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Posted By Jim On 04/25/2012 @ 7:15 am In Personal Finance | 2 Comments
The last few months, we've been looking at houses in our general area with the thought of one day moving to a home that was a little bigger. I like casually looking, rather than making a serious endeavor of it, and with sites like Redfin, it makes looking around that much easier. One weekends, when the weather is nicer, we'll go to open houses with really no motive other than to look at nice homes, see features we might like, see features we might not, and just get a better feel for the single family homes in our area. It's a fun little diversion on Sunday afternoons, checking out a house or two, usually within a few minutes drive, and usually on those days we don't otherwise have plans.
One of the really cool things about Redfin is that they aggregate a lot of data on the listing page. A typical real estate listing provides a lot of detail, from the room sizes to photos, but you usually have to go elsewhere to find the really interesting information. Redfin includes comparables, property history (such as sales and listings), and even price per square foot in that zip code. The one that I really enjoy looking at is the Property History, which shows the pricing history and historical sales record.
What's interesting is that you can really get caught up in the price increases (and decreases), especially if the home hasn't been on the market in several years. Just the other day, I was looking at this house [3], with a list price of $719,000. It sold in 2002 for $560,000, about ten years ago. Doing some simple math, that's an increase of $15,900 each year, which is a decent increase. Here's the problem, it's not as interesting when you account for inflation.
$560,000 in 2002 is worth as much as $708,678.60 in 2012 according to the BLS's CPI Inflation Calculator [4]. That means the house really only appreciated, in real terms, $10,000 over those ten years.
The takeaway from this is that you shouldn't let the nominal price of something surprise you, the way it surprised me, because it might not be that much in real, inflation adjusted, terms.
(The flip side of this is the argument that you can buy a $560,000 with "only" $112,000, if you put 20% down, and your appreciation, as a percentage of your actual investment, is much greater.)
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Update 4-14-10:
Toyota will now be halting sales of one of its Lexus SUVs due to rollover concerns raised by Consumer Reports, according to the Wall Street Journal:
Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it will temporarily halt the sale of a Lexus sport-utility vehicle after Consumer Reports magazine raised safety concerns about it.
The move was another blow for the Japanese car maker, which is trying to repair its image after a series of safety recalls. Consumer Reports issued a rare "don't buy" recommendation for the Lexus GX 460, saying the SUV could roll over in certain situations.
The influential nonprofit magazine already had suspended its recommendations for eight Toyota models recalled in January for sticky-accelerator concerns. In certain conditions, the gas pedal in those models is slow to return to idle.
Update 4-13-10:
Now a feud between family and non-family executives has emerged at Toyota, as individuals blame one another for the quality and safety debacle, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Update 3-11-10:
Human error may contribute to a large percentage of unintended acceleration incidents, according to this op-ed in today's New York Times by Richard Schmidt:
I looked into more than 150 cases of unintended acceleration in the 1980s, many of which became the subject of lawsuits against automakers. In those days, Audi, like Toyota today, received by far the most complaints. (I testified in court for Audi on many occasions. I have not worked for Toyota on unintended acceleration, though I did consult for the company seven years ago on another matter.)
In these cases, the problem typically happened when the driver first got into the car and started it. After turning on the ignition, the driver would intend to press lightly on the brake pedal while shifting from park to drive (or reverse), and suddenly the car would leap forward (or backward). Drivers said that continued pressing on the brake would not stop the car; it would keep going until it crashed. Drivers believed that something had gone wrong in the acceleration system, and that the brakes had failed.
But when engineers examined these vehicles post-crash, they found nothing that could account for what the drivers had reported.
By the way, we finally received our own recall notice late last week for our 2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid.
Update 2-24/10:
For a different take on the Toyota crisis, which compares it to the Audi unintended acceleration fiasco of the late 1980s, which turned out not to be a defect at all, here is Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal editorial.
Update 2-9-10:
The bad news keeps on coming for Toyota, including the newly announced recall of 2010 Priuses and some Lexus models. Last weekend's Wall Street Journal had a terrific feature story, too, on how Japan's national culture contributes to the secretive corporate cultures of firms such as Toyota.
Update 2-2-10
Here's the latest on this total fiasco as reported by the Wall Street Journal: all Toyota hybrids are now being investigated.
We can hardly be considered biased against the Japanese automakers, even though we both used to work for GM. We've put our money where our mouths are over the years, and own a 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid and lease a 2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid. I love my Honda (Karen doesn't like it). Karen likes her Camry, and it's been a good sedan to transport our kids and take on vacations. Nonetheless, I'm darn glad we leased the Camry, as we'll be turn it back to Toyota when the lease is up based on the company's horrific response to its defective brake system/electronics. The news gets worse every day for the largest automaker in the world, and it's not over yet, according to the Wall Street Journal:
Toyota Motor Corp.'s quality crisis deepened Tuesday, as U.S. regulators accused the company of dragging its feet on fixing defective gas pedals and threatened civil penalties and further reviews of Toyota products.
The move means that Toyota's efforts to address its biggest-ever safety and public-relations mess are far from over. Last week, the administration indicated it had no issues with how Toyota had responded to the sudden-acceleration reports, which led the company to recall about six million vehicles and have been linked to at least five fatalities.
"While Toyota is taking responsible action now, it unfortunately took an enormous effort to get to this point," Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood said Tuesday in a statement. "We're not finished with Toyota and are continuing to review possible defects and monitor the implementation of the recalls."
Mr. LaHood said Transportation Department officials flew to Japan in December to meet with Toyota executives and remind the company "about its legal obligations." The agency, he said, "followed up with a meeting at DOT headquarters in January to insist they address the accelerator pedal issue."
The highly respected journalist, Forbes magazine columnist, and one of my favorite writers on the automotive industry, Jerry Flint, had this to say:
Toyota's accelerator problem is the costliest car safety issue–and corporate disaster–in automotive history. It certainly dwarfs the sudden acceleration issue that hit Audi long ago, or the Firestone tire problem that destroyed the sales of Ford's Explorer or those long-ago issues that created Ralph Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed.
And there will be a great cost: incentives to get customers buying Toyota's again when the problems have been solved at the factory; money to keep the wounded dealers alive, and money to pay for the recall work. We're probably talking about a cost in the billions–not millions–counting those incentives. That's money that won't go to developing new models, new hybrids, new electric cars. And we're not talking about the lawsuits, which will go on for years.
I may be wrong, and I do prefer my Honda over Karen's Toyota, but I can't believe that Honda would act in the same poor manner in which Toyota has. Honda in my opinion is a nicer, and in this case, definitely more trustworthy car maker.

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The other kind are the ones that are positioned relative to the page contents. If you scroll a page containing one of these, the lightbox moves with the rest of the page.
I don't know what this second type is called (or if there is even a term for this behaviour).
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But the 10 level bug is interesting... there were too many Pokémon with this bug...
Oh, and could you edit Charmeleon's moveset to make it more usable?
My Charmeleon is on 33 level and it does NOT have any useful moves o.O
Srsly 33 level Charmeleon only with Ember and Scratch? :/ That doesn't really work...
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Oh man, I'm actually forced to use starters :/
Anyways, how can you evolve Eevee into another Pokémon? o.O I mean there are no evolution stones in game o.O
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The brutal Nov. 1 slaying of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, has been front-page news in Britain and Italy since the...
ROME — The brutal Nov. 1 slaying of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, has been front-page news in Britain and Italy since the story first broke, but the styles of the two nations' media could hardly be less similar.
The British tabloid press, famous for its seminude "page-three girls" and slang-filled headlines, has taken to referring to murder suspect Amanda Knox as "Foxy Knoxy," and has focused on gruesome details of the slaying.
The Italian press, with its often flowery language and sometimes contradictory reporting, simply calls the 20-year-old Seattle native and University of Washington student "L'americana" or by her first name, while concentrating on the minutiae of the ongoing investigation.
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"In every country, the style of the media is a function of the culture," says Paul Smith, a professor of cultural studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and a frequent commentator on media issues. "These styles don't reflect the different cultures, they are an intricate part of them."
While U.S. newspaper coverage of violent tragedies is usually straightforward, fact-driven and focused on major breaks in the story, the British and Italian press in their own way each feast on the tiniest developments.
To wit: On Wednesday, the gore-loving British tabloids reported that remnants of hair were found in Kercher's clutched fists and provided an estimate of the amount of blood she lost before dying.
The process-oriented Italian press, meanwhile, said the first report on forensic evidence was expected today, and that despite the tragedy the city of Perugia has no desire for the University for Foreigners — where Kercher, Knox and Knox's boyfriend and fellow suspect Raffaele Sollecito all studied — to move elsewhere.
Since Knox, her boyfriend and a second man were arrested in connection with the slaying, many photos of the three have appeared in British tabloids — mostly candid shots of them at parties, acting silly, flashing toothy smiles. The photos that have run in the Italian press are generally more solemn, serious shots taken after the slaying.
"I think that British people tend to look at many stories from a personal perspective," says Lucy Beresford, a London psychotherapist, writer and media commentator. "Perhaps they want to know certain things because they may have a daughter about to study abroad and a story like this worries them.
"It is also relevant to note that there is a 24-hour news cycle and a case like this and some others evolves over a long period," she adds.
British reports have often focused on gossip, including conversations Kercher reportedly had with friends about Knox's purported bad habits. For example: Sollecito enjoyed violent comic books with titles like "Blood" and "Mad Psycho"; details of Knox's MySpace.com profile (source of the nickname "Foxy Knoxy"); and gore — how deep the cut across Kercher's throat was, or the "seminude" state she was found in the morning after she was killed.
Italian journalists, on the other hand, are focused on minutiae: the actual time of the death; whether a knife Sollecito owns could have been used to slash Kercher's neck; the origins of a foreign hair found on the head of the third suspect, bar owner Diya "Patrick" Lumumba; and the owner of an unexplained high-heel shoe found in Kercher's room.
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Kirsten "Kit" Belgum
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Nineteenth-Century German Studies, Popular Culture, Print Culture, Nationalism, German Realism, Travel literature
College: Liberal Arts
Home Department: Germanic Studies
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research interests: Nineteenth-century German literature and culture, gender and the German novel, 19th/20th century women writers, feminist aesthetics
Popularizing the Nation: Audience, Representation, and the Production of Identity in Die Gartenlaube, 1853-1900. Lincoln: U Nebraska P, 1998.
Interior Meaning: Design of the Bourgeois Home in the Realist Novel. New York: Peter Lang, 1991.
Recent articles:
"Popularizing the World: Karl Andrée's Globus" forthcoming in Colloquia Germanica, (Special issue on travel literature) summer 2015.
"Censorship and Piracy: Publication and State Control in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany." Censorship and Exile. Ed. Johanna Hartmann and Hubert Zapf. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2015. 121-135.
"The Culture of Borrowing: Transnational Influence in Travel Writing around 1800," Studies in Travel Writing 19:1 (February 2015): 1-14.
"Accidental Encounter: Why John Quincy Adams Translated German Culture for Americans," Early American Studies 13:1 (Winter 2015): 209-36.
"Distant Reception: Bringing Germany Books to America." Distant Readings: Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. Lynne Tatlock and Matt Erlin. Rochester: Camden House, 2014. 209-227.
"'For the glory of my country': Defining America in Webster's American Dictionary and Lieber's Encyclopaedia Americana," Nineteenth-Century Contexts 35:3 (July 2013): 253-274. [on-line at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2013.806714]
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GER 392 Travel and Literature
GER 392 Creating a National Culture: Germany, 1750-1890
GER 392 Popular Culture and the Canon
GER 386.3 German Literature: Enlightenment to Realism
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GRC 323E/EUS 347/CL 323 European Travel Literature
GRC 360E/GOV 365N German Nationalisms
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EUS 303 Voyages that Changed the World
GRC 301/HIS 306N/GRG 309 Life of a City: 20th-Century Berlin
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GER 363K Life Writing as Cultural History
GER 346L German Literature: Enlightenment to Present
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This course will follow the radical changes in German politics, society, culture, and literature during the twentieth century. We begin by discussing the pre-war era and the impact of World War I. We then turn to the German Revolution of 1918 and political developments of the Weimar Republic. Next we consider the society and ideology of National Socialism and the origins and course of World War II. This is followed by an examination of the post-war occupation of Germany and the development of two German states, the FRG and the GDR ending with the process of German unification. Throughout the semester, we will discuss the remarkable literary and cultural shifts that took place during this century including: fin-de-siècle literature and high modernism of expressionism; cabaret and the Neue Sachlichkeit of the 20s; the emergence of German film; restrictions placed on culture under the Nazis and artists and authors who went into political exile. Finally, we examine the impact of a divided nation on the cultural and literary output in the post-war era.Student work for this class is based on a combination of readings and films, writing assignments, and participation in class discussions (including organized debates). It presumes a fifth-semester language ability (i.e. successful completion of GER 328 and 331L) and is structured to build on the skills acquired in those classes in a systematic way to prepare students for more advanced work in German seminars. We will read texts that were written for native speakers of German and are not glossed or simplified. As a result we will frequently encounter more complicated grammatical structures, such as indirect discourse (subjunctive I), passive voice, and extended modifiers. Students will be expected to expand on their previous use of German in writing and speaking (for example by using more complex clauses and an historically specific vocabulary).
Required texts:
Geschichtsbuch 4: Die Menschen und ihre Geschichte in Darstellungen und Dokumenten (Berlin: Cornelsen, 1996); ISBN 3-464-64204-6.Thomas Mann, Tod in VenedigBertolt Brecht, Leben des Galilei
1) Reading assignments are due in class on the day indicated on the syllabus. Unless otherwise noted, the pages cited are from the Geschichtsbuch 4. Literary readings are from Tod in Venedig, Leben des Galilei, or other readings posted on the course Blackboard site. All films must be screened prior to class (they are all available at UT in the Fine Arts Library; you may also rent them from Netflix or local movie stores).2) Homework and quizzes. To help you to focus your reading, questions (Fragen) to many of them have been posted on Blackboard and are marked on the syllabus [F]. Answers to Fragen marked by a bold F should be submitted in class on the dates listed (the others are to help with class discussion). A detailed vocabulary list for the Geschichtsbuch and descriptions of all assignments are posted on Blackboard. There may be occasional (unannounced) content quizzes about the day's reading. Be prepared!3) Written work for this class will consist of four (4) brief essays on the literary readings. Assignments for these schriftliche Arbeiten are on Blackboard; these essays are due in class on the dates specified on the syllabus [S]. They should not exceed 500 words (2 pages) and should be typed, double-spaced, and proofread. As with the answers to the Fragen, these schriftliche Arbeiten should integrate the new vocabulary from the readings. They should also incorporate the rhetorical and stylistic elements that we will be reviewing such as subjunctive I, passive voice, and extended modifiers.4) Daily participation is expected of all students and is graded. This includes contributing to discussions each day in class. In addition, there are four (4) in-class Debatten scheduled on the syllabus [D]. For each debate there is a worksheet on the course website to help you structure your arguments. One purpose of this course is to challenge you to develop and express your ideas in German. Every student is required to participate in each debate. Unexcused absences will dramatically affect your grade (-2% for each absence). Note that if you miss a debate you miss 5% of the semester grade.5) There will be three tests in this course. Review sheets for each test are posted on the Blackboard course website. While the grammatical accuracy of your test answers will not be graded, all answers must be written in complete and coherent sentences (with proper word order and verb-subject agreement). You will also be expected to use the new vocabulary that you have been learning in your answers.
Essays (5%, 5%, 5%, 5%) = 20%
Debates (5%, 5%, 5%, 5%) = 20%
Exams (15%; 15%; 15%) = 45%
Participation, homework, quizzes = 15%
EUS 347 • German Travel Literature
36511 • Fall 2009
Meets MWF 1200-100pm BUR 337
(also listed as GER 373)
GER 373: German Travel Literature
Fall 2009
E-mail: email@example.com Phone: 232-6375
Office hours: M 3-4:30, W 9:30-11, and by appt. Office: BUR 324
Literature presents us with worlds that we don't know. Often this takes the form of imagined places and people, but some literature gives us access to real places we may not have visited. This is travel literature. This seminar on German travel literature has three main objectives: 1) to provide an overview of the history of travel and the enormous changes in modes and goals of travel between the eighteenth century and the present, 2) to investigate the changes that this travel had on perceptions of the world during the same period, particularly as they left their mark on German cultural writing and literature, and 3) to explore issues such as context, authorship, publication, and audience. Finally, as a senior seminar, this class is designed to give students an introduction to scholarship and the steps involved in conducting research.
We will begin with the travels and writings of Georg Forster who accompanied Captain Cook on his trip around the world and with of the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt who wrote extensively about his1799-1804 trip to the Americas over the course of many decades. We will then consider the impact of new technologies on literary expression in the first half of the nineteenth century and focus on the role of travel and tourism in the development of new genres at mid-century, such as Heinrich Heine's Reisebilder, and new media, such as Baedeker's travel guides and the significant increase in the ability of women such as Ida Pfeiffer to travel. The final texts of the semester will include nostalgia for an earlier era, the impact of German colonial aspirations and industrialization on writing about the rest of the world, and the importance of travel as a metaphor for engaging with the modern world in the post-war period.
Readings: Readings listed on the syllabus must be completed before each class period so that productive discussion can follow the introductory lectures. In order to facilitate discussion, everyone should come to each class with one question about the day's reading.
Vocabulary building: To help everyone build their vocabulary as the semester progresses, each student will keep a journal that registers at least five words from each day's reading that are new to the student and most central to the topic. One of these should be used in a meaningful sentence.
Reaction papers: Each student will write four (4) one-page "reaction papers." Two of these should take issue with or respond to the previous seminar meeting. They should present a student's reactions to a reading and at least one issue from lectures or discussion. They can either pose relevant and related issues or take a critical position with respect to the material. Most importantly they should, however, present an independent, original thought on a topic. Two other reaction papers should introduce and critique a work of scholarship on a topic related to the seminar (and ideally relevant to the student's research project). These reaction papers should identify the subject matter, main thesis, argumentation, and methodology of the scholarly paper and then provide an evaluation of it (assessing its strengths and weaknesses). The purpose of these two reaction papers is to help each student to reflect on relevant background research for his or her project and to identify the qualities inherent in first-rate scholarly work. One of these should be presented orally in class by November 6 (5 minutes), which will be preparation for the Referat.
Research topic: Each student will select the topic for his/her research project after discussing it with the instructor. The research topic should include at least one work not read in class. It may include works read in the seminar or focus exclusively on other material and topics related to travel and literature. The tentative title and a one-paragraph summary should be posted on the course web site by October 30. An initial bibliography (including primary texts and scholarship) is due on November 20. The research project will be both presented as a Referat and submitted in the form of a written term paper (see below).
Referat: During the last week of the semester, each student will present the results of his/her research on one aspect of travel writing (10 minutes). The purpose of this presentation is threefold: to share the initial results of your research with other seminar participants, to receive detailed feedback from peers on the content, organization, and argument of your paper, and to practice a formal presentation in German.
Research paper (Seminararbeit): A 6-page paper on the student's research project on one aspect of travel writing (the same topic as the Referat) is due on December 8. This paper should have a clear thesis statement and follow a logical and well-organized argumentation and should include reference to at least three pieces of scholarship. It should also incorporate some of the new vocabulary items from your vocabulary journal.
Preparation, participation, discussion questions – 25%
Vocabulary journal – 10%
Reaction papers (one page each) (5% x 4) – 20%
Oral presentation of one reaction paper – 5%
Research presentation – 15%
Research paper (six pages) – 25%
Woche 1 Die Geschichte von Reisen und Reiseliteratur
26.08. Einführung – Themen des Semesters, Semesterarbeit
28.08. Textbeispiele
Woche 2 Der Reiseführer
31.08. Kaminer: Ich bin kein Berliner: Ein Reiseführer für faule Touristen (S. 9-15)
01.09. Kaminer: (S. 23-29, 37-41)
03.09. Kaminer: (S. 60-68, 69-72, 99-103, 111-115)
Woche 3 (Bibliographie und ein Überblick)
09.09. NB: Sitzung fällt aus – Aufgabe mit der MLA Bibliographie
11.09. NB: Sitzung fällt aus – drei englisch-sprachige Essays lesen und Fragen beantworten
Woche 4 Aufklärung und Erziehung
14.09. Campe: Robinson der Jüngere (1779) (1. Abend)
16.09. Campe: (7. Abend)
18.09 Campe: (15. und 30. Abend, Seiten 6-9)
Woche 5 Entdeckungs- und Forschungsreisen
21.09. Forster: Reise um die Welt 1772-1775
23.09. Forster: Reise um die Welt 1772-1775
25.09. Humboldt: Ansichten der Natur
Woche 6 Reisen als Selbsteentdeckung
29.09. Goethe: Italienische Reise (Abfahrt)
30.09. Goethe: Italienische Reise (2. Römischer Aufenthalt)
Woche 7 Tourismus
05.10. Baedeker und Murray: Reiseführer
07.10. Hoffmann von Fallersleben "Die Engländer am Rhein"
Woche 8 Das "Reisebild"
12.10. Heine: Die Harzreise; 10 pages (Abfahrt aus Göttingen)
14.10. Heine: Die Harzreise; 10 pages (oben auf dem Brocken)
Woche 9 Frauenfahrten
19.10. Pfeiffer: Reise in das Heilige Land
21.10. Peiffer
Woche 10 Koloniale Vorstellungen
26.10. Rohlfs: Quer durch Afrika "Reise nach Undala"
28.10. Rohlfs: Quer durch Afrika "Eintritt ins Reich der Pollo"
Woche 11 Nostalgische Reise
02.11. Fontane: Wanderungen durch die Mark-Brandenburg (Neu-Ruppin)
04.11. Fontane
Woche 12 Reise-Reportage
09.11. Kisch: Paradies Amerika
11.11. Kisch
Woche 13 Kritik des Tourismus: seine Alternativen
16.11. Grass: Kopfgeburten oder die Deutschen sterben aus
18.11. Grass
Woche 14 Reisen in dem elektronischen Zeitalter – Fernsehen und Internet
23.11. ARD Ratgeber: Reise - Argonaut.tv
25.11. Sitzung fällt aus - Thanksgiving
Woche 15 Studentenprojekte
30.11. Referate
02.12. Referate
04.12. Referate
14.12. Seminararbeit fällig (um 12h)
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Cell phones must be turned off in class. Computers may be used only for note-taking.
Please come and talk to me anytime if you have questions about these items, concerns about the course, or need some academic advice. I am here to help!
EUS 347 • European Travel Literature-W
35630 • Spring 2009
Meets MWF 1100-1200 WEL 3.402
(also listed as C L 323, GRC 323E)
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Saturday, May 31 is a big date in our diary – our management team will be hosting some of our clients at the Adelaide River Races on Adelaide River Cup Day – and Rydges will also be sponsoring one of the races!
The course is about 90 minutes south of Darwin and it is one of the great race days – a real country race meeting that has loads of character, lots of fun, Fashions in the Field and some fabulous racing.
There are seven races on the program – gates open at 11:00am and the first race is at 1:00pm. Free camping is offered for the Saturday night – handy for those who want to drive to the races and have a few drinks! Here's a link to the free camping conditions. There will be live entertainment with The Funkey Monks from 6:00pm till late. There are also bus transfers available, contact the Darwin Turf Club on 8923 4222.
Speaking of turf – The Adelaide River racetrack is unique (unlike Darwin and Alice Springs) in that it is a turf racetrack. The Cup was originally run back in 1942 as a rest and recreation event for Australian troops stationed there during World War II and the vent has increased in popularity and size since then. The Adelaide River is noted for its large population of saltwater crocodiles and while they are not known for having an equine diet, probably best not to go for a swim.
Hopefully we'll have some nice happy snaps of the big day. And if you are looking for accommodation in Darwin, Rydges Airport Hotel and Rydges Airport Resort will give you a warm Top End welcome.


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As another poster mentioned, I've fired a Nissin 466FT in digital slave mode. Digital Slave tends to be the buzzword you are looking for. I know Nissin appears to have it as do the Metz flashes. I don't believe the FL36R has that functionality. It'll only fire as an "analog" slave so will be triggered by the pre flash.
There are a couple of companies making hotshoe pre-flash ignoring triggers which would add the functionality to your FL36R, however their reviews are horrible. The word "unreliable" is all over the place. Neither Metz nor Wein seem to have any options which is a shame because they'd have some of my money if the feature was available.
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T.J. Ryan has over 25 years of professional experience in international development combining project and program management with strategic planning, agriculture and agribusiness development, and private sector partnerships. His experience has been geographically diverse, having lived in west, southern, and east Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. While at ACDI/VOCA, he has managed the SUCCESS Alliance program that promoted broad-based cocoa sector development in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The SUCCESS Alliance brought together cocoa sector stakeholders from producers to intermediaries, researchers, large processors and chocolate manufacturers, and service-related industries to address problems specific to each. In his current role, Mr. Ryan is responsible for technical oversight of ACDI/VOCA's cocoa projects and maintains good relations with project partners including local associations and research institutions as well as representatives of the World Cocoa Foundation and its members. Mr. Ryan also works on coffee sector projects, providing oversight and managing partnerships with the private sector and service providers as well as ACDI/VOCA's primary technical partner, the Coffee Quality Institute. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin with an assignment in appropriate technology and agroforestry. Mr. Ryan earned his M.B.A. in international business at The Johns Hopkins University and speaks French, Spanish, and Portuguese.


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U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Michael Brumley with 3rd Law Enforcement Battalion, III Marine Headquarters Group instructs service members from the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police on oleoresin capsicum at Fort Bonifacio, Philippines on Aug. 8, 2014, during the Non-Lethal Weapons Executive Seminar field training exercise. The effective use of non-lethal weapons can be extremely valuable during rescue missions, for force protection in civil disturbances, while controlling rioting and prisoners of war, for checkpoint or convoy operations, HA/DR operations, or in situations in which civilians are used to mask a military attack. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Alexandra Gwinn)
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ruzam, as they say, practice makes perfect (or at least good enough). You're learning as I did. Just keep trying. I think you can see why I preferably use heat seal balloon material whenever possible. Alan.
Success!!! Well, almost
After a long break I pulled out my envelope supplies and gave it another crack.
This time I used two side tape. I know this isn't preferred. I tried a number of brands and found one that was really thin and (as far as I could tell) 'tear' strength. The tape comes a little wider than I need, so I cut it in half to make it go further.
Using two side tape is so much easier than glue. I cut the gores one seam width wider and simply lapped the gores one on to the next with the tape. The goring tool with let me stick down the first gore, then run a strip of tape along the seam. Then the lapping gore I would get stuck down by slowly rolling back the wrapper on the two side tape a little bit at a time. With the tape you still only get one shot to put it down right, but I don't have to risk accidentally sticking down gores when I'm not ready and since the tape has a little give, it's easier to get the joint pressed down flat. The envelope went together surprisingly quick (no waiting for glue to dry)! Since the tape is completely covered each side, there's no hidden sticky parts grabbing at the insides.
I used the fill valve off a helium balloon. Just cut it from the balloon and slipped it into the seam near the tail. More two way tape to attach and seal it. The nose came together perfectly. Used a small button sized disc inside and out. The tail was a little rougher but not bad. More tape and foil pieces to close it in.
27.9g (air filled) weight. There were a few 'not so smooth' seams, but for the most part she looked the part of a blimp. The envelope filled to pressure with a satisfying ping (unlike my first attempt).
So I blew her up a little more and set it aside to sit overnight and see what kind of air loss problems I might be facing. That's when things went bad. The seams started pulling loose until I had air escaping. I'm not sure I understand. When I tested the tape I had to rip the foil to get it free. But in what seems like no time at all, all my seams had spread significant amounts. I think I might have sabotaged my own efforts. The gores were marked with sharpy and cut out. After assembly I use rubbing alcohol to wipe down the seams and remove any remaining sharpy lines. Alcohol is completely useless for cleaning the two side tape off scissors, so I assumed it was tape safe. Now I'm wondering if it softened the tape up just enough to let loose.
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Even though I used Apricot, everyone swore they were little apple pies. A favorite in our home baked gift boxes we give every year.
Traditional rugelach does not use sugar in dough and uses equal parts butter and cream cheese. The sugar is used in the filling only and then sparingly.
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"the process that *bread* it"?
Excuse me?
If Oracle ends up owning Sun Microsystems, it's got a one-off opportunity to correct the mistakes of the past when it comes to working with open source on Java. The database giant should relax Sun's tight control over the Java Community Process (JCP), the body responsible for stewarding Java. And as part of this, Oracle should …
Excuse me?
It's already bad enough that there a multiple Java implementations on some platforms, open sourcing the TCKs will just add the potential for fragmentation in the tests that are supposed to help prevent fragmentation.
I can't disagree with the articles's contents, but the article needs some editorial eyeballing:
"If they don't do that, they are throwing away AND opportunity."
"The meeting - and the statement - are BOTHER under a non-disclosure agreement "
"despite Sun OPEN-SOURCE Java a few years back "
"designed by committee rather THEN OF BEING genuine use "
"the process that BREAD it"
"the inclusion of new and untested features that risked introducing BREAKING CHANGES"
Java has been around for 18 years, never achieved anything of interest, it's a fashionable heap of pooh.
Sun came up with that piece of crap so they can sell more hardware to run the ill designed JVM.
Hope Oracle transforms Java specs so that it can produce C++ code and run at native speed by design, keep the interpreted mode but give me the boost I need so I don't have to write C modules everyday.
To start their Developer website again from scratch (java.sun.com) so that it's actually possible find whatever you're looking for. At the moment it's a complete and illogical mess and full of broken links (rather like the Java libraries?). I hate going on there to do anything, even finding the download link for one of the many versions and flavours of Java is normally very hard!
Talking of versions, they should make the version numbers and Java versions more clear and logical.
But please, please, please kill that awful website.
Enraged - I think not!
Infuriated - I think not!
This is just a "your way VS my way" article. I prefer Sun Microsystems way.
I've been developing on the platform for more than 10 years now, I have my own opinion on these matters.
I hope Sun finds money for it's own purposes and becomes fully independent again!
That she said that someone thought that Oracle would not be a good open source steward of Java.
Looks like anther iron-clad media trial has concluded nicely.
If the TCKs do get open sourced, then how many seconds will it before a large number of factions of GNUtards exercise their god given rights to fork, and there are numerous, incompatible javaoids. Even if there's just one GNU fork, GCC sets a poor precedence, with 50 odd non-standard extensions for C and C++ alone.
The name says it all.......
'While Apache's has been able to build an implementation of Java Standard Edition under Project Harmony thanks to the opening of Java, Harmony cannot be certified because the TCKs contain proprietary code the open-source code cannot touch. Harmony, therefore, remains stuck in a limbo of having been built but being uncertified.'
That statement is factually inaccurate. Project Harmony did not occur 'thanks to the opening of Java'. First of all, Java is a trademark which is applied to certified implementations that have passed the TCK, a process the entire article talks about as being closed and proprietary still. I believe what you mean is Sun's JDK, and this certainly hasn't helped Harmony. If anything, it has hindered it. A very plausible argument can be made for the growing success of GNU Classpath and Apache Harmony being the trigger for Sun open-sourcing their implementation, giving them a means of both silencing their critics (which included RMS) over its proprietary nature and retaining control. Both Apache Harmony and GNU Classpath are clean room implementations which aren't based on Sun's code. Both are not eligible for the TCK under any rules Sun has put forward, either privately or through the OpenJDK TCK agreement. You can't say that either implementation has 'built an implementation of Java Standard Edition' until they have passed said TCK which is supposed to be the proof that these specifications have been met.
On the main content of the article, I and many other people working on OpenJDK, GNU Classpath and Apache Harmony would love to see both the JCP and the TCK become more open. I find it hard to trust a test of the specification which you can't look at or discuss without an NDA and which has only been passed on code derived from Sun's implementation (that's actually a term of the OpenJDK TCK license). The JCP results in specifications under terms which effectively prevent open source implementations, and we weren't able to use them to develop GNU Classpath.
Oracle could certainly do a lot to clear things up in their new position. Let's hope they do.
"Oracle doesn't get a huge amount of trust in the open-source community," Johnson observed. "Had IBM owned Sun people wouldn't have assumed IBM was going to thrash the open-source elements, but with Oracle they don't have an open-source track record so there's more concern."
That could also have been written, and made self-destructive sense, and therefore not sensible at all of of for IBM .."Had IBM owned Sun people wouldn't have assumed IBM was going to trash the open-source elements"
However, in Cloud ControlLed Land does Everyone Love Oracling for ITs Tender Blissful Deliveries of Original Viceless Sin Discoveries ..... which is AIVirgin XSSource CodeXXXX? Which by Virtue of Experience and Duly Considered Necessity, because of ITs Powerful Neurotic and Decidely Psychotic Nature, even in Open Source Heartland are Proprietary Locks left on Codes and BetaPrograms to be Unpicked for Private Control Access to Unqualified Immaculate Support. Locks which Open Doors to Stores when Presented with a Perfect Parallel Mirror Image of Vital Content.
Live Bait/Virtual Chum Trialing and Trailing and Trawling for Mr Ellison, in an Octopus's Garden in the Shade and Shadows? Swallow that Hook, Line and Sinker for Virtually Perfect Rule and Reign of Dominion and Perception. ........ and a Gift for the Taking as IT is always Freely Available. It's the Sensitive Intelligence Secrets which Power and Control the Gift which Costs the Bread that Generates the Future and Wealth for All with IT ....... which is what NEUKlearer HyperRadioproActive NIRobotIQs does with Time and Space .... and urTime in ITs Spaces and Places.
On a completely different subject, brought to mind after reading http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6824172.ece , would anyone care to hazard a guess at the main reason, other than prevent the Sharing of Hazardous Information and Imagination, for virtual house arrest, and when your Internet connection is removed /lost/interrupted, regularly at irregular times, is that a virtual house arrest being stealthily trialed to assess worth and value and likely cost for expected benefit to InterNetional Security...... for there are at least Two Worlds for Earth to Provide for now, is there not? What you call the Real World with Physicality and the Virtual CyberSpace Worlds where Thoughts on Reality Create AI Physicality, which can Morph/Creep across the MetaDataPhysical Divide to Impact upon Physical Realities. Or does Earth not Control any Worlds and Others Server US Living in this Space? Has Man Defaulted Control Decisions to Computer Programs or Virtual AIMachinery and is there a Cyber Battle Currently Raging in Operating Systems for Absolutely Fabulous Popular Lazy Control with Effortless Overwhelming and OverWinning Powers?
And the answer to those last few question are a Resounding YES, which makes for a Volatile Environment with Toxic Waste Assets and Poorly Performing Underground Ventures Susceptible to Beta Makeover into Sounder Rock Solid Virtual Investment Vehicles. Futures Portfolios.
Very Spooky Roswell stuff ...... and just so preposterous and outrageous that it couldn't possibly be true, could it?
If someone at El Reg wants to write weekend stories at the pub while the editors are in an alcoholic coma, fine by me.
Maybe the author wants more dough for his crummy articles?
No knead to thank me, it was the yeast I could do.....
.... is a Wizard to AIRide and Beautifully Tricky to Control with Passionate Pleasures ..... thus to Tempt and Encourage/Immaculately Seduce One to the Never Ending Quest for the Perfect Beginning ........ Big Bang.
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"It's already bad enough that there a multiple Java implementations on some platforms, open sourcing the TCKs will just add the potential for fragmentation in the tests that are supposed to help prevent fragmentation."
What the hell are you smoking? The fact there are various implementations of the JVM, some of which are clean room is a GOOD THING. What isn't a good thing is that many implementations can't officially call themselves Java because they can't pass certification because the terms of certification are incompatible or odious.
Open sourcing the TCK and perhaps making the whole testing & certification process vendor neutral would be a massive step in the right direction. It shouldn't matter if its Sun/Oracle or any other JVM implementation. They should be able to pay their fee to a certifying authority, have the tests run and get a nice little logo and right to use certain trademarks for their efforts. To ensure everyone passes the test, the TCK should be open sourced so projects can ensure compliance before applying. Fragementation has nothing to do with it because the certifying body wouldn't be using a fork.
As a general comment, I know its fashionable to pour hate on Java (after all it's what some might call the establishment) but the reality is there is no other platform which comes anywhere close to it for real world development. It would be great if it incorporated some of the lessons of scala / groovy (which run on JVMs), but as it stands there is no other language that comes anywhere close to the scalability and robustness of the Java platform.
All this article gave me was opinions and weasel words.
The comments page, on the other hand, has been most informative.
How rare.
Oracle spends billions of dollars to buy Sun; so they can straight away prioritise "philanthrophy" ?
I don't see how this "no-brainer" would help Oracle recover that money or make money ?
Apache Harmony was IBM's attempt to gain control of Java from Sun
Oracle owns now 2 jvm implementations (JRockit),
I don't see any reason for them to do anything to help any IBM backed effort.
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VAN BUREN, Ark. (AP) - A Crawford County judge has rejected motions to suppress evidence and a statement given by a man charged with capital murder
Attorneys for 44-year-old Ronald Anthony Cash sought to suppress a gun taken from the home of Cash's father when Cash was arrested and statements he made to police. Cash is charged with in the February shooting death of 40-year-old Tammie Lea Schlude.
Schlude was found dead in the parking lot of the high school football stadium.
The Times-Record reports that defense attorney William James says Cash is not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
Police say Cash asked after his arrest if the woman had died and commented that his "life is over." A police report says Cash confessed to killing Schlude because she was seeing another man.
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Celebrity Weddings & Engagements
Robin Wright Is Engaged to Ben Foster
Conceivable! The Princess Bride and House of Cards star Robin Wright, 47, is engaged to Lone Survivor, The Messenger, X-Men, Six Feet Under and 3:10 to Yuma star Ben Foster, 33.
They found twue wove and a future mawwiage (sorry, stopping now) after meeting on the set of the 2011 movie Rampart.
They were first linked as a couple in early 2012, and in late December 2013 Life & Style reported that they were engaged. An insider told L&S that Robin has been "talking all about her upcoming wedding and how excited she is for it."
People got confirmation from Robin's rep in early January 2014. This will be Ben's first marriage and Robin's third. She was previously married to Sean Penn, 53, and they have two children together, ages 22 and 20. Robin and Sean had a tumultuous relationship that finally ended in divorce in July 2010. Robin was also married to her Santa Barbara co-star Dane Witherspoon from 1986-1988.
Robin and Ben have a 14-year age gap, but that's nothing by Hollywood standards — especially when the genders are reversed. Back in 2011, Sean got tongues wagging when he started seeing Scarlett Johansson, who is about 24 years younger.
Anyway, congrats to Robin and Ben! Have fun storming the castle.
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Hey Readers: I just wanted to let you know where things are with "10Valley". Since we launched the site a little over a year ago, as a sub-site, inside the "CoolStateLA.com" site at Cal State LA, I've been blown away by the thoughtful and compelling stories and posts we've received. We haven't had a full time reporter/editor to work on the site for a couple of months, but I think that is about to change.
The important thing here is that while we are operating this site out of the Cal State LA University Times Newsroom, we really, really want your input!
If you know of things we should know about, email me personally at jbeaupr (at) exchange.calstatela.edu.
There are so many issues affecting the SGV that don't get covered, it is our hope that YOU can contribute to content.
We really admire our friends at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, but their budgets have been slashed and they are expected to cover everything from car accidents to high school proms. The idea for this site has been and will continue to be 'from the ground up' – we don't need to tell you, from our academic pedestal, what is going on in the SGV. You are living these stories every day.
We want the prom stories.
But we also want to know what is happening with water regulations.
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We want to know about the crazy-assed band you saw in El Monte last week.
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The massive bi-annual fashion tradeshow Bread and Butter took place for its third consecutive year at the Tempelhof, Berlin. A team of Superdry HQ staff hopped on a plane to show off the new AW12 collection at the event! Our PR Coordinator Amy Campbell reports on her time there.
"The show is a great place to catch up with press and marketing contacts from the UK. The Press Office team met with editors from Cosmopolitan, Company, Men's Health, Super Super and Shortlist, to name a few, during our trip.
Everything looked amazing, the stand with its iconic rusted metalwork (which can be seen from every angle in the venue!) and, of course, the clothes! It is always really exciting to see all the new lines come to life; my favourites were the punk-inspired graphic tees and the heritage tailoring – think amazing tweeds with jewel-coloured lining. Sitting alongside the new product were some old favourites; the Dry fragrances and Optics were really well received.
The biggest trend during the show seemed to be the 'Dandy Cowboy'…lots of denim and vintage Americana looks – which of course suited Superdry down to a tee!"
Our latest SS12 stock is already making its way to our stores and on our website. Which pieces are you most excited about?!


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Oh boy. This looks so cool. Come one! A realy freakin' idea dude!
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Step 1: Position Wallpaper so it centers as shown in the picture, I was able to do this after some trial and error with the stock wallpaper program.
Wallpaper link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23914066/dantelcsandinvsk1.jpg
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You need ADW launcher or LauncherPro so you can set this as your dock background image:
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This will be a pain in the ass if you haven't used the app before, so if anyone knows how I can upload my configuration save from Min Text let me know and I will. Download the free Minimal Text Widget, make a custom configuration and use combinations of static text and the included battery and weather slots to make the above. I kept the default black background and transparency percentage. Use the following font:
Diablo Font: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23914066/Exocet2.ttf
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Greetings from Downunder to all the Bikeforum members.
I am new to this forum, But have played with Mtb's for years - i am returning after a sabatical of 3-4 years; alot has changed!
thanks to Fubar5 for his/her kind introduction.
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Sonic Youth and other movies: Sound Unseen
Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake (Trailer)
I just saw this incredible band last night. They're called Sonic Youth. At least I felt as if I were seeing and hearing them for the first time, though now that I think about it, it's been 23 yeras since I first noticed the cover of Bad Moon Rising through the plate glass of Paradise Records in Madison, not long before they played the Wil-Mar Center (a roar you could hear down the block).
What made Sonic Youth new for me again was watching Sleeping Nights Awake, which screened last night as part of the ninth annual Minneapolis-St. Paul-only Sound Unseen festival (amazing that this thing hasn't gone national--more here). The digital-video concert documentary, which screens again tonight at St. Anthony Main, was made by a bunch of teenagers in Reno who ask the band the kinds of things, and shoot the kinds of things, that a hipper or more wised-up director might skip.
The result is entirely fresh and exciting: There's pretty much zero history or background to clutter the portrait of Sonic Youth as a continuing, if seasoned, experiment in self-discovery and in repaying the life-favor of punk rock. Against the surreal backdrop of a casino setting (the band plays basketball around a jet airliner from a magic show), the musicians talk about what it's like to play this music now, and perform in the kind of handheld footage that made U2's Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky (see page 18 of that link) an enduringly immediate document where Rattle and Hum dates as something more "cinematic." The DV video footage here is in black and white, which works surprisingly well for the medium.
Three things help immensely: 1.) the fact that Sonic Youth are still such a great band, 2.) Lee Renaldo's remastering job of the sound-board recording--the music sounds so good ("Kool Thing" is better than the studio version), it should be released as a live album--and 3.) young editors apparently with film sense way beyond their years. The documentary has a rhythm as intuitively changeable and tight as the band's, though in true Sonic Youth fashion, the coda goes on a bit.
Check the full Sound Unseen schedule for other parties, shows, screenings, and happenings--this is one of the reasons to live here.
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Paris' legendary plansParis Hilton is determined to become a Hollywood legend.
The 'House of Wax' actress - who stars in new sorority comedy 'Pledge This!' - says she has enough talent and determination to be one of the most successful movie actresses of all time.
She told Britain's New magazine: "I'm serious about acting and I have a bunch of movies lined up. I think I can become a good actress. It's something I want to prove to myself and to other people. I feel I'm getting better and feeling more confident about what I can do as an actress."
It is not the first time Paris has made such a grandiose claim about her acting ability.
The blonde star has previously claimed she is as good an actress as Oscar-winner Charlize Theron.
She said: "My acting coach told me I have a similar style of acting to Charlize so we may end up vying for the same parts."
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College Hockey:Dartmouth Bests RPI
Three Third Period Goals Pace Big Green
HANOVER, N.H — Get past the first three teams in the ECAC Hockey League standings, and the crystal ball is either broken or in need of some serious Windex.
Dartmouth and Rensselaer didn't do much to clarify the playoff situation last night, but the Big Green did do a couple of things that have been lacking of late.
Goalie Mike Devine made the big stops when needed and Dartmouth answered with a three-goal flourish in the third period for a 5-2 win at Thompson Arena that kept the Big Green (10-9-3 overall, 6-6-3 league) within eyeshot of the ECACHL's top four teams.
"It was a pretty big win," said Johnson, whose goals were only his second and third since Thanksgiving weekend. "We've got to play a little better than that, for the most part. They are a good team, but they were getting some good chances."
When it mattered most, Devine (31 saves) was stopping them.
The junior never trailed, and was tied just once after J.T. Wyman's goal in the last 89 seconds of the first period put the Big Green up, 1-0. Reed Kipp leveled for RPI (8-12-7 overall, 4-7-4 league) at 2:15 of the second, but Kevin Swallow's crease jam past Engineer netminder Jordan Alford (24 saves) just 41 seconds later took the wind out of the visitors' sails.
Despite a solid offensive effort, RPI never closed the gap again.
"We don't have a lot of natural goal-scoring ability," first-year coach Seth Appert said.
"We have to work hard for our goals; we have to go to the net, hammer some rebounds in and get some nasty ones. We created plenty enough chances to score, and got Devine down in some positions where we need to be able to finish."
Appert credited Devine with the win, and the second period was the Big Green junior's canvas. He made fine saves on four different RPI opportunities, and was also the beneficiary of an Andrei Uryadov misfire with 4:45 left, the Russian sophomore stubbing a Jake Morissette pass wide of a yawning net.
Ben Lovejoy re-established the two-goal lead with a power-play howitzer at 5:07 of the third. The Engineers' Jonathan Ornelas cut the gap to one with 6:19 to go, but Nick Johnson hit a counterattack bullet over Alford's glove at 18:36 and picked the empty net at 19:45 to clinch the victory.
Dartmouth, still two points behind fourth-place Cornell in the league chase, entertains Union tonight. Rensselaer, now 10th in the standings, heads to Harvard this evening.
Greg Fennell covers Dartmouth hockey for the Valley News of West Lebanon, N.H.
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In Web Uproar, Antipiracy Code Spreads Wildly function
By BRAD STONE
Published: May 3, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 — There is open revolt on the Web.
Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, a Web site that lets users submit links to news accounts.
People have banded together over the last two days to publish and widely distribute a secret code used by the technology and movie industries to prevent piracy of high-definition movies.
The broader distribution of the code may not pose a serious threat to the studios, because it requires some technical expertise and specialized software to use it to defeat the copy protection on Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. But its relentless spread has already become a lesson in mob power on the Internet and the futility of censorship in the digital world.
An online uproar came in response to a series of cease-and-desist letters from lawyers for a group of companies that use the copy protection system, demanding that the code be removed from several Web sites.
Rather than wiping out the code — a string of 32 digits and letters in a specialized counting system — the legal notices sparked its proliferation on Web sites, in chat rooms, inside cleverly doctored digital photographs and on user-submitted news sites like Digg.com.
"It's a perfect example of how a lawyer's involvement can turn a little story into a huge story," said Fred von Lohmann, a staff lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group. "Now that they started sending threatening letters, the Internet has turned the number into the latest celebrity. It is now guaranteed eternal fame."
The number is being enshrined in some creative ways. Keith Burgon, a 24-year-old musician in Goldens Bridge, N.Y., grabbed his acoustic guitar on Tuesday and improvised a melody while soulfully singing the code. He [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HaNbsIfp0"]posted the song to YouTube,[/ame] where it was played more than 45,000 times.
"I thought it was a source of comedy that they were trying so futilely to quell the spread of this number," Mr. Burgon said. "The ironic thing is, because they tried to quiet it down it's the most famous number on the Internet."
During his work break on Tuesday, James Bertelson, an engineer in Vancouver, Wash., joined the movement and created a Web page featuring nothing but the number, obscured in an encrypted format that only insiders could appreciate. He then submitted his page to Digg, a news site where users vote on what is important. Despite its sparse offerings, his submission received nearly 5,000 votes and was propelled onto Digg's main page.
"For most people this is about freedom of speech, and an industry that thinks that just because it has high-priced lawyers it has the final say," Mr. Bertelson said.
Messages left for those lawyers and the trade organization they represent, the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator, which controls the encryption system known as A.A.C.S., were not answered. In an e-mail message, a representative for the group said only that it "is looking into the matter and has no further comment at this time."
The organization is backed by technology companies like I.B.M., Intel, Microsoft and Sony and movie studios like Disney and Warner Brothers, which is owned by Time Warner.
The secret code actually stopped being a secret in February, when a hacker ferreted it out of his movie-playing software and posted it on a Web bulletin board. From there it spread through the network of technology news sites and blogs.
Last month, lawyers for the trade group began sending out cease-and-desist letters, claiming that Web pages carrying the code violated its intellectual property rights under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Letters were sent to Google, which runs a blog network at blogspot.com, and the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
The campaign to remove the number from circulation went largely unnoticed until news of the letters hit Digg. The 25-employee company in San Francisco, acting on the advice of its lawyers, removed posting submissions about the secret number from its database earlier this week, then explained the move to its readers on Tuesday afternoon.
The removals were seen by many Digg users as a capitulation to corporate interests and an assault on free speech. Some also said that the trade group that promotes the HD-DVD format, which uses A.A.C.S. protection, had advertised on a weekly Digg-related video podcast.
On Tuesday afternoon and into the evening, stories about or including the code swamped Digg's main page, which the company says gets 16 million readers each month. At 9 p.m. West Coast time, the company surrendered to mob sentiment.
"You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company," wrote Kevin Rose, Digg's founder, in a blog post. "We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be." If Digg loses, he wrote, "at least we died trying."
Jay Adelson, Digg's chief executive, said in an interview that the site was disregarding the advice of its lawyers. "We just decided that it is more important to stand by our users," he said. Regarding the company's exposure to lawsuits he said, "we are just going to prepare and do our best."
The conflict spilled over to Wikipedia, where administrators had to restrict editing on some entries to keep contributors from repeatedly posting the code.
The episode recalls earlier acts of online rebellion against the encryption that protects media files from piracy. Some people believe that such systems unfairly limit their freedom to listen to music and watch movies on whatever devices they choose.
In 1999, hackers created a program called DeCSS that broke the software protecting standard DVDs and posted it on the hacker site 2600.com. The Motion Picture Association of America sued, and Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of Federal District Court in Manhattan, citing the 1998 digital copyright act, sided with the movie industry.
The DVD code disappeared from the 2600 site, but nevertheless resurfaced in playful haiku, on T-shirts and even in a movie in which the code scrolled across the screen like the introductory crawl in "Star Wars."
In both cases, the users who joined the revolt and published the codes may be exposing themselves to legal risk. Chris Sprigman, an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said that under the digital copyright act, propagating even parts of techniques intended to circumvent copyright was illegal.
However, with thousands of Internet users now impudently breaking the law, Mr. Sprigman said that the entertainment and technology industries would have no realistic way to pursue a legal remedy. "It's a gigantic can of worms they've opened, and now it will be awfully hard to do anything with lawsuits," he said.
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
Fight the power!!
Same thing happend with original dvd format. It is only a matter of time before all consumer encryption schemes are broken. Might as well just not encrypt it and let us freely copy them.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775
People keep sayinbg this is the last media before electronic download only. And yeah, we did go to the moon back in '69. Seems like 1869....
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iPad Overtakes iPhone as Most Popular Device Among Advertisers
- A new report shows mobile advertising prices rose dramatically in the fourth quarter of 2012, underscoring the role of mobile as a key marketing strategy during the recent holiday season.
- After much industry speculation, Facebook debuted its beta Graph Search, a social search engine powered by Microsoft Bing.
- Check out seven ways mobile apps are driving revenue for major brands this year.
A new report from MoPub reveals a surge in mobile ad prices for the past quarter, up 50 percent since last year. "Advertisers really looked to mobile during the holidays, which validates the channel and the overall marketing trend," said Elain Szu, MoPub director of product marketing, to Samantha Murphy of Mashable. The largest spike in effective cost per thousand impressions (eCPMs) was tracked on iOS, with 66 percent higher prices than the beginning of Q4. Apple's larger screens also proved more valuable, as iPad overtook iPhone as the most popular device among advertising sources.
On Tuesday, Facebook shared its big announcement about its newest addition called Graph Search, according to The Verge. Intended to round out Facebook's other pillars of information, such as News Feed and Timeline, the beta social search engine is integrated with Microsoft Bing as part of an ongoing competition with Google. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg highlighted four use cases in the search launch – people, photos, places and interests – demonstrating the search feature through items, such as "My college friends from San Francisco" and "Friends who like Star Wars and Harry Potter." According to Zuckerberg, "This is a new way for people to see information." The Graph Search is far from complete, but mobile implementation is on the horizon, Tomio Geron of Forbes reports.
Today's consumers rely on mobile devices loaded with apps that make everyday life more fun, memorable, and productive, and smartphones have opened a whole new world of opportunities for brand marketers. Mashable's Ryan Matzner explores seven ways mobile apps are driving revenue for businesses.


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Cambodia: Forced marriages; whether forced marriage is currently practised; protection available from the government; consequences for a woman who refuses a forced marriage
|Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
|Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
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|Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Cambodia: Forced marriages; whether forced marriage is currently practised; protection available from the government; consequences for a woman who refuses a forced marriage, 9 December 2003, KHM42219.FE, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/403dd1fd8.html [accessed 31 May 2016]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
No information on a governmental or non-governmental organization that provides help specifically to women who refuse forced marriages, or on the police protection available to these women, could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate within the time constraints for this Response. Recent information on forced marriages in Cambodia was limited among the sources consulted.
It is worth mentioning, however, that forced marriage is prohibited by Cambodian law (UNHCHR 15 July 1999), in particular by the Constitution and the Law on Marriage and the Family (United Nations 23 Sept. 1998, para. 327–328). Men aged 20 and over and women aged 18 and over are free to choose a spouse without the consent of their parents (ibid., para. 328).
However, forced marriages still take place since, according to Cambodian tradition, parents decide who their daughters marry (UNHCHR 15 July 1999). Most marriages in Cambodia are arranged (Alternatives 1 Mar. 2003). According to a report, [translation] "43 per cent of married women met their husbands for the first time the day they were married, and 78 per cent had no say in the choice of their future husband" (ibid.). Men often enjoy more freedom in choosing their partners than women (FVPF n.d.). However, according to a United Nations report, parents normally only arrange the marriage, and it is the children who ultimately decide on whether they will marry (United Nations 23 Sept. 1998, para. 332). It should be noted that some parents, however, still force their children to marry, and a son or daughter who refuses such an arrangement risks being beaten (ibid., para. 333). A marriage entered into against the will of the parents is seen as "cursed" (South China Morning Post 6 Oct. 2000). But, more and more, young Cambodians want to marry the person with whom they fall in love, which sometimes creates serious conflicts with their parents (ibid.). Approximately once a month, local papers publish reports about young couples making suicide pacts because their love was not accepted by their parents (ibid.). Divorce, however, is very rare and is frowned upon (Alternatives 1 Mar. 2003).
During the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, approximately 250,000 women were forced into marriage (an estimated two group marriages in every Cambodian village) (UNIFEM 29 Oct. 2003). Groups of up to 30 men and women were forcibly married at the same time, and a woman who refused to live with her new husband would risk "certain death" (The Advocacy Project 9 Mar. 1999). According to some reports, the Cambodian authorities positioned spies under the houses of newly married couples to make sure that the marriages were consummated (ibid.). Only a handful of these forced marriages remained intact after 1979 (ibid.).
For more information on the status of women in Cambodia and the protection available to them from the government and non-governmental organizations, please consult KHM4221.FE of 9 December 2003.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
The Advocacy Project, Washington. 9 March 1999. "Cambodia – In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge: From the Editorial Desk."
Alternatives [Montreal]. 1 March 2003. Vol. 9, No. 6. Dominique Jutras. "Une percée politique conjuguée au féminin pluriel."
Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF), San Francisco. n.d. "Cambodia: Rattling the Killing Fields."
South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]. 6 October 2000. Kay Johnson and Khieu Kola.
"Death an Eternal Embrace for Young Lovers." (Dialog)
United Nations. 23 September 1998. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Initial Reports of States Parties Due in 1993 - Addendum: Cambodia. (CCPR/C/81/Add.12)
United Nations Development Fund For Women (UNIFEM). 29 October 2003. "Cambodia Quickfacts."
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR). 15 July 1999. "Le Comité des droits de l'homme achève l'examen du rapport du Cambodge." (HR/CT/99/12)
Additional Sources Consulted
Attempts to contact the following organizations were unsuccessful:
- Acting for Women in Distressing Circumstances
- Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)
- Cambodian Women Development Agency
- Cambodian Women's Voices Center
- Khemara
- Ministry of Women's Affairs
- Ministry of Women's and Veteran's Affairs
- UNIFEM: East and South East Asia Regional Office
- Women's Media Centre of Cambodia
Asian Human Rights Commission
IRB Databases
Internet sites, including:
Amnesty International
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Freedom House
Human Rights Internet (HRI)
Le Monde
United States Department of State
US Agency for International Development (USAID)
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text: 5. Janet, Chrissy, Jack (Three's Company) – Though their relationships are strictly platonic, Three's Company presented a hilarious sitcom scenario: Janet and Chrissy allow Jack to move-in with them but must keep up the charade that Jack is gay to keep their landlord, Stanley, off their back. Very quickly, Janet, the landlord's wife, discovers Jack's true sexuality and helps keep the secret from her husband. The premise created many funny set-ups for the roommates to keep their secret under wraps including Jack's attraction to the beautiful Chrissy. The roommates deep love and need for each trumped any instances of sexual attraction. Cast departures and additions inevitably altered the show's humor in the latter seasons, but it's still considered one of the funniest sitcoms ever to grace television.


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