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This is proof positive that Ubuntu is officially BLOATWARE.
I agree. To big, needs to diet. But it doesn't matter, I've switch back to Debian.
Last time I installed Debian from disc, it was many CDs that I had purchased, it was a long time ago though.
The Linux kernel is only a few megabytes. The whole thing fits easily in the L2 or L3 cache of a modern server processor. That's Really Freaking Important for geeks like me who have to build stuff at scale.
I want to ignore your troll, but I can't. You raise an important issue, even if your motivations are suspect.
For 20 or 30 years we've had the meme "Intel giveth and Microsoft taketh away." That's shorthand for the fact that Microsoft operating systems grow less performant at the same rate Intel processors grow more performant, and net the progress is zero. It doesn't have to be that way any more.
Ubuntu doesn't need to ship with everything including the kitchen sink. Then again I'm posting this from Lion which was a 3.53GB download.
Because Fuck You, thats why. But then, that was pretty much always been the attitude of Linux developers when it comes to listening to users.
You only wish that was a troll.
And especially true regarding Ubuntu lately
No one in their right mind would ship Pulseaudio (amongst other things)
But of course, to hell with the user
My son was born after we stopped using our VHS tapes and he thinks they must have stored thousands of movies, given their size. And yeah, blank DVDs are now easier top buy and I usually netboot the ubuntu livecd anyway,
I still have CD's not used, and they're still cheaper, and more likely to just work on older computers.
The last time I burned a CD was years and years ago. With a USB key drive (4 GB) going for $5 now, who would?
Older hardware which (surprisingly!) still does well with Linux, but doesn't have the capability to boot from USB - that's why you would need a CD. A DVD is probably a good-enough alternative as well since DVD drives have been pretty standard for many, many years.
Yeah but the problem with that is this: what's the first thing to go out on a DVD/CDRW or a DVD burner? the ability to read DVDs. I don't know how many machines I'd had through the shop that would read and burn CDs just fine but the DVD would be crapped out.
So what is wrong with giving folks choice, isn't that is what FOSS is supposed to be out, choice? Why not have a 2 CD set AND a DVD with everything but the kitchen sink, why not that?
Of course I'll probably get hate for daring to even say the user should have choice, I don't know what happened to the community but it just don't seem like a nice place anymore. Now it seems to be too many have this "You'll take this and do it our way and damned well LIKE it or STFU and go back to windblowz luser" attitude, like FOSS is an exclusive club and they're the gatekeepers or something.
I used to love keeping up with what's new and thought back in 03 that by this time we'd see Linux boxes in every store, but somewhere along the ways the ground turned sour and the community seems to me to be more about being in a club than helping FOSS spread to the masses.
You have a choice. You can implement it yourself ( or wait until someone does it for you )
Really, i have been burning the Ubuntu iso's on DVD since a long time : they boot up faster than CD's .
The problem with FOSS is that everyone wants the benefits, but no one wants to be part of it. And then you complain when they don't do it the way you like it.
The problem with FOSS is that everyone wants the benefits, but no one wants to be part of it. And then you complain when they don't do it the way you like it.
That's not entirely true. I'm, for the most part, a FOSS user and I love the benefits it provides. Yet, while I want to be part of it and contribute (and i know i cant be the only one), I don't. why? I don't have neither the resources, nor the required skill set to do it. I'm definitely not rich, so hiring someone to make the mods for me is out of the question. And being a PhD student, having the time to make said implementations is out of the question, let alone learning the required languages and skills
Umm, you have a choice? You can use an old release, go to a different distro (that different distro could be better targeted at old hardware even), or package up your own release (or take the released image and remove some packages to trim it down for your own needs).
In this case I don't see it making a lot of sense to make it not CD size just for 50 megabytes worth of data but I also don't think the user is entitled to ubuntu on a CD or that it's a project requirement for ubuntu.
It's not like the project i
Gosh, someone sure likes to swap? I remember this kinda stuff from the days of floppies... a two floppy OS was NOT fun.
The trick for a distro has always been about supporting the old and the new. At a given point it is time to give up your 386 with its 1 speed CD player and buy a new computer. At least if you want to use a distro that has made it VERY clear that it is no longer aimed at weirdos. After all, how you are you going to run Unity on that old PC of yours?
Time to seek a new distro. One that doesn't
Older hardware which (surprisingly!) still does well with Linux
But with Ubuntu?
You know, you *CAN* get a flash drive with a physical write-protect switch [pqi.com.tw].
I've yet to see any of those do anything but set a flag the OS can (and will, if infection is your concern) ignore.
Actually you're thinking of the SD card. The SD card is a simple flash memory with a toggle switch that relies on a controller a) recognises that the card has the switch flipped to read only and b) sends a signal to the OS.
USB on the other hand is not a direct link to the storage medium, and has hardware flash controllers onboard. The more expensive ones implement this properly, the cheaper ones actually hard limit the R/W line going to the chip. The cheap solution is robust but also easily visible because the OS doesn't know it's read-only. When you try writing to the drive you end up with a weird failed message.
The Confederate Veterans Society hasn't been active in over a century.
It's Sony. Are you really surprised? They seem to have some kind of fetish for making their own proprietary "solutions" when better open solutions are already available. Hardly a new phenomena.
CD's just work. Newer stuff may be nice but PCs really are not standardized in any meaningful way. Booting via USB tends to be one of those things that is spotty. Some will boot on USB but only certain USB devices (ie, hard drives and removable disk drives, but not other mass storage like thumb drives). Some PCs may do this just as a security measure. PCs are not thrown away and replaced every year either, and we've gone from thumb drives being tiny and expensive to large and cheap in less than the typical life time of a PC.
Also this is Linux. Linux is very often put on older computers that people would otherwise throw away because it won't run the latest Windows very well. Those older PCs are much more likely to not support booting from thumb drives.
This might get me downrated, but honestly, I don't think Ubuntu is for everyone. I do think that Canonical wants to stay relevant with those folks who have 5 year old or younger machines.
If you need a Linux distro that fits on a CD drive, there are other options, but just about every machine in the past 5-6 years boots off a USB key or DVD drive. Some newer machines like netbooks and macbook airs don't (and have never) come optical drives (hell I have a toshiba portege from 2001 without optical media).
I'm using ubuntu since version 6, now 10.04 - it took some time to get audio right on my machine (fujitsu siemens Xi2428, older laptop), but one of the things I like most about linux is that once it's configured properly, it will stay that way. It will not get slower over time, or suddenly change behavior, like windows (although the last version of windows I used is XP, and still do, in Virtualbox).
I think Ubuntu 10.04 is a very nice looking desktop OS, it just works, everytime, no surprises. It's ideal for
Windows Vista was a hog, but Windows 7 will run on any system that Ubuntu does, and runs well on the same systems, although you may have to disable Aero. The Windows 8 developer preview is actually faster and uses less memory that Windows 7, but it does require a "DirectX 9" graphics card (most anything 2002+), as the graphics are 100% 3D-accelerated.
Win7 also remarkably stable from what I've seen for the past 2 years or so. It's not subject to the junk XP was, like having to run ipconfig
Mainstream? As in, used by a majority of worldwide users? It would take a couple decades being pushed by a leading technology company. It's a moot question, though, because the desktop is no longer the primary platform on which users use software. Today that platform is the web, and so far we have managed not to fork or otherwise divide the web, which is a real possibility.
Install Xubuntu instead. Seriously, it's awesome.
I was going to respond "get for-pay apps in the Software Center" but then I looked and that's in there now. I just came back from Debian so I didn't know. There needs to be a lot more of these for-pay apps, and they need to not suck. Ubuntu needs commercial apps that make money, and not just a little. They need an "Angry Birds" breakout success story to bait the masses of developers needed to make a successful ecosystem. That's probably the only thing Old Sweaty was ever right about. This isn't going t
...I actually used a CD to burn a Linux image... it's been DVD for at least six years...
I've found that to be rather hit or miss. The utilities don't work reliably and often times I end up having to redo it several times before it works. At least for the utility that they used to use for booting Ubuntu off a USB stick.
From cdrecord man page:
Allow wodim to write more than the official size of a medium. This feature is usually
called overburning and depends on the fact that most blank media may hold more space than
the official size. As the official size of the lead-out area on the disk is 90 seconds
(6750 sectors) and a disk usually works if there are at least 150 sectors of lead out,
all media may be overburned by at least 88 seconds (6600 sectors). Most CD recorders
only do overburning in SAO or RAW mode. Known exceptions are TEAC CD-R50S, TEAC CD-R55S
and the Panasonic CW-7502. Some drives do not allow to overburn as much as you might
like and limit the size of a CD to e.g. 76 minutes. This problem may be circumvented by
writing the CD in RAW mode because this way the drive has no chance to find the size
before starting to burn. There is no guarantee that your drive supports overburning at
all. Make a test to check if your drive implements the feature.
Overburn is a great option, but it does _not_ work with name-brand media. Cheap CD media has a lot of overburn space because the manufacturing process is, well, cheap and the tolerances are not strict. Therefore the manufactures leave a lot of overburn space that may or may not be useful. With these you can get anywhere from 750-780 MB on a disk. The name-brand CDs are manufactured to ISO 900x specs, so they can bring the tolerances way down. You might not be able to go above 720 MB on some of these.
Note that no matter which type of disc you overburn, the end might not be readable! I hope that something nonessential is way out there on the end, and that the installer knows how to handle a non-read potion of the end of the disc.
Ok, use a DVD, now you have space for whatever Unity/Gnome3... AND Gnome 2.
Problem is that gnome3 seems to need a version of gtk which will not work with gnome2. Clever, eh?
This is ridiculous, CDs cost the same as DVDs and if your computer has a optical drive and is new enough that you should be using normal Ubuntu instead of one of its builds designed for low spec systems then you have a DVD drive (and a few gigs is nothing for a USB stick).
I have been burning CD images to DVDs for like 5+ years now, because unless you want compatibility with really old systems there is no reason not to and lets face it Ubuntu is not really even compatible with these systems in the first place.
So I cannot even imagine one person being inconvenience by this.
Now significantly increasing the size will effect download time, but once it is on a HD 700MB or 1.5G are both so insignificant that it does not really matter.
it's not whether it fits on a cd or not it's about size creep.
I don't mind if software grows in size, but these days it just seems to grow out of control while keeping roughly the same feature sets.
I don't mind if software grows in size, but these days it just seems to grow out of control while keeping roughly the same feature sets.
The fact that Ubuntu is on revision 12.x and has just now BARELY escaped the media size it originally came out on, they're doing a hell of a lot better than most. Some growth is expected, and not really the fault of the Ubuntu team(they're at the mercy of package developers too).
By comparison, Adobe Reader used to be a 5MB installer. Now the damn thing is well over 50MB, and it still does the exact same thing; Read PDFs. Talk about bloatware...
Size creep in inevitable. The current 700MB image has already undergone about a 700 times size creep from early operating systems and it will continue.
Ubuntu is designed for running on the common everyday computer and as time goes on that gets more powerful. And not to mention there are still tons of hardware specs it does not function perfectly on and more being created every day so if nothing else adding more drivers to the image will creep the size.
Or do you actually think that "Nobody will ever need mor
I like Debian's net-install to get the latest packages since stable ISOs are usually outdated.
I recently reinstalled Oneric/ia64 on a few machines because of the recently included gcc-arm packages which always were a pain to self-compile.
I added a http-proxy (squid) on my local fileserver/NAS and used the netinstall through that proxy: No duplicate downloads, up to date packages for everything and I could start installing without waiting for the
I highly recommend that method, and it should work for most distributions out there, possibly even for WindowsUpdate
It's about time distro makers stopped restricting their content to what they can cram within the artificial limitations of 700MB. Pretty much every desktop and laptop computer since, what, 2004 has had a DVD reader.
I've always felt that the Ubuntu DVD ISOs were a bit of an afterthought. Hopefully this will now change.
Dump Unity off the image. Everyone wins.
Slackware ships on a DVD, and a full install is about 5-6 GB. But it certainly isn't bloated. It's one of the quickest and most stable distributions I've used, so I hesitate to say that adding more stuff to the Ubuntu install justifies people calling it bloated. Ubuntu's selection of software is still conservative in quantity. If anything would be blamed on bloat, it would be implementing it in such a way that it negatively affects your system's performance. So if they're adding unnecessary things to the system startup, or a lot of background processes that you don't use, then that would be bloat. (In Ubuntu's case, this has been happening, but it started long before they ever decided to ship a release that was too large for a cd.)
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Some of the best barbecue teams in the nation were on full display Friday evening as the Third Annual BBQ Capital Cook-off got underway.
Some of the best barbecue teams in the nation were on full display Friday evening as the Third Annual BBQ Capital Cook-off got underway.
Seventy-five teams, including the number-one ranked team by the Kansas City Barbecue Society in 2012, began their showdown. The two-day event, held behind the Edward C. Smith Civic Center between East Second and Third avenues, saw a steady stream of people walking through the festivities as the event began Friday.
The event, hosted by Uptown Lexington Inc., is sponsored by the Bank of the Carolinas. The cook-off serves as a fundraiser for Uptown Lexington Inc., a N.C. Main Street program and nonprofit whose goals are to revitalize and promote the uptown business district.
"We are very excited," Ed Jordan, executive vice president of the Bank of the Carolinas, said of the opening day. "We have more teams than ever. … The growth has been phenomenal over the first three years. … The organizers have done a good job of putting it together. We are just proud to sponsor it, and it goes to a great charity in Uptown Lexington Inc."
The event, sanctioned by the KCBS, continues into Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. People will get the opportunity to see teams across the United States, including the KCBS 2012 Team of the Year, 3 Eyz BBQ.
The team, which is competing for this year's purse of $15,900, is comprised of Dan Hixon, Chris Hall, both of Maryland, and Kit Sambuco of Connecticut. The team recently won a cooking competition in Lakeland, Fla., and beat out 77 teams to take home the Lakeland Pigfest title.
"You have a small-town feel," Hixon said of Lexington's competition.
3 Eyz began working on two of the categories — sauce and dessert - that will be judged on Saturday. The team will focus on the other four categories being judged on Saturday — chicken, pork ribs, pork butt and beef brisket.
Hixon, Hall and Sambuco joined the same team after competing against each other more than three years ago.
"We got tired of beating up each other, and we just decided to join forces and take everybody's money," Hall said, as he described Hixon as the "rib king." "… It's really a team effort."
Fred Olli of Upstate New York and his nephew Dylan Moody of Holly Springs make up the team All Fired Up and Kicking Ash. Olli and Moody also competed against each other before they joined forces. They are making their first appearance at the cook-off and learned of the event through the Internet.
"In this group, there are probably eight to 10 that are extremely good teams, ranked in the top 100 teams in the country," Olli said of the cook-off's field.
John Young and Kevin Gary of Winston-Salem's Carolina Smokin' John's BBQ are appearing in their second BBQ Capital Cook-off. They believed this year's event set a record number of teams because it was featured this past year in the nationally televised cooking competition, "BBQ Pitmasters."
"Whatever they are doing, they are doing it right," Young said, referring to the organizers of the BBQ Capital Cook-off.
The teams will find out about 4 p.m. Saturday how they placed.
Jeff and Stephanie Smith of Randleman were among those who first arrived at the opening day of the cook-off. The couple said curiosity brought them to the cook-off after they heard it was in its third year.
"We are just looking to see what goes on and what happens," Jeff Smith said.
Jerry and Diane Miller of Lexington came to the event this past year. The couple went to both days of the event last year.
"We will be twice this year," Jerry Miller said.
Barbecue brings them to the event, Jerry Miller said.
"Just see all the different cookers," his wife added.
City Manager Alan Carson is pleased to see the event grow in its third year. He said the cook-off is a good way to capitalize off the annual Barbecue Festival.
"I hope the weather stays good number one, and number two, I hope the crowds come down and see what great of an event this is, and enjoy all the cooking and seeing how all the different items are fixed," Carson said of his hopes for Saturday.
The event also features the Southern Gateway Wine Festival, which includes tastings from five wineries and will run from noon-5 p.m. Saturday. The cost is $5 for a wristband to have tastings from each of the wineries.
Admission to the BBQ Capital Cook-off is free and will be held rain or shine Saturday. The day also will include music with a performance from Joni Pardi on the main stage at 3 p.m. The performance is sponsored by Q104.1. The event also includes a children's area filled with nine huge inflatables. The cost is $7 for each family's first child and $6 for each child thereafter.
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PHOENIXVILLE — A pair of candidates in Phoenixville's municipal elections announced they picked up influential endorsements for the November election.
Longtime Phoenixville Mayor Leo Scoda has endorsed current East Ward Councilman Mike Speck to succeed him in the post Scoda held for 18 years.
"Mike has been a hard-working borough councilman representing the East Ward for the past six years," Scoda said in a statement. "He is especially interested in veteran issues and affairs and has taken the training to serve as a volunteer fireman with Phoenix Number One Hose, Hook and Ladder. Mike has been very supportive of the Phoenixville Police Department in his tenure on borough council."
Speck, a Marine veteran, has called Scoda a mentor several times in the past and during his candidacy.
He's facing off against former Republican councilman Ken Buckwalter on November's ballot.
Additionally, Kyle Guie, the Democratic former councilman looking to win back the Middle Ward seat he vacated, announced that Sen. Andrew Dinniman, D-19th Dist., endorsed him for council.
"Kyle Guie has the experience, energy and commitment to public service to be an excellent councilman," Dinniman said. "That's why I enthusiastically endorse Kyle Guie for (a) council seat in Phoenixville's Middle Ward."
"I am honored to have the endorsement of such a distinguished elected official," Guie said. "Senator Dinniman's leadership within Pennsylvania has benefitted all of us. His commitment to education reform and environmental issues should be commended. I want to thank the senator for his endorsement and I look forward to working with him on many projects in Phoenixville."
Monday, Dinniman said he also endorsed the Democratic candidates in contested races, Speck and Edwin Soto, who is running for a North Ward seat opposite the Republican Jon R. Ichter II.
Environmental issues are of a special concern to Guie, and he said he has the endorsement of the Sierra Club, as well.
Guie is running against Republican Mike Kuznar. Guie resigned his seat upon moving to Lancaster for work. He moved back to the borough this year and hopes to take back his seat, which was filled by Karl Bucus, who is not running for election.
Speck announced his campaign committee last week, as well.
Scoda will serve as the honorary chairman of Speck's campaign committee, which is co-chaired by Dave and Kathy Gill.
The current vice president of council, Speck also has the support of West Ward Councilman Jim Kovaleski, who is also on the Speck campaign committee.
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A Connecticut seventh-grade science teacher and father of two is hoping that Facebook will help him find a potentially life-saving kidney.
Brad Vernet, 48, has had kidney disease for 20 years and was born with just one kidney. In the past year-and-a-half, his kidney function has dramatically decreased.
At a July 24 evaluation at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, he discovered that his function was at 17 percent. On Sept. 13, he was at 14 percent.
"That was a shock but then pretty soon you realize that if you're just kind of feeling badly about your situation, it's not going to help anyone," Vernet told ABCNews.com. "If you want to get the word out, you have to be an advocate for yourself."
He decided it was time to "really get moving and try to find a donor" before reaching 10 or 11 percent function, at which point he said he would have to start thinking about dialysis, which he hopes to avoid. His doctors believe he needs a kidney transplant within a year before he reaches that point.
Vernet didn't have a personal Facebook page but decided to turn to the social network to get in touch with family and friends through a private page as he began a search for a donor. About three weeks ago, a friend advised him to make the page public so that he could spread the word to more people and the "Help Find Brad a Kidney" page was created.
""If you want to get the word out you have to be an advocate for yourself.
"Brad Vernet, a 48-year-old husband and father of two, needs a kidney transplant. He has been diagnosed with Stage 5 Kidney Disease," reads the Facebook page's description. "Brad's family and friends and colleagues are helping him search for a live donor. Could it be you?"
Soon enough, strangers started leaving messages of support, sharing their own stories and offering to help.
Vernet is only allowed to give potential donors very limited information, such as his blood type, and then has to refer the people to Brigham and Women's Hospital.
"I don't know until they find a really, pretty close match," he said. "They won't give me any information."
Vernet has a wife, Katy, who is a first-grade teacher, and two children, Emmye, 16, and Martin, 12.
"We've talked about it. Generally, they're doing okay," he said of his children.
"We're at the stage right now where my daughter is a junior so she's looking at colleges, so this is an active, important part in our family's time," Vernet said.
He loves playing soccer with his son and long-distance bike rides. He teaches at West Middle School in Groton, Conn.
Vernet said he tries to avoid thinking about the moment he finds a matching donor. "I have a contact person at the hospital who's my first person, a nurse on the transplant team. If I see her number on my phone, you think in the back of your mind, 'Is this the call that they found a match?'"
"I'm sure I'm just going to be unbelievably emotional when that happens," he said.
For now, he is focusing on maintaining a positive outlook and being thankful for the "unbelievable" support. "I'm just grateful that the response has been so strong and that really gives me a lot of hope and comfort."
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Grammy Award Winner Diane Warren's Songs Are Headed for Broadway
The musical catalogue of Grammy Award-winning songwriter Diane Warren has been optioned by Broadway producer Dede Harris Productions to create a brand new musical. No other details have been announced.
"It has always been a thrill for me to write for musical artists who began their careers on the New York stage and I'm so happy that my songs will be part of a new musical," Warren said in a statement.
In addition to being a Grammy winner, Warren is the winner of the Golden Globe Award and a six-time Academy Award nominee. Her many hits include "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing", "If I Could Turn Back Time", "How Do I Live", "Un-break My Heart", and "Because You Loved Me."
Dede Harris Productions has produced the Broadway outings of One Man, Two Guvnors, Clybourne Park, War Horse, and the upcoming Hands on a Hardbody.


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PERKIOMEN — State police from Skippack arrested a 61-year-old man for possession of child pornography last week.
James Fletcher Whaley, whose address is listed as being in Boyertown on a police release, allegedly had approximately 100 images of child pornography on his computer.
An investigation into the pornography began Jan. 29, according to police, on a computer owned by Whaley that was for some reason located in the Maple Hill Community in Perkiomen Township.
It is not clear whether Whaley lived there at the time or left his computer there.
Whaley will face 50 counts of possession. His bail was set at $50,000 cash by District Justice Albert J. Augustine.
In lieu of the bail, Whaley was remanded to Montgomery County Correctional Facility.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — The Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University will host the exhibition, Collection Focus II: Transformed Spaces/Inventive Narratives, Oct. 24 through Dec. 9 in the Project Room.
Curated by Tulu Bayar, Bucknell assistant professor of art and art history, the exhibition focuses on important and emerging contemporary artists working in photographic media who transform and create spaces, and invent narratives ranging from mysterious to the mundane.
Five noted artists
Artists in the exhibition are Julie Becker (Los Angeles), James Casebere (New York), Leonidas Correa (Costa Rica), Gregory Crewdson (New York), and Abelardo Morell (Boston). "All five artists represented in this exhibition are interested in transformation, construction and creating open-ended narratives," states Bayar.
Some of the questions Bayar asks in the exhibition brochure are, "How do contemporary photographers approach the everyday, and how do they transform our known world to create visual poetry, without focusing on pragmatism? How do they fuse the most simple and mundane, with their own dreams, resulting in a world that they create and have control over?" She continues, "Despite the differences in the execution of the work, the artists of Transformed Spaces / Inventive Narratives create works concerned with these questions."
Photography an area of strength
"Photography is an area of strength in the permanent collection, and represents 20 percent of our holdings," said Dan Mills, director of the Samek Art Gallery. "For this exhibition, Professor Bayar focused on recent photography acquisitions and contemporary photographers."
As a talented and well-exhibited photographer, and as a professor of photography who makes use of the permanent collection in her courses, Bayar brings a unique perspective to the artists and work in this exhibition. This is her curatorial debut.
The collection comprises more than 5,000 objects from many cultures and from all over the globe. This significant University resource is primarily the result of bequests and gifts. With holdings that range from ancient objects to art from the 21st century, this research field serves the University community across disciplines, and makes fine works of art available to the community and region.
"The Space of Freedom"
Running concurrently is the Samek exhibition, The Space of Freedom: Apartment Exhibitions in Leningrad (1964-1986) in the main gallery. Visitors to the exhibition, which includes 46 paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from the collection of the Museum of Nonconformist Art in St. Petersburg, Russia, will enter a recreated Soviet communal apartment interior to view art in the exhibition.
"The Communist Party banned art that didn't conform to the government's edicts," said Mills. "Artists creating in styles not permitted by the government organized short-term exhibitions, lasting a day or even a few hours, in their own communal apartments." The exhibition was organized by the University of Richmond Museums.
Peace & Resistance series
The Samek exhibitions are part of the University's yearlong "Peace & Resistance" series, a multidisciplinary program that links the 25th anniversary of Bucknell University having an art gallery, the 10th anniversary of the Bucknell Brigade to Nicaragua, and 125 years of women at Bucknell. For more information, visit the Peace & Resistance page.
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AMERICUS - The Georgia Southwestern softball team played 4th-ranked North Georgia even at 1-1 until the final inning of Game 1 in Friday's Peach Belt Conference doubleheader at Lady 'Canes Field, when a solo home run led the Saints to a 2-1 victory. North Georgia carried that momentum into the nightcap, rolling past GSW, 11-3.
The Lady Hurricanes have lost five straight and fall to 20-26 overall and 4-12 in league play. North Georgia has won eight in-a-row and improves to 34-8 overall on the year and 10-2 in the PBC to take over the top spot in the league for the first time this season.
The long ball doomed GSW in Game 1 as a pair of solo home runs propelled the Saints to a one-run victory. Hilary Cox got things started in the first inning with a well-hit low line drive that cleared the fence in left center to put North Georgia on top.
The Lady 'Canes bounced back in the fifth inning and knotted the score at a run apiece when Lyndi Duff legged out an infield single, and Jessica Martin followed with a double to left field, sending Duff around to score.
NGCSU would break the deadlock in the seventh inning as Katherine Martin led off and drilled the game-winning, solo home run to centerfield.
Jessica Coan held GSW scoreless in the seventh inning, striking out the side to earn her 17th victory of the season. She allowed four hits and added 12 strikeouts in the complete-game effort.
Katie Maddox (2-4) took the loss for GSW after allowing two runs in six innings of work. She held North Georgia to five hits, walked four and struck out one. Casey Burns pitched a scoreless seventh.
Lyndi Duff finished 2-for-3 in Game 1 to lead GSW at the plate.
In the nightcap, North Georgia scored 11 runs on as many hits to cruise to an 11-3 victory. The Saints scored seven runs over the final two innings to pull away from GSW.
Things unravelled for the Lady Hurricanes in the fourth when North Georgia broke open a 1-1 game with three runs behind three hits and two GSW errors. The Saints scored two of the three runs with no outs in the the inning.
North Georgia added five more runs in the sixth and two in the seventh.
Robyn Butler drove in a run in the bottom of the sixth for the Lady 'Canes and Gabby Buck scored from third on a wild pitch in the seventh.
Christie Shankle (5-10) suffered the loss for GSW after allowing seven runs - six earned - on eight hits and four walks in five innings of work. She struck out four. Burns faced the final 13 batters, struck out one and surrendered four runs - two earned - on three hits and two walks.
Coan (18-3) picked up another win in the nightcap, tossing 5 1/3 innings, allowing two runs - one earned - and striking out eight batters, while walking one. Krysten Connelly came on in relief, recording the final five outs, allowing a run and adding two strikeouts.
The Lady Hurricanes did not have a batter with multiple hits in the second game.
GSW returns to action on Sunday afternoon against Lander. First pitch is set for 1:30 p.m. at Lady 'Canes Field. It's the 2011 home finale for Southwestern and the four GSW seniors - Nichole Griffin, Heather Hodge, Tiffany Milstid and Katie Mueller - will be recognized between games of the doubleheader.


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So, Microsoft submits 20000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, all licensed under the GPL. Microsoft, who considers Linux a great threat, and once called the GPL a "cancer". Opinions on this one are flying all around us, but what does Linus Torvalds, Linux' benevolent dictator, think about all this?
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"I believe Microsoft meant Intellectual Property when they said IP.
Precisely so.
GNU/Linux is IP. It is copyright code just as much as Windows is copyright code.
Ergo, writing new code for GNU/Linux cannot, by definition, be an act of destroying IP. "
Yes, what it is really doing is destroying an 'Intellectual Monopoly', which isn't quite the same thing as destroying 'Intellectual Property'.


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This interesting Wells work is NOT about a utopian society. It's a symbolic message, a higher meaning - it shows the present, in fact, where those who live in the dark cannibalize those who live in the light (i.e. who think clear and in noble terms). In fact, the meaning is that the man of science takes with him Science into the future to create a better society. The meaning of Eloi is "god" - those who live in the light are gods. Wells was a Gov. propagandist; he put forth in symbolic form the planned future. The future society will be all "light" with science as a ruler and guide. Read also Wells' other work: "The Shape Of Things To Come" to have an additional angle to this one work of his.
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is about a man's vision for a utopian society. However, it is disillusioned when travelling forward into time. Then, reveals a dark and dangerous society. The novel's protagonist is an inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. The book is narrated by an unnamed narrator (whose name may be Hilyer) Although, The Time Traveller clearly dominates as the book's main narrator, the narrator (Mr. Hilyer) gives the readers a point of view that the readers could identify with. The narrator's purpose was to give a brand new/different perspective for the readers. Also, one of the tone's of the book is awe. When The Time Traveller confronts issues that are bigger than him - bigger than all the people or all life - he seems to become awestruck. Furthermore, the author of the novel, uses stalling tactics (delay/ing). Wells make his readers wait to get all the information they need. Moreover, the book was written to provide the possibility of a 4th dimension. The author's purpose was to make his readers realize that time is very valuable and soon people are going to be "out of time." The genre of The Time Machine was science fiction. Additionally, the theme of the book was that time is a precious thing and to not take it for granted. Entirely, I would recommend this book. Although, the book was kind of hard to get into and contains hard vocabulary (b/c it was written and published over 100 years ago). I suggest this book because it teaches the readers significant morals/lessons. One is to enjoy every single moment in life because life is short; the future is unpredictable. I learned to appreciate the little things in life. I also learned to be happy, content, grateful and thankful for everything. Altogether, this book taught me to always live life to the fullest.
The book is great for kids who really likes adventure and science. It takes place when a scientist/professor built a time machine and traveled 30 million years into the future where mankind (Eloi) is ruled by the Morlocks. The author is fascinating because the book was wrote in 1895 and it talks about 30 million years into the future! The smartest scientist or professor right now can't even predict what earth will be in 30 million years!
This is one of my favorite all time books. I got my first copy from a book fair at my elementary school when I was about nine but it was a little over my head at first. I think I finally was able to read the whole book at about the age of ten or eleven and I have read it several times since. Wells was very young when he wrote The Time Machine and it was published when he was 29. The writing is beautiful and translucent and the story telling is impeccable. My favorite part is when the Time Traveler goes 30 million of years into the future and witnesses the twilight of the Earth. The adventures that the Time Traveler experiences among the Eloi and Molochs are quite harrowing at times and the riddle of the Sphinx is equally perplexing. If you enjoy this book I highly recommend Wells' The War of the Worlds.
Written by Sci-Fi writer, H.G. Wells, more than 120 years ago - It's so easy to see how The Time Machine's wondrous story would have fascinated readers-of-the-fantastic back in the late-19th century.
I mean, even today Wells' story still continues to capture one's imagination as it meticulously describes The Time Traveller's adventure as he journeys into the year 802701 AD.
Yes. Indeed. The Time Machine is a timeless classic that makes it almost believable (through Wells' descriptive narrative) that travelling into the 4th dimension is actually a foreseeable possibility.
What initially prompted me to read The Time Machine was recently re-watching the 1960 film version of Wells' awesome story. Though this film's "moldie-oldie" visual effects were certainly not up to today's rigid standards - I still felt that the film's basic storyline remained quite faithful to Wells' novel.
Wells was an official PROPAGANDIST. He was a squat man with a squeaky voice, and the Gov. gave him a big house and several secretaries to dictate to. (Orwell too was a Gov. propagandist, but he soon made himself independent and wrote 1984 about the plans of the Future). This Wells book and the movie have a symbolic meaning - the guy who travels forward into and then back into the future carries science with him into the future to create a better world. This is the meaning. There is additional hidden meaning too; the eloi are in fact "elohim" or gods, the perfect humans of the future. The morlocks are the imperfect humans, who live "in the dark" (ignorance) and are afraid of light. So science will be used to create a world of light, a new Civilization. The planned future of mankind is called: "The Age Of Light." (There are symbolic meanings even in the "tricolor" of national flags, which contain white, blue and red - the combination of these is the "purple dawn" of mankind, the new Civilization to come.) In French Canadian Radio there is a scientific program titled: "Les Annees Lumiere" (The Years Of Light). Now, to show you there are hidden connections (never explained in school), the warship which gave the first shot at the Winter Palace to start Lenin's Communist Revolution (financed by the West) was called Aurora (Dawn) and it was not by chance. If you don't understand the connection, well, there is one. I grew up in E. Europe in Communism, and in primary school we wore red ties and were called "the red tie kids, trail blazers." And we sang a song: "Wake up, buddy, jump out of bed, the sky flowers with a PURPLE DAWN. Your eyes pop open, sleep flies away, our marching desire steps at the same beat (...like N. Korea today). The beehive awakens, the small bees buzz; they are hungry for sweet honey, they fly toward the flowers...." Do you notice the Purple Dawn and the Beehive? (Weishaupt called his group "The Bees' Order."). And in the early 1900s in England there was an elite group, called "The Red Tie League." Things are connected, just the crowd don't see it. The red 5-pointed star is a symbol of Communist Revolution - how come Virgin Radio and Heineken Beer have this for their symbol? Other symbols that are signals and convey secret meanings are the obelisks all over the developed world, and the crosses (blue or red) in the national flags.
Maybe it has something to do with the new technology, the Twitter thing and the ubiquity of communications and/or information, the drama that can be played out on your hand, or your hand-held device, the never-a-dull-moment-allowed culture — although I don't remember the book being boring — all I feel like saying is that it kind of knocked me out back in the day when I first read it, oh around about age 10, and I want to read it again now, 40 years later, and see if it's still that cool, but as far as searching for a plot goes, or getting technical about the science that existed when it was written, I'm not at all sure what the other commentators on-line here are yapping about. I have every reason to say this book is very daring, very exciting and well-worth any time and effort given to it. "Too many long words"? what the bloody hell does that mean?
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A short science fiction novel about a Time Traveller's recollection of his adventure in time travel. It was an interesting read, though not overly exciting. The end was a bit of a cliffhanger.
A group of men, including the narrator, is listening to the Time Traveller discuss his theory that time is the fourth dimension. The Time Traveller produces a miniature time machine and makes it disappear into thin air. The next week, the guests return, to find their host stumble in, looking disheveled and tired. They sit down after dinner, and the Time Traveller begins his story.
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When I joined this board in 2007, I was in the very early stages of my wine exploration with probably just 40 to 50 very random selections in my little wine fridge. Since 2007 I have traveled to Bordeaux, Chateauneuf du Pape, Rioja, multiple trips to Montalcino and all over CA and WA to drink wine and more importantly learn about different wine cultures. I went from analyzing if the $10 bottle of Cotes du Rhone was really a 90pt wine as the critic said, to not caring about scores at all. I went from going to the LWS and paying $15 to taste through a flight of "value" wines to attending an 82 Bordeaux dinner at a Michelin stared restaurant in London. I have gone from a buying strategy of the best score/price ratio wines in the beginning to chasing only the big expensive names and labels in the middle to now just buying what I truly like and find interesting regardless of price, name or status. Basically what I am saying is I have learned a lot since 2007 and a big part of that is due to the great people I have met and conversed with on this board. From drinking windows, to vintage analysis, to recipes and restaurant and travel recommendations, this board has been a fun and informative part of my weekly routine. Not sure if I will get to 10,000 but I'm still hoping to learn from and meet many more people here.
Congrats Glenn. I've enjoyed reading your posts. Not only do you provide information, you can disagree with others respectfully.
Congrats. Hope to meet you in person one day and play some golf, share some good food and wine.
Cheers and congrats. Come on down to SD sometime for an off-line!
Sometimes I read a thread and think we ran out of stuff to talk about like 4 years ago. ~spo
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I enjoy your posts, Glenn. There are not many people whose posts I virtually always read, but you're one of them.
Just one more sip.
Glad to have had a chance to raise a glass with you, GlennK. Hope to do it again soon.
Well said GlennK.
Congratz GlennK. I've always enjoyed your posts
(both positive and otherwise). I hope we get a chance to hoist a stem or two some time!
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
You suck GlennK - too much time on your hand getting to 5000 before me in 5 less years.
I'm trying to think of all your memorable posts over the years, but nothing comes to mind.
It was great to finally meet in September; next time I suggest golf, sushi, AND wine.
You can never get enough of what you don't really need.
Quite the accomplishment, and congratulations, GlennK. Hopefully we'll meet at some point down in Laguna or thereabouts!
Congratulations on 5,000! I've always enjoyed your posts Glenn. If you're ever in Austin...
"They speak of my drinking, but never consider my thirst..."
Congrats, Glenn. Yet another good post!
This calls for a drink!
"One may dislike carrots, spinach, beetroot, or the skin on hot milk. But not wine. It is like hating the air that one breathes, since each is equally indispensable."
Marcel Ayme`
5000 Posts Hope to meet you some time.
To 5000 more
Going where the water tastes like wine
Hear hear on the current strategy. Congrats on the 5K and hopefully you can come up here with your wife one day on one of her trips.
While I have always enjoyed drinking wine with Glenn, I still prefer our wine dinners when his wife attends.
Congrats Glenn! Hope to meet up again, perhaps we will have time to play golf. I figure Ill give you 2 strokes a side
Say NO to Shiraz!
Congrats! Well said Glenn.
There are times when the WS Forums seem to bog down with in-fighting, but when you sit back and think about it, most of the time there is really great information here. And priceless advice from people who know a heck of a lot more about wine than I do.
Mrs. GlennK is one of the most charming people I have ever met.
You can never get enough of what you don't really need.
Opposites attract
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Thanks for the kind words everyone and I hope to meet every one of you some day to share some vino! If you bring the good stuff, I will bring Mrs. GlennK.
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By 11am, the exclusive $10,000 a week house on Bungan Beach on Sydney's northern beaches that she and her entourage will call home for the next month was surrounded by a dozen long-lensed paparazzi.
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Peter Wilshusen, left, and Craig Kochel, co-directors of the Environmental Center
From the Spring 2007 edition of Bucknell World
LEWISBURG, Pa. -- Bucknell's Environmental Center represents an important aspect of the University's environmental consciousness.
Located on Fraternity Road, the Center's furnishings are almost entirely recycled. Its founders went "warehouse diving" for the computers, tables, and chairs, says Craig Kochel, co-director and professor of geology.
The building is a brick house previously rented out by the University as a staff residence. The garage serves as a hub for Bucknell's used toner and inkjet cartridges, which the 45-member Environmental Club collects and recycles.
Pooling resources
In 2004, some 55 students, faculty, and staff laid the plans for the Environmental Center, which helps its many constituencies sift through research, brainstorm on tactics, and pool resources when applying for grants.
"Oftentimes, when you think of environmental science and environmental studies, you think of the natural sciences, like biology and geology," says Peter Wilshusen, center co-director and associate professor of environmental studies. "Here, we're truly interested in integrating all academic perspectives."
(Listen to more of Wilshusen on the Environmental Center.)
Faculty members are from classics, English, music, theatre, and international relations, just to name a few.
Greenhouse gases
Between classes and work on her thesis, Christine Kassab '08 explained her study of Bucknell's greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2004. An environmental geology major, she determined that Bucknell produced 37,090 metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2004, down from 60,000 in the mid '90s.
Bucknell chopped its greenhouse gas emissions in half with its conversion of its coal-fired power plant to a natural gas-burning co-generation plant. Completed in 1997, the plant not only releases fewer pollutants but also saves money by producing energy at 80 percent efficiency.
When asked how Bucknell stands in comparison to other schools, Kassab says, "Not bad."
Global warming
Bucknell has a lower greenhouse gas emissions rate per student than Middlebury, Harvard, and Oberlin, according to Kassab. Oberlin is nationally recognized for its Green Dorm initiative. Greenhouse gas emissions — mainly carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane — may contribute to global warming.
Despite its environmentally friendly power source, the University needs to further cut its energy consumption, Kassab concluded. Her report cites recommendations such as turning off computers and lights while not in use and decreasing unnecessary driving.
Her summer research project was funded by a grant through the Environmental Center.
Initiatives support each other
"Ten years ago, this research wouldn't have been possible," says Dennis Hawley '72, MS'73, associate vice president of Facilities and a member of the Environmental Center's steering committee. "It was sort of dispersed, with things going on [with Facilities], in geology, in the Environmental Residential College. Now these initiatives are all supporting each other."
Kassab's project is the first step of an environmental audit. The audit, headed by Bucknell's sustainability coordinator, Dina El-Mogazi, seeks to identify sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The results will allow the campus community to determine ways of making the campus "greener."
As the University embarks on its Campus Master Plan, it has certifications from the U.S. Green Building Council in mind.
Environmental footprint
"We're looking at ways we can reduce our environmental footprint on the campus," Kochel says.
Colin Davies '08, a civil engineering major, enrolled in a summer training program through the Environmental Center, where he helped install the solar panels in the backyard. On a good day, the panels can power the entire building and more — the surplus is sent out to the utility's electrical grid.
With his training, Davies is in charge of a group of students, the Solar Scholars, who are installing panels at one of the modular units in Bucknell West with a grant from the Sustainable Energy Fund of Central-Eastern Pennsylvania and matching funds from the University. While the two solar-powered buildings may do little to reduce Bucknell's overall power use, they promote environmental awareness.
Taking things for granted
The occupants "will be able to work on their laptops and look out the window and see where their power is coming from," Davies says. "That's important, especially in this day and age where we take things for granted. We don't usually think about where our power's coming from, but it's something we should do."
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With high fuel prices and increased media attention about global warming, people are thinking more about the environment than they were 10 years ago.
"Our whole survival depends on what happens to this planet," Kochel says. "It's a fixed place with fixed resources. We have one atmosphere, one supply of resources. Our critical problem is the number of people on the planet and the demands being made on these resources. Learning to manage that wisely is our only chance for success if we want to continue life as we know it."
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The economy's invisible hand is pushing businesses toward "green" design practices, which reduce their energy costs and their toll on the environment.
"People often think that going green costs a lot of money, that it's something that you do once you've become a rich company and, really, it's just the opposite," says Wilshusen. "For the most part, it saves you money, especially in the long run. It's not only good for the environment; it's also good for the bottom line."
Although economic interests in the environment often stem from a profit-maximizing motivation, for many it's a labor of love.
Says Kochel: "For right and wrong reasons, people are getting interested in what's going on with the environment, whether it's hitting their pocketbook or hitting their heart and soul."
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SKILLMAN, N.J. – The Georgia College men's tennis team (2-1) has been ranked fifth in the 2013-14 Division II Men's Regional Team Rankings for the Southeast by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Wednesday, Feb. 19. Seven of the 10 ranked teams are from the Peach Belt Conference (PBC).
The Bobcats slipped one notch from the last poll Nov. 11, 2013. Ahead of Georgia College in the most recent poll are four PBC teams. Armstrong Atlantic State University, Lander University, Columbus State University and USC Aiken are the top-four teams in that order.
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Kampala facilities get FIVB thumbs up
Kampala, Uganda, August 22, 2013 – Kampala is on track with its preparations to host the FIVB Kampala Beach Open scheduled to take place from September 25 to 29, following an inspection by the FIVB, which ended on Monday.
On the inspection visit, FIVB Inspector May Alaa from Egypt visited the facilities available to the athletes, referees and FIVB officials attending the event. She also held meetings with the Ministry of Education and Sports, the Kampala Capital City Authority, the Uganda Volleyball Federation, the local organising committee and toured the venue at the UMA auxiliary parking in Lugogo before concluding her two day visit.
Although Alaa was pleased with the accommodation standards and the location of competition venue, she did note that construction work at the venue needed to be sped up. "I am optimistic after the meeting with the promoter that works shall be finished in time" she said.
The double-gender FIVB Kampala Beach Volleyball Open Event is the first of its kind to be held in East Africa. It will take place on the grounds of the Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA) on a specialised court with high quality Red hill 28 sand.
The courts are currently under construction and will be ready in the coming weeks for the tournament that is expected to attract 24 countries from around the world.
Promoter Eddie Okila noted, "We are happy to have passed the first step that has been holding back most of our implementation plans. With the inspection concluded, we are now rolling out our final phase of implementation in readiness of the September 24 to 29 world event."
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An outsider, perhaps. In truth, CONCACAF's final phase of World Cup qualifying is a grueling series of eye-gouging, shin-kicking, cups-of-questionable-substance-throwing, gritty bare-knuckle grudge matches. Mixed martial arts may have an octagon, but CONCACAF has the Hexagonal. Ten games are played across nine months, relative fixture isolation undermined by the back-to-back nature of transcontinental travel and playing two games in the space of five days. It's a one-two punch where you could find yourself playing in heavy rain in Kingston followed up by heat and smog and altitude in Mexico City. Momentum from wins is dispelled by the long wait for the next round, while the toxic rot from a poor performance can fester for weeks before the next set of games.
CONCACAF nations have close ties economically and politically, and the North and Central American and Caribbean teams play each other frequently, a byproduct of a shallow pool of quality teams and the biennial Gold Cup. As a rule, these teams have long histories of not liking each other, loading every game with subtext.
Mexico nearly fell victim to the unforgiving nature of this Hex this year. Under the disastrous leadership of Jose Manuel de la Torre, El Tri displayed disastrous home form, going 1-3-1 in Mexico City, the single victory requiring Raul Jimenez's 85th-minute bicycle kick against Panama in the final home game. In the course of a year, the perception of Azteca changed from an impenetrable fortress where points were lost forever into an easily plundered ruin.
Coming into the final day of the Hex, three teams - Honduras, Mexico and Panama - were unsure of their fates. The United States and Costa Rica were guaranteed first and second place finishes, while winless Jamaica was eliminated from contention. By a fateful bit of scheduling, the three teams with something to win or lose were paired with the teams whose fortunes were settled.
Honduras entered the day on 14 points. Mexico had 11, and Panama eight. Goal difference was such that it wouldn't really matter if the results broke in the right ways. Honduras was guaranteed a spot in the playoff with New Zealand at the very least, and needed at least a point to secure automatic qualification for the 2014 World Cup. A point or more would give Mexico the playoff spot, and a win coupled with a Honduran loss to Jamaica would send El Tri straight to Brazil. If Mexico lost, a Panama win would send Los Canaleros to Wellington and back.
The games all kicked off at the same time. Honduras, always the most likely winner, took just two minutes to find an opener for Carlo Costly, but that good work was immediately undone by a third-minute own goal from Jorge Claros. It would take a little while longer for all hell to break loose.
A Mexican move found Chicharito with a wide open goal at his mercy, but somehow his wayward stab at the ball put it into the offside Oribe Peralta, killing a brilliant opportunity for Mexico. Then Gabriel Torres scored for Panama against the United States. It was a lifeline for the Central American nation, but wouldn't count for anything as long as Mexico didn't lose. And then Mexico gave up a goal, Bryan Ruiz volleying a shot in to send two crowds hundreds of miles away into raptures and giving Mexico its first non-qualification terrors of the evening.
It didn't last long. Peralta scored a few minutes after Ruiz to restore parity and Mexico's hold on the playoff spot. Maynor Figueroa scored for Honduras, and Jamaica's Rudolph Austin converted a penalty in the second half to settle that game as a 2-2 draw.
Things soon got interesting again. Alvaro Saborio scored for Costa Rica after the hour mark, putting Panama back into the playoff spot, and then almost immediately, a goal by USA's Michael Orozco-Fiscal pushed it back out. Until Luis Tejada, the veteran who nearly gave Panama a draw against El Tri on Friday, scored.
Suddenly, with less than 10 minutes to go in the matches, Panama was at home beating the USA and Mexico was losing away to a Costa Rica team looking increasingly confident and dangerous. Some USA fans on social networks were openly rooting against their own country, hoping to see the great rival humiliated. Panama fans were dreaming of a shot at the nation's first-ever World Cup berth. Broadcasters and media executives on both sides of the Rio Grande were placing tearful orders for gallons upon gallons of red ink.
And then, like some old Western movie, the American cavalry arrived at the last second and saved the day for Mexico. Edgar Castillo, who made three friendly appearances for Mexico before switching to the Stars and Stripes, dribbled inside and sent a pass out wide left for Brad Davis, whose one-time cross was met by the head of Graham Zusi and sent into the back of the net to equalize. Panamanian hearts sank. Mexico exploded. One Mexican announcer shouted in English, "We love you forever and ever, God bless America!" before ripping apart the Mexican team in Spanish.
A minute later, all of Panama's hopes were dashed, as Aron Johannsson scored his first U.S. goal to put Mexico's spot firmly onto safe ground. The games ended. Terrence Boyd consoled the exhausted and broken Panamanian captain Felipe Baloy, who at 32 is unlikely to ever come so close to a World Cup again. Mexican fans rushed to praise the professionalism of the American team. #GraciasUSA trended on twitter in Mexico City. Americans responded with #YoureWelcomeMexico, demonstrating the pitfalls of an under-funded public school system on contraction abuse.
Mexico still has its problems. Rafa Marquez may bring a steady hand and valuable leadership, but he's cost Mexico a goal in each of the games he's played in. Giovanni dos Santos needs to rediscover his ability to drive the Mexican attack. And poor Chicharito is simply a shattered man right now. Victor Manuel Vucetich will have a chance to address these problems however, thanks to the crazy final night of the Hexagonal; unpredictable, unbelievable, and somehow appropriately CONCACAF.
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Teach for America Teachers Pass the Test
Recruits fill teacher shortages and increase academic gains: NCPA Report
Dallas, TX (July 24, 2014) – Teach for America's rigorous interview and selection process produces teachers who often outpace their traditionally trained counterparts, according to a new report by Senior Research Fellow Lloyd Bentsen IV and Research Associate Megan Simons of the National Center for Policy Analysis.
The Teach for America (TFA) recruitment program focuses on subject mastery and experience while reducing the focus on classroom management and child development that is often found in traditional teacher training routes.
While critics claim that TFA's five-week training program fails to prepare new teachers for the stress of the classroom, students taught by TFA members often outpace their counterparts taught by traditionally-trained teachers:
- A 2009 Louisiana study found that students taught by TFA teachers performed significantly better in English language arts, reading, math and science than students taught by other new teachers.
- In North Carolina, a 2010 study found middle school math students of TFA members received the equivalent of an extra half-year of learning.
- Similarly, a 2013 Tennessee study found that TFA members were equally effective, if not more effective, as veteran teachers in most subject areas.
"The success of TFA's competition-driven model highlights the need for free market principles in the teacher recruitment process," report Bentsen and Simons. Teach for America displays the importance of selecting teachers "based on merit rather than formal credentials."
By recruiting graduates who didn't follow the traditional teacher route, Teach for America guides driven individuals with a stronger mastery of their subject matter into schools stricken by poverty and teacher shortages. The continued success of these individuals underlines the need for a reevaluation of the teacher certification system.
Lessons from Teach For America: http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ib147


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Tons of room in those! Sharp looking rig! I looked for about a year for my truck. Hard to find good used vehicles for a good price these days.
For the past two years I have been trying to find a well kept low mileage Ford Excursion 7.3 diesel 4X4. I cant tell you how many I have looked at and finally was able to get a line on a nice one. There are a lot of vehicles that are tough to find but this search really tested my patience!! I found a 2001 7.3 with only 118,000 miles. My old hunting truck-daily driver with 283000 miles will get well needed rest !!
Tons of room in those! Sharp looking rig! I looked for about a year for my truck. Hard to find good used vehicles for a good price these days.
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
Genesis 27:3 (NKJV)
Looks like a nice one and 118k is barely broke yet! My old 96 F350 Powerstroke just turned 337k and is still running great! Take care of it and it will last forever!
Nice.....That rig looks clean as a button, must have been parked in a garage. An 01 with just over 100 K didn't get used much.
Yea I am stoked to have finally found a decent 7.3 with low miles. It was garage kept and one family owned it for 11 years. The guy I bought it from knew the family and had every receipt, all the paper work for any work, warranty work and add ons. He even had the original window MSRP sticker.
25, That is a great looking rig. In good shape for 13 years old. Here is my 01 with the 7.3 It has 82,000 miles on it. I bought it when it had 68,000 miles on it. It was owned by an older couple who hauled their 5th wheel in the summer. It didn't have a scratch on it when I saw it. But when I came back with the rest of the money to pick it up, he had backed into his mailbox and dented the back bumper. Like yours it has been babied all its life. I added the aluminum topper and the cap pack and it is always ready to go chase animals. My business owns two others with the 7.3. A 97 has 296,000 miles and the 96 has 245,000 miles and they have both been worked hard and just smoke a little more than normal. It is the best diesel that ford ever made. I always liked the excursion but I don't think I could drag a deer into the back
I was in a search for either a 7.3 box body style 4 door short bed or an 02 cummins 6 speed. Couldn't find a clean one to save my soul! Finally stumbled across a clean 02 6 speed at a dealership for all places. (Vegas doesn't cater to nice diesels too often) the guy just traded it in and they held it for a week while I rounded up the cash. I still keep an eye open for a four door 7.3 but am super happy with "redneck one" as we call it. Congrats on the find! I know how testing it can be!
I tried for a solid year to talk the wife into a 7.3 excursion she was dead set on a gas tahoe. Suprise suprise she got her way..
My Powerstroke found me! My cousin bought it new and totaled it in 2005 with 226k on it and I got it for salvage value and fixed it. Since then my cousin is on his third new truck and has now owned every diesel engine ford has made after the 7.3. His 6.0 was stolen, 6.4 had so many problems he ended up lemon lawing it, 6.7 has been good so far. His old 7.3 is still running strong with 337k on it now! Was fun reminding him his old truck was running great when his new truck was in the shop though!
7.3 is the best diesel engine ford has ever had.
"Only two people have died for You and I, The American Soldier died for Our Freedom & Jesus Christ Died for Our Souls!" I thank GOD for them! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
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The way to torment those guys is to make and use the email account from a couple of public hotspots such as a free hotel lobby, public library, or other dead end location. Then NEVER log into the account again from anywhere. Let them dig, trace, stake out, monitor, and spend their resources. What they spend tilting at windmills is up to them.
Even better is to get one of the scammers to relay it for you as part of scambaiting. Maybe the studios can get some of the Internet cafe's shut down in Lagos.
I'm a Swede, but I think it's as much un-Swedish as it is un-. Thepirateby enables people to "steal", as much as the most well known forums for stolen things creates an underground market.
No one stole anything through pirate bay, they may have committed copyright infringement, but that is an entirely different thing.
As a side note, the postal office enables people to send drugs and bombs to each other, they are still not held accountable, despite they knowingly do this. The "enabling" part is a faulty argument. However, they did definitely knowingly host links to the files, and did not act when made aware of such files; that is a proper argument that you can build on and probably argue in a court.
No one stole anything through pirate bay, they may have committed copyright infringement, but that is an entirely different thing.
Not even that. The Pirate Bay is charged with "assisting copyright infringement of 24 albums, 9 movies and 4 games", nothing more, nothing less. According to the Swedish constitution that's the only thing that should be taken in consideration by the court. Anything else they may have done except assisting copyright infringement of those specified 24 albums, 9 movies and 4 games is completely off-topic in the trial. Also, all fines and damages compensation are required to be in line with proven losses and it's against the constitution to use general deterrence, to make examples of specific deviants.
One thing we learned during the TPB trial and the debates of the new surveillance laws (FRA, IPRED, datalagringsdirektivet) is that the Swedish constitution isn't enforced at all. We have a "constitution deputation" but what they say are only to be regarded as "recommendations" and weighted with the opinions of other deputations. Previously this wasn't a problem because courts and law makers have pretty much followed the constitution anyway but the last few years it has become clear that we desperately need a constitutional court with full veto.
If you read what I said, you actually agree with me...
Yeah. The email is pretty retarded and childish.
But, being in Sweden I can't see the company being able to do SFA to the kid.
Confessions without proof are not valid in Sweden (you cannot for example do plea-bargains in the Swedish court system). It is well known that people make up confessions; for example the Swedish police has received the confessions of over a 100 people, who all confessed murdering the former prime minister Olof Palme. Confessions are only counted (but only marginally so) if there is also technical evidence and / or witnesses.
The point is, if they trace the guys IP, it is doubtful that the Swedish court would grant a request to reveal the identity behind the IP address, you need to have at-least some bit of concrete technical evidence (e.g. logs identifying him in a bit-torrent swarm) to do that.
Well, that'll teach him...
Not really... it's unlikely that they can prove anything with his gmail account...
And the case will never hold in Sweden...
The news here is that some US judge signed a subpoena based on that email... Some might argue that such as judge is somewhat stupid... To put it mildly...
The news here is that some US judge signed a subpoena based on that email... Some might argue that such as judge is somewhat stupid... To put it mildly...
Look at it this way:
The news here is that some US judge signed a subpoena based on that email... Some might argue that such as judge is somewhat stupid... To put it mildly...
Look at it this way:
Such a judge must also be frequently checking to make sure his refrigerator is running.
My first question, if I were this guy's lawyer, would be, "Do you believe this man shared files based solely upon his email?"
If the answer is "Yes", then I would say, "That would indicate that you also believe he owns unicorns, talks to leprechauns with pots of gold at the end of rainbows based upon your same assumptions."
If the answer was "No", then I would ask, "Then what are we doing here?"
Make them look as stupid as possible.
The defense will put so much lawyer power into action that they could make the judge neglect the word not in "I did not download copyrighted material."
Can you explain that for us, please?
Certainly, easily done. I claimed that I was in Sweden, yet here I am. The letter's statement is a lie. It also stated I would pay with the pot of gold I procurred from my leprechaun. The letter's statement is a lie. It also stated that my unicorn gave the company scathing criticisms. The letter's statement is a lie. It is, therefore, reasonable to assume the entire letter was a lie, including the bit where it stated that I confessed to sharing files.
True.I was on a jury once and a guy got pulled over for having a few beers in him. His BAC wasn't high enough to warrant immediate guilt so it went to us, the jury. His friend came in from out of state to help him move and they had had a few beers at the bar. The friend went to the witness stand as a defense witness to give testimony. The exchange between the attorney, witness, and judge went sort of like this:
Attorney: And why did you travel all this way to see Mr. Smith.
Witness: He had just graduated and
Aaron Barr had an ulterior motive for confronting Anonymous and we all know how that turned out.
Do lawyers come up with with the stupidest things and portray themselves as educated idiots because of the lack of oxygen caused by too-tight neckties, or is it some other reason?
Here's their train of thoughts:
How dare some insignificant worm mock us fancy, bigshot corporate lawyers? That peasant should know his place! Something has to be done to show the cattle who's boss!
Here's their train of thoughts: How dare some insignificant worm mock us fancy, bigshot corporate lawyers? That peasant should know his place! Something has to be done to show the cattle who's boss!
Of maybe bigshot lawyers are thinking, "yippee, here's a way to generate 10 billable hours!". The letter is quite obviously satirical. Even if the person were in the jurisdiction required, his "confession" would be laughed out of court.
Note to self: when pulling a similar stunt, claim to be from a fake country, like Lavatruria, Pays-Bonguebongue, or Belgium [zapatopi.net].
Belgium? You will be the wrath of our government. Oh wait. Never mind. (Well, and what is one less? We have plenty of them to go around.)
The lawyers forget that Sweden is not a state of USA./quote>
Here in Europe we are not sure about that anymore.
The lawyers forget that Sweden is not a state of USA. The kid is safe while the lawyers make an ass of them selves. Sweden has its own laws
It isn't. Which means he almost certainly won't defend himself, and will be ordered to pay up.
I can't see him paying up, and for one person and $1000 it's hardly worth going to the trouble they did with the Pirate Bay people. But - and IANAL - I wonder if this would pose a problem at immigration if he ever chooses to visit the US? Of course, he may take the view "why on Earth would I ever want to visit the US?" but the US lawyers don't know that.
Yeah just asked the guys at piratebay or julian assange, Sweden is completely not a state of the USA. OF course not. Sweden would never roll on to its back and wag its tail like the little bitch she is...
yeah im norwegian
Im a Swede and wondering more and more if i should just pack it up and leave for Norway.
The lawyers forget that Sweden is not a state of USA
Is that even relevant to them?
1) They still get paid right?
2) The US laws apply if the silly swedish guy (and his unicorn) ever ends up in the US territory[1]. So there is still an effect. Go ask Dmitry Sklyarov.
[1] You don't even have to be "rendered". You could be flying to/from Canada and stuff happens and your plane has to land in USA (this has happened to someone I know - the US immigration bunch even asked him stupid questions like why he didn't have a valid US visa - he wasn't intending to go to the
First, I would like to say that this is a clear case of the cloud being the wrong place to store your data. Especially if the cloud-based service is located in the USA. From the (2nd) article:
"Discovery (evidence gathering) allows for the acquisition of literally anything relevant to the suit as long as it is not protected by some kind of privilege," we were told. "It is often a wake-up call to people when they learn that they likely do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in e-mai
and you don't expect the lawyers to start asking for personal data because of trolling. (I'm going to shoot that president, and the vice-president of the United States with my ak47.)
The idea that a single off-the-cuff comment is hardly going to lead to all sorts of trouble coming down on you is an interesting view to take, however ITYF it's not shared [dailymail.co.uk] by the majority [chicagobreakingnews.com] of those [wired.com] in positions of authority [reuters.com].
PWNED. OK, this is so funny
No, really, I can't stop LOLing, it's insane.
What??? You have never seen a fool teasing a dog or something else he shouldn't have and then being bitten by it?
Come oooooon, this is exactly like that.
Unicorns? Who cares about the Unicorns? There are vicious little Irish leprechauns hording pots of gold in Sweden and this Ryan fellow knows how to catch one! Christ with the price of Gold I'm planning a we little trip to Sweden to beat this secret out of Ryan.
So, Michael (?) Ryan, Boss of the much-maligned country-airport-to-rural-airport airline "Ryan Air", has found out how to milk leprechauns for their gold.
I'm not sure if I should be worried or excited.
Does unicorn shit work for fuelling airplanes?
They have UNICORNS in Sweden?!
Yeah, and we ride them listening to Erasure.
http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html [adultswim.com]
Or Snoopy Poopy Poop Dog or the enema man.
They have UNICORNS in Sweden?!
and virgins!
Oh wait, Julian was there
You probably just used the wrong form of its/it's or their/they're/there. Please double check, before I have an aneurysm
Offtopic, but you've probably never heard of Neutral Possessive. "it's", as in "The tidal wave and it's destruction were watched throughout the world". Now I know you're saying that this does not exist in the English language, but language is open source and dynamic. Any opinion against this rule change is bigoted against inanimate objects. Or in the case of the tidal wave, animated objects without cognitive abilities; or taken further, water based disaster events not named by a scientific body such as a hu
So, BitTorrent users, have you downloaded any Liberty Media movies? If so the company says it is time to hand yourselves in. From 8th February for 14 days, the kind folk at Liberty are offering an amnesty.
I have downloaded a lot of porn. A lot. I'm fairly certain that I may have represented a few percentage points of the entire bandwidth used by porn in a single day.
That being said, I have no idea if I downloaded anything from Liberty Media. In the interests of providing amnesty I think it would behoove them to put up a public website with examples of their copyrighted works. Not the whole things of course, but just small groups of shots. Perhaps the ones that made the most money for them, those being the ones most likely to be pirated.
I have downloaded a lot of porn. A lot. I'm fairly certain that I may have represented a few percentage points of the entire bandwidth used by porn in a single day.
Ha, that's nothing. I once downloaded all the porn on the internet in one day. Mind you, this was back in 1970 and it fit on a floppy disc.
these law guys certainly could use some real gigs. that's one problem, law firms being so bad that they get dependant on one trolling client with POTENTIAL income flow some time later. it worked so well for the other law firms..
and it seems to me that liberty media focuses more on relicensing media instead of creating it? so if I rent a movie from somewhere can I start sending subpoenas to people who downloaded that movie?
Lawyers might just think the kid is from Sweden, hoping he's an American lying about his physical whereabouts to prevent them from even asking questions.
In any event, if they just throw the first sentence of that confession in front of a judge:
"I have been sharing a whole load of your files... on every torrent site like Purena, Empornium, Kickasstorrents etc"
And it'd be at the very least enough to cause an American major headaches.
Assuming the kid really does live in Sweden though, American courts don't hav
Assuming the kid really does live in Sweden though, American courts don't have jurisdiction.
Not necessarily. A court may be able to exercise long-arm jurisdiction under the "minimum contacts [wikipedia.org]" rule--when Ryan went out of his way to make contact with Liberty Media, his actions were clearly directed to the forum state (wherever Liberty Media is based). As such, he may have subjected himself to that state's jurisdiction, at least with regard to this matter (this definitely wouldn't be enough to subject him to general jurisdiction, that is, he couldn't be sued for just anything in that state).'
He may well be sued in a US court, and they may even win; but what does it matter, so long as he's in Sweden? Any verdict would be unenforceable.
Don't be stupid folks. If you're gonna do stuff like this,
a) have a common version of a Linux Live-CD running
b) use Tor for all access.
c) setup a new gmail account.
d) Let the unicorn speak to anyone you like using that gmail account over Tor **always**
If you slip even once and forget Tor or use your normal OS - even under Tor - you may be discovered.
Don't be stupid folks. If you're gonna do stuff like this,
a) have a common version of a Linux Live-CD running
b) use Tor for all access.
c) setup a new gmail account.
d) Let the unicorn speak to anyone you like using that gmail account over Tor **always**
If you slip even once and forget Tor or use your normal OS - even under Tor - you may be discovered.
Actually, when you put it like that I'm surprised nobody's developed a version of Bittorrent with Tor-like functionality already built in.
The bar association in this lawyer's area might be interested to hear a complain about this clear abuse of the legal system. No one could take this as a confession, not even a bad lawyer. It is beyond reasonable and should be punished. I know lawyers rarely punish their own, but perhaps if enough complaints come in?
Terrorists can't take a joke; hired gunman either. Just because their weapon isn't a gun does not mean they are not "hired guns" and just because they don't blow themselves up for a religion doesn't mean they are not terrorists.
Still, these "terrorists" and "hired guns" are operating "for profit" and are, at the same time "officers of the court" which means they are bound to certain duties and within certain restrictions on behavior. It appears to me that they are exceeding those limits and abusing their role and position for personal gain. It's time to demote them from being officers of the court.
No, in US English it's just "lawyer".
The same Corbin Fisher as this Corbin Fisher [wikipedia.org]? Really?
This should prove to be amusing, at the very least. Yes mister judge sir, this here man has illegally copied and jerked off to thousands of dollars' worth of gay porn that we filmed using straight actors.
Actually, mister judge, sir, you're looking pretty good, yourself. Can I interest you in a financial opportunity ?
Not that it is a big surprise coming from a media company.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith