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New Look, the fashion retailer, is known to be speaking to agencies about its media planning and buying arrangements with a strong possibility of calling a review of the business handled by ZenithOptimedia.
New Look: considers media pitch
New Look approached agencies last week to request information, which may later lead to a pitch process.
ZenithOptimedia is the incumbent on the media business. New Look's digital business, including SEO, is run by Forward 3D, which is not affected by the review.
New Look declined to comment.
In August last year, the retailer sent out a request for information to agencies and considered outsourcing its social media activity for the first time. It is not clear whether this led to an appointment.
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So, Beautiful Creatures did not do very well in the Box Office for it's opening weekend. Many people are afraid that this will hinder the chance of a sequel to the movie, which would be based on the second book in The Caster Chronicles, Beautiful Darkness, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. By signing this petition, and getting enough signatures, it may help to sway the decision of those involved in green-lighting the second movie. It would be very much appreciated if you would sign! thank you so so so much.
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I love the books and the film of Beautiful Creatures, please continue this saga!
I really loved the movie beautiful creatures although i never read the books but it would definitely be the next big thing in comparison to the twilight series. i enjoyed watching , the love and the passion for each other in the movie and it really kept viewers wondering towards the ending. AWESOME ! 10/10
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I really loved the movie And all the books if a sequel comes out it will bring in more money then the first.
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Superstar cast in a movie that does a good job portraying the immense struggle that took place in the skies over Britain. Read morePublished 2 days ago by A.S. Rocco
Best WW2 Air Movie made. Certainly one of my top picks. The Blu-ray disk is stunning!Published 3 days ago by R. Sullivan
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I hadn't looked at this one for awhile. Amazingly good production values! An amazingly good production! Must be one of the best WWII movies.Published 13 days ago by R. D. Snyder
Outstanding movie. Great to see some of the old WW11 aircraft. Good to watch over and over again.Published 1 month ago by JC
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I'm sure many of us have heard our mother's stories that begin like, "When I was young we would lay out all day and lather ourselves in oil….we didn't ever use sunscreen." For many, this was the norm because melanomas and the dangers of unprotected sun exposure weren't as known to the public as they are now. Although we are more educated, people are still spending a lot of time in the sun and possibly doing irreparable damage that we don't know about until it's to late.
In no way am I an advocate for 'no sun baking at all." I happen to love the sun, beach vacations and the way my skin looks with a bit of bronze color. However, we know a lot more about the dangers of the sun than my mother and her peers did at the time and we need to take that extra 5-10 minutes every hour or so to make sure we are properly protected. This is also where a great sunscreen comes into play. As seen in Town & Country, this year the FDA's new sunscreen regulations are coming into effect, with a maximum of SPF 50 being available and eliminating those confusing terms such as sunblock, sweat proof and water proof. The aim is to make sun protection less confusing and more appleaing.
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CHICAGO (AP) -- The American Medical Association is putting its weight behind designating cheerleading as a sport.
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Then in 1982, at the age of 13, he starts what is considered his first serious band, Final, which was heavily influenced by the DIY punk-industrial fusion of UK proto-industrial bands like Crass, Throbbing Gristle, and Whitehouse.I formed Final after a chance meeting with another kid who was about my age, one year older, and who discovered industrial music as well," he says. "It was at a really shitty flea market in the middle of Birmingham, at a store where a bunch of ex-punk rocker guys sold a bunch of bootlegs by bands like Killing Joke, Discharge, they had a whole section of just Throbbing Gristle bootlegs. They had a Walkman there, and you could just pop in one of these cassettes and have a listen. I discovered Throbbing Gristle literally like that. And then this other kid is in there, I could tell he was about my age, and I just talked to anyone to try and relate to someone at that age. His name was Andy Swan. We just started talking and I discovered that he had a synthesizer.We were pretty heavily into the whole industrial tape culture and fanzines of the very early '80s. I discovered that is was very easy to run your own cassette label. We'd record a bunch of cassettes; I'd copy ten copies of each on a little shitty double-tape deck. I was lucky if I sold three or four via magazines. I ended up meeting a lot of people like that, from the old cassette culture and mail-in people that existed in that industrial scene for a little while.None of us could afford to press a seven-inch single. That was beyond my wildest dreams. So buying a couple of really cheap cassettes and photocopying sleeves for them was dead primitive, but pretty easy. So I had a cassette label called Post-Mortem Recordings, and I had about 50 Final releases over about a year and a half."Few of these recordings are still available today, though that may soon change. 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It's nearly laughable that this album is being marketed as "previously unreleased." Bowie's 1972 show at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is perhaps one of the most-bootlegged concerts of the rock era, seen by most fans as the ultimate statement of what Bowie offered live in the '70s. Broadcast on the radio, there was no chance for Bowie (or his label) to second-guess the performance, and therefore this concert has long overshadowed official releases like the sterile Stage (1978) and the stilted performance quality of 1974's David Live. Bootlegs aside, the album got an official (or at least semi-official) release in the '90s, thanks to the shady machinations of Bowie's former management company. So "previously unreleased" must just mean that this is the first time Bowie's been able to cash in on the show since the tickets were ripped. Regardless of its rarity or lack thereof, Santa Monica '72 is justifiably legendary and should stand as the gold standard for live recordings. Very few major rock acts have successfully captured their stage presence on disc, and Bowie — given the highly theatrical nature of this Ziggy Stardust tour — had a higher bar than most. Still, what's often overlooked about this era of Bowie performance is that it was a positively electric brand of bracing rock 'n' roll he delivered. The Spiders From Mars are in full gear here, easily enlivening tracks like "Andy Warhol" and "Life on Mars" to a level that energizes the first half of the set. By the time the show winds up with a barreling run-through of "The Jean Genie," "Suffragette City," and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide," Bowie and the Spiders are on a tear, dishing up vibrant and full-bodied rock that needs no costume — or second guesses — to validate it.


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Universal Music to back free digital music service
Vivendi's Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, has partnered with SpiralFrog, a new online music start-up that plans to allow customers to download songs for free. The advertising-supported, web-based service will initially offer Universal's complete roster and will include digital rights management technology on the tracks. The SpiralFrog service, which is expected to launch in the U.S. and Canada in December, is apparently targeting the pirated music circles rather than the iTunes Music Store. In the company's press release announcing the service, Robin Kent, SpiralFrog's CEO said: "Offering young consumers an easy-to-use alternative to pirated music sites will be compelling. SpiralFrog will offer those consumers a better experience and environment than they can get from any pirate site."
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Thats a pretty cool idea. If the quality isn't too sh…, er, crappy I might just use it (Yes, Napster Free, I'm looking at you.)
And with FairUse4WM they'll probably be able to make their way onto my iPod.. ;)
Posted by Josh Powell in VA on August 29, 2006 at 12:01 PM (CDT)
would these be mp3 files or wma? it it doesn't play on the ipod then 75% of everyone with an dap isn't going to be using it.
Posted by jm on August 29, 2006 at 12:06 PM (CDT)
I agree with jm - evidently, this music will be sold with DRM. If it works with the iPod (like the Audible files do), then great.
My money says that it will *not* be iPod compatible, though - it will probably be protected WMA or some such. Which leads to an interesting question: will Apple give licensing to this Twisted Frog company since it will sell a crapload of iPods, or are they still hoping for the day when the iTunes store rules all?
Posted by JohnHummel on August 29, 2006 at 1:11 PM (CDT)
from nyt article:
"For consumers, SpiralFrog's free downloads will come with many more strings attached than Apple's paid ones do. Users of SpiralFrog will have to sit through advertisements, and will be prevented by special software from making copies of the songs they download or from sharing them with other people.
They will have to revisit the SpiralFrog web site monthly to keep access to the music they download. And the songs will be encoded in Microsoft's WMA format, meaning they will not work on Apple iPod portable music players."
Posted by jm on August 29, 2006 at 3:56 PM (CDT)
ha ha.. another soon to bite the dust online music selling company. A lot of Joe Smoe people Have Ipods… face the facts!
Posted by psxp on August 29, 2006 at 4:45 PM (CDT)
First, Protected WMA if able to burn all you need to do is burn to CD-RW and then RIP it back as MP3. Then you can erase the CD-RW and have the song Unprotected, so it might become popular depending on the music available.
Posted by ECH on August 29, 2006 at 8:54 PM (CDT)
My experience with how people fill their ipods is that people borrow each others CDs (and DVDs) and rip their own MP3's. Or they make a DVD data DVD with about 700 MP3 songs for a friend. I don't know anyone who encodes their own music in AAC. If you look at the percent of songs that are have been sold on itunes since its inception, versus the number of ipods sold, on average an ipod owner buys well less than 100 songs. That's unlikely to change with this, Zune, etc - that is, as long as you can make copies from other people's CDs.
Posted by Low Earth Orbit on August 29, 2006 at 11:37 PM (CDT)
That's funny, I don't know anyone who DOESN'T encode their own music in AAC.
Anyway, I'm sure that these freebies won't be able to be burned to a disc.
Posted by Galley in Greenville, SC on August 30, 2006 at 1:09 AM (CDT)
192KB/s m4a right here. ive done alot of tests with my hearing and music rips and spectral views to find the best sound/space ratio for me. Check this frequency test site to see what you can hear.. http://www.ochenk.com/entry.php?id=63
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"A Remarkable Journey with an Amazing Guide"
This is a book of outstanding scholarship written with great clarity by one of the most knowledgable and trustworthy historians of the period of the late Roman empire. Brown uses the issue of wealth as a key to enter a complex social and religious world that saw the emergence of Christianity into the ancient hierarchies of power, prestige, and vast wealth that had powered the Roman empire for many centuries.
Brown's narrative is fascinating and relatively easy to follow and brings to life the variety of characters and interests of the period in a wonderfully vivid way. He leads the listener to understand the nuances of primary texts while evaluating many current debates among historians with a sure touch.
Brown writes as a person who has lived in the world he describes for many years and understands its nooks and crannies like a native. I emerged from the long journey with a tremendous sense of gratitude for Brown's guidance through an important historical period in which modern prejudices could easily distort my perceptions.
Cooper reads the book with great clarity and articulation. My only problem with the narration was that quite a number of the names of ancient people or texts or technical terms seemed mispronounced. It did not seem in keeping with the high scholarly quality of the book otherwise.
I highly recommend this work. It is very substantive and assumes that the listener has a basic knowledge of the period covered. But it certainly rewards careful listening.
"A Remarkable Engagement between Science and Theism"
This is a powerful and well written book that directly engages the fault line in western intellectual discourse between theism and naturalism that has been so disputed since the enlightenment and the amazing development of modern science. It is not a history of that development but an analytic philosophical exploration of the issues at stake in the claims of naturalism or reductive materialism and of a theistic description of reality. The arguments are clearly and forcefully presented, often complete with logical formulae, and with a clear mastery of all the technical tools of modern analytic philosophy.
Along with the forceful argument, however, there is also a self-deprecating sense of humor and a use of everyday illustrations that make Plantinga's investigation of issues easy to follow.
He argues that the fundamental character of the relationship between science and a theistic understanding of reality have been misunderstood in most recent discussion. There is no substantial conflict between science and theism, but that in fact the real conflict is between the great intellectual edifice of science and naturalism or reductive materialism.
The book is very well read and easy to follow with a few exceptions. Logical formulae do not lend themselves to being easily understood when read orally. The book requires thoughtful concentration, but well repays the effort required.
"A Good Introduction with a Point of View"
The book is well written and well read and fulfills its mission of giving an introduction to the multifaceted reality of globalization. The author is a university professor who analyzes globalization from the vantage point of understanding a developing and increasingly complex academic subject.
Although I largely agree with the author's point of view on many issues, I was disappointed that he seemed unaware how ideological his own presentation was and how he marches in step with a kind of academic-left orthodoxy that has long been in vogue in his professional context. He has definite bogeys, especially "neoliberalism" (which is usually more a term of abuse than of analysis), the idea of markets, and almost any manifestation of American politics or popular culture -- with some notable exceptions: Ralph Nader and a number of American scholars. It is striking how his descriptions of some points of view are loaded with words of scorn and condescension, while views of which he approves are described in words that glow with justice and human flourishing. All the while, seeming to give a balanced and straightforward presentation of unfolding facts.
In spite of these weaknesses, however, the book knowledgeably covers a wide range and gives a very helpful overview of the subject.
"Depth, Excellence, and Brevity Together"
This is a book that nearly perfectly accomplishes its mission.
It is written by an excellent scholar who understood Augustine and his times in depth and with genuine human and philosophical empathy. Given the vastness of Augustine's writing and influence, Chadwick is a wonderful guide to select the elements of Augustine's thought and context that are most illuminating and to bring them into interaction with each other. Chadwick is especially good in clarifying the philosophical journey of Augustine from his long formation in pagan and non-Christian contexts of thought through his conversion and to the reshaping of that formation as a Christian bishop. Chadwick knows that he cannot cover everything. He makes well thought out choices and writes with concise clarity.
The book is beautifully read by Phil Holland.
"Who wrote this book?"
This is a clearly written book that deals with complicated issues in a vivid and easy-to-understand way. It is also very clearly read. A pleasure to listen to.
The book approaches consciousness from a strictly orthodox reductive materialist viewpoint, simply writing off with little real engagement the many points of view of this subject that do not fit that orthodoxy. All other points of view of "the hard problem" etc. get tagged with the epithet, "magic."
In the end, consciousness, mind, the will, the human self, and all continuity of experience or identity are attributed to delusion -- the strictly mindless brain tricking us into thinking that we exist. Since Susan Blackmore seems to be denying her own existence, one is left wondering, who wrote the extended and rather complex argument of this book?
"Masterful Insight into Modern Theology"
The book is amazing. Dorrien takes the reader on a journey through the development of modern liberal theology full of illuminating detail in the development of ideas, biographical information on the lives, relationships, and conflicts of the theologians and philosophers involved, and description of the social context surrounding the development of this great tradition. His mastery of the material and nuanced interpretation are evident throughout. Again and again his treatments of individual theologians are superb small-scale intellectual biographies. I found his treatments of Schleiermacher, Coleridge, Strauss, Kierkegaard, and Barth especially fascinating, though others were jewels as well.
With so wide-ranging a book, focusing on both German and British traditions in the 19th and 20th centuries, there will certainly be debates and disagreements, but one could hardly ask for a better guide through this material than Dorrien has become.
I am really grateful to Audible Ltd. for bringing a book of this quality into the realm of audiobooks. I would have put off the reading of so formidable a volume, but I started listening to it, and its content captured me. It was a truly interesting journey.
The great incongruity in the experience, however, was with the reader. This is a book with the names of two German philosophers in the title! How could a reader be chosen for it who has no idea how to pronounce German (or French or Latin for that matter)? The reader has a beautiful, sonorous voice and reads smoothly and quickly. But so many names are mispronounced! And this book is full of German names. He even mispronounces "Mozart." Hasn't he even seen "Amadeus"? When he reads titles, it becomes a sport trying to figure out the German behind the garble.I especially loved the hilarious sounding "jar-bucker."
His reading of English is also very careless. He drops syllables from many longer words and often supplies the "not quite right" word into the text. He reads dialect for dialectic, cavalry for Calvary, aspirations for aspersions, revalant for relevant, "vow-shaved" for vouchsafed, and on and on and on. The simple word "piety" and related words such as pietism must occur well over a thousand times in this book. It would take only a moment to look up the pronunciation in any dictionary. But using a variety of mispronunciations, the reader mangles the words every single time they occur.
This is a long book and the reading is a persistent distraction to concentrating on its great content. It's like the great suffering one must go through to reach a worthwhile goal.
"Insight into a Mind who lives in music"
I found this short book really fascinating. Jonathan Biss is clearly a person who lives and breathes music, and even more, who experiences a kind of ecstatic interaction with music. I am not a musician, and so some parts of Biss's language went over my head. But his vivid description of his own experiences took me inside such experiences better than just about anything I've ever read. His discussions of "perfection" in the performance and the recording of music delved into interesting issues that reverberate beyond the realm of music. His discussion of the Beethoven sonatas that he is in the process of recording combined insight and delight with technical expertise.
The reading was beautifully done by Jeff Woodman with clarity and passion.
"Wisdom for Urban Churches - Deep, Wide & Practical"
I am a pastor in New York City and an admirer of Tim Keller's preaching and writing, though I've only attended Redeemer Presbyterian Church a couple of times. This lengthy book reads as a carefully assembled notebook of the accumulated wisdom of Keller (and his team) in building one of the most thriving and paradigmatic churches in New York City today. It shows clearly the depth and clarity of thought and the faith put into practice that is embodied in Keller's work. It rightly rejects the idea that others can simply take over the Redeemer model and replicate it. Rather, Keller leads the reader to think substantively about the many elements that are part of the life of an urban church with a strong center in the Gospel. It ranges widely from the content of preaching and theology, to issues of interaction with secular culture, to diversity in worship styles, and many other topics.
While I think that the book will be most relevant to those who are directly involved in ministry, it will also provide a thoughtful journey through urban church life to anyone who reads it.
Tom Parks does an excellent job reading the book. I highly recommend it.
"Clear and Well Balanced"
The issues in philosophy of mind are some of the most challenging and important to our understanding of ourselves as human beings that one can imagine. Are our minds illusions, our thoughts determined? Do we have free will? Prof. Pessin's lectures present the issues and principal voices in this field with clarity. He aims to let the great variety of points of view be understood on their own terms. He carefully provides the listener with resources for grasping both the excitement of the field and the difficult choices to be made.
"I want to know more"
I started listening to this series of lectures with a bit of a guilty feeling that I ought to know more about the subject. I came away enthusiastically desiring to learn more. Dr. Drout is a clearly knowledgable scholar with an unabashed love of scholarship in his field of study and an ability to communicate what is interesting, intriguing, and humane in the people, events, and literature he teaches. He helps us beginners with effective mnemonic devices and clear organization while giving us glimpses of the complexities and uncertainties behind the story. His mastery of the subject has led to a love of it that comes across to and into the listener.
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Hi all. Since Friday I've tried about 6 bottles of my 2nd beer, a Karl's 90 schilling from northern Brewing. It's not very carbonated, despite 3 weeks conditioning. I know that time will help to solve that, but have another question. Could the caps prevent full carbing? I have noticed with every bottle that the cap comes off easier than my previous batch or any of the store bought beers I drink. Could this be the problem? The type of caps used?
Sorry if this is somewhat incoherent, I'm posting from my telephone.
I used the same wing capper as my first batch, which carbonated fine. For the first batch, I used a bunch of old Sam Adams homebrew competition caps that were leftover from my dad's last batch (in 1999). That batch was a Brewers best kit, so It came with caps as well. I used the BB caps this time in order to differentiate the 2 batches.
Is it possible that one brand of caps are inferior to another? Has anyone experienced anything similar?
My first batch never carbonated. I used 10 year old caps & a 10 year old wing style capper. Even though the caps seemed tight, in guessing they didn't completely seal. There was sediment at the bottom of the bottle, so I'm guessing the yeast consumed the priming sugar, bit the resulting co2 was able to escape.
Also, I recently used new brewers best caps & a newer capper & the beer carbed up perfectly.
Conditioned at room temperature in the basement, where it stays about 72-74.
I used the priming sugar that was prepackaged in the kit, I believe it was 5 ounces.
I boiled the priming sugar in however much water was suggested on the directions, then poured it in the bottling bucket just prior to siphoning the beer into the bucket. I had read that this helps to mix it up, but I figured I'd stir it up once all the beer was in the bucket. About 5 beers into bottling (no caps yet) I realized that I hadn't stirred it, so I poured those five back into the bottling bucket and stirred it all up. I figure that wouldn't make a difference.
Again, there is a little carbonation, but not why I would expect at 3 weeks of conditioning.
Im assuming your using pop top bottles and not screw tops. You said theyre coming off easier than the other beers you've had recently. Are they making a pop or fizz noise when you take them off? If they are then that means there is pressure built up, if you refrigerate the bottles before opening some of the co2 in the bottle will be absorbed back into the beer, potentially improving your situation.
But then again, I don't know because I don't know all the details.
But you did suggest that they are somewhat carbonated so I don't think its a capping problem otherwise I think they would just be flat. You should probably give it more time, an start your third batch if you haven't already. My fifth batch took 10 weeks to carbonate. I was gonna dump them but I never got around to it. By the end of the summer I cracked one open and they were perfect. It was the houblonmonstre ipa kit from northern brewer. Long story short, RDWHAHB. Things don't always happen on the timeline we expect them to
I recently ran into the same carbonating problem with both a stout and imperial stout; one moderate and one high gravity beer. I used some new gold caps with my Colonna capper. After 5 weeks of conditioning at 70 degrees, at least 50% of the beers were either completely or mostly flat. After carefully inspecting the caps, I noticed a kind of taco shell crimp in the caps. Although very slight and barely noticeable, I can only assume that this crimp is causing a leak. I have pitched the remaining caps and am going back to the reliable BB crowns which I just used for my Belgian Tripel with no crimping. I can only assume that the gold caps were slightly larger in circumference, thus causing the crimping issue....I bought them through Amazon so who knows. Just be careful with buying caps from a place other than a brew shop or on-line distributor.
a suggestion from my Jedi Master/ LHBS owner
"Why must it always be pandemonium?" - George Mueller/Nelson Van Alden
"Beer. Good." - Words of House Grogdrinking: Wojtkowiak Piwo, CLB's Barleywine, 8Hearted Pale Ale, O'Rob's Dry Irish Stout, DB8PT Session Ale, Wojtkowiak Grodziskie - bottle conditioning: Otto M. Gourd Pumpkin Barleywine, Jewel Thieves Apple Wine, CLB's Barleywine 1.2


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In a world of text, humans experiment with different ways of conveying emotion
Quakebot allows journalists to break news in their sleep
Terry Pratchett's Raising Steam, out in the USA today
Terry Pratchett's Raising Steam, the 40th Discworld novel, comes out in the US today. I reviewed it back in November for the UK release; here's what I had to say then: it's a tremendous synthesis of everything that makes Pratchett one of the world's most delightful writers. It's a curious thing: a fantasy novel about modernity and reactionaries, a synthesis of technological optimism and a curious sort of romantic mysticism.
Robot fish and the dawn of "soft robots"
MIT engineers are developing "soft robots" with bodies made of silicone that is actuated by fluid flowing through veins in the material. They've just demonstrated a soft robotic fish.
"As robots penetrate the physical world and start interacting with people more and more, it's much easier to make robots safe if their bodies are so wonderfully soft that there's no danger if they whack you," says Daniela Rus, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Delhi police lost password for complaints portal in 2006, haven't checked it since
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The Delhi police lost the password for a portal that hosted complaints that had been passed on by the Central Vigilance Commission after an initial vetting. 667 complaints had been judged serious enough to be passed onto the police since the password was lost in 2006, but none have been acted upon, because no one had the password. Now they have the password. Presumably, the 667 unserved complainants believed the police to be either too slow or incompetent to have gotten back to them.
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Guy who "fixed" women's computers spied through their webcams
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A London court has found a man named Andrew Meldrum guilty of "unauthorised access to computer material" and "voyeurism." Meldrum "helped" young women fix their computers and covertly installed snoopware on them, and subsequently spied on them via their webcams. He is to be sentenced in April. A forensics expert claims that this sort of thing is "very common."
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Coderdojo: global network of self-directed hacker schools for kids
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Glenn sez, "An Irish programmer started with a club in Cork to teach (at no cost) kids aged 5 to 17 how to program. It was such a hit that it's expanded to hundred of cities across 27 countries. CoderDojo has a template that includes self-directed learning with mentors on tap to help out. The notion is to provide kids a productive outlet. Among its successes is an average participation split about halfway between girls and boys in most chapters."
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The underwater spacesuit that's going to revolutionize ocean research
Ye olde history of perpetual motion machines
Cambridge science historian Simon Schaffer researched the history of quack science's most iconic device, the perpetual motion machine. Cabinet magazine's Christopher Turner recently interviewed Schaffer about one famed demonstration from 1721, and the, er, perpetual attraction of such devices to this day.
Spin Doctors: An Interview with Simon Schaffer (Cabinet)
And here's the abstract for Schaffer's scholarly paper (behind a paywall): "The show that never ends: perpetual motion in the early eighteenth century"
Ukraine security forces torch #euromaidan's IT tent, kill journalist, beat tech protester to near-death
Protesters in Kiev's #Euromaidan camp report that yesterday's horrific violence -- which saw at least 25 protesters killed by police -- has continued to escalate. The #IT_Namet tent -- a fixture in Euromaidan, offering nonviolent IT support to protesters and journalists -- was targeted by government security forces who burned it to the ground, beating Alexei Lymarenko, one of the tent's volunteers to a state of near death. A journalist, Veremei Vyacheslav, was killed by police.
Here is a statement released by IT_Namet, asking the international technology community to support their efforts:
"From the very beginning #IT_Namet was built with the aim of a peaceful protest. Members of the IT-community never had weapons, except for tablets and smartphones connected to the Internet. So, the real purpose of security forces actions was not anti-terrorism, as it was claimed, but the destruction of unarmed people. We regret that tonight IT professional Lymarenko Alexei suffered. He was together with Ukrainian journalist Vyacheslav Veremei. Vyacheslav was killed, and Alex, who was beaten nearly to death, has serious traumas of his face. Although # IT_Namet was destroyed tonight, our beliefs and our support for peaceful protest remained unchanged. The "IT spіlnota" (IT community), which united people representing the IT industry, is expanding its activity beyond # IT_Namet. "IT spіlnota" will set out to spot the violence of authorities, to save people's lives. Now every member of the IT-community can itself make his/her choice on the tools to protect their rights and the rights of people who yesterday were violated by their summary execution. We highly appreciate any actual support of IT-community abroad."
Tech Protester in Kiev Badly Beaten, Journalist Killed, As 'IT Tent' Is Burned By Police [Mike Butcher/Tech Crunch]
See also: EuroMaidan: a Facebook revolution in the streets of Kiev
The Knowledge Box: psychedelic education enviro from 1962
Above is designer Ken Isaacs inside his Knowledge Box, a 1962 invention meant to educate students through "a rapid procession of thoughts and ideas projected on walls, ceilings and floor in a panoply of pictures, words and light patterns." At right, technicians work on the slide projectors that project the imagery inside the box. More over at LIFE.
Micro-windmills could someday power your phone
Above is a micro-windmill that University of Texas Arlington researchers suggest could someday be used to charge mobile electronics if they were embedded en masse on the device's case. The MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) are fabricated using recesses similar to the way integrated circuits are manufactured combined with origami-like self-assembly techniques.
"Imagine that they can be cheaply made on the surfaces of portable electronics," says researcher Smitha Rao. "When the phone is out of battery power, all you need to do is to put on the sleeve, wave the phone in the air for a few minutes and you can use the phone again." She adds that eventually, flat panels coated with the windmills could be mounted to buildings to harvest energy for sensor networks, wireless communications, lighting or other purposes.
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California Assembly approves bills limiting use of drones by police, public agencies
In California, state assembly lawmakers approved a number of bills today, including a measure to limit how law enforcement and public agencies can use drones:
The bill, by Assemblymembers Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo), Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) and Bill Quirk (D-Hayward), would require public agencies to destroy data collected by drones within six months and would ban the weaponization of drones in California.
It also would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant to use a drone, except in certain emergency situations.
More: California Assembly approves limits on drones, paparazzi - latimes.com.
Lovecraftian rant about the horrors of Blackboard
Anyone who's ever had the misfortune to attend or work at an academic institution that uses the horrible classroom software Blackboard knows that it is a worse-than-useless exercise in technological sadism that is responsible for more pain and suffering than practically any other technology in educational history. But it takes the eloquence of Dave Noon's epic, Lovecraftian rant to truly express the loathing that Blackboard inspires in its users: "After generations of dry-throated croaking and lung-starched wheezing, their tongues swollen with thirst and punctured with abscesses that never heal, these distant people will bring forth a new language to survey the boundaries of their pain."
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Podcast: Digital failures are inevitable, but we need them to be graceful
Here's a reading of my latest Guardian column, Digital failures are inevitable, but we need them to be graceful, about the social and political factors that make all the difference when choosing technologies.
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Home / Fall/Winter 2013
The talented Matthew Daniel Siskin's journey to the top of the design community started at a summer program at Parsons The New School for Design at the cusp of his adolescence.
Menswear can be very tricky. Walking a fine line of pushing the design creatively enough while still remaining functional enough to make people want to buy and wear the clothes.


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Autumn is leave-ing
November is a grey month, so you have to look hard for colour.
I found it here
In a red leaf with rain in the background.
A flash of gold
Reminds me that we have to hang on
And have hope at this time of year.
In the right light,
Even an ageing leaf
Can look like a stained glass window.
"Don't leaf me!" Ruby seems to be saying,
As we wave farewell to autumn.
To turn over a new leaf, please visit: Our World.
Flambéed skies
Take a sky in Venice:
Add fire,
Flambé the clouds
And enjoy the strawberry glaze
Of a beautiful sunset.
For more vivid skies, please visit: Skywatch.
Autumn went by in the blink of an eye,
But before it disappeared, it left some dewy gifts:
Yellow suns,
A spent sunflower
Adorned with a spider's web,
A glorious necklace of dewdrops
On soft petals,
Hot pink
Rainy flowers,
And a dreamy
Pink tutu.
For more beauty, please visit: Our World.
Venetian skies
My daughter and I have just enjoyed five magical days in Venice.
I haven't had time to sort through my many photos, but I love the skies I managed to captured on my mobile phone.
The early mornings
Were often dazzling and golden;
And sometimes the quiet back streets
Offered up gifts of moody clouds
And beautiful views.
For more gorgeous skies, please visit: Skywatch.
Wide horizons
Part of the joy of life
Is broadening our horizons, seeing new skies
And experiencing new things.
Here's a London view:
Travel is a great way of doing this –
And of discovering that our little part of the world
Isn't the centre of things.
Travel helps us discover that there isn't only one way of doing things –
But many ways.
Here's a New York view:
For that reason, my daughter and I
Are leaving the cozy horizons of Stockholm –
Known as 'The Venice of the North' –
(See photo below)
For the real Venice in Italy.
Can't wait!
(Back next week – so I might not be able to visit you all.)
In the meantime, please visit: Skywatch for great skies
And Our World, for a glimpse into new discoveries.
Autumn is a time of exuberant energy –
It's quite zensational, in fact.
The golden coins of leaves
Hang like happy suns in the trees;
The light in the woods
Is magical.
Everywhere you go,
You can see flying leaves
(Those black dots aren't dirt, they are leaves!)
And beautiful views.
And the best thing about autumn
Is that you're never too old
To frolic in the leaves.
For more joy, please visit: Our World.
Autumn is a glowing time of year:
When trees glow
And leaves catch fire.
It's a joyful time
Of dewy play
And swans
Showing off their families on the local lake.
And, if you're lucky,
You can catch frosted jewels
Among the leaves.
For more glowing pictures, please visit: Our World.
Rainbow wishes
The golden evening light of late summer
Transforms even the humblest of flowers
Into works of art:
From downy pillows of fluff
To small wishes ready for take off.
And if you're lucky,
You might even see a dandelion rainbow.
For more wishes, please visit: Our World Tuesday.
Lone umbrella sky
The lone umbrella
Speaks of a jetty well used;
Of summer picnics and laughter.
But now, in this glorious moment
Of mist and clouds
And pink abstract –
It speaks of the peace of an early dawn.
For more peaceful moments, please go to: Skywatch.
Birds on a wire
I'm still in England –
And probably enjoying a view like this one over the Sussex countryside.
I just love the lamps, the birds
And the golden tapestry of the field behind.
For more golden moments, please visit: Skywatch. And I apologize in advance for not being able to visit you.


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Domestic Violence Can Happen to Anyone
Tomorrow, September 13th, marks the 20th anniversary of the Violence Against Women's Act (VAWA). This act provides $1.6 billion to fund the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence, and it offers federal protections for victims. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court threw out the portion of … Continue reading
Closing the Coverage Gap – Pennsylvania Could Open Door For Texas
Last week, CMS approved a waiver that will allow Pennsylvania to expand their Medicaid program to cover adults up to 138% of the federal poverty level, but with a slight twist: beneficiaries over 100% of the federal poverty level will be responsible … Continue reading
Texas School Finance System Ruled Unconstitutional
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McHenry County Board member Mike Walkup has identified a problem that resulted from taking the unpopular RV, boat, snowmobile storage restrictions out of the proposed new zoning ordinance. You can see what was voted down below: Walkup's observations are below: … Continue reading
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On my way to McHenry County Board member John Hammerand's fundraiser, I saw another Liberty Outdoor billboard advising voters who vote for Democrat Jack Franks that they are voting for House Speaker Mike Madigan to continue his reign over the … Continue reading
Last Thursday Bill Prim's campaign for McHenry County Sheriff held a fundraiser at the Red Mill Inn. This has been a place frequented by Sheriff's Deputies since 1966-1970 Sheriff John Carroll bought the place. Now it's owner is fully on … Continue reading
Today I went to the 8:30 AM meeting of the McHenry County Board's Public Health Committee. Lots of interesting information surfaced as budgets from various departments were outlined. During the public comment time, I asked for an explanation of the … Continue reading
The debate on Tuesday about housing Federal prisoners in the McHenry County Jail started with Law & Justice Committee Chairman Sue Draffkorn trying to set the terms of debate. With regard to the ten-year agreement with the Feds, Draffkorn pointed … Continue reading
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Today the McHenry County Board approved Phase II of the probably the biggest capital improvement project in McHenry County history. The vote was 15-7, with Michele Aavang, Yvonne Barnes, Diane Evertsen, John Hammerand, Donna Kurtz, Ersel Schuster and Michael Walkup … Continue reading
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