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This article aims to assist users to deal with Ransom_ENDER.A. Here, you will get complete information regarding this particular threat along with a very safe and easy removal guide. Go through the below post carefully in order to remove Ransom_ENDER.A virus and decrypt all your important files completely.
Ransom_ENDER.A is yet another ransomware belonging to rogue crypto-malware virus family. that has been evolved maliciously by Cyber criminals. If you are getting a note or alert regarding payment of ransom whenever you start up your system, well then it is a clear indication that the system has been attacked by Ransom_ENDER.A. As a result of this ransomware virus, all the files stored on the system gets encrypted and your desktop gets locked. The tactics it employs it creates a file extension .Ransom_ENDER.A renaming the existing files. You will also have shortcuts to each files but that will not work even if you happen to click on them. It also attaches a note with the file name HOW TO DECRYPT FILES.txt to each and every directory.
Messages generated by Ransom_ENDER.A are totally misleading and is meant to scare users. In an attempt to unlock files most of them end up paying the ransom amount. Unfortunately, then also there is no hope and scope for decryption of the files. The ransom amount is simply goes to the wallet of hackers and can never be claimed for. This gives an easy avenue for the hackers to carry out online frauds and make as many victims as possible. Ransom_ENDER.A gets distributed along with installation of third party program and clicking of unspecific links. Unfortunately, if you are facing the same problem and want to get rid of it then delete Ransom_ENDER.A permanently following steps discussed below.
Phase 1 :- Remove Ransom_ENDER.A From PC
Phase 2 :- Restore Data Encrypted By Ransom_ENDER.A
Phase 1
How To Remove Ransom_ENDER.A
Method 1 : Remove Ransom_ENDER.A Automatically With SpyHunter (Easy, Safe and Convenient Recommended for All Users.)
Method 2 : Delete Ransom_ENDER.A Manually (Requires Technical skills. Recommended for Professionals Only.)
Method 1 : Remove Ransom_ENDER.A Autometically With SpyHunter
Method 1 : Remove Ransom_ENDER.A Autometically With SpyHunter
You can use the best and most powerful anti-malware software to remove Ransom_ENDER.A from your computer. it is one of the most dominant, strongest and convenient to use utility which can easily detect and get rid of all kinds of noxious malware and spyware threats completely from your windows PC. It quickly scans your entire computer and detect all harmful threats and viruses. It is quite effective with rootkits and keyloggers. It not only removes Ransom_ENDER.A from your PC but also protect your computer from other threats.
SpyHunter gives real-time protection to your system from all types of malware, spyware, viruses, Trojans, Ransmoware and worms. It can work with all versions of Windows Operating system. SpyHunter malware scanner is also too good because it is users friendly and interactive graphical users interface that make free the users to use all its marvelous features easily without any essential technical skills. You can download the trial version of SpyHunter Malware Scanner on your system to scan your computer for viruses. If it is able to detect Ransom_ENDER.A on your PC and then register the software to remove infection completely.
Guide To Remove Ransom_ENDER.A With SpyHunter Malware Scanner
Step 1:– Click the below Download button to download SpyHunter Malware Scanner on your computer.
Step 2:- Now run the installer file and install SpyHunter in your computer.
Step 3:– Click on Scan Computer Now! Button to start a fresh scan of your PC.
Step 3:– SpyHunter will detect all harmful threats and viruses on your system.
Step 5:– Finally click on Fix Threats button to remove all viruses from your computer including Ransom_ENDER.A.
Method 2 : Delete Ransom_ENDER.A Manually
Warning! Manual option involves modifying registry, deleting processes, restoring browsers, uninstallting application forcefully and other tricky as well as lengthy process. Hence, if you are not technically sound then things can turn nasty for you resulting in further system damage. So, using method 1 (Automatic Removal) will be a very good option for you to uninstall Ransom_ENDER.A virus from PC.
Step 1 :- Boot PC In Safe Mode With Networking To Remove Ransom_ENDER.A
- Restart your computer and continuously press F8 key to enter boot menu.
- The Advance Boot Menu will appear on your computer screen with following boot option.
- Safe Mode.
- Safe Mode With Networking.
- Safe Mode With Command Prompt.
- Select Safe Mode With Networking Option by using arrow keys on keyboard.
- Login your system with Administrator account.
Step 2 :- Terminate Ransom_ENDER.A Related Process
- Press Ctrl+Shift+ESC keys together and Launch Windows Task Manager.
- Go to Process Tab and Search process related to Ransom_ENDER.A and click End Process.
Careful! Choose the process wisely.. If you end any wrong process unintentionally then you can be in big trouble.
Step 3 :- Uninstall Ransom_ENDER.A From Control Panel
From Windows XP
- Click on Start button and choose Control Panel.
- Select Add or Remove Program option.
- Choose Ransom_ENDER.A and click on Remove option to uninstall this threat.
From Windows 7 & Vista
- Click on Start Menu and select Control Panel option.
- Now select Uninstall a program option under Program section.
- Select Ransom_ENDER.A from the list of all installed application and click Uninstall tab.
From Windows 8
- Move you cursor to lower-left corner of system screen and click Start button.
- Go to the search box and enter Control Panel.
- From the list of all installed program Find and uninstall Ransom_ENDER.A completely.
From Windows 10
- From Start Menu and select Settings option.
- Now click on System option.
- Go to Programs and Feature option in Control Panel window.
- Here find and remove Ransom_ENDER.A virus related application.
Step 4 : Remove Ransom_ENDER.A using MSConfig
- Click Windows + R buttons simultaneously..
- Type msconfig command in Run box and press Enter.
- Go to Startup tab and uncheck all entries from unknown manufacturer.
Step 5 : Remove Ransom_ENDER.A Related Entry Files From Registry Editor
- Press Windows and R button together.
- Type "regedit" in Run and click OK button
- Find and delete following entries.
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain "Default_Page_URL"
Step 6 :- Delete Malicious Extensions from Browsers
For Google Chrome
- Click on Chrome menu icon from upper right corner.
- Now select Tools option.
- Choose Extension and select all malicious extension created by Ransom_ENDER.A.
- Click the Trash icon to delete that very extension from your PC.
- Click Remove if the confirmation dialogue appear on your screen.
From Firefox
- Click on the menu icon and select Add-ons.
- Select Extension from the Add-ons Manager Tab.
- Now delete all unwanted extension from the extension list.
- Hit Remove or Disable button to delete malicious extension from your Firefox.
From Internet Explorer
- Click the Tools button and select Manage add-ons option.
- Click on Toolbars and Extension option and select the extension you want to remove.
- Hit remove option and click close button.
Microsoft Edge
Well, Microsoft Edge browser does not features extension, hence you will need to restore the default search engine and homepage in order to delete Ransom_ENDER.A.
Reset default search engine and homepage
- Click on More (…) icon and Go to Settings.
- Select a Specific Page or Pages.
- Click on Custom and enter the desired homepage address.
Phase 2
Phase 2 : Restore Files Encrypted By Ransom_ENDER.A
Well, there are multiple ways to decrypt your important data that has been encrypted by Ransom_ENDER.A virus including paying ransom, restoring backup, restoring system on previous date etc. However, paying option is really the one worst option to restore your file as even if you pay the money Ransom_ENDER.A is not going to decrypt your files completely. If you have a proper backup file then you can easily restore all your important data. In case if there is no backup file available then you can also try system restore method in order to get your encrypted files back. However, if you are technically not fluent and does not have enough experience in data recovery then the best way to decrypt your important data is to use Automatic Data Recovery Tool in order to restore files that has been locked by Ransom_ENDER.A.
Decrypt Files With Autocratically With Data Recovery Pro
Data Recovery Pro is a professional utility to restore all kinds of lost, deleted, encrypted, inaccessible data from Windows computers. It provides a set of very cool and amazing features. This utility can easily restore all your important files in just few steps. It supports a wide range of file formats and is also capable to decrypt file that has been encrypted by Ransom_ENDER.A. The best benefit of using this amazing utility is that you will get the complete access of all your important data without paying any money to hackers. Additionally, you does not even need any kind of technical skills in order to use Data Recovery Pro. Therefore, it would be sensible to use this amazing utility to decrypt all your important files instead of paying a huge amount of money to hackers.
Steps To Use Data Recovery Pro
Step 1:– First of all download the Data Recovery Pro software on your computer.
Step 2:– After installing the programs, click on Start Scan button to run a full scan of your computer.
Step 3:– When software detects all files then click on Recover button to get back your data.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) NASCAR has penalized Kurt Busch and his Stewart-Haas Racing team for failing a post-race inspection at Daytona International Speedway.
Crew chief Daniel Knost was fined $10,000 on Tuesday because the track bar on Busch's Chevrolet exceeded the maximum separation. Busch finished third in Sunday's rain-shortened and rescheduled race.
Busch was also docked 10 driver points, and Gene Haas was docked 10 owner points.
The penalty dropped Busch from 24th to 26th in the standings. But the 2004 NASCAR champion still has a 156-point advantage on the 31st-place driver. Busch only needs to be ranked in the top 30 to be eligible for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

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I've started riding motorcycle for about 3 years ago and always wanted to make a long solo ride.
As an en entrepreneur I had to work 24/7 and never had time to commit more than a day for something else, but sometimes it is quite possible to work and make some adventure at the same time!
During the August this year, I've been in Estonia for visiting my friend and completing my company setup using E-Residency. That process is taking about 2 months usually, so I didn't wanted to wait that long in Estonia and started thinking about moving to other places in Europe during that time.
Suddenly I got an idea to make a motorcycle trip from Tallinn Estonia to Lisbon Portugal in 1.5 month 💡 and very quickly I became addicted to that idea. Within a day decided to buy a cheap used motorcycle, make a ride until Lisbon, sell that bike there and fly back to Tallinn. Seems reasonable right?
Found a bike online from dragbike.ee, calculated that the all trip will cost about 4K Euro and finally decided to make it!
The only plan that I had
After 1 day researching motorcycles in Estonia using online services. I finally got this Suzuki GSXR 600 2001 for only 1900 Eruo!
Spent another 1000 Euro for buying special clothing, helmet and of course GoPro Session for taking awesome ride videos.
If you are now thinking that "sport bike is horrible for long trips", you are totally right, but it looks awesome and I really wanted to make it with sporty motorcycle 🎉
Choosing the right motorcycle for a long trip is casual, because you are going to ride alone, and you should be able to fix it without others help. In this case I did horrible decision by getting Suzukai GSXR because the engine works entirely on electrical injection principle, so whenever your battery is dead you can't do anything with it, just a battery replacement.
Europe counties positioning is ideal to ride from one capital to another within 3–4 hours. Which mens I've been able to spend half of the day enjoying ride then sit somewhere (usually coffeeshops) to get some work done for that day!
Each city had it's own story and something special to show. That's why sometimes, I've been out of my schedule and stayed few more days if I liked city itself.
I've been in 16 cities and all of them I was staying in very cheap hostels, which helped me to keep this trip under 4K Euro including motorcycle! But the most important part of hostels is having a shared room with a lot of other interesting travelers. You will be amazed how many interesting stories you can hear from almost all nationalities.
Here is the most inspiring thing that happened in hostel. In Berlin I met with a guy Jon (let's call him like that), he was from UK, and using photography as a main source of income he was traveling all over the world. I've been exited about his stories in Patagonia, Columbia etc… And guess what, after 16 days, when I've been in Bologna, Italy accidentally we've been in a same Hostel and a same room 💥 He looked on me and told "Hey man what the hell are you doing here??!!":)
The roads in Europe is just awesome! I've been riding 220 Km/h in Germany racing with some random Audio TT. In fact if you ride on paid roads you can get from city to city more comfortable and fast, but usual roads are also awesome.
The most fun ride was from Nice to Monaco! And in general twisty roads of Italy is amazing.
Well this is the idea of having some "Adventure". At first few days, cities all went just awesome. Then started thing which I hate the most as a motorcycle rider RAIN! a lot of rainy days!
Eventually had some accident with a car in Nice, and thanks to frame sliders, nothing serious.
Here the most horrible thing happened on a ride from Marseille to Lyon in France. I've been riding about 140 Km/h and suddenly engine turned off and all electricity was gone! 😱
Pulled to the right, called road emergency (thanks to France, they have a service for that), and evacuated motorcycle to the nearest motorcycle shop.
It turns out motorcycle's Rectifier, which is responsible to convert electricity from engine to battery, completely burned out!
And of-course there was no motorcycle repair shop, which had this thing available there. So I started to research how to get it running to ride another 200 Km and get to the final destination to Lyon, France.
After going through a lot of technical videos and manuals, finally I figured out, that I can just unplug Rectifier, and ride about 100Km with a full battery until battery will loose his charge. This is because modern bike using electric fuel injection technology, which means if you don't have a battery on your motorcycle it wouldn't run at all, unlike carbonated motorcycles.
So I got 2 batteries, just in case:) charged them and had last 200Km ride to Lyon. Of-corse I had to pull out a road and change a battery after 120Km of riding without rechargeable Rectifier thing.
You will be surprised but I've been doing work every single day no matter what happened during the day. This is more horrible if you consider that I had US time zone daily standups with my team, and sometimes I had to do them from building entrances, parks and even restrooms:)
Every time when I've been in some random cities and needed a place to work, I've been using this website https://workfrom.co/ which is just showing all places, coffeeshops, co-working spaces etc… to work from. That's an ideal information if you are planning to do something like this (hope better!) and also want to work during that time as well.
This trip changed a lot for me. I started to be more calm, and more passionated about what I'm doing.
I met a lot of awesome people, heard their stories, shared my stories. Learned about other cultures and overall had a great time during the ride.
I think having this kind of experiences during your life is changing and shaping who you are, and most importantly you are not feeling bored even after this kind of adventure.
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"Good bye dear sis -- write home often + come home as soon as you can."
-- Mary Beecher Perkins in a letter to her sister, Isabella, in 1841
There was a fourth Beecher sister who led a more private life than sisters Catharine, Harriet and Isabella.
Mary Beecher Perkins was the only truly "stay-at-home mom" of the Beecher sisters. Although she never wrote a book or traveled around the country giving lectures, Mary played an important behind-the-scenes role in the successes of her sisters.
"She was the woman behind the women," said Margaret G. Mair, a historical research consultant who wrote her master's thesis at Trinity College on Mary Beecher Perkins. "Mary made it possible for the other three to pursue their careers."
Like the volunteers who stuff letters and answer phones for political candidates, Mary worked at various times as a teacher, secretary, administrator and housekeeper for her sisters.
After marrying Hartford attorney Thomas C. Perkins in 1827, Mary moved to a house on Hawthorn Street in the Nook Farm area. It was Mary, in her well-regulated, genteel home, who lived the life of domesticity glorified by Catharine and Harriet in their bestselling homemaking manual "American Woman's Home," published in 1869.
After Lyman Beecher and other family members emigrated west in the 1830s, the Perkins home became the Beecher family's Connecticut homestead for far-flung family members.
Mary first moved to Hartford from Litchfield -- where the Beechers were raised in a parsonage -- to help older sister Catharine open a secondary school for girls, one of the first in the country. Despite her father's warnings to Catharine to "apply herself and not let the work fall on Mary," much of the work apparently did fall on Mary. Catharine saddled her with the duties of teacher /administrator/ housekeeper.
Mary eventually collapsed with what her family believed to be consumption but later proved to be exhaustion. Mary's remedy was very un-Beecher-like: She left the school and rested. (She was replaced by younger sister Harriet, who thrived on Catharine's demands.)
Shortly after Mary's marriage in 1827, the newlyweds became surrogate parents to her half-sister, Isabella. Lyman Beecher sent Isabella to live with Mary after the death of Isabella's mother and because he feared Isabella was becoming too "worldly."
Mary was a stabilizing influence on the headstrong Isabella, who later in life credited her sister with softening "a sometimes wayward spirit."
In letters preserved at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, it is clear that Mary played an important role in advising family members in times of controversy and crisis. Writing in a style that is direct, pointed and witty, it is clear that Mary was very much a Beecher.
Abolition, depression, child- rearing -- all are discussed in the letters that crisscrossed the country between Mary and her siblings.
"I do not like one word of Catharine's letter + I am very surprised at many parts," she wrote in a letter about her oldest sister's propensity to stir up trouble in the family.
Mary's letters to Harriet and Isabella, however, tended to be more motherly.
"What a naughty girl you are to have the blues so dreadfully ... you are exceeding ingenious I allow in the art of tormenting oneself," Mary wrote to Isabella in 1839.
She counseled Isabella to avoid "excitement," the Beecher family's word for the mood swings that affected them to various degrees, particularly Isabella.
In another letter to Isabella, Mary warned: "Do not go too much to meetings -- the more interesting they are to you the more injurious they will be. ... this is a novel doctrine to preach but I believe it is the true one for such excitable beings as you and I are ..."
Mary believed these mood swings -- which some latter-day historians believe indicate some form of bipolar disorder, or manic depressive mental illness -- could be avoided through self-discipline and routine. She seems to have deliberately sought to moderate the emotional turmoil in her own life by marrying an upbeat, financially secure man -- quite the opposite of her volatile father -- and staying geographically distant from her energetic but exhausting siblings.
"She wanted a very steady life. It sounds like her siblings were all just a little bit over the edge," Mair said.
Mary's life was not without tragedy; her oldest son, Frederick, abandoned his wife and child, creating a scandal in Hartford. (The grandchild grew up to be feminist writer Charlotte Gilman Perkins.)
Mary died in 1900 at age 95.
"What a naughty girl you are to have the blues so dreadfully I think a young girl who weighs 129 lbs. must not consider herself very much of an invalid."
--1839 letter from Mary to her sister Isabella
Much of the material printed here was part of a special series on the Beecher sisters -- also called "Those Beecher Women!" -- published in The Hartford Courant in 2001 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The lead reporter on the project was staff writer Valerie Finholm, who researched, compiled and wrote much of the material, along with staff writers Susan Campbell and Kathleen Megan. The stories were edited for the newspaper by Barbara T. Roessner, and Joellen Black was the photo editor. Suzette Moyer and Jim Kuykendall designed this publication.


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Distribute a single index card labeled with one of the following vocabulary words to each student. Have the students write their own definitions of the word they have been given. Collect the cards and sort them according to the word. Read and discuss the definitions generated by the students and then create a class definition of each. (Standard definitions from Webster's online dictionary have been provided for reference.)
Civilian - one not on active duty in the armed services or not on a police or firefighting force
Citizenship - membership in a community
Civic Responsibility – responsibilities related to citizenship, or community affairs
Home front - the sphere of civilian activity in war
Patriotism - love for or devotion to one's country
Victory – success in a struggle against difficulties or an obstacle
Introductory Activity:
1) To ensure students have a foundation for understanding about life on the homefront during World War II, read aloud to the class Coming On Home Soon by Jaqueline Woodson. This is a beautifully illustrated book and touching story about a little girl whose father is away fighting the war and whose mother has to move away to work in one of the factories supporting the war industry.
2) After reading Coming On Home Soon the teacher will stimulate and assess prior knowledge about WWII home front activities by using the K-W- L (What I Know,
What I Want to know, What I have Learned) strategy as follows:
Prompt: What were people on the home front doing to contribute to the war effort during WWII?
Step 1 - As a class, discuss what students already know about the subject. Write students' remarks on chart paper for later comparison with what has been learned in the final step.
Step 2 - On another piece of chart paper list all the students' questions about civilian support at home during the war.
Step 3 - Distribute a copy of World War II on the Home Front: Civic Responsibility to the students for independent investigation.
Step 4 - After students have had ample time to explore the curriculum guide, students should be gathered in small groups to share and compare what they have learned regarding the questions generated in Step 2. A designated recorder for the group should write down what the group has learned. One person from each group reports back to class what they have learned and their findings are recorded on chart paper to be compared with their initial knowledge and questions.
Step 5 - After learning about some of the ways civilians helped the war effort; present the Background Information about V-Mail. As a class, consider how letter writing and the use of V-Mail in particular could be defined as an act of patriotism.
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Historical "Role Play" Letters:
Version 1:
Have the students imagine themselves as a young person living in the United States during WWII. Then, using the type-able V-Mail form, students will write a letter to a WWII service person telling the service person about the economic impact of the wartime industrial boom on life on the home front – giving specific examples including the role of women and changes in the American family structure and advances in technology (National Standards for History, grades 5-12) The V-Mail process could be explained as one of the many new technological developments.
Version 2:
Using the activity described in Version 1, assign or have students choose a city in the US and a date between 1942 and 1945 and report in their letter, specifically, about what is happening in their assigned or chosen city. Research could be done through the cities' historical societies or National Archives website for Teachers and students. Ken Burns's film and website feature the nature of daily life in Mobile, AL; Sacramento, CA; Waterbury, CN; and Luverne, MN during WWII.
Version 3:
Using the activity described in Version 1, have the students read one of the following books and write a letter from the perspective of one of the characters in the book.
Buchac, Joseph. Code Talkers: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two. New York: Dial Books. 2005.
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay is recruited by the Marines to become a Code Talker, sending urgent messages during WWII in his native tongue. (Fiction) Grades 6-9
Elliott, Laura. Under a War-Torn Sky. New York: Hyperion Paperbacks. 2001.
Henry Forester is a 19 year old American pilot shot down over occupied France during WWII. Follow his dangerous journey through the channels of the French Resistance across war torn Europe and learn about life in the United States as he reflects the lives of his family and friends at home. (Fiction) Grades 8-12
Giff, Patricia R. Lily's Crossing. New York: Yearling Books. 1997.
Set during the summer of 1944 in a coastal town on the Atlantic Ocean, Lily's best friend Margaret moves with her family to a wartime factory town, Lily befriends Albert, a Hungarian refugee who has lost most of his family in the war in Europe. Lily and Albert share secrets and lies - some that could be dangerous. (Fiction) Grades 6-12
Giff, Patricia R. Willow Run. New York: Random House Children's Books. 2007
Meggie Dillon's life has been turned upside down by World War II. Meggie's father has announced that they must help the war effort and move to Willow Run, Michigan, where he'll work nights in a factory building planes that will help fight the enemy in Europe. (Fiction) Grades 6 - 9
Green, Bette. The Summer of My German Soldier. New York: Dial Press. 1973.
A 12 year old Jewish girl in Arkansas shelters an escaped German POW. (Fiction) Grades 6-9
Hahn, Mary D. Stepping on the Cracks. New York: Clarion Books. 1991.
In 1944, while her brother is fighting in WWII, 11 year old Margaret gets a new view of the class bully when she finds that he's hiding his brother, an Army deserter. (Fiction) Grades 5-8
Klages, Ellen. The Green Glass Sea. New York: Viking Juvenile. 2006.
In 1943, 11 year old Dewey is being sent to join her father in New Mexico where she learns of his top secret project. (Fiction) Grades 6-9
Mazer, Harry. A Boy No More. New York: Simon & Schuster Publishers. 2006.
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity (Fiction) Grades 6-9
Zindel, Paul. The Gadget. New York: Harper & Collins. 2001.
It is 1945 and Stephen has moved to the top-secret military base at Los Alamos, New Mexico, to join his father, a famous physicist, who is working on a project he is forbidden to discuss. Stephen is determined to find out the true nature of "the gadget." (Fiction) Grades 6-9
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Washington, DC. Standards of Learning, Social Studies grade 10
National Standards (National Center for History in the Schools)
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Is this the end for the Super League, with more and more of the top players in the league moving to the National Rugby League in Australia? Wigan Warriors' Sam Tomkins, the current man of steel, looks set to join a host of others names such as Lee Mossop and Gareth Hock and move to the NRL with Auckland based club New Zealand Warriors being the team on his radar.
However the big question is why is this happening and is there away this can be stopped, because as a Super League fan it would be sad to lose a players of Tomkins calibre and flair to the NRL.
In my opinion I believe the main reason behind this is the lucrative TV deals in the NRL that have lead the league to raise there salary caps to allow bigger deals for players, which attracts the English based players to the league.
How can this be stopped you ask? Well that's a hard question to ask, but the Super League need to try and gain a better TV deal for its clubs to start with, but that isn't all they can do, the league its self needs to seriously consider increasing the salary cap so teams have more room to keep there better players and attract better players.
As more and more players leave the Super League I think more and more clubs will follow Salford City Reds' owners opinion on the matter and ask for a increase in the salary cap to save the league.
This new Salford owner has, in the last few months, saved the club from the brink of administration and pumped big amounts of money into the team in trying to entice players to join the Reds. He also managed to tie down Brian Noble to a head coach role at the club, who is one of the best in rugby league having spells with Bradford Bulls several other notable sides.
This may be the end but there is still a chance for the Super League to turn this around but they need to act sooner rather than later or face losing there best talent to the NRL.
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Katie Holmes: Tucked-In Tee
Katie Holmes keeps it casual in a tucked-in white tee and jeans as she attends a two-hour meeting at the Sunset Towers on Sunday afternoon (July 25) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
At Comic-Con over the weekend, the Don't Be Afraid of the Dark panel released a new synopsis: check it: Sally Hurst (Bailee Madison), a lonely, withdrawn child, has just arrived in Rhode Island to live with her father Alex (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend Kim (Holmes) at the 19th-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the sprawling estate, the young girl discovers a hidden basement, undisturbed since the strange disappearance of the mansion's builder a century ago. When Sally unwittingly lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house's bottomless depths, she must convince Alex and Kim that it's not a fantasy�"before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all.
FYI: Katie is wearing Current/Elliott's Skinny jean in Pacific wash.
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Need some help from the greater experts on what I'm doing wrong here. Here's the scenario:
Office LAN with two gateways (one DSL, the other T1), each protected by an older SonicWALL hardware firewall.
Just purchased a new SonicWALL TZ 170 to review for possibly replacing the old SonicWALL units.
So I have a test box set up in my office that's connected to our LAN. I plugged the SonicWALL into a switch here in my office that's connected to the LAN and placed the test box behind it.
The SonicWALL has successfully receive both a WAN and LAN IP, so it looks like all the connections are working well.
Configuration isn't set yet to block any traffic.
But here's where it gets wierd:
The box behind the TZ 170 cannot ping any other box on the network. Likewise, no computers on the LAN can ping the test box behind the firewall. In fact, they can't even ping the firewall itself.
The firewall, though it shows itself as being connected to the WAN, cannot connect to the Internet to download updates and whatnot. I get the message "DNS lookup failed, please check your DNS server settings".
So, two questions:
(1) What could I be doing wrong? It sees the LAN, sees the WAN, but no connection to the outside world or any other machines?
(2) Would this problem disappear once I connect it directly to the router? Will that make things easier?


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Paul George scored 23 points and Lance Stephenson had the first triple-double of his career, leading the perfect Indiana Pacers to a 95-79 victory Monday night over the Memphis Grizzlies.
Indiana became the NBA's seventh team to open 8-0 since 2000 — two more wins than the franchise's previous best start. And they followed a familiar script in the battle between last season's conference runner-ups by dominating the glass, dominating the second half and divvying up top honors.
Stephenson finished with 13 points, 11 rebounds and a career-high 12 assists. George Hill scored 13 points and Roy Hibbert added five more blocks to his NBA-leading total.
Memphis was led by Marc Gasol with 15 points and Zach Randolph with 12.
CHICAGO (AP) — Derrick Rose had 16 points before leaving in the fourth quarter with a right hamstring injury, and Chicago pulled away from Cleveland.
Rose grimaced after he drove down the lane for a twisting layup with 3:39 left. He remained in the game for a short time before he was pulled for Kirk Hinrich, and a trainer then attended to the 2011 NBA MVP at the end of the bench.
Coach Tom Thibodeau said it looks like Rose has a "minor" hamstring injury. He said Rose will be re-evaluated on Tuesday.
Kyrie Irving had 16 points for Cleveland, but was 5 for 19 from the field in his first game against Rose. The Cavaliers committed 20 turnovers, leading to 29 points for the Bulls.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Griffin had 25 points and 10 rebounds, Chris Paul added 21 points and Los Angeles held off Minnesota after Kevin Love missed a tip-in at the buzzer.
Kevin Martin missed a jumper that Nikola Pekovic rebounded, only to miss the layup. Love grabbed the ball and missed again to end the Wolves' two-game winning streak.
Paul had 11 assists, Jamal Crawford scored 18 points and DeAndre Jordan had 14 points and 11 rebounds to help the Clippers improve to 3-0 at home.
Martin scored 30 points for the Wolves, who lost their sixth straight against the Clippers.
Pekovic added 25 points, and Love had 23 points and 19 rebounds. The Wolves ended a 22-game series losing streak against the Lakers on Sunday, and nearly stopped their skid against Staples Center's other NBA team.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Danny Green scored 18 points, Tony Parker had 14 and San Antonio rolled to an easy victory.
The defending Western Conference champions are off to a 7-1 start following consecutive wins in New York and Philadelphia.
Evan Turner scored 20 points and Spencer Hawes had 17 for the Sixers, who couldn't give coach Brett Brown a better effort in his first game against his former team.
Brown spent 11 years in San Antonio, including seven as an assistant under Gregg Popovich and was part of the team's four championships.
The Spurs didn't even need Tim Duncan, who was given a rest in the second of back-to-back games.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Al Horford scored 24 points and Atlanta handed Charlotte coach Steve Clifford a loss in his first game back since undergoing a heart procedure.
Clifford missed Charlotte's game last Friday night against the New York Knicks after having two stents placed in his heart.
The Hawks trailed by nine at halftime but outscored the Bobcats 34-16 in the third quarter behind 72 percent shooting to take control of the game. Horford had 13 points in the third quarter to help turn the tide for the Hawks.
Jeff Teague had 14 points and 12 assists, while Cartier Martin chipped in with 16 points.
Josh McRoberts led the Bobcats with 19 points and seven assists. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had 16 points, but none in the second half. Al Jefferson had 10 points and seven rebounds in his first game back from an ankle injury.
BOSTON (AP) — Avery Bradley scored 24 points as Boston beat Orlando for the second time in four days.
Kelly Olynyk, Jordan Crawford and Jeff Green each had 16 points for Boston, which has won four straight after opening the season with four losses under first-year coach Brad Stevens. The Celtics shot 60 percent (51 for 85).
Arron Afflalo had 18 points and seven assists, Victor Oladipo scored 17 points and Nikola Vucevic had 15 points and 10 boards for Orlando, which dropped its 16th straight road game.
It was Boston's 10th straight win in the series, dating back to the Magic's victory at home on Christmas in 2010. The Celtics won 91-89 at Orlando on Friday night.
HOUSTON (AP) — Jeremy Lin scored 31 points, Dwight Howard had 18 points and 24 rebounds, and Houston outlasted Toronto to snap a two-game losing streak.
Lin shot 10 of 17 from the field and hit 8 of 9 from the free throw line. James Harden finished with 26 points and 10 assists.
Howard was just 4 of 12 at the foul line. Chandler Parsons had 18 points, five rebounds and five assists for the Rockets, who could not hold a double-digit, second-half lead for the second straight game.
Rudy Gay led the Raptors with 29 points and 10 rebounds but shot 11 of 37 from the field. DeMar DeRozan added 22 points, but he struggled as well, finishing 6 of 25.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Andre Miller scored nine of his season-high 15 points in the fourth quarter and Denver defeated winless Utah.
Ty Lawson had 17 points and Kenneth Faried added 15 points and 13 rebounds for the Nuggets, who outscored the Jazz 30-13 in a dominant final period. Utah dropped to 0-8 and remained the only winless team in the NBA.
Miller hit a 3-pointer and Faried added an emphatic dunk to power a 10-1 run that gave Denver an 82-74 lead with 7:13 to play. John Lucas III drove for a layup but Miller responded with a pair of nifty baskets in the lane, and the Jazz couldn't get within nine the rest of the way.
Gordon Hayward had 22 points but didn't score in the final period. Derrick Favors added 21 points and 13 rebounds for the Jazz, who extended their worst start to a season since moving to Utah in 1979.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard bounced back from a miserable shooting night with 25 points, making five 3-pointers, and Portland held off Detroit.
LaMarcus Aldridge added 18 points and 12 rebounds for the Blazers, who led by as many as 13 points in the second half.
Brandon Jennings had 28 points and four rebounds for Detroit. Acquired by the Pistons in an offseason sign-and-trade with Milwaukee, Jennings came into the game the game needing one rebound for 1,000 in his career, and one point for 5,000.
It was Portland's sixth straight victory at home over the Pistons.
Lillard, last season's NBA Rookie of the Year, was 1 of 15 from the floor with four points in the Blazers' 96-85 victory over Sacramento on Saturday night.


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The Vietnam Graffiti Project
The Vietnam Graffiti Project is dedicated to preserving and providing access to a remarkable array of historical material from various ships that supported United States military forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. The materials you will find here include bunk canvases, ships logs, nautical charts, and other artifacts and documents. The collection provides insight into life onboard these ships, especially troop transports.
Visitors will find the bunk canvases to be very special as they reveal what went through the minds of countless young American soldiers, marines, sailors, and airmen as they spent nearly three weeks traversing the Pacific Ocean either on their way to Southeast Asia or on their way home after their tour of duty. At times comical, philosophical, vulgar, and innocent, the messages left behind on the canvases are an interesting and important addition to the cultural and social history of the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam Graffiti Project is a joint endeavor between The Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University and The Maritime Administration (MARAD). The US National Defense Reserve Fleet under MARAD contains a number of troop transports and other ships. The Vietnam Archive is primarily tasked with collecting and preserving materials from the ships. In addition, the artifacts will be digitized and made available online through this web page and the Virtual Vietnam Archive. After all materials have been properly cataloged and digitized, other museums and institutions will be invited to request materials on loan so that they can be used in displays around the country. The ships contain a vast collection of materials that reflect the cultural, social, and military history of the United States. It is essential that they be shared so that Americans everywhere can learn from them.
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The state must live within its means. And the state must build massive infrastructure projects for its future.
The state must live within its means. And the state must build massive infrastructure projects for its future.
Those two seemingly conflicting goals were laid out by an upbeat Gov. Jerry Brown during his State of the State address Thursday.
"Two years ago, they were writing our obituary,'' Brown said in a speech at the state Capitol in Sacramento that was regularly interrupted with applause. "Well, it didn't happen. California is back, its budget is balanced, and we are on the move. Let's go out and get it done."
It's the "get it done" idea that will no doubt give some Californians pause.
Brown spent much of his speech - a talk laced with references to the Bible, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Franklin Roosevelt and William Butler Yeats - praising California voters for passing Proposition 30 in November. The proposition, Brown argued as he pushed for its passage, temporarily but necessarily raised taxes to meet a critical revenue shortfall and put the state on the road to financial recovery.
But in his speech Thursday the governor warned lawmakers not to squander the gift taxpayers had given.
"It is cruel to lead people on by expanding good programs, only to cut them back when the funding disappears," Brown said. "That stop and go, boom and bust, serves no one. We are not going back there."
Where we are going, if Brown has his way, is toward construction of the multibillion-dollar high-speed rail system and the multibillion-dollar water conveyance system around or under the Delta.
"Yes, it's bold," Brown said of the rail project. "But so is everything about California."
But boldness, too, was a theme the governor wove into his talk. The state is back, he said, and the state has a destiny.
"California has once again confounded our critics," he said. "We've wrought in just two years a solid and enduring budget. And by God, we're going to preserve and keep it that way for years to come."
It's hard to blame Brown for being ebullient. When he came into office two years ago he faced a $25 billion budget deficit. Now, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office, the budget Brown has just proposed is essentially balanced.
That kind of progress that quickly can lead to a dangerous hubris. And the man who as governor in 1976 famously said the state was "entering an era of limits" urged lawmakers - which we must assume means his own Democratic Party and its legislative supermajority - to "guard jealously the money temporarily made available" by Proposition 30.
Guard it, indeed, because if squandered voters won't willingly hand over more.
But let's enjoy the moment.
Let's engage in a collective eye-roll toward the state's critics, as Brown did when he mentioned "those who take pleasure, singing of our demise ... "
And then let's get to work, including the work of jealously guarding the money in the state budget.


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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) Michael Rocco threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Jake McGee with 6 seconds remaining Saturday and Virginia rallied from a 10-point deficit to stun Miami 41-40.
Rocco threw four touchdown passes and Virginia (4-6, 2-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) won its second in a row after a six-game losing streak. It was the Cavaliers third straight win against the Hurricanes.
The victory kept the Cavaliers' slim bowl hopes alive. Virginia still has to beat North Carolina and Virginia Tech to become bowl eligible.
Miami (5-5, 4-3) lost despite three touchdown passes from Stephen Morris and a brilliant performance by Duke Johnson. The freshman ran for 150 yards, returned a kickoff for a touchdown and threw a TD pass. The victory also cost the Hurricanes control of their Coast Division title race.
But in the end, it was Miami's defense that let the Hurricanes down.


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State Sen. Senator Mark J. Grisanti, R-I-Buffalo, issued the following statement Tuesday:
"After numerous negotiations with the governor and Assembly, we have passed a bipartisan gun safety package that will keep New Yorkers safer in schools, homes and neighborhoods and help curb gun violence by going after criminals who use guns illegally.
"Highlights of this legislation include increased penalties for criminals who use a gun in the commission of a crime on school grounds or straw purchases. It also strengthens Kendra's Law to ensure individuals with mental illness ... get the treatment they need and those who pose a danger to themselves or others will not be able to legally access to a gun. In addition, this legislation proposes life in prison without parole to anyone who shoots and kills a first responder.
"Also, this legislation protects pistol permit holders from having their name, address and other information published for all to see. Further, this legislation does not allow for any confiscation of guns or ammunition by legal gun holders. There are also no additional fees.
"While I understand some may feel that this legislation imposes a burden on them to comply with certain requirements, the public protection and other benefits I fought for, that are in this final piece of legislation I voted for, outweigh those concerns.
"If anyone has questions, please feel free to email me at [email protected]."


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April 22. 2013 11:50PM
Shuffling students between Manchester schools meets with opposition
By TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER - Nearly 300 students on the east side may have to attend different schools in the fall if a redistricting plan moves forward in the coming weeks.
However, these changes, presented by Superintendent Thomas Brennan at public forums last week, will depend on several variables, including the willingness of the Board of School Committee to establish a central preschool facility.
Another component of the redistricting plan is to develop a "feeder" system so that each of the four middle schools are attended by students from the same cluster of elementary schools. Currently on the east side, some elementary schools send students to all four of the middle schools. This proposal would not take effect until 2014, at the earliest.
The most immediate part of the plan - to take effect in the fall - involves moving up to 294 students on the east side and another 66 on the West Side. The reassignments are meant to even out the building capacity in the schools, which varies considerably. The plan would shift blocks of certain streets or entire subdivisions that Brennan has referred to as "attendance islands" to a neighboring school zone.
East side plan
Under the plan for the east side, 16 students on Spruce Street between Wilson and Maple Streets would be moved from Beech Street School to Wilson Elementary; 36 students would be moved from Wilson to Jewett School in the area bordered by Somerville and Silver Streets and Maple and Belmont Streets. Another 36 students who live on Manchester Street between Maple and Hall Streets would go from Wilson to McDonough Elementary; 68 students would go from McDonough to Smyth Road Elementary in the neighborhood off Wellington Road bordered on the east by I-93. On the other side of the interstate, 138 students in the neighborhood around Karatzas Avenue would go from Weston to a school or schools that have yet to be determined.
Brennan's proposals are available on the district website: www.mansd.org.
1,200 students
Brennan has stressed that the reassignments are not set in stone. They will depend both on the board's position on a central preschool facility and an examination of the 1,200 students that now go to schools outside their attendance zone.
At the urging of some parents, Brennan is undertaking the analysis of the 1,200 students this week. Brennan said he believed most of the students had a hardship or special education plan that merited their attendance of schools outside their zone. "But if someone was allowed to go to another school for no reason, I think we should identify those kids and move them," he said.
Doing so could free up capacity in some of the schools and eliminate the need to move students street by street.
Central preschool
A central preschool could also eliminate the need for many of the school reassignments, since it would free up considerable space in three of the four elementary schools where preschool programs are held. Jewett Street Elementary has been mentioned as a possible site for a central facility, although converting and operating the space would likely come at a significant expense for the cash-strapped district.
"There's going to have to be a new principal, and the electricity, heat; it's going to cost a lot of money for an operating budget," Ward 9 school board member Art Beaudry said.
Beaudry is also critical of the plan for a middle school feeder system. He said that the proposal, by shifting most of the students at inner city elementary schools to Southside, would contribute to segregation.
"Southside would be 70 percent minority, and McLaughlin would be 70 percent caucasian," he said.
At-large school board member Kathy Staub said any student reassignments should be weighed carefully.
"Schools aren't just warehouses; they're communities. If you're going to move a student from one place to another, there has to be a good reason, and it has to do with improving the delivery of educational services."
Similar views were expressed by parents at the public meetings last week.
"My granddaughter was like, 'I'm going to lose all my friends and teachers,'" said one of the people who attended the forum at Southside Middle School Thursday. "I don't want her with inner city kids who seem to have potty mouths."
'Kids are resilient'
Brennan acknowledged that redistricting is upsetting. "I think communities can be reestablished. It's often the parents who are the most upset. Kids are resilient," he said.
Several redistricting plans have been proposed over the past decade, and each has foundered in the face of community resistance and school board opposition.
Brennan, who is stepping down at the end of this school year, said he's aware that redistricting plans have come and gone.
"We keep talking about this, and then the next thing we know, we're back where we were, and we don't make those hard decisions. I have the advantage that I'm leaving. You're going to blame me anyway," he said.


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My point about knives is that there is no time to react to the blade. People don't stab or slash from far away. They tend to get close and attack when you are not looking. By then, it is almost certainly too late to defend, and after you are cut your ability to defend will be lessened (to say the least).
But it is the same with a punch. Generally, an attacker is not going to announce that he is going to punch you. You might only get to see the first punch when it is about to hit you. Or you might get falsecracked and not see it at all... you will just feel it.
Whatever the attack might be, we have to try our best to be alert enough to react to the body motions or signals that are given before the attack. You have to be able to perceive when a person is going for his knife or about to throw a punch. I grant that this is not an easy thing. Some people might attack with no visible warning at all. But generally, I think that there might be some signals or warning signs.
I remember that my Aikido Sensei, Sadao Yoshioka, used to say that we have a third eye at the back of our heads, and with this, we could sense when someone was attacking from the rear. I'm sure that he did not mean that we have an actual eye, but rather that we can cultivate a keen sense of awareness through practice.
When something does not look right, it probably isn't. If someone is approaching and you get this "funny feeling", perhaps it is time to step a little to the right or left, to cross the street, to look around to see who else might be lurking nearby, to take in inventory of nearby objects that could be used as obstructions or weapons, etc. But if you are talking or texting on your cell phone, you probably will not even notice the person until he is right up on you. By that time, he could draw a knife or other weapon, or punch you.
Karate is little like an airbag. When you are in an accident, the airbag helps a lot. But the most important thing in driving is not just to have a good airbag, but to drive safely and avoid accidents. You don't want to count on your airbag and you should hope not to have to use your Karate techniques.
Karate is not just a last resort because it is dangerous, it is a last resort because you should have exhausted all methods of avoidance first.
Awareness is the most important part of Karate. To be aware means to be watchful, mindful, vigilant. The antonym is to be oblivious. No matter how skilled you might be, you will not get to use any self defense techniques if you are oblivious to your surroundings and the people around you.
It is also important to be aware of how you conduct yourself in daily life. Are you polite and respectful of others, or are you oblivious to that too?
Through awareness, we might have an additional second or two to react to an attack. That might make all the difference. Or if we are lucky, we might be able to take steps to prevent the attack (by moving, for example).
Be... * A * W * A * R * E *
Charles C. Goodin
Reacting Before the Attack
My point about knives is that there is no time to react to the blade. People don't stab or slash from far away. They tend to get close and attack when you are not looking. By then, it is almost certainly too late to defend, and after you are cut your ability to defend will be lessened (to say the least).
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Friday, November 06, 2009


text: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) For John Brooks, the years of waiting for officials to come up with money for a suicide barrier on San Francisco's majestic Golden Gate Bridge have been agonizing. He has fought for one ever since his 17-year-old daughter, Casey, jumped from the rust-colored span in 2008.Brooks may get his wish on Friday as the bridge's board is set to vote on a $76 million funding package for a net. If approved, it would be a major step in a decades-long debate pitting the families of suicide victims and other supporters of a suicide barrier versus those who believe it will not prevent people from finding other ways to take their lives on the span."It's a very critical vote. Our fingers are crossed to get this net built finally," said Paul Muller, a founding member of the nonprofit Bridge Rail Foundation, whose goal is to prevent suicides on the bridge. "This is a big step."Since the Golden Gate opened in 1937, more than 1,400 people have plunged to their deaths, including a record 46 suicides last year, officials said. More than two billion vehicles have crossed the 1.7-mile-long bridge with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay.The bridge's board voted in 2008 to install a stainless steel net, rejecting other options, including raising the railings, which are now 4-feet-high, and leaving the iconic span unchanged. Two years later, they certified the final environmental impact report for the net, which would stretch about 20 feet wide on each side of the span.But funding for the project remained a major obstacle.A significant hurdle was overcome two years ago when President Barack Obama signed into law a bill making safety barriers and nets eligible for federal funds.The current funding package for the net relies on $49 million in federal money, $7 million from the state and $20 million from bridge district reserves made up of proceeds from tolls.At least some of the money still requires additional approval, but the bridge's board will have taken its final step in adopting the net if it approves the funding, said Denis Mulligan, the bridge's general manager. "This is a huge step," Mulligan said.Most jumpers suffer a grisly death, with massive internal injuries, broken bones and skull fractures. Some die from internal bleeding. Others drown.Kevin Hines miraculously survived his suicide attempt after jumping off the structure in 2000 at age 19. During a news conference Thursday, Hines said he felt "instant regret" when he jumped and believes a net will deter suicidal people."Not one more soul, not one more soul will be lost to that bridge," said Hines, 32.Brooks said he can't say for sure that his daughter would be alive today if there had been a net on the bridge, but he also feels it is an important suicide deterrent. He plans to push the board for temporary measures to stop suicides while the net is under construction."I think for all of us survivors this has been a bitter learning experience on how long it takes to fund and complete essentially a public construction project," Brooks said.If the net funding is approved, Mulligan said bidding on the job would start next year, with completion of construction expected in 2018.


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This is a FREE event and everyone is encouraged to attend.Celebrating Female Playwrights— Continues In September
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Hurricane Sandy has just ravaged the lifelong Staten Island home of Marty and Mary Murphy. But the storm has ripped apart more than just the walls: with their neighbors too devastated to stay, the couple's beloved community is in danger of disappearing forever. Determined to rebuild, Marty wages a campaign to save his neighborhood and his home, but when the Murphys' sons arrive to help their parents dig out, past betrayals come rushing to the surface. With fierce compassion and poignant humor, BY THE WATER reminds us that the very powers that tear us apart can also bring us together.
BY THE WATER traces the impact of a devastating natural disaster on a middle class couple who were already trudging uphill. Drawn with acute sympathy and in gritty detail, the play dramatizes the kind of story that filled newspapers in the months after Hurricane Sandy. It's clear from the pungent dialogue—which is seasoned with salty humor—that Rothstein knows these characters inside out."
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Would you pay twelve dollars to get your pencil sharpened? Hand-sharpened, admittedly; lovingly so, and it comes posted back (including overseas) with a certificate, and its own shavings in a bag, and careful little rubber protectors. But, still … that's something like £8.40 in Limey-money.
If you do David Rees, a New York state-based cartoonist for, among others the Nation and Rolling Stone , is your guy, blade at the ready. He describes himself as a "craftsman" who "practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening". We called him to check if he was for real.
A pencil-sharpening business. You'll have to excuse this, but … what's the point?
I forgive you. Well, in late spring of this year I had a temporary position with the US Census, and on the first day we all had to pull out our No 2 pencils and have them hand-sharpened. I had such a good time, I wondered if there wasn't a way to make money by sharpening pencils. I've had a great deal of encouragement and enjoyment, and while it might not be entirely serious, it's not done at all as a joke, and I'm delighted to answer any questions on it.
Obviously, I want to ask: 2B or not 2B? But I should probably change that to: is it making money?
Oh God, no. I've sold about 100. But that's around the world. And it is, slowly, taking off. Someone heard about it in Germany recently, and I've had a sudden run of orders from there. Anecdotally, I hear people don't like to use them: often they're given as a present, and just sit there, sharp forever. 2B? Well, I'll do pencils sent me, but more often now I'll prepare my own, which are the standard yellow No 2 – I think that's HB2 over there – with the metal band, the iconic childhood pencil. And I do do it lovingly. Sometimes with a box-cutter, but I've been given a nice German single-blade hand-sharpener, and take great care with the packaging, and it comes with a poster. And it gives me happiness, because at that stage life had just become a little bit …
Something like that indeed. And since then I have, honestly, had satisfaction, and people have said good things about artisanship, and individuality. Is it art or is it stationery? Bang in the middle, I would hope.
And no one accuses you of sharp practice?
The reaction has said, I think, more about the US than about me. The LA Times ran a piece recently and the reaction, the many comments, were split completely along the lines of what it means to be an American now. Half of them celebrated the fact that, in their words, anyone could have the inventiveness to make a go of anything, and thus they should abolish the welfare state. The otherhalf professed despair that there are people rich enough to spend 12 bucks getting their pencil sharpened.
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What's in a name? A bunch of nonsense, that's what. Just kidding. But no, seriously, we're still scratching our heads at North West, the eccentric name Kim Kardashian and Kanye West chose for their already famous baby girl. But hey, at least she won't lose direction in life (hopefully) with a name like North.
But if you think that's an odd name, think again. North West has nothing on Latino names, which are composed of the most creative and eccentric pairings of letters. Without further ado, below is a list of the absolute craziest Latino names we've ever heard of (our sincere apologies in advance if you're named one of these, but we gotta have fun once in a while). Go ahead and laugh with us. Oh, and in case you were wondering, the name of the above kid is Agapito. Kidding - that's really mean.
Conversation when Dominicana was 13: "Mami, couldn't you just have bought me a onesie with the flag on it?"
Nothing says 'We really, really, really, really wanted you' like naming your baby Welcome.
This name sounds like it really wanted to be two separate names instead.
Eerily rhymes with chancleta...
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Sox in the city: World champs' appearance highlighted Gill Stadium openingSpecial to the Union Leader
May 25. 2013 12:11AM
This is the second in a series of articles from the Gill Stadium Centennial Committee leading up to the facility's 100-year anniversary on Sept. 8.
One week after Labor Day in 1913, workers in Manchester enjoyed their second straight Monday off. The occasion: the Sept. 8 opening of a magnificent new stadium commissioned and constructed by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., Textile Field.
In planning an opening as grand as the building itself, organizers had arranged an exhibition baseball game featuring none other than the defending World Series champion Boston Red Sox, the main attraction in a program also featuring a relay race, soccer game and fireworks.
Crowds lined the streets as a parade proceeded to the stadium, the Red Sox players traveling in open cars and waving to the cheering spectators. With a 65-63-1 record at the time (yes, there was a tie in there), they were not having the type of season they'd had the year before — when they won a franchise-record 105 games and ran away with the American League pennant en route to a victory over the New York Giants in the World Series — but they were still the Red Sox, and their Manchester fans were thrilled to have them in their city.
The place to be
Built at an estimated cost of $30,000 (about $705,000 in today's currency), the brick, wood and steel grandstand was filled to its 3,000-specator capacity, as were the wooden bleachers at either end of the grandstand, providing seating for an additional 2,000. Thousands more in standing room ringed the 440-yard cinder track, and by day's end, attendance would total around 14,000.
Dignitaries among the throng included former New Hampshire Gov. Charles M. Floyd, Manchester Mayor Charles C. Hayes, Red Sox owner James McAleer, and Perry H. Dow, a former state senator and prominent local politician who worked for the Amoskeag Company's Land and Water Department and planned the day's festivities.
After a series of speeches extolling the magnificence of the new facility and the benefits of physical exercise on the body and soul, the athletic events began. First came the 4x440-yard relay, with a team of Amoskeag employees racing four men from another local company while Red Sox center fielder Tris Speaker — later to be inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame — and player/manager Bill Carrigan serving as finish-line judges. The Amoskeag team won.
Surprise starter
Next came the ballgame, with the Sox facing a collection of all-stars from the local Manufacturers League and a battery provided by the Boston Braves: pitcher Paul Strand and catcher Walt Tragesser. A huge cheer arose from the crowd when the announcement of the starting lineup for the Red Sox included Smoky Joe Wood, the star pitcher who had won 34 games during the 1912 regular season and three more in the World Series.
Wood's presence in the lineup had been anything but a given. Plagued by arm troubles from the start of the season (the 366 innings he'd thrown the previous year might have had something to do with that), he broke his thumb in late July and was just working his way back into shape when the Sox visited Manchester in early September.
But Wood pitched three innings, then gave way to rookie Hubert "Dutch" Leonard. A talented left-hander, Leonard also would succeed Wood as the Red Sox' ace, the following season setting a post-19th-century record for earned run average that still stands, 0.96.
With the help of the Braves rookies, the semi-pros gave the major-leaguers a game, but the world champs prevailed, 3-1.
The games go on
While the Red Sox were making the 2- to 3-hour drive back to Boston, the Amoskeag Textile Club bested the Manchester Light Blues in a soccer match illuminated by Textile Field's 28 arc lights. The post-game fireworks display provided the finale to a very full day.
On Tuesday, it was back to work for the people of Manchester, but their memories of the grand opening would last their lifetimes. One hundred years later, Textile Field, long since renamed Gill Stadium, still stands, set to celebrate its centennial this Sept. 8 with a program featuring football and soccer games, as well as fireworks — but no baseball.


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In May 2006, Andrea Brown learned a juicy secret about her boss.
Brown, an employee at Lockheed Martin Corp., found out that her supervisor, Wendy Owen, was misusing the corporate pen-pal program, which was meant to boost the morale of soldiers deployed in Iraq. Owen was having multiple sexual affairs with soldiers she had met through the program. She was also using company funds to pay for transportation, hotels and gifts for her lovers, and she was passing these expenses on to Lockheed's clients.
Brown notified human resources and the director of her department about Owen's misconduct. Both promised to take action and keep her complaint anonymous, but instead, Brown says she started receiving unsatisfactory performance reviews and was demoted. The company moved her desk to a storage room. Brown became deeply depressed and eventually quit her job.
In January 2008, Brown filed a whistleblower complaint under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), claiming Lockheed had retaliated against her for reporting Owen's misconduct. An administrative law judge (ALJ) found that SOX protected her activity and awarded her $75,000 in compensatory damages, reinstatement, back pay and medical expenses.
Lockheed appealed, claiming SOX didn't cover Brown's complaints because they didn't relate to shareholder fraud. But the Labor Department's Administrative Review Board (ARB) affirmed the ALJ's decision, and on June 4, in Lockheed Martin Corp. v. Administrative Review Board, the 10th Circuit affirmed the ARB's decision.
The appeals court's ruling marks the first time it has interpreted SOX, and it outlines a broad view of what constitutes protected whistleblower activity and retaliation under the act.
Wide Interpretation
Writing for the 10th Circuit, Judge Michael Murphy said that "an employee complaint need not specifically relate to shareholder fraud to be actionable under [SOX]."
"The court held that the current board correctly interpreted the statute consistent with the unambiguous language and intent of Congress to protect employees who report conduct that specifically relates to any of the enumerated federal fraud statutes," says Mary Pivec, a partner at Williams Mullen.
According to James McQuade, of counsel at Orrick, the 10th Circuit's broad interpretation is important because it "could have the effect of continuing to expand the scope of protected activity under SOX, which, in turn, could lead to an increase in SOX claims."
The 10th Circuit's affirmation of the ARB's decision is also significant because the court held that even if the language of SOX was ambiguous about what constitutes protected whistleblower activity and retaliation, precedent set in the 1984 Supreme Court case Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. required it to defer to the ARB's interpretation. In that case, the Supreme Court established that courts must defer to a government agency's interpretation of a statute if the interpretation is based on a permissible construction of the statute.
"Some employers have expressed shock that an executive branch institution like the ARB has such power," Pivec says. "But it clearly does, and can exercise influence over the interpretation and application of the 23 whistleblower statutes under Depart- ment of Labor enforcement authority."
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In light of the 10th Circuit's decision in Lockheed, in-house counsel should carefully consider whether employee complaints could be considered protected activity under SOX.
"Given the likelihood that the ARB interpretation of SOX will prove controlling for the indefinite future, it would be prudent for covered employers to review employee handbooks, compliance policies, supervisor manuals and SOX compliance training materials to ensure that the definition of protected activity is consistent with the ARB," Pivec says.
Employers must be careful in making even the smallest personnel changes—including desk relocations and demotions, when an employee has raised a complaint about company activity to avoid charges of retaliation. If a company does make changes, it must be prepared to show that they would have happened regardless of the employee's complaint.
"Employers should seek to not only prevent those employees who have knowledge of another employee's protected activity from making any adverse decisions affecting that employee, but also should seek to prevent those employees from influencing any employment decisions affecting the protected employee," McQuade says. "Second, if an adverse employment action is being taken against an employee who previously had engaged in protected activity, in-house counsel should determine whether the relevant decision maker has knowledge of the protected activity or was influenced by another who [did]."


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Has allergy testing revealed that you are allergic to molds? No problem! There are some definite action steps you can take to control mold growth, and thus your mold-related symptoms:
If your house has a musty-smelling, stale odor, you might have a problem with mold growth. Molds often accumulate in the kitchen, bathroom, and basement, where moisture levels are higher than other parts of the house. Molds are actually microscopic fungi that produce spores. In most of the United States, the regular outdoor mold season is from spring to late fall. The season lasts longer in warmer, more humid climates. Indoor mold can grow year-round and cause perennial allergy and asthma symptoms if not properly controlled.
Aside from the damage mold growth can do to furniture and clothing, airborne mold spores can cause a range of symptoms, including a stuffed-up nose, eye irritation, wheezing, shortness of breath, and fever. Exposure to common household molds (e.g., aspergillus, fusarium) has also been implicated as the main cause of fungal sinusitis. After exposure to certain molds, people with weakened immune systems (for example, the elderly or patients who have undergone chemotherapy) are particularly susceptible to life-threatening infection from fungus.
According to John Bower, founder of the Healthy House Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, "For mold to grow, there are four requirements: food, air, water, and a good temperature. Since mold will eat almost anything, there is always air available, and mold likes the same temperature as people, the only way to fight it is to control moisture. The best way to deal with mold is to dry it out, clean it up, and keep it dry."
Clean your house weekly, and find the source of any musty odor. Look in the clothes hamper, refrigerator tray, humidifier basin, and garbage pail. Remove mold with a mild bleach and water solution (1 part bleach to 10 parts water), a spray bottle of 3% hydrogen peroxide, or other mold-removal products. Be careful using common household cleaners, as they may irritate the respiratory passages. Keep in mind that mold is very difficult to remove from carpet or upholstered furniture. Houseplants tend to grow molds and should be removed from the home if your mold allergy is severe.
Decrease moisture inside the house. Fix any leaky plumbing that might create moisture. Pick up spills when they happen. Hang damp towels to dry. Avoid putting wet or damp clothing in the clothes hamper.
Control mold growth by simultaneously regulating the temperature and relative humidity in your home. Relative humidity is a ratio of the amount of moisture present in air compared to how much moisture that air has the potential to hold. Where you live and how humid the air is outside can affect your ability to control the relative humidity indoors. Warm air can hold more moisture than cool air. Molds grow best in a humid environment at temperatures between 77 - 86° F. Therefore keep your home as cool (65 - 75° F) and dry as you can. Central air-conditioning works best, although window-unit air conditioners are effective for single rooms. Use a dehumidifier to keep the level of moisture in the house to a minimum. Use a humidity gauge to make sure the relative humidity is between 35 - 50%.
In addition to using a dehumidifier, increase ventilation to reduce indoor moisture. Everyday activities like showering, draping wet towels, or using the dishwasher can increase indoor humidity. If possible, use exhaust fans that are vented to the outdoors to remove excess water vapor. Clean or replace shower curtains once they start growing visible mold. Plastic shower curtains can be washed in the clothes washer (but don't put them in the dryer).
Replace carpeting or upholstered furniture (or any absorbent material) if it becomes moldy. Consider removing carpeting completely, especially in a humid basement. Check your home's foundation and basement for cracks that may let moisture into your home. Keep the basement clean and dry, and do not use it as a living area if moisture continues to be a problem.


text: Creating large, open ceramic forms is a satisfying and challenging process which heightens the sense of the fragile, vulnerable nature of ceramics. Despite this fragility, the structures convey a sense of permanence but inability to fulfill the expected function. The imagery I utilize has connections to westward expansion and industrialization, but my work tends toward the antithesis of this process of development—the obsolescence, deterioration, and other by-products of industrial decline.


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Hundreds of animal species and lush vegetation can be seen within the walls of the Tropicarium.
Organised in eight rooms, the permanent exhibition presents - among others - exotic birds flying freely, squirrel monkeys jumping on the hanging trails, alligators soaking in the tropical rain, spurred tortoises walking comfortably and thousands of colourful fish swimming in the aquariums, offering a breathtaking view, representing all the seas of the world in front of the Hungarian visitors.
They have had nearly 4 million visitors in the Tropicarium in the almost 8 years since the opening.
Address: 1222 Budapest, District XXII, Nagytétényi út 37-43
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For years in Madera County in the valley north of Fresno, John Peters turned vitamins and minerals into formulas that farmers blended into feed grain and fed to their chickens, hogs and cattle. Such nutritional additives mean quicker-growing animals and more profits for farmers. While it used to take chickens nine weeks to reach broiler size, now they gorge themselves on vitamin-enriched feed and in just six weeks are ready to leap onto global dinner plates.
But Peters said that his vitamin premix business is now in trouble. The chicken side is being gobbled up by vitamin makers Hoffmann-La Roche of Switzerland and BASF of Germany, and he expects that the rest of his premix business will soon follow. Last summer, Peters said, Roche refused to sell him a key feed ingredient because he would not buy all his vitamins from it, and then proceeded to underbid him with longtime customers. In Texas, Missouri and Minnesota, other small-animal nutritional businesses are facing a similar death squeeze at the hands of Roche and BASF, industry sources said.
Yes, these are the same two global giants that masterminded the most rapacious price-fixing cartel in modern business history during the 1990s and got nailed with the largest criminal fines ever levied. Roche paid $954 million and BASF more than $500 million after entering guilty pleas with the US Department of Justice, Canada, Australia and the European Union.
When the cartel was exposed in 1999, Roche, BASF and Rhône-Poulenc (now Aventis)–which escaped charges because it was the first cartel member to cooperate with the DOJ–controlled about 75 percent of the $6-billion-a-year global vitamin business. They had used their industry dominance to pressure at least twelve smaller vitamin makers in Europe and Asia into an arrangement that top executives had taken to calling "Vitamins Inc." But now, three years after the cartel was exposed, instead of having been reined in, Roche, BASF and Aventis/CVC (in November Aventis sold its vitamin business to CVC Capital Partners of London for an undisclosed sum) are close to grabbing a near-monopoly in the global production and distribution of vitamins, having increased their dominance to at least 85 percent of the global market.
There is no current evidence that the vitamin makers–who also supply vitamin additives for food products made by companies such as Kraft, Coca-Cola, Kellogg and Nestlé, as well as alphabet vitamins purchased directly by consumers–have resumed meeting in secret to fix prices. But a Nation investigation shows how their recent moves illustrate the decline of traditional competition in global sectors dominated by just a few companies, and how those companies can use their market power to exploit customers. Moreover, it reveals the increasingly limited power of governments to protect national economies, consumers and farmers.
Vitamin industry sources across North America and in China said that Roche and BASF appear to operate in unison, using identical strategies to squeeze smaller industry players out of the vitamin business. There doesn't appear to be any sign of real competition between them. In analyzing the recent moves, Gene Reed, an Arkansas animal-feed broker who was a key government witness against the vitamin cartel, said: "It may take them five years to get prices back up to where they were before the cartel was exposed, but they are going to win this one, and there's nothing that the DOJ can do to stop it."


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1) What is timer resolution used in testing programs (from MAGMA testing directory)
for Linux/x86-64 ?
I obtained some (may be not nonsense) GFLOPS values for C2050 with testing_dgemm run where
small 32 x 32 matrices were used. But like dgemm call requires only something about 1E-5 sec for
one Nehalem/2.7 Ghz core.
2) Do I understand correctly that there are start-stop timings at x86 host side, i.e.
(for example) testing_dgemm printed runtimes (and performance itself) include PCIe transfers delays ?
2) Do I need to perform MAGMA performance tuning (based onsrc/get_nb.cpp)
after 1.0.0-rc4 installation for NVidia С2050 ?


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Manchester Crimewatch: Bail revoked for man accused of harassing womanStaff Report
October 16. 2013 9:00PM
MANCHESTER — A Goffstown man, accused of repeatedly telephoning a woman with whom he had a brief relationship, is scheduled for a bail revocation hearing Thursday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division.
After being told by the woman that she did not wish any further contact, Ryan Poulin, 28, of 1 Kidder Court, allegedly called her at her place of work four times Sept. 30.
Poulin was free on $1,000 personal recognizance bail on that charge, scheduled for arraignment Oct. 25, when he was arrested for stalking.
The stalking charge alleges he sent a Facebook message to the woman Oct. 15 in violation of bail conditions on the earlier charge that barred contact. That prompted police prosecutors to file a motion to have Poulin's bail revoked and have him held until trial, now set for Nov. 13 on both charges.
Marijuana in five baggies
Jose Miranda, 24, who provided what he said was his uncle's address of 531 Hancock St. on an application for a court-appointed lawyer, told a Circuit Court-Manchester District Division judge Wednesday that he is unemployed.
Police arrested Miranda Tuesday night, after he was involved in a fight outside a restaurant and was allegedly found in possession of marijuana.
At Miranda's arraignment, Judge Gregory Michael cited information in the police affidavit filed in support of Miranda's arrest on a charge of possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute.
Michael said the officer reported there were five individually wrapped and tied-off baggies of marijuana, which Michael said would appear to be more than for personal use.
Because no plea can be entered to a felony in Circuit Court, a probable cause hearing was set for Oct. 29. A police prosecutor requested $3,000 cash/surety bail for Miranda, noting he was convicted of reckless conduct in October 2012 in Hillsborough County Superior Court. The judge set bail at $1,000 cash/surety.
Third theft is a felony
Kyle Bisson, 27, who provided what he said was his sister's address of 1675 Elm St. on his application for a court-appointed lawyer, asked for personal recognizance bail on his arraignment on a felony theft charge Wednesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division.
Bisson is accused of taking a $150 jacket from Sears. The theft charge is a felony because it is his third theft-related charge. Bisson said his prior theft convictions were years ago.
But in requesting $3,000 cash/surety bail, police prosecutor Carrissa Pelletier said Bisson is under the umbrella of a suspended sentence on a Sept. 24 conviction for resisting arrest.
Judge Gregory Michael set bail at $1,000 cash/surety. A probable cause hearing was set for Oct. 29.