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Lynch continues to carry load for Seahawks
His rushing yardage tied franchise playoff record
Tue., Jan. 8, 2013
RENTON, Wash. – Marshawn Lynch's tremor-causing playoff touchdown run two years ago against New Orleans has been viewed millions of times on YouTube. It will be hard for Lynch to ever top that stunning run during which he broke more than a half-dozen tackles on his way to a 67-yard touchdown that induced enough frenzy inside the Seahawks' stadium that seismic activity was registered. Still, his better playoff performance might have been last Sunday in Seattle's wild-card victory over Washington. Seattle needed all of Lynch's 132 yards rushing, and especially his 27-yard touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter, to dispatch the Redskins. His sidestep cut that left Washington cornerback DeAngelo Hall grasping at air allowed him to get to the outside on the touchdown run and was another sign of Lynch's shiftiness, which sometimes gets lost because of his brute power. Lynch's performance on Sunday tied the franchise record for most yards rushing in a playoff game and bettered what he did against the Saints by 1 yard. He rushed for 99 yards in the second half and overcame a costly fumble at the Washington 1 on the first drive of the second half that could have shaken others. Not Lynch. "You don't ever have to worry about his mindset," Seattle fullback Michael Robinson said after the game. "He got to the sideline, he was upset about it, and he just said, 'Give it to me again. Keep feeding me.'" Lynch is coming off the finest regular season of his career, yet he ended up getting overshadowed by the rise of quarterback Russell Wilson. Lynch rushed for 1,590 yards in the regular season and was named to the Pro Bowl as a reserve behind Minnesota's Adrian Peterson. His yardage total was good for third in the NFL and he was one of just eight backs to post double digits in TDs rushing. Lynch was fifth in the league with 639 of his yards coming after first contact and was third in the league in yards rushing in the fourth quarter with 354. And he ran for all those yards despite taking most of the second half off in blowout victories late in the season against Buffalo and Arizona. Lynch had a combined 21 carries in those two games, but still rolled up 241 yards. Lynch became the beneficiary of Seattle incorporating more of the zone-read run game into its offense in the second-half of the season. Sometimes he was the decoy who allowed Wilson the opportunity to run untouched around the end. Other times, Lynch got the handoff and a head start while defensive linemen were figuring out if Wilson was keeping the ball. "He has grown quite a bit, and in the last two years he has really owned it. It was a little sticky at first, and his consistency wasn't as sharp as it is now," Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. "He basically gets it right almost all of the time now. He trusts the reads, he trusts the principles and philosophy of the run game and he's been maxing out pretty much for a couple of years now." That system was on display again against the Redskins. While Lynch got the bulk of the yards, Wilson added another 67 yards rushing. Twice, including on Lynch's TD run in the fourth quarter, Wilson was out ahead of his running back serving as a blocker. "I don't worry about Russell. What do you want me to do, tell him to get out of the way?" Carroll joked. "He's OK. It's not like he's laying bone-crushing blocks, you know?" When Lynch got to the divisional round two years ago against Chicago, he was held to just 2 yards rushing on four carries in what remains the least productive game of his nearly two-plus seasons with the Seahawks. Now he gets a chance to atone for that when the Seahawks travel to Atlanta on Sunday and face a Falcons run defense that was leaky during the regular season. Atlanta finished the year ranked 21st at stopping the run and gave up at least 140 yards rushing in each of its three losses. The team that gave the Falcons the most fits was Carolina and mobile quarterback Cam Newton. The Panthers and their zone-read offensive system rushed for a combined 394 yards and averaged nearly 6 yards per carry in two games. "We've grown and become more together and more in tune with our QB and what he can do and all that," Carroll said. "We're a pretty hard team to beat right now."
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Pair crash Albuquerque police bait car
Albuquerque police said they arrested two people recently who hopped in a stolen bait car and crashed it minutes later.
Police recently released video that shows Alissya Davalos, 18, and Juantomas Guajardo-Cardie, 22, getting into the police bait car. On the video, Davalos and Guajardo-Cardie discuss the possibility that they're in a bait car, but they drive away anyway.
Davalos, the driver, eventually hit a curb and crashed the car. Police said both fled on foot, and were caught a short time later by officers.
Police said Guajardo-Cardie denied he was involved even after police showed him the video recorded within the bait vehicle.
Both face charges of unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, aggravated eluding, criminal damage to property and conspiracy.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Researchers presented three new studies about salt at the American Heart Association meeting on Thursday.
The first shows that nearly 75 percent of packaged food for toddlers contain more sodium than recommended, after looking at more than 1,000 foods.
A product was considered high in salt if it had more than 210 milligrams of sodium per serving, or 14 percent of the daily recommended allowance. Increased sodium can cause hypertension as an adult.
Another study found most adults eat almost double the recommended daily amount of sodium–3,600 milligrams instead of 1,500.
A third study found eating too much salt contributed to 2.3 million deaths worldwide in 2010 from heart-related diseases. Almost half were people 69 or younger.
Health experts say a half teaspoon of salt is all you need each day.


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After Tornado, Oklahoma Senators Grapple With Past Disaster Aid Opposition
Will Oklahoma lawmakers' votes against disaster aid come back to haunt them?
May 21, 2013 -- Lawmakers have pledged to send aid to tornado-devastated Oklahoma quickly, but the state's Republican lawmakers -- six of whom voted against disaster aid after Superstorm Sandy -- may be forced to reckon with their past votes against emergency disaster funding.
Oklahoma's two Republican senators, Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, opposed a bill that provided more than $60 billion in emergency aid after Superstorm Sandy devastated the East Coast. In addition, three members of Oklahoma's House delegation joined with most Republicans in opposing the legislation.
Nearly all of the lawmakers have pledged that whatever assistance Oklahomans need will be provided, but the devil will be in the details.
Coburn, who opposed the Sandy bill because it did not identify spending cuts to offset the cost of the legislation, said in the immediate aftermath of the tornado that he would "absolutely" demand spending cuts in exchange for aid.
A spokesman for Coburn confirmed this morning that he would not change his position on demanding spending cuts in order to fund disaster aid.
Other Republicans opposed what they considered to be unrelated spending in the Sandy bill.
"When a disaster occurs in America and emotions are high, everybody all of a sudden wants to pour money on it," Inhofe said on the Senate floor in 2012.
Asked about his past vote against Sandy funding, Inhofe said that funding for tornado relief would be "totally different."
"That was totally different," Inhofe said on MSNBC this morning. "They were getting things -- for instance, that was supposed to be for New Jersey. They had things in the Virgin Islands. They were fixing roads there. They were putting roofs on houses in Washington, D.C."
"Everybody was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place. That won't happen in Oklahoma," he added.
But the $60.4 Sandy relief bill, which languished in Congress because of opposition from Republican lawmakers, may be a cautionary tale.
The public fight over funding pitted congressional Republicans against one of their party's rising stars, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and even some members of their own caucus from the Northeast whose states were affected by the massive storm.
In the heated rhetoric over the bill, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said Republicans were betraying New Yorkers and New Jerseyans.
"I'm saying right now ... anyone from New York and New Jersey [who] contributes one penny to congressional Republicans is out of their minds," King said on Fox News in January. "Because what [they] did last night was put a knife in the back of New Yorkers and New Jerseyans. It's an absolute disgrace."
It is perhaps in light of that public intraparty meltdown that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, this morning would not answer questions about whether Republicans would demand that Oklahoma relief funds also be paid for.
"We'll work with the administration on making sure that they have the resources they need to help the people of Oklahoma," Boehner said repeatedly in answer to questions from reporters.
So far, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has about $11 billion in its disaster relief fund and a final tallying of the cost of rebuilding parts of Oklahoma likely won't be finished for weeks.
But already, Republicans are taking some heat.
After Inhofe's comments this morning, he has been the subject of a storm of ridicule.
"Inhofe and Coburn: Red state hypocrites. Apparently we have deserving and undeserving disasters," wrote Joan Walsh, editor-at-large at Salon.com.


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LAKE FOREST, Ill. - The Chicago Bears hired Montreal Alouettes offensive co-ordinator Pat Meyer on Thursday as an offensive line coach.
The Bears hired Marc Trestman, Montreal's coach the last five seasons, as head coach last week.
Last season, the Alouettes led the Canadian Football League in scoring, averaging about 27 points, and were among the leaders in touchdowns, passing and fewest sacks allowed.
Before joining Montreal in 2011, Meyer spent four seasons at Colorado State. He also had stints at North Carolina State, Florida State and Memphis. Meyer signed with the Arizona Cardinals in 1995 as an undrafted free agent, and played in the Arena Football League with the St. Louis Stampede.


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Testing for MS Access
Short Description of the Issue
In this paragraph we describe how to exploit sql injection vulnerabilties when the backend database is MS Access. In particular we focus on how to exploit blind sql injection as this kind of vulnerabilities are more frequent. After an initial introduction on which are the typical functions that are useful to exploit a sql injection vulnerability, we will introduce a clever methodology to exploit blind sql injection.
Black Box testing and example
Standard Test
First of all, we start showing a typical example of SQL error that we can encounter when we execute our test:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'com_exception' with message 'Source: Microsoft JET Database Engine
If we get this error then it's reasonable to think that we are testing an application with a MS Access Database as backend.
We have to say that, unfortunately, we start soon with a bad news since MS Access doesn't support any comment character in the sql query, so we can't use the trick of inserting the chars /* or -- or # to truncate the query. On the other hand, we can fortunately bypass this limit with the NULL character. If we insert the char %00 at some place in the query, all the remaining characters after the NULL are not considerated. That happens because at the low level the strings are considerated terminated with the NULL char. However the NULL character can sometimes cause troubles. If we try every char in the ASCII charset we notice that there is another value that can be used in order to truncate the query. The character is 0x16 (%16 in url encoded format) or 22 in decimal. So if we have the following query:
SELECT [username],[password] FROM users WHERE [username]='$myUsername' AND [password]='$myPassword'
we can truncate the query with the following two urls:
http://www.example.com/index.asp?user=admin'%00&pass=foo http://www.example.com/index.asp?user=admin'%16&pass=foo
Attributes enumeration
In order to enumerate the attributes of a query we can use the same method used for the Database MS SQL Server. In short, we can obtain the name of the attributes by error messages. For example if we know the existence of a parameter because we got it by an error message due to the ' character, we can also know the name of the remaining attributes with the following query:
' GROUP BY Id%00
in the error message we can notice that the name of the next attribute is shown. We iterate the method until we obtain the name of all the attributes. If we don't know the name of at least one attribute, we can insert a fictitious column name, and just like by magic we obtain the name of the first attribute.
Obtaining Database Scheme
In MS Access exist various table that can be used to obtain the name of the table of a particular database. In the default configuration this table is not accessible, however it's worth a try. The names of the table are:
MSysObjects MSysACEs MSysAccessXML
For example if a union sql injection vulnerability exists, you can use the following query:
' UNION SELECT Name FROM MSysObjects WHERE Type = 1%00
These are the main steps that you can use to exploit a sql injection vulnerability on MS Access. There are also some functions that can be useful to exploit custom queries. Some of these functions are:
ASC: Obtain the ascii value of a character passed as input CHR: Obtain the character of the ascii value passed as input LEN: Return the length of the string passed as parameter IIF: Is the IF construct, for example the following statement IIF(1=1, 'a', 'b') return 'a' MID: This function permits to extract substring, for example the following statement mid('abc',1,1) return 'a' TOP: This function permits to specify the maximum number of results that the query should return from the top. For example TOP 1 will return only 1 row. LAST: This function is used to select only the last row of a set of rows. For example the following query SELECT last(*) FROM users will return only the last row of the result.
Some of these functions will be used to exploit a blind sql injection as we see in the next paragraph. For other functions please refer to References.
Blind sql injection testing
Blind sql injection vulnerabilities are by no mean the most frequent type of vulnerability that you will find. Generally you find a sql injection in a parameter where no union query is possible. Also, usually there is no chance to execute shell command or to read/write a file. All you can do is infer the result of your query. For our test we take the following example:
where the id parameter is used in the following query:
SELECT * FROM orders WHERE [id]=$myId
For our test we will consider the myId parameter vulnerable to blind sqli vulnerability. We want to extract the content of the table users, in particular of the column username (we have already seen how to obtain the name of the attributes thanks to the error messages and other tecniques). It is supposed that the reader alreday knowns the theory behind the blind sql injection attack, so we go straight to show some example. A typical query that can be used to infer the first character of the username of the 10th rows is:
http://www.example.com/index.asp?id=IIF((select%20mid(last(username),1,1)%20 from%20(select%20top%2010%20username%20from%20users))='a',0,'ko')
If the first character is 'a', this query will return a 0 (a "true response"), otherwise a 'ko' string. Now we will explain why we have used this particular query. The first thing to point out is that with the functions IFF, MID and LAST we extract the first character of the username of the selected row. Unfortunately, the original query returns a set of records and not only one record, so we can't use this methodology directly. We must first select only one row. We can use the TOP function, but it only works with the first row. To select the other queries we must use a trick. We want to infer the username of the row number 10. First we use the TOP function to select the first ten rows with the query:
SELECT TOP 10 username FROM users
Then we extract from this set the last row with the function LAST. Once we have only one row and exactly the row that we want, we can use the IFF, MID and LAST function to infer the value of the username. It may be interesting to notice the use of the IFF. In our example we use IFF to return a number or a string. With this trick we can distinguish when we have a true response or not. This is because id is of numeric type, so if we compare it with a string we obtain a sql error, otherwise with the 0 value we have no errors. Of course if the parameter was of type string we can use different values. For example we can have the following query:
that returns a query that is always true if the first character is 'a' or a query that is always false in the other case (assuming that in the users table there is no id with value 'inexistenValueHere')
Thanks to this metodology we can infer the value of the username. To understand when we have obtained the complete value we have two choices:
1. We try all the printable values, when no one is valid then we have the complete value. 2. We can infer the length of the value (if it's a string value we can use the LEN function) and stop when we have found all the characters.
Sometimes we are blocked by some filtering function, here we see some tricks to bypass these filters.
Alternative Delimiter
Some filter strips away the space from the input string. We can bypass this filter using the following values as delimiter instead of the white space:
9 a c d 20 2b 2d 3d
For example we can execute the following query:
to bypass a hypothetical login form.


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2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid Priced From $25,790
Volkswagen released full pricing information for its new Jetta Hybrid, which goes on sale toward the end of this year. The hybrid sedan starts at $25,790 (after a $795 destination charge), and prices climb to $31,975 for fully equipped models.
Volkswagen introduced the 2013 Jetta Hybrid at the Detroit auto show in January. It uses a 1.4-liter turbo-four gasoline engine and electric motor/generator, which send a combined 170 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque through a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission. Although the EPA has yet to provide official figures, Volkswagen says its hybrid should return 45 mpg and can drive without the gasoline engine at speeds up to 44 mph. The Jetta Hybrid also is supposed to complete the 0-to-60-mph run in just under 9.0 seconds.
The touted low entry price is only for the base Jetta Hybrid, which will be available as a special-order model only. Its equipment list includes 15-inch alloy wheels, power windows, automatic climate control, power windows, a CD player with Bluetooth and an auxiliary port, and a leather-wrapped steering wheel. The next step up is the $27,785 Hybrid SE, which adds LED taillights, a power driver's seat, a touchscreen radio with satellite radio and an iPod interface, and push-button start.
The Jetta Hybrid SEL adds 16-inch alloy wheels, a navigation system, a sunroof, and heated washer nozzles and front seats, bringing its price to $30,120. The top-spec Hybrid SEL Premium costs $31,975 and adds LED running lights, 17-inch alloy wheels, a Fender sound system, and a backup camera.
These prices position the hybrid as the most expensive version of the 2013 Volkswagen Jetta. The base 2.0L S sedan starts at just $17,470 when equipped with a 115-hp, 2.0-liter inline-four engine and five-speed manual transmission. Upgrading to the 2.5L SE trim level, which includes a 170-hp inline-five engine and more equipment, bumps the entry price to $19,790. The Jetta TDI diesel starts at $23,785, and the sporty 200-hp Jetta GLI requires $24,740.
In terms of other hybrid cars, the Jetta is about mid-pack for its size and performance. The 2013 Honda Insight, 2012 Toyota Prius C, 2012 Honda CR-Z, 2012 Toyota Prius, and 2012 Honda Civic hybrids all undercut the Jetta's entry price. The Civic is closest to the Jetta in both price and size -- at $24,990, the Honda hybrid is only marginally cheaper than the Volkswagen.
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'Do not operate' quake-linked disposal wells -- EPA draft report
U.S. EPA officials say oil and gas wastewater injection wells that are causing earthquakes should stop operating if there's no way to stop the shaking.
But there is a variety of other options to consider first, according to a "decision model" outlined in a draft report obtained by EnergyWire. That includes scaling back how much well owners can inject, requiring more data collection or public education about "the complexities of injection-induced seismicity."
The 341-page document represents the main EPA response to concerns that drilling-related activities are causing earthquakes. It was provided as a result of a Freedom of Information Act appeal after agency officials declined to release it (EnergyWire, May 28).
The report is designed to offer state officials suggestions for dealing with man-made earthquakes, also known as "induced seismicity."
The draft specifically notes that federal law allows regulators to close down wells. And on Page 25, a diagram lays out the option when the other options haven't worked -- "Do not operate well."
Little or no further guidance is offered on the topic.
State oil and gas officials in Arkansas and Ohio have shut down wells linked to earthquakes. In Texas, a company shut wells that were causing quakes near the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.
In Oklahoma, state oil and gas officials are continuing to allow injection of drilling wastewater in areas where researchers have linked the wells to damaging earthquakes (EnergyWire, July 25, 2012).
The development of recommendations on drilling-related quakes has stalled.
The report is an "internal document in preliminary draft form" that was distributed in December 2012 to technical experts who'd contributed to the report. The agency is now weighing their comments.
"EPA plans to submit the draft report for independent external peer review," James McDonald, assistant regional administrator for management in the Dallas-based Region 6 office, wrote in a July 9 letter accompanying the report. The letter doesn't mention completing the report or releasing it.
In a statement Friday, an EPA spokesman said the agency is hoping to submit the draft for peer review "later this year. The document could change substantially as the work group addresses comments from reviewers."
Oil and gas regulation can be a touchy subject at EPA. The agency has been under intense criticism from the oil and gas industry and congressional Republicans as it weighs its role in the nation's shale boom. Environmentalists have criticized the agency for pulling back from three major water contamination cases in Pennsylvania, Texas and Wyoming.
Scientists have known for decades that underground injection of fluid can lubricate faults and unleash earthquakes. Some seismologists now think the boom in shale drilling in the United States -- and the wastewater it produces -- might be causing a sharp increase in the number of earthquakes in the middle of the country.
Producing oil and gas from shale formations such as those found in Arkansas, Pennsylvania and Ohio requires the use of millions of gallons of water for hydraulic fracturing. In turn, that creates millions of gallons of salty, toxic wastewater. Drillers must figure out how to dispose of it. Some reuse part of it in the next "frack job," but they often inject it back underground in one of the nation's 40,000 deep injection wells.
Researchers have linked such deep injection wells to earthquakes in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio and Colorado. More "earth-friendly" procedures, such as geothermal energy production and carbon sequestration, can also set the earth rumbling.
Oil and gas production is regulated almost entirely by states. But a federal law, the Safe Drinking Water Act, governs underground injection of drilling wastewater. EPA regulates disposal directly in a few states, such as Pennsylvania, but in most it has handed day-to-day regulation to state agencies.
The Safe Drinking Water Act doesn't make it illegal to cause an earthquake. Instead, EPA seeks to prevent earthquakes because they might harm the underground sources of drinking water the act does protect.
EPA's examination of man-made earthquakes was undertaken by a technical working group of EPA and state officials in 2011. It has been shepherded by the staff of the agency's South Central Region, also called Region 6. The region has been caught in some of the fiercest debates about federal versus state regulation.
Leaders of the effort stressed that the group was not seeking to make new policies or regulations. Instead, it was to develop recommendations for state officials for dealing with injection wells linked to earthquakes.
The group partnered with state regulators and seismologists at the U.S. Geological Survey and researched in-depth case studies on quakes in Arkansas, Texas and West Virginia.
The goal of the project has changed over time. When the study began, the goal was "avoiding" significant earthquakes, according to documents included in the report. Now the goal -- reflected in the report's title -- is "minimizing and managing potential impacts."
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W1915EP SystemVue mmWave WPAN Baseband Verification
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The W1915 mmWave WPAN Baseband Verification Library provides configurable IP reference transit sources for 802.11ad and 802.15.3c wireless communications physical layers operating at 60 GHz (also known as "millimeter-wave WPAN"), so that designers can verify baseband receiver algorithms, system architectures, and RF components. These schematics also interoperate with relevant Keysight test equipment, which ties simulation and hardware testing into a consistent, model-based design flow.
The 802.11ad personality of the W1915 library is interoperable and consistent with the Keysight 81199A Wideband Waveform Center software, which is a standalone test application. While the W1915 is intended primarily for simulation-based validation of 60 GHz standards, it is also capable of interacting with test equipment, through SystemVue's instrument connectivity.
New for SystemVue 2013.08 SP1
- Now supports IEEE 802.11ad-2012 version and MCS formats 28 ~ 31 for LPSC
- Supports W1711 SystemVue Engine and W1712 Distributed Computing in both Windows and Linux
New measurements (besides BER):
- IQ Amplitude Imbalance (in dB)
- LO Quadrature Error
- I & Q DC Offset (in dB)
- Frequency error in the received symbol clock (in ppm)
- EVM vs. time (for specified symbol or frame)
- EVM vs. frequency (for specified frame)
Simulates system-level 802.11ad EVM and BER
- can include RF impairments, phase noise, fading, and interferers
- provides an economical alternative to challenging 60 GHz measurements in early R&D, saving valuable design time, lowering project risk, and possibly reducing equipment costs
- Provides a golden IP reference for C++, .m, and HDL Baseband Algorithm developers
- Download waveform scenarios to wideband AWGs, such as Keysight M8190A
- Verifies RF Transceiver performance with realistic 60GHz waveforms and scenarios, within SystemVue, or co-simulated with Keysight ADS or GoldenGate
Figure 1. The reference source and receiver models support coding and modulation consistent with the IEEE 802.11ad-2012 physical layer specification, also adopted by WGA PHY release 1.1.
Figure 2. A simple closed loop BER test is performed on a simulated 60 GHz 802.11ad physical layer to validate system performance prior to hardware and vendor commitments in a video streaming application.
Figure 3. SystemVue can be used to validate realistic 60 GHz system scenarios in early R&D that would be very difficult to build and measure. For example, a CMOS RFIC PA model from Keysight Golden Gate is verified prior to tapeout.
The W1915 also provides a complete model set and TX/RX reference designs for 802.15.3c.
The W1915 mmWave WPAN Baseband Verification Library can be added to any SystemVue environment or bundle.
For more information on SystemVue libraries, refer to SystemVue Baseband & Exploration Verification Libraries.


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Interest rate cuts are not always good news
Interest rates are down, with strong hints of more cuts to come. While this has been welcomed by some commentators, I feel it's taking Australia down a very dangerous path.
With rates already at historic lows, a cut from 1.5 per cent to 1.25 per cent will do nothing to stimulate the economy. If a buyer finds a property that's an absolute bargain, does anybody seriously think that 25 basis points will make a difference to their buying decision?
Controlling the economy by manipulation of interest rates is a tool that has passed its use-by date. Monetary policy is like a strong drug: highly effective in big doses in the early stages, but as the doses become more extreme the effect wears off. Interest rates are now so low that any changes can make little difference to the economy.
But what the cuts will do is lure homebuyers into what may be a nightmare journey. It begins as they stretch themselves to achieve the dream of a first home at a time when rates are at historic lows. But eventually rates must start to rise again.
To make matters worse, before the election the government announced plans to let first home buyers into the market with just 5 per cent deposit. And to add fuel to the fire, last month APRA instructed lenders to ease up on eligibility criteria.
Let's have some straight talk. The global financial crisis was born when President Bill Clinton instructed mortgage lenders in America to reduce lending standards so that poorer people had a chance of home ownership. Consequently, hundreds of thousands of Americans were lured into buying homes they couldn't afford, and most of them lost what little they had. During the slump the median price of a home in Detroit, Michigan fell to just $7500. Is this the example Australia wants to follow?
Relaxing lending standards will start a chain reaction. The number of first home buyers jumps, the extra demand pushes up house prices and it becomes even harder for young couples to get a foothold in the housing market. As prices rise, and affordability worsens, other potential buyers who are saving for a deposit panic and rush into the market, creating a boom.
Now the dream has turned to nightmare. The final step in the cycle is interest rates rising, homes being foreclosed and housing prices falling, or at least staying flat.
It will be mixed news for retirees. Australian shares are sure to rise as they become relatively more attractive than term deposits, especially now that the threat to franking credits is over. And any drop in interest rates will put further downward pressure on the Australian dollar, which will make international investments worth more, at the same time as it puts up the cost of imports.
But the people who will suffer most will be age pensioners, many of whom who are scared of growth investments, and who are subject to the deeming rates, which assess income-tested pensioners on the assumption that they are earning a specified return on their investments.
The deeming rates for a couple are 1.75 per cent on the first $85,000 of financial assets and 3.25 per cent on the remainder. These rates are unobtainable for bank deposits.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has already warned the banks that they will be in serious trouble if they don't pass on the rate cuts in full to borrowers. Obviously, most of the banks will obey, but the quid pro quo is that they will extend the rate cuts to the deposits as well. So the government should reassess the deeming rates as a matter of urgency. The Catch 22 is that any cut in the deeming rates will give a pay rise to income tested pensioners, which means a further hit to the burgeoning welfare bill.
- Noel Whittaker is an Australian expert on personal finance and the author of Making Money Made Simple. Send your money questions to email@example.com.


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…Continued from Martin Luther Backs Socialists: Chapter The First…
…When we last left off of our tale, our anti-hero and anti-Reagan of our story (Martin Luther) was still supportive of our heros the Peasants (the Original Tea Partiers 4 Jesus), but suddenly though Martin Luther (Jim Wallis' ancient relative) began to change and things took a turn for the worse. Martin Luther (would be Democrat) began to turn against the Peasants (Tea Partiers 4 Jesus) and slander them in a liberal controled media CNN sort of way saying that they violated Romans 13 by protesting and rebelling against the Holy Roman Emperor (the Obama of his day) and as we all know protesting and rebellion are of the Devil (unless of course it is the Protestant Rebellion protesting against the divinely appointed authority of the Pope). John MacArthur (a Protestant protester of all things Catholic or even Catholic sounding) sets the record straight:
Since America seems to be losing its Christian orientation, there are some who believe Christians have a right to protest and break the law. Many Christian leaders are calling for Christians to leave their present ministry and become a part of a new political Christian lobby that uses pressure and social action to effect change. Some are calling for protest and moderate revolution against our government. They say the government is taking freedom away from the church and encroaching on religion. In an effort to save the church's freedom, myriads of organizations are rising up in our country calling for action against the government. I am amazed at how many evangelical Christians who would have avoided such activity fifteen years ago are now aggressively pursuing the political lobby approach. I'm also amazed at the number of belligerent people who join together on issues of civil authority and civil rights yet who would never find any common ground on the issue of truth. You can find true believers, charlatans, frauds, and false prophets all united for the sake of "religious freedom," who believe that political lobbying will preserve the Kingdom of God in America. "Now listen to this. It doesn't matter whether your ruler is Caesar, Herod, Pilate, Felix, Fetus, Agrippa, Stalin, Hitler, Winston Churchill, Bill Clinton, it doesn't matter who it is, he says be subject, you teach them to be subject."
But returning back to our tale Martin Luther (an anti-Glenn Beck of his day) was so in bed with Big Brother in trying to take away their God-given rights and liberties that he said of our heroes the Peasants (Tea Partiers 4 Jesus):
The peasants have taken upon themselves the burden of three terrible sins against God and man; by this they have abundantly merited death in body and soul. In the first place, they have sworn6 to be true and faithful, submissive and obedient, to their rulers, as Christ commands when he says, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's" [Luke 20:25]. And Romans 13 [:1] says, "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities." Since they are now deliberately and violently breaking this oath of obedience and setting themselves in opposition to their masters, they have forfeited body and soul, as faithless, perjured, lying, disobedient rascals and scoundrels usually do. St. Paul passed this judgment on them in Romans 13 [:2] when he said that those who resist the authorities will bring a judgment upon themselves. This saying will smite the peasants sooner or later, for God wants people to be loyal and to do their duty.
…anyone who is killed fighting on the side of the rulers may be a true martyr in the eyes of God, if he fights with the kind of conscience I have just described, for he acts in obedience to God's word. On the other hand, anyone who perishes on the peasants' side is an eternal firebrand of hell, for he bears the sword against God's word and is disobedient to him, and is a member of the devil.
…The peasants are not content with belonging to the devil themselves; they force and compel many good people to join their devilish league against their wills, and so make them partakers of all of their own wickedness and damnation. Anyone who consorts with them goes to the devil with them and is guilty of all the evil deeds that they commit, even though he has to do this because he is so weak in faith that he could not resist them. A pious Christian ought to suffer a hundred deaths rather than give a hairsbreadth of consent to the peasants' cause. O how many martyrs could now be made by the bloodthirsty peasants and the prophets of murder!13 Now the rulers ought to have mercy on these prisoners of the peasants, and if they had no other reason to use the sword with a good conscience against the peasants, and to risk their own lives and property in fighting them, this would be reason enough, and more than enough: they would be rescuing and helping these souls whom the peasants have forced into their devilish league and who, without willing it, are sinning so horribly and must be damned. For truly these souls are in purgatory; indeed, they are in the bonds of hell and the devil.
This is why we now offer this Godly Sanctified non-Heretical non-Worldly Folk Ballad Pure Truth War Reagan Gospel Hymn in their honor—in the honor of the martyrs of the original Tea Party—the Peasants (the Original Tea Partiers 4 Jesus) and in protest against Martin Luther and Big Brother (the Holy Roman Empire—the Original Big Bad Socialist Government):
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Proper hand hygiene can prevent sepsis
In Europe, about 80 000 hospitalised patients are estimated to have at least one healthcare-associated infection on any given day. Proper cleaning of the hands, using antiseptic fluid, remains the single most effective way for hospital staff to prevent infections that can lead to sepsis.
World Hand Hygiene Day 2019
Each year on 5 May, the "SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands" campaign takes place as part of a major global effort led by the World Health Organization (WHO) to improve hand hygiene in healthcare settings.


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- Say on your resume that you took a sabbatical to cope with a personal matter.
- Employers simply want to be assured that your past won't be of any harm to their business.
- Prepare and practice a strong response in advance.
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In anticipation of being asked to explain a sticky situation in a job interview, such as a gap of employment on a resume or an arrest, a wise strategy is to prepare and practice a strong response in advance.
For employment gaps, be honest about what happened. Don't dwell on it. Offer a brief explanation for your absence with confidence and then try to move the discussion forward. For example, you might say, "I am now ready to re-enter the work force. I am excited about this new direction in my life, and that's why I'm happy to be speaking with you."
Keep in mind that employers simply want to be assured that your past won't be of any harm to their business. They also want to know that you're ready to work again, so briefly mention the steps you've taken to get ready for this next career move. Give s short synopsis of what you did to get yourself psychologically and emotionally ready to rejoin the workforce.
As far as explaining the gap on your resume, you can list your experience up until the date you left the workforce and then explain briefly in a cover letter why you have been unemployed since then. Or, say on your resume that you took a sabbatical to cope with a personal matter.
But what if you have bigger troubles than a gap on your resume, such as a prior legal conviction or arrest? Candidates with this question sometimes decide to tempt fate and not mention their convictions in hopes that an employer a) won't conduct a detailed background check or b) if it does, the crime won't show up.
If you don't disclose a misdemeanor and the company learns about it before hiring you, interviewers may question whether you have been completely forthcoming about other things. Employers often consider dishonesty worse than a past conviction. Trying to hide your past may give the impression that you can't be trusted. You can minimize the potential fallout by disclosing the information yourself. But wait for the right time. Many executive candidates don't get to the application and reference-checking stage until the company is ready to or has made an offer. That is the time to be forthright.


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The Samsung 840 series, which is not to be confused with the recently reviewed
That said, it's probably the best entry-level SSD you can find out on the market. This is because the Samsung 840 is not just great-looking but also offers the kind of performance that you'd expect from a more expensive drive. It's an excellent choice for budget home users who want to move up from hard drives for their laptops.
Professionals or those wanting top speed or durability, however, should still stick with the good-old Samsung 830 series, or the new 840 Pro, or any other drives on this top-five list.
Design and features
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|Available capacities
|Product dimensions
|7mm-thick, 2.5-inch standard
|Capacity of test unit
|Flash memory type
|3-bit-per-cell MLC NAND or TLC NAND
|OSes supported
|Windows, Mac, Linux
The Samsung 840 looks exactly the same as the Samsung 840 Pro. Unless you check the bottoms of the drives, you could easily mistake one for the other. Upon inspection, you'll find that the new 840 series drive comes without the Pro designation and in three capacities of 120GB, 250GB, and 500GB, whereas the the 840 Pro is available in 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB capacities.
The new, non-Pro 840 series, however, also comes in the ultrathin (7mm) design and supports SATA 3 (6Gbps).
On the inside, the Samsung 840 series is very different from both the 830 series and the 840 Pro. The 840 series drive uses the new 3-bit-per-cell MLC NAND (also known as triple-level-cell or TLC NAND). In fact, it's the first mass-production consumer SSD that uses this type of flash memory.
TLC NAND is generally slower and cheaper than regular MLC NAND -- which is the mainstream flash memory for consumer-grade SSDs -- and has been more often used for other forms of flash-based storage devices, such as thumbdrives or memory sticks. Technical jargon aside, with the 840 series, Samsung's aim is to bring down the cost of SSDs. The question is, at what level of performance sacrifice? You can find the answer in the performance section below.
A shortcoming of the 840 series is that TLC flash memory generally has lower write endurance than other type of SSD NAND. Write endurance, also known as the program/erase (P/E) cycle, is an attribute that dictates how many times you can write and rewrite information on a memory cell before it won't retain the new information anymore. Because of that, the 840 series will likely become unreliable sooner than other SSDs. This might be why the Samsung 840 series comes with a three-year warranty, compared with the five-year warranty offered with the 840 Pro and the 830 series. The new drive also doesn't comes with capacities smaller than 120GB, since generally with SSDs, smaller capacities also means less P/E cycles.
In real-world usage, this lower write endurance is not really a big issue, however. Per my rough calculations, if you write/rewrite about 10GB of data daily, it would still takes about 7 years for a 250GB Samsung 840 series drive to run out of P/E cycles. Most of us don't write 10GB per day, at least not every day. But heavy users, such as video-editing professionals, should pick a different SSD for their job.
The 840 series comes in two retail packages: with and without the installation kit. The latter costs about $30 more than the former. The installation kit package includes accessories for first-time SSD buyers who want to have everything they need to clone their existing systems from a hard drive to the new SSD. The bare-bones version includes just the SSD and a CD that contains manual and the Samsung Magician 3.2 software.
The software offers a few handy tools for users to manage, test and customize their 840 series drive. One of these tools is the ability to toggle overprovisioning. The 840 series drive doesn't come with overprovisioning out of the box, leaving the users the options to manage this themselves. Overprovisioning is a feature that enables the use of part of an SSD's storage space to enhance the drive's performance. With the the 840 series, you can reserve between 7 and 24 percent of its storage for overprovisioning, making it one of the most flexible drives on the market when it comes to choosing between speed or maximum capacity.


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Drum Ř D: 3 1/2 in. (89mm)
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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest and longest coral reef system, stretching for 2,300km from the tip of Cape York in the north to Bundaberg in the south. Comprising 3,000 separate reefs and some 900 continental islands and coral cays, it's one of the world's great natural wonders. Home to over 1,500 species of fish, abundant marine life and over 200 types of birds, it's also one of Australia's greatest conservation successes. A World Heritage Area since 1981 (the world's first reef ecosystem to be recognised by UNESCO), it is highly protected and one of the best-managed marine areas on Earth.
The Great Barrier Reef is breathtaking to behold – and so is its size and scope. A vast interplay of ecosystems and their inhabitants, the reef is home to around 600 types of hard and soft corals. Hard corals form the 'backbone' of the reef, providing a living home for a huge range of marine animals, from fish and molluscs to plankton and algae. The annual coral spawning is an incredible sight: think of it as an underwater snowstorm, when millions of coral release eggs and sperm into the sea to reproduce, ensuring the survival of the reef.
The reef's islands range from tiny rocky outcrops, to sprawling national parks of untouched rainforest, to exclusive private resorts fringed with powder-white beaches. In the centre, the Whitsundays – an archipelago of 74 islands – can accessed by flying directly to Hamilton Island (the islands' main hub), or by ferry from Airlie Beach, the closest hub on the mainland. Stay on popular Whitsunday holiday locations like Hamilton Island and Long Island's Palm Bay Resort. On the Southern Great Barrier Reef, Heron Island is an eco-haven, with turtle nesting sites and an on-site research station. At the northern end of the reef, Lizard Island – 240km north of Cairns – is home to an ultra-luxe retreat with just 40 rooms.
Looking after the reef
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is home to a complex yet fragile ecosystem that, with almost three million visitors each year, requires careful management and conservation strategies. Sustainability is key and tourism operators play a crucial role in protecting and advocating that coral and marine life are preserved. Visitors, too can play an important role: look for and book with a high standard operator (those who have EcoTourism Australia or EarthCheck certification) to make a direct contribution to the conservation of the reef.
High standard operators include an environmental management charge (EMC) of $6.50 as part of their ticket price. You can also get involved with a number of organisations, including Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef, Reef Check Australia, Reef Teach and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, many of which offer voluntourism opportunities to help clean up the reef, monitor wildlife and collect invaluable data. Many tourism operators also encourage guests to act as 'citizen scientists', report observations and wildlife sightings via the Eye on the Reef app.
The Great Barrier Reef's extraordinary biodiversity of species and habitats make it one of the most complex natural systems on Earth. It's home to an incredible array of marine animals, including six of the world's seven marine turtle species, important dugong populations and Australia's underwater answer to Africa's Big Five game animals, The Great Eight (giant clams, manta rays, sharks, turtles, whales (both humpbacks and minkes), potato cod, Maori wrasse and clown fish).
The Great Barrier Reef is a living adventure playground. The most important question: what to do first?
There are thousands of snorkel and dive sites to explore along the Great Barrier Reef, from fringing reefs – accessible straight from the beach, at various islands – to centuries-old shipwrecks and remote bommies on the outer reef.
In the heart of the Great Barrier Reef you'll find Australia's best sailing destination, the Whitsunday Islands. Yachts of all sizes are available for charter, either with a full crew or captain your own bareboat and charter your own course. Hop between bustling marinas at Hamilton Island and Airlie Beach or drop anchor alongside deserted beaches.
The reef is breathtaking from above and offers a unique perspective of its sheer size. Take a scenic flight from Port Douglas or Cairns to Mackay or Vlassoff cays for snorkelling, or from Airlie Beach or Hamilton Island, fly over famous Heart Reef and land at Whitehaven Beach for a gourmet picnic.
You can easily experience the reef on a day-trip (or even a half-day). These depart from Cairns, Port Douglas, Townsville, Airlie Beach, Town of 1770, Bundaberg and many other points along the coastline.
For something really special, spend a night on the reef. Cruise to an offshore pontoon and sleep under the stars with just a handful of other people. Or be lulled to sleep by the gentle waves with a night on a private yacht.
There are 900 islands and coral cays throughout the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, offering luxurious resorts, beach campsites, eco-experiences and wildlife encounters. Discover quiet beaches and untouched national parks in the Southern Great Barrier Reef, vibrant resorts in the Whitsundays and rugged remote outposts in the Northern Great Barrier Reef.
Accessible resorts, snorkelling and diving adventures, animal encounters and eco experiences make the reef perfect for families. The reef is the ideal place to learn to snorkel, while hands-on "meet the reef" experiences will give kids the chance to learn about marine wildlife and the ecosystem. Glass-bottom boat tours are a great way to see the reef, while on dry land, Reef HQ Great Barrier Reef in Townsville and the Cairns Aquarium are educational and fun.
Depending on where you are, most of the reef sits between 15km and 150km offshore – with some reef areas accessible from beaches on Australia's mainland coastline. If you're short of time, try Horseshoe Bay in the town of Bowen. Here's how to access it from along the Queensland coast.


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One of Delhi's favourite escapades, Neemrana is an ancient historical town in Alwar district of Rajasthan, situated about 100 km from Delhi. The Fort Palace is reputedly known as India's first heritage hotel and a 5-Star location. Neemrana is also one of the best destinations that is famous for its adventure-driven activities.
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Neemrana Flying Fox adventure consists of 5 zip lines up to 400m long and lasts an approximate 2 to 2.5 hours. This exciting activity lets you glide serenely over the majestic Neemrana , Aravalli ranges and offers stunning views of the Rajasthan countryside.
The activity begins with your arrival at the starting point where you get a comprehensive verbal and written safety brief and a practice session on a short trial zip line. The 5 zip lines are the Qila Slammer (330m long), Where Eagles Dare (400m), Pussy Galore (90m), Goodbye Mr Bond (250m) and The Big B (175m). These zip lines soar high above the Rajasthan countryside and offer magnificent views of the Aravalli Mountains and the Neemrana Fort-Palace.
Activities: Ziplining
Duration: 2 to 2.5 hours
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Ex-con faces fears of freedom after murder conviction at 16, 15-year term (Column)
When Gary "Malachi" Scott, then 16, was sentenced to 15 years to life for second-degree murder, there was no Facebook. No iPhones. People still bought much of their music on CDs and got their news from print. There had never been a black president of the United States. The twin towers at the World Trade Center in New York City were still standing.
The year was 1998.
On June 6, after spending much of his teens and his entire 20s behind bars, Scott walked through the gates of San Quentin State Prison into a different era. Now he faces the challenge of making a new life in a foreign world.
I had been told about Scott by San Quentin volunteers, who were impressed by his intellect and what he had achieved in prison.
Scott, who was raised by a single mother in South Central Los Angeles, was 15 when he and an older teen robbed and fatally shot a landscaper named Joel Sintora in Inglewood. Scott was sentenced to 15 years to life. He was sent to juvenile hall, then transferred to adult prison at 18.
He got his GED and associate degree behind bars. He became the sports editor of the San Quentin News, a prison newspaper run by inmates. The New York Times published an opinion article by Scott last year in which he argued that teen offenders shouldn't be sent to violent adult prisons. He helped found Kid C.A.T., an inmate group that works to address underlying issues that lead to juvenile incarceration.
A few days after Scott's release, I met with him to see how he was adjusting to freedom. He asked to be paroled to Alameda County, Calif., rather Los Angeles because he didn't want to go back to the same negative influences. Scott said he had been in a gang but had quit in prison.
Scott is a handsome man who looks much younger than his 31 years, wearing a University of California shirt, matching baseball cap and toting a book bag.
He had just finished a mandatory group counseling session in Berkeley that he must attend Monday through Friday as a condition of his parole.
How does it feel to go from prison, where every minute of his existence was controlled by the warden, to standing on a bustling street corner watching cars whiz past and crowds move in all directions?
"It's surreal," Scott said. "The first night I couldn't sleep because I was afraid it was a dream and when I woke up it wouldn't be real."
He is overwhelmed by all of the choices he faces, from what to order in a restaurant to whether to get a driver's license, and how to go about finding a job or perhaps trying to go to college.
"I never had a chance to be an adult," he said. "There's a whole lot I have to learn."
Scott is optimistic about his future. At the same time, life outside prison is daunting. He does not go places alone until someone first shows him the route, because he is afraid of getting lost.
In prison, there were only so many places he could go. To the San Quentin News office. The chow hall. The yard. Back to the cell so small he could touch the opposite walls if he spread his arms -- a space he shared with another inmate.
Now he has to learn to find his way in the big city. He said he suffers from "separation anxiety" because he left a lot of friends behind.
As we walked in downtown Berkeley, Calif., Scott's eyes never stopped scanning the street. He waited at each crosswalk for the pedestrian light to change to green, even though everyone else was jaywalking. He is terrified of breaking the law -- no matter how minor a transgression -- and winding up back in prison.
Besides counseling, Scott must attend drug, alcohol and tobacco testing every Monday. AA meetings twice a week. Acupuncture. Meetings with his parole officer.
I can't help but wonder: If Scott had positive adult role models to counteract the toxic influence of the streets and if he had made better choices, might he be on a different path today? He is a highly intelligent, clearly gifted young man.
Scott has been given a second chance -- a rare parole early in what could have been a life sentence.
As an ex-offender with a murder conviction on his record, Scott faces an uphill road.
But for now, he is savoring the bittersweet taste of freedom.


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"Where Will My Choices Lead?" Liahona, June 2012, 56–57
Where Will My Choices Lead?
Could Karina change her direction by changing her decisions?
Karina's smile faded. She began to sweat—and not because it was unusually hot that week. She looked around for help. But in spite of the crowd at the open house, no one seemed to notice her alone with the reporter and all her questions.
Until that moment, 17-year-old Karina had enjoyed volunteering at the Kyiv Ukraine Temple open house. Now, with the newspaper reporter waiting expectantly, her tongue seemed stuck.
Karina was afraid that because of past mistakes she was trying to overcome, God wouldn't help her.
Where Following the Crowd Leads
Growing up in the Church, Karina had dreamed of a temple marriage. But like many teens, she craved acceptance.
She wanted to be beautiful and popular like her older sister. She dreamed of standing out and being admired, but she was afraid of sticking out and being ridiculed. Wanting to follow in her father's footsteps at the police academy only increased the pressure. Out of 2,000 students, there were only 70 women. She both enjoyed the attention and dreaded it.
In her desire to fit in, she made some poor choices. "The pull of the world was strong," Karina says. "People around me drank and smoked. They pushed and I gave in. I enjoyed being part of a group that felt so carefree."
She knew what she was doing was wrong, but she wasn't thinking about where her choices would lead as she followed the crowd away from God (see Matthew 7:13–14).
Choosing to Change Means Changing Your Choices
One day a young man she liked said he respected her church's beliefs.
Ashamed that she wasn't living those beliefs better, Karina finally stopped to consider the path she was on (see Haggai 1:5–7). She realized that her decisions were leading her away from God, the companionship of the Holy Ghost, and her dream of an eternal family.
The only way to change her direction was to change the decisions she was making each day.1 But she wondered if she was already too far down the wrong path. Was it too late to change?
Karina decided to begin changing by praying and reading the scriptures daily. She started writing in her journal, which helped her recognize Heavenly Father's help each day. She changed the topic if conversations turned bad.
Her most difficult decision was to choose no friends for a time rather than choosing friends with a negative influence. She began looking for friends with higher standards.
The Importance of Hope
Over the months that followed, the adversary threw doubt and fear in her face at every decision. Sometimes she wondered if the effort to follow the Savior was worth it. Who she wanted to be seemed out of reach.
But as she watched how her parents and others with strong testimonies lived, she learned that there is something more powerful than doubt and fear—she learned that because of repentance, there is hope.
"I saw it was possible to live the right way," she says. "We aren't condemned by our mistakes. Heavenly Father has given us the chance to repent and change direction."
Turning away from her old choices and trying to follow the Savior each day have taught her that Heavenly Father is patient. "He has given me one chance after another to change and become a better person," she says. "He has helped me through difficult times."
Help Is There If We Choose to Follow
Karina squared her shoulders and turned back to the reporter. Her smile brightened. Heavenly Father had done so much for her already that she knew He would help her now.
After the reporter finished asking questions, Karina smiled and waved. The reporter smiled back and walked away. Karina couldn't remember much of what she said, but she would remember for a long time how she felt, knowing Heavenly Father is always within reach of those who choose to follow Him.


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This has been an eventful week when it comes to celebrity breakups...must be the run up to Christmas and/or end of the year.
First announcement was the breakup of the 3 year...(3 years... only?!) marriage between Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar, with the headlines claiming "She cheated! "
Well, as if that would make it all more plausible or credible.Why? Is poor Arun so hapless that one needs to applaud Elizabeth's prowess in pulling off the end of their marriage which such aplomb? Apparently their marriage has been over for a while now and that although "these are sad times" she seems to be healing herself by getting her freak on with Australian cricketer and "Mask" lookalike Shane Warne. As luck would have it...he too claims that his marriage is over which conveniently exonerates the dalliance that has created the outcry.
Shane Warne is nothing but a bit of rough to reawaken a slumbering libido...she needed it and I congratulate her. Come on, whatever the reasons for the end of their marriage are and that is their business, just looking at things from here Arun looks like a snooze fest on a Sunday afternoon after roast beef and Yorkshire pud... That Bolly has left the woods and this will be great for both her ego and her image. Come New Years he'll be texting somebody else's wife and making a mess of things while Liz will safety pin herself into another tight gown,boobs a blazing while on the arm of a young lothario half her age...mark my word. You have been Warne-d....
Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johanssen have also called it quits after only 2 years of marriage,citing work commitments as the culprits.This is a great shame as they made such a gorgeous couple and one truly applauded that union.Now I fear people are also applauding its dissolution by the bucket loads: woman all over the world must be forming a queue for Ryan's heart while singing Etta James' "At last": my love has come along..." Not that the men out there are getting a raw deal either! Two hotties released in one go...Christmas has come early.
The breakup statement made was:"We end our relationship with love and it's with love and kindness we leave it." Don't let the door bump you on the way out...is more likely what he/she wanted to say...
For the third and final breakup,the perennial young lovers Zac Effron and Vanessa Hudgens have parted ways, having reached their relationship sell by date. The press release indicates that:"It's nothing dramatic.There's no third party involved." I believe it's more likely that he has reached a higher hollywood echelon and she no longer fitted the part nor did she feel like competing...and she simply doesn't. From where I sit,Zac has a higher profile than Vanessa,he is more red carpet A list and his star his shooting through the heavens at warp speed. She doesn't quite have the same notoriety and hasn't really moved on from the ultimate hippy chick. To be frank,I can't quite name anything she has been in since her "High School Musical" days. Come on,name one thing... The statement goes on to say that "they have been together a long time and that they simply drifted apart" which makes absolute sense and no one can refute this simple but honest statement.
Zac will move on to Angelina...just kidding (she'll eat him alive or quite possibly adopt him) but definitely someone with equal A lister footing like the gorgeous Blake Lively or fabulous Leighton Meester and the fickle world will applaud that happy union.
Now...does anybody care who Kim Kardashian is now dating? Nah! I agree....I just enjoy watching her buttocks jostle for freedom within their too tight confinement and the only time I will care to hear anything about Justin Bieber is when he has shaved all his bloody hair off and joined the Hare Krishna's ...if truth be told.....not even then.
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Practical Arduino Book Review
Long-time Dobbs Codetalk readers may recall my Arduino review nearly a year ago. At the time, only a brief book programming the product existed. Apress has recently published a book that dives much deeper on the subject and walks readers through over a dozen Arduino projects. Read on for the review.
For any software developer interested in exploring embedded systems programming, the Arduino board provides an easy, expandable hardware platform to experiment on. However, learning how to make the board do something truly useful beyond the introductory texts written meant Googling for personal blogs of engineers and hobbyists who were willing to share their ideas. Even so, these posts often left much to the imagination and rarely delved into the step-by-step details of the what and why behind their projects. Thankfully, Practical Arduino authors Jonathan Oxer and Hugh Blemings have filled this void by writing a book with all the right details. Each of the featured projects provide the parts list, schematics, detailed assembly instructions, plenty of build photos, and most importantly, the complete source code listings that make the Arduino do its magic.
Projects described in the book include constructing a time lapse camera controller, an online thermometer, a rudimentary speech synthesizer, a weather station receiver, a water tank depth sensor and more. While these projects require additional hardware beyond the Arduino board, the costs are minimal compared to the education and fun that readers will have building and using the end-product creations. Readers entirely new to building electronics may need a primer before tackling these projects. O'Reilly's Make: imprint recently published an excellent introductory guide on the subject, titled Make: Electronics - Learning Through Discovery by Charles Platt. While reading this book is certainly not a prerequisite for Practical Arduino, it will make following and appreciating the schematics, design decisions and even the Arduino code logic vastly more relevant.
In addition to the book, the authors have created a Practical Arduino website that not only hosts the book's source code but also provides a way for its readership community to share their Arduino creations and code as well as keep visitors abreast of the latest developments in the Arduino community.
I really enjoyed reading this guide as well as building a few of the projects it advertised. Practical Arduino provides enough 'practical' projects that make it worthwhile to spend the time building the examples. The authors also maintained clear, non-condescending explanations and offered a number of ways to extend the creations beyond the builds in the book. More importantly, my skills on programming the Arduino along with my desire to build even more projects using this relatively inexpensive piece of programmable hardware increased exponentially. If you're interested in learning about what the Arduino is capable or, if you already have an Arduino but have yet to realize its full potential, Practical Arduino is a definite must-have book to show you the way to Arduino enlightenment.
Title: Practical Arduino
Authors: Jonathan Oxer and Hugh Blemings
Publisher: Apress
Pages: 500
Price: $39.99 US


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"People who didn't evacuate are stupid ... careless ... a danger to others ..."
Ringing any bells?
They were in denial ... selfish ... thought they were invulnerable.
Here we go again.
Prevention justicians, you know it goes deeper than that.
We've learned that blaming or shaming people for individual behavior that can lead to HIV infection won't get us out of this epidemic.
Blaming, shaming or defaming those who were in the path of Hurricane Sandy takes the spotlight away from where it needs to shine brightest: on the policies that have led to the non-creation or non-implementation of plans to safeguard a warming coastline while resources go to making NYC a playground for the wealthy ... on the relentless perfect storm of discrimination, inequity and greed that fuels the vulnerability of people of color, queers, disabled people and immigrants not only HIV infections but further marginalization in the face of a natural disaster ... and on the submerged histories of economics and politics that isolated the poor, the elderly and disabled in remote locations like Far Rockaway that are easily cut off from resources.
Have you ever lived in a shelter? If not, perhaps you wouldn't be eager to go off to one, sight unseen, cut off from friends and family. And if you have, you may be even LESS eager to go, especially if you are HIV positive, queer, gender non-conforming, sick or in pain, or elderly. People are resourceful in order to survive in shelters, but it's not easy -- check out this report from Queers for Economic Justice to learn more.
Did you ever try to get an elderly parent or grandparent to try to do something they don't want to do, let alone go to an unfamiliar shelter to sleep on a cot? Um, it can be pretty hard. But now how do you feel about political leaders calling your elders stupid and selfish?
It just doesn't sit right -- and it shouldn't.
But it's instructive -- policies taken on by elite city mayors and at other levels of government have put the housing and resources needed by elderly and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities in the path of big-profit developers and money-making schemes for decades -- leaving us ill-equipped (no pun intended) when natural disaster gets layered on the struggles to make it by day-to-day.
It's not our Grandma's fault, but blaming other Grandmas who don't look like us is awful easy when times get tough.
This situation isn't going away any time soon. Up to 40,000 New Yorkers may be in need of housing -- layered on top of an already strained system for housing support decimated by misguided policies and cuts -- and this city is just one of the areas in need. So get ready for another surge of blame as clean-up begins. As noted in the New York Times:
Word that some may have to leave their homes permanently caused further confusion and fear, particularly in public housing complexes heavily damaged by the storm.
At the Hammel Houses, a public housing complex in the Rockaways, saltwater stains from the storm surge were visible above first-floor windows, which like many in this part of New York City were all dark.
"They tell us we might evacuate," said Gloria Evans, 47, who has lived at apartment 1B at the houses since she moved there 26 years ago as a new mother.
"Are they going to help us? They can't just move everyone out and have no place to put them," she said.
We've asked you to consider donating to CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (also known as Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence), one of the groups at the forefront of community-based storm relief. CAAAV focuses on institutional violence that affects immigrant, poor and working-class communities such as worker exploitation, concentrated urban poverty, police brutality, immigration detention and deportation, and criminalization of youth and workers.
And as such, the guidance in their report-back from yesterday points an important way forward, even as digging out is in progress:
It is our responsibility to make sure that when the next disaster strikes (and there will be more), we have made the choices as a City to 1) ensure equality in distribution of services, 2) push for infrastructure rebuilding that is not bigger and better but that considers the new world we live in around climate change, and 3) build political power based on values of collective well-being and fairness.
It's imperative to listen to the voices of those who are living with the aftermath of Sandy, just as it is essential to have those living with HIV and those living in hard-hit communities leading our HIV/AIDS efforts. Prioritizing their ideas and resourcefulness in setting policies to deal not just with this crisis but in designing a city and country that is made safer by policies that bring equity is absolutely necessary -- and can't happen if we focus on shaming and blaming.


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By: Mike Farrell, Multichannel News
Time Warner Inc. chief financial officer John Martin told an audience at an industry conference Thursday that despite the sluggish advertising market, cable network growth is expected to soar over the next several years, driven by strong affiliate deals and the shift of available advertising dollars away from broadcast outlets.
Time Warner has been making moves to transform itself into a pure-play content company - shedding its Time Warner Cable distribution arm in a spinoff that netted the former parent company a $9.2 billion dividend and most recently announcing plans to separate its troubled AOL online unit.
At the Credit Suisse Media and Communications Convergence conference in Dana Point, Calif., Thursday, Martin said the cable networks business will be stronger than ever.
"Once you spin off AOL, 70% of the profits of the company is coming from cable networks," Martin said at the conference. "It's our view that the cable network space - and not all cable networks are created equal - but that space in general may be the best place to be in media over the next three- to- five years."
Martin's optimism was fueled by two factors - a steady revenue stream from affiliate fees and the growing trend for advertisers to shift their ad dollars from broadcast television to cable. He pointed to its TNT network, which gets higher ratings for its National Basketball Association contests than the broadcast networks. TNT also has a strong slate of original programs - 13 original shows this year compared to none in 2005.
Martin estimated that half of Turner Broadcasting Networks revenue comes from affiliate fees that have baked in contractual increases every year.
"The secular dynamics of the ad business in cable networks are really good as we continue to believe we're going to take advantage of what are really, really challenging trends in broadcast right now and that's not likely to change anytime soon," Martin said. "And we are going to manage the cost side so that we're going to grow expenses at a slower rate than revenue. So the cable networks should be a top line story as well as a margin expansion story."
Despite cable's success, however, CPMs (cost per thousand) for cable seriously lag those for broadcast shows. Martin estimated that cable, in general, attracts 60% of the audience but just 29% of the ad revenue. He added that is a little better at Turner (which he estimated gets about two-thirds the CPM awarded a typical broadcaster), but the overall CPM gap is beginning to close.
That was evident last year, which Martin said was the first year that cable networks saw any movement at all in the CPM gap. While it is unlikely that gap will close completely, it should continue to narrow, he said.
"I don't think we are under any notion or expectation that the gap is going to close that quickly and it doesn't have to," Martin said. "There is so much money sitting there that can come over to cable, if we get a little bit of that every year, it's going to be good news for us."
Martin agreed that general entertainment networks like Turner probably should get a little bigger slice of the pie.
"In general, our view is that as money moves from broadcast to cable, as audiences have moved from broadcast to cable, those networks that should benefit the most are those that look and feel like the broadcasters," Martin said. "Those networks that are general entertainment, but targeted, those that have the scale, the reach and the type of quality programming that advertisers that were comfortable with the branded environments they were buying on broadcast can feel equally as comfortable, if not more comfortable, with the branded environments they are buying on cable."
Martin pointed out that Time Warner withstood some harsh criticism several years ago when it decided to investing its resources in building its general entertainment channels and programming, rather than launching a slew of niche networks.
"Now as we sit here and we look at the television landscape, that strategy has proven to be pretty good," Martin said. "The value of any niche networks being launched now is probably be a little suspect."
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Region 10 school district eyes 2013-14 budget with small increase
BURLINGTON >> Regional School District 10 is not alone in the mission to hold down budgets for the 2013-14 school year, but superintendent Alan Beitman said that the district held some productive talks about their offering.
"There were very positive comments from the board," Beitman said. "They were pleased with the percentage."
Beitman presented the budget at the Board of Education's Feb. 25 meeting, at which point the board scheduled several follow-up workshops. The first of those workshops was on Monday, at which the board planned to discuss the district's schools and facilities. The rest of the budget items will be discussed during the Board of Education's regular meeting on March 11, and while the board hopes to finish their final review on March 25 -- one day before the budget's deadline -- winter weather has thrown off the schedule somewhat.
"We lost about two weeks with the snowstorm and the legal holiday," Beitman said, "so we're catching up."
Region 10 is currently mulling over a $35,847,005 proposal, which would include an increase of just $305,973. Aside from more new funds, which are not officially part of the proposal, the budget increase would be the smallest in 10 years, both in dollars and in percentage. If all of the new spending items are approved, the budget would grow by another $212,600. However, the resulting figure would still only be a 1.45 percent increase, making the 2013-14 proposal the third-smallest increase by percentage since 2004.
This budget proposal is subject to change, though, due to external pressures. Beitman said that the board asked for an update on magnet school tuitions, which were the basis of a lawsuit against the state in 2012. An arbitrator ruled that towns are not responsible for pre-school magnet programs, but the Connecticut General Assembly passed a bill in the final hours of their 2012 session to reverse that ruling. Legislative remedies are currently awaiting approval from the Joint Committee on Education, as the bill to restore the original ruling was referred to the committee on Jan. 16.
Beitman also said that the district will help explain how Region 10 uses federal grant funds. The district receives funds under IDA, Title I and Title II, and the Region 10 superintendent said he would put together a page breaking down the funds. The next meeting will also include an update on how all-day kindergarten is working, as well as its budgetary ramifications. According to Beitman, while the district incurred several one-time expenses to help build up the part-time kindergarten program to a full-day one, the only recurring expenses will be salary and benefits for teachers.
Monday night's meeting only got as far as discussing the district's elementary schools, according to Beitman. The next meeting, on March 11, will include a discussion of special services, curriculum and instruction, facilities, transportation, maintenance, athletics and new funds as long as time permits. Although the schedule said that the board will limit discussion to a two-hour span, the board could shift that schedule earlier if they finish earlier.
"It was a pleasant meeting," said Beitman. "It was a good discussion."
Reach Jason Siedzik at (860) 489-3121, ext. 321 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RCjsiedzik.


text: SARATOGA SPRINGS -- For state forest rangers, preventing fires starts with getting the message out about the need for increased safety during an extremely dry summer. Precipitation since June 1 is less than half the norm. Combined with this year's snowless winter, much of the surrounding region, including the Adirondacks, is a virtual tinderbox. "Back country fires are caused by two things: careless campers and lightning," said Lt. John Solan, who commands forest rangers in Saratoga and Washington counties. "These are the ones that are of particular concern to us right now. Even established fireplaces in developed campgrounds should be kept small and no fire should ever be left unattended. In primitive areas, we're discouraging fires altogether unless absolutely necessary." Three fires in the Adirondacks, one started by an unattended campfire, have already burned eight acres of wild lands. In the past six weeks, there have been 2.26 inches of precipitation -- 3.1 inches below the norm for this period -- with little relief in sight. Today's forecast calls for a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms, but such rain is often scattered and accompanied by lightning that can do more harm than good. "This will wet the ground, but it's not going to contribute much to alleviate the dry conditions," said Ray O'Keefe, a National Weather Service meteorologist based in Albany. The extended forecast through Thursday has more high temperatures and none of the soaking rain needed to reduce the threat of fire. Depending on how things play out, forest rangers in partnership with state police aircraft pilots, might begin doing aerial detection flights in the next week or so. Sometimes, lightning strikes in July can smolder below ground for many days and won't become evident, with smoke, until August. Solan said several small brush fires have occurred in recent weeks that local volunteer fire companies have handled because the blazes have been accessible, along roadsides or in backyards. On state lands, rangers are doing everything possible to get the word out about the need for increased fire safety. However, budget-related staff cuts is making the job more difficult. In 2008, there were 138 forest rangers statewide. There are now 114, a 17 percent reduction, state Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman David Winchell said. Also, Region 5, which encompasses the local area, used to have 12 seasonal rangers. "This year and last we had eight," he said. State Sen. Betty Little, R-Glens Falls, whose district includes the eastern Adirondacks, said summers have been wet enough the past few years that forest ranger numbers haven't been a concern. "Are we staffed well enough in the field?" she said. "We haven't had a need, which we could in the next few weeks." In dire situations, volunteer firefighters could be recruited and paid to help out, Little said. In light of existing conditions, the senator questioned a state law that prohibits harvesting of fallen trees on forest preserve lands. "On private lands, they continue to take pieces of dead wood out," she said. "A microburst downed thousands of trees on state land a while back. There's a lot of underbrush and debris in the forest. The drier it is, the more dangerous it is. We have to use extreme caution." Fire safety tips The Adirondacks are at a high fire danger level. The state Department of Environmental Conservation has issued the following safety tips: o When possible, use existing campfire rings and keep fires small. o Scrape away litter and any burnable material within a 10-foot circle to keep a campfire from spreading. o Never leave a campfire unattended. o Drown all fires with water. Make sure all embers, coals and sticks are wet. Stir the remains, add more water and stir again. o Use a cooking stove instead of a fire to prepare meals. o Campfires are prohibited in the Eastern High Peaks Wilderness. Also, the DEC has asked residents not to burn brush as this time, especially from late morning through early evening when it's most windy. People are also asked to be cautious with barbecue grills and to keep them away from brush, grass and other flammable materials. Don't dispose of charcoal ashes or embers until they are cool to the touch. The illegal use of fireworks can also start wildfires. For additional fire safety and wildfire prevention tips, go towww.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/7827.html