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by Ryan Jordan | 2006-01-31 03:00:00-07
Photo: "Innovations in outdoor materials and technologies allow me to go on a winter backpacking trek with less than five pounds of gear, something I could have never dreamed of only five years ago. However, innovation requires more than weight savings. It requires a wholesale replacement of yesterday's design philosophy so that your gear allows you to do things that could not be accomplished before..." - Ryan Jordan
Being innovative is defined as "producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before..."
Unfortunately, innovation is a buzzword tossed around by virtually every manufacturer (heck, we'll admit to being guilty of this) when describing their products. After no less than a few hundred presentations of new products with "innovative" features at this winter's Outdoor Retailer Show, I'm about innovated out. The coolest thing I saw on Day 1 was a kite and today, I'm pretty jazzed about a concentrated coffee extract in a single serving packet and the prospect of falling asleep tonight while listening to Shooter Jennings plugged into my iPod just to drown out the background noise of repetitive industry marketing speak.
I've come to realize after reviewing hundreds of new products every year that the true test for innovation is simple: the product (or technology) serves more functions better with fewer sacrifices than the products or technologies it intends to replace.
Michael Lee of the Outdoor Industry Association claims that hydration systems are one of the greatest innovations of the current decade.
"It has completely changed how we view hydration", Lee says. However, hydration systems (defined here as collapsible bladders placed deep inside a backpack with a drinking tube and bite valve accessible to the hiker without resting) suffer intrinsic problems: water levels are difficult to monitor, even well-insulated hoses tend to freeze during cold conditions, they are harder to clean, and the bladders are not simple to access and replace while refilling on the trail. And so, while hydration systems keep water more accessible and do contribute to better hydration practices than hard-sided water bottles (the products they presumably intend to replace), they come with a host of sacrifices. They are not innovative.
I do think that there is an opportunity to create truly innovative hydration products. Backpacks with pockets that allow a water bottle (and specifically, an ultralight collapsible bottle) to remain accessible without taking off the pack would be one of them. Too simple for this industry perhaps, but that's part of the problem: it's a feature not obviously identifiable by an uninformed consumer who's been blasted with "hydration system innovations" for the past five years.
What about the guy who invited the pop-top bottle spout? Platypus makes one for their collapsible bottles. Innovative!
Adventure racers have hydration systems dialed in pretty good: strap a sports bottle to the shoulder straps with bungee cords and add a big straw. Brilliant. Now, if we can just reduce the weight of those bottles...
Three years ago, all the buzz at Outdoor Retailer focused on the soft shell revolution. Retailers and manufacturers, however, were cautious to warn that soft shell fabrics should not replace waterproof breathable fabrics in wet conditions. Thus, there was a cost to the higher breathability of softshells: more weight, less water resistance, more water absorption, and slow drying times. And, despite the fact that most of the industry's core users own and use soft shell apparel (I certainly do), they may fail the innovation test because they cannot replace a waterproof-breathable garment in most backcountry conditions where you are faced with the choice of one shell. Because of this, soft-shell fans take two shells in fringe seasons: a soft shell and a rain jacket. Is it innovative to add weight to your pack?
With soft shells also being touted as "better than fleece" it prompted many folks in the early days to think that soft shells were insulating pieces. Unfortunately, most soft shells were colder (not enough loft for winter conditions) and heavier than lightweight fleece, and in spite of the temptation to replace a fleece layer and a rain shell with a soft shell, it never really happened once users began to understand how soft shells really performed in expedition conditions. Now, we have soft shells that are fleece lined and soft shells with waterproof membranes and taped seams. And they are all too warm for high exertion activities in all but colder winter conditions.
Do soft shells have their place? Sure. Innovations? No. My breathable-nylon shelled and fleece-lined circa 1984 Patagonia shelled Synchilla jacket is still four ounces lighter, warmer, and more breathable than my Arc'Teryx Gamma SV. What has the soft shell really brought to our gear kit that wasn't available twenty years ago (other than more choice, more colors, more fashion, and more weight)? I'd argue that a 100 weight fleece and a windshirt, or the Pertex-and-microfibre pile of 15 years ago will outperform most of today's softshell fabrics for less weight when it comes down to its core functions: water resistance, wind resistance, and breathability.
Major innovations in outdoor gear in the past three decades have focused as much on materials and technology than individual products. Examples include waterproof-breathable fabrics and lighter aluminum tent poles (1980s), which forever altered the nature of outerwear and shelter design.
Why were these true innovations? Because waterproof-breathable fabrics were both more waterproof and more breathable, and thus, more comfortable, than the coated nylons they replaced.
7000-series aluminum tent poles were lighter, stronger, more elastic, and more compact than than the fiberglass and lesser grade aluminums that they replaced. In other words, there were no tradeoffs.
But what about today? Is innovation all but dead in the outdoor industry? After more than 40 meetings with marketing professionals, I found myself asking this question. So, as a reality check, I consulted with some of my trusted colleages, co-workers, customers, and hiking companions, to get their perspective.
Specifically, I asked them what the greatest innovations of the last few years were.
Craig Meldred of the Anchorage Daily News identifies the Alpacka raft as "the item that most changed things here in the wilderness of the Far North". Alaskan adventurer Roman Dial calls it the "poor man's Super Cub". The Alpacka raft extended the range of ultralight wilderness travel in Alaska and the Yukon by orders of magnitude, a claim that may not even be valid for Gore-Tex fabrics or Easton poles, and certainly not a claim that could be claimed by Camelbak or the "inventor" of the soft shell (who was that again?). Brett Tucker (owner of the cottage manufacturer Simblissity), agrees: "although tangential to backpacking, no product has been more influential in opening up new possibilities in where - and how - we backpack". Dial takes the Alpacka one step further by adding the attachable spray deck offered by the company as an accessory: "it has raised packrafting standards by one whole whitewater grade". I'd have to agree. Since I started carrying an ice axe and crampons in the mountains, no other piece of backpacking gear has opened up opportunities for new backpacking routes than my Alpacka raft.
LED headlamps and micro-sized button lights were another favorite as one of the greatest innovations of the past few years. Meldred expounds their virtues in simple terms: "lighter, brighter, longer battery life, and more durable". Dave Olsen of Oware and Backpacking Light Section Editor Rick Dreher point to the rapid advances in LED technology that we never really saw with the incandascent or halogen lights of yesteryear: voltage regulation and incredible brightness. Dreher points squarely to Luxeon and other extremely bright LED's for their contribution to providing a whole lighting solution that is a viable alternative to halogen lighting. I tend to appreciate the opposite end of the Spectrum: the button sized LED lights provide all the lighting I could ever need on a casual backpacking trek. The Photon Freedom light (and it's earlier brethren) is one of the very few pieces of equipment that I've worn around my neck for as long as they've been on the market.Backpacking Light Section Editor Will Rietveld believes in the happy marriage between tarps and tents - one of the few situations where a compromise in function caused by two products meeting "in the middle", so to speak, has revolutized the lightweight backpacking experience for the masses. Single wall, well-ventilated, breathable tarptents using trekking poles for structural support have single handedly caused the creation of a new category that will undoubtedly be explored in the coming years by larger manufacturers. Leading the charge? Six Moon Designs and TarpTent - two tiny cottage manufacturers that preserved summertime camping comfort in buggy, rainy conditions while shaving pounds off our backs.
Just as much as waterproof-breathable fabrics of the 1980's redefined the concept of outerwear, the rapidly decreasing weights of waterproof-breathable fabrics since 2001 is one of the hottest industry trends we've seen. Only four years ago, we were touting 12 ounce jackets as "revolutionary" and "groundbreaking". Can you believe that we are now seeing fully functional waterproof breathable jackets that are half that weight or more? How many other products have we been able to observe such dramatic reductions in weight for not-so-dramatic sacrifices in function? Dreher notes with no invented drama this his "venerable North Face Gore-Tex parka equals about the same as four of (my) 7-ounce Patagonia Specter jackets - in both bulk and weight. Brian Frankle of ULA Equipment speculates that further weight and bulk reductions in waterproof-breathable apparel will occur as welded and glued-seam construction costs come down and become increasingly available as standard options on ultralight waterproof breathable fabrics. I predict that the next major innovation step to reduce weight in breathable fabrics must occur at the fundamental technology levels: with scientific advancements in polymers, film constructions, and membrane technologies leading the way. The era of reducing weight by weaving finer denier fibers (which require higher fiber densities, thus negating any meaningful weight reductions from smaller fibers) into performance fabrics is all but over. Changes need to be made in the fundamental structure of fibers and films, and not in weaving technology or fiber extrusion processes.
Which brings us to fiber-reinforced film "fabrics", such as that represented in our own "Nano fabric" line of stuff sacks, bivy sacks, and tarps. Dial calls this fabric "amazing" and Maurer thinks that the coolest innovations are "how materials (like Nano) have affected gear, not necessarily the gear itself." I see Nano as representative of the next revolution in waterproof fabrics, with tremendous opportunities for innovation to make it breathable, more supple, and more durable. How will that happen? Advances in polymers, not fibers. Maybe in ten years, we'll be dispatching news from Outdoor Retailer about film-based fabrics used in wind shirts, rain jackets, tents, and backpacks! The potential for weight reduction using films instead of woven fabrics is tremendous.
Carbon fiber is another material worhty of mention. Manufacturing techniques have not necessarily improved in major ways in recent years. It's just that their costs have decreased, and the Outdoor Industry has figured out how to incorporate it into things like tent poles, trekking poles, and snowshoe frames without charging a small fortune to its consumers. Maurer notes, "I'm thrilled at the advancement in carbon fiber use in trekking poles...I don't think there any carbon poles a few years ago." After MSR introduced their Overland carbon trekking pole five years ago, no less than six other manufacturers have entered the market with carbon or carbon-aluminum trekking poles. Whether it's an innovation or not is arguable, but the incremental advances over aluminum poles offer significant advantages: carbon poles are stiffer, stronger, and lighter.
Lighter chemical water treatment alternatives to iodine tablets and bleach drops have taken the outdoor market by storm since the introduction of Aqua Mira and its Canadian counterpart, Pristine. Chlorine dioxide gained a scientifically-sound following in municipal water treatment across Europe, and its adoption by US treatment plants is increasing. It's faster, more effective, and leaves water tasting better than iodine or bleach. Now available in no-mix formulations as tablets (from Potable Aqua and Katadyn) or as pre-mixed liquids (from Klearwater), it now competes with iodine tablets and chlorine bleach for simplicity. Don Ladigin, author of Lighten Up!, appreciates the newfound simplicity of these new formulations, noting that we take "health and well-being products" for granted and "they are more important than many people think". I'll add that a change in mentality from dependence on three-pound kits full of toiletries, water filters (and repair kits), sundries, emergency gear, and first aid items, to dependence on simplicity of function in these categories, as one of the great freedoms of ultralight backpacking.
And, we cannot deny that the rate at which we (as core consumers) are learning techniques, staying abreast of new innovations, and changing our habits for the better, is increasing. In part, it's a result of newfound enthusiasm in the way we approach our favorite activities. That is in turn fueled by the availability of new innovations, but more so in the availability of information that empowers us. Only five years ago, you'd read about Outdoor Retailer's new products in print magazines a few months down the road. Now, you can read about them online the day they are announced. Information is fed to us in real-time, which means we have more time and more data available to process buying decisions as the new products hit the market. In turn, that means we are better able to desensitive ourselves to the marketing claims and sift real innovations from the massive chaff of new gear released twice a year.
And what about the Outdoor Industry Association and their members? What role do they see innovation playing in their bottom line?
The 2006 State of the Industry Report published by the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) features a sidebar (p. 25) summarizing data that places innovation in new designs, new materials, and fabrics as having a low level of significance relative to other business metrics: global trade issues (#1), targeted marketing (#2), acceptance of outdoor fashion by the mainstream (#3), and increased participation in outdoor activities (#4).
"Groundbreaking new products have been the industry's mainstay for more than 40 years. From sticky rubber to synthetic fleece to hydration systems, Outdoor Industry companies and participants have redefined the way people get outdoors - and the comfort they have while they're out there. Looking forward, innovation within our industry may take a different form. Industry professionals see innovation coming in a variety of ways in the future." - Outdoor Industry Association
A Note to Our Readers: Backpacking Light Magazine is a member of the OIA. However, we see it differently. Innovation in our products, and specifically, the magazine and services we provide via BackpackingLight.com, are unequivocally our number one priority. Customers - and outdoor users - deserve to have the very best products a manufacturer can bring to them. While we believe that marketing is important, we vow to market the benefits of our products and not the psychological importance of our "brand". We vow to improve our productivity, so we can pass cost savings to you, not increase our profit margins. We feel that increased participation in outdoor activities is good for the industry, but not at the expense of marketing mediocre products and services to the newbies. And while global trade concerns can protect the vitality of American outdoor companies, we'd rather think that our energies are best spent in creating truly innovative products and services, and tending to our passionate customer community. - Ryan Jordan, Publisher, Backpacking Light Magazine
But our desires remain far ahead of what the industry has been able to deliver. We remained hopeful, like little kids on December 24, that the OR elves would satiate our deepest needs to round out our kits with just one last really cool piece of gear:
"State of the Market for Backpacking Gear: Innovation, Broken Promises, and Hope," by Ryan Jordan. BackpackingLight.com (ISSN 1537-0364).
http://backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/innovation_orwm2006_jordan.html, 2006-01-31 03:00:00-07.
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Ryan Jordan
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|State of the Market for Backpacking Gear: Innovation, Broken Promises, and Hope on 01/30/2006 22:56:10 MST
Companion forum thread to:
Ryan Faulkner
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Locale: Mid atlantic, No. Cal
|State of the Market for Backpacking Gear: Innovation, Broken Promises, and Hope on 01/31/2006 13:08:06 MST
I havent read the whole article yet, but I have one quick question.
Steven Sergeant
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|Everyday innovations? on 01/31/2006 13:23:24 MST
I found your commentary interesting, but clearly targeted at fanatics. Many of us eventually become disillusioned but the quest for the latest gear. We accept that it's really about getting out there, rather than what we take with us. The average person I meet on a trail is NOT a gear fanatic.
kevin davidson
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|Herr Jordan's whereabouts & fanaticism on 01/31/2006 13:29:27 MST
He's been busy at the OR show, wrapping up today, so you didn't miss him doing any multi-day outings over the weekend.
Edited by kdesign on 01/31/2006 14:54:31 MST.
Roger Caffin
(rcaffin) - BPL Staff - MLife
Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe
|Hardly innovation! on 02/01/2006 14:02:39 MST
I was amused by the claim that hydration systems are an example of innovation. What a giggle.
R Alsborg
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Locale: Southwest
|Innovation = Hype + New Paint Job on 02/06/2006 11:53:28 MST
At last we've reached the point of dimensioning returns…
Edited by FastWalker on 02/06/2006 11:54:30 MST.
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|Innovation on 02/06/2006 16:30:17 MST
Main Entry: in·no·va·tion
Dale Wambaugh
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Locale: Pacific Northwest
|Fresh air! on 02/06/2006 21:10:31 MST
Nice to get a little fresh air! I was tickled to see the comment: "My breathable-nylon shelled and fleece-lined circa 1984 Patagonia shelled Synchilla jacket is still four ounces lighter, warmer, and more breathable than my Arc'Teryx Gamma SV. What has the soft shell really brought to our gear kit that wasn't available twenty years ago (other than more choice, more colors, more fashion, and more weight)? I'd argue that a 100 weight fleece and a windshirt, or the Pertex-and-microfibre pile of 15 years ago will outperform most of today's softshell fabrics for less weight when it comes down to its core functions: water resistance, wind resistance, and breathability."
scott gibson
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|finding innovation on 02/23/2006 13:22:11 MST
Hat's off to looking for and trying to define innovation. I've browsed the article and you covered many bases, all recognizable names (I'm upset you missed my line but we are small and off radar). I like the last part describing where you believe there is room to improve. I identify with the feelings of oversaturation after an event like OR. It's a state of our consumer driven economy; more , spin , innovate, "new and improved", what is innovative? when does this all become too much and how much is it really worth in the end? I make (what I consider high performance/ innovative) hydration packs for adventure racing and yet I understand the comments advocating for a simple water bottle. Sometimes I want to break out the old kidney shaped wine flask at the next OR show and have that be our next innovation. Wouldn't it? It would at least give us all a little humility (sorely needed at that show)
John Davis
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Locale: Isle of Man
|State of the Market for Backpacking Gear: Innovation, Broken Promises, and Hop on 02/28/2006 13:01:41 MST
Backpacking in the 60s, before I encountered Goretex, was harder and much heavier. Synthetic inner layers have also been a tremendous boon in getting my packweight down. I still sweat enough to create condensation on the way up hill, but nowadays I dry out on the descent, even if the rain doesn't stop. That means no need for duplicate items of clothing, particularly when you consider how easy synthetic clothes are to care for in the field.
Edited by JNDavis on 02/28/2006 13:04:13 MST.
Glenn Roberts
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Locale: Southwestern Ohio
|Perhaps the market is re-grouping on 02/28/2006 13:34:27 MST
I think the market may simply be pausing to consolidate (or co-opt, depending on your politics) the innovations being made by cutting-edge companies like Gossamer Gear, TarpTent, SixMoonDesigns, and others too numerous to mention. I've tried cutting-edge ultralight, and found it didn't suit my hiking and camping style. (That's another thread, for another time.) I'm now back to a 12-pound base weight, composed entirely of "mainstream" gear (Granite Gear, MSR, Western Mountaineering, Patagonia, etc.) However, my foray into ultralighting (an 8-pound base load) exposed me to a few new ideas and a lot of new gear design concepts that I believe will eventually work their way into the mainstream. When they do, I'm betting that my base weight will drift back down to 10 pounds. So, I'm fearlessly predicting that, within 5 years, the "boutique" companies mentioned earlier will become mainstream manufacturers and/or mainstream manufacturers will incorporate their ultralight design features:
David Bonn
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|Re: Perhaps the market is re-grouping on 02/28/2006 14:45:52 MST
Richard Matthews
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|Re: Perhaps the market is re-grouping on 02/28/2006 15:04:33 MST
Jim Colten
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|Re: Perhaps the market is re-grouping on 02/28/2006 15:12:01 MST
Glenn said ...
Edited by jcolten on 02/28/2006 15:14:07 MST.
Vick Hines
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|Re: Perhaps the market is re-grouping on 02/28/2006 16:47:19 MST
Edited by vickrhines on 02/28/2006 16:57:22 MST.
Vick Hines
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Locale: Central Texas
|Re: Perhaps the market is re-grouping on 02/28/2006 16:52:34 MST
Locale: South West US
|Re: Re: Perhaps the market is re-grouping on 02/28/2006 23:01:45 MST
I think UL is going to be a niche market for a long time to come. I work at REI and even among my co-workers many don't think its possible/practical/comfortable to go lightweight, let alone UL. Same with the customers. I will get to chatting with them about lightweight backpacking and get a wide variety resposnes. Very few seem to care. Many seem to believe I have no idea what I'm talking about. Anyhow...
Glenn Roberts
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Locale: Southwestern Ohio
|Good thoughts, all on 03/01/2006 06:33:28 MST
Very interesting stuff. (Regarding the parents thing: I come from a small, rural, Southern Ohio county where everyone is about one marriage away from three-eyed kids.)
Caleab Spencer
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Locale: New Hampshire
|spectra packs on 03/29/2006 07:18:30 MST
hey ryan go check out WildThings in New Hampshire for the packs


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Over the past several months, this jewel of a city has been celebrating the tercentenary of the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) with exhibitions, musical events, literary forums, films, and promenades retracing his steps from the earlier and later years during which he lived in and around its bucolic landscapes.
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Apostle Harold B. Lee visited northern California in the summer of 1951. Speaking at a ward meeting in Westwood, Lassen County, on July 20, he discussed the Saints' responsibility to elect good men (yeah, well, it was 1951) to public office.
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Consequences of dress code violations: first offense — student must find alternative dress that meets code. Student remains in office until appropriately dressed; second offense — phone call home to parent/guardian to bring replacement clothing. Student remains in office until appropriately dressed; third offense — parent conference. Student remains in office until appropriately dressed; fourth offense — student remains in In School Suspension until appropriately dressed.
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ACCIDENTS INVOLVING DAMAGE: Chambersburg Police said a garage to the rear of 347 Philadelphia Ave. sustained significant damage after someone struck the building - apparently turning in the alley to the rear of the garage - between Sept. 13 and Wednesday. No one has claimed responsibility for the damage, police said.
(Incident No. C2012-10217)
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT/TERRORISTIC THREATS: A 30-year-old woman subjected a 32-year-old man to physical contact on Letterkenny Road, causing identifiable marks on him Saturday about 2:30 p.m., according to Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg.
(Incident No. H03-2150984)
VANDALISM: A man reported to Chambersburg Police Thursday that someone broke the windshield of his vehicle overnight with a cinder block. The vehicle was parked at 146 E. McKinley St.
LOST: A woman reported to Chambersburg Police Thursday that she lost her wallet at Occupational Services Inc., 17 Redwood St.
(Incident No. C2012-10239)
VANDALISM/STALKING: A 17-year-old girl reported to Pennsylvania State Police, Carlisle, on July 23 that her ex-boyfriend Corey James Kern, 20, Greencastle, had been allegedly following her around Franklin County and blocking her at different points.
He eventually damaged her vehicle, police said. He is charged with criminal mischief and stalking.
(Incident No. H03-2137567)
VANDALISM: A Mercersburg resident reported to Mercersburg Police on Sept.
Choice Collision estimated damage to the vehicle was $2,116.80, police said. Martin was charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief on Tuesday. (Incident No. MPD2012-0816)
DUI: Mercersburg Police said they charged Mark Elliot Dofflemyer, 45, Mercersburg, with driving under the influence of alcohol, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of controlled substances on Sept. 11.
Dofflemyer was seen allegedly operating a 1995 Toyota pickup truck with no rear lighting about midnight Aug. 8 on North Main Street.
Police said they stopped Dofflemyer and discovered he was driving under the influence of alcohol and in possession of controlled substances and drug paraphernalia.
(Incident No. MPD2012-0659)
HARASSMENT: Dillon Roy Saunders, 20, and Richard Ecker, 44, were charged with harassment following a July 28 domestic disturbance at their 83 Beech Lane, Mercersburg, home, Mercersburg Police said Tuesday.
(Incident No. MPD2012-0645)
NOISE ORDINANCE/CURFEW VIOLATION: Mercersburg Police charged four 15-year-old girls with curfew violations and an 18-year-old man with a noise violation Sept. 9 about 2:15 a.m.
Someone reported to police that multiple people were banging loudly on apartment doors and yelling in the middle of the road, and police came across the five individuals. The four girls were charged and released to their parents.
Brandon Allen Foor, 18, St. Thomas, was cited and released.
(Incident No. MPD2012-0822)
SIMPLE ASSAULT/DUI: Mercersburg Police said Tuesday that an intoxicated Mercersburg man injured a woman at a North Main Street address on Aug. 19.
According to police, Harold Ray Keefer, 66, allegedly inflicted facial injuries on the woman. The man was not at the residence and was found intoxicated at Fairview Cemetery off the 300 block of South Main Street, police said.
Keefer was taken to Waynesboro Hospital and asked to submit to a blood test. He was taken to Franklin County Jail and charged with simple assault, harassment and driving under the influence of alcohol.
(Incident No. MPD2012-0738)
THEFT: Someone stole a Pennsylvania license plate from a burgundy 2002 Oldsmobile van between 5 p.m. Sept. 7 and noon Sept. 8 while it was parked in the back parking lot of Philips Flower and Gift Shop on Oregon Street, Mercersburg Police said.
(Incident No. MPD2012-0818)
Montgomery Township
THEFT: Someone stole $50 from a birthday card in a 6150 Montgomery Church Road mailbox as well as a teal mountain bike and $15 of gasoline from the property between Aug. 21 and Sept. 11, according to Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg.
(Incident No. H03-2151459)
VANDALISM: Shippensburg Police said a vehicle's paint was vandalized overnight Saturday into Sunday on the 100 block of South Seneca Street. (Incident No. SP-2012-4675)
DRUG LAW: Shippensburg Police charged Mason Taylor, 18, with possession of crack cocaine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia Sept. 14 about 10:45 p.m. Police said they came upon an occupied vehicle to the rear of 509 W. King St. and the occupants were smoking marijuana. (Incident No. SP-2012-4630)
DUI: Anthony Batch, 21, Media, was charged with driving under the influence after he was pulled over in the 300 block of East King Street Sept. 2 about 1:45 a.m. Shippensburg Police said they witnessed Batch fail to dim his high beams while another vehicle was passing him.
When they pulled him over, he reportedly smelled of alcohol and his eyes appeared bloodshot and glassy. Batch's blood-alcohol level was 0.106 percent, police said.
(Incident No. SP-2012-4630)
DUI: Shippensburg Police said they charged Laura Schoonover, 23, Chambersburg, with driving under the influence after stopping her for an equipment violation at South Prince and East Garfield streets Sept. 6 at 1:21 a.m.
Police said Schoonover's eyes were bloodshot and glassy and she smelled of alcohol. Her blood-alcohol concentration was 0.1 percent, police said. (Incident No. SP-2012-4443)
DUI: Shippensburg Police said they witnessed Ethan Naylor, 22, Shippensburg, driving at a high speed on East Orange Street Sept. 7 about 2:45 a.m. and subsequently arrested him for driving under the influence. Naylor reportedly admitted to not stopping at stop signs and driving faster than the posted speed limit. Police said he smelled of alcohol and his eyes were glassy.
Naylor's blood-alcohol concentration was 0.146 percent and this is his second DUI offense, police said.
(Incident No. SP-2012-4470)
Shippensburg Twp., Cumberland County
DOG THEFT: Pennsylvania State Police, Carlisle, is investigating the reported theft of a brown, white and gray pomeranian/shih tzu mix from 32 Town Mills Mobile Home Park Monday about 11:15 p.m.
(Incident No. H02-2151558)
Ayr Township, Fulton County
THEFT: Someone stole various prescription pills from a residence at 49 Hillside Estates Sept. 14 about 5 p.m., according to Pennsylvania State Police, McConnellsburg. The approximate value of the pills is unknown, police said.
(Incident No. G05-1294965)
THEFT: Someone stole a wallet containing $575 from a McConnellsburg woman between midnight and 1:30 a.m. Sunday, according to Pennsylvania State Police, McConnellsburg.
The woman was reportedly having a small party at her residence in the 500 block of Lincoln Way East Monday when someone stole the wallet. (Incident No. G05-1295072)
Todd Township, Fulton County
DUI: Pennsylvania State Police, McConnellsburg, charged Michael Keith Wilson, 56, McConnellsburg with driving under the influence on U.S. 522 Sunday about 2 p.m.
According to police, Wilson was traveling south at a high speed and several traffic violations were observed that resulted in a traffic stop. Police said they then discovered Wilson was driving under the influence of alcohol.
(Incident No. G05-1295019)


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Fitzpatrick 2000
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Fitzpatrick forum
The Fitzpatrick - Mac Giolla Phбdraig Clan Society is the International community of Fitzpatrick genealogy researchers and fitzsoc.com is our home on the Internet.
The society was founded and registered with the CLANS OF IRELAND Office in 1993. In the early years the clan was Ireland-based and the descent of the Fitzpatrick of Ossory was the research focus. The aims of the society focus on the history, heritage, culture and tradition of the Fitzpatricks. In 1998 a number of Fitzpatrick researchers in the USA and UK made contact with the Irish researchers and a clan Internet community began to evolve. Since these early days a Clan Society website has been our presence on the Internet. From November 1998 our community has used a Listserv mailing list (provided by the Higher Education Authority of Ireland) to support researchers' communication.
The clan organises regular gatherings, and in 2000 held its first International gathering in Portlaoise in Ireland. Four successful International gatherings have now been held, the others being in 2002, 2004 and 2007.
Following the 2000 gathering a worldwide Fitzpatrick DNA study got underway and this is now one of the most important family DNA studies that exists.
Welcome to our community.
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My husband drinks soda all day long so it's always been easier to just grab a drink of whatever he was drinking instead of getting my own drink.Then I decided that I wanted to try drinking water as was suggessted to me by my cousin Kathy who is also on this journey with me.I am currently down 13 lbs. by doing light excercizes and just drinking water instead of the soda. My skin is clearer and I feel better.
When I gave up soda, I did it by drinking water-- every time I went to grab a soda, THOUGHT about grabbing a soda, or even SAW soda, I drank a glass of water instead. After a few weeks, I was off soda for good, and onto a healthy water habit.My partner gave up soda by switching out his soda with seltzer water. You can buy it in a variety of flavors (usually in the soda aisle or water aisle) and it's a GREAT alternative if you still want the fizzy comfort.
Juice can be high sugars and calories. However, if you cut it with water, it lasts longer, tastes less sweet, but just as satisfying, and keeps those calories in check. Instead of water, use club soda for a great soda substitute! I now only use a splash of juice for flavor.
I love soda. Sometimes i have periods where i don't drink soda then i do again. So how i always stop is to make a huge glass of water, then take a soda and at a meal, for every sip of soda i have i have a bigger drink of water. That gets me at the point where i stop drinking soda. 30


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AFP-Nebraska will be organizing grassroots support yet again to push for construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The U.S. State Department has announced the final public hearing will be April 18th in Grand Island. If you would like to join us at this important public meeting to demonstrate support for KXL, contact Matt Litt at (402) 261-9332 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
From the Lincoln Journal Star:
The U.S. State Department has chosen the Heartland Event Center in Grand Island as the site and April 18 as the date for a public meeting on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
A spokeswoman for the State Department said the exchange with proponents and opponents of the project will be in two sessions from noon to 3:30 p.m. and from 4 p.m to 8 p.m. Registration begins at 11 a.m.
The latest interaction between the federal watchdog on the project and citizens follows the recent release of a draft supplemental environmental impact statement in which federal officials downplayed the risks of the project to the Ogallala Aquifer.
The environmental review also responded to concerns about the global warming implications of the project by suggesting that oil deposits in Alberta probably would be utilized whether the Keystone project goes forward or not.
The broader context for action on TransCanada's $7 billion plan for connecting the oilsands with refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast is a pending presidential permit necessary to cross the border between the two countries.


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Google Bombing and the IRS
Tax season is here, and like many Americans I recently went online to download forms. Usually I'd head straight to the Internal Revenue Service Web site but I find Google a more efficient way of navigating big government sites. When I Googled "IRS form 1065," there was no direct link to it on the IRS Web site, just manuals and tax tips. I skimmed the page and the ninth result was:
Form 1065 B
IRS Form 1065-B (Schedule K-1) is the partner's share of income or loss from an electing large partnership. This form is to be filled out by each partner in ...
Curious, I clicked on the link but a warning popped up, claiming the site contained malware, which meant the application, if downloaded, could cause serious harm to a PC—anything from surreptitiously installing adware, spyware, and malicious programs to turning it into a zombie that unleashes billions of spam emails, or even wipes out the hard drive. I wondered how a site like this ended up in the top 10 search results, with Google's much-vaunted claims of relevance and reliability. Indeed, Google boasts that it uses "more than 200 signals," including its patented PageRank algorithm, to rank sites.
Yet, here was a site that clearly shouldn't have been in the first 10 results. I entered other forms—1041s, K-1s—and found more suspicious sites appearing within the first 20 results, one of them listed as the fourth result.
For example:
When I used Mozilla Firefox these bogus sites were blocked automatically, part of the security features built into the browser. This was not the case when I visited the sites on Safari. Nor was it so when I switched to a PC running Internet Explorer. Notably, Google's own Chrome browser didn't offer any protection either. I followed the link to a site that warned I had malware on my computer, urging me to click on a program to eradicate it from my hard drive and protect me from future incursions. The only way you can click away is to quit the browser. It won't let you close the window or move backward or forward to another page. If you own a PC (Macs are not affected) and download the promised cleansing agent (called Malware Defender 2009), you would be downloading spyware that has been traced to hackers from the Russian Federation. Pretty clever, offering an antivirus tool that is in itself a virus tool.
Over the years, the IRS has issued numerous warnings covering online scams (last updated nine months ago). Usually they are classic identity-theft phishing schemes that rely on official-looking email messages informing you that you are going to be audited, are due a big refund or government stimulus check, or offered $80 to participate in a survey. Another version attempts to lure you to a Web site offering free online tax-filing services. In each instance, the message advises you to click on a link that then takes you to a fake IRS site where you're asked for personal information such as social security and credit card numbers.
In this case, however, fraudsters manipulate Google search results to hijack a user's browser. The fact that these sites are lodged high in Google's search rankings give them the patina of authenticity. That's what makes them so dangerous. (The same didn't appear true for Yahoo or Microsoft's search, which, as far as I could tell, didn't display these bogus sites—at least not in the first several pages of results.)
This Google bomb tactic is not new. Black hat search engine optimization (SEO) has been going on for years. According to Dave Dittrich, a senior security engineer and researcher at the Information School at the University of Washington, a typical approach is to create thousands of web pages running on hundreds of servers that cross-link to one another. Each file contains text that includes a word and strings that result from doing a search for that word. It can then push a product or service on to the first page of results—and that is by far the most valuable search engine real estate, because most people don't bother to venture past the first page.
As far back as November 2007, cybercriminals have been borrowing black hat SEO techniques to target popular keywords on Google—everything from "how to teach a dog to play fetch" to recent ones that include terms relating to Easter, March Madness and Barack Obama. Their goal: to disseminate destructive payloads. By one count, more than 1 million links point to a single poisonous domain. A while back Google created a filter in response to this malware frenzy, which earlier this year went haywire, blocking every single site Google turned up for almost an hour and freaking out some users.
With April 15 approaching, it was perhaps inevitable the IRS would also become a prime target. The attackers appear to be taking advantage of a specific PageRank vulnerability that weighs a page's popularity by treating every inbound link as a "vote," with pages attracting lots of links given more weight than pages with just a few. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's founders, view this as a form of democracy on the Web. (Apparently governing through democracy in search is as difficult as it is in the real world.) These digital ne'er-do-wells also found a way around Google's "hypertext-matching analysis" that claims to analyze "the full content of a page" and factors in "the precise location of each word." If a Google searcher clicks on the bogus link, he is either taken directly to a site hosting malicious software or redirected to one.
To see if this IRS Google bomb tactic adhered to this model, I googled "b.bejegsugy.com," which was the first bogus site I'd encountered.
The first four sites listed were:
After clicking on them at different times I was transported to either a) a fake YouTube site (carelessly misspelled YuoTube), b) the same Malware Defender 2009 site, or a page that looked like this:
That's the content the scamsters use to fool PageRank and push to the top of Google's search results.
On the bottom were links to links and more links, such as the ones on this page (which the page above linked to):
When I visted bejegsugy.com, I found a semi-legitimate search page with topics like "Film School," "Stock Photos," and "Car Insurance," which offered links to genuine sites. (Later it would morph into different-looking search site.)
And the search box? It was powered by Google. I found it a tad unnerving that it remembered many of my previous searches. For example, one I recently conducted on the economist Paul Krugman.
The domain name Bejegsugy.com was registered to an individual affiliated with a company called Zitoclick on March 26—the day I first encountered the site as a malware host. The registrant information provided an email address: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Zitoclick.com is a barebones search site that claims to offer for download a toolset that "combines a richer, more intuitive internet search experience" and "works directly with Windows XP or Vista and either Internet Explorer or Firefox." A quick search indicated it was part of the extensive cross-linking network that characterizes a site used to help juice Google rankings, often appearing as a link on a page with no obvious connection. Plus, Zitoclick owns more than 13,438 other domains.
I contacted Google to ask about this latest twist on the IRS scam—namely, how was it possible to so badly fool PageRank? A Google spokesperson, via email, offered the usual corporate boilerplate response. (Below you'll find the entire statement.)
More to the point, it appeared that Google took immediate steps to clean up its search results, eradicating the bogus malware sites from IRS form-related searches, and reprogramming its Chrome browser to block the site that hosted the malware. When I checked later that day, none of the malware sites I'd stumbled on were there anymore.
And the next time I used the Chrome browser to visit the malware scanner Web site, Google had blocked it. The advisory listed the site as "suspicious," and warned that visiting it "could harm your computer." It also reported: "The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-03-26, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-03-26."
That was the day I contacted Google.
Now that Sergey and Larry's engineers were on the case, I figured these bogus IRS form malware sites wouldn't stand a chance.
I was wrong. Two days later I checked again by googling "IRS form 1065."
The 39th result was another malware site:
I also tried other keywords, like "IRS Form 940 January 2009."
This time three bogus sites appeared on the first page. In other words, three of the top ten results were malware sites. Worse, Google didn't block any of them. As soon as it did, hackers would unleash another wave of malware sites, and the game will continue round and round.
Google has built its billion-dollar empire on search, yet hackers have learned to subvert the system at will. It makes you wonder what other keywords are tainted. If Google search isn't democracy incarnate, which is how the company advertises it, then what is it? In some instances a rigged system that rewards not the sites that have earned placement on the most valuable real estate—the first page or two of results—but one in which scammers can profit.
And what if these cybercriminals, like those behind the mysterious Conficker worm, which has been getting heaps of press lately, were to deploy more damaging payloads? For now, they have stuck with basic PC-busting malware that is often sniffed out by antivirus products. If these hackers switch to more damaging Microsoft PC "0days" (pronounced "oh-days" or "zero days," it generally refers to unknown, or zero-hour, software threats that are easily attained on the hacker black market ) Google could become a most inhospitable place to do your searching. And those responsible for Conficker are not the only ones worth worrying about. A recent report identified a vast cyberespionage campaign dubbed GhostNet that infected 1,295 infected computers in 103 countries, including embassies, international organizations, ministries of foreign affairs, news media and NGOs. It, too, relied on malware to disseminate an application called Gh0st Rat that transformed PCs into spy devices—pilfering confidential documents and turning on cameras and microphones without users' knowledge. And most antivirus products didn't provide protection.
As for those who plan to download IRS forms, it probably doesn't need to be said that you should skip Google and head straight to the IRS Web site, which will necessarily have "irs.gov" in its address. Accept no substitutes. If you do, you do so at your own peril.
Google Spokesperson response:
Hi Adam,
Thanks for getting in touch with us. Feel free to attribute the following information to a Google spokesperson:
Search is a complex problem and the heart of what we do. We use more than 200 signals, including our PageRank technology, to help us rank sites. At the same time, we work hard to protect our users from malware. We've removed many of these types of results from our search index. However, this issue affects more than just Google, as these sites are still part of the general web. In all cases, we actively work to detect and remove sites that serve malware from our index. To do this, we have manual and automated processes in place to enforce our policies. We also flag suspicious sites with malware warnings using our Safe Browsing tools. We'll continue to monitor for these bad results and will remove any as necessary. Additionally, we're always exploring new ways to identify and eliminate malicious sites from our index.
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Bill: Agreed, but the difficult thing with applying human judgment is making it scale.
Google has had a few rounds of technologies aimed at incorporating human judgment in search. The latest incarnation is Custom Search. There's also Preferred Sites, which lets you list sites you'd prefer, and lets you promote or remove search results. Unfortunately, that's currently a solitary activity.
Still, none of their facilities have really taken off. I don't think they've found the right way to leverage community and social networking to accomplish useful search organization.
Part of the problem is creating an incentive for putting in the effort for rating.
There may well be ways of gaming the "human judgment" piece. Fake humans is one. Perhaps that could be controlled for with reputation management of one sort or another.
Another problem is that human judgment may be applying a very different context than the one in which you are searching. To take an extreme example, a malware researcher would be looking for exactly the ones most of us would want to exclude.
Or consider the word "breast", which depending on context, should trigger filtering, or prefer cooking sites, or health sites, or porn sites, or literary, or swimming, or ...
You get the idea. One of the big strengths AND weaknesses of democratic search is that it is at least neutral about context.
Still, I can't help but thing that in this arms race, eventually we will USUALLY come out ahead, much like the body's immune system usually wins out over invaders. But it will take us a while to evolve that immune system, and it will involve much learning through painful infection.
The examples discussed in this article are pretty disturbing. They clearly demonstrate the limits of robotic crawling and heuristic algorithms as ways to find and deliver good search results. That's why I think that the best way to gain the upper hand in this arms race is to take greater advantage of human judgement in selecting and ranking the good stuff.


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Football is officially in swing, and this week we've got a couple of big college matchups with LSU taking on Auburn and Michigan vs. Notre Dame. Thursday is also one to keep an eye out for with Cam Newton taking on the Giants in prime time, NBC rolling out its usual slate of shows and a few season finales from FX. Look below for the highlights this week, followed after the break by our weekly listing of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.
Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventure
After Star Wars last year, Lucasfilm is back with another restored series in HD, this time Indiana Jones. Consisting of all three movies and another, completely unrelated flick plus lots of extras, it should be quite an experience for the fans. Check out the announce post here for more details on the enhancements, or check out the trailer embedded after the break..
($65 on Amazon)
The Mob Doctor
Coming in tonight after the season premiere of Bones, we're not sure if this show will stick around any longer than The Chicago Code did, but we'll give it a shot. Centered around a surgeon who somehow ends up paying off a mob debt with some off the books surgery, we're just happy to see PJ from My Boys back on TV -- if Jim Gaffigan drops by we're in for the duration.
(September 17th, Fox, 9PM)
Blu-ray & Games
- Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures
- Judge Dredd
- The Cabin in the Woods
- Modern Family (S3)
- Supernatural (S7)
- Hawaii Five-0 (S2)
- Katy Perry: Part of Me (3D)
- 2012 Olympics London
- The Babymakers
- The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
- F1 2012 (PS3, Xbox 360)
- Borderlands 2 (PS3, Xbox 360)
- Jet Set Radio (Xbox 360, PS3)
- Street Fighter: 25th Anniversary Collector's Set (Xbox 360, PS3)
- Broncos/Falcons Monday Night Football, ESPN, 8:30PM
- CMA Music Festival, ABC, 8PM
- Revolution (series premiere), NBC, 10PM
- The Mob Doctor (series premiere), Fox, 9PM
- Bones (season premiere), Fox, 8PM
- Alphas, Syfy, 8PM
- Switched At Birth, ABC Family, 8PM
- The L.A. Complex, CW, 8 & 9PM
- WWE Raw, USA, 8PM
- American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior, Discovery, 9PM
- Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Travel, 9PM
- Fast n' Loud, Discovery, 10PM
- The Voice, NBC, 8PM
- Hoarders, A&E, 9PM
- Major Crimes, TNT, 9PM
- Warehouse 13, Syfy, 9PM
- Perception (season finale), TNT, 10PM
- The Inbetweeners, MTV, 10:30PM
- So You Think You Can Dance (season finale), Fox, 8PM
- 20/20: Best in TV (special presentation), ABC, 9PM
- Hot Set (series premiere), Syfy, 10PM
- Sons of Anarchy, FX, 10PM
- The Voice, NBC, 8PM
- Go On, NBC, 9PM
- Face Off, Syfy, 9PM
- Top Gear (US), History, 9PM
- White Collar (season finale), USA, 9PM
- The New Normal, NBC, 9:30PM
- Parenthood , NBC, 9PM
- Covert Affairs, USA, 10PM
- 2012 Reebok Crossfit Games, ESPN2, 10PM
- The Burn (season finale), Comedy Central, 10:30PM
- Survivor (season premiere), CBS, 8PM
- Rake (season premiere), DirecTV, 9PM
- How Booze Built America (series premiere), Discovery, 10PM
- The Real World / Road Rules Challenge (series premiere), MTV, 10PM
- Kent State/Buffalo college football, ESPNU, 7PM
- Rangers/Angels baseball, ESPN, 10PM
- US/Australia women's soccer, ESPN2, 10PM
- A Football Life, NFL Network, 8PM
- The X Factor, Fox, 8PM
- Inside the NFL, Showtime, 9PM
- Inside NASCAR, Showtime, 10PM
- NFL Turning Point, NBC Sports Network, 10PM
- The Voice, NBC, 8PM
- Oh Sit!, CW, 8PM
- Royal Pains (season finale), USA, 9PM
- Sons of Guns, Discovery, 9PM
- BYU/Boise State college football, ESPN, 9PM
- Giants/Panthers Thursday Night Football, NFL Network, 8PM
- Saturday Night Live: Primetime Election Special, NBC, 8PM
- Up All Night (season premiere), NBC, 8:30PM
- The Office (season premiere), NBC, 9PM
- Parks & Recreation (season premiere), NBC, 9:30PM
- Wipeout (season finale), ABC, 8PM
- Glee, Fox, 9PM
- Impact Wrestling, Spike TV, 8PM
- The X-Factor, Fox, 8PM
- Caught Looking, NBC Sports Network, 9PM
- Rock Center with Brian Williams, NBC, 10PM
- Wilfred (season finale), FX, 10PM
- Louie, FX, 10:30PM
- Awkward (season finale), MTV, 10:30PM
- Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell (season finale), FX, 11PM
- Children's Hospital, Cartoon Network, 11:59PM
- Haven (season premiere), Syfy, 10PM
- Shark Tank, ABC, 8PM
- Baylor/University of Louisiana-Monroe college football, ESPN, 8PM
- WWE SmackDown, Syfy, 8PM
- Boss, Starz, 9PM
- XIII, Reelzchannel, 9PM
- The Ultimate Fighter, FX, 10PM
- Strike Back, Cinemax, 10PM
- Michigan/Notre Dame college football, NBC, 7:30PM
- LSU/Auburn college football, ESPN, 6PM
- Clemson/Florida State, ABC, 8PM
- Arizona/Oregon, ESPN, 9:30PM
- Doctor Who, BBC America, 9PM
- Saturday Night Live: Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Mumford & Sons, NBC, 11:30PM
- Singapore GP, Speed, 8AM
- The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards (special presentation), ABC, 8PM
- Treme (season premiere), HBO, 10PM
- NASCAR Sprint Cup Series @ New Hampshire, ESPN, 2PM
- Dodgers/Reds baseball, ESPN, 8PM
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- Boardwalk Empire, HBO, 9PM
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Wade bags quartet as Rovers hit Town for six
Posted: November 01, 2012|
FOUR goals from Wade Brown helped Pendeen Rovers to an emphatic 6-0 home victory over Falmouth Town at Borlase Park on Saturday.
Andre Peters' men quickly established a two-goal lead and then had a penalty saved before missing another before half-time.
Jason Roberts and leading scorer Luke Wort were a constant threat up front for Town, who were without a handful of regulars and manager Paul Murray who took charge of the club's first team for their home fixture with Witheridge.
But Pendeen were deserved winners, and in addition to Brown's goals, Ashley Ellis and Scott Meagor were also on the scoresheet as the rampant Rovers leapfrogged Town into second place in the table, and also avenged their 7-0 defeat at Bickland Park the last time the sides met in the league.
Leaders Illogan took full advantage of Falmouth's defeat as they cruised to a 4-0 win at Porthleven, with goals from Simon Ellis (2), Dominic Pullen and Jason Roberts. The result keeps Illogan two points clear of Pendeen, who have a game in hand.
St Ives Town missed a great chance to attain second place in the table as a last-minute goal from Sam Waters salvaged Goonhavern a point from a 1-1 draw at Reen Manor Park.
A goal from Joel McWilliams looked to have set the unbeaten Saints on their way to a seventh league win of the season, only for Waters' late intervention to earn the home side a deserved share of the spoils from an evenly contested encounter.
St Day put the disappointment of their Cornwall Senior Cup expulsion firmly behind them with a 3-0 victory at Newquay. Gavin Boon bagged a brace for the Saints, with Danny Ford also on target as they climbed to fifth place in the table.
There were a few shock results on Saturday, with sixth placed Mullion beaten 3-2 at Ludgvan, who recorded only their third win of the campaign with the Hurlers goals coming from birthday boy Jack Ramsey, Tom Patrick and Liam Devine.
Dagan Vaughan-Spruce and Jacob Lugg replied for Mullion.
St Agnes' hopes of moving into the top six were also dealt a bitter blow as they went down 3-0 at Perranwell, who themselves climbed to ninth place thanks to two goals from Matt Read and an own goal.
The other shock result of the day came at Blaythorne where a solitary goal from Sam Eva was enough to earn Holmans only their second league win of the season as they beat Hayle 1-0.
The result saw Holmans move off the bottom of the table, where they were replaced by Falmouth Athletic, who lost 2-1 at home to Penryn.
A goal from Stuart Nicholls helped St Just record their third league win of the season in a 1-0 victory at a windswept RNAS Culdrose, although the Tinners were indebted to a late goal-line clearance from their man of the match Darren Ball to ensure they went away with three points.
Elsewhere, Troon moved up to 12th place in the table as Matthew Rowe scored both goals in a 2-0 win at mid-table rivals Wendron United, who slipped to 10th place.


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Introducing a weekly show about life at Rocketjump. Whether its behind the scenes of VGHS, intense competitions, or just plain old fun, you'll see it… This Week at RocketJump!
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Special thanks to the Far Cry 3 team for making this video possible! We shot this video in Belize, at The Placencia which is an awesome resort down there (special thanks to them as well!). This is the first video we've ever shot out of country!
The Official Far Cry 3 Story Trailer
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Shahrukh says Rani is the hero of Paheli
26th June 2005 21.22 IST
By Aparajita Ghosh
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan has a unique way of relegating himself to the sidelines.
Even though it has been just days since Paheli released on the big screen, the movie is being dubbed as a success. The film has Rani Mukherjee playing a lovelorn village girl, while SRK plays the twin role of her husband and a ghost.
In an IANS interview, SRK said that Rani was truly the hero of the film and that he was a mere supporting actor.
"Rani Mukherjee is the hero of the film. I'm the supporting actor. Rather, supporting actors, since I've two roles," SRK is quoted as saying.
Shahrukh also said that Paheli offered him the chance to work with an avant-garde director (Amol Palekar) for the first time.
"I've worked with Mani Kaul, Kundan Shah, Ketan Mehta... But being the producer in Paheli, this was the first occasion when I got to observe a so-called serious director so closely," SRK told IANS.
When asked whether he had any differences with Paheli's director Amol Palekar , SRK said differences were "natural" as they are two different people.
SRK said that even though he personally did not believe in ghosts, he likes the story of a woman falling in love with the ghost-lookalike of her husband.
"It is a simple story that entertains. It also makes you sit and think in the end," he said.
In SRK's opinion, Paheli will appeal to "those who are in love."
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OpenOffice Lives, More Involvement Needed
Free office solution OpenOffice.org is still in the best of shape, based on reactions from project members to Novell developer Michael Meeks's recent pessimistic view. The Linux Foundation is one of many who are concerned. All want one thing: more.
Two weeks ago, OpenOffice.org collaborator Michael Meeks blogged a message of concern about the project, painting it in not so rosy terms. He cited numerous statistics to show that, in his opinion, the code has been poorly maintained, causing many developers to pull off the project from frustration. This prompted a reaction from Thorsten Ziehm, quality expert at Sun Microsystems for OpenOffice and its commercial variant StarOffice. In his "What was done in 2008" blog," Ziehm followed Meeks's example by showing supporting graphics and statistics, but this time to refute Meeks's claims. Whereas Meeks cites an increasing developer withdrawal from the project, Ziehm points to the "nearly 900 child work spaces" that were integrated. While Meeks is convinced of Sun's retreat, Ziehm cites a contrary opinion from Sun VP Jim Parkinson in his weblog from November 2008: "We are not about to walk away from OpenOffice.org."
Florian Effenberger, marketing representative for the project, also opined in a Linux Magazine Online blog that he was amazed at Meeks's pessimistic view. He even saw the current polarization as evidence of the project's vitality: "The differing viewpoints prove only that the project continues to be active, that it lives, that many are thinking about it and take it close to heart. There's no better way of showing how full of life it is." As evidence he pointed to the 50 new extensions enhancing OpenOffice that were added in December.
The Linux Foundation is showing its own concern. Foundation VP Amanda McPherson sees OpenOffice.org as the great alternative to Microsoft and that the 28 million downloads for the last OpenOffice version as undoubtable proof of its success. Even the vaguest notion about a questionable future could prove fatal. In her weblog she writes, "I worry that we would be beholden to the same proprietary forces that have shaped the desktop market. We shouldn't rely on Sun to save us here. In fact it may be counter-productive to do so."
All seemed to agree that OpenOffice lives and will continue to do so with more participants involved. Ziehm summarizes with, "we need more people in all areas and projects – User Experience, QA, L10N, Development or any other project on OOo – to get dreams fulfilled."
BugsFiling bugs to the OOo developers are indeed frustrating. I filed several critical or hopeless issues since around 2001-2002, the last in 2004, and most of them where fixed only recently or are not fixed yet.
My first problems was with developers with no idea about the real world. Usability issues where rejected with "works for me" but where fixed later after usability tests of course showed that I was right. It was so obvious, but I ha to struggle with computer enthusiasts. Later it was project managers or something that handled the dialog in the issue handling system and things improved.
Even when issues have several hundred votes it takes years before fixes or improvements are implemented. I have seen many smaller (VERY small!!!) companies implement many of these features from quarter to quarter, so I assume that it is not only about lack of resurces, this problem.
But really... waiting for 5 years for smaller features that where part of Office 95 or Office 97, thats too much.
OpenOffice Lives, More Involvement NeededSorry, previous author was me, not Britta Wülfing
OpenOffice Lives, More Involvement NeededSince my blog ( see [1] ) is referenced on Planet ( [2] ) I think Thorsten Ziehm answered to my blog entry, not the Michael one (please read again [3] ....
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[2] http://planet.go-oo.org/
[3] http://eric.bachard.free.fr...real-number-of-developers.html
bugsHi to AC who posted above about the spreadsheet bug: what is the bug number? My experience with Open Office bugs has been different, both from the outstanding maintainers of my distribution (Debian) and from "upstream" (OpenOffice.org itself).
OpenOffice is crucial to desktop LinuxOpenOffice needs to be supported in a big way. It's a crucial application for desktop Linnux and it isn't the kind of work that's really suited to part-time or hobbyist developers. Not only Sun but also Novell, Red Hat, Canonical, IBM, and all the rest, need to commit time, money, and people to OpenOffice. If this crucial piece of software falls into disrepair, desktop Linux's viability will suffer greatly.
Re: OpenOffice Lives, More Involvement NeededTry posting a bug report on OpenOffice - it's an exercise in frustrating futility. There is *still* a critical flaw involving absolute references in the spreadsheet - and they won't admit it even EXISTS!!!!!! I feel like I've been slamming my head into a concrete wall - and it's long past time to stop. OO is badly broken; the developers refuse to listen to the users . . . . It's just pointless to even try. I hope KOffice turns out better.
PS - I *like* OpenOffice - the things that aren't broken are better than Microsoft Office - but the broken parts need to be acknowledged and fixed.
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Photon Controller Goes Open Source
VMware bids for a stake in the container industry with a bold effort to integrate containers with its classic virtualization system.
New Point-and-Click Exploit Kit Appears in the Wild
3ROS attack tool lowers the technical bar so anyone can be an intruder.
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Mozilla's latest browser offers powerful new privacy feature
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Dyreza Malware is Back
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Kernel Developer Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel
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US Launches New Strategy for Broadband Access
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Car bursts into flames in leisure centre car park
West Yorkshire Fire Service are making the scene safe after a car burst into flames in a leisure centre car park.
Crews from Stanningley were called to the blaze, next to Pudsey Leisure Centre, at 11.59am.
The fire began at the back of the Volvo estate car, and officers are investigating how it began.
MP's concerns over car parking charges at train stations
Pudsey MP Stuart Andrew has met with the Transport Secretary to raise his concerns about imposing car parking charges near train stations. 18 stations in West Yorkshire could be affected by the plans
WW2 refugee visits old school
John Karlik revisits Fulneck School in Leeds to meet staff and pupils more than70 years after he was evacuated from Prague to become a pupil there.
Teenage girl goes missing in Leeds
There is concern for a teenage girls who has gone missing in Leeds.
Emily Matthews, 15, from Pudsey, was last seen in Albion Street in Leeds city centre at about 8.30pm on Saturday.
She is described as white, about 4ft 11ins tall, of medium build, with shoulder-length blonde hair.
Anyone who has can help in tracing her is asked to contact North West Leeds CID at Pudsey Police station on 101.
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Pudsey MP in motorway smash
Pudsey MP Stuart Andrew has been involved in a crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire.Read the full story ›
IPCC investigate Leeds police van death
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a man who was struck by a police vehicle in a park.
West Yorkshire Police told the IPCC that Donald Bennett, 83, died after one of its vehicles collided with a man in Pudsey Park near Leeds. Early enquiries suggest an officer was responding to reports of a disturbance at the park and the van was left unattended before it struck Mr Bennett.
The force later referred the incident, which happened on Saturday, 1 June at about 2.15pm, to the IPCC and an IPCC investigator was sent to the scene.
IPCC staff met with members of Mr Bennett's family at his home in Pudsey to explain the investigation.
Cindy Butts, the IPCC's Commissioner for West Yorkshire, said: "This is a tragic incident in which an elderly man lost his life. I will ensure our investigation is robust and that it provides the answers Mr Bennett's family and friends will understandably want."
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A pensioner who died after being hit by a runaway police van in Leeds over the weekend has been named.
83-year-old Donald Bennett was knocked down by the vehicle after police attended a call to a disturbance in Pudsey Park on Saturday afternoon.
It's understood officers left the van unattended before it rolled into Mr Bennett who was visiting the park with his family. The matter has now been passed onto the Independent Police Complaints commission.
Police runaway van death pensioner named
An elderly man who was killed after being knocked down by a runaway police van has been named as Donald Bennett. The 83-year-old retired joiner, was in Pudsey Park, when he was struck by the unattended van. Police were called to reports of a disturbance in the park shortly after 2pm on Saturday.
Two officers left the police van to deal with the incident when it rolled into the pensioner who was walking through the park. Mr Bennett, who was believed to be married, was visiting the park with family. He was treated by ambulance staff at the scene but was pronounced dead shortly after.
The matter has been referred to the Police Complaints Commission.


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