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Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
By BARRY SCHWEID and BRETT ZONGKER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he'd found "no discernible change in the racial climate of the city." When it came to employment, housing or education, blacks had made no real gains.
But he noticed something else as he traveled the South and talked to people.
As a result of what Selma's blacks and their white supporters had done, he wrote, "The Deep South will never be the same." He wrote that the demonstrations and march to Montgomery had lifted the spirits of blacks "everywhere."
Johnson's shoe-leather reporting and keen insights on the struggle of Southern blacks during the civil rights era won him the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1966, one of many honors showered upon him during a brilliant career that spanned more than 50 years.
Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist and author who helped redefine political reporting in addition to appearing on PBS and teaching journalism at the University of Maryland, died Friday at a Washington-area hospital after suffering a heart attack. He was 81, and had just attended the journalism school's graduation days earlier.
"I don't say this lightly. He was a great journalist," Dan Balz, the senior political reporter for The Washington Post, said Friday. "He had everything a good reporter should have, which was a love of going to find the story, a commitment to thorough reporting and then kind of an understanding of history and the importance of giving every story kind of the broadest possible sweep and context."
His students and colleagues, meanwhile, were mourning the loss of a beloved figure known for his passion, humor and ability to connect.
"Hundreds of our students learned how to cover public affairs from one of the best journalists America has ever known," Merrill College of Journalism Dean Lucy Dalglish said in a written statement released by the university. "It was equally obvious to anyone who looked through the window that Haynes was in his element in the classroom. His entire face lit up when he was in the middle of a classroom discussion."
Johnson entered Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md., earlier in the week for tests on his heart and died Friday morning of a heart attack, said his wife, Kathryn A. Oberly, according to an article posted on the Merrill College's website.
Washington Post Managing Editor Kevin Merida relayed the news in a memo to the newsroom.
Johnson spent about 12 years at The Evening Star before moving to its rival newspaper, The Post, in 1969. Johnson was a columnist for the Post from 1977 to 1994.
Former Post executive editor Leonard Downie told the newspaper, "Haynes was a pioneer in looking at the mood of the country to understand a political race. Haynes was going around the country talking to people, doing portraits and finding out what was on people's minds. He was a kind of profiler of the country."
The author, co-author or editor of 18 books, Johnson also appeared regularly on the PBS programs "Washington Week in Review" and "The NewsHour." He was a member of the "NewsHour" historians panel from 1994 to 2004.
"I knew I wanted to write about America, our times, both in journalism and I also wanted to do books," he told C-SPAN in 1991. "I wanted to try to see if I could combine what I do as a newspaper person as well as step back a little bit and write about American life, and I was lucky enough to be able to do that."
Johnson had taught at the University of Maryland since 1998.
He also had teaching stints at George Washington University, Princeton University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Haynes Bonner Johnson was born in New York City on July 9, 1931. His mother, Emmie, was a pianist and his father, Malcolm Johnson, a newspaperman. The elder Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize for the New York Sun in 1949 for his reporting on the city's dockyards, and his series suggested the story told in the Oscar-winning film "On the Waterfront."
Johnson studied journalism and history at the University of Missouri, graduating in 1952. After serving three years in the Army during the Korean War, he earned a master's degree in American history from the University of Wisconsin in 1956.
Johnson resisted working in New York journalism to avoid being compared to his father. He worked for nearly a year at the Wilmington (Del.) News-Journal before joining the Star as a reporter.
He covered a wide range of stories, from earthquakes to President John F. Kennedy's inauguration to foreign conflicts, according to the book, "National Reporting: 1941-1986." He also wrote a series on blacks in Washington.
His reporting eventually took him to Selma, in the heat of summer, to report on the civil rights movement.
Months earlier, in March 1965, hundreds of marchers bound for the state capital of Montgomery had been brutally beaten by state and local law officers. Martin Luther King, Jr., came to the city, and after a federal judge found that the demonstrators had a right to march, they completed their journey later that month.
Johnson sought to further explore the issues that the march and demonstrations had raised.
"Haynes had roots in the South," Balz said. "He was raised in New York, but he had Southern roots. He had a special appreciation for the civil rights struggle and what African-Americans were going through."
Johnson and his father are the only father and son to win Pulitzer Prizes for reporting.
It wasn't long before Ben Bradlee, the newly appointed executive editor of The Washington Post, came calling. As Bradlee was seeking to elevate the newspaper, he recruited both Johnson and The New York Times' David S. Broder to strengthen the paper's political reporting.
"He reached out, held out his hand, and I grabbed it, and that was it," Johnson recalled in Jeff Himmelman's 2012 biography of Bradlee. "There was no contract, nothing. It was just, 'Come, we want you,' and I've never forgotten that."
Johnson's books include "The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election," (2009) with Balz; "The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years" (2001); and "The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point" (1996) with Broder, who died two years ago.
Johnson and Broder helped transform Washington reporting, getting outside the Beltway to talk with voters about candidates and issues, rather than letting politicians dictate coverage. Both wove that reporting into broader articles that examined the mood of the country and the inner workings of government.
"Hayes was a giant," journalism professor and author Carl Sessions Stepp commented on the Merrill College's website. "He had the mind of a scholar and the soul of a regular citizen, and nobody has ever better combined insider digging and outside-the-Beltway pulse-taking."
Gene Roberts, who helped lead The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York Times and co-authored a book on media coverage of the civil rights movement, said he was amazed with Johnson's work ethic.
"I think he was one of the most important reporters in the country during his journalistic career and later as he got more into books," Roberts said. "I was amazed. Most writers take a breather between books, but when he finished one book he always started immediately on another book."
Johnson and Roberts taught together at the University of Maryland. Roberts said Johnson was an inspirational teacher and a serious historian. He also successfully worked to have his father's "Waterfront" articles printed in book form in 2005.
The university said Johnson had begun work on a 19th book, looking at the speed with which breaking news was covered in the social media era. On Thursday night, Johnson phoned his teaching assistant from the hospital to say he was bored and to ask for some reading material so he could work on the book, the university article said.
Johnson's first marriage, to Julia Ann Erwin, ended in divorce. They had three daughters and two sons. Johnson and Oberly, an associate judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, married in 2002.
Zongker contributed from Washington.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Barry Schweid reported on foreign policy, the Supreme Court and national politics for The Associated Press in Washington for more than 50 years.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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The sold-out Hops & Hogs: Beer and Baconmania was held July 30 at Saint Arnold Brewery. A fundraiser for the Professionals in Culinary Arts, the event featured 30 bacon-infused bites and seven Saint Arnold brews.
Two People's Choice trophies — topped with shiny pigs — were awarded that night. Dawn Arcieri of One Bite Kitchen was the winner of "Best Professional Bacon Recipe & Presentation" for her bacon-y macaroon. A culinary team from Alvin College took the award for "Best Culinary School Recipe and Presentation" for its bacon caviar and triple bacon mini cupcakes.
More than a dozen restaurants and industry professional participated in the cook-off. Among them was Al Marcus of the Grateful Bread, Susie Jimenez of Trenza (set to open this fall) and Jacques Fox of Artisan's Restaurant.


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Monthly Development Update – May 2012
Welcome to this month's development update, otherwise known as the audience participation edition!
That's right, it is once again the time of year when we probe the brains of those who know the game better than anyone - you, our players!
This is your opportunity to let us know what you like with the game, what you dislike, what you would like to see in the future, and what where you would like to see us take the game. From the little things to the grander plans, we want your opinion on all of it!
We have also used some new improved survey options, so the survey is a lot more dynamic than in previous years, and is also all in one place so you don't have to jump around several to answer all the questions.
This really is a great opportunity to help shape the next year or so of the games development. These surveys play an important role in our annual assessments of features, possible additions, directions corrections, and tweaks.
It genuinely does have an impact. Many of the answers in the previous surveys became the templates for specific additions, features and new content. People voted for a 12 v 12 mini-game two years ago, and that was what we made for the next mini-game. People wanted more solo instances, those arrived as well. Last year's feedback also helped shape the recent raids, the dynamic instances, the changes to the progression in Khitai, the upcoming multiple specification system, and the order in which the class changes were looked at. It helped to refine the free to play offer, and helped us with a lot of the prioritisation we have to do all the time.
It is also really useful for us to learn how the community is broken down between different preferences, and learn what they think about both the new content, and the changes we have made over the previous years.
So these surveys are something that I am very glad we commit to and have on this scale every year. While we sneak some smaller ones under the radar during the year, this is really kind of an annual census for us! After all, it is all of you out there that make the game what it is, and we feel it's important to understand your wants, needs, desires, and dreams as well as we can. These surveys help with that.
Incentives, incentives
Yes, the survey is pretty long.
No denying that ... it is worth it though!
There are quite a few questions no matter which way we spin it. While we think it's worth it in order to get the best possible picture of what you are all thinking, it is also asking for some of your valuable time. So as means of a little thank you, and to encourage participation, we will be awarding ten lucky participants lifetime premium accounts. The winners will be randomly selected from all those who participate in the survey. So make sure that your email linked to your account, or the one used for the survey, is up to date, as that is how we will be contacting the winners.
So not only do you provide us with some awesome and genuinely helpful feedback, you also have a chance to win yourself a whole lifetime of game-play!
Not enough? Ok, we'll sweeten the deal! One lucky responder will have their character name immortalised in the game! (pending it being an appropriate name for the license of course!) This could be a statue, an NPC, or an item, we will craft something fun and unique for the prize winner so a little bit of them will forever become part of Hyboria.
Good luck!
Incoming updates
As I write this the team are busy preparing the next major update for the live servers. In fact it may be live by the time you read this (the curse of having to write a week or so ahead!)
This brings with it a lot of cool content and features. For me the highlight is the new multiple specification system. This will allow you all to have much greater freedom of expression, and the ability to jump between in-game activities much more easily. It also doubles as a cool feat planner, as you can freely play with a mock-build prior to saving anything, and see how things might look for you with a different build.
What's more is that the coders are sneaking in an upgrade for that system in the following updates. In one of the updates that will come through the summer, you will also be able to save, share and swap builds with other players through the games chat system. This will allow you to compare with friends and allies, and show off your favorite feat builds!
It is one of the most often requested features and I am really glad that we have been able to not just add it to the game, but take the concept and run with it, making even more of the feature , and adding extra value and functionality to it.
The new instances should bring some more variety for the veteran players, and further ease the faction progression in Khitai.
Until next month
That's it for now! next month we will be back with more updates on the future updates, and maybe, just maybe more than a tease or two about the next adventure pack. We'll also talk about the results of the survey a bit, and enlighten everyone as to the thoughts and cravings in all of your brains when it comes to all things Conan!


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A star wars network of servers providing roleplay for the various races in star wars in many different planets and environments. We are going to start with two servers, one will be the Sofora planet, controlled by the Imperial Remanent this roleplay will be similar to half life 2 roleplay is played out. The other server will be representing the Dreadnaught class Cruiser owned by our imperial remanent which will switch between maps when there's a campaign being undertaken by the imperial remanent, so essentially an event server similar to Starship troopers roleplay. So essentially, we have two existing roleplay types in one, a combat based roleplay and for the most part a passive type of roleplay with lots of twists and freedom.
Static model of the AT-ST from Star Wars. ported by me - SilverKnight. This is for our upcoming star wars roleplay - You can check it out at www.hypergamer.net
It's a Prop, not a driveable vehicle, great for posing. Texture is good quality for good graphics. You can make vehicles or do whatever. Please give credit to me\HGN for this if you intend to use it elsewhere..
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Hey, I already thought Cher sounded like some sort of robotic diva angel-monster in her unstoppable 1998 anthem "Believe." But what would she sound like if she really was a robot? Chiptune artist Ro-Bear found out in this winning cover performance at Philly's monthly 8Static chiptune event, as captured by albotas.
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Maurice Denis. The Road to Calvary/
Montace au calvaire ou Le Calvaire. 1889.
Montace au calvaire ou Le Calvaire. 1889.
THE WAY TO CALVARYForming part of the procession, their presence making his impending death yet more shameful, are two convicted criminals, described as two thieves. A recently-arrived spectator to the scene would see three men, each laden with a cross, walking towards death. But only one is the Saviour of the world. Only one of the crosses is the redeeming Cross.
Today, too, the cross can be carried in different ways. There is the cross carried furiously or sullenly, in a rage; man writhes and squirms, filled with hate, or at least, with a deep and burning resentment. It is a cross without meaning and without any explanation, useless; such a cross may even separate one from God. It is the cross of those in this world who seek comfort and material well-being, who will put up with neither suffering nor setbacks, for they have no wish to understand the supernatural meaning of pain. It is a cross which does not redeem. It is the cross carried by one of the thieves.
On the road to Calvary is a second cross, carried this time with resignation, perhaps even with some dignity, with an acceptance of the situation simply because there is no alternative to it. This is the one carried by the other thief. Little by little he realizes that close by him is the sovereign figure of Christ, who will radically change the final moments of his life on earth, and for eternity; he will be the one converted into the good thief.
There is a third way of carrying the cross. Jesus embraces the saving wood and teaches us how we ought to carry our own cross: with love, co-redeeming all souls with him, making reparation at the same time for our own sins. Our Lord has conferred on human suffering a deep meaning. Being able, as he was, to redeem us in a multitude of ways, he chose to do so through suffering, for greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13).


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Finding Lost Animals
Steps to Find Your Four-Legged Friend
For a list of the lost animals who are currently being cared for at the Wisconsin Humane Society, click here. Only animals found in Ozaukee County or Racine County are listed. In Milwaukee County, MADACC is responsible for picking up and holding stray animals.
It is a terrible feeling to find out that your beloved companion animal is missing. However, the best action is to be proactive with your search. Here are some tips and ideas to help.
1. Search your house thoroughly from top to bottom.
- Check all closets, cupboards and anywhere else where your animal may have gotten trapped. Retrace your steps and look in any place that he or she may have followed you or other members of the family.
- Animals can get into some pretty tight places- don't leave any space unturned! Go in, under and behind washing machines, closets, furniture, beds, crawl spaces, cabinets...you get the idea! Take a flashlight for dark spots.
- Move outside to garages, sheds, barns, trees, vehicles, porches or any other good hiding places for a frightened animal with your flashlight for dark spots. Don't assume he is not there just because he is not responding to your voice. Most animals in unfamiliar territory will try to make themselves invisible and may not respond to you calling his name.
2. Share your info with Lost Dogs of Wisconsin
- Lost Dogs of Wisconsin offers free resources to people who have lost their dog, and they help make reunions possible often through their great social media reach, especially on Facebook.
3. Walk around the neighborhood.
- Before you leave the house, grab a leash or a carrier to contain your animal and a flashlight. He might be too afraid to come to you or he might try to run away again. Take your cell phone and another person, especially if it's dark in case you need help.
- Talk to neighbors-let them know that your companion is missing.
- Make some noise. Shake a bag of their favorite treats while calling their name, squeak their favorite toy, or any other familiar noises that they will know.
- Dogs are often good at locating a lost animal. If you can take a dog with you, it might be helpful.
4. Post flyers.
- Post signs with a photo of the animal and phone number; as many as possible within a two mile radius. Make sure you have your cell phone charged up at all times or your phone has a working answering machine to take messages when you are away. If you want to offer a reward, don't list the amount.
- A reward is not essential, but it may motivate someone to contact you instead of keeping the animal. Always withhold at least one important piece of information so that you can verify that the animal is really yours if and when you receive calls. Make sure you expressly state that reward will only be given after the pet is safely returned.
- When it is time to meet someone to be reunited with your animal, never go alone and suggest a place where a lot of people congregate or a police department.
- Share your dog's information with Lost Dogs of Wisconsin and on other social media sites.
5. Place strong scented articles outside of your home to attract your pet.
- Items such as a cat's litter box, bedding or favorite toy.
- Smelly food such as tuna, chicken, hot dogs (or lettuce and carrots for herbivores) or other delicious treats.
6. Call Animal Control
- In Milwaukee County, be sure to report that your animal is missing to Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control as soon as possible. MADACC is responsible for picking up and holding stray animals. Visiting their facility is the best way to find out if your animal is there. They are located at 3839 W. Burnham Street in West Milwaukee. You can also go to their website at www.madacc.org or call them at 414-649-8640.
- In Waukesha County, the Humane Animal Welfare Society and Elmbrook Humane Society takes in strays depending on location. Click on their names to visit their website for more information.
- In Ozaukee County, the Wisconsin Humane Society: Ozaukee Campus works with stray animals.
- In Washington County, the Washington Humane Society works with stray animals.
- Racine County residents should contact Wisconsin Humane Society: Racine Campus to report their animal missing.
- For other city and county humane services, go to Petfinder.com to look for an agency in your community.
- Drop off a flyer to your local animal control agency as well.
7. Place an ad in the newspaper in the "Lost and Found" section.
- Also be sure to check the "found" section of the newspaper each day.
- Post to craigslist and other such forums
- When it is time to meet someone to be reunited with your animal, never go alone and suggest a place where a lot of people congregate or a police department.
8. If your fears are realized.
- Sad as it may be, lost animals sometimes get hit by cars. To find out if your animal was picked up in the City of Milwaukee by the Department of Public Works, please call 414-286-CITY (2489).
9. Don't give up hope!
- Keep looking! The best chance you have of finding your lost animal is to continue your search in your neighborhood, online and at animal control.


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Bailey '97 Tabbed by Governor Pence• June 25, 2013 Share:
Indiana Governor Mike Pence has appointed Wabash alumnus Brian Bailey '97 as his new budget director to lead the State Budget Agency. The appointment is effective July 15.
Bailey will serve as the Budget Director where he will lead the State Budget Agency on behalf of Governor Pence. Bailey currently serves as the Chief of Staff and General Counsel at the Office of Management and Budget. His long list of responsibilities includes development of tax, regulatory and local government policy for Governor Pence as well as operational oversight of the Indiana Department of Revenue, State Board of Accounts, Indiana Department of Local Government Finance and Indiana Board of Tax Review.
In his current role he also advises the Governor regarding proposed legislation with a significant fiscal impact on the state's budget and played an integral role in the preparation of the Governor's proposed FY14-FY15 State Budget.
Prior to joining the Pence Administration, Bailey was appointed to serve as a Commissioner for the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance by Governor Mitch Daniels and held that office from 2010-2013. Bailey also practiced law at Ice Miller LLP in Indianapolis for almost six years.
Bailey earned his undergraduate degree in classics from Wabash College and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He holds a law degree from Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington.
"The experience, knowledge and integrity possessed by Brian Bailey is impressive and I am positive that his talents will bring new insight in his new role with the State Budget Agency," said Governor Pence. "Under his guidance, I am confident that the State Budget Agency will continue to wisely manage state resources and grow our state's economy."


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Well, at midnight on the 22nd, but that's basically tomorrow night. Will there be any shakeup in T14? Will any TTT's become uhh...not TTT? Does USNews even matter?
the law rankings come out tomorrow?
Quote from: Galt on August 20, 2008, 06:00:24 PMthe law rankings come out tomorrow?You know what, Galt? I'm not sure if the law rankings are coming out tomorrow along with the college ones now that I think of it. So, maybe this thread is pre-mature and I might have to just take it down.


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Yes, The Legal & Technical Errors In Homeland Security's Domain Seizure Affidavit Do Matter
from the apologists-gone-mad dept
Hart claims that if there are any errors in the affidavit they don't matter:
Are there errors in the affidavit? If so, do they even matter? The answer is no.Hart's reasoning is that since Homeland Security only has to show "probable cause" in its affidavit, the various errors don't matter. Now, without a doubt, the standard for probable cause is different than for guilt in a trial. But that does not mean there are no standards. He quotes various Supreme Court rulings, which grant law enforcement leeway in filing the affidavits and reaching the probable cause barriers, and specifically noting that some level of mistakes are allowed. Specifically, he quotes Brinegar v. United States, where the court gives law enforcement some leeway for errors:
These long-prevailing standards seek to safeguard citizens from rash and unreasonable interferences with privacy and from unfounded charges of crime. They also seek to give fair leeway for enforcing the law in the community's protection. Because many situations which confront officers in the course of executing their duties are more or less ambiguous, room must be allowed for some mistakes on their part. But the mistakes must be those of reasonable men, acting on facts leading sensibly to their conclusions of probability. The rule of probable cause is a practical, nontechnical conception affording the best compromise that has been found for accommodating these often opposing interests. Requiring more would unduly hamper law enforcement. To allow less would be to leave law-abiding citizens at the mercy of the officers' whim or caprice.With all due respect to Hart, I believe his analysis falls short on a variety of different factors. First, I believe he greatly simplifies the overall ruling in Brinegar to a level that the Court almost certainly did not intend. It does allow for some mistakes (in Brinegar it was a small one). It does not allow for massive mistakes that undermine the entire probability equation that makes up probable cause. Obviously, it's expected that sometimes errors will be made. But, given the vast number of errors in this affidavit, combined with the seriousness of those errors, and the fact that (especially with dajaz1) they made up the very core of the probable cause argument, it would seem that the "balance" would shift against this affidavit having been properly executed.
Furthermore, among the Supreme Court quotes that Hart uses to support his argument is the idea that mistakes are okay because the affidavits are done "in the midst of haste of a criminal investigation." There was no urgency here, however. These sites had all been operating for years, and there was no likelihood that they would suddenly disappear. There was no reason for haste, and thus, less of an excuse for the sort of errors which may be acceptable under other circumstances. Even Hart admits that the "leeway" is about "the realities of law enforcement." The realities in this case were that there was no such urgency, and thus the mistakes are less excusable than they might be elsewhere.
More serious than this is the fact that Hart seems to ignore the specifics of what was seized and why. He notes, accurately, that seizure is much like an arrest, done prior to a trial, but (conveniently) leaves out the basis for seizures, which is supposed to be about preventing the destruction of evidence. As the Court notes in Heller v. New York, the purpose of content-based seizures is "preserving it as evidence." As we have already noted, that makes little sense in this situation, as the domain names would not and could not be "destroyed," in any meaningful manner -- and it's easy to copy the contents of the site to preserve that as evidence. Agent Reynolds explanation for why a seizure was necessary was that he was afraid that some third party might somehow get the domain name and continue the criminal copyright infringement, ignoring that an injunction could easily prevent that, and the actual likelihood of that scenario happening was close to nil.
However, the biggest flaw in Hart's argument is that he focuses solely on the issue of probable cause for warrants, and pays no attention to the key issue that we brought up: how seizing full domain names without an adversarial hearing, based on a series of legal and technical errors is almost certainly prior restraint, and a violation of the First Amendment. As was made quite clear in Fort Wayne Books, Inc. v. Indiana, when a seizure involves issues of protected speech, a higher bar is required:
Thus, while the general rule under the Fourth Amendment is that any and all contraband, instrumentalities, and evidence of crimes may be seized on probable cause (and even without a warrant in various circumstances), it is otherwise when materials presumptively protected by the First Amendment are involved... It is "[t]he risk of prior restraint, which is the underlying basis for the special Fourth Amendment protections accorded searches for and seizure of First Amendment materials" that motivates this rule.This line of thinking goes back through a long, long, long line of cases, many of which repeat the famous line: "Any system of prior restraints of expression comes to this Court bearing a heavy presumption against its constitutional validity." In seizure cases where expressive speech is part of what is removed from circulation, the bar is higher than your average probable cause. That's why those errors are incredibly important, and the lack of any attempt to avoid First Amendment issues is glaring. Hart doesn't mention any of this, which I find surprising.
Finally, Hart closes his post (somewhat out of character for him) by suggesting our motivations for highlighting the problematic nature of the affidavit, arguing that we really don't care about the errors, and our posts are really just another way of attacking copyright law. I would suggest that Hart focus his analysis on legal issues, rather than playing amateur psychologist. My problem with the seizures is not about copyright law (though, I obviously have serious concerns about copyright law as well), but with the clear issue of a violation of the First Amendment. Separately, while Hart seems fine with it (as do the courts), I remain seriously troubled by the entire seizure process, which is widely abused, in cases where it has nothing to do with taking possession of evidence that might otherwise disappear. Playing those concerns down because there's a copyright element to this and I'm a critic of copyright law as it stands today is simply inaccurate, and seems like a cheap shot designed -- unfairly -- to attack my credibility on the situation at hand.


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April 16, 2006
Santa Barbara, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara men's tennis team won at No. 1 and 2 singles against No. 47 Fresno State but struggled towards the bottom of the ladder, dropping a 5-2 decision Sunday afternoon at the RecCen Courts.
No. 1 Nick Brotman defeated the Bulldog's Jakub Cech, the 63rd- ranked singles player in the country, by a score of 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 and Bijan Hejazi ousted Fresno State's Sergiu Modoc in No. 2 singles, but those were the only singles matches in which UCSB came out on top.
In No. 1 doubles, Brotman paired with Anders Dalskov to defeat Fresno State's tandem of Modoc and Sam Gibbs 9-7, but Carsten Thorstenstein and Scott Hohenstein lost in No. 2 doubles as did Elad Stern and Max Taylor, giving the doubles point to the Bulldogs.
Dalskov, Stern and Thorstenstein all lost in two games while Taylor pushed Jodi Ballester to three games after winning the first, but dropped the next two games by the same count, 6-1.
The loss drops the Gaucho record to 12-10 overall, yet UCSB remains undefeated in Big West play at 4-0 after Saturday's win over UC Irvine.
UCSB returns to the court this Friday when they will host UC Santa Cruz in their final home match of the year. The Gauchos will be honoring seniors Hagen Brody and Nick Brotman in their final home appearance of their careers.
Final Results Singles No. 1 - Nick Brotman (UCSB) def. No. 63 Jakub Cech (FSU) - 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 No. 2 - Bijan Hejazi (UCSB) def. Sergiu Modoc (FSU) - 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 No. 3 - Rudy Siwy (FSU) def. Anders Dalskov (UCSB) - 6-1, 6-1 No. 4 - Charles Irie (FSU) def. Elad Stern (UCSB) - 6-1, 6-1 No. 5 - Sam Taderosian (FSU) def. Carsten Thorstensen (UCSB) - 7-5, 6-1 No. 6 - Jordi Ballester (FSU) def. Max Taylor (UCSB) - 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 Doubles No. 1 - Brotman/Dalskov (UCSB) def. Modoc/Gibbs (FSU) - 9-7 No. 2 - Irie/Siwy (FSU) def. Scott Hohenstein/Thorstensen (UCSB) - 8-5 No. 3 - Cech/Taderosian (FSU) def. Stern/Taylor (UCSB) - 9-7


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SAN DIEGO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A surge in the number of access providers in the Ethernet community, new markets for regional providers, application-oriented SLAs, optimized mobile backhaul and cloud service delivery… these are among the benefits now on offer, according to Ihab Tarazi Chairman of the Board, MEF (MetroEthernet Forum), speaking today at the gala announcement of the first twenty vendors to offer Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certified products. Other speakers included Ethernet inventor, Bob Metcalfe, and MEF President Nan Chen.
"The companies' achievements are a testament to their commitment to outstanding delivery for the Carrier market" said Ihab Tarazi. "Certification will enable service providers to choose equipment vendors with greater speed, clarity and certainty. CE 2.0 Certification marks a significant moment in the life of the MEF and Carrier Ethernet."
The first twenty vendors certified are: Accedian, Altera, BTI Systems, Ciena, Cisco, Cyan, FibroLAN, Huawei, Infinera, Juniper Networks, MRV, Omnitron, Overture, PT Inovacao, Pulsecom, RAD Data Communications, Telco Systems, Tellabs, Transition Networks and Transmode.
Next generation CE 2.0 extends the original purpose of Carrier Ethernet with vital added features, including multiple classes of service, greater manageability and easier interconnect for eight standard service types, enabling new levels of efficiency for mobile backhaul, making it easier for a large number of access providers to join the Carrier Ethernet community and establish Carrier Ethernet as a business class cloud service carrier. According to Nan Chen, MEF President: "The main market drivers continue to dominate business: bandwidth growth, mobile data and LTE migration and the growth of public and private cloud computing."
Bob Mandeville President and Founder of test lab Iometrix, responsible for MEF's testing process, outlined the challenges of meeting the new exacting standards: "CE 2.0 is a difficult accreditation to achieve. To be recognised as CE 2.0 ceftified, each company must pass a suite that totals 634 stringent tests. Over 155 companies are now certified for CE 1.0 and the adoption signs for 2.0 are exciting. The demand for certified products and services is a driving force, and we expect a significant increase in service provider certifications not only from established markets, but also from developing economies in 2013."
Carrier Ethernet has become the industry's biggest success story of the past decade. For the first time this year, CE services share of bandwidth exceeded the sum total of all legacy telecoms services across the world, making it the dominant technology in the carrier space, according to Vertical Systems Group. Last year over 1.2 billion new Ethernet ports were shipped (400 million wired and 800 million wireless) according to IDC, and Frost & Sullivan, Vertical Systems and Infonetics predict a near $48+ billion services market by 2015.
Bob Metcalfe, Inventor of the Ethernet, summed up the gala certificate award ceremony, saying: "40 years after its inception, Ethernet continues to innovate. CE 2.0 gives, service providers and vendors the ability drive global interconnection and deliver a whole host of services to enterprises rapidly and with multiple classes of service and robust service level agreements. These twenty companies are the first to recognize this enormous potential. It gives them a distinct competitive advantage, as Carrier Ethernet continues to dominate and surpass all other technologies and services on the market."
About The MEF:
The MEF is a global industry alliance comprising more than 200 organizations including telecommunications service providers, cable MSOs, network equipment/software manufacturers, semiconductors vendors and testing organizations. The MEF's mission is to accelerate the worldwide adoption of Carrier-class Ethernet networks and services. The MEF develops Carrier Ethernet technical specifications and implementation agreements to promote interoperability and deployment of Carrier Ethernet worldwide.
For more information about the Forum, including a complete listing of all current MEF members, please visit the MEF web site at http://www.MetroEthernetForum.org/


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(6-8 Yrs) Scratch Coding+LEGO Robotics - Richmond
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Monday, 27 August 2018 from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM (PDT)
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Video Game Coding + LEGO Robotics Weekly Camp
Ages 6-8, 2.5 hours per day
Max campers: 8
Scratch Coding (Day 1-Day 5)
- Learn to use icon-based scratch programming
- Opportunity to work independently and cooperatively
- Up to 5 exciting projects including shooting game, e-card, and interactive story-telling.
LEGO Robotics Building (Day 1-Day5)
- Build up to 5 exciting projects from playground swing to soccer game
- Expose and use icon-based programming commands
- Opportunity to work independently and cooperatively
- Create accessory pieces to add on to the basic robot
- Sorry, robots cannot be taken home
(LEGO is registered trademark of LEGO Group, which doesn't sponsor, endorse or affiliate with this program)
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Cancellations will incur a $25 cancellation fee, and after June 15 there will be no refunds for cancellation.
If Robokids Richmond should be forced to cancel camps due to emergency circumstances such as unforeseen facility or instructor unavailability, a full tuition refund, minus $9 ticket administration charge we incur from Eventbrite, will be issued.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The son of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was found dead of an apparent drug overdose at his Malibu home, authorities said Wednesday.
The body of Scott Ashley Sterling, 32, was found shortly after 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Larry Dietz said.
The death cast a pall on what has been a joyous season for the Clippers, normally an NBA doormat but now among the league's best teams. The team is in first place in its division and had a franchise-record 17-game winning streak that was snapped Tuesday.
Sterling, 77, a billionaire real estate mogul who purchased the team in 1981, and wife Shelley released a statement thanking friends for sympathy, asking for privacy and saying their son was diabetic, but did not indicate what role, if any, that may have played in his death.
"Our son Scott has fought a long and valiant battle against Type 1 Diabetes," the statement said. "His death is a terrible tragedy, the effects of which will be felt forever by our family and all those who knew and loved him."
The death at a beachfront apartment building on Pacific Coast Highway was discovered after a friend of Scott Sterling called police after not hearing from him for several days, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Deputies found the body and paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
"Sheriff's homicide and Los Angeles County coroner's personnel at this time believe that Sterling died of an apparent drug overdose," the statement said.
Dietz said the death appeared to be accidental, but an autopsy was planned to determine the exact cause of death.
In 1999, the then-19-year-old Sterling was arrested for shooting his friend with a shotgun. Beverly Hills police said Philip Scheid was shot in the legs during an argument at Donald Sterling's mansion.
Scheid said he was shot from behind while running away. Sterling said he fired in self-defense after Scheid approached him with a knife. The county district attorney's office declined to file criminal charges, citing credibility problems with the victim.


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CASA GRANDE, Ariz. – As if making 54 appearances and 33 starts for one of the top teams in MLS before his 19th birthday wasn't enough, Real Salt Lake midfielder Luis Gil feels like he has to "prove something" in 2013.
While it's debatable how much Gil has to prove – those 54 appearances and 33 starts before turning 19 last November speak volumes – he'll certainly be very busy in 2013. The fourth-year pro is the favorite to fill the starting spot vacated by RSL's December trade of midfielder Will Johnson to Portland. He'll also have a full international schedule with the U.S. U-20's, which need a top-four finish at February's CONCACAF U-20 Championships to qualify for this summer's FIFA U-20 World Cup.
"It's a big year," said Gil, who arrived at RSL's preseason camp in Casa Grande on Tuesday night after completing a training camp with the U-20's. "This is my fourth year with RSL and I feel like now I have to step up and prove something. Obviously I'm still learning as a player, but going into national team camps and stuff like that, it always brings out more confidence in me."
Gil enjoyed his time with Head Coach Tab Ramos' U-20's, training with the team in Puebla, Mexico – the site of February's CONCACAF U-20 Championships – for a little over a week. Gil will be back with Ramos and his youth national teammates in early February for a pre-CONCACAF tournament camp.
"It's a good accomplishment, to represent your country," he said. "We're preparing for our qualifying coming up next month and it's definitely a good feeling to be with the team."
Gil's solid attitude should serve him well in 2013. The L.A. area native is more committed than ever to improving his game, taking lessons from U-20 camps and applying them when he's with the Claret-and-Cobalt.
"Going down with kids my age and trying to connect with them, then coming here and starting up with RSL, it gets me back into a rhythm," he said.
"I'm just looking to get better every single day. I feel like now I'm starting to take every practice seriously. Obviously I always have, but now it's just at another level."


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Commissioner Martens Rejects Call for "Independent" Health Study of High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing
The hydrofracking controversy in New York State is still ongoing with many people against allowing it here because of the various health and environmental hazards that may come with it. This is NYS DEC Commissioner Joe Martens' progress report on the decision to let hydrofracking in New York State.
September 20, 2012 - "DEC has been reviewing approximately 80,000 comments submitted concerning the Department's review of high volume hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking). While a wide variety of issues are addressed by the comments, many focus on the potential public health impacts of high volume hydrofracking.
I have had numerous conversations with many of the parties on all sides of this issue. I have recently met with several of the groups who have raised public health concerns and it is clear they are not satisfied with the Department's effort to address potential public health impacts. The groups would require that DEC conduct an outside health study that would determine the outcome of the final decision. I reject that demand. I believe it is highly likely that some of these groups will pursue litigation following the conclusion of the Departmental process if they do not agree with the outcome.
I believe deferring to an outside group or entity would be an inappropriate delegation of a governmental responsibility. Government is the public's independent reviewer: that is the essence of the current process. To suggest private interests or academic experts bring more independence to the process than government is exactly wrong. Many experts in this field have an opinion - pro or con- which could influence the process. Nor could one ever be sure that there weren't potential conflicts of interest with outside consultants if they were to actually direct the outcome. It is the government's responsibility to ensure objectivity and a review directed by DEC and the Department of Health is without bias.
The Governor's instructions have been clear from the outset - let the science determine the outcome.
Fundamentally, I want to make sure that we have done the most thorough review possible, especially when it comes to public health concerns. In addition, I want to ensure that the Department has the most legally defensible review so that when the Department issues its final determination on this matter, protracted litigation is avoided, whatever the outcome.
Accordingly, I have asked and NYS Health Commissioner Nirav Shah has agreed to assess the Department's health impact analysis. I have also asked Dr. Shah to identify the most qualified outside experts to advise him in his review. While the review will be informed by outside perspectives on the science of hydrofracking, the decision-making will remain a governmental responsibility.
Only after this evaluation is completed will a decision be made about whether to permit high volume hydraulic fracturing in New York. Obviously if there was a public health concern that could not be addressed we would not proceed. The process to date has been designed to maintain public trust in the integrity of DEC's review, and Dr. Shah's assessment will assure New Yorkers that we have thoroughly examined all the issues before making a final decision. The review will also ensure the strongest possible legal position for the Department given the near certainty of litigation, whether the Department permits hydrofracking or not.
I believe this action addresses any legitimate request for additional due diligence and study as well as ensuring DEC's ultimate decision on hydraulic fracturing is beyond reproach either as a matter of law or as policy. I believe the action also protects the independence of the DEC while availing ourselves of the best possible advice from the private and academic sectors. While I am sure these actions will not satisfy all parties, I do believe it will result in the most thorough review of high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the nation, regardless of the final decision."


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DETROIT -- When my dad's 1976 Cadillac Coupe DeVille hit 200,000 miles, we had to pull off the road.
The car wasn't broken down. He just wanted to commemorate the moment with a photo of the odometer.
But today, 200,000 miles isn't a big deal. Many people are holding onto their vehicles longer and driving them farther. It's a trend unlikely to reverse anytime soon, some dealers admit.
For that reason, many dealers who were wildly optimistic for a 2012 new-vehicle sales spurt earlier this year have a more measured outlook for sales growth now as they see consumers reluctant to trade in old for new.
For one thing, similar to my dad, some consumers realize it's financially savvy to keep a car as long as possible. That belief is especially true given the economic uncertainty that has plagued the country over the past few years, one dealer said.
But some other dealers say the continued economic queasiness in the United States and concerns over the impact that Europe's woes could have abroad are also adding to many consumers' reluctance to trade up for a new vehicle.
Then, there is political uncertainty with an upcoming U.S. election also giving some consumers pause, they say.
Now factor in recent weather events such as Tropical Storm Debby and the drought and wildfires out West. Psychologically, the weather crisis has added to an atmosphere of tension and uncertainty, some dealers say. And, of course, it can be devastating for consumers directly affected by such catastrophes.
Finally, there's the fact that vehicles are built better to last longer these days.
All of this is making dad's milestone appear to one day become more the rule rather than the exception.


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The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. has announced its first wave of winners, with more selections to be announced Sunday afternoon.
Lupita Nyong'o received supporting actress honors for "12 Years a Slave," in which she played the abused plantation slave Patsey. Runner-up was June Squibb for "Nebraska."
There was a tie for best supporting actor: James Franco as a rapper/gangster named Alien in "Spring Breakers" and Jared Leto as a transsexual suffering from AIDS in "Dallas Buyers Club."
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Leto also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award last week for the drama. And there has been a nontraditional Oscar campaign spearheaded by "Spring Breakers" distributor A24 for Franco for the low-budget indie film directed by Harmony Korine.
The French-Belgian production "Ernest and Celestine" won best animated feature, with runner-up going to Hayao Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises."
Best documentary went to Sarah Polley's "Stories We Tell." The film also won the New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review honors last week. Runner-up was "The Act of Killing."
Emmanuel Lubezki won best cinematography and Alfonson Cuarón and Mark Sanger got the award for best editing, all for "Gravity." Cinematography runner-up was Bruno Delbonnel for "Inside Llewyn Davis" and editing runner-up was Shane Carruth and David Lowery for "Upstream Color."
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Best music score went to T Bone Burnett for "Inside Llewyn Davis." Runner-up was "Her," by Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett.
Production design honors went to K.K. Barrett for "Her"; runner-up was Jess Gonchor for "Inside Llewyn Davis."
The Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Award went to "Cabinets of Wonder: Films and a Performance by Charlotte Pryce."
"A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" director Richard Lester was previously announced as the winner of the career achievement honor.
The awards will be handed out Jan. 11 at a ceremony at the Intercontinental Hotel in Century City.
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Schumacher returns to F1 podium without even knowing it
Michael Schumacher was taken by surprise today after ending up on the Formula One podium for the first time in nearly six years.india Updated: Jun 25, 2012 01:27 IST
Michael Schumacher was taken by surprise on Sunday after ending up on the Formula One podium for the first time in nearly six years.
The sport's most successful driver, with seven championships and 91 race wins under his belt, finished third for Mercedes in the European Grand Prix in Valencia to remind himself how it felt to spray champagne in the sunshine.
The German who retired from glamour team Ferrari in 2006 and then started a comeback in 2010, was able to savour at long last an achievement that some of his critics felt last year was frankly beyond him.
Now 43, he became the oldest driver on the podium since Australian triple champion Jack Brabham finished second in Britain in 1970 at the age of 44.
In 2010 Schumacher had talked of chasing more titles and race wins but when the podium finally came calling after 45 comeback races without a top three finish, it took him a while to realise.
"I didn't actually think about a podium at all at the end of the race," he told reporters after standing on it alongside Ferrari's race winner Fernando Alonso and former Ferrari champion Kimi Raikkonen, now with Lotus.
To make it even sweeter, Ferrari sent up Alonso's race engineer Andrea Stella to join them - the Italian having previously worked with both Raikkonen and Schumacher at the Italian team.
"It was crossing the line that I asked my guys 'Where did we finish?' I saw (Australian Mark) Webber's pit board and close to the end it showed him eighth and seventh and I knew I was one place ahead of that one," said Schumacher.
"And then the boys told me 'That's third, that's podium'. I can't believe that. It's something I didn't really expect. You sort of lose count, because I was pretty busy in the last stages of the race," said the German.
His last previous podium came in China in October 2006, which was also his last win.
Dominant years
There was a time, at the height of Schumacher's domination with Ferrari in the early years of the millennium, when his absence from the podium provided a talking point.
In those days he would automatically raise trophies and head for the post-race news conference, but on Sunday he seemed to have forgotten some of the old routines.
Asked to address the cameras in his own language, he spoke in English briefly before realising his mistake.
"It's just a wonderful feeling to be back after such a long time. We were a couple of times close to it," he said.
"It happened in a pretty spectacular way on a track where it is difficult to pass but due to various strategies and differences on track it was pretty exciting and that's obviously the best way.
"If you manage the way I did today to jump the podium unexpectedly makes you extra happy," he declared. Before Valencia, Schumacher had scored a measly two points this season while team mate and compatriot Nico Rosberg had won in China.
His last three races had ended in retirement - of the mechanical sort - with five failures to finish in seven starts. Mercedes had promised to deliver a car worthy of his talents and they did so on Sunday.
"I think this year's been frustrating because he's been in a position from his perspective to have done that (be on the podium) more than once this year and we've not given him the opportunity," said team principal Ross Brawn.
"Today we gave him the opportunity, we recovered from a strategic point of view because we weren't looking too good at the beginning of the race and he showed what he can do."
Schumacher, being Schumacher, inevitably brought a whiff of controversy to the proceedings with his third place remaining unconfirmed until hours after the race amid suggestions he had used his DRS rear wing illegally under yellow flags in the closing laps.
After examing video evidence, stewards - one of them former Ferrari driver Mika Salo of Finland - decided he was in the clear.
"The team and myself have been criticised here and there, particularly lately," Schumacher had said earlier.
"This is the best way to answer criticism, to go back and deliver as we did today, and therefore I'm proud, thankful and very excited."
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Morning Five: 07.07.10 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on July 7th, 2010
Now that we're all back in the swing of things from the holiday weekend, let's dive into another set of morning links.
- Former Seton Hall coach Bobby Gonzalez was arrested under suspicion of trying to steal a $1,395 man purse from a Ralph Lauren store in a New Jersey mall. The story says "satchel", but we all know that's just a nice way of saying man purse. We don't know which man purse it is, but these are the most likely options (purse 1 or purse 2).
- Adam Zagoria brings you the winner of future all-name college basketball teams, God's Gift Achiuwa, who is being recruited St. John's. Zagoria missed a great potential finishing joke when he forgot to mention the upcoming moment where Knick fans boo the selection of God's Gift.
- The Legends Classic announced the match-ups and locations for the regional match-ups of its early season tournament with Syracuse, Georgia Tech, Michigan, and UTEP hosting a bunch of sacrificial lambs–Albany, Bowling Green, Detroit, Gardner-Webb, Mercer, Niagara, Western Carolina, and William & Mary.
- Georgia's athletic department took a step toward getting back to business as usual by naming Frank Crumley interim AD on Tuesday. University prez Michael Adams, though, has formed a committee who will search outside the UGA system for a permanent replacement for Damon Evans.
- Celebrate we will, for it's the July evaluation period. Coaches might not be able to talk to available recruits, but they may watch them as much as they want and determine where — that is, on whom — they'll concentrate their recruiting efforts. The period kicked off with a huge showcase in Indianapolis featuring over 4,000 basketball players as well as many of the biggest names in the coaching game.


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text: Producers Invest in Water Infrastructure October 27, 2012 06:03 AM Tweet © Lindsey Benne TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ed Clark Top Producer Business and Issues Editor Email Producers invest in water infrastructure to control risk Mother Nature's highly unreliable temperament in recent years is prompting farmers to take matters into their own hands. Center-pivot irrigation systems, once thought to be suitable only for Kansas, Nebraska or California's San Joaquin Valley, are going up in the eastern Corn Belt. "Irrigated land comprises 30% of Lawrence County, Ill.'s total acreage, but 60% to 65% in Russell and Allison townships," says Norm Kocher, chairman of the Russell-Allison Water Authority, farmer and dealer for T-L Irrigation. "That's double the amount in the two townships from 10 years ago." That's an extreme case, but it puts numbers to the brisk adoption rate. "For Reinke, the market has increased rapidly in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and western Tennessee," says Tim Goldhammer, Reinke Mfg.'s vice president of marketing. "We've added dealers in those high-demand areas." Several factors—such as high-priced grain, rising input costs, sky-high land values and rents, and, more often than not, quirky weather—are working in concert to drive the trend to irrigate. The cost of erecting a center-pivot irrigation system varies significantly, says Rich Panowicz, vice president of North American sales for Valley Irrigation. As a rule of thumb, a total irrigation installation for 130 acres requires an investment of approximately $1,000 per acre, plus costs for underground pipe and electrical tie-ins. The cost of drilling a well can bring the price tag much higher, depending on how deep you need to go to reach water, he notes. Tired of dealing with dry weather every year, Cecil, Ohio, producer Curt Potter invested in a new irrigation system earlier this year. The ability to water when needed did the trick—he realized a 100 bu. per acre difference between irrigated and nonirrigated acres. After an initial investment of $1,100 per acre, the estimated costs have been just a few dollars per acre. Get started. Before you grab your checkbook, there are several factors to consider to determine if irrigation is right for you, says Lyndon Kelley, an irrigation specialist for Michigan State and Purdue universities. First, Kelley says, you need water. Access differs dramatically by location, even within the same township. "You need a water source that allows you to pump 500 gal. of water per minute for 100 acres for corn. That's the bare minimum," Kelley says. At this rate, producers can generate 1" of water every four days, which is what corn requires. Soybeans need less water, so some producers with less than ideal volume might still be able to irrigate with scheduling changes. Corn and soybean peak water demand comes at different times, as well. Second, what soil types do you have? Sandy loam soils respond well to irrigation, and sandy soils that are most vulnerable to drought are probably the best place to begin. That's not to say that heavier soils should never be irrigated, however, and some producers who irrigated for the first time this year report excellent yield responses from soils with a denser profile. Existing irrigators are also taking advantage of strong incomes to upgrade systems, Panowicz says. More growers are adding corner units to minimize the number of acres that are not reached by the center-pivot circle. New technology, such as variable flow rates that take into account variations within a field, allows for finetuning of existing irrigation systems. "As the cost of putting in a crop has increased in the past five years, farmers can't afford to have a crop failure due to drought conditions even one or two years out of 10," Panowicz adds. Another factor driving irrigation's renaissance is high-priced farmland, which is requiring farmers to reap every last bushel from fields before expanding, says Randy Wood, vice president of irrigation, sales and marketing for Lindsay Corporation. "Irrigation is an efficient method of increasing yields," he says. For example, if irrigation means an extra 100 bu. in yield (not the case every year), it means investing $1,000 with a rapid payoff, as opposed to paying as much as $8,000 an acre to buy land, assuming you can find any. Other benefits. An irrigation system does more than just allow producers to boost yields. This fall, Potter's soybeans, for example, had only 9% to 10% moisture. At harvest, he turned on the irrigation to achieve his desired 14% moisture. Crop and livestock producer Steve Miller uses his new system to capture the value of the manure from his hog buildings. He can apply nitrogen throughout the year by mixing manure at a 4-to-1 ratio (water to manure). "We can apply manure with no soil compaction, and we don't lose any of manure's nutrients," says Miller, who farms near Bucyrus, Ohio. At a loss about the logistics of manure irrigation at first, Miller estimates a 100 bu. per acre yield pop on fields that were irrigated this year. He is hoping for a modest 30 bu. per acre yield advantage over a 10-year period. He plans to increase the number of acres irrigated in 2013. However, irrigation is not for every farmer in the Midwest, he admits. "It wouldn't work a few miles from here," he explains because of the difference in water accessibility. Federal crop insurance was not a good investment for Sandborn, Ind., farmer Vaughn Huey, so he instead invested in irrigation for the first time. It worked to his advantage—he harvested 170 bu. more corn per acre on irrigated ground. "From June 1 to the end of July, I ran the unit 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I knew it would be a good investment. I just didn't know it would be this good." Back to news


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7 Animals Besides Groundhogs That Can Predict the Future [PHOTOS]
Throughout history, people have believed that animals can make predictions about human fate. The results are often disappointing, but that hasn't stopped us from turning to them time and time again.
And why not? Animals can do many things that we can't — like fly and live underwater. So why not assume they can see into the future too? Read the rest of Linda Lombardi's story from Vetstreet after the jump.
Legend has it that if a groundhog sees his shadow on the morning of February 2, winter will last six more weeks. Spoilsport scientists say he's no more accurate than your local weatherman. An analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed that, from 1988 to 2010, there was no correlation between the groundhog's prediction and the weather for the rest of the season.
But one thing that the groundhog's appearance does predict is a boon in tourism — 30,000 folks are expected to visit Punxsutawney, PA, to see the most famous groundhog named Phil make his weather forecast this year. While we wait to see if his prediction is correct, here's a look at some other prescient animals of the domestic, farm-dwelling and even aquatic variety.
Woollybear Watches Out for Winter
The groundhog isn't the only animal who can make a prediction about the weather — and tourism. The woollybear caterpillar is striped brown and black, and, according to folklore, if the brown stripe is thick, winter will be severe; if it's thin, the season will be mild. Party-pooper insect experts disagree and say that the variation in the brown bands has nothing to do with the weather — they're just bigger on older caterpillars. But that doesn't bother the more than 100,000 people who attend the Woollybear Festival in Vermillion, Ohio, each fall to enjoy entertainment that includes caterpillar races.
Catfish Who Can Sense Quakes
Cultures all over the world believe that animals can tell when tremors are coming. These tales go as far back as 373 BC, when it's said that all animals — rats, snakes, and even worms and beetles — left the Greek city of Helice five days before it was destroyed by a quake.
In Japan, there's a tradition that claims catfish can predict the shaking of the earth. Scientists testing this legend spent 16 years recording the behavior of a tank of catfish in Tokyo and then compared the data with records of seismic activity. The fish did become more active several days before a quake — but it turned out that they were actually too sensitive to be useful predictors because the fish reacted to shallow quakes as well as dangerous ones that would call for an actual warning.
Oscar the Cat Knows When Your Days Are Numbered
The groundhog may not be any more accurate than your local weatherman, but there's a cat in Rhode Island who's better at knowing when someone is going to die than some doctors. Oscar resides at a nursing home where, over the course of five years, he's correctly predicted 50 deaths. If Oscar curls up with a patient, staff knows to call the family. And this feline is firm in his opinions — he'll scratch at the door if he can't get in. In one case, nurses put him on a patient's bed, but he promptly left to sit with another resident. Oscar's pick passed away that evening.
Paul the World Cup Wonder Octopus
Sure, predicting life and death is impressive, but what about something really important to people… sports. Paul, an octopus who lived at a German aquarium, correctly predicted the winner of eight athletic games, including the champs of the 2010 World Cup. He flagged his choice by selecting a mussel from one of two boxes decorated with the flags of the competing countries. Although he gained worldwide fame, some fans who didn't particularly care for his choices threatened to fry him up and serve him with sauce. They missed the chance to follow through on their threat as Paul passed away not too long ago.
This Sheep Doesn't Pull Any Wool Over People's Eyes
The life of an octopus is short, and Paul died just a few months after he stunned the world with his eerily correct predictions. But a sheep in New Zealand named Sonny Wool is already filling the void: He correctly predicted the winner of all his home team's matches in the 2011 Rugby World Cup. And like Paul, Sonny has found that being a psychic animal is a dangerous occupation — he was reportedly under 24-hour protection after receiving death threats over an incorrect prediction of a win for Ireland.
A Crocodile With a Penchant for Politics
The psychic animal enterprise has also expanded to include politics. In 2010, a crocodile named Harry weighed in on the closest Australian election for prime minister in years. By choosing a chicken carcass decorated with a photo of the Labor Party's Julia Gillard, instead of one plastered with an image of her opponent, Harry correctly predicted Gillard's victory.
Polly Want a Profit?
Finally, if you're wondering how the stock market is going to do, maybe you should turn to an animal. In a contest in South Korea, a parrot (not shown above) proved to be better than most humans at picking the stocks that would perform successfully. Her return on investment was 13.7 percent — better than all but two of the 10 human participants, who averaged a 4.6 percent loss.
Also on Vetstreet:
- Best Super Bowl ads starring pets
- Cancer-surviving cat gets a new knee
- Find out who the original search and rescue dog is
Vetstreet.com is a new animal health and lifestyle site dedicated to giving you the most accurate pet information possible, so you can keep your dogs and cats healthy and happy. Our articles are written and reviewed by leading veterinarians, journalists, and animal health experts.


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Although I'm quite aware this subject has probably been blogged to death, this entry serves two purposes. For one my memory is shot and I need to write this somewhere to help me not forget. The second is the simple fact that this site is, after all, for the beginner.
Imagine yourself the following scenario: You're at work (or one of your clients) and you need to RDP out to your place. Then you remember port 3389, amongst others, are blocked from going outside the corporate network. What does a bored admin do…? What will he do? He organizes ahead of time so as to be able to connect home using a SSH Tunnel.
The SSH Tunnel will permit the user to forward local ports on the computer through the tunnel, having them connect to the remote station using that specified port. In theory, this connection will sneak through the firewall rule preventing the remote desktop connection.
In the following scenario let us imagine that all machines involved are Windows machines. Our admin needs to prepare a few things before hand as well. Such as which outbound ports are not blocked (probably 80 – 443), and have a SSH Server running on his home computer (let's assume ports are correctly redirected in his router). This server must be listening on one of the ports not blocked by the corporate firewall.
With a server at home listening on a proper port, all the admin needs to do is connect to it and create a tunnel. There are many free SSH server application running on Windows available on the Internet as well as clients. Make sure the applications permit tunnels and TCP forwarding.
Setting up the Client: In this example, our admin is using PuTTY as his client of choice. He enters his home server's IP.
Then configures the port forwarding, don't forget to click the "Add" button.
Once connected it should look something like the image below. What will happen is any connection done to localhost on port 443 will be sent through the tunnel and end up on the remote host's 3389 port. Of course this can be done for other protocols and not just for remote desktop. FTP, SMB, NetCat connections and Metasploit modules can also be tunneled in this matter. It also has the added bonus of encrypting your traffic.
The tunnel is ready for use and all that needs to be done is connect to port 443 on your localhost using "Remote Desktop Connection".
Connecting to one's self using "mstsc.exe".
And there we have it; Windows Remote Desktop Connection is playing with itself.
Of course I'd like to show more proof of success with a Wireshark capture. Seeing I'm doing all of this on my local LAN, and it is a pain to sniff "127.0.0.1" on a windows machine. You'll have to either take my word on it, or test it yourself. You can do it from your work place, modify your own firewall rules to block outbound RDP connections or simply enable a rule on your local machine preventing outbound 3389.
Now I must add this scenario may not be suitable for all work place environments. Some actually secures their permitted outbound ports with some sort of content filtering. In this case it would be detected and blocked due to the fact that another protocol other than HTTP is using that port. Uniting SSH Tunneling with a Proxy Tunnel would bypass this bump. This would encapsulate our SSH session in the proper protocol, hence making it pass the filter.
Another plausible situation where tunneling can be used, is when you acquire a remote shell on a compromised system. Using readily available software you can end up with the same result… just done a bit differently. That is out of the scope of this blog entry but could be an idea for another one.


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India Says It's Been Asked to Help Find Jet
Malaysia has asked for India's assistance in searching for the missing Boeing 777 jetliner to widen the search to an area near the Andaman Sea, an Indian official said Wednesday.
Malaysian authorities contacted their Indian counterparts Tuesday seeking help in searching areas near the Andaman for the Malaysia Airlines plane, said Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Syed Akbaruddin.
Akbaruddin said India had appointed a contact person to liaise with Malaysian authorities, but did not give details about what kind of help India would offer.
"This is a new development," Akbaruddin said, referring to the search extending to the Andaman Sea, north of the Strait of Malacca. "The two sides were working out what specifics they want, and what we can assist in."
The jet was heading from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing with 239 people aboard when it went missing early Saturday.
Malaysia's civil aviation authorities and the military have said the plane may have turned back from its last known position between Malaysia and Vietnam, possibly making it as far as the Strait of Malacca, a busy shipping lane west of the narrow nation.
Indian navy ships frequently patrol the seas around the Strait of Malacca and regularly conduct exercises with countries in the region.
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A good read, it is.
This post is for new and newer teachers who may want to learn about the technique of "fronting" in English.
What is "fronting"?
In English, the "(...) kernel sentence structure may be altered to bring elements to the front of the sentence. This movement is called fronting. So, apart from Daniel wrote a very good book last year, we can create A very good book, Daniel wrote last year or Last year Daniel wrote a very good book or What Daniel wrote was a very good book or Daniel, he wrote a very good book last year. But why would we like to change the basic structure of the sentence?"
Read more at: http://www.ugr.es/~ftsaez/theme.pdf
An example of fronting is in the third line of this song extract. By changing the expected word order, the writer wanted to achieve a rhythmic effect:
"I'll sing to him, each spring to him
And long for the day when I'll cling to him,
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I."
Cole Porter
Read the whole text at the link above or chat with someone here if you want to understand more about fronting . If you come across any examples of fronting, why not post them?
A good read, it is.
well, food for thought thanks
You're welcome.Originally Posted by silversea
Welcome, you are??
U are, u are, u are, u are.Originally Posted by tdol
I am, am I?