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Good Luck Charms
Posted 17 January 2008 - 07:38 AM
Posted 17 February 2008 - 04:40 PM
I don't know if I posted this is the right section, but....
does anyone here believe in good luck charms? Has anyone lost one and then all of a sudden it seems that you have this string of horrible bad luck? If you have lost one or have one presently that you possess, please share!
Here's mine:
Just a couple of months ago I went to this old run down theatre that shows movies for cheap and will occasionally run old films too. The best old theatre style popcorn ever! My friends and I went the movie Labyrinth. (Quite the magical movie itself!) Instead of the normal theatre workers, it was university students putting on the show and running the box office to raise money for the university's radio station. Instead of getting a quarter back in my change, I received a coin with Arabic writing on it. When I showed it to people they were amazed. One guy told me to hold on to it because it could be a good luck charm.
Well enventually I was careless and lost the coin. After that, our car always broke down, my Nintendo DS and one of my digital cameras got stolen. Our door to our bedroom mysteriously stopped working. One day we went to unlock the door and the key wouldn't work. It wasn't the lock, the tumblers on the door came loose by themselves! Well, the computer crashed to but I'll chalk that up to coincidence because you know computers these day, lol! So who knows, just coincidence or do good luck charms exist?
Posted 17 February 2008 - 04:47 PM
I also think that our own beliefs and attitudes can have a profound effect on us. Look at the popularity of the book "the Secret" It sells itself as a magical solution. It is in fact, the power of positive thinking and well placed goals.
PS sorry about the bad stuff, that stinks.
Edited by Amylew, 17 February 2008 - 04:48 PM.
Posted 17 February 2008 - 04:53 PM
Posted 17 February 2008 - 09:35 PM
Not to contradict myself though, but I do carry crystals with me on an almost daily basis. I believe they have properties that bring certain types of energy and healing to us that we need.
If you have an interest in crystals, a great one to start with is Citrine. It is the only crystal that never needs cleansing even if someone else touches it. I found out recently that crystals do wear out however. So if you overuse one, you eventually may have to replace it.
Posted 17 February 2008 - 09:42 PM
Edited by paraviews, 17 February 2008 - 09:44 PM.
Posted 17 February 2008 - 10:25 PM
Posted 18 February 2008 - 08:49 AM
This sounds really interesting to me...I'd enjoy learning more about the different types and what energies they're supposed to bring.
Not to contradict myself though, but I do carry crystals with me on an almost daily basis. I believe they have properties that bring certain types of energy and healing to us that we need.
If you have an interest in crystals, a great one to start with is Citrine. It is the only crystal that never needs cleansing even if someone else touches it. I found out recently that crystals do wear out however. So if you overuse one, you eventually may have to replace it.
Posted 18 February 2008 - 11:55 AM
~I have a good luck charm!!! I'm not Catholic, but I bought this pretty rosary from The Dollar Tree right before Tommy's heart surgery. I had that rosary in my hand the whole time he was in surgery. Now it hangs from my mirror in my car, and everytime I see it sway, I just remember how much faith and love and hope I put into that pretty pink rosary that day. I lost it last month for a day (I used to have a very big purse) & that whole day went crappy. I went to look for the rosary and I couldn't find it (this purse was pretty huge). I found it that evening & the following day, the whole day went as though the previous day never exhisted.
That is SO touching and perfectly describes my idea of a good luck charm. I also have a rosary*I collect them* but the one that means the most to me and I consider my good luck charm is one my grandmother gave to me before she passed.
A good luck charm is something that makes you feel safe, protected...even if it has no "magical" merit...its what it means to you, thats the value of a good luck charm.
Or do things worth the writing.
Posted 21 February 2008 - 07:27 PM
One is round and white and the other is shaped like an arrowhead and kind of a lite green color. I'll see if i can find more info on them and post here.
It's closing time here at work for today but I'll see what I can find tomorrow.....
Posted 22 February 2008 - 03:27 PM
I don't believe in "luck," I agree with what Kira and Amylew said about our attitudes and being positive or negative having effects on things. I do carry a real four leaf clover in one of the photo sleeves of my wallet though. Not that I think it brings me luck in the traditional sense of the word, but there's a personal story attached to the clover and how it was found and who found it. So it more or less brings me positive memories and maybe that brings me luck.
Posted 22 February 2008 - 07:25 PM
I've merged the two threads together.
Posted 23 February 2008 - 01:06 AM
Or do things worth the writing.
Posted 23 February 2008 - 02:54 AM
well said , willow, I have a four leaf clover that my eldest son sent to me all the way from Finland, when I lived in the States, he grew them himself, and wanted me to share his "good luck" ....simply because he was happy and content with his life and the way it turned out ! I had it sealed in plastic, and keep it in my purse at all times.
I have been known to rub it over a lottery ticket now and then.....lol.....
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Medical Student Hosts & Mentors from Uganda Present at Global Health Evening
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- By Erin E Post
The latest program in the Global Health series sponsored by the University of Vermont College of Medicine and Danbury Hospital/Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) took place in the College's Medical Education Center on Monday, December 9, with a presentation from a professor at Uganda's Makerere University College of Health Sciences who serves as a mentor and host to visiting medical students.
Samuel Luboga, M.MeD., Ph.D., and his wife Christine discussed "Beyond Medical Tourism, Building Sustainable Collaborations: Challenges and Rewards; Host Perspective." The evening program was hosted by Majid Sadigh, M.D., UVM clinical associate professor of medicine and director of Global Health at UVM College of Medicine clinical teaching partner Danbury Hospital/WCHN.
Luboga is an associate professor and deputy dean of education for the faculty of medicine at Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Kampala, Uganda. With his wife, Christine, he hosts UVM College of Medicine students who complete a global health elective at the Uganda Cancer Institute. Students stay at the Luboga home in the village of Mpererwe Namere. Taylor Goller and Karl Kristiansen, both members of the class of 2016 who visited Uganda over the summer, shared during a previous global health night that staying with the Luboga family was an invaluable part of the experience.
The Uganda Cancer Institute is one of several sites that are part of the new global health program. To ensure opportunities for medical students interested in studying abroad, Sadigh has worked with the UVM College of Medicine to formalize the application process and create partnerships with sites, which in addition to the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala, include Kazan State Medical University in Kazan, Russia; College of Health Sciences in Harare, Zimbabwe; and Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.
The Global Health Series: A Mission Towards Change program is held monthly throughout the academic year. Students, residents and faculty from the UVM College of Medicine, UVM College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and Fletcher Allen Health Care are invited to attend the sessions, which include refreshments.
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Any one has a Irregular English verb song?
If you have game for Irregular English verb is even better?
I'll then learn all of them in one day only.
Yes I have a verb song which has the whole irregular verb 'to be ' in it.
You can find it on my site http://www.thejemsite.com and it is called 'Verbs, Verbs, Verbs' (naturally ). The song is a contemporary rock ballad and is fairly generalistic about what verbs are and gives examples of them. However it does have the entire 'to be' verb in it...since it is rather special.
I'm not sure whether this would be something you are interested in or not. The song is set within the context of Australian football (Aussie Rules) and so has some Australian colloquialisms in it as well. Though it was intended to help young Australian boys understand what verbs are and how to use them, I'm sure there may be something in there that others might like.
My site is a kind of i-tunes for teachers but also offers free teaching materials with each song. I hope this helps.
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The BBC reported earlier this week how former Hull City and Bradford striker Dean Windass was ashamed of his depression following his suicide admission in January this year.
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The junior from Malibu High School leads her team into their final three races of the year over the next five weeks, the first of which is the CCAA Championships this weekend in Chino, Calif. Hodgins recently took some time out of her busy schedule, between training and her class work, to answer a wide variety of questions.
Q- How has this year compared to your previous years at UCSD?
HODGINS- It has actually been completely different because last year I had to deal with some bleeding ulcers that I had. It was for me to balance running with taking the medicine. But it got better and I trained really hard over the summer and it just really seems to be clicking for me right now.
Q- Were you happy with the way you ran at the UCSD Triton Cross Country Classic?
HODGINS- I was very happy. It was a minute and a half faster than the time I ran last year in the same event, so I was very pleased with that.
Q- What can you attribute that new personal best to?
HODGINS- I am just healthier. I actually had slacked off in the previous summers, but this year I did all of the workouts and because I am healthier, I think that has made all of the difference.
Q- Your new PR came in the third race of three straight weeks with a race. Isn't that a little unusual for a runner?
HODGINS- I was a little surprised myself because going into the race I felt like my legs were pretty tired, but it is so mental out there. You just go out and try to hold on mentally and fortunately I was able to keep it together that way.
Q- As a team, what are you guys looking for at the CCAA Championships this weekend?
HODGINS- We are looking to win. We are hoping to beat Chico State, and this year it does seem like a reasonable goal even though we have never accomplished that before. Hopefully we can beat them there and at the NCAA Regionals and come in the top-10 at the NCAA Nationals.
Q- The top-10 goal at the NCAA Nationals, is that a yearly goal for the team?
HODGINS- Actually our goal in the past was just to make it to nationals. But, with the realization that we have made it two of the last three years, we think that a top-10 finish is attainable. We also have a much deeper squad than we have had in past years, which should also help.
Q- How has Coach Van Arsdale added that depth that you talked about to the squad?
HODGINS- His workout regimen is such that you are supposed to set a new PR each and every year you run for him. He is building it so that you are your strongest during your senior year. So far, it seems to be working.
Q- Through your first two plus years at UCSD, what has your experience been like on campus?
HODGINS- It has been really; really fun, but I attribute most of that to the team. I love the team aspect of my sport and the fact that some of my best friends are ones that have come as a result of the team.
Q- How did you get involved with running as a competitive sport?
HODGINS- I was actually a very hyper child as I was No. 5 out of six kids in my family. When I was younger I was walking through the mall with my parents and they saw a flyer for a track club. So I have actually been running competitively since I was six years old. They thought that was the best way to get energy out of me without getting hurt.
Q- Some people don't like to drive for 20 to 30 minutes, yet you run for that amount of time and even longer. Where does the joy of running come from for you?
HODGINS- For me it is just a pure sport. It feels like you are just testing your body to its limits each and every time you run competitively. Plus I just love competing.
Q- Your third race of the season this year was at the site of the 2004 NCAA Division II Cross Country National Championships. Did that competition give you guys any sort of edge if you qualify for nationals again?
HODGINS- I think it will. We will be more mentally focused and prepared for what is ahead of us. We know the ups and downs of it, like the 400 meter hill at the end of the course, which is a lot like our course here, so we will be very prepared for it.


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There has been nearly $4 billion in public/private development from 2004 to 2011 along the 7.5-mile line. At Main and Congress, several bars and restaurants have since opened their doors. And more recently, there is residential activity near Bell Station and other projects in the works near the ballpark and in Midtown.
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Houston METRO's Main Street Line crossed 50-, 75- and 100-million boardings four years ahead of schedule. These achievements were reached with only 18 rail cars.
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Deputies with the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office know each new day brings another chance for armed robberies, car break-ins or a variety of other crimes.
Luckily, these crimes are occasionally caught on video. Unfortunately, the quality of the video can stall an arrest.
CAPT J.D. Yeager of the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office says, "We get an armed robbery or some crime where there's a videotape of it, a lot of time the images are not real clear."
But not for long. LCSO is one of the very first recipients of the Justice Assistance Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. The money will be used to improve the video analysis system.
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But the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office isn't the only one receiving money. The Valdosta Police Department will also receive a cut of that grant, meaning improved services for city residents as well.
LT Bernard Robinson of the Valdosta Police Department says. "The JAG Grant will enable the Valdosta Police Department to obtain more equipment, which will provide better services for the citizens of Valdosta, which will help us to protect them better."
It's something that always remains a priority for both the Police Department and Sheriff's Office.
The two departments will split more than $45,000 of grant funds, which will help pay for all the upgrades.


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Sara Ackerman's beef with NYU started over an assignment that involved going down to Zuccotti Park and writing an ethnography on the Occupy Wall Street protestors. Sara says she refused to go down because of ethical disagreements and concerns about "the criminals, drug addicts, mentally ill people" that were there. She requested an alternative assignment, but wasn't granted one by CAS Dean Kalb until, she had already gone down to OWS "with two other young girls, who are quite attractive and thin, and don't look particularly physically fit enough to take on a potential predator, rapist, paranoid schizophrenic, etc" and felt like she "escaped an extremely dangerous — and even, life threatening — situation."IN THE COMMENTS: Jay said...
Ackerman sent seven very long e-mails and a total of 4,000 words to everyone in the Department of Social and Cultural AnalysisHere's an idea for an "alternative assignment": do a "social and cultural analysis" of the 4,000 words of email. If we're doing "ethnography," step back and see the larger picture of the 5-foot-1-inch, 105-pound female forced by her elders into a rough city milieu. She's an interesting object of ethnography as she resists being an ethnographer to people she feels intimidated by. And whatever happened to feminist analysis? There is formal equality when all students receive the same assignment, but in a more subtle understanding of equality, there is discrimination against tiny women.
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Wynn Resorts recently reported its Q4 2013 earnings. The profits rose 92%, fueled by revenue gains from Macau operations. The mass-market gaming segment in Macau jumped 35% while VIP gaming turnover grew by 24% for Wynn. Las Vegas operations saw an increase of 2% in revenues and 8% jump in EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) as compared to the same period in 2012. Overall, Wynn reported earnings of $214 million or $2.10 a share, as compared to $111 million or $1.10 a share in the prior-year period. Wynn's solid performance and surge in Macau gaming drove the company's stock around 60% higher in 2013.
Wynn's strong results were primarily driven by strong mass-market gaming revenues in Macau. We continue to believe that mass-market gaming will drive future growth for casino operators in Macau. Mass-market gaming is a more stable and high-margin business and growth in this segment is good news for Wynn, which derives majority of its value from VIP operations. The company is building a $4 billion resort on the Cotai Strip, which will open in January 2016. A second phase of the project is planned to come up two years later that could bring total spending in the region to $9 billion. The new properties will enhance Wynn's capacity in the region and boost revenue growth.
We currently have $155 price estimate for Wynn Resorts, which we will soon update based on the fourth quarter earnings announcement.
See our complete analysis of Wynn Resorts' stock here
Macau Continues Its Impressive Run
Wynn witnessed solid growth in Macau as overall gambling continued to grow in the region. Betting in Macau soared 19% to $45 billion in 2013. Wynn's Macau revenues jumped 25% to $1.12 billion and EBITDA surged 32% to $374 million in the fourth quarter as compared to the prior year period. While VIP gaming turnover jumped 24% to $34 billion for the fourth quarter of 2013, VIP table games win as a percentage of turnover for the quarter was 2.92% as compared to 2.96% experienced in the prior year quarter.
Mass-market gaming has been growing rapidly in Macau and Wynn is also benefiting from this growth. While there was 1% decline in mass-market drop to $692 million, the segment's win percentage of 42.3% was significantly higher than the 31.1% experienced in the prior year quarter. The higher win percentage led to 35% jump in mass-market table games wins to $293 million. Overall, the company was able to balance its Macau business between a volume gain in the VIP segment and a gain in the win percentage in the mass-market segment, which provides faster growth and higher margins. It will be interesting to see if Wynn in 2014 manages to capture higher market share in this segment.
U.S. Operations And Expansion Plans
According to our estimates, Las Vegas operations contribute more than 13% to Wynn's value. The company witnessed moderate growth in the region as compared to the fourth quarter of 2012. The table games drop increased by 8% to $724 million and the table games win percentage was 28.8%, higher than the 26.8% reported during the same period in 2012. Net casino revenues were up 2.4% to $400 million. In non-casino operations, the company's food and beverage segment saw 12% decline in revenues to $98.1 million, primarily due to declines in nightclub and catering revenues.
The company eyes expansion in the U.S. and is competing to build casino-resort in Massachusetts. Wynn is seeking a reduction in the share of gambling revenues the state would take if the company is approved to build a casino. In the earnings call last week, Stephen A Wynn, founder and chairman of Wynn Resorts, stated that the company should be subject to the same tax that would be applied to a tribal casino proposed in Taunton by the Mashpee Wampanoags. The state's gambling law requires casino operators to pay a 25% tax on gambling revenues. But a separate compact with the Mashpee calls for a 17% tax if the casino is the only one built in southeastern Massachusetts. Mr. Wynn said that his casino would be in an "intolerably disadvantaged position" by paying 50% more for the product. If the company gets all the approvals to build the resort, it would invest around $1.5 billion with close to $1 billion in debt.
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Lions Honor 75 on Commencement Saturday
Annual Commencement Breakfast honors 75 graduating student-athletes on Saturday morning.
Lions Honor 75 on Commencement Saturday
Annual Commencement Breakfast honors 75 graduating student-athletes on Saturday morning.
Ten Claim WWPA Academic Honors
Ten men's water polo student-athletes among 2012 WWPA All-Academic selections.
Lions Hold On To Advance
Men's water polo defeats Pomona-Pitzer 13-11 to advance to WWPA semifinals against Air Force on Saturday.
Mikuzis Scores Another Winner
Lions earn another fourth quarter winner, defeat Cal Baptist 8-7 in regular season finale.
Lions' All-Access Highlights
Lions' All-Access Highlights from LMU's 13-11 win in WWPA first round.
Highlights from LMU's 9-8 win over Air Force
Highlights from LMU's 9-8 win over Air Force
Men's Water Polo Travels to UC Davis & Santa Clara
Lions' All-Access preview of Men's water polo and their trip north to face UC Davis and Santa Clara. Interview with Jon Colton
LMU at Pepperdine
Jon Colton is featured in the Inside the Lions Preview of LMU men's water polo and its showdown with rival Pepperdine.
Men's Water Polo Preview with Coach John Loughran
Inside the Lions season preview of the 2012 LMU men's water polo team with an interview from Head Coach John Loughra.
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LMU 9, Air Force 8 - Nov. 3, 2012
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LMU at Pepperdine from Sept. 8, 2012
2012 Student-Athlete Graduation
LionsFund Student-Athlete Pre-Graduation Gathering
Water Polo VS UCSD
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Honors... 2011... honorable mention ACWPC All-American... was named First-Team All-WWPA... WWPA All-Academic...2010... was named first-team WWPA All-Tournament... 2010 WWPA All-Academic...
Highlights At LMU... 2011... played in all 25 games for the Lions, scoring 24 goals with 12 assists, 16 steals and a team-best 71 kickouts drawn... he drew a kickoff in 24 of the Lions' 25 games, including six against Navy and UC San Diego... scored three goals in the Lions' win over UC San Diego at home (10/21/11)... 2010... played in all 29 games in his second season with the Lions... finished with nine goals, three assists, 24 kickouts drawn, 17 steals and 11 field blocks.. scored three goals, a season-best, against Santa Clara in WWPA semifinal... scored a goal with a field block and an assist in the WWPA final...2009... played all 28 games, scoring six goals with three assists, 21 kickouts drawn, 14 steals and 11 field blocks...
Prior to LMU... graduated from Northwood High School in 2008 with a 3.9 GPA... went to Cal one season and was on men's water polo team... did not play and served redshirt year... at Northwood (in Irvine, Calif.), he was a four-year letterwinner for coach Chris French... he scored 270 goals with 145 assists and 182 steals during his career... he was a four-time All-Sea View League selection... he was a All-CIF Division I selection his final three years... he earned honorable mention All-American honors as a sophomore, second-team honors as a junior and first-team honors as a senior... he was two-time offensive MVP, two-time defensive MVP...
Personal... Jonathon Jerome Colton was born on Dec. 27, 1989 in Long Beach, Calif., and is the son of Rinske and Keith Colton... he has two brothers and a sister... sister, Cara, played for the Lions... a Business Administration major.
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Bandimere, Elmes Earn Top Honors At 2018 Iggy Awards
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In Phoenix, A New Quest For Diverse Public Pool Lifeguards
by Jude Joffe-Block
March 28, 2013 9:56 AM
After noticing that most of the lifeguards at the public pools used by Latino and African-American kids were white, the Phoenix aquatics department decided to try to recruit minorities.
More than 90 percent of the students at Alhambra High are black, Latino or Asian. On a recruiting effort there over the winter, the city's Melissa Boyle tells students she's not looking for strong swimmers. Like many under-resourced schools, Alhambra doesn't have a swim team.
"We will work with you in your swimming abilities," Boyle says.
Boyle's colleague Kelly Martinez takes on the delicate task of explaining the scenario the city is trying to correct.
"The kids in the pool are all either Hispanic or black or whatever, and every lifeguard is white," she says, "and we don't like that. The kids don't relate; there's language issues."
Martinez turns to a Latina student next to her. "Do you speak Spanish?" she asks. "We need more lifeguards who can speak Spanish."
Competitive swimming still has a reputation as a white sport. And a national study released in 2010 found African-Americans and Latinos reported much lower swimming proficiency compared to whites.
"It's that catch-22," says Becky Hulett, who oversees Phoenix's public pools. "If the kids don't learn how to swim, as adults they are not going to swim, [and] they aren't going to take their own kids to swim."
So two years ago, Hulett began rethinking lifeguard recruitment. Traditionally, Phoenix's 500 lifeguards came from more affluent parts of town, most of which are farther from the public pools.
"It really populated from schools that had swim teams, and so that was our feeder into our lifeguarding programs," she says.
To help diversify its lifeguard ranks, the city raised about $15,000 over the past two years in scholarships to offset the cost of lifeguard-certification courses. Recruits who pass a swim test at the end can apply to be city lifeguards.
As the teens swim laps at Alhambra, it's clear many haven't had much formal training. But the coaches of the course aren't fazed and are prepared to put in the time to teach.
"Honestly, I have a little bit a fear of the water, and I wanted to overcome that fear," says high school junior Jesus Jimenez. He didn't grow up going to pools with his family but likes the idea of lifeguarding.
"It is nice to have the satisfaction of knowing that if somebody is in trouble you can save them at any time," he says.
If he is selected to be a lifeguard, other pool staff will work with him on his swimming skills all summer.
This report story was done in collaboration with Fronteras, a public radio project that focuses on border and changing demographics in the American Southwest.
Okay, so the city of Phoenix is prepared to hire lifeguards of marginal swimming ability in order to satisfy the diversity fetish. Apparently, drowning in the presence of someone who speaks your language or resembles you but cannot swim is more acceptable than being saved by an evil white devil who may not know the nuances of Spanish, but can pull a kid out of deep water without drowning himself. :rolleyes: Do these idiots ever think that the primary function of the job, being able to save lives, is more important than skin-deep diversity? Are they so racist that they will permit minority kids to drown rather than hire the best qualified lifeguards?


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Comment posted on Scottish Power Renewables announces another delay for proposed Tiree Array by Scots Renewables
The blades are very difficult to recycle. However, they are also completely inert, so could be dropped down old mineshafts or whatever with no potential for environmental damage, or made into amusing sculptures.
The blades of a typical 2-megawatt turbine weight 42 tonnes. So if we take a 500MW windfarm that means that at the end of (say) 20 years we will have 10,500 tonnes of difficult to recycle but inert and harmless material. This represents 1050 tonnes per year.
Slightly less alarming than, eg, the waste created by a typical 500-megawatt coal plant, which includes more than 125,000 tons of ash and 193,000 tons of sludge from the smokestack scrubber each year.
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- I'm afraid I don't understand this comment at all. I did not say that the strapline of your website was an innuendo, I merely pointed out that it was there – presumably to make a point and not just for decoration.
The quote in question is of course no such thing as a 'forceful and objective statement of fact', it is a saying or philosophy borrowed from another very different culture who (blissfully) had no concept of land ownership.
It implies responsibility towards future generations, which is a noble sentiment and a concept which should carry much greater weight in our society. I have no argument with you there.
Where I take issue with you is over the suggestion that you – and other anti-wind groups – are doing this to preserve the landscape for future generations and that windfarms built today will blight the landscape 'for ever' or 'destroy' it.
Windfarms that have outlived their usefulness are going to be a very simple problem for our children and grandchildren to deal with. An atmospheric CO2 concentration beyond 450ppm or repositories of nuclear waste are not going to be such simple problems.
- Karl,
You seem to be determined to change the subject. We were discussing windfarm decomissioning issues. You had accused me of knowing nothing about it and claimed that wind turbine blades were in some way hazardous, referring me to what appeared to be a wholly irrelevant data sheet that made reference to carbon fibre dust.
Did you check my link to the article about the Dutch playpark built using discarded turbine blades? Did you see the picture of the kids playing on them? And so are you still prepared to back up your claim that wind turbine blades are not inert and are in some way dangerous? Or was it just another non-fact scare story flung out by the turbophobic scattergun?
I think you have a bit of a cheek criticising me for 'playing the emotional card' re. future generations. Have you forgotten that the strapline on the NTA website site is the native American quote:
We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children
Please don't claim you are doing this for your kids and then accuse me of playing the emotional card.
- Roads are in any event another red herring in Tiree's case – the turbines are going to be sited in the sea!
I do not understand why NTA do not simply concentrate on Tiree. I do not believe that taking on the entire wind industry is in any way going to help their cause – it is a distraction and dissipates energy that should surely be focussed on the Tiree situation.
Here on Seil the local opposition group (PACT) lost a lot of support when it decided to start marching on parliament and getting into bed with other anti-wind groups.
- Wind turbine blades are reinforced with carbon fibre, not built from it. The main component is GRP. Your reference to that data sheet is baffling as it shows the material in question is in fact only dangerous in dust or particulate form – as is wood and many other materials.
In fact, discarded wind turbine blades are so dangerous that they have been used in Holland in a kids playpark
Leaving wind turbine blades piled up in heaps is not ideal but it is certainly not dangerous.There are in any event recycling processes, and as the number of blades requiring recycling grows these will become more sophisticated and more economic.
Decomissioning IS a trivial issue with windfarms compared to nuclear plants, oil rigs and large-scale mining operations, and by pretending it is as important as other issues when in essence it is insignificant you are in danger of trivialising and obfuscating NTA's case.
It is this determination of the NIMBY to attack wind turbines on any and every level, to throw everything at it and accept any dodgy alliance with climate change deniers, big business and singular political interests, that I refer to as a scattergun approach.
If you insist on pursuing trivial arguments such as decomissioning issues or choose to ally yourself with people like Trump and any old group of middle-class NIMBYs worried about their house prices then you risk losing what credibility NTA has gained.
Personal attacks on other peoples' 'environmental credibility' do little to help your case or gain sympathy either when you make vague and unsubstantiated allegations about the 'danger' of used turbine blades.
- I don't think decomissioning offshore wind farms is going to pose much of a problem compared to decomissioning the massively complex and hazardous oil installations scattered through the North Sea.
No-one in their right mind thinks everywhere is a suitable site for a windfarm, but decomissioning is a non-issue. I would think NTA's best policy is to stick to the effects on the natural environment – a scattergun approach could sound a bit desperate.
Recent comments by Scots Renewables
- Russell admits vehicle element of former Dunoon ferry was indeed publicly funded
A threnody is a song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
Quite appropriate. The promise that was the original ForArgyll is indeed quite dead.
I think I will stick to the Cowal Courier from now on. That's a proper news site that seems to have your measure.
Toodle pip!
- Russell admits vehicle element of former Dunoon ferry was indeed publicly funded
Oh do cheer up Newsroom! The hybrid ferries are non-military ships being built on the Clyde. Surely something to cheer about?
Re. your concerns about staff training – I think you will find that staff require retraining whenever a new vessel is brought into service . . . each boat is different.
And please do stop all this 'we hear rumours' rubbish. No-one believes you. Come up with facts and their sources like a real journalist or stop smearing doom and gloom. Less fuel is less fuel. And the new ferries are also designed to have lower maintenance costs.
Now, here's some more potential good news on the ship technology front for Scotland . . . CMAL has been commissioned to carry out a feasibility study for Scottish Enterprise to evaluate the technical and commercial possibilities of using hydrogen fuel cells to power zero emission ferries. If this goes ahead it could put Scotland at the forefront of another new technology, with the consequent design, development and manufacturing of hybrid engines being located here. Great news – though I expect ForArgyll will want to talk it down.
- New Mobile Theme for ForArgyll.com
The mobile version isn't triggered by my iPad, which is a good thing – but it does come up in an iPhone emulator I tried.
Strangely enough specific mobile versions of websites (as opposed to apps – which are here to stay) may be a relatively short-lived phenomenon. As bandwidth on phones increases dramatically and most displays become HD 1024 pixels wide or more so standard websites become more and more useable. I don't come across many that don't display well on the iPad.
A mobile version was far more essential on older 320 pixel devices like Nokias, but these will die out. The non-mobile version of this site (for example) is quite useable on a new smartphone once it is rotated horizontally.
Apps that do specific things on mobile devices are another matter – they are definitly here to stay. And for blog sites like this the mobile version definitley increases useability (but see below).
Some feedback – I couldn't view the comments on the mobile version, but I was using an emulator rather than an actual smartphone. Can other people view and post comments OK on the new mobile site using an iPhone or Andriod phone?
- Clyde shipyards at risk – news by year end
Just testing the comments function on the mobile version of the site.
(Using an online iPhone emulator)
- Scottish Conservatives underline common ownership of Saltire
It is Scottish Labour that really needs to up its game dramatically if it wants to keep a credible presense in Holyrood in the 2016 election. What Ruthie and the Scottish Conservative Party do is of little relevance.
According to Newsnet Scotland a recent poll shows Westminster voting intentions in Scotland as:
Labour 33%
Conservative 16%
LibDem 6%
Others 7%
If this doesn't ring alarm bells for Labour nothing will.
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The Mt. Baldy League's appeal of its placement in the Central Division football playoff grouping was denied on Wednesday. The league including Chaffey, Chino, Colony, Garey, Don Lugo, Montclair and Ontario lost its appeal by a vote of 7-0, with two abstaining.
A notable addition to the new Central Division football playoff grouping includes the Sunkist League, home to defending CIF-SS Eastern Division champion Summit, which has been to consecutive CIF championship games. Another member of the Sunkist League is Kaiser, which had it's 11-year streak of league titles snapped by Summit last season. The Inland Valley League, already a member of the Central Division, is adding two schools from the vaunted Big VIII League, Riverside North and Riverside Poly.
Of the 32 appeals heard, 27 were denied, including the Montview League's appeal of its placement in the CIF-SS Northwest Division football grouping.


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SIZE, EXPERIENCE WILL LEAD BRONCOS MULLEN -- The Mullen Broncos will rely on size and experience to carry them through their schedule this season. The Broncos return three starters from last year's team they are Gabe Connealy, Jake Spies and Nat Vinton. They also have three seniors that saw a lot of time off the bench a year ago. Zach Call, Braden Storer and Bryan Gray will add leadership for a team that will need to develop some depth. Coach Rusty Moore said that his team played a lot of basketball over the summer and that helped the players learn their roles for the season. He also stated that his players are very excited about the season and they will have to take it one game at a time to see how far they can go.


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It's the power of the VIP list, the real secret of the secret society.
In this case, the tingle starts with a name, "Behind the Velvet Ropes," which lures nine people to a large Pasadena home.
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Bob O'Hara and GrrlScientist: Why Gerald Crabtree's speculations about declining human intelligence are wrong...
It has often been observed that scientists, some rather brilliant, can get things hopelessly wrong when they stray outside their field. Examples are legion, and it has been dubbed the Linus Pauling effect:
"The phenomenon is a familiar one: let's call it "the Linus Pauling effect." A highly respected and honored senior scientist, largely out of the mainstream and not up to date with the recent developments (and perhaps a bit senile), makes weird pronouncements about their pet ideas – and the press, so used to giving celebrities free air time for any junk they wish to say, prints and publishes it all as if it is the final truth."
Normally this happens when, say, a physicist starts thinking too hard about brains, but embarrassingly for me (one of my many sins is to be a geneticist), geneticists have a penchant for this too. What is really embarrassing is that more than one has made this mistake with a pet idea about genetics. I will now admit that I am going to step outside of my area of expertise (particularly with respect to human evolution and psychology), so if you are more knowledgeable in these areas, you can have some fun correcting my mistakes.
One classic case is John Sanford and his ideas about genetic entropy. Sanford was a well respected geneticist, most famous for working out that one way of creating GM crops was to shoot them with gold (I was involved – briefly – in a project trying to do this to mildew). He steadily converted to a literal Christian position, including young earth creationism. Being a geneticist, he was faced with the problem of evolution, and wrote the book, Genetic Entropy, where he argued that the human gene pool was degenerating. Amongst the evidence he used for this conclusion was the reduction in the reported ages of people from the Old Testament.


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Terrebonne Parish Schools Superintendent Philip Martin was unapologetic when pitching the district's proposed tax increase to parish residents Thursday night.
Terrebonne Parish Schools Superintendent Philip Martin was unapologetic when pitching the district's proposed tax increase to parish residents Thursday night.
Martin addressed a handful of residents and school district employees at Terrebonne High School Thursday in the final of two public meetings held to discuss May 4's ballot question.
The district is seeking to raise its property tax collections from 9.27 mills to 40.27 mills.
A mill is a $1 tax on every $1,000 of a property's assessed value.
A taxpayer with a home valued around $150,000 will see a $232 increase in the tax annually paid for schools. The same homeowner currently pays about $70.
"I don't apologize for asking for average funding in the state of Louisiana. I am not a tax-and-spend person. Our school district has a track record of excellence. We are not going to squander the money. The people who will benefit most from this are children — 19,000 of them," Martin said.
Martin opened the meeting by discussing where Terrebonne Parish schools sit relative to the tax collections and spending of other districts.
"We have had to cut back and cut back and cut back," Martin said. "We have reached a point ... to where we are moving closer to the edge of the financial cliff."
Martin listed some reductions in school funding that have come from the state and noted the district has about 500 fewer employees than four years ago.
Martin argued the parish's property tax collection rate of 9.27 mills is the lowest of any district in the state. The state average is 40 mills, he added.
"As one of the largest school districts in the state we have the lowest local support from a millage basis in the state," Martin said.
The district also collects a sales tax comparable with most districts in the state though some collect no sales tax at all.
Martin also noted because of this financial situation the parish has the lowest per-student spending rate in the state.
"My vision is to be the premier school district in the state," Martin said. "Nothing is stopping us but ourselves."
Martin gave a breakdown of how the $25 million raised from the tax increase will be spent.
Eleven mills will be tied to construction projects.
"The average age of our schools is 60 years old," Martin said. "Our school buildings need attention."
Martin used Mulberry Elementary School in Houma as an example as it was built for 600 but is now used by 1,000.
Some schools would be consolidated in new buildings and some replaced, Martin said.
Martin said the money also would be used to do renovations at all schools and add security measures to better protect students.
The district's plan for spending the money can be found on the district's website.
Martin said 20 mills would go toward instructional improvement and teacher salaries.
He lauded programs such as FOCUS, which pays specialized teachers, to help struggling students while lamenting how such a program is not offered at all schools.
"When I'm talking about educational programs, I'm talking about programs that can save a child's education," Martin said.
The plan also calls for offering universal pre-K, expanding arts curriculum in elementary schools and improving ACT preparation curriculum.
One resident asked Martin about the possibility of management bonuses and paid teacher "educational" vacations.
Martin said such perks are not available in the district and added teachers would be given a $4,000 annual raise with the money.
Martin said the average salary is ranked 45th of 70 districts in the state.
"We are in a competitive society with teachers as well," Martin said. "I would like to have 15 applicants for each job opening, but we don't."
Franz Shriner of Broadmoor said he'd rather the district ask for a sales tax increase because the cost is more evenly spread across the population.
In Louisiana, the first $75,000 of a home's value is exempt from taxes. About 40 percent of the parish's homeowners are completely exempt because of the value of their home.
"The homeowners that pay are getting dumped on constantly," Shriner said. "With a sales tax at least everyone pays."
Martin said the district targeted property tax rather than sales because that is where the largest discrepancy in its finances sits relative to other districts.
Jeff Teuton, Houma business owner and Bayou Cane Fire Board chairman, said he is concerned the amount of the school tax would snuff out the possibility of any other districts getting a tax passed in the foreseeable future.
The Bayou Cane Fire Department saw its bid to increase taxes fail in November.
He also expressed concern the tax would scare away some of the parish's top taxpayers, which are companies that have mobile property such as helicopters and boats. Those companies could hypothetically move that property elsewhere on assessment day and pay a lesser rate depending on what parish they go to.


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The most useless checkbox in the history of browsers.
Yep. Turning off scripting is the only answer.
Request Policy complements noscript quite nicely, as it allows you to restrict access to third party domains. E.g., by default, requests from example.net to adserv.example.com are rejected.
Also, turn off 3rd party cookies. And run an ad blocker. That will substantially cut down on things. Until things eventually get integrated on the back end so that everything appears to be coming from the site that you're visiting. Like spam, it's an arms race. While spam is 99.8% solved, do not track will be much more challenging.
The problem is, a certain amount of advertising is necessary to make ends meet. The content doesn't pay for itself, and the choices are either to put everything behind a paywall, or have advertising. The tracking/etc. is the ad industry's attempt to make advertising online more profitable: they have a *very* low clickthrough rate to begin with, and hope that by providing targetted advertising, they'll have a better return on investment, and can sell ad impressions for more money.
At least in theory. In pract
The problem there is that the advertisers forgot the old adage "you don't shit where you eat".
If they had simply shown a few ads and made sure their servers were up to the task, few if any would have even bothered with ad-blockers. But no, They had to plaster the page with jumping singing dancing ads that pop up and pop under and triple (or worse) the page load time. Then to top it off, they didn't even bother to make sure the ads weren't drive-by viruses or illegal scams.
Since all of that wasn't enough, they decided to also become internet stalkers.
It's only natural that people came to consider most any ad they see on the web to be a probable scam and to run ad blockers to avoid the assault on their senses and more that a few infections as well.
Then finally, when given a chance to restore some tiny shred of good will, they decided to ignore DNT.
the fact that people ever thought for a second that they shouldn't have the right to see what they're looking for on a website and not ads or other shit is the problem. It's like when people defend websites that threaten others, saying their ad revenue is the only way they survive when other options exist. Screw ads. Allow em when *you* choose because you're okay with it, not just because you dare to go to websites.
I encourage people to always adblock on techreport, because they threaten to nuke user accoun
Name one public media distribution system that isn't plastered with ads? People don't assume they have a right to ad-free viewing because the don't have that right. If you don't like the ads on a site you have the right to not visit that site and (so far) you have the freedom (not right) to attempt to block the ad.
But you have absolutely no right to tell the site owner that they aren't allowed to put an ad up on their own site any more than you can tell the cable company or radio station that they aren't
Who said I'm telling them they can't put up an ad?
I'm just refusing to look at it.
Putting up an ad and relying on nothing else is a sign of laziness/failed business.
Its one thing to put adds in your "private" space. I dislike adds and run adblockers at all time anyway, but I certainly respect that one may do what he wants on -his- website.
Now, we are talking about people profiling YOU. They stalk you wherever you go, take notes of all the things you do, and alter your experience of the internet based on arbitrary criterion. There is a real danger, when some massive "administration" (yeah, I know, the state is the -only- possible evil, large corporations that lock a mar
The problem is that people want content, they dont want to pay for it, and they also dont want advertising. Unfortunately, you cant have all 3.
to determine whether or not advertisers respect the wishes of people who do not want their browsing habits tracked. The verdict is in, and to nobody's surprise advertisers have no respect for anyone.
And shopkeepers have no respect for people who want goods without paying. If you dont want the advertising, dont consume content from an ad-supported site. Make your own webpage, social network, whatever-- thats a lot of the strength of the internet.
Tracking is done by the webmaster. The technical solution is to use a website whose webmaster isnt using tracking. Google Analytics doesnt accidentally find itself on a website; its placed there intentionally.
Analytics doesn't track you across websites. It really does very little beyond what server logs provide. The one advantage is a cookie that says you are a repeat visitor. Also it is a same domain cookie so no other sites can access it. Google does have access to the data but its not attached to a unique record so they can't build an individual profile for you.
The same is true for Coremetrics and Omniture.
I agree that it's inconsistent to complain about ads on unpaid content. However, advertising does not require tracking. The page that the ad is served on is in many cases already sufficient context to deliver a relevant ad.
Retargeting is 5x more effective than context based ad targeting.
Here's why.
Imagine that you've just been shopping around for a new pair of shoes. You like Nike so you went to Nike.com. They set a remarketing cookie. You want to price compare and find more reviews, so off you go to Amazon. Then you get distracted by a book you want and forget about shoes.
The next day you hop online and go to a tech blog. They serve ads to pay the bills. Now the article you are reading has nothing to do with shoes ( its abou
Does your scenario ever actually happen, though? I've been on the internet long enough to know that you just don't click on ads. If you want Nike shoes, you go directly to to nike.com or your favorite online shoe store.
Clicking on internet ads is like clicking links in spam email. There's absolutely no reason to trust that you'll end up where you want to go.
It's startling how much ad banners are actually clicked. I don't remember how long ago, but a bunch of data was revealed on the kind of numbers behind people clicking ads, and it was staggering. It wouldn't be so prevalent if it wasn't actually helpful. Even if you go directly to Nike.com in his example, the ad still served its purpose, and there may even still be ad revenue as a result of referrer information leading from a site with the ad to nike's website.
The tech savvy may not think to click ads for a
Retargeting is 5x more effective than context based ad targeting.
Here's why. Imagine that you've just been shopping around for a new pair of shoes.
How the hell do you forget that you are looking for new shoes? You get reminded every time you put your old ones on.
The Nike ad is right they [sic] so you click and then buy. Was the retargeted ad helpful to you? Some would say yes. Was it invasive? Maybe. Did you buy a pair of shoes from the company that used retargeted ads, absolutely.
No I wouldn't buy the Nikes, because an advert popping up in the middle of a tech blog will piss me off, and if it were not intrusive I would not even notice it on an unrelated site.
What you people ignore is the piss-off factor. There may be some people who will buy something because it took over their screen, but others (like me) will be so annoyed that it is
That is exactly the point.
If advertisers DID heed the DNT request and not track those who see their ads, fewer people would even bother to reach for ad blockers. But the greed was stronger. Why only benefit from people seeing your ads when you can as well sell their profile while you're at it?
And now the greedy call those defending against their greed greedy. That's really rich.
Bullshit - ad blockers were popular well before tracking became the issue, most people wanted to block ads because they didn't want to see them, not because they gave a fuck about being tracked or not. The tracking issue has only become widely followed in the past couple of years.
Of course. Ad blockers have been around... well, I guess at the very least since the advent of full-size, flashing ads that blare obnoxious "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!" noise from every speaker attached.
The difference is magnitude. And that, in turn, depends on how much the average user is willing to put up with vs. the ease or difficulty to get rid of it. Being tracked is just another brick in that wall. You might notice that ad blocking didn't sweep across the nation over night when yesterday everyone and their
Good point, now if only all the browsers would remove this extra, completely useless code and maybe build in something that *really* works. Too bad the major ones would never have the balls to go the extra mile by introducing *real* anti-tracking (and anti-advertisement in general) features.
DNT had exactly one use: to determine whether or not advertisers respect the wishes of people who do not want their browsing habits tracked. The verdict is in, and to nobody's surprise advertisers have no respect for anyone. Now we know that we are justified in using ad-blocking plugins and building browsers that block ads by default.
Careful, advertisers like Google have paid Adblock Plus to whitelist their ads [techcrunch.com]. Sure it's google ads today, but Google owns the vast majority of online ad networks and commands practically all the online ad markets, and if they're paying off the ad blockers to whitelist...
And of course, Google is naturally tracking you. Especially whitelisted.
I encourage people to always adblock on techreport, because they threaten to nuke user accounts that talk about using adblocking. That's not the right approach.
It depends. Sites depend on ads to pay for content and hosting, and many with "premium" options do not allow talk of ad blockers as well. Even reputable ones - like Ars Technica. Even the merest hint of ad blocking without whitelisting the site in question is out. I got banned for mentioning noscript and didn't even mention blocking the site's ads, just it happened to block a good chunk of ads.
Of course, one side effect of this is sites get desperate for money and they end up getting sold and re-sold to other companies. It's only a matter of time before pretty much online ads disappear as we know them because websites are all purchased up and owned by a few media conglomerates who bought them for the user information and all that.
Of course, the little guy with a blog who wants to make a couple of bucks won't be able to attract any advertisers because they all went to the big guys with their massive data pools from buying up websites left and right.
Careful, advertisers like Google have paid Adblock Plus to whitelist their ads
Sure, but ABP has an easy-to-find checkbox to enable/disable whitelisted ads. There are also many other ad blockers out there that can be used if ABP ever stops working effectively (and being easy to configure).
https://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php [abine.com]
This is the anti-tracking extension that does NOT have a partnership with the ad industry.
Careful, advertisers like Google have paid Adblock Plus to whitelist their ads. Sure it's google ads today, but Google owns the vast majority of online ad networks and commands practically all the online ad markets, and if they're paying off the ad blockers to whitelist...
Then those ad blockers get forked [mozilla.org] into non-crippled versions.
I will admit that I was gobsmacked when I got that window after updating ABP to the first version with that garbage, though.
I wish I could mod you higher than 5. This was exactly my thoughts on the whole DNT fiasco. I knew advertisers would never respect a totally optional flag no matter how evil it made them look in the process. Having confirmation of such creates no remorse when you then take every step you can to block out advertisers.
I really did want to believe in the advertising model for free content on the internet. I stuck up for sites that needed the revenue to continue operating. But advertisers are just too corrupt t
The most useless checkbox in the history of browsers.
I figured that the second I saw the phrase, "server-side."
If it's not in the user's complete control, it's bullshit.
Yet, Mozilla seems hell-bent on supporting this destined-to-be-ignored flag, while they remove everything--even Javascript settings--from the GUI. Pure irony.
I do have the Do Not Track setting turned on, but only as a final "fuck off." My real lines of defense are disabled third-party cookies, NoScript, DoNotTrackMe and AdBlock Plus. Anyone who really trusts in that header is a nut.
You might want to reconsider your choice of ABP:
http://www.mobilegeeks.de/adblock-plus-undercover-einblicke-in-ein-mafioeses-werbenetzwerk/ [mobilegeeks.de]
Warning, long, investigative article in german.
Warning, long, investigative article in german.
Considering you're posting this to an English-language site frequented by people who have ADD and never RTFA, would you mind summing it up?
...oh look, a bird!
Learn another language, it's useful.
One sentence summary: ABP sold out and is now owned by a shady german company that is deeply in bed with certain ad networks.
I have actually started to try learning German (have been taking a break from it though), but there's no way I could read a whole article written in it. But if based on your summary you are talking about the automatically whitelisted sites by default... just uncheck the box! All it adds is one step upon first installation that can be performed in under ten seconds to disable the advertising whitelist, and it works just as it did before. No changes that I am aware of, and I have been using it for years.
The real reason I switched is because I don't want to be a part of their extortion scheme.
You see, you are not the victim in this scam, you are the weapon. With millions of users behind them, they can go to advertising networks and say "nice campaign you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it..."
Well, once things noticeably start getting screwy, then I'll jump ship. But last time I checked, there wasn't even a Adblock Plus fork that was maintained to the level of the original and kept up-to-date. I figure with the extension being as popular as it is, once the time comes that it really is best to leave ABP behind, the developers of the forks will finally start to take the maintenance of their extensions seriously and ABP will finally have a worthy alternative. I doubt that that's changed in the l
It is now. Advertisers sound like they were willing to play along if W3C was up for some compromise. W3C tells them to go get stuffed, oh-and-will-you-please-respect-this-DNT-flag?
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, any bets on whether the advertisers just take their ball, go home, and ignore any DNT requests?
Advertisers sound like they were willing to play along if W3C was up for some compromise
DNT is a compromise. If we were unwilling to compromise, we would build ad-blockers into browsers as a default, much like pop-up blocking ten years ago. It was because of people like you who would not stop whining about how important advertiser dollars are to keep the web alive that we even considered something like DNT. It was because advertisers promised that they really do respect our wishes, that ad blockers and legal restrictions on tracking are not needed, that DNT was ever considered by anyone.
The advertisers showed their true colors. They never wanted a compromise, they just wanted a facade that allows them to pretend they respect us while continuing to do what they have done all along.
It was because of people like you who would not stop whining about how important advertiser dollars are to keep the web alive that we even considered something like DNT.
Ads are why so much of the internet is free. I dont have to like it, you dont have to like it, but ads are why youtube is making a profit and why its still alive / free (remember the days when it was wondered, "when will google shutter this money sink?"). Ads are the very reason for Slashdot's current existence, why search engines exist, etc.
If adblockers were built into browsers by default, can you think of a single reason for yahoo and google to continue providing search engines? Or exist? Gee, there
DNT is a compromise.
No. DNT was a compromise. It was a feature with one purpose, to reflect the desire of the user not to be tracked. When a certain company with a certain shithouse browser decided to turn it on my default in a software update all for a bit of temporary marketing, DNT ceased reflecting the desire of the user. The ad companies were on board with it too as the likely people to click DNT were the ones unlikely to click ads to begin with.
It wasn't until a large percentage of users unknowingly ended up with a brows
You missed the part about advertisers already refusing to respect the existing DNT flag and only being willing to cooperate at all if uit didn't actually require them to change anything in response to the flag.
W3C was right to tell them to get stuffed. Why let them do nothing and then pretend they somehow cooperated?
What is the problem here? Why couldn't the web browser just make sure that the cookies are passed via RFC3514 ( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt [ietf.org] ) compliant packets (with the E bit field set to FALSE) if the advertiser is trustable?
RFC3514 needs updating for IPv6
Yes, you are right.
Until RFC3514 is updated for IPv6, we can't expect IPv6 to gain full acceptance simply because of the lack of the E bit.
...if the advertiser is trustable?
Therein lies the problem.
There is no such thing as a trustworthy advertiser. Their profit is directly tied to ad views and they have repeatedly demonstrated that they have no respect for privacy or one's desire to not be force-fed their crap.
I heard somewhere that Apache webservers now explicitly block "Do Not Track" requests from IE browsers. If you can't even count on your webservers to comply with DNT, what good are standards going to do?
Here [arstechnica.com] is an article on it from Ars Technica, for anyone who thinks I'm making this shit up.
Apache ignores DNT from versions of IE that have it enabled by default because it's supposed to be something that the user specifically enables, not a blanket "hey ad industry, completely ignore this because it's always on" option.
Apache ignores DNT from versions of IE that have it enabled by default because it's supposed to be something that the user specifically enables, not a blanket "hey ad industry, completely ignore this because it's always on" option.
No, Apache ignores DNT from IE 10 basically because the head of Apache works for Adobe, and Adobe doesn't like the idea of users not being tracked by default.
FWIW I use Firefox on a Mac, and I disable third-party cookies and run Ad-Block Plus.
From a user interface perspective, I think it makes sense to pick as the default the value that most users would like it to be at. And while I have no research to back this up, I'm assuming most users would prefer not to be tracked.
That happened last year, but it was only for a month. The patch to disregard DNT from IE was actually made by one of the authors of the DNT standard in response to IE catastrophically mutilating the standard, but they soon decided that messing with Apache wasn't appropriate and reverted the patch.
IE catastrophically mutilating the standard
Oh come on. The standard was that people would choose whether or not to enable 'do not track', without being specific about how that should be chosen.
So Microsoft let users choose during installation, express settings, or custom settings, with the effects of the express settings (including the DNT setting) elaborated above:
http://i.imgur.com/Wo8nG.png [imgur.com]
But then people cried foul and quickly suggested that they meant that people would have to specifically choose for
No, I was referring to the standard as specified 5 months before IE10 came to be [w3.org]
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If the NSA were to respect the DNT header then I would stop fretting about a lot of the rest of this week's news
They put forward a proposal that would specifically let them track people who specifically said they don't want to be tracked.
I hope the W3C told them to fuck off in so many words.
The advertisers actually came up with a proposal that said something like ``Well, what we'd like to do is that when the browser user chooses to not be tracked, we'll track them anyway. Would you folks find that acceptable?" Incredible.
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