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Inside job - when and how did employees become so feared?
More and more breaches are being blamed on the menace within
John is one of the cofounders of Techworld, having previously edited several technology titles including Network World, Network Week and LAN Magazine.
By John E Dunn | Jul 31, 2015
Something dark has recently soured the once rock-solid relationship between organisations and their employees and it doesn't look like a bond that can be patched up any time soon.
The security industry intuitively understands the notion that the world is full of hackers and cybercriminals that want to break into organisations from the outside but when it comes to assessing the malevolence of insiders, of ordinary employees, it struggles to quantify the risk.
For years it's been viewed as a modest threat even if the occasional administrator would run amock with privileged access or a sales person would steal a customer database. That was just part of life. People occasionally do bad things out of spite, greed or craziness.
These days, the enemy within is starting to be seen as less an inconvenience than an alarming existential threat. This paranoia might not be the right way to understand the problem.
Security firm Clearswift came up with a recent estimate based on a survey of 4,000 workers in the UK, Australia, USA and Germany that a quarter would sell their employer's data for as little as £5,000 ($7,500) if nobody would find out. Up the rewards to £50,000 and a third would be open to the idea of a bribe.
It sounds depressing but is it that surprising?
Meanwhile, an Insider Threat Report by US firm SpectorSoft (which sells monitoring systems of course), crowdsourced experiences from LinkedIn, turning up some interesting material. The average number of detected insider attacks was 3.8 per organisation with around half not sure how many had occurred, largely because they had no way to spot them.
Two thirds of these organisations reckoned they were seeing more attacks in the last year, again perhaps an issue of measurement – if you look for something you hadn't worried about before shouldn't be surprised if you find more of it than you expected.
Sorting out these attacks was, not surprisingly, rather expensive, costing an average of $445,000 (£287,000) per incident. We can't vouch for these numbers – estimating security clean-up costs is notoriously contentious – but the likelihood that insider incidents are costly is plausible. Very few security systems are set up to monitor what insiders are up to in much detail so unravelling the chain of events takes longer and requires more expertise.
This focus on insiders fits with recent big hacks from Edward Snowden (a whistlebower to some of course) to the strange events at Sony Pictures in 2014 which some still believe must have involved an insider in some way. Earlier this month, the breach at dating site Ashley Madison was pinned on some kind of insider nefariousness while in the UK an auditor at supermarket Morrisons was jailed for eight years for posting details of 100,000 employees on a website in 2014 after harbouring a grudge against his firm. Insiders are fast becoming the explanation for many major attacks and breaches.
Frankly, it's hard to believe that insiders are any more dangerous than they've ever been. All organisations can be undermined pretty spectacularly from inside, which is hardly new. This wasn't always apparent but the digital age has handed us some handy case studies. In many cases making an attack public to generate publicity is these days part of the motive.
As anyone who's been around a bit knows, the real problem isn't that employees sometimes turn on their employer but that organisations are for the first time being forced to care about this fact. Perhaps insider attacks could once be kept private but this is no longer the case. This isn't a moral issue so much as a basic business one.
The danger is that the insider becomes a handy scapegoat, a coded way of passing the blame to unexpected and unforeseeable forces beyond the control of any organisation. That will work for a while but at some point this excuse will run out of legs. Insiders are here to stay. The era of ultra-intrusive organisations who monitor everything that happens during wortktime (including when working at home) is almost upon us.
Wary customers shun businesses after data breaches Firms take 10 hours to spot data breaches, McAfee finds

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For the seventh time in the courtyard of the royal castle in Budapest the festival of 'palinka' or, as Slavs call it, 'palenka' will be held. The basic idea is to popularize the drink, which the citizens and their guests will be able to taste for four days. This year the emphasis will be placed on apricot and the drinks which will be named after this fruit "Hungarikum."
Visitors will have the opportunity to try more than one hundred kinds of drinks. Last year's experience showed that the choice of "palinka of the year" is very popular. In addition, this year they will continue the tradition of thematic design: apricot will be in the center of all events, last year it was a plum.
During the festival in the courtyard Gunyadi and Lwin, over 25 manufacturers will represent their drinks. The fullness of flavor will be enriched by Hungarian domestic cheeses, delicious wines and champagne and sausages. One of the highlights will be the palinka, which is added to chocolate. Besides food and beverages Hungarian musicians will entertain guests. This year, for the first time organizers introduced pre-booking.
The festival will be held from 10 to 13 May, the cost of a one-time entrance fee, which includes a glass of palinka - is about 60 hryvnia.


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Daiki Axis Japan's fresh investments to expand in south
The company's long-term plan is to set up a manufacturing unit in each state of India, he said.
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20 Dec, 2022, 11:45 pm
NEW DELHI: Daiki Axis Japan will infuse fresh investments to expand its presence in south India, a company official said.
In November, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar inaugurated the company's second unit in India in Palwal, which was set up with an investment of Rs 200 crore to produce sewage water treatment units. A unit is already operational at Vapi in Gujarat.
When asked about future investment plans, Kamal Tiwari, CEO of Daiki Axis India, said: "Our next plan is to set up a factory either in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka or Tamil Nadu.
"Meetings have already been done with all these states. As we start getting approvals, we will begin construction work immediately by 2023 to cater our demand."
The Vapi and Palwal plants on an average have the annual capacity to produce around 1,000 sewage water treatment units each with Japanese "Johkasou" technology used to treat domestic wastewater locally and reuse it.
Each project in south India will be on the lines of Palwal's in terms of investment and capacity, the CEO said.
India and Japan have also signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) for wastewater management through Johkasou technology.
Explaining the technology, he said its system is regulated by Johkasou Act of Japan, in which technical standards for manufacturing, installation, and operation and maintenance including desludging are stipulated.
The Act also stipulates a qualification system for Johkasou related technicians.
In short, Johkasou is to treat domestic wastewater locally and reuse it, which is very appropriate for India in current circumstances, Tiwari said.
On the importance of wastewater treatment, the industry expert said: "It's a matter of concern that 600 million people in India face high to extreme water stress. About 3/4th of the households in the country do not have drinking water at their premises. With nearly 70 per cent of water being contaminated, India is placed at 120th amongst 122 countries in the Water Quality Index."
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar
Daiki Axis Japan
produce sewage water treatment units


"Some Will, Some Won't, So What, Next!" So What?
Become enlightened by this week's Oliver's Twist by Mike!
Do you use the expression "Some will, some won't, so what!"?
If you do, as you say the words, how do you intuitively feel? What does your "gut" say to you?
Do you feel comfortable because it's really your truth, or do you have a feeling of discomfort that you've adopted someone else's truth or industry language that doesn't resonate with you?
Personally I've never cared for the expression. For me it smacks too much of ego, bravado and the negative interpretation of – "posturing".
No matter how it's said… (try saying it with love and then say it while pounding your chest like Neanderthal man!) … it just doesn't feel aligned with the rhythm of life. Saying "So what" implies a lack of caring and I think that most of us do care.
As many of you know, I'm a student of words as they convey powerful messages that are both hidden and direct. I believe we must be careful of the words we use as they all start with a thought. People will tune into your thoughts and intentions via the words you use. Whether you know it or not, your words ultimately give you away. You can't escape it!
In chapter 11 of my book, "How To Sell Network Marketing Without Fear, Anxiety Or Losing Your Friends!" I talk more about how your thinking is reflected in the words you say.
Similarly, using words or expressions like "Some will, some won't, so what!" have the subtle impact that is not going to be helpful in building your business and the future that you desire.
So, instead of ending with "So what"… how about… "Some will, some won't, and that's OK"?
Best Selling Author of "How to Sell Network Marketing Without Fear, Anxiety or Losing Your Friends!" – Selling from the Soul. Ancient Wisdoms. Modern Practice.
7 Sites that can help you explode your internet footprint?
Andrew Turnbull and CSea agree, great ways to jump start your exposure, be seen and heard! Twitter value is very debatable; yet a vehicle to get your site to thousands instantly.
I would like to share with you, some strategies in using free "Social Media" that have consistently worked for me and believe me, I am no "computer expert".
I want to hear your take on what has worked for you also!
If you are like me, you probably stumbled through setting up your social media footprint, making mistakes and learning along the way by reading blogs and nicking ideas from other, more established social media gurus….
I have spent the past 3 years, desperately trying to keep pace with the newest latest trends as I knew it would be important…then I realized…it's all about sticking to and building up what works!
Here are 7 Must have Social Media footprints that it is worth spending time on for your business or personal interest.
The 7 Below are all free….
1) Twitter – http://www.twitter.com – Create a twitter account, and share all your blog posts, quotes, education, sales, special products, special concerns about the environment, other natural solutions, etc. A great way to generate traffic to your main site. Do Not waste time on this. Use a free traffic generator http://TweetSpinner.com after creating your twitter account.
1.1) Blog! http://WordPress.com offers a phenomenal free Application for this. Check out http://BioHonor.com (subscribe) then click on other blogs for ideas of how you wish to design your WEB PRESENCE for FREE.
3) NING – http://www.ning.com http://GoGreenDaytona.ning.com is another example created in a couple hours.
I could kiss the people at Ning. They developed a free, open source tool that allows you to build your own Social Network. I have actually used it as my Blog Page. Almost every trick I have learned so far can be found and incorporated into my blog. Ning is a must have if you want to build a community around a product or a group.
If you have been looking for a way to create a video that is a bit different, then you might like to check out Go Animate. I have created several business clips explaining our new jobsite and how it works videos using Go Animate.
You can download the Animation free, but they usually put advertising at the start of the clip…which I didn't want for business…so I downloaded the clips to store on my computer.
It is worthwhile re-visiting your LinkedIn profile and adding in some Applications. I added Box.net and I keep company sales documents and e-books in there. They get downloaded at least twice a week if not more.
BONUS: Have yourself a http://www.bit.ly bookmark to shorten the long URL's that you wish to share with others.
The most effective way to invite people to a new site or communicate online is using a short impactful video. It is taking the internet like a storm and creating excellent results. http://bit.ly/CSeaWowWe click on products for details. Automated generation, unlimited vMail sends and tracking.
I have heaps more that I play with, but these 7 are some interesting sites that I have found to help me grow my business.
It would be great to hear about everyone's experiences and what works!
Great colors to recharge, anyone know what it is a photo of?
Now you may ask why I would write an article about developing better relationships. The reason is because I believe that those who are in a relationship will be significantly and directly affected in all areas of their life by how that relationship is going, and how healthy that relationship is.
Relationships vary, basics support all.
Research has proven that those who are happy at home are more productive and less stressful at work. Developing a better relationship with your mate can help you develop a better life and a better business! Here are some thoughts to chew on for developing a strong and healthy relationship with your mate.
Listen. Communication is the key to a lasting relationship and listening is the key to communicating. Too often when we are quiet we are not listening, but waiting to speak. Instead of listening to what our mate is saying, and intently trying to understand them, very often we are making mental notes of what we would like to say in response. This is particularly true for us males. We often are trying to find the weakness in our mate's argument, rather than really listening to the words that they're saying and the manner in which they're saying it. Why not take some time this week trying to internalize and understand your mate's words and feelings?
Schedule a regular time to go out or spend time together. With today's busy lifestyles, it is too easy to put our relationships on the backburner and take them for granted. While we might have every intention of spending regular time with our mate, we often find ourselves driven by a schedule that has us running in every direction and leaving us little time for our most important relationships. Work gets in the way. The kids get in the way. Our hobbies get in the way. We need to realize the value in the importance of that relationship with our mate and its effect on our total life. Then we need to make spending time with our mate a major priority by scheduling a specific time at least each week to get alone together, talk, and simply renew our relationship. Be sure to set some time aside each week to rediscover each other and enjoy your time together. Pencil it into your schedule and don't give up that spot. In fact, it is probably best if you and your mate sit down and decide what night will work each and every week, then put it into your daytimer. If someone asks you if you're available at that time, you tell them you already have an appointment. In the long run, that time that you spend with your mate will help you to become more of a success than you could ever mention.
Consider your mate's interests more important than your own. When each person has decided to give of themselves to the other, you form a reciprocating relationship of love, concern, and devotion. When you come to a place where you disagree or where the two of you have differing opinions, try to get to the point where you can consider what your mate likes as more important than what you would like to do. The simple decision to do this goes a long way toward developing a healthy relationship!
Learn your mate's love language. There is a lot of talk recently of love languages. What this is, is that each individual has certain ways they receive love from other people. Some people like to have time spent with them. Others like gifts, small or large. Still others respond best to personal touch. And others appreciate verbal affirmation. Our tendency is to show love the way that we like to receive love, but what will recharge our relationship fastest is to find out what way our mate likes to receive affirmations of our love. The next time you get a chance to speak to your mate, ask which of the above ways they like best to receive your demonstration of love. Then make a conscious effort to begin showing your love in that manner.
Do the small things you did when you first fell in love with your mate. Do remember when you were first in love? Remember the small things you did to show your love? But as time went along, you probably began to get weighed down with simply living life and forgot the small things that made the difference in the beginning. Things like a phone call in the middle of the day just to talk or say "I love you," an appreciative note, flowers, gifts, and opening doors. Recharge your relationship by consciously going back and doing the small things that you did when your love first began to grow.
Forgive. I've done a lot of work with couples having troubles, and one of the most common elements I find that is working against the development of their relationship is that they are holding something against the other and they aren't willing to forgive. The fact is that your mate is going to fail you from time to time. We need to understand that. What we do when we get to that point however, is what will make all the difference in the world. In a relationship that is going to last, the people involved are committed to forgiving one another. Those whose relationships last longest, and will be the healthiest, are those who are committed to forgiveness.
I hope these thoughts are helpful to you in recharging your love relationship. I truly believe that if we will put these principles into practice we will see our relationships grow in ways they never have before, and that in turn will make our whole life better.
Did you deduct ALL your home business legitimate expenses for 2009?
Those that have kept a running record of their expenses through the year are quite pleased at the results. After all, you earned it!
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How he pursued his passion and helps others do the same.
Grandma said he "mowed a fine lawn." Those are the clearest words of affirmation Denis Waitley recalls hearing as a young child. It's no wonder then, that every Saturday, Waitley would hop on his bike and ride 20 miles each way to her house.
Life at home was volatile, at best. The country was mired in the stresses of World War II, finances were nonexistent, dad was an alcoholic and mom was angry. Peace was a stranger to the Waitley household. A particularly damaging eruption happened one night when Waitley was 9. He went to bed in the room he shared with his 2-year-old brother. "My father walked in, and instead of telling us goodnight, he said goodbye. It was six years before we saw him again," Waitley tells SUCCESS.
Today, far from a youth spent in turmoil beyond his control, Waitley has created a life based on the belief that the power of the mind can overcome almost any obstacle. He is an internationally known speaker and consultant whose clients have included astronauts, Olympic athletes, Fortune 500 executives and Super Bowl champions. He has spoken to youth groups, soldiers, entrepreneurs and world leaders. His words of wisdom have been recorded in best-selling books and audio programs, such as The Psychology of Winning, Seeds of Greatness and Empires of the Mind, which have been translated and distributed around the world.
But in 1942, Waitley felt anything but influential. Still a boy, he was suddenly the man of the house. He turned to his Superman books for guidance, feeling like he must deal with his feelings like Superman would. He had to be strong. His mother was struggling with her own outlook, and what she saw translated negatively to her three children. There was no child support, and the Waitley children often felt like their existence was an inconvenience to their mother.
To replenish his strength, Waitley visited his grandmother. She taught him to look beyond his circumstances and become the person he was meant to be. Waitley tells of one particularly poignant memory: "We planted a garden together. I was amazed that the tiny seeds we were burying in the ground would become something we would later harvest and eat." In response to his wonder, grandma told Waitley that they were planting seeds of greatness. Years later, her answer became the title of his New York Times Best-Seller, Seeds of Greatness.
Grandma also introduced Waitley to the world of books. She was a proofreader, and she and her husband owned a bookstore. Waitley acquired his first library card because of her influence.
Then his eighth-grade teacher gave him an influential gift: As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen. The impact on Waitley was twofold. He felt affirmed by the positive words of another person, and the author of the book portrayed individuals as gardeners, planting seeds that would affect the future. Just like grandma.
By this time, Waitley knew he wanted to be a writer and public speaker. "I wanted to be just like Rod Serling, writer of The Twilight Zone," Waitley says. He had discovered he had a gift for storytelling, and also loved the written word. But, like most young men in the early 1950s, the Korean War was what determined his future.
Despite the details, Waitley says he learned some valuable lessons during those times. "I came to understand target seeking and reaching goals that I could not see in advance due to the darkness in front of me," he says. Such lessons became an integral part of the guidance Waitley would one day share with millions of individuals as an expert in personal development.
After leaving the Navy, Waitley took a position as a financial public relations representative for an electronics company. Although far from his dream of becoming a writer and public speaker, it provided a paycheck.
As a few fragile seeds of success were starting to sprout in Waitley's life, an opportunity presented itself in a way that could not be planned. It happened as Waitley was taking a break one day, gazing at the ocean from the property of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in Waitley's hometown of La Jolla, Calif. There were chalkboards built into the walls of the buildings so the scientists could work amid the natural beauty. "I approached a white-jacketed scientist busy working on formulas and asked him what he was doing," Waitley says. "He engaged in conversation with me and asked me what I did for a living." Before the discourse ended, the scientist, Dr. Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine, offered Waitley the job of being the fundraiser for the Salk Institute. "Dr. Salk was an introvert and despised the task of talking to groups of people to raise funds for the Institute," Waitley says. "He saw that I loved to speak and felt I was a great fit." The only concern Salk had was Waitley's lack of scientific understanding. He encouraged Waitley to acquire a postgraduate degree in psychology. So he did.
Salk was not able to offer Waitley an increase in salary, but he compensated him in a way that would pay huge dividends: introducing Waitley to his peers. "Because he was such a wellknown scientist, he was able to introduce me to people I never would have met," Waitley says.
"During this time, I learned that if you are not doing what your passion is, you are putting it on layaway," Waitley says. "One might work at something simply to receive a paycheck, but any free time should be used in pursuit of one's ultimate goal." So, in addition to representing Salk, Waitley gave at least 500 speeches for which he was not compensated. "I recorded every speech in order to analyze what worked and what did not," he says.
It was after a pro bono speech for World Book-Childcraft in 1975 that one of the seeds of greatness that Waitley had nurtured throughout his life bore fruit. The vice president of World Book- Childcraft sent the recording of that particular speech to his friend, Earl Nightingale. Nightingale was the first person to sell a recorded speech and is called the father of modern-day motivational speaking. His 45 LP record was titled The Strangest Secret. "I listened to it over and over again," Waitley says.
"I was in my mid-30s, and starting to think that I had missed the boat that my dreams sailed on," Waitley says. "Sure, I was partway there and had seen some success, but doubt tried to tell me that maybe it was time to accept that I wouldn't make it all the way." Those doubts were trampled when Waitley received a call from Nightingale, saying, "You have a nice voice, you have good stuff, and if you are ever in Chicago, you should make a point to see my partner, Lloyd Conant." Waitley made it to Chicago.
Lloyd Conant and Earl Nightingale founded Nightingale-Conant Inc., which would be the most prominent audio firm in the United States for the next 25 years. In the mid-1970s, there were only two people who developed and marketed recorded speeches promoting personal development— Earl Nightingale was the first and Paul J. Meyer was second. Denis Waitley became the third.
As often happens, one opportunity opened the door to another. He was appointed by the then-president of the Olympics Committee, William Simon, as the first-ever chairman of psychology on the U.S. Olympic Committee's Sports Medicine Council. Working with a team of experts in each sport, Waitley developed a mental training program for elite athletes.
One of the keys to this program was using affirming phrases and trigger words, such as power, explode and speed.
These words replaced negative phrases like "Don't fall." Waitley worked with such athletes as Mary Lou Retton and Carl Lewis.
The New York Times soon published Waitley's recorded speech as a book, which became a bestseller, and he has published something every two years since then, for a total of 17 books and 10 audio recordings. He has shared the stage with such greats as Zig Ziglar, Norman Vincent Peale, Paul Harvey, Robert Schuller and Art Linkletter, to name a few. Waitley was also friends with W. Clement Stone, the early publisher of SUCCESS magazine, and was featured on the cover in 1979.
The seeds planted in Waitley's life when he was young had the potential to either rot in the ground or grow into plants bearing much fruit. Fortunately, Denis Waitley was determined to grow the seeds of his potential.
What could a second income do for you?
If you invest just $50 per month in the stock market for your child, with average performance your child would have over $20,000 for college!
If you pay an extra $200 toward your mortgage each month you will SAVE almost $100,000 in interest!
Reduce Stress . . . eliminate your debt, which is a leading cause for individual and marital stress.
Save money . . . save thousands of dollars in unnecessary interest expense and redirect them to building wealth.
Save time . . . generally eliminate much of the time you spend juggling finances between checks.
Reap the benefits . . . experience the power of compound interest working for you as opposed to working for someone else.
Build wealth . . . eliminate debt quickly so you can accumulate wealth faster.
How are you and your money doing? A recent survey showed that we are more concerned about the size of our debt than we are about the size of our waist-which is a switch from years past.
The fact that we are aware and are trying to commit to better directing our financial resources is a positive indicator in a society filled with citizens that are overburdened by debt, over spent, under saved, and stressed out. Does this sound like you?
Are you allocating some of your hard earned dollars toward building an emergency savings account or retirement account, toward eliminating high interest debt, toward the things that matter most to you? Are you spending your way to wealth, or just spending for the moment?
Take the steps today that will enable you to say, "This has been great, I've reduced my debt, increased my savings, and gained peace of mind when it comes to my money!" All you have to lose is your debt, so today's the day to start!
Those that don't understand interest, pay it. Those who understand it, collect it.
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Following Up On A Lead Or A Referral.
If you're replying to someone who has already stated they are looking for a business opportunity or want more information about your products, then stay with whatever they enquired about.
Unless the other person gives clues that they might be interested in exploring the other solution, don't go there. You can always come back at a later date after you've satisfied the primary need they have.
Talking With A Friend, Family Member Or Someone You Know.
Here it would depend on where you felt the greatest need (for them) based on your past experience and knowledge of their present circumstances.
For example, if they are still in discomfort from some ailment then you would want to start a dialogue around the history of their health issue to discover which products you have that might help them.
If it surfaces that that changing their lifestyle is the issue, then the focus of your questions would concentrate on their present lifestyle situation and future desires.
It's important to mention not to be in a hurry to present your solution too early. More opportunities are lost by doing this than anything else I know.
Talking with strangers is easy! Open the conversation with whatever feels correct at the time. For example: if you see someone get up from a chair with a little groan, it might indicate some physical discomfort.
If you're in the business of "relieving physical discomfort" You might ask, "Are you OK?" and follow up by enquiring as to the extent of their problem with a question like, "Looks like you've got a little discomfort there?".
You'll more than likely get a short or a long history of whatever is the matter.
Allow them to expand until you can find out whether they are still looking for relief from their discomfort and whether they are open to help. Most will be and they'll also be prepared to listen to or look at your solution if you don't pressure them by talking about it too early.
Again, don't force the issue of having to talk about your income opportunity. Leave it to another time and let it happen naturally.
Live the Adventure! … not just think and speak it, live it.
Think of an adventure that you might like to take. Maybe it is a trip to a foreign country or a major destination in your own country. Maybe it is to climb a mountain or float down the Amazon. Whatever works for you, picture what that would take. Got it? Good, now let's see what common characteristics of a good adventure are and apply them to our lives. In doing so, you will shift your perspective and see how your own day-to-day life can be an adventure!
When we set out on an adventure, we are usually looking for something new. We are looking to break out of the doldrums and go somewhere we have never been before. What about in life? Are you constantly looking for something new to experience? Take some time soon to experience something new. That will put some adventure in your life!
People on adventures usually pick something larger than life, something grand. Do you think anybody would go to see the "Tiny Canyon"? No way. But hundreds of thousands of people adventure their way to the Grand Canyon. What about your life? Is there anything grand that you are pursuing? Is there anything bigger than life that you are striving for? Take time soon to pursue something grand. That will put some adventure in your life!
Lots of people take adventures to learn about something. This makes Washington, D.C., a popular adventure spot because of its history. You can spend days there! Your eyes and mind are always being opened and it is enjoyable. What about your life? Are you involved in anything that causes you to continually learn and grow intellectually? Take some time to stretch yourself to learn something. That will put some adventure in your life!
Part of a vacation adventure is that you can be diverted—and it is OK! That is part of the fun. Yes, we want a clear destination, but sometimes it is the diversions that bring us the spice of life. What about you? Are you diversion-averse? Maybe you need to let yourself get out of the box sometime. Try this: The next time you have the opportunity for a fun diversion, take it. Life is short, and you can take some diversions. That will put some adventure in your life!
Have you ever gone on a family vacation that didn't have breakdowns? Not many. But when all is said and done, aren't those the things we laugh at years later and remember clearly? You know, "Remember dad getting mad that the car broke down, and then he slammed his finger in the door and started hopping around so much that he fell into a ditch of water? And when he came up for air, he had mud on his face? What a riot!" Even dad laughs at that—later! What about your life? Are you frustrated by the breakdowns? Try looking at them from the perspective you will look at them from 20 years from now. That will put some adventure in your life!
Whatever the adventure is, we usually expect it to be fun, don't we? Well, life can be fun, too. In fact, I require that life be fun! What about your life? Is it "all work and no play makes Jack or Suzie a dull boy or girl"? Get out, and have some fun, my friend! That will put some adventure in your life!
Ultimately, our adventure usually has a clear destination. It may be the top of the mountain. It may be the goal of getting your whole family together at a resort. Whatever it is, it has a clear destination. It is the goal, and it is what gives us purpose. What about your life? Do you have a clear destination you are working toward? Set your sights on a clear destination! That will put some adventure in your life!
One of the lessons I have learned in life is to focus on what you can control because any energy you give to what is out of your control only hurts the momentum process. Does that mean you ignore what is out of your control? Absolutely not! The lesson is that you must have awareness of factors you control AND those you do not control in order to make good decisions.
In school I was trained in industrial engineering and accounting. Those disciplines taught me to focus my energy on efficiency and expenses. However, one day when I was working on my personal budgets, I asked myself an interesting question – what would happen if I focused my attention toward making more money vs. trying to control what I was making? That question had a profound impact on changing my thinking and focus. The day I realized that focusing on income was the FASTEST WAY to drive the wealth accumulation process, my financial momentum went into overdrive.
Why am I sharing this story with you? Because I think right now might be the most important time in history to implement this type of thinking if you want to survive and thrive in an economic winter. Let me explain why.
For the most part you have the ability to control both income and expenses. However, there are expenses that are beyond our control. Equally, there are factors in our economy and world that will impact both income and expenses even though we control those areas to some degree. Here is an IMPORTANT REALIZATION that is critical to understand if you desire financial momentum — no matter how tight you squeeze your money, the world out there is going to squeeze it tighter.
Let's take a look at a couple examples of how expenses that are out of your control will impact your finances.
Taxes – Historically speaking, we currently have a very low tax rate. Of course we pay taxes in various ways (Federal tax, social security, property taxes, sales taxes, etc.). There is one common element to all these taxes – they are controlled by government. Given the economic state of affairs at all levels of government these days, the logical conclusion is that taxes are going to be higher in all areas. Just look at Federal taxes as an example. We currently have the largest deficit in the history of our country. Before the Lehman Brothers collapse, it took the Federal Reserve nearly 14 years to double the cash and reserves of the nation's banks. However, after the collapse, it took the Fed just 112 days – barely four months – to double the monetary rate. Before the Depression, taxes were 25%. By 1944, Federal Income tax peaked at 94%. So ask yourself this question. Given the current state of Federal, State and Local Governments, do you think taxes are going higher or lower in the future? I think the only logical conclusion is that taxes are not just going higher, they are going much higher.
Fees – To me, fees are just another form of taxes. In reality, taxes and fees are how the government raises income. However, I have noticed over the last year that everywhere I turn fees are increasing. While it is normal for fees to move with inflation, it is my opinion that fees are moving at a much higher rate. Even worse, we are starting to see fees that never existed in the past. The last time I was in California I saw a report on TV about a "crash tax" where you basically get charged for emergency services to come to a crash scene. Remember, with the exception of the Federal Government that has the ability to print money, all governments need to live within their means. Given that expenses have already been cut, the next phase will be increasing both fees and taxes.
1. You can only manage your money to a degree.
2. What you cannot manage or control (taxes, fees, inflation, etc.) will become the largest part of your expenses in the future.
3. The best way to sustain financial momentum is to focus on income creation.
I will leave you with one final thought. You MUST start the process of creating income BEFORE the expense train gains steam. You need to be proactive in focusing on income creation now because the longer you wait, the higher the probability that this economic winter will be a painful one for you. In the end it is important to remember that even in an economic winter, you can win and you can win BIG!!!! You just need to start the process now and focus your efforts in the right place – on making more money.
For millenniums people find comfort in being oblivious to the obvious.
That is where that 80 / 20 or 90 / 10 rule applies once again. Possibly 10 – 20% actually travel the less obvious road to success and the other 80 – 90% take the common, most published, most talked about and practiced route. The success lies in the 10-20% taking risk and creating reward.
Whether you label yourself an Analyst, Consultant, Auditor, Realtor, Salesperson, CEO or small business owner, your success is in direct proportion to the road you traveled to get there. There are many untraveled roads, short cuts and highway's to satisfy our dreams.
Meet with decision maker(s) to confirm your findings and find out what they really need to meet or exceed the plan they were charged with. There is a map (job description) that a CEO, Fleet Manager, GM or maintenance person must comply with. These people are more motivated than ever to achieve and do it in style!
Pre-close, example: if we show you a 5-8% reduction after product purchase, are you in a position to and will you authorize purchases as a loyal customer?
Place Order and closely monitor its delivery, usage and results. Grow the relationship.
Yes, your posturing, the research, the letters, team coordination, strategy sessions, the calls, the pitfalls are all steps in providing the end goal / solution to the potential customer. Focus on the results, all the necessary steps are a process we are quite familiar with. You team, the collaboration between them and your Customer is a ongoing process.
Have fun, challenge yourself and remember that for you to earn through sharing powerful solutions is a very good thing. Do not fear the drastic increase in income; you created a far greater expense reduction for someone else. You are being economically / environmentally responsible.
Some call it profit sharing, without legalese. Some call it being the best salesperson on the universe, even when labeled a laborer. Be the best dang problem seeker and solver you can and increase those profits.


Always be clear about your goals in life….
Pope Francis, an avid football (soccer) fan himself, gave this reminder in the Vatican today, April 15, to the Lega Nazionale Dilettanti (National Amateur League) for Italian football, for its 60-year anniversary.
With more than 12,000 amateur football clubs, and some million young members, the league, the Argentine Pontiff reminded, plays an important role in Italian society. How it engages young people through educational work and training, "deserves to be appreciated and encouraged," Francis said.
The Holy Father also applauded the league's emphasis on promoting 'fair play,' involving respecting the person in front of you, and on encouraging friendship.
Reflecting on 'playing,' Pope Francis recalled that there are many adults who "do not have the time" to play with their little ones, and stressed this is unacceptable.
Francis also reminded them to recognize the importance of the example they give.
Pope Francis concluded, asking God to accompany each one of them and their sporting journey, and asking them to pray for him.


Do weather changes cause headaches?
Suffer from headaches? It could be the weather, according to a new study.
"There are a lot of potential triggers of headache. …[weather] is something for clinicians to consider in evaluating what each person's triggers are," says Kenneth Mukumal, an internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and lead author of the research published this week in Neurology.
Mukamal and his colleagues studied more than 7,000 Boston-area patients diagnosed with headaches at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center emergency room between May 2000 and December 2007. To determine if weather played a role, they scoured National Weather Service data on fluctuations in temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure that occurred within 72 hours of each patient's ER visit.
Their findings: headache complaints increased along with rises in temperature, be it in the frigid winter or the broiling summer months. According to the study, the risk of getting a headache jumped by an average of 7.5 percent with every nine-degree Fahrenheit (five-degree Celsius) increase during the 24 hours preceding a patient's ER visit.
The risk also increased by an average of 6 percent with every .20 inch (5 millimeter) drop in barometric pressure that occurred in the 48 to 72 hours preceding a patient's ER visit. Changes in humidity appeared to have no effect.
Mukamal says researchers aren't sure why temp hikes and barometric dips may play a role. But he speculates that upswings in temperature may cause blood pressure to dip (impairing the brain's ability to regulate blood flow) whereas sudden drops in barometric pressure may exacerbate problems caused when sinuses become clogged with mucus trapping air inside of them.


Why wait for an accident to happen? The time to start thinking about the best ways to ensure worker safety is before an incident occurs.
Job Safety Analysis is a systematic method to plan for safety by breaking down a job into steps, identifying the hazards of each step, and planning procedures to eliminate or reduce these hazards.


Soundcheck Group has been hired to handle UK PR for Barbra Streisand as she releases her latest album.
The agency, which this week was renamed from Soundcheck Entertainment, will promote Partners in the run-up to its release in September as part of a six-month initial contract.
It was awarded the work by Sony, for whom agency founder Daniel Hinchcliffe previously worked. His experience includes promoting Streisand's 2006 album Guilty Too.
Hinchcliffe told PRWeek that while the initial announcement of the album's launch was made on Instagram, the main focus of the campaign would be on print, radio and TV.
Barbara Streisand is an American singer-songwriter and actor, and one of the best-selling musicians of all time.


FUNimation has laid out its plans for June, 2012 releases. In addition to a number of new packages and prices for previously released anime, highlights include the Tales of Vesperia prequel anime movie and the eighth collection of Dragon Ball Z Kai.
Oh snap, Funimation's finally putting out Tales of Vesperia's film!? They've been sitting on that license for a while. I must know if they are dubbing it and, if so, how they handled the cast.


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When walking along the Mill Creek Trail in Garfield Park Reservation it's pretty hard to miss the natural beauty of the area. Right now, late summer wildflowers are blooming below trees full of acorns, buckeyes and black walnuts. The first fallen leaves of autumn are beginning to the litter the trail. Fox squirrels, white-tailed deer, red-tailed hawks are frequently sighted in this urban oasis for wildlife. If you look closely however, this beautiful stretch of trail also provides clues to who was here before us and what brought them to this land.
The northern terminus of the trail is at Mill Creek Falls which occurs near the intersections of Turney, Warner and Miles Roads and Broadway Avenue. It was the site of the first saw mill and grist mill in the Western Reserve opened by William Wheeler Williams in 1799. In the 1850's the Cleveland Rolling Mill, one of the first steel mills in Cuyahoga County, was built nearby. Today, while little evidence of mills remains, multiple overlooks provide stunning views of the largest waterfall in Cuyahoga County which attracted these early industries to the area.
The remains of Euclid bluestone quarries can be seen in Mill Creek alongside the trail. Large, dug out areas in the creek bed and imperfect stones tossed aside provide evidence of this industry. One of these quarries, the Caine Quarry Stone Cutting Company, supplied stone for sidewalk slabs to the surrounding neighborhoods.
Ground was recently broken and work begun on the next phase of the Mill Creek Trail. This new portion will travel from the corner of Warner Road and Garfield Blvd in Garfield Hts. down to Bacci Park in Cuyahoga Hts. There it will connect with Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath. This link will allow more visitors to access and enjoy the Mill Creek Trail and all the amazing natural and cultural history that it provides.


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Posts Tagged: Raja Bhatia
The Coming Storm — 109 Comments
Ex-Ashley Madison CTO Threatens Libel Suit
Last month, KrebsOnSecurity posted an exclusive story about emails leaked from AshleyMadison that suggested the company's former chief technology officer Raja Bhatia hacked into a rival firm in 2012. Now, an attorney for the former executive is threatening a libel lawsuit against this author unless the story is retracted.
According to Bhatia's attorney, the part of the story they consider defamatory has to do with the headline of the piece, and this bit:
"A review of those missives shows that on at least one occasion, a former company executive hacked another dating website, exfiltrating their entire user database. On Nov. 30, 2012, Raja Bhatia, the founding chief technology officer of AshleyMadison.com, sent a message to Biderman notifying his boss of a security hole discovered in nerve.com, an American online magazine dedicated to sexual topics, relationships and culture.
At the time, nerve.com was experimenting with its own adult dating section, and Bhatia said he'd uncovered a way to download and manipulate the nerve.com user database.
"They did a very lousy job building their platform. I got their entire user base," Bhatia told Biderman via email, including in the message a link to a Github archive with a sample of the database. "Also, I can turn any non paying user into a paying user, vice versa, compose messages between users, check unread stats, etc."
Libel lawsuits in the United States are usually quite difficult and expensive for the plaintiff to win. But in Canada — where Bhatia's attorney and AshleyMadison's parent company Avid Life Media are headquartered — the libel laws are more complex for defendants. For example, according my consultation with a prominent Canadian digital media attorney, the onus there is on the accused to prove the disputed libelous claims are in fact true.
Nevertheless, I have no intention of posting a retraction or correcting any elements of this story. But I'm publishing a copy of the letter (PDF) from Bhatia's lawyer in the likely event that other publications have also received libel and defamation threats from AshleyMadison and/or its current and former employees.
A story at Wired.com from Kim Zetter that ran shortly after my piece aired includes quite a few more colorful quotes from leaked emails Bhatia allegedly sent to AshMad CEO Noel Biderman.
Update, 11:49 a.m. ET: Added reference to Wired piece as the last sentence of this story.
A Little Sunshine / Data Breaches — 75 Comments
Leaked AshleyMadison Emails Suggest Execs Hacked Competitors
Hacked online cheating service AshleyMadison.com is portraying itself as a victim of malicious cybercriminals, but leaked emails from the company's CEO suggest that AshleyMadison's top leadership hacked into a competing dating service in 2012.
AshleyMadison CEO Noel Biderman. Source: Twitter.
Late last week, the Impact Team — the hacking group that has claimed responsibility for leaking personal data on more than 30 million AshleyMadison users — released a 30-gigabyte archive that it said were emails lifted from AshleyMadison CEO Noel Biderman.
Neither Bhatia nor Biderman could be immediately reached for comment. KrebsOnSecurity.com spoke with Bhatia last week after the Impact Team made good on its threat to release the Ashley Madison user database. At the time, Bhatia was downplaying the leak, saying that his team of investigators had found no signs that the dump of data was legitimate, and that it looked like a number of fake data dumps the company had seen in the weeks prior. Hours later, the leak had been roundly confirmed as legitimate by countless users on Twitter who were able to find their personal data in the cache of account information posted online.
The leaked Biderman emails show that a few months before Bhatia infiltrated Nerve.com, AshleyMadison's parent firm — Avid Life Media — was approached with an offer to partner with and/or invest in the property. Email messages show that Bhatia initially was interested enough to offer at least $20 million for the company along with a second property called flirts.com, but that AshleyMadison ultimately declined to pursue a deal.
More than six months after Bhatia came to Biderman with revelations of the nerve.com security vulnerabilities, Biderman was set to meet with several representatives of the company. "Should I tell them of their security hole?" Biderman wrote to Bhatia, who doesn't appear to have responded to that question via email. Continue reading →
A Little Sunshine — 376 Comments
Was the Ashley Madison Database Leaked?
Many news sites and blogs are reporting that the data stolen last month from 37 million users of AshleyMadison.com — a site that facilitates cheating and extramarital affairs — has finally been posted online for the world to see. In the past 48 hours, several huge dumps of data claiming to be the actual AshleyMadison database have turned up online. But there are precious few details in them that would allow one to verify these claims, and the company itself says it so far sees no indication that the files are legitimate.
Update, 11:52 p.m. ET: I've now spoken with three vouched sources who all have reported finding their information and last four digits of their credit card numbers in the leaked database. Also, it occurs to me that it's been almost exactly 30 days since the original hack. Finally, all of the accounts created at Bugmenot.com for Ashleymadison.com prior to the original breach appear to be in the leaked data set as well. I'm sure there are millions of AshleyMadison users who wish it weren't so, but there is every indication this dump is the real deal.
A huge trove of data nearly 10 gigabytes in size was dumped onto the Deep Web and onto various Torrent file-sharing services over the past 48 hours. According to a story at Wired.com, included in the files are names, addresses and phone numbers apparently attached to AshleyMadison member profiles, along with credit card data and transaction information. Links to the files were preceded by a text file message titled "Time's Up" (see screenshot below).
The message left by the latest group claiming to have leaked the hacked AshleyMadison.com database.
From taking in much of the media coverage of this leak so far — for example, from the aforementioned Wired piece or from the story at security blogger Graham Cluley's site — readers would most likely conclude that this latest collection of leaked data is legitimate. But after an interview this evening with Raja Bhatia — AshleyMadison's original founding chief technology officer — I came away with a different perspective.
Bhatia said he is working with an international team of roughly a dozen investigators who are toiling seven days a week, 24-hours a day just to keep up with all of the fake data dumps claiming to be the stolen AshleyMadison database that was referenced by the original hackers on July 19. Bhatia said his team sees no signs that this latest dump is legitimate.
"On a daily basis, we're seeing 30 to 80 different claimed dumps come online, and most of these dumps are entirely fake and being used by other organizations to capture the attention that's been built up through this release," Bhatia said. "In total we've looked at over 100GB of data that's been put out there. For example, I just now got a text message from our analysis team in Israel saying that the last dump they saw was 15 gigabytes. We're still going through that, but for the most part it looks illegitimate and many of the files aren't even readable."
The former AshleyMadison CTO, who's been consulting for the company ever since news of the hack broke last month, said many of the fake data dumps the company has examined to date include some or all of the files from the original July 19 release. But the rest of the information, he said, is always a mix of data taken from other hacked sources — not AshleyMadison.com.
"The overwhelming amount of data released in the last three weeks is fake data," he said. "But we're taking every release seriously and looking at each piece of data and trying to analyze the source and the veracity of the data."
Bhatia said the format of the fake leaks has been changing constantly over the last few weeks.
"Originally, it was being posted through Imgur.com and Pastebin.com, and now we're seeing files going out over torrents, the Dark Web, and TOR-based URLs," he said.
To help locate new troves of data claiming to be the files stolen from AshleyMadison, the company's forensics team has been using a tool that Netflix released last year called Scumblr, which scours high-profile sites for specific terms and data.
"For the most part, we can quickly verify that it's not our data or it's fake data, but we are taking each release seriously," Bhatia said. "Scumbler helps accelerate the time it takes for us to detect new pieces of data that are being released. For the most part, we're finding the majority of it is fake. There are some things that have data from the original release, but other than that, what we're seeing is other generic files that have been introduced, fake SQL files." Continue reading →


Underground Symphony is proud to announce the latest details relating to metal work ENZO & THE GLORY ENSEMBLE, the brainchild of musician Enzo Donnarumma.
"In The Name Of The Father", the most ambitious Christian metal project ever made, with the participation of distinguished guests such as Marty Friedman, Kobi Farhi (ORPHANED LAND), Ralph Scheepers (PRIMAL FEAR), Mark Zonder (FATES WARNING & WARLORD), Gary Wehrkamp and Brian Ashland (SHADOW GALLERY) and Nicholas Leptos (WARLORD), will be out on December 24, 2015.
The album, mixed and mastered by Gary Wehrkamp (SHADOW GALLERY) at New Horizon Studios, will be published in an exclusive elegant digipak package and will be an unmissable work for fans of LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY, MYRRAH and SYMPHONY X.
The cover of the album is designed by Jahn Carlini. You can see the presentation teaser of "in The Name of The Father" here.
TRACKLIST "IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER".


involves scraping the surface of the skin with either a ceramic spoon or another guasha tool, in order to break up stagnation in tight muscles, and creat surface abrasions which cause increased blood flow to an area. It is often used for tight neck and upper back muscles. Please note that guasha can cause areas of bruising.


Will my YouTube channel be shut down?
Google announced back in December that by April they will be shutting down Google +. I am wondering if I made a YouTube channel with my Google + account connected will my YouTube channel also be taken down?
Google Plus is not YouTube. Google Plus is shutting down. YouTube is still there.
No. Just the Google+ account will be shut down.
I have a Google+ account, and YouTube channel. It doesn't matter to me what Google does.
I already made backups of everything I posted on the world wide web that I want to keep.
If I want I can publish my stuff on my website.
No, just your Google plus account will shut down.
No, your YouTube account will be safe, it is only Google+ that is closing down. You would have created a "Google" account when you set up the Google system.
All other Google accounts will remain active. Google+ will continue on as a paid commercial platform.
Yes, your account will be deleted and Youtube usually terminates bad users withiut hesitation. so now what should you do? Archive your important messages and videos as soon as possible.
I have a pretty fast internet, but when streaming videos it buffers a lot. Help?
How do I get permission to sync my email account to another account which has now blocked me until I grant permission?


As part of National Apprenticeship Week 2014 we are highlighting the tremendous contributions our apprentices have made to our company while also helping other companies who are contemplating taking on apprentices understand how they can benefit from the programme. We used our software, the software our apprentices have been helping us design, build and maintain to create a short piece telling our story.
Our two apprentices, Alex and Giacomo have made the transition to full employees and during that process have learned many skills in the workplace becoming valuable members of the company. We take a look at a typical day in the life of an apprentice with Giacomo, and we chat to Alex about his apprenticeship with us.


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Hyderabad police shocked: Beggars post ₹20,000 bail, speak fluent English, own properties
Updated Nov 22, 2017 | 10:47 IST | Mirror Now Digital
Ahead of Ivanka Trump's visit, the Hyderabad police have been carrying out a "clean-up" drive to remove all the beggars from the streets.
Ahead of Ivanka Trump's visit, the Hyderabad police have been carrying out a "clean-up" drive to remove all the beggars from the streets. | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspIndiatimes, Representative Image
Ahead of US President Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump's visit, the Hyderabad police have been carrying out a "clean-up" drive to remove all the beggars from the streets and shifting them to rehabilitation centres.
However, this drive has been quite an eye-opener for the police force.
Financial Express reports that the Hyderabad Police found two educated and well-off women begging on the streets.
Out of the women, beggars who were brought to Ananda Ashram at Cherlapalli jail were two women named Farzana and Rabiya Baseera.
Read: Google Doodle celebrates Rukhmabai, the first Indian female physician and all-round hero
These ladies shocked the cops because of their fluency in English and because they talked back to the police when they were taken away.
FE reports that Farzana, who was caught begging near a shrine, has an MBA and had worked as an accounts officer in London, Rabiya Baseera, who fought with the cops at the rehab centre is a US green card holder and owns property in the city.
While Farzana took to begging on the directions of a godman, Rabiya was on the streets as she had been cheated out of her possessions by her relatives.
However, now, her relatives have signed a declaration that they will take care of her and have taken her in.
The report in the Financial Express also states that the city police were in for a surprise when five beggars, who were being shifted to the rehabilitation centre gave Rs 20,000 each as their bail amount in one go.
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Diego Elias & Nouran Gohar Are The 2015 World Junior Champions
2015 World Junior Champions Diego Elias (L) and Nouran Gohar. (image: Steve Line/squashpics.com)
Report courtesy of the WSF.
Diego Elias and Nouran Gohar have been crowned the champions of the 2015 WSF World Junior Individual Squash Championships after triumphs in today's finals in the Netherlands—Peruvian Elias overcoming Egypt's Youssef Soliman at the Squashtime Centre in Eindhoven to retain the title he won for the first time last year in Namibia, and second seed Gohar upsetting top seed Habiba Mohamed in the other final to deny her Egyptian compatriot a second successive women's title.
Top seed Elias, who last year became Peru's first world squash champion, has been imperious form throughout the week. The eighteen-year-old from Lima reached the final without conceding a game—then took on surprise finalist Youssef Soliman, a 3/4 seed from Egypt.
Elias (R) won his second consecutive World Junior title. (image: Steve Line/squashpics.com)
Elias—ranked forty-three in the world, 133 places higher than his opponent—was forced to battle for fifty-one minutes before overcoming Soliman 11-6, 11-9, 11-8.
The win sees the South American squash star become only the fourth player in history to win the men's world junior title twice, after Egyptians Ramy Ashour, Mohamed Elshorbagy and Marwan Elshorbagy.
"I feel very happy to win this title, " the triumphant Elias told the event website www.wsfworldjuniors.com later. "It's what you work for. It's thanks to my supporters, trainers, and family—especially my Dad who pushed me and worked with me—making this happen.
"This has been an important month for me, with the Pan American Games where I played well to reach – and almost win – the final, and now this.
"It's an honor to join the list of people who have won this title twice and I hope I can continue to progress as they have."
After winning the women's title for the first time last year at the age of fifteen—beating Gohar in the final—Alexandria-born Habiba Mohamed had in her sights the potential to win the title an unprecedented four times.
But world No.15 Gohar—who had ever before beaten her fellow countrywoman, yet was ranked higher than her nineteen-ranked opponent—was eager to disprove the seedings while endorsing the rankings.
Honors were shared after the first two games, but from five-all in the third Gohar burst ahead to take a 2/1 lead.
Nouran Gohar (R) avenged her 2014 final loss against Habiba Mohamed. (image: Steve Line/squashpics.com)
The fourth game was an epic—thirty minutes of unrelenting effort and tension. Mohamed led at 4-1 but Gohar levelled at 6-all. 7-all, 8-all, and 9-all. The favorite had four game-balls, and Gohar had two match-balls before finally converting her third with a low drive that former champion Mohamed had no chance of reaching.
"I can't feel anything right now, I'm so happy, " said the delighted Gohar after her 11-6, 7-11, 11-7, 17-15 title triumph in sixty-nine minutes.
"In the second game she played very well and I lost concentration, but then I played well again in the third.
"I didn't think of last year at all, I know I played badly then and I didn't want it to affect me.
"The fourth was so tough, if I'd lost that I don't think I would have had anything left, I was so pleased to finish it in four, I really don't know what happened at the end!"
Egypt have been named as top seeds in the 2015 WSF Women's World Junior Team Championship which gets underway tomorrow. 18 nations will be competing in the biennial event in which defending champions Egypt are expected to face second seeds USA in the final for the third time in a row.
Official event website: wsfworldjuniors.com/.


The Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden is an arboretum and botanical garden on Stock Island in Key West that is home to a collection of palms, shrubs, and several award-winning trees. The venue is also a spectacular tropical paradise for weddings, social occasions and special events, year-round with several sites ranging from the Butterfly Garden, which is perfect for intimate wedding ceremonies to the idyllic Courtyard for elegant and grand receptions. The venue also offers a range of exceptional services such as a bridal suite and groom's dressing room, subtle outdoor lighting, an onsite manager to take care of all the detail and ensure a hassle-free day.
The Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden features several sites which can host a variety of different events from romantic ceremonies to lavish receptions. Designed by renowned landscape architect Raymond Jungles, the beautiful tropical venue offers three picturesque outdoor event spaces for special celebrations, including the one-acre Butterfly Garden, a small and intimate area for private wedding ceremonies. The Butterfly Garden caters for 50 standing guests and 25 people for a seated dinner.
The idyllic and tranquil Courtyard features a raised stage for romantic ceremonies or presentations and speeches and a falling waterfall as a beautiful backdrop for ceremonies and receptions. Surrounded by lush tropical gardens, the Courtyard can be covered by a tent in inclement weather and can accommodate up to 100 guests for seated dinners and 130 guests for cocktail gatherings.
The scenic lakeside Terrace is ideal for grand receptions of up to 200 people with breathtaking natural scenery, twinkling overhead lights, and ample space for dinner and dancing beneath the stars. The Lakeside Terrace can accommodate up to 200 guests for a buffet dinner with partial seating and no dance floor, and up to 150 guests for a seated buffet dinner and dancing.
Services offered with the rental of one of the spaces in the Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden include the use of a bridal suite and groom's dressing room for each party to get ready and relax before the big event, outdoor lighting, an onsite manager to handle all the details on the day, a security guard at the venue for the duration of the function, and a large parking lot with complimentary parking for guests. Also offered is a list of preferred vendors for services such as catering and beverage services, floral arrangements, DJ services, music and entertainment, photography and videography services, wedding cakes, officiants, and limousine, shuttle and valet services.
Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden is located at 5210 College Road in Key West, is wheelchair accessible and offers complimentary parking for guests in a large parking lot at the garden.


Matinee Coffee is an 80 seat café located in Marrickville in Sydney's beautiful Inner West. It's a spacious place where couples, friends, families and parties can sit comfortably and enjoy themselves without knocking elbows or waiting ages for a table. Big groups can be accommodated easily without a reservation, just rock up and we will serve you.
We make our own pastries, sodas and relishes, roast our own coffee, cook a range of delicious dishes and have a liquor license if you're after a tipple. We are open 7 days from 7-4 (our kitchen closes at 3), no bookings necessary. If you're vegan, gluten free, dairy free, meat loving or have other dietary requirements, we have lots of choices for you.
Our café is owned and run by Charles Cameron, an Inner West local who has spent more than ten years in the hospitality industry making sure people enjoy their weekdays and weekends with excellent coffee, food and service. He loves the diversity, energy and creativity of Sydney's café scene and he named his cafe Matinee because cafes should be a daytime show where everyone is welcome to have a great time.
We hope to welcome you to Matinee soon. It's always brunch o'clock somewhere!
Grifter Brewery: Where we source our beer. 1/393-397 Enmore Road, Marrickville NSW 2204.
Addison Road Markets: Every Sunday 9am-3pm (opening hours may vary on Public Holidays) 142 Addison Road, Addison Road Centre. Fresh fruit and veggies, market stalls and pony rides!
Henson Park: Home of the Newtown Jets! 22 Centennial St, Marrickville NSW 2204.
Enmore Park: Play equipment, dog friendly and picnic friendly park. Enmore Road, Marrickville 2204.
Reverse Garbage: Non-profit organisation where you can buy recycled and repurposed goods and parts to satisfy all your wildest DIY dreams! They also host art and craft events for young and old. 9-5 Monday to Saturday, 9-4 Sunday (holiday hours may vary). 8/142 Addison Road Marrickville NSW 2204.
Annette Kellerman Aquatic Centre: Open 7 days with a lap pool, toddler pool, hydrotherapy pool and gym (holidays hours may vary). Black Street, Marrickville 2204.


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Safeway is one of the largest supermarket chains in North America with stores located mostly in the western, midwestern and mid-Atlantic U.S., and also in western Canada. Besides the Safeway brand, it also has Vons, Dominick's, Carr-Gottstein (in Alaska), Genuardi's (in eastern U.S.), and Randall's (in Texas). In 2006, it had sales of $40 billion and profits of $870 million. [1]
1 Political contributions
2 Lobbying
Political contributions
Steven A. Burd, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Safeway, is a Bush Ranger having raised at least $200,000 for Bush in the 2004 presidential election.
The Texans for Public Justice website said about Burd, 'Steven Burd started his own firm in 1987, developing close ties to buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co ... Under Kohlberg Kravis control in 1992, Safeway appointed Burd as president. Under Burd, the nation's No. 3 grocery chain has clashed repeatedly with its workers. Workers in Safeway's crucial Northern California market struck over health concession demands in 1995, two years after Burd became CEO. The company's $1.9 billion buyout of a competitor in 1998 triggered a costly showdown between Burd and Dominick's union workers. In a 2003 replay, union workers struck Safeway-owned Vons grocery stores in Southern California to protest management's attempts to slash their benefits. The San Diego Union-Tribune described Burd as, "the point man on the imperative of wresting concessions from unionized workers." That labor struggle spread to area Albertsons and Ralphs groceries owned by Kroger ... The grocery chains, which sought to deprive workers of health benefits worth approximately $5,000 per family, got most of what they wanted after a bitter four-month strike. Burd who received $2.2 million in 2002 compensation, sold $21 million worth of Safeway stock in the weeks leading up to the 2003 strike. With Safeway stock losing half its value over three years, five public pension funds controlling 1.6 percent of Safeway's stock demanded in 2004 that the company oust Burd and two other Safeway directors with Kohlberg Kravis ties. The company kept Burd on the board but discarded the other two directors. Pioneer Tom Ridge appointed Burd to the Department of Homeland Security's Private Sector Senior Advisory Committee in 2003.' [2]
Safeway gave $402,000 to federal candidates in the 2006 election through its political action committee - 45% to Democrats and 55% to Republicans. [3]
The company spent $1,294,000 for lobbying in 2006. $360,000 went to lobbying firm Quinn Gillespie & Associates with the remainder being spent using in-house lobbyists. [4]
Key executives and 2006 pay: [5]
Steven A. Burd, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, $3,970,000 (plus exercised $187,000 in options)
Robert L. Edwards, Chief Financial Officer, $3,036,887[6]
Larree M. Renda, Chief Administrative Officer, $1,390,000 (plus exercised $684,000 in options)
Bruce L. Everette, Executive Vice President of Retail Operations, $1,330,000 (plus exercised $1,620,000 in options)
Selected Safeway Board of Directors: [7]
Mohan Gyani, Former President and Chief Executive Officer Mobility Services AT&T Wireless Services, Inc.
Paul Hazen, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Wells Fargo
Raymond G. Viault, Former Vice Chairman General Mills
5918 Stoneridge Mall Road
Web: http://www.safeway.com
Ann Burdus
↑ Safeway Profile, Hoovers, accessed August 2007.
↑ Bush Ranger Steven A. Burd, Texans for Public Justice, accessed August 2007.
↑ 2006 PAC Summary Data, Open Secrets, accessed August 2007.
↑ Safeway lobbying expenses, Open Secrets.
↑ Safeway Key Executives, Yahoo Finance, accessed November 2007.
↑ Robert L Edwards, Forbes, accessed November 2007.
↑ Corporate Governance/Board of Directors, Safeway, accessed August 2007.
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Leo Beenhakker (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈweːjoː ˈbeːnɦɑkər]; born 2 August 1942) is a Dutch internationaw footbaww coach. He has had an extensive and successfuw career bof at cwub and internationaw wevew. He wed bof Ajax and Feyenoord to Dutch championships and awso had domestic success wif Reaw Madrid. At internationaw wevew, he wed Trinidad and Tobago to de 2006 FIFA Worwd Cup and Powand to UEFA Euro 2008, bof firsts for each nation, uh-hah-hah-hah. His rowe in Spanish footbaww has earned him de nickname Don Leo, wargewy due to his fondness of cigars and dry humour.
Beenhakker has been de coach of severaw prestigious cwubs incwuding Ajax, Feyenoord, Reaw Madrid, Reaw Zaragoza and Cwub América. He has awso coached de nationaw teams of Saudi Arabia, Powand and de Nederwands. He coached de Trinidad and Tobago nationaw team in de year weading up to de 2006 FIFA Worwd Cup. Under Beenhakker's guidance, de team managed to qwawify for de 2006 Worwd Cup, where de team secured a 0–0 draw against Sweden in deir first match, and gave Engwand cause for concern in de second match.
From 2000 to 2003, Beenhakker was director of technicaw affairs wif Ajax. In dat period, he fired head coach Co Adriaanse and repwaced him wif Ronawd Koeman.
On 11 Juwy 2006, Beenhakker was appointed as de manager of de Powand nationaw team. Originawwy, he was appointed to manage Powand untiw de end of UEFA Euro 2008, however his contract was extended untiw November 2009, de end of qwawifying for de 2010 Worwd Cup. On 17 November 2007, after Powand defeated Bewgium 2–0, he managed to qwawify Powand for de UEFA European Championship for deir first time – even in Powand's "gowden years" of de 1970s and '80s, de nation never qwawified for de Euro finaw stages. On 20 February 2008, Beenhakker was decorated wif de Order of Powonia Restituta by President of Powand Lech Kaczyński. The Order is conferred for outstanding achievements in de fiewds of education, science, sport, cuwture, art, economics, defense of de country, sociaw work, civiw service, or for furdering good rewations between countries. However, after Powand's faiwure to qwawify for de 2010 Worwd Cup, Beenhakker was sacked.
Whiwe stiww in charge of Powand, Feyenoord hired Beenhakker on 5 May 2007 as an interim coach to wead de cwub drough de 2006–07 pway-offs. After his departure from Powand, he was named de sports director of de cwub, signing a contract on 9 October 2009 wasting untiw 30 June 2011.
Fowwowing his speww in de Nederwands, Beenhakker agreed on a dree-year deaw wif Hungarian first division side Újpest, and was officiawwy introduced as de new sports director of de purpwe-whites in a press conference on 29 Juwy 2011. As managing director Csaba Barda reveawed, Beenhakker's main duty was to work wif de first team. However, de cwub awso intended to use his diverse and extensive personaw rewationships to estabwish a scouting network across Europe, which couwd be used in bof directions. His contract was terminated in October 2011, after Bewgian businessman Roderick Duchatewet, son of Rowand Duchâtewet, purchased de cwub.
Since November 2017, Beenhakker has been technicaw advisor at Sparta Rotterdam.
Beenhakker speaks severaw wanguages, incwuding Dutch, Engwish and Spanish. He awso wearned a few words in Powish during his time as nationaw team manager.
Wikimedia Commons has media rewated to Leo Beenhakker.
^ "Leo Benhakker az Újpest új sportigazgatója!" (in Hungarian). Újpest FC officiaw website. 29 Juwy 2011. Retrieved 29 Juwy 2011.
^ "Beenhakker már hivatawosan is az Újpest sportigazgatója" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Sport Onwine. 29 Juwy 2011. Retrieved 29 Juwy 2011.
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Find great affordable holiday accommodation & places to eat, or visit with your dog.
Let's face it we are a nation of dog lovers, we love spending time together and having lots of fun. Unfortunately, it is a sad fact of life that it is difficult to find places that we can trust to visit with our dogs. Perhaps you want to enjoy a well-deserved break with your dog? We strongly believe that the whole family including the dog should get to enjoy the wonderful villages, towns and cities in and around the UK. That is the main reason why we have made it our mission to help you and all of our furry friends across the country!
We know that it is not always easy to get the information about them or even realise that they exist. Here at The Dog Friendly Scene, we can get rid of this confusion quite easily by giving you the details that you need all in one place. We do not just list details about any old place. We list only those places whose owners have contacted us personally or that have been highly recommended by partners and friends. We make sure that they are fully dog-friendly before listing on our site. Therefore, you can rest assured that if you visit that place, your companion will be given a warm welcome and not the cold shoulder. We know how important it is to enjoy holidays, after all, you been waiting all year for this.
We have listed the most suitable accommodation that allows pets, so rest assured all the properties and establishments you find here are fully dog-friendly. They include details on how much, where you can book them and even a bit about the location from a dog owner's point of view.
Talking from experience we have found there to be several top locations that are spread out all over the UK.
Surrounded by hills, dales and valleys The Lake District is an absolutely stunning part of England. Here you will find picturesque towns and villages dotted throughout, enjoy forest walks and fresh air.
Another good choice is The Peak District furthest north out of the two gorgeous British countryside's. You will not be short of beautiful landscapes, lakes and mountains, all in which is surrounded by wildlife. Since its home to the Red deer and Red Squirrel, you may even get lucky and come across one.
How about the popular location of Devon? Located Southeast of England it boasts beautiful sandy beaches and quaint seaside towns, pretty ports and several harbours along the coastline.
If you like to be by the coast, Cornwall would be a great option for you. It has over 300 miles of dunes and cliffs. With its picturesque harbour villages such as Fowey and Falmouth, it's a must visit.
There really are so many wonderful places that you can visit right on your doorstep. Other top locations include Norfolk, Wales, Yorkshire or The Cotswolds, and these are just a few more awesome places to enjoy a dog-friendly UK holiday.
Whatever it is your looking for The Dog Friendly Scene can help find the best dog friendly places for you and your dog to visit.
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From one dog owner to another dog owner, its great to be a part of the UK dog family holiday scene. We dog owners will love reviews from other dog owners. Come back and add your review.
You can find some special properties listed with us that have built-in gyms, golf course on site, stables or even a hot tub, great for those wanting the perfect relaxing getaway.
Well, we all know that our furry friends love to go walkies you only have to say the word for some to get very excited and run rings around the living room. You will find many walking routes around the UK.
The Lake District, The Peak District and The Cotswold have several safe walking routes. They also have beaches which dogs love to just run about and play in the sea. It's a perfect break for them, especially if you live in the big city.
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After you have chosen a property you can book with confidence with our trusted partners. You can find some amazing late deals from award-winning holiday rentals. We get a little bit of commission from each sale which goes to the upkeep of the website and we also donate to several animal charities in and around the UK.
All dogs are welcome, we never judge dog breeds. When you travel with your pet be sure to be organized check your terms and conditions, check-in times and route, along with your booking conditions to avoid any problems.
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Trevor Immelman celebrates on No. 18 with caddie Neil Wallace during the final round of the Masters. Immelman won the championship with an 8-under par.
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- There they were, a couple of 20-somethings, smack-dab in the middle of the biggest stage in golf, with the eyes of thousands in person at Augusta National, millions more watching on TV. All in all, a pretty stiff test even for young nerves.
Ultimately, one -- Brandt Snedeker, 27 -- could not handle that pressure. And one -- Trevor Immelman, your 2008 Masters champion at the ripe old age of 28 -- could.
Given his track record, we should've seen it coming.
As Sunday's conditions at Augusta National turned brutal and the shadow of Tiger Woods loomed three holes ahead, the youthful South African stared down the worst a Masters experience could throw at him. Even Snedeker, later reduced to tears by his own failure, regarded his conqueror with unabashed admiration.
He shot 8-under for 72 holes to finish three shots clear of Woods and four ahead of Snedeker and Stewart Cink. His life as a professional athlete changed forever, though Immelman couldn't quite grasp it.
"I have no idea. I'm sure it will be good, though," he said in massive understatement.
"You know, I'm going to try to take it in my stride. I'm going to try and do all the right things, and I'm going to try and be a great role model to young kids out there ... and, you know, that's all I can do."
That ought to be plenty, given his track record.
Pressure? A year ago, Immelman's Masters accomplishment was playing four rounds with an intestinal parasite. Last December, he was in a South African hospital having a tumor removed from his diaphragm.
Pressure? He was weaned on golf and the Masters from the age of 5, had his home country's three-time Masters champion, Gary Player, as a lifelong mentor, and had seen two other countrymen, Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, come to grief on Augusta National's obstacle course.
"This tournament is such a big deal down in South Africa," Immelman said. "We grow up idolizing this event; kids dream about winning this tournament, just as I did."
Under those expectations, a player either fades into the background or excels. This day, Immelman excelled -- just long enough.
"He's a disciplined-type player," said Cink, who has faced Immelman in Presidents Cup matches a handful of times. "A lot of people probably think, wow, Trevor Immelman, he's never been in this position before. ... (But) he knows how to finish tournaments and win, and I think he's proven it today."
Starting two shots ahead of Snedeker -- and six ahead of the ominous Woods -- Immelman slipped early, a bogey at the first hole that, combined with Snedeker's electrifying eagle at No. 2, created a tie. It didn't last long; Snedeker bogeyed three of his next five holes to trail by four at the turn.
Up ahead, Steve Flesch pulled within two shots with a birdie at No. 8. But the lefthander double-bogeyed No. 12, drowning his tee shot at the par-3, and collapsed with four bogeys in a row.
Yet while his lead never shrank below three shots on the back nine, Immelman didn't play pressure-free. Twice, situations threatened to derail his round; each time, he rose to the challenge while others did not.
At the par-4 11th, Immelman was short of the green in two shots, and his chip hung up in the fringe, while up ahead, Woods, who had birdied No. 11, had a birdie putt at No. 13: a potential two-shot (or more) swing.
But Woods astonishingly missed his 3-footer, and Immelman drained his tricky par-saver. His lead remained untouched.
Next came what Snedeker, whose birdie at No. 12 while Immelman was making bogey cut the lead to three shots, called "the pivotal hole." A poor drive by Immelman forced him to lay up on the par-5 13th; Snedeker faced a 200-yard shot to the green and a chance to cut the deficit to ... who knows?
But Snedeker, for the second straight day, dumped his 4-iron approach into Rae's Creek and made bogey. Immelman's third shot spun back into birdie range, and his lead was five shots.
When Woods failed to make birdies at 13 or 15 and bogeyed 14, and Snedeker bogeyed 14 while Immelman saved par, the lead was six, and Immelman's wet double bogey at the par-3 16th didn't faze him. "I figured I could four-putt (18) and win," he said.
"Until 16 he was, what, 1-over for the day, one of the best rounds of the day," Snedeker said. "I was very impressed. I've played with very few golfers who can manage their emotions, manage their swing and manage the golf course that well."
As the first player under 30 not named Woods to win a Masters since Tom Watson in 1977, Immelman might have signaled a changing of the guard. For one player, at least, it was just that.
"Obviously this is a tremendous confidence boost," he said, "and now that I've got one (major) under my belt ... I'm definitely not going to sit back and say, OK, that's me, I'm done.
"I'm going to keep working hard and trying to make the most of what I've been given."
Given? This day, when others gave away, Immelman took charge.
Trevor Immelman68-68-69-75--280Tiger Woods72-71-68-72--283Stewart Cink72-69-71-72--284Brandt Snedeker 69-68-70-77--284Phil Mickelson71-68-75-72--286Padraig Harrington74-71-69-72--286Steve Flesch72-67-69-78--286Miguel Angel Jimenez77-70-72-68--287Robert Karlsson70-73-71-73--287Andres Romero72-72-70-73--287
• Snedeker breaks down on final day • 4B
• Results • 6B
Tiger never did roar in Augusta
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« English Inn Named One of the 100 Most Romantic Restaurants in America!
No matter what brings you to the Lansing area, do yourself the favor of accommodations on the historic Medovue Estate in Eaton Rapids, home to The English Inn Restaurant & Pub! Beyond our historic mansion and 15 acres of beautifully manicured grounds overlooking the Grand River, The English Inn Restaurant & Pub ten guest rooms, lush with old-world beauty and style, as well as a full service, fine dining restaurant and English pub – and all less than half an hour's drive from the Capital City, Lansing!