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Standout Student Awards – 2013-14 School Year – OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES
1. Eligibility. KIRO Radio 97.3 FM (Contest Sponsor/the "Station") Contests are governed generally by these rules unless other specific rules are made available for separate contests. Sponsor may change the dates and/or the terms of the Contest without prior notice. General Contest rules are broadcast over the air. Any material changes will be posted on the Station page at https://mynorthwest.com/ (the "Site"). The Contest is open to all legal Washington State residents ("Contestant"), high school students at the time of entry residing within the State of Washingtoninthefollowingcounties:King,Pierce,Snohomish,Kitsap,ThurstonorIsland. No purchase necessary to enter or win. A purchase will not increase a contestant's chance of winning. The Contest is void where prohibited by law. Employees or agents of the Station, its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliated entities, or entity associated with the sponsorship or administration of the Contest (collectively, the "Sponsors"), as well as members of the same household of any such employee or agent, are ineligible to participate. These restrictions also apply to immediate household members of contest or prize winners. The phrase "members of the same household" includes spouses, siblings, parents, children, grandparents and grandchildren, whether as in-laws or by current or past marriages, remarriages, adoption, co- habitation or other family extension, and any other persons residing at the same household, whether or not related.
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KIRO Radio, will select and highlight on-air and on-line, an outstanding Western Washington Student who excels "In the Classroom" with academics; "In the School" with extra-curricular activities; and "In the Community" with volunteerism and community service.
Nominations will be submitted on-line at MyNorthwest.com/student from August 26, 2013 to May 16, 2014.
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Once a month, a KIRO Community Leadership Committee, will select up to three finalists to be voted on by an external community leader committee (3-5 members) will vote and on the candidates and a final candidate will be selected by the most votes. In the event of a tie, KIRO Community Leader Committee will vote and select a winner.
Candidates will be judged on the following criteria: (1) Current high school student in Western Washington; (2) 3.0 grade point average (minimum / last report card); (3) Student must participate in extracurricular activities; student government or athletics; and (4) Student must have local community service / volunteerism, standout leadership in the community, or an exceptional story of act of kindness for someone in the local community.
Qualifications will be verified by school records and verification letters from community service organizations or individuals.
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Each winning student will receive a $1,000 scholarship and will be qualified for a $10,000 educational scholarship grant. One winner among the nine monthly winners will be selected to receive a $10,000 scholarship grant. Three final contestants will be selected by on-line voting at MyNorthwest.com from May 26-30, 2014. A final winner will be announced on KIRO Radio and/or MyNorthwest.com on June 6, 2014. Contest winners must have their guardian set up a 529 account of a Washington State equivalent of an educational account at their preferred financial institution in the Contest winners' name to have the prize proceeds directly deposited in to their established account. Sponsors will not provide any financial advice or advise Contest winner which financial institution to select.
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Praise be to Allah.
The historical dramas and other shows that are shown on TV involve many things that are contrary to sharee'ah. For example:
Distortion of historical texts and the addition of many details that are not limited to making up dialog between the characters; rather it involves fabricating events with details that never happened, and telling lies about the early generations, the scholars and the mujaahideen by mentioning things that did not happen during their lifetimes, or exaggerating about them. The worst things that you will find in some cases are stories of love and infatuation between a scholar or mujaahid and a girl who is in love with him!
Showing those great men in an abhorrent manner that is contrary to sharee'ah, in terms of clothing and appearance, and going further than that by depicting their families and womenfolk in contemporary style, according to the whims and desires of the people in charge of the production.
What is shown of free mixing between men and women in those dramas, and who knows what goes on during filming and beforehand. Indeed, anyone who knows the nature of that environment, and the attitude of the people involved and those who work in it, does not need any further information to find it reprehensible.
What is played of music before the show begins, during it and at the end.
Wanton display and unveiling in all types of TV shows is obvious to anyone. The appearance of women in the first place is not permissible, so how about if women appear wearing make-up and adorned?
What some of these shows include of dancing, singing and drinking alcohol on the part of slave women, which is shown on the grounds of showing what really happened of immoral deeds and blatant sin, which also involves telling lies and distorting the biographies of many of those whose life stories they claim to be presenting.
Portrayal by actors of the Sahaabah in a very bad way; these roles may be played by an actor who is an evildoer or a disbeliever!
In the answer to question no. 14488 you will find the ruling on playing the role of the Sahaabah.
Playing the role of a disbeliever who wears a cross or prostrates to it, or the role of a disbeliever who reviles the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) or Islam. All of that is tantamount to disbelief in Allah, may He be exalted, and apostasy from Islam. We do not know of any shar'i concession that allows actors to say or do anything that constitutes kufr.
This also applies to the one who does plainly evil actions in a real manner, such as one who drinks real alcohol when acting, or he kisses a woman who is not permissible for him, and so on. In fact the scholars have stated that it is haraam to pretend to do such things or to imitate people who do such things, such as the one who drinks water in the manner of one who drinks alcohol, and the like.
Distracting the Muslims and wasting their time with the foolish drama shows that present a distorted picture of our glorious history or of a great character, or that provoke desires in young men and women, or encourage them to form haraam relationships, and many other things contained in these shows.
It is regrettable that this distraction comes to the Muslims in Ramadan, which is the month of the Qur'aan, qiyaam and i'tikaaf. This is indicative of evil intent and plotting on the part of the devils of mankind, who take on the role of the chained devils and distract the Muslims from obedience and worship, and cause them to watch and listen to haraam things.
Hence we think that it is not permissible for the Muslim to watch any type of these shows, and that the prohibition is more emphatic when they contain many things that are contrary to sharee'ah.
Shaykh 'Abd al-'Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
What is required of every Muslim, man and woman, is to avoid these evils and to beware of them. The same applies to watching TV shows that include wanton display on the part of women. It is haraam to watch them because of the grave danger that watching them poses of causing spiritual sickness and loss of protective jealousy, and because that might cause him to fall into that which Allah has forbidden, whether the viewer is a man or a woman.
Fataawa Islamiyyah, 3/72
For more information please see the answer to question no. 118513, 125535 and 63704
And Allah knows best.


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On a warm Saturday morning, 15 Jewish Israeli women drove their cars into West Bank Palestinian towns and villages. There, more than 30 Palestinian women and children carrying pots of home-cooked food entered the Israelis' vehicles. The Palestinians, dressed in jeans or Western-style skirts, removed their head scarves for the journey.
As the cars approached the border checkpoint to Israel, the passengers simply smiled at the young Israeli soldiers who, seeing Israeli license plates and kids in the back seat, waved them through.
The Israeli women had just smuggled in the Palestinian women. If caught in Israel, the Palestinians would be returned to the West Bank. Though none of the women have ever been incarcerated for these cross-border forays, it is always a possibility, both for the Palestinians and the Israelis. The Palestinians hadn't tried to obtain entry permits, knowing how few the Israelis issue due to security concerns.
Within a half hour, the women were in predominantly Jewish West Jerusalem, at a park popular with both Jews and Arabs. After setting down their pots–overflowing with savory chicken, lamb and rice–the Palestinians shyly introduced themselves to a group of young Jewish mothers, most of whom had traveled from Tel Aviv. Seated on Bedouin-style straw mats, they encouraged the Palestinian children to join the Jewish kids in arts-and-crafts projects. To the casual observer, this was a gathering of friends. To the participants, it was a bold act of civil disobedience.
"We are breaking the law and challenging Israeli policy in a very symbolic way," says Ilana Hammerman. It was her solo decision, in 2010, to bring young Palestinian women to Israel for a day at an Israeli beach that inspired the other women activists.
It also brought unwanted attention from the Israeli authorities.
What started as Hammerman's private initiative ("Many Israelis do such things for humanitarian reasons," she says) hit the national headlines in May 2010, when the 67-year-old editor, translator and political activist wrote an article describing why she risked arrest to bring Palestinians to Israel.
After a woman's organization invited Hammerman to lecture about the experience, 11 women, ages 50 to 70 mostly, joined her. Together they formed the group We Will Not Obey.
By the start of 2012, Hammerman says, the group had organized about a dozen joint activities with Palestinian women from the West Bank: trips to the beach, to the Jerusalem zoo, to a stalactite cave, to a gourmet rooftop dinner in Tel Aviv. Today, up to 60 women participate. Though initially tentative, even uncomfortable with one another, the Israeli and Palestinian women have found common ground.
"A lot of relationships between the Israeli and Palestinian women have become closer and closer," Hammerman said as she watched the Palestinian women–who spoke only rudimentary Hebrew and just a bit of English–struggle to communicate with the Israelis, only a handful of them Arabic-speakers.
But with Arabic-speaking Israelis as translators, the women talked about their lives in Bethlehem or Tel Aviv. Despite the language barrier, friendships have flowered. Not long ago, an Israeli member of the group transported a sick Palestinian child and his mother to an Israeli hospital after the government denied her request for an entry permit. Another brought a Palestinian woman to visit her aunt, hospitalized in Israel.
According to Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin, former director of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, there are dozens of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence groups, but "We Will Not Obey is, to my knowledge, the only one that brings Israelis into the West Bank and Palestinians into Israel illegally." Baskin has personally entered areas the military says is off-limits to Israelis, but he never did so in his capacity as head of a registered Israeli NGO. He calls the group's members "very courageous."
Hammerman, who notes that her group isn't a formal NGO, says the participants feel the fear and do it anyway. The police have, so far, questioned 28 of the Israeli activists but haven't formally charged them. Hammerman has been questioned three times but refuses to hand over the Palestinian women's names.
The group's critics say the women's actions threaten the country's security–terrorists who have committed attacks over the years usually hailed from the West Bank or Gaza Strip–and are an attempt to tarnish Israel's reputation. The activists reject this.
Diganit,* a first-time participant from Tel Aviv, drove more than an hour to the picnic with her toddler. "How can we make peace if we don't know each other?" she asks. Says Sara, another first-timer, "As the mother of three boys who will serve in the Israeli army one day, I'm trying to figure out where I fit into the fabric of Israeli society."
This was the fifth encounter with Israelis for Rayna, a Palestinian who comes from a village not far from Bethlehem. "I wanted to enjoy the free air and I wanted my kids and Israeli kids to play together," she says, explaining why she had again braved the checkpoints. "All the women here are my friends."
Fatima, a mother of four, met the Israelis for the first time: "I was afraid when we arrived at the checkpoint. Not afraid of the Israelis, but of being jailed. But I did it to break through the barrier of fear and to break down prejudices."
Hammerman, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, said her parents taught her "to always look around–and never to shut up." She adds, "That's why I'm here."
*All names except Hammerman's have been changed for security reasons.
Photo of West Bank checkpoint in Palestine from Flickr user Chris Yunker under Creative Commons 3.0.


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Oncothyreon Announces Presentations at Upcoming Investment Conferences in September 2012
Aug 29, 2012, 08:00 ET
SEATTLE, Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Oncothyreon Inc. (Nasdaq: ONTY) announced today that Robert Kirkman, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, will be presenting at the following upcoming investment conferences in September.
Stifel Nicolaus 2012 Annual Healthcare Conference
Wednesday, September 5, 2012, at 3:15 p.m. Eastern time in Boston, MA
Rodman & Renshaw 14th Annual Healthcare Conference
Tuesday, September 11, 2012, at 10 a.m. Eastern time in New York, NY
A live and archived webcast of each presentation will be accessible by visiting the Oncothyreon website www.oncothyreon.com under the "News & Events" section.
About Oncothyreon
Oncothyreon is a biotechnology company specializing in the development of innovative therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer. Oncothyreon's goal is to develop and commercialize novel synthetic vaccines and targeted small molecules that have the potential to improve the lives and outcomes of cancer patients. For more information, visit www.oncothyreon.com.
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RAID data recovery is probably one of the most complex processes any data recovery firm can perform. More often than not, the problems are compounded by the actions of the client prior to sending the drives in for recovery. Many users feel that it is important to try and recover the data themselves or repair the array through various system utilities, and this may be fine if the data is not critical. However, it has been our experience that when you have a RAID failure that has resulted in substantial data loss, more often than not, somebody's job is on the line if that data is not recovered. The biggest piece of advise this article can provide in the event of a RAID failure: LEAVE IT ALONE.
IT professionals have a lot of pressure placed on them when a catastrophic system failure occurs. It is their job to make sure that all systems are up and running. Many times, out of panic, troubleshooting processes are initiated in order to correct the problem. Often times these processes only make a bad situation even worse, and in many instances they can render the data unrecoverable. Let's keep in mind what this data can consist of in an average corporate environment. You are probably dealing with information that cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor and resources to create. Much of the data probably can't be duplicated. The intellectual value alone could be in the many millions of dollars. Corporate executives really don't care to hear about how the failure occurred, or what unbelievable string of events led up to the server crashing. They don't care to hear the technical jargon as you try to explain to them what happened, and hope they understand that it wasn't your fault. They only want to know one thing…"why was this data not backed up, and how can we get it back?"
Instead of taking chances on your own, call a data recovery professional. RAID data recovery can be expensive, but in most cases it is much less costly than trying to recreate the data that has been lost. There is a set procedure that most data recovery professionals follow when it comes to performing any recovery work. These procedures are followed and expanded upon when dealing with a RAID recovery. The first step of any RAID recovery is to make sure all of the drives are functional. In order to properly complete the recovery it is essential that all drives are fully functional (this is especially true with a RAID 0). This may involve taking any physically damaged drives into the clean room, in order to make the necessary repairs so that they function normally again. Once that is completed the next step is to make complete, sector-by-sector clones of every drive. This is not "Ghosting", but a very low-level process that allows the recovery technician to work around bad sectors, and have complete control over how the drive functions. During the cloning process, the original source drive that you sent in, is generally put in a "write protect" mode so that no data can be written to the drive. This insures that the original source data is not altered in any way.
Once the cloning process is complete, the original drives you sent in are set off to the side and are no longer touched. The actual recovery process is performed on the cloned copies, so nothing that is done during recovery can make the situation worse. After the drives are cloned, they will be loaded into an emmulator and destriped. Destriping is like taking the scattered pieces of a puzzle and putting them together neatly. Simply stated, destriping is taking the data scattered among the multiple drives that make up array and placing it onto a single destination drive. From there we have a single drive in which we can complete what we would consider to be a "normal" recovery. We can complete this process even at the multi-terrabyte level. If the damage to the stripe is not too severe, in most cases a complete rebuild of the directory structure and all associated data can be completed.
As mentioned earlier, RAID data recovery can be expensive. Depending on the company you contact the prices can vary considerably. Typically a RAID recovery can be priced anywhere from $800 to $3,000 per drive. A number of factors influence the cost, such as RAID type, file system, total size, situation of failure, etc. Many times attempt fees and evaluation fees are charged if the data is unrecoverable. This is understandable due to the amount of time and resources required to perform a single RAID recovery. However, in most cases the costs involved in recovering the data are not even 1% of the data's overall value. If you are reading this article and you haven't suffered a RAID failure, what are you waiting for? Back up your data NOW.


text: Time to race... no wires attached. The acclaimed Mario Kart series has gone wireless, letting players race and battle with up to eight karts at once, regardless of whether everyone has a game card. An all-star cast that includes Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Wario, Bowser and Toad will round out a truly all-star lineup of more than 30 courses drawn from every Mario Kart game. That's right - players will tour courses from Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Mario Kart: Double Dash, not to mention brand-new tracks and arenas. With all the crazy items and frantic speed players have come to expect, this game is a Mario Kart fan's dream. The game has a new dimension of fun, since players can battle others around the world by connecting to Nintendo's new wireless gaming service, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.


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ENGLISH v. RICHARDSON(1912)
Messrs. W. L. Sturdevant and Grant Foreman for plaintiff in error.
Mr. M. L. Mott for the Creek Nation.
Mr. Charles West, Attorney General of Oklahoma, for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Lamar delivered the opinion of the court:
The plaintiff holds a patent dated December 12, 1902. It was issued to her as a member of the Creek Nation when the tribal lands were divided in pursuance of the same general policy as that discussed in Choate v. Trapp, just decided. [ 224 U.S. 665 , 56 L. ed. --, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 565.] There were, however, a few differences. The tax exemption covered only the homestead of 40 acres, [224 U.S. 680, 681] and there was a restriction on alienability for twenty-one years. The patent, instead of being 'framed in conformity with the agreement,' as in the case of the Choctaws and Chickasaws, bore on its face a provision that the land should be nontaxable; the language of the agreement incorporated in the act of Congress being that 'each citizen shall select from his allotment 40 acres of land . . . as a homestead, which shall be and remain nontaxable, inalienable, and free from any encumbrance whatever for twenty- one years from the date of the deed therefor, and a separate deed shall be issued to each allottee for his homestead, in which this condition shall appear.' [32 Stat. at L. 503, chap. 1323, 16.]
These differences are not material. The right of plaintiff to the exemption granted by Congress is protected by the Constitution on principles stated and applied in Choate v. Trapp. The judgment dismissing her complaint is therefore reversed, and the case remanded for proceedings not inconsistent with that opinion.


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This weekend I released QtGStreamer 0.10.1, the first stable version of QtGStreamer. This release marks the beginning of the stable 0.10 series of QtGStreamer that will continue for the lifetime of GStreamer 0.10. For those of you that don't yet know what QtGStreamer is, it is a set of libraries that provide Qt-style C++ bindings for GStreamer, plus extra helper classes and elements for better integration of GStreamer in Qt applications.
I must say thanks a lot to Mauricio, the co-developer of QtGStreamer, who helped me a lot with the design and code, to the GStreamer community, who accepted this project under the GStreamer umbrella with great enthusiasm, to Nokia for sponsoring it, to Collabora for assigning me and Mauricio to work on it and to all those developers who are already using it in their projects and have helped us by providing feedback.
The future
Development of course does not stop here. It just started. We will try to improve the bindings as much as we can by exporting more and more of GStreamer's functionality, by adding more and more convenience methods/classes and/or gstreamer elements that ease the use of GStreamer in Qt applications and by collecting opinions and ideas from all of you out there that will use this API. This last bit is quite important imho, so, if you have any suggestions to make about things that you don't like or things that you would like to see implemented, please file a bug to let us know.
Use in KDE
I am quite happy to see that this library already has early adopters in KDE. Apart of course from my telepathy-kde-call-ui (ex kcall), which is the "father" of QtGStreamer, QtGStreamer is also used in kamoso, a cheese-like camera app, whose authors, Alex Fiestas and Aleix Pol, have been very patient waiting for me to release QtGStreamer before they release kamoso and have also been very supportive during all this time (thanks!).
Personal thoughts
I must say this project was fun to develop. During development, I learned a lot about C++ that I didn't know before and I also learned how GObject works, which I must say is quite interesting, although ugly for my taste. Learning more about C++ was my main source of interest from the beginning of the project, and for some period of time I couldn't even imagine that this project would ever reach here, but I kept coding it for myself. Obviously, I am more than happy now that this finally evolved into something that is also useful for others and has wide acceptance 🙂


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Google released information today that the U.S. Justice Department investigation into the company's use of wireless networks while working on the Street View project closed as of last May.
This information comes within a report that the Internet giant filed with the Federal Communications Commission today, according to Bloomberg. The Justice Department decided, "it would not pursue a case for violation of the Wiretap Act," Google said in the filing.
There have been a handful of government investigations into how Google's Street View cars collected the personal and private data of individuals via wireless networks while mapping cities in more than 30 countries. The cars were supposed to collect just the locations of Wi-Fi access points but inadvertently also collected e-mail and text messages, passwords, Internet-usage history, and other data from unsecured wireless networks for four years.
The latest investigation -- by the FCC -- began a couple of years ago and concluded earlier this month. Even though the FCC dropped the probe without penalizing Google under communications and wiretap law, the government agency still slapped the company with a $25,000 penalty alleging that it "deliberately impeded and delayed" the investigation.
According to Bloomberg, Google wrote in its filing that it "acted in good faith at all times" but nevertheless would pay the FCC's penalty "in order to put this investigation behind it."
Google also alleges that the delays in the investigation were the FCC's fault, not its own, according to AFP News. "Google shares the FCC's concern about the protracted nature of the investigation, but notes that most of the delays resulted from internal FCC process," the company wrote in its FCC filing.
After a 2010 U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigation into Street View, Google took steps to improve its privacy practices, stopped the collection of Wi-Fi data, and agreed to have 20 years of independent privacy audits.
When contacted for comment, a Google spokesperson told CNET, "As the FCC said in their report, we provided all the materials necessary for them to conduct their investigation. We agree with the FCC's conclusion that we did not break the law, but believe that we did cooperate in their investigation, and we made that clear in our response."


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Good read. Grammar is essential
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Can teaching grammar benefit reading comprehension?
Is there a relationship between grammar and reading comprehension? Yes, says Timothy Shanahan on Shanahan on Literacy. In summarizing the research, Shanahan suggests "as students learn to employ more complex sentences in their oral and written language, their ability to make sense of what they read increases, too."
Specific methods for teaching grammar appear to have an effect on comprehension. Strategies that teach sentence combining, a longtime favorite within the special education literature, appears to help students understand what they read, probably because it helps students understand how sentences work. Other research suggests that being familiar with the vocabulary of grammar (noun, adjective) benefits students' understanding.
Shanahan provides a good example of a meaningful way a teacher can "untangle" a complex sentence for students, in hopes that experience with more complex sentences will help them decode them more successfully when they're reading independently. As Shanahan writes, "It is pure romanticism that assumes that children will just figure this kind of thing out without any explicit instruction (and it is even more foolish to assume that English language learners will intuit these things without more direct support)."
I am happy to read this. I have a son on the autism spectrum and have been urging his teacher to help him learn grammar to help him grapple with putting sentences together as well as to help his comprehension when reading. He has near perfect spelling and phonics abilities but has no concept of tense (yet to be taught), plurals, or sentence structure. Grammar is very important.
very nice and informative job you have done and it helps the teachers as well as students to know the importance of garammar.
what about the effect of grammar on communication ? im working on a monograph .can you supply me with some references about the importanceof teaching grammar


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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Autumn 2011 Documentary series
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 7:00pm
Acadia Cinema's Al Whittle Theatre
450 Main Street, Wolfville, NS
Directed by Werner Herzog
Screenplay by Werner Herzog, Judith Thurman
Starring Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier and Jean Clottes
Rated NR ·
1h 30m
Canada, USA, France, Germany and UK
English, German and French
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Following his previous documentary Encounters at the End of the World, iconic director Werner Herzog once again takes us deep behind the frontier of an extraordinary place. Having gained unprecedented access through the tightest of restrictions and overcome considerable technical challenges, he has captured on film, with specially designed 3D cameras, the interior of the Chauvet Cave in southern France. This is where the world's oldest cave paintings – hundreds in number – were discovered in 1994.
In the mesmerising Cave of Forgotten Dreams, he reveals to us a breathtaking subterranean world and leads us to the 32,000-year-old artworks. In that deeply moving moment of encounter, we come face to face with pristine and astonishingly realistic drawings of horses, cattle and lions, which for the briefest second come alive in the torchlight. In true Herzogian fashion, his hypnotically engaging narration weaves in wider metaphysical contemplations as we learn more about the Paleolithic art and its creators. Through his understated and gently humorous voiceover, we are invited to reflect on our primal desire to communicate and represent the world around us, evolution and our place within it and ultimately what it means to be human.


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Southern Thunder 2008 NotesTuesday, June 24th, 2008
It would be hard to capture all that happened at Southern Thunder 2008. However, I will make some notes. The launch was well attended by SEARS members and friends that have flown with SEARS. Chris Short and family attended. Chris was selling lots of motors. He flew the War Eagle Rocket on a N3300 research motor on Friday and on a N2020 on Sunday.
Chris Short's War Eagle on an N2020
Clark Word was there taking a lot of videos. I saw Sarah Gifford as well. We learned that Halley Allen of the Auburn USLI Team is engaged to Kerry Huff. She will be attending Georgia Tech this August and Kerry will be working for Huff Construction in Birmingham. The wedding is a couple of years off. By the end of Southern Thunder, Hally, Kerry and Kerry's Dad, Don, were all Level 2. Chris Crews attended with his family. His Dad, Richard was a big help on recovering rockets. More on that later. Bob Mullins and Whitney were there. Bob had some bad luck when he fell at the motel brusing his ribs. Daymon Campbell had a big time flying his fleet and he bought a 1/4 Scale PML Patriot for Level 1.
John Hansel had an excellent flight of his 10 inch diameter Nike Smoke on the AMW M1730 Skidmark on Saturday. Unfortunately, the Nike drifted into the woods and it took several hours to locate it. John bought some machetes to beat a way into the woods. Richard Crews spent alot of his time helping in the search and chopped a tree down to free the rocket.
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For Immediate Release
King Crimson To Release "Official Bootleg: Live in Chicago, June 28th, 2017" & "Sailors' Tales (1970 – 1972)" – Limited Edition 27 Disc Boxed Set
King Crimson's "Official Bootleg: Live in Chicago, June 28th, 2017," a two CD set, taken from the band's most recent US tour, will be released on October 13, 2017. Presented as a King Crimson Collectors' Club special edition, King Crimson's "Live in Chicago is packaged in a media-book style hard cover 2CD edition with a 24 pages booklet featuring photographs by Tony Levin, introductory notes by Robert Fripp and photos/production notes by KC producer/manager David Singleton.
The album showcases many iconic King Crimson pieces performed live by this line-up for the first time – some being played live for the first time ever, including: "Islands," "The Lizard Suite," "The Errors," "Fallen Angel," "Cirkus" & more..
Mel Collins: Saxes & flute, Robert Fripp: Guitar & keyboards, Gavin Harrison: Drums, Jakko Jakszyk: Guitar & voice, Tony Levin: Basses, stick, voice Pat Mastelotto: Drums, Bill Rieflin: Keyboards, Jeremy Stacey: Drums & keyboards
"If we are looking for a KC live (show); Chicago was exceptional" – Robert Fripp
"One of our best" – Tony Levin
Reasons for the CD release:
1) Musicians know when a gig has really worked; when all the practicing, rehearsing, playing, set-list comes together in a particular time & venue with a particular audience. So, when musicians unanimously say that a concert was special, it's time to pay attention & plan a release for the broader community of fans as soon as is possible
2) King Crimson is a band that's best experienced live & if you can't be there, the live album is the next best thing. Those fortunate to have recently witnessed the band live will surely want to also own this new live release.
"King Crimson – Sailors' Tales (1970 – 1972)" – Limited Edition 27 Disc Boxed Set containing 21CDS/4Blu- Rays/2DVD (all audio) will be released on November 3, 2017.
With much of the material from "In The Wake Of Poseidon," "Lizard" and "Islan ds" now being performed by the current King Crimson line-up (2014 – to present), it is only in recent years that the wider world has begun to realise what fans have always known: this era's recordings are as vital as any other segment of the King Crimson catalogue.
Recorded between the dazzling impact of "In The Court Of The Crimson" in 1969 and the startling reinvention of the band in 1973's "Larks' Tongues In Aspic," this boxed set documents a crucial period in King Crimson's history and shows it to be brimming with innovation, experimentation, and boundary-pushing energy.
With a wealth of previously unheard studio recordings from band rehearsals to full alternate mixes and a vast array of live material, much of it on CD/Blu-Ray for the first time and including four recently found, never before released concerts, this set presents the complete King Crimson recorded history of the period in the best quality audio possible.
• The complete 1970-72 King Crimson boxed set: 21CDS/4Blu-Rays/2DVD – all audio.
• 3CDs feature Steven Wilson & Robert Fripp stereo mixes of "In The Wake Of Poseidon" (1970), "Lizard" ( 1970) & "Islands" (1971) + additional tracks.
• 6CDs feature the Islands line-ups early concerts from Germany (new to CD) & the UK (1971).
• 9CDs feature live recordings (several new to CD and/or previously unreleased in any format) from the 1972 US tour, including a new stereo mix of "Summit Studios" & an expanded "Earthbound."
• 3CDs feature auditions for the Islands band & two further, as yet, unidentified concerts from 1972 (all previously unreleased)
• 3 Blu-Ray discs contain the main studio albums in 5.1 Surround Sound & recent stereo editions mixed by Steven Wilson & Robert Fripp + 30th anniversary masters of the original stereo albums mixes (all in 24/96 hi-res), plus extensive additional material with each disc also featuring a complete alternate album + a further selection of additional, related studio/live material in hi-res.
• "Lizard" Blu-Ray: also contains the audition material from CDs19/20
• "Islands" Blu-Ray: also contains the following concerts in stereo Zoom Club (4 shows), Marquee Club, Plymouth, Glasgow, Detroit all from 1971.
• "Earthbound Tour": Blu-Ray features an expanded version of the original album, Summit Studios gig in Stereo & Quadraphonic (newly mixed), the "Schizoid Men" sequence from the "Ladies of the Road" album, 2 newly discovered concerts in hi-res stereo & every existing soundboard concert recording from the 1972 US tour: Wilmington, NYC (2 shows), Chicago (2 tracks only), Detroit, Jacksonville, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Peoria, Indianapolis & Denver (2 shows).
• 2 DVDs feature the expanded "Earthbound", "Summit Studios," "Schizoid Men," "New York 1972" & the recently discovered live concerts.
• 12" box with booklet, memorabilia, a further downloadable concert, new sleeve-notes by Sid Smith, Jakko Jakszyk & David Singleton
King Crimson's "Official Bootleg: Live in Chicago, June 28th, 2017" and "King Crimson – Sailors' Tales (1970 – 1972)" – Limited Edition 27 Disc Boxed Set can be pre-ordered via the shops at http://www.schizoidshop.com as well as available through traditional retail outlets. The US based Schizoid Shop has recently added a range of new shirts and other band-related merchandise, and offers weekly specials including offers to win free tour tees.
Catch King Crimson's US tour Fall 2017!
Tour dates:
19 Oct Bass Concert Hall, Austin, TX – tickets
21 Oct Music Hall, Dallas, TX – tickets
23 Oct Center Stage, Atlanta, GA – tickets
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26 Oct Duke Energy Centre for the Performing Arts, Raleigh, NC – tickets
28 Oct Lisner Auditorium, Washington D.C. – tickets
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31 Oct New Jersey Performing Arts Centre, Newark, NJ – tickets
02 Nov Merriam Theatre, Philadelphia, PA – tickets
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24 Nov Hard Rock Rocksino, Cleveland, OH – tickets
26 Nov Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, WI – tickets
For more ticket information: https://www.dgmlive.com/tours?liveshow=on
As well as standard tickets, the band's label, DGM, also has announced sale of VIP Royal Packages, limited to just 60 per show. Details can be viewed at the label's interactive and recently redeveloped website, http://www.dgmlive.com.
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Critic says county's attempt to charge her was politically motivated
Lourdes Ramirez is well known among Sarasota County officials.
She is planning to run for a County Commission seat and has been a regular at the local government meetings for years. Ramirez also serves as the president of the Sarasota Council of Neighborhood Associations and is past president of the Siesta Key Association.
So the activist thought it was a little odd when county officials assigned a series of government workers to monitor her as she read through public records in May.
"I'm known in the community," Ramirez said. "I'm not going to steal files."
Now she is calling it a politically motivated vendetta after commissioners tried to retroactively charge her for her "baby sitters."
The issue consumed 45 minutes of Wednesday's County Commission meeting. Commissioners ultimately voted 3-2 not to charge Ramirez for having county employees sit with her for roughly nine hours in May as she reviewed records on the county's 2050 growth management plan. Ramirez has been a frequent critic of the commission's efforts to overhaul the long-range plan.
Commissioners Joe Barbetta and Charles Hines voted to send Ramirez a bill for the time county employees spent watching over her, but the majority of commissioners argued Ramirez should have been informed of the cost ahead of time.
Going forward, though, the commission instructed County Administrator Randall Reid to charge future public record seekers when staff members are assigned to watch over them.
Such charges are allowed under state law and county policy, but Ramirez questioned the need to have county employees monitoring citizens in most cases when they review public records. She said such oversight and the resulting cost could be used to deter people from seeking public documents, and believes that was the intention of the commissioners who voted to charge her.
The cost to Ramirez of having a county employee watch over her would have been $218.34 based on nine hours of staff time at $24.26 per hour.
"It is a way for people not to have access to records," Ramirez said. "How many people can afford that if we're talking about several hundred dollars?"
Ramirez made a point of trying to save money with her records request. She bought a document scanner that allowed her to digitally copy records onto her iPad, thereby avoiding the county's 15 cents per page charge for making copies. She was surprised when the county assigned somebody to watch her.
County policy says charges may be applied when an employee is "safeguarding such records from loss or destruction during an inspection."
Ramirez said that her overseers — who took 45 minute shifts — were hardly keeping a close eye on her or the records. One was reading a book. And the oversight policy is not uniformly applied. The next day Ramirez spent hours reviewing records in the county attorney's office with no oversight, she said.
Crystal Pruitt, the county's point person for public records requests, said there is no hard policy on when public record seekers should have oversight. She said it is a judgment call based on the person seeking the records and the site where the records are being viewed.
Ramirez was in a conference room that was out of public view. Employees could not watch her during the regular course of their work.
Regardless, county officials were not planning to charge Ramirez until commissioners raised concerns.
Barbetta was adamant that she be charged.
He is one of the biggest proponents of rewriting the county's 2050 growth management to make it less onerous for developers; Ramirez is one of the most prominent critics of that effort. Barbetta is also supporting the candidate for County Commission whom Ramirez will oppose if she runs.
Ramirez said Wednesday's debate over her public records bill was "politically motivated" and an effort to deter her "because they're afraid of what I might find."
But Barbetta said the issue has nothing to do with politics. Public records requests take up time that employees could be spending on other tasks. It is only fair to charge for their time, he said.
"It doesn't matter who it is," Barbetta said. "It's in the policy we should have been billing here."


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#226 – Patiently Still
Fine Art Limited Edition Prints By Jeff Dillon
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The grace and poise of the Blue Heron is always striking. They are most at home in a watery environment, methodically positioning themselves like a feathery statue. In the sky, the Heron's horizontal silhouette is unmistakable thanks to its impressive wingspan and pointed form. In this piece, the Heron appears dwarfed by the thick reeds and vegetation. Patiently, against the backdrop of blue and green, it waits.
Original Size: 24″ x 24″
Jeff Dillon the Canadian Artist, inspired by the bold colours and brush strokes of Post-Impressionist Artists. His unique style focuses on capturing light, not through the detail of realism, but with gesture, illusion, shape and colour. He offers a personal and distinctive style to the world through his bold use of colours and lines, often symbolic images or subject matter. Objects in the paintings retain their realistic appearance yet have a vibrancy and fluidity about them, unique to his work. Jeff Dillon's new expression of Post-Impressionism is both beloved and revered in the Canadian and Global Contemporary Art World.
- Limited Edition Prints are limited to an edition of 100. The accompanying Certificate of Authenticity is also hand-signed and numbered by the artist.
- Original completed June 2022
- Search words: Blue Heron, Grass, Reeds, Bird, Green, Yellow, Feather
- Reference photo provided by Michèle Lymburner
- Limited Edition Prints are custom made when your order is created. Order can take 2 - 3 weeks to produce, but often ship sooner.
- Canvas prints are pre-stretched frames and are ready to hang when you receive them. There is an additional framing option to include a wooden floater black frame at an additional price. You can select to add a frame from the menu. The sizes indicated are for the canvas print only (please add 1" to the dimension for the floater frame. Limited Edition Prints are custom made when your order is created.
- These Limited Edition Prints are created on artist-selected canvas, with inks and finishes that Jeff Dillon has determined most closely capture the look of his original paintings and use the finest inks available. The high-quality canvas provides a consistent and smooth glossy printing surface that allows for an incredibly wide color gamut and deep rich blacks, while still offering the traditional look and feel of artist canvas. The semi-gloss finish ensures full colour saturation.
- There is no embellished texture applied to the prints
Gloss Metal Indoor & Outdoor ChromaLuxe® HD Metal Prints are the epitome of excellence in the world of reproductions. They are created with a unique process called dye-sublimation that infuses the image directly into the special coating on the aluminum panel. The result is a stunning piece of art with vivid colours, sharp details, and unmatched durability.
Gloss Metal Specifications:
- ChromaLuxe® HD Metal prints: high gloss, durable, vibrant.
- Lightweight and easy to hang/relocate with recessed float frame and wire cable.
- Archival quality: withstands environmental factors, long-lasting.
- Indoor/outdoor use: weather-resistant, UV-resistant, easy to clean, graffiti-resistant.
- No need for glass: unique coating showcases prints.
- Scratch-resistant, waterproof, touchable.
- Flame-resistant: meets ASTM standards for safety.
- Max size: 40" x 60" with .045″/1,14mm thickness (+3/4 inch for hidden frame).
Canvas artist-selected canvas has stood the test of time. These timeless pieces offer the soft, woven texture that compliments almost any décor. Canvas has a textured protective glossy finish. Protection and careful handling is required as surface of print can mark/scratch easily. The edges will be wrapped with a solid black colour and the frame depth is 1.75 inches. There is a option to get a Black Gloss Floater Frame for a additional costs which increase the outside dimension by 0.75 of an inch on all sides. Either way, all canvases will arrive ready to hang. (From of Nov 2019 to present)
Canvas Specifications:
- Uniform Surface Structure (See PDF Document for details)
- Waterfast
- No Edge Cracking
- 65 / 35 Polyester / Cotton Blend
- 1:1 Weave Structure
- Fast Drytime
- 17 mil, 370 g/m²
Fine Art Paper My fine art prints use pigment-based ink on bright satin (some gloss) white cellulose based, latex saturated, wet strength paper quality and are of the highest quality. Protection and careful handling is required as surface of print can mark/scratch easily. This print will be rolled and shipped in tubes for safety. They come with a half inch white border, and are ready for framing.
(From of July 2022 to present)
Paper Specifications:
- 95 bright white
- Thickness: 10 mil
- Wet-strength and water resistant with no lamination required
- Manufactured using Post Consumer Waste (PCW) of 17 to 22%
- PVC and phalate free
- FSC Certified
- Durable for indoor and temporary outdoor use
- There are no refunds or exchanges on custom limited edition prints, cards or framing.
- If your print arrives damaged in shipping, please email photos to [email protected], once approved, a replacement will be sent to you right away at no additional charge.


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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran says the country's Revolutionary Guard has decoded all of the data from an advanced CIA spy drone captured last year.
Tehran has previously said it recovered information from the RQ-170 Sentinel craft, but Monday's announcement on state-run Press TV suggests technicians may have broken encryptions.
The broadcast quotes the Guard's aerospace chief, Gen. Ami Ali Hajizadeh, as saying the drone had not carried out missions over nuclear facilities before it went down in December 2011 in eastern Iran near the border with Afghanistan. Press TV gave no other details on the claims of recovered data from the drone, which carries stealth technology.
The Guard also claimed last week that it captured another U.S. drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf.
By Associated Press
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Welcome to Daleville, the "City of Possibilities" and Southeast Alabama's gateway to Fort Rucker, the home of U.S. Army Aviation. Daleville offers a charming blend of Southern hospitality, modern convenience, and international culture to everyone.
The quality of everyday life in Daleville is exceptional thanks to our excellent school system, year-round recreational activities, quality healthcare providers, and an abundant variety of nearby dining, shopping, and cultural opportunities. Plus, the sunny beaches of the Gulf of Mexico are always just a short drive away!
Whether you're here with family on a tour of duty at Fort Rucker, visiting on business, or thinking about relocating to the area, we invite you to come to Daleville and discover your possibilities!
City Council Meeting
In the Court Room in the back side of City hall
Water Board Meeting
The Water Board meets every 3rd Tuesday at 5:00 pm
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Miscellaneous thoughts about miscellaneous matters
Irrationality may have a useful place in human activity. For one thing, it allows people to avoid depression when stuck is a hopeless situation. There seldom is a truly hopeless situation, but there are some that look like that, and dreams of something good coming along are better than stewing in the bad situation.
I didn't start writing this for that reason. In December I had an even more interesting situation that was brought back to mind when I briefly spoke with a woman who is
Maybe its just the zeitgeist of this days, but I have noticed more and more people showing signs of delusional thinking. It isnt just a few people with schizophrenic symptoms, but even the present occupant of the Oval Office shows signs of delusional thinking. It might have been a mistake to mention schizophrenia, because not of the delusional people have that problem; although it is difficult to tell without careful observation and analysis. And while belief in conspiracy theories can indicate
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I have read a few items recently that suggest that many people think that Americans are obsessed with guns, firearms. That idea is mistaken. While there are some people who love guns more than is reasonable, Americans have no particular affection for guns; they reserve their love for people who might appreciate it, rather than having love for inanimate objects.
Comments about Americans being gun crazy usually come out shortly after some mentally unbalanced person has slain several
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Interview: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader Director Michael Apted
For the third and probably final installment in the movies based on C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series, there were a lot of changes to be made. Not only does the bulk of the film, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, happen at sea on a massive boat, not only are two of the Pevensie children (Peter and Susan) missing from this adventure and replaced by cranky cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), not only is the story totally separate from the mainland of Narnia we've known before, but the story of the novel itself had to be significantly changed in order to provide a driving narrative for the film. With all those changes going on in the film it made sense to make a change behind the camera, and veteran director Michael Apted was brought on to guide the Dawn Treader and the Pevensies through their latest Narnian journey.
Apted is no stranger to working with children in one way, having directed the documentary Up series about British schoolchildren and following them throughout their lives, and he's also got big-budget movie experience, with the Bond film The World Is Not Enough on his resume. Dawn Treader, though, marked Apted's first venture into heavy CGI animation, not to mention his first time shooting a 3D film and working around the challenges of a film set on the water. Talking to him over the phone last week, I asked Apted about how he navigated the potentially treacherous relationship with previous Narnia films director Andrew Adamson, how he decided to change Lewis's book, why he doesn't consider himself an auteur, and the advice he got from Gore Verbinski and Peter Weir before shooting this film. Voyage of the Dawn Treader opens wide this weekend.
I know you visited the set of Prince Caspian to talk to Andrew Adamson before starting this. What did you guys talk about and what did you learn from him?
Well he was up to his eyes in Prince Caspian. He had only been on the film bout five weeks, and clearly was in for a very very long haul. He was entirely distracted by his own work. He was very kind and very nice, I met the children, I met him, met the production staff. Then I went away and had to meet with Disney and Walden and all that, then I had to go out again and they gave me the job. They hoped to go straight from Caspian to Dawn Treader but they ran into trouble with Caspian, with the shooting. It was going on, and then they had trouble finishing it and then they didn't do so well. They engaged me too early, really. Really Andrew didn't come into play with me until I was almost starting to shoot the film.
Were you able to forge your own thing, then, because it had been a while?
it was quite a while. But Andrew was very helpful. I think he behaved better than I could possibly have done. He was supportive and he came around for bits and pieces when I was shooting. It must have been difficult for him, because he truly did create the thing, he cast the kids, and there was I parading around like I owned the joint.
You had a tricky challenge with this story, because it's episodic and getting away from the basics of the first two films. You seemed to develop and emotional throughline for the children, in both Lucy and Edmund's desire to be like their older siblings. From what I remember that isn't as present in the book.
My aim was, really, I wanted to do a big landscape, a big picture as it was, but give it an intimate emotional life. I find some of these big films soulless, a lot of big color and noise and whatever. I wanted to take a film that had a large scale and give it an emotional center. I think it's in the book, but I just made sure it wasn't swamped by visual effects and 3D. Plotting the relationships, particularly the one between Eustace and the mouse, which I always regarded as central to the film, the major love story in the film.
You're also adding a lot of action pieces.
We had to, yeah. Clearly the flaw in the book is there's no motion to it, no engine driving it. It's a very casual picaresque book, and that would be catastrophic in a movie like this. So we went into the next book and discovered there was some stuff missing in the narrative. There was a big gap between the end of Dawn Treader and the beginning of Silver Chair, so we took some of the stuff that was missing, as it were, the green mist and the witch and all that. We created ourselves a storyline that made you want to see the next scene, and also the possibility of some stronger action than in the book.
You've directed some big action films in the past, but none that relied so much on computers, and particularly CGI characters. How did you handle moving into that technology?
It was a big deal to me. I have a lot to learn. When I did the Bond [1999's The World Is Not Enough], which was a big movie, it didn't have anything like these visual effects. this was a new thing to me. The thing I learned on Bond is "Don't panic, and do it step by step." Frankly don't be afraid to say, "What the hell is going on, how am I going to do this?" If you get good people around, I think people embrace someone who doesn't pretend he knows it all, and is open about his ignorance. Doing the 3D conversion was fun too. I'm not a young man, I've been doing this a long time, and it keeps you going to do new stuff.
Dod you feel like you always have to keep up with the new technology, whatever it's going to be?
I like to. I'm not an auteur, i don't write my own stuff, I don't have an overt vision of the world that I want to keep writing about. It depends on other material. I don't want to repeat myself, so I always go for stuff that gives me a bit of a challenge.
The argument for you being an auteur is the Up series, which you've really put your stamp on. The fact that those movies are about children growing up, and this movie has some of the same things-- did you bring any of that experience into Dawn Treader?
Well, probably not so much when I was doing it, but more now. People say, well how do you direct children, and i look back on those documentaries. You don't get anything out of kids if you talk down to them or patronize them. I treat them as if they're regular adult actors, and they were interesting people, and I found that was the best way to connect with them, not to talk to them.
Water is famously hard to shoot on, working on a boat or even in the tanks. How did you adapt to that?
I went to see a lot of people. I talked to Peter Weir, I talked to Gore Verbinski, and their advice was "If you can avoid going to water, don't go." We built this huge boat, 100-ton boat, we built it by the sea so I had a horizon of about 100 degrees and it was on a gimbal. It could go up and down and backwards and forwards, and it could go in a circle so I could follow the sun around. CGI technology is so advanced with water that I think we got away with it. It was that new technology with water that saved my backside and avoided having to go to sea and all the trouble that would cause. We'd still be out there shooting, I think.
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In the African nation where the first extensively drug-resistant case of tuberculosis (XDR-TB) was found a few years ago, the doors soon will open on a new TB research facility. University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher Adrie Steyn, Ph.D., is the first scientist recruited to work at the facility (shown below).
Steyn, associate professor in the UAB Department of Microbiology, is the first investigator for the new KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) in Durban, South Africa, a collaboration between the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. HHMI has committed $60 million to the initiative.
Worldwide, somebody dies every 10 seconds from TB, but the statistics are much worse in South Africa, Steyn says. "In some regions, the TB incidence is extremely high — about one in 100 people are affected. Many who are HIV-positive also have TB; obviously that is a major concern.
"We plan to study the mechanisms of micro-bacterial persistence, or dormancy. How does it escape drug therapy? How do we develop new vaccines? We will make full use of the resources at K-RITH," Steyn says.
"It's an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in my home country," says Steyn, who was born in Cape Town, South Africa.
Steyn will retain his faculty position and lab at UAB, an affiliation that will foster the educational and research goals of both UAB and K-RITH. One possibility is an educational exchange for students, post-doctoral research fellows and other faculty between K-RITH and UAB.
"Sending students or post-docs overseas is an unique experience in training and changing perceptions of the disease by contact with it. Many of us in the United States work in infectious diseases, but we have no real-life experience seeing ways in which these diseases affect people in countries like South Africa, and this will allow that," Steyn says.
Aisha Farhana, Ph.D., a post-doctoral student in Steyn's lab, is looking forward to working with him at K-RITH.
"I have learned a great deal in the laboratory here. But the most important thing is to work closer to patients. We will have more facilities and a strong focus on TB, which is a global effort," Farhana says.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the new facility will take place in mid-July in Durban. Steyn will be there to deliver a seminar. The health and science ministers for South Africa will attend, as will consular officials from the U.S. and several European countries.


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"The color of the world is changing day by day." -- "Les Miserables," the musical
A look at the electoral map indicates the Republican Party won in square miles. Unfortunately for them, electoral votes, not landmass, won President Obama a second term. Analysis from the Center for Responsive Politics estimated that total spending on federal elections would peak at nearly $6 billion, an all-time record. This spending included ads that carpet bombed swing states; yet we are still an almost equally divided nation. But America is rapidly changing.
Historically, the losing party turns introspective and asks itself how to attract more voters. Some Republicans are suggesting that social issues be jettisoned and the GOP should become more like Democrats. Why, then, have two parties? Step one in a reform agenda would be to remove "old" from the GOP moniker.
Conservatives can adapt to the cultural shift without compromising their principles, or they can retreat into a bunker mentality, lobbing rhetorical ordnance from previous generations, which has little power to persuade young people today.
America is getting younger, but not wiser. We are increasingly secular, less interested in sacrifice and, apparently, we have more faith in government. I doubt that many people under 40 have ever served in the military, or even know anyone who has. The old "family values" appeal no longer works because for too many younger people the family they value doesn't resemble the one older Americans recognize.
And there's something else. The campaign against same-sex marriage is over. Maine, Maryland and Washington state became the first states to approve gay marriage by popular vote. Minnesota voters rejected a constitutional amendment to ban it. Six other states -- New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and the District of Columbia grant same-sex marriage licenses. The Supreme Court might soon hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as the legal union between one man and one woman. Conservatives might want to focus on strengthening their own marriages.
With Mitt Romney winning just 27 percent of the Hispanic vote, Republicans need a new strategy to attract Hispanics whose values mirror those held by conservatives.
Democrats appeal to human nature. They know a growing number of people are becoming addicted to government. Democrats know that envy and greed are "deadly sins" that can be exploited for political gain. A new generation of have-nots needs to be taught that having not today doesn't mean never having, and that if they embrace a set of principles and emulate successful people, those now without much can earn a slice of an expanding American pie.
Now some advice for my distraught conservative evangelical friends. You made a valiant effort for the last three decades, hoping politics would advance another Kingdom, which your Leader said is "not of this world." Don't retreat; enlist in a better army with better weapons.
The One you follow demonstrated a power superior to the state, the power to change lives. Employ that power. Each church and religious institution, each individual, can find one poor family and ask if they want out of their circumstances and are willing to work for it, if a path is offered. One example: If a parent wants a child out of a failing public school, offer them financial help in placing the child in a good private school.
Feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting prisoners, and caring for widows and orphans is not a social gospel that replaces God with government. That's the view of the religious left. Rather, these behaviors serve the ultimate purpose of reaching the heart where real change takes place. And enough changed hearts lead to changed cultures.
The government beast is starved when people become independent of it. This will require a transfer of faith in government, to faith in an Authority higher than the state and a Leader more powerful than any president.
It will take time and investment of private resources, but it works and the results would be worth celebrating. We the people can still change the country in ways politics and governments never have and never will.


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What if your network was compromised for the past five years and you didn't know?
That seems to have been the situation for many victims of one of the greatest security threat to have been recently discovered.
On February 11, Kaspersky Labs announced its discovery of a particularly insidious piece of malware dubbed "The Mask" – also known as "Careto" (Spanish for "mask" or "ugly face"), the name given by the attackers to one of the two primary backdoor implants used on target machines. Kaspersky has detected at least 380 unique victims of the attack across at least 31 countries, concentrated among energy companies, government offices, private equity firms, research institutions, and political activists. Kaspersky further concedes that many more victims could remain undetected.
Kaspersky reports that The Mask has been active for at least five years, until January of this year. This means that, for years, major public and private sector organizations have had their networks and data deeply compromised and not known about it.
Some samples of The Mask were found to have been compiled even before then, in 2007. Disturbingly, this is the same year as the origins of major cyberweapons like Stuxnet and Duqu. What's more, Kaspersky reports that The Mask is a more sophisticated piece of malware than Duqu because of the former's capacity for flexibility and customization.
Working through a highly complex combination of modules and plug-ins, The Mask would secretly gather and steal data from all manner of systems and networks – including remote and virtualized ones – while monitoring all file operations. It would then hide its tracks in highly sophisticated ways, including replacing real system libraries, entirely wiping log files (as opposed to simple deletion), and blocking the IP addresses of renowned computer research entities (including Kaspersky) from its command and control servers.
For these reasons, and because of the unique and sophisticated way this malware would work from a network infrastructure management perspective, security experts hypothesize that The Mask was created or sponsored by a nation-state, similar to Kaspersky's conclusions about the Stuxnet worm.
"The attack is designed to handle all possible cases and potential victim types," Kaspersky reports. Kaspersky has uncovered versions of The Mask that affect Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. Kaspersky also reports that there are mobile versions of The Mask, including one known to attack Nokia devices. While Kaspersky has not been able to obtain a sample to 100% confirm, the computer security firm believes that versions of The Mask affect both iOS and Android devices. The Mask also works through a variety of browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and even Opera.
"Depending on the operating system, browser and installed plugins," Kaspersky notes, "the user is redirected to different subdirectories, which contain specific exploits for the user's configuration that are most likely to work."
Among these exploits are plugin modules that attack anti-malware products (including those by Kaspersky), intercept network traffic, obtain PGP keys, steal email messages, intercept and record Skype conversations, gather a list of available WiFi networks, and provide other network functions to facilitate other modules. One module even creates a framework for extending the reach of The Mask with new plugins.
The Mask also has the ability to profile its targets. Its modules would automatically determine details of its victims' systems and software and then customize attacks using that information. It can even figure out if it is targeting a remote desktop portal or a virtualized environment.
"The installer module can detect if it is being executed in a VMware or Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machine," reports Kaspersky.
Network administrators and information security officers should find these revelations particularly disturbing. The fact that something so flexible, complex, and sophisticated could compromise so much information across so many platforms and go undetected for several years is bad enough. The fact that it is probable that this is the work of a nation-state or nation-state-sponsored group is yet more disconcerting. As cyber warfare ramps up, so must cyber defenses. The logical consequence may be greater government oversight (some may prefer the more uncharitable characterization "intrusion") over private sector systems, particularly in essential industries like energy, banking, and transportation.
For now, basic security measures are still the best protection against these kinds of attacks. Use up-to-date antimalware and firewall software. Don't open suspicious attachments or click suspicious links. Use air gaps where practicable, and when transferring files across the air gap, use media with small storage space filled with random files to prevent malware from storing itself on your USB stick or CD and leaping the air gap.
In the present case, The Mask appears to have been focused primarily on obtaining information. Still, such information – especially considering the sheer volume of system information accessible to those behind The Mask – could be used to develop and enable outright destructive Stuxnet-like attacks in the future. Therefore, those who were compromised should not consider themselves out of the woods yet. New security measures, perhaps right down to a complete network infrastructure overhaul, may be necessary to avoid serious system disruptions down the line.
And then there is the even bigger question: If something as sophisticated as The Mask went undetected in the wild this long, then what else is still out there?
Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.
Joe Stanganelli is a writer, attorney, and communications consultant. He is also principal and founding attorney of Beacon Hill Law in Boston. Follow him on Twitter at @JoeStanganelli.


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