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Web 2.0 Podcast: What GoDaddy Knowsby Daniel H. Steinberg
GoDaddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons delivered a simple but powerful lesson at the Web 2.0 Summit 2006. He says that people love using computers for search and entertainment but when it comes to resolving problems or learning features people much prefer to deal with other people.
You can download the audio as an mp3 or download the video as an mp4, or you can subscribe to the audio podcast or to the video podcast. Check out the entire set of Web 2.0 Summit podcasts.
This episode is sponsored by the Intel Software Partner Program.
This transcript created by Casting Words.ANNCR: GoDaddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons delivered a simple but powerful lesson at the Web 2.0 Summit 2006. He says that when it comes to resolving problems or learning features people much prefer to deal with other people. Here's Bob Parsons with what GoDaddy knows from the Web 2.0 Summit.
John: The next fellow I wanted to bring on after lunch, because I knew we all would kind of be in a lunch coma, and I knew Bob Parsons would be just the guy to take us out of it. He's a former marine, a CEO who blogs regularly, repeatedly, and with a lot of verve and opinion. A guy who runs his own radio show. And he runs GoDaddy.com, which is a very well known registrar.
He's going to talk about some of his tactics and approaches to business, and particularly to marketing. You may recall GoDaddy got more airtime for the ads that got pulled from the Super Bowl than the ads would have gotten if they had just run. He's going to talk a little about his approach to business. Without any further delay, I'd like to bring up Bob Parsons.
Bob Parsons: Hello everybody. One quick tip when it comes to blogging. Stay away from the Guantanamo issue.
When I was getting ready for this presentation, I checked out the overview for the conference and saw and this is how it's described more than 12 extraordinary thinkers and business leaders who will provoke, delight, and amaze the audience. Well, given that I sort of failed the fifth grade, would have failed the twelfth grade had it not been for the Marine Corps bailing me out so I could go to Vietnam with a high school diploma, you can probably scratch me off the extraordinary thinker category.
But there are some things that I do know. I know for example that you have to be awfully careful who you listen to. There's folks who are in the position of providing public advice and analysis who, if you try to please them, will happily guide you off the edge of the closest cliff.
Some of you might have heard that earlier this year, GoDaddy filed an S1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to become a public company. Our S1 filing was approved by the SEC in early August. We filed it in March. I withdrew the filing the next week. That's right. The week after it was approved, I withdrew it. The whole process cost us more than three million bucks. You can call that the tuition for the education of Bob.
On my blog at BobParsons.com I was very open why I withdrew the filing. I cited market conditions as the primary reason, but there were other concerns. During the time between filing the S1 and withdrawing it - the quiet time, and I can tell you, as most major publication mentioned, a quiet time just about killed me I had the opportunity to interact with various market analysts, those that worked with our investment banks and also to read what was written by outside analysts and financial writers. It repeatedly amazed me how far some of them have gotten from understanding and appreciating the fundamentals. I didn't see much evidence that our financial system bothers with it much at all. In fact the thing they primarily focused on was short term accounting paper profits.
For example, here's something I know. It's a gift that I'm going to give you to hear today. It's something every one of you should instill throughout your business. If you do, it will make your business formidable and do nothing but make you money. This is something I became aware of back in the 90's. Now I know it's truer than ever despite all the technical advances that we've made.
You ready? Listen tight, here it is: People love the convenience and speed that comes with transacting business and interacting with each other over the Internet. But when it comes to resolving problems, or learning features, people much prefer to deal with other people. That's my gift I'm giving to you. Do with it what you will. That's why today, out of the 1320 employees who work at GoDaddy.com, 920 are in customer support. You can call us anytime day or night, any day of the year, and you'll get a highly trained tech our techs are all located in the Phoenix Scottsdale valley and they're the highest paid there. Forty percent of them have been with us two years. That's unheard of for a call center. The reason it's only 40% of them is because our growth has been such that it's not possible for that number to be any higher. Our service is that good.
But during the quiet period, I was asked time and again, "When will you get your customer service operations to scale? What can you do to drive your customers to use more self help so you can cut your support staff?" Yes. To be honest, when I'm ready to stop being the world's fastest growing and largest domain name registrar, I'll start herding my customers towards self-help.
There's another thing I know. This is not nearly as profound but I think it's interesting to the extent that it illustrates what tunnel vision many, though not all, financial writers have. To me operating cash flow is far and away more important than accounting or paper profits. You can actually use cash flow to make payroll and buy equipment. Imagine that! Somehow financial writers don't seem to understand that. With the exception of a mortgage on one of our data centers, GoDaddy has no debt and has never had any debt. We are entirely self-funded and have held healthy cash reserves. This year we'll have cash receipts of 340 million dollars and positive cash flow from operations of 52 million. That's a million bucks a week.
Just a few days ago, I told my mother and she has never forgiven me for being such a poor student, she tends to remind me of that all the time - I told her, I said, "Mom, I know guys who passed the fifth grade and graduated high school with honors, and they don't throw off a million bucks in cash a week." But she didn't care. Just like all the financial writers, cash flow means nothing to her.
Here's another example. When it comes to promoting your company, everybody's going to want you to fall right in line and appeal to a general audience and offend no one. I think if you do that, you've wasted your advertising dollars. You've got to be different, and often to be different and effective, you've got to be polarizing.
One of the problems with marketing is that everybody, bar none - even market analysts and financial writers - they all think that they can do it. I was even asked by one analyst if after we filed our offering whether I was willing to quit being so offensive with our advertising. Ha, me offensive? You've got to be kidding me. Let me tell you a story. Thank you.
When it came time for the 2005 Super Bowl, given the Janet Jackson fiasco of the previous year, I knew that was the time to take a chance. I picked the ad agency we used for the Super Bowl based on an ad they did for a company called Mike's Hard Lemonade that was both hilarious and it was really edgy. The agency told me that the Mike's ad that I liked was rejected by most every network and I only happened to see it because I was watching professional bull riding on OLN.
See, that's my level of television. OLN accepted just about any ad that you sent them because not too many people sent them ads, you see?
Anyhow, after I hired the agency, because they were working on a Super Bowl ad and they were gun shy, the first several creatives from the ad agency were milder than I wanted. I pushed back and insisted we hire a well-endowed female brunette with the GoDaddy name emblazoned across her chest because I knew that's where every guy that was watching that game would be looking.
You know that's where you'd be looking. In fact, the agency did not want to do the ad. I had to threaten to fire them to get them to give me what I wanted. I did. I also wanted something that would point viewers to a hilarious video on my website that would be an offshoot of the ad. The goal was to create viral marketing that would enable us to show people what GoDaddy.com was all about. When we submitted the storyboard to Fox it was approved. I don't think they really looked at it.
Then when we filmed the commercial and submitted it to Fox, it was rejected several times. Eventually, a few days before the game, it got the go ahead. When they finally approved it, Fox came back and said, [laughs] "Hey Bob, your ad is approved. By the way, you want to buy another spot?"
I thought about it for about half an hour and said, "Yes." The rest is history. I was lucky enough to have the first running of the ad offend somebody that had a lot of pull. To this day I don't know who it was, God bless them. But it got the second showing of the ad canceled and this has never happened in the history of television, much less on the Super Bowl and our business shot through the ceiling because of the controversy that happened. We were lucky indeed. That ad is now included in college textbooks and is being used as an example as one of the most effective TV ads ever.
We've been promoting our business ever since with what has come to be called GoDaddy-esq ads. To be a GoDaddy-esq ad, that's defined as being I'm actually quite proud of this somewhat tasteless and slightly inappropriate.
[laughter] [applause]
I can tell you that the biggest mistake you might ever make, particularly with your advertising, is trying to please everyone, particularly investment analysts. Do that, and no one will notice you've wasted your money. I think it's much better to alienate 10% of your audience and have the other 90% take sharp notice.
Here's another good example of an advertising risk we've taken in an area where other advertisers definitely fear to tread. We were one of the first major sponsors to step up and sponsor Web 2.0 phenomena like the Pod Show Network. We did it in a different way than anyone has ever done. Instead of providing ads we produced or scripted, we just sent the networks some bullet points we wanted to get across and told them to let the podcasters create their own ads. You can imagine what happened. Some of the ads have been hilarious. Some have been very creative. Some have definitely been weird. But all of them have been tailored specifically for the podcasters particular audience and in that respect they've all been perfect.
I'm going to tell you, I've got a clip I want to show you that shows a range of those ads. You're going to see - at least the last one - some of you it might make your hair stand up on edge. But anyhow, Lauren, why don't you roll our clip.
[video clip]
Man 1: I'm serious. We use GoDaddy.com. Seriously, I registered a domain. I used GoDaddy.com.
Man 2: Good deal.
Man 1: And I have to say we're drunk enough we can't lie. You can't lie when you're drunk.
Man 2: Let me say something about GoDaddy when we're done.
Man 1: Honestly, they called me. I was playing D&D online. I was playing and all of a sudden my phone rang and I was like, "Hello?" And they were like, "Hi this is GoDaddy.com and we just wanted to see if you had any questions about your domain registration?" I was like, "Are you kidding me? No, I'm fine." Click. And I was like dude GoDaddy called you. That's awesome! We're drunk enough to not lie.
Man 2: Here's the thing.
Man 1: We use GoDaddy.
Man 2: The only reason I use GoDaddy is they're cheap as shit.
Man 1: And we are never going to do this podcast again. Why not buy domains? Hot commercials.
Man 2: Hot commercials. The fans love your commercials.
Man 1: Who is that chick?
ANNCR: This episode of the show sponsored by GoDaddy.com. Enter code FRANK from the link in the sidebar and get your domain name for $6.95 per year.
Man 3: So that worked out. That's how you sponsor shit. Now I can buy lights.
Woman 1: Have you ever seen the Thin Man movies? I like new movies, but I kind of miss the old film noir movies. Like this.
Woman 2: Who are you and what are you doing in my room?
Man 3: I'm the fellow you called. Well, actually, you called my agency they called me, but that's just minutia. You have some sort of dilemma?
Woman 2: Why yes I do.
Man 3: What is it doll?
Woman 2: Well I have this killer Web 2.0 idea and I don't know how to start. Can you help?
Man 3: Indeed. Mind if I sit?
Woman 2: Oh of course, I'm sorry. Make yourself comfortable.
Man 3: My experience in this crazy world is good ideas start with a good name. What are you going to call it?
Woman 2: I don't know. I have some ideas based on the concept.
Man 3: Then here's what you need to do kid. Go to GoDaddy.com on the Internet.
Woman 2: GoDaddy?
Man 3: Yes, but watch how you say it doll. You could get a fellow riled up.
Woman 2: Maybe I wouldn't mind getting a fellow like yourself a little riled up, mister?
Man 3: Call me GB. Now I've got to go. Use this code when you checkout. That will give you 10% off your order.
Woman 2: GB One. Is this your personal code, GB?
Man 3: Yes and I don't give it to just anyone. Now I've got to see a man about a situation. Excuse me doll and have a good day.
Woman 2: But wait, GB, I have more questions?
Man 3: And I have more answers but they'll have to wait for another time and another place.
Woman 3: GoDaddy is a Go, Daddy.
Bob: I didn't make any of those ads. I'm just saying that's what the podcasters made. It's a full range of them and of course they all work for their particular audiences. We've had reporters like NPR bring some of the dicier you can imagine which ones podcasting ads back to us and they say, "Did you GoDaddy know about this ad? Are you OK with it?" Our response was, "No. And yes."
So there you have it. My message to you is this. Don't forget the fundamentals. And be careful, be very careful, who you listen to. And that, my friends, is what GoDaddy knows. Thank you.
John: Thank you so much that was great. Thank you.
ANNCR: What GoDaddy knows from Bob Parsons at the Web 2.0 Summit 2006.
Daniel H. Steinberg is the editor for the new series of Mac Developer titles for the Pragmatic Programmers. He writes feature articles for Apple's ADC web site and is a regular contributor to Mac Devcenter. He has presented at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, MacWorld, MacHack and other Mac developer conferences.

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Packers Receivers
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) – Jarrett Boykin wasn't sure what the big deal was. The Green Bay Packers' second-year wide receiver had caught eight passes for 103 yards and a touchdown to help his injury-depleted team to a home victory over Cleveland last Sunday.
But it never occurred to him that such a performance in his first NFL start – with fellow wide receivers Randall Cobb and James Jones sidelined by injury – might be considered newsworthy. It took wide receiver Jordy Nelson and a public-relations staffer to convince him to stick around for what would turn out to be an extended session at his locker with reporters around him. Asked about his attempted quick getaway Thursday, as he prepared to make his second straight start Sunday night against the Minnesota Vikings at the Metrodome, Boykin smiled.
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Putnam in Day of Prayer
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Hundreds of Bangladeshi soldiers sentenced to death in mass verdict over mutiny
Amnesty International has decried a mass death sentence handed out to 152 Bangladeshi soldiers over a 2009 mutiny in which scores of top officers were massacred.
A Bangladeshi judge convicted and sentenced the soldiers over the mutiny in which 74 people, including officers, were hacked to death, tortured or burnt alive before their bodies were dumped in sewers and shallow graves.
At least another 350 of the 823 soldiers charged over the mutiny were sentenced to jail for their role in the 30-hour uprising that started at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters in Dhaka.
"The atrocities were so heinous that even the dead bodies were not given their rights," judge Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman told the packed court as he read out the verdicts on Tuesday.
But Amnesty says the verdict is a "perversion of justice" which will only result in 152 more human-rights violations if the sentences are carried out.
"With these sentences, Bangladesh has squandered an opportunity to reinforce trust in the rule of law by ensuring the civilian courts deliver justice. Instead, the sentences seem designed to satisfy a desire for cruel revenge," said Polly Truscott, Amnesty's deputy Asia-Pacific director.
Some 823 shackled soldiers were earlier crammed into the specially built courtroom, sitting silently on long rows of benches to hear the long-awaited verdict.
Families of 10 of the officers slain in the mutiny were also in court.
Prosecution 'largest of its type in world history'
An official probe into the mutiny blamed years of pent-up anger over ignored pleas for pay rises and improved treatment from ordinary troops, who resented their better-paid superiors.
Security was tight at the court, with hundreds of police and elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officers deployed outside as a precaution.
"We have deployed around 2,000 police and RAB officers in and around the court compound," said Harunur Rashid, the deputy police commissioner for Dhaka.
Lead prosector Baharul Islam said the case was the largest of its type in the world with hundreds of witnesses taking part in the trial that started in January 2011 and finished in October this year.
"So far as we know it's the largest case in the world's history. There were 654 prosecution witnesses," Mr Islam said.
During the uprising, the mutineers stole an estimated 2,500 weapons and broke into an annual meeting of top BDR officers before shooting them at point-blank range.
The BDR's head, Major General Shakil Ahmed, was among those killed.
They also stormed Ahmed's house on the base and killed his wife, domestic staff and guests, before setting fire to the building and stealing valuables, including gold jewellery.
Spread of mutiny threatened government
As the mutiny spread, it briefly threatened the new government, which had been elected only one month previously.
Nearly 6,000 soldiers have already been convicted by dozens of special courts over the mutiny that also involved other BDR bases around the country and left 57 top army officers among the dead.
The 823 soldiers were singled out for prosecution in a civilian court for leading the mutiny at the BDR headquarters, after earlier being found guilty in military courts over their role.
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he most certainly was one of the hottest tv daddies
He was my first daddy crush when I was growing up. So, so many fantasies I had about him.
i know this will be pointless. but if anyone has his nude scene on the show Hoop Life please post it somewhere. I feel like i will never see this in my lifetime...lol http://cndb.com/dan-lauria--c32975.html
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i don't think that scene will ever be found. its not on dvd or anywhere i can find
Yes he was my first Daddy Crush too. Really hot and I always imagined him with a thick beer can cock.
Damn! That brings back memories. I used to watch The Wonder Years just for him.
more hot fakes?
More from Burke's Law, The episode is titled "Who Killed Cock-a-Doodle Dooley?"
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He was also in an episode of Smallville, titled 'Hothead', where he appeared shirtless wrapped in a towel in the sauna.
Beefy Italian daddies are the best. When I was a teenager I wanted to be in a sandwich with Dan Lauria and Paul Sorvino.
I wrote Dan Lauria once and he wrote me back.
Very nice guy. I didn't tell him I had the hots for him, just that I enjoyed The Wonder Years.
He sent me an autographed picture of the whole cast.
Oh, the things I would do to that man
He appeared just in his boxers in the movie "The Great Los Angeles Earthquake", if anyone really wants to see him without clothes. It was over twenty years ago that I watched it on TV but I remember it well. Early in the movie, he and Joanna Kerns get up out of bed during a tremor and run to their daughter's room. Dan or somebody (perhaps a gay director who appreciates mature male eye candy?) decided that the character wouldn't wear pajamas
Shots from The Great LA Earthquake DVD. He really is a beefcake.
Damn. It worked best on the first and last pictures, the close-ups. Wish I could clear up those two full body, front and back pics. They're so grainy and dark.
The source is a crappy DVD, probably the best you can do is lighten it up a bit. There was this annoying ghosting between frames when I was getting those shots, common on old crappy DVDs. It's certainly not HD.
He's one of the reason I watched the show, too.
I told a friend of mine (I was in my early twenties) that "I kinda like the dad from Wonder Years" and he looked at me like I was sick and just said "He's fat.". Actually, I loved and lusted for men like Dan Lauria. The 1980s was not kind to the hairy or bearish man, or to those who liked 'em. It wasn't til the early 90s that Bear culture took off.
He was born to play Coach Lombardi.


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One time, in the late 1980s, I was on the subway in Buffalo. At one stop, a group of ... uhh, very special people got on the train. The doors closed, and they all sat together. A few seconds after the train started to move, one of the very special boys cut one loose. The sound reverberated loudly off the hard plastic seat, and the group starred to laugh. Another special boy leaned to the side, grunted, and let one go. More laughing. A very special girl stood up, groaned loudly, and let out a very special toot. More laughing. This went on for about five minutes -- very special adolescents propelling naturally generated methane through a Metro Rail car -- until the very special, mentally handi-capable group reached their stop.
A few years ago, I was riding the Colfax Avenue bus in Denver. There was a black man sitting in the front, listing to a Walkman and bobbing his head. Every so often, he'd make a loud utterance. "YEAH, KILL ALL DA WHITE PEOPLE, KNOW WHA' SAYIN?" "HEHE ... KILL WHITEY, UH HUH!" "THAT RIGHT ... WHITE MAN THE DEVIL ... GOTTA' GET EM, UH HUH!" "GONNA' KILL ME A CRACKA, HEHEHE!"
Most of the bus riders were white. There was NOBODY else at the front of the bus but him and the driver.


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Moore endorses Obama
Boyda decides to remain neutral
June 4, 2008
U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Lenexa, has announced his endorsement of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee.
"Senator Barack Obama has proven that he has the ability to bring people together, inspire hope for the future and provide the kind of leadership we expect from our President," said Moore, whose 3rd congressional district includes east Lawrence.
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda, D-Topeka, has declined to make an official endorsement.
Her office said she will support the Democratic nominee but wants to focus on her job in Washington and not get involved in the presidential race.
Boyda's 2nd congressional district includes west Lawrence.
The Kansas Republican Party issued a news release slamming Obama.
"Now that Barack Obama has secured the Democrat Party's presidential nomination, it has become clear that many Democrats are suffering buyer's remorse," said state GOP Chairman Kris Kobach.
"The concerns by these Democrats regarding Obama's naÃivete, fundamental lack of judgment, and failure to lead on issues that matter most to Americans will not fade," he said.
But Moore said Obama "represents the common-sense values of the midwest."
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Meeting a man really can get a woman hot under the collar.
Psychologists used thermal imaging to show that even simple social contact triggers a rise in body temperature.
They found women's facial temperature rose more during interactions with a male than a female.
Psychologists found women's facial temperature rose more during interactions with a male than a female after they experimented with a thermal camera
Scientists measured a small but significant increase in the facial temperature of female volunteers.
A two-second touch on the face and chest, described as 'high-intimate locations', had a bigger effect than touching arms and palms.
Physical contact also stimulated more warmth when it came from an experimenter of the opposite sex.
The 16 young participants, with an average age of 21, thought they were having their skin colour measured with a small flashing light device.
The thermal camera was used to take temperature readings from different areas of the face.
Across all conditions, social contact was found to cause an average shift in temperature of 0.1C.
The scientists were led by Amanda Hahn from the University of St Andrews in Scotland (pictured)
Previous research has shown that face and body temperature increases during sexual arousal.
Fear and stress is also known to raise facial temperature. In adults, stress caused by lying or performing difficult mental tasks produces increases in skin temperature on the forehead and around the eyes.
Writing in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, the scientists led by Amanda Hahn, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, said: 'We find that tactile contact elevates facial temperature, even when touch is an incidental part of laboratory procedure.
'Whether the changes measured in this study are detectable by others is currently unknown. If such changes in facial temperature during social contact are detectable (by observers or the individual), they could act as social cues.
'Slight increases in facial skin redness are perceived as more attractive, so it may be the case that temperature changes impact perceived attractiveness, although whether or not the skin temperature changes in interactions such as those studied here lead to detectable changes in redness and attractiveness remains to be determined.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2151900/Women-left-feeling-hot-bothered-meeting-men-simple-social-contact-raise-body-temperature.html#ixzz1wNQdZ3zO


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The Gift of Time
WESTFIELD – Fourth to sixth grade students from the Jay/Westfield School take time from their busy schedule every week to visit with residents of the Scenic View Residential Home. Last Thursday, the students presented each resident with a holiday gift packet, which included greeting cards, popcorn and ornaments. The students also played bingo with the residents."We do this so the children have a chance to get out and do something nice in the community," explained Eva Lemieux, after school site coordinator from the Jay/Westfield School. "They (the students) also learn social skills."The program is voluntary, takes place after school and has a large educational component. The students know that once they enter the facility they have to slow down, be calm, lower the volume of their voices and know that what they're doing is for the residents.The students are very delighted to give of themselves. Just ask sixth grade student Brook Gentry. She signed up because she thought it would be something fun to do. "It's interesting learning from them (the residents)," said Gentry. "Everyone here is really nice."Fifth grade student Allura Rayne Reynard discovered one of the residents knew her grandmother years ago. She said some of the residents get few visitors. "To do things with the residents," said sixth grade student Tyler Amyot on why he takes part in the program. "It's fun to play games with them and help them out."The residents are pleased to have the company. Leslie Churchill looks forward to having the young visitors. Mildred Bicknell also enjoys seeing the students and playing the games.


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O'Reilly Book Excerpts: Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther
Unix on Panther: Accessing the Internetby Dave Taylor, Brian Jepson
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Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther
Authors' note: A network lets computers communicate with each other, sharing files, email, and much more. Unix systems have been networked for more than 25 years, and Macintosh systems have always had networking as an integral part of the system design from the very first system released in 1984.
This chapter introduces Unix networking: remotely accessing your Mac from other computers and copying files between computers. It also shows you how the Connect to Server capability of Terminal can make common connections a breeze once you've set them up the first time.
Remote Logins
There may be times when you need to access your Mac, but you can't get to the desk it's sitting on. If you're working on a different computer, you may not have the time or inclination to stop what you're doing, walk over to your Mac, and log in (laziness may not be the only reason for this: perhaps someone else is using your Mac when you need to get on it or perhaps your Mac is miles away). Mac OS X's file sharing (System Preferences → Sharing) can let you access your files, but there may be times you want to use the computer interactively, perhaps to move files around, search for a particular file, or perform a system maintenance task.
If you enable Remote Login under System Preferences -> Sharing, you can access your Mac's Unix shell from any networked computer that can run SSH (http://www.ssh.com/), OpenSSH (http://www.openssh.org/), or a compatible application such as PuTTY (a Windows implementation of SSH available at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/). SSH and OpenSSH can be installed on many Unix systems, and OpenSSH is included with many Linux distributions, including Mac OS X.
8-1 shows how remote login programs such as
ssh work. In a
local login, you interact directly with the shell program running on your local
system. In a remote login, you run a remote-access program on your local system;
that program lets you interact with a shell program on the remote system.
Figure 8-1. Local login, remote login
When you enable Remote Login, the Sharing panel will display instructions for logging into your Mac from another computer. This message is shown in Figure 8-2.
Figure 8-2. Instructions for remote access to your Mac
To log into your Mac from a remote Unix system, use the command displayed in the Sharing panel, as shown in the following sample session where a user on a Red Hat Linux system is connecting to a Mac OS X computer (the first time you connect, you'll be asked to vouch for your Mac's authenticity):
Red Hat: taylor $ ssh firstname.lastname@example.com
The authenticity of host '192.168.1.100 (192.168.1.100)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 86:f6:96:f9:22:50:ea:4c:02:0c:58:a7:e4:a8:10:67.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.100' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
firstname.lastname@example.com's password:
Last login: Thu Sep 25 10:27:58 2003
Welcome to Darwin!
~ 452 $
To log in to your Mac from a Windows machine using PuTTY, launch the PuTTY application, specify SSH (the default is to use the Telnet protocol described later), and type in your Mac OS X system's IP address as shown in the Mac's Sharing panel. PuTTY will prompt you for your Mac OS X username and password. Figure 8-3 shows a sample PuTTY session.
Figure 8-3. Connecting to Mac OS X with PuTTY
Web and FTP Access
You can also use the Sharing preferences panel to enable your system's web and FTP server. Start Personal Web Sharing to enable the web server. Other users can access the main home page (located in /Library/WebServer/Documents) using http://address, where address is your machine's IP address or hostname (see the sidebar "Remote Access and the Outside World" if you are using an Airport Base Station or other router between your network and the Internet).
Start FTP Access to enable remote users to use FTP to connect to your system. Again, remote users should use your machine's IP address or hostname to connect.
Remote Access to Other Unix Systems
You can also connect to other systems from Mac OS X. To do
so, launch the Terminal application. Then start a program that connects to the
remote computer. In addition to
ssh, some typical programs for
connecting over a computer network are
rsh (remote shell), or
rlogin (remote login). All of these are supported and included with
Mac OS X. In any case, when you log off the remote computer, the remote login
program quits and you get another shell prompt from your Mac.
The syntax for most remote login programs is:
program-name remote-hostname
For example, when Dr. Nelson wants to connect to the remote computer named
biolab.medu.edu, she'd first make a local login to her Mac named
fuzzy by launching Terminal. Next, she'd use the
program to reach the remote computer. Her session would look something like
Welcome to Darwin!
~ 452 $ telnet biolab.medu.edu
Medical University Biology Laboratory
biolab.medu.edu login: jdnelson
biolab$ exit
Connection closed by foreign host.
~ 453 $
Her accounts have shell prompts that include the hostname. This reminds her when she's logged in remotely. If you use more than one system but don't have the hostname in your prompt, see Section 1.3.1 in Chapter 1 or Section 10.1 in Chapter 10 to find out how to add it.
WARNING: Actually, Dr. Nelson would be unwise to use
telnetto connect to the remote system, because
sshis a much more secure alternative and is highly preferred. However, some remote sites still stick with
telnet, and while it's important to encourage them to switch to
ssh-only access, you will still sometimes find yourself using
telnet, as shown here.
Also, when you're logged on to a remote system, keep in mind that the
commands you type will take effect on the remote system, not your local one! For
instance, if you use
lpr to print a file, the printer it comes out
of may be very far away.
The programs
rsh (also called
rlogin) and
ssh generally don't give you a
login: prompt. These programs assume that your remote username is
the same as your local username. If they're different, give your remote username
on the command line of the remote login program, as shown in the next
You may be able to log in without typing your remote password or passphrase.[1] Otherwise, you'll be prompted after entering the command line.
Following are four sample
ssh and
rsh command
lines. The first pair shows how to log in to the remote system,
biolab.medu.edu, when your username is the same on both the local and
remote systems. The second pair shows how to log in if your remote username is
different (in this case, jdnelson); note that the Mac OS X versions of
ssh and
rsh may support both syntaxes shown depending
on how the remote host is configured:
$ ssh biolab.medu.edu
$ rsh biolab.medu.edu
$ ssh firstname.lastname@example.com
$ rsh -l jdnelson biolab.medu.edu
About Security
Today's Internet and other public networks have users who try to break into computers and snoop on other network users. While the popular media calls these people hackers, most hackers are self-respecting programmers who enjoy pushing the envelope of technology. The evildoers are better known as crackers. Most remote login programs (and file transfer programs, which we cover later in this chapter) were designed 20 years ago or more, when networks were friendly places with cooperative users. Those programs (many versions of
rsh, for instance) make a cracker's job easy. They transmit your data, including your password, across the network in a way that allows even the most inexperienced crackers to read it. Worse, some of these utilities can be configured to allow access without passwords.
SSH is different; it was designed with security in mind. It sends your password (and everything else transmitted or received during your SSH session) in a secure way. A good place to get more details on SSH is the book SSH: The Secure Shell, by Daniel J. Barrett and Richard Silverman (O'Reilly).


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Without a doubt, breast cancer is the disease women fear most and — with its potential to kill — for good reason. But oncologists who treat breast cancer find that even the tiniest, most curable growths provoke extreme anxiety in women simply because they're called "cancer."
For this reason, some say the diagnosis of such self-contained cancers, called ductal carcinoma in situ, should be renamed to lift the "big C" label.
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found that women are more likely to decide against aggressive treatments when told they have a "breast lesion" or "abnormal cells" instead of "noninvasive breast cancer."
In the study published last Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, nearly 400 healthy women who saw doctors at Mass. General were surveyed on whether they would choose surgery or a less-invasive treatment if they were diagnosed with various breast abnormalities; they were told all posed the same risk of eventually turning into invasive cancer.
While about half of the women preferred to have surgery when they were told they had a "noninvasive cancer," only one-third said they'd choose that option if they were diagnosed with a breast lesion or abnormal cells. The remainder said they would opt for preventive medications or active surveillance.
"I think this finding suggests that there's a potential for overtreatment," said study coauthor Elissa Ozanne, director of risk assessment and decision support at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, who previously worked at Mass. General. One solution might be to rename ductal carcinoma in situ or DCIS, she said, to take some of the fear out of the diagnosis.
Other cancer experts, however, aren't certain that will be the case. Since the study didn't include women who were actually diagnosed with DCIS, it's tough to say whether they would change their treatment choices in the case of a real diagnosis, said Dr. Ann Partridge, director of the young women with breast cancer program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Still, she stressed that she'd be "open to trying" a name change.
But even a calming of fears won't likely change a woman's course of treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) — at least until oncologists have enough evidence from research to tell women that they can be safely monitored without surgery. At this point, the recommended course of treatment is either a mastectomy to remove the entire breast — especially if there are many clusters of contained cancer cells — or a lumpectomy along with radiation to prevent a local recurrence in the breast.
Only a handful of oncologists offer the option of monitoring or using preventive medications, such as tamoxifen or raloxifene, outside of a research setting. "Electing not to surgically treat DCIS isn't standard therapy right now," Partridge said. "We overtreat it because we can't determine for certain which lesions will become bad actors."
Doctors can distinguish between more aggressive DCIS called "high-grade" or less aggressive cell types called "low-grade," but while most low-grade growths never develop into invasive breast tumors, some will.
About a decade ago, researchers at Dana-Farber and Mass. General recruited 158 women with low-grade DCIS to participate in a study where they would be given lumpectomies to remove their lesions without any radiation and then monitored for up to five years; the study was stopped early after 12 percent of the women developed a recurrence of cancer cells; about two-thirds of these recurrences were DCIS and one-third were invasive tumors.
"The recurrence rate was deemed to be too high," Partridge said, "but these were local recurrences that wouldn't affect a woman's chances of survival. It's extremely rare for someone to develop a distant recurrence from DCIS since we assume they're being watched."
Just how frequently women with DCIS should be monitored with breast imaging and physical exams remains unknown since researchers have never studied the natural progression of in situ breast cancers to determine which ones are destined to become tumors and how quickly.
While watchful waiting might become a reasonable option for those with less aggressive DCIS, it may take more than a name change to entice women to choose it.Deborah Kotz can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @debkotz2.


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Visits, Admit Days, and Open Houses / Re: How Ruskie got into Boalt with a sub-160 and what she's learned from it« on: October 25, 2007, 10:10:23 AM »
The fact that Ruskie has decided to reveal so much of her personal life on the internet is disturbing to say the least. It feels like she wants to be a celebrity.
What person between the ages of 12 and 30 doesn't reveal much of their personal life on the internet? Ever seen facebook, xanga, friendster, myspace?
Me, for example. It's nobody's business what I do and I keep it that way. I am deeply suspicious of people who want to be known by those they have never met. That's not to say I am not engaged in the internet. I have been posting here for at least three years and no one knows the first thing about me other than a few details. The same is true on other sites I use--facebook, other forums.
To each his own, but you must admit that you are the exception rather than the rule.
Why do you want strangers to know about your life? I fundamentally do not understand. Anonymity is a warm blanket.


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"If I was a coach and I was a GM and I had a running back that had a near career-ending injury and another running back who is coming off an ACL and hadn't quite been the same since that injury, I'd take some backs," the Cardinals' running back said.
The Cardinals still have Williams, the 2011 second-round draft pick who has played in just four games in two years because of major injuries. They signed veteran
So the team did take some backs. They got durable banger Stepfan Taylor from Stanford in the fifth round of this year's draft, and Clemson's Andre Ellington with one of their sixth-round picks. What kind of impact those two will have on the depth chart is still a long way from being known.
They could have an impact, though. Taylor in particular is the kind of back some think could step in right away. Low-draft pick pedigree
The Cardinals' new backs, in the middle of the team's rookie minicamp this weekend, get that too.
"Value will be more on protecting the quarterback, so there will be offensive line and guys like that (drafted in front of running back)," Taylor said. "It shouldn't matter because once you get here, you just play and compete. You're working for that second contract too. You should know. It doesn't matter where you are picked."
Both Taylor and Ellington were praised by General Manager Steve Keim for being complete backs, able to pass protect as well as run (they can catch it too, but coach Bruce Arians has made plain he doesn't plan on throwing to the running backs as much.)
Whether that can translate on the field this season is yet to be determined. Mendenhall had his best years under Arians in Pittsburgh and now that he's had so much time to recover from his knee issues – plus his one-year-need-to-prove-it contract – he could be primed for a rebound season. Williams seems certain he will be effective this year, after never being certain in his knee early last season before suffering his shoulder problem.
If both come through, Taylor and Ellington won't be needed. Even if they are, they have to show they are ready.
"You really can't tell until the lights come on," Arians said. "Some were different from this morning's walkthrough to the afternoon practice. Until you turn the lights on, you really don't know about them."
Ellington is just getting started, but he too said he understands the position he plays isn't often durable. He hurt his hamstring at the Scouting combine which may have impacted his draft spot.
But now, "I'm just here to work," Ellington said. "We all have to compete. Maybe me and Stepfan out there will make those guys work even harder."
That isn't really needed for Williams, who was drafted in part because Beanie Wells was breaking down and hasn't been able to stay on the field himself. While it seems like he just got to the Cardinals, Williams now is one of the veterans Taylor and Ellington will look to for advice.
Williams is willing to give it. He understands that part of it too.
"I feel I have a lot of good insight with what I have been through, and the mindset and mentality for now, for these young guys, I feel I can be a good leader," Williams said. "I just want to help. If something goes wrong again, I will make sure these young guys can do what they have to do to help this team.
"Having a third chance with this organization, this organization means everything to me. Whatever I can do to help this team win, I'll do it. But I'm only thinking about being on the field helping the team win. That's what matters."


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Well, not in the grand scheme of things it's not, I'd rather see the likes of Silverlight and Flash dissapear altogether. I think however in this context Silverlight might actually be a good thing. Flash has become so widespread because there was really no challenge to it, Java applets never really ever managed to perform as was originally hoped.
On one hand I'm glad to see some competition for Flash rather than it be allowed effectively a monopoly on RIAs but on the other the worry is of course that this'll just mean more RIAs!
There's at least one more "challenger" (I use the term loosely) in the form of JavaFX. The fact that you hadn't even heard of it says a lot about its potential for success.
I do think you're being unfair on Java applets, though. It took a long time for them to perform as originally hoped, but I think they're there now.
To be fair, I have actually heard of Java FX, but as with Java I've just never come across it in use. Similarly I understand Java has come along leaps and bounds in terms of performance and I've seen some great Java desktop apps, but on the applet front I've still yet to see anything that shows it off as a viable platform. Of course, that's not to say it isn't just that I've not seen it to compare, I have at least seen Silverlight in use in a few places and it does seem to be able to hold it's own against F
I've not looked at it to be honest, is it obfuscated or has it simply been run through a non-destructive compression process to shrink the size of the
Either way the process should be entirely reversible else the Javascript interpreter wont be able to do anything with it.
But that's really the beauty of Javascript - it's open, with a plugin you have no idea what it's going to do unless the plugin explicitly allows you to do so, however with Javascript as it's open a Javascript
GWT JavaScript code is obfuscated and compressed. But if you can expand that back to readable code, you can also argue that every piece of code ever written is "open" because it can be reassembled somehow and run with a debugger.
Don't get me wrong, GWT is absolutely great, I love working with it. Really great innovation. But I would not call it "open" just because it works on JavaScript.
Yeah I understand it doesn't necessarily produce open source code.
My point is that it's still parsable in the sense that the browser can work with it. Effectively it can still be used with say, accessibility tools such as screen readers - even if a string of text to be displayed on a messagebox is obfuscated in code, it still has to be de-obfuscated before it's rendered by the browser for example and so it can still be used with a screen reader, or perhaps for kids a piece of filtering software. Plugin base
Good call on the GWT obfuscation/compression, I didn't realize it was controlled t
Amd HTML5 will do much of the video streaming and onscreen animation that flash and silverlight are offering, but is an actual open standard. I tolerate flash, but silverlight is not getting anywhere near my machines, Windows, OS X or Linux. Now I see it can install apps and updates directly to the desktop, and is based on
Novell - for some reason they keep shipping this crapware called tomboy on their distros, that required mono. It is the single largest resource consuming app
Now I see it can install apps and updates directly to the desktop, and is based on
It's not running native code apps, sheesh. It's the same managed code sandbox and security model as the browser plugin, but can run without being in a browser proper.
But the (high) security model remains the same. It's just like opening "Default.html" from the desktop.
I would sooner accept the existence of elves, gremlins, and Eskimos, than Silverlight apps in the wild.
UltraLearn Studio [ultralearn.com] uses Silverlight.
I would sooner accept the existence of elves, gremlins, and Eskimos, than Silverlight apps in the wild.
Mr. Simpson: Elves [wikipedia.org][1], gremlins [wikipedia.org], and Eskimos [wikipedia.org] exist. And until recently [slashdot.org], Major League Baseball used Silverlight. Believe it [wikipedia.org].
[1] One axis, two axes. One Elvis, two...
What about portability
... open standards ... interoperability.
No-one cares about such things in the real world. Everyone uses Windows, remember?
Doesn't seem to matter much. Slashdotters want such things, business don't care, because such benefits aren't seen when the vast majority of people are using Windows. I see it time and time again - we are losing the battle for open standards. If Silverlight and other proprietary technologies are GAINING prominence, how can we win?
Silverlight is gaining on flash in all areas
It is? Color me surprised. I wasn't even aware that there was a Silverlight "2" having never actually seen any Silverlight plugin or warning about it on any website ever.
I suppose, in the same sense, we could say that "Safari-for-Windows is gaining on Internet Explorer in all areas". It rose from 0.07% market share on Windows boxes to 0.21% when Apple bundled it in their update for iTunes/Quicktime.
Silverlight is essentially
Silverlight XAML spec (under Open Specification Promise):
http://blogs.windowsclient.net/rob_relyea/archive/2008/10/14/ms-slxv-silverlight-xaml-vocabulary-2008-specification-v0-9-published.aspx [windowsclient.net]
Media is MPEG-4 or MP3 (ISO), Windows Media (VC-1 is a SMPTE spec), and the Raw AV pipeline for extensitbilty to aribtrary codecs.
As for interoperabilty and portability, h
Or you can filter such stories yourself and pretend they don't exist.
I believe Microsoft is making an even bigger token effort in interoperabilty, actually.
In both cases it is token, however.
What would the web be without JPEG, GIF and PNG? Can you imagine what a hot mess it would be if you had to install proprietary binary plug-ins to view images on web pages? And if some of the plug-ins weren't available on your platform?
Then go in the other direction and imagine what the web could have been with a universal video format and vector animation format. That's the crazy amount of damage Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Real and the MPEG4 LA have collectively wreaked on the web at large.
So please, please avoid Silverlight (or Flash, for that matter). It aims to balkanize the web into mutually-incompatible, vendor-dominated fiefdoms in which the overwhelming incentive is to tax users for their access to data.
The real underlying problem is software patents. As long as software patents exist, somebody will always find a legally enforcible way to tax users for their access to data.
That's the crazy amount of damage Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Real and the MPEG4 LA have collectively wreaked on the web at large.
You can't stop these guys.
Napster. Amazon, Hulu, MySpace, Twitter - something new - something corporate - it has happened before. It will happen again.
And to perfectly blunt, the damage they cause is mostly to the geek's bruised ego - he can't let go the thought that the Internet was once his private playground.
The geek places his bets on Dirac -
while Flash becomes the de facto sta
"And to perfectly blunt, the damage they cause is mostly to the geek's bruised ego - he can't let go the thought that the Internet was once his private playground."
And that bruised ego is probably sympathy pains because most geeks weren't even on the Internet in the pre-commercial days.
Applications that can be run in the browser or installed on the desktop? Java's had both for many years (applets and webstart).
Ability to update desktop apps? Webstart again.
Access to a rich, general purpose library? Yup, Java provides that - and it's very similar to
So suddenly the old thing is the new thing.
True, but in my experience the difference between Java and the
Sure, some synthetic benchmarks might show that Java beats
What users notice is that Silverlight loads almost instantly (as fast as Flash), and that desktop
I can always tell when a Java app starts because the JVM startup brings my machine to its knees, and the end result is in
No, this is not the same thing. Webstart is like
What Silverlight 3 does is let you make a browser RIA that the user can "detach", and move and use locally, with or without an internet connection. So basically imagine if you had an applet that could become a WebStart app, with virtually zero effort on the developer side, and completly streamlined on the user site.
For Silverlight, the only direction it had to go was "up". I mean, it had an almost zero percent installed base. Now if I were Adobe, I would seriously consider open sourcing Flash and all technologies around it. Otherwise Adobe will only continue to lose market share to Silverlight.
Silverlight is a terrible marking choice for a name. I automatically think 'silverfish' when I see the word in print, and find myself substituting that word when I say 'silverlight' or sound it out in my head.
Silverfish, as far as I know, are a small bug that scuttles down further into your mattress when you pull up the covers.
Work on it a little in your head:
I think you, too will start to associate silverfish... er
I am rather uninformed, but since when has that ever stopped me from making commentary?
I have heard/read casually that a lot of HTML 5 will do what Flash does. That rather puts Flash and anything Flash-like (including Silverlight) out of business soon doesn't it?
I have heard/read casually that a lot of HTML 5 will do what Flash does. That rather puts Flash and anything Flash-like (including Silverlight) out of business soon doesn't it?
Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 2000/XP is still a significant percentage of the internet browser use. It supports flash.
In fact nothing out there today except beta's and previews really support html5. But nearly all of it supports flash. Its going to be a LONG LONG time before the current crop of browsers have been sufficiently phased
Flash and Silverlight 1, yes, you're right. Flex and Silverlight, not so much: they're just not browser APIs, but actual app frameworks, so they go a lot further than just providing end user features: they help the programmer, too (like Silverlight can consume an ADO.NET data service with LINQ, which is a lot better than using the built stuff, even in HTML 5. Flex has BlazeDS, and so on. Just an example)
I think he was referring to "isolated storage". Basically you can allow "applicatoions" to store data locally on your machine. By default only a limited quota is granted (the application can ask for more and the user has to approve it).
The stored data is obfuscated to avoid malicious apps downloading files/scripts and then use social engineering techniques to fool the user into launching them. This allows an app access to data even when offline.
Silverlight itself executes inside a pretty restricted sandbox. Silverlight has an impeccable security record Secunia reports zero vulnerabilities in both SL1 and SL2. That is not to say that there are no vulns in SL. But at least compared to Flash it's quite good.
Even so, installing yet another plugin/app will *never* make your computer *more* secure, except when you're installing some lock-down app or firewall. Obviously any app only increases the attack surface.
I expect Silverlight© to enjoy the same sterling security reputation as the rest of the Microsoft® stable of software, increasing the joy and ease of use customers have come to expect over the years.
mySQL can SELECT/DELETE/UPDATE just a good as the other brands
You had a point until there.
We're going to trust the future of rich media/apps on the web to a company that studiedly ignored any progress on their basic web browser for over five years?
Seriously, the IE 6 fiasco seals it. It was a concrete and persistent demonstration that the company simply does not care about the quality of their products beyond their position in the market, a giant middle finger rising from Redmond to web developers everywhere for the better part of this decade. They sat on a nearly unmatched trove of resources an
Microsoft today announced the release of version 3.0 of its world-beating Silverlight multimedia platform for the Web. As a replacement for Adobe's Flash, it is widely considered utterly superfluous and of no interest [today.com] to anyone who could be found.
"We have a fabulous selection of content partners for Silverlight," announced Microsoft marketer Scott Guthrie on his blog today. "NBC for the Olympics, which delivered millions of new users to BitTorrent. The Democrat National Convention, which is fine because t
Is it just me or did this read like a promo right off of Microsoft's web site?
Is slashdot going to go the way of PC Magazine back in the late 1980s and just becoming a venue for corporate promotion?
This article was kinda depressing.
It is nice to have at least one corner of the Netverse not dominated by the corporate overlords.
I do expect many Microsoft shops to do more RIAs with Silverlight now that it's more capable and to create lightweight browser/desktop Silverlight 3 applications where they might have fashioned heavier-weight Windows Forms or WPF client applications," Heller says.
In other words, loyal Microsoft followers will use new Microsoft tool that produces Windows-only GUI software instead of older Microsoft tools that produces Windows-only GUI software.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"


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Amanda Jobbins
The last major change in Cisco channel management in 2012 was the departure of Amanda Jobbins, vice president of global partner marketing. Jobbins exited in August citing family reasons and sought a return to her native United Kingdom, where she was named chief marketing officer of Sage Group plc in October. Cisco hasn't yet filled Jobbins' role, which as of mid-January was being handled by Karen Walker, global vice president, segment, services and field marketing.


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You can visit it at http://bugitor.sourc...rojects/bugitor - and see the (horrible) code at http://bitbucket.org/jacmoe/bugitor
The project Ogitor (www.ogitor.org) had big problems with running Redmine on our Dreamhost powered site - mostly due to the fact that it was RoR - and I gave up on it and decided to write a Redmine clone in PHP. More specifically CakePHP.
That version went online, but still suffered from performance problems.
Mostly due to my lack of sound programming skills.
Then I decided to rewrite the whole thing using Yii - and six months later - I am ready to showcase Bugitor.
It's really benefited a lot from the Yii framework.
It's still halfway between 0.2 and 0.3, so still rough - still it's in production use - including dogfooding.
It features support for multiple Mercurial repositories per project, with roadmap, issues, etc.
Doesn't have a wiki or other not needed features. (Yet?)
Here's three screen-shots:
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The founder of the Tallahassee Stop the Violence community action group Markeshia Harvey says she was heartbroken over the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut last week.
"These were innocent children that were just getting sent to school that didn't get a chance to come home," said Harvey.
The tragedy prompted Florida's Rep. Dennis Baxley to suggest that the legislature look at allowing teachers to be armed.
"In a way it's kind of still promoting violence, to a child that doesn't understand when they see a teacher with a gun, and it's ok, they're going to feel like this is someone that I look up to, and it's ok what they're doing, so I need a gun too," said Harvey after hearing about the statement.
Rep. Baxley backed off of the comments Wednesday, saying in a statement: "Our focus should be on the victims and their loved ones. Out of respect for them, we should not politicize a national tragedy. There will be plenty of time for debate in the near future."
Even with Rep. Baxley's comments, no legislation has been filed in the House or Senate since the shooting.
Representatives for Leon County schools did not want to comment, but the employee handbook says no teacher or employee can carry a weapon at school unless they're also in law enforcement.


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School Sports
Ladies beat Daingerfield
- Details
- Category: Sports News
- Published on 20 September 2013
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
The Mount Vernon Lady Tigers volleyball team split games last week with a win against Daingerfield on Tuesday and a district opener loss to Paris Chisum on Friday.
Emily Floyd delicately tips the volleyball over the net for the Lady Tigers. For more information, see the Sept. 19 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Jackrabbit divers wrap up Zones
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HOUSTON, Texas -- South Dakota State University divers Brad Schoreit and Clark Kocourek wrapped up their seasons at the NCAA Zone D Championships this week.
Schoreit, a senior from Omaha, Neb., placed 28th in the 1-meter preliminaries with a score of 211.05, while Kocourek placed 30th with 209.90 points.
On the 3-meter board, Kocourek, a junior from Omaha, finished 25th with a six-dive total of 278.25. Schoreit came in 26th with 256.05 points.


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Instore digital – the saviour of our high streets??
Unless you have been residing under a very large rock for the last six months, you will be aware that one of the latest buzzes around retail right now is the fusion of high street retail with digital technologies
For some, online and offline retail are still very much separate entities, which compete with one another, and have little in common apart from the fact that they are vehicles for sales, however the boundaries between on and offline retail are rapidly beginning to become less distinct.
The realisation is that each domain has fundamental failings (convenience, shopability,experience) that are insurmountable with marketing or design, and so what we are starting to see is that the 'offline' shopping experience increasingly being digitised, and, to a much lesser extent online is adopting more of the offline ways.
"We could ultimately be on the way to shops that are populated with holographic stock"
So where does this all end? Well that's just the thing it doesn't. As technology marches on, and the most 'way out' and exotic technologies become viable from a commercial perspective, we could ultimately be on the way to shops that are populated with holographic stock, with the trying on of clothes becoming a thing of the past, as technology will be able to scan your dimensions, and choose the size for you on the fly.
Sounds a bit like science fiction to you? Well these technologies are all about – though stupidly expensive / impractical at present, and have not been brought together in a cohesive retail centric way. Pretty soon we will see this type of thing rolled out.
The technology of today however has to be mobile hand held devices.
As with a lot of newer technologies the potential for this technology is lagging behind our own imaginations – currently retailers are not really facing up to the potential for customer mobile use. A good example of this reluctance to embrace mobile is the statistic that 60% of the UK's top 100 retailers don't have a mobile optimised web site!
"60% of the UK's top 100 retailers don't have a mobile optimised web site"
The possibilities?
Imagine being able to communicate with a customer as soon as they enter the store, telling them what is on offer that day, perhaps giving them the ability to navigate to these offers?
This data could be 'pushed' to hand held devices quite easily with existing technology, 'in-door GPS' has already been trialled utilising multiple calibrated WiFi transmitters.
As with all technologies, the direction that innovations take are completely dependant on the potential to monetise, as yet full proof strategies to derive serious extra revenue from these technologies haven't really been executed in an optimised fashion – though it will and fast.
A great number of retailers have strategies in place to introduce in store digital projects during the first half of 2013 – and by the end of the year, it will be commonplace to see handheld devices augmenting the high street retail experience.
So – to address the title, is this new wave the saviour of our high streets? Well yes and no.
The cost of technology does mean that smaller operators are not going to able to benefit from this tech. However plans are afoot to setup and independent basic system that any retailer could sign up for, though with less functionality than the bespoke systems the big retailers can afford.
The bottom line here is that to coin a phrase 'every little helps'................but the high street is going to need more than an app or two to save it, what interests me is when the really serious technology hits in a year or two - full virtual reality shopping anyone?


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The Newman Comets held the Rock Falls Rockets to seven first-half points Saturday at the State Farm Classic, then held on for a 44-38 victory to claim the seventh-place consolation game at Normal Community High School.
Julie Hurd scored 11 points for the Comets (4-9), and Kayci Howell added nine on three 3-pointers. Mary Alice Oswalt had eight points, and Sarah Trujillo chipped in seven in Newman's balanced effort.
Emily Sauer's 14 points led the Rockets (6-10), who trailed 24-7 at the break. Danica Fortune hit a pair of 3s and added eight points.
Dixon tournament
Sterling 54, Eastland 41: The Golden Warriors used a 12-6 first-quarter run and a 19-13 fourth-quarter surge to win third place the KSB/Dixon Holiday Tournament.
Kaitlyn Bauer scored 18 points, Gabby Sandoval had 16, and Kiarra Harris finished with 16 for Sterling (10-7). Lexis Macomber had 10 points for the Cougars (13-3).
Dixon 46, Aurora Christian 45: Sparked by Brooke Bailey's 27 points, the Duchesses outscored Aurora Christian 19-4 in the fourth quarter for a come-from-behind win in the consolation championship at their own tournament.
Bailey hit all six of Dixon's 3-pointers, while Carly Hartle added eight points and Maggie Bushman had seven for the Duchesses (10-5). Alyssa Anderson's 16 points led the Eagles.
Oregon 63, Lutheran 44: The Hawks cruised to seventh place at the KSB/Dixon Holiday Tournament, led by Sam Lambrigtsen's 31 points.
Emy Wright added 14 points for Oregon (11-6). Kailyn Strawbridge scored 15 to lead the Crusaders (7-4), and Abby Woollacott had 12.
Dunlap 48, Sterling 27: The Warriors scored just five points after halftime in a semifinal loss in Dixon.
Gabby Sandoval's 11 points led the way for Sterling. Brianna Henson scored 14 for Dunlap.
Boylan 50, Eastland 30: The Cougars trailed 27-9 at halftime and never recovered in a semifinal loss at Dixon.
Lexis Macomber had eight points, and Breah Bookman scored six for Eastland. Kayla Steward hit four 3s and finished with 16 points for the Titans.
Dixon 60, Pekin 56, OT: The Duchesses earned a berth in the consolation championship game with an overtime victory over the Dragons.
Brooke Bailey paced Dixon with 23 points, Carly Hartle had 14, and Tyler Smith added 11.
Lexie Yeley led Pekin with 13 points, Jesse Ulrich had 12 and Abigail Lowman added 10.
Stillman Valley 60, Oregon 40: Emy Wright led the Hawks with 13 points, and Sam Lambrigtsen added 11 in a loss to the Cardinals.
Abby Timm scored 20 points for Stillman Valley, Macy Weaver had 16 and Sydney Shelburne added 10.
Amboy tournament
Marquette 48, AFC 40: The Raiders managed just 12 points in the second and third quarters, then saw their comeback bid fall short in the third-place game at Amboy.
Alisyn Essex led the way with 11 points for AFC (10-4), and Cassidy Koning hit three 3s for nine points. Allison Prestegaard chipped in six points, 10 rebounds and five blocks.
Kendall Kaufmann scored a game-high 24 points for Marquette.
Erie tournament
Monmouth-Roseville 45, Bureau Valley 26: Helena Osk Arnadottir scored seven points for the Storm (7-7) in a loss to the Titans.
Dyesha Taylor led Monmouth-Roseville with 14 points, and Destiny Smith added 11.
Mercer County 42, Fulton 36: Betsy Leonard scored nine points, and Averi Leitzen added eight for the Steamers (3-12) in a loss to the Golden Eagles.
Michaela Baker scored 13 points for Mercer County, and Kristen Heath added 10.
Ridgewood 54, Morrison 43: Lakin Goodman paced the Fillies (8-9) with 13 points, and Chelsea Eads added 11 in a loss to the Rebels.
Jasmine Jefko led Ridgewood with 17 points.
Knoxville 56, Erie 37: The Cardinals trailed 28-16 by halftime and couldn't catch up in a Warkins Cardinal Classic loss.
Laykin Miner's 13 points led Erie (8-5), while Emily Cox added eight. Knoxville's Megan Axcell had 19.
Hall 50, West Carroll 38: Abby Maike scored 14 points for the Thunder (3-12) in a loss to the Red Devils in the seventh-place game at
Dixon 5th at Reavis: Top-15 individual performances by Katlyn Bay and Emily Quaco propelled the Duchesses to fifth place at the 26-team Reavis Rock 'n' Roll Invite at EL-mar Bowl in Bridgeview.
Bay's 1,179 six-game series was good enough for 13th overall, and featured the fifth-highest game of 253 in her afternoon 661 three-game total.
Quaco was two spots lower in 15th, rolling a 1,165 over six games, including a 243 high game and a 610 in the afternoon.
Metea Valley won the team title (5,741 pins) and saw Jordan Newham take individual honors (1,356).
Saturday's stars
Brooke Bailey, Dixon, 50 points in 2 Dixon tournament wins
Sam Lambrigtsen, Oregon, 42 points in 2 Dixon tournament games
Katlyn Bay, Dixon bowling, 13th at 26-team Reavis Invite
Emily Quaco, Dixon bowling, 15th at 26-team Reavis Invite


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Screaming in the Silence
At the beggining of the story, Major Jasper Whitlock meets a beautiful but strange girl in an inn one night. When he discovers the truth about her, he gets drawn into a dark world of drinking blood and hiding in shadows. But when something happens to make him question his way of life, will he be able to escape the close network he has become part of?
in canon with Twilight and New Moon, but started prior to Eclipse.
1. Chance Meetings?
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I heard a voice behind me and turned towards it.
"Sir," panted Matthew as he caught up with me. I looked at his face. He was excited and a bit hopeful.
"Can I help you Mathew?" I smiled. Matthew was one of my best friends and we often spent our free time together.
"I was just checking you were planning to come with us to the village this evening. It being the last night and everything, lots of people are going – and you know what the men are like," he explained. "You always manage to calm them down if things start getting out of hand."
I smiled and clapped a hand to his shoulder.
"Don't worry about it Matthew, I'm coming," I told him. "Remind the others that we're leaving at 6 in the morning, and we won't be waiting for stragglers."
Matthew grinned back. "I'll tell them, Jasper. See you later, okay?"
I watched him head off in the opposite direction, then ducked into my tent. I looked around at the familiar objects, things which would be safely packed away by this time tomorrow. Aside from the small camp bed and the box containing my uniform, there was also a small desk covered with writing materials. I walked over to this now and picked up the letter I had finished earlier. It told my sister of where we planned to head next, after we left tomorrow. In some ways I hated writing to Margaret, because each letter could be my last. On the other hand, I liked having someone to talk to, someone I could tell almost everything about me.
A sigh escaped me as I folded the maps and sketches, and began to pack them into my satchel. What would our new destination bring, I wondered? Would I be able to sit at a desk and write to my sister again? Most of the time I liked the uncertainty that came with my occupation, but today it was disconcerting. In only a couple of weeks, my life could change completely. I pushed these thoughts away as I left for the village with my friends.
"Come on, Major Whitlock," my friend William called. "Show us how it's done!"
I grinned up at the young officer standing at the edge of the dance floor, and obligingly got to my feet. Who knew how long it would be until we next had a chance to enjoy ourselves like this again?
"All right Captain, I'm coming!" I called back.
I made my way over with several of my companions and found myself partnered with a beautiful young woman whose blonde hair was held back beneath an elegant blue bonnet.
"Would you like to have this dance?" I asked formally as the music began.
"It would be a pleasure," she replied in a sweet voice, and I took her slender hands in mine.
I was immediately struck by how cold her hands were. It was like holding a small block of ice. I looked down at her, confused, but she smiled up at me and we began to dance. If her hands were this chilly, it must have been colder outside than I'd thought. I brought my eyes back to her lovely face, and gazed down at her while we moved through the familiar steps, trying to drink in all of her astonishing beauty.
She kept her eyes shadowed by the brim of her hat, but her lips smiled sensually as we danced. She moved gracefully around the room, her simple dress clinging to her slender form. I found I couldn't take my eyes off her; she was breathtaking. Far too soon, the dance ended and she stepped away from me, then beckoned me over to a table.
"May I know the name of such a magnificent dancer?" I requested.
"Maria," she answered. "And yours?"
I was entranced by every move she made, and it took me a couple of seconds to answer.
"Jasper Whitlock," I managed eventually, "I'm a Major in the army stationed up the road," I explained.
"Really?" she replied. "That sounds fascinating. Tell me more, Major."
She tilted her head back to look up at me, and I caught sight of her eyes for the first time. I had to stifle a gasp: her eyes were a bright, ruby red.
"Your eyes!"
She gave another laugh. "Oh, they've always been like that. But don't worry about it Jasper, tell me about yourself."
I had to suppress a shudder, despite her reassurances. There was something not quite right about this girl with red eyes and cold hands. I pushed these thoughts away as I looked down at her, and was again mesmerised by her beauty. I began to tell her a bit more about myself, and we spoke easily about our lives.
We talked for most of the evening, and I only noticed how much time had passed when Matthew came over to let me know they were leaving. I hadn't noticed the time; Maria was so interesting to talk to.
"It was nice meeting you, Maria."
"And you, Major. Sorry you're leaving tomorrow. You never know, perhaps we'll meet again someday."
I smiled as we left, enduring the good-natured teasing of my fellow officers. My thoughts were still on Maria as I fell asleep that evening. As I drifted towards unconsciousness, one image floated clearer than the others: a pair of bright red eyes, staring up at me.
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Kimberly Lang is here to join in on my Harlequin KISS celebration. I am uber-excited about this new series by Harlequin, and I'm working on inviting all of the launch authors to drop by the virtual offices for a chat. On Friday, I will be giving away one complete set of the KISS launch titles, so make sure to stop back to enter for your chance to win!
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Describe yourself in 140 characters or less.
[Kimberly Lang] Author of sexy contemporary romance, trouble-maker and Southern belle.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What makes Harlequin's Kiss line unique from their other series romances?
[Kimberly Lang] I think KISS hits that sweet spot – a fairy tale feeling that we want from a romance, but with enough realism to feel like it could happen to you or a friend. The characters and situations are easy to identify with, so readers can just get lost in the story. KISS has a fun, flirty vibe and it definitely sizzles! There's a variety of voices in KISS (and some of the most talented authors out there!), so there's something for everyone who loves a good story.
If books were fireworks, KISS would be the sparklers – burning hot and fast with lots of sparks, but close-up and personal, because you hold them in your hand while they burn.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What do you enjoy best about writing for Harlequin?
[Kimberly Lang] I love the short format. There's a real challenge to telling a complete story in 50,000 words or less, but I like that challenge. It keeps me focused because I don't have the word count available to wander off with secondary characters into subplots. The immediacy and pace required means I never get bored by the story or tired of the characters.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Can you tell us a little about The Downfall of a Good Girl?
[Kimberly Lang] I had so much fun writing this book. Downfall is set in New Orleans (the site of many a good girl's downfall!), and pits the saintly Vivi against her childhood nemesis, Connor, during the Saints and Sinners charity fundraiser. I've got an alpha hero rock star in a set of five-foot tall angel wings and a former beauty queen determined not to lose this crown. There's music, good deeds, a parade and a really hot scene with a piano that I'm quite fond of. You can find the official blurb and an excerpt on my website (http://www.booksbykimberly.com/books/the-downfall-of-a-good-girl/)
And speaking of music… all the songs featured in Downfall were written by the beautiful and talented Cristina Lynn, a local singer/songwriter who was kind enough to put her words in Connor's mouth. Cristina even wrote an original song inspired by Connor and Vivi's story. Check out my site or hers (www.cristinalynn.com) for a listen!
[Manga Maniac Cafe] How did you come up with the concept and the characters for the story?
[Kimberly Lang] Honestly, I couldn't tell you. My mind is a very messy place, so I really don't know what causes an idea to bubble to the surface. Usually, I'll have a character or a situation as the seed and I build the book around that. This time, I knew I wanted to set a book in New Orleans, and I knew one of the characters would be in the music industry (because music is such a big part of New Orleans). From there, my creative process gets a little fuzzy… I know I had several false starts and rejected Chapter Ones before everything clicked into place for this story. But where the idea finally came from? No clue. I'm just glad it did.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three words best describe Vivi?
[Kimberly Lang] Saintly. Competitive. Elegant.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Name one thing Connor won't leave the house without.
[Kimberly Lang] A smartphone – he needs to stay connected and have music to listen to. (Hm, I guess I have that in common with him!)
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things will you never find in Connor's pockets?
[Kimberly Lang] Connor would only carry the bare minimum required, so anything other than a phone and a credit card would be superfluous.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What is Vivi's greatest regret?
[Kimberly Lang] Slapping Connor at their Coronation Ball ten years ago. (Only in that she wishes she'd have hit him harder and not done it in public.)
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What are your greatest creative influences?
[Kimberly Lang] I have a couple of English degrees, so I'd like to say something about great literature, but I'm really inspired by pop culture, especially TV shows like Friends and Buffy, the Vampire Slayer that have strong women and really great dialogue.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things do you need in order to write?
[Kimberly Lang] Diet Coke, hot tea, and cherry jelly beans.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What is the last book that you read that knocked your socks off?
[Kimberly Lang] This is a bit of a tease (and slightly self-promo-ish), but… I'm really excited to say that I'm part of the When Honey Got Married … anthology with the very talented Kelly Hunter, Ally Blake, and Anna Cleary that will be released in March. Although we planned the books together, I was totally blown away with how good their stories turned out. I mean, I like my contribution to the anthology, but Kelly, Ally and Anna's are just amazingly good and I can't wait for folks to get to read them!
[Manga Maniac Cafe] If you had to pick one book that turned you on to reading, which would it be?
[Kimberly Lang] I've been an avid reader my entire life – my mom says I started reading when I was four, so I don't ever remember not loving books and wanting to read. The first romance novel I read, though, was Bertrice Small's Skye O'Malley, and it led to my obsession with romance novels. I still love a big, fat, sexy historical romance – and those are the books I'm most likely to turn to when I need a break.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What do you like to do when you aren't writing?
[Kimberly Lang] I read, watch crime dramas like L&O: SVU and Criminal Minds, hang out with the family and play with the dog. I'm also a fitness instructor – I teach a combination of yoga, pilates and tai chi that helps combat the "writer butt" that develops from too many jelly beans.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] How can readers connect with you?
[Kimberly Lang] My website, www.BooksByKimberly.com, Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.lang.520) and Twitter @booksbykimberly.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Thank you!
You can purchase The Downfall of a Good Girl from your favorite bookseller or by clicking the links below. Be sure to check back at the end of the week for your chance to win a set of the first four KISS titles!
About the book
"Why would you decide to seduce me? And why now after all these years?"
Southern debutante Vivienne LaBlanc can't believe bad-boy rock star Connor Mansfield is back in town for the New Orleans annual Saints and Sinners pageant. He has a reputation as wicked as his devilish smile, and Vivi has no intention of becoming one of his latest groupies!
He once crushed her high school heart, so playing the saint to Connor's sinner should be easy. But how can Vivi get those less than angelic thoughts out of her head—especially when Connor's so good at tempting her to be bad?
Next month, watch out for the second book in Kimberly Lang's duet: The Taming of a Wild Child
About the author
Kimberly Lang isn't one of those people who always knew she wanted to be a writer. She actually wanted to be a ballerina, but puberty failed to deliver the required swan-like elegance. That dream scuttled, she went on to get her Master's Degree in English – and she has the bartending skills to prove it. At her husband's insistence, she quit teaching in 2007 to write full-time, and in May 2008, sold her first book to Harlequin's London office. That book, The Secret Mistress Arrangement, debuted at number nine on the Borders Series Bestseller list and won the 2009 National Readers' Choice Award for Best First Book.
Since then, Kimberly's books have appeared on the USA Today, Amazon, Borders, and Bookscan bestseller lists, and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. (And, yes, that's really cool.)
She's married to her college sweetheart, whom she affectionately (but appropriately) calls her Darling Geek, and is Mom to the most brilliant and beautiful child on the planet (aptly nicknamed Amazing Child). She started taking yoga-based fitness because she eats way too many jelly beans while writing, and became an instructor once she figured out that spending time with her butt over her head helped spark her creativity. More than one sticky plot point has been solved in the Down Dog position. She has no hobbies because she doesn't have time, but if she did, they'd include knitting, skiing and ballroom dancing, because they sound like they might be fun.


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This story of the world-famous Lipizzaner stallions focuses on the bond that develops between the horses and their caregivers, beginning at the moment of their birth and culminating in the perfect harmony between horse and rider demonstrated at the famous Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria.
Monday, February 9 at 8:00 pm: Antiques Roadshow "Celebrating Black Americana"
In this special to mark Black History Month, appraisal highlights include, among other items, an 1821 citizenship certificate for a free man of color, and an African American beauty book written by entrepreneur Madame C.J. Walker, the first American female millionaire.
Wednesday, February 18 at 7 pm: NATURE "Owl Power" NEW!
Using the camera technology, computer graphics, x-rays and ultra-microscopes available in the modern world, take a new look at owls in more detail than ever before. The real stories behind how they hunt, how their vision and hearing work, and how they fly so silently are influencing 21st-century technology and design, from high-tech aircraft and submarines to innovative hearing aids.
Wednesday, February 25 at 7 pm: NATURE "The Last Orangutan Eden" NEW
Working with a team of experienced researchers, ecologist Chris Morgan becomes completely immersed in a unique social band of wild orangs who use tools, share food, forage together, and create their own distinct culture. For the first time, advanced cameras are used to follow the orangs throughout the canopy to provide an intimate, clear picture of how these arboreal apes spend their days and nights and interact with one another.


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Arsenal's Theo Walcott desperate to repay the faith of Arsene Wenger
Theo Walcott says it is the responsibility of the Arsenal players to ease the pressure on under-fire boss Arsene Wenger.
Last Updated: 26/02/13 5:22pm
The Gunners are on course for an eighth straight season without a trophy after crashing out of both cup competitions to lower league opposition and a comprehensive 3-1 home defeat by Bayern Munich in the first leg of their last-16 Champions League clash.
A five-match unbeaten run in the Premier League has at least improved Arsenal's chances of forcing their way into the top four but that has done little to dampen the criticism of Wenger's reign.
Speaking in the March edition of the official Arsenal magazine, Walcott said: "The boss has always had so much belief in me from a young age, but we haven't won anything for a long time now, so we want to pay him back by winning something.
"If we don't perform he always takes it back on himself, but at times it is not fair because we are the players that go out there and do it.
"He definitely lets us know when we are not performing, though, which is the right way to do it."
The Gunners' pursuit of silverware has not been helped by a string of high-profile departures in recent seasons with the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Robin van Persie, Alex Song, Samir Nasri and Gael Clichy all deciding to pursue their ambitions elsewhere.
Walcott was widely expected to follow them out of the club this summer until he signed a contract extension last month and with young Gunners like Aaron Ramsey, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Jack Wilshere all tied to long-term deals, the England forward believes the club is on the brink of success again.
Walcott added: "Once the team wins the first trophy, you will start to see us coming back to where we should be.
"When your team is playing well it makes your job easier and when you are winning games it is fantastic to be a part of it. However, it is when things aren't going too well that you need to stand out and get your team back involved.
"We have got players in the dressing room who can create something out of nothing, and I want to be part of that backbone.
"You see it when we go a goal down, everyone thinks, 'right, we need to step up here because it is not good enough', but if we do that from the start we can beat absolutely anyone.
"I think we will get to a stage when we win games even when we haven't dominated.
"We are starting to get there and as soon as we hit that target, I am sure we are going to be flying."


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Click or flick across for more great John Russell photos from the Nariel Folk Festival (iPhone app users can tap the 'Photos' tab).
THE Nariel Folk Festival has a national champion among its attendees this year.
Jeff Wilmott from the Yarra Ranges is the reigning Australian Gum Leaf Playing Championships title holder.
The title might be little known but can be hotly contested with up to 20 rivals taking part.
Mr Wilmott, a regular visitor to the Upper Murray, first won the title at the Man From Snowy River Festival in the late 2000s and has retained the crown since.
As the 50th Nariel Folk Festival swings into action, Mr Wilmott has set up camp with other musically inclined people who are regularly drawn to the serene location near Corryong.
In an impromptu performance for The Border Mail, Mr Wilmott ripped a branch from one of the Cottonwood trees planted to provide shade for festival goers, selected a leaf and produced a tune within the space of minutes.
"There is no real secret to it," he said.
"Just perseverance, perseverance and more perseverance.
"I've found not blowing across the leaf but easing the air onto the edge of the leaf causes it to vibrate.
"It's good fun and also costs nothing."
The festival is regarded as the longest continuous event of its kind in Australia and another eclectic mix of musicians and regular festival goers have set up camp on the banks of the Nariel Creek.
They include Susan Graham, who was playing her hand-crafted harp made from King William Pine and Blackwood.
She also provided some tuition and encouragement to a relative newcomer to the harp, Gai George.
"It's not the years you spend playing the harp, but the hours are the important thing," Ms Graham said.
Arthur Rich from Warburton has also settled back into the festival scene after an absence of 25 years.
He celebrated his 65th birthday on Boxing Day and plans to spend the next week fine-tuning his violin playing skills.


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The Internet responded to Jim Boeheim's explosive reaction in Saturday night's Syracuse-Duke game as the Internet always does: with photoshops.
MORE: The call that got him ejected | Photos from Krzyzewskiville | No punishment
There was Jim with a cameo in Baywatch (or Boewatch, if you will).
HERE COMES BOEHEIM pic.twitter.com/B35CmDnjAG
— Brian Floyd (@BrianMFloyd) February 23, 2014
Boeheim chasing a naked Walt in Breaking Bad (or in his case, Breaking Mad).
Breaking Boeheim pic.twitter.com/ygrdl485NC
— Brian Floyd (@BrianMFloyd) February 23, 2014
Even a stark resemblance to the late Michael Jackson. CAUSE THIS IS THRILLERRRRRRR
@MattNorlander pic.twitter.com/K8grmX9qWF
— Daryl Von Muopsies (@Garcizzle13) February 23, 2014
Boeheim as a WWE wrestler.
Boeheim off the top rope! pic.twitter.com/4YvtSKWY6t
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