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"Our eyes and minds are being sold to advertisers and you don't find that troubling?"
For a second I thought you were referring to the TV and Radio broadcast industry as it has existed for the last... oh,70 to 80 years?
"Our eyes and minds are being sold to advertisers and you don't find that troubling?"
For a second I thought you were referring to the TV and Radio broadcast industry as it has existed for the last... oh,70 to 80 years?
Exactly the way privacy has been dealt with and our acceptance of pervasive advertising has been troubling for a long time now, why all the hoopla about a closed network you opt into I'll never understand,
Well, until recently (DirecTV and shit) TV at least didn't watch you back.
Come to think of it, the internet is kind of an Orwellian sort of TV, isn't it?
Come to think of it, the internet is kind of an Orwellian sort of TV, isn't it?
It didn't start out that way.
In fact, it didn't even start to move in that direction until big business and telecommunications decided that there was billions to be made and that the hippies and programmers and college students couldn't be trusted with this powerful new tool.
Do you remember when there were dozens of ISPs in every big town? Little shops would open up in a storefront offering everything from dialup to T1. You'd get your connection and do with it what you would. Where did they all go? And before you tell me all the huge technical innovations that the corporate world has brought to the internet, remember that there was IRC before anyone knew what a "text message" even was. The big contribution of the corporate world to the internet? Television! I can watch Jersey Shore over the internet! Big fucking deal.
Government made the internet, and they goddamn well better get a handle on the corporate takeover of it before it turns completely into cable television.
There will be no "getting a handle on the corporate takeover"- Corporate America sponsors the largest part of US "government"; there is very little divide between the two. In time it -will- turn into cable vision, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. The cute little policy rulings by the FCC, the passionate wailings of the EFF are no more than attempts to hold back the tide with a rake- The last twitches of a failed republic. Take an objective look at things.... The power -will- follow the money; corporate America has and will continue to use phenomenal amounts of money to bend government to it's will; They've got all the time and money they need- do you really think they'll give up / stop?
You may remember the dot com bubble? lots of things were over invested in.. including ISPs.
I don't think you could say with a straight face the internet was as remotely as usable as it is today or had the wealth of information it does today. Of course not all of that because of the big corporations, but much of it is. MSN, AIM, games, bunch of stuff from google all things I use on a daily basis.
Your nostalgia is showing.
You may remember the dot com bubble? lots of things were over invested in.. including ISPs. I don't think you could say with a straight face the internet was as remotely as usable as it is today or had the wealth of information it does today.
Internet then: See my Dog on the WWW! Type in #.#.#.# into the location field in Mosaic (install Mosaic from this floppy).
Internet now: See my Dog on Facebook! Go to www.facebook.com, make an account, friend me, wait for confirmation, then click on albums, and my dog's album.
What a difference.
What a bunch of bullshit. The people moderating this nonsense up are letting their ideology show.
The difference between then and now is huge. For one, websites in general are more secure (you can't fuck up a messageboard anymore just by typing in !). They're much, MUCH more well-designed, just go look through archive.org for evidence of this. Forum softwares are DRASTICALLY better, instead of relying on geocities people register their own
Yeah, let's just ignore Hulu (oh wait, that's the corporate takeover of the internet according to PopeRatzo), last.fm, all the blogs that have popped up by experts in their fields, the rise of bittorrent, Steam (for gaming), Google and the many peripheral services they provide, oh I could go on and on.
There's not much to whine about other then the death of usenet (although I insist it died because forum softwares improved and became accessible outside websites such as insidetheweb and ezboards) and the rise of spam.
The underlying technology is just vastly superior, if you disagree you can just shut up and go back to dialup and prove me wrong.
Government made the internet, and they goddamn well better get a handle on the corporate takeover of it before it turns completely into cable television.
I totally agree with this point. I am sick and tired of following a news headline in my RSS reader only to find that the destination page is just an embedded video player of some talking head hack reading out loud the article I was fully prepared to read for myself in the first place.
If I wanted to watch TV, I'd turn it on. Now, get off my lawn!
Quit painting "corporate" America as the evil and "government" as the good slayer of dragons; they're a two-headed beast, often times the two are indistinguishable. It is government law, after all, that makes the corporation a limited-liability organization. Where men go to jail for, corporations may only get a fine, if that. It's not that corporations are a corrupting influence on good and righteous government, it's that there is no such thing as good and righteous government anymore than communism is
Quit painting "corporate" America as the evil and "government" as the good slayer of dragons; they're a two-headed beast, often times the two are indistinguishable.
You're right, to a point. Both corporations and the government are the enemy. But as Chomsky says at least governments are potentially democratic. Corporations are pure tyrannies.
I find it "curious" that this corporate takeover happened exactly when slow and shitty dialup died and DSL and Cable became popular. I guess there is something inher
Yep, in the end the panopticon emerged because enough people chose to opt in. No conspiracy required.
The problem isn't the opt-in.
I was referring to the fact you do not have to use Facebook.
I think the real problem is not Facebook, but a system that allows businesses to retroactively and without notification, change the the agreement that the user agreed to when business relationship was first established.
If Facebook wants to change the TOS, privacy policy, or anything else, about the service, they should have to require an affirmative opt-in from the user first. They have the right (in the absence of a contract) to cancel a user's account, on the service, but not to change the terms or settings. If they want to change the terms, they can either advertise how great the new features are, and ask users to opt-in to them, or they can put up a notification at the next log-in telling exactly what has changed, and require the user to accept or reject the changes. (Depending on how critical the changes are to the business, a rejection may require closing the account.),
In a just world, that is how all terms with a business should be. It is unconscionable to require the users to keep checking a document on a website with no notification that the terms have changes. And yet, Facebook, ISPs, credit cards, and many other businesses scam their users with such sneakwrap provisions.
Well said. "We may change the terms of service at any time" is a clause that lets companies get away with whatever they want.
I recently noticed, purely by accident but thankfully in time, a bait-and-switch type terms and conditions change for the Woolworths/QANTAS frequent flyer program card. When signing up for the program I checked there was no selling of data to third party sources for advertising etc. Then they changed the conditions to add just that! I immediately rang and cancelled my account (I hate being sent advertising in the mail, not to mention the disgusting waste of resources it represents). But with no actual notification of such changes, via mail, email or otherwise, (I just happened to look at their website on that day) most people would not even know and would probably be shocked to realise the change of terms to include such a bastardly clause after the fact.
The issue with facebook is really rather simple.
Facebook's value for its investors is that it's a gigantic comprehensive advertising database where the marks *cough* I mean customers input all the data on their own. People put information into Facebook that they'd never tell someone taking a survey and you don't even have to pay someone to ask them the questions. Achieving this goal is basically top on Facebook's list of long term priorities, just as it will be on any other free social networking site which doesn't want to operate at a massive loss.
The conflict is that the users of facebook didn't sign up for that. They want and quite rightfully expect a certain level of privacy for the content they post on the site. You might argue that telling everyone about your personal life is the antithesis of privacy, but privacy is about your ability to determine your own level of disclosure, not having some specific level of disclosure which the older generations find appropriate.
Essentially the end result of all of this is that every 6 months or so, facebook tries to turn all the information it has into cold hard cash and shortly thereafter their userbase throws a wobbly and they have to back out.
One thing I find disturbing is that even when/if Facebook backs down, it has already given away your information. For example when they decided to put what you're a "fan" of in your public profile that any web-crawler can see. Even if they backed down, I'm sure that information is now stored in a number of databases outside of Facebook and you don't have to be completely paranoid to think maybe Facebook has a hand in this.
"Our eyes and minds are being sold to advertisers and you don't find that troubling?"
For a second I thought you were referring to the TV and Radio broadcast industry as it has existed for the last... oh,70 to 80 years?
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
If you think it's OK that the Internet is turning into what the TV and Radio broadcasting industry has given us for the last 80 years, then yeah, it's all good. I, however, will fight this with everything I've got. It's worth it.
Fight it with everything you got? Really? Like what? Somehow, I don't think old copies of Bear Party, empty cans of pringles, and that musty smell of your mother's basement is going to make anyone stand up and take notice. Well, maybe the musty smell, but that's not the kind of noticin' you want if you know what I mean.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Actually, I help run a small but scrappy nonprofit dedicated to providing democracies with good information, and part of that is looking after the tools that make that possible.
http://www.omidyar.com/portfolio/global-integrity [omidyar.com]
I know it's Slashdot, but some of us actually do mean what we say.
Sure, it was a joke. You merely provided the setup
I believe he was saying a more disturbing problem was that most people don't care about the issues you mentioned.
And that's different from any other medium you're "consuming" in what way, exactly? From TV to radio to newspapers to any other for-profit page on the web.
We are not the consumers any more, we are the product.
Consumers are the product. Advertisers deliver this product to their customers. The way I've always heard the term "consumers" used in the media reminds me of cattle. Every producer and provider wants as much consumer pie as it can eat, and we best not spook the consumer or it'll take a break from its mindless consumption.
But if you meant that we aren't the customers any more; you're right, we aren't. Being a customer is what you want to be, not a consumer.
Serious? Our eyes and minds are being sold to advertisers and you don't find that troubling?
No. Seeing a business taking advantage of the state of affairs is not troubling, it's to be expected. What is troubling is the complete willingness of people to give away their private information, and when you ask them why they tolerate a company acting like that, they say "Who cares?" The problem isn't the company, the problem is the people themselves.
What is troubling is the complete willingness of people to give away their private information, and when you ask them why they tolerate a company acting like that, they say "Who cares?"
Nobody I've talked to about this has ever said "Who cares?". The most common reaction is "Yeah, I don't like it either, but all my friends are on Facebook." And that doesn't mean people are mindlessly imitating their friends - "All my friends are on Facebook" means "All my friendships depend, in part, on Facebook."
It's eas
Those bastards shouldn't be holding meetings in secret, after all, this is about PRIVACY for god's sake!
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
Wonder how much this new released IM thread has to do with this "All-Hands".
I would delete my account.... but.... why?
The name on the account is fake. Email address used to sign up is a fake one-off account I log into once in awhile to keep active just for Facebook. Nobody I know in real life knows the name on my Facebook account. I have never connected up to facebook with the actual IP address of my current location.
It was only ever for Mafia Wars, of which, I have thousands of Facebook "friends" now.
So once again, I question why I would want to delete it at all? Probably a pr
Thanks for that link. Well, I guess from now on I am allowed to tell Facebook users that they are "dumb fucks" according to the Facebook founder and CEO.
It always felt quite good not to be a Facebook user, but now it's even more pleasant!
The only way to bring privacy and security to Facebook is to replace Zuckerberg with someone who cares about the privacy of Facebook users. Until Zuckerberg is replaced, little or nothing will change.
Five bucks says the meeting is less about how to respect peoples' privacy than it is about how to more surreptitiously subvert it.
If they happened to maintain the levels of privacy the users agreed to without changing them up and forcing the users to play catch up it wouldn't be an issue.
Instead of having control over the dispersion of information among their social network people are sticking fingers in the dike to plug up new leaks every day. People may be overly trusting with their data, but if they have to agree to terms of service then Facebook should have some obligation to honor the users rules of dissemination.
So on that note,
You oversimplify. Facebook changes privacy policy for the worse, users complain, Facebook backs off (though rarely all the way) or offers (torturous and convoluted) ways to bypass new privacy violations.
I won't dispute the "base is full morons" point, but to say everyone there just whines to no effect is inaccurate.
My answer? They've got a track record of disrespecting privacy, and now that they've demonstrated that, I'm going to leave Facebook by July 4 if they don't fix everything, and I'm trying to get a million people to do the same.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117283144970446 [facebook.com]
Yeah because signing up for another public facebook group is the way to show them you don't want to have your information shared with the world...
Alright guys, what are we going to do about these damn privacy dweebs?
I imagine it's closer to this PA strip: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/5/ [penny-arcade.com]
"Our users are complaining when we fuck them in the ass."
"Well, we could use lube or we the ball gag."
"I see the clouds of a civil war on the horizon between users and the platform vendors as users want more discrete control over their history, privacy and data, and the platform vendors who drive advertising and data mining businesses."
The ability of Facebook to generate revenues requires the exploitation of their users data and their privacy - if they want to keep it "free" for the users. Otherwise they'll have to charge a subscription.
Advertising on pages for revenue? Enough to pay the bills let alone drive the sky high stock prices?
Ask the management of Digg and Slashdot about that.
If they offered the option of a subscription service, and in return I got no advertising and had complete control over my privacy settings, I would totally do it. I use Facebook a lot, not just to interact with my friends, but to get the word out about updates to my website and new music tracks I make. $5-$10 a month for something as ubiquitous as Facebook would be well worth the money, in my opinion.
I'd drop $5 on Fark before I'd drop $5 on Facebook.
You'd trust them to keep their word at *this* point?
They've already promised to keep things secret, and then sold them. They'd need something considerably more binding than a mere promise before I'd trust them now. Can't think what would work, but I'm not guaranteeing that there isn't something. E.g., if they offered a public key system, I wouldn't trust them not to, at some point, hack the code. But that doesn't prove that there isn't something they could offer that I'd accept. (I just don't believe i
If they offered the option of a subscription service, and in return I got no advertising and had complete control over my privacy settings, I would totally do it. I use Facebook a lot, not just to interact with my friends, but to get the word out about updates to my website and new music tracks I make. $5-$10 a month for something as ubiquitous as Facebook would be well worth the money, in my opinion.
You will never have "complete control over your privacy settings" as long as Facebook keeps the "Friend's Apps Have Access To Your Data" permission. Facebook will not remove that, because if they did, major application developers would stop making free Facebook apps. Access to your personal information is why Zynga (the maker of virtually ALL the most popular Facebook applications [wikipedia.org]) gives away their games.
The real problem is that Facebook suckers people in with a semblance of privacy and control over it, then changes the Terms of Service -- over and over again, often with little or no notice -- then makes the changes retroactive and sells your personal information to all interested parties.
If they defaulted to sane privacy settings and opt-in marketing "features", there would be no current uproar. They could still make money from ads like normal sites do; they already have insane numbers of page hits. If they behaved responsibly in this way, and then offered enhanced functionality (such as customizable layouts, themes, members-only applications, &c.) for a monthly or annual fee, then I would very likely subscribe. I do use Facebook on a daily basis to keep in touch with friends and family around the world, and in that regard it works quite well.
But who am I kidding? Their track record is soiled so badly that it would take a complete change of ownership, management, privacy settings and implementation, before I could trust them enough to type any credit card or other payment information in the same browser session as Facebook -- let alone into their page.
For as much flack as Google gets around here lately, they do a pretty decent job of selling advertising without completely raping their users' privacy.
And, no Facebook, changing your privacy policies every 6 months and then claiming your users are consenting because they didn't opt-out of the 120 new "please sell my ass to the highest bidder" boxes that are confusingly labeled and located on 50 different pages doesn't cut it.
"The ability of Facebook to generate revenues requires the exploitation of their users data and their privacy - if they want to keep it "free" for the users."
The HELL it does. That's 100% NOT true. That may well be the spin their marketing droids spout, but it is absolutely not, in any way, true.
TV advertising remains the most lucrative form of advertising. It does not require detailed information about all its viewers. They know demographics, and they occasionally survey samples to validate that, but no personal information is needed. And this system works.
It is pretty easy to work out Facebook demographics. They do not need to target-market to this level of granularity. The only reason they are doing so, is because people at Facebook (and Google for that matter) are letting them.
There's enough eyes on Facebook that they WILL generate revenue from ads targeted at the whole Facebook demographic, rather than individually targeted ads.
There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that Facebook needs to hand over private information -- other than naked greed.
I wonder if they'd care to post a transcript of the meeting to their own website.
I wonder if they'd care to post the names, birth dates, family trees, and work and school histories of everyone who attends the meeting to their own website.
My opinion is that if you post personally identifiable information to a public website, and expect that information to be kept from all the world's eyeballs, you're being incredibly foolish.
I'm not saying Facebook has no responsibility here, just that people should take care to only share in a public forum what they are comfortable sharing with the entire universe. My Facebook profile contains nothing that I wouldn't want my mom, boss, pastor, or future employer to see.
I'm probably departing Facebook because... well... just watch the South Park Facebook episode and that sums up everything I hate about it.
Privacy? I don't post private stuff to a public website, no matter how much they promise only to share that stuff with "friends" and "networks."
You don't "depart" facebook. You can't delete your profile. Trust me. I tried. The best you can do is remove *most* of the information, and try and falsify the rest, and then hope they don't go too far in to the backups to get your old information.
My Facebook profile contains nothing that I wouldn't want my mom, boss, pastor, or future employer to see.
It may more likely be your (public) list of friends, rather than any other particular piece of info that you choose to share, that creates problems in the future. There was a time back in the 50s when just being seen talking to the wrong person could land you on a blacklist.
I still find the idea that people willingly post lists of all their friends and acquaintances for anyone to see to be a bit mind-boggling. Shit does happen. Then again, maybe I draw suspicion on myself for not doing just that...
My opinion is that if you post personally identifiable information to a public website, and expect that information to be kept from all the world's eyeballs, you're being incredibly foolish.
The problem is you can't control what other people post.
I create an account with just my name and use it to keep in touch with my friends and family.
It doesn't take long before someone posts a photo from my birthday party and annotates my name. A quick grab of my friends list reveals some workmates, one of whom has a map of the office.
so without me doing anything but putting up my name and a list of friends, anyone can now work out where I live, work, when my birthday is, and what I look like.
I deleted my F
My opinion is that if you post personally identifiable information to a public website
Part of the problem is that these are not entirely "public" websites, and there were promises about your privacy in Facebook's published policies. Over time those policies have changed, and by consequence the level of privacy has changed despite what was originally promised. If privacy changes are retrospective in effect to their application to your submitted information that's very, very bad. If your argument is that nobody should have any expectation of privacy even on a website with a published privacy policy and "privacy controls", I think that your argument is wrong and instead companies who don't stick to their own promises should face some consequences, as their users inevitably will.
I suggest you take a look at this timeline from the EFF:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline [eff.org]
Yeah, sorry Facebook, you are too late. I'm out.
Maybe my single voice means nothing but I'm willing to bet there's a lot more people who are fed up with not only Facebook's privacy activities but also their inane games, spam from other users, advertisements from all sorts of snake oil salesmen, and "friends" who you've barely, if ever, had contact with.
I'll stick to other ways to keep in contact with the people I really care about. The rest of them can stick their social media somewhere unpleasant.
You're not the only one who has opted out of Facebook. About a week ago, I deleted all of my pictures, all of my old posts (that took a lot of clicking), all of my group affiliations, and almost all of my personal information. I'll maintain the account just to let people I've lost touch with find me. The only things I post there now are links to stories about what's wrong with Facebook, and its potential replacements. I won't comment on or click "like" on anybody else's postings. I've changed my bio information to state that I do not approve of Facebook's privacy policy changes and that I'm only maintaining my account to allow old friends to make initial contact with me.
The recent news about diaspora [joindiaspora.com] interests me, and I'll be keeping my eye on that project. I'm looking forward to seeing what they come out with at the end of summer. I enjoyed using Facebook until their privacy policy changes led me to stop, and I hope to see future social media options that lack Facebook's undesirable features and policies.
Or use fake datas. I got kicked for that. However, how do we know that they really deleted our datas? They probably still have the accounts, but not to the public and account owner.
Beating your profile at yahtzee will also destroy it.
...most people associate diaspora with slavery, oppression, and other painful historical memories...
You have a very high opinion of most people's vocabulary.
That's why I created my new social networking site "Holocaust".
Pseudo-on-topic-rant: what's with the asterisk in "diaspora*"? Every time I read an article about it I want to scroll to the bottom of the page to see what the footnote says.
I have never liked or respected Zuckerberg, he is delusional and dangerous. Greed + ego never ends well and add youth to that and you have a complete nightmare. Sadly I have close friends and family spread out over the globe and Facebook is one of the best ways for us to stay in touch right now. Hopefully that changes soon, but in the meantime I have removed everything from my profile and have suggested others do the same.
Facebook is actually kind of suck for "staying in touch". It's more of an automated interleaver of blogs, with public chatrooms attached to each post.
IM is quite a bit better for personal dealings. Email can make up for any time you're not both online.
I don't agree.
Example - I was in Israel 16 years ago, made some friends and when I came back to the States I lost track of them.
Facebook - I just happen on doing a search for one of the places I lived there, found a community of other ex pats who'd been there over the decades and found a couple drinking bodies from 16 years ago, caught up with them.
I couldn't have done that with email or IM.
It is interesting you bring up creating a "shell" account. It's what I've basically done. The only things on Facebook are the things I don't mind people knowing about me or is available elsewhere. I use it then just to keep in contact with friends who don't feel so invaded. Sort of like a more private Twitter.
. Greed + ego never ends well and add youth to that and you have a complete nightmare.
What? Look at Bill Gates. He turned out OK.
Not really. Users are product, but unlike most industries this "product" has legs and can walk off on it's own. The more product Facebook has, the more valuable it is to it's customers. The less product, the less valuable. Now, the major reason people use Facebook is that the other people they know also use Facebook. The larger a percentage of the people they know that use something other than Facebook, the less incentive there is for them to use Facebook too. This is one thing Google gets: no matter how profitable something may seem in the short term, if it scares off or runs off your product it's not a good idea in the long term.
And it isn't just this one thing. Facebook's gotten some press lately over employers looking over people's profiles. The new forced networks based on things like employer don't help people with jobs feel comfortable, which makes them more likely to drop off Facebook. Which makes everyone they know just a little more likely to drop off too.
The whole thing isn't linear. Reach a critical mass and your product base grows exponentially. Drop below that critical mass, and your product base implodes exponentially too. I think Facebook's starting to worry that if they don't do something they may drop below critical mass.
This already has happened. MySpace's base is eroding, and we already have seen Friendster and Orkut essentially crater. I'm sure sooner or later, someone is going to come out with a social networking service that can one-up Facebook. Then if it can get people to move there, FB will get left in the dust as last year's social networking, similar to how Geocities is remembered.
FB needs to start valuing the privacy of its users. If not, there are people out there who will happily capitalize on this mistake
I think it'll take more than an alternative popping up. There's plenty of alternatives to LiveJournal, for instance, but that hasn't significantly hurt LJ's position. I think what it'll take is a number of closely-spaced nasty events where regular people got seriously hurt (fired from work, say) over things they thought they'd secured on Facebook but that were actually exposed through Facebook's new networks. When that happens you'll see a critical mass abandon Facebook, but I doubt before that.
Someone should take a picture of the meeting and post it on the web.
I see it more like a meeting to tell everyone "if you don't shut up and smile to it, you're fired". And it's not sent as a memo because it could be forwarded.
Facebook and Blizzard recently announced a cooperative effort.
In prior days, Blizzard had publicized plans to include cross-game chat and the ability to mark people as friends (rather than individual characters), so you could see when your friends were on. Much was made about the importance of the privacy features that would make this secure, safe, and usable.
Then they announced that:
1. It would be done in conjunction with Facebook.
2. The only way to invite someone would be to send an invitation to the email address which is used as that person's login name for the battle.net service. (Blizzard has in the past told people to use a special email address just for that, and not to share it with anyone.)
3. Your real name, as on your billing info, will be shown to all your friends.
4. Also, your real name, as on your billing info, will be shown to all your friends-of-friends.
The service is "optional", but the only option available is to not use it at all -- even though these are features which would be EXTREMELY desireable to many users, if they didn't come with the privacy problems. Furthermore, a recent glitch during the Starcraft 2 beta allowed ANY user to see ANY user's full name -- whether or not they were friends.
So I'm pretty sure Facebook is doing the wrong thing thus far, and if they don't change that, I suspect they will start losing popularity faster than they're gaining it. I'm certainly starting to think seriously about deleting my account there over this crap.
Last year, which seems like the last time this bubbled up, Facebook took input from its members and eventually came up with a statement of Facebook Principles [facebook.com], which its members voted in favor of adopting by about a 3:1 margin. So what happened to that?
Well, as Kurt Opsahl [eff.org] of the Electronic Frontier Foundation pointed out today [eff.org], Facebook's management didn't even pay lip service to those principles when it came up with the latest evolution of its privacy policy [eff.org] and things like Instant Personalization [eff.org].
I haven't decided if this is a separate reason to dislike Facebook or part of the same reason for disliking Facebook. One thing I have decided: I'm glad I blew up my Facebook account.
I heard from a friend of mine who works there that anyone at Facebook has full access to all data they have. They can check out your private messages, photos, chats, etc. In other words, do things for which you'd be fired immediately if you were at Google or Microsoft.
Click here to delete your Facebook account. [facebook.com] This is the less-publicized "real deletion" link, not just the "deactivate" link. However, if you log into your Facebook account for 14 days after clicking that link, your Facebook account will be re-activated.
I like the idea, but it's a geek idea - not an average user idea.
As an example of what I mean, I went to the diaspora website as an average user, expecting an alternative to facebook. Instead of seeing "register here and create your profile", I saw several paragraphs explaining the distributed paradigm, how your local profile for different web-applications is stored elsewhere (on your computer or in 'the cloud'), and so forth.
Guess what? People don't want to read. People don't want to have to figure out a new paradigm that involves personal involvement. What people want is facebook, but with a better interface and security policy. (and with Zuckerberg nowhere to be seen)
How many people use citizendium over wikipedia? How many people muck with bittorrent or even grooveshark, vs. buying songs on iTunes? How many auction sites have usurped eBay, after they changed their pricing model, paypal affiliation, etc.? People just don't switch to something better-but-different, unless it's (a) familiar looking, and/or (b) totally ground-breakingly new *for them* (i.e. the background and model don't matter).
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Red Sox beat Indians once moreApr 18, 2013 - 5:02 AM
Mike Carp finished 3-for-3 with a pair of doubles and an RBI triple for the Red Sox, who have taken the first two in the set and five straight overall.
"I don't want to downplay the events that we just left in Boston, but I think what we've quickly come to see is a group that likes to be around one another," Farrell said of his remade roster. "'Those are encouraging signs."
Boston starter Alfredo Aceves (1-0) pitched into the sixth inning, snagging the decision after allowing seven hits and three runs. Andrew Bailey fanned two in a scoreless ninth to earn his first save.
Nick Swisher hit a two-run homer and Jason Giambi added a solo shot for the Indians, losers in three straight.
Justin Masterson (3-1) was tagged for 11 hits and four runs in defeat despite five strikeouts over five innings.
"It wasn't as fun as the last three I pitched, but over a season when you have 30-plus starts you're going to have some like this," Masterson, an ex-Red Sox pitcher, said. "I kept it close as much as I could."
Picking up where they left off on Tuesday, the Sox exploded for three runs in the first, thanks to a two-run single from Napoli followed by an RBI hit by Nava.
Boston failed to increase its lead with the bases loaded in the second, but picked up one more in the fifth on an RBI triple from Carp and stretched its advantage to 5-0 in the sixth on a Nava base hit which plated Shane Victorino.
Carlos Santana started the home sixth with a walk, then Swisher deposited an Aceves pitch over the wall in center for a 5-2 game. Giambi followed with his first of the year, and Mark Reynolds doubled before Aceves was lifted for Junichi Tazawa, who prevented further damage.
Tazawa turned in a scoreless seventh, and Jacoby Ellsbury led off Boston's half of the eighth with a single before advancing to second on a wild pitch and scoring when Tribe reliever Joe Smith threw wild to first on a Victorino sacrifice bunt.
"The two innings by 'Taz' were probably the difference in the ballgame," said Farrell. "He had some real good stuff, threw a lot of strikes."
Koji Uehara extended his scoreless string with an uneventful eighth, and Bailey finished up by retiring the side in order.
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Ellsbury and Victorino also collected three hits, part of Boston's 15-hit barrage ... Uehara has gone 18.0 consecutive scoreless frames dating back to Sept. 1, 2012, setting a personal career-long streak in the majors ... At 42 years of age, Giambi became the third-oldest player to hit a home run in Indians history, after Sam Rice (44) in 1934 and Dave Winfield (43) in 1995 ...As they did for Tuesday's opener, the Red Sox hung a road jersey with "617," Boston's core area code, to honor those hurt and killed in the Marathon bombings on Monday.
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UC Santa Barbara defeats Cal Poly SLO 68-60
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) James Nunnally scored 20 points and Orlando Johnson added 16 as UC Santa Barbara defeated Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo 68-60 on Saturday night.
Alan Williams, Jaime Serna and Kyle Boswell had nine points each for the Gauchos (16-9, 10-4 Big West), who moved into a second-place tie with Cal State Fullerton in the conference standings. The teams split two games this season.
Dylan Royer scored 14 points and David Hanson 13 for the Mustangs (15-14, 6-8).
Nunnally and Boswell scored seven points each during a 16-1 run over a 4:30 stretch of the first half. Nunnally's 3-pointer gave UC Santa Barbara a 32-16 lead, and it maintained a comfortable cushion for almost the rest of the way.
Cal Poly got within 49-42 in the second half, but Nate Garth made a 3-pointer, and Johnson followed with a 3 and dunk as the Gauchos quickly regained control.


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hilton22000 wrote:Very good magazine, thank you very much!
Excelent photo on the cover, from last week of September '56
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The fool wrote:I Shared Elvis´ Love
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There´s nothing about Elvis´ and Kitty´s love in this article. Surely, a PR article and not written by Kitty. But whoever wrote it was obviously talking to the fans. This is from Elvis´ last days in Texas. It might not be entirely accurate, but I do love this part from the article (and I hope it´s true):
"Are you going to sell Graceland?" one fan asked.
"That´s mother´s. We´ll keep it."
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Today, Mozilla released the fourth beta of Firefox 4.0. After a period of what I would call stagnation, the Mozilla team are back on track with delivering interesting UI concepts. They were sensible enough to copy Chrome's excellent tabs-on-top UI, but have now also added something called Panorama, a new and very interesting way of managing your open tabs.
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Posted by pinotfan on 9/25/2013 1:55:00 AM (view original):OK, put aside the obvious - more frequent updates, faster response times, etc. What intrinsic change would you like to see to the site?
One thing I've always wanted was a true variation on What If. For example, what if Milacki had an entire season like his cookie year? We know what it would cost, based on $/IP. What if you could buy players based on that? Here's a player, here's his IP (or AB)/162; how many IP or AB do you want to buy? Think of the Bonds years, where he's hard to use for a full season because of all his walks; or Ted Williams's war-shortened year. Or even that great batter you love to use, but he's JUST a little short of AB to be a full-timer.
Again, given my druthers there are more important changes to be made. But if I'm dreaming ...
Posted by laramiebob on 9/25/2013 12:00:00 PM (view original):Ok I'll bite Pinot. I'm a dreamer, too. My dream is for MORE management control of game decisions. I believe (to increase realism) we need more settings/controls to influence "Sparky"s game decisions on the quite important TIMING of Pitching changes and pinch hit attempts, etc. At the present "Sparky's" game decisions are too much "out of our control". "Sparky seems to always WAIT until just after the Pitcher has been nailed for a HR to make a bullpen call or switch of hurler. That's just nuts. It does NO good to change Pitchers after a HR when the bases are empty. You need to make the call before the HR, if possible. Having just the Pitcher controls we now have just does NOT adequately do the job!! I'd have fired "Sparky" a long long time ago IF I could figure out who HE is!! LB
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The fourth episode of New York Originals finds Jamie visiting the city's only holograph gallery, the last five and dime and one of the country's only remaining shops to make large umbrellas by hand. Jamie also heads to a Williamsburg bar from the Victorian Era called Teddy's Bar and Kenny's Castaway's, a rock venue for Bruce Springsteen and The Smithereens before they hit it big.
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Similar to other double-layered flat or pocket breads, pita is traditional in many Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisines. It is prevalent from North Africa through the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, possibly coinciding with either the spread of the Hellenistic world or that of the Arab expansions under the banner of Islam.
In Greek cuisine, pita may refer to thicker breads made with yeast, for example souvlaki pita. It may also refer to foods using many layers of dough of thickness less than 1mm, usually with many different ingredients in between, forming savoury pies such as tyropita and spanakopita or sweet pies such as baklava.
This Homemade Pita Bread Recipe is so much testier than any Pita you would ever buy. Its not the easiest recipe, but its certainly worth it.
- 3 Cups white flour
- 1 Cup warm water
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 Tsp salt
- 1 Tsp active dry yeast
- Melt the yeast in a cup along with the sugar, and ¼ cup warm water. Let the yeast to ferment for 15 minutes.
- Mix the flour with the salt in a big bowl, and add the fermented yeast.
- Start to knead the mixture into dough, while you gradually add the left ¾ cup warm water.
- Continue to knead the dough for about 8 minutes , until it turns into a firm, elastic dough. (if it's sticky add 1 or 2 tablespoon flour)
- 5. Now create a ball shape out of the dough, and cover the bowl with a towel.
- Let the dough ball to swell for 1 hour, and then knead it for 2 minutes.
- Divide the dough into 8 balls. Each one about the size of a Ping-Pong ball.
- Cover 7 balls with a the towel, and leaver 1 for rolling.
- Roll gently 1 ball with a rolling-spin until it is ¼ inch thick, and 7 inches in diameter. Try to keep the pita in a rounded, elegant shape. Do the same with the other 7 balls
- Set up 2 baking dishes padded with cooking paper, place 4 pitas on each baking dish, and cover them with a towel so they don't dry out
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It is two weeks since a tsunami hit Java's southern coast, but, some 10,000 people sheltering in IDP camps are still refusing to go back to their fully intact houses. As WFP's Barry Came discovered, after Indonesia's series of natural disasters, they are simply too scared to go home.
It is over two weeks since a tsunami hit Java's southern coast, but some 10,000 people sheltering in IDP camps are still refusing to go back to their fully intact houses . As WFP's Barry Came discovered, after a series of natural disasters in Indonesia, they are simply too scared to go home.
Many admit they did not see it coming but almost everyone vows they heard it.
"It roared, like a jet plane taking off," said Gandi, describing the ominous rumbling sound that interrupted an afternoon coffee break in a beachside café in this pretty little resort town on the southern coast of western Java.
Wall of black water
"I glanced out to sea in the direction of the noise and my heart stopped," recalled the 30-year-old repairman. "There was a huge wall of black water rushing right at me."
Gandi jumped instantly to his feet and, like everyone around him, began to run. "We all knew what it was," he said. "Everyone was screaming 'tsunami!'. There was a lot of panic, with people falling down and stumbling over each other."
As the massive wave, around five metres high, barreled toward Pangandaran's palm-fringed strip of golden beach, Gandi ran to his home, 300 metres from the seashore. He quickly gathered up his wife and two young sons and continued to run, heading inland for higher ground.
Beating the odds
"The water was right behind us," said Gandi's wife, Sri, 29. "I had my older boy, Ifan, (aged eight) by the hand. Gandi had Arga, who's only three, in his arms. Both the children were crying. The water started to lap around our legs. I don't know how we got away."
But Gandi and his family did manage to escape, beating the odds by outrunning the tsunami. They ran right through Pangandaran, crossed a belt of rice paddies behind the town and did not stop until they reached the hillside hamlet of Sukahurip, two kilometres from the sea and 400 metres above it.
A week after the tsunami struck western Java's coast on 17 July, Gandi and his wife and children were still in Sukahurip. "We're too scared to go home yet," he confessed.
Quick rations
For the time being, they are camped in Sukahurip's primary school, along with scores of others in a similar plight. All are existing on daily food rations distributed by the Indonesian Red Cross and supplied, in part, by WFP.
WFP was quick to respond to Indonesia's latest tsunami, dispatching two truckloads of micronutrient-enriched biscuits and noodles to the region the day after the giant waves struck a 180 kilometre stretch of Java's southern coastline.
The same day, 6.5 tons of biscuits and 2.3 tons of noodles were distributed to 23,000 tsunami victims.
Longer term
Over the longer term, WFP is planning a one-month distribution of supplementary food aid to some 25,000 people in the six hardest-hit areas in and around Pangandaran. More than 20 of the 68 tons of food that will be required for the whole operation has already been pre-positioned in temporary warehouses in the town.
WFP's partners in the endeavour are the local Red Cross, the Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI), who are supplying local transport and distribution of WFP emergency rations.
WFP's aid is intended to complement ongoing government and PMI distributions of rice, noodles, cooked vegetables and other commodities, most of which are being provided in the form of hot meals by PMI field kitchens.
But the kitchens will soon close. "We'll keep them going for two or three weeks, then reassess" said PMI Chairman Mar'ie Muhammed.
"After the kitchens close, we'll likely provide supplementary rations for a month or so, mostly rice and noodles, maybe a little sugar and vegetable oil."
Destroyed homes
Like PMI, WFP does not anticipate a long-term presence in the area. While the death toll has approached nearly 700, estimates of the number of people whose homes have been destroyed ranges from 10,000 to 15,000.
Another 10,000 are people like Gandi and his family, whose home is intact but who are simply afraid to return for fear of another tsunami.
Sumarni, 33, falls into the same category. "It's really frightening," she said as she sat at Sukahurip school with her three-year-old son, Akmal, both munching WFP-supplied high-energy biscuits. "So many disasters; tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes; one after another. What's next?"
Even if her home was not damaged, Sumarna had not yet recovered from the trauma of her narrow escape. She managed to flee the tsunami onboard a becak, a tricycle rickshaw, along with her husband, her toddler son and two other children, both teenagers.
"My husband earns his living driving a becak," said Sumarni, "but I've never seen him pedal so hard before."
Toll on livelihoods
If the toll on homes and lives has been severe, it pales in comparison with wreckage inflicted on the region's livelihoods. Tourism and fishing are the area's prime sources of income and employment and both sectors suffered grievous losses.
The tsunami destroyed 63 hotels, 163 stores, 162 restaurants and 600 street kiosks as well as 21 fish markets and close to 2,000 fishing boats.
"It took almost everything," complained Murtinah, 50, as she emerged from PMI-run food distribution centre in the hilltop village of Purbahayu, clutching a bag full of WFP biscuits and noodles.
Murtinah's house in the Fishermen's Village just east of Pangandaran was swept away by waves, leaving homeless not only herself and her husband, Bagio, 55, but also her seven children and five grandchildren.
Even worse, it also destroyed Bagio's fishing boat, the family's only source of income. "Now we have no home and no way to earn enough to even feed ourselves," said Murtinah. "I don't know what we are going to do."


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The recent headline in a New Jersey newspaper about yet more education budget cuts could have been from virtually anywhere in the country: "Schools thought they'd prepared for worst; they were wrong."
Indeed, even as the economy seems to be emerging from the devastating recession, school districts continue to feel the very-real pain of budget cuts and funding shortfalls. Administrators have had to make tough decisions about allocating resources, and no doubt more pain lies ahead.
And yet, there are federal government funding resources out there that could make a real difference for cash-strapped districts. The problem is that some administrators may not know about those opportunities or do not understand the procedures for applying.
No one ever said it was a simple task to work through the maze of dealing with the federal grant makers.
Case in point: The U.S. Department of Education soon will award $650M in Investing in Innovation Fund (known as "i3") grants. The awards will be based on a competitive review of applications from around the country, so it certainly behooves administrators to submit the best application packages possible.
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That's why we at Apangea Learning are committed to helping administrators and others in school districts know about funding opportunities and then how to master the complexities of securing those resources.
On March 22nd, we continue our knowledge-sharing initiative by hosting a webinar focused on the i3 grants. On March 30th, we'll host another webinar, this one dealing with the practical steps administrators should consider in going after some of the $3.5 billion being made available through the Obama Administration's 2009 stimulus program.
Both Webinars will be presented by Todd Lamb, a former U.S. Department of Education official and a noted authority of school funding. Lamb's focus will be on the real-life steps administrators should take to win federal money.
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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Authorities say a New Jersey police officer has fired upon officers who were responding to an alleged civil matter and is now barricaded inside a suburban Philadelphia home.
Police have identified the man as Richard Klementovich, a Clifton Township, N.J., police officer. Reports have said that the officer is heavily armed with what Doylestown Police Department. Chief David Mettin has called long-guns and 2,000 rounds of ammunition. Earlier reports said that he officer is a marksman shot and that units on scene were advised to take out the officer if they had a clear shot.
Officers in Bucks County were called to the Doylestown Township home after a neighbor reported some kind of disturbance shortly before 3 p.m. Sunday.
A county emergency official says shots were fired as the officers arrived at the residence.
Pennridge Regional police chief Dave Mettin says one officer has been injured by metal shrapnel. Klementovich had fired at police and one officer Corporal William Doucette of the Doylestown Borough Police Department has injuries classified as "not severe" by Chief Mettin. Klementovich has also fired at an armored Bearcat police vehicle and destroyed police cruisers as well.
A police SWAT team was called to the scene and officers were warning other residents to stay in their homes.
According to reports from the Doylestown Patch website, resident Dan Boerner who lives down the street from Klementovich said his wife an two sons are seeking shelter in the basement. According to the report the father has been communicating visa text message because police are not letting anyone back into the area. The report said that Borener is a half-mile from the scene.
Earlier in the afternoon nearby roads were closed off and all news media helicopters were advised to clear a 30 mile area below 30,000 feet. According to a report at 4:36 p.m. a news helicopter was within shooting range of the barrcaded man.
WPVI-TV reported that the house belongs to the estranged wife of the officer.


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Punk. Photographs by Roberta Bayley. Edited by Sally Norvell and Eric Schneyderberg. With introductions by Bayley, Deborah Harry, Richard Hell, John Holmstrom and Legs McNeil. Kunst Editions, New York/Aenigma Books & Prints, Amsterdam, 2002. Folio. Limited edition of 76 numbered copies. this is No. 30 SIGNED on the colophon page by Bayley.
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As one of the main providers of images for John Holmstrom's legendary Punk Magazine, Roberta Bayley was one of the primary chroniclers of the golden age of the New York Punk, New Wave, and No Wave scenes circa 1975-1980. She shot the cover of the first Ramones record, probably one of the most iconic of all images to capture the early punk vibe. Along with the drawings of Holmstrom and the unforgettable rantings of Legs McNeil her photos were instrumental in shaping the look of a movement that was often too inchoate and adverse to commercialism to bother very much with self-promotion. Among her many portrait subjects who went on to be icons of the era were Blondie, Elvis Costello, The Damned, Richard Hell, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Joe Strummer, Televison, Talking Heads, Johnny Thunders, etc. etc. This limited edition of just 76 copies strikes a nice balance between its status as a luxury item (let's face it!) and an object that evokes the spirit slapstick nihilism that characterized Punk magazine and the scene that it championed.
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$7 million injection into cancer research
13 January 2012
Two University of Sydney cancer research teams have received almost $7 million in NSW government funding, announced at the Bernie Banton Centre today by the Minister for Health and Medical Research, Jillian Skinner.
The grants will be administered by the Cancer Institute of NSW, and have been awarded to the Asbestos Diseases Research Institute (ADRI) and the ANZAC Research Institute, based at Concord Repatriation General Hospital.
The ADRI group, led by director Professor Nico van Zandwijk, has received $3.5 million to research and help improve outcomes for people with asbestos-related cancer. Professor van Zandwijk is a coordinator in several international studies and has authored or co-authored more than 180 peer-reviewed international papers and chapters, as well as mentored more than 20 students who have become research leaders in the own right.
The ANZAC Research Institute team, led by Professor Derek Hart, has been awarded $3.47 million for the diagnosis and treatment of blood cancers. Professor Hart is a Rhodes Scholar and RCPA Distinguished Fellow. He has published 234 peer reviewed articles (89 in high impact or major specialty journals), with total citations of 8032.
During the visit, Professor van Zandwijk and Professor Hart took the Minister on a tour of the Bernie Banton Centre and presented the people, laboratories and technologies that are making cancer history.
Minister Skinner said the grants would be used to bring staff from seven new research hubs together to share knowledge, resources and technology.
"These grants will allow researchers to work closely with doctors and nurses on the front line of cancer care to get new treatments into practice sooner," she said.
"The cutting-edge research will have a direct impact on cancer outcomes across the state - providing our doctors and nurses with the latest information and expertise to provide world-class care."
The grants form part of the translational cancer research program and are in addition to the $30 million over five years already provided.
Chief Cancer Officer and CEO of the Cancer Institute NSW, Professor David Currow, said the translational cancer grants would benefit cancer patients across the state.
"Australia has the world's highest incidence of malignant mesothelioma, a fatal cancer caused by asbestos. The translational research undertaken by Professor van Zandwijk will see NSW as a world leader in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mesothelioma," he said.
"Combining this with the work of Professor Hart, these grants are also good news for people across NSW affected by acute myeloid leukaemia, recipients of bone marrow transplants and people diagnosed with Hodgkins and non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
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Senior Tanner Seidel, 18, is Rock Falls High School's March Student of the Month. He is the son of Craig and Ronda Seidel of Rock Falls; his twin brother is Hunter Seidel, and his sister is Tabitha Seidel, a student at Western Illinois University.
Favorite class: Advanced Placement art. It's kind of like a free study, because it's about producing art. I'm into graphic design.
Top teacher: Mark Johnson and Heather Shore, art. They're very friendly. They're not acting like they're better than you. They're on your level, you know?
Extracurriculars: Jazz band (guitar), Art Club, BLIND and National Honor Society. I have a band outside of school, too, called Better Tomorrow. We're an alternative pop/punk band, and we just finished a CD this winter.
After graduation: I'll do 2 years at Sauk Valley Community College, then transfer to Western Illinois University. I want to become a high school history teacher.
Paycheck: I work at Hardee's in Rock Falls. I like it. The people there are very nice.
Best friends: My girlfriend, Ariel Wade, and the drummer in my band, Jake Noble. In both cases, we have a lot in common, and we can be down-to-earth and real with each other.
Favorite musical group: The Wonder Years.
Favorite actor: Ryan Gosling.
Favorite actress: Either Zooey Deschanel or Anne Hathaway.
Favorite TV show: "Southland."
Hobbies: Playing guitar, art, riding my bike, disc golfing and Hacky Sack.
Favorite outdoor activity: Disc golf.
Favorite food: Eggplant Parmesan.
Where do you spend time online: YouTube or Facebook.
Biggest fear: Not doing something that lasts longer than my life, not leaving a legacy.
Pet peeve: People who are rude to other people.
What kind of music makes your skin crawl? Hip-hop/rap – not all of it, but a lot of the popular stuff.
Haunts: At school, just because a lot of my friends are here ... or Sinnissippi Park [in Sterling, where there's a disc golf course] or any park, really, because there's so much to do there.
I'm in the dictionary next to: Kind. I avoid being rude to people. I try to be nice to everyone, even if they aren't nice to me.
Secret twin: I get told I look like Justin Timberlake when I have my head shaved.
Personal trivia: I do a lot more sporty things. A lot of people think I'm just into the arts.
Dream job: If I could make a living doing something, it would be performing music.
Trading places: With a famous musician, then I could live the musician lifestyle for a day.
Trading spaces: Sweden, because the landscapes are beautiful.
Read this: "11/22/63" by Stephen King. It's about the JFK assassination. I enjoy history, and I like JFK – he's one of my favorite presidents to learn about – and I like just the whole idea of creating a story around him but not about him.
What would you do if you had $100,000? I would buy a house, and a car, so I wouldn't have to worry about those big purchases, then save the rest to spend wisely, whatever is left over.
What do you wish your high school offered? I wish we had a tennis team.
What advice do you have for freshmen? Don't worry about what everybody else thinks, just worry about what's best for you – not what everybody else thinks is cool.
Shout out to: My grandparents, Paul and Carol Seidel and Ron and Sue Myers, all of Rock Falls.


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My phone stopped using the handset as the default speaker during incoming or outgoing calls. It took me a few minutes to realize that I needed to activate handset when I would receive or make calls; something I've never needed to do before. Don't remember doing anything specific to cause this problem.
I've had similar problems before when I've unplugged my headphones before stopping media playback. Reinserting the headphones and then stopping the playback solved that problem.
However, this solution didn't work in this situation.
Any ideas what I can do?
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If you're in the Gainesville, Florida area from now until April 25, 2010, be sure to stop into the Florida Museum of Natural History. A special exhibit of nature-inspired quilts will be there, sponsored by the Quilters of Alachua County Day Guild. To see the guild's lovely quilt, appliquéd with the flora and fauna of the state, click here.
This is my piece, Reaching, that was juried in. We haven't seen the exhibit yet, but since it's only about 7.5 X 10 inches, it's probably the smallest piece in the show. Here is my artist's statement:
I painted this pine tree directly on the fabric while on location at Highlands Hammock State Park. The twisting branches of pine trees continuously catch my eye, each treetop a unique formation caused by Florida's weather extremes.
All of the image color is paint, except for the binding fabric. This detail shows the stitching. One drawback of using acrylic is that it causes the fabric to retain needle/pin holes, so it's best to get the stitching right the first time. I made the mistake of using safety pins to hold the layers together which left a few holes. Using a sharp needle mostly from behind, it wasn't too difficult to gently pull the threads together to minimize them.
There are a few more trees that want their portraits done... hope to fit them it sometime soon. I would like to try a larger one that incorporates chunks of fabric in addition to or instead of paint. At long last, the weather is not so chilly now, so that helps. Spring is right around the corner, yay!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Quilting Natural Florida 2 exhibit is now open
7 comments:
- Jeanne said...
The pine tree has wonderful movement - I can feel the wind in the tree! Very nicely done.
- March 10, 2010
- Antonija said...
Love the pine tree! I understand about the beauty of them--they all want their portraits done!
Wonderful quilt!
- March 10, 2010
- Diane J. Evans said...
The background is especially lovely in this piece, Loreen. You have a great talent for painting as well as quilting.
- March 10, 2010
- Carole said...
Very, very well done! I can see why it was juried in...
hope the show goes well.
- March 11, 2010
- Loreen Leedy said...
Thanks, everyone!
- March 11, 2010
- Robin said...
I have started using the same technique and love it. It opens up so many possibilities especially when you do as well as you have done!
- March 11, 2010
- joyceshelton said...
Nope... never saw this one in person. Congrats! It's lovely! Glad something good came of our plein air adventure!
- March 15, 2010
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Plack::Middleware::EasyHooks - Writing PSGI Middleware using simple hooks
package Plack::Middleware::MyAccessLog; use parent qw(Plack::Middleware::EasyHooks); sub before { my ($self, $env) = @_; $env->{MyAccessLog} = { start_time => time(), response_size => 0, }; } sub filter { my ($self, $env, $chunk) = @_; $env->{MyAccessLog]->{response_size} += length $chunk; return $chunk; } sub finalize { my ($self, $env) = shift; my $time = time() - $env->{MyAccessLog}->{start_time}; my $size = $env->{MyAccessLog}->{response_size}; warn "Request took $time seconds and sent $size bytes"; } 1;
Or as an inline middleware
use Plack::Builder; my $app = ...; builder { enable 'Plack::Middleware::EasyHooks', before => sub { $_[0]->{start_time} = time(); }, finalize => sub { my $time = time() - $_[0]->{start}; warn "Request took $time seconds"; }; $app; }
Plack::Middleware::EasyHooks takes care of the complexities handling streaming in PSGI middleware. Just provide hooks to be called before, during and after the wrapped PSGI application.
The hooks are called in the following order (much simplified):
before(); $app->(); after(); filter($_) for @body; tail($env); finalize();
The following methods are available for hooking into the request handling
This method is called before processing the wrapped PSGI application. It receives the PSGI
$env hash ref as argument.
The return value is ignored.
This method is called when the app starts to respond. It receives the PSGI
$env and a array ref containing the status code and headers as arguments.
The middleware can override the status code and headers either by updating the elements of this array ref or by returning a array ref with the new status code and headers.
This method allows you to filter the content of the response. It is called on each chunk of the response.
The return value is passed to the next level. If the return value is
undef proccessing of the request is stopped.
This methods allows you to add some additional content at the end of the body.
This method is called after the request has been processed.
Unless your PSGI server supports cleanup handles, the finalize() method might be calles before the final chunk is successfully sent to the client.
Peter Makholm <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Copyright (C) 2012 by Peter Makholm.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.


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Les 110 de Taillevent is the brasserie wing of the famed Restaurant Taillevent, once known for their cellars, which I am not sure still exist in their traditional form. (Am I mistaken, did they sell their older holdings at some point?) In any event, they still trade on their vinuous reputation and the concept of Les 110 de Taillevent is to offer more than 100 wines by the glass, some of a caliber usually not found in this format. (On their website they take this conceit one more step: every dish on the menu is paired with four wines at different price points. The menu offered at the restaurant is not so organized.)
I sat alone at the bar on a Sunday night. It's a pretty, though anonymous space, and could be any high-end hotel's bar/restaurant. It was relatively crowded. The bartender/somm was young, and a good egg, as witnessed by the first note.
Jacques Selosses NV Brut Blanc de Blanc Initiale; I hadn't seen this on the menu and had originally ordered a Bruno Paillard 1er Rose Champagne. The latter I found undistinguished and I swapped it for this, my first Selosse. The wine was notable for its minerality, dryness (the dosage must be low?), and its multidimensionality; the flavors—lemon, slate—come at you from many directions; almost cubist. A wine to be drunk slowly, to gather all its nuances, a real delight.
Domaine E. Sauzet Puligny-Montrachet 1er Les Perrieres 2006. This was one of my two WOTN's. It was a beautifully balanced, profound wine, with great intensity and length. I got something like apricots and even marzipan on the nose, as well as in the mouth. The finish went on and on. Probably at just the right stage for drinking.
This is in contrast to the next white, the biggest disappointment of the evening, which I assume was just not in its zone: Domaine Leflaive Batard-Montrachet 2007. Les110 de Taillevent sells all its wines by the glass in 7cl and 14 cl sizes. All the ones I drank and offer notes on here were the former size, except for the Sauzet, of which I took a refill. Even in the demi-verre, however, the Leflaive was 40E, and for whatever reason, it was just not its night. It seemed muted both in the nose and in the glass, and was marked mainly by some lemon curd and a pronounced streak of acidity in the finish—a great disappointment.
Two red burgs followed. The first was the 2007 Volnay Santenots from Lafon. This was quite good, with the sort of velvety mouthfeel and dark red fruit one expects of Volnay, but finally it was not exceptional. The other burgundy, an area in which Les 110 de Taillevent appears weakest, was the 2002 Mortet Gevrey Chambertin. This was the one wine with which I had some issue, as I detected some brett, in addition to which the first sips were somewhat thick and syrupy. (I've had other Mortet, G-C Mes Cing Villages, from this epoch, which I have enjoyed.) The bartender/somm did not get the Brett, which in trace amounts I myself don't mind, but I did not press the point, owing to what had transpired earlier in the realm of Bordeaux.
Earlier, when another couple had ordered glasses and the bartender opened a new bottle of the 2004 Haut Brion, the fellow had been kind enough to pour me a taste. It was an electric sip of wine, with graphite, dark fruit, very minerally, with an open-knit texture that seemed to me to need more time to come together. Accordingly, I did not order any on my own tab and instead went for the 2004 Forts de Latour. This was my other candidate for WOTN. I do not drink much first growth Bordeaux, nor even, these days, the second wines. The Forts struck me as absolutely classic: bold, big flavors (blackberry, some cedar, and something redder near the finish, great refined tannins), amazingly well balanced, both square- and broad-shouldered, with a very long finish. It just screamed beautiful bordeaux, as far as I was concerned.
I had an eaten (portions) of two main courses—a nice cod with leeks, and some roast veal on the bone—so I did not have any dessert. Instead I had a dessert wine: a 2005 Arbois Vin de Paille, I believe by Tissot. It was a reminiscent of a good vinsanto, nutty and a bit dense, syrupy, and a fine way to end a very pleasant evening.


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Thirteen descended upon South Lake Tahoe for several days of alcohol induced shenanigans and skiing. From San Diego to as far east as NYC and Boston, my bro's came to send me off in style.
Valet shuttle service in the Lincoln Towncar. Sure those ski bags will fit...
With nearly a foot of fresh in the past 24 hours, Sierra was a wise choice!
Peops didn't start arriving until the next afternoon.
These boys mean business, getting started prior to 8am.
Later that night...
Quail egg shooter. Mmmm!
3am breakfast at the casino, this guy was about to fall out of his chair.
4am shenanigans. Thanks fellas!
7:45am roll call
Hey, whatcha drinking Senior Basura? You should feel pretty good after going to bed at 8:30pm last night.
Who's flying this plane?
"Yeah, just another 15 minute hike over that ridge."
BIG THANK YOU to Jason for playing tour guide and showing us all that Kirkwood had to offer!
Heeey, nice Bogner one piece!
It would be rather tough considering that's a T-bar.
More hiking...
Ah yes, Guido Von Schlesser was there, too!
This fellow was wearing what appeared to be a 3/2mm wetsuit with a net shirt buttoned over it. For close to 30 minutes (per Walker standards) he pointed to the slopes. NOICE!
After Trashy serenaded the Argentinian girls, "don't cry for me Argentina!" they apparently didn't want any 99 Bananas.
A store downstairs in the hotel. Best mannequins I've ever seen.
The 'ol ball and chain. Special treat wearing this to dinner!
Heavenly was rather a yawn. Plus the hordes of skiers didn't help matters.
Ah yes, the place where the Tahitian diver from the Steal A Wish Foundation pocketed coins from the fountain.
I consider it a great success; no one spent the night behind bars and no one lost their shirt at the casino.
Thanks boys!


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Since its creation, I had a problem with the Irish Family History Foundation website (http://www.irish-roots.ie/), which hosts over 13 million records for Irish births, marriages and deaths from across the island, with some records going back to the 1590s. I believed the site charged too much, but more importantly, did not offer enough search fields to narrow down a particular ancestral enquiry, meaning that you could spend a heck of a lot of money looking for the right record, and on occasion even pay twice to see the same record. However, at long last the IFHF has moved to address this, and has added several new search fields, and removed all duplicate records, making it a much more customer friendly website. As such, I'm now declaring a truce, because at long last, this is a more focussed site that can actually help people without bankrupting them, and I have written to them this week to congratulate them on providing the sorely needed improvements.
American genealogical commentator Dick Eastmann recently caught up with Feargal O'Donnell, the vice chairman of the organsation in an interview for Roots Television. The interview revealed some of the challenges faced by the IFHF - records written in Gaelic and Latin amongst them - and it is worth having a look if you have Irish ancestry. Amongst some of his promises are the forthcoming releases for Donegal and Derry, and some advice on how to use the site.
The interview (13 mins long) can be seen at http://rootstelevision.com/players/player_conferences.php?bctid=1792947734.
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The Scottish GENES blog has now ceased publication - for continuing Scottish news please refer to its sister blog, British GENES, at http://britishgenes.blogspot.com. The Scottish GENES posts will remain online as an archive of Scottish genealogical news from 2007-2011. Alba - agus Scottish GENES - gu bràth!
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Irish Family History Foundation interview
2 comments:
- Sheena said...
Hi Chris
I think you're missing a hyphen - the url you've given leads to a magazine website. I think the link you mean is http://www.irish-roots.ie/
All the best
- 19 September 2008 at 14:10
- Chris Paton said...
Thanks Sheena - duly corrected!
- 19 September 2008 at 17:15
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The Palo Alto County Board of Supervisors learned the county and city will be receiving nearly $600,000 for a joint road project on the north edge of Emmetsburg. Palo Alto County Engineer Joel Fantz informed the board of the grant award from the Regional Transportation Council during the weekly meeting of the supervisors on Tuesday, April 9.
"We were very fortunate to receive funding in the amount of $580,000 for a 70/30 split to reconstruct N40 north from the golf course up to the railroad tracks and then north past Rockport Addition to 350th Street," Fantz explained. "The county will stand 70 percent of the costs, with the City of Emmetsburg standing the other 30 percent."
According to the engineer, the City of Emmetsburg received a grant of $221,000 to make a change to the intersection of College Drive and N40 to eliminate the west curve and make it a regular intersection as part of the project.
Fantz noted that part of the project would call for flattening out the east curve as part of the total reconstruction of the mile of roadway. "We will be working closely with the city in this project."
According to Fantz, the funding was awarded for construction in 2017.
In other road-related business, the board approved the purchase of three new dump truck boxes for the Secondary Road Department. Three bids were received for the boxes, but the low bid for the boxes went to Crysteel of Lake Crystal, MN, for two stainless steel dump boxes and one conventional steel rock dump box, which is rounded for hauling rock. Also included in the bid were wing plow mounts for two new trucks purchased in March. Total bid amount from the Minnesota firm total $136,180. The bid was accepted and purchase of the equipment was authorized on a unanimous vote of the board.


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I dropped Malachi off today for his neuter surgery. Gosh, it's been so long since I've had a pet in for a spay/neuter and it's just amazing how worried you get. Poor little Malachi was trembling when I dropped him off. :( He's gained 2 pounds since the last time I was at the vet! He's now 7 pounds! :eek: He's getting to be a big boy!
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For over three and a half years, the folks at Live Bait have been doing things in a particular way, at a particular time and at a particular place. It has been successful and there has been absolutely no reason to change things. On the other hand, a foolish consistency, they say, is the hobgoblin of little minds.
So, what to do? Well, Live Bait decided to have it both ways, with two Live Bait shows in March. The first, on the first Friday, will be the regularly scheduled show at 10 p.m. at 95 Empire (formerly Perishable Theatre) with the same price of $7 at the door. As always, people will place their names in the fishbowl and, when their names are called, will come up and tell their stories based on the theme. That theme will be "Didn't See it Coming."
The second show will be on the second Friday at 8 p.m. (for the early birds) in the performance space at AS220. Tickets will be $6 at the door. And, if that weren't enough, here's where things are really going to be different. In this show, themes will be picked out of the fishbowl, not names. We're calling it "Ready or Not." If there's a particular theme picked that tickles anybody's fancy and/or reminds them of a story, they can yell, "I got it!" then come up on the stage and tell it.
Both shows will have the same simple two rules: six minutes, no notes. Both shows, everyone is most welcome, even if they don't have a story, to just sit back and listen. And both shows will be hosted, in the exact same way, with meandering banter by Phil Goldman and musical accompaniment by Jerry Gregoire.
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Get stoked, because Madonna is ready to save pop music in 2012. The Golden Globes will be the next many appearances she'll undoubtedly make on your TV. After her interview with 'Nightline' and speaking out about the 'Born This Way' issue, she's making the Golden Globes her next stop, then going on to promote her film (which she directed!), a new album and a possible tour. Amazeballs! (We hope she includes more press stops like her hilarious stint at 'The Graham Norton Show!')
Those tuning in to the Golden Globes to see Madonna's new movie 'W.E.' clean up in the Best Original Song and Best Original Score categories will be treated to a presentation by the Queen Of Pop as well. Madge will be presenting in the Best Foreign Language Film category in Sunday's ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
If The Material Girl wins in the Best Original Song category — for which her song 'Masterpiece' has been nominated — it'll be her second Golden Globe statuette. She got her first as Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for 'Evita' in 1997. It's about time M reminds us, and all the other pop stars, who's boss — even if she isn't eligible for an Oscar this year!