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Early on Halloween morning, members of Facebook's Computer Emergency Response Team received an urgent e-mail from an FBI special agent who regularly briefs them on security matters. The e-mail contained a Facebook link to a PHP script that appeared to give anyone who knew its location unfettered access to the site's front-end system. It also referenced a suspicious IP address that suggested criminal hackers in Beijing were involved.
"Sorry for the early e-mail but I am at the airport about to fly home," the e-mail started. It was 7:01am. "Based on what I know of the group it could be ugly. Not sure if you can see it anywhere or if it's even yours."
Facebook employees immediately dug into the mysterious code. What they found only heightened suspicions that something was terribly wrong. Facebook procedures require all code posted to the site to be handled by two members of its development team, and yet this script somehow evaded those measures. At 10:45am, the incident received a classification known as "unbreak now," the Facebook equivalent of the US military's emergency DEFCON 1 rating. At 11:04am, after identifying the account used to publish the code, the team learned the engineer the account belonged to knew nothing about the script. One minute later, they issued a takedown to remove the code from their servers.
With the initial threat contained, members of various Facebook security teams turned their attention to how it got there in the first place. A snippet of an online chat captures some of the confusion and panic:
Facebook Product Security: question now is where did this come from
Facebook Security Infrastructure Menlo Park: what's [IP ADDRESS REDACTED]
Facebook Security Infrastructure Menlo Park: registered to someone in beijing…
Facebook Security Infrastructure London: yeah this is complete sketchtown
Facebook Product Security: somethings fishy
Facebook Site Integrity: which means that whoever discovered this is looking at our code
If the attackers were able to post code on Facebook's site, it stood to reason, they probably still had that capability. Further, they may have left multiple backdoors on the network to ensure they would still have access even if any one of them was closed. More importantly, it wasn't clear how the attackers posted the code in the first place. During the next 24 hours, a couple dozen employees from eight internal Facebook teams scoured server logs, the engineers' laptop, and other crime-scene evidence until they had their answer: the engineer's fully patched laptop had been targeted by a zero-day exploit that allowed attackers to seize control of it.
This is only a test
The FBI e-mail, zero-day exploit, and backdoor code, it turns out, were part of an elaborate drill Facebook executives devised to test the company's defenses and incident responders. The goal: to create a realistic security disaster to see how well employees fared at unraveling and repelling it. While the attack was simulated, it contained as many real elements as possible.
The engineer's computer was compromised using a real zero-day exploit targeting an undisclosed piece of software. (Facebook promptly reported it to the developer.) It allowed a "red team" composed of current and former Facebook employees to access the company's code production environment. (The affected software developer was notified before the drill was disclosed to the rest of the Facebook employees). The PHP code on the Facebook site contained a real backdoor. (It was neutralized by adding comment characters in front of the operative functions.) Facebook even recruited one of its former developers to work on the team to maximize what could be done with the access. The FBI e-mail came at the request of Facebook employees in an attempt to see how quickly and effectively various employee teams could work together to discover and solve the problems.
"Internet security is so flawed," Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan told Ars. "I hate to say it, but it seems everyone is in this constant losing battle if you read the headlines. We don't want to be part of those bad headlines."
The most recent dire security-related headlines came last week, when The New York Times reported China-based hackers had been rooting through the publisher's corporate network for four months. They installed 45 separate pieces of custom-developed malware, almost all of which remained undetected. The massive hack, the NYT said, was pursued with the goal of identifying sources used to report a story series related to the family of China's prime minister. Among other things, the attackers were able to retrieve password data for every single NYT employee and access the personal computers of 53 workers, some of which were directly inside the publisher's newsroom.
As thorough and persistent as the NYT breach was, the style of attack is hardly new. In 2010, hackers penetrated the defenses of Google, Adobe Systems, and at least 32 other companies in the IT and pharmaceutical industries. Operation Aurora, as the hacking campaign came to be dubbed, exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and possibly other widely used programs. Once attackers gained a foothold on employee computers, they used that access to breach other, more sensitive, parts of the companies' networks.
The hacks allowed the attackers to make off with valuable Google intellectual property and information about dissidents who used the company's services. It also helped coin the term "advanced persistent threat," or APT, used to describe hacks that will last weeks or months targeting a specific organization that possesses assets the attackers covet. Since then, reports of APTs have become a regular occurrence. In 2011, for instance, attackers breached the servers of RSA and stole information that could be used to compromise the security of two-factor authentication tokens sold by the division of EMC. A few months later, defense contractor Lockheed Martin said an attack on its network was aided by the theft of the confidential RSA data relating to its SecurID tokens, which some 40 million employees use to access sensitive corporate and government computer systems.
"That was the inspiration around all this stuff," Facebook Security Director Ryan "Magoo" McGeehan said of the company's drills. "You don't want the first time you deal with that to be real. You want something that you've done before in your back pocket."
Even after employees learned this particular hack was only for practice—about a half hour after the pseudo backdoor was closed—they still weren't told of the infection on the engineer's laptop or the zero-day vulnerability that was used to foist the malware. They spent the next 24 hours doing forensics on the computer and analyzing server logs to unravel that mystery. "Operation Loopback," as the drill was known internally, is notable for the pains it took to simulate a real breach on Facebook's network.
"They're doing penetration testing as it's supposed to be done," said Rob Havelt, director of penetration testing at security firm Trustwave. "A real pen test is supposed to have an end goal and model a threat. It's kind of cool to hear organizations do this."
He said the use of zero-day attacks is rare but by no means unheard of in "engagements," as specific drills are known in pen-testing parlance. He recalled an engagement from a few years ago of a "huge multinational company" that had its network and desktop computers fully patched and configured in a way that made them hard to penetrate. As his team probed the client's systems, members discovered 20 Internet-connected, high-definition surveillance cameras. Although the default administrator passwords had been changed, the Trustwave team soon discovered two undocumented backdoors built into the surveillance cameras' authentication system.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, and a furious Pyongyang threatened a nuclear strike against the United States.
The sanctions drafted by North Korea's closest ally, China, and the United States send a powerful message that the international community condemns Pyongyang's ballistic missile and nuclear tests – and repeated violations of Security Council resolutions.
'Adoption of the resolution itself is not enough,' China's U.N. Ambassador Li Baodong said. 'We want to see full implementation of the resolution.' Li also urged calm and a resumption of the stalled six-party talks aimed at denuclearizing the Korean peninsula.
'The top priority now is to defuse the tensions, bring down heat … bring the situation back on the track of diplomacy, on negotiations,' Li said.
Immediately before the vote, an unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for 'a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors' because Washington is 'set to light a fuse for a nuclear war.'
The statement was carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency, which issued no immediate comment after the Security Council vote.
In Pyongyang, Army Gen. Kang Pyo Yong told a crowd of tens of thousands that North Korea is ready to fire long-range nuclear-armed missiles at Washington, which 'will be engulfed in a sea of fire.'
The White House responded by saying the U.S. is fully capable of defending itself against a North Korea ballistic missile attack.
Although North Korea boasts of nuclear bombs and pre-emptive strikes, it is not thought to have mastered the ability to produce a warhead small enough to put on a missile capable of reaching the U.S. It is believed to have enough nuclear fuel, however, for several crude nuclear devices.
The United States has long been concerned that North Korea could eventually pose a missile threat to U.S. territory. The Defense Department first began to operate a ground-based missile defense system in late 2004 with such a potential threat in mind.
'Taken together, these sanctions will bite, and bite hard,' U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said after the vote.
'North Korea must wake up from its delusion of becoming a … nuclear weapons state and make the right choice,' said South Korea's U.N. Ambassador Kim Sook said. 'It can either take the right path toward a bright future and prosperity, or it can take a bad road toward further and deeper isolation and eventual self-destruction.'
Tensions have escalated following a rocket launch by Pyongyang in December and its third nuclear test on Feb. 12. Both acts defied three Security Council resolutions that bar North Korea from testing or using nuclear or ballistic missile technology and from importing or exporting material for these programs.
The new sanctions resolution is the fourth against North Korea since its first nuclear test in 2006.
It condemns the latest nuclear test 'in the strongest terms' for violating and flagrantly disregarding council resolutions. It bans further ballistic missile launches, nuclear tests 'or any other provocation' and demands that North Korea return to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. It condemns all of North Korea's ongoing nuclear activities, including its uranium enrichment.
But the resolution also stresses the council's commitment 'to a peaceful, diplomatic and political solution' to North Korea's nuclear program and urges a resumption of six-party talks.
The success of new sanctions could depend on enforcement by China, where most of the companies and banks that North Korea is believed to work with are based.
The resolution strengthens inspections of suspicious cargo heading to and from the country and calls on states to step up 'vigilance' of possible illegal activity by North Korean diplomats. In a measure targeted at the reclusive nation's ruling elite, the resolution bans all nations from exporting expensive jewelry, yachts, luxury automobiles and racing cars to the North.
All countries would now be required to freeze financial transactions or services that could contribute to North Korea's nuclear or missile programs.
The resolution identifies three individuals, one corporation and one organization that will be added to the U.N. sanctions list. The targets include top officials at a company that is the country's primary arms dealer and main exporter of ballistic missile-related equipment, and a national organization responsible for research and development of missiles and probably nuclear weapons.
To get around financial sanctions, North Koreans have been carrying around large suitcases filled with cash to move illicit funds. The resolution expresses concern that these bulk cash transfers may be used to evade sanctions.
The resolution also bans all countries from providing public financial support for trade deals, such as granting export credits, guarantees or insurance, if the assistance could contribute to the North's nuclear or missile programs.
It includes what a senior diplomat called unprecedented new travel sanctions that would require countries to expel agents working for sanctioned North Korean companies.
The resolution also requires states to inspect suspect cargo on their territory and prevent any vessel that refuses an inspection from entering their ports. And a new aviation measure calls on states to deny aircraft permission to take off, land or fly over their territory if illicit cargo is suspected to be aboard.


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USC Upstate student battles Cushing's disease
COLUMBUS, N.C. — Like most college students, Heather Cash is wrapping up final exams today at the University of South Carolina Upstate. Unlike most college students, however, Cash isn't fretting over a summer job or daydreaming about summer vacations.
Instead, the Green Creek resident will wrap up her exams and turn her attention to something much more serious. Cash has a brain tumor and on Wednesday, the 21-year-old will undergo her second brain surgery in the last three years.
Before that surgery, friends and family are going to love on her and raise money to help with her expenses. At 3 p.m. Saturday at the Event Center in Saluda, country star Maggie Rose will perform, along with local bands Loaded Toad and Project X.
In 2010, Cash moved to Charleston, S.C., to attend the College of Charleston after graduating from Landrum (S.C.) High School. The first month didn't go as planned, however. She became overwhelmed with anxiety. Calls home became frequent, but they weren't calls to chat with her mom, Polk County Sheriff's Office Detective B.J. Bayne. It was something else.
"I was just calling her all the time, crying and freaking out," Cash said.
Three weeks later, her mom was in Charleston and Cash was packing up to go home. Over the next couple of months, Cash gained 64 pounds. Her skin broke out. In December of that year, she began to lose her eyesight. That was the last straw.
In January 2011, Cash got her first MRI. It showed nothing. The doctors said her problems were probably the result of separation anxiety and recommended her parents get her a puppy.
"I felt like I was going crazy," Cash said.
In late January, her anxiety took on a new level — it turned to rage. Her mom had to hold her down on the bed until she calmed down. Bayne found a different doctor and requested another MRI.
The results of this MRI proved that Cash wasn't imagining anything at all. For the last few months, she'd been working out at the gym because she was gaining weight, staying up days at a time with an obsessive-compulsive desire to clean the house and had been dealing with anxiety that felt like electrical surges going through her body.
The MRI showed that Cash had a tumor on her pituitary gland. It wasn't a small tumor either — It was pushing against her optical nerve, which was causing her to lose her eyesight.
Cash was actually relieved.
"I wanted them to tell me something was there," she said. "It was worse when we didn't know what it was."
After hearing the options that were offered at the Medical University of South Carolina and at Duke University, Bayne and Cash weren't pleased with what they were hearing. They went home, researched and found Dr. Nelson Oyesiku at Emory University in Atlanta.
Within two days they were in his office. Oyesiku examined Cash and diagnosed her with Cushing's disease. The doctor also recommended that the tumor be removed immediately and the way he wanted to do it was more agreeable to Cash and her mother.
All of Cash's symptoms pointed to Cushing's, which is hard to diagnose because it mimics other diseases. Tumors, anxiety, memory loss, stress fractures, high blood pressure, weight gain and a host of other symptoms define Cushing's, which results from high levels of cortisol in the body.
Despite the hardships, she finished her school semester in the spring of 2011 at North Greenville University. On July 13, after a series of difficult tests, Cash had her tumor removed. She stayed in the hospital for nearly two weeks before returning home.
Everything was fine until she woke up one night with blood on her face. Her maxilla artery had ruptured. Doctors got the bleeding under control, but Cash went to Atlanta to get checked out. After a series of tests, she was filling out discharge papers when she felt sick. She was bleeding again.
Cash ended up losing eight liters of blood. Under most circumstances, a person wouldn't survive. Cash did.
"I hit my knees and prayed, 'God, please take me and not her,'" Bayne said. "She has more faith than I've ever thought of, but I know miracles happen."
After that incident, Cash lived a mostly normal life. "I do feel terrible all the time," she said. "I don't know what it feels like to feel good."
Cash has broken her ankles due to bone and muscle deterioration caused by the disease. Her doctors have also tried to convince her to quit school. They told her there's no way she would be able to make the grades in her class due to memory loss and difficulty focusing, on top of the strain of coping with a major disease that has no cure.
Cash is about to wrap up another school year, however, and zero in on one more step toward fighting the disease. Her next surgery will involve removing the pituitary gland and scarred tissue around it. Despite the fear and dangers associated with the surgery and the disease, Cash and Bayne are upbeat. They're able to laugh and talk about the future without the appearance of stress and anxiety.
Cash, an intelligent and mature young woman, refuses to take her pain medicine because she wants to feel the pain and know if something is wrong.
The new tumor was discovered in January after Cash began feeling sick. A progression of symptoms sent them back to Atlanta and the new surgery was scheduled. Despite the setback, Cash sat at the Polk County Sheriff's Office Thursday afternoon with a smile on her face.
Bayne is in awe of her daughter's strength. For Cash, it's about faith.
"I don't see how people that don't have faith go through this," she said. "What do you lean on?"
And despite the fear, the anxiety and the pain, Cash has become a spokesperson for people with Cushing's disease. The tough road to Wednesday's surgery is just one fight in a struggle faced daily by people around the country, she said.
"My story is exactly like hundreds of people's," she added.
To donate toward the cost of Cash's surgery and for more information about the benefit, visit www.helpheather.com.


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Michael G. McDunnah is a freelance writer, a recovering lit major, a pop-culture junkie, and an unaffiliated critic. He lives in Chicago.


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After looking around for a storage solution to house my growing collection of photographs, I found the Western Digital My Book World Edition II. I've been storing my photos on single external hard drives so far, but data loss has always been a concern with that approach. All it takes is a hard drive failure, and I'm going to lose a good portion of my hard work. Naturally, I've been looking into various RAID or other failsafe solutions, since they've gotten to be fairly affordable.
Great design
I was immediately drawn to the new WD My Book line because of their beautiful design, 1 TB capacity, and the ability to configure the device in RAID 1 format, which would mean my data would be mirrored across the two hard drives inside it. (This would also halve the amount of space available, but that was okay with me — I wanted data redundancy.)
For those of you not familiar with WD's external drives, they have done a beautiful job with their enclosure design, and I raved about their Passport line several months ago. It turns out I now own one of them, a sleek black 160 GB 2.5″ drive just like the one pictured in that post. It's perfect for data portability, and for a while, I even stored some of my photos on it. But it is just a single drive, and as I said, I'm worried about data loss.
Choosing the product
Back to the My Book line. There were two models I really liked: the My Book Pro and the My Book World. Because I have a mixed OS environment (both PC and Mac), I thought a NAS solution like the My Book World would work best for me, even though its specs said it would only work for Windows. I had a pretty good hunch that I would also be able to access it with my iMac. It runs on Java, it has Samba shares, and those are readily accessible from any Mac. But, this isn't advertised, and that's a pity.
By the way, if you're thinking about getting the My Book Pro drive, make sure to read my review of that model. The takeaway message is to stay away from it, and I explained why in that article.
How it works
The drive itself is beautiful and fairly quiet, except when it boots up. WD has also made firmware upgrades available that make the drives even quieter, so that's a good thing. I can tell you this right away. If you only plan to use the drive in a Windows environment, it'll work great. Feel free to buy it, you'll be happy. But, if you plan to use it in a mixed OS environment, and are looking to access it in more flexible ways, such as with custom drive mappings, and not through the software provided with the drive, you might be very frustrated.
Let me explain. The drive comes with a custom version of something called Mionet. I've never heard of it, but it's software that installs on your machine and makes your files and computer remotely accessible from anywhere. When you run the installer, it'll prompt you to create an account on the Mionet website, and it'll register the WD drive, along with your computer, as devices that you can then access remotely. (There's a monthly fee involved if you want to control your own PC remotely with the software, but you don't need to pay it to use the WD drive fully.)
Once you install the software, you start up Mionet, and the WD My Book World drive gets mapped automatically to your machine. You also have the option to manage the drive through a browser interface. That's actually where you configure its volumes (1 TB single volume, or RAID 1, still single volume, but mirrored data and only 500 GB) and other options. Basically, you have to remember that the only proper way to access the drive, whether you're at home or you're away, is to start up Mionet and get it mapped to your "My Computer". If you do that, you're good to go.
Potential problems
The problem with this approach (and this tends to be a problem only for geeks like me) is that the drive is readily accessible over the network without Mionet. I can simply browse my workgroup and find it, then log in with separate accounts I can set up by using the WD drive manager, which is accessible through my browser. So here's where the frustrating part comes in. I can browse to my drive over the network, without Mionet, from any PC or Mac in my home, administer its options, add users and shares, etc. Then I can use Tools >> Map Drive on my PC or Command + K on my Mac to connect to the share name, and log in using those user accounts I've just set up. But, I can only read from those shares. I can't write to them. The drive operating system assigns weird UNIX privileges to those shares, and they don't correspond to the accounts I've just set up. It makes no sense to me and you'll only fully know what I mean if you do this yourself. Suffice it to say that it's really frustrating, and it's not what I expected.
It would have been alright if Mionet made a version of their software for the Mac, but they don't, and they don't seem to have any plans to make any. It would have still been alright if the drive hadn't been accessible through any Mac whatsoever. But the fact that they are accessible, and that I can log onto the drive with usernames and passwords that I can set up through the admin interface, yet I can only gain read-only access to those shares even though I'm supposed to have full access really gets me. Sometimes it's a real pain to be a geek…
So, my verdict is that I really like the design and the RAID 1 capability, but I do not like the implementation. I ended up returning this and getting the My Book Pro Edition, which I love, and will review very soon. But remember, if you don't have a mixed OS environment, and have no problems with starting up Mionet when you want the drive to appear in "My Computer", My Book World will work great for you, and the remote access capability is a really nice feature.
❗ Updated 7/19/07: I purchased and reviewed the My Book Pro as well. You can read my review right here.
❗ Updated 8/3/07: Multiple commenters have pointed out (see this, this, this, this, this and this) that you can use the drive just fine with both Macs and PCs, over the network, if you skip the install of the Mionet software altogether. It looks like the clincher is the Mionet install itself. Just forgo it, and you'll be able to map the drive to both PCs and Macs, and read/write as much as you want. I didn't realize that I had to uninstall Mionet entirely in order for the read/write to work properly.
But keep in mind, if you don't use the Mionet software, you won't be able to access the drive remotely. Well, you might be able to arrange some access, but you'll need to custom-configure your firewall settings to allow traffic on certain ports, and you'll need a static external IP or dynamic DNS so you can get at your firewall from the outside. And then you'll need to worry about data encryption as well, unless you don't care that your data will travel unencrypted over open networks. If you're a hardcore geek, feel free to try this last bit out, but if you aren't, beware, it's a weekend project, and I can't help you.
❗ Updated 8/9/07: I've had several people comment on how they bought the drive based on this post and the comments made on it by others, believing they could get it working over the network with their Mac. The kicker is that they thought they could connect it directly to their machine and get it working that way. 😐 I don't know how they got that idea, but let me set the record straight. This is a NETWORK drive. It needs a network in order to work. There's a chance you might get it working by using a crossed ethernet cable or connecting it directly to your machine, but it probably has to be a crossed ethernet cable.
The best way to get it working is to use a hub or a switch, or best of all, your home router, which can assign IP addresses. The drive ships configured for DHCP. That means it has no IP address to start with, and it's looking for a place to get them. If you don't have such a place, you're going to have a lot of headaches. Get such a place (router) or go buy a USB/Firewire drive. Most people who've commented already made it plainly clear that's what they needed, but they still insisted on using this drive. I don't know why they enjoy the stress of doing that. I didn't. As I already said in my post, I returned it and got a WD My Book Pro Edition II.
Last but not least, please do me a big favor. Read through the existing comments before you write one. There are so many already, and there's a very good chance someone's already asked your question, and I or someone else has already answered it. Thanks!
❗ Updated 12/11/07: I found out today that Western Digital is going to disallow the sharing of all media files through the Mionet software. In other words, if you're going to use Mionet to share the files on your drive and make them accessible remotely, you will not be able to see or use any of your media files. I think this is a pretty stupid move on WD's part, and it's going to come back to bite them. Until they decide to do away with this boneheaded downgrade, keep it in mind if you're looking to purchase a My Book World Edition. Do NOT use Mionet. Install the drive without it, and if you've got to make the files accessible remotely, find other ways to do it, like through a custom config of your firewall.
❗ Updated 12/18/07: Christian, one of the commenters, has left two very useful comments that are worth mentioning here in the post. The first shows you how to access the drive remotely (when you're away from home) without using the Mionet software. The second tells you why you don't need to worry about defragging the drive, and how to troubleshoot its performance if you think it's not as fast as it should be. Thanks Christian!
❗ Updated 4/5/10: Andrew Bindon has posted an easy-to-follow tutorial on how to remove Mionet completely from your computer and the My Book World Edition drive. If you, like me and many others, think Mionet is an annoyance that would best be removed, then follow his advice.
More information
- Western Digital 1 TB My Book World Edition II External Hard Drive listing at Amazon
- Western Digital 1 TB My Book Pro II External Hard Drive with Triple Interface listing at Amazon


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The space near black holes is one of the most extreme environments in the Universe. The bodies' strong gravity and rotation combine to create rapidly spinning disks of matter that can emit huge amounts of light at very high energies. However, the exact mechanism by which this light is produced is uncertain, largely because high-resolution observations of black holes are hard to do. Despite their outsized influence, black holes are physically small: even a black hole a billion times the mass of the Sun occupies less volume than the Solar System.
A new X-ray observation of the region surrounding the supermassive black hole in the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy may have answered one of the big questions. G. Risaliti and colleagues found the distinct signature of X-rays reflecting off gas orbiting the black hole at nearly the speed of light. The detailed information the astronomers gleaned allowed them to rule out some explanations for the bright X-ray emission, bringing us closer to an understanding of the extreme environment near these gravitational engines.
Despite the stereotype of black holes "sucking" matter in, they attract it via gravity. That means stars, gas, and other things can fall into orbits around black holes, which may be stable for long periods of time. Gas often forms accretion disks and jets that release huge amounts of energy in the form of light. This energy can include X-ray emissions. So despite their name, black holes can be very luminous objects.
Nearer the boundary of a rotating black hole—its event horizon—the strength of gravity is such that the space matter occupies can be also dragged around the black hole. This effect is called "frame dragging," and is predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity. The region in which frame dragging becomes significant, however, is very close to the black hole's event horizon, which is relatively small, especially when imaged from Earth. As a result, astronomers could not be sure whether ordinary orbital effects or relativistic frame-dragging is more important for producing the intense X-ray emissions.
Astronomers paid particularly close attention to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy (also known by its catalog number NGC 1365) when a cloud of gas momentarily eclipsed it. That rare event allowed them to get a good size estimate for the accretion disk that surrounds the black hole. The current study followed up by monitoring fluctuations in the X-ray emissions, using the orbiting XMM-Newton and NuSTAR X-ray telescopes.
In particular, the researchers looked at emission from neutral and partly ionized iron atoms in the gas. Prior observations showed that the emission lines were broadened, which can be caused by several different phenomena. Researchers considered two primary hypotheses: absorption by other gas along the line of sight between the black hole and us, or very fast motion of the gas itself.
The new data strongly supported the latter option. In this scheme, the observed X-ray light reflected off the inner edge of the accretion disk, where the gas is moving at very close to the speed of light. According to the models, this scattering occured well within the frame-dragging region near the black hole. The inner edge of the accretion disk may be close to or at the minimum stable distance from the black hole. Closer than that distance, and matter can no longer orbit in a circular path—it will tend to spiral in.
The authors argued that any explanation of the X-ray emission that fails to account for the general-relativistic effects just won't work. Previous observations estimated that the black hole in the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy is spinning nearly as fast as possible; whether other black holes will have similar properties remains an open question.
Nature, 2013. DOI: 10.1038/nature11938 (About DOIs).


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I used to know more than I do now. Long ago I studied the bit with the electrons floating around. I miss it. I liked signal theory a lot.
I am not so good at the lifting heavy things business, but that doesn't always stop me, considering my ongoing love affair with molten metal.
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- Space exploration, intermediate steps headed towards the moon as a model for outward expansion
- Robots because I don't understand why we don't have these already.
- Light-based art, including LEDs and fire and pyrotechnics
Still getting these sorted. Perpetually. Here are a couple of things that have been rattling around in my head:
- Designing and building robots that can move independently or when attached to each other.
- Probably something with LEDs, including acrylic light pipes. Maybe some cast resin.
- Work with Zedd on getting the counter top lit
- LED fingernails
- Need to find the smallest battery available.
- Get some SMD resistors to match.
- LED "beading" on clothing
- LED "light" staff. Completed, did a 5MoF talk on this easy project.
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- Learning new things, like German, only that's a pretty old thing really.
I have (had?) all the parts to build a tesla coil I think I should do that someday. I also like to arrange for people to come to the space to talk about cool stuff.
I have many allergies. I get tired of reminding people of my current list of allergies my doctor has advised me about, so I put them here:
Anaphylaxis is a life-threatening form of an allergic reaction. I have only had this once in my life, but I am at a very real risk, so the more people who know about it the better. If I collapse and turn blue, chances are I am in anaphylactic shock. I always try to carry an epipen somewhere on my person. (Jacket chest pocket or handbag or something.) Take it out, pop the cap and stab me with it in the thigh RIGHT AWAY. Although I tend to react slowly, if I'm already blue it means I'm already dying.
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Cats: I have had many second-hand reactions to cats. I am so allergic, I am sometimes allergic to people who have cats, which is very unfortunate. Oh, and ferrets happen to fall in this category. It's my cat allergy that has caused anyphylaxis in the past, so if I get really excited about it, it's just my concern about continuing to remain alive.
Mold: This crops up in odd things. Artificial smoke machines are horrid for this. Cheap cigarettes sometimes have mold. "fresh air" after a light rain is often quite full of mold. It doesn't matter if it's living or dead, it will still bother me.
Dust: I'm not being rude when I decline to help clean up anything that's been sitting for longer than week or two. Vacuuming often makes this worse, even with a great filter, simply because you're stirring it up.
Other: I'm also allergic to dogs, pollens, fragrances and other random stuff, but these are either not as serious or immediate as the rest.
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As has been much noted, Claire Danes' extraordinary knack for crying begins with her chin. When in a good mood, the chin is shapely and unobtrusive. But distraught, it puckers, juts out, begins to tremble. Only when the chin is wobbling like a American Idol contestant's vibrato does the rest of Danes' face catch up with the chin's unhappiness: it crumples, her eyes scrunch, all of her features recede, except that chin. As Homeland's bipolar protagonist Carrie Mathison, Danes' chin has worked hard for two seasons, but it has never carried a burden quite like it does in the early episodes of Season 3, which begins on Showtime on Sunday night (when everyone will be watching the series finale of Breaking Bad). Homeland left off with a massive explosion, one that followed the implosion of the series' plot and priorities, and it is as if Carrie's chin has been called upon to express not only its owner's extraordinary pain but also Homeland's remorse at its recent flip over-the top. The chin—and the acute, growing psychological distress that sets it to wobbling—are the focus again, not outlandish storylines and implausible histrionics.
Homeland, a show I love even though continuing to do so may be a sign I need to cadge some of Carrie's pills, ended last season a shambles. A series about the ethical and emotional complexities of national security in a post-Abu Ghraib America, forsook realpolitik for real love. It transformed itself from a psychological thriller with a romantic element, into a romance with a ludicrous action element. Unbalanced, genius CIA agent Carrie Mathison's relationship to unbalanced Marine-turned-terrorist-but-maybe-still-patriot Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) was always central to the show, but it was not, previously, the center of the show. The writers, as enamored with Brody and Carrie's chemistry as a One Direction fan girl is with Harry Styles (and with just as much sense), turned the story over to the pair's grandiose, operatic, star-crossed love affair at the expense of logic, character, story and the show's own future. Like Carrie, Homeland has sacrificed itself over and over again to keep Brody alive. And as with Carrie, the cost of that sacrifice is to be hollowed out and reduced, distraught, searching for answers. Homeland, a show about a post-hubristic America, has entered its own post-hubristic season.
That season begins 58 days after last season's finale, when a car bomb detonated at Langley killing 219 people. Brody is at large, the prime suspect in the bombing and the most wanted man in the world. Everyone he left behind is struggling, including his family, the CIA, now being run by Saul (Mandy Patinkin), and Carrie, who has gone off her meds, because on her meds, she missed something. Carrie is attempting to self-regulate with exercise, booze, and casual sex, as ineffective a strategy for maintaining mental health as it sounds. She remains convinced of Brody's innocence—the time he killed the vice president forgiven and forgotten—and this puts her in direct conflict with Saul, the CIA, and Congress, which is about as unfair a fight as it sounds.
One way to think of Homeland is as a dramatization of collateral damage. All of the events of the previous two seasons—Abu Nazir's jihad, Brody's devotion to his cause, their alliance and everything it spawned— are collateral damage from the collateral damage that was the death of Abu Nazir's son Issa. The blowback is still blowing. Abu Nazir's scheme and Brody's secrecy have wounded and are still wounding every character on the show, and the new episodes survey the grievous psychological harm. The results are bleak, relentlessly so. But the first few episodes are grounded in a way the show has not been since the early half of last season, exploring the psychological traumas meted out by violence and the ethical lapses required to maintain national security, instead of rushing pell-mell through over-the-top storylines—the mere mention of which are almost enough to give me screaming-at-my-TV flashbacks.
The episodes are evidence that Homeland would be just fine if Nicholas Brody were never, ever to return from the wilds of Canada. But as the trailers for the new season show, and the series creators have been happy to explain, Brody will be back. Brody's lurking makes me enormously, unhappily skeptical about this season's ability to stay coherent. He is Homeland's Achilles' heel. The writers are more sentimental about him and his importance to the show than the most soft-hearted fan, and they have compromised and contorted storylines again and again just to keep him alive. Even Damian Lewis thinks that Brody should die: In a recent Men's Journal story, he said that "The more compromised storytelling is to keep him alive and to keep him bubbling along somehow," which is not something one hears from an Emmy-winning lead actor very often.
As Breaking Bad has demonstrated, it is possible to unfold intricate, insane plots without alienating viewers. As distressing as watching Breaking Bad has recently been, there is still something safe about the experience. Over many seasons Vince Gilligan has proved that he knows what his show is about, knows what his characters would and would not do, and doesn't get into tight corners without an escape hatch in the floor. You can hop on the Breaking Bad ride and never worry that the brakes will give out. Meanwhile in the Homeland car, however smoothly it appears to be running, there is no guarantee that at the five-episode mark it won't get a flat tire, turn out to be running on a hackable pacemaker, and get hijacked by a disturbed man with Walter White's haircut.
In a recent interview, showrunner Alex Gansa all but conjured that hijacker, saying that in response to the critique of last season, he asked the writers whether or not they believed Carrie and Brody were truly in love. But that's the wrong question: The issue is not whether Carrie and Brody are in love, but whether that love should be the centerpiece of the show. Thankfully the greatest love story no one ever wanted to be a love story is not the focus of the first two episodes, which illustrate the power and punch Homeland can still muster when freed from its more Hallmark-ian tendencies. I hope the rest of the season lives up to the promise of these episodes, but watching Homeland has made me paranoid.


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Critics may argue about whether the greatest American novel is Moby-Dick, The Great Gatsby or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Harold Bloom doesn't equivocate about the best poem. The "essential American poem" is Walt Whitman's elegy for Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," he argues in his new The Anatomy of Influence.
"'Lilacs' seems to me the greatest American poem because its largeness of vision is inevitably expressed by a metric of which the poet had become a master," writes Bloom, perhaps America's most distinguished academic critic. "There is a biblical reverberation to Whitman's elegy, and not only because the hermit thrush's song of death echoes the erotic intensity of the Song of Songs." Bloom adds: "With splendid tact, Whitman avoids praising Lincoln's victory over his own countrymen, and creates an elegy of 206 lines worthy of comparison with Milton's 'Lycidas' and Shelley's 'Adonais.'"


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Bravettes fall in final seconds
A berth in the Class 1A girls state championship game came down to one play Friday afternoon at Redbird Arena.
Freeport Aquin all-stater Sophie Brunner made that play, with a huge assist from Elayna Erdmier, to lift the defending state champions over Annawan 39-38.
Brunner scored with six seconds remaining to put the Lady Bulldogs on top for good. Aquin trailed 38-37 and called timeout with 13.4 seconds to play. Katie Stykel put up a 3-pointer for Aquin that was off the mark and the ball bounded out to Erdmier near the free-throw line. She grabbed the ball and as she was falling down, quickly flipped a pass to Brunner alone in the lane for the go-ahead bucket.
"I knew I was going to hit the floor, so I had to get rid of the basketball some way," said Erdmier.
"It just fell into my hands," said Brunner of Erdmier's pass.
"That's just how I drew up," laughed Aquin coach Jeff Curry. "No, I'd say there was a lot of luck there."
"On that final play it got batted around and she caught it on the block. That's just sports. That's the way it goes sometimes," said Annawan coach Jason Burkiewicz.
With the length of the court to go in five seconds, Annawan's Morgan VanHyfte pushed the ball up court and tried to get a pass underneath to Celina VanHyfte. The pass was tipped and ended up in the hands of Maddie Jackson, but she wasn't able to get a clean look at the basket as time expired.
"We wanted to push the ball and get a screen for Maddie. It kind of got broken down and we had to get it to Morgan," said Burkiewicz of the final play. "She did a nice job pushing it up and we did have Celina open because they did leave to trap, but they got a hand on the ball as we passed it in."
"Wow, what a ballgame," said Curry. "The kids didn't play their best game today but they fought through it. We had a tough time with their press, but I thought we played well enough to win and we're going back to the state championship game."
Sluggish start
Both teams needed time to get their state tournament nerves settled, as the game was scoreless for three minutes.
Aquin's Brunner finally put the defending champs on the board with a bucket at the five-minute mark. Annawan answered with Jackson scoring on an offensive putback and Morgan VanHyfte turning an Aquin turnover into points and a 5-4 lead for the Bravettes.
Annawan closed the quarter with consecutive buckets by Morgan VanHyfte and Alyssa Thompson to lead 9-7.
Brunner scored the first five points of the second quarter, capped by a three-point play, to put the Lady Bulldogs back in front 12-9.
Celina VanHyfte countered with her first points of a the game — a three-point play as she ran the floor and finished an assist from Megan Foes — to give Annawan a 14-12 edge. A hoop late in the quarter by Morgan VanHyfte made it 16-14 Bravettes at the break.
The teams combined to shoot 13 of 50 in the first half — Annawan 7 of 26 and Aquin 6 of 24 — and committed 16 turnovers. Outside of Brunner going 5 of 7 from the floor, Aquin hit just 1 of 17 shots in the first half.
VanHyftes take charge
Morgan VanHyfte gave Annawan its biggest lead of the game as she opened the third quarter with a bucket, but Aquin rattled off an 8-2 run capped by consecutive treys from Haley Chang and Katie Stykel to move in front 24-20.
The Bravettes bounced right back, scoring the final seven points of the quarter to lead 27-24 going into the final eight minutes. Morgan VanHyfte had five points in the run, and Celina VanHyfte added a hoop with a putback on the offensive glass.
Erdmier pulled Aquin within 27-26 to start the fourth quarter, but then Celina VanHyfte displayed her pre-ankle injury form, scoring six straight points to make it 33-26 Bravettes.
The game of runs continued with Aquin pulling even at 33-all on a Brunner bucket on the offensive glass with 3:40 remaining.
Celina VanHyfte hit one of two free throws at the 3:24 mark and Megan Foes scored with 2:52 to play to give Annawan a 36-33 edge.
Aquin regained the lead 37-36 with 47 seconds remaining on consecutive hoops by Brunner, but a couple of more lead changes were in store down the stretch.
The Bravettes went back on top when Morgan VanHyfte missed a shot, but Jackson came up with the loose ball after a wild scramble and scored to make it 38-37 with 24 seconds to play.
Jackson's shot looked like a potential game-winner for the Bravettes, but the Erdmier to Brunner connection denied Annawan its shot at a state championship game.
"I thought we did everything we could out there. We just played a great game once again," said Burkiewicz. "The fans saw what the Annawan program is all about. We've been waiting a long time to get down here and we've had some great teams."
"We come down here every year when we don't make it and watch the games," added Burkiewicz. "We see private schools playing from a big area or schools with about six names attached to it, but we're Annawan, period, and we have a lot of pride in that."
By the numbers
Aquin's Sophie Brunner led all scorers with 21 points on 10 of 14 shooting from the floor. She also grabbed a game-high 12 rebounds.
Katie Stykel added eight points for the Lady Bulldogs (30-3) and Haley Chang grabbed five rebounds.
Morgan VanHyfte topped the Bravettes (29-3) with 16 points, followed by Celina VanHyfte with 12 points, seven of those coming in the fourth quarter.
"Morgan is my most improved player by far since the beginning of the year," said Burkiewicz, adding he considered moving the freshman down to the fresh-soph level early in the season to get her more playing time.
"She's just been outstanding. She has a real bright future in this program. I'm more impressed the last couple of games with how she's increased her scoring just like that when we lost Celina."
Maddie Jackson had a team-high seven rebounds, while Megan Foes handed out three assists.
Both teams shot 17 of 47 from the floor (36 percent) and there were only 12 free throws attempted in the game — Aquin 1 of 4 and Annawan 4 of 8.
Aquin outrebounded Annawan 36 to 29, while the Lady Bulldogs committed 20 turnovers to 13 for the Bravettes.
Area's most talked about ankle
Celina VanHyfte's injured ankle was the talk all week leading into Friday's game, and it was addressed again in the postgame press conference.
"My ankle is pretty bad," said VanHyfte. "It's all purple right now."
She sprained the ankle in Monday's walk-through practice prior to the super-sectional game with Iroquois West.
"I've been having to go through constant pain in order to keep it in a range of motion. I've been doing so many types of therapy just to get it to move. It hurts real bad, but that's what I had to do to be able to play."
"If you could see it, if she took her shoe off right now, it's ridiculous," said Burkiewicz. "She worked hard all week fighting through pain. She did everything she could to get ready for this game for her teammates. I'm glad she got to be on the floor because of what she's done for us the last three years. It would've just been heartbreaking for her to not be able to play at all on this stage."
More therapy awaits the all-state junior center as she prepares for today's third-place game.
"I'm going to therapy right after this to try to work it out more," said VanHyfte. "There's nothing I can do to make it worse. All I can do now is keep applying ice and try to bring motion back to it."
Not the title game
Freeport Aquin coach Jeff Curry wouldn't bite on postgame talk that Friday's game between his No. 1 Lady Bulldogs and the No. 2 Bravettes was essentially the state championship game.
"Tomorrow's (Saturday) going to be the championship game. This was a semifinal game," said Curry. "We knew they were No. 2 and we were ranked No. 1, so we knew it was going to be a good ballgame, but the other two teams are good also and we know it's going to be a tough game tomorrow."
When quizzed again, Curry responded — "It felt like a very good game. The championship is tomorrow."
Today's schedule
The Class 1A girls basketball season concludes today with Annawan vs. Cowden-Herrick in the third-place game at 12:15 p.m. and Freeport Aquin vs. Mt. Pulaski at 2 p.m. for the championship.
It was nearly a rematch for the state title, but Mt. Pulaski denied Cowden-Herrick a return trip with a 49-41 victory in Friday's second semifinal game.
Mt. Pulaski also played for the Class 1A volleyball title this season, falling to Keith Country Day School of Rockford in three sets.


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Washington Nationals fans who are getting used to expecting victory found more than their fair share of frustrations from the squandered scoring opportunities in Saturday's game vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers. If there was a silver lining, it was only for devotees of the Nationals' presidents race.
The Nats' reached the 13th inning of a home game for the first time since the 2008 season, and as is their custom, the racing presidents returned to the field in the middle of the 13th for a second presidents race of the day.
The extra innings gave the fans double the opportunity to check out George, Tom, Abe, and Teddy's sparkling new red uniforms with the Curly W in front. The uniforms have been featured this season on the HD scoreboard introduction, but before today had yet to make an appearance on the field.
If the trend of the last few days is any indication, Sunday's game should polish off this homestand on an entertaining — and winning — note. To follow Wednesday's Let Teddy Win celebration, Teddy chose Thursday to plant a tree in foul territory instead of racing on Earth Day. On Friday, he jumped back into the competition by racing on a Segway (Abe won anyway), and today they raced twice in their new red uniforms before doing the bunny hop as they left the field. There's no telling what the presidents have in store for Sunday's finale, but if the Nats' unusual 8-day streak of winning every other day continues, there should be celebrating on South Capitol Street.
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6) Know How to Promote Yourself
Marketing yourself can be challenging. If you ask most yoga teachers if they enjoy promoting their work, you'll find most would rather get hit by a train (OK, maybe note that bad, but pretty close). One of the reasons individuals get into teaching yoga in the first place is to be more authentic, and sometimes marketing yourself can seem like the farthest thing from that.
Start by first asking yourself this question- what do YOU think about when you hear the word 'marketing?' Don't take this question lightly, as it's really important to know what your beliefs are about marketing yourself because they will dictate your behavior. You MUST have a positive association the act of promoting your work in order to feel good about doing it. Make sure you start with this "inner work" on your relationship with marketing before you try to hoist a new solution and get more students.
From there, you must develop an understanding of how to talk about who you are and what you do in a way that resonates with your students. Listen to your community for what they say they want and speak in that language. You need to go deeper with your language regarding what practicing yoga will do for your students based on what they want.
Secondly, once you have a firm handle on how to talk about who you are and what you do, one of the best ways to promote yourself is to give back. Have a community aspect of your marketing. Give back to your community and it will come back to you in spades. Get creative with this and have fun!
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Was there some aspect of a "lifestyle shift" that attracted you to become a yoga teacher? Keep in mind that you're not the only one who is into yoga for the lifestyle….your students are too! The more you help your students realize their lifestyle goals, the more they will help you realize yours. The explosion of the yoga industry is part of a bigger wellness trend going on around us, as any people are turning to yoga for their larger lifestyle goals.
These trends mean good things for your yoga business. Since your student demographics are likely looking to yoga as more than just what's offered in class, this opens you up to offering a wider array of services and products. The better you know your niche, the better you'll know what kind of supplementary products and/or services would be right for them.
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Making your yoga convenient will be key in building your business. Two parts of making your yoga "convenient" is being easy to: (1) Find out about you and (2) Practice with you. The internet can help out with both of these.
Finding Out About You
While it's important to stay true to the old lineages of yoga that your practice is based in, it's also important to embrace new age technology to grow your business. Have a website can mean the difference between people knowing you exist, or not. Without a website, beyond your students (hopefully) talking about you, you could well be the best kept secret in town. A website can make it much easier for you to grow a following with things like a mailing list to keep in touch, in addition to helping add an extra bit of professionalism that can help you stand out from the growing crowd of teachers.
Practice With You
With the growth of the yoga industry, we're also starting to see yoga moving out of the studio and onto the web….literally. That's right-yoga classes online. Whether it's through a pre-recorded series or through live video streaming, for some yoga goers, on certain occasions, this is a very attractive option to be able to practice in the comfort of their own space, at their own time, without having to outlay the cost of private instruction. This can serve as a great option to being able to afford your own "studio space!"
9) Know Your Therapy
Part of unlocking your business potential as a yoga teacher is embracing the yoga path in all aspect of your practice, business and life. This is all part and parcel of "getting real," as we discussed in the last set of tips. Yoga consumers often share common values, like personal health and wellbeing, in addition to health and wellbeing of the planet. While not "essential," greening your yoga can really help you stand out. Depending on your niche, it could be part of that "final decision" that has students choosing to practice with you over others because they value what you value.
While you might not choose to offer energy saving devices as part of your business, the more you can reflect your environmental consciousness into your practice, the more your students will be able to resonate with you.
10) Get Your Yoga MBA
Much as you'd be hard pressed to find a studio where you can teach yoga if you're not certified, you will find it equally as tough to run a yoga business without the specific knowledge of how to do so. The challenge many teachers encounter is they go through yoga teacher training programs, get out into the real world, and realize they don't know how to make a living off of their skills or passion for yoga. The reason for this is there is a big difference between being a yoga teacher and being the person who runs the yoga business. As an independent yoga teacher, you need to know how to wear both hats.
It is important that you identify what aspects of your business in yoga you need to hone up on in order to realize your fullest potential. From learning more about how to fill your classes, manage your finances, market yourself or build your web presence to just simply learning the business basics, there's always room for you to grow as the person who runs your yoga business (just as there's always room for you to grow as a yoga teacher).
To do so, identify what would make the most difference for you to learn and then invest the time, energy and money to master it. Surround yourself with people and resources that can help you learn what you want so you can realize better results.
The more you can develop the business side of yourself, on the shoulders of a strong practice, the more you will be set up to realize your greatest desires and be of service to others.
Be who you are, and enjoy the journey. Namaste.
A special thanks to Stephanie Tait, Business Director for the Yoga School of Business, for her contributions to this blog post!


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Four weeks now without a fridge and going strong. We've had a lot of questions about the experiment and how it's gone so far. Last week, a friend asked if we knew yet if we planned to continue, or if we were going to plug back in after the month was up. The honest answer, at this point is yes, and I don't know yet.
Yes, we plan to continue living without the fridge plugged in, at least for a while. Partially because it's not been that hard or that big of an inconvenience. Partially because I really want to get a full month's billing cycle (or maybe two) from our power company under our belts, so we can compare the bills to last year. I don't know how significant of an impact not running the refrigerator will have on our energy consumption and bills for just the one or two months. I'm hoping it's a lot, but I realize that translating those kilowatt-hours to dollars isn't always that huge of an impact either.
When asked what amount was significant enough to keep it unplugged, I didn't really have an answer. I like the idea that by unplugging the fridge for a year we could save enough money to upgrade our older, less efficient freezers to new, super efficient machines. But I don't know how realistic that is. And if it's not, I don't know that that will make me plug back in either. It's sort of an open question right now I guess.
The other reason I don't know how long the experiment will continue is that we're coming up on summer when the CSA will be in full swing and we will have a lot of vegetables to get through every week. This was Rick's first major concern when I originally brought up the unplugging idea to him. I plan to take it one week at a time. To try to be efficient and wise about getting veggies put away in the freezer, kept cool in water, and used up within the week as we can. But I'm not going to just let them waste or rot if it gets down to it.
I expressed the possibility of using the fridge in the summer if we are overwhelmed with produce and then re-unplugging it again in the fall and through the spring until it's needed again. But we'll see if that's even an issue as the summer gets here. The CSA season starts usually in mid-June and takes a few weeks to get into full gear before we're bring home loads and loads of food. We'll be able to adjust and take it as it comes, I think. 😉
So far, we've learned a lot already. I learned that once you open the cheese, you better use it up, and don't store it in the door unless you want it to go moldy. Also, I learned not to buy two gallons of milk at a time. They take up too much space and we ended up giving about half a gallon to the chickens that was spoiled during the first week, simply because it's not quite as cold in the icebox as the fridge was, and the expiration date wasn't at the end of the week.
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Two stars of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" were released on $500,000 bond each after making initial court appearances Tuesday on federal fraud charges.
Teresa Giudice and her husband, Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice, were ordered to surrender their passports and to confine their travels to New Jersey and New York. Joe Giudice could be deported to Italy if convicted because he is not a U.S. citizen.
They did not enter pleas.
They were charged in a 39-count indictment Monday with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on loan applications and bankruptcy fraud.
The couple is accused of exaggerating their income while applying for loans before their TV show debuted in 2009, then hiding their fortunes in a bankruptcy filing after their first season aired.
Authorities allege the couple submitted fraudulent mortgage and other loan applications from 2001 to 2008, a year before their show debuted on Bravo. Prosecutors said the couple submitted fake W-2s, tax returns and bank account information to lenders.
Prosecutors allege the Giudices received about $4.6 million in mortgages, withdrawals from home equity lines of credit and construction loans.
Joe Giudice, an entrepreneur, also failed to file tax returns for the years 2004 through 2008, when he is alleged to have earned nearly $1 million, prosecutors said. During that time his income allegedly fluctuated wildly; the indictment states he made $323,481 in 2005 and $26,194 in 2006.
In a statement Monday, Teresa said she supports her husband and wants to resolve the charges as soon as possible.
"I am committed to my family and intend to maintain our lives in the best way possible, which includes continuing my career," she said.
A Bravo spokesman had no comment.
"Everyone has an obligation to tell the truth when dealing with the courts, paying their taxes and applying for loans or mortgages," said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman. "That's reality."
In their 2009 bankruptcy filing, the couple said they were $11 million in debt. They stated their monthly take-home pay was $16,583, but $10,000 was from "monthly assistance from family members" and Bravo income.
It also said they owed $2.2 million in mortgages, $13,000 to Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom and nearly $12,000 to a fertility clinic.
The most serious charges the couple face, bank fraud and loan application fraud, carry a maximum potential penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine.


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Google Glass' papers have arrived at the FCC, according to filings posted Thursday. The headset, likely the Explorer edition promised to developers at Google I/O last year, includes an 802.11 b/g 2.4 GHz WLAN, a low-energy Bluetooth 4.0 radio, and—if one sentence and a corresponding patent are to be believed—a "vibrating element" for transmitting sound to the user's head via bone conduction.
Google filed a patent for a headset that uses bone conduction audio, which was granted only a week ago. The audio would work similar to that of certain children's toothbrushes: a vibration transducer vibrates the bones in the user's head, which translate the vibration to the cochlea, the fluid-filled cavity inside the ear, which then reads the vibrations as sound. The technology is already used in many headphones, with the advantage that such sound can be clearer than it is from the tiny speakers that are in earbuds.
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Until the 4th inning, it was looking pretty good for both the Washington Nationals and Teddy Roosevelt on opening day at Nationals Park. Then the bottom fell out.
Pitcher John Lannan lost control in the top of the 4th, gave up the lead, and let the Phillies bat around the order.
Teddy too, looked good coming out of the gate following an exciting new scoreboard introduction in the middle of the 4th. He took a close lead around the final turn, but appeared to pull up lame after high-fiving a fan in the stands. As the other presidents and members of the Nat Pack tried to help Teddy up, Abe Lincoln raced from behind to claim the first presidents race victory of 2010.
With that, the spring hopes of many Washington Nationals fans were muted considerably. Hopes had been running high for signs of both a Nationals team turnaround and an end to Teddy's losing streak, but the Nats' pitching could not deliver, and Teddy's status for Wednesday's race is now uncertain.
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After taking their first two series on the road, the Nats bring a winning record back to DC Thursday to kick off what many hope will be a new era noted for Curly Ws on South Capitol Street; but the changes in store for the home opener at Nationals Park go beyond the team's winning ways.
New food options
Nationals Park food offerings have once again been updated in the off-season, with the most press going to the 8-pound Strasburger, a monstrous $59 offering meant for sharing and available only for select games at the Red Porch restaurant above center field. It will make it's debut on opening day.
The Taste of the Majors stand behind section 117 has once again received a menu update with new and constantly-changing dishes that represent the visiting team. Look for 5-way Cincinnati Chili for the opening series against the Reds.
The Union Square restaurants along the Miller Lite Scoreboard Walk are adding a number of menu items, including hot dogs, pies, and Sweet Frites at Box Frites, Quesadillas and Churros and El Verano Taquería, and a fried chicken sandwich at Blue Smoke.
A turning point for the neighborhood
Many expect 2012 to be a turning point for the team on the field, and as timing would have it, it's looking like a turning point for the neighborhood outside the stadium as well.
Outside the First Base gate, the long-envisioned river views from Nationals Park are finally beginning to take shape, as the Florida Rock cement factory that stood between the stadium and the river has finally been demolished.
For the first time, fans can walk along the river from a new bridge by Nationals Park to the new Yards Park development, including the Foundry Lofts building, which houses the first of several new restaurants.
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On the opposite side of the field, the Half Street Fairgrounds makes its debut just across from the Centerfield gates, on the block formerly occupied by The Bullpen. The Half Street block is now dotted with an array of brightly-painted shipping containers stretching from M to N Streets, with each containing a different local food stand. Look for trucks from Bayou and Surfside, plus Red Hook Lobster Pound, DC Empanadas, Curbside Cupcakes, Tasty Kabob, Big Cheese, and others, with live entertainment before and after games. Fairgrounds owner Jason York told ABC 7 News they are "combining Eastern Market with food trucks."
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Parking around Nationals Park remains a great value. Prices did not go up, and lots are as cheap as $5 if you're willing to walk 10 minutes up South Capitol street. In previous seasons, availability has not been a problem, but lots fill fastest for sellout weekday games such as Thursday's opener, so plan ahead.
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Well at least in rated BG's they do.
One of the more popular strats which seem to pop up more in the mid MMR ratings is the assigning of cc to an enemy healer. Rogues get put on disc priests. One on one, I can make killing me a rather long and drawn out process. If I concentrate on keeping myself alive I can keep a rogue occupied for quite some time. ( I have Goldshire dueling cred for doing exactly that) but if you put a Rogue on me when I am trying to heal everyone, and dispel as often as possible. Well, that annoying little creature that has suddenly grown attached to the back of my robe is a pain in the butt.
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We did a rated the other night and one of the teams we faced were hacking. RL took a video and posted it to youtube here it also got posted on the realm forum that the hackers came from and their GM has assured everyone it's being dealt with. They were apparently unaware that their team was hacking until that BG, maybe they had gotten maps where flying up in the air wasn't advantageous.
We lost. Did we lose because they were hacking, not quite, though it was a contributing factor we lost because we couldn't concentrate when there were priests flying through the air, or players with their heads sticking out of the ground, you're looking for enemies in all the wrong places. Their hacking gave them some unfair advantages which lost us nodes, like capping underground – if we had focused better we could have beat them.
We all lost points to losing to them. We lost team synergy. We are all bloody annoyed.
I have been trying to pursue rated BG's with the passion of someone who has nothing left to do in Wow at the moment. The new strategy of rolling an alt and standing in SW and listening to trade on somewhere like Tich netted me 2 rather very quick invites to a xrealm rated team. If people are logging onto alts to recruit for these teams, why not go to these realms to be recruited.
The problem with xrealm and xrealm pugs is that at least half the team are either drunk. tired or stoned on the weekend. Those things never affect your performance do they…
It's also throwing yourself into a group of random strangers – sometimes sharing real ID, and more lately Skype information and hoping it all goes well, and the party doesn't fall apart due to massive failure after waiting around in group for 1/2 an hour while they recruit the perfect team class combination.
There is also a worry, or concern that they won't think you did good enough. 100 + dispels, and outhealing the Pally healer. Is that good enough? Did you call that you were being focused too much, or not enough, because no one else looks at health bars but the healers. Are they going to point the fingers at the healers, or the DPS when it all goes down.
I had a few good runs, and some bad ones.
I even took over leading one when we got into an AB and there was no plan or leader. I had no idea what specs we had or the gear they were wearing. I wrongly assumed that there had been some consideration as to who was invited. I was recruited from trade , but half of them had never done a rated before.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer.
A moment later both Hofstra University junior Andrea Rebello and the intruder were dead — killed after a split-second decision that is perhaps the most harrowing in law enforcement: when to pull the trigger.
"The big question is, how do you know, when someone's pointing a gun at you, whether you should keep talking to them, or shoot?" said Michele Galietta, a professor of psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice who helps train police officers. "That's what makes the job of an officer amazingly difficult."
She spoke Sunday as Hofstra University students honored Rebello, a popular 21-year-old public relations major, by wearing white ribbons at their graduation ceremony.
Rebello's funeral is scheduled for Wednesday in Sleepy Hollow, north of New York City.
The news that she died from a police bullet came as "a second shock" for the already devastated family, said Henry Santos, Rebello's godfather.
Her life ended in the seconds that forced the veteran police officer to make a fatal decision, but the questions surrounding the student's death are just beginning, along with an internal investigation by the Nassau County Police Department.
Rebello and the intruder, Dalton Smith, died early Friday when the officer fired eight shots, hitting him seven times and her once in the head, according to county homicide squad Lt. John Azzata.
With a gun pointed at her, Smith "kept saying, 'I'm going to kill her,' and then he pointed the gun at the police officer," according to Azzata.
The officer acted quickly, saying later that he believed his and Rebello's lives were in danger, according to authorities.
No doubt, he was acting to try to save lives — his own and that of the young woman, Galietta said.
"What we're asking the cop to anticipate is, 'What is going on in the suspect's mind at the moment?"' she said. "We're always trying to de-escalate, to contain a situation, but the issue of safety comes in first, and that's the evaluation the officer has to make."
Eugene O'Donnell, a former New York City police officer and professor of law and police studies at John Jay College, said the crucial issue may be whether or not police had deemed it a hostage situation. If so, he said, there are protocols police follow to buy time, slow down, isolate and assess.
But O'Donnell said the officers may have had few options because of "an eyeball to eyeball confrontation between the officer and the offender."
"It may have been too fluid to deteriorate for the officers to do anything else," O'Donnell said. "It underscores that there's no two of these that are exactly alike."
Police tactical manuals are meant to assist officers in making the best decision possible, but in the end, "they're not 100 percent foolproof," Galietta said. "In a situation like that, you can follow procedure, and it doesn't mean it comes out perfectly."
Hofstra student John Kourtessis told the New York Post that he'd gone to a bar with Rebello and a few other friends to celebrate the end of school. When they got back to Rebello's house, she asked him to move his car and he went upstairs to get his keys.
When he came back down, he said, Smith was there. He said Smith kept talking about "the Russian guy," insisting the house's residents owed a Russian man money and that he was outside waiting.
"He was saying ... that he just needed us to cooperate. I said, 'Listen, we have all this money here."'
Kourtessis said the students offered Smith computers, jewelry and other items from the house but that Smith kept demanding more money.
The officer who fired the shots is an eight-year NYPD veteran and has been with Nassau County police for 12 years.
He is now out on sick leave, Azzata said.
Procedurally, the Nassau County district attorney would determine whether an officer's use of deadly force was justified, O'Donnell said. A spokesman for the prosecutor's office said Monday it is monitoring the ongoing police investigation.
Associated Press writers Frank Eltman in Mineola, N.Y., and Jake Pearson in New York City contributed to this report.


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"This fix won't solve every problem for every person. But it's going to help a lot of people." - President Barack Obama, in announcing today that many people will be able to keep their health care plans that are being cancelled because of "Obamacare." Before the law went into effect, Obama promised that Americans could keep their plans if they liked them, but that turned out not to be the case.
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