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One of the things that’s been bugging me about blockchain technology is another technology that is on the rise just as fast and could possibly make it irrelevant.
Quantum computing is currently under development by some of the biggest tech players in the world. IBM, the NSA, and Google are all working hard to make everything that we know about computers irrelevant within the next decade.
The idea is quite simple, in the world of quantum physics anything is possible. For example, throwing a basketball through a brick wall is not a very probable thing to occur but the odds of it happening are greater than zero.
In computers, it means rather than making one calculation at a time in a sequential order, a quantum computer could theoretically just calculate all the possibilities at once.
So things like passwords or private keys, for example, could theoretically be reproduced in a matter of moments. This of course, threatens not just Bitcoin but all digital payments, online banking, and virtually all areas of encryption and cyber-security.
Now, we’re still several years away from this becoming a real concern. So now is the right time to start building the infrastructure to protect ourselves against it.
A company called Droplex, who’s pre-ICO is just entering its final hour aims to build a bullet proof blockchain that will be impervious to future Q-hackers. Now, I haven’t personally looked too deep at this project as of yet but I am extremely comforted by the fact that somebody is building a fix for this already.
Perhaps in 5 years or so we can have another debate about the best way to upgrade Bitcoin for Q-safety.
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Stocks are down
Bezos Briefly Best
August 1st BTC Deadline
Please note: All data, figures & graphs are valid as of July 28th. All trading carries risk. Only risk capital you can afford to lose.
Problems pursue in Washington for the precarious President.
The newly appointed communications director Anthony Scaramucci is now taking swipes at the chief of staff and Trump himself has been lashing out at his own attorney general Jeff Sessions.
Some speculate that Trump is getting ready to fire Sessions in order to get the special prosecutor Robert Muller off his back.
Meanwhile, the bill to repeal Obamacare was just shot down in the Senate as the notable Republican and previous presidential candidate (2008) John Mccain voted no.
Stock markets have not been performing well so far in Asia and the European markets just opened with a notable gap down.
At least the USD seems to be getting some support.
This chart showing USDollar support was posted by @4exPirate Dawid Kowalski in Poland who is arguably one of the most consistent traders on the eToro network.
Congratulations to Jeff Bezos
…for briefly becoming the world’s richest person. Jeff managed to snag the top spot off Bill and kept it for almost 3.5 hours.
Most of Bezos’ fortune is in Amazon shares, so when the market opened with a significant gap up his net worth reached $90 Billion. However, a sour earnings report from Amazon sent the stock back down.
Turbulence in Crypto
If he times it right, Bezos may just be able to buy all of the cryptocurrencies currently in circulation, which is now holding steady at about $90 Billion.
Or not, the sale of 17% of all AMZN shares along with word that the founder is selling would probably push the price significantly down before he could offload most of them. Of course, that much buying pressure would also move the cryptos up.
In any case, if anybody were considering to buy that many digital assets they might want to wait until next week. Given that August 1st is coming up this Tuesday and still nobody really knows what’s about to happen to Bitcoin.
For those of you looking to trade this event, make sure to get your orders in as early as possible as there may be some downtime on BTC depending on the way it plays out.
Wishing you and yours a very pleasant weekend.
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The outlook presented is a personal opinion of the analyst and does not represent an official position of eToro.
Past performance is not an indication of future results. All trading involves risk; only risk capital you are prepared to lose.
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The 2017 Oscars ceremony is only days away – excitement is building. As we look forward to seeing our favourite actors and actresses walk the red carpet, let’s look at some of the nominees and predictions…
While La La Land has been nominated for as many as 14 Academy Awards, their success still remains to be seen. Mike Scott, NOLA.com predicts La La Land to win best picture and take home another eight trophies! “At least, that’s according to my annual Academy Award predictions in all 24 categories, based on hours of viewing, months of monitoring of pre-Oscar buzz, endless popcorn munching and a bit of guidance from my trusty Magic 8-ball”, says Scott.
Check out Mike Scott’s predictions when you’re watching the 89th Academy Awards this Sunday…
The nominees: “Arrival,” “Fences,” “Hacksaw Ridge,” “Hell or High Water,” “Hidden Figures,” “La La Land,” “Lion,” “Manchester by the Sea,” “Moonlight”
What will win: “La La Land.” Damien Chazelle’s musical drama has been slowly building momentum all award season, and it doesn’t appear to be losing steam any time soon.
What should win: “La La Land.” Chazelle, who first caught the Academy’s attention two years ago with his “Whiplash,” pulls off something extraordinary here, with a film that feels light and breezy but without feeling empty.
Ask the 8-ball: What about “Hidden Figures”? It’s not only won over critics, but earlier this month it became the highest-grossing of all of this year’s best picture nominees. Can it pull of the upset? Answer: “Outlook not so good.”

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Every plug costs a bug
Small form-factor PCs can be versatile onsite Pen-testing devices; if they run something like Linux.
A little system, which runs… you know…
- ettercap - for Layer 3 interception and resource manipulation
Yersina - Layer 2 attacks, in case of certain misconfigurations.
- p0f - for passive information gathering and system fingerprinting
- OpenSSH - for tunnels over covert network channels and commandline-access
- and of course aircrack, and other Wireless pen-test tools
Some of these small devices have limitations, for example due to WiFi drivers. Or due to bad Ethernet chips.
Every plug costs money. So in order to prevent you from being at a large security conference, and buying the wrong stuff, you only need to read this short blog article.
Because nothing is worse, than being a n00b in the line. Like so many others…
Is a PWN plug enough for a pawn?
So, why is there Chinese candy. Isn’t that suspicious?! A weird picture on the internet… help!
The PWN plug (R3) is larger than my hand, but I am not a construction worker. Today.
Here is the “data sheet”. And below is some extra information.
- it runs Linux (Kali like)
- has 1 Ethernet port
- 3 USB (plus 1 USB <-> Ethernet adapter). You use the USB Ethernet to attach the target system for interception
- 2 HDMI ports
- WiFi for Wireless pentests (antenna, chips, driver support)
So far so good.
- 1,1 Ghz Intel Celeron (!)
- 2 GB RAM (!)
- 32 GB SSD (!)
It’s sold by PWNie Express. I sent an inquiry about one small question related to the “Covert channel” feature, and never received a reply; used my business mail address. - Bought it anyways since I can guess these things. But you know what that means. You are your own expert.
Then I sent another inquiry because the repositories were down for 4-5 days. The PWNplugs run something like Kali Linux. But they use custom repos. These are sometimes not available:
Err:9 https://kalirepo.pxinfra.net/kali-rolling kali-rolling/main amd64 fonts-liberation all 1:1.07.4-2
503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity
I got a reply within minutes, and that was due to an upgrade.
2 things regarding the HW: the Intel CPU is slower than you might think, and the device is bigger and heavier than it looks. You might want the R3.
- When you run
ettercap, don’t get greedy. This device is easy to find, even without Chinese candy next to it. And it’s not fast enough to handle 1 Gbps of routing traffic; depending on the amount of clients and packets per second. This is not a Cisco Catalyst. This is a Minibüx.
Let’s open the black box and take a look.
If you want to lift the mainboard to see the SSD you need to be careful. So for warranty reasons I did not do that… But you can see that there is no fan. And no black magic. And it really isn’t a Cisco Catalyst… No kidding!
Covert channel setups: from Kali to Kali, from AWS in-reverse to the PWNplug
This is a 1 minute and 4 click setup. Yes… covert channels, these super useful data exfiltration techniques… 1 minute. Red team’s dream came true: just get this plug, plug it in, and enjoy the coffee while the Blue Team has to run through the building and crawl through the dusty corners behind the printers, where the managers are having a chat about their day-trading portfolio. Great!
From the PWNplug web UI you download a Shell script, copy it to an AWS EC2 Kali Linux, run it, and then you enable the shells via the buttons:
- SSH via HTTP(S)
- SSH via DNS, ICMP
- SSH via Egress Buster (some ports)
- or SSH via UMTS / GSM (SMS -> Bash command channel!)
You setup these shells, and the PWNplug becomes a pivoting device, just like a hacked printer or some infected IoT aquarium… or some user’s client… which covertly can tunnel out data.
I usually use a Kali Linux in AWS EC2 as the cloud endpoint, which the PWNplug can connect to. - Regardless of where I put it. No one blocks AWS IP ranges.
But this requires you to setup an AWS Security Group. And that’s no biggie:
Make sure to set the allowed source IPs to something else in reality. Because security But then just SSH into the EC2 Kali Linux and SSH into the reverse shell:
ec2-user@kali:~$ ssh -p 3339 pwnie@localhost
Last login: Fri Jul 7 13:49:19 2017 from ::1
These Reverse Shells are setup on the PWNplug Web UI:
These have connected to the AWS EC2:
ec2-user@kali:~$ sudo netstat -lntup4 | grep 'pwn' | grep 333
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3333 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 30693/sshd: pwnie
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3334 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 31296/sshd: pwnie
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3339 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 31098/sshd: pwnie
- 3333 - standard SSH
- 3334 - Egress Buster
- 3339 - ICMP
DNS and HTTPS did not work here, bummer. Or no… good points for the defense team. - Probably a web proxy and a firewall rule. And nobody monitors the deny logs.
UMTS wasn’t used. Because I didn’t want to. There is a SMS-to-Bash trick, mentioned in the manual. If that’s in scope, it’s a fair bet that this works. And that setting this up is worth the effort. It’s a very impressive demonstration if you send an SMS, and influence the client’s network that way. Like: “May I just cook the fish in your IoT aquarium? No… oh… I… damn… what was the number again to call off the cron job.”.
Anyways, our next setup thing is “multi-hop proxy chaining”; or how ever you want to call it. All via SSH. I use Bitvise SSH & Proxifier (WinDOS), but you can use
proxychains on Linux the same way.
Proxy-chaining in Windows with some xtra
Connect via Bitvise SSH (alias Tunnelier) to the Kali Linux on AWS EC2 directly, and setup a local Socks 5 proxy:
The Socks stuff is in “Services”.
Ok… that’s number 1. Now for number 2:
localhost:3339 using number 1 as a Socks 5 proxy. And open up a second Socks 5 proxy:
And for the second Socks 5:
Good. Pro tip: you can bind the Socks 5 to an IP interface. On Linux you’d use a reachable Socks 5 like this:
192.168.1.22 here is the IP with the reachable Socks 5 proxy.
Again, what does this do? - You get 2 Socks proxies on your local Windows machine via Bitvise SSH:
Number 1 - traffic goes our via the AWS EC2 Kali Linux.
Number 2 - traffic goes from the EC2 Kali Linux to the PWNplug via an ICMP reverse tunnel, which encapsulates SSH traffic. DNS is resolved remotely!
In this example on the Windows machine:
localhost:5010 (or 192.168.1.22) is the proxy, that will forward you to pivot into the remote internal network via the Kali Linux hop in AWS, that listens for reverse shells.
This is easy to detect! But fear not, fellow Pen-testers. You can use the other PWNplug reverse shell listeners, which means that instead of ICMP you can use one of the other 3 protocols; or abuse.
You can even rotate… Even if you establish a Websocket reverse shell or an HTTP Proxy bridge, the principle is the same. Just add another
In order to use the
localhost:5010 Pivot Socks 5 proxy, that hops via AWS into the internal network via the PWNplug gateway, you can use Proxifier.
What you see here is a bit trickier than the usual pivoting: the PWNplug is somewhere, where
10.0.0.0/8 is used. Only for IPs within that network the Pivot Socks 5 tunnel is used.
Proxifier allows you to setup rules like that, via wildcards. These can be application specific: here it affected only Royal TS and ssh.
Royal TS (used here) is some admin tool which supports RDP, SSH etc. (and individual proxy profiles, which do not use here) and ssh.* is
ssh.exe. Works without ProxyCommands in this case. Looks better.
Now that is pretty decent… isn’t it?
What is the source IP, which shows up when I login via this SSH multi-hop tunnel?
- Correct… the one of the PWNplug.
Where is the PWNplug?
- Let’s say behind the printers (because many companies use Cloud-connected printers…), because we just stole the printer’s IP. How we steal that IP?! Next section. One command.
Does that mean no one can print if we do this?
- Nope… that’s the magic of the PWNplug. Men In The Middle. Or Plug In the Middle. Or both. Men and machine! Printing will work. You can print funny things for the Blue Team, to help them.
- we have established direct access via a local proxy listener, that will use covert channels to pivot us into a remote network.
- we used some nice Windows tools to setup rules for the proxification. Basic Pivoting Kung Fu.
- The shown example is an ICMP reverse-Shell backdoor channel, like Malware or data-thieves can use it. It’s possible to do the same with a Linux client, using
proxychains. That’s up to you.
- You can do all of this with an even smaller system, and nothing of this is exclusive to the PWNplug. The setup with it however is extremely convenient, and saves a lot of time. And the Ethernet MITM actions might require some performance.
- Do any security tools detect these protocol encapsulation channels? IDS / IPS? DLP? Proxy? Firewall? SIEM? Hello blue-team? You think that’s the printer? For real?
Once the reverse shells and the tunneling setup works, it’s time for Men In The Middle attacks.
Men-In-The-Middle - printers print, PWNplugs pivot, easy to do
So let’s steal the printer IP, and become a transparent interceptor that abuses the network. Printers often have a lot of network access, and many clients connect to it… awesome.
802.1X / NAC bypass techniques aren’t too easy to do. Unless you have a PWNplug. There is also a smaller one, which is harder to find than the R3.
Check out the manual - page 29. Plug the printer in, at the USB-Ethernet port adapter, and fire up the command. Reboot and enjoy.
Result: too much trust in NAC systems is not justified. It can prevent some unauthorized access, but without monitoring and security-controls a NAC is not efficient. Same goes for firewalls. If no one monitors them, they are useless. Attacks will just poke them until they find a whole to abuse. And with printers this is easy.
Field-smart PWNplug - HackRF covert channel for WiFi IDS evasion
The term Field-Smart Radios is from the origins of Software Defined Radio (SDR). Essentially an SDR is a generic sending and transmission device, that allows you define custom communication systems in software.
The HackRF is a portable small SDR hardware, a transceiver actually. It can send within a wide range of frequencies. You can use it with GNU Radio, and send or receive data. A Wireless IDS, that detects rogue WiFi access points, the one in your PCI-DSS environment, can probably not find a HackRF. Air-gaps can be bridged.
Something like this would only make sense for certain environments, obviously. There are cheaper options. Like using an Ubertooth or a Goodfet (these are documented in the PWNloug manual). Or… if you can use a UMTS stick… chances are good that this is cheaper and more reliable. So for UMTS, IEEE 802.15.4, IEEE 802.15.1… for common wireless standards use a common dongle.
For a HackRF channel you may need to be nearby; at least for the scenarios I have in mind. I don’t think anyone would be stealthy enough with a large amplifier, a HackRF and a PWNplug next to a printer. Although… I mean… try it out.
Personally I have used OFDM for that, but getting 2 SDRs to create a wireless TCP/IP connection is not new. It just works, and you can adjust the frequency etc. if you change the parameters of your flow graph.
Gumstix - is an ARM armed enough?
Some printers have USB ports. and Gumstix Single Board computers are much smaller than a PWNplug.
You might want to try a Raspberry Pi? Or a Beagleboard. If you can use a 20 USD device, and chances are good that you will be able to outsmart a 500 000 Euro security system, that is impressive.
Test it in the lab, put some firewalls, IDS / IPS, DLP etc. in between. And see what you can do. What could possibly go wrong…
So why did I mention the PWNplug at all?
- Because it takes less time to setup a PWNplug. You can just port the reverse-shell connect commands over. Start with something that is known to work. Learn to walk before you are trying to run.
What's the cure? A better IDS?
An IDS which doesn't detect ICMP backdoors is...
h hard to find. True that, as I said. The relevant Emerging Threats signature is
ET INFO PTUNNEL INBOUND / OUTBOUND.
The blue-team should see that, find the IP, and block it. Even an OpenSource IDS detects this. I am fairly certain your Common Off The Shelf NIDS has something similar. Go, test it. It needs to detect DNS encapsulation, ICMP reverse shells, Web shells.
Trust but verify
Exercises like this are necessary to shape focus. You can either fine-tune your IDS to detect less XSS noise, or tune it to detect potential backdoor communication. Your call.
The cure is to test security stacks. Can you rely on your’s? No. Of course not. Can you use it… Not sure?


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BBS Were pleased to support the Helensburgh RFC veterans 10’s rugby tournament on the 31st of May. The tournament featured some of the best known veterans of both League and Union. Colin Charvis and Rob Henderson had their Welsh and Irish Legends, Junior Paramore had his southern hemisphere legends and Jason White captained the Scottish Legends.
BBS were proud sponsors of the Rugby League legends team and also entered a team in conjunction with our Cyber security partners ‘Truststream’. The day was a great success raising lots of money for various Rugby charities including Wooden spoon and Charity Sporting prints. The main Final came down to Jason White’s Scottish Legends (featuring BBS’s Sales Director Mark (Freedman) against Junior Paramore’s southern Hemisphere legends,congratulations go to Junior and his team wining with a breakaway try from Fiji cap Taniela Ratu in the last minute of the game.
The BBS /Truststream team beat Oban RFC convincingly in the plate final to secure their invitation back to the tournament next year and were pleased to take home silverware in their first collaboration. Mark Freedman (BBS) and Paul Sullivan (Truststream) who jointly captained the side said how much they enjoyed the day and the spirit in which it was played. Special thanks to David Higgins from Helensburgh RFC and Charity Sporting Prints for putting the event together, if anyone would like to know more about this charity please go to www.charitysportingprints.com or www.woodenspoon.com
This tournament coincided well with the town centre regeneration works we are doing with MacLay civil Engineering in Helensburgh. For more information on this story please see the link to Helensburgh Town centre.

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SPRINGFIELD - Illegal firework use over the last few weeks across the city has been major pain for city officials, and now Mayor Domenic Sarno says he would like to reciprocate by hitting offenders where it hurts.
“Fireworks continue to be a royal pain in the you-know-where,” he said.
Sarno, at his weekly COVID-19 update, said he will file home rule legislation with the state legislature that, if approved, would automatically affix any fine for setting off fireworks onto the renewal fee for a driver’s license or vehicle registration, a city excise tax bill, and even a business license.
“You have to get their attention. You have to make this something that is going to get their attention, to make them think twice,” he said.
Fireworks are illegal to own, sell or possess in Massachusetts, but that has not stopped people from setting them off in recent weeks in Springfield,in cities across Massachusetts, and even in other cities nationwide.
The penalty for being found with fireworks in Massachusetts is between $100 and $1,000.
The City Council on Monday is scheduled to consider a motion by councilor Victor Davilla to increase the minimum fine to $300, and make possession an arrestable offense.
But Sarno said a fine by itself is a limited deterrent if people choose to ignore it.”You could make it a $3,000 fine and they’d rip the ticket up right in front of you,” he said.
Springfield police and fire departments have had their hands full with firework-related incidents.
Police have received hundreds of complaints nightly, to the point where the 911 switchboard was overwhelmed by the number of calls and the state police switchboard in Northampton had to handle the overflow.
The last two major fires in the city, a garage fire on Bloomfield Street, and a porch fire on Belmont Avenue, were caused by fireworks, Sarno said.
There has always been illegal fireworks activity just before and after July 4, but officials have never seen it begin so early and be as sustained as this year.
Sarno said shooting off fireworks at all hours of the night and disturbing residents amounts to “almost terrorizing neighborhoods.”
“They shoot them out of car windows, or they stop their car in the street, shoot them off and then take off,” he said. “It’s total disrespect.”


United Technologies CEO retires, succeeded by CFO
Published 9:16 am, Monday, November 24, 2014
Chenevert, 56, is also stepping down as chairman. He had been appointed to both jobs in 2008.
He steered United Technologies’ $18.4 billion purchase of aerospace parts maker Goodrich Corp. in 2012. It was the industry’s largest deal and boosted the company’s presence in the profitable commercial airline business as its military segments declined.
The company said he informed the board of directors that his retirement from both posts was effective immediately. Edward A. Kangas, lead independent director, has been elected non-executive chairman of the board.
The 54-year-old Hayes has been with United Technologies for 25 years and has been hief financial officer for the past six years.
United Technologies is parent company of jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky helicopter, Otis elevator and other aerospace and building systems companies.
The company grappled with several high-profile problems this year.
The Pentagon’s entire fleet of nearly 100 F-35 fighter planes was grounded after an engine fire at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida on June 23. A Pentagon spokesman said inspections had not disclosed a systemic problem and defense officials believed the aircraft will return to full flight.
In addition, Bombardier’s CSeries test flight program was grounded May 30 following what Bombardier called an “engine-related incident” during testing. The problem was later identified as a leak from an engine oil seal.
Sikorsky and Canada signed a deal in June for delivery of 28 maritime helicopters that ended a long and costly dispute. In May, Sikorsky won a $1.24 billion contract to build the next fleet of “Marine One” presidential helicopters that also ended a yearslong effort to win the project.
Sharp cuts in U.S. military spare parts orders began to have an impact on Sikorsky last year as federal budget cuts also took a larger bite out of military business.
United Technologies Corp. stock fell $1.11, or 1 percent, to $109.19 in premarket trading about an hour ahead of the market opening.


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See why so many travellers make Quality Inn Parker their motel of choice when visiting Parker. Providing an ideal mix of value, comfort and convenience, it offers an array of amenities designed for travellers like you.
Quality Inn Parker offers guests an array of room amenities including a refrigerator and air conditioning. The property also features free breakfast to make your visit even more pleasant.
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Swansea Ghost Town (36.9 km), located nearby, makes Quality Inn Parker a great place to stay for those interested in visiting this popular Parker landmark.
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Dark chocolate combined with booze makes these Irish cream truffles a rich and decadent show stopper. We won’t tell anyone that they only take 5 ingredients and are super easy to make! And if you love Rumchata like I do, check out my Rumchata Pecan Truffle recipe.
I’m going to let you in on a little secret… I may be a little bit of a Scrooge when it comes to Christmas. Before kids we never put up a tree and I was completely OK with that. While others are chomping at the bit to decorate for Christmas as soon as Halloween wraps up, I am the type to hold out as long as possible. Decorations aren’t what brings those good Christmas time feelings to life for me. I don’t feel like it’s really Christmas time until I am in the kitchen baking up goodies to fill special plates that I’ll give to the people that make the 364 other days out of the year better.
Nothing says “I appreciate and care about you” like a plate full of homemade goodies… except maybe booze. Which is why this year’s goody plates will be featuring these Irish Cream Truffles- delightful little bites of boozy heaven.
Baileys Irish Cream Truffles Recipe.
- ¼ cup Bailey's Irish Cream
- 10 oz High Quality Dark Chocolate Chips
- 2 tbsp Butter
- ½ cup Heavy Cream
- Small Sprinkles or Colored Sugar
- Place chocolate chips in microwave safe bowl.
- In a small saucepan bring the butter and the heavy cream (not the Irish Cream) to a gentle boil.
- Pour the heated cream and butter over the chocolate chips and start stirring. The heat from the cream, butter combo should be enough to melt the chips fully. However if you still have a few lumps, microwave in 15 seconds intervals until completely smooth.
- Once the chocolate is completely melted and it smooth, add the Baileys and stir until it’s completely incorporated and the chocolate is smooth again.
- Refrigerate until firm, around 2 hours.
- Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Using a spoon, take small bits of ganache and roll it in your palms to make 1″ balls. Place formed balls on cookie sheets. Work quickly to keep the chocolate from melting.
- Place formed balls back in refrigerator to cool for 15-20 minutes.
Decorating the Truffles
- Pour colored sugar or sprinkles into a small bowl.
- Roll each truffle in sugar until it’s fully coated. If the sugar isn’t sticking, allow the truffle to warm up a few minutes and try again.
Both of these and my Rumchata truffles will be on this year’s goodie plates for our farm’s veterinarians, our milk hauler, our cow breeder, our nutritionist and our milkers. They will have to share some space with the toffee I make every year as well as a few other surprises I’m trying out and will share later!
Let me know how you like these!
1/2 cup cream. And 1/2 cup Baileys, ended up as a very soft, unmoldable glob., even after 2 hrs in the fridge. I added another 10 oz of chips to get a workable substance. I believe 2 T of cream, and 2 T of Baileys was to be used.
I’m sorry my recipe didn’t work for you. But the measurements I have listed are correct. I’d put it back in the fridge until it’s completely cooled and hopefully it will set for you.
The recipe says 1/4 cup Baileys, not 1/2 cup.
I adjusted the recipe to 1/4 cup after I had some feedback. I’ve made it several times with 1/2 cup and it worked just fine but better safe than sorry!
Same here – glob. I followed the instructions carefully. It has been in fridge for 11 hours – still a glob. Tastes great though. I will try adding more chocolate chips.
How odd! Maybe there’s a difference in our chocolate? I’m sorry you had issues with this recipe.
What kind of chocolate did you use? I’d like to avoid the glob people are posting about.
I used Ghiradelli dark chocolate. I purchased everything again tonight to remake this recipe and see if I can replicate the issue. If I do, I’ll be sure to tweak the recipe.
I’ve played around with my recipe and it continues to work for me. However I have edited the recipe to decrease the amount of Baileys because I’d rather play it safe than sorry.
I made it today why the same chocolate as you. It’s been in the frig for 5 hours and is still not mold able. We’ll see what it’s like in the morning. It’s delicious but too soft to do much with.
I’m sorry! I’m sure if it’s not set by morning, you can add more chocolate and be good to go.
I used milk chocolate Ghiardelli though. I don’t like dark chocolate.
Hmmm… that may change things. Either way, adding more melted chocolate if time doesn’t set should make it work for you.
mine worked just fine!
you said to add 1/4 of Baileys, I believe she added 1/2 cup
does anyone know how many balls this makes?
It depends on how big you make your truffles. When I make them I get 20 or so.
Worked great. Everyone who tastes them loves them. Thanks for the recipe
I made these and after the ganache set in the fried for a couple hours, moved it to the freezer. makes for easier ball making and was perfectly tasty!
Should these be refrigerated until eaten?
They don’t need to be.

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A Rockville-based commercial real estate developer is planning to build 100 apartments with one and two bedrooms in the 600 block of York Road, the latest in a series of projects planned for downtown Towson.
A spokeswoman for Federal Realty Investment Trust said the planned opening is in 2016.
“That’s really the only information; they are not comfortable with me sharing at this point in time because there’s a lot other things going on to finalize,” spokeswoman Lisa Gieger said.
Paul Hartman, president of the Greater Towson Council of Community Associations, said he has seen a site plan, a landscape plan and some of the floor plans for the project. But he has not seen any renderings of the proposed development.
He said that the project will fit on an “L” shaped lot that will wrap around the SunTrust Bank building at the corner of York Road and Washington Avenue. Hartman said it won’t be a huge building, only about five or six stories, and will be an improvement over what’s there now.
“It looks like they’re going to do a lot of landscaping and fix up that area of the streetscape, and so that’ll be better than the kind of cruddy gravel parking lots that are there now,” Hartman said.
Downtown Towson has experienced a large amount of development in recent years.
In May, The Evergreene Cos. LLC released the concept of its Towson Mews development that features 35 luxury townhomes on two acres of land bordered by Pennsylvania, Jefferson and Virginia avenues.
The $85 million Towson Square project scheduled to open this summer, the $300 million Towson Row mixed-use development and the $60 million 101 York building are all in various stages of development.
“There’s a new energy in downtown Towson that already has attracted $800 million in private investment. Over 2,600 new apartments and townhomes have recently been built or are under construction. Residents can walk to the new Towson Square entertainment center, great shopping and a wide choice of restaurants for all tastes,” Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said in an emailed statement.


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FOX LAKE — Students who want to play basketball, wrestle, act in a play or sing in the choir will have to pay for the privilege next year, the Fox Lake Grade School District 114 Board of Education has decided.
The board is going to slap pay-to-play fees on all extracurricular activities except Student Council, Vice President Michael Lescher said.
"The alternatives are to knock them out completely," Lescher said of the after-school programs.
The board is charging the fees because it needs to cut the district's $150,000 deficit. A property tax increase, which would have returned the district to solvency, was voted down in April. Extracurricular activities are costing the district $26,000 this year.
If the district can get a portion of that from students, "that's significant" in reducing the deficit, Lescher said.
The board agreed to charge fees at its meeting last week, but the actual costs for each activity won't be determined until the board's June 24 meeting.
The school district won't be able to offer breaks for low-income students, who make up 20 percent of the student population, Lescher said.
"We're doing this because of the financial straits we're in, and it has to be across the board," he said.
Lescher said, however, that the board would encourage the PTA to hold fundraisers to subsidize the pay-to-play expenses of poorer students. The PTA has raised money to help student musicians pay for instrument rentals.
Although fees will definitely be in place when school starts next fall, they could be rescinded if voters pass a tax increase in November, Lescher said.


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The combination of teenage drivers and alcohol often leads to tragic consequences in Green Bay and throughout Wisconsin. This appears to have been the case once again after a car accident near Tomah. The recent collision occurred just west of Tomah on I-90 eastbound. While precise details of the incident were not immediately clear, it appears the vehicle had gone off the interstate and landed at the bottom of an embankment. An 18-year-old male passenger was ejected from the car.
The victim suffered what have been characterized as life-threatening injuries, though no further word on his medical condition was immediately available. The 19-year-old driver is a resident of Lacrosse. Her injuries were said to be less serious. Authorities have stated that they believe alcohol was a factor in the car accident. However, it was not immediately known if the driver was charged with any alcohol-related offenses, and the investigation is said to be ongoing.
Certainly the families and friends are hoping for the complete recovery of both individuals. Unfortunately, this accident underscores the serious and devastating consequences that drunk driving can have on others. Few people who choose to drive drunk understand that their choice often affects several other people, including the family and friends of those injured or killed in a collision. Hopefully this accident will serve as a reminder to all Wisconsin drivers that negligent driving -- including drunk driving, texting while driving and other forms of distracted driving -- can often result in serious car accidents.
Source: WSAW, "UPDATE: Alcohol was a Factor in Tomah Crash," Feb. 27, 2012

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Cut a big cloud shape out of thin cardboard.
Use a hole punch to punch three holes in the bottom of the cloud.
Cut three pieces of string and tie a piece of string to each hole. The raindrops will hang down from these strings and it's easier to do this step now then when it's covered with cotton balls.
Cover the cardboard with white glue and stick on the cotton balls until the whole surface is covered.
Cut a red smile out of construction paper and glue it and two large googly eyes to the cloud. Set it aside to dry.
Print our raindrop template and cut it out. Discard the center piece.
Trace the template onto black construction paper. Make three raindrops.
Cut a piece of contact paper that is bigger than the raindrop. Peel off the back and stick the template to it.
Cut the tissue paper into small squares (approx. 1"x1").
Use the tissue paper to fill in the raindrop. It will stick right to the contact paper. Overlap the squares as you go and it's ok if the tissue paper goes outside of the construction paper template line.
Cut a second piece of contact paper, peel the back off and carefully stick it on top of the first, covering the tissue paper filled raindrop.
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Holiday Pizza Wreath
Prep Time: 15 min
Total Time: 35 min
Make this easy (and so festive) pizza for your holiday party!. Recipe by Half Baked Harvest.
- 1 can Pillsbury™ refrigerated Pizza Crust
- 8-9 cheese sticks
- 1 can (680 mL) tomato basil pasta sauce
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 2 cups baby arugula
- 2 red bell peppers, 1 diced and 1 sliced
- 1 green bell pepper, diced
- 2 ounces (56 g) spiced salami, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Sauces for dipping and serving (ranch dressing, balsamic vinegar, pizza sauce, etc.)
- Preheat the oven to 400ºF.
- Unroll the pizza crust dough and shape it in into a ball. Allow the dough to rest 5 minutes and then roll it out into a large circle.
- Slice the cheese sticks in half lengthwise and place them around the edges of the pizza dough. Roll the edges up and over the cheese, pinching the dough to seal in the cheese.
- Using a large 4-1/2 inch circle cookie cutter or a sharp knife, cut a circle out of the middle of the dough. Use the leftover dough to fill in any thin spots around the wreath.
- Spread the pizza with sauce and then sprinkle with cheese. Add the arugula and diced red and green peppers. Sprinkle with a little more mozzarella cheese and then add the salami slices.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the cheese is melted and bubbly. While the pizza is baking, cut slices of the remaining red pepper in strips and arrange them in the shape of a bow.
- Garnish the pizza with fresh arugula and Parmesan cheese. Place the pepper bow at the top. Serve with balsamic vinegar, ranch dressing and extra pizza sauce if desired.
- Customize the veggies to your liking: sun-dried tomatoes, zucchini, jalapenos, spinach, pepperonis and green olives would all be awesome.


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On a restart out of a timeout from the back right corner, Ryan Aughavin sped past two Virginia defensemen and came around the cage to score on the open net and pushing the Bears’ lead to two goals. And while the Cavaliers scored just seconds later off a Justin Schwenk feed to Matt Moore, Brown was able to secure the win as there just simply wasn’t enough time left.
From late in the second quarter through the end of the game, most of the momentum was on Brown’s side. The Bears were able to comeback from down 8-2 with 1:47 in the second quarter and take a 9-8 lead with 7:35 in the third. The Bears offense was on fire, as was Phil Goss in cage.
Matt Moore and Jack Peele finally got a little something going for Virginia midway through the third, but it only took Brown a minute to heat up again. The Bears ended the third on a three-goal run, which helped them take a two-goal, 12-10, lead heading into the fourth.
Brown was able to make some crucial plays on the defensive end and in the middle of the field to help them hold onto their lead and secure the win in the fourth, especially in the final minutes of the quarter.
Ryan Aughavin led Brown with four points (3G/1A), while Darian Cook and Jack Kniffin each had three points (2G/1A). Matt Moore led Virginia with 10 points (7G/3A). Michael Kraus dished out four assists.
Phil Goss made 16 saves in cage for Brown and Alex Rode made 17 saves for Virginia.
Cornell 17, Penn State 16
The Cornell Big Red seemed to have complete control of this one, leading 12-5 heading into the half. However, Penn State had plenty more in the gas that hadn’t been unleashed yet.
While Cornell started the scoring in the third, the Nittany Lions heated up quickly as they scored seven straight in the third and stretched their run to eight goals early in the fourth, tying things up at 13-13. Cornell was able to answer, and after some back-and-forth play midway through the fourth the Big Red held a 16-14 lead.
A three-goal run that saw Jack Kelly, TJ Connellan, and Mac O’Keefe each find the back of the net put Penn State in the drivers seat, 17-16, with 3:46 in the fourth. But with 18 seconds left in the game Jeff Teat was able to get his hands free and sneak one past Colby Kneese to tie the game up at 17. Angelo Petrakis won the ensuing faceoff and scored the game winner for the Big Red with just eight seconds on the clock.
Jeff Teat led Cornell with six points (3G/3A), while Michael Long had five points (1G/4A). Grant Ament dished out five points for Penn State and TJ Malone tallied five points (4G/1A).
- Behind a seven-point (6G/1A) performance from Reid Bowering, the Drexel Dragons upset the Villanova Wildcats, 15-12, in the Philly 4 Classic.
- The Penn Quakers were able to escape the Saint Joseph’s, 13-12. Adam Goldner tallied seven points (5G/2A) for the Quakers.
- Brandon Dodd put up eight points (4G/4A) to help lead Air Force to a 15-11 victory over Canisius.


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This week I’ve been planting garlic at the allotment. Garlic is a great crop to grow; it doesn’t take up much space, it’s not very fussy, and there are lots of different varieties available for you to experiment with. It’s also a great crop to involve children with too because it’s easy and fun to plant.
This year we’re growing three heritage garlic varieties from Marshalls. Bohemian Rose comes from the north of Bohemia near to Prague and produces leaves over a metre high, which the kids will really enjoy measuring as it grows. Mikulov originates in southern Moravia and produces violet coloured bulbs with very large cloves. Red Duke is a vigorous variety with good resistance to rust and viruses. I really like the idea of growing more than one variety of garlic and comparing their flavours, we’ve not done this before so this year will hopefully give us plenty of crops to experiment with in our cooking.
You can plant garlic in autumn or spring, autumn-planted varieties tend to be more successful and produce larger bulbs. If you’d like to have a go at growing garlic here’s what to do.
First of all, prepare the ground that you’ll be planting into. Remove any weeds, dig over the soil and rake the surface to even it out.
Use a trowel to create a shallow trench in a straight line – it helps to use a string line like I have in the picture, but don’t worry too much about getting it perfectly straight.
Break up your bulb of garlic into individual cloves. Plant each clove about an inch below the surface of the soil, with the pointy end facing up. Depending on your garlic variety you will need to leave 10-15cm between cloves, check the packaging for your variety.
All you need to do then is fill the trench back in so that the cloves sit just below the surface of the soil. Water the row well after planting but don’t water again over winter. Keep on top of any weeds that emerge as these will inhibit the growth of your crop.
Autumn-planted garlic will be ready for harvesting around July next year, when the foliage starts to turn yellow.
And that’s it, a quick gardening job for autumn that will give you a lovely crop of garlic for your cooking next summer. Are you going to plant garlic this autumn?
For more ideas on what to plant at this time of year take a look at this month’s What to Plant now post.
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Horse lovers will flock to this volume, which is chock full of down-to-earth, practical advice. While much of the information would be useful to anyone involved with horses, this book is really for the prospective horse owner who is just starting out. The novice will find the book easy to use, as each chapter stands on its own as a source of information about a specific aspect of horse ownership. Users can refer to the topic they need, and important sections are marked with icons indicating "Tip," "Warning," and "Remember." There is even an indicator for "technical stuff" that the beginner may not need to know. The book's coauthors are a veterinarian and an editor of an equine magazine, respectively, and both are well versed in the intricacies of horse ownership. They are careful to point out matters of protocol, those things that are always done a certain way in the horse world, though often for no apparent reason. A worthwhile purchase for public libraries.ADeborah Emerson, Monroe Community Coll., Rochester, NY
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|Dormaa Observes Thanksgiving|
|Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:40|
The people of Dormaa in the Brong Ahafo Region has observed this year’s national Independence Day celebrations in the District.
Peace, Security and Stability within your borders, oh! Ghana (Psalm 122:6-8): was the theme chosen for the National, Regional and Districts Week of Prayer, Fasting and Thanksgiving Service to climaxed activities marking the 55th Independence Day Anniversary nationwide, this year.
In a special interdenominational church service to end the special week of Prayer, Fasting and Thanksgiving in Dormaa, the chairman of the Local Council of Churches, Rev. John Felix Yeboah last Sunday, called on all Ghanaian to devote attention and responsibility in their daily activities in the interest of Ghana’s stability.
He stated that the stability of this country lies not in the hands of foreigners but in that of Ghanaians and therefore the desire for national peace, should not remain in the mere proclamation or alien expectations and polices.
The Rev Yeboah said fasting, prayer and thanksgiving if alienated from tolerance, parity, unity, and respect for different opinions will not mount up to any results, rather prayer and fasting can only evoke God to provide Ghana with everlasting prosperity and protection backed by true repentance and forgiveness.
Rev Yoboah who was the main speaker spoke about the spirit of tolerance and cautiousness on the part of the media as key to the stability within and on the borders of the country. He also cautioned parents to make time with their children so they can guide them to be responsible citizenry.
The Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Vincent Oppong Asamoah, pleaded with the people of Dormaa to shun temperament or activity that can mar the current democracy of the nation, especially, during this election year.
He said Ghana has come far and advised that Ghanaians should not have any tangible excuse to trade this development for any worthless moves.
Present at the service held at the Schaefer Presbyterian Church were Pastors of the local council of churches, assembly members, staff of the assembly and others.
Prayers were said for peaceful elections and against the increasing number of road accidents, fire outbreak and other disasters.
The Schaefer band, Methodist sing group and other singing groups treated the congregation with inspirational songs.
Source: Linda Osei Fobih, Dormaa)

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Whole Prey Troubleshooting
Updated: Dec 18, 2021
Whole prey is such a great addition to a raw food diet. But when it comes the time to feed, your dog might turn its nose up to it. Pickiness surrounding whole prey can be addressed with these tips. Remember...every dog is different. What works for one dog may or may not work for you, and that's perfectly okay! Here are some tricks to help your dog to get over its whole prey strike.
Before Feeding Prep:
*Make sure that the whole prey is high-quality and fresh. If the whole prey is rancid, don't expect your dog to eat it.
*Make sure they are going to be hungry. Introducing a new food shouldn't be done after a long training session with lots of treats. You want your dog hungry and ready to eat what I put in front of them.
The most common reason a dog will refuse whole prey is its new and unusual texture of the fur/feathers. They're not used to eating the pelt of an animal, so it makes sense they'd be a little hesitant.
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A dog who refuses whole prey (for now)
#1 Expose More Meat
The first approach is to expose more of the muscle meat by pulling the pelt back. To expose the meat, make a small incision, usually by the chest at a pullback. After exposing the meat, tear off some muscle meat and feed it to show this foreign meal is somewhat familiar. Since your dogs are used to eating muscle meat, they usually have no objections to this part.
#2 Small Pieces
The next strategy is to cut the whole prey into smaller, more manageable pieces. It's not fair to expect an unseasoned whole prey eater to confidently gulp down the furry new meal, though keep in mind many dogs would.
Using your scissors or knife, cut the whole prey into smaller parts. For quail, cut off the wings, legs, and head. Then take half the body as well.
The way you present the whole prey to your dog may affect if they gobble it up or not. If your dog is usually hand-fed, throwing a whole prey on the ground and walking away may not be the best strategy.
Make sure you're presenting the whole prey meal as you would any meal. If they are hand-fed, make sure to hand-feed the whole prey too.
Some dogs need a change in texture! Try feeding the whole prey, either frozen or partially frozen, to change up to feel. It's not ideal to feed frozen meals, but a few times won't hurt them in this case.
You can also cut the whole prey into smaller pieces then freeze, so it's easier for the dog to eat it right out of the freezer.
#5 Tough Love
The last strategy requires some tough love. By this point, if skinning the whole prey and cutting it down doesn't work, then they don't get to eat. Now, this may sound cruel, but skipping a meal or two won't kill your dog and is actually very beneficial!
Not giving in to the refusal to eat teaches the dog, "if you're not going to eat what I give you, you don't get to eat." Eventually, they get hungry enough to give in to their pickiness.
Some dogs are very stubborn and can go days without eating. But these stubborn little housemates eventually give in... and now Stormy eats whole prey like a champ. This step should only be done for adult dogs over the age of 1.
When you're saving a meal to present it again, it's important to store it properly. Store the refused meals in a glass container and keep them in the fridge until the next meal. When the next meal comes around, go through the first and second strategies again, and if they don't work, resort to the 3rd strategy.
Now you're prepared to tackle the refusal of whole prey. Hopefully, some of these strategies will help your dog eat some whole prey. I hope you learned something new today & Always Keep Exploring!

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Background: Twenty-one Arkansas Women Republican State Senators and Representatives wanted it to be clear that Arkansas’ lack of rural broadband was in a state of emergency. As part of their DREAM “B.I.G.” agenda, the Arkansas Republican Women Legislative Caucus sponsored rural broadband legislation on January 23rd, that sought to unleash their rural municipalities to apply for over $1 billion in USDA grants.
As originally written, SB150 would have removed most restrictions on municipalities that do not operate their own electric utilities by putting them on par with municipalities that do operate electric utilities. (Municipal electric utilities in Arkansas already have the right to provide communications services other than traditional local exchange services.) After SB150 moved from the Senate Insurance and Commerce Committee to the Senate floor, the broadband municipal broadband restrictions were re-imposed on those communities that do not operate electric utilities , and a new provision was added giving them the right, alone or with a private partner, to apply for loans or grants to serve unserved areas and to provide services in such unserved areas pursuant to grants or loans received.
On February 15, CLIC wrote a letter of commendation and support to the Arkansas Republican Women Legislative Caucus, complimenting their bold and important step to ensure universal broadband availability in Arkansas.
February 15, 2019
Arkansas Republican Women Legislative Caucus
Senator Breanne Davis, Senator Cecile Bledsoe, Senator Jane English, Senator Missy Irvin; Rep. Deanne Vaught, Rep. Sonia Barker, Rep. Mary. Bentley, Rep. Karilyn Brown, Rep. Sarah Capp, Rep. Frances Cavenaugh, Rep. Carol Dalby, Rep. Charlene Fite, Rep. Robin Lunstrum, Rep. Rebecca Petty, Rep. Nelda Speakes, Rep. Michelle Gray, Rep. Cindy Crawford, Rep. Jana Della Rosa, Rep. Julie Mayberry, Rep. Gayla Hendren McKenzie, and Rep. Laurie Rushing
Subject: CLIC support for Rural Broadband Legislation SB150
Dear Members of the Arkansas Republican Women Legislative Caucus:
We write to thank you and your colleagues for your work to promote local internet and broadband choice and opportunity.
We write in our capacities as women leaders of the Coalition for Local Internet Choice (CLIC), a nonpartisan entity that represents a wide range of public and private interests who support the authority of local communities to make broadband internet choices that are essential for economic competitiveness, democratic discourse, and quality of life in the 21st Century.
CLIC believes that our national interest requires that local communities have the authority to engage in broadband projects through whatever means best suits the local community, as is determined by their elected officials. Such means can include a wide range of options, including partnerships with private entities, public networking, and facilitation of private ISP investment.
We were delighted to see that your Caucus’s “Dream B.I.G.” legislative agenda included SB150: An Act to Amend the Telecommunications Regulatory Reform Act of 2013; to Provide Additional Access to FCC-Defined Broadband Service; to Declare an Emergency. The original version of SB150 would have removed the state’s legal barriers that currently prevent municipalities from doing their part to help deploy broadband in their communities. When that version of SB150 passed the Senate Insurance and Commerce Committee, it sparked hope for a better future for the businesses, institutions, and residents of Arkansas. Unfortunately, the far more restrictive version that passed the full Senate represents a step backward, as it ties the hands of local communities to determine their broadband destinies.
We stand with you in this bold important step to ensure that no child or family is denied access to educational, healthcare, public safety and economic opportunities unleashed by access to broadband because of where they live. We hope to have the opportunity to support your efforts.
Please let us know who we should contact in the near future to work together.


First, let’s separate the weapons that criminals use into three distinct categories: edged weapons, impact weapons, and firearms. An edged weapon that a criminal may use can be a broken beer bottle, a sharp piece of wood, or even the tip of a bronze Eiffel Tower souvenir. An impact weapon attack can be with a baseball bat, crowbar, or frying pan. When it comes to committing a crime with a firearm it can be with a revolver, semi-automatic pistol, shotgun or assault rifle.
Second, we never want to condition our minds to only defend ourselves with a limited set of weapons. I used the word “defend,” but that also encompasses also being proficient in using them. After all, “a good defense is a good offense.” Therefore, I have adopted, and I recommend you do the same, the fighting philosophy and moto of the instructors who teach the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, known by its acronym MCMAP and pronounced mick-map, and that is ONE MIND ANY WEAPON.
For nine years, from 1993 to 2002, I trained U.S. Marine units at various camps on a regular basis. One of the groups I trained was the L.I.N.E. (Linear Involuntary Neurological Overriding Engagement) instructors at Camp Pendleton, California. LINE Combatives, which was what the instructors called it, while most Marines just called it “Combatives,” was the hand-to-hand combat system taught by the U.S. Marine Corps from 1989 to 2001, until it was replaced by MCMAP in 2002 by Marine Corps Order 1500.54. As a token of their appreciation for teaching them my own techniques and tactics, they presented me with an instructor sweatshirt that bore the motto 'one mind any weapon', along with a fist, a M-16A2, a Ka-bar combat knife, and rifle.
Here I am (right), when I was a police S.W.A.T. officer with the Costa Mesa Police Department (California) at the Military Operations Urban Terrain (M.O.U.T.) facility at Camp Pendleton giving a briefing to law enforcement and military “aggressors” who will hunt, capture, or kill snipers during a 12-hour training exercise.
I am teaching these sniper students how to fight with their sniper rifles if they are forced to use them in a hand-to-hand combat situation. Although scout sniper teams also carry an assault rifle, pistols, and knives, they adhere to ONE MIND ANY WEAPON.
These are just a few of the items, toys, that I bought for one dollar each at a discount store to use them in self-defense training and scenarios. Exposing students to a wide variety of weapon instills ONE MIND ANY WEAPON.
One of my best sources for buying training weapons is at a dollar store, or a euro store if I’m teaching in Europe, and they have a variety of names. In the toy section of the store I often find toys that I can use in my weapons training and scenarios: toy tools, toy cooking pans, toy knives and guns. Come Halloween time I buy plastic chains, weapons that are accessories to costumes, and even severed limbs for those terrorism scenarios that begin just after a “bomb blast.” I’ve even bought some Styrofoam grave headstones that I have set up outside of the training facility and told my students, “That will be you in the grave one day if you don’t master your war craft.”
If you want to go the extra step in realism, then add a little paint here and there, along with scratches and stains, to make the weapon appear aged or dirty. Smear a little stage blood on it, and it will look like it had just been used on a previous “victim.”
Of course, you still need to train with the stereotype weapons, such as knives, sticks, and guns, but occasionally use a “screwdriver,” a “cooking pot,” or a “syringe” to condition yourself, or those you teach, for ONE MIND ANY WEAPON. It’s one thing saying it, but quite another thing actually doing it.
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KELLY Clarkson fans have theorized that one of Matthew Perry’s family members will be cut out of her talk show.
Keith Morrison, Matthew‘s stepfather, will be a special guest on the US daytime TV talk show on Tuesday, October 31.
On the official The Kelly Clarkson Shows Instagram page, they got viewers excited about all the special guests that were going to be appearing on the show.
However, with the news of Matthew’s tragic death over the weekend, fans don’t think Keith will be on the show anymore.
They shared their thoughts in the comment section.
“I doubt Keith Morrison will be in,” one fan exclaimed.
Another asked: “I wonder if you’ll air the Keith Morrison [interview].”
“I just learned yesterday that Keith Morrison is Matthew Perry’s step dad,” a third admitted.
A fourth fan asked if the show was prerecorded, to which another claimed it was taped last week.
MATT’S TRAGIC DEATH
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His staffer made a frantic 911 call and referred to a drowning in the 15-second dispatch audio clip.
Cops confirmed the death was being investigated but no foul play is suspected.
Over the years, the famous actor had been candid about his struggles with drink and drugs, and health problems.
No narcotics were discovered at the scene, but authorities found anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, and a drug for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
On the morning of his death, Matthew had played racquet sport pickleball with a female friend, who revealed the star had felt unwell and “fatigued” for the past week.
FAMILY SPEAKS OUT
On October 20, Matthew’s family broke their silence following the death of the TV star.
In a heartbreaking statement shared to People, the late actor’s family members wrote: “We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of our beloved son and brother.
“Matthew brought so much joy to the world, both as an actor and a friend.”
They closed with: “You all meant so much to him and we appreciate the tremendous outpouring of love.”
On Monday, Matthew’s ex-fiance, Molly Hurwitz shared a statement on her Instagram account.
“He would love that the world is talking about how talented he was. And he really was very talented,” she said.
“As the Friends reunion was approaching, we rewatched the show together. ‘F**k, I was so good!!!…See what I did there?’ We rewound and studied scenes. Our respect and appreciation of humor is something that connected us. Being with him as he rediscovered his brilliance was magical.
“But, I obviously knew that man in a very different way, too. While I loved him deeper than I could comprehend, he was complicated, and he caused pain like I’d never known. No one in my adult life has had a more profound impact on me than Matthew Langford Perry. I have tremendous gratitude for that, for everything I learned from our relationship.”
“I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Al Anon, an invaluable resource for those who love someone struggling with this destructive disease,” Molly added.
“Matty, I feel relief that you are at peace,” she concluded.
‘WE ARE A FAMILY’
Also on Monday, the cast of the hit NBC sitcom Friends: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and Lisa Kudrow shared a joint statement on the loss of their “family” member.
“We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew. We were more than just cast mates. We are a family,” their statement, which was first obtained by People, reads.
“There is so much to say, but right now we’re going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss.
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“In time we will say more, as and when we are able,” the statement continues. “For now, our thoughts and our love are with Matty’s family, his friends, and everyone who loved him around the world.”
The note is signed by each of his co-stars.

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A Mother’s Day 2017 Beauty Gifts:It’s Mothering Sunday today – the special day to celebrate all mums across the UK.
Also the fourth Sunday of Lent, the 24-hours marks the maternal bond that exists between a mum and child – as well as other maternal figures such as grandmothers, mothers-in-law and stepmums.
When is Mother’s Day 2017?
In the UK, the event falls on Sunday, March 26. However this date varies all around the world.
How is Mother’s Day celebrated?
Mothering Sunday is a Christian celebration that has now become a worldwide event where we show mums how much we appreciate them.
More than 30% of Brits say their mum is the most inspirational person in their life. Mother’s Day is traditionally a celebration to observe and celebrate mums, grandmothers and step-mums with flowers, breakfast in bed, gifts
How did Mother’s Day begin?


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As if angry that nobody liked Iron Fist, Netflix has released a new show, Wu Assassins, that tries to make an American star out of Iko Uwais by giving him iron fists in his fight against corruption in Chinatown. Uwais plays a chef who is unwillingly inducted into a battle for the soul of San Francisco. He is the 1000th Wu Assassin, the last in a line of warriors endowed (by the Tao) with magical abilities that enable them to bring balance back to the Tao when it is threatened by magically-enhanced warlords. (NB. Since there are no warlords in the United States anymore, “warlord” has apparently become the Tao way of saying “gangster.”)
It’s okay if you don’t know much about the Tao; just keep in mind that it’s an ancient Chinese religious force very similar to the Force from Star Wars. (And by “similar,” I mean that George Lucas borrows much of his mysticism from Taoism.) Now, since the Tao is more ancient than Luke Skywalker, I can forgive the show its obvious debt to Star Wars, even when the wuxia result has little to do with actual Taoism. But I can’t forgive the blasé willingness to make a mockery of both Chinatown and the monastic traditions from which it attempts to siphon gravitas.
I’m not crusading for dull, respectful representations of Asian monks. Like many of you, I grew up with the Wu Tang Clan and the RZA’s seemingly endless supply of samples from movies like Shogun Assassin. I also loved both Kill Bill movies. I believe my credentials as a desecrator of monkish respectability are very much in order. But there’s a problem when “monk” just means “martial arts expert,” and doesn’t even connote a spiritual path, or asceticism, or a meditative thought-process, or anything else of the kind. It hollows out the archetype.
An example: at the beginning of the show, Kai the chef is told he has been infused with the power of 1000 monks. A few episodes later, we learn that one of the 1000 monks is a Scotsman with a broadsword. In other words, he’s not Asian, which is okay. But he’s also not a monk, which is not okay at all. That shipwrecks the show’s entire narrative. So Kai is not filled, I guess, with the power of people who dedicated themselves to self-mastery and the extermination of evil. He’s just filled with the power of random people, all for the sake of a lousy reveal.
Wu Assassins is a show that’s big on belief; that’s an ironic trick of a lot of bad shows that try to be good grindhouse cinema. They pretend to be just for fun, but the suspension of disbelief they require is staggering. For example, you have to believe that Kai is “pure of heart” because his trainer asserts as much. Then, in order to make him an interesting character, the show gives him all kinds of failings, quirks, and ambivalent attitudes. One minute he’s cooking a poisoned soup for his godfather (who is Chinese mafia), and the next he’s trying to save the very same man’s soul. In other words, like most of us, he’s pure of heart sometimes, and impure of heart the rest of the time. That makes him a mildly persuasive character, but it makes him a terrible candidate for magical endowments. We don’t admire him. We weakly hope he’ll come out on top, and that’s all.
The way the show cues the audience is also unforgivable. The primary bad guy is consistently philosophical, in an irritating fashion that comes off like a poor imitation of the baddies in Daredevil and other Marvel franchises. The female characters are sassy and get into screechy catfights. The junkie brother wheedles and whines. The thugs are blockheads, literally: they all seem to have enormously large, thick skulls, whether they are Russian or Chinese, and they are all idiots. I’m actually surprised that none of the evil bosses refer to them as “henchmen.”
We live in a new world after Crazy Rich Asians: a show can be set in Chinatown and feature an almost entirely Asian-American cast. That would be something to celebrate if this show didn’t portray Chinatown as a foul hive of scum and villainy, mostly un-policed, and teeming with ancient feuds and (you guessed it!) warlords. The difference between Chinatown and the rest of San Francisco is its ethnic makeup, and that’s it; Chinatown is not some sort of wildly glamorous slum. I guarantee that anyone who watches Wu Assassins without having visited California would get nervous about setting foot in Chinatown. What’s so progressive or groundbreaking about that? Plus, the area is so hard to infiltrate (apparently) that the police have to send in an undercover operative. They choose a white woman with blonde hair, which makes sense because... oh, never mind. I forgot that this was the show where owning a Chinese food truck somehow makes you a monk as well as a chef.
Ultimately, I do believe that Uwais has been chosen by the Tao to do great things. At a minimum, the man can fight, even if his acting here is worse than Mark Hamill at his youngest. But this show is not going to be his star vehicle. (Leave that to the slow dissemination of both Raid movies.) The Tao has also chosen me for a singular purpose: it’s my mission to save San Francisco from this show. But I need your help. Stream anything else. Together we will mend this broken video game of a world.


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I’ve landed in Arizona, where it is indeed hot. Had time to bat out a question-and-answer entry on the flight down, so here we go. …
Q: So, how hot is it down there anyway?
A: Okay, so no one really asked that since I’ve been here, but thought I’d use this entry to pass it along, anyway. Weather.com says it will hit 101 here tomorrow, but notes that sunset is at 5:52 and that the night time low is 73.
Q: Doesn’t it seem like the Huskies are committing a lot more penalties this year?
A: It doesn’t just seem like it, they are. One of the few bright spots of the Tyrone Willingham era, at least statistically, was that the Huskies annually ranked among the least-penalized teams in the Pac-10. UW was the second-least penalized team in the country last year at 39.8 — Arizona was first at 35.8, interesting given all the debate I’ve heard this week over whether the way Mike Stoops coaches his team leads the Wildcats to commit more penalties as the numbers don’t prove that out (and Arizona is third in fewest penalties this year). UW, meanwhile, is eighth this year in penalties at 59.0 yards per game, their lowest-standing since at least before Willingham became coach.
But some on Montlake would argue that there was a tradeoff during the past four years, that playing not to commit penalties also led to playing unaggressively and tentative. I heard UW defensive coordinator Nick Holt make that same point on his weekly show with Dave Mahler this week, saying that “you don’t want to take that aggressiveness away. You’ve just got to make good decisions. It’s just a few players that are in that situation.”
He mentioned Victor Aiyewa, who got a personal foul on a third down play that kept Arizona’s first TD drive alive Saturday, and noted that Daniel Te’o-Nesheim has also gotten two personal fouls in the last two weeks. “Those two guys play harder than anyone else on defense,” Holt said. “You’ve just got to remind them to play smart.”
Q: Was Jake Locker’s 56-yard run last week the longest by a UW quarterback?
A: Close, but not quiet. A quick perusal of the UW record book shows that the longest run by a UW QB was 71 yards by Warren Moon against USC in 1977, what old-timers will tell you was a really huge play in what was one of the biggest wins of the Don James era in securing the coach’s first conference title. (CORRECTION — As one reader pointed out, I initially missed an 81-yard run by Tom Manke in 1967 that appears to be the longest by a QB.)
James Anderson, who was the first African-American to start a game at QB in UW history, had a 63-yarder against Syracuse in 1973. Steve Pelluer, not exactly known as the fleetest UW QB ever, had a 61-yard TD run against Oregon in 1983. Billy Joe Hobert had a 60-yarder against Wisconsin in 1992 and Dennis Fitzpatrick also ran 60 yards against WSU in 1974, the day he rushed for 249 total —- the single-game high for a Husky QB. As far as I can tell, Locker’s run Saturday would be next. (And no, I don’t see any that long by Marques Tuiasosopo, who may be the best running QB in UW history other than Locker. According to the UW record book, he never had a rush longer than 50 yards.)
Q: Are there any of last year’s freshman who were forced to play redshirting this year?
A: No. Reality is, some of those guys are gone, such as RBs David Freeman an Terrance Dailey. The most likely candidate in the eyes of fans to redshirt this year may have been WR Cody Bruns, whose redshirt was lifted last year in the fifth game of the season against Arizona in what seemed to many as a really unnecessary move given the way the season was going at the time. But Bruns has played in five if six games this year so it’s too late for him to redshirt now — and he’s on the trip this weekend with a better chance to play than ever due to the injury to Jordan Polk. Most of the other frosh who played last year, such as Everrette Thompson, Alameda Ta’amu and Senio Kelemete, are playing key roles. So the only redshirts by choice this year are true frosh.
Q: Can you print ASU’s starting lineup for tomorrow? I thought I heard there are some key guys out?
A: Here’s the starting lineup as reprinted from today’s East Valley Tribune:
Arizona State offense
WR — Kerry Taylor
LT — Shawn Lauvao
LG — Jon Hargis
C — Thomas Altieri
RG — Brent Good
RT — Tom Njunge
TE — Dan Knapp
WR — Kyle Williams
QB — Danny Sullivan
RB — Dimitri Nance
WR — Chris McGaha
Arizona State defense
DE — Dexter Davis
DT — Lawrence Guy
DT — Saia Falahola
DE — James Brooks
OLB — Travis Goethel
MLB — Vontaze Burfict
OLB — Mike Nixon
CB — Terell Carr
FS — Jarrell Holman
SS — Ryan McFoy
CB — Pierre Singfield
The only change in that from the beginning of the week is at right guard, where regular Garth Gerhart is out. Gerhart is the only regular OL expected to miss the game as the other four starters are expected to play. However, both starting WRs are in some question as McGaha has had the flu all week and Williams has been bothered by a hamstring. Williams caught 13 passes last week against WSU, however, despite the injury, which he first suffered in practice in late September. Regular starting CB Omar Bolden is also out and will be replaced by Terell Carr, who has started three games this year in Bolden’s place and leads the team with four pass breakups.
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The Community Rights Movement is dismantling corporate rule,
putting people and planets over profits.
The current law sees nature as property from which resources should be extracted in pursuit of endless growth and gives corporations the privilege of “personhood” and rights.
What is a Community Bill of Rights?
A Community Bill of Rights is a tool for communities that have been taken over by corporate interests; communities that are told they cannot make their own decisions because the State gets to control that particular issue, such as setting the minimum wage, paid leave, anti-discrimination laws, sharing economy (e.g. AirBnB, Uber, etc.), choosing how our local taxes are spent, what to do with confederate monuments and from where we get our electricity.
Communities that are passing these Bills are transforming the conversation from “how can we best regulate corporations?’ to “how do we change the legal structure to place the rights of people and the planet over those of corporations?“. Slavery wasn’t abolished because people were looking at how to better regulate the industry, it took a deconstruction of the legal structure that allowed people to be “property”.
A Community Bill of Rights can be written to focus on any issue where the State is getting in the way of communities being able to make their own decisions. Asheville’s first Community Bill of Rights focuses on our right to a healthy climate and a sustainable energy future. This is the first of many Bills of Rights across the state of North Carolina.
In partnership with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) Community Roots has drafted a Community Bill of Rights stating our right to a healthy climate. We are building a campaign for the City of Asheville to pass this ground-breaking ordinance to begin to process of asserting our right to local-self governance as detailed in the Declaration of Independence and dismantling the system of corporate rule that has become the norm in modern America.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | February 26, 2013
New American Chemical Society podcast: A new, super-nutritious puffed rice for breakfast cereals and snacks
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2013 — The latest episode in the American Chemical Society’s (ACS’) award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series reports a new process for blowing up grains of rice to produce a super-nutritious form of puffed rice, with three times more protein and a rich endowment of other nutrients. That makes it ideal for breakfast cereals, snack foods and nutrient bars for school lunch programs.
Commercial puffed rice is made by steam extrusion. An extruder squeezes rice flour mixed with water through a narrow opening at high temperature and pressure. On exiting the nozzle, the rice puffs up as steam expands and escapes. The process, however, can destroy heat-sensitive nutrients.
In the new episode, Rizvi explains that he looked for a way to avoid that loss and enrich rice with protein and other nutrients during the puffing process. The scientists turned to a process that uses supercritical carbon dioxide, which has been used for making decaffeinated coffee and in other applications.
The scientists describe using the process to make puffed rice with three times more protein and eight times more dietary fiber than commercial puffed rice. It also contains calcium, iron, zinc and other nutrients that conventional puffed rice lacks. Their puffed rice was crispier than commercial products, giving it a better taste and crunch.
The new rice is “ideally suited for consumption as breakfast cereals, snack food and as part of nutrition bars for school lunch programs,” the report states. “The balanced nutritional profile and use of staple crop byproducts such as broken rice makes these expanded crisps unique to the marketplace.”
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions is a series of podcasts describing some of the 21st century’s most daunting problems, and how cutting-edge research in chemistry matters in the quest for solutions. Global Challenges is the centerpiece in an alliance on sustainability between ACS and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Global Challenges is a sweeping panorama of global challenges that includes dilemmas such as providing a hungry and thirsty world with ample supplies of safe food and clean water, developing alternatives to petroleum to fuel society, preserving the environment and ensuring a sustainable future for our children and improving human health.

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|Check in anytime after 2:00 PM, check out anytime before 11:00 AM|
|Cancellation/prepayment policies vary by room type and provider.|
Shg Hotel Bologna is located at Via Risorgimento 186, 0.5 miles from the center of Zola Predosa. Unipol Arena is the closest landmark to Shg Hotel Bologna.
Check-in time is 2:00 PM and check-out time is 11:00 AM at Shg Hotel Bologna.
Yes, Shg Hotel Bologna offers free Wi-Fi.
Yes, Shg Hotel Bologna offers free parking.
No, Shg Hotel Bologna does not offer free airport shuttle service.
Shg Hotel Bologna is 4.5 miles from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi. Shg Hotel Bologna is 46.8 miles from Florence Peretola.
Yes, Shg Hotel Bologna is a pet-friendly hotel.
No, Shg Hotel Bologna does not have a pool onsite.