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New Modern Technology: Computer Forensics - Diagnose Your ...

Computers have a lot of parts and in some cases you may have a break down and need help getting it fixed. Computer forensics is a method to retrieve information form your system when you need it. You also may have a situation were you need to diagnose your computer to see why it is not working. This will help you to find the problem and get it fixed.

You may also find that investigators will use computer forensics to get information they need when it comes to solving a crime. You will see that in some cases the person being accused will have information on there computer that can be used against them in a court case.

Many people who are skilled in this area of expertise can get deleted files from a computer. This is helpful when you need to see what websites have been viewed on a computer. They can find the browser history of a computer even if it has been deleted. You can also see instant messages in case you need to know what has been said between your teen and some stranger.

Computers technology is always advancing and it becomes more important that skilled professionals can retrieve information when they need to. It may be a law enforcement agency that need to get evidence for a crime that was committed or maybe you are trying to protect your young child from predators online.

Remember that using computer forensics can help you get information from your computer. It will allow you to get deleted information as well even if you think it no longer exist on your computer you can get this information.

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Sockers' 41-game win streak sets US pro record

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updated 2:29 a.m. ET Nov. 24, 2012

SAN DIEGO (AP) - The San Diego Sockers set a U.S. professional team sports record with their 41st consecutive victory, 14-4 against the Toros de Mexico on Friday night.

The Sockers had been tied with the Sioux Falls Storm of United Indoor Football, who set the old record of 40 from 2005-08.

Kraig Chiles scored a career-high eight goals. He had a hat trick by halftime and scored four goals in the fourth quarter, finishing with a league-leading 19 goals in four games. Eduardo Velez added a hat trick with an assist as the Sockers jumped out to a 8-0 lead before conceding their first goal.

The Sockers haven't lost since Dec. 27, 2010, 9-8 in overtime to the California Cougars. Their winning streak began two days later with a 7-5 victory against the San Diego Fusion.

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While there are plenty of deals and discounts to be had on TVs, phones, laptops and other tech products, camera-wise, there aren't a lot of reasons to wait in line until midnight after Thanksgiving dinner. That's because the year's best cameras ? many of which are rounded up here ? simply aren't subject to fire-sale pricing.

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Benefits of Using Personal Training to Market health club

Because of the
need now-a-days to look your best, combat obesity, especially among young
people, (which is above) the importance of exercise and staying healthy through
nutritional means appearing more and more in the media. This has led to health club membership and surely, the market has become more competitive. Many are now using personal training for the health club and ?market, as many of the markets in the industry as possible.

Weight, engine running and exercise classes are all well and good, but what they can not provide is the scope for a holistic approach to health and wellness that provide pilates training.

People are individuals and have different needs and desires. Personal training can address those issues, and tailor training programs accordingly. They also explained the concept, offer advice, and answer any questions you may have, where other activities at a health club, could not do.

Muscular strength, muscular endurance, body composition, cardiovascular endurance, and flexibility are the five major components, the target of personal training. The age range that caters Personal training is people aged between 18-50, and healthy, and free of diseases that damage the sport. The age range is very wide, therefore, potentially, the scope for clients in a health club is very spacious.

What stops a long-term clients in the health club? Is that being too busy with other things, such as work or family? Boredom? The knowledge that at any given time the exercise will lose its meaning? Well that's where personal training comes into its own. The relationship between the client and the coach can not be overstated. Exercise more enjoyable, and in turn, clients see better results and then get better and motivated.

Provide feedback and results are positive, the client will see the benefits of personal training. It has the potential to create long-term clients. It all depends on a good relationship with a personal trainer. The good will lead to a sense of their clients can not break training sessions, and the benefits of exercise will be evident. If the client receives advice, then this in turn build motivation, and this leads to better outcomes for the health club.

Certificates are displayed on the walls of the health club, showing the qualifications of a personal trainer, always a good way to promote personal training. Customer pays prefer to know that they are paying for a professional, qualified and all professionals. Ideally, the coach will also have qualifications in CPR. It brings down insurance premiums and meet the demands of the insurance companies.

Although there are benefits in all aspects of marketing a health club, they tend to be hit and miss in terms of results. By encouraging personal training for health club market, clients can see and feel the benefits of exercise, particularly in the areas of improved training techniques, motivation, and knowledge about health. A holistic approach can lead to long-term clients and thus, revenue higher silver sneakers.

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The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday it will hold hearings at the start of 2013 to learn?whether the nation's wireless?networks could have, or should have, performed better in the wake of superstorm Sandy.

At the height of the devastating storm, about?25 percent of cell towers were knocked out in states affected by Sandy.?

Wireless carriers worked diligently to get service restored to mobile customers, but were hampered by water damage, physical damage to cell towers and power loss.?

Because of the massive damage caused by Sandy, it took more than a week for service to be up and running?close to 100 percent.

"This unprecedented storm has revealed new challenges that will?require a national dialogue around ideas and actions to ensure the resilience of communications,"??FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said Wednesday in a?statement.

Among the FCC's questions for the hearings, which will be held?first in New York:

  • "To what extent did service providers notify consumers of their communications options in?advance of the storm?"
  • "How can service providers best work together by sharing resources, such as cell sites, Wi-Fi?networks and transmission facilities?" (AT&T and T-Mobile?put into place an?agreement to?let customers in the region use roaming on each?other's network post-Sandy.)
  • "In what?ways can these arrangements be made in advance so that they are in place when disaster strikes?"
  • "When commercial power is unavailable, how long should back-up power sources be expected to?last?"
  • "What kinds of solutions are made available to customers?to help them charge devices like cellphones?" (Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile all provided mobile charging stations as soon as they could get to hard-hit storm areas.)?
  • "What obstacles are there to connect to and receive emergency help and what technologies and?actions might help? Are there unique obstacles for the elderly or people with disabilities that?affect their use and access to communications regarding emergency services?"
  • "Why would services, once restored, perform at levels inferior to those customarily enjoyed by?users? How long can these performance degradations be expected to last?"

Representatives from AT&T and Sprint declined comment on the FCC action. NBC News also contacted Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile, and will update this post if we hear back.?

CTIA is?the trade group that represents wireless carriers. In a statement to NBC News, Chris?Guttman-McCabe, CTIA?vice president, regulatory affairs, said the group looks "forward to discussing the wireless industry?s proven commitment and dedication to providing critically important communications during times of natural disasters, particularly in light of a storm of such epic proportion as super storm Sandy."

The hearings also will focus on?communications by state and local officials and emergency personnel, the FCC said.

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Israel, Hamas claim victory amid Gaza cease-fire

Shops and stores are reopening and a semblance of normalcy is returning to Gaza's streets after a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is put into effect. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports from Gaza.

By Ian Johnston and Andrea Mitchell, NBC News

Updated at 6:10 a.m. ET: Israel?s military said it had accomplished the objectives of its airstrike campaign against Hamas by causing ?severe damage? to its military capabilities after a cease-fire was declared late Wednesday.

A statement on the Israel Defense Forces website said Operation Pillar of Defense had ?damaged and destroyed significant elements of Hamas' strategic capabilities? in the Gaza Strip.

?Following eight days of operations, the IDF has accomplished its pre-determined objectives for Operation Pillar of Defense, and has inflicted severe damage to Hamas and its military capabilities,? the ?IDF statement said.

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Hassidic Jewish men from the Breslov sect dance as one blows a horn Thursday near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai outside the northern Gaza Strip, Israel, after a truce was declared.

?These actions have severely impaired Hamas' launching capabilities, resulting in a decreasing number of rockets being fired from the Gaza Strip,? it added.

Meanwhile, people in Gaza declared victory. "Allahu akbar, (God is greatest), dear people of Gaza you won," blared mosque loudspeakers in Gaza, according to Reuters. "You have broken the arrogance of the Jews."

The cease-fire that capped a day of 130 rocket attacks, brought relief to the region but also skepticism ? especially so soon after a man bombed a bus in Tel Aviv, then escaped. NBC's Martin Fletcher reports.

The exiled leader of the Islamist Hamas movement, Khaled Meshaal, said that Israel had been defeated and failed in its "adventure," Reuters reported. "We have come out of this battle with our heads up high," he said.

And while he said Hamas would respect the truce if Israel did, Meshaal also sounded a warning. ?If it [Israel] does not comply, our hands are on the trigger," he told a news conference in Cairo.

Hamas paid a big price for what it believes was its return to the world stage. With more than 160 dead, and over 1200 injured, Gazans and their government buildings have endured numerous attacks. NBC's Richard Engel reports.

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Even after the cease-fire came into force at 9 p.m. local time (2 p.m. ET) Wednesday, a dozen rockets from the Gaza Strip landed in Israel, all in open areas, a police spokesman said. And in Gaza, witnesses reported an explosion shortly after the truce, but there were no casualties and the cause was unclear.

A top U.S. official involved in the negotiations that led to the cease-fire told NBC News that making it work was going to be a "complicated process."

Speaking for the administration, the senior official said: "The cease-fire is a big step toward trying to put in place more enduring relationships."

The official said it was ?significant? that Egypt had "stepped up and is playing a crucial role" in the peace talks.

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A Hamas police officer is hugged by a Palestinian man after they returned to their destroyed police headquarters in Gaza City Thursday.

Asked whether Hamas had been strengthened by the outcome, the official said that Israel got what it wanted, referring to the damage to Hamas? rocket-firing capabilities.

Ashraf al-Qedweh, a spokesperson for the?Gaza-based health ministry, told NBC News that?162 people had died in Gaza during the conflict, including 42 children and 11 women, with 1,225 wounded.

If the cease-fire holds for 24 hours, Israel will start talking about lifting border control on Gaza. In the meantime, Israeli ground troops remain mobilized in case Hamas resumes rocket attacks from Gaza. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.

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The IDF statement said five Israelis had been killed and 240 injured.

It listed the military successes of Pillar of Defense, saying the IDF had ?targeted over 1,500 terror sites including 19 senior command centers, operational control centers and Hamas' senior-rank headquarters, 30 senior operatives, damaging Hamas' command and control, hundreds of underground rocket launchers, 140 smuggling tunnels, 66 terror tunnels, dozens of Hamas operation rooms and bases, 26 weapon manufacturing and storage facilities and dozens of long-range rocket launchers and launch sites.?

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It said that 1,506 rockets had been fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel during the period of the operation with Israel?s ?Iron Dome? defense system intercepting 421 of the missiles.

Tension remained high Thursday with two sirens heard in southern Israel, but no reports of rocket strikes.

Israeli forces said they had seized 55 suspected Palestinian militants in the West Bank Thursday, Reuters reported.

The detainees were from various armed Palestinian factions and included "senior operatives," the army said in a statement, adding that it would "continue to maintain order ... and prevent the infiltration of terrorists into Israeli communities."

The West Bank is under the sway of U.S.-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah movement, but many of its residents are sympathetic with his Hamas rivals.?

NBC's Lawahez Jabari and Reuters contributed to this report.

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Jackson Sports Academy signs 10-Year lease for commercial ...

East West Commercial Real Estate is pleased to announce its successful relocation of Jackson Sports Academy (JSA) to McClellan Park in Sacramento County. Effective December 1, 2012, JSA is taking over 72,000 square feet of primarily warehouse space, which represents only a small portion of the 10 million square feet of commercial real estate that comprises McClellan Park.

The new space will provide sufficient room for 12 volleyball courts, which is currently the predominant sport for JSA. Other sports to be offered will include basketball, soccer and tennis. According to Dwayne Jackson, Executive Director of JSA, "we're most excited about the massive parking lot, large upstairs offices with training room, hospitality suite and parent's lounge, 38-foot high ceilings, plus free-span building without interference from structural support poles."

In so many ways, this move to a larger and more functional commercial property is a dream come true for Jackson, his coaches, referees, players and parents. It was only six years ago that Jackson set out to create the JSA organization. It started by renting a single volleyball court at a Sacramento area school property and quickly grew to something significant. A major step forward came three years ago, when JSA rented 36,000 square feet of retail/warehouse space in the old Home Base building near Madison Ave and Auburn Blvd in Sacramento. After its first season, JSA expanded into the adjacent commercial space and doubled its size to 64,000 square feet. Everybody loved it and was so excited to have such a great facility; however, the space did have its shortcomings. For instance, volleyball players had to contend with relatively low ceilings. More importantly, only having two single person restrooms in the building was a real problem. Also, insufficient parking was a nightmare for both parents and nearby businesses.

After a total of three years in the former facility, JSA recognized its limitations and set out to find a more suitable building to accommodate future growth. After engaging East West Commercial Real Estate to identify alternate space, it wasn't long before Jackson was negotiating a new commercial lease at McClellan Park, less than three miles away from its former facility. According to Brian Jacks, Regional Vice President of East West Commercial Real Estate in Sacramento, "McClellan Park is a unique community with various uses including retail, office, research & development, manufacturing, distribution, sports, fitness, education, a fully-operational airport, a full-service hotel with restaurant, residential housing elements and developable land not found in any other single commercial real estate development in the Sacramento area. The former McClellan Air Force Base is like a small city unto itself that is well secured and offers significant amenities to JSA clients and patrons."

In addition to facilitating volleyball and other sports activities onsite, JSA has been offering Community Collaborative Charter School (CCCS) (among other schools) a place for its middle and high school aged students to accumulate physical education credits. CCCS did not previously have access to sports court facilities, so JSA welcomed them with opened arms through its non-profit organization called Jackson School For Athletes. Scott Rungwerth, Vice President of CCCS, indicated that "research links positive adult contact with children becoming successful in school. Our partnership with JSA helps to us to fulfill this mission and we're very fortunate to have Jackson as our new neighbor." Instead of bussing youth almost three miles down the road to JSA's old facility, the trip will now only take a few minutes walk across the parking lot, since CCCS is an existing tenant at McClellan Park, where the charter school hosts approximately 700 students.

Fortunately, the goodwill doesn't stop there. Jackson has also partnered with Harold Pressley (former Sacramento King) to introduce basketball to JSA in the form of training, leagues and camps. Pressley, of Hardwood Palace in Rocklin, also runs a foundation called Treat'em Like a King (TLK Foundation), an organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged children and families to better their lives. Pressley is excited about his affiliation with JSA and looks forward to "introducing at-risk and disadvantaged children to sporting opportunities that would otherwise not be available to them. My goal is to make it possible for these youth to participate in basketball leagues and camps that will put smiles on their faces, while allowing them to develop athletic skills in a safe and secure environment." Pressley is also responsible for securing Isaiah Thomas (current Sacramento King) for a Christmas camp next month at the new JSA facility.

McClellan Park and JSA worked well together to negotiate terms for the long-term lease, but the deal wasn't without its challenges. According to Ken Giannotti, Senior Vice President at McClellan Park, "it was unlike any transaction we have ever considered, due to the sports related aspect of the operation. We spent time really understanding the business model and working with the County of Sacramento towards approval and change of use permit." The new JSA facility officially opens December 1, 2012 with newly installed, energy efficient lighting through a SMUD rebate program. It will be home to approximately 250 volleyball teams that will utilize the facility for practice and tournaments throughout the year.

Disclosure: Brian Jacks, Regional Vice President of East West Commercial Real Estate, represented the tenant (Jackson Sports Academy) for this warehouse lease transaction - http://www.CommercialRealEstate-Sacramento.

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Circumcision Makes No Sense (And That's Okay) | Jewish & Israel ...

A religious circumcision in a Synagogue. Photo: jspace.com.

Let?s be honest with ourselves. Circumcision is crazy.

We take a baby, 8 days after he left the womb, 8 days after the being born, and we have a person, not even a doctor, mumble some words, and then cut off part of the most sensitive limb of the baby?s body.

The problem, you see, is that we try and make it sound logical.

We tell each other, well, it?s healthy. Well, everyone does it now. Well, the baby will be better off for it.

We make these arguments because there is a screeching group of fanatics on the other side that are telling us how wrong what we?re doing is. How we?re horrible people. How it makes no sense!

And so we try to make it all sound smart and logical, and we put out articles about our logical arguments, and we get doctors to sign a petition in our favor, and we argue about it online.

This is a mistake.

Because the truth is, as I said, it doesn?t make sense to do this to a baby at that age. At least, it doesn?t make sense in the paradigm the secular world inhabits.

In secular life, the physical is what matters. Meaning: life, pain, money, comfort. These are the morals of our society, or, at least, they are becoming the morals. A secular society is focused on reducing the negative forms of physicality, and increasing the positive forms.

In many ways, the religious paradigm intersects this philosophy. We also care about reducing pain, increasing life expectancy, and all the rest.

But for different reasons. We want those things because they give us the ability to lead a more spiritual life.

To the secular society, those goals of reducing pain and increasing comfort, are ends to themselves.

Viewed from the paradigm of secular society, circumcision makes no sense.

And the problem is that, in the Jewish community, we are trying to make it fit into that paradigm. We make ridiculous arguments about how it?s better for the baby in the long term. While that may be true, it still doesn?t justify doing it. From a totally secular point of view, it makes sense to allow a person to wait until they are sexually active to decide if they want to go forward with such a procedure.

From a religious perspective, of course, circumcision makes complete sense. Because the goal of being religious isn?t necessarily to avoid pain or to increase comfort. No, the goal of a religious person is to come closer to G-d. To live a G-dly life. To bring spirituality into the physical world.

We have a different paradigm, and that?s totally fine. The important thing is to recognize the difference.

Otherwise, we?re trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It not only effects the way others look at us, but it effects the way we look at ourselves. The more we try to argue for circumcision in the paradigm of secular ideals, the more we define our own religion based on secular society.

Things get even worse when we accuse those who disagree with us of being antisemitic. It may be true for some, even many, but for many others it isn?t. They?re simply living out a different ideal than ours.

The same goes for so many other arguments Jews are beginning to lose in the modern world. Arguments for the existence of Israel and especially settlements, for example. People try to make logical, secular, arguments for these things. The majority of Jews that are pro-Israel try to somehow fit the existence of that bizarre country into a secular worldview.

But how can you justify the existence of Israel? A bunch of Jews decided to plop themselves down on a plot of land they hadn?t controlled in generations. It makes no sense. Not if you define the world based on a physical?paradigm, only based on discomfort, on the fact that Arabs are pissed, that Jews have no right to the land. And then to try to argue for settlements as something positive is even more crazy from such a perspective.

No, the only way to be logical in such a situation is to accept that the paradigm for looking at these things is religious. Is G-dly. That the way of life we?ve chosen isn?t going to make sense to the people around us.

The more we do this, the more people won?t be able to mess with us. Imagine if we told world leaders that there?s no way they can convince us to give up a tract of land because? it?s ours. Or imagine if we told the world we do circumcision because? it?s the way we make the world G-dly.

It may not make sense at the time to the people around us, but it will force people to have to start examining our worldview.

Until then, we?ll continue to be thrown around by the world the way people like Barak in Israel are. We?ll continue to lose arguments to the people around us about circumcision and eventually every other religious act we practice.

But when we proudly stand up for our paradigm, for a worldview that is in a completely different sphere from the rest of the world, we?ll not only be respected (if not understood), we?ll respect ourselves.

Source: http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/11/12/circumcision-makes-no-sense-and-thats-okay/

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BuyVia Takes On ShopSavvy With Price Comparisons, Local Deals & Geo-Targeted Price Alerts

Home Page Screen ShotEmerging out of stealth mode today, San Francisco-based startup BuyVia is throwing its hat into the ring as another shopping service and mobile app designed for price comparisons. The company is?predominantly?focused?on consumer electronics like laptops, smartphones, tablets, digital cameras, and video games.

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Rockefeller Center Christmas tree survived Sandy

(AP) ? The Christmas tree that will dominate New York's Rockefeller Center survived the winds of Superstorm Sandy that left a path of destruction in a New Jersey town and even its donor without electricity for weeks.

Joe Balku, 76, learned that the 80-foot Norway spruce had been chosen for the honor four weeks ago. Sandy hit two weeks later.

Balku watched the tree, which weighs 10 tons and is 50 feet in diameter, as it swayed in the backyard.

"I kept going outside during the night. I lost two trees, an oak and an evergreen, but the big tree was tied up for its protection," Balku said.

His electricity went out, but on the morning after the storm, the tree was still standing and his home did not sustain any damage.

The tree was about 22-feet tall when Balku purchased the home in 1973.

Balku had two generators running to power his home in the rural community about an hour from Manhattan. He didn't have cable TV or Internet service.

Electricity was restored on Saturday.

The tree will be loaded on a 115-foot-long flatbed truck and erected at Rockefeller Center on Wednesday. Workers will then string 45,000 lights on the branches.

"It's a thrill of a lifetime to have the chance to donate the tree to Rockefeller Center and for millions of people to see it all over the world," he said.

The 80th Christmas tree lighting will take place on Nov. 28.

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Mature Women Nude: Senior Calendar Girls Get Naked For A Good Cause

What would inspire 16 women in their 70s and 80s to get nearly naked for a photographer? Apparently, Helen Mirren.

In Mirren's 2003 movie "Calendar Girls," a refined women's club decides to raise money by selling a risqu? calendar. And so things went for the Riderwood retirement community in Silver Spring, Maryland, said Beth Gordon, 79, who is Miss November in the "Going Bare For Benevolent Care" 2013 calendar and organized the project.

Sixteen retired women -- all in their 70s and 80s -- appear naked in the 12-month calendar that is selling for $15. All are discreetly covered, assured Gordon. The money raised will be used to help residents in the Riderwood community stay in their homes. "The recession and health care costs have left a few residents without the means to continue living here," Gordon said. All revenues from the sale of the 5,000 calendars -- less printing costs and the $35 chocolate cake used as prop -- will go to the Benevolent Care Fund created to help them stay. The models and photographer donated their time.

Gordon, a retired financial planner and now treasurer of the Riderwood's Village Protestant Church, has lived in the community for more than six years. She dismisses those who see her retirement community as a "nursing home." "It's more like being on a cruise ship that never leaves port," she said, describing non-stop activities, classes and programs for residents. In fact, about a half-dozen of the women who posed for the calendar were recruited from a water aerobics class.

"We had a ball doing this," Gordon said. "The photographer really put all the women at ease." Gordon posed in a library setting, donning nothing but a strand of pearls with her torso hidden by a book titled "Hidden Pearls."

The Benevolent Care Fund is funded by donations, local businesses and an annual fundraiser, she said. The purpose is to provide money to those who run out of it after they move to Riderwood, said Gordon. "We want them to be able to stay in their homes."

The idea for the calendar as a fund-raising tool was hers, and yes, inspired by the movie. "I went to our philanthropy director and said, 'Why don't we do a calendar like they did in that movie?'"

The Riderwood calendar skips the seasonal shots typically associated with holidays and instead focuses on the retirement community and its many offerings. April shows a group of women playing pool. Another is covered with Pilate balls. And then there's a woman who uses a scooter to get around, posed on a big old Harley.

"We tried to make it edgy but artistic and tasteful -- and of course, show our lifestyle," Gordon said.

Was it hard to recruit women to pose? Not at all, she said. "We had no no trouble talking anyone into doing it," she said. "A few women changed their minds after initially saying they were interested, but we had plenty of people willing. No arm-twisting at all," Gordon said.

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Wendy N. Powell: 'Stand Down' for Veterans Day -- Then Get Them Back to Work

"Stand down veteran" is just what I would say on one special day every year. Our country celebrates Veterans Day by closing banks, government offices, and schools. It is a federal holiday intended to honor veterans of the United States Armed Forces. We give a day off to some Americans in recognition, but are we really recognizing the right people we intend to honor?

Each year, I watch my favorite veteran, former Army Sergeant Powell go to work like it's any other day of the week. On his way, he drives by closed schools; he can't get his banking done, cannot mail a letter, notices lighter traffic. But it is a regular day of work for him and most veterans... but he has a job. Unfortunately, we cannot say the same for many of our country's finest. They need jobs.

Let's not forget to recognize the vets at work by giving them thanks for their service to our country. Make a positive spectacle of them. Buy them lunch, celebrate with a cake, and let them leave early, or give them the day off. Despite the fact that our federal holiday doesn't provide vets with R&R, create your own policy to recognize them but please don't disregard their service to country.

While we talk about giving veterans a holiday from work, we need to think about getting them back to work.

Veterans need our help. Based on these remarkable statistics:

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: The unemployment rate for veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces at any time since September 2001 -- a group referred to as Gulf War-era II veterans -- was 12.1 percent in 2011. (over four percent higher than the average American) The jobless rate for all veterans was 8.3 percent.

But the young veteran (ages 18 through 24) the unemployment rate is 29.1 percent, 11.5 percent higher than the same non-military age group unemployment rate of 17.6 percent.

Stunning news and a reminder for Veterans Day: In a rare and overwhelmingly bi-partisan move in Congress, the VOW to Hire Heroes Act was passed on November 10, 2011 and is proposed to be extended for at least four years.

The purpose: improve the employment possibilities and transition from active military to civilian jobs and provide incentives to employers to hire veterans.

Provisions of the VOW Act include:
? A tax credit of up to $5,600 for hiring out of work vets unemployed for more than six months and a step down amount of $2,400 for hiring the vets unemployed for more than four weeks.
? A tax credit up to $9,600 for hiring vets with service-connected disabilities who have been unemployed for more than six months
? Transition Assistance Program (TAP) to provide career counseling
? Expands education opportunities for older veterans with up to one year of GI education benefits.

Additional reimbursements under the Special Employer Incentives (SEI) are available for employers who hire veterans including up to 50 percent of the veteran's salary for up to six months for instruction and training.

What is not to like about these initiatives? This defines the philosophy of "win-win." Now we are talking about real, meaningful initiatives that would make a difference in veterans' lives. This is a shining example of public money well spent. Employers, check out these options for assisting veterans and receive tax breaks and reimbursements for your efforts.

Don't forget, if you want to treat your favorite vet, there are many initiatives and specials offered to veterans including free national park admission, discounts at restaurants and stores. Check out The Military Wallet. They provide updates on discounts and stunning recognition, for our country's finest.

And, remember, you can help a wounded veteran and their families at the phenomenal Wounded Warrior Project or help a vet through the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Happy Veterans Day and a personal thank you to my family, friends, and many of my students who have proudly and bravely served. And God bless the memories of the beloved fallen Americans who lost their lives in the act of defending our American freedoms.

And please remember fallen veterans, Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty and Air Force veteran Sean Smith upholding the military philosophy of "no one left behind" by their valiant attempts to save Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and our embassy in the terrorist attack on September 11, 2012.

Booyah! And never forget our veterans!

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Homeowners in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will save thousands of dollars in insurance costs after several state governors declared that Sandy did not make landfall as a hurricane, exempting them from insurers' hurricane deductibles

Unlike regular deductibles that require homeowners to pay a set dollar amount -- typically $500 or $1,000 -- hurricane deductibles often require you to cough up 1 percent to 5 percent of your property's value. So a policyholder with a house worth $300,000 and a hurricane deductible of 5 percent would have to pay for the first $15,000 in damages before insurance payments kick in.


Hurricane deductibles only go into effect when storms have sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or more, or Category 1 hurricane strength. And state governors from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are saying that Sandy didn't make that cut.

"Homeowners should not have to pay hurricane deductibles for damage caused by the storm," said Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York. Governors Chris Christie of New Jersey and Dannel Malloy of Connecticut made similar statements, as did Maryland's insurance regulator.

The insurance industry would have reached the same conclusion that sustained wind triggers were not met, said Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute. "No one would have been charged the hurricane deductible," he said.

Insurers came up with the idea of hurricane deductibles after they made heavy payouts for Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which caused $15.5 billion in damages. Increasingly, insurers in hurricane-prone states along the Eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico have been adding the deductible to their policies.

Disaster and risk-modeling firm Eqecat estimates that there will be between $10 billion to $20 billion in insured losses from Sandy.

Robert Hunter, an insurance specialist with the Consumer Federation of America, believes that insurers apply hurricane deductibles improperly at times. A storm may hit Long Island, N.Y., as a hurricane, but it can quickly weaken by the time it moves inland. Nevertheless, those living upstate in Albany could be hit by the hurricane deductible even though the storm was downgraded before it reached them. "If it's a hurricane anywhere, it's a hurricane everywhere," said Hunter.

The Insurance Information Institute's Hartwig said the conditions that trigger the deductibles are not only fair but they are clearly stated in homeowner's insurance policies, which are vetted and approved by state insurance departments.

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So Long, Holden

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I imagined it so differently. I would hand The Catcher in the Rye to my students and watch it transform their lives. They would see themselves in Holden Caulfield, and J.D. Salinger's words would elucidate their own frustrations and struggles. They would write righteous screeds against phoniness, start keeping journals, and forever treasure their pored-over paperback. The book would blow the minds of teenagers seeking a pilgrim soul?a friend?s voice in the wild of adolescence.

What I did not expect was shrugging boredom, the most feared of student reactions. I might as well have assigned Jude the Obscure.

The problem is that Catcher in the Rye is no longer a book for cool high school students. Catcher in the Rye is a book for cool high school teachers. Holden?s painful, alienating realization?that in life, phonies abound and beauty is a fragile, horrible thing we will forever chase and lose?is a fundamental teenage anguish. Adults who remember this feeling share the book to say: I understand that this world hurts. Here is someone else who understands. Assigning Catcher in the Rye has long been an acknowledgement that the moody sensitivity of teenagers is actually? despite its insufferability to older people?the correct reaction to the world.

Unfortunately, the book?s reputation as the Great American High School Novel precedes it, and its popularity has been its undoing. According to Stephen J. Whitfield, author of a social history of Catcher, Salinger's once-shocking novel "may lag behind only Of Mice and Men on public-school required reading lists." Young readers need a new coming-of-age classic, a book that has yet to be discovered and co-opted by the culture, a book that shares Salinger?s sense for adolescent heartbreak and anger while refreshing its midcentury references and voice, a jewel of a book that could feel like new. Happily, such a book has already been written: David Mitchell?s 2006 coming-of-age novel Black Swan Green.

The perfect teenage book should feel like it?s being passed around secretly, its message too raw and powerful for adults to understand. It should inspire highlighting and ponderous margin notes that embarrass you 20 years later. Most of all, it should feel like it?s speaking directly to you, and only you, even if everyone else in your class is working on the same essay question.

But when a novel is implicitly endorsed by the culture, as Catcher in the Rye is, how radical could it be? In 2012, a teenager?s parents are likely to have read?and loved?Catcher in the Rye as young people. For most teenagers, an authority figure?s approval is the kiss of death. Salinger?s classic might still speak to a high schooler?and it still does to some teens?but it certainly won?t be a private conversation.

And Holden now has more in common with those parents (and their parents) than he does with teens. There was a time when Salinger seemed far more modern than Fitzgerald and Hemingway, but to young readers circa 2012, there is no fundamental difference between Holden?s New York and Gatsby?s West Egg?both are places of antiquated privilege and clarinet-heavy music. Salinger's Manhattan is pre-TV, pre-pop-culture, pre-rebel trope: a pre-Holden world.

This doesn?t mean the story can?t connect, but the cultural context is so radically different that it becomes necessary to teach the era as much as the story. Holden takes a girl to see a play starring the famous Lunts. There are references to Peter Lorre and the jitterbug on the same page. Though much has been made of Holden?s swearing, ?damnit? is about as strong as it gets, and seeing ?fuck? written on a wall pretty much undoes him. While unearthing the grief that lies beneath Holden?s posturing is one of the best aspects of the book, the fact that Holden never directly addresses his loss over Allie is bizarre to young people used to a culture of oversharing.

Enter Black Swan Green. To readers familiar with the epic scope and ambition of Cloud Atlas, Mitchell?s most famous novel (and the basis for the movie), Black Swan Green is radical in its simplicity. While Cloud Atlas is all wild acrobatic feats of genre and voice and puzzles and mysticism, Black Swan Green is earthbound. Jason Taylor, its narrator, is a sensitive young stutterer and secret poet in Thatcherite England who recounts the personal revolutions of his 13th year.

There are clear nods to Catcher in the Rye in Black Swan Green. The sensitive boy at odds with his surroundings, personal and cultural shifts that both seduce and repulse the narrator, an idiosyncratic first-person perspective?Salinger?s stamp is clear in Mitchell?s novel, as it is in most coming-of-age novels written in the post-Holden era. But Mitchell pulls off the neat trick of providing the same emotional connection readers remember about Catcher in the Rye in a way that feels fresh and undiscovered. Through a shift in context, voice, and protagonist, Mitchell is able to elevate a very simple, classic coming-of-age story to the realm of greatness.

But it isn?t as simple as updating the references. After all, like Catcher in the Rye, Black Swan Green is dated, and the slang and particularities of England in the ?80s (?aces,? the Falklands War, Adam Ant) take a bit of time to explain to young Americans. And it?s still set in the privileged world of white boys (there are many great choices that broaden this perspective, among them Drown by Junot Diaz). But while it?s set 30 years ago in a pre-Internet world, BSG, with its TV, pop music, movies, and suburban boredom, feels far more current.

More importantly, Jason is not just a contemporary kind of protagonist? he?s most decidedly not a Holden. As young David Mitchell was, Jason is a budding writer embarrassed by his sensitive literary proclivities and deeply ashamed of his stutter, an observer who wants to understand and belong to the world around him. Holden?s cynicism and alienation from the world he inhabits have become a clich?; the sincerity and openness of young Jason feels fresh. He reads as real and naive, as immature as Holden is jaded. Instead of finding almost everything ?sad as hell,? Jason remains childlike in his enthusiasm for all the ?epic? things around him, even as the events of his life become harder for him to process.

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A new study from Sweden shows overweight and obese children under 10 were much more likely to slow their weight gain than were adolescents getting similar behavioral treatments. I wondered if there were any small companies creating apps or toys or games to help kids slow weight gain. I found a bunch.

One of the best one-stop-shops for apps is found at The Apps for Healthy Kids competition, which is part of First Lady Michelle Obama?s Let?s Move! campaign to end childhood obesity within a generation. My favorite winner is one called PapayaHead, a meal planning tool.

Ingredient is a new magazine for kids curious about food.

Get Kids Moving is a set of exercise cards to teachers and children. In addition to some simple products, they provide a wide range of resources to help you cook healthy and exercise more.

My absolute favorite is WOD Toys, shown in the fun video above, which offers kid-based exercise equipment including kettle bells and other gear.

Movable is a wrist-worn activity band to monitor exercise, but it includes an app that lets you set challenges for your family or group.

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Kuwait warns of harsher measures against protests

KUWAIT CITY (AP) ? Authorities in Kuwait warned Thursday they will use harsher measures to crack down on anti-government demonstrators defying bans on protest gatherings in the increasingly tense Gulf nation.

The statement came just hours after clashes between security forces and thousands of protesters who had gathered outside a prison in Kuwait City on Wednesday evening to demand the release of an opposition leader, Musallam al-Barrack, who is under investigation for allegedly insulting Kuwait's emir.

Al-Barrack, a former parliament member, was released from custody Thursday on bail of 10,000 dinars (more than $35,500), Kuwait media reported.

Kuwait last week banned any public gathering of more than 20 people in attempts to quash growing protests led by opposition factions that include Islamists, which is seeking to reclaim control of parliament in elections planned for Dec. 1.

The outcome is seen as a pivotal moment in Kuwait's political showdowns.

A victory for the Islamists and their allies could bring even more pressures on the Western-backed ruling family, which has so far turned back demands for stricter Muslim social codes in Kuwait.

Kuwait's deepening political crisis could bring further rifts in one of Washington's most important Gulf allies, which now hosts the bulk of U.S. ground forces in the region following America's withdrawal from Iraq.

Kuwait has the most politically empowered parliament among the Gulf Arab states, with opposition lawmakers often directly challenging government officials over alleged corruption and power abuses.

But Kuwaiti officials have taken a hardline position as protests have moved to the streets. Kuwait's Interior Ministry said forces will "firmly" confront any new demonstrations.

It said a "number" of protesters have been arrested, including a driver who allegedly tried to run over four policemen late Wednesday.

Oil-rich Kuwait has not faced widespread unrest since the Arab Spring uprisings erupted last year across the Middle East, but political battles and labor upheavals have stalled many development plans and rewritten the rules on political dissent.

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Katie Lynch stands on the street with her dog Merlin in the West Village as she checks her email and voicemail on her iPhone Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012 in New York. Lynch, who lives on West 10th Street and Bleecker Street, said she had no power, cell phone service or internet service, so she needed to go out to check her email and voicemail. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

Katie Lynch stands on the street with her dog Merlin in the West Village as she checks her email and voicemail on her iPhone Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012 in New York. Lynch, who lives on West 10th Street and Bleecker Street, said she had no power, cell phone service or internet service, so she needed to go out to check her email and voicemail. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

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This undated photo made available by New Jersey Transit shows boats and other debris on New Jersey Transit's Morgan draw bridge in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, in South Amboy, N.J. Most mass transit systems were shut down as a result of the storm's damage, leaving hundreds of thousands of commuters braving clogged highways and quarter-mile lines at gas stations. (AP Photo/New Jersey Transit)

This aerial photo shows the damage to an amusement park left in the wake of superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Seaside Heights, N.J. New Jersey got the brunt of Sandy, which made landfall in the state and killed six people. More than 2 million customers were without power as of Wednesday afternoon, down from a peak of 2.7 million. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

A lone parked car is draped with snow covered branches south of Morgantown, W.Va. from a snowfall on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. West Virginia's death toll climbed to at least six and hundreds of thousands remained without power Wednesday, Oct. 31, from the wet, heavy snow that superstorm Sandy dumped on the mountains, snapping trees, pulling down power lines and collapsing homes. (AP Photo/The Dominion-Post, Ron Rittenhouse)

(AP) ? New York tried to resume its normal frenetic pace Thursday, getting back its vital subway system after a crippling storm but still finding it slow on gridlocked highways.

Commuters lined up at Penn Station to board uptown trains at 6 a.m. Technology worker Ronnie Abraham was on one of them, hoping to get home to Harlem, a trip that is 20 minutes by train and 2 ? hours by bus.

"It's the lifeline of the city," Abraham said. "It can't get much better than this."

Ray Dunn, a paramedic, was trying to get work in the Bronx for the first time since the storm barreled up the East Coast, killing more than 70 people.

"There's no way to get to work unless you drive," said Dunn, who doesn't own a car.

After reopening its airports, theaters and stock exchange, city officials hoped the subways would ease the throng of gridlocked traffic that the city faced in the past three days, often without working stoplights. But television footage Thursday showed heavy traffic crawling into Manhattan, as police turned away cars that carried fewer than three people ? a rule meant to ease the congestion that paralyzed the city earlier this week.

The decision to reopen undamaged parts of the nation's largest transit system came as the region struggled to restore other basic services to recover from a storm that still had more than 5 million people in the dark.

Across the region, people stricken by the storm pulled together, in some cases providing comfort to those left homeless, in others offering hot showers and electrical outlets for charging cellphones to those without power.

The spirit of can-do partnership extended even to politicians, who at least made the appearance of putting their differences aside to focus together on Sandy.

"We are here for you," President Barack Obama said in Brigantine, N.J., touring a ravaged shore. "We are not going to tolerate red tape. We are not going to tolerate bureaucracy."

Obama joined Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who had been one of the most vocal supporters of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, to tour the ravaged coast. But the two men spoke only of helping those harmed by the storm.

That was already beginning Wednesday, when masses of people walked shoulder-to-shoulder across the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan for work, reversing the escape scenes from the Sept. 11 terror attack and the blackout of 2003. They reached an island, where many people took the lack of power and water and transportation as a personal challenge.

On Third Avenue, people gathered like refugees around a campfire. But instead of crackling flames, their warmth came from more advanced technology: a power strip that had been offered to charge cellphones.

At a fire hydrant on West 16th Street, 9-year-old Shiyin Ge and her brother, 12-year-old Shiyuan Ge, stood in line to fill up buckets of water. But unlike the adults, the two kids held plastic Halloween candy pails painted with grinning jack-o-lanterns.

"There's no water in our house," said Shiyin Ge, who had planned to dress up as a ladybug for Halloween.

After suffering the worst disaster in its 108-year-old history, the subways were to roll again ? at least some of them. More than a dozen of the lines would offer some service, but none below Manhattan's 34th Street, a line of demarcation in the city separating the hardest-hit residents from those who escaped the brunt.

Downtown Manhattan, which includes the city's financial district, Sept. 11 memorial and other tourist sites, was still mostly an urban landscape of shuttered bodegas and boarded-up restaurants, where people roamed in search of food, power and a hot shower.

To get there from Brooklyn or Queens, commuters who would normally zoom beneath the East River in tunnels that flooded will have to take shuttle buses, adding to the enormous stress already being placed on gridlocked Manhattan streets.

"We are going to need some patience and tolerance," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.

The airports and subways weren't the only transportation systems returning to the region. Suburban trains started running for the first time on Wednesday, and Amtrak's Northeast Corridor was to take commuters from city to city for on Friday for the first time since the storm.

From West Virginia to the Jersey Shore, the storm's damage was still being felt, and seen.

In New Jersey, signs of the good life that had defined wealthy shorefront enclaves like Bayhead and Mantoloking lay scattered and broken: $3,000 barbecue grills buried beneath the sand and hot tubs cracked and filled with seawater. Nearly all the homes were seriously damaged, and many had entirely disappeared.

"This," said Harry Typaldos, who owns the Grenville Inn in Mantoloking, "I just can't comprehend."

Most of the state's mass transit systems remained shut down, leaving hundreds of thousands of commuters braving clogged highways and quarter-mile lines at gas stations. Atlantic City's casinos remained closed. Christie postponed Halloween until Monday, saying trick-or-treating wasn't safe in towns with flooded and darkened streets, fallen trees and downed power lines.

Farther north in Hoboken, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, nearly 20,000 residents remained stranded in their homes, amid accusations that officials have been slow to deliver food and water. One man blew up an air mattress and floated to City Hall, demanding to know why supplies hadn't gotten out. At least one-fourth of the city's residents are flooded and 90 percent are without power.

The outages forced many gas stations across the state to close, resulting in long lines of people looking to fuel cars and backup generators. Darryl Jameson of Toms River waited more than hour to get fuel.

"The messed up part is these people who are blocking the roadway as they try to cut in line," he said. "No one likes waiting, man, but it's something you have to do."

On New York's Long Island, bulldozers scooped sand off streets and tow trucks hauled away destroyed cars, while residents tried to find a way to their homes to restart their lives. Joanne and Richard Kalb used a rowboat to reach their home in Mastic Beach, filled with 3 feet of water.

Her husband, exasperated by the futility of their effort, posted a sign on a telephone pole, asking drivers to slow down: "Slow please no wake."

Snow drifts as high as 5 feet piled up in West Virginia, where the former Hurricane Sandy merged with two winter weather systems as it went inland. Heavy snow collapsed parts of an apartment complex, a grocery store, a hardwood plant and three homes. The sixth person killed in the state was a candidate for the state House of Delegates, John Rose Sr., who was struck by a falling tree limb. His name will remain on the ballot on Election Day.

A few more inches might fall in West Virginia, but meteorologists said Sandy's days are numbered. The National Weather Service said Wednesday that the last remnants of the storm are in the Appalachian Mountains, and will be gone by the end of the week.

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Contributing to this report were Verena Dobnik, Eileen AJ Connelly, Leanne Italie, Karen Matthews and Lou Ferrara in New York; Samantha Henry in Hoboken, N.J.; Wayne Parry in Mantoloking, N.J., Katie Zezima in Seaside Heights, N.J.; Frank Eltman in Mastic Beach, N.Y., Larry Neumeister in Long Beach, N.Y., and Vicki Smith in Elkins, W.Va.

Associated Press

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