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1) Use self-control.
2) Get off the grid.
3 Curation.
These three habits will help you manage your social-media footprint and make you more effective, whether you use the medium for work or pleasure. Here's a functional, easy guide to do just that.
1. The Self Control app limits your use of email and social media, locking you out of designated sites for pre-determined periods, while still giving you broader online access. If you can't stop trolling Facebook to see if your latest update got liked. And if you suffer from both afflictions, ranting anonymously and surfing in dangerous water, this could put you on a much needed time-out.
2. Let's say you're careful about what you post. Very careful. You know about the risks of over-sharing. But, your'e always ready to respond. Always available. That can be exhausting, and exhaustion often leads to irritation, which usually ends with embarrassment.
What to do?
Get off the grid. Knowledge workers should change their always-on mentality and stop answering email after business hours. Why: It improves your mood. Effective workers enjoy what they do.
3. The final habit you should employ could be one of the most important of all. Make sense of all the white noise out there. All the voices. How do we filter it all? Turn to curation, a growing, but misunderstood, concept that can save you tremendous amounts of time directing you to what you need to know.
I like a service called spundge (http://www.spundge.com ), which helps me filter search results so they are more effective, saving me a ton of time. When you're searching for specific, nuanced topics, this site gives you results in an easy-to-digest format that spares me from Google readers and extraneous searches. Now I spend that time on what I should be doing: Working.
This habit I can't stress enough, and it's only getting more refined. The next step in curation is personalization.
Personalization is what Facebook mastered from the get-go. Suddenly, each person's online experience was truly personalized. A company called Gravity (http://www.gravity.com ) is moving this concept further. It uses adaptive artificial-intelligence techniques to make news sites more individually relevant..."
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There is a bug in Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon relating to windows that close very fast staying on the screen, as just a gray pane with the window border. Mouse events go through the window to the windows below. The orphaned window remains on top of everything. The only way to get rid of the window is to restart Cinnamon (alt+f2, r). It's very annoying when it happens, especially when it's an orphaned window in the middle of the screen.
The screenshot shows an orphaned window that's triggered by closing Eclipse. The Progress Information dialog window comes up is immediately closed, but it does not dissapear, it remains on the screen.
I can reproduce something like the above bug with the following python script, but it's curious that with the python script, the window border goes away, only the window contents stay.
This bug appeared before in Linux Mint 13, but I fixed it by applyin a patch to some of the internal files of Cinnamon. The patch was a discussion on a launchpad site I think, and I thought the patch would be applied to the codebase and the bug would be fixed, so I didn't save the link.
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#!/usr/bin/env python
from gi.repository import Gtk
win = Gtk.Window()
win.connect("draw", Gtk.main_quit)
This bug was also discussed on the forums before:
I'm starting a new post because the old post had a non-descriptive title and seems to have been ignored. Any help with fixing this problem for good would be appreciated.


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None of the links seem to be to anything very specific about the title issue ("keys leaking through the air")... was something mispasted in the submission?
I fucking hate summaries with a half dozen links that don't seem to link to an article actually discussing the issue in the summary.
Why approved this shit?
Sounds like the poster is using slashdot to blog about what he is seeing at the RSA conference. There aren't good links because the data was originally presented in meatspace.
Why approved this shit?
With apologies to Abbott and Costello:
Why is the left fielder.
I Don't Know is on third base.
I Don't Give A Darn is the shortstop.
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Wondering how Arron Barr's presentation on Social Network went... Though I might post as "Anonymous Coward", but don't feel like having my door kicked in by the Fed's today.
Searched [rsaconference.com] the RSA11 sessions: his presentation is nowhere to be found.
He cancelled his presentation of course, but they still have a booth at the RSA conference. Feel free to drop in and say 'hi'.
http://www.hbgary.com/statement.htm [hbgary.com]
A group of aggressive hackers known as "Anonymous" illegally broke into computer systems and stole proprietary and confidential information from HBGary, Inc. This breach was in violation of federal and state laws, and stolen information was publicly released without our consent.
In addition to the data theft, HBGary individuals have received numerous threats of violence including threats at our tradeshow booth.
In an effort to protect our employees, customers and
The first step when you find yourself in a hole? Stop digging.
. are sensitive networks like NASDAQ even connected to the internet? There is a common fix for this issue called an AIR GAP. You simply physically disconnect the nternet from the sensitive technology, and then you work forward from there while always regarding the fundamental necessity of the air gap. It is, reckless and foolish considering the reality of the internet, to think you can connect and protect.
This requires a simple data transfer through a sterile line with extremely simple data types, not a full on connection to the network.
Because all trade networks connect to each other now, and the internet is the cheapest way than building dedicated hardlinks to innerconnect to all stock exchanges. I doubt that any exchange would be willing to drop billions to build trans-atlantic/pacific data exchanges, unless something catastrophic happened. Plus it creates central points of weakness.
The internet 'routes around damage'.
Ideally, the networks should be on a backbone which can piggyback over Internet connections, but by using half-routers that already know each other and use preshared symmetric keys (so even if RSA is broken, the communication going across the pipe is still secure unless someone hacks the endpoint.)
The US government has learned this (NIPRNet and SIPRnet), maybe businesses need their own backbone that is separate from the Internet.
There is a middle ground between using the internet (where delivery is on a best effort basis and has no guarantees of anything) and laying your own submarine cables. Private international leased lines are readily available from a variety of vendors and are used extensively by financial institutions. They're available with various SLAs on contention, latency and uptime depending on how much you're willing to spend. Transatlantic routes are available surprisingly cheaply, as there is an abundance of bandwidt
Because all trade networks connect to each other now, and the internet is the cheapest way than building dedicated hardlinks to innerconnect to all stock exchanges. I doubt that any exchange would be willing to drop billions to build trans-atlantic/pacific data exchanges, unless something catastrophic happened. Plus it creates central points of weakness.
The internet 'routes around damage'.
Dedicated links are the only links which can be secured.
It's worth it.
And no, it doesn't necessarily give you a single point of failure, or "central points of wekaness" any more than the internet does.
The worst case scenario for losing electronic trading is small delay in trades going through, thus killing off high frequency trading and forcing people to INVEST.
This would be a GOOD THING.
And no, it doesn't necessarily give you a single point of failure, or "central points of wekaness" any more than the internet does.
Oh I believe that dedicated links are worthwhile. The only question is what will happen, and how much money will be spent later. I'd call it human nature myself.
As for a central point of weakness? Sure. All you need to do is look at past incidents where some ship(whether cargo/fisherman/idiot) dredges along and kills net access to 1/3 of the worlds population, or limits it.
What is the problem with high frequency trading?
I'm an investor, it provides more liquidity.
It doesn't change the value of the stock, it at most causes slight minor price swings, which, with the use of limit orders doesn't affect me.
. are sensitive networks like NASDAQ even connected to the internet?
So you can get up to date stock quotes from yahoo, instead of waiting for them in the news paper?
So you can log into your bank or brokerage and buy and sell shares of something?
So brokers, fund managers, and so on can do the same, all in real-time from their offices around the world?
Air gapping the stock exchange would be pretty inconvenient for pretty much anyone who deals with it at all.
Air gapping the stock exchange would be pretty inconvenient for pretty much anyone who deals with it at all.
The use of Telepathy Control Protocol over Idiotic Precogs would solve this in a blink.
Too bad the BoA seems to hold some patents on it - they used it to register in advance some domain names, so the rumors have it.
Air gapping it might be inconvenient, but it will make the market a whole lot better for you and me
We can make the market a whole lot better for you and me without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Being connected to the internet isn't the problem. If they pulled the nasdaq of the net and institutional traders simply dialed into it on dedicated T1/fiber lines totally air-gapped from the Internet it would have all the problems it has now... and it would take a broker charging $100+ per trade to execut
But you can do that without the disconnecting option, so you are throwing out the baby (low commission trading) with the bathwater (high frequency trading).
I don't even mind high frequency trading. What I mind is them getting to see stuff before others and act on it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/business/24trading.html [nytimes.com]
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/07/24/business/0724-webBIZ-trading.ready.html [nytimes.com]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/business/05flash.html [nytimes.com]
Go ahead, send your orders as fast as you want. But being able to see other people's orders AND cancel your orders accordingly before the rest of the market gets them is cheating.
Which can be removed without removing low commission changing.
But liquidity goes down.
I'm a buy and hold invester, I don't really care about HFT. I still don't understand how HFT hurts me?
Doesn't it just increase volume thereby letting my trades complete more efficiently.
I still get the shares I want at the price I want.
Actually it's not common for exchanges to offer connectivity in via the internet except perhaps for low-traffic connections for integration testing and suchlike. The unpredictability of the internet makes it impossible for them to guarantee the service levels that are demanded. The constant stream of pricing updates can run into the gigabits per second depending on what you're subscribed to. If you're big enough to be trading directly on the exchange, the cost of the leased lines and/or colocation next to t
But those with the connections aren't likely to air gap them from the rest of their network.
If you're big enough to be trading directly on the exchange, the cost of the leased lines and/or colocation next to the exchange (latency is everything) is easy to swallow.
And as long as those leased lines and co-located servers are connected to the internet...
Hmmm... Okay, but all the other servers that have to talk to it *are* connected to the internet. I know because I've set servers up before in their primary data center.
So even if you keep all the NASDAQ servers on a private network only, you still have all the entry points from the physical ethernet drops throughout the data center going into all the cages (several thousands of them) of people routing orders onto NASDAQ.
So when Joe Brokerage or John Trading Shop gets compromised, it's only a hop away to t
didn 't you read the summary?
the "air gap" has been closed within 10 feet of a person even/especially on the busy, crowded, everybody's-holding-a-palmtop NASDAQ floor.
wtf is this article - is there actual content anywhere or is it an ad for the RSA conference?
I'm sorry that there's no direct article for this submission, and I'm not certain who submitted it, but as an employee of CRI and one of the designers of the demo, I'd like to give you some details about what's going on.
At CRI we have a lab full of what I consider to be cool equipment, and what's more, some spare time to look at things. We specialize in side-channel analysis and we asked ourselves: what sort of side-channel leaks might be present in consumer PDAs? We took a USRP(1) interface that we had lying around and started investigating the RF emanations of a few of the devices we had easily on hand. We coded some simple cryptographic applications and were surprised at how quickly we were able to find ways to demodulate the various signals in the device in a way that revealed the bits of the secret keys being used.
We are indeed using GNURadio for the demo. It's been very helpful because it makes rapid prototyping very easy. We use gnuradio-companion to set up the signal processing blocks (mostly AM demodulation) and to set up a simple UI that helps us tune into the right carrier frequencies in real-time during the demo. The rest of the demo involves using our own custom waveform viewer to look at the demodulated signal and show visitors how we can analyze the signal on the screen and extract the key bits that were used during the encryption/decryption process on the device.
mostly AM demodulation
Amplitude Modulation demodulation?
The avg person won't think twice about it, but us pedants can't help it.
That aside, I'm not surprised that consumer software is blabbing its secrets all over the airwaves.
Even for companies who spend millions on security Q&A for their software, they still manage to find new and innovative ways to screw it up.
What's wrong with demodulating an amplitude modulated signal? How would you have phrased it differently without losing information?
Maybe he'd prefer the term Amplitude Modem?
Couldn't you design the assemblies so the boards could be conformal coated with a dialectic layer and them potted with a RF absorbing layer and then a grounded layer as not be able to pick up the emissions in the first place.
Couldn't you design the assemblies so the boards could be conformal coated with a dialectic layer and them potted with a RF absorbing layer and then a grounded layer as not be able to pick up the emissions in the first place.
I suppose you could, but it'd really ruin your reception. As long as you have the need for a functioning antenna connected to the device, stray signals will be received as well as transmitted. Not to mention that your idea would increase the build cost in a way that most manufacturers would deem "unnecessary".
years ago i predicted that such attacks could be utilized to crack TPM keys and such, looks like my prediction was tending towards correct.
These side-channel attacks have been known for years; the TPM guys know them too, and have likely at least made attempts to stymie them.
You may leave that "likely" out. Most of these TPA modules are modified smart card chips, and they certainly provide security against DPA attacks. The problem is that most general purpose CPU's do not. This becomes more of a problem if this chip is a low frequency, highly mobile RISC chip, I suppose.
The interesting thing about this is that the security protections in SC chips would be triviial to port to a larger IC CPU; you're get a bit of performance loss, but randomizing the pipelining would probably be enough for simple protection.
So what you'd see is not too much cost involved in adding the protection, but a minor performance hit. Seems to me the Mobile market (where chips are usually underclocked anyway) would be the perfect market to start implementing this in. Gaming PCs probably don't need t
Gee, this takes me back. The IBM 1130 (actually IIRC a later clone) had a 'Winchester' (IBM model 3030) washingmachine-sized drive with a 5 HP stepping motor to drive the arm, and removable 5 MB disk packs. Somebody back in the mists of history figured out that if you put a transistor radio on top of the console in the right place, the disk controller signals that drove the stepping motor made enough EMI to generate an AM radio signal. So they wrote an assembler program that could play different songs ac
... or the IBM 2311 [wikipedia.org]. Sigh... Note to self: do the research before you hit 'Submit'.
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Invited guests bring uninvited guests for overnight visit
May 31, 2012, 03:17:24 AM »
I have been having an issue with a friend who lives in my home country (I am an ex pat) who comes to my country every year to visit family and usually visits me in the process and sometimes stays overnight. Last year when she came, she waited until the night before to say "We are coming-see you tomorrow!" When I asked who "we" was she informed me that her family member was driving her down and because it was a two hour drive from where she was staying with said family member to our house, naturally both of them would be expecting accommodation at my house for that evening. I was annoyed at an unexpected house guest and sad at the fact that I didn't get to spend quality time with my friend alone (the conversation changes to a more general nature when two of the three participants are people who don't know each other). The family member was sheepish and thanked me again and again for hosting her and brought a nice hostess gift because she knew there was an etiquette violation.
This year the same thing happened again. First she changed the date she was coming from a Monday to the previous Friday which wouldn't be such an issue as I'm not working at the moment as I'm due to deliver my first child within the next three weeks. But because we switched the guest room and nursery around (to put the nursery next to our bedroom) we had some furniture we needed to finish moving that weekend to make it habitable for guests staying on Monday to visit. Because we were given just 36 hours notice, we had to scramble to get that furniture moved which was difficult as we had booked friends to come in and help move the furniture that weekend. We also had to scramble to get groceries in and get everything tidy for their visit. Then the night before my friend tells me yet again that she is not coming alone-that the same family member would be driving her down and expect a place to stay. She knew she was putting me out so she offered to just come for a day trip but I told her she was more than welcome to stay the night as she had a long drive to our place. She did not say she wouldn't stay the night. Once again she arrives with the family member and once again I don't get to spend quality time with my friend alone which I really wanted as I only get to see her once a year and I'd like to just have a one on one experience with her. She informs me upon arrival that she will not be staying the night as she has to meet another friend early in the morning back at her original location but doesn't bother to tell me this until the day of which means my husband and I put ourselves out cleaning, getting groceries in and moving furniture for nothing.
I just want to know how I can handle this situation in the future. Is there some way I could say that we'd like to host you but not your family member? Also, I find this situation irritating not just for unexpected overnight guests but just in general when you anticipate doing dinner with a friend and suddenly some random third person shows up and you don't get quality time with your friend. It's not so bad when you see said friend all the time, but my friends in my native country are people I see rarely and I feel protective of my time with them and don't want to entertain random third party people. However based on my age (early 30s) the friendship group I have seems like it's expected to bring uninvited guests to events, house stays, etc because it's the "more the merrier" and everything is so casual anyway that it's okay. Am I just being overprotective or snooty in relation to my friendships or am I right to be annoyed? Also, am I right to be annoyed at both the unexpected house guests AND the unexpected guests for dinner or just the houseguest scenario? Both annoy me because both involve me having an expectation of private time with my friend to have intimate conversation that instead turns into a small talk fest (I hate small talk) because me and the third party person don't know each other. I like quality time with my friends and cherish those opportunities but it seems like more and more those moments are hard to get because of the casual nature of re
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May 31, 2012, 04:45:25 AM »
I'm just posting to see what advice you get because I used to be in a similar situation and never worked it out.
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May 31, 2012, 07:48:17 AM »
She's rude to spring guests on you, but then again she's a guest in your new homeland and maybe can't travel easily herself (getting lost, language barrier, etc.) so I might give her more of a pass for those reasons if they possibly apply. Also, you want alone time with her but you have DH and she does not, so think that she may want the same thing but it's not happening for her either since you are married. Also, it sounds like she comes to see you but do you ever go to visit her? If not, then I think you have to accept that the friendship dynamics have changed with time and circumstance so you simply need to make the best of it. OTOH, if you know she's coming to visit again, talk to her honestly ahead of time. Ask her if there's a way she can come alone so that you can have one on one time. Let her know DH won't be around either, and you'll have quality time like the old days (well, with a baby of course. So see, dynamics are changing again and won't ever be what they used to be.)
The only problem I see is her not asking if she can bring a guest, and changing her plans once she got there by not staying over. Both of these can be remedied by having a stronger spine when she calls ahead. Tell her it's not possible to accomodate guests, and reiterate her itinerary several times to confirm her plans. I'd pointedly confirm and say "Are you sure? Because last time you changed at the last minute and it quite put us out. Please let me know for certain."
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May 31, 2012, 08:37:45 AM »
How is she going to get to your home, and then back to Location A, unless she has someone bring her?
I admit, the lack of communication would drive me batty, and I might not let her come over anymore, but choose to meet her in Location A for an afternoon instead.
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May 31, 2012, 09:11:00 AM »
She knew she was putting out and offered to just come down for a day. Instead you told her to come with her family member and stay the night? Why didn't you take her up on her offer if it would be a hassle for you to get things ready for 2 people instead of the 1 you were expecting? This situation calls for a polite spine and "I'm afraid that won't be possible" used liberally.
I think if that happens again you need to be prepared to meet her outside of your home or just for the day. If you keep allowing her to bring an uninvited guest each time she comes to visit, it will become a habit with her. She managed to get there without her family member the first time she came to visit, so she can manage to get to you alone in the future.
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May 31, 2012, 09:22:22 AM »
I think you are right to be annoyed by the lack of communication, plans changing, and extra people being sprung upon you.
Next time your friend is planning to come, be proactive and confirm the plans with her several times. You can even say, as Kaypeep suggested, "I just wanted to make sure it's only you, because the last couple times you arrived with someone else."
At almost nine months pregnant, I don't think I would have scrambled to move furniture or tidy beyond the basics when she unexpectedly changed the date she would be staying with you. As long as the bathroom and the bed sheets were clean, I would have let her navigate around the extra furniture, or told her pleasantly that she could sleep on the couch since we hadn't scheduled the furniture movers until later. If she's going to be so flexible with her plans, she should be equal flexible with her accommodations.
I also wondered why, for example, your DH couldn't take the extra family member for a walk or a drive around town, leaving you and your friend home alone to chat. Or even taken the family member into another room and watched a movie with them. If it was only you, friend, and friend's family member I can see how you wouldn't want to exile the third person off by themselves somewhere.
It also might be better to try meeting her halfway next time--each of you drive an hour to a restaurant or park, DH and family member (possibly with your baby) go off to do something else, and the two of you can chat for a while. That way you don't have to worry so much about making accommodations for her.
I know these things can be tough, especially with a friend you don't get to see too much--you don't want to give them a cold reception with a lot of rules. But it sounds like it's really irritating to you, and that there are things Friend could be doing that are more considerate of you. But, she may not even think of them until you say something.
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May 31, 2012, 09:31:39 AM »
Would it be possible for you to pick her up and drive her back next time? I realize it's a long trip but it would provide not only a full visit with just her BUT an extra 4 hours of chatting time while you were in the car.
If that's not possible you're probably stuck with an extra guest because I imagine it's hard for her to find someone who can loan her their car for a couple of days. Maybe offer to split the cost of a bus or train ticket?
I would be annoyed if I purchased groceries to provide dinner, snacks, breakfast and possibly lunch for 2 extra people and ended up serving only dinner because they changed their plans last minute. She needs to know that's not okay.
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May 31, 2012, 09:39:15 AM »
I would be upset as you are. Quality time trumps quantity any day. If you are close enough to your friend, can you open up to her & be honest & transparent in this matter? Personally I think it's a positive investment in the friendship, but I can see how some people may react defensively in that conversation.
This situation is what drove me to ehell =>
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May 31, 2012, 03:08:29 PM »
Thanks so much for all the responses! This is very helpful. In answer to everyone's question, I actually live on a train line with a very good link (every half hour) to the major city where she was staying so the original plan was for her to get a train to my place and I would pick her up from the station. I gave her all the info she needed to be able to come alone. The major city she was staying in has a good subway system with direct links to the railway station and it's just a 90 minute journey to our place. I've actually made this trip on numerous occasions with no problem and even done it as a day trip. This is also an English speaking country and this girl has numerous friends and relatives and has lived here at various points in her life so using the train system is really no problem for her like it might be for someone with no previous experience of the country or if a different language was spoken here.
Because she came to visit me last time, I wanted to come and see her in major city but because she ended up booking her trip for so late in my pregnancy I wasn't able to make the trip down (my husband didn't like the idea of me going into labor suddenly and be traveling) but invited her to come up here and stay the night with the understanding that if she wasn't able to come all the way out this way, I would completely understand. She was always meant to stay the night and I didn't want to withdraw the invitation suddenly when the family member was coming as I did know she was coming a very long way just to see me (a four hour roundtrip in one day is a lot). I couldn't have my husband take her family member out as he was at work and I think that might have made it a bit too clear that I didn't want her there. She's a perfectly nice lady and always brings a hostess gift when she comes but surely she must recognize that showing up unexpectedly at someone's house two years in a row is a bit out of whack.
I know her viewpoint is that she doesn't want her family member (my friend) to have to take the train as it can be expensive if booked last minute (I did provide the info on how to book in advance and told her to do so as the cost of the ticket is less than half than if you book on the day and indeed my friend used this system to book a train ticket to another city in our country). If my friend was able to take the train elsewhere, I can't understand why she can't take the train to us. In the future, I think I'm going to have to just go see her in major city to regain control of the situation. Also, if she changes plans on me again I am just going to say I'm busy and can't get together. I actually was going to do that this time but my husband talked me out of it. I was annoyed as we had to move furniture (neither her bedroom door nor ours could be shut because of the furniture so the furniture really did need to be sorted before she came) and felt like it was a lot of effort to arrange furniture to be moved in 24 hours time. I've got a good game plan for the future though so thank you everyone!
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May 31, 2012, 08:48:57 PM »
Can you not simply tell your friend, the next time she announced that a visit is in the offing, "Listen, next time when you come, take the train. I really don't have room for your relative, and it changes the dynamic of the visit. I want you all to myself."
And do you have to *book* the train ahead to save $, or just buy the ticket? Anything you can do to make the visit less likely to include the relative would be good, like maybe buying the ticket and sending it to her or making a reservation in her name?
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June 02, 2012, 08:18:47 AM »
What makes this kind of thing hard, I think, is that it happens the first time, and you are polite and deal with it, and then they figure, "She didn't complain so it must have been OK" and it becomes normal and they figure it'll be OK in the future as well.
I think there probably has to be some level of directness here. Like next time you arrange things, specifically say, "I know the past couple of times you brought Jane with you, but I wasn't expecting her and I had to re-arrange things to try to accommodate her. I'm not prepared to have an extra person with you this time. Can I help you get a train ticket so you can make it here on your own?" Or whatever - offering to help in some way might lessen the blow. Once she knows you aren't OK with it, I can't imagine she'll bring an extra person again, but there will be hard feelings for a bit because at this point, after having brought an extra person twice, she might feel entitled to bring an extra person. It's hard to take away something someone sees as an entitlement.
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June 03, 2012, 09:50:51 PM »
My DH has made it very clear to me that no strangers are to be in our home, so if a friend brought an unknown person to my house and expected to stay the night, they would be getting the phone number of the Motel 6.
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June 04, 2012, 02:48:20 PM »
The next time she wants to visit, say "Do you think we could just have it be you coming to visit this time? Familymember was lovely but I really would like to be able to chat with just you. The whole dynamic changes when others come. I realize that FM probably offered to drive you to save on the train fare, but if it is money that is an issue I can pay for half."
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GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WKYT) -- Some frightening moments for some central Kentucky students this afternoon, after a school bus crash.
An SUV collided with the bus while trying to change lanes on South Broadway in Georgetown.
The News-Graphic reports the SUV driver and a passenger suffered non life threatening injuries.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2006 – Three soldiers and three Marines were killed in Iraq yesterday, and Defense Department officials have identified six servicemembers who died earlier.
A soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, and three Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7 were killed in action in Iraq's Anbar province. Two Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle was in northwest Baghdad. The servicemembers' names are being withheld pending notification of next of kin. Meanwhile, the Defense Department released the identities of six servicemembers killed recently supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom:
-- Army 1st Lt. Michael A. Cerrone, 24, and Pfc. Harry A. Winkler III, 32, both of Clarksville, Tenn., died Nov. 12 in Samarra, Iraq, of injuries suffered when a roadside bomb detonated near their vehicle during combat operations. Both soldiers were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.
-- Army Staff Sgt. William S. Jackson II, 29, of Saginaw, Mich.; Army Staff Sgt. Misael Martinez, 24, of Chapel Hill, N.C.; and Army Sgt. Angel De Jesus Lucio Ramirez, 22, of Pacoima, Calif., died Nov. 11 in Ramadi, Iraq, of injuries suffered when a roadside bomb detonated near their vehicle during combat operations. The soldiers were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 16th Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, Giessen, Germany.
-- Marine Sgt. Bryan K. Burgess, 35, of Garden City, Mich., died Nov. 9 while conducting combat operations in Anbar province. He was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve's 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Perrysburg, Ohio
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Soldiers, Marines Killed in Iraq; DoD Identifies Previous Casualties
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I'm making a few changes on the forums, so you may notice some odd behavior here and there. Nothing too major. Just updating a few things, like the title so it better reflects that we cover more than just Demon's Souls.
Upcoming major changes will be a complete overhaul of the system. The big question I'm pondering is whether it is going to be easier and more streamlined to revamp the existing forum, or start from scratch on a fresh install of a forum. If I do the latter, I will try my best to port the user base over, but I don't promise the messages will make the transition. I have no ETA on when this effort might be completed. Hopefully before hell freezes over.
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You would honestly play the song from Donnie Darko and Tori Amos in the big house? Jebus, you are hilariously out of touch. I listen to a lot of the same music, but to play that for 100K people and want more then 10 of them to get excited is bonkers.
Special K For A Day: Diabolical Double-Cross Edition
A couple weeks ago, Ace posted the stuff he'd play if he woke up tomorrow morning looking like Seth Greene in Can't Hardly Wait…
…and found out he was the man with the power to play the piped-in music at the stadium. This got me to thinking what I'd play—mostly White Stripes—until I had a thought: what if I could discredit the very idea of piped-in music so badly that they'd burn the speakers after the game? What if I could sit upon my be-goggled perch laughing maniacally with tented fingers as an enraged mob did my secret bidding? Yes. Yes, this is what I must do. I must destroy the institution from the inside.
Ground rule: no working blue. Anything played must be a radio edit, or a hypothetical radio edit of a song that excises naughty words that cause mothers to clap their hands over baby's ears. Otherwise this would just be Peaches songs.
Presenting the diabolical master plan to win hearts and minds by destroying them…
Joanna Newsom, "Monkey and Bear"
Joanna Newsom is a deranged elven harpist who put out an hour-long album with five songs on it. This is one of them. It's also a story of a manipulative monkey that convinces a sweet-hearted bear to flee its home, then exploits her for financial gain until she decides to drown itself. Possibly because she has brain damage. Awkward…
Sigur Ros, "Með blóðnasir"
This could be anything in their discography, really. Sigur Ros is an Icelandic band who invented their own language because all the existing ones were insufficient to express their meandering longing for… Icelandic stuff. Especially good for fourth-quarter defensive stands, as there is a strong chance opposing quarterback will lapse into a coma.
Seth says the title means "I have a nosebleed."
Cibo Matto, "Birthday Cake"
Jarring, high-pitched, probably-intentionally-annoying Japanese-expatriate food-punk containing the line "are you made or broken by the birthday cake" and the chorus
Involuntarily listening to this over and over will drive you insane. People would start eating each other, screaming "TOO BAD NO BON APPETIT."'
Nelly Furtado ft Timbaland, "Promiscuous"
Many, many sex-related songs fell to the no-working-blue rule and the assumption that "ass" would not be broadcast in the stadium. Shake Ya Ass, Back That Ass Up, Rumpshaker… all fallen. Why I've decided to hew to this rule in a list of songs that would never, ever be played anyway is unknown, but I have.
"Promiscuous" would slip by any and all word-based nanny censors no problem. In this it is rare. Meanwhile, the chorus of this song invites a conversation like this:
ADORABLE CHILD: Daddy, what does "promiscuous" mean?
FATHER: It's third and one. Ask your mother.
ADORABLE CHILD: Mommy, what does "promiscuous" mean?
MOTHER: Uh… it's not good.
ADORABLE CHILD: It sounds fun! Boys AND girls can be promiscuous!
MOTHER: SPECIAL K, YOU BASTARD! /shakes fist at sky, watches third and one, pines for commercial break
Mike and the Mechanics, "The Living Years"
Possibly the worst song ever written, which recommends it greatly here. Also about your father dying in a very, very, very, very, very obvious way. Since many will be there with their actual fathers, entire stadium ends up torn between loathing for the song, preemptive regret at the lack of connection with the person literally sitting next to them, and maudlin breakdowns the sixteenth time this is played before a third and five.
This Thing From Majora's Mask
It's a Legend of Zelda game. Like listening to the Cibo Matto above, this will drive you insane, especially because its recurrence will make you believe you've just died for the 40th straight time trying to kill this one particular boss.
[Via Laser Romance.]
The Smiths, "Asleep"
This is the grimmest, darkest Smiths song of them all. This is saying something. "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" is the Nyan Cat theme compared to "Asleep." The guy who posted it on youtube described it as "as beautiful as it is ghastly; a song of assiduous despair, it is the harsh and authentic clamour of the human soul at its most nihilistic," which he no doubt stole from a guy in an ascot but still. Yeah. That's what we're dealing with here.
Perfect for punting. This song is punting your soul.
Gary Jules, "Mad World" (cover)
You may recognize this from Donnie Darko. If there's one thing Michigan football needs it's a creepy one-eyed hell-bunny mascot.
Kate Bush, "This Woman's Work"
Via Orson, a tale of a woman losing her husband. Orson describes it as "This song is like 'haha, how adolescent and overblown and WHY TEARS OH GOD WHY—"
Ghostface Killah, "All That I Got Is You"
Also via Orson. May cause various players and fans from rough backgrounds to weep openly instead of blocking on field goals. DAMN YOU GHOSTFACE KILLAH AND YOUR EFFECT ON SHAWN CRABLE.
Tori Amos, "Me And A Gun"
Slipping just past the radio edit boundary is Tori Amos deciding not to kill herself in pretty much the saddest thing for anyone with testosterone to perceive!
Yes I wore a slinky red thing
Does that mean I should spread
For you, your friends your father, Mr. Ed
I feel bad for including this. Also for having testicles.
Johnny Cash, "Hurt" (cover)
Guh. This would be bad enough if football didn't accelerate this process considerably. This is getting dark. Like, I was having fun when this post started and now I'm just feeling morbid. A PALE HORSE RIDES FOR US ALL.
The cause is just. We must continue.
Pop Evil, "In The Big House"
Did you miss that he intentionally made this list as bad as possible? Or is my sarcasm meter broken?
the part where it's supposed to be bad. Or did you seriously think that the song about the bear and monkey and whatnot was supposed to be good?
You're being sarcastic, right?
only about those 2 songs, the others he is on board with.
That explains a lot -- also, I'm crossing Wyoming off my list of vacation destinations.
His avatar is MST3K. Seems he would be more attuned to sarcasm than the rest of us...
Also, Wyoming, MI is an excellent vacation destination, if you get your kicks out of dingy, drab warehouses.
It's also a story of a manipulative monkey that convinces a sweet-hearted bear to flee its home, then exploits her for financial gain until she decides to drown itself. Possibly because she has brain damage.
EDIT: I can say this now that I've listened to the song: It is a recording of the mad ramblings of one of the Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz, possibly designed to spread the insanity of the singer to her listeners. It should be quarantined for the safety of the public.
the entire point.
"Mad World" and "Hurt" are about as depressing as it gets, but you missed out on also including Elliot Smith (Anything by him really), Neil Young "Hey Hey, My My" (or the like), Nirvana, and "Kurt Kobain" by the rapper Proof.
Saw Reznor sing "Hurt" at the Palace on a New Year's Eve many moons ago, and if possible, it was even more somber in person.
Probably my favorite band and favorite song. Dark as hell, but pretty amazing.
...god yes
How about "Late" by Ben Folds, which is an homage to Smith, and his untimely suicide. The song is entirely haunting, and is a perfect fit for this god awful mess of a list.
You mean murder. Yes, I'm one of those.
brian, i think you might be getting bored.
can't it just be that surgery warped him permanently?
Perhaps reading the whole post would be of benefit . . . " what if I could discredit the very idea of piped-in music so badly that they'd burn the speakers after the game?" "Hurt," in and of itself, is a brilliant song whether by NIN or Cash. Of course, there is that whole misery thing. "Mad World" (TFF's original) is also brilliant. Of course, it has the whole miserable kid in school thingy. Smiths? "you go home and you cry and you want to die" would fit the bill, if not as overwhelmingly morbid as "Asleep."
spreading for Mr. Ed? I thought that kind of activity is mostly illegal everywhere, Wilbur.
Damnit now I want to play Majora's Mask.
Rock me Amadeus is enough to have Green Peace driving a homemade helicopter into the stadium to save the unprotected ears of 100,000 Wolverines.
Judging by reactions to Marching Band performances, most of the alumni would probably DEMAND!!! Dave Brandon stop piping in music if it were exclusively the raps and Lady Gaga.
Honorable mentions: "Chocolate Rain", The Bed Intruder Song once somebody explains to the non internet folks what it is.
three -- one for your junk and two for your ears.
The Donnie Darko Bunny really would be the perfect mascot for Michigan Football.
That track's not "Shut Up and Eat." It's called "Birthday Cake."
I love this song. The acoustic version here is even more depressing than the original:
I think "No Surprises" is more depressing than "Black Star." The Amnesiac version of "The Morning Bell" is too, I think.
Well it is "music to cut your wrists to..." (1:15 mark of the attached)
"Pyramid Song" and "Videotape" are definitely the most depressing Radiohead songs (at least musically).
needs moar Neutral Milk Hotel
Oh Comely seems perfect for this.
If Brian is trying to induce 100K+ into suicide and/or depression, no list would be complete without "Blasphemous Rumours." Please forgive my lack of embedding skills.
While listening to it the 6th time through, the words of Whitman's 'Song of Myself' began rhythmically painting themselves to the wall. I began weeping silently...
in the big house! we'll punch your lights out!
They could sell black eyeliner and nail polish in the stadium! This should really help the brand appeal to that largely untapped Depressed demographic.
Where's Metal Machine Music?
I've got a great idea. Let's take Lou Reed, but make him 35 years older, and have him voice over crappy faux pop-metal by a band that hasn't put out anything even remotely listenable since 1991. I'm sure the fans will LOVE that!
The Chuck Klosterman column about that album at Grantland was great.
Yet there's still something vital about Lulu that needs to be remembered, even as you rip it off MediaFire and immediately forget the name of every single track: This was the dream. If considered in a vacuum, this absurd collaboration that no one wants to take seriously (or even play more than once) is the ultimate manifestation of what was once viewed as the idealized, unattainable goal of mainstream art. Just by existing, Lulu represents at least four things:
1. Two historically significant artists merging unrelated genres for no defined reason.
2. Adult, self-aware musicians following their own creative vision, devoid of commercial pressure or responsibility.
3. An attempt to produce something authentically different from anything we've ever heard before, motivated only by a desire to see what would happen.
4. A confident, unvarnished attempt at taking arcane high art (Lulu is based on theatrical German expressionism from the early 20th century) and repackaging it for denim-clad teenagers huffing gas in Arizona parking lots.
If you think about Lulu within those specific parameters, it seems admirable. It almost feels important. But those thoughts are annihilated by the inevitable experience of actually hearing it....If the Red Hot Chili Peppers acoustically covered the 12 worst Primus songs for Starbucks, it would still be (slightly) better than this. "Loutallica" makes SuperHeavy seem like Big Star. But this is what happens in a free society. Enjoy your freedom, slaves.
Whats the Over/Under on number of points Jake Ryan gets on that <s>Ryan</s> David Wilson TFL in the Sugar Bowl?
Wait. Wrong thread
Kidding aside, this was a funny post Brian. Both political parties are on the phone and want your expertise, lol
Crap, whose Ryan Wilson, I wonder. Thanks for the correction
*David Wilson
Gwar would be a nice touch to a day out with the family. Perhaps a half time show "Gwar featuring Kock Diesel" with a jello wrestling mosh pit in front of the stage would suffice.
I think you are on the right track. You've got sad well covered although I'd add at least one Joy Division song, and maybe a Nick Drake or Red House Painters song (both have the added benefit of plodding pace perfect to make people say WTF).
I'd add some more noise. Nothing drives people (especially Blue Hair Donors) crazy faster than atonal shrieks. Metal Machine Music maybe? Glenn Branca or Sonic Youth? Or God help them Merzbow.
Devastating indeed but not "a tale of a woman losing her husband". Song about a woman going through hard baby labor as seen from the father's point of view. Made famous from the film She's Having A Baby.
Enjoy the bewbz.
post pictures of pretty, scantily clad women. At least they have that going for them.


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During a service at an old synagogue in Eastern Europe, when a particular prayer was said, half the congregants stood up and half remained sitting. The half that was seated started yelling at those standing to sit down, and the ones standing yelled at the ones sitting to stand up. The new rabbi, learned as he was in the Law and commentaries, didn't know what to do. His congregation suggested that he consult a housebound 98-year-old man who was one of the original founders of their shul. The rabbi hoped the elderly man would be able to tell him what the actual tradition was, so he went to the nursing home with a representative of each faction of the congregation.
The one whose followers stood during the prayer asked the old man, "Is the tradition to stand during this prayer?"
The old man answered, "No, that is not the tradition."
The one whose followers sat said, "Then the tradition is to sit!"
The old man answered, "No, that is not the tradition."
Then the rabbi said to the old man, "But the congregants fight all the time, yelling at each other about whether they should sit or stand."
The old man interrupted, exclaiming, "THAT is the tradition!"


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Submission + - Apple dissing Adobe's (buggy?) e-book DRM for iPad (computerworld.com) 1
ericatcw writes: Adobe confirms that Apple isn't using its e-book DRM technology for the coming iPad, lending support to reports that Apple will use its own FairPlay DRM, which it uses to copy protect movies sold through iTunes. Adobe says Apple is trying to lock in customers to its iPad the same way Amazon is with its non-open-standard Kindle text formats and DRM. (It also says it can still deliver Flash to the iPad and iPhone, ban or no ban, through clever backdoors). But others say Adobe's DRM is neither as interoperable between e-reader devices nor as secure as promised. So where do you stand on the great Adobe-Apple battle?


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Got me some new carbon today, courtesy of Yaxell and Rakuten. Nothin' real special, just a 165mm Aogami #2 santoku (I know), and a 240mm SK-5 yanagiba.
The santoku has fairly minimal F&F, and a minor grind defect at the tip, but, it is super thin and has a nice distal taper. It was usably sharp OOTB, but I put it to the stones and even with my mediocre sharpening skills put a bitingly sharp edge on it pretty easily. I've been wanting to play with a santoku and a yanagiba for some time, and didn't want to spend big $$ on something that I might not like using in the end.
The yanagiba has nice even grinds, and is even hollow ground on the back side. Also usably sharp OOTB, but I haven't tried to sharpen it yet. I'm always worried about scuffing up a pretty blade.
It's apparent that the majority of the cost savings on these is in the minimally finished magnolia handles. For around $80 for both, to my door, I ain't gonna complain.


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Tabor College stays in first place in the KCAC
By Steve Sell
Sentinel Sports Editor
LINDSBORG — It's taken a little longer this time, but Mike Gardner is working his magic again at Tabor College.
In Gardner's first stint at Tabor, he was 20-3 with two KCAC championships. He left to coach for four years in Ohio, but returned to Tabor in 2010, but the first two years did not yield the previous success.
But now the magic is back. The Bluejays are in the thick of the KCAC title hunt and Saturday they took another step toward the championship with a 44-7 rout of Bethany, spoiling the Swedes' homecoming.
And this was a no-doubt-about-it performance. While Bethany hung tough in trailing only 17-7 at halftime, it was all Bluejays in the second half, as their relentless option game, rugged defense and dominating special teams made it a long day for the Swedes.
Tabor is now 4-1 in the KCAC and tied with Kansas Wesleyan and Ottawa for the top spot. Friends and McPherson College had entered the day also with one loss, but both were defeated Saturday to drop a game back.
Bethany, meanwhile, is fading fast, as its fourth straight loss left it at 1-4 in the KCAC, 2-5 overall, and staring at back-to-back road games the next two weeks at Friends and Ottawa, respectively.
Bethany coach Jamie Cruce offered no excuses.
"Turnovers and the opponent we played — they just whipped our butt," Cruce said as reasons the Swedes were blown out. "We did a pretty good job in the first half. We just couldn't do anything the second half. Defensively, we put ourselves in a bad position with all the turnovers that we had on offense in the second half."
Cruce certainly endorses the Bluejays as a potential KCAC champion.
"Tabor is a real fine football team and we would have had to play very well (to win)," he said. "I thought we had something going in the first half, but just too many mental errors in the second half."
The Bluejays, who did not commit a turnover, rushed for 253 yards, with James Monroe leading the way with 91 on 18 carries and a score, while Nate Harrison had 61 yards and two scores. Simon McKee did a masterful job working the option, but also passed for 101 yards and two touchdowns, one to Brandon Johnson and the other to Roger Mujica. The Bluejays recorded a defensive touchdown as well on a 44-yard interception return by Nik France, and special teams contributed with a 21-yard Joe Cannon field goal.
Bethany's only score was a 16-yard pass from Darby House to James Johnson in the second quarter, when Tabor had a mixup in coverage and nobody was near Johnson. The Swedes shot themselves in the foot with five turnovers, four of them interceptions. One bright spot was Brandon Martino, who had eight catches for 103 yards. But the Swedes were held to 16 yards on the ground and had to chuck it 48 times, completing just 18.
Tabor is off Saturday before hosting winless Bethel on Oct. 27. The Jays also have Southwestern and Friends left to play.
Bethany Listed First
First Downs — 19, 20. Rushes-Yards — 23-16; 54-253. Passing — 18-48-4-218; 9-14-0-101. Punts-Avg. — 6-37.2; 4-47.5. Fumbles-Lost — 1-1; 0-0. Penalties-Yards — 2-10; 7-65.
Bethany — Linnebur 15-38, Grist 3-7, House 3-(-13), Waggoner 2-(16).
Tabor — Monroe 18-91, Harrison 8-64, McKee 13-44, Davis 2-18, Polley 4-13, Bradley 2-12, Johnson 1-8, Rozzell 2-7, Team 4-(-1).
Bethany — House 15-34-3-173, Waggoner 3-13-1-45.
Tabor — McKee 9-14-0-101, Polley 0-1-0-0.
Bethany — Martino 8-103, Johnson 5-70, Linnebur 2-26, Thompson 2-14, Atherton 1-5.
Tabor — Harrison 2-33, Monroe 2-22, Johnson 1-26, Polley 1-13, Bauer 1-6, Mujica 1-2, Rozzell 1-(-1).


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Rio Ferdinand may be surplus to requirements for Roy Hodgson, but his Manchester United team-mates are thankful to have him around.
Again left out of the England squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers, Ferdinand was on the right track in Newcastle. Afforded more protection by United's new diamond formation than he got the previous weekend against Tottenham's speedsters, Ferdinand showed he remains a class act in a 3-0 win.
"Rio is quality," said defensive colleague Jonny Evans. "He is so experienced. He cruises through games."
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WITH one in five Australians' lives touched by disability, it's something that can affect anyone at any time.
That was the message being spread at yesterday's International Day of People with Disability community festival in Rosalind Park.
The event included a sausage sizzle, face painting and live bands, and was designed to create community awareness and greater inclusion of people with a disability.
City of Greater Bendigo mayor Lisa Ruffell launched the event and explained that this year marked the 20th anniversary of International Day of People with Disability.
"It's to increase awareness of the benefits of people with disability in every aspect of political, social, economical and cultural lives," she said.
"I was interested to learn that an estimated 20 per cent of Australia's population has a disability of some sort. This is a significant portion of our population and today provides us an opportunity to make a quality contribution to their lives."
Radius Disability Services community connections co-ordinator Stephen Wilson said the community festival was a great way to celebrate the occasion and get people involved.
"A lot of these guys are going around saying, 'It's our day'," he said. "It's an opportunity for them to get out and for people in the community to see what they're up to and the things they're involved in."
Pam Dawkins from SportzRules Victoria said this year's theme was "removing barriers to create an inclusive and accessible society for all".
"The biggest barrier people with disability face in our community can be the attitude of others," he said.
"As a community we need to be vigilant in acknowledging there is more to people living with disability than just their disability."
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Three new trails have opened along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
LINVILLE (AP) — Three new trails have opened along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The Charlotte Observer reports that the trails opened over the weekend after a nine-year effort by a coalition of private citizens, environmental groups and the state.
The group amassed nearly 1,600 acres to create the trails, which are located between Linville and just south of the Virginia line.
Salisbury philanthropist Fred Stanback, who played a prominent role in the project, says the new pathways are an invitation for people to get out of their cars and experience the wonders of the Blue Ridge.
The trails are designed for casual hikers and families. Rose Creek Trail is a 1.3-mile loop rated as easy to hike. The Little Table Rock and Saddle Mountain trails are rated moderate. They're well-marked and accessible from either the parkway or nearby roads.
"Tens of thousands of tourists have passed by . on the nearby parkway and have had no idea the history that lies through those woods," said Mike Leonard, a Charlotte native and vice chairman of the Virginia-based Conservation Fund.
Some landowners donated property toward the effort. Other pieces were bought with private and government sources, said Leonard, who declined to provide a breakdown.
The Rose Creek loop is part of the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, a path from Virginia to South Carolina that Revolutionary War patriots walked in 1780 on their way to Kings Mountain and an important battle that marked the Patriots' first major victory.
The other trails provide the first marked hiking trails to two mountain peaks.
—A 2.1-mile path on Pisgah Game Lands leads to the peak of Little Table Rock Mountain, located on the Eastern Continental Divide. At the summit, hikers can view the North Toe River Valley to the north. On clear days, Roan Mountain in Tennessee is visible.
—A two-mile loop on Saddle Mountain is next to the parkway between U.S. 21 and the Virginia border. At the top, hikers can see Mitchell and Fisher river valleys. The Sauratown Mountains may be visible in the distance.


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Phil Mickelson drew the loudest roars from the biggest crowd in golf history Saturday at the Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Mickelson nearly aced the par-3 16th, hitting a 9-iron to a foot to set up a birdie on the rowdy stadium hole packed with nearly 20,000 screaming fans.
''What's funny about that is 172 yards is a very tough 9-iron for me to get there, but I immediately take 5 yards off and in my head I had 167,'' Mickelson said. ''The reason is you always have a little bit of adrenaline here, and the ball goes a little bit longer on 16.
''I played for a 167-yard shot and tried to hit just a comfortable or stock 9-iron, and the ball ended up flying that far and released to the hole. Having played this course and that hole over the years and knowing what your body does and how to adjust to it has helped me, and certainly it did today.''
Estimated at 179,022, the third-round crowd broke the record of 173,210 set last year, also on a Saturday at fan-friendly TPC Scottsdale. The event has drawn 467,030 for the week and is in position to break the mark of 538,356 set in 2008.
Mickelson birdied the final four holes and five of the last six for a 7-under-par 64 and a six-stroke lead over Brandt Snedeker.
The 42-year-old former Arizona State star has led after each round, opening with a 60 and shooting a 65 on Friday. He fell a stroke short of the tour record for the first 54 holes, and matched the tournament mark set by Mark Calcavecchia in 2001.
Making his 24th appearance in the event that he won in 1996 and 2005, Mickelson is trying to complete his third career wire-to-wire victory and first since the 2006 BellSouth Classic — a 13-stroke blowout the week before the second of his three Masters victories.
He also is in position to match the tournament record of three victories set by Arnold Palmer and matched by Gene Littler and Calcavecchia. Mickelson won the last of his 40 PGA Tour titles 51 weeks ago at Pebble Beach.
The lefthander played the first 12 holes in 2 under, making a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-4 first and a 25-footer on the par-4 fifth. He got up and down from greenside bunkers for birdies on the par-5 13th and 15th holes, followed with the tap-in on 16, then chipped to 2 feet on the 337-yard 17th.
A day after making a double-bogey 6 on the 18th when he hit a 3-wood drive into the water on the left, Mickelson blasted driver over the water and into the grandstand. He got a free drop, hit to 15 feet, and holed the putt to another round of loud cheers.
Snedeker had a 65 to reach 18 under.
Padraig Harrington and Ryan Moore were tied for third at 16 under. Harrington, making his first appearance in the event, shot a 63 and Moore had a 65.
Keegan Bradley, playing in the final group with Mickelson, shot a 73 to reach 10 under.
European — Stephen Gallacher of Scotland shot a 10-under 62 to take a three-shot lead over Richard Sterne (66) at the Dubai Desert Classic in the United Arab Emirates and break the three-round scoring record set by Tiger Woods 12 years ago.
The 111th-ranked Gallacher is looking for his first tour win since 2004. He holed a 25-yard bunker shot on the 18th for an eagle to finish with a 21-under 195 total. That improved on Woods's tournament mark by a shot and just missed tying the course record of 61 set in 1994 by Ernie Els.
Sergio Garcia struggled at times with a nagging shoulder injury, shooting 71 to fall into a tie for 19th.


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|Victims' names and ages written on the sidewalk in chalk.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
In Memory
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- Melly Testa said...
Quite touching.
- Sunday, March 27, 2011
- Melly Testa said...
Quite touching.
- Sunday, March 27, 2011
- Shirley said...
Brilliant! What a great post from this small, extremely creative and well done exhibit. I'm so glad that we stumbled on it.
- Sunday, March 27, 2011
- Janet Ghio said...
What a wonderful post Teri! Looks like an incredible exhibit. Perhaps some of the union busting governors need to see it!!
- Sunday, March 27, 2011
- Beverley Baird said...
What a lovely, impressive testamount to those who died so tragically. thanks for sharing.
- Sunday, March 27, 2011
- journaldarte said...
Powerful in it's understated simplicity! Such a touching tribute to all those who perished. I was reading about this last week - so sad. Thanks for sharing Teri.
- Sunday, March 27, 2011
- Jeannie said...
A very moving exhibit.
- Sunday, March 27, 2011
- ellie said...
Thank you so much for posting these pictures, Teri. What an amazing exhibit...esp. that sculpture in the last photo. I'll be honest, I had no idea the influence this tragedy had on the formation of unions until I saw the PBS documentary a week ago. I remember my mom "making" me and my siblings watch a made-for-tv movie back in the late 70s on the Triangle Factory Fire....and that memory stuck with me...the horror of it.
Then, I read the book "Clara and Mr. Tiffany" and the Triangle Factory is mentioned in passing in regards to one of the minor characters....got me remembering that movie and wondering what other info might be available...google search turned up the PBS documentary as well as the anniversary events in NY....synchronicity at its finest. But I also feel quite blessed to have a friend with like interests enough that she took the time to go to one of the exhibits, photograph them, and post them on the web so that I could also participate even though I live in NC.
Thanks so much, my friend.
- Monday, March 28, 2011
- teri said...
I'm so glad you enjoyed this New York "visit," Ellie, and I really appreciate that you shared the link to the PBS documentary. I learned so much from it about this tragedy, and also about the positive events that came from it. I'm heartened to see that, 100 years later, these lives have not been forgotten.
- Monday, March 28, 2011
- Bea said...
Beautiful photos. Thank you for posting them. I started to watch a PBS special on the fire and couldn't because it just made me so sad. :)Bea
- Monday, March 28, 2011
- Tammy Freiborg said...
Thank you for remembering and for reminding us. We must learn for the past. Amazing exhibit!
- Monday, March 28, 2011
- Thauna said...
What a beautiful and touching exhibit! Looks like it was spectacular in person. Tragedies like this need to be remembered always. What a beautiful way to pay tribute.
- Monday, March 28, 2011
- Holli said...
I did a report on this tragedy in high school.... thank you for this Teri. What a beautiful memorial to those women.
- Monday, March 28, 2011
- Trece said...
I remember seeing a Tovah Feldshuh movie about the fire on TV back around 1980. Made a huge impact on me, and I made sure to teach my daughters about it, as we homeschooled. Thanks for reminding me. I had forgotten.
- Monday, March 28, 2011
- Eileen said...
When my grandmother was new to this country, before she had children, she worked in a sweatshop just like that one.
Whenever I hear anti-union rhetoric from our politicians I think of her, of the Triangle Factory Fire, and it just pisses me off!
- Monday, March 28, 2011
- Brenda said...
What a fitting way to remember Women's History Month. Not to remember the Gertrude Steins or the Sally Rides, but to remember the immigrant woman who came to this country with just her dreams and a few dollars in her pocket to marry the man or her dreams or just to marry, and then to meet such a horrible death for such a stupid reason.
Here's to the everyday woman, whose life has meant something, and here's to those women in particular.
Thanks, Teri!
- Monday, March 28, 2011
- Lisa said...
That is a lovely tribute. What a tragedy but thank heavens some good came of it.
- Monday, March 28, 2011
- Renee Howell said...
Tragic event. Beautiful memorial. Thank you for sharing!
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Andrew Rossi's new documentary about old media is titled Page One: Inside The New York Times. It's a look into the engine room of the country's most famous daily newspaper, and it's by turns fascinating and dispiriting. As it charts the paper's fortunes over the course of a year, it nearly—but not quite—sounds a death knell for traditional pulp-and-ink news.
Certainly, there are times when one wonders if the film's original title wasn't meant to be Page None, so swamped does the Times sometimes seem by the onslaught of online outlets: Twitter, WikiLeaks, and all manner of news-breaking blogs—Nick Denton's Gawker empire first and foremost—whose usual coverage would likely be deemed too gossipy for the Times, but whose occasional scoops make the traditional news outlet seem stodgy by comparison.
And yet the film makes a good case for the Times, and for papers everywhere, even if, eventually, they aren't printed on paper at all. Thrilling us with the highs of the Pentagon Papers makes for a good bit of journalistic history, but the point is really driven home by Times writer David Carr, a one-time drug addict who now writes a regular column for the paper, focusing on media issues. Debating the future of mainstream media during a panel discussion with Michael Wolff—founder of Newser.com, a news aggregator site—Carr holds up a printout of the Newser home page, filled with an attractive layout of stories. Then he holds up the same page with all the stories sourced from traditional media cut out; the result is Swiss cheese.
Carr, it turns out, is a great advocate for the Times as old and new collide. Unafraid to puncture the arrogance of new media's young lions, he is also willing to recognize where he has fallen behind the times: at first he jokes about how blogger-turned-Times writer Brian Stelter is a "robot built in the New York Times basement to come and destroy me," but eventually he comes around to Stelter's view of Twitter as an important tool in a journalist's arsenal. Carr's saltiness adds a lot to a film that sometimes plays it too safe with the reputation of the Gray Lady.
In the end, the question of print media's direction is still open. The best answer so far seems to lie in how the Times worked with WikiLeaks to distribute material that WikiLeaks would have otherwise simply dumped onto the Web. By partnering with the Times, Wikileaks got better distribution and a bit of a shot to their reputation; in return, the Times got a much needed jolt of online credibility. Whether it can last is a harder question.
Also this week: Amherst Cinema rolls into the second week of its summer-long Humphrey Bogart retrospective with what is surely the actor's most recognized and beloved work: Casablanca. So ingrained in our collective subconscious is Casablanca that people quote it without even realizing it: "Here's looking at you, kid"; "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"; "Of all the gin joints…" are all lifted from the Casablanca script. Not only that, but the film is famous enough that people misquote it, too: the infamous "play it again, Sam" is never once uttered in the picture—the line is "play it, Sam," or "play it once, Sam," or simply "play it!" depending on the scene.
But for the few who haven't seen it, a summing up: Michael Curtiz' 1942 picture is the epitome of wartime romance, languorous cool, and expatriate chic. Bogart stars as Rick Blaine, a cynical American living in French-occupied Morocco. He runs a bar—the "gin joint" of all the gin joints—that caters to a seedy sort; Rick's connections help him fly under the radar of the local constabulary. Until, that is, his ex-lover Ilsa strolls in one night (the "kid" in "here's looking at you") with her new husband Victor Laszlo, a leader of the Resistance. She is the one who first asks Sam to play it (you get the idea).
What follows that fateful piano request is the stuff of movie legend. It's probably not fair to say that if you haven't seen Casablanca then you have no real business seeing any movie that came after it, but it's a very close call. Curtiz' 102 minutes have helped inspire or prop up scads of films over the last 70 years, and while it didn't necessarily invent what it made famous, it certainly made it stick. See it on the big screen in Amherst Sunday at 2 p.m. or Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Coming to Northampton this Friday is The Real Dirt on Farmer John, a one of a kind documentary about a one of a kind farmer. Screening at the Media Education Foundation as part of the Northampton Committee to Stop The War in Iraq's Friday Night Free Film Series, this 2005 portrait of farmer and performance artist John Peterson will turn any preconceived notions of the Midwestern land-man upside down—this is a farmer who is known less for his overalls than his feather boas.
Peterson comes from a long line of farmers, but by the time his turn came it was the 1970s, and he and his college friends turned the farm into a part-time art commune. When farm fortunes fell in the '80s, his neighbors pointed fingers, but Peterson too felt the sting, and was eventually forced to sell off the farm equipment that was his family's legacy. Ten years later Peterson would return to his ancestral land with a new goal: transform his tired soil into a thriving organic farm. Feather boas and all.
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How cool are you!!!
Thanks for doing this
How cool are you!!!
Thanks for doing this
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, But all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.
congrats!!!! can i massage your legs for you?
God bless you for what you did!!!
very cool!
It certainly looks like you had yourself 7 days of HELL; but the whole Ride shows exactly what you are made of.....love for your fellow human-beings and their freedom from fear of contacting HIV/AIDS.
I could NOT help but think of you riding out there.....alone, tired, drained from all your thought processes; but keeping it all together to make it!!!
I for one have seen so many of my friends die from this dreaded disease and I hope to live to see the demise of HIV/AIDS and all it's thoughts as the Gay man's disease!!
Sure, the money will help research to find a cure; but I think also we all MUST see the human interest story you created along with ALL the other bike-riders, complete strangers, together, doing it for one BIG cause....I get a big-ole-lump in my throat just thinking of the espirit de corp of ALL of you as you made it day-to-day till the end ALL around New York State!!
Thank you so very much for the effort you gave to show what just ONE person can do....just think what ALL of us could do together to fight this fucked up disease......AIDS!
One day Gay people WILL have the same Civil Rights once granted to all peoples regardless of the color of their skin, sex or sexual orientation....Shall we wait or should we demand those rights?
I was just thinking about you the other day as I was riding around the neighbourhood.
What a trip you had! Planning any more?
I think this calls for a dancing banana
Or two! =]
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.
Give a man religion, and he'll starve praying for a fish.
You've inspired me. I'll probably go on one of next year's rides.
That's a great accomplishment! Thanks!! Congratulations!!
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact.
Congratulations! You deserve to put your feet up for the next few weeks!


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From bluegrass to brass, Midsummer Lakeside Concerts 2011 are a sound proposition
From bluegrass to 19th-century brass band music, from global sounds to high-tech traditional, the 2011 Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series offers sounds for every music lover.
The series opens with an evening of bluegrass, folk and Americana by the Crunchy Western Boys at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 14, in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater by the college's scenic Lake Andrews. The series continues with four more concerts, all at 6 p.m. Thursdays.
Also in the lineup: the high-tech traditional dance band Perpetual e-Motion (July 21), the Yankee Brass Band (July 28), musicians from the world-renowned Bates Dance Festival (Aug. 4) and songwriter-guitar virtuoso Jim Gallant (Aug. 11).
Sponsored by the Bingham Betterment Fund and the Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates, these family concerts are open to the public at no cost. Listeners are encouraged to bring a picnic and lawn chairs or blankets.
An alternative site will be announced in case of rain. For more information about the series, please call 207-786-6400.
Crunchy Western Boys (6 p.m. Thursday, July 14): Exponents of what these musicians call "crunchy Western" music, this acoustic quartet also works bluegrass, folk and Americana into its high-energy sets. Hailing from Warren, N.H., the players are multi-instrumentalists Jim McHugh and Morris Manning, bassist Steve McBrian and fiddler Jacob Stern. Their self-titled first CD, featuring original songs by Manning and McHugh, has sold well over 3,000 copies.
Perpetual e-Motion (6 p.m. Thursday, July 21): Captivating, passionate, propulsive and progressive, this duo from coastal Maine is perched at the convergence of folk and electronic dance music. Ed Howe, who plays electric five-string fiddle, and John Coté, playing electronically treated guitar, didgeridoo and foot percussion, bring a passion for sonic and technical experimentation to the art and soul of traditional music.
Yankee Brass Band (6 p.m. Thursday, July 28): Numbering up to 25 members from all over the country who gather every July, this band is a historically accurate recreation of an American brass band from the mid-19th century. Directed by Paul Maybery, the ensemble performs music of the period in authentic arrangements and on original instruments to produce one of northern New England's most distinctive musical events.
Global Grooves at the Lake (6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4): Hosted by Terrence Karn, musicians from the internationally recognized Bates Dance Festival create a tapestry of rhythms and melodies on instruments from all corners of the Earth: percussion, accordion, bouzouki, marimba, kalimba and more. Favorites of the Lakeside audience, this ensemble of world-class players and composers represents a unique collaboration of cultures.
Jim Gallant (6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11): With his roots in the rock and folk of the 1960s and '70s, Gallant offers catchy originals and strong interpretations of contemporary covers. Whether it's a jig, a Bach fugue or a New Age instrumental, Gallant's distinctive playing never fails to win listeners' hearts as well as their feet. His latest CD, 2011's Old Hat With a New Coat, shows off Gallant's knack for writing Americana music.


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