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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - At this point, it might serve Ryne Sandberg best to just pick up a bat himself.
In Sandberg's first two games as manager since Charlie Manuel was fired, the Philadelphia Phillies have yet to cross home plate. They were shut out by the Los Angeles Dodgers for the second consecutive night Saturday, this time 5-0.
``Their pitching showed what it can do, and they're on a hot streak right now,' Sandberg said. ``We faced two hot pitchers, and they came as advertised.'
Clayton Kershaw pitched eight dominant innings as the seemingly unstoppable Dodgers won their 10th straight game.
Juan Uribe hit a three-run homer, Kershaw had an RBI double and the NL West leaders improved to 25-3 after the All-Star break. They have won 19 of their last 20 road games and are 42-8 overall since June 22, the best 50-game stretch in the majors since the 1942 St. Louis Cardinals had the same record.
The loss was the fourth in a row for the skidding Phillies, who were blanked 4-0 by Zack Greinke and the Dodgers in Sandberg's debut and have now lost 21 of 25.
Both teams were .500 at the All-Star break.
``When you're facing the best you kind of get a gauge of where you are,' Sandberg said.
The previous team before the Dodgers to win 19 of 20 road games was the 1916 New York Giants, according to STATS.
The 10-game winning streak is the longest for Los Angeles since an 11-game run in 2006.
Kershaw (12-7) allowed three hits and lowered his NL-best ERA to 1.80. He struck out eight and walked one.
``He dominated the strike zone, got ahead of the hitters and mixed his pitches,' Sandberg said.
Uribe singled and doubled before hitting a three-run shot to break the game open in the eighth.
The win was Kershaw's first in nine career games against the Phillies. The left-hander also helped himself at the plate with a run-scoring double. His seven RBIs lead the Dodgers' pitching staff.
Brandon League worked the ninth to secure Los Angeles' major league-best 16th shutout. It was the 12th time the Phillies have been blanked this season.
Philadelphia's lone threat came in the eighth, when Casper Wells doubled and John Mayberry Jr. walked with one out. But Erik Kratz popped out and, after a wild pitch, pinch-hitter Carlos Ruiz struck out.
``I had pretty decent fastball command tonight,' Kershaw said. ``I was able to throw the ball to both sides of the plate decently, and I felt good. Other than that walk to Mayberry, I felt like I had decent control, took advantage of their aggressiveness for the most part tonight and got some quick outs.'
Kyle Kendrick (10-10) labored through six effective innings for the Phillies, yielding two runs and seven hits. He was aided by four double plays, including ones that ended the third, fourth and fifth innings.
``I just tried to minimize the damage,' Kendrick said. ``I was just trying to keep us in the game. I felt good. I battled and gave us a quality effort.'
The Dodgers opened the game with two singles and scored their first run when Mayberry let a grounder get by him at first base for an error. Los Angeles could have had more, but Andre Ethier grounded into bases-loaded double play.
Uribe and Kershaw hit consecutive doubles in the fifth to make it 2-0.
Domonic Brown got the Phillies' first hit in the fifth inning. He was later picked off first base.
``I see enthusiasm on the bench and hustle on the bases, although we didn't have too many baserunners tonight,' Sandberg said. ``The effort is definitely there.'
NOTES: The Dodgers have won six straight games at Citizens Bank Park. ... Phillies RHP Roy Halladay will make his second minor league rehab start Tuesday with Class-A Lakewood. Halladay (2-4, 8.65 ERA) has not pitched since May 5. ... Phillies RHP Jonathan Pettibone will also make a rehab start Tuesday, for Triple-A Lehigh Valley. ... Cole Hamels (5-13, 3.65) is scheduled to start for the Phillies in the series finale against Ricky Nolasco (9-9, 3.62).


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CSU preview: Looking for return game improvement
Newcomers: UCLA transfer Raymond Carter could play a role but looks like he might be the featured running back.
Biggest losses: KR Dion Morton (24.6 yards per returns
Strengths: Rams were solid in kick returns last season ranking third in the MWC and 37th overall led by Morton.
Weaknesses: Punt returning has been an area of emphasis this fall because the Rams averaged barely more than one punt return a game last season. The defense wasn't great but did make opponents punt a few times a game.
What to look for: John Mosure, Lou Greenwood and Momo Thomas are back for return duties on the two units. Carter brings more speed to the team.

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Monarchs host rival William & Mary in CAA Home Opener Wednesday Night
By ODU Athletics
Oct. 7, 2008
NORFOLK, VA - The Old Dominion University (5-3-1, 2-0) soccer Monarchs return to action Wednesday night as they host the Tribe of William & Mary (5-2-2, 1-2) at 7:00 p.m. at the ODU Soccer Complex. In the NSCAA/adidas Regional Rankings, the Tribe currently sits at #3, while the Monarchs have risen to #6. Three of the top four scorers in the CAA will be in action.
ODU has now won three straight and five of their last six games overall. The all-time series is tied 18-18-8, including a thrilling 1-0 Monarch victory in two overtime periods last year in Williamsburg. ODU has won five straight against the Tribe to pull the all-time series even. The last victory in the series for William & Mary was a 2-0 decision in 2002.
The Monarchs are led by sophomore forward T.J. Beaulieu (Apex, NC) with a CAA second best 12 points on four goals and four assists this season. Beaulieu currently ranks fourth in the CAA in assists, and is tied for second in the CAA with teammate Steffen Rabben (Fagernes, Valdres, Norway) with four goals. Freshman keeper Michael Roura (Middletown, NJ) has pitched back-to-back shutouts for the Monarchs to open conference play. Senior forward Trevor Banks (Madison, WI) is tied for eighth in the CAA with three goals.
Last Saturday, the Monarchs defeated UNC Wilmington 1-0 on the road to improve to 2-0 in CAA play. Bobby Foglesong's (Fredericksburg, VA) goal with 19 minutes left in the match was the difference for the Monarchs. It was Foglesong's first goal of the season. Michael Roura was named CAA Rookie of the Week for his work against the Seahawks.
William & Mary is coming off a thrilling 1-0 overtime victory at George Mason on Saturday to earn their first CAA victory of the season and snap a two game losing streak. Sophomore midfielder Nathaniel Baako leads the Tribe with 11 points including four goals and three assists. He is tied for second in the CAA with four goals. Junior midfielder Price Thomas has also contributed 8 points for William & Mary with two assists and three goals, including the game winner at George Mason. He is tied for eighth in the CAA in goals scored. Sophomore goalkeeper Andrew McAdams has recorded 33 saves in 9 games for W&M.
ODU is back on the field Saturday, October 11th as they host Towson at 7:00 p.m. at the ODU Soccer Complex.


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Blame it on Bill Polian and the COlts. Once they began emphasizing contact by the DBs, the offense exploded. Add the "can't touch the qb" rules and the can't hit receiver rules and you have what you have.
Im curious how you guys feel about this 'NEW' NFL ... where essentially it is no longer a battle offense vs defense, but rather a competition to see who can calculate a way to posses the ball one more time than your opponent. Defenses have been so marginalized that the game now resembles a computer RTS ... essentially a race.
24-21 at the half
Id love to compare the average scores of todays games vs the games of the 80s and early 90s.
its ridiculous, and somewhat boring to watch IMHO. I have a sneaking suspicion that you are going to see a huge discrepancy between offense and defense as far as athleticism goes. As all teams realize that a football game is nothing more than an offensive exhibition, guys with the most athletic ability will migrate to the offensive side of the ball ... making the game even more unbalanced than it is today.
The sad thing is that the casual fan thinks its awesome.
Blame it on Bill Polian and the COlts. Once they began emphasizing contact by the DBs, the offense exploded. Add the "can't touch the qb" rules and the can't hit receiver rules and you have what you have.
Lol ... 74+ points in the nines game ... Wtf.
I definitely agree. I enjoy football less than I used to because while great players still make great plays, the games still seem to come down to who has the ball last or one more time.
I always thought scoring was exciting - but it just doesn't seem to happen in as exciting ways anymore; so much feels like pitch and catch.
You're absolutely right. If you want to win you need to be able to consistently score 30+ points. Period. There is no defense wins championships, ground and pound , none of it. I'm not interested in Quinton Coples, Darrel Revis, Muhammed Wilkerson....they're dressing on a ghost. I don't care if our D can't stop anoyone, nobody can. This is plahyoff football and all these D's are just about useless. You win if you can score again and again and again at will. Period. Goodell and the concussion craze have changed the game forever.
I agree, Dunnie. I still think the Defense is important, though, because a good Defense could have kept those scores down. Plus the D was responsible for some interceptions and fumble recoveries that were game changers.
Strictly passing games are boooooorriiing, but it seems that even in college football nobody cares about the defense except the SEC teams. But then again, that's why SEC teams win the BCS more often than those teams with high-scoring offenses but crappy defenses.
FWIW Denvers offense only scored 21 points over 4 periods. The special teams got them the other 14.
Lets not also forget about the picks sixes today.
Offense is the most important facet of the game right now, but defense and ST still matter.
Here's how I see it if I'm a GM in today's game. You do try to draft guys like Von Miller, Aldon Smith, Demarcus Ware, Revis, etc... You get thm on the team young and sign them for rookie contracts. You invest roughly 70% of your cap on offense. When guys like Smith, Miller, Revis, etc...are up for their big pay contracts..let them go. When guys like Kaepernick, Flacco, Crabtree, Gronk, Brady, D Thomas, Wilson, etc.. are up, pay them. RB's that really are game changes like Lynch or Rice, pay them too otherwise go young and cheap. Invest veteran contracts on guys who are proven to put points on the board and keep trying to draft young on defense and keep the money on the guys that put points on the board. You will not win with a top 10 D if it means your offense is deficient. This has been the case for a while, but is amplified even more today with the rules that now govern the game.
far less enjoyable now. Arena football.
There is no longer dominant defenses, the rules havent helped
Allow the DB to chuck until the ball is in the air (pre 1978). Make pass interference a 15 yard (or spot) penalty unless the receivers arms are grabbed. That is it.
You have to keep the qb healthy as that was generates income and ratings.


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June 2012 Issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Under our Early View feature, articles in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health are published online as they complete the production process, which allows us to get material to you weeks before the printed journal arrives in your mailbox. Sign up at this link to receive an alert when new materials become available.
Many of you have already seen this widely circulated article from our June issue: "Young Adults' Contraceptive Knowledge, Norms and Attitudes: Associations with Risk of Unintended Pregnancy," by Jennifer Frost et al., of the Guttmacher Institute (click here for the news release).
In Rural Areas, Barriers to Contraceptive and Preconception Care May Be Rooted in Community Norms
Primary care physicians in rural Pennsylvania believed they played a critical role in providing contraceptive care. They reported thinking that their patients were more likely to seek such care from a primary care provider than were patients in urban settings because of a lack of specialized services in rural areas, according to "Primary Care Physicians' Perceptions of Barriers to Preventive Reproductive Health Care in Rural Communities," by Cynthia H. Chuang, of Penn State College of Medicine, et al. The authors conducted semistructured interviews with 19 rural primary care physicians in central Pennsylvania and found that the scope of contraceptive care they provided varied widely among the providers. Additionally, despite acknowledging the importance of planning for pregnancy, most providers reported that they did not routinely initiate preconception counseling for varied reasons: Some believed it was not their role, while others were uncertain of what they could bring to the discussion.
The providers felt that their own practices, combined with family planning clinics and pharmacies in their areas, provide sufficient access to contraceptive care in their communities. They suggested that lack of access was not the driving force behind rural women's low use of contraceptive and preconception services. Rather, they believed that rural community norms, which are accepting of unintended pregnancies, large families and early childbearing, are the biggest barrier to women's receipt of such care. The authors suggest that overcoming attitudes such as indifference to family planning in rural communities is essential to improving use of services. They recommend that primary care physicians take a more proactive role in promoting preventive reproductive health care to their patients.
Women Support Over-the-Counter Access to Birth Control Pills; Raise Concerns About Cost and Safety
Overall, participants report that it is relatively easy for them to obtain both prescription and nonprescription contraceptive methods, but also indicate that various barriers prevent them from using their preferred method consistently, according to "Barriers to Contraception and Interest in Over-the-Counter Access Among Low-Income Women: A Qualitative Study," by Amanda Dennis and Daniel Grossman of Ibis Reproductive Health. The authors conducted focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with 45 low-income women in Boston to explore how they access contraceptives and whether they support making oral contraceptives available over the counter. Women reported cost to be a major barrier to obtaining both prescription and nonprescription contraceptives, regardless of whether they had insurance. Some said that they had stopped using their preferred method and switched to condoms, which they could obtain at no or low cost.
Most of the women interviewed support over-the-counter access to the pill, saying that it would simplify access to the method by removing barriers such as a required clinic visit and insurance providers' restrictions on the number of packs that may be bought at once and on the timing between purchases. Although many women raised concerns about the cost of the pill if it became available over the counter, they expected that their overall out-of-pocket costs would likely decrease because they would no longer have to make an office visit to get a prescription. Additionally, many women raised concerns about the safety of over-the-counter access, particularly for young women, first time users and women with medical conditions. Interestingly, although most women thought the pill was safe enough for them to use without a provider's intervention, they had concerns about "other" women's ability to do so safely and correctly. The authors suggest that making the pill available over the counter could improve women's consistent use of this method, which could reduce unintended pregnancy and lead to improved health outcomes for mothers and their children. However, they acknowledge that over-the-counter access would not benefit women who have trouble maintaining daily pill use or women not interested in hormonal contraceptives.
Qualitative Study Suggests Teens Understand the Importance of Key Strategies for Preventing STDs, but Have Difficulty Employing Them
A sample of 37 black teens who participated in focus groups in North Carolina reported a high level of understanding of five key strategies for preventing STDs: practicing abstinence, choosing low-risk partners, discussing partners' sexual history, using condoms consistently and not having multiple partners. However, they universally perceived sex during the teen years as normal and abstinence as unrealistic, and saw the remaining strategies as difficult to implement because they relied on a partner's cooperation, according to "A Qualitative Study of Rural Black Adolescents' Perspectives on Primary STD Prevention Strategies," by Aletha Y. Akers, of the University of Pittsburgh, et al. Additionally, the teens suggested that the assumption that STD prevention is paramount when teens are making sexual decisions is incorrect. Although participants reported understanding the health risks of STDs, they considered the benefits of sex to outweigh concerns about STDs. In particular, anxiety over losing a partner was a strong barrier to prevention efforts. Instead of employing the strategies mentioned above, teens reported relying on evaluations of partners' physical appearance or sexual history to assess risk, and undergoing STD testing to identify and treat infections. The authors point out that these are ineffective practices that put teens at increased risk of STD. They suggest that counseling acknowledge the challenges faced by teens in implementing proven prevention strategies, and that prevention messages begin in early adolescence, before teens have formed beliefs that discourage risk reduction behavior. The authors note that a range of similar studies support the validity of their findings.
Financial and Logistical Barriers May Prevent Clinics from Providing Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives Immediately Following an Abortion
In in-depth interviews, clinicians and health educators at 25 abortion practices around the country reported generally positive views about the safety and effectiveness of long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods, yet half of surveyed clinics did not offer these methods immediately following an abortion, according to "Postabortion Contraception: Qualitative Interviews on Counseling and Provision of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods," by Jessica Morse et al., of the University of California, San Francisco. The authors conducted their study to examine why postabortion provision of LARC methods—such as the IUD and implant—is uncommon in settings serving women at elevated risk of unintended pregnancy. They found that clinicians and educators working in clinics that offered LARC methods immediately postabortion tended to have greater knowledge about these methods and to perceive fewer risks for their patients, while clinicians at practices that did not routinely offer LARC were more likely to express concern about risks such as IUD expulsion, infection or perforation. In half of practices, LARC methods were available only at a follow-up visit, rather than on the same day as abortion provision, although this delay may increase women's pregnancy risk because of interim exposure and low follow-up rates. The most commonly reported barriers to immediate postabortion LARC services were cost (to the clinic and the patient) and concerns that adding time-intensive processes for LARC counseling, consent and provision would disrupt the clinic schedule. Many clinics' decisions about whether to offer postabortion LARC services were based on administrative or logistical factors, rather than medical reasons. Morse and her colleagues suggest that making the most effective and cost-effective methods of contraception (which include LARC methods) available to women in postabortion settings will help "reduce the risk of recurring unintended pregnancy and repeat abortion." To accomplish this, they recommend further education and training for clinic staff.
Many Women Are Confident in Their Decision to Obtain An Abortion, Even Before Counseling
For nearly all abortions performed at one U.S. clinic in 2008, women reported that they were sure of their decision to have an abortion and that doing so was a better choice for them at the time than having a baby, according to "Attitudes and Decision Making Among Women Seeking Abortions at One U.S. Clinic," by Diana Greene Foster, of the University of California, San Francisco, et al. The authors analyzed data collected via precounseling needs assessment forms and clinical intake forms of about 5,100 women who sought abortions. They found that for 87% of abortions sought, women had high confidence in their decision even before receiving counseling. Some women reported lower confidence in their abortion decision, including those who were younger than age 20, were black, had less than a high school education or had a history of depression. The presence of a fetal anomaly was also linked with a reduced likelihood of confidence.
Abortion policy in the United States focuses on requirements such as waiting periods, state-mandated information and parental involvement, which are based on the premise that women are unaware of the nature of abortion and of the risks involved, and need additional time to make an informed, thoughtful decision. The authors argue that the findings of this study contradict that assumption. Rather, the authors suggest that women would benefit more from interactions with caring, nonjudgmental, trained counseling staff who can assess and respond appropriately to their individual needs.
Sexual Minorities Are at Greater Risk of STDs Than Their Heterosexual Counterparts
Across all racial and ethnic groups, women who identify themselves as bisexual or gay report higher risk sexual behaviors, including a history of multiple partners, forced sex and incarceration, and are at greater risk of acquiring an STD than are heterosexual women, according to "STD and HIV Risk Factors Among U.S. Young Adults: Variations by Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation," by Sanyu Mojola and Bethany Everett of the University of Colorado, Boulder. Gay men and black men of all orientations report higher rates of STD diagnoses than heterosexual white men. The authors relied on data from Waves 3 and 4 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine the relative significance of various STD risk factors for subgroups of young adults defined simultaneously by their gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity.
The findings illustrate a particular vulnerability for high-risk behavior and STD diagnosis among young adults in the United States who belong to both a sexual minority group and a racial or ethnic minority group. In particular, mixed-oriented black men and women face unique sexual health challenges. The authors suggest that public health interventions be aimed at racial and ethnic minorities whose sexual identities and behaviors do not fall into neat categories, and who therefore might be missed by programs designed specifically for heterosexual women or gay men.
Additionally, you will find the following Viewpoint in this issue: Regression Analysis and Causal Inference: Cause for Concern? By Norman A. Constantine.
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That's moronic. If you don't like the license, don't use it. If someone else's code is licensed only under the GPL3...tough, it's not your code. Don't use it. Anyway, aside from GCC, there are plenty of BSD alternatives to most GNU projects. If many people don't like the license, they'll contribute to those instead, or fork an older GPL2 version.The ruler is not just a king, he's a God, so disagreeing with him is immoral, but it's also illegal, and you can get your head cut off," Torvalds continued
"Hey! That's GNU/Hypocrisy to you, buddy, and don't you forget it!"
The kernel can be replaced.
Yes.Is GPL 3 that unreasonable given the behavior of the RIAA and MPAA of recent?
Don't try to out-badguy corporate scum. They have budgets for it, you don't. Extending a software license to limit hardware manufacturers is ridiculous.
Nevermind the fact that this has NOTHING to do with the RIAA and MPAA, will accomplish nothing vis a vis their war on piracy, and so I'm confused as to exactly why the hell you brought them up.
Good question, but one other pops up in response to it:
Is exigency a good enough rationale for permanent change?
In something more closely approaching English, I guess what comes to mind is this... If they're just doing it to defeat a present problem, then what of the future?
Between road-to-hell pavement and the endless measure/countermeasure/measure games that companies (and malware writers) play, there is a danger of two things: First, that the GPL becomes a convoluted mess over large values of time in an attempt to patch every little hole that springs forth; that would make the thing impractical for programming use. Second, that something really awful gets discovered by a creative but perfectly legal interpretation of the changes.
In all seriousness, I doubt that either would happen w/ GPLv3, but IMHO, we really shouldn't get into the habit of this...
I grok the moral underpinnings, and appreciate the intentions, but there's still a nagging feeling at the back of my head that says if any more massive changes are made, then we'll be dancing right on the line that separates practicality from dogma. I believe Torvalds thinks that GPLv3 has already crossed it. Others prolly think that the line is still miles away (in either direction, if we count MSFT bigwigs).
Perhaps someone needs to define that point where codifying philosophy will only bring diminishing returns? Like I said, IMHO I don't think we're quite there yet, but that the next iteration may well take us right past it.
We have heard about trusted computing. It has many disguises (the beast always does) but one of them is that hardware won't run unsigned code. Very handy, in theory. You wouldn't want just any code by any stranger to run on your own hardware do you? Even if that stranger is you?
Offcourse trusted code is NOTHING MORE then code that has had someone pay for a certificate because we all know only people to be trusted can afford to do that (hint, sony's often mention rootkit could easily have PAYED to be run as
If only CEO types would start doing that (w/o hiding behind an alias, that is)...
Not flaming, trolling, or otherwise... but a sense of perspective is kinda needed as to why BSD didn't catch on as fast or as big.
(OTOH, the BSD license made it easy to incorporate a LOT of stuff from it into Linux, and the results converted to GPL licensing...)
You obviously don't grok the BSD license then, because it's not supposed to "protect" against that. What Microsoft did by including the BSD TCP/IP stack in Windows is the intention of those who license under BSD.
That, and (as MSFT later proved head-on w/ their TCP/IP implementations), the classic BSD license really doesn't protect against theft and proprietary lock-down of improvements.
Please explain how it is possible to "steal" BSD-licensed code. The whole *point* of the license is that it allows anyone to take the source code and do whatever they want with it.
There are few things that identify a GPL-zealot more effectively than talking about code being "stolen" because someone else's changes to it were not "shared". It's like making a speech in public and then complaining about how all the people who heard it "stole" from you.
I'm going to disagree with you on this one. Having tried to contribute to all three of popular systems in the early nineties (Linux, BSD, and Hurd), Linux was the *only* one where you could easily get any work done. I still remember getting emails from a certain someone (not RMS) telling me to go away because they only wanted experienced people working on the Hurd.
People who have read my posts previously know I'm a huge FSF fan. I'm also a huge RMS fan. But Linus changed the way free software was written. It didn't matter who the hell you were, if your code was good it got submitted. Before Linux you often needed to be in a clique to work on a high profile project.
While RMS envisioned free software development, IMHO Linus was the first to really realize it. He was the first to lead a huge group of people to do amazing things over the internet. Free software owes him a huge amount. The way we work now, the things we take for granted, are in large part inspired by how he ran the Linux kernel project in those early years. Now almost everyone does it that way.
Maybe it's hard to understand how this was a choice of "morals". But quite seriously, after being treated like I was, I wouldn't work on the Hurd nor *-BSD if you paid me to. Linux was the place to be *precisely* because it implemented the moral situation that was ideal for free software development. Everyone was treated as an equal. There was no "secret code". There were no "private" repositories. You could just do your thing. If it was good enough, Linus would roll it into his distribution.
The GPL doesn't enforce morals. It is a legal document after all. But it can set the stage to clear barriers for people working together. Many licenses force people not to work together, even if they want to. They insist on creating classes of users/developers -- some with more rights than others. IMHO, this is the "moral" issue that the FSF is trying to tackle. There's a hell of a lot more to it than just a license. But it's a start.
So while most people didn't sit down and say "Hey, Linus is being more moral", people chose to work on the project simply because it was better. He actually acted in the spirit of license he chose. It was fun/possible to contribute. You didn't feel like a schmuck just for asking for the latest build. And I suspect if this ever changed dramatically in the Linux kernel development, you'd get a lot of people jumping ship.
P.S. You won't find my name amongst the Linux kernel developers. Shortly after started working on things I actually signed an inventions agreement that forbade me from doing free software development. Yes, I sold out. I did that for years and years. Until finally I got sick of treating my customers like shit. I finished my last proprietary gig a week ago and I'm not looking back.
Every legal system enforces ideas of morality. Why is murder wrong? Why do countries restrict hate speech? Why can't you have sex with your sister? These are all moral concepts enforced through legality.
Maybe Linus is having a bad day. And what exactly does he mean by:
Does Linus sell have a sideline selling PCs? And he uses some DRM to stop users modifying the software he supplies? What?
Reading the article, my main impression was that I'd like to see Linus' quotes in context.
Reading the article, my main impression was that I'd like to see Linus' quotes... period. The article claims this was posted on a public list on 20th June, three or four weeks ago... but something tells me that if he'd posted this to the kernel list, it'd have been on Slashdot (and other sources) rather earlier than this. (No, I don't read LKLM myself.)
Anyone got a link to a list archive somewhere?
and..I don't think it's hypocritical to prefer the GPLv3. That's a fine choice, it's just not *mine*.
. What I called hypocritical was to do so in the name of "freedom", while you're at the same time trying to argue that I don't have the "freedom" to make my own choice.
See? THAT is hypocritical.
The rest here [lkml.org].In a very real sense, the GPLv3 asks people to do things that I personally would refuse to do. I put Linux on my kids computers, and I limit their ability to upgrade it. Do I have that legal right (I sure do, I'm their legal guardian), but the point is that this is not about "legality", this is about "morality". The GPLv3 doesn't match what I think is morally where I want to be. I think it *is* ok to control peoples hardware. I do it myself.
Linus says, "I think it *is* ok to control peoples hardware. I do it myself."
Ah, the problems with the passive voice. (That's why your writing teacher told you to avoid it.) OK for whom to control people's hardware?
It's only OK to control hardware owned by you. It's not OK for Tivo (or the **AA) to control my hardware.
Both are sincere in their beliefs. RMS is accused of being idealogical and hard to get along with, however it was perspective and tenacious that created free software and the GPL in the first place.
RMS is the original author of GPL, gcc, bash, glib, emacs and many other important tools. No "normal" person would have had the vision or determination to do what RMS has done. He originally intended to create the compiler, the runtime library, the editor (emacs) and to OS. Only a person that was a little bit "crazy" would have even attempted to do this. The Free software world and the "open source" world are greatly indebted to RMS, no matter how hard to get along with he is, or what people may think of him. The vary characteristics that some people dislike, are exactly the characteristics that made it possible for RMS to achieve what he achieved. Without RMS free software would be nowhere. The GPL was introduced from the start, as being with a certain idealogical intent, the intent of the GPLv3 is in the same spirit as this intent.
It may be this idealogical attitude, together with acceptance of a faulty academic idea called the microkernel, that caused RMS to fail in creating a workable kernel to work with his other software. The HURD is nowhere.
What is called GNU/Linux and sometimes just Linux, is a merger between Linus' kernel and RMS' free software, and much other software.
Linus attitude is pragmatic. He uses the GPL as a tool just has he uses gcc. He is a great programmer and kernel hacker. He had the wit to reject the academic idea of the Microkernel which if adopted could have killed Linux just has it did the Hurd. There is no better person to lead the Linux kernel project.
If the BSDI USL lawsuit had not delayed the BSD project there would have been no Linux. Linus would have joined one of the BSD projects as just another BSD hacker. One of the BSDs would have become the dominant free software OS.
I believe that if this had happened, Microsoft would have destroyed BSD's commercial chances using "embrace and extend". They would have created a BSD/Windows hybrid that would have duplicated BSD's API. This would have happened because BSD lacks the GPL's so called "viral clause" that prevents embrace and extend. The existence of this hybrid would have been used by Microsoft to prevent the suits from even considering a move to free software.
Linus lacks the vision that RMS has. This has caused him to make several blunders such as the Bitkeeper Debacle. However the discipline implicit in the GPLv2 will prevent him from making any fatal mistakes. Were Linus to attempt to go in any totally insane direction, his project will fork. He knows this vary well.
I have given several presentations to Austin Linux Group from this perspective.
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Friday, February 29, 2008
Habits Interacting with NPC's
(The Stormwind stay started from when I would farm copper in Elwynn Forest. A level 26 bank alt pally has a lot of fun concencrating as she runs through the various mining spots in Elwynn Forest.)
I've only visited the Darnasus AH on the rarest occasions, but it's always the first auctioneer on the left. And if I visit the other Auction Houses, it's the person in the center as you walk down the ramp (Exodar and Gagdetzan).
As for banks, I faithfully visit the Aldor bank and guild vault on the left side only (as you walk in). If I visit SW, it's the banker on the left. And IF is the banker in the center, guild vault on the left.
My other alts have various spots to repair and sell gray items, but Leiandra almost always repairs her armor and restocks her reagents in Lower City near all the trade skill guys. (Keep in mind that she's a mage, so she never has her hearthstone set in Shatt.) If she only has to sell gray items, she'll do so in the Aldor bank area, the guy in the middle.
The whole point of all these details (and sorry if I bored anyone), is that I rarely deviate from these places. I'm just a creature of habit. Then again, aren't we all?
What are your obsessive habits in regards to NPC's?
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I was thinking about this same thing a couple of days ago. When using the bank in IF, I always go to the banker on the right as you enter.
The reason I was thinking about it was that a couple of days ago, the banker on the right was bugged, and instead of being in her window ready to help customers, she was against the far left wall walking into it like a zombie.
It took me a min or two to even realize that there were other bankers I could use.
Also always the auctioneer on the right as you enter in IF. :-)
- February 29, 2008 at 12:12 PM
- Pesce said...
Just a little quirk of mine, but I like to go to the AH in Darnassus. I never use the lower level Auctioneers. Instead, I go to the 2nd floor dudes. Nobody is ever up there and I wonder how many people even know they are there. Somehow this stops the beggars that hang around AH's asking for a handout.
- March 3, 2008 at 8:24 AM
- Leiandra said...
lol... I didn't even realize there was a second floor. lol. But even just using the AH in Darnasus... isn't it empty enough? There's really other people there, let alone beggars? /boggle
- March 3, 2008 at 8:39 AM
I have to admit that I only ever use the Banker immediately to my left when I enter the scryers bank, somehow it just feels like the one on the right is doing business with those filthy Allicane and I can't support that, a Blood Elf dealing with lesser races, PREPOSTEROUS!
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Would this be a deal breaker for you?
Is this good enough reason to break up with this guy?
So, to recap: The girlfriend, one Jessica Powell of Meridian, Idaho, is all strapped in and ready to make the jump at this undisclosed location when she begins having doubts, and finally decides not to jump. The boyfriend, one Creighton Baird of Amarillo, Texas, has already jumped and is encouraging her to jump.
"All right, here we go," Graham says.
"No, Devin, not yet, not yet," Powell says. "I'm not going to jump. I don't know if I can jump."
Graham doesn't force the issue, saying, "I'll count down to zero. If you choose not to jump, I'm totally fine with you not jumping."
There are at least 10 countdowns that are for naught as Powell refuses to jump, and she keeps repeating, "I can't do it," until finally telling her boyfriend, "Honey, I don't want to do it."
"Put two hands on the rope," Baird says.
"Please don't push me off," Powell says. "Please don't."
"I am not. I am not going to push you," Baird says. "I'm not going to push you."
Then, of course, he pushes her. And as she swings to the other side of the canyon, you hear Powell's voice loud and clear: "I'm breaking up with you!"
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Yep. If you can't trust someone then, the relationship won't last no matter how hard you try.
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I would dump him. It's about trust. It's about respect.


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Great analysis. Thanks. You do a good job of not confusing correlation with causation. In this case, it doesn't seem too surprising, given Beilein's offense, that this would hold true. M tends to either get back-door cuts and easy shots or 3s. If a zone team forces us to shoot 3-pointers (ala NW), our best strategy may still be to take the open 3 rather than force something inside. I don't think the answer is to necessarily drive more (though in some cases *cough* THJ *cough* yes, we should) but to take the best look we can get, acknowledging that we're at our best when able to take more 2s than 3s.
3 point FG Attempts vs Offensive Efficiency
[Ed-Ace: Bumped on a slow day. I'm working on the initial Big Ten recruiting rankings for the class of 2013, which should be up later today.]
I have never played basketball at any level, outside of a few pickup games. I'm not all that good at statistics, so I apologize for any and all statistical errors. However, as a former actuary, I am good at finding trends and patterns in data. Last week, Maize N Brew had a good article on whether Michigan lives and dies by the three. The conclusion was that the offensive efficiency was not really dependent on hitting 3 pointers. When looking at it the data presented, it looked as though the more three point shots UM takes the worse the offensive efficiency. I decided to take a closer look.
3 point Attempts vs Offensive Effiency.
I went throught the game by game box scores and looked at the 3-point attempts and plotted it against the offensive efficiency. [I removed Ferris St. since they aren't a D-I opponent.] What I found was slightly disappointing. The correlation was -0.15 (the negative means the higher the number of 3-point attempts the lower the offensive efficiency) and the R-squared was a low 0.02. However, when I took a closer look, I noticed that two of our lower offensive efficiency numbers came against Ohio and MSU, which is no surprise considering that they are the #1 and #2 best defensive efficiency teams in the country.
So to adjust for that I looked at the amount the offensive efficiency exceeded the opponents average adjusted defensive efficiency from Kenpom. The result was more in line with what I expected. The correlation drops to -0.49 and the R-squared rises to 0.24.
Looking at the results, when U-M shoots 20 3-pointers or less, Michigan is 10-0 (4 of them RPI Top 50 wins, 5 more Top 100 wins). Shooting more than 25, Michigan is 6-3, but those wins came against Arkansas Pine Bluff, Oakland, 2 overtime wins against Northwestern, Bradley and Iowa St (the only quality win in regulation). The 3 losses were the 3 worst performances of the season, @Iowa, @Arkansas, and the loss to Purdue.
Other Teams
So is this unique to Michigan? I looked at Northwestern, a team I think is most similar to Michigan's style of play (in the B1G). They spread the floor, shoot a ton of 3s and look for back door cuts. And I found they have a positive correlation between 3 attempts and offensive efficiency. A correlation of +0.17 (after adjusting for defensive effiency). The R-squared is a pathetic 0.03, but I think it is important to note that the correlation is the opposite sign.
I also looked at Wisconsin. Ohio relies on Sullinger and MSU relies on the offensive rebound so much that I didn't think that they would be good comparisons to Michigan. For them it doesn't seem to matter if they shoot a lot of threes or not. A correlation of -0.1 and an R-squared of 0.01.
Free Throws
One of the 4 factors is Free Throw Rate. I think this may be the most important of the 4 for Michigan. Michigan is 10-0 vs RPI Top 100 competition when their FT Rate is greater than 25%. Michigan is 2-7 vs RPI Top 100 when the FT Rate is at or below 25%. How does this relate to 3-pointers? My theory is that Michigan is at their best when driving the basket and drawing fouls and not settling for jump shots of the 3-point variety (I'm looking at you THJ). It might also explain why Northwestern gives us fits. Their zone forces us to take a bunch of 3 point shots (like 38 of them).
So as we go into the post season:
- Cackle with knowing glee if Michigan is driving the basket
- Worry if we draw a zone team that forces us to shoot a lot of 3 pointers.
If anyone has a team they would like me to look at, let me know. I'm going to try to figure out how to add graphs so you can see the dramatic downward slope of Michigan's efficiency against 3 point attempts.
nice work. 20 3s is a lot anyway. i wonder if the scouting report on us is to let us take 3s.
I did actually take a look at 3PA vs. Offensive Efficiency and pretty much came to the same conclusion that you did. Games like the last one at Northwestern where we shoot a bunch of threes and only make a few are less than ideal. Given our 3 point and 2 point percentages, our value of a three point shot is 1.071 points per shot, and our two point shot is worth 1.094 points per shot. Since I'm assuming that there's lower variance for two point shooting on a game-by-game basis, putting up more twos (which are often easier looks, particularly in the context of our offense) is the optimal strategy. Interestingly, we shot the fewest amount of threes all year at home against Ohio State, and won. We only made three.
I arrive at slightly different numbers:
Michigan shot 46.02% from 2-point range this year. That equates to .920 points per attempt.
Michigan shot 35.55% from 3-point range. That equates to 1.066 per attempt.
Did your analysis factor in foul shots by chance?
I took the numbers from Pomeroy's profile for us. The three point percentage is 35.7 but thetwo point percentage is 54.7 (which is good for eighth nationally).
I got my numbers from the stats page mgoblue.com referred me to:
Curious why our numbers would be different.
You need to somehow account for the end of game hack fest action that occurs when we are leading by a couple possessions. That could dramatically increase the percieved importance of FTR in wins vs. losses.
-# of FTs attempted increases greatly for the team ahead in last few minutes of a game.I'm no actuary but I suggest two FT Rates:1 before last 3 minutes of game and 2 Rest of game
- An often overlooked stat is Reb Effiency ie % of missed shots rebounded by offense.Mich is woeful at both ends of the floor in this area.I'm curious if this is a "Beilins offense thing" or "Mich is a small team thing"
I'm pretty sure M's poor reb% has a lot to do with beilein's style. reb% is tired directly to style of play, specifically with regards to the fast break. If you crash the offensive glass, you're more susceptible to giving up fb points. And if you crash the boards on d, it's tougher to get points in transition.
So I think beilein see's that, with our small lineups, we're not going to be great on the glass anyways, so we might as well surrender some rebounding chances in exchange for winning the transition game
You can't draw conclusions from data with such low R2. The R2 is telling you that the percentage of the variation you're accounting for with this variable is 2-3%. So of all the wild outcomes that can occur on the basketball court, the 3pt attempts can explain less than 3% of the result.
Don't get mislead by the fact that the conclusions line up in a way that you can rationalize - this data isn't conclusive at all.
I don't disagree, the R squared of Wisconsin and Northwestern are really too low to draw any conclusions. Michigan's R squared of almost 25% is much better, but still very difficult to ascribe many conclusions. The 25% explains more than any of the individual 4 factors.
There are a number of things that could explain the correlation. Maybe they are forcing a bunch of turnovers, and are getting easy layups. Maybe we are getting the ball into Morgan (seems unlikely). Maybe we are shooting a bunch of long twos.
Thanks for the comments on FT Rate. I went back through the play by play to see how free throws came in the final 2 minutes of the game. While it did have an impact in lowering the FT rate across the board, it didn't change much outside of that. UM went 8-0 against Top 100 teams with a FT rate greater than or equal to 25%, 4-7 with less than 25% FT rate.
I have watched them a few times this year, and saw the game against UConn today. So the story goes in the Big East, limited scouting is done and you play how you play against everyone. That seems to hold true with Syracuse. They do something against everyone and they do it very well (primarily because it's practiced and practiced and practice); they run a 2-3 zone the majority of each game and do it well, forcing a team to be consistent at one thing (shooting 3's and getting to the middle and getting looks from there with a big man/more "outside" good shooting looks). It's tough to beat them because it is hard to do that for an entire game and score more points than they're equally/greater quality offense.
As I was watching them today, I thought to myself, "How would Belein do with this matchup?". I don't know why, but I would love to see a Beilein/Boeheim game. I think THIS Michigan team, and I may be wrong and totally naive to Cuses' talent advantage(?) and quality of team they are, could hang and surprise people against that vaunted 2-3 Zone. I think Michigan could hit "enough" shots, and I think if THJ was efficient playing aggresive ball and Smotz had a good rhythm they could give them fits, andTrey has the ability to attack that zone to propel the offense. It may get a bit scary down low but I've seen these guys over-achieve enough against bigger teams that their size doesn't scare me.
Sorry, long post, but March gets me excited with all the many potential matchups. Hope this was all relevent enough to the OP in regards to shooting. Main point, against a tough defense like 'Cuse, I think Michigan's shooting efficiency (plus smart basketball Beilein can make them play) can play up to other teams.
Is that, like free throws, the numbers can be very different in the first 35 minutes and in the last five minutes. If you are 7 points down with 2 and change to play, you are likely to hoist a three, even if that's out of your offense. In other words, it could be that it was because Michigan was losing that they shot 20+ threes. Correlation does not imply causation!
Trimming the data - either by dumping the last shots taken, or by only including shots taken when the game was close - might provide some additional insight, though off course it may be really difficult to get that information. I kind of think hoops stats will be much better in another 10 years than they are right now.


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves have finalized a plan to build a practice facility across the street from their arena in a vacant former movie theater.
The Timberwolves and their sister WNBA franchise the Minnesota Lynx announced Tuesday a partnership with the Mayo Clinic, which will also open a sports medicine clinic adjacent to the basketball areas. It's part of an extensive $50 million redevelopment of Block E, a failed retail and entertainment complex that opened in 2001 but has been largely empty for years. It will be renamed Mayo Clinic Square.
The Timberwolves and Lynx have used a cramped space in the basement of Target Center, where a fitness club is also located, for their practice court and strength and conditioning work. The new privately financed $20 million facility will open prior to the 2014-15 NBA season.
Most teams have practice facilities in suburban locations. While practices are closed to the public, the Timberwolves touted their plans to hold youth games and clinics and make the space as accessible and visible to the public as practical in their home on the west edge of downtown.
"We are going to break that mold, and we are really interested in having this facility be interactive with our community," chief executive officer Rob Moor said at a news conference.
The new space will be on the third level of the building. It will have two basketball courts, with the Timberwolves and Lynx each having a primary court, and include additional offices for coaches, scouts and staff, as well as expanded workout areas. Timberwolves president of basketball operations Flip Saunders talked to team owner Glen Taylor about a practice facility when he first arrived in 1995.
"It took a little bit of time to get there, but we're finally getting there," Saunders said. "One of the things I talked about was the importance for player performance. To have the ability to be somewhere to work out, but then what became even more important was the ability, these late years when you look at the NBA or the WNBA or any sport, when you're looking at it, can you take care of your players medically?"
Saunders, Moor and All-Star Kevin Love made the organization's pitch to Mayo last summer, with Love flying to town just for the meeting. He's had input into the design as well.
"Our players are very excited about this," Saunders said.
This project is separate from the $100 million renovation scheduled for the arena itself.
The Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, about 80 miles southeast of Minneapolis, also will become the preferred medical provider for both teams and work with them on public health and wellness outreach. Mayo's investment in the sports medicine clinic will be between $5 million to $7 million.
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Southmen Quartet to perform at Celebration Family Church
Do you dream about the good ole days when a southern gospel music concert was exciting, fun and spiritually uplifting? The music was always "just right" - never too loud and the singers were neat and well groomed.Well, you can stop dreaming because here comes The Southmen and they are bringing the good ole days with them. The Southmen Quartet, a Southern gospel group, will perform at Celebration Family Church, 811 E. Broadway in Fritch, tonight (Sept. 25) at 7 p.m.Group members include Jim Hefner, tenor, who spent most of his adult life in gospel music and was a founding member of the Southmen in 1974. He also serves as manager and emcee, one of the best in gospel music.Buddy Burton is lead singer and is a former member of the Statesmen Quartet with Hovie Lister. He was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame as a member of the Statesmen.Baritone Larry Beck is an original member of the Southmen and bass Larry Parker has been in gospel music all of his life. Pianist Roy Bray has been involved in gospel music since 1966.Bass guitarist Johnny Washburn is also a founding member of the Southmen Quartet and serves as bus driver.The public is invited to attend. For more information, call 857-3830.


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Wow, this is nuts.
We may all hate your ghey football team, but we hope all of you Bostonians and any Hampurites are all safe today.
as usual, the frantic first reports are going to be inaccurate. the guy was a saudi, he was there, he naturally gets grilled but it wasnt him .
Ill bet you ANYTHING this will be a domestic terrorist. foreign guys make more powerful bombs.......
Stay safe guys if you are nearby
Wow, this is nuts.
We may all hate your ghey football team, but we hope all of you Bostonians and any Hampurites are all safe today.
Had two friends running today and both had their families sitting at the finish line. Thankfully I've heard from both and both them and their families are all accounted for and safe.
Here's hoping that everyone on this board that is up there/knows someone up there/etc. doesn't get any bad news.
From what I've heard, the guests from Newtown were unharmed. There were two other devices that were detonated with water cannons and cell phone service was shutdown as a precaution. I got all that from various Twitter feeds, so take it for what it's worth.
Little scary to think that if this is international, the NYC Bike Marathon is up soon. That covers 5 boros and 10s of thousands of cyclists.
Best thoughts going out to our Boston brethren. Stay safe, chowds.
Horrible cowardly event. I had 2 family members and several friends running today. Thankfully all are safe. God bless to all affected. The scar of this will remain for a long time.
about three hours ago, I suggested we can the speculation and wait for some facts
since then....
1. no saudi national under guard at any hospital as a suspect --
2. no third explosion at the Kennedy Library
one piece of good news
Cleatmarks heard from his wife and she is OK and back home
Boston Globe is confirming that one of the two dead is an 8 year old boy.
New report in says they found 2 more unexploded devices, one in a nearby hotel, and another possibly in a hospital parking garage.
And as sick as this is, the bombs were seemingly designed and placed to injure and maim lower extremities. Several people lost one or both legs in the explosions. Sick fukers.
CNN just confirmed that there is a Saudi national that is a person of interest being treated at a local hospital. So I guess the earlier reports were accurate.
There also said that multiple persons of interest have been questioned since the attack.
Anyone else here the nut job shouting asinine questions at that press conference. Control your press corps Boston
I just saw a photo that should not be seen. Don't search Google Images tonight, just brutal what these injuries look like.
Prayers go out to Boston.
Joe Andruzzi helping at the Marathon. As you probably know, he has 3 brothers with the NYFD that responded to 9/11.


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So, in all, this paper is not insignificant, but it's also not a reason to completely give up on security or to install a cone of silence around your computer.
I'm not sure that I could fit this [cinerhama.com] around a computer in the first place.
Uh, no. Your analysis runs contrary to cryptanalytic principles and the history of these sorts of attacks.
If you spot me 1 bit of key information, you have by definition halved the work for an attack. In this specific analysis, I need only consider those settings of key bits (in this case, bits of p and q) that correspond to observed behavior for an interval of the spectogram. This means that I can potentially crack the key in time almost linear in the size of the key, rather than completely exponential.
The work on timing attacks and power attacks uses very similar sorts of information, and the anlysis used here will likely be similar also. This is why Shamir, who is certainly qualified to evaluate the work at this point, describes it as "proof of concept": it would be surprising if the observed information fails to extend to a practical attack. It's just that in science, you publish when you have anything interesting to report, so that folks know you got there first.
i don't know, the whooshing and other noises my fan makes are more like white noise - it certainly covers a much broader spectrum than a simple hum, and it's loud enough to be more than background noiseof course, i don't know what i'm talking about, so take my comment for whatever you think it's worth
Wouldn't it just be easier to use money/women/men/donkeys to bribe the person to cough up a password?
Not if we are talking about anyplace that wants security. The article says that this is about attacking systems that are otherwise well secured. Secured against tempest attacks, and probably secured against incompotent users.
Incidentally, a password won't do, the idea is to steal a private key.
wouldn't you have a copper cage around your building?
Some places do have electromagnetic sheilding, but few
Encryption inhibits surveillance by ANYONE. That the government falls under the category of anyone is secondary to most encryption desires and uses.
If someone was attempting avoidence/prevention of potential government investigation, then the act of encrypting wouldn't make it more or less likely. They make use of encryption because they have some information they don't want the government to know. It's not because they use encryption but due to any relevant knowledge they have, that a person should ellicit investigation by their government. And then knowledge pertaining only to those things that governments should worry about (murder, fraud, and other criminal acts).
So by encrypting the code on my laptop as a security precaution, you're saying I bring unnecessary suspicion upon myself? Noone but my company and its business competitors has an interest in the trade secrets I manage and create during the course of my business. Therefore I use encryption as a means of self-defense. I inhibit investigation by those not authorized by me or my company. The act of investigation could very well be illegal. I would not give my government blanket access to my trade secrets, when I have no control over what they do with them. They should have no interest in them. in fact, by wanting to enhance surveillance of those things which they declare to not have an interest in and would normally have no involvement in is suspicious in itself. Encryption is a tool and is about as dangerous as a screwdriver.
The recordings below were made under nearly ideal conditions: the microphone was placed 20cm from the recorded computer, the PC case was opened and noisy fans were disconnected (where applicable). Comparable results where achieved under more realistic conditions (i.e., the subject computer is intact and placed 1m to 2m from the microphone) using more expensive audio equipment.
Twenty years ago at Bell Labs one of the speech machines (an SEL with homebrew audio i/o) had output to loudspeakers that went through unshielded speaker wires that ran past the CPU, so if you weren't playing anything back the speakers played back CPU noise. We could tell what stage a compilation was at by the noise that came over the speakers.
Strange thing is that high cpu usage actually dampens the noise, so my solution was to run a distributed computing client (THINK, in my case, but others will do as well) to keep the cpu busy. Works perfectly, and I even forgot I had the problem until I read this post.
I do think it's pretty lame that so many on-board audio chips have this problem.
If you really want to do some acoustic evesdropping, listen to the keyboard. It's got a much larger signal to begin with (from across the room, instead of having to paste your ear to the computer case.) Since there are always slight mechanical differences between keys on any given keyboard, I would think that the sound spectrum would also be slightly different. Being able to always listen in on the same user would also help, since most people are somewhat consistent regarding which finger they use on which key. (Evesdropping on people who were smart enough to take a touch-typing class in high school is also a big plus.)
Assuming you could discern between the acoustic fingerprint of 100 different keys, then it's just a matter of figuring out which sound goes with which key. It's a simple substitution cypher, which are almost trivial to break.
Sneak your cell phone into your boss's office, set it to silent mode and plug in a headset so that you can set it to auto-answer when a call comes in. Then, while your boss is busy typing dirty notes to his mistress, you call your cell phone, start recording it, and presto, you've got a keylogger without ever having touch his computer or the software on it. Then, at your next performance review, you convince him to give you a hefty raise.
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Fri-Sun, March 15-17- at USF Invitational (Clearwater, Fla.)
The Dartmouth softball team embarks on its annual Spring Break trek to Florida when it travels to Clearwater for the USF Invitational. The Big Green will take on Robert Morris, Rhode Island, Quinnipiac, Liberty and Maryland over the course of the three-day tournament.
Dartmouth Game Schedule
Friday, March 15 - vs. Robert Morris, 6:15 p.m.
Saturday, March 16- vs. Rhode Island, 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, March 16- vs. Quinnipiac, 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 17 - vs. Liberty,
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Sunday, March 17 - vs. Maryland, 11:45 a.m.
Back In Action - The Dartmouth softball team is back in action after taking the last week off from competition for exams. The Big Green will be participating in their third tournament of the spring at this week's USF Invitational. In fact, Dartmouth has played at this tournament each of the last four seasons and seven of the last nine seasons.
Going, Going Back, Back to Florida - The Dartmouth softball team is quite familiar with the state of Florida. The Big Green have traveled to the Sunshine State for spring break each of the last four seasons and will be returning to Florida for the second time this season after opening 2013 at the Stetson Hatter Classic at the end of February. Dartmouth even has its own tour guide as rookie Brianna Lohmann (Bell Glade, Fla.) hails from Florida.
Rumley Earns Ivy League Pitcher of the Week Accolades - Sophomore Kristen Rumley (Katy, Texas) picked up her first Ivy League Pitcher of the Week honor on March 4. She earned the honor after a win and a save at the Colonial Classic in Washington, D.C. two weeks ago. It was her second career Ivy League honor and she shared the award with Princeton's Shanna Christian.
Need A K? Rum's Has You Covered - Kristen Rumley (Katy, Texas) has started her sophomore campaign with a bang. Rumley entered the 2013 season with 151 career strikeouts, which placed her ninth on the Big Green's all-time strikeout list. Fast forward two weeks, and she already has 31 strikes and has moved into the top five all time with 182. She needs just 146 more to tie for the all-time lead.
Tight Games ... No Problem - Dartmouth has found itself in several close games this season. Three of the Big Green's eight games have been decided by a run and the Big Green has come out winners in each of the contests. Dartmouth has a pair of 3-2 wins over Bethune-Cookman and George Washington and a 2-1 win over George Washington. Last season, the Big Green played 11 games decided by one run and won just three of those games.
Rookies with the Big Bats - Freshmen Morgan McCalmon (Norman, Okla.) and Katie McEachern (San Diego, Calif.) have showcased that they have a long ball this season. The duo has combined for three of Dartmouth's home runs this season. McCalmon leads the way with two bombs on the year.
Hubert and Rumley Leading From the Plate - Captain Hillary Hubert (Grant Park, Ill.) and Kristen Rumley (Katy, Texas) are leading the way for the Big Green from the plate. Hubert leads the squad with eight hits while Rumley has seven. As a team, Dartmouth has 49 hits on the season with 20 coming from the freshmen. Morgan McCalmon (Norman, Okla.) and Kelsey Miller (Mansfield, Texas) lead all freshmen with six hits each. Talk about balance!
Hittin' The Road Again - The Big Green will return to Florida this weekend for its third and fourth tournaments of the season. Dartmouth will participate in the USF Invitational and the FAU Invitational while they are in the Sunshine state.
On The Road Again ... Part Deux - The Big Green, like most Northern schools, will spend a large chunk of its season on the road. Of the 50 games on the schedule, Dartmouth will play 36 games on the road, 26 coming in the form of non-conference competition. Dartmouth will once again take up residence in Florida, traveling to DeLand, Clearwater, and Boca Raton, for tournaments. In all, the Big Green will play 19 games in the Sunshine State between the USF Invitational and the FAU Invitational and non-conference games with Florida Gulf Coast, South Florida and Rutgers. The Big Green open the home slate on April 5 and will play seven home dates at the Dartmouth Softball Park.
Welcome to the Team - Dartmouth welcomes a six-member freshman class this season. The Big Green rookies hail from all over the country, with two players coming from the Texas. Donning the Green and White for the first time are: Kathy Dzienkowski (Austin, Texas), Alex Jarvis (Tustin, Calif.), Brianna Lohmann (Belle Glade, Fla.), Morgan McCalmon (Norman, Okla.), Katie McEachern (San Diego, Calif.) and Kelsey Miller (Mansfield, Texas). Welcome aboard!
Welcome to Dartmouth, Coach Hart - Assistant coach Ali Hart joins the Dartmouth softball staff this season. Hart hails from Atlanta, Ga., and was an All-American at Williams College where she graduated in 2012.
A Look at the Competition
Robert Morris- Robert Morris enters the week with a 5-5 record after going 1-3 at the Marshall Invitational March 1-2. The Colonials will be participating in the Rebel Games in Kissimmee, Fla., starting on Monday, before taking on Dartmouth in the USF Invitational. Haileigh Stocks leads the offense and is batting .429 with a team best eight RBIs and two home runs. She is the only player batting better than .400 although Maritza Jimenez is hitting .333 with five hits and three doubles. In the circle, Nicola Sleith and Geena Badolato have both seen time. Sleith has a 3-3 record with five starts. She is sporting a 3.09 ERA and has thrown 40 strikeouts. Badolato has pitched three complete games and has a 3.63 ERA.
Rhode Island-Rhode Island enters the week with a 1-7 record after picking up its first win of the season on March 10 with a 5-4 win over Coppin State at the UMBC Dawg Pound Invitational. The Rams will also play on Monday (March 11) before heading to Florida. Taylor Archer leads the offense and is hitting .333. She is one of three players hitting better than .300 and is joined by Stacy Fox (.312) and Lauren Klepchick (.300). Jocelyn Mattison leads the way with three RBI. Erika Szymanski leads the way in the circle and has a 0-3 record with a 10.89 ERA. She has five strikeouts to her credit.
Quinnipiac-The Bobcats currently have a 2-12 record and have dropped their last eight games. Quinnipiac last won a game back on March 1 against Illinois-Chicago at the USF Under Armour Invitational. The Bobcats, much like Dartmouth, have spent quite a bit of time in Florida and will play neutral site games in the Sunshine state before playing in the USF Invitational. Quinnipiac has three players hitting better than .300. Nikki Barba and Jordan Paolucci lead the way, each batting .324. Both players have 11 hits and five RBIs. Courtney Solt leads the way with a team-best 14 hits, with four doubles. Five pitchers have seen action in the circle for the Bobcats. Hannah Lindsley leads the staff with a 3.88 ERA in 30.2 innings of work. She has 12 strikeouts.
Liberty- Liberty enters the week with an 8-8 record after a doubleheader sweep of North Carolina Central on Sunday (March 10). The Flames will take on UCF in doubleheader action in Orlando on Wednesday. Sammi Shivock and Amber Donovan lead the offense. Shivock is batting a team-best .400 and has 14 RBI to go with 20 hits. She also has rounded the bases nine times this season. Donovan is hitting .389 and is tied for the team lead with five doubles. Katie Zavody has a team-high 12 runs and 22 hits. The Flames have a potent offense with 123 hits on the season and 84 runs. Annah Jo Brittingham and Chandler Ball have teamed in the circle. Brittingham has a 3.98 ERA and a 3-3 record with 26 strikeouts while Ball is 3-2 with a 4.05 ERA and 17 strikeouts.
Maryland-The Terrapins have a 6-14 record entering the weekend and will take on Hampton in doubleheader action in Maryland on Tuesday (March 12) before heading to Florida for the USF Invitational. Similar to Dartmouth, the Terps opened the season in Florida and when it's all said and done, will have played three tournaments in the Sunshine state. Juli Strange, batting .289, leads the offense. She has 14 runs with 13 hits all with 11 RBI. Shannon Bustillos has a team-best 16 hits while Lindsey Schmeiser has 17 RBIs and a team-best five home runs on the season. Kaitlyn Schmeiser leads the pitching staff and has a 4.86 ERA in 57.2 innings of work. She has tossed 36 strikes and has played one complete game.
Captain, My Captain - Senior Hillary Hubert (Grant Park, Ill.) will captain the Dartmouth softball squad for the second consecutive season.
Skipper Hanson Back for Third Season - Head coach Rachel Hanson returns for her third season as head of the Dartmouth softball team. Hanson has a 31-47 record in her two years at Dartmouth and has led the Big Green to back-to-back second place finishes in the North Division. Assistant coach Lindsay Vanover returns for her third season while Ali Hart is entering her first season on staff.
Follow the Big Green Softball Team on Facebook - Make sure to keep up with the latest information on the Dartmouth softball team by "liking" their page on Facebook, you can find the page by searching Dartmouth College Softball.
Keep Up with Dartmouth Softball on Twitter - For all of the latest Dartmouth softball information follow the Big Green on Twitter (@DartmouthSBall).
Up Next
Wed., March 20 - vs. Rutgers (Tampa, Fla.), 4:30 p.m.
Wed., March 20 -at USF, 6:00 p.m.
Thus, March. 21- at Florida Gulf Coast (DH), 4:00 p.m.
Fri.-Sun, March 22-24 - at FAU Invitational (Boca Raton, Fla.), All Day


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Upcycled fashion is no longer just for hard-core environmentalists. The idea of wearing items made from cast-off skateboards, inner tubes, plastic trash bags, car seat belts — even wartime bombs and bullets — is no longer considered bizarre but beautiful, as consumers pick up today's conservationist zeitgeist.
"Upcycling" means taking something disposable and creating something of higher value with it — making a purse from a tire, for instance. (Recycling, on the other hand, decomposes items into materials that can then be used to create something else, such as turning wood chips into paper.)
The rebooting of an item with a history and unique story that might otherwise end up in a landfill is what attracts many consumers to upcycled goods. And, as often happens as trends mature, upcycled fashion pieces have transformed from kitschy and sometimes embarrassing to quite ingenious, well-crafted and even high-end luxury clothes and accessories.
Here's the lowdown on a few fashion-focused companies that specialize in upcycling.
ENGLISH RETREADS: Some people get ideas in the shower, but Heather English got the inspiration for her eco-company about 10 years ago while floating down Boulder Creek on a rubber inner tube.
She'd been searching in vain for a vegan handbag and "it occurred to me that this inner tube could be made into the [one] I'd been dreaming of," she says. The first bag she made was just for herself, she says, but when she carried it, she got so many inquiries about it "that I naively went into business."
Today, her company, English Retreads, uses inner tubes to make purses, totes, wallets, belts and iPad and laptop sleeves. The items are handcrafted in Boulder, Colo., and sold throughout the U.S., reportedly selling best in urban areas such as Chicago, New York and San Francisco. The colorful linings are made from recycled plastic bottles. Prices range from $9 to $158.
"Normally, fashion is designed to last one season before the industry tells us we can't wear it anymore and to get rid of it," English says. "Many products are mass produced so they fall apart after several uses; things are made by people who are taken advantage of due to their socioeconomic position. These are all nonsustainable situations." The idea behind her company is "to keep stuff out of the landfills and use as few new resources and [little] energy as possible."
U.S.E.D. (UNLIMITED SUPPLIES FROM EVERYONE'S DISCARDS): Canadian Trevor Kehler found the inspiration for his company's upcycled seat belt bags and purses while contemplating the creation of a product he could feel good about and that would be useful but also speak to the "disposable society" he saw all around him.
"When I first started U.S.E.D., I was making sandals out of car tires and seat belts. I made two pairs," he says. "They were ridiculous.... [But] I realized the potential in the seat belts." He taught himself to sew, made the first bags from his home in British Columbia in 2002 and gradually grew the company to nine people with a 1,300-square-foot shop. Today his products sell in 62 retail outlets across North America and online. Prices range from $36 to $198.
The company upcycles more than 5,000 pounds of cast-off seat belts annually, Kehler says. All of them come from vehicles that have reached the end of their useful lives and they would otherwise be shredded and sent to a landfill.
Kehler believes his business model can work for other industries.
"I think our industrial waste is quickly becoming our greatest unnatural resource," Kehler says. There's "tons of trash, a sky full of ideas — we need to work together. Bend over and pick up the garbage.... The truth is in your trash."
AKAWELLE JEWELRY: Akawelle jewelry is Lovetta Conto's fashion offering inspired by her past. She's a 19-year-old Liberian who grew up in a refugee camp in Ghana after fleeing with her father from her country's civil war. In the camp she was selected for the Strongheart Fellowship Program, a U.S.-based nonprofit that helps rehabilitate and guide children traumatized by war and violence through entrepreneurship as an exit strategy from poverty.
She was sitting in traffic when the idea came to her to design a necklace with two pendants hanging side-by-side. One is a leaf made from a melted bullet shell with the word "life" engraved on it; the other is the round bottom of a bullet casing. Together they represent the transformation from struggle and conflict to life. Thousands of these bullets still litter Liberia.
"I think many people understand how serious a thing it is to wear a bullet that's been fired in a war that hurt people I love," Conto says. "I feel like when people wear it, I'm asking them to remember the lives that were affected by the materials I use — and to know that those same materials are now being used for good."
"It's a big beautiful world, but not an infinite place," Conto says. "Materials can have a life far beyond what we usually allow them. Transformation is possible and can be beautiful — whether from bullets to jewelry, or products that have hurt into products that can heal. You don't have to throw things away; let the past speak to you and show you how it wants to be reborn."
Prices for the necklaces range from $100 to $250. http://www.akawelle.com
TOSHEKA DESIGNS: The ubiquitous plastic shopping bag recently banned in Los Angeles and several other Southern California cities is not just a menace here but also the world over. So Philadelphia-based entrepreneurs Lucy Lau Bigham and husband Herman Bigham conceived of a way to transform the trash into handbags.
For seven years the Bighams have worked with communities in Lucy's native Kenya developing green textiles and products. When they approached a major Kenyan supermarket chain called Nakumatt and proposed collecting clean used bags from the market's clients, creating the handbags with their community groups and then circling them back to the retailer to sell, "they thought this was a brilliant idea," Herman Bigham says.
Today, more than 130 women in 15 underserved Kenyan communities crochet the colorful bags using techniques passed down from their ancestors. The finished bags sell in 15 supermarkets throughout Kenya, and the company is gearing up to enter tourist hotel boutiques and the U.S. market.
"What do people do with the many plastic bags they come home with from the supermarket? If they bring them back clean to the supermarkets, we can make a product that will probably outlive them.... We see this as a great intervention in making sure these plastics don't get into the environment," Herman Bigham says. "Most of our customers simply can't believe [the purses] are made out of plastic trash bags."
Prices range from $60 to $250. http://www.toshekadesigns.com
JUDARI: When Muscovites and business partners Julia Voitenko and Daria Golevko decided to start a fashion company in 2005, they wanted to combine their love of vintage and scarves. Both designers relished their vintage flea-market hunts across Europe, and soon they fell on the idea of making shoes with one-of-a-kind vintage scarves.
Judari is their Milan-based shoe company and Russy their new line, which produced 600 limited edition colorful and bright sneakers made from the old scarves they found across Europe. The sneakers can be laced with shoelaces or scarves.
"At first, the production was difficult because the scarves were all of different sizes and that was not a normal thing for a production of sneakers," says Voitenko. "Although even with that problem at the end we were happy with the results."
She says this is part of what makes upcycled fashion so appealing — "each item is unique," a stand-alone, with a one-only story. "We're so sure of the idea that we'll create more in the future," she says. "At first, some customers didn't understand and even called to verify if there had been a mistake. But now, people love the idea."
Prices for the sneakers range from $355 to $400. http://www.judari.com or find them at http://www.theboxboutique.com
MAPLEXO: When Oregonian skateboarder Lindsay Jo Holmes started her MapleXO jewelry line — flipping used skateboards into funky jewelry — she went to a local indoor skatepark and asked if she could put out a skateboard recycling bin. "They were so enthusiastic I baked them cookies when I picked up the boards and it started a trend," she says. "Each time I go to pick up boards now, I bake cookies and even to this day, we still sit up at night baking cookies for the rad people who send us boards."
The boards are generally made out of maple, hence the name (XO was added "as a feminine touch," Holmes says). And it's the boards that produce the colors in the jewelry. "It usually takes a second [for people to understand] and then they get it," Holmes says. "The scratches on the graphics, the layers in the wood, the contour the pieces have from the shape of the board — even people that don't know much about skateboarding can recognize these qualities. It's so awesome because each piece really has a story all its own."
She gets the used boards now from skateboard shops, skateboard companies, her friends, friends of friends, random people met at skate parks, the guys she works with. "Now, more than ever, I think people crave a connection to the things they buy," she says. "The plastic world of mass production and sweatshops has revealed its unglamorous truths."
The company sells to 40 outlets across the world.
"We love thinking about getting a board that has traveled on skate-trips through the U.S. and Spain perhaps, and then sending jewelry from this board to an order in Japan," Holmes explains. "So many pieces of the world can touch each piece."
Prices range from $18 to $98. http://www.maplexo.com


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When I started contemplating internet dating, a married friend who met her husband online offered me this piece of advice: Meet in person as soon as you conveniently can. It's possible to build up what feels like a great relationship in emails only to find that in person you don't click, and it's better to learn that you're not right for each other before you've both invested a lot of time and emotional energy.I would definitely suggest making concrete plans with this fellow to meet soon.
Thanks for the advice Wonderflonium,Petticoats, and Reader. I've been wanting to ask him for coffee or something but I was worried it might seem pushy since I initiated the first e-mail after I saw that he "wanted to meet me" on POF. But what the heck, if he writes back maybe I'll just go for it anyway.((hugs))Giraffe, Esq. I have some ice cream to offer.
I hope I'm not hijacking but I'm hoping to get some opinions from some fellow Spinsters I decided to bite the bullet and try online dating. I've been emailing back and forth with this one guy for almost two weeks. This is the first time that I've conversed with someone through an online dating site so I'm not sure how it all works. Is two weeks too long to be e-mailing back and forth without a date or phone offer? He hasn't responded today (he usually responds pretty quickly and at the same time) so I'm thinking he lost interest? Sigh, I hate that I care. Anyway....love this thread. You guys are awesome!
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Nowhere else in Lansing would Don Draper look so at home as in the mid-century splendor of the Spare Time Entertainment Center's cocktail lounge. From the black leather booths to the pendant lighting and starburst bar top, it could easily double as a set for one of those soggy power lunches on "Mad Men."
But not for long.
You might still know the place as Holiday Lanes, the bowling alley that has stood near Frandor on Grand River Avenue since the 1950s. It's gotten new owners and a changed name since January. A lot more changes are coming.
The lounge will be demolished to make way for a full-service restaurant called the Grand River Bar and Grill, said Meredith Assande, Spare Time's event and marketing manager. The former site of eight lanes at the west end of the building will become a two-story laser-tag course and an arcade where players can win prizes ranging "from a teddy bear to an iPad," she said.
Another eight lanes at the opposite end will become a "boutique bowling" area — basically a VIP section with its own bar.
And, if all goes according to plan, the property's exterior will eventually feature a ropes course for team-building events and sand volleyball courts for summer leagues (because, as Assande said with no apparent irony, "we have beautiful weather in Michigan and it's truly a shame not to take advantage of it.")
"As the years have gone by, bowling alleys have had to change as their audience has changed," said Assande, the daughter of new owners Michael and Nancy MacColeman. "We want you to have fun whether you're 3 or 93. We want to freshen things up and give people something new."
Not everybody wants something new.
"I don't like it," said Barney Eagan, association manager for the Michigan State Bowling Association, referring to the changes underway at Spare Time. "I'm kind of old-school. I like the old stuff."
But Eagan, a student of the game for more than a half-century, knows the status quo is no longer an option for many bowling alleys. "If they don't do something, they'll go out of business," he said.
The bowling industry ain't what it used to be. Your grandpa and his Blatz-chugging buddies from the factory were part of a surge in bowling that followed the introduction of the automatic pin-setter in the 1950s. That wave has long since crashed.
From 2007 to 2010, the number of Americans who bowled at least once in the previous year dropped by 9 percent, according to the White Hutchinson Leisure and Learning Group, a Missouri-based consulting firm. Perhaps more significantly, the number of certified league bowlers — long the meat and potatoes of the bowling business — dropped from 4.1 million in 1998 to 2.2 million in 2010. Between 2002 and 2010, 900 bowling centers throughout the country were shuttered, dropping from 6,300 to 5,400.
Waning participation has hit Michigan's bowling industry hard. In 2005, Brunswick — the world's largest maker of bowling equipment — moved its only bowling ball factory from Muskegon, where it had stood since 1906, to Reynosa, Mexico. Plainwell Lanes near Kalamazoo and Oxford Lanes in Dearborn both called it quits last December.
You wouldn't guess the game was falling out of favor if you were at Spare Time on a recent Tuesday night. Trend-bucking league bowlers filled about two-thirds of the lanes, with college kids and families taking up the rest.
Longtime league member Trisha Sherman embraces Spare Time's new direction wholeheartedly, making the koan-like case that with fewer lanes, Spare Time can recruit more bowlers.
"I love it," she said after a good-luck shot of Hot Damn with her teammates. The arcade and other attractions will "bring the younger generation of kids to bowling," she said. "And hopefully my kid can get a job with the laser tag."
At the other end of the alley — and at the opposite side of the bowling-optimism spectrum — was Bill, who declined to give his last name.
"I've been bowling for 40-too-damn-many years," he said, but the only reason he still plays is to spend time with his 76-year-old dad, who has Parkinson's disease.
"My daughter doesn't get into it," he said, over a post-game Corona. "It's not like when I was a kid and we bowled every week."
Bill said he likes the new owners, but he isn't wild about the shift away from traditional bowling.
"I always thought this was the best one in Lansing," he said, comparing the alley to Royal Scot, Pro Bowl and others in the area. "To me, the big change is the eight lanes" that were taken out for the arcade and laser tag. "There's a lot of other bowling alleys if I want to go somewhere else."
But its hard to say what those other alleys will look like in a few years. Barney Eagan, Bill and other old-school bowlers might soon find themselves, to paraphrase "The Big Lebowski," out of their element.
As league bowler Joe Gregory put it: "Nothings old-school anymore."


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Deadly floods devastate Buenos Aires province
Latest update : 2013-04-04
Dozens died in heavy flooding in Argentina's Buenos Aires province overnight Tuesday, with heavy rain causing widespread damage in the capital. Gov. Daniel Scioli said many people drowned after trying to take shelter in their cars.
At least 35 people were killed by flooding overnight in Argentina's Buenos Aires province, the governor said Wednesday, bringing the overall death toll from days of torrential rains to at least 41 and leaving large stretches of the provincial capital under water.
Gov. Daniel Scioli said many people drowned after trying to take shelter in their cars in Tolosa, an area of the provincial capital of La Plata. Heavy rains had killed at least six people in the nation's capital of Buenos Aires the day before.
Cars were flooded to their rooftops and rainwater flowed over the windowsills into many houses in La Plata. People waded out of their neighborhoods through chest-high water, and police and neighbors teamed up using rubber motorboats to evacuate families and pets to higher ground.
"Such intense rain in so little time has left many people trapped in their cars, in the streets, in some cases electrocuted. We are giving priority to rescuing people who have been stuck in trees or on the roofs of their homes," Scioli said. La Plata "has never seen anything equal" to this disaster.
The rains also flooded the country's largest refinery, causing a fire that took hours to put out. The La Plata refinery has suspended operations as a result, and Argentina's YPF oil company said it has an emergency team evaluating how to get it restarted again.
The rains - almost 16 inches (400 millimeters) in about two hours - hit provincial La Plata after causing widespread flooding and power outages and killing six people in the city of Buenos Aires the day before.
"We lost family heirlooms, appliances, clothing," said Natalia Lescano, who escaped with her family to a friend's house on higher ground. She said they had to get out by themselves, and complained that authorities weren't doing enough to rescue people.
About four more inches (100 millimeters more) of rain were expected before the bad weather passes on Thursday, the national weather service said.
At least 2,500 people were evacuated from their homes in the La Plata area, which is about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of Argentina's capital.
National Planning Minister Julio de Vido said about 280,000 people remained without power in the city and surrounding province of Buenos Aires, where most Argentines live. "Our job is focused on restoring service, but we're going to wait until the equipment dries to guarantee the safety of the electricity workers, because we don't want any deaths," De Vido said.
The flooding threatened to ruin food supplies across La Plata's metropolitan area, which has nearly 1 million people.
"There's no power in nearly the entire city," Casals said, adding that the flooding "wiped out the downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods such as Tolosa, Elvira, Los Hornos, with as much as 2 meters (more than 6 feet) of water, and people are on their roofs."
Many of the evacuees slept in their cars overnight. Transportation and business of all kinds in the city were at a standstill.
YPF said no injuries were caused by the refinery fire, which it blamed on "an extraordinary accumulation of rainwater and power outages in the entire refinery complex." The impact on Argentina's chronically short fuel supplies wasn't immediately clear.
The six killed in Buenos Aires included a subway worker who was electrocuted and an elderly woman who drowned inside her home. Many still had standing water in homes, basements, parking lots and storage rooms on Wednesday.
The governments of President Cristina Fernandez and Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri sought to blame each other for the chaos, and the nation's divided media focused their coverage in ways that put one side or the other in the worst light.
Macri said Wednesday that the only solution is for the constantly warring governments to work together on expensive and long-term public works projects, creating huge underground drainage pipes to carry increasingly common torrential rains out to the Rio de la Plata.
"Facing the magnitude of what we've lived through, I insist that public works are what will change this story," Macri said, describing one such project that was achieved through regional cooperation and a World Bank loan _ the kind of borrowing that the government of President Cristina Fernandez has sought to avoid.
"We need to do the same with all the waterworks that are needed in the city, in greater Buenos Aires and in the province of Buenos Aires," Macri said.
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