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It was May of 1997. I had turned 50 that month and had just
awakened from what I thought was going to be a routine
I felt like I had been pancaked by a Mount Union lineman when the doctor told me I had a malignant tumor the size of a golf ball. Followed by the news that I would be looking at surgery (a colostomy), chemo and radiation.
My first thought was of my family. Most of my kids were still in high school. Would I ever get to watch them graduate from high school and college with my wife?
My second thought was of Kevin DeBonis. He had been a lineman at St. Lawrence. He had a bout with ulcerative colitis that withered his body. He had a colostomy, built himself back up, returned to SLU and, with a protective device over his colostomy and became the Saints' Lineman of the Year.
He was my inspiration through it all. I even received a letter from him when I got home from the surgery.
I figured if he could pay football with a colostomy, I sure as heck could write about it.
When I was diagnosed neither Castleton State or Husson even had football. Now, Castleton, my alma mater, boasts a football team and my daughter Virginia has graduated from Husson.
Football has always been special to me. That's why when I received the Contributor to Football Award from the Vermont Chapter of the National Football Foundation, it meant more to me than so many of the other awards I have received.
Football is personal. And a Division III football player helped me through one very tough time.
Now, every autumn and new season brings excitement and an unbelievable appreciation for life.
So let's get to it. Ten games to look forward to in the 2010 season. That, though, is just a sliver of the main course. Every game is special if it's your school; your team.
1. Sept. 3. Otterbein at Husson. The Eastern Collegiate Football Conference has a lot of work ahead of it to earn some respect. The fledgling league gets its AQ in 2011. Having a nationally ranked team come all the way from Ohio to Bangor, Maine, gives Husson a chance to strike a blow for the conference. Just keeping this one respectable would be a good thing for Eages and the ECFC.
2. Sept. 25. Wesleyan at Middlebury. There's nothing like an opener and the New England Small College Athletic Conference finally gets to play football after watching and reading about everyone else. The high interest game just might be the one that finds Wesleyan visiting Middlebury. Middlebury quarterback Donald McKillop already owns the record book and has Panther fans thinking about a very special season. But everything is fresh and exciting at Wesleyan with a new staff led by successful Williams coach Mike Whalen. This one is intriguing.
3. Sept. 25. Norwich at Mount Ida. Norwich and the Mustangs played in the ECFC championship game last year and are ranked 1-2 in this season's preseason poll. The Cadets have plenty of talent returning and so do the Mustangs.
4. Oct. 2. Trinity at Williams. This one might wind up deciding the NESCAC when all is said and done. The perennial powers figure to put on a show.
5. Oct. 9. Amherst at Middlebury. Amherst was undefeated in 2009. It's not inconceivable that both of these teams might be at this point.
6. Nov. 6. Curry at Plymouth State. When the New England winds turn cruel and the leaves have left the trees, big games are played. You can just about count on this being one of the biggest in the NEFC. These are postseason teams. And when they clash in this regular season finale, you can bet the stakes will be high.
7. Nov. 6. Castleton State at Norwich. The battle for the Maple Sap Bucket is one of the newer rivalry games but it is quicky gaining steam.
8. Oct. 30. Norwich at SUNY-Maritime. If the Ida-Norwich game isn't the one that settles the ECFC, this one will. Clayton Kendrick-Holmes has been building something special at Maritime and this could be the year everyone notices.
9. Oct. 30. Maine Maritime at Bridgewater State. The Mariners' triple option rolls into Massachusetts for the game that very likely will settle the Bogan Division of the NEFC. It is Maine's bruising ground game against the Bears' marquee back Justin Fuller. Could be one of those two-hour games. Yes, it could be quick, close and very, very important.
10. Nov. 13. Williams at Amherst. "The Biggest Little Game in America" is a mouthful, but it more than lives up to it. Crowds in the neighborhood of 10,000 are not unusual. That's especially the case when a league title is up for grabs. That's often the case. There is a reason why it still is the only Division III stop ESPN's GameDay has made.
10 games to watch for 2010
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Niagra, please!
Niagra, please!
Niagra Fails?
Even better, the "Niagra" is a consistent misspelling by the submitter. It is actually called Niagara, as the submitter could have discovered by RTFA he linked to. (And Tridium's corporate website also calls it Niagara.)
As someone certified and experienced in the Niagara framework, I can this with some authority:
Most of the contractors who install this know absolutely nothing about security. NOTHING.
Imagine you design chainsaws. If most of your customers end up missing a limb, you probably fucked up the design.
Do the 1-5-25 triage
If 1% of your users have the problem, that's a user problem
If 5% of your users have the problem, that's a documentation problem
If 25% of your users have the problem, that's a design problem
So, if most of the contractors installing Niagara are fucking up the security, then Niagara is to blame. If default passwords are a common problem, don't let the system function until the default is changed.
But times are changing, because we learn as each comes to pass. Sometimes by listening carefully and considering the wisdom of others that have passed before. Or else The Hard Way can also serve as an effective teacher.
Oh wait, your post also dealt with accountability. Nevermind.
"If default passwords are a common problem, don't let the system function until the default is changed."
Even something as common as DD-WRT understands this and requires you to enter a new password when you first access the router (granted you can change it to the existing default but hey, that's your own fault then). Then again look at the OE firmwares... they don't require a change and even Belkin routers which use a "default password" of nothing allows you to keep that as your password (when it prompts y
You're pointing the finger at whoever made your door because you couldn't figure out how to lock it, so you ended up not locking it right then went away over the weekend and promptly got burglarized. I'm happy it takes a very costly specialist to secure these things and I'm glad it's so hard to get it right, because
In this case, it's not that simple.
It's an industry issue. Building automation has been changing from a mechanical, trades-based industry, to a data-driven, high-tech one much more rapidly than the workforce.
The majority of controls technicians have little networking knowledge, even less programming knowledge, approaching 0 design knowledge, and absolutely no data and computer systems foundations yet are pretty well versed in the mechanical systems, engineering, electrical subtrades group. To be a good cont
Too many viagaras possibly.
None of this infrastructure should be on the Internet anyway. Anything that we don't want the rest of the world to have access to shouldn't be online.
And don't give me shit about saving money or convenience because at some point you have to have stop trying to save money and do it right, even if it takes more effort.
"I shall expect a chemical cure for psychopathic behavior by 10 A.M. tomorrow, or I'll have your guts for spaghetti." -- a comic panel by Cotham


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The file consisted of just a few generations of Mom's ancestors and contained 58 people. Within seconds of uploading the gedcom there appeared 57 ancestry hints! A few minutes later 21 of those people had a total of 194 hints. What is that figure going to be if I upload a database of 5000 dead people? More than a little overwhelming, I think.
I have so many events for some individuals that their profile screen in the online tree was extremely cluttered. I also have a lot of "special" or custom events created for my own use. In addition, I already have a lot of "Census" events so if I were to add the hints for census records as an event in the online tree, there would be a lot of duplication.
What I am now considering is uploading a rather "bare bones" file without events and notes but including sources. Such as they are. Then, I will selectively add "stories" from blog posts (as suggested by Apple) as well as adding "stories" as explanations for some of my conclusions regarding certain relationships.
My database is not perfect. It's not done. It never will be. There are some relationships entered that are purely speculation on my part, and some that are probably outright wrong. But if I wait until everything is "right" it won't ever get put online. On the one hand, I may be adding more misinformation to the multitude of misinformation already out there. Will that come back to haunt me some day? On the other hand, I know I have information that could resolve some of the misinformation on certain families.
So I'm still in a state of flux in deciding whether to put my database online, and if so, how much of it to share. Do I include events and sources? I don't particularly like how the events get imported but I also don't want to spend a lot of time adding things to the online tree. Do I put up a tree with just the ancestors? Or do I include all 5000 deceased persons in the database? Decisions. Decisions.
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In a distant world of tomorrow from decades past, a TERROR has emerged from the far reaches of the solar system. It is THEM! The unspeakable, unimaginable, horrifying GORG! They came from far away on Planet X, but soon they will be closer than you think.
Can the Earth be saved from these alien invaders? Is there no one who can stop the Unstoppable Gorg?... read more


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Our cat Peewee had a window perch, but since she left a few weeks ago, the window has been empty.
I took her perch down, and just last week I thought maybe Cooper and Nina would like to look out the window.
This is what I came up with, but I planned on only one at a time using it.
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The old adage says a picture tells a thousand words. But what about a thousand pictures of words?
That's what filmmaker Jason Van Genderen is sifting through, as he puts together a unique short film for next year's Tropfest competition.
The 40-year-old from Gosford, on the New South Wales Central Coast, has taken to Instagram and Twitter to source images of words for the project.
Van Genderen is a proponent of "pocket filmmaking" - using devices such as smartphones and small digital cameras to make movies.
His first effort in 2008, Mankind is No Island, saw van Genderen and friend Shane Emmett use their mobile phones to take pictures of words written on street signs and in other public places in both Sydney and New York. The words were sorted into a script, and the result was a thought-provoking meditation on the nature of homelessness.
"We put it into Tropfest New York, and ended up winning," says van Genderen. "It's gone on to win about 20 awards worldwide.
"That seeded the idea in us that you could make films in alternative ways, and utilise pocket devices and cameras to actually tell serious stories."
His new project is still untitled. There's no script yet - not even a topic.
Right now, van Genderen is gathering word pictures shared through Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #shareaword.
"I thought, wouldn't it be an amazing experiment to see if we could get the whole community to jump on board and share the words they see in their walk to work of a morning, or on the bus home, or a word that greets them on a sign that's peculiar," he says.
"Rather than me going out and actually finding the language to make a film, if I can enlist as many cameramen out there who want to share a word, then I can utilise that communal library."
He's got backing from Nikon Australia, which is giving away several Coolpix digital cameras to random submitters who include the username @nikon-australia in their post.
About 1000 submissions have already been received, including some from a few well-known names, including surfing world champion Stephanie Gilmore, who submitted a picture of the word "explore", written in a cursive style in black marker pen.
Once the submission period closes on January 14, van Genderen will have the unenviable task of sorting through all those words, and start scripting a three to four minute short film.
"I'll make up lists of nouns and verbs and adjectives ... and start seeing what story evolves from that point," he says.
He says it's a risky but organic process that throws the project into a whole new creative space.
"The beautiful thing is that people don't have to be a filmmaker to be a part of the film. They just need to snap a word they find interesting."
But will recent trouble with Instagram, which has had to backpedal after internet outrage over their terms of service changes, affect use of the service?
"I think it's a 'watch this space'," says van Genderen, admitting we're so used to having things for free, commercialisation or monetisation attempts always throw a spanner in the works.
"I have faith at the end of the day that they'll work out a compromise that will allow Instagram to become financially sustainable and have a commercial base if you elect to have it for free, but I think they'll end up having a subscription-based premium version."
You can follow Jason van Genderen's project through his website.


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A doozie is described as something that is extraordinary.
A doozie is described as something that is extraordinary.
Family Services of Davidson County is once again ready to present an extraordinary movement in our community. This organization, which has accomplished so much over the past 15 years, continues to bring innovative opportunities to the area that send to the forefront community needs and our responsibilities as a community to address them.
Last year, Gail Coltrane and Catherine Johnson, using their combined 11 1/2 years of experience at the agency, thought that they needed to find a way to highlight the services that their agency provided in Davidson County. Thus the Davidson Doozie was born. It provided a way to support and promote physical and mental health in our area. Their first year was very successful, and therefore the agency decided to make this an annual event.
This year they decided to make some slight changes to better enhance the experience so that more people will see that they can be a participant at various levels. So on May 11, they will have the USAFT certified 10K (6.2 mile) course, and they have added a 3.6 mile (5.8K) shortened route. I don't know about many of you, but unfortunately I am not a runner, and they found a way for others like me to participate called a "sleep in" entry. I don't have to show up at 8 or 8:20 a.m. as other participants who are running for the cause, but I can show up ready to watch others and still receive the T-shirt as a participant.
Last year my sister Danette called to see if I would be willing to participate with their first Doozie event as a volunteer. My daughter, Emma, and her friend, Alexa, were glad to join me and the many others who help make the event successful. I noticed that most of the employees from the Family Services agency had enlisted their family members as well to help make the event successful. For us it was a rewarding day; we stood on the sidelines encouraging the runners to give it their all, and at the same time we were realizing that what we were doing was like the daily routines of the workers at the agency who encourage the families to stay strong during times of distress and woe.
For those of you who don't know what is offered by the Family Services of Davidson County, I will highlight their services for you. They have three main divisions of assistance that they offer our families when they are in need.
Clinical counseling is an area where they work with individuals, families and groups, and they even reach out with community-based counseling services. Coltrane says that as a child and family therapist she is humbled on a daily basis at the positive changes families can make with a little bit of guidance.
Youth and community programming and services is a division that assists families who are in jeopardy of being involved in the Child Protective Services as well as working with young parents and youths who are either already in the juvenile system and or at a high risk, such as a suspended youth.
Finally they have crisis intervention services. Now this part of their agency provides crisis and emergency services for families who have been directly impacted by sexual and domestic violence.
Even in today's society of social media, Internet availability and, of course, our local newspapers, there are still families who are not aware of what the community has to offer when situations present themselves. This is why agencies such as this who have caring and devoted staff, who push forward to continue to educate as many as possible about what they have, who they help and what we can do as a public to volunteer time, money or resources, is a valuable asset in today's society.
So, come run May 11, volunteer your time to help out at this event (or others as they present themselves) or call in to see about becoming a sponsor, such as NewBridge Bank that continues to support those in need. Become involved, ask the right questions and do what you can to ensure that if a family member of yours needed Family Services of Davidson County that you would feel at peace referring them to an agency that cares and who sees those in need as people and not just a statistic.
Rena Lawson Cilluffo is a hometown girl and shares life from her viewpoint.


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Postseason baseball action once again dominates on television
Tuesday's dramatic victories by the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox helped TBS once again dominate all primetime cable competition, continuing a trend of strong TV ratings for the MLB Postseason heading into a pair of decisive Game 5's the next two nights.
TBS' exclusive national telecasts of Athletics-Tigers and Red Sox-Rays averaged a 3.1 fast national rating and 4.5 million viewers, up +35% and +32%, respectively, over Day 6 coverage in 2012 according to Nielsen. For the sixth time in the last eight nights, TBS easily topped all cable competition in primetime, leading the second place network by +139% in the metered market ratings.
Overall, through 16 Postseason telecasts, TBS has averaged 3.7 million viewers, Turner's best average through that number of games since 2010 and up +9% over 2012.
Local ratings highlights from Tuesday's games included:
• 19.7 in Boston, the second highest rated MLB game there since Game 7 of the 2008 ALCS.
• 19.3 in Detroit, the highest-rated MLB game there since the 2012 World Series.
• 17.8 in Tampa Bay, the highest-rated MLB game there since Game 5 of the 2010 ALDS.
Action continues tonight with Game 5 of the NLDS between the Pirates and the Cardinals (8:00pm ET / 7:00pm CT on TBS) and Thursday with Game 5 of the ALDS between the Tigers and Athletics (8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT on TBS).


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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
Scotty McCreery would know. He won American Idol in 2011, so who better to judge the judges? And in his opinion, he thinks Keith Urban , especially, is just what the show (and the contestants) need. "When I was there, I had Steven [Tyler], Jennifer [Lopez] and Randy [Jackson], and they were great," McCreery told CMT Radio of his experience. "But I don't really think anybody out there got the country music scene. So to have someone like Keith, I think it is going to be a huge help." He also said he loves the show and watches it when he's got downtime between college courses and his tour. "I think [Urban] is giving out great advice. I think it is great for any kind of country artist that might come off that show," he said. Think that's his Idol intuition kicking in? Let's hope so.


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Sea Shepherd Escorts Whaling Fleet Out of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
The Sea Shepherd ships Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker have successfully escorted the Japanese whaling fleet out of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
After repeated orders from Sea Shepherd to desist their illegal activities and remove themselves from the Southern Ocean, the Nisshin Maru, Yushin Maru, Yushin Maru #2 and Shonan Maru #2 have crossed north of sixty degrees and continue to head North by Northwest.
"We did not actually expect them to follow our orders to quit the Whale Sanctuary but they have indeed exited and are now running outside the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary", Said Captain Paul Watson, "They have not killed a single whale since February 5th. We intend to turn four whaling free days into weeks."
At 0500 Hours on February 7th the Nisshin Maru was intercepted by the Steve Irwin at 64 Degrees 2 Minutes South and 80 Degrees 11 Minutes East. The whaling fleet then ran Northeast for 95 miles on a course of 060 Degrees and then changed course at 1600 Hours on February 7th to 260 Degrees began to run Northwest for 260 miles. The whaling fleet left the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary at 1830 Hours (Sydney Time) at 60 Degrees South and 77 Degrees East. (February 9th, 2010)
The Sea Shepherd ships Steve Irwin and Bob Barker continue to chase the Japanese whaling fleet.
"We intend to keep on their tail and to prevent any whaling operations for as long as our fuel reserves last and that should be for another few weeks at least," Said Bob Barker captain Chuck Swift.
The Sea Shepherd ships are with the entire whaling fleet except the Yushin Maru #3. That ship has not been seen since the collision with the Bob Barker on February 6th.


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GwynethJones's curator insight, January 29, 2014 3:19 PM
I never mind when people use my Flickr CC photos, REALLY! - that's why I make them CC! But it would be super nice if they also mentioned my resources, lessons, infographics, & cool stuff related to that subject, too!
I have an infographic How to Make a QR Code in 3 Easy Steps!
Several blog posts about QR Code Scavenger hunts
Leveraging QR codes to connect with parents & community!
I sorta feel left out! LOL
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I defy anyone to have use ALL these tools. Some of these are awesome and about to be added to my repetoire!
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PWInsider is reporting The Shield vs. John Cena, Ryback and Sheamus at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view will be inside the Chamber structure. This would be the first time a six-man tag match has taken place inside the Chamber.
Their report suggests that the match would be conducted under rules similar to the old War Games: The Match Beyond. The Chamber was actually created after Triple H pitched using the Wargames double ring cage structure, only to have the idea shot down and the Chamber created instead.


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THURSDAY, June 9 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is calling for new warning labels on a class of drugs used primarily to treat enlarged prostates, because the medications may raise the risk of developing an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
In a statement released Thursday, the agency said the drugs involved include popular medications sold under the brand names Proscar and Propecia (sold by Merck & Co.) and Avodart and Jalyn (sold by GlaxoSmithKline).
According to the FDA, almost 5 million men were prescribed one of these medications between 2002 and 2009. Of these, nearly 3 million men were between the ages of 50 and 79.
The agency is advising doctors not to start patients on these drugs until prostate cancer -- which can mimic the symptoms of an enlarged prostate -- and other urological conditions have been ruled out.
According to the agency, this new warning is based on the results of two large prostate cancer trials.
Although these trials did not include Propecia, which is prescribed to treat hair loss in men, its label is also being updated. However, the FDA said "the applicability of the Avodart and Proscar studies to Propecia, is currently unknown."
All of these drugs are part of a class of medications called 5-alpha reductase inhibitors (5-ARI). According to the FDA, Proscar, Avodart and Jalyn are approved to treat symptoms of enlarged prostate, while Proscar and Avodart are also approved to reduce the risk of urinary retention or surgery related to an enlarged prostate. Propecia is a lower-dose version of Proscar.
Merck issued a statement Thursday on the FDA ruling.
"Merck stands behind the demonstrated safety and efficacy of Proscar [finasteride, 5mg] and Propecia [finasteride, 1mg]. Both products have been prescribed to millions of men, with Proscar prescribed to those suffering from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH or enlarged prostate) since 1992, and Propecia prescribed to men with male pattern hair loss since 1997," the company statement said. "Merck's goal is to ensure the product labeling includes all relevant trial information to help health-care professionals and their patients make informed treatment decisions."
Less than a year ago, GlaxoSmithKline asked the FDA to approve the use of Avodart to prevent prostate cancer, although the FDA declined that request in January. The company based its reasoning on the results of one of the trials on which the agency is now basing its new warning.
In addition to this new side effect, recent research has shown that Proscar, Propecia and Avodart are all associated with increasing the risk of erectile dysfunction in men who take the medications.
Commenting on the FDA warning, prostate cancer expert Dr. Anthony D'Amico, chief of genitourinary radiation oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said, "I think that the warning is appropriate. The risk is very small, but not zero."
"What both studies show conclusively is there is about a 1 percent increase in being diagnosed with high-grade prostate cancer if you got these drugs -- even though you are less likely to get a low-grade cancer."
Why that is is not clear, D'Amico said. "But I think the warning is fair," he added.
The drugs really do work in preventing prostate cancer, D'Amico said. "You have to weigh the 24 percent reduction against the 1 percent increased incidence of high-grade disease," he said.
"These drugs should only be used in men who have an additional indication to take them beyond prostate cancer prevention," D'Amico said.
More information
For more on prostate cancer, visit the American Cancer Society.
SOURCES: Anthony D'Amico, M.D., chief of genitourinary radiation oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; June 9, 2011, statement, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; June 9, 2011, statement, Merck & Co., Whitehouse Station, N.J.
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A last-ditch attempt by Victoria's Director of Public Prosecutions to confiscate the money made by murdering crime matriarch Judy Moran from the sale of her Ascot Vale house has been rejected by the High Court.
DPP John Champion has appointed senior counsel to seek leave to challenge the Victorian Court of Appeal's affirmation of Justice Lex Lasry's earlier conclusion that the Ormond Road house was not "tainted property".
The house was sold at auction in March last year while the jury was deliberating in Moran's murder trial into the fatal 2009 shooting of her brother-in-law, Des "Tuppence" Moran.
She was convicted of orchestrating the lunchtime murder at a busy Ascot Vale cafe and is now serving a maximum 26 years' jail.
The house sold for $1.07 million and Moran received more than $356,000. But the money remains held in trust by the Department of Justice's asset confiscation office as the legal fight into who should get the money continued – at taxpayers' expense.
Senior Crown Prosecutor Tom Gyorffy, SC, argued on Friday that the Court of Appeal erred when considering the nature of the property as part of the process of determining whether or not it was tainted – and the appeal judges were wrong to solely consider the manner in which the property was used in the commission of the crime.
All of the evidence combined made it tainted, he argued.
"That house was the equivalent of base camp at Mount Everest," he told the High Court.
Had Moran not owned the property, she would not have had the ability to finance the murder, and this fact alone should be sufficient to deem the property tainted, he argued.
The getaway car, a Ford Falcon Moran drove to and from the murder scene, was parked in the garage at the address following the murder, and clothing, disguises and the weapon used to kill her brother-in-law were found hidden in a safe at the house.
And Moran had used the property as security to obtain a $400,000 bank loan with which she bought several cars – one of which was given to hitman Geoffrey Armour as payment for carrying out the murder, he said.
Under the Confiscation Act, the state can seek forfeiture of property if its owner is convicted of an indictable offence and the court is satisfied the property is tainted in relation to the crime.
A tainted property is defined as "property that was used or was intended to be used in, or in connection with, the commission of the offence".
But following what was a brief hearing, and without Moran's lawyers uttering a word in her defence, the two High Court judges refused leave to appeal.
The DPP was ordered to pay court costs.


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AT THE 2012 Tour de France, in the most photogenic setting of all, Mark Cavendish sped down the Champs-Elysees and became the most successful sprinter in the event's history.
Not every outing last season was so idyllic for the British superstar and reigning world champion, and on one of those imperfect days a 23-year-old Geelong born-and-bred Australian acted as spoiler.
It wasn't quite Paris, but in the climax of stage two in September's Tour of Britain, Leigh Howard outsmarted the best in the business. In a close battle to the finish line Cavendish came off second best.
''It's certainly not anything in comparison to a grand tour stage win,'' says Howard, recalling with humility what was for him a major victory he could be forgiven for playing up.
''I opened up the sprint at the right time, 'Cav' made a slight error, and I had the speed.
''But the fact that I showed I have speed to beat the fastest guy in the world was certainly confidence-boosting for me. And it was a pretty big thing to win so close to his home town. We were only 10 or 15 kilometres away.''
Howard hadn't enjoyed such a significant win on the road since the first race of his professional career, in February 2010, when he beat Tom Boonen, Daniele Bennati and Tyler Farrar in the fourth stage of the Tour of Oman.
That debut victory explains why expectations have been so high for the Australian, who has taken his count of world titles on the track to three (omnium and two madisons) since he signed his first professional road contract with the now defunct HTC-Columbia in 2010.
But Howard, who favoured Orica-GreenEDGE over the other suitors for his signature last year, gives the impression no one has put more pressure on his progress than himself. He has been impatient.
''Certainly. Certainly,'' he says. ''I mean, I've definitely seen a lot of progress in my fitness out on the road - finishing tours and the mountain stages are becoming easier for me from a physical aspect. But to get the fine art of sprinting down pat, it's taking a bit longer than I would have hoped.''
Critical to his future success, Howard believes, is his ability to become more aggressive - a characteristic he knows resides within, but which isn't at all apparent when the mild-mannered cyclist is off the bike.
''I've been told I need to get a lot more mongrel in me, especially in the sprint finishes. I have moments of the mongrel; when it does come out of me … I just need to channel that more often in all the sprints that I do,'' Howard says, laughing while describing the alter ego.
''The mongrel has to come out in the last one or two kilometres, when you have corners coming up that you have to be in a certain position for and if you're not in that position - or you're one or two wheels either side of that position - you're not going to win.''
A major lure to Orica-GreenEDGE, which Howard is signed to until the end of this season, was sprint star-turned-coach Robbie McEwen. McEwen, Howard says, mastered the mongrel and has 12 Tour de France stage victories and three green Tour sprinters' jerseys to show for it.
Winning this year's Bay Cycling Classic - something Howard hasn't done but says he is eager to achieve - isn't going to make international headlines. But on the first day of racing for 2013, Howard says it's all about intent, and not just for today, but every day.
''In the back of your head it sort of comes out that it's just the first race; that there's no need to go in and crash for the sake of a Bay crit,'' he says.
''But that's something that I've got to try to learn to override - not think so much, and just go for it. Being scared in a sprint isn't a big issue for me. I guess it's just getting the brain to say 'stuff it, go for it'.''
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On March 23rd, Eminem is releasing a 10xLP box-set, detailed below:
For the first time ever, Eminem's entire Interscope catalog is available in a limited edition vinyl box set. The Eminem Vinyl LPS includes: The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show, 8 Mile Soundtrack, Encore, Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, Relapse, Recovery, and The Marshall Mathers LP2.
The packaging features Eminem half-covered by a red Hockey Mask, and features subtle, iconic designs from throughout his career around the outside edges of the box. Each LP is sealed individually and features the original cover art for each release.
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Museum of the hard to believe, the seller is back on ebay again trying to sell worn out basic sock puppet product of WGN television as a toy of the real puppet that rests in the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. Asking price of $999.99 for one used toy puppet.
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I might pay $999 for one of the Garfields Bruce Newton made and used in his live shows ,but $999 for a vintage toy? I don't think they'll get it
Near as I figure they failed last time - adding a crown with a strap does not make for a better item to collect. Bruce Newton's real Garfield I would think could easy get the price. Would think it would be easier to have someone recreate a better looking Garfield for $999.99 - or less? Only toy I had was the plush Cuddly Duddly of the Ray Rayner show, later Bozo Circus. It was never a puppet and can find a person who sells them and restores them. But, not being a puppet - it's just another toy now that mine is long gone. Inside wires pop out creating a potential danger - my mom threw it out.
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May 17, 2011 > Making a statement
Renegades survive shootout in Solano to advance to second straight State tournament
And in the end, the program from the school on top of the hill was the last one standing after all the dust cleared. Then again, it's what should be expected of a defending State Champion. Right?Ohlone's 4-2 win over Sacramento City College in the decisive second game of the Super Regional baseball final was nothing short of everyday business for the defending state champion. Besides, in order to get to the Super Regional final against Sac City, Ohlone had to fight back twice against San Mateo and Solano College with Ohlone winning both games by a combined two runs.The Renegades opened the Super Regionals on Friday, May 13, against the College of San Mateo in a rematch of the 2010 State title game. And it was played as similar as the title game was in Fresno last year with Ohlone squeaking away with a 16-15 win in 11 innings.Friday's opener saw a combined 35 hits, 31 runs and Ohlone surprisingly surrendering a 13-3 lead before the Bulldogs clawed back into the game with a seven-run sixth inning as CSM simply rocked reliever Jordan Camacho for five-runs as he lasted just one out in the sixth.Down 15-12, the Bulldogs tied the game in the eighth with a three-run inning off of reliever Cody Honea. However, with the game tied at 15, Ohlone scored the go-ahead run in the top of the 11th inning off of Matt Owen's RBI double, scoring Ryan Tella who drew four-walks on the day.CSM rallied back in the bottom of the inning, getting the game-tying and game-winning runs on third and second respectively, however Ryan Devencenzi got the last two batters to fly out to end the game. Ohlone found themselves in a similar situation the next day against Solano College in their narrow 7-6 win.Sophomore ace Matt Fontaine pitched what may have been his second straight clutch complete game in the victory despite allowing six runs (five earned) on nine hits, but did strand runners in scoring position in five of the nine innings he pitched.Solano drew the opening blow off of Trevor Matern's RBI single in the first. Ohlone tied the game at one in the bottom half of the inning off of an RBI single of their own by Kainoa Crowell. The Renegades took charge in the third, scoring three runs to take a 4-1 lead but Solano would answer back to come within one after scoring twice in the fifth inning.Ohlone would score two of their own to take a 7-3 lead after seven innings, but Fontaine pitched clutch in the eighth and ninth inning, despite Solano scoring two runs in the eighth and one in the ninth. With two outs and a runner on second, Fontaine got Patrick Johnson to tap a soft grounder to him as Fontaine threw Johnson out at first to end the game.The Renegades suffered a slight setback in the Super Regional final, falling 12-10 to Sacramento City before their clutch 4-2 Super Regional win. The Panthers handled starter Alika Pruitt for seven runs on 10 hits through six innings.The Renegades held onto a tight 6-5 lead until Sac City scored twice in the seventh, driving in the go-ahead run off of reliever Francis Leon to go up 7-5. The Panthers outscored Ohlone a combined 7-4 in the final three frames, although Ohlone nearly performed another classic comeback, scoring twice in the bottom of the ninth.However, after Sunday's big win, the Renegades have a chance to do something in Bakersfield that hasn't been done in a decade: win back-to-back State titles. They would be the first back-to-back champion since Riverside City won three-straight from 2000-2002. They would also be just the sixth school to have back-to-back titles as the programs first two state championships.To keep track of the Renegades pursuit of back-to-back titles, log onto the Tri-City Voice Sports website, http://sports.tricityvoice.com.


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Submission + - Europe's LHC to Run at Half-Energy through 2011 (sciencemag.org)
quaith writes: "ScienceInsider reports that Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will run at half its maximum energy through 2011 and likely not at all in 2012. The previous plan was to ramp it up to 70% of maximum energy this year. Under the new plan, the LHC will run at 7 trillion electron-volts (TeV) through 2011. The LHC would then shut down for a year so workers could replace all of its 10,000 interconnects with redesigned ones allowing the LHC to run at its full 14 TeV capacity in 2013. The change raises hopes at the LHC's lower-energy rival, the Tevatron Collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, of being extended through 2012 instead of being shut down next year. Fermilab researchers are hoping that their machine might collect enough data to beat the LHC to the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle key to how physicists explain the origin of mass."


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Birthday Bash: Ed Asner Turns "38" On Stage at Broadway's Grace
On Thursday, November 15, the company of Broadway's Grace celebrated star Ed Asner's 83rd birthday. (Asner noted the numbers on the cake were "reversed." It's tough approaching 40.) Friends favorite David Schwimmer joined Grace star Paul Rudd and Oscar nominee Griffin Dunne backstage to get in on the occasion at the Cort Theatre, or at least get in on the cake. Which there was plenty of. Asner, who's a hell of a guy, was happy sharing. Here's wishing you a 38th birthday, Ed, and many more.
Written by Craig Wright and directed by Dexter Bullard, Grace follows the exploits of a young couple (played by Rudd and Keith Arrington) as they attempt to open a chain of Gospel motels in Florida. The show also stars Asner along with Oscar nominee and stage veteran Michael Shannon (Bug).
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Jackson, Mississippi Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he'll file an appeal early next week to try to push an open-carry gun measure into law.
A Hinds County circuit judge has put the law on hold, calling it "unconstitutionally vague." Hood will ask the state Supreme Court to overturn that ruling.
Hood says many law enforcement officers around the state are confused about whether they can arrest someone who's openly carrying a firearm.
Hood says a Hinds County judge has the power to block a state law from taking effect, because the seat of state government is in Hinds County.
But Hood's also telling sheriffs and police officers in the other 81 counties they might be wasting their time by arresting people for simply carrying a gun that's not concealed.


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Custer STATE PARK, S.D. - It didn't take long before we realized this was a special place - kind of "Home on the Range" in real life where buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play.
(Except we were in the Black Hills, not on the range, and the animals were actually bison, deer and pronghorn.)
Still, my 14-year-old son, Ben, and I didn't utter a discouraging word as we drove into the 71,000-acre park for a week of camping. We were too busy counting all the wildlife and taking photos.
First, we encountered a herd of massive, lumbering bison rubbing their shaggy winter coats off on a park sign.
Next, we saw whitetail deer flitting about the trees.
Then we spotted a group of pronghorn trotting skittishly about huge swaths of prairie grass.
In only a few minutes, we'd scored the Home on the Range trifecta.
Over the next few days of exploring the park in the southwest corner of South Dakota, we enjoyed a bonanza of wildlife viewing to go with fun and relaxing hikes, fishing, canoeing, swimming, mountain biking, rock climbing and sightseeing amid rock formations that reminded us of Garden of the Gods ... on steroids.
For me, the trip was a chance to relive a childhood vacation with my family. I was a boy when we camped here and I only have vague memories. But I distinctly recall it being a special place and wanted to share it with Ben.
In retrospect, I don't know why I waited so long to return. It's just a day's drive from Colorado Springs and Custer State Park has so many things to enjoy.
For campers, there were beautiful creekside tent sites, camping cabins with heat, air conditioning and bunkbeds, and improved sites for trailer campers and recreational vehicles.
The park also offers improved cabins with kitchens and baths as well as modern hotel rooms at its four main lodges: Blue Bell, Legion Lake, State Game and Sylvan Lake.
We had made reservations for a camping cabin at Blue Bell where a historic log lodge and dining room built in the 1920s sit along French Creek.
Blue Bell is the most rustic of the lodge areas and included a stable offering guided horseback trail rides and chuckwagon dinners with hayrack rides.
Each camping cabin was knotty pine with four bunks, a table and benches. Outside, each featured a porch, fire pit and picnic table. (We were glad we chose the cabin, rather than using our tent, when nighttime temperatures dropped into the mid-30s and we were not shivering on the ground as we were last year in South Dakota.)
Our cabin faced the woods and we enjoyed watching the trail riders pass by each morning and evening.
We especially liked seeing wild turkey wander past our porch and through the campground as if they owned the place.
Showers and toilets were standard issue, for the most part.
We liked our setting, isolated from the busier east-west corridor of the park where the main Peter Norbeck Visitor Center is located. Our spot gave us quick access to several easy hikes to fire tower lookouts with great views and the outstanding 18-mile Wildlife Loop Road, which we drove morning, noon and evening and encountered a variety of winged, hoofed and slithering wild animals and enjoyed spectacular sunsets.
Custer's famous for its bison herd, re-established by Norbeck, the "Father of Custer State Park," after the animals nearly were massacred to extinction. He bought 36 in 1914 and the herd grew, peaking at 2,500 in the 1940s. Today, park officials adjusts its numbers to prevent overgrazing, keeping it around 1,300.
In fact, Custer's Buffalo Roundup is a major attraction. This year, the 48th annual event is slated for Sept. 27. The roundup attracts upwards of 14,000 to watch staff on horseback corral the herd along Wildlife Loop where the 2,000-pound animals are vaccinated, branded, tested and either released or held for later auction.
We were content to watch them from a safe distance, knowing they can be unpredictable and dangerous. And we saw them daily, eventually driving right past them as we do mule deer in Colorado Springs!
The visitor center was impressive as were the daily activities offered to visitors. There were daily gold-panning demonstrations, which brings to life the region's history.
In 1874, an expedition led by Lt. Col. George Custer discovered gold in French Creek, triggering a gold rush into the Lakota Sioux nation, which Custer and his men were supposed to be protecting.
The gold rush escalated tensions and conflicts with the tribe that climaxed in the Massacre at Wounded Knee. At least 150 men, women and children were slaughtered and buried in a mass grave by U.S. Cavalry troops on the Pine Ridge Reservation, not far from the park. It was the last great battle of the American Indian Wars and it remains a flashpoint among Native Americans.
The park doesn't hide its history and the visitor center is a good place to start. It's also the place to find many programs and information on daily guided nature hikes, patio talks at the various campgrounds and even movie nights.
Ben and I particularly enjoyed the Tuesday-Thursday-Sunday fishing and canoeing programs. Twice during our visit, we were handed life jackets, paddles and canoes and turned loose on beautiful reservoirs for two-hour sessions.
On Center Lake, we paddled alongside two adult geese and seven goslings. On Stockade Lake, we spotted a Mallard duck swimming in reeds near shore. We drifted up to find 10 ducklings swimming along in a line, chirping and quacking. She kept an eye on us as she led them through the cattails. It was like being in a Disney movie.
Best of all, the canoeing was free! We didn't even have to load them.
We also fished quite a bit. I bought a license and Ben was free, allowing us to test the various lakes. We each caught a couple of small fish, but we saw more accomplished anglers filling their limit with crappie and trout. The lakes offer plenty of shoreline and a few docks for fishing. And there are hike-in acres along creeks in the park where fishing is said to be especially good.
If all that outdoor stuff doesn't interest you, Custer has amazing things to see from the comfort of your car.
The 14-mile trip up Needles Highway Scenic Drive to Sylvan Lake is worth every minute. It's a winding and rolling road, built in 1922, that takes you through thick forests, meadows and past soaring granite spires, or needles.
The freeze-thaw cycle has produced spectacular views of formations such as Little Devil's Tower, Cathedral Spires and Needles Eye. We timed our trip to coincide with sunset so the rocks glowed dramatically. Beware, the road is narrow and the two tunnels are one-lane traffic only.
We came back a quicker drive via the town of Custer, where we grabbed some ice cream and explored the historic mining and frontier town.
Another great drive took us up the Iron Mountain Road to Keystone and Mount Rushmore National Memorial. The road was built in 1933 and is not to be missed. It is not fast, but you won't want to hurry through the three tunnels, which were bored specifically to frame Mount Rushmore for motorists. Again, these are one-lane tunnels so be patient with oncoming traffic.
We timed our visit to Mount Rushmore so we could explore the park during daylight, leave for dinner in nearby Keystone, a mining town that reminded me of Cripple Creek, and return to the memorial for its evening lighting ceremony.
At 9 p.m. each summer night, the park's amphitheater hosts a 20-minute ceremony with a video explaining the background of the four presidents whose faces are sculpted on the mountain. It gets your patriotic juices flowing with appropriate music and images until the faces above begin to glow dramatically.
The park uses the program as an opportunity to honor military veterans in attendance. It was quite inspiring and I recommend it.
For those with more time, Ben and I suggest stopping in Hot Springs south of Custer and the Wind Cave National Park. We visited the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, walked under a waterfall along the Fall River and waded in its warm waters.
The mammoth site was impressive. You can stand at the edge of a 25,000-year-old sinkhole and easily see the skeletons of 60 or so Ice Age beasts that fell in it and died trying to climb out.
In previous years, we've made the trip to nearby Badlands National Park. It's certainly worth a day to see the hoodoos, spires and buttes carved from 65 million years of volcanic ash and sediment.
For railroad buffs, the 1880 Train is a vintage steam train that runs from Hill City to Keystone.
Miles of bike trails run along former railroad right-of-way in the region. And besides Wind Cave, there's Jewel Cave National Monument west of Custer for explorers.
Ben and I were content to spend most of our time in Custer. He especially liked the Wildlife Loop and we made several visits.
We had lunch along the loop one day, watching bison dust themselves in a dried pond. We saw a large coyote trot across the road in front of us and into the timber. We saw a rattlesnake slithering in the road. And we saw many hawks, golden eagles and even a prairie falcon.
And we went out in the evening to spot animals at dusk with a handheld light. That night, we enjoyed a glimmering sunset behind the Black Hills, which reflected off a pond. We watched a turtle cross the road to reach a creek. And we stopped to listen and watch a huge owl perched atop an old snag of a tree.
The highlight of the trip for Ben was on our last day when we spent about an hour tracking a small group of pronghorn. We videotaped as several young pronghorn sparred, pushing each other back and forth with their horns locked.
And as we were about to leave the loop and go home, we came upon the famous Custer State Park burros in a meadow just off the road.
Ben had hoped to see them and until this last moment they had eluded us. Like the donkeys of Cripple Creek, these are descendants of animals brought into the Black Hills to work the mines, pulling ore carts. They were set free when the gold played out and the miners moved on.
A crowd quickly gathered as the burros mooched for food. Unlike the rest of the wildlife, the burros were very gentle and patient as tourists crowded them and children ran about excitedly.
A park ranger had told us many of the burros were pregnant and that it was OK to feed them healthy snacks, so we pulled out a banana. Not only did our shaggy, oddly spotted friend eat the banana, he grabbed the peel and ate it too!
"Seeing the burros made my trip complete," Ben said as we drove away.
I had to agree. And I wondered.
I had first visited Custer State Park when I was about Ben's age. My family camped and hiked and fished and sat around the campfire, just as I did with Ben. Would our trip leave as lasting an impression on him as it did on me?
I'm betting that someday, years from now, he'll return to this amazing place and introduce his own kids to Custer State Park.


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Keema! Indian Lamb and Pea recipeMay 31st, 2008 , by Melissa
I had some ground lamb on hand, when I found this recipe and remembered the keema from a nearby Indian recipe. My sons ate some, even the peas and veggies, and liked it. It was a bit spicy for my 2 year old, but he didn't complain. It was pretty easy, I simplified the recipe a bit as I have a nice curry powder that includes all the spices from the original version. I had a late start on dinner, after a day of gardening and cleaning, so simple was good.
Adapted from COOKS.COM
1 tbsp. macadamia nut oil (was peanut)
3/4 c. chopped onion
1 tsp. minced garlic
1 tsp. fresh grated ginger
2 tbsp. curry powder
1 tsp. salt (or to taste)
1 lb. ground lamb
1 c. tomatoes, chopped
1 tbsp. lime juice (I only had lemon, it worked ok)
3/4 tsp. agave nectar (was 1 tsp. sugar)
1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper (optional, I added mine at the table)
1 c. peas, fresh or frozen
2 c. cooked rice (basmati)
Saute onion in the oil. Add spices and lamb. When meat is browned, add tomatoes, lime juice, agave and red pepper. Simmer for 30 minutes. Add peas and serve over rice. Serves 4.


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....Germany would already have laws in place for out-of-control parties.
Huh? Really? [oktoberfest.de]
It's perfectly controlled.
And that wasn't the type of party I meant...
It's perfectly controlled.
My bad, a confusion... I intended to make a reference [wikipedia.org] to Love parade 2010 [guardian.co.uk]
And that wasn't the type of party I meant...
I know... just teasing. Even the reference to the too-tightly-controlled Love Parade 2010 doesn't mean I think of Germany as a country were such incidents happens on regular basis and nobody cares.
Godwinned in one post. I'm impressed!
Heheh, the best was some douche showing off his vast cultural knowledge by linking oktoberfest.
I agree. They probably do. Any event that has a 10,000 people RSVP'ing to it, would probably require a permit or something, and the appropriate number of porta-potties. Worst case scenario, have the small hosting city ban public parking on the surrounding streets for that day, call in hundreds of private tow trucks, and sell a couple of permits for hot dog vendors and what not.
That's what some cities do here in the US for some football games, and there is great deal of cash that's generated from the towing alone. The city could also temporarily close some streets for non-residents, and direct the traffic to its nearest commercial district instead. Some businesses would probably love the extra traffic (assuming it knew about it ahead of time).
We have.
The statements mentioned here were made by a bunch of politicians who don't know their own laws!
BTW: those - perhaps two - parties that went "viral" mostly went viral because the tabloids reprinted screenshots of the facebook events to make sure anyone and his dog can find them online.
...they called it the Arab spring...
Ban politicians from making ridiculous unenforceable bans.
This is all part of the German silly season ("Sommerloch") - a period in summer when many political institutions are on vacation, so politicians which would normally be ignored can make it into the news - just because nobody important is active.
The statements in the article were all by conservatives in Germany (CDU + CSU). Given that it's interesting that Dorothee Baer - secretary general of the CSU - has asked that "comments about the Internet should be made only by those who are familiar with it". Sound advice.
And no, Germany is not considering banning facebook parties, this is just an attempt by some politicians to get noticed.
This is all part of the German silly season ("Sommerloch") - a period in summer when many political institutions are on vacation
Yeah, this used to be called "saure Gurken Zeit" [wikipedia.org], but for some reason this season took place a little bit early [wordpress.com] this year...
Really, I hate FB as much as the next poster, but how is this a Facebook problem? Didn't happened before Facebook? -- Happens the same here every time a girl meets some random guy thanks to facebook $crime_happens and everyone blames Facebook.
Anyway.. those must be some hardcore parties there (cue references to German porn)
Because facebook defaults for privacy are getting more and more open.
Germany could implement a law that by default parties are "Invite only" and "Guests may not invite people."
Germany could implement a law that by default parties are "Invite only" and "Guests may not invite people."
The sad thing is that laws could be needed for that... while this simply are the only reasonable defaults for an event for publication on a site like Facebook. With making it any more open preferably only possible after posting the event, by having to explicitly change related options. Maybe not convenient, but preventing a lot of trouble.
or to send him away
Doesn't help if 5000 people show up. They'll just party outside of the door, drinking their own beer, and inconveniencing the neighbors...
(and call the police if he doesn't go)
And if you don't call police, your neighbors will... which is exactly what happened here, but who'll pay the bill?
It's no different from slapping "Open Party" banners on signposts and having 5,000 people turn up - I'm pretty sure the police would hold you responsible for the turnout and any resulting carnage.
As such, why not make the host responsible for posting an open party invite? A few hefty fines for likely convince people to make events private unless they really mean it.
Facebook should also do more to encourage private events... but that's another story.
Closer to making 20 invites at your local Copy Shop and accidentally leaving the master on the machine when some stranger stumbles upon it takes it and makes 100,000 copies.
At least with facebook they can be forced to change the default settings.
Not really. An open facebook invite could show up in anybodies feed, and most people take "Open Invitation" to mean "I can go if I want".
A lot of people actually organize open parties like this intentionally, and so a lot of people assume an open invitation is designed to handle larger numbers of people.
Closer to making 20 invites at your local Copy Shop and accidentally leaving the master on the machine when some stranger stumbles upon it takes it and makes 100,000 copies.
Even better, a copy machine that makes 20 invite copies for you, then another 100,000 copies that it gives out one-by-one to all subsequent customers. Unless, of course, you knew that you now needed to turn off that particular copy machine "give-everybody-a-copy" feature.
In that particular case some weeks ago, the girl noticed her mistake, closed the post and cancel her party. People found it "funny" to show up regardless. Her parents had to hire private security for their home, massive police presence to close the street and control the hundreds that came (even from far away).
Some further notes:
1) The police is opposing the "ban it" back-seat politicians, they say it is not feasible.
2) The boulevard press jumped on the bandwagon and accelerated events by persistent reporti
Dear German Authorities,
Send a bill for damages and legal costs to anyone too stupid to figure out how to set their event privacy settings to something other than 'everyone'. After the first few college kids see their lives vaporize into a black sucking hole of wage garnishments and crappy housing options, they'll cry and moan about it on facebook, thus solving your problem. That's how we do it here, and it's worked out pretty well for us so far.
Some Bitchy American
I just checked myself: Facebook by default enables the "Anyone can view and RSVP (public event)" option. That should be disabled by default. It is easy enough to forget to untick that one... type your birthday invitation, when you're done mum calls "dinner's ready!", quickly finish up, click "post", off to dinner.
It's just plainly ridiculous that an event is public by default. And I'm sure that's a major part of the cause of these unintended mass parties. Now if Facebook becomes more sensible in these matters, then I'm all for your ideas. Until then, Facebook is definitely one to carry part of the blame.
I just checked myself: Facebook by default enables the "Anyone can view and RSVP (public event)" option. That should be disabled by default. It is easy enough to forget to untick that one... type your birthday invitation, when you're done mum calls "dinner's ready!", quickly finish up, click "post", off to dinner.
That's why I use email for my birthday party invitations.
And the best thing about that: I can even invite people who are NOT signed up to facebook! And even better: It even works when they have another email provider than the one I use! Can you imagine that? That's so AMAZING, I'm sure email is going to be the Next Big Thing! (Joking aside: that could be the best feature in google+)
they're just mad because they never get invited.
This seems to be a symptom of Facebook's lax security policies, more than anything else. By default, just about anything you ever post or do on Facebook should be restricted to authorized people (e.g., friends or even smaller groups). Posting something that is visible to the internet or to large numbers of people should be difficult unless you've explicitly tailored your settings to be more public than the defaults.
But, of course, Facebook wants everything to be as public as possible.
Politicians in TF
This has nothing to do with facebook parties. There is an ongoing conflict between the current political caste and the internet community. Since the politicians managed to antagonize nearly all net activists with a law about net blocks (which never went into effect), the net has now become a dangerous mine field for politicians.
A net initiative toppled lately several high ranking politicians who have been discovered to have cut&pasted their PHD thesis. Among them was the secretary of defense who was a media darling and earmarked to become the next conservative chancellor (candidate).
Facebook parties are no real problem (i heard about 4 instances which became problematic in the last 24 months, about half of them have been unintentionally). So such a law will have no effect, especially since current laws already cover the area.
But it is a great opportunity for politicians to designate the internet as source of evil and to demonstrate their boldness by stepping forward and putting an end to it.
CU, Martin
Since the politicians managed to antagonize nearly all net activists
Now they really need to watch out! Somebody might start an online petition
Has already been done. It was the petition with the most signatories in german history. The politicians didn't get it anyway.
It is possibe in Germany to have an online petition that is an official petition to the parliament. They wer confused (for about 5s), smiled and dismissed it. But due to the number of petitioners, they at least had to do it in public.
Somebody doesn't understand the concept of a bilingual pun.
Some politicians try to improve their ratings among their voters by shouting around a little bit.
The suggestions are mostly laughed at, and even their political friends usually are not impressed.
A law against a more or less spontaneous party of many persons with "nobody" in charge (or somebody who unintentionally invited the people) will be difficult to forbid.
For anything else (commercial events, political demonstrations etc.) there are rules already.
Germans are allowed to assemble in public (paragraph 22
Simplest solution?
If the 'reveal' is misuse, charge the people holding the party for the FULL cost of the event, and hold them (as any party-holder would be) legally responsible for the consequences of the party.
If the revelation was through a technical flaw in the social software, hold Facebook (or whomever) responsible.
One can't idiot-proof the world, only establish chains of causality and let people/companies respond to the incentives/disincentives that exist.
Logic is the chastity belt of the mind!


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Thought the show was great. Henley is one intense dude....he reminded me more of a civil war General in the end...than a musician.
Frey came off like a real sharp, ruthlessly ambitious guy who never really thought of the band as anything other than him and Henley, despite the rotating cast of support players.
Geffen came off like a tool, but I'll never understand why Don would go with him again after the first go round....his complaining sounded hollow, since he knew what Geffen was about all along.
Lots of respect for Rondstat for the way she handled the boys leaving her band.
All in all, a great watch.
No offense to SOOTH or anyone else who likes The Eagles. BUT, IMO, it's elevator music designed to be on the corporate side of the rock spectrum.
The Doobie Brothers or Poco could play and write circles around them. That is, if we're talking about rock tunes, not easy listening, where The Eagles would have the clear advantage.
Thats why its so much fun to mess with you.
You cant be serious about your stated views on the Eagles so I'm not even entertaining them.
I am with Borgo.
Good band, a lot of songs I like, but Greatest American Rock Band of the 20th century?!?!?!
Thats a bit much.
work is styled as the type of music our parents would have enjoyed dancing to at the country club "Saturday Night Rock Fete and Chinese Auction".
Henley's reminds me of Sting, Henley could of stayed a very successful solo act, but unlike Sting he "let" the other band mates back to make some serious money.
Plus, I want to slap the crap out of those whirling dervish dancing chicks. Hot or not, please f**king stop.


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ADAM Gilchrist has made the staggering prediction that one-day cricket will be ''history'' within three years.
Australia's greatest wicketkeeper/batsman believes the declining format, on the slide in popularity since the ascent of domestic and international Twenty20 cricket, will likely not last beyond the 2015 World Cup, to be hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
Cricket authorities have conceded the game is in a transitional phase and, as they attempt to maintain the sanctity of the Test format and manage the rise of the 20-over revenue spinner and a heavy international schedule, the original limited-overs version is the odd one out.
Gilchrist, who made a name for himself internationally in Australia's one-day team before enjoying a brilliant Test career as well, does not rate its chances of survival.
''I reckon about three years, I see it, and it will be pretty much gone,'' he told Triple M's Summer Session. ''There is a World Cup in 2015 - I believe TV deals are all locked away to get to that and those commitments will be fulfilled. But after that, I think it will be history.
''I suspect that one-day cricket may be obsolete in about three years' time. I suspect that after that the appetite for it might diminish and all the TV programmers and the administrators will be focusing on the two other forms. Twenty20, let's face it, is the revenue stream that keeps the longer version alive. I just suspect that's the way it's headed.''
More than 30 years after limited-overs cricket in coloured clothing took off in Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket revolution, crowds have dropped off dramatically in recent years, a trend assisted by the Twenty20 boom.
Figures presented to Cricket Australia's new board in October demonstrated the format's fall from grace. While CA continues to throw its support behind the one-day game ahead of its hosting of the World Cup it is faced with a major challenge to restore or even retain crowd numbers.
A total of 456,264 spectators attended ODI
matches in the summer of 1999-2000, a figure that plummeted to 251,916 last season.
There has also been consternation about seemingly meaningless stand-alone ODI series such as Australia's five-match series in England in the winter, and with the design of the format itself, which lends itself to innings often meandering along between the 15th and 40th overs and only coming alive at start and finish.
CA maintains that television ratings for ODI cricket remain strong, and the format will be a plank of the new five-year domestic broadcast rights deal due to be finalised soon.
Gilchrist argues it will ultimately become consumed amid the demand for cricket's other two forms.
''One-day cricket gave me my opening at international level, so I'll forever be indebted to that but I just suspect the appetite will be Twenty20 cricket or the pure version,'' he said.
But there is a complication with England and Wales having already been assigned hosting rights for the 2019 World Cup.
CA spokesman Peter Young said the governing body did not share Gilchrist's views. ''The World Cup is the world's fourth biggest sporting event, it's got a viewing audience of a billion people,'' he said. ''Our own research shows when you measure the affection of cricket with the Australian public that ODI cricket has still got a lot of life left in its legs.''


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Last Sunday, I was very pleased to give a presentation and facilitate a discussion on tablet computing for genealogy. This was for the Technology Interest Group of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society (LLCGS). We had a wonderful turnout with a lot of great comments and questions.
While it's not quite the same as being there in person, here are the slides that I shared with the group. I guess I'm going to have to change a few of the transition slides in the examples of photo editing software for online viewing. But for now, here it is. I've also posted a PDF file of some recommended apps for the iPad and iPhone to aid in genealogy research. I hope you'll pick up a few tips. Click here for the PDF file.


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"Take My Breath Away" — the theme of the 2013 Northeast R-IV (Cairo) Prom, held Saturday evening (April 27) — did just that when young couples paraded around the gymnasium, before family and friends, dressed in elegant attire from head to toe. Prom royalty included Seniors Queen Caitlin Canote and King Dakota Owen.
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