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2010-2011: Member of the varsity eight that competed at the Snake Regatta (Oct. 9), which placed first of 20 teams…rowed for the varsity eight for all eight competitions in the spring…varsity eight won the Sullivan Cup by defeating George Washington (April 9)…the Crusaders also defeated Bucknell (April 23) and EARC member Rutgers (April 30)…was a member of the varsity four that qualified for the semifinals at the IRA National Championship (June 2-4).
2009-2010: A member of the freshman eight…finished first with the Crusaders' novice 'A' boat at the Quinsigamond Novice Challenge (Oct. 24)...the freshman eight won two of its three races at the 23rd George Washington Invitational (April 9-10), defeating UC San Diego in the first race and George Washington and Gonzaga in the third race…won dual-races versus Bucknell (April 18) and Rutgers (May 2).
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Rowed for three years in seat four at Gonzaga College H.S. in
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Year...recipient of the 2008-2009 Student-Athlete Award.
Personal: Son of Kathy and Peter Prominski...father played football at Brown...has three brothers, Matthew, Thomas and Luke...majoring in Political Science.


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It is time for faculty to begin preparing their 2013-2014 Distribution of Effort Forms. All faculty should have received an email with the DOE Memo outlining the timeline (PDF) and Instructions for the DOE Calculation Worksheet (PDF). New faculty members should download a blank DOE Calculation Worksheet from the link below. Returning faculty members should use the final copy of the work sheet provided to your division directors last year and make corrections/updates as necessary.
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Staff Council offers "Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions," presented by Marietta Watts, as a professional development opportunity for interested staff. The presentation will take place Thursday, January 31 from 12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. in CTW 127 (The Commons). Light snacks will be provided, or you may bring your lunch. Please RSVP to Kristie Bruner by Tuesday, January 29.Back to Top PREPaRE Conference
The Fourth Annual Conference on Meeting the Therapy Needs of Infants, Toddlers and Children with Disabilities in Rural Communities will be held on Saturday, March 9 at CHS. This conference focuses on serving the needs of rural occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists who desire increased competency in the provision of evidence-based practice service delivery and increased understanding of diversity issues for infants, toddlers and children with disabilities in early intervention or school-based settings.
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The Ricoh Document Service Centers, located at White Hall Classroom Building, Medical Center, and W.T. Young Library, are now fully operational and functioning to serve departments' document needs. New state-of-the-art printing and finishing equipment has been installed at each location. Ricoh provides courier service to departments for pickup and delivery of materials. Extended hours are available for rush or overnight jobs as needed. All services offered by the centers are also available to employees or students for personal purchase.
Formation of the on-campus Document Service Centers is a key component of the University's strategic efforts to better manage document output through its Managed Print Services agreement with Ricoh.
Visit http://www.uky.edu/ukricoh/ and click the icon entitled "Document Service Center" for information about the centers. The website includes a listing of available services, locations and hours of operation for each center, phone/email contact information, and file upload capability. Departments can electronically submit jobs via the website by completing the DSC Request Form for the location of their choice. The above website also provides access to the Managed Print Services and Student Printing Services components of the larger Ricoh agreement.Procurement-related questions regarding the Document Service Centers can be directed to the Purchasing Division, ATTN: Craig Locke. Back to Top
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Women Leading Kentucky is now offering scholarships for female undergraduate students (freshmen, sophomores, juniors) who are enrolled fulltime at a Kentucky college or university. Students should have a GPA of 3.0 or better and demonstrate leadership abilities on campus and/or in their community. Awards of $1,000-$1,500 are available. Please share this information with eligible students. Applications are due February 1, 2013. Click here for further information & application.Back to Top
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Registration is available through this flier and you may select your preferred Lexington venue or statewide location which is hosting the Seminar through live, interactive video-conferencing.
Universal Design for Learning is a professional development concept that strives to make learning accessible to all students, no matter their individual backgrounds. This seminar will provide participants with a framework and skills to incorporate universal design for learning (UDL) strategies in a variety of settings. Attendees will gain an understanding of UDL concepts. This seminar will provide a basic tool kit of skills to use when approaching teaching and learning. Attendees will also be presented with examples of innovative uses of UDL elements from working with post-secondary learners in higher education and human services.Back to Top

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If you're interested in joining the thousands of youths and adults already enjoying the sport of karting, this page should help you get started.
Before embarking on your new hobby, there are a number of very basic, yet very important questions to be answered.
Oval or Road?
First, does your interest lie in oval-track racing or road course racing? Significantly different style chassis are needed for oval track versus road course, among a host of other differing factors from each form of karting.
This will be one of the first decisions you want to make before making any purchases.
Engine Choice
Next, do you want to go 2-cycle or 4-cycle racing?
This refers to the engine package. The general rule is oval-track karting, both dirt and asphalt, is predominantly 4-cycle, while road course karting, both sprint and road race (we'll get to those terms in a moment), is 2-cycle.
This doesn't mean you can't find 4-cycle road course karting or 2-cycle oval racing. WKA's Gold Cup Series has been a 4-cycle national sprint road course series for years, while the WKA National Road Racing Series has a strong following of 4-cycle Briggs & Stratton Animal racers. On the dirt oval side, the Unlimited All-Stars (UAS) is a popular touring series with karts powered by 2-cycle engines.
Popular 2-cycle engines in WKA competition are the Yamaha KT-100, IAME Komet Piston Valve and a host of TaG engines, including the Parilla Leopard, Parilla X-30, Rotax FR 125 and Vortex Rok TT. Click here to visit eKartingNews.com, a leading karting website mainly devoted to 2-cycle kart racing.
The most popular 4-cycle engines are the Briggs Animal, Briggs Raptor (flathead) and Box Stock Clone.
The Animal is the most powerful and most expensive. The flathead is the engine the Animal replaced about 10 years ago on the production line at Briggs & Stratton, yet it still has a strong following in the dirt karting industry.
The Box Stock Clone is a China-made engine that has taken the 4-cycle karting world by storm over the last several years. Its now, arguably, the most popular engine in dirt karting and at this time, the most inexpensive. It's also low on horsepower compared to the Animal.
Click here to learn more about 4-cycle kart racing.
Sprint vs. Road Racing
We mentioned above that there are two forms of road course karting – sprint and road racing.
The differences between the two is pretty simple to understand; however, if you've decided you want to check out road course karting, the differences are very important to understand before making any major purchases.
Sprint karting is road course racing on tracks built specifically for go-karts. These tracks are less than one mile in length, and feature anywhere from seven or eight to over a dozen corners. Many sprint tracks also boast elevation changes, banked corners, high-speed turns, low-speed turns and long and short straightaways. The shorter length of sprint tracks usually limits kart speeds to under 75 mph, depending on the class and age level.
WKA's national sprint series are the Manufacturers Cup and Gold Cup. Man Cup is 2-cycle, while Gold Cup is mainly 4-cycle with a handful of 2-cycle divisions.
Road race karting, also referred to as "enduro" and "road racing," is road course racing on tracks built for racecars, including the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, VIRginia Int'l Raceway and Daytona Int'l Speedway's 3.56-mile road course.
If you have the need for speed, road racing is your best option. The fast nature of most road race karting venues allow some of the faster-class karts to reach speeds in excess of 125 mph. Even the series' lower-horsepower divisions include karts that reach nearly 100mph.
WKA's National Road Racing Series offers an array of divisions.
Laydown enduro karts are built specifically for road racing and are powered by 2-cycle engines, decked with full fiberglass bodywork (nosecone and side panels) and position the driver so he or she is lying at a near 180-degree angle on his or her back.
A headrest props the driver's head and helmet up just enough so he or she can adequately view the track. In terms of aerodynamics, the lower the driver's head, the better the kart slices through the air, producing as little drag as possible.
Sprint-enduro karts mostly are built specifically for road racing, although some sprint chassis have been modified for road racing. Similar to laydown-enduro karts, these chassis also are decorated with full fiberglass bodywork, but driver's seat is designed to mount the driver in a more upright position, rather than a near 180-degree angle like a laydown-enduro.
Most experienced sprint-enduro teams' goals are to seat the driver as low as possible while staying within the rules. This theory goes back to the aforementioned points on laying as low as possible in a laydown-enduro to reduce drag.
Sprint-enduro classes include 2-cycle and 4-cycle engine packages. Two-cycle classes are powered by the Yamaha KT-100 and Piston Port engines, the Comer P-51 and Komet K-71 being the most popular. Four-cycle classes are offered for Briggs Animal and Box Stock Clones. The Animal Sprint divisions currently are some of the most popular in WKA's National Road Racing Series.
Sprint karts have a place in road racing, including the 125cc shifter and TaG divisions, which mostly feature karts originally made for sprint tracks with slight modifications for the longer road racing courses.
All WKA karting categories need to follow strict guidelines and rules that are spelled out in the WKA Technical Manual, which is printed every fall for the next year's competition season.
All WKA-sanctioned tracks, divisional and national series base their rules from the WKA Tech Manual. WKA also produces a series of monthly Tech Updates that edit and/or update various rules printed in the Tech Manual.
The WKA Tech Manual may not be the first purchase you need to make if you're ready to start karting, but if you've already obtained the chassis, engine and other parts, the Tech Manual should be readily accessible on the shelf or table in your shop or garage, even if your local track is not WKA sanctioned.
The WKA Tech Manual sells for $25 plus $5 shipping. Current WKA members receive the Tech Manual via U.S. Mail each fall.
I'm confused… what should be my first step?
Believe it or not, the answer to this question is pretty simple… Go to the racetrack!
The first step for any beginner completely naïve to karting should be to utilize an Internet search engine and search for go-kart tracks in your area. Simply typing "kart racetrack," "go-kart racing," "kart track," and your residence's nearest city should bring up a variety of karting facilities within reasonable driving distance, no matter where you live.
Once poking around on tracks' or series' websites, figure out when the next race is and plan to go to it. Go in the pit area, look around and find racers to mingle with. Ask questions and obtain any information you can. Most karters are ready to help newcomers and are interesting in attracting new people to the sport.
If you're lucky enough to live near a kart shop, visiting that local shop and talking to its owner or employees is another great avenue to gain information. Utilize Internet search engines to see if there are any kart shops near you, and if not, pick up the phone and make a phone call or two and see where it leads you!
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|WKA National Series
|Oval-track (driver left offset)
|4-cycle Box Stock (Clone)
|Speedway Dirt, Speedway Pavement
|Oval-track (driver left offset)
|4-cycle Animal
|Speedway Dirt, Speedway Pavement
|Oval-track (driver left offset)
|4-cycle Flathead
|Speedway Dirt, Speedway Pavement
|Oval-track (driver left offset)
|2-cycle Unlimited
|Speedway Dirt
|2-cycle TaG
|Manufacturers Cup
|2-cycle Yamaha
|Manufacturers Cup
|2-cycle Komet (KPV)
|Manufacturers Cup
|2-cycle Cadet (Comer K80)
|Manufacturers Cup
|2-cycle X30 TaG
|Gold Cup
|4-cycle Animal
|Gold Cup
|4-cycle Box Stock (Clone)
|Gold Cup
|Road Racing
|2-cycle Yamaha, Piston Port
|Road Racing
|4-cycle Animal
|Road Racing
|4-cycle Box Stock (Clone)
|Road Racing
|Road Racing
|Shifter kart
|125cc (2-cycle)
|Road Racing
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- To provide an avenue of witnessing in the name of Christ.
- To provide an ongoing avenue of service for all members of First Baptist Church and other Christian volunteers.
- To render service to the economically deprived people in our community regardless of race, creed, or culture. Money is distributed as available to community ministries (e.g. Durham Rescue Mission, Pregnancy Support Services, NC Baptist disaster relief, etc.) and needy individuals referred through Social Services or other reliable parties and agencies. Screening for need is not performed by the Caring Center.
- Donations of GENTLY USED clothing and shoes for men, women, and children, household items, seasonal decorations, books and toys are all accepted from anyone willing to contribute. A drop-off bin is located at the entrance facing Roxboro Street for your convenience. Pick-up service is not provided.
Sub-basement (under Morgan Hall). Entrance is from the back door facing Roxboro Street. There will be no access to other areas of the church when open.
Days Open:
Friday: 10:00 am to 12:00 noon.
Saturday: 10:00 am to 12:00 noon.
Tuesday: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm – Volunteers sort clothes, restock, and clean. The Caring Center is not open to the public on Tuesday. For church members…If you would like to volunteer on this day, please contact one of the coordinators or the church office for more information.
The Caring Center is closed for all Major Holidays.
Caring Center Coordinator:
Kelly Pendergraft
We accept used magazines in good condition (preferably bound or boxed) and HANGERS of any type (adult and child size), especially clip type hangers used for pants, shorts and skirts.
Upcoming Events:
The Caring Center will be closed for the summer and on the following dates:
- Friday, June 19 – Saturday, July 25
- Friday, September 4
- Saturday, September 5
- Friday, September 25
- Saturday, September 26
- Friday, November 27
- Saturday, November 28
- Friday, December 18
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Construction Crawls Ahead on Herzog + de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg
Planning for the building began in 2003; the cornerstone was officially laid in 2007; and construction got rolling in 2008. Although workers officially topped off the building in April 2010, it's still far from completion.
From a distance, the Elbphilharmonie looks like massive, gleaming ship presiding over Hamburg's busy harbor. Closer up, the roof swoops and bows like crashing waves, punctured by textured, iridescent glass panels. Viewed from different angles, the building's shape takes on a completely different complexion, with its sharp, sheer walls and that undulating roof.
The mixed-use building will contain a large concert hall that seats 2,150 on the top floors; 45 residential apartments; a 250-room hotel; a public plaza; and a 500-car garage. An 82-meter (269-foot) escalator will climb the six floors from ground level to the sixth-floor plaza in about four minutes, giving visitors time to take in sweeping views of the harbor and city.
There are several challenges associated with the site on which Elbphilharmonie is being built. First, it is being built on top of the base of an existing building, the Kaispeicher warehouse, making it, at least superficially, an adaptive-reuse project. In the first stages of construction, the old warehouse was completely gutted, leaving only the outer brick walls, and 650 steel-reinforced concrete piles were installed to strengthen the foundation. The majority of the building's parking is located in the brick-faced base, as well as a small concert hall and a museum.
The building's façade, which is mostly in place now, will consist of roughly 1,100 different window panes, almost all of which have reflective patterns printed on them, creating a frosted, iridescent effect that will help cool the building. Many of the windows have deep curves and indents with small hatches to let air in. Large U-shaped gaps in the windows are inset balconies in the hotel and apartment portion of the building, and they're meant to resemble tuning forks.
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This post is part of the May 2012 Technology Week, a quarterly topical discussion about technology and historical archaeology, presented by the SHA Technology Committee. This week's topic examines the use and application of digital data in historical archaeology. Visit this link to view the other posts.
At the Center for Digital Antiquity (Digital Antiquity), we are committed to improving access to and preservation and use of archaeological information. Over the past four years, we've built tDAR (The Digital Archaeological Record), a digital repository designed to preserve the digital documents, data sets, images, and other digital results of archaeological investigations and excavations. tDAR is one of a number of discipline-specific repositories designed from the bottom up to better support the needs of the content by providing rich, archaeologically-specific metadata along with tools to discover, access, and use the uploaded materials.
Looking into the crystal ball, there are a number of significant challenges and important opportunities ahead:
- creating and maintaining a stable foundation for future archaeological research and resource management
- access and use (and preservation too)
- collaboration
If there's anything that we can learn from the basic practice of archaeology, it's that things do not get preserved unless the environment is right to enable preservation. This works best if there are multiple sources and tools available. In the case of archaeological data, it means that there is a mixture of sustainable technology, organizations, and tools to enable and facilitate preservation.
A digital repository that has the ambition of providing long-term preservation for archaeological data must be sustainable for the long term. There must be a realistic plan for funding the variety of activities required in order to ensure access and preservation of information, as well as succession plans. These are core components of being certified as a "Trusted Digital Repository," something that Digital Antiquity aspires to make tDAR in the near future.
At Digital Antiquity, we have a plan and a schedule for achieving it. We see the development of a digital curation service useful for public agencies, research organizations, and individual researchers as key to sustaining the tDAR repository. We plan to charge for the deposit of information into tDAR to support the archiving of those materials, and are negotiating with other archives to serve as backup repositories for tDAR. The main point here is that any organization that is serious about providing for long-term support to maintain must have a plan to ensure financial support and must work diligently to execute this plan.
Digital Antiquity cannot solve this problem alone, however, sustainability requires multiple sources, technologies and approaches tools like LOCKSS or organizations like the Internet Archive or HathiTrust to help ensure sustainable archaeological information. Sustainability also requires a change in culture. It requires that public agencies, research organizations, and individual researchers who create data ensure that it is available and remains preserved for future access and use, and budget funds as part of their activities to support the digital repositories.
Access and Use
One of the easiest ways to understand the challenges of the future is to look at the problems we're still struggling with from the past. Looking back to the 70′s, 80′s, and 90′s tremendous quantities of archaeological data, in the form of reports, documents, data sets, and other materials have been produced. Most of this data collected in the US has been funded by public undertakings conducted through cultural resource management (CRM) investigations.
The challenge is that much, perhaps most, of this information is on the verge of being forgotten about and lost. Almost all of the reports from the CRM era are available only as paper records. Unless systematic efforts to preserve, digitize, and make more widely available these older reports and data are undertaken, this body of work will be forgotten or essentially lost.
Recently produced archaeological reports and other data often are in digital formats. However, if these reside only on a floppy disk they too are one step away from being lost. The digital analog to the situation with paper records is not much better: a broken hard-drive or a Dropbox account that's been corrupted, and the critical data has been lost. When data is maintained and kept at the "personal" level without appropriate documentation and backup, it's at risk.
With the advent of the web, some documents and databases have moved to the web as simple webpages or more complex websites. Moving to the web has been a major step forward enhancing discover and providing easier access. Tools like Google may enable these materials to be discovered and used, but not all databases are "discoverable." For example, the NADB database has been hosted for a number of years by the Center for Advanced Spatial Technology (CAST) at the University of Arkansas. In this form, it was available online, but for potential users to use it, they had to know both about NADB and how to access the NADB web page in order to perform a search. Simply putting it on the web does not equate with accessibility.
From an archival standpoint, a database like NADB in its current form would not be preserved either. Services like the Internet Archive, attempt to archive sites, but only those that pages can be linked-to, and many databases are only accessible via search-forms. Furthermore, if they are accessible, the data is being preserved in a translated form – definitely better than not preserving the data at all, but not ideal.
The other challenge can be boiled down to a fundamental question… what will happen to the website in 20 years? Sites like Geocities or ma.gnol.ia are examples of what can happen to data on the web without stewardship. Software reaches end-of-life comparatively quickly (5 years in some cases), with backend software or hardware no longer supported — tools like Cold Fusion, early versions of Oracle, or older file formats such as Word Perfect are becoming more scarce, and harder to use / access. Over the next 10-20 years, these challenges will grow as computing continues to evolve. The growth of cloud computing has great potential: tools like Google Docs and online databases provide a myriad of features we could have only dreamed of in the past, but offer new challenges for preservation and use as they may be dependent on the tool, and restrict access for preservation or use. These too will have time and costs involved and will require online migration and future support.
Regarding use, within the United States there are federal and state regulations that prohibit the general availability of some kinds of archaeological information, specifically detailed site location information. This protection is critical to the management and preservation of the physical site. This, however, requires that online tools be sensitive to this information and that repositories develop methods for screening access and dealing this kind of information.
There are two aspects to consider: First, most information about archaeological resources need not be held as confidential. In our experience, documents of several hundreds of pages may have only a few with specific site location information on them and many reports do not have any of this kind of detailed information in them. The challenge, is to ensure that the goal of site protection does not endanger overall ability to preserve and provide access, something tDAR does by enabling documents to be marked as confidential (or enabling redaction), restricting access to the site location information, preserving it and making it discoverable, but restricting access.
The other aspect of this issue is how to ensure that those individuals and officials who need to have access to confidential information can get it? Issues of the identity of repository users will require that over time, tools are created to help in the management of identity and helping to vet users to migrate from each system managing separate credentials or requiring the initial uploader to validate all users.
With the advent of the web, real-time, large-scale collaboration has become feasible, and in many cases quite productive. It requires a shared knowledgebase and interest between the parties, as well as trust. Examples of collaboration range from NSF projects that span a country, or even the development of the state site-files. But, for these collaborations to work, significant synthesis work must be accomplished first, agreed-upon terms, definitions, archaeological and data standards, etc. Within the world of archaeology, this is problematic. There are definitely some categories of classification that can be agreed upon, from faunal characteristics, to scientific measurements, but many qualitative classifications do not have formal, agreed-upon, meanings. Furthermore, significant work must be done once data has been collected in order to prepare it for collaborative endeavors. But, for any of this to happen, there must be more data sharing and publication through tools like tDAR or Open Context.
The technology visionary dreams of the Semantic web and linked data, the world where data is infinitely accessible and any query can be answered with a quick search and a click of the mouse. One where data can be collated from multiple sources automatically to answer questions that were impossible otherwise. The dream of the semantic web is one where data is "free" of the database, there are no silos and data is interconnected in ways that the original creator could never conceive. The theory of the semantic web is that if you had online databases of various types linked together and available for users, that it would enable complex, advanced searching functionality that would link the multiple databases together in new, and unique ways.
The challenges of this, however, are great from data quality, to knowledge of external tools, to technical skill. The latter being, in some ways, the greatest challenge; Archaeologists, in general are a smart bunch, and often quite technically savvy, but these tools also have a high barrier to entry for use. Some of these barriers include:
- Perceived value and need. If putting data into a semantic format were as simple as clicking a button and hitting "save as" in Access, Excel, or Word, then this discussion would be moot. Instead, it's a manual or technically involved process that requires users to isolate different types of data, evaluate it, standardize it, and map it. It works best for quantitative measurements, and has some real challenges for qualitative data. But, regardless of the ability to publish the data, without a number of shining examples of how the data can be used to produce new impactful and significant ways that change the valuation of the work: reward ratio this will remain a problem.Within tDAR, we have started to develop tools to help users go through the process of making their data accessible through simple web forms. This enables the analysis and mapping of data from coding sheets to shared knowledge structures (ontologies) that can be used in data analysis within tDAR and in the future outside as well.
- Once data is in a semantic form, it's difficult to use. Most archaeologists are not, and do not want to be programmers (though many programmers may want to be archaeologists). While large companies like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are starting to make use of semantic data in searches (reviews, product searches, flight times, etc are examples of this), the main way of integrating semantic data into your own data is to do it programmatically. Until off-the-shelf tools or discipline specific tools make use of this information, most archaeologists will not be able to use it (or even understand it's value).Within tDAR, we've started to build tools to enable integration of data sets by providing built-in tools enable users to map, collate, and integrate data without being a programmer. Faunal analysts have used these tools to look at use patterns across-sites and continents among other uses.
- Once data is in semantic form, how do you evaluate its quality? This is likely the final challenge, semantic or open data is useful only in as far as you can evaluate quality. Leveraging data from the semantic web often means joining or comparing data sets by one aspect in order to gain an understanding of another – but this requires that these connections be evaluated and that the quality of the data be vetted before those connections are made, something that may be hard within online data sets.
In summary, none of these challenges are insurmountable, we have organizations dedicated to the preservation and use of digital data; and we have tools that are evolving to make it easier to ask and answer questions that we could only dream of in the past, linking data together and making new connections.
What we must work together to do is to continue to change the culture or archaeology to ensure that both legacy and new data is properly archived and preserved. And, the challenge for the technologists to build tools that empowers non-programmers to analyze and re-use data in new ways.


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Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - Tevin Washington matched a career-high with three touchdown passes and rushed for another as the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets outlasted the Duke Blue Devils, 42-24, in ACC action at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
Washington's big day came at the perfect time for the Yellow Jackets (6-5, 5-3 ACC) who become bowl eligible for the 16th consecutive season with the win. Zach Laskey led the Jackets' potent rushing attack with 72 yards on 18 carries. David Sims added 70 yards and a touchdown while Orwin Smith went for 67 yards. Robert Godhigh caught just two passes but both were touchdown receptions.
Sean Renfree threw for 198 yards and two touchdowns for the Blue Devils (6-5, 3-4), who dropped their third consecutive game. Desmond Scott caught 10 passes for 124 yards and a touchdown. Duke rushed for just 77 yards as a team, 253 yards less than Georgia Tech. C.J. France led the defense with 15 tackles.
The Jackets marched 72 yards in 13 plays on their first series to take a 7-0 lead. The key play on the drive was a 16-yard run by Smith on fourth and two from the 50-yard line. After getting denied twice from inside the two-yard line, Washington finally ran it in and broke the all-time ACC rushing TD record for a quarterback in the process. Washington's predecessor, Joshua Nesbitt, previously held both the school and ACC record with 35 rushing scores.
The Blue Devils got on the board late in the first quarter when Renfree connected with Scott for a 24-yard touchdown, tying the score at 7-7.
Sims scored on a 19-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter as the Jackets regained the lead, but Duke marched right back down the field thanks in large part to a 50-yard kickoff return by Lee Butler. Three plays later, Renfree called his own number and tied the score once again with a nine-yard rushing touchdown.
Georgia Tech backup quarterback Vad Lee made it 21-14 midway through the period with a short touchdown run. The score capped a 16-play drive that lasted more than eight minutes. All three of Georgia Tech's first-half scoring drives spanned at least 10 plays and 75 yards.
Duke kicker Ross Martin drilled a 50-yard field goal with a minute left before halftime. Georgia Tech led 21-17 at intermission.
The two teams continued to trade points in the third quarter. Georgia Tech scored first to increase it's lead to double figures when Washington tossed a touchdown pass to Laskey from 28 yards out on the Jackets' first drive.
Duke's next possession also resulted in a score as Renfree found Juwan Thompson from a yard out. After three quarters, Georgia Tech led 28-24.
Washington threw his second touchdown pass of the day early in the fourth quarter to extend the Jackets' lead back to 11. Godhigh was the recipient of Washington's pass, which went for eight yards.
Having played a near flawless game offensively to this point, the Blue Devils' offense was forced to punt on the following drive and turned the ball over on downs later in the fourth. Washington's third and final touchdown pass of the day, a 27-yard effort also to Godhigh, capped off the scoring.
Georgia Tech, which converted 13-of-20 on third down and controlled the ball for more than 38 minutes, leads the all-time series, 49-30-1.
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PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia is getting ready for a supersized game of "Pong" – on the side of a skyscraper.
The classic Atari video game will be re-created later this month on the facade of the 29-story Cira Centre, where hundreds of embedded LED lights will replicate the familiar paddles and ball.
Organizers expect hundreds of onlookers as gaming enthusiasts use giant, table-mounted joysticks to play from afar. The players will be standing on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a site that offers an unobstructed view of the office building from across the Schuylkill River.
"'Pong' is a cultural icon, cultural milestone," said Frank Lee, the Drexel University game-design professor behind the concept. "This is my love letter to the wonders of technology as seen through the eyes of my childhood."
Despite the buzz the idea has received since being announced, Lee said it took five years to find people willing to make it happen. He met kindred spirits at Brandywine Realty Trust, which owns the Cira Centre, and at the online news site Technically Philly.
Now, what might be the world's largest "Pong" game will be played April 19 and 24 as part of Philly Tech Week.
"This is one of the best things I could imagine that could make people aware that there's something happening here, and bring more people into the fold," Technically Philly co-founder Christopher Wink said.
Wink estimated about 150 people might play over the two days – most will be chosen by a lottery, but some spots will be reserved for younger students enrolled in science, technology, engineering and math programs.
In today's gaming era of lifelike graphics – think "Call of Duty" – and colorful characters – think "Angry Birds" – it's hard to imagine how the pixelated "Pong" qualified as revolutionary when it was introduced in 1972.
The black-and-white arcade game used simple block shapes to simulate two paddles and a ball; the object was for players to hit the ball so their opponents could not return it. A home version paved the way for the game console industry.
At the Cira Centre, the game will be re-created using hundreds of lights already embedded in its north face. The tower stands by day as a gleaming, mirrored edifice in west Philadelphia, but each night it illuminates the skyline with colored, patterned displays. A spokesman could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Lee said he was driving by the building one night five years ago when he was suddenly struck with the idea that the lights could be configured to play the shape-fitting game Tetris.
The concept grew from there. Last month, after finally securing the necessary permissions, he and two colleagues successfully tested giant versions of "Pong" as well as the classic games "Snake" and "Space Invaders." People might get to play "Snake" on April 24, Lee said.
The effort has been satisfying on a technical level, Lee said, describing "Pong" as "a large-scale interactive, light-based art project."
But he noted it was rewarding on an emotional level as well, comparing it with the excitement he felt as a boy when he would put the "Pong" game cartridge into the console. And he hopes it inspires a new generation of innovators.
"I hope kids ... will go on to be the leaders, and push technology forward and do wondrous things in the future," Lee said.
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The University of Idaho College of Law embraces diversity within the law school community and the legal profession. Our law school protects and fosters an inclusive and respectful learning environment for the discussion of legal principles, concepts, and practical skills. As a preparatory ground for future practitioners of the law, we adhere to the standards of legal professionalism within our classrooms, our offices, our hallways, our student organizations, our gathering places, and our activities. The calling to law is an important one with significant impacts on society, and as a law school we take that significance to the core of our purpose. The law school community values people of diverse cultures, races, ethnicities, genders, physical abilities, lifestyles, opinions, citizenship, philosophies, sexual orientations, religious backgrounds, ages, life experience, and identities. Diversity is an essential component of the University of Idaho College of Law and requires legal professionalism from all sectors of our community to provide an appropriately respectful learning environment.
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A computer system and process for automated identification, processing and issuance of digital certificates uses web server domain-control vetting to issue web server certificates. A requestor requests a web server certificate from a certificate authority and uses approver email address or addresses to request that the approver approve issuance of the certificate. If approved, the certificate authority accepts the request, creates and signs the certificate, and the signed certificate is sent to the requestor.
1. A system comprising:
at least one interface for receiving and providing information over the Internet; and
responsive to a request through the at least one interface for a digital credential, wherein the digital credential is for a domain name, and responsive to receiving contact information for an approver including an email address that indicates an association with the domain name, a server for providing, through the at least one interface, information to the approver using the contact information to contact the approver to allow the approver to approve the digital credential.
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causing information to be provided to the approver at the email address over the Internet to allow the approver to approve the receipt of the digital credential.
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This application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 10/271,255, filed Oct. 15, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,003,661 which claims priority from U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/328,766, filed Oct. 12, 2001, the disclosures of each of which are incorporated herein by reference. A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office public patent files or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.
The present invention relates to methods and systems for identification, processing and issuance of server based digital certificates.
In order to secure information transmitted over the Internet, methods have been developed to secure the connection between web browsers and web servers. Secure sockets layer (SSL), recently re-named TLS but substantially the same protocol, is a protocol designed to enable communications on an insecure network such as the Internet. SSL provides encryption and integrity of communications along with server authentication using digital certificates. However, an SSL connection does not ensure the identity of the recipient of the information nor does it secure the information once it is decrypted at the web server. Therefore, it is important to be certain that the web server is legitimate.
It has become common practice to use web server digital certificates to authenticate the identity of a web server to visiting browsers. A user's browser will access the web server's digital certificate when directed to enter a secure session. The certificate, which contains the web server's public key is then used by the browser to authenticate the identity of the website, that is, the web server and to provide the web browser with the web server's public key so that the web browser can encrypt a session key for use in encryption of transmitted data. Since only the web server has the private key to decrypt the user's information, such information remains secure. The web server certificate is issued by a certification authority. Applicants' assignee, GeoTrust, Inc. is a certification authority. Most web browsers are published with a number of root digital certificates (containing public keys) for CA's already installed and hence the web browser will recognize the CA's signature and trust the certificate.
Generally, in order to obtain a certificate, the website owner, the Requestor, will submit a certificate signing request (CSR), or its equivalent, containing the web server's public key, along with other information, to a certification authority (CA) and the CA, when satisfied as to the identity of the Requestor, will issue a certificate containing the web server's public key and sign the certificate using the CA's private key. A traditional method for vetting the web server Requestor is shown in
A computer system and process for automated authentication, processing and issuance of digital certificates, wherein web server domain-control vetting is employed in the identification and authorization of the Requestor. Domain-control vetting, in accordance with the present invention, includes the mandatory selection of Approver contact addresses by the Requestor wherein the Approver contact addresses, for example, email addresses, have been generated based on domain information. A Requestor requests a web server certificate from a certificate authority, the certificate authority receives the request. The certificate authority generates Approver email addresses, and the Requestor is required to select an Approver email address or addresses. On the other hand, the Requestor can submit one or more email addresses and if one or more of these email addresses are also certificate authority generated Approver email addresses, then the certificate authority can accept the Requestor submitted email addresses that match. The certificate authority contacts the Approver using the selected email address or addresses and requests that the Approver approve issuance of the certificate. If approved, the certificate authority accepts the request, and creates and signs the certificate and the signed certificate is sent to the Requestor.
The aspects, features and advantages of the present invention will become better understood with regard to the following description with reference to the accompanying drawings. What follows are preferred embodiments of the present invention. It should be apparent to those skilled in the art that the foregoing is illustrative only and not limiting, having been presented by way of example only. All the features disclosed in this description may be replaced by alternative features serving the same purpose, and equivalents or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise. Therefore, numerous other embodiments of the modifications thereof are contemplated as falling within the scope of the present invention as defined herein and equivalents thereto. Use of absolute terms, such as "will not . . . will," "shall," "shall not," "must," and "must not," are not meant to limit the present invention as the embodiments disclosed herein are merely exemplary.
This is a description for how the invention would apply to automated identification, processing, and issuance of digital certificates. For example, SSL server certificates, in this case through an Issuer's Web portal. This is only one of many potential systems, process flows and applications for the invention.
In accordance with the present invention the automated methods and systems for Requestor identification may be referred to as domain-control vetting, an example of the process for domain-control vetting is shown in
In initiating the request, the Requestor fills out an order form including Certificate Signing Request (CSR), and order contact information. See
Next the Requestor is presented with a list of potential Approver emails. See
In the first type, the system obtains the technical and administrative contacts from the Whols system—a database mandated by ICANN to be maintained by the domain registrars. In the case the system cannot determine the exact role of the person it will, in certain instances, pull out any e-mail address, for example the e-mail addresses in the response message could be for administrative, technical, billing or other e-mail addresses.
In the second type, the following list of mail box names, namely: admin, administrator, hostmaster, info, root, ssladmin, sysadmin, webmaster, or other names, may be pre-appended to the 2, 3, 4, . . . N component domain of the certificate being requested. For example, if the requested certificate was for "us.secure.geotrust.com", then the system in accordance with this embodiment of the present invention would allow the following: email@example.com; email@example.com; and email@example.com for each and every of the "mail boxes" listed above.
In the third type, "standard", fixed address sent to the CA's customer support group (email@example.com) where they will address this on a case by case basis. For example, by sending it to email@example.com or email@example.com.
The Requestor chooses an Approver email, reviews the order information, agrees to the subscriber agreement and completes the order, including payment, and can review the order. See
An e-mail is sent to the administrative and technical contacts acknowledging the receipt of the order, and the Approver e-mail is sent to the Approver. See
The Requestor in this embodiment is either the Web domain name registrant who will receive and use the SSL server certificate on the site, or a hosting company/Internet service provider or other agent acting upon the registrant's behalf, views initial certificate order pages and chooses to "order now." This brings Subscriber to a detailed instruction page, including technical assistance and hyperlinks to other resources and instructions. To proceed, Requestor clicks on "apply now" and is taken to the next page. See
The Requestor completes an Enrollment Form providing Requestor Contact and Technical Contact information (including email address) for future communications from Issuer. Requestor generates a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) through standard computer software, and pastes a copy of the CSR in the field indicated on the Enrollment Form to request the SSL server certificate. This page and other pages contain relevant terms and conditions for the transaction and process (e.g., references to the applicable Certificate Practice Statement. To proceed, Requestor clicks "submit." See
The Enrollment form and other pages in the process are interactive and self-correcting, requiring the Requestor to correct errors and add omitted but necessary information before proceeding.
After submitting the Enrollment Form, the Requestor is asked to confirm basic information elements extracted from the Form, including information concerning the Requestor's server's fully qualified domain name, organization, organizational unit, city, state, and country that was extracted from the CSR generated by the Requestor and pasted into the form. This data is presented for approval in the exact form that it will be inserted automatically in the SSL server certificate generated by this process and invention. See
The Requestor is also required to select an email address for the official person (the "Approver") associated with the domain name who will be asked to approve the issuance of the certificate with the specific data elements contained in the CSR. See
The Approver Email Addresses can be generated or selected according to different algorithms designed for security or other purposes. They may be selected by automated and/or online processes which are also part of the automated process and invention, or they may be selected by off-line processes. As an example, the Approver Email Addresses can be composed some or all of the following data and algorithms: (1) elements created dynamically and automatically from Issuer or third party data sources in response to data or choices made by the Requestor, (2) elements created dynamically and automatically from data submitted by the Requestor, and (3) elements created dynamically and automatically or statically from off-line or pre-set Issuer or other algorithms. It should also be noted that alternately, instant messaging or other such electronic communication means could be implemented in addition to or in place of email technology for this aspect to the present invention.
In this case, as shown in
In another embodiment, the Requestor's domain name as entered into an enrollment form and/or as contained in the contact email addresses entered into an enrollment form submitted by the Requestor is compared with the domain name contained in the CN field of the CSR submitted by the Requestor, and the application is rejected if the two names do not match.
In another embodiment, the Requestor's 0 or OU name(s) (organization and organization unit), L (city), S (state or province), and/or C (country) information contained in the CN field of the CSR submitted by the Requestor is compared with the corresponding data submitted by the Requestor or other data, and the application is rejected if the two names do not match. IN still yet another embodiment the proceeding comparisons are both employed.
These automatic and dynamic features can (1) provide additional protection against fraud or mistake, (2) help ensure that the CSR is only approved by an authorized person associated with the domain name that is the CN of the certificate, and (3) help ensure that the certificate is delivered to persons associated with the domain name that is the CN in the certificate.
The process could also include an automated check of any public or private information source via the Internet or any other communications means, including the Issuer's own data or the data of an official or unofficial third party source, followed by a comparison and decision process (e.g., approval or rejection), and this subprocess could occur at any time in the enrollment and certificate request and issuance process. In accordance with this algorithm, the chance of fraud or error in generation and delivery of the certificate to the wrong party is substantially reduced. In this case, the checking of the Official Email Addresses associated with the domain name contained in the CSR occurs automatically after the Requestor submits the Enrollment Form with the CSR pasted in, and the subsequent Enrollment pages were modified by using the information obtained through that automatic checking of a third party data source.
Other Approver Email Address choices are included in three additional columns to the right shown on
In other circumstances, the Approver Email Address choices could be composed of all three of the data and algorithms sources described above, or any combination thereof, or any other relevant sources.
As shown in
The Issuer's approval site may contain additional information, terms and conditions, and agreements for the Approver to agree to, or may simply contain a button, or other mechanism, allowing the Approver to approve or disapprove the certificate request. Because of the invention features described in connection with
If the Approver approves the certificate request, the Issuer's Certificate Authority automatically and dynamically generates the certificate and sends it by email to the Approver (and others, in accordance with the particular embodiment, such as the other contact persons listed in the original Enrollment Form). See
A sample automated message transmitting the digital certificate is shown as
If the Approver disapproves the request, the Approver (and others, such as the other contact persons listed in the original Enrollment Form) receives an automated notice confirming the disapproval. See
Alternative process feature: The Enrollment Form can request payment information (e.g., credit card information) from the Requestor, and the process can automatically and dynamically check for payment authorization and post the charge upon approval of the certificate request by the Approver. As a further alternative, information gained through the automatic payment process can be used for comparison and/or verification of other information contained in the Enrollment Form and/or CSR, and further process decisioning (e.g., accept or reject) can Having now described preferred embodiments of the invention, it should be apparent to those skilled in the art that the foregoing is illustrative only and not limiting, having been presented by way of example only. All the features disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract, and drawings) may be replaced by alternative features serving the same purpose, and equivalents or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise. Therefore, numerous other embodiments of the modifications thereof are contemplated as falling within the scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereto.
For example, the techniques may be implemented in hardware or software, or a combination of the two. Preferably, the techniques are implemented in computer programs executing on programmable computers that each include a processor, a storage medium readable by the processor (including volatile and non-volatile memory and/or storage elements), at least one input device and one or more output devices. Program code is applied to data entered using the input device to perform the functions described and to generate output information. The output information is applied to one or more output devices. Each program is preferably implemented in a high level procedural or object oriented programming language to communicate with a computer system, however, the programs can be implemented in assembly or machine language or other computer language, if desired. In any case, the language may be a compiled or interpreted language.
In another embodiment of the present invention the Requestor may engage a partner of the CA to assist in obtaining the certificate for the Requestor. The partner may perform varying levels of the ordering process workflow.
A telephone verification step could be added to the process where by the person requesting the certificate, or the Approver are called via a computer program and asked to enter some information that is displayed on the web browser. The intent of this is to collect another verified piece of information—the phone number (in addition to the Approver e-mail address) to reduce risk and improve security while at the same time making this an automated, quick process. The person called may be requested to say something that is then recorded by the system. This voice print can be used later to verify user identity if needed (for example, by law enforcement). At the very least, a voice recording further inhibits attempts at fraud.
For example, when the Requestor gets to the order summary page and presses confirm a new page is displayed with a code (PIN) on it and some instructions. They are asked to be ready for a phone call at the specified phone number (entered as part of the contact information earlier, or from a corporate data registry (DUNS or similar), or from the Whols server data, or other sources). They agree, then the system calls them and asks them to enter the PIN into the phone when prompted. They are also asked to say their name and other information which is recorded for later use. The phone system passes this PIN back to the enrollment engine where the values are compared. If successful, the system has verified that the Requestor is at the particular phone number and this creates a better audit trail for finding this person later and reduces the risk of fraud.
If the Approver is the individual to be called (as opposed to the Requestor as described above), the phone call would be performed after they receive their Approver e-mail, come to the Approver site, review the order and press the Approve button. At that point the system would call them and perform the verification. If successful, the system would then issue the certificate.
Another embodiment of the present invention would also employ corporate registration data. A record for each order/company in a public registration database would be created or accessed with a globally unique identifier with user disclosed information about them or their company—much like DUNs numbers today (www.dnb.com). This is currently a perceived important aspect of traditional vetting where companies are highly encouraged to get a DUNs number by self-reporting some information about the company. This would preferably be a globally unique ID that can be used to track the certificate back to some additional identifying profile information.
This profile data would be linked to and from the certificate (which would have the number included, and probably the URL to the data), and perhaps elsewhere at the CA. Users would be able to opt-out of this data being published if they desired. The CA would collect the information, post to this repository, create or obtain the globally unique number, and include it in the certificate for the user. Currently users need to go and do this prior to requesting the certificate, so this is a quicker, easier process. Finally, if users have a number already, they can enter it during enrollment and the CA would link to that previously registered entity.
Use of DNS server ownership for verifying domain-control. In the case a CA partner is hosting the Requestor's web site, such service normally includes entering and maintaining the DNS entry. This is a mapping between the domain name and the IP address where the server actually resides. Every web connection made by a browser looks up the domain name in a DNS server, obtains the IP address, and then connects to that IP address. If an entity has control over the DNS server for this domain, it has control over the domain.
If a request for a certificate for domain name "domain.com" is from a partner (Partner A), the CA can do a DNS look-up and find the authoritative DNS server for this domain. The CA can compare this with the list of DNS servers registered with us for Partner A. If they match, the CA can automatically approve the request, generate the certificate and e-mail to the requester, tech, billing and Partner A registered contact, or send an approval e-mail to a previously registered e-mail address for Partner A. As before, it should also be noted that alternately, instant messaging or other such electronic communication means could be implemented in addition to or in place of email technology for this aspect to the present invention.
Each such computer program is preferably stored on a storage medium or device (e.g., CD-ROM, hard disk or magnetic diskette) that is readable by a general or special purpose programmable computer for configuring and operating the computer when the storage medium or device is read by the computer to perform the procedures described in this document. The system may also be considered to be implemented as a computer-readable storage medium, configured with a computer program, where the storage medium so configured causes a computer to operate in a specific and predefined manner. For illustrative purposes the present invention is embodied in the system configuration, method of operation and product or computer-readable medium, such as floppy disks, conventional hard disks, CD-ROMS, Flash ROMS, nonvolatile ROM, RAM and any other equivalent computer memory device. It will be appreciated that the system, method of operation and product may vary as to the details of its configuration and operation without departing from the basic concepts disclosed herein.
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Sanford Mayor Cornelia Olive, Mayor Pro Tem Samuel Gaskins and Council member J.D. Williams, along with City Manager Hal Hegwer and City Attorney Susan Patterson, participated in the N.C. League of Municipalities's Town Hall Day Wednesday, a day to meet with state legislators to discuss bills that may impact cities and towns.
"It's a good time to sit down, face to face," Hegwer said. "It's always really positive, and we look forward to it every year."
The day gives local leaders a chance to see where their representatives are actively working to resolve complicated issues, he said. City leaders were scheduled to meet with all of Sanford's state legislators, including Rep. Mike Stone, Rep. Deb McManus and Sen. Ronald Rabin.
The main concern is the prospect of changing Lee County's economic region, which would jeopardize established regional partnerships, Olive said. The goal of Senate Bill 127 is to centralize business marketing and recruiting along with N.C. departments of commerce, transportation and environment.
"We have no ties to the Charlotte area," Olive said. "I can understand anybody's interest in efficiencies and economizing when it is practical, but it needs to be practical for everybody."
Gaskins, agreed, and said adjusting Lee County's affiliation would cause damage to the local economy.
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The Town of Broadway did not participate in this year's Town Hall Day, but did pass a resolution against changing economic regions this week, said Broadway Mayor Donald Andrews.
"We are concerned we were going from the Raleigh area to the Charlotte area," he said. "We understand what the state is wanting to do by consolidating, but pulling Lee County to Charlotte, if you look at the map, Raleigh is a better fit."
Olive said she also intended to speak about an occupancy tax — a tax placed on motels and inns — to fund tourism efforts by the city.
"It is something we need so badly in Sanford and Lee County so we can promote our area adequately," she said.
As shown by a series of joint meetings between the city and the Lee County Board of Commissioners, communication among leaders proves to be essential to tackle a variety of items, Olive said.
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The application lets you search thousands of podcasts, so it will be interesting to see if the podcast search engine will have a web interface. For now, Google Listen is an experiment and Google still has work to do to improve "networking, sdcard management, download storage, subscription updates, search quality, indexing more web audio, additional languages, and user experience".
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