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For Sommer, hockey is about family ties
Holy Cross freshman winger Castan Sommer (inset below) and his family have a special connection to hockey.
His father, Roy Sommer, head coach of the Worcester Sharks of the American Hockey League, has spent 15 consecutive seasons behind the bench in the San Jose Sharks organization. His experiences, as both a player and a coach, have given his son a distinctive perspective on the game.
His older brother, 22-year-old Marley, nicknamed "Moe," sorts out towels and uniforms and fills water bottles in the Sharks locker room at the DCU Center, where the players affectionately chant his name.
Moe lives with autism and Down syndrome. But that did not deter him from finding an elevator at the TD Garden in Boston and walking onto the ice to celebrate Shrewsbury High's Division 3 state championship win in 2009, when Castan Sommer was a senior captain on the squad.
"He was in the stands with my Midget coach and the next thing I knew our whole team was hugging him,'' recalled Sommer, who scored the game-winning goal, a short-handed strike, that night in the third period against Shawsheen Valley Regional Tech. "He has that same bond with the Sharks players and it's nice to be back home and going to college near him and all the family.''
The 6-foot-3, 180-pound Sommer, whose sister, Kira, is a junior at Shrewsbury High, played a postgraduate year at the Hotchkiss School and then two years with junior teams. He is off to a solid start in his first season at Holy Cross, where he has collected 3 goals and 5 assists in 13 games.
The Crusaders were 7-4-2 overall and 6-3-2 in the Atlantic Hockey Conference heading into this weekend's pair of home games against Penn State.
Holy Cross head coach Paul Pearl was told to keep an eye on Sommer by former Shrewsbury High coach John Binkoski, previously an assistant under Pearl.
"It's all about accountability with Coach Pearl,'' said Sommer, 21, who participated in the San Jose Sharks' development camp last summer alongside his father. "If you make a bad pass in practice, you have to go chase down the puck. So we pay a lot of attention to detail and it keeps us sharp.''
Pearl, who enjoys talking hockey with Roy Sommer, admires the skills and intelligence his son brings to the rink.
"Castan wasn't quite ready for Division 1 hockey when I first saw him,'' said Pearl, whose roster includes brothers Mike and Joe McNamara , Belmont Hill School graduates from Chestnut Hill.
"He had some growing and strengthening to do. His skating has improved greatly over the past two years, he's defensively responsible, which is why he's on our penalty kill, and being an older freshman, Castan's maturity level is right up there.''
Roy Sommer said Castan's exposure to players he's coached over the years and attending Sharks camps for college prospects and free agents has given him a solid foundation.
"We're total opposites, though,'' said Roy, who played nine seasons in the minors and is the third winningest coach in the AHL history. He scored a goal for the Edmonton Oilers in his first of three career National Hockey League games 31 years ago, and has kept the puck as a memento. "I was probably more physical, but he has more skill and reads the game real well. Now that he's at Holy Cross, he's realized a dream to play college hockey.
"And his brother, Moe, really relaxes our dressing room. He's a fun kid to be around.''
Moe, who received his diploma from Shrewsbury High in 2010, delivers Meals on Wheels through the Sterling Center's adult day program, and he sometimes wears his Sharks cap or T-shirt.
Clarke leads Hopkins to first women's title
Lincoln's Holly Clarke (inset below), a junior at Johns Hopkins University, became the school's first two-time women's cross-country All-American by placing 25th at last month's NCAA Division 3 championships. The team's No. 2 runner and an All-Centennial Conference and Mideast Region pick, Clarke helped Johns Hopkins capture its first women's championship in any sport.
"Holly has stepped up this year and proven herself as an elite runner nationally,'' said head cross-country coach Bobby Van Allen. "She combines a joyful energy with extreme dedication. Her top priority is the team's overall success.''
Clarke, a Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High graduate who will study abroad next semester, was fifth at the NCAA Mideast Regional and second at the conference meet (a personal best 21:04). She competed in the 5,000 meters indoors and 5,000 and 10,000 meters outdoors at last season's NCAA track and field championships.
Former Wellesley High girls' soccer tricaptain Mikaela Curtin set a Wesleyan University women's soccer record by playing in 61 consecutive games to cap off her college career. A versatile player and two-time captain, she helped eighth-seeded Wesleyan pull a major upset against nationally ranked Middlebury in the New England Small College Athletic Conference quarterfinals . . . Jim Vesey, a former Belmont Hill standout who was leading the Harvard University hockey team in scoring as a freshman, was selected to the preliminary roster of the US junior team. His father, Jim Vesey, starred at Merrimack College, and had a brief stint with the Bruins.Marvin Pave can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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As you read this, I'm probably delivering the April issue of The Bollard, driving around southern Maine in my '98 Saturn coupe, its shocks straining under the weight of several thousand copies. Once a month, on a Thursday, the printer's truck driver drops two towering, shrink-wrapped pallets of papers on the street in front of my apartment. Our circulation these days is 20,000. It takes me about four days to finish the first run.
I follow a meandering route from Portland up to Bath and back, then down to Biddeford and out to Bridgton, with forays into Westbrook and Gorham. Having done this for nearly six years now, I can drive almost 200 miles making fewer than half a dozen left turns. The delivery route is gerrymandered to include as many coffeehouses, corner stores, sandwich shops, pizza joints, public libraries and pubs as possible — over 350 stops in all.
I've had some help over the years, ad reps who'd cover a city or a town or two. Our northern distribution is done by the good folks at the BDN, who'll be adding communities Down East beginning this month, and the Lewiston/Auburn/Waterville run is done through the guy who stocks the Shaw's. But most of the delivery is still the duty of yours truly. Even if I could afford to pay someone to take it over, I'd still want to do it myself.
Compared to the stress of the preceding deadline weekend, delivery weekend is relaxing. I get to see some familiar faces, like the friendly guy who works at the pizzeria in Westbrook and the other friendly guy who works at the pizzeria down the street from that one. I catch up with a few characters I've gotten to know over the years, like the great poet and activist Gary Lawless of Gulf of Maine Books, in Brunswick, and Saco Mayor Mark Johnson, proprietor of Vic and Whit's, who invariably turns to That's My Dump! and tells me about the age and architecture of the rundown property we've profiled.
Sometimes almost magical things happen, like the day an impromptu barbershop quartet sang in the entryway of Brackett's Market in Bath. Or the time I was listening to a They Might Be Giants cassette and "They'll Need a Crane" played just as I was driving by a crane over the causeway in Naples.
Truth be told, I'm also a bit neurotic about our circulation. I'm obsessed with ensuring the issues are highly visible and easy to pick up. In places with racks containing numerous free publications, there's an informal, occasionally ruthless competition to secure the best spot, and being a monthly among several weeklies puts The Bollard at a disadvantage. I'm not neurotic enough to return every week and rearrange papers (not everywhere, anyway), but it's enraging to show up a month later and find a nearly full stack of last month's issues because some bozo put a competitor's paper over mine or the stack was moved to a bottom rack where no one is willing to bend.
The most gratifying feeling is to find exactly one issue left. Then you know you've nailed it — no one walked over hoping to find your paper and was disappointed (and no one threw the whole stack in the trash).
With a few exceptions (the supermarkets, some Dunkin' Donuts), all our distribution locations are locally owned, independent businesses. Fast food franchises and chains like Applebee's generally don't devote any valuable floor or shelf space to publications like mine. By contrast, Chinese restaurants almost always do — my pet theory is that the crushing censorship in China gives immigrant restaurateurs here a greater appreciation for the free press.
There's a parasitic quality to this type of distribution. Free papers attach themselves to popular retail businesses in hopes their customers become our readers. We're like ticks lying in wait by the front door, hoping to be picked up so we can infect another host and spread our ideas. What other type of business is allowed to put its products inside someone else's business with no money changing hands?
I really appreciate the establishments that make room for free papers. They help support a form of journalism that may very well be doomed as new generations ditch print for pixels. As Al Diamon reports in our April issue, the venerable free weekly Boston Phoenix folded last month after seeing its circulation drop by nearly a third last year. When I see competing papers fall by the wayside, I'm grateful for the shelf space but unnerved by the writing on the wall.

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I have been reading Home Power for several years and love it. We are getting ready to build a new house in the country and will have a grid-tied PV system installed on the south-facing roof. My question is how to find "true south." The magnetic declination at our location in central North Carolina is 8 degrees west. If I shoot an azimuth of 188 degrees and orient the south roof facing that azimuth would I be close enough for decent solar exposure? Is there a better way to find true south without buying additional equipment? Thanks in advance,
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Hello Frank, You have it right. True south for your location is at 188° magnetic. Magnetic south differs from true south because magnetic north—what compasses show—is based on the large mass of magnetic material in the northern part of the Earth. This mass is not centered on the geographical pole, so for each location, there is a correction (called "declination") to convert to true north from compass/magnetic north.
I'm glad to see you're thinking of the sun when you orient your new home. Most folks just think of the view from the living room window and can wind up building a home with poor solar exposure. In fact, plus or minus 10° either way doesn't cause much loss in a fixed array (only about 2 percent).
In addition to solar-electricity, I hope you'll also consider passive solar design and solar hot water for your new home. Both of these are very effective solar technologies! Thanks for reading Home Power!
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Tom Brady will be a Patriot until he is 40 years old.
Brady agreed to a three-year contract extension through 2017 with New England on Monday, a person familiar with the contract told The Associated Press. The extension is worth about $27 million and will free up nearly $15 million in salary cap room for the team, which has several younger players it needs to re-sign or negotiate new deals with.
Sports Illustrated first reported the extension.
The 35-year-old two-time league MVP was signed through 2014, and has said he wants to play at least five more years.
A three-time Super Bowl champion, Brady will make far less in those three seasons than the going rate for star quarterbacks. Brady currently has a four-year, $72 million deal with $48 million guaranteed.
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Giant Hornets Have Killed At Least 18 People in China
If you're annoyed by those little mosquitoes buzzing around you then don't plan a trip to China anytime soon.
It seems that there have been reports in the last couple months about swarms of Asian Giant Hornets flying around stinging people, and when we say giant we mean GIANT (compared to your average hornet here in the states anyway). The Asian Giant Hornet can grow up to two inches in length with a half inch long stinger that emits a chemical beacon that tells more hornets to sting you.
These hornets are way more than just your average pest though. Their stings have been known to kill, especially since if you get stung by one, more are soon to follow. People in Asia are killed every year by these hornets, mainly in wooded areas, but in the past couple weeks the amount of hornet stings being treated have gone up, as well as the deaths by hornet stings. According to the Associated Press over 100 people in Angkang city area of Shaanxi province have been treated at the Ankang City Central Hospital, 18 of which passed away. That's according to the AP though, some reports are saying as many as 21 people have died because of these hornet swarms.
Now if you're already terrified then skip over this next part because it only gets worse.
Not only do these giant killer hornets have a huge stinger and deadly venom, they can also fly up to 25 mph, way faster than normal people can run, so once your caught it's game over. Some scientists are claiming the rise in hornets is due to the weather changes. So if you're planning a trip to Asia anytime soon you might want to reconsider your plans.
And if you thought these Chinese hornets were something to be scared of, wait till you see these Japanese hornets (outnumber 1,000 to 1) take on a hive of Honey Bees. These guys are the Spartans of the insect world.


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Since 10 minutes ago. I declare it now, so they can't change how it exists.
When was the Internet anything other than a "lawless wild west"?
The internet is the wild west, but it is far from lawless... it just so happens that there are very few laws.
One of those laws is the trustworthiness of DNS. The proposal at hand is actually one that makes the internet MORE lawless, not less, as DNS falls utterly as the (relatively) trustworthy backbone of the internet it has been until today.
Who would knowingly point to a DNS server that might mislead them after this is passed? I sure wouldn't.
The vast majority of Internet users doesn't know their DNS, they probably don't even know what DNS is. They just open their browser (better known as "the Internet"), enter www.slashdot.org and expect to be able to read News for Nerds, Stuff that matters. Maybe not the best example but I bet you get the point.
typical users lack the expertise to select a different DNS server
is definitely a true statement.
the point is that will change in about 3 days across the USA if the USA tries this. It's not the first country to try DNS filtering, and perhaps despite what recent history might lead one to believe, americans aren't significantly more stupid than people in other countries, which nowadays routinely route around incompetent government/corporate attempts to censor the net.
typical users lack the expertise to select a different DNS server
is definitely a true statement for the present.
And it is so just because the DNS infrastructure worked by very unsophisticated rules - good enough for everybody - unsophistication which allowed the rules remain hidden. Break them and more people will start looking into how to mend them in their own way - one may not like some ways of mending.
typical users lack the expertise to select a different DNS server
is definitely a true statement.
What it is is bullshit. There would be directions floating around everywhere written at a second grade level on how to do it. If they couldn't figure it out from there they'd ask that tech suave friend or relative to do it. Linux would come pre-configured to hit OpenDNS.
Where in the problem lies is that half the instructions floating around would be pointing to compromised servers. Thus by eliminating the trust aspect that is key to DNS working and making DNSSEC essentially illegal they're going to create exactly what they claim to be trying to prevent, turning the internet into a lawless wild west. I find it absolutely amazing that congress is going to pass a law that will make implementing security measures on the internet illegal. Tells you how deep our government representatives are in the pockets of the RIAA/MPAA crowd.
True statement? Really?
A statement by the MPAA disputes these claims, arguing that typical users lack the expertise to select a different DNS server and that the Internet must not be allowed to 'decay into a lawless Wild West.'
Hmmmmmmm. Let me rephrase that differently.....
An inter-office memo from Microsoft was recently released with a statement by an executive arguing that the typical user lacks the expertise to choose a different browser and that apathy and ignorance will allow the Internet to continue to be dominated by Internet Explorer and that the Internet will not devolve into a Wild West of open source competitors taking away market share and that governments and states will not get involved via lawsuits and legislation to affect Microsoft negatively .
You screw around with DNS too hard and you will find that people will fight back. Of course their warnings about fragmentation will most likely be true very quickly. How much of an excuse does China need to form its own root servers and DNS? It would certainly only help them to create and control DNS resolution and to ban all DNS queries to outside networks period. The EU will probably form its own, and interestingly, will probably pick up well over half the US market.
Seriously? Would you choose a DNS "network" that bypasses due process and exposes you to impossible business risks for you and your customers, or a DNS "network" operated without such risks?
When installing IE9 now I can see options on changing default search engines. You can choose default programs now too. Did you think you would see that 5 years ago?
I am willing to bet that if it gets bad enough, even router manufacturers will start giving choices and that open source browsers themselves will start making it easy to configure a computer to use alternate DNS servers, even if it is just for the browser itself.
So far, they have not affected enough people yet, not all that many in actuality, but how much are we arguing about it right now? All they have done is stare at the hornets nest, just wait till they actually throw a rock.
The vast majority of Internet users doesn't know their DNS, they probably don't even know what DNS is. They just open their browser (better known as "the Internet"), enter www.slashdot.org and expect to be able to read News for Nerds, Stuff that matters.
I enter 126.96.36.199, you insensitive clod!
wget -O
--2011-07-18 17:39:41-- http://18.104.22.168/ [188.8.131.52]
Connecting to 188.8.131.52:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org] [following]
--2011-07-18 17:39:42-- http://slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org]
Resolving slashdot.org (slashdot.org)...
this ip address simply re-directs to "slashdot.org".
so this does not solve the problem.
When was the Internet anything other than a "lawless wild west"?
The internet is the wild west, but it is far from lawless... it just so happens that there are very few laws.
One of those laws is the trustworthiness of DNS. The proposal at hand is actually one that makes the internet MORE lawless...
Indeed. Funny thing, this requires judges and lawyers being woven into the fabric of internet - I don't like the idea.
When was the Internet anything other than a "lawless wild west"?
The internet is the wild west, but it is far from lawless... it just so happens that there are very few laws.
One of those laws is the trustworthiness of DNS. The proposal at hand is actually one that makes the internet MORE lawless...
Indeed. Funny thing, this requires judges and lawyers being woven into the fabric of internet - I don't like the idea.
And politicians.
Don't forget the damned politicians.
Politicians, lawyers, and judges.
The Unholy Trinity.
Of course, it was inevitable that a source of such wealth, information, and power available to the unwashed su
Indeed. Funny thing, this requires judges and lawyers being woven into the fabric of internet - I don't like the idea.
And politicians.
I wasn't forgetting them... just that they seem to be already entangled in/with the internet - ever since the somebody "explained" them the internet is like a series of tubez [wikipedia.org]. To date, on purpose or not, the confusion persists.
The judges and lawyers would be new additions.
The internet is not a lawless wild west. It's something our governments love to perpetuate because they notice that their local laws mean jack in a global network. It is lawless from their point of view since they are used to governing every part of your life, which they simply cannot do globally.
But lawless it is not. The difference is not that there is law in meatspace and none in the internet. The difference is that different laws apply when you're dealing with the internet. And with different I don't me
15 years ago, 'typical users' didn't know how to use napster. 6 years ago, 'typical users' didn't know how to bittorrent.
This kind of argument shows how little they've learned.
15 years ago, 'typical users' didn't know how to use napster
I should think not, since Napster didn't exist until 1999. [wikipedia.org]
Fine 12 years.
Quit being pedantic.
The typical user knows exactly as much as they need to (or slightly less) in order to go about their business.
When schools and businesses started filtering video/social networking/etc the "typical" user was introduced to web based proxies.
If the **AA manages to push through DNS tampering, the typical user will be introduced to alternative DNS servers and even more proxies.
The internet routes around damage.
In particular, because these sorts of things would get asked about and talked about. People would learn "Just enter these numbers under DNS and stuff will work again," and they'd do it. Setting DNS servers is not complex, users can easily be taught how to do it, just nobody bothers because they needn't do so. DHCP hands them out and it makes sense to use the ones your ISP provides as they are usually the fastest for you. However it isn't some major technical feat to enter the numbers in the box. There would be sites out there listing unfiltered DNS servers and people would just copy and paste.
1. That would would for like a week until someone id10t in CONgress decides ISPs simply have to redirect all tcp/53 or udp/53 traffic to a compliant DNS server. which will of course give rise to plenty of shareware/donationware DNS proxy applications that let you point your system nss library resolver at localhost, and then that app turns around runs DNS on some other port, perhaps even with an SSL layer to thwart packet inspection.
2. The other issue is DNSSec. I don't don't agree with the TFA that this p
Not trivial for average joe true but the collaboration requirement is easily fixed by renting a cheap VPS somewhere.
Greetings and Salutations....
Why does this seem like one of those "feel good" laws that politicians pass to get brownie points with their followers, rather than to actually address and fix a problem?
I am more and more convinced that attempts to regulate the Net are a bad idea, and, any official that attempts to do this should be voted out of office or recalled.
That's the intent. To create a law that addresses one political issue while at the same time creating several new problems. THIS IS BY DESIGN. It's the political gift that keeps on giving back to legislatures. It's purely justification to expand the government at the expense of public tax dollars. How in the fuck this is news to anyone proves we still live in a sick, sad world. It should be ingrained into every child from birth that large government = evil!
Adding a little from the quote that got cut precariously close to out of context:
"Here's the bottom line: We rely on the Internet to do too much and be too much to let it decay into a lawless Wild West. We are confident that America's technology community, which leads the world in innovation and creativity, will be capable of developing a technical solution that helps address the serious challenge of rogue sites," said Paul Brigner, chief technology officer at MPAA.
In other words, "our geeks are
large government = evil!
Such a blanket statement is nonsense. In the UK the National Health Service is a massive government run institution and despite its problems is still many times better than what private healthcare in the US can deliver. The public is broadly in favour of expanding it and pumping in more money, so much so that all parties at the last election declared their intent to shield the NHS from spending cuts that every other public institution would have to bare.
Greetings and Salutations....
Why does this seem like one of those "feel good" laws that politicians pass to get brownie points with their followers, rather than to actually address and fix a problem?
This is by design [despair.com]
I am more and more convinced that attempts to regulate the Net are a bad idea, and, any official that attempts to do this should be voted out of office or recalled.
Yes... but nothing new [despair.com] and it must not be restricted only to the Net.
The typical users will quickly learn how to set their DNS providers if this comes to pass.
The typical users will quickly learn how to set their DNS providers if this comes to pass.
Say rather that the users who are interested will quickly learn.
ISPs will not be able to improve DNS security using DNSSEC, a system for cryptographically signing DNS records to ensure their authenticity, as the sort of manipulation mandated by PROTECT-IP is the type of interference DNSSEC is meant to prevent.
We shouldn't forget the massive amounts of users that are oblivious to nearly any of this. DNS, IP Addresses, Routing protocols and all the rest of the "magic" of the Internet is well past their horizon. Please keep in mind how reasonable this would appear to the average Jane and Joe Six-Pack.
The measure allows courts to require Internet service providers to redirect or block queries for a domain deemed to be infringing on IP laws.
On the surface this looks like a great thing. Understanding the technology or anything past double-clicking the blue "e", or perhaps clicking a link in
You don't need to understand how it works. All that is needed is a website with a few screenshots that show how to change the DNS server. Even grandma can do that.
That may be true, but I've seen otherwise relatively technically-illiterate users solve problems - like the ones this may cause - by simply following tutorials. They may not *understand* what a dns server does, but if they can follow instructions, they can fix the problem.
Also, don't underestimate the power of friends providing help - One semi-knowledgable user + Google can help dozens of users to make the switch if needed.
As such, I think most freeloaders & normal users will end up changing DNS if need
How can that be a good thing by any means? "Deemed to be infringing" is extremely broad. I've had cease and desists sent to my own website for MP3s of my own music which I own entirely. With this law, they don't even need to attempt to prosecute me. They just file notice with the court that my domain is "infringing" and suddenly my hits go to 0. I have no right of reply as I've never been served.
I intend no personal insult, but you seem to forget that what the US courts deem as "infringing" draws no parallels to actual international copyright law. For example, a site which contains no pirated material but contains links to it, is considered as infringing under US copyright laws (see DMCA). If you haven't noticed, the MPAA and RIAA will stop at nothing and have no qualms about how many people they inconvenience. Baidu.cn contains an MP3 section. Does it host MP3s? No. Does that matter to a court which orders all ISPs to block access to Baidu as a result? Of course not.
This law like this gives the MPAA the legal right to have Google.com blocked until it removes all links to pirated material. I don't believe they'd hesitate for a second. Although TBH, they probably need it, in order to search for more meta sites which may or may not link to "deemed infringing" material. Like my personal music.
While of course, this horrific scenario may not occur, the point is, this will allow the MPAA to go nuts. They don't care if they knock out 10,000 sites like my own. They don't have to serve me, so there's no case to win. And when they get it wrong, I can't sue the MPAA, because the MPAA didn't make the "ruling", the court did.
They'll happily have Metacafe block because some video has a soundtrack they own, or have any NNTP Usenet provider closed because, despite all their legal offerings, they can be deemed to be serving infringing material. A Safe-Harbour doesn't apply here as they're not actually filing a DMCA takedown. They're just having the court look at all the pirated material and say "this means ISPs have to block them." Goodbye Giganews. I'm sure such sites can go through and remove all material deemed infringing, but exactly how do you go about doing this? MPAA doesn't care - they only have to prove one instance of pirated material. Yet before, say, Giganews can file an appeal, they have to go about removing all potentially infringing material from their usenet mirror? For that matter, how does Google go about removing all links to "potentially infringing" material from their servers?
Say rather that the users who are interested will quickly learn.
There will be simple one-click apps to do it for the rest. And shortly after, Trojans masquerading as such.
The typical users will quickly learn how to set their DNS providers if this comes to pass.
Say rather that the users who are interested will quickly learn.
And the ones that are hit by such filtering are probably also the ones that are interested to route around it. If only by posting on their local message board "The Internetz seem broken, I can't reach The Pirate Bay any more!", likely quickly replied to by someone giving some overseas DNS and telling them how to change their settings to use that one. The ones that aren't affected will not change their settings, but then they're not affected to begin with so no reason for them to change it in the first place
The typical users will quickly learn how to set their DNS providers if this comes to pass.
Unfortunately, some unknown; but nontrivial, number of them will learn to set their DNS providers by obtaining from an incrementally more clueful friend and running "l33tt0rr3ntz_DNS_Crack.exe". This will, in fact, recofigure their system's DNS settings to point to somewhere in the free world; but it might, well, invite a few buddies in...
The typical users will quickly learn how to set their DNS providers if this comes to pass.
One good reason to actually go ahead and try to screw the net. For this very reason, I wonder if it wouldn't actually worth encouraging them to do it.
My nieces and nephews all got MacBooks issued to them from their school. Just like the ones in that webcam scandal. So the school had a firewall installed that was supposed to block inappropriate sites. It was amazing how fast people, who had never owned a computer before, learned how to use a proxy, and learned to put that s on the end of https because apparently the firewall didn't filter sites using ssl. And one of the first things they learned was electrical tape defeats the webcam.
Cousins got iPhones. It was amazing how people who didn't even know what firmware was learned the concept of jailbreaking. No, they didn't all know how to do it. But they knew how to go on Facebook and ask "does anybody know how to jailbreak an iPhone"?
The moral of this story is, if you try to take it away and there is a way to get it back, they'll find it even if they have no idea how to do it right now. It's not that they're incapable of learning. It's they have had no reason to up until now.
Don't over sensationalise it you will just go to a site that links (possibly using the direct ip address) to another site that has no 'illegal' content but is outside the US that has an IP link to the desired site. Provided the IP is static enough no DNS is ever needed. Just add more links as the law tries to catchup.
I would think this process could be made automatic with various scripts. Inventing a new DNS standard will not be fast enough to catch up with some obvious and already implemented web 'standar
Don't over sensationalise it you will just go to a site that links (possibly using the direct ip address) to another site that has no 'illegal' content but is outside the US that has an IP link to the desired site. Provided the IP is static enough no DNS is ever needed. Just add more links as the law tries to catchup.
Name-based hosting makes it a little more complicated, since (as far as I am aware - please correct me if I'm wrong) URL's don't currently have a way of specifying the domain and the IP address at the same time. You can get a link to the correct host, but because you used an IP address instead of a domain name the server will present the wrong website.
You are right (i now remember reading something) but would think there would be workarounds if there is reasonable demand to bypass DNS. I think any site with https has to have its own ip address and IPv6 may make this less of an issue.
Trying it out I would think websites may have to be modified or use browser add-ons, you can reach the website but it wont let you browse using the IP.
So if they do force Google to de-list, what is to stop Google continuing to list them on it's local sites outside the US? So everyone switches to using Google.co.uk? Or Google could move it's
You can be sure Google will be dong it's best to let people find those sites, as not only does this censorship go against the Google creed but it also knows that if people can't find what the want on Google they will switch to another search provider and bang go Google
They won't even need to know what a DNS is. They'll just download the 'get your free music' extension for firefox. Which will, of course, require them to download a browser that isn't IE, but their nephew/sister/uncle/cool geek in their dorm knows how to do that stuff so its OK.
Sort of lowers the technical bar for circumventing this crap. It'll also move the fight from DNS to the browser level, which will be fuggin' awesome.
My college (and according to rumor, a few ISPs) block outbound DNS to anyone except their own filtered servers.
Experts: "they can still access non-filtered DNS servers or directly enter the blocked site's IP address if it is known"
MPAA: "typical users lack the expertise to select a different DNS server"
Dear MPAA,
What about the other half of the expert's statement? Typical users are perfectly capable of typing in four numbers with periods between them. Web links and bookmarks can be IP addresses. etc.
Typical users don't know what a phone number is and can't remember one, nor their driver's license numbers, home addresses... oh wait, yeah they can.
The big fail here is that they truly underestimate "typical users." People will learn and teach each other what they will in order to achieve their ends. I think at no time in human history did anyone say "oh, I'm not smart enough to get what I want, so I won't even try." And yes, there will be people who will write browser add-ons to route around the damage
I sent my senator a short message detailing many of these concerns about the PROTECT-IP bill. You might be interested in her response.... WARNING: Don't read any further if you still have hope that senators can understand and address technology issues....
Dear Friend:
Thank you for contacting me regarding the Federal Communications Commission's actions relating to the openness of the Internet. I welcome your thoughts and comments.
The Internet is a valuable tool that facilitates business, education, and recreation for millions of Americans. In 2009, an estimated 198 million Americans had access to the Internet. I am committed to ensuring that consumers continue to benefit from the Internet as an open platform for innovation and commerce.
Instrumental to the success of the Internet is the long-standing policy of keeping the Internet as free as possible from burdensome government regulations. Increased investment in upgrading and expanding America's communications infrastructure, and, in particular, new broadband networks, will ensure that all Americans have access to affordable high-speed Internet. However, in my judgment, intensified regulation of the Internet, such as government-mandated treatment of data, would stifle competition and would decrease the incentive for network operators to invest in critical infrastructure.
The case for additional broadband regulatory authority, or "net neutrality," has not effectively been made. Broadband investment began to truly flourish when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made a decision in 2002 to remove advanced communications technologies from the antiquated common carrier regulatory framework. However, advocates of a larger regulatory footprint have continued to call for net neutrality since 2006.
Unfortunately, the FCC chose to respond by beginning a new proceeding that would reverse the 2002 decision to treat advanced communications services with a "light touch" regulatory approach. On December 21, 2010, by a 3-2 vote, the FCC adopted new rules meant to impose a net neutrality regime on broadband services. I believe these new regulations represent an unprecedented power grab by the Commission to claim regulatory jurisdiction without Congressional authority. This FCC action threatens investment and innovation in broadband systems, places valuable American jobs at risk, and may subject communications companies to new legal liability in the management of their networks.
In response to the FCC's heavy-handed order, I intend to explore every option available to me to keep the Internet free from such burdensome regulations, including introducing a resolution of disapproval in an effort to repeal the new rules. As the Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which has jurisdiction over the FCC, I will continue to work to prohibit further net neutrality-based regulations.
I appreciate hearing from you, and I hope that you will not hesitate to contact me on any issue that is important to you.
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I think she wouldn't know the difference and this is the form response to any complaint about the tubes.
I think she sent you the wrong form response.
Yes and no.
Yes her staffer misread whatever his complaint was.
But no, she did not send the wrong response. If PROTECT-IP does not pass, how better to advance the same cause than to add it as further regulation under the umbrella of net neutrality? Once you are mandating how an ISP run "Ze Tubes" it's a very short hop away indeed from telling them they also need to obey a blacklist of IP addresses to be provided by the government... indeed that's probably the ot
Dear Senator, thank you for your reply.
It certainly affirmed my hunch that you don't have a clue what you're talking about or trying to regulate. In case you didn't notice, PROTECT-IP doesn't have anything to do with net neutrality. My guess is that your henchman just saw "oh, teh intarnets" and sent out the matching form letter, neither understanding what was said nor understanding what he or she sent as a reply. I suggest firing him or her and using a program as replacement that checks for certain catchwo
I sent my senator a short message detailing many of these concerns about the PROTECT-IP bill. You might be interested in her response.... WARNING: Don't read any further if you still have hope that senators can understand and address technology issues....
First of all, let me extend to you my deepest sympathies on your unfortunate status as a Texan. We're all hoping for your speedy recovery from this tragedy.
Secondly: "Kay Bailey Hutchison" is all you need to read to know that your carefully-phrased attempt at intelligent communication with your elected Senator was a thoroughgoing waste of time and effort. Texas Republican, former governor, and "honest politician" (i.e. - she stays bought).
Of course, it could have been worse
Yep. And here's what the powers-that-be will hear:
Laundry list of distinguished security researchers: "Blah blah nerd stuff neep neep neep."
MPAA Flack: "We wear suits. And we have money. By the way, Senator, how's that third vacation home working out for you?"
Interesting that they mention ISP's would block your ability to use other DNS servers. I don't think that, in the end, there is really anything the ISP could do to completely stop you. The worst they could do is block UDP port 53, but that wouldn't stop you from using any kind of tunneling software, especially if you did that tunneling over a secure socket.
What's really sad is that as of right now, you couldn't get more than 20% of all Facebook users to understand what secure tunneling is, so those that do understand it will just make it a one-click-fix for the other 80%, bypassing all of the ISPs' hard work.
Really it reminds me of Sony and the PS3 all over again. Most of Sony's PS3 gamers don't know the ins and outs of security hacking, yet Sony managed to piss off that 1% of users that do and open the flood gates for another 20% to follow a video tutorial o
And this is exactly why there is little, if anything, one can do about this problem. All it takes is ONE person who knows how to bypass, crack, circumvent or otherwise nullify tools and schemes of protection, blocking or other meant to keep users from doing what they want. Outlawing creation or use of such tools is not going to change much either besides making everyone a criminal. Who in turn will then just care less about legality because when you broke one law, why bother with the rest? If you already br
And, of course, the skripped quiddees will be passing around "applications" to do that with "just the press of a button".
"A statement by the MPAA disputes these claims, arguing that typical users lack the expertise to select a different DNS server"
I would argue that any user who lacks the expertise to change DNS servers also lacks the expertise to configure an FTP or torrent client. I would also argue that the MPAA is full of inbred morons.
Of course they can configure it, if they know what it is to begin with.
DNS is pretty deep down in the Internet configuration, not something the general user should have to deal with. Bittorrent is so commonplace these days that most users at least know about bittorrent, and many may even actively use it. Now of course if a law like this gets implemented then that may change very quickly.
You think it would be an impossible feat for the average computer use to type "how to change your name server" into Google?
Let's assume it is. How hard do you think it would be for them to ask their ICQ friends or the discussion board they frequent how to do it? And that nobody there would have an answer?
Ask anyone living in a country that is filtering how long it took even the most braindead user to find out how to bypass those filters and get back what they wanted to have.
Well, there's a saying in my language: Devil thinks as he is. Meaning, everyone thinks that everyone has the same level of knowledge that he himself does.
Tells you something about what the MPAA droids know about the internet. Maybe we should send them a plunger. Ya know, just in case their tubes get clogged.
A fork of the DNS system is something that I can't wait to see happening. I believe that the changes that ICANN is doing are precisely mean to obstruct the adoption of additional independent TDLs, and honestly if the DNS is not forked soon, attempting to do it later is going to create fragmentation and confusion, specially when ICANN sell some of the independent TLDs that belong to the alternative DNS systems nowadays. I am also, mmm, I'll go with angry, at the ICE taking away domains of companies that oper
A statement by the MPAA disputes these claims, arguing that typical users lack the expertise to select a different DNS server and that the Internet must not be allowed to 'decay into a lawless Wild West.
dns filtering came to turkey 5 years ago.
EVERYONE knows how to bypass it now. and i mean everyone who is using internet - the equivalent of the 'mom in idaho' knows how to bypass it. her son, relatives, someone from neighborhood comes and bypasses it for her. people learned what 'opendns' means here. the term 'proxy' have become an everyday term, even in among the tech illiterate crowd. people ask about 'good proxy' to each other. (people learned about it when the courts started to ban i.p.s).
so, random 'mom in turkey' is able to do that, but the organization that represents all movie producers in america shits about otherwise ?
really. what kind of people are you letting you run your country and corporations and corporations' lackey organizations ? idiots ? morons ? bastards ? i think the last one is more likely. (i am not able to bring myself to say ngo regarding mpaa after that kind of idiocy)
really. what kind of people are you letting you run your country and corporations and corporations' lackey organizations ? idiots ? morons ? bastards ? i think the last one is more likely. (i am not able to bring myself to say ngo regarding mpaa after that kind of idiocy)
Can I say "all of the above?"
Actually, I can think of a few more colorful metaphors to describe the individuals in power here in the US, but they're highly inappropriate in mixed company. I'm also not so sure they'd adequately describe how
Why aren't search paths disabled by default? They seem like a huge security hole. I don't want to be getting "google.com.mitm.comcast.net" when I type in "google.com".
Search paths should be enabled explicitly, since I've only ever seen them legitimately used on corporate networks where they control all the computers anyway.
Fine. But what if somebody in response to "Protect IP" builds a distributed anonymous DNS system on top of, say, Gnunet? Perhaps an implementation with a simple one-click installer? Heck, someone might even write a Firefox extension for it.
Of course, I'm speaking hypothetically here, because the idea of creating a decentralized DNS system with one-click installation is so crazy and absurd that nobody would ever pursue it, right?
I'm worried about the 'regular' DNS servers out there, sure, but what scares the crap out of me is the root servers.
If this act will require tampering on the root servers, we're all f*cked.
as to the normal DNS blocking, Denmark has had this for a few years, and it's a travesty, innocent domains land on the filter list all the time, and it's virtually impossible to get off it, and the list isn't public, so you're forced to all kinds of shenanigans to find out if you ARE on there or not.
Soon DNS-Servers will come into existence located in some country the name of which ends in -stan where the law enforcement doesn't give a shit about IP laws that will carry those names with the correct target. Put that server into your resolution list on top and you'll always get the correct location.
Of course, this opens you to DNS poisoning attacks. But then again, how this idea is a big blow to security on the internet is the whole point of this thread.
A pesky thing, a big information network the free people of the world can use, if you are trying to control them all. So why not break it and fragment it with idiot laws? It will not take long to control it completely once it's properly "broken". They aren't as dumb as you think they are.
But they don't need that knowledge. Their tool will have it for them. So you cannot access TPB? No problem. Within nanoseconds a tool will spring into existence that uses a non-filtered DNS server for you, provide the IP-Address and feed it to your application. Hell, why not make it a browser plugin? And if that fails, how about wedging it into the DNS request routine?
In short, this will accomplish nothing while being a gapping security hole in the making. First for the already mentioned problem with DNSSEC
If there is dodgy content on the internet, then the courts should get an injunction against the content's uploader and force him to remove it!
We don't close the roads to a shopping centre because there is someone walking around selling pirated dvds.
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I can't believe I'm going to write this.
As a sports talk radio host, my life is basically dependent on getting sports figures to talk. As you've seen this football season, it's been particularly beneficial (at least in terms of viral recognition) when folks like Ralph Friedgen or Joe Flacco have answered my questions in colorful ways.
At the beginning of every week, WNST Executive Producer Ryan Chell and I run through a list of folks we can reach out to for that particular week in hopes of having them appear on my radio show-or any of the other shows here at AM1570 WNST.net.
As Ryan and I were chatting Monday, I mentioned to him that I knew New England Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski a little bit. I had covered his brother (Cleveland Browns TE Dan Gronkowski) for awhile when he played for the University of Maryland and had stayed in touch a bit since then. I also spent time chatting with Rob at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis in 2010 and we exchanged phone numbers as I had reason to believe he was a legitimate target for General Manager Ozzie Newsome and the Baltimore Ravens in the upcoming NFL Draft.
(Of course, that was well before we found out the monster tight end had failed a physical with the team leading up to the Draft.)
Ryan reached out to Gronkowski Tuesday morning and got a call back from him just after "The Reality Check" hit the airwaves Tuesday afternoon. When Ryan asked him if he would be available to chat with me later in the show, the former University of Arizona star politely declined (he did offer to chat again after the season was over) and deferred to the Pats' media availability this week.
While I was disappointed, I fully understood. To keep peeling back the curtain, I never allow myself to get too angry when a sports figure doesn't end up on the air with us. I always tell our staff "they don't owe us anything" and look forward to the next opportunity to chat.
Baltimore Ravens DL Arthur Jones took us up on the opportunity to chat Tuesday on the show. As much as I tried, I couldn't get him to divulge information on what kind of pass rush the Ravens would offer in Sunday's AFC Championship Game.
I tell this long-winded story because it ties into some other comments made this week that have lit up Charm City.
Ravens S Ed Reed appeared Monday on SiriusXM's NFL Radio. You've read many of the quotes elsewhere on the internet, including…
"Joe was kind of rattled a little bit by that defense. They had a lot of guys in the box on him and they were giving it to him. I think a couple of times he needed to get rid of the ball. It just didn't look like he had a hold on the offense."
"He can't play like that. One specific play that sticks out to me was when Ray Rice came out and got pushed out of the backfield and (Flacco) still threw him the ball and he had Torrey Smith on the outside. I can say that sitting on the sideline or sitting in the stands. You don't know what someone else is seeing."
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Sprint today announced four new LTE markets, including Baltimore, Gainesville, Manhattan/Junction City, Kan., and Sedalia, Mo.
The new LTE markets bring the Sprint's total to 19, including the 15 cities that went live on July 15. Sprint said it plans to introduce more markets to the network in 2012, with a goal of completing its LTE buildout by 2013.
As part of its $5 Network Vision initiative, Sprint is also modernizing and expanding its nationwide 3G network. The carrier said today that customers in Baltimore, Boston and Washington, D.C., should be seeing the benefits of its new 3G service, which is expected to deliver an a clearer signal, better in-building coverage and fewer dropped/blocked calls.
Sprint has been offering mobile broadband service over Clearwire's WiMAX network since 2008, but its 15-market LTE footprint is just a fraction of what competitors AT&T and Verizon Wireless offer. AT&T's LTE service is available in nearly 50 markets, and Verizon recently announced that its LTE network now covers 75 percent of the United States population. T-Mobile has plans to begin rolling out LTE in 2013.
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One of Pogue's observations, which is by no means original, was that this sort of thing is partially driven by anonymity. You can say the meanest, most unreasonable, stupid crap in an e-mail or blog comment, and there are no consequences. If you want, you don't even have to deal with the consequence of a reasoned reply or rebuttal.
The Post could employ some automatic filters to weed out some of the worst offenders, and thus it seems hard to believe their claim that it was requiring two full-time moderators to keep out the blog comments that violated their standards. Either those were some pretty heavy standards that made context such an issue that automated filtering was ineffective, or their web guys are pretty inept.
- Greg
Anonymity doesn't play nearly as much a role as most people think. This had to do with politics, and that inevitably leads to a flame war, on the internet and in real life. Just look at Congress. Besides, internet anonymity is a myth for the vast majority of people.
"Blogosphere?" Guilty as charged. Case closed.
A newspaper is defined by the quality and character of everything that makes it into print.
That is why it has an editor. A strong editor will not allow op-ed debate to degenerate into unitelligible, libelous, mush.
No, it doesn't. The GNAA freaks, for example.
I will give it a shot:
There are rules which govern giving money to politicians (yea, I know, funny but true). What Abramoff did is to violate those rules, i.e. ask for very specific favours in exchange for the contributions. There are also allegations that some of his "political contributions" were of a personal nature, i.e. not to the re-election fund or something like it, but to the personal
Maybe this Abramoff deal will light a fire under people finally.
Democrats get mad at that because Abramoff evidently never *directly* gave money to any Democrats. Note the use of the word "directly", since Abramoff's firm *did* give money to some Dems, but nobody's found a Dem that got money right from Abramoff unlike some Repubs.
The sad thing is this: I believe many (not all, but many) of the Republicans who made up Newt Gingrinch's "revolution" in 1994, who put together the "Contract With America -- I believe many of them started out as idealistic, honest men who genuinely wanted to reform Washington DC.
But they got captured by the system. They had to become perpetual fundraisers to keep their seats, so they ended up spending nearly every day (really, ask any politician of staffer) begging rich people and rich corporations for money. After a while, that has to get to someone, even if -- especially if -- he's an honest guy who is living in a tiny DC apartment because he still has a mortgage back in his home district.
Everyday the congressman begs for money, and everyday he votes for millions and billions of dollars in appropriations. Eventually, these guys crack, and decide they want a piece of the pie too.
We have to change the system. We have too -- as the real conservatives tell us -- shrink government. and we have to provide for public funding of campaigns, so politicians don't have to beg for money and become beholden.
So let me get this straight. If some guy gives money to the red cross and the boy scouts, and it later turns out that the red cross was bribing penguins, (by your logic) the boy scouts are somehow guilty of bribing penguins too, because they got money from the same donor?
The problem is not that Indian tribes donated money to politicians or to lobbyists. The problem is that some of the lobbyists paid elected officials to vote they way they wanted, and
So now you get one side pissed off because of a percieved inaccuracy (and literally, they are right), and the other side feeling like they have to defend themselves (which they should), and then it's a flame war and OMG! LIKE THE END of the WORLD or something!
So the $500,000 To democrats, and the $50,000 to Harry Reid were just business as usual?
For that matter, the entire rise of K street under the Clinton Administration was accidental?
There is no doubt that the Republicans need to clean ship, before the next election, or the voters will do it for them. But for Democrats to act like they arn't also affect by this, didn't go to the Signature resturant, or didn't stop by the sky boxes is pushing truth past the spin zone.
What TFA says and the summary misses is that closing the blog is in all likelihood a temporary closing. Jim Brady (the Post's website executive editor) is cited as saying that the barrage of tirades started eating up the time of two people just to keep deleting offensive posts, and that the blog will likely be reopened in the future.
So, what looks like it might be a case of self-censorship due to e-hooliganism is more of a sensible decision to cut the idiots off from their hate outlet and wait until they forget about the Post and focus on someone else instead.
But there were also two fundamental problems: (1) The Washington Post has printed demontrable factually incorrect statements concerning Abramoff, a lifelong Republican and key friend/confident of Grover Norquist, giving money to Democrats - which he did not (2) both the WaPo and WaPo.com (note: two different entities) utterly refusing to engage this question any any level. The closest they have come is to admit that their articles were "inartful" - when they were in fact wrong.
It is like the old problem with taking quality surveys: if you take a survey, and then don't do anything, your customers are left angrier than they were before. WaPo.com solicited feedback, received it, and then cold-shouldered its readers. Guess what the reaction was.
The article quotes the executive editor of the paper's website:
"Transparency and reasoned debate are crucial parts of the Web culture"
I'm sorry, you must be new here. Reasoned debate?!?!
In our society, extremism is an equal opportunity disease that infects both sides of the bird.
That, as has been repeatedly pointed out, DU posted the post-filtering comment log as evidence that no offensive comments had been posted just makes the whole thing sweeter, of course.
Those who posted calmly to this forum should indeed be angry at those who did not over the fact that their posts are now gone. Getting angry at the Washington Post over this fact, however, is no more useful than getting mad at the Lifeguard because somebody peed in the pool...
The key statement that seems to have started all this, that Democrats received money from Abramoff, or his firm, clearly is biased, in that:
Also, look up some of the statistics on their coverage of the topic of
has a `pro-Republican bias'. Th
I find it odd that people post hateful comments or other more moderated comments denying facts that have appeared in many other newspapers, including some overseas (that this Abramoff guy is known as an all-out lobbyist who gets and throws money at anything that can make him richer or bribe someone to that affect, like it's just eyecandies) and that a blog has to be turned off for saying what everyone knows since a while.
Apparently, it's also easy for lobbyists and their friends to bark on a blog and have
While you're at it, you can take a look at the actual numbers, and see that the contributions from the Indian tribes that worked with Abrahmoff to Democrats actually went down once Jack started working with them.
The problem here isn't the commenters. It's people like Howell, and people like yourself, who watch Headline News for thirty seconds and then assume to understand the situation.
While your loose grasp of the facts can be ex
Yes! It will! People, please. The Post is trying to do a good thing here, and other mainstream media are watching carefully. Is it really too much to ask that people behave in a civil manner? It's one thing to find it onWill this dissuade news sites from blogging in the future?
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SUBJECT: City of Seattle to Paint Side of Alaskan Way Viaduct at Union Street
City of Seattle to Paint Side of Alaskan Way Viaduct at Union Street
Highlights major connection from First Avenue to waterfront
SEATTLE – On Tuesday, May 27, the Office of the Waterfront will begin painting a 62-foot span of the exterior, eastern face the Alaskan Way Viaduct at Union Street. The purpose of the painting project is to create a strong visual connection between the waterfront and downtown.
This painting project is the result of a strong partnership between the City of Seattle, the Washington State Department of Transportation and local waterfront businesses to identify ways to keep the waterfront active, and easy to access and navigate during construction.
Prior to painting, the surface of the viaduct needs to be cleaned and primed. Power washing was completed on Wednesday, May 21 and primer application began on Thursday, May 22. Painting is expected to be complete on Wednesday, May 28, depending on weather.
Due to the Memorial Day weekend, no work will occur Saturday, May 24 through Monday, May 26.
No paint is being applied to the driving surface of the viaduct and there should be no impacts to traffic on the viaduct due to this work.
The Waterfront Program replaces the Elliott Bay Seawall, and designs and constructs improvements to the waterfront in downtown Seattle. Improvements include a new pedestrian promenade, a two-way cycle track, a new Alaskan Way that accommodates all modes of travel, two rebuilt public piers, new parks and paths, and new pedestrian connections between the city and waterfront.


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Tuesday is the on-field workout portion of the Combine for cornerbacks and safeties. Every year the Combine workouts produce players who breakout with sensational performances (studs), players who impress by being as good as advertised (steady) and players who quietly go about their business but don't garner much acclaim (sleeper).
Here's a look at one player from each of those categories in the cornerback and safety groups…
CB Justin Gilbert (Oklahoma State): It's up for debate as to whether Gilbert or Michigan State's Darqueze Dennard is the top cornerback in this class. What won't be up for debate during Tuesday's on-field workout is Gilbert's athleticism. He's a fluid athlete with exceptional movement skills, and don't be surprised if his 40-time and vertical leap are among the best of the entire week.
S Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (Alabama): It's Louisville's Calvin Pryor who sits atop most lists at safety, but watch for Clinton-Dix's 40-yard dash time to increase his stock in a lot of observers' eyes. Add to that the fact that Clinton-Dix comes from a NFL factory such as Alabama, and Clinton-Dix is poised to be one of the big winners after Tuesday's on-field workout.
CB Bennett Jackson (Notre Dame): Jackson played in all 52 games during his Notre Dame career, starting the final 26 and contributing on special teams – he was the team's special teams player of the year. If Jackson can test well in the on-field drills on Tuesday, teams may be willing to work with this dependable and intangible-rich player's coachable deficiencies in the NFL.
S Jimmie Ward (Northern Illinois): Tuesday is a big day for Ward because a solid day during the agility, speed and ball skills drills should solidify is status in many observers' eyes. Everyone loves Ward's presence on the field, his ability as a downhill defender and his tackling (300 tackles in three seasons), but some question his ball skills and turn-and-run ability.
CB Deion Belue (Alabama): The second Alabama player to make this list, Belue should test well on the field on Tuesday and if he does a lot of teams may keep their eye on him in the middle-to-late rounds in May. He played Nick Saban's field corner position at Alabama, is described as competitive and smart, and has the kind of athletic ability that shines during on-field workouts at the Combine.
S Brock Vereen (Minnesota): Some will question Vereen's size and wonder if he'll be better off switching to safety. But if Vereen can test well in agility and speed drills, which he likely will, then some teams may fall in love with the raw athleticism and be willing to let him develop physically and technically as a safety in the NFL.
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North of Bad Hindelang arises the Hirschberg. It is a mountain, that is 1500m high. Near the cross is a beautiful viewpoint to the valley of Bad Hindelang, Bad Oberforf and also towards Oberjoch.
Bad Hindelang in the Allgäu region is a popular health resort. The small village with it's five districts has still preserved its charm. Many of the houses are built in the traditional Allgäu style.


text: Wavre, Belgium – CampusBooks.com and Vision Smarts are pleased to announce their collaboration and the resulting iBookStore 2.0 iPhone app. iBookStore 2.0 is an enhanced version of CampusBooks.com's popular iBookStore app and is now powered by pic2shop, Vision Smarts' leading-edge barcode-scanning technology. The final product is a free app that delivers real-time price comparisons – using integrated barcode-scanning – for users looking to buy and sell books.


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First, I wanted to preface this article with the fact that I've literally had this phone for less than 24 hours, but first impressions are important will be a part of our final review of the Nexus 5 in the coming weeks. The only reason why I'm doing an initial impressions article is because you guys, the readers, asked us to. We got our Nexus 5 at 8am this morning via UPS pickup from the warehouse and as you'd expect, wasted no time with the phone.
The first thing that happened was that the phone had to download a day 0 125MB update, which was a bit surprising since I expected most Nexus devices to ship with the latest update. That aside, taking the phone out of the box was just like any other unboxing and the truth is that the Nexus 5 is all about the phone and OS and not the packaging.
The first few things I noticed with the Nexus 5 were that the back of the device is basically a huge fingerprint magnet and for someone like me with sweaty palms, a palm print magnet as well. So, you'll probably want to opt for one of Google's sharp and sometimes brightly colored cases.
Also, the power button is placed on the right of the device, which isn't an issue, however, it has a bit too much wiggle for a button. Especially when you consider that the volume rocker is much more rigid. As one person noted to me, it has a bit of a rattle when you shake the phone, but if you hold the power button that rattle goes away. I don't know if it was intentional on Google's part to make pressing the power button a more forceful affair, but it just seems a bit odd.
The phone itself is definitely designed for right handed people because if you hold the phone in your right hand with your thumb on the power button, your index finger naturally finds the volume rocker. This is a good design, and I believe this or the top power botton + right side volume rocker are the best power button + volume rocker combination. Note that the SIM slot is right below the power button on the right of the phone…
As someone that is coming from an HTC One, one of my big concerns has been the loss of a front-facing phone speaker. On the Nexus 5, the speakers are on the bottom, like the iPhone. However, please do not try to talk directly into the bottom of the phone where the speaker is when you're on speaker phone, it just makes you look weird.
The sound quality that came out of the single speaker was incredibly impressive, and actually surpassed my expectations. Coming from the HTC One, the bar has been set pretty high for phone speakers and the Nexus 5 doesn't necessarily wow, but it also doesn't disappoint. Even though the HTC One has front facing stereo and the Nexus 5 is just a single bottom speaker.
Also, the Nexus 5 has an interesting front speaker for phone calls and they've flipped the front-facing camera on the Nexus 5 to the left, from the right on the Nexus 4.
Overall, I have been pretty impressed with a lot of things about this phone. It has some really great signal for LTE and I was able to get a Speedtest of 39/16 during the middle of the work day, which is pretty impressive in a populated dense area like where I'm located. The speed isn't just limited to the network capabilities of this phone, the phone itself simply flies, nothing feels slow and all of the animations are incredibly fast and smooth. The phone finally shows us what bare Android feels like on the Snapdragon 800 SoC.
When it comes to certain features, I am really happy with the stock Kit Kat keyboard and have started messing with the always listening Google Now feature. I was seriously impressed with the performance and quality of Google now on the Nexus 5. Because I was able to get it to recognize my command and words while there was a loud fountain behind me, dozens of people talking around me and TVs blaring all around.
I also know that many of you are wondering about the quality of the display and the camera. When it comes to the display, I would say that this display definitely rivals that of the HTC One. When I heard that the HTC One is supposed to have a better display I was a little disappointed, but after looking at this display I have nothing but praise. In terms of the camera, the quality and the sharpness of the images is definitely better than what I was expecting, but the speed of the camera in all modes isn't nearly as fast as it is on the HTC One. I will attach a few sample photos that I've taken recently so that you can see for yourself.
This brings me to the idea of the storage capacity of the 16 GB model. Formatted, it is a 12.5 GB storage drive, and once all of your apps are installed (like mine) you only get about 10.5 GB. Sure, I have almost 100 apps installed, but 10 GB of storage simply isn't enough for me and I would advise that if anyone wishes to put any music on the Nexus 5, that they spend the extra $50 and get a 32 GB model. I also came to the realization that I needed to buy the 32GB model when I looked at my 64 GB HTC One and saw that I was utilizing 27 of 64 GB of storage and that my normal use case requires more than 16 GB. So, keep this in mind when ordering yours.
We'll be doing a review in the coming weeks that addresses all of these points in depth and adds a few more aspects to the review that answer any and all questions you might have about the Nexus 5.
More photos, with full shot + 100 crop so that you can see the image sharpness. Some of the sharpness is very impressive. Clearly the OIS in the camera is working quite well.
Now with full 100% crop.
And again, the full image followed by the 100% crop.


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Cirque du Soleil provide media representatives with show and corporate press kits.
Julie Bégin's fascination with the transforming power of makeup began
as a child. From an early age she experimented on faces and by the time she
was 18, she'd left her science studies behind and embarked on her nomadic makeup
Julie got her first job on a dare. A friend persuaded her to apply for a makeup
position while visiting Toronto. Despite the fact that she had no formal training,
her talent shone through and she found herself working in a field that proved
to be a perfect fit.
In 1998, after spending more then eight years refining her trade in Europe
and Asia, Julie moved to New York to further her career and pursue her interest
in arts. She soon attracted the attention of celebrated makeup artist Dick Page
and rapidly became a top player on his team working in New York, Milan and Paris.
The top names in the fashion and entertainment industries quickly began to
seek Julie out: Fashion designers like John Galliano, Marc Jacobs and Helmut
Lang called on her. She worked with such prominent photographers as Ellen Von
Unwerth and Mick Rock on editorial and advertising shoots, and world-renowed
singers and celebrities, including Céline Dion and Alanis Morisette.
Julie's methods are wide-ranging and imaginative. From effortless natural
looks to dramatic styles, even when creativity's limits are pushed to the extreme,
her main focus in fashion is always to reveal the beauty of a face. "The challenge
of designing makeup for a Cirque du Soleil show is to go beyond beauty to reveal
character," she says. Every face is a new inspiration, and when it all works
you're actually revealing more than the person, you're able to catch a glimpse
of their soul."


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"It's planned", "It's coming", "It's in the works". We have heard it all over the last year. Skype users have been patiently waiting for a BlackBerry version to arrive. Today we finally got our definite answer. Today in a press release at the Mobile Congress Conferance, Skype announced a "strategic relationship that will bring Skype to Verizon Wireless". Users on Verizon with a 3G data plan will get to enjoy Skype mobile starting next month. Supported phones will cover most of Big Red's newer BlackBerry inventory including the 8530, 9530, 9550 & 9630.
With Skype Mobile you can:
- Make and receive unlimited Skype-to-Skype voice calls to any Skype user around the globe on America's most reliable wireless network;
- Call international phone numbers at competitive Skype Out calling rates;
- Send and receive instant messages to other Skype users; and
- Remain always connected with the ability to see friends' online presence.
So where does this leave the customers on other carriers that want to use skype on their berry? No answer to that yet. Let's hope Skype will release a stand alone version soon so that everyone can enjoy Skype for BlackBerry.


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By David Hylton,
Public Relations Specialist
In the past six months or so, a spare cube at our International Office in Richmond, Va., became a giant toy box. One by one, box by box, toys were coming to us from all around the world. "We're up to our eyeballs in toys," was a common phrase heard on the fifth floor in our office. It was very true.
But these toys weren't the latest Elmo or Nintendo Wii accessory or Barbie dolls – these were toys handcrafted by children around the world in the areas ChildFund International works. These toys were soccer balls made out of rubber bands and trash bags; dolls made out of banana bark; toy boats made out of old shoes. These toys were made out of what some people consider trash, but these children created a treasure.
Now these toys will be shown in many cities throughout the United States in the next year in an exhibit called "The Power to Play – from Trash to Treasure." Currently an exhibit is at the Boston Children's Museum – if you're in that area you better hurry as the exhibit's last day is Saturday, Aug. 1.
A "Power to Play" exhibit is also currently on display at the Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Va., through Aug. 21. Since we're headquartered in Richmond, we wanted to kickoff the exhibit in our backyard.
The collection of more than 350 toys shows real imagination and creativity for using locally available materials that were often scrap or discarded by others. Some of the toys are unique to their place of origin; some tell the story of the social, economic and political conditions in which children find themselves; others are as universal as the soccer balls and kites that children across three continents have made using exactly the same techniques.
"We are sharing this toy collection as a visible demonstration of how the power to play helps children thrive and become leaders of enduring change in their communities and the world," says ChildFund International President and CEO Anne Lynam Goddard.
For more information about the toys, visit www.ChildFund.org/toys. For more toy photos, visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ChildFundInternational.
Coming Monday: The toy exhibit travels to Washington, D.C., and the National Press Club. We'll take a closer at that event.


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MIAMI SHORES, Fla.—The third-ranked Barry Buccaneers had their win streak snapped at 15 in a 5-4 loss to the NCAA Division I North Florida Ospreys at the Buccaneer Tennis Center on Saturday.
The Ospreys (7-2), ranked 63rd in Division I, swept the doubles in three very competitive matches. Simona Weymar and Rebela Pereira had the easiest time, defeating Anaeve Pain and Kimmy Twelker at number one 8-4. Taylor Hollander and Marina Cunningham managed a late break against Blanka Szavay and Linda Fritschken to win 8-6 at number two. At the third flight, Esther Zuniga and Michelle Valdez knocked off the 13th-rated pair of Karina Goia and Elisabeth Abanda 8-5.
The Bucs (15-1) rallied to win four of the six singles. In an odd twist, under NCAA Division I scoring rules count the doubles as just one point, the Buccaneers would have won the match 4-3, though as the home team D-II rules were in effect.
Nineteenth-ranked Goia rolled over Zuniga 6-2, 6-2 at number two and Twelker stayed unbeaten in singles with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Valdez at number five. Ninth-ranked Abanda also kept her record perfect with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Pereira at number four. Fritschken, ranked 31st, survived a three-set match over Weymar 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.
The Ospreys won the final two singles with Cunningham defeating Szavay 7-6 (4), 6-2 at number three and Hollander knocking off Cristina Valladares in three sets 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.
The Bucs host New York Tech on Thursday, March 20.
Tennis Match Results
03-15-14 at Miami Shores, FL
(Buccaneer Tennis Center)
#63 North Florida 5, #3 Barry 4
Singles competition
1. #31 Linda Fritschken (BARRY-W) def. Simona Weymar (UNF) 6-3, 3-6, 7-5
2. #19 Karina Goia (BARRY-W) def. Esther Zuniga (UNF) 6-2, 6-2
3. Marina Cunningham (UNF) def. Blanka Szavay (BARRY-W) 7-6 (7-4), 6-2
4. #9 Elisabeth Abanda (BARRY-W) def. Rebela Pereira (UNF) 6-2, 6-4
5. Kimmy Twelker (BARRY-W) def. Michelle Valdez (UNF) 6-2, 6-1
6. Taylor Hollander (UNF) def. Cristina Valladares (BARRY-W) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3
Doubles competition
1. Simona Weymar/Rebela Pereira (UNF) def. Anaeve Pain/Kimmy Twelker (BARRY-W) 8-4
2. Taylor Hollander/Marina Cunningham (UNF) def. Blanka Szavay/Linda Fritschken (BARRY-W) 8-6
3. Esther Zuniga/Michelle Valdez (UNF) def. #13 Karina Goia/Elisabeth Abanda (BARRY-W) 8-5
Match Notes:
North Florida 7-2; National ranking #63
Barry 15-1; National ranking #3
North Florida ranked in NCAA Division I
Barry ranked in NCAA Division II


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November 20, 2013
All event times are Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise specified.
Pre-Registration for Spring Sem
Women on Campus Luncheon: Detchon Center International Hall, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Valparaiso Law Information Session: Arnold House Conference Room, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Join Adam Greathouse of Valparaiso University Law for a Meet & Greet over lunch. Adam will be happy to answer any questions you may have about law school and the admissions process. Business Casual Dress. RSVP Required. Pizza will be served.
APO Meeting: Baxter Hall 101 (Lovell Lecture Room), 7:00PM
Basketball at Hanover: Hanover, IN, 7:30PM
Wamidan & Jazz Combo Concert: Fine Arts Center Salter Concert Hall, 7:30PM
Q&Q Film Series: Howl: Arnold House Career Services, Live@Conference Room, 7:30PM - 10:00PM
Quests and Question is proud to present "Howl" as first of several films to be screened on the topics of: Vocation, Self- Identity, and Purpose. A brief description of the film can be read below and a link to the movie trailer is also included. Please join us for a evening of discussion and entertainment. Starring James Franco in a career-defining performance as Allen Ginsberg, HOWL is the story of how the young poet's seminal work broke down societal barriers in the face of an infamous public obscenity trial. In his famously confessional style, Ginsberg - poet, counter-culture icon, and chronicler of the Beat Generation - recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to HOWL, the most timeless work of his career. HOWL interweaves three stories: the unfolding of the landmark 1957 obscenity trial; an imaginative animated ride through the prophetic masterpiece; and a unique portrait of a man who found new ways to express himself, and in doing so, changed his own life and galvanized a generation. -- (C) Oscilloscope
Adam Gaff speaking at Cru...: Baxter Hall 101, 9:00PM - 10:00PM
Come join the men of Cru and AMPED as we welcome Adam Gaff. Adam is a Spanish teacher at Center Grove High School in Greenwood and a graduate of Ball State. He served on the executive board of the Indiana Association of Student Councils, hosted the 2010 National Student Council Conference at Center Grove Attended by over 10,000 students from around the country and all 50 states. He has also served as a Camp Director at Student Leadership Institute (SLI), the premier student leadership camp in Indiana. There will be a time of worship, prayer, and fellowship. We'll have updates about Indy Christmas Conference 2013. Wabash Christian Men is a uniting of Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ) and AMPED (Athletes Making Plays Every Day / Athletes in Action) for the furtherance of the gospel message at Wabash.
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2017 is the 50th anniversary of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda.
Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity's closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the chimpanzees of Gombe for nearly 50 years; Diane Fossey died in 1985 defending the mountain gorillas of Rwanda; and Biruté Galdikas lives in intimate proximity to the orangutans of Borneo. All three began their work as protégées of the great Anglo-African archeologist Louis Leakey, and each spent years in the field, allowing the apes to become their familiars--and ultimately waging battles to save them from extinction in the wild.
Their combined accomplishments have been mind-blowing, as Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas forever changed how we think of our closest evolutionary relatives, of ourselves, and of how to conduct good science. From the personal to the primate, Sy Montgomery--acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and The Good Good Pig--explores the science, wisdom, and living experience of three of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.
"This is a book about how love--the power that moves us beyond us and our own self interest to form relationships with an 'other'--can transform lives and worlds.... Author Montgomery brings an admirable grace and kindness to her treatment of the three women's lives and work, affording them, in many ways, the same dignity and respect they offered to the animals they observed and card for so deeply.... It is worth reading simply as expert storytelling, animated by particular and passionate writing."--Cape Cod Times
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In this study of three great female primatologists, science journalist Montgomery moves beyond biography into ethology, taking a step that goes well beyond even her subjects' research. Goodall, Fossey and Galdikas each made a similar leap, the author contends, moving from observers and recorders to an almost shamanistic quest to enter the world of the apes they studied. These personal transformations are sketchily supported with anecdotes from the field, personal interviews and even a jarring account of an attempt to contact Fossey, after her death, via channeling. Montgomery adds little to Farley Mowat's 1988 biography of Fossey, Woman in the Mists , but she offers a few fresh angles on Goodall, Galdikas and other characters, human and ape, met before in their books. In an epilogue, Montgomery offers the intriguing view of these scientists as pioneers of a particularly female way of scientific knowing that deserves fuller argument than three portraits allow. Photos. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Trayvon Martin's death has put a spotlight on Florida's "stand your ground" law. The American Legislative Exchange Council uses that law as a model and encourages other states to adopt it. Host Michel Martin speaks with Lisa Graves of the progressive watchdog Center for Media and Democracy. She says ALEC is fueled by corporate interests.
Who Writes Our Laws?
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A demo for the PC edition of Lionhead's Brit-tastic RPG Fable III is slated to launch alongside the full game on May 17, Microsoft's Larry 'Major Nelson' Hyrb revealed in the latest Xbox Live Marketplace schedule. Tally ho!
This news is another indication that publisher Microsoft is committed to the PC edition. Over the past few years it's repeatedly vowed to better support PC gaming but failed to deliver anything spectacular. Hopefully Microsoft really means it this time, starting with Fable III.
Fable 3 PC boasts a hardcore mode, new content, keyboard and mouse controls, 3D support, and other fancy features, all detailed in a video developer diary last month. As well as being sold digitally through Microsoft's own Games for Windows Marketplace, it'll also be available through competitor Valve's infinitely-more-popular Steam.
Pre-ordering Fable III from Steam will net you four extra weapons and five bonus tattoo sets, while Games for Windows offers a free copy of Fable: The Lost Chapters--an expanded version of the first game. You'll have to imagine what happens between that and Fable 3, though, as Fable 2 has never been released for PC.


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Mayor Rahm Emanuel skirted a pair of hot button issues today, declining to weigh in on the city's $6.2 million settlement with anti-war protesters and the flap over the design of the new city stickers.
The twin topics are two of the biggest stories in town right now, but the mayor didn't want to go there while taking reporters' questions at a gun control event on the Far South Side.
The mayor was asked about City Clerk Susana Mendoza's Wednesday decision to scrap the winning city sticker design amid concerns from some quarters that the 15-year-old artist drew gang signs into the piece.
"That was yesterday. Those that dealt with that issue as it relates to the sticker made their decision," Emanuel said about the outcome. "My job is to focus on what I think is essential for the city: stronger schools, safer streets, stable finances, creating a quality of life for all of our city and all of our residents. and that's what I'm focused on."
Asked about the issue again later in the news conference, Emanuel said "I've answered that," and took another question.
At another point, Emanuel was asked how the settlement with more than 800 plaintiffs in federal court stemming from mass arrests during a 2003 demonstration against the Iraq war would affect Chicago Police Department procedures. Emanuel stepped aside for Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, who talked about important lessons police have learned about how best to deal with large groups of protesters.
When the Tribune asked Emanuel to share his opinion on the settlement, the mayor said "You've got that," and ended the news conference.


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Cisco thinks twice on Norwegian video borg
$3 billion walk away?
Cisco may walk away from its $3 billion offer to buy Norwegian video conferencing specialist Tandberg amidst resistance from a block of shareholders.
A report from Bloomberg on Friday cites "a person familiar with the transaction" saying that Cisco may deep-six the corporate assimilation rather than upping its initial offer.
Swedish brokerage SEB Enskilda, which represents 24 per cent of shares in Tandberg, rejected the offer earlier this month in hopes Cisco may lay more kronor on the table. Terms of the deal require Cisco to get at least 90 per cent of shares on their side for approval.
The shareholders said they believe Tandberg will do better as an independent company — but are willing to reevaluate their outlook if Cisco would sweeten the pot.
Tanberg posted third-quarter operating income of $50m on sales of $234.7m this October.
Cisco wants to add Tandberg products to its existing video conference kit sold under the TelePresence brand. Boss John Chambers waxed at the deal's announcement that the two firms have similar cultures and a "shared vision" of the future of business communications.
Despite supposed resistance to heaping more money unto Tandberg, some analysts quoted in the Bloomberg piece are skeptical that its not simply a negotiating tactic on Cisco's part. They think the networking giant is too sweet on moving further into the video conferencing market to actually turn their nose up at a bigger payout. ®
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