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BOSTON -- Joerg Kersten, a medical devices professional from Germany, said Tuesday he wants to come back for another marathon.
The lean, blond runner from Wuertzberg said a tragedy like Monday's bombings could have happened anywhere.
Kersten was well past the finish line when the two blasts rattled Copley Square shortly before 3 p.m.
The explosions shook Boston on what is traditionally the day the city shows its best self to the world, showcasing a sporting event that has an international reputation.
Video of the explosions shows a row of international flags thrown to the ground, shrouded in smoke. Beneath the flags and smoke there was horror and what Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis would later describe as "the most complicated crime scene in the history of our department."
"At such a crowded event, it could be so easy for someone to do this," Kersten said as he sat at Logan International Airport waiting for his return flight to Frankfurt. "But I would come back, and what I will never forget is the crowd."
Kersten, 31, an experienced marathoner, had never raced in Boston. He said he'll always remember the constant, throaty roar that is a staple of the 26.2-mile race. He'll remember the sound of dozens of Harley Davidson riders revving their engines at mile 15.
He'll also remember the frightening blasts that occurred in succession along Boylston Street, but Kersten, who finished in just under three hours and 20 minutes, vowed that such a tragic incident would not prevent him from coming back. His girlfriend, Munich resident Nicole Gruen, did not run Monday.
Gruen said if she had run her typical four-hour pace she would have likely finished around the time of the explosions.
"It's scary to think about," she said.
Katsuhiro Moriya, 58, came all the way from Tokyo to run. Moriya said he spent the last six days exploring Boston. With a wide grin he said he hoped the marathon would be held next year.
"I love this town," Moriya said.
So does Lithuanian native Arunas Kumpis. Kumpis, waiting on a Logan airport bench for his flight home to Vilnius, said he felt "shocked" by the generosity and friendliness of strangers.
Kumpis told a story about his first day in Boston. He recalled being at the wheel of a rental car, desperately trying to find his hotel.
"A woman in another car saw I was lost and she rolled down her window and asked if she could help," he said.
Kumpis has now completed six marathons, but said this was his "first in America."
Like Kersten, Kumpis said he was "shocked" by the energy of the Boston Marathon crowds. He swears it was their support that drove him to run a personal best, finishing in three hours and nine minutes.
Kumpis said his previous best was three hours and 11 minutes in Berlin.
"I want to come back," he said, beaming a bright smile and adding that he "loves Americans."
Kumpis said he ran the race with four Lithuanian friends. Despite the tragedy, Kumpis said he and his countrymen plan to return to Boston someday.
"I think sports brings Americans together," he said. "Sports brings Lithuanians together but I've never experienced anything like this."
When he was asked about the bombings, however, confusion set in.
"What surprises me is how something like this could happen in a country that has been so friendly to me," he said. "This is not the America I know, none of this makes sense."
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Israel is at the heart of Jewish history, Jewish tradition, and Jewish life today. Ahavat Yisrael is a deeply held value in our community and brings deep meaning to the work you will do. The year at our Jerusalem campus is a time for you to immerse yourself in your studies and your HUC-JIR community in a holistic way. It is here, far from your everyday experience, where you will build relationships with your classmates who will become your colleagues for a lifetime. What looks like a requirement when you enroll becomes a gift once your journey as a student is underway.
Your learning in the Year-In-Israel program includes the study of Hebrew language, extensive reading in the Hebrew of the classical texts of Judaism, and the study of the history and contemporary realities of Israel. As you study with HUC-JIR's first year rabbinical and cantorial students, your courses in liturgy and modern Judaism will introduce you to the thought and practice of the Reform Movement.
As an MAJE student, you will participate in a year-long education course. The seminar-style course, Education and Values in Israel, introduces you to the big questions in education and Jewish education including: What is education? What is the relationship between society and education? What are the current and emerging trends in Jewish education in North America?
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Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader is a laugh-out-loud novella that does indeed read like a fairy tale at times but the little book packs a lot into its 120 pages. Avid readers will recognize themselves in Queen Elizabeth as she exercises her "reading muscle" and progresses from reading anything suggested to her by others to falling in love with "new" authors and more serious literature. They also will recognize the reactions of the Queen's family and staff who are somewhat bewildered to find that she carries a book with her wherever she goes and has lost interest in many of the things that previously kept her busy. Not only do they not understand her new love of reading, they come to resent her for it, and some even suspect that she is showing the first signs of senility.
Her move along the road to a new sensibility and self-awareness allows
On another occasion, when being briefed by a befuddled member of her staff who does not understand why she suddenly prefers reading to his briefings, she tells him that "…briefing is not reading. In fact, it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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As districts nationwide struggle to meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, the U.S. Department of Education has shifted its focus to turning around the nation's lowest-performing schools.
In 2009, the federal government overhauled the Title I School Improvement Grant program, increased its value to $3.5 billion with money from the recovery act, and spelled out four turnaround options from which perennially failing schools would have to choose to get a share of the funding. (Roll over the chart at right for descriptions of each model and the breakdown of SIG money-receiving schools that chose to use it).
In the past, school improvement grant money had come with little to no strong direction from the federal government, and never with so much funding attached. Some education leaders have complained that the federal models are too inflexible and don't put enough emphasis on parent involvement, but a little more than a year later, some turnaround schools are starting to show gains.
Education Week, Catalyst Chicago, Education News Colorado, GothamSchools, and The Philadelphia Public School Notebook have been following turnaround efforts in five regions.
In Philadelphia, for example, which has experimented with outside management of schools for over a decade, the new SIG funding is helping to fuel difficult changes through the Renaissance Schools Initiative, which identifies chronically low-performing schools for both internal turnaround and overhaul by external organizations. In Colorado, the state's 2008 Innovation Schools Act is giving approved schools greater flexibility by waiving certain state statutes, district policies, and union contract provisions to help boost student achievement—but it is also getting pushback.
This collection chronicles the changes in turnaround schools as teachers and administrators work through the challenges of overhauling their systems in a bid to improve student performance.
Background on SIG: The federal plan, SIG schools map, progress so far.
Kentucky Turnaround
Education Week has been following Principal Keith Look and his team at the former Shawnee High School in Louisville, Ky., as they work to transform the long-troubled campus. More than half the teachers have been replaced, the school is using data more to pinpoint students' weaknesses and to adjust instruction, and the school even has a new name: the Academy @ Shawnee. Will their efforts be enough for a successful turnaround and the "considerable progress" necessary for Look to keep his job? The stakes are high for everyone.
- • Kentucky Turnaround School Reaps Double-Digit Gains (Oct. 3, 2011)
- • Turnaround School Passes One-Year Milestone (June 6, 2011)
- • Turnaround High School Ratchets Up Improvement (Feb. 22, 2011)
- • Educators Step Up Academics at Ky. Turnaround School (Oct. 25, 2010)
- • Turnaround Team Scrambles at Ky. High School (Aug. 4, 2010)
- • Kentucky High School Launches Turnaround Journey (June 15, 2010)
Last Chance for Chicago's Marshall High?
Chicago is considered a national model for its turnaround program, which U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan launched while CEO of the district. Chicago's elementary turnaround schools have had some success in raising test scores. But turnaround high schools have yet to make significant inroads with academics and face hurdles such as declining enrollment, lack of rigorous curricula and a disproportionate number of students with special needs. At Marshall, one of four Chicago turnaround high schools, the strategy could be the school's last chance to make a comeback.
- • Last-Ditch Tactic (Oct. 13, 2011)
- • The Turnaround and Transformation Vision (Oct. 13, 2011)
- • Beating the Odds (Oct. 13, 2011)
- • A Special Push (Oct. 13, 2011)
- • Suspending Progress? (Oct. 13, 2011)
Philadelphia's 'Renaissance Schools'
Superintendent Arlene Ackerman began aggressively reshaping the Philadelphia School District, turning to charter operators to "restart" more than a dozen struggling schools and pouring resources into another 18 District-managed "Promise Academies." But while local groups like Mastery Charter Schools have seized the opportunity to expand their reach, the dizzying pace of reform—as well as complaints about backroom deals, skyrocketing costs, and a lack of transparency—have led to protests. Can Philadelphia's Renaissance Schools improve quickly enough to win over a divided public?
- • Nationally, No Verdict Yet on Turnarounds (Oct. 1, 2011)
- • Philadelphia Is Top Recipient of Federal Turnaround Grants (Oct. 1, 2011)
- • Big Test Score Gains at Renaissance Charters (Sept. 27, 2011)
- • Turning Around West: A Lost Year (Sept. 21, 2011)
- • District Pushing Forward With Promise Academies Despite Limited Money, Data (May 20, 2011)
- • Mastery Charter School Ascends to National Stage (Feb. 23, 2011)
New York City Reforms Follow Many Others
Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City school officials are not shy about radically reforming struggling schools. Initially they signaled they would use federal school improvement funds to pursue at least some "turnarounds," which resemble the city's own school closure strategy. But that model required the approval of the teachers union, and even with extra time, the city could not negotiate a deal. Ultimately, the city moved to "restart" nine schools in September and delay changes at three others for a year. The big questions in New York City are whether federal funds can improve schools when so many other attempts have fallen short and whether the "restarts" will even register in an environment of constant change.
- • City Plans for a Management Change at Nine Struggling Schools (May 12, 2011)
- • Worried Union Talks Will Fail, City Plans to 'Restart' Schools (May 5, 2011)
- • Queens School Resists Changes but Not Funds Tied to Them (April. 1, 2011)
- • List of Schools City Must 'Turn Around' Grows by Twenty-one (Dec. 9, 2010)
- • City Receives $19.8M to 'Transform' 11 Schools (Nov. 4, 2010)
Denver Turnaround Plan Steeped in Controversy
A sweeping and ambitious turnaround plan for schools in the newer neighborhoods around Denver International Airport led to a failed recall effort against the school board president this spring. It also became a major issue in the mayoral election, even though the Denver mayor holds no legal authority over the school district. The plan passed Denver's divided school board on a 4-3 vote in April, but the battle is far from over. Denver holds pivotal elections for three school board seats in November, and the Far Northeast Denver turnaround plan is sure to be a major issue.
- • Some Teacher Jobs Uncertain in Far Northeast Denver (May 31, 2011)
- • Three New Schools Approved for Innovation Status (May 2, 2011)
- • DPS Board Approves Montbello Reforms (Nov. 19, 2010)
- • Video: Montbello Students Speak up (Oct. 27, 2010)
- • Support Lacking for DPS Reform Plan (Oct. 13, 2010)
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How did a Korean rapper's obscure online video storm the music world so quickly? John Jurgensen has details on Lunch Break.
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The first Darksiders game saw you take control of War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as he fought to discover who among the warring forces of Heaven and Hell had sought to bring about Armageddon and the End of Days.
Caught between hordes of demons and swarms of avenging angels, mistrusted by his masters on the Charred Council and – let's face it – with a habit of making only the most brutal kind of enquiries, War succeeded in unravelling the mystery… but not without drawing down an unjust death sentence on his own head.
Darksiders II takes place in parallel to the first game. You step into the blood-soaked boots of another of the Four Horsemen, Death, who is convinced of War's innocence and sets out to prove it. Against the orders of the Charred Council, Death embarks on a quest to uncover the conspiracy at work – a journey that will take him into strange dimensions inhabited by beings both angelic and diabolical, many of them intent on nothing less than his complete obliteration.
Darksiders II is a creation of magnificent scale and splendour. From the outset, you're pitched into a world brimming with vast, open spaces and labyrinthine dungeons, all beautifully realised in an atmospheric palette of dark, doomy hues. The music is nerve-tingling and blood-pumping by turns; the sound effects as crunchy and impactful as if you were charging around in other-worldly armour yourself.
As the story is so central to the experience, the quality of the voice acting is all-important, and Darksiders II boasts actors as accomplished as Michael Wincott (who played the lizard-like Guy of Gisborne in the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) and James Cosmo (Lord Commander Mormont in HBO's Game of Thrones). The result? The dialogue shines, and the plot – which is a twisting, turning marvel – remains gripping throughout.
Options and menus are streamlined from the start, ensuring that the focus stays on the adventure. A huge amount of character customisation and enhancement is available during the course of the quest via a handy inventory system, and it's great fun getting to grips with the various skill upgrades and weapon choices as you go along. With an intuitive control system and loose-limbed, lifelike animation, Darksiders II is action at its most immersive.
In the earliest days of the world, when the war between Heaven and Hell seemed set to unbalance all creation, the Charred Council was formed to oversee the struggle and ensure that neither side won the advantage for too long. To achieve this, the Council offered four of the Nephilim – a race of angel-demon hybrids – incredible powers if they would agree to act as a kind of inter-dimensional peacekeeping squad, at least until the fledgling race of mankind had time to find its feet and Armageddon could proceed in a more orderly fashion.
The result was the creation of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Fury, Strife and Death. As the star of Darksiders II, the latter is a grim-faced, gore-loving fiend with moon-pale skin and a pair of evil scythes with which to dispatch his many enemies. Seated upon his demonic steed, Despair, Death cuts a fearsome figure – he is no ordinary hero.
With his brother unfairly accused of trying to bring about an early Apocalypse, Death is hell-bent on clearing his name. To do so, he has to seek out (and usually slay) some of the most monstrous beings this side of Satan. Brotherly love was never so extreme as this, nor so gloriously gruesome – so it's lucky that our friend Death is annihilation incarnate…
Darksiders II plays fast and furious, a relentless, combat-fuelled tour of the diabolical dimensions that slows only so that you can upgrade your abilities and deal out destruction with even greater ferocity.
The game's combat system is expertly pitched, combining frenzied combos and earth-shaking finishers with elements of strategy. You won't defeat the dark forces simply by bashing buttons – triumph comes only to those who master a more fluid, responsive style of battle incorporating lightning-quick timing, defensive dodges and well-placed sorcery.
Besides your Health Meter, you'll need to keep an eye on both your Wrath Meter and your Reaper Meter. When the former fills, you'll be rewarded with special abilities; when the latter maxes out, you'll assume Death's ghostly Grim Reaper form for a short time, inflicting greater damage on your foes and providing more resilience to their attacks. Other ways to intensify the action include trading with merchants you meet along the way or exchanging several weaker weapons for a single more terrifying one. Axes, maces, diabolical armour, even a grappling hook – there's a ton of equipment to discover, all of it demon-forged or divine, ready to make your opponents wish they'd never materialised.
Just as the game's trading and treasure-hunting add immeasurable depth to the quest, its combination of free-roaming overworlds and maze-like dungeons (packed with puzzles to solve and obstacles to leap, swing and scramble over) ensure the adventure stays fresh, especially when you add Death's phantom mount, Despair, to the mix. Galloping across blasted wastelands on the back of a black destroyer is the perfect complement to the dungeon-based missions, and a stylish way to show the powers of Heaven and Hell that Death himself is back in business.


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This Blastoise is a Water-type Starter Pokémon owned by Gary Oak.
Gary received Blastoise as the Squirtle from Professor Oak when he chose his starter to start his adventures. Ash wanted the Squirtle that Gary received, but ended up with Pikachu. Blastoise was first seen in a flashback when it was a Squirtle, where it battled and defeated Samurai's Metapod. However, it was not revealed which trainer the Squirtle belonged to and it wasn't until the Silver Conference that Blastoise was finally revealed to be Gary's Starter Pokémon. Brock and Misty were both aware that Blastoise was Gary's Starter Pokémon; presumably Brock had battled it while it was a Squirtle when he was the Pewter City Gym Leader, although how Misty was aware that Blastoise was Gary's Starter is unknown since she was travelling with Ash by the time Gary would have reached the Cerulean City Gym.
During the Silver Conference, Blastoise was the most powerful Pokémon Gary used during his battle with Ash, defeating Ash's Heracross with a single Hydro Pump, forcing Ash to recall his Muk and knocking out Bayleef by hurling her into the wall after using Bite. In the second half of the battle, Blastoise battled against Ash's Charizard and due to its type advantage it had the upper hand until Ash used a very unique strategy, ordering Charizard to melt the battlefield with Flamethrower. When Blastoise used Hydro Pump to cool down the field, Charizard used the steam to get close to Blastoise, preventing it from aiming with its cannons. Blastoise managed to duck underneath Dragon Rage and used Bite on Charizard's shoulder but Charizard ignored the pain and hurled Blastoise into the ground with Seismic Toss, defeating the Shellfish Pokémon.
Blastoise is one of Gary's most loyal Pokémon, and traveled with Gary when he became a Pokémon researcher. Along with Umbreon and Electivire, it was often used while Gary was in Sinnoh.
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Holy crap Capcom are crazy....first the RE6 Jacket thing now this.
Wonder if the rest of us will get a, less crazy edition. Havent bought a RE CE this gen, obviously couldn't get RE6's with the game being crap. Hell even that one was £129.99
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It's the holiday season and I am taking a much-needed break from technology for the next couple of weeks. I'll be back in January with posts on the relationship between faith & aid workers, Enough's new naming-and-shaming conflict minerals report, southern Sudan's January 9 independence referendum, and, depending on how things play out, what may by then be a civil war in Cote d'Ivoire (and why decent people don't call it "Ivory Coast"). Warmest holiday wishes to you and yours, and thank-you for being part of the Texas in Africa community. See you in the new year!


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DC Comics co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee are responding to their fans criticisms about their lack of "female writers, artists and characters."
"Over the past week we've heard from fans about a need for more women writers, artists and characters," the post reads. "We want you to know, first and foremost, that we hear you and take your concerns very seriously."
The DC Comics executives cited the likes of Gail Simone, Fiona Staples, Nicola Scott, Amanda Connor, G. WIllow Wilson and Felicia Henderson as female comic book creators they have worked with in the past and hope to collaborate with in the future.
"We'll have exciting news about new projects with women creators in the coming months and will be making those announcements closer to publication," they continued. "Many of the [mentioned] creators will be working on new projects as we continue to tell the ongoing adventures of our characters.
"We know there are dozens of other women creators and we welcome the opportunity to work with them."
I'd like to think there are plenty more than "dozens" of women creators out there but at any rate, if DC's aim is true, send your packets in now.
At the very least, it'll let them know there are more than "dozens" of women writers out there.
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How to delete Open or Insecure Wi-Fi HotSpots from Windows 8: Wifi.exe Command Line Utility with Source
For the most part I'm happy with Windows 8 but one feature was removed that makes no sense to me - the wireless networks dialog.
Sure, you can "Forget this network" by right clicking on a Wi-Fi Connection, but only when that network is in range. The old Wireless Networks dialog where you could add and remove networks is gone. Who knows how many saved Wi-Fi hotspot profile I have littering my system?
So, The Problem: I want to remove saved Wi-Fi Profiles whenever I feel like it. I wrote a command line util that will work in Windows 7 and Windows 8.
TL;DR Version
There's a build zipped up of Wifi.exe available here and the source is on GitHub.
UPDATE: I've put Wifi-Manager up on Chocolately so you can now "cinst wifi-manager." Thanks to Brendan Forster for the heavy lifting! Learn more about the Chocolatey package manager here!
Caveats and "Ya I know."
First, let me be clear that I have written a command line utility to replace another command line utility. I get it. I knew it when I did it. Others smarter than I have done similar things and written utilities that match their way of thinking rather than learning an unintuitive syntax. Don't hate the playa, hate the Regular Expression.
Aside: This is also a problem with my iPhone. I likely have 50+ saved Wi-Fi spots on my phone and no way to delete them without jail-breaking.
You can access Wi-Fi profiles with the netsh.exe that comes with Windows, so you could list out profiles like this:
c:\>netsh wlan show profiles
Profiles on interface Wi-Fi:
User profiles
All User Profile : Wayport_Access
All User Profile : HANSELMAN
All User Profile : HANSELMAN-N
All User Profile : HanselSpot
All User Profile : EliteWifi
All User Profile : Qdoba Free Wifi
Then, for each one, call
c:\>netsh wlan show profile "Qdoba Free Wifi"
Profile Qdoba Free Wifi on interface Wi-Fi:
Profile information
Version : 1
Type : Wireless LAN
Name : Qdoba Free Wifi
Control options :
Connection mode : Connect manually
Connectivity settings
Number of SSIDs : 1
SSID name : "Qdoba Free Wifi"
Network type : Infrastructure
For each of these profiles, check if they are secure or open, and if you are connecting manually or automatically. Then, if you wanted, you could netsh wlan delete profile name="Qdoba Free Wifi" and remove a profile, even when it's not near you.
In my recent podcast with security expert Troy Hunt, he pointed out that it's easy to create a fake honeypot Wi-Fi spot that has the same name as a common open network, like Starbucks, for example.
- Given: If my PC or phone is set up to automatically connect to any open hotspot named "Starbucks" then it will just connect to one...even an evil hotspot.
- Therefore: it would be nice to automatically delete profiles for Wi-Fi spots that are both open (no security) and set to automatically connect.
I was tired, so I thought I'd bang out a little utility to do this. I could have used PowerShell or something but I felt like using C#. It's exercise.
UPDATE: Lee Holmes went and wrote it in PowerShell! Amazing.
Wifi.exe and it's Usage
Tired of reading? There's a build zipped up of Wifi.exe available here and the source is on GitHub. You may need to Right Click | Properties | Unblock the zip.
There's no warranty. The code sucks and I'm a horrible person and you're running a util you found on my blog. However, it works awesome on my machine. Issues appreciated, tidy PRs appreciated more, running Resharper and doing a PR, less so. I'll update the build if good bugs require it.
If you run Wifi.exe (I put it in my path) you'll see something like this:
AP-guest manual WPA2PSK
HANSELMAN-N auto WPA2PSK
HANSELMAN auto WPA2PSK
HanselSpot auto WPA2PSK
Qdoba Free Wifi manual open
Wayport_Access auto open Warning: AUTO connect to OPEN WiFi
Delete WiFi profiles that are OPEN *and* AUTO connect? [y/n]
Notice the columns, and the prompt. There's a warning when a hotspot is both open and set to auto-connect. If you answer Y to the prompt, the utility will delete that profile. You can also type 'wifi /deleteautoopen' to bypass the prompt and auto-delete just profiles that are auto and open.
A pull request a few minutes after I pushed this code also added the ability to
wifi delete "HOTSPOTNAME"
which is nice also. Thanks!
The Code
One of the great things about writing command line apps like this is that there's literally a dozen ways to do everything. They are trivial and silly but also useful and used daily. In this case I've got command line argument processing to think about, parsing output from a spawned process, doing the parsing in a clean way, making sure it works on a non-English machine (which I thought about but didn't test), as well as cleaning up of generated temp files.
It's hardly impressive code, but some of it was fun or interesting. Here's a few bits I liked.
Making Columns with Console.WriteLine and String.Format
Did you know that you can right- and left-align columns within a fixed with using String.Format? Few people know about this and I've seen whole libraries written custom to do the work that's built right in.
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0,-20} {1,10} {2,10} {3,30} ", a.Name, a.ConnectionMode, a.Authentication, warning));
Note the {0,-20} (left aligned) and the {1,10} (right aligned). Those are just like {0} and {1} in a String.Format but they include alignment and width.
Gratuitous use of Linq
It wouldn't be a silly utility without in crazy LINQ, eh? Who needs Regular Expressions when you can when you can do a SQL query over your string? ;) Actually, I don't know if this is a good thing or not. It was fun, though, and it works. Your thoughts?
This takes the output from wlan show profiles (seen above) and parses it into a list of just the AP Names. I think it should work in any language, assuming the : colons are there.
string result = ExecuteNetSh("wlan show profiles");
var listOfProfiles = from line in result.Split(new string[] { "\r\n" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
where line.Contains(":")
let l = line
where l.Last() != ':'
select l.Split(':')[1].Trim();
foreach (string profile in listOfProfiles)
ExecuteNetSh(String.Format("wlan export profile \"{0}\" folder=\"{1}\"", profile, Environment.CurrentDirectory));
Cleaning up the temp XML files
I export a bunch of very specific XML files with a VERY non-specific extension. I can't control their file name and I don't want guess what their name is because I would need to recreate their AP Name encoding scheme. Instead, I look for any XML files in the current folder (given the rare chance that YOU, the utility runner, have XML files in the same folder already) and only delete the ones with the namespace that I know to be present in Wi-Fi profiles. I patted myself on the back for this one, but just lightly.
static XNamespace ns = "http://www.microsoft.com/networking/WLAN/profile/v1";
//Delete the exported profiles we made, making sure they are what we think they are!
foreach (string file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "*.xml"))
if (XElement.Load(file).Name.Namespace == ns)
Capturing Command Line Output
Finally, here's how you get the output of a command line process you started:
Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = "netsh.exe";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = arguments ?? String.Empty;
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
return output;
Pretty basic, but useful to bookmark.
After I wrote this I noticed there are some WinForms utilities to do this. That's great. I wouldn't mind making may own, except I'd want it to look exactly like the Windows 7 dialog. It'd be fun just to see if I could get it pixel perfect.
Feel free to go check out the code, play with it and make fun of me. https://github.com/shanselman/Windows-Wifi-Manager
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Should people be allowed to devocalize their pets?
When Sue Perry adopted her dog Porter two and a half years ago from a rescue group, she noticed he had a hoarse, raspy bark. Her veterinarian confirmed the dog had been devocalized.
"He really has trouble breathing even on a very short walk, and he coughs," Perry told CBSNews.com. "Before I really knew anything about this, they thought he had kennel cough. He gags so I have to monitor him closely when he is eating his food, and I have to water it down."
"It's horrible, it's horrific," she said. "Don't do it. Devocalization should never be an option."
Perry, in conjunction with the Coalition to Protect & Rescue Pets, has started a petition get the American Veterinary Medical Association to make sure it's never an option.
Devocalization, or ventriculocordectomy, is a non-therapeutic surgical procedure that is undertaken to stop a pet from making loud noises, according to the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association. As a result, the animals make either low-pitched, harsh sounds or raspy, high-pitched squeals. Normally it is undertaken on dogs, but veterinarians have seen cats that have had the procedure done.
"As far as I can see, there are no benefits to this surgery," Dr. Alex Klein, a veterinarian with the North Shore Animal League, said to CBSNews.com.
During the procedure, vocal chords are either partially or mostly removed through the oral cavity or through the larynx. With both procedures there are risks for infection, blood loss, scar-tissue growth and negative health effects from anesthesia. The Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association said success for this type of surgery is low, and it is often undertaken more than once in the same animal.
"The consequences are the animal is in chronic pain, and they can't breathe and can't eat well," Klein explained. "Then, the owners say they don't want the animal anymore and dump it."
The procedure is banned in the U.K., and in some U.S. cities and states including Massachusetts and New Jersey. It was once taught as a standard part of veterinary school education and is still legal to perform in most states. Klein doesn't know any doctors who offers the surgery, but he has treated some dogs that have had the surgery done.
In the case of Perry's dog, Porter has needed $2000 worth of surgery to remove scar tissue. While he can breathe a little easier, he can't play with other dogs or even take regular walks because he risks heat stroke. But, at least Porter is still alive: One of Perry's friends had a devocalized dog that choked and died while eating because the food went into his lungs. Perry's petition on Change.org calls for the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) to ban devocalization in the U.S., something that Klein wholeheartedly supports. At press time the petition has more than 133,000 signatures.
The AVMA states that dog devocalization should only be undertaken as a final alternative after other behavioral modification efforts have not worked and only by licensed and qualified veterinarians. A spokesperson for AVMA told CBSNews.com it is currently reviewing its policies on the subject, a process that done every five years for all of its recommendations.
Dr. Sheilah Robertson, a board-certified anesthesiologist and the assistant director of the AVMA's animal welfare devision, admitted that there are no health benefits to the surgery.
"Barking is a normal behavior for animals, and that's how they communicate," she explained to CBSNews.com "Nuisance barking or excessive barking usually has an underlying social issue. Is it because a person leaves a dog alone for 12 hours? Does it have an anger issue is it because it hasn't been socialized?"
However, for a family that is facing eviction or people who have no other choice than to euthanize the animal, it may be their only option, Robertson pointed out.
In her 30-year career, she said she's only seen four or five animals that clearly had the surgery. That was mostly at a research facility, where researchers wanted animals to be quiet in the laboratory, she said.
However, Klein said he's heard of many cases where breeders will devocalize their young animals to make them easier to sell.
"The whole thing boils down to personal responsibility," Klein said. "If you are going to get a dog that barks, the answer is not to cut its vocal chords out. You work with a trainer. This doesn't really need to be on the list of things to do."


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I'm curious to what names people choose in either RPG's or text adventures, or almost anything that requires a name inputted.
I thought about this becuase my handle (AP Erebus) isn't really a good name for an RPG but it's a good handle style, so if you have seperate names, why?
Currently I use Roch Harkanar or variations on that (Rocharan in Lotro)... I can't remember where I got it from but I started using it in Morrowind. I found out later that it's very similar to the Jewish festival Rosh Hashanah, completely accidental...
Ever since then I have always called my characters names Roch.
But my FPS handle is AP Erebus, AP being my initials and Erebus just a cool Greek mythology thingo...
So what do you use? Where did you get it from and why?
PS, no research or anything here =P Just curious.
I never use my own name. The majority of protagonists in gaming are male so I always go with the default names. If there's nothing else I can change about a character but the name then I don't see the point.
For MMOs and more open games, I'll create a name that has meaning for both the world and the character. Age, race, gender, special abilities, hair color, etc. all play a role when I'm naming a character. I like to search through behindthename.com for ideas and inspiration. How much thought I put into a name depends solely on the game.
One of my naming quirks that I started back in the Dreamcast days was name characters after variations of the color purple. My characters on PSO were very uninspired: Violet Myst, Lylac Myst, Lavender Raine and Purple Haze. I thought it was cool at the time. Unfortunately, AoC hasn't inspired me much at all so I ended up using the exact same naming method: Vyoletta, Lylac, Lavendros and Purplonius. I know it's lame but I don't care. Nothing about AoC makes me want to put any thought into my character's names. However, WoW does... for some unknown reason. At least those guys won't have issues with self esteem.
Usually Quintin or Stone, which are both pseudonyms any way. If the character is a dwarf, Ragath.
Never use my own name. Seriously. Who would ever surrender to the Dread Pirate Colleen?
As far as the source of the others, they're often drawn from classical sources. I have a save-game of Final Fantasy X with Tidus renamed Absolom, and another with him named Titus (as in Andronicus). I don't have much use for the little twit. Can you tell?
I have some leftover names from my pen-and-paper days I use when they're appropriate. Khyurika is one from the fantasy realms. I had one memorable Space 1889 campaign I went as Sir Adgerton Percival Blatherskite, as well as doing the voice for the NPC but still honorable Lady Agatha Kensington-Blatherskite. The Dowager Duchess Melinda Grantwit was another character from that one.
I have a standard throwaway character name. Sprog McNutt, he first appeared as a Dwarven mad scientist in Arcanum, he's now a lower league manager in Football Manager.
More serious names I usually come up with off the cuff. Jardan Khan had a good run.
Basically I delve into my brain and pull something out.
Using Daidan at the moment (fiancee's initial D and my given name Aidan)
Dhelor (with Aqari as a surname, if the game allows/requires it). Gee, big surprise. Sometimes, however, I choose Krevantis (Helbrant). Sometimes other names, but they're always names of my own creation (I have sort of a knack for coming up with unique names, a good skill considering I write fantasy and sci-fi stuff).
I just make up whatever I feel like at the time. If we're talking about a game with a default character name, like the Final Fantasy games, I leave it as is. If it's a game that forces me to create a character name I either go with generic (my mass effect character was named "George") or the utterly ridiculous (my SMT: Persona 3 character was named Daddy Pimp). For MMOs I used to choose names that meant something to me or were part of my real name, but after a few alts I gave up and just named them whatever sounded neat and was available.
I have a few I use, often DeVillius for more sci-fi themed games. My name for my main Guild Wars char is Zul Aronos, so I use Zul as a fist name for male chars, and Zula for female.
I used to use Dazed or [email protected], based on my own name (Dave) or Asharak from David Eddings, named after Asharak the Murgo.
Like Rabbit and Rob I tend towards female characters.
Never use my own name. Seriously. Who would ever surrender to the Dread Pirate Colleen?
I dunno, it could be good, understated like Black Bart. Could work.
I have a save-game of Final Fantasy X with Tidus renamed Absolom, and another with him named Titus (as in Andronicus). I don't have much use for the little twit. Can you tell?
In Final Fantasy X, I named Titus "Conan", because I couldn't justify spending 40+ hours with "Meg Ryan".
I usually name characters in RPGs after myself and friends and family. But sometimes I get frisky and name them after Futurama characters, or garden vegetables. Example: My current save state in Secret of Mana has a sprite named "Radish".
Just something I do to make the more angsty JRPGs feel a little less over the top. After all, you can't help but giggle when an NPC says, "You have to save the world from evil, GokuOMG!!1!"
In Final Fantasy games, and most RPGs that have default names, then default names. Final Fantasy 1 and 2 are the only games in the series which I put in my own names. I forget what they were in FF1, but in FF2 I went with Chin, Patsy, Food and Batman.
In Zelda games, Link.
In games where I'm supposed to play myself, such as a faceless, ever-present tactician in Fire Emblem, I just use either my name (Richard) or my dog's name (Jake).
In games where I create my own character who is not supposed to be me, I usually make up a new name. For whatever reason, in Oblivion I named him Kurt Kilbain. He was a magical viking, and the name made me think of a murderous grunge singer. In Mass Effect, since the last name is Shepard no matter what, I just went with Richard.
I bought Pokemon Pearl just so I could name a lot of characters. Most of the Pokemon I just named random words, such as Bread or Soup or Couch or Hospital. I caught a Tentacruel and, in honor of Japan, I named it Rapist.
Sometimes I like to name the character something so that it looks like it's just another word in a sentence when characters speak to them, like, "you jerk" or "'cause I'm gay".
"What are we going to do, you jerk?"
"I haven't the faintest idea, 'cause I'm gay."
In Final Fantasy 4, I name Edward "Spoony".
I now use Hemidal for just about every character now. If it has a last name, Stormbreaker (first last name from DAOC). I used to use Mr. Clark for shooters (Counter-Strike, Battlefield 2, etc...), but not anymore.
Basically, my character name stems from a MMO in 2001, and has followed me ever since. Oh well.
It really depends on the type of game for me. If it's a game where there is a name already given to a character, I don't change it at all. In games where there's no specific character or role to play (old tony hawk games, guitar hero, etc...) I've been using the name Leroy for years. In MMO's I have a stable of character names that I've built over the years. Many of them used to start with Aeo- with varying suffixes attached per gender. I've moved away from that in the last few games, in a effort to come up with "new" names for my characters.
However, as you can see, anytime I'm registered on a forum, xbox live, or anything that is just a profile for myself. I follow my standard naming convention of first name followed by last two initials.
It depends on many things. If its just me and versus the PC I tend to go with "Digger" or "Judge" or both. If its FPS I used to go with "Somebody" or "Nobody". It was always cute in Unreal Tournment seeing the message, "Somebody killed so_and_so".
For some reason I chose not to do that on GWJ TF2 server. I think it was that I thought it would make me more of a target. "Hey look, everyone shoot the smarta$$". I went with "Judge_Digger" instead but people were shortening to just "Judge" anyway becasue it took too long to say the whole thing when trying to warn me of something. So I shortened it to just "Judge".
If its a puzzle game that only my wife and I will see on our PC. I use "Better than You" just to annoy her on the High Score chart.
(Yeah, I'm evil sometimes.)
Most sports games, where I name the coach of my team, I call him Jay Hawker. I also use JHAWKR as my license plate in PGR.
Games like Zelda, where there is a main character, I choose that name. I am always Link.
When I need make up a name in a game, I go with Jay Hawker or Silas Lang. Silas Lang was the name of a Syd Barrett song that he recorded the day I was born, according to the liner nots of "Opel". I used Silas Lang as my on-air name when I was a DJ at KJHK in Lawrence.
When I need one word, I will use Hedge, a nickname I had for awhile in high school after an unfortunate haircut made me look like a hedgehog to my foreign exchange student girlfriend. Hearing her call me a hedgehog in her Finnish accent was pretty funny, and people latched on to it.
Now, in Civ, I name my cities after my family and friends.
For MMOs or any online multiplayer games I go with some iteration of "Montalban." "Montalas" usually for MMORPGs because it sounds a little less 20th century.
For single player games, I usually change the spelling of my first name slightly. Add in a few vowels or a "k" at the end. Enough to maintain my identity but still admit that I'm inhabiting an imaginary space.
One of my favorite books of all time is "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". Consequently ever since I read the book when I was 18 I've usually named my characters "Stephen" after Stephen Dedalus from the book. It kind of stuck and became my game persona.
I just started Final Fantasy Tactics, in fact, and I was severely tempted to name my character Ramza (since that's his name throughout all FFT lore), but I still named him Stephen.
Caledrin was the name that I came up with out of nowhere when I started playing Guild Wars. Since then, every MMO I've played has used that name. Mainly for consistency, since I usually end up playing different MMOs with the same people, and it just helps identify me right away. Although my main in WoW for a long time (a troll hunter) was named Ulerech. But that's okay, since I will never play him again. I think, but I'm not sure if I'm remembering this correctly, when I abandoned my hunter (really got sick of the class, and PvP) my Blood Elf paladin was named Caledrin. Had a lot more fun with that class.
Typically I go with Rambo, regardless of the setting. It was my nickname in college. The story of how I got it is brief, but outside the scope of this discussion. (Though I feel compelled to note that I did not carry a large knife or an M-60 to class. I kept them at home.)
The irony is that I only just saw the movie (First Blood) on May 31. I wonder if the guy who first called me that was thinking of the guy from the first movie, or what most people think of when they think Rambo.
Sometimes I'll pick a name more in keeping with the setting. My Sins of a Solar Empire TEC commander pseudonym is Thurl Ravenscroft (because I think the game is GRRRRRREAT!). My character in Sid Meyer's Pirates is Rothbard, because that seemed appropriate to a philosophy nerd like me.
If the setting's high-fantasy, and I'm not feeling imaginitive, I'll do some pseudo-medievalization of my own name. If there's room, I'll add a ridiculous superlative. "Grieg the Unhinged" or some such.
For team games, depending on the number of people in my party, I'll pick names from TV shows, books or movies I like. Back when I was playing 50 Mission Crush on the IIE, I used to name everyone after Sgt. Rock characters.
My band in Guitar Hero is, of course, Limozeen.
I use Dalat Umbrye, Richter, Jackman, or Vector. Why? I don't really know. The first one is kind of a pseudonym I created and use on occassion. Richter is based off the New York Rangers goalie Mike Richter even though I hate the guy I respect his hockey skills during the '94 Cup run. Jackman is similar in that it's named after defenceman Barret Jackmanl; a tough bastard. Vector is me, I am Vector.
I'm very random with my naming conventions in single player games. I usually sit in front of that naming screen for ten minutes picking which letter the name will start with, and rambling to myself.
When it comes to multiplayer, especially one with the GWJ crew, I have some version of Aries. In WoW, I have my little gnome named Ariesminor, and my Draenai is Ariesmajor... creative, huh? Less confusing for all involved, as I see it.
I'm pretty boring. For single player games, if there are default names I use those, if not a male character is Nahte and a female character is Ymme. Folks who know me will probably be able to determine why. For multiplayer games, I always use something that can be easily understood to be me -- zeroKFE if possible, or some variation thereof if not -- since in a multiplayer context a name's primary purpose is so that others can identify you, and I want to make that as easy as possible.
This thread reminds me, however, of a hilarious series of screenshots I encountered a few years back, but can't for the life of me find now. Basically, this guy meticulously documented all the funny things that NPCs would say in RPGs when he gave his character an off color name, generally "my penis." Then the dialog would be printed out with people saying things like
"my penis is quite a hero!"
"Where did my penis go?"
and in many, many cases some variation of
"Did you sleep well, my penis?"
since so many RPGs start with the main character being woken up by their mother or sister or something.
Since I started WoW, I use Veloreyn in just about every game requiring a name (with variations along the lines of Velorayn or Veloraen). I'll also use Syllana (Syllanna, Syllenna, Syllanic) if I start up an alt. The oddest thing I've found myself doing is keeping certain names for certain classes. Veloreyn is nearly always a caster. Syllana is typically a hunter/ranger type class, and Syllanna tends to stick to healing.
None of the names are typically taken on servers, and I like both sets, so I just stick with 'em. PurEvil is often against naming rules due to the upper case E in the middle, so I tend not to bother. Not to mention, though I've been using this handle for well over 10 years now, I've seen a lot of variations of it. Just the other day I happened to see a Pure3vil.
My FPS name was deadmeat for a very long time. Toilet humor is not out of the picture. I remember renaming Link Wormfood more than once.
WoW names are a bit more interesting. Grendwar is my 64 shammy. Sounded decently Horde-ish. I stopped trying after that. Alts are Goquelyrslf and Flochart.
I usually keep the names for RPGs, but McChuck and I were checking out FFVIII for the first time and though we thought this would be a thowaway game until I got serious I ended up taking PZIMP and crew all the way to Ultemecia's Castle outside of time.
Never use my own name. Seriously. Who would ever surrender to the Dread Pirate Colleen?
Mom, your name is as fierce as your reputation. At first getting gutted by a Dread Pirate named Colleen would just be another twist of the knife. After 5 years of pillaging, women would stop naming their girls Colleen.
After all, Cthulhu was just a funny name to call the drunk guy at a party until you learned it was one of the Old Ones who could steal your soul at a glance. Or maybe that's just here in the sticks.
For single-player games I just choose something that is easy or similar to my RL name. In multiplayer actiony games, I try to use my preferred internet handle georob.
Deciding on MMO names is the most difficult for me. For the first MMO I played extensively, WoW, I clicked on the random name button over and over till I saw something I liked, Cinster. I was happy with this until armory came along and I saw that there are many Cinsters on other servers, but I can't change his name now. He's an old gnome, set in his ways.
I did something kind of similar for LoTRO, they had lists of recommended prefixes and suffixes, I used one of the suffixes but used Geo as the prefix. This led to the unwieldy name of Georandir.
For AoC (possibly due to the hype) I spent a few hours working on a name before it was even released. I remembered that a character in William Gibson's book Spook Country worshipped Orisha (a kind of saint) and liked some of the Orisha names. I didn't want to steal them outright, so I did a little research and altered some of the Orisha names I liked best to use in AoC. Ochumare became Geochumare and Oxala became Geoxolo. I actually have a few more names on standby for potential alts.
In RPGs I usually use some variation of "Telo" (got it from the starwars galaxy name generator back in the days)
In pretty much everything else I am Raven, or Falkuse (mnemonic for pre-mission preperation in the danish army) since raven turned out to be waaaaay too common
I used to use obscenities, just for the silliness of my character being addressed as such. Can't be anything as bad as "yo, what be this sh*t?" from FFVII.
Elliottx for anything but MMORPGs. Even console rpgs I'll go with the characters default name or Elliottx. With MMORPGS I have my list of "role-playing" names:
Saelin(rarely used as if I don't like my primary or my alt, why am I playing?)
I use dejanzie, or Fritz when I'm feeling frisky.
When there are multiple characters around to be named (or in D&D games) I go for RPG-cliché sounding names that are funny in Dutch. Like Amoëder (Your mother in Dutch) for example.
And in Pizza Tycoon I used to give my pizza's appropriate names. My customers would then, upon query, tell me "I just ate My Nipples" or "Crispy Toenail is really yummie!". Disclaimer: I was 14 at the time
Hey... Is this just a clever ploy to get name ideas for that fantasy novel you've been writing on and off since 10th grade?
Well, if it is a mage type character : Raistlin is my choice. From the Dragon Lance series.
Excellent read, awesome character.
Otherwise, most of the times : Sparhawk... from David Eddings. A very cool knight, that I think has being crafted after my persona lol
Quite often I'll use "I say" as a name as it tends to make the npc's talk like Foghorn Leghorn. If i'm in a more serious mood I'll use Aerstan which is an old AD&D name. If I have to give Aerstan a last name I usually go with Majere as a tribute to the Drangonlance novels I enjoyed in middle school. Dr Mindcrime was the name of my favorite character from City of Heroes back when I used to be addicted to it. I tend to use it as more of a forum name than a character name now.


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2 cups milk
2 8 oz. packages of cream cheese
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1/2 tsp garlic powder
3/4 cup parmesan cheese
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By car
- Coming from the north - Hamburg/Rostock (A24 autobahn):
At the motorway junction Oranienburg take the A111 to Berlin Zentrum, and at the motorway junction Charlottenburg turn onto the A 100. Leave at the Kaiserdamm exit, and turn left at the end of the slip road to turn onto the Kaiserdamm boulevard (later Bismarckstrasse). Continue over the traffic island into Strasse des 17 Juni, and the Main Building of the TU Berlin is on your right after 100 yards.
- From Hannover (A2) and Leipzig, Nuremberg:
Take the motorway A10 (Berlin Ring) to the Drewitz motorway junction, then the AVUS (A 115) to Berlin-Zentrum. At the Funkturm follow the signs to Wedding, but then take the first exit to Kaiserdamm. Turn left at the end of the slip road to turn onto the Kaiserdamm boulevard (later Bismarckstrasse). Continue over the traffic island into Strasse des 17 Juni, and the Main Building of the TU Berlin is on your right after 100 yards.
By rail
At Central station take a regional train or S-Bahn (any line in direction of Charlottenburg, Westkreuz, Potsdam or Spandau) to Zoologischer Garten. The main campus is only a five minute walk from Zoologischer Garten railway station. You can also take a bus (M45, 245 oder X9) or the U-Bahn (Line 2) to Ernst Reuter Platz (or you can stop a taxi and take a fixed rate short ride from Zoologischer Garten).
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- Tegel:
The airport is very close to the Main Campus. Take the airport shuttle bus (X9) to Ernst-Reuter Platz (15 minutes) or take a taxi (10 minutes).
- Schönefeld:
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- At S-Bahnhof Flughafen Schönefeld take a regional train (RE7, destination Dessau) or S-Bahn (Line 9, destination Pankow, change at Ostkreuz to any train in direction of Zoologischer Garten). Leave the train at Zoologischer Garten. From there you can walk down Hardenbergstrasse (five minutes), take a bus (M45, 245, or X9), or take the U-Bahn (Line 2, destination Ruhleben) one station to Ernst Reuter Platz. (Or you can stop a taxi and take a fixed rate short ride).
- Take a 171 or X7 bus to the underground station Rudow and from there take the Line 7 (destination Rathaus Spandau) to Bismarckstrasse, then change onto the Line 2 (destination Pankow) and travel two stops to Ernst Reuter Platz.
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Every once in a while Nintendo does something insane. Like the Wii. Or getting 536 people together to break the Guinness World Record for most people simultaneously blowing chewing gum bubbles. To celebrate Kirby's anniversary. Because he is a bubble.
But hey, they set the record at PAX this past weekend, and these spectacular pictures are here to prove it.
Nintendo says Guinness's last record for most people blowing bubbles at the same time was 304 people at the Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa back in October of 2010. Suck it, Kirkwood Community College.
"Participants in the Kirby-themed record attempt were instructed to chew their gum for at least one minute and then blow and hold bubbles for 30 seconds," Nintendo wrote in a press release for the event.
Congratulations on your new record, Nintendo. Hope Kirkwood Community College doesn't decide to strike back.
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2012 was a massive year for technology – robots on Mars, exoskeletons offering signs that wheel chairs may one day become redundant, Windows 8, and 3D printing using recycled plastic.
The biggest technology impact in 2012 was the flood of new exciting consumer products including 4G smartphones, cameras, GPS, game consoles and tablets.
But now it's time to look ahead to 2013 and see what's in store for technology in Australia.
So what's going to happen?
1) Election 2013
The 2013 federal election promises to be a pivotal moment for NBN Co and the National Broadband Network (NBN).
If the government is returned, the NBN will move ahead as planned – albeit with faults including the glacial pace of the rollout, the ban on the NBN connecting with planes, trains, buses and other vehicles, and continuing to use Alcatel-Lucent as a sole supplier of the fibre system.
If the opposition wins government, we should expect to see immediate change. Key changes are likely to include a reduction in the fibre rollout – with the new mix of customer access being 60% fibre to the home, 30% fibre to the node, 7% fixed wireless and 3% satellite. The 30% fibre to the node will consist mainly of multi-dwelling buildings – many of which now utilise a fibre to the building solution.
2) Mobile internet
2013 will be the year that the move to mobile devices has the greatest impact on the internet.
Smartphones, tablets and the big mover for 2013, cyber-glasses, will become the focus for internet developments, and marketing will attempt to overcome the perception that it is difficult to advertise effectively through mobile devices.
Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, has predicted that mobile app downloads will top 81 billion in 2013, an increase of about 45% over 2012.
3) E-commerce
Australians will further embrace online shopping and in 2013, Australians are expected to spend more than A$37 billion online.
The government will face increasing pressure to do something about the widening competitive gap between traditional store front retailers and online international retailers.
The loss of GST revenue and the flow of capital out of Australia will reach a level that will make this an election issue. A recent survey report by SLI Systems identifies that retailers will focus their e-commerce priorities on search engine optimisation, mobile commerce, e-commerce platforms and improving website search capabilities.
4) Cyber-crime
Criminal activity over the internet will reach a new peak in 2013.
Cyber-crime may reach the A$2 billion mark in 2013. Government will come under increasing pressure to take steps to reduce cyber-crime and this may finally lead to the introduction of technologies to improve privacy and security on the internet.
Companies operating on the internet are likely to focus their attention on the cyber-crime problem and improve the security of their online presence through smart design.
5) Mobile and Wi-Fi
The shift away from the desktop to mobile platforms will continue in 2013.
Recent changes to mobile carrier plans to reduce data allowances bodes ill for mobile customers in 2013 hoping to increase their smartphone and tablet use. The move to increase charges on mobile customers continues Australia's mobile rip-off and poses the problem for regulators – how to increase competition with such a skewed mobile landscape where Telstra is dominant, Optus seems to be asleep and Vodafone is likely still reeling from the Vodafail episode.
The big winner in 2013 will be Wi-Fi. The mobile device market is growing rapidly and customers are increasingly looking to Wi-Fi as an alternative solution to overcome the high cost of mobile plans.
Expect to see an explosion of Wi-Fi in 2013 as this technology matures as a commercial alternative to 4G. The successful Queensland train Wi-Fi system should provide the impetus for Victoria and New South Wales to introduce train Wi-Fi systems in 2013.
6) Cloud
The cloud should become a dominant feature of our online experience in 2013 … even more so than it already is.
Forrester, an information technology research company, predicts that the IT world will finally "get real about cloud" in 2013. Applications such as Dropbox, Apple iCloud, Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 will become central to our online experience by improving productivity and reducing organisation technology costs.
The move away from desktop computing to the cloud will accelerate many of our routine activities such as collaboration, email and document processing. There will be growth in the construction and use of date centres to match the need for ever-expanding cloud capability.
We can only hope that new Australian data centres are required to be built using environmentally sustainable technologies.
7) Social media and privacy
Increased competition, better privacy and improved security are likely to be key ingredients for the social media scene in 2013.
The big three - Apple, Google and Microsoft - went head-to-head in the market in 2012 and should turn their attention to unified social media offerings in 2013. The Facebook versus Twitter war is hotting up and we should expect to see new and existing social media organisations duke it out in 2013.
8) Broadband applications
2013 will be a watershed year for broadband applications.
Expect to see a huge growth in consumer and business broadband applications including IPTV, eHealth, eLearning, 3D-interactive games and business applications such as machine to machine and business to business.
We will see the start to an explosion of sensor networks and vehicles connected to the internet. Australians will increasingly turn to technologies that overcome regional and digital format restrictions.
9) Big data
Business is turning its attention to big data and investing considerable sums to mine data repositories.
This activity will expand rapidly in 2013. Organisations are learning that big data can be a source of increasing revenue through trading or resale of data and targeted marketing opportunities.
A Gartner report published in October 2012 states that by 2015 big data will support 4.4 million IT jobs. Australian companies have been late to explore the opportunities provided by big data but we should expect that to change in 2013.
10) Government action
Australians will demand a better experience online and for this reason pressure will build in the lead up to the 2013 Federal election.
The internet is a fast moving space and the major issues facing people on the internet today appear to be daunting to the slow-moving government bureaucracy. Government agencies including the Australian Communications and Media Authority, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Australian Federal Police and the Australian Privacy Commissioner are seen to be too slow to react, toothless or hesitant to take action.
Several issues that should be of significant concern to Australians are the tech rip off and global roaming rip-off, cyber-crime and the failure of large international multi-nationals to pay tax.
2013, being an election year, must surely be the year that government stops the endless cycle of committees and inquiries and takes action.


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Wilbur Siebert Underground Railroad Index
Professor Wilbur H. Siebert. Siebert (1866-1961) was a Professor of History at the Ohio State University, 1891-1935, and Professor Emeritus, 1935-1961. One of Siebert's major research specializations was the Underground Railroad. His research contains one of the most extensive collections of letters and interviews of participants. Siebert gathered documents and reminiscences from aged abolitionists or their descendants in the 1890s. While his work The Underground Railway from Slavery to Freedom (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1898), focused primarily on Ohio, he did gather much information on Indiana. The Indiana State Library has one roll of microfilm from the Siebert collection. The information on this one roll is cross-indexed by subject at the index link below. The entire Wilbur H. Siebert Collection is owned and maintained by the Ohio Historical Society and copies of the microfilm are available through their institution.
This index was put together as a way of assisting researchers, who without this index would have to read all 1000 pages in order to glean information from the material. The 1000 pages are divided into three indexes, each about 300 pages.
The index is divided by volume. Within the volume, the names, places, and events are individually indexed.
At times, when the individuals were typing their letters to Siebert they spelled an individual's name multiple ways. We tried to ascertain of whom they were speaking, but if there was an uncertainty, we indexed the various spellings individually. Researchers should take the time to look over all the pages with similar names.
In addition, when speaking of places, we listed the city or county with the state if that information was offered. Otherwise, only the place is listed.
Siebert's work is a great place for researchers to begin as they try to identify people, places, or events in their county or area of interest.
The Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology published this index with help from a grant from the National Park Services' Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program.