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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
I'd rather be spied on by ...
Inspector Clouseau (Score:5, Funny)by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @01:27PM (#45402499)
Inspector Clouseau
Re:Inspector Clouseau (Score:5, Insightful)
I believe everything and I believe nothing. I suspect everyone and I suspect no one.
Missing Option (Score:4, Funny)by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @01:37PM (#45402659)I don't need anyone to spy on me! I have a webcam show, where I expose everything!
Gotta Go With Cuba (Score:5, Insightful)Because quite frankly, what the hell could they do with any info they gathered about me? Exploit it for propaganda purposes?
Re:Gotta Go With Cuba (Score:4, Interesting)by Alternate Interior (725192) <email@example.com> on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @04:46PM (#45405033) Homepage
I picked Cuba, because, what with their meager resources, it's validation of mattering. It'd almost be an honor to be monitored by them. Plus, you know, interrogations on the Caribbean beach. I'm sure that it's JUST like that.
Yeah, I went with Cuba too, but for different reasons.
Look at how much resource the NSA has, or the Ministry of State Security... Now compare those to Cuba. I'd rather people spying on me were resource poor.
Proud to be an American! (Score:2, Insightful)
As a 3rd generation American citizen I would rather be spied on by the USA than any other country. Besides, nothing surprising has been revealed about what the NSA was doing, it's all been known for decades. New medium, same old spying. You would have to be under 30 or been sheltered from the nightly news the last 20 years to not know that governement agencies tap into everything from phones to snail mail and all digital variations there of. Kids these days...
I was actually perfectly aware that it was very likely happening. What of it? That doesn't make it okay. No one notable bothers to make the argument that it's surprising; they just say that it's morally wrong and unconstitutional.
Besides, nothing surprising has been revealed about what the NSA was doing, it's all been known for decades. New medium, same old spying.
Do not let anybody tell you that. We didn't know the detailed picture of what is happening today. We didn't know about the very extensive Internet wiretapping of NSA. We didn't know about PRISM, we didn't know about XKeyScore and various other tools. We didn't know about NSA infiltrating to standardization bodies to weaken cryptographic algorithms. And so on.
by whitroth (9367) <whitroth.5-cent@us> on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @01:47PM (#45402825) Homepage
Well, if we can choose who we'll be spied on by....
I heard she has a cabin in the woods for doing that.
The two main criteria for choosing someone to spy on you would be that they are as close to powerless to affect you as possible, and don't share information with anyone more able to exert power on you. Some tiny country I know little about but the name and approximate location is probably going to be the best answer.
Cuba is the least threat. That must be why the U.S. government won't allow U.S. tourists to visit Cuba.
they just don't want protests at gitmo. they want to be the only american customer of cuba you see, keeps the beachfront property pricing down.
Missing Options (Score:5, Funny)by NoNonAlphaCharsHere (2201864) on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @01:56PM (#45402959)_ Google
_ Facebook
_ The Dream Police
_ Google _ Facebook _ The Dream Police
That doesn't work. Here's why: Google + Facebook data are 100% accessible by the NSA, which is a choice on the original list. And, Cheap Trick sucks, so The Dream Police is disqualified.
by Infiniti2000 (1720222) on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @02:01PM (#45403047)What a stupid fucking poll. This poll will do nothing but troll for trolls to disparage the various countries listed, regardless of whether they're deserving or not.
Re:Damn it (Score:5, Informative)Yep, it's almost as if they didn't put any thought into it.
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A link for those who don't know who Mrs. Grundy [wikipedia.org] is.
Ik mis de Mossad (slashdot y u no unicode)
I was wondering why they left Mossad out. Glad I'm not the only one.
Re:Ik mis de Mossad (Score:5, Funny)by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @03:28PM (#45404143)
They are too effective. They hacked slashdot and removed the option. Your post will soon disappear.
Mossad is so good that they were treated as a given and thus left off the list.
It's not like you have a choice - you're probably at risk of being spied on by the NSA wherever you are.
Missing option (and most likely).
All of them.
would be a compliment.
by 93 Escort Wagon (326346) on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @03:42PM (#45404313)
"You know who..." (Score:4, Insightful)
If ever there were a poll that just screamed out for a Cowboy Neil option it is this one.
Possible options:
Cowboy Neil already spies on me.
Cowboy Neil spies on the NSA for me.
Cowboy Neil shields me from the NSA.
Cowboy Neil configured TOR for me.
I'll vote for the Royal Bhutanese Police's Investigative Division
You don't get to pick which state agencies are spying on you. The reality is that it's probably all of the above plus a bunch of other ones that aren't listed.
Going along with some of the comments - you do maybe have a choice in some of the other entities that are spying on you (Google, MSFT, Facebook, etc.) The question is whether you want to avoid all useful Internet services in the interest of your own privacy. Bottom line - if you're accessing something, someone is recording that access and probably
The enemy of your enemy is your friend. And since Snowden informed us that the US Government is our enemy, I have been more and more fond of Russia. As a die hard patriotic and politically conservative citizen, I've had to admit to myself that my patriotism is for the American people. Not for the government.
And in that vector, Putin has been more beneficial and friendly to the average American in the last few years than the sitting government of the US.
I have to vote for Russia. Classic spy agency that does well in the movies.
So you chose the turd sandwich over the giant douche. Congrats.
Oh the irony. When I went to vote it had been voted on 1984 times! http://michaelwigle.info/Images/1984Times.png [michaelwigle.info]
Yeah, but "Oh the coincidence" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
My thoughts exactly!
... I would advise any agency against spying on me. The best possible outcome for them is losing a few agents to terminal boredom.
I've ALREADY been spied on by at least one of those agencies, and not by choice!
The Guild of Calamitous Intent.
by businessnerd (1009815) on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @05:44PM (#45405787)I picked Canada, because as your average boring non-resident, I feel that if Canada felt the need to go to all of the effort to spy on me specifically, then I must be doing something of great significance in the world. This of course is based on the assumption that Canada doesn't have a blanket policy to spy on everyone. We know the US spies on everyone, so being spied on by them isn't so special. Russia I can assume also probably spies on as many people as they can, maybe with a little cold war affinity for spying on Americans, so even though it is a little bad-ass to have Russia's attention, still nothing too special. Same goes for China and Cuba. With the UK, while they probably are a similar case to the US (probably a bit envious), I wouldn't want them spying on me at all. Too much risk of their agents seducing my wife.
Who gains anything from spying on me? Foreign agencies don't have any cause to - I'm not employed in anything remotely resembling defense or espionage, and I've done nothing that would flag me as an enemy of any state (besides make snarky comments about most of them).
So that leaves my own government. I don't have access to anything even marginally classified, not even the newspaper job postings. So I'm not likely to be an enemy spy. I've not made any preparations to do anything against the US government, be
Some govs just like to be able to rewind your digital life if you ever become political or your boss lands in court or you protest or are seen near a protest or gave money to a charity or read the wrong books...
As for tax payers money its win win win, the political leaders get warnings about the press/sources, the contractors get paid to help watch you, the gov agencies get huge new budgets and domestic powers.
If they kept it within reasonable limits, that would be fine.
I fail to understand how violating people's rights would ever be fine or reasonable. I just can't agree with that.
The fact that
O! I forgot about that Snowden fellow.
So I'm picking between the US/UK/Canadian signals intelligence, and the Russian security service? I'll go with the sigint guys.
Spetssvyaz is the Russian communications security agency (part of FSO).
Why is CSE (Canada) so high? (Score:5, Funny)
Just curious, but why is the Canadian option so high? (I'm a Canadian).
Does our reputation for being polite make people think our spying is also polite? Like, maybe you get a note indicating you're being spied on, along with a poutine and a tim horton's coffee?
Or does everyone just think/know that our intelligence agencies are rather harmless...
Or does everyone just think/know that our intelligence agencies are rather harmless...
Probably less about your intelligence agencies (or perceptions thereof) and more about your specops boys (or perceptions thereof). If one doesn't set foot in either USA or Canadian territory, one seems a lot more likely to be assassinated by the US than Canada. (Though the recent feats of Furlong [wikipedia.org] and Perry [wikipedia.org] make this a dubious assumption -- Canadians may not do as much killing as Americans, but some of them are certainly very, very good at it.)
That said, if I were doing something that made me think any natio
Yes - they are (perceived as ) less likely to use information in a dastardly, illegal way, Horton's or no Horton's. Their capabilities and misuses are assumed to be less. It is sort of the same reason I purport to be Canadian when I travel throughout Europe rather than announcing myself as American, which keeps everyone I run across friendly and helpful rather than dismissive or overly guarded.
Because the Canadians were the only ones good enough to find the President's analyst [wikipedia.org].
https://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/ [csis-scrs.gc.ca] [csis-scrs.gc.ca]
CSIS is the actual spy agency. Not sure exactly what CSE is, which is a bit unnerving.
On one hand, it seems they didn't come into existence until 2001, under the anti-terrorism act. Great. Who knew about that.
On the other reading their bio, it doesn't seem so bad. Crypto, signals collection (which everyone does anyway), consults other government to secure systems against intrusion (which is a good thing), advises government on this sort of stuff for decision mak
The USA, because they are bound by laws and the constitution. Since they must follow the Bill of Rights, you know they aren't going to spy on you or act on any intelligence (false positive or otherwise) without proper due process.
Other countries' intelligence agencies, on the other hand, will swoop you up in the dead of night from a foreign country and send you off to a prison camp where you will be tortured, or their law enforcement agencies could coerce you into admitting to a crime you didn't commit by threatening to send you off to that prison camp, all in the name of fighting terrorism when really some stooge just wants to check the box next to "case closed." According to my high school social studies teacher, the good ol' USA would never commit such atrocities.
I am assuming that whole post should have been modded up +5 Funny, but for those that don't get the sarcasm it represents I would like to add my two cents to the mix.
Let alone the fact that the good old US of A violates the Bill of Rights, the Geneva Convention and a whole slew of international and sensible treaties on Human rights and rights in general faster than you'd be able to say porridge, I must also point out the sheer arrogance of many US citizens when they indeed trumpet their nation as the birthp
I am much much more worried about what companies know about me than I ever will be about the government.
Bhutin Urhava was next. The list is long.
If you are being spied upon by CSEC or GCHQ, you are being spied by the NSA - and the Aussies and the Kiwis - and vice versa.
Reading about ECHELON left as an exercise for the reader.
French DGSE is missing option, and we know it joined the fest [theguardian.com]. Surprisingly, that caused almost no reaction, as french are busy hating their government for many other reasons right now.
No one is interested in spying on me you insensitive clod!
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
All of the above.
With a few exceptions they're all collecting data about everyone they can and some are sharing it with the others.
WTF is CSE?
I thought the Canadian Spy Agency was CSIS?
https://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/ [csis-scrs.gc.ca]
I guess Canada spy agency is so super secretive that no one even knows their name! Not even slashdot, whom we all know are held to such a high standard of journalism and research. Unless this is some joke that is whooshing over me right now in regards to CSE....
In a fun related note, I had a friend in college that had his voice mail say; "Hi you've reached CSIS, we are currently not available, but if you leave your shoe size,
They are the least likely to share information with my own government. They also have no interest in anything that I do.
I really do not care who spies on me as long as they have no power or influence over me.
[ ] None of the above.
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After a years-long process to restructure the way it handles what has so far been a mostly-outsourced IT operation, the Department of the Navy has picked a team led by Hewlett Packard as the winner of its new multi-billion dollar Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) contract.
In choosing HP, the Navy and Marine Corps opted to continue a long relationship with the company, which has owned and operated the two services' networks for more than a decade under a construct called the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), the largest outsourced IT operation in the federal government's history.
Under the contract officials announced Thursday evening, HP is being awarded up to $3.5 billion over five years, starting with a first-year base period worth $322 million. The contract also requires HP to subcontract at least 35 percent of its work to small businesses.
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"Anybody who concludes that only the incumbent could have won this contract is using a pretty shallow analysis," he said. "Because the incumbent here is not the incumbent. Hewlett Packard is leading a team, but it's a different team from the NMCI team. HP reshaped itself for NGEN. It was a very tight competition, and I believe we got the very best of U.S. industry at the table for this."
Between the two consortia, the Navy got a total of seven offers. That's because it asked industry to submit proposals in two separate IT categories — enterprise services and transport services. Each group offered bids in varying combinations, but the Navy ultimately picked HP for both on the basis of the terms it set out from the beginning of the source selection: lowest-price technically acceptable.
Stackley said both teams submitted offers that met the Navy's minimum standards, and HP won strictly on the basis of price.
"The bottom line is we got what we aimed for," he said. "We arrived at a contract award that ensures that we hold onto the security we've got inside NMCI, but also lets us address the future cyber threat in a rapid fashion. And we've now got a contractual environment that gives us far greater agility in terms of moving forward on the network."
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Stackley said the process dragged out for several years because unraveling NMCI was an incredibly complicated task, since the Navy had limited visibility into how its own IT network was structured. He said one of the main benefits of NGEN will be to make future competitions easier to conduct.
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They endure thousands of miles of grueling pain and exhaustion that would crush lesser souls. Their hearts squeeze blood nearly a million times, and their legs generate enough cumulative watts of power to light an entire city. They are the elite who compete in the ultimate test of human endurance, the Tour de France. This special edition eyewear honors the riders of cycling's greatest competition.
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For most developers, long gone are the days of programming in a good old text editor. Now has come the age of modern and flashy IDEs and yet Maven propose a basic command line-based tool. After all the money and time we invested into incorporating this IDE in our development process, you expect us to dump it? Are you insane? There is no way I can live one day without this great refactor menu. Relax, all the dirty work has already been done. Maven can collaborate elegantly with most IDEs and there is significant work in progress to integrate it directly in IDE's interface, which mean you can still use your tools and Maven at the same time. Isn't that cool ?
This trail explains the basic of using Maven in conjunction with your favorite IDE. We suggest you to read all of the general lessons which are appropriate to any IDE users and then to proceed to the one's concerning your favorite tool.
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Since the launch of the DxOMark website, many debates have arisen about ISO sensitivity: Some manufacturers were accused of cheating, the ISO sensitivity measured by DxOMark was claimed to be meaningless for photographers. The DxOMark team would like to clarify certain points.
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Welcome to the Academic Support Center! We believe that "the community of learners is made richer through the contributions of all students." To that end we make every effort to address individual student needs through a variety of general academic support services.
The ASC is also the designated Disability Office at Gordon; as such, we promote accessibility and support for students with documented disabilities. We value the role of each student as collaborators in Gordon's living-learning environment.
Whether it's through tutoring, workshops, academic accommodations or one-to-one advising, the ASC is here to serve you and to help make your Gordon experience all that it can be.
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2014 ASC Bookmark Award
The ninth annual ASC Bookmark Award was presented to Barry Loy at the ASC Appreciation Brunch. Each year the ASC chooses a professor or staff member who, based on staff observation and student feedback, embodies and supports the ASC mission, demonstrates excellence in their discipline, is able to support and encourage a diversity of learners.
The bookmarks are then given as an appreciation gift to tutors and others who have worked with the ASC during the current academic year, and are also displayed in the ASC. Barry joins a group of esteemed colleagues reaching back to 2006; past recipients include Marv Wilson, Dorothy Boorse, Peter Stine, Peggy Hothem, Ted Hildebrandt, Lori Ambacher, Graeme Bird and Kaye Cook.
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ExpandoMetaClass - Dynamic method/property name creation
Since Groovy allows you to use Strings as property names this in turns allows you to dynamically create method and property names at runtime.
The Basics
To create a method with a dynamic name simply use Groovy's feature of reference property names as strings. You can combine this with Groovy's string interpolation (Gstrings) to create method and property names on the fly:
The same concept can be applied to static methods and properties.
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In Grails we have a concept of dynamic codecs, classes that can encode and decode data.
These classes are called HTMLCodec, JavaScriptCodec etc. an example of which can be seen below:
So what we do with these classes is to evaluate the convention and add "encodeAsXXX" methods to every object based on the first part of the name of the codec class such as "encodeAsHTML". The pseudo code to achieve this is below:
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Tru-Dot models offer a handgun sighting system for improved rapid instinctive aiming which requires no transition from day to night use. Day and night, the shooter's aiming reference are three solid dots, identical in appearance and location under all light conditions. Withstand prolonged immersion in commonly used solvents and cleaning compounds.
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Fitness professionals and personal trainers who are interested incorporating the stability ball into balance and strength training programs will discover this course provides a solid foundation. Based on the Stability Ball Training book and ACE's Guide to Stability Ball Training video, this course covers the exercise science associated with this type of training and explains how to modify your programs to suit a variety of special populations. Both personal training programs and group fitness classes are discussed. Stability Ball Training also provides creative programming ideas for various types of workouts, including core and balance training and strength training on the ball. The 49-minute video presents a detailed review of how to safely and effectively employ the stability ball in an exercise program, and includes a class demonstration appropriate for all skill levels. Upon completion of this course, you will have an understanding of the applied exercise science behind the stability ball and be able to design various class formats using this versatile piece of equipment. You will also be able to incorporate modifications for various special populations and fitness levels. Earn 0.4 Continuing Education Credits by submitting the 20-question test with a score of 70% or higher along with a $15 processing fee ($25 for those without a current ACE certification). Sorry, no refunds or exchanges on this product.
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It's easy to open any jar, even ones with stubborn lids, with the Gripper! Place it over the lid, turn the knob for a snug fit and twist. Lids come off effortlessly! Features a built-in bottle opener, too. Fits lids up to 3 1/2"D. Ideal for those with arthritis and dexterity problems. Metal. 9 1/2"L.
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Is it possible that Venus is more of a sister planet than
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A witty cultural and culinary education, Immoveable Feast is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white breadand didn't speak a word of Frenchunexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the annual Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family.
Ernest Hemingway called Paris "a moveable feast"a city ready to embrace you at any time in life. For Los Angelesbased film critic John Baxter, that moment came when he fell in love with a French woman and impulsively moved to Paris to marry her. As a test of his love, his skeptical in-laws charged him with cooking the next Christmas banquetfor eighteen people in their ancestral country home. Baxter's memoir of his yearlong quest takes readers along his misadventures and delicious triumphs as he visits the farthest corners of France in search of the country's best recipes and ingredients. Irresistible and fascinating, Immoveable Feast is a warmhearted tale of good food, romance, family, and the Christmas spirit, Parisian style.
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One of the highest callings we have as hominids is to try to mitigate suffering where we find it.
WHAT!!!??? For a nihilist, that statement is tantamount to denying the faith. You have no "calling" whatsoever.
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If nothing has any purpose, then why get all worked up about it?
Not caring about the meaninglessness and purposelessness of the universe, THAT is nihilism. This depressive goth shit is just ego-mongering and gives nihilists and nihilism a bad image.
You give nihilism a bad name by caring about anything at all. Why does anything even register on your emotional scale (or any other scales that you may have)? The very fact that you had some urge to mitigate H's perceived suffering indicates that the imago dei is still hanging on to life even in the darkness of your soul, clutching to some dried-up tendril of your black heart. Some Python actor down there is still crying out "I'm not dead yet" even as he rolls around in the shit you claim not to give about anything. You DO give a shit, and that undermines your entire argument, you ole' softy, you.


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The expertise of our people provides creative and sustainable services in engineering, consulting, surveys and design. Our core competencies are Urban planning, Buildings, Industry and Bridges. We take pride in our people, the 350 experts, all over Finland. WSP in Finland is a part of the global WSP, employing 31.000 experts in over 500 offices.
We provide comprehensive design and expert services in bridges and special construction design for bridges of different sizes. We specialise in the design of pre-stressed, composite and cable stayed bridges.
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The Tange-Seiki Levin CDS 1" threaded headset is constructed of steel and features 5/32" ball bearings.
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great headset for the money. it looks great, its sturdy and it was easy to install. i did need to get a spacer to make it work, but that was more an issue with my fork. although its pretty sturdy and runs smoothly, i wouldnt use it for anything you plan on riding really hard. fixies, and townies is what this headset was made for.
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Used this on a road bike build. Great fit and finish. The races that go into the frame are also nice metal not chromed cheap stuff you see on a lot of cheaper headsets. If you are looking for unsealed go for this.
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The 30.2mm cups in this headset don't fit JIS frames.JIS cups are 30mm!
Only the 27mm crown race will fit.
I learned the hard way like many others and now have a useless headset I can't use.
Other companys in North America are also selling so called JIS headsets with 30.2mm cups and 27mm crown races.
This is wrong and dishonest.
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Restoring this bicycle has been a long process. This Headset was so hard to find. I still have much more to do in this restoration. Everything in the stores are different tech' or wrong size. That's why I chose JensonUSA. Don't forget the Grease/Lube for the Ball Bearings.
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After repeatedly trying to squish the races into my steerer tube and failing miserably I read Sheldon's headset page again and measured my old races. Sure enough they were 30.0 and my head tube was 29.9. The 27.0 version will not work on a JIS bike ( except for the fork race which fits fine) . These bearings seemed to fit into my old headset just fine, and the new top threaded nut made my old headset look a bit better.
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Hiking the Grimmimutz Fun and Adventure Trail is a wonderful vacation experience for the whole family. On this hiking loop children get to know the exciting story of Grimmimutz and the evil Pepper-Witch at various play stations.
Diemtigtal's hiking area boasts more than 200 km of marked hiking trails along the rivers and lakes, and past picturesque old houses. It leads up to the lush pastures of the Alps and lets you enjoy the romantic region as the unique spectacle of the diverse stages of Alpine vegetation unfolds before your eyes. On many of the Alpine farms in the Bernese Oberland you can observe cheese-making while enjoying a hearty brunch.
In the Wiriehorn region, bicyclists and mountain bikers find everything to their heart's content. The chair lift takes them in comfort to the starting point of several biking options for their downhill ride. The permanent downhill stretch however, on which championship races take place, is best suited for the experienced biker.
Winter sports fans will find a plethora of generous offerings. Apart from fun on the pistes, Diemtigtal has a lot to offer by way of adventure and relaxation, all of which adds to the enjoyment of your winter vacation: Evening sleigh rides after an excellent dinner. Or leisurely hikes through a fairytale landscape covered with powdery snow that surrounds the villages and forests.
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Ecology meets economy. The CatEye Econom Force uses ROL technology and 4 AA batteries to provide an efficient, regulated 4000cd light beam.
With high, low and flashing beams, a run time of up to 30hrs, and the option of upgrading to NiMH rechargeable batteries, using the built in charging port, give you as many lighting options as you have needs.
Tech Specs;
|114.0 X 56.0 X 53.0mm
|244 grams (with bracket and batteries)
|Light source:
|High power white SMD LED X1
|Light output:
|AA alkaline battery X4
|Approx 2hrs in high mode, 9hrs in low mode, and 30hrs in flashing mode
|Low battery indicator
|The factory-loaded battery life might be shorter than the specification above.
|Design and specifications are subject to change without notice.
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Comments about Cateye HL-EL540 Econo Force Headlight:
Before I bought El-540, I have used many self-contained unit type meaning no wire to connect the battery pack to the light itself from HL-500(first Cateye headlight introduced) to Cateye HL-1500 the last unit I was using up until I bought EL-540 and the models from other makers which I didn't use very often.Before I decided to order, I read reviews in [@] to see how they rate it. The reviews are very good with 4-1/2 rating. It seems to be a big hit in Japan, there seems to be a shortage of supply. It's the same situation in US and it took about a month before I received a message that they(Jenson USA) had the products in stock.Some of the first impression I got when I first tried it.1) Much brighter than older 1 watt LED model powered by 4 AA batteries.2) Beam patter is very unique. It's rectangular and almost even illumination from corner to corner. Illuminates much wider than older Cateye models.3) Product quality is, in my opinion from the point of the material and fit, one level up from older Cateye models.4) Battery compartment is cleverly designed for no tool replacement(Most other gadgets in general, often flat screw driver is needed to pry out the first battery). It's a bit confusing at first but you get used to it quickly. You push in the one end of battery to push out the other end for the first battery then one on the other side in the same way. The rest can be pulled out like you normally do because there's room for a finger with one battery already out.Correction to the information you can find in most review sites like [@].1) Burning time is 2 hours:It's the burn time using alkaline batteries.It's hard to believe anybody buy this and use throw away batteries in them. According to Cateye package description, burn time with Nimh which most user will be using is 5 hours. Real burn time(full power) in my test was 5 hours and 18 minutes till red warning light came on with freshly charged Eneloop(first generation).2) Flextight not secure:It is getting a bad rap(it moves around even if it's tightened, it break snaps, plastic thread strip easily etc.) in most reviews but brief use of it, it's shown me it works, specially with a sheet of rubber from old inner tube, securely. But for now, I decide to play safe. I installed my old screw tight bracket(with a rubber sheet).Pros:1) Bright. It's rated 4000 candlepower. In term of Lumen, it's about 150 lumen. How I came up with this number? I have 200 lumen flash light(which was tad brighter than 250 lumen Cygolight side by side). Place them(one at a time) at the same spot aiming at the white ceiling then take photo of a print pasted on the wall. EL-540 power falls somewhere between 1/3 to 2/3 stop lower than 200 lumen flash light (1 stop down would be 100 lumen). It gives a illumination about 50 feet(15 meter) ahead of you, enough to slow down from 20 mph or stop when you see something or somebody.2) Ease of battery replacement. My first blind fold test, it took 55 seconds for the whole process. If you have to do this on the road, you need a couple of big pockets to save the parts from being dropped on the ground though. No tool replacement is a big plus. It has a low battery warning light, so it gives you a time to find some light(to replace the batteries), doing it in the total darkness is unlikely.(This isn't designed for mountain biking in the darkness)3) No spill beam pattern. Adjustment of light without disturbing the approaching traffic is a bit easier. Often spill part(or halo, if you want to call it) of the light is still distracting to the car driver and walker alike. Sometimes you see other oncoming cyclists aiming at your eyes (or it seems) at night, they don't mean to but they have to to keep the brightest part of the beam at right position. with EL-540, it's less likely to happen.4) Long burn time. Others may not agree but 5 hours is good enough for me. If you sacrifice the brightness in half power mode, you can go through the night ride without replacement battery. And of course, if you carry the replacement batteries you can go as long as you want.5) Runs cool. It gets warm but nowhere near hot. It's barely above the skin temp of your own. This probably means having longer life than some of others get hot enough to melt the plastic.6) Price. At the regular price of [$].-(I paid [$].- + tax, free shipping) most people can afford.Cons:1) Big and heavy. That's what many reviews say. It isn't much different from other 4AA battery lights. Most of the weight comes from the batteries. Personally, I'm happy with the weight and the bulk.Most other self-contained lights in this class are flashlights re-designed for bicycle with the brackets. A few were designed from ground up for bicycle use, EL-540 is one of those and the designers did a pretty good job pushing it a right step forward. I hope other makers realize this and not competing by the power only but the cyclists actually use it regularly have other requirements too.It would be best described as "Poorman's Philips Saferide", another model designed from ground up for bicycle but cost a lot more.I highly recommend this model(for its intended purpose).For more images, "HL EL540RC Econom Force [@]"(JensonUSA allows only 2 images per review)
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Injured Springboks Pierre Spies and Zane Kirchner will miss the away leg of the Tri-Nations while Peter de Villiers is hoping that CJ van der Linde recovers from an injury to take his place in the 28-man squad.
Spies and Kirchner were not among the group of 27 announced on Friday, as De Villiers confirmed that they are unfit to tour. Because the touring party is short on props and Coenie Oosthuizen is carrying an ankle injury, Van der Linde could become the 28th man if he passes a fitness test on Monday.
Spies has recently returned from a holiday in Italy, and underwent a full medical assessment upon his return. De Villiers said that the Bok medical team had found that Spies is carrying a groin injury, and so can't be considered for the away Tests against Australia and New Zealand.
De Villiers feels that Kirchner's shoulder injury is not serious, but that he should not be risked. He said that he would rather that Spies and Kirchner rehabilitate in South Africa than risk further injury in Australasia.
Van der Linde is also carrying a groin niggle and will undergo a full assessment on Monday. De Villiers said that if he comes through that test, he will be taken on tour. He stood by his belief that captain John Smit should not be used as a prop.
'John is a hooker,' he said. 'He can cover at prop, but we only want to use him as a hooker for this tour.'
Saru CEO Jurie Roux was also present at the announcement and said that tighthead Brian Mujati, who played for the Boks in 2008, wasn't considered because he's not a South African citizen. Neither Roux nor De Villiers were able to say whether Mujati will have his citizenship sorted out before the World Cup.
Meanwhile, Heinrich Brussow is coming back from a serious injury and will be rushed right back into Test rugby without first obtaining match practice at a lower level. De Villiers said that he needs to phase Brussow in sooner rather than later.
'For me, he's a timebomb. If I had the power not to play him, I wouldn't play him. But he is a very important player for the World Cup and I will need to phase him in on this tour.'
As reported by keo.co.za on Friday, Johann Muller picked up a hamstring injury in this week's training. The injury is not so bad that the big Ulster lock won't be able to tour.
Springbok touring squad - Gio Aplon, Bjorn Basson, Heinrich Brussow, Juan de Jongh, Jean Deysel, Dean Greyling, Alistair Hargreaves, Adrian Jacobs, Elton Jantjies, Ashley Johnson, Ryan Kankowski, Werner Kruger, Patrick Lambie, Charl McLeod, Johann Muller, Lwazi Mvovo, Odwa Ndungane, Wynand Olivier, Coenie Oosthuizen, Ruan Pienaar, Chiliboy Ralepelle, Danie Rossouw, John Smit (c), Deon Stegmann, Morne Steyn, Adriaan Strauss, Flip van der Merwe, CJ van der Linde.


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January 21, 99
Vol. 14 , No. 06
William F. Podlich Distinguished Visitor
Ethnic and Civic Nationalism in the Civil War: Was Blood Thicker Than Water?
JAMES McPHERSON
James M. McPherson, a renowned historian of the Civil War, is the George Henry Davis Professor of American History at Princeton University. He is the author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988), which won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in history, as well as the Christopher Award and the Best Book Award of the American Military Institute. His many other books include The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1964, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Prize), The Negro's Civil War (1965), The Abolitionist Legacy (1975), Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (1982), Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (1992), and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997).
Born in North Dakota, McPherson received his B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. A member of the Princeton faculty since 1962, he has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Huntington Library.
Few academic historians reach large public audiences but James McPherson has done so by combining rigorous scholarship with compelling narrative. His books on the Civil War show that military events were fundamentally social and political in their origins and effects; that the fighting and dying shaped this nation. He illuminates what Walt Whitman called "[t]he real war," which McPherson defines as "the experiences of the three million soldiers and the vicarious extensions of those experiences to their friends and families back home, who constituted almost the whole of the American people."
McPherson is the second of three guests that the Claremont McKenna College history department has invited to inaugurate the William F. Podlich Distinguished Visitors Program. This program is generously endowed by CMC alumnus and trustee William F. Podlich '66, whose aim is to enrich the college intellectually by bringing preeminent figures in scholarship, business and public affairs to campus for extended visits. James M. McPherson will speak twice at the Athenaeum. Sign up for each lecture separately on the Reservations page.
Prairie Lawyer on Trial: Lincoln as Commander-in- Chief
JAMES McPHERSON
Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration: The Old Ship of Zion
African American gospel music has its origins in the slave song, field hollers, and Negro Spirituals that sustained and perpetuated the culture of the rural African American and provided a complementary strength during the period of enslavement. By the 20th century it had evolved into a more emotional and jubilant black religious music, an urban counterpart of the spiritual and blues, which reflected the new freedom of religious, social, and political consciousness of African Americans.
Horace Clarence Boyer, a professional gospel singer, will present a guided tour through each stage of development of gospel music. As a vocal soloist, Boyer has appeared in numerous solo recitals. His lecture/concert four years ago is remembered as one of the Athenaeum's most outstanding and inspirational programs. As a musical director, Boyer has overseen several musicals including James Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie in association with the author. He has been curator of musical instruments at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, during which time he directed the famed Fisk Jubilee Singers. With his brother James, the Boyer Brothers performed with such artists as Mahalia Jackson and Dorothy Love Coates, recording on the Savoy and Nashboro labels.
Boyer holds a Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music and is a professor of music at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Boyer's most recent book How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel was published in 1995.
Shamans and Endorphins
The connection between shamans and endorphins is truly a great and fascinating interdisciplinary exercise in the study of the human mind. "This improbable juxtaposition of an archaic healing system and a rapidly advancing new field in neurochemistry probably requires a word of explanation," warns our guest speaker, Raymond H. Prince, M.D. Prince, one of the founding figures of transcultural psychiatry, is a retired professor of psychiatry at McGill University, Canada.
Although healing practices around the world are extremely diverse and complex systems, their fundamental mechanisms are believed to be quite uniform across cultures. The basic traits include: the world view shared by patients and healers, positive patient expectancy, personal qualities of the practitioner, and heightening of the patient's sense of mastery. However, these external and frequently reiterated factors are really only half the story. Prince's original contribution focuses on a neglected component; namely, the existence of an endogenous healing mechanism which could operate spontaneously. This mechanism could be mobilized with or without the help of a healer.
Prince is a leading scholar who has contributed over 140 papers in social and transcultural psychiatry. His interests range from the study of psychiatric disorders among Africans, Amerindians, and the chronically poor to the study of mystical states, personality change and religious experiences, trance and possession states, psychedelics, and life stress and coronary heart diseases. He has firsthand experience among the Yoruba (Nigeria) and the Cree (Canada).
This lecture is part of the Brain, Mind and Medicine: Cross Cultural Perspectives Program sponsored by CMC, Harvey Mudd, and Pitzer Colleges.
The Good News, The Bad News
Having produced such hits as Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Risky Business (1983), Contact (1997), and Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Lynda Obst has become a Hollywood veteran. She began her career in film and journalism as the editor/author of The Rolling Stone history of the sixties; The Sixties: The Decade Remembered Now, by the People Who Lived It Then (1977) and soon became an editor at The New York Times Magazine. Since 1979 Obst has produced films for Casablanca/Polygram, the David Geffen Company, and Hill/ Obst productions at Paramount Pictures. In 1989 she started her own production company as a part of Columbia Pictures.
Based on her experiences working in the film industry, Obst wrote Hello, He Lied: And Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches (1996), described as a " [w]itty and incisive survival manual that's chock full of observational advice and wisdom about navigating the power-dominated world of Hollywood moviemaking." From a uniquely feminist perspective it covers topics from the art of pitching to working with actors and directors. Though her book focused on the business of creating and producing films, Obst's advice has been applied to a wide variety of industries in which, as she explains, "mixed genders [are] in the trenches together for the first time."
A native Texan, Obst continues to produce and write for The New York Times, American Film, and Harper's.
During her Athenaeum presentation Obst will share her insights on Hollywood, the business world, and life.
Thinking Through Confucius
An internationally prominent scholar of Chinese and comparative philosophy, Roger T. Ames is a professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawaii. He is editor of the leading scholarly journal of comparative philosophy, Philosophy East and West, and editor of China Review International. Ames has taught in Taiwan; Cambridge, England; Beijing; and Hong Kong and has been invited to speak at many universities around the world. His recent publications include translations of Chinese classics: Sun-Tzu: The Art of Warfare (1993); Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare (1996) and Tracing Dao to Its Source (1997) (both with D.C. Lau); and the Confucian Analects (with H. Rosemont) (1998). He has also authored many interpretive studies of Chinese philosophy and culture: Thinking Through Confucius (1987), Anticipating China: Thinking Through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture (1995), and Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture (1997) (all with D.L. Hall).
Ames is a pioneer in integrating Eastern and Western philosophy into undergraduate teaching. He is codirector of the Institute for College Teachers, a partnership between the University of Hawaii and the East-West Center, which assists American educators in infusing Asian content into the undergraduate core curriculum.
In addition to his role at CMC as a speaker in the Athenaeum series, Roger Ames is a guest of the CMC course Questions of Civilization. He will be assisting the Civ 10 faculty in their teaching of Confucius' Analects.
The Work of the Future
Robert B. Reich is University Professor and the Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis and its Heller Graduate School.
Before joining Brandeis he served as the nation's 22nd Secretary of Labor during President Bill Clinton's first term. In this capacity he led several groundbreaking initiatives to build the skills of American workers. The School-to-Work Opportunities Act, which the President signed into law in 1994, eases the transition from school to the world of work for the 75 percent of America's youth who do not graduate from college. Goals 2000 establishes a national system of skill standards to ensure that workers acquire the skills that employers demand. Under Secretary Reich the Family and Medical Leave Act was passed and implemented, and he was instrumental in raising the minimum wage for the first time since 1989. In addition to these new programs, Reich cracked down on unsafe worksites and worked to abolish sweatshops in the United States and eradicate child labor around the world.
Prior to his appointment as Secretary of Labor, Reich taught at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also served in the Ford Administration as an assistant to the Solicitor General and in the Carter Administration as the head of the policy planning staff to the Federal Trade Commission.
Reich is the author of seven books, including The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism (1991) and Locked in the Cabinet (1997), and more than 200 articles on the global economy, the changing nature of work, and the centrality of human capital.
Robert Reich's visit to Claremont is sponsored by the Res Publica Society of Claremont McKenna College and the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum.
Beyond the Flower: The Evolution of a Feminist Artist
Judy Chicago is an artist, writer, and teacher whose work and philosophy have had a worldwide impact. For over three decades, Chicago has remained steadfast in her commitment to the power of art as a vehicle for intellectual transformation and social change and is known and respected as an artist and humanist whose work and life are a model for an enlarged definition of art. In the early seventies Chicago pioneered feminist art education with a unique program for women at Fresno State University. In 1971 she brought her program to the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia where, with artist Miriam Shapiro, she established the Feminist Art Program.
In her Athenaeum lecture and slide presentation Chicago will explore the development of her vision of what it means to be a feminist artist by focusing on "The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage" (1979), "The Birth Project" (1985), and "The Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light" (1993). Her renowned work "The Dinner Party," a multimedia installation that presents a symbolic history of women in Western civilization, traveled extensively in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Chicago celebrated birth and creation in Western art by designing a series of images for needlework called "The Birth Project." "The Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light" is a culmination of eight years of inquiry, travel, study, and artistic production by Chicago and her husband Donald Woodman. This project combines Chicago's paintings and Woodman's photography with works in stained glass and tapestry. Chicago has published seven books, most recently Beyond the Flower: The Autobiography of a Feminist Artist (1996). A retrospective of her work will open at the Florida State University Art Museum in 1999.
Judy Chicago's appearance at the Athenaeum is the first lecture in the series Artists and Inspirations.
World War II and Asian Americans: A Panel Discussion
Like all Americans, World War II left an indelible mark on the lives of Asian Americans. The experiences of Japanese Americans, because of their incarceration as well as their bravery in the U.S. armed forces, have become part of the collective memory of the war in the United States. Lesser known are the stories of other Asian Americans who also served as soldiers and in other capacities in the Allied effort.
In particular, the panel discussion will center on Chinese, Filipino, and Korean Americans. Immigrants and their descendants from all three groups keenly felt the effects of the war not only in their own lives, but also because the war has such profound consequences for their ancestral homelands.
The Athenaeum is fortunate to have a panel of scholars whose expertise includes the domestic and international dimentions of the war experience for the groups mentioned. Professor Gordon Chang, Stanford University, is a leading diplomatic and Asian American historian whose work includes Sino-U.S. relations. Professor Wayne Patterson, St. Norbert's College (Wisconsin), is a scholar of Korean history and international relations and has published on Korean migration to Hawaii. Professor Steffi San Buenaventura, University of California, Riverside, is an expert on Filipino America and her work has examined its transnational nature. The panel commentator is professor Yuji Ichioka, UCLA, who has published widely on Japanese migration to the United States.
This panel discussion is cosponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies as part of the series, "The State of Asian America: Identity, Politics, and Culture," and by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies.
From the Director
Happy New Year and welcome back to the Athenaeum! Your participation, creative ideas, and positive support are essential to our success. Thanks to all who helped create a superb fall semester at the Athenaeum.
I hope you will mark your calendar for upcoming programs that pique your interest or curiosity. Information, books, and articles about current and upcoming speakers will be available in Parents Library.
If you plan to attend the meal preceding an event, you must reserve in advance by using the reservation form in The Fortnightly. Please cancel your reservation by noon on the day of the event if you find that you are unable to attend. No reservations are needed for just the lecture or performance.
There are occasional questions concerning protocol for guests who wish to attend Athenaeum events. The Athenaeum Advisory Committee adopted the "House Rules" statement found on the next page and posted in the lobby of the Athenaeum.
If you have questions or comments, you are welcome to come by my office (Room 218, located upstairs in the Athenaeum) or speak with David Edwards, Athenaeum Manager.
We look forward to seeing you.
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Attendance at any event may be limited to CMC associated persons, to the people who signed up for dinner, or to the maximum number allowed by fire regulations. On some occasions the speaker may address the group in another forum or the college may set up a video feed to handle an overflow crowd.
House rules and common courtesy prohibit disruptive actions during an Athenaeum sponsored address-no shouting, no signs and no banners inside the building. The college has invited the guest speaker to address the audience-we ask that those who attend an Athenaeum sponsored function come to hear what the guest speaker has to say. Time allowing, there will be a period set aside for questions. Students will have priority during this portion of the program.
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