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It started off in earnest roughly 45 years ago with a handful of needy children in the Mohawk Valley.
It started off in earnest roughly 45 years ago with a handful of needy children in the Mohawk Valley.
"We learned of a couple of families who were hurting," said Ray Lenarcic, founder of the Gram Lorraine Christmas Clothing Program. "Herkimer County Community College students did fundraising and raised money."
From there, Lenarcic said program evolved into a holiday gift-giving program in which individuals and organizations sponsor children in the area to help bring Christmas cheer to their doors. While volunteers gathered gifts Thursday, pick-up was on Friday.
The program serves about 1,000 children in multiple schools across the valley, including Little Falls, Poland and Frankfort, among others.
"We have several hundred sponsors," Lenarcic said. "They come from all walks of life, but the vast majority is middle class. People who often times tell me they know what it was like to go about this when they were younger."
Teachers and faculties in the participating schools help select those students they feel are most in need, and then contact the families to see if they want to participate, Lenarcic said.
The families then list four items of clothing and a toy, book or game of choice for the child to be sponsored.
"Without exception, the sponsors get more than what they're asked to get," Lenarcic said.
He said the program started out with sponsors getting needy children toys, but after a student Lenarcic had in a class expressed concern over kids without proper winter gear, that changed.
"From that point on, everything changed," he said. "We became clothing oriented."
Lenarcic said the last two years a golf tournament fundraiser has helped raise money to buy winter coats.
The name of the program also has changed — in 2001 Lenarcic changed the name from Adopt a Child to Gram Lorraine due to the death of his mother-in-law Lorraine Crouse.
Lenarcic said those who participate in the program epitomize what Christmas is all about.
"You think about that Christmas morning and the looks one their faces," he said. "Every child in this country deserves to be happy on Christmas morning."
For future event participation
Contact: Kay Lenarcic at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 866-7765
Include: Name/group, address, phone number and whether you'll sponsor a boy, girl, either or family.
Follow @OD_Fries on Twitter or call her at 792-4995.


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For this example I have a Man object. A property of the Man object is a generic list of Dog objects. Each Dog object also has a generic list of just strings.
I am grabbing a property from the main object, Man and then digging down into the Man object's associated Dog list to grab the bones property of each Dog object in that list. However, when ever I print to console I keep on getting this (the number of bones (property) is never being printed:
1st example
Name: Josh
Bones: System.Linq.Enumerable+WhereSelectListIterator'2[Dog, System.Int32]
var allMen =
from man in lstMan
select new
manname = man.name,
bonenum = man.dogs.Select(p=>p.bones)
2nd example
This also occurs in this example where I'm using Group By:
var registeredMen =
from man in lstMan
group man by man.name into mangrp
select new
studen = mangrp.Key,
vals = mangrp.SelectMany(p=>p.listofStrings)
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong in each example?

subset: commoncrawl


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Cameron Wake is back.
And so are the Dolphins.
The defensive end had a sack for a safety in overtime to give the Dolphins a 22-20 victory over Cincinnati.
It was Wake's third sack of the night. It was a bigtime player making a bigtime play.
"Most of you that know me know the past few weeks have been a little frustrating," Wake said. "But that's football. You get banged up. this game was a very important game for us. Losing games. Hard fought games. But finally having one come down to the end and guys showing up all over the place ... You couldn't win any other way."
It marked a night in which the Dolphins blew a 17-3 lead (sound familiar?) but rallied to tie the game with a 44-yard Caleb Sturgis field goal with 11 seconds left in regulation.
Then both teams were forced to punt. And with the Bengals backed against their end zone, Wake poured in over the right tackle, sacked Dalton in the end zone (barely) and sent everyone home happy.
The Dolphins are 4-4 now. They play at winless Tampa Bay in 11 days.
Suddenly things are looking up.
The Dolphins got multiple great individual performances.
Lamar Miller rushed 16 times for 105 yards. Ryan Tannehill didn't throw a TD but neither did he fumble or throw an interception. He had a 92.3 QB rating.
Mike Wallace caught six passes for 82 yards and drew a big pass interference penalty that led to the game tying field goal in regulation.
Brent Grimes returned an interception 94 yards for a touchdown.
Good work.


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EMC Monday introduced its ViPR software-defined storage platform, a technology the company said will improve the orchestration and automation of customers' existing storage infrastructures -- whether manufactured by EMC, its competitors or, in the future, based on generic server hardware.
ViPR abstracts the functionality and underlying capabilities of customers' storage infrastructure into a large pool of virtual storage, said Chris Ratcliffe, vice president of marketing for EMC's Advanced Software Division.
"This lets storage managers create virtual storage arrays, manage them with their company's policies, and configure them for specific workloads," Ratcliffe said. "This gives them centralized provisioning, automation and management of their storage."
[Related: Software-Defined Storage: Separating The Reality From The Hype]
Jamie Shepard, regional vice president at Lumenate, a Dallas-based solution provider and EMC partner, said, "EMC is taking the lead 100 percent with its software-defined storage strategy."
EMC's introduction of ViPR, developed by a team led by Amitabh Srivastava, a former Microsoft Azure executive and current president of advanced storage at EMC, shows that EMC is taking advantage of some of the best talent in the storage industry, Shepard said.
"I applaud EMC," he said. "They're getting best-of-breed people. They're not buying technology. They're building it."
Customers are looking for better ways to enhance their data center infrastructures with software, Shepard said.
"They're already getting into software-defined networking, software-defined storage, and tying them to their virtualization layers," he said. "This is helping turn data centers from a hardware play to software."
There is no single industrywide definition of the term "software-defined storage."
At one level, software-defined storage uses the APIs of existing storage systems to understand the functionality of those systems and present it to applications in an open fashion, allowing the applications to take advantage of the functionality of multiple types of storage to automate their management, provisioning and other capabilities.
At a deeper level, it is a software layer that provides storage services, including such functions as deduplication, replication, snapshots and thin provisioning, using industry-standard server hardware.
NEXT: Prepping For The Storage Future With EMC ViPR


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ASPEN, Colo. — The Transportation Security Administration for the first time will let travelers apply directly for expedited airport screening to avoid lanes requiring shoe removal and laptop checks.
In the agency's biggest push to expand eligibility for its PreCheck program, U.S. air travelers will be able to apply online or at airports for access to speedier security lanes. PreCheck was previously restricted to frequent fliers nominated by airlines or enrolled through U.S. Customs' programs for international travelers.
TSA Administrator John Pistole has set a goal of increasing eligibility to 25 percent of U.S. passengers by the end of 2013, up from about 2 percent last year. The goal is for 50 percent by the end of 2014.
"PreCheck is becoming a more accessible program for everyday travelers," Erik Hansen, director of domestic policy for the U.S. Travel Association, a Washington-based trade group, said in an interview. "That's what the travel industry has always hoped it would be."
Advocates for expanding PreCheck have said eligibility is too restricted, limiting the program's potential to speed up security checks and make screenings less invasive for people who pose no risk. Some travelers call PreCheck's less onerous queue the airports' "happy lane," Pistole said at the Aspen Security Forum in Aspen, Colo., Friday.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol's Global Entry program, which offers a backdoor way to get into PreCheck for travelers who aren't top-level frequent fliers, requires a passport and a personal interview at an international airport. The TSA's new efforts are targeted at travelers who don't have passports and don't fly often, especially overseas.
"This initiative will increase the number of U.S. citizens eligible to receive expedited screening, through TSA PreCheck," Pistole said in a statement. "PreCheck enables us to focus on the travelers we know the least about, adding efficiency and effectiveness to the screening process."
Dulles International Airport near Washington and Indianapolis International Airport will be the first two airports to take applications, Pistole said. The effort will expand to more than 300 locations, according to U.S. Travel.
Travelers would have to provide certain personal information, including date of birth, address, height, weight, and hair color — similar to what's required now under the U.S. Customs programs. They'll need a government-issued identification card.
An online application will be followed by an on-site interview, where they will be fingerprinted. The tentative plan is to charge an $85 fee for a five-year membership, TSA said.
Once approved, fliers will be provided a PreCheck number to give to airlines or enter when making a reservation.
Giving airports more options to market PreCheck to all customers will help drive enrollment up, Hansen said. TSA has been hampered by its inability to reach more than a few pockets of travelers, he said.
TSA may eventually expand signup into convention centers, hotels or rental-car offices, Hansen said.
"There's flexibility here that will allow TSA to put enrollment centers where people are actually going," Hansen said.
Forty U.S. airports and six airlines — Alaska Air Group Inc., American Airlines Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., United Continental Holdings Inc., US Airways Group Inc. and Virgin America Inc. — already participate in PreCheck, according to TSA's website.
Pistole has said the agency doesn't have the technical capability to do PreCheck background vetting in volume. TSA has been evaluating proposals from companies including Alclear, which manages a private screening program called the Clear card at five U.S. airports, to do that work.
TSA is continuing that effort, which will be attractive to consumers who might not want to share personal information directly with the government, Pistole said in Aspen. The private companies would do the vetting according to parameters set by the agency, with the TSA retaining the final say over who is eligible, Pistole said.
"If TSA can partner with the private sector to grow the program, that's the next big win for the traveling public," Hansen said.


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In many ways, Robert Zona is a very typical Corvette owner. When he purchased his new 2003 Chevy Corvette Z06, he thought it would be a great toy for weekend cruising. Though it was his first six-speed performance vehicle, he quickly became addicted to the satisfaction that only comes from rowing your own gears.
It wasn't long after that the 39-year-old dentist from Jackson, New Jersey, found himself at the dragstrip in nearby Englishtown for a show-n-go event. "I had never drag raced before, but I decided to make a few passes. After that, I was hooked."
What makes Zona unusual, then, is that he now finds himself the owner of what may be the quickest naturally aspirated C5 in existence. "[My] 9.932 at 138.80 mph is currently the fastest NA e.t. ever recorded on the forums for a C5, regardless of engine size." While it may be going too far to say reaching this remarkable level of performance was like pulling teeth, it certainly didn't come without substantial effort.
What's it take to make a C5 run in the 9s? The most obvious answer, naturally, is brute power. For this, Zona turned to the pros at Anger Management Racing, in Brick, New Jersey. Though the original 346ci LS6 is still in place, don't make the mistake of assuming it's stock. While the short-block is mostly factory issue, with the exception of fly-cut pistons for valve clearance and a host of ARP fasteners for durability, it's the attention paid to the top end that makes the magic happen.
The rest of the car was put together by Zona and Tommy Michalkowski in Zona's garage. According to Zona, "One of the most rewarding parts of the build was that Tommy encouraged a lot of input from me." Together, they bolted on a pair of TEA-ported heads, a FAST intake manifold, a custom-spec cam, American Racing headers, and a GHL exhaust system. Nothing extraordinary jumps out at you when reviewing the buildsheet, but the combination of parts, and the attention to detail when assembling them, are a big part of what makes this car so special.
Once assembled, the car was handed over to Troy Nikola of Anger Management, who began the long process of tuning it to perfection. "I spent a lot of time with Tommy and Troy, dialing in this car over the past year. [It] was a process that we built upon from each previous track experience," says Zona. "Our first time out in the spring of 2008, the car trapped 134.40 in average air. So we knew it was going to put up some big numbers once the combination was perfected.
"Since we knew what the car was capable of, our eventual goal was to run 9s. Through the summer we dialed in the car, knowing that the cold air would bring faster times. Thanks to the help of the AMR crew, we were able to run our first 9-second pass in October 2008 and shock everyone with a 138.80 mph. We were able to back up the time and mph many times and managed a total of three 9-second passes, with a best of 9.93." This, of course, brought out the skeptics.
As with any groundbreaking endeavor, Zona and crew had to tolerate the cries of foul from the nonbelievers. "Since we dealt with a lot of crap from people who couldn't understand how we ran the numbers, we thought about doing a teardown at the track." Immediately after the 9.93 pass, the intake portion of the Z06's engine was disassembled to prove that there was no nitrous-oxide system in place. "The manifold and the Vararam, air bridge, and throttle body were completely removed from the car, proving there was no way any nitrous could have been injected into the car to boost performance." Further infuriating the doubters, the car was even driven to the track, raced, and then driven home after the teardown.
Weight and aerodynamics are also key considerations when attempting to maximize the performance of a car. Weight savings were realized in part by removing the passenger seat, replacing the hood with a carbon-fiber piece from Motor City Molds, and swapping the stock wheels for a big-n-little combination of Bogart D-10s. The Z06's inherent lightness, combined with some intelligent choices in equipment selection, have brought the car's race weight to just 3,188 pounds, with driver.
Despite its age, the C5 is a very aerodynamically efficient car, with a coefficient of drag of just 0.29 cd. Even though the Z06's hardtop body design is slightly less aerodynamic than the coupe's, that fundamental efficiency is still present, and it lessens the workload as the car approaches the top end of the track, helping make those eye-popping trap speeds possible.
Driving is another area that is frequently overlooked when seeking maximum dragstrip performance. For the past four years or so, Zona has coached many fellow Corvette drivers both on Internet forums and at the track, helping them to better their own performances. "The person who gave me the most help and advice when I first started out was John Armstrong (a.k.a. Ranger on the forums), who has helped hundreds of Corvette drivers over the years. I typically launch the car between 5,500 and 6,500 rpm, depending on conditions. The two-step makes the car more consistent on the launch, but it does take away some of the feel and driver input that could result in a slightly better 60-foot time."
Zona is enthusiastic about helping others maximize their driving and offers the following advice: "I always tell people to do a full burnout. With drag radials, I am able to run the tire pressure at around 20 psi, which makes the car very stable, especially on the big end. I shift the car over 7,000 rpm and power shift when the conditions are right, or if I want to maximize e.t. on a good air day."
Not content to rest on their laurels, Zona and the AMR crew plan to continue improving the combination. "We can see this car running 9.7s at 140 mph with some more minor tweaks and modifications." Naturally, the plan is to accomplish this with the same little 346-and no power adders.
And since the car still handles as well as most Corvettes, Zona has an eye on the twisties for the future. "With some minor changes, I plan to get involved in some road racing." And when he does, the competition had best be on their toes, because given Rob Zona's knack for meticulous preparation, this Z is likely to dominate the corners, too.
Editor's note: Since this story was written, Zona has replaced the LS6 with a 388ci stroker engine and run a best e.t. of 9.3 seconds-still with no power adder.


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Randolph County pounded out 16 hits off four different pitchers en route to an easy 12-0 seven-inning victory over Davidson County Post 8 at Holt-Moffitt Field on Tuesday.
Randolph County Post 45 is the No. 1 seed in the Area III Northeast Division.
They showed why Tuesday night.
Randolph pounded out 16 hits off four different pitchers en route to an easy 12-0 seven-inning victory over Davidson County Post 8 at Holt-Moffitt Field on Tuesday. To complete the nearly perfect night, Nathan Reynolds tossed a nifty little two-hitter and only allowed five base runners all night. Post 8 only got one runner to third base.
"You've got to be pleased with the effort we got tonight," Randolph skipper Ronnie Pugh said, as his team took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series. "Reynolds got cut short last week in his start, in the rain.
"So it was good to see him run his pitch count up a little bit."
The Warriors didn't make him run his pitch count up too high. Reynolds hit two batters to give Post 8 some hope, but followed both hit batsmen with ground balls that turned into double plays. After the first double play, in the bottom of the second inning, Justin Freeman lined a hard shot to center for a base hit. But Avery Jackson gunned him down at second; it was simply that kind of night for the home team.
Davidson County coach Dale Moser was befuddled by his team's performance at the plate. "They did a great job, and we didn't," Moser said. "We're just not hitting the ball right now.
"We've hit it all year, but right now we're in a funk and we can't seem to get out of it."
If the Warriors don't get out of it immediately, their season will be over. They travel to McCrary Park at 7 p.m. Wednesday, and would have to win the next three games to win the series.
That means they cannot have a repeat performance of Tuesday night. Kyle Smith got things going with a two-run double off Post 8 starter Matt Kaplan in the top of the first for an early lead. Dylan Prevatte tacked on an RBI single in the second, and that gave Post 45 a little breathing room. "They made some adjustments to Kaplan, and did some damage early," Pugh said. "That got us out front, where we could kind of free-wheel it a little bit.
"And that made us a little more dangerous."
Randolph threatened to blow things wide open in the top of the third, loading the bases with nobody out. But Zach Queen made a phenomenal diving catch at third base on Troy Burr's liner, then tapped the bag with his glove for a double play. Two pitches later, Jordan Lakey nailed Jake Hall trying to steal third to end the inning.
That reprieve was short-lived, however. Reliever Tyler Sellers intentionally walked Prevatte to load the bases with one out. Cody Trogdon lifted a sacrifice fly to right to drive in a run, then Hall ripped a shot up the middle to plate two more runs for a 6-0 advantage. Post 45 scored four more in the fifth, highlighted by Will Albertson's two-run double to the gap in right center, Prevatte's carbon-copy double moments later, and Smith's single to right.
Up 10-0, Randolph plated two more runs in the seventh on another double to the gap in right center. Reynolds worked a 1-2-3 seventh to invoke the mercy rule.
Smith finished with four hits and three RBIs for Post 45; Hall had three hits and drove in four runs, Prevatte was 3-for-3 with two RBIs, Jackson added three hits, and Albertson had two hits and a pair of RBIs.
Jason Queen can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 220 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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No, Russia said they would give him asylum as long as he stopped leaking information. He withdrew his asylum request to Russia in response and so has opted not to take them up their offer in exchange to stop leaking, which is why he's continued leaking.
Russia views him as not their problem whilst he continues to not enter the country officially and if he continues to opt not to officially enter Russia then they seem to let him do whatever he feels the need to do.
Russia views him as not their problem...
And indeed he isn't. Nor should he in fact be a problem to the US. After all, a government that is doing nothing wrong has nothing to fear from whistleblowers.
Although I'm not a US voter, I am mightily disappointed in Obama's stance on this issue. His election platform was supposed to represent transparency in Government dealings, but instead he has perpetuated and compounded the worst excesses of the former Republican administration.
Not that I'm surprised, mind you. An election promise is as empty as a politician's soul.
It's no different here in the UK though, the Conservative part of the coalition government got into power in large part on a ticket of rolling back the surveillance state and excesses of the previous government but once in power it hasn't taken them long to push the interception modernisation programme from the previous government.
I think the problem is that it's easy to make promises when you don't matter, but once in power you have the likes of the security services lying to you - "There's a real threat t
who suffered financial loss because of stuxnet use this evidence to sue the NSA & Mossad for damages ? If not, why not ?
They can't because the world one learns about in law school, where courts are impartial arbiters of justice and where any tort deserves compensation, doesn't exist. We live in a world where Bush/Cheney's lawyers wrote the flimsiest of legal justifications for torturing prisoners and got away with it not because of their justifications but because of who they are.
Mossad is the sort of organization that will drive up next to you on a motorcycle in traffic and throw a magnetic grenade on your car. What are you going to do, sue them for wrongful death?
That, and even at the best of situations it's only possible to sue the government if they consent to be sued.
Which does happen. Just not in this case.
Mossad is the sort of organization that will drive up next to you on a motorcycle in traffic and throw a magnetic grenade on your car. What are you going to do, sue them for wrongful death?
If ever there was a time to reverse the polarity on the deflector shield, that would be it.
Mossad is the sort of organization that will drive up next to you on a motorcycle in traffic and throw a magnetic grenade on your car.
That's a bit crude by their standards. Mossad took out one terrorist by indirectly giving him a cell phone with a bomb, that could be dentonated remotely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash [wikipedia.org]
Again Mossad is not the problem. In fact, the NSA or Mossad developing a virus to sabotage Iranian centrifuges or what have you is also not the problem. This is what spy agencies are for. The problem is when the NSA develops viruses which affect, or engages in espionage on, the US public. The NSA is not supposed to do that.
Again, I raise the analogy of the US military dropping bombs on US citizens; they don't do it because they're not supposed to. The same rules should apply to the NSA and its espionage bag
Well, for one thing Snowden didn't provide any hard evidence and lacking a literal smoking gun intelligence agencies basically have carte blanche to do whatever the fuck they want to do.
Pus the general who was in charge of the stuxnet development seems to have leaked this information over a year ago.
http://www.voanews.com/content/retired-general-target-of-stuxnet-leak-investigation/1690953.html [voanews.com]
Sure, they can line right up behind the victims of Iran's and Hezbollah's terror attacks that tend to range from daily to weekly. Would you can to have your case heard after bombings, rocket attacks, hijackings, kidnappings or murders?
Same with if an author sends a draft of a book to a publisher.
Seems to me those programs could be charged with piracy, no?
Comments like this aren't actually cynical anymore. The rule of law is breaking down all over the Western world as connected people are increasingly allowed to live outside it.
"Breaking down" implies that they were, at some point int he past, stronger. This would tend to disagree with the recent leaked document detailing a comment by Henry Kissinger: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/wikileaks_dumps_1_7_million_kissinger_cables/ [salon.com]
Macomber: That is illegal.
Kissinger: Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer." [laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.
Was this comment the only evidence that the past was anything but the story of the rule of law being strong and the government restrained in its activities, then I might brush it off, but I see little evidence that this has been anything but the standard MO throughout history.
Law is for the public, and things done in public. Law exists to be applied to the little people, as it is convinenet or profitable to do so.
What has changed is the little people, or at least the ones who care too, are able to see so much more than ever before. Over time, the ability of individuals to store and share information globally has reached a point that secrets are much much harder to keep, and so....when secrets get out we now get to view things that we never got to see before.
As we have seen with the legitimization of indefinite detention and dogged persual of whistle blowers is simply the result of a desire to not change but, to turn back time to a situation where the powerful could act with impunity and public opinion be damned and maliciously manipulated to the ends of those in power.
Laws are for us, not the government.
I knew that pretty much from the get-go. Only the truly deluded didn't immediately realize that Mossad and/or the CIA were behind that. Of course, there are always those idiots out there who reflexively deny that the U.S. government is behind ANYTHING--who seem to think that the tens of thousands of employees of the CIA and NSA just sit and stare at walls all day, I guess.
Just to clue you in on another obvious fact, for those of you who may have somehow missed this too: Mossad has been assassinating [cnn.com] Iranian nuclear scientists (with the CIA's full cooperation).
I knew that pretty much from the get-go.
No, you strongly suspected that from the get-go. It was a good hunch which panned out. Many tech geeks understood this was likely, but most common folks didn't even know about it. Most press was happy to not make a big deal about it.
But now everybody knows what's been going on with near certainty (due to the corroborations, including Senators, lack of denials, and willingness to use a NATO air blockade, an act of war, to apprehend Snowden (just "a 29-year-old hacker")).
Everybody now knowing has changed the public debate, causing the Snowden Effect [pressthink.org].
I've seen that movie. It was really a wormhole!
And in the wormhole lived a groundhog. And if it was cloudy when he emerged...
... if someone emails someone else a compressed (.zip etc.) file, do the computers automatically decompress it to examine it, or do they store only the compressed version?
I recall people using specially designed
Zip bombing the NSA - sounds like the title of a song that will get you locked up in prison if you tweet it.
this sounds like very fun idea i wonder how many people sending
Your input is appreciated, Comrade! We have patched this vulnerability in our Precog program. The Party thanks you!
An amazingly well written worm designed to target a particular brand of hardware PLCs that most hackers have never even heard of (and certainly couldn't afford), and not only target them, but target them in a way specifically designed to destroy the attached equipment under a VERY specific set of curcumstances.
That has "nation state" written all over it.
Not only that but it has "very high tech nation state" written all over it.
Basically about the only people with the will, the resources, and the ability are US + Israel. There's basically no one else that was likely to have done it.
But honestly, it was one of the most amazingly awesome high tech attacks ever perpetrated. I mean seriously they managed to successfully target machines that weren't connected to the public internet and physically destroy them.
I've always said, since the NSA is reading all of my e-mail anyway, the least they could do is filter out all the spam for me
My government has been doing what the UK does for many years already, we learnt this weekend. I'm Dutch, BTW.
I find it comical that people are still arguing over the validity of Snowden's claims, as he continues to be hunted down by the very government who is attempting to dismiss him as a mere nothing.
Perhaps the governments stance to dismiss this as nothing (at least on the surface) has merit, for the government knows that no matter how alarming, no matter how bad the breaches of privacy are or has been, citizens simply don't give a shit enough to care.
And the government knows this. So do many major companies, which is why they continue to operate the way they do (yes, AT&T I'm speaking to you and your recent surcharges that generated hundreds of millions...yes, I'm speaking to you Facebook, and your gall to start charging to put an email where it belongs).
Why do governments and corporations act in this arrogant way? Because they know that no one gives a shit anymore.
Apathy will be the demise of all privacy and Rights as we know them today. I promise you that.
And regardless of Snowden's claims, proof, facts, or evidence, not a damn thing will change for the better. Not a damn thing.
Now, go ahead. I dare you to prove me wrong.
I've got a bad feeling about this.


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Unless you root it...
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/13/how-to-install-netflix-on-most-android-devices/ [techcrunch.com]
So stop being a weenie and edit build.prop.
Fragmentation is a small price to pay for having the option of more than one non-customizable hardware release a year.
Netflix fragmentation is mostly due to an inconsistent hardware platform and thus large variance in DRM standards that have been solved later in the devices life with Tegra 2 support being standardized. Is it fragmented, yes, but Google is doing a decent job at closing the fragmentation while still allowing users the freedom to choose from a variety of devices within different price ranges a
Really? Is the pace of phone hardware development so fast that there are significant changes every few months? Now, I love seeing a large variety of devices on the market, but a yearly release schedule doesn't sound unrealistic in terms of keeping us with actual development.
They are probably the five most popular.
On the other hand, you have to wonder if you're looking for a phone and you want Netflix, will it run today, will it run tomorrow? Is this exactly the SKU that runs Netflix?
They are probably the five most popular.
Nexus One and Nexus S are two out of those five. Popular? Not bloody likely.
It seems that it's just devs being lazy or testers being overcautious. Surely any 3.x tablet should be able to run this as well, at the very least?
Actually, it appears to work on more than just those 5 (Reports of the Incredible working just fine...I'll have an Iconia A500 report here shortly...). It's just that they've CERTIFIED it to work with those 5 and officially support it there. BIG difference than the line you're running up the flagpole.
It would be okay if they just said "feel free to install on this and that, but we won't support it". Instead, they've actually made it so that it won't even appear in the Market for "unsupported" devices, and you can't just download and install APK either because it checks hardware.
June 30th is getting close
"...while Netflix runs on all iPhones and iPads."
That would be two devices. Three less than on Android.
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPad 2
iPod touch
iPod touch 2nd gen
iPod touch 3rd gen
iPod touch 4th gen
Seems like Jobs has released his shill army backed by his shill mod army. RUN!!
Anyway - going by your logic, Android is still doing 2.5 times better than your idevices.
Some people out there like, you know, choices. And ability to make decisions on their own. I know they are relatively new concepts for you, and you probably would not really like them anyway. Good luck with your walled garden.
It runs on most android devices released within a certain timeframe. In the same way that it only runs on iphone's made within a certain timeframe. It doesn't run on my older iphone.
Since it's streaming good quality video, a certain level of hardware capability and performance is necessary to play smoothly. Netflix can't determine the Android hardware any more than Google can. It's dumb to limit it to such a short list rather than provide general guidelines about hardware requirements and let users try it, but the reason is so that large numbers of people don't have a bad experience and get a bad impression of Netflix.
It's an odd analogy since Android is mostly Free/Open Source while W
What is with that URL? http://blog.netflix.com/2011/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html [netflix.com]
I agree, tried to change some of the false to true, but the page does not exist.
Also, changing normal to weird did not yield the desired effect.
Why is it so difficult to stick to nice URLs?
Because too few developers know about mod_rewrite?
Because too few developers know about mod_rewrite?
There's a reason for this. A lot of web developers learned their skills on shared web hosting, and shared web hosting often does not include mod_rewrite access.
Well, I have a Nexus S. Unfortunately I'm on 2.2.1 at the moment. As my employers are paying my phone bill, including data overages, I kinda have to follow the order not to root the phone.
The Nexus S only ever came with 2.3. How can you have 2.2.1? Did you employer root your device and downgrade it?
As noted, any Nexus S would already have 2.3, just not the most recent minor version of that.
As well, any Android phone will happily update over WiFi. Those "OTA" updates are actually "OTI" (over-the-Internet). Obviously, that won't affect the phone bill in any way.
Is Android basically modified Linux? If it is, does mean that I might be able to use a Linux + PC combination with Netflix someday?
Android does use the kernel, but unless you install the rest of a normal userland that is pretty much were it ends. You might be able to run this app in the emulator though.
Apparently they are developing a Netflix plugin for Chrome that may work on Linux. See here [thechromesource.com].
I was excited by this... my Nexus One is on the list! So I clicked the Market link... and... "This item cannot be installed in your device's country."
Only available on these devices today:
1. HTC Incredible with Android 2.2
2. HTC Nexus One with Android 2.2, 2.3
3. HTC Evo 4G with Android 2.2
4. HTC G2 with Android 2.2
5. Samsung Nexus S with Android 2.3.
They plan more, but no tablets so far... am I the only one who thinks this is strange?
Yes. They got it to work with a particular library, and decided to drop it before expanding it to use other libraries. Beta-testing and demand evaluation are valuable experiments.
As others have noted, it is possible to get this on any android device, so long as you have 2.3. I'm on a rooted Droid X 2.2.1, and the app crashes back to desktop after I've changed the build.prop. If I revert by build.prop to factory default, I get an error message that my device isn't supported, and it won't stream anything, but I can still look at my queue, suggestions, etc.
I believe that VZW has leaked many beta builds of 2.3. You can find them on a few droid enthusiast websites. If you're looking to g
I don't think I've been quite so floored by a piece of tech in a decade...this is almost as good as discovering the web for the first time in 1998 as a "the future is now" kind of moment. I don't care about the interface (yet). I don't care about functionality...I don't even care that it just crashed my phone. I just saw this
As streaming movies requires certain features and specifications
aka DRM? People are pointing at this as evidence of "fragmentation". Yes, android allows some phones to be *less* DRMed. Yes, Android allows you to have a smartphone that's not superpowered enough to run Netflix. Hey, some people don't want or need the Netflix app. I'll take this kind of "fragmentation" anyday over the One Holy Certified Applestolic iThing.
So with all the caps people have on their 3G/4G connection, streaming movies are the way to go!!!!
Thus spake the master programmer: "When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"


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Looking ahead to Opening Day, I tried to lay out where I think the 35 most relevant minor leaguers (IMO) will end up. A couple of notes- Frazier and Janish could make the Reds OD roster, which would bump Didi and Puckett up to Louisville, a move that should happen anyway by Memorial Day. Obviously there are many other players in the system that I could have included, but so far as I can see, here are the players with the best chance of being relevant to the Reds in the future:
I think that there are some other arms coming back from injury to watch, including Jacob Johnson and Drew Cisco, both of whom could begin in the Dayton rotation. Also, I didn't include relief pitchers, but obviously there are a few guys from the 40 man who will start in Louisville (could include Fisher, Brackman, Judy, etc.) and Donnie Joseph will likely start in AA.Code:AAA AA A+ A C Navarro Fleury Barnhart 1B Soto Lutz 2B H.Rod Greene Lohman Wright SS Janish Didi Hamilton Valor 3B E.Camp Vidal Buckley Arias LF Frazier Puckett Duran CF Perez LaMarre Waldrop RF Phipps Y.Rod SP1 Chapman Sulbaran Corcino Cingrani SP2 Ravin Lotzkar Stephenson Top Three Rookie Leaguers to Watch 3B Gabriel Rosa LHP Amir Garrett LHP Ismael Guillon


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Update 9:29 p.m.:
Police aren't say what may have motivated a man to open fire inside two classrooms at a Connecticut elementary school today, but a law enforcement official who has been briefed on the investigation says the gunman was believed to suffer from a personality disorder
Twenty-six people, including 20 children, were killed in the shooting rampage before the gunman shot and killed himself. Police say another adult was found dead at a second location.
A law enforcement official has identified the gunman as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, the son of a teacher at the Sandy Hook Elementary school. The official says Lanza killed his mother at their home before driving his mother's car to the school.
Police say the shootings took place in two classrooms, but they are not providing details on exactly how it unfolded.
Students and their parents describe teachers locking doors and ordering the children to huddle in classroom corners or hide in closets as shots echoed through the building. Authorities said the shootings took place in two nearby classrooms, but they gave no details on exactly how they unfolded.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Police say 27 people were killed in the shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, including the gunman, and one person died at another scene.
The dead at the school include 20 children.
The gunman opened fire Friday morning inside a school where his mother worked. He blasted his way through the building as young students cowered helplessly in classrooms while their teachers and classmates were shot.
The gunman killed himself. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says someone who lived with him also died.
Young students crying and looking frightened were escorted by adults through a parking lot in a line after the shots rang out in Newtown, 60 miles northeast of New York City.
The attack comes less than two weeks before Christmas and appears to be the nation's second-deadliest school shooting, exceeded only by the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007.
WASHINGTON -- A law enforcement official says the suspect in the Connecticut school shootings is 20-year-old Adam Lanza, the son of a teacher at the school where the shootings occurred. A second law enforcement official says the boy's mother, Nancy Lanza, is presumed dead.
The first official says Adam Lanza's older brother, 24-year-old Ryan, of Hoboken, N.J., is being questioned by police. An earlier report from a law enforcement official mistakenly transposed the brothers' first names.
Both officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record about the developing criminal investigation.
The first official said Adam Lanza is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
WASHINGTON -- A tearful President Barack Obama says the country's leaders must "take meaningful action" regardless of politics in response to the mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.
The president teared up, at times using an index finger to wipe at the corner of his eyes, as he addressed the nation from the White House. He also paused repeatedly as he struggled to keep his composure while speaking of the children - ages 5 to 10 - who had died and the life milestones they now would miss.
He said, quote, "Our hearts are broken."
Shortly before speaking, Obama ordered that U.S. flags be flown at half-staff on public grounds through Tuesday.
CBSNews.com report
Twenty children were killed Friday in a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that left a total of 27 people dead, including the gunman, the police said.
Six adults were killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. Paul Vance told reporters at an afternoon news conference. At least one teacher was wounded.
A source familiar with the investigation identified the shooter as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, CBS News investigative producer Pat Milton reports. Law enforcement sources had earlier told CBS News that the gunman was Ryan Lanza, Adam Lanza's older brother.
Ryan Lanza is being questioned by authorities in New Jersey, Milton reports.
Vance said police found the gunman deceased inside the school. He did not say how the shooter died.
A law enforcement official told CBS News that the gunman's mother worked at the school and is among the dead. The gunman apparently targeted his mother and her classroom, the official said. Most of the shooting occurred in that classroom. Some of her students were among those killed.
Separately, a dead body was found at a secondary crime scene in Newtown, Vance said.
Law enforcement sources told CBS News senior correspondent John Miller the gunman apparently drove to the school from New Jersey. A law enforcement official in Washington told The Associated Press that New Jersey State Police were searching a location in that state in connection with the shootings.
It is unclear if there was more than one gunman at the school. Miller reports authorities have an individual in custody who investigators said may be a possible second shooter.
CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports that authorities found two guns on the gunman's body, a Glock 9 mm pistol and a Sig Sauer pistol. A Bushmaster assault rifle was found in his vehicle, Orr reports. The weapons appeared to be legally purchased, one source told Orr.
"Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these little children and for the families of the adults who were lost," an emotional President Obama said Friday afternoon in a statement delivered from the White House briefing room. "Our hearts are broken for the parents of the survivors, as well. For, as blessed as they are to have their children home tonight, they know that their children's innocence has been torn away from them too early, and there are no words that will ease their pain."
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Mr. Obama was informed of the shooting at 10:30 a.m. ET by homeland security adviser John Brennan.
CBS Hartford affiliate WFSB-TV reports around 600 students attend the school.
A dispatcher at the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps said a teacher had been shot in the foot and taken to Danbury Hospital.
An 8-year-old student told WCBS-TV he was on his way to the school's office when he saw the gunman.
"I saw some of the bullets going down the hall and then a teacher pulled me into her classroom," the boy said.
Stephen Delgiudice said his 8-year-old daughter heard two big bangs and teachers told her to get in a corner. His daughter was fine.
"It's alarming, especially in Newtown, Connecticut, which we always thought was the safest place in America," he said.
Delgiudice's daughter told him that she heard the loudspeaker come on and swearing being broadcast over it, Delgiudice told CBS News. That prompted the teacher to lock the classroom door.
"That's basically what saved their lives I think," Delgiudice told CBS News.
Lisa Bailey, a Newtown resident with three children in Newtown schools, told CBSNewYork.com, "Newtown is a quiet town. I'd never expect this to happen here. It's so scary. Your kids are not safe anywhere."
The superintendent's office said the district had locked down schools in Newtown, about 60 miles northeast of New York City. Schools in neighboring towns also were locked down as a precaution.
State police said Newtown police called them around 9:40 a.m.
A photo posted by The Newtown Bee newspaper showed a group of young students — some crying, others looking visibly frightened — being escorted by adults through a parking lot in a line, hands on each other's shoulders.
Students were taken to a nearby firehouse to be reunited with their parents, CBSNewYork.com reports.


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I'm trying to make decisions for my small laundry room project for the ORC and honestly, because I see so much decorating on a daily basis, I love too many things and can't narrow it down for myself. My current dilemma is the window treatment. This is what I have to work with:
You'd think the sky's the limit, but I'm being sooooo picky. Here's my mindset:
- I want a decorative pattern, something that stands out, designer-y
- I don't need full privacy, but would like a valance or something to come down 1/2 way from the top window
- I could do a faux roman shade
- I''m not sure if treatment should hang from the ceiling
- I do love the white molding of the window to show
- Alot of color or neutral? ( I'm thinking no on neutral...TODAY)
- Layered treatment with woven shade under a topper?
Bethany's opinion of her Mom as the client:
Whew, good thing I love her.... :) She loves everything but will only fire on neutrals, Scandinavian or traditional things. She can get me to fire on something that I'm hemming and hawing over, but as good as she is at execution, she can't seem to do it herself. At least on her laundry room. We've looked at fabrics until we're blue in the face but still she second guesses it. Bottom line, if she was a real life client, she'd better be paying me some good money because she would be a tough one. That brings me to another point. If we had all the money in the world, she would have the most beautiful things. But since we always have a budget in mind for all of our personal projects, we have to get creative. But most things she likes are pretty timeless and she's always been way ahead of the curve.
Nancy's opinion of Bethany as the client:
I absolutely love Bethany's aesthetic. It is fresh and a little different than me. She is
Personal projects are probably the most fulfilling because we can stretch our imaginations and convince each other to do things we otherwise couldn't impress upon a normal client. But even so, I still find myself stuck on this fabric dilemma.
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ESPN's Pollack Can Feel Stewart's Pain
It's impossible for most of us to imagine the anguish that Walter Stewart must have felt when he was informed that a congenital defect in his spine would likely end his football career.
But David Pollack can identify.
Six years ago in the second game of his second season with the Cincinnati Bengals, Pollack broke his sixth cervical vertebrae while making a tackle. It ended his NFL career after playing in 16 games.
Pollack met Stewart earlier this season while he was in Cincinnati to broadcast the UC-Pitt game on ESPN, and called the Bearcat senior this week to offer his encouragement.
"I've been through having football being a huge part of your life and then all of the sudden it's gone," Pollack told me. "That can be extremely tough, so I just wanted to reach out to him and tell him a little bit about my experience. I wanted to share any words of wisdom – which doesn't come from my mouth very often – or anything that I thought was a big help for me during a time when I needed it."
"They've really bonded and formed a close relationship," said head coach Butch Jones.
"He's a kid that I have a lot of respect for," said Pollack. "When you see people and the way that they play, I think that tells you a lot about them and he's one of those guys that plays really hard and loves the game."
By all accounts, Stewart has handled the news of his injury remarkably well.
"I talked to Cincinnati trainer Bob Mangine and he told that he cried when he told Walter the news, but Walter didn't cry," said Pollack. "He's handled it as well as you can when you get that kind of news."
"He's dealing with it in Walter Stewart fashion – very poised, very calm, very realistic, and just a model of resiliency," said Coach Jones.
Stewart had five sacks in five games this season before suffering his injury and was likely to be a high NFL draft pick in April. But Pollack says it's important not to dwell on what might have been.
"It's always easy to look at a situation like that and see the bad," said Pollack. "But I think it's extremely important to look at the positive too. He's in a situation where he can walk, he can move – he's not in a situation as severe as Eric LeGrand or Kevin Everett several years ago – so I think right away you count your blessings. One thing that kind of gave me hope and clicked in my brain when I was going through my situation is that at some point, there comes a time when you're going to have to hang your cleats up. That day will come. Whether it's now or 10, 12, 15 years down the road, it will come. It's about how you handle it and how you move on."
Over the past several weeks, Stewart has remained an integral part of the Cincinnati football program as he has tried to lead his teammates in the locker room and on the sideline.
"I'm trying to convince him to give coaching a try because I think he can impact lives on a day to day basis," said Coach Jones. "I think that's his passion, I think he needs to be around the game, and I think he can be an asset to our profession. When he speaks the kids listen and he has credibility behind him. I fully anticipate him doing that – if playing football is out – I think you will see him on the sideline with us."
"The most important thing to remember is that life is never going to be perfect," said Pollack. "It's never going to go exactly how you planned it, and it's always important to know that God never closes one door without opening another one. Walter is a great kid with great perspective and I think he'll be absolutely fine with whatever comes his way."
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In what is being seen as a slap in the face with a smoked herring, Samsung's newest R&D facility, its first in the Nordic region, is located in Espoo, Finland. Nokia has had its headquarters in the area since the days it was a rubber boot maker. The move follows the opening of R&D facilities in Finland by other technology firms including Huawei and Intel.
The country has a high concentration of engineers and software developers many of whom previously worked at Nokia or its off-shoots. Nokia has had to cut back on its own resources in recent years, laying off thousands of employees and selling its glass and steel waterfront office building in Espoo and leasing it back to conserve cash.


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I was wondering if anyone has used the 1/4" zonker strips from cabela's.
I would like some thicker strips for pike/pickerel flies and can't find them on some fly shop sites. Plus, cabela's come dyied with black barrs.
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March 8, 2013
Active Google Play Account Data in Big Demand for Malware Creators
Active Google Play account information is worth big bucks to cyber-criminals in their efforts to distribute mobile malware to Android users, says a security expert.
"I recently encountered an Android malware developer on a semi-private Underweb forum who was actively buying up verified developer accounts at Google Play for $100 apiece," said security blogger Brian Krebs in a blog post.
"Google charges just $25 for Android developers who wish to sell their applications through the Google Play marketplace, but it also requires the accounts to be approved and tied to a specific domain. The buyer in this case is offering $100 for sellers willing to part with an active, verified Play account that is tied to a dedicated server."
Krebs said the same cyber-criminal is also selling an Android mobile malware creation toolkit — dubbed Perkele (a Finnish word for devil or damn)— aimed at Citibank, HSBC and ING customers as well as customers of banks in a number of other countries.
Perkele works by intercepting SMS messages sent from banks to Android phones infected with the malware. It works in tandem with compromised desktop or laptop computers. When a customer visits his banking site from his computer, he is asked to install a special security certificate on his phone. The victim is then asked to enter his mobile number, after which hee will receive links to a site hosting mobile malware disguised as security apps available for download on Android devices.
Scam artists can purchase the Perkele kit from this Android malware developer for $1,000 or $15,000. The $1,000 kit targets one specific bank while the more expensive kit "appears to be an SMS malware builder that allows an unlimited number of builds targeting all supported banks," Krebs said.
While such malware is not especially sophisticated, Krebs said, it is still pretty effective.
"Fortunately, a modicum of common sense and impulse control can keep most Android users out of trouble," he said. "Take a moment to read and comprehend an app's permissions before you install it. Also, make sure you download apps that are scanned through Bouncer (Google's internal malware scanner)."


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All of the jerkys are available online. The beers are also available, although you can go to your favorite craft beer shop and find similar beers, if these exact ones are not available. Check our Beer Glossary to learn more about the different styles of beer. This is Page 2 of a four-page article. Click on the black links below to visit other pages.
Our jerkys contenders were from Buffalo Bill's, House of Jerky, Jedidiah's and Tillamook Country Smoker. Here are our notes, listed in alphabetical order of manufacturer and tasting progression. The panel's favorites are listed at the end of the notes.
Buffalo Bill's Country Cut Teriyaki
With Dogfish Head Raison d'Etre Belgian Strong Dark Ale
This moist, thick cut of beef combined a blend of delicious soy and ginger flavors with an enjoyably soft texture. The consensus beer of choice to eat with any Teriyaki blend we tried came from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery of Milton, Delaware. The Raison d'Etre ale combines beet sugar, green raisins and Belgian-style yeast, which proved to be a perfect foil for most of the jerky that we had on hand. We came back to this beer time and time again throughout the course of the tasting.
The next two jerkys were also enjoyed with the Raison d'Etre ale. With the following jerky, we also tried a stout.
Buffalo Bill's Country Cut Honey Pepper
With Dogfish Head Raison d'Etre Belgian Strong Dark Ale or St. Peter's Cream Stout
With the same texture as the company's Teriyaki flavor (above), the Honey Pepper version, tried here in strips rather than shredded form, brought more to the plate in terms of complexity. Flavors of paprika, honey and pepper were prevalent and the Dogfish dark ale proved to be a good counterpart, as well as a cream stout from St. Peter's Brewery in Suffolk, England. The cream stout blends four local barley malts which marry together to create a slightly bitter dark chocolate flavor.
House of Jerky's Western Ostrich
With Dogfish Head Raison d'Etre Belgian Strong Dark Ale
This was the jerky we were all anticipating the most at the outset of the night and it didn't let us down. Who wouldn't want to eat ostrich after a full night of beef, beef, beef? The ostrich proved to be lighter and was seasoned perfectly. Notes of pineapple, pepper and soy danced on the palate. The meat had a snappy, slightly leathery texture, which wasn't annoying to dispatch of due to the flavor. The ostrich, paired with the Raison d'Etre dark ale, proved to be the best pairing of the night, as it intensified the flavor of the raisins in the ale.
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Ingold's words echoed in Rowanna's ears as she trotted Gelion on along the road across the great Pelennor Field; past barns and storehouses, orchards and farmsteads, all bearing the signs of recent hasty departure. The ground on either side of the paved road was churned up with the marks of countless hooves and cloven feet; here and there in a farmyard goods or furniture lay piled, as though packed up and then reluctantly abandoned; not a chimney smoked, and every door was shut. Ahead of her, Rowanna could still see little clusters of livestock and wains and people, riding and on foot, the straggling end of a long line which went up towards the City and then – as far as she could make out – turned left, sweeping around the walls and away towards the South. War is upon us. The City must empty. But I must get in, I must get in...
As she drew closer, Rowanna found her eye drawn upwards, up the line of the walls and the climbing circles of Minas Tirith, to the shining Tower of the Citadel just discernible overhead. The City which had seemed to float almost weightless above the morning's mists now bore down, a mass of white stone towering so close overhead that it seemed ready to tip forward and crush her beneath it. She blinked hard, trying to dispel a wave of dizziness, and forced her eyes down to the great Gate; it was thronging with people, lines of wagons, bleating sheep and goats, and a number of very harassed guards attempting to maintain a semblance of order among a jostling crowd of would-be refugees, messengers and merchants.
"Steady there! Let the womenfolk and the children out, can't you!"
"..of course know my duty to Gondor, Sergeant, but this represents all my remaining stock – what surety of compensation can you give me?..."
"Sir," broke in the gate-guard, who looked as though he was fighting to keep his tongue in check, "it is as you know the order of the Lord Steward that all remaining foodstuffs save those needful for the journey to the Southlands are requisitioned for the soldiery of the City against any coming siege. If Gondor has the victory, you can be assured of recompense in full in due time. If, Valar forbid, the City should fall.. then in truth, payment for your goods is like to be the very last of your concerns."
He shook his head in exasperation as the baker, snorting, turned his mule to follow the stream of people away out of the Gate; gestured to one of his fellows to get something done about the cartload of loaves left behind which was blocking half the roadway, then raised his eyebrows at Rowanna, who hastily proffered Master Ingold's parchment without a word. The guard glanced through it, muttered something about "Women, now? Are matters grown so dire up in Anórien?.." then nodded her through without another word and turned hastily to deal with the next petitioner. Abandoning any thought of asking for help or guidance, Rowanna decided to count her blessings; she took a deep breath and walked Gelion forward under the gate, nudging him cautiously through the little knots of tense-faced women and frightened children still waiting to pass through, and set off up the cobbled street as though she knew exactly where she wished to go.
She followed the wide white road as it wound upward, around the first corner, out of sight of the Gate; then, spotting a small drinking-fountain set into the wall and spilling clear water into a trough, she slid from the saddle with a shaky breath of relief, sat down on the stone bench alongside, and let Gelion drink while she leant back against the cool stone of the wall and wondered what in the name of all the heavens she was to do next.
A woman with a scarf wrapped over her hair and a large bundle tied on her back, leading a child by each hand, emerged from a side-street and came hurrying down the broad way; seizing her chance, Rowanna hailed her.
"Your pardon, mistress, I am sure you are in haste – I seek one Míranna, daughter of Rían, my mother – would you know of her?" The woman looked up startled, shook her head apologetically and chivvied her children on down the street without a word.
Two further such encounters went no better, and Rowanna felt unease beginning to stir towards panic. What if I simply cannot find her? The City is so vast – I had not thought – and half-empty, on the edge of war, and I know barely anything of my kin here even if there was any likelihood they are still within!.. She shook herself and got to her feet. Sitting there waiting for the answer to drop into your lap won't get you anywhere, my girl! She clicked to Gelion, took up his halter and moved slowly on along the street, noticing the craftsmen's signs over their now firmly-barred doors; an oil-lamp here, some kind of lantern there.
A little further along, her eye was caught by an elegant building larger than any she had yet seen in the street; it stood back from the roadway behind a long, narrow green lawn, on which several lads were darting about throwing a ball, seemingly without a care in the world. Cheered by such unexpectedly light hearts in the fearful city, she stopped to watch; a moment later a thin face surrounded by a mop of black hair peeked out from one of the pillars flanking the lawn, vanished again when she smiled at it, and then cautiously re-emerged.
"Hey! That's a fine piece of horseflesh, mistress – how'd you get to keep him?"
"He is fine, indeed," Rowanna smiled at the boy, glad to encounter someone at least willing to speak to her. "But what do you mean, keep him?"
"Horses're all requisitioned, for the Steward's errand-riders," the lad retorted. "Or so my Da said, and he should know, being a groom up on the Sixth where they keep 'em. You let any of the city watch or the Guard see you with that one, mistress, and they'll have him off out to Osgiliath in no time!" He grinned at her obvious alarm and leant back against the pillar, chewing on a bit of grass. "And if you don't mind me asking, what are you doing still in the City, miss? Women and children all gone by tomorrow noon, that was the order!"
"Ah, but I have only just come, and I was never in the City before in my life!" Rowanna sighed, scratching Gelion's nose as he mouthed hopefully at her jerkin in search of treats. "I am looking for my mother, Míranna, daughter of Rían, whose husband was in the service of Eomund of Rohan – you would not know where I might find her, I don't suppose?.."
The boy shook his head, but turned to call over his shoulder towards the scrimmage for the ball now taking place on the lawn.
"Bergil? Hey! Bergil! Get your long shanks over here a minute..."
The lad thus hailed emerged panting from somewhere in the scrum and loped over, brushing mud and grass from his tunic; as he bowed and spoke, Rowanna realised that he might indeed be ten or eleven and lanky, rather than the fourteen years or so his height at first suggested.
"Greetings, lady! How may we serve you?"
"Hark at you!" scoffed his companion. "That's why we need you, see, Bergil – lady's looking for her ma, and sounds like quality to me, so more your Circle than mine, I reckon, you being a Citadel Guard's son and all. Tell him all those names and things again, mistress..."
Rowanna complied, caught between the impulse to laugh and a suspicion that this was all a waste of time; these are children! I need the Guard, an officer... But the lad Bergil was clearly quick-witted, establishing in moments the few clues Rowanna had.
"That sounds like the Fourth circle," he said thoughtfully, "perhaps even the Fifth. And you have no other name, lady – not of a street nor a house?"
"I'm trying to remember..." Rowanna frowned. "I am sure I did know, when I was a child, the name of the street where Mother was brought up, where she lived until she married Father. But I had not thought of it for years, and..." She shook her head in frustration. "No, it has gone."
"It matters not, my lady." The child struck his chest solemnly, forcing her to bite back a smile. "If your mother is yet within the walls then Bergil son of Beregond of the Guard will see her found!"
"I thank you, Bergil Beregond's son," Rowanna responded gravely. At least here is one willing to hear me and to help, if he can! "Where do we begin?"
"The Fourth Circle, I think," the lad responded, chewing on his lip thoughtfully for a moment, "it's nearly deserted by now, I'd guess, but we can knock at doors along Silk Street and Clerks Lane, we..."
He went on cheerfully outlining the proposed search, but his voice seemed to grow faint and far-off; a roaring like a rising wind filled Rowanna's ears, and her vision blurred. Staggering, she heard Bergil's distant cry of alarm, then felt firm hands under her arms taking her weight and lowering her to sit.
"Steady, miss – that's it, head between your knees," the voice of the lad who had first accosted her made its way through the fog in her brain. "Take a few deep breaths – don't flap about like a heron, Bergil, the lady's only taken faint, she'll be right as rain in a moment, won't you, mistress?" After a few unsteady breaths, Rowanna felt the dizziness recede enough for her to raise her head cautiously and assure the gaggle of curious boys now surrounding her that this was so.
"When did yer last eat anything, miss? You've gone white as the mountains!"
"I.." She thought back. "Nothing since dawn, and that was only a few scraps of dried apple. Not much yesterday, either..."
"Well, that's what ails you, I'd reckon!" the lad retorted. "Now, when you feel up
to rising, miss, give Bergil your arm – I'll see to that lovely horse of yourn – and he'll take you in to Mistress Berwyn who's got the charge of us, and see what she can rustle up, before anyone moves another step looking for vanished mothers or anything else!"
Mistress Berwyn was all concern, sitting Rowanna down comfortably in the guesthouse's large flagged kitchen and ladling a hearty soup out from the big pot simmering over her fire for the noonday meal.
"Though it's nothing but vegetables, I fear, my lady – meat's very hard to come by since the preparations for siege began, with everything rationed for the soldiery; though of course the boys who can't or won't leave, like Bergil here, won't be let starve either if we can help it. One loaf and two ounces of cheese a day each boy, they've said, a piece of mutton or dried beef when it's to be had, and whatever roots or fruits are to spare – still, we must all make shift, and no doubt the Steward's taken thought for keeping the city fed as long as can be."
Rowanna demolished the bowlful gratefully, tried unsuccessfully to refuse the second bowl Berwyn pressed upon her, and explained again between mouthfuls what she had come for; Berwyn's interest was caught, and she named several streets and houses she thought Bergil should add to the route of their search. Only when she was fully satisfied that Rowanna was recovered did she allow them to set out, with stern admonitions to Bergil to be back within doors by sundown. The lad who knew his horseflesh – Iorhael by name, Rowanna discovered – had meanwhile offered to walk Gelion up to the Steward's stables below the Citadel, before his presence was remarked on.
"Don't worry about him, miss, my Da will look after him – he'll keep him from being sent out to Osgiliath, tell them he's stiff and needs resting or something; that'll work for a few days at least. Good luck, miss!"
So Rowanna and Bergil set out, working their way upwards through the endless stony streets of the City. There was, Rowanna discovered, no very straight way to climb to the upper Circles, since each Circle was walled with but one gate to the next, offset from each other to make any attacker's task the harder.
"Pardon my asking, my lady," said Bergil as they wound steadily higher, "but – what makes you so sure that your mother is yet within the walls? The Steward's ordered all women and children to the Southlands, as you know, and the families from the upper Circles were early out – they could afford to hire wagons or horses, and most left their servants to shut up the houses and went yesterday, or even the day before. Won't your lady mother be gone with your kin?"
"We've little kin left, Bergil, from what I remember," Rowanna sighed. "Mother hadn't brothers or sisters, and my grandparents are both long dead, of the plague I think, before I was born; Mother just had a few cousins still in the City, I believe. And you're right, in all good sense she should be gone by now – but my mother has a way of refusing to do what's sensible if she takes against it! And, I don't know how, but now that I'm here in the City, I'm certain she's still here too. I can feel it..." Somewhere in all this great weight of white stone, in these empty streets, behind one of these dusty doors...
For dusty the City was, and empty too. In the lower Circles they had passed people still hurrying down to the Gate with children, or hobbling along assisted by younger neighbours; but as Bergil said, above the Fourth Circle everyone seemed gone, and the silence was eerie. After the ninth hour or so their way lay mostly in shadow: yet whenever Rowanna raised her eyes to the upper storeys around her, the sunlight still falling on the white stone burned bright, blinding her and making her dizzy again; the heights of the Citadel loomed like a great wave of stone frozen in mid-air, ready to break over her and drown her under its long centuries of watchfulness. I can barely breathe! I begin to understand why when Mother had made us a home in the great open grasslands of the Riddermark, she was reluctant to come back...
They worked their way along Herald Street, then Eagle Way, following a mixture of Berwyn's advice and Bergil's nose, but with little to go on. Most of the postern-gates at which they knocked were shut fast; occasionally one yielded to a push, revealing a courtyard but lately deserted - to judge by the troughs of flowers yet blooming, and the occasional watering-cans or children's hobby-horses still scattered about - and yet no answer came as they called out. More and more as they climbed, however, the houses had a forlorn, long-abandoned look: doors hung off hinges, ivy obscured gateways; here and there small trees had even taken root atop walls, roots worming out through the mortar. That would make Legolas smile! Rowanna thought, and her heart suddenly thumped as the idea jolted her from her task. She shook her head and blinked. Not now!
Bergil stretched on tiptoe to examine a crest carved in the stone above one great gateway. "Is that a swan or a seabird atop that nest? Can you see?"
"Swan, I think. Do you recognise it?"
"If it's a swan, then it's probably House Alphirrim – I thought they had one of these big places up on the Fifth. Do you know aught of your family's emblems? It might help – nearly everyone up here has a shield or a badge of some sort over the gate, and you can tell the older clans by how worn the carving is. No-one ever has their shield re-chiselled, my father says, in case they look like one of the upstarts who've only just worked their way up to a coat of arms!" He grinned, and despite her weariness Rowanna managed a tight smile in response.
"Well, in that case I fear Father's family might have let their shield wear away entirely! - Mother always said they had lived on the past glories of their bloodline until they hadn't a deed in living memory worth singing of. But Mother's emblem – I do remember that; it was embossed in very faded gold-leaf on the binding of one of her books. A sun setting in the sea, for the House of the Annúmellyrn..."
Bergil nodded. "Friends of the West. Well, that should be easy enough to spot, if we ever come to the right house!" He reached into the pockets of his jerkin and pulled out a couple of apples – small and wrinkled, but perfectly edible, as Rowanna acknowledged after a bite or two. "Still, the Alphirrim are no good to us, we know that, and that's the last likely house in this street – look, the other gates at the end there are overgrown, you can see the ivy from here. We'd better turn up here, up the..." He stepped back from the walls, craning up to see the street-name carved into the stone; "...Street of the Jewels." Bergil set off again briskly, but Rowanna had not moved.
"What did you say?..."
"Street of the Jewels. Why -" he too stopped dead - "does that mean anything? Do you remember?-"
"That's it. Bergil, that's it! I'm certain I remember that name – and Mother must have had reason to tell it to me!" Rowanna took a shuddering breath. "Let's – let's look..."
One deserted house. Another. A third clearly not worth investigating, given the tree-roots coming through the walls. Her heart began to sink. If we do not find her now, I am not sure if I can go on... "No guessing the emblem on this one," Bergil pointed, "the ivy's covering it – but look, it's been trimmed clear of the gate, not long ago." He tried the heavy iron latch on the postern-gate; it turned easily, and the postern swung open without creaking. "This place was still being lived in, anyway." He stepped through. Rowanna followed, stood still a moment as her eyes adjusted to the courtyard's dimmer light – and then felt it; a great rising wave, powerful as the tides of anxiety and fear that had assaulted her in Rivendell and Rohan, but this time excitement, relief -
She's here. "She's here. Bergil, this is it, she's here!"
"How do you -" But Rowanna was not listening; she was across the courtyard, through the inner door and climbing the great wooden staircase, barely looking at the huge faded tapestries hanging below the vaulted ceiling, up through the shafts of sunlight where dust-motes danced, calling;
"Mother? Módor?..." She stopped on the first landing, Bergil racing in her wake; listened; called again. From somewhere above came a faint noise. "Mother?..."
Barely a thread of sound in response. "Who's there?..."
"Mother! Mother, it's me, it's Rowanna -" She flung open one door off the next landing, then another – a west-facing room, late-afternoon sunlight filling it so that for a moment the woman lying in the window-seat was only a silhouette, and then Míranna spoke:
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Gordon has put forth four specific goals for the School Committee to evaluate her performance, but that is only part of her overall plans.
CHESHIRE, Mass. — The new superintendent has put forth four goals for which the Adams-Cheshire Regional School Committee can judge her.
Superintendent Kristen Gordon met with the evaluation subcommittee Monday to discuss how the committee will evaluate her performance in a new state rubric. She has identified four goals to accomplish — creating a new strategic plan, improving administrative meetings and communication, implementing new ways to judge teacher performance and furthering the progress of Race to the Top.
Updating teacher evaluations is already a state mandate as well as a part of the federal Race to the Top reforms but the district is behind. The state released an evaluation system that schools could adopt or adapt, or create their own with any changes being approved by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Race to the Top wanted those to be implemented in 2012 but negotiations with the teachers' union has delayed that. Gordon says she expects the new system to be implemented in September 2013.
"We're in the process of negotiating the new teacher evaluation system right now," Gordon said during an interview on Tuesday morning. "It is more about accountability, student achievement and it is not so subjective."
A major change is the frequency and number of visits administrators make to classrooms. Gordon said currently the contract does not allow administrators to make unannounced observation visits and the new system would include some number of those as well as 10-minute walkthroughs to assess the classroom.
A task force of administrators, teachers, union representatives and the School Committee is picking through the document to reach an agreement.
Meanwhile, Gordon said she is beginning the process of updating the school's five-year strategic plan to direct the future of the district by identifying goals and paths to reach them. The plan that was crafted by school officials, staff and community members at a retreat five years ago expires in September.
"I want it to be a direction. I want it to be measurable," Gordon said.
The plan will help "get everyone on the same page," Gordon said, and will again include input from the community, staff, students and administrators. The school is currently generating a survey for students, then will gather input from staff, parents, and the community. Then there will either be a series of meetings or another retreat to craft the actual planning document.
"We can stay the same or we can get better. This is one way to get better," she said.
Additionally, with new administrators at both C.T. Plunkett Elementary School and Hoosac Valley Middle and High School, Gordon has begun to revamp the administrator meetings. The principals and vice principals meet weekly but instead of just reporting on what is happening at their schools, Gordon has begun to incorporate more research about how to improve various aspects of operations.
"We didn't study things together. We didn't research together. We didn't hold each other accountable," Gordon said.
Reading "realtime" articles about issues facing other schools in the state, Gordon hopes the administrators can take away tactics to improve their school. The discussion will also put the school leaders "on the same page" with where the district is going.
Gordon also says she will continue the school's Race to the Top efforts. The school is in its second year of the federal program that provides funding for schools to make strides toward a variety of goals. The school has been using the money to align the curriculum with new state common core frameworks, to create a "plan for college" program for high school students, to update both teacher and student evaluations, and to re-do the report cards and improve school climate.
"Its been really beneficial for us," Gordon said.
But while those four are the specific goals the School Committee will be judging, Gordon says she has a lot of other goals that do not fall into the state rubric.
Gordon is hoping to bring the school further into the community, launch an effort to retain students who otherwise opt out, increase computer lab time for elementary school students, meet with Police and Fire departments to re-examine their school safety plans, continue anti-bullying efforts, set a maintenance plan and increase professional development days.
The former Plunkett principal is in her first year as superintendent after taking over in November for Alfred Skrocki, who retired.
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Located in Fort Baxter, Vice City, and based on a standard army barracks, the barracks is depicted as a shared accommodation, with rooms for a superior officer (a personal dorm and an office, presumably for a drill instructor) in front, a recruits' dorm with several beds in the middle, and toilets and showers at the back.
Players will find their savepoint and a pistol pickup near the end of the recruits' dorm; however, the safehouse does not include a health pickup within the building, unlike later safehouses in the game, as it is already provided in front of the medic barracks just down the road.
During his career in the army, Victor Vance hides a package of drugs under his bed under orders of his superior officer Jerry Martinez. After being discovered, Victor is kicked out of the army and can no longer use the safehouse until "Over the Top", when the player can reenter the barracks during the mission; the pistol pickup is still available inside the barracks during the mission.


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American Legion Post 86 Riders, along with shooter Richard Mosshardt, and the Pratt Fire Department will provide an Independence Day fireworks display at the Pratt County Veterans Memorial Lake. The fireworks will begin about dusk.
The Pratt City and Pratt County Commissions will pay about half the expense of the fireworks.
Along with the celebration, the Legion Riders will sell hamburgers and hotdogs at the south pavilion near the lake entrance, as a fund-raiser for the American Legion baseball teams.
Already the RV campground at the west side of the lake is filling up. Lake manager Nick Birdsong said he has taken all the reservations he will accept, and the remainder of the slots will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Camping fees will be owed for every day the unit occupies a pad.
Camping is also available on the piers, on a first-come, first-served basis.
On the fourth, traffic will move only one way around the lake. Drivers should continue traveling east when they enter the property, and circle the lake in a counter-clockwise pattern.
People are welcome to bring their own fireworks — a few areas are off limits, and they are posted, Birdsong said.
Glass bottles are prohibited, and visitors are encouraged to clean up after themselves — plenty of trashcans are provided.
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