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USA — Wide-eyed, enthusiastic and with a slight fear of the unknown, 15 local high school students assembled at a forest location, about to embark on their first hands-on firefighting exercise.
The fire exercise took place April 27 on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest near Silverthorn Marina on the Pit River arm of Shasta Lake, and was a collaborative effort between Bob Price, director of the Shasta Union High School District Fire Technology Careers Program, and Forest Battalion Chief Walter Bunt.
"We often need temporary firefighters," Bunt said. "When Mr. Price approached me about putting together an exercise, I thought it was a great idea. During the exercise, the students will learn firefighting basics for wildfires."
Bunt, who administers the fire training for the forest, tailored the exercise to simulate activities during an actual wildfire. The students learned how to identify and watch out for hazards, fire line construction, fire shelter deployment and how to effectively communicate during such an incident.
Price, whose career stretched over 30 years as firefighter and as an operations chief for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, started the high school fire program in fall 2010.
"I think it's important for students to learn skills that are necessary for them to enter the workforce," he said. "The program provides them with the skills to become entry-level firefighters for the Forest Service. It is crucial that they have hands-on experience."
There are 58 students in the two sections of the program. Fire 1 is for high school juniors and Fire 2 is for high school seniors.
With heavy backpacks and tools in hand, the students chiseled the ground. With each bead of sweat another foot of fire line was cleared.
The reasons that motivated students to join the rigorous activities of wildland firefighting varied.
"Somebody threw a cigarette into the field. Soon the field burst into flames and the fire raged toward my uncle's house," said Jeff Evans, who came to take part in the exercise. "I was only 12 and I was scared. I tried to help out with a garden hose. Then the firefighters came and I appreciated them a lot because without them my uncle would have lost his house."
For student Hannah Jasperse, keeping her stepfather's legacy is important.
"He was a firefighter for many years and was recently killed by a vehicle," she said. "He took me to the fire station all the time and showed me the equipment and I like it a lot. He encouraged me to take firefighting classes and is my inspiration to move forward."
Felicia Anthony had a different reason. She wasn't planning to become a firefighter altogether, but changed her mind while in the academy.
"I wanted to be a firefighter when I was little, but lost interest in it," Anthony said. "I was going to join the Navy and I took the fire classes to get me in shape. I ended liking it so much so I stayed. I plan to become a paramedic."
When asked how the exercise went, Price said: "It was an incredible success. The students learned so much and got to experience the physical aspect of firefighting."
There were some surprises. "A couple of students who wanted to pursue a firefighting career said it was too much work, while others who were not sure about pursuing firefighting careers said they loved it," he said.

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McKenzie, Neiheiser, Dotson, Winger Win Reutimann Memorial Showdowns At Volusia
Story By: JORDAN DELUCIA / DIRTCAR – BARBERVILLE, FL – In a field 54 cars deep, 20 of the best DIRTcar UMP Modified drivers at Volusia Speedway Park are now locked into Saturday night's main event – the ninth annual Emil & Dale Reutimann Memorial.
Four individual, 15-lap Showdown Features hit the track Friday night after a round of Qualifying laps, locking the top-five finishers into the Feature and taking the top-two to the redraw on Saturday.
A matured track record was broken and four different home states went to Victory Lane, setting the stage for a redraw, Last Chance Showdown and 50-lap, $7,000-to-win Feature Saturday night.
Showdown Feature #1 – Zeke McKenzie
He's been a count-on driver for February's DIRTcar Nationals roster. But this fall, Zeke McKenzie decided to make the trip southward once more from his home in Warsaw, IN, for his first appearance in the Reutimann Memorial, and it's already paid dividends.
McKenzie made the most of his quick Qualifying lap, topping all of Group A and going on to dominate Showdown Feature #1 by leading all 15 laps to cash-in on the $500 bonus.
"I'm just so happy for the opportunity," McKenzie said. "John Carpenter gave me the opportunity to drive his car in the last few weeks, and we work really well together."
He wheeled the Minnesota team-owned car to Volusia Victory Lane for the first time in his career after getting the jump on the start, never once faltering on the restarts. He held off a hungry Brandon Kinzer in the final laps to bag the victory and a spot in Saturday's redraw.
Showdown Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 24-Zeke McKenzie[1]; 2. 18X-Brandon Kinzer[3]; 3. 33M-Jeff Mathews[5]; 4. 2J-Troy Johnson[2]; 5. 6B-Dave Baldwin[8]; 6. 117-Clinton Gillen[11]; 7. (DNF) 97-Mitch Thomas[4]; 8. (DNF) 54-Jason Jack[6]; 9. (DNF) 33-Kenny Mihalik[7]; 10. (DNF) 17-Patrick Vareika[14]; 11. (DNF) 4M-Tim Monroe[9]; 12. (DNF) 34-Rob Giffen[12]; 13. (DNF) 12-Robert Gast[10]; 14. (DNS) 57P-Zach Permann
Showdown Feature #2 – Todd Neiheiser
Todd Neiheiser did something all 53 of his opponents could not Friday night – represent the home state of Florida in Victory Lane.
Neiheiser, the UMP Modified veteran racer from Panama City, FL, bagged his first career Showdown Feature victory leading flag-to-flag, ripping the high side around the half-mile oval and fending off pressure from Nevin Gainey behind him in the final laps.
"It was pretty easy," Neiheiser said. "I went around the high side. I was going to stay up there because it looked pretty good."
Gainey started fourth and fell back to sixth in the early going but climbed his way back to second in only six laps. He spent remainder of the race chasing down Neiheiser but was unable to get the momentum necessary on the bottom to make the pass and settled for second, punching his ticket into Saturday's redraw with Neiheiser.
Showdown Feature 2 (15 Laps): 1. 72-Todd Neiheiser[1]; 2. 17G-Nevin Gainey[4]; 3. 205-Travis Varnadore[5]; 4. 09-Michael Leach[2]; 5. 24B-Dillon Buhr[7]; 6. 00B-Buzzie Reutimann[8]; 7. 2A-Matt Altiers[3]; 8. 23B-Ethan Boomsma[10]; 9. 11Z-Zane Oedewaldt[11]; 10. (DNF) 3S-Josh Sanford[6]; 11. (DNF) 60-Jim Manka[9]; 12. (DNS) 27G-Jason Garver; 13. (DNS) 7G-Seth Geary
Showdown Feature #3 – Ethan Dotson
Ethan Dotson turned several heads across the DIRTcar UMP Modified world this year and may have turned a few more Friday night, breaking an 11-year-old track record in Qualifying and going on to a 4.5-second victory in the third Showdown Feature.
The first-year UMP Modified talent from Bakersfield, CA, had never turned a single lap around the half-mile facility before practice on Thursday night. His second laps around on Friday night proved to be the fastest turned in a UMP Modified in track history, smashing Clint Bowyer's previous record from 2011 by almost a half-second at 17.031.
"Breaking the track record is pretty cool, I've never done that before," Dotson said. "Crate racing my whole life, you don't get a lot of chances to have a track record. That was cool to be able to do that, especially at this place – holds a lot of Mod races."
Armed with a starting spot inside Row 1 for his Showdown, Dotson took off in a hurry, opening up a near six-second advantage on second-place Chris Arnold before the race's first caution just past halfway. That did not rattle the 23-year-old, however, as he took off again on the restart and towed out to a 4.5-second gap on Arnold before the checkered flag, punching his ticket into Saturday's redraw.
"The redraw is what it is – if you can't win from the first few rows, you probably weren't good enough to win anyway," Dotson said. "I think if we just go, and draw second row honestly, and are able to keep a good pace with them, and not wreck in lapped traffic, I think we've got a good shot at it."
Showdown Feature 3 (15 Laps): 1. 00-Ethan Dotson[1]; 2. 99A-Chris Arnold[2]; 3. 51-Dalton Lanich[4]; 4. 00D-David Reutimann[3]; 5. 64-Austin Sanders[5]; 6. 2-Joshua Kunstbeck[6]; 7. 18-Eric Moon[7]; 8. Z06-Garret Stewart[11]; 9. 99R-Ryan Rackley[8]; 10. 2C-Ronnie Chance[9]; 11. 29C-Joey Cotterman[10]; 12. 27-Jason Floyd[12]; 13. 3-Tony Campbell[13]; 14. (DNF) 11P-Charlie Phillips[14]
Showdown Feature #4 – Ashton Winger
Not many dirt track racers in the country can say they've won in their first competitive start in a UMP Modified, but Ashton Winger now can.
The 22-year-old Super Late Model regular from Senoia, GA, recently teamed up with Florida racing veteran and former Reutimann Memorial winner Jeff Mathews and decided to give the Modified a try for the occasion. His debut went well, Qualifying sixth-fast in his group and driving from third to the win in the final Showdown Feature to stake his claim into the big show Saturday.
"These cars are a ton of fun to drive, and there's a lot of awesome people that have come by and helped me," Winger said. "Jeff's done an awesome job. I've got my cousin Will here, Wyatt, Bob's been working his ass off. Nick [Hoffman] has come down and been a big help."
NASCAR Cup Series regular Justin Haley jumped out to the early lead with Devin Dixon and Winger in tow before breaking a distributor on Lap 2, cutting the power to his Elite Chassis No. 99 as he slowed to a stop and brought out the caution. This led to a mad dash into Turn 1 on the ensuing restart between Winger and Dixon.
"I was kinda focused on racing Devin, and I actually felt like we were pretty even, and then I looked up and saw Justin broke," Winger said. "We had that restart, and I think Devin just made a mistake getting into Turn 1 – I don't think I was a whole lot better than him."
Dixon appeared to bobble slightly on the high side, which opened the door just enough for Winger to slip by with the lead on the bottom. It was the move that made him $500 richer and a first-time winner in a DIRTcar UMP Modified, as he led every lap the rest of the way.
Showdown Feature 4 (15 Laps): 1. 33W-Ashton Winger[3]; 2. 2D-Devin Dixon[2]; 3. 15-Hunter Gustafson[5]; 4. 25-Jason Altiers[4]; 5. J82-Treb Jacoby[8]; 6. 14-Mavrick Varnadore[7]; 7. M41-Steve Maisel[9]; 8. 57-Fletcher Mason[12]; 9. 80-Paul Shead[10]; 10. (DNF) 3D-Makayla Tyrrell[6]; 11. (DNF) 8-Trevor Senterfitt[13]; 12. (DNF) 99-Justin Haley[1]; 13. (DNS) 222-Cory Hupp
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THE FIRST ANGRY RAYS OF the sun—which, startlingly enough, still rose in the east at 24 hour intervals—pierced the lacy tops of Atlantic combers and touched thousands of sleeping Americans with unconscious fear, because of their unpleasant similarity to the rays from World War III's atomic bombs.
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Vietnam further strengthens music copyright protection
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Vietnam has ensured stronger protection of music copyright, reducing violations and bringing bigger amounts of money to authors, local media reported on Wednesday.
"I think protecting music copyright in the past few years has helped considerably to reduce violations, created trust among authors encouraging them to compose, and created a healthy and fair playground bringing profits to both creators and users," daily newspaper Vietnam News quoted composer Dinh Trung Can, general director of the Vietnam Center for Protecting Music Copyright, as saying.
Over the past 16 years, the center has used the money collected to pay back to authors. It pays Vietnamese and international artists every quarter.
"In our first year in 2002, we got only 78 million Vietnamese dong (3,400 U.S. dollars) from copyright. In 2017, we got 200 billion Vietnamese dong (8.8 million U.S. dollars)," he said.
The number of the center's members has also increased over the years, together with that of music works added to the center's stock. Nearly 4,000 authors have registered for the center's membership from the initial number of 274 composers.
The center also acts as a representative of foreign composers in Vietnam to manage and utilize copyright in the country.
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Samba is a implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol that is used by Windows devices to provide shared access to files, printers, and serial ports etc. There is a comprehensive Wikipedia page) about Samba and its capabilities.
This page will explain how to use a subset of the Samba system to 'mount' a shared folder on a Windows device so it appears on your Raspberry Pi, or to share a folder on your Raspberry Pi so it can be accessed by a Windows client.
By default, Raspbian does not include CIFS/Samba support, but this can easily be added. The following commmands will install all the required components for using Samba as a server or a client.
First, you need to share a folder on your Windows device. This is quite a convoluted process!
You can share any folder you want, but for this example, simply create a folder called share.
Create the folder share on your desktop.
Right-click on the new folder, and select Properties.
The folder should now be shared.
On Windows 10 there is a Sharing Wizard that helps with some of these steps.
**Mounting*** in Linux is the process of attaching a folder to a location, so firstly we need that location.
Now, we need to mount the remote folder to that location. The remote folder is the host name or IP address of the Windows PC, and the share name used when sharing it. We also need to provide the Windows username that will be used to access the remote machine.
You should now be able to view the content of the Windows share on your Raspberry Pi.
Firstly, create a folder to share. This example creates a folder called shared in the home folder of the current user, and assumes the current user is pi.
Now we need to tell Samba to share this folder, using the Samba configuration file.
In the same file, find the workgroup line, and if necessary, change it to the name of the workgroup of your local Windows network.
That should be enough to share the folder. On your Windows device, when you browse the network, the folder should appear and you should be able to connect to it.


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Unemployment in the U.S. sank to 4.3% last month, nearly half its level just five years ago. Millions more Americans are hard at work, but which jobs are growing the fastest?
Forbes looked at data from the U.S. Current Population Survey, a project co-led by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau, to identify the fastest-growing roles. We compared 2016 with 2015 to understand the biggest winners.
To see the 10 fastest-growing jobs, open the gallery below.
Gallery: The Fastest Growing Jobs In America
Break out your hard hat — construction laborer was the fastest-growing position, expanding by 152,000 jobs to employ 1.8 million Americans last year. Meanwhile, the total value of U.S. construction projects swelled by $52 billion to $1.16 trillion. If you're interested in becoming a construction laborer, formal education typically isn't required. But high school classes in math can be helpful, and some people attend trade schools or community colleges for additional training, according to the BLS. Construction laborers earn $32,230 in median pay, and 97% of Americans who work in the industry are men.
Personal care aid was the second-fastest growing role, climbing 145,000 jobs to hit 1.4 million last year. The aging U.S. population has sparked strong demand for this job, and it's a field that the government expects to grow by 26% between 2014 and 2024, a much faster pace than that of the average American gig (7%). Median pay for personal care aids is $21,920, although earnings vary widely depending on where you live, as is the case for almost every job. Like construction, you won't need a formal education to become a personal care aid, although some employers may prefer candidates with high school diplomas, the BLS says. Women dominate this field, holding 77% of positions in personal care and service occupations.
Food preparation workers came in third, gaining 142,000 jobs and reaching a milestone — the industry now has one million Americans on its payroll. Other big winners include software developers (applications and system software), which jumped 130,000 jobs to reach 1.5 million workers; registered nurses, which now employ a whopping 3.1 million Americans; and customer service representatives, a job that 2.4 million Americans hold.
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Good morning. The true picture of Omicron's spread in Australia is becoming clearer as New South Wales joins other states in recording rapid tests results, Prince Andrew fails in his bid to have a sexual abuse lawsuit dismissed, and Novak Djokovic faces serious consequences for his actions after testing positive for Covid in December.
The Omicron wave has been more damaging for business than lockdown, Melbourne business owners have calculated, with the absence of state or federal sustain exacerbating Covid-related staff shortages. On the retail and hospitality strip Chapel Street, 35% of the 2,200 staff employed have lost shifts while either sick or isolating, prompting business owners to call for a return of the $750-a-week disaster payments. Across the nation, businesses are temporarily closing as food shortages continue and music festivals are cancelled. Aged care providers have said family members have been providing basic care sets due to staff shortages, with Covid outbreaks in at the minimum 495 facilities nationally. Rates of hospitalisation have hit record highs, prompting doctors to encourage mild symptom sufferers to keep at home. It comes as NSW prepares for a huge jump in its Covid figures, with more than 50,000 positive rapid tests already registered after the online system was launched yesterday.
Prince Andrew faces a damaging, high-profile court case, after a New York estimate quashed his lawyers' attempts to have Virginia Giuffre's sexual abuse lawsuit against him thrown out. The Duke of York's legal team had attempted to argue that a 2009 settlement between Giuffre and Jeffrey Epstein shielded the duke from the lawsuit, but estimate Lewis Kaplan ruled the case against the prince could proceed. Analysts say it's "a devastating blow" for the Duke of York, and by association, the royal family. Prince Andrew faces giving evidence and undergoing cross-examination over his association with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and sex offender Epstein, unless an out-of-court settlement is reached.
Novak Djokovic could confront a fine or already prison in Serbia after his admission that he broke isolation while he had Covid last month, lawyers have said. The world No 1 male tennis player is nevertheless waiting for the immigration minister, Alex Hawke, to decide whether to deport him. Djokovic on Wednesday acknowledged that he attended a newspaper interview and photoshoot in Belgrade on 18 December, just after he was alerted to his positive Covid test. The player also blamed "human error" by his sustain team for a mistake in his immigration paperwork, in a statement which has raised further questions. Lawyers in Serbia told local reporters that breaking the country's strict isolation rules was an offence and unprotected to a fine or prison sentence of up to three years – although community service was more likely.
Michaelia Cash's department says the religious discrimination bill does not affect the operation of the Sex Discrimination Act but that it 'would allow a religious school to consider a person's religious beliefs about issues such as sexuality'. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Michaelia Cash's department has defended religious schools' right to sack teachers for their views on sexuality and appeared to confirm that safeguards for gay students will be delayed until after the religious discrimination bill.
Former MP Tony Windsor has backed the request by traditional owners that the New South Wales government protect holy sites on land sold back to farmers after a campaign by the Gomeroi people prevented Chinese mining company Shenhua from mining the character.
A Perth magistrate has thrown out a case against an Extinction Rebellion activist, charged with aiding and abetting activists who used washable chalk to write messages on a suburban bridge. Human Rights Watch called the actions of police in the case "excessive and overzealous".
Boris Johnson has apologised for attending a lockdown-busting party in Downing Street in May 2020, claiming he believed it was a "work event". Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images
Boris Johnson is facing calls from his own party to step down as UK chief minister, after he admitted, via a carefully worded statement, to having attended a Downing Street party during lockdown, believing it was a "work event".
Nato's secretary general has warned of "a real risk for a new armed conflict in Europe", after talks between Russian, US, and Nato delegates ending without progress over the Ukraine crisis. EU dignitaries meanwhile have complained of being "deliberately excluded" from the talks.
An 80-year-old Palestinian man, detained and handcuffed during an Israeli raid, has been found dead. The body of Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad was found with a plastic zip-tie nevertheless around one wrist, but the Israeli military says he was alive when their soldiers released him.
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"It's almost impossible to crowbar other people into doing what we think they should." Faced with three people locked into "or else" propositions, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith recommends turning the other cheek. "Sometimes the parts of our lives we mess up in are the ones where we never thought we could do well: 'I'm just like this.' It takes real energy and self possession to break irresponsible habits – I surprise if hearing 'you are up to this task' might fuel him more than 'you aren't and you should be'".
"When covering the economy at the moment, it is best to remember the old joke that if you're not confused, it is because you're not paying attention." Between the pandemic madness, historic trend disruption, and partisan spin, it's hard to make top or tail of most present economic indicators, Greg Jericho explains. "So how is the economy going? In reality we don't really know – nothing is as it usually is, nor as we can expect it to be in the future."
"Amid a flurry of data breaches, password leaks and Malware text scams last year, many of us have become more aware of the need to obtain our digital information." So how to navigate endless, monotonous requests for rare alphabetical and numerical combinations? As Rafqa Touma writes, it's time to embrace the era of the password manager: "the trusty vault of codes long forgotten".
As Feather Thompson recounts, when her husband Merv's distributed ashes kept washing back in at the beach "it was clear [he] didn't want to go." A sailor, and Thompson's companion of 60 years, connection with the sea always brought back fond memories of Merv, she tells Christine Retschlag.
Revisited: the regent honeyeater's quest for love. With only a few hundred left in the wild, researchers made a startling discovery about the regent honeyeater – it was mimicking other birds, but had forgotten its own song. On this episode of complete Story, ecosystem reporter Graham Readfearn examines the campaign to help them sing again.
Revisited: Could bringing back its love song save one of Australia's rarest songbirds?
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Mitchell Starc has 52 day-night Test wickets but has only once before managed to make it though a five-match Test series. Photograph: Steve Bell/Getty Images
It's been a bruising Ashes schedule in which the walking wounded almost outnumber the fit. But as numerous Australians and Englishmen await nervous selection chats, as Geoff Lemon writes, headaches over Mitchell Starc's selection rule the line.
The African Cup of Nations has been engulfed by farce, with a Zambian referee incorrectly blowing complete-time on a match between Tunisia and Mali, twice. Tunisia's coach claims his players were already in post-match ice baths before being recalled to the pitch.
Archaeologists have handed down a scathing assessment of the heritage report filed as part of a $1bn proposal to raise the wall of Warragamba Dam, the Sydney Morning Herald reports, calling the work "manifestly inadequate" in meeting Aboriginal heritage expectations. A permanent relaxation of visa regulations will allow 400,000 foreign students to work additional hours, according to the Financial Review. The move is designed to help ease Covid-19 related labour shortages. And, the mastermind behind an alleged $150m phone text scam in the US has pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal that could see him serve his jail time in Australia, the West Australian writes.
The draw for the Australian Open will be conducted on Thursday at 3pm, AEDT.
The religious discrimination bill will go before a public hearing of the human rights committee.
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What's the worst moment during a blind date you can remember? For one woman in China, a break decision for the city of Zhengzhou to go into lockdown has meant her date has not however ended. And while her daily video diaries have become viral sensations, the additional time together hasn't seen love bloom, with the woman, Wang, describing her would-be paramour as "as mute as a wooden mannequin", and his cooking skills as "average".
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Our new series of cycle maps of the National Cycle Network, produced in collaboration with Sustrans, has now reached the Midlands., Four new maps cover from the Welsh borders in the West to the cities of the East Midlands in the east. The series now reaches from Cornwall to Nottingham – the most comprehensive set of cycle maps since the boom days of cycling in the 1950s.
We have also reprinted new editions of the Cornwall and Somerset Levels maps as the first editions in these areas had sold out. The Thames Valley and Severn and Thames maps have already been reprinted.
The new maps are: Herefordshire, Worcestershire & North Gloucestershire; Warwickshire and the South Midlands; East Midlands and Shropshire, Staffordshire and the Black Country. Collectively they cover some of the best cycling to be had in the country, with much of the network easily accessible from the region's main urban areas.
The pocket-sized maps at a scale of 1:100, 000 are proving very popular and together with Sustrans we have plans to complete national coverage by the end of 2015.
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Could you post some examples of what the mapping looks like please. Most interested to see / get one these for Lancashire when you get this far North.
Hello, thanks for the comment. We have an example of the mapping on our website. Follow this link http://fourpointmapping.co.uk/shop/shop/maps/cornwall-cycle-map/ and under the coverage map there is link you can click which will show you an example. Hope this helps and we hope to get up that way soon as we are planning on doing nationwide coverage.
Hello Elizabeth. You can purchase these maps from the Sustrans shop.


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Enigmatic Episodes – The Philadelphia Experiment
Enigmatic Episodes looks at the mysteries and urban legends that I've found on the internet and finds out more about them. Are they real? Could there be a cover up? What monster may live on, in or outside our Earth? Are the Aliens watching us?
As described, the Philadelphia experiment was alleged to be a first attempt at applying cloaking technology back in 1943. As the story claims USS Eldridge was said to completely disappear and when it re-appeared crewmen reported trauma and some having partly re-materialised within the fabric of the ship.
A detailed account of this an be found here:
The Philadelphia Experiment
This story is believed to be a hoax, which originated from de-gaussing experiments performed on the USS Eldridge. De-gaussing the Eldridge would meant magnetic mines would not have been attracted to the ships hull. It's also believed the stories may have in part come from corona experiments carried out on the USS Timmerman, but neither of these experiments were claiming to be able to achieve the feats that this story claims.
No-one had that kind of technology, to test Einsteins unified field theory way back in the 1940's… Did they? There are many holes in this story. If you wanted to run this kind of experiment why would you use a ship full of men as well to witness this? The US Navy was able to explain the ship's movements and were able to explain that USS Eldridge was able to travel from Philadelphia to Norfolk and back again in a single day, where merchant ships could not.
The chances are this story is fake, but what if it wasn't? What if this was done and the crew members that have reported the facts have been discredited. This kind of experiment is not one that the instigators would want broadcast, especially at the time as they throw the enemy off the truth.
What do you think? Was the USS Eldridge a huge unified field theory experiment? If, no matter how unlikely there was something going on will we know the truth? What about the men you are said to have partially materialised int the ship's bulkhead – what became of them?
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I suppose it's remotely possible but the trouble with conspiracy theories like this one is that they require the complete silence of two cities, a ship's crew, the families of the dead crew members AND the entire science staff involved in such a project and all their related support personnel.
This is where I struggle with pretty much every conspiracy story I hear. The people that would need to be silenced are too many.
Yep. Exactly.
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Am I really powerless to stop my loved one's drug use?
There is nothing that makes a person feel more helpless than watching a loved one suffer from drug addiction, especially when it seems they don't want help. Al-Anon teaches that we are powerless over alcoholism and while that may be true to some extent, there are steps we can take that will help an addict in the long-run, and may even lead them to get the help they so desperately need.
There's a widely held belief that people with substance use disorders need to "hit bottom" before they are willing to seek treatment. Unfortunately, loved ones can actually prevent addicts from experiencing the negative consequences necessary for them to reach that point. This is called "enabling" and it can take many forms. If you have found yourself covering for your addicted loved one when they can't make it into work, or picking them up from the bar when they are too drunk to make it home, or explaining away their behavior to your kids, then you are enabling them to continue using.
The good thing about being a loved one in an addict's life is that you can actually bring their bottom "up" by stepping back and allowing consequences to take their natural course. In the book, "Boundaries" by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend, there are some ideas which can help you navigate the treacherous waters of truly helping an addict begin their journey toward recovery.
Sometimes, experiencing well-deserved karma is a good thing. There is a law of "sowing and reaping" Cloud and Townsend say that all of us live out. It is especially important to allow this sowing and reaping process to be happening in the life of your loved one. Don't get in the way. If they lose their job for being late or showing up drunk or high, then so be it. Those are consequences that can help that person get in touch with their addiction. If they get drunk at a party, let them know you don't intend on getting into the car with a drunk person, then take a cab home with their money.
If you have a son or daughter who is using and doesn't have a job or isn't paying rent, then it may be time that you show them the door. Give them the addresses of some homeless shelters. This may be the very thing that helps them to sober up. Yes, it is difficult and painful and it may not work, but enabling them to continue in their addiction is worse. We can talk to addicts until we are blue in the face and this will not matter to them, only when they receive some actual negative consequences for their behavior will they wake up and smell the coffee.
One of the most loving actions I ever saw a parent take was when this man's daughter was sent to jail because of drug use. He could easily have bailed her out, but instead, brought her a recovery book and a toothbrush and said, "I love you, but this is the best place for you right now." She is sober today.
One thing you can expect when you allow natural consequences is your loved one's anger towards you, especially if you have previously been enabling their behavior. This is unfortunate, but normal. The important thing is for you to not retaliate. Otherwise, they will just blame their use on their "crazy" spouse or parent. What you can do is empathize with them that negative consequences are difficult and ask them if they are ready to get help with their problem.
Finally, it is important to remember what real love is. Real love is not rescuing the addict from pain if that pain is a natural consequence to their behavior. People learn good life lessons when they reap what they sow. Hitting bottom is possible before that bottom is death, and not getting in the way of that process is the most loving thing you can do for your loved one.


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Mark Steven Greenberg was born October 19, 1962 in Rochester, NY to Eugene and Marion Greenberg. Brother to Linda and Joel Greenberg, Mark strove to make his family proud in everything he did. He graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and came to faith in Yeshua (Jesus) shortly after meeting his wife Daniah in 1988. Married to Daniah in 1989, Mark quickly became a pillar of his community as an engineer at the local nuclear power plant and elder of Congregation Shema Yisrael. With a clear gift of ministry, Mark was ordained by the IAMCS in 1999, founded a Messianic jewish congregation in Syracuse, NY called New Beth Israel that he and Daniah lead for 14 years before moving to Ft. Lauderdale, FL to assist with Temple Aron HaKodesh's leadership transition.
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Ferris "Fishbones" Levinstein, character in novel and webcomic "Fishbones"
Ferris Lowenstein, female character in movie "The Crew"
Thiis means knight or horseman in Arabic, though it would sometimes be spelled Faris.
I met a boy with this name, I actually quite like it, although I do feel like it sounds a little comedic. It also makes me think of ferris wheels which isn't necessarily a bad thing or a good thing, just a thing.


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Pope takes us into the Cave of Spleen in canto 4 of The Rape of the Lock, in the five-canto 1714 version, ruffling the enchanting surface of the poem by bringing us into contact, in however comic a fashion, with the mental disturbances associated with the condition of 'spleen'. His mock-descent into the underworld alludes to epic tragedy (Belinda's 'anxious cares' recall those of Virgil's Dido) and unveils the darker side of polite eighteenth-century society, a society which turns out to be riddled with what we would now call repression, angst and depression. Almost a century later, Coleridge would write his 'Dejection: An Ode', one of the most influential of all lyric poems in English. Coleridge's ode is an edited version of a longer, far more confessional verse letter; even in its edited form, however, it breaks new ground by openly speaking of specific emotional anguish ('this dull pain') rather than employing the more general idiom favoured by many eighteenth-century poets. My lecture will explore the texts and contexts of the two poems, one focusing on social questions, the other concentrating on an individual sensibility, in relation to the general themes of the 'Before Depression' series. In particular, the lecture will look at ways in which Pope and Coleridge derive imaginative energy from depicting states of 'spleen' and 'dejection'.
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Since Team Foundation Server (TFS) uses SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) as its repository for all kinds of info, people are interested to expose the data through Excel or SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). SSAS doesn't expose itself through the HTTP protocol by default, but this can be configured using this paper. I didn't created the complete document myself but used this paper from Edward Melomed as start. The paper on Microsoft TechNet uses SSAS 2005 and Windows Server 2003. Both products are still widely used, but 2008 is the magic word nowadays. By the way, I can't wait till his new book Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed is released.
Summary: This paper is intended for anyone who is interested in providing access to SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services through HTTP protocol.The paper explains the steps required to set up HTTP access and discusses different performance and security settings. All the instructions in this paper are specific to the Microsoft Windows® Server™ 2008 operating system.
Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 Analysis Services uses the same architecture for providing HTTP access as did SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services.
The pump component is loaded into IIS (Internet Information Services) and serves as an ISAPI extension, pumping data from the client to an Analysis Services server and back.
This white paper walks you through the process of setting up HTTP access to Analysis Services when using Microsoft Windows Server™ 2008.
Figure 1 provides a high-level overview of the component architecture.
Copy the contents of the %Installation folder%OLAPbinisapi directory into the folder you would like to become the base for the virtual directory in IIS.
In this example, we are going to copy all the files from the C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSAS10.MSSQLSERVEROLAPbinisapi folder into the C:inetpubwwwrootolap directory.
Notes: To take advantage of the full set of security settings, it is important to make sure that the folder to become the base for the virtual directory is located on the drive formatted for the NTFS file system.
Due to IIS limitations, the path to your directory should not contain spaces.
If you are planning to run the HTTP pump on a different server than the Analysis Services server, please make sure that you also install OLEDB for Analysis Redistributable package.
To open the Computer Management console, open Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, then Computer Management.
In the Computer Management console, expand the Roles node and then the Web Server (IIS) and Internet Information Services node.
If you can't find the Internet Information Services node, IIS is probably not installed on your machine. To install it, open Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel. Select Add/Remove Windows Components. Then add IIS to Windows.
the top right corner of the Handler Mappings screen as shown in Figure 5.
In the top right corner of the Handler Mappings screen click the option " Add Script Map...".
Enter *.dll in the Request path text box.
Name the Script Map. In this example, we call it OLAP.
Your screen should look something like the dialog box shown in Figure 6.
Click the OK button to accept the settings.
Click the Yes button to accept the settings.
10. Search for your extension and name it as shown in Figure 9.
This section briefly describes these options, citing the advantages, disadvantages, and security concerns of each one. All other options are not discussed in the paper. You can use Help for IIS to read more about it.
When this mode is selected, the pump (msmdpump.dll) is running with credentials; in our case, these are the credentials of IUSR_MACHINENAME user. Therefore, every connection to Analysis Services is opened as IUSR user. When this mode is selected, there is no distinction between which user is connecting to IIS and which to Analysis Services. There is no way to distinguish between users.
This mode is to be used when the security infrastructure does not take advantage of the security functionality of Analysis Services. This is most likely an extremely controlled environment, where users are given or denied access to the virtual directory.
This is the most secure and the recommended mode.
It requires that IIS Server be able to access user domain credentials. This could be done using Microsoft Active Directory® or another mechanism. It is beyond the scope of this paper to discuss all the possible configurations.
This mode requires that the user enter a user name and password. The user name and password are transmitted over the HTTP connection to IIS. IIS will try to impersonate the user using the provided credentials.
Please note that it is absolutely imperative for anyone building a system where the password is transmitted to have ways of securing the communication channel. IIS provides a great set of tools for setting up and requiring that all communications be encrypted using HTTPS protocol.
3. For configuring anonymous authentication right-click Anonymous Authentication and then click Edit. You will see a dialog box similar to the one in Figure 12 Here you can configure a specific account which will be used to logon SSAS.
As you can see in the architectural diagram in Figure 1, every pump component uses its own configuration file.
The only setting you are interested in at this point is <ServerName>.
If the Analysis Services instance that you need to provide access to is located on the local machine and installed as a default instance, there is no reason to change this setting. Otherwise, you need to specify the machine name and instance name ( mymachineinst1).
It is also possible to specify a pointer to the virtual directory on another IIS server that is set up for HTTP access to Analysis Services.
At this point you should have configured your HTTP pump and should be ready to connect from your application.
If your application provides you with a way to specify the server name, all you need to do is to substitute your server name with the path to your virtual directory concatenated with "msmdpump.dll".
As in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, the MSOLAP OLEDB provider will understand that the server name includes an URL path and will automatically start using HTTP protocol.
For example, to connect to "MyMachine" from the MDX sample application, you should be able to connect to the Analysis Services server using "http://MyMachine/olap/msmdpump.dll" as a server name.
Posted in SQL Server, Team Foundation Server, TFS on August 15, 2008 by mglaser.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com. Since I'm a big fan of this site and still loves to use Internet Explorer, why can't I combine these two.
With Activities, you can access your services from any webpage. Activities simplify the common task of copying, navigating, and pasting into a single action. Users can access an Activity on selection simply by selecting content and opening the context menu. For example, users can select an address on a webpage and the Activity button appears. Alternatively, you can access selection Activities from the context menu. Activities are also available for the current webpage in the Page menu on the Command bar and for links within a page in the context menu for the link.
This is my activity for IMDb. I added it to same category as all Search activities. Save the file as SearchIMDb.xml.
Click the link below to add this activity to your IE.
After installing the activity you can also change it to a default activity.
Posted in Miscellaneous on August 11, 2008 by mglaser.
The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack features new abstractions for working with data, smaller client profiles and performance updates to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It will ship before the end of the summer, Microsoft said. In a July 31 meeting with SD Times, Shanku Niyogi, product unit manager of the UI Framework and Services team at Microsoft, said that "the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) would be broadly available in all localized versions within a few weeks."
Astoria uses ADO.NET to model data, and it exposes entities as URI-addressable resources to be consumed by Web clients within corporate networks and across the Internet. The entity model provides developers with an additional layer of abstraction between the database and themselves.
Since Microsoft has released to manufacturing SQL Server 2008 and the DVD images are now available on Microsoft and the MSDN subscriber downloads.
Interestingly, the Microsoft .NET Framework SP1 doesn't appear to be available although when the SQL Server 2008 setup program is ran it installs the RTM build of the .NET Framework SP1. You can install it separately by selecting the setup at ..x86redistDotNetFrameworksdotNetFx35setup.exe.
As a result of this install my Add or Remove Programs will look like this.
The Product itself will be released today. I will update this post with the correct link.
You can download the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 here.
Furthermore Visual Studio 2008 SP1 was released today which can be downloaded here.
Microsoft shame on you to release such an important framework only the cd of a server product. Hopefully the holiday did good for all your employees.
Posted in .NET on August 11, 2008 by mglaser.
Since Holland is kicked out of Euro 2008, I found myself some extra time to investigate Visual Studio Team System "Rosario" CTP 12. It's been a couple of months ago Microsoft released this fantastic platform, but almost nobody blogged about it. Of course three of the most interesting VSTS bloggers (Willy-Peter Schaub's, Mickey Gousset and Grant Holiday) commented a lot about it, but that's almost everything you find on the net. Naturally almost every self respecting blogger blogged about the release of this CTP, but in my opinion that's not what blogging is all about.
Bug - Describes a divergence between required and actual behavior, and tracks the work done to correct the defect and verify the correction.
Shared Step Set - Server-side data for reusable set of test steps.
Task - Tracks work that needs to be done.
Test Case - Server-side data for a set of steps to be tested.
Issue - Tracks an obstacle to progress.
Task - Includes information to track the task through the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement life cycle.
Issue - Includes information to track changes through the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement life cycle.
Risk - Includes information to track the work to mitigate a risk.
Review - This work item tracks reviews and the results.
In the VSTS Process they removed Risk and replaced Scenario by User Story. This is a good decision because the Risk implementation in MSF Agile is one of the worst implementation of Risk Analysis I ever seen. Didn't the guys who developed this read the specs of MSF Risk Management. CMMI has a better risk implementation but still it could be better. The other two Work Items are for test purposes only. A Test Case describes a test and the steps to reproduce it. In some cases you will repeat a lot of the same steps. For Example: 1. open Internet Explorer, 2. open the Web Application, 3. Log on to the app. These steps are probably used in all Test Cases. To use shared steps you must use the Shared Step Set Work Item.
As you can see, the screen layout is completely rearranged to show more controls on one single screen. Furthermore the buttons to Open, Add, Edit and Delete links are redecorated. All this styling will create a synoptic layout.
They also added a couple of new Link Types to a Work Item. The nice thing about the Link Types is you can filter it for a specific control. For example: You only want to allow links to create a hierarchy for parent and child relations. Your WIT control specification could look like this. Watch closely to LinkFilters sections.
Besides extensions in the XML definition of a Work Item there are two Custom Controls added to Rosario which can be found in C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoftTeam FoundationWork Item TrackingCustom Controls9.0. Check this blog for all Custom Control locations.
The latter is showed in the screen below.
With this custom control you can create you're own test steps including parameters which can be data bound. A brief explanation about this steps can be found in the November Rosario CTP - Planning A Testing Effort with Camano from Grant Holiday.
For more information about Custom Controls check http://www.codeplex.com/WitCustomControls a community by Naren Datha (Unfortunately he left the TFS Team): http://blogs.msdn.com/narend and Mathias Olausson: http://olausson.net/blog. One of their coolest controls is the Screenshot control.
One of the superb new features of Work Items is you can now query on links. Depending on the type of query it will not only give you an other result, but also another icon in the Team Explorer. In this examples I added a Work Breakdown structure to the CTP12-Agile Team Project. Creating a structure like this is easy. Just select the Query on links checkbox, select Tree as Type of query and add Child as Link Type. Not only you good create Work Breakdown structures using this concept, Backlogs are created as easily as well.
It's good to see Microsoft is listening to its customers. More and more people are asking for a better Agile template and they will get it. Other people asked for work breakdown support as you can read in one of my older posts and the will get it. I'm very anxious they will not support these new features in the old Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2005. I still hope they will because a lot of companies are willing to upgrade to a new server environment but to upgrade to a new client upgrade is a complete other story. And yes I know you could install another Team Explorer instance besides it, but that's not a solution. VSTS Dev Team keep up the good work and maybe it's still a good idea to also include the old MSF Agile Process Template because a lot of companies have adopted this structure.
Posted in Team Foundation Server, TFS, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS on June 25, 2008 by mglaser.
The trusted callers error exists because SharePoint runs in a kind of a sandbox. We need to upscale the trust level of Web Access. This can be done by using the following statements. I haven't tested any other kind of trust level but you're free to do so.
Who hasn't seen this error before 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.' After a bit of reverse engineering I discovered it's depending on sessions. Sessions can be supported in SharePoint but is turned off by default. Not only it must be enabled to use sessions, it must be handled as well. All other unnecessary modules will be removed for optimal performance.
The last problem is a security issue which can be easily solved by changing these two properties. The nice thing about this change its configuring your WSS site and your VSTA site to let you logon using one single user account. So we have a kind of Single Sign-On where you can open VSTA from your WSS site without a new logon form. With automatic Logon in fully qualified domain name (FQDN) environment all your customers will be really satisfied and doesn't have to logon at all.
I hope this article will help you to set up an environment such as described above. Sometimes when you open a Work Item this will give you an error where Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Controls was not found. I had to track it down in %Program Files%Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0Common7IDEPrivateAssemblies and copy it to %Program Files%Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team System Web AccessWebbin. Normally the TSWA installation copies that file over from the privateassemblies directory. As you can see in my images I'm not only still using XP, I'm using Internet Explorer 8.0 as well. This tool rocks and performs like hell. Haven't seen such a boost since Opera arrived. I really like the activities and advice you all to use it event though it's still beta.
Posted in Team Foundation Server, TFS, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS on March 11, 2008 by mglaser.
The latest Project Server to TFS Connector was just released on CodePlex. This release of the PS2007 VSTS Connector is targeted to work with Team Foundation Server 2008 and resolves several bugs that were reported in the first two releases. They've done their best to ensure that this Connector is easy to install and well documented.
Unfortunately Team System 2008 isn't fully ready for Hierarchical Work Items. With the Hierarchical Work Items you can create a Work Breakdown structure. This structure is needed when you want full support for MS Project and Project Server. What can we expect of the future releases of Team System. In this example the new query "Work Breakdown" of Team System Rosario shows how "Tasks" are child items of "Features".
When you try to open this in MS Project using the current CTP of Team System Rosario, it will flatten the structure.
Future versions of Team System will have native integration with Project Server, in the meantime this Connector solution is the best way to integrate the two Microsoft products. Hopefully this MS Project integration will work better in the next Rosario CTP so we can really start using work items the way we supposed to do. We still have a 'long' way to go, but as with most products of MS, the third version of a product really rocks.
Since almost everyone wanted to upgrade TFS V1 to use WSS 3.0, Microsoft added two guides to MSDN in which they explain how to update. In this guide I'll explain how to update your WSS 2.0 sites to use the newly delivered WSS 3.0 templates. This guide can also be used for people and companies who updated their TFS 2005 to a TFS 2008 / WSS 3.0 environment.
Take advantage of new WSS 3.0 functionality.
In order to best take advantage of new WSS 3.0 functionality on the new version of your team project portal sites you may wish to reset the site look and feel of your migrated sites to surface WSS 3.0 features. This step will optionally need to be performed on existing team project portal sites you have migrated from WSS 2.0, but will not need to be performed on new team project portal sites you create moving forward.
On the Site Settings page, click Reset to site definition under the Look and Feel column.
On the Reset Page to Site Definition Version page, you can choose to either reset an individual page within the site collection or to reset all of the pages within a site collection. Once you have made your decision, click Reset then click OK in the confirmation dialog.
Note: As you will note in the warning dialogs, certain customizations to your team project portal will be lost after performing this reset. Therefore it is recommended that you take care to understand what functionality you need to retain in your team project portal prior to performing this optional reset.
On the Site Settings page, click Top link bar under the Look and Feel column.
On the Site Settings page, click Quick Launch under the Look and Feel column.
On the Site Settings page, click Master Pages under the Galleries column.
Make sure you check Add as a new version to existing files.
Obtain the CORE.CSS (included with this release).
Open the uploaded default.master from SharePoint Designer and edit one of the CSS Properties. The confirmed customizations are reflected in the new local version of the style sheet, which is stored in a new folder named _styles that is created automatically in the Folder List of your site.
Overwrite the CORE.CSS in /_styles/ using SharePoint Designer.
Copy header_agile.gif, header_formal.gif, header_vsts_logo.gif and header-bg.jpg to /_styles/. This can also be done using SharePoint Designer.
As you can see in the picture below both the default.master as the core.css are unghosted and modified only for this site. These changes will result in a new look and feel for your TFS Sites.
As many of you I updated my TFS sites to WSS 3.0. My newly created sites got a different look than the one I created before the upgrade. This is by design. MS will leave your previously created sites untouched and keeps the look and feel. With this guide you can change this behavior.
Posted in Team Foundation Server, TFS, Windows SharePoint Services, WSS on February 26, 2008 by mglaser.
Stefan Goßner posted a great series of posts about the Content Migration API (formerly known as PRIME) for SharePoint (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007). In just 5 post he explains everything about this API and where SharePoint uses it. It's an excellent start point for many SharePoint administrators and developers out there. I also refer to this post in my training's about SharePoint as well.
If you want some other great info about migration check Replication and High Availability from Joel Oleson.
Posted in MOSS, SharePoint, Windows SharePoint Services, WSS on February 25, 2008 by mglaser.
As I was writing just a couple of days ago, Microsoft is releasing 2008 products hand in hand. After releasing Windows Live Writer 2008, it was time to release Windows Live Messenger 2008 afterwards. Windows Live Messenger is the next-generation MSN Messenger. It has everything you already love about Messenger - your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video - plus new ways to connect and share photos and documents effortlessly. It's faster than e-mail and is a great choice for conversations and the perfect alternative when you can't be there in person. As always, it's free to download Messenger and use most of its features.
Windows Live Messenger (WLM), still commonly referred to by the previous name of MSN Messenger (MSN for short). You can download WLM from here. Use this link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7A1AAE73-48CC-4F7A-B445-0487BD5E84EF so you can chose which language user interface you want to use.
* In conjunction with the release of Windows Live 2.0, a new setup program was introduced. This program will download the selected product(s) during the setup. Unfortunately I haven't figured out some of Direct Download Links, because in some organizations this installer will fail to download.
* It is now installed to a 'Windows Live' folder in the drive where Windows is installed, and the shortcuts are placed in a 'Windows Live' folder in the Start Menu.
* All Messenger windows have a new look.
* A new 'bunny' emoticon has been added.
* Windows Live OneCare Family Safety integration was added.
* Updates can now be downloaded and installed through Microsoft Update.
Posted in MSN, Windows Live Messenger, WLM on November 11, 2007 by mglaser.