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China's CCTV surveillance network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter Jon Russell,TechCrunch It took Chinese authorities just seven minutes to locate and apprehend BBC reporter John Sudworth using its powerful network of CCTV camera and facial recognition technology. This wasn't a case of a member of the media being forcibly removed from the country. The chase was a stunt set up to illustrate just how powerful and effective the Chinese government's surveillance system can be. It's a stark example of the type of monitoring that China has invested heavily in over recent years with the aim of helping police do their job more efficiently. Such systems are also used in private organizations, for example to monitor workers and processes in factories, but government critics have warned of the potential for abuse in the hands of the state. China has the largest monitoring system in the world. There are some 170 million CCTV cameras across the country, and that's tipped to grow more than three-fold with 400 million more set to be installed by 2020. Beyond the sheer numbers of lookout points, China is harvesting information with a new-found focus on intelligence. The government also works with facial recognition and AI companies, such as unicorn Face++, which can pour through data to extract meaningful information such as faces, ages, registration plates and more. The full video of Sudworth's 'capture' is on the BBC website, with a snippet is below -- hat-tip The Next Web. pic.twitter.com/vLGQYN7ZB9 In China's surveillance state, a reporter's game of hide and seek had a sinister edge http://www.newsweek.com/tasked-trying-remain-undetected-long-possible-sudworth-filmed-himself-selfie-747843 BY CHRISTINA ZHAO ON 12/14/17 AT 6:54 AM China currently boasts the largest monitoring system in the world, with approximately 176 million CCTV cameras in public and private hands. According to The Wall Street Journal, China will add another 450 million cameras by 2020. The U.S., by comparison, has around 50 million. CCTV is also used in China by private organizations to monitor workers and mine human data, a practice that has attracted criticism from activists as an abuse of human rights. China has no enforceable protections for privacy rights against state surveillance, reported Human Rights Watch (HRW). "Until China has meaningful privacy rights and an accountable police force, the government should immediately cease these efforts," said Sophie Richardson, China director at HRW. Officials told Sudworth that only criminals need to fear the technology, but recent reports suggest that the software has been used to monitor and intimidate ethnic minorities like the Uighurs in western China. Beyond the cameras, China has also been gathering information by using new facial recognition intelligence and working with artificial intelligence companies, which can quickly shift through data to extract information on people's faces, ages, registration plates and more. Facial recognition cameras and software are also being used in China for routine activities, such as gaining entrance to a workplace, withdrawing cash from an ATM and unlocking a smartphone, reported WSJ. A KFC restaurant in China's capital is now scanning customers' faces and then making menu suggestions based on gender and age. And a popular park in Beijing has deployed smart intelligence to fight toilet paper theft in public restrooms by using face-scanning dispensers that limit each person to a limited amount of paper every nine minutes, the newspaper claimed.
SCOTUS considers limits to the government's surveillance powers over personal technology http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/carpenter_v_united_states/P1 This article was published in the December 2017 issue of the ABA Journal with the title "Cell Block: The high court considers limits to the government's surveillance powers over personal technology." SCOTUS = Supreme Court of the united States. ABA = American Bar Association In 2011, the police and the FBI used data from cellular telephone towers to help connect a suspect to a string of armed robberies of Radio Shack and T-Mobile stores in the Detroit area. The authorities didn't rely on a warrant based on probable cause but on a broad court order under a 1986 federal law, the Stored Communications Act. They collected more than 120 days' worth of records from two wireless carriers for the cell-site data of the suspect's mobile phone. The records helped show that the suspect, Timothy I. Carpenter, was in close proximity to the stores at the time of the crimes. Combined with other evidence that Carpenter was the leader of the robbery ring, the records led to his conviction on federal robbery- and weapons-related charges. Carpenter challenged the warrantless collection of cell-site data as an unconstitutional search under the Fourth Amendment. He lost in the lower courts. But the U.S. Supreme Court granted review of a case that several legal observers predict will have enormous implications for privacy in the digital age for generations to come. "It's hugely important," says Orin S. Kerr, a professor at the George Washington University Law School and an expert on the Fourth Amendment. "This is the case that is going to determine the limits on the government's surveillance power at the state and federal level in new technologies for years to come. I think the justices know that." Andrew G. Ferguson, a professor at the University of the District of Columbia law school and a privacy expert, says the case affects cell towers and individuals' data from email, smart watches, activity-tracker bands and so-called smart appliances—devices as conventional as refrigerators, which now have some models that connect to the internet. "This is not about just one technology and one criminal defendant," says Ferguson, author of The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement. "It is really about how the Fourth Amendment will or will not protect all Americans in the digital age." The closely watched case was scheduled to be heard Nov. 29, which falls under the court's December argument calendar. TRACKING STORED COMMUNICATION Authorities initially arrested four suspects in spring 2011 in the string of robberies at Radio Shack and T-Mobile stores. One suspect identified an ensemble of 15 others who had participated in some or all the crimes, which involved small groups of robbers entering a store, herding employees into the back at gunpoint, and ordering them to fill bags with new smartphones. Court testimony later suggested that Carpenter organized a string of such robberies in Michigan and Ohio during a four-month period. He supplied the guns and typically waited in the getaway car, testimony showed. The police received Carpenter's cellphone number from the informing suspect. The FBI sought orders from federal magistrate judges to require the release of cell-tower information for Carpenter's phone. The magistrates granted the orders under the Stored Communications Act, which requires the government to show "reasonable grounds" for believing that the records were "relevant and material to an ongoing investigation." Carpenter's cellphone provider, MetroPCS, provided 186 pages of the suspect's "call detail records" that covered 127 days, while Sprint provided records for Carpenter's phone for two days in Warren, Ohio, where one robbery took place. (Sprint was the roaming provider in that area because MetroPCS did not have its own towers there.) At trial, FBI Special Agent Christopher Hess, a cellular analysis specialist, testified for the prosecution. "If you dial a number and you hit send, that tower information is populated in the call detail record," he said. Hess identified eight calls to or from Carpenter's phone that happened around the time of four of the robberies. He presented maps of the cell towers that connected those calls to demonstrate that Carpenter's phone was within a half-mile to 2 miles of the crime scenes. On cross-examination, the agent acknowledged that he could not say that Carpenter's phone was located within a particular spot or intersection, and he agreed that the cellular analysis was "not an exact science." At closing argument, a prosecutor argued to the jury that the cellular data provided another overlay of corroboration, showing that Carpenter was "right where the first robbery was at the exact time of the robbery, the exact sector." The cell-tower evidence may well have been, in this case, another layer of corroboration. There also was incriminating testimony from seven of Carpenter's accomplices. Carpenter was convicted of all six robbery charges he faced under the federal Hobbs Act and five of six firearms charges. He was sentenced to 116 years in prison. THIRD-PARTY BUSINESS RECORDS But on appeal, Carpenter pressed his motion to suppress the cell-tower evidence, which the district court had rejected. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati also turned away his arguments, holding that Carpenter lacked any property interest or reasonable expectation of privacy in the cell-tower records acquired by the government under the Stored Communications Act. The 6th Circuit panel acknowledged that in United States v. Jones, a 2012 Supreme Court case about long-term GPS monitoring of a suspected drug dealer, five justices had agreed that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in information very similar to cell-site data. But the appeals court said Carpenter's case was different because it "involves business records obtained from a third party." Those records are closer to the landline call records that the high court had held were not entitled to Fourth Amendment protection in Smith v. Maryland in 1979. "Cell-site data—like mailing addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses—are information that facilitate personal communications, rather than part of the content of those communications themselves," the 6th Circuit said. "The government's collection of business records containing these data therefore is not a search." Nathan Wessler, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing Carpenter, says the Smith decision and the Stored Communications Act were products of an era when few Americans were carrying phones in their pockets. "In this case, law enforcement went to Mr. Carpenter's cellphone providers and got more than four months of cellphone records that created a granular map of everywhere he went," Wessler says. "That is a chilling power." DIGITAL CRIME AND PRIVACY U.S. Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco argued in the federal government's brief that the "third-party doctrine" long recognized by the high court applies here. "Cellphone users voluntarily reveal to their providers information about their proximity to cell towers, so the providers can connect their calls," Francisco said in the brief. "Users cannot reasonably expect that the providers will not reveal that business information to the government." John M. Castellano wrote an amicus brief on the federal government's side for the Arlington, Virginia-based National District Attorneys Association. He says prosecutors use cell-site location data as an important investigative tool. They also use grand jury subpoenas and court orders short of a warrant to investigate identity theft, fraud, public corruption and other offenses. Those investigations would be seriously hampered by any restriction on the third-party doctrine, he says. "You don't always have probable cause at the time you are issuing a subpoena," says Castellano, the deputy executive assistant district attorney for the Queens County DA's office in Kew Gardens, New York. "The nature of crime has changed. It has taken full advantage of the digital era." But Wessler of the ACLU says the government "misreads Americans' expectations of privacy in the digital age and sets the bar way too low." Ferguson of the University of the District of Columbia wrote an amicus brief on Carpenter's side for a group of scholars of criminal procedure and privacy. The basic thrust is that the third-party doctrine is ill-suited for an age in which smart devices that transmit all manner of personal information to third parties are pervasive. These include cellphones, smart cars, smart homes and smart medical devices within the body. "It used to be that police officers had to sit in hot cars drinking cold coffee to conduct surveillance," Ferguson says. "The idea of a 1970s-era law about old telephone technology governing this area just doesn't make a lot of sense now."


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Welcome on the homepage of the chair "Computer Graphics Systems" of Prof. Jürgen Döllner and his team. We like to inform you about our teaching and ongoing research activities in the analysis, planning and construction of computer graphics and multimedia systems.
Our group includes PostDocs, PhD students, and student assistants, and is headed by Prof. Jürgen Döllner. If you are interested in joining our team, please contact Jürgen Döllner.
The paper "Real-Time Animated Visualization of Massive Air-Traffic Trajectories" by Stefan Buschmann, Matthias Trapp, and Jürgen Döllner has been presented at the 2014 Conference on CyberWorlds in Santander, Spain.

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In order to have a successful blog, you have to "wear many hats" when it comes to blogging. While some larger blogs have the resources to distribute different aspects of the blogging process to different people, most blogs are run by one individual who is responsible for all of the following.
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Even though a blogger can settle with a simple template in the beginning, there may come a time when the blogger needs a logo, banner ads, and so on. And if the site grows in popularity, the simplest template may be outgrown. So the design aspect will eventually touch almost every blogger's work at one stage or the next.
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Probably the most important part of blogging is the content. Content can be in the form of articles, photography, videos, list compilations, and so on. A blogger's role in content production is probably the most important, as "content is king." New ideas have to be generated all the time to keep the content fresh. Each new entry has to be well thought out, planned, and shared in a way that most people can understand. The content has to be compelling or useful enough to make readers turn into subscribers. Plus, to turn readers or subscribers into active participants, the content must generate a need for response.
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One of the biggest sources of traffic is from search engines, specifically Google, Yahoo & Bing. In order to get traffic from search engines, the blogger must learn at least the basics of SEO. Keywords, link building, analytics, and other optimization skills must be learned and utilized. SEO is an on-going process, both in application and education, as the rules change frequently.
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Another huge source of traffic for bloggers comes from social media. Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit are only a few of the many social networks that can bring in a good source of visitors, if used in the right way. Each one has different rules and requires some amount of time spent learning ways to use each efficiently with the most amount of positive results.
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Bloggers must build community, both on their blogs and off of them. Commenting on your own blog and other blogs combined with social networking plays an important part in the overall success of a blog. And of course, both require a lot of interaction plus giving before taking.
What is Your Favorite Part of Blogging?
As a blogger, what is your favorite part of blogging? Or perhaps, what is your least favorite part? Do you love the writing but feel less enthused with the promotion, or vice versa? How do you balance getting to enjoy one aspect while putting the effort into another that is more difficult?


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Places of Departure: Photos by Ellen Jantzen
Conceptual photos that questions what happens when a loved one dies. These digitally-enhanced images have an ethereal and spiritual quality that attempts to answer those lingering questions. The series began when Ellen lost both her parents and her struggle to understand where life goes after death.
I was working on my series, Disturbing The Spirits when my father suddenly died. Place of Departure is the work I have done since.... I feel that my life has fundamentally changed; but sometimes all seems the same. Where did my father go? What does a life mean after it leaves it's body? Does the life-force rise and connect the terrestrial with the celestial or does it evaporate into thin air? These are the questions I am grappling with as I begin my new series; hopefully I will find my way to an understanding. 6 months later my mother passed away also. The space between my father's death and my mother's was filled with this work.


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TUSTIN, Calif., – Enabling clinicians to prioritize comfort, safety and efficiency for optimal interventional radiology procedures, Toshiba Medical, a Canon Group company, will showcase its InfinixTM-i Sky + and Infinix-i Sky angiography systems at this year's OR Manager Conference in Orlando, October 2–4, 2017 (Booth #421). The unique C-arm design on both systems delivers numerous clinical benefits to interventional radiologists and vascular surgeons so they can perform a wide array of procedures and provide outstanding care to more patients.
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Adam Reece
Athlete of the Month for August
A Little About Me
I am a project manager for Verizon over in Cary and have worked on/off out of that office since 1999. I have owned my own business and done customer service jobs as well as technical jobs. PM is the most rewarding thing I have done so far, and really is the best fit for my personality. Basically, I try to never meet a stranger and make everyone be my friend, if they will let me.
How I Found CrossFit
I started working out at the Y in 2015/16 and started going to a unscheduled class/group that did CrossFit like things. I found it to be a crazy challenge and interesting. It got real for me when Crystal Carlisle invited me to her gym at a town hall meeting we were both attending. It took me a long time to suck it up and come try it, but once I did, I was hooked.
Why I CrossFit
I made the decision to CrossFit because i could not run anymore on my knees and I wanted to do something to get stronger, in hopes to run again. It became my new obsession, much like running was for the short time I was able to do it. CrossFit is a sub-culture, much like motorcycling is a sub-culture, another one that I love. I like the fact that both are not for everyone and that I have found a place to fit in both. CrossFit is inclusive. For the time you are there together in a class you are family with that group. Everyone does the same thing, pass/fail/win/loose, together, and I love that about it. My dad told me when I was a child that there is always someone better than you, and always someone you are better than. The takeaway for me is be the best me that I can be, which is the essence of CrossFit. Lastly, CrossFit, especially at Zeal, forces me to do things I do not want to do, nor would I if I were still solo in the gym. Each day I feel called to die to myself and cling to what Jesus wants for me, when I come to Zeal, I try to die to how I want to workout, and cling to the programming.
Favorite Exercise
Least Favorite Exercise
Pull-Ups–I feel I have so far to go before I satisfied with myself in pull-ups, it is just demoralizing.
Favorite Benchmark WOD
Scaled Elizabeth–plays to my "strengthsish"
Least Favorite Benchmark WOD
Have not done that many yet so not sure, probably the one with all the wall balls–sounds horrible.


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SEIU Healthcare Minnesota unites more than 35,000 healthcare and long-term care workers in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and home care throughout the state of Minnesota.
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SEIU is the largest healthcare union in North America, uniting over 1.2 million healthcare workers to win better wages, affordable health care, a secure retirement, and safer workplaces. We are dedicated to ensuring the highest quality of care for every patient, attaining quality, affordable healthcare for every American, and improving the lives of healthcare workers, our families, and our communities.


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Collaborated on various web projects with Octree, lean studio based in Geneva, as designed print materials and promoted their new product «Startup as a Service», a product as a service (PaaS), presented at the eCom exhibition in Palexpo.
2017 - september
Created Argil Data, a startup bringing on solutions for data sculpture and resources management services.
Started to work remotely as «global digital nomad» traveling through Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Australia, Ukraine and who knows what is coming next…
Begun contributing to Open Food Network, an open-source web platform project for food distribution alternatives, and gave time to set up a potential instance in Switzerland.
2016 - september
Gave new horizons to my career, transfered my responsabilities and all my shares from the startup company to build freelance activities. Got certified HERMES 5 a project management methodology used inside swiss institutions.
2013 - september
Co-founded OM-IH Design sàrl, registered OM–IH an ethical and eco-conscious fashion design brand and developed the startup's innovative projects as managing-partner.
Graduated from ECAL, with a BA of Arts, in graphic design and visual communication.
Graphic Design intern at NORM, Zürich, research work about Otl Aicher design system and pictograms for the Olympic Games in Münich.
Received my first personal computer and operated my first technical hack to get more TV channels, aside of organizing with some friends local river clean-up.
Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and grew up in the countryside surrounded by nature and snow.


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My siblings and I all have food allergies, so learning how to cook was an essential skill for us to acquire at a young age. I loved being in the kitchen with my parents and learning recipes from our varied cultural backgrounds. This curiosity grew as time went on and I decided to head to culinary school. I chose Johnson & Wales University and my eyes were opened, once again, when I was introduced to their culinary nutrition program. I loved that food could not only taste good, but have a purpose of providing appropriate nourishment for our bodies. After graduating from JWU's culinary nutrition program, I was accepted into Meredith College's Dietetic Internship program and became a registered dietitian in 2014.
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Frozen Kitten Trapped Outside Brought Back to Life by Loving Family (VIDEO)
When videographer Branden Bingham and his family found a frozen kitten in their yard after a surprise snowstorm on Thanksgiving morning, they feared they were too late to save its life.
Branden's brother however would not give up hope, and brought the kitten inside to warm it up by the fireplace.
After performing CPR on the seemingly dead kitten and rubbing it for an hour, a Thanksgiving miracle happened and the cat was resuscitated!
The kitten — now fittingly named Lazarus — is happy, healthy and thriving in his new home.
Since the video was shot, it has been nominated for a GoPro Award. You can watch that version (complete with more footage of the kitten enjoying its new home) below.
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So Cici released the artwork for her new single Body Party
I bet you are wondering why we named this article 'Did Ciara pull a Beyonce?' Well its because Beyonce is known for getting inspiration from other artistes too (Although Beyonce slays all those she gets her inspiration from)....
Anyways we cant wait to hear new music from Ciara,Beyonce and Janet!
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Feature photo by Lyndon Marceau, Marceau Photography
Ultra Trail Australia, with good reason, is seen as the jewel in Australia's Trail Ultra crown and is goal event for many new and leathered Ultra Runners alike. While it held this vaunted position long before its inclusion in the Ultra-Trail World Tour (UTWT), appearing on a global circuit alongside other prestigious events like Western States and UTMB has pushed the race even further into the spotlight. This year, the race's 10th anniversary, will see fierce competition up front between locals and international athletes alike and many pundits consider UTA a benchmark race for our elite talent. For a great summary of the who's who up at the pointy end, check out Ultra168's ever-thorough preview here http://ultra168.com/
This post is aimed at those running their first UTA and, potentially, their first 100km Ultra. It's by no means a how-to guide, just a few pointers I've picked up since running my first UTA (at the time it was called The North Face 100) in 2010. 2017 will be my 6th UTA and, while I can't lay claim to having run them all like some legends out there, I still reckon that's taught me a thing or two (or 5).
1. Study the elevation profile and fuel accordingly
Step 1. Snag yourself a copy of the elevation profile.
Step 2. Study it. Work out where the big climbs are (Golden Stairs, Ironpot, Nellies Glen, Leura Cascades, Jamison Creek, Furber Steps)
Step 3. Consciously knock back a gel or whatever fuel source you're using a good 20-30 mins BEFORE you start climbing (e.g. bottom of Furber Steps, at the track junction 2km before Dunphy's, at the locked gate on Nellies Glen Road, at Echo Point etc.)
Step 4. Don't die quite as much on the bumpy bits.
Takeaway: Prepare for the hard bits by looking after your nutrition pre-emptively rather than waiting for the Glycogen Dementors to come and steal your soul.
2. Less is more when it comes to Drop Bags
This one's fairly straightforward. Whether you're self-crewed and using the drop bag service or relying on some gullible sucker to drive around after you all day, the KISS strategy is a winner when it comes to organising your drop/crew bags. Here's what I do:Have ONE Small bag per aid station.
1. Have ONE Small bag per aid station. Hucking around a huge duffel bag or full-sized plastic tote to every aid station sucks, particularly if the forecast rain eventuates
2. Label those bad boys CLEARLY with your name, race number and intended aid station. Make this unique if possible: the hardest part of self-crewing is finding your bag among all the others
3. Don't put the kitchen sink in your bag: have your nutrition, a small first aid/suncream/chafe kit and all your mandatory gear there (e.g. if you require your wet weather gear from Katoomba Aquatic Centre), and not much else. It'll be tempting to throw in multiple changes of shoes, spare this and spare that, but don't. Choose well the first time and commit to it lest you spend the entire race undermining yourself.
4. Put what you need in grab bags; e.g. I'll be taking 2 gels and 1 x additional 500ml flask from 6Ft Track through to Katoomba Aquatic Centre. These will both go in one zip lock bag and that's all I'll grab
5. If you're taking powders (in your drink flasks/bottles), pre-load them DRY into spare flasks. Pouring sachets into flasks or bottles when you're fatigued and in a rush is tedious, but having them leak all through your bag is a nightmare. Add the powder beforehand and then add the water at the aid station.
6. Leave yourself a checklist of things to do before you leave the CP so you don't get 2km down the track and realise you forgot to refill your water bladder or pick up your mandatory kit. I tend to print and laminate a set of splits which I keep in my pocket throughout the race and this has a small checklist for each CP.
7. If you've got a crew, make it your mission in life to make them genuinely smile or laugh at every CP. Thinking about them and their happiness will not only make their lives more enjoyable, but (if nothing else) it will help distract you from your own whining.
Takeaway: Prior Preparation and Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance, but don't be an old maid about it. This is Endurance Running not Flight of the Grey Nomads. The simpler you keep things at Aid Stations the quicker you'll be through them and the less likely you are to forget something important.
Last year I wrote something similar to this in a Facebook post, but at that point I claimed the halfway point was at the Queen Victoria Hospital (78km). Having spent the last 35km of the 2016 UTA fighting cramps, I've since brought this back a little. It goes like this:
- You've just run 60km
- In that distance, you've had 3 very solid climbs which have worked your hamstrings, glutes and quads like no Stairmaster ever could.
- Between these lung-busters you've had a couple of technical descents, where you may (or may not have) further smashed your quads, but otherwise you've had plenty of flat, monotonous, repetitive running that has fatigued a relatively limited set of muscles.
- Now you hit the Giant Stair Case and give your quads another smashing before starting to the gorgeous and intimidating, Leura Cascades.
- You top out of those bastard steps, or so you think, and you pick up the pace, running up steps and bounding off them.
- All of a sudden the rapid changes of direction (left/right AND up/down) are working stabilisers, psoas, ankles etc. in new and exciting ways.
- Your pre-fatigued major muscles are already struggling and so the minor ones take the full brunt of your rude and aggravated assault.
Don't underestimate this section. The elevation profile makes it look fairly easy going (compared to the other bumpy bits) but it's liable to be some of your slowest kms, Furber steps notwithstanding.
Takeaway: Don't kill yourself down the Giant Steps, definitely don't smash yourself climbing out of the Leura Cascades and run within yourself between there and Queen Vic. Coming down Kedumba can either end you if you're already cramping or give you a pleasant boost in pace if you've still got something in the tank.
4. But it could end a lot sooner…
I say this with a sense of irony, given my personal goal for the 2017 UTA is to push as close to breaking (specifically, to run at or close to my Cross Over Point) as I can, but probly y'all a bit more smart than me.
It should hopefully go without saying that this is a fairly long race as those things go. It's got over 4000m of climbing and descent and these are well spread across the length of the course. It's very easy, with all the ceremony and pomp, the blaring music, pre-dawn frosty breath illuminated in the party lights, the excited MC, to go out WAY too hard. DON'T DO IT!
Sure, it's going to get pretty crowded on that single track between the top of Furber Steps and the top of the Golden Stairs but let's put that into perspective; you leave Cliff Drive for Prince Henry Walk just before the 5km mark and top out at the Golden Stairs at about 10.4km – that's 5.5km of fairly technical running where you might experience congestion before BAM! You're on wide open roads for almost ALL of the remaining 90km.
Takeaway: Don't cook yourself in the first 10km. As Ultra 168 put it way back in 2011, "Don't take too many cookies out of the jar too early". You won't win the race in the first few km, but you can definitely screw it up.
Ultra168 released a great post a few years ago which analysed a lot of start times/fade/finish times but I can't for the life of me find it. Maybe it's the one I've referenced above?
5. Visualise hurting
The Stoics call it Negative Visualisation. Tim Ferriss calls it Fear Setting. Matt Fitzgerald discusses the importance of preparing mentally for the hurt. Whatever you call it, here's the crux: Endurance Sports hurt in ways that only Endurance Sports can and which only Endurance Athletes understand. Sure, there's the physical pain, but (at least in my experience) that's nothing compared to dry needling your foot, unanaesthetised root canal treatment or romantic heartbreak. Endurance Pain is VOLUNTARY and if you start the race like a gaunt, lycra-clad Harvey Dent, physically committed but mentally absent, you're stuffed.
A much wiser strategy is to visualise how much this bastard is going to hurt BEFORE it starts to hurt. Don't tell yourself fairy tales about how comfortable you're going to feel, picturing pretty fluffy kiwi sheep jumping over fences. Instead, repeat after me: "this is going to be the hardest thing I've ever done." When you accept that fact you'll be ready for battle when your motivation takes a cliff dive with your blood sugar.
Takeaway: Train Hard, Fight Easy. Embrace the pain of running 100km, don't sugar coat it and wrap it in fluffy blankets.
What do you think?
Got any sneaky tips of your own? Think we've missed something? Got it all wrong? Let us know in the comments and share your wisdom with others!


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November 10, 2013
Words of thought "What I know to be true"
Life is not a solo ride you take alone. There are people who come aboard and stay a minute, others who stay a season, and then a few or handful who stay a lifetime. Sometimes the decision is yours in how long they stay, often times it's out of your control. What counts is what you receive and what you give in return to those who visit your space.
Fifteen years I've known my husband. We will celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary next month. Reflecting on the pictures, it's hard to believe we're grandparents to two wonderful little people that our daughter brought into the world. I can recall her saying that having children will never be a part of her atmosphere. Now the conversations are I can't believe I'm repeating things you and Daddy said and did.
When I began my journey to study the discipline of Early Childhood Studies, we spoke about the relationships that were important to our childhood. On the pages Relationships (My family and My Inner Circle), I talk about the relationships I value as an adult. They still include my parents and brothers, but evolved to include my husband's family and my girlfriends. The relationship I cultivated with my father laid the groundwork for the relationship I have with my husband. It was my father who taught me how men should treat women. My husband is my best friend. Without his support and encouragement, nothing I do would have been possible. When I grow tired, he props me up and says what would you tell JeLan to do, quit? I simply get up and begin again.
I've always known that I wanted to be a mother. When I met my husband, his daughter Aleah was thirteen. The years of teenagers with raging hormones, trying to find their place in the world is hard, even on the ones with the strongest of support systems. We've had some rough patches but I'm proud of the young woman she has become. I'm even prouder to be her stepmother and credit my relationship with my own stepmother for the bond we have. Even though there are miles between us and I don't see her or my grandbabies often, every phone call she's asking about how my studies are coming along. As a young parent, she receives guidance not only from us but I share what I learn about early childhood education with her so she stays informed on what to expect and ask for in raising her son and daughter. My son is my heart. Everyday I learn something new through his eyes and his spirit. Watching him become a young man, I'm simply amazed that God chose me to care for him here on Earth. I pray each day that everything my husband and I teach him will guide him into being a compassionate, strong, and intelligent man.
Everyday they give me unconditional love, support, stamina, drive and determination to fight, to live, to learn and to love. Thanks for being my wings.


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Have you looked at the OHL's western conference standings lately? It's pretty tight.
Only five points separates first place Owen Sound from the eighth and final playoff spot - currently held by Windsor, Plymouth and Sarnia.
Kitchener is just one point up on the the trio. Congested like a good autumn cold. The Rangers have a bit of a cushion thanks to Sunday's 2-1 win over Plymouth at the Aud. It was redemption time for rookie Justin Bailey, who got the game winner, after thinking he had the GWG Saturday in Plymouth. That marker was called back on a high stick.
Speaking of Bailey, the kid has been alright, eh? He's showing more confidence every game and a willingness to go to the net. He's creative with the puck and one of the more exciting rookies - outside of Euro import picks - that this team has seen in a the past two years.
So, the Rangers got through a crucial three games in three days with five points. Almost as good as it gets. Another test lies ahead. This time, it's four games in six days. It starts Thursday in Niagara against the surprising 9-6-1-0 IceDogs, who seemed destined for a down year.
From there it's a trio of home games - Windsor Friday, Owen Sound Sunday and a rare Tuesday tilt against Mississauga. This threesome also own winning records.
Kitchener has yet to lose at home. Got a chuckle when talking to Bailey who said he thinks the club can last the season without losing a home game. Rookie optimism is certainly a breath of fresh air.


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British royals condemn plans to publish Kate pictures
Royal officials in Britain have expressed disappointment that paparazzi shots of Prince William and his wife on a beach holiday in the Caribbean may be published by an Italian magazine.
The photos reportedly show the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge -- the former Kate Middleton -- wearing a bikini and strolling on a beach with William on the island of Mustique.
St. James's Palace said Tuesday that publishing the photos would be a "clear breach of the couple's right to privacy."
According to the BBC, the spokesman added: "We are disappointed that photographs of the Duke and Duchess on a private holiday look likely to be published overseas."
The Italian gossip magazine Chi was reportedly planning to publish the pictures.
Last year, William, 30, and Kate, 31, went to court over a French gossip magazine's publication of topless photos of the duchess while the couple was on holiday in the south of France.


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In my professional lifetime, I've seen the emergence, development and adoption into the mainstream of object-oriented development for software. Instead of functions or procedures being the principal unit of abstraction, objects that encapsulate data and operations are now seen as the 'natural' abstraction in programs, at least outside the embedded systems domain. I would be surprised if any university computer science course didn't teach OO programming and my guess is that students are rarely taught to think about whether or not objects really are the right abstraction.
Now, I think the idea of abstract data types, where data and its related functionality are encapsulated is a pretty natural one. It makes sense when thinking about how to organize some data, to associate the operations with that data. But I have never found thinking about a problem to be solved in terms of objects to be a natural approach. I think about what to do to solve the problem and, this seems to me to be a pretty general trait – we articulate solutions to problems in terms of actions.
The fact that objects are not a natural way of thinking does not mean that they are not a good way of programming. This is not really the point of this post – the point is that OO development has become almost universally accepted in spite of the fact that virtually all empirical studies on its effectiveness show that OO development has no real advantages over a functional approach.
This paper, which studies development productivity in C and C++ makes the telling point:
" We investigated whether C++ improved the productivity of software development. We did not find any empirical evidence of improved productivity. This is in line with previous studies that to date have found no convincing empirical support in favor of object-oriented development. "
The last sentence is the telling one – essentially, there is no science to back up the adoption of OO methods and techniques.
Of course, this does not mean that object-oriented approaches are ineffective – they are obviously useful and usable for large system development. But, we have to ask ourselves if this effectiveness is inherent in the approach or because there has been a vast amount of effort and money invested in the development of tools and methods to support the object-oriented approach. I wonder if we had invested the same amount of money and effort in developing tools and methods for languages such as Modula 2 instead of Java would we have a better programming environment?
The point of this post is not really about OO development, however. What I find concerning is that empirical work in software engineering is essentially ignored by almost everyone. The paper I've linked above was published in 2008 but Les Hatton wrote a paper in 1996 about studies of OO development and there may well have been others before that.
One problem is our academic publishing system where interesting results are published in obscure conferences and journals that no-one reads and authors get no academic credit for making their material more accessible to a wide audience. Another problem is our research funding system that focuses on novelty rather than science – it's very hard to get funding for a project that aims to confirm or deny previous work.
But the biggest problem, I think, are the snake oil salesmen. The sellers of universal solutions who don't admit there is no scientific basis for the claims they are making, who don't admit there are some areas where their techniques are inapplicable and who are selective with the truth when discussing the use of their techniques.
We are now seeing another 'revolution' in software engineering as the agile methods bandwagon becomes unstoppable. I have a lot of time for some aspects of agile methods but we should be honest about their effectiveness and applicability.
For example, few discussions of test-driven development, a central agile development technique, admit that empirical studies of TDD (in industry (Microsoft and IBM) show that it slows down development – so you might think it is less rather than more agile. These studies also show that it leads to fewer post-release problems, confirming the technique is of value but not, perhaps, for the reasons given by the agile salesmen.
Sadly, there are too many vested interests here – academics seeking tenure and promotion and consultants seeking contracts – that a change to a more scientific approach in the near future is unlikely. The people who will have to pay the price will be the adopters of these techniques who will learn that the magic snake oil is not a solution to their problems after all.


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Advertising's Star Search
Advertising holding company leaders gripe that the industry lags in tapping and nurturing good talent.
WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell, appearing on a panel with IPG's Michael Roth and Omnicom's John Wren at the 4A's conference in Austin, blasted the advertising industry's "criminal neglect" in finding, recruiting, and keeping top talent. Instead of devoting time and resources to executive development, "if we need talent, we steal them." he said. Holding companies should have a "chief talent officer" who identifies and nurtures good performers.
The three execs, in a rare appearance together, agreed that the industry needs to do a better job recruiting from business schools, film schools and art schools.
Sure, the ad biz competes with other industries for talent. But with so many people out of work and young college graduates eager to join the workforce, are promising, potential stars so hard to find?
These top industry executives probably weren't around for earlier sessions at the conference when college students studying advertising and marketing in Austin asked questions about opportunities in the industry. (Perhaps the 4A's should include promising ad students in part of their program next year…?)
Three cheers for Ronda Carnegie, TED's global partnership director. She spoke up after the bigwig panel, saying "the best talent is sitting in your organization and you don't know who they are…They're there."
Posted on March 10, 2011, in 4A's Transformation 2011, Melanie Wells and tagged 4As, DGC, DiGennaro Communications, IpG, John Wren, Martin Sorrell, Melanie Wells, Michael Roth, Omnicom, Ronda Carnegie, TED, Transformation Conference, WPP. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.


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Update for April 1
Rehearsals and Performances for the remainer of the year:
April 1 - Regular rehearsal
April 8 - Regular rehearsal
April 12 - Concert Winds perform for WSMA Concert Festival (more info below)
April 22 - Final rehearsal and Band Awards
April 23 - FVL Schools Spring Band Concert
Jazz Class Reminders from Mr. Kramer
Just a quick reminder that we're having jazz class again now in April, both tomorrow, April 1st (no fooling!), and next week April 8. We will tackle that new piece the most, "Until I Met You". Also, working on solos will be important. No one is required to do a solo, but soloing is part of the "jazz scene." See you tomorrow!
Here's a link to the website recording of "Until I Met
Final Rehearsal and Band Awards
Following our final rehearsal on Saturday, April 22, we will be handing out various awards, including medals for students who completed books since Musicfest, WSMA Solo Medals, Attendance Awards, and the Director's Awards (2). Our awards will be presented in the FVL Auditorium. We would like all band students and parents to be in attendance if at all possible. Grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins (and other siblings) are also welcome!
Sunday, April 23 - FVL Schools Spring Band Concert
The concert begins at 6:00 PM in the FVL Auditorium.
- Band members should arrive by 5:00 PM (Concert Black and White clothing), so we can hand out Concert Vests and Ties prior to warm up. Cadet Band and Concert Winds will report to their regular rehearsal rooms at that time.
- The students are encouraged to wear their medals for completing books to the concert! It adds a special touch to the band uniform, and is a visible acknowledgement of a job well-done!
- Students who were awarded medals for the Solo Festival are also encouraged to wear them for the concert.
WSMA Concert Festival Wednesday, April 12
You may have noticed on our schedule that the Concert Winds (NOT Cadet Band) are participating in a WSMA Concert Festival on Wednesday, April 12. That is not a typo! Participating in a concert festival is a requirement for our FVL Schools Band Program to be a member of the Wisconsin School Music Association (WSMA). Since we did not participate in a concert festival last year, we must do that this year.
This concert festival will be hosted by FVL. Parents from each school can begin to plan car pools to FVL that day and back to your schools following the festival. Parents and students can also alert their school's principals and classroom teachers of their absence from school that afternoon.
As this is a public performance, much like solo and ensemble festivals, all parents/grandparents/drivers for the day are most welcome to listen to the bands perform. It may be very interesting for you to also hear what the adjudicators have to say following each band's performance.
The Concert Winds will NOT be wearing their formal vests and ties for the performance. However, because this is a public performance, the students should wear VERY nice clothes that day, such as skirts/dresses, dress slacks, dress shirts, and ties (for guys who have them). We want to look spectacular on that day. Because of the logistics of getting all of our kids to FVL, having to warm up and prepare for this festival, it will be easiest to not wear our concert formal dress. Additionally, the other schools participating normally do not wear concert dress for the WSMA Concert Festival.
Here is a SCHEDULE of the bands that are performing that day. You can see that we have 9 bands. In an effort to minimize the time our students will be out of school, I have scheduled the Concert Winds to perform last. An additional requirement of WSMA is that each band listen to one other performing group. Our students will listen to the St. Martin Lutheran School band at 12:50. Our students are also required to fill out a STUDENT CRITIQUE form. You do not need to print the form, as they will be handed out at rehearsal.
The times for our students would be as follows:
12:40 PM Arrive at FVL - Meet in the small gym with coats and cases
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12:50 PM Concert Winds listen to St. Martin Lutheran Band and fill out student critique form
1:25 PM Warm up in the FVL Band Room
2:05 PM Performance clinic with WSMA Adjudicators
2:45 PM Car pools return students to their grade schools
You will notice that, depending on which school your child attends, students will be returning to their schools either at the end of their school day or after their day has ended. Parents should make be aware of this, especially if the students normally ride a bus home after school.
In addition, some students may need to pack a bag lunch if they will be missing their normal school lunch because of the time they need to leave from school.
Parent Drivers and Parking - Thanks again to all of our parents and grandparents who will be driving students to FVL on April 12! Your help is much appreciated. You can drop off students at the East Commons Entrance, as they will be going to the small gym upon arrival. After dropping off the kids, please park your vehicles in the south lot (along HWY JJ) as the east lot will be filled with student vehicles.


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Countrywide Financial on Monday ran advertisements seeking to reassure customers it's safe to do business with the company, while a published report said the largest U.S. mortgage lender has begun layoffs to help cope with a credit crunch.
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Middle School Social Studies:
Model United Nations is offered for all middle school students. It is part of the integrated middle school humanities program which includes courses in world geography, modern world history, major world religions, and political science on a rotating basis. The study of political science includes civics and government from a global perspective and will be a global study of citizenship, human rights and various government structures.
Middle School Social Studies: Civics and Economics with Model United Nations.
Model UN: This year long course in Modern World History and Model United Nations helps build knowledge of world geography and world currents events. We will build skills in public speaking, research, and writing.


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A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a story conveyed with moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of filmmaking has developed into an art form and industry.
I personally love films. They take you to places and show you situations you can only dream of. They can make you laugh, cry, think, and feel. Truly great movies speak to the human condition. What follows are a collection of reviews of films I've watched sometimes once, oftentimes more than once. I personally dislike rating films by number of stars or thumbs or freshness so I'll just let the prose flow and let you read for yourself.


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Where Should I Place My Child?Nadia Shanab | autism, general advice, parenting
5 Jul 2010
You don't know which placement is best for your child?
Don't worry! There is a whole system and a team responsible and devoted to find the best placement for your child.
By placement I mean the program and the class that best fits your child's needs.
Know Your Rights
In case you do not know about your rights, here are the legal rights of children with special needs according to the National Research Council's Educating Children with Autism. These rights apply to the U.S.A. I am not really aware of the rights in other countries. Please, read attentively.
1- Zero Reject
All children with disabilities must be provided a free and appropriate public education (FAPE). Local schools are required by law to provide needed services. For children with autism, this means that no child , regardless of the severity of symptoms or expression of difficult behaviors, can be denied educational services.
2- Nondiscriminatory Evaluation
Each student must receive a full individdual examination, with tests appropriate to the child's cultural background and native language, before being placed in a special education program. For children with autism, this means an evaluation that is performed by personnel with experience using and interpreting assessments for children with autism.
3-Individualized Education Program (IEP)
An Individualized Education Program (IEP) is required to be developed by a team of qualified professionals for each child with a disability who is receiving special education. The law specifies that the team must include at least one general education teacher, a special education teacher, a school district representative qualified to provide or supervise specially designed instruction, an individual who can interpret the instructional implications of the evaluation results, the child's parents, the student (if appropriate), and other individuals who have special expertise.
4-Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Children with special needs should be educated as much as possible in a general education classroom. This is called the "least restrictive environment" (LRE). Ideally, for children with autism, this means that they should interact with children without autism within a general education classroom. This is called "mainstreaming". If mainstreaming is not possible, these children should be educated in an alternative supervised setting or in a "reverse mainstream" situation, where children from a general education classroom join the special education setting.
5- Due Process
Due process ensures the fairness of educational decisions and the accountability of both professionals and parents in making those decisions. This means that parents of children with autism can call a hearing when they do not agree with the school's plan for their children. They can obtain an individual evaluation from a qualified examiner outside the school system, and can take other actions to guarantee that both the family and their child have channels through which they can voice their concerns and interests.
6- Parental Participation
Parents are to be included in the development of the IEP, and they have the right to review their children's educational records. For children with autism, this means that their parents can obtain their children's test results and educational evaluations, and participate as an equal with educational professionals in the development of the IEP.
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Set against a backdrop of iconic moments from the 1960s featuring Monroe, Ali, JFK et al, The Simon and Garfunkel Show is not just another greatest hits show, it's also a journey through one of the most tumultuous decades of recent times.
As a concept it works surprisingly well, never more so than when Anne Bancroft's seduction of Dustin Hoffman is projected into the theatre heralding the start of the second act, swiftly followed of course by a rousing rendition of 'Mrs Robinson.'
It comes as a revelation to be reminded of the chemistry which made Simon and Garfunkel the world's most successful musical duo. Hats off to Dean Elliott (Paul Simon) and Joe Sterling (Art Garfunkel) who absolutely nail some of the trickiest harmonies you're ever likely to hear.
With such a great back catalogue to choose from the hits come thick and fast. From the wonderfully tender ballad that is 'Scarborough Fair' to the much rockier 'Cecilia,' this is a musical set that any artist would be proud to call their own.
What really makes this show stand out are the undoubted talents of Sterling and Elliott, who together, not only manage the tricky task of emulation, but also manage to invest their own musical ability into this production.
Thus the music here doesn't just solely aim to create or ape – a not ignoble intention in itself – but rather the music on this stage is also infused with the talents of the individual performers.
Sterling's version of 'Bridge over Troubled Water' is a spine-tingler, bringing to the fore a vocal performance of power and sheer clarity. As show stoppers go, it surely doesn't get much better than this.
Thinking how this show could be improved is no easy task – perhaps a separate narrator to do the links between songs, but really that's nit-picking. Having toured nationally and internationally this show could not be tighter.
Supported by a superb band comprising Josh Powell (drums) Adam Smith (guitar/keyboards) Leon Camfield (bass), The Simon and Garfunkel Show will satisfy even the most exacting of fans and more than likely win over some new ones.
The Simon and Garfunkel Show has been receiving rave reviews and standing ovations wherever it goes and last night in Liverpool was no exception. For once, you really can believe the hype.


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Archive for the 'OSX' Category
Mac OS X Lion Theme for AndroidSunday, July 24th, 2011
Offline Browsing in Linux: wget and some tricksWednesday, May 11th, 2011
Ever since I joined Hostgator.com, I've been learning a lot of Linux in the hopes that I switch my career into Linux. Hopefully Forensics related.
So this new dilemma I had was to download a website for offline browsing. I went on the hunt for an offline file browser for Linux…. I found that I could use wget to mirror a whole website.
For example, I want to make a copy of blackberrysimunlockcode.com, Here's how:
wget -m http://blackberrysimunlockcode.com
Here the -m option is telling wget to mirror the website. This is the basic command. But say I need some advanced options. What do I do?
I was trying to get all the script files off of a website to save for later learning and all it was downloading was the index.html and robots.txt
The robots.txt file was blocking user agent wget. To confirm this I used the debug option in wget:
wget -m -d http://blackberrysimunlockcode.com
You'll get something like:
Not following http://blackberrysimunlockcode.com/privacy.shtml because robots.txt forbids it.
Rejecting path sh/eg/talk.sh.txt because of rule `sh'
no-follow in index.html
I tried using the option –user-agent "Mozilla" ….. no luck
I tried adding the following in .wgetrc :
## Local settings (for a user to set in his $HOME/.wgetrc). It is
## *highly* undesirable to put these settings in the global file, since
## they are potentially dangerous to "normal" users.
## Even when setting up your own ~/.wgetrc, you should know what you
## are doing before doing so.
header = Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
header = Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
header = Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
header = Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
header = Keep-Alive: 300
user_agent = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:126.96.36.199) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/126.96.36.199
referer = http://www.google.com
…Still no luck.
The trick is to use option -e robots=off
So my new command became:
wget -m -k -e robots=off -w 2 --random-wait -U "Mozilla" -np http://blackberrysimunlockcode.com
Heres what the options do:
-m mirrors website
-k fix links so you don't get directed to www.blackberrysimunlockcode.com/sh/eg instead of /sh/eg (relative vs absolute)
-e executes command robots=off
-w 2 sets wait time as 2 seconds so you don't overload server and get ip blocked
–random-wait can be random in 2 secon increments
-U sets user agent
-np no parent, so if the current subdirectory/page links to parent pages, it might crawl whole website
ADWTheme: Apple MacbookWednesday, September 22nd, 2010
ADWTheme: iPhoneWednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Getting root on your new Nexus One Android Google PhoneTuesday, January 5th, 2010
The Nexus one was rooted before it even got released. Paul at modaco forums showed us how to perform this hack. I'll try to simplify the method here.
1. First unlock your bootloader if you have a T-mobile Nexus One (this voids the warranty) or get an unlocked version from Google for like $550:
a. download fastboot
b. open terminal or command line and type
– Windows
fastboot-windows oem unlock
– Mac
./fastboot-mac oem unlock
– Linux
./fastboot-linux oem unlock
2. Rewrite the Bootloader to obtain root privileges:
a. Download either SuperBoot or InsecureBoot and extract. (The difference is that with the insecure boot you won't make any changes to the system and you would have to launch su manually)
b. Put the device in bootloader mode:
– Turn off the phone and restart holding the trackball.
c. Flash the bootloader:
– Windows = double click the windows bat file
– Mac = open terminal and cd to the directory containing the file. type
chmod +x install-superboot-mac.sh
– Linux = open terminal and cd to the directory containing the file. type
chmod +x install-superboot-linux.sh
Now you should have root!
Pic courtesy of Stericson.
Automatic website backup without SSH enabled over FTPThursday, December 3rd, 2009
Last time I backed up my website with rsync and ssh, but on my new host they disabled SSH. Rsync does not work over ftp. I do not want to do incremental backups with delta files like is done with rdiff-backup or duplicity. I need to have an exact mirror of my site. But remember that your sql databases won't be backed up.
Curlftpfs is the key! In this tutorial I will show you how to backup from one server to a backup location which can be your hard drive, another web host, dropbox folder, Box.net via webdav, etc.
Download curlftpfs, rsync and ncftp:
sudo apt-get install curlftpfs ncftp rsync
make directories to mount your ftp server:
sudo mkdir /media/hydtechblog
sudo mkdir /media/hydtechbackupserver
edit fstab to mount the ftp servers using curlftpfs:
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
add the lines and modify them according to your server:
curlftpfs#username:email@example.com /media/hydtechblog fuse rw,allow_other,uid=root 0 0
curlftpfs#username:password@hydtechbackupserver /media/hydtechbackupserver fuse rw,allow_other,uid=root 0 0
One thing to remember is that these two will not mount automatically because when the computer restarts, the fstab is done while you are not connected to the network. To fix this we can just add the mount commands in our crontab.
Edit crontab:
sudo crontab -e
enter the following lines and modify accordingly:
00 09 * * * mount /media/hydtechblog
00 09 * * * mount /media/hydtechbackup
01 09 * * * rsync -avz –rsync-path=/usr/bin/rsync /media/hydtechblog/public_html /media/hydtechbackup/public_html
ctrl + o to write and ctrl + x to save
This will tell cron to mount the folders at 9:00 am and start rsync at 9:01 am. You can replace the backup location to another folder on your hard drive or your dropbox or ubuntu one folder. You can also mount box.net with webdav and use this method.
For encrypted incremental backups checkout duplicity, it also works with webdav and ftp.
Dual, Triple, Quad Boot a Macbook with Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux, Windows XP, and Windows VistaMonday, January 26th, 2009
In this tutorial I will be showing you how to Quad boot your macbook with OS X, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux. You can leave out the OSes you don't want or replace them with something else. This is just a general but detailed guide for noobz!
We will be installing OS X from scratch so all your setting will be deleted. You might want to back up the data with Time machine or another backup software. Insert the OS X DVD and reboot the macbook holding down the C key.
Select your Language.
Before we install the OSes, we will partition the hard drive into 5 partitions. Go to Utilities and click on Disk Utility.
Select the Hard drive on the left. Mine has a 120GB drive.
Click on the partition tab and select 5 Partitions from the Volume Scheme. Label them as follows:
1. Vista (MS-DOS FAT and atleast 10GB)
2. Storage (MS-DOS FAT and however much space you want as a storage location)
3. XP (MS-DOS FAT and atleast 7GB)
4. OSX (Extended Journaled and atleast 20GB)
5. Free space (Chose from the drop down. will be used for our Ubuntu Linux)
Click on Options and make sure GUID Partition Table is selected. Hit Apply
Click Partition
Now we are going to Install our first OS. Select the OSX partition and continue.
You can skip the check if you know the DVD is in good condition and without scratches.
Your Installing your first OS. excited?
Be patient. This will take a while.
Restart your computer.
It will ask you for the second Disc. Insert the second disc.
Installation Complete!! now pat yourself on the back.
Once you setup your OSX with your settings, open up the safari web browser and goto http://refit.sourceforge.net/ and download the Mac disk image
once the download finishes, double click the image and then on the installer to install it.
After rEFIt is installed, insert the VISTA disc and reboot holding the C key.
Select language.
Accept the terms.
Custom (advanced)
Select the Vista partition and format with NTFS before continuing with Install.
After restarting, you will see the rEFIt GUI. select the second partition to boot into VISTA.
Goto My computer.
select the CD/DVD drive.
Eject the CD and insert the OSX disc.
Select Open folder.
Go into Boot Camp folder.
click setup.exe
Continue to Install the BootCamp drivers.
Select No to restart. We need to mark our XP partition as active first.
Goto Control Panel.
System and maintenance
Click 'Create and format hard disk partitions' under Administrative tools.
right click the XP partition and formate with NTFS.
after formatting is complete, right click the XP partition and mark as active.
Hell yes. Now eject the OSX disc and insert the XP disc.
Upon entering rEFIt, select boot from CD.
Select partition 4
Let it do its thang.
upon restart, Boot from partition 4.
Awesome!! Now you have 3 OSes. Take a break.
In XP, goto my computer and eject the CD. Insert the OSX disc.
Install Boot Camp drivers.
Select no to the restart. Eject the OSX disc and insert the Ubuntu CD. Now restart
Boot from CD.
Select language
Install Ubuntu
Select language
Pick your timezone.
Select USA – Macintosh for the keyboard.
Select the free space and click on new partition.
Now we will make a swap space for Linux.
Size: more than your RAM to be able to hibernate. My RAM is 2GB so I choose 2001MB.
Location: End
Use as: Swap area
Create another partition.
Size: Use the remaining disk space.
Location: Beginning
Use as: Ext3
Mount point: /
type in your username and password. Don't forget your password.
nothing to migrate. so leave this blank.
Click on advanced and in the drop down box type in (hd0,2)
proceed normally
Ubuntu will ask you to remove the disc and press ENTER.
You will come back to rEFIt
Start the partitioning tool.
Type Y to update the MBR.
Boot from the Linux partition
Boot into Vista.
You should get an error. If you get this error, Follow the directions and enter the Vista CD. restart the computer and select Boot from CD from the rEFIt menu.
repair and restart.
now we want our Ubuntu to start automatically without waiting for a timeout when we select the Ubuntu partition, instead of showing us the Grub menu. To do this, boot into ubuntu and open a terminal shell.
type sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
enter your password.
you will be presented with the grub configuration file in a text editor. change the timeout to 0.
Enjoy your QUAD BOOT MACBOOK !!!!
You can download this tutorial as a pdf here, but please give me credit.
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