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Affordable Green Ways to Tackle 6 Home Decorating Challenges
Forget Extreme Home Makeover. Forget the cost and headache (not to mention waste) of a renovation. Stop comparing your life to the pristine museum interiors showcased in the home design glossies. Keep it simple — and sustainable — by making easy, affordable changes to create a beautiful space right where you are.
Dawn Ritchie and Kathryn Robyn, authors of The Emotional House, lament the glut of home improvement shows that "focus on just the exterior not the interior life of a home." "It's not about the spotless granite kitchen counter top, but rather the sunny breakfast table where newspapers have been read and conversation shared over coffee," says Ritchie. It's about bringing a little soul into the rooms we spend time in.
And of course, no soulful addition is complete without a healthy dose of sustainable design. But greening your home isn't simply about investing in eco products. Architect Carol Venolia believes "we've gotten to a place where we don't think of ourselves as dwelling in nature. We need to blur the boundaries between indoors and out and realize we're part of rather than separated from the larger environment beyond our own four walls."
As you nest, remember: resist the throwaway item. Buy the oak cabinet, not the particleboard shelving; pick the cast iron skillet over the chemically laden Teflon. Patty Grossman of O Ecotextiles, a Seattle-based fabric company, marvels at how a truly organic piece of cloth can last a century or two and with wear and tear only gain in luster. The greatest home improvements are the durable domestic objects that travel with us over the years and weave themselves into our lives.
With these tenets in mind, we bring you six easy, earthwise solutions for breathing new life into the way you live.
Problem #1: Too many chaotic piles of stuff are harshing your mellow
Solution: Time to put your house in order
Seana Hansen, author of the blog eco-organizer.com, believes "the whole concept of organizing — purging what you don't need, being spatially aware in your personal environment — is fundamentally eco-friendly. It encourages efficiency, conservation and simplicity."
If you're letting go of stuff, repeat after us: recycle, upcycle, Freecycle or donate. Try repurposing jars and boxes you already have.
If you do need to buy storage or shelving, Hansen advises choosing products that use the highest percentage of post-consumer recycled content. As with anything you buy, make sure it can be recycled again. For the design aesthetes out there, good-looking, eco-friendly storage does exist.
Gaiam's recycled Flip Flop Doormats look like they're woven from candy-colored bicycle chains. And check out these Folding Recycling Bags that make sorting and stashing your recyclables a far more civilized and aesthetically pleasing affair — and makes bottles, cans and papers easier to tote to the garage.
Engage Green's traymats do double duty — they're sturdy recycled paper bins that unsnap to become placemats in chic floral and striped patterns.
Scott Bennett of Housefish Key builds sleek modular storage units from sustainably harvested maple plywood that's finished with zero-VOC (volatile organic compound) finish. The units fit together without screws or glue, just sturdy aluminum pegs, and you can add optional sliding metal doors in a suite of bright, minimal colors.
Problem #2: Those stark white walls are making you blue
Solution: Embrace color and brighten up your world
Wisdom has it that "if walls could talk," they'd tell us a lot about ourselves. And in fact they do — they're the canvas on which we're free to express who we are: bright and cheery, cool and serene, traditional or modern.
If you want to liven up a room with a fresh coat of color, opt for paints made from all-natural substances like milk, botanicals, clay and earth pigments. Or choose a zero-VOC paint like AFM Safecoat, American Pride, Green Planet or the gorgeous hues from Yolo Colorhouse. There are zero-VOC tints as well.
To create a warm mood, American Clay's wall plaster gives a room an earthy, Mediterranean feel and can be applied directly over paint. The plaster has a laundry list of benefits — it's non-fading and easy to patch, it inhibits mold and supposedly emits "negative ions" that purify the air. Or try lime plaster-based EcoStucco, which can be used inside or out and repels water and air pollution, absorbs structural movements and retains its color over decades.
Looking for something livelier than paint? Wake up your room with wallpaper. As the design savvy among us will have already noted, we're in the midst of a bit of a wallpaper revival, and that means more fabulous patterns are hitting the market every day. But before you grab a roll and get gluing, consider that most conventional wallpaper is made of (or at the very least, coated in) toxic PVC vinyl.
Fortunately, the newest crop of wallpaper designers includes quite a few eco-minded artisans who are substituting hand silk-screened papers and water-based glazes in lieu of the chemi-laden plastic stuff. Mod Green Pod, Madison & Grow, Palacepapers and Pottok Prints all feature gorgeously green works of art.
If the landlord won't let you paint or paper, try removable wall treatments. Sherwin Williams' non-vinyl EasyChange sheets go up and come down without a trace — and without solvents. You can also look for exotic flora and fauna patterns by UK designers Graham and Brown. For something sculptural, Inhabit's embossed white wall tiles add eye-popping texture to a room with motifs such as Braille or Industry. Made from bamboo pulp, they feel like heavy cardboard and can be left pristine or painted.
Problem #3: You try to tread lightly on the earth, but your floors still need an update
Solution: Turn to natural and recycled fibers for an instant room refresher
Floors are the most intensely used element in a house, and we often take for granted the mysterious creaks of wooden floorboards or the warmth of a plush rug beneath our feet. Creating a foundation for ourselves that's durable and made from natural or recycled fibers subtly grounds our daily routines.
Fiber area rugs add texture underfoot. Sisal, sea grass and bamboo can be cut to measure then trimmed with cloth edging. Organic wool rugs add warmth and purify the air as well as being stain-resistant and non-flammable. Make sure the backing is hemp or cotton and uses natural rubber adhesive. To warm up a tile bathroom, cut a lush mat from one-half-inch wool pile. It looks and feels like lambskin and offers an instant foot cozy when you step from the shower.
Rugs made from recycled materials are also a great sustainable option. Try Gaiam's Turkish Pattern Reversible All-Weather Floor Mat, made entirely from soda bottles and handcrafted by fair trade Thai artisans. It's durable and colorfully designed, and will feel smooth on your feet.
FLOR modular carpet tiles make for a quick room refresh. These sleek, boldly colored 20-inch squares are held down by adhesive dots and can be endlessly rearranged (or individually replaced, should you spill an errant glass of wine). Although the carpet is not 100 percent organic (it's a mix of natural fiber and recycled nylon and polyester), it is low VOC and uses a cradle-to-cradle model in which every tile can be recycled into new carpet.
If you're looking to redo an entire floor, cork and Marmoleum offer a sturdy, sustainable alternative. Available as interlocking tiles, both can be laid over existing flooring. Cork insulates for sound and warmth while supporting backs and knees and Marmoleum's anti-static and anti-microbial material improves air quality.
Problem #4: Your retro armchair needs a little TLC
Solution: Give your flea market finds an organic makeover
It used to be that buying organic upholstery fabric made you feel virtuous, not fashion forward, but a growing number of online stores offer stylish options that are also kind on the earth.
Patty Grossman and Leigh Anne Van Dusen of O Ecotextiles produce high-end artisanal fabric that is truly 100 percent natural. "Wool or cotton can be organically grown," they explain, "but for softening or dyeing, toxins might be used, so definitely ask questions."
At Near Sea Naturals, a small family-owned business, the emphasis is on working with the innate textures of cotton and hemp and the natural flame-retardancy of wool to create sturdy, eco-friendly fabric. Woven cottons in delicious colors like Frosted Moss, Pearl Barley or Brown Sugar offer more muted hues. Near Sea Naturals also carries aforementioned wallpaper designer's Mod Green Pod cotton fabrics, which are hand-printed rather than dyed. Whimsically named samples like Licorice Jubilee and Chocolate Clara offer a hip, updated take on the swirling Victorian vines of William Morris.
For seat cushions, Eco-terric's Rowena Finegan, a certified Bau-Biologist, uses natural latex foam. If you'd like to touch up the wood frame, use BioShield plant-based resin and oil stain finish. And finally, top off your new piece with an Eco-terric throw pillow covered in elegant Kalamkari fabric — a hand-woven organic cotton that's block-printed with 100 percent natural dyes by fair-trade artisans in India.
Problem #5: You dream of being a city farmer but don't have a backyard
Solution: Exercise your green thumb with a container garden
Even the most space-challenged urbanite can grow food indoors on a windowsill or outside on a stairway, deck or even a roof. Cultivating a garden, however small, brings outside awareness indoors — you'll begin to notice the weather and pay attention to where the sun falls in your apartment.
Any area that gets at least four hours of full (ideally southern) sunlight can become a mini-garden. Pick up a copy of McGee and Stuckey's The Bountiful Container — the go-to reference for apartment dwellers looking to produce food in small spaces.
Fill your windowsill with herbs. Chives, basil, lavender, parsley, mint and thyme are all good starters. Outdoors on a stairway, lettuce grows easily and abundantly if given full sun. McGee advises to "think vertical" and use hanging baskets to increase your growing area. Suspend a container of cherry tomatoes up high and make room for a bucket of squash or cucumbers below.
For the more ambitious, try a mini orchard. Meyer lemon and Kaffir lime trees do well indoors, and blueberry bushes, figs and even some varieties of apple, peach and nectarine can be grown outdoors in large pots.
Invest in a self-watering container, which saves on space, time and most importantly, water. The commercially made Earthbox comes with detailed instructions on how many seedlings to plant and when to water. Better yet, make your own using a hand-me-down 5-gallon food-grade PVC bucket and follow Erik Knutzen's video instructions on howtohomestead.org.
Problem #6: You want to let your light shine without being an energy vampire
Solution: LEDs — This bulb's for you
As city dwellers, we've lost our connection to the natural rhythm and energy of daylight. We no longer rely on the sun to keep time and we've forgotten the pleasures of wrapping ourselves in line-dried sheets.
Architect Carol Venolia urges her clients to build in a way that "draws every last drop from natural light to increase energy efficiency. If you can't renovate because you rent or if you live in an older, not-so-green home, you should still work with existing light. Watch where the sun falls and use it to illuminate your indoor work whenever you can."
When you do need to turn on the juice, you get double points if you use Light Emitting Diode (LED) bulbs. Before you balk at their price, consider that LEDs are more than twice as energy efficient and can last three times longer than CFLs (imagine not having to change a light bulb for 15 years!) and don't contain mercury.
Here are a few lamps made from sustainable materials that we've given the green light.
- If you've got a big enough deck, dine outdoors under the stars (with a meal grown in your city garden) and hang some of Gaiam's Shoji silk solar lanterns to light the festivities.
- Green Light Concepts rescues the glass lenses from old traffic signals that would otherwise go to landfill and turns them into "retro-modern" lampshades.
- For muted light, the MIO Shroom perches on the tabletop or floor looking like an ethereal mushroom. The soft felt shade made of 100 percent wool gives off a diffused glow.
- The Lite2go Lamp by Knoend cleverly eliminates packaging. The recyclable polypropylene shade snaps together to wrap up a seven-watt CFL with an electric cord and socket (it's also LED compatible). Simply unsnap and plug in
Further reading
The Emotional House: How Redesigning Your Home Can Change Your Life
Dawn Ritchie Kathryn L. Robyn (New Harbinger)
Healing Environments: Your Guide to Indoor Well-Being
Carol Venolia (Celestial Arts)
The Bountiful Container
Rose Marie Nichols McGee Maggie Stuckey (Workman)
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The Magazine of the Program in Religious Studies at the University of Minnesota
Perspectives is published annually by the Program in Religious Studies for its students, alumni, and supporters.
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What it would've been. The top I am wearing is actually a dress made by Lauren Gabrielson, a couturier from New York. I decided that I was going to dress it down a little and wear it daringly casual. About a year ago, my then very feminine self would've probably paired this dress with some yellow tights, black oxfords, and a beret. As I was thinking about how to style it, I thought well that's how everyone else would wear this dress. It would've been straightforward, expected, and proper.
What I did with it. Without going over the edge, I tucked in the front part of the dress to show off the buttons of my high-waist jeans, while covering the unflattering parts "mom jeans" tend to exaggerate (namely, hips and butt). I've seen a girl wear a big white tee this way, and it looked pretty cool. Wearing the dress this way also made me somewhat look like I had slender legs! To match the dainty "blouse," I chose an equally feminine and truly vintage purse whose design looked like oxfords. So the irony of this outfit put together like this gave birth to the French maid slacker!
What you're getting. Lauren Gabrielson not only sent me this gift but also chose to give away another Frenchie Dress in black and white to you all! Take a look at what it looks like as is in the photo below or on their website. Yes, another giveaway back to back, but hey it's a lot of fun :)
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1. The next link in the chain is provided by documentation on Germany's relations with Hungary in 1943. During the Second World War, Hungary was ruled by a strongly authoritarian, right-wing regime, which had come to power in a bloody counter-revolution at the end of the First World War. Led by Admiral Horthy, whose title derived from the defunct Habsburg Empire and who functioned as Regent for the absent Habsburg Emperor, the Hungarian regime allied itself to Nazi Germany from early on, principally in order to recover territory from small neighbouring countries which it considered belonged to Hungary by the historic right of the Habsburg tradition.
2. In 1938-39 it joined Germany in the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. In return for German backing in obtaining territory from Romania in August 1940 and Yugoslavia in April 1941, the Hungarian government sent troops to participate in the German invasion of Russia in June 1941. Having achieved its principal goals in annexing territory from its small neighbouring states, Hungary now tried to pull out of the war on the Eastern front, and withdrew substantial numbers of troops. Following the defeat of the German armies at Stalingrad, Hitler began to put pressure on Admiral Horthy to reverse this policy, and summoned him to a meeting on 16 and 17 April 1943, at which the German Foreign Minister, Ribbentrop, was also present. Hitler and Ribbentrop also used this opportunity to discuss with Horthy the question of Hungary's Jewish population.
3. A substantial number of Jews lived in Hungary; a figure of around three-quarters of a million in 1943-44 is widely accepted by historians. These people were already subjected to massive legal discrimination by the strongly antisemitic Horthy regime, which denied them basic rights such as entering the professions and enforced on them restrictions comparable to those obtaining in Germany under the Nazis before 1939. The Hungarian fascist party, the Arrow Cross, was putting pressure on the Horthy government to introduce harsh new policies against the Jews. These measures, enacted from 1938 onwards, had been partly designed to appease it.
4. The subject of Hungary's Jews had already been the cause of friction between the two regimes of Hitler and Horthy. After the invasion of Russia, the Horthy regime began deporting 'alien Jews' (including Jewish refugees from Austria, Slovakia, Poland and Germany) to Körösmezo, close to the border with the General Government. From here, they were forcibly transported over the border into German-controlled territory. By late August 1941, when the operation was completed, 16,000-18,000 Jews had been transferred. The great majority of the Jews pushed out of Hungary in this way were exterminated by SS units in Kamenets-Podolsk (Ukraine), in a massacre on 27-28 August 1941. Only about 2,000 Jews who had arrived from Hungary initially survived.1
5. In the following year, the 'Third Reich' stepped up its efforts to include the remaining Jews in Hungary in the 'Final Solution'. On 15 August 1942, the Hungarian representative in Berlin, Döme Szt"jay, reported to his government that following insturction from Hitler regardless of the nationality of these Jews and provided transportation facilities exist
the Germans are determined to rid Europe of the Jewish elements without further delay and intend...to deport them to the occupied territories in the East, where they will be settled in ghettos or labour camps and made to work. The authorities have been instructed to complete these deportations while the war is still on. According to absolutely reliable information, Reichsleiter Himmler has informed a meeting of SS leaders that it is the wish of the German Government to complete these deportations within a year.2
6. Two months later, the Germans officially approached the Hungarian government in this matter. On 14 October 1942, the senior Foreign Office official Martin Luther instructed the German embassy in Budapest to inform the Hungarian government of the reasons 'which are moving us according to the will of the Führer to attempt a complete solution of the Jewish question in Europe soon, and to ask the Hungarian government to drive forward on its part the measures which are necessary for this purpose.' These measures included the 'immediate labelling of all Jews' as well as the preparation for 'deportation and transport off to the East'.3 These demands were passed on by the German representative in Budapest on 17 October 1942 to the Hungarian government.4
7. However, the Hungarians comprehensively rejected the demands. In its reply on 2 December 1942, the Hungarian government made clear that it was extremely jealous of its sovereign rights and insisted that any 'solution' of the Hungarian dimension of the 'Jewish question' would have to take the specific circumstances in Hungary into account. It rejected the special marking of Jews and informed the Germans that as far as the 'deportation of Jewry out of Hungary' was concerned, 'the Hungarian government possesses today neither the possibilities nor the technical means of lending governmental measures practical validity in this matter.'5
8. The German government was clearly unhappy with this response from its military ally, and increased its pressure on Hungary to give in to its demands. On 15 January 1943, Luther reminded the Hungarian representative in Berlin, Döme Sztójay,However, in the following months the Hungarian government did not change its stance on the matter.
that the Führer is resolved under all circumstances to remove all Jews from Europe already during the war, because these, as he (Sztójay), to be sure, knows exactly, constitute an element of subversion, and in most cases carry the guilt for acts of sabotage which occur, and otherwise also occupy themselves mainly with espionage for the enemy. It fills us with very great concern that just one country in the middle of Europe that is friendly to us harbours about 1 million Jews. We cannot look on this danger in the long run without taking action.6
10. The meeting between Hitler and Horthy on 16 and 17 April 1943 was in part designed to escalate the pressure which the German government had already put on Horthy to 'solve' the 'Jewish question' in Hungary once and for all and to persuade Horthy to remove the obstacles which he had so far put in the way of the forcible deportation of all of Hungary's Jews to territory controlled by the Nazi regime.
1. R. Braham, The Politics of Genocide, Vol. I (New York, 1994), pp. 205-213; see also idem, 'The Kamenets Podolsk and Dlvidek Massacres', in: Yad Vashem Studies 9 (1973), pp. 133-156.
2. Sztójay report, 15.8.1942; cited in E Levai, Black Book on hte Matyrdom of Hungarian Jewry (Zurich, Vienna, 1948),pp. 26-27.
3. 'die uns bewegen, nach dem Willen des Führers eine baldige und vollständige Lösung der Judenfrage in Europa anzustreben und die Ungarische Regierung zu bitten, auch ihrerseits die dazu erforderlichen Maßnahmen voranzutreiben...sofortige Kennzeichnung aller Juden...Aussiedlung und den Abtransport nach dem Osten'. Luther to German Embassy in Budapest, 14.10.1942, ND NG-5562; reprinted in R. L. Braham (ed.) The Destruction of Hungarian Jewry, vol. I (New York, 1963), document 75.
4. Note from Sztójay to the German Foreign Office, 2.12.1942; reprinted in R. L. Braham (ed.) The Destruction of Hungarian Jewry, vol. I (New York, 1963), document 86.
5. 'aussiedlung des Judentums aus Ungarn'; 'besitzt die Ungarische Regierung heute nicht die Möglichkeiten, noch besitzt sie die technischen Mitteln dazu um diesbezüglichen Regierungsmassnahmen eine praktische Geltung zu verschaffen.' Note from Sztójay to the German Foreign Office, 2.12.1942; reprinted in Braham (ed.), The Destruction of Hungarian Jewry, vol. I (New York, 1963), document 86.
6. 'dass der Führer unter allen Umständen gewillt sei, alle Juden noch während des Krieges aus Europa zu entfernen, da diese, wie er [Sztójay] ja genauestens wisse, eine (sic) Element der Zersetzung darstellen und in den meisten Fällen an vorkommenden Sabotageakten die Schuld trügen und sich im übrigen auch vornehmlich mit Feindspionage beschäftigten. Es erfülle uns mit sehr grosser Sorge, dass ein uns befreundetes Land mitten in Europa allein ca. 1 Million Juden beherberge. Wir könnten dieser Gefahr auf die Dauer nicht untätig zusehen.' Note from Luther to Foreign Office, 16.1.1943; reprinted in R. L. Braham (ed.), The Destruction of Hungarian Jewry, vol. I (New York, 1963), document 92.
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I really need to stream Spotify to my PS3 and it would be nice to do it with PMS 1.90.1, because expect of this problem PMS 1.90.1 is the best. I have no problem streaming Spotify with UMS 2.6.5. I would be really thankful if someone could help me to find a solution to this problem. My PS3 only throws "The data type is not supported." and my log gives this:
INFO 2013-11-03 23:45:04.074 [New I/O server worker #3-5] Starting transcode/remux of Spotify
WARN 2013-11-03 23:45:04.075 [New I/O server worker #3-5] External input stream instance is null... sounds not good, waiting 500ms
INFO 2013-11-03 23:45:04.092 [ffmpeg.exe-10] Successfully initialized buffer to 50 000 000 bytes.
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Culver-Stockton College was ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the 53rd most Connected Campus in the country. Culver-Stockton scored higher than any other school in Missouri, Illinois or Iowa.
Of the 1,471 schools that submitted connectivity data, Culver-Stockton's ranking placed the school in the top 4 percent of the nation.
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Someone who plays MMO's far too often and looses the ability to socialize in real life. Usually younger and living with their parents and playing 14+ hours a day. They can be spotted in game by there constant jumping around and overuse of emotes due to extremely high caffine or redbull intake.
"the new guy at work would be cool if he wasn't such a Twitchy... and I think his dad dropped him off for his interview"
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Can you define these popular missing words?
something that is really gross or annoying in some way and bugs you.
"some people make me twitch"
โดย michelle 25 พฤศจิกายน 2003
An obnoxious rich kid with the mental capacity of Paris Hilton on crack. Also known to whine contantly when they don't get their way, having their parents bail the out every time they do something stupid, and being a general pain in the ass. Usually a female. Also see preppy
"You know that twitchy didn't buy that BMW themself"
โดย Dopey baby! 21 เมษายน 2005
What we call my aunts boyfriend, who use to cook crank in his kitchen until they got busted and he didn't get charged with shit cuz he's a nark and he's lucky that he's not dead for shutting down such a good business.
He's done some much crank that now he just twitches non-stop. Im suprised he's not dead.(thats to bad too)The only thing he is good for is giving me money to support his habit. I don't think he has slept in the the last 2 years. What a twitchy fucker!
โดย WHITE BOY of the 03 พฤศจิกายน 2005
the cowering companion of a bagel or a Morgen Doner whom attatches himself to the most powerful person in the room. He is tiny, dark and scared and always twitches insanely due to the chipmunks running around his face.
The twitchy is twitching like a mofo.
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Ortler / Ortles Climber's Log
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Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2016
|Climbed the Hintergrat together with Maarten and Veit. Until the first snowfield thick fog and no visibility. At the first snowfield, at Sunrise, the weather cleared, offering us fantastic views. We descended along the normal route back to Sulden.
A very fine tour & one of the best in the Eastern Alps.
|Posted Aug 21, 2016 3:30 pm
|Very enjoyable Normal Route
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2016
|Climbed Ortler with my son Christoph (and local guide David) on the day following a mid-summer snowstorm. We used crampons on the lower rocky parts but had excellent snow conditions on the upper glacier sections. Very cold & windy at the summit but the views were spectacular. A highly recommended climb with a very welcoming, family-run Payer hut situated on a rocky promontory!
|Posted Jul 28, 2016 7:43 pm
|Normal Route from Rif. Payer
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2013
|With good climbing conditions.
|Posted Sep 20, 2014 9:12 am
|Silvia Mazzani
|North Ridge (normal)
Date Climbed: Sep 12, 1982
|Superb ascent from Rif. Payer.
|Posted Dec 12, 2012 4:17 pm
|North Face
Date Climbed: May 19, 2012
|Good conditions. Good hard firn up to the "Gurgel" were we put on the rope. From there in good ice conditions we partly simul-climbed with four belay points on the way to rest and exchange gear. Start at Tabaretta Hut 4am, summit 10am back in Sulden 4pm.
Long and nervy descent via Payer Hut and Tabaretta Hut.
|Posted Oct 2, 2012 3:06 am
|Beautiful Hintergrat
Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2006
|Beautiful rock climb up the Hintergrat.
|Posted Jul 30, 2012 6:30 am
|Hintergrat route
Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2003
|Great preparation for high Wallis mountains: Ortler Hintergrat with excellent weather; second time I summited Ortler (first time via "normal route up and down on September, 15. 1999)
|Posted Feb 26, 2012 1:20 pm
|Route Climbed: Normal route Date Climbed: july 2004
|I could imagine this would be a great route for its grade if there weren't hundred people on it everyday...
|Posted Dec 17, 2010 5:49 am
|Dries Desmet
|Hintergrat-Orter- Normal route
Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2010
|Very nice climb, we had very nice weather: a lot of sun and no clouds :-)).
|Posted Jul 27, 2010 4:25 am
Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2009
|we had quite cloudy and snow weather, but the climb was very nice - I enjoyed it very much. We stayed at bivac and went down normal route second day - the weather totally changed overnight so we could enjoy the perfect view..
|Posted Mar 26, 2010 4:56 pm
|Route Climbed: North Face
Date Climbed: Jun 1, 2009
|Dan P. and I climbed the North Face in a long but rewarding day. We had whiteout conditions on the summit, unfortunately, and some excitement using map and compass to find our way north on the normal route.
|Posted Jun 2, 2009 4:16 am
|Normal route
Date Climbed: Apr 25, 1985
|one of my first, just great alpinism.
|Posted Mar 10, 2009 11:31 pm
|Joerg Marretsch
|Hintergrat ridge - summit - Normal route
Date Climbed: Sep 28, 2008
|Just a perfect day at the end of summer 2008. Best conditions and not too many people.
|Posted Sep 29, 2008 3:22 pm
|Tomas Kristofory
|204th anniversary
Date Climbed: Sep 27, 2008
|We ascended Ortler via normal route with the base at Tabarettahuette with the club Euthanasia (www.euthanasia.cz). We ascended it on the same day, as was the 204th anniversary of the first ascend on Ortler. We had cloud inversion and saw brocken spectre of ours at Tschirfeck part. I just came, happy to be back alive. Snow made the ridge very tricky and a one guy in our group could have paid with his life for it. I'm too tired to write more or to post photos. You will have to wait some days/hours to see them.
|Posted Sep 28, 2008 6:28 pm
|Route Climbed: Normal route
Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2008
|Climbed the Ortler from Sulden with a nightstop at the payer hut in 2 days. nice weather and a beatiful trip with good friends.
more at http://www.martinhupfauf.com/wordpress/?p=763 (sorry, only in german) and more pictures at http://www.martinhupfauf.com/fotoalbum/2008/2008-08-02%20Hochtour%20Ortler/index.html
|Posted Aug 17, 2008 4:00 pm
|Through Tabaretta ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2008
|It was a beautiful trip to the Ortler's summit. The weather was fantastic we were lucky.
|Posted Jul 21, 2008 1:56 am
|Normal Route
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 1984
|Climbed with Giamba,Augusto Andrea e Simonetta from Payer hut
|Posted Mar 2, 2008 7:22 am
|Route climbed: Normal route
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 1988
|From refuge Tabaretta to the summit. A very crowded route, but a great beautyful mountain.
|Posted Nov 10, 2007 3:35 pm
|Traverse Hintergrat - Payer hut
Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2003
|Very impressive but long trip. "Bianco ridge" in upper part had almost vanished. However, glacier descent astonishingly ok albeit non-freezing temperatures at 4000m 24h per day, and blank glacier with thick waterfalls close to the track.
|Posted Oct 17, 2007 2:53 pm
|Ortler - me 1:0
Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2007
|Yet another defeat...
I "guided" two beginners with whom I first met on a glacier-travel course, and my best meteo-friend also came along.
The weather was supposed to be fine, so we started from Sulden, and slept in Payerhütte. In the morning we got up late, started late, after everybody, and progressed very slowly on the technical parts of the ridge, because the two guys were inexperienced in free climbing. I didn't use the rope because the lack of anchor points and intermediate belays, we had no rock climbing equipment. The snow was melted already when we reached the glacier. All parties coming down the mountain told us its too late! After that, my friend fell into a crevasse, but it was no big, and on the glacier we were roped up, so there was no problem, he climbed out quickly.
Some 250 meters below the summit the two guys stopped and said they won't go any further, the storm is coming, it's late, time to turn around. Meteo guy sayed go ahead, there will be no problem! By this time big clouds were gathering around the summit. We could not persuade the two guys, so we turned around. When we arrived to the most exposed part of the ridge, I belayed everybody down to a fixed ring above a small but difficult step, and tied the rope in. Then wind came and rain and hail began to fall, and my ixe axe began to sound on my backpack. I was getting nervous. Told everybody to hurry up. And then the sky sounded and I felt ourselves in a big piece of shit. I said it can't be... We can't suck a big storm here on the ridge... Meteo-guy said: keep calm, it will go away! We quickly continued descending, and indeed, the storm went away, stopped raining so finally we got down to Payerhütte with no problem. The two guys left their ice axes on the top of the chain-assured part because they were so scared of lightning. Anyway, the axes were made of aluminium, and they were not sounding...
Next time... via Hintergrat, or maybe Nordwand.
|Posted Oct 10, 2007 3:47 am


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Sali^ÛOtenii Co**urjity College ^ox 1020 s Roñan, MT 59364 PABLO, MONTANA 59855 ISSN: 0528-8592 VOLUME 10 NUMBER 7 NEWSPAPER OF THE SAUSH, PEND cTOREILLE AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION, WESTERN MONTANA FULL MOON OF THE HUCKLEBERRY AUGUST 15,1981 Secretarial election seeks decision on primaries, concurrent jurisdiction Flathead Agency BIA officials received word last month that the Secretary of the Interior will allow the CSK tribal membership to decide whether or not they want primary elections for the purpose of narrowing down the field of candidates in their biennial general election of tribal leaders. The referendum came as a result of a petition drive spearheaded by Lucille T. Otter and Thurman Trosper. Aided by close to 30 volunteers (see "Letters REGISTRATION MANDATORY FOR SECRETARIAL ELECTION Eligible tribal members need to be registered with the Bureau of Indian Affairs on or before August 25,1981, in order to vote in the October 3 secretarial election (see story this page). Election packets were mailed August 10 to all resident tribal members who are 18 years of age or older, or will be by December 22, 1981. Enclosed were a two-page memo explaining the election, a registration form, and an absentee ballot request form. Only those voters who are eighteen years-old or over by October 3 and who are registered will be allowed to vote. Forms must be completed and returned to the Flathead Agency before the August 25 deadline. Voters should pay special attention to the fact that their signatures must appear on the (Continued on page 2) to the Editor"), Mrs. Otter was able to get 994 names - 880 of which were eventually validated - on petitions requesting a tribal constitutional amendment to allow for primary elections, every other December. Only 714 signatures - 1/3 the total number of eligible voters ~ were needed. Efforts earlier in the year by Thurman Trosper failed to convince two-thirds of the Tribal Council to authorize primaries. "Too expensive," some said, and 'write-in' candidates could still dilute votes, weakening the original intent of the progenerai balloting. The rejection prompted Trosper to follow both tribal constitutional provisions and federal law and go the petition route. The completed petition was filed with the BIA on June 11. Complying with the rules set forth in the "CFR" - the Code of Federal Regulations, the bureaucratic Bible wherein the specifics of America's laws are detailed chapter and verse, or rather, article, section and paragraph number - the BIA posted the petition results for public review and possible challenge. (Only one challenge was leveled). After all the 900-some-odd signatures were reviewed, validated and certified, the petition was sent off for a series of authorizations at the BIA area and federal levels. Official authorization to go ahead and hold the secretarial election was received at the Flathead Agency on July 26. Following still other CFR provisions. (Continued on 0090 2) Inside this issue THD has two heroes............................Page 3 Charlo's People - continued......................Page 5 Memories: Summer Ree. 1981....................Page 6 "Letters to the Editor"..........................Page 8 Health Corner................................Page 10 "Around the Campjire"........................Page 18 Tribal Council Minutes.........................Page 22
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Over at Sphere of Networks, I published a text that tries to give a simple overview of the workings of information production in the age of the internet, covering everything from free software to free culture. This article is a slightly modified version of a chapter of this text. I will show how peer-to-peer file-sharing networks work and how Big Media tries to prevent this sharing by means of random lawsuits and by using DRM. What does this copyright war mean for consumers and for our culture as a whole?
Information technology
Since the 1970s computers have become ever faster, smaller and cheaper. This led to the availability of personal computers in most homes in the more economically developed countries. By 1995, the public started to realize the potential of the internet. Through the more recent introduction of broadband internet, most home computers are constantly connected to the internet at several times greater speeds than only a few years ago. Individuals have received the power to manipulate huge amounts of data ever faster, and (more importantly) to share the data they produce with others over the internet. Now it is possible for everyone to manipulate, for example, hours of homemade video and enhance it with some special effects. On the other hand, it has also become easy to mix and manipulate the works of others and share them with all the world, as demonstrated on sites like The Trailer Mash: here lots of people present new creative works they created—remixes of official movie trailers, rearranged to tell other stories. Use past cultural production to create something new. What only some lucky entrepreneurs like Walt Disney could do in the beginning of the 20th century, everybody can do today.
Networked computers enable individuals to manipulate huge amounts of data ever faster, and share the data they produce with others
Unfortunately, at the moment this is mostly illegal because of lengthy and restrictive copyright law. You can neither copy nor modify any work without the originator's explicit permission. It isn't like those derivative works were hurting sales of official movies or that nobody would listen to classical Mozart anymore (himself long dead) because his music was used and newly interpreted by a DJ. Nonetheless, copyright law has not been altered to let everyone make use of the new technologies. On the contrary, under the pressure of Hollywood and the Big Four record labels that dominate over 80% of the music market [1], copyright law has been tightened to prevent people from using these technologies. Under the pretext of protecting established artists' revenues, new artists are prevented from rising. But the truth behind all this is that the record industry fears for its existence—rightly so.
File sharing
Today, some inexpensive home computers and the internet are superior to the distribution channels of the record industry with its CD manufacturing plants and many shops. Digital technology enables infinite copying of music and movies without any loss in quality.
Shawn Fanning, a then 17 year old student, released Napster in 1999. It was the first peer-to-peer file-sharing system to gain widespread popularity for sharing music. In peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, the data isn't stored on a central server and accessed by clients (which is the case with web pages), but many peers, usually ordinary home computers, share their data with one another. Soon this technology was adopted and improved; after Napster was sued by the record industry and ultimately shut down, new networks emerged which were even more decentralized. Every user downloading information is at the same time making available that very same information he/she just downloaded to other participants.
The most popular networks as of today are eDonkey2000 (with client-programs as eMule or MLDonkey), FastTrack (with clients as Kazaa or Grokster) and Gnutella (with clients as LimeWire or Gnucleus) [2]. While these networks are searchable through a client program, in the BitTorrent P2P network, data is found through websites like The Pirate Bay where a small
.torrent-file is downloaded and then opened in a BitTorrent client such as Azureus or BitTornado, where the actual download takes place [3]. Most of this software is free software, but some is also proprietary.
Peer-to-peer networks are heavily utilized, millions of users all over the world share thousands of songs over the internet
These services are heavily used. Millions of users all over the world share thousands of titles and even rare songs they wouldn't find in stores. The major music labels don't like that and have come up with the term "Piracy", equating people that share music with one another with bandits that attack other people's ships. The record industry argues that every downloaded song accounts for a loss in CD sales which ultimately hurts artists. However, it should be kept clearly in mind that not every song downloaded would have been bought. Also through sharing samples, people are exposed to new music and might come to buy CDs they otherwise would never have known of. And downloading old material that isn't available in stores anymore surely doesn't hurt artists. It is also a fact that under the current model of music distribution, the average artist gets something between 5 and 14 percent of the CD sales revenue [4]. The rest trickles away in the business that is the record industry.
But now a new distribution model becomes feasible. Lots of ordinary people, connected through the internet, outperform the record industry and make it essentially obsolete in a time where high quality recording equipment to supplement home computers becomes ever cheaper. It simply isn't necessary to buy physical records anymore. Especially for unknown artists, the internet represents a very attractive marketing ground; with services like Last.fm or Pandora, it has become very easy to discover new music. Artists who release their music can earn money by performing and going on tour (like artists always did before recording technology was invented). Alternative payments systems have also been proposed: mechanisms like an easy way to donate small amounts of money to musicians over the internet, or to let every person downloading pay a small monthly fee which is distributed to the artists based on their popularity. This could for example be done by bundling a voluntary fee with the broadband bill (Broadband, unlimited legal downloading included!) [5]. With these distribution and compensation methods, artists would most certainly be far better off than now, but the major labels aren't willing to adopt yet. Instead they are fighting windmills, with all means available to them.
As there is no single instance responsible for the operation of peer-to-peer file sharing networks, there is nobody in particular the music industry can sue. That's why the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) turned to randomly suing people for copyright infringement that have allegedly participated in file sharing, in hope of deterrence. To find people in file sharing networks, they rely on tracing computer's IP addresses. But it is often very difficult to find out who a specific IP belongs to and impossible to tell with certainty. That's why the RIAA has already sued a 66-year-old grandmother for downloading gangster rap, but also families without a computer and even dead people were addressed [6]. The RIAA's tactics are to intimidate defendants and force them into settlements outside the court under the threat that they are facing high legal fees.
But recently, victims of such random lawsuits began fighting back and countersued the RIAA for malicious prosecution [7]. But it continues to be an uphill-battle and non-profit organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which fight for digital rights and provide individuals with legal defense, have only limited resources compared to the large legal departments of the major record labels. To preserve its last-century business model, the record industry has actually turned to sue its own customers, something that's only possible because a few companies hold a monopoly on about 90% of the music produced [8].
Copyright in a digital world
As video files are larger, downloading movies or TV series isn't as common as sharing music yet, but it is only a matter of time when Hollywood will find itself in the same situation as the record industry is now. Social practices like going to the movies will remain popular in addition to watching films at home. As digital technology allows for ever cheaper production of videos and music, movies will eventually be produced at lower budgets than what is common in Hollywood today, but there will probably be more smaller films, oriented towards more specific audiences, than the homogeneous monster productions we are seeing today.
Copyright law was always meant to regulate copying. However, in the past this was something only competing businesses like other book publishers could do. But today, everyone can copy a file by a simple mouse-click. Thus the scope of this law has changed dramatically over time: from regulating anticompetitive business practices to restricting consumers. Keeping up these same rules in a digital world does nothing but label a large portion of citizens as criminals—for no obvious reason. Additionally, lots of creative works, which wouldn't have been possible without inexpensive computers and the internet, are prevented from being published legally.
Today's copyright law just doesn't make sense when applied to digital technology
Today's copyright law just doesn't make sense when applied to digital technology. For example, it could even be argued that looking at a website is copyright infringement, as in order to display a webpage on the screen, the computer has to download it and make a local copy from the data stored on the server. As this is an unauthorized copy, this is actually illegal.
Not only has the scope of copyright changed dramatically, but also copyright terms have gone up like crazy. Copyright law is there to give authors the exclusive right to copy their works for a limited period of time. After that, copyright expires and the work passes into the public domain. Then everybody can make whatever use of it he wants without restrictions. This term was originally 14 years after the publication of the work. Since then however, it has been regularly increased. Through heavy lobbying from the record industry and Hollywood, since 1962, the U.S. Congress has extended copyright terms eleven times in 40 years alone. Today, in the United States, copyright persists for 70 years after the author's death, and for corporate works it's 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever is shortest.
Technology can also be used against people. Under the pretext of fighting "piracy", the major entertainment companies have come up with ever stronger copy protections, all of them having something in common—they have been cracked very quickly [9].
In the '80s, Hollywood was crying that home video recording would kill the film production. It didn't, although you usually could easily copy VHS video tapes. On DVDs, copy prevention was already present from day 1. Now the industry is pushing new formats to protect HD video (high definition, resulting in a sharper picture) that are meant to replace DVDs. A standard hasn't been reached yet and now two different optical disc technologies are fighting for dominance: BluRay and HD-DVD. Both implement new and stronger copy preventions which force the consumer to buy not only new players, but also new displays (so that Hollywood can even control the signal between the player and the display) [10]. Equipment has to be certified to be able to playback these media (as already the case with DVDs). Free software solutions are thus excluded from the system right from the start—in order to play DVDs on a GNU/Linux computer the copy prevention has to be cracked, which is done very quickly nowadays. However, even these new technologies, implemented in both BluRay and HD-DVD, have already been cracked by numerous methods, even before the discs get to consumers homes.
In the music market, the standard audio CD provides digital music of satisfactory quality to most listeners. CDs have been around for a long time, and stem from a time where copy prevention wasn't common yet. There have been several attempts to implement copy preventions later on, resulting in audio CDs that some players couldn't play which led to consumer frustration. With the rise of Apple's iTunes Store, the music industry has slowly started to realize the possibilities of distributing music through the internet. Now people can buy songs and download them right away. The prices are comparable to CDs. Although virtually all distribution costs go away for the labels, artists don't receive higher payments for the songs sold on the iTunes Store [11].
Music doesn't just reside on a CD anymore: it is sold through the internet and transferred to portable music players like the iPod; the music industry cannot prevent their customers from copying it; as a result, the music industry developed technologies to limit access to music. For these new technologies, the umbrella term DRM is used. Originally standing for Digital rights management, opponents like the Free Software Foundation refer to it as Digital restrictions management. With DRM, the data, for example music or video, is digitally encrypted and can only be played back by specific devices or software. "Unauthorized copies" can be prevented or content can even be set to expire after a specific period of time. Songs purchased on Apple's market leading iTunes Store for example bear the following (compared to others still relatively lax) restrictions: while the track can be copied on up to five different computers, playback is only possible with Apple's iTunes software and on no other portable music player than Apple's iPod. Music isn't bought anymore, it is rather just rented for limited use.
Music isn't bought anymore, it is rather just rented for limited use
It is also possible to sell sustainably DRM-free music over the internet (which can then be played back by any device including the iPod): stores like emusic which has currently 250,000 subscribers. However, the major record labels refuse to sell their songs without DRM, leading emusic and the likes to specialize in independent music.
As history has shown us, it is impossible to come up with a copy prevention or DRM system that is unbreakable. As long as the music and movie industries try to restrict access to the media they sell, they'll be caught up in a cat-and-mouse game. Whenever a new DRM scheme sees the light of day, eventually it will be cracked by the many skilled people collaborating over the internet, and DRM-free copies will be available on peer-to-peer networks. However, it might one day become difficult enough for a large enough part of the population to set the media they paid for free. Consumers might just accept that they have only limited control over their legally bought music collection. That's probably the goal of the entertainment industry. Not bringing "piracy" down, because they know that's impossible, but controlling consumers to maximize revenue [12]. Then, because you can't copy it and put it on an other device, the entertainment industry will be able to sell you the same song or video several times: once for your computer, maybe a second time for your portable music or video player, then for playback in your living room, and one more time as a ringtone for your cell phone.
To ensure that it's difficult enough for most consumers, and first of all illegal, to crack the DRM on their media, additional laws were written. In the USA, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was enacted in 1998, in the European Union the EU Copyright Directive (EUCD) of 2001, which is similar to the DMCA in many ways. Now it is illegal to circumvent DRM or other access control technologies, even when copying the content was permitted under simple copyright law, for example under the terms of fair use (e.g. for means of citation, educational purposes or maybe using a tiny extract of the work non-commercially). Under the DMCA, even the production or spread of circumvention technologies was criminalized.
With DRM and laws to criminalize circumvention of DRM in place, our culture gets locked down even more. It becomes technically increasingly difficult (and simply illegal) to use many of our cultural products, like pop music or election campaign footage, to create something new. We live increasingly in a permission culture, where new creators have to ask the powerful or creators from the past for permission, rather than in a free culture that would uphold the individual freedom to create. At the same time, while digital technology would allow us for the first time in history to build a library accessible to everyone, larger than the Library of Alexandria, we run the risk of forgetting history as past culture is locked down by law and DRM. While you theoretically still could sometimes make legal use of such material under the terms of fair use, and fight for your right to do so in court, this is no longer possible if law is interpreted by your computer rather than a judge. If the footage of the landing on the moon had been broadcasted with DRM in place, you couldn't reuse one second of the clip, regardless if legal under fair-use or not—because your DRM-crippled computer prevented you from doing so.
We live in a time where digital technology enables individuals to produce and distribute creative works more easily and cheaply, rearrange old footage to tell new stories or cite from the past, effectively creating and shaping more of their own culture. These practices are increasingly hindered by the old industry that is threatened with losing its monopoly on producing the lion's share of our cultural production. Wrapped up, the changes we have seen recently in law, technology and in the concentration of the media market lead to a devastating conclusion: There has never been a time in history when more of our "culture" was as "owned" as it is now. And yet there has never been a time when the concentration of power to control the uses of culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as it is now. (Lawrence Lessig [13])
[1] Music market, Wikipedia
[2] Client programs for various peer-to-peer networks that are free software: eMule, MLDonkey, Gnucleus (Windows only) or LimeWire
[3] Some free software BitTorrent clients: Azureus, BitTornado or Transmission
[4] The reasons to get rid of the major record labels, Downhill Battle
[5] Various proposals summed up: Making P2P Pay Artists, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); and an outlined proposal: A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing, EFF
[6] Grandmother piracy lawsuit dropped, BBC News;RIAA sues computer-less family, Ars Technica;"I sue dead people...", Ars Technica
[7] Exonerated defendant sues RIAA for malicious prosecution, Ars Technica
[8] Concentration of media ownership, Wikipedia
[9] Hacking Digital Rights Management, Ars Technica
[10] HDCP: beta testing DRM on the public?, Ars Technica; Why you should boycott Blu-ray and HD-DVD, Blu-Ray Sucks
[11] Artists sue Sony for iTunes royalties, Macworld; iTunes and Digital Downloads: An Analysis (continued), Future of Music Coalition
[12] Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn't about piracy, Ars Technica
[13] Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, 2004, p. 28
Neil Armstrong picture is PD (or "Copyright Free")
By the way, the image of Neil Armstrong in the article is public domain (or "copyright free"), because it was produced by the US government (the camera was part of the Apollo 11 payload, of course, and its operation was controlled by government personnel -- in fact, IIRC, by Armstrong himself, by pulling a cord on the LM before descending the ladder).
Works directly produced by the US government are not copyrightable under US law, and thus go immediately into the public domain. Which is really cool -- especially for all those NASA solar system exploration images that are out there.
There is a loophole to watch out for, though: it turns out that if the government contracts a company to do work for it and the contractor produces the images, then copyright may be assigned to that contractor (I'm uncertain of the exact terms that govern this distinction). Fortunately, very few space probe images have this encumberance.
Of course, there are also some other (non-copyright) stipulations about NASA images -- for example you still have to get permissions to use an image as a commercial endorsement.
What's scary is the possibility of new "broadcast rights". Under these, a news agency would get a copyright-like right in such an image just because they relayed it from NASA to the viewing public. (!) And of course, the "broadcast flag" would be used to lock such transmissions down with DRM encoding in transmitted video. I really hope we can avoid such abominations -- we've already got too many abuses of the system in the DMCA and the various copyright extension acts. It's time to start taking back the public domain!
Broadcasting DRM
Yes, I know about NASA works being in the public domain. (Although I always wondered how exactly that photo had been taken - thanks for explaining! :D) My point was just that..
If the footage of the landing on the moon had been broadcasted with DRM in place, you couldn't reuse one second of the clip...
I guess you are aiming at the same threat: Digital TV broadcasted with DRM encryption in place and some nasty broadcast flags turned on. I just freshed up my mind about 'Broadcast flag' on Wikipedia and they say the FCC tried to mandate DRM on all DTV devices. Furtunately a court ruled this was outside the FCC's authority, but a higher court could rule otherwise or the congress could give the FCC more authorities...
Yeah, I don't think the
Yeah, I don't think the broadcast flag fight is over. Another issue is that the WIPO wants to get a treaty established to create a new "broadcast right" which gives you a copyright-like monopoly over content you broadcast, regardless of its original copyright status. This would legitimize the broadcast flag DRM under law!
Obviously, we don't want to live in that world, so these things need to be resisted.
Once the FCC mandates it,
Once the FCC mandates it, the other way it gets even written in the law.. :S I wouldn't like either ways.
I'm really wondering how thinks will develop over the next decade or so. The best thing would probably be if artists themselves found out about the possibilities of the internet and created a serious alternative to the Mass Media. Then I wouldn't care about a broadcast-flag that much anymore.
But to get an independent strong free culture production really started, I think a major piece missing is a trustworthy, cheap micro-payments transaction system. Artists need to get payed somehow for creating free content. We still need to figure out how...
Current DRM trend
When the DRM advocates came up and implemented HDCP (still in progress), they crossed the criminal line themselves, ...conspiring to engage collusion and extortion of customers and manufacturers to pay for the DRM in software and HARDWARE that is unwanted. It is also a clear conspiracy to interfere with free trade(the hardware design and operation), a fact recognized by numerous countries not currently under the DRM media moguls control. As a similar example, modern customers would probably revolt en masse if a gasoline brand was made to only work in one brand of vehicle or a certain food digestible only if you paid for the specific antidote in advance.
If I was a jurist or on a jury and the media was suing a DRM copyright violater, I would favor either outright dismissal or a very small sum, ie 1 cent, under the Clean Hands Doctrine which the DRM promoters no longer qualify due to the more criminal, extensive, and damaging aspects of their DRM schemes such as HDCP.


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As the 113th Congress convenes to tackle the nation's debt ceiling and start down the road to economic recovery, one of its most daunting challenges will be to lower long-term health costs. There's bipartisan agreement that the single biggest factor in government spending is health care—it's 25 percent of federal spending and 23 percent of the average state's spending. Both are projected to increase at more than 6 percent annually for the next decade—faster than any other category of public spending. But, there's huge disagreement about the long-term solution.
Reducing the rate of growth in health care spending closer to overall economic growth—perhaps to 1 percent above the gross domestic product (GDP) as the Simpson-Bowles Commission sought to do—could be achieved, but it requires changes that are not popular or in some cases are politically risky. Health costs have grown on average 2.4 percent faster than GDP for more than 30 years. To reduce spending to 1 percent above the annual GDP would mean the industry would continue to grow, but at a slower rate. For the average consumer, that might mean higher out-of-pocket costs or limits on care deemed unnecessary.
A compounding problem is this: most consumers don't understand the health care system per se; their strong opinions about health care are based on their personal experiences with the doctors and hospitals they use and the insurance they may or may not have. At the same time, polls show consumers think the US health care system is wasteful and inefficient. The majority support doing away with fee-for-service incentives and replacing them with outcomes-based payments. They want increased transparency about prices and provider performance and basic insurance for everyone. But each of these is a major shift to a system that's change resistant. As a result, policymakers are hamstrung to change what seems intractable.
The facts are compelling: the health care system is more than 17 percent of GDP and employs 14.5 million workers. It impacts everyone everyday—whether insured or not, whether well or sick. Its almost $9,000 per capita cost is unseen to most: prices for the drugs, tests, and procedures are unknown. Consumers depend on physicians to determine what they need, whether based on evidence or not, and our insurance system, funded by employers and the government, absorbs about 80 percent of these costs, leaving individuals to pay the rest. The recovery of the US economy starts with slowing the rate of health care costs and fixing the health care system. Every day, an average of 7,000 new enrollees join Medicare, and on average, they receive $3 for every $1 they paid into the Medicare system in their working years. And complicating things, one in ten employers anticipate dropping health benefits coverage in the next 1–3 years.
Today, government health programs cover 99.5 million Americans through programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and military health care. The government uses its buying muscle to negotiate lower rates with doctors, hospitals, and drugs paying in some cases less than the cost of producing or providing the service.
The private insurance market covers 197 million Americans through premiums, co-payments, and other out-of-pocket costs. Individuals and employers pay for the care they consume and a bit more for the government's underpayments, plus a hidden tax for the almost 50 million without coverage.
Something's got to give. The math doesn't work.
Policymakers tend to fall into two camps on the solution: let the market work, as messy as it is, or let's get on with it—a government-run system like most in the world.
The "let the market work" crowd espouses a justifiable position that the health care system is fundamentally flawed: incentives for volume, not outcomes, are at the root of the structural problem. Add its lack of transparency about costs and quality, and an insurance system that has sheltered its members from the financial impact of their decisions and lifestyles, and the result is predictable—high costs, public aversion to change, and escalating costs disproportionately born by employers and individuals who purchase commercial insurance. The solution: force consumers to buy health care the way they purchase automobile repair services (i.e., insurance for collisions but routine maintenance out-of-pocket). They reason it will force the system to become more accountable, competitive, transparent, and responsive. Antagonists challenge the logic of the "let the market work" crowd on two fronts: it deepens the divide between the "haves and have-nots," and it does not reduce costs if the sickest and most in need are forced into a public system by default.
The "get on with it" crowd has no appetite for the "let the market work" chorus. They reason that the system is fundamentally corrupted by flawed incentives that reward volume and access for those with insurance while a growing number of those without coverage face substantial barriers to accessing preventive and consistent health care services, forcing individuals to fend for themselves or wait until an emergent situation arises before they can access care―a costly alternative for everyone. The "get on with it" sentiment is especially popular among young independents who fear the future of the country's stability is compromised by the failure to fix the health care juggernaut. They view the equity of the system—coverage as a universal right—as the foundation for its reform and imagine a single-payer system that will cost less and function better. Those most opposed to the "get on with it" perspective point to public education and the US Postal Service to defend the argument against a government solution.
The 113th Congress must address a long-term health care cost fix head-on. Policymakers must navigate between these two strongly held views of the solution. The Affordable Care Act, signed into law on March 23, 2010 and upheld by the Supreme Court June 28, 2012, is a legal framework for modest reforms of the system that the Congressional Budget Office concluded will save more than $100 billion over ten years. But, it does not fundamentally answer the question about a long-term solution.
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About 50 volunteers gathered at the Flying W Ranch on Friday to mitigate flooding and repair fire damage.
"It's a landmark in our community," said Gail McCormick, a volunteer. "It's important. There's a lot of us that want to volunteer."
The Coalition for the Upper South Platte (CUSP) and other groups organized the volunteer rehabilition effort. And Flying W Ranch owner Leigh Ann Wolfe says she's grateful.
"They're here to help," she said. "They want to help and I'm thankful for every single one of them out here today."
With hard hats on and shovels in hand, volunteers did everything from spreading mulch to chopping and laying down logs. But their efforts aren't only to help the ranch. Because of the fire, the surrounding area is at risk for erosion and mudslides, which could impact homes and threaten the city's water supply.
Volunteers hope their work can help lessen the impact.
"We need to help restore this land and we're here to show people that this is something that volunteers can do," said Jonathan Bruno, CUSP Operations Director. "It's not the hardest work, it's not the most technical work. And we all need to come together and do what we can to restore the land impacted by that fire."
As for the re-opening of Flying W Ranch, Wolfe says it's too early to tell. First comes stabilizing the mountain.
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The day of this year's Boston Marathon, Carl Guardino, co-founder of the Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot, awoke excited to see if his friends would hit their running goals. By day's end -- after news broke about the bombings, injuries and death there -- he was thinking about something else.
"Oh my word, this could be our event," Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, said in a recent interview.
Like Guardino, other organizers of large, outdoor Bay Area events plan to tighten security after the horror in Boston, but they would only freely discuss one change. They will make participants and spectators part of the security strategy by broadcasting a slogan well known to New York subway riders: "If you see something, say something."
It's part of a shift in security for events that include the Oakland Running Festival and the Amgen Tour of California bike race, which starts Sunday in Southern California and zips into the Bay Area later this week.
Though no local event organizers hinted at specific plans to more highly restrict access for spectators or runners, Bay to Breakers planners have announced that backpacks will be banned at San Francisco's party race on May 19. But the idea of serious crowd-sourced vigilance, associated more with airports and al-Qaida, will now join the pink gorilla and giant banana costumes at wacky Bay Area events.
Organizers said they don't think that extra vigilance from the crowds will change the character of the events.
"We can still have fun," Bay to Breakers race director Angela Fang said. "I hope this event still goes off in the same irreverent way that it has for a 100 years."
Though not everyone is so sure. "It sucks," said Jenny Li, a San Francisco marathoner.
"See something, say something" is not as simple as the saying suggests. Matt Bettenhausen, vice president and chief security officer for AEG Worldwide, which runs the Amgen Tour of California, said it amounts to training your brain to notice things such things as a strange chemical smell, people taking pictures of things that aren't usually of interest -- like the underside of bleachers -- and, of course, the bag or backpack sitting by itself.
"We're not asking people to be spies," Bettenhausen said. "But don't be embarrassed by, 'Wait a second, this seems unusual. Why is that backpack unattended?' "
So instead of thinking "Huh, that's weird," spectators should tell a cop, organizer or someone working security at events.
Bettenhausen said AEG has stressed the idea at its events since 2011. Given the nature of the Tour of California, which spans about 750 miles from Escondido to Santa Rosa in eight days, drawing about 1 million spectators, it's impossible to have security staff watching every inch of the course.
It's a similar problem for Bay Area running events, where it's doubtful the thousands of runners and spectators could be tightly checked and controlled.
"We cannot have total safety," Marc Meyers, an explosives expert and UC San Diego professor, said of the difficulty of monitoring events like marathons. "It's 26 miles. How can you control this?"
Experts said the "see something, say something" slogan became common in public transit systems in major American cities after the 9/11 attacks, and variations have existed in such places as the metro system in Paris for years. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security even launched a national campaign in July 2010.
Several security experts said the slogan is an effective way to save lives. But Steven Weber, a security expert and political science professor at UC Berkeley, said the dark side is that the slogan could lead to a mob mentality, with some spectators likely to call in tips because of skin color or clothing alone.
"It's not illegal to be a racist," he said. "If I'm a 20-year-old Muslim-looking guy, I may think twice about going to one of these events."
But event organizers, including those planning Bay to Breakers, trying out the slogan for the first time in the wake of the Boston bombings are focusing on safety.
Lee Corrigan, who organizes the Oakland Running Festival, said the event has more than 300 officers on security and another nearly 20,000 spectators and runners. Asking those folks to be alert for threats makes for a 65-fold increase in the number of people who are keeping a close eye on their surroundings during a race or other public event.
"With the freedom we enjoy comes a certain level of vulnerability," said Corrigan, president of Corrigan Sports Enterprises. "We've got to do that now -- always keep our eyes peeled. It isn't fun. Nobody's enjoying it."
Especially not Li, the San Francisco marathoner, who sometimes runs with a group from A Runner's Mind store in Burlingame. The 37-year-old attorney worries that it could make runners, especially in the quirkiness of an event like Bay to Breakers, suspicious of each other. And that idea is anathema in the close knit world of racing.
A tighter security web, however, won't stop her from running, particularly not after what happened in Boston.
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Some 30% of Americans haven't gone to a bank or credit-union branch in at least six months, according to a new survey from Bankrate.com, a consumer website.
The survey found that less than one-fifth of respondents between 18 and 29 years old visited a bank or credit-union branch in the last week, compared to nearly 30% for those between 30 and 49 year olds. The survey specified that using an ATM didn't count as having gone to a bank.
U.S. banks have been paring back their branch networks in recent years.
Looking for a way to cut costs, the banks have been ramping up their mobile operations and decreasing their emphasis on brick-and-mortar stores. They shed a net 1,487 branch locations last year, according to SNL Financial.
Still, 28% of respondents said they had gone to a bank or credit union in the past week, a sign that the branch model isn't completely obsolete just yet.
"The number and location of bank branches, as well as their functionality, will continue to evolve, but clearly they're not going away," said Greg McBride, Bankrate.com's chief financial analyst, in a statement.
The survey brought in a sample of about 1,000 adults, more than 95% of whom currently use a bank, according to Bankrate. Princeton Survey Research Associates International conducted the survey on behalf of Bankrate and phoned more than 1,000 adult Americans in early March.


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2012 Robert Mondavi Winery Oakville Fumé Blanc Napa Valley
92% Sauvignon Blanc & 8% Sémillon
Oakville Sauvignon Blanc is celebrated for its ripe fruit, subtle minerality and rich texture, and this wine wonderfully expresses that Oakville personality. The fruit intensity of the 2012 is matched by mouthwatering acidity in a wine that weaves lemon and grapefruit citrus, melon fruit, herbal and verbena floral with lemongrass and an integrated touch of nutty oak character.
93 Points - Wine & Spirits, US New Releases, October 2014
Grown at To-Kalon, where Mondavi planted what are now its oldest dry-farmed, head-pruned sauvignon vines in 1960, this is mostly from a younger planting on that site from the early 1990s. The wine barrel-fermented in older oak and aged ten months on the lees. So you'd expect a major oak presence and something creamy-rich. You get that, plus a persistence of nectarine and white peach flavor, creating a fascinating dynamic with the oak tannins, together enhancing the earthy character of the fruit. - Joshua Greene
92 Points - Wine Enthusiast, October 2014
This vintage of 92% Sauvignon Blanc and 8% Sémillon presents a savory study in herbal-laced lemon and melon, rich and ripe. Expressive and expansive, it combines balanced acidity with a dry finish, spicing things up with notes of lemongrass and almond. All fruit is sourced from the famed To Kalon Vineyard. - V.B
92 Points - The Tasting Panel, June 2014
Lemon and Key lime ripe and tart with a juicy pineapple essence that rushes over the stone floor that lines the palate. Tarragon and clean, green herbs add character and rich texture and placates the high acidity. A wonderful vintage for an iconic wine.
90 Points - Wine Spectator Magazine Online, 11 Refreshing California Sauvignon Blancs, August 4, 2014
The crisp and vibrant lemon and grapefruit notes are balanced by a rich, spicy overtone that invokes flavors of coconut, marmalade and Key lime pie. Smooth and juicy, with a touch of passion fruit on the finish. Drink now. 3,458 cases made. - M.W.
The 2012 vintage is a classic for Napa Valley and excellent one for white wines. Following two cooler and wetter growing seasons, Vineyard Manager, Matt Ashby, calls 2012 a "walk in the park." A dry winter led to well-timed rain in March to saturate the soils and help fill the reservoirs. Warm days and cool nights endured through the growing season creating the perfect recipe for long, flavor-building hang time and optimal sugar to acid balance. Our harvest began just before the Labor Day weekend and brought in good yields of vibrant, healthy fruit.
Grapes for our Oakville Fume Blanc were harvested from our To Kalon Vineyard, which surrounds the Robert Mondavi Winery. To Kalon (Greek for highest beauty) is one of Napa Valley's oldest and most respected vineyards. Here in the geographic center of the valley, To Kalon Vineyard lies against the hills on the Oakville bench, where lean, well-drained soils and an ideal climate foster complex flavors in Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon.
Appellation: 100% Oakville District, Napa Valley, 100% To Kalon Vineyard
We hand-harvested the Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon in the cool, early morning and then gently pressed the whole clusters, minimizing skin contact, to retain freshness and vibrancy in the wine. For richness and complexity, we barrel-fermented 100% of the wine in 60-gallon French oak barrels. The wine was then barrel aged on its lees (sûr lie) for ten months with hand stirring (bâtonnage) to integrate flavors and develop its creamy texture. A portion of new barrels (3%) contribute subtle oak spices to the fruit character. The wine was bottled in August of 2013.


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I draw roadmap for an association .
I'm very satisfied: Qcad is all I need: easy to understand, easy to use, complete, inexpensive, a great DAO software!
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with one clic only!
I begin to learn "qcad scripting", but i don't find that i need to do it!
It is possible?
May you help me? if you please!
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