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If you're not going to do the real thing, why not just make a software replica?
What kind of geek are you? Don't you find it cool to have tons of useless hardware laying around???
Hey! Real geeks find it cool to have useless software and useless hardware lying around!!! Anyway I'm off to play The Grinch on my dreamcast...
Ah, but there's an important difference. A flight simulator is not functionally equivalent to flying a plane. Flying a plane can get you from A to B much quicker than driving. It is a form of transportation. A flight simulator will get you nowhere.
A software enigma however is functionally equivalent to the real thing. Both can encrypt and decrypt the same messages. One
1. just preferenceIf you're not going to do the real thing, why not just make a software replica?
I wonder if there is anywhere to get original Nazi Enigma messages to decode.
We've also got a first in the manual: Frode Weierud and Geoff Sullivan, two well respected Enigma researchers,have aquired a large number of original German army messages, which have never been published before. Especially for the Enigma-E, they've released some of these messages, complete with the related Enigma settings and decrypts.
"Space Chase" translated to italian, to german, to french, to english, is "continuation of sector".
Kazys Ciurinskas, a former member of the Lithuanian SS division accused of killing Russian and Lithuanian Jews and POWs, lived in Indiana since the end of the war. Ciurinskas collected a $540 monthly pension from the German government since 1960 while living in the US and being a US citizen. In a 1995-97 United States of America v. Kazys Ciurinskas case the US District Court in Indiana stripped Ciurinskas of US citizenship.
Interestingly, the amount of the pension paid to these former SS by the German government varies based on their final rank in the SS -- higher ranks get a bigger pension. Only recently -- and only after international pressure -- did the German government modify its pension law to strip the pension from war criminals, and even so, there is no requirement that any investigation be made of recipients, nor is there any mechanism to do so, so even known war criminals can continue to collect payments from the German government.
Ironically, some war criminals even receive, in addition to their normal pensions what are called "victim's" pensions -- including those believed to have massacred American soldiers. The following [remember.org] was written in 1997, and thus may be slightly out of date:
The well-respected German military historian Gerhard Schreiber estimates the number of war criminals receiving these extra payments from the German government at 50,000. Wolfgang Lehnigk-Emden, from Ochtendung near Koblenz, is one of the "victims." According to a German federal court, Lehnigk-Emden killed 15 unarmed women and children in Caiazzo near Naples in Italy in October 1943. Because Lehnigk-Emden was later injured (shot in the leg) while trying to escape from an allied POW camp and suffers a mild handicap, he receives an additional "victim" pension.
Another current recipient of victim pensions is the former SS Hauptsturm-fuhrer Wilhelm Mohnke. Mohnke, who was a close confidant of Adolf Hitler and commandant of the "Fuhrerbunker" in Berlin during Hitler's last days. According to the US Department of Justice "there is very substantial evidence pointing to Wilhelm Mohnke's personal involvement in the perpetration of Nazi war crimes" -- for his role in the massacre of 72 American POWs in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge.
At the same time that Germany provides monthly pension payments to former members of the SS and war criminals, persons forced to be slave laborers for the Nazi regime get far less [tomhayden.com]:
[U]nder an agreement... brokered by the U.S. and German governments, however, survivors of slave labor under the Nazis will be awarded only $790 each for back pay and a lump sum of $7,894 each in recognition of the 55-year delay. Those who were exploited as "forced labor," such as Nazi prisoners working in agriculture, will get a mere $5,000 each.
So, frankly, any Old Folks (Pensioner's) Home in Germany should provide you with plenty of "original Nazis", living comfortably thanks to the largess of the current German government, while their victims -- those who survived at all, those who haven't died while waiting for their reparations -- continue to suffer.
(Of course, I will now be modded down as an anti-German racist [slashdot.org], becaus
Of course, I will now be modded down as an anti-German racist
Well, no. You should be modded down as an anti-soldier bigot.
A soldier is also a slave laborer
This comparison is wrong. No German government today (and esp. not the current Socia
Sadly this module has been marked for deprecation in python 2.3, though it is still there. I found the module very useful for some things --- a simple, light weight encryption can be a handy thing. Everyone knows that it is weak encryption these days though... but still useful, in my opinion.
Who would want an electronic version of the Enigma machine? You could just code one up in python or even write a bash script.
Yeah, but having the quasi-real *hardware* is cool, too.
Now what would be cool is to build the vacuum tube based machine the allies used to crack various codes...
I don't know about tubes, but transistors would be good (less problems, easier to replace). Either way it would be nice to have some replica hardware, just for nostalgia if nothing else. Knowing that modern computer
Enigma-replica [enigma-replica.com]. Though this guy tries to make all the parts as an original, he uses a lot of plastic rather than metal.
U-571 had it right... Bletchly Park is just part of a British disinformation program to make you think we were involved in the D-Day landings.
The construction of the Enigma wasn't really the problem. The Enigma had been in use since the early 30s and the Poles knew exactly how they worked, and later shared that with the Allies as war grew closer and Poland was invaded. Decoding a message required knowing the settings used. At Bletchley Park they built "bombes" (originally following a Polish design) that could run decodes automatically hundreds of times faster than a real Enigma to try out the huge number of possible initial settings.
Actually a great deal of their success in decoding was due to sloppy methods used by the Germans. Having messages begin in a predictable way was a "crib" that enabled good guesses to be made of the settings. And even more directly, capturing code books with schedules of code settings, as was done several times, (but not by the Americans as was depicted in U571). If the Germans had used the Enigmas with due care they never would have been cracked.
However, it's rarely noted that the Germans were almost as good at decoding Allied signals. There's very little written about that, but I have seen notes that they could read just about any Royal Navy code, for instance.
An Enigma-based crypto engine for binary data might be quite the interesting modern update. Especially because a brute force guessing of a 256-byte wheel would take a long time, and three wheels on top of each other would send the probablities of guessing your way into it into the stratosphere.
Granted Enigma encryption is weak by today's standards, I think this would be interesting nonetheless. But with today's hardware, we could add arbitrarily many rotors (wheels) with negligible speed difference. I a
One of the interesting weaknesses of the Enigma cypher was no letter could be encoded as itself. One part of the cracking process was to look for messages that had a known content (weather reports were a favorate, the Germans were very keen on standard formats in their reports) This could be used to narrow down the number of possible keys
Source [mlb.co.jp] A tired German operator has been told to send out dummy messages and he typed only the last letter of the keyboard : ``L''. The British code breaking expert immediately recognized the missing ``L'' in the enciphered message and they got a very big crib.
* [cipher]DAOACQAOFFNNHDYAPSGZHEPTWCFZEPAARVDZOSWJD
* [plain] LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Like many cryptographics systems, it was not beaten soley by technology. Human factors also played a factor. The Germans believed so much in the technology that they did not address the humans as much.
The Luftwaffe messages were consistently broken because they did stupid things. Some operators sent the same propaganda message at the same time every day. Part of the setting for every message was for the operator to choose a random message specific key. Lazy operators used the same key over and over again.
The Navy was more careful but humans also foiled the system. Instead of letting the operators choose a message key, they had a code book for the choosing the key and a code book for the other settings. All code books were printed on paper that disintegrated in water. One of the duties of a UBoat captain was to toss the books and the machine into the sea if they had to abandon ship or were about to be captured. One captain who hit a mine and abandoned his ship went back not to destroy the machine or the books but to get his treasured poems. The British captured a machine but more important the code books.
I wonder if the real Nazi Enigma machines also had Java.lang.NullPointerException errors...
I was thinking to myself "This is way too difficult to build..."
But then I noticed that the 65+ page manual includes:
How to build a wooden box
And if that wasn't enough, the fact that it has
Full 26-key keyboard with key-click sound
sealed the deal!
I really wanted to make a Darl joke, but alas...Herzlicher Glukwunsch...
If an e-mail message were to be encoded using Enigma, does there exist any modern-era software for cracking it? Or would the US Government be forced to pull out the vacuum tubes and crack it the way they did in WWII again?
I doubt that a cracking program would have the Enigma algorithm built-in, but Enigma is suceptible to a type of brute force attack. Generally you can do heuiristic analysis on a cipher to get a good head start, then brute force a smaller subset of the data. On modern hardware this would probably take a few seconds, if that long.
Enigma encryption might have been a great leap ahead and looked completely state of art in the WW2, but today, it's quite trivial to crack. Enigma could be easily bruteforced - just check through the entire keyspace.
It also probably wouldn't stand too long if real crypto breakers who knew their stuff would start their job without knowing anything about the encryption scheme, even. The science has gone so far in recent times.
And an easy way to illustrate: Compare output from Enigma with any modern cipher. Enigma output looks like completely mangled words - the text is garbled, the layout of the message is exposed. Modern cipher output looks like a completely random arrangement of bits, everything completely spread around the message with no point to really take a good grip on. With Enigma, if you know that Nazi guy is always putting "Heil Hitler" at the end, you have already cracked that much of the message.
If the thing looks trivial, then it probably is. If it doesn't, it probably isn't. Of course, this isn't always true [schneier.com] in either way [interhack.net].
Now I'll get more coffee so I can start making sense today.
I implemented an Enigma-cracking program when I was trying to crack the codes in Simon Singh's Cipher Challenge presented in The Code Book. It was a great deal of fun, and required just the right mix of learning, hacking and debugging to accomplish. Eventually I cracked 7 out of 10 of the ciphers (all the ones I expected to be within reasonable grasp).
The first difficulty was finding a sufficiently detailed description of the Enigma machine itself, so that I could write a simulator. Eventually I found a fairly good description of the machine, and some cleartext/ciphertext pairs to try it against. Initially there was a minor problem, which I eventually submitted as a plea to a newsgroup and received a quick response from an eGroup member as to the bug. Voila! A working simulator.
I took advice from Jim Gillogly and his cipher text only break [fortunecity.com] of the Enigma machine. I suspected the final text would be German, so I built a table of trigraph frequencies from Goethe's Faust, which I downloaded from Project Gutenberg. I then coded up a simple hill climbing algorithm which proceeded by Scanning all possible rotor orders (six of them) and all possible rotor positions (26^3), looking for the text with the trigraph score, and then refining that by hillclimbing by redoing the plugboard.
It worked the very first time: out popped the flawless decrypt in less than three minutes on my old 133Mhz P5.
Singh's challenge was signficantly aided by the fact that his ciphertext was quite a bit longer than the recommended message length that was actually used in the War. My experience in trying to crack shorter messages was that the statistics used to guide the search were often unreliable, and the likelihood of getting a successful automatic decrypt were quite a bit lower.
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson


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Bulldogs Look To End Skid in The Game
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Yale football team (4-5, 2-4 Ivy) might be looking at this Saturday's season finale with Harvard (6-3, 5-1) at Yale Bowl and the Class of '54 Field as a chance to level the record, but it is fighting for much more. The Bulldogs, trying to snap a two-game skid, hope to grab the rivalry bragging rights for the first time in three years and an edge in the off-season recruiting battles. The 126th edition of The Game can be seen live on Versus and heard on WELI (AM-960, 960weli.com), WYBC (AM-1340, wybc.com) and on Sirius Satellite Radio. Carm Cozza and Ron Vaccaro '04 begin the commentary on WELI at 11:45 a.m. A video stream that includes their call will be available on yalebulldogs.com within an hour of the final whistle.
The Bulldogs lead the Crimson 65-52-8 heading into the 126th meeting but Harvard has won seven of the last eight. Yale is 28-24-5 at Cambridge, 30-27-3 at home and 7-1-0 at neutral sites. There have been 55 shutouts since the first meeting in 1875, and the Elis are 28-20-7 in those contests. The Blue has outscored the Crimson 1,675 to 1,525. Yale is 11-13-1 against the Cantabs when The Game has league title implications. This is the 26th time the result of this game could impact the Ivy League title.
Experts often advise prognosticators to "throw out the statistics" when sizing up the teams for The Game because the favorite is not always going to win. It might be fair to say the Crimson come into this one more of a favorite than any team in this contest since undefeated Harvard beat 0-6 Yale 17-7 in 1997. Though Harvard leads the league in scoring and rushing, and goes up against a Yale defense that is second in the league keeping teams off the scoreboard, the Crimson defense (ranked 2nd in Ivy) has a major advantage over the offense (6th) from Yale.
Team Averages
Offense Y H
Rushing Yards 85.4 179.4
Passing Yards 225.4 183.6
Total Offense 310.9 363.0
Scoring 18.1 26.4
Defense Y H
Rushing Yards 144.9 73.1
Passing Yards 166.7 212.1
Total Defense 311.6 285.2
Scoring 16.9 18.0
The Game has long been New England's largest tailgating event, and there have always been traffic issues causing major delays. Simply put, the roads and parking entrances around the Bowl can not handle the typical volume seen when Harvard comes to town. That is why the Yale Athletic Department implemented a plan that includes the advance sale of parking passes for every available space around the Bowl. If you plan to come to The Game, please click on the "The Game, Fan Information" at the top of yalebulldogs.com.
Yale grabbed four Princeton fumbles and rolled up 400 yards of total offense but lost 24-17 at Princeton Stadium last week. The Tigers turned three Yale turnovers into 17 points while rushing for 247 yards. The Bulldogs scored on a 33-yard pass play from Patrick Witt (Wylie, Texas) to Peter Balsam (Orland Park, Ill.), a one-yard run by FB Shane Bannon (Southbury, Conn.) and a 26-yard FG by Alex Barnes (Chesterfield, Mo.). The Elis were successful on a fake punt and an on-side kick but couldn't keep the Tigers' offense off the field enough. Junior LB Dan Walsh (Elmhurst, Ill.) led all players with 12 total tackles, including a season-best three for lost yardage, while sophomore DB Geoff Dunham had a game-high nine solos. Another factor was eight Yale penalties, the fourth game in 2009 with that many infractions.
Five different Bulldogs RBs got carries last Saturday, led by sophomore Alex Thomas (Ansonia, Conn.), who had 15 for 55 yards. The longest run was a 30-yarder by senior Rodney Reynolds (Mt. Vernon, N.Y.), while the only score came from "blocking back" Shane Bannon, a one-yard plunge on his first collegiate carry. Senior Jordan Farrell (Orland Park, Ill.) has the best (3.6) average per carry and the most (3) TDs for a Yale runner this season, but freshman Mordecai Cargill (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) has the most (236) yards.
Junior WR Peter Balsam (Orland Park, Ill.) was Yale's MVP last Saturday with eight catches for 92 yards and a 33-yard scoring play. Balsam had a special teams tackle as well. He is second on the team with 32 catches for 309 yards and two scores. Balsam also has nine tackles, a fumble recovery and has recovered two Yale on-side kicks.
Junior DB Adam Money (Whiteland, Ind.) leads Yale with three interceptions and three forced fumbles. He is the team's top kickoff return man (23.4) and punt returner (8.1) despite being the No. 3 choice. Gio Christodoulou (Miami, Fla.) and Chris Smith (Midlothian, Va.) had the kick return duties before suffering injuries. Money, who has a 77-yard interception return for TD against Brown, is fourth on the team with 40 total tackles.
Sophomore Patrick Witt (Wylie, Texas) has five of the nine starts and has a team-high 1,279 yards and eight TDs. His most productive day was against Brown with 28 completions and 285 yards. Junior quarterback Brook Hart (State College, Pa.), who started four games, has a better completion percentage (60.2) and passing efficiency (116.2). Hart's career-best outing came in the win over Dartmouth when he completed 28 of 40 passes for 390 yards (6th best at Yale) and three TDs.
Penn clinched at least a share of the Ivy League title by defeating Harvard 17-7 at Boston. The Quakers (7-2, 6-0) withstood a late charge from the Crimson, stopping them on three consecutive plays within the 5-yard line. Harvard QB Collier Winters, who led the Cantabs in rushing with 57 yards, was stopped at the goal line on fourth down with 2:40 left. An early second half TD from Winters to Chris Lorditch was the only Crimson score. Despite driving rain throughout the game, Kyle Olson and Keiffer Garton combined to go 20-for-32 for 181 yards and one touchdown for the Quakers. Garton also led the Quakers on the ground with 37 yards, while Olson scored Penn's second touchdown on a 1-yard run.
Tom Williams was named the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Yale Football last January and came to New Haven after spending two seasons as an assistant for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars. Williams has 11 seasons of college coaching experience. He is the 33rd Yale head football coach but just the third in the last 44 years.
Tom Williams takes part in three media events each week. Williams can be heard Monday nights on WYBC (AM-1340) from 8 to 8:30 on the Yale Sports Monday Show. The Yale segment of the weekly Ivy League media teleconference is 11:53 AM on Tuesdays, while he is at the Yale Bookstore every Tuesday at 2 p.m. for the Galiette Press Conference, which can be seen on sportingnewsct.com.
Tom Williams, 4-5 in his first year as a head coach, has as many wins as the last two Yale coaches combined in their first seasons. The best debut campaign for a Yale head coach was the first, Walter Camp (13-0 and National Champs) in 1888. The next 20 coaches enjoyed comparable success in the early years of the sport. However, wins for new coaches in the later part of the 20th century did not come so easily. Two of the five Eli mentors since 1950 had better than .500 marks, Jordan Olivar (7-2 in 1952) and John Pont (6-3 in 1963). Herman Hickman went 4-5 in 1948, Carm Cozza was 3-6 in 1965 and Jack Siedlecki was 1-9 in 1997.
Senior P/PK Tom Mante (Westford, Mass.) leads the Ivy with a 40.6 punting average, good for 18th in the FCS. Mante has placed 17 punts inside the 20 and has nine boots over 50 yards. He was Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week two of the first three weeks of 2009. He tied the Ivy League record with a 54-yard FG against Cornell on Sept. 26, while Mante had a 50-yard FG at Georgetown the week before. Mante now shares the league long FG mark with five others, but no kicker had reached from that distance since 1976. He is the only Ivy kicker ever to hit 50-yard field goals on consecutive Saturdays. Otis Guernsey drop kicked a 54-yarder for the Bulldogs in 1915. Mante, an NFL prospect, also has punts of 73 and 65 yards and he recovered one of his own on-side kicks. Mante was an All-Ivy selection at both positions last fall.
The Yale-Harvard series has seen its share of last-second wins, comebacks, outstanding performances, firsts and freaky plays. Here are some of the most memorable meetings:
1881: Yale tries the first on-side kick ever in football during a scoreless tie
1946: Elis overcome a 14-0 Harvard lead to win 27-14
1952: Yale student manager Charlie Yeager catches a conversion pass in a 41-14 Eli win at Cambridge
1968: QB Frank Champi completes a TD pass and a conversion play with no time left as Harvard gains a 29-29 draw at Cambridge and shares the Ivy crown with Yale
1972: Yale overcame a 17-0 first half deficit to win 28-17
1974: QB Milt Holt scored on a 1-yard run with 0:15 left in a 21-16 victory that gave Harvard a share of the Ivy title with Yale
1975: Mike Lynch's 26-yard FG with 0:33 left gave Crimson a 10-7 win and sole possession of the Ivy title
1995: Crimson Eion Hu scored from 2 yards out with :29 left in a 22-21 win
1999: WR Eric Johnson (21-244) scoops up a QB Joe Walland (42-67, 437) pass with :29 left to send Yale to a 24-21 win and an Ivy title
2005: Clifton Dawson ended the longest game in Ivy history in the 3rd OT with a two-yard run to give Harvard a 30-24 win at the Bowl
The Elis have not finished below .500 since a 4-6 campaign in 2005 (3 OT loss to Harvard in Bowl); Yale's last 5-5 season was 2004 (35-3 loss to Harvard)... No kicker has more than one FG against Yale this season... No Yale opponent has more than one TD run... Princeton's 46 attempts and 247 yards are a season-high vs. the Elis... The Blue is 16 for 21 (76%) in the red zone while allowing scores 63 percent of the time... The Bulldogs averaged 13,384 in attendance over four games; Yale road games in 2009 averaged 5,604...Yale has allowed 29 sacks and sacked opponent QBs 13 times... Harvard has won four of the six contests (soccer, field hockey, volleyball, cross country) against Yale this fall.
With an Ivy League title at stake for both teams in bitterly cold conditions and swirling wind, Harvard beat Yale 10-0 at Harvard Stadium on Nov. 22. The Yale defense came up with big plays all day but the offense managed just 90 yards. LB Bobby Abare '09 (6-12-18) and DT Kyle Hawari '09 (7-8-15) led the Blue in tackles while SS Larry Abare and CB Adam Money both recovered fumbles.
Six-foot-2, 235-pound senior John Sheffield (Portland, Ore.) leads the team with a career-high 55 catches and 539 yards and is 23rd in the nation with six grabs per game. Only Brown WR Buddy Farnham (65) has more catches than Sheffield this fall. Sheffield can be found in the backfield, in the slot, next to a tackle on the line or split out wide. He has often been referred to as an H-Back (don't confuse it with HB for halfback), also known as a power back, which is a hybrid combining the TE and FB positions. Sheffield has 120 career catches (3rd at Yale) for 1,143 yards. He needs 34 yards against Harvard to move into the top 10 Yale career receiving yards list.
The average crowd for the last five games against Harvard at the Bowl is 53,543. The 2007 game had 57,248, which was the largest since 59,263 saw the 1989 contest.
The first on-side kick was performed by a Yale player in 1881 against Harvard. Yale has been successful on all four of Tom Mante's (Westford, Mass.) on-side kicks this fall. Mante recovered the first one while Peter Balsam (Orland Park, Ill.), has a pair of recoveries. Senior RB Brandon Scott (Chatsworth, Calif.) picked up the on-side kick at Princeton.
Senior A.J. Haase (Bonne Terre, Mo.) leads the Yale "tight ends" with 14 catches and two TDs (John Sheffield is listed as a TE/H-Back). Haase snared a 10-yard throw from Patrick Witt with 58 seconds left for the game-winner at Columbia. It was Haase's second career TD and one of the biggest for the Bulldogs in 2009. Haase, who has 10 grabs over the last three weeks, finished with a career-best five for 75 yards at Columbia.
Captain and LB Paul Rice (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) has a team-high 43 solo stops and 63 overall including eight TFL. Junior LB Sean Williams (Portland, Ore.) leads the Blue with three recovered fumbles. Junior DB Adam Money (Whiteland, Ind.) has forced three fumbles and picked off a team-best three passes. DT Tom McCarthy (Chester, N.J.) and Williams lead the Blue with three sacks.
Paul Rice (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), a senior LB who leads the team with 43 solo tackles and eight TFL, is the 132nd Yale football captain. He earned Walter Camp Yale Player of the Game honors at Lehigh after his 40-yard run (see photo) with a fake punt turned into the game's only points. He came to Yale as a talented RB but moved to defense when asked his freshman year. Rice, who has 177 total career tackles and six interceptions, started at CB the last three years before moving to LB this season.
The Game is responsible for a number of original events: Yale performed the first on-side kick against Harvard in 1881; Harvard's flying wedge was first seen in the 1892 contest; the first game in the Bowl was the 1914 meeting; the first crowd at an American sporting event over 80,000 was the 1920 game at the Bowl; and the first triple OT Ivy game happened in 2005 at Yale.
A pair of starters who transferred to Yale last summer have brothers who played at Harvard. QB Patrick Witt (Wylie, Texas) and OL Gabriel Fernandez (Honolulu, Hawaii), have families sharing rooting interests Saturday. Witt, who played at Nebraska last fall, followed his brother, Jeff (class of 2009), into the Ivy League. Fernandez, a former UCLA walk-on, watched his brother, Frank (2007) become a first-team All-Ivy offensive lineman before becoming a pro player in Japan. A third starter, captain Paul Rice, followed his father, Lou Rice (former Harvard defensive player) into The Game.
It's unusual for a Yale football team to have so many newcomers making an impact. Five members of the class of 2013 are on the two-deep offensive depth chart, while two are on the defense. A pair of freshmen receivers have a combined 25 catches in seven games, by far the most ever for a Bulldog squad. To show how significant that offensive production is, consider Yale's career reception leader Ralph Plumb '05 had two total catches his freshman season while former NFL player Eric Johnson '01 caught four balls his rookie year. Allen Harris (Detroit, Mich.) established a Yale record for catches by a freshman in a game with five against Dartmouth and has seven this fall. Chris Smith (Midlothian, Va.) is second on the team with 18 grabs after equaling the Yale record with five grabs at Penn.
Here are some numbers to measure the impact of the 23 members of Yale Football's class of 2010:
2 shutouts
2 student assistant coaches
3 All-Ivy players
4 had brothers who play or played at Yale
7 All-Ivy selections
9 switched positions since freshman year
11 interceptions
12 different positions represented
13.5 sacks
14 players who have started a game
15 states represented by the class
19 players listed on the two-deep
26 starts on the 2006 Ivy Championship team
27 wins, most since 1982
195 points scored
201 total starts
230 average weight of the players
596 total tackles
2965 total all-purpose yards
Tom Williams taped an interview from Yale with CNN that aired Nov. 4 on HLN as part of the show "What Matters"... Two Yale assistant coaches spent time last summer at NFL training camps as intern coaches. Kefense Hynson, who works with Yale's receivers, was with Oakland. Ikaika Malloe, the Joel E. Smilow '54 Defensive Coordinator, worked with Jacksonville... Mike Sanford, the mentor for the Yale TEs and a former Boise State QB, is the son of UNLV football head coach Mike Sanford... Student assistant coach Isaiah DeLeon-Mares, who worked at the Warrick Dunn Foundation, also worked with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last summer.
Yale senior Isaiah DeLeon-Mares has been a student assistant coach ever since he recovered from the post-concussion syndrome that ended his football career as a sophomore. DeLeon-Mares has taken "coaching" to a new level with his outreach efforts for the Black Men's Union. He developed the curriculum, prospected at local high schools and devised a plan to recruit and train good mentors who would help area youth. "We hope to use our position, our lives and our influence to help mold these young men. We push them to be better in all aspects of life," said DeLeon-Mares, who also worked on the September presidential motorcade in New York City and got to meet President Obama.
Buddy Farnham caught a 17-yard pass from Kyle Newhall-Caballero in overtime to lead Brown to a 14-7 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday. After Farnham's score, Brown's James Develin tackled Dartmouth quarterback Greg Patton for a 2-yard loss on fourth-and-2 to preserve the victory. Farnham finished with seven catches for 90 yards and Newhall-Caballero, the nation's second-leading passer, was 20-for-44 for 179 yards for the Bears (6-3, 4-2 Ivy League)... Columbia quarterback M.A. Olawale ran for two touchdowns in the second half, sparking the Lions to a 30-20 win over Cornell on Saturday. Trailing 20-16 at halftime, Olawale ran it in from a yard out with just over a minute to play in the third quarter to give Columbia (3-6, 2-4 Ivy League) a 23-20 advantage. His 19-yard touchdown scamper with 1:51 to go in the fourth sealed the win for the Lions. Olawale was 9-for-11 with 68 yards and added 95 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 11 carries. Zack Kourouma had 105 yards on the ground and a score on 11 carries for the Lions.
The Kenney Center and Jensen Plaza are finished and officially opened last Saturday at Yale Bowl and the Class of '54 Field. These two additions, to be dedicated the morning of the Nov. 21 Yale-Harvard game, constitute the final phase of the $30 million restoration of the facility.
Senior DT Matt Kelleher (Southington, Conn.) has handled all the long snapping with great accuracy and timing this year. Kelleher, the former Connecticut State Player of the Year as a QB, moved to defense his third year at Yale after injuries prevented him from taking any offensive snaps. He was a starter on defense last year but an injury this fall has limited him to snapping duties. NFL teams are always looking for versatile players with size and skill, especially if they can snap.
For the 10th straight season, the Walter Camp Football Foundation honors Yale's game MVP as the Walter Camp Yale Player of the Game. This award is handed out both at home and on the road. Walter Camp (class of 1880), commonly known as the father of American football, captained two Yale teams and coached five others. He compiled a 67-2-0 record and won three national titles as coach. Senior RB Jordan Farrell (Orland Park, Ill.) earned the first award in 2009 with a 5.4 average per carry and two scores at Georgetown. Week No. 2 went to senior PK/P Tom Mante (Westford, Mass.), who tied the Yale record with a 54-yard FG and punted a Yale record 12 times with six inside the Cornell 20-yard line. Week three and four went to QB Brook Hart (State College, Pa.), who came off the bench to complete 13 of 17 passes against Lafayette before throwing for 390 yards in his first start of 2009 against Dartmouth. Captain Paul Rice (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) earned the honor at Lehigh with the game-winning TD and five tackles. Tim Handlon (Valparaiso, Ind.) made 11 total tackles, forced a fumble and broke up a pass to get the nod at Penn. Adam Money (Whiteland, Ind.) was the clear choice at Columbia with 148 all-purpose yards, a game-saving tackle and a key forced fumble and recovery. John Sheffield (Portland, Ore.) was named the winner after nine catches against Brown. Peter Balsam (Orland Park, Ill.) earned the award with eight catches for 92 yards and a TD at Princeton.
Eight former Yale football players are working in the game this fall, either in the college or pro ranks. Mike McCaskey '65, chairman of the Chicago Bears, Oakland assistant Don Martin '71, Buffalo head coach Dick Jauron '73, Bob Wallace '78 (Executive V.P. and General Council, St. Louis Rams) and New England assistant coach Pat Graham '01 are the Bulldogs in the NFL. Bob Shoop '88, defensive coordinator at William & Mary, Merchant Marine Academy offensive coordinator Kyle Metzler '02 and Bobby Abare '09, linebackers coach at Wagner, work at colleges.
Yale is 364-194-26 overall in 584 games played at the Bowl. The Elis are 124-75-4 in Ivy games. Yale has had seven perfect and 11 undefeated seasons in the Bowl since it opened in 1914.
Three members of the Yale coaching staff have ties to Hawaii, and Tom Williams has instituted Hawaiain Fridays in the football office. Any staffers caught without a Hawaiian style shirt on a Friday on the third floor of Ray Tompkins House is subject to a one dollar fine. Sophomore OL Gabriel Fernandez (Honolulu) is the first Yale football player from Hawaii in 10 years. WR Jimmy Bennett '00 (Honolulu), who played on the 1999 Ivy League championship squad, was the last Eli from the 50th state.
Seven current Bulldogs have brothers who play or played Yale football. Current Yale football brother combinations include junior OLB Sean and freshman QB Scott Williams (Portland, Ore.) and junior DB Marcus and senior OLB Jack Wallace (Germantown, Wis.).
The Yale JV team takes on Harvard Friday at 1 p.m. at Clint Frank Field.
The Bulldogs have begun a tradition befitting the school responsible for shaping the game of football. Prior to every home game, Coach Williams gathers the team under the Walter Camp Field Memorial to remind the Bulldogs of their proud heritage before they walk with the Yale Band and Bulldog fans to the Bowl. Walter Camp '1880, who coached the Blue (67-2) for five seasons and was instrumental in shaping the rules as we know them, is commonly referred to as the father of American football.
Saturday is the eigth Yale football game on TV this fall, including four of five home games. Yale on YES returned for a second season with three straight Ivy League games (Columbia, Brown, Princeton) on the network of the New York Yankees. Two contests (Cornell, Harvard) are on Versus, the national cable home of the National Hockey League that is in more than 73 million homes. Other Yale games on TV in 2009 included Penn (Comcast), Lafayette (RCN) and Lehigh (Service Electric 2).
A survey of this fall's squad revealed interesting character traits. Here are the results of the player voting:
Most Humorous: H-B John Sheffield (Portland, Ore.)
Most Intelligent: QB Rich Scudellari (Saratoga, Calif.)
Most Vocal: DB Larry Abare (Acton, Mass.)
Most Likely to be US President: DL Patrick Moran (Alexandria, Va.)
Unusual Hobby: RB Rodney Reynolds (Mt. Vernon, N.Y.), gospel-rap singing
Best Singer: WR Lars Knudsen (Whitefish Bay, Wis.)
Strongest: RB Alex Thomas (Ansonia, Conn.)
NEWS/Talk 960 WELI broadcasts all Yale football games on AM (960) and online at weli.com. Yale football coaching legend Carm Cozza, a 2003 College Football Hall of Fame inductee, is in his 12th season as the color commentator for WELI broadcasts. Ron Vaccaro '04 returns for his fourth year as play-by-play announcer. Vaccaro is a two-time Emmy Award winner for his work with NBC Olympics, his primary employer since 2004. His on-air resume also includes the 2008 Beijing Olympics for NBC and the 2009 World Swimming Championships for Universal Sports. Sideline reporter Alex Goldberger '08, engineer Tom Ivanovich and spotter Kevin Guarino add the finishing touches to the broadcasts.
Former Yale football standouts Bob Blanchard '61 and Jonathan Reese '90 will join Carm Cozza and Ron Vaccaro in the WELI radio booth for the second and third quarters respectively this Saturday. Reese captained the 1989 Ivy champions and was a first-team All-Ivy LB. Blanchard was a first-team all-league DB who helped the Elis to their last perfect season in 1960. John Pagliaro '77 (Georgetown), Greg Burkus '83 (Cornell), Will Conroy '04 (Lafayette), Tom Doyle '75 (Dartmouth), Chandler Henley '06 (Lehigh), Stephen Schmalhofer '08 (Penn), Alex Faherty '05 (Columbia) and Erik Jensen '63 (Brown) and Greg Hall '77 (Princeton) have all been guest commentators this fall.
WYBC (AM 1340) also covers each game. WFAN Radio personality Bob Heussler, WYBC's Director of Football Radio Broadcasts, and Anthony Brooks '03 MM, the station's sports coordinator, lead a talented group of Yale students who can also be heard on wybc.com. Yale football is also included in WYBC's Monday night sports lineup from Lansdowne Bar & Grill (179 Crown Street). At 8 pm, Tom Williams, the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Yale Football, makes a weekly appearance on "Yale Sports Monday."
Yale coaches and athletes will frequent Yorkside Restaurant (York Street, New Haven) Monday nights from 8-9 for WYBC Radio's sports lineup. At 8, Tom Williams, the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Yale Football, makes a weekly appearance on "Yale Sports Monday" with Anthony Brooks'03 MM and Sam Purdy '10. Athletes and coaches from all sports, including football, will be interviewed each week on "Yale Sports Monday" from 8-9.
Another way to listen to Yale games live is by calling TEAMLINE at 800.846.4700 and using Yale's code 5682.
The Dick Galiette/Yale Football Press Conference has moved from the Course at Yale back to campus with the first edition on Sept. 15. The new location is the Yale Bookstore, which will host this event for 10 Tuesdays at 2 p.m. Coach Williams and a selection of players will take part in the press conferences that are streamed live by Sportingnewsct.com. They will take place on the second floor where all the book signings are done. The press conferences are open to the public, but questions for Williams and his players are limited to the working media. The Yale Bookstore is also the sponsor of the Yale Sports Hotline (203.432.YALE), where Yale fans get game-day scores without going to their computers.
Ron Vaccaro '04 hosts a series of video netcast interviews, which will include the Yale football team and other Yale athletics content, on yalebulldogs.com. Vaccaro also has a set of audio netcasts featuring the team for Apple iTunes users at itunes.yale.edu.
Media take note... The Yale Bowl may be in West Haven, but the press box has a taste of New Haven with Yorkside Pizza & Restaurant serving slices and salad on home Saturdays. Rather than interrupting your work with a lunch at halftime, the food is now served on its arrival before kickoff.
The 2009 Yale football roster includes 60 high school football captains and 41 captains of other sports. The Elis also list 52 National Honor Society members, six student body presidents, six valedictorians and three salutatorians.
The Ivy League will hold a weekly football coaches' teleconference every Tuesday during the 2009 season beginning September 15 and running through November 17. Each teleconference will begin at 11 a.m. ET. Each coach will be available for a seven-minute window to preview his team's upcoming opponent and answer questions from the media. A replay of the teleconferences will be made available on www.IvyLeagueSports.com. The call is for working media, who can contact Steve Conn for the pass code.
This November the Yale/Harvard contest in the Bowl will mark the one hundredth anniversary of the historic National Championship Game of 1909.The 1909 Yale-Harvard game, an 8-0 Bulldogs win, featured two undefeated teams (the next matchup of undefeated squads in The Game was in 1968). Yale won the national championship and preserved its unbeaten, untied and unscored on marks. Three future members of the Football Hall of Fame suited up for the game. For Yale: fullback Ted Coy and end John Reed Kilpatrick and for Harvard: tackle Hamilton Fish. A reunion of family members is planned for this November's game.
Image from Sabby Frinzi of 1968 Yale-Harvard Game
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Last Thursday I ran a seminar on The Benefits of Amplified Events as part of the Green Impact seminar series at the University of Bath. A full abstract with links to the resources (including a set of short videos created by Brian Kelly) is available. My slides are available from Slideshare and embedded below.
There is also and Adobe Connect recording of the seminar.
After the seminar one of the attendees admitted that he found it all very interesting but was slightly concerned about the quality of the resources (streamed video, video snippets, audio etc.) created. He explained that even a slight crackle in audio put him off entirely and that he felt he'd always rather be at an event then watching it streamed.
We then had a really interesting discussion about the quandary of quality and I wanted to post a few thoughts here.
- The level of quality required is relative – There will be times when a high level of quality is necessary (for example if you are creating DVDs of talks), but there will also be times when a lower level is required (for example when putting on the Web). High quality video is resource intensive – it requires a good deal of effort to move about, store and edit. You will need to think about the context – what level of quality will your audience expect and are you willing to pay? Commercial outfits will produce excellent quality outputs but they cost – think about your business model.
- Seamless technology is very important – If the audio isn't working or the video is blurry people will not be able to watch. Make sure the technology works in advance, test it and test it again. Even if you are doing it yourself you can make every effort to crack this nut. However there are still times when technical difficulties can't be avoided – it happens in all areas of work – we all just have to learn from it and move on.
- Online/hybrid events are not the same as face-to-face events – They are different. Often they are an alternative because people cannot travel or attend. Some might argue that they are "better than nothing" but potentially they can be just as good, but different. Audiences need to be aware of this and event organisers need to manage expectations.
- It just won't work for some people – However it will work for many others. The face of events is changing and 'trial and error' is necessary to make things better. As and individual, and as an organisation, you can decide if you wish to embrace change, or not.
As an aside….I know that my husband and I have different levels of tolerance when it comes to quality of audio and video.
I still love the crackle of an LP and the feedback from an amp. High definition television is wasted on me and I'm just as happy watching fuzzy videos as I am staring up at the big screen in a multiplex cinema. Many things are 'good enough' for me.
My husband is a music purist with classical music training and an ear for electronic music. Bad sound quality makes him wince. He understands the physics of sound and the mechanics of video.
I often think that I'm the lucky one as I'm enjoying the AV a lot more of the time than he is! 😉


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Cancel Verzion By Moving to Cambodia
UPDATE: We don't mean to say that you should actually lie to your cellphone provider and do this. In the interest of following up on advice we previously posted, which also appeared in Wired, we wanted to see if this worked. So we gave it a shot.
One way to cancel your cellphone account without incurring a termination fee is to tell them you're moving out of the service area. We told Verizon we were taking up residence at the US Embassy. In Phnom Penh.
Verizon didn't take us at face value. We need to send a copy of our utility bill, or a driver's license with our new address, or a copy of our mortgage, or a letter from our employer. We have 30 days to fax that to 425-603-5366 or mail it to
Verizon Wireless
PO Box 96082
Bellevue, WA 98009
Guess we gotta look for some US embassy letterhead now… (Parts not affecting the outcome of the call have been edited out.)
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Transcript inside.
(Verizon machine plays in bg)
CONSUMERIST: This is Ben Popken, calling Verizon wireless, I'm going to try and cancel my account by telling them I'm moving to Cambodia… and therefore avoid (to machine) Will you shutup?! Their $175 termination fee.
VERIZON: Your call may be recorded for quality and training purposes.
CONSUMERIST: You bet your ass.
VERIZON: Please hold while we transfer your call.
(sound of clicks)
CONSUMERIST: Ow…what was that click?
VERIZON ERIC: Um, real quick before I transfer you over, can I get uh, can I get that new address that you're moving to?
CONSUMERIST: Yeah, hold on a sec. Um, alright. Number 27. Street 240. Um, Phnom Penh.
ERIC: How do you spell that?
CONSUMERIST: P-h-n-o-m, P-e-n-h.
ERIC: Ok.
CONSUMERIST: And that's in Cambodia.
ERIC: Oh, ok, that's definitely out of the service area. Just give me a moment and I'll get you transferred on over.
(musical hold)
VERIZON KEVIN: Hi Benjamin?
CONSUMERIST: Yes.
VERIZON KEVIN: Hi, my name is Kevin and I'm in Verizon Wireless customer service. I understand you're moving out of the country.
CONSUMERIST: Yes.
KEVIN: Ok. Sorry to hear that, is this going to be…
CONSUMERIST: No, it's going to be great! You don't have to be sorry.
KEVIN: (chuckles) Well I don't mean sorry that uh, that uh, I don't mean to imply that's a bad thing for you. (chuckle) Uhm…
CONSUMERIST: Yes.
KEVIN: Well let's see now. Is this a permanent move for you or is this temporary?
CONSUMERIST: Permanent.
KEVIN: Ok…and I understand you're moving to Cambodia?
CONSUMERIST: Yup.
KEVIN: Andddd, when will you be leaving the country.
CONSUMERIST: Well, ummmm in a week.
KEVIN: Would you like the service to remain active through, until your departure?
CONSUMERIST: No, I don't really use it anymore so..
KEVIN: Ok, alright, so want make the disconnect as soon as possible. Well actually, since do, because we bill a month in advance, we do disconnect on the last day of your bill cycle. I do see you're not using your phone here. Um but the disconnect will set to happen on the last day of your bill cycle. This will be on August 10th. So you will have usage through that.
KEVIN: The final bill will have residual charges, residual service charges and fees from the service that will apply to you, two or three dollars.
CONSUMERIST: Okay…
KEVIN: It's also going to charge the early termination fee of $175. As long as we have proof of the residency outside of the country within 30 days of that, we will credit that back. Ok.
CONSUMERIST: What's the address that you need to receive documentation?
KEVIN: I'll, I'll get that here in one sec. Did Eric tell you what documentation is required, what is valid documentation?
CONSUMERIST: Yup.
KEVIN: Ok. Is there any more family or friends who want to take over your service and avoid an activation fee if they're not already Verizon Wireless members?
CONSUMERIST: No.
KEVIN: Setting up the disconnect for you right now…That's a big move, leaving the country like that.
CONSUMERIST: Yeah.
KEVIN: Work taking you out of the country?
CONSUMERIST: Yup. I'm gonna go work at the embassy over there.
KEVIN: Wow, that's exciting.
CONSUMERIST: Yeah.
KEVIN: Have you worked at an embassy before?
CONSUMERIST: Not exactly, this is my first full on embathy, embassy position.
KEVIN: Have you ever been to Cambodia?
CONSUMERIST: No.
KEVIN: So this will be a whole new adventure for you.
CONSUMERIST: Yup. I'm looking forward to it.
KEVIN: Alright, getting all set up for the disconnect and…
CONSUMERIST: (grunts)
KEVIN: Here you go, you can mail your documentation to either Verizon Wireless PO Box 96082, and that's in Bellevue, Washington. B-e-l-l-e-v-u-e, 98009, or you can send a fax to area code 425, 603-5366 and… just remember that again, let's see here, looking at the account, proper documentation mumble, driver's license for the area that you will be living with your address on it, a utility statement, or a letter from your employer stating the address where you will be working, that will probably be the easiest for you to obtain before you head over there, and that needs to be within 30 days after the disconnect which is August 10th.
CONSUMERIST: Ok.
KEVIN: Is there anything else I can assist you with today?
CONSUMERIST: Um, I mean, 'm pretty busy here this last week and I don't happen to get that document, and I'm adjusting over there, I mean (laughs) do you guys just not believe me that I'm moving there? Like, why, Why do I have to provide documentation to that effect?
KEVIN: Because of that. If If if uh, we didn't have documentation stating that fact, then that would definitely get out to the public and well jeez all you have to do is tell them you're living another country and they'll disconnect and waive the fee for you. The fees are there for a purpose and there are conditions that allow for those fees to be waived but we need supporting documentation for that. I do understand that it's a busy time for you but we have to have our documentation. If we didn't require it of you, then we couldn't require it of everyone else.
CONSUMERIST: I see.
KEVIN: Ok.
CONSUMERIST: Alright, well, um, I'll try and get that letter for you guys and say a-rivah-dirchee.
KEVIN: Alright well good luck to you over there in the embassy, I thank you for choosing Verizon Wireless and being a valued customer. You have a great day now.
CONSUMERIST: Thanks, you too.
KEVIN: Is there anything else I can assist you with today, Benjamin?
CONSUMERIST: Mmm, unless you're going to cancel my account and waive the termination fee.
KEVIN: I don't I don't have a way of doing that.
CONSUMERIST: You don't?
KEVIN: I don't. You have a great day now.
KEVIN: Benjamin?
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"This violence not only has a direct impact on the lives of the women concerned, women's families and society in general suffer too. To help end this all too common attack on women's rights and well-being, we need a better understanding of violence against women and its effects on women in Europe," Mr Kjaerum continued. In 2012 over 40,000 women in the 27 European Union Member States and Croatia were interviewed for the first EU-wide survey on gender-based violence – which was undertaken by the Fundamental Rights Agency. The women, from different age groups and situations, spoke about their experiences of various forms of violence – physical, sexual, psychological – from childhood to adulthood. FRA would like to thank all participants for their valuable time and for sharing their experiences. The results of the survey will be presented by FRA in 2013 to provide the EU's first comprehensive and comparable overview of the extent, nature and effects of violence on the lives of women in Europe. This evidence is key for the development of effective measures to combat violence against women across the EU.
Better data on violence against women has been called for by the Council of Europe, the United Nations, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. FRA carried out the survey to provide much-needed comprehensive and comparable data on violence against women to inform policy and action on the ground to address this human rights abuse, as requested by the European Parliament and Council.


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Updated By: Joe Hellriegel
January 17, 2014
Surveillance video of the Thomas County inmate who escaped and has since been captured in being released.
Take a look (video attached).
That's inmate Charlie Nix on work detail in the kitchen at the bottom right of your screen.
He takes a cell phone that was laying on the counter and puts it in his sock.
A couple of minutes later, he runs off after taking out the trash.
Although Nix never made a call on the kitchen staffer's cell phone, authorities say security procedures and policies will all be tightened.
"I'm not sure what his motive was, I really believe his motive was to use it, but once he got out there maybe he was afraid to use it but we're taking tighter measures as far as our procedures, paying a lot more attention to our classification, our inmates," said Capt. Ron James, Thomas County Sheriff's Office.
Nix is in jail on charges of child molestation. He was captured again this past Tuesday, January 14, 2014.
Updated By: Kara Duffy
January 15, 2014
Thomas County, GA- Law enforcement officials canvassed every inch of Thomas County Tuesday, looking for 35-year-old Charles Nix.
After nearly 14 hours of searching, a tip from a local woman gave them their break.
"A resident had called us, saying he was knocking on her door, trying to get her to let him in," said Captain Chuck McDonald with the Thomas County Sheriff's Office.
Captain McDonald said the woman recognized Nix and called 911.
Nix then took off running into the woods along Glenwood Drive.
Investigators, along with thermal trackers, went in after him.
"With it being as cold as it was, it picks up heat sources," McDonald said. "It can pick up anything from a small animal to an individual."
Within minutes, the thermal tracker picked up on Nix.
"The US Marshals Service along with all the deputies, made their way to him where he was bedded down. He had covered himself up with some leaves and debris," McDonald said.
On Wednesday, Nix, with fresh cuts and scrapes visible on his neck, went before a check where he was formally charged with escape and denied bond.
Nix is now back where he started; behind bars at the Thomas County Jail.
Updated By: Garin Flowers
January 14, 2014, 11pm
The search for a Thomas County jail escapee is now over.
35-year-old Charles Nix is back behind bars.
That's after nearly 14 hours of being on the run.
Authorities say, earlier today, Nix escaped from the Thomas County Jail, but now they have captured him.
US Marshals along with local authorities in Thomas County found him at the corner or Pinewood and Glenwood.
They say they used a thermal imaging device to find him hiding under leaves.
Authorities also say Nix is an accused child molester. Back in December 2013, he was charged with aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, as well as two more counts of child molestation as well as possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Nix was found shortly after 9pm tonight.
Authorities are still investigating and will release more information at a later date.
Updated By: Julie Montanaro
January 14, 2014, 10pm
U.S. Marshals say Charles Nix was caught in a swampy area near Glenwood and Pinetree.
Thomas County deputies and U.S. Marshals used a thermal imaging device and found Nix covered in leaves.
January 14, 2014, 9:15pm
Charles Nix was apprehended around 9:10pm on Glenwood Drive in Thomasville, GA.
More details will be available on WCTV at 11pm.
Updated By: Bailey Myers
January 14, 2014, 5:30pm
Authorities in Thomasville are continuing their search for an escaped inmate.
Charles nix escaped from the Thomas County Jail this morning and hasn't been seen since.
For the last several hours, dozens of law enforcement agents including Thomas County Sheriff's Deputies, Thomasville Police and even Georgia State Patrol Troopers have been canvassing the area looking for Nix.
They also called in a helicopter crew as well as two K-9 units, but still, no luck.
We are however learning some new information tonight as to why Nix was behind bars.
Back in December 2013, he was arrested and charged with aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation , two more counts of child molestation, as well as possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
The manhunt will continue through this evening, and if you have any information on Nix's whereabouts, you're asked to contact the Thomas County Sheriff's Office immediately.
Updated By: Bailey Myers
January 14, 2014, 5pm
An inmate's escape from a county jail leads to a manhunt, and crews are still searching.
It all happened around seven this morning after thirty five year old Charles Nix escaped.
Authorities are currently searching for his location now.
Nix is described as being a white male, who is approximately 5 foot 8 inches tall, and weighs around 145 pounds.
According to the Thomas County Sheriff's Office, Nix is a suspected sex offender and has a violent history.
They told us they won't rest till he is behind bars.
"As you can tell by the amount of man power we have out, many of us, many of the guys hunting them will not go home until he's found, or we know for a fact he's not in Thomas County anymore," said Captain Steve Jones, Thomas County Sheriff's Office. "We take this very seriously, and we do what we can to protect the people of Thomasville and Thomas County."
His inmate uniform was found outside the jail, so they believe he may be wearing regular clothes.
Right now, police are still following leads.
If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Charles Nix, you are encouraged to call (229) 225-3300.
Officers are currently investigating the circumstances which led to his escape.
Updated By: Kara Duffy
January 14, 2014, 4:30pm
Nix was charged with aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, two counts of child molestation, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon back in December 2013. He was in jail but had not yet been indicted.
The firearm by convicted felon charge came because he had served time and was out on parole from an armed robbery conviction.
Investigator did not have the exact date of the armed robbery.
By: Bailey Myers
January 14, 2014, 2pm
Please Note: Escaped inmate, Charles Nix, was originally reported as a convicted sex offender. Officials have since corrected the report to amend that he is a suspected sex offender.
A helicopter has joined the search for an escaped suspected sex offender in Thomas County.
35-year-old Charles Nix escaped from the Thomas County Jail at around 7:15 this morning, and was last seen running north.
A search team found his uniform outside of the jail shortly after his escape, and they believe he has changed clothes.
Thomas County, Ga. -- According to the Thomas County Sheriff's Office, they are still currently investigating the circumstances leading up to the escape.
A search team found his uniform outside of the jail shortly after his escape, and they believe he has changed clothes.
Stay with WCTV Eyewitness News for the latest updates on this developing story.
By: Kara Duffy
January 14, 2014, 9am
Thomasville, Ga. -- A Thomas County Jail inmate escaped this morning and is on the run.
Charles Nix, 35, is a white male, who is approximately 5 foot 8 inches tall, and weighs around 145 pounds.
According to the Thomas County Sheriff's Office, Nix is a suspected sex offender and has a violent history.
Nix escaped from the county jail at 921 Smith Ave. around 7:15 this morning, and was last seen running north.
Anyone with information should call the Thomas County Sherrif's Office immediately. That number is 229-225-3300


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The lights are on
Sony announced in December its plans to shut down the servers for Gran Turismo 5 and a handful of other games. Along with the servers going down for multiplayer, Gran Turismo 5 DLC will also disappear from the PlayStation Network store. If you want to keep your DLC after the servers go down, there are few steps you will need to take to hang onto it.
For the most part, if you've bought DLC for Gran Turismo 5, you won't have to worry about it disappearing forever. The DLC might not be up the online store in the future, but you will still be able to download it as long as it's on your account. The "Paint Pack" and "Racing Gear Pack" are the ones you need to worry about. For the full instructions on how to retain all of the DLC, head here.
The servers go down and the DLC disappears on May 30. If you want to play online, or grab some DLC, you will have to do it before then.
For our Gran Turismo 5 review, head here.
[Source: Sony, via GTPlanet]
Our TakeIt's always disappointing to hear about online modes disappearing into the void of the internet. I still sometimes sigh in disappointment that I can't play Halo 2 online anymore, but I suppose that is the evolution of online gaming. Everyone who is excited about playing Gran Turismo online is likely playing 6 these days, making it difficult to make a case for 5's continued existence.
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Sucks for anyone who still plays 5 regularly. I was so bummed when Halo 2 went down.
its true though, no one plays 5 online anymore, everyone moved on to 6. although I do want to keep my dlc packs..
Oh wahahahah?
guess we still have about 3 months...


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WEST CHESTER – The blowout basketball wins were bound to come to an end, but West Chester's winning streak continued on Wednesday nonetheless.
The Golden Rams outlasted a feisty Shippensburg squad, 79-70, at Hollinger Field House to wrap up a first-round bye in the PSAC Men's Tournament, which begins early next month. Riding a five-game winning streak, WCU (16-4, 18-6 overall) has gradually crawled back into the race for the PSAC East regular season crown.
"When you win a couple games by more than 20 points, there is a tendency to forget about what got you there," West Chester head coach Damien Blair pointed out. "I thought there was a little bit of that tonight."
With a win on Saturday at East Stroudsburg, the Rams can move into a first-place tie in the division with one regular-season game remaining. The defending conference champion Warriors (17-3, 20-4) fell at Millersville on Wednesday, 79-69, and has dropped two straight. Last weekend, Shippensburg also staged an upset win over ESU, and WCU was determined to avoid a similar fate.
"When you beat a team by 17 on their home court like we did to Shippensburg last month, it's easy to take them for granted if you're not careful," Blair said. "East Stroudsburg beat them by 40 and then relaxed and lost the rematch.
"I think the outcome of that game helped us because it woke us up. It was a warning that we couldn't afford to take this one lightly."
The average margin of victory in West Chester's previous four outings was 20 points, and that didn't include the 74-57 triumph over Shippensburg on Jan. 23. The rematch was much more competitive and intense.
"We always expect a good game every night," said junior guard Troy Hockaday. "(Shippensburg) beat East Stroudsburg and I know they wanted to beat us. We knew we had to come out and fight.
"We didn't shoot well tonight, so we had to do the little things like loose balls, rebounding and playing hard. That's what we did and that's why we won the game."
Clinging to a three point lead at the half, WCU opened the second period with a 15-2 run. But just when it looked like the Rams were going to break it open, the Raiders scored 11 straight to get back into contention, 46-41.
It took West Chester a while to deal with the sudden change in momentum, and not long after the WCU bench was assessed a technical foul midway through the second half, Shippensburg pulled to within two. It never got any closer, however, as the Rams promptly reeled off 10 in a row, thanks to a 3-point play by Harley Williamson and some persistent offensive rebounding by Hockaday.
Blair had to endure another 'T' (on guard Shannon Givens), but West Chester closed it out by connecting on 8-10 free throws in the final two minutes. Hockaday scored 10 of his game-high 19 in the final 3:46, and also chipped in with five rebounds, four assists and four steals.
As a team, Wes Chester shot just 37 percent from the floor, but was plus-12 on the boards, forced 24 turnovers and had a nice edge at the charity stripe. Carl Johnson (14 points), Jon Breeden (11 points) and Corey Blake (10 points, 10 rebounds) also contributed.
West Chester 79, Shippensburg 70
SHIPPENSBURG – Edgar 3-11 5-7 11; Perrin 2-7 10-10 15; Anderson 3-10 0-2 6; Pygatt 4-6 0-0 8; Charles 6-9 3-7 17; Lococo 4-13 1-1 10; Ellis 0-1 0-0 0; Hardy 1-5 0-0 3.
WEST CHESTER – Blake 4-15 2-3 10; Frans 4-5 0-0 8; Breeden 4-10 3-4 11; Johnson 3-9 8-10 14; Hockaday 5-10 7-10 19; Flecken 0-1 0-0 0; Givens 0-2 2-2 2; Mack 2-6 0-0 5; McKeaney 1-3 0-0 3; Williamson 2-5 3-5 7; Wisely 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 25-67 25-34 79.
Halftime: WCU 31-28.
3-point goals: Perrin, Charles 2, Lococo, Hockaday 2, Mack, McKeaney.


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A fresh, fast and fun twist on the rules of Poker designed by legendary game designer Reiner Knizia.
Deck Buster is ideal for fans of card games and logical challenges. Simple rules are a perfect starting point for this new and intriguing game by master game designer Reiner Knizia.
At first glance, the task appears simple: place the cards to build strong card combinations, and with a touch of luck you will progress.
The number of cards, however, is limited, so they must be placed very carefully to score as many points as possible and to earn as many bonus cards as possible.
The game can be played in two different modes: Deckbuster 32 is played with a short deck of 32 cards. Deckbuster Wild is played with a full deck of 52 cards, but all 2's are Jokers.
There are 59 achievements waiting to be conquered, and leaderboards for the best players to compete for the top spots!
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Normal sleep has two states; non-rapid eye movement and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which last about three-quarters of the night and one-quarter of the night, respectively. During normal REM sleep, the eyes move rapidly, breathing becomes irregular, blood pressure rises, and muscles lose tone in a type of temporary protective natural paralysis. The sleeper usually dreams during REM and the brain is often as active as when awake.
In REM sleep-behavior disorder (RBD), natural muscle paralysis does not occur, allowing the person to physically "act out" his or her vivid and intense dreams. Eight men with RBD took 3 mg of melatonin each night between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m., or a placebo. After four weeks, while the placebo group had not improved, men who had taken melatonin had 30 percent fewer REM sleep periods without paralysis, and healthier REM sleep continued for four weeks after the men stopped taking melatonin.


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Hi everyone,
I'm starting to think having two set-up. One for macro, one for wideangle shots.
I know this is done by many of you. But how do you handle two housings and strobes and everything underwater ?
Is there any specific tips ? what are the most challenging things ?
It is easy to have them both in your hand if you are doing a shallow sandy dives because you can just drop the camera you don't use on the ground, when you do a shot.
But what when it comes to diving over depth ? floating device ?
p.s. I'm not accepting the answer " that's what other divers are for " : )
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In business, how do you know if you story has worked? There are a couple ways to determine if your organisational storytelling was successful.
What I like: two points. 1) when people smile or nod, or when they repeat your stories are signs of success; and 2) stories have a long tail -- someone 6 months from now will tell you what the story meant to them.
What I want more of: more ideas about what success looks like.
The author shares some good insights in this article and it is well worth the read.


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- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 broiler/fryer chicken (4 to 5 pounds), cut up
- 2 tablespoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1-1/2 cups water
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons cold water
- 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
- Preheat oven to 350°. In a large skillet, heat butter over medium-high heat. Add onion; cook and stir until tender. Sprinkle chicken with paprika, salt and pepper; place in an ungreased roasting pan. Spoon onion mixture over chicken. Add water. Bake, covered, 1-1/2 hours or until chicken juices run clear.
- Remove chicken and keep warm. Pour drippings and loosened browned bits from roasting pan into a saucepan. Skim fat. In a small bowl, mix cornstarch and cold water until smooth. Stir into pan juices with onion. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 1-2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat. Stir in sour cream. Serve with chicken. Yield: 6 servings.
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"Very authentic. The only thing I add is 1cup finely sliced sweet red pepper to the onions when saute'ing. dinner guests loved it with spaetzle."
"Excellent recipe! I made it exactly as written and served it with homemade noodles. Delicious and will definitely make this again. Used Sweet Hungarian Paprika."
"This went very well. I really like the moist, steam roasting in the oven. I was out of regular sour cream because I made a dill dip with it, so I just used that and I liked what the dill did for it. I served it with some spaetzle."
"Delicious dish! I messed up and forgot to add the hot water before baking, however it turned out just fine. Wouldn't change a thing!"
"This is absolutely delicious, there was a place in Wyandotte Mi called Hungarian Kitchen that everyone in our family loved & ordered from for over 40 years. They closed a few years ago & this recipe is almost - if not - the same as theirs. We have been missing it ever since they closed so thank you for sharing this recipe, I made a batch last night & by family demand I am doing another batch today.....thank you again!!"
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Oh, Basketball Wives so much drama it's hard to imagine there's more to come! On last Monday's episode, viewers watched the slap heard round VH1 as Jennifer Williams was hit in the face by former bestie Evelyn Lozada's assistant Nia Crooks. Well, big mistake Nia, because Jenn is mad – suing mad! Really – where did Evelyn find this so-called assistant?!
Taking to her blog, titled "Seeking Justice," Jennifer walks through the emotions associated with that day, and why she feels Nia deserves to be hauled into court! Jennifer believes Nia was motivated by a quest for fame – something she has in common with her boss! "On my show some of these women take pride in showing their ass in the most compromising way. These females have a point to prove and will do or say anything to be a 'reality show star,'" Jennifer seethes.
"Fame is a powerful drug and some will go any length to achieve it. I am a grown woman and I have never had to fight someone to prove my point, I use my vocabulary and brain for that. Mature woman should be able to communicate their differences without violence. Using your hands to express yourself is absolutely WACK!!!"
As for the day in question, Jennifer had no intention of getting into an argument with anyone, and was very surprised by what transpired. "The assistant/gofer decided to be in full action with her monkey see monkey do self as she snuck a slap from behind. You are a coward if you catch me off guard while sitting down and not to mention a bully!;" Jennifer recounts
"Then the president of the NON Factor T-shirt Enterprise (HA! HAHA!) thought that jumping across the table like a demon would be a good look for the young women in America that watch the show. The horses racing around the track were more civilized than some of the woman with me in the presidential suite that day. I swear I still don't understand why someone would want to act so ridiculous on national television but I guess some will do anything for fame." Dang, I love when Jenn gets feisty and mad!


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Sudan Denies Harbouring Mali MilitantsLocal rebels say they have pictures to prove their claims regarding the presence of Mali fighters in the country, allegations which the army has denied.
Sudan: Army Refutes Claims Over Malian Fighters Presence in Darfur
Radio Dabanga, 21 February 2013
The Sudanese army spokesman refuted once more allegations by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) affirming the presence of Malian insurgents in Darfur. Meanwhile, the rebels… Read more »
Mali militants.
Sudan: Sudan Denies Harbouring Malian Militants
Sudan Tribune, 20 February 2013
Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) denied the presence of Malian jihadist groups in Darfur after statements by rebel groups saying they had been seen near Kutum in North Darfur state. Read more »
Sudan: JEM Rebels Claims to Detect Malian Rebels in North Darfur
Sudan Tribune, 18 February 2013
The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of several rebel groups fighting a decade-long war against Khartoum in Sudan's western region of Darfur, today claimed that they have… Read more »
Sudan: Sudan Army Denies Presence of Mali Militants in Darfur
Radio Dabanga, 14 February 2013
The spokesman of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) denied the presence of Mali militants in Darfur, despite multiple eyewitnesses having confirmed their presence across the region… Read more »
A leading rebel group in Sudan has claimed that Mali fighters are in the country, and reportedly inciting fear and terror among citizens. Read more »


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Offering a garden and barbecue, Home Sweet Home is situated in Bwebajja. Free private parking is available on site. All units have a dining area and a seating area with a satellite flat-screen TV. Some units include a terrace and/or balcony. There is also a kitchen, equipped with an oven. A microwave and kettle are also available. Home Sweet Home features free WiFi throughout the property. Bed linen is offered. Home Sweet Home also includes a terrace. The property also offers grocery delivery. You can play darts at the property, and car hire is available. The nearest airport is Entebbe Airport, 19 km from Home Sweet Home . mas


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The annual duck hunting season in the United States is traditionally big business, but while bird numbers are rising faster than they have for decades, the number of hunters continues to fall. Far from being good news for ducks a new study in the Wildlife Society Bulletin shows how the loss of revenue from 'duck stamps' could result in millions of lost dollars for vital conservation work.
"The last 15 years have brought hunting opportunities not seen since the turn of the last century," said Dr Mark Vrtiska from Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. "The waterfowl population has passed 40 million six times since 1995, something only seen nine times since records began. These should be the glory days for duck hunting."
However, in stark contrast, the annual sales of the 'duck stamp', the Federal licence needed to hunt, are declining. While over 2,100,000 stamps were sold annually in the 1970's, between 2004 and 2008 this declined to 1,300,000. This fall is continuing with an annual decline of 36% in duck stamp sales.
"You may think the fall in hunters would be good news for ducks, but ironically it is leading to less money for the conservation of their habitat," said Vrtiska. "Federal funding for conservation is dependent on the revenue raised by selling the duck stamps, a unique dynamic for wildlife managers in the United States. Up to 98% of money raised by the duck stamps is used to purchase or lease habitat within the National Wildlife Refuge system."
Historically the number of duck hunters has risen and fallen in relation to the number of ducks; however, over the 1990's the two became independent. To determine the impact the team estimated the amount of duck stamps which would have been sold had the relationship remained connected, both to determine the revenue loss and to estimate how much habitat could have been made available to conservationists.
"If hunter levels had kept consistent with historical trends then 600,000 more duck stamps would have been expected to have been sold between 1995 and 2008 than actually occurred," said Vrtiska. "That equates to an annual loss of $9,000,000, or $126 million across the whole period. For conservation the results are dramatic as this money could have resulted in 42,495 ha of wetlands."
Looking to the future, the team predict that hunter numbers will continue to decline due to various social, cultural and economic factors. By using three different scenarios to explore the economic impact, the team estimate that up to $14.3 million could be lost annually.
"Duck hunting has been a tradition for rural America for centuries, yet a cultural shift and changing attitudes has seen a slow decline in hunter numbers," concluded Dr Vrtiska. "The resulting fall in funding is impacting all those involved in habitat conservation which is only made more important by the dramatic rise in duck numbers."
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We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Sydney. You will be part of FST's development team and work on our core products, and on customer assignments.
Our development platform is Linux and we use Git for revision control.
This is a full time role at our HQ in Sydney Australia, near Chinatown and Darling Harbour and about a 10 minute walk from Central Station. The salary range is from $80K - $110K + super.
Please note, you must be eligible to work full time in Australia to apply for this job.
We are looking for someone who has at least 5 years relevant industry experience with C and Embedded Linux as well as:
* A degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
* Leadership skills
* Ability to work with customers
* Experience with software project design, specification, planning and delivery
* Excellent English communication skills, verbal and written
* A good sense of humour
Skills that are nice to have, but not strictly required:
* Graphics and multimedia subsystems
* Experience with other operating systems
* Willingness to travel
* An interest in graphics, design and an eye for detail
* Design and develop future versions of FST core products
* Design and develop applications and services using FST core products
* Identify customer requirements, specify, plan, develop and deliver customer projects
* Work on internal and demonstration projects
* Work with design team on demonstration projects highlighting the capabilities of FST core products
* Manage junior developers, critically review their code and foster an environment of learning and growth
* Present to audiences outside of FST, such as customers
Please send your CV and a COVER LETTER to email@example.com.
Fluffy Spider Technologies develops software tools to drive advanced graphical user interfaces on consumer electronics.
Our customers make set top boxes, TVs, mobile and tablet as well as point of sale terminals. We work closely with our customers to give them new kinds of user experiences.
Our technology is incredibly powerful, small, fast and lets us achieve amazingly cool results in limited resource environments. Our software is embedded on millions of products worldwide.
We offer an informal working environment with flexible hours. The team is made up of engineers and designers who work closely together. We promote a culture of cooperation, mutual respect and support. We are passionate about what we do.
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In a report titled "Moving Energy Safely: A Study of the Safe Transport of Hydrocarbons by Pipelines, Tankers and Railcars," Canada's Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources is asking the federal government to initiate a review of the country's railway regulatory framework, standards and industry practices "to meaningfully advance the safe transportation of dangerous goods by rail in Canada."
The report makes 13 recommendations related to energy transport and calls on Transport Canada to implement all the recommendations from the December 2011 report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development related to the transport of dangerous goods. Additionally it recommends Transport Canada, in cooperation with its U.S regulatory counterpart to find ways to accelerate the phase-out of the CTC-111A and DOT-111 tank cars. Finally, the report calls on Transport Canada to apply minimum liability coverage thresholds to rail companies to ensure they have the financial capacity to cover damages caused by a major accident.
"The goal of our study was to examine the current state of emergency and spill prevention, preparedness and response frameworks under federal authority and to make recommendations to improve public safety and the protection of the environment," said Senator Richard Neufeld, chair of the committee. "We've been working on these issues for the last nine months and the shocking Lac-Mégantic rail disaster has only intensified the need to address hydrocarbon transportation safety. In the years ahead, hydrocarbon production will continue to grow and so will transport capacity. That's why we believe Canadians need to know more about what the federal government has in place to protect citizens and the environment, and what more can be done to enhance current practices."
In other Canadian rail transportation news, the TSB of Canada is considering PTC on Canadian railroads as a result of the recent disaster in Lac-Mégantic, according to a report on the United Transportation Union's website.
In addition to the recent accident in Lac-Mégantic, Canada had two major derailments in 2010 and 2012 that were linked to trainmen not following signal indications and either missed or misinterpreted signals because both trains were traveling at excessive speeds while switching tracks.
Director of TSB rail and pipeline investigations Kirby Jang explains, "In Canada, we have a system called centralized traffic control, which provides visual signals, but there is no automated stopping or slowing of trains if the train crew were to exceed the limits of their authority.
"We believe that there's a risk of serious train collisions and derailments if rail signals are not consistently recognized and followed. Really, what we're trying to advocate is that further safety defenses should be implemented to ensure that signal indications of operating speed or operating limits are consistently recognized and followed. That's a key finding and recommendation out of Burlington," Jang said.
According to Jang, there are ongoing discussions about PTC systems, which would automatically reduce a train's speed if it were moving too fast. The TSB is also looking at placing video and voice recording systems inside the cabs of locomotives as a source of data in the event of another derailment or train disaster like the one in Lac-Mégantic.
The TSB can only make recommendations to Transport Canada; it is then up to Transport Canada to decide whether or not they want to act on the recommendations made by the TSB.


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Bosses brace for 173,000 extra 'sickies'
Thousands of workers will stretch their long weekends out with a sneaky sickie ahead of Australia Day, according to a peak business body.
The NSW Business Chamber says it expects an extra 173,000 sick days leading into this long weekend, costing the nation's employers more than $36 million.
That figure does not include replacement costs and reduced productivity, the group said.
The organisation's CEO Stephen Cartwright on Monday urged employees to talk to the boss about leave arrangements rather than leave them in the lurch with insincere sick days.
"It's amazing how many people get 'sick' the day before a long weekend, but it's an obvious stunt that only serves to damage personal reputations and morale in the workplace," Mr Cartwright said in a statement.
"Nobody is fooled by the Friday 'sickie'.
"If you want to take some extra time off, plan it now and talk to your employer today."
Employers should return the favour by accommodating leave requests either side of the long weekend where possible, he said.
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The 49ers offensive line was honored Wednesday as the league's best via John Madden's Most Valuable Protectors Award.
"They have proven they have the mental and physical toughness that enables their team's offense to put up impressive numbers on the ground and in the air," Madden said in a statement.
The 49ers, who will face the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday in Super Bowl XLVII, won Madden's weekly honors three times during the season. Left tackle Joe Staley and left guard Mike Iupati each drew Pro Bowl starting nods they couldn't fulfill because of Super Bowl commitments.
"That's been a phenomenal group for us, and I'd call them offensive weapons as well," 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said. "The way they have all stayed healthy and played well together, it's really been a strength and a center for our football team."
All five linemen have started every game this season, including first-year starter Alex Boone at right guard.
The Madden Most Valuable Protectors trophy weighs 102 pounds – or 12.3 percent of the combined weight of the 49ers' top seven linemen.
Here is what Harbaugh said of each linemen during a long-winded answer that is divided here:
On left tackle Joe Staley: "A very talented player. Tremendous leadership within the group."
On center Jonathan Goodwin: "What he's meant to our football team when he first arrived here, we were void at the center position. Jonathan Goodwin has stepped in and started every game, been a great player for us.
On right tackle Anthony Davis: "(His) emergence at right tackle from a toughness standpoint, from a strength standpoint, and just the way he continues to grow and grow and grow as a player."
On left guard Mike Iupati: "(He) has gone to the board as one of the top guards in the National Football League."
On right guard Alex Boone: "Really excited for Alex Boone as an ascending player, as a tough player, as a leader on our football team."
On reserves Leonard Davis and Daniel Kilgore: "They've been instrumental all year in our extra O-Linemen packages, contributions on special teams."