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DeKALB, Ill. -- Northern Illinois football players each receive six tickets for family and friends to attend the Huskies Jan. 1 Orange Bowl date with Florida State.
But for members of NIUs Florida delegation, six is nowhere near enough.
Im going to need at least 30, minimum, senior linebacker Victor Jacques said. But Im shooting for 40.
The demands on running back Akeem Daniels, a junior from the Kissimmee, Fla., are similar and rising.
Ive got 20-plus so far, he said. Everybodys calling. Family, friends, familys friends. Im trying to do my best to get everybody tickets. Im asking other teammates if theyre not using them.
The Huskies roster is dotted with 11 players from the Sunshine State, some who were recruited by in-state schools but opted to migrate 1,000 miles north. As many as eight could start on Jan. 1 against the Seminoles.
I wanted to see something different, Jacques, a redshirt senior with 28 tackles in eight appearances this season, said. Coming here, I saw how it was a great program, had great facilities, was on the rise and it was kind of an easy choice.
Jacques, who was also recruited by Florida International, Central Florida and South Florida, said there were adjustments to make from the balmy and culturally distinct Miami region.
Its (was) a big transition, he said. The people are a little bit different, but for the most part the weather was the biggest thing. I finally got a winter coach and got used to it.
Jacques cant wait to play at his hometown Sun Life Stadium on Jan. 1 against the Seminoles.
Its a complete, absolute dream for me being able to play in front of all my friends and family, he said. Especially (being) my last game, its quite an experience that I will cherish for a long time.
Daniels already had a connection in DeKalb. His older brother, Kiaree, played defensive back at NIU from 2008-10. And Akeem liked the chemistry and closeness among Huskie players.
I thought that was real special, you dont get that everywhere, he said. At the end of the day I had to make the decision, but my brother being here and liking the team bonding, the team chemistry, it made it an easy decision.
Daniels been a dual threat for the Huskies with 432 rushing yards on 65 carries and nine touchdowns. Hes also caught 18 passes for 192 yards and two TDs.
And Daniels, who says he long ago adjusted to DeKalbs cold and legendary winds, has no regrets about coming north.
Three MAC championship (games) the past three years, he said. I like this place.
Other top Floridians on the Huskies include Tommylee Lewis, Riviera Beach, the No. 2 receiver with 43 catches for 478 yards and five touchdowns; linebacker Jamaal Bass, Miramar, the Huskies third-leading tackler (76); cornerback Demetrius Stone, Miami, 73 tackles; and defensive tackle Ken Bishop, Sunrise, 52 tackles.
Northern Illinois coaches started serious preparation for Florida State this week and had at least one day (Monday) to work outdoors at Huskie Stadium before moving practice to the enclosed DeKalb Recreation Center on Tuesday.
Yesterday we started the main part of our game plan and we got some time with the coaches to get some film study done, head coach Rod Carey said. Were still in the middle of what I call a four-day game-plan week. Were treating this like we build up to a normal (game).
The Huskies (12-1) will face a Florida State team (11-2) unlike any theyve faced.
Theyre good, thats an understatement, probably, Carey said. Theyre long, theyre athletic, theyre sound in what they do and well coached. They do all the things you expect an ACC (Atlantic Coast) champion to do.
But NIU counters with plenty of talent and exceptional seniors.
We have a lot of really good players on this team, he said. From Martel Moore to Perez Ashford, Sean Progar, Alan Baxter -- all of our seniors are playing their best football. Thats what makes this team.
If you look through the roster and highlight a senior, thats one of our best players.
The Huskies plan to practice in DeKalb through Thursday, then break for the holiday. Theyll return Christmas night and depart for Florida at 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 26.
Northern Illinois will practice daily in the run up to the Orange Bowl, set for a 7:30 p.m. (Central) kickoff on ESPN.
NIU Florida natives prep for return home
NIU Florida natives prep for return home
DeKALB, Ill. -- Northern Illinois football players each receive six tickets for family and friends to attend the Huskies Jan. 1 Orange Bowl date with Florida State.


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This story was shared with us by Keeping Families Together.
I want to tell you a little bit about how our current immigration laws have affected me and my family. In 2010, my dad was pulled over by a sheriff's deputy and taken into custody. He was charged with immigration violations that occurred in Indiana. However, my dad has never been in Indiana, so they obviously had the wrong person. He was released from custody two days later but in June of 2012 government officials knocked on our door. They asked if they could come in.
Since they did not properly identify themselves, it did not occur to us that they were ICE officers. They asked if someone we had never heard of lived there and asked if they could search the house. Since we had nothing to hide, we let them search. It did not occur to us to ask for a warrant. They did not find the person they were looking for and they left.
But later that day, our family went out. As soon as our car pulled onto the main road, it was surrounded by four government cars. They asked my dad to step out of the car so they could ask him some questions. Then, he was taken into custody.
My father is a hardworking man who has always tried his best to provide for his family. He is a skilled mechanic and he provides a valuable service to people in this community. None of this mattered, unfortunately, because after being detained for a month in various detention centers in the United States, we heard from my dad again. Sadly, he had been deported and sent back to Mexico with no explanation.
Imagine if suddenly your dad was arrested by law enforcement and taken into custody somewhere, but you had no idea where. Imagine if you had to spend a month worrying, without any contact between you and your dad. That's the reality that I lived through last summer.
The problem is that this is just not my reality. It is the reality of 12 million undocumented people who live in the U.S. Our broken immigration system has lead much of the population's view on immigrants as less than human; it has lead to the abuse and exploitation of migrant workers, and it has lead to the suffering and separation of countless families.

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In the earlier times, the process of photography involved actual shooting and processing in dark rooms. The method, in digital photography times, is using a Lightroom instead, for most of the professional photographers. Lightroom is a photographer's best friend – to arrange pictures, edit them fast, and export them into various formats easily.
Without further due, let's get into the various parts of the Lightroom application.
1. The Catalog
The first step towards using Lightroom is to understand its catalog. Once you have imported your photos, they get added to the catalog. It helps you arrange the pictures beautifully by having all of them at the same place in different folders and sub-folders. The beauty of the Catalog is that it retail all of the metadata of your images, such as the changes you have made to them previously during development. In case you move files to external hard disk, all you will need is to find any missing folders and link them back, and all the settings in those images will be restored – Amazing, right?! You can also export folders to hard disk and relink the folders when accessing them on another PC and have your development metadata restored instantly.
2. Library
The Library module helps in viewing all the images, shortlisting them on the basis of rating, colors or flags, and doing some quick auto-corrections, and checking the image metadata. The Library module also allows for editing of the EXIF metadata. The great bonus on this is that Lightroom allows you to edit and sync the metadata across multiple images at once.
3. Develop
This is the main editing module of the Lightroom, aka where the magic happens.
It consists of the following major toolsets:
- Histogram
- Adjustment and Crop Icons
- Basic
- Tone Curve
- Split Toning
- Detail
- Lens Corrections
- Effects
- Camera Calibration
Let's now break down each one of these tools and see what they're all about. Of course, some are more often used than others while developing, and some are intended for advanced users. However, it's good to know what each one is meant for, even if you don't ever end up needing it in your development.
3.1 Histogram
The Histogram gives us an overview of the tonal distribution on the image. It's often used for checking if there's any highlights or shadows clipping. It can also be used directly to edit shadows, blacks, highlight, or white areas by clicking and dragging the mouse across the graph. For a more definite, and visual, representation of the clippings, hover over the triangles on the top corners to see the dark and light clippings overlayed on the image.
Following the Histogram, there are various icons related to cropping, filtering and spot correction. These are quick-use tools that are quite handy when you need them.
- Crop – to crop, rotate, scale image etc. Great for quickly cropping your image in a non-destructive way.
- Spot Removal – used to fix specific spots, scars, etc. on the image quickly.
- Radial Filter, Adjustment Brush, Graduated Filter – these help in selectively changing some of the settings of the image like exposure, whites, blacks, saturation, etc.
- Red-eye Correction – a quick-fix tool to fix red-eye issues that occurs due to flash photography.
3.2 Basic Editing
Basic Editing includes settings to fix white balance, exposure, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, clarity, vibrance, and saturation of an image. All these parameters are used to fix the tonality of the image in terms of light and color. They are fairly self-explanatory, but I highly recommend you to play around with them experiencing the different effects yourself. Be sure to always check back on the histogram for possible clippings when adjusting these settings.
3.3 Tone Curve
Tone Curve is an advanced control of the contrast of the image by using the sliders for highlights, shadows, whites, blacks. Essentially it is a more granual approach to treaking the lighting of the image at different spectrums of the histogram.
3.4 HSL – Hue/Saturation/Lighting
The custom color control of an image majorly happens in this section. You can do monochrome, selective coloring, color tone change, etc. using this module. Hue and Saturation correction are a great way to completely change the mood of an image with just a bit of tweaking. Remember to use this tool wisely to avoid having your photos looking completely unrealistic.
3.5 Split Toning
The Split Toning tool helps in toning the highlights and the shadow part of the image separately – giving the image a cinematic look. This is in essence a more granular approach to modifying the tone of the image for achieving a wider color spectrum.
3.6 Details
This portion helps sharpen the details and reduce noise which can be a result of various factors. Lightroom allows for an easy control over these factors. If you've shot photos with a high ISO setting or generally see blurriness or graininess at 100% scale, this tool will help you minimize them and result in a much smoother looking image. This is without a doubt one of the more finicky tools in Lightroom and you will need to spend some time playing around with the levers to achieve good results.
3.7 Lens Corrections
As the name suggests, the Lens Correction tool help in fixing lens distortion, fringing, and other errors by using either the lens profile embedded in the image metadata, or by manually adjusting the values yourself. Option of de-haze also happens to be in the same settings.
3.8 Effects
Definitely one of the lesser used tools by photographers, the Effects toolset allows for vignetting, adding grains, and adjusting the size and opacity of the image. I personally stay away from these effects as they tend to make the end result look 'cheap'. However, that's completely subjective and I'm open to being proven wrong.
3.9 Camera Calibration
This is used by advanced users to determine the correct color profile and calibration. Much like for the Lens Correction portion, the Camera Calibration settings are also imported into Lightroom via the image metadata, given that the camera provides it.
Lightroom is a photographer's best friend when understood properly. It is without a doubt an industry standard for post-production and development. There is a lot to learn within the application (there are books and courses on the subject) but as you can tell, it doesn't take much to get started. Thankfully, it was designed in a way to work for amateurs and professional photographers alike.


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Ashley Stevens
Education and Outreach Coord.
TSLAC to Return WWI Service Flag to Texas A&M University Officials in Special Ceremony
Monday, March 20, 2017 • Austin, Texas • News Release
Over 2,200 Texas A&M University students answered the call to serve in World War 1, more than any other American college. To commemorate their service and honor the 55 fallen soldiers who did not return home, a flag was created. For many years the flag was displayed at the
Capitol and then preserved in the Texas State Archives.
Join us on April 6, 2017, the Centennial Anniversary of US entrance into World War I, as the Texas State Library and Archives Commission
transfers the service flag to Texas A&M University officials at 10 A.M. at the Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library building (1201 Brazos Street, Austin, Texas 78701).
The ceremony is being held in conjunction with the debut of the latest exhibit from the Texas State Archives, Texans Take to the Trenches: The Lone Star State and the Great War.
The event is free and open to the public and offers a first look at the exhibit which will be open through the end of September at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (1201 Brazos, Austin TX).
For more information visit www.tsl.texas.gov/trenches


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- Jennifer Hudson shows off her impeccable style wearing the latest pieces from her QVC collection during Fashion Night Out in New York. Tune in to see more pieces from the Jennifer Hudson Collection for QVC on September 10.
- Lil Wayne spotted wearing his first custom Red Beats by Dr. Dre Pro headphones at the official launch at the Playhouse Nightclub in Hollywood.
Olivia Palermo stopped by for some coffee at the Walgreens Café: MADE To Eat kiosk outside of Milk Studios after the Peter Som show today. She was decked out in Valentino shoes and Tibi shorts.
- Blake Lively spotted leaving a building in NYC wearing the Ciatè Velvet Manicure (available at Sephora).
- Biggest Loser host Alison Sweeney and her daughter Megan (clad in a Cinderella costume from head to toe), and son Ben hit the "magical button" to reveal the store front of the very first Disney Baby Store in Glendale, CA.
- Brooklyn Decker sported a Diamond Love Necklace from Sydney Evan Jewels throughout the US Open for her hubby Andy Roddick.
- The US Gymnastics Gold Medalists, aka, The Fab 5, attended the 2012 NBA Baller Beats by XBOX 360 VMA Lounge, presented by Velodyne Acoustics benefitting VH1 Save The Music Foundation at the Ritz-Carlton Residences at LA LIVE on Thursday.
- Brooklyn Decker, Katie Lee and Monet Mazur officially kicked off New York Fashion Week with DANNIJO'S Spring/Summer 2013 Presentation on Thursday, with an intimate brunch at The Standard, Highline Garden Room.
- Real Housewives of Atlanta's Nene Leakes shopping and indulging at the Alice & Olivia Fashion Night out Slumber party in the West Hollywood Boutique.
- Amanda K. Ruisi, owner of AKR Public Relations, hosted Melissa Joan Hart's baby shower at Make Meaning, the creative destination on the Upper West Side of New York.
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Rose McGowan 'embarrassed' by sexism in Hollywood
- Bang Showbiz
- 26 June 2015
Actress Rose McGowan has hit out at sexism in Hollywood, saying the industry is stuck in an 'Entourage'-like mentality
Rose McGowan thinks Hollywood is stuck in an 'Entourage'-like mentality.
The 41-year-old actress recently disclosed a sexist audition note in which all female performers were asked to wear a "form fitting tank" that would show off their cleavage - and she's claimed such incidents are not surprising.
Reflecting on sexism in Hollywood, Rose shared: "There's like 'd**kery' as I call it [in Hollywood], where they're stuck in this 'Mad Men' / 'Entourage' era and it's just boring and it's kind of embarrassing.
"It's old fashioned and it's like, face palm, it's like, that's not what's going on now in the world, you've gotta change. If film is our number one export, be careful with what we're putting out there because you can do a lot of damage."
"I think for all 10 percent a little bit deeper, a little bit funnier - a little bit more thinking, a little bit more feeling - the world would actually change. And Hollywood used to be at the forefront of that."
The actress said a move towards equality within Hollywood will also make for more interesting cinema.
She told Nylon magazine: "Hollywood is accused all the time by people, 'Liberal Media! They have an agenda!' And you're goddamn right I have an agenda. I have an agenda for people to be better humans.
"Why? Because I want more people to talk to, more people to play with, and more interesting things to watch, listen to, and read. It's not that complicated."


text: Hey guys i own an iMac G5 2.1GHz, 1.5GB Ram. I am wondering how can i boost the performance of my machine. I have noticed that boot up takes a little while (53.76 seconds). I am not sure if there is anything you can do to boost the performance of an iMac this is my first Mac so i am new to all the performance boosts and stuff like that. So if there is anything i can do to make my iMac run a bit better and boot up faster please let me know. Thanks.


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The Hardest Job I've Ever Had: Being Dad
Reflecting on Father's Day
The position of Dad needs to be taken seriously. And, in hindsight, I wish I could've been a bit more prepared. While there is no such job description for the position, I think it would read something like this:
Job Title: Father/Dad
Position Overview: The position of Dad is an extremely fulfilling and rewarding position, but not one to be taken lightly. You will lead, follow, sacrifice and love. Only those who are willing to give 100% of self need apply. If you are not willing to work the hardest you've worked, laugh the hardest you've laughed, cry the most you ever have, do not consider this position.
Reports to: God, spouse, children, various family members, government, education authorities, medical community, self
Duties & Responsibilities: While there are too many to list, position highlights are as follows:
- Establish a strong foundation of love, respect and continual learning for your 'team.' You must develop and identify personal growth opportunities at all times.
- You will be responsible for establishing a safe, secure environment and identifying potential hazards. Please note that potential hazards range from riding a bike without a helmet to going online to visit Barbie.com.
- Accomplish financial objectives by forecasting short-term needs (such as orthodontics) and developing strategies for accomplishing long-term goals (such as college tuition and retirement*)
- *See retirement note below in Benefits section.
- Maintain professionalism at most times but be okay with 'losing it' at other times. Identify a place to which to run and scream, cry and doubt yourself.
- Other duties as assigned.
Desired Skills & Experience:
Leadership skills – You are required to lead at all times. But, you must fully expect to be ignored.
Multitask – The ability to multitask is crucial in this position. The "other duties as assigned" are never-ending. You must have the ability to focus on the task at hand while ensuring the 44 other things happening at the same time continue to stay on track. The following situation illustrates this required skill.
You are in a marketing meeting establishing budgets for the next fiscal year. You then realize that you forgot to pay the gymnastics bill. While participating in budget conversations with your co-workers, you secretly position your smart phone on your lap and open your banking app. While logging in to pay the gym, you periodically repeat (out loud) words or statements being said in the current meeting to let them know you're still participating. While checking your bank balance you say, "Right. Multi-channel dollar allocations." And, then write something in your notebook that others assume is related to your current meeting. Rather, it's a note to next pay the insurance bill. Followed by a reminder note that team member coaching plans are due. And, don't forget your spouse's birthday. All while being distracted by your daughter's FCAT pressures.
Flexibility – In this position, you must be willing to change plans at any minute. Go ahead, plan a nice dinner with your wife and daughters at a fancy restaurant and romanticize the little ones exploring culinary wonders to be found at the newest, trendy restaurant. But, be prepared to instead make for them their 4,000th chicken tender because a fever or runny nose just occurred.
Perseverance – While that one particular dinner may not have worked out, don't give up. You still have a responsibility to 'show them the world' so that they can grow beyond the 4 food items that are the staple of their diet.
Teamwork – Hillary was right – it takes a village. Be willing to accept and be insightful enough to seek help. You cannot do this alone. From early childhood educators to in-laws to your trusted neighbors, enlist others to assist. Most of all, remember to rely on the most powerful resource available to you – your faith.
Salary & Benefits: You will be a billionaire. In this position you will actually spend more than you make (at times). You will reflect back on a time when you didn't have the income you do today and think of all the things you would have done with your current income. But then quickly realize it would never compare. Suddenly, you do not think of it as your money. Rather, it's a resource to provide. A resource to guide. A resource to spoil them (occasionally) just because you can. The position does, however, guarantee you will be an Emotional Billionaire.
No 401K or comparable retirement is offered. You will never retire. No matter what stage you are in of this position, you are always on call. Always. Those who are not willing need not apply. Additionally, there is no formal medical plan offered. Medical benefits are realized in the form of a stronger heart and a sharper mind. Your heart and mind will become stronger and sharper due to the never ending emotional roller coaster ride this position offers. Please also note that another health benefit comes in the form of unrealized energy sources. You will find untapped energy you thought you never had. Because you have to. Because you'll want to. Again, those not willing need not apply.
In summary, this position comes with the most outrageous benefit plan available.
I asked God for this position and was blessed to receive the title of Dad. I am so incredibly thankful for this 'job.' I never imagined the challenges and benefits – and I wouldn't change it for the world.
Today, I am that Dad that holds my children for just 30 seconds longer than they expect. And just when they ready for the hug to end, I am not. I am trying to slow time.
I am that Dad who slows down when passing their school. Not only because it's the speed limit, but I do it to pray. Pray for their safety. Pray for the teachers. Pray for peace. Pray because they are not in my sight.
I am that Dad who hears them speak of their nervousness about a task and wants to handle it for them. But I'm also that Dad who knows they can handle it.
I am that Dad who catches a glimpse of them while they sleep and wonders what they will become. Excited about their future. Cherishing the current moments that are flying by.
I am that Dad who prays for guidance.
I am that Dad who looks at the mother of my children and wonders how she does it all.
I am that Dad who says quietly "I Love You" when I drop them at school. And, when I realize that they don't reciprocate because their friends might hear, I say it even louder. And, then they smile and say it back just as loud knowing it's okay to show their feelings.
I am that Dad who looks forward to a moment alone, but longs for the moment I walk in the door after work to see my family again.
I am that Dad who, critical of my own father at times, realizes that this is not an easy job and decisions that are made may not be our first choice.
I could have never imagined the physical and emotional effort it takes to be a Dad. But I love that I can celebrate Father's Day.
Here's to all the Dads. The Dads of Dads. The Family of Dads. And, the children that give us our jobs.
Happy Father's Day.


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Cashchceque offences: Investigation by Claimant Compliance Team: What to avoid
You must not, under any circumstances, ask the claimant(s) to provide sample signatures. This would almost certainly infringe the Human Rights Act. If, however, the claimant(s) volunteer a signature to prove they did not sign the receipts for the paid cashcheques(s) you can accept the sample but you must not place them in a situation where they feel under any pressure to do this.


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I love when pictures tell stories, and this one is about bringing home my puppy.
I drew a car for Stampotique's Jill Penny and Toto to ride in and pasted them into my collage.
For my inspiration behind this collage, follow me to veralanestudio.com.
Been there; done that---a couple of times, in fact. You have so beautifully created a scene to take us all back to that day in our own lives. Love that you put your stamped "characters" inside the car!
What a great scene. You are so creative. :)
Oh my goodness, so darn cute!! I love this
Love how you have put the characters inside the car .... Very inspiring as I have not done that!
I love the layered scraps in the background and the gorgeous, fun car that the characters are riding in!
Love this !
Corrie x
So clever! Love the result! What a great car!! :)
This is so cute!


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Skills needed for Pen test
Best of Luck.
Bhadreshsinh Gohil
About ME
Hello All
What is the point should be remember to become a good pen tester.
1. Mastery of an operating system.
I can't stress how important it is. So many people want to become hackers or systems security experts, without actually knowing the systems they're supposed to be hacking or securing. It's common knowledge that once you're on a target/victim, you need to somewhat put on the hat of a sysadmin. After all, having root means nothing if you don't know what to do with root. How can you cover your tracks if you don't even know where you've left tracks? If you don't know the OS in detail, how can you possibly know everywhere things are logged?
2. Good knowledge of networking and network protocols.
Being able to list the OSI model DOES NOT qualify as knowing networking and network protocols. You must know TCP in and out. Not just that it stands for Transmission Control Protocol, but actually know that structure of the packet, know what's in it, know how it works in detail. A good place to start is TCP/IP Illustrated by W. Richard Stevens (either edition works). Know the difference between TCP and UDP. Understand routing, be able to in detail describe how a packet gets from one place to another. Know how DNS works, and know it in detail. Understand ARP, how it's used, why it's used. Understand DHCP. What's the process for getting an automatic IP address? What happens when you plug in? What type of traffic does your NIC generate when it's plugged in and tries to get an automatically assigned address? Is it layer 2 traffic? Layer 3 traffic?
3. If you don't understand the things in item 2, then you can't possibly understand how an ARP Spoof or a MiTM attack actually works. In short how can you violate or manipulate a process, if you don't even know how the process works, or worse, you don't even know the process exists! Which brings me to the next point. In general you should be curious as to how things work.
4. Learn some basic scripting. Start with something simple like vbs or Bash.
5. Get yourself a basic firewall, and learn how to configure it to block/allow only what you want.
Then practice defeating it. You can find cheap used routers and firewalls on ebay, or maybe ask your company for old ones. Start with simple ACL's on a router. Learn how to scan past them using basic IP spoofing and other simple techniques. There's not better way to understand these concepts than to apply them. Once you're mastered this, you can move to a PIX, or ASA and start the process over again. Start experimenting with trying to push Unicode through it, and other attacks. Spend time on this site and other places to find info on doing these things. Really the point is to learn to do them.
6. Know some forensics!
This will only make you better at covering your tracks. The implications should be obvious.
7. Eventually learn a programming language, then learn a few more. Don't go and by a "How to program in C" book or anything like that. Figure out something you want to automate, or think of something simple you'd like to create. For example, a small port scanner. Grab a few other port scanners (like nmap), look at the source code, see if you can figure any of it out.
8. Have a desire and drive to learn new stuff.
This is a must; It's probably more important than everything else listed here. You need to be willing to put in some of your own time (time you're not getting paid for), to really get a handle on things and stay up to date.
9. Learn a little about databases, and how they work. Go download mysql, read some of the tutorials on how to create simple sample databases. I'm not saying you need to be a DB expert, but knowing the basic constructs help.
10. Always be willing to interact and share your knowledge with like minded professionals and other smart people.
Download Backtrack4, or another Linux distro of your choice. First read some tutorials on using Backtrack to do some basic stuff. Since you said you have no technical skills, start with the basics. For example learn how to get an ip address in Linux/Backtrack4. Learn how to set a static ip address (one you assign).
Next get yourself VMware or some virtualization solution. Install Windows 2003, 2008, and XP and 7. Just installing these will teach you some things and you'll start to get more comfortable just from doing it. As a matter of fact, install them all two or three times.
Learn how to do basic things in each. Like create user accounts, give permissions to users, lock user accounts, change ip address and network settings.
Next learn how to network your Windows machines to each other. Create some shares, store data there, move data from one to the other. Then move on to networking your Linux stuff with your Windows stuff. After you've got this all working, start reading up on how and why it works. After you've got some good theoretical knowledge on how it works, download wireshark, and tcpdump, for both Windows and Linux. Start studying the traffic between all the machines. First, study traffic of you transferring files and other activities. Then study the traffic that is generated even when the machines are not actually transferring data.
Once you've done all the above things, and understand most of what you've done, you should be feeling comfortable with networking in general/basics and have a working knowledge of the operating systems from at the very least a power user/desktop admin standpoint.
After this you're ready to start delving into security a little bit. Go back to where you started with Backtrack4. By now you should be a lot more comfortable with it. Start learning how to use things like Nmap and other scanners. For example, if you set up a web server, scan it and prove it's a web server. From Linux type the command man nmap. Read the ENTIRE man page. After reading, make yourself some notes of the things that really interest you. Now run nmap using EVERY option listed in the man page. Study it's output, revisit man again to remind yourself of what a particular scan type is doing and what certain options are.
Next, start reading about vulnerabilities. Some of it won't make sense yet, but that's OK. After spending no less than 20 hours total reading about vulnerabilities (doesn't matter how you stretch the 20 hours out), go back to Backtrack and learn how to exploit one of your unpatched Windows machines. Get a shell. Pat yourself on the back. Then ask yourself, "Now that I have a shell, what can I do with it?" Stop where you are and spend about 20 more hours learning how to do everything you've learned about Windows from the command line. Once you've done that, come back and exploit that target again. You should now be able to do some pretty decent stuff with that shell you've gained.
Your next move is find a rootkit and a trojan. Just one of each that you can spend some time mastering. Once you know how to use them, start planting them (via your exploited command shell only) on the compromised targets you're practicing with.
At this point start playing with Perl, Python and Bash scripting to try and automate all the great stuff you've learned how to do via command line. This part will be painful at first, but it'll get easier…trust me.
Start researching anti-virus/ids/firewall evasion techniques.
Apply everything else you've learned with these evasion techniques. Don't worry about paying too much attention to "thinking like a hacker" because as you progress with the things I'm outlining, that will come naturally. You'll find that part of thinking like a hacker is being able to think like the victim who's system you just compromised (which means you'll know their every move before they make it).
Then move to learning how to cover your tracks, getting rid of logs, skewing time stamps, modifying logs, etc. Then learn how to do it elegantly and non-destructively.
Eventually move to more advanced things like >learning some coding>discovering your own vulnerabilites>writing your own exploits.
Now let me say this. You can devote the next couple of years of a lot of your free time doing these things and you can pretty much Google "how to 'whatever-i-said-learn-above'" and find it all.
We can teach it all to you. Here's a class path I recommend for you.
1. A+ Class
2. Network+ class
3. Security+
4. MCITP track for Server Admin
7. Ethical Hacking
8. Advanced Ethical Hacking
9. Computer Forensics (you need to know what they'll look for and how they are going to look for it to truly understand covering your tracks)
10. Coding for IT Security Professionals
11. Intro to Reverse Engineering
12. Reverse Engineering
13. Advanced Reverse Engineering
14. Malware Analysis
Understand that our classes are EXTREMELY hands on and lab based. You'll be led by myself or another seasoned instructor who practices security for a living. I think our testimonials and evals speak for that.
It'll really boil down to a few questions.
How much time do you have to invest?
How much money do you have to invest?
How much money will your future/current employer be willing to invest? (people are surprised at how often employers are actually willing to pay for this type of training, you have to ask and even ask in your interviews).
How serious are you and how much do you like security?
Answer these questions and you should be able to come up with what your plan of attack is. For some it works better if they just go the all-out class route to get started. Others just Google it all. It takes much longer, but it works for some. And most do a combination of taking classes and self teaching via Google and articles like this.
Hope this helps you and others.
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Derek Webster has signed up for a role in Castle.
Webster will play New York City Mayor Robert Weldon, TV Line reports.
He is replacing Joseph C Phillips, who played the mayor in the first season of the show.
Castle is expected to explore the friendship between the mayor and Castle (Nathan Fillion), which is threatened when a murder is linked to the politician.
Webster, who has previously appeared in series such as Damages and Mental, is due to make his Castle debut early next year.
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Mr. Romeo joins the hotel from Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver where he served as General Manager from March 2012 to March 2014. He brings with him an extensive resume that covers all aspects of hotel operations, with a particular passion for food and beverage, having started his career as an apprentice chef, graduating with a Degree in Hospitality Management from the Paul Bocuse Institute in Lyon-France and leading food and beverage operations in Michelin-starred restaurants and the world's leading luxury hotels.
The native-born Italian who is fluent in three languages, began his hospitality career in 1987 as an apprentice chef at 'La Coupole' Hotel Mirabeau in Monte Carlo. Over the next decade, he honed his culinary skills in top hotels and restaurants in Monaco, Paris and England working both in the kitchen and food and beverage management roles. He then spent the next six years in managerial roles with the Alain Ducasse Group: General Manager for the opening of Bar & Boeuf in Monaco, Assistant Food & Beverage Director at the Hotel Plaza Athenee Paris and ultimately, Director of Operations and Development in New York for both, Alain Ducasse at the Essex House and Mix in New York.
In 2003, Mr. Romeo moved back to Europe to enhance his senior management skills at some of the world's leading luxury hotels, including Hotel Conrad Brussels, Hotel Principe di Savoia – Milano, and Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo where he worked closely with Chef Joel Robuchon.
Mr. Romeo joined Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts in 2008 as the Executive Assistant Manger – Food and Beverage at the company's Aberdeen Marina Club in Hong Kong where he was in charge of six restaurants and extensive meeting facilities. A year later he became the Resident Manager at the 670-room Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing, a flagship for Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in China's capital city. During this tenure, he also studied at Cornell and graduated in the general manager's program in 2011.
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PARAMUS, N.J. – An alert Bergen County sheriff's officer who stopped five Rockland County men in a car on Route 17 in Paramus following an alleged overnight assault Tuesday in New York City found a loaded handgun and knives, authorities said.
An anonymous 911 caller reported following the white Mercedes Benz into New Jersey around 3:30 a.m., Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino said Tuesday afternoon.
Sheriff Officer's Kevin Scarpa stopped the car as it headed north on the highway at Linwood Avenue and was joined by officers from Paramus and Ridgewood, Saudino said.
A subsequent search turned up a .357 Magnum, the knives and a small amount of pot, he said.
All five were charged with drug and weapons possession, and ordered held in the Bergen County Jail on various bails, the sheriff said.
He identified them as ( left to right in mugshots above ):
- Winel Antoine, 30, of Spring Valley (Bail: $20,000)
- Caleb Piere, 31, of Haverstraw ($20,000)
- Jeffrey R. Boursiquot, 25, of Spring Valley (Bail: $10,000)
- Bradley R. Lauture, 19, of Spring Valley ($10,000)
- Carl Phillippe Dorvil, 23, of Garnerville ($10,000)
Saudino thanked Paramus and Ridgewood police for their work in the arrests.
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Sunday, 2 March 2014
Well, the Winter Olympics went by in a haze of unfamiliar sports, overexcited commentary and, somehow, my paperwork is up-to-date. I'm delighted about that as it does make things easier.
Now that I've strayed into the world of television, I'll stay there a little longer and muse about the new Ian Fleming production on Sky. I'd been looking forward to this as Ian Fleming (scandal, fame, hard living) is the perfect subject for a biographer even if he hadn't written James Bond. It's an enjoyably glossy production and the costumes are the best thing about it. I am, though, rather underwhelmed by the script, though the amazing cast are doing their best. It feels as though it was rushed. As though someone read the paragraph of biography that's in the Pan Bond paperbacks and thought 'Let's make a James Bond spoof'. Not that I mind the bits that are done well. The motif of the Monty Norman "Dum di-di dum dum" is welcome as are the cast. You can sit back and enjoy Dominic Cooper, Sam West, Anna Chancellor and Lara Pulver. It's rather a pity they didn't have a better script to go with the marvellous tailoring. I'm pleased to see Ian Fleming re-imagined as 'book Bond' with the sinister undercurrents and gambling and not 'film Bond' which tends towards self-parody. I would go back to my own Bond books and I find that I cleared out the 1960s Pan paperbacks and one very nasty yellow cloth reprint of Dr No some time ago. Probably when I packed up and went to university. Pity. That's the thing about books, though. You can always buy a replacement.
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Albert J.R. Heck, Professor Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics at the Science Faculty of Utrecht University, has been elected EMBO Member. In total 106 outstanding researchers in the life sciences were newly elected in this special year for EMBO on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The EMBO Membership currently comprises of more than 1600 life scientists.
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Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead Saturday, "in peaceful repose", what ever that means. We will miss Justice Scalia. He was the voice of reason in an increasingly unconstitutional society. He fought hard, at risk, to keep the court in a verbose reading, as opposed to some living evolving document. He brought sanity to the SCOTUS in an increasingly relevant based time. He knew, like the founding fathers, the importance of the separate three branches as laid out at the founding. As they, he knew the inherent danger of "interpreting in modern setting" the "thoughts" of the founders and he obstinately fought to preserve the intention of the Constitution. He will be missed.
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Caught in the Act (Modern Family)
|"Caught in the Act"
|Modern Family episode
Luke (Nolan Gould), Haley (Sarah Hyland) and Alex (Ariel Winter), moments before catching their parents in the act.
|Episode no.
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Episode 13
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Jeffrey Richman
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|January 19, 2011
|Guest appearance(s)
"Caught in the Act" is the 13th episode of the second season of the American television comedy series, Modern Family and the 37th overall episode of the series. Co-creator Steven Levitan & Jeffrey Richman wrote the episode and Michael Spiller directed it. The episode originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States on January 19, 2011. It featured guest star Rachael Harris as restaurant owner, Amelia.
In the episode, Gloria and Jay are about to go on vacation while Manny is away visiting his father, but their plans are interrupted when Gloria accidentally sends an insulting email to Claire. When they go to the Dunphys' house to apologize, they find Claire and Phil in a state of dismay because their kids have just walked in on them having sex. Meanwhile, Mitchell and Cameron have trouble getting reservations at a popular new restaurant so they try to ingratiate themselves with the restaurant's owner, who is one of the parents at Lily's preschool.
"Caught in the Act" received mixed reviews from critics. According to the Nielsen Media Research, "Caught in the Act" dropped four percent in the ratings from the last episode of the series to air in its regular timeslot and received a 4.6 rating/12% share in the 18-49 demographic. Despite this, the episode won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.[1]
Rico Rodriguez does not appear in the episode, due to his contract only calling for him to appear in only 22 episodes of the season.[2]
The Dunphy children prepare a nice anniversary breakfast for their parents, but end up walking in on them while Phil (Ty Burrell) and Claire (Julie Bowen) are having sexual intercourse. Luke (Nolan Gould) is not quite sure what happened while Haley (Sarah Hyland) and Alex (Ariel Winter) are reeling with shock and horror because they know exactly what happened. Claire is much more upset about the kids seeing them than Phil is, largely due to her memory of walking in on Jay (Ed O'Neill) and her mom having sexual intercourse when she was a child. While Claire and Phil hide out in their bedroom, the kids leave the house and talk about what happened over ice cream, with Luke noting that he would rather have parents who do that then parents who are divorced like many of his friends; they make a deal to sit stone-faced through Claire's subsequent address to them, which makes Claire happy — along with Phil stating that every anniversary with her makes him happy. In the end, the kids come up with an ideal anniversary present: a door lock for the bedroom door. However, the lock makes a loud ricochet sound when Phil and Claire use it, thus horrifying the Dunphy brood anew as an indicator of unseen parental sexual intercourse.
Jay and Gloria's (Sofía Vergara) vacation to Las Vegas (and a three-tower restaurant wine room) is ruined when a brutally honest e-mail is accidentally sent out by Gloria; Gloria is mad at Claire for being officious regarding an upcoming school bake sale and has Jay type out a very acerbic post which she never intended to forward. When they show up at the Dunphy's to try and retrieve the email, Claire thinks Gloria's references to the letter are actually references to the kids seeing the sex show. Gloria and Jay lie that the e-mail was a naked picture of Gloria. Claire then confronts Jay for burying her own accidental sight of him making love to his wife, and Phil figures out what Gloria was really looking for. In the end, the email is deleted without further Claire-Gloria acrimony.
Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) have been unhappy with dinner lately, as Cameron explains that Mitchell's long hours, the work involved in getting ready to go out with Lily, and their geographic location limits them to walking and that limits them to a nearby kabob joint. But good news beckons when they learn that the eponymous owner of the hot new eatery, Amelia's, is the mom of a little boy in Lily's preschool, and they set up a playdate with the ulterior motive of getting Amelia (Rachael Harris) to make them "in" at the restaurant. All goes well, and Amelia tells them they can get in if they say something that she does not specify because she has to take a phone call. Mitchell and Cameron accidentally hear the speaker phone feed and realize Amelia is an incredibly angry woman, and when they agree to watch her son Jackson while she goes to talk to the contractor who enraged her, they see that one of Lily's juice boxes was pierced and spilled red liquid over a $50,000 carpet. The guys ponder whether to move the entire carpet around to hide the stain but then they agree to blame Jackson when Amelia gets back by lying that he took one of the strawberry juice packs and drank some before spilling the rest. When Amelia hears it, Cameron and Mitchell learn that Jackson is allergic to strawberries and needs an immediate injection to prevent catastrophe, so they hold him down as Amelia prepares to inject him before finally admitting their ruse. With Amelia's forever lost to them, they end up glumly returning for more kabobs and indifferent customer service.
"Caught in the Act" was written by series co-creator Steven Levitan and co-producer Jeffrey Richman. The episode was directed by Michael Spiller. The episode was Levitan's sixth writing credit for the series.[3] and Richman's second.[4] It was aired on January 19, 2011 on the American Broadcasting Company. This episode of Modern Family was filmed on December 2,[5] and December 3, 2010.[6]
In August 2010, series co-creator and executive producer, Levitan revealed the Dunphy plot to TV Guide.[7] Four months later, more details of the plot were revealed to TV Guide while filming the episode.[8] The Dunphy plot was based on an incident when Levitan's daughter walked in on him and his wife having sex, which they kept quiet about for a long period of time.[9] The Mitchell-Cameron plot was also based on a real-life incident. Co-writer Richman had "spilled wine on a friend's expensive rug then tried to turn the rug so that the stain was hidden under a piece of furniture".[9] In an interview, Richman stated that:
"After having pitched the story from my life and finding out I had done something so unlikable, to have actual characters on television do that, I realized America wouldn't like them. That made me think twice about what to pitch next time."
In its original American broadcast, "Caught in the Act" was viewed by an estimated 10.94 million households and received a 4.6 rating/12% share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49 making it one of the few shows to not decline in the ratings against American Idol.[10] Despite this, the episode dropped 4% from "Slow Down Your Neighbors" which was the last episode of the series to air in its regular timeslot.[11][12] Added with the DVR viewers, the episode received a 6.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic, adding a 1.7 rating to the original viewership.[13]
The episode received mixed reviews from television critics.
TV Squad writer Joel Keller wrote of the episode that it was "the first real clunker the show's had this season". He criticized Gloria's plot writing that "misunderstanding should have been funnier. But for some reason, it didn't hit with me. Maybe because the situations seemed forced together, or maybe Jay taking the bullet for Gloria by saying the e-mail she was trying to delete was one of her naked [...] was too easy of an out for Gloria. But that plot just fell flat."[14]
John Teti of The A.V. Club gave the episode a more positive review. He mainly liked the Pritchetts' and the Dunphys' storylines, but criticized Mitchell and Cameron's storyline saying "Look, Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson can make almost anything [...] enjoyable to watch, but their talents are wasted by running them through this same shtick again. They deserve better." He ultimately gave the episode a B.[2]
Despite the lukewarm reviews, the episode won the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards.[1]
- ^ a b HitFix Staff (July 14, 2011). "Nominees for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards". HitFix. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
- ^ a b Teti, John. ""Caught In The Act" | Modern Family | TV Club | TV". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
- ^ "Steven Levitan (I) - Filmography by TV series". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
- ^ "Jefferey Richman - Filmography by TV series". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
- ^ "Asset Display". Abcmedianet.com. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
- ^ "Asset Display". Abcmedianet.com. 2010-12-03. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
- ^ Rizzo, Carizzo (August 26, 2010). "More Manny for Modern Family's Second Season". TV Guide. Retrieved 2010-08-26.
- ^ "A Modern Family Christmas - Today's News: Our Take". TVGuide.com. 2010-12-14. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
- ^ a b "Emmys 2011: 10 War Stories From the Writing Trenches". The Hollywood Reporter. 2011-08-09. Retrieved 2011-08-10.
- ^ Gorman, Bill (2007-08-28). "TV Ratings Wednesday: 'American Idol' 10th Season Starts Down, Pushes Competition Lower". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
- ^ Gorman, Bill (January 6, 2011). "TV Ratings Wednesday: ABC Comedies, 'Human Target,' 'L&O:SVU' Up; 'Live To Dance,' 'People's Choice Awards,' Tumble". TVbythenumbres.zap2it.com. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
- ^ Seidman, Robert (2007-08-28). "'American Idol,' 'Modern Family' Hold Up Well". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
- ^ Gorman, Bill (2011-02-04). "Live+7 DVR Ratings: 'Modern Family,' 'Outsourced,' 'Hawaii Five-0′ Top Week's Rankings". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ^ "'Modern Family' Season 2, Episode 14 Recap". TV Squad. 2011-01-13. Retrieved 2011-01-20.


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England wary of New Zealand backlash
Match factsSunday June 15, 2008
Start time 10.45 (9.45 GMT)
Big PictureFrom the frenzy of Twenty20 to the slightly more demure 50-over version, England and New Zealand face off for the first of five ODIs at Chester-le-Street, and it is the hosts who begin as favourites. A thumping nine-wicket win in the Twenty20 at Old Trafford on Friday has further boosted England's confidence following their series-win in the Tests, and New Zealand - who admit that one-day cricket is their forte - are further hampered with yet more injuries. Without Jacob Oram, who has been ruled out for at least 10 days with a hamstring strain, their middle and lower order lacks substance, and they will miss his economy with the ball. With rumours of infighting between John Bracewell and Daniel Vettori, New Zealand desperately need to start the series with a win and end their difficult tour of England on a high.
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Brendon McCullum Uncharacteristically muted in the Twenty20 at Old Trafford, McCullum nevertheless remains a formidable figure at the top of the order. His exhilarating 158 from 73 balls in the Indian Premier League underlined his star quality - were proof even needed - and New Zealand urgently need him at his fearless best. Surprisingly, he has yet to notch an ODI hundred in 128 matches. Now could be his time.
Kevin Pietersen He hasn't made a hundred in one-day colours since the 2007 World Cup, but there were signs in his slick 41-ball 42 on Friday that his best form might be just around the corner. In his last 20 matches, he averages 31.05 - significantly down on his career mean of 48.18, and a hungry Pietersen is precisely the person England need to assert their authority over a shaky New Zealand.
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England's lineup is unlikely to change significantly from their winning side on Friday, with Ian Bell and Luke Wright providing a solid base as openers. Wright needs to perform, however: he has shown glimpses of his talent with the bat, but needs to convert those promising starts into big innings, especially with Alastair Cook breathing down his neck. Cook, though, is unlikely to recover from a shoulder niggle he picked up on Saturday, with Andrew Strauss earning a call-up as cover. Meanwhile, Ravi Bopara didn't have much to do at Old Trafford, but has been in exhilarating form for Essex and bolsters an already strong middle-order for England. Ryan Sidebottom, who was rested for the Twenty20, could return at the expense of Graeme Swann or Dimitri Mascarenhas.
England (possible) 1 Luke Wright, 2 Ian Bell, 3 Kevin Pietersen, 4 Ravi Bopara, 5 Paul Collingwood (capt), 6 Owais Shah, 7 Dimitri Mascarenhas, 8 Tim Ambrose (wk), 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Ryan Sidebottom, 11 James Anderson.
The balance of New Zealand's side rests on how they cope with the absence of their towering allrounder, Jacob Oram, who has injured his hamstring. Their top-order looks strong - McCullum and Ross Taylor should provide the explosive strokeplay while Scott Styris, James Marshall and Jamie How offer ballast. The situation is less certain for the middle and lower-orders, and with Peter Fulton out of form they could gamble on choosing five specialist bowlers. Tim Southee, whose injured ankle kept him out of the Twenty20 at Old Trafford, was included in the 12 and could make a return. Mark Gillespie was left out.
New Zealand (possible) 1 Brendon McCullum (wk), 2 Jamie How, 3 James Marshall, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Scott Styris, 6 Daniel Flynn, 7 Daniel Vettori (capt), 8 Kyle Mills, 9 Tim Southee, 10 Jeetan Patel, 11 Michael Mason
Umpires: Steve Davis and Nigel Llong
Pitch and conditionsThe highest one-day score at The Riverside this season is Durham's 298 for 7, though the average is closer to 200. There is plenty of opportunity for batsmen who play conventionally, while the bowlers will never be totally out of the contest either. Traditionally a sporting wicket, conditions are expected to be cool but dry.
Stats and Trivia
Since Paul Collingwood took over the reins, England have won nine and lost 10, tying that memorable ODI in Napier in February.
Quotes"It was an amazing performance, but it means nothing for the one-dayers. We know we've got five tough games against them but hopefully we can keep similar sort of standards and put them under pressure."
Collingwood urges England not to get carried away.
"It's a huge blow to us because he's one of the best allrounders in the world so any time you lose him makes it tough to recover from it."
Daniel Vettori on Jacob Oram's absence after injuring his hamstring


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Unit product height is 1200mm without any joint ,
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Association Management
Verto Solutions provides all of the services required to run a professional and cost effective trade or professional association. We recognize that every association is different, and will thoughtfully tailor our services to fit your management requirements.
For one client, the focus may be on member relations, meetings, and financial issues. Another might need only financial management. A third might need more support in the areas of legislative affairs, regulatory compliance, or scientific study management. We work with each association to define their objectives, understand their membership, and identify the services they need to achieve them.


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Roosevelt St. cor. Del Monte St., San Francisco Del Monte, Quezon City, Metro Manila
- 15 Reviews
- 6 Recommend
- 2 Reviewers
Primary Details
- Category:
- Fast Food
- Business Hours
- Open: 8:00a - 11:00p
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- +6323748749
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Most Recent Reviews
lunch ... while watching ASAP at coloring after kumain kya nkakalat mga coloring kit ko hehe...and red tea large cup sa 7/11 :')
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Jr. Sandwich (original recipe) +fries+ orange juice (eight o clock) all for 85..so sulit...so good din for merienda before I go back to church for washing of the feet (traditional every maundy thursday) , then we'll have our visita Iglesia with my ministry (media ministry) together with the altar servers ..so i really need a heavy meal for my activities this evening ...
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ordered here the new KFC Co-creations crispy fire...thighpart
woooooooooh so freakin' spicy but so good.. even my large drink didn't lessen the spicyness... double the spicyness of the gangnam style ... Eight o clock orange juice (large) for drink , I just have to add 5 pesos.. All for 130..sulit
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Junior original recipe sandwich + regular fries+ regular drinks (royal) for 80 only..sulit na sulit...
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had early dinner here before the mass I attended before our christmas party.. dapat kalborgers lang sana kya lang natakam ako sa KFC..and I finally tried their spicy gangnam..and oh so good and oh so spicy , but sweet too, i like the combination of it's sweetness and spice..woo ...and eight o clock orange juice for drink..coleslaw for fix in..I just add 15 for my drink..
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Just got home after our dinner here... had the original recipe chicken burger with fries and drinks..solve..and since I have someone to eat with..linubos ko na kya nagpapicture ako kay kathryn at daniel na stand sa kfc to the help of my cousin..pagbigyan , minsan lang mag fangirl haha.. KathNiel ako forever..
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Full bucket fries and KFC Krushers strawberry flavor to complete the day..bonding with my cousin..share kami...
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Rice bowl Itallian ala King and Medium Orange Juice (8oclock) and free extra rice for dinner before going back to the halloween party I've attended..solve na..namiss ko kfc..
so good!!
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rice and chicken with drinks and mash potato for my younger cousin plus regular fries pala=P119
(ganun naman lagi tong insan ko , di nawawala ang fries pag kfc, kahit nga pag snack box na pinapabili which is may fries nmn magpapabili pa rin ng extra fries..adik lang sa fries?! hindi
nmn masarap lalo na pag lumamig)
Pasta bowl (alfredo) for 80 for me , i asked them to remove the drink kasi kya naging 80, when it supposed to be 90 kasi I'll buy drink in 7/11 near this branch eh,.alam nyo na red tea, my favorite..
(Take out)
all of that for our lunch a while ago ..tinatamad kasi ko magluto and you know, yun lang ang favorite kong puntahan pag ganung moment..
that pasta bowl (alfredo) thingy is new to my taste, although ilang beses nakong kumain ng carbonara , iba pa rin sya dahil lasang lasa ko yung gulay na hinalo (brocolli) , and yung toppings nya pang isa is chicken fillet pla, i thought it's something unique at special at first kya nung natikman kong chicken lang medyo na-disappoint ako ... this branch I always go with is ok naman , nice namn yung mga crews kahit paano at attentive sa costumers kya gustong gusto ko din pumupunta dito,.at di masyadong crowded at malinis lagi yung area..we used to dine here too.
almost one hour kaming kumakain ni cous dahil pareho kaming nagbabasa ng wattpad at sabay humahagalpak sa kakatawa sa binabasa namin which is the same story (Avah Maldita) habang kumakain..
PS: I just really try that pasta bowl para maiba lang,.sawa nko sa regular order ko ,. and because of looloo haha
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It's finger lickin good
Got lazy to cook, but I don't want to play hunger games hehe...
ordered the cheesy chicken while my cous ask for snack box +extra fries..take out!!
actually i'm supposed to ordered the same (snackbox) but when I saw the cheesy chiken (the one with clover cheese) so I change my order from snackbox to cheesy chicken... ganun po ako kabilis mag change mind.. di pko pwedeng mag asawa hahaha
At kung bakit naligaw yung gulp ng 7/11..it's my favorite, rather than softdrink...
And why christiano's in the photo?! It's the new design of snack box's box
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KFC again? Yes again , for dinner..
bec. We are all tired with all our own activities and too lazy and a little tired to cook..
bucket meal consists of 8 chicken half classic-half spicy,
4 Fix ins all coleslaw,
4 reg. drinks (coke) all for 500 something, forgot the exact thing...
(Although i'm the one who bought,.sign of aging?? kahit 23 pa lang ako hihihi )
ewan ko kung sinasadya ba ng tadhana pero bakit puro spicy nakuha ko.. feeling sorry for my self ..kaya dinahan ko na lang sa coleslaw para medyo may tamis kahit sa totoo lang di ako mahilig sa coleslaw
wew ilang araw nakong kumakain ng chicken ah..
Real talk: Di kaya mangitlog nko or tubuan ng pakpak??? Haha
sorry guys No photo..I delete the one i took cause it's so crappy..
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Oh so good..snackbox and chicken for dinner, and bought my red ice tea in seven eleven just few steps from kfc.. Perfect meal.. I miss this type I usually take when I'm all alone at home while watching MMK...
just a little disappointed with the snackbox kasi kumonti na lang unlike dati na marami..never mind,. good thing is it's just walking distance, pero sinumpong katamaran ko maglakad kaya nag jeep na ko hehe...
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kapag tamad magluto..ito ang takbuhan haha..i really love snack box..the best... the first kong mag snack box is nung college ako tapos naadict nko...haha..mas type ko din kasi chicken burger eh :D
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Kapag Fried Chicken?? KFC na yan..the best chicken is already here..in anyway you want it be cook..
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I loved it.
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Del Posto executive chef, Mark Ladner, taking over Toki Underground on Nov. 6th with 100% gluten-free pasta (and veggie burgers too)
From Toki Underground (1234 H Street, NE):
"Mark Ladner, executive chef at Del Posto in New York City, is taking over Toki Underground on November 6, 2014 with delicious bowls of his 100% gluten-free pasta. Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, Ladner and his team have set off on a tour to bring PASTA FLYER to cities including Cambridge, Philadelphia, Providence, and now Washington, DC. The gluten-free pasta "marries traditional Italian culture with Japanese ramen efficiency" and will be offered for both lunch and dinner from 11:30am until close. Also joining Ladner in DC will be Del Posto's executive pastry chef, Brooks Headley, with his notoriously delicious veggie burgers."


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Besides the good news in my inbox yesterday, the tiring, annoying day wasn't a total wash in other ways either. Don't mean to suggest it was. Other nice and/or interesting things happened. I got a pedi. My nails are now hot pink and ready for summer. Of course, it's supposed to rain most of the long weekend and be like 50 degrees tomorrow in particular, but if any sandal wearing weather should miraculously occur, my feet are ready! And, more germane to this blog's purported topic, I tried a new exercise at the gym: seated good mornings.
That guy used a little more weight than me. Just, y'know, a few plates.
I looked considerably less shmexy than her doing mine.
But my ROM was way better than his. (My nose and forehead touched the bench. Go big or go home, muthafuckuhs.)
On the other hand, I did have to foam roll the hell outta my lower back this morning. Ahem.
P.S. Administrative note: sorry about the extra commenting step, but I got a sudden influx of annoying blog spam and continually deleting it was too much of a pain in the ass.


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Can you believe it's been 20 years since Howard Alan Events and American Craft Endeavors started the Downtown Sarasota Art and Craft Festival? It's been a whirlwind of talented friends, loyal visitors and beautiful art, and at HAE/ACE, we're thrilled to continue bringing Sarasota residents the best in arts and crafts year after year.
You probably know Sarasota for its gorgeous beaches, breathtaking architecture and incomparable hospitality. Known for its shops, restaurants, and old-school Florida charm, Sarasota is a popular vacation destination for families, couples and retired folks looking to enjoy the wide range of activities that the Gulf Coast has to offer. In fact, Sarasota Magazine's Best of Sarasota 2014 list featured some pretty great reasons for coming to this coastal town. From diverse arts and entertainment to new and innovative restaurants and shops, there's something for everyone in Sarasota.
Still, we have our own list of reasons why we think Sarasota rocks, and at the top of that list is the Downtown Sarasota Art and Craft Festival. Between our amazing participating artists, our exciting vendors and the awesome family fun, there's a special place in our hearts for this one-of-a-kind annual event.
Enjoy talent from all over the country in one place. For the 20th consecutive year, American Craft Endeavors and Howard Alan Events are bringing you some of the best artistic talent in the U.S. With pieces in almost every artistic medium known to man, art enthusiasts and collectors have a unique chance to find something they will love to add to their collection. Artists will be on hand to answer any questions you may have, and to chat with patrons about their methods, experience and artistic passions. What a great way to introduce your family to the visual arts, too! The festival is open to all ages, so little ones and older folks alike will find something of interest no matter where or who they are.
Artist Spotlight:
- Add some flair to your kitchen time with a beautifully handcrafted apron by the talented Leah Jamison.
- Jewelry lovers will have their socks knocked off by the unique designs made of watch parts by Annemarie Siegel.
- Enjoy the lovely repurposed copper works of Bruce Trewyn.
Get a head start on your holiday shopping. In case you'd forgotten (not a chance, right?) the holidays are just a couple of months away — A COUPLE OF MONTHS! With only a few weeks until the holiday season, the Downtown Sarasota Art and Craft Festival is a great opportunity to find the perfect gift for that hard-to-shop-for person in your life. From watercolors to photography, from handcrafted jewelry to original apparel, you can't go wrong with a unique and beautiful piece of art for your friends and loved ones. And, with budgets ranging from $3-15,000, there is truly something for everyone there.
Celebrate National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with us. One of the most significant things about the Downtown Sarasota Art and Craft Festival is that it takes place during one of the most important months of the year. Each fall, we encourage our artists and patrons to participate in Breast Cancer Awareness Month by wearing a pink item of clothing, to stand in solidarity with those patients and families suffering from the reality of breast cancer.
Did you know that one in eight women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with some sort of invasive breast cancer in their lifetime? That's 12% of U.S. women — devastating statistics for sure. But thanks to artists like Michele Myers, who made handmade soaps with the pink ribbon, and Melanie Van Houten, who created a breast cancer awareness-inspired painting specifically for the Downtown Sarasota Art and Craft Festival, women and families in Sarasota and beyond can learn more about breast cancer and how they can help eradicate this silent killer. The best part is that a portion of the sales from these breast cancer awareness items will be donated to the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.
Come see us this weekend, Oct. 4-5, as we take over Main Street in Downtown Sarasota for the 20th Annual Downtown Sarasota Art and Craft Festival. For more information, and to stay updated on the latest Howard Alan Events and American Craft Endeavors shows year-round, don't forget to visit us at www.artfestival.com.
Join us in our social media communities, where we share fun, informative and valuable posts. Want to be a part of our social media family? Post pictures of you at any of our festivals on Instagram, Pinterest, or Facebook. We've simplified our hashtags: just add #HAEArtFest or #ACECraftFest, depending on the event. This weekend's show is kind of special, though, since it's both art and craft — so for this show, add #ACEArtCraftFest to your pics — and share your fun-filled Sarasota experience with us!


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In tough economic times,
people are looking to cut corners in any way possible. This article
gives simple advice in order to live below your means. The tricky part
is to actually do it!
Things You Will Needa budget
a savings account
Step 1Start with a budget. Figure total income, total monthly debts, and how much can be eliminated from the monthly budget. The key to creating a budget is to ensure a certain percentage of income is dedicated just to savings in order to live below your means.
Step 2Once you've determined exactly how much you can afford to dedicate to savings, not only as a percent of your pay, but also as an actual dollar figure, look at your budget again. Are there any costs you could trim, or take out altogether?The point to living below your means is not to live like a pauper. Be sure to add a little money into the budget just for fun, like going out to dinner or splurging on lattes. The point of living below your means is to limit the amount spent on unnecessary things without eliminating unnecessary spending altogether. Attempting to eliminate all unnecessary spending, if you can afford a little fun money, is bound to fail because of the psychological implications of limiting yourself too much.
Step 3Once you are sure you have a set percentage of money dedicated toward savings, be sure to set up an automatic transfer every time you get paid, so that your pay check goes from your checking account to your savings account automatically, without you having to think about it.The less you are directly involved in putting money into savings, the less you will want to spend the money instead of saving it. A good percentage to aim for is 10% of your take-home pay. While you may not be able to start out saving 10%, it's a good goal to work toward.
Step 4After you've had the automatic transfer set up for a while, you'll eventually forget about the extra money going into savings when preparing your weekly and monthly budgets. Be sure you don't forget about the money altogether, though! Keep it in your savings in case of emergency. This way, hopefully, you won't have to put your emergency on your credit card. Building an emergency fund of 6 months' worth of expenses in case of job loss is a good goal to aim toward. This emergency fund should be able to cover you in case of emergencies around the home, such as the furnace going out in the middle of January or a medical emergency.
As previously stated, this all seems simple on paper. The key to living below your means is to take the plunge and give it a shot!
Tips & Warnings
- Start small. If you think you can only afford to do without five dollars a week, then start by putting five dollars a week into savings via automatic transfer.
- The automatic transfer is key here.
- Make sure you only use savings in this scenario for an emergency. Once you have an emergency fund set up, fully funded, then think about saving for something else.
- If you need to, take money from your emergency fund rather than using your credit card.


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Social movements used to be so difficult to get started and maintain… This used to be the sediment in regards to previous social movements, today it is a different story. Zimmerman explains in Documenting Dreams how the success of the dream act stemmed from the use of digital media technologies. It was such a cool read to hear the importance that digital media and literacies have played in the constant struggle of immigration reform.
I feel that the next big reform is the prison industrial movement and its abolishment. There is a large community on Twitter that is talking about these issues and are engaging on developing a strategy to end the unjust prison system in the United States. As a future social studies teacher, I want my children to engage and make their voice heard on something that they are passionate about.
My question is how do we effectively teach students in a way that their voice is heard and valued in the constant stream of information? I pose this question not to gain a direct answer but rather to stir myself to write and engage in a way where my own voice on these issues can be heard, thus being able to teach these important skills to a future class.
So to those who are already educators, what are good ways of accomplishing this in the educational space?


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Photography on your wedding Day
Specialist photography is used for special occasions like weddings. Advanced cameras are required and a photographer with a clear-cut imagination and a mind for taking those often unique and special photographs. Anyone can take photographs but a professional photographer will capture an image and make it connect.
Usually after the wedding ceremony the newly wed couple will take some time out for photo opportunities, generally in some exotic location with trees, greenery, flowers and possibly rivers flowing in the background. Photos may also be taken in and around the vast Church courtyard and gardens. If a Limousine Hire service has been used then this will also be used in the photographs.
A common photo is with the bride sitting or leaning on the bonnet of the limousine with her long and white dress trailing behind her. A common photo with the groom is with him sitting in the driving seat and the bride standing beside the door, holding it open, him beckoning her towards him.
The newly wed couple may also have their photographs taken whilst sitting inside the exotic limousine, sipping on champagne to celebrate their new life together.
It is not uncommon for the photographer to take several hundred photographs at a wedding and then liaise with the couple afterwards to see which ones to actually save / print. Photographers will also provide the service of creating a lovely and unique photo album. The photos may also contain comments / memories written in by hand by family members and friends just to give it that extra special personal touch and finish.
Photos can capture a moment and bring a life-time of joy and memories for years to come, enjoyed by generations of the family members and friends.


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REAL collects a number of other waste products for appropriate recycling, in addition to the materials resold in the store.
- Electronics. REAL is an OES (Ontario Electronic Stewardship) e-waste depot. Please ask for assistance if the item is heavy. We will put it the big, covered black metal bin you see near the entrance. If we are busy, leave your e-waste by the wall, but please do not block the bin doors from opening.
- Inkjet, laser and toner print cartridges. These are collected for the United Way of Lanark County, who recycles them to raise funds. Bring the used cartridge in the box your new cartridge came in, if possible. Collection box near customer entrance.
- Single use batteries (no large e.g. car batteries). A collection bucket is near the customer entrance.
- Plastic outer milk bags. Collection box near cash, ask cashier.
- Old-style mercury thermostats . Collection bucket near customer entrance.
- Scrap metal. We get a little bit of cash for it. Please give to a staff member.
- Electrical cord and wire (e.g. Christmas light strings), Please give to a staff member.
These materials should be brought to us ONLY during store hours. Please do not leave them outside.