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Microsoft: Phishing Scam Targets Politicians
by John Lister on July, 25 2018 at 02:07PM EDT
Microsoft says hackers have targeted at least three candidates for Congress. Security experts say the group behind the attacks has been linked to Russia's intelligence services.
The revelation came at the Aspen Security Forum in a speech from Tom Burt, Microsoft's head of Customer Security & Trust. He was talking about domains that appeared to be Microsoft-owned but were in fact bogus sites.
Burt said one of the domains was the landing page for a phishing attack, meaning it was the page somebody would go to if they followed a misleading link from an email or social media message. The page in question falsely gave the impression of being operated by Microsoft.
Pages Referred To Specific Candidates
According to Burt, examination of metadata on the page (information that was part of the page's code but not readily visible on the page itself) included references to three people standing in November's mid-term elections. That strongly suggests the page had been set up specifically to target those candidates through the phishing attacks.
Burt didn't name the candidates for security reasons, but said they could be "interesting targets from an espionage standpoint, as well as an election disruption standpoint." Microsoft was able to get the domain taken down and it doesn't appear any of the candidates had been mislead by it. (Source: qz.com)
The domains were known to be operated by a group that Microsoft refers to as "Strontium", though other security researchers call "Fancy bear." It has been linked with Russian intelligence.
Emails The Likely Target
The most likely explanation for the attack was that the idea was to have the candidates visit the pages, believe they were genuine, then trick them into handing over some form of login details such as usernames and passwords. This could then be used to get into a Microsoft account or, if the victims reused login information, into other accounts.
Such an attack does require a lot of things to go right for the attackers, but it may also be possible they are unleashing the same tactic over and over to play the numbers game. The goal seems to be to gain access to private email messages and them make them public, something that would could embarrass the candidates.
One theory is that the idea isn't so much to hurt specific candidates, but rather to create wider political divisions and undermine the democratic process itself. (Source: bbc.co.uk)
Do you believe Russia is behind such attacks? Should candidates get better training in cyber security? Should law enforcement put extra effort into tackling cyber crime against politicians?
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Not surprised
Permalink Submitted by guitardogg on Thu, 07/26/2018 - 13:10
My Instagram was hacked by some Russians, and I'm nobody. I traced the account back to an address ending in ".RU". So I'm assuming if they are hacking me, they are working hard hacking "important" people. Guess they think 45 just doesn't give a crap.
E-Mail Hacking
Permalink Submitted by russoule on Thu, 07/26/2018 - 13:23
unless there is some unworthy info in the emails, what reason is there to hack them?
besides, are there ANY providers that do not have the "Your computer is unrecognized. Please get a pin number via your cell phone or other e-mail account to unlock your e-mail"? all I do is clear my cookies using IOBit's software and I get these messages all the time using the SAME COMPUTER that was used before. I assume that applies to an ACTUAL NEW COMPUTER as well. of course, if the server is in the politicians basement or bathroom, all bets are off.
Senator Claire McCaskill was one target
Permalink Submitted by dan_2160 on Sat, 07/28/2018 - 01:28
The computers for U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) were among the three targeted according to the Senator's office. It is amazing the lengths to which the GOP and its sycophants in Russia will go to steal an election. Voter suppression efforts, false charges of voter fraud where there consistently has been none, incredible gerrymandering that makes the Democrats look pure and clean, and so much more coupled with the GOP's allies in Russia -- the GOP can't win legitimately, so they cheat and cheat. But what do you expect from a political party intent on fulfilling George Orwell's worst fears in "1984"?


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Q: WPF program, C# library and VS 2008 Professional - profiler program/practices? I have a large WPF application that makes use of a custom C# library all developed in VS 2008 Professional. What is the best way to find memory leaks and otherwise put the application through a profiler?
I cant use the "Analyze" tools because that's not a part of my VS edition (WTF?) and I've only been able to find the WPFPerf tool that is nice but doesn't give a lot of empirical data on the performance of my application. What other tools/practices should I be looking at?

A: For performance profiling you could use one of freeware compilers.
EQATEC is a good profiler with freeware variant. Has some limitation in free version though.
SlimTune is a very nice open source performance profiler.
As for memory profiling, I haven't used any free ones but you could take a look at
CLR Profiler for .NET Framework 4  (CLRProfiler V4 Released).

A: dotTrace made by JetBrains (maker of ReSharper) is pretty good.

A: Try the standalone profiler for VS 2008. You can do performance profiling and GC profiling. The 2010 version can profile thread usage as well. Here are a some links on how to use it:

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*Walkthrough: Command-Line Profiling Using Sampling

*VSPerfCmd Usage
Data collection is done via command line but you can analyze the profiler logs in Visual Studio.

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Description: As mentioned in the previous (daylight) description, all the info about the light setup can be found [here]. The main difference in this render is obviously the lack of the multi-replicated lights. There is no postwork in this render. Rendertime: 1h 45mins. I hope I've captured both daylight and night-time moods well enough.
Looks perfectly natural to me. The caustics from the spots on the wall is amazing. Also, the mood differs between the day and night versions as it should. I think that the mostly monochrome picture on the wall is nicely complementing the strong colours from the furniture (sorry spektyr). Sure, another 5/5, what else?
I love it. I will say though that to my eye there are a couple of considerations in this nighttime version.
I too have been struggling with what I will mention so tell me if you can understand where I am coming from.
In my opinion the random cluster for ambient light should still have been present even in this nighttime version. For me it comes down to the fact that the walls in the daylit version look like they have a white wall color. Not blaring white but still a comfortable whiteness and not gray. In this nighttime version it looks like the walls have been painted gray. Now I know that the nighttime scene holds less light so it makes sense to a certain degree that the wall would not appear to be bright, but the fact still remains that a white wall should still look like a white wall in comparison to the other objects and colors in the scene. For some reason these walls look darker than they should. Also there are some areas perhaps along the window sills and the left side of the small table that have very deep shadows, too deep. If the walls were whitish they would be very efficient at bouncing whatever light was available, even this dim indoor light. This trick of making white colored objects appear white even in low light is a challenge because the tendency is to go grey but nature seems not to be that way. I can always tell what color a thing should be in real life regardless of the light imposed. Part of what will help sell the whiteness of the walls along with brighten then to a slightly closer to white feeling is the random cluster.
I would go so far as to say that personally I do not think I will ever render an indoor scene again without the random cluster, it is essential to all indoor light simulations even nighttime. This nighttime version does not look quite as photorealistic as the daytime scene perhaps because of the influence of the random cluster.
Still this is fantastic work and I do believe it looks amazing and please submit this and the daylight version to the Daz Bryce galleries, we need some stuff like this over there.
I understand clearly what you mean, Rashad and I both agree and disagree to a certain level with your comment. So let me explain - in all the references I was working with, the light in the night scenes was "acting" differently. This had to do with the lightbulbs' properties (type, watts, intensities) and the camera ISO speed, exposure levels and such for the shot. The different combo between those gives so much different results, oh, and let us not forget the scale of the interior itself. I was going for a medium soft dark and (as Spektyr said) comfy light feeling.
In a nighttime scene an interior light body casts much more saturated light. I guess you already know that. My saturation consist not only in light-color tint of the invisible improvised bulb, but also in medium levels of gray for the lamp's glassy outer part and in slightly orange color for the inner matte part. The matte glass is far less transparent and it's partially blocking the 400 intensity of the squared falloff radial (see the img link provided) and due to a strong soft shadow properties the result is evident as a weak orange- and more noticable gray color gradient on the walls. With stronger intensity or different falloff the room should look more brightly lit and thus some of the shaded places will popup. But I'll lose the mood I was going for. As for the shadows themselves - this is all correctable from the sky lab shadow intensity. In the above night shot they were 75%. Everything changes drastically towards better when those are at 40%. Also I tried the radial cluster with deeper gray color in the gradient but the two things that it did was to brighten the room too much and increasing the render time exponentialy.
Many thanks for the critique and observations for this image and thank you once again for your co-work with Horo and David for bringing the GI tutorial to the surface. See you around.
You are welcome, though admittedly I had little to do with the development of the tutorial itself, that was surely David and Horo. Before the tut I was content lighitng scenes with spotlights along the major walls, but spotlights alone do not handle corners very well. The random cluster on the other hand does a fantastic job of rounding corners and hiding the bands so that is why I am so in love with the random cluster as a theoretic indirect light solution for indoor scenes especially. It does add a huge amount of time to the render. Anyhow this conversation has got me curious about something with the color white and different indirect light levels. I have a test to run, see ya soon.
I look at this for it's artistic value, your lighting seems to be natural, as your shadows are cast from the visible light sources. Your textures are believable, especially the flooring. I am especially impressed by the render time, by the time I get ready for my final render, it usually takes a day or two.


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Fiction March 19, 2021 <March 19, 2021
The Whole Cold World
Ashley Strosnider
"Space shuttle Endeavour launch" by Matthew Simantov is licensed under CC BY 2.0
for Guy Bluford, first African American in space
Those who watched it were quiet, though they wouldn't have needed to be, especially up close. The sound didn't carry out to Titusville on Highway 1, to the banks of the Indian River, where some of the watchers waited. To the Bennett Causeway, the Beach Line Expressway. Up and down A-one-A south in Cocoa Beach. Jetty Park in the Cape, or the Air Force Station. Folding chairs had been claiming their space for hours. A little bit of booze in coolers dotted the grass, Thermoses full of coffee gone cold, even in that heat, to keep the eyes pried open, lids up late, then later as they waited, kept waiting. The storm rumbled across the coast, peppering the sky with bright flashes that made everyone suddenly wary of their umbrellas, tiny handheld lightning rods. But weren't they grounded, feet in the dirt turning sludgy in puddles, rubber soles on pavement? A great cosmic joke, someone suggested. Zeus throwing down rods of fire at these five smug little Icaruses. They felt small beneath thunderheads, cloud cover pressing close. Still, there was hope in the magnitude of the happening. The mythology of profound achievement was still enough to buoy them, to suggest there was a way out of this whole cold world, after all.
Twelve million pounds locked and waiting just two stories up. From out there, it might have been a toy. Television screens miniaturized it too: the enormity, pixelated, didn't quite translate. It took some small measure of spiritual mysticism to believe it could even be real. But they had done it before. They would do it again, and again, on into the future of the universe, and the watchers who were still left would eventually forget to keep watching.
The watchers couldn't see a thing out there, and midnight slid past like so much wet velvet, like a seal slipping back into the sea. Two more hours passed, the scheduled time looming then delayed. It was a dilemma: how long to stay? But the longer they waited, the surer they were. Hold on, the watchers told each other. We've waited this long. See it through. Another jagged bolt tore the sky. Soon, the radio promised. The captain had called it. The men were boarding the craft. The men were sweating, joking, checking, double-checking, triple-checking, silently speaking the rosary into the sky. Then another seventeen-minute delay.
This was not the sixties. This was not the fresh blaze of a new frontier, the desperate proof of political viability on the world stage. This was just another government operation, like so many others before it. Just a little bit flashier. Like the people who'd gathered in the desert to watch bombs drop, to watch the mushroom clouds billow up from craters and marvel at the power of an atom, to suck in deep breaths of ooh and ahh and radiation that would silently eat at them for years from the inside out. People still watched because it couldn't not be a spectacle: with all the lights out, it would burn brighter than ever. And so what if some of the new had worn off and the watchers were no longer a perfect cross-section of America. So what if they were nerds, people who watched sci-fi movies because someone had made the mistake of giving them microscopes when they were kids. Or if they were speed junkies, the same people who showed up for Daytona races, just for the roar of it. Or if they were only bored locals who marked the passage of time with the breaking of the sound barrier somewhere above their heads. One small step for man. One more way to feel miniscule.
The world did not stop turning just because a handful of men might leave its orbit. It spun on its axis, it whispered and grumbled and made its sounds. Roadside, palm fronds shushed each other as a breeze stole through. In the parks, frogs sang, exuberant in the warm summer rain. Trucks barreled down the highways on deadlines that did not pause for stargazing—especially when the rain guaranteed there were no stars to see anyway. A train whistled, its low-slung song a near anachronism there in the face of the future, as if to say: you've known the roar of speed and burn for a century, and you'll tire of this, too, soon enough. Horses stomped. Cows chewed. Dogs curled up in kennels. Cats crept toward mice and pounced. Suburban kitchens winked dark, perfumed in Pine-Sol. Kids dreamed. Someone slipped out of bed and ate the leftover macaroni after his wife fell asleep. Someone slipped out of bed and into the den, left her husband snoring while she cradled a phone against her cheek, whispering to a lover as the TV flicked on, muted. In the city, the things that always roared kept roaring in accordance with their own rhythms, oblivious. Everything that always happened was always happening.
But there was a pleasure in the waiting, too, permission to do nothing at all but keep the eyelids up, or possibly to hope, or maybe, if you were feeling superstitious, to pray. It might as well have been a holiday. A holy day of obligation. Someone knocked the cap off a water bottle whose contents slugged down onto his radio just as the voice started up again. "Goddamn it to hell," he hissed, while the broadcast voice slowed, scattered, stopped.
And then, here it was. It was happening. History was happening, and they were watching. One watcher cranked the volume on his boom box, and those in listening range gathered in, grouped together, clicked off their little handheld radios, crackling small and tinny by comparison. T-Minus one minute and counting. The watchers were ready, grinning, prepared to be fully amazed.
Ten. They rocked up on their toes and back down, bouncing.
Nine. They grasped their cameras, grown heavy on straps slung around necks, eight, pocketed lens caps, seven, wiped lenses on the hems of their T-shirts.
Six. They grasped hands with whoever stood beside them.
Five. They hugged their arms close to their tiny bodies. Four. They thought they could see something, a brightness gathering there at the base as three, they sucked in great, deep breaths and held them.
Two. They felt the capacity of their lungs, the pressure and pleasure of the exhale deferred.
One. They felt their feet heavy on the ground.
Seven million pounds of thrust and fire, lit up bright as a daylight launch. We have liftoff, the radio confirmed. And we did, didn't we? But this was not so new: men had gone to space before, had even walked on the moon. Just months before, many of them had watched the first American woman break gravity, move into orbit. These were not the golden years anymore, those first early years of fresh impossibility, but still there were firsts to be had. The first night launch. The first African American in space. The oldest man in space. These three were the firsts they claimed that night, would hold in their memories for years—a tiny slice of a long history still expanding. It would surface when summoned, this immense burning light in the great darkness of the once unknowable sky.
Others, elsewhere, were still watching, too. A young father yelled and woke a baby whose wail joined in with the cosmic scream while her mother rolled her eyes hard. Nurses on rounds passed by the station to hear it was go, they had made it, and because there was nothing better to talk about anyway, they carried the confirmation up and down halls to patients waiting to hear some good news, eager to know man-made miracles could still happen—or ready to mutter their unbelief, call it conspiracy, call it blasphemy, call it a waste of hard-earned tax dollars. Down the streets from the hospitals—a few respectable blocks but not out of walking distance—bars full of watchers raised toasts and downed shots in good-luck cheers for the rest of the mission. A musician stopped strumming when her husband shushed her, said look. A tall kid leapt to his feet and slam-dunked a small plastic ball through the flimsy hoop hooked onto a cereal-box backboard hung over his bedroom door.
The air turned electric there in Florida, the silence broken by a boom the watchers felt from a distance too great to hear it, rumbling out across the cape like an ocean imagined inside the cup of a shell held to the ear. As the bright smoky clouds rolled out like the bottom half of a nuclear blast, the shuttle shot up, climbing high on its long tail, the watchers clapped and yelled the stale breath out of their chests. And then they were yelling, shouting, cheering, the exhale a benediction, the sweet relief of seeing that nothing had gone wrong this time. None of the watchers had wanted to witness the shuttle combusting into some manmade supernova. But they had all been sure it would be fine. They hadn't been worried.
Yes, they yelled.
I knew it, I knew they could do it, they yelled.
Go—go on, do it, get up there, get 'em baby, go on, go!
Other watchers were watching orange and green numbers crawl in complicated equations across massive black screens. They watched the arc and the wobble, the weather, the fuel and the fire, the velocity, the trajectory, the telemetry, the temperature, the pressure, the propulsion, the projection. Printers clicked out dots in matrix, readouts that confirmed the math, the science, the safety, the faith, the investment. They watched their calculations conjure history, promise new knowledge. The keys to the universe.
Three miles high, and 630 miles an hour. And higher, still, the shuttle climbed, a long yellow stripe across heaven. The watchers passed binoculars among themselves, ushered strangers' kids to press sleepy eyes against telescopes balanced on tripods sinking in mud. Seven miles high, and 907 miles an hour. The trail turned black, the fire reflecting off the cloud cover, a soft orange halo surrounding the shuttle. Somewhere below them, hell burned hot. The very molten core of the earth. Thirteen miles high, 1623 miles an hour. Further down the highway, a siren screamed. A car run off the road, caught unaware, watching too closely a velocity that was not its own. A terrestrial combustion.
In daylight, the brightness of the burn was subsumed into the daylong glow of a fire always burning, that constant nuclear combustion that kept the world turning by the gravitational magnitude of its flame and force. But in darkness, what the cameras caught was all that heat, all that fire, made apparent the explosion that powered the burn, and the roar of the rocket made a sudden solemn sense. The primacy of sound both displaced and explained by what became now so obvious. Made visible, it also made clear everything the human eye could never hope to see. It had all been this big all along, and yes, we had all been exactly that small.
Higher still, and the mighty flame faded into a tiny tail burn, growing finally pinpoint little, a falling star in reverse, the impossible undoing of gravity, of the inevitable, the triumph of hope and the silence returned, a quiet like church, the rustling of sleeves, the sign of the cross. God, they said, faces upturned. Dios Mio. My God. Mother Mary. Jesus Christ. Holy… holy shit. The Almighty Fuckin' A.
They were gone. They had done it. Disaster, inevitable as ever, had not come for them yet. And inside the shuttle, and on the recordings, a single voice laughing, laughing, all the way up.
Ashley Strosnider is a writer and editor based in Nebraska, where she recently served as managing editor of Prairie Schooner. She holds an MFA from the University of South Carolina. Her writing has appeared in Joyland, Near South, Fifth Wednesday, Smokelong Quarterly, and elsewhere. Follow her on Twitter at @bravenewlady.
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A VICIOUS attack on a promising footy player has left parents fuming after a jealous young man avoided going to jail.
Ipswich man Emmanuel Peter Haber, 21, admitted attacking two other young men.
Brisbane District Court heard Haber was upset because his girlfriend was friends with another man.
In July last year, Haber went with a group of friends to confront the man at a touch football competition, and punched him several times.
The Crown said the punches were thrown when the most seriously injured man was holding a chair, unable to defend himself properly, and not looking.
Haber pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm for that attack and pleaded guilty to assaulting a second young man in the same incident.
On Wednesday, when Judge Brendan Butler announced Haber's two-year jail term would be suspended immediately, the victim's mother left the courtroom in disgust.
Outside court, the grievously injured victim's father told NewsRegional he was also disappointed with the sentence, especially "in light of recent events with coward punches".
Haber was fined $2500, which the parents said made little difference.
The court heard the seriously injured man was a promising footy player who had dreamed of becoming a professional sportsman.
But the injuries had curtailed his sports career.
The court heard Haber sent a text message apology to the most badly-injured man when that man was in hospital getting surgery for facial injuries.
Haber had no criminal record and Judge Butler said he'd shown genuine remorse.
At one point during sentencing, Haber addressed the judge directly.
Haber told Judge Butler he confronted the group about contact one man had with his girlfriend on social media but "they just laughed".
Haber said his own friends never encouraged the attack.
"The bottom line though is, what you did wasn't justifiable ... it's had terrible consequences," Judge Butler said.


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Not if he's going to average close to double-digit turnovers per game!!
He's a rookie though. He'll clean it up.
So you think he'll eventually get his average down below 3-4 turnovers a game?
Leaf looks ready for bench minutes to me.
This is true. His best position IMO is as a shooter off the ball. He's lethal in that role and as a 2nd or 3rd dribbler off of Oladipo. As long as he's not asked to make decisions, he's fine.
I preferred that Troy Murphy never play a minute, even off the bench. Teams are feasting off of us when he's in there.
Sure. He doesn't even have a body of work yet in regular season NBA games. This is where the learning curve can be quick and steep.
Sure. Turnovers are more mental than anything. Also Westbrook for example is a star point guard and he turns the ball over a lot. Aaron just needs to not have 5 TO games too often.
He's good at creating for himself. Maybe the creating for others will come later? How many point guards are great passers in today's game anyways? CP3 and Jason Kidd were elite passers. I can't think of many others on that level in the last 5 years.
There's a school of thought on turnovers which suggests that dead-ball turnovers are fine (not ideal, obviously, but no worse than a missed shot). Teams and players sometimes factor this in by preferring those high-risk/high-reward passes where the poor outcome means the ball ends up in the second row (e.g. rifling a low-% lob pass to the big rather than passing it softly). I didn't catch the game the other night so I don't know what sort of turnovers Holiday was committing, but if they were mostly dead-ball turnovers, they theoretically would be not that big a deal.
I hope you guys are right....but, I feel this is a potential red flag, considering that he was having this same problem in college.
Make him a scorer early in his career and not a point guard. He has very bad decision making on his passes.


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In 2018 the Tatts Finke Desert Race dished up devastating and brutal conditions. The dust and heat were cruel, even by Finke standards.
The Tatts Finke Desert Race has been running since the mid- 1970s, and where it kicked off as a hoot for a few mates Back' and rode from Alice Springs to the Finke community and back again – in 2018 it's a deadly serious challenge for Australia's and the world's best and ballsiest riders and drivers. In the 1980s the settlement at Finke changed its name to Apatula, but the race held its name and has become one of the greatest badges of courage in the off-road motorsport world.
To say, "Yeah, I've done Finke," is to mark your ground as a serious and courageous competitor.
In 2018 the Fink had classes for bikes, buggies, quads and cars, and the starting grid was huge. For the cars Finke has the added bonus of being a round of the BF Goodrich CAMS Australian Off Road Championship (AORC), so there's some heavyweight talent and finance fronting the start line.
A hectic, blood-rushing, prologue decided start positions, and to be up the front a car or buggy or bike needed to complete the circuit in something under five minutes. Quads were scored with the bikes.
After all the amazing glamour and hoohaa that accompanies this event each year, the competitors have to get their minds on the job. From Alice to Apatula is around 230km. The whoops go for kilometers and are legendary for their size. The dust and heat and bad at any time, but in 2018 even the locals were shaking their heads and saying "Geez. It's crook"
Anyone hoping for a good outright resu needed to be able to handle that 230km dust, heat and whoops in under two hours The rider or driver who could do that would stand on the podium at Alice Springs and la claim to being King Of The Desert until the next June long weekend.
Then it happens all over again.
CARS AND THE AORC
Shannon and Ian Rentsch in their Jimco Aussie Special Pro Buggy claimed a history- making sixth King Of The Desert title, grabbing the lead in the BF Goodrich CAMS AORC in the process.
Rentsch dominated the event on his 16th attempt, leading from start to finish. The father-and-son duo started from pole position and set the fastest time from Alice Springs to Finke on day one, leading the event by three minutes at the halfway mark.
The eight-time Australian champions pushed hard all the way, extending their lead to claim the outright win by more than 16 minutes in a time of 3:36:37.
David Fellows, himself a five-time Finke Desert Race winner, and Mark Bergaminn were second across the line in the Geiser Bros Trophy Truck, followed by 2016 Australian Off Road Champions Jack Rhodes and David Pullino in their Jimco Pro Buggy.
Rentsch never looked like losing the lead but was well aware of the hard-charging field keen to hunt him down.
"It's awesome", Rentsch said of his sixth Finke win after the race. "We've never won it from start to finish, so to get the prologue, lead down to Finke and then back to Alice… it's pretty special.
"It's probably up there with the best one we have done.
"Our truck would handle pretty good in the rough stuff so we just really kept going as quick as we could."
Rentsch will now take a handy lead in the BF Goodrich CAMS AORC point score to the final round in Rainbow, Victoria.
"That's a bonus," said Rentsch.
"Finke is the biggest race for us. We don't think too much about the championship when we're there, but we should have a pretty handy lead heading to Rainbow now. It takes the pressure off from that point of view as well."
Runner-up Fellows was thrilled with his 2018 Finke Desert Race, particularly to have both Peter Kittle Motor Company entries making the podium.
"It was a good weekend," Fellows said. "We had a pretty clear run on the way down and on the way back and to get on the podium with both cars is a great result.
"The set up was really good this year. My navigator Mark did a really good job of setting the car up and I really haven't touched a thing, so I've got to congratulate him for giving us a good truck."
Clearly, Fellows loves the event.
"Trying to win this race is a challenge and while we're enjoying it we'll just keep coming back."
Jack Rhodes was happy to claim third after a less-than-perfect weekend, rolling his buggy in prologue and starting down the order for the run to Finke.
"We started 13th and didn't see much of the track until about the 120km mark, and then unfortunately saw an incident. The driver was all good, but we assisted him. Then we got back on the track and couldn't see it again so it was a difficult weekend."
Talbot Cox and Andrew North were impressive in their Racer Engineering Carbon Series Toyota to cross the line in fourth and Michael Marson and Chris Colbourne rounded out the top five.
In the bikes all eyes were on 2016 Dakar winner, Toby Price.
It wasn't that there weren't plenty of other riders, and some very big names, but Price was, for the second time, attempting what he calls the 'Iron Man double'.
Basically, Price runs down to Finke in a Trophy Truck, flies back to Alice Springs in time to jump on his bike and compete on two wheels as well.
Price set the fastest time in qualifying on his bike and fourth in the truck. He was second into Apatula in the truck and led the field on the bike. Unfortunately, despite a huge effort repairing the truck at Apatula, a power- steering failure meant he couldn't complete the run back to Alice.
There was no-one close to him on the bike though. He led into Finke and back to Alice, finishing over 10 minutes ahead of the next rider.
Price was disappointed with the truck result after all the hard work from the Toby Price Motorsport team, but was extremely thankful for their efforts and the support of his valued sponsors.
"It was a hard pill to swallow," he said. "Unfortunately we didn't make it back in the Red Bull Trophy Truck due to a power-steering failure. We didn't leave a stone unturned and the Toby Price Motorsport Team gave it a red- hot crack to get me on that start line."
But while Price is making a name for himself in Trophy Trucks, it's on the bike he's an undisputed international champion.
After the disappointment with the truck Price flew back to the Finke start line for the return trip on the bike.
Leading the pack, Price stayed out in front and was able to recover from a fall 100km from the finish line. He eclipsed the all-time record for bike wins, claiming his sixth Finke title in just nine years.
"It all went really well. We're pumped," grinned a dusty and tired Price. "We got our sixth win!
"The race was definitely hard. I had a little bit of a get-off around the 100km mark coming home, but overall I'm stoked. Six wins on the bike for KTM and it's amazing we've got the record for all-time wins in that category.
"Unfortunately we didn't go as well in the truck category for the Iron Man double, but all in all it was good times and I'm happy everything is all wrapped up for the weekend! "Time to kick back and relax a little bit and celebrate with the team.
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Even Star/Losing Angel in a few months?
Word has come in that a new Michael Knott album is finished and will be out in a few months. The word is that Losing Angel is now called Even Star. The 2003 Tour Journal made the Losing Angel album sound awesome, so this should be a great release. This news comes from a reliable source, but we all know that things can change due to, well, just about anything. Stay tuned for more specifics as they become official.


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Carl Stearns Clancy 8 de agosto de 1890 Epping, Estados Unidos - enero 1970 Alexandria, Estados Unidos, fue un viajero de largas distancias, director y productor de cine. Ha sido reconocido por ser la primera persona en circunvalar la tierra en una motocicleta.

Vida
Clancy nació en New Hampshire en 1890, hijo de Alice Clancy, de Massachusetts, y William Clancy, un irlandés de 55 años. Se convirtió en un escritor de la publicidad.
A principios de octubre de 1912, junto con su compañero de motociclismo, Walter Rendell Storey, navegaron de Nueva York a Dublín, vía Liverpool. Sus motos eran unas Henderson Four (de cuatro cilindros en línea), 934 cc, siete HP (5,2 kW), sin amortiguación, de la compañía Henderson Motorcycle Company de 1912. El editor de la revista The Irish Cyclist, Richard J. Mecredy les dio mapas de carreteras y les ayudó a trazar su ruta en Irlanda. Después de cubrir la parte norte del país, ambos tomaron el ferry a Glasgow.
Recorrieron en primer lugar todo Reino Unido, en la cual perdieron una la motocicleta de Rendell (arrollada por un tranvía) y llegando a Londres fueron entrevistados por primera vez.

Continuaron visitando Alemania, Bélgica, Suiza, Holanda y llegando a Paris donde el Walter Rendell volvió a Nueva York y Clanct continuaba su viaje hacia el sur pasando por España y adentrándose en África, donde cruzó todo el norte del continente hasta llegar a Egipto.
Desde este punto recorrió la India, Malasia, China y finalmente Japón. Navegó el Pacífico hasta la costa oeste de Estados Unidos.
Como tramo final de su aventura Clancy atravesó Estados Unidos desde San Francisco a Nueva York en tan solo cuatro días para finalizar en agosto de 1913 su increíble viaje de aproximadamente 29.000 km.

Clancy ayudó a financiar su viaje enviando detalles de su viaje épico a Bicycling World y Motorcycle Review, una revista semanal con sede en Nueva York.
Clancy produjo y dirigió una serie de películas de Will Rogers comenzando con The Headless Horseman en 1922. En su vida posterior, se trasladó a Virginia y realizó documentales para el Servicio Forestal de los Estados Unidos.

Algunas de sus dichos célebres en este viaje fueron

 Durante un tramo de dos horas tuve diecisiete caídas a causa de las piedras sueltas y el barro (The Bicycling World and Motorcycle Review, 1912)
 Hay que morir en algún momento y morir con las botas de uno es muy noble (España 1913)

Véase también
 Hermanas Van Buren
 Effie Hotchkiss
 Motociclistas de larga distancia

Referencias

Motociclismo

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Q: DR RACKET DEFINE FUNCTIONS I am trying to program the formula Distance-traveled= 2.5 *t^2
I put 2.5 and the constant and the t is my seconds. The seconds is the varying input. I thought I defined everything okay but in the bottom window, when I try to call the function in hopes to find the distance traveled in 2 seconds, it says distance-traveled is not defined. What am I doing wrong? This is what I have in the top window
(define CONVERSION-FACTOR 2.5)

(define (distance-traveled seconds)
    ( * (* seconds seconds) CONVERSION-FACTOR))

This may help you guys help me!

A: Your edit shows us that you are using distance-traveled before it is defined. You need to place the definition of the function before you use it.

A: You need to click the Run button (or press F5).
Then your most-recent code edits in the Definitions (top or left) window will be available in the Interactions (bottom or right) window.

Edited to add some more explanation:
By default DrRacket expands your program while you type, to do syntax checking.
But that does not mean that it's actually evaluating your program, yet.
If you are just starting to learn Racket, "expand" vs. "eval" might seem like a distinction without a difference. It is roughly the same difference as macros vs. procedures, or compile time vs. run time. At this stage, just note that they are two distinct steps in Racket, and only the first one is necessary to do syntax checking. So even though the syntax checking might make you think that DrRacket has already "built" your program, it hasn't yet. You still need to do Run to expand and evaluate it.
To be super picky, Racket doesn't really have a REPL -- Read, Eval, Print Loop. Actually it's more like RECEPL -- Read, Expand, Compile (JIT), Eval, Print, Loop. But again, that's something you can probably wait to enjoy learning more about, later.


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Waters' sons, ages 8 and 10, also love the challenge of going to the farmer's market to choose fresh ingredients. Afterward, they search for new recipes to help prepare and incorporate their purchases into their family's evening dinner plan, she says. "Find activities that kids want to do, that they kind of take some ownership in, and that they are excited about doing," she suggests.
Other easy-to-do, fun ideas on Waters' family summertime bucket list include painting outdoors, stargazing, catching fireflies, making s'mores, and selling lemonade for the Salvation Army's LemonAiD Days fundraiser in July.


Rise and Shine: You have it In YOU !!!
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world.
– Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.
At the core of every human being are four dimensions: Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit. In all philosophies and religion from beginning of history you'll find these four dimensions: the Physical/economic (Body), Mental (Mind), Emotional/social (Heart), and Spiritual (Spirit). They represent the four basic needs: Body – survival – To Live, Mind – growth and development – To Learn, Heart – relationships – To Love, and Spirit – meaning and contribution – To Leave a Legacy.
Spirit serve human needs/ ethical business in principled ways.
All of you are born genius; 9,999 of every 10,000 are promptly and inadvertently degeniusized by grownups. Our first Birth Gift is 'The Freedom to Choose'. If you ask, one subject, one point, that has the greatest impact on people; what one great idea that resonates deepest in the soul than any other, without any reservation and with deep conviction, I believe it is that we are free to choose. Next to life itself.
This power and freedom stand in stark contrast to the mind set of victimism and culture of blame. We are product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing or environment). Choices based on values. Your power to choose the direction of your life, to re-invent yourself, to change your future and influence the rest of creation. If we've given away our present to the past, do we need to give away our future too?
So, I believe YOU are born to Lead! YOU need to ask yourself, what are the choices YOU have made.


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Q: How can I quickly query SQLite given a list of rowids? How can I quickly query for records that match a list of rowids? I have a query in my iOS app that looks like this:
SELECT rowid, category_id
FROM items
WHERE rowid in (2, 4, 89, 4243, 44, 555, ...)

The list of rowids can be somewhat long - a few hundred items would be a typical example.
The odd thing is that this query takes several seconds to run - as much as 12 seconds in some cases. It's slow whether I run it in the SQLite shell or whether I run it in my app.
However, if I replace this query with just:
SELECT rowid, category_id
FROM items

so I retrieve EVERY item in the table (in my test case, around 1000 rows) and just have my app ignore the rowids it doesn't need, the query executes in just a few hundred milliseconds. It also responds quickly at the SQLite shell.
What's happening here? rowid is a primary key, so this should be a fast, indexed lookup. Is there a faster way to run queries like this? I would've thought it was parsing the query string that makes the difference, but profiling shows almost all time is spent in sqlite3_step.

A: SQL query with out where clause is always faster than query with where class. You mention RowID is primary key (so, its cluster index created by default) in your table.
Please try to replace 'where...In' with 'where...between' or where...rowId>X and RowId

Other solution is move comparable row ids list to temp table / view and perform inner join to get the results faster.


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With his brilliantly quirky comics and out-of-this-world games, longtime Lisper Conrad Barski teaches you the mysteries of Common Lisp. You'll start with the basics, like list manipulation, I/O, and recursion, then move on to more complex topics like macros, higher order programming, and domain-specific languages. Then, when your brain overheats, you can kick back with an action-packed comic book interlude!


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Home Blog 5 Fat Burners To Help You Slim Down
5 Fat Burners To Help You Slim Down
It is definitely possible to speed up your metabolism, that aspect of your body that burns calories. As you age, your metabolism slows down, chiefly because you lose around a half pound of muscle each year. "If you don't use the muscle, it atrophies," explains Pamela Peeke, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Maryland and author of Fight Fat After Forty.
Here are 5 fat burners to help you slim down.
1. Avoid alcohol
Want to keep your favorite meals from going straight to your hips (thighs, belly)? Wash them down with water, not wine. Alcohol slows your metabolism by depressing the central nervous system. A British study found that when alcohol was added to a high-fat, high-calorie meal, less dietary fat was burned off and more was stored as body fat.
2. Rev up your workouts
Interval training — in which you add bursts of high-intensity moves into your workout — is a surefire metabolism booster, says Glenn Gaesser, Ph.D., director of the Kinesiology Program at the University of Virginia and author of The Spark. Researchers at Laval University in Quebec found that high-intensity interval training burns more fat than regular, consistent aerobic exercise. If you usually jog at a 10-minute-mile pace, for example, add a 30-second sprint every five minutes. Or add a one-minute incline to your treadmill workout every five minutes. "Even if you just have 10 minutes for a quick workout, you can walk at a normal pace and then add in a 30-second bout of speed-walking every three minutes," recommends Gaesser.
3. Do more dairy
Women who ate low-fat dairy products, such as nonfat yogurt and low-fat cheese, three to four times a day lost 70 percent more fat than low-dairy dieters, according to a study published in the journal Obesity Research. "Calcium serves as a switch that tells your body to burn excess fat faster," explains study author Michael Zemel, M.D., director of the Nutrition Institute at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Sorry, but you won't reap the same benefits from calcium-fortified O.J. Research shows that you get the best results from dairy products themselves, not fortified foods. Aim for 1,200 mg, which includes about three servings of dairy a day.
4. Take up a new sport
Are you like Old Faithful when it comes to your morning walk or evening jog? Know this: The more you do an activity, the more your body adapts to it, so you burn fewer calories. If you want to light a fire under your metabolism, consider cross-training. For example, if you normally walk, try biking instead. "Since you're not used to working all those different muscles, it's a more intense workout, which can translate into a greater metabolic after-burn because your body is working harder to recover and get oxygen to all your tissues," says Carol Espel, M.S., an exercise physiologist for Equinox Fitness Clubs in New York City.
5. Go fish
Break out the lemon wedges: Regular fish eaters tend to have lower levels of the hormone leptin — good because high levels of leptin have been linked to low metabolism and obesity, says Louis Aronne, M.D., an obesity specialist at the New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. Try to consume three to four servings of a fatty fish, such as salmon, tuna or mackerel, each week.


This mouth piece so called makue Lueth, he is clearly out of his mind as usual.... A good example is when Dr machar came to Juba April 2016, Juba streets was ful of joys and chanting welcome, welcome Dr Machar was everywhere.... Please don't drag our innocents in this selfish politics of yours!!


A snake slithered by while Kassie was digging.
They had to swim their way into this temple.
And stayed in their bathing suits the whole way through.
the second one has a painted fern from the vampire pack in it, because i think those ferns are absolutely beautiful. slightly annoyed that fronds clip through the walls, but i couldn't manage to avoid that entirely unless basically shoving the vase into the tub, which just ruined the whole look, of course.
Haha!~How lucky is this place in world???
Little Wolf is definitely in his element.
I need to look through this thread while having my coffee. My sim's second visit, he was literally relying on what he found and money was tight. Here he is alight again. the first time the temples skeleton put him out with a fire extinguisher, I was so shocked and it was so quick I didn't get a pic. but second time didn't end well, he already had a plague.
I didn't save. went back to a previous save just before this happened. sent him to the bar and buy more stuff. then home. more pics soon.
just a little hint about the fires: pause the game!
He had nothing to put it out with, I did pause and send him to the pool. but he was too far gone. he didn't go.
now his with his fiancé and is about to die again from electrocution. again I wont save that.
electric shock, update, Ok I found a drink that he drinks to fight or get rid of the effects. here's hoping it works.
That time he was on his own.
and funny thing he met her at work, but while on vacation he was able to ask her for the antidote.
they got the golden plate.
ok, i know some will consider this beating a dead horse, especially since the latest person to ask the question has moved on even without totally grasping what was said, but here we go, now with pictures!
I will see if this is an option. I haven't seen this unless they have something to use or are near the shower or bath with a shower. or even a pool.
do you have mods in your game. I don't.
It is an option within the game and not a mod. My sim used it when he was attacked by lightning bugs in a temple.
Is Paula one of the locals?
Teen Philip taking his first solo vacation.
Funny pic of Caleb trying to be an archaeologist so hard.
@catloverplayer Yes, she is but I gave her a make-over in CAS.
Little Maeyara toddling around their vacation home while mom is off excavating somewhere in the front yard.


tomorrow I am going to Brussels. From what I have seen on this website, there are many things to see and to do. I am trying as much as I can to break my dull routine of working like a machine non stop and then going home and reading or watching tv. There is more to life than just that, right ? Here are the cards I pulled for this day.
here is what I am getting from this draw : I am going to love (the heart) my trip to Brussels (the tower being a big city, a capital); this is certain (the key). I will spend some money there and/or eat something (the bear). Also I might enjoy a conversation, the liveliness of the place (the birds). I am wondering now if the heart means meeting someone there, someone tall (the tower) and with a beard (the bear) ? Someone who is going to be a key event for the day (the key) and enjoy a conversation with him (the birds) ? It looks like I am going to spend a very nice Sunday over there … Christmas shopping looks like fun with those cards … I will put the feedback as an update and add pictures of the places visited as well !
well you were close ! And this was so much fun : I think I will post the other daily draws I've been doing the same way. It is interesting to see your comments. Thank you so much for that.
Hi there, I have currently Uranus in transit making a trine to my natal conjunction Moon/Venus. Over the years, I have noticed that astrology transits are very effective. Astrology is something I have studied : noting down the aspects of transits at major turns in my life. There never was a major event that wasn't reflecting in transits. A trine is an aspect of 120 degree, and it speaks here of an opportunity. As 2 planets will be affected by the transit, there will be some major changes coming in. As the planet transiting is Uranus the transit will be a "surprise".
Uranus is the planet of awakening, sudden shock and surprise. Some keywords : originality, inventors, computers, cutting edge technologies. It is the joker, the wild card of the universe.
An array of possibilities can be here triggered, the Lenormand cards are used here to seek out which out of all the possibilities is going to be given birth to.
The relationship between the Coffin and Uranus is quite interesting to have here. This is actually a great example of the Coffin not necessarily being a "bad" card. It speaks of a major life's alteration. Uranus is a new way of looking at things ! As the transit is a trine , it is going to be taking place smoothly into my life.
Uranus disrupt, change, and re-do whatever it touches. Some things are going to be changed forever. The Coffin is the end of a life cycle. Looking forward. This could really mean the end of being single. Especially since the Heart is there in 5 cards. This will break up the rigid past and challenges. Viable patterns for the present are able to step into my life. I have to admit I can't wait to have some changes brought into my "routine" right now. I had some very tough times the last 10 years, and I am fed up with tragedies and losses. I want my life back.
Next card is the Bear. It may represents someone. Most of the time, the Bear is a man. Keywords : strong and powerful. Someone protective, caring, generous.
The Bear associated with the Heart : someone with a good heart, generous. A passion on the way ?
The Heart is for tenderness, generosity, love, romance. The conjunction of Moon and Venus are I guess represented here by this card. As the Heart is central in the draw, it seems to act as a focus.
The Birds : this is the card of verbal communication, chat, gossip. Also the cards for a couple. Directly following the Heart, it looks like being in a romance is coming around the corner.
The Crossroads speaks again of the choice, the opportunity. I see it here as meaning life getting into a new direction.
I always look at the cut : the Key associated with the Ship. Key is the Yes card. The Ship can stand for many things, here I suppose it is the longing for something. The Combination speaks about a dream to come true. The ship speaks also of travel, and being abroad. Maybe it speaks about a future move, indicated in the 5 cards by the Crossroads.
This is a post about little pets and bigger ones too 🙂 Some Lenormands cards can actually be related to animals and give you informations about them.
Maybe less obvious, the Fox can stands for Cats. For bigger animals the Bear is perfect. But the horse will be represented by the Rider.
The Tower may represent the refugee, the vet clinic. The Garden could be the place where you "train" the dog, or the horse. Actually, recently I had it in a reading and it stood for the zoo !
The birds are standing for conversation. But it might also represent a couple as well. Conversation might be stressful or bringing excitement. Birds are easily scared and therefore are very quick to fly away from a potential danger. So think about being hectic, and nervous about something here. Being worried, fidgety. Instability, nervousness, somewhat influenceable, not having enough concentration, disturbed by something. Gossip. Also, this card means 2 (because of the 2 birds on the card of course).


Isabella Diana Carol Elizabeth Windsor.
But then I was hoping George would be called DeBrickashaw Hashtag the first.
…is it pronounced that way? isn't that Elise?
Yep. Same pronunciation. Just saying, if you're going with Alice, that's a cool way to pronounce it.
You could also do Alais (with an umlaut over the i) – Ah-LAY-ees…so pretty!
Doutzen has a fantastic body which looks great slim or curvy. And yes she used to be curvier and her body was seriously banging then.
She has a fantastic body which looks great slim or curvy. Yes she used to be curvier and her body was seriously banging then.
Omfg I had that swimsuit, exactly, in like '92 I'm not even joking hand to God.
I really dislike that swimsuit.
I can't decide. There's something cute about the picture, but do I want an animal face on my body that way? I don't think I do.
Her body is to die for…Gorgeous woman.
idgaf, I love one pieces. Especially that one.


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PROTECT YOUR FAMILY AND HOME BY INSTALLING GARAGE DOORS THAT MEET BUILDING CODE WIND SPECIFICATIONS.
Here in Minnesota, we've witnessed wild winds. Trees that are mangled and twisted, roofs that are ripped and ragged, entire vehicles that are lifted and tossed through the air. Winds like that can be devastating.
We all want to feel that we are completely safe in our homes when winds start kicking in. One of the best ways to protect your family from damaging wind is by making sure your garage door is up to code when it comes to wind load requirements. Wind loads are the forces and pressures exerted on a building due to wind. These pressures act both as a positive force, pushing toward the building, as well as a negative force, or suction, pulling away from the building. In order for a garage door to meet the required code, it has to withstand a test pressure equal to 1.5 times the rated design pressure for the door for 10 seconds. In Minnesota, having a garage door that is not designed to sustain 90 mile per hour winds is not only a bad idea, it also doesn't comply with the building code which means your insurance company may have a lot of leeway when it comes to covering wind damage claims.
Your garage entrance is one area where you want to pay special attention to ensure you comply with wind code specifications. One of the easiest ways high-speed, high-pressure wind can penetrate your home is through the widest point of access to your home, the garage door. And your garage door is a lot like a big metal kite on sliding tracks just waiting for the wind to whistle under it and push it up, or worse yet, cause it to buckle and break from intense wind, flying debris or the strain of pressure. If that happens, your entire home becomes vulnerable. The build-up of internal pressure inside your home combined with suction pressure of the storm outside your home, can result in significant damage to your home's internal walls.
How can you prepare your garage door to be more wind-resistant? The answer is pretty simple. Reinforcement and beefing up the basics. Garage doors are made up of large panels held together with a grid of metal channels. By increasing the strength of the grid by incorporating heavier gauge steel channels, brackets and tracks plus adding additional struts, the panels become more rigid and much less likely to buckle and bend under the force of the wind. The door itself also becomes much heavier, ensuring it won't be blown open.
Investing in a door that exceeds the minimum wind-load requirement is an ideal way to ensure that your door will be able to withstand occasional high winds.
Ask your contractor if your garage door is Minnesota State Building Code approved and can withstand 90 mph wind speeds. It should be labeled with a sticker demonstrating compliance with ANSI/DASA 108 for wind and impact resistance.
If you're ever in doubt, call American Door Works for the answers to all your garage door questions.
1.High winds first create pressure against the windward side of the structure.
2.During high wind events, debris can become powerful projectiles that can damage the garage door, reducing the door's ability to protect the home against damaging winds.
3.Pressure increases when the wind moves around the corner and down the side of the building.
4.Garage doors with no reinforcement can buckle under the pressure, giving the high winds access to the interior of the structure.
5.This often results in the roof members and wall panels being blown apart, allowing rain, wind and debris to have easy access inside.


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Perkins: Dolphins should draft Alabama RB Derrick Henry in first round
By Chris Perkins
Sun Sentinel Commentary |
Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins break down the 2016 Dolphins roster with Dave Hyde.
Alabama running back Derrick Henry, the Heisman Trophy winner, has declared himself eligible for the NFL Draft, according to a report. I'd like to see the Dolphins take him with the No. 8 pick.
It's the best thing the Dolphins could do to help quarterback Ryan Tannehill and their struggling offense.
This is a tough choice, because I think defense should be the overall priority in the draft. The Dolphins' defense needs to be rebuilt; the offense only needs to be re-focused.
It's also a tough choice because, according to many draftniks, Ohio State running back Ezekiel Elliott is the best in this class at his position.
In fact, Todd McShay of ESPN has Elliott at No. 13 among all draft prospects; he has Henry at No. 37.
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So, I might change my mind before the draft.
But right now, unpopular as it might be among the early mock drafts, I'd favor a running back in the first round, and Henry, not Elliott, would be my choice.
I know many people subscribe to the thought a tight end is a quarterback's best friend. But I think it's a running game. And with Lamar Miller eligible for free agency, Henry, the hulking, power-running junior, would be the ideal replacement.
And, hey, perhaps Elliott remains the better NFL prospect, so maybe the Dolphins end up drafting the Ohio State standout.
I just happen to like Henry better after watching both players for much of the last two seasons.
I also happen to think upgrading the running game would do more for the offense than trying to "fix" Tannehill, trying to "fix" the offensive line, or trying to get the passing game on par with the NFL's elite passing games.
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At 6-foot-3, 245 pounds, Henry rushed for 2,219 yards and 28 touchdowns this season, including 158 yards and three touchdowns in the national championship victory over Clemson. He would make Tannehill, the offensive line and the passing game look much better.
Admittedly, it's a tough call between him and Elliott (6-0, 225), who rushed for 1,821 yards and 23 touchdowns.
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If you're worried about Henry being worn out, consider this: Elliott, in the last two seasons, has 562 carries, while Henry has 567.
And, no, I'm not swayed by Elliott complaining about the offense and being bitter about not getting the ball after the Buckeyes' loss to Michigan.
ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. has the Dolphins selecting Clemson defensive end Shaq Lawson with the No. 8 pick. I'm OK with that, too.
However, I think the Dolphins should get a fresh start at running back. And right now I'm thinking Henry is the man the Dolphins should target.
Derrick Henry


Last year senior pupils had a memorable visit and talk from the Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental, and many bought copies of his memoir I Was a Boy in Belsen. We hope many have read it in the months since Tomi's powerful talk, and the summer, on holiday with family, may well be the best time to do this: time to count our blessings that we have never had to experience what Tomi did. He writes clearly, directly with without adornment about the Jewish Slovenian experience, and then the horrifying conditions in Belsen itself (the section about the death of his grandmother is particularly heart-breaking). In the earlier pages, describing his rural upbringing, he is more expansive and almost lyrical: this makes the experience of the Holocaust seen by a child all the more devastating.


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The Skull of Pancho Villa and Other Stories: Chicano noir…and more
June 1, 2015 Si Dunn Book review, Book reviews, Books, Fiction, noir, Short Stories, Short Story Collection	Authors, Chicano, Mexican-American
The Skull of Pancho Villa and Other Stories
Arté Público Press – paperback
Seemingly mundane moments in life quickly spin out of control in this engaging collection of 22 short stories. And Denver writer Manuel Ramos frequently comes up with surprising endings for his tales.
Some of his short stories can be labeled "Chicano noir." They get dark and gritty as they move along through the struggles and ragged edges of Mexican-American life in the United States. Meanwhile, other stories in the collection explore different themes, such as the thoughts of a young Mexican-American soldier as he lays dying in Vietnam and what happens when a Mexican-American shoeshine boy gets pulled into a barroom fight and is defended by the writer Jack Kerouac.
Manuel Ramos has won several literary awards and is the author of a number of novels from a variety of publishers. At least one prominent writer who admires his work has labeled Ramos "the godfather of Chicano noir."
His stories, however, are entertaining and easily accessible at a universal level. And he writes with a smooth clarity that looks simple on the page, yet is very difficult for most authors to achieve.
— Si Dunn
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Little Nation and Other Stories: A noteworthy collection with focuses on key Chicano themes – #fiction #bookreview
January 13, 2015 Si Dunn Book review, Book reviews, Books, Fiction, Hispanic, Short Stories, Short Story Collection	Authors, writers, writing
Little Nation and Other Stories
Translated from the Spanish by Adam Spires
Arte Público Press – paperback
At least four key themes infuse the well-written short stories in this important collection: identity, injustice, marginalization, and the Chicano community's seemingly endless search for space it can comfortably call "home." The stories' author, Alejandro Morales, has penned several novels, including River of Angels, and is a professor at the University of California at Irvine.
In an excellent essay that precedes the collection, translator Adam Spires explores both the long writing career of Morales and Morales's strong focus on economic inequality, borders and "the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country–a border culture…."
Spires writes that "nowhere is the economic imbalance more ruthless than at the border itself, where multi-nationals set up their interim maquiladoras to exploit a disadvantaged Mexican workforce. Arguably," Spires contends, "the only thing worse than poverty is poverty surrounded by abundant wealth: high-tech wealth, drug cartel wealth and the alluring Gringo wealth on the other side. The social costs at the margins of the global economy are staggering, and it is here that Morales fixes his gaze and takes up his pen, chronicling the extremes of injustice in a body of work distinguished by its poignant portrayal of spatial dynamics and social disparities."
Morales also is a master at portraying everyday people and situations within a Chicano community in Los Angeles County. Some of his stories are warm and gentle, such as "Mama Concha," in which a young boy enjoys what his grandmother is teaching him about loving the land and the fruits and vegetable it can produce. Other stories in the collection deal with troubling situations. And some deal head-on with shocking violence.
Overall, however, Little Nation and Other Stories is infused with currents of hope for the future of Chicano communities and appreciation for the people who live there.
Solzhenitsyn's 'Apricot Jam and Other Stories' – #bookreview #fiction #Russia – updated
August 31, 2011 September 1, 2011 Si Dunn Authors, Book reviews, Books, Fiction, History, Literature, Publishing, Religion, Russia, Russian, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Uncategorized, United States	Authors, Book reviews, Books, fiction, history, literature, politics, Russian, short stories, writers
Apricot Jam and Other Stories
By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(Counterpoint, $28.00)
A major literary work is now available for readers who relish the works of modern Russian writers, particularly the ones who rebelled against communism's restrictive censorship and social, legal and economic rigidities and achieved international acclaim during the final decades of the Soviet Union.
Apricot Jam and Other Stories, an engrossing collection of eight short stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, has been published by Berkeley, Calif.-based Counterpoint.
Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, primarily on the strength of three novels, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, In The First Circle (better known as The First Circle), and Cancer Ward. These books shone glaring, shocking spotlights on the Gulag, a USSR government agency that operated a brutal, sprawling system of forced labor camps for political prisoners, criminals and others who ran afoul of Soviet laws, officials, informants and secret police.
Significantly, the eight short stories in this 352-page collection are making their first appearance in English. They were initially published in Russia in 1994, after Solzhenitsyn ended years of exile in the West and returned to his native land. He died in 2008.
The title story provides an excellent example of the unusual "binary" writing style that Solzhenitsyn employed in these eight works of short fiction. In "Apricot Jam," the son of a kulak (a relatively affluent peasant) has almost lost everything in his life except the memories of the apricot jam his mother used to make for him before communism and collective agriculture destroyed his family and his farm. He is now nearly starving to death while serving internal exile and doing hard labor in a distant town. In desperation, he writes a letter to a famous Russian writer who has published a book touting that the "meaning of life is labor in a communist society." He humbly begs the famous writer to send him a food parcel, because he is working hard to try to stay alive, yet now nearing death from lack of nourishment.
In the second part of the "Apricot Jam" story, the exile's letter has arrived at the famous writer's elegant dacha outside Moscow. There, the famous writer entertains a professor of cinema, as well as a neighbor, the head of the literary department in the State Publishing House, a man who "held the reins of the whole of literature in his hands…."
In the posh dacha, the men also enjoy some apricot jam, but it is just one minor trapping amid the surrounding opulence as they speak in praise of Comrade Stalin, socialist realism, and how "Creating an art of world significance–that is the task of the writer today." The apricot jam briefly figures into their discussion as a symbol for a type of "amber transparency" that "should be present in literary language, as well."
Soon, the famous writer mentions the unusual letter he has received from the exiled, starving worker. And, as they discuss its text, their final analysis of it is devastating.
In the story "The New Generation," a principled and disciplined engineering professor finally gives in to pleadings by a failing student and hands him a passing grade. The professor is, after all, under orders to "make allowances" for the students now being sent to him from factories, some of whom would be "better off making pots and pans" rather than being forced to become engineers.
Two years later, in the second part of the story's binary structure, the engineering professor is arrested, and his interrogator from the GPU (the State Political Directorate) is none other than the failing student who had talked him into a passing grade. The ex-student cannot undo the professor's arrest, yet he can and does, as a sort of return favor, offer him three grim choices of fates.
Solzhenitsyn served with distinction as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, but was arrested after he wrote a letter that included disparaging remarks about Josef Stalin's leadership of the war effort. The writer spent the next eight years in Soviet labor camps and another three years in internal exile.
Much of his fiction in Apricot Jam and Other Stories draws its creative spark from his grim wartime and Gulag experiences. Yet some of the stories also deal with post-Soviet issues in the times of Yeltsin and Gorbachev. For example, in the concluding story, "Fracture Points," characters face the difficulty of trying to adapt to new freedoms and new economic structures at a time when "[t]he word 'privatize' was as frightening as a sea monster."
If you have never before read any Solzhenitsyn, Apricot Jam and Other Stories can be a good introduction that may inspire you to also delve into his earlier works of fiction, particularly the ones that brought him the Nobel Prize for Literature 41 years ago.
This new book, translated by "TK" and published by Counterpoint, demonstrates once again why Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn continues to deserve his ranking as one of the world's great writers.
Solzhenitsyn's 'Apricot Jam and Other Stories' – #bookreview
June 23, 2011 August 31, 2011 Si Dunn Authors, Book reviews, Books, Fiction, History, Literature, Publishing, Russian, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Uncategorized	Authors, Book reviews, Books, fiction, history, literature, politics, Russian, short stories, writers
Apricot Jam and Other Stories, an engrossing collection of eight short stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, is now available from Berkeley, Calif.-based Counterpoint.
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This ministry trip to Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan provided encouragement and training for roughly 30 Pakistani Christian leaders. The focus was on the use of a fine material known as "Train & Multiply", which had been used for many years in Honduras to train pastors and church planters.
Practical results were that 30 Pakistani Chriastian leaders were coached through principles for church planting movements.
The non-Pakistani workers were provided with complimentary copies of Reproducible Pastoral Training.


Ran across this on Business Insider showing the 15 TOP RANKED smart phones in the world and thought I would pass it on.
Q10 is 15 out of 15? Last, even behind the Fire Phone? #1(iPhone 5S MED but bigger) and #2 (iPhone 5S XL- code name Gumby) are the newest phones with the oldest specs.
Innovation : Bigger is better. Let's just stretch our old phone out as far as we can to keep up with the trend.
It will be find...we'll just say it get better reception that way.
Secret squirrelling with my Q. ?C0001FE5D ?
Yes, we'll at least a Blackberry was in the running. A short time ago the list would have been surly vacant of any BlackBerry model even being listed. #15 is at the end of the ranking list but at least a Blackberry was among the best listing. Guess we should be thankful of just that. I am a z10 owner myself and was still glad to see Q10 listed. Don't get me wrong I love my z10. My contract with AT&T is almost up and will probably stay with my z10 which still looks and works like new. My z10 & I have been through a lot together and getting rid of it would be a hard view choice. WooHooo Blackberry maybe on the way back to the top. Guess we will just have to be hopeful for now. :-) Good comments.. Thanks to all who will or have responded..
Get a Z30! It's way better than the Z10.
Good suggestion but probably the only thing that keeps me from that is if I am not mistaken the z30 doesn't have a end user replaceable battery. Thus, the peek life of the phone is in direct relationship with the battery. Unfortunately, unless you send it off or take it somewhere to have it technically replaced. Something I don't have the proper equipment or skill to attempt myself. :-) . z30 has a lot of good qualities that however gain my deep respect. Thanks for your input response and great comment.
When 10.3 for Q10 will be officially pushing?


The electricity utilized by the CEMOBIL project is generated entirely from renewable energy sources, which goes a long way to show that eMobility can make a valuable contribution to climate protection efforts, as well as to efforts to meet Kyoto standards.
In all, the city will introduce 64 eVehicles (44 eCars, 10 eBikes, 10 eScooters), one eBus, and one solar-powered boat that travels along the Lendkanal. "Lebensland Kärnten" will be providing the required infrastructure by installing 50 electric charging points in the Klagenfurt area.
Another 50 charging points are slated to be built by private entities (e.g. housing associations, shopping malls, etc.). All eVehicles will be available for testing purposes to private individuals, public institutions, driving schools, and taxi-cab companies.


The College has a limited number of £5,000 International Academic Excellence Scholarships, awarded competitively according to academic merit.
Scholarships will be awarded as a reduction in the international student fee and will be applied following successful registration on an eligible Masters programme.
This scholarship may not be held in conjunction with any other College scholarship with the exception of the English Language Scholarship. In the event of a candidate being eligible for more than one award the one of higher value will be honoured.
Applications will only be considered from applicants who have received an offer of a place on one of the eligible programmes.
Once you have received an offer, please email Tammy Retallack at pgfunding@emps.ex.ac.uk who will send you details on how to apply.
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Marcos Jr. winning Philippine election misinformation, say fact-checkers
Published March 23, 2022 5:59pm
Philippine social media has exploded with support for presidential election favorite Ferdinand Marcos Junior, driven by a massive misinformation campaign aimed at revamping the family brand and smearing his top rival.
False and misleading claims have flooded Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter in the lead-up to the May 9 polls, pounding Filipinos with a relentless barrage of propaganda on platforms where they rank among the heaviest users in the world.
Voter surveys show the son and namesake of the country's former dictator heading towards a landslide victory -- the endgame of a decades-long, well-funded effort to return the family to the presidential palace they fled in disgrace in 1986.
Critics and opponents accuse Marcos Jr. and his supporters of trying to portray his father's two-decade rule as a golden age of peace and prosperity while whitewashing human rights abuses and the plundering of state coffers.
But the effort to make over the family's image appears to be translating into votes among the largely young electorate and those nostalgic for the Marcos years.
Al Contrata, 25, was born a decade after a military-backed popular uprising toppled the dictator from power and chased the family into exile in the United States.
Facebook posts about the elder Marcos have persuaded him to vote for his son.
"I learned about the infrastructure that was built during the time of president Marcos. Since then, I saw him in a positive light," said Contrata, a delivery driver near Manila, who voted for President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016.
"I think maybe Bongbong Marcos can continue what his father started," referring to the candidate by his nickname.
'Troll armies'
Election-related misinformation has focused primarily on the two presidential frontrunners, Marcos Jr. and incumbent Vice President Leni Robredo, analysis by AFP's Fact Check team and local fact-checking alliance Tsek.ph shows.
"Data show Robredo reeling from preponderantly negative messages and Marcos Jr. enjoying overwhelming positive ones," said Maria Diosa Labiste and Yvonne Chua of Tsek.ph.
They said the trend was reminiscent of the flood of posts about Duterte and his opponents in 2016 that were seen as key to his win.
Marcos Jr. draws support from the family's northern stronghold as well as his alliance with vice presidential candidate and first daughter Sara Duterte.
But social media's influence is critical.
One major battleground is Facebook, the most popular platform in the Philippines and used by most of its 76 million internet users.
Since Marcos Jr.'s narrow loss to Robredo in the 2016 vice presidential race, pro-Marcos pages have pumped out misinformation about everything from electoral fraud and the family's wealth to economic achievements during his father's rule.
Robredo, who trailed Marcos by 45 percentage points in the latest poll by Pulse Asia Research, has also been a major target.
Among the dozens of claims about the Marcoses debunked by AFP is the popular assertion that the patriarch made his fortune when he was a lawyer via a massive gold payment from a client.
AFP also fact-checked dozens of false or misleading claims about Robredo, including doctored photos and videos that aim to portray her as stupid, unfriendly towards voters or even a communist.
Activity has only intensified ahead of the 2022 elections, drowning out support for Robredo.
In the past year, there have been nearly 75 million interactions -- reactions, comments or shares -- with posts on more than a hundred pro-Marcos pages with at least 3,000 followers, according to data from social media monitoring platform CrowdTangle.
That compares with just over 39 million interactions for the same number of pages promoting Robredo.
When Robredo announced her presidential bid on October 7, interactions on pro-Marcos pages spiked to more than 1.8 million -- about nine times the daily average.
Pro-Robredo pages received 487,000 interactions.
"It's hard for the other campaigns to compete with the Marcos machinery online, because this is six years in the making," said Cleve Arguelles, an assistant lecturer in political science at De La Salle University in Manila.
"They've really worked hard to dominate these spaces and they're reaping the benefits of investing early in troll armies and building these online communities."
It is not possible to tell how many of the pages were created by real supporters or the candidates.
In January, Twitter suspended more than 300 accounts reportedly linked to supporters of Marcos Jr, which the social media giant said had violated its rules on manipulation and spam.
Marcos Jr has denied using trolls.
In an interview with the One PH channel broadcast on Monday, he accused fact-checkers of sometimes having "their own agenda" and inventing quotes that they attributed to him.
"For me, I am the victim of fake news, because there are many things that were said about me that are not true," Marcos Jr said.
'Long-term investment'
Marcos Jr.'s social media strength is the result of a "long-term investment" to rehabilitate the family brand, said Jonathan Corpus Ong, a disinformation researcher at the University of Massachusetts and Harvard University.
After the fallen dictator's death in 1989, his heirs returned home and began their remarkable political comeback, getting elected to public office while distancing themselves from their past.
The Marcoses have previously denied local media reports that they asked the now-defunct British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica -- at the centre of a Facebook data scandal in the past decade -- to "rebrand" the family.
Members of the clan are often portrayed as victims in misleading posts claiming they receive unfair treatment from mainstream media -- echoing claims by former US president Donald Trump.
Those messages resonated with Nelson Sy, 59, who manages two pro-Marcos groups on Facebook.
Sy, who sells imported cosmetics and perfumes in Manila, admitted becoming an "even more avid supporter" of Marcos Jr after seeing posts that "attacked" him.
"You know what they say, 'the more they attack, the more we multiply'," said Sy, who rejects fraud accusations against the Marcoses.
To combat misinformation, Facebook said it was working with the Commission on Elections to "connect people with accurate election information" as well as supporting fact-checking activities and investing in education programmes.
But Maria Ressa, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist and co-founder of local news site Rappler, said the platform could do more to "help bring down the lies".
"You cannot have integrity of elections if you don't have integrity of facts," she said.
"If they make the facts debatable, they are essentially... dooming our nation."—Agence France-Presse
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"Every dog gets a prize," said Father Peter DeSanctis, pastor of Our Lady of the Isle, who walked around the park greeting pet-owners and sprinkling their dogs with holy water.
Isabel Salvaterra and her Italian greyhound Odie.
"We sprinkle holy water on the pets asking the Lord's help for them. The blessing directly applies to the pet owners, so it's intercessory prayer — 'to intercede' means 'to ask for,'" he added.
The event is ecumenical, open to both members and non-members of Our Lady of the Isle and the community at large. It was organized by parishioners Betsy Auricchio and Bill Seeberg, who explained that the blessing ceremony marks The Feast of Saint Francis, who is the patron saint of ecology and animals. It is traditionally held on October 4, but Our Lady of the Isle holds it in July to accommodate the people who come to Shelter Island in the summer.
For many pet-owners, the blessing was a family affair. The Williamson family's three-year-old Italian greyhound, Leo, was "very nervous" for his first blessing.
"He's a pretty good boy, but we're hoping he'll be a better boy now," Mr. Williamson said .
Marie Buscemi, a longtime parishioner who is "not related to Steve," brought Antonio, a pure chihuahua rescue, for his fourth blessing. He hoped to make another go at the prize for "Best Behaved," which he has won in past years, according to Ms. Buscemi.
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Gunners remain up for the cup
ARSENAL duo Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas targeted FA Cup glory after their third-round replay win at Leeds.
Nasri's early goal set Arsenal on their way to a 3-1 victory completed by Bacary Sagna and substitute Robin van Persie, despite Bradley Johnson's blockbuster for Leeds.
And the France international said: "We wanted to start really strongly. We scored after five minutes and tried to play our game even though the pitch was a little difficult.
"We want to win every competition and this cup is really important to us."
The Gunners remain in contention for success in four different competitions this season and club captain Fabregas echoed his midfield partner's sentiments.
"As Samir said, we want to go all the way in every competition," he added.
"We didn't know too much about (Leeds) but they played very, very well at the Emirates.
"But tonight we were much superior to them. They were dangerous for a spell after they scored but Arsenal played fantastic football."
Johnson said: "We are disappointed but we gave them a good run for their money again and we'll take a lot of positives from it."
On his goal – lashed into the top corner from 25 yards – he continued: "I've been told if I get the opportunity, shoot because they know I can do that – I do it every day in training."