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Sony's Home hasn't even been out for 24 hours yet, but the PlayStation 3 online community has already attracted criticism from arch-rival Microsoft.
Aaron Greenberg, Group Product Manager for Xbox 360, told website Kotaku that he isn't sure if Home is what people want, because it "feels like 2005 tech in 2008" and "Second Life for hardcore gamers". Ouch.
Live – Microsoft's own attempt at an online community, which was recently refreshed by the New Xbox Experience - is a much more "upscale experience" than Home, Greenberg claimed.
Home is free to download, although some sections will incur an access fee. Greenberg said gamers will be willing to fork out for Live, which costs roughly £35 ($52/€39) for 12 months of Gold-level membership, because it's better.
"I think we have seen people are willing to pay for the premium experience," Greenberg said. "When they compare Live, even to Home, there is still a huge gap."
Home is available to download through the PS3 now. Live access can be bought online and from High Street stores.
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"I hate Top Gear, and I hate anyone that likes it." Comedian Stewart Lee may not be elbowing his way past the petrol-heads to pick up the latest iteration of Forza, but the all-new Top Gear endorsement may well pique the interest of frightened middle-aged men clad in supermarket denim. Thankfully, the bison-headed bigot and his charmless associates are kept off screen, although Clarkson does embark on a tiresome rant against the environment, hybrids, and what he hilariously refers to as "Lentil-matics." How we laughed. The crux of his argument is that motoring enthusiasts are becoming a vilified endangered species, denied the basic human right to flaunt their inadequacies by driving irresponsibly in overpowered red cars while decimating the world's finite resources. Boo hoo.
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This is tempered somewhat by the disclaimer that the views expressed by Top Gear are not shared by Microsoft or developer Turn 10 - and that it's simply a marketing exercise to attract non-gamers. Either way, Forza 4 enables you to drive as recklessly as you like around the Top Gear test track, either in a reasonably priced car or in one of the vast selection that stretches to a second disc. There's even a mode where you knock down oversized skittles, one of the few moments of levity in what is an extremely po-faced affair. The other is when you get an achievement for travelling at 88mph in a DeLorean, which is of course a popular culture reference.
Otherwise, Forza 4 is deadly serious about cars to an extent that surpasses mere enthusiasm. Replace the word 'car' for 'train' and you might as well be standing at Crewe Station with a flask of weak lemon drink and a spiral notepad, cupping your balls over a glimpse of hitherto unseen rolling stock.
Forza 4 takes the 'car porn' concept to an extreme with the so-called Autovista mode, essentially an interactive showroom where you walk around a car and, er, look at it. Oh yeah, and get in it and look at the interior, with a fascinating voiceover (occasionally from Clarkson) telling you what the various knobs do. Sadly there's no option to virtually kick the tyres, although Autovista is compatible with Kinect, enabling you get down on your knees and stick your head in close for the money shot.
Motion Sickness
In fact, Kinect has been shoehorned into the game in a number of ways, presumably at the behest of Microsoft in an attempt to extend its shelf life before it's inevitably slung into the Gizmondo drawer to gather dust alongside the PSP Go and the OnLive micro-console.
When the game starts, you are offered the option to drive using Kinect. What you're actually offered is the option to steer using Kinect. As it's not quite up to detecting a pretend accelerator or brake, the speed is taken care of automatically. As such, you're forced to sit there with your arms extended in front of you like a five-year-old driving an imaginary bus. In fact if you are a five-year-old it might be quite fun, but the lack of complete control makes it little more than a gimmick, albeit one that works perfectly well.
More subtle is the head-tracking mode, which works in conjunction with the joypad to enable you to look around while driving, or, in cockpit mode, even have a cheeky glance in the wing mirror. While it doesn't necessarily make you a better driver, it's a nice touch, albeit one that sadly requires you to sit up straight on the sofa so it can detect your swede.
And finally, in further Kinect-oriented fun, there's the option to navigate the menus by shouting at the telly instead of pressing a button.
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Elsewhere, the online aspect has had a revamp, enabling you to join car clubs and share motors with fellow enthusiasts. The Rivals Mode also gives it a more personal feel, enabling you to take on friends whether they're online or not, thanks to the use of ghost cars. A neat idea, there's a man I know who will be waking up to the news that I've shaved half a second off his Top Gear test track time.
The career mode is still the core experience, however, and it's a comprehensive affair that sees you tour the globe while accruing a swathe of vehicles, all of which can be customised, tweaked and decorated with garish decals to your heart's content. Ultimately though, it's all about the driving, which is tailored to all abilities, including a rewind button for the inevitable spillages. Whether you're the kind of person who becomes aroused by a radiator grill, or even a non-driver, it's a frequently gripping experience. And not even Clarkson can ruin that.
Four games into a near flawless franchise; you can't blame Turn 10 for attempting to freshen things up with 'innovative new features.' But that which wasn't broken hasn't been fixed, and Forza is still the definitive driving experience of this generation. Newcomers might find the slightly spongy handling initially irksome, but with practice it's as close as you can get to driving some of the world's greatest cars, short of chucking a bin through the window of your local Ferrari showroom.

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A new agreement between Water Quality Association (WQA) and California's Department of Health Services (CDHS) could save manufacturers months of wait time before getting products to consumers and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars.
On April 13, 2007, California's Department of Health Services authorized WQA to conduct third-party certifications for water softeners and water filters with health-effect claims.
Under the agreement, items that are already certified for NSF/ANSI Standards 44 and 53 by WQA's Gold Seal Program would not be required to submit test data or product submissions.
Manufacturers must still pay the required fees to CDHS, and then they would automatically be issued a California Certificate. This significantly shortens the approval process from months to possibly days. Products that are not certified by either Gold Seal or NSF International, another authorized third-party certifier, would have to follow the original, longer process to receive a California Certificate.
"This agreement will benefit both industry members and California regulators through increased efficiencies," said Bruce Keswick, section head for Procter & Gamble and chair of WQA's Retail Channel. "We encourage members to use the new system for registrations in California, and we're encouraging WQA to develop this type of cooperation with other states."
WQA Technical Director Joseph F. Harrison, CWS-VI, PE said, "It is a landmark achievement that will accomplish tremendous efficiency and cost-saving improvements for both CDHS and for manufacturers of point-of-use and point-of-entry drinking water treatment products."
WQA worked with Leah Godsey Walker, PE, chief of the Technical Operations Section for California's Drinking Water Technical Programs Branch, and her staff on the agreement.
Walker also attended WQA Aquatech USA in March to report on progress. Walker also cited NSF/ANSI Standard 58 for reverse osmosis equipment as next in line for a potential third-party certification arrangement.


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Outlook 2015: Multi-Manager
We end 2014 with almost every asset class offering investors scant potential return for their risk. Five years into a period of unprecedented interest rate suppression, this should come as no surprise. The returns generated from every mainstream asset since 2009 have been striking. Those returns are now in the past. We believe the next few years will be characterised by lower returns, more volatility and greater risk.
We end 2014 with almost every asset class offering investors scant potential return for their risk ... the next few years will be characterised by lower returns, more volatility and greater risk.
The backdrop
We're going to cop out here and leave politics to one side for the purposes of this outlook. The economic backdrop is foggy enough! Suffice to say we will comment throughout the year on this particular risk factor.
To try and summarise consensus expectations for growth in 2015, we would say that investors are very optimistic about the US (yet still don't believe the Federal Reserve (Fed) will raise rates) and to a lesser extent the UK, are willing to give Japan and much of Asia the benefit of the doubt for now (but are sceptical of China), and hate Europe full-stop.
Starting as we often do at the bottom, for our sins, we think the combination of an expanding European Central Bank balance sheet, a gradual pick-up in credit growth due to record low funding costs for corporates and consumers, and the disposable income boost from lower oil prices has the potential to confound very low expectations for Europe next year.
Momentum in the US looks sustainable at least into 2015, meaning the Fed should follow through and begin raising rates. We'll defer to our 2016 outlook for a judgment of how the economy absorbs what will likely be baby steps towards a tighter policy backdrop.
If US rate hikes don't occur next year, the likely scapegoat will be a deflationary impulse emanating from China – the elephant that never leaves the room. The risks to China and other emerging markets will correlate highly with the strength of the US dollar in our view. Dollar bulls need to be careful what they wish for. A strong US currency, all else being equal, is not bullish for emerging market liquidity.
Not banking on bonds
Almost irrespective of one's economic outlook, the margin of safety in fixed income markets is wafer thin. Aggregate yields globally are as low as they have ever been. Spreads are also closing in on their all-time tights. As a result, correlations within fixed income have picked up worryingly. Traditionally fixed income does not do well in a rising rate environment. If US rates do rise in 2015 as the Fed is telling us they are likely to, every fixed income asset class will take a hit. In spite of this, judging by the scale of continued inflows, the majority of investors appear comfortable with the risk/reward set-up. We're not, and therefore have only limited exposure. By definition, prospective returns today are pretty much as low as they have ever been, risks are high and liquidity is terrible. Investors need to tread carefully here.
We have a healthy cash balance across our portfolios at present, with some diversification into US dollars. Cash is currently considered an inferior asset as it generates a zero return. We believe it will become more desirable as the market sets about discounting higher US interest rates.
Expensive equities
Assuming global aggregate demand can continue to expand in 2015, we would have sympathy with the view that equities offer a greater short-term prospective return than fixed income. Nevertheless, we judge equity valuations from a longer-term perspective, particularly in the US, to be on the expensive side at present. This tells you next to nothing about their potential for 2015, but does indicate their vulnerability to disappointment. Like fixed income, from a positioning standpoint, investors appear very comfortable with the risk/reward trade-off in US equities. Once again, we're less sanguine. What equity risk we are taking is predominantly outside of the US, favouring Europe and Japan particularly. Both markets have relative value on their side and the potential for a catch-up in profitability. In contrast, US equities trade at historically high multiples of historically high earnings. The emerging market complex also strikes us as vulnerable to disappointment and we have next to no exposure there.
Fertile ground for alternatives
Fortunately, we believe the environment is becoming ever more fertile for short-selling, allowing us to generate uncorrelated returns in what may otherwise prove a difficult backdrop for investors. This opportunity set extends beyond equities, to bonds and foreign exchange markets also. The faith investors have placed in the Fed this cycle has made shorting a largely unprofitable exercise. We expect this to change.
Raging bull market enters new phase
The bull market that began in March 2009 has been one of the most rewarding in history, yet the economic recovery to date has been one of the weakest. With the US economy now on a firmer footing, the Fed should intervene less in asset markets in 2015.
Not for the first time we have been premature in moving to emphasise capital preservation within the portfolios (will we ever learn?!) while this new investment environment unfolds. However, such is the unbalanced set-up within markets in our view, when (not if) investors decide to become temporarily more risk-averse, the likely re-pricing will be swift.
We remain very optimistic about future investment opportunities, just not present ones. For the time being we consider capital preservation the most prudent strategy for the portfolios. This will change as the opportunity set evolves.
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Amanda Green takes stock on Broadway
Amanda Green is having quite a year. First came "Bring It On," a new musical based on the popular cheerleader movie, with lyrics by Green and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Slated for a two-month run last summer, the show was extended an extra three.
Now there's "Hands on a Hardbody," another original musical, opening at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Thursday. Green wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the music (with Phish frontman Trey Anastasio). Based on a documentary, the show depicts a Texas endurance contest in which competitors place their hands on a brand-spankin'-new Nissan pickup -- and wait. Last person standing wins the truck.
Green knows a thing or two about endurance. She comes from hearty show-biz stock--her mom is Tony-winning actress and singer Phyllis Newman; her dad, legendary lyricist-playwright Adolph Green, who with Betty Comden churned out "Singin' in the Rain," "On the Town" and other classics.
Alas, Dad died before his daughter made it to Broadway. When she did (as lyricist for 2006's "High Fidelity"), the show closed after 14 dates.
A Manhattan native, Green summered as a kid in East Hampton, where she later met her future husband (orthopedic surgeon Jeffrey Kaplan). She spoke with Newsday contributor Joseph V. Amodio after a recent performance.
People standing around a truck -- not exactly obvious material ... for a musical.
That's why we loved it. A challenge. Doug Wright, who wrote our book, told me about it, so I watched the documentary. It starts out absurd--funny people, human foibles. By the end, I'd grown to care about each of them--they had so much courage and hope. There wasn't one person I didn't want to go home with that truck.
So the characters are real.
A lot of them. Doug and I met some of them in Texas. The musical itself isn't a documentary--some things we make up. But it was so rich, getting to know them. Now we text, we exchange Christmas gifts ...
Some of your songs have real country flavor.
I always wanted to be the female Lyle Lovett.
Sort of unexpected for a city girl, isn't it?
I'm comfortable with that genre. Y'know ... um ... I don't know why. Of course, this show isn't just country.
I heard some Springsteen-like rock.
And Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Dr. John.
And gospel.
I was trying to get into that at a writer's retreat in Wyoming. I remember being in the shower going, "Hooooo -- hee hee -- hah hah!" People were like -- thump, thump, thump -- "What's going on in there?"
Do you use your husband as a sounding board?
I run lyrics by him all the time. And I have two stepdaughters, Sam and Kate. They're 20 and 17. I love when they come to rehearsals and readings. They're smart -- if they like something, I know it's a win.
When did your parents first hear your songs?
I wrote a song and sang it at an anniversary party. I followed ... Leonard Bernstein, Steve Sondheim, Jule Styne, Isaac Stern on the violin. It was an insane lineup. I was around 18. But I wanted to be an actress. Later, in my early twenties, I sang this song, "Worn Out Sweater," in a cabaret. This guy I was dating composed it. I'd written lyrics. It's the first real song I wrote. And it was the most powerful feeling. I was so connected to it -- singing my words. My parents were proud. I fell in love with songwriting then.
What advice did they give you?
They always told me the business was terrible. My mom's an asset -- she's been through so many shows. During previews, she's like, "Don't worry about it -- this is how it goes ... " I'd love to have my dad around to give me advice ... but ... . If I made my dad laugh reading him a lyric of mine, that was a score for me.
Did you see him actually writing?
He and Betty wrote at our house or hers. But the door was closed. All I can tell you is what they ate. They snacked well.
What didn't your parents tell you ... that you learned on your own?
How fulfilling it is to do what you want to do. But I saw it. I saw them enjoy their work. And my dad -- he was a real role model, because he performed his own stuff all the time. That's how I started, in cabarets. I never would've thought to do that if it weren't for him. That joy I saw ... I felt it, too.
A little shared moment with your dad.
Yeah! I could finally go, "Ohhh, this is what it felt like for him."
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2. In Scotland the discount does not apply to alcoholic drinks.
3. Valid every day after 12pm except Bank Holidays, Mothers Day and Fathers Day, or on New Years Eve after 5pm.
4. Maximum of one card per eat-in table, valid for up to 6 guests.
5. Card cannot be accepted in conjunction with any other offer or set menu e.g. lunch, the kids menu, or Tesco Clubcard Deal token.
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LaSalle Generating Station Unit 2 automatically shutdown at 4:06 p.m. Saturday, when the unit's turbine generator tripped offline.
MARSEILLES, Ill. (Aug. 15, 2009) - LaSalle Generating Station Unit 2 automatically shutdown at 4:06 p.m. Saturday, when the unit's turbine generator tripped offline.
A turbine generator is a non-nuclear system that uses steam to rotate the generator to produce electricity.
Although the cause of the shutdown is under investigation, station operators are focusing on a digital control system that monitors turbine performance.
The plant responded as expected, safely and without incident. There was no risk to the public and no injuries associated with the unit coming offline.
The LaSalle Unit 2 shutdown will not have an impact on electrical service to Exelon customers. LaSalle Unit 1 continues to operate at full power.
LaSalle Station is located approximately 75 miles southwest of Chicago. With both units at full power, the site produces more than 2,200 megawatts net, which is enough electricity for 2.3 million homes.


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Digital medical image storage is a significant challenge. Explore new options for archives and backups.
Picture archiving and communication system (PACS) technology offers healthcare providers the potential for long-term cost savings in radiology services. It also makes it much easier and faster for physicians, radiologists, and other specialists at multiple physical locations to collaborate than was possible with traditional film-based image retrieval, distribution, and display. Since electronic images and reports are transmitted digitally via PACS, this eliminates the need to manually file, retrieve, or transport film jackets and the related expenses.
A PACS consists of four major components: the imaging modalities such as CT (computerized tomography), ultrasound, and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging); a secure network to transmit patient information; workstations to interpret and review images; and archives to store and retrieve images and reports. The DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) standard establishes a network communications protocol and defines the file format for transmission of medical images. The DICOM format and its many uses relative to PACS have revolutionized how all medical facilities create, use, and store medical images.
PACS enable images acquired with any modality to be viewed by authorized personnel over a local area network, wide area network, virtual private network (VPN), and the Web. Healthcare professionals can consult with colleagues in real time. As they view digital medical images on a clinical workstation, providers can enhance the images using controls like pan, zoom, rotate, etc., and take precise measurements on screen. They can even print the images with a DICOM printer if they need a hard copy.
Increasingly, PACS technology is Web-based, allowing users to distribute images and data via the Internet. For security, the architecture of a Web-based PACS typically uses a VPN or Secure Sockets Layer. Advantages of Web-based PACS can include ease of use, lower cost, and maintenance savings vs. systems that require proprietary networks.
The DICOM standard facilitates interoperability, which is key to reducing healthcare costs, enables equipment at different sites to communicate, and aids diagnoses and treatment decisions. It makes it much easier to bring images from multiple PACS technologies together in a single user interface.
Along with DICOM, Vendor Neutral Archiving (VNA) strives to ensure interoperability among PACS solutions. VNA means that there are no limits on what a healthcare provider does with its electronically stored images and documents. It specifies that similar storage products and similar imaging applications of different manufacture should function with no noticeable differences.
In the past, digital imaging was too expensive for all but the largest hospitals. However, today more affordable PACS solutions are available, and even smaller providers can take advantage of the technology. PACS vendors even offer systems suited to specific specialties. It's no longer out of reach for practices to tap the collaboration and productivity advantages of PACS.
PACS can also assist smaller offices with HIPAA compliance. These systems have made archiving much easier and more efficient. Medical images can be digitally archived using a server and backed up in whatever way works best for a hospital, clinic, or practice. For example, a patient's x-rays or MRI results, saved in DICOM format, can be stored with his or her Electronic Health Record.
Vendor neutral storage offers maximum flexibility and allows for storage consolidation—a big benefit since healthcare providers are challenged by explosive growth in the size and volume of medical images, evolving regulations, lengthy retention requirements, and financial pressures.
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We can provide tools, expertise, and services, such as our Network Assessment, to ensure your PACS viewing stations are operating at peak performance.
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Both sellers are Paris based so they have the doll already. Another one of these is listed on the Show and Sell pages right now with a starting price of $1000.
If you didn't catch my prior post, the doll retailed for $206. Shipping to the US is strangely expensive at 50 Euros or $69.12. I suppose there was tax in Paris for those that purchased her directly. At any rate, it would have almost been worth it to fly to Paris, buy a few dolls and resell them.
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The OGS Genealogy eNews! notice received every Saturday morning, they have said that they have reached the 1000 mark in 'likes' on their Facebook page!
They do have a very informative Facebook page, and if you are not a member, but would still like to keep up on the news, then click on the "Like".
They say that "New information is shared several times a day and the page has grown into a family history discussion forum for members and non members alike. Come join us!"
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Persistence of populations through climate change demands biogeographic shifts of species, evolutionary adaptation of populations or local acclimatization of individuals. For long-lived, sessile foundation species that create ecosystem habitat such as forest trees or reef building corals, range shifts and evolution are predicted to be slow. As a consequence, the rate and scope of acclimatization in these species to future environmental conditions is central to understanding the impact of climate change. In recent decades, reef building corals have experienced global declines due, in part, to extreme bleaching events sparked by pulses of warm water exposure. However, corals in naturally warm environments can have higher resistance to bleaching temperatures than conspecifics in cooler microclimates, making these populations ideal test sites for research into the mechanisms of coral response to climate change. We use transplants between microclimates, physiological testing and transcriptomics to show that corals can acquire partial heat tolerance through gene expression changes in warm microclimates. Though acclimatization and fixed differences between populations contribute similarly to bleaching tolerance, acclimatization achieves the same phenotypic change in less than two years as would strong selection over many generations for these long-lived organisms. Acclimation and adaptation may both be important in future response of corals and coral reefs to gradual ocean warming, and including these process in predictive models will make for better evaluation of coral reef future.
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25 thoughts on "Hot Blogger Bracket – MAC – 3rd Round"
Go for OMDQ. He beat up on me!
Dan's really bouncing back from that lackluster round 2. Yikes.
Mini-me needs all the votes he can get cuz he´s in europe (spain right now) and can´t go politicking around for votes.
What the hell is going on with Blumpkins?…he was cruising and his douchebag opponent must've operated a cheating program or something. Totally not cool. If you feel the need to cheat in something as pointless as this, you need to get a life.
Seriously, what a friggin cheater. How do you triple your votes in 5 minutes. I guarantee he doesn't know 300 people. Serious crap, who cheats on a contest with no real prize. Pathetic loser
It's one thing to help out an opponent or advesary, but the 100 votes instantly doesn't seem right. Matt Jones is getting his thousands of votes in incraments, but not by the 100s in less than a minute or two.
It's pretty obvious someone has it out for Burnsy.
If Burnsy doesn't win this will only be remembered as the 3rd greatest injustice in American history right behind slavery and four painfully awful seasons of the OC. California here we come!


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In his first reaction to the bombings at the Boston Marathon Monday, Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell voiced sympathy for the victims and their families, praised the first responders, and vowed "justice" for those responsible. He also said, "The complacency that prevailed prior to September 11th has returned."
"Today, the thoughts of every American are with the people of Boston, but especially with the many victims of yesterday's horrendous attacks, and their families," the Kentucky senator said at the outset of his speech on the Senate floor. "Many who were looking forward to celebrating the achievement of a loved one yesterday woke today to the grim reality of facing the rest of their lives with a disfiguring injury. For them, yesterday's attacks were the beginning of a long, difficult journey. Three others who lined up to encourage others, including an eight-year old boy who was there to cheer on his dad at the finish line, lost their lives in the blast. We pray in a special way for their families."
He noted President Obama's response: "As the President said yesterday, the two parties stand united today in our deepest sympathy for all of those who were affected first-hand by these heinous attacks — and in our unshakable resolve to bring those responsible, and any others who are contemplating acts like this, to justice."
And he also reflected on 9/11: "These horrific attacks are a grim reminder of the hatred and contempt that many continue to harbor in their hearts not only for our nation and its freedoms but for innocent human life. On 9/11, we were forever disabused of the notion that attacks like the one that rocked Boston yesterday only happen on the field of battle, or in distant countries. With the passage of time, however, and the vigilant efforts of our military, intelligence and law enforcement professionals, I think it's safe to say that, for many, the complacency that prevailed prior to September 11th has returned. And so we are newly reminded that serious threats to our way of life remain. And today, again, we recommit ourselves to the fight against terrorism at home, and abroad."
McConnell's office stresses that there was "nothing political about the speech" -- and should not be interpreted as such.
"There was no political angle to this speech," McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said in an email to First Read. "In the line about complacency, he notes that thanks to 'the vigilant efforts of our military, intelligence and law enforcement professionals' it's 'safe to say that, for many, the complacency that prevailed prior to September 11th has returned.' In other words, people were beginning to feel safe."


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The FreeBSD.org cluster saw a security breach on two of its machines on Sunday. Following the breach, FreeBSD.org was taken offline, and although most of it is back online now, some deprecated projects are being removed. The FreeBSD project has not been able to confirm the existence of trojans, but users are advised to be vigilant about the possibility.
The breach was made possible by a leaked SSH key, which affected a few clusters. This is not a result of a hack, but a classic example of people being the weakest point in security. FreeBSD has stepped up in its efforts to mitigate this risk, and a part of its response reads,
As a result of this event, a number of operational security changes are being made at the FreeBSD Project, in order to improve our resilience to potential attacks. We plan, therefore, to rapidly deprecate a number of legacy services, such as cvsup distribution of FreeBSD source, in favor of our more robust Subversion, FreeBSD-update, and portsnap models.
Although the rogue developer had no access to the FreeBSD base systems, he did have access enough to compromise the third party packages. FreeBSD.org is conducting security audits and will come out with news of possible breaches if any. The full compromise report and safety precautions are available at this page.


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Eager to get your hands on Bethesda and Splash Damage's Brink? We've played it a ton already, but if you're interested in Brink's brand of team-based shoot 'em up action and you happen to be in Boston this weekend, say for PAX East, you can get your hands on the game this weekend in an interesting location.
You'll have to leave PAX East HQ to do so and head on over to the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal on Boston's waterfront, a setting designed to give players the impression of visiting the Ark itself. Bethesda and event throwers I Am 8-bit promise the following amenities:
- 48 kiosks for 8x8 team multiplayer battles the entire night
- Food & Beverage
- Goodie bags for everyone (but the first 200 passengers get something even more special)
- Live Art
- Charity tournament at night's end for $20,000 gifted to Child's Play
This is happening tomorrow night, Friday, March 11, PAX attendees, from 8 to 11pm. Right here:
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By Teachers, For Teachers
Fed up with building pilgrim hats out of paper bags?
Try one of these less predictable, equally educational Thanksgiving activities for kids of any age.
Thanksgiving Activities for Kids
Holiday Symbolism
A holiday can be the perfect tool to help students understand the literary concept of symbolism. Younger children can start with the most obvious symbols, like the turkey, while older students can consider how symbols like the cornucopia and the fully-loaded Thanksgiving dinner table are deeply rooted in the images we all have of the First Thanksgiving.
Practice Persuasive Writing
Have students write from the point of view of a turkey trying to convince the farmer to have a vegetarian Thanksgiving. Note: you may want to warn parents about their children's potential aversion to eating turkey after this exercise.
Bust Thanksgiving Myths
For a scientific twist on the Big Day: is it true that you get sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner because of something in the turkey? Help students research why people might think that is true (The answer is here).
Or try a history myth-busting activity: have students tell you what they remember of the "First Thanksgiving" stories they heard as a child, then guide them through historical research to establish how accurate those stories really are.
Celebrate Family History
Have students interview a family member about their "most memorable Thanksgiving ever" or "our family's best Thanksgiving tradition." Once the interview is conducted, have students write up the story they learned; they can even decorate it and create something to be displayed at home during the holiday.
Whether they find out that Great Grandma learned her famous stuffing recipe during the Depression or hear a terrific story about how Dad learned to carve the turkey only after he'd knocked it onto the floor, it will be a memorable writing assignment!
This can also be a terrific way to approach cultural differences. For children who have immigrated to the U.S., how is their Thanksgiving different? Do they serve different foods? If some students don't celebrate Thanksgiving, what are some other holidays with family traditions? How is their attitude towards this very American holiday different from students who grew up here?
"Explore" a New World
Dealing with older, cynical students who have "seen it all" when it comes to Thanksgiving? Why not challenge them to write a story about a "new Thanksgiving" in the future, when a small group of explorers are trying to colonize a strange planet somewhere in the universe.
Encourage students to use what they know about the First Thanksgiving as inspiration, but to make appropriate changes. For example, would there be air and water on the new planet? Might that be something the "natives" of the planet could help the colonists obtain? This can provoke some really interesting stories, as well as a fresh appreciation for the original history behind this national holiday.
Holiday Math & Measurements
Planning for Thanksgiving provides plenty of mathematical moments.
Student chefs can convert measurements as they adapt simple recipes to serve different size parties. This kind of activity easily adapts for different grade levels by choosing simpler or more complex recipes. Young students can use a simple mashed potato recipe while middle students might use a pumpkin pie recipe and advanced students could convert recipes with metric units. Also, it's easy to adjust the recipe to suite your learning objectives!
Want to add a budget or Algebra angle? Try this 3-5 Math Printable: Calculating Thanksgiving Costs. OR have your students create a party budget or equations that help identify the overall cost depending on the number of attendees. For instance, if it costs $9 to feed each guest and $25 for decorations, your equation would be: 9x + 25 = y.
Activities about Gratitude
While Thanksgiving Day can be a source of interesting activities, some teachers prefer to focus on the concept of "giving thanks" instead of the day itself. These activities can be more complicated to pull off, but can be extremely powerful experiences.
Make a Gratitude Tree
Gratitude is a complex concept; younger students in particular may not realize how many things in their lives they are "supposed to be" grateful for – a roof over their heads, food on the table, good health, etc. You may wish to take class time to help students brainstorm a list of all the things they are grateful for.
Keep in mind that while students may have some things in common, each student should keep an individual list. A student may honestly feel grateful for a younger sibling or for their favorite stuffed animal, but not wish to say that out loud.
Have students copy the items from their individual lists onto pieces of paper shaped like autumn leaves. Use those leaves to decorate a "Tree of Gratitude" to help students remember the good things in their lives. This can be a great opportunity to have a discussion about gratitude in general. Help students to recognize that some things cause short-term gratitude – for example, passing a hard test feels good, but only until the next hard test comes along – while other things (family, friends, pets, good health) cause long-term gratitude.
For older students, this can be the starting point for a conversation about "instant gratification" as well.
Do a Gratitude "Secret Friend" Exercise
Like a Secret Santa gift exchange, the goal of this exercise is to anonymously reach out to someone. Brainstorm a list of the people in students' lives who they don't always thank – teachers or coaches, school custodians or cafeteria workers, bus or carpool drivers, the postal worker who delivers the mail, the crossing guard at the corner, their doctor or their pet's veterinarian, or the garbage collector who picks up their trash and recycling. Ask students to choose someone and anonymously find a way to say "thank you." They could write an anonymous note and have someone deliver it, or give a small gift, like a cookie or a flower, to their Secret Friend.
Encourage students to get creative; they can help each other with the deliveries or get their family members involved. This can be a great "homework assignment" over the Thanksgiving break. Emphasize that students need to remain anonymous – the experience will be totally different if the Secret Friend knows who is acknowledging them.
After the activity is over with, lead a class discussion or have students do a written assignment about their experience. Did it change how they look at that person or people who do that job? How did it make them feel?
However you decide to celebrate Thanksgiving in your classroom, these activities can put a new twist on the familiar holiday.
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'Joey' Gay's rules of life
NEWTOWN -- Josephine "Joey" Gay taught her parents many lessons during her short and mischievous life.
Parents Michele and Bob Gay listed a few of those lessons during Joey's funeral Mass Saturday morning at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church:
"When you gotta go, you gotta go," Michele Gay said, recalling the day her daughter pulled down her pants in the middle of a school hallway because she had to use the bathroom.
"Everything's better with peanut butter," Bob Gay chimed in. Joey used to eat peanut butter by the spoonful, and she often left the dirty spoons scattered throughout their home -- everywhere from the backyard to the bathroom toilet.
"Every cupcake needs a taste tester," he added. While nobody was watching, Joey once reached for a row of cupcakes as they were cooling on a counter and took a tiny nibble out of each one.
Friends wept and laughed while her parents shared stories about the little girl who turned 7 just three days before a massacre that killed her and 25 others at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
At her funeral Mass, friends and family wore purple, Joey's favorite color. Even her tiny casket was painted purple and white.
Joey suffered from apraxia, a neurological disorder that affects motor skills. She could not speak.
Monsignor Robert Weiss joked at her funeral service that the young girl was an "undercover agent" and that she had been born unable to speak because she knew too many of God's secrets.
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The Columbus City Council approved a $738.5 million general-fund budget for 2012 last night and then signed off on the curbside-recycling contract that is the biggest new program in that budget.
The Columbus City Council approved a $738.5 million general-fund budget for 2012 last night and then signed off on the curbside-recycling contract that is the biggest new program in that budget.
The $5.7 million contract with Rumpke will pay for the company to pick up recyclables and yard waste on alternating weeks. The company already picks up yard waste, and the recycling portion of the contract is $2.6 million this year.
The recycling pickup will be phased in, starting in June with 57,000 homes on the West, Far West and Northwest sides whose yard waste now is collected on Mondays. They should start receiving their wheeled recycling carts by late April and informational literature about the program before that, Public Service Director Mark Kelsey said.
The program will reach about 227,000 homes across the city by early 2013.
The city budget approved last night also sets aside $11 million toward expected state and federal cuts next year, and saves an additional $6.8 million in the city�s rainy-day fund of emergency cash.
�We�ve planned for the future,� said Councilwoman Priscilla R. Tyson, who leads the council�s finance committee. Council members added $1 million to the fund after additional money became available. Mayor Michael B. Coleman had proposed setting aside $10 million.
Coleman proposed a $735.5?million spending plan in November, but better-than-expected estate-tax revenue and unspent money in other funds at the end of the year left the council with about $3 million to pay for members� priorities out of the general fund.
Those include $500,000 for a pilot program in which the city would pay to remove graffiti from private homes and businesses, $461,000 to open three additional swimming pools next year, and $313,000 to restore the Community Crime Patrol funding to its 2008 level.
As in past years, about 70 percent of the budget goes to pay for police, fire and other safety services.
Last night, the council also approved an agreement with eight suburban communities to share fleet services. It allows participating suburbs to pay to use Columbus� vehicle-repair facilities, and vice-versa.
Mostly, said Kelly W. Reagan, administrator of Columbus Fleet Management Division, it will mean that suburban communities can take advantage of Columbus� 24-hour repair services if a firetruck or other vehicle goes down. He said it�s too soon to estimate how much additional revenue his division might expect.
City mechanics would be able to make time to repair suburban vehicles in emergencies by shifting noncritical maintenance work on city vehicles, he said.
�It�s not like we�ve got people sitting around with nothing to do,� Reagan said.
Columbus and the suburbs also would cooperate to get better prices on parts. And suburban communities that buy compressed-natural-gas vehicles would be able to pay to use Columbus� repair and refueling facilities without having to add their own.
Tyson said the agreement helps fulfill promises that the city would become more efficient after voters approved an income-tax increase in 2009.


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Morning MarketBeat: Fiscal-Cliff Stalemate Spooks Investors
Pre-Market Brief:
MARKET SNAP: At 05:25 a.m. ET, S&P 500 futures down %1.7. Treasury yields lower. Nymex crude down $1.11 at $89.02; gold up 0.1% at $1,649.50. In Europe, FTSE 100 down 0.9%, DAX down 0.8% and CAC 40 down 0.6%. In Asia, Nikkei 225 down 1.0% and Hang Seng down 0.7%.
Overnight action:
Boehner's budget 'plan B' collapses; Nokia, RIM reach patent deal; Calls to break up U.K. banks; Global markets fall.
Watch for: November personal income (8:30 a.m. Eastern Time): seen: +0.4%; last: 0.0%. November consumer spending (8:30): seen: +0.3%; last: -0.2%. November durable goods orders (8:30): seen: -0.1%; last: +0.5%. December Reuters/UMich consumer sentiment (final) (9:55): seen: 75.0; last: 74.5. December Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey (11:00).
For more MarketBeat and other streaming markets coverage from The Wall Street Journal, point your mobile browser to wsj.com/marketspulse.
The Breakfast Briefing
All of a sudden, everyone cares about the fiscal cliff.
Stock futures fell sharply overnight amid word that House Republicans scuttled a vote on a backup plan late Thursday that would've at least partially averted the steep tax increases and spending cuts set to go into effect next year. Futures trading Friday morning suggests a weak opening for U.S. stocks. European markets slumped Friday in morning trading; the FTSE-100 was off nearly 1%, and the German and French bourses were each off about 0.5%. Yields tightened on the safe-haven German bund.
U.S. Lawmakers are now set to go home for the Christmas holiday without a concrete plan that addresses the cliff, a scenario many investors were hoping to avoid.
"The House did not take up the tax measure [Thursday] because it did not have sufficient support from our members to pass," House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement Thursday night.
In a separate statement, the White House countered that President Barack Obama will still pursue a deal that prioritizes extending current tax rates for households making under $250,000 a year.
Dow futures plummeted more than 200 points late Thursday, and bond prices jumped as the news unfolded. Friday morning, about four hours before the U.S. market open, Dow futures were off 170 points and S&P futures were down 19. Both represent about a 1.3% decline. European government bonds and the euro were largely stable.
"This now brings my odds for going over the fiscal cliff from 75% to 90%," Andrew Brenner, global head of international fixed income at National Alliance Securities, said in an email late Thursday night. "We doubt the President will take up the bills currently on the Senate floor to push them forward in order to prevent the fiscal cliff."
A slim possibility remains that a deal will still be reached by the end of the year, Brenner says."But beside that slight chance, it is time to face reality," he adds. "Our view of the markets is that the initial down trade will wear off and the markets will bounce, but for now it does not look good."
A potentially sharply lower open on Friday would combat the steady move higher stocks have achieved recently. The S&P 500 has risen in three of the last four days, is up 15% for the year and remains less than 2% away from the 2012 highs that were achieved in mid-September.
The idea that Washington could tumble over the cliff — a prospect that could push the economy into a recession early next year – had largely been brushed off by investors in recent days as a worst-case scenario and one that was unlikely to unfold.
In fact, investors lately had actually been feeling pretty chipper about the market's short-term prospects.
Bullish sentiment among individual investors rang in at the second-highest level of the year, according to the most recent American Association of Individual Investors' weekly investor survey, released Thursday morning prior to the most recent fiscal-cliff developments.
But even as stocks rallied, many investors cautioned that the wrangling in Washington would eventually have a detrimental impact on markets.
That time may be now.
Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG, said he foresees a scenario in which the S&P 500 could decline 15% from current levels — similar to what transpired in the summer of 2011 during the debt-ceiling debacle — if the stalemate continues.
"We have been less sanguine than others in the face of December's rally," he says, as the S&P 500 is up 1.9% this month. "If we're going off the cliff, even for a short period, then those gains will not last long."
Morning MarketBeat Daily Factoid: On this day — Dec. 21, 2012 – the world came to an end. Or it didn't, depending on whether you're reading this right now.
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Stocks to Watch
Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday's session are Walgreen and Quanex Building Products.
Walgreen is projected to report first-quarter earnings of 70 cents a share, according to a consensus survey by FactSet.
"Our recent management visit offered further confirmation that comparisons will get increasingly favorable for Walgreen throughout fiscal year 2013," analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald said in a report.
"We look for WAG/ESRX customer re-activation and contribution from Alliance Boots to be especially significant beginning in 2Q. With two full months of the new WAG/ESRX agreement in place, we believe that the November monthly sales showed further improvement in script volumes and customer traffic following a disappointing sales performance in both September and October."
Quanex Building Products is likely to post fourth-quarter earnings of 20 cents a share.
Must Reads
ICE Chief: A 'Chess Master' With Sharp Elbows
"The takeover deal for NYSE Euronext could put a former race-car driver behind the wheel of the Big Board. The play by Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange Inc., a commodities-market operator that is far less known than the New York Stock Exchange, was masterminded by ICE founder and Chief Executive Jeffrey Sprecher, an executive known for his down-to-earth Midwestern demeanor and sharp elbows when it comes to business and deal making."
Niederauer's Tenure Marked by Profound Change
"Over the past five years, Duncan Niederauer has been the face of a fractured and besieged industry. Chief executive of NYSE Euronext, he has appeared on television, often from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, in the aftermath of events like the 2010 "flash crash" and the botched public offerings of Facebook Inc. and BATS Global Markets Inc. this year."
Heard on the Street: ICE Sees Meaning of Liffe
"Prepare for a new ICE age. After failing to buy NYSE Euronext for $11.3 billion in a joint bid with Nasdaq OMX last year, IntercontinentalExchange, or ICE, is trying again for $8.2 billion. And despite bidding $3 billion less for the owner of the New York Stock Exchange and London's Liffe futures exchange, this time ICE should succeed."
CEOs Frustrated Over Fiscal-Cliff Talks
"A long line of America's top chief executives have rotated through Washington in recent weeks, loudly urging lawmakers and the White House to reach a broad deal to fix the budget. They once sounded optimistic. Now many of them aren't talking, and if they are, they're gloomy."
Madoff's Brother Sentenced to 10 Years
"A federal judge sentenced Peter Madoff to 10 years in prison for his actions as the top compliance officer at his older brother's investment firm Thursday, making him only the second person sent to prison after four years of investigations into the multi-billion dollar fraud."
Research In Motion Posts Small Gain, Loses Subscribers
"Research In Motion Ltd. posted a small net gain in its fiscal third quarter, swinging back to profitability but falling short of resolving some of the biggest challenges facing the BlackBerry maker as it gears up to introduce its new line of smartphones next month."
Role of Brokers in UBS Scandal Draws Scrutiny
"UBS AG's interest-rate-rigging settlement this week is shining a spotlight on the arcane world of London's interdealer brokers, who appear to have played a key role coordinating banks' efforts to manipulate the London interbank offered rate, or Libor."
Heard on the Street: The Fed's Tough Job on Forecasting
"There are two reasons the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates sooner than it anticipates. The first is that inflation picks up by more than it has forecast. The second is that the unemployment rate falls more quickly than it thinks it will. The latter is the more likely."


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Don't blame just the teachers' unions.
Yes, it's tempting. If the big teachers' unions had signed onto California's application for federal "Race to the Top" funds, the state might have received an extra $700 million from the federal government. That's not a huge amount -- less than 1 percent of education funding -- but in times like these, every bit helps. But the unions hate federal requirements that teacher evaluation be tied to the performance of students on tests. So the unions said no, hurting students in two ways: by opposing measures that would help teachers improve and by costing them money.
Forgive California students if they're not polite to their teachers today.
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Still, the federal slap-to-the-face is a verdict that extends far beyond the unions. As Howard Blume of the Los Angeles Times describes in this smart piece, the government says our data systems for tracking budget systems simply aren't up to par (it's right). California also isn't doing enough to improve its principals and is not aggressive enough in fixing -- and closing down -- failing schools.
The fact that the state couldn't come together and tackle these issues -- even with hundreds of millions of federal dollars on the table -- is an indictment not only of union leadership, but of school district administrators, elected officials, parents, teachers and Californians.
And it's not going to get better soon. The widespread attacks on the LA Times (for posting data on teachers) and on the federal government (for pushing the state to get about its business) is really scapegoating -- and reveals a deep denial throughout the education establishment, and the public at large, about just how much of an outlier California's school system is. When a state is failing at education to the degree California is, a state is failing. Period.


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In this new podcast, Infopeople's book guy extraordinaire discusses the big change coming to the Man Booker Prize. Starting in 2014, the prize will be open to American writers! Is this a good or a bad thing? The jury is clearly still out.
He also talks about some new words just added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Squee! Among them: "fomo," "twerk," and a really great addition, "omnishambles."
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The Aviation Weather Center (AWC) currently provides the Web International Flight Folder Document Program (Web IFFDP) Application as a service for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This is the home page of the Web IFFDP Application which allows a user to access flight folder documents. Users must log in with a user id and password. If you are a legacy IFFDP FAX user, you already have a login. To find out your username, go to the "Query Username" link below to enter your fax number. The username will be displayed. You will be able to log in using the last four digits of your fax number as the password. You will then be prompted to change your password and then enter site information into registration form. This will update our databases with contact and service information.
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Perl, Memcached and SASLby moritz (Cardinal)
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moritz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I need to talk to a memcached server in Perl program, and I need to uses SASL.
Now Perl has a whole bunch of memcached client libraries, but seems that none supports SASL.
The closest seems to be Memcached::libmemcached, which is a very thin wrapper around the C libmemcached library. In theory, all I need to do is to expose the memcached_set_sasl_auth_data function, call it once, and be happy. In practice, this segfaults (I've tried this in the sasl branch of this repository). It seems that the libmemcached library bundled with the perl module is very out of date, and upgrading to a new one is no easy task, because much of structure of the header files changed.
My next hope was that it could be relatively easy to pair up Authen::SASL and one of the existing memcached clients. However Memcached only supports SASL for the binary protocol, and all the other perl modules only support the text protocol (please correct me if I'm wrong here).
Finally there's a small pure-perl client in the tests of the memcached server, which seems to be my only remaining option. I'm reluctant to use it though, because it's not maintained as a "real" client, has no docs and no proper error handling.
So, my question is: Are there any options I overlooked? Or is somebody maybe even working on a client with sasl support? (Or is there another comparable open-source distributed memory cache with perl libraries that support authentication?).
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An email message mistakenly sent to Newt Gingrich's list serve this morning told subscribers that President Obama would no doubt win in 2012 and that they should be more worried about Obama's winning in 2016.
That's right, despite the 22nd Amendment, which limits any one person to two presidential terms, the email that went out to Gingrich's supporters suggests President Obama would be running again in 2016, and possibly serve through 2020.
The email, titled "What's really at stake this Tuesday ..." came from Gingrich Marketplace and went out to people who'd given their contact information to the Gingrich campaign when the former speaker of the House was still in the presidential race. Bygone candidates, such as Gingrich and Herman Cain, regularly rent out their email address lists to advertisers.
"The truth is, the next election has already been decided. Obama is going to win. It's nearly impossible to beat an incumbent president," advertiser Porter Stansberry wrote in the email to Gingrich supporters. "What's actually at stake right now is whether or not he will have a third-term."
Conservative news group Human Events manages the Gingrich Marketplace emails, but Gingrich has a say over which advertisers can have their messages go out to the list. And according to Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond, Stansberry & Associates should have been on the blacklist.
"We do not rent to the entity in question," Hammond said, speaking by phone Thursday. "In fact, we go to lengths to vet where we rent."
Human Events Vice President Joe Guerriero said the email was "a mistake."
"It was actually scheduled to run on another of our lists," Guerriero said. His team has been investigating how the Stansberry message went out to the Gingrich group.
Stansberry & Associates is run by Porter Stansberry, who in 2003 was the subject ofan SEC lawsuit in which the court found he participated in an online newsletter scheme that defrauded investors out of $1 million. Stansberry was ordered to pay $120,000 in damages.
Here's the catch to the email. To learn how Obama would circumvent the 22nd Amendment, Gingrich subscribers were asked to click on a link to Stanberry's site and watch a video presentation. We won't bore you with those details. We're skeptical, to say the least, of the argument.
Gingrich endorsed Republican rival Mitt Romney when Gingrich left the race last May. At the top and bottom of his emails, there is a disclaimer for readers, in part saying, "the following message reflects the opinions and representations of our advertiser alone."


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GGF Kids invites children ages 3-9 for Sunday morning Bible lessons from the Generations of Grace curriculum developed by Grace Community Church (CA). Children stay with their families during in the musical worship and then go to class during the offering. On the last Sunday of each month, kids stay in the worship service and may participate in the Lord's Supper with their families.


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Orcon selects Roaring Penguin Software's CanIt-Domain-PRO software to combat spam
New Zealand's fourth-largest commercial Internet Service Provider selects Roaring Penguin Software to protect its Clients from Spam
OTTAWA, Jan. 22, 2013 /CNW/ - Roaring Penguin Software Inc., the email filtering experts, announced that Orcon, a leading New Zealand ISP, has selected CanIt-Domain-PRO to combat spam on its network. Orcon is an award winning internet service provider focused on continually pushing the boundaries to deliver the latest and greatest networking technology to New Zealanders. Said Thomas Salmen, CTO of Orcon, "At Orcon, we are always looking for best in class solutions, and that's what we have found here. CanIt-Domain-PRO allows us to guarantee the robust mail platform our customers demand."
CanIt-Domain-PRO allows an Internet service provider like Orcon to delegate control of spam filtering to clients of their web hosting and ISP businesses. Designed for large-scale environments with multiple email domains, CanIt-Domain-PRO effectively stops spam before it reaches the network while never discarding a valid message.
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DescriptionYou're a young magician with a taste for adventure. You have set out on a quest to face the most powerful creatures in the physical and magical realms. Charge your arcane spells to unleash the might of your magical mana!
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