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Must tell us mooooorreeee
Hey, I thought "gearbox" was a dirty word around here......
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Must tell us mooooorreeee
I suspect he means the step-down gearbox. The Empulse, Lightning, and MotoCzysz all run high efficiency, high power motors. This means small, liquid cooled, and turning HUGH rpms. You are not going to get that to the rear wheel in one step.
Sorry... it's a geared reduction in a housing - hence "gearbox". The Empulse RR race bike is still direct drive.
Brian Wismann
Director of Product Development
Brammo, Inc
Personal Enertia Mileage: 5,482 miles
Gallons of gas offset (vs. my car @ 21mpg): 261 gallons
Money not spent on gas (Premium @ $2.95/gal): $770.09
Yep I want Brians job.....although I'm working hard to get to do as much of it as possible here at Manzanita Micro
BTW thanks for the sweet video posts.......
The motor on the empulse looks like a PMS 156. http://www.perm-motor.de/index.php?i...on-motoren&L=1
This would make sense as the enertia uses a PMS 120. Hopefully watercooled
Controller wise my money is on the new-ish Sevcons.
Brammo may make the "battery" but I seriously doubt they're manufacturing cells.
Cell wise, not valence. I would guess something like kokam or A123 pouches but anything in that ballpark would make a 10kwh 420lb bike cost over 14K to keep a good margin. Unless of course brammo's buying in huge bulk or losing money on every bike sold.
The Empulse is a cornerstone for Elmoto.net folk because for the first time, it will be cheaper for us to buy an awesome electric motorcycle than it would be to build one. No other bike on the market can do that for us, which is part of the reason we exist. I suspect over time ELmoto will be less about hardcore converters and more about softcore modders to their already electric Elmotos.
On the othe side of the bike there is a chain motor to jack shaft then the sprocket shown on that picture is one of the final drive sprockets
Those videos are great and frustrating to watch after the end of the race season ;D
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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of Apple (AAPL) are up $4.15, or 0.8%, at $524.01, as the Street offers up a fairly warm review of the company's refresh of the iPad lineup at a media event in San Francisco yesterday, which was accompanied by updates as well of the MacBook Pro line of laptops, the announcement Apple's software will be given away for free, and disclosure of pricing for the new Mac Pro.
Analysts today are not only reviewing the announcement but also looking forward to the fiscal Q4 report next Monday, October 28th, after the closing bell. Analysts have been modeling $36.83 billion in revenue and $7.91 per share in net profit, though some are forecasting a beat given that Apple said last month it was expecting results at the upper end of its forecast.
Goldman Sachs's Bill Shope reiterates a Buy rating on the stock and a $560 price target, writing that there were few surprises at the event, "other than some of the company's pricing changes."
We believe the new iPads could begin to reinvigorate Apple's revenue growth in the tablet category, and we view the company's increasingly free software model as an important long-term driver of its ecosystem breadth and installed base loyalty. Largely due to the large form-factor iPad upgrade and the company's higher price points for the Retina iPad mini, our overall iPad ASPs increase and units decrease more modestly. As a result, we believe guidance and out year estimates are biased to the upside, and we believe this will continue to drive a recovery in the share price.
Shope thinks Apple will beat September-quarter estimates, and the focus will be on the outlook offered for Q1. He's modeling revenue of $55 billion and EPS of $13.95, versus consensus of $55.5 billion and $13.82.
Barclays's Ben Reitzes, reiterating an Overweight rating, and $540 price target, thinks that making the latest OS X rerelease, "Mavericks," free is "a significant divergence from the industry standard."
"Taking into account its strategy to give away iWork as well, it seems that Apple's software strategy is aimed at driving more use of its ecosystem – wrapped around iCloud, which should spur loyalty and ongoing upgrades to new hardware by customers over time."
Reitzes notes the new iPads, with the mini's price raised from $329 to $399, should preserve profitability for Apple, though he notes some investors were probably disappointed that the iPads did not add the same fingerprint sensor technology that debuted last month on the iPhone 5S.
On the other hand, Bernstein's Toni Sacconaghi, who has an Outperform rating on Apple and a $600 price target, is baffled by Apple giving away the software crown jewels:
While great for consumers, we were a bit puzzled that Apple decided to give away so much of its software for free – new Mac OS X Mavericks, iLife for iOS and OS X, and iWork for iOS and OS X. The upgrades represent very high margin business that users are generally willing to pay for. Moreover, providing free software upgrades for older generation offerings may elongate replacement cycles. By contrast, we believe that lowering the price of the entry level Macs by $100 (from $999 to $899 on the Air) may have resonated more with consumers and had a more positive financial impact on the company. We note that in the first year of availability (July 2012-June 2013), 35% of Mac users downloaded Mountain Lion OS X – which led to ~$560M in revenue and $500M+ in profit (28M users at $20). We are surprised that Apple is giving away high-margin software that users overwhelmingly pay to download instead of keeping software costs constant and reinvesting to lower hardware entry points to get users on the OS X or iOS ecosystem.
In fact, regarding software, it appears to be the key at the moment to sustaining higher-than-average tablet pricing, writes UBS's Steve Milunovich, who today reiterates a Neutral rating on the shares and a $520 price target.
"We surmise part of the higher iPad ASPs relates to the inclusion of previously a la carte software, such as iWork and iLife," writes Milunovich. "In our view, Apple's new approach of including its software for free in all new devices should help to maintain premium pricing and is another step in software / vertical integration coming full-circle."
Milunovich maintains an outlook for 84 million iPad units to be sold this fiscal year, but raises his average selling price for the device to $442 from $425, offering positive thoughts on the new specs of the devices:
Both the iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina Display use Apple's A7 processor and M7 coprocessor with a 64-bit architecture, improving both CPU and graphics performance markedly from the A6. Despite having a smaller battery, the iPad Air (32.4 Wh) offers similar battery life as the Gen-4 iPad (42.5 Wh), while the iPad mini's battery is only slightly larger than last year's device. Improvement in both devices' connectivity impressed us. Apple now includes multiple antennas, known as multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO), at both the transmitter and receiver that help to double Wi-Fi speeds up to 300bps. The new devices expand their LTE capability to 14 from 8 bands previously. The added bands should help iPad cellular adoption, particularly in Western Europe where many carriers operate on Band 7. The added bands also provide coverage in Japan (NTT DoCoMo), Hong Kong (China Mobile Hong Kong), and Indonesia (DiGi, SingTel).
One of the concerns Milunovich expresses is whether there will be a deal with China Mobile for the iPhone 5S in the new year.
That is a concern shared by BTIG Research's Walter Piecyk, who reiterates a Buy rating today and a $540 price target, while writing that good results this quarter could yield to disappointment come March if iPhone sales experience their seasonal slump absent a China Mobile deal:
With the iPad announcements now behind us, Apple has three possible catalysts for 2013: the Fiscal Q4 report on Monday, the launch of the new iPads across the globe on November 1st and a possible product announcement with China Mobile. If the last does not materialize, investor concern about how far iPhone sales could fall sequentially in the March quarter could start to surface in December. Undoubtedly, our peers will be reporting back from various trips to Asia as year-end approaches, citing "checks" about the direction of component orders. Absent the addition of China Mobile into the mix, those "checks" could turn out to be disappointing as the compression of the product cycle (which we have been writing about for the past year) is likely to deliver a predictable 20% sequential drop in iPhone unit sales in the March quarter. Yet, that might not be reflected by a consensus estimate derived from a very broad group of analysts. But first, let's talk about what we saw out in San Francisco yesterday and why we think iPad's could be a source of positive news for Apple.
You can read more of Piecyk's thoughts on the matter in his rather lengthy post on the BITG Web site, free registration required.
William Power with R.W. Baird reiterates a Neutral rating and a $525 price target, writing that while there wasn't much unexpected, it was still "a solid refresh."
"Given its slowing growth and lack of significant recent innovation, we view valuation as fair, but could consider getting more aggressive on any pullback," writes Power.
Power is modeling revenue last quarter in line, at $37 billion, and EPS coming in a few pennies higher at $7.94 per share. For the Q1 outlook, he sees revenue of $54.7 billion and EPS of $13.88, which he describes as "in line with consensus," though a lot depends on how fast Apple can get supply of the iPad mini into stores, as well as boosting supply of the iPhone 5S, still in high demand.

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Angels announce 2013 Minor League development staffs
ANAHEIM, CA -- The Angels today named their minor league development and coaching staffs for the 2013 season in an announcement by Assistant General Manager Scott Servais.
ANAHEIM, CA -- The Angels today named their minor league development and coaching staffs for the 2013 season in an announcement by Assistant General Manager Scott Servais.
The Angels, who open their first season with single-A Burlington (IA), begin their 13th season with two other affiliates (triple-A Salt Lake and double-A Arkansas) and their ninth with the Orem Owlz, the club's rookie-level affiliate in the Pioneer League. The Angels enter their third season in a high-A partnership with the Inland Empire 66ers and will again field rookie teams in the Arizona League (at the Tempe minor league complex since 2006) and the Dominican Summer League (in San Pedro de Macoris).
Following is a look at the Angels' 2013 Minor League Development Staff:
MANAGER Keith Johnson Tim Bogar Bill Haselman
PITCHING COACH Erik Bennett Mike Hampton Brandon Emanuel
HITTING COACH Francisco Matos Ernie Young Brenton DelChiaro
TRAINER Brian Reinker Mike Metcalfe Omar Uribe
STRENGTH & COND. Josh Fields Al Sandoval TBD
MANAGER Jaime Burke TBD Denny Hocking Charlie Romero
PITCHING COACH Trevor Wilson Chris Gissell Matt Wise Hector Astacio &
Jose Marte
HITTING COACH Nathan Haynes Carson Vitale Brian Betancourth Edgal Rodriguez &
& Ryan Barba Anel De Los Santos
TRAINER Chris Wells Matt Morrell Greg Spence Osiris Ramirez
STRENGTH & COND. Joe Griffin TBD Sergio Rojas TBD
ASSISTANT GM, SCOUTING & PLAYER DEVELOPMENT Scott Servais
DIRECTOR, PLAYER DEVELOPMENT Bobby Scales
MANAGER, MINOR LEAGUE OPERATIONS Mike LaCassa
COORDINATOR, LATIN AMERICAN OPERATIONS Michael Noboa
FIELD COORDINATOR Mike Micucci
ROVING PITCHING COORDINATOR Jim Gott
ROVING HITTING COORDINATOR Paul Sorrento
ROVING INFIELD COORDINATOR Dick Schofield
ROVING CATCHING COORDINATOR Orlando Mercado
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT INFIELD COACH Bobby Knoop
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT CATCHING COACH Bill Lachemann
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT PITCHING COACH Pete Harnisch
MEDICAL COORDINATOR Geoff Hostetter
STRENGTH & CONDITIONING COORDINATOR Seth Walsh
REHAB COORDINATOR Eric Munson
REHAB COACH Kernan Ronan
MINOR LEAGUE EQUIPMENT MANAGER Brett Crane
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Thomasina "Tommie" (Giffi) Hanlon-Werschek
Thomasina "Tommie" (Giffi) Hanlon-Werschek, 87, of Lincoln, Neb. formerly of Philadelphia, died at 8:45 a.m. on Feb. 22, 2014 in Lincoln.Born Nov. 9, 1926 in Ridgway, to Carmen and Clotilda (Judice) Giffi. She spent over 50 years as a dedicated registered nurse in Philadelphia. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Richard W. Hanlon; her second husband, Harry Raymond Werschek; two sisters, Mary Sue Grandinetti and Rosina (Rose) Olay; and three brothers, Frank Charles Giffi, Nickolas C. Giffi and Joseph James Giffi. She is survived by a sister, Antoinette (Anne) Mcgonigal; a son and daughter-in-law, John and Susan Hanlon of Lincoln; a son, Richard W. Hanlon Jr. of Kissimmee, Fla., four stepdaughters, Debra and Louanne Werschek, both of Philadelphia, and Joanne Donohoe of Doylestown, and Lisa Jalosinski of Perkasie; and many grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Cremation with no services at Thomasina "Tommie" (Giffi) Hanlon-Werschek's request. Tommie will be interred at Calvary Cemetery in Lincoln, Neb. Memorials may be sent to the American Cancer Society.Butherus, Maser & Love Funeral Home, 4040 "A" Street, Lincoln, Nebraska 68510, will be handling the arrangements.Condolences can be emailed to www.bmlfh.com.


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Another video by Meade — edited by me — showing today's protest by the Westboro Baptist Church folk. Watch for Phelps to tell Meade to "get up out of my grille." And wait for the fellow protester who attempts to lighten things up with a suggestion of song. Interestingly, it's the same song we've heard a hundred times from the anti-Scott Walker protesters downtown. The lyrics are differently tweaked.
If the phrase "up out of my grille" sounds out of place but also oddly familiar, perhaps you remember the oral argument in the Supreme Court case involving the Westboro folks:
At page 40 [of the transcript], Margie Phelps, arguing in favor of the right to express outrageous opinions in the vicinity of a funeral, is quoted as saying:(At the linked post, I discuss the spelling issue: Is it "grille" or "grill"? It's grille.)
I think approaching an individual up close and in their grille to berate them gets you out of the zone of protection, and we would never do that.(Boldface added.) Then, at pages 47-48, she's quoted saying:
Your body of law about captive audience... where they, by the way, specifically said at footnote this isn't about content. You've got to be up -- again, I will uses [sic] the colloquial term -- up in your grill. The term I think the Court used was confrontational.And page 49:
I do think that you could have a public event where there was not an element of vulnerability in the people going in. You might even let them up in their grill.


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HMNS was honored last week when Minerals Management Service (MMS) chose our Wiess Energy Hall for an announcement about their six-year, $9.3 million study of endangered sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Part of the mission of MMS is to promote responsible use of energy and mineral resources on federal land and the Outer Continental Shelf. Their results indicate that the whales are only minimally affected by oil and gas exploration. You can read all the news articles written about this event by clicking here.
The MMS partnered with several universities and scientists such as Doug Biggs, a Texas A&M oceanographer who led the research.
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As is often the case with science, we now have even more questions about sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico than we started with. In fact, most of us never even knew there were any kind of whales in the Gulf, probably because they live far from shore and spend their time diving as deep as 7,000 feet for squid and fish.
Because whales use echolocation, in the form of clicking and buzzing sounds, to find their prey, there was a concern that the loud seismic air guns used for oil and gas exploration would disorient them. However, the study showed that the noise had little affect. The study also gave us more information about the breeding and feeding patterns of the whales that can be used for future studies. The recent surge in interest in offshore drilling makes this Sperm Whale Seismic Study in the Gulf of Mexico even more important.
I love hearing that sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico are unharmed by seismic surveys, but another treat for me was the people who came to Houston from MMS for the press conference (held in the Wiess Energy Hall Explorations Theater). Caryl Fagot, and Eileen Angelico are as fun to work with as it must be playing with the whales in the Gulf! They are in the Public Affairs office in the MMS Gulf of Mexico Region Office in New Orleans. Carol Roden and Ann Jochens are research scientists on the team. I love seeing women scientists in action to prove to non-believers that YES women can be scientists.
Randall Luthi, Director, Minerals Management Service in Washington DC has a sense of humor that could even entertain a whale. He is from Wyoming and pointed out that he therefore has first-hand knowledge of whales, even though they have a different species than in the Gulf. (I hope this causes those of you who are not grinning to search a U.S. map for the humor involved.) I admire the dedication of Doug, Caryl, Eileen, Carol, Ann, Randall and all of the others in attendance, to keeping our wildlife safe from human harm.


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Apple Does As Many Expected: Kills Palm Pre iTunes Syncing
from the iPetty dept
The Palm Pre is a nice phone according to many people, but it's not making any serious dent in iPhone sales. Blocking it out of iTunes is just silly. I don't have a Palm Pre or an iPhone... but I do use iTunes. But now that I know Apple is breaking software and removing features, I guess it's time to look elsewhere. How's Songbird these days? Other suggestions?


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Instead of having them over again, twice in a row, why not suggest an outing? Go out to dinner and a show or something like that. Tell them you're new to the area and don't know many people (you probably already have) and see if they'd like to invite another couple. Meeting people through other people is one of the best ways to expand your social circle.
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Fathers aren't the only ones who know best. Mothers are pretty sharp, too.
Dylan Wu found that out as he pursued his dream of playing high level college golf. The St. Mary's junior had been mulling over top schools since last summer and had visited his four leading choices when his mother, Julie, intervened.
She urged him to take a look at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and he's glad she did.
On Tuesday night, Wu, 16, accepted a scholarship offer from Wildcats coach Pat Goss, ending a detailed process in which no aspect was overlooked.
"It was one of the schools I didn't even think I'd visit," said Dylan, who enjoyed one of the finest seasons among schoolboy golfers in Oregon last spring and who hit the national junior circuit hard in the past year. "It was always a school I was thinking about but not one of my top choices."
But when his mother offered to turn over money she'd set aside to accompany him to a tournament in Texas so he could fund a visit to Northwestern, he was compelled to do so.
"She's wanted me to commit for a long time," said Dylan. "I'm actually glad I took the time I did for this process. I have no regrets. A lot of kids I know knew where they were going at 15, 14. I wanted to make sure about my school. Northwestern is a perfect choice. I went through it detail by detail, and I'm pretty happy with where I stand right now."
Wu made a verbal commitment to Goss. The letter-of-intent signing period begins Nov. 13.
Wu previously visited Stanford, Cal, Pepperdine and Washington. All of the Pac-12 schools had expressed interest, he said, as well as others from around the country, notably Harvard and Michigan.
Ultimately, it came down to Northwestern and Stanford.
Wu visited Northwestern Jan. 23-24. He stayed with players, visited expansive and modern training facilities the team has at its disposal, ate his first deep-dish pizza and walked on Lake Michigan.
But it was his connection with Goss and the coach's glossy credentials that won over Wu.
Goss is in his 17th year and was the 2012 Illinois golf teacher of the year. His prized student over the years has been Luke Donald, who ascended to the world's No. 1 ranking before dropping back to No. 4.
Goss continues to serve as the coach of Donald, who was college golf's player of the year in 1999 and a four-time All-American.
"Coach Goss was probably the thing that separated them from all the schools," said Wu. "He's probably the best coach I've met on all the visits. He's a coach who truly wanted me as a player and who would base his success on how much better of a player I'd become when I got to Northwestern. He said his only goal would be to make me a better golfer. Most coaches inferred that, but he was the first one to say it."
The players Wu met were "really good people and kids I'd love to be teammates with," he said.
The biggest drawback would be the frigid winter weather, but the Wildcats travel to all corners of the U.S. at all times of the year to play, said Wu, including spending two weeks in Florida over Christmas.
Northwestern is ranked 35th by GolfWeek and is among the top teams in the Big Ten.
There is only one senior on this year's roster and two juniors. The other five players are sophomores and freshmen.
Goss recruited one of the top amateurs in the world, England's Matthew Fitzpatrick, from the Class of 2013.
Last season, Wu led St. Mary's to its second straight Class 3A/2A/1A state championship. He was the individual co-leader after Day 1 but was overtaken by Rogue River's Kevin Murphy in the second round and settled for second place.
Wu twice reached his competitive low score of 66 last spring, including on the final day of the district tournament to win that championship over Murphy.
He was over par for only three rounds all season — twice by one shot and the other by two.
In junior golf, he's played 11 national and international tournaments in the past year, including the U.S. Junior Amateur, the Callaway Junior Worlds and the Rolex Tournament of Champions.
His motivation for the aggressive schedule was to set himself up with collegiate options. Mission accomplished.
"Now that I've achieved my goal, I can concentrate on amateur events," said Wu, who will play a mix of junior tournaments and amateur events against older players. "I want to have a little more experience with players who are better than me. It'll help me prepare my game. I'll keep working on my game, working on my skills and keep getting better and better, so when I go to Northwestern, I can hopefully help bring them a championship."
Among the events on his schedule is the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley Golf Club, April 26-28, near Augusta, Ga., home of this week's Masters.
The tournament is rated the No. 1 junior golf event in the world by GolfWeek and brings together 54 of the world's top players. Jack Nicklaus will be the keynote speaker.
With his college choice out of the way, Wu allowed he can focus more on golf.
"It's a relief," he said. "It takes a little pressure off. I can just play golf and have fun."
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St. Mary's Wu commits to play for Northwestern
Fathers aren't the only ones who know best. Mothers are pretty sharp, too.


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- Denise Anthony: Facebook's new protections, enhancement of e-mail privacy act good news
- Anthony: But we need to protect privacy of purchases, websites we visit, personal data
- The idea privacy is something an individual can own and sell is bad strategy, she says
- Anthony: Privacy can't be regulated alone; it's a social, community bond
Facebook recently announced new privacy controls that enable users not only to limit how their information is shared, but also to better understand how that information is exposed to others. Increased transparency and strong, simple privacy controls like these are practices more companies should embrace.
Facebook's changes follow a recent move by a Senate panel to approve a bill that would require law enforcement to get a warrant before reading private e-mail. This proposed change to the outdated 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act is good news -- and not just for the likes of Gen. David Petraeus, who would rather their compromising situations remain private.
Both actions are important steps toward improving privacy protections online, but we have a long way to go -- because it's not only e-mails and social networks we might want to keep private. What about our purchases, the websites we visit, or our personal details?
Consider my own recent experience. A friend reached out to me, concerned over the profile he had seen of me on a dating website. I was listed as a widow and, as he and I both knew, my husband is still very much alive. And married.
To me.
To my horror, someone had set up a dating profile for me, using information easily gleaned from the Web: my name, my photo, the university where I teach, the number of my children. All of it was accurate except two claims: I was a widow and that I was "looking for a relationship.''
Many privacy advocates and information security experts react to examples like mine with calls for more consumer control of information. If we treated personal information like private property akin to a home or car, the argument goes, then I would have the power to decide when and to whom to "sell" or license my information, and of course would have a case against the dating website for "stealing" it.
But responding to the ever-expanding market in private information by participating in its sale seems to only legitimatize and promote, not limit, the practice. More important, viewing privacy as an individual problem to be fixed by individual property rights will not lower our risks because it fails to take into account the social value of privacy.
One obvious social value is in protecting personal details -- name, occupation, marital status. The problem with the dating site profile wasn't that I didn't get paid for my information. It's that its misrepresentations could have had serious consequences for my personal life and my reputation.
I have a strong interest in ensuring reported facts about me are correct: We all do. Much of modern social and economic life would be impossible without reliance on such facts.
Privacy enhances social relationships, both private and contractual. I share information with my doctor not simply because I value her services and expect confidentiality, but because I trust her and value our relationship. In health care, patients must be willing to disclose personal and intimate information to clinicians.
If someone exposed to HIV or bird flu were not willing to tell a doctor because of privacy concerns, not only would his or her health suffer, but the health of all would be endangered.
Probably the most important social value related to privacy is its role in civic engagement, which of course includes voting, but also the ability to interact freely without surveillance. Although we worry mostly about government agents snooping on us, corporate and third-party surveillance of online communications, relationships and activities has increased significantly in the past decade.
Most forces in the marketplace encourage companies to exploit rather than protect consumers' private information. Businesses lack information accountability and fair information practice policies are weak. Online tracking of purchases, social networks, and locations for commercial gain could end up harming civic engagement in the same way that we worry government surveillance will do.
Because privacy is social, it is not a property of individuals. My "individual privacy" is actually created, and thus protected, by people I know, and my doctor, my bank, my telephone line, my voting booth, my library card. Privacy depends on social norms, professional ethics, organizational policies, legal rules and regulations and technical standards.
No one of these mechanisms -- technology, norms or laws -- determines or fully protects privacy, but in concert they do. To argue that the best way to bolster privacy is to make it an individual responsibility contradicts its actual social nature.
Another drawback: People might not be very good at managing their privacy by themselves. In the rush to adopt a new device or try a new application, many don't fully consider, or are even aware of, tradeoffs they might be making when they provide a lot of personal details.
New Facebook policies and the proposed strengthening of the electronic privacy act are important steps, but until we follow privacy-by-design technology, strengthen fair information practices, and encourage policies that recognize the social nature of privacy, our online world will continue to lack the mechanisms we need to promote and protect personal privacy.


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Granted not all HR departments are the same, but as a former HR-er I can say this is absolutely an issue I could address. It's awkward, but we're trained to be tactful or should be. When hygiene issues permeate the work environment HR can step in and delicately handle it with the employee.
The thing is, office supplies and paper don't smell, however much you hoard them. Not in an office setting with decent climate control. She's got something in her office that's organic and rotting. Or there's a leak in her office and water is getting on some paper or something and making it rot. Either way, I think there is cause for getting someone, HR or otherwise, involved here. It's not normal for offices to smell. There's something wrong. It needs to be fixed. If her office was just messy and packed with "stuff," I'm not sure you would have grounds to do anything. But the smell indicates that there's a problem.
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An off-duty East Dundee police sergeant on administrative leave turned himself in on a felony weapons charge after police said he carried a loaded shotgun Saturday on to a sidewalk in Carpentersville while intoxicated, Carpentersville Cmdr. Timothy Bosshart said.
Sgt. Michael Seyller, 39, of the 6500 block of Pine Hollow Road, Carpentersville, was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and released Wednesday after posting 10 percent of his $30,000 bail, according to police and court records. His court date has not been set.
Attempts to reach Seyller were unsuccessful and it was not immediately clear if he was represented by an attorney.
According to Bosshart, Seyller called the police at 11:49 p.m. Saturday to report a loud party in the 6500 block of Pine Hollow Road.
Once police arrived, they observed a visibly intoxicated Seyller carrying a shotgun outside, Bosshart said. Three officers took the shotgun away from him, discovered it was loaded and contacted the state's attorney's office to approve charges, Bosshart said. The shotgun was a Remington 870, according to court records.
The police report did not indicate why three officers were required, whether Seyller pointed the shotgun at or otherwise threatened anyone.
A judge issued a warrant for Seyller's arrest Tuesday and set his bail at $30,000.
Seyller turned himself in at 10 a.m. Wednesday and police gave him a court order to give up his FOID card and weapons to Carpentersville police, Bosshart said.
Seyller joined the East Dundee police force in August 1999 and was on administrative leave at the time of his Carpentersville arrest, East Dundee Police Chief Terry Mee said.
Mee confirmed Seyller has been stripped of his police powers but would not say when he was placed on leave or why it occurred.
Seyller makes $84,762 a year and is getting paid while on leave, Mee said.
Aggravated unlawful use of a weapon is a Class 4 felony. If Seyller is found guilty of the charge, he could spend up to three years in prison, but probation also is an option.
Before he joined the force, Seyller was arrested in Hampshire on a DUI charge on April 4, 1999, after he was pulled over for going 86 mph is a 55 mph zone, according to court records. Seyller, who lived in Hampshire at the time, refused field sobriety tests. The officer who stopped Seyller indicated that Seyller's vehicle crossed the centerline of Route 72 for 10 seconds and almost hit a stop sign when turning onto Centennial Drive off Route 72, records show.
Seyller pleaded guilty to speeding 31 to 39 mph over the limit, as well as driving too fast for conditions, records show. The DUI charge was dismissed by prosecutors.
Seyller also was ticketed by the Kane County Sheriff's Department in July 1997 for going 31 to 39 mph over the speed limit, records show. He pleaded guilty and paid a $190 fine, records show.
• Daily Herald staff writer Harry Hitzeman contributed to this story.


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These are the Game Day Stats for the # of pizzas Papa Murphy's sells Super Bowl Sunday:
Nearly 16,000 GALLONS of sauce
More than 7 million slices of pepperoni
More than 119 TONS of shredded mozzarella
Roughly 401,000 dough balls
Papa Murphy's is so successful on Super Bowl Sunday because the company capitalizes on the new trend of staying home with family to watch the big game. At Papa Murphy's, you pick your own fresh ingredients and take the pizza home to bake in your own oven – VS- waiting on the delivery boy with a cold pizza.
The new trend of staying home for the Super Bowl is catching on. In fact, 46% of Americans will watch the Super Bowl at home with their family. And did you know pizza is the favorite meal for children ages 3 -11 and the nation's 4TH most craved food.
Ravens OR 49ers? The Big Winner is Pizza!
Winning Super Bowl Pizza Stats:
More pizzas are sold on Super Bowl Sunday when the game is close
Americans eat roughly 77 football fields of pizza each day (about 100 acres)
The only other holiday when people eat more pizza than Super Bowl Sunday is Thanksgiving
Americans eat about 350 slices of pizza/second!
Americans will spend more than $50 million on food during the four days leading up to the Super Bowl
On Super Bowl Sunday, local pizza stores surveyed report that their customers are about twice as likely to pick up their orders rather than have it delivered (pizzamarketplace.com)
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Mellencamp honors the past at historic locale
JIM BEAL JR./Express-News
Outside the Gunter Hotel it was the same-old, same-old, just plain South Texas hot.
In Room 414 of the downtown hotel, a singer sat in a folding chair atop a bit of borrowed ballroom dance floor, playing an acoustic guitar and facing a single microphone.
Inside the adjoining room, 413, a tall man reclined on a king-size bed while a couple of engineers worked with reels of tape on an Ampex recorder.
It might have been a scene from 1936, when Robert Johnson recorded what was to become legendary blues in the Gunter. But it wasn't. It was earlier this month, and heartland rocker John Mellencamp and two members of his band, fiddler Miriam Sturm and guitarist Andy York, gathered around a vintage microphone laying down songs while Grammy winning producer T-Bone Burnett, the tall man from Los Angeles by way of Fort Worth, made suggestions now and again.
There was Perrier water in ice chests in a bathtub, laptop computers and iPhones all over the place, room-service eggs and a film crew led by acclaimed shooter Kurt Marcus documenting all of it. Robert Johnson and record producer Don Law didn't have any of that in November of '36, but they probably would have if they could have.
Though he was on tour with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, Mellencamp worked on his days off, recording in historic locations using vintage gear. Mellencamp, his musicians and crew, along with producer Burnett, did sessions in the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Ga., Sun Studio in Memphis and the Sheraton Gunter Hotel. The album, "No Better Than This," is scheduled for release in the spring of next year.
"This is where Robert Johnson recorded," Mellencamp said during a brief break between songs. "The set-up is exactly the same as when he recorded here. At Sun Studio, I stood and sang on the 'x' where Elvis stood and sang. Recording at the church in Savannah was like a religious experience. For me it's just the honor of being able to do that, the luxury of being able to do that."
Mellencamp and company recorded several songs in Savannah and at Sun Studio, two in the Gunter.
"Just this one song was written specifically for a place, this place. It's called 'Right Behind Me' or 'Right Behind Us,' I haven't decided yet. I wrote it just for this room," Mellencamp said. "I could have done this in my studio. But I want to do it this way, and if I can't do what I want at this point, I'm not going to do it. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it. I'm through digging a ditch."
Burnett, a singer, songwriter and guitarist as well as a first-call producer, has made a considerable mark working with artists including Los Lobos, Elvis Costello, the Wallflowers, Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant and on the smash hit movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and its soundtrack.
"John is a really great singer and I'm always happy working with him in any environment," Burnett said. "The fact he chose these historic locations is a big plus. The stories that have come out of the sessions are extraordinary. The First African Baptist Church was started in 1775. It was an important stop on the Underground Railroad and central to the civil rights movement. Sun Studio, from a completely different angle, was also important to the civil rights movement and, from another angle, so were Robert Johnson's recordings at the Gunter."
For Burnett, the realities of the settings merged with the myths and stories.
"This was John's idea. I didn't have a sense of what each one could be," he said. "Sun Studios is filled with ghosts. There's energy there. We recorded a full band around one microphone. Everything was focused toward that one point, and it blended. So when a song ended, it was either 'yes' or 'no.' I've been in Sun Studio before, but this one (the Gunter) seems to be the most deeply imbedded in our generation. It's almost like going through the looking glass for me, personally."
The settings made an impact on all involved.
"This is far cooler, more of a vibe and a feeling than just some regular studio," said fiddler Sturm. "I am particularly excited to have even spent time in the same room Robert Johnson occupied — let alone play music."
From Room 414 came the call to action.
"Everybody back on your heads," Mellencamp commanded.
For the next take of "Right Behind Me"/"Right Behind Us," Burnett pulled up a chair near Mellencamp. Sturm and York took their places in the circle. Jokes were exchanged.
"This place is like a warp in time," Burnett said to Mellencamp. "When I first learned about Robert Johnson in the '60s, he was more of a myth than a real person."
"Knowing that (expletive) was sitting right here in 1936 . . .," Mellencamp responded with a measure of awe.
Then he turned toward the microphone and counted off the beat with his boot.
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Question: What Is The Best Way To Treat Pain Associated With Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Answer: Medically, there are a variety of medicines that we use to treat the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. Pure, what we call analgesics, include things like Tylenol or acetaminophen, narcotic medications, some medications that alter nerve transmission, and then what we call NSAIDs, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; the most famous of these is aspirin, but it includes Ibuprofen and a variety of other drugs -- naproxen, and other anti-inflammatories. These are drugs that are very familiar to a lot of people.
In addition, we often use corticosteroids like Prednisone in short bursts, but we try not to use any more of that than we have to due to the side effects.
And then there's a group of drugs called disease-modifying drugs, and this includes what used to be the most common one was gold shots; currently, methotrexate is the most common one that we use. And then a variety of what we call biologics, these are newer drugs given either intravenously or under the skin, and can really do wonders in terms of preventing further damage, and stopping the inflammation that causes the pain and discomfort.
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What do you call a Jew/Scot with a torn meniscus?
"NFL Quarterback"
Today is my 35th birthday.
*queue the laughter*
Mom: Happy birthday to my baby!
me: Thanks Mom, but stop calling me your baby.
Mom: You'll always be my baby. So, how does it feel to be middle-aged?
me: I'm not middle aged!
Mom: We'll you're 35, the average life expectancy is 70, and half of 70 is 35, and "half" is the same as "middle," so you're middle-aged.
me: Wtf! That's weird mom logic. (okay, I didn't say wtf, but close.)
me: Well, Mom, if I'm middle aged as your youngest, then you must be old.
Mom: Of course, I'm old, I'm your mother.
Hope you have a good one, dusty.
Live in Oceanside Long Island
Live in the higher elevation part of town
Damage from Sandy (none!!!!!)
Had a house fire on November 5th (Guy Fawkes Day no less. Go figure) and will now be in a rental for a year
Didn't give in on argument with wife that we should all just go up to bed and that the smoke was just something caught in the fireplace trap
Not dead right now because of that (wife is somewhat chastened by the way and so extra nookie may certainly be in the cards)
Basement fire was ready to escape the basement we are told. :{
All in all a hell of a week and I see the Jets have been doing some melting down of their own. :{
The competition for contractors around these parts is going to be something fierce :{
But I am alive biatches !!!! <grin>
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Now you've done it–you've spoken common sense, TO. How dare you!
Seriously though, excellent piece. A nice reminder for when fans (and I include myself) lose perspective.
Toy Otter,
I get so tired of the whining and moaning and tantrum throwing by the "fans" and "collectors" of toys.
I totally agree with your comments here and admire you for speaking the truth to those who choose not to listen.
And, thanks for your dedication to this site!
Well said Otter, well said.
Perhaps I'm odd in that I instinctually understood these concepts.
I've honestly never gotten what the deal is with all these whiny fanboys. I mean, there's presenting your hopes, your fears and your opinions, and then there's the obsessive update tracking. Granted, I've got all the major toy news sites in my RSS feeds, but other than that, my info tracking is pretty passive. When news comes in, I read it. If it's something I'm interested in, it gets added to my wishlist, then I move on. When something merits a recording of thoughts, well, I have a blog for that.
I'm as avid a fan as any, but jeez, there are other things that are more important!
I loved this article, by the way, and you just made your way to my RSS feeds.
Mattel update…
Mattel's "ToyGuru" has posted an update regarding the DCUC and JLU lines. Here are the passages I found interesting:
First off, there has been some concern about the variants for Wave 1. In our efforts to get WAVE 2 out as quickly as …


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TAIPEI — Film director Ang Lee lives in America but still has strong roots in his native Taiwan, where much of his current project "Life of Pi" was shot on location outdoors and in a giant indoor studio "ocean."
Now he's playing matchmaker for a Hollywood visual effects company building an overseas office in Taiwan, and players on both sides of the Pacific are happy.
Lee made his acquaintance with the Rhythm & Hues company and its Academy Award-winning creative team leader Bill Westenhofer while directing "Life of Pi" for 20th Century Fox last year. Lee has been quoted as saying the movie would have been ''a mission impossible'' were it not for R&H's high-tech tools.
Hollywood-based R&H is set to launch a US $200 million investment plan in Taiwan this year, which would finance a visual effects center, a cloud computing data center and a film fund, according to industry sources.
Speaking by video during a launch party in Taiwan last year, Lee said that "it has been a desire of mine to serve as matchmaker here for more than a year, and now seeing it come true, it makes me feel very happy."
Growing up Taiwan and then moving to New York to pursue a film career overseas, Lee knows the movie world inside and out, and feels that Taiwan shouldn't be "left out" in the evolving global film industry. And thus was the new R&H-Taiwan match made in Ang Lee heaven.
"As a Taiwanese, I feel really proud that Taiwan has got everything and is capable of doing anything," he said by video, noting that the new venture will hep put Taiwan in a "better-known" position on the world stage.
Lee helped pull some strings, made some introductions and phone calls, and served as a liaison with Taiwan's central and local governments involved in the deal.
That's called ''never forgetting who you are'' and "standing up for your country from afar," according to a film industry source in Taipei.
After signing a memorandum of understanding in Taiwan last October, R&H filed an investment application in December and Taiwan's National Development Fund will review it for final approval, expected in February
The initial goal is to raise US$100 milllion for the project, dubbed the "101 Films Fund" (since Taiwan is celebrating its 101st year of existence in 2012). The fund will be used to co-finance and co-produce Hollywood movies over a six-year period, with plans for an R&H studio the company will set up in southern Taiwan to be involved in 10 Hollywood movies within five years, according to reports.
R&H has worked on a host of Hollywood films, including "The Incredible Hulk," "Night at the Museum" and "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Westenhofer has also served as the vfx supervisor on "The A-Team" and "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" for Fox, and the comedy adventure "Land of the Lost" for Universal Pictures. In 2008, he received an Academy Award for 'Achievement in Visual Effects for overseeing the work of hundreds of R&H digital artists on "The Golden Compass."
So with Lee serving as matchmaker and Westenhofer as a new friend of Taiwan, prospects for more movie magic are looking up on this island nation that hopes to cash in on the world cinema stage along with neighbors Japan and China.
Growing up in southern Taiwan, Lee couldn't know what his future had in store
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Well, B-day is here. The guy with the handsome mug (as my friends say, "a face made for radio,") you see above came into this world 39 years ago today. And gotta be honest, I'd much rather be throwing batting practice (to my almost-5-year-old Clayton) and slapping fives (with my 10-month-old Noah) than watching both here at the park. Don't get me wrong, I have a great job, and I'm extremely appreciative of it. But during the course of a season, one day blends into another, and a day devoid of baseball is good for the soul now and then.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that I've been predicting for about six weeks now that today would be the day Barry Bonds would hit either 756 or 755. As long as I'm here, might as well see some history. He's in the lineup; in this instance, day game after night game doesn't matter.
Sergio Mitre on the bump for Florida. Hopefully, he'll pitch to him. Dontrelle Willis did a decent job of that last night, after the disgraceful effort by Marlins pitchers on Friday — four straight walks after Bonds hit No. 754. Logic suggests Bonds won't homer today — that day game after night game thing _ but I've got to stick with my prediction.
Speaking of Willis, he sure seemed to throw far more slop than he did in years past. He did hump it up to 94, 95 mph around the fourth and fifth innings, but he spent much of the game around 88 or 89. Stuff didn't seem nearly as electric. Could be the reason he's struggled so mightily this season.
Oh yeah, almost forgot to mention the 1987 Giants. They'll be honored today. Probably the first Giants team to which I ever paid attention. The NLCS they played with the Cardinals was one of the best playoff series ever played. Not surprisingly, Candy Maldonado is not slated to be here.


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The Canberra Raiders have come up with an exciting, albeit unlikely 24-22 victory over a lacklustre Manly side in front of 10027 fans at Brookvale Oval.
The Raiders opened the scoring in just the 7th minute when winger Joel Monaghan swooped on a loose Manly pass. Eagles' fullback Ben Farrar had created an overlap on the Raiders' left hand defence, but Monaghan was up to the task and raced 80 metres to score under the posts. Manly hit back not long after through winger Tony Williams after taking advantage of three-successive sets of six on the Raiders line. The Eagles may have been slightly fortunate with replays showing the ball only just got a tiny bit of the tryline. The Raiders hit the front through Daniel Vidot just when it appeared Manly were going to extend their lead. Manly second-rower Anthony Watmough raced through some feeble defence and tried to find some support, but Canberra centre Adam Mogg intercepted the pass and was run-down by Robertson, but passed back onto the inside for winger Daniel Vidot. Manly regained the lead in the 30th minute after centre Steve Matai took advantage of a Jamie Lyon bat-back and Foran's kick found the unmarked Eagles centre who scored in the corner. The final points of a see-sawing first half came through Raiders second rower Joe Picker. Canberra five-eighth Terry Campese drifted across field and delivered a perfect flat pass to Picker who hit the gap at pace and strolled over next to the posts. The subsequent conversion saw the Raiders go to into the halftime break with a two-point lead.
The points dried up in the second half with both sides only coming up with one try apiece. The Raiders extended their lead in the 45th minute through five-eighth Terry Campese after some feeble Manly defence couldn't prevent him from scoring alongside the posts. The eight-point deficit would stay that way for the next 30 minutes as Manly attempted to throw the ball around and close the gap, but their lack of direction in attack at times proved costly. The game was set up for a grandstand finish in the 78th minute when Sea Eagles' fullback Ben Farrar scored a try from five-eighth Kieran Foran's grubber kick. The Eagles then marched the ball upfield from the restart and some razzle dazzle saw them get to within 25 metres of the Raiders tryline before an unlikely hero in Raiders' second rower Trevor Thurling put the result beyond doubt as the Raiders held on for an unlikely victory.
Next week, the Sea Eagles tackle the Sharks at Toyota Park, while the Raiders will look to improve on their disappointing home record when they host the Knights on Sunday afternoon.
Match Details
Manly Sea Eagles 22 were defeated by Canberra Raiders 24
National Rugby League - NRL - Round 18 - Saturday July 10, 2010 5:30pm
Venue: Brookvale Oval
Referee: Ben Cummins and Brett Suttor
Video Referee: Paul Simpkins
Touch Judges: Ricky McFarlane and Jeff Younis
Crowd: 10027
Halftime: Manly Sea Eagles 16 Canberra Raiders 18
Leagueunlimited.com players of the match:
3 Points - Terry Campese (1 Try)
2 Points - Josh Dugan
1 Point - Anthony Watmough
Tries: Steve Matai, Michael Robertson, Tony Williams, Ben Farrar
Conversions: Shane Rodney (3/4)
Tries: Joel Monaghan, Terry Campese, Joe Picker, Daniel Vidot
Conversions: Jarrod Croker (4/4)
LeagueUnlimited.com Live Commentary And a very good evening and welcome to Brookvale Oval for this Round 18 encounter between the Manly Sea Eagles and the Canberra Raiders. In team news, Manly are as per program and will run out as per program. The Raiders have had a few changes to the team named by coach David Furner on Tuesday. Tom Learoyd-Lahrs joins Shaun Fensom in going back to the bench. Taking their places in the run-on side are Joe Picker and Josh Miller. Centre Joel Thompson has also been ruled out and he will be replaced by Adam Mogg. Kick off will be a little after 5.30pm. Join me then.
In the Toyota Cup, the Raiders have drawn first blood with a 20-12 victory over the Manly side.
Later tonight, we'll bring you coverage of the Bulldogs v Storm clash, with rugby league making a welcome return to Adelaide Oval.
1 min: And we're underway here at a slightly chilly Brookvale Oval. The Raiders will defend the southern end in the first half and get first use of the ball.
1 min: The Raiders successfully complete their first set of six and a great kick from Campese sees the Eagles working the ball towards halfway.
2 min: Foran returns serve for Manly and finds touch 20 metres out from the Canberra line.
4 min: Knock on Raiders. Shillington loses the handle on the ball while attempting to play it. Watmough may have inadvertently played a role, but the Eagles will go on the attack.
4 min: Hodkinson's pass to Matai is ruled to have been forward, but the pass was knocked on in any case.
6 min: PENALTY MANLY. The Raiders defence taking too long to get off the tackled player.
7 min: TRY
TRY Canberra Raiders
Scored by Joel Monaghan. Conversion attempt by Jarrod Croker successful.
The Raiders open the scoring for tonight's encounter with an intercept taken by Monaghan. The Eagles were on the attack and Farrar's pass was picked off by the Raiders' winger who sprinted 80 metres to score under the posts.
Canberra Raiders 6-0
11 min: Some razzle dazzle by the Eagles has seen the Raiders force the ball for a dropout and the Eagles will look to draw level.
12 min: A repeat set of six from the Eagles has seen Stewart trickle a grubber into the in-goal and the Raiders will do well to repel the Eagles here.
14 min: TRY
Sheer weight of possession has told and Williams has reached out and banged the ball down just on the line to open Manly's account for tonight.
6 all
18 min: Foran's kick on the last tackle has found touch and the Raiders will again have to work the ball away from their own line.
22 min: PENALTY Manly. The Raiders have been penalised for being too quick off their line and are inside the 10.
22 min: Stewart's pass to Williams would have seen the winger down the western touchline, but unfortunately for the Manly side, Williams was unable to hang onto the pass.
24 min: Canberra, despite having great field position to force a repeat set, have meekly handed the ball over to the Manly side by running the ball on the last.
25 min: TRY
TRY Canberra Raiders
Scored by Daniel Vidot. Conversion attempt by Jarrod Croker successful.
Canberra score their second try against the run of play to regain the lead! Watmough raced through the Canberra defence and tried to position his support players, but Mogg intercepted the pass and raced away towards the north-eastern corner before finding Vidot looming up in support.
Canberra Raiders 12-6
27 min: Campese has knocked the ball on in just the second tackle, but Manly have subsequently surrendered the ball back to the Raiders.
30 min: VIDEO REFEREE: Possible Manly try. Checking a possible knock-on.
30 min: TRY
TRY Manly Sea Eagles
Scored by Steve Matai. Conversion attempt by Shane Rodney successful.
Matai scores Manly's second try! Hodkinson launched a bomb which was knocked back by Lyon, who found Foran who subsequently kicked to an unmarked Matai who received a room service bounce to score in the corner.
12 all
32 min: PENALTY Manly. McCrone came up with a great tackle around the legs, but held on for too long and was penalised.
34 min: Manly force yet another goal-line dropout from the Raiders. Hodkinson's bomb was batted back to Matai who grubbered into the in-goal and tackled Dugan with the help of Robertson.
34 min: TRY
TRY Manly Sea Eagles
Scored by Michael Robertson. Conversion attempt by Shane Rodney unsuccessful.
Manly put themselves in front for the first time tonight with a beautifully constructed try to Robertson! A perfectly rehearsed set play from the Eagles incorporates second-man plays and decoys, before Matai drew Dugan to send Robertson over in the south eastern corner of Brookvale Oval.
Manly Sea Eagles 16-12
38 min: TRY
TRY Canberra Raiders
Scored by Joe Picker. Conversion attempt by Jarrod Croker successful.
And the lead continues to see-saw here tonight! Campese has delivered a perfect flat pass to Picker who hit the hole and scored alongside the posts. It appears the Raiders will go into halftime with the lead.
Canberra Raiders 18-16
40 min: Halftime here at Brookvale Oval in an entertaining, at times torrid, encounter where the Raiders lead the Eagles 18-16. Manly will look to regain the lead early in the second half, while the Raiders will look to end three-weeks of not scoring a point in the second half.
41 min: The second half is underway at Brookvale Oval. Manly will have first use of the ball.
44 min: The Raiders finally get their first goal-line dropout from the Eagles. They have successfully completed both their sets in the second half and will look to extend their lead here.
45 min: TRY
TRY Canberra Raiders
Scored by Terry Campese. Conversion attempt by Jarrod Croker successful.
Campese extends the Raiders lead! Some soft goal-line defence from the Eagles has seen Campese crash over from close range and in the process show some worrying signs for the Manly side.
Canberra Raiders 24-16
50 min: Manly have gotten lucky here with Mogg not being able to hang onto a pass from Foran. The Eagles will get a repeat set here. In injury news, Shaun Fensom has left the field and will not return for the Raiders.
53 min: PENALTY Manly. Picker penalised for a flop on Williams after McCrone chip-kicked for himself which would have seen the Eagles working the ball off their own line. Foran has found touch 40 metres out from his own line.
55 min: Campese trickles a grubber kick into the in-goal. Farrar has done well to get away from the clutches of Dugan, but the Raiders had plenty of support there to force another dropout.
56 min: Canberra knock-on. Matai has jammed in and forced the error from Thurling.
58 min: Campese has come up with a booming kick from inside his own 30 which is ruled to have touched the sideline, although replays indicate the ball was in the air, but did not touch the line.
60 min: Campese has forced yet another goal-line dropout with a well-placed grubber kick.
61 min: Knock-on Raiders. Thurling has knocked the pass on from Shillington and let the Eagles off the hook for now.
62 min: PENALTY Manly. Shillington penalised for a lazy high tackle.
63 min: A great scrambling set of six by the Raiders has thwarted the Eagles on several occasions when they seemed certain to score.
64 min: PENALTY Canberra. Manly penalised for being offside.
66 min: PENALTY Canberra. Manly too slow getting off the tackled player.
68 min: PENALTY Canberra. Manly penalised for having hands in the ruck.
69 min: PENALTY Canberra. Watmough penalised for taking Dugan out without the ball.
72 min: Lyon's kick on the last has sailed out on the full and the Raiders will have a full set of six 30 metres out from the Manly line as they try to put the game beyond doubt.
73 min: Goal-line dropout Manly. The Raiders have forced yet another goal-line dropout.
77 min: PENALTY Manly. Canberra offside.
78 min: VIDEO REFEREE: Possible Manly try. Checking onside and grounding.
78 min: TRY
TRY Manly Sea Eagles
Scored by Ben Farrar. Conversion attempt by Shane Rodney successful.
Farrar sets us up for a thrilling finale here at Brookvale! Foran's kick found Farrar racing through to score alongside the posts.
Canberra Raiders 24-22
80 min: Some razzle dazzle from the Manly side has come up empty and Canberra will look to hold on for an unlikely victory!
80 min: Fulltime here at Brookvale Oval where the Canberra Raiders have defeated the Manly Sea Eagles 24-22.


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Discussion in 'Feedback/Feature Requests' started by rlshosting, Dec 27, 2009.
Would it be possible to add compatibility to this?
Thanks a million.
What do you mean "compatibility to CSF Firewall"?
Exclude from LFD?
I said on the configserver forums:
Then I said:
Then the admin said:
Yes, CSF need to be configured to parse error log file for detected IP attacking the server.
We will leave it for CSF developer or someone familiar with their regex setup.
Any other firewalls you recommend that may work better with lite speed? APF maybe or does it work fine without any other firewall and just iptables?
We recommend using fail2ban in this regard.
So you're saying there is a log that can be parsed to block IP's via the local server firewalls?
Yes, LSWS or LSLB log attacking IP addresses to main error log.
At last look LSWS writes out the 'mod_security' records slightly differently than actual mod_security. This causes CSF to not parse/pick up the LSWS mod_security log records. I can post more details if necessary.
Please check the latest 4.0.12 release, if anything still prevent CSF from pickup it, we will fix.
Thanks George, I wanted this to work a while ago.
Is there a new version of lite speed 4.0.12 or is this fixed in this version already? It says it can not reinstall.
Error: Failed to download release 4.0.12!
That's a bug fixed in latest 4.0.12 build.
Please download manually and run install.sh to upgrade.
Do the new versions for you pick up everything? I'm trying to rule out if it's our rules causing nothing to show up in logs or if it's more bugs as far as LSWS mod_security functionality replication.
There was bug in our mod_security implementation, which may skip some rules for audit logging, it should have been addressed in our 4.0.12 release.


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A disparate group of Internet gurus, political junkies and foes of Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is pushing a Rice candidacy even though President Bush's top diplomat has said repeatedly that she has no desire to be president.(I made that a hot link. In a classic demonstration of MSM obtuseness, ABC didn't.)
But the Republican also has declined invitations to rule out a bid in 2008, spoken about the likelihood of a minority winning the White House in her lifetime and taken steps to soften her image words and deeds that have provided a glimmer of hope to her fans.
Mick Wright, a webmaster in Memphis, Tenn., is one of more than a dozen people who registered draft-Rice Web sites in the year after Bush was re-elected.
"Once that was all over, you started thinking, what's going to happen in the next election?" said Wright, a co-founder of http://www.condipundit.com. "The first one to come to mind as a viable candidate was Condoleezza Rice."
More in the article. I'll just note this part, about whether Rice is planning to run:
Greg Haas, an Ohio-based Democratic strategist, said Rice's image makeover is a telltale sign.Run, Condi!
"The fact of the matter is when you see somebody revolutionize their style, their appearance and their speaking manner, that is not happening all by itself," said Haas, who ran Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign in Ohio. "She has clearly begun presenting a different image, moving from a harsh persona to one of a more warm public official."
Rice has showcased her talents as a pianist at the Kennedy Center, lifted weights for a local Washington TV news show and discussed her musical favorites, from Elton John to Aretha Franklin to Mozart, for a British newspaper. The latter was a favor to rock star Bono.


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Cow Wow Cereal Milk Lands National Distribution in Kroger Stores
October 9, 2013 — Cow Wow Cereal Milk has been helping children around southern California get their full serving of dairy into diets simpler, even for the pickiest of drinkers. Now, Cow Wow Cereal Milk will be available to children all over the United States. Cow Wow has signed a contract that will put the delicious and nutritious treat on the shelves of 939 Kroger banner stores, King Soopers, Fry's, Smith's, Fred Meyer, Ralph's, QFC, and Dillons stores across the entire country.
Now, instead of an ice-cold glass of plain old milk, children and adults all over can indulge in the unique flavors of milk that tastes like a bowl of cereal. While the delicious beverage tastes like it could be a sinful dessert, it is actually a mom-approved healthy treat.
The innovative dairy drink replicates the tastes of favorite cereals and infuses them into organic 1% milk. Cow Wow Cereal Milk is low fat, all natural, non-GMO, gluten-free, and kosher. And, it contains nine essential vitamins with only 6 grams of added cane sugar. This fun flavored milk makes opting for a healthier alternative to soda and juices a no brainer.
Cow Wow is currently available in two delicious flavors: Fruity Trudy, and Chocolate Chip Cathy, with more like Peanut Butter Bessie and Cinny Minny coming soon. These delicious creations are reminiscent of favorite childhood cereal flavors that resonate with kids as well as the little kid in all parents.
Cow Wow Cereal Milk will be on shelves this November in packaged in 8.5-ounce single serving cartons. Individual packages make it the optimal drink for lunches, snacks in the car, or adults on the go who want a healthy treat. Cartons can be purchased individually in stores or online at www.cowwownow.com.
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In so doing, they created a continuous tunnel running more than 3.5 miles from a cavern 12 stories underneath Grand Central Terminal to four concrete-lined, 22-foot diameter tunnels just feet below the Sunnyside Yard in Queens that will soon be connected to the Long Island Rail Road mainline.
"For the first time since the East Side Access project began, there is now a continuous path through newly built tunnel from Queens to the East Side of Manhattan," said MTA Chairman and CEO Joseph Lhota. "This is the path Long Island Rail Road trains will follow when this project is completed."
The connection between the Manhattan and Queens tunnels took place directly underneath Northern Boulevard in Long Island City, Queens. The contract to excavate this 120-foot segment of tunnel was handled separately from the other tunneling contracts because it presented a host of unique challenges.
Not only does this segment of tunnel need to bear the weight of Northern Boulevard, a busy six-lane arterial truck route leading to the Ed Koch-Queensboro Bridge, it also needs to support the four-track IND subway trunk line underneath the roadway that carries the E, M and R subway trains, as well as that of the elevated BMT Astoria Line, which carries the N and Q subway trains.
The work to build the tunnel underneath Northern Boulevard is being performed by a joint venture of Schiavone Construction and Kiewit Corp. under a $96.8 million contract. The MTA awarded the contract in February 2010. It is to be completed next April. The overall East Side Access project is scheduled to be completed in August 2019.


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Looking to the skies in Kiribati—La Niña and rainfall variability in the Central Pacific
|Rainfall is essential to recharge the freshwater lens that lies beneath coral atolls in Kiribati. Without it, the i-Kiribati people would not be able to grow plants and crops vital to their livelihood.
Freshwater can be extremely scarce in the Republic of Kiribati, home to over 100,000 people scattered across 22 islands in the Central Pacific. Each year after a long dry season, significant rainfall is generally expected to arrive during November or December. Yet over the last few months only a tiny amount of rain has fallen. The islands are dry.
This is consistent with forecasts that predict La Niña conditions will result in below normal rainfall during the 2010-11 wet season across the Gilbert Islands of Kiribati.


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COLOMBIA: The Medellin Model - An End to the Violence? - Medellin used to be considered the drugs capital of South America. Since a range of cultural and social projects have seen dramatic changes in its more deprived areas, however, the city is now seen as a model for urban transformation. At the same time, the war on criminal gangs is far from over. Rapper and graffiti artist Daniel Quiceno comes from the Comuna 13 neighborhood and used to be in a gang. He tells us how and where he got involved, and about the fears he still in the social work he does with local children. IRAN: Online Shopping in Tehran - Shopping via the Internet is now perfectly normal for many people across the globe. For the citizens of Iran, however, that concept remains part of a wider dream for greater freedom. Opportunities are now gradually emerging, however - such as Iran's first Internet store. 30-year-old Eshan Golabgir founded the country's first online shopping platform, based in Tehran. He dreams of seeing his company evolving into the Iranian equivalent of the established online commerce giants. INDIA: E-Waste Recycling by Hand - Better Conditions for Delhi's Waste Pickers - From household waste to old electronic parts - India's refuse problem has reached alarming proportions. The "rag pickers" of Delhi sift through rubbish dumps with their bare hands in the search for electronic waste that they can resell. The process is harmful both to the individuals involved and the environment. A German-Indian project aims to relieve the situation.
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Tiffany Ann Plunkett, 31, of Silvis, Illinois died Friday, March 8, 2013 at her home.
Tiffany Ann Plunkett, 31, of Silvis, Illinois died Friday, March 8, 2013 at her home.
Funeral services are 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 13 at Dennison Funeral Home, Viola. Rev. Luke Dunn of Aledo First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Viola Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers are Chuck Noyd, Tom White, Sam Hergert, Eugene "Butch" Smith, Gary Nickel and Jacob Dellitt. Visitation is Tuesday, March 12 from 4–7 p.m. at Dennison Funeral Home, Viola. A memorial fund has been established for her family and daughter.
Tiffany was born Sept. 19, 1981 in Rock Island to Terry and Theresa Smith Plunkett. She graduated from Sherrard High School in 1999 and later graduated from Blackhawk College of Nursing. Tiffany was a stay at home mom and loved spending time with her daughter and helping others. She collected angels. She loved the Chicago Bears and NASCAR, especially Dale Jr.
Those left to cherish her memory are her 5 year old daughter, Raelynn Houk, at home; fiancé, Dan Houk, Silvis; parents, Theresa Plunkett, Viola and Terry Plunkett, Viola; sister, Angie (John) Dellitt, Aledo; brother, Rusty (Lindsie) Plunkett, Viola; grandmothers, Virginette "Nette" Smith, Silvis and Sadie Plunkett, Viola and several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her grandfathers, John Plunkett and Harold "Red" Smith and her best friend, Nicole Bloomfield.
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Submission + - The Software Industry IS the Problem (acm.org)
CowboyRobot writes: "Poul-Henning Kamp makes the argument for software liability laws. "We have to do something that actually works, as opposed to accepting a security circus in the form of virus or malware scanners and other mathematically proven insufficient and inefficient efforts. We are approaching the point where people and organizations are falling back to pen and paper for keeping important secrets, because they no longer trust their computers to keep them safe.""


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) -
The fans packed into Rupp Arena for the annual Blue and White Scrimmage. While the students came to catch the basketball cats in action, they also were holding out hope for a unique scholarship opportunity.
Coach Cal decided he wanted to provide two UK students with a scholarship opportunity for spring semester.
Students needed to sign in with their college ID and be present to win. Organizers say they randomly selected two names out of the 500 students who showed up to the scrimmage.
"I hope I win. It'd be really awesome. Free money is always good," says UK freshman, Rachel Hudson, a freshman.
"Oh it would be a ton. I don't have many scholarships. I've got a lot of student loans. That would really mean a lot. It would go a long way," says Reese Hudson, a senior.
The odds to win were 250 to 1 to win Coach Cal's scholarship.
The winners names were announced just before the game ended, Josh Lawson and Amanda Dowell.
Lawson is a senior mechanical engineer student and Dowell is a freshman biology major.
"It means I don't have to take out loans. It's a pretty big deal. It gives me the opportunity to stay in school. So I am pretty excited about," says Lawson.
"It's my freshman year. College is expensive so it helps a lot," Dowell says.
Tuesday night was the first time these two scholarship winners got to meet Coach Cal.
When asked what they thought of Coach Cal, Lawson responded, "He's a Pretty awesome guy."
Coach Cal says he would like to offer more scholarship opportunities in the future. No word yet on if it will become tradition at the Blue and White game.


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In this episode, track time with the Cadillac ATS, then maximizing mileage with the Ford C-Max Hybrid. Plus, first impressions of the Porsche 911 Carrera 4S and the Mazda6. Also, tips on long-term car storage, and living with an EV as a daily driver.
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Coupa Software, the fastest-growing provider of cloud-based spend optimization solutions, today announced that it has joined the OFS Portal community to better serve the upstream oil and gas industry by providing the leading solution to optimize spend.
"After signing an agreement with us, the oil and gas industry can depend on Coupa with enhanced confidence to facilitate eCommerce within our industry"
"After signing an agreement with us, the oil and gas industry can depend on Coupa with enhanced confidence to facilitate eCommerce within our industry," said William Le Sage, CEO of OFS Portal. "Coupa's true-cloud service is known for its world-class usability. It's noteworthy for us that Coupa has aligned itself with our commitment to streamline procure-to-pay for the oil and gas industry."
Focused on helping buyers in the use of industry best practices when digitizing their supply chain, OFS Portal promotes cost-effective approaches in making eCommerce a reality for both buyers and sellers.
OFS Portal works with global standards organizations to converge and use the industry's global, open and non-proprietary eCommerce standards, PIDX (Petroleum Industry Data Exchange) for use in the upstream oil and gas industry.
"Being able to support the overall mission of OFS Portal and the PIDX standard is a true testament to Coupa being incredibly nimble and flexible to meet the unique needs of an industry," said Roger Goulart, vice president of Alliances of Coupa. "Our No. 1 priority is ensuring customer success, which is measured by realizing significant savings."
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Some of my early artwork.
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Sweet memories, Leslie! I have some of those tucked away in memory boxes in the spare room. When I'm gone from this world, perhaps my daughters will be cleaning out that old closet and find the boxes with their names labeled on them and the art treasures I saved from their childhood....priceless to meReplyDelete
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Hi, my name is Lesley Ann and I live in Australia and love history which I studied at school and University. I am interested to find your site. It is so nice you have drawings from when you were young. I have kept my children's but have none of my own.ReplyDelete


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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who has blasted President Obama's leadership, heaped praise on Obama on Tuesday for his handling of Hurricane Sandy.
"The president has been outstanding in this and so have the folks at FEMA," Christie said on NBC's "Today" show.
Christie, whose state is among the hardest hit by the storm, made appearances on several morning talk shows on Tuesday and applauded Obama at each stop.
On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Christie said "the president has been all over this, and he deserves great credit. He gave me his number at the White House and told me to call him if I needed anything and he absolutely means it, and it's been very good working with the president and his administration."
On CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien," Christie added that Obama "has been incredibly supportive and helpful to our state, and not once did he bring up the election."
Christie is a prominent surrogate for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and was tapped to deliver the keynote address at the Republican National Convention in August. During that speech, Christie used variations of the word "leader" 17 times, often in the context of criticizing Obama.
"It's time to end this era of absentee leadership in the Oval Office and send real leaders to the White House," Christie said at the convention in Tampa.
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More than 200 of us watched a remarkable event Feb. 26. At Newburgh's Activity Center, we perched on metal chairs, hoping that the leadership of this wounded little city on the Hudson would be able to convince us of a brighter tomorrow.
More than 200 of us watched a remarkable event Feb. 26. At Newburgh's Activity Center, we perched on metal chairs, hoping that the leadership of this wounded little city on the Hudson would be able to convince us of a brighter tomorrow.
It did. City Manager Richard Herbek began with a discussion of the steps the administration has taken to bring us back into control and responsibility. There was an extensive listing of cost-saving, efficiency-enhancing measures putting us back into the black. He also introduced several steps being taken to significantly improve future service.
Mayor Judy Kennedy recognized the contributions of her teammates on the City Council, and Newburgh's boards and committees. She recognized these private sector-city partnerships currently helping us: Habitat for Humanity, the Newburgh Partnership, the Newburgh Armory Unity Center, Pace University, and Mid-Hudson Partners for Progress. We can also look forward to: "Hollywood on the Hudson," Love Newburgh Campaign, and New York state's first city land bank.
What did we see? Increased teamwork, vision and hope. Sure, there are obstacles in our path, but, with vision and resolution, Newburgh will shine again.
Borden Powers
Did you ever meet one of those welcoming people who cares deeply about his community and invests tremendous time and energy into making it a better place?
Back in 2000, when I moved to Greenwood Lake, I met one named Barbara Moore, and she immediately encouraged me to get involved and make a difference. Since that day, she has constantly proven herself as a great motivator, administrator and leader and earned my respect time and time again. That is why I support her being re-elected mayor in the Village of Greenwood Lake.
Throughout my four years as chairman of the Village Planning Board and six years as a fellow Village Board member, I have seen her accomplish great positive change. New parks, playgrounds, vastly improved water quality, concerts, recreational summer programs, and projects to improve the health of our lake are thanks in no small part to her efforts and coordination.
In these tough times, she has also been able to keep budgets in check and save village taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, including reducing insurance and DPW costs at no reduction in services. I would urge you to vote for Barbara Moore March 19.
Brian Fisher
Former Chairman, Greenwood Lake Planning Board
Former Village Trustee
Jason S. Wilson is my choice for trustee of the Village of Goshen because he is honorable and dedicated to improving the village. He would not use his position as trustee merely as a steppingstone to further his political ambitions.
He has experience as chairman of the Goshen Environmental Review Board, is director of Orange County Youth Advocate Program and is on the board of directors of the Goshen Lions Club. We in the Village of Goshen need his leadership qualities.
Donna Silver-McCormack


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Pre-populating form elements is a very common and important task in a web application. If pre-population is implemented effectively, then a web app becomes both simpler and more robust.
Forms are used for two kinds of operations: editing the database, and defining search criteria.
When editing the database, there are two use cases for forms:
- the "add" use case, where a new record is added to the datastore - here, input items are initially blank, or have default initial values set in their static HTML.
- the "change" use case, where an already existing record is to be edited by the user - here, input items are not initially blank, but are dynamically pre-populated with the current values fetched from the database.
In both cases, the user makes entries in the form, and then submits it for processing, using a POST. If an error is detected, then there is a "return to sender" operation, and the HTML form is redisplayed, with all its items dynamically pre-populated, showing their most recently entered values. Appropriate error messages are also displayed.
(For forms used for input of search criteria, the behavior is similar to the "add" use case described above, with the important difference that the form uses GET instead of POST.)
How can this behavior be implemented most effectively?
One method uses a single custom Populate tag, and is guided by the idea that adding pre-population to a form should have an absolutely minimal affect on the markup used in the case of a regular, static HTML form. This seems very effective, since
- web page authors do not need to learn anything new, since forms remain almost exactly as they are in the static case
- it radically minimizes the effort needed to implement pre-population
- it reuses request parameters which are already present and already in the form needed for ultimate display
- it couples HTML forms to the details of a domain object only through a simple naming convention, which maps the names of input controls to the getXXX methods of the domain object
- implementations of domain classes need to handle only the case of valid data, so they become smaller and simpler, a class invariant is easy to define, and they can be immutable objects
- the form needs radical alteration from the style used in a simple, static HTML form
- any prototype written in HTML must be either discarded or altered radically
- the web page author is forced to learn the details of multiple custom tags, which are different for each framework
- if the framework is changed, then another set of custom tags must be learned
- pre-population is more of a programming task than a rendering task, but in this style the page author is mainly responsible for its implementation
The web4j framework implements such a Populate tag. Here, a JSP uses the <w:populate> tag to wrap the controls of a <FORM> tag that may need dynamic population. Note how the <w:populate> tag simply wraps the body of the form, and represents an absolutely minimal change to the style used in a simple, static HTML form.
<w:populate using="itemForEdit"> <form action='MemberAction.do' method="post"> <input name="Id" type="hidden">

 Name *	 <input name="Name" type="text">

 Is Active?	 <input name="Is Active" type="checkbox" value="true">

 Disposition	  <select name="Disposition"> <option> </option> <c:forEach var="item" items="${dispositions}"> <option value="${item.id}">${item}</option> </c:forEach> </select>

  <input type="submit" value="add.edit.button">

 <tags:hiddenOperationParam/> </form> </w:populate>