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Orioles rally to beat Tigers 7-5
Orioles rally to beat Tigers 7-5Baltimore Orioles' Chris Davis (19) is congratulated by Mark Reynolds (12) after hitting a solo home run in the second inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012, in Detroit. The Orioles defeated the Tigers 7-5. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
DETROIT (AP) -- Down by five after one inning and facing one of the AL's hottest pitchers, the Baltimore Orioles had the Detroit Tigers right where they wanted them.
Nate McLouth hit a go-ahead, two-run triple and Baltimore stormed back to beat Detroit 7-5 on Sunday. The Orioles have rallied from five-run deficits to win three times in their last 20 games.
''That's a great win for us,'' manager Buck Showalter said. ''This is a very workman-like team. They don't get excited when something like this happens. They just look at what they've got in front of them and start working on it.''
McLouth, Nick Markakis and Mark Reynolds each had two hits for the Orioles, who have won five of seven, including the last two of the key weekend series at Detroit. Chris Davis homered for the second straight game and J.J. Hardy had a two-run double.
The Orioles lead Detroit by two games in the race for the second wild-card spot in the American League. The Tigers had won 17 of 20 at Comerica Park before dropping the last two this weekend.
''That's a very good team, and you know they feed off the emotions of that crowd,'' Showalter said. ''Like I just told Jim (Leyland), I'm glad they are someone else's problem for the rest of the season.''
The Tigers jumped all over Wei-Yin Chen (12-7), scoring five times with one out in the first. Omar Infante hit a solo homer, Miguel Cabrera walked and Prince Fielder singled to left before Jhonny Peralta drove a 2-0 pitch over the wall in center to make it 4-0.
Delmon Young singled and scored on Jeff Baker's double before Chen retired two in a row to end the inning.
''In the first inning, I was trying to attack the zone, but I couldn't get any first-pitch strikes,'' he said through a translator. ''After that inning, I got stronger, but I still have to thank my teammates for coming through for me. That's how baseball works. You never know what can happen.''
Four Baltimore relievers combined for four innings of two-hit ball, with Jim Johnson recording three outs for his 37th save in 40 chances. The right-hander is tied with Gregg Olsen for the second-most saves by an Oriole, behind Randy Myers' 45 in 1997.
''Our bullpen has been outstanding and that's the key in games like this,'' Showalter said. ''Detroit has great bats and they are doing a lot of great things late in games, especially with those fans cheering them on. Our guys didn't let that happen.''
The Orioles got back in the game in the second inning against Doug Fister (7-8). Davis connected for his 20th homer, Markakis doubled home a run and Hardy had his big hit that trimmed Detroit's lead to 5-4.
McLouth, who entered with just four RBIs for the season, put the Orioles in front with two out in the fourth, and Davis drove him in with a base hit. That knocked Fister out of the game, having allowed as many earned runs as his previous five starts combined.
''We was just out of whack - he wasn't good today,'' Leyland said. ''He knows what to do with a lead, but he just wasn't crisp. I just don't think he felt right.''
Fister allowed eight hits, struck out six and walked three. The right-hander was 6-1 with a 1.97 ERA in his previous eight starts.
''It's plain and simple - I didn't execute,'' Fister said. ''I was very poor at making adjustments and they made me pay for it.''
Detroit put two runners on with no outs in the seventh but Darren O'Day struck out Cabrera on three pitches and got Fielder to bounce into a double play.
NOTES: Erik Bedard was the last Oriole to win 12 or more games in a season, picking up 13 in 2007. ... With Chen's next win, he will tie Hong-Chih Kuo for the second-most victories by a Taiwanese-born pitcher. Chien-Ming Wang is the leader with 61, and also has the single-season record with 19.

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It's hard to believe but the colossal squid at Te Papa has turned "two". Time flies when you're having fun!
Today my squid, "Pamela", is 730 days old – she is 2 years old.
She now weighs an impressive 306 kilograms (about another 180 kilograms to go before she's the same weight as the colossal squid on display).
She has travelled 6,570 kilometres in the Southern Ocean (Auckland to Invercargill and back, twice – I feel tired just thinking about it).
She's looked for more suckers, survived encounters with Japanese whalers and, from the look of her, had a very good time on her adventures.
More than 210,000 squid frequent the Build a Squid database – and there's room for plenty more.
So go and check on your squid, make another, or come in and wish Te Papa's colossal squid a Happy 2nd Birthday.


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AYER -- The Ayer and Shirley community gathered Thursday to break ground on a great success, hard fought and won.
Speakers at Ayer-Shirley Regional High School spoke to the hard work, dedication and time it took to agree on the need for the vast building renovations, their design and the means of funding it.
Students will remain in the old middle-school wing while construction on the other side of the school progresses. The old high-school wing is being remodeled from the foundation up. Once that work is complete, students will be moved into that wing while the other is knocked down.
Renovations and construction will not be finished until fall 2015. Among new portions of the building will be the academic wing, classrooms and labs. The auditorium is also getting a makeover.
The entire project costs $56 million, with about 70 percent reimbursed by the Massachusetts School Building Authority.
Those who dedicated their time and energy to the project spoke in the high-school's auditorium. Speakers included Chairman of the School Committee Pat Kelly, Superintendent of Schools Carl Mock, Chairman of the Building Committee Murray Clark, Ayer Board of Selectmen Chairman Pauline Conley, Vice Chairman of the Shirley Board of Selectmen Bob Prescott, ASRHS history teacher Peter Gubellini, state Reps. Sheila Harrington and Jen Benson, state Sen. Jamie Eldridge and Executive Director of the Massachusetts School Building Authority Jack McCarthy.
Kelly said the idea for the renovations began six years ago.
"Great things happen here every day," Kelly said. "This is a great day for the region, our school committee, students and our faculty."
During a slide show of the building plans, students voiced "oohs and aahs" as a slides played.
"You will experience noise, and dirt, and shuffling around for the next two years, but it will all be worth it," Mock told students.
Prescott welcomed the eighth-graders, as they will be the first to use the academic wing, but apologized to seniors who will not be able to take advantage of it despite their hard work preparing for the project.
"This is an important milestone for the community because a nice school is what draws people to a town," Conley said. "It's where our children learn their most valuable lessons."
Harrington said, "Yes, it's literal, we will actually be breaking into the ground today, but you will continue to break new ground here," she said as she listed the ways students break ground in school including socially, mentally and educationally.
Project planning was an extensive affair, calling for teamwork, working with many people with differing opinions.
"Anything that is great has teamwork behind it," Benson said. "If something's worth doing, it's worth pulling together to make it happen."
"The under pinning of a democracy is a strong public education," Eldridge said. "Every child should get a great education to become an active citizen both during school and afterwards. That doesn't happen without the support of state government, local government and through contributions to every community to make sure every school system is as good as it should be."
Everyone involved with the project, he stressed, worked hard to make it a reality.
McCarthy spoke last, heaping more praise on all those behind the "new" high school.
"They intelligently thought about how to maximize the funds from the state," he said, which no doubt helped clear the hurdle of cost.
"To the students, we are here today because your parents and neighbors went to the polls to pay more taxes (for this project to become a reality) because they believed in you and this school," McCarthy said.
After the speeches, everyone gathered outside for the groundbreaking. Those who had earned the privilege of raising a shovel, posed for a photograph.
The image will find its way into the historical record, marking a very important day in the life of Ayer and Shirley, and their shared vision of a regional, cutting-edge high school.
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8,400 email addresses spaffed by Student Loans Company
Hands out cash, everyone's contact details
The Student Loans Company (SLC) has apologised after inadvertently leaking the email addresses of about 8,400 students this week.
Anyone who had got half-way through filling in an application form on the SLC site was sent a motherlode of personal data on Monday: emailed reminders to complete the electronic paperwork included an attachment listing the details of the 8,400 other recipients.
A spokesperson told The Reg that the money lender quickly realised its mistake and sent out a subsequent email asking all recipients to delete the previous email and attachment.
The SLC (an arm's length quango attached to the Department of Business and Skills) said:
We are sorry that a number of student email addresses have been included in an email which has been sent to other customers. The information was sent in error and only included email addresses, no other personal student data was shared. We have contacted all customers affected to let them know about this issue.
Chris Andrew, company secretary of the Student Loans Company, has said bosses have launched an internal investigation into the cause of the breach. ®
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Computer either possessed or creating SkyNet
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This message is from Brian Swichkow. This message is being sent to anyone I have ever talked to about my computer issues and a few others. If anyone can figure this out or give me any hints I will be forever in your debt. If youre getting this e-mail, it means youre smart, so please help, seriously.
The (Short) Story:
My first computer was a 20" Intel iMac from early 2006. This was one of the white ones, the first with the Intel processor. After 15 months of owning the computer it started restarting itself at random intervals, but never when I was using it. Also, when I shut down the computer (using either the power button or Apple>Shutdown) the computer would turn itself back on at random intervals.
After using the tech support provided by AppleCare over a three month period, no solution. Apple decides to send an on-site repair tech to "fix" my computer. In this repair, he replace the logic board, power supply, power inverter, temperature sensors, and ambient light sensor.
5 days later my computer started to continue its activity of randomly restarting and powering on. I contacted Apple and the sent the same guy out to replace the same parts, but in addition the memory. The theory was that the memory had short circuited the logic board in the first computer and the second. The on-site guy replaced all the parts and when he sealed up the computer, it wouldn't power on.
The day before this had happed I had gotten the new Leopard operating system in the mail and used Time Machine to do a complete backup of my system to a 500 GB external hard drive. Thank god because this saved all of my data.
Two weeks later, Apple sent me a band new 20" Intel iMac. This was one of the newer ones with the glossy screen and the aluminum case. Apple felt bad so the gave me a complementary processor upgrade from 2.0 GHz to 2.4 GHz. Sweet right? Not really.
When I got the new computer I used the time machine portion of Leopard to restore all documents, settings, and applications from my previous computer.
Another two weeks later, the new computer started randomly restarting and powering on. I again called Apple, this time they didn't even try to troubleshoot. Apple immediately sent me a new computer, this time a 24" Intel iMac with a 2.4 Ghz processor; a little upgrade for my troubles.
Sweet right? Not really.
Two weeks later, my new computer arrived. I again used Time Machine to restore all of my documents, settings and applications. Everything was good for a while, everything functioning fine and then . . . Disaster. Almost a month and a half later, my third computer started to randomly restart and power itself on.
I called Apple and this time we started to trouble shoot. The first action the product specialist had me take was to create a secondary administrative profile to see if the activity continued. Two days later (today) I came home from class and the computer had powered itself on.
We are now back to square one.
My Setup (currently):
24" Intel iMac, 2.4 GHz processor, 2GB RAM, and a 500 GB hard drive
Memorex 18x DVD burner - USB
Miglia TV Max+ - USB
Kensington Trackball Expert Mouse - USB
HP All-in-One Printer - USB
Small "Home" APC UPC - USB (to monitor battery status)
Western Digital 500GB HDD - Firewire
Side Notes:
- During this whole ordeal, with the first and current (third) computers, I was using my computer when I got a warning the my computer was running off my UPC. About 20 seconds later, ~20% of my battery had been drained and began to charge back up again.
- All of my external devices are new!!! The only two external devices that were hooked up to all computer from the start of this issue is the printer and the Miglia TV Max+ (I use this to watch television on my computer) At one point in time it was thought that the programming guide in the software was restarting the computer because of its settings. This has been proven untrue as I have changed the preferences in question. The computer has also restarted itself when the Miglia TV Max+ was unplugged and its EyeTV software was disabled.
- I have not scheduled power events where the computer turns on at a specific time
- The computer is NOT set to restart after power failure
- All sharing functions (remote pc) are turned completly off
Other than that, if anyone can help me please do.
At this point my computer is either possessed or trying to create SkyNet and take over the world.
ALSO, I have the log from my console for the last two times this has happened. If you e-mail me I can send them to you. In these logs you can clearly see the computer turning itself on. In the first log (all messages.log) I turned off my computer at 4:38:20PM to 4:38:22PM. The computer the powered on by itself at 7:00:17PM. At 8:03:45PM the computer went into sleep mode and at 8:25:08PM it woke up when I clicked my USB mouse, thus showing me my login screen.
On the second log (all messages2.log) I turned off the computer at 4:38:20PM to 4:38:22PM. At 7:00:22PM the computer powered itself on.
As I am writing this I just noticed a 5ms difference in the time that the computer powered on. Again, I have (and have never had) any schedules set for my computer(s) to turn on at any specific time.
Help Me,
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Your SkyNet connent would actually be more correct then you think if it is a virus
Manually backup your documents and any other important files (Don't use Time Machine in this case) and then format and re-install clean. Don't put your old stuff back on for a while (If you can) and see if it starts doing these reboots again.
Another possibility is the UPS. It does have the ability to shutdown your PC if it detects that it's running on batteries and about to die. Try running without the UPS for a while and see if that helps.
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That was my next option, I just don't know how much to back-up. Would the problem be in the library or one of my files? I don't download anything so I don't think it is in there, but manual backup is a big step to take without knowing that I am not copying the problem. This is so annoying, I have been dealing with this since August of 2007
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Also, I have to use this computer for school and I use it 24/7 so leaving stuff off of it isn't a possibility unless Apple sends me a forth computer that I don't have to send back for 10 days. The UPS was bought after this started, I thought it was because of minor power fluxuations in my apartment, but I have moved into a newer building so that couldn't be it. I checked the box and the UPS doesn't have the ability to turn off the computer. When the power goes out, it starts beeping, but when my iMac has been running off battery it wasn't beeping and all other electronics were fine.
01-29-2008, 07:55 AM #6MacHeadCaseGuest
Yeah sounds to me like you installed an app that is incompatible or causing mega corruption in the system. Or again there is something corrupted in your backed up data.
It's obviously NOT a hardware problem because it would be fixed by now with all the hardware changes Apple made, the brand new iMac, etc.
Try remembering when the Mac started having problems, what did you do right before then... There must have been a software install or you added a new peripheral or something.
You could create a new user account and see if the problem happens in there as well but if you keep reimporting the old data and that data affects the whole system, the new account will behave the same way. But it is worth a try.
Bet its the UPS chucking spikes out , they do not produce good sine wave ( the very best ones do ) its more of a rounded square wave that could be causing PSU problems. They also produce odd order harmonics 9th these also can cause random events to happen . The OP did state the he had an event with the UPS 20% down in 20 secs is odd the UOS should do 15 mins if correctly sized . I would look else where for the problems
01-29-2008, 09:27 AM #8MacHeadCaseGuest
Good point.
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I bought the UPS three weeks after this started happening because I thought it was happening due to power fluxuations in my apartment (built ~1930). I have since moved into a building built in 1977 with a very updated electrical system and the new computer hasn't seen the old apartment (no short circuits).
The UPS is very small and when I bought it there was a graph on the back to show how long it would last with your computer (screen size etc) and it said a 20" LCD would last 4 minutes, I have a 24". I just looked and the UPS only has 200 Watts.
The only thing I did to my computer before this started happening (August 2007) was install EyeTV for my MigliaTV Max+. There is a setting in there that updates the tvguide every 3 hours. Below that option there is a check box that says "wake computer if necessary," that box is NOT checked. The tv thing is a hardware and software combo and the computer has done the whole power on thing with the hardware not plugged in. Do you think it could be a corrupted file from that program? Would it help to uninstall that program? That way I wouldn't have to do a manual backup if everything.
Thank you all for this help
Well 200 va thats how they are rated is way to small your screen alone would be 200 watts at least then add the logic board you would be looking at 300 watts plus
not to teach you to suck eggs
take DC 1 Volt Amp is 1 Watt but in AC thats what you use it no longer holds true
eg watts are Volts * Amps * PF ( Power Factor )
for a computer the PF is low about 0.6 therfore your 200VA unit is only 12) watts
They sell UPS this way to make them appear larger than they are , sale pitch
you need a proper UPS say at least 1000VA ,not a battery backup unit one that can take care of brown outs , overvolts
they are not cheap
BTW I have a degree in electrical eng and looked after a large banks computer for 27 years
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Hi swichi293, I may be very new to the mac world.. but i think you need to run a proper failure analysis to find out the root cause. You may want to start by eliminating components one at a time, starting with EyeTV and MigliaTV Max. Remove them from your mac and observe if the problem persist.
Unplug your UPS from your USB port. It is your current problem most likely.
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To me it sounds like that there was a OS corruption when time machine was backing up. So it might be best to save only your most precious docs and restore that external
maybe something in there was a problem15.4" MacBook Pro Unibody
2.4GHz 4GB Ram and 500GB HD nVidia Geforce 9600
Remember this call
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heey, yea. i remember taking the call of brian... i work as an Apple Tech Support. me and a couple of my friends discussed about this issue. looks to me like the spike buster or the UPS has a problem. The mac virus is a really less possibility. a power fluctuation would basically corrupt the logic board on the machine.
Hey, remember..what has been the consistent device that you were using since your first mac. if it is the UPS, then don't hesitate to go for a new one. I would personally suggest you not to test the UPS with any other electronic device... As for the time machine. Lets not even bother to connect the time machine.
Please try to get your data from other PC's or MAC's. But till a couple of months try not to use the Time Machine or the UPS. Lets purchase a new UPS and test this.
Problem Solved - Thank You All
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So, I looked in the console log and every time the computer was restarting was because of EyeTV which is a program I used, that came with the Miglia TV hardware, to watch live TV. I did a complete format of my HDD and reinstalled everything manually, but the problem still remained. I then got so frustrated that I sold my Miglia TV device and did the same format and manual reinstall again and have not had any further issues. Apparently, the EyeTV program just kept becoming corrupted and I had to scrap the hardware and software related to it. Side Note: I know the guy I sold it to and he has had no issues.
Two months later my screen died and I had multiple dead pixels and a weird "burn mark" on the screen itself. A five minute call to Apple and they sent me another replacement. It just goes to show you, Apple is awesome. No matter how mad I get I will never hate Apple.
To the Apple Support Agent in the previous post, if you are Gilbert or Ron, thank you. You were a source of help, sanity and support - as are all AppleCare Representatives.
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That's what happened before the singer's show Saturday in Hershey when one of his fans pulled over to give the stranded cyclist a ride and realized the hitchhiker was none other than Matthews. He didn't have a cellphone on him.
Emily Kraus tells WHP-TV in Harrisburg that she and her boyfriend helped Matthews stow his bicycle on their bike rack and he got in their car for the rest of the ride.
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How can I not comment on the Flood of 2009?
Many of you reading this are still facing it as a semi-future event. For those of us in the Fargo area, it is very much a NOW event. We are already at all-time (for recorded history) levels. I am on a second floor apartment, have a lot of food and water stocked up, and am going nowhere. Traffic on many roads is at a gridlock in Fargo/Moorhead area so no point in getting in a car to leave. And where would I go? No, I'm staying put for the long-haul, whether it's a few days, or longer.
I have also been following the flood as it develops in Grand Forks, Pembina1, and Winnipeg. All of them are facing serious threats also. Good luck to you all, we know how you feel!
Wish me luck...If you don't see posts for awhile, I might be busy!
1 - This is a private blog specifically about Pembina - A big shoutout and thank you to the Pembina blogger who is keeping us informed about what's happening up there!
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On one hand this sucks. The amount of revenue you bring in by making your content accessible is not going to pay the cost of doing so. Same can be said with making websites accessible to the blind (and really probably most brick n' mortar establishments.. especially if retrofit).
On the other hand that's part of living in a civilized society. Most of us could easily by freak accident be in a position where we'd want these services... and doing non-profitable stuff like this just becomes another cost of business.
The implications on other content and especially user supplied content where no/very little revenue is being generated are of course the most scary. Where do you (or do you) draw the line between content that is "real" enough to require closed captioning (commercial productions, movies, etc..), and content that doesn't (videos taken on cell phones, etc..).
The obvious answer would be monetization. If the video author isn't getting money, the requirement goes away. But trying to turn that into a concrete policy becomes very mucky, as sites like youtube are profiting from it either directly from ad revenue, or indirectly through increased traffic/draw to their site.
Some channels actually have "descriptive audio" here. It's actually exactly what it sounds like. A voice describes what is happening, overlaid onto the audio. Once in a while I'll turn it on and try watching something with my eyes closed.. surprisingly for stuff that's heavily dialog driven, it works surprisingly well.
Some channels actually have "descriptive audio" here. It's actually exactly what it sounds like. A voice describes what is happening, overlaid onto the audio. Once in a while I'll turn it on and try watching something with my eyes closed.. surprisingly for stuff that's heavily dialog driven, it works surprisingly well.
Once upon a time, those were called radio shows.
Once upon a time, those were called radio shows.
Not true.
Radio drama set the stage and carried the action through the use of dialog, music and sound effects.
Producers of a series might use a popular host to frame their stories, much as Hitchcock and Rod Serling did in television. But the intrusion of an omniscient narrator within a story carries the listener out of the story. That is why the best never used them: "Gunsmoke" is a particularly good example.
From the DVS track for Basic Instinct
Correli unconsciously licks his lips.
She leans forward with an eager smile.
Nick Curran glances up from his notepad.
Correli eyes him curiously.
With a saucy gaze, Catherine uncrosses
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I am blind in one eye from childhood. I can not see anything in 3D. If a movie theater shows a 3D move must they also provide the same movie in 2D?
I'm half deaf and only watch videos on Netflix with closed captioning, but I'm on Netflix's side on this one. They provide no essential services, not even news or weather, and the only educational stuff tends to already have CC anyway. What's next, all porn is required to have CC?
well we could take it to the next logical step, What about blind people? we need to make sure blind people can access the internet and "watch" their videos as well!
They've already proposed that as well.
I am all for "fair access" but if the CC was not made available by the content maker, than how is it netflixes fault for not having them?
May be, they did provide them, after all they're already providing them to Netflix on DVDs.
And the studios themselves certainly don't do the encoding for Netflix, Netflix does the encoding for itself (and my guess, Hulu does as well). The resulting streams coming from a studio's web site are vastly different from the streams coming from sites like Netflix, or Hulu.
"On one hand this sucks. The amount of revenue you bring in by making your content accessible is not going to pay the cost of doing so."
HUH? The Subtitles are on the DVD's they are ripping to create their content. It costs them nothing to send a fricking text stream.
Knowing the fucked up way media licensing works, they probably have to license the subtitle data seperately or something (see also: theme music).
At which point Netflix would then be obligated to refuse to provide those pieces of content until the creators provide the subtitles, at which point the creators would be forced to provide the subtitles. More to the point, these rules would apply to all similar services, presumably, so if the content providers don't solve the problem, they'll lose most of their digital distribution.
There is some flexibility allowed for providing content created prior to when the rules were adopted, so this doesn't require magically creating subtitles where none exist (unless they can't manage to strike a balance where at least 75% of their pre-rule content contains subtitles).
This doesn't suck at all. This is the law working exactly as it is supposed to work, doing exactly what it was intended to do. Now if we were talking about YouTube being forced to provide subtitles, that would be another matter....
"On one hand this sucks. The amount of revenue you bring in by making your content accessible is not going to pay the cost of doing so."
HUH? The Subtitles are on the DVD's they are ripping to create their content. It costs them nothing to send a fricking text stream.
Netflix didn't always have the ability to stream the CC information. They do now, and most of the newer hardware players actually support it, which is why Netflix is adding the captions for new stuff. They issue is that they are demanding that Netflix go back and and reprocess all the existing videos for which they might not even have the data. That does cost them money, and the will not see any change in their subscription revenue for that effort.
It's akin to going to the library and bitching that not a
The amount of revenue you bring in by making your content accessible is not going to pay the cost of doing so.
I doubt the very few programs left without some form of closed-captioning or subtitles amounts to all that much.
The value of having this material available to people with hearing disability is very large.
Netflix is a very inexpensive service for what you get. If they charge everyone 25 cents more per month, I doubt they would lose one customer, and it would probably pay for the cost of providing cl
Quite seriously, is that normal in the US that every program needs to have CC or are TV networks trying to push the competition out of business? Just asking...
Another question, does it say anything about the quality of the CC? I mean, how expensive could it be to have some Chinese or NKor people create yet another Backstroke of the West style CC?
I can't figure out how the Congress has power to regulate private businesses and impose the ADA. Maybe it's through the corporate licensing.
Yes the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled long-ago that broadcast TV must carry closed captioning. Then they extended it to cable TV (by what authority I have no idea). Including captioning on netflix really isn't a big deal..... it's encoded in the video steams of VHS tapes, DVDs, and Blurays so netflix just needs to dump that CC to the internet stream.
I can't figure out how the Congress has power to regulate private businesses and impose the ADA
The Constitution of the US, Article I, Section 8, Clause 3:[2] "[The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes;"
Read more carefully the clause you quoted. It says AMONG the states. Not inside a state. For example Congress has zero authority to force me to replace the stairs into my office with a ramp (only the Maryland legislature can do that).
It says AMONG the states. Not inside a state.
Netflix is headquartered in Maryland?
In all honesty, I don't know what criteria is used to determine whether a corporation's actions fall under the commerce clause. But going by the location of their headquarters vs the location of their customers at least seems to make more sense than Wickard v. Filburn [wikipedia.org].
Damn, I swear you are now my textbook example for http://xkcd.com/386/ [xkcd.com] .
Cable is regulated because it's not all a local coax - much of the system is distributed over satellite, etc, which the FCC regulates.
VHS uses line 21 VBI CC (ie just analog NTSC 480i and totally irrelevant), DVD uses bitmap images (a horrible format for streaming, and those are subtitles not closed captions anyway), and BD subtitles are way overcomplicated for streaming use. And that's all beside the point, since Netflix doesn't get their streaming from any of those, they get MPEG files from the content providers. Now they are going to have to go get CC/subtitle info from all of those providers in a big clusterfuck of content management.
Given companies like Netflix already have literally 100's of thousands of encoded and encrypted streams already on CDNs, they can't just "dump" anything to a stream. They will all be coming up with ways (some standard most somewhat proprietary) of taking CC from the content providers, sending it as separate requests (likely HTTP) and displaying it on devices. And given the FCC is basically requiring CEA-708 feature set compliance (along with the fact these services are on dozens or hundreds of devices with vastly different software), that's going to be a shit-ton of work.
In general, as of January 1, 2006, all "new" English language programming, defined as analog programming first published or exhibited on or after January 1, 1998, and digital programming first aired on or after July 1, 2002, must be captioned by US broadcasters (with some exceptions.)
The FCC has issued Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on quality of Closed Captions, but as far as I know there are no formal FCC rules for quality yet, except for requiring broadcasters to provide contact information for reporting
This is complete non-news, really. The ADA isn't forcing anything directly - ie, yes, the ADA lawsuit is largely irrelevant, if Netflix wants to avoid this they need to sue the FCC. Though in general I have no idea why the ADA would bother with this silly lawsuit around the Americans With Disabilities Act when this is already covered by the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act [govtrack.us].
The FCC ruled months ago that Internet content would be required to support closed captions, they have a whole
Used to have a deaf roommate who was big into "deaf culture" (and was very annoying about it). We're talking Malcolm X militant about it. He wasn't alone either. There are a lot of people into deaf rights who think it should be illegal to air or play anything non-CC'ed. And they *will* sue.
Great for them, not so great for the rest of us who get cut off from all non-CC'ed content. And getting something CC'ed is pretty expensive--prohibitively so for a lot of indies.
>>>not so great for the rest of us who get cut off from all non-CC'ed content.
I've seen lots of non-Captioned content over broadcast TV (channels: thisTV, retroTV, antennaTV). The owner only has to broadcast CC if it's available, but if it's an old or obscure movie/show that doesn't have CC, they can still send it out for the enjoyment of hearing folk.
"As of January 1, 2008, 75 percent of "pre-rule" English language programming, defined as analog programming first shown before January 1, 1998, and digital programming first shown before July 1, 2002, must be captioned, with some exceptions."
Deaf "Culture" will be gone in a generation.
The vast majority of children born deaf are receiving cochlear implants before the nerves degrade. This is rapidly degrading the number of deaf children. Over the long term I fully expect enrollment in deaf schools and existence of deaf culture to disappear with the only remaining deaf people being those that were afflicted by the condition later in life. Though even that is not certain, it takes several years of hearing loss before the nerves die and the body re-purposes resources so anyone that is caused to go deaf later in life will probably receive cochlear implants as well. As the technology of cochlear implants improves there will be more and more outlying cases where people are given implants.
And, believe or not, there's actually a movement against that. There are deaf people that want deaf children, and want them to remain deaf. I'm a type 1 diabetic, and I can't imagine forcing that on a child. It makes like a pain in the butt.
Oh yeah, my roomie regarded those implants as the enemy, and any deaf person who supported them as a traitor.
Yes, I've read about them.
Personally I think it's child abuse to deny a baby born deaf a cochlear implant for a stupid reason like "deaf culture" (if there is a legitimate medical reason thats a valid reason). If for no other reason (and there are a LOT of other reasons) loss of hearing is a serious safety issue.
I think it's child abuse to deny a baby born deaf a cochlear implant
No, what is child abuse is using the misfortune of someone's child being born with a hearing impairment to excuse human experimentation on infants with dubious real world results.
I'm not a Deaf militant, but I am hard of hearing since childhood and have participated in the Deaf community and use sign language, so I know a little bit about this stuff because it involves me and those like me. I find the saddest thing has always been the way the families involved and the children diagnosed with it are treated. The second saddest thing is how many people who spout off about the issue do so from a position of ignorance and emotion, not facts.
The fact is that cochlear implants are a dangerous gamble, one that rarely pays off as much as those who subject others to it expect. It requires drilling into the skull to place a piece of hardware in the head, one that still requires the use of an external aid to function. There are heightened risks of meningitis, nerve damage, necrosis of the cochlear implant skin flaps...none of which are really explained to parents before hand. Instead all parents of Deaf children hear is that there is a surgery that can "fix" their children.
Worse, the recommendation is that the surgery be done at an early age because there is a limited window to get some form of language to the brain. The problem is that proponents of the surgery often advise against the children also learning sign language because it would interfere with them learning to process sounds. This is where the biggest gamble of all takes place--if the child doesn't properly learn to process the signals as sounds, they are effectively retarded in their development.
By contrast sign language has shown to allow communication and build cognitive function at preverbal ages!
That is why so many Deaf people get so militant about the issue!
My girlfriend is on the road to becoming completely deaf and we have a hard time attending movie theaters, due to her not being able to hear most of the audio in movies. Usually, we just sit away from everyone(or do our best to) and I will put my mouth very close to her better ear and relay the important parts she misses. It is difficult, but we would never dream of forcing movie theaters to provided closed captioning on all movies. Of course, there has been a recent change that has made movies more enjo
Would this include YouTube?
Netflix will need to mail a Braille transcript.
Why can a private service which requires people to pay before viewing content be forced to accommodate people who may not be their target market?
The same reason Congress can enact nearly any law--interstate commerce.
What if Netflix doesn't consider the deaf to be its target audience and specifically indicates this fact?
The legislation makes it clear that businesses aren't given a choice. There are multiple laws that prohibit discrimination in general.
Because just like broadcast television, they are sufficiently large enough to cover the costs associated with captioning the content. Netflix does have some content that is captioned on their streaming service, but frankly it's mostly a joke.
I am not sure what their process involves in acquiring the visual content that they stream. Netflix seem to have no difficulty in acquiring the audio tracks to stream along with the visual content. If Netflix is getting the content from the DVD's or whatever, it should be trivial enough to rip the subtitle / closed captioning tracks already present, sync it up and stream it as well. The physical DVD is captioned, yet the stream isn't. Netflix, along with a number of other content providers are basically saying, "Meh it's not worth our time to deal with it, so tough luck." Technically it should be trivial enough to do this but they are not. That's when the government usually has to step in. It's not so much a matter of preserving their profit, but doing the right thing and providing accessibility. Otherwise it's essentially tyranny of the majority.
The main reason why this lawsuit is necessary is because many online streaming services are essentially doing nothing or a very poor job of providing captioned content. Hulu for example, has a limited selection of captioned content within their catalog. This would not be so bad if they were more conscientious about monitoring their content. Sometimes they do not caption a given episode out of a captioned series. Apparently they have to "receive" it from the content provider. They do not check to ensure that the file has been received each time and that it plays properly. I've had missing captioning, captioning that was out of sync, content that indicated it was captioned, but no captioning, content that does not indicate captioning, but had captioning. If this had been happening with a broadcast television station, they would have been hit with a bunch of fines. That's why broadcast stations have someone monitoring it to ensure quality and delivery of captioned content.
Back to the point, streaming services are becoming more widespread, their catalog is expanding. They need to develop a scheme that simplifies handling and streaming of content such that captioning is automatically included and present from the content provider. That would ease the burden on Netflix, Hulu, and others. Netflix is the ideal target because they have one of the largest catalog of streaming content, and most of them were already captioned previously. In doing so, Netflix would have to sit down with the content providers and figure out a solution.
Clearly not all content would feasibly be captioned. No reasonable court would enforce captioning on "private" or indie content unless aired over broadcast/cable. The burden on captioning needs to be shifted to the content creators. There are already standards that determines what content must be captioned and anything below that is at their discretion. It won't be easy I admit, but this needs to happen, and the sooner, the better.
The movie theaters tried to make the same argument and were slapped down by the 9th Circuit. The judges essentially told them: "So, does this mean that a courthouse does not have to provide a wheelchair accessible ramp, because it is targeted only at people without a mobility impairment?" The largest three movie theater chains eventually settled because of this. WIth digital projection systems, the cost to equip a theater with closed-caption equipment is less than $2500.
So, in a way, every taxpayer is a customer because every tax payer has helped build the infrastructure that allows a large corporation to exist. Hell, every one in the US pays a tax on their phone so rural people can have cheap communication. Tell me Netflix could be this big without such a tax.
Most of the videos on Netflix are movies or TV shows. Every movie I've seen since DVDs came out have subtitling on them, it should just be a matter of including that information in the streamed video (assuming Flash allows for displaying subtitles). Most TV shows are close-captioned already, again it should be just a matter of including the close-captioning information in the stream. There should only be a minority of content that isn't already ADA-compliant.
Most of the content I've watched already has CC... to be honest this sounds more like you'll see some content pulled until the content providers supply CC.
This is a wash for the deaf, they get no new content.
The hearing lose.
I'm all for them making some kind of "from now on" decision, but to kill off the back catalogue is nothing short of petty and vindictive.
closed captioning didn't become "all tv's" and all programming until 1990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning#Legislative_development_in_the_U.S. [wikipedia.org]
Netflix has 3035 videos from 1914 to 1989
and 10,937 from 1990 to 2012
pre 1998 videos total 4,440
"As of January 1, 2008, 75 percent of "pre-rule" English language programming, defined as analog programming first shown before January 1, 1998, and digital programming first shown before July 1, 2002, must be captioned,
As a deaf American, I am happy this is happening. It makes Netflix useful, and I'd like to see it expand to all online video. What excuse do CNN or Fox news online have NOT to captioning the video on their websites? Not a single one.
As an American businessman, I can understand what a collosal pain in the ass it is for business... but it's not the fault of ME or any other deaf person that Netflix chose to ignore us.
Would you use Netflix if all the movies and shows had no sound? Course not. There's no ex
This, I believe, its also horse feces. Is the sound a separate performance from the video?
This is a huge problem for people trying to release old TV shows on DVD. They have to re-license the sound tracks. In a lot of cases, the cost either prevents them from releasing the DVD, or forces them to (at less cost) replace the audio with soundalike music (see: Married with Children).
If NetFlix is required, then are theaters? What about YouTube? More importantly what about online porn?
I'm so confused...
Netflix cannot comply with the ADA in this case, because doing so would create a derivative work of the original, without the permission of the copyright holder.
Closed Captioning in the states was launched in 1980 with a set-top box distributed through the Sears, Roebuck catalog. The integrated decoder for analog receivers became mandatory on all sets sold or manufactured after July 1, 1993,
Closed Captioning is 32 years old, people, and a striking example of how technology can enlarge and enrich the life of the disabled. Thirty years ago my father needed this tech, thirty years on, we both need this tech. It is only the geek that never ages.
In our reply comments, PK explained why captioning a video is a ''fair use'' that does not qualify as copyright infringement under section 107 of the Copyright Act. Section 107 lists four factors that go into a fair use analysis, three of which favor captioning as a fair use. The nature of the copyrighted work (here, video programming) is probably highly creative, and so it enjoys a fair amount of copyright protection. However, captioning is a non-commercial use that is simply intended to make the programming accessible to individuals with disabilities, and to legally comply with the CVAA. Captioning uses as little of the copyrighted work as possible because it only conveys exactly what a person with a hearing disability would need to understand the video: the words being spoken. Finally, captioning actually has a positive effect upon the market value of the work for the copyright owner. When more people can access the programming, the audience for the video programming will grow. This is a perfect example of how the fair use doctrine serves the overall goal of copyright law: promoting the progress of art and knowledge.
Even if captioning infringed copyright, the CVAA explicitly orders the FCC to âoerevise its regulations to require the provision of closed captioning on video programming delivered using Internet protocol....â If captioning does indeed violate copyright, then the FCC has statutory authority to create a limited exception to copyright protection for the purposes of implementing the CVAA. Copyright law is not a shield against all other legal obligations. The FCC has even reached this conclusion before, when it required cable companies to make copyright-protected programming available to competitors under the program access rules.
Copyright Does Not T [publicknowledge.org]
There is a blanket exception to copyright to make things accessible. I does not so much trump copyright as the exception is written into the law. People make audio books for the blind daily. They do need to be part of on an authorized entity to do the conversion but that's not a very high barrier.
I used to be involved with ADA, and I believe the lawsuit will eventually fail. There are two components to ADA that they might go after, Telecommunications or Public Accommodation. However, The language of the law is pretty specific, and there's no way Netflix will fall under either of these categories. As many have already pointed out, Netflix losing would be a catastrophically slippery slope, and no court would initiate that without clear intent from Congress. Just because a case isn't summarily dismissed doesn't mean it will win, it simply means the judge believes it's worth hearing.
This is just a preliminary ruling. Netflix tried to have the suit dismissed, that didn't work, and now it gets tried on the merits.
At some point, the ADA runs into the First Amendment, which prohibits "forced speech". (Broadcast TV is a special case, because it involves publicly owned RF spectrum.) Book publishers aren't required to produce audio or Braille editions, or translations to another language.
>but the ruling is still significant for recognizing that Internet sites may fall under the purview of the Americans with Disabilities Act."
Web designers have ignored the sight impaired for far too long and had it far too easy. They have ignored standards, done stupid shit as use pictures for blocks of text, flash-only (like the IOC did once) and engaged in "get the hell out, you peon with a screen-reader" nonsense ever since the term "rich content" slipped out of someone's lips 15+ years ago.
Every web designer should spend a week using the Internet blindfolded, using only JAWS.
"But who cares about the blind?"
There but for the grace of the Universe go you.
Just pass everything through voice recognition (even shitty M$ one) and all of a sudden you comply. This is how YT is doing it.
So if this atrocity somehow survives through SCOTUS will this mean authors who self publish are now required to provide braille copies or else be sued too? Will I have to spend thousands of dollars to sell one or two copies of my book to a blind person? Are you fucking kidding me? ADA has morphed from 'we should try where we can to do what is reasonably possible to help the handicapped' to 'gimme gimme gimme or else!'
Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn't work out.


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Thank you for pressing the self destruct button.
http://bash.org/?244321 [bash.org].
My girlfriend does it first thing after installing Firefox on every machine she's ever owned (and she's not particularly computer savvy; she's a
You could also look at LastPass - http://lastpass.com/ [lastpass.com] - which works very well across Windows/Mac/Linux, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc, and on many mobile phones as well. Quite well designed and mature, and can be used offline though it's a browser addon, and syncs your password data to/from the cloud automatically, but also supports export to various formats if the cloud goes away. Now has a feature to manage non-browser passwords as well.
12345? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage...
Apple offers the Keychain APIs for secure storage of identity items as well. Using this a browser can store what it needs in a secure way. Access to each and every item is controlled by ACLs that you can tweak to your heart's content.
And we all know that with the excellent security synergy between users and application developers, the result of having freely tweakable security settings that default to moderate strength inevitably tends towards most users finding their own optimal balance of security and convenience that never leaves anyone at significant risk.
What, you haven't noticed that? I'm SHOCKED!
Snark aside: YES, Apple provides a strong toolkit and default behaviors (in Safari and elsewhere) that set a reasonably secure norm
Which is why I like Seamonkey's ability to secure the password store with a password of its own so that you're not simply relying on security through obscurity.
Except the first time you want to access the password store in each session, you present your password that "unlocks" the password store, then THAT password is persisted for the remainder of the session. So, either way, if you visit a malicious website the chances are your password store is in a vulnerable state (the password store is open for business, and the password is available somewhere). In both the Seamonkey/Firefox and Microsoft cases, the password store is vulnerable once it's logged in. The on
Not to mention that for the open source browsers you can probably just look to see where it stores those keys. This is not a knock against the system, or even the approach, but just an observation.
Assuming the tool is just using the associated "Remember my password" functionality, then this is a non-story and people could get it without the tool. Heck, in Firefox, and I believe Chrome, you can view your stored passwords in plain text using the built-in password manager.
Firefox doesn't even attempt to hide it: Preferences -> Security -> Saved Passwords -> Show Passwords.
If you assign a master password that changes for you a bit; it won't show them without you entering the master password, twice IIRC.
Perhaps this needs a rethink on filesystem security?
I'm thinking a desktop OS wherein each application is assigned a directory/folder on installation, and is only able to access its own folder a per user generic 'documents' folder, and a per user, application specific configuration folder. There'd be some costs to that - developers would have to compile against APIs and libraries rather than importing them in from the system at runtime. This would make individual programs larger and increase maintenance req
On OS X, the keychain is stored encrypted. When you log in, the keychain daemon runs and, if your keychain password matches your login password, decrypts the store into RAM. Individual passwords can only be accessed by other apps via RPC to this daemon. This RPC uses Mach ports, which allow the process on the other end to be identified. Access to individual passwords must be specifically granted (on a one-off or permanent basis) to apps, although any app can access all passwords that it created. If the
I wanna see the Skeksi interface!
The Dark Crystal (1982)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083791/plotsummary [imdb.com]
Anything that just stores passwords for automatic login, and doesn't require any user interaction, is not secure from something like this. Reason is if a program, like say Thunderbird, can get your e-mail password to hand off to the server, well then another program can too. It is stored in some easily reversible form. However, if the program itself needs a password to access the password store, then it should be secure provided a good password is used. The reason is that it uses that password to encrypt th
The default keychain file is the login keychain, typically opened on login by the user's login password (although the password for this keychain can instead be different from a user's login password, adding security at the expense of some convenience).
The keychain file(s) stores a variety of data fields including a title, URL, notes and password. Only the password is encrypted and it is encrypted with Triple DES.
Windows passwords are stored using non-reversible encryption be default. For Vista and 7, they are stored only using the HTLMv2 hash by default, which is extremely secure. For XP passwords under 14 characters it does store the LM has as well by default, which can generally be cracked with only a little effort as it is not secure.
What this tool does is reveal saved passwords in programs. That is not hard to do. Any password you save for a remote system must, by definition, be stored using some sort of revers
No. Your saved browser passwords are only secure if the browser provides (properly implemented) password protection for the saved passwords.
i.e. The passwords are encrypted with a key, which is encrypted with a password that the browser requires you to enter before it will allow access to your saved passwords.
This reminds me of a tool I used back in the day called "Revelation". You loaded it up, clicked on the "target" icon, then clicked on a password field that was blocked with asterisks instead of displaying the password. The "hidden" password would appear in the "Revelation" box, allowing you to see what it was.
This was how I discovered the password for our dial-up internet back when I was in middle school in the mid-90's. My mom entered the password, and usually waited until it connected...but one time she slipped up, and left before it connected. I hit "cancel", and sure enough the password was still there, just blocked by asterisks. Thanks to "Revelation", I got it and was able to log in during the middle of the night, chatting it up on Yahoo and working on my Angelfire web page.
Ah, memories...
My mother went for the low-tech solution to keeping my brother and I off the internet when she wasn't around - taking the power cord to the PC with her.
Suffice to say, they don't call them kettle cords for nothing
It's been a long time, but I'm 99.9% sure that was it!
The kind who had found his step-dad's "collection", and didn't need crappy mid-90's Internet video for his fapping
This reminds me of a tool I used back in the day called "Revelation". You loaded it up, clicked on the "target" icon, then clicked on a password field that was blocked with asterisks instead of displaying the password. The "hidden" password would appear in the "Revelation" box, allowing you to see what it was.
In that version of Windows, a password edit control just had a password style set on it and you could effectively disable that with some simple Windows API calls. Worse, you could just WM_GETTEXT and get the password out in plaintext without changing the style.
Years ago I once lost the password for my dial-up internet, and it was easier to make a 'modem tap' to recover it than it was to dig into the binaries and extract the encrypted password from the dialup networking glop I used back then. I just soldered on a third 'listen only' tap connector on my modem cable and intercepted the password as it was sent out to the modem.
This isn't anything like Cain & Abel or 1000+ other tools did before for OVER TEN FSCKING YEARS. If slashdot ever posts "news" from sites like securityweek again I might cancel my newsletter subscription. Tip: security knowledge comes from security related blogs/forums (ie. hackers), not "news" websites which place more product placement than news.
Requesting delete because that VB.NET tool doesn't deserve the bandwidth it will cost.
Tip: A large number of stories on Slashdot are product placement. It has been this way since, to my recollection, the series of stories on They Might be Giants. It was probably going on before that and I just didn't recognize. Those seemed like the first slashvertisements that made no real effort to disguise themselves.
Slashdot is good for its user submitted content. There are still some really good, really informative discussions going on involving people who really know the subjects, that can't be found a
Requesting delete because that VB.NET tool doesn't deserve the bandwidth it will cost.
In their defense, the core logic is written in C#.
And it's for this reason that I write all my passwords down on the back of my hand.
I've already addressed the problem of them washing off by using using permanent marker. And not bathing.
Is this an alert or an advert?
An Adlert?
in Microsoft Internet Explorer, mailbox and identity passwords in all versions of Microsoft Outlook Express, Outlook, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail."
...But how does this effect me?
That would be an interesting question, if you didn't actually mean affect.
I think it effected his post.
Firefox offers an option to use a [user-supplied] master password to encrypt/decrypt password data. If a Firefox user enables that functionality, then Firefox would not [by my guess] be vulnerable to an exploit strategy such as the one employed by this cracking product (which relies on rule-based keys instead of a user-supplied key). Firefox passwords may, however, be vulnerable to other cracking strategies.
Here are some more details about how Firefox stores passwords. [luxsci.com]
I was beginning to think IE cache was unbreakable...
How does one break something that is already broken? Naw, just kidding.
I am shocked, shocked to find a security flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
all your password belong to us
Any "remember my password" feature in any app is inherently insecure.
Whenever I write such a feature, I encrypt the saved password, but I understand that this will only defeat wannabe crackers whose level of sophistication is limited to running strings on cache files. Any cracker worth their salt will reverse-engineer the encryption used by the app.
It's for this reason that I never enable "remember my password" where important passwords are involved.
Yawn. LSA secrets aren't particularly.
Why not write stories about those who build things rather than give valuable Slashdot electrons to breaking stuff? Boring.
Forty two.


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Thierry Henry and Kenny Cooper teamed up to lead Red Bull New York to a 4-1 win over Toronto FC at Red Bull Arena on Saturday.
Henry assisted on the first three goals for New York and then scored just before the final whistle, while Cooper netted two of them to take his tally to 16 on the season, moving the Red Bulls into second place with the Chicago Fire on 53 points in the Eastern Conference.
Toronto started well and saw a shot from Quincy Amarikwa hit the post in the second minute before Ryan Johnson found the net a few minutes later with a rocket from 30 yards that had New York goalkeeper Luis Robles well beaten.
But the home side responded in the 13th minute when Henry's corner kick was headed home by Markus Holgersson to level the contest.
The Frenchman helped put New York into the lead midway through the first half with a nice bit of individual skill as he darted into the penalty area, drew two defenders and laid the ball off for Cooper to knock into the empty net.
New York continued to press the action in the second half, and Toronto goalkeeper Freddy Hall made a nice diving stop on Henry before Tim Cahill went close in the 65th minute.
But Henry helped seal the win by setting up another goal for Cooper in the 88th minute and then capping his evening with a lovely chip from outside the area that sailed over the head of Hall and into the net.


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The Ashland School District and city government are teaming up to provide a summer reading program in school libraries.
Under a proposed plan, the school district's middle school, high school and three elementary school libraries would each be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. one day per week.
Only students who are enrolled in the Ashland School District would be allowed to check out books, though preschoolers, homeschooled students and other community members could look at the materials.
On Monday night, the Ashland Citizens Budget Committee — made up of the Ashland City Council and residents — authorized increasing taxes by up to one penny per $1,000 of assessed property value to raise $17,800 for the summer reading program in school libraries.
The city and school district can offer the summer reading program at a low cost by using support staff rather than certified librarians. The staffing cost is about $5,800, Superintendent Juli Di Chiro estimated.
"We've ensured that young people have a reading program," Mayor John Morrison said.
The budget committee authorized the City Council to place a levy on the September ballot that would cost up to 58 cents per $1,000 in assessed property value, or $96.86 for a home assessed at $167,000, the county average.
If Ashland voters approve that levy, the Ashland Public Library would reopen by mid-October.
On April 6, all 15 library branches closed because of a loss of federal timber payments. Earlier this month, county voters rejected a library system funding levy that would have cost 66 cents per $1,000 in assessed property value.
However, 73 percent of Ashland voters supported the failed county levy.
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Ashland schools salvage summer books program
The Ashland School District and city government are teaming up to provide a summer reading program in school libraries.


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Fox Lake Emergency Services Disaster Agency Director Annette Wolf wore a look of concern as she stepped out of the police Hummer after touring the flooded Knollwood Park subdivision.
About 100 homes there already have damage, and the worst is yet to come, Wolf said.
"We're definitely concerned," she said. "I don't know if it's nerves as much as concern at this point."
Homes in Eagle Point and Kings Island subdivisions -- along with dwellings near the water on Atwater and Lakeside lanes -- also suffered some flood damage, she said.
Wolf also acknowledged that with water levels forecast to rise to five-feet over flood stage in New Munster, Wis., water in the Chain O' Lakes will continue to rise.
"All we can do at this point is continue getting the sandbags out and help the residents when they need it," she said. "We'll do what we can."


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"Wish I could give it 10 stars!"
I don't give many 5 star ratings. I listen to too many books to be impressed by many of them but I honestly wish I could give both this book and this narrator 10 stars. They were perfectly matched and I did not want this story to end.
Like most people of my generation (mid 60's), I read this book in high school and found it boring and didn't like it at all. It is wasted on the young who haven't faced any hardships in life yet and they can't possibly understand the impact of it's lessons.
But now when I listen to it I can feel the dust in my throat and the bugs biting my skin and the heat beating down on me. I know the pain of the parents watching their children starve and the humiliation of the men , especially, who could not take care of their families.
And, I could see how we as a country are starting to repeat those same mistakes that culminated in the massive poverty of the majority of Americans in those years.
This is a must read for all adults.
"Every Character a Gem!"
I felt as if I lived the pain and the sorrow of The Joad family. In this trek from Oklahoma to California i traveled and suffered with these people. The way Steinbeck weaved hope, despair and the struggle of the human spirit for something better into this story places him in a class by himself
Night by Elie Wiesel, The Canterbury Tales, The Painted Bird
I enjoyed the introduction of Tom Joad. When the trucker picked him up and started to talk to him he knew right away he was being sized up. Having just been released from prison, he was edgy, truthful and proud and wasn't going to be looked down upon. The dialogue and characterization in this scene brought his character to life as the hopeful hero.
From start to finish each one of the characters, because they were so well formed and realistic, evoked empathy but never to the point of pity. Every character bore their share of hardship. You walk away from this experience feeling stronger for having been in their company. These were people to be admired.
"Wonderful Tale Punctuated with Loud Harmonic Licks"
Yes, the story is wonderful. The narrator is excellent and does a great job with all the character voices. He seems to be channeling Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, for he sounds just like him.
Overall the book was wonderful except for the jolting harmonica music transitions from each chapter that were so loud I had to turn down the volume. I absolutely HATED that. I appreciate that the tunes were of the period and the instrument would be easily carried on the road. But it doesn't work for me and spoiled an otherwise wonderfully written and narrated story.
I've literally waited 5 years for this audio to be released of what is hands down the best piece of American literature ever written. I think the pace and clarity of the narrator is perfect. It does have odd, blunt interludes of harmonica music that can snap you out of the trance the book puts you in, but other than that its a pretty flawless rendition of an American Classic.
"Almost more relevant now than when it was written"
Replace farmers from Oklahoma with migrant workers from Mexico and I doubt you'd be able to tell that this novel was written back in 1939. And that's what really stuck me about this novel - how relevant it still is - in some ways even more now than then.
The first similarity is economic. As I write this we are still either going through a 'great recession' or are slowly emerging from an economic downturn. The causes are different, of course, here in the novel it was bad farming techniques mixed with new technology that drove the farmers from their land. Today it's an over-saturated housing market - people banking all their futures on the bubble of hope that perhaps the value of their own home will increase enough for them to make a tidy profit. And just like land that's been worked too hard, people worked the housing market too hard and it collapsed. Banks came to take the farms in the novel and banks came to take the homes in our own time.
And both examples were of people running as fast as they could just to stay a little ahead of disaster. The farmers grew crops that destroyed the soil because they had no choice - they couldn't compete with the new farms, the corporate farms and machine efficiency. A family can't compete with a fleet of harvesters and tractors - working the land by hand can't keep up with a tractor. And the same goes for the people with houses these days. Everybody borrowed on cheap credit from the bank to hopefully 'buy low' and then 'sell high', but when everyone does it then there isn't no value in any of it and it all falls apart and everyone still owes the banks. And all they wanted was a piece of a dream, a chance to stay afloat economically, to send their kids to a good college, to make the car payments, put food on the table.
In the novel the Californian's hated the Oakies, called them lazy, called them animals, called them thieves; in today's world we call the homeowners who lost it all idiots, greedy, lazy. But we also hate the banks. Call the banks greedy, inhumane, a great machine that's too big to die and too big to fail and everybody has to keep feeding it because nobody is really too sure how to control it anymore.
But there is one difference, and that's the work. When the people lost the value on their homes, when the banks realized that the amount of money in the economy was based on a weak speculation and that there was actually a lot less money than there really was, when that caused credit to dry up, and when that caused smaller businesses to close up because they couldn't run the businesses with no credit, which in turn caused people to lose their jobs, and that caused the economy to drag down deeper and created a vicious cycle that made it worse and worse - after all that, the people had nowhere to go because all the 'poor jobs', the type of work Steinbeck writes about in the novel had all been taken by the immigrants.
And that cussed more issues. The poor American middle-class blamed the Mexican's and now militia patrol the borders to kick the Mexican's out or do worse things in the desert at night when nobody is looking. A man like Casey in the novel is no different than a immigrant getting killed by some militia border patrol.
And that causes resentment on all sides and the center can't hold.
And that's just the economic similarity between the novel and today's times. Politically it's the same too. A conservative will say the poor just gotta work, but the conservative will also be on the side of the businessman and when everyone needs work, the businessman can keep wages down and in turn keep the poor really poor. But that's supposed to be ok because the conservative will say the poor can take help from a charity or a church - but that's easy to tell someone else when it's not you having to beg and take charity, easy to tell another man to beg. But the conservative man is holding on by a thread as thin as can be too and he's causing his own demise because soon the corporation will put him out of work too, his job will be lost and he'll have to go begging and he won't be so mean and conservative anymore. He'll see the value of sticking by your fellow man instead of blaming him for his troubles.
And that's what the book is about - about family, about sticking together, about helping, about not letting the fruit on the vine rot when others go in need. And that's why it's an even more radical novel today than when it was written because it 'smells' of Communism or of Socialism. And the conservative man doesn't want to hear about that, he doesn't want a union because union men are lazy and he doesn't want socialism because the government will tell him what to do and he doesn't want communism because he can take care of his own family.
That is until he can't, then he'll be singing a different tune or he'll be turning on his own people like some of the people in the novel who turned against their own just to put food on the table; the great selfishness.
That's the saddest thing about the book - how spot on Steinbeck was about human nature. And for as beautiful as the novel is, as well written as it is, nothing can compare to how true it is. And maybe that's the thing that makes people still so angry about it - that it reveals a truth we don't want to accept about ourselves, that deep down we know that they way we live, that the American dream is not working, that it never really worked and that we either side with the people who will toss us on the heap of irrelevance or we fight the powers that be. And maybe if we worried a little more about if their neighbor has enough in his bowl and a little less about if we have enough in our own then maybe things would be better.
The novel is a microcosm of American, then and now. And that's quite an achievement because how many novels ring this true 75 years after they were written? And the novel is a damning indictment too, and that's why it still scares people.
And that ending. What an ending too. It's both hopeful and sad. It's religious and it turns religion on it's head too. It's bleak and yet it's also comforting.
Now I didn't realize it at first, but this is the third in a series of books I've been reading that deal explicitly with society - 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom' talked about a people fighting for their independence in the deserts of Arabia, '100 Years of Solitude' about a village coping with modernity, and now this novel about a country having to find a new direction. And they are also about the poor, about people who have been taken advantage of by a government or an economy and have been cast aside. And that's been a struggle since man understood ownership and it will continue to be a struggle as long as some men side with the very forces that could steamroll everyone in the end.
'Don't turn on your own kind', Tom says. Well I hope Tom is still somewhere out there keeping an eye on everyone, helping where he can, beat up and bloody but still fighting. The world needs more Tom's and more Ma's. Someone's gotta keep the family together.
Anyway, brilliant novel. Pure genius.
"Excellent performance, gripping novel"
This was a truly eye-opening book about the dust bowl and the great migration to California and all that immigrants had to endure and try to survive. It was heart-breaking and yet uplifting at the same time. The narrator did an excellent job.
"Go West, and Suffer"
John Steinbeck's gripping novel about the Joad family's trek to California, fleeing the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, is a Pulitzer-winning American classic.
That's partly because Steinbeck's powers of description are without equal. The first chapter alone is worth the price of admission, as he describes how the spring rains fell, and the crops sprouted green, and the countryside came alive.
And then the rain just stopped coming.
The Joads and thousands like them endure the unbearable, aching agony of having nothing and losing everything; not just scant possessions, and not just land, but land consecrated with the blood and sweat of generations.
Some of Steinbeck's recitations—of the stops along the route west, for instance, or the steady invasion of vermin into the dark corners of abandoned sharecropper shacks—have the power and cadence of the narration in "The Plow that Broke the Plains," the 1936 documentary by Pare Lorentz that chronicled the genesis and relentless advance of the Dust Bowl.
The novel is a portrait of a people—simple, optimistic, hardworking, bewildered by a changing world all around them. They are surprised to hear themselves called "Okies," a derisive term used by the landowners who need their labor but fear their strength in numbers. The characters are richly drawn. Of the family's strong, careworn matriarch, Ma Joad, Steinbeck says, "It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials."
The road west is a long and bitter one. The family struggles to hold together its jalopy and itself in the face of hardship, defections, and death. Every glimmer of hope is crushed by despair; more suffering, abuse, and deprivation. In the end, the rains that forsook them in Oklahoma return to ruin them in California. The Joads are left hungry, penniless, decimated—and somehow still optimistic. There's no other choice.
Whether intentional or not, narrator Dylan Baker sounds a lot like Henry Fonda, who starred in the acclaimed film version. He delivers a wide range of characters fluently, with an overall tone that is just slightly weary and entirely appropriate.
Personally, I could do without the gratuitous harmonica music between chapters. The book didn't need it, and it's a distraction from the exquisite writing.
"Perfect performance"
Dylan Baker is so good that he actually sounds like Henry Fonda. This performance is outstanding.
Great Story, Great Performance. Must not miss out on! This is my favorite so far!
"Don't Miss This Classic!"
I put off listening to this book for quite a while after getting it on sale. I knew it was a well-rated classic that I really wanted to read. My reluctance, however, was due to the fear that it might be outdated, slow moving, or even boring. Oh how wrong I was!
Listening to Dylan Baker's awesome narration of Steinbeck's masterpiece, it felt like I was carried away to a different time and place. Each character had their own particular voice--it was hard to believe there was only one narrator.
I was always engrossed in the story, I learned much about a period in our history that never caught my attention before, and I felt very sad as I followed the Joad familly's desperate plight for survival.
Steinbeck's writing style made it so easy to visualize the story and the characters. I felt like I was immersed in their lives, almost a fly on the wall. I really cared what happened to each and every one of them. And finally, I was prepared for an abrupt ending, but that brought quite a surprise. I wasn't sure I believed my ears. It was totally unexpected and will remain with me for a long time to come.
Highly recommended book! Don't procrastinate. Jump right in!


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The village of Newtown Connecticut looked festive last night. Christmas lights glowed on the houses and tidy lawns of its winding main street. The parking lot of the local Catholic Church appeared to glow from afar. It was only when you came close you saw it was lit by the glare of TV lights.
A few hundred metres down the hill the road into Sandy Hook elementary school, affiliated with St Rose of Lima, was blocked by a row of police cars, their emergency lights flashing red and blue.
Inside the church Monsignor Robert Weiss addressed a thousand townsfolk, telling them that there were 20 new saints in heaven, the children who had been shot dead that morning by Adam Lanza.
"This was not the hand of God," he told Fairfax after the ceremony, as his parishioners gathered and wept in the pews, "this was the act of a man with issues."
Monsignor Weiss had baptised many of the dead children and taught them all.
He took the call at around 9.45am. Something was happening at the school. It took him only minutes to cover the mile to the volunteer firehouse near the school where the surviving teachers had herded the surviving children.
Some of them, it was reported, were covered in blood. They had been gathered into the corners of their rooms as the killing spree – which lasted only minutes – thundered around them.
Some described hearing shots – there were thought to be around 100 rounds fired – but younger children did not have the words. One described the sounds as "snaps"; another thought it was like someone kicking a door. One boy spoke of the sound of footsteps of someone running fast.
By the time Monsignor Weiss arrived at the firehouse it was all over. At least 18 of the children, aged between five and 10, were already dead, two more were dead or dying.
Six adults, some of them teachers, were dead. Nancy Lanza, Adam's mother, was yet to be found dead in her nearby home.
Adam, who was 20, had apparently shot himself after his killing spree.
Monsignor Weiss told Fairfax of how he watched the teachers at the firehouse hold up signs with their class numbers on them as the children flooded in.
They took class rolls and released them into the arms of their terrified, relieved parents while other parents watched and waited.
"You could see them losing hope when the news came in and their children did not come back," he said. "They were broken."
Andrew Maingold, a 20-year-old local college student, was one of those huddling over a candle outside the packed church last night as the temperature dipped below zero.
He had been woken by a volley of recorded calls to his mobile phone just after 9.30am. His younger brother and sister still went to local schools, and family members were being notified that they were locked down.
He was not worried at first.
"I went to school here and it was always getting locked down, locked down for a drill, locked down because someone was shooting at targets."
Then he heard someone had been shot in the foot.
Another local, a former volunteer fire fighter himself heard the same thing but then when he saw fire fighters weeping on television he knew something terrible had happened.
"I said to my wife, 'fire fighters don't cry because someone was shot in the foot'."
Police, still piecing together the events, were reluctant to release official information yesterday, but news – not always correct - was spreading fast.
For a while it was reported Adam's older brother Ryan, 24, had committed the murders.
The scope of the horror became clearer in the early afternoon. Adam had shot his mother and then entered the school with weapons including a civilian version of a military rifle – similar to that used in the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado in July, this year – to kill her class.
Soon the President ordered that flags be lowered to half-mast. Then he tearfully addressed the nation.
"Our hearts are broken today," he said, explaining that the majority of those who died were children - beautiful, little kids between the ages of five and 10 years old.
"They had their entire lives ahead of them - birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own."
Perhaps most significantly he told the nation, "We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics."
It is not yet clear what "meaningful action" means, but it is the clearest indication he is considering gun control he has given since he became President.
So powerful is the gun lobby that neither candidate mentioned gun control during the election, and after the July shootings Mr Obama spoke only of addressing the broader causes of violence.
By early afternoon though the debate had erupted across the nation, with gun advocates declaring, again, that gun policy should not be debated in the shadow of mass shootings, and those opposing them demanding policy change.
Outspoken New York mayor Michael Bloomberg called for immediate restrictions on the availability of guns. The failed Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee blamed violence on the removal of God from schools.
The prominent conservative Ann Coulter tweeted allowing more people to carry concealed weapons effectively cut the murder rate.
Monsignor Weiss kept the church in Newtown open overnight, with parishioners free to come and go under the wooden sign above the door that says, "Love one another."


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Officials told lawmakers that the rush to launch Obamacare caused the federal contractors to fail to fully test the program's Healthcare.gov website. In fact, one official told a congressional committee that the site design was changed a month before the launch and a review of the software code detected language normally found in early versions of projects.
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Webcam would show tourists and potential residents what Yellowknife looks like, says online enthusiast... The link recently stopped working, however, and a commenter on her blog this past week stated that, "Yellowknife seems like the only community in Canada without a working webcam, so I guess I have to ask what kind of a backwater place is it?"
"It made me mad," Rosvold said. "Then I thought, wait a minute, he's right."
Web browsers can peer into cities all over the world. On the website EarthCam, people can watch what's happening on the streets of New Orleans, Times Square in New York City, Dublin and many more. For a time, people were watching Yellowknife as well from Rosvold's blog.
The blog was first made for family and friends to see what her new home was like. But other people started viewing it. There have been 30,000 views over two years by people from all over the world who are interested in Canada's North.
"I don't know how they found it. There's obviously interest in the North and in Yellowknife," she said.
Rosvold said a city-owned webcam would help promote the region.


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Although Bay Area Yemenis live in one of the most inclusive, culturally diverse areas in the country, where women's rights and women's education were fought for and championed, they're wary of what many perceive as a morally corrupt society.
It's the conundrum of being very conservative in the most liberal of places, and it doesn't help that most Yemenis live in low-income inner city neighborhoods like East Oakland and San Francisco's Tenderloin district -- places where teen pregnancy rates are high, gangs push drugs, and crime is rampant.
2L Sohir Sumaya Albgal was homeschooled for half of junior high and high school because her family didn't want her to go to schools in Richmond, Calif.; they weren't comfortable sending her there. Like most girls in Yemeni families, she was shielded from public school, and then went to Yemen at age 18 to be married.
"I think I chose it because it was a natural trajectory of the expectation my family set for me," she says, "and also the way I understood my place as a Yemeni woman was: you get married, and that's kind of where life begins."
For the majority of Yemeni women here, that's also where the story ends -- at least in terms of education. But for Albgal, things were different. After she had her son in 2005, her parents agreed that she could try out community college.
Albgal went on to community college, then UC Berkeley. She's now a second year student at UC Hastings College of the Law. She says she's the first woman in her community to graduate with a degree. A pioneer.
Read more about Yemeni women like Albgal in New America Media.