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WALTHAM, Mass. – A pair of newcomers, sophomore transfer Dara Spital (Miami, Fla./Gulliver Prep) and Holly Szafran (Newton, Mass./Newton North), both scored one goal in each half to lead the Brandeis University women's soccer team past visiting Roger Williams University, 4-0, on Gordon Field tonight. With the win, the Judges, ranked No. 5 in New England, improve to 3-0, while the Hawks, ranked ninth, fall to 0-1-1.
Spital gave the Judges all the scoring they would need in the 13th minute. She tracked down a ball along the end line, made a nifty move to keep the ball in bounds and evade a defender and fired a laser shot into the far-right netting. It was her second goal of the season, both of which have been game-winners.
Szafran doubled the score 12 minutes later in the 24th minute. A corner kick off the foot of junior Kelly Peterson (Houston, Texas/Clear Lake) made its way through the box onto the head of Szafran, who put it home for her second tally of the campaign. RWU put two of their three shots on goal in the first half, but a fine diving save from senior Francine Kofinas (Dix Hills, N.Y./Half Hollow Hills West) on the Hawks' Jessica Reade (No. Yarmouth, Maine/Greely) in the 43rd minute preserved the shutout.
In the second half, Spital added goal number three of the game and of her season just 64 seconds in, corralling a loose ball and sending it home. Szafran was the beneficiary of an assist by classmate Sara Isaacson (Medfield, Mass./Medfield) in the 55th minute, blasting home a strike into the far left corner from just outside the 18-yard box.
Brandeis finished the game outshooting RWU, 14-7, including 8-4 in shots on goal. Sophomore Michelle Savuto (Ridgewood, N.J./Ridgewood) made two saves in the second half to keep the Judges' shutout streak at 270 minutes, while Hawk junior Stephanie Jacques (Burlington, Vt./Burlington) had four stops in the losing effort.
Brandeis returns to action on Saturday afternoon, when they host 23rd-ranked Springfield College at 12:30 p.m., while Roger Williams is at Keene State the same day at 3:30 p.m.
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Boxing Day Tube strike: Shoppers hit by delays
Travellers on London's Underground have been disrupted by a 24-hour strike staged by drivers.
The dispute is over the Aslef union's demand for extra pay for staff working on the Boxing Day public holiday.
Most Tube lines have experienced some level of disruption since the strike began at midnight, according to Transport for London's website.
London Underground boss Howard Collins described the demand for "triple pay" as "outrageous".
The strike affected shoppers heading for the start of Christmas sales, and football fans.
Transport for London (TfL) had warned of "severe disruption" and urged travellers to check its website before starting their journeys.
Circle Line suspended
Throughout the day its website has been reporting most lines suffering some level of disruption.
The Bakerloo Line was running between Queen's Park and Elephant and Castle only, while there were no Central Line trains.
The entire Circle Line was suspended, and the only District Line trains in operation were between High Street Kensington and Ealing Broadway, plus West Ham to Upminster.
The Hammersmith and City Line was not running east of Baker Street, and on the Jubilee line there was a special service operating between Stanmore and Finchley Road and between Stratford and North Greenwich, but no trains on the rest of the line.
There were Metropolitan Line trains from Harrow-on-the-Hill to Baker Street only, while the Northern Line was running between Morden and Stockwell, and Edgware and Euston only.
The only Piccadilly Line services were between Heathrow Airport and Hammersmith, and Finsbury Park to Cockfosters.
There was a special service operating on the Victoria Line.
Mr Collins said more trains than had been anticipated had run during Monday.
"We are operating a service on most Tube lines, including key lines serving the West End, supported by London's 700 bus routes and extra buses.
"However, the strike is causing disruption."
'Long-standing agreement'
Arsenal moved their Premier League game with Wolves from Monday to Tuesday because of the strike, but Chelsea's game with Fulham went ahead at Stamford Bridge.
The BBC's Daniel Boettcher said Aslef had argued that choosing to work on Boxing Day should be voluntary and drivers who agreed to do so should be paid extra as well as getting a day off in lieu.
But Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan told the BBC News Channel triple pay was "not quite what we've asked for", although it had been a negotiating point.
"What we're asking for is a guaranteed level of service where people can be guaranteed at least every other year, every third year, a day off, and - for those who do come in - an incentive." He said the nature of the incentive was still being negotiated.
"[London Underground] have picked on the worst aspect of a comment that was made and have used it continually throughout this process."
Mr Whelan said the original dispute focused on "quality time off".
He said the union had realised an agreement it had made in the mid-90s, when virtually no trains ran on Boxing Day, had "become devalued" as the number of trains running on Boxing Day had increased to be the same as any other day of the week.
"It's unfortunate that it happens at a time when we are in recession and possibly going into a double-dip. Truly, we'd like to see and help London business grow," said Mr Whelan.
Salaries 'inclusive'
London Underground says it has a long-standing agreement with all of its trade unions covering bank holidays. It has described the demand for additional payment as outrageous.
Chief operating officer Howard Collins told BBC Radio 4 that London Underground had already met some of Aslef's concerns.
"We have reduced the number of train drivers working this year, giving people more quality time off - down to 880 drivers from 1,100 last year," he said.
But Mr Collins said he could not "pay people twice" and that train drivers' salaries were all-inclusive and covered Boxing Day and Christmas Day.
"If I did this for this trade union, then 18,000 other workers who've agreed the '92 agreement would have to be paid as well," he added.


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Those who advocate voting 'Out' of the EU, so often damage their cause beyond measure by their ignorant and ill-tempered demeanour on social networks. The intemperate language they adopt, the abuse they hurl at EU supporters, the defensive arguments they promote, all demonstrate an absence of a fuller understanding of the wider issues, and portray many of these otherwise probably genuine people as a bunch of swivel-eyed fantasists.
However, in so many cases, they are ill-advised and factually bereft, because they are very badly influenced by people like Boris Johnson and other contemporary political EU-deniers, who use the wider referendum campaign as an opportunity to disseminate a wide range of self-serving lies, deceits, fantasies and half-digested theories, masquerading as fully-formed policy, but whose motives are entirely selfish and do not bear even the scantest searching review.
One has only to observe the posturings of people like Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, William Cash, Liam Fox et al, to appreciate the degree of personal self interest given to these protestations. The first recognition is that they are all wealthy men, whose own financial interests are unlikely to be deeply undermined by their desertion of the EU cause.
They have other agendas, in Johnson's case, he is so desperate to become the next Tory Prime Minister, that he will do anything, espouse any cause, adopt any policy, if he believes it will ingratiate him with the Tory rump of mean-minded, mealy-mouthed, selfish and bigoted supporters of the right-wing 'Little Englander' tendency..
Nick Cohen, writing in the Guardian excoriates Bo-Jo and calls him a liar and a con-man. He says;
"...If countries get the politicians they deserve, the possibility of a Johnson premiership suggests that the British are now a nation of charlatans. No one who has studied him thinks he is telling the truth when he says he believes that it is in our best interests to leave the European Union. The reason why he must deceive reveals Johnson's low character as clearly as his casual mendacity..."
Later Cohen points out Bo-Jo's other shortcomings, identifying that;
"...Any man with a functioning sense of shame would have worried about his long record of supporting the EU. As late as February, Johnson was saying that leaving would embroil
"...the government for several years in a fiddly process of negotiating new arrangements, so diverting energy from the real problems of this country...". And so it would. Elsewhere he acknowledged that we would not get free trade without accepting EU regulation and immigration..."
I have adopted the image of Don Quixote for Bo-Jo, as a means of illustrating his tendency to see enemies where none exist, but which nonetheless, permits him to imagine them to serve his own ends. Cervantes describes how Quixote tilts at windmills which he imagines are giants.
"...Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, "Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. With their spoils we shall begin to be rich for this is a righteous war and the removal of so foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a service God will bless."
"What giants?" asked Sancho Panza.
"Those you see over there," replied his master, "with their long arms. Some of them have arms well nigh two leagues in length."
John Major had a word for these kind of people, coined in his nightmare moment during the debate on the Maastricht Treaty, he called them 'bastards', and he was right.
These people are happy to take everything out of the Union which they think will profit the themselves, but they do not want to part with one brass razoo, or make one penny contribution which they perceive might be of any benefit to any other EU citizens. That is why the debate so often polarises around the amount of money we pay to Brussels as our contribution, but never seems to recognise the amount we get back from the EU in wider benefits.
The debate is all about 'us', it is rarely if ever about 'all of us'. It is a discussion centred in the narrowest self-interest and a refusal to consider the wider benefit of other people in Europe with whom we must co-exist, co-operate and correspond if we anticipate a beneficial future, and it is an argument arrayed by a group of people who seem to know the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.
This state of mind flows over into discussions of wider policy and distorts the ambitions of those who want to leave.
On 11th March 2016, Bo-Jo, when talking about EU trade options, opined; "...What I think we should do is strike a new free trade deal, along the lines of what Canada has just achieved..."
However, within days, on 23rd March 2016, having realised that the Canadian model had significant drawbacks, the great windmill charger was saying; "...I don't want to imitate the Canadian deal..."
Well, what is it Boris, make your mind up, man. Your legions of supporters are hanging on your every word!
What politicians of this type forget is that their intemperate mouthings become perceived 'words of wisdom' to a certain kind of voter, and those who espouse the 'Let's all leave now' brand of political chicanery, take these words at face value. And in so doing, they are very badly served.
Johnson and his fellow travellers should realise, (indeed I suspect that they know only too well) that by creating a set of misguided expectations and raising a number of false flags among the intellectually challenged, they will create a distorted political agenda, which will be seized upon, and used as justification for even louder demands for leaving the EU.
Take such concepts as 'securing our borders', or 'retaining our own sovereignty'!
Do those who parrot these hackneyed old mantras truly believe that any meaningful changes will be generated by clinging to these worn-out shibboleths? Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, albeit 17 years ago, has said that by being out of the EU we would have greater control over our ability to deport criminals.
What utter tosh, only last week the Home Office was forced to admit, in a report from MPs on the Committee of Public Accounts, who said there had been a "complete failure" by the Home Office to deal with the problem of removing foreign criminals from this country. This has got nothing to do with the EU, it is our own home grown failure to deal with the problem through lack of staff and political incompetence and it is about to get worse as the Government withdraws even further funding from the Borders Agency.
Politicians who continue to use these phrases, perpetuating these untruths, as a means of dragging in support from the uncertain and the insecure, are laying the groundwork for future disappointment and disillusion, but why should they care, as long as they get their own way?
And that is the major problem. Our whole debate on the EU Referendum is badly distorted and ill-informed. There is great disagreement over even the smallest issues, we cannot discuss our future inside or outside the EU because of the polarised attitudes of the Brexit promoters who form opinions and deliver judgements based upon no knowledge, information, facts or logic. They can do no less, because they have no evidence on which to act or judge, so everything they postulate must be the worst form of hypothesis, or worse, prejudice, inflamed and inflated by the intemperate words of the mendacious politicians who seek to use the voters to do their dirty work for them in the hope that they will deliver a result which while it may be of end-use to the politicos, will serve no useful purpose for the individual voter in the longer run..
Those of us who keenly promote the EU status-quo do so because we know what we get from our membership. We have got 40 years of experience to work on and we can recite the benefits that accrue to us through our membership. We have facts, and knowledge, the Brexiteers have an empty vacuum, and in that unpopulated space, confusion is inevitably generated.
Through all this uncertainty and doubt, this huge confusion exists in the minds of many hundreds of thousands of people. Every night the news programmes are crammed with commentators debating and disagreeing. The politicians slink around the studios, pushing their competing agendas, more and more conflicting statements are made, the tv pundits float more and more misleading assertions as a means of promoting 'edgy' debate, and the public are left even more confused than ever.
This doubt is not just felt in the UK, it is also felt, most keenly, in the EU. There is almost universal unwillingness among our other fellow EU members to see the UK leave the Union, but at the same time, there is significant dissatisfaction and frustration at the British Brexit posturing over their future membership status.
In the last week I wrote an opinion piece in which I pointed out that it was not surprising that at a time of significant upheaval, when ordinary people's minds were being distracted by this hugely unnecessary disagreement over our EU membership, and that the communities of the EU more generally were being conflicted by these debates, that ISIS terrorists should choose to 'seize the time' and engage in a series of 'Situationist' style outrages and attacks.
Terrorists are arch masters at exploiting insecurity and indecision. Their actions are not necessarily intended to have any specific pre-programmed outcome, they will, in many cases, conduct operations simply to amplify instability, to take advantage of any perceived lacuna in security, to exploit any weakness or agitate any form of distraction in the body politic.
It is done with the primary aim of asserting their autonomy, of demonstrating their ability to hit at any place and at any time. In a way, terrorism of this type is defined as 'theatre', designed to send a series of messages and to sow the seeds of confusion, doubt and uncertainty, and these latest outrages in Paris and Brussels have certainly succeeded in achieving those ends.
I have no qualm in asserting that the level of disinformation and political chicanery which has been practised by unscrupulous politicians who have deliberately manipulated the mind-sets of hundreds of thousands of British citizens, has had a direct knock-on effect in rendering a level of instability and uncertainty to thrive and this has led directly to a situation where we are placed at greater risk because of the likelihood of terrorists seeking to exploit the unsettled situation created by these unscrupulous politicians, around an issue which is of such importance to so all of us.
The Referendum offered by David Cameron is completely unnecessary, and has merely been introduced as a feeble exercise by an uncertain politician in a futile attempt to get his right-wing rump of backbenchers off his case. It has backfired spectacularly and we are now faced with a period of huge instability, insecurity and uncertainty, pending the outcome.
The end result will be to generate even more silliness.
It is in circumstances such as these that our politicians must realise that their casual words cannot be sprayed around indiscriminately. They influence people, and in a febrile atmosphere, where there is very little information or evidence on which to make an informed decision about leaving the EU, they owe a greater duty of care to choose their words with caution, and not unnecessarily arouse false expectations.
Listening to so many of these commentators talking about the UK status in Europe after Brexit. I get the overriding impression of a man deciding to divorce his wife, all the while congratulating himself that he will not have to pay her any more housekeeping money, which he will be able to spend on himself.
The Judge, not unreasonably points out that while this may be true, he's going to award the wife a similar sum for maintenance, which the man must pay, if he wants to see his children "What's more", says the judge, you must stay on your side of the fence and if you want to go to your wife's house to see your children, you will have to get special permission in writing to be allowed in before you go. However, if strangers and friends of your wife want to come to your house, you will still have to answer the door and spend time and effort deciding if they can come in, which will take time and cost you more money.
The man says; "...Well, I will be financially worse off by getting this divorce, I will gain no benefit..."
"...Yes..." says the judge. Perhaps you should have thought of that before you started this nonsense in the first place.
Perhaps those who are campaigning so hard for the rest of us to leave our responsibilities in the EU, should first consider the words of the poet John Donne when he wrote in 1624;
"...No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee..." John Donne, Meditation XVII
The politicians are doing none of us any good service by their weasel words and their fantasies. They are causing great dissension, and they do not have the best interests of UK plc in mind!
Let us debate the EU issue with all the powers at our disposal, but let us do so armed with facts, with informed views and with logic. Let us do so above all, with good grace, and with good manners.
If you are unable to adopt these simple requirements, please do not bother to engage on this site, I respect your right to hold your views, but I don't have to read them on my own web page. If you want to be abusive, rude and intemperate, then go and do it on another page of your own.


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ACA now faces contraception test
President Barack Obama's health reform law has cleared its biggest obstacle to date — Obama's reelection — but a wave of lawsuits means a new hurdle is quickly taking shape.
Dozens of lawsuits have been filed challenging the law's requirement that employers cover contraceptives in their health insurance policies, arguing that it's a violation of their right to exercise their religion without government interference. In recent days, two developments have emerged that show the challenge could get significant attention from the courts.
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Two District Court judges have granted preliminary injunctions to block the mandate from going into effect for private, nonreligious companies. (One judge has denied a preliminary injunction request.) And just last week, the Justice Department said it wouldn't object to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals taking up a case against the requirement — along with other pieces of the law.
This legal challenge poses little threat to the law's infrastructure, unlike the challenge to the individual mandate, which would have ripped out a significant piece of the law. And it's too early to judge the ultimate success of this test. But if the Supreme Court case against the individual mandate demonstrated anything, it's that even an ultimately unsuccessful legal challenge can pose quite a distraction.
"I think you'll see this issue really mushroom" because the government is appealing the injunctions, and the district cases will move soon, said Kevin Walsh, a University of Richmond law professor who was a clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia.
Opponents of the law argue that while the mandate to cover contraceptives requires some employers to violate their religious beliefs, forbidding the use of contraceptives or abortion-inducing drugs, the Obama administration argues that the requirement is "narrowly tailored to serve two compelling government interests" — to improve the health of women and children and to promote gender equality. The administration argues that with contraceptive coverage without a co-pay, women can choose to be part of the workforce "on an equal playing field with men."
The Justice Department also says that when a person opens a commercial business, he or she cannot impose their religious beliefs on employees.
As soon as this month, the Supreme Court is expected to grant a request filed by Liberty University to tell the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear Liberty's challenge to the contraceptives requirement as well as the requirements for employers in the health law. They are the remaining parts of a lawsuit filed in 2010 against the individual mandate.
If the court approves the request, the 4th Circuit could hear the case as soon as early next year. Liberty University lawyers predict that if they lose, they could appeal to the Supreme Court shortly afterward, with arguments in the high court in late 2013.
And the school very well could lose. Standard practice in the 4th Circuit is that if a case is reheard, it goes before the same panel of judges again, according to attorneys familiar with the Richmond-based court. The three judges who heard Liberty's case against the individual mandate — all appointed by Democratic presidents — ruled that a tax law prevented them from ruling on the merits. One judge said he would have upheld the law, and another hinted that he would have.
And this winter, many of the other cases could move forward in the district courts as well.
Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia who specializes in religious liberty, said the sheer number of different cases against the contraception requirement — there are now more than 35 — means the issue has a good chance of ending up at the Supreme Court.


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Secure Anonymity with JonDo Live and VMware (or VMware Player)
If you're like me you're a decent law-abiding citizen who feels that privacy is a fundamental right, not merely something we enjoyed by default because technology had not yet found a way to eliminate it. Fortuntely, technology brings us both problems and solutions. One such solution is JonDo, a popular and somewhat proven anonymous proxy service. This article will show you how to create a secure, anonymous browsing platform to ensure your right to free thought and inquiry preserved.
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First we need to take the ISO of the JonDo Live CD and turn it into a virtual machine. I'll walk you through those steps. It's important to note that we are not creating a persistent install here, that's beyond the scope of this article and with JonDo still being beta I'm not sure I'd recommend it. The install we are building will let you make changes to the file system but those changes would be lost when the virtual machine is rebooted. We're going to cheat a little and use VMware's snapshot feature to lock in any file system changes we want, and use VMware's host-guest shared folders to let us make some file system changes effectively persistent. But all that is to come after we do the basics!
- Download the latest JonDo Live CD
- Verify the hash of the file you downloaded with the MD5 hash listed on the download page. I recommend Hash Tab for Windows or Mac users.
- Create a new virtual machine in VMware.
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- Click "Customize Hardware".
- I increased the memory to 1 GB
- I added a second CD ROM drive, defined as an ISO pointing to the VMware Tools (e.g., C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\linux.iso (if you do this you may need to set the drive as initially not connected otherwise VMware might try to boot off this cdrom device instead of the one with the live image, depending on how VMware orders the drives, you will then just need to connect the drive from the VMware lower toolbar once you've booted into the OS)
- I removed the floppy drive
- I set the Network Adapter as Bridged with replicate physical network connection state.
- After leaving the customize hardware screen, uncheck the power on after finishing option.
- (Optional) I now "Edit Virtual Machine Settings" and on the Options tab I go to "Shared Folders" and create a share which is "Always enabled"; I called my share "shared". Reminder, this Live CD VM is not a persistent install, so this is where you can keep files/settings/etc. you don't want to risk losing.
- Power on this Virtual Machine
- When you get to the boot menu choose the "486" option (not failsafe, not 686, and not anything with PAE)
- When you boot it may say you have no network connection, click the network icon in the task bar and choose "Auto Ethernet". You should now have a network connection.
Begin Using JonDo
Your JonDo Live VMware virtual machine is now ready to use!
If you've never used JonDo before the most basic thing you need to know is that you need to start up the JonDo proxy before you can start your web browsing. To do that just click on the "JonDo" icon. This will connect you to the JonDo servers. If you don't have a premium account you'll be given free access, but be warned the free service is extremely slow, and anonymity protection is slightly reduced because your data travels through only two mix servers instead of three. I strongly recommend you upgrade to premium, because otherwise you will become so frustrated waiting for pages to load that you will abandon anonymous browsing. Once JonDo has successfully connected you can start Firefox. The version of Firefox included here is configured with plugins that enhance your privacy by controlling the use of things like JavaScript, Java, Flash, Ads, and Cookies. Many sites will not work without allowing features such as cookies and JavaScript for those sites, so be warned you may need to adjust these settings as you browse and discover things aren't working. It is important to allow as little as possible!
Before you go and do a lot of anonymous browsing you really should install the VMware Tools, it will greatly enhance your overall experience of this virtual JonDo machine.
Install VMware Tools (optional)
You are perfectly free at this point to use your JonDo Live virtual machine, but the beauty of VMware is its ability to allow you to flit between host and guest operating systems, effortlessly moving your mouse, sharing your clipboard, exchanging files, and resizing the display.
These steps are a little annoying but a few hours of my working through the issues will hopefully make it easy enough for you. The reason we can't just directly install the VMware Tools is because it has dependencies which are not fulfilled by the JonDo Live image as delivered.
- Go to a terminal window (click the terminal icon on the bottom task bar).
- Type "sudo bash" to get a root shell.
- Type "apt-get install make"
- Type "apt-get install gcc-4.1"
- Type "apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`". If you get the error "can't find any package" then the linux headers for your kernel version may no longer be in the repository, you'll need to find a repository that has it and add that to the /etc/apt/sources.list. If you got an error related to not finding something needed for the install then run "apt-get update" to update its list of packages and re-run the install of linux headers. (See below for more info if you are having trouble with finding the appropriate kernel header sources.)
- Type "apt-get install psmisc"
- On the Desktop right click the "VMware Tools" CD icon and select "Mount". Its contents will now be located as "/media/VMware Tools"
- Type "cp /media/VMware Tools/VMwareTools-8.4.8-491717.tar.gz /tmp" to copy the tools archive to the /tmp directory (modify the file name as needed to accommodate future versions)
- Type "cd /tmp"
- Type "gunzip VMwareTools-8.4.8-491717.tar.gz"
- Type "tar xvf VMwareTools-8.4.8-491717.tar"
- Type "cd VMwareTools-8.4.8-491717"
- Type "./vmware-install.pl" to begin the installer
- Choose the defaults for everything they ask (just hit enter/return each time)
- When it is finished type "/usr/bin/vmware-user" to start up the VMware Tools
Congratulations! You now have the VMware Tools installed.
Your shared folder is available inside the JonDo VM at "/mnt/hgfs/shared".
Additional Kernel Header Sources
On a recent update of my JonDo Live environment I found that the kernel headers were removed from the default repository and I couldn't seem to find it anywhere... After some hours I figured out how to solve the problem. You can manually find the Debian packages for linux headers and then manually install them. The site which has these archived repositories http://snapshot.debian.org, which you can use to see into the past by specifying a date/time combination to navigate the archive.
The way I located the files I needed probably isn't the best, but here's what I did. First, I navigate to the root of the dated repository. For example, http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20120806T041225Z/ shows the repository state on August 6th, 2012. This date was soon after the release of the kernel version I had (found with uname -a). There are two Debian packages for Linux headers, the "common" and then the architecture specific one. You will need to manually download both of those files and then manually install them.
First I found the Packages.bz2 file which lists all the various packages. You'll need to download, uncompress, and view this file. My dated one was located here: http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20120806T041225Z/dists/wheezy/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2. Manually search that file for a package called linux-headers-3.2.0-3-486 (substitute your `uname -r` entry for the OS version I mention). You will see a path there that corresponds to a location off the root (e.g., http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20120806T041225Z/). That package has a dependency on the "common" header library, so we now need to find that one. Looking again in Packages.bz2 I found the entry for "linux-headers-3.2.0-3-common" (modify for the version you have) and then download the package from the location indicated. Once you have them downloaded you manually install them. Install each by running the "dpkg -i PACKAGENAME.DEB" command, start with the "common" package.
Once you install both packages you can proceed to step 6 above!
Making your Environment Persistent (Optional)
After you've gotten everything configured, including importing your existing JonDo account info or creating your premium account, you want to save the configuration work you've done so you won't lose it if the virtual machine reboots. All you need to do is use the "VM" menu, click the "Snapshot" menu item, then choose "Take Snapshot". As you likely know, this allows you to return to this exact state of the machine at any future time, complete with the file system, memory, display, etc. exactly as it was at this moment. Instead of booting or rebooting your JonDo VM you can just revert to this snapshot. Any files you wish to be persistent and not see reverted or erased you should put in the shared folder you could have optionally created. For example, I keep things like downloaded files, bookmarks, my JonDo exported credentials, etc. in this shared location (e.g., /mnt/hgfs/shared).
Securing your Data Locally (Optional)
To further ensure your privacy you can (and probably should) make sure your virtual machine files (the files VMware uses to store your VM data) are encrypted, either the files themselves (using Windows built-in encryption option) or, better still, by placing the entire directory inside an encrypted virtual drive, with such products as the free TrueCrypt. Be aware, however, that when you use your virtual machine its RAM will be held in your real, physical RAM and as such it can and will be stored in the host's Windows pagefile.sys, where it could potentially be recovered much later, having been written to disk. The solution in this case is to encrypt your entire system disk with TrueCrypt, such that the swap file is also encrypted or to use an encryption product like Jetico's container encryption which includes swap file encryption as an option.
It is sad that it's come to this, that we honorable, law-abiding citizens must defend ourselves against the unreasonable invasion of our thoughts and study of our activities, but wishing it was not so accomplishes little. Hopefully this little guide will have helped you take back some of your privacy.
^ Quinxy
Running Google Android 2.2 on Your PC with VMware in Less than 5 Minutes
If you're serious about playing around with Android I urge you to check out my article on how you can convert a $249 Barnes & Noble Nook Color e-reader into a full Android tablet! I just did it and it's turning out to be one of the coolest gadgets I've had!
Tonight I wanted to play around with the Google Android OS for mobile devices, but having neither an Android tablet or phone I was forced to investigate how I could run it on my computer. I found the answer I was looking for and succeeded in running it on my PC. And here is my super quick guide on how you can do it, too.
Step 0.
You will need the virtual machine software VMware Player or VMware Workstation. If you don't have either, you can download and install VMware Player for free.
Step 1.
Grab the Android Live ISO, the one to use is the Asus Eee PC version. (I tried the generic version and it wouldn't even boot under VMware.) You can navigate to the latest version here or just use this direct link for the 2.2 version.
Step 2.
Configure the VMware Player or VMware Workstation options for this VM. You want to choose:
- CD/DVD pointed at the ISO file you just downloaded for Android
- 512 MB memory
- Any network setting should work (BUT, you will need to follow the instructions in step 3)
- Sound card should be changed to "SB X-Fi Audio"
- 2 GB IDE hard disk (optional)
Step 3.
With the VM powered off, modify the .vmx file that VMware created using a text editor. You MUST change the existing line to now read:
ethernet0.virtualDev = "vlance"
If you don't make this change you will have no network access in Android!
Step 4.
Power on the Android VM and from the bootloader screen choose the first option and everything should work!
Making it Permanent
The above works great for getting a feel for Android, but because this is a "live" version of Android using a ram disk for temporary storage, all your changes will be lost when you shutdown or reboot. To make your environment permanent it's actually very easy:
- Reboot the virtual machine (Power > Reset in VMware)
- Choose the "Install to hard disk" option from the bootloader
- Create a single primary partition in the partition editor, using all available space. Make the partition bootable. Quit the partition editor.
- Allow it to install the OS to the selected partition, using ext3.
- Allow the installer to use Grub as your boot loader.
- Do not attempt to create a virtual SD card (I didn't investigate how this works, so when I tried it it appeared to overwrite the OS I just wrote to disk. So don't do this unless you know what you're doing.)
- Choose to Run Android x86 when asked.
And now you've got a permanent Android x86 virtual machine!
Certain features are not supported by Android x86, primarily those applications which require devices missing from the virtual machine (e.g., the camera). Other applications such as the YouTube application appear to work except that it does not seem to play videos; I suspect this may have to do with specific hardware acceleration missing from the virtualization. Also, see the many debugging and virtualization related options in the app list; you can do things like spoof geolocation. While limited in some respects, this is an excellent tool for testing and debugging your web and mobile apps on Android.
Have fun playing around with it!
^ Quinxy
The New Virtual Machine Way to Migrate your Old PC
Buying a new computer should be a joyous event, whipping all the geeky portions of the brain into delighted merriment. But those geeky neurons can sometimes barely crack a smile, knowing what's in store for them, days upon days of mental effort wasted on a dreaded migration of applications and data accumulated over many years. But, my friends, there is a new and wonderful way to migrate your PC! In less than a day you can shelve your old PC, having moved everything flawlessly to your new PC! The secret? The virtual machine!
Instead of the old methods of manually copying your data and reinstalling your old applications or using automated tools of varying (but always failing) quality to assist, this new approach converts your old system into a virtual machine that will run inside your new machine exactly as it had. All your data and all your applications will work just as they had because the old computer's entire hard disk, operating system, applications, and data were moved. And because everything is by default encapsulated within this virtual machine, you won't clutter up your beautiful new machine with old software meant for a now antiquated operating system, nor will you be forced to buy upgrades to that old software to get it to work in your new operating system. It is as flawless a migration solution as you can expect in the Windows world.
As beautiful as this solution is, there are a few issues of which you need to be made aware. Since your old hard drive is being copied to your new computer you will be giving up that space on the new computer, but only an amount equivalent to the used portion on the old computer's disks. This usually isn't a serious problem since your technology evolves rapidly and your new computer probably has vastly more space than you'll actually use any time soon. Since your old computer is being run inside a virtual machine you may see a change in performance, relative to what you experienced being on the old physical machine. Advances in computing power and disk speed may actually make the experience better, but with two computers, one physical and one virtual, competing for one set of physical resources (memory, disk, and CPU) performance can be a real problem if you're not sensible about what you're trying to do.
In this series of articles I'll discuss how to do a migration with a virtual machine running under the free VMware Player and its more sophisticated but costly VMware Workstation. While there are a few commercial products which do sell themselves as easy solutions to this very problem of migrating your old PC into your new PC via virtualization, the many reviews of those products have not impressed me; I have used VMware for many years now and been perpetually impressed by the quality of their products and by the large support community available should things go wrong.
Quick Guide to Virtualizing Your Old Computer
For those who want the synopsis and do not need a detailed walk through or notes on getting the most from your set up I'll describe the process very briefly. In the next article I'll discuss recommendations for moving certain content outside of your old machine before building the virtual machine, optimizations you can ultimately make to ensure the virtual machine is as speedy as it can be, creating the most seamless experience with VMware's Unity feature and sharing options, and more.
Step 1: Backup Your Computer
Do not proceed if you aren't going to back up your computer. Seriously. Backups are a pain and will take hours to run, but you are about to do something very, very serious. While you probably won't have any problems, you'd be a fool not to obviate a potential disaster. I strongly recommend Acronis True Image Home. I have used them for years and it's fantastically good software for a really good price ($49); this is not a sponsored recommendation, this is my opinion.
Step 2: Build Your Virtual Machine Image
VMware has a free product called VMware Converter which lets you build a VMware compatible image you will move to your new computer and run with their WMware Player or VMware Workstation products.
VMware Converter will run build the VM image while letting you continue to use Windows but I strongly recommend you leave it running overnight and not use the computer during this time. Since you will of course need a great deal of disk space for this image, and since there will be a lot of disk access, it's far better to use an external drive. By using an external drive you reduce disk contention during the creation of the VM image and you make it dead simple to move the VM image to the new computer. I've had good luck with the Western Digital My Book drives. If you've got a new PC which supports USB 3.0 I'd strongly recommend you buy a drive which supports 3.0 (it will also support your old computer's 2.0 interface); you'll appreciate the hours you will ultimately save with this much faster drive.
When you're ready, download VMware Converter. Run it, and follow its instructions.
Step 3: Install VMware on the New PC
You will need to install the free VMware Player or the paid VMware Workstation on your new PC. Download one of those and install it. VMware Player is sufficient for almost everyone but developers or software testers.
Step 4: Copy your Virtual Machine Disk to the New PC
From the location where you created the virtual machine disk with the VMware Converter, hopefully an external drive, copy the relevant folder to your new PC. VMware uses a folder to house all the related files of a virtual machine and it is this folder, not just any single file in it, that you'll need to copy. Choose any location you like on the new machine, but for sanity's sake you may wish to use the default location VMware uses (My Virtual Machines in the My Documents folder of the home directory of the user who created the virtual machines). I recommend copying instead of moving so that you can recopy in case anything goes wrong when you first try to get the new image working.
Step 5: Boot Your Virtual Old PC
Start VMware Player or VMware Workstation on your new PC and run the virtual machine image you built of your old PC. You may encounter a few hiccups during your initial use of this virtual machine, so be prepared for some possible frustration and head scratching.
The first thing that might happen is you might be asked whether you moved or copied the virtual machine image. While either is a safe option, you may wish to choose "moved" if this is the final resting place of the virtual machine; if you choose copy it recreates some unique identifiers in the image, including things like network card MAC address.
If you have trouble booting up your virtualized system one of the first things to try is booting it into safe mode (by hitting F8 as soon as Windows starts to boot) and go into the driver section of the Computer Management Console and remove any unusable legacy drivers which don't apply to your current system, in particular the video drivers; other drives to look at for removal are disk controller drivers for physical disk controllers you had in your old system, as well as sound card drivers for a device which was only physically in the old computer. Try removing these drivers one at a time and rebooting. And only remove drivers which truly don't apply to the new virtual system, your virtual machine will have video, disk controller, sound card, and other drivers which are virtualized, so leave those untouched; I am only recommending removing those drivers which are still in the system but which the system cannot use and may be causing trouble. If you make things worse, don't worry, that's why I recommended copying the files from your external drive. All you need to do is shut down the VMware software and recopy the files to go back to where you were and start again. Another option worth pursuing if your computer can't even boot into safe mode is to use the phenomenal and free Autoruns program to edit the drivers, services, and start up programs of a running or offline computer. You would need to mount the virtual disk from the dead computer and then run Autoruns as Admininstrator and choose the File > Analyze Offline System... menu item.
If you still have problems booting your system after removing drivers you should seek help in the support forums at VMware; they are very helpful and should solve any remaining problems.
And voila, your old PC has now been successfully placed inside your new computer, ready to use any time you want with all your old software and data! You can now manually migrate only the data and applications you want from the virtual old PC to the new one, and you can do it at whatever pace you like, because it's all there.
Don't forget to wipe your old computer's hard drive before donating or storing it; if your computer has a special boot mode which allows it to re-image itself, make sure you safely wipe the partition where your data lived before re-imaging it!


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As the courtroom battle between department stores Macy's and J.C. Penney heats up, Martha Stewart will win no matter what, said the former chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
"I've thought about it a lot obviously, and I think however it ends up, I think Martha is going to win," said Charles Koppelman, the company's former chairman. "If it ends up where she has product at Macy's and J.C. Penney, that's a good thing."
What's most important for the domestic diva's company is to get back to business and expand the brand, Koppelman told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street."
The initial deal between Macy's and Martha Stewart's company was brokered during Koppelman's seven-year tenure as chairman. He currently owns about 1.1 million shares, a larger stake than even Stewart.


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Let the Battle for Beltran Begin
Free-agent slugger Carlos Beltran is in Kansas City meeting with the Royals front office. The club is hoping for a big-bang reunion with Beltran, who began his career in Kansas City in 1998. He was traded to the Astros during the 2004 season. He batted .287 and compiled a .835 OPS for the Royals. Most impressively he produced four seasons of 100 runs and 100 RBI in a five-year span from 1999-2003. Beltran arrived in Kansas City on Monday and is staying through Tuesday to meet with club officials and listen to the Royals' pitch to have a homecoming with the right fielder. The Royals most likely will need to be willing to go to three years to sign Beltran. The Mariners also have a big interest in adding a bat like Beltran's and are expected to make a serious offer to Beltran to get him to be their designated hitter. ESPN reported Beltran has a three-year offer on the table for $48 million, though it did not specify which team made such an offer.
The leader in the Beltran sweepstakes is the Yankees because of their payroll and chances to make the playoffs. The main reason Beltran is still a major free agent at the ago of 36 is because he brings a clutch bat that can push these teams into the playoffs. The Royals have seen in first hand how important Beltran can be in a lineup. One thing they haven't been able to see is what he can do with hitters around him such as Billy Butler and Alex Gordon. Signing Beltran will help Butler and Gordon's RBI numbers because Beltran gives protection to the middle of the lineup. At some point fans and front office executives will have to worry about carrying two designated hitters on the same team in aging Beltran and Butler. The Royals may be able to play Beltran in right field for this season but in 2015 he will be most effective as a DH. I personally wanted the Royals to pull the trigger for Dexter Fowler for one of the relievers. This trade made sense because the Royals needed another outfielder and had a surplus of relievers. The Astros were able to jump on the low asking price the Rockies put out there on Fowler. The best-case scenario would be the Royals sign Beltran and in 2015 they decide to move Butler for a needed piece at that time. The only way this signing makes the Royals better is if both Butler and Beltran are in the lineup together for the first two years. In addition, if the Royals can't make that work, the return for Butler should be high because of his consistency at the plate. While the Royals will lose their draft pick to the Cardinals for signing Beltran, they will gain a draft pick from who ever signs Ervin Santana. Lastly, The Royals lineup next year will look like this… LF Gordon, RF Beltran, 1B Hosmer, DH Butler, C Perez, CF Cain, 3B Moustakas, SS Escobar, 2B TBD. This lineup now puts fear in opposing pitching staffs. If the Royals are able to sign Carlos Beltran it will most likely be their biggest free agent signing since David Cone. The cheers at opening day when Beltran takes the field will be the loudest I will hear at the K in my short life so far.
Spencer Montgomery
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Britain appeals to U.S. for 'swift' release of Guantanamo detainee
LONDON — Britain has asked the U.S. for the immediate release of a former British resident who's now on a hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, and the Obama administration has agreed to a "priority" review, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Wednesday.
The furor in Britain has put the Obama administration in an awkward position. President Barack Obama ordered a review of the more than 200 detainees still being held at Guantanamo within days of his inauguration three weeks ago, but he has yet to create a mechanism for releasing them.
Miliband said the Obama administration had yet to decide on the case of Binyam Mohamed, but he said that Britain and the U.S. would continue to work together "to achieve a swift resolution."
Mohamed's case has become a major embarrassment to the British government. He alleged that he'd been tortured in Morocco at the behest of the U.S. government, with U.S. and British intelligence officials taking part in the interrogations.
Attorneys for Mohamed have said that classified U.S. documents prove that he was tortured and demonstrated British complicity in the process. The British government has said it was unable to release the documents after the U.S. warned that any such action would jeopardize intelligence sharing between the two countries.
The White House on Wednesday refused to discuss Mohamed's prospects for release. A senior administration official confirmed that the U.S. was talking to British officials about Mohamed's status and "have greatly appreciated the efforts of our British allies." The official spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the case.
"We are working as fast and hard as we can to secure Mr. Mohamed's release from Guantanamo and return to the U.K.," Miliband said in his statement. "Following our representations, the U.S. administration have now agreed that Mr. Mohamed's case should be treated as a priority in this process. We continue to work with the U.S. to achieve a swift resolution."
Miliband issued his statement after meeting Mohamed's lawyer, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley. He also said the U.S. government agreed to let a British delegation visit Mohamed "as soon as possible." A police doctor will be part of the delegation to assess Mohamed's health and fitness to travel.
Bradley told a parliamentary committee that she understands Mohamed's case is now "number one, will be on top, will be the first case for expedited review" by the Obama administration, which has pledged to close Guantanamo.
Bradley, who's in London this week pressing British politicians to demand her client's immediate release, said that he's been on a hunger strike since Dec. 29 and is being force-fed along with other inmates. When she saw Mohamed two weeks ago, "His arms were thin as twigs," she said. If he isn't released soon, Bradley said, she fears that he'll leave Guantanamo either "insane" or "in a coffin."
Mohamed, who was born in Ethiopia, reportedly underwent training at an al Qaida camp.
He was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 while trying to board a plane for London. American officials claimed that he'd been recruited by al Qaida and was involved in a conspiracy to launch attacks in the U.S. Mohamed has charged that he was held in several countries between 2002 and 2004 — including Pakistan and Morocco, where he said he was tortured — before he was sent to Guantanamo in 2004.
At a day of media events Wednesday, another member of Mohamed's legal team, Clive Stafford Smith, who's also the director of the human-rights group Reprieve, charged that there's a "conspiracy" among governments to cover up the truth.
David Davis, a Conservative member of Parliament, told reporters that earlier this week that he gave British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith — whose department is responsible for the security services — "an opportunity to deny complicity" by British intelligence officers in Mohamed's torture and interrogation. "She did not take that opportunity, it was very much a non-denial," he said.
Thanks in large part to the lobbying of Bradley and Stafford Smith on Mohamed's behalf, several parliamentary committees are probing aspects of the case. Late Tuesday, a joint committee on human rights asked Miliband, Smith and Britain's attorney general to respond by the end of next week with answers to questions about their department's handling of the Mohamed case.
It appeared that the Obama administration, which has promised openness on issues such as Guantanamo, hadn't yet agreed to release the documents in the Mohamed case that his attorneys — and the British High Court — said pertain to his torture.
Asked by McClatchy if the Obama administration was reconsidering, a Foreign Office spokesman replied: "There is no reason to think that the U.S. will have changed its position. The (National Security Council) released a statement immediately following the Court's last judgment, thanking us for our continued commitment to protect sensitive national security information and preserve the long-standing intelligence sharing relationship that exists between our countries."
(Sell is a McClatchy special correspondent. Talev reported from Washington.)
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Jersey Shore starlet Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi has been released from jail after being arrested in Seaside Heights, N.J., police tell NBC Philadelphia.
Snooki was taken into custody on the Seaside Heights beach at Fremont Avenue and then booked on charges of disorderly conduct around 3:30 p.m. Friday, officials say.
Police arrested the reality star after she was seen "acting in a disorderly manner."
Polizzi yelled enough four letter words at the officers to make a sailor blush, the New York Daily News reported. "Do you know who I am? I'm f---ing Snooki," the pint-sized reality actress told cops. "You can't do this to me - I'm f---ing Snooki. You guys are going to be sorry for this - release me!"
Entertainment blog TMZ has photos of Snooki pouring what appeared to be Coca-Cola into a beer bong on the Seaside Heights boardwalk before her arrest. They also have video of her falling off a bicycle in front of a store before her arrest.
Several members of the popular reality show's cast -- including Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino -- quickly made their way to the town's jail to visit their cast mate.
Less than an hour after Snooki's arrest, fellow cast member Jenni "J-WOWW" Farley tweeted she was "on her way" to spring her friend from jail. A Twitter hashtag of #FreeSnooki quickly made its way across the Twittersphere following news of the star's detainment.
Snooki was released from custody sometime around 7 p.m. Friday.
Throngs of fans screamed her name as she walked out of the police station with other members of the show's cast -- including J-WOWW, Vinny Guadagnino and Paulie DelVecchio.
J-WOWW proudly sported a pink "Free Snooki" tank as she hopped into the crew's black Cadillac Escalade.
Snooki's arrest comes just a day after the Jersey Shore crew started filming Season 3 of the popular MTV series. Season 2 also just premiered on the network Thursday.
Controversy has followed Jersey Shore and its cast since the reality show debuted on MTV in 2009. Producers have been blasted by affinity groups for portraying Italian-Americans in a poor light.
More recently, the show's cast has been at odds with New Jersey's governor. Gov. Chris Christie said the show damages the Garden State's image.
"What it does is takes a bunch of New Yorkers… drops them at the Jersey Shore and tries to make America feel like this is New Jersey," Gov. Christie told ABC's Jake Tapper on This Week last Sunday. "I can tell people: they want to know what New Jersey really is? I welcome them to come to New Jersey any time."
The self-proclaimed guidos and guidettes fired back on the TODAY Show Monday saying it doesn't matter where they call home.
"Our show is about coming to the shore and having a good time. We don't have to be from Jersey," Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi said. Snooki is from Marlboro, N.Y.
When asked if Gov. Christie had anything to say about Snooki's arrest, his office declined comment.
The disorderly conduct charge is a misdemeanor and does not carry bail. Snooki was issued a summons to appear in court on August 18.


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Yahoo Starts Facebook Connect Roll-Out with E-Mail Integration
Yahoo on Thursday started a slow roll-out of its integration with Facebook Connect by allowing users to import e-mail addresses from the social networking site.
"In addition to importing your contacts from sites like Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail, starting this week you can now easily add your Facebook friends' email addresses to your Yahoo contacts list," Yahoo wrote in a blog post.
Yahoo announced in December that it would link up to Facebook Connect in 2010, a move that will eventually let members check their Facebook statuses from the Yahoo Mail inbox, and access Facebook features across other Yahoo properties, like News, Answers, and Sports.
This first phase will allow you to access Facebook contacts on Yahoo. "Maybe you want to forward your cousin your airplane reservations on Yahoo Mail, but you've never emailed him before. Now you can type the first few letters of his name in Yahoo Mail and—presto!—his email address from his Facebook profile will appear in your email," Yahoo said.
To access this feature, sign into your Yahoo account, and select Contacts from the drop-down menu on the main page. Find the "import your contacts from another provider to Yahoo" link and click on that. Select Facebook and follow the prompts.


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Studying abroad in the United States is both exciting and rewarding. Pursuing your academic and professional goals in a country so filled with opportunity —it is an experience that will enrich your education, your career and your life.
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Point Park University is a comprehensive university in the U.S. that offers a unique and exceptional education. Located in the heart of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — a safe, inexpensive and international-friendly city, and named "The Most Livable U.S. City" by Forbes, The Economist and Rand McNally — Point Park offers an active, professional, real-world education, unlike any other in the U.S.
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We could be heroes
September 30, 2009
The old scoreboard from Stradey Park - lasting memories of Llanelli's triumph over the All Blacks © Getty Images
Saracens have become the latest Guinness Premiership side to announce a fixture against the touring Springboks, joining Leicester and Gloucester, who face the Wallabies, in taking on one of world rugby's superpowers this autumn.
Saracens will make Wembley Stadium their temporary home away from home again while the Tigers face the Springboks at the recently re-vamped Welford Road. The Wallabies stop off at Kingsholm in another throwback to the blood and thunder tour matches that dotted the amateur landscape.
With pride and Test match places at stake, tour matches elongated and invigorated tours to the northern hemisphere and legends were made of local heroes in front of small, disbelieving crowds.
In our latest Scrum Seven, we take a look back at some of the greatest club v country showdowns.
Munster 12-0 New Zealand, Thomond Park, 1978
New Zealand have never lost to Ireland, the All Blacks winning 20 Tests since the 'Originals' triumphed at Lansdowne Road in 1905. Ireland's best result came in 1973, when Tom Kiernan led a side featuring Willie-John McBride, Mike Gibson and Fergus Slattery to a 10-10 draw in Dublin.
Every man in Limerick will attest to have attended the All Blacks' only loss on Irish soil, when Munster pulled out a 12-0 triumph at Thomond Park in 1978. Winger Christy Cantillon was the hero, scoring a try, while Tony Ward converted and added a pair of drop goals. Kiernan was the coach that day, tearing into his pre-match speech.
Shay Dennison rattled All Black wing Stu Wilson's bones with an crunching tackle early on, and the tone was set for a gritty, confrontational victory. The All Blacks won their next 13 games, including a Grand Slam of Test matches for the first time. "Munster played the type of game in Limerick we set out to play ... but played it better," said gracious skipper Graham Mourie.
The men in red also defeated the Wallabies in 1992 and in 2008 agonisingly lost 18-16 to the All Blacks at Thomond Park. On that occasion, Munster's Kiwi contingent, wing Doug Howlett, centres Lifieimi Mafi and Rua Tipoki and fly-half Jeremy Manning, performed a rousing Haka prior to the game, raising the decibel levels inside the newly-renovated ground.
Llanelli 9-3 New Zealand, Stradey Park, 1972
"The day the pubs ran dry." In 1971 Carwyn James had coached the British & Irish Lions to their first, and only, Test series win on New Zealand soil. The following year his Llanelli side lined up to face the All Blacks at Stradey Park, with few expecting the great man to pull off a remarkable double.
Roy Bergiers charged down All Black scrum-half Lindsey Colling's kick and dived on the loose ball to score the only try, with Andy Hill hammering over a long-range penalty. Phil Bennett was masterful at fly-half and lock Delme Thomas was carried from the field on the shoulders of the fans who proceeded, as chronicled by Welsh songwriter Max Boyce, to drink the pubs dry.
Years later as Stradey Park was condemned to history, scrum-half Ray 'Chico' Hopkins would reminisce of the superb Bennett: "That night I not only roomed with him, I cwtched up to him and kept him warm!"
London Counties 11-9 South Africa, Twickenham, 1951
The 1951-52 Springboks were the fourth to undertake a tour of the northern hemisphere, playing 31 games including Tests against all of the Five Nations competitors. Their sole blemish came at Twickenham, where a combined London Counties side pulled off a famous 11-9 victory. With English clubs rarely getting a shot at touring sides, combined teams provided the only opportunity for English giant-killings on many tours.
The Boks were coached by the legendary Danie Craven with Hennie Muller taking over the captaincy when Basil Kenyon was injured early in the tour. Lock JRC Matthews scored Counties' try, with Alan Grimsdell (whose father played soccer for Spurs in their 1921 FA Cup-winning side) converting and landing a penalty, and Nim Hall dropping a goal.
Swansea 11-3 New Zealand, St. Helen's, 1935
St. Helen's played host to one of the most famous upsets in history in 1935, when schoolboys Haydn Tanner and Willie Davies surprised the touring All Blacks. Sixth Formers from Gowerton Grammar School, scrum-half Tanner and fly-half Davies orchestrated a famous 11-3 triumph.
The result made Swansea the first non-international side to defeat the All Blacks and also the first to beat all three of the southern hemisphere's big-hitters. Victories came over Australia in 1908 and South Africa in 1912. Wales went on to defeat the All Blacks at the National Stadium the following December, with Tanner wearing No.9 for his international debut.
All Blacks skipper Jack Manchester famously said to reporters: "Tell them we have been beaten, but don't tell them it was by a pair of schoolboys."
Swansea 21-6 Australia, St. Helen's, 1992
Fifty-four years later, St. Helen's hosted Swansea's greatest post-war triumph. Just over 10,000 fans crammed in to the ground on a wretched afternoon to watch the All Whites take on the recently-crowned World Champions, with hooker Phil Kearns leading a Wallabies side featuring John Eales and Tim Horan.
Hooker Garin Jenkins barrelled over for their first try, but it was hometown hero Scott Gibbs who stole centre stage by rounding off a fearsome move combining forwards and backs for their second.
Stuart Davies and Robert Jones were involved as the home side piled towards the line, with Gibbs gleefully accepting the scoring pass and diving over. Wales lost the following Test match 23-6, with six Swansea players in their side. Following the regionalisation of rugby, the Ospreys defeated the Wallabies 24-16 at the Liberty Stadium in 2006.
Cardiff 8-3 New Zealand, Arms Park, 1953
Wales have endured a sorry run against the All Blacks in the last 50 years; failing to win a Test match against rugby's other heartland since Bleddyn Williams, Cliff Morgan, Sid Judd and Ken Jones conspired to see off the tourists 13-8 in 1953.
Weeks earlier, in the blue and black of Cardiff, Williams had tasted victory over the same opponents. Before the game he was frank about what his side had to do, telling them, "We have got to try things; if we fail, we fail, but we have got to be different".
Different they were as alongside his great friend and centre partner Dr. Jack Matthews he masterminded an 8-3 victory. Carried from the field, beaming with pride at his beloved club's achievement, he would not have believed that fully 56 years later he would remain the last Wales skipper to have defeated the All Blacks.
Northern Division 21-9 New Zealand, Otley, 1979
Bill Beaumont took charge of the Northern Division side as they took on the All Blacks in 1979, laying the foundations for England's surprise Grand Slam triumph in the 1980 Five Nations.
Beaumont led a side featuring Roger Uttley, Peter Dixon and Tony Neary in the back-row and Steve Smith and Alan Old at half-back. Lions legend Fran Cotton packed down in the front-row. Under leaden skies and buffeted by strong winds, Smith and Old both chipped in with tries and there was a brace for Tony Bond as Graham Mourie's tourists were sent packing.
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The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge.
The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules's now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken.
Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
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"I don't want to insult Meg Wolitzer by calling her sprawling, engrossing new novel, The Interestings, her most ambitious, because throughout her 30-year career of turning out well-observed, often very funny books at a steady pace, I have no doubt she has always been ambitious. . . . But "The Interestings" is exactly the kind of book that literary sorts who talk about ambitious works . . . are talking about. . . . Wolitzer is almost crushingly insightful; she doesn't just mine the contemporary mind, she seems to invade it."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."
—Entertainment Weekly (A)
"Masterful, sweeping . . . Her clear gaze captures the intricacies of lasting friendship, enduring love, marital sacrifice, bitter squabbles, family secrets, parental angst and deep loss. Though the story hops back and forth in time, it is rarely confusing, frequently funny and always engaging. . . . A story that feels real and true and more than fulfills the promise of the title. It is interesting, yes, but also moving, compelling, fascinating, and rewarding."
—Miami Herald