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How can you ban people from deleting the meta data. Are you going to ban hex edditors or text edditors? What about file systems that don't support metadata like fat? Or what about when people don't like your naming/notation conventions will that be banned to? A while back I had a itunes giftcard that I wanted to redeem so I had to install itunes. It went through "cataloging my music library" instead it indescriminatly deleted meta data and other files and renaming and disorganizing many. How will they deal
Didn't I tell you? I told you, didn't I Listy? But no, you didn't listen to ol' Rimsy.
I told you about installing old software from the past, I told you about how Apple caused World War 3 through software alone, but you didn't listen.
Now look what you have done, Holly can only speak in Esperanto. Now what will we do? Shout loudly at him?
Are you going to ban hex edditors or text edditors?
What about file systems that don't support metadata like fat?
How is that relevant to file formats which have their own metadata built into them?
Or what about when people don't like your naming/notation conventions will that be banned to?
No. It's about conveying basic ownership information, but you already knew that...
How will they deal with faulty programs like that will they be liable for removal of metadata?
iTunes removes metadata on your personal files. Facebook is a completely different case. Anyone who puts two brain cells into it can see a fundamental difference in liability between software meant to organize a personal collection and software meant to facilitate public consumption of media. It would not be hard to pass a law requiring the preservation of copyright ownership metadata in file formats which support that metadata in software intended to be used for the public dissemination of media.
> What about file systems that don't support metadata like fat
Meta-Data: Stuff like EXIF-Information.
For photo's at least, little did I know that my phone put so much Metadata in it. Geographical location? Standard on? I see this more as a security risk so I would say: law for mandatory stripping of Metadata.
How about the middle ground and add a mandatory option to let the user choose? Or at least inform the user when their data enters the public, that meta data is present.
99% of people would just click "OK", and have their metadata, including GPS coordinates, uploaded.
While you could say it's their own damn fault, it would still be a huge privacy problem.
99% of people would just click "OK", and have their metadata, including GPS coordinates, uploaded.
Maybe, but the remaining 1% would at least have the option.
no, in many cases such metadata would be good. if you show photos from some nice place, its a good feature, when the next user can just see the place on googlemaps. Who explicitly DOES NOT want it, can click the "strip place information" option.
Typically these types of laws prohibit $ACTIVITY "without authorization by the copyright holder." Since you'll be the copyright holder in these situations, you'll be allowed to do whatever you want with your own photos.
If the government mandated that you were required to strip data from your own photos, you ought to be able to safely ignore that law, on First Amendment grounds.
Copyrights is actually a good thing. But like many other thing, too much a good thing can become bad, very very bad.
As the author of several software packages (some of them I'm the sole programmer, others I'm one of the many contributors) I have to say that copyrights does work, as we get paid for what we did.
But excessive copyrights (and to add insult to injuries) and patents have made the software industry filled with more lawyers than hackers.
Nowadays even an act of open-sourcing a software program you y
And the solution would be so simple. Well, technically simple, not politically of course.
Copyrights: limit the time of protection to something reasonable, anywhere from 10 to 30 years would be reasonable to me. Not the 100+ years like now. And limit by counting from time of creation, not lifetime of creator plus some time as it is now. For the rest there is not much wrong with copyrights per se.
Those RIAA law suits against file sharers are not to be solved by changing copyright, that needs a different appr
if you get caught shoplifting and get sentenced to a few dozen hours of community service it can be more than 100x damages.
IP is a concept, like prohibition, which has run its course as public policy. Both accomplished the same result: to turn ordinary people into criminals, and to make criminals into enterprises.
We should go back to the original system. 14 years plus a one time (non-automatic) renewal of 14 years. We can grandfather in existing works with a system designed to slowly move them into Public Domain status if their 28 years are up. Say, every 5 years release a decade's worth of material starting with the oldest items. (Assuming we start with the 1930s, it would be 45 years before present day items exit copyright. Plenty of time for copyright owners to milk the last remaining drops of copyright-fuel
"Copyrights is actually a good thing. But like many other thing, too much a good thing can become bad, very very bad."
You're ignorant of the law. People said the same when copyright was first implemented long time ago, the "just the right amount people" have no credibility. See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act [wikipedia.org]
Copyright has been extended EVERY single time, there was not a time where copyright was NOT extended at request of corporations/greedy rich stars.
For those interested in the law and history of law relating to copyright see here:
http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/opposingcopyrightextension/default.htm [asu.edu]
And this speech for good measure for all the "copyright moderates". The same thing was said long before you all were born.
http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/opposingcopyrightextension/commentary/MacaulaySpeeches.html [asu.edu]
My personal view is there is not going to be a legal solution forthcoming because most human beings are not concerned/too ignorant/stupid/illiterate.
My personal view is there is not going to be a legal solution forthcoming because most human beings are not concerned/too ignorant/stupid/illiterate.
Truly, the USA has far bigger problems than excessive copyright protection. I'm concerned, and hopefully not too ignorant/stupid/illiterate, but it's hard to imagine an election where the available candidates agree on all the more important stuff, so that my decision would be based on their stance on copyright.
Free entertainment is pretty low on my list of desiderata.
Copyright is a bigger problem than most appreciate. This isn't about free entertainment, this is about legal restrictions on our opportunities to share knowledge. "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." I don't want to repeat mistakes because knowledge of them are locked away by copyright.
Free entertainment is pretty low on my list of desiderata.
It isn't about "free entertainment," it's about culture. Art is like science and technology, in that everything new comes from what has come before. Imagine how technology would stagnate if patents lasted a hundred years? That's how culture is stagnating.
"I do not follow your logic."
It's very simple, I'm not proposing a solution. I'm saying that once copyright got its foot in the door it is now impossible to dislodge or moderate because the forces that have an interest in copyright have more money, time and lobbyists on their hands compared to law professors at universities that would like it to be moderated. Hence I pointed you to those sites so that you could learn these things. Looking at the evidence (over 100 years of copyright law). The same argum
In other words, whenever I create something, I have to make sure a copy will survive for 75 years after my death? That seems like a rather harsh burden, and I really don't think I should be responsible for what happens after my death.
I have stuff I've already lost, and that's OK with me because it wasn't very good. There's some stuff that exists in only one easy-to-lose copy. The more recent possibly significant stuff is backed up in the cloud, but free services don't guarantee to be around for 75 yea
This alone is an interesting question. How much work does one have to put in locating a work's copyright holder? How much effort do we have to put into remembering that information?
The summary already presents an interesting case: Facebook stripping metadata, such as the author name, from copies of works they receive. A short while later no-one can remember who it was from; so it is orphaned now? This would open an avenue of legal infringement. Especially with smaller works like photos it may be hard to find the original maker if the metadata is gone. Or should we consider such orphans as "copyright protected" and prohibit any further distribution unless the distributor can show they have the rights?
It's not exactly easy. Especially in this digital age where information can be wiped or added without a trace. Metadata can be stripped, it can also be added or changed, and then it becomes hard to prove which version is the original.
bring back legal deposit libraries and registration.
if your work is important to you then register it.
make it so that there's no exception for works which have been registered.
If you find a work who's source you can't find then you have to do a search for registered works if you want to use it.
We have the technology.
even for images. A searchable database is totally possible and reasonable. A heavily edited or recompressed photo might not match but how often do companies want to use ultra low quality images?
"if your work is important to you then register it."
Why? Why not leave it as is?
If you find a photo and you don't know who made it -- what is it to you? Why do you need to be able to use it? If it's that important, pay a photographer to make a similar one, or make it yourself. Easy.
Sometimes it's more important what it's a photo of. Not everthing can be replicated.
If you don't know what photographer took an old photo of one of your dead parents should you have to make yourself a criminal in order to make copies before it can degrade?
under the current system you do.
You may not get caught but that's beside the issue. as it stands you could be sued if the photographers grandchildren ever found out that you had made copies for your family members.
but lets take your approach: if it's that important we can always just dig up the corpse and pay a photographer to make a similar one, or make it ourselves. Easy.
oh. wait. in the real world your "sollution" is os obviously stupid that I can't believe you didn't realise that it's impractical. you know it's stupid but you parrot it anyway.
Indeed any photo of anything which can't be reproduced hits the same problem. a dead person. a long gone building. a historic event.
If you can't find the guys who snapped the photo or figure out who his estate reverted to then you cannot legally make a copy. You can only leave the origional to rot and degrade taking the fine details of whatever it records with it.
you could ignore the law and make yourself a criminal which is what people already do but any law which makes everyone a criminal is a broken law.
that's why. it's a broken system.
Sometimes it's more important what it's a photo of. Not everthing can be replicated.
And that irreplicability is sometimes what's called "art". Your example's a fairly good one: the restoration of a cherished family portrait or similar. That's one of the reasons why orphaned work legislation is considered inevitable by many (see the summary). But making that orphan works law happen relies on some manner of preventing the accidental (or even malicious) orphaning of modern works that may be suitable for mass consumption (a picture of a nice sunrise, an amateur reportage shot from a warzone
hence my suggestion further up. if you take a remarkably photo then by all means: register it. idealy registration should be free like uploading an image to photobucket or posting on a board.
Simply upload it to a registration server with your details. Anyone who want to search for orphaned work can then search it just like a google search or a tineye search
this would also guarantee preservation of such works for future generations.
once it's registered it largely solves the malicious or accidental orphanin
Me no speak well today.
That just means those who already have money will register any- and everything habitually, while amateurs get screwed over further for no reason other than corporations having easier access to their works.
only if it's cost effective.
it only seems better for amatures than the current system.
As long as it's a google-like free system then it doesn't screw the poor over any more than the rich.
Everyone gets easier access.Not just corporations. You might as well attack public right of way laws because it allows corporations employees to walk over your land or public libraries because it allows corporations to educate their workers without buying your books.
Well, you kinda have to decide wether you'd want that to be free or "at a small price", because I ain't discussing shit when that just gets constantly switched ^_^
"at a small price"?
I've done a quick word search for that and you're the only one saying "at a small price" as far as I can see. unless I missed something in my earlier comments I always said "free" or at worst "ideally free".
Where did I switch it?
As long as it's a google-like free system then it doesn't screw the poor over any more than the rich.
A Google-like free system, you say? You mean one that's constantly mining your data in order to advertise to you more and more in multiple media, while riding roughshod over creators' rights right up until the point where they're sued, at which point they strike a deal which is to their best interests but leaves the content creator with 1% of sweet FA?
There's no such thing as a free lunch -- someone's going to have to pay, and right now world's governments are mostly beating the "small government" drum (an
sigh. here we go.
Google-like as in searchable like a google search where similar works can be found quickly and easily.
The point was that the technology exists.
believe it or not legal deposit libraries exist and have existed in the UK for a long long time and are traditionally publicly funded with the works stored within availible to the public.They're not remotely controversial.
for no sane reason whatsoever you seem to have a problem with the idea of public domain works, works on which the copyright has ex
Just to be clear since I'm sure you're going to act the jackass and fill any blanks I don't explicitly cover with some strawman: legal deposit libraries exist in almost all first world countries. sometimes a company may have the contract for maintaining them but they're still libraries open to the public where you can go in and read the books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit [wikipedia.org]
for no sane reason whatsoever you seem to have a problem with the idea of public domain works, works on which the copyright has expired, being used by companies. You don't seem to get the point of public domain. it's not reserved for amatures and hobbyists. Everyone gets to use it. Including big evil companies.
When your copyright expires it stops being yours. Evil corporations and hobbyists alike gets to use it whether you like it or not.
It no more has to be international than copyright terms have to be international and perfectly synchronised. which they're not.
For no sane reason whatsoever, you have missed the point. I'm not against the public domain, and I am personally working on a system that will (hopefully) allow me personally to derive profit from public domain works. What I'm against is giving a private body a monopoly on storing in-copyright works that means that they (and only they) will have a complete database of out-of-copyright works to exploit when copyright expires, whereas other companies will have to go out of their way to collect and pay for t
A deposit library isn't a digital entity though, and the library still must do considerable work to render their materials into a reproducible state. A digital deposit library... well, ever New Year's Day they'd be able to flip a switch and republish anything and everything for their profit, leaving their competitors trailing in their dust....
And why resort to insults? Why not just engage in an adult-like debate?
Stunningly easy sollution: either run them as a public entity like current deposit libraries accessible to all or if you really want a company to run it then include in the contract that they must give copies of the database of all public domain material to other entities. you'll notice that many countries have multiple such libraries.
Adding "on a computer" to the description doesn't make things strange and scary.
Then don't give them a monopoly.
have a dozen companies or even a dozen companies and a few state bodies all keeping their own copies. require them to share entries.
You don't have to hand it all to one company and give them the keys to throw away.
problem solved. just like that. poof. gone.
There isn't just one legal deposit library in the UK. there's half a dozen. some of them university linked bodies and some pure libraries.
"who would want to store millions of DVDs for just so that they might have a chance t
That just means those who already have money will register any- and everything habitually, while amateurs get screwed over further for no reason other than corporations having easier access to their works.
Once something is published, it is no longer 'their' work. The only reason that people have any ability to control what happens to 'their' work once they make it public is because the public voluntarily decides to refrain from using the now public work.
If the work is unpublished, then it doesn't matter.
any law which makes everyone a criminal is a broken law.
Only in a democracy. And I'd remind you, the US is not a democracy. It was supposed to be a constitutional republic, but turned into a corporate oligarchy instead. The one thing it is not is a democracy.
The mistake you make is in thinking these laws were (or should have been) passed for your benefit. They were not. They were passed to benefit the largest copyright holders, those that can afford to litigate. They do that very well.
The only way to get t
We shouldn't even be considering metadata as some kind of legal standard for determining ownership. It is trivially easy to forge or deliberately remove so that someone could claim the work was orphaned.
A simple solution to this problem already exists: search engines. If you are a photographer who cares about his photos you can create a web site with them on and search engines will index it. Anyone can then do an image search based on their copy and find your site. The system could be improved by allowing i
Searching images and videos is an unsolved problem.
Currently you can not search Google for images: you can only search image meta data. If you want an image of a cow, you can search for images that say they are an image of a cow, but whether that image actually contains a cow or not, Google doesn't know. Also many images with a cow in it will be missed because no-one added a description to it. You may have noticed how few image search results you get are from sites like Flickr, even though they have million
I'm this far down and I seem to be missing something. Why do you (for example) have a copy at all? This is what I see as the big coming collision of the Sharing 2.0 web. Let's say I upload a picture to my website or YouTube channel, meta-data it, register it, and all. Why do any other copies go anywhere at all?
It's because we have an old web culture to the point of "if it's cool I'll share it" and then someone *forwards a copy*. BANG. That's where all the stuff the music industry has been doing kicks in. Th
Like any legal matter... it only matters how much money you have to defend against a claim.
So basically if you use something that's been orphaned apparently and is owned by a big company you're screwed... but if they find something of yours that has been orphaned they can strike it rich.
I run a few hobby sites devoted to vintage model boats and associated equipment. Google 'Keil Kraft EeZeBilt boats' for an example if you're interested...
Old model boat kits and plans from the 1950s or earlier are part of our social history. But they are (were) copyrighted and so the few people who have them in their collections frequently won't copy the data. We are generally talking about older people here - say, 50 years old and upward. They were brought up to obey the law, and are scared of the news rep
Should we have laws to make stripping metadata illegal?
The solution to bad laws is not more bad laws. The reason we got into this mess is because of copyright, and the idea that websites like Facebook have any right whatsoever to your creative rights beyond non-exclusive publication. If you want to set things right, start by making the authorship rights of the individual who made the creative work something that cannot, by any contract or legal instrument, be abridged in any way. Oh, I know, businesses everywhere will be screaming bloody murder: What about our marketing? Our advertising! Oh however will we pay the bills without access to all your personal data! It's easy: Clicking like isn't a creative act. Telling people your likes and dislikes isn't a creative act. Creating metadata based on creative works (like keywords being used in status updates or comments) isn't a problem either -- in fact, the company can happily claim copyright to the resulting database and use it however it wants. And that's what most of the marketing and crap is based on. That's where the money comes from.
And one more thing: Those rights aren't transferrable or abridgable in any way, nor are they exclusive... but they do expire at the time of your death. No hand me downs for the relatives. No "150 years plus the life of the author" crap. No: Once you're dead, everything you ever said is fair game for the general public. You're the only one that should be allowed to benefit from your own work, and once you're dead, there's no more benefit to be had... so the rest of the world can reproduce your work freely... They just have to give you credit, like always.
Don't get into this argument about who owns what and derivative works and derivative derivative works and works for hire, and blah blah blah. It's a trap. An Ackbar trap, even. The moment you start to play that game, you lose, because there'll always be another argument, another subtle change, another justification. No. If you want to get a handle on intellectual property, you draw a firm line in the sand and say "This far, no farther." You do not ask for new laws to patch up old ones -- you get rid of the bad laws, strip it down to the bare metal, and then build it up right.
The reason we got into this mess is because of copyright, and the idea that websites like Facebook have any right whatsoever to your creative rights beyond non-exclusive publication.
Is someone making you post your stuff there?
So... if I want to make a multi million dollar movie of a book and the negotiations are going badly the cost for the rights has an upper bound as the cost of having the author quietly killed?
If you work 10 years on creating a book which does well you get to provide for your family for a few years.
If you work 10 years on creating a book which does well but then get cancer your dependents are shit out of luck it goes straight into the public domain.
An author with failing health effectively loses any way to pr
Should we have laws to make stripping metadata illegal?
The solution to bad laws is not more bad laws.
Quite right: the answer is to pass some good laws, such as those that prohibit stripping ownership information from creative works. Now they may make a balls-up of the legislation (in fact they probably will), but as with many laws throughout history (but not so many these days), the underlying principle is (correctly) designed to serve the public good.
Maybe the solution is to only ban the deletion of some metadata by anyone except the creator of the data.. This would include the creation date and the creator or copyright owner, and allow other metadata to be deleted. This would prevent the problem of premature orphaning whilst preserving any privacy issues.
Alternatively, as far as privacy issues are concerned, the creator is at perfect liberty to edit the metadata, to remove anything which they do not want published, before uploading/sharing/dist
Is this a serious honest to goodness question? Is it a joke? Is someone making a funny?
The answer is quite easily no, we should not make laws against stripping metadata. That is quite possibly one of the most absurd notions I've heard in a while. Lets take bad laws, learn from them, and then make worse laws! That will solve our problems, alright!
Not intentionally so, but rather a consequence of an entirely different copyright law. European union copyright directive:
1. Member States shall provide for adequate legal protection against any person knowingly performing without authority any of the following acts:
(a) the removal or alteration of any electronic rights-management information;
(b) the distribution, importation for distribution, broadcasting, communication or making available to the public of works or other subject-matter protected under this Directive or under Chapter III of Directive 96/9/EC from which electronic rights-management information has been removed or altered without authority, if such person knows, or has reasonable grounds to know, that by so doing he is inducing, enabling, facilitating or concealing an infringement of any copyright or any rights related to copyright as provided by law, or of the sui generis right provided for in Chapter III of Directive 96/9/EC.
2. For the purposes of this Directive, the expression "rights-management information" means any information provided by rightholders which identifies the work or other subject-matter referred to in this Directive or covered by the sui generis right provided for in Chapter III of Directive 96/9/EC, the author or any other rightholder, or information about the terms and conditions of use of the work or other subject-matter, and any numbers or codes that represent such information. The first subparagraph shall apply when any of these items of information is associated with a copy of, or appears in connection with the communication to the public of, a work or other subjectmatter referred to in this Directive or covered by the sui generis right provided for in Chapter III of Directive 96/9/EC.
Exact details will vary by country. The EU directives say what a country must achieve, it's up to them how they will do it.
The EU Directive is a result of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. Both those treaties require members to protect rights management information from alteration or removal and provide penalties. The U.S. has a similar implementation [cornell.edu] as the EU directive.
I'm not sure how Facebook's stripping metadata wouldn't violate the plain language of this law, but I'm sure they have some fine print somewhere that makes it legal.
Note that most metadata probably doesn't qualify, but I thi
There used to be a very simple mechanism for protecting works to become orphaned: authors registered them with the Library of Congress. This also ensured that the work eventually could enter the public domain.
It was greedy European publishers that killed this, and then forced the US to comply. And now they are using orphan works legislation to enrich themselves; if you look at the European proposals for orphan works, they want to charge for the reproduction of such works and then redistribute the money to current publishers and authors. That is not how orphan works are supposed to work.
We should bring back mandatory copyright registration; it's the only sensible way of dealing with orphan works and the public domain.
The reason to lobby for "orphaned works" legislation instead of fixing copyright terms is the fact that Big Media will never allow copyright terms to be shortened. But - being really easy to locate and immortal - they have nothing to fear from orphaned works exceptions, so that's an opening for others to chip away at the copyright monopoly.
Go, look at soup or tumblr. How many users have the right to distribute even 1% of their "stream"?
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Posted by pepwaves on 6/4/2012 3:52:00 AM (view original):Many of us bragged that Upstate would one day be defeated...well that day has arrived. Gotta give props to Michigan for accomplishing this impressive feat.
Has the changing of the old guard already begun? The Big Four conferences look VERY strong this season, and I think that will be the case for the seasons to come. The gap between Upstate and everyone else may have been closed once and for all.
I hope Upstaters enjoyed their dominance while it lasted.
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msm1267 writes: "Researchers have discovered previously unreported problems in SNMP on embedded devices where devices such as secondary-market home routers and a popular enterprise-grade load balancer are leaking authentication details in plain text. The data could be extracted by gaining access to the read-only public SNMP community string, which enables outside access to device information. While only vulnerabilities in three brands were disclosed today, a Shodan search turns up potentially hundreds of thousands of devices that are exposing SNMP to the Internet that could be equally vulnerable."


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Wendell Barnhouse is a nationally-known and respected columnist who has spent over 20 years covering collegiate athletics. He has reported from 25 Final Fours and more than three dozen bowl games and has written about the Big 12 and its schools since the conference's beginning. Barnhouse will be updating the Big 12 Insider on happenings and behind-the-scenes information about the conference.
The ranking marks the third week in program history the Sooners have been No. 1. OU also held the top spot for two separate weeks during the 2010 season.
The Sooners' all-time program high team score of 198.375 on Friday against No. 5 UCLA propelled OU to the top spot in the rankings with a team Regional Qualifying Score (RQS) of 197.322, leaping over Florida's 197.256 average.
Teams were previously ranked according to straight average scores. Monday marks the first week of rankings according to a team's RQS score, calculated by taking a team's six best regular-season-meet scores, of which three must be away, eliminating the highest score, then averaging the remaining five scores. Qualification for NCAA postseason competition is based off of RQS scores.
Oklahoma, the lone undefeated team left in the country with a record of 15-0, maintained its No. 1 beam ranking with a 49.395 average, well ahead of second-place Florida at 49.185. The Sooners are also ranked No. 3 on floor (49.340), No. 3 on bars (49.360) and No. 6 on vault (49.320).
Four Sooners are in the top 20 in the NCAA individual all-around rankings, including three gymnasts in the top 10. Junior Taylor Spears is ranked No. 2 in the nation with an RQS of 39.495 while senior Brie Olson's 39.445 ranks her No. 4 and sophomore Erica Brewer's score of 39.345 comes in at No. 9 overall. Freshman Keeley Kmieciak is also ranked No. 18 with a 39.200 score. No other school has more than two all-arounders ranked in the top 25.
Oklahoma is also the only team in the country to have five different gymnasts ranked in the top 25 in any event, with five ranked on both bars and beam. In the beam rankings, four Sooners occupy the top eight spots, including Spears at No. 1, Olson at No. 3, Brewer at No. 4 and sophomore Lauren Alexander at No. 8 while junior Madison Mooring also ranks No. 17.
On bars, Spears again leads the way ranked No. 7 in the country, followed by Brewer at No. 13, Kmieciak at No. 15, Olson at No. 19 and sophomore Rebecca Clark at No. 24.
Freshman Haley Scaman continued her streak near the top of the floor rankings, coming in at No. 4 this week with a 9.915 RQS. She was joined by Olson, ranked No. 13 at 9.885.
On vault, the freshman duo of Kmieciak and Scaman are the top-ranked Sooners at No. 22 in the nation.


text: We've all seen the "Drop Zone" signs that pop up around campus this time of year, but a group of enterprising seniors decided to take the idea one step further and set up a Senior Yard Sale on the patio outside Atwater. Each senior was responsible for getting their gear to the site—and then staying to oversee the selling of it—and then carting away the lonely leftover lamp if it didn't in fact sell. We caught a bit of the action on that sunny afternoon.


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When Larry Irving joined the Commerce Dept. in early 1993, most Americans were considering dial-up Internet access. Broadband access wasn't widely available. By the time he left his post as head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration six years later, Americans were replacing dial up with broadband and the World Wide Web was well on its way to become a central part of daily life and business.
Irving, now a consultant who specializes in policies to improve the access of underserved communities, reflected on the early days of the commercial internet in a Sept. 5 conversation in his Washington office.
Irving had been a House staffer and a member of President-elect Clinton's technology transition team before being appointed director of NTIA. "Coming off the House Telecommunications subcommittee, we knew what CompuServe was, we knew there was this nascent AOL, we knew these other players were out there. But we weren't as involved in the Internet in '92, as (Subcommittee Chairman) Ed Markey and those guys would become in '93 and '94….
"For all the grief that Al Gore gets, he really had the best sense of the possibilities. Because we all worked for him and it all rolled up to him—name another Vice President in the history of the country who for six years held an hour-long meeting every Tuesday morning about technology, specifically telecommunications and IT. That's what Al Gore did… [Y]ou were meeting with the Vice President if you were involved in the development of the commercial net, How would we use the net for positive social purposes in the United States? That was Gore's leadership…. I don't know if the Vice President has ever gotten full credit, not just for the vision but for corralling all the disparate parts that could have gone off on their own little tangent but for the fact that he pulled it together."
A critical policy decision in those early days was to promote commercial use of the net while imposing minimal regulation. "You have to remember something about Gore and [Commerce Secretary Ron] Brown and Clinton. They were all moderates, particularly with regard to economics…. If you talk to folks who were working in the Clinton Administration development of IT and telecom, our first thing was do no harm…. We didn't want to stifle investment. We didn't want to stifle innovation. We wanted people who knew more to make those decisions, and we figured that if we had to protect things, we'd have time to protect them. You have to remember we went from a million users of the Internet when I started my job to, by the time I left, about a hundred million domestically. On that curve, if something really untoward was happening, you had time to get involved."
Asked what has surprised him most about the development of the Internet over the past 20 years, Irving said: "I think we underestimated the wireless revolution, and I think we underestimated how fast things would move from wired to wireless. You have to remember [former MIT Media Lab Director Nicholas] Negroponte's wish that everything that was wired would become wireless and everything wireless would become wired, meaning that television would come over a cable and computing would go wireless. We didn't see how fast that would happen. And the power--we didn't imagine that something the size of a deck of cards would have more computing power than the computer I had in 1999 when I left government, and 1.5 billion people have access to it. There are 2 billion people on the Internet - The United States being the major player- but English no longer being the dominant language. How fast the rest of the world caught up and became full participants has been amazing.
The big challenge facing the move to wireless is the availability of enough bandwidth to support the demand. Irving thinks the U.S. will rise to the challenge: "We have a great opportunity. I have a lot of clients who have different stakes in this. I worry about spectrum policy a lot. I worry that the banal will drown out the important. You can only play Words With Friends so long; you can only check so many Facebook messages. There are so many powerful uses of this technology that we are not really beginning to explore. You're beginning to see some of that change.
"I think there's going to be a real food fight. I tell people that if you liked the water wars in the West in the 1800s, you're going to love the spectrum wars in the western world in the 2000s. Everybody wants to go to heaven and nobody wants to die. No one wants to give up their perspective on how to get this right. As a former fed, I blame primarily the federal government. I think there is an opportunity for real leadership and I don't see in the Administration or the FCC or the Commerce Dept. doing what I think is in the best interests of the country, which is telling our federal users, 'You're going to have to work with us in a more productive way.' There are a lot of folks sitting on a lot of spectrum. You have to figure out where it is. I understand they know their needs are going to increase as well, but you're not going to get the innovation, you're not going to get the investment, you're not going to get the user experience.
"I was at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York last Saturday and I might as well have had a brick in my pocket as a phone because you have 30,000 people all of whom are using smartphones that are bandwidth intensive, all of whom want to send a picture up, all of whom want to do a quick video—and none of us could do any of it. That will be the planet if we don't figure this out. When the iPhone 5 comes out, when the seven or eight new tablets this week alone—in the month of September there will be seven or eight tablets introduced—when Windows 8 comes with touch and tablets, that's going to put more stress on the system. We just aren't ready for this."


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The 'Fish are officially in.
The Palm Beach Atlantic University Salifish volleyball team was announced on Sunday night as one of the 64 participants for the upcoming NCAA Division II Championship Tournament Nov. 29-Dec. 8. The Sailfish claimed the No. 3-seed in the South Region.
A long-time power in the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA), this is the first time the Sailfish have earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament.
The Sailfish (33-3) boast one of the top records in the tournament as they will be matched up with Rollins (Fla.) College (18-14) in the opening round set for Nov. 29. The South Region Tournament will be hosted by No. 1-seed University of Tampa at the Bob Martinez Athletics Center.
Palm Beach Atlantic is riding a 10-match winning streak and has won 31 of its last 32 matches.
Rollins Thwon four of their final five matches, all within the competitive Sunshine State Conference .
Rollins Thwon four of their final five matches, all within the competitive Sunshine State Conference .
The remainder of the South Region bracket features the University of West Florida claiming the Gulf South Conference Tournament Championship on their way to the No. 2-seed while matched up with conference-foe Christian Brothers University as the No. 7-seed.
Eckerd College (No. 4-seed) will take on Florida Southern (No. 5-seed) while Tampa (No. 1-seed) gets Clark Atlanta University (No. 8-seed) as the representative from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC).
The Sailfish would take on the winner of the West Florida and Christian Brothers match in the second round.
Official NCAA Regional Tournament information will be announced and posted to PBASailfish.com as soon as it becomes available.
Visit pbasailfish.com for the latest news and info on Palm Beach Atlantic University Athletics. You can also follow the Fish on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Also become a supporter of the Fish by joining the Sailfish Club.


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For the past 50 years, students of the Image Arts program at Ryerson University in Toronto have been kept in the dark. Their educational space was a former brewery warehouse where wafts of hops were legend. As the downtown campus grew, this hermetic, almost windowless bunker held down an increasingly prominent intersection, defiantly turning its back to campus life all around it. As if to encourage a rethink of this bulwark building, the city parks department transformed an adjacent lot into a public square with a large pond and ten-foot-high boulders. Yet the building and the public square existed in isolation until the University found impetus to re-purpose the building with the remarkable anonymous donation of the renowned Black Star photography collection - 292,000 photojournalistic images that document and define the 20th-century. Ryerson would create a centre of photographic research, exhibition and archive of international stature that would integrate with the school's activities. The renovation and expansion of the 100,000-square-foot building sought to create a crossroads between university life, post-graduate study and the public realm. By opening up all three stories with fully glazed perimeter corridors and new informal study space, the program becomes legible and offers a welcoming presence. The reveal further serves to unify the academic life with the addition of the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC), where galleries at grade invite interest and activity and where the indoors and outdoors meet on a terrace with a café and seating that blends with the adjacent square and a newly created pedestrian thoroughfare. Completed in September 2012, the RIC is a museum-quality facility with state-of-the-art research, storage and exhibition space. The public area houses a main gallery, Great Hall, student gallery and a Colonnade with a permanent video installation visible from the square. A luminous façade encircles all four sides of the building that further announces the Centre and refreshed School of Image Arts to the campus and the city. The double-skin glass cladding conceals an LED lighting system. By day, this opaque glass surface provides a seamless white backdrop to bustling campus life and contrasts the centre's transparent glazing at ground level. At night, a dynamic display of multi-coloured lights glows in separate panels or in unison, transforming the building into a work of art as a programmable and interactive light installation using an app designed at Ryerson University. Made with light - the stuff of photography - this feature engages the civic realm and represents this new cultural destination to the city. To view a demonstration of the light installation, please see: www.dsai.ca/videos-podcasts/ryerson-image-centre
To view a demonstration of the interactive feature, please see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxzHlbayWbA
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The Orras are the owners/managers of Don's Donuts located at 2911 Woodville Rd. Actually, Joe is the former owner, having taken over the business in 1987. Mohammed has been the man in charge since 1998. From Woodville Road, passersby can hardly help but notice Don's, which has been satisfying donut cravings since 1963, mainly because of the art deco-type building, not to mention the towering sign.
"The building is still all original," said Orra . "The sign is not the original sign one would see back in 1963. I am not sure when that was changed." If you get up close to the front of the structure, shadows of advertising and artwork from earlier decades can be seen on exterior wall surfaces.
Inside, the décor remains strictly original from the day the business first started – it's like stepping back into time.
Almost immediately, the fresh donuts, sweet rolls, filled straights and other goodies (there are over 30 varieties from which to choose) divert your attention from the décor.
Asked what the best-selling donut is, Mohamed couldn't narrow it down to one variety. "There is no 'most popular' donut – it's whatever the customer is in the mood for," he said
What is a popular favorite among patrons, however, is an in-store promotion that gets you a donut and fresh-brewed coffee for $1.99.
For those who like to start the day off with something a little heartier (at least before they indulge in the donuts), Don's offers a full menu of breakfast and lunch items. Eggs, toast, omelets, pancakes, bagels, biscuits and gravy, muffins, and more are available any time. If you have a busy day planned, fortify yourself with the "Workingman's Breakfast," which includes two eggs, two sausage, two bacon strips, home fries with gravy, toast and jelly for $5.99. For an extra buck, you can add two pancakes.
The lunch menu includes hamburgers, BLTs and grilled cheese sandwiches, all served with chips.
Don's is open seven days a week. Hours are 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays.
According to Mohamed, the busiest hours are from opening to 11 a.m. Throughout an average day, the staff will serve 100 to 200 customers.
When the last patron has gone and the doors are locked for the day, the work is far from over for Mohamed and his staff.
A crew comes in between 8 and 9 p.m. to start preparing the sweet treats for the next day. Mohamed does most of the donut- and pastry-making. The nighttime bakers aim to finish preparing the donuts and pastries at around 2 a.m., which leaves three hours for frosting and decorating with sugar, sprinkles, nuts, etc.
Bright and early at 4 a.m., the waitresses come in – an hour before the doors open for hungry early-bird customers.
If you can limit your choices to 12, you can get a dozen donuts for $7.49. A half-dozen sells for $4.50.
Carry-out and special orders are available by calling 419-693-9043 or faxing your order to 419-697-9743.


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received from the Lamar Police Department.
Nov. 28
6:15 a.m. Officers responded to the 1300 block of S 12th St for a report of theft from a vehicle. Officer documented the incident and this matter is under investigation.
11:37 a.m. Officer responded to the 1300 block of North Main St on a report of drugs left in a room. Officer took the items to destroy.
11:51 a.m. Officers observed a driver with a suspended drivers license operating a motor vehicle in the 1600 block of S. 5th St. Officers contacted the driver and arrested Anthony Adame(34) of Lamar, he is being held at Prowers County Jail.
1:10 p.m. Officers responded to the 1900 blk of S. 11th St. on a report of a container with possible drugs. Officers located the item and it was found to be drugs. Incident was documented properly and the drugs were destroyed.
2:06 p.m. Officers responded to the 300 block W. Maple St. on the report of an injury accident. Estimated damages to vehicle one were $5,000.00. Estimated damages to vehicle two were $4,000.00.
5:59 p.m. Officers were contacted on a report of two bicycles being stolen in the 1800 blk of S 10th St. This matter is under investigation.
7:53 p.m. Officers responded to the 700 block of E. Olive St. for a cold burglary.
8:04 p.m. Officers responded to the 1700 blk of S 12th St for a welfare check after a subject advised he fell off his roof. The subject was transported to PMC for medical treatment.
Nov. 29
12:14 a.m. Officers received a report of theft in the 1300 blk. of S. 11th St. The estimated value of the item taken is $1,000.00.
12:15 p.m. Officer responded to the 500 block of South Main St and spoke to a subject in regards to harassment. Officer took a report of the incident.
12:21 p.m. Officer responded to the 1800 block of S. 5th St. on the report of possible fraud. Officers are currently investigating the matter.
2:06 p.m. Officer took a phone call from a subject in Texas in regards to a stolen semi and trailer. Officer was advised the vehicle may have been located.
2:59 p.m. Officers received information about a possible theft that had occurred. Officers advised the reporting party the victim of the crime needed to contact the police department if they wanted to file a report.
4:37 p.m. Officers were contacted in regards to a possible fraud that occurred in the 500 block of Division Street. Matter is under investigation.
11:49 p.m. Officers arrested Rhonda Chavarria on an active arrest warrant out of Prowers County. Rhonda is being held at the Prowers County Jail on a $510.00 cash only bond.
Nov. 30
7:45 a.m. Officer responded to the 100 block of N. 13th St. on the report of criminal mischief. Officers arrived and took a report. Damages were estimated at $542.00.
9:23 a.m. Officers received a phone call about a suspicious incident. Officers took down the information and forwarded it to investigations for review.
9:24 a.m. Officers arrested April Petterson (18) of Fort Collins for an active felony warrant.
10:39 a.m. Officers responded to the 10 block of Mayhew Dr. for a report of criminal trespass. Estimated loss of property from the vehicle is $400.
Dec. 01
9:32 a.m. Code enforcement officer responded to the 200 Block of S 13th St. concerning a stray yellow lab dog. The dog was captured and taken to the shelter for impoundment. No identification is upon the lab.
10:41 a.m. Officers responded to the 500 block of W. Olive St. for a report of a wallet that was stolen out of a vehicle. Estimated loss of property is $70.00.
12:53 p.m. Officers received found property in the 1000 block of North Main Street. Officers placed the bank card into the found property section until an owner can be located.
11:31 p.m. Officers contacted Benjamin Gonzales, 26 of Lamar, in regards to a warrant. Benjamin is being held on a no bond warrant.
Dec. 02
12:39 a.m. Officers responded to the 2400 blk. of S. Main St. for a report of trespassing. This case is still under investigation.
5:14 a.m. Officers responded to the 100 block of N 8th St. to assist with a medical call. EMS responded and the patient was transported to PMC without incident.
7:16 a.m. Officers responded to the 200 blk of E. Cedar St. to assist the Lamar Ambulance Service.
11:41 a.m. Officer responded to the 1400 block of East Olive on a report of a criminal mischief. Matter is under investigation.
2:45 p.m. Officer responded to the 300 block of South 3rd St on a two vehicle non-injury accident. Officer cited a subject involved.
3:58 p.m. Officers were dispatched to the 900 blk of W Beech St for a storage unit being broke into. Nothing was taken from the unit but approximately $10.00 in damage was reported.
7:13 p.m. Officers were contacted in the 500 blk of S Main St for a possible theft. This matter is under investigation.
9:37 p.m. Officers executed a search warrant in the 700 block of South Eighth Street. Officers collected multiple items and the investigation is on going.
Dec. 03
2:24 a.m. Officers responded to the 1500 blk of S. 10th St. for a report of a suspicious incident. Officers found someone had entered a vehicle unlawfully. There were no items missing from the vehicle.


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What Your Flannel Shirt Says About You
We've got good news and bad news.
First, the bad news: your favorite flannel shirt is making more of a statement about you than you thought.
But the good news is we've got you covered, with a cotton-to-English translation of exactly what your choice of plaid workwear is saying. Because whether you're backwoods, Brooklyn or just plain Borland, you wouldn't want your brushed-cotton shirting projecting anything but.
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CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois woman has been identified as one of six Americans killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan.
Anne Smedinghoff, a foreign service officer with the U.S. State Department, died Saturday during a mission to donate books to students in southern Zabul province.
The 25-year-old from the Chicago area is the first American diplomat to die on the job since last year's attack on the U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi, Libya.
She aided Secretary of State John Kerry on a visit to Afghanistan last month. On Sunday, Kerry described Smedinghoff as "vivacious, smart" and "capable."
Smedinghoff's parents said in an emailed statement to The Washington Post that their daughter "particularly enjoyed the opportunity to work directly with the Afghan people."
Smedinghoff previously served in Venezuela.


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Nah I actually over-dress all the time.
Nah I actually over-dress all the time.
Rejecting 'analysis by checklist' and 'skill absolutism' since Dec '09
'Stats' is not a synonym for 'Career Test Averages'
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Dunno how this **** finds such relevant pictures.
Parmi | #1 draft pick | Jake King is **** | Big Bash League tipping champion of the universeCome and Paint Turtle
replica of uvelocity's brain. note: actual size
don't see anything to be honest
haha oh wait
do you think people will be allowed to make violins?
who's going to make the violins?
forever 63*
And smalishah's avatar is the most classy one by far Jan certainly echoes the sentiments of CW
Yeah we don't crap in the first world; most of us would actually have no idea what that was emanating from Ajmal's backside. Why isn't it roses and rainbows like what happens here? PEWS's retort to Ganeshran on Daemon's picture depicting Ajmal's excreta
Infact since becoming captain the record is even more extreme with away average actually going down in the 30's All-round records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN Cricinfo
One bad start to a series = HTB now?
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Don't think anyone could point to the last five Tests - especially those in India - and say he's especially struggled with the conditions. Struggled with the pressure of being the only competent batsman in the team, maybe.
He wasn't bad in India anyways..
As people have mentioned before, the main reasons for the differences in his averages has been the fact that his great run of form has coincided with series played at home. If the trend you're showing goes on for another few years, then you have a valid point, but atm it really isn't the case.
I think he's looked okay here, he's never going to be at his best at swing bowling but I think he showed at Lord's that he's in better nick than his scores suggest, but he seems to be finding ways to get out at the moment, which is unusual for Clarke since he took up the captaincy.
Clarke isn't a flat track bully/homester bully. He was ok in 05 in England, brilliant in 09 in England and now has struggled with injury yet still looks the best Aussie player this time. A fine player who is struggling for form and fitness with a poor team is always going to struggle. Look at Atherton in the 90's, not in the same class as Clarke but basically the same problems as Clarke has now.
Clarke overall: Home average - 61.9, Away Average - 41.9
Clarke since 2012 - Home average - 63.34, Away Average - 41.7
I think it has got to a point where it's not an aberration anymore but Clarke is outstanding at home and a decent batsman capable of some awesome innings' away. I don't think it's even a form thing. Due to whatever reasons, technical or mental, Clarke is a miles better batsman on home tracks than away and will probably end his career that way.
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Known variables: h, w, a, b, c1, d1, e1, f1, and z°
Unknown variables: c2, d2, e2, f2, m, and n
I need to find m,n and then translate c1,d1 to c2,d2 and the same for e1,f1 to e2,f2.
Other fun facts:
a = w/2
b = h/2
This is a real-world problem, so it was one that I had to come up with the steps. I'm creeping through this problem, and now I'm stuck. I got z using trigonometry dynamically, however, I'm having trouble with the rest of this problem. Can anyone help me through the rest of the steps? I know what I need, but I don't know the equations or steps to get the unknown variables.
(Honestly, I'm also looking to calculate the distance between (c2,d2) and (m,n) as well as the distance between (e2,f2) and (m,n) as the actual result, but I know the equation for those last steps).
Yay example values:
- Rectangle w × h
1440 × 434
- Center Point (a,b)
- Point (c1,d1)
- Point (e1,f1)
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I haven't got to hang yet myself but what got me to the point of looking into it was all the people saying how much more comfortable it is compared to tent camping.
Hopefully soon I'll get some free time to hang and see.
Take care,
I haven't got to hang yet myself but what got me to the point of looking into it was all the people saying how much more comfortable it is compared to tent camping.
Hopefully soon I'll get some free time to hang and see.
Take care,
Neither a thru-hiker, cyclist or tent-camper ... I've been using hammocks since I became a powered rider, a decade ago. I ride a 2003 Suzuki Burgman maxi-scooter. A very tall and heavy guy, age 69, I like the step-thru frame, carrying capacity & automatic transmission, while I also like the two-cylinders, quiet acceleration and the flat-out speed.
I don't camp, as I firmly believe that a locking door, clean sheets, rain/sun protection, AC/heat, TV, hot water on demand and a place to park my ride are one of the peaks of Western Civilization - i.e., I usually 'motel it' for the night. But that doesn't mean I can't rest & relax several times a day, when I so choose, during my rides ... and a hammock serves me best.
My biggest peeve is the common article-of-faith that there will always be two trees or posts, just the right distance apart, everywhere I choose to hang my hammock. While now living in the well-forested East Coast, I have lived and visited extensively in the Midwest and Southwest ... and know very well that there are vast stretches of the USA & Canada that have very few trees (more like bushes) and other areas with no trees at all. So, I experiment with the means of carrying my hammock-hanging support with me.
I was looking for some DIY camping gear on Youtube, found some vids by SHUG and fell in love with concept. I went out and bout a $20 ripstop nylon hammock, and I have never used (aside from setting up for my wife when she comes) my $200+ tent since. I used to camp with the tent, air mattress, etc. Now I backpack! Thanks SHUG! Still fine tuning, but I love the learning as u go, and watching what others are doing, reading the forums, etc.
My Hammock camping adventures, and more can be seen here:
***WARNING! Many of my videos contain language some may find inappropriate!***
Thanks for all your help, advice and more!
My wife and I started hiking this winter for exercise. She enjoys photography and the light is best for photography in the morning or late evening. So, we started talking about the fact that if we camped out we would already be where we wanted to be in the morning without having to hike in the dark to get there. The problem was, I have arthritus in my back, so laying on the ground isnt a good option for me anymore. There was an article a couple years back in one of the kayak magazines about hammock camping. I started to look into it and thought maybe I could do it. So we bought two Hennesey Hammocks and we have gone twice so far. We hope to be able to hit a group hang sometime, but weve spent alot of money getting our gear together and probably wont be ready for cold camping this year. We really appreciate all the information here. We have been watching the Utube videos for a couple months and decided to join up.
Best wishes: Lump
hey guys.
not yet a hanger but i came across a few Whoooo Buddy productions. two things came to mind.
first. it looked like a blast. i could say more but do i need to?
second: the winter system was something knew to me. and i like year round capabilities.
i liked the energy i saw from shug as well as the many other youtube vids like professor hammock and such. seems like a buncha good people.
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After a few bad tent experiences earlier this year (rocky ground, green-briars under the tent, snake inside vestibule, storm washout), I decided to give the hammock a shot. I wanted something light and packable that would give me better comfort than a tent, and be easy to carry around. I have also been very interested in ultra-light camping and the weight of the hammock/tarp appealed to me.
What made me a hanger? No campsites, rocks, roots, cold hard lumpy sloping ground, mud, running water, bugs, varmints. 'Tis the only civilized way to sleep outdoors
Before my first big backpacking trip (and when I had no idea about gear and whatnot), I lurked this forum too hard and got sucked in by all the claims of comfort, greater flexibility in choosing camp spots, and just the general superiority of hammock camping over ground camping. After hanging for most of my trip and really enjoying it, I'm really glad I chose to listen to you guys!
Just a short note to introduce myself. I am a Boy Scout leader and we do lots of trips along the AT in Virginia. I observed lots of hanging around at some campsites and found you guys through YouTube (Shug and Professor Hammock are very informative and entertaining!) Recently purchased a warbonnet blackbird and two Hennessies for my sons. We really enjoy just hanging around and carrying less weight.
Regards dcormier3


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It's safe to assume that everyone in town has a secret
"Under the Dome" doesn't waste any time. The first few minutes of Monday's premiere episode features a dead body, potential government conspiracy, unrequited love, a plane crash and a bifurcated cow. Those last two are thanks to the titular mysterious dome that seemingly appears out of nowhere to surround the deceptively sleepy town of Chester's Mill.
Among those trapped inside are a guy named "Barbie" (Mike Vogel) and a young woman named Angie (Britt Robertson), both of whom were already desperate to get out of town for their own reasons.
It's safe to assume that everyone in town has a secret, including the sheriff (Jeff Fahey), his deputy (Natalie Martinez) and especially town councilman "Big Jim" Rennie (Dean Norris), who is the only government official who didn't attend a parade outside of town that day.
Think that's a coincidence?
The premiere episode deftly introduces a half-dozen more characters without losing any of the momentum of those opening few minutes. With the dome cutting off communication to the outside world, the characters must grapple with everyday needs while the fishbowl nature of their predicament should make it hard for anyone to keep their secrets buried for long.
Vogel and Norris are early cast standouts. And it will be hard for any "Breaking Bad" fans not to delight in seeing Norris play a character more layered (and potentially nefarious) than upstanding Hank.
The show tries to keep much of the thriller feel from the Stephen King book on which it's based. In the premiere that task largely fell to newcomer Alexander Koch, who plays Rennie's psychologically disturbed son, Junior. But, perhaps because the show needed to establish Junior's creepiness so quickly, his storyline came across forced and over the top.
Overall, though, "Dome" is solid summer entertainment, and one of the best starts to a locally filmed series.


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The Retreat at Lake Tamaha will become home to Alabama's first fully automated convenience store early in the fall semester.
The Retreat at Lake Tamaha will become home to Alabama's first fully automated convenience store early in the fall semester.
Shop24 Global LLC convenience stores operate similar to a vending machine, but they offer everything from a small bag of chips to a half-gallon of milk. The stores offer up to 180 items that range in weight from an ounce to 8 pounds.
"We are PC-based," said Jason Santoro, vice president of sales for Shop24. "Meaning there is a computer inside the store, so that's what separates us from a vending machine. That technology allows us to take all payment options — cash, credit cards, debit cards and university meal plan cards."
The computer, along with the store's seven cameras, allows the store to be self-automated. An on-site operator takes care of refilling the machine and ensuring products are not past their expiration dates.
"Our stores are online. We're constantly 'pinging' them," Santoro said. "The stores self-diagnose any issues. If there is a jam or the temperature goes above 38 degrees, it will send an alert to our operator in Columbus, Ohio. ... There is a robot inside the store that fetches the products. We can control that robot remotely from Columbus, Ohio, so we can fix the majority of those issues remotely."
Every Shop24 store is tailored to the customers who will utilize the machine, Santoro said. The Retreat's Shop24 will be stocked with items that have been popular at other collegiate locations around the country.
"We cater to our audience," Santoro said. "So what we've learned in higher ed is that students are buying meal options late at night — you're seeing fresh-made sandwiches, frozen entrees, frozen pizzas and calzones are all very popular. Beverages are also popular, but it's primarily food."
He said Shop24 has a long way to go in deciding exact products and pricing for The Retreat, which they base on prices at convenience stores in the area. They company is also working with the University of Alabama to allow the machine to take Bama Cash from Alabama student Action Cards.
Landmark Properties Inc., which owns The Retreat and similar student-living communities around the country, will be the first private student housing community to install a Shop24.
"We always aim to provide the best possible living environment, and that includes the amenities, to any of our projects," said James Whitley, vice president and COO of Landmark Properties. "We felt like this would be a very attractive amenity and convenience for the residents living in The Retreat."
Santoro said Landmark Properties is preparing the area for the Shop24 to stand on, but they are providing the machine at no cost to them. Shop24 will give the company a percentage of the sales as a way of renting the area the machine stands on. He said one attractive thing about The Retreat was how remote it is.
"They have a high population, a strong summer population and it's a very remote area," Santoro said. "There are not convenience stores within a good seven- to 10-minute drive, and there were not convenience stores on the way to campus. That's one way we evaluate locations. Cars can create competition, but in this particular case there really weren't any options."
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Is the Ending of The Dark Knight Rises A Lie?
Do I have to say this article contains spoilers? Fine. It contains bloody spoilers.
As Christopher Nolan's epic blockbuster winds down, Batman (Christian Bale) makes the ultimate sacrifice. With no other option, he flies off into the sunset dragging a nuclear bomb behind him. It explodes. Batman dies. All the little cute kids on the school bus stare wide-eyed at the blast, because staring wide-eyed at a nuclear blast is what you're taught to do in grade school.
Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt eulogize Bruce Wayne, the unsung hero of Gotham. Michael Caine does what Michael Caine does and cries with all the raw emotion a father who has lost a son can show.
But wait.
Bruce Wayne fixed the auto pilot, even though he indicated otherwise. The Bat Signal is restored (I still don't get that one). John Blake, whose first name is Robin, finds the Bat Cave. And good ol' Alfred returns to the cafe in Italy he always goes to and lo and behold, Bruce Wayne is sitting nearby with Selina Kyle, presumably thinking about how awesome it is that he's in Italy having sex with Anne Hathaway.
Game over. Or is it?
I read an interesting article over at CinemaBlend.com today where author Katey Rich proposes that Bruce Wayne did die at the end of The Dark Knight Rises, and that the scene in Italy was merely a figment of Alfred's imagination.
Uh, yeah, no.
She makes some valid arguments. Christopher Nolan doesn't just show the Batwing flying off into the sunset. He shows Batman sitting in what is presumably the aircraft seconds before it explodes.
Actually, that's the only really valid argument, because comparing The Dark Knight Rises, which has always dealt in a reality-based world, to Inception, which was all about dreams and obtaining the ultimate dream – of going home – doesn't hold up. Let me counter:
- It's been pointed out multiple times that the movie isn't as well assembled as most of Nolan's other movies. The short time line between Batman's last appearance and the bomb exploding could, and probably is, nothing more than typical Hollywood editing to take things down to the wire.
- Ending The Dark Knight trilogy with a dream sequence just doesn't fit with the rest of the franchise.
- There is just enough foreshadowing early on to indicate how it's going to end, namely Lucius Fox mentioning early on that the auto pilot needs to be fixed and, of course, Alfred talking about the cafe where he'd like to see Bruce some day. Neither of these moments suggest a dream sequence.
- The final scene is too established to just be in Alfred's head. The scenes directly preceding it – the discovery that the auto pilot was indeed installed (by Bruce Wayne), for instance – are not in Alfred's head, and Nolan wouldn't have included them had he not intended there to be a concrete resolution.
- As "realistic" as the movie is, The Dark Knight Rises is still a comic book movie, and Batman is nothing if not a survivor. And a crafty survivor.
- The fact that Bruce Wayne leaves a will that leads John Blake to the Bat cave, gives away Wayne Manor and who knows what else implies that the man never intended to return to Gotham. Sure, he might have expected to die, but nothing about his actions leading up to the climax suggests that he truly wants to die.
- Warner Bros. didn't want to have what is for the most part a depressing movie end with Bruce Wayne of all people biting the bullet.
- And, what is most telling to me: The Dark Knight Rises is an amalgam of Knightfall and Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, which is about an aging Batman who comes out of retirement to rescue Gotham from incredible misery. At the end of that series, after a nuclear explosion that nearly kills Superman, Batman has a heart attack and dies. Superman bids him farewell, but just as he's almost out of earshot, he hears the faintest of heartbeats and realizes that his old friend faked his death to live out the rest of his life. As soon as Batman flew the nuclear bomb toward the ocean, I knew exactly where the movie was going.
Having watched the movie twice, it is definitely suspicious that Batman's face is edited into the final moments before the nuclear bomb detonates, but nothing suggests that this is anything more than Hollywood being Hollywood. Still, the thought that the ending to The Dark Knight Rises is a lie is an interesting one, and for that I give credit to Ms. Rich for allowing me to entertain the idea.
What do you think?


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fixing holes in wetsuits...
I have a couple of what look like scratches on my wetsuit from some bad catipults. It has sliced the rubber almost all the way through. Is there any way to combat the tear? I can just imagine every time i get in and out, the tears will, well tear more!
Also, I have an older 6.6 and have been going out in pretty overpowering conditions. I can't seem to downhaul or outhaul it anymore without damaging the sail, but im still way overpowered. Today was around 21 knots, and since I don't have a 5.8, I was hanging on for dear life with my Go 139 bouncing around like crazy over the chop and me struggling to learn how to really cruise (ie get into BOTH straps and into the harness blasting). Do you have any tips for sailing in stuff like that? I can understand if it was a constant wind, but its very gusty (going from 18-25 knots easily). I hate getting catipulted and would really like it to stop. It cuts my wetsuit, cuts my skin etc....
Thanks for the help, and anyone can answer,
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RE: fixing holes in wetsuits...
i'm afraid you can't do anoything about the tears lad, wetsuit material is very hard to fix.
As for the 6.6: old sails, from my experience, have almosdt no trimming possebileties as they ocntain less monofilm or any of the moderns, stiff materials which you can trim in length and width. The only thing u can do is get urself a newer sail. And just ... don't go out in overpowerig conditions, or take a smaller sail. Better safe then sorry.
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RE: fixing holes in wetsuits...
Hi Thomas,
I'll have to disagree with Crazychemical on the wetsuit repair issue.
I agree with him on the old sails issue.
What brand of sail is your older 6.6?
What brand and length mast do you have?
It might be that the older sail and a newer mast are incompatible and won't allow you to downhaul enough to loosen up the top of the sail, or perhaps the sail was made before "top twist was even "invented".
If so, then Crazychemical has it right. Not much you can do besides finding a smaller rig and mast.
As far as the wetsuit tears, that's a pretty easy fix.
Buy a can of O'Neill Wetsuit repair cement:
Buy a spool of unwaxed dental floss (the flat kind if you can fin it(.
Apply the O'Neill Superbond Wetsuit cement to each side of the tear (per the instructions on the little brush top can) and stick the pieces together as recommended.
Then "stitch" the two sides of the repair together with a curved needle (you can get them in little kits at the grocery stores) and the dental floss.
Then coat the inside and outside of the repaired area with a light coat of the Superbond Westuit cement. Let the cement soak into the dental floss and cover it.
Your wetsuit will be as good as new, and if it tears again it will be in a different area.
Hope this helps,
|13th May 2007, 09:49 AM
RE: fixing holes in wetsuits...
my 6.6 is an Ezzy Transformer power slalom triple cam sail. its an oldy. 2000 i think. My mast is a fiberspar 5000 i think (90% carbon) that was bought with the sail at the time. Good mast, not so good sail. Are you suggesting to go for the 5.8 or 5.9 etc rather than spending more money on a better 6.6?
The wetsuit repair is a great idea. I will have to think of how to fix it without my parents seeing it. lol I bought it and spend 400 bucks CND on it and it was quite the investment for me without a job right now. That is why gear is so scarce.
I do like the feeling of being overpowred. 6.6 in 20 knots of wind is good for me (i am 65 kilos i t hink). I just need to learn how to deal with the gusts. I always seem to get thrown. Also, I am trying to learn how to get into the back strap so being overpowered doesn't help i don't think. I have read about lots of tips on getting into the back strap, but why does the Go have outboard strap settings only for the advnaced position? why not but a inboard strap setting for the smaller goes (139 and 129) next year for that added versitility when learning? I know that would make my life easier... everytime I try and wiggle my back foot into the strap I either miss (cause i was told not to look) or just end up sinking the windward rail and splash or catipult than bigger splash.
I think I might be waiting too long to get into the straps though. when do you get into them? right when you start to plane or when you are planing and the board really starts to flatten out?
tks for your help,
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Now Women's Magazines Are Using Vulgar Headlines. What Does that Mean to You?
Blogmaster's note: Although I had to go back to work Wednesday, apparently not everyone else did. In other words, as I tried to write the Industry News post this week, I couldn't find a heck of a lot. What I did find–and it has business ramifications–was about profanity in women's magazines.
The New York Times article's headline draws the parallel for you. 50 Shades of Vulgarity. While everyone associated with the literary world and just a few others were enthralled last year by 50 Shades of Grey, Glamour magazine's cover included a reference to an article published in November 2011 called "12 Ways to Get Your Sh*t Together."
Granted, this is Glamour, the magazine that acted as a catalyst in a Seinfeld episode about who could master their own domain. (If you didn't see it, think about it in context of profanity and a new genre called mommy porn. It'll come to you.)
Still, it wasn't MAD magazine or Howard Stern Monthly or even Sports Illustrated, which sometimes has an affinity for certain female body parts. Glamour is a magazine published for and marketed to women (and George Costanza). There was so little reaction to the article that the September 2012 cover included a reference to an article titled "Sh*t GIrls Say About Clothes." The November 2012 issue included an article discussing workouts to improve your, uhhh, butt.
Granted, Glamour isn't aimed at your grandmother (or at you, if you are a grandmother). But you wouldn't expect a woman's magazine to be a leader in the cause of profanity on mainstream magazine covers. And yet it is.
But maybe it's not so shocking. In a Cheers episode from the 1980s, Diane asked Sam if he knew that the difference between him and a fat, braying ass was. (He didn't.) Granted, she wasn't asking about anyone's posterior. But it was just a few years later when Margaret Whiting told Robert Urich's Spenser that she would sue his [butt]. Then, a few years later, we got to see Sherry Stringfield's matching body part on NYPD Blue. More recently, William Shatner starred in a TV show called $h*! My Dad Says. Is it really shocking to see profanity on a magazine cover? (And replacing the vowel with an asterisk really makes no difference.)
The question about this trend toward coarser content for women isn't whether it's good or bad. It exists. It's part of the landscape. And in a world where sexy vampire novels and S&M series dominate literature for women, the real question is what you'll do about it.
Do you give into the flow and do what's commercially expected? Or do you stand against the tide and use your lack of profanity as a discriminator?
Is the trend toward profanity and explicit content affecting your writing?
Jack Owen permalinkJanuary 5, 2013 8:09 am
Depending on content and target.
If writing for an adult readership in an appropriate genre ( intergalactic grunts of either gender) cussing and reference to body-parts would be as natural as breathing, and unnoticeable in context.
A male-dominated job-site, or ship's mess, would not register "socially" unacceptable language.
I was in a mess, after rum distribution, when fumes, smoke and ribaldry blanketed the air. Suddenly, a burly, bearded, tattooed character shocked his mates into silence with a schoolgirl cuss-word.
He'd just opened his mail and read a "Dear John" note from (one) of his girlfriends.
That stunned everyone, for a moment, then chatter resumed with a heavy sprinkling of four letter words in a variety of salty terms.
A story, aimed for servicemen, etc., would only need one verbatim exchange to capture the ribald flavor of conversation exchanged between characters of… equal rank…to spice the text.
January 5, 2013 11:00 am
It's easy to use swear words when writing because that's how people talk, and writers want to create realistic dialogue.
However, I resist using swear words (even in my military science fiction) because swear words are difficult to read, and ultimately a pain in the ass. Oops. I only use swear words to set up humor. So far, my approach seems to work. Using profanity is an amature mistake new authors commit, often using swear words in their first paragragh for the shock effect. It does not work, only causing readers to close the book and move on.
Also, a standard for new authors should be: would I be proud to show my new book to my neighbor, my local newspaper editor, or my family? Do you want those people to endure profanity from you books? Not likely.
Jeanette Dundas permalinkJanuary 5, 2013 6:46 pm
I prefer not abusing profanity in anything I write. If it' s used too casually it loses the effect I' m trying to achieve. Think about the comic who uses profanity every other word. I Don' t find it funny anymore. I' m disappointed in any industry that has lowered it' s standards.
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While PC sales continue to plummet, tablet sales continue to surge, according to new research from Strategy Analytics.
In the first quarter of 2013, 40.6 million tablets were shipped globally, a remarkable 117 percent increase compared to the year-ago quarter. This compared to PC sales, which fell by a double-digit percentage in the same quarter.
Demand for branded tablets was strong across consumer, commercial and education users and was led by Apple's iPad, according to Strategy Analytics.
Related: Five Technology Trends IT Considers 'Game-Changers'
Apple shipped 19.5 million iPads in the quarter, earning 48.2 percent market share. Tablets running Google's Android OS saw 17.6 million units shipped, compared to 3 million tablets running Microsoft's Windows 8 and 400,000 units running all other platforms combined.
In addition, Android garnered 43.4 percent tablet market share and took a big chunk out of Apple's dominance in the market. Tablets running Microsoft's Windows 8 OS earned 7.4 percent share of all tablets shipped in the quarter.
Debi Bush, CEO of CMIT Solutions of Denver, said Android tablets are attractive to consumers because they have lower price points than iPad and Windows 8 tablets that feature more functionality.
"That's always been a point between the iPad and Windows tablets: Do you want consumer stuff or a fully integrated machine in the shape of a tablet," Bush said.
Overall, tablets are eating away at some PC share too, according to Bush.
"We have a client who looked at laptops, and we were ready to fit them. ... Then they asked about the iPad, so we brought in iPad along with the Samsung Slate with Windows and an i5 processor. They liked it so much, they got the Slates instead of the laptops," Bush said.
Jeff Davis, senior vice president of sales at D&H Distributing, said unit sales of Android tablets are particularly hot at the 7-inch level, while Windows 8 tablets are strong for the Harrisburg, Pa.-based distributor in the 10-inch space.
"Looking at the units, there's more in the 7-inch space [for Android], but Microsoft is bringing the Windows 8 experience down to 8 inches and below so that should help it improve dramatically too," Davis said.
Meanwhile, Davis agreed that consumers are driving Android tablets and tablets overall, but commercial opportunities are beginning to increase too.
"For a long time, you had to go Android or Apple [in the commercial space]. We're seeing Windows 8 cut into that, and the 10-inch Android is penetrating that space too. I wouldn't have said that a year ago," Davis said.
Overall, iPad shipments increased 65 percent compared to the year-ago quarter. Android tablet shipments increased 177 percent, and Windows 8 tablets were not available in the year-ago quarter. Tablets running all other OSes saw shipments fall from about 500,000 to about 400,000.
While the number of tablets shipped more than doubled in the first quarter, its growth has slowed as the tablet install base continues to mature. In the first quarter of 2012, tablet shipments had increased 146 percent compared to the first quarter of 2011.


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Even for the most diehard do-it-yourselfers, sometimes there's nothing better than just handing it over and saying, "You fix it." Sure, your tool crib may look like a display room for the Craftsman catalog, but chances are that things like a chassis dyno, an exhaust gas analyzer, and boxes of tuning components are not to be found tucked in the corner of your attached two-car garage. A well-equipped dyno shop can work wonders, primping up a soggy power curve and breathing newfound youth into a tired combination.
This was the case with our subject: a 327-equipped '64 coupe. The car did start and drive, and that was a good thing. But bucking, stalling, and an appetite for fuel like a corner drunk's thirst for a jug of Gallo detracted markedly from the driving experience. We remembered the joys of driving a sweet-running, 327-equipped mid-year. The wrinkles in our gray matter hold memories of it being better than this--much better than this. Something needed to be done, a complete physical, if you will, to get to the bottom of this small-block's ailments.
A trip to Westech's chassis dyno was just the therapeutic program to recuperate our ailing coupe. We left the session with the 327 revitalized by 25 more rear-wheel horsepower, a 10 percent gain; but that was only part of the tale. The Corvette's crisper response and more agreeable temperament on the road, not to mention newfound thrift, are harder to quantify, but certainly make the call of the road much more gratifying.


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The talents of USM students were well represented at the 2011 "Film Chowdah," otherwise known as the Maine College Film Festival. The festival, held in late April at the Nickelodeon in Portland, showcased 16 student-produced films.
Media Studies student Melissa Kenison picked up the "best writing" award for her work on the USM-produced "A Mother's War." Kenison also received an Augusta Savage Gallery Award for her work on "A Mother's War." Media studies student Andrea Nilosek received the best documentary/mockumentary award for "'Maters," while theatre major Meredith Lamonthe won the best actress award. Shawn Harmon, recently named USM's outstanding media studies student for 2011, won an Augusta Savage Gallery Award for his work on "Walk a Mile in My Shoes."


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VATICAN CITY — For an institution devoted to eternal light, the Vatican has shown itself to be a master of smokescreens since Pope Benedict XVI's shock resignation announcement.
On Thursday, the Vatican spokesman acknowledged that Benedict hit his head and bled profusely while visiting Mexico in March. Two days earlier the same man acknowledged that Benedict has had a pacemaker for years, and underwent a secret operation to replace its battery three months ago.
And as the Catholic world reeled from shock over the abdication, it soon became clear that Benedict's post-papacy lodgings have been under construction since at least the fall. That in turn put holes in the Holy See's early claims that Benedict kept his decision to himself until he revealed it.
Vatican secrecy is legendary and can have tragic consequences — as the world learned through the church sex abuse scandal in which bishops quietly moved abusive priests without reporting their crimes.
And the secrecy is institutionalized from such weighty matters to the most trivial aspects of Vatican life.
"You have to understand that actually every Vatican employee and official takes an oath of secrecy when they assume their job," said John Thavis, author of "The Vatican Diaries," an investigation into the workings of the Holy See. "And this isn't something that is taken lightly. They swear to keep secret any office matters and anything pertaining to the pope."
One of the most famous cases of Vatican secrecy was the Holy See's efforts to cover up the fact that Pope John Paul I's dead body was discovered by a nun. The eventual revelation helped fuel conspiracy theories over the death of the pope who ruled for only 33 days in 1978.
The Vatican is so obsessed with secrecy that the first and only official confirmation that John Paul II had Parkinson's disease was in his death certificate.
The Vatican justifies itself by arguing that its officials are holders of the divine truth, unaccountable to worldly laws. In particular, the pope's word is the final say on any issue — infallible on some doctrinal matters. But groups representing sex abuse victims, and other Catholics angered by the scandal, have been demanding modern standards of accountability and calling for reforms.
The Vatican brushed aside criticism for keeping quiet about the pope's December pacemaker procedure, on grounds it was "routine." One Vatican official said making the operation public would simply have led to a big and unnecessary commotion about the pope's health. "You can imagine the satellite dishes in St. Peter's square," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
The front-man for the church's dance of concealment and disclosure: Vatican spokesman The Rev. Federico Lombardi. In his briefings, Lombardi has been forced into the uncomfortable situation of keeping silent on aspects of the pope's health and future, only to backpedal when confronted with reports in Italian newspapers.
In the latest disclosure, Turin's La Stampa newspaper reported Thursday that Benedict hit his head on a sink and bled profusely when he got up in the middle of the night in an unfamiliar bedroom in Leon, Mexico. The report said papal blood stained Benedict's hair, his pillow and the floor.


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