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Today we take to the high seas to bring you latest reports of a surge in world piracy attacks and the resulting cost to the economy.
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Pirates captured 1,181 seafarers in 2010, up 12.5 percent from 1,050 in 2009, while a total of 53 ships were hijacked in 2010, of which all but four occurred off the coast of Somalia. Eight crewmembers died in these incidents.
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Hijackings off the coast of Somalia accounted for 92 percent of all ship seizures last year, with 49 vessels hijacked and 1,016 crew members taken hostage. A total of 28 vessels and 638 hostages were still being held for ransom by Somali pirates as of 31 December 2010.
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The IMB attributed the reduction to the deterrence work of naval forces that have been patrolling the area since 2008 and to ships' application of self-protection measures.
An article in the Washington Post has more on this story. Follow the IMB record of piracy and armed robbery incidents on Twitter and view latest attacks on the IMB Live Piracy Map.
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Last August I photographed the wedding of David and Nicola at Millers of Netley, Dorrington, Shropshire. This was a fairytale outside wedding in the grounds of Netley Old Farm in Dorrington, surrounded by the rolling hills of Shropshire. Despite some last minute rain threats, the clouds held off and the outdoor service went perfectly, which made for great outdoor wedding photography.
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On May 18, 2018, Albany Law School celebrated 118 graduates at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.
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Opened on 06/05/2018 at 01:11:27 PM
Closed on 08/29/2019 at 05:43:18 PM
Last modified on 10/24/2019 at 05:01:12 PM
#6730 closed defect (rejected)
Subscribe links don't work with redirects
|Reported by:
|kzar, sebastian, pfrey, arthur
|Blocked By:
|Unknown / Cross platform
|Verified working:
|Review URL(s):
Ubuntu 16.04
Chrome 66
Adblock Plus 3.1
How to reproduce
- Go to https://twitter.com/greiner12/status/1003985379865833472
- Click on link in tweet
Observed behaviour
Tab opens with browser error page.
Expected behaviour
Tab opens with Adblock Plus options page asking you to confirm adding the EasyList filter list.
Further information
We've introduced subscribe.adblockplus.org URLs so that subscribe links can be shared on third-party platforms where URLs are automatically converted into links. However, major social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube not only convert URLs to links but also replace them with links to their own website which then redirect to the URL you wanted to link to.
However, since Adblock Plus merely checks URLs in links that are embedded on a page and not URLs it encounters in a redirect chain originating from a user clicking a link, it doesn't recognize these subscribe links.
Note that to avoid misuse, this feature should preferrably still be limited to actions that are initiated by the user so that it cannot be triggered programmatically by a website.
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comment:1 Changed on 10/04/2018 at 02:05:54 PM by kzar
I can reproduce this as you described, but I can't see an obvious way to fix the behaviour on the extension side.
My only suggestion is that we set up a webserver to respond to those requests with a nicely formatted "Would you like to add this subscription?" page that shows the user more information about the subscription in question. I suppose we'd have to be quite careful about which subscriptions could be linked to in this way, perhaps with a whitelist.
comment:2 Changed on 10/04/2018 at 02:29:13 PM by sebastian
Instead of handling HTTP(S) subscription links in a content script, we could detect those through the webRequest (or webNavigation) API, and then close the tab, and switch to the options page with the dialog to add the subscription. This would not only work for redirects, but also for subscription links that aren't in the DOM at page load yet (which is another scenario that is currently not supported).
comment:3 Changed on 10/04/2018 at 02:41:03 PM by kzar
Well, I attempted to do it that way but I didn't have much luck. The onCommitted navigation event fired for the original URL, not the URL we redirected to. I saw the onHeadersReceived event firing but for some reason it reported a 200 response with the original URL... despite when I used curl -I I saw the proper redirection response. Even if we figured out how to reliably capture navigations to subscription links, we'd then have trouble like Thomas hints figuring out if the user intended to trigger that navigation.
comment:4 Changed on 10/04/2018 at 02:54:39 PM by sebastian
I don't think you have to bother about status codes or headers. onBeforeRequest is called for each request (in the redirect chain), so you just need to match the URL and if it's in the form of a subscribe link, close the tab and prompt the user to add the subscription through the options page.
However, it's true that with this approach we cannot check if the URL was requested as a result of a user's gesture, or programmatically. But I guess, we have to live with that.
comment:5 follow-up: ↓ 6 Changed on 10/04/2018 at 03:52:37 PM by kzar
Oh yea, you're right, the onBeforeRequest does what we want here.
So, we could catch main_frame requests to https://subscribe.adblockplus.org/* with onBeforeRequest, and then open the options page instead. But, I don't think we have a way to know if the request was user triggered.
Allowing websites to trigger the options page to open a Adblock Plus subscription dialog might be a worse user experience than having these redirected subscription link clicks fail. What do you think Thomas?
comment:6 in reply to: ↑ 5 Changed on 10/04/2018 at 05:18:44 PM by greiner
Replying to sebastian:
However, it's true that with this approach we cannot check if the URL was requested as a result of a user's gesture, or programmatically. But I guess, we have to live with that.
Unfortunately, I don't think we can live with that. Imagine any of the dozens of tabs that users might have open, programmatically triggering the options page to show up and suggesting to add a filter list.
Not only could that be annoying and confusing to the user but it would look like Adblock Plus is the one who's suggesting to add a filter list. That last point can have quite severe implications.
Replying to kzar:
Allowing websites to trigger the options page to open a Adblock Plus subscription dialog might be a worse user experience than having these redirected subscription link clicks fail. What do you think Thomas?
I wouldn't worry about the failing clicks at this point. All we'd have to do to fix that is set up a static web page under subscribe.adblockplus.org, the foundation for which has already been laid way back in #2248.
But yes, a bad user experience is one of the various issues with that approach, as mentioned above.
comment:7 Changed on 10/04/2018 at 09:06:40 PM by sebastian
If a website is programmatically trying to open a new document (without user gesture), this is already blocked by default (through the popup blocking mechanism in all modern browsers).
(And even if there would still be a way for a website to programmatically open the options page, they can anyway by navigating to chrome-extension://cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb/options.html. Sure the user wouldn't be prompted to add a subscription then, but that is just a coincidence since back then we decided merely due to technical issues to pass this information through messaging rather than through an URL fragment. But the annoyance would be similar, and it still look like it's us doing it.)
comment:8 Changed on 10/05/2018 at 10:49:55 AM by kzar
...they can anyway by navigating to chrome-extension://cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb/options.html
I'm not sure that's true. I just did a test and ran window.location.href = "chrome-extension://cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb/options.html" (well with the right extension ID for my unpacked copy of the extension) in the console for a random tab and it navigated me to about:blank instead. Perhaps there's another way for a website to get around that though?
comment:9 follow-up: ↓ 10 Changed on 10/05/2018 at 12:27:11 PM by sebastian
You seem to be right, I just tried it out and both setting window.location.href to an extension page, or clicking a link with an extension page URL in it's href attribute, navigates to about:blank.
Perhaps, we could use a combination of content script (in order to detect if the link was clicked through user gesture) and onBeforeRequest listener (in order to account for the final URL).
comment:10 in reply to: ↑ 9 Changed on 10/05/2018 at 01:23:18 PM by kzar
Replying to sebastian:
Perhaps, we could use a combination of content script (in order to detect if the link was clicked through user gesture) and onBeforeRequest listener (in order to account for the final URL).
Yea, I considered that too. The content script could send a message when any link was clicked, then we store some record of "user initiated" navigation in the background. Then (hopefully afterwards) when we intercept the request to the subscription URL, if the initiator URL matches the URL we stored already we could trust it.
Even ignoring the added complexity, I'm not sure that's feasible in practice. I wonder if we can guarantee the message from the content script would arrive before we intercept the request. Also, in the case of a request that was redirected twice we might no longer recognise the URL. We'd have to somehow know to trash these URL too, otherwise we would create a memory leak.
comment:11 Changed on 10/05/2018 at 01:43:26 PM by sebastian
I suppose, we could listen to onBeforeRedirect and then follow the whole redirect chain form the original URL of the link that has been clicked by the user.
Or maybe a simpler but sufficient approach would be to just record that any link has been clicked by the user in a particular tab, and if navigation to a subscribe link occurs within that tab, while the tab is still active, prompt the user to add the subscription.
comment:12 Changed on 08/29/2019 at 05:43:18 PM by sebastian
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- Resolution set to rejected
- Status changed from new to closed
Sorry, but we switched to GitLab. If this issue is still relevant, please file it again in the new issue tracker.
comment:13 Changed on 10/24/2019 at 05:01:12 PM by greiner
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Bashir said he had no problems supporting India when not watching a Pakistan match.WorldCup2015 Updated: Mar 10, 2015, 23:49 IST
Three heart attacks haven't stopped Pakistan cricket fan Mohammad Bashir from following his team around the world.
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Irish and Indian fans get ready for the Cricket World Cup match between India and Ireland in Hamilton, March 10, 2015. REUTERS
Bashir said he had no problems supporting India when not watching a Pakistan match.
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Wearing their team's blue kit and holding the tri-colour national flag, the Swami Army were out in force.
Irish and Indian fans get ready for the Cricket World Cup match between India and Ireland in Hamilton, March 10, 2015. REUTERS
The green, orange and white flags flew in large parts of the stadium, while fans were also displaying "won't give it back" placards, referring to the World Cup trophy which India won on home soil four years ago.
Some people brought traditional Dhol drums, banging them to the screams of "Jeetay ga bhai jeetay ga, India jeetay ga (India will win) from the stands in a festive atmosphere.
"I have brought a group of around 550 fans from various parts of India and its a two-in-one pack for me as I earn as well as watch the match on tour," said Manas Kolay, who had travelled from the holiday resort of Goa.
Arun Goyal lives in Hamilton and any cricket match involving India brings back memories of his native country.
"I come to watch this match to remember India," said Goyal, born and brought up in Mumbai. It's an atmosphere which reminds me of the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
"I miss my country but for the last two days I am hosting some friends from Mumbai and cricket has given me some relief."
A handful of Irish fans were also at Seddon Park, cheering on the non-Test side, who still have a shot at the quarter-finals but were not expected to beat India.
But don't tell that to Ireland supporter Anthea Graham.
"I am following Ireland from Nelson to Hamilton," she said. "My team is the best in the world and they will beat India to go into the quarter-finals.
"From here me and my husband will go to Adelaide and remind Pakistan how good we are as a team, having beaten them before," Graham added, referring to Ireland's shock win over Pakistan in the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean.


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Banana (for potassium to regulate water in your body)
Papaya (for digestive enzymes)
Raspberries & Strawberries (for vitamin C and fiber)
Broccoli (vitamin C and fiber)
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Ice (To boost metabolism)
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Gifts Valued at Less Than $50
A Member, officer, or employee may accept a gift, other than cash or cash equivalent, having a value of less than $50, provided that the source of the gift is not a registered lobbyist, foreign agent, or private entity that retains or employs such individuals. The cumulative value of gifts that may be accepted from any one source in a calendar year must be less than $100. Gifts having a value of less than $10 do not count toward the annual limit. While the rule does not require Members and staff to maintain formal records of the gifts accepted under this provision, the rule does require that Members and staff make a good faith effort to comply with its terms (House Rule 25, clause 5(a)(1)(B)).
The figures of $50, $100, and $10 are actually dollar limits of, respectively, $49.99, $99.99, and $9.99. Gifts of "cash or cash equivalent" are not acceptable under this provision. Hence, under this provision, one may not accept a gift of cash or, for example, a check, use of a credit card, or a security, even if the gift would be within the stated dollar limitations. The Standards Committee has determined that gift cards which are redeemable for purchases at a retail establishment or restaurant are the equivalent of cash and therefore may not be accepted under the gift rule.
Definitions of Registered Lobbyist and Agent of a Foreign Principal. The gift rule defines the term "registered lobbyist" as "a lobbyist registered under the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act or any successor statute," and the term "agent of a foreign principal" as "an agent registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act" (House Rule 25, clause 5(g)).
With regard to registered lobbyists, the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-65) is a successor statute to the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act. The Lobbying Disclosure Act in turn defines the term "lobbyist" to mean "any individual" who engages in certain activities set forth in the act. 2 U.S.C. § 1602(10). Accordingly, the Committee interprets the prohibitions on registered lobbyists that are set forth in the gift rule to apply to the individuals who are registered as lobbyists under that Act, as well as to lobbying firms.
Application of the Rule in Specific Circumstances
In accepting any gift under the general gift rule provision, a Member, officer, or employee must comply with the following interpretative rules:
No "Buydowns." A Member or staff person may not "buy down" the value of a gift in order to bring it within the dollar limitations of the provision.
Example 6. A staff member taken to a restaurant by a local businessman may not order an expensive meal and simply pay his host the amount by which the bill for his food and beverages exceeds $49.99. If the bill for his food and beverages exceeds $49.99, he must pay the entire bill himself.
Example 7. A Member is offered a skybox ticket to a baseball game valued at $60. The Member may not accept the ticket simply by paying the offeror $11. If the Member wishes to accept the ticket, he must pay the offeror $60.
Example 8. During the year, a staff member has accepted meals and other gifts from a corporation that does not retain or employ lobbyists or registered foreign agents, each of which had a value of $10 or more, and the cumulative value of which is $85. The staff member may not then accept a meal having a value of $20 from that corporation simply by paying the corporation $6. Instead, he must either decline the meal or personally pay its cost in full.
However, when an individual is offered a gift with a value of $50 or more that is naturally divisible – such as multiple tickets to an event, or bottles of wine – the individual may accept one or more items that total less than $50 in value and either pay market value for or decline the others.
Example 9. A staff person is offered four tickets to a baseball game, each having a value of $15. The staff person may accept three of the tickets, but he must either decline or pay the full price of the fourth ticket.
The "Source" of a Gift. A gift received from an individual affiliated with an organization counts against the annual gift limitation of both the individual and the organization.
Example 10. A committee staff person accepts a lunch valued at $15 from a representative of a nonprofit organization that does not retain or employ lobbyists or registered foreign agents. Both the representative and the organization are deemed to be the "source" of the lunch, and the annual gift limit of both for that staff person will be reduced accordingly.
"Simultaneous Gifts." Generally, when multiple items, each individually worth less than $50, are offered simultaneously to any individual, the "gift" being offered is deemed to be the aggregate of all the items.
Example 11. A corporation that does not retain or employ lobbyists or registered foreign agents sends a Member a box of samples of its products. The box includes 6 products, each of which has a value of about $10.00. The box cannot be accepted under this provision, as its total value exceeds the per-gift limit of less than $50.
Valuation of Gifts. Under the gift rule, items are generally valued at their retail, rather than wholesale, price. The lowest price at which an item is available to the public may be used. However, for the purpose of simplicity, tax that would be imposed on the sale of the item, as well as gratuities, are excluded in determining the value of any gift.
For further information on the valuation of gifts – including tickets to sporting events and shows – see the section below entitled "Pay Market Value for the Gift."
Recipient of a Gift. At times a question may arise as to who is the recipient of a gift: a Member or individual members of his or her staff. As a general matter, this question is to be decided according to the expressed intent of the donor. Thus, for example, when an individual delivers several tickets to a sporting event to an office and indicates that the tickets are for use by the staff, the tickets are treated as a gift to each individual staff person who uses them, rather than as a single gift to the Member. If, however, the donor indicates that the tickets are for the Member's use, all of the tickets will be treated as a gift to the Member.
Another example concerns the delivery of perishable food, such as pizza, to a House office for consumption by staff. In such an instance, the gift of food sent to a House office is deemed to be a gift to the individual recipients, and not to the employing Member. Thus, when a private source sends perishable food to a House office for staff, each staff member may accept food having a value of up to $49.99, subject to the following restrictions and limitations –
- If the source of the gift of food is a registered lobbyist, agent of a foreign principal, or private entity that retains or employs such individuals, the food may not be accepted. Because it is often a lobbyist or client of a lobbyist that is the source of the food being sent to a House office, Members and staff should exercise caution before accepting the food. Even if the food is from a permissible source, the following limitations must be observed.
- Each staff member must comply with the annual gift limitation of less than $100 from any source in a calendar year. Any gift having a value of less than $10 does not count against the annual limitation. In order to comply in good faith with the dollar limitation on gifts, a staff member who is offered such a gift of food must learn both the identity of the donor and the dollar value of the food provided.25
- While, as noted above, the gift rule provides that a gift valued at less than $10 is generally acceptable, the Committee has long advised that to accept such a gift from one source on a repetitive basis is contrary to the spirit of the gift rule, and hence is not permissible under the House Code of Official Conduct.26 Accordingly, it would be impermissible for a staff member to accept gifts of perishable food, even if valued at less than $10 each, from any one source on a repetitive basis.
- The Committee has also long advised that a gift of food sent to a House office for staff, even if within the dollar limits of the gift rule, must be refused if the person offering it has a direct interest in the particular legislation or other official business on which staff is working at the time. In addition to possibly violating the gift rule restriction on accepting lobbyist gifts, as discussed above, the gift of food may also be considered an improper gratuity or inducement to take a particular action.
- While the gift rule sets out the categories of gifts that a Member of staff person may accept if offered, Members and staff are generally prohibited from soliciting gifts. Accordingly, a Member or a staff person may never request or suggest that anyone send a gift of food to a House office.
Members and staff should also note that this gift rule provision (House Rule 25, clause 5(a)(1)(B)) does not affect the prohibition against accepting food or beverages from any private organization or individual for any event sponsored by a House office, such as a meeting, a conference, or a briefing. A separate rule (House Rule 24, clause 1 to 3) generally prohibits Members and staff from accepting private subsidy for official House business, including events sponsored by a Member, committee or leadership office, a caucus, or any other House office
On the other hand, when a House office fields a sports team in, for example, a local softball league or joins with others in fielding a team, and an outsider offers to sponsor the team by providing caps, T-shirts, or other benefits to team members, a different application of the gift rule applies. In such a case, the benefits provided to the staff members are treated as one gift to the employing Member, valued at their total fair market retail value. Any such gift is acceptable only if its total value is less than $50 (and the gift is not from a lobbyist or entity that employs a lobbyist), and the Member may not accept gifts from that source having a value of $100 or more in a calendar year. In addition, with regard to sponsorship of a House office team, an offer of an outsider to pay any league entry fee may not be accepted.
Adhering to the Spirit of the Rule. Under the House Code of Official Conduct, Members and staff must adhere to the spirit as well as the letter of the Rules of the House (House Rule 23, clause 2). To repeatedly accept gifts valued at under $10 from a source would violate the spirit of the gift rule and hence be impermissible.
Relationship of the General Provision on Acceptable Gifts to the Specific Provisions
When a gift satisfies each of the requirements of any of the specific provisions of the gift rule on acceptable gifts – for example, a book under the "informational materials" provision (House Rule 25, clause 5(a)(3)(I)) – the gift may be accepted even if its value is $50 or more. Furthermore, in that circumstance, the value of the gift does not count against the donor's annual gift limitation of less than $100.
In addition, the gift rule does not restrict Members and staff from accepting, even when the donor is a registered lobbyist, agent of a foreign principal, or private entity that retains or employs such individuals, gifts that fall within one of the specific gift rule provisions (often referred to as the "exceptions" to the rule) or general waivers the Standards Committee has issued. Those specific provisions are discussed below.


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Most deaths caused by the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum result from the onset of cerebral malaria. This severe neurological condition arises when parasites accumulate within the brain vasculature. Numerous studies over the years, using a mouse model of experimental cerebral malaria (ECM), have also revealed that host immune cells play a critical part.
Previous research from Laurent Rénia at the A*STAR Singapore Immunology Network had highlighted the prominent contribution of cells known as cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs). His team has now uncovered the mechanism by which these cells promote ECM. CTLs are normally responsible for destroying cancerous or infected cells, but the researchers suspected that ECM may result from parasite-targeting CTLs that also attack and damage blood vessels in the brain.
Rénia and co-workers developed tools for detecting these CTLs and their target cells. They then determined that mice infected with Plasmodium berghei ANKA (PbA), an ECM-causing parasite subtype, specifically elicit CTLs targeted against a particular polypeptide chunk from a parasite-derived protein. Mice infected with PbA began producing CTLs that recognize this polypeptide within five days, and these cells migrated to the brain shortly afterward. The researchers also examined three Plasmodium parasite strains that do not trigger ECM and were surprised to find that these elicited a similar CTL response.
A closer examination of blood vessels from the brains of infected mice revealed the missing piece of the puzzle. Red blood cells infected by ECM-causing parasites exhibit a tendency to accumulate within these vessels, while those from non-ECM-causing parasites do not. Rénia and co-workers determined that when this accumulation occurs, the endothelial cells that line these blood vessels absorb and then display CTL-targeted parasite proteins via a mechanism termed 'cross-presentation'.
These cross-presenting cells subsequently become targets for CTL-mediated destruction, creating leaks that give malarial parasites access to the brain. Importantly, prompt treatment with antimalarial drugs can rapidly clear these parasites from the blood vessels, thereby preventing the onset of ECM.
Rénia hypothesizes that ECM specifically arises from parasite species possessing some innate characteristic that makes infected cells 'stickier'. "We were surprised that this subtle difference in parasite biology of sequestration versus non-sequestration leads to such huge differences in pathology," he says. Despite there being other known examples of endothelial cross-presentation, the mechanism remains poorly understood. Rénia is keen to uncover how Plasmodium deflects the immune response. "This is an interesting biological question, because endothelial cells are not infected by these parasites," he says.
The A*STAR-affiliated researchers contributing to this research are from the Singapore Immunology Network.


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So here we are in November! As I look outside the studio windows I can see people walking past wrapped up in their winter coats, the sky is a slate grey and I feel like hiding back under the duvet. However I have these photographs from the wonderful Thailand wedding at the Four Seasons to look at and brighten my week.
We photographed Ali & Carol's London Civil wedding back in 2015 and we were blown away when they asked if we'd come out to Koh Samui to photograph their celebration. Along with their friends and family we had the trip of a lifetime touring around Thailand (more of the at to come).
The day itself was perfect in everyway. Ali & Carol are two of the nicest (and coolest) people we've had the pleasure to spend time with. Photographing their wedding was a highlight of our career and also humbling to be a part of – we're forever grateful!
The day started out looking out over the picture perfect view from the spectacular entrance to the Four Seasons Resort. We then made our way, by buggy, down to Carol & Ali's Apartment complete with infinity pool and yet another spectacular view. The wedding itself took place in the intimacy of the beach cove flanked by a beautiful greenery arch.
As the sun set the reception began under a full moon and a canopy of lights. The food was incredible and the speeches heartfelt – Ali's Sister Jocelyn's left me in tears.
We have been so lucky to spend time with Ali & Carol over the last two years – I'm looking forward to our next pizza date!!
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Learn to make and enjoy this wonderful salad, perfect for a relaxing summer day.
- 500g pasta shapes
- 50g pitted black olives
- 2 large tomatoes
- 1 large red capsicum (pepper)
- 3 spring onions
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley
- 1/8 cup fresh basil
- 3 rashes lean bacon
- 70-100g fresh Feta cheese, crumbled.
- 25g fresh Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1-2 TB lemon juice (to taste)
- 1-2 tsp mustard (to taste)
1Cook the pasta according to packet directions until al dente (soft but with a slight bite). Drain and leave to cool.
2Prepare the remaining ingredients: Slice the olives and spring onions finely, roughly chop the herbs, finely slice the bacon and grate the Parmesan.
3Roast the capsicum (pepper) by placing it in the oven or under a griller until the skin is black and blistered. Place the capsicum in a zip lock plastic bag to cool.
4While the capsicum is cooling, peel the tomatoes by immersing them in boiling water for a few seconds until the skin splits, then plunging them into a large bowl of iced water. Dry the tomatoes and carefully remove the skin. Chop into chunks.
5Remove the capsicum from the bag and carefully peel the burnt skin away. Finely slice the remaining flesh.
6Dry fry the bacon in a non-stick pan until crisp. Cool slightly.
7Make a simple dressing by combining olive oil, lemon juice and mustard in a screw top jar and shake until ingredients are mixed evenly.
8To assemble the salad; place the pasta, olives, capsicum, tomatoes, bacon, grated Parmesan and herbs in a large bowl. Crumble over Feta cheese.
9Toss ingredients with dressing. Serve immediately.
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- The salad should keep for 2-3 days in a sealed container in the fridge but is unsuitable for freezing.Thanks!
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- Salad should serve 6-8 as a side dish.Thanks!
- Roasted capsicum peppers can be bought from the supermarket in jars of oil, if you prefer. Drain thoroughly on paper towels before adding to the salad.Thanks!
- If you are short on time, a bought olive oil or vinaigrette dressing (such as Italian or French) can be used.Thanks!
- Be careful not to overcook the capsicum; the skin should be black and blistered but the flesh should still be dark red with no trace of burning.Thanks!
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In this position, King will be responsible for managing the Foundation's fundraising program and building a solid donor base to support student scholarships, academic program enhancements, equipment and other needs that build student success. She will also identify, cultivate and steward major and planned gift donors in support of the Foundation's mission.
"Anne has dedicated her career to assisting nonprofits reach the goals fundamental to their health and longevity by engaging donors on a deeper level," said Norbert Tan, executive director of the Foundation. "As a longtime volunteer for many nonprofits, she relates to donors on many levels."
"Giving people the opportunity to change the world through a contribution of time, talent and treasure is an honor. I'm proud to invite people to participate in the mission of the Ventura College Foundation," added King.
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12 Things You Should Give Up If You Want To Have A Successful Expatriation Adventure In France
I read somewhere online that the definition of hell could be summarized in the following quote:
"On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become." — Anonymous
Sometimes, to become successful, and get closer to the person we can become, we don't need to add more things, rather we need to give up on some of them instead.
There are certain things that are universal, which, if you give up on them, you will be successful, even though each one of us could have a different definition of a successful expatriation adventure.
So, what are the things one should totally give up to have an excitingly successful expatriation adventure in France? Here's my take on this:
1. Give Up On The Unhealthy Lifestyle
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." — Jim Rohn
If you really want to move to Paris anytime soon (or you're probably already here), it all starts right here. First you have to take care of your health, and the two main things you need to keep in mind are:
1. Eating Well (Healthy Diet)
2. Physical Activity
Small steps, but you will thank yourself one day. French people don't hate plus size people. They simply don't understand how one could embrace a lifestyle and food habits that lead to being obese. The French have a very old and strong culture around food and health, and most of them just can't project themselves in a situation where they become really fat, for no other reason than an unhealthy lifestyle.
You will need to be fit if you want to make it here.
2. Give Up The Short-term Mindset
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." — Mae West
Successful expatriates in France set long-term goals, and they know that these aims are merely the result of short-term habits that they need to do on a daily basis. These healthy habits shouldn't only be something you do; they should be part of who you are.
3. Give Up Playing Small
"Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson
If you never try and take great opportunities while you live in France, or allow your dreams to become realities, you won't ever reach your true potential. And the country that's hosting you or friends and family back home will never benefit from what you could have achieved.
So, here's the thing, voice your ideas, don't be afraid to fail, and certainly don't be afraid to succeed. The French hate lazy people and they aren't huge fans of successful people neither ( the French Paradox).
4. Give Up Your Excuses
"It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand." ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Successful expats know that they are responsible for their expatriation adventure, no matter their starting point, weaknesses, past failures, laws and regulations in their host country.
Remember that you are responsible for what happens next in your life in France.
That's really frightening!
But it's also exciting, I think.
Avoid making excuses and I guarantee you can make it in France because excuses will limit and prevent you from growing personally and professionally.
It's your movie! You're the main character and no one else.
5. Give Up The Fixed Mindset
"The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways." ― Robert Greene, Mastery
In a fixed mindset, we tend to think that our intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits and that talent alone makes things work — without any effort.
You know what?
I've found that that's completely wrong.
Every successful expat in France knows this.
They invest an immense amount of time on a daily basis to develop a growth mindset, acquire new knowledge, learn new skills and change their perception of France and the French people so that it can benefit their lives.
Don't forget that the person you are today, isn't necessarily the one you have to be tomorrow.
6. Give Up Believing In The "Magic Bullet."
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better" — Émile Coué
Pardon me, but I tend to believe that the idea of an overnight success is a myth.
Successful expatriates know that making small continuous improvements on a daily basis, will be compounded over time, and give them desired and expected results.
That's why, even if you're planning for the future - to move, live and retire in France for instance - do focus on the day that's ahead of you, and improve just 1%.
Is it your French language skills that you want to improve?
Is it your network of friends that you want to enlarge?
Start now! You're doing it for your future!
Start right now!
7. Give Up Your Perfectionism
"Shipping beats perfection." — Kahn Academy's Development Mantra
I don't believe in perfectionism because I think nothing can ever be perfect, no matter how much we try.
The Fear of failure after you've moved here (or even fear of success) often prevents many expats from taking action and showing their creative initiatives to the world. By waiting for things to be right, we often lose a lot of opportunities.
So, "ship," and then improve (by 1%).
8. Give Up Multi-tasking
"You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks." ― Winston S. Churchill
Successful expats know this pretty well.
That's the reason why they've always chosen one thing and then beat it into submission.
No matter what, a startup idea, a conversation, or a workout.
Being fully present and committed to one task, is indispensable.
Also, do what you like the most and delegate!
9. Give Up Saying YES To Things That Don't Support Your Goals
"At 70 years old, if I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be to use the words 'f**k off' much more frequently." -Mirren
Successful expats know that to accomplish their goals, they need to learn to say NO to some tasks, activities, and demands from friends, family, and colleagues.
Are you so bad at saying 'no'?
Are you a people-pleaser and hate to say 'no'?
Unless you feel 100% comfortable about a project/request and its proposed outcomes, you should say 'no'.
Believe me, on a short-term, you might sacrifice a bit of instant gratification, but when your goals come to fruition, it will be worth it.
10. Give Up The Toxic People
"People inspire you, or they drain you—pick them wisely." – Hans F. Hansen
You can't distance yourself from toxic people until you first become aware of who they are.
Stay away (at all costs) from the following toxic drainers:
● Gossip
● The Temperamental
● The Victim
● The Self-Absorbed
● The Envious
● The Manipulator
● The Dementor
● The Twisted
● The Judgmental
● The Arrogant
11. Give Up Your Dependency on Social Media & Television
"The trouble is, you think you have time" — Jack Kornfield
Impulsive web browsing and television watching is a disease of today's global and French society.
These two should never be an escape from your life or your goals to successfully live in France.
Unless your goals depend on either, you have to minimize (or eliminate) your dependency on them and direct that time towards things that can enrich your experience during your time in this country.
Go to conferences, meet up with other expats and locals in your city, read, improve your language skills, volunteer, go to the museum, write about your experience in France.
Since you don't have time, you should learn to utilize the little time wisely!
"When distractions disappear, ideas come,"
- Louise Gillespie-Smith
12. Give up your Ego
Working on yourself in fixing your egocentric behaviors can be very exhausting.
You have to go on a step-by-step journey.
In very small, but manageable steps.
Giving up your Ego is the way to go if you want to enjoy life in France.
Over to you
Thanks for reading, Happy Expatriation adventure and Bonne année.
Is there anything you think I should have added onto this list?
Please do share your ideas and insights down in the comments.
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US military reveals plans to deploy more fighter jets to Japanese bases
United States Defense Leon Panetta has stated plans are in motion to deploy the F-35 stealth fighter jet to military bases in Japan.
This would be the first overseas deployment of the aircraft, and they are scheduled to be sent to the U.S. Air Force base in Iwakuni by the year 2017. Panetta says the jets will be an important enhancement to the U.S.s security presence in the Asia-Pacific.
Giving a speech about the winding down of the war in Afghanistan, the Defense Secretary explained that it will still be necessary for the U.S. to maintain a projection of force, both in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. The plans for the future include relocating naval forces to achieve a 60/40 split between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, hopefully by 2020. After Iraq and Afghanistan, the other plan is to increase the presence of Army and Marine forces, as well as the militarys most advanced aircraft, which includes deployments of F-22s, MV-22 Ospreys, which arrived earlier this year to much protest in Okinawa, and now the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
In other regards to Okinawa, Panetta stated the U.S. had concluded some of the major agreements to relocate the large presence of military personnel on the island, and in turn develop Guam as a place for relocation. Rotating marine deployments have already been agreed upon in Australia, and the U.S. is also to expand that allies in the Philippines and Singapore. In terms of China, probably the largest motivation behind the increased presence in the Asia-Pacific, the U.S. hopes to expand its dialogue and exchanges with the country.
Source: UPI News - 19 December 2012
Photo: The U.S. Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Aircraft (Photo by defence.gov.au)


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The beaches of Amelia Island are now available to you 24-7. The local Convention and Visitor's Bureau, with the help of Paul from MyWebRefresh.com, have set up the first camera that will send a continuous picture of one section of our beatiful, pristine beaches.
The website is just being launched (You saw it here first!). Right now there is only one camera in operation but another is planned.
Those of you sitting in your cubicles far, far away from Amelia Island can now enyoy our beaches 24 hours a day. Log on early enough and you may even catch a sunrise!
You can check out the beach at http://www.ameliabeaches.com/.


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Pre-Orders now available
Friday, 15th May 2009
With over 170 species to choose from, you can be one of the first to order your new pet at a special pre-order price.
It's quick and easy to become a UK+ member, allowing additional saving.
Some species listed on the July 2009 Pre-Order are for experienced keepers only, you must fully understand the keeping requirements (including feeding habits). For example some snakes may only feed on live frogs and lizards i.e. Mangrove Snakes and Papuan Tree Boas.
Same goes for some species of lizards and amphibians - G.chamaeleontinus are very fragile and are difficult to keep in captivity. Your enclosure must be as natural as possible to ensure the health of your new exotic pet.
All CITES animals will need to be ordered before the deadline of Sunday 31st May. Orders for non-CITES species can be taken until Sunday 14th June.
This Pre-Order is due to arrive early-mid July 2009.
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Ford Motor Company said it has formed a partnership with ride-sharing service Lyft to deploy self-driving vehicles on Lyft's network in large numbers by 2021. The two companies will work together to design software that will allow Ford vehicles to communicate with Lyft's smartphone applications.
Sherif Marakby, Ford's vice president for autonomous vehicles and electrification, told Reuters that Ford self-driving vehicles will connect to Lyft's network, but customers won't be able to use them at first. Marakby said Ford plans to have human-driven vehicles on Lyft's network, but did not specify when Ford and Lyft will offer the first rides in autonomous cars.
Marakby said Ford doesn't intend on putting customers in self-driving vehicles until they are certain the technology delivers a "positive" and "reassuring" experience where the company can gain meaningful feedback.
"When ready, we'll have self-driving cars operating alongside Lyft's current community of drivers to help accommodate times of significant consumer demand to ensure that transportation remains timely and affordable," Marakby said.
Ford and Lyft will work together to enable the future dispatching of self-driving vehicles so that customers can get to their destination as safely as possible, Marakby said. Lyft will bring to the table its network of customers, growing demand for rides and knowledge of transportation flow within cities, while Ford will bring its experience with autonomous vehicle technology development and large scale manufacturing.
"With our combined capabilities, we believe we can effectively share information to help make the best decisions for the future," Marakby said. Ford will be focusing on how to create a technology platform so that it can easily connect with a partner's (such a Lyft's) to effectively dispatch a self-driving car.
Ford and Lyft will also focus on which cities they should work with to deliver the self-driving car service based on their shared data, and will also determine what kind of infrastructure will be necessary to service and maintain a fleet of self-driving vehicles to ensure they are available whenever a consumer needs one.
"We expect that our partnership with Lyft will accelerate our efforts to build a profitable and viable self-driving vehicle business," Marakby said. "With Lyft's network and respected brand experience, we expect our ability to scale self-driving vehicles will play a critical role in safely bringing this technology - and its many benefits - to mainstream consumers."


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2007 Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Spain is the winner of this year's Tour of Italy, becoming the first non-Italian to capture the three-week cycling race since 1996.
Contador defeated runner-up Riccardo Ricco of Italy 1:57 over the 2,424-kilometer course. Contador had had only a four-second lead entering Sunday's 28.5 - kilometer time trial from Cesano Maderno to Milan, but he finished 11th and Ricco was 68th.
The final stage winner was Italian Marco Pinotti in 32:45.
Contador joins Miguel Indurain, who won in 1992 and 1993, as the only Spaniards to win the Tour of Italy. Contador won this year's event without taking a single stage. Placing third overall was Italian Marzio Bruseghin.
The top American finisher in this year's race was Levi Leipheimer in 18th place.
Contador will not have the chance to defend his Tour de France title because his team, Astana, has been excluded from the race this year due to a team doping scandal before he joined them.
Astana was invited to enter the Tour of Italy only one week before its start.
Some information for this report was provided by AP.


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Three Poems by Kevin Prufer
And you said, darling, if you could just wait in the car for ten minutes and I'll be right
And the sliding doors opened for you like a coat.
Then the car ticked like the contented in the catatonic snow
and the black boys at the bus stop laughed in their hoods until a bus dragged them
through the night and away
And a woman paced beneath the store.
Sometimes, I can hear the nation speak through the accumulation of the suburbs
Olive Garden and Exxon; Bed, Bath & Beyond, the stars that throw their dimes
around us all
until the eyes say Love and the streets say Yes! and the parking lot
fills with angels blowing past the lines of freezing cars.
You had been inside for longer than you said, and when you reemerged
I went to help you with the bags. I'm sorry, sorryinto the cold airI couldn't help
What was the body but a vessel, and what was the store but another,
larger vessel? The keys sang in my numb fingers. The flag applauded in the wind.
And then I saw that you were smiling up at it.
[All poems are also included in National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008)]


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User Experience Designer | TRUSTe
Part I: Background
[This is part 1 in a series about the design of a TRUSTe Privacy Short Notice. To learn more see part 2 and part 3]
TRUSTe Short Notice and Icon Design
TRUSTe is currently in the process of designing an icon-based privacy short notice for simplifying and summarizing consumer-facing privacy statements in a browser-based client. The tool will initially be a simple, consumer-facing presentation layer of a TRUSTe-hosted XML-based policy database, but could ultimately become an open-source standard for inclusion by browser manufacturers available for certification by other third-party privacy authorities.
Background – Evolution of the Short Notice
The need for a privacy short notice has been around almost since the inception of the privacy policy. Policy policies as initially conceived were meant to afford consumers protection from poor data practices, but have since evolved to serve more as legal protection for the companies collecting the data. As such they are often needlessly complex and intentionally vague.
Problems with standard privacy policies:
Privacy Policies are difficult to read
o Most are written in legal jargon that is difficult for an average person to understand (Anton, 2007)
Misconceptions about protections afforded
o People don't read policies because they assume the existence of policy implies STRONG /false/ protection (Hoofnagle, 2008)
Amount of time to read policies is too great
o It would take upwards of 200 hours to read policy of every site encountered in a year (McDonald, 2008)
Lack of market differentiation
o Policies are equally vague about how data may be used, leaving consumers with no alternatives (KnowPrivacy 2009)
Need for a Short Notice
For these reasons there is a strong interest, especially among regulators and consumer advocates, to move beyond policies into easily digestible privacy short notices that can be represented in the browser. This brings to light a number of considerations for the design of a short notice:
- What privacy elements are in scope?
- Will the notice be icon based? What will the icons look like? Will they be open-standard?
- Should the icons represent good practices or bad? What are the incentives on the business if they are good or bad?
- How will the notice be rolled out to a customer? Will there be a tool that reads a policy and renders the notice from machine-readable code, and who will do this?
- Should the notice be site-based or browser-based?
- Should the protocol allow for both self-asserted and 3rd party verified policies?
Prior Approaches at Simplifying Privacy Notices
An early approach for simplifying the consumption of privacy policies was the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) developed by Lorrie Cranor (Carnegie Mellon CyLab), which enables sites to express their privacy practices in a standard format that can be interpreted easily by user agents (in both machine- and human-readable formats) and to automate decision-making based on these practices. At the time of its creation P3P was supported by both the W3C and Microsoft (who built P3P mechanisms into IE). Possible explanations for why P3P failed to take off are that it was too complicated or there was little actual demand on the part of web users (in 2007 the P3P working group officially abandoned the idea).
Privacy Nutrition Label
A short notice style of P3P agent which gained attention was the Privacy Nutrition Label by Patrick Gage Kelley (Carnegie Mellon CyLab), which was able to read P3P policies and display the results in a graphical matrix which compares the types of data collected to the uses of that data. While this approach is clean and much clearer than a text-based standard policy, it still suffers from the problem of attempting to represent a large and complex policy in a way that may still be too thorough for a short notice (in its full form the nutrition label represents 10 data types and 6 uses, creating a matrix of 60 possible values).
A similar approach to visualizing privacy policies called KnowPrivacy was attempted by UC Berkeley graduate students Ashkan Soltani, Joshua Gomez, & Travis Pinnick. This icon-based policy summary used icons to represent 5 data types, 5 general data practices, and 3 types of data sharing for a total 13 possible icons per summary, still a little overwhelming for the purposes of short notice simplification.
Continued in part 2 of this series.


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# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Abstract Factitious disorder by proxy (FDP), historically known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, is a diagnosis applied to parents and other caregivers who intentionally feign, exaggerate, and/or induce illness or injury in a child to get attention from health professionals and others. A review of the recent literature and our experience as consultants indicate clearly that FDP has emerged in educational settings as well. Variants of educational FDP include parents of children with real or fabricated physical disabilities who request excessive or unneeded school health services and parents who request extensive education-related evaluations for children who do not demonstrate any educational need. If such cases continue to emerge, school districts will be asked to test more students who do not have disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Also, special educational directors will be weighing the cost of providing unneeded testing and educational services against the cost of defending themselves in litigation to prove that the testing and services are unnecessary. A table of guidelines is provided for school and other personnel confronted with repeated requests for unwarranted special education services. Suggestions for future research are included.
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#Throwback Anniversary: The Breakfast Club
John Hughes defined a generation of young people with his films that are now iconic classics such as Sixteen Candles, Mr. Mom, Home Alone, Ferris Bueller and The Breakfast Club (which is celebrating it's 30th year) and being released on Blu-Ray this week.
Who can forget that infamous scream of Macauley Calkin in Home Alone or how Ally Sheedy made grunge/goth look cool or how adorable Matthew Broderick was driving everyone crazy in Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
I don't know about you, but I remember these films with a fondness in my heart and could still watch them today as if they had just been released. That's the stuff classics are made of.
Here a brief synopsis of what some the films stars are up to today
-Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller) won a Tony Award twice for How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying and Brighton Beach Memoirs ( As of 2013, Broderick is the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play). He can be heard as the voice of Adult Simba in the award winning Disney Animated Feature The Lion King. He's currently back on Broadway in It's Only a Play.
-Molly Ringwald (Sixteen Candles) has dabbled on Broadway and headlined a national tour of Sweet Charity. Fans can now catch her on The Secret Life of the American Teenager on ABC Family or in concert during one her live jazz dates around the country.
-Macauley Culkin (Home Alone) reprised his role of Kevin McAllister in in one of three Home Alone sequels, dabbled on Broadway and does occasional work as a voice over artist on the animated series Robot Chicken
-Michael Keaton (Mr. Mom) was recently the frontrunner for the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance in Birdman. He also did a little stint as Batman back in the day.
As for the Breakfast Club…
Ally Sheedy
Sheedy went on to star opposite Broderick in War Games and was part of another iconic little film called St. Elmo's Fire with Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Mare Winninhgam and her Breakfast Clyb buddies Judd Nelson and Andrew McCarthy who were affectionately dubbed the "Brat Pack"
Emilio Estevez, also in St. Elmo's Fire, went on to direct the critically acclaimed "Bobby" about slain brother of President John F. Kennedy -Robert F. Kennedy.
Judd Nelson transitioned nicely into a character actor with such films as New Jack City and can now be seen on Fox Tv's red hot hit Empire.
Anthony Michael Hall filled out of the skinny, geek comedy dude into a stellar dramatic actor headlining a hit Stephen King series for USA networks called Dead Zone.
Take a look back at The Breakfast Club