hermes couriers for larger heavier items, please provide a contact number for this service to help incase of any problems. OVERSEAS- If offered for sale overseas, prices vary according to weight and value, which will be stated on the individual listings. If not, please ask for prices for your country. International signed-for or Airsure will be fully insured for loss or damage. Please check ahead of time on what this costs for your country so there are no surprises for you.
If you have a problem then please give us the chance to resolve the issue by emailing and we will try our best to resolve the situation to the buyers satisfaction. If you are happy with your item and the service provided please leave 5star DSR feedback as anything less than 5star (in Ebays eyes) is sub-standard and penalizes sellers for DSR ratings that average under 4.6. The item must be in the same condition as when received, unaltered & unmarked. It is the returnees responsibility to cover the value of the item until we receive it.
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I told you some things were worth re-posting.
These muffins are seriously incredible and I posted them so long ago that I thought I should share them again. Don't worry, I will post something new next week. If you have not made these yet, then you should! A good friend of mine has a local farm in Maryland, Farm at Home. We headed out there and ended up picking six pounds of blueberries. That is clearly more than Zack and I could eat before they went bad, so I went to town on the blueberries. We had these muffins, blueberry pie, and blueberry soup. That is of course in addition to the handfuls we were eating throughout the week.
Anyway..back to these muffins. They are my favorite muffins. I personally think they are better than anything you can find at a local bakery.
Bakery Style Blueberry Muffins
recipe from Baked Perfection
makes 12 muffins
2 eggs
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cups sour cream
1 1/2 cups blueberries, dusted in flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup butter, cubed
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
In a medium bowl mix together flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. In a large bowl beat together eggs, white sugar, and brown sugar. Mix in oil, vanilla, and sour cream. Mix dry ingredients into wet mixture (be sure not to over-mix, batter will be lumpy). Gently fold in blueberries. Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups so they are 2/3 of the way full.
To make the topping: mix together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Mix with fork, and sprinkle over muffins before baking.
Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes.
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What is a general contractor?
When starting a home remodel or new construction project, you will probably hire a general contractor. A general contractor is a professional who is qualified to take a set of building plans and construct them as outlined. The general contractor may help perform the day-to-day building, or they may just hire workers and oversee all the work activities. In either case, the job of the general contractor is to see that your project gets built.
When you have a building project, ask for bids from various contractors. The bids tell you how much each will charge and what their scope of work will be. Once you have selected a bid, you sign a contract with that general contractor outlining the specifics of the project and the milestones during the project when they will receive payment installments. Once the contract is official, the general contractor will bring in their crew to begin construction. The contractor will manage the workers and subcontractors (anyone who doesn't work directly for their company but that they need to outsource, like a marble installation pro), order all the materials, obtain work permits, and confirm that all the workers and subcontractors are completing their projects as planned. They typically handle all the payments to the workers and subcontractors, and send you invoice. For all these reasons, it's also especially important to follow a few smart hiring practices when it comes to finding a general contractor. If you are organized and competent to oversee construction projects, and are able to make sure everything is being built properly and meeting code, it's possible you can be your own general contractor.
How do you choose a commercial general contractor?
A commercial contractor provides similar services as a residential general contractor but specializes in working with large-scale projects for businesses, schools, nonprofits, governments and development firms. When researching commercial general contractors, review their portfolio of work and confirm they have ample experience working in the area you need. For example, if you are building a small strip mall, ask if the contractors have experience successfully incorporating all the needed elements such as a parking lot, meeting ADA requirements, accessing the proper permits, and completing work on time.
Once you've identified several qualified candidates, request bids for your project and then compare the scope of work with your needs and budget. Your commercial general contractor should oversee design, permitting, construction, materials purchase, and adherence to building code and zoning regulations, as well as sticking to an agreed-upon budget and schedule. It's important to establish clear communication with your future commercial general contractor, as this will mean a smoother process for everyone. For all these reasons, it's also especially important to follow a few smart hiring practices when it comes to finding a general contractor.
What do general contractors charge?
If you're doing a home remodel, building a new home or embarking on a commercial building project, you'll hire a general contractor. A general contractor is a professional who is qualified to oversee and execute construction projects. Each construction project is unique; even two duplicate homes built on lots next door to each other could have different construction costs due to factors like different excavation costs when building the foundation. Since each project is unique, many general contractors make bids on potential construction projects. These bids can then break down to a per square foot cost that encompasses the labor of all the workers needed for the job, materials, the scope of work, and any equipment needed. Materials and finishes make a major difference in your cost per square foot. For example, choosing standard kitchen tiles at $3 per square foot will result in a lower total project cost than imported marble tiles that cost $63 per square foot. Where you live will also affect how much general contractors charge, as labor and the cost to do business can cost less in many regions than in high-cost areas like New York or San Francisco. Here are some examples of average costs general contractors typically charge in various regions:
- Home addition in San Francisco: $250-$270 per square foot.
- New home construction in Knoxville, Tennessee: $100-$200 per square foot.
- Kitchen remodel in Tennessee: $40-$80 per square foot, depending on finishes.
- Bathroom remodel in Vancouver, Washington: $110-$170 per square foot.
Be sure to check out our smart hiring practices when it comes to finding a general contractor.


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LG V40 ThinQ
At Sprint Marketplace At Hamner, Norco, CA
At Sprint Marketplace At Hamner, Norco, CA
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Buy or upgrade today
Introducing the one-of-a-kind LG V40 ThinQ 5-camera smartphone. Capture more of life's moments, even the unexpected memories, as it happens with the 3 rear and 2 front facing cameras. Featuring our largest, most immersive mobile OLED display in an impressively light and sleek design, the LG V40 ThinQ is equipped with new AI functionality and room-filling audio experience. Now in one phone, you have all the tools to capture, create and artistically express yourself.
More ways to capture every story
Our revolutionary 5-camera LG V40 ThinQ™ gives you the power to capture moments big or small, at different angles and from multiple perspectives.
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Easily capture three photos – standard, telephoto zoom, and super wide-angle – with just one click.
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AI Cam recognizes what you're shooting and suggests the best filter, while AI Composition adjusts the position of your subject for artistically balanced photos.
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As the holidays approach, we're already getting a bunch of threads offering good deals and Black Friday sales. Before you post these, please refresh yourself with a few key points in the Terms of Service.
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[Dayan] Viciedo is a big guy at 5-11, 230. A right-handed hitter, he has outstanding raw power and has tapped into his physical strength more effectively over the last year. He crushes fastballs and has power to all fields, giving him a good chance to hit for a high average. He has made progress improving his reads on breaking pitches, but while his plate discipline is still a weakness, he's shown the willingness to make adjustments and learn from his mistakes. Given his age, his upside is huge. …
After launching 2 Home Runs and drawing a walk on Saturday, the Cuban Tank went 0-4 with a BB and a K yesterday and now he is hitting .323/.366/.535/.901 according to firstinning.com, .322/.365/.534/.898 according to minorleaguebaseball.com, with 20 BB and 62 K. That's a 5.7% BB% and a a 17.7 K%. Other numbers: .363 BABIP, 47% GB%, 17% LD%, 58 RC, 6.75 RC/27, .382 wOBA, 120 wOBA+, 145 OPS+.
And here's video of his second Home Run on Saturday (0:31).
UPDATE: And here's video of all 5 home runs Viciedo hit while he was with the White Sox last year:
#1: 7/5/10 (Viciedo's first career homer)
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Who was/is The Harptones ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
The Harptones
Life Is But A Dream
Considering their gorgeous harmonies and the majestic lead tenor Willie Winfield, The Harptones should have been a national force instead of East Coast favorites. But the New York group was on comparatively tiny Bruce Records when they waxed their first two classic ballads, A Sunday Kind Of Love (it's on the 1953 disc in this series) and My Memories Of You (included on our '54 volume).
Leo Rogers, Morty Craft, and Monte Bruce couldn't break the group despite their fine 1954-55 Bruce followups I Depended On You (fronted by tenor Nicky Clark), Why Should I Love You?, Since I Fell For You (a remake of Buddy Johnson's 1946 classic), and a revival of Ivory Joe Hunter's '50 R&B chart-topper I Almost Lost My Mind, the rest led by Winfield. When Bruce folded in May of '55, Leo took The Harptones to Hy Weiss, who launched his Paradise subsidiary with their stunning Life Is But A Dream. Written by Harptones pianist/arranger Raoul Cita and featuring Willie's magic carpet lead tenor, it was issued on Paradise that June with the jumping You Know You're Doing Me Wrong, led by new baritone Jimmy Beckum (a former member of The Majors), on the B-side (it was another Cita composition). As was too often the case with The Harptones, a lack of nationwide distribution meant the record wouldn't make the national charts.
On one splendid release after another on Paradise, Andrea, Rama, and Tip Top, Winfield's pipes never lost their sparkle, The Harptones' harmonies growing even more lush compared to their initial Bruce output. "I think that that was really primitive compared to things like 'That's The Way It Goes' that we did later, and 'The Shrine Of St. Cecelia,'" says Winfield. "It was a little bit more progressive."
Their '56 treatment of The Masquerade Is Over on Rama was thrilling. "Mr. Cita, he arranged it so we could get a different sound towards like having less members in the group," says Willie. "At that time, we had six, so we went down to like four-part harmony behind that. He wrote a beautiful arrangement on it." The Harptones also lip-synched three up-tempo numbers in the 1956 film 'Rockin' The Blues.'
Winfield and The Harptones kept making records for Gee, Warwick, Coed, Companion (where their What Will I Tell My Heart inched onto the pop charts at #96 in '61), Cub, and other labels into 1964, when Willie left. "The Beatles came in and chased everything out!" he says. Amazingly, Winfield, Cita, and longtime tenor William 'Dempsey' James were still performing at last sighting as The Harptones
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The Colonelette
On September 22, 1949, Shirley Cupp, Irma Beisel, Frances Stuckey and Mr. Hilary Bufton Jr. met in a coffee shop in downtown Kansas City to incorporate the American Business Women's Association. The Bowling Green, Kentucky chapter was chartered on August 4, 1960 and was installed on June 3, 1964. Initially they were known as the Kentucky Colonels Chapter, but this was later changed to the Cardinals of Kentucky Chapter. Their newsletter, "The Colonelette," was started in June 1964 and changed its name in 1986 to "The Charter." In 1994 they changed the title again to "ABWA." The local chapter disbanded in the early 2000s. This is the most complete set of the Bowling Green chapter's newsletters.
Cultural History | Social History | United States History | Women's History
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Department of Library Special Collections, "The Colonelette (July 1975)" (1975). The Colonelette. Paper 117.
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AUD444: Auditing Security and Controls of Active Directory and Windows
Thu, December 12 - Sat, December 14, 2013
Auditors need to be able to understand how Active Directory operates and the key business risks that are present. This course was written to teach auditors how to identify and assess those business risks. Active Directory and Windows systems are typically well known and utilized within organizational infrastructures. However, they can be difficult to audit since there are a large number of settings on the end system. This course provides the tools and techniques to effectively conduct an Active Directory and Windows audit, and while doing so identify key business process controls that may be missing. Students have the opportunity to look at the business process controls and then how those can be verified by looking at Active Directory and the Windows systems that exist. Plus, students are taught how to add additional value to their audits by being able to identify the technology risks that may have been overlooked. The hands-on exercises reinforce the topics discussed in order to give students the opportunity to conduct an audit on their own Windows systems, as well as understand the different security options that Windows provides.
Course Syllabus
AUD444.1: Day 1
Tanya Baccam
Thu Dec 12th, 2013
In order to properly audit Active Directory, auditors have to have an understanding of the Active Directory architecture and the role AD plays for an organization. These foundations are more are covered in provide a solid foundation to build rom throughout the course.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Windows Foundational Concepts
- Workgroups versus Domains
- Common protocols
- Querying registry data
Active Directory Concepts
- Conducting an inventory of systems
- Active Directory Design and Topology
- Scoping considerations for an Active Directory and Windows Audit
- Active Directory Responsibilities
- Auditing the authentication process
- Trusts
- Domain Controllers Audit Steps
- Active Directory Audit Steps
- Group Policy
- GPO application
- Organizational Units
- Global Catalog Best Practices Audit Steps
- Schema Master Audit Steps
- Operation Master Audit Steps
- Domains and Forests
- Delegation of Authority
- Tools designed to query data from AD such as csvde, dsquery and more
Physical, Environment and Availability Controls
- Facility controls
- Data center controls
- Physical Security Audit Steps for DCs
- Fault Tolerance Audit Steps
- Cabling Physical Security Controls
- Backup controls
AUD444.2: Day 2
Tanya Baccam
Fri Dec 13th, 2013
During this day we will add to the foundational concepts we covered in the first day and get in to a number of the technical details for auditing including access controls, change and patch management, encryption and vulnerability management. We also discuss key services such as DNS, IIS, SQL Server and RDS.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Network controls
- Ports, Services and Protocol Stacks
- IPv6 considerations
- Network Segmentation Audit Steps
- IDS and IPS considerations
- Network Access Protection
- Wireless best practices for Windows
Application controls
- Controlling Software
- Software Restriction Policies
- AppLocker or Application Control Policies
- Auditor Service Tips
- DNS Audit Steps for AD
- IE Security considerations
- Remote Desktop Services
Change Control, Patching & Vulnerabilities
- Managing and Auditing for IT vulnerabilities
- Configuration Controls
- Change Management
- Patch Management
- Vulnerability Management Audit Steps
- Signs of Poor Vulnerability Management Processes
- Nmap Scripting Engine
- Microsoft Support Lifecycle
Access Controls
- Job Roles and Responsibilities
- SOD Considerations
- User Management Controls
- Required Policies/Processes for Users and Groups
- Account Recommendations for Administrators
- Permissions
- Ownership
- Mandatory Integrity Control
- User Account Control
- High Risk Groups and Users
- User, accounts and group management
- Anti-virus and Malware Controls
- Password Controls
- Using tools to extract audit data for users and groups
- Password Cracking and Audits
- Authentication Alternatives
- Kerberos and NTLM
- Governance Controls
AUD444.3: Day 3
Tanya Baccam
Sat Dec 14th, 2013
The final day of the course covers the last steps to include in an Active Directory and Windows effective audit program. Topics such as enabling successful auditing on the system, reviewing privileges, availability considerations, application control and service auditing are discussed.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Access Controls
- Encryption Controls
- Cryptography
- Encrypting File System (EFS)
- BitLocker
- Hard Drive Encryption
- Syskey
- IPSec Best Practices
- Shares
- Identifying Changes
- File Integrity Controls
- Security Options and which ones are important to auditors
- Security Option Audit Recommendations
- Categorizing Privileges according to risk
- High Risk Right Recommendations
- Audit Recommendations for Remaining Rights
Logging and Monitoring
- Logging on the end system
- Windows Logs
- Centralized Logging
- Signs of an Intrusion
- Key Audit Event IDs
- Logging for Availability Considerations
- Recommended Logging Controls
- Logging for Domain Controllers
- Continuous Auditing
System Configuration, Continuous Auditing & Tools
- System configuration audit checklist items
- Using wmic for audit purposes
- Security Configuration and Analysis
- Using templates for auditing
- Administrative Templates GPOs
Additional Information
Laptop Required
Students need to bring a laptop computer with an Ethernet network card and a CD-ROM drive. Students should use Windows 7 professional, and need to have Administrative access, including the capability to disable security features such as anti-virus software.
If you have additional questions about the laptop specifications, please contact email@example.com.
Who Should Attend
- Internal Auditors
- IT Specialist Auditors
- IT Auditors
- IT Audit Managers
- Information System Auditors
- Information Technology Auditors
- Information Security Officers
Other Courses People Have Taken
Other Courses People Have Taken
Any of the other audit courses.
What You Will Receive
The course CD includes audit scripts and tools that will assist in conducting an Active Directory and Windows audit.
Author Statement
As an auditor, Active Directory is one of the key systems that I audit regularly. Many other organizational systems rely on Active Directory and the security settings and controls it enforces to properly mitigate the risks to those systems. Therefore, auditors need an indepth understanding of Active Directory and the controls it provides. During this course, we give the student the knowledge and tools to audit Active Directory and Windows, and be able to identify key business and process risks. Plus, we also provide the student will information to add additional value to organizations by being able to understand and make recommendations as it relates to these risks.. -Tanya Baccam


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1-D Radiation Code - This code is a stand-alone version that calculates instantaneous profiles of the solar and infrared fluxes given a set of basic input parameters.
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The Ames Mars General Circulation Model has been involved in interpreting data from many Mars missions since the dawn of the spacecraft era. View a complete list of all spacecraft missions to Mars.
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Whats On Urban necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 105 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
Whats On Urban
We are launching whats on urban .com a promotional events directory to compliment our nightclub promotions business. We are looking to be the UK's premier nightclub and event promotion company and website.
As well as listing events we are looking to attract advertising and sponsorship from nightclubs and related businesses. We will be launching the new site at the end of May and will be holding a launch party in a top hotel with invited guests from the nightclub and entertainment industry.
We have 2 audiences - night clubbers typically in the 18 - 30 age group who will use the site to find new nightclubs - look at the events calendar - buy tickets -
Advertisers, promoters, DJ's and sponsors who will advertise and promote their clubs, events and services on the site or use us to completely manage their promotional activity offline, typically we place a promoter in a club to completely manage the clubs promotions and advertising.
The current website http://www.whatsonurban.com is due to be completely re designed and although we currently have a logo on the site, we do not like it.
The logo does not need to include the .com or the www although we may ask the winning designer to provide the final design both with and without the .com
The site is going to be obviously based on a night club / night life theme and we like the idea of having the banner of the site containing a night time city skyline - we have attached an image that will be very close to what we will use in the banner and the logo will need to sit somewhere on this banner and the navigation buttons will sit at the bottom of the banner - we would remove the water from this image and just have the skyline element
You do NOT need to submit your design on the banner
We would also like the logo to be used on promotional materials such as t shirts and baseball caps - so the logo should contain an element that can be isolated from the text of the logo and be used on a t shirt. A good example of this can be seen at http://www.clubplanet.com - the text can be seperated from the symbol and the symbol still represents the brand
All of the above said - we are not wishing to limit your creative ideas and so we will consider any good ideas - thanks for reading this brief and we look forward to receiving your designs.
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Their hurricane video has people all over the world asking, "What's wrong with you?" and "Why would you do that?"
"I was out there trying to get measurements," Juston Drake explained with a laugh and a smile.
A viral video shows him barely keeping his feed on the ground as Hurricane Irma blows through the Florida Keys.
At one point, Drake fell to the ground and looked like he was about to be gone with the wind, but he stabilized himself and faced Irma's Category 4 winds head on. In his hand is a tiny instrument meant to measure wind speed.
@JustonStrmRider tearing it up! pic.twitter.com/VhC97GZJBa— Simon Brewer (@SimonStormRider) September 10, 2017
He was standing in the "eyewall," which is the area immediately outside the eye of the storm.
"Those winds were anywhere from 130 to 140 miles per hour," he estimated. "The highest we recorded was 117, but those [instruments] usually underestimate the winds, so I have no doubt they could be 130-plus."
Measured 117 mph on handheld anemometer, which under samples actual speed; much higher wind speed @JustonStrmRider pic.twitter.com/pQkphCfEms— Simon Brewer (@SimonStormRider) September 10, 2017
Drake is a meteorologist and storm chaser. Same goes for the guy who was behind the camera—Simon Brewer, who also braved some of Irma's strongest winds. They've been chasing storms together since graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 2008.
On Twitter, Brewer described the scene in the Keys as "apocalyptic." The data they gathered there will help keep us all safer in the future, especially when it comes to improving building construction.
But Brewer and Drake will get a little more out of their video than a little internet fame and a legendary bar story—they'll get paid.
The pair freelance, chasing whatever storms pop up all over the country, from tornadoes, to ice storms, and blizzards. They sell and license their videos and photos. But their payday from facing Irma could take about six months, Brewer said.
RELATED: Hurricane TV: Wind, rain, and self-immolation won't buy love for journalists
As far as safety goes, don't try this at home—or wherever the next hurricane swirls. Drake and Brewer said they always have a game plan for chasing storms.
"When it comes to chasing hurricanes, there's two main dangers you have to worry about: It's making sure nothing hits you that's been carried in the wind and also making sure you don't drown," Drake explained "We always make sure we're in a high enough place so that we don't have to worry about any storm surge or inland flooding drowning us, and we always make sure when we go out and measure the winds that we're somewhere where there's not going to be any debris that can be picked up and hit us."


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Don't know what happened to December… seemed to have slipped me by.
Kathy likes to ask people; "if you could eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?" It's a tricky question, and usually causes more discussion than answers. Kathy's answer for herself is typically; "potatoes." According to Wikipedia, there's about 8,000 varieties. Not all of those are edible, but that's a lot! For me, yeah, the answer is; "cheese." According to an unofficial observation by the Cheesewench; "I think that saying that there are over 2000 different cheeses in shops and markets in the world would not be an exaggeration." Sooooo… if Kathy and I could work together with our "single" foods to eat forever, we'd be doing pretty good.
This brings me, believe it or not, to Mexican food. Kathy asked recently what I'd do if we lived in Mexico. "Be fat," I responded. Whenever given the chance, I LOVE eating Mexican food. Since there are so many excellent, and inexpensive, Mexican places in the Bay Area, I don't make Mexican food at home too often. I was inspired this past weekend, however, by our friend Jeff (who is an excellent cook). He and Anna came over the other night with all of the ingredients to make home made tamales (with actual lard). They were fantastic, but we didn't use any cheese in the meal. A day later, to use the remaining lard I prepared fresh, home-made refried beans. To really enjoy refried beans, Mexican-style cheese is needed, so we went to a local Mexican food grocery store to pick up some to go with it.
I've been to Mexican stores with over a dozen South American style cheese selections, and others with only a couple. This time I picked up only two; both fairly common and easy to find (and one wasn't technically a cheese).
The first of the two, as I mentioned, isn't a cheese; "Crema Mexicana" Basically, it's a sour cream, but researching it further I found this write up from an "expert" named "Darwin" on an answer site called Askville:
"Mexican Cream is actually closer to sour cream than it is to heavy cream.
Commercially produced sour cream is made by inoculating pasteurized light cream with bacteria cultures, letting the bacteria grow until the cream is both soured and thick, and then repasteruizing it to stop the process. Mexican Cream is more like Crème fraîche, which is a slightly tangy, slightly nutty, thickened cream lightly fermented by a different bacteria. Before the age of pasteurization crème fraîche made itself as the bacteria present in the cream fermented and thickened it naturally. This is basically how Mexican Cream is made, except the appropriate bacteria have to be added back in now that pasteurization is standard practice."
The effect, really is a creamer, less sour type of sour cream; one that if you like milk products as much as I do, might be tempted to simply eat with a spoon.
The other cheese, manufactured by Don Francisco in California, was a Mexican-style fresh cheese; Queso Fresco. As you might guess, this cheese is a soft cheese, not aged very long, and it actually not unlike Feta, except that it is much milder in taste, and as the name suggests, a very "fresh" taste. Although this cheese doesn't stand out terribly with its flavor distinction, it is an excellent compliment to dishes such as the beans I made. If you've ever had, and enjoyed due to the consistency, cheese curds, then Queso Fresco might be yet another way for you to expand your horizons.
I may have mentioned in the past that the market for cheese in Hispanic demographics in California (and possibly other parts of the States as well), is a difficult one to break into. Traditionally, culturally, many people with South American roots are more accustomed to buying locally made cheeses, thus larger productions (such as the Don Francisco company) are not always favored when/if/as a local creamery and/or farmer may be making the cheeses that are used in South American cuisine. Despite this fact, I find, too often, that pre-shredded, mass-produced jack cheeses are commonplace substitutes at some Mexican restaurants.
If anyone has a suggestion of a BOOK about South American cheese, I'm always ready to explore them some more, so please let me know!
Happy New Year; may the new year bring plenty of cheese into your life.
Here's an unrelated pictures of the Steam Train in Oakland's Tilden Park: