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Roger meant a lot to us. As we bowled through the lanes for the 7.32 with the grim prospect of the day ahead - difficult colleagues, deals to be done, bomb scares, standing room only from East Croydon - there was always Roger: framed, smiling, in the ticket office window of a station remarkably unchanged since it was opened in 1846.
Until 1988 there were Berwick custodians at each end of our commuting day. Roger and Simon shared the two eight-hour shifts from six o'clock in the morning through to the evening rush hour. That was Berwick's golden age: when the waiting room rivalled the village flower show, with Simon's pot plants and Roger's hanging baskets. First, Simon was snatched from us. We fought a tough campaign to keep him, but British Rail could not afford the luxury of two station personnel. Simon was posted further down the line. He took his pot plants with him.
But at least we could still cherish Roger until lunchtime. Until this year, that is, when staffing changes persuaded Roger that his best option was early retirement. It is the newly named Network SouthCentral that has done for Roger. He decided to retire early because the eight-hour shift at Berwick was reduced to four hours. Network SouthCentral could not afford a full-time Roger, and Roger could not afford to stay at Berwick for a part-time wage. He was offered full-time jobs elsewhere but he decided that, at 60, uprooting himself was not an attractive option.
He has chosen to enjoy his early retirement, but saying goodbye was, for us commuters, bitter-sweet. Daily we contemplated our ghost station with its shuttered ticket office and bolted waiting rooms; it was not easy to find a successor prepared to take on the new part-time post. Our sadness was compounded by the fact that Roger's departure symbolised the end of an era.
The railway Roger leaves behind is exhausted and run-down, not through inefficiency or bad management but because it has been starved of investment - sorry, 'subsidy' - for so long. Britain is tenth in the European league table in terms of government rail investment per kilometre. Yet it is estimated that British Rail and the government will spend more than pounds 500 million to make privatisation happen. This is a subsidy for political ideology - my tax money, and yours, used to dismantle a transport system exquisitely designed to shift huge quantities of people and freight around an integrated national network with minimal environmental impact. A typical suburban railway can carry about 70,000 passengers per hour per track; a road would require 13 times the space to carry the same number.
Small is beautiful but small is deemed uneconomic. I suspect our Berwick signalman will be the next to go. Roger's job was restructured in the name of efficiency, but surely there was added value in a full-time senior railman who combined the functions of information and advance booking clerk, station cleaner, lamp-man, painter and decorator and odd job man, not to mention his public relations skills.
How long before our small station is deemed uneconomic and consigned to brambles and bindweed? Closing Berwick would divert commuters to other stations and put still more cars on roads already choked with traffic from the satellite communities that have mushroomed in this part of Sussex.
As a nation we have been slow to wake up to the critical mass of cars on our roads and the fumes in our childrens' lungs, just as we have closed our minds to the appalling price we pay for letting our public transport system run down. In 1992 there were 4,229 deaths and 49,245 serious injuries on our roads. In contrast, on the railways, in the 12 months from April 1992 until March 1993 there was not a single passenger killed. Of the five recorded deaths, four were level-crossing fatalities, and the fifth a staff casualty. So that is the cost in 'real terms' for subsidising - sorry, 'investing in' - roads rather than rail.
At Berwick we have led a charmed life, far removed from the creeping squalor of poverty-stricken, vandalised, unmanned stations where it is unwise to be alone on dark winter evenings - or in fact on any evening. There are now no station staff at Berwick after 11.30am. A deserted rural station is hostile territory. There is nowhere to shelter because toilet and waiting rooms must be locked against vandals.
Earlier this year, Parliament was told that 80 per cent of Network SouthEast stations were unmanned after 6pm on weekdays. It was also told that there were an average of two assaults a day on that network alone. But the market rules, and, after all, how can the pleasure of having Roger greet us by name and ask after the family enter the equation or help to balance the nation's books?
And is Berwick simply a charming anachronism serving the pampered home counties or is it a model of public service that we should be fighting to preserve if we still wish to call ourselves a civilised society?
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The psychological idea behind the story is this question, What is the nature of the guru's hold on his flock? Is it spiritual or is it profane? Do the young women who follow him desire him as an alpha male or is it spiritual deliverance they seek? Naturally Ruth believes the latter and the deprogrammer the former. But what is the deprogammer's motivation? Is this just a job for him or does he feel he is helping to free his clients from some kind of mental slavery? Or is he just another sort of phony guru himself? Keitel in black hair and black moustache and devil's mini goatee dressed in black with a menacing look and a lot of physical energy (despite being 60-years-old when this film was released) contrasts sharply with Winslet's youthful beauty and beguiling voluptuousness. Strength of character is something Kate Winslet brings to any role, even including her outstanding performance as Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996), a role that is usually played wiltingly. Here one senses that her strong will and determination are going to be quite a match for the deprogrammer who gives himself three days alone with her to break her attachment to the guru.
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SURFERS PARADISE, Australia As usual, Sebastien Bourdais outdid himself. Needing only to finish in 12th place or better, the Formula One-bound Frenchman won Sunday's Lexmark Indy 300 to clinch his fourth straight Champ Car drivers' title.
Bourdais took the lead for good with 20 minutes left in the 1 hour, 45-minute timed race and went on to become the first driver to win the race twice in its 17-year history. Bourdais, who has clinched the driver' championship in Australia the last three years, also won the Surfers race in 2005.
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"It was one of those races where I decided to have fun with it and give it all we had," Bourdais said. "To win the race, to win the championship, and be the first repeat winner in Surfers — what a day."
He set a race lap record time of 1 minute, 31.145 seconds on his 58th lap, breaking the previous mark of 1:32.063 set by Cristiano da Matta in 2001.
Bourdais, who will drive for the Toro Rosso team in F1 next year, held a 58-point lead over second-place Justin Wilson going into Sunday's race. There is one event left in the Champ Car season — Nov. 11 in Mexico City.
Bourdais, who won his 30th career race, admitted he'll miss his pit crew from the Newman Haas Lanigan team when he heads to Formula One.
"Coming to that last corner, it's just all the emotions flowing through your mind," Bourdais said. "You just realize how much has come to you and how much you've achieved with these guys and you get the sense that it's coming to an end.
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Wilson led for several laps after Bourdais pitted, but finished second, 6.776 seconds behind Bourdais on the 12-turn, 2.8-mile street course.
"It was just a matter of staying calm and not doing anything stupid," said Wilson, who is uncertain of a ride next season due to the rumored demise of his RuSport team.
Bruno Junqueira, despite stalling at the standing start in his 100th Champ Car race, was third, followed by Dutchman Robert Doornbos.
"It was a very eventful day," Junqueira said. "Two hours before the race the mechanics found an oil leak and we had to change the engine. On the start, I dropped the clutch and stalled it. The safety team did a good job to get me going."
Simon Pagenaud was fifth and 2006 Australian winner Nelson Philippe sixth.
Bourdais completed 61 laps of the circuit under sunny skies and in perfect racing conditions. While his pit crew hugged each other on the warmdown lap, Bourdais stopped to do several doughnuts on the track before being sprayed with champagne when he returned to the garage.
Leading the field, pole sitter Will Power of Team Australia sped ahead on the first lap, extending his lead to nearly two seconds at one stage over fellow front rower Oriole Servia.
Power went out of the race on the 18th lap after colliding with Katherine Legge. The Australian driver tried to cut inside Legge, hit the side of her car and careened backwards into the wall. Servia finished 14th.
Power's demise continued a trend in the Australian race _ only three pole sitters have won in its 17-year history — Nigel Mansell in 1993, Jimmy Vasser in 1996 and Dario Franchitti in 1999.
The two American drivers in the field, both rookies, finished in the last half of the field.
Graham Rahal, the 18-year-old son of three-time series champion Bobby Rahal, was 11th of 17 drivers. Alex Figge, a former Champ Car Atlantic driver now with the Pacific Coast Motorsports, finished 13th.
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I always wanted to stop by in Montpelier, the Capital of Vermont. I had been so closed so many times before but yet never went. So at White River Junction we decided to make a detour through the I89 and actually go to Montepelier before heading back through the countryside road to the I91 as matter to cross the border at Derby-Stanstead.
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- We decided to hit the road very early for both reason to be able to make it to the border during the same day and avoid any rush hour that may occur around New York. So around 5am ish we left Jersey City and started heading north on the west side of the Hudson, following the Pallissade Highway. The view on Upper Manhattan from that road, while the city was still asleep and plunged in darkness was simply amazing.
- We kept going like that until the cheapest bridge crossing eastward at Westpoint, there again we crossed right as dawn was rising and got a great view on the Upper Hudson from the panorama set at the top of this rocky hill crossing. A few more driving and we finally reached the Interstate back heading toward Hartford, Connecticut which was just a short sightseeing from the car.
- We also drove by a sign saying there was the Iwo Jima monument in Connecticut so we obviously made a stop before continuing our route. The funny thing was that this monument picturing the famous photograph of World War Two (see other post) had all the name of the soldier involved.
It was not long before we crossed into Massachussetts, which was also not a long drive. We simply stop by the last Rest Stop before Vermont for relaxing a bit and buying a few things. There we could still feel that Spring had made its ways.
Montpelier was also a short stop, we walked the High Street, saw the little Capitol and had our food at Subway but overal I did love the town, just as I expected. Although, now you could feel that Winter was still holding it's place... and that really for the first time of the journey.
The route toward the I91 was curvy and mountainous and snow was still present but how amazing was the view on the White Mountains. At some point, we even got a clear sight of Mt Washington.
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Tom Klingler Assistant Dean, University Libraries Kent State University firstname.lastname@example.com Lessons from OhioLINK for BdREN
First… Thank you for inviting me !
Lessons from OhioLINK for BdREN OhioLINK, the academic library consortium in Ohio, USA, was formed in 1990. In the past 25 years, OhioLINK has dealt with many of the same digital library issues that now face BdREN and UGC. These issues include management, committee membership, decision making, cost for content, scope of content, staffing, infrastructure, scope of membership, and many others. In this talk, Tom Klingler, who has worked on a wide variety of OhioLINK committees continuously since 1988, offers some lessons from OhioLINK that might apply to BdREN. These lessons include successes and mistakes.
Bangladesh OhioLINK 83 institutions -- including 29 universities 147,570 square kilometers 960,654 university students 94 institutions -- including 12 universities 116,098 square kilometers 600,000 university students
OhioLINK… history members structure budget technologies content maintenance challenges
OhioLINK history https://ohiolink.edu/content/history https://ohiolink.edu/content/history 1986: library study and construction requests 1987: Ohio Board of Regents asks for new approach to problem Our goal was resource sharing and collection storage. We were NOT planning a digital library in 1987 ! 1988--1990: first planning committee, RFP and selection of Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (III) as vendor 1992-1994: installation of systems at OhioLINK and the universities with state funding
OhioLINK history https://ohiolink.edu/content/history https://ohiolink.edu/content/history 1992: design of INN-Reach System with III for state-wide lending 1992: start of central purchasing of online research databases started with three databases as a side project 1996: growth and expansion of membership, content, services 2009: reorganization into OH-TECH division of state government
OhioLINK members https://ohiolink.edu/members https://ohiolink.edu/members 1988-1994: charter members (12 universities and State Library) 1994: small schools, private schools, community colleges begin to join 2015: now 94 higher education institutions in Ohio 2015: +600,000 users at member institutions
OhioLINK structure (organization) Ohio Board of Regents (OBOR) (similar to UGC) https://www.ohiohighered.org/ --Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) https://www.oh-tech.org/ https://www.oh-tech.org/ --OARnet (network) --eStudent Services --Ohio Supercomputer Center --OhioLINK https://ohiolink.edu/content/governance_and_committees
OhioLINK structure (committees) https://ohiolink.edu/content/governance_and_committees 1.OhioLINK Advisory Board Some provosts and library deans/directors 2.Library Advisory Council Coordinating Committee Subset of Library Advisory Council 3.Library Advisory Council Library deans/directors 4. Lead Implementors Systems librarians at each school
OhioLINK structure (committees) https://ohiolink.edu/content/governance_and_committees 5.Cooperative Information Resources Management Committee Collection Management librarians – recommend content purchases 6.Database Management and Standards Committee Catalogers 7.Intercampus Services Committee Circulation / lending / delivery 8.User Services Committee Reference librarians -- user interface, search performance,…
OhioLINK structure (technology) 1. Central catalog fed by 60 local catalogs --an architecture that made sense in 1990 2. Five shared remote storage facilities for physical volumes --recall our construction requests in 1988 3. Separate catalog for remote storage facility holdings -- to improve traffic and processing -- to facilitate weeding and de-duplication -- but, only 9 of 13 storage institutions participate today
OhioLINK structure (technology) 4. Central loading of e-journal content in the Electronic Journal Center and e-book content in the Electronic Book Center -- best approach from 1990s through 2008 -- we continue much local loading today -- some publishers now forbid the local loading of full text on OhioLINK servers 5. Moving forward: a mix of local loading and hosted content
OhioLINK budget – REVENUE From member institutions: $33 million (KSU: $ 1.8 million) From Board of Regents:$ 6 million – Total: $ 39 million – EXPENSES E-content:$ 35 million OH-Tech technology:$ 1.5 million Courier:$ 1.1 million Staff:$ 800,000 Equip/software/misc:$ 669,000 Depositories:$ 200,000 – Total:$39 million
OhioLINK budget: E-content – Elsevier:$ 12.7 million – Wiley:$ 4.7 million – Springer:$ 4.5 million – American Chemical Society:$ 1.5 million – Sage:$ 1.3 million – PsycARTICLES:$ 651,000 – Institute of Physics:$ 623,000 – Etc……$ 9.0 million Total E-content:$ 35 million
OhioLINK technologies 1. Central catalog and local catalogs Innovative Interfaces, Inc. http://www.iii.comhttp://www.iii.com Central: http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/searchhttp://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search Local: http://kentlink.kent.eduhttp://kentlink.kent.edu 2. EJC: Electronic Journal Center home-grown; soon to be re-written http://journals.ohiolink.edu/ejc/index.cgi 3. EBC: Electronic Book Center uses California Digital Library XTF platform http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu/ebc-home/ http://xtf.cdlib.org/
OhioLINK technologies 4.DRC: Digital Resource Commons (institutional repository) Dspace core http://drc.ohiolink.edu/ 5. ETD: Electronic Theses and Dissertations just released second home-grown version https://etd.ohiolink.edu/
OhioLINK technologies 6. EAD Finding Aid Repository home-grown on XTF http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/ 7. Finding Aid Creation Tool (EAD FACTORy): written, hosted and maintained at Kent State University Libraries ! https://ead.library.kent.edu/
OhioLINK content (2015) 1. Central Catalog: +50 million items (books, media, etc.) 2. Electronic Journal Center: +20 million journal articles from +10,000 journals 3. Electronic Theses & Dissertations: +40,000 theses and dissertations 4. Ebook Center: + 80,000 e-books
OhioLINK content (2015) 5. Research Databases: + 125 research databases 6. Music Center: + 10,000 digital music files 7. Finding Aid Repository: +6,000 Archival Finding Aids from 60 Ohio institutions 8. Digital Resource Commons (DRC): Repository of centrally purchased digital content
OhioLINK content (2015) Funding Models: 1. Paid by OhioLINK central office budget 2. Paid by a combination of federal and state government grant funds 3. Paid by combination of OhioLINK central and local universities 4. Paid by local universities a. ALL members pay SOME share and ALL can use b. only SOME members pay SOME share but ALL can use c. only SOME members pay SOME share and ONLY they use
OhioLINK maintenance Annual traffic: +600,000 physical items loaned (note expense of courier service!) +9.9 million journal article downloads +2 million e-books uses +2 million thesis/dissertation downloads Maintain and Update the technologies and the hardware infrastructure. Educate the politicians and the administrators about the technology and maintenance costs. And plan for these costs.
OhioLINK challenges 1. Constant cost increases for content 2. Current internal funding models are being challenged 3. Too many funding models 4. Broken cost models and sharing models for academic e-books in the publishing industry 5. How to handle journal title swaps? … package changes?... journals changing publishers?
OhioLINK challenges 6. How does a university handle the cancellation at central of a key digital resource ? Find local funding for local subscription, usually paying more? 7. Internet theft 8. Changing user demands a. more content …titles…publishers…backfiles b. better interfaces i. Careful keeping up if you write your own !
OhioLINK challenges 9. Educating constituents about the complexity of providing digital services and collections. Too many think that digital content is free, easy and automatic. 10. Governing bodies are outdated. Library Advisory Council of only library directors needs more diverse membership to include operational experts and middle managers. And, an election or appointment process and alternating terms.
Tom's advice for nation-wide digital library collections: 1. Funding models: have the fewest possible. 2. Funding sources: try to arrange as much central funding as possible. 3. Committees and governance: a. keep it simple b. get the right expertise 4. Membership: make the fewest tiers of membership, or one.
Tom's advice: 5. Access to content: try to provide all content for all. Selecting resources per site with local funding leads to trouble. 6. Content prices: a.Push for multi-year inflation caps from vendors. b.Do not start at "regular" price or "list" price. c.Start from your historical budgets and purchasing. d.Start from your capacity to pay. 7.Authentication/authorization system: integrated country-wide 8.Infrastructure: fund it adequately and centrally
Tom's advice: 9.Watch out for surprises… a.Annual hosting fees ? b.Access to purchased content after cancellation ? c.Single-user or limited-user licenses ? d.Realistic requirements for security and access control ? e.Liability requirements that are fair? f.Be prepared for the unexpected from content vendors.
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Spending cuts could leave rail links to Gatwick Airport 'unfit for purpose' by the time the London 2012 Olympics begin, it has been revealed.
Just £9million has been earmarked for improvements at Gatwick station instead of the £30 million-plus that has been expected, according to new figures.
Government ministers have been warned that one of the main gateways into Britain will lack a fast and effective rail network by the time the Olympics begin.
Funding crisis: Boris Johnson waves the Olympic flag during the Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Games
West Sussex council leader Henry Smith said he had contacted Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell and Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly to state his concerns at the proposals.
In his letter, Mr Smith said: 'It is the view of West Sussex County Council that this approach makes no sense and will leave Gatwick unfit for purpose for the Olympic period and beyond.'
Strong representations have also been made to the Office of Rail Regulation which has said it will not release funds needed to improve the track, signalling and platforms at the station.
Mr Smith said: 'Gatwick is going to be a major gateway into this country for the Olympics, second only to Heathrow, and we need a fast, efficient and effective rail network to move people around.
Olympic threat: Competitors, officials and fans will be hit if full funding for the Gatwick rail link is not provided, officials say
'It would be a major disappointment if we only get the concourse improvements before 2012.'
He added that a comprehensive improvement scheme was needed at Gatwick, not just for Olympics but for beyond in order to cope with expansion.
'We need the track, signalling and platform improvements for the long-term future of Gatwick as part of ensuring that its growth from 35.5 million passengers a year to a predicted 40 million by 2015 is as sustainable as possible,' Mr Smith said.
'That means we need to encourage more people across the South East and beyond to leave their cars at home and use public transport for journeys to the airport.
'It surely also makes much more sense to complete all the work needed at Gatwick as a single package instead of adopting a piecemeal approach.
Vital: The Gatwick rail service ferries hundreds of thousands of passengers to and from the airport every year
'Completing the full scheme at the same time is also going to minimise disruption.'
A spokesman for the Office of Rail Regulation said: 'We have looked at what the Government requires at Gatwick.
'This is a draft determination which came out in June. We have got a period of consultation under way during which we welcome people's soundings, including those of West Sussex County Council.
'Nothing is set in stone and we are looking to receive all consultations by September 4 with a final report out in October.'
He denied Mr Smith's claims that it will not release funds needed to improve the track, signalling and platforms at the station.
He said: 'We have said that the scheme can be completed and for the required capacity improvements to be delivered for £9 million.'


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Fuel cell: A device that converts chemical energy into electrical energy. In the hydrogen- oxygen fuel cell, both cathode and anode are made of porous carbon with platinum or palladium. The electrolyte solution used is KOH or NaOH.
What is the half reaction occurring at the anode? A: 2H 2 (g) + 4OH - (aq) → 4H 2 O (I) + 4e - What is the half reaction occurring at the cathode? A: O 2 (g) + 2H 2 O(I) + 4e - → 4OH - (aq) After cancelling, what is the overall reaction? A: 2H 2 (g) + O 2 (g) → 2H 2 O (I)
You also need to know the half reactions in acidic conditions: Anode: 2H 2 (g) → 4H + (aq) + 4e - Cathode: O 2 + 4H + + 4e - → 2H 2 O
Rechargeable batteries are like voltaic cells. Except that you can add electricity to make the reaction go the other way. Lead-acid batteries are used in cars. Sulfuric acid is the electrolyte. The anode is made of lead plates, the cathode is made of lead(IV) oxide plates.
What is the reaction happening at the anode? A: Pb(s)+SO 4 2- (aq) → PbSO 4 (s) + 2e - What is the reaction happening at the cathode? PbO 2 (s) + 4H + (aq) + SO 4 2- (aq) + 2e - → PbSO 4 (s) + 2H 2 O(l) Overall reaction? Pb(s) + PbO 2 (s) + H 2 SO 4 (aq) → 2PbSO 4 + 2H 2 O
The battery is then recharged using an alternator when the car is running. 2PbSO 4 (s) + 2H 2 O(l) → Pb(s) + PbO 2 (s) + 2H 2 SO 4 (aq)
Nickel-cadmium batteries are used as lightweight batteries (AA, AAA, etc.) KOH is used as an electrolyte. The reaction at the anode? Cd(s) + 2OH-(aq) → Cd(OH)2(s) + 2e- Reaction at the cathode? NiO(OH)(s) + H 2 O(l) + e - → Ni(OH) 2 (s) + OH - (aq) Overall reaction? Cd(s) + 2NiO(OH)(s) + 2H 2 O(l) → Cd(OH) 2 (s) + Ni(OH) 2 (s)
Cadmium is an extremely toxic heavy metal, so when disposing of rechargeable batteries, make sure you dispose of them (just like any battery) in a special drop-off for batteries.
Lithium ion batteries are used in products such as cell phones and laptops. It typically contains a graphite anode, and a metal oxide cathode. The electrolyte is a lithium salt.
Similarities Both devices convert chemical energy into electrical Both have redox reactions taking place at the anodes and cathodes.
Differences Fuel cells convert energy and rechargeable batteries store energy. Fuel cell requires a constant supply of reactants. Batteries have stored chemical energy and provide energy until they are used up. Batteries can be recharged. A fuel cell does not need recharging, but needs a continuous supply of fuel. The electrodes in fuel cells are made of inert materials. Fuel cells are more expensive than batteries.
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text: Serious Young Insects - Housebreaking (1982, Epic Aus.) • Genre : Pop New Wave Dance • Year : 0 • Label : • On demand! (album available 128-320kbs)* #/by GROVER Release code: ODI2162289 Added on 27-10-2014, 19:36 You want this album? link doesn't work? report us from your account! Release Info: Serious Young Insects - Housebreaking (1982, Epic Aus.) It wasn't until a few weeks ago that I became acquainted with this Melbourne, Aussie lot - some three full decades after the fact. Talk about arriving to the dinner table late. Despite a major label pedigree (restricted to Oz anyway) Serious Young Insects didn't seem to make a huge dent in their homeland, and you can write off the States entirely. After checking out the video for "Be Patient" (featured below) a feature track on Housebreaking, I became an instant convert, falling prey to it's plush, power-pop by way of tasteful new wave maneuvers...and a devastating hook that most bands would sacrifice a collective left nut for. As for the video, "Be Patient" would have been quintessential MTV fodder of it's era, slotting in perfectly amidst a myriad of genius one-hit-wonders, but again, the album and single failed to make it stateside. My theory? Things might have gone in the Insects favor had Epic not been flexing all of it's marketing muscle behind Men at Work, but I digressThe trio's Myspace bio stresses that with it's über-slick production, Housebreaking failed to serve SYI justice stacked up against their live performances, which from the sound of it were plenty potent. Sonically, the record's rich, state-of-the-art sound is still a pleasure to listen to, and perhaps even edgier that I'm leading on, but the songwriting is woefully deficient. Despite receiving lyrical input from all three Insects, many, if not a full half of the cuts dotting Housebreaking's landscape are demonstrably underwritten and/or laden with half baked ideas that had yet to fully gestate. One egregious example is "I Want Cake," which for most lesser bands wouldn't even qualify as a b-side. In it's entirety, Housebreaking is still an impressive listen, just a bit frustrating in the lyrical department. To my knowledge there are at least three SYI singles floating around out there (which I'd love to hear along with any unreleased studio material), and the group's Myspace page has five additional cuts (some live) that can be streamed. If anyone cares to chime in about the Insects, comment as you see fit. A big shout out goes to George for sending me these files.01. Faraway Places02. Things03. I Want Cake04. Parents Go Mental05. I Don't Know06. Be Patient07. Safe08. Housebreaking09. Sad10. Why Can't I Control My Body 11. Nervehttps://rapidshare.com/files/3957092729/syi_housebreaking.rar


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I came across an interesting article in the New York Times "Home and Garden" section the other day about the use of video surveillance by private individuals to identify neighbors who have been throwing bags of dog poo into their garden or scratching their car or otherwise behaving in a non-neighborly manner.
For me, this article was a timely reminder that data collection is not only being carried out by big fat corporations with an economic interest in our data, but also by normal people going about their normal lives. The article discusses the increased availability of small, affordable CCTV systems that can help people solve the small problems of everyday life – the dog that keeps pooping in the garden, the neighbor who leaves his rubbish by your house.
What is the meaning of all this? I think a few things are worth pointing out. First, practices that were originally initiated by the state and law enforcement authorities are being adopted by citizens: we can all be the policemen of our front garden and our driveway and confront our neighbors with video evidence of their misdemeanors. Or, of course, we can take it to the police (effectively doing their job for them).
Second, as the hardware costs come down, we are likely to see more of this: people want to stop their neighbor throwing his bags of dog poo into their garden more than they worry about the broader social implications of covering the streets with private CCTV cameras.
Third, unlike CCTV footage collected by the police, privately recorded images can be shared with the world, and YouTube would appear to be a popular destination for them. In other words, people are able to publicly shame their neighbors by posting their footage onto the internet. (This is an issue discussed at length by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger in his book Delete, which I mentioned in a previous post.)
I'm writing about this issue not because I want to start a campaign against private individuals' CCTV networks, but because it looks like an interesting extension of debates over CCTV. More accurately, we might say that the same rationale given for the use of CCTV appears here, but writ small: there is a desire to prevent criminal or anti-social behavior; surveillance technologies are adopted that do not require physical presence (many of these systems enable you to access your cameras over your smartphone); and to the person who might be concerned that he is being filmed as he walks past someone's house one might say, if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to worry about – perhaps the most fallacious of arguments in favor of CCTV.
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I read this morning that the Israel Police want to hook up existing CCTV cameras in businesses in Tel Aviv to a central police observation station. Let's admit it – this is a very clever idea. Instead of buying all the equipment yourself, just use someone else's. On second thought, though, aren't most businesses CCTV cameras pointed at their shelves of goods to prevent people stealing? Are many of them pointed at the street at all? Either way, that's not really the point (also because the plan includes CCTV cameras owned by the municipality and public buildings).
The point is that Tel Aviv is joining that growing list of cities with extensive CCTV camera coverage. The police say that it will give them another set of eyes wherever there is an event going on. A consequence of this is not that we (people like me who live in and around Tel Aviv) will be filmed in more places, but rather that the police will be able to access these images in real time across the city. Also, the police will be able to store these images indefinitely, which businesses may not do for more than a day or two. There's no word in that article as to whether they intend to do that or not.
But the part of the police's plan that is most worrying for anyone concerned about privacy is their stated wish that anyone wishing to install a camera in his or her business will be legally required to put it online and make it accessible by the police. I have no idea whether this will become law, but it's a pretty radical idea.
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In an article in the New York Times – In Bid to Sway Sales, Cameras Track Shoppers – we learn that shops are filming us while we shop and then analyzing the tape to learn about how shoppers behave. Which parts of the store are more popular? How long do people spend looking at stuff before they buy it? This is all stuff that shop owners think will help them sell more stuff. They're probably not wrong.
Currently, this is being done to help businesses understand their clientèle better, but, reports the NYT, "privacy advocates" are worried that with facial recognition software added to the mix, this kind of technology will allow stores to gather information on individual consumers.
This is a great example of a future threat to privacy that might emerge through the combination of CCTV cameras and facial recognition technologies, which have not yet reached maturity.


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At the beginning of the summer I created some goals for myself. You can read the entire post HERE but here are the highlights.
So, by Labor Day I would like to have 300 followers on my blog. I know you're not supposed to get wrapped up in numbers but I'm not that enlightened yet. This I have accomplished and then some. I'm so thankful to have found such a supportive community of followers who inspire me right back with their own blogs.
I'm gonna throw in 100 twitter followers, although I'm not exactly what you would call a "Twitteratti" but whatev. Closing in on 200 which is great since I'm such a Twitter slacker.
I would like to be at my goal weight of 120-125 pounds (I do much better with a range). I'm giving myself a lot of leeway with this one since I currently weigh about 135, so I think giving myself 3+ months to lose 10-15 pounds is reasonable and healthy. Ummm, FAIL! I'm currently about 130 so I missed the boat by 5-10 pounds le sigh.
I would like to enroll in one of those Little Gym or Gymboree classes. I can't do it during the school year because there are hardly any classes available on the weekends, I'm guessing they keep it free for parties. I think it would be so much fun to do one of those together. Another FAIL. We just were having so much fun at the pool, play dates, and day trips that we didn't get to do this. Maybe in the Fall I'll try and go to one of the early morning classes. They're just so expensive.
I'd like to take a photography class. I have this schmancy pants Nikon camera and no fricken clue how to use it properly. Another FAIL, although in my own defense, I wrote the original post before my mom got sick. I definitely wouldn't have had child care to go take a photog class.
I would like to win a giveaway. Now I realize that in order for this to happen I actually have to enter a giveaway. So maybe I'm going to change this goal to "enter giveaway" I have won two giveaways! Score!
So I'm running about 50/50 with my goals which is ok I guess but I'd like to push myself a bit harder. So here are my upcoming goals that I'd like to have established before the new year.
1. I would really like to get to my goal weight of 120-125. I know if I just exercise a bit more will power I'll be able to do it.
2. I would like to try the one free class offered by Gymboree.
3. I would like to insist upon one free afternoon without Isabella to do whatever I want while Andy watches her
4. I would like to host a dinner party for my best girlfriends complete with a theme based menu
5. I'd like to make more of an effort to call my friends on the phone and spend more time with them and have them spend more time with Isabella.
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As suspected the grass on the Cowshed side of the Park just didn't thaw out today. It's a pity as a win over Strathspey Thistle would have taken County up to third place. All eyes to Saturday now and an away match in Keith. Two minibus loads of County fans will be leaving Uncle Bob's for a trip to the far side of Morayshire around midday and no doubt plenty of other fans will also be making their way to see the Wee County continue the title challenge.
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All this money being spent on new dugouts, wouldn't it be better invested in a blanket for the pitch?
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