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Warrington are the next side to test the 100% record of champions Leeds Rhinos, who are averaging more than 40 points a match.
The Wolves have lost their last six meetings with the Rhinos and have won only one of their opening three matches but Leeds coach Tony Smith is still expecting them to make the top six. ?They were desperately unlucky last week against Saints and they will be looking to make up for that this week,? he said.
?They played extremely well in that game apart from the closing minutes but I am sure they will take a lot of confidence from the rest of the game.
?Warrington have strengthened their squad since last season and they will be pushing to get into the top six this season.?
Long-serving Warrington prop Mark Hilton admits he has been shocked by his side?s indifferent start to the season and says the trip to Headingley will be the ultimate yardstick.
?I didn?t expect it, if I?m being honest,? he said. ?The next few games will give us a good indication of how we are going to go this season and to our position in the table at the end.?
The champions will be looking to extend their club record run of unbeaten Super League matches to 18 as they close in on the overall record of 21 set by Bradford in 1996.
Leeds winger Mark Calderwood, who has scored in every game so far, and Warrington centre Toa Kohe-Love both go into the match needing four more tries to register a career century. Leeds Rhinos v Warrington Wolves, Headingley, Friday 11th March 2005 Leeds 18-man squad: Mathers, Calderwood, Walker, Senior, Bai, Burrow, Bailey, McDermott, Lauitiiti, McKenna, Sinfield, Dunemann, Ward, Poching, McDonald, Jones-Buchanan, Ellis, Botham. Warrington 18-man: Grose, Faa?fili, Martin Gleeson, Kohe-Love, Gaskell, Briers, Appo, Hilton, Clarke, Stevens, Pickersgill, Bracek, Mark Gleeson, Westwood, Lima, Royle, Wainwright, Bridge.
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After two weeks away Gulliver Prep (FL) has once again ascended to the top spot in the rankings with a pair of impressive wins this week. The Raiders, who began the year at #1 are now 14-2 in spite of playing a brutal schedule and have a lot of quality wins. Edison (Huntington Beach, CA) comes in at number 2, followed by a pair of Oklahoma schools (Owasso, Broken Arrow) at 3 and 4. Previous number one St. Francis (Mountain View, CA) slips to number 5 after taking their first loss of the year and are now 12-1.
Bishop Gorman continued to climb following a dramatic win to open the Big League Dugout National Invitational tournament yesterday; they find themselves at #8. Farragut took a big slide all the way down to #12 after taking their second loss of the year in a week where ten of the top twelve went undefeated and are out of the top 10 for the first time all season. Baton Rouge Catholic continued its winning ways, winning their fifth straight and climbed up to #10.
Mesquite (AZ) made a big jump following an emphatic win in the National Game of the Week against Hamilton last week, going 3-0 to improve to 15-1 on the year. The Wildcats are now the highest ranked team in Arizona and check in at 25.
Mater Dei (CA) enters the rankings at #36 following a pair of impressive victories over Trinity League opponents JSerra and Orange Lutheran. Also entering the rankings this week are: #37 La Costa Canyon (CA), #45 Langham Creek (TX), #48 Saguaro (AZ), #49 James River (VA) and Redmond (WA) returns to the top 50 with a strong week, sliding into the last spot.
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Great phone by Motorola
I have had this phone for about 3 weeks and I must say it is a very good phone. It has alot of features for the price. The reception is good with no dropped calls, text msgs are sometimes slow but that has to do with the carrier (Boost) not the phone. Even thou the phone is small, it is very easy to text. I have no problems sending pic msgs or receiving them. The mp3 player is awsome and the speaker is very loud.
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Michigan Technological University has been rated one of the best universities in the Midwest for the second year in a row, according to the Princeton Review. Tech is one of 153 institutions the Princeton Review recommends in the "Best in the Midwest" section of its "2013 Best Colleges: Region by Region," on PrincetonReview.com.
Michigan Tech was also included in Princeton Review's "Best 377 Colleges" publication, which spotlights the top 15 percent of America's 2,500 four-year colleges and three colleges outside the US. The publication includes detailed profiles of the colleges with rating scores for all schools in eight categories. It also ranks the top 20 schools in 62 categories. The rankings are based in part on Princeton Review's surveys of students attending the colleges. The website and publication focus on undergraduate education.
"We commend Michigan Tech for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our selection of schools for the book," says Robert Franek, Princeton Review's senior vice president. "Our choices are based on institutional data we collect about schools, our visits to schools over the years, feedback we gather from students attending the schools, and the opinions of our staff and 30-member National College Counselor Advisory Board."
In the individual categories, Michigan Tech ranked in the nation's top 20 in fire safety and scored highly in quality of life and the green category, which is the "measure of the University's commitment to the environment in its policies, practices and education programs."
Student comments in the profile say that Michigan Tech has "very high standards" and offers "serious study in a beautiful (often snowy) environment." Students also commented that Tech offers "lots of internship and co-op opportunities" and "pathways for career development and professional advancement." The students also like the variety of organizations and winter activities they can get involved in.
"We believe our ranking in the Princeton Review reflects our academic reputation, along with the adventurous spirit of our students, as we prepare them for top jobs," said Les Cook, vice president for student affairs. "Michigan Tech creates opportunities for students to explore, engage and excel in making an impact on our world."
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 60 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Ten years ago tomorrow Feyenoord won the UEFA Cup for the second time, defeating Borussia Dortmund 3-2 in a final memorable for two Pierre van Hooijdonk goals – one a penalty, the other a trademark free-kick – and a first-half red card for Jürgen Kohler.
As Sporting Clube de Portugal enjoyed three years later in the same competition and FC Bayern München can look forward to for the forthcoming UEFA Champions League final, Feyenoord had the luxury of home advantage for the showpiece occasion.
For the club's former full-back, Tomasz Rząsa, playing before his own supporters in such an important game was a memorable experience. "Every week we played at De Kuip," he told UEFA.com. "It was always full, with 45,000 fans in the stadium, and there would have been more had it not been for security reasons.
"We always had a full house, so were excited. During that match half the stadium, or one-third, belonged to Feyenoord fans; the rest to other fans. The most noise came from the Feyenoord supporters. It's accepted that you play differently for your own fans."
Bert van Marwijk's side went into the final having finished a disappointing third place in the Eredivisie while Dortmund, by contrast, were imbued with confidence after pipping Bayer 04 Leverkusen to the Bundesliga title by a point. Rząsa believes this played into Feyenoord's hands.
"We knew that three days earlier Borussia Dortmund had become German champions," said the former Polish international. "That was a good omen for us because we know what it's like to play immediately after experiencing success.
"They said they didn't uncork the champagne after becoming Bundesliga champions – they were waiting for the UEFA Cup final. But we know that things don't always work that way. The slackness of Dortmund was such that they, for a German team, came to the final not fully focused. That was evident from the start ..."
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Better Braking Upgrade: Jeep Power Brake BoostersPosted in How To: Transmission Drivetrain on August 1, 2011
As much fun as it is to go wheeling, it's even more fun to be able to stop your 4x4, especially on a cliff. With vehicle upgrades and homebuilt designs, we often don't think of improving the bake system until it's too late. In fact, we've seen guys put 44-inch tires on a 1⁄2-ton truck with stock brakes and then wonder why they can't slow their ride down anymore.
It's a simple fact that more weight and rotational mass (bigger and heavier tires) require more braking power. A system designed for 29s just won't cut it when 35s are installed, but there are many brake upgrades you can do to improve the system's efficiency. Adding disc brakes is a popular conversion, as is adding large brakes and rotors. But if you're stuck with a manual brake system instead of power, you're still just flogging the dog in an attempt to stop securely.
We recently upgraded our Ultimate A1, the Jeep we built for the 2001 Ultimate Adventure (Oct. '01), from manual four-wheel discs to full-on power brakes using a dual-diaphragm Navajo Brake Booster. The Navajo design is from the mind of Harold Off of Off Again 4x4 in Farmington, New Mexico. He set up our most recent Jeep as well, the UA CJ-17 from the 2010 Ultimate Adventure, and we are super-pleased with how both rides stop on a dime. Check out how easy it is and see if you don't need a brake upgrade as well.
Our original brake system didn't function as well as it could with our increase in tire size. We hoped the addition of a power booster would give our old legs more braking action with less effort.
The master cylinder needs to be drained and removed from the stock location. We had used a stock-style '75 CJ master on this setup, which powers the four-wheel discs on our Currie Dana 60 axles. It works fine, but bigger tires take more power to stop.
With the old one off, the difference is obvious between a manual (left) and power (right) master. The manual master uses a long push rod from the pedal to extend into the master cylinder, which has a corresponding deep piston recess. The power master has a shallow recess that takes a short rod off the booster, and a different rod from the pedal to the booster.
Nothing on a custom ride is bolt-in, but a stock Jeep would be. We had our two-bolt manual master fitted directly to the firewall reinforcing plate. While the two master cylinders have the same pattern, the bracket between the new booster and firewall needed to be fitted. After four holes are drilled in proper alignment, the booster and bracket can be bolted on.
The new power master bolts to the dual-diaphragm Navajo booster, and then is bled. Make sure you bench-bleed the master first, then install it and bleed again. Install and adjust the push rod from the pedal into the booster, then bleed the system again. If the brakes are mushy, you have air trapped somewhere in the system and it needs to be evacuated.
The booster requires a source of manifold vacuum to function properly, although it will work without it in emergencies. We found an unused vacuum port on the back of our engine that simply needed a 1⁄4-inch pipe fitting to a nipple. Make sure the hose is of good quality and the hose clamps are worm drive instead of the stock pinch style.
The finished system still fits under the hood thanks to the small-diameter, dual-diaphragm Navajo booster. The stock-sized lines fit into the new master. After final bleeding and brake testing, a simple adjustment to the brake proportioning valve was all that was needed.


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Download. Bring back the good ol memories.
breaks repeatedly on my system which is so cool and better than all yours here are its specs
I found this file [uiuc.edu] rather amusing:
We are currently in the process of writing a new FAQ due to some recent changes in licensing policy. Questions concerning commercial licensing of NCSAMosaic should be directed to email@example.com
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IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari dominate, >98%
I leave the auto-update feature on in Firefox because I trust that when Mozilla pushes updates they are valuable to me in terms of security or features and that they've been well tested. This has generally held to be true.
On the other hand, on any system I administer I immediately disable automatic updates because Microsoft sometimes pushes patches that only partially address a problem, creating a false sense of security, and then later re-issue them, push things like updates to Windows Media DRM as critical updates (it's not critical to me, Microsoft!), and release updates that go on to cause problems with other software or system stability in general.
When I can trust Microsoft to apply only security updates to IE (or other components of my choosing), maybe I'll consider turning automatic updates back on. Maybe.
If users are asked to upgrade their software shortly after they've launched it, it's firstly an annoyance, but secondly it means that the software they don't launch regularly won't get updated regularly, and other software which might need to interoperate will fall out of sync with the new version.
Perhaps it's time to define a standard package manager API (not a standard package manager, just an API available in all major languages), before we get a culture where every piece of software manages its own updates interactively?
http://packagekit.org/ [packagekit.org]
You're approaching this too much from a geek's perspective. Updating "the system" is too esoteric for the majority of users. If the user has to be bothered with such a concept as a package manager, it's bad UI.
Anyway, microsoft has a package manager, somewhat, and they have a consistent auto-update system that takes care of dependancies. And yet half of IE users use an old version.
And yet half of IE users use an old version.
Yes, but I'm sure that a lot of them prefer IE 6 to IE 7. For me IE 6 was good, rendered pages rather quickly, had a decent looking UI, sure it didn't have tabs, but that wasn't a big deal for me. I had seen IE 7 on another person's computer and I decided not to upgrade to it, it's UI was ugly and it seemed to be a bloated version of IE 6, sure it was more secure but really, when running a Windows box, security isn't that big of a deal. I later wiped the HD and installed Ubuntu.
Yes, but I'm sure that a lot of them prefer IE 6 to IE 7.
On behalf of webmasters everywhere: those people should be taken out and shot.
Such a standard exists not so much as a standard under Linux. Each distribution does this.
The reason is that each distribution CAN do this because of GPL or other licenses.
When you are talking about closed source, this will become almost impossible.
Obviously Microsoft can do this for their own product. What if you run Opera and Photoshop as well? Microsoft can not be asked to do the updates for them, because they did not provide them.
It could work with some sort of contract, but then there are companies who might not be able to get such a contract. This due to unwillingness at both sides.
Not to mention Apple sneaking in Safari with an iTunes critical update and many programs having regressions in updates.
Can we trust Apple not to issue a firmware update that makes the iPod stop working with 3rd party media players?
I myself keep everything updated (as much as Ubuntu repos let me anyway). But things like kernel updates force my to recompile my wifi driver so I can understand how people don't upgrade.
Push to get your wireless driver into mainline or at least the Ubuntu modules package, so it will be re-integrated and distributed when new kernel versions are. All of my devices, including proprietary video drivers and wireless cards, are supported in Ubuntu's official packages because other thoughtful people already did this. I never have to compile, let alone recompile.
It is supported, just badly.
It's an Atheros 5005G chipset, works fine with the supplied modules until I use WPA-EAP at university, where it will lock up the system every 2nd connection attempt. Compiling from source is the easiest way to fix it, but (back on topic) needs to be recompiled every kernel update.
Is there something about your compile-time options that can be moved upstream so that Ubuntu (and other users) can use it?
So what happens when Mozilla sends out a bad/buggy patch/update? I like to be notified about the updates and I will decide to get them or not.
When Mozilla sends out a buggy update, which has happened twice to my memory, a) it doesn't cripple the entire system, and b) there's a new version the next day. This goes back to my personal definition of trust: I don't necessarily expect a software vendor to be perfect 100% of the time. That's unrealistic. But I expect mistakes to be infrequent, non-severe, and for them to correct them quickly so that I'm not inconvenienced too much.
OTOH when Microsoft sends out a buggy update you have to keep your fingers crossed for something to be available in a few weeks. I don't want to come across as anti-Microsoft, but realistically that's the difference between the two in my experience.
It's arguable that you're less secure if you use auto update in Firefox because you're running as administrator instead of as a limited user.
If 83.3% run the latest version of Firefox on any given day, what percentage of people run as a limited user? A single digit number, probably.
Not to mention that in the case of MSFT they abandoned some of their users. I know I personally have many users that are still quite happy with Win2K pro,and I still use Win2K pro on the machine I am typing this on. As an earlier poster said "if it ain't broke don't fix it". That is why I am glad that Firefox(along with Seamonkey,Kmeleon,and Opera) gives us that choice. With the economy in the toilet there ain't many folks around here with the money to go out and buy brand new machines.
But thanks to the g
Windows Updates are so damn obnoxious that I always consider turning it off and doing my updates manually.
C'mon, what's so obnoxious about that little shield asking you every 5 minutes, "You need to reboot your PC because I just updated your web browser and a few other nonessential apps. You wanna reboot now? How about now? Huh? Can I reboot now? OK, if you don't reboot now, then the next time I ask I'll pop up the OK button right under where you were about to click and you'll lose all your work anyway..."
When Microsoft has shit flashing on the screen automatically to remind you to do updates, it's evil intrusion in to one's privacy. But when Firefox does exactaly the same thing, they're God's gift to enlightenment.
The reason most Firefox users use the most up to date version is that it's the only way to get rid of the annoying pop-ups.
In XP I found out you could type
That stops the Windows Update service if you're not ready to reboot. When you do reboot the updates will be installed as a side effect.
In Vista you can set it to download the updates automatically and only install them when you reboot - I've never seen a deathclock.
(I know I probably shouldn't say this... but I can't stop typing!)
You see, this is why ____ will never make it. If I have to keep using these obscure command line fixes in order to make my system work the way I want, regular people will never use it.
I'm going to have to try that, I find it incredibly annoying that the reminder will interrupt my games of Diablo to inform me that the update I didn't want it to start required a reboot.
I suppose it's my fault for forgetting that MS chose such an insane default. But I shouldn't have my games ruined by a notification after I've put up with the significant performance drain that all that hard drive accessing resulted in.
One of the bigger complaints I have about XP is that when I reinstall, I have to either sp
What?? Why should I have to type out arcane commands just to get basic functionality??
If the answer to everything on Windows continues to start with "Just drop to a terminal...", it will
Actually, the Windows XP way is to run "Computer Management", then go to "Services" and stop the appropriate service. Computer Management is found inside Administrative Tools, which by default appears in Control Panel. You can also make it appear in other locations. No idea where they put it in Vista, but it makes actual logical sense in Windows XP. I'm not really sure what they were thinking, changing the XP GUI layout so much.
Microsoft is way way WAY behind the curve on basically everything but market position, but boy did they get XP right (for a very Microsoftian value of "right".)
When Microsoft has shit flashing on the screen automatically to remind you to do updates, it's evil intrusion in to one's privacy. But when Firefox does exactaly the same thing, they're God's gift to enlightenment.
Firefox requires you to restart your browser, but Windows requires you to restart your whole computer.
Then again, with Firefox it takes just as long...
What computer are you using, Babbage's Difference Engine?
Oh, wait.
Opera has annoying popups as well for updating, which generally appear upon loading and ask, "Do you want to update to x.xx?" I guess it's just not quite as pesky as Firefox's. I've only used Safari a few times, but last I recall, I had to manually go to the site to update it. I guess Apple is pretty confident or doesn't care if users (at least on its Windows version) update. No idea how updates go for the Mac version.
Safari uses the same update method as all apple's software -- in OS X it uses the built in software update mechanism, and in Windows, it uses a port of that mechanism. It's about as annoying as all the others (except windows update, because it doesn't pop up every 5 minutes, and it doesn't have a death clock before destroying all your work by restarting).
and it doesn't have a death clock before destroying all your work by restarting).
You know something? It's even worse than that.
You can disable auto-reboot as part of group policy - perhaps have a scheduled task do the job overnight or something. However, it is still possible for an update to override group policy and say "No, reboot now".
Net result - even if you're doing everything in your power to administer a bunch of Windows machines properly, you are more-or-less guaranteed to still get the occasional
When Microsoft has shit flashing on the screen automatically to remind you to do updates, it's evil intrusion in to one's privacy. But when Firefox does exactaly the same thing, they're God's gift to enlightenment.
I would wish that Firefox had shit flashing on the screen automatically.
Unfortunately, it only does so if I run Windows as a user with administrative privileges or have Firefox installed in an alternate location where I have write access.
As a limited user, I don't even get a message that it is t
Unlikely, anybody knowledgeable enough to not be running an admin account in Windows is knowledgeable enough to know when a new version is out.
I suppose it's possible, but considering the many applications that don't work right as a non-admin user, I'd be surprised if those people were the ones not updating.
The reason most Firefox users use the most up to date version is that it's the only way to get rid of the annoying pop-ups.
Go to "preferences" -> "advanced" -> "updates", uncheck "check for updates to firefox" and no pop up anymore, very hard indeed
Unlike Windows Update, Firefox warns you exactly once per program startup, and only if you haven't disabled it. Firefox can also automatize this in the background without you ever noticing until you start the application again; Windows Update not only behaves obnoxiously, but it forces you into immediate system reboots.
Windows Update can be disabled too, but unless you really take steps, Windows warns you about every 10 minutes that you should turn it back on.
Actually, the difference is that MS flashes shit in your face in the most obnoxious way. It'll happily interrupt your full-screen application just to tell you that there are new updates available, then again to tell you that it has finished downloading them, and then it'll bugger you every few minutes if you want to restart the computer now or later. It does not provide a "stop buggering me" button, or as it should be named after the 5th or so interruption: "Go fuck yourself in a corner, you stupid $%#$
It's rational fear of the unknown.
I've never had a Firefox or Safari issue toast my machine. I've had IE updates do it twice before (on different machines).
I just don't see how a browser can cause such mayhem to the OS - considering it's the browser that supposedly runs inside the OS, and not the other way around.
Well ok, I can. To rephrase: I don't see how a browser should cause such mayhem to the OS.
It's easy when you consider that Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer are the same program. I remember back when IE 5 came out. If the upgrade program failed in just the right way you would reboot to a blank desktop with no icons, no task bar, no way out except the power switch or reset button. You had to reboot in DOS, edit win.ini to use progman instead of explorer, enter Windows and revert to the previous version of IE. (Sometimes progman didn't even work right. I found it much easier to use control.exe as the shell, because that brought up control panel, which was exactly what was needed.) Then, you had to restart in MS-DOS mode, undo the change to win.ini so that you could go back into Windows and try again. That is, if the tech support person you called knew what the problem was and how to fix it. If not, you were pretty much hosed until you re-installed Windows.
If 83.3% of Firefox users are deemed to be using the 'most secure' version, then that definition probably means they're using either Firefox 18.104.22.168 or Firefox 3.0.0 as opposed to any earlier version. So you'd be fine with Firefox 22.214.171.124, which is exactly what I'm using right now.
The majority of IE users use IE "because it's there." These people see no reason to download a different browser because one is already provided for them. These are the same people that usually end up relying on Automatic Updates to secure their browser, in most cases not even aware that these updates were taking place to begin with. Chances are that these people don't know that their browser even has updates, much less that they are running an insecure, outdated browser.
Users of alternative browsers, by contrast, use their browser deliberately. They know that IE is there, but they blatantly decide to go against the tide and use something else. Whatever the reason for this depends on the user, but most of them share this common trait. Said browsers can't use Automatic Updates, so they must have their own update checking mechanisms in place. Every alternative browser I've used will check every so often for an update and display a pop-up for the user. The user then knows that their browser is out-of-date. Such users also tend to want the latest version, again for various reasons. Firefox is a bit more aggressive that most, downloading the update by default and installing it regardless of whether the user chooses to have it done now or later, which better explains its higher percentage.
If I spend all my time keeping up with upgrades, I won't have any time left to actually use my damn computer. And sometimes an older version works better for me. All that automatic crap is turned off. My disks are backed up...I think... I'll upgrade if something breaks. I hope you're ok with that.
I just let my package manager worry about that.
Between January 2007 and June 2008, less than half of IE users - 47.6 percent - were running the most secure browser version during the same time period.
That many people still run IE 2.0?
I believe they're referring to the browser that came with Prodigy. I can't recall the last time that thing had a browser exploit, it must have been years ago at this point.
I'm not sure why they couldn't have the update option for version 2.xx at least offer the option to update to version 3. It just kept telling me there were no new updates available. I wouldn't call it 'single click' at all.
I'm not sure why they couldn't have the
The option to update to Firefox 3 instead of another security minor version of Firefox 2 (which will still get security updates till the end of the year) hasn't been turned on at the server end yet, and will likely only be done at the next minor version update, like Firefox 3.0.1 or later.
THEN, you'll have a single click.
Well I still use version 18.104.22.168. Just minimize those annoying upgrade popups every time they pop up. 10 clicks & they just give an error & next day it's another popup for another upgrade. You mean those weren't advertizements? Well, probably just destroyed someone's TimeWarner stock.
For at least some of those cases, the reason why we don't update is because Firefox doesn't tell us when an updated version is available when we're running as limited users (i.e. not root). I don't know how it works on other OSes, but in Windows XP, if you don't have write access to the Firefox directory, it won't even notify you that an update is available. Sometimes I don't find out until a month or two after the update is released that it even exists. It's ironic that a user who tries to run more securel
It seems that corporate/government users don't have as much of a choice in when to update their browsers
It's not just corporate users. It's everybody who isn't running XP or higher. For a huge number of people, upgrading to the most recent version of Internet Explorer means buying a new operating system. Of course there are a lot of people who aren't upgrading. It's one of the consequences of Microsoft tying Internet Explorer to Windows so tightly. To upgrade to Internet Explorer 7, you need to tak
Web developers heed my call. Stop making websites accept security corrupting browsers because half the time they are pry zombies. Look at your logs and see the rate at which these computers increase revenue. Drop them at whatever delta you think prudent.
That's not practical, one of the parts of a proper security policy is to not have information like that leaking to an unknown server. Last time I checked, none of that information was making it through my firewalls. I'd be blocked, even though I'm completely up to date. As would anybody with a less popular browser.
I know that right now IE is broken enough that websites have to test to for it in order to get things to look right, but there's really no reason why anything beyond the browser type and major rel
I wonder how much of the old Firefox usage is old installs in Linux? You can't use the built-in updater if you installed the RPM/DEB because the permissions are (or should be) wrong for letting you write to the folder. AFAIK there's only a few distros who have moved to Firefox 3 so far, so the rest would be showing up as out-dated.
Similarly for Windows, if they're counting Firefox 3 as "up to date" then how many people are still on old v2s because they don't know about v3?
True. There is also the fact that Firefox is not self-contained. I can't install Firefox 3 yet because it needs a more recent version of something (pango? - I forget) than I have installed. And I can't update that because various other things are out of date. So I'll install Firefox 3 when I update the whole system soon.
I use Camino [caminobrowser.org] as my browser on my Mac and choose to leave the home page as the default "Camino Start" page. Its very minimalist, just shows a small Google search box, and a link to the latest version which changes colour to red if my version is outdated.
No in-your-face messages, no irritating popups, no external syncing software... though I guess it only works if you keep it as your home page. Makes sense to use a feature that's built into every web browser (sarcasm aside): the ability to load a web page!
Most people in big companies cannot update their IExplorer. Updates come through when IT have verified them. It's a trade off between the security risk of an old browser and the risk of breaking the entire company if the update is bad. Most BIG COMPANIES use IExplorer. Nothing to see here folks.
Majority of website visitors tend to come from home internet connections, not business, so this is mostly irrelevant in my eyes. That said, I am not aware of any large companies that haven't upgraded IE to version 7.
Out of curiosity, what percentage of the internet is still on Dialup?
I find that autoupdates are impossible over a dialup connection so I switch them off. I'm willing to bet that this is the most common reason for people using an old version of Firefox.
I think this just shows that firefox user are, just like my fellow opera users, just a bunch of browser fanbois. Hell, i even run weekly snapshot builds of opera for no reason. IE users dont care about the browser in the first place, Safari isn't something Mac users chose to use because it's so great either. So why would they bother updating all the time?
So in conclusion, this study shows: If you chose to use some special software, you will update it when you use it. Big suprise
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In my eWEEK column on this study [eweek.com] I point out numerous problems with it. Many have been mentioned by others.
The main issue is that the study is based on user-agent string data from Google's logs, and Microsoft does not supply minor version information in that string, unlike Firefox, Safari and others. Microsoft considers this to be an "information disclosure vulnerability" because it would help an attacker to commit version-specific attacks.
Because of this, the authors only know about IE major versions (5, 6. 7, 8) and decided that all IE7 users were secure, while nobody else was. Microsoft is still providing security updates for IE5 and IE6; while they are not as secure as IE7 for a variety of reasons, it's not reasonable to lump them into a group with people who don't update their browser. Conversely, if you have IE7 and haven't applied any of the security updates to it, the study says you're up to date.
Be that as it may, as others have said, the issue here is that business users use IE and the other browsers have minimal footprint in it. Firefox, by default, has no support for managed updates, and IT in a big company would (make that should) never allow users to apply updates willy-nilly to their systems. Another point is that while Microsoft supports old version for years, at the demand of their customers, Mozilla withdraws all support for old versions within 6 months of a new one being released. In fact, support for Firefox 2 will end in December of this year. Businesses won't tolerate this. IE5 support on Windows 2000 will continue till 2010 and IE6 as late as 2015.
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Is Brendan Horan going to devote his remaining time in Parliament to being a regular thorn in Winston Peters' side?
That will be no easy task given Peters' many political battles down the years have left him with a political hide as thick and seemingly impenetrable as those of several rhinos combined.
Yet, on his first day back in Parliament since being thrown out of NZ First's caucus and having his party membership summarily rescinded, Horan managed to exact a small measure of revenge.
His new seat is at the very back of the chamber. Any further back and he would be firmly embedded in the wood panelling. It is Parliament's equivalent of death row - a place where parties dispatch mavericks, the overly rebellious and walking embarrassments to see out their days before their date with the electoral Grim Reaper.
No one banished to this holding pen has ever looked as pleased to be there as Horan, however. That might have been down to the former TV weatherman's ready smile. It might have been down to him knowing what would happen next.
He bided his time, waiting until Peters rose to question the Prime Minister about claims that passengers arriving on China Southern Airlines are being fast-tracked through border security.
Like a dog with its head down a rabbit-hole, Peters had been so consumed with challenging the validity of John Key's replies that he did not notice the figure five rows behind him was about to upstage him.
"Does the Prime Minister agree that natural justice and due process are relevant in the administration of the Immigration Act?" Horan asked Key, ensuring his query sounded relevant to the original question and so could not be ruled out of order.
Horan's question had nothing to do with the Immigration Act and everything to do with the apparent absence of natural justice and due process with regard to his expulsion from NZ First.
The Prime Minister obliged by replying that natural justice was important - as was consistency. Key then had a further go at Peters by contrasting the challenging task of handling 170,000 visa applications from China each year and managing a caucus with just eight members.
Peters responded by pointing out that Key's handling of Act MP John Banks had been flawed. But it was too little too late. Horan's ambush had secured him a minor victory over his old boss.


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West Ham manager Sam Allardyce claims he is close to agreeing new deal
West Ham United manager Sam Allardyce claims he is close to agreeing a new contract at the club.
Last Updated: 27/03/13 8:35pm
Allardyce's deal at Upton Park expires at the end of the season and there has been some speculation that he could leave the Hammers in the summer.
But the former Newcastle United manager insists both parties are keen to find a solution.
"We both want to do it, it's just a question of sorting out the dotting of the i's and crossing of the t's," Allardyce told Sky Sports News HD.
"As always, that is not as easy a situation as you would like.
"You always have to do some negotiations when you are moving into the next contract, just as there were plenty of negotiations over the first contract.
"So we will hopefully come to a conclusion very shortly."
A new deal would raise the possibility of Allardyce overseeing the transfer from Upton Park to the Olympic Stadium, set to occur at the start of the 2016/17 season.
The move has been the subject of resistance from various parties, including some West Ham supporters, but the manager believes it is necessary if the club is to progress.
"We need to move to this new stadium to compete with the likes of Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham in this world," he added.
"I can understand why they don't want to leave Upton Park because they probably came here in their infancy and their dad, uncle or grandad brought them so they've grown to love this stadium.
"But at the end of the day, football has to progress."


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Charlayne Hunter-Gault to Kick off Blackboard Jungle 7 on March 24
- 03-17-2014
- By Jon Reidel
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, CNN's former Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent and former national correspondent for PBS' "The NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, will kick off the Blackboard Jungle 7 Symposium with a keynote lecture on Monday, March 24 at 4 p.m. in Ira Allen Chapel as part of UVM's celebration of Women's History Month.
The free lecture, organized by the Office of the Vice President for Human Resources, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, precedes a full slate of symposium workshops and panels focused on "Expanding Diversity: Speaking Up, Reaching Out, and Stepping Beyond" on Friday, March 28 at the Dudley H. Davis Center.
Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place, a memoir of her role in the civil rights movement as the first black woman admitted to the University of Georgia, continues to write and speak around the country and is currently working on a new book based on an article she wrote in 2012 for the New Yorker titled "Violated Hopes."
"My goal as a journalist wasn't to go on crusades or to take sides, which is becoming much more common today with the emergence of social media, but to write about people who needed exposure and who were being portrayed in a way that was inaccurate and unrecognizable to themselves," said Hunter-Gault, who will be available at a book signing from 5:30-6 p.m. following her lecture. "I've always wanted to shed light on difficult issues facing people like women in Darfur, who are under siege and still struggling against domestic violence."
Hunter-Gault said she stresses to students the importance of being informed about current world issues by using a variety of news sources that don't necessarily conform to their viewpoint. "I try to tell students to really research issues they care about before deciding how to get involved. How you evolve really depends on your interests. Some students are interested in going to Africa for six to eight weeks on an exchange with an NGO or other organizations, but I always caution that it's important to research the issues and places you are going because they may not be what you think."
"Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an exceptional speaker for this year's Celebration of Women's History and the keynote kickoff for Blackboard Jungle Symposium 7," said Wanda Heading Grant, event organizer and vice president for Human Resources. "Her personal and professional experiences and journey have made her a pioneer and champion for civil rights and social justice. She is an excellent choice to help UVM celebrate the contributions of women and to create a discourse regarding the various dimensions and excellence of diversity."
Blackboard Symposium 7 workshops and sessions are designed to support UVM faculty, staff and community members seeking to learn how to work well with others, effectively manage cross-cultural contact across campus, and to navigate the expanding dimensions of diversity in order to promote inclusiveness in our institutions. There is a registration and fee of $20 for UVM employees and $30 for non-UVM employees.
Panelists include Dorothy Roberts, professor of civil rights at the University of Pennsylvania; Amer F. Ahmed, associate director of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs at the University of Michigan; Daniel Sharfstein, professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School; Lily Casura, journalist and creator and founder of HealingCombatTrauma.com; and Matt Glowacki, owner of MOGO Wheelchairs.
Workshop topics and panels include:
- Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in the Genomic Age
- Acts of Discrimination: What Would You Do?
- Reaching Out: Faculty and Staff Working Together to Support International Students in Higher Education
- Talking Race: Does Classroom Work About Race, Diversity, and Social Justice Unify or Divide?
- Addressing Islamophobia: Dispelling Myths to Break Down Barriers
- Successful Transitions from Combat to the Classroom
- Walking is Over-Rated!
- Law, Stories, and the Historical Construction of Race
- Ways of Talking, Ways of Being: Language and Identity in the Classroom and Beyond
To request a disability-related accommodation, please contact UVM Conference & Event Services: (802) 656-5665.


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After relying on third parties for several years - Internet Explorer, Netscape - Apple decided that it was time to take matters into its own hands. It was time Apple created its own browser (again). And so, Safari was born, and released unto the world ten years ago. These past few weeks, Don Melton, the project lead for Safari and WebKit, has been sharing a lot of interesting stories about the origins and development of Apple's browser.
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The Apples in Stereo Share "Energy" with Phish
I want to talk a little bit about some of the projects that you're up to now, but before we shift into that, for some readers who probably never heard "Energy" before, can you give us a little bit of background about when you recorded that song and where you guys were as a band at that point?
Yeah, totally. So the song is off of our album New Magnetic Wonder. It's probably one of the poppiest songs on the record, and it was a song that I wrote for my son. One night I had put him to bed in his room and it was sunset and I went and sat out on the porch just outside his bedroom window and I was playing my guitar and I was watching the sunset in my backyard in Kentucky. I live in Georgia now but this was a few years ago. And it was just this beautiful moment. I felt all peaceful and happy, having put my kid to bed, and you have this sort of bonding right before bed and I felt all loving and the sun was setting. It was this beautiful orange light, kind of flowing through the leaves and permeating my yard, and I was playing my guitar and the song just sort of like instantly popped out of me. I kind of thought to myself… Well for one thing, I was aware that I was sitting outside of his window and that he could probably hear me if he just went off to sleep. And also the sunlight kind of shining across my backyard and also in addition to that, I'm into mathematics and physics, I thought, "I'm going to write a song about physics for my son."
My take on mathematics and physics is fairly cosmic I would say and so I just felt like, "The world is made of energy," kind of came out right away with the melody. I don't know, really it came out kind of quickly. I was trying to write a song that would be like a big hug for my kid. So I had the kind of main part of the song which is the verse, that came out really quickly. I mean, the thing about the song is that sometimes you write a song to be poetry and sometimes you write a song to express raw emotions. And sometimes you write a song that is kind of an idea or a feeling, and this song was kind of like that. It's not poetry, it's an idea: The world is made of energy. That, and it's going to be alright, those are the only things I wanted to say with that song.
You don't want to clutter that up when you have a strong message like that. And so that's kind of how the song came out. The next morning I was talking on the phone to one of my friends who's also my manager, Dan, and when I got off the phone with him, this other part just came into my head about, "It's going to be alright." So the two pieces of the song happened very quickly but separated probably by about 12 hours from each other, the verse and the chorus.
New Magnetic Wonder was a very special album for us because it was an album where we had sort of set out to try to capture every aspiration that we had ever had as a band in one big album. It's quite a long album and it covers a lot of ground, lots of sound collages. When we started our band, around the time of our first album, Fun Trick Noisemaker, I had this vision of this perfect psychedelic pop, indie rock album and this particular kind of sound. At that time, because I produced all of our records and we started out recording on 4-track and then moved on to 8-track for our first album, and then eventually I bought a 16-track analog tape machine. And then New Magnetic Wonder was a record that we recorded across different media – 8-track, 16-track, digital, some of it was recorded on a handheld recorder.
Our records are very different from each other. I would say that generally we finish an album and to move on to the next album we're looking to do something very different from the previous album. So if you listen through the catalog of the Apples albums, every album is very, very different from the previous one because once we sort of wrapped something up, maybe there's some loose ends that you want to pick up for the next album and maybe there's some overarching stuff that you want to pick up in the future but not on the next album. You want your next album to be a surprise and you also want it to be an interesting experience where you're really exploring yourself. You don't want to just retread something that you already got good at.
So the point is that at the time of New Magnetic Wonder, we looked back over all of our albums and all of them felt like what the Apples feel like. None of them seemed to sum up everything. Like if you were going to say, "Here's an album by my band. This is what we are." We didn't have an album like that. And so the point of that particular album was to be sort of a lengthy, psychedelic, indie rock pop album that could kind of cover all of our visions. And also that would kind of take the game plan of Fun Trick Noisemaker, our first album, and really expand on it. That being said, "Energy" is among the poppier and bigger productions on the album. There's some stuff that's super lo-fi on there, and it covers kind of a lot of ground. I think that in recording that song, I really wanted it to just feel like a big hug, a big warm arm of sunshine kind of wrapping around you and kind of encouraging the listener. Also in the production of the song, it starts off sparse and kind of folky, loose, kind of an R&B kind of feel, and then gets fairly orchestral from the middle through the end. It's a song that really feels like a Phil Spector song or something. I really wanted to make a song that feels great. I mean, I think we have a lot of songs that feel great, at least I try to do that a lot, but with this particular song, I wanted it to be like perfect like sunshine bottled up into a little pop song. And something that like with headphones on for the listener who may be in another state of mind, that it could take them on a journey. And that's particularly something that I think is very important to me as a producer, is that every song takes the listener on a journey.
It's interesting, a lot of the hallmarks that you mentioned—whether it's the orchestral arrangements or an exuberance that's also tied to psychedelic music—are actually all reasons that I think Phish gravitated to that song. Those are also hallmarks of their music.
I totally see that. I totally agree.


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Submission + - Flashback click fraud campaign was a bust (computerworld.com)
zarmanto writes: It seems that the Flashback botnet has netted their creators nothing but frustration. Flashback was tagged early on by anti-virus vendors, who promptly sink-holed many of the command & control addresses, and essentially crippled the hacker's ability to control the vast majority of the Flashback botnet... but that's not the best part. The Flashback spawned click fraud campaign resulted in... nada! It seems that their pay-per-click affiliate may be on to their scheme, as they refused to pay out. Score one for the good guys, for once.


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The second installment of the Shakespeare's Globe 2010 production of Henry IV includes some of the greatest moments in Shakespeare: the deathbed scene of the old King, when Hal contemplates the crown; and Hal's devastating rejection of Falstaff himself.
Hotspur is dead and Prince Hal has proved his mettle on the battlefield, but King Henry IV lies dying and the rebels show no sign of surrendering. Even Sir John Falstaff is forced out of the taverns to raise a militia, but will his attachment to Hal be rewarded with promotion and the life of ease he feels sure he deserves?
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Okay, so you've decided to the tie the knot..what's the first thing that you want to do? Find the dress, of course! It is every brides dream to find the perfect dress for that special day but, things have changed when it comes to choosing. While white is usually the colour of choice, more and more brides are steering away [...]Read more ›


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Davidson County is not recommending a property tax hike for the next fiscal year, according to the proposed Fiscal Year 2013-14 budget released Tuesday.
Davidson County is not recommending a property tax hike for the next fiscal year, according to the proposed Fiscal Year 2013-14 budget released Tuesday.
The county's rate is projected to remain at 54 cents per $100 of valuation, according to the proposed budget.
The county is recommending a 9 percent increase in sewer rates. However, Davidson County Manager Robert Hyatt said that increase is likely to be closer to 7 percent, based on new figures the county received from its wastewater treatment provider recently.
Additionally, ambulance fees and inspection fees are expected to slightly increase, according to the proposed budget.
Four fire departments are requesting a tax increase. Gumtree Fire and Rescue is requesting a 1.5 cent fire district tax rate increase per $100 of valuation, Fair Grove Fire Department is requesting an .5 increase per $100 of valuation, Wallburg Fire Department is requesting a 2 cent increase per $100 of valuation and Horneytown Fire Department is requesting a 1 cent increase per $100 of valuation.
One of the largest recommended changes in the 2013-14 budget stems from proposed adjustments to the county's landfill and solid waste operations. The budget recommends the elimination of five budgeted positions for integrated solid waste, according to the budget.
While the budget assumed county operation of the landfill for the next year, Davidson County Commissioners are considering privatizing those operations as well as its sanitation and recycling efforts. The proposed staff reductions were made as part of an effort to make county operations competitive with the private sector, Hyatt said.
"We have budgeted that the county will continue to operate landfill as we have operated before, but there are some substantial cuts, as far as staff members," Hyatt told commissioners on Tuesday, adding that they still have the option to privatize those operations.
The county is also proposing a 1.5 percent increase for employee salaries. The county provided a 2 percent cost-of-living increase in the FY 2012-13 Budget after not providing an increase for 3 years. However, at mid-year, that raise was negated by a change in the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax rate implemented by the federal government, according to the proposed budget.
"We're just trying get our employees back to even to where they have been in prior years," Hyatt said.
In total, six new positions and one classification upgrade were requested by county department heads for the next fiscal year, according to the proposed budget.
The county's total tax base is expected to come in at about $12,941,901,509, according to the proposed budget. That tax base, at the recommended tax rate and average collection rate, would yield revenue in the amount of $67,614,964, which is an increase of about $999,234 over the 2012-2013 budget, according to the proposed budget.
In addition, one penny in property tax equals $1,252,129, according to the proposed budget.
Incentives approved
Davidson County commissioners approved two economic development incentive packages Tuesday night, but it didn't come without a short debate.
Before giving an affirmative vote in favor of the second proposed incentive package, Davidson County Commissioner Todd Yates gave the Davidson County Economic Development Commission an ultimatum.
"I want to go public," Yates said. "This will be my last affirmative vote for an EDC incentive or any incentive package until the elected officials are provided with the names of the companies and the locations of where they are going."
Yates has demanded more information from the EDC and its executive director Steve Googe, who brings forth the incentive proposals, in recent weeks.
Yates, two other elected officials and a former EDC member recently spoke out in The Dispatch about what they called an inflow of information about companies receiving potential economic development incentive packages.
After Yates' statement, Davidson County Commissioners Larry Potts and Fred McClure questioned if Yates' statement applied to companies that required Googe or other EDC members to sign confidentiality agreements.
Yates said yes.
"The people elected us to be in charge of their purse," Yates said.
Project Hem is a merger of two companies, Googe said. One company is a manufacturing operation and other is marketing company, he said. The company proposed to invest about $2.3 million and provide at least 30 jobs at a wage equal to the county's average wage.
The county approved an incentive package for Project Hem that would not exceed annual payments of $6,210 per year for five years.
"They have looked at several locations throughout the region and chosen Davidson County to pursue their expansion plant," Googe said.
Googe did not reveal Project Hem's actual name.
Project Z13 is an injections molding plastics company considering relocating in the county, Googe said. The company proposed to invest $2.2 million and would provide 11 jobs at an average annual wage of $50,000.
Commissioners approved an incentive package for Project Z13 that would not exceed annual payments of $5,940 per year for five years, which was slightly different from the original proposal that included annual payments that wouldn't exceed $6,000.
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Morris has defeated DeKalb three times the past three seasons, outscoring the Barbs 136-64, but Morris coach Alan Thorson said the 2013 Barbs hardly resemble past editions.
"I would say they are an improved DeKalb team from what we've seen in the past," Thorson said.
A win over Morris would be pivotal to the Barbs' pursuit of their fifth playoff berth, and their second since 1989.
They are 3-3 and have 31 opponents' wins. DeKalb has lost three games against teams that currently have winning records (Hampshire, Sycamore and Kaneland) but have defeated three teams that are now below .500 (Vernon Hills, Ottawa and Streator).
The 2-4 Redskins fall into the latter category.
While DeKalb could lose Friday and still make the playoffs, Morris has no such wiggle room.
"For both of us, it's a playoff game, basically," Thorson said. "If we lose, we're done. They need it as well, so it's going to be two teams fighting for the playoffs."
Morris is coming off a 43-21 loss to Sycamore after trailing 24-21 at the end of the third quarter.
Junior running back Jake Walker, who has 74 carries for 693 yards overall, had a season-high 227 yards on 18 attempts during the game.
"I thought our line picked it up a lot from the Yorkville game, and then with them picking it up, it was a lot easier to read holes and run through them," Walker said. "The line did a lot more. They really improved from last week. They looked really good."
The Redskins' 268-yard rushing attack against Sycamore was offset somewhat by the 17 yards their passing game generated.
It was the lowest total of the year for quarterback Griffin Sobol.
"That's probably the biggest thing this week is we gotta build off of the success we had running the ball, but we have to get better throwing the ball this week, too," Thorson said.
"Our receivers need to step up and make some catches, and Griff's gotta work on his accuracy a little this week."
DeKalb's offense is centered around the two leading rushers.
Dre Brown has carried 98 times for 736 yards and 12 touchdowns, and quarterback Jack Sauter has 598 rushing yards and seven rushing touchdowns on 86 attempts.
Sauter has completed 39-of-82 passes for 380 yards with three touchdowns and four interceptions.
"They run pistol, but double-wing out of the pistol with Brown and two other running backs," Thorson said. "They're all really good runners, along with the quarterback. They do a lot of zone reads, and [Sauter will] tuck the ball and hold to it as well."
The Barbs have allowed a Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference East-high 170 points.
"Over the last week, we've worked a lot more on playing with more of an attitude, and in the Sycamore game you saw that obviously a lot more," Walker said. "It was just play all four quarters, which is important against a good team like Sycamore. If we play like that all four quarters against DeKalb, good things will happen."


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Dre writes: "Today marks a special coincidence. First, Adam Treat released the initial version of Qt bindings for C#, which consists of 476 Qt classes converted to C#. The bindings work with the Mono compiler, runtime environment and class libraries, enabling a fully Open Source implementation of C# for Qt. While not yet ready for a real application, Adam has managed to write and execute a Hello World! program (screenshot). KDE bindings are on the drawing board. Shortly thereafter, Phil Thompson, Jim Bublitz and theKompany.com released KDE 2 and KDE 3 bindings for Python. Together with the Java, Objective C and C bindings in the kdebindings module, as well as the Ruby bindings, KDE is providing developers a broad gamut of application development languages."


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Chase Going Woodhouse (March 3, 1890 - December 12, 1984)
Woodhouse was an educator and Congresswoman from the Second Congressional District in Connecticut, according to the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress. She was the second woman elected to Congress from Connecticut, and the first elected as a Democrat. Before that Woodhouse was a professor of economics at Connecticut College in New London, Conn. Her two non-consecutive terms (1945 to 1947, 1949 to 1951) as a Congresswoman drew upon her economics expertise. Woodhouse died in New Canaan.
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Nanovere is a coatings company that makes big promises according to the Jan. 2, 2013 news item on Nanowerk,
Imagine for a moment a world were automotive plastics never fade, a self-cleaning wheel that resists brake dust, a self-cleaning tire that looks new for life, or a fiberglass boat that resists fading for life. These and other amazing benefits are now possible due to 10 years of research & development in nanotechnology.
According to Nanovere Technologies Chairman & Chief Technology Officer Thomas Choate, "Nanovere is pleased to introduce the world's first Wipe-On clear nanocoating to exceed automotive OEM specifications. The product is named Vecdor Nano-Clear®. What's most unique about Nano-Clear® is the ability to permanently restore original color, gloss and surface hardness back into oxidized textured plastics, highly oxidized fiberglass and highly oxidized paint surfaces while reducing surface maintenance by 60%."
… Nanovere Technologies has pioneered proprietary 3D nanostructured coatings at the molecular level since 2003. Nano-Clear® forms a "highly crosslink dense film with extreme scratch resistance, chemical resistance, UV resistance, remarkable flexibility and self-cleaning properties including water, oil, ice and brake-dust repellency."
(For those who are interested, there are more specifics about this wonder coating in the news item.)
In reading this I was reminded of a movie that I saw years ago, an Alec Guinness film, The Man in The White Suit. Here's the synoposis from imdb.com,
An altruistic chemist invents a fabric that resists wear and stain as boon to humanity but both capital and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.
A very funny film released in 1951 it offers a trenchant commentary on why some problems are better left unsolved.


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If you've only imagined what furniture looks like in the homes of Britain's aristocracy – dark ornately carved wood pieces with gold filigree accents – here's your chance to meet one such Brit and view some pieces in person.
Scott Shuptrine Interiors' Royal Oak gallery will roll out the red carpet for Lord Charles Spencer, Ninth Earl Spencer, for a special furniture unveiling.
From 5 to 8 p.m. Feb. 26, Lord Spencer will be at the gallery to greet guests and discuss the Althorp Living Collection, manufactured by luxury furniture maker Theodore Alexander and being sold at Scott Shuptrine Interiors in Royal Oak, Grand Rapids and Petoskey.
The collection was inspired by furnishings that adorned Althorp, the Spencer home where Diana, who eventually became Princess of Wales, and her brother Charles Spencer grew up. The pieces are based on more than 500 years of living history from the 14,000-acre estate.
Theodore Alexander captures exquisite details and an enchanting insight into the past with furnishings based on the distinctive legacy at Althorp, according to Scott Shuptrine representatives. Although Lord Spencer will only be on hand at the Royal Oak gallery to meet and greet customers and to sign Theodore Alexander Althorp pieces purchased that day, shoppers at all locations will be able to enjoy refreshments and 35 percent off the collection Feb. 26.
Althorp is a sprawling English estate in bucolic Northhampshire which for five centuries has served as the primary residence of the Spencers, one of the most distinguished, aristocratic families in Britain. The family has ties to Winston Spencer Churchill and the ancestors of George Washington.
It's this combination of a rich historical legacy and the home's warm, beautiful interiors gathered during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries by Althorp's inhabitants that are evident in the designs by furniture maker Alexander. The Althorp Living Collection is a regal addition to the selection of contemporary, traditional, eclectic and transitional luxury décor carried by Scott Shuptrine Interiors. And it's likely to become even more popular having the support of Lord Spencer - Althorp's current owner - behind it.
So, what pieces might you buy?
Possibly the Morgan, a club chair with an upholstered Savile leather interior back above a loose seat cushion, on square chamfered legs. What makes this Art Deco-inspired piece unique is its beautiful flared rosewood veneered backing. It's the kind of chair you would put next to a fireplace or in a corner of the library so you can plop your royal bones and get lost in a good book. It's also the kind of chair one might see in a room at a yacht club, where ladies sit and gather to share their latest feats on the lake. The collection also features a variety of tables and accessories – everything that one might imagine in the childhood home of a woman who eventually became a member of the British royal family.
As for myself?
I would invest in something like the Author's Desk and Chair. The Author's Desk is a satinwood and rosewood banded table with a square top and round edges. Upon first glance it appears to be only a flat-surfaced table but it's centrally hinged to open as a reading stand. It also features a leather writing surface plus compartments with a long frieze drawer, balanced on a turned column with downspout legs terminating in brass paw cappings and castors. Its design was inspired by a late 18th century original.
As part of the set I would add the Author's Chair. The finely carved mahogany armchair features a cozy buttoned upholstered seat on square tapering paneled legs with spade feet. So it is comfortable. A lot of chairs are beautiful to look at but, not to sit on. What's also great about this piece is the shield with wheat sheaf, palm leaf and rosette carving back and exaggerated curved arms (exaggerated to the point where you could kick back, stretch your arms and have time to think about the next chapter in your bestselling novel – without getting a kink in your neck). It's also made of mahogany which would match the rest of the pieces in the Joseph estate.
If you plan to make a royal appearance on Feb. 26 at the gallery event, register in advance at scottshuptrine.eventbrite.com or call 248-549-9105.
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This is 10 in sch 40 pipe welded in th 5g position
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From what I can see it doesn't look bad. I know welding to a pipe that has such an oxidized surface can be difficult. Try to look really close at the toes on the rusted pipe and see if you can find any underfill. It might look like undercut. In this situation as an inspector that is the place I would focus on. You know inspectors- something has to be wrong and I need to find it.
All in all it looks good from the picture.
Thanks any imput oe tips are much apreciated. Not a pipe welder so anything helps
Oh c'mon! Your not a pipewelder? That looks like a weld at the test centre. Buddy you got it down gooood and don't change a thing. Bob
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I can't tell you how many times I took someone to the hospital for broken bones. When we called it in on the way, (and when I'd write the run report) it was called a PSD for (Painful, Swollen, Deformed) extremity. We did not call them broken bones, even though we of all people were probably the best experts on the subject. You know why? Simple. Because we didn't carry an x-ray machine with us! So no matter how normal or how nasty it looked, unless we saw the bone poking through the skin, we could not definitively say whether it was broken or not.
Pipe welds are very similar. There are a lot of things you can see on the surface, but that's as deep as your eye will ever go. You'll never see the fusion of that root by looking at the cap. You'll never see slag inclusions. The last pass is the easiest thing to make look good. And its the only part you can see.
With that in mind, I can say the last pass looks pretty good, but I would have liked to have seen just a little buffer of smooth ground metal on the rusted pipe. But telling a sound weld from sight is like telling a broken bone inside a leather jacket.
The jacket looks nice.
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Never compromise your principles today in the name of furthering them in the future.
"All I ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work." -Sgt. Bilko
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bodybagger, so your kinda like a pipe paramedic. Thats cool. But I see what your saying and agree with you. Guess I might be judging this book by it's cover. Still, it's a pretty cap and in 5G, so I gotta give the guy credit.
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The cap looks good, but can't tell which position the photo is from. Doesn't look like the top or bottom. How does the tie in at the top look? And of course, what about the bottom; You know what they say: "If you want the bottom to look like the top, Fu@k up the top!"Miller Syncrowave 200
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the photo is from the bottom going up the side. I dont have a picture of the root but got one of the hot pass i will put it up in the am. Just looking for any advice. wanted some profesionals opinions so keep em coming.Thanks
7018 for the cap?
What did you use for the root and hot pass?Caution!
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ReDigi says its service is protected by the Copyright Act's first-sale principle, which would allow people to resell their used CDs at flea markets or online. The doctrine, originally set out by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1908, provides that copyright owners can't prevent people who have purchased material from reselling it.
But the record industry views the service differently. The major labels contend that ReDigi makes unauthorized copies of MP3s. The industry says that even if first-sale principles let people resell what they have purchased, they can't sell a copy of that material—regardless of whether it is a homemade recording of an album or an MP3 file.
Despite technology companies' interest in enabling sales of used digital media, some copyright experts say ReDigi will have an uphill battle. "The standard view is that whenever you're making a new copy, you're infringing the reproduction right," says Joseph Gratz, an adjunct faculty member at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. "Making new copies is something that you're not allowed to do without a license."
At the same time, Gratz adds, the rationale behind the prohibition on copying is to enable the owner to control the total number of copies in the world. If a system like ReDigi's deletes the user's version as it uploads a copy to the company's servers, the total number of copies in existence remains constant. That's different from file-sharing services, where countless people can download the same track after one consumer has uploaded it.
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Bachelor's in Fire Protection Approved
February 5, 2013
MACOMB, IL -- For nearly 34 years, Western Illinois University has offered educational opportunities to firefighters from across the United States, first with its Open Learning Fire Services program in 1979 designed solely for fire professionals and later with distance learning degree and certification opportunities in fire administration. Beginning in Fall 2013, the University will offer its first bachelor's degree in fire protection.
The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) recently approved the Bachelor of Science in Fire Protection Services at Western. The degree program is expected to enroll approximately 75 students in the first year, according to Terry Mors, director of the WIU School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration (LEJA).
Working with the School of Distance Learning, Outreach and International Studies, LEJA has offered a fire administration minor since Fall 2002. LEJA has partnered with The Open Learning Fire Science Program and the National Fire Academy's certification program in offering hundreds of firefighters from around the nation their undergraduate degrees in general studies, focusing on fire sciences.
"The educational opportunities we've offered in fire sciences throughout the years have allowed firefighters from coast to coast to keep current in their field, and has afforded career advancement for many as they obtain degrees and additional certifications," Mors said. "We're so pleased to offer a bachelor's degree in fire protection services beginning this fall. It complements not only our LEJA degree, but it also certainly fits within our school's growing commitment to fire protection studies and other interdisciplinary programs at Western, such as emergency management."
The WIU Fire Protection Studies Program features a comprehensive major comprised of 120 semester hours, including 18 hours from six required core courses. In order to best meet student needs, the new Bachelor of Science fire degree program offers two separate, unique study options, Mors explained. The fire administration program, which is delivered online, is designed for working firefighters seeking promotion to senior leadership positions, while the fire science option features face-to-face classes, which are delivered on the Macomb campus, and is suited for students preparing for a career in the fire service.
"The fire science option is relatively unique in that it offers a four year, on-campus program for students preparing to enter the fire service. Of particular note is the inclusion of a robust internship program within this option," he added. "In addition to the new fire major, the University remains committed to its existing fire minor programs
For more information on the new bachelor's degree or one of the fire protection minors, contact the School of LEJA at (309) 298-1038 or visit wiu.edu/coehs/leja/fire/index.php. For information on the Open Learning Fire Service program, visit wiu.edu/Extended Learning, and for more information on the general studies, visit wiu.edu/distance_learning/bachelor_of_arts_in_general_studies.
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November 19, 2013 > Ambitious California river restoration problem plagued
FRESNO, Calif. (AP), A year ago federal officials trucked 116 spawning salmon to the upper San Joaquin River in Central California and invited media to watch them swim free for the first time since a dam cut off the river's flow a half century ago.The effort to see if gravel riverbeds still could sustain eggs cost $237,000. A few months later, the offspring died. The biologists had not figured out a reliable way to catch the smolt for a return to the sea across 60 miles of riverbed left dry when the Friant Dam began diverting water to create the richest agriculture region in the nation.``They didn't plan ahead and say `how are we going to get the juveniles out.' It's that lack of planning that's frustrating,'' said Monty Schmitt, a scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which sued the federal government decades ago to have the river and salmon populations restored.After eight years of work, this January is the deadline for the once-mighty San Joaquin to be carrying enough water to allow spring and fall runs of Chinook salmon to help revive the state's fishing industry.But the highly ambitious river restoration has been plagued by unforeseen problems resulting in delays and increased costs. Land has subsided so much in places that engineers must figure out how to make the river run uphill. And farms, barns and roads are in the way of a river that wants to return to its marshy expanse.After $100 million spent so far, the dry river is just as incapable today of carrying water as it was in 2006 when an historic agreement was struck among environmental groups, fisherman, farmers and the federal government to undo damage caused by dam diversions.What had been pitched by environmental groups as a $250 million revival now is projected to cost more than $1 billion. And government officials say the river system may never operate without human intervention and hard-to-get federal funds, even after the 2025 estimated completion date.``I don't see a time, at least for now, when we will completely walk away from the San Joaquin,'' said Alicia Forsyth, who is directing the restoration for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. ``It is a long-term investment in the river.''The 366-mile San Joaquin starts in the Sierra Nevada east of Fresno, then drops through granite canyons to Friant Dam, forming Millerton Lake whose waters are shared with farmers and a few municipalities. From there the San Joaquin flows only for a few miles before drying up. Further downstream it's replenished by the Merced, Tuolumne and Stanislaus rivers Ð all with salmon populations.The upper San Joaquin's once abundant salmon run began diminishing in the late 1800s because of mining, dams and other man-made diversions. The salmon faded to nearly nothing by 1967 after the last of the river's water was diverted by the dam. The NRDC sued 25 years ago, arguing the Bureau of Reclamation violated state law when it dried up the river above its convergence with the Merced, ending the salmon runs. The settlement called for one of the most complex river restorations in North America:The dam would release enough water to fill the dry stretch, then the Bureau would pump that water back to farmers from a point at least 100 miles downstream. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife would study the river to ensure that restoring salmon would be possible, operate hatcheries and truck fish over dry sections until at least 2020.The goal is to generate 30,000 spring run fish by 2040 and a 10,000-salmon fall-run. By comparison, fall run alone on the Sacramento River is 350,000.``Will the San Joaquin ever be teeming like it was historically? My gut feeling is probably not,'' said Forsyth. The project includes significant channel modifications, construction of levees and fish passages.None of the construction projects have begun. And no one is happy: the NRDC wants faster progress, farmers near the river are worried about flooded fields, and politicians against the restoration want to end funding. Few took into account the scope of problems. The San Joaquin once was a meandering riparian river of wetlands and marshes. When federal authorities did a test run on the river's capacity a few years ago, it spread back out in braided channels across a now-developed landscape.Corrective actions, such as installation of test wells, the purchase of farmland easements and the installation of drains to keep water out of crops, have delayed the project. And engineers will need to figure out how to get the river to run uphill in areas where over-pumping has caused the ground to subside.``It's unfortunate that people aren't coming back to the table to say let's be honest and come up with a new strategy instead of acting like this thing is on track to work,'' said the river's largest landowner, farmer Cannon Michael, with 4,500 acres that would be flooded. Government biologists say it takes time. They hope that environmental improvement projects on the river and on the Delta will combine to bring salmon back to modern Day California and historic runs such as the San Joaquin.``It's like when you have a pot simmering on the stove. Nature can simmer and persist and not be successful for a long time, but at some point there is change and the pot boils over and species thrive,'' said Rhonda Reed, the San Joaquin River Basin Branch Chief for the National Marine Fisheries Service.


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Members of the Global Health Interest Group at Penn State College of Medicine are holding Global Health Night — an evening of international food and important discussion about issues in global health — on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at the Penn State Hershey University Conference Center. Sarah Smith, a fourth-year medical student whose international clinical experiences began in 2007 and led her to countries including Zambia, Honduras, Peru, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia, will present on her experiences at The Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Also slated to speak is Dr. Pauline K. Bridgeman, assistant professor of family and community medicine and a physician at Penn State Hershey Medical Group-Harrisburg. Bridgeman spent three years in general pediatrics at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center before moving to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in 2011 with Cure International. She returned to the United States and has been working with pediatric residents. Bridgeman will share the lessons she has learned abroad in the field of global health.
Tickets are $10 in advance ($12 at the door) and are on sale in the Office of Humanities (Room C1743) or Medical Education (Room C1704) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. until Jan. 28.
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(12) SusanE, July 11, 2009 3:49 PM
What Happened to Taking Your Kids on Outings?
Many children especially the ones whose parents can afford it go to summer camp. Most kids have a great time and it is an enviroment that enriches their otherwise not so stimulating summer.
II've always been of the thought if you want your kid to go canoeing, take him and his friends canoeing for the day. Want him to sleep in a tent, then buy a tent and invite his friends to a nearby park. If it's computers he's into go with him to computer day classes, or sign up a friend or two. Pick a place a week in driving distance, caves, railroads, evening auto races, small town festivals, county fairs, heritage events or sports lessons. There are hundreds of things to pick from to do with your children over the summer months.. As you can see I'm not big on summer camps.
School months are regimented for children but summer is so free and is the best time to spend with your kids doing things they truly enjoy doing with you. No homework no worries, no scheduling. They need free time to explore.
Any child that is away from their parents without 24 hour access is a child in trouble. This is disturbing on so many levels. Any camp that doesn't allow 24 hour access should be crossed off your list. When a child calls home with a vague excuse about any matter, go immediately and get him or her. Children won't tell you what is wrong. At the least they are uncomfortable and need to be with you. In the extreme they have already been hurt. They need to be safe. The question today was "What happened to sending away your kids to camp? " Don't Call Home. If a boss or a friend or your husband or your mother called 2 times a day, most people would take the call. Why shouldn't our kids be given that access too? If this same child can stay at a friends home overnight or go vacationing for a few days with friends, but is calling from camp, it is a sign that all is not right. If he can't stay away on overnights, then he certainly should not be sent to camp..
(11) Avraham G., July 9, 2009 6:16 PM
Don't have them stop calling, just be frim with your own boundaries.
Kids are not talking to their parents enough these days and that is why they are going off the derech because there is not enough emotional connection. If we want our kids to be independent then be strong enough to tell them when they call you demanding you send a wardrobe to them in camp that the answer is "no." But don't have them stop calling.
(10) fred, July 9, 2009 7:11 AM
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(9) Anonymous, July 9, 2009 1:49 AM
They can't call me, they can't email me, and they don't even write!
(8) Anonymous, July 8, 2009 10:08 PM
To Anonymous: sometimes camp is better than home
If what you suggest is true (and, by the way, I don't think it is) -that American parents want their kids elsewhere for selfish reasons- then perhaps camp is preferable. As a kid, I learned more about my skills, my interests, my capacity for self-reliance, in 8 weeks at camp every summer than I did in the other 10 months at home every year. I also felt more loved and valued. What is definitely different between America and Israel is that in Israel all adults take an interest in all kids. Children have many examples of responsibility, humor, creativity, parenting, faith, and work -examples both attractive and unattractive- to assess and perhaps emulate. In America, except for teachers, the only significant adult models are parents - and no one parent can show a child as many options as dozens of neighbors and even strangers. In Israel, children may learn something positive about themselves in a single bus ride or walk to the makolet. In America, anyone who addresses someone else's child risks the wrath of the parent. It's my opinion that sleepaway camp is more necessary to the development of many (not all) American kids than it is to the development of most (not all) Israeli kids. And it is also my view that all kids benefit from seeing themselves as the maximum number of "others" see them.


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The June 2013 Community Cinema film is Love Free or Die with screenings and discussions in both Austin and Round Rock. All screenings will start at 7 pm, are free and open to the public.
Screenings take place June 4 at Austin's Windsor Park Branch Library (5833 Westminster Dr.) and June 27 at Round Rock Public Library (216 E. Main Street).
LOVE FREE OR DIE by Macky Alston
Faith, love, marriage, homosexuality, and the Episcopal Church collide in the first openly gay Bishop, Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.