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I'm going to translate for you the lovely lyrics of Zoé's song Frio which I kind of don't understand so sometimes going from spanish to english helps me a bit. Major use of Diccionarios.com on this one. 😉 (I hope to do their song Polar also. I've already translated their song Love which makes great use of imagery. I mean I can just picture an anemone of light!)
|Zoé – Frío
aliento de bélico acento.
superhipnotizadores pájaros invertebrados son.
frío, frío cuando me hablas,
breath of military accent.
(they) are super-hypnotizer invertebrate birds.
cold, cold when you talk to me,
Ok, I still don't know what to make of that. He sees in his mind awful images of the world ending with military taking over (perhaps causing it) and gets mixed messages from society (inverted transmissions). Someone, I'm going to assume a 'girlfriend,' isn't much help either. She is distant and wants to define who he should be and how he should live his life.


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Hampden-sydney vs. Randolph-macon
April 1, 2009
|Micah Keller
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|Carter Mavromatis
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|Cole Hawthorne
|(1, 0)
|Thomas Hovis
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|Doug Carpenter
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|Kenny Mathison
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|Kyle Jett
|(1, 0)
|Mark Bagby
|10 (0.526)
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|Patrick Egan
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|Tyler Midwinter
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|Connor Barnes
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|Adam Liberto
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|The Game Story:
|HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, VA (April 1, 2009)�Freshman Micah Keller (Richmond, VA/Christchurch) had a breakout day with five goals and two assists to help his Tigers gain their second straight win. In a back and forth battle, it was Hampden-Sydney that prevailed 12-9.
Randolph-Macon was the first to strike scoring just 30 seconds into the game, but Hampden-Sydney came right back as Andrew Mahoney (Littleton, CO/Littleton) notched his first goal of the day just six seconds later to tie the game. In the seesaw first quarter, both teams traded goals and ended the stanza at a 3-3 tie.
Randolph-Macon started the second quarter just as the first, with Patrick Egan making the score 4-3. For the next 14 minutes, it was all Hampden-Sydney. Keller tallied two back to back goals with Kenny Mathison (East Northport, NY/Northport) and Carter Mavromatis (Virginia Beach, VA/Cape Henry) tacking on two more to give Hampden-Sydney a 7-4 advantage at intermission.
Randolph-Macon came out in the second half fired up, reeling off four straight goals and giving the Yellow Jackets their second lead of the day at 8-7.
That's when the rookie had enough.
Keller continued to take over the game scoring the game-tying and game-winning goals. Once the fourth quarter started, he tacked on one more to put the Tigers up 10-8. Mahoney also caught fire in the stretch scoring two more of his own.
Randolph-Macon tried to answer, but came up short scoring just one more goal from freshman Tyler Midwinter.
Thomas Hovis (Richmond, VA/St. Christopher's), Bill Tunney (Hampstead, MD/North Carroll), and Mavromatis all led the Tigers in groundballs with five. Tunney also had a standout face-off day winning 13 of his 15 face-offs. Mark Bagby (Boston, MA/Marshfield) had a solid day between the pipes with 10 huge saves on day.
Hampden-Sydney won the groundball battle 39-23 and out shot Randolph-Macon 38-36. The Tigers also dominated in face-offs winning 17 to the Jackets' 7.
With the win, Hampden-Sydney improves to 4-5 on the year and 2-0 in the ODAC.
The Tigers will return to action on Saturday, April 4 as they travel to Salem, VA to take on Roanoke College at 2:00pm.


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Buffalo Sabres owner Golisano donates $4 million for athletic complex at Ave Maria
AVE MARIA - It will be easier to get a seat at Ave Maria University athletic events thanks to billionaire Tom Golisano.
Golisano donated $4 million for an athletic complex at Ave Maria. A native of Rochester, N.Y., Golisano made his money as the founder of the Paychex payroll processing company and also owns the Buffalo Sabres.
"People call this type of thing a gift or a grant. In my opinion it's an investment," Golisano said Thursday at a press conference in the university's student union. "This is such a unique institution. You guys are setting a pace and a direction that is so unique and so important and today so needed, it was actually a very easy decision."
Golisano, who has long history in New York state politics, changed his official residence to Naples earlier this year in order to save more than $5 million dollars a year in taxes. He wrote an editorial about the move in the New York Post.
Ave Maria's future Tom Golisano Field House will include a gym, training rooms, weight training center, locker rooms for home and away teams and offices for coaches, said Tom Monaghan, the university's founder. It will seat about 950 people.
The university is applying to Collier County for permits to begin construction, and they hope to start in early 2010, said Nick Healy, the university's president.
The gym is the university's most important missing piece right now, Monaghan said. The university's teams currently practice at the town's prep school and space and schedules are tight. Spectators spilled out into the hallway at the last men's basketball game.
Minutes before the press conference started, women's basketball coach Bob Batson pointed out the new gym's features to members of his team, all dressed in Ave Maria athletic gear.
"Oh, that's a big weight room," one girl exclaimed, excited.
"It's going to be fantastic," another said.
The donation came about because someone told Monaghan that he should speak with Golisano about a donation, Monaghan said. So the university's founder contacted Golisano, and they set up a time for him to visit Ave Maria.
"He did his basic sales work," Golisano said. "You prospect, then you present and then you close."
Golisano is an active philanthropist with his own foundation, but the $4 million for Ave Maria was a personal grant, he said. His foundation has supported many causes, from hospitals and universities to the William J. Clinton Foundation.
Volleyball players Megan Arago, 18, and Lauren Nelson, 20, sat through the press conference and applauded when Golisano and Monaghan spoke about the new sports complex.
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Tropic Ocean Airways, the Fort Lauderdale and Miami based seaplane airline owned and operated by a U.S. Navy TOPGUN fighter pilot, performed another first last month by departing Bimini for the first international night flight in the island's history.
Known for returning commercial seaplane service to Bimini in 2011, Tropic Ocean Airways has developed and operated Resorts World Bimini's seaplane flights since August 2013 in addition to Tropic's existing Bimini seaplane service.
To augment Tropic's regular seaplane service direct to Resorts World Bimini, the team took delivery of Resorts World Bimini's first amphibian aircraft in late March from the factory, flying it over to South Bimini airport for the inaugural event. The seaplane was parked prominently behind the stage where various members of the Bahamian government, including Prime Minister Christie, spoke along with the Chairman of Resorts World International.
Rob Ceravolo, CEO of Tropic, attended the celebration. "It was a historic event and I'm excited that we were a part of it," Ceravolo said. "I was honestly very proud of the Tropic crew during the chairman's speech….he spoke about our seaplane operations and how they have grown to be one of the largest in the world. Our team actually developed the operational procedures for safely flying to and docking at Resorts World."
Historically, all seaplane flights operated to the southern part of the channel, where the waterway is much wider with more available space. The dock at Resorts World is in the narrow part of the channel at the northern end.
As a Naval Aviator with two aircraft carrier deployments, Ceravolo is no stranger to challenges in aviation. "We basically reinvented the Bimini seaplane operation. The weather this winter was difficult in that narrow channel, but we developed sound Operational Procedures that our crews utilize and we continue to manage a safe and successful operation. I am very proud of what the Tropic team has accomplished in a short amount of time."
After the conclusion of the ceremony, Ceravolo, along with Nick Veltre, a Marine Corps veteran and co-owner of Tropic, climbed into the cockpit of the amphibious aircraft and departed Bimini with Resorts World employees onboard, thus completing the first international night flight to Fort Lauderdale in Bimini's history.
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Just curious, does anyone have any blogs or news sites that they frequent?
I usually hit LinuxToday and their associated blog. Slashdot is required reading for all geeks I am pretty sure. LinuxInsider is another one I hit pretty often, there are others but I can't think of them off the top of my head.
I am really interested in finding more Linux in the business type blogs, looking for suggestions.
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- sometimes digg.com and fark.com in regards to their tech articles
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Sorry but I fail to see the funny in this...
I must have missed the punchline because this is just creepy not funny....
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Wow, never knew apples were like that O.o Interesting and the voice was funny in it's own way. Good job :)
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haha Animation needs just a touch of work, the stroy could be ya know an actual story, however but for just some reason I love this. Its so lame its groovy. Cant wait for more.


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SXSW 2008 Day 4: Open Thread, and igLiz setlist photo updates
It's Saturday of SXSW 2008. It's rainy and gross and sad in Seattle. So I am sad, and Liz is probably very happy. How are you holding up, whether in Austin or Seattle or elsewhere?? Tell us in the comments below.
And check out these setlist photos imaginary "superfan" Liz just sent from the Los Campesinos! day party and yesterday's Scotland Yard Gospel Choir set...
Los Campesinos! "sweet cheeks" setlist
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir setlist -- not sure if they were gonna play "I Never Thought I Could Feel This Way For a Boy"?
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Aw Dana I'm sorry you're sad D: The rain was terrifying today, my newspaper editors and I had to drive down to Auburn in it! But our paper got 2nd in state at a competition there!
These setlists are adorable, but I still think BOAT wins for cutest setlist :D


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Easy to use, multi-threading, resume broken downloads (hence leech), setup installation not required, fast, works with Win 7, PassV mode, NOOP, bookmarks
Out of date, too bad that Jan? is still not around to update this software because I've been relying on for years, but still works great with Win 7. It probably isn't as secure as some of the newer SFTP clients, but who cares...
LeechFTP is highly recommended for beginning to advanced users. It still works with Windows 7 and it's still as fast (no comparison to browser FTP). It's a no-brainer for those who intermittently need an FTP client to download files.


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Queens vs. Lees-mcrae
February 21, 2009
|Stephan Leblanc
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|Louie Boyle
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|Brian Rose
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|Brian Masterson
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|Brian Lipscomb
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|Andrew Capallo
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|Corey Geroy
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|David Weise
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|Branden Stansley
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|Brandon Macknew
|5 (0.556)
|Tyler Rauch
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|Neil Sleight
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|Kirk Rogers
|(1, 1)
|Michael Lasalle
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|Matt Markey
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|Bryan Thompson
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|Kyle Ficken
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|Andy Nesdill
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|CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Stephan LeBlanc (Restoule, Ontario, Highland)scored the game-high five goals in the Queens University of Charlotte season-opening win. The Royals defeated Conference Carolinas opponent Lees-McRae College 14-6 at the Queens University of Charlotte Sports Complex at Marion Diehl Park.
The Royals (1-0/1-0 CC) scored the first goal of the season a little over four minutes into play. Louie Boyle (Bel Air, Md., Bel Air), who contributed four goals in the game, was assisted by LeBlanc on the goal. Queens gave up a Lees-McRae (0-2/0-1 CC) goal just under a minute later.
Before the first quarter ended, Queens tallied two more goals, one from Andrew Capallo (Bel Air, Md., C.M. Wright), assisted by LeBlanc, and the other unassisted from David Weise (Chesapeake Beach, Md., Huntingtown).
In the second quarter the Royals out-scored the Bobcats again 3-1. At the half, Queens was up 6-2.
The third quarter went by scoreless until LeBlanc netted his first of four goals in the quarter at the 7:32 mark. LeBlanc would put another past goalie Andy Nesdill a few minutes later. Lees-McRae scored their third goal of the game, but Queens followed up with three man-up goals in the last 1:59 of the quarter to lead13-3. Two of the last three were from LeBlanc and Boyle had one.
The Bobcats started the fourth off with a goal from Bryan Thompson. LeBlanc scored the only Royals� goal of the quarter unassisted.
Queens pulled starting goalie Brandon Macknew (Abington, Md., Bel Air) with 5:31 to go and Tyler Rauch (Lake Mary, Fla., Lake Mary) came in for Queens. The Royals gave up two unassisted goals in the last 1:51 to make the final 14-6.
Macnew made five saves for Queens, Rauch two. On the other end Nesdill had 11 saves and Michael Fahey made three in the eight minutes he played.
Queens out-shot the Bobcats 45-15 and also edged the visitors in ground balls 39-30.
LeBlanc led the team with 11 shots, seven on goal, and Boyle had eight shots, two on goal.
Neil Sleight and Matt Markey each had three shots on goal for Lees-McRae.
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4. The strong, silent type is overrated. "He shares his heart with me, his struggles, his fears and his dreams," Michelle tells TODAY Moms. "Many men would not do that, but God's word says that before honor comes humility. When he learns to humble himself before God and me, it builds him up so much in my eyes."
Translation: Jim Bob totally cries whenever that Google Chrome commercial comes on.
5. Perfectionism kills romance. While many of us are trained to be detail-oriented and strive for perfection at work, Jim Bob says bringing that attitude home can be a relationship-killer. Withholding praise makes your loved ones lose that loving feeling. "Expectations ruin relationships," Jim Bob warns.
What this says to me is that Jim Bob probably never helps Michelle out with the dishes. Bastard.
6. Make time for date night. Michelle and Jim Bob go out, just the two of them, every Saturday night. Sure, they often end up talking about the kids, but it's still an important time for them to reconnect. They usually go to Michelle's favorite ice cream shop. "It's a really special time," Jim Bob says.
OK seriously? Going to a frigging ice cream shop constitutes a "really special time?" Clearly those of us who came to this article looking for buttplugs and S&M tips are going to be severely disappointed.
7. Never stop learning. After 30 years of marriage and 19 kids, Jim Bob and Michelle are still interested in discovering others' advice for a happy partnership. They recently met an Amish couple who'd celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and asked them their secret. Their answer? The phrases, "I was wrong" and "Will you forgive me?"
Who the hell asks Amish people for marriage secrets? These are people that don't believe in deodorant or internet porn, and are not to be trusted at all whatsoever. Also, how are you supposed to get the upper hand in a marriage by admitting you're wrong all the time? Worst advice ever. Admitting you're wrong is a show of weakness, and — much like in war — in marriage you can never let your guard down.
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by Charles Gounod
The drama of Romeo and Juliet lives again in Arena.
Read the plot of the show.
A chorus introduces the story of the endless feud between the Montague and Capulet families, and of the love between their children, Roméo and Juliette.
Verona, 14th century.
At a masked ball at the Capulet palace, Tybalt waits for his cousin Juliette and assures her suitor, Count Paris, that her beauty will overwhelm him. Capulet presents his daughter to the guests and invites them to dance. The crowd disperses and Roméo, a Montague, enters with his friends Mercutio and Benvolio. He tells them about a strange dream he has had, but Mercutio dismisses it as the work of the fairy Queen Mab ("Mab, reine des mensonges"). Roméo watches Juliette dance and is instantly entranced with her. Juliette tells her nurse that she is not interested in marriage ("Je veux vivre"), but when Roméo approaches her, both feel that they are meant for each other. Just as they discover each other's identity, Tybalt returns. Roméo masks himself and rushes off. Tybalt identifies the intruder as Montague's son, but Capulet restrains him, ordering the party to continue.
Later that night, Roméo enters the Capulets' garden, looking for Juliette ("Ah! lève-toi, soleil!"). When she steps out onto her balcony, he comes forward and declares his love. Servants briefly interrupt their encounter. Alone again, they vow to marry.
Roméo comes to Friar Laurence's cell at daybreak, followed by Juliette and her nurse, Gertrude. Convinced of the strength of their love, the priest agrees to marry them, hoping that the union will end the fighting between their families.
Outside Capulet's house, Roméo's page, Stéphano, sings a mocking song. This provokes a fight with several of the Capulets. Mercutio protects Stéphano and is challenged by Tybalt. Roméo appears and tries to make peace, asking Tybalt to forget about the hatred between their families, but after Tybalt kills Mercutio, Roméo stabs him. The Duke of Verona arrives, and both factions cry for justice. Roméo is banished from the city.
Roméo and Juliette awake after their secret wedding night. She forgives him for killing her cousin, and after they have assured each other of their love, Roméo reluctantly leaves for exile (Duet: "Nuit d'hyménée"). Capulet enters and tells his daughter that she must marry Paris that same day. She is left alone, desperate, with Friar Laurence, who gives her a sleeping potion that will make her appear dead. He promises that she will wake with Roméo beside her. Juliette drinks the potion ("Amour, ranime mon courage"). When Capulet and the guests arrive to lead her to the chapel, she collapses.
Roméo arrives at the Capulets' crypt and discovers Juliette. He believes her to be dead and drinks poison. At that moment, she awakens, and the lovers share a final dream of a future together. As Roméo grows weaker, Juliette takes out a dagger that she has hidden in her clothes and stabs herself. The lovers die praying for God's forgiveness.


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Lewis, Bonnie, et. al. "The Holy Trinity." Faithology.com. Faithology, 4 March 2014. Web. 5 October 2015.
Lewis, B., et. al. (2014, Mar 4). The Holy Trinity. Faithology. Retrieved from http://faithology.com/symbols/holytrinity
Lewis, Bonnie, et. al. "The Holy Trinity" Faithology, LLC. Last modified March 4, 2014. http://faithology.com/symbols/holytrinity
Faithology, LLC, 2012. http://faithology.com/symbols/holytrinity (Accessed Oct 5, 2015).. The Holy Trinity.
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Symbols of the Trinity are plentiful and found throughout Christian church history. They are designed to represent the Christian doctrine that God manifests himself in three distinct ways—as God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. References to the three personages are found throughout the New Testament,1Bible: 2 Corinthians 13:14, Ephesians 4:4-6, 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14, and 1 Peter 1:2. but it was not until the Nicene Creed was composed in 325 CE that the doctrine of the "Holy Trinity" was established. Shortly afterward, symbols representing the Holy Trinity began to emerge.
Equilateral Triangle
One of the earliest symbols of the Trinity is the equilateral triangle—an upward-pointing triangle that has sides of equal length and angles of equal size. The equality of the three parts of the triangle represents both the unity and the distinctness of the three persons of the Trinity.
Three Circles
Another representation of the Trinity consists of three circles interwoven together. Each circle is equal in size, indicating that all persons of the Trinity are equal in importance. The circles themselves attest to the eternal nature of the Trinity, which has no beginning and no end. Their interwoven pattern shows unity between the three persons of the Trinity.
Triangle and Circle Interwoven
A circle is sometimes added to or interwoven with an equilateral triangle to emphasize the eternal nature of the Holy Trinity.
Six-pointed Star
This star is formed by two equilateral triangles in which one triangle points directly upward and the other triangle points directly down. Together, these create a six-pointed star that symbolizes the act of creation: God created the heavens and the Earth, and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit concur with God the Father. This six-pointed star is said by historians to be modeled after the Shield of David in the Old Testament.2Bible: 1-2 Samuel Occasionally, a circle is added, interwoven with the triangles to emphasize the unending nature and existence of the Holy Trinity.
This star is formed by overlapping two equilateral triangles of the same size, the two triangles pointing in opposite directions, one facing up and the other down. Together, these triangles create a six-pointed star that symbolizes the act of creation: God created the heavens and the Earth, and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit concur with God the Father. This six-pointed star is said by historians to be modeled after the Shield of David in the Old Testament.2 Occasionally, a circle is added, interwoven with the triangles to emphasize the unending nature and existence of the Holy Trinity.
The Triquetra
The triquetra is one of the best-known symbols of the Trinity and is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful as well. In place of circles, three equal arcs are intertwined and joined together, giving the appearance of one large arc. The intersections of the arcs may be sharp or rounded. The three equal arcs express the equality of the three persons of the Trinity, the union expresses the union of the Trinity, and the continuous arc expresses the unending nature of the Trinity. In addition, the appearance of one large arc created by interweaving arcs expresses the indivisibility of the Trinity. Occasionally, a circle or triangle interwoven with the arcs is added to create a more decorative figure.
Shield of the Trinity
The Shield of the Trinity has many variations. The traditional version is three circles connected by three bars of equal length, forming the sides of a downward-pointing triangle. The circle on the top-left contains the word "Father," the top-right circle contains the word "Son," and the bottom circle contains the words "Holy Spirit." In the center of the triangle is another circle circumscribing the word "God," and this center circle is connected to the other three circles bars of equal length. The center bars are inscribed with the word "is," while the outside bars are inscribed with the phrase "is not."
In the traditional Shield, all words are written in Latin. They form the following phrases:
- Father is not Son.
- Father is not Holy Spirit.
- Son is not Holy Spirit.
- Son is not Father.
- Holy Spirit is not Father.
- Holy Spirit is not Son.
- Father is God.
- Son is God.
- Holy Spirit is God.
- God is Father.
- God is Son.
- God is Holy Spirit.
These statements reflect the doctrine of the Trinity as explained in the Nicene Creed. The staging of these words is purposeful in that they can be read from any direction and from any starting point, emphasizing the unending and undivided nature of the Holy Trinity. Variations include an upward-pointing triangle with the Father at the top, curved bars instead of straight bars, triangles instead of circles or a star in the center in place of circle or triangle.
The Fleur-de-lis
Traditionally, the fleur-de-lis is used to represent the Virgin Mary. Since lilies have three sprouted tips, it is also associated with the Trinity.
The Shamrock
The shamrock, used as a symbol of the Trinity, is based on a legend of the missionary St. Patrick. A group of pagans tested him, asking him to give proof of the Trinity. St. Patrick looked around. Finding a clover, he plucked it and asked the pagans if what he was holding was one leaf or three leaves. He then expanded his questioning: If it was, indeed, one leaf then why has it three lobes of equal sides? If it were three leaves, then why did it have one stem? No one could explain this mystery. St. Patrick then challenged them: If they could not explain something as simple as a shamrock, then how could they understand something as complex as the Trinity?


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Liberty Tax Service office is taking up a classroom collection.
The local office, 705 W. Rose St., is collecting school supplies for teachers and coats and gently used backpacks for children in need in Walla Walla.
Items most requested include glue sticks, markers, pencils, colored pencils, dry erase markers, highlighters, printer paper, construction paper, composition books, portfolio folders, binders, notebooks, tri-fold boards, Play-Doh, boxes of tissue, zip top bags in all sizes, electronic pencil sharpeners and hand sanitizer.
Many charitable donations are tax deductible, too, said local Liberty Tax franchise owner Sharon Dodgin. For more information, call 526-5081. A Liberty Tax office is also located in Waitsburg at 210 Preston Ave.
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How long do the batteries last on a full charge cycle, and what is the starting percentage… with the Magic Mouse? with the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard?
I'm not sure why Apple pulled my question a few days ago. There was no profanity and it was respectfully commented on one time.
My question might help sway many of the recent negative reviews.
Whenever I've used 2200 mAh Energizer batteries in my Magic Mouse, the percentage has always started at 76% or lower, and never consistent. I was informed rechargeables are only 1.2v compared to regular alkaline which are 1.5v. Perhaps, the software meter in OS X may not be taking the lower voltage into consideration?
The NiMh Energizer batteries in conjunction with the Energizer 15-min charger I own are AWFUL. They only last 3 to 5 days depending on a bunch of variables. I would like to know, BASED ON EXPERIENCE, how long these Apple batteries last on a full cycle using their charger. I don't think anyone wants to buy another dud no matter what statistics tell us.
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A 15 minute battery charger (of any brand or any "fast" charger) will simply kill any rechargeable battery quicker. Toss your 15 minute charger in the trash. Your batteries will thank you.
The Apple charger is a "smart" charger. It can charge 1 or 2 batteries at a times (your Energizer charger can only charge 2 at a time) and deliver the correct charge for the correct time to not destroy the battery.
"How long do the batteries last on a full charge cycle"
Can't give a straight answer because it depends on many factors.
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i have just updated to lion and since then the battery percentage on the bluetooth menu item corresponding to my magic mouse says 100% so i believe they have fixed the issue of mis-representation of the battery's percentage.
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For me if I used the keyboard and mouse one hour a day for a month and still there is a 28% charge left. Amazing quality!!!
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Fashion Shows: Saturday 5:00pm and Sunday 2:00pm
Register to Win a Bridal Gown Valued at $1000
February is the season of love. In that spirit, the West Michigan Wedding Association is continuing their tradition of sharing profits with the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. The Bridal Show is to be held in the welcoming ballrooms of DeVos Place February 23 and 24.
Those who attend the show will have the opportunity to meet with the people who provide every kind of wedding service. Brides-to-be can book a banquet hall, limousine or photographer as well as line up a caterer, florist, a honeymoon and more.
The Bridal Show will have a Fashion Show featuring the recent trends in wedding attire. Attendees will see the latest wedding gowns, bridesmaid gowns and tuxedos. The Fashion Shows starts at 5:00pm on Saturday and 2:00 pm on Sunday. Everyone who attends can register to win a wedding gown valued at $1000 dollars.
The West Michigan Bridal Show presents brides-to-be the opportunity to do "one-stop-shopping" for their wedding. Many wedding vendors will offer discount coupons exclusively for the Bridal Show. For more information on discounts go to WMBridalShow.com.


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Om Malik on RSS spam clogging up places like Technorati, PubSub and Feedster (RSS Spam Cometh?).
It has been working well, but lately I have observed a few disturbing signs that can quickly turn RSS into yet another technology to avoid. RSS searches are now throwing up classifed listings from not just Craigslist but other sites. It shows the obvious shortcomings in the RSS search engines. This is going to be a bigger problem going forward - more and more people are indiscriminately churning out RSS feeds.
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Terry Heaton has more about RSS in advertising ("It's All About the Money").
Harry Hayes sent me a link yesterday to a new service by Northwest Airlines -- fare promotions and other items delivered via RSS. This is significant, because RSS makes it easy for retailers to talk directly to customers without spam issues. In the future, it's very possible that big, big advertisers won't be doing much advertising, because people interested in their wares will be able to subscribe to their RSS feeds -- by-passing the media companies altogether. One day you'll see local retail aggregator companies that deliver nothing but ads for clients -- sort of the "sale paper" of tomorrow. [link in original]
ClickZ has an interesting article on interesting uses of RSS for marketing: Real-Life RSS Marketing.
Forrester analyst Charlene Li enthuses about RSS apps. "This whole idea of light apps being built on top of RSS feeds. Why can't consumers just visit a Web site and build them?"
The Scobleizer has some more suggestions for improving RSS newsreaders (Some Ideas for News Aggregators). I'd listen to the man, he subscribes to more RSS feeds than anyone I know. But, shouldn't there be a way to note feeds that may be silent for more than 30 days, but then are revitalized?
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The EEJD Blog has put together a wonderful list of IP publications by lawfirms (Intellectual Property Publications by Firm). There are 22 lawfirms with IP-related publications as of this date and, after having checked all these sites, this seems to be a rich resource for IP research and analysis. The sites certainly vary in useability, but there is one consistent failure. Not a single one appears to support RSS!
Hello? I'm not going to sign up for email notification. I'm not going to check your website periodically. If you want the information you're producing to get out there, you have to make it available in a form people can use. Also, if you're trying to impress potential clients with how tech savvy you are, this isn't the way to do it.
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Lots of potential, not sure how well it will all work out in the end, however. Ionrss reports that Feedburner will be supporting Yahoo! Media RSS (Feedburner Media RSS Support - and soon Structured Blogging). via Marc's Voice
Scoble makes a good case that websites without RSS are a good marker for websites that are also lame (No RSS feed? It's a Genetic Marker for "Lame Site"). See also, his brief followup, More About RSS and Marketing Sites.
WIRED has a very interesting article on the various websites that make it easier to track campaign finance in the political system (Following the Money Made Easier). A number of the best websites are cited, such as Fundrace, Political Money Line, and my favorite, Open Secrets.
Worrisome Privacy Issues
Increased transparency in funding is all to the good (especially for larger donors), but I feel a little strange being able to know which of my neighbors have given $100 to Bush or Edwards (no local Kerry fans, apparently). How long will this data be held? Will these websites discourage people from donating to candidates not favored by their neighbors? What effect will this have on our politics?
More Efficient Tracking Desired
Of course, I would love for these websites to become even more efficient. What about email alerts and RSS feeds? You could subscribe to a candidate feed and be notified when they have new donations above a certain limit. You could have geographic feeds and industry feeds. You could track particular donors, especially industries, across a variety of candidates. Bloggers could make excellent use of such feeds.
Fix the Problem of Money in Politics
We really need to reduce the importance of money in politics (it'll never go away entirely). The more we undermine mass media, the better I think. A vast amount of political money is spent on television advertising, if we can change that paradigm with something like broadcatching we would be better off.
Bonus IP issue: The logo for Fundrace is highly reminiscent of Nascar's.
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Andrew Grumet reports that broadcatching actually picked up some interesting and unexpected content (March 26, 2004):
When I logged in this morning there was a BitTorrent window open and a copy of Free Culture on my hard drive. Simon put this Creatively Licensed work on LegalTorrents, and the Radio plugin did the rest. What a pleasant surprise! [links in original]
Speaking of LegalTorrents, Grumet also notes that they now have "a music feed, a books feed and a movies feed" (March 28, 2004).
The Blogdigger Development Blog has some interesting updates on their integration of broadcatching. One obvious problem is that promiscuous use of broadcatching can lead to your system trying to download more media than makes sense (Radio and BitTorrent):
So for the second moring in a row, I logged on to my computer and noticed things were a tad sluggish. The culprit: the collection of around 25 BitTorrent sessions that had been initiated from subscribing to the Blogdigger torrents.xml feed! I killed most of the sessions, as they were for things that I was not interested in, but I did keep a few running (like the latest episode of Scrubs!).
Blogdigger is also putting together feeds for different media, including their existing feed for torrents (Blogdigger Media!). As Chris Pirillo says, "All your torrents are belong to us."
Adam Curry notes that it would be great to get the audio version of Larry Lessig's new book, Free Culture, downloaded a chapter every morning (free culture audio boook). More interestingly, Curry points out how, since each chapter of the book is being read by different bloggers, RSS makes a lot of sense for aggregating the spacially diffuse files. He also points to his early writing on the topic of RSS+BitTorrent, RSS: A Cool Web Service, near the bottom of the post.
Digiwar considers some new uses for RSS, including broadcatching (RSS, more then headlines). One cool use of RSS he mentions is a concert notification system, which lets you know when a concert is announced and reminds 30 and 2 days before the concert. Why not add a broadcatching that sends you a copy of the concert the next day or so?
KnowProSE, doesn't have much to say, but his brief comment is an interesting take on the appeal of BitTorrent (All you wanted to know about BitTorrent and were afraid to ask).
As an old school IRCer, I stayed away from Napster, Kazaa and all those other things. But Bittorrent with RSS has a lot of potential, especially for expanding on existing uses.
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Everyday it seems that there is something cool and neat in the RSS/BitTorrent/Broadcatching realm. Today is no exception. For example, Brian Clark, proprietor of the excellent Outside the System, suggests two business models for broadcatching.
Additionally, the music hacktivists behind Downhill Battle have launched Banned Music, a website dedicated to distributing unauthorized sampled music mixes such as the infamous Grey Album (About BannedMusic). Without discussing the merits of their concept (see here, here, here, and here for my take on related issues), they have come up with an interesting technology. Since many people haven't yet installed a BitTorrent client, Banned Music wraps their initiating .torrent files in a Nullsoft scriptable installer so that people automatically install the necessary software when they attempt to download the music (A New BitTorrent Downloader). The potential for this approach with regard to broadcatching is apparent.
Read on for all the latest broadcatching news ...
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On Saturday, Andrew Grumet announced the release of RssReader 0.4d (RssReader 0.4d). In Andrew's words, "RssReader is TiVo-resident software that displays the contents of an RSS feed on your television." Of course, who the heck really wants to read RSS feeds on television? Sounds like one of those dotcom-era WebTV-like monstrosities. Instead, Andrew notes that "More interestingly, RssReader can schedule recordings from syndication feeds containing RSSTV extensions. This means you can subscribe your TiVo to a community-evolved ToDo list, such as the feed generated by Program My TiVo!" Absolutely, and something I think has amazing potential (RSS for TV, Music).
However, I also think that there is not only a desire for at least some RssReader functionality on television, but important reasons to make it happen. Indeed, perhaps a grant from Homeland Security to Grumet would be in order.
Imagine an RSS feed that would scroll at the bottom of your television display while you watched any other channel, a news ticker if you will. It would be just like the scrolling feeds on the news and financial networks, but would be overlayed on top of whatever you are currently watching. Most importantly, the content would come from an RSS feed.
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The Dowbrigade News is quite excited by the possibilities of broadcatching (Video Aggregator 1.0).
A broadcatching discussion has been taking place on a Yahoo! BitTorrent group (RSS + BitTorrent = Broadcatching).
Jonathan Schull jumps on the broadcatching bandwagon and points to an RSS torrent feed (As Scott Raymond Foretold).
Dave Brondsema is experimenting with Grumet's work. If it works well, he promises to port it to a Linux client (spring break accomplishments).
Paolo Valdermarin sees potential for videobloggers (Are We Ready for Videoblogging).
realkosh, a self-described "aussie music fan," thinks the broadcatching concept is "excellent" (Promotional music should be free). He also has some interesting things to say comparing music to peanuts:
When was the last time you bought a peanut? Peanuts are something you just get for free. People buy peanuts to give to other people for free. I'm sure there are hundreds of people out there who buy more peanuts for other people than for themselves. Peanuts are just there when you go to your local pub. When you go to a party. Peanut night clubs where the peanut people go.
I like the analogy, but for the record will note that I do buy peanut butter.
Continue reading for many more links...
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Thanks to all the recent publicity, Simon Carless reports on his ffwd blog that LegalTorrents, a site for legitimate music torrent files that is experimenting with broadcatching, has given away an additional 300gb of music (broadcatching in the dark fatman ides?). 300gb! I guess broadcatching works.
Outside the System has an interesting analysis of the possibility of micropayments combined with broadcatching (BitTorrent + BitPass: Ethos & Practicalities). Most interestingly, the author goes into some detail regarding the ethos of the concept, what one might also call the social norms.
Now, I'm not a big fan of micropayments, but I think there might well be a market for certain Big Media Objects (BMOs) if the payment isn't too small. For example, the author imagines films being made available through this method for $2-3. I could certainly see this sort of payment making sense for a series, such as the awesome Red vs. Blue, where you buy an entire season for, say, $5-20. Of course, a subscription model for all-you-can eat content *cough*music*cough* might be a very good model as well.
The best part of the piece though is the analysis of the ethos of BitTorrent and payments:
Does this mean that there is a common ground between independents and the BitTorrent community that allows for the introduction of transactions into the equation? There very might well be, and there seems to be little technical barrier in experimenting and seeing firsthand. It might even be a common ground that traditional media companies and the artists they distribute don't/can't/won't share, making this an emerging system ripe for independent adoption over corporate adoption. There are also tantalizing questions I still have about how this microtransaction model could interact with the tracker also running on that webserver -- the potential to allow fans to favor those "in the club" versus "outside the club" at the peering level, which could reinforce the idea that the independent media creator and their Internet fans are all in this together.
This is something that I have been thinking a great deal about and I think that there is something quite interesting here. I believe that a well-designed market using broadcatching would encourage cooperation between creators and consumers, turning distribution into a collaborative effort. Sure, corporations could play this game, but independents could be on an almost equal footing, both would have consumers as their partners. I'm still thinking about the possibilities here, but I think they may be one of the most significant aspects of broadcatching. Broadcatching could be much more than what the Hollywood Liberation Army calls "the holy grail of a profitable business model for independent movie-makers on the web" (BitTorrent, BitPass & Outside the System).
Unlimited Freedom has some interesting comments about the whole broadcatching concept (BitTorrent and Broadcatching). Most of his post concerns what he sees as various drawbacks of the BitTorrent protocol. While he makes some good points, overall I don't think they really undermine the broadcatching paradigm.
BT differs from other P2P systems in the algorithm that it uses to distribute data. That's what makes it work so well for large files. But there's no reason P2P networks couldn't be enhanced to use that algorithm. If they did so, they would be SUPERIOR to BT for almost every purpose.
No longer would you have to find a .torrent file host to download data. No longer would someone have to do something special and act as a seeder - they could just put the data file into their P2P shared directory and it would be available to the world. No longer would you have to beg people to keep their BT clients (instances of which are specific to the file being downloaded) running after the download finishes, scolding them about being "leechers" if they don't upload at least as much as they downloaded.
Actually, some P2P programs already implement versions of swarm download protocols. However, that doesn't mean they are necessarily superior to BitTorrent. In particular, the advantage of broadcatching is that you have RSS feeds letting people know when fresh content is available. Consequently, you are more likely to have people hitting the .torrent file shortly thereafter, which makes the whole swarm download thing work better. With other forms of P2P, even if you get an RSS notification of fresh content, you'll have to wait for that content to diffuse through the P2P network. Even for very popular files this might take hours or days. With broadcatching, because of the centralization of the seeding server, content diffuses as quickly as the RSS feed.
There is also a question of search horizon for large media objects with normal P2P. The most popular files would be available in the local P2P network, but less popular files would be more difficult to find. Centralized seeding servers mean that the search horizon is virtually infinite. Moreover, you might not get much swarm download benefit for less popular files with normal P2P, but a centralized seeding service would aggregate even widely dispersed interest in less popular files.
The question of leechers is an issue, but since broadcatching would be mostly automated (update RSS, check for new files, initiate BitTorrent for new files), chances are the defaults could be set to let the BitTorrent application run fairly regularly in the background.
Undoubtedly, there are improvements that can be made to the protocols, especially with regard to usability for the average consumer. Those advances will come with time.
Slashdot has actually covered the BitTorrent & RSS concept before (RSS & BT Together?), but the latest is probably the most interesting as the concept begins to sink in (RSS And BitTorrent, Together At Last). Below are a couple of interesting comments:
People keep trying to make BitTorrent something it isn't. And really, we should be fighting its corporate adoption in any form, as it's simply an attempt to shift server bandwidth costs to the client. ISPs eat that right now, but we're going to metered access if this keeps up.
Which is effectively getting us to pay for website access/services, but instead of giving the money to the content creators we'll be giving it to ISPs instead and paying in bandwidth besides. So this is a bad idea.
Hack your TiVo for fansubs
The way I figure it, with this bittorrent-RSS combination and a slight modification of torrent watching sites like animesuki [animesuki.com] we will essentially have a fansubbed anime online tivo at our disposal. Actually, you could have probably done that even without RSS, though it does simplify matters. The only limitations are our bandwidth and hard drives. Which actually are pretty limiting these days, especially with p2p being frequently capped.
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WIRED publishes an article that does a good job of summarizing the potentials of RSS + BitTorrent (Speed Meets Feed in Download Tool):
A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger merges two of this season's hottest tech fads -- RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing -- to create a cheap publishing system for what its author calls "big media objects." The hybrid system is meant to eliminate both the publisher's need for fat bandwidth, and the consumer's need to wait through a grueling download.
The author of the WIRED article, Paul Boutin writes on his blog that "Those of you who remember Microsoft Active Channels and Netscape Whatever it Was Called, take note" (RSS + BitTorrent = ?). There are definitely similarities between broadcatching and MS Active Channels, but the differences are more significant. Broadcatching gets the whole channel concept right.
The most important difference is that an Active Channel provider has to provide all the bandwidth for the content they are sending. For large media objects this can quickly become rather expensive, relegating music or video channels to those who can afford substantial bandwidth (such as large media companies). In comparison, BitTorrent is specifically designed to share bandwidth costs for making large media objects available. RSS announcement of the availability increases the liklihood of more simultaneous users, thus decreasing the bandwidth costs of the seeder substantially. This means that anyone's content can be broadcatched, not just those of major media companies.
The main problem for Active Channels, however, was that there were few tools for ordinary folk to use to create their own channel. Sure, anyone could create a channel, but there was no blog software that made it easy to publish channels automatically. Consequently, Active Channels were dominated by the major media companies, who didn't necessarily use any standard format for sending content to users nor did they necessarily take user needs into account (such as not sending so many ads). One user feature that was definitely lacking was the concept of an aggregator. Switching between channels was more akin to clicking on a bookmark than looking at a list of feeds (as in a news aggregator) to see what has been updated. Generally, Active Channels meant that bookmarked webpages could have more annoying "interactive! (tm)" content.
In related news, Grumet has written up more about his implementation of broadcatching here: Experimenting with BitTorrent and RSS 2.0. In his description of the initial implementation, he has a very clear depiction of why this is darn neat:
What makes this interesting
First, RSS and BitTorrent complement each other naturally. RSS was designed to report freshly available content, which is exactly where BitTorrent shines. RSS 2.0 enclosures were designed to automate the download process that BitTorrent optimizes.
Second, combining the two should reduce the barrier to entry for small broadcasters. While not a new idea, video blogging has always borne a bandwidth cost. Combining BitTorrent's cost savings with widely available RSS emitting tools should, for example, make it possible for a small group of motivated people across the world to create their own news channel.
Simon Carless of Slashdot has a short article on the O'Reilly Network touting his work with Andrew Grumet on making broadcatching real by making RSS+BitTorrent feeds available at LegalTorrents (RSS and BitTorrent, Sitting in a Tree...). He has some valuable notes for others interested in joining the revolution.
Map the Way has this to say (Combining RSS and BitTorrent What Andrew Grumet has done!):
With modern production tools, the biggest problem for amateur and professional moviemakers is no longer producing video, but delivering it to the intended audience.
Trevor F Smith wonders about the serendipity of it all (Small screen, big net):
[Is it] a coincidence that the morning after I ordered a TV tuner for our iMac that my RSS daily update revealed a cross-blog conversation about RSS, bittorrent, and PVRs combining to create a nice web of user contributed video feeds[?]
Steve Gillmor, one of the earliest proponents of RSS+BitTorrent (BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution) expresses his surprise that RSS aggregators is as widely adopted within Microsoft as it is (about 15%) (Your Winnings, Sir). As usual, he has some perceptive things to say about the capabilities of RSS:
This [ubiquity of small consumable, searchable XHTML fragments] runs directly counter to Microsoft's preservation of Word document formats by European and New Zealand patents. It explains why there's still no InfoPath freely redistributable runtime--you gotta buy a ticket for enterprise workflow and form routing--and why Microsoft doesn't want to seed a poor-man's BizTalk server around RSS alerts. And let's not forget RSS/BitTorrent enclosures, which offer a DRM-free standard for peer-to-peer content exchange and publishing years before Longhorn locks down those ports.
For more information on Broadcatching, see also:
BitTorrent + RSS = The New Broadcast
Broadcatching - Not Broadcasting
Broadcatching - The Early Days
RSS + BitTorrent Announcement Soon?
BitTorrent, RSS and Broadcatching, Catching On
First Broadcatching App Available! (And Related News)
Broadcatching Roundup
RSS, BitTorrent and Broadcatching for Courts
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The Shifted Librarian, an RSS maven if ever there was one, has a short post on the use of broadcatching for library archives (RSS Feeds for Internet Archive Collections). This reminded me of a concept that I worked on several years ago ... a distributed database of legal information, decisions, journals, etc.
The basic idea was that every law library in the country would have locally stashed copies of every court decision. Court decisions would have been published into a network of massively redundant distributed databases with nodes at every law library. The system was actually a bit complex (but cool, using Jini and stuff). The Shifted Librarian's post reminded me of this concept and I thought, "why not use broadcatching to send full decisions (or articles) to everyone who wanted copies of court decisions (or law journals)?"
RSS is already used by some of the smarter courts to keep lawyers, clerks and assorted legal professionals current on court decisions, rules changes and related matters. The highly innovative Rory Perry, Clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, was the first to recognize this potential and has been providing RSS feeds for his court since May 2002 (Syndication and Weblogs: Publish and Distribute Your Court Information to the Web).
The feeds that Rory provides are great, but they don't include the full decisions - only summaries. You could use RSS enclosures, but providing full decisions to hundreds or thousands of recipients might tax bandwidth. BitTorrent to the rescue, of course. Why shouldn't every law library, law firm or other interested party broadcatch copies of every court decision published?
Of course, this only solves the problem of distribution. For law to truly be free, you'll need open standards for court decisions and nearly complete databases among other things, but this could be a major step forward. The potential uses for this technology continue to grow.
For more information on Broadcatching, see also:
BitTorrent + RSS = The New Broadcast
Broadcatching - Not Broadcasting
Broadcatching - The Early Days
RSS + BitTorrent Announcement Soon?
BitTorrent, RSS and Broadcatching, Catching On
First Broadcatching App Available! (And Related News)
Broadcatching Roundup
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Techdirt discusses how the mainstream press doesn't really seem to understand BitTorrent and is missing out on how much potential the system has (Distributed File Sharing Systems Learning From BitTorrent).
Broadband Reports also sees broadcatching as a potential disruptive technology (RSS & Bit Torrent: Content distribution gets interesting):
While illegal ideas abound, such as the instant download of every South Park episode the second it hits the net, the idea lends itself to a great number of ideas that could turn traditional distribution models on their heads, giving smaller operations a new opportunity for content distribution.
Teldar Paper, a Swedish blog in English, imagines BitTorrent and RSS as part of a nationwide, perhaps global, always-on grid (Living in always online land).
Prophecy Boy can't wait to see who the RIAA will sue first over a BitTorrent + RSS merger (RSS+BT = fun4all).
Random Rants has several posts following RSS + BitTorrent. See, P2P meets BitTorrent, Ye olde RSS & BitTorrent debate and RSS, BitTorrent & Tivo.
Andrew Grumet, who has been the leader in developing BitTorrent + RSS technology, has announced the arrival of the "an initial version of a RSS+BitTorrent integration tool for Radio Userland's news aggregator" (Announcement: RSS+BitTorrent Integrator for Radio Userland). Visit the project website here: Getting started with BitTorrent + RSS in Radio [BETA]. Grumet promises to write more about the idea in the coming days and asks for bug reports, comments and etc., here.
Damn the luck! I'm not a Radio Userland user - just might have to become one.
In related news, David Shipp writes about Chris Pirillo's IT Conversations interview (Chris Pirillo: March 1, 2004) in which Chris discusses the concept of BitTorrent + RSS (Future Web). Shipp summarizes thus:
Chris goes on to talk about the fusion of RSS and BitTorrent. This is where things get interesting and controversial. BitTorrent is an excellent technology for P2P downloads, and one of its emergent properties is that newly available files become widely available through BitTorrent far quicker than on traditional P2P networks. The disadvantage is that users have to trawl the web for BitTorrent pointer files that direct them to the downloads. He suggests that RSS can provide the delivery mechanism for these BitTorrent links, so for example, users can be presented with links to all the new episodes of their favourite TV series. Chris steps away from the legalities of the issue, and rightly so, but highlights the concept that RSS + BitTorrent is essentially a TiVo (or Sky+ for my fellow British).
Lucas Gonze is working on what I consider another element of broadcatching, RSS + Playlist Format, which he is calling RSS + Time (Analysis of RSS+Time as a playlist format). Exactly. Wouldn't it be great if one could receive a playlist from a trusted source in RSS format? The playlist would automatically play the songs already available on your system and launch a BitTorrent download of those not available.
Bonus: the RSS+Time format includes some primitive client-side remixing capability. I like to call this a remixing "recipe" (A History Palette for Music and The Grey Album - No Copying Necessary).
C|Net News reports on the public unveiling of Red Swoosh, a new P2P entrant which has adopted BitTorrent-like technology for distribution of large files for commercial companies (Legal P2P networks gaining ground):
In part, that's why the company's CEO is now reaching out to the broad community of people using BitTorrent, an underground file-trading application using similar technology that has exploded in popularity among people distributing or downloading video and software programs.
Red Swoosh CEO Travis Kalanick said he wants to tap that energy. He's offering free use of Red Swoosh's content distribution services to noncommercial filmmakers, game developers or other publishers.
"I don't want to fight BitTorrent," Kalanick said. "I want to have a relationship with that community. That's not just about cutting a deal; you have give to that community."
Interesting. I'll have to give a try (I hope they don't use spyware). Wonder when they will adopt broadcatching?
For more information on Broadcatching, see also:
BitTorrent + RSS = The New Broadcast
Broadcatching - Not Broadcasting
Broadcatching - The Early Days
RSS + BitTorrent Announcement Soon?
BitTorrent, RSS and Broadcatching, Catching On
Bad pun, I know. So sue me.
Today I've come across a couple of posts relating to the revolutionary idea of Broadcatching, that is, using RSS and BitTorrent as a new distribution channel.
A new blog, Outside the System, authored by an indie media producer, discusses in detail how broadcatching could be an alternate distribution channel for movies (BitTorrent + RSS = Broadcatching):
These margins and the edges of cost and value are a hamper on the real blossoming of video distribution on the Web, and can only be aggregated so far out of the way. P2P swarming technology is the only current viable route to break that stalemate by spreading at least part of the costs away from your own bandwidth pipe, but under a system like BitTorrent that's only really useful if there are a lot of people with fully download copies to swarm from (so you have a classic tipping point model of efficiency.) Promotion preceeds adoption preceeds efficiency.
The brilliance of an RSS approach, though, is that it builds in at least two important features that BitTorrent alone doesn't address. First, it provides a method of propogation through editorial filters -- a successful editor picking new BitTorrent works could help create an instant rush to the tipping point, in the process decreasing the cost of bandwidth on each copy. Second, it turns BitTorrent into a subscription system, one where your system automatically collects new content of a large size overnight (for example.)
Read the post for a concrete example of how expensive traditional internet distribution is and how broadcatching can alleviate this problem.
The film used as an example, because the author of the post executive produced it, is Nothing So Strange , which documents the aftermath of the assassination of Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates on December 2, 1999. Bonus cool factor: Bill Gates Assassination Film Goes "Open Source," Releases "Evidence" DVD:
"Nothing So Strange" will be released under a license that allows all of the "source" footage of the movie to be used without restriction, in personal or commercial projects, but keeps the actual film as created by the filmmaker under copyright. "You have free access to all the parts of the movie," said Flemming. "But you can't just copy our version of it--you have to make your own original work with the various parts."
Waxy.org pointed me to a collection of links to blogs that post MP3 files (mp3 blogs/rotation etc.). For example:
For more information on Broadcatching, see also:
BitTorrent + RSS = The New Broadcast
Broadcatching - Not Broadcasting
Broadcatching - The Early Days
RSS + BitTorrent Announcement Soon?
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Infoworld's Chad Dickerson blogs about RSS becoming more popular than HTTP for Infoworld readers (RSS tipping point):
Ever since we began publishing RSS feeds at InfoWorld, the requests for our home page had always exceeded requests for our Top News RSS feed. Not any more. Over the past several weeks, requests for InfoWorld's Top News RSS feed have regularly exceeded the requests for our home page. This has been going on long enough now that we're certain that it's permanent. I think it's a big deal.
See also, Doc Searls (Publishing 2.0).
RSS, good stuff.
On Dave Winer's test site there is this notice (Dear Bay Area friends...):
PS: Murphy-willing Andrew Grumet will have something exciting to announce that connects RSS with another nominee, in the same category: BitTorrent. We're very excited about combining syndication with BMO's. It would be cool to make the announcement on the day of the award ceremony [WIRED Rave Awards], March 15.
PPS: BMO stands for Big Media Object.
Andrew Grumet is blogging about the practical steps towards making BitTorrent and RSS work together and some of the issues involved (BitTorrent + RSS, step 1). One of the interesting problems of development is getting the client software to behave properly with regard to this new concept:
BT has a nice command line interface, btw. We need to feed it appropriate --responsefile and --saveas arguments. An open question, at least on Windows, is dealing with client software that spawns windows who don't know how to close themselves. Ideally we'd have a client that didn't spawn a window and that accepted a parameter that told it how long to continue running after completion of the download, to help other downloaders.
This is important, but I think it is a bigger problem than this. Ultimately, for the new broadcatch to be successful, the client will also have to integrate closely with the playback software (your DivX software, MP3 player, etc.). A proper user interface is going to be critical. TiVo would be a great place to start, but it is designed around the traditional broadcast paradigm and would need some serious changes to handle this concept.
BitTorrent + RSS will be revolutionary, but there is a lot of work to get from the concept to user-friendly implementation. For example, when the internet was in the early days, everyone was excited about the prospect of everyone making their own homepages. Great idea, poor implementation, as traditional webpages were too difficult to maintain and there was no RSS to make following changes easy. Today, blogs are a much better implementation of the homepage concept. Today, we aren't even at the homepage stage of BitTorrent + RSS.
In related news, I'm not the only one who thinks this is a great idea, Dave Winer had this to say:
After dinner, walking back to my car, Andrew Grumet told me that he planned to integrate BitTorrent with RSS. A namespace, a couple of Radio callbacks, and it should work. I'm in awe.
The Shifted Librarian is also enthusiastic (Waiting for SyndiCon I):
The RSS Winterfest was a good start, but it's difficult to over-emphasize the value of this type of conversation taking place in-person, face-to-face. In addition, how great would it be to include an "RSS Hackfest" (led by Andrew Grumet) to get us BitTorrent + RSS, authentication, better customization, metadata, and more?!
For more information, see also:
BitTorrent + RSS = The New Broadcast
Broadcatching - Not Broadcasting
Yesterday I wrote about the incredible potential of combining RSS with BitTorrent for video (or any broadcast media for that matter) (BitTorrent + RSS = The New Broadcast).
Had I done a little more digging before I posted, however, I would have found a couple of other really great posts on the issue from a couple of months ago. Great minds come up with similar titles, as I note a post with an almost identical title from PVR Blog (BitTorrent + RSS = TiVo). However, I think the potential here outstrips even the disruption capabilities of TiVo. That led me to Scott Raymond's excellent post on the subject from last December (Broadcatching with BitTorrent). I especially liked (because it seems so apt) the use of the term "broadcatching" to describe this new method of distribution.
Such a system would be an excellent basis for a subscription-based service. Hint (Thoughts on the EFF P2P Solution White Paper) hint.
I've touted Andrew Grumet's work before (Program My TiVo! and RSS For TV, Music) and once again I have to recommend paying attention to what he is up to. See his post, Skirting the edges of the new media universe:
Chris Pirillo feeds a new addiction. If I understand correctly, the idea is that the RSS feeds give you a list of fresh downloads in your newsreader. Click on what you want, and shortly thereafter the video is on your hard drive. Maybe we aren't too far from giving Dowbrigade StrongBad in his Video Aggregator. We'd need an automated way to launch BitTorrent when new items arrive in the feed. I don't know, maybe people are doing this already. We'd also need specialized feeds so that we wouldn't have to download everything.
Read the whole thing.
I really think there is something interesting here. Isn't RSS + BitTorrent an ideal means to distribute periodic video content? Subscribing to a particular series' RSS feed would be like setting up a Season Pass on your TiVo. As episodes are released, no matter the time, your system would automatically begin a BitTorrent download. Video RSS feeds for every taste would be available. You're a fan of Sarah Michelle Gellar? Get the SMG RSS feed and you won't miss a single video appearance of her buffy-ness promoting Scooby Doo 2.
Who will be the first video network to adopt this technology?
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted on an innovative new RSS format for Personal Media Recorders, such as the TiVo (RSS for TV, Music). Imagine an RSS feed that would program your TiVo. Now, Andrew Grumet, the developer of this great idea, has implemented a web-based version: Program My TiVo!.
This is great. I would love to have an easy means by which my friends and family could set up something to be recorded for me. My brother and I are always telling each other to record certain programs via TiVo. This would save all the forgetting and stuff.
via PVRBlog
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Congratulations to Richard Monks, a former student on the MA in Creative Writing, whose play Kidnap (which he began working on as part of his MA) was the Drama of the Week for the week commencing 3rd June 2013 on BBC Radio 4.
Kidnap looks at the kidnapping of an aid worker from five different viewpoints: the hostage, a captor, the hostage negotiator, a soldier on a rescue mission and her daughter. As the story unfolds, listeners discover that all of the characters are trapped by events in their own lives.
Reviews of the play also featured in The Observer and the Radio Times.The series itself is available for download from the BBC iPlayer until the end of this week.
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