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Barcelona's dream of reaching another Champions League final at Wembley Stadium was crushed after a Thomas Muller brace, plus a goal each from Mario Gomez and Arjen Robben completed a 4-0 victory for Bayern Munich on Tuesday.
The game was billed as Bayern Munich's chance to finally end Barcelona's recent European domination - and they did it emphatically.
Bayern Munich have dethroned Barcelona.
Barcelona are only six points away from sealing another La Liga title in Tito Vilanova's first season after taking over from Pep Guardiola, who will become Bayern manager in July, but find themselves on the verge of elimination at the semi-final stage of the Champions League just like they did in the Copa del Rey.
Every team has the occasional thrashing but the manner in which Barcelona succumbed to a defeat in Germany will leave many wondering whether Barcelona are still the top team they were a few years ago - especially without a fully-fit Lionel Messi.
In the second leg of the quarter-finals, Barcelona failed to impress against PSG without Messi at his best and only went through on away goals.
On Wednesday, Barcelona were absolutely poor against Bayern Munich as a half-fit Messi couldn't inspire his team to victory. The Argentina international endured the worst 90 minutes of his career. He never seemed to find his feet throughout the game and quite frankly made Barcelona look a man down.
So, what must Barcelona do to claim their throne again?
Anyone will tell you that Barcelona's defence has been average at best this season. Dani Alves, Gerard Pique and Jordi Alba are all world-class players. However, Barcelona's main problem has been Pique's partner at the back.
Carles Puyol, Javier Mascherano, Marc Bartra and Eric Abidal are all options but with Puyol and Abidal approaching the twilight of their careers, Barcelona will have to sign a world-class defender like Mats Hummels or Vincent Kompany if they are to challenge Europe's elite again.
After going 2-0 down, Barcelona were in desperate need of an away goal but, unlike their German opponents that have a bountiful array of talents upfront, could only turn to an ageing David Villa, who seems to be past his best.
Barcelona will need to invest in a goalscoring forward to share the goals with Lionel Messi. Perhaps Gareth Bale or Neymar? Maybe even Marco Reus?
Barcelona boast the best midfield in world football but are over-reliant on Messi. Sign a defender and an attacker and they could regain their stronghold on Europe again - but until then, more nights like this will follow.
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2005-06 Men's Basketball
Bluffton 68, Manchester 50
Beavers improve to 11-1 with 68-50 victory over Manchester
By Molly Burnell, sports information assistant
January 4, 2006
The Bluffton University men's basketball team (11-1, 1-0 HCAC) defeated Manchester College (3-8, 0-1 HCAC) by a final score of 68-50 in Founders Hall on Wednesday, January 4, 2006. The Beavers recently were selected to the d3hoops.com top 25 where they currently rank 25th in the nation. With the victory Bluffton extends its winning streak to a men's basketball record nine games and a 1-0 record in Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference action.
The Beavers started out the contest on fire as they connected on four three-pointers in the first three minutes of the game. Seniors Scott Bergman (Elmore/Woodmore), and Darren Clark (Plain City/Jonathan Alder) along with juniors Michael Anthony (Ohio City/Delphos St. Johns) and Eric Schwieterman (St. Henry/St. Henry) all nailed triples to put the Beavers up 14-8. Manchester would not stay down as an Eric Berger layup started the Spartans comeback with just over 14 minutes to play in the half. Over the next three minutes Bluffton connected on only one of eight shot attempts as senior Eric Sweet (Ottawa/Ottawa Glandorf) found the basket to give the team a five point lead (16-11). The Spartans played tight defense and turned missed Bluffton shots into points as they trimmed the Beaver advantage to one point with ten minutes to play. Anthony ended the scoring drought when he nailed two free throws to put Bluffton back on top by three points. Defense was the key as the Beavers opened up a seven point lead with six minutes remaining in the half. Once again Manchester battled back and took their first and only lead of the contest with under two minutes to play as Jake Koziel dialed long distance for a three pointer that put the Spartans up 30-29. A Ricky Reucher (Toledo/Central Catholic) layup and a Bergman steal propelled Bluffton to a halftime lead of four points, 34-30.
Bluffton came out ready to defend in the second half as they went on a 13-0 run which was capped by another Clark trifecta. Wes Gardner broke the ice when he hit a jumper with 16 minutes to play. Sweet and Anthony combined for eight points in the opening minutes of the second stanza. Bluffton played solid defense and took advantage of Manchester's miscues to maintain a 14 point lead until Clark connected on the third of his three treys pushing the Beaver lead to 17 points with less than five minutes to play. Bergman nailed two free throws and junior David Patch (Minster/Minster) added a bucket in the final minutes to guide Bluffton to an 18 point victory, 68-50. The Beavers dominated the second half making 68% of their shots while pulling down 16 rebounds. Bluffton was 8-17 (47 percent) from three point range and 8-12 (67 percent) from the charity stripe in the contest.
Bergman led Bluffton with 16 points, nine of which came from three pointers. The senior also dished out five assists and pulled down four rebounds. Sweet added 11 points, six boards and four assists for the Beavers. Anthony scored 11 points and grabbed a team-high seven rebounds. Schwieterman rounded out the double-digit scoring for the Beavers with ten points and four steals in the victory. Clark contributed nine points and four assists while Patch added seven points.
Bluffton will return to action on Saturday, January 7 when they travel to face #24 Hanover College in an HCAC match-up. Game time is scheduled for 3 p.m.

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By Avi Salzman
FedEx (FDX) has rebounded since its downbeat earnings report last month. In fact, shares are up 8% in the past month, and just today FedEx forecast record holiday shipping. But UPS (UPS) investors shouldn't take the recent rebound as a sign of an all-clear; in fact, Barclays analyst Brandon Oglenski expects a "soft third quarter" from the package delivery outfit when it reports tomorrow.
"With results and guidance from FDX out last month, we suspect fundamentals for the global package integrators have yet to take a significant turn for the better. Although more volatile, FDX earnings have closely mirrored UPS results in the last ten or more years. UPS guidance for the fourth quarter is likely to take a slightly softer tone."
UPS is also battling consistently high fuel prices.
"Although not as much of a headwind, continued fuel price escalation provides little relief over the near-term," Oglenski wrote.
That said, UPS is "the most profitable of the package integrators," Oglenski notes. And the stock has been lagging behind FedEx this year — shares are down 2.4% in 2012, versus a 9.3% gain for FDX. Ssigns of a turnaround could help the stock.


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Lawrence Competition Winners Announced
The teams of 3Ls James Saywell and Mark Tupa and 2Ls CJ Demmer and Ryan Edmiston were named the winners of the James K.L. Lawrence Negotiations Competition. The teams advanced through two preliminary rounds and one semi-final round before meeting in the finals, where they negotiated a termination of employment issue. The winning teams were joined in the final round by 2Ls Amy Factor and Madalyn Fairbanks and 3Ls Kelly Kozich and Lindsey Ohlman.
Due to scheduling conflicts, the Demmer/Edmiston and Factor/Fairbanks teams will represent Moritz at the ABA Regional Negotiations Competition in Cincinnati, OH November 9-10. The teams will be coached by Prof. Erin Archerd, the Langdon Fellow in Dispute Resolution. Good luck to all!


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Arsenal are being linked with an audacious player plus cash offer for Liverpool starlet Raheem Sterling.
The 17-year-old Reds sensation has been in fantastic form under Brendan Rodgers, taking his chance in the first team on Merseyside this season.
But, with just 18-months left on his current deal at Anfield, The Sun reports that Gunners chief Arsene Wenger is ready to offer Theo Walcott plus £8 million to secure the recently-capped England international's signature.
Walcott is out of contract at the Emirates Stadium in the summer, and with negotiations yet to reach a settlement, the north London club are now ready to cash-in on the player.
"It's always important to keep your best players but if selling Walcott should happen, we'll replace him with someone, another big name," said the Arsenal boss, according to The Sun.
Rodgers is an admirer of the former Southampton academy graduate, according to the report, but does not want to lose one of his rising Liverpool starlets to secure the deal.
Arsenal will hope the cash incentive can persuade the Reds chief otherwise, but with the paper claiming Walcott's wage demands are in the region of £90,000, it's not just the transfer fee that will impact on the Reds' finances.
Jamaican-born Sterling spent a large part of his youth in London, joining the QPR youth setup as a 10-year-old.
He moved to Liverpool in 2010, and after impressing for the U18s and reserves, has taken his chance to become a regular in the senior side.
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X Factor judge defends format
Ronan Keating finds X Factor voters frustrating, but he wouldn't appear on any other show.
Adopted Aussie, X Factor judge and tireless cancer campaigner Ronan Keating says that despite his frustration with voting on this year's show, he is not interested in working on any other reality panel.
While disillusioned by voting on the Channel Seven show – which has resulted in some of the most popular bands in his group ending their run prematurely because young girls are not putting their fingers to phones – the Irish singer says he would never take a seat on Australia's Got Talent or Australian Idol.
"I love this show, I love this format and I would sign up again in a heartbeat," he told Fairfax on Monday while launching the Emeralds and Ivy Ball on November 16 at The Ivy – a personal passion project in memory of his late "maa" Marie Keating, who suffered an untimely death from breast cancer in 1998.
"No, no . . . I wouldn't be doing that even if they offered me," he said when asked if he would take up a position on Nine's new version of Australia's Got Talent, which will have an entirely new judging panel in its new incarnation.
"I saw Brian [McFadden] on Saturday and heard they canned it and got rid of the panel as well, but I wouldn't want to be on a show like AGT. I like X Factor because it's music based – I'm not interested in looking at magicians."
Keating says while he has been asked to do a lot of other shows in the past, it is the format of X Factor that appeals to him. That and the fact he loves Australia.
"Mentoring is important to me. I wouldn't want to be on Idol because all you're doing is sitting back and making a comment. I like the fact we mentor and we get involved. Everything from the haircut to picking the song, to the styling, to their attitude onstage – we're a one-person record company and I love that. I still get very excited. We all do: that's why we do it."
Many of Keating's acts this season including the popular What About Tonight and Fourtunate have not made it through despite heated audience reaction.
"Look, I've never seen a reaction like the audience reacted to What About Tonight," he says. "The young girls aren't voting. Parents own the phones, they pay the bills and young girls don't vote, they don't get on the phone.
"The mums are voting for Jason [Owen] and Shiane [Hawke]. One Direction didn't win. They were third. People don't vote for groups – I'm not moaning – I do feel that Australia will embrace the Collective no matter what's on the show. They deserve to do really well. They have what we are looking for, they have the X factor, the judging panel knows it."
Meanwhile Keating's personal journey with cancer has seen him "working like a lunatic" with the Cancer Council for the first Australian Emerald and Ivy Ball. The event is now, he can proudly say, in its seventh year in London and inspired him to start an event in Sydney.
"Maa passed away 14 years ago – she would still be alive today if she understood the disease. And as her children we didn't realise. I was 20 and on the road," he says.
I love this show, I love this format and I would sign up again in a heartbeat.
"For me it's about education and awareness and we rolled out a campaign in the UK and raised a lot of money and I just thought: 'I'm here, I have a profile, I have lots of great friends I can ask to come along, and lots of celebs I've hooked up with while I've been here, so why not pull it all in and make it happen."
Keating, who initiated contact with the Cancer Council to come on board, says he is hoping a special guest will help entertain the sold-out crowd alongside himself, Guy Sebastian and McFadden.
"I'm hoping to get in one big name – Elton and Chris Martin are in the city, so if I can get them to come in and sing a tune that would be great. I haven't stopped calling people. It's embarrassing. You have to lose all your shame about that when asking! Daniel Craig is here too, so I'm hoping to get him along as well."
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Diddy Actually Did It! Check Out His Hilarious 'Downton Abbey' Cameo
Diddy on "Downton Abbey"?! Diddy on acid?!
We doubt there are any hallucinogens involved, but Diddy sure did get his Amanda Bynes on Wednesday with some decidedly offbeat tweets. Yep, Diddy used social media to announce that he's joining the cast of PBS's "Downton Abbey." PBS tells E! News that it's "simply not true," which is a bummer. But that doesn't take away from the sheer amusement of these tweets. He started with a sort of verbal striptease. First:
I'm going to be making a big announcement in the next hour-im excited for yall to hear!
— Diddy (@iamdiddy) May 15, 2013
Moments later:
I have to admit that Downton Abbey is one of my favorite shows- and thats why Im so excited today @downtonabbey
— Diddy (@iamdiddy) May 15, 2013
Then the twitterverse went into a tizzy with corsets and bottles popping:
MY BIG NEWS: So happy to announce that Im a series regular on DOWNTON ABBEY-my favorite show+i'll be debuting a sneak peek tonight 12am PST!
— Diddy (@iamdiddy) May 15, 2013
He retweeted a shout-out from Christopher Minaya. And then he gave us a picture:
Sneak peek from the set of Downton Abbey. Stay tuned for a special preview tonight 12am PST #downtonabbey instagram.com/p/ZWTT75plzr/
— Diddy (@iamdiddy) May 15, 2013
And then another picture:
Another shot of me in action from the set of Downton Abbey-cant wait to share the preview tonight!… instagram.com/p/ZWeT78plyp/
— Diddy (@iamdiddy) May 15, 2013
So Diddy wasn't kidding. He was on "Downton Abbey"... well, sort of.
At midnight, as promised, Diddy Tweeted a link to a Funny or Die spoof. This is fan fiction at its finest, with Lord Wolcott (Diddy) inviting Lord Grantham to throw some hundies into "a little company named IBM. You may not know about it, but our kids will love it."
(Warning: Video contains profanity.)
For real though, on May 1 PBS did confirm that they're adding a black character to the series. He's just not, you know, a zillionaire superstar.


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Wouldn't it have been easier just to make the money legitimately?
Yes, 25 million USD is easy to make legitimately, that's why everyone is doing it!
Yes, 25 million USD is easy to make legitimately, that's why everyone is doing it!
guess you can break any system like CAPTCHA if you want it badly enough."
Moreover, this shows that the used security mechanism is worth at least 25 million USD.
The problem is that the CAPTCHA approach is flawed. Any similar type of challenge-response system can be abused for illegal activity. At the very end, the only thing an attacker has to ensure is that the cost of obtaining enough challenge-responses is less than the outcome of the illegal activity.
Say, if they pay a group of Chinnese guys USD $0.39 an hour, you can get a fair amount of human identifying challenge-response
The real flaw here is that the captchas were reused and identifia
It did mention they may have hacked into Ticketmasters systems, and if they did break in, ok, I can see that.
However, using scripts/applications to log into a site and buy tickets, I don't see how that is illegal? They are just using a program to mimic what human could do on a website that only reacts to input and doesn't care itself if a human or a scripts is behind the computer connection being made.
Is it against the law to study and make a database of captcha's?
Like I said..I hate scalpers, they grab all the best tickets for places that allow scalping, and even in states where you can't scalp, they grab the tickets and sell to people outside the state keeping locals from getting tix (since they can't by law pay more than face value).
But, I have a hard time viewing the mere fact that someone devised and used a program to auto-purchase tickets as being something illegal? What if an enterprising person that really loved going to shows did the same type thing to ensure that he could buy the best seats for a show that went on sale for himself and his friends? Same principal? In the old days when you had to call in for tix, would they have arrested people for having speed dial (new at the time) and using it to an advantage over people dialing by hand? Hmmm....
What I want to know is, why was a few hundred thousand reCAPTCHA challenges enough to have a reasonable chance of getting a duplicate? Shouldn't the number of possible challenges be several orders of magnitude higher to discourage this kind of attack?
The indictment actually states that, ". .
Keep in mind that:
(a) The $20 million was made over an eight-year period, 2002-2009, so the average was $2.5 million/year;
(b) The profit of the enterprise was split among the two principals (the CFO received $165,000 and the programmer received $150,000, natch...), so that brings it down to an average of $1.25 million/year for the two principals (I think we can agree that the salaried guys did not do well in their risk/reward ratio calculations); and
(c) The "profit" figure used in indictments is nearly always what a legitimate businessperson would call "gross profit [wikipedia.org]," meaning, to quote Wikipedia, "the difference between revenue and the cost of making a product or providing a service, before deducting overhead, payroll, taxation, and interest payments." As a criminal enterprise, these guys didn't have to worry about taxation (at least, the correct amount of taxation), but they did have to pay the salaries of the other 10-15 people working for Wiseguys Tickets, Inc., and all the other expenses associated with running the enterprise (computers
The point being, the retirement plan associated with these types of schemes is typically poor, as it's usually at a federally-funded establishment. These guys ran a small tech company with overseas offices, and could have done the same legitimately at a salary of probably $150k/year which, once benefits were included, would be equivalent to $250k/year in cash (to make a direct comparison to their criminal enterprise). In a legitimate business, the CEO also would have had significant stock options and other perks given to him by the company's board to motivate him to grow the company. With even moderate growth over that period, the CEO could be very well-off. As I say, it's easier to make money legitimately.
And you sleep better.
Nice work. You forgot one thing when discussing what "easier" means -- entry into market.
Let's use porn as an example. Legitimate media is extremely competitive. Want to start a TV station? A Newspaper? Put out a movie? Music? Those things are dominated by incumbent players who do not like new competition. On the other hand, porn is forced into a low profile, so even though there are big players in the industry, brand names and other matters of high public notice barely even exist. So nearly anyone can make porn.
And since we are talking about event tickets, we are also talking about a pretty well limited and controlled market. It would be unthinkable for someone to just appear out of thin air and start making that kind of money legitimately. Scalpers, on the other hand, are delivering the premium goods with no need of marketing, reputation or other complications required for legitimate business.
So when you are talking about "easy" there are other aspects to consider.
They didn't rob the bank.
They didn't print fake dollar bill.
Every single dollar that they paid good money for purchasing the tickets are REAL money.
What's illegal about what they have done??
What's illegal about what they have done??
A: Nothing
IANAL, but I think parent is right in saying that these guys have actually not done anything illegal
The issue here is more of morality: while they didn't actually scam anyone per se, as a direct result of their actions, thousands of legitimate concert-goers had to pay more for their tickets than they should have needed to. In other words, they were sneaky and manipulated all these people into paying them more $.
OTOH, it is possible that the ticket vendors had some sort of legal agreemen
Gee, smells like unbridled capitalism to me. But what would I know? I'm a socialist/libertarian.
But the thing is, if "all" the tickets hadn't been scooped up by scalpers, there would still have been legitimate
IANAL, but I think parent is right in saying that these guys have actually not done anything illegal
Did you even consider reading the indictment? It's linked to from TFA. Or are you just going to assume you know all the facts, and make your judgement? Maybe the government lawyers were just winging it when they wrote up a 43-count federal indictment, right? Here's a hint: one of the things they did was break into other people's networks to steal source code. Maybe that's not illegal in your world, but it is in the one where they got charged.
BTW, writing "IANAL" is not an excuse for ignorance. I've ne
It's illegal because the artist, locationowner and distribution company are the ones supposed to make the money off the tickets, so a fixed price is agreed upon, and the royalties etc. are contractually determined in advance. Anything more is "scalping" because the scalper gets the money rather than the artist, who is usually the recipient of up to 50% of the ticket sales.
So if 20.000 tickets are sold for $50 each, thats $1M, of which half goes to the artist. Simple math. BUT, if 1000 of those tickets are s
that's just it they paid retail for tickets so the artist and the stadiums made the money they thought they were going to anyways.
scalpers usually buy tickets at normal prices and then sell them for more. now sometimes they do under cut the theaters or staduims but most of their money is on big games. were the $30 cheep seats suddenly become worth $70 or more.
Where the hell does copyright come into this?
They're not printing extra tickets.
So if 20.000 tickets are sold for $50 each, thats $1M, of which half goes to the artist. Simple math. BUT, if 1000 of those tickets are sold for say, $100, by the terms of the contract, the artist is supposed to get half of 19.000x$50 + 1000x$100 and who pays the extra ?
and that's how it should be.
If the artist wanted $50 per ticket rather than $25 per ticket then they should have sold them for more in the first place.
If I make a game, print 20,000 disks and sell for $50 each, thats $1M and if I've got a particularly lucrative contract as the developer I get half. Simple math.
BUT, if 1000 of those tickets are bough by someone, I get my 250K cut and then they sell those games second hand to someone else for $100 each and make a profit then that's their buisness.
I've already got my cut.
I have no right to a cut of their second hand sales.
If I wanted more then I should have charged more in the first place.
All the parties have already made their money on the tickets.
The "scalper" only makes money by selling a scarce item at what the market will bear. Had the tickets been priced higher, he could only lose money. Besides, it's a dicey business because if as a "scalper," you set your price too high, you're gonna lose everything.
Pure supply and demand. "Scalping" is the best proof of free markets anywhere.
Belgium the sites were unreachable 2 days before the sale even started.
And what makes you think that was due to automation? Don't forget we ourselves have taken down a server or two in our times.
In the old days, ticket wholesalers would hire hobos to stand in physical line. In the Internet era, is it now necessary for ticket wholesalers to not only put a hobo in front of a computer, but to apply for a credit card for the hobo as well? And this is because Slashdot readers now all of a sudden support click-through EULA's on websites? The crux of the indictment is that Wiseguys defeated Ticketmaster's et al human identification by defeating Captchas and using purchased varied IP addresses.
The ticket windows (Ticketmaster et al) are trying to engage in price control, which never works. Ticket windows had limited success in outlawing ticket brokers. Now in the Internet era it seems ticket windows have discovered a legal avenue to harass the ticket brokers by calling automated Captcha completion "hacking".
Wiseguys never engaged in malware or theft. They merely sought to purchase what the ticket windows had for sale in response to the market distortions -- in the form of price controls -- the ticket windows had set up.
What's illegal about what they have done??
There system obtained access to resource (the tickets) under false pretences (pretending to be different individual people rather than one organisation). That, I believe, is fraud.
Anyway, the poster you replied to stated "legitimately", not "legally". In common parlance "legitimate" covers both "legal" and "moral", and taking advantage of people in this way is generally seen as NotTheDoneThing. If you had to pay twice as much (or sometimes it can be several times as much) for something that you wanted simpl
Then simply don't buy the overpriced tickets, and these guys will go out of business very quickly. If people are stupid enough to pay the hiked up prices, why shouldn't these guys do it? I fail to see anything illegal in what they're doing any more than if a supermarket buys up a whole bunch of coffee or rice and sells it on to their customers at a higher price, or McDonalds and Burger King making insane profits on their drinks.
every sunday a guy shows up with 20 bags of flour. the townspeople line up and buy the flour from the guy, $2/ a bag
one sunday, this asshole shows up really early, buys all 20 bags for $40, turns around and faces the townsfolk and says "ok, that will be $5 a bag from each of you"
understand the illegality yet?
incidentally, this puts the lie to libertarians and free market fundamentalists who believe the market is healthiest when left alone. a healthy market needs to be heavily policed by the government to be
understand the illegality yet?
Nope.. if the townspeople simply refuse to buy the flour at that price (either doing without flour for the week or buying from a different location), the asshole is down $40. If people know that most of what they're paying is pure profit and yet still pay the price, they're simply idiots. This is exactly how a free market is supposed to work.
Perfectly, if people are willing to pay $5/bag for it. If they're not, then the guy will have 19 useless bags of flour. What will most likely happen is someone else will come in and offer cheaper flour, it's the nature of the market since such a high price will create a deadweight loss. Free market at work.
At the end of the day, isn't that what the supermarket does anyways? They buy flour for $x and then they resell it for $x+$y. What keeps them in check? Competition from other supermarkets.
>> understand the illegality yet?
>> , and so some people like you can't appreciate their evil up front.
Good thing we have you around to protect us from ourselves!
This is mickey mouse Econ 101 stuff. The only way your scenario ends in 'people starve' is if there is only one supplier of flour (i.e. flour is controlled by a monopoly). Even libertarians (many of us, anyway) agree that monopolies have to be treated a little differently, at least in cases where the nebulous 'public good' is involve
To be honest I don't see what they have done wrong. Their actions are no different from normal retailing. You buy low at a bulk supplier and sell high to individuals.
Sellers could cut them out by raising their prices so that demand matches supply.
Sellers could cut them out by raising their prices so that demand matches supply.
And wouldn't that be great? Instead of the venue, artists, promoters, ticketing agencies, etc., all covering their costs and making a healthy profit, they could... make a bigger profit. Woohoo!
Of course, for the millions of people attending events, they'd be spending a lot more than they were, or able to attend fewer events, especially if they want to sit in anything remotely resembling a good seat. And front row seats would on
Or, maybe, just maybe, in the interests of culture, fixed price ticketing is actually a good thing...
So then how do you distribute tickets, other than having a mad, random rush to sell them in the first few seconds they are on sale?
So then how do you distribute tickets, other than having a mad, random rush to sell them in the first few seconds they are on sale?
Registries of interest. Membership sales and similar schemes. Lotteries. Pre-sales. Phased sales. You know, any of the many ways that are already used.
There isn't a perfect solution where everyone who wants to go to an event where demand exceeds capacity can go. But pricing according to demand is probably, culturally speaking, just about the worst solution you could come up with
So then how do you distribute tickets, other than having a mad, random rush to sell them in the first few seconds they are on sale?
How about an auction? The first tickets released would get bid up to insane levels by superfans/rich a-holes who want to guarantee they get a seat. Once that high demand level is filled, the medium demand audience bids up tickets to medium prices, then whatever is left over purchased at lower prices by the low demand audience. This type of price discrimination [wikipedia.org] allows multiple price points for otherwise identical products without having a middleman (i.e. the scalper) cutting into the profits of the artists/promoters/venues.
Wouldn't it have been easier just to make the money legitimately?
I'm still trying to figure out how what these guys did was wrong.
The real criminals are the monopolists at Live Nation and Ticketmaster, whose merger will create an entity that controls over eighty percent of the live concert promotions business [wordpress.com], and who already demand a $12.50 "service" charge for the privilege of being able to buy a ticket online and another $2.50 just so you can print the ticket out on your own printer. (I guess that last fee is just a penalty they make you pay because you are saving them the cost of having to print and ship a ticket. No good deed goes unpunished, you know.)
The question now, is "just how high can ticket prices go?".
There used to be mom-and-pop music promoters in just about every town in America, putting on live music in bars, parks, gymnasiums and VFW halls. They've created musical venues that allow musicians of all types to ply their wares and make a living. That's going to end now that Live Nation/Ticketmaster are going to create a $4.4 billion behemoth [rollingstone.com] that's going to put the small promoters out of business and control nearly every single live venue.
You know what? These scalpers aren't the problem here. When a system sucks this bad, why shouldn't scalpers game it? You want a "free market" system? Welcome to life.
Personally, I stopped going to the "big" concerts some years ago specifically because of the Ticketmasters and Live Nations (now one entity), and I go to see music in much smaller venues as often as I can, hoping to support the music and not put money in a monopoly. Now, that's going to be harder because at some level almost every dollar spent on live music will be going to these bastards. Maybe I'll just start putting all my entertainment dollars into the hats and guitar cases of the many excellent buskers that inhabit the streets of my city (at least once winter ends).
A friend of mine mentioned when the technology just came out that you could just setup a 'free pr0n' website and you would get a horde of humans entering the letters for you for real cheap.
That probably works for creating hotmail accounts to send spam from, but not if you need to solve hundreds of thousands of capatchas in the space of a couple of seconds at 7am when the tickets are released for sale.
Except, as here, it can be done in advance. Once you can generate an ID of that image -- and that can mean simply a hash value of it -- you can store it in a database, and use it in that small window of oportunity when you need it.
Virtually every captcha I've seen applies a transformation or two of that image, from a small set of effects. So effectively you can end up with just one image for a given word, or a small finite set of distinct images. Add to that the fact that most use words from the dictionary,
Any company calling itself "Wiseguy" is surely going to pull some heat. It's like having a prescription signed "Dr A. Fraud."
You don't say. Of the Sicilian flavour.
$25m seems an entirely adequate reward for circumventing reCAPTCHA.
'They wrote a script that impersonated users trying to access Facebook, and downloaded hundreds of thousands of possible CAPTCHA challenges from reCAPTCHA. They identified the file ID of each CAPTCHA challenge and created a database of CAPTCHA "answers" to correspond to each ID.
So how did they generate the answers? Did they brute force them with a dictionary search? Or was there some other technique their hired programmers used, but which was not described in the article?
They probably hired poor people [theregister.co.uk] do do it for them.
In his Glitter and Doom tour, Tom Waits pioneered an effective anti scalpers scheme.
Tickets for Waits' summer shows were limited to two per person but, in an effort to beat ticket touts, a valid I.D. (passport or driving licence) matching the name on the ticket was required to gain entry. Any concert-goer who did not have a valid I.D. or was found to be in possession of a ticket that had been resold – electronic scanners were employed – was not allowed in and did not get a refund.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitter_and_Doom_Tour#Tickets [wikipedia.org]
That wouldn't stop scalpers. Idiots would still buy them, especially if they claimed that these tickets didn't need ID.
The buyer wouldn't get into the concert, be out of pocket, and the scammer would have upped and legged it long before.
Tickets for Waits' summer shows were limited to two per person but, in an effort to beat ticket touts, a valid I.D. (passport or driving licence) matching the name on the ticket was required to gain entry. Any concert-goer who did not have a valid I.D. or was found to be in possession of a ticket that had been resold – electronic scanners were employed – was not allowed in and did not get a refund.
If you RTFA (I know...), you'll note:
The perpetrators took orders from ticket brokers, who were required to provide credit card numbers and account holder names in advance of a purchase so they could be programmed into the bot.
All they would have to do to defeat the ID requirement is add that to the list of items they need to purchase the tickets. And people would still pay extra to them because 1) they wouldn't have to try very hard to get a ticket, and 2) they would have a much higher chance of getting a ticket.
And that would be a bad thing how exactly? Less brainwashing of our youngsters, and very easy to bag'n'tag the freakoes who attend the latest Disney "pre-teen pop-queen" shows despite not having the kids there as an excuse. ^^
In his Glitter and Doom tour, Tom Waits pioneered an effective anti scalpers scheme.
A different, simple scheme that benefits the artist: Once the venue is sold out (say 90% to scalpers) announce another concert on the next day. If that gets sold out, do another and so on. Result: Lots of money for the artist, who will play in many sold out but mostly empty halls. No money for scalpers.
How about a dutch auction?
Start the price offensively high, and drop it as the concert date approaches. The organiser gets paid the price the market will bear, the scalpers are out of the loop - because by definition, anyone willing to pay a stupid price for a guaranteed ticket will already have paid it.
You still get the same effective problem - that rich fans are prioritised over poor fans, but more money goes to the artist and the organiser, so they could throw a few benefit concerts or something to sweeten the deal.
I like the idea, but for all practical intents it's almost impossible to do.
Because you'd then have to auction off each seat in an order determined by order of importance, which would be logistically a nightmare with up to 100.000 seats available for an event.
For instance: I can afford to pay $500 for two tickets to a concert, but I want the best possible. If I wait for the best tickets to drop in price, they may sell out before they reach the pricelevel I'm willing to pay, so I need to buy the second best
Because you'd then have to auction off each seat in an order determined by order of importance, which would be logistically a nightmare with up to 100.000 seats available for an event.
I don't think that is true. They can just let a succesful bidder choose whatever remaining seat he wants. The seller does not have to decide which seat is the best for you. That way you can just wait until the price falls to $250 per ticket and grab the best seats available.
This makes plenty of sense. In any concert there are bandings of seating with a price attached. The better the view, the more expensive the seat. This is worked out in advance by the venue based on their 'values', but really it is the view and values of the ticket holder that matter.
So, price starts at $1 million and slowly drops as the cut off date for purchasing a ticket approaches.
If the guy who spent $1 million for his seat wants to sit to the left side of the back row - who are we to tell him he can't
The 'clock' in a dutch auction takes about 30 seconds to go to zero. That means that a sequential auction for 100.000 tickets would take about a month. That should give all people interested ample opportunity to attempt to buy a ticket at the desired price.
However, just like the stock exchange, the day price of a ticket would depend on psychological factors. That means that the price would fluctuate and the a price that is perceived high one day is percieved low another day. This creates opportunity for tic
How about a dutch auction?
Start the price offensively high, and drop it as the concert date approaches. The organiser gets paid the price the market will bear, the scalpers are out of the loop - because by definition, anyone willing to pay a stupid price for a guaranteed ticket will already have paid it.
You still get the same effective problem - that rich fans are prioritised over poor fans, but more money goes to the artist and the organiser, so they could throw a few benefit concerts or something to sweeten the deal.
The problem is promoters and talent want two things - sold out venues and maximum price per ticket. Scalpers act as a hedge against lost sales and inaccurate demand / pricing - they take the risk of getting stuck with tickets or losing money; something promoters don't want to accept themselves. Dutch auctions would probably condition people to wait because they learn prices will fill - which causes prices to fall - and promoters have no idea how much money they make nad when. They hate scalpers because, in their mind, they are taking "their" money; and convenientlyignore the risk mitigation role.
Laws barring reselling of tickets, IMHO, merely serve to restrict the market and raise ticket prices overall so promoters can make more money. There is no rational reason to bar ticket reselling anymore than to bar reselling of any other good.
I doubt that most of the "scalped" tickets are actually sold by scalpers. Most are probably sold by friends and employees of the event and/or venue.
Think about it--before tickets go on sale, roadies and janitors get a chance to buy premium seats at face value, maybe even with an employee discount. The performers don't care, the venue doesn't have to pay employment taxes on this unofficial employee benefit, and the employee gets some extra cash.
Between WiseGuy's and Goldman Sachs? Both use computers to game their respective markets.
they donate to politicians?
Seems to be the difference between acceptable and not acceptable is how in favor you are with the politicians who write the laws.
It's not illegal to resell tickets above face value in most states (check out stub hub [stubhub.com] for TicketMaster's very own foray into person-to-person ticket sales), and business can be conducted in alternate states with more lax restrictions on ticket resale.
Beyond that, smoking a CAPTCHA system with a bit of cleverness is not hacking or unauthorized access in any reasonable way. This is just a ridiculous attempt to criminalize scuzzy, crappy, opportunistic behavior on the part of one party (scalpers) at the expense of another scuzzy, crappy, opportunistic party (TicketMaster). This strikes me as another case of people trying to misuse the law to remedy the unexpected (only by idiots) defeat of a faulty system. If one reads the article, it seems like Wiseguys (seriously? That's your name?) made purchases on behalf of ticket brokers (ticket-broker is to scalper as escort is to hooker) with detection-avoiding measures in place to keep TicketMaster from blocking the regulars.
It's an attempt by TicketMaster to wipe the egg off of their face, a face that most of America hates with a passion. Perhaps they should find a better way (reverse auction, anyone?) to find the natural market price instead of using time-release scarcity to spur impulse-buys that inevitably result in person-to-person ticket resale later on stub hub [stubhub.com] where they get to come back for a second skim off the top...
Oh.. right...
Anyone who sells a ticket for more than its face value (with a suitable legal definition of "face value") would be hit in a big way. Any tickets they are in possession of would be forfeited back to the event organizer (who could go ahead and resell them)
If the penalty is serious enough (say jail or huge fines) scalpers wont bother.
Event organizers/ticket sellers could limit the number of tickets they will sell to any one person (so scalpers cant come in and buy 50-100 tickets or whatever)
that Stubhub is owned by Ticketmaster? I can't believe this. The last two times I tried to get into concerts at the Rochester Auditorium Theater and the War Memorial (Blue Cross Arena), it was difficult. Somehow all the good seats vanished almost immediately. But no, there are seats that magically appear on Stubhub. All you have to do is pay $300 for a $75 seat. Infuriated, I refused (obviously, I've been out of the loop for a while). So for one concert I bought tickets from someone on eBay (double the face
From the article
The perpetrators took orders from ticket brokers, who were required to provide credit card numbers and account holder names in advance of a purchase so they could be programmed into the bot. Once the account holders received the tickets, they'd send them to Wiseguy, which would refund their credit card account. Wiseguy also had a bank of about 1,000 phone numbers that the bot submitted as customer contact numbers.
So the tickets were payed. That is not the issue. Wether reselling should be allowed or not is another matter. What I am worried about is that they abused the credit card numbers of other people.
Is this like the South Park episode where Butters earned $300 million theoretical Internet dollars?
Ticket scalpers and domain squatters: Love 'em or hate 'em!
Sometimes I believe
It's a free market (after all, don't markets want to be free?)...I say kudos to them for figuring out how to scam the scam.
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PHOENIX — Arizona's economy will take a heavy hit if the federal government is unable to avoid the fiscal cliff, a Valley economist said.
Elliott Pollack said the nation would go into another recession, Arizona would lose about 50,000 jobs tied to the defense industry and people would put the clamps on spending to offset higher taxes. But it is all preventable, according to the real estate and economic consultant.
"It has turned quite real," he said. "It hasn't been dealt with. If we go into a recession, it will be a crime in my opinion. Say what you want about politicians, but historically they get in a backroom and work out a deal that is best for Americans.
"This time around they have not done that. They're too stuck in their ways both Republicans and Democrats to make the compromise to get things going."
The Tax Policy Center estimates that failing to reach a deal before the cliff would cost every U.S. household about $3,500. A typical middle-income family would see taxes rise by about $2,000. Those in the top 1 percent would pay an additional $120,000.
"If the Bush tax cuts go away, it would cost the economy $330 billion in 2013," said Pollack.
Large tax increases and spending cuts would kick in Jan. 2, 2013 if President Obama and Congress cannot reach a budget deal.
The cliff is on Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton's mind.
"I am very worried about it. All Americans should be worried about it," said Stanton. "If we go off of this fiscal cliff, it will put our economy back into recession here."
He said that would put a lot of people out of work.
"In Arizona alone, we are expected to lose close to 40,000 jobs in defense and aerospace," said Stanton.
"On the non-defense side, it would be another 12,000 jobs."
KTAR's Bob McClay contributed to this article.


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Buyers Beware - App-Shopping Red Flags
The App Store can be a wonderful place full of far too many games to count spread across every genre imaginable. However, despite all the rules and regulations for submissions, a few shady characters will inevitably fall through the cracks. In my numerous App Store searches I've seen my fair share of cash-grabs, some obvious and some not so much, but I've also begun to notice a few telltale signs that can be a good indication of a developer's intentions.
This guide is not written in stone, and there are always exceptions to every rule. And I in no way mean to imply that the majority of App Store developers are simply out to con the unwary out of their money. Quite the contrary. Most of them are great folks who are just trying to make an honest dollar doing what they love and making other people happy. I only wish to pass a few tips along in the hopes that it may give you all a better idea of some of the things to look out for.
Tip #1 - Judging a game by its icon
Not all icons can be winners. That being said, if you see an icon featuring a recognizable character or a recognizable character who's been slightly tweaked so they look a little different, proceed with caution. Using an icon that looks incredibly similar to a top selling iOS (even PC or console) game is a tactic often used to trick potential buyers.
Tip #2 - Check the screen shots
Screen shots are another good indication of legitimacy. They won't all feature showpiece visuals but they still need to be there. If a game only has one or two screens available for viewing in the store, and those screens don't actually show any in-game content, tread very carefully. Another "tell" of sorts is the actual content of the game screens. If the visuals look exactly like another game, or if (and I've seen this before) it looks like someone pasted some virtual buttons on top of a screencap, you might want to think twice before buying.
Tip #3 - File size
You see a game that looks awesome and the description makes it sound like the best thing since, well, the iPhone and it has a dozen glowing reviews. Before you hit "Purchase," just take a quick peek at its file size. If this jaw-dropping showcase of iOS visual prowess takes up 5 MB (or even 50), it's highly unlikely those screens or reviews are for real. Which brings me to my final tip.
Tip #4 - Check those reviews
User are largely subjective, but they can still be quite telling. If a game has a dozen five-star reviews and three or four with one-star, take the time to read the one-stars. Not liking a game is one thing, but when a buyer claims the game in question is totally different than what's advertised you might want to pay attention. Also look out for reviews that are way too positive. It might be a trap.


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SOUTH BARRINGTON – A lightning strike caused a South Barrington home to catch fire on Tuesday, according to the Barrington Fire Department.
Crews were called to a home on Terra Vita Drive at around 12:10 p.m. on Tuesday for a reporte of a structure fire, according to a news release. Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke and flames coming from the roof of the multi-story home.
Firefighters attempted to put out the blaze from the inside of the home but were forced to evacuated after a backdraft, which caused the rear portion of the roof to partially collapse, the news release states. The fire then quickly spread to the attic.
Because of the type of construction materials used and the rapid spread of the fire, officials ordered a defensive operation, while multiple hot spots in concealed areas slowed extinguishment of the fire.
Barrington received assistance from eight area departments, which were called in due to the extreme heat and humidity.
No one was injured during the blaze.
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Monsoon Trek....
What to do on a weekend when the monsoon strikes hard...Go into the mighty dense western ghats for a trek.A nice wet weekend where we trekked in the rain drenched ,leech infested forests..I am still scratching my leech bites when I am typing this..It was raining like mad and we kept trekking in the rain..Have only 4 photos in hand.Will post the rest when I get the whole bunch in a day or two.
Hitch a ride in a goods carrier to the point where the trek starts plus the worn out hunter boots..
After walking in the jungle in heavy rain and being bitten by so many bloodthirsty leeches,we reached a village.ut to get to the village we had to cross this river on this single file Burma bridge which was shaking violently.
Map which helped us come out of the forest without getting lost this time.Damn it..
The bigger village we reached at last from where we could get buses.....Mist still hid a lot of beauty..


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Kelly Howiszak thought that she wanted to go to a college in the city. Then the Daniel Boone senior visited and fell in love with Mansfield University, located in a scenic town of 3,600 in the north central part of the state, and she decided that's where she wanted to continue her studies and soccer career.
Howiszak plans to major in chemistry and minor in forensic science and hopes to make an immediate contribution to the NCAA Division II and Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference member Mountaineers following four varied and successful years of sports at Daniel Boone.
"The coach contacted me first and I went there for a visit," said Howiszak. "It just kind of felt right. At first, I thought I wanted to go to the city. I never would have imagined me going to a school like that. I fell in love with it. The atmosphere, all the people were nice, and it just felt right."
Howiszak, who also considered Lycoming College and Penn State-Berks, also wanted to make sure she chose a good school to pursue her intended field of study.
"That's what held me back the most," she said. "I wanted to pick the best school for my major."
She'll finish up her Daniel Boone athletic endeavors this spring with the track team, something that wasn't possible before since girls soccer teams in Berks County and District 3 competed in the spring prior to this school year.
She has been a key member of both the Blazer soccer and basketball teams for four years. Along the way, she played in the Berks Conference championship game in both sports as a freshman, made it to the PIAA Basketball Tournament twice, and was named to the Berks I All-Division Soccer team as a defender in the spring of 2012 and as a midfielder this past fall.
"I've played basketball since I was three and soccer for 10 or 11 years," said Howiszak. "Soccer – that's my true love and passion. I started as a goalkeeper as a freshman, but they said I was too fast to be a goalie. I started playing defense, and that's my main position. You have to stop the best players that are going against you. I've always liked that. It was different this year, trying to score."
That's after Boone first-year head coach John Pantone decided to move her from the back to the midfield for her senior season.
"She was a midfielder this year because we had a need for that," he said. "Kelly is fortunate to be a superior athlete. She has speed, she has strength, and she has size. She's durable. She's been, basically, the anchor of our team for three years. She was a starter as a freshman.
"Kelly has been just a great teammate, fun to be around, and the girls love her. She's a great player and also a great kid. She's smart. She understands the game. I'd often rely on Kelly and a few of the other seniors to give me advice."
Howiszak responded with three goals and two assists during the fall season that wasn't the best in terms of wins and losses, but was enjoyable nonetheless.
"It was just really about all the fun, because we had no pressure," she said. "Every game, we were going out and trying to create an upset."
Whether on defense or in the middle, she has used her 5-foot-8 height to her advantage.
Along with her busy school soccer and basketball schedules, Howiszak – the daughter of Pete and Pat Howiszak – has found the time to participate in the Varsity, Ecology, and French clubs and the Daniel Boone Youth Education Association. She also plays soccer for the FC Premier Lightning Soccer Club based in the Methacton area.
Howiszak hopes that her soccer skills and experience will earn her a starting spot on the Mansfield defense in the fall.
"I think it's reachable, but I'm definitely going to put work into it," she added. "I know they're not short on defense, but a center-defender just graduated."
"I can't wait to see her play next year," said Pantone.


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Five Bagatelles : Work information
- Composers
- Gerald (Raphael) Finzi ( Music, Images,)
- Performed by
- Malcolm Martineau (Piano), Emma Johnson (Clarinet)
This work
- Work name
- Five Bagatelles
- Work number
- Op. 23
- Key
- n/a
- Genre
- Composed
- 1943-01-01 02:00:00
This recording
- Label
- Producer
- Roy Emerson
- Engineer
- Martin Haskell
- Recording date
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The Composers
Gerald (Raphael) Finzi
Gerald Finzi is a composer most well known for his songs, which have a very English feel despite his Italian Jewish origin. Born in 1901, Finzi studied composition with Farrar in Harrogate and Bairstow in York. Before he was 18, he had seen the deaths of his father, three brothers and a teacher, initiating an early awareness of the fragility of life, a theme often present in his music. Moving to London in 1926 he befriended young composers Ferguson and Rubbra, and met Vaughan Williams, Holst and Bliss . In 1930 he became a tutor at the Royal College of Music, but had to leave to work for the Ministry of War Transport during WWII. Finzi died from the Hodgkinson's disease that had been diagnosed five years earlier in 1956.
Finzi's early successes include the Thomas Hardy cycles A Young Man's Exhortation (1933) and Earth and Air and Rain (1936), which showed him to be a master at setting poetry to music. After WWII he turned to larger works, including For St Cecilia (1947), Intimations of Immortality (1950) and the Clarinet Concerto (1949) - a twentieth century classic for Finzi's favourite instrument.
The influence of Parry , Elgar and Vaughan Williams can be heard in Finzi's lyrical and understated music. About two thirds of his works are vocal (his oeuvre includes more than 100 songs for soloist or choir), and display a great sensitivity to words - unsurprising in the man who left Reading University a 3000-book collection of poetry, philosophy and literature.
Related composers: Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Butterworth, Rubbra


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Craig is released, Lily tells Holden how she feels and Janet moves in with Jack.
Craig strolls into the station with Tom and gloats to Jack that all the charges against him have been dropped. "The universe is in balance once again," Craig says. Tom explains that there was no evidence of arson and the judge thought Craig was a victim of police harassment. This also means that Craig will get the insurance payout so now he is free and rich. Jack warns Craig that he'll be waiting for him to screw up. Craig's not impressed.
Liberty hurries into Al's and tells her mom that he has a job at Fashions. Janet's surprised and doesn't think she should push herself too hard. Liberty is sure she can handle it. They sit down and debate about Dusty. Liberty takes his side and asks her mother to give him another chance.
At WOAK, Lucinda is happy that Molly is finally backing out of the marriage. Lucinda taunts her until Carly arrives and Molly breaks the news that there will be no wedding day. Lucinda putters off and Molly tells Carly that Lily knows that truth about Silas' death.
When Liberty rushes out to work, she runs into Gabriel on the street. He tells her that he's calmer and more cheerful now. They chat about Craig, who suddenly walks by to announce that the charges against him have been dropped. He thinks this is a great chance for him and his son, but Gabriel isn't interested. Liberty takes Craig's side. Tom walks over and hands Craig a check from the insurance company for twenty six millions dollars. Tom leaves and the father and son bicker. Craig asks him how much money he took from Lucinda. Gabriel storms off and Liberty trails after him. She asks him where he's been getting all of his money and tells him to be careful about how he judges people.
Jack goes into Al's and Janet complains about her daughter getting a job. She stops complaining about her problems and he asks her to move back to the farm with him. Janet thinks that would be a step backward. "Think of this as a stepping stone," he says. She gives in.
Molly and Carly go to Java and talk. Molly doesn't know what to do. She tells Carly how afraid she was of Silas and how sure she was he would never go away. Carly advises her to fight for the person she loves. Taking the moral high road is a waste of time and she should do anything she has to.
By the water, Holden and Lily argue about the shooting and she accuses him of only rushing this wedding so he won't have to testify against Molly. He makes a case for why Molly did the right thing. He thinks Lily's just annoyed because he's marrying another woman. She warns him that he could be sent to jail if the courts find out he was an accessory to murder. He begs her to look in her heart and let this go. She reminds him about their kiss the other day. She loves him and wants him back. Holden says that she will always be in his heart but their marriage is over and she needs to let go. She walks away and he sadly stares out at the water.
Craig goes to see Carly at her place to tell her that he is now free and rich. He hands her part of the settlement - five million dollars. She wonders what strings are attached to it. After she makes sure the check is legit, she tells him to get lost. Before he leaves, Jack arrives and she tells him about the check. He takes it out of her hands and hands it back to Craig.
Gabriel meets Lisa at the Lakeview to interview for a bartending job. She snipes about Craig and tells him to watch his back with his father. Gabriel defends his father. Liberty stands nearby and listens in. As Gabriel storms off, she follows him.
Janet meets her daughter at Fashions and they talk about moving back to the farm. Janet thinks it will all be fine so Liberty teases her.
Holden storms into WorldWide to see Lucinda. He tells her that he is standing by Molly and if she doesn't let this go, she will regret it.
Lily goes to WOAK to see Molly, who doesn't want to listen to her. She says that she's leaving town and asks how much more suffering she needs to see. "I haven't won, you have," Lily says, handing her the forensics report. Molly's confused as Lily tears it up and tells her she's free to marry Holden.
Lucinda goes to Lily's and tells her daughter that they are doing the right thing. Lily explains that she told Molly to go ahead and marry Holden. Lucinda is appalled but Lily is sure that he loves Molly now.
Holden goes to the farm house and Molly tells him she's not going anywhere. She tells him what Lily did and he suggests that they wait so he can give her the wedding she's always dreamed of.
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LAURENS - It is said that offense wins games and defense wins championships, but for the Wolverines of West Bend-Mallard/Gi-more City-Bradgate, a huge defensive play with 1:10 to go Friday gave the Wolverines a 22-21 win over Laurens-Marathon.
The win improves the Wolverines to 5-1 on the season in Eight-Man District Two and 6-3 overall as they prepare for the season finale` Friday night when they entertain the league-leading Mustangs of Newell-Fonda.
Things looked tough for the Wolverines early, as Laurens-Marathon took a 14-0 lead at the end of the first quarter, and extended the lead to 21-0 early in the second quarter. The Wolverines didn't panic,
The Wolverines erased their goose egg with a seven yard run by Jordan Buhs, and then scored again off a Jesse Zinnel pass to Jason Zinnel just before the intermission to make the score 21-14.
In the third quarter, the Wolverines came out and scored a touchdown and added the two-point conversion for a 22-21 lead that would hold through the third and into the fourth quarter. But with 1:10 to go in the game, the Wolverine defense came up big with a quarterback sack inside the 10. But, Dustin Johnson would seal the outcome of the game when he stepped in front of a pass in the end zone to kill the potential game-winning drive of the Chargers.
The Wolverines would take over after the interception and went into the victory formation to close out the game with the narrow, one-point victory.


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Un buen recurso no sólo para los docentes, sino para todos quienes disfrutan de la lectura: la Biblioteca Virtual Universal, con acceso a obras clásicas y una sección especial de "biblioteca educativa", con textos para todos los niveles.
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Forsan school trustees to finalize bond estimates
FORSAN — School district trustees here will work to finalize estimates for a construction bond issue they hope to present to voters this May when they hold their regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Monday in the administration wing board room.It is now highly likely — although still not a certainty — Forsan Independent School District trustees will call for a bond election to be decided May 11. No final price tag has been set on the bond, although preliminary estimates are in the $20 million range.The major portion of that money would go to build a new elementary campus — which would be located adjacent to Forsan Junior High/High School — to replace Elbow Elementary, which has been in service since 1930.Overlooked in the debate over whether to construct a new school, however, is another bond item FISD officials say is just as important — security and infrastructure upgrades at the junior high/high school building.Superintendent Randy Johnson said campus security, which has become a top priority among educators in the past few months, will be one of the issues addressed by the bond money."What's been discussed is some design issues tied to safety," he said. "What we want to do is renovate the entrance to the building so that it's similar to what Big Spring has done at its new elementary campuses."At the new Big Spring schools, security has been enhanced by a system which funnels all visitors into the main office before they are allowed into classroom areas.Also, FISD officials hope to use a portion of bond money to replace both interior and exterior locks at the campus.Also at the junior high/high school, money is being targeted to pay for restroom electrical and sewage system upgrades.Another item officials are eyeing is renovation of the junior high science labs. Labs in the high school portion of the building were upgraded in 2004 and officials would like to follow suit in the rest of the campus.A final decision whether to call for a May election will likely come when trustees hold a special meeting Feb. 25.


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I have an on-going research project at the Duke University Marine Laboratory studying settlement behavior and recruitment of soft substrate marine invertebrates, specifically Chaetopterus, the polychaete tube worm and the Cross-barred Venus Clam, Chione cancellata. My research concerns itself with the settlement behavior and reproductive biology of the pedunculate barnacle, Pollicipes polymerus, and the shell-selection behavior of the Indo-Pacific Carrier shell, Xenophora pallidula.
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Settlement and recruitment patterns of a pedunculate barnacle, Pollycipes polymerus Sowerby, off LaJolla, California. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 1989, 125:83-98.
Settlement and growth of the pedunculate barnacle, Pollicipes polymerus, Pacific. Science, 1988, 42:154-159.
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Inmate-on-inmate assaults nearly doubled in two years at a north-central Ohio prison, higher than the statewide average, according to a new report that also notes an increase in disturbances and low morale among guards.
Inmate-on-inmate assaults nearly doubled in two years at a north-central Ohio prison, higher than the statewide average, according to a new report that also notes an increase in disturbances and low morale among guards.
The prison, Mansfield Correctional Institution, also has one of the largest inmate segregation populations in the state, and has also seen a jump in the number of payouts given to inmates because of lost property, according to the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee.
Inmate property that is lost, stolen or destroyed costs Ohio taxpayers more than $150,000 a year in claims reimbursement and diverted staff time, according to the CIIC.
The CIIC report was issued just days before convicted rapist James David Myers escaped from the prison on Wednesday night, only to be recaptured 24 hours later. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction hasn�t said how the escape happened.
The report notes that the prison has �a challenging inmate population� with frequent gang-related incidents and numerous inmates transferred in because of discipline problems.
Myers was housed in a pod where inmates receive more privileges than those in a set of other, more restrictive pods, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said in an email yesterday.
Overtime costs at Mansfield � an indicator of staffing shortages � fell significantly in 2012 but are still above the statewide average, according to the CIIC, a nonpartisan legislative committee that researches prison issues in Ohio.
Despite the assault rate and other problems, the CIIC concluded that conditions are improving under Warden Terry Tibbals, with Mansfield the only Ohio correctional facility of its kind to reduce its total violent-incident rate two years running.
Tibbals attributes the problems to the prison housing more problematic inmates as part of a departmentwide initiative.
�Your end result is that you receive more violent, predatory, disruptive inmates and you get rid of the less-violent inmates,� he said.
The CIIC report said inmate assaults on staff have gone down 6.5 percent from 2010 to 2012 but are still higher than the statewide average.
The union representing prison guards said the report attempts to paint too rosy a picture at Mansfield and questioned the way some statistics � such as inmate-on-staff assaults � were calculated.
�The prison remains a very dangerous place to work,� said Christopher Mabe, president of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association.
Prison violence is always a concern, especially now as the state�s inmate population grows despite widespread efforts to reduce the number of people behind bars.
Mansfield is one of six prisons housing Level 3 inmates, above medium security but below maximum. The six prisons all receive inmates transferred because of security problems, but Mansfield and Lebanon Correctional Institution get the most because of their size.
Another Level 3 prison, Toledo Correctional Institution, has struggled recently with violence, including two inmate homicides since September.
The state could house as many as 52,100 inmates by the end of the next two-year budget cycle in June 2015, or 1,200 above projections, according to the prisons system.
That�s also several thousand more inmates than the state estimated in 2011 during a debate over a law meant to reduce the population through changes in sentencing. That estimate said Ohio would house as few as 47,000 by inmates by 2015 if the bill passed.


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Submission + - Apple Releases Major Update for Final Cut Pro X (ibtimes.com)
redletterdave writes: "Apple updated its professional video editing software Final Cut Pro X on Tuesday, injecting the platform with some significant improvements to enhance the editing experience. Many film editors left Final Cut Pro X because of its radical design changes, but Apple made several key fixes in the 10.0.3 update to alleviate editors' concerns. The update includes multicam editing support for up to 64 film and still cameras, external broadcast monitoring support, and advanced chroma-key "green screen" controls, but most importantly, Apple addressed the missing upgrade solution from FCP 7 to FCP X. The company endorsed a third-party plugin called '7toX,' built by Intelligent Assistance, which will allow users to update and finish their older projects from FCP 7 on FCP X."


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Originally Posted by pr8wlwn
Akihiro is .... GREAT !
As your thread and your gallery
"Even the orchestra is beautiful..." Joel Grey - Cabaret 1972
"Les vieux se répetent et les jeunes n'ont rien à dire. L'ennui est réciproque" Jacques Bainville (1879-1936)
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PR - you are a great teammate - your collection here and in your gallery is unrivaled
thanks much for the hard times
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I love this one.Originally Posted by pr8wlwn
I'm in love...again.
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Sorry guys, I had missed to dispense FOUR doses in the past few days, this is because I went on a short trip in Oslo, Norway. Such a lovely place and the Norwegian guys were so HOT! I would say 8 out of 10 were cute and fit!
Here are the FOUR missing doses! ENJOY!!
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170 - My Boyfriend (I Wish...)
Your boyfriend (You wish) is really cuteOriginally Posted by pr8wlwn
Thanks for sharing him
"Even the orchestra is beautiful..." Joel Grey - Cabaret 1972
"Les vieux se répetent et les jeunes n'ont rien à dire. L'ennui est réciproque" Jacques Bainville (1879-1936)
I know he is, thanks!
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If I remember Correctly, that is actually a jub member jbored76. He seems to have taken down all his pictures. He had such a nice cock too. Maybe if we ask real nice we can get him to put them back upOriginally Posted by pr8wlwn
I like you and him both American Eagle. love those hairy balls and the hair on the shaft
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Sorry Phoenix, I only have ONE photo of my IMAGINARY boyfriend
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175 - More Sean
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This one is Joey Stefano. He passed on from a drug overdose some years ago.Originally Posted by pr8wlwn
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A double dose , lovely. Just when I thought Friday had passed me by here in the UK.
Thanks pr8wlwn
This guy is my fave BelAmi boy at the moment, he's just so sweet. Thanks pr8wlwn.Originally Posted by pr8wlwn
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183 - Paul Holowaty
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They are real life brothers, I found them on the net by chance.
Both of them are so adorable!!
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pat and matt--very cute. Thanks. Just want to pinch their cheeks.
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Okay, so, skip the rest. WHO IS THIS NICHOLAS GONZALEZ? What does he do? Where does he live? Does he want a lover? Where do I apply?
The guy on your banner looks like Steve Burton who is/was on General Hospital. He played Jason Quartermaine. I've been wanting to ask you if it was.
LOL...You guys got it all wrong!
The cute guy on my banner is my favourite male model Julien Hedquist and he will be one of my future doses!
Be prepared!!
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190 - Mike Sanders
191 - Michael Phelps
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very nice thread!!!!
Well it took long enough, but finally found it. Italian born model named Dennis Manzoni. Hope to find more pics of him :POriginally Posted by pr8wlwn
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"Our vision is to work together to continue to build a 21st century regional transit system with expanding regional services that connect people to and from work, school and home and to work together to strategically support economic development along transitways that will produce robust local economies and grow jobs," Haigh told the crowd.
Haigh also focused on the need for the public and private sectors to work together to support transit and transit funding. She praised business leaders, foundations, CTIB members, local elected officials, legislators and members of Congress who have worked together with a common purpose and a shared vision of a globally competitive, 21st century region.
"With a spirit of partnership, we can achieve and surpass the aspirations we share for this region," Haigh said.
Haigh credited the governor for his support of transit, including the 11-mile Central Corridor Light-Rail project scheduled to begin service in 2014. The project will link the two central cities, University of Minnesota, State Capitol, Midway area and downtown St. Paul.
"Together, we can connect the dots between mobility, economic development, jobs, workforce, housing and quality of life," said Haigh. "This is about connecting development with jobs, jobs with people and people with their homes, communities and local businesses."
Haigh said the Council has a full plate in 2012, with a work plan that includes launching a collaborative effort to develop the 2040 Regional Development Framework, a long-range plan for delivering innovative, efficient services and infrastructure in a cost-effective and collaborative manner.
During Haigh's first year as Council Chair, the Metropolitan Council:
• Secured a Full Funding Grant Agreement for Central Corridor Light-Rail, committing the federal government to paying half the cost of the $957 million project.
• Secured federal government approval to enter Preliminary Engineering on Southwest Corridor Light-Rail. The project is just one of 12 projects nationwide to achieve PE status.
• Achieved Metro Transit ridership of nearly 81 million rides in 2011, marking the second time in 30 years that ridership has exceeded 80 million.
• Avoided an across-the-board transit fare increase, despite a state general fund reduction of 40 percent for the biennium.


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or when it rings for everyone who has not withheld their callerid.
You actually answer the phone to ACs?
I uses to pretend to be a recorded message, saying {in a slightly posh accent} "Anonymous calls are not welcome on this line. If your business is important, you may ring back without withholding your number." {still have to on my mobile}. Then I found out about Incoming Call Barring. Sweet! Only bad thing about it is you can't change the message.
99% of recruiters in the UK call as ACs for reasons of sheer stupidity prevalent in the industry. As a result if you want to have a job, you have no choice, but to answer ACs. The only thing you can do about that is to prearrange the calls. In any case you have to have a phone indicating a ring for these - note, the phone which actually "rings" on these in the house is my office phone which has the ringer off and only a visual indication.
In addition to that Cambridge
By the way, this will apply to any phone system that has click to dial, not just VOIP
That was my thought exactly. I use vonage and don't have an address book on my computer. However, lots of people with conventional phones use Outlook. Changing phone numbers in address books should have been a concern many years ago, and is no more of a concern today.
Hell, I had "click" (F10 key, I think...) to dial on my old Tandy 1000! Modem dialed, then I lifted the handset and the modem disconnected so I could talk.
So you'd set up a filter especially to recognise and let through any caller with an Indian accent? That's a fine example of multi-cultural tolerance, it makes such a change from the usual racism on slashdot. Well done sir!Perhaps even some form of voice recognition (recognising people's voices in your address book, or, controversially, an Indian accent) might become common.
But that just my opinion.
The only reason I have copper is for E911 service and in case of power failure. I use my cellfone for 99.9999% of all calls even at home. I just like having a little redundancy in case of emergency.
Cell Phone for day-to-day calls.
Cable Modem for day-to-day internet use.
POTS for reliability when all else goes to heck.
In the past ten years I've had both Cell and Cable fail and in each case I was able to fall back on POTS to handle my basic needs (and we're talking the center of a major urban metropoli
No, this isn't VoIP-specific, but I can see how it might be made *easier* if the person uses VoIP.
The difference is that with a VoIP system, the system actually uses your computerized address book to do the dialing. Even more troubling is the possibility of modifying the VoIP such that when you (or your address book) dial the correct number for your bank, it actually dials a number that the hacker owns.
The potential scenerio quoted in the post is so far fetched, it's doubtful anyone will ever pull it off. It involves hacking their voip system, home computer (and address book), a mass-mailing spam which happens to also include the email address of the hacked computer, user intervention (they must read the spam and respond), and the hacker must also have a good enough radio voice to fool the homeowner into thinking he's actually calling his real bank. Don't know about you, but we're not to afraid of this possible Voice over IP threat.Evidently, this would require a large degree of innovation, research and development on the part of the creators of malicious code, and I genuinely doubt that they would bother.
The potential scenerio quoted in the post is so far fetched, it's doubtful anyone will ever pull it off. It involves hacking their voip system, home computer (and address book), a mass-mailing spam which happens to also include the email address of the hacked computer, user intervention (they must read the spam and respond), and the hacker must also have a good enough radio voice to fool the homeowner into thinking he's actually calling his real bank.Don't know about you, but we're not to afraid of this possible Voice over IP threat.
Far fetched? Hey, the author thought it up, didn't he? Everything is far fetched (sailing around the world, explaining gravity, travelling into space) until someone actually does it. This technique requires thought and some actual work. So? If there's money in it, someone or some group out there with the wherewithal and time on their hands will try and exploit it, because basically they know your average computer users are sheep, and they have these nifty shears. It's this kind of complicated and non-obvi
Far fetched? Not really. Difficult to pull off and thus unlikely due to not being the low hanging fruit? That's more like it.
This "technique" is already possible. A mass mailed email worm (or whatever) modifies the user's "hosts" file (C:\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts) so that www.paypal.com gets pointed to his or her IP address. The usual precautions the victim would engage in wouldn't apply, as the victim would actually be going to the website directly (rather than clicking on a link in an email)
Changing phone numbers in an address book isn't unique to VOIP. A virus could scan Outlook and other common address book systems and change phone numbers, whether VOIP or not. Since most people don't have their bank phone numbers memorized, they'll assume that the address book entry is correct. Even if they use a non-VOIP phone, the phishing attack can work.
Now, a VOIP system might have an integrated address-book/speed-dial system that could also be attacked. But otherwise, I don't see where this is unique to VOIP.
and all this should go away. When did you last hear of a security breach on Alcatel DEC
Now, I understand in the Slashdot world, anything that pokes at Microsoft and Windows is instantly thought of as insightful and true, but what the hell does this problem have to do with Microsoft?
The attack described relies upon a worm that can compromise desktop systems. Worms are a lot easier to implement if their are a huge number of identical targets with identical holes. Currently that target is Windows.
This problem exists because of social habits of human beings. Most phishing scams work only whe
Or, it would only require a user to run certain software, which is the reason a lot of people get malware/spyware on their computers in the first place.
Yeah, trojans are a problem, although all the studies I've seen by number of infections put malware without user interaction in the lead.
This would not stop if there were no holes. It would only stop if there was a way to ensure that people didn't run software they download AND that any software provided to them was legitimate.
OS's don't need to pr
How is an OS to know that the file being modified is phone numbers rather than configuration settings?
Because the first one is called "Phone Numbers.db" and the second is called "Address Book Settings.xml."
So if every time a user double clicks a file, you would like the OS to inform them that they have run a program?
No, I'd like them to be aware before they click that the item they are clicking is an executable or data. The UI should make this 100% crystal clear. Today, this is not the case. Then, i
The reason this does not happen is because there is very little incentive to DOS a 911 center.
Say I'm a bad guy and I want to simultaneously call 100,000 machines. I would have to spawn 100,000 connections to a voip server. Your voip server firewall has a threshold for dropping connections from a single IP address doesn't it? If the bad guy is using 100,000 zombies then the problem is not voip is it?
You wouldn't have to spawn 100,000 connections to a single voip server, the botnet would already be running on an IRC server somewhere, awaiting orders. I just login to the IRC channel after making a few dozen ssh hops around my bots and through a TOR network somewhere. I send the command and the bots start cycling through commands to hijack the 10 most common VOIP apps and dial whatever number i have the bots set to dial. It wouldn't be that hard. My original post was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I did
A serious botnet can have 50k-100k minion boxes out there... Imagine if VOIP hit even 20% penetration
Unless they're all running the same VoIP client and service, it is pretty hard to grab all those 20%. Another option would be to use a custom VoIP client, if there are free services available for calling out.
If you were the type of slimeball or, gods forbid, terrorist, what would you do with 20 thousand phones you had access to? Think DDOS on 911?
To what end? 911 is for reporting crimes and emergencie
Therein lies the rub. If you don't use the original voice talent the people you're trying to scam will immediately know somthing is up.
Having worked with the voice talent that you hear on some major voicemail systems (Lorrain Nelson [voicelady.com], who did Merlin and Audix) these kinds of systems don't come cheap. So to set up a phony system you would need to
a) be in cahoots with the voice talent, who are us
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Am I the only person who sees a parallel between the failed policy of universal disarmament after World War I and the attack on our 2nd Amendment today?
Back in the '20's and '30's politicians such as Chamberlain (Prime Minster of Great Britain) and President Wilson promoted disarmament for all countries involved in WWI as a means of assuring that such a catastrophe could never happen again. They concluded, "If we can reduce the amount of weapons we can reduce the amount of destruction."
A series of appeasement and disarmament positions were taken by the United States, England, and France. In 1938 Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement with Hitler declaring, "Peace in our time!" and within 12 months Germany attacked Poland starting World War II.
Does this situation sound familiar?
Tragic situation.
Politicians trying to "do something."
Unintended violent consequences are worse that the original problem.
Chamberlain's and Wilson's strategy of hope that their enemies would honor their signatures on a piece of paper proved foolish and naive in hindsight. Their foolishness cost the world another 20-plus million dead during WWII.
Today our politicians are hoping that the crazies here in Colorado will honor the "gun-free" zones that they are signing into law but they are taking no steps to ensure this "gun-free" zone is effectively enforced. They are telling our college students to disarm and providing no alternate protection in the process. They are refusing to allow our teachers and administrators to carry protection in our elementary, middle, and high schools.
It seems that today's strategy for protecting our children is the same hope theory used to keep WWII from happening. "We're going to make a law and we hope that the next crazy guy with the samurai sword and the death-wish will honor it." Then when he attacks we hope that a cop will arrive quickly enough to stop him before he murders the entire second grade class.
There will be another Sandy Hook. There will be another Virginia Tech. There will always be crazy people in this world who hate others and themselves. The question is, "How far away do you want the active defense?" If we push guns off of these school grounds and we fail to provide some other active measures, then how can we say we've done more than just hope our kids are safe?
In the case of Chamberlain, he was forced to concede defense of the entire continent of Europe at the beginning of WWII before England could build up enough military strength, with the help and blood of U.S. soldiers, to begin pushing back on Germany. In the case of Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook we conceded tens of our children to the psychotic before the active defense could arrive on the scene to put an end to the massacre.
Last month, my State Senator, Jeanne Nicholson (D), arrived at a town-hall meeting to visit her constituents. Before she walked into the room, an armed police officer preceded her and stayed, at the ready, in the back of the room, for the entire meeting. She clearly sees the benefit of close, active defense. Hope wasn't Nicholson's only self-defense strategy. There was a gun in the room!
There will be another attack on our kids. The question is, do you want that good-guy with 19 rounds of active defense in the same building, defending your kids with a tool that will physically stop that attacker or do you want to hope that the crazy person tires himself out killing the class full of kids next door to your child's classroom while the teachers are dead and the cops are still three miles away?
To those would disarm us - defend your position against this argument. Let me hear the logic... Too many bullets? Magazines too big? Not enough rules around ownership/transfers? We're not locking up enough people with psychotic tendencies? The buzzer and lock on the school door failed? We didn't think he'd shoot through the window? Didn't see that one coming? Maybe this is the first step in disarming the world like Chamberlain and Wilson in the '20's and '30's? Better still, maybe we should just hope for the kindness of criminals.
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A Visit to Table Mountain Star Party
At the very end of July I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker at the 2011 Table Mountain Star Party. I had a wonderful time and met some really great folks. Table Mountain is a few hours east of Seattle, WA - what a beautiful location! The super steep, one lane, ragged dirt road did it's best to scare this city girl, but I was prepared with a rental car with high clearance! This was part of a series of talks being given this year by AAVSO staff at star parties across the country to celebrate the AAVSO's centennial year.
Speaking of the centennial, don't forget to register for the AAVSO 100th Annual Meeting!!!
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