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MGMT's first album, 2007's Oracular Spectacular, tore through the music scene at the time like a loose propeller. Before they knew what had hit them, bandmates Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden went from gigging in local clubs and bars around New York to playing massive music festivals alongside greats such as Radiohead and Bloc Party to crowds of tens of thousands of screaming fans.
Three years later, the singles "Time To Pretend", "Kids", and "Electric Feel" still get dance floors jumping with happy, wasted people, belting out "Let's move to Paris, shoot some heroine and fuck with the stars" while spilling their drinks over anyone unfortunate enough to be standing nearby.
Oracular Spectacular is one of those rare albums that is almost impossible not to like, no matter what your taste in music might be. Of course, the big question on everyone's mind was 'With such a killer debut album (well, technically it's their second if you count the album they released under their previous name, The Management), haven't they set the bar a little too high for the albums to follow?"
Sadly, the answer to this question in the case of Congratulations is yes.
Gone are the slow, fuzzy and infectious basslines and quirky riffs that made songs like "Kids" and "Time To Pretend" so powerful. Nowhere on Congratulations will you find a song that struts with the confidence that "Electric Feel" does, or trips out, stoned immaculate like "The Youth" without sounding forced or contrived.
Congratulations feels frantic in comparison to Oracular Spectacular. Songs like "It's Working", "Song For Dan Treacy" and "Brian Eno" all sound like Goldwasser and VanWyngarden wrote them after schnarfing one too many speed-rails while listening to old Beach Boys records at double speed.
The rest of the album is mostly made up of sluggish and floppy tracks like "Someone's Missing" (with vocals that sound like a melancholic chipmunk singing at the bottom of a well), "Lady Dada's Nightmare" (four and a half minutes of pointless instrumental circle-jerking) and "I Found A Whistle" (which sounds like a waltzy crystal meth comedown) that sure as hell won't be topping any charts in the foreseeable future.
On the plus side, the awesome synths on "Song For Dan Treacy" should get your feet tapping and the Jackson 5-ish break on "Something's Missing" is an interesting twist. "Siberian Breaks" also has some notable moments, but you'll have to wade through all twelve odd minutes of this sprawling track to get to them.
In their defence, I don't think that MGMT ever intended Congratulations to be compared in any way to Oracular Spectacular and seem to have made a concerted effort musically to distance the two albums as much as possible. Of course the downside of this is that the mainstream audience that loved Oracular Spectacular will probably greet Congratulations with the time-honoured cry "What is this shit?" halfway through track one.
At its best, Congratulations feels like a bad B-Sides album and at its worst, like something that Goldwasser and VanWyngarden should have maybe thought a little harder about before ever recording, never mind releasing.
From it's bizarre, cartoony, Sonic The Hedgehog album cover to its rushed production, Congratulations should definitely not be taken seriously. In fact, let's pretend that this album was never released, play Oracular Spectacular one more time and hang in there for album no. 3 shall we?
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CHICAGO (AP) ? Federal officials announced Friday that they will begin intensive monitoring of waterways near Lake Michigan next week after genetic material from the invasive Asian carp showed up in a third consecutive round of testing.
CHICAGO (AP) — Federal officials announced Friday that they will begin intensive monitoring of waterways near Lake Michigan next week after genetic material from the invasive Asian carp showed up in a third consecutive round of testing.
Crews will use electric jolts to stun fish, sweep the waterway with half-mile-long nets and conduct additional sampling in Lake Calumet and the Calumet River near Chicago during a four-day period beginning Monday, the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Council announced Friday.
DNA from silver carp, one of two Asian species threatening to enter the Great Lakes after migrating northward from the South for decades, was found in 11 samples in the lake and the river during testing in July. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced July 22 that it had found two consecutive samples containing DNA from silver carp and would increase its response if DNA was found in a third sample.
Some scientists say if the large, voracious carp establish a foothold in the Great Lakes, they could unravel the food web by gobbling plankton needed by smaller fish that feed prized sport varieties such as walleye and trout. Environmentalists and officials from several states are calling on the corps to immediately close shipping locks that separate the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds to stop the carp.
It is unclear from the sampling whether live fish are in the lake or the genetic material came from dead fish or was carried into the lake from bilge water, said Chris McCloud, Illinois Department of Natural Resources spokesman.
"We're going to take this one step at a time, then we will make informed decisions," McCloud said.
He said biologists will take more samples Monday, then begin electrofishing and netting through Thursday. If at least one carp is found, those steps would be intensified; if two or more are found, officials would evaluate whether to use a toxin to kill the carp, McCloud said.
"We remain vigilant both in monitoring to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, and also in investigating all possible sources of Asian carp DNA to minimize the human transfer element such as people unknowingly using Asian carp as bait or other activities that could transfer them to the Great Lakes," John Goss, director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said in a written statement.
The samples were taken above an electric barrier about 25 miles from Chicago designed to prevent aquatic species from moving between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins.
Federal officials contend the barrier is working well and there's no evidence any Asian carp have passed through it. Just one live Asian carp has been found on the Lake Michigan side of the barrier.
But environmentalists say the federal and Illinois governments must act more quickly and forcefully to ensure the carp don't reach the Great Lakes. They favor placing structures in Chicago-area waterways to sever the century-old, man-made link between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River system.
The corps is studying that and other possible methods of preventing aquatic species from moving between the two basins, but its report is scheduled for release in 2015. Critics say that's too slow.
Joel Brammeier, president of the Alliance for the Great Lakes, said he wasn't surprised by the test results, which he said almost certainly signal live fish are in the waterways.
"The nail-biter is hoping that this intensive monitoring effort does not turn anything up," Brammeier said. "That would mean they're most likely there in very low numbers, (but) the more you find, the more critical the situation is for Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes.
"We're going to keep playing this sort or Russian roulette until we have a permanent solution in place."
Five states — Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — have filed a federal lawsuit demanding quicker action.
Patricia Birkholz, director of Michigan's Office of the Great Lakes, said the steps taken to combat the carp in Lake Calumet are appropriate.
"The bad part of it is that the Asian carp are there at all, and they've apparently gotten further than any of us would have liked."

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IRAQ: Controversial Contractor's Iraq Work Is Split Up
WASHINGTON - Sometime soon, a group of American corporate executives and military leaders will quietly sit down and divide Iraq into three parts.
Their meeting will not have
anything to do with Iraq's national sovereignty, but instead will
involve slicing up billions of dollars in work for the defense
contractors that support the American military's presence in the
For the first time since the war began, the largest
single Pentagon contract in Iraq is being divided among three
companies, ending the monopoly held by KBR, the Houston-based
corporation that has been accused of wasteful spending and
mismanagement and of exploiting its political ties to Vice President Dick Cheney.
even as the Pentagon begins to pull apart the enormous KBR contract,
critics warn that the new three-company deal could actually result in
higher costs for American taxpayers and weak oversight by the military.
In fact, under the new deal, KBR and the two other companies could
actually make more than three times as much as KBR has been paid each
year since the war began.
Last month the Pentagon awarded the
companies pieces of a new contract to provide food, shelter and basic
services for American soldiers, a 10-year, $150 billion deal that
stretches far beyond the final days of the Bush administration. KBR
will still get a sizable chunk of the business, but now it will have to
share the work with Fluor Corporation and DynCorp International.
officials and executives of the three companies are planning to meet in
the next few weeks to start the complex process of breaking up KBR's
sprawling operations in Iraq.
KBR, previously a subsidiary of Halliburton,
once headed by Mr. Cheney, has collected more than $24 billion since
the war began. It has 40,000 employees in Iraq and 28,000 more in
Afghanistan and Kuwait.
But KBR has come under fire from
Congress and Pentagon auditors for complaints ranging from making more
than $200 million in excessive charges, including meals never served to
soldiers, to delivering unsafe water to American troops to doing little
to prevent sexual assaults of its female employees, often by their KBR
Army officials acknowledge that they were under
intense pressure from Capitol Hill to give KBR some competition, yet
leading Democratic lawmakers and other critics say the new contract
will merely paper over the fundamental problems that stem from the
Pentagon's heavy dependence on outside contractors in Iraq.
"This is just another verse in the same old song," said Senator Byron L. Dorgan,
a Democrat from North Dakota who is one of the leading Congressional
critics of KBR and other major defense contractors. "It appears to me
that this is a broken process."
Critics also say they doubt
that the new contract will result in significant cost savings or better
services for soldiers in Iraq. The Army has built into the deal the
potential for larger profits for the contractors than existed under the
prior contract, and it plans to outsource much of the management and
oversight of the contractors to yet another company, Serco Inc., for
$59 million.
"This new contract sounds good, they are
splitting it up, but there are serious flaws, including what looks like
outsourcing oversight," said Dina Rasor, an investigator and co-author
of a book about contracting in Iraq. "And the size of the contract is
enormous. When you think of these big, multibillion-dollar defense
contracts and contractors, you think of companies like Lockheed, and
you can see their big airplane plants. But what is KBR doing for all
this money? They are slinging hash, washing laundry."
officials said that they would not be able to actually shift work from
KBR to the other companies until late this year, meaning that the
change would be under way just as Americans are choosing a new
president. The Army officials said the huge new multiyear contract for
Iraq would not commit any new presidential administration to paying
billions of dollars to defense contractors for services in Iraq if the
new president decided to withdraw American troops.
It is not
clear how the Pentagon will try to untangle KBR's operations in Iraq to
share them with DynCorp and Fluor. Lee Thompson, the executive director
of the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, as the program is called,
said the Army would first try to split work in Kuwait among the three
companies, and would then move on to Afghanistan and Iraq.
if the United States remains in Iraq long term, the contract could
ultimately cost much less than $150 billion over 10 years, Mr. Thompson
said. But after being caught off guard by the scale of the spending at
the start of the war, the Army is building in a cushion this time, he
Army officials have been working for two years to undo KBR's monopoly on business in Iraq.
the war dragged on much longer than anticipated, the Army's initial,
pre-invasion decision to grant Halliburton a no-bid contract for Iraq
emerged as a sensitive political issue for the Bush administration
because of Mr. Cheney's connections to the company. Army officials
realized they had to bring in some other companies. "It didn't take a
rocket scientist to figure out we were getting beat up by the Hill,"
Mr. Thompson said.
Five companies submitted bids (primarily
covering work in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan), and the Army initially
awarded contracts to KBR, Fluor and DynCorp last June. But the two
losing companies protested, and the Government Accountability Office
upheld their protests in October, ruling that the Army had given
preferential treatment to the winning companies. The Army then made
some adjustments in the contract and announced in April that the same
three companies had won again.
Heather Browne, a spokeswoman
for KBR, defended the company's performance. "When issues have been
raised, KBR has fully cooperated by providing information requested of
us," she said. "We remain committed to ethics and integrity and work
daily to provide quality services to our customer, the U.S. military."
KBR, DynCorp, based in Falls Church, Va., has had serious problems in
past contracting work, including allegations that its employees engaged
in sex trafficking in Bosnia while working on a police training
contract there in the late 1990s. In addition, government auditors
concluded last year that the State Department's $1.2 billion contract
with DynCorp for police training in Iraq was so badly managed that they
could not determine exactly what was done for the money. Just last
week, DynCorp lost a racial discrimination and breach-of-contract
lawsuit in Virginia when a jury found in favor of a minority
subcontractor that had done work in Iraq and Afghanistan. A DynCorp
spokesman said the company would appeal the $15 million judgment.
officials said they recognized that taking over part of KBR's work on
such a highly controversial - and politically sensitive - contract in
Iraq could lead to even greater public scrutiny of the company. "We
understand what we are getting into here, there's no question about
it," said Greg Lagana, a DynCorp spokesman. "But we think we can really
do well at it."
A spokesman for Irving, Tex.-based Fluor
declined to discuss in detail the company's involvement in the Iraq
contract. In a prepared statement, a company official said, "We look
forward to providing the personnel and equipment to sustain our troops
across the globe."
While the Army hopes to inject some
competition into its Iraq contracting by splitting it three ways and
requiring the companies to bid against one another for individual
pieces of the work, it is also sweetening the incentives by offering
much higher rewards than in the earlier contract.
Until now,
KBR has been paid on a "cost-plus" basis, meaning that all of its costs
are reimbursed by the Army, as long as the company can convince the
government that they are reasonable. On top of that, KBR has been
awarded fees, including a base fee equal to 1 percent of costs and a
performance fee of an additional 2 percent of costs.
Under the
new contract, the three companies will be eligible to get base fees
worth up to 3 percent of the costs of the contract, and award fees that
could raise the total fees up to 10 percent of costs.
"There will be higher fees than in the last contract, but we are trying to incentivize them to compete," Mr. Thompson said.
such high fees on cost-plus contracts require oversight, and the Army
has decided to bring in Serco, a Reston, Va.-based division of a
British company, to do that. It will help manage the other three
contractors and perform cost and price analysis of them.
Thompson said the Army would remain in charge of judging the
contractors' performance, and a spokeswoman for the United States Army
Sustainment Command, which is in charge of the contract, said that an
Army inquiry found no conflicts of interest between Serco and the three
other contractors.
Steve McCarney, a Serco spokesman, added
that the company had performed independent assessments of government
operations in the past, including several for the Navy. "We don't have
any relationships with the other contractors, and all of our
assessments will be independent," he said.
But Congressional
leaders and other critics say that having an outside contractor manage
the others and analyze their prices and costs means that there will be
little real government oversight to maintain spending discipline.
"The Army can say that they are retaining the final say, but when they
outsource this much work on contract management, they really are
outsourcing oversight," said Representative Henry A. Waxman,
the California Democrat who is chairman of the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee, which has been investigating defense
contractors in Iraq.
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We've said it before, and we're saying it again: Demi Lovato is the queen of selfies.
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When faced with great odds, it is up to love to lay things straight. Director Curt L. Tofteland's new modern adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is passionate, swift and brutal.
Set against a backdrop of modern urban warfare and violence, the young, star-crossed lovers of Shakespeare's most beloved play must overcome great obstacles, unlike anything they have seen before. Romeo + Juliet will be performed at the DeWitt Theatre (141 East 12th Street) at 8:00 pm on July 12, 13, 18, 23, 26, 31, August 3, 5 and 8. Romeo and Juliet is a haunting reminder that love is the strongest weapon at our disposal.
Romeo + Juliet will feature a diverse cast that highlights the differences in our culture in an invigorating contemporary style. This classic tragedy that dives into the issues plaguing the modern world will be performed in record time; about 90 minutes. This new adaptation provides a vehicle to explore one of the societal problems that are affecting today's youth, gang warfare. After every performance a talk back will be held with members of the cast and members of the Shakespeare Behind Bars program founded by the director of this production, Curt L. Tofteland.
Curt L. Tofteland makes his HSRT directing debut with Romeo + Juliet. No stranger to the Hope College stage, Tofteland directed the wildly successful Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street last fall. He is the founder of the internationally acclaimed Shakespeare Behind Bars (SBB) program. From 1995-2008, he facilitated the SBB/KY program at the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex, producing and directing fourteen Shakespeare productions. The 2003 SBB/KY production of The Tempest, was chronicled by Philomath Films in a documentary, Shakespeare Behind Bars, that premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and went on to be screened at 40+ film festivals around the world, winning 11 film awards.
Tofteland currently facilitates the adult Shakespeare Behind Bars/Michigan program at the Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon Heights and SBB's first co-gender, court-ordered juvenile Shakespeare Behind / Beyond Bars programs at the Ottawa County Juvenile Detention Center and the Juvenile Justice Institute. Tofetland is a national and international speaker. He has spoken at over forty colleges and universities across the United States and has delivered talks at TEDx Berkeley, TEDxEast (NYC), and TEDx Macatowa. For his work as a Prison Arts Practitioner, he received fellowships from the Fulbright and Petra Foundations, as well as a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Bellarmine University. He is a published essayist and poet. Currently, he is writing his own book, Behind the Bard-Wire: Reflection, Responsibility, Redemption, & Forgiveness . . . The Transformative Power of Art, Theatre, and Shakespeare. From 1989-2008, he served as Producing Artistic Director of Kentucky Shakespeare Festival where he produced fifty Shakespeare productions, directed twenty-five Shakespeare productions, and acted in eight Shakespeare Productions.
Playing the romantic leads in Romeo + Juliet are HSRT newcomers, Nick Selting (Laramie, WY) as Romeo and Celeste Rose (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA) as Juliet. Other notable characters include the couple's confidants, Friar Laurence and the Nurse, played by Joseph Byrd (Holland, MI) and Anita "Jo" Lenhart (Memphis, TN). Mercutio and Tybalt who create most of the play's turbulence are played by Darnell Pierre Benjamin (St. Martinville, LA) and Chris Alexey (Orlando, FL) respectively. Other notable characters include Chip Duford (Flint, MI)*AEA and Kate Thomsen (Holland, MI) as Lord and Lady Capulet; Glenn Forbes (Ada, MI) and Lauren Ezzo (Haslett, MI) as Lord and Lady Montaugue; and Russell Jonas (Dallas, TX)*AEA as Prince Escalus.
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My Health Record security backlash sees thousands opting out
PRIVACY implications and fears of security breaches are driving thousands of Australians to opt out of the My Health Record national data base.
As doctors also threaten to boycott the scheme over patient privacy concerns, Australian Medical Association president Tony Bartone has announced he will have urgent face-to-face talks with Health Minister Greg Hunt next week to gain assurances that the government would take further steps to ensure the privacy and security of patient records.
Members of the public have until October 15 to opt out or have a record automatically created for them on a national database available to thousands of medical practitioners.
A MHR is an online summary of a person's health record that allows information to be shared between healthcare providers like GPs, specialists, hospitals and pharmacists.
It will immediately contain two years worth of Medicare and PBS records. Other information can then be added by the record holder or healthcare providers, including medical conditions, medications, test results and documents like advanced care directives.
New clinical information will be uploaded to a patient's record unless they request otherwise.
Patients can also control some privacy aspects using a variety of access codes. They can also opt out at any time but the information on their record will be remain stored and available in the system for 30 years after their death.
MHR data will also be made available to researchers and for public health purposes unless the patient changes the privacy settings on their record.
MHRs have been voluntarily available since 2012 but less than six million people have so far opted in.
Dr Bartone said there had been in groundswell of concern from AMA members, the broader medical profession and the public about the 2012 legislation framing the My Health Record, particularly Section 70, which deals with the disclosure of health information for law enforcement purposes.
Mr Hunt has said that that no documents would be released to law enforcement agencies by the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) without a court order.
However privacy experts have expressed concern about the wording of Section 70 which appears to allow the ADHA to provide a patient's MHR details to law enforcement agencies and the tax department.
Since the opt out period began some people have also complained that they have already had a record created for them without their knowledge.
During an opt out trial in the Blue Mountains and Northern Queensland last year just 1.9 per cent of people opted out of the scheme which privacy advocates says was poorly promoted.
In contrast, it's estimated that 20,000 Australians opted out on day one of the current opt out period, July 16, with many more rejecting the system since then.
At present 12,860 healthcare professional organisations are connected to the system including general practices, hospitals, pharmacies, diagnostic imaging and pathology practices.
Liberal MP and former Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson recently revealed he had opted out and called for the system to be voluntary opt in.
Former AMA president Dr Kerryn Phelps has also called for a re-drafting of legislation to provide further safeguards for sensitive patient information.
Privacy concern have been echoed by the Australian Council of Social Services which said that while My Health Record had the potential to deliver better coordinated care and allow people more control over their health information, the My Health Records Act 2012 "failed to adequately protect the use of a person's health information and is out of step with community expectations of privacy".
ACOSS Chief Executive Dr. Cassandra Goldie said, "The promise of My Health Record is a system that will enable people to control their own health information and facilitate better coordinated care.
"However, it has become clear that the My Health Records Act currently allows the system operator, the Australian Digital Health Agency, to use or disclose information for a range of reasons completely unrelated to a person's health. This is clearly unacceptable and of major concern.
"ACOSS is particularly concerned that the legislation specifically allows the Federal Government to use My Health Records to "protect public revenue". This could result in the release of My Health Record data to government agencies in a range of circumstances unrelated to a person's health, including social security, tax and the criminal justice system. This should only be done either with the person's express consent, or by court order or subpoena.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has called for the opt out period to be suspended until privacy concerns had been addressed.
Managing a MHR requires a level of digital literacy and access, which concerns seniors' advocates.
Eliza Littleton from the Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association is worried that people without access to the internet or with poor digital literacy, such as some elderly people, won't be able to exercise control of the information on their record.
The security of data is a major issue with some Australians.
The Australian Information Commissioner investigated a number of cases of unauthorised access of MHRs in 2016-17.
Only last week hackers stole personal data belonging to some 1.5 million people, or about a quarter of the population, from the Singapore health database.
Last year the British NHS was hit by a crippling cyber ransomware attack called WannaCry.
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Many health experts around the country continue to promote MHRs saying the can "save lives".
Australia's peak body for rural and remote health urges country people to embrace the system.
"Simply put, My Health Record can save lives," said National Rural Health Alliance chief executive Mark Diamond.
"Australians living in rural and remote areas are more likely to end up in an emergency department from a heart attack, car accident or diabetic coma.
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Mr Diamond said country people were 25 per cent more likely to suffer from coronary heart disease, 40 per cent more likely to die from diabetes, and five times as likely to die from a road accident in remote areas.
"A My Health Record means that all your important information is at the fingertips of your doctor, nurse or surgeon," he said.
Replying to privacy risks, Mr Diamond said the alliance was satisfied the Australian Digital Health Agency was using the "most robust security measures to safeguard people's health records".
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Movie Magic Espresso, in business for 14 years, will close Sept. 30.
Owner Jackie Merrill recently announced her decision to close the espresso drive-through business and café and is now working for Bank of America, a job that she says offers an ideal schedule, benefits and flexibility for her and her family.
The issue of job security played a large role in her decision to move on, she said, as the Movie Magic building has been for sale for the past year, and if it sells, she might have had to relocate and begin anew somewhere else.
"It seemed like the right time to step out," she said.
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"This has been a difficult choice to make, but one that is for the benefit of my kids and their future," she said recently. "They have grown up watching what it takes to run a business and the commitment involved, and they sense that Mom will be a little less stressed at the end of the day."
Merrill noted that she is hoping for the same outcome as at the Vashon Tea Shop, which changed hands earlier this year, when Elizabeth "Boo" Dinan-Slack bought the business from Beng-Imm Low, who had planned to close if a buyer did not appear.
If a buyer for her business steps forward between now and the end of September, Merrill said she would help make the transition as smooth as possible.
"I would work with the party to show them the ropes," she said. "I would be willing to pass the torch."
The business is listed with Susan Lofland at John L. Scott for $20,000, and the building itself is listed there with Ken Zaglin at a recently reduced price, $349,000.
If no owner steps forward, Merrill said, she will sell off all the pieces of equipment in October by listing them either on eBay or Craigslist.
In the meantime, Merrill is working both at Movie Magic Espresso and the bank, where she said she expects to see her former customers frequently.
"I'll probably be doing the drive-through," she said. "I'm sure a lot of people will wish I could serve their coffee, too."
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When I was in high school, my home-away-from-home was a coffee shop called Circle Moon. It was in an adorable Victorian house, played excellent music and was a great place to hang out with my friends. It closed in my senior year. I was heartbroken.
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Atlas was ground zero for so many community events in Boulder. It was the home of Boulder Open Coffee Club (#BOCC), where people packed the shop every other Tuesday to talk tech and anything else that came to mind. Last Thanksgiving, Atlas hosted a gathering for people who didn't have family members in Boulder. They set up tons of power strips during Boulder Startup Week so we could charge our phones that had been drained from livetweeting sessions all day.
I spent countless hours at Atlas, writing papers, writing this very column, reading books and trying to cure my hangovers with some peppermint tea. The chalkboards were covered in beautiful pieces of art, as well as announcements of community events, people looking for roommates, and jokes about luggage combos.
Atlas is a true community. Every time people wanted to meet up, it wasn't "let's get coffee" — it was "let's get Atlas." I don't have enough fingers or toes to count the friends I've made there, the amazing ideas that were hatched there, the number of soul-rocking hugs I've gotten there.
The community that surrounds Atlas — including people sharing their passion for the shop on social media — is what drew me to community management in the first place. Through Atlas, I found my very first post-college job, discovered new music, learned people's incredible stories and ate more bagels than anyone probably ever should.
Boulder nerds are losing an amazing place this week, but I hope and believe we can keep the community alive. Take some time this week to swing by the shop, grab one more cuppa and say thanks to Chris, who has given Boulder an incredible gift the last four years.
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ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is easy to configure, can cope with dynamic IP addresses, and supports IPv6, SSL-protected connections as well as PAM for authentication. It is written from scratch and not based on the original IRCd.
The name ngIRCd means next generation IRC daemon, which is a little bit exaggerated: lightweight Internet Relay Chat server most probably would have been a better name :-)
Why you should be using ngIRCd? For these and other reasons:
- well arranged (lean) configuration file
- simple to build/install, configure and maintain
- supports IPv6 and SSL
- no problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses
- freely available, modern, portable and tidy C-source
- ngIRCd is being actively developed since 19 years
ngircd --help
ngIRCd supports a whole range of platforms: Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, but ngIRCd also runs on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and other Unices.
After the installation of ngIRCd, which is executed via packet installation or configure-make-make-install, and once you have edited the ngircd.conf, you can get started after 5 minutes – only a few lines need adapting, the rest is purely optional.


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Svetlana Kuznetsova took another step forward in her comeback from a right knee injury.
Kuznetsova beat Andrea Hlavackova of the Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-1, in Wednesday's opening round of the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
Kuznetsova, twice a Grand Slam champion and two times a runner-up in this $10 million event, did not play following Wimbledon last season due to the injury and the former world No. 2 was ranked No. 85 on January 6. She is No. 46 now thanks in large part to quarterfinal showings at Sydney, Australia, and in the Australian Open and can continue her climb with a win over No. 18 Jelena Jankovic in the second round.
"I haven't played her for years and it's going to be a very interesting match," said Kuznetsova, a Russian who is living in Dubai. "I remember that her down-the-line backhand was quite good and normally her movement was good, but I haven't seen her play for a while, so we'll see how it goes.
"I'm happy to be back on the court, this is the main thing. Every day I just try the best I can and things are coming along pretty well. I feel really balanced within myself, which is important. I actually have my dog here in Indian Wells, which is great! I'm a happy person, I do my favorite job and we're here in this nice place with a lovely view and great weather. I think it's everything we need!"
Vania King, 24, started well by winning a first-set tiebreaker from Silvia Soler-Espinosa of Spain, but the Spanish Olympian rolled through the next two sets for a 6-7 (7), 6-2, 6-1 win. Lauren Davis, a 19-year-old Floridian, was a 6-2, 6-0 loser to 21-year-old Simona Halep of Romania.
Francesca Schiavone of Italy, the 2010 French Open champion, also moved into the second round with a 7-5, 6-1 win over countrywoman Flavia Pennetta and will take on No. 2 seed Maria Sharapova next.
Opening day was a mixed bag for the Americans in action. Wild card Maria Sanchez, a former University of Southern California star who is working with Chris Evert, was a 6-3, 6-3 winner over Olga Puchkova of Russia and Mallory Burdette, a 22-year-old qualifier from Macon, Ga., toppled another American, 38-year-old Jill Craybas, 6-3, 6-1. Vania King, 24, started well by winning a first-set tiebreaker from Silvia Soler-Espinosa of Spain, but the Spanish Olympian rolled through the next two sets for a 6-7 (7), 6-2, 6-1 win.
Ksenia Pervak of Kazakhstan, No. 93, sprang the first upset of the tournament by toppling Nol. 42 Jie Zheng of China, 6-1, 6-2. Johanna Larson of Sweden, Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa and Olga Govortsova of Belarus were other first day winners.
The women's first round continues and the men's first round gets underway Thursday. All 32 seeded players in both the men's and women's fields have opening round byes.
Victoria Azarenka and Novak Djokovic are the reigning champions. Djokovic, a perfect 12-0 this year, is seeking his third straight Indian Wells title.


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|This article is written from a
Real World perspective.
|Tricia Janine Helfer
|Date of birth
|April 11, 1974
|Place of birth
|Donalda, Alberta, Canada
|Voice of the Grid
Tricia Helfer is a Canadian model and actress best known for playing the humanoid Cylon Number Six in Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series. She voices the Grid in TRON: Uprising.
Helfer was born in the rural community of Donalda in Stettler County, Alberta. She was raised by Dennis and Elaine Helfer on the family's grain farm with her sister Tammy, and was discovered by modeling agency scout Kelly Streit at age 17 while standing in line at a local movie theatre. Helfer is of German, English, Swedish and Norwegian descent.
Helfer has a long and successful career in modeling, including her 1992 winning of Ford Models' Supermodel of the World Contest, appearing in ad campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Versace, Chanel, and Giorgio Armani, and walking or top fashion shows such as Carolina Herrera, Christian Dior, Claude Montana, Givenchy, John Galliano, and Dolce & Gabbana. She retired from modeling in 2002, and later hosted Canada's Next Top Model.
She relocated to Los Angeles in 2002 to pursue a full-time film career, and her first acting assignment was a co-starring role as Sarah on the television series Jeremiah. She has appeared in CSI, Supernatural, Criminal Minds, and other shows, including a recurring role on Two and a Half Men. She has also had a number of major video game voice roles in such games as Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Halo 3: ODST, Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat X (replacing Dana Lynn Baron), and the StarCraft and Mass Effect series.
Personal LifeEdit
During an interview in 2012 she confirmed that she had dated Sylvester Stallone when she was 18. She is married to Johnathan Marshall, a lawyer whom she met at a mutual friend's birthday party.
She has four artificial discs in her back and two in her neck, resulting from an incident in which a piece of luggage was dropped on her head while sitting on a commercial airliner, and two in her lower back from mishaps while doing her own stunts.
She co-founded the charity web site "Acting Outlaws" with Katee Sackhoff, which is open for donations for different causes and charity events. She is also involved in different charity events, from animal rescue to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.


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The Naval shipyard is on lockdown as police actively search for a man who opened fired in a building inside the headquarters Washington Navy Yard. The Navy has confirmed that at least 10 people were injured in the shooting that occurred about 8:20 a.m. on Monday. At least one DC metropolitan police officer and another law enforcement officer were injured. The suspect is reportedly a black male and he is barricaded in a building. Initially people were evacuated following the shooting, but now people are being asked to shelter in place. The headquarters is home to about 3,000 employees. The Navy has not confirmed that there have been fatalities in the shooting.
The shooting has disrupted traffic in the area as several roads and bridges have been shutdown.


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Will Tumblr's New Terms Of Service Finally Lead To The De-Stupidifying Of Terms Of Service?
from the that-would-be-nice deptLate last week there was some buzzing over Tumblr's new Terms of Service, which some noted had some amusingly plain language explanations in them, resulting in a bit of news coverage. Having gone through the process of creating terms of service with lawyers before, I'm somewhat jaded on the subject -- even though I thought we had pretty good lawyers who worked with us. The problem, however, is that terms of service, like contracts, are often defined by very specific things that have gone wrong in the past, and the lawyers make their money in trying to keep such things from going wrong in the future. Their job isn't to make your terms fun and friendly, but rather to protect you from getting into legal trouble. We had even suggested doing a "human readable" terms of service to go with the legalese and were warned not to do so -- as it could create problems later on if the human readable section and the legal section were somehow determined to disagree.
Tumblr has apparently decided to take that chance, and some of the quotes that are getting attention are actually from those "human readable" explanations. Such as this little tidbit:
You have to be at least 13 years old to use Tumblr. We're serious: it's a hard rule, based on U.S. federal and state legislation, even if you're 12.9 years old. If you're younger than 13, don't use Tumblr. Ask your parents for an Xbox or try books.Thing is, that's not really in the "terms" itself, but in a call out explaining the actual terms, which are a bit more legal (though really not too bad). There are also other fun tidbits in the human readable explanations, like:
Don't do bad things to Tumblr or other users. Some particularly egregious examples of automated "bad things" are listed in this section.One other nice thing in the human readable section deals with the part of most services terms that confuses the hell out of people and often leads to unnecessary freakouts is the license to the site, which is basically just saying you can't upload stuff to a site and then sue them for displaying it. People often misinterpret this clause such that they think it means you're giving the site your intellectual property rights and/or that they're going to go off and sell you stuff. Tumblr directly addresses this by first making it clear you retain rights to whatever, but then also saying:
When you upload your creations to Tumblr, you grant us a license to make that content available in the ways you'd expect from using our services (for example, via your blog, RSS, the Tumblr Dashboard, etc.). We never want to do anything with your content that surprises you.It's definitely nice to explain this so clearly, since it's clearly a point where some people go completely crazy in misunderstanding what's being said.
Something else worth noting: Countless Tumblr blogs have gone on to spawn books, films, albums, brands, and more. We're thrilled to offer our support as a platform for our creators, and we'd never claim to be entitled to royalties or reimbursement for the success of what you've created. It's your work, and we're proud to be a part (however small) of what you accomplish.
Also, I note, with interest, that it appears that Tumblr has also removed the indemnification clause that is so standard in pretty much any terms of service. I think this is a good move. These things have become totally standard, but I'm curious if anyone can name a single time that an internet service provider invoked the indemnity clause when getting sued? What service provider would actually do that? It would almost certainly turn against them and freak out other users.
The press coverage is also highlighting a few other funny clauses... but those aren't actually in the terms of service, but rather the "community guidelines" which don't need to be nearly as legally relevant. I'll point out a few, but note that funny/human readable community guidelines really aren't that crazy an idea, but Tumblr's guidelines definitely are pretty good. A few amusing tidbits:
- Uploading Sexually Explicit Video. You can embed anything as long as it follows the other guidelines on this page. But please don't use Tumblr's Upload Video feature to host any sexually explicit videos. We're not in the business of profiting from adult-oriented videos and hosting this stuff is fucking expensive. You can use services like xHamster to host those instead.
- Impersonation, Stalking, or Harassment. Treat the community the way you'd like to be treated. Don't attempt to circumvent the Block feature. If you want to parody or ridicule a public figure (and who doesn't?), don't try to trick readers into thinking you are actually that public figure.
- Don't post content that violates anyone's privacy, including personally identifying or confidential information like credit card numbers, social security numbers, unlisted contact information, or private photos of your ex's junk (no matter how attractive).
That said, after seeing a couple stories about the new terms before reading them, I expected the terms to be a lot more human readable than they really were. This, once again, likely highlights my experience with lawyers five or so years ago when I went through this process. There really is only so much you can do. Still, this leads to two thoughts. First, just the fact that Tumblr is getting some attention for this makes me wonder if others will now strive for similar (or, better yet, great) simplicity in their terms and policies. That would be a nice and beneficial trend.
The second though is one I've brought up in the past as well: all this really does is highlight just how useless terms of service are in general. Even in a case like this where they're "more readable" most people aren't actually reading them or caring about them. And yet, for legal reasons, every site feels the need to have one (same with privacy policies). All these things really are designed to do is to provide legal coverage, but they do absolutely nothing to actually benefit users. When you have to do things to satisfy legal requirements which don't actually benefit users, it's a total waste of resources.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Cate Blanchett!
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"Less is the funniest, smartest and most humane novel I've read since Tom Rachman's 2010 debut, The Imperfectionists....Greer writes sentences of arresting lyricism and beauty. His metaphors come at you like fireflies....Like Arthur, Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful."
—New York Times Book Review
"Greer is an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with
sharp poignancy.... Brilliantly funny.... Greer's narration, so
elegantly laced with wit, cradles the story of a man who loses
everything: his lover, his suitcase, his beard, his dignity."—Ron Charles, Washington Post
"Greer's novel is philosophical, poignant, funny and wise, filled with unexpected turns....Although Greer is gifted and subtle in comic moments, he's just as adept at ruminating on the deeper stuff. His protagonist grapples with aging, loneliness, creativity, grief, self-pity and more."—San Francisco Chronicle
"I recommend it with my whole heart."
—Ann Patchett
"A piquantly funny fifth novel."
—Entertainment Weekly
"Greer, the author of wonderful, heartfelt novels including The Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells and The Story of a Marriage, shows he has another powerful weapon in his arsenal: comedy. And who doesn't need a laugh right about now?"—Miami Herald
"Greer elevates Less' picaresque journey into a wise and witty novel. This is no Eat, Pray Love story of touristic uplift, but rather a grand travelogue of foibles, humiliations and self-deprecation, ending in joy, and a dollop of self-knowledge."—National Book Review
"Dressed in his trademark blue suit, Less adorably butchers the German language, nearly falls in love in Paris, celebrates his birthday in the desert and, somewhere along the way, discovers something new and fragile about the passing of time, about the coming and going of love, and what it means to be the fool of your own narrative. It's nothing less than wonderful."—Book Page
"Greer's evocations of the places Arthur visits offer zesty travelogue pleasures"—Seattle Times
"Less is perhaps Greer's finest yet.... A comic yet moving picture of an American abroad.... Less is a wondrous achievement, deserving an even larger audience than Greer's bestselling The Confessions of Max Tivoli."
—Booklist, starred review
"Treat yourself to this book. I missed subway stops. I doubled over in laughter. I experienced more pure reading pleasure than I had in ages. It is hilarious, and wise, and abundantly fun."—Adam Haslett, author of Imagine Me Gone
"I adore this book. It's funny, piquant, bittersweet and so achingly observant about the vanity of writers that it made me squirm in recognition. I'll probably read it again very soon."
—Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City
"Marvelously, unexpectedly, endearingly funny. A love story focused on the erroneous belief that the second half of life will pale in comparison to the first. Guess what? It won't!"—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad Love Story
"The most deftly funny romantic comedy I've read in years. If you have a sentimental bone in your body (I have 206), the ending will make you sob little tears of joy."—Nell Zink, author of Mislaid and Nicotine
"A fast and rocketing read with everything I want from a story--moments of high humor, moments of genuine wisdom, sharp insights and gorgeous images. A wonderful, wonderful book!"
—Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves


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Vic Bradshaw was doing research on Charlottesville's top television station, WVIR Channel 29. Not knowing the station's website, he typed in wvir.com and suddenly found himself facing supersluts.com.
"It was a whiplash kind of thing," says Bradshaw. "I went, whoa, and looked over my shoulder to make sure no one in my office saw it. I reduced the screen and covered it up. I didn't want management to think I was visiting porn sites."
WVIR isn't the only local business that's had its name appended to a porno site or that's being held by cybersquatters. Unlike some of the others, though, WVIR's case was the result of revenge.
WVIR is owned by Waterman Broadcasting in Fort Myers, Florida. Waterman also owns WBBH there, where James Parish says he was a dedicated employee for 13 years, working as a broadcast engineer, even creating WBBH's information systems department.
One day, he came to work and found a new guy sitting at his desk, using his computer. His belongings had been moved to a cart. "They get a lot of resumes from people who work at half my salary," Parish speculates about the treatment that led him to quit.
"I was run out of town on a rail," is how he describes his departure. "On my way out, I thought I'd register WBBH.com and WVIR," he says. He registered both names in 1997.
So how did supersluts.com come into the picture? Parish claims he was unaware of what was on the site because he turned over operation of the domain names to "a guy in Canada to get it out of the country." He says he thought the site would be used for e-commerce, and indeed, by last week, following Parish's chat with The Hook, wvir.com was directing visitors to www.nukezone.com which promises "high speed hosting at affordable prices."
As for how Parish could end up owning WVIR and WBBH's call letters, he says FCC call letters aren't a registered trademark, as, for example, Nike is.
Intellectual property lawyer Chris Keeney disagrees. He thinks WVIR and WBBH would have a good argument for a cause of action under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. "There's bad faith all over the place here," Keeney adds.
WVIR general manager Harold Wright did not return The Hook's phone call. Down in Florida, WBBH doesn't seem too concerned about the station's former connection with supersluts.com, and station management offers no plans to try to wrest the wbbh.com domain name back.
"I don't think they want to dignify the man who owns it with a response," says Matt Bernaldo, executive producer of online news. Besides that, Bernaldo says, the station is better known as NBC-2 than WBBH, so the station's website is nbc-2.com.
But what if hapless viewers stumble onto supersluts.com? "It comes up about once a year," says Bernaldo. "We're in good company. The White House is also a porn site."
Indeed, whitehouse.com is the classic example of a well-known, non-trademarked name co-opted by porn purveyors.
WVIR isn't the only local business with a domain name that leads to an unsavory location. Cvilletimes.com was a short-lived e-zine in 2000. Today, visitors are directed to a site that warns, "The domain you were looking for has expired from the previous owners, [and] now has been purchased by an adult company."
"It's not technically a porn site; it's an entrance to one," says Toby Reiter, a web developer for Breezing Internet Communications, which had owned the domain name. "We're upset about it, but there's nothing we could do."
Reiter says cvilletimes.com was registered to an employee who is no longer with the company. "We couldn't renew it because it had to be renewed through the email address it was registered through."
There are companies out there just waiting for a registration to lapse, or that register thousands of well-known names or phrases at a time. "A porn site wants all the traffic it can get," explains Reiter.
For those who have been squatted upon, there may be some recourse. The University of North Carolina just won back the domain name UNCGirls.com, which had been– you guessed it– a porn site. A federal court ruled that ordered the pornographers to pay the University $325,521 in damages and legal fees.
Another option is the World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO, which was founded to resolve disputes over domain names.
One local example of cybersquatting is shannonworrell.com, in which the name of a well-known musician is owned by DomainStrategy.com. One local web developer calls it extortion, as in, "You can buy this site back."
Another is charlottesville.com. It leads to "fine gifts from BroderickCom," which doesn't offer a shred of information about Charlottesville– but does offer a sterling silver bracelet with an engravable heart for $49.95.
The site's owner, John Broderick, registered a bunch of city names, like topeka.com, northdallas.com, and grandrapids.com, in early 1998 to sell his so-called "fine gifts." (Disclosure: The Hook editor has twice offered to buy Charlottesville.com.)
Cavalier.com is under development, and the site hints its name could be for sale. Meanwhile, it offers insurance quotes and an entrance to adult content.
Want to see if Dave Matthews Band manager Coran Capshaw's Redlight companies have a website? Visitors who type in redlight.com find themselves on a site boasting "absolute filth since 1996," and promising "every perversion imaginable." No apparent connection to Capshaw.
And suppose you want to know who's playing at the local sushi bar/nightclub tonight. Don't try the obvious tokyorose.com, which goes to an Asian porn site with "uncensored Japanese hardcore."
One likely domain name for a porn site would be, well, thehook.com. But no such luck. That site is under development, and doesn't link to juicy porno sites or even juicy weekly newspapers with articles about porno websites.