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Raider wrestling team takes second in region; seven to state
Raider wrestling finished second in the Region 2 Wrestling Tournament last Friday and Saturday at Reardan High School.
Lake Roosevelt scored 158 points to finish 10 points behind champion Liberty Bell. Of the 12 wrestlers present, the Raiders will send seven to compete at next weekend's state tournament in Tacoma, with two more qualifying as alternates.
Head Coach Steve Hood said the regional meet was a "very successful" tournament at which Raiders were either in first or challenging for first all day.
At 106 pounds, two LR competitors wrestled at Reardan — Jacob Smith and Zack Erickson. Smith started off with a pin of Matthias Ferderer of Lind-Ritzville/Sprague. Next, he faced eventual regional champion Trent Skelton, losing by first-round pin. Smith rebounded against his teammate Erickson to face Smith of Oroville, who pinned him in the third round. For his final match Smith lost to Austin Stauffer of Davenport in overtime by pin. At sixth place, Jacob Smith will travel to Tacoma as an alternate.
Erickson wrestled a close match to start the day against Kyle Ritz of LRS, losing 11-15, but then pinned Issac Bobb of White Swan in just 59 seconds. Erickson faced off against teammate Smith, who won by second-round pin.
Oscar Pakootas and James Monaghan will both move on to state at 120, as they finished fourth and fifth respectively. Pakootas won his first two matches by pins before facing the always-tough Taylor Woodruff of Liberty Bell. After the loss, Pakootas took teammate Monaghan and won 10-2. Then he went up against Marin of Kittitas, losing 6-3 to take fourth.
Monaghan also started with a win against Tyson Rogers of Colfax, then lost to eventual champion Osburn of Mary Walker. Monaghan bounced back with two wins over Martin of White Swan and Gleason of Kittitas before facing teammate Pakootas. After the loss, Monaghan took fifth in the region, beating Askins of Garfield-Palouse, the number-one seed from the South. Askins also lost to Pakootas, who came from behind in the second round to pin him.
Coltin Williams had been sick all week and was sick the day of the tourney. But he insisted on competing and had a good showing at 126. Williams took his first match but then lost a tough-fought match to Kaleb Hafner of Liberty-Spangle. Williams rebounded, winning his next two matches before falling to Carlos Cruz of Pateros. Williams was not well enough to continue through the match for fifth place. With his sixth-place finish, Williams will go to state as alternate at 126.
Josh Jim, at 132, wrestled hard.
"Josh got some good postseason experience for a freshman," Hood noted. "He has improved all season long and will be better prepared next season."
At 138, Kodie Horn went on a hot streak, blowing through the early competition. Horn pinned the number-two from the South B League, Thomas Newton of St. John-Endicott. In a rematch against Jon Walling of Kittitas, Horn came away the victor, 8-3. Then in the finals match against Emery Maupin of Selkirk, in Coach Hood's words, "He got thrown to his back and could not get out again." Horn finished second at 138 and will move on to state.
Orrin Gross dominated the 145 bracket sweeping the field by pins. His best match came in the finals against Keanu Niezwaag of LRS. Niezwaag led until the third round when Gross fought back to tie, then take a 9-7 lead, until finally Gross pinned him with only 11 seconds left in the match. Gross is the Region 2 145-pound champion and is now poised to take home his second state medal this weekend.
Newcomer Jordan Allen faced a stiff competitor right out of the gate at 170 and had to fight for survival afterward. Allen rose to the challenge in his second match, beating Nanez of White Swan to set up a match against John Hylden of Tri-City Prep, to whom he lost 2-1.
Sean Waters made easy work of his first two matches at 182. Waters pinned Evan Lord of Colfax and defeated Ean Hobbs of Almira/Coulee-Hartline 5-1 before his rematch with Garet Sax of Selkirk. Sax got the better of Waters, who was unable to score and took a second-place medal. This weekend at state will be the last chance Waters will get to defeat Sax.
Andrew McClure started the day at 220 with a win over Giovanni Rojas of White Swan by pin. Then after losing to eventual champion Reisdorph of Pomeroy and Klingensmith of Republic, McClure was in the do-or-die, fifth-sixth-place match. McClure decided that Saturday would not be the last day of his season, by pinning Reed Morgan of Kittitas in the first round and getting the 5th place medal. McClure, in his first season wrestling, will be wrestling at the Tacoma Dome for a state medal this weekend.
Octavio Alejandre has overcome a knee injury this season to compete for a state berth. Alejandre's hard work was rewarded last Saturday as he defeated Hawks of LRS and Acord of Liberty Bell on his way to a fourth-place finish.
Looking ahead to Matt Classic this weekend in Tacoma, the Raiders will be fine tuning at practice.
"We will study the competition's matches for adjustments and improvements we need to make in order to have our wrestlers ready to go at state," Hood said.
The team will get a state send off on Thursday morning in the LR gym at 9 a.m. Competition starts Friday at 10 a.m. and will finish Saturday night.


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Student selected as USA Ultimate player of the year
June 23, 2014
Collegiate Ultimate has evolved from a pickup game on the quad to a full-fledged sport known for spectacular leaps and a vibrant community. With Lewis & Clark's club team Bacchus, Will Shaw '15 has risen to the top of the game, earning the USA Ultimate Division III offensive player of the year award.
Shaw practices for six to eight hours a week with Bacchus, while staying on top of his biology and computer science classes. Whether in the lab or on the field, he values hard work and creative thinking.
"Ultimate is for the most part self-officiated, so being able to coherently express your opinion of a foul call is helpful," Shaw said. "I've learned to observe other players and teams and methodically pick apart what they do well and what they do poorly, then apply that to my own game."
Shaw excels as a handler, the point guard of Ultimate. He scans the field, analyzes the defense, and tosses the disc right where his teammates need it. Though his long throws devastate defenses at anywhere from 50 to 70 yards, Shaw knows he needs more than that to score.
Said Shaw, "It takes cooperation and commitment from everyone on the field."
No partnership better demonstrates that fact than the duo of Shaw and teammate Ben Whitenack '16. The two will captain the Bacchus team next year, but already their chemistry frustrates any defense. Said teammate Sam Cooper, "The Will and Ben dual threat was on the same page at every practice, every tournament, every point."
Even during the off-season, Shaw lives the sport. In the fall he teaches skills to incoming first-year students, and in the summer he joins college graduates and University of Oregon stars on local club team, Portland Rhino.
"Will understands Ultimate Frisbee at a level far beyond other college players and tries to impart that wisdom onto his teammates," Cooper said. "The culture of dedication, teamwork, and camaraderie in Lewis & Clark Bacchus Ultimate has helped Will grow into an outstanding player."
Learn more about club sports in the article "The Club Scene at Lewis & Clark" from the Chronicle magazine.
Caleb Diehl '16 contributed to this story.

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- 1 cup jasmine rice
- 2 teaspoons unsalted butter
- 1 large clove garlic, finely chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 3 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 3 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 4 salmon fillets (4 ounces each), skin removed
- 1 teaspoon canola oil
- 2 packages (5 ounces each) baby spinach
- 2 teaspoons black sesame seeds
- Heat oven to 400°F. Cook rice as directed on package. In a small saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Sauté garlic and pepper flakes until garlic is lightly golden, 1 minute. Add syrup, juice and soy sauce; cook until bubbling, 3 minutes. In a bowl, combine cornstarch and 1 teaspoon water; stir into garlic glaze. Cook until slightly thick, 1 minute. Arrange fillets on a foil-lined baking sheet. Spread 1 teaspoon glaze over each fillet. Roast until just cooked through, 12 minutes. In a medium skillet, warm oil over medium heat. Add 1 package spinach; sauté until just wilted. Remove from pan; set aside. Repeat with second package spinach. Divide rice among 4 bowls; top each with 1/4 spinach and 1 salmon fillet, broken into large pieces. Drizzle with remaining sauce; sprinkle each with 1/2 teaspoon sesame seeds.
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The China We're Stuck WithNews Abroad
In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt spoke to a Chinese emissary of America's hope for a strong, stable, and prosperous China. He professed to believe that such a China would be in the interest of the United States. Vice President Walter Mondale repeated Roosevelt's words when he visited Beijing in 1979. In the early years of the new millennium, China has become strong, prosperous and reasonably stable—but many Americans are not so sure that's good for them or their country.
Apprehension about the future of Chinese-American relations derives only marginally from the fact that China remains a nominally communist country in which the Communist Party monopolizes power. Unlike the days of the Cold War, when Soviet nuclear power loomed over us, few Americans fear a Chinese attack on the United States or the spread of communism. They do fear, however, the possibility of China outstripping the United States, China as # 1 in economic power and global influence.
For the United States, China's recent surge has been a mixed blessing. For some years, China's purchase of US debt has kept the American economy afloat, enabling its people to buy and enjoy cheap Chinese goods. Similarly, China's economic growth has been the engine that drives the economies of its Asian neighbors. The boom years that much of the world enjoyed in the 1990s were in part a result of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms, of China's leap into the global marketplace. And however grudgingly, Beijing has moved toward acceptance of some international norms of behavior as evidenced by its role in the United Nations and in the World Trade Organization. But there are obvious caveats: American (and European) workers have lost jobs to lower paid Chinese workers and the undervalued Chinese currency has had a negative impact on the economies of the United States and the European Union.
Moreover, Chinese leaders share few Western values or priorities and there is little evidence of mutual trust between Beijing and Washington. Most recently, China has obstructed efforts to halt Iran's march toward becoming a nuclear power. It has done too little to help the international community in its efforts to end North Korea's nuclear threat and it has sustained vicious dictatorships in Burma, Sudan, and Zimbabwe
At home, its human rights record, much improved over the days of Mao Zedong, is nonetheless appalling—and trending toward becoming even worse. Not only dissidents, but lawyers who attempt to defend them and other victims of Chinese officialdom are subjected to beatings, torture, long imprisonments—and disappearances. Tibetans and less familiar minority groups such as the Uighers of Xinjiang are discriminated against in their own territories and often brutally repressed.
And then there is the issue of Taiwan. Within the intelligence community, the Taiwan Strait is frequently referred to as the most dangerous place in the world, the only spot where two nuclear armed Great Powers have confronted each other in the past—and might again. American presidents have interpreted the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 as a commitment to provide Taiwan with military equipment it requires for its defense. Each time Washington approves an arms sale to Taiwan, Beijing roars its disapproval—as it has in recent days. A defenseless Taiwan, without expectation of American intervention to protect it from the growing power of the People's Republic, would presumably be intimidated into surrendering its de facto independence and submitting to reunification with the mainland. The United States insists that reunification can only be achieved when the people of democratic Taiwan accept it without coercion—an event not likely to occur in the lifetime of anyone reading this.
Much of Beijing's current outrage with American policy toward Taiwan, with American sympathy for the Dalai Lama, is based upon the conviction that China is a rapidly rising power and the United States is in steep decline. Chinese leaders, perceiving a change in the correlation of forces in their favor, expect Washington to behave more deferentially. They probably don't expect the koutou, the prostrations and head-bangings that the emperors demanded of foreign visitors back in the days when China was on top of the world, but the rough equivalent—acceptance of Chinese values and priorities—would be welcome. Of late, American scholars and diplomats have been struck by the growing arrogance of their Chinese counterparts, lectures on the superiority of the Chinese model to the American model, the failure of American democracy, American economic profligacy, even on human rights in the United States. This will only get worse until we get our house in order, until we can demonstrate again that democracy works and that our economic system can provide jobs and a decent standard of living for all Americans.
The Chinese have been wrong before about America's decline, their analysts predicting it on the eve of the great expansion of American economic and military power in the 1990s. We can only hope to prove them wrong again—before they do much more harm to the international system. In the interim, our choices are very limited. China is too strong, too important to the world economy to be ignored or pressured into doing what we believe to be right. That leaves us with the unappealing policy of "engagement," to which Washington has ultimately turned under both Democratic and Republican administrations for decades. It means coexisting with a difficult, unsavory regime, relying on diplomacy to persuade Beijing that what we want is in its interest and accepting what little progress can be made.
Historically, China has overreached and self-destructed whenever it played the role of hegemonic power. The arrogance it currently exhibits suggests it is headed in that direction again. But it is not in the interests of the United States for China to collapse. It remains in our interest to have a strong, stable, and prosperous China. Optimally it would also be friendly and democratic. Don't hold your breath.
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Arnold Shcherban - 3/19/2010
The other point is the author's automatic stance on the Taiwan's side.
China does not threaten military interference nowadays,... unless Taiwan - part of China - declares its independence status effectively denying of being part of Chinese territory.
Every sovereign country in the world (the US, inclusive) would do the same in response to some part of its population deciding to declare sovereignty, despite the will of the majority.
It is interesting (and perhaps - telling) that the states of this country has no constitutional right of secession from the Union, the right that this country (the US), however, often ENFORCES on behalf of territories of some foreign countries, as allegedly being unequivocal, almost divine.
Double standards, as usual?
Arnold Shcherban - 3/19/2010
Well, Mr. Neilsen, your apprehensions
about growing Chinese economic and political clout may be well-taken, but I don't think that in the foreseeable future it can become as much threat to world's peace and stability and other countries' sovereignty and independence as the US has been in 20th century and continue to be now (especially in the Third World).
On the other hand, the developments in other fast-paced nations, such as India, Brazilia, and perhaps a couple more, might assure a certain cap on the Chinese arrogance, should it become more powerful than others, the mitigating circumstance that unfortunately(?) has come out of existence with the fall of the "Evil Empire".
omar ibrahim baker - 3/7/2010
I believe I was categorical why I believe the third World welcomes the advent of China; namely
- "for the confidence it imparts" that the third world is NOT doomed to remain what it is now :
underdeveloped, exploited by the West and poor
-" for the regression of American imperialism it entails."
I believe the whole world would, or should, welcome that having seen the outcome of an omnipotent, unchallenged and unchallengeable USA.
NO more of that if not in the immediate future then in the near future!
Lars Bjorn Nielsen - 3/6/2010
The real problem depends on Who You are, and what You want.
What I have have written is, that the upcome of china will fundamentally change the political balance in the world. But I have not said, whether this will be good or bad, because I do´nt know.
You however suggest, that the upcome of china will be good, because China is a third world country. But do You really believe, that third world countries have anything in commun except being poor ?
And now China is going to be rich, so why do You think, they will behave better than other rich countries. Because China is a oneparty state ? because it suppresses the inhabitants of Tibet and other minorities ?
Because, it will not allow thw peole of Taiwan to have their own state ?
Because thousands of criminals are executed in China each year ?
omar ibrahim baker - 3/5/2010
The real problem is with those that can NOT tolerate anybody bettering them in any domain.
That would encompass the West in general and the USA in particular.
Neither can grasp the fact that others can do better than them and , in the process, compell them to relinquish their world leading role.
The third world does heartily welcome such a development for the confidence it imparts and the for the regression of American imperialism it entails.
Lars Bjorn Nielsen - 3/5/2010
The real problem with China is, that it has according to the CIA factbook a GDP today about 60% of the USA measured by purchasing power (P.P), and an economic growth rate of roughly 10% p.a. The average growth rate of the U.S. is app. 3%
The average chinese income measured in P.P is 1/7 of the US.
It may thus take China 30-40 years to reach the average income of the US, and at that time, the chinese GDP will be 4 times that of the US.
China has a savings rate of more than 40%, which today allows it to invest about 300 billion dollars a year in foreign countries. In 30-40 years, this will maybe increase to 2.000 - 2.500 billion dollars a year.
Chinas GDP will probably exceed that of the US in only 10 years, and after that, China may very well achieve to be the main financial center of the world, because of its great savings rate. Probably, the Yuan will be as important as the dollar is today, and in years to come, chinese will be as important as english for businessmen.
And as the chinese GDP expands, China may very well build a navy greater than the US navy and challenge the US in aerospace.
The only country, which may equal China in 30-40 years will be India, but as Indias GDP is only 40% of Chinas, and its growth rate a little slower, India will probably not be a real match for China in the next 50-60 years.
Of course, everything depends on the ability of China to maintain its economic growth and political tability, and maybe China will remain a peacefull country living in harmony with the rest of the world, but even then, old superpowers as US, Russia (and the EU), must prepare for a new world order, where China (and India) will be the main power(s).
omar ibrahim baker - 3/1/2010
Is it NOT that the pertinent question about the future should be about the USA with which the whole World, including the American people, is stuck??
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Mumford & Sons Bassist Ted Dwane Undergoes Emergency Brain Surgery
The band cancels shows as doctors work to remove a blood clot on his brain
A blood clot on the brain of Mumford & Sons bassist Ted Dwane has forced the band to postpone three shows as his bandmates and scores of fans send him healing thoughts.
"Ted has been feeling unwell for a few days, and yesterday he was taken to a hospital to receive emergency treatment," reads a statement posted on the band's official website Tuesday.
"The scans revealed a blood clot on the surface of his brain that requires an operation. Ted is receiving excellent care and we are being assured that he will recover quickly from surgery."
The health scare has forced the band to postpone three concert dates this week, in Dallas, The Woodlands, Texas, and New Orleans, according to the site, which adds, "we have no plans to cancel or postpone any other appearances along this current tour."
The English folk rock band, which released their second album, Babel, last year, took home two Grammy awards in February, including a win for Album of the Year.
The band members expressed their devotion to Dwane at the end of their short statement. "We're all wishing Ted a speedy recovery. Much love, Mumford & Sons."


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Meet Irenic, a Tauren Druid. Irenic is a level 90, the new maximum a World of Warcraft character can reach. And Irenic did it without killing a single thing.
Sure, this sort of thing has been done before. But that was only to level 85. This is to level 90. That's five more levels of pacifism and what must surely be mind-numbing boredom.
They got there by "doing archaeology and gathering in Kalimdor". For twelve days.
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Post-Game (Exhibition Game 5)
Twinks 8, Reds 6 - 10 innings (Box Score)
- Carlos Gomez, now 2 for 8 this spring (.250), coaxed a lead-off walk from Jeremy Affeldt and stole third displaying his speed that even surprised the veteran lefty Affeldt. "I never came set in the first and still stole off me," Affeldt told the Cincinnati Enquirer. Second base candidate Alexi Casilla also added two stolen bases, his first off of Affeldt as well. As impressive as it is to swipe a base off of a left-hander underneath his nose, Affeldt does not have a pick-off recorded between 2004-2007 and in just 59 innings in 2007 he was ran on 7 times. Later, Casilla took 2nd again this time off of Scott Sauerbeck. All of the stolen bases were swindled from former Twin Javier Valentin, who threw out only 11% of potential base-stealers in 2007 down a significant amount from 47% in 2006.
- Defensively and on the basepaths, Gomez has certainly given himself the edge between he, Jason Pridie (.333) and Denard Span (.285) which may compensate for his offensive inadequacies. Of course, approximately 10 at-bats is too small of a microcosm to project to 450+ plate appearances. Therefore spring training you have to analyze the other details of a batter. In a previous blog, Joe Christensen noted that Gomez's swing in one game appeared "cartoonishly" big. Yesterday, Joe Vavra confirmed to Christensen that the Twins are also monitoring this: "You're thinking, 'How many swings can he make like that without breaking down?' " Vavra said. "Because he puts a tremendous amount of torque on his back, and if you do that too many times, boy. You try not to be so violent in your approach but try to be aggressive."
- In the past two games Twins second basemen have been victims of botched double-play balls. On Sunday, Nick Punto misplayed a Coco Crisp ball to allow Doug Mirabelli to advance to second. Monday, with one out and Norris Hopper on first, Casey Daigle induced a groundball out of Ken Griffey Jr however Brendan Harris had trouble making the transfer from his glove. Norris was able to advance to second leaving Harris's only play at first for Griffey Jr. Now with two outs the dangerous Adam Dunn came to the plate and knocked a base hit into center scoring Hopper from second with two outs. Admittedly, this is still spring but these kind of miscues will be detrimental to the team in the regular season.
- 29-year-old Randy Ruiz is putting together a decent spring hitting .375/.444/.750 with a home run and 6 total bases in 8 at-bats. Ruiz, for those unfamiliar with the ballplayer, is a modern day version of Crash Davis. It is hard to label him as a quadruple-A player considering he has only had 79 at-bats above double-A. Originally drafted by the Mets in 1996 with the 1068th pick overall, Ruiz opted to attend Bellevue Community College in Washington instead of signing (possibly because Ruiz is from the Bronx). In 1999 he signed as a nondrafted free agent with the Cincinnati Reds and played four years in their organization. Even though he hit .291/.371/.465 with 41 extra base hits (36.6% xbh%) split between A and high-A, the right-handed batting Ruiz never was promoted above high-A with the Reds and was released following that season. He was signed by the Orioles who sent him initially to class A Delmarva Shorebirds and then eventually to the high-A Fredrick Keys. Ruiz finished his 25-year-old season hitting .296/.395/.505 with 37 extra base hits (40.6% xbh%) yet Baltimore too released him. This musical teams continued on for Ruiz who, between 2004 and the end of 2007, was signed by seven teams in those four year. In the face of such adversity, lesser ballplayers might have been prone to calling it a career. In 2007 alone he was in the Pirates, Giants and Phillies organizations and finished hitting .293/.359/.511 with 55 extra base hits (39.5% xbh%). While with the Phillies last year, Ruiz was given his first taste of triple-A. The unfortunate part of Ruiz's career remains in the part that I quickly rushed over. In 2005 while in his first stint in the Phillies organization, Ruiz tested positive TWICE for performance enhancing drugs and was suspended for 45 games. Throughout that season, Ruiz had absolutely crushed the ball. In just 89 games, Ruiz hit 27 home runs (an ungodly 7.0% hr%) and batted .349/.405/.669. Furthermore, Ruiz could be considered the right-handed batting equivalent of Jack Cust - minus the obscene on-base percentage. Randy Ruiz's minor league career compares to that of Cust (in both performance enhancing accusations and statistics). Cust, who had his breakout season with Oakland last year at 29-years-old, hit .286/.428/.518 with 200 home runs (4.2% hr%) in 3,786 at-bats. Ruiz in his 3,228 minor league at-bats has hit .300/.370/.522 with 150 home runs (4.1%). If he remains clean (as he insists he was in 2005) and continues to punish the ball this spring, Ruiz could be another power-hitting right-handed bat the Twins will need at some point this season.


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ASIMO is a humanoid robot manufactured by Honda which is quite high tech and expensive gadget. You can hired out it for US $166,000 per year. However, as usual Linux provides you an opportunity to build your own robot. Linux-based robots are tricky to create, but Michael Surran's Robotics class found out it can be done:
Robots have been a passion of mine since I was a child, so imagine my excitement when I was given the opportunity to add a robotics class to our high school's computer curriculum! We recently celebrated our second year of offering robotics at Greater Houlton Christian Academy (GHCA), the school where I teach. During this time, we've produced three different robots, each based on a PC running Linux. We work with a tight budget, so we have to be creative in our design, use of materials and tools. This results in robots that any do-it-yourself hobbyist can build.
Though, this article doesn't give step-by-step instructions on how to build a DIY robot. It proivdes some getting started hints. Linux and robotics are a perfect combination!
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Lots of money-saving strategies involve cutting back, making sacrifices or hard choices. But when you change your eating habits, following these four strategies, it can actually help improve your health, well-being and even your family life.
This is not about using a few coupons -- there's a little more effort involved, but the payoff is worth it. You could even end up saving on medical costs as well, making a positive cascade across your entire life. This is the perfect New Year's resolution.
Eat out one less time a week.
In 2011, the most recent year for which statistics were available, American households spent an average of $6,458 on food. Of that, $2,620 was spent out to eat at restaurants and cafes -- more than $50 a week.
We know that meals eaten out tend to have larger portion sizes and be unhealthily high in calories, fat and salt, but Mark Bittman, columnist for the New York Times, points out that even fast food is more expensive than a home-cooked meal.
Dinner for four at McDonald's, including two Happy Meals, costs about $24, while a meal of beans and rice is just $9.
If your family ate out just one less time a week, you could save $780 a year.
Stop buying sweets and processed foods.
Shockingly, the largest single category of grocery store spending is processed foods and sweets -- soda, cookies, chips, ice cream, and all the rest of it. One in five of our grocery dollars -- about $844 annually on average -- goes to food that no one needs to eat.
So, cut back on these two categories and you'll be doing your body and your wallet a favor. If you're like me, however, it's easier said than done. Here are several strategies that have worked for my family.
Avoid the center of the grocery store and anything offered in the checkout line. Fill your cart with what is sold fresh and found around the edges of the store: produce, dairy, meats and bread.
Avoid products made with high-fructose corn syrup or partially hydrogenated fats -- the dreaded "trans fats."
Cut out items one at a time. Stock up on healthier alternatives, such as hummus and pita instead of tortilla chips; nuts and dried fruit instead of cookies; and Greek yogurt instead of ice cream.
Buy whole ingredients instead of processed foods. It's OK to have French fries or chocolate chip cookies once in awhile, as long as they're homemade. They'll be tastier, more satisfying and less expensive, as well as less expensive.
Eat in season.
Fruits and vegetables in season are at the peak of their tastiness and nutrition, and they're cheaper, too. It's usually easy to figure out what's in season by looking for what's on sale in the produce aisle. If you really want to commit to eating in season, locally and organic, you could consider a farm share, also known as community supported agriculture, or CSA. This is a deal where you pay a local farmer a fee up front and get a share of the harvest each week through the summer and fall. One study in Wisconsin showed that CSAs offered a significant value -- up to $144 a week, compared with the same amount of local, organic produce at a natural food store. And when your crisper is full of fresh vegetables, you'll have more motivation to cook healthy meals!
Buy in bulk the smart way.
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What: Brown algae (commonly referred to as seaweed) is used as a emollient (to soften and smooth skin), for anti-bacterial purposes and as an antioxidant. It is commonly found in skin care products such as toners, moisturizers, serums and treatments.
Algae's benefits include hydration, normalization of skin's moisture content, additional suppleness for the epidermis and detoxification of the skin. Amino acids in algae are thought to firm and renew tissue, while fatty acids fight against inflammation.
Algae are found in a wide variety of marine ecological niches including tidal splash zones, rock pools, the whole intertidal zone and relative deep near shore waters. Brown algae is specifically found in colder Northern Hemisphere waters (Wiki). They are multicellular, chlorophyll-containing plants and are the richest natural source of Iodine, Calcium, Iron, Silicon, Copper, Zinc and Selenium. There are over 20,000 different known species of algae.
Typical algae species used in cosmetic and skin care products include: Laminaria, Kelp (Laminaria, Porphyra, Ulva, Lactuca, and Ascophyllum).
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Substances extracted from brown algae marine may also protect against skin cancer caused by too much sun, new research suggests (Science Daily News).
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Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz is reteaming with his "Inglourious Basterds" writer-director, Quentin Tarantino, for a Western to be shot later this year in Italy and Spain, according to Ain't It Cool News.
Word of the project first broke via an interview Italian actor Franco Nero recently did with Movieplayer.
"The film will be called 'The Angel, The Bad And The Wise' and is a tribute to Sergio Leone. It's a movie that contains humor, lots of action, but also a great plot," Nero told the Italian movie site. "We have already been signed by a dozen people who will be part of project. Among the filmmakers involved include Quentin Tarantino, Keith Carradine, Treat Williams, fifteen people in all Americans who want to do this movie and so we are trying to produce it outside of Italy."
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The weird grammar is a result of bad machine translation, and not a shortcoming on Nero's part, the title, however is inexplicably wrong, according to AICN, who says they don't know what the title is, but have been assured it is nothing like "The Angel, The Bad And The Wise."
Waltz, who was one of the few good things about "The Green Hornet," can next be seen in "Water for Elephants," as an abusive animal trainer for a circus whose beautiful young wife, Reese Witherspoon, finds herself attracted to the a young veterinarian played by Robert Pattinson.
The Austrian actor took home the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2010 for his role as SS Colonel Hans Landa in Tarantino's WWII epic.


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Influencer Marketing - What it is, and Why YOU Need to be Doing itBlog Post: March 06, 2012
Hi Eric,
Fantastic blog. I liked the influence pyramid. While I agree that the impact on the influencer is most effective from the 1-2-1 to Meetups stage. The effect diminishes from Blogging stage and beyond. One reason could be difficulty in seperating the noise in blogging. There is too much content and create the desired impact would need more efforts than desired. At this stage, too many people would reaching out to the influencers at the same time. One solution I can think off is to create the impact in the 1-2-1 stage, but there are issues of drawing the line between stalking and marketing. There could also be communities who would have a "no to marketers" as entry And marketers need to watch out for these communities. The marketer has a lot of reputation stakes involved in the game of influencing. So picking the right bunch and understanding the fit of what you want and what is the influencer looking for is utmost.


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Hi forum,
We have a client and Server application, connects via Winsock.
The Setup:
My server is running on a Windows 2003 machine and my client is running on a windows XP
After exactly 1 hour, my client closes with the socket error param code = 10053
My server too errors out at the following line
result = WaitForMultipleObjects(object_count,wait_objects,FALSE,210000);
UNFORTUNATELY : I do not have a direct access to the machine and so cant debug the same.
The Above information I got is from our trace file
NOTE : This is failing in only one setup. we have 1000's of people usng our product in around 100's of these setup's including 2003 , 2008 xp windows 7 etc
This problem is only seen with one particular customer and he is able to reproduce it 100% of his time.
Search for the param 10053 reveals many causes, So can someone elaborate why is this happening only to one customer?
Thanks in anticipation
1. Event log doesnt reveal anything suspicious
2. When the customer installs the client in another windows 7 system with the server running on the same (Win 2003 system) this problem goes away.


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I'm Not Your Bro, Brah: The Internet's Beef With Gaybros
Shower beers, the Smashing Pumpkins and Kawasaki motorcycles aren't generally taboo topics for young men to discuss on the Internet, but one Reddit-based community has proved they can be kindling for a veritable Internet firestorm provided its members are gay.
Founded just over a year ago, the Boston-based Reddit group Gaybros has expanded across several social media platforms with its simple goals: building a brotherhood around shared interests, promoting self acceptance and bringing people together.
While the conversations the members gather around may be familiar, this expanding band of bros has effectively fragmented the opinions of those in the LGBT community over what it means to identify as a gay man in 2013.
Depending on who you ask, Gaybros may be giving voice to a new, controversial sexual identity centered around traditionally masculine - and straight - interests, or using "straight-acting male" subjects to offer a lighter, entry-level version of homosexuality - an identity that is breaking down existing categories and threatening the advances secured by those who subscribe to its more radical presentations.
These questions aside, it turns out that a sizable number of young gay men share the group's core interests (cars, video games, military issues, working out, gadgets, sports) and are choosing Gaybros as their outlet of choice for these activities.
The community, which had humble beginnings, has quickly gained the kind of publicity reserved for the blogosphere's latest buzz bands. To date, Gaybros has ballooned to more than 26,000 subscribers, 350,000 unique monthly visitors and 3.5 million page views. The group's notoriety has even spread to Canada and a lesbian offshoot group - dubbed lezbros - recently garnered media attention.
In spite of Gaybros' far-reaching implications, the community's roots are in Boston, a city that Alex DeLuca, the group's 23-year-old founder, calls "the perfect place" to foster a group like Gaybros.
"It's at the forefront of the gay rights movement, with Massachusetts being the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, but also has a very deep connection to sports," he told EDGE in an email.
The Controversy
Sociologist Dr. Kassia Wosick, an author and professor who teaches sexualities courses at New Mexico State University's Department of Sociology, goes one step further, suggesting that the emergence of Gaybros in Boston, a city outside one of the LGBT community's historically relevant urban enclaves, represents something more: a broader evolution of gay identity across America that allows for more flexibility and less radicalization. In other words, a brand of homosexuality that is more likely to surface in places where normative male activities are more common like North Dakota, Wisconsin and Boston.
"There's so much normativity in [traditional gay] communities that has been based on active resistance to normative hetero masculinity," she told EDGE. "I'm not surprised that here you have a community that has based its identity on subverting these dominant [gay] norms."
Still, Boston residents aren't exactly known for their sensitivity toward any minority groups. After all, this is the place that Gawker has speculated is "the most racist city in America."
DeLuca says the group has never encountered any negative reactions at Gaybros' events, however, but he seems to acknowledge the possibilities that are inherent in a city like Boston, saying "In that way, we are very lucky."
Following a round of publicity from high-profile media outlets like HuffPost Live and Slate, a debate over what Gaybros says about sexual orientation and gender identification in the 21st century began in earnest.
So far, the conversation isn't so much about what the gaybros are doing, but who they say they are as individuals and what that says for the larger LGBT community and that some fear is becoming increasingly compartmentalized - and less homogenized - by labels like "gaybro." The term's Urban Dictionary definition isn't exactly sympathetic as it paints gaybros as members of the gay community who "have no gay friends because they can't relate to other gay people."
Slate's J. Bryan Lowder, in his profile, seemed split on the matter, once decrying the group for "asserting their supposed masculinity as a power play against more effeminate gays" while acknowledging that the community has the "potential as a lively new model for engaging with issues like coming-out, political correctness [and] community-building."
Wosick sympathizes with these more impassioned, sometimes contradictory reactions, noting that for older members of the gay community, more restrictive labels have been a way of life. A way of life that may be evolving, as all types of sexuality continue to change with technological advances, like social media, that aren't as limiting to discussion as traditional media.
The Future For Gaybros
On a macro level, Wosick says the group can be viewed as a response to a broader, ongoing shift in sexuality that has seen the rise of more flexible versions of heterosexual masculinity. She compared the rise of Gaybros to metrosexuality's ascent in the 2000s, when caring about fashion, hygiene and emotion defied what it meant to be straight, stating that a similar criticism dogged this movement.
DeLuca, however, sees the group in less complex terms, choosing to view the community as more of a club than an organized movement.
"I think it's pretty clear that we aren't forcing our worldview on anyone else or trying to promote any one group as 'better' than another," he said.
DeLuca says that after the shaky introduction, his group is gaining acceptance in the LGBT community, and with this, the arguments surrounding Gaybros have subsided.
"There will always be people who disagree with what we are doing, and there will always be people who are vocally opposed to us, but it's important to acknowledge and move past those things," he said.
Despite the perception, his current goals are more nuanced than the caricatured picture his critics try to paint. DeLuca is focusing on the future of Gaybros, and boasts the group is moving in exciting and unanticipated new directions.
The community is currently coding a new website - Gaybros.co - from the ground up, and hopes to officially launch it later this summer. For all the controversy, this development may lay bare what the true success of the group will be, its solidification as a veritable media brand rather than an organized movement.
"I'm extremely interested in producing custom content for our audience which has surprised just about everyone, including myself, with its scope and size," DeLuca said. "I think there is a much deeper conversation to be had around the role of masculinity in modern society and how we can retain the positive aspects of this cultural concept while letting the negative aspects become history. It's something I want to explore."


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29, 2000 -- It's open for business! And even though the construction
crews aren't done yet, the International Space Station's first occupants
have moved in and set up housekeeping. If all goes as planned, the
arrival of Expedition 1 in orbit earlier this month signaled the
beginning of a new era. From now on, there will always be humans
in space./P>
Living in space is a daunting adventure with plenty of derring-do and glamour. Hollywood
spacefarers rarely have to take out the trash or clean the kitchen
(when was the last time you saw Captain Jean-Luc Picard struggling
with the twisty-tie on a garbage bag?). But, what about real-life
astronauts? Are there chores to do on the ISS? In a recent interview
with Science@NASA, Dr. Edward Lu and Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Daniel
Burbank -- two astronauts who helped build the space station --
discussed the excitement and the day-to-day routine of life in orbit.
"We were a construction team to help assemble the space station and deliver
supplies," explained Lu about their mission on STS-106 last September.
"We delivered hardware, water, and other consumables for the occupants
to use. We also made the electrical connections between two of the
station modules previously assembled in orbit. And, we also delivered
the first scientific hardware to Station, a protein crystal growth
STS-106 was Lu's second time in space, but only the
first for Burbank.
"Space really is the most hostile environment humans have ever tried to live in,"
said Burbank. "You depend on the Station and the people on the ground
for everything you need to survive. It is complicated and everything
has to work!" It's a risky adventure with very little margin for
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I like to play inside the lift (elevator). For instance, there are bars attached at the side of the lift, and I like to hold my body up using my two hands on the bar. I realised that I actually feel lighter when the lift is decelerating and heavier when it is accelerating. Takes the upward motion as positive.
Also, I tried weighing myself inside the lift using a balance ;D As most people know, my weight increases as the lift is accelerating, and vice versa. Does this mean that when I am holding an object inside the lift, the object will actually feel heavier when the lift is accelerating?
Lastly, and this question is quite stupid. My friend once told me that if you want to survive an elevator crash, just jump the moment it hit the floor. I told him that's a stupid idea, but I can't really explain why it wouldn't work! Please help me.


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North Lenoir returns home today.
GOLDSBORO�North Lenoir found itself in an old-fashioned pitcher's duel in its season opener on Wednesday.
Three NL pitchers combined on a four-hit shutout, and Noah Reese delivered a clutch two-out RBI single as the Hawks outlasted Eastern Wayne 1-0 in a nine-inning marathon.
�We certainly didn't expect to go extra innings on day one, but we'll take it,� NL coach Donell Garris said. �To go on the road and beat a quality 3A opponent like Eastern Wayne is a great way to start the season.�
With temperatures in the low 40's at game time, neither offense was able to get into much of a groove.
NL hurlers Tyler Smith, Orlando Cannon and Drew Burke didn't allow a Warrior runner to advance past second and combined to fan 14 EW batters.
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Burke struck out two batters around a groundout in the home half of the ninth to seal the deal.
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Court Indicates Facebook May Be Violating Your Publicity Rights With Sponsored Stories
from the don't-like-the-service,-but-lots-of-questions-in-the-ruling dept
Because Facebook does so many things that aren't in users' interests, their "Sponsored Stories" program barely registers. Nevertheless, Sponsored Stories demonstrates why many people are burned out on Facebook. Facebook collects user preferences through its semantically ambiguous "like" button and then uses that data to show ads to the users' friends with a seeming endorsement. Using my preferences does little to advance my relationship with my friends, but the implicit endorsement is designed to get my friends to investigate the ads, increasing the advertiser's credibility and Facebook's profits. So Sponsored Stories creates a zero-sum game: I, as a user, probably don't get any value from the public presentation of my implicit endorsement (if anything, it might hurt my position with my friends), but Facebook and its advertisers benefit from it.
My response to Facebook's roll out of Sponsored Stories was swift and decisive: I don't "like" any businesses on Facebook or do any other activities on Facebook that I believe can trigger a Sponsored Story. (I would also categorically opt-out of being a part of Sponsored Stories if Facebook actually let me decide what I want to share with my friends, but Facebook doesn't). Instead, if I want to make a commercial recommendation to my friends--something I do occasionally--I just share it directly in my status report. That way, I control the message I deliver to my friends, instead of letting Facebook or advertisers control how they communicate my interest to my friends. And the zero-sum nature of Facebook's offering drives a deeper wedge into my relationship with Facebook, making me less willing to use Facebook generally and more receptive to alternatives.
To me, this marketplace response is adequate. To plaintiffs' lawyers in Fraley v. Facebook, however, Sponsored Stories gives another reason for a litigation fiesta. Remarkably, unlike so many other "privacy" lawsuits against Internet companies, this lawsuit survives the motion to dismiss--dramatically increasing the odds that Facebook will be writing a check for this so-called "feature."
This is a rich and interesting opinion by Judge Koh (embedded below) that has something for everyone to "like" (or dislike). Some of the highlights:
Article III Standing
In a ruling that bucks a mini-trend, Judge Koh upholds the case from an Article III standing challenge. She says that violation of a statutory right (in this case, California's publicity rights statute) automatically satisfies the actual harm requirement of Article III standing. The plaintiffs also satisfied the "particularized" and "concrete" requirements of Article III by explaining how the Sponsored Stories feature used their information.
She explicitly distinguishes numerous defense-side Article III wins (including her own recent iPhone application litigation and Low v. LinkedIn decisions) by noting the particular nature of the plaintiffs' publicity rights claim. In this case, unlike the others, the plaintiffs are claiming that their endorsement had commercial value to help sell goods to others, compared to the situation in the prior cases where the commercial value of a user's data came from theoretically improved marketing to the user him/herself. She says:
Plaintiffs here do not allege that their personal browsing histories have economic value to advertisers wishing to target advertisements at Plaintiffs themselves, nor that their demographic information has economic value for general marketing and analytics purposes. Rather, they allege that their individual, personalized endorsement of products, services, and brands to their friends and acquaintances has concrete, provable value in the economy at large, which can be measured by the additional profit Facebook earns from selling Sponsored Stories compared to its sale of regular advertisements.
She says later:
Plaintiffs assert that they have a tangible property interest in their personal endorsement of Facebook advertisers� products to their Facebook Friends, and that Facebook has been unlawfully profiting from the nonconsensual exploitation of Plaintiffs� statutory right of publicity. Thus, in the same way that celebrities suffer economic harm when their likeness is misappropriated for another�s commercial gain without compensation, Plaintiffs allege that they have been injured by Facebook�s failure to compensate them for the use of their personal endorsements because �[i]n essence, Plaintiffs are celebrities�to their friends.�
Clearly, Judge Koh is making a tricky intellectual move, and I bet it's going to make some privacy advocates unhappy. There is unquestionably a street value to data about a person to improve the marketing to that person, just as there is unquestionably commercial value in gaining an endorsement from a consumer. It's awkward to recognize one value and not the other. (Of course, in many of the precedent cases, there was only the possibility of data leakage; there wasn't actually a showing that any marketer had bought the leaked data for commercial reuse).
However, Judge Koh's fancy footwork rips open only a very small hole in the Article III jurisprudence. Her exception only applies where there's a statutory publicity rights claim, and only when the defendant made a commercially-motivated endorsement. I'm sure we'll see plaintiffs advance claims to take advantage of this ruling, but few plaintiffs will be able to style their claims accordingly.
In another tricky intellectual move, Judge Koh distinguishes Cohen v. Facebook, which dismissed a publicity rights claim based on Facebook's "Friend Finder" service, because this case showed a more direct connection between the friend's endorsement and the commercial value derived by Facebook. She also implies the lawyers did a better job here than in Cohen. I didn't fully understand this distinction other than Judge Koh's desire to reach a different result without disturbing the Cohen precedent.
Facebook's 230 defense is tricky. First, it seeks to invoke the defense against a publicity rights claim, which the 9th Circuit said was possible in Perfect 10 v. ccBill in a controversial statutory reading that has been rejected by every other court outside the Ninth Circuit. Judge Koh doesn't touch that issue.
Second, Facebook seeks 230 protection for the ad copy it created automatically. The ad is based on a user action, the "Like," plus various pieces of user content, but Facebook assembles it all into a package that the user never sees, blesses or necessarily even wants. We've had some other cases upholding 230 when a service provider is so intimately involved with creating the final content, such as the Carafano case, but Facebook is clearly playing at the edge of the statutory immunity.
Judge Koh rules that Facebook is over that line and doesn't get the immunity. Unfortunately, she does so by saying that Facebook is partially the information content provider of the ads in question. She references the dispositive allegations:
Plaintiffs allege that Facebook creates content by deceptively mistranslating members� actions, such as clicking on a �Like� button on a company�s page, into the words �Plaintiff likes [Brand],� and further combining that text with Plaintiff�s photograph, the company�s logo, and the label �Sponsored Story.� ... Plaintiffs allege that they themselves have no control over whether to post a particular company�s name or logo, and that Facebook maintains sole control over whether to display a Sponsored Story at all.
Personally, I'd be much more sympathetic to Facebook's position if users had the specific ability to "like" a business page without simultaneously authorizing the Sponsored Story. Because Facebook's controls are insufficiently granular, Facebook automatically interprets a "like" as both a statement of user attitudes and as a green light to create the Sponsored Story. In contrast, imagine that when a user "liked" a business page, Facebook prepared the ad copy for the Sponsored Story, presented it to the user, and asked the user if the user wanted to publish the ad copy to his/her friends. At this point, I would feel much more strongly that the ad copy really was the user's words. Naturally, Facebook doesn't give users this level of control over the words being put into their mouths.
On the other hand, consider an alternative example where a website both publishes UGC on its site and then syndicates the content to third party sites. It's my position that the website gets 230 for both acts of publication, even if the user never expressly green-lighted the syndication (so long as the user-to-website license permitted the syndication). See, e.g., Prickett v. infoUSA. Based on Judge Koh's explication, I'm not exactly sure why Facebook crossed the 230 line while some of these other situations probably don't.
Facebook responded that its activities didn't make it a content provider but just represented traditional editorial functions. The court rejects the argument, citing this allegation:
Plaintiffs allege not only that Facebook rearranged text and images provided by members, but moreover that by grouping such content in a particular way with third-party logos, Facebook transformed the character of Plaintiffs� words, photographs, and actions into a commercial endorsement to which they did not consent.
In the context of this case, I see her point. Sadly, the opinion's wording will give false hope to a slew of plaintiffs who will argue that the website's presentation of third party content constituted some type of unauthorized endorsement. It will take a few cases to burst the plaintiffs' bubbles about a new exception to 230.
The Statutory Publicity Rights Claim (CA Civil Code 3344)
Facebook took a few cracks at the claim, all of which were unsuccessful:
Newsworthiness. The publicity rights statute does not restrict using someone's personality "in connection with any news." This is a backdoor First Amendment defense, as what constitutes news tracks First Amendment jurisprudence on "matters of public interest." This defense seemed like a hail-mary for Facebook--a user "liking" a page is clearly "new" information to the marketplace, but it's not "news" in either the traditional or First Amendment sense. The court seems unimpressed, saying that even if a user "liking" a commercial product is news to that user's social network, using that information commercially drops out of the exception. I wasn't persuaded by the judge's distinction here, but then again Facebook's argument about what constituted "news" was obviously tendentious.
I was a little disappointed that Judge Koh sidestepped some interesting lurking issues about what is "news" in the modern environment, where all of us are publishers to our local communities and we as publishers can have significant clout in a small community. Some academic literature in the 1990s discussed these issues in the Internet context, but it might be worth revisiting as a paper topic. Judge Koh also sidestepped the intellectually interesting issue of whether opinions about marketplace goods are "newsworthy," something that I strongly believe to be the case in the context of anti-SLAPP laws.
Consent. Facebook argued that users consented to Sponsored Stories as part of its terms of use. The plaintiffs retorted that Sponsored Stories didn't exist when they signed up, so they couldn't have consented to it. The court says there's a factual dispute which prevents a motion to dismiss.
Injury. Facebook argued that non-celebrities have to show economic injury as part of their 3344 prima facie case. The court rejects this distinction, saying "[i]n a society dominated by reality television shows, YouTube, Twitter, and online social networking sites, the distinction between a �celebrity� and a �non-celebrity� seems to be an increasingly arbitrary one." Furthermore, the plaintiffs did allege injury by showing that their endorsements were valuable to Facebook, which helps distinguish this case from the Cohen "Friend Finder" precedent. I liked this quote:
While traditionally, advertisers had little incentive to exploit a non-celebrity�s likeness because such endorsement would carry little weight in the economy at large, Plaintiffs� allegations suggest that advertisers� ability to conduct targeted marketing has now made friend endorsements �a valuable marketing tool,� just as celebrity endorsements have always been so considered.
For more on this point, see my Online Word of Mouth paper.
Unfair Competition Law (UCL)
Normally, we'd expect the UCL claim to be tossed because the plaintiffs can't make the required showing that they lost "money or property." Numerous Internet privacy cases have reached that conclusion. Judge Koh makes the same intellectual move she did with Article III standing, saying that publicity rights are different than other privacy torts. She says: "[t]o the extent Plaintiffs allege they can prove that their endorsement of commercial products to their Facebook Friends has concrete, quantifiable value for which they are entitled to compensation, the Court finds that Plaintiffs have properly alleged loss of money or property for purposes of establishing standing under the UCL." I wonder if plaintiffs can make that showing because there's no existing market for consumer-to-consumer endorsements, but it's enough to survive the motion to dismiss. In particular, she says California's statutory damages for publicity rights violations aren't enough to demonstrate the value of the endorsements.
Judge Koh also concludes that plaintiffs properly alleged that Facebook's activities were unlawful, unfair and fraudulent (in the latter case, because Facebook allegedly overclaimed users' abilities to opt-out of Sponsored Stories).
Unjust Enrichment
Recent caselaw makes it even clearer that there's no separate cause of action for unjust enrichment; instead, it's just a synonym for restitution. As a result, the court tosses this claim.
This is not a good ruling for Facebook, but I can't really feel too sorry for it. Facebook has been playing fast-and-loose with the law in many different contexts (see, e.g., its FTC bust), and Sponsored Stories is no different. Before rolling it out, Facebook surely knew that the Sponsored Stories offering was on murky legal ground. It can't be surprised that it didn't get an easy dismissal.
Even so, if it gets that far, Facebook may yet win this case. Judge Koh has made it clear that she's a tough customer, but Facebook has plenty of power to its remaining arguments. Nevertheless, I'm reasonably confident it won't get that far. Given the importance of maximizing ad revenues and its desire to clean up legal issues in advance of an IPO, it seems more likely that Facebook will cut a deal with plaintiffs' counsel. I imagine Facebook might try to do a settlement like the Facebook Beacon settlement that results in minimal restrictive covenants, a chunk of money into the lawyers' hands, and a chunk of money that doesn't get into users' hands but instead goes into something like Facebook's privacy foundation.
Filed Under: privacy, publicity rights, sponsored stories
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Designed for the high ground of space
ESA has designed the MSG series of weather satellites for geostationary orbit, also known as the 'Clarke Belt' after Arthur C Clarke.
It was this famous science fiction writer who first described in 1945 how orbiting approximately 38 500 km above Earth would enable a satellite to rotate keep pace with the planet's rotation - moving at around 11 000 km per hour - to remain in the same location relative to the ground.
Geostationary orbit confers many advantages on a mission, notably a footprint that stretches across more than a quarter of Earth, covering Europe, Africa, the Middle East, much of the Atlantic and the eastern edge of South America. It also makes satellite tracking and communication much simpler – an antenna has only to be pointed from the ground towards the appropriate point over the equator.
There are also disadvantages to occupying such high ground, a tenth of the distance to the Moon. It is a hostile environment: located outside of the bulk of the Earth's magnetic field, geostationary spacecraft are exposed to a broad spectrum of solar radiation, charged particles and cosmic rays, which can lead to potentially serious voltage discharges affecting internal electronics and rapid degradation of surface materials, such as solar panels and optical coverings. And almost constantly facing the Sun leads to issues of onboard thermal control and outgassing.
MSG satellite systems are constructed from radiation-hardened components, and are sheathed in distinctive Multi Layer Insulation resembling gold and silver gift wrapping. Its solar panels are built on the exterior of the 3.2 m diameter drum-shaped spacecraft, with the main SEVIRI instrument placed within the spacecraft core.
The amount of energy available from the Sun varies as it appears to drift during the course of the season, and the satellite is cast into periods of solar eclipses by the Earth during the vernal and autumn equinoxes. The onboard power system must cope with this variety, as well as the slow degradation of solar panel performance during each satellite's projected seven years of life.
Earth is not a perfect sphere, so some amount of orbital drift is inevitable. In an inheritance from the earlier generations of Meteosats, MSG satellites are spin-stabilised, meaning that they rotate counter clockwise at 100 revolutions per minute as a economical means of maintaining correct pointing attitude, this method being supplemented by small thrusters.
The satellites are designed to operate above the equator at 0º longitude but have sufficient propellant to be moved up to 50 degrees West or East as required.


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I invited Darcie M. Hind Posz, a friend from my APG chapter and the ProGen Study Group, to write a review of the FGS conference as a guest author on my blog. I wish I could have attended the conference, and appreciate her sharing her perspective.
Darcie writes:
It was reported that approximately 2100 people were attending by Saturday. Five countries and 48 states were represented, including Alaska and Hawaii. This is a great success for FGS and ISGS whom have been working diligently for over 18 months! Bravo to the FGS President, Co-Chairs, ISGS, FGS Board and all for putting together one of the best conferences I have attended!
There were so many wonderful lectures that are now accessible to those who could not make it to Illinois: individual lectures can be purchased from Fleetwood On-Site in CD-ROM format or MP3 for $10 - $15, or you can own the whole conference for $379!
One presentation of interest for me was the "Plenary Session: How Will Our Society Survive? Do We Alter, Mutate, Modify, Shift or Switch?" presented by David Rencher. FGS is 35 years old now but by 2011, 1/3 of the charter societies that belonged to FGS in 1975 are out of business. I found this statistic startling. But examples were given of how these societies can become sustainable; one was that, because these societies possess knowledge and the desire to share it, they must look at various formats of sharing, be it FaceBook, websites, or e-newsletters. Also, these societies should have a board that reflects their members: both distance members and local members could enhance their society.
A new award, the Genealogy Tourism award, was presented to the first recipient, Curt B. Witcher. This award recognizes those whom serve "the interest of the genealogical community by their efforts in promoting genealogical tourism." The entire presentation can be read at: http://www.fgs.org/rpac/2011/09/09/fgs-announces-genealogical-tourism-award/
The ProGen study group dinner was held at Bennigans on Tuesday evening and most attended the APG Round Table after. The President of APG reported that UK membership has gone up 24%! The APG booth at the IAJGS Conference in August was also mentioned. The night's lively roundtable discussion was led by Mark Lowe on "Those Difficult Situations. . .how do I come out smelling like a rose."
I attended An Old Fashioned Prairie Social on Wednesday evening. The period music was lovely, Lincoln and wife looked a little too real and I enjoyed Geneopardy so much!
Some of my favorite lectures included:
- Scott Simkins' Saturday discussion on conservation. He had mentioned some Japanese preservation techniques that I will be looking into.
- Paula Stuart-Warren's Native American discussion had some wonderful methodology.
- Lisa Alzo's "Writing a Family History Step by Step," encouraged me to add 15 minutes a day to write my family history. Just the push I needed!
- Melinde Lutz Byrne's mentoring presentation was fantastic and was just the motivation I needed to hunker down and focus on a specific genealogical plan for my future.
- Tom Jones did a new presentation on correlation: Solid Gold! If you can get the MP3 for this presentation, do so!
- Linda Geiger's presentation on Territorial Papers and Kris Rzepczynski's 1890 gap presentations were great also!
The level of skill for the presentations (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) were on the conference guide, which was helpful in choosing which to attend. In the future, more advanced options and workshops would be of interest.
I am sure I am leaving out something, but if you are on Twitter, there should be a timeline for hashtag #FGS2011. Those official bloggers kept us all up to speed on events!


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"Giving the Fig"
I'm no marketing guru, but there is one rule of advertising that I think everyone should follow: if you dominate a market, never draw attention to your (smaller) competition. This is why Apple attacks Microsoft so directly in ads—for
better or worse, Microsoft has a market share the size of a Chicagoan's shoulders and Apple wants to bite that. Thus the direct, negative advertising.
So when Russian Life brought out a new translation of Ilf & Petrov's The Golden Calf (or rather, The Little Golden Calf in Anne O. Fisher's translation) at the exact same moment that we did, I totally ignored it. Sure, based on our contract it's a violation of copyright, but shit, we all know how Russians deal with copyright issues ("the more the merrier!"), and really? Russian Life's entire distribution system seems to consist of their website and Amazon.com. Fine, cool, whatever. Open Letter's not afraid of a little competition—the new translation we commissioned from Helen Anderson and Konstantin Gurevich is brilliant, and has received outstanding praise from places like the L.A. Times and PRI's World Books. I know it's great. And if more people end up reading Ilf & Petrov's hysterical masterpiece because there are two brand-new translations, then so much the better. The point is getting people to pick this up; no one's going to make an Koreiko-like fortune off of the sales of this book. At least not for a hundred or so years.
So we didn't send the cease and desist letter to Russian Life that we could have. And I never even bitched up a storm here on the blog. Why draw attention? There's maybe a thousand people in the country who realize that two versions of this book even exist, and the rest of the people familiar with The Golden Calf are probably reading our edition.
But then . . . yesterday happened. And this page on the Russian Life website was sent out to—at minimum—the SEELANGS (Slavic & East European Languages) listserv and Nicole Rudick, who reviewed our edition of The Golden Calf in the L.A. Times.
In case you don't feel like clicking through—though trust me, this shit is hilarious—this page is a list of ten reasons why the Russian Life edition of The Little Golden Calf is superior to our version, ranging from the "Translator" to the "Cover Design". Seriously? Propaganda is where you turn first in trying to jack our sales? (Before going any further, I want to point out what a stupid, stupid game this is . . .)
I'm not going to defend our book, or go through their list point by point rebutting each of their claims—it's clear that Russian Life is bitter and jealous about the reviews we've been getting and this is their cry for attention—but in addition to having the collective back of our translators/editors/designers, I just can't help myself . . . Some of the stuff on the Russian Life site is too much fun not to share with all of you.
First off, their criticism of the title. According to Russian Life's unattributed post (and by the way, in case anyone is wondering, this is Chad writing—all these opinions are mine and don't reflect the views and opinions of anyone else affiliated with Rochester, Open Letter, Three Percent, or Russia. So if any of what follows pisses off anyone at Russian Life, e-mail me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com):
Ilf and Petrov did not actually use "zolotoy telets," the set Biblical phrase for "the Golden Calf." Instead, they called their book Zolotoy telyonok, using the everyday, normal word for "calf" to deliberately lower the register of the Biblical image. We feel that a translation that misses Ilf and Petrov's sly, intentional desacralization of the image of the Golden Calf misses the whole point of the title; the care we took in conveying this intention of the original title is emblematic of the care we took throughout the edition.
In other words, "The Little Golden Calf" is >>>>> "The Golden Calf." Well, this confusion of accuracy for quality (a motif that runs throughout the Russian Life post) is pretty silly. Sure, telyonok is "little," but as someone else pointed out, the "desacralization" just doesn't come across in English via "little." This is problem in translating most diminutives, which is why we went with the straight "Golden Calf."
And their "first complete translation" posturing is beyond insane. We're all agreed that the previous translations are flawed, incomplete. And I'm willing to let pass the fact that our edition contains additional material that theirs doesn't. Why? Because I know that Russian Life is placing the emphasis on first and not on complete. That they believe that they deserve special recognition since their edition supposedly came out a month-and-a-half before ours. Oddly, both of our pub dates were December 1st, but—again with the confusion—since the book was reviewed on January 15th, they assumed that was when copies became available. (We've had this in house and for sale since early-November. All real publishers know that pub dates are an artificial load of crap.) (Again, this is all so stupid.)
But sticking with the subject of reviews and confusion, there's another page in which Russian Life breaks down a single passage, comparing the two variations, and finding that their edition is much superior, 'natch. I'm not one to bash a translator, but I'm not above sucker punching a publisher, so let's take a closer look at how they frame this "comparison." First off, here's the quote they use from our edition:
"Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time," the character announces. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody knows. We are in a terrible bind. It might be a month, it might be a year. Either way, we need some legal standing. We need to blend in with the cheery masses of office workers. That's what the bureau is all about. I have long been interested in [3] administration. I am a bureaucrat and a mis-manager at heart. We will be collecting [4] something very funny, for example, teaspoons, dog tags, or bells and whistles. Or horns and hoofs. That's perfect! Horns and hoofs. [1] How about that? [5] Besides, I already have some excellent blank forms that are suitable for any occasion and a round rubber stamp [2] in my bag."
Now, I'm not going to stoop to picking apart the Fisher/Russian Life version (although "We need to blend in with the office workers' energetic masses" sounds icky), but I will point out two things: 1) the interjection "the character announces" is from the L.A. Times review. So rather than quote the passage in our edition, Russian Life quotes the review quoting the passage in our edition. It's all the same right?—as careless as the rest of their diatribe. And 2) what the fuck is up with this footnote numbering system? I have no problem with them picking out lines to compare and pick apart, just do it in some sort of logical order.
I'm going to let their typeface bit just go, 'cause really? WTF is this, high school? You're bragging about your font choice? Ain't nothing quite like judging a book by its Courier.
And the cover design? I'm hoping there's some tongue-in-cheek that I'm just missing here:
Our cover was designed by the wonderful Ufa-based illustrator Julia Valeeva, who perfectly captured Bender's iconic features (Bender's cap and scarf) as well as other symbolic images from the novel (the suitcase of money, the little plate with a sky-blue rim, the Koreyko file, etc.). This makes our edition immediately recognizable to Russians who grew up on a diet of re-runs of one of the four television or movie versions of the Bender novels, ranging from the classic 1968 The Little Golden Calf to the 2005 version, where Bender was played by Russian superstar Oleg Menshikov.
First of all, the use of bold is simply unhinged. It's like unnecessary quote sort of tactless. But if you're looking to sell your book to Russians who already are stuffed on Bender, why didn't you publish it in Russian? The whole point of translation is to introduce a book to a new audience that may not be familiar with the original. Who isn't aware of Bender's quintessential features. And although I hate to do this in a public place, I'm going to take a second here to explain a bit of elementary marketing. First, from the Russian Life website:
The edition as a whole was conceived as a way to introduce the English-speaking reader to Ostap Bender as he is understood in Russian culture, that is, as a household name whose quips and comebacks are still used in everyday Russian speech to this day. Thus our edition includes:
- an introduction by Alexandra Ilf, herself a respected scholar of Ilf and Petrov's works;
- a translator's foreword;
- a bibliography of scholarship on Ilf and Petrov available in English;
- the notes;
- an appendix deciphering characters' names, which are "speaking names" in the tradition of Dickens and Gogol;
- a bilingual appendix of popular phrases from the novel.
First off, you know who's a household name? Lady Gaga. Notes, bibliographies, appendices, and introductions a household name do not make. Sorry folks, but the above list appeals to academics only. For an author/book to reach a level of popularity, to even delusionally pretend to be on the "household name" level, it needs to reach an enormous general audience. A general audience that just fell asleep reading the words "bilingual" and "appendix." No offense, Russian Life, but the Mel Brooks movie of The Twelve Chairs did more for Ostap Bender in the U.S. marketplace than ten million footnotes.
But while we're on the footnotes, check this shit out:
9. "Giving the fig" in Russia is a mildly obscene gesture in which the thumb, positioned in that it sticks out between the first and second fingers, is brandished in someone's direction; it means something like "take that!" or "you'll get nothing from me!"
That's one of their footnotes. Can someone explain to me what benefit the reader derives from ramming eyes-first into the phrase "giving a fig" and then having to flip to the back of the book and suffer through that dreadfully clinical description to get the gist of the passage they just read? This is why I hate footnotes—it makes for lazy translations that demand extra work from the reader. Which, FYI and back to Marketing Lesson 101, doesn't help with reaching the whole "household name" goal.
OK, OK, everything above is a bit batshit, I know, I know, and I get what they're trying to pull and where they're coming from. And I really shouldn't be making fun, or trying to bash a tiny publisher, but there's a real sense of bitterness in these complaints that's hard to ignore. Such as the bit where we're criticized for using the edition edited by Alexandra Ilf (the same Alexandra Ilf who signed a contract with us for the rights to the book), whereas her preface is the GREATEST THING EVER.
But so be it. I can let that all go.
But not this. Seriously, even if none of the above was irritating or funny, I would've written this whole piece just to include this:
9. SIZE. Our edition is over 35% longer than the 315-page Open Letter edition. In order to include the Additional Materials noted above, our edition is 448 pages long, yet remains compact and lightweight.
10. PRICE. Our edition sells for $20, Open Letter's edition sells for $15.95. But, as the Russia proverb goes, Skupoy platit dvazhdy (A miser pays twice.)
This is a joke right? Ignore the whole page-count/word-count fallacy and focus on the primary message: "35% more paper at a 20% higher price!" Is this the five-year plan of book publishing? Our book is better because it has more pages. Ever hear of page margins and the impact layout has on length? Or better yet, how about fact checking: our edition, which I have in front of me, is 336 pages . . .
OK, Russian Life, you win. I paid attention to you.
And now on with normal business.