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Editor's Note: This story, originally printed in the August 1999 issue of Scientific American, is being reproduced as CERN on March 13 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee's original proposal for the World Wide Web.
Last year a few of us from the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were flying to Taiwan. I had been trying for about three hours to make my new laptop work with one of those cards you plug in to download your calendar. But when the card software was happy, the operating system complained, and vice versa. Frustrated, I turned to Tim Berners-Lee sitting next to me, who graciously offered to assist. After an hour, though, the inventor of the Web admitted that the task was beyond his capabilities.
Next I asked Ronald Rivest, the co-inventor of RSA publickey cryptography, for his help. Exhibiting his wisdom, he politely declined. At this point, one of our youngest faculty members spoke up: "You guys are too old. Let me do it." But he also gave up after an hour and a half. So I went back to my "expert" approach of typing random entries into the various wizards and lizards that kept popping up on the screen until by sheer accident, I made it work ... three hours later.
Such an ordeal is typical and raises an important issue: for the first 40 years of computer science, we have been preoccupied with catering our technology to what machines want. We design systems and subsystems individually and then throw them at the public, expecting people to make the different components work together. The image this approach evokes for me is that of designing a car in which the driver has to twist dozens of individual knobs to control the fuel mixture, spark advance and valve clearances, among other things—when all he wants to do is go from one place to another.
Doing More by Doing Less
We have done enough of this kind of design. It's time we change our machine-oriented mind-set and invent the steering wheel, gas pedal and brakes for people of the Information Age. This idea brings me squarely to the goal of my vision for the near future: people should be able to use the new information technologies to do more by doing less. When I say "doing more by doing less," I mean three things. First, we must bring new technologies into our lives, not vice versa. We will not accomplish more if we leave our current lives, don goggles and bodysuits, and enter some metallic, gigabyte-infested cyberspace. When the industrial revolution came, we didn't go to motorspace. The motors came to us as refrigerators to store our food and cars to transport us. This kind of transition is exactly what I expect will happen with computers and communications: they will come into our lives, and their identities will become synonymous with the useful tasks they perform.
Second, new technologies must increase human productivity and ease of use. Imagine if I could pull out a handheld device and say, "Take us to Athens this weekend." My computer would connect to the EasySabre airline reservation system and begin interacting with it, using the same commands that travel agents use. The machine would know that "us" is two people and that we like business class, aisle seats and so forth. It would negotiate with the airline computer for maybe 10 minutes, until it found an acceptable flight and confirmed it. I would have spent three seconds giving my order, whereas my electronic bulldozer—the handheld's software—would have worked for 10 minutes, or 600 seconds. The human productivity improvement in this example is 600 divided by three, which is 200, or, in business terms, 20,000 percent.
Such huge gains will not be possible everywhere, of course. But during the 21st century, I expect that we will be able to increase human productivity by 300 percent as we automate routine office activities and offload brain and eyeball work onto our electronic bulldozers. This transformation will happen in the same way that we offloaded muscle work onto bulldozers during the industrial revolution. We have not yet begun to see these gains from the information revolution. Now we click away at our browsers or e-mail screens, squinting our eyeballs and squeezing our brains. In essence, we are still "shoveling," but we don't notice, because we are holding diamond-studded shovels, stamped "high-tech." So our expectations of what computers can do for us must also change if we are to have a true revolution.
To date, computer vendors have abused the phrase "ease of use." When they call a system user-friendly, it is tantamount to dressing a chimp in scrubs and earnestly parading it around as a surgeon. When I say "ease of use," I do not mean incorporating more colors and floating animals into our systems. I mean true ease of use, even if the interaction is only via text. It is inconceivable to me that the differences between browsers and operating systems will persist beyond a few more years. Both access information—one at a distance, one locally—and because people need to do the same things with information regardless of where it resides, ease of use demands that we have only one set of commands for both. The current state of affairs is as ridiculous as if your steering wheel turned your car on city streets but applied the brakes out in the country.
The final way in which new technologies can enable people to do more by doing less is by including everyone in the word "people." With some 100 million machines interconnected today, we feel pretty smug. Yet that figure represents only 1.6 percent of the world's population. We think the world is communicating widely, but we still cannot hear the voices of billions through anything other than television and government information feeds. Moreover, the information revolution, left to its own devices, will increase the gap between rich and poor, simply because the rich will use their machines to become more productive, hence richer, while the poor stand still.
We cannot let this happen—if not for the sake of altruism, then for self-preservation. Such disparities inevitably lead to bloody conflicts. And if we decide to help, the potential is immense: the rich could use the new world of information to buy services and products from the poor, as was done earlier with manufacturing. A Virtual Compassion Corps could for the first time in history match the people proffering human help to those who need it, worldwide. In fact, a small group of undergraduate students at the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science have built a Web site (www.compassioncorps.org) to do precisely that. And help need not always travel from the developed to the developing world. Imagine a doctor in Sri Lanka who makes $20 a day administering health care to homeless people in Boston via a kiosk, equipped with a remote video and medical instrument connection and staffed by a nurse. The service might cost $5 a visit, and although not perfect, it would be superior to no health care at all.
This, then, is what I mean when I say that people should be able to do more by doing less: bring the technology into our lives, increase human productivity and ease of use, and offer these gains to all. Given this goal, let's take a look at the computing model over which this vision extends.
The Information Marketplace
My model of the information world in the near future is the same one I've talked about for the past 20 years— the Information Marketplace, the full capability of which is yet to be reached. In the coming decade, half a billion humanoperated machines and countless computers—in the form of appliances, sensors, controllers and the like—will be interconnected. And these machines and their users will do three things: buy, sell and freely exchange information and information services. Some $50 billion changes hands over the Internet today. By 2030, I estimate that this flow will amount to four trillion of today's dollars, or one quarter of the world's industrial economy. It will come predominantly from the office sector, which accounts for half of that overall economy. Indeed, a large part of the information services of the future will involve a new type of activity—the purchase and sale of information work. Imagine 1,000 accountants from Beijing doing accounting services for General Motors at $1 per hour.
The "free exchange" part of the Information Marketplace will be just as important. It will affect our lives through its family messages; collaborative activities; knowledge-building and accessing capabilities; political, literary and social exchanges; and many new activities.
Given the goal of doing more by doing less and the model of the Information Marketplace, how do we get there in practice? To that end, at the Laboratory for Computer Science, we have just launched a major research project. We expect it to result in a radically new hardware and software system called Oxygen, which will be tailored to people and their applications and will become as pervasive—we hope—as the air we breathe. This multimillion-dollar, five-year project involves some 30 faculty members from the Laboratory for Computer Science, working in collaboration with the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Designing Oxygen
At the heart of the Oxygen system is the Handy 21, which is like a cellular phone but which has additionally a visual display, a camera, infrared detectors and a computer. The Handy 21 brings the help you need to where you are. Moreover, it is all-software-configurable in that it can change at the flip of a bit (in any country) from a cell phone to a two-way radio talking to other Handy 21s, to a network node near a high-speed wireless office network, or to a plain FM radio. The articles by Anant Agarwal on page 60 and John V. Guttag on page 58 address this aspect of Oxygen.
The second key technology of Oxygen is the Enviro 21. Unlike the Handy, which follows people, this device stays attached to the environments around people. It is built into the walls of your office and your house and into the trunk of your car. The Enviro 21 bears the same relation to the Handy 21 as does a power socket to a battery. It does everything the Handy 21 does but with greater capacity and speed. Enviro 21s may also be set up to regulate all kinds of devices and appliances, including sensors, controllers, phones, fax machines, and arrays of cameras or microphones.
Oxygen interacts with the inanimate physical world in two ways—through these controllable appliances and through the infrared detectors in the Handy 21s. If a door is of interest to your machines, you paste an infrared tag on it. Thereafter, when people point their Handy 21s to that door, the machines read the identity of the door and show what is supposed to be behind it. In other words, the system provides a kind of x-ray vision, helping people relate to the physical objects of interest in their environment.
The Handy 21s and Enviro 21s will be linked by way of a novel network, Net 21. Its principal function is to create a secure "collaborative" region among Oxygen users who wish to get together, wherever they may be. The Net 21 must do so on top of the noisy and huge Internet. It must be able to handle constant change as aggregates of participating nodes rise and collapse. It must find you wherever you are. It must connect to numerous appliances. And it must connect to the world's networks. This is no easy task. Oxygen will require a radically new approach to networking protocols that draws on self-organization and adaptation and that augments today's Internet.
Oxygen must also involve perceptual resources, especially speech understanding, and address people's inherent need to communicate naturally: we are not born with keyboard and mouse sockets but rather with mouths, ears and eyes. In Oxygen, speech understanding is built-in— and all parts of the system and all the applications will use speech. The systems built by Victor Zue and his group can handle narrow domains of inquiry, such as weather or airlines. We are stitching these narrow domains together—and incorporating vision and graphics where need be—to form a new quilt covering a broader front of human-machine communication.
Oxygen's fifth technology deals with people's need to find useful information. We are designing Oxygen so that you can first check your own knowledge stores in ways that are familiar to you. The system will allow you to say simply, "Get me the big red document that came a month ago," forgoing reference numbers and other clues. Oxygen will also check the stores of friends and associates who agree to share their knowledge with you, in the same sense that you might ask a friend or a co-worker a question if you don't know the answer yourself. Finally, Oxygen will search the vast information stores on the Web and "triangulate," relating what it finds there to your and your associates' stored knowledge bases.
Oxygen will also let people off-load routine and repetitive work onto their electronic bulldozers. It will help users write scripts for automating various jobs, as well as monitor and control the many appliances connected to the Enviro 21s. "Turn up the heat." "Print it there." "Every day at noon, give me the price of my portfolio and the weather in Athens." Oxygen will take care of such instructions using a reason and control loop, which allows a person to guide the machine gently as it carries out automated tasks.
The system's collaboration technology will help people keep track of what they do as they move forward. For instance, the system will keep a hyperlinked summary of a meeting, provided by a human secretary, with the help of speechunderstanding annotations. When you ask what was decided about, say, a new building's glass roof, it will give you the secretary's three-word summary—"We eliminated it"—but if you desire will also let you probe deeper into the chain of spoken and video input that led up to that conclusion.
Last, Oxygen will include customization technology that tailors information to individual needs. There will be no shrink-wrapped software. All software will be downloaded onto the Handy 21s and Enviro 21s from the Net 21 network, triggered by user requests, errors or upgrades. The customization technology will also let people adapt the machines around them to their own needs and habits throughout their use of the other Oxygen technologies.
A Claim and a Wish
Oxygen, then, is an integrated collection of eight new technologies: handhelds, wall and trunk computers, a novel net, built-in speech understanding, knowledge access, collaboration, automation and customization. The power of Oxygen lies not in any one piece but in the totality of these human- oriented technologies together. They forge a new computing metaphor that we hope will mark an important shift from the desktop and icons of today, as those innovations did from text-only systems.
I will now stake a bigger claim: I believe that the five technologies of speech (and other perceptual capabilities), knowledge access, automation, collaboration and customization are the only new kids on the block. Out of the thousands of things that we can imagine doing in the new world of information, these five are the foundations on which any new activities that help us do more by doing less will be built. For the next few decades at least, they are the steering wheel, the gas pedal and the brakes we seek—as well as the forces leading to a fullfledged Information Marketplace.
If this claim is valid, it suggests that people who want to exploit the new world of information should explore the capabilities of the new Oxygen technologies. Every individual and organization will have access to them. The ones who will truly do more by doing less will be the ones who learn how to integrate these technologies and their people into a well-oiled, humming whole. And good Oxygen applications that exploit speech, knowledge access, automation, collaboration and customization will make it easier for people to reach their full potential. Imagine a health care application built on top of Oxygen: for knowledge access, it might use Medline (a searchable, on-line database of articles from medical journals, made available by the U.S. National Library of Medicine) and the patient records of hospitals, both available by speech. It could automate routine medical and administrative tasks, help doctors collaborate with one another and much more, taking its application "personality" from the capabilities of the underlying Oxygen system.
I hope that this vision, embodied in Oxygen and other systems like it, will help us break away from our 40-year machine preoccupation to a new era of people-oriented computing. And as we focus our technologies increasingly on human needs, perhaps we can make a bigger wish for the future. The first three socioeconomic revolutions were all based on things—the plow for the agrarian revolution, the motor for the industrial revolution and the computer for the information revolution. Perhaps the time has come for the world to consider a fourth revolution, aimed no longer at objects but at understanding the most precious resource on earth—ourselves.


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Tour refutes report Dustin Johnson suspended
AKRON, Ohio – The PGA Tour rebutted a published report Friday that Dustin Johnson has been suspended for failing a drug test.
Johnson said in a vague statement issued by his management company that he would take a leave of absence effective immediately to seek professional help for "personal challenges." The announcement Thursday brought an abrupt end to his PGA Tour season, knocking him out of the PGA Championship and the Ryder Cup.
Golf.com reported Friday that the tour suspended Johnson for six months. It cited an unidentified source as saying Johnson failed a drug test for the third time.
"With regards to media reports that Dustin Johnson has been suspended by the PGA Tour, this is to clarify that Mr. Johnson has taken a voluntary leave of absence and is not under a suspension from the PGA Tour," the tour's statement said.
It was rare for the tour to comment on any matters related to potential discipline. On Thursday, after Johnson announced his leave of absence, the only statement from the tour was that it had "nothing to add" and that it wished him well and looked forward to his return.
The PGA Tour began drug testing in July 2008.
One year later, PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem was asked to confirm that there had been no positive tests in the first year from either recreational or performance-enhancing drugs. He drew a distinction between the two.
"I said we have had no positive tests with respect to performance enhancing. We may have had some test results that trouble us in other areas that we treat in a different bucket," Finchem said in July 2009. "But we don't publicize those. We treat those as conduct unbecoming. If we get a test like that, we will consider it conduct becoming, and what are our choices? We can suspend a player. We can fine a player. We can do both of those and put a player into treatment."
Johnson is not the first player to take a leave of absence.
John Daly announced in September 1994 that he was taking the rest of the year off because of "mental and physical" problems. In announcing Daly's decision, Finchem repeatedly used the word "voluntary," but said the decision was reached after numerous meetings between Daly and the tour.
Daly said Friday evening he could not recall details from 20 years ago. He said of Johnson, "I hope he's all right."
Daly most recently was suspended in 2008 following a tumultuous year of off-course incidents. He called The Associated Press to say he had been suspended for six months because "I'd rather be honest, especially with the fans."
The tour, told that Daly had confirmed his suspension, declined comment citing its longstanding policy on not discussing discipline.
Meanwhile, the PGA of America issued a new Ryder Cup points list Friday that removed Johnson from the standings. He had been No. 5, virtually certain to be an automatic selection when qualifying ends next week.


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Congressional websites obscure lawmakers' policy preferences, and lack input from constituents, according to a new study on the Internet's impact on politics conducted by Northeastern University professor David Lazer and his colleagues.
The researchers interviewed 100 congressional staff members who oversaw their office's websites in 2006, and analyzed all House and Senate websites based on criteria developed in collaboration with the Congressional Management Foundation, a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to improving Congress. Read the study here.
The National Science Foundation funded the research, as part of its "Connecting to Congress" project.
Lazer and his colleagues found that many congressional websites don't identify where a politician stands on hot button issues such as abortion, gay marriage and health care, and go so far as to exclude lawmakers' party affiliations.
It's a tactic that promotes political survival, but fails to uphold democratic values, said Lazer.
Lazer, an associate professor of political science and computer science, noted that voters often end up electing candidates without knowing their true positions on critical issues.
He acknowledged that legislators might tailor their messages to particular audiences on Facebook or Twitter, but explained, "The Internet often does not allow for targeting messages to micro segments of your audience. So, if you're going to post stuff that wins more votes, rather than loses votes, it has to be bland."
The study also found that the general public is rarely asked what features they like to see on their representatives' websites, whether through online surveys or focus groups.
It's a troubling sign for Lazer, who said communication between legislators and constituents is key to the health of our democracy. "One would hope that the Internet would facilitate a robust discourse between representatives and citizens, and that the official websites would be an opportunity for representatives to spur and engage in that discussion," said Lazer. "But we're not really seeing that."
Lazer's coauthors on the paper, titled "Improving Congressional Websites," included Kevin Esterling, an associate professor of political science at the University of California—Riverside, and Michael Neblo, an assistant professor of political science at Ohio State University.
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Malware authors have a solid track record in regards to creative Command and Control protocols. We've seen peer-to-peer protocols, some custom (Sality), some standard (Win32/Storm uses the eDonkey P2P protocol). We've seen binary protocols (Win32/Peerfrag, aka Palevo). We've seen other custom protocols that leverage other standard protocols such as HTTP (Win32/Georbot), DNS (Morto)and IRC (Win32/AutoRun.IRCBot.AK),
Malware authors have a solid track record in regards to creative Command and Control protocols. We've seen peer-to-peer protocols, some custom (Sality), some standard (Win32/Storm uses the eDonkey P2P protocol). We've seen binary protocols (Win32/Peerfrag, aka Palevo). We've seen other custom protocols that leverage other standard protocols such as HTTP (Win32/Georbot), DNS (Morto)and IRC (Win32/AutoRun.IRCBot.AK), and others that leverage popular web services such as Twitter (OSX/Flashback).
This analysis focuses on a threat that uses a different kind of protocol: the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) protocol for instant messaging, commonly known as the Jabber protocol.
We have seen malware using XMPP before as a mean of data exfiltration (RSA FraudActon Research Labs wrote extensively about one such example at Zeus Trojan Leverages IM Software to Forward Stolen Online Account Data). However, this infection is different in that the entire Command-and-Control (C&C) infrastructure relies on the XMPP protocol and a free, public Jabber server for communications.
While this threat is not new (Dr. Web has a short analysis in their virus encyclopedia here). ESET decided to publish this analysis since it presents a naive implementation that could otherwise be much more reliable and robust.
Infection scale, installation and persistence
We do not know the exact propagation vector of this threat. Our telemetry data shows that the infection scale is small but heavily concentrated in Ukraine.
Once executed, Win32/JabberBot.A copies itself into the %windir%system32 directory with a pseudorandom filename and adds an entry in the Windows registry at [HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun] in order to start itself whenever a user logs in to the system.
The malware will also try to infect any removable device by copying itself to the root of the device using a hardcoded filename. While it looked like a random string at first glance, the intrepid eye can distinguish a pattern in it.
If you tokenize it this way: "luxa eterna by taenarong […]" and search on that, it leads to the following web page:
Figure 1. Search result for a hardcoded filename.
Hard to tell the reason this was chosen, your guess is as good as mine.
It is also worth noting that no AUTORUN.INF file is created on the removable device, making this propagation technique poor to say the least.
C&C protocol: leveraging XMPP
To understand how the XMPP protocol is used by this threat, we need to explore some under-the-hood details of the protocol. This Wikipedia article for XMPP explains the JabberID (JID) Resource element, which is the key to communication with the C&C.
In order to use Jabber instant messaging, you first need a user account on a given server, which starts with the format of an email address: <username>@<jabber server>. XMPP, however, allows users to log in multiple times simultaneously using the same JID, provided that the client specifies a different Resource identifier. This extended JID looks like <username>@<jabber server>/<resource>.
In the case of Win32/JabberBot.A, a common user account is shared by all the infected hosts is firstname.lastname@example.com. Each instance of the bot will generates a pseudorandom resource identifier.
The botmaster most likely controls a master Jabber account on jabber.ru and has the user firstname.lastname@example.com in its contact list. The XMPP protocol allows the botmaster to access to the list of resources available from another contact, which allows the botmaster to communicate with individual bots.
Figure 2. Bots announcing their presence status.
The communication protocol uses in-band XMPP messaging, with no encryption or authentication being used, even though Transport Layer Security (TLS) is supported by both the XMPP protocol and the jabber.ru service.
The malware has the basic trojan horse commands:
|delete | del | dlt
|Delete a local file
|shell | shl
|Open a local file – ShellExecuteW("open", <filepath> )
|system | sys
|Execute a system command – system(<command>)
|visit | vst
|Visit a given URL – ShellExecuteW(<url>)
|build | bld
|Upload a local file to the botmaster (in-band base64 messages)
|download | dwl
|Download remote a file from the botmaster (in-band base64 messages)
|ping | png
|Get information about the bot (platform's username and network hostname)
|cd | dir
|List content of local directories
|Make the bot's executable quit (no uninstallation is done, the bot will restart with a new user login)
For some reason, the author created shortened versions of each command, maybe for some sort of backward compatibility or to save some electrons.
The Upload and Download commands involve file transfers between both Jabber accounts: the transfers are done in-band of the XMPP text messaging protocol, in 4,000 bytes chunks of text encoded as base64 data. It does not use out-of-band binary transfers, most likely to avoid firewall and network address translation (NAT) issues.
This threat does not make use of binary packing to encrypt its files, nor does it perform any obfuscation or encryption of its network traffic. It relies on just two Jabber accounts on a free, low-profile Jabber service, which leaves it easily vulnerable to a full and complete takedown, given a minimal level of cooperation from jabber.ru. The Jabber protocol implementation used by the bot is also custom-written, where freely available libraries could have been used, instead.
All these details lead us to the conclusion that this threat is not sophisticated at all. Some of my colleagues even suggested that this was merely a school exercise. Maybe it was just that.
Nonetheless, it shows that XMPP can be used for reliable C&C infrastructure if a proper design was implemented.
At time of analysis, the botnet seemed abandoned as less than 10 bots were observed. ESET still contacted the administrators of the Jabber server at jabber.ru, who took rapid action in taking down the accounts involved in this operation. We consider the C&C eradicated.
Big hat tip to Benjamin Vanheuverzwijn for the entire technical analysis of this threat.
MD5 hash of the analyzed file: 3d539ed8f15ce5d6a04c0d6720645893
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STEVEN WINE, AP Sports Writer
MIAMI (AP) — In a state where the two other NFL teams are in last place, the Miami Dolphins are the biggest laughingstock of all.
They've become the butt of jokes by late-night comedians, a bad sign for an already floundering franchise. Such quipsters as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert weighed in on Comedy Central after the Dolphins' bullying scandal struck a national nerve.
While the NFL is serious about investigating tackle Jonathan Martin's allegations of daily harassment by teammates, including Incognito, others are laughing at the dysfunctional Dolphins like never before. That's saying something for a team that has endured four consecutive losing seasons and hasn't won a playoff game since 2000.
Even Spirit Airlines poked fun on its website.
"Don't be bullied by high fares. Fly Incognito out of Florida or any place for that matter," read an advertisement by the South Florida-based business.
Give Dolphins players credit: They can take a joke.
"So I see Spirit Airline got jokes lol," tackle Bryant McKinnie tweeted.
This is no laughing matter. Martin will meet late this week with the NFL's special investigator to discuss the allegations.
Martin is with his family in California to undergo counseling for emotional issues, while Incognito is suspended indefinitely. The special investigator will determine whether Incognito harassed Martin, and whether the Dolphins mishandled the matter.
It has all made for a tense atmosphere at the team complex, and even stoic coach Joe Philbin attempted to lighten the mood. He allowed himself a slight smile watching a throng of media scramble into position for his daily post-practice news conference.
"I hope the Dolphins aren't liable for any of those hamstrings that all you guys pulled on the way over here," Philbin said. The comment drew a few chuckles.
The Dolphins (4-4) were to play for the first time since the scandal broke Monday night at Tampa Bay (0-8). While the Buccaneers sought their first victory, and while the Jacksonville Jaguars are 1-8, it's the Dolphins drawing the most guffaws in the Sunshine State.
Stewart and Colbert both joked about the name of Miami's Pro Bowl guard turned national villain.
"Has there ever been a less apt name for a person than Incognito?" Stewart said on "The Daily Show."
"The Colbert Report" noted a lunchroom prank by Martin's teammates that he took as a last straw, prompting him to leave the club two weeks ago.
"I bet they also made fun of him for wearing clothes with dolphins on them," Colbert said.
Colbert also quoted the now-notorious voicemail Incognito left for Martin in which he used a racist term, threatened to kill his teammate and threatened to slap Martin's mother. But Colbert described Incognito as the victim in the situation because he has "been pushed around by kindness cabal."
"If only he had a way to hide his identity," Colbert said.
Dolphins tackle Tyson Clabo didn't watch either show but was told he made "The Daily Show" in a locker room video clip.
"I was on Jon Stewart, which is huge," Clabo said. "I heard it's a good thing I have a sense of humor, because I heard I wasn't portrayed the best. But we can all laugh."
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Exeter teacher investigated for possible relationship with student
Teacher on paid leave during investigation
A teacher at Exeter High School is on paid leave after being escorted from the building last month because of allegations of inappropriate behavior with a student.
Exeter police described their investigation as open and active.
"It involves an allegation of sexual misconduct between a teacher and a student back in 2009," said Capt. William Shupe.
The teacher is not being identified, and the superintendent wouldn't comment on the case, saying it's a confidential personnel matter.
Police would only confirm that the teacher is male, the former student is female, and authorities would like anyone with information to come forward to help in the investigation.
"What we're asking the public for is if there's any current students now that may have been involved in this kind of sexual misconduct with a teacher, we're looking for them to come forward," Shupe said. "We understand it's very hard to do that. There are ways to come forward, whether you come forward to us directly or maybe you come forward to your parent and your parent contacts us."
Shupe said anonymous tips can be made to Seacoast Crimestoppers at 603-431-1199.


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As our eyes lock,
the moon inside my eyes
will cause the ocean
inside yours
to ripple and tide.
We will fall in love
not for an eternity,
not forever.
We will fall in love
for the time it takes
to blink,
we will fall in love
for the smallest portion
of a second.
Then you will go back
to your perfect mansion
in your perfect clothes
eating the finest food
with the company of
your perfect husband
laughing at all his unfunny jokes.
But you would have left
your heart and soul
trapped inside my eyes
hidden between the folds
of the night sky.
Nobody will know
why my eyes glow
at night.
And, if someone asks me
I will tell them
that I once felt
an ephemeral love,
and in that love
we lived
a thousand forevers.
-Rupali Jeganathan | The Girl Lost In The Bookstore
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U.S. stocks ended on a high note Wednesday as investors welcomed comments from President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner on the fiscal cliff negotiations.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 107 points, or 0.8%. The index was supported by shares of HP (HPQ), which gained nearly 3%. American Express Co (AXP) and Chevron (CVX) were also strong performers, adding about 2%.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both gained 0.8%.
Trading has been choppy recently as investors react to political developments in Washington, where lawmakers and the White House have been at loggerheads over a slew of year-end tax increases and spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff.
President Obama renewed his call for Congress to pass a bill he says would provide a tax break for middle-class Americans, saying he's "confident" an agreement to avert the crisis will be reached before Christmas.
Speaking to reporters earlier in the day, Boehner said he's "optimistic" that a compromise will be reached "sooner rather than later." But he added that it's time for Obama and the Democrats "to get serious about the spending problem that our country has."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rattled investors late Tuesday when he reported little progress in the talks.
The fear is that failing to resolve the fiscal cliff before the Jan. 1 deadline could shock the economy and send it back into recession. Investors have been paralyzed by this uncertainty and many expect the stocks to remain volatile for the rest of the year.
"The fiscal cliff malaise is blanketing the market," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank.
On Wednesday afternoon, a group of CEOs from top U.S. companies will meet with President Obama as part of the "Campaign to Fix the Debt."
Related: World's 5 hottest stock markets
On the economic front, the government said October new home sales fell 0.3% from the month before, although sales were up 17.2% versus October of last year.
The Federal Reserve said economic activity across the central bank's 12 districts expanded at a "measured pace" in recent weeks, according to the latest edition of its Beige Book. The report also said contacts in several Fed districts are concerned about the fiscal cliff.
A report in the Wall Street Journal fueled speculation that the Fed could extend its bond-buying program next year to help support the economy.
Meanwhile, gold prices fell sharply as the U.S. dollar strengthened against the euro and the British pound. Oil prices were also pressured by the stronger greenback. In the bond market, yields on U.S. Treasuries moved higher as prices declined.
In corporate news, big box retailer Costco (COST) announced a special dividend, which will pay shareholders a total of $3 billion on Dec. 18. Shares rose 6%.
Costco becomes the latest company to move dividend payments to calendar year 2012 as taxes on payments to shareholders are set to rise on Jan. 1, due to the fiscal cliff. Costco rival Wal-Mart (WMT) is also speeding up those payments.
Shares of Knight Capital (KCG) surged 15% after the troubled broker-dealer received a buyout offer from rival and partial owner Getco.
The Fresh Market (TFM)stock plunged to a six-month low after the specialty grocer missed earnings expectations and announced that its CFO will step down next month.
American Eagle (AEO) shares were up 7% after the apparel retailer reported strong quarterly results before the market open.
After the market closed, rival Aeropostale (ARO) said it earned 31 cents per share in the third quarter, topping analysts' expectations for 29 cents.
Shares of troubled retailer JC Penney (JCP), which have been heavily shorted, rose 4.5%.
Shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) jumped 26% after the K-cup maker issued a better-than-expected outlook for the upcoming fiscal year late Tuesday.
European markets closed higher, while Asian markets ended lower on Wednesday.
The European Commission approved the restructuring plans of four Spanish banks, clearing the way for long-anticipated bailout of those institutions.


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If the store-bought sausage you've been using on your pizza is a little limp in the flavor department but you've been hesitant to make your own, this concoction couldn't be easier to pull together. You don't need a meat grinder, casings, or sausage stuffer. You probably have most of the ingredients on hand, too, if your spice drawer is stocked. Most of the work involves a trip to the butcher.
This recipe comes from Mark Bello of Pizza a Casa. Bello makes a batch of this intensely flavorful fennel-studded pork sausage as a topping option for each session of the pizzamaking class he teaches at the "Pizza Self-Sufficiency Center."
I've made it for my own "pizza nights" a couple times now, and I have a hard time not using it on every pizza in the evening lineup.
On pizza, it's reminiscent of the sausage you'll find at places with a long history of tastiness — and that's not a coincidence. Bello says:
My sausage recipe is modeled after my favorite New Jersey/NYC fennel-seed-studded sausage found on the tasty twice-baked slices of yore at the mom-and-pop pizza shops at the mall, on the boardwalk, or at the NYC corner joint. At each place it was cut from a par-cooked link — never the crumbled stuff that always got all dried out and yucky. I don't encase my sausage, but sufficiently sized chunks and proper par-cooking is key for proper juiciness.
Ready to make this yet? Good.
Here's What You'll Need
Ground pork: Bello says, "I use everything from killer heritage breed varieties to kick-ass, fresh-ground all-day-long stuff I get near my apartment in Chinatown. If you don't have the myriad of NYC foodstuffs at your fingertips, ask your butcher for a blend of Boston butt and fat back, coarse ground and at 75/25 lean to fat. That's usually an 8- to 10-pound commitment, but make a big batch o' sausage and freeze it in pizza-party-ready deli pint containers. It freezes well. Just thaw in the fridge overnight."
If you're not quite ready for that level of commitment, just get a pound of coarsely ground pork, as close to the 3:1 meat-fat ratio as you can get. That's what I get from my local butcher, and it works well. Of course, if you have a meat grinder and are ambitious, there's nothing stopping you from grinding your own.
Seasonings: You probably have most of these in your pantry. Salt, garlic powder, red pepper flakes, and fennel seeds.
I didn't have fennel seeds myself and had to hunt around my neighborhood for them. Pizza a Casa actually sells some "I that seem ideal for sausage-making. Says Bello, "They're smaller than typical fennel seeds and they really sing in the sausage—no pre-toasting necessary, either." A $5 bag should be enough for 5 pounds of sausage, he says.
And while that might sound like a pitch, I'm eager to try the smaller seeds once I run out of my own at home. I lose a small amount of seeds when I break up the sausage for topping — I'm guessing the smaller variety will better incorporate into the mixture.


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Very cute! I love the gray!
love it! i just ordered the full line for my shop and i can't wait to get it. wish it came out sooner…..:)
OMG, so stinking cute. And I AM having a girl… Hrm…. :-)
Wow, I am going to have to buy up lots of this collection.
LOVE it! That collection is so great! I think I actually "favorited" the designer on Etsy a while back. Definitely going to stock pile that one!
Enter my Fall Giveaway at http://sewchatty.blogspot.com
us Mamas of boys have to stick together ;] I so know my 3rd is going to be a boy, as well. I just have to decide if I'm cut out to have THREE boys. It kind of terrifies me!
Super cute top, too. ;]
That's a beautiful line of fabric, and I love the way the simplicity of your split 9's works to feature the prints! I can't wait for this one to come out….
This is so pretty, really seems that all the fabrics and colors seem to meld together!
You crack me up! It's so pretty! Jenn
This line is amazing. April seems like such a long way off…
What a perfect pattern to use Serbet Pips for!
Allison, absolutely gorgeous. You have done the fabric justice.
I absolutely love this fabric!! I can't wait for it to come out even though in March I will have my second boy. I also am positive that I am destined to be a mother to only boys, so I will just have to make a quilt for myself from Sherpet Pips! Love your quilt!
Oh I love this! Something different than what's out there right now. Can't wait to get my hands on it!
That really is a cute fabric line… Love it! Very whimsical!
I have been coveting these fabrics ever since Amanda Jean emailed me the link to her site. You make me laugh — I have 5 boys — 4 @ the end. I have girl, boy, girl, and then 4 boys. We kept thinking we'd get another girl, but no such luck. I'd definitely be afraid to try again. I'll just make a quilt for me out of that line!
The link to Aneela's site is what I meant. Oops.
Trades like yours, and like mine are SO priceless! Love it!
You all, who are the creaters of beautiful home items should read my blog! I hope that you would be inspired!
Hey, 6 boys make an awesome family! Mine are all tops in their fields and are super cool! 6 college grads make for interesting conversations when we get together. I never could stand pink so very glad none were female. Quilt top is cute, but give me orange!
I recognise those fabrics!!
I have two daughters so when I design boy fabrics they end up quite girly!! Wish I had a little man to inspire me more.
LOVE the top!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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BlackBerrys are still the de facto standard in the work force and represent a sort of leash an employer has on an employee. If you see that indicator light blink, you better get to work. The problem with that is that no employee ever stops thinking about work! VW wants to change that. They're turning off employee BlackBerrys after work.
It's an impressive and progressive idea that's sure to improve the quality of life of their employees. According to the Financial Times, VW's e-mail server will stop sending messages to an employee's BlackBerry 30 minutes after their shift is over and only start up again 30 minutes before their shift starts. That way, VW employees can really get away from their work and not feel weighed down by after hour messages. Live life! No stress! Save time for yourself.
Plus, the employees are probably thinking any reason to use a BlackBerry less is a good reason in itself. [Financial Times]


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NEW YORK – Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, on Tuesday became the first Asian American woman elected to the U.S. Senate. She'll also be Hawaii's first female U.S. senator, after defeating former Gov. Linda Lingle.
"Clearly the Senate needs more diversity," Hirono said. "We don't even have parity regarding women. We have a ways to go."
EMILY's List, a group that works to help pro-choice Democratic women get elected, saw an outpouring of support for women this election season. Since 2010, its membership more than quadrupled from 400,000 to nearly 2 million, according to spokeswoman Jess McIntosh.
"It's two things," McIntosh said. "The Republican war on women woke a lot of women up who did not necessarily have politics on the front burner. I think anyone under 45 thought we were completely done debating birth control, and you can see what these awful comments on rape victims are doing to women. It doesn't matter how they usually vote, they're outraged. That has sparked a lot of interest in electoral politics that was not previously there."
Hirono's victory didn't come as a surprise. She's a Democrat in a solidly blue state, and had strong support from the Democratic establishment. That included vocal support from the nation's most senior senator, Hawaii Democrat Daniel Inouye, who has been a member of Congress since 1959. He offered his congratulations to Hirono and her supporters Tuesday night.
"Since the moment she declared her candidacy, I have said that Mazie is the person Hawaii needs in the Senate," Inouye said. "She is the bipartisan partner I need."
But for women in national races – especially minorities – it's been a long road. Congress has had female representation for less than a century. After Jeanette Rankin, R-Mont., was elected as the United States' first congresswoman in 1916, a Chicago newspaper had a "character analyst" survey her head. The bridge of Rankin's nose was a sign of leadership, the report said. Her long jaw line indicated concentration. Her neck showed signs of independence, and "soft fine hair indicates alertness."
Two decades later, a Miami newspaper described Patsy Mink – then a state senator from Hawaii – as "the cutest senator you ever saw." Mink, a Japanese American, went on to become the first minority woman in Congress. She authored Title IX, the law that bans gender discrimination among education programs receiving federal money. Many people are familiar with Title IX for the impact it's had on women's athletics. Before her death in 2002, Mink was a mentor and friend to Hirono.
"I know that Patsy's looking down on me and saying, 'You go girl!'" Hirono said. "She ran for Senate, she ran for president, she ran for mayor, she ran for governor. She lost all those races. Here's a model of a woman who did not give up. That's the model I have."
Hirono is also an immigrant. She was 8 years old when her mother – fleeing Hirono's alcoholic father – moved them to Hawaii. Hirono says she cried for two days on the crossing from Yokohama Harbor. Another first: Hirono is a Buddhist, too.
"I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate," Hirono said at a rally earlier in the campaign. "I'm a woman. I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate. I am an immigrant. I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'"
Hirono says her mother and Mink are the two women who have inspired her most in her political career. But getting to this point has not just been about doggedness. A refusal to give up is not enough, she said.
"Women are not given very much credit for our ability to make strategic political decisions," Hirono said. "That's one of the things I do. I don't just think, 'I'm going to do it because I'm not going to give up.' It's hard. It's always hard.


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Manchester man charged with grand larceny
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A Manchester man was charged Tuesday, Oct. 15, by Ontario County sheriff's deputies with third-degree grand larceny.
Deputies allege Thomas E. Kurk, 57, of 149 Main St., Apt. 2, withdrew approximately $11,000 from another person's bank account without proper authority.
Kurk was arraigned in Manchester Town Court and released on his own recognizance. He is scheduled to reappear in court Nov. 6.


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Man dies after altercation outside Worcester condominium complex
Police seek victim's attacker
A man who died after an altercation outside a Worcester condominium complex this weekend has been identified as an 18-year-old Blackstone man.
Police said officers responded to the Crestwood Arms condo complex on Bailey Street for a report of an injured person at 4:45 a.m. When they arrived, they found Robert Walker, 18, unresponsive and not breathing.
Walker was transported to the University of Massachusetts Medical Center where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Police said a preliminary investigation revealed that Walker had been attending a party with several others when an argument occurred between him and another man. The argument continued outside, where witnesses told police the victim was struck in the head with an unknown object.
The victim ran off but was found by his friends in another area of the complex.
Police are searching for his attacker. Anyone with information is asked to call the detective bureau at 508-799-8651.


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The zombie computers used to send spam are coming back to life.
Security vendors say spammers are reconnecting with hacked PCs used for sending spam as evidenced by a rising number of spam messages circulating on the Internet the last few days.
Spam levels suddenly dropped two weeks ago after the shutdown of McColo, a rogue ISP (Internet Service Provider) based in San Jose, California, whose connectivity was used to control networks of hundreds of thousands of computers to send spam, known as botnets.
Computers that are part of the Srizbi botnet idgml-e6ed42a1-49d1-4b42-bb74-a9e82abb8d10 — which by some estimates sent nearly half of the world's spam — are apparently becoming active again, according to researchers from FireEye.
"Srizbi has returned from the dead and has begun updating all its bots with a fresh, new binary," according to a blog post on Tuesday by Atif Mushtaq and Alex Lanstein of FireEye. "The worldwide update began just a few hours ago."
Srizbi's computers were controlled by spammers through McColo's network. When McColo was shut down, those computers tried to call back and get new instructions to send spam. But the botnet operators are clever and created a way to get those machines back if they were stranded.
FireEye researchers essentially did an autopsy on Srizbi's code. They found that the hackers put in an algorithm that dynamically generates a domain name from which a compromised computer could fetch new instructions.
The hackers could then register that domain name and put instructions there to tell the compromised PC to go to a different command-and-control server — not McColo's — for new instructions.
Since FireEye figured out how the algorithm worked, the company registered the gibberish domain names, such as "auaopagr.com," that algorithm generated. When those machines reported for duty, there were no instructions. But FireEye couldn't keep preempting the spammers forever by buying domain names.
Now the compromised computers are connecting to domain names registered by the spammers and getting updated code, including templates for new spam campaigns. The new command-and-control servers are in Estonia and the domain names are being bought from a registrar in Russia, FireEye said.
Srizbi at one time amounted to more than 450,000 PCs, and it remains to be seen how many of those machines have updated code. But three other botnets that were controlled via McColo — Rustock, Cutwail and Asprox — all appear to also be coming back online.
Dmitry Samosseiko of computer security vendor Sophos wrote on Wednesday that spam levels suddenly surged earlier this week, due in part to the resurgence of the Rustock botnet.
McColo's connectivity was briefly restored by mistake by TeliaSonora, and the precious few hours online allowed spammers to tell computers infected with Rustock where to go for new instructions.
Antispam vendor MessagLabs, which was recently acquired by Symantec, hasn't noted a rise in spam associated with Srizbi, said Paul Wood, senior analyst based in their U.K. offices.
Wood said MessageLabs analyzes spam that ends up in the inboxes of its 8 million users and it may be that Srizbi is either not up to speed yet or changed how it targets people.
But MessageLabs has noticed an uptick in spam coming from Rustock, Cutwail and Asprox, which would indicate those botnets are picking up Srizbi's slack.
"Like any sort of business if your courier goes down or goes on strike, you find an alternative provider," Wood said.
Still, spam levels are around 40 percent of what they were before McColo went down, Wood said.


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If someone were to tell you that they had a technology — a weed actually — that could sequester huge amounts of carbon permanently while lifting villagers out of poverty by providing both protein-rich food and super-insulated building materials, you might start to wonder if they were, well, smoking a different weed.
But it appears that one retired building contractor, Bill Loftus, has actually come upon a brilliant application of the fast-growing, carbon-sucking plant known as Kenaf. Kenaf is in the Hibiscus family and is thus related to both cotton and okra. Originally from Africa, this 4,000-year-old crop was used for its fiber. It has the astonishing ability to grow up to 14 feet in one growing season, yielding 6-10 tons of fiber per acre and making it a great source of pulp for paper.
But researchers have also discovered (PDF) a corresponding ability of Kenaf to inhale huge quantities of our most abundant global warming gas — CO2. We all now know we need to dramatically reduce our emissions, but even if we were to cut them by 50 percent in the next 10 years (an almost unachievable goal), we still have decades worth of CO2 that has yet to impact the climate. In other words, we need a technology that can actively pull CO2 out of the air and store it … permanently, now.
It turns out that Kenaf can absorb 3-8 times more CO2 than a tree. One acre of Kenaf can pull about 10 tons of CO2 out of the air per growing season, and in some parts of the world it can be cut back and regrown for a second season. With proper management, a single acre planted in Kenaf could absorb 20 tons of CO2.
But its not enough to simply absorb CO2. In order to create verifiable carbon credits, the CO2 must be sequestered permanently. This is where Bill Loftus comes in. Having worked for decades in the green building industry, he realized the abundant fiber of the Kenaf plant would be perfect as a filler to produce light-weight, super-insulating, fireproof concrete blocks that permanently sequester the carbon.
He patented the block, which weighs under 9 lbs, and is currently using it in two pilot projects in Haiti and South Africa, areas that have been hard hit by natural disasters and famine. The plant leaves are rich in protein (34 percent) and much-loved by chickens. So early in the season, it makes perfect feed in areas where feed is often not even available. The chickens in turn fertilize the soil and provide food for the villagers.
Ѕyou can check out Bill Loftus' website and join his crusade to stop global warming, one kenaf plant at a time.
Source of information by Karl Burkart on Mother Nature Network


text: On the 12th March 2015, I had a pleasure to be invited by Adaku Okafor Ezeudo to International Women's Day Celebration at a conference in Mulhuddart Centre. I had opportunity to show my biz to women who were able to see what Calivita International is offering especially to women. Women carry about families, children and healthy lifestyle gives them great opportunity to preserve good health and personal growth.


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Homemade granola is so easy and economical to make….it's also much healthier and more delicious than granolas you can buy. I've been hooked on making my own ever since I baked up my first batch.
I've tried many different recipes since then…I guess you could say I am on a quest to find the perfect granola. I've experimented with quick cooking and slow cooking, I've played with the oils and the sweeteners, and I've added all sorts of nuts, seeds, and dried fruit.
Here is my latest incarnation, adapted from Maria Speck's beautiful book Ancient Grains for Modern Meals: Mediterranean Whole Grain Recipes for Barley, Farro, Kamut, Polenta, Wheat Berries & More. It's an olive oil granola and it might just be my favorite one yet.
You know what I like best about this granola? It's not too sweet. Though Maria does call for dried fruit in her recipe, I opted to leave it out. Also, I happen to love the salty aspect of this granola (since I used sea salted almonds in addition to some sea salt in the recipe).
One thing I haven't quite figured out is how to get lots of big "clumps" in my granola. This recipe does give you some, but not enough in my book. If you know the secret to clumpy granola, PLEASE do share your granola wisdom…oh, wait: Kelsey's recipe might be the answer :)
My family loves this for breakfast with milk or Greek yogurt and fresh fruit. Berries make a glorious addition…so do sliced fresh apricots.
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My previous granola recipes:
Healthy Homemade Granola
Olive Oil Granola with Dried Persimmon and Pistachios
Spiced Pumpkin Granola with Cashews and Cranberries
Recipe for Nutty Olive Oil Granola
- *6 cups organic rolled oats use certified gluten-free oats if you must avoid gluten
- *1 cup organic shredded unsweetened coconut
- *1 cup chopped almonds I used roasted, sea salted almonds
- *1/2 cup skinned chopped hazelnuts
- *1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds
- *1/2 cup raw sesame seeds
- *3/4 cup olive oil
- *1/2 cup honey I used a local clover honey
- *1/2 cup demerara or other non-refined sugar
- *1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- *1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- *1 teaspoon sea salt I used coarse, but fine is...well...fine
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
- 2. Place oats, nuts, and seeds in a very large bowl. Add the olive oil, honey, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt and use a wooden spoon or your (very clean) hands to mix everything together (note: if you measure and pour the olive oil before the honey, the honey will slide right out of your measuring cup).
- 3. Spread the granola evenly onto your parchment-lined baking sheet: you will have a thick layer. Press the granola down firmly...I think this helps it clump :)
- 4. Place the baking pan in the oven and bake for about 15 minutes.
- 5. Rotate your pan (you can stir the granola around at this point but I didn't...again because I thought it might impede "clumpage") and bake for another 15 minutes, or until the granola is golden brown on top and the amazing aroma is driving you crazy.
- 6. Leave granola to rest in the pan for at least an hour or as long as overnight (covered tightly with foil) before breaking it up and transferring it to an air-tight container(s) for storage. I store my granola in a giant Mason jar, but smaller glass jars can be used at well; you can freeze some if you don't think there's any chance you'll eat up the whole recipe in the near future.


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The Maltby Bench Ruler is a quick and accurate tool to measure club lengths on irons, woods and wedges. The soling plate can be adjusted to match the lie angle of the golf club being measured to insure proper length measurements.
Shaft alignment pins at the base of the ruler align the shaft to aid in accurately setting the club at its correct playing position. The Maltby Bench Ruler is lightweight and easily mounts to any work bench.


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Welcome to the Mary Madeline Project website.
It is the purpose of the Mary Madeline Project to provide comfort and support to grieving families that have suffered the death of a baby. It was founded in memory of Madeline Marie Erickson who died at seven weeks of age and in honor of all the babies before and after her that have touched our lives. We are a non-profit organization that donates infant / baby burial gowns and blankets to hospitals for bereaving parents. Women donate their cherished wedding gowns to the project and volunteers give of their time, talents and love by making the baby burial gowns and blankets.
It is very difficult to shop for a baby burial garment when a baby dies. For premature babies, it is often difficult to find something small enough. The baby burial gowns and blankets are given to Neonatal Intensive Care Units for babies who die in the neonatal period. They are also given to labor and delivery units for stillbirths


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The problem is, it took us too long to admit we were going wrong."
That's the admission of an unnamed member of Konami's PES team in this month's edition of Edge magazine, in which the publisher's revamped and remotivated football studio has outlined the sweeping changes that will be introduced in this year's PES 2014.
Even the most devout PES fan will concede that the switch to next-gen marked a notable decline of the series. That, in part at least, is because the series on PS3 has been developed using a reworked version of the PS2 engine.
It's a different story this time around. PES 2014 is being built using the impressive Fox Engine.
We couldn't really overhaul our old engine in the yearly development cycle," creative producer Kei Masuda admitted. The schedule was too demanding. We reflected on the difficult transition from PS2 to PS3 and could see the next-gen coming. We needed to make a new engine."
The game has a completely new physics engine and a new control scheme that detaches player movement from the ball and gives direct control to a player's centre of gravity. Users will be able to independently control a player's body in relation to the ball. This will provide detailed control whether dribbling, feinting or even jostling for position off-the-ball.
The momentum of a match will also play a big part, with a strong captain, like say Steven Gerrard, able to resist the effects of a hostile crowd and strong attacks from the opposition to inspire his teammates to keep fighting. Visually, too, there's a huge improvement, with the player models in particular looking stunning.
And Fox Engine is reasonably future proof, scaling the game for a range of machines – be it PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, PS5, smartphone or tablet.
Edge bravely speculates that the game's changes could herald a sea change in the genre similar to the disruption caused to Tony Hawk's dominance with the arrival of Skate.


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Lance Armstrong, 2005 News
American bicyclist, proved once again in July that he is indeed the King of the Mountains, as he breezed past his rivals to win a record-breaking seventh consecutive Tour de France race. He beat second-place finisher Ivan Basso by 4 min. 40 sec. Armstrong announced his retirement after the race. In 1996 Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer and given only a 50% chance to live.
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