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Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy
The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) is a process established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the resolution of disputes regarding the registration of internet domain names. The UDRP currently applies to all generic top level domains (.aero, .asia, .nyc, etc...),[1] some country code top-level domains, and some legacy top level domains (.com, .net, .org, etc...) in specific circumstances.
Historical background
When ICANN was first set up, one of the core tasks assigned to it was "The Trademark Dilemma",[2] the use of trade marks as domain names without the trademark owner's consent. By the late 1990s, such use was identified as problematic and likely to lead to consumers being misled. In the United Kingdom, the Court of Appeal described such domain names as "an instrument of fraud".[3]
One of ICANN's first steps was to commission the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to produce a report on the conflict between trademarks and domain names. Published on 30 April 1999, the WIPO Report[4] recommended the establishment of a "mandatory administrative procedure concerning abusive registrations", which would allow for a "neutral venue in the context of disputes that are often international in nature." The procedure was not intended to deal with cases with competing rights, nor would it exclude the jurisdiction of the courts. It would, however, be mandatory in the sense that "each domain name application would, in the domain name agreement, be required to submit to the procedure if a claim was initiated against it by a third party[5]
The WIPO Report sets out the now familiar three stage test of the UDRP.
Following adoption by ICANN, the UDRP was launched on 1 December 1999, and the first case determined under it by WIPO was World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc v. Michael Bosman, involving the domain name worldwrestlingfederation.com[6]
Providers of the UDRP are:
- The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC)
- National Arbitration Forum (NAF)
- World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
- Czech Arbitration Court, Arbitration Center for Internet Disputes
- http://acdr.aipmas.org/default.aspx The Arab Center for Dispute Resolution (ACDR)]
How it is made mandatory
When a registrant chooses a domain name, the registrant must "represent and warrant", among other things, that registering the name "will not infringe upon or otherwise violate the rights of any third party", and agree to participate in an arbitration-like proceeding should any third party assert such a claim.
A complainant in a UDRP proceeding must establish three elements to succeed:
- The domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights;
- The registrant does not have any rights or legitimate interests in the domain name; and
- The domain name has been registered and the domain name is being used in "bad faith".
In a UDRP proceeding, a panel will consider several non-exclusive factors to assess bad faith, such as:
- Whether the registrant registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark;
- Whether the registrant registered the domain name to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, if the domain name owner has engaged in a pattern of such conduct; and
- Whether the registrant registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or
- Whether by using the domain name, the registrant has intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, internet users to the registrant's website, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark.
The goal of the UDRP is to create a streamlined process for resolving such disputes. It was envisioned that this process would be quicker and less expensive than a standard legal challenge. The costs to hire a UDRP provider to handle a complaint often start around US$1,000 to $2,000.[7]
If a party loses a UDRP proceeding, in many jurisdictions it may still bring a lawsuit against the domain name registrant under local law. For example, the administrative panel's UDRP decision can be challenged and overturned in a U.S. court of law by means of e.g. the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. If a domain name registrant loses a UDRP proceeding, it must file a lawsuit against the trademark holder within ten days to prevent ICANN from transferring the domain name.[8]
The UDRP process has already been used in a number of well-known cases, such as Madonna Ciccone, p/k/a Madonna v. Dan Parisi and "Madonna.com". In this case, the arbitration panel found against the defendant registrant based on all three of the above factors and ordered the domain name turned over to Madonna.
Often there is contention over similar but not identical domain names, in which the offended party files a court action claiming trademark or copyright infringement. For example, actor Robert De Niro has claimed ownership of all domain names incorporating the text "Tribeca" for domain names with any content related to film festivals. In particular, he has a dispute with the owner of the website http://tribeca.net.[9][10]
Domain name disputes under new gTLDs
In 2012, ICANN launched a process to create new generic top-level domains. Over 1,900 applications were made. As part of the expansion of the domain name system, ICANN introduced a number of new brand protection mechanisms. Opinions differ as to whether or not these new processes will be effective. Industry commentators predict that the UDRP will continue to be used, and that there will be a "substantial increase in cybersquatting".[11] Evidence from previous expansions of the namespace, however, indicates the continued dominance of .com both in size and as the first-choice domain for cybersquatting (based on number of disputes).[12]
See also
- ↑ ICANN – Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policies
- ↑ See US Government White Paper http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/white-paper
- ↑ British Telecommunications plc v One in a Million Ltd [1999] 1 WLR 903, Aldous LJ at 920.
- ↑ The Management of Internet Names and Addresses: Intellectual Property Issues, 30 April 1999. http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/amc/en/docs/report-final1.pdf
- ↑ See WIPO Mandatory Uniform UDRP Administrative Dispute Procedure. http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/processes/process1/report/finalreport.html#IV
- ↑ WIPO Domain Name Decision: D1999-0001. Wipo.int. Retrieved on 2014-04-28.
- ↑ InterNIC | FAQs on the UDRP, retrieved 2009-10-09
- ↑ An Informational Website About Cybersquatting Law
- ↑ Davis, Erik (2 January 2007). "Robert De Niro: Raging Bully?". Cinematical.
- ↑ "I am Tribeca, De Niro claims". 31 December 2006. Archived from the original on April 3, 2007.
- ↑ Bloomberg BNA, Cyberlaw Predictions 2013, http://www.bna.com/cyberlaw-predictions-2013-b17179871639/
- ↑ "Previous expansions of the namespace have failed to capture the public imagination or to pose a competitive threat to the gorilla in the market, .com. According to WIPO, of 42,000 UDRP filings to date, 80% were for .com domains, and of the new gTLDs, only .info has attracted any volume of UDRP disputes (3% of cases filed)." http://www.emilytaylor.eu/2013/01/online-brand-protection-what-to-expect.html#.UQqKlL9Wx8E
External links
- ICANN Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy
- The Only Search Engine Delivering both NAF & WIPO UDRP decisions
- All cases by name, at ICANN site
- All cases by date, at ICANN site
- Cases decided through WIPO (searchable)
- Cases decided through National Arbitration Forum (searchable)
- Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions Analysis of over 80 Court Decisions and UDRP Proceedings Resolving Domain Name Disputes
- Full text search tool for UDRP decisions


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El Camino RealFebruary 16, 2006
The reason you're hearing a lot about Camino all of a sudden is because it really is quite good. I've been using it off and on for a few months now, and have just recently taken to leaving Safari unloaded all the time.
Sure, I miss a bunch of stuff from Safari. Hitting Cmd + a number for keyboard access to various items in my bookmark bar was a really nice feature. I was just getting used to viewing PDFs in-browser.
And most importantly, anyone have a Sogudi equivalent for Camino? Weaning myself off of that one is going to be the most difficult . Typing "wiki whatever" for an instant Wikipedia search, or "g whatever" for Google, and being able to custom define these shortcuts, means quick keyboard access to search results without mucking about with multiple page loads. It's bliss.
Turns out Sogudi-like functionality is built in to Camino. Bliss!
But I don't miss other stuff. Safari's method of physically auto-completing a URL always annoyed me, as more often than not I had to then edit out a longer path or query string. And what is up with the beachball lately? Echoing Tim Bray, I've experience more than my fair share of slowdowns lately over pages that shouldn't be slow. The snappiness of Camino is more than enough to make me overlook the rest. I've finally got my Powerbook back.
For now, I'm sold. We'll see what a few months of kicking the tires does.
Try this plugin for in-browser PDF viewing in Camino.
It's funny to think about what Camino once was, remember Navigator 0.1 - it rocked back in the day!
Hopefully they fix the bold font rendering bug soon, it's such a killer!
Hah, I applied the hack to *stop* Safari rendering PDF in-place, I liked Preview better.
The ability to define wiki %s to look up that wikipedia article is one of the things I like most about Firefox, and I imagine Camino might have this by now as well since they're based on the same code. Just right-click in a form field that does the search you're interested in and choose "Add a keyword for this search…"
If Camino doesn't have this, that's another reason I'll stay with Firefox for now - in addition to not supporting the vital XUL-based web dev extensions such as Web Developer or FireBug.
Allen: Camino supports keyword shortcuts, but it doesn't have a contextual menu for it. It still works though, you just have to do it manually. No biggie really, since this is something you do ONCE.
You might like some tools that extend Camino in an unobtrusive way: CamiTools, provided by a German gentleman:
You can – for instance – add Wikipedia as a search engine.
I also got used to a great feature of Safari - the built in RSS reader.
Sure, NetNewsWire is a better program and makes viewing bunches of feeds easier. However, while at work I keep the feeds I read to a minimum, and Safari worked just fine for that.
Camino is Ok. I don't like the way the tabs are done though. Camino also weighs in at 40mb on disk.
Just open Show All Bookmarks, add a new Bookmark, for instance:
and assign a keyword. Like "wp". Then, type
wp Camino
in the location bar, et voila!
If you want to know about how to set up g for google read this page: http://www.caminobrowser.org/support/docs/search/ it explains about the special url modifiers. I have a list of the ones i have set up here: http://e26.co.uk/code/search-location-bar
Two things keep me from going all Camino right now:
1. It has problems with the Flip4Mac WMV player/plugin.
2. I also like Speed Download but SD and Camino don't seem to like each other.
Well, maybe some day … :-)
The feature of Safari that I cannot do without is the syncing of my bookmarks on my home and work computers; otherwise I would consider making the switch to Camino.
Blake: You could sync your bookmarks by making a Quickpik for .Mac backup. Of course its not as nice as doing it with iSync but still very easy.
If you're seeing the Whirling Beachball of Doom a lot in Safari, try doing a 'Reset Safari' or - less drastically - going to Preferences->Autofill, clicking Other Forms:Edit and then Remove All. This may make a difference: it seems that accumulating large quantities of autofill texts can cause Safari (at least Safari 1.3) to show the beachball more frequently when rendering pages that contain forms.
That wouldn't be much of a solution for me, Angus. :) Safari's incredible autofill ability is the killer feature that keeps me using it instead of Camino. I love how those long name and address forms just get filled like magic.
You can use a plugin called CaminoTools to add synching of bookmarks to Camino. You need an FTP site somewhere to store them though.
The one thing missing from Camino that I need more than anything is an inline spell checker. If someone knows how to add an inline spell checker to Camino, I will love them forever.
So Camino already has Sogudi-like functionality built-in. Nice. David, thanks for being the first person to tell me how to actually DO it!
Hmmm. I'd love to use that Wikipedia shortcut, but I can't figure out how to do it.
I went to about:bookmarks, made a new bookmark, set its location to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%25s&go=Go and assigned it a keyword of "wp". Then tried testing it out by typing "wp Camino" (cause I'm a literal-minded sucker), but no luck. That takes me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25s without fail.
Any clues?
I don't think I could wean myself from David Watanabe's fantastic Inquisitor plugin for Safari, which is sort of like Firefox's search field, but with much more natural-feeling access to other search engines. Inquisitor has totally changed how I use the browser, I couldn't possibly give it up!
My largest peeve with Camino is that it can only remember one login and password per site. Which makes me switch to safari for the sites that I have multiple logins for. But Camino is my browser 70% of the time.
I'm not sure how widespread this was known but have you tried changing the permissions on the directory where Safari stores favicons so it cannot write to it? Apparently over time is gets pretty large and Safari performance takes a hit, giving you the beach ball. I've had the permissions fix implemented for a while so I'm not sure if newer versions of Safari still have that problem.
Live Bookmarks is what kills Camino for me. I switched from Safari to FF because of the web devloper extension, then fell in love with del.icio.us/ma.gnolia and the use of live bookmarks. I could do without the web developer extension if Camino did live bookmarks.
All I need now is those developer tools on Camino and I won't look back. Please, someone! Developer tools or inspector!
The QuickTime Plugin is what's causing the beachball of doom in Safari for me. It seems to lock up when it first begins loading a video, and only responds again after it's loaded the first frame or so. Pretty annoying.
instead of the search word you'll have to enter %s (percent s) in the url:
I'm loving camino as well! I'm with Brad: give me my Webdev toolbar and DOM inspector and I will be completely, blissfully happy.
That damn spinning rainbow wheel of death - I'm getting it in Safari now every time I even try to click in a form field.
It's so nice to have a real alternative. Firefox just moves too slowly on Mac for my tastes.
I do like iCab a lot too. Very quick little browser. Camino is my happiness right now, so much so that I've made it my default.
Bye bye spinning beachball of doom.
Some buttons (Javascript, I think) don't quite show up correctly. See the difference between Firefox and Camino on http://www.whereis.com.au. They look beautiful, but the Mac-like buttons have replaced the graphical button labels as visible in Firefox.
I got to say i use Camino starting 1 week ago, and is real good browser. Now i discover this plugin for Safari, Sogudi(i understand that is build also for Camino) and is very usefull. Thanks. I'm wonder if is there a web developer toolbar …for Camino (i try one for Safary, but isn't working)…something similar to the one from Firefox
Have your tried Flock! It's still in it's infancy, but it's so great, I switched over immediately. Good'bye every one else. It's based off of Firefox, but it has del.icio.us & shadow bookmarks built in – for those who like to synch on multiple computers. It has a photo browser that connects with your Flickr .. and then – get this. It has blogging tools that will not only post your blog, but will let you post your flickr pictures to your blog!!!! Since it's based on Firefox, most Firefox extensions work on it. There is so many cool features and it's not even beta yet. I love it, I love it, I LOVE it!
I would love to switch to Camino but sync bookmark is one of my priorities. I have downloaded CamiTools (nice plug-in) but I'm unable to upload/download/sync my bookmarks (curl (67) Access denied: 530). I don't understand because my server is dedicated and I manage it by myself and the ftp user has full rights on this directory.
I tried them all; Safari, Camino, Firefox, then Opera (ok, well, not 'them all', but a bunch of the popular ones)
I actually stuck with Opera, it's just so much more convenient to use; built in RSS reader, middle clicking tabs, right-click validation, easily removing styles, etc…
If you miss extensions (I really miss Webdev's toggle style, Cmd-Shift-S) you have to try this out: http://www.nadamac.de/camiscript/
"Just open Show All Bookmarks, add a new Bookmark, for instance:
and assign a keyword. Like "wp". Then, type
wp Camino
in the location bar, et voila!"
What is this supposed to do. I don't get it.
One thing I can't (under)stand about Camino and Firefox is the way they render my virtual scrollwheel useless. I have UControl installed and configured to scroll vertically when I press "control"+"option" and the mousebutton.
Firefox, however, goes back or forth in history instead of scrolling, and Camino zooms the page I'm viewing. That's so annoying. If I want to go back and forth I'll use the "back"- and "forward"- buttons. And I hardly ever want to zoom a page, really. I frequently want to scroll pages, though.
So, that's why I'm sticking to Safari for the time being. If anyone knew how to configure Camino (or UControl) so Camino will scroll instead of zooming, they might make me switch.

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This year, nearly $63 billion worth of holiday goodies will be taken back to stores, according to the National Retail Federation. In the case of clothes, items are often returned or exchanged because they don't fit. But when it comes to the latest gadgets, knowing when to return something and when to keep it is not always so clear cut. Is your new gift the best piece of technology on the market? Or will it be hopelessly out of date in six months?
We asked some experts whether the hottest tech presents of 2012 were worth keeping.
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Keep it:
"This is a keeper," says technology analyst Jeff Kagan. Apple's latest tablet, which costs $323 for the Wi-Fi-only 16-gigabyte version, weighs in at 0.68 pounds, half the weight of the full-size iPad 4. For those who already have an iPhone, Kagan says there are advantages to keeping one's devices within Apple's ecosystem: for one, the ability to easily share stored data, apps, books, and music. The mini is also easier to carry around than the larger versions of the tablet, which some complain is too hefty: 62% of iPad owners prefer to leave their iPads at home, according to a study of 15,000 iPad owners by the research firm McKinsey & Company.
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For those less concerned about portability, "return it," says Dan de Grandpre, CEO of DealNews.com, a deal aggregator site. In terms of functionality, "The iPad mini is just a smaller iPad 2 for the same price," he says. The iPad 2 16GB dropped as low as $349 more than once on re-sale sites this holiday season, and Apple's factory-refurbished iPad 2 has been selling for as low as $319, he says. Instead of the mini, he suggests the $199 Kindle Fire HD: a buyer who got a full refund for her mini and bought the Fire would theoretically have $124 to spend on additional e-books. For those intent on watching movies, the $499 iPad 4 may be a better choice: It has a 7.3-inch wide screen versus 5.3 inches for the mini, and it has a high-definition retina display screen.


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The Hale County Hospital in Greensboro held its grand opening, with U.S. Sen. Lister Hill speaking.
The Hale County Hospital in Greensboro held its grand opening, with U.S. Sen. Lister Hill speaking.
John Coleman, a black man sentenced to death for the slaying of John D. "Screwdriver" Johnson, a white mechanic in Eutaw, was granted a review of his case by the U.S. Supreme Court. In his appeal, Coleman asserted that there had been systematic exclusion of blacks from the grand and trial
juries in Greene County.
The city of Tuscaloosa was to receive a new trade school for blacks as part of a proposed major network of junior colleges and trade schools in the state.
Alabama defeated Mississippi State 20-19 at homecoming before a capacity crowd of 43,000 in Denny Stadium. The game was described as the wildest offensive battle in football coach Paul W. Bryant's career at Alabama, and it kept fans stuck to their seats until the final second.
Deaths this week included Wilbur Lee "Doc" Martin, 67, who had represented Greene County in the Alabama House of Representatives since 1939. Also, Robert E. Spiller II, member of a pioneer Tuscaloosa County family who owned and operated an extensive farming and dairy interest for many years, died at 70.
Thomas E. Umphrey was appointed president of Shelton State Community College.
University of Alabama head football coach Bill Curry received a strong vote of confidence from the UA System board of trustees and Acting President Roger Sayers. The university intended to honor Curry's five-year contract through its duration, according to Sayers.
The Crimson Tide defeated Mississippi State 53-34 in Starkville.
Some city offices, including the mayor's office, moved to the Secor Bank Building at 550 Greensboro Ave. while renovations associated with the building of the City Hall annex were performed.
On the eve of his criminal jury trial, former Northport City Councilman Morris "Woody" Latham pleaded guilty to an attempt to kidnap fellow council member Frank Gray the previous November.
Seven senators and 15 representatives, including Rep. Roy Johnson, D-Holt, were selected by their peers as outstanding members of the Alabama Legislature in 1988.
Johnson Controls, one of the nation's largest companies, wouldl open a plastic molding plant to employ 120 people in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County officials announced. The plant would make injection molding parts related to automotive heating and cooling and serve General Motors Corp.'s Harrison Radiator division here.
Alabama gymnastics coach Sarah Patterson announced the change of home gymnastics events to Fridays to promote family nights.
A legislative committee axed state bond money for construction of a 2,000-acre reservoir in Fayette County, saying existing parks needed the money.
Tuscaloosa News Managing Editor Gregory Enns was named the new chairman of the Alabama Center for Open Government, an organization formed in 1999 to be an advocate for open meetings and public records and to facilitate communication between government and its constituents.
A federal grand jury charged Logan Young, a Memphis businessman, with paying $150,000 to have a promising football player attend the University of Alabama.
The bell from the bell tower of Forest Lake United Methodist Church since the 1950s was stolen when it was removed for renovation.
The city bought the former AmSouth bank building at 2506 University Blvd. in Alberta and would convert it into a police precinct that would open by fall 2009, according to Mayor Walt Maddox.
Former Alabama Fire College director William Langston was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison and was ordered to pay
$1.4 million in restitution to the state's two-year college system after a jury found him guilty of 36 counts of theft, money laundering, conspiracy and mail and wire fraud.
Bert Bank was inducted into the Alabama Military Hall of Honor at Marion Military Institute in Marion.
Alabama beat Arkansas State 35-0 at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
The Crimson Tide was ranked No. 1 for the first time in regular season since 1980.
First United Methodist Church of Tuscaloosa celebrated its 190th year.
The No. 1 Crimson Tide handed the Mississippi State Bulldogs its first defeat of the season, 38-7.
Huntsville resident Tommy Ray attended his 526th Alabama football game, his 500th consecutive game, when the Tide met Mississippi State.
Joe Robinson, head of the Office of the City Engineer, was retiring after 30 years at Tuscaloosa City Hall.
Beverly Phifer, president and chief executive officer of Tuscaloosa-based Phifer Inc., was one of six Alabamians inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor.
Five inductees into the Tuscaloosa County Civic Hall of Fame were Zelpha Storey Wells, Bernice Hudson Washington, Catherine Johnson Randall, Sam Moore Phelps and Tim Parker Jr.
University of Alabama President Guy Bailey stepped down from the position after two months on the job; Judy Bonner was named his successor.
Tuscaloosan John L. Hooks received a Purple Heart for service during the Vietnam War. A paperwork glitch kept him from getting it in a timely manner.
James Rainey was appointed publisher of the Tuscaloosa News.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 18, 2013) – Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Senior Vice President Matthew Bennett issued the following statement today regarding a new initiative by the Administration that could help further medical research for neurological diseases:
"Collaboration among partners in the entire medical innovation ecosystem is critical to help advance scientific understanding of some of the most complex diseases facing patients. Federal research institutions, academia, biopharmaceutical companies and patient communities all play an important role in furthering research, particularly in the neurological field.
"In order to conquer devastating and costly conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, we must foster this scientific ecosystem and work to overcome these challenges by putting the pieces of the research puzzle together.
"Importantly, a recent PhRMA report highlighted the fact that biopharmaceutical companies are currently researching and developing more than 5,000 medicines, including more than 600 medicines for neurological diseases. The report also found that 84 percent of neurological medicines in the pipeline are potential first-in-class treatments that can help patients with serious unmet medical needs.
"The biopharmaceutical industry is eager and proud to be part of the solution to help meet some of the greatest health care challenges before us today and tomorrow. Public policies at all levels of government have a tremendous impact on how successful all of us are in reaching new medical innovation milestones. For this reason, a consistent public policy framework is needed to provide an environment that is conducive to advance biopharmaceutical research and discovery.
"We look forward to hearing more details about this initiative in the weeks and months ahead."
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The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading innovative biopharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. Since 2000, PhRMA member companies have invested over $500 billion in the search for new treatments and cures, including an estimated $49.5 billion in 2011 alone. http://www.phrma.org/
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As the weather gets warmer, more visitors begin spending their time at Marion County Lake.
"It's nice just being away from the city," said Grant Morton, a Wichita resident. "We come out here every week."
Morton, his wife, Jessica, and their dog, Hine, spent Saturday camped out on a small point of land along the main path surrounding the lake.
The Mortons cast three grounded fishing poles and set up a tent during their visit.
"I caught a 10-lb. channel catfish out here last year," Morton said. "We just like fishing and having a good time."
For Wesley Hykes, fishing at the lake is part of his daily routine. After visiting Marion for his grandmother's funeral three years ago, the Orlando, Florida native decided to relocate to the county, and now works for Circle D Corporation in Hillsboro.
"I love this lake," he said. "I come to the same spot every day during the spring, summer, and fall."
Hykes said his biggest catch was a 12-inch crappie, but he does not have problems catching fish. He had caught four bass Saturday in his first hour of angling.
Lake superintendent Steve Hudson said fishing conditions at the lake usually run two weeks behind the reservoir.
"Now we've got a constant temperature in the evening, so fish are getting a chance to spawn," he said.
Hudson specifically noted he thought crappies around the lake were spawning, which anglers have been using jigs to catch.
From evening until dark, Hudson said largemouth bass have been seen popping out of the water and that hula poppers were a good bait to catch them.
He said stink bait, chicken, and worms near the bottom of the water were good for big channel catfish. As of early Saturday evening, anglers had caught three catfish of 7 lbs, and one each at 10 and 15 lbs.
"I thought we were going to have some (big fish caught) on Memorial Day weekend, but we didn't," Hudson said.
Three weeks ago, representatives from Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks used shock therapy at the lake to count certain fish.
"There's a lot of small bass," Hudson said. "So in a couple of years there's going to be a lot."


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text: Yeah, I think the next paycheck's fun money is going to an AMSAT membership and a stack of 1/4" aluminum rod, heh! I'm designing the beam on paper, and as per your suggestion, I'm attempting it with a single beam. So far, it looks great - folded dipole element, about 11db forward gain, exactly 50 ohms impedance, great bandwidth and at 30 degrees elevation, the horizon is 1.5db off peak response, and the -10db response on the upper side should be around 75 degrees. I recall that satellites spend only an infinitesimal amount of time above 75 or 80 degrees elevation, and though it'd be ironic that I'd lose the satellite directly overhead, when it's at lowest path loss, I can deal with that for 30 seconds in one out every 20 passes I work, by my estimation. If the single one works and I want to improve upon it, it'll be trivial to build another and phase them up. Question:, for linear polarized antennas, am I going to see any benefit by orienting it any particular direction? I ask because I remember that horizontally polarized signals 'bend' a little bit more over the horizon, though admittedly this effect will be very small at 435 MHz; I also believe most man-made noise is vertically polarized, so I'm thinking that keeping it horizontal would be the best course of action. Should I go Arrow-style and design a 3 element 2 meter beam at right angles to the 435 beam? If the more important 70cm antenna is horizontal, this would put the 2 meter beam vertical - and even though it'll be at a 30 degree elevation, that would give the uplink antenna a little bit of 'downtime' utility as an FM simplex antenna. That's a very minor issue, but I like to lay it all out as it zips through my head - due to my QTH constraints, antennas that can do 'double duty' are especially valuable to me. I suppose I could just buy an Arrow....but that's the easy way out (not that those aren't great antennas!) The Yaesu 817 is a great radio, but I am an irrational brand loyalist for some reason, and I can't help but be obsessed with Icom gear. My big decision is "435 downconverter or Icom 706mkiig" this spring. The downconverter would come about $700 earlier, but the 706 would give me the all-important all-mode 70cm receive as well as 70cm all mode transmit if I want to play with VO-52 or AO-7 in B, etc. My 735 is a hot radio and I believe it'd work very well with the downconverter and an ARR preamp, but the 706 is very tempting. If the IC-703 had 70cm coverage, I'd have picked one up three months ago. It'd be perfect for this application - I wish they'd realize that and add it. They'd gain a lot of satellite operators with a rig you can snag for $450 or so - and it seems as though you can get by on 5 watts usually! On the downconverter - mast mounting - good idea, bad idea? I see the upside of "28 mhz cable on RG213 = good", but the downside of "environmental factors/temperature on a crystal oscillator = bad." Thoughts? I'm confident that I can weatherproof, but I'm mainly concerned about the temperature changes. Well, I think that's all for this evening - back to antenna building :) 73, Matt (or Jonny, whichever :) )


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The total market indexes are total market returns, which do include reinvested dividends. Copyright, 2016, Wilshire Associates Incorporated. Reprinted with permission. More information about the various indexes from Wilshire Associates can be found at http://www.wilshire.com/Indexes/.
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With sympathy, shock and even a little humor, fans have reacted to the news that Raven Ray Lewis is out for the season with a torn triceps.
Here is a sampling of the reaction as it registered on Twitter:
Cody Hillard @codyhillard: If Ray Lewis career is over I might shed a tear. Hes the most passionate player I've ever watched. You cant replace someone like that. Ever.
Mr. Local Celebrity @So_Fly_Jy: If you believe that Ray Lewis is retiring you obviously haven't listened to any of his motivational speeches or watched him play
Andrew Fowler @Uncle_Fowl: We have not seen the last of Ray Lewis
turbo malarkey @tedisLaw: you think ray lewis and derek jeter are just hanging out and being awesome together right now?
Burberry Cutterz @matthewmann4: Feel so bad for Ray Lewis all that man wanted was another ring
Richie Rossi @RichieRossi32: Even if u are a die hard steeler fan u gotta respect they way Ray Lewis plays the game and his outlook on life #getwellsoonray
HumanityCritic @HumanityCritic: I know Ray Lewis is around my age but the rumors of his Football death have been greatly exaggerated. I think he has a couple of years left.
ASHLEY CXCVINE ΣΝ @AshxWolf: What Happened To Ray Lewis Is That Part In A Movie Where The Character Goes " Why Him !?!?! You Should Have Taken Me Lord !!!!! "
Brenden Lopez @brenden_lopez_: The amount of Ray Lewis clips sportscenter has shown today would make me think he had died
Matt Kissner @Kissner22: Ray lewis was in madden this year therefore the madden curse has proven to be real
Kennan Hazeltine @KennanH: 700th tweet goes to Ray Lewis. My idol. Little piece of my heart broke when i heard he was done for the year. No football player like him.
Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell: Maybe it's time to dump the "We're keeping the NFL safe for Ray Lewis" commercials.
darren dutchyshen @dutchysc: Ray lewis triceps surgery. I wonder if he will perform it on himself?
DeAngelo Williams @DeAngeloRB: While i dont like getting hit by him, im sorry to hear about ray lewis being out for the yr...hes as iconic to the NFL as anyone in the game
Eric LeGrand @EricLeGrand52: Sad to see my man Ray Lewis go down, definitely structured my game around him physically and emotionally and is the reason I wore 52
Ross Tucker @RossTuckerNFL: Ray Lewis is the answer to the "who's the best player you ever played against" question I get asked all the time
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Mr. Consistency
Jimmy Rollins came right back after his 38-game hitting streak was halted Thursday by getting three hits Friday night against the Dodgers. "J-Roll" started a 36-game streak on August 23, 2005 and extended it during the first two games of this season. So, going into Sunday's doubleheader, he's hit in 39 of his last 40 games.
Curiosity set in. Time to research Chuck Klein's 1930 season with the Phillies. He's in the Phillies record book for having two 26-game hitting streaks that year. Our library contains box score books that date back as far as 1910. Many box scores are brown in color, very brittle and a bit difficult to read thanks to Father Time.
Dusting off the 1930 box scores that were recorded in "The Wanamaker Diary," I began delicately turning the pages and reading box scores. As a side note, there's an ad on page 30 for "The Wanamaker Fifty," a custom-detailed, men's wool suit priced at $50.00 and on sale at John Wanamaker.
Klein, a Hall of Fame outfielder, had an incredible run that season. He was hitless in the first game of a doubleheader on May 18, ran off 26 straight games, hitless on June 20, chalked up 5 more, hitless in the first game on June 26, ran off a 14-game streak, hitless on July 11 and then topped it with his second 26-gamer through the first game of an August 3 doubleheader.
Using all my fingers and toes, that adds up to hitting safely in 71 of 74 games. Chuck indeed was Mr. Consistency that season.


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JERUSALEM (MarketWatch) — It has been three decades since socialists radically reformed a capitalist economy, nationalizing its 40 major financial institutions, including the largest banks and holding companies.
The country in which this happened was France, and the aftermath of that anti-corporate crusade was a magnificent U-turn in the face of double-digit inflation, rising unemployment, and plunging popularity rates for President Francois Mitterrand.
Understandably, when Britain's New Labor unseated the Tories the following decade, they left intact Margaret Thatcher's many privatizations and deregulations and focused instead on less ambitious measures, like introducing a minimum wage and helping the jobless become employable.
Now, if Israel's Labor Party emerges from next month's general election with access to the Treasury, it will be intent on provoking the markets almost as recklessly as Mitterrand once did in France.
Santa Claus as policy maker
The party that next month will emerge as the second largest in the Knesset has just unveiled its economic platform, and it reads as if Santa Claus wrote it.
If it's up to Labor Chairwoman Shelly Yachimowitz, social spending will spike by 138 billion shekels ($36.33 billion). That's more than a third of the overall budget.
As in any socialist plan, the new spending would be financed by higher taxation. Corporate taxes would spring to 30% from 20% while income taxes for the rich, namely people earning a monthly 50,000 shekels or more, would climb to 50% from 48%.
In addition, a 5% tax would be imposed on estates of 15 million shekels and a 12.5% tax on estates of 30 million shekels or more, and the capital-gains tax would balloon to the level of an individual investor's income tax rate from the current 20%.
And lastly on the revenue side, tax collection would be improved by waging war on tax evaders – incidentally, the very same promise Greece's socialists made just before they took their economy's wheel and drove it where it arrived.
Money is no object
Having thus decided that money is not a problem, Israeli Labor's plan proceeds to the fun part: spending.
Labor promises to add thousands of beds to Israel's overflowing hospitals, flood the streets with 5,000 new cops, lower the starting age of free education to two from three, trim health insurance fees, build thousands of cheap apartments, put the public sector's thousands of contracted cleaners and guards on full salary with benefits, extend maternity leaves to four months from three, slash the value-added tax on basic foods to 8% from 17% and offer free long-term-care insurance for all.


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In addition to releasing this video tribute to educators, Martin appeared Tuesday morning on The Morning Show on Wisconsin Public Radio, where he covered a wide range of topics but emphasized the dedication of Wisconsin's educators and the need for everyone, including policymakers, to give educators the respect they deserve. Listen to a podcast of the show:
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You start with a Stargate type black hole on an airplane, add a mega-billion dollar cloning project in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, add a highly lethal virus in a breakable bottle which apparently kills all the scientists involved equals = I got nothing!
Without a Lost type beam to bring the plane down and start a time loop there is nothing to tie the two technologies together. If you resurrected your precious family members you certainly would not drop them into a jungle filled with prehistoric carnivores and even more dangerous crazy people. If the virus ate the workers and transformed them into the students, why would it wait decades to activate? If the pods took that long to gestate, who scattered the passengers around the crash site?
How can these inconsistencies be rationalized in two weeks? Either Sengoku wakes up in the hospital with his head bandaged or it is all a big Truman Show type reality TV - with about 70% casualties.
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|2013-01-08, 21:25
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I guess I'm the only one that seems to be against the cloning theory and time travel is the only explanation.
The plane itself was still spanking new, full of supplies compared to everything else.
If humanity is extinct, no way they could remake all that in that condition.
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With two chapters left, still so many unanswered questions.
If they are clones, it would confirm my suspicion that the two Miinas might be the same (opposite clones of a single). Also if they are clones, it could be a possibility that Hades is a previous clone of Sengoku and the whole survival story is cyclical where the survivor(s) find the truth and realize they can start over again, where a new batch of clones are created and the whole ordeal repeats. Though it doesn't explain why you would have clones start off on an airplane. If it was a starting stage for clones, it's pretty bad because it's easily destroyed by the animals.
Right now, the only happy end with them returning is if this whole entire thing was some kind of bad dream from Sengoku eating too much during the flight.
|2013-01-08, 23:31
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This might sounds stupid but.. what if that it's only Sengoku who experienced the time slip and everyone else is a clone? I mean, it seems that he's the only one who has the memories of that thing appeared. It could also be the reason why he's separated from the rest of them at the beginning, thought it will means that there are others too who experienced time slip beside him
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The whole cyclical theory really hits a snag when you consider the qns of "Then who's cloning them?" The bones are fairly old, as are the other remains. If they were cyclical, someone must be pulling the strings but we have found no other living people yet and there are no indications to say there are still other living people on the island.
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But yeah I too doubt that the story can be wrapped up satisfactorily with just one chapter left. Maybe it'll be a 50-page chapter. Personally I don't think there's gonna be a 2nd arc since the mystery of the island has been pretty much solved with just a few loose ends here and there. So far I can see only 2-3 possible outcomes - the group either resign to staying on the island or they make a run for Okinawa; or there's a deus ex machina as suggested and they go back in time, which would be ridiculous without a sensible explanation....
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Given that the island isn't on any maps, it might be an artificially made island aswell.
I do not know for what reason they'd clone everybody (if they had the technology to do that without remaining tissues of the people who died) and leave them in the crashed plane.
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Enough with the cloning! I don't think it's possible to even clone people who disappeared, with their memory up to when they're on the plane! Simply bullshit!
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agreed though, it is BS.
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A state advisory group on Thursday recommended legislative changes to bolster oversight of coronary stent placements amid widespread concerns about unnecessary medical procedures, but it stopped short of proposing that state law regulate physician reviews in hospitals.
The omission drew sharp criticism from two national cardiology groups, which noted in a joint letter to the Maryland Health Care Commission that "inadequate, voluntary, internal review" was to blame for the failure at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson. That's where Dr. Mark Midei was found to have overestimated patients' arterial blockage to justify the implantation of unnecessary stents for years without being discovered.
"Good hospitals have nothing to hide or fear (bad ones do)," the presidents for the American College of Cardiology and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions said in the letter. They added that voluntary oversight is no guarantee of "equal, high-quality" health care.
The advisory group was assembled in July, more than 18 months after Midei's case became public, leading many hospitals throughout Maryland — including St. Joseph — to revamp their internal quality control policies.
The state also launched an investigation into unnecessary stenting, concerned that physicians at other hospitals might be putting the devices, which prop open blocked arteries, into patients who didn't need them.
One of the advisory committee members, John C. Wang, of Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, was recently accused in three legal filings of improper stenting; he was not at the presentation Thursday and Union has declined to comment on his behalf.
The advisory group studied the issue of stent oversight for roughly five months. They submitted a draft report to the Maryland Health Care Commission, which must now evaluate the recommendations and pass a final version on to the General Assembly by the end of the year.
Among the statutory changes proposed are:
•Giving the Health Care Commission "direct authority" to regulate stent services
•Requiring "continuing evaluation" of hospitals with stent programs and forcing them to comply with certain standards in order to retain their stent practices
•Allowing the commission to receive and share sensitive health information for investigative purposes.
The group also recommended that a national cardiology data registry be used to monitor stent trends and that guidelines be kept current. But they neglected to address physician review, noting significant "tension" when it comes to balancing the patient safety roles of public agencies and clinical practitioners.
Hospitals that accept federal Medicare payments are required to perform in-house "peer reviews" of cases to ensure that quality standards are followed. The case selection for years was driven by adverse events, but since Midei's investigation that's started to change.
He was found by the Maryland Board of Physicians to have falsified patient records to justify the placement of unnecessary stents.
The devices can be life-saving in an emergency situation, and they do improve symptoms of blocked arteries, such as chest pain. But they carry increased risks of blood clots and complications, and haven't been shown to prolong life or prevent heart attacks on an elective basis. Professional guidelines recommend an artery be significantly blocked before a stent is inserted.
Midei is accused of claiming a patient's artery was considerably blocked when it wasn't, according to an independent review of his records initiated after allegations of unnecessary procedures were made against him.
He is said to have evaded discovery at St. Joseph in large part because his procedures were without complication, and therefore not selected for review. That's leading more hospitals to initiate a random review process, which will soon be required under a law passed earlier this year.
The details are being worked out by the Office of Health Care Quality within the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, commission members said, explaining that they didn't believe the commission should also suggest legislative regulation of the peer review process.
The professional cardiology groups disagreed, however, claiming that two Maryland senators directed the commission to develop recommendations that address "the form and scope of peer review that should be required" for stent services.
Both the American College of Cardiology and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions had been pushing for the state to adopt a mandatory accreditation process, sponsored by the two organizations, that would have required, among other things, external peer review.
But the proposal failed to garner support in the legislature earlier this year. The stent advisory committee also recommended that such accreditation "remain optional" in its report to the Health Care Commission Thursday.
Ben Steffen, acting executive director of the Maryland Health Care Commission, said the committee proposals were a "first step" in the process, and acknowledged that they were vague. It's the "role of the commission" and legislature to develop specifics, he said.
A report to the Maryland legislature last year concluded that state regulators were largely powerless to prevent medical fraud. Laws prevented information sharing among investigating agencies, and staff numbers were too low to adequately address the issue.
"State regulatory agencies alone are not currently equipped, either with sufficient resources or with sufficient scope of authority, to prevent this type of problem from recurring at other hospitals," the report, signed by then state Health Secretary John M. Colmers, said.
That led to the passage of several laws over the past legislative session to increase patient protections, and the charge to the Health Care Commission to recommend further changes.
Commission members plan to spend the weekend considering the advisory group's recommendations, and said they will hold a public meeting Dec. 22 to discuss changes.
Stent committee recommendations
•The state health commission should, by law, have "direct authority" over stent services.
•Hospitals that stent should undergo regular evaluation and comply with set standards.
•The commission should be permitted to share and receive sensitive information for investigative purposes.
A state advisory group on Thursday recommended legislative changes to bolster oversight of coronary stent placements amid widespread concerns about unnecessary medical procedures, but it stopped short of proposing that state law regulate physician reviews in hospitals.


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Queenstown is home not only to the steepest tree to flying fox in the world but also home to arguably the most scenic flying foxes.
Zipping is a relative new comer to the Queenstown adventure scene, with two very different experiences on offer. Choose from an eco tour that takes you on a journey through the trees or perhaps a zip race with your mates at the world's first commercial bungy site is more what you're after.
Zip lining is the perfect adventure activity for families or a group of mates. Your Queenstown guides will have a number of tricks up their sleeve to ensure that everyone's adrenaline box is ticked. – click here to find out more about ziplining in Queenstown.
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- It can be a few degrees cooler higher up. It is recommended that you dress for the conditions of the day and have some extra warm layers.
- Sturdy closed toe shoes.
- Sense of adventure!


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Sex educator Ericka Hart, an expert in oral sex technique, stopped by #CosmoLive to show the editors how to practice cunnilingus and much more. Watch the video to see that and more of her eye-opening oral sex tips.
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Southampton Test Hustings
I just attended the Hustings for Southampton Test. These are my thoughts on some of the candidates.
Alan Whitehead (incumber Labour MP): Seemed rather nervous at the start but gained confidence later in the debate. To his credit he made some good points; I was impressed that he was bold enough to state that the law of the land should trump religious beliefs. However I also got the impression that he was less up to speed with other candidates on local issues and perhaps hadn't been paying proper attention to his constituency. Surprisingly enough he opposes Trident in favour of a cruise missile system like the LibDems advocate.
Jeremy Moulton (Conservatives): Made some good points and seemed a confident speaker. Some of the answers he gave seemed to have been slighty evasive/misleading when audience members responded to his answers. Attacked Alan Whitehead for using the communications allowance and supposedly putting the Labour party name on it (?)
Dave Callaghan (Liberal Democrats): Seemed the most honest of the lot. He highlighted some of the local issues that he's been campaigning for, like the closure of the Millbrook library, which he attacked Jeremy on (Jeremy is responsible for finances on the local council?).
Pearline Hingston (UKIP): A UKIP candidate who is an immigrant (how's that for a brain-breaker?). She came across as completely clueless and in general contributed very little of note. The one time she really attempted to express an opinion on something (cyclists riding on the pavement) she got smacked down by a member of the audience in response for not having a clue what she was talking about.
Chris Bluemel (Green): Surprisingly clueful and well-spoken. He spoke out in favour of nuclear disarmament and did it well, even though I don't agree with his views.
During the debates I sat next to an older gentleman who spent the time scribbling down notes on the back of an envelope. When he asked a question to the panel, he made some strange comments about Halliburton and BP. He seemed to think that there were plans to site nuclear submarines in Southampton docks, and was worried they might blow up and destroy the city. Very odd.
There was an obvious large Christian presence in the audience, and I suspect that siting the debate in a church probably didn't help. The candidates were asked at one point why they had all refused to sign a petition (I forget the name of it) declaring their support for Christian beliefs, although it was then revealed that none of the candidates had even heard of it. Several questions were asked about Christian rights that were obviously homophobic (eg. anti-gay marriage), though the people posing the questions tried to veil this by speaking in vague terms that made it less obvious what they were talking about.


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Don't Let Bad Planning Derail Your Vacation – Part 1
Welcome to Part 1 of our three part series that covers managing your trips and travel with the LifeTopix app. LifeTopix is one of the most complete apps available for planning your travel; for documenting your travel; and for making a smooth transition back to your daily life when your travels are complete.
In this series, we're following Polly on her birding trip on the coast of Northern California. Polly is in search of the rarest birds in California so she wants to make sure all the important details are captured — and kept with her at all times. Enjoy the following slideshow to get an understanding of how LifeTopix can help Polly so she can spend time enjoying the birds, instead of fumbling through her backpack.
LifeTopix Travel from LightArrow
LifeTopix Travel Planning Quick Summary and Ideas
With LifeTopix, the possibilities for recording your travel arrangements are endless. I've included a list below to spark some ideas for when you're planning your next trip.
- Trip checklist
- Trip to-do lists
- Packing lists
- Shopping lists
- Places to visit
- Bookmarks to brochures, field guides, directions, restaurants, parks, tourist attractions, transportation, or hotels
- Password management for airline sites
- "My Apps" for quick access to Yelp, Trip Advisor, or other apps
- Photos of places you wish to see
- Audio notes
- Agenda sharing
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Despite apparent interest from the Raiders, among other teams, Josh Freeman has decided to sign with the Vikings for $3 million. This is not a vote of confidence for Christian Ponder.
The Vikings' QB situation is already muddled, with nominal first-stringer Christian Ponder out with a rib injury but hopeful to return to practice soon. Matt Cassel took the reins for Minnesota's first win of the season in London last week, and appears to be in line to start Sunday against Carolina. Even with the poor start, the Vikings are just a game-and-a-half out of first in the division.


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Facebook signs on for Malaysia cable
Putting the social into a new network
Facebook has emerged as an investor in the Asia Pacific Gateway submarine cable project, being built to link eight countries in the region.
The investment by The Social NetworkTM emerged in a stock exchange announcement by Malaysian ISP, Time dotCom, which has become the latest investor in the under-construction cable system.
China Telecom is also investing in the project, which is due to begin construction this year for completion in 2014. The 10,000 km APG system will link Malaysia to Korea and Japan, with branches to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore.
Saiful Husni, CEO of Time dotCom subsidiary Global Transit (which has signed the construction and maintenance agreement for the cable) emphasized the need for Malaysia to have an alternative gateway to Singapore for international traffic.
In this media release, Husni notes that a global landing system into Malaysia "lowers our dependencies on Singapore as the main gateway for Internet traffic. We can now channel high volumes of this traffic on our network with the lowest latency, directly to the US."
Australian telco newsletter Communications Day says the 3.4 Tbps that Time dotCom's $US45 million investment in the cable brings (a figure that includes construction of a data centre) would suggest that Facebook intends to end up with multiple terabits of pan-Asian capacity. The investment also opens up the prospect of Facebook putting dollars into data centres in the region. ®


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I need 5,000 Real, USA, Canadian, UK or Australian Facebook Likes on a single (one) Facebook Page.
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Hi all, this is a quick experiment to see whether my setup of email-to-blog works. The Australia NTID team arrived in Wellington yesterday arvo. All the teams are staying in the same hotel in Lower Hutt, just outside Wellington. So far not much has happened- we met everyone, built our bikes, went for a quick spin and had dinner. NTID looks to be a good team, with a good spread of talents and a good bunch of chicks, ably led by team manager Ben Cook (SASI) and Paul Larkin (mechanic, token kiwi and local interpreter).
Athletes comprise:
Bec 'Pride of the West' Halliday
Sarah 'Crash Test Dummy' Roy
Bron 'Legs of Steel' Ryan
Laura 'I'm Not From Sydney, Even Though I'm Blonde' Luxford
Alex 'Ranga Pride' Carle
Lisa 'Spends Too Much Time Blogging' Jacobs
Our stage today is 98km from Martinborough to Masterton. There's one Sprint and KOM up for grabs, but mostly it's about getting a feel for racing and the other riders. It looks like one of the hardest stages is stage 2 so some will be saving their legs.
We're pumped! I'll keep you posted.


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Shortbread is such a classic and goes back to medieval times though it had a slightly different shape and taste back then. It is really just a mix of three ingredients: sugar, butter and flour, baked at low temperature to avoid browning. Mary, Queen of Scots, made it popular in the 16th century and maybe for that reason it is being credited as a Scottish recipe though it was found all over the British Isles.
Traditionally shortbread was made with oatmeal flour but I used half plain and half spelt flour and it makes for a light and crumbly texture. The recipe will make about 40-45 cookies with a 2" cookie cutter and they are great with some cheese and chutney.
200g flour
100g butter
50g grated mature cheddar
1 tbsp chopped rosemary
1 tsp sugar
salt and pepper
ground nutmeg
Preheat the oven to 160°C. Cream the butter and sugar with a hand mixer until it turns pale in colour. Mix the flour, cheddar and spices and combine with the butter. Knead but don't overwork the dough. Roll out on a lightly floured surface. Cut out cookies and bake for 10-15 minutes.


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Four arraigned in San Francisco in connection with man's bound-and-gagged killing and beating of a woman
SAN FRANCISCO — Four of the five people charged in connection with a mysterious and planned attack that left a man dead and a woman clinging to life pleaded not guilty in court Wednesday.
The pleas are in the murder case that San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said reads like a Hollywood murder mystery and includes a killing checklist of gloves, a thick sharp razor, liquid bleach, bags and towels.
"The facts of this case read like a movie script and are very disturbing," Gascón said Wednesday in a statement. "It is important for the public to know that this was not a random act as the victims and defendants knew one another…"
The criminal charges against four women and a man come three days after Stephen Reid, 26, and an 18-year-old woman were found bound and gagged in the street at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in the 900 block of Brussels Street in San Francisco's Portola neighborhood, police said.
Reid, who had been shot in the neck, died after he was taken to San Francisco General Hospital. The woman was badly beaten and at first she was not expected to live. She remains hospitalized in critical condition and is now expected to survive, authorities said Wednesday. Her name has not been released.
A motive is not yet known.
Three of the defendants, Heather Leach, 24, of Hercules, Montrail Brackens, 21, of Oakland and Vincent Bell, 31, of Hercules, were charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, felony assault and conspiracy to commit assault. Bell was also charged with possession of a firearm by a felon, according to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. Leach stands accused of writing the murder checklist, authorities said.
Additionally, Tyler Miller, 19, of Hercules, and Maryann Manalastas, 22, of Oakland were charged with accessory to murder and conspiracy to destroy evidence. All, except Miller, were arraigned Wednesday. Miller posted $15,000 bail and is set to be arraigned Friday. The other four remain in custody on bail amounts ranging from $500,000 to $2 million.
Another woman, Maelene Lintz, 32, had initially been arrested on suspicion of murder but her case was discharged pending further investigation, authorities said.
San Francisco District Attorney's office spokesman Alex Bastian late Wednesday confirmed information in the criminal complaint that was signed by police Wednesday.
The complaint says Brackens and Bell entered a home in the 3700 block of San Bruno Ave. in San Francisco with a handguns and assaulted Reid and the woman.
Leach and Manalastas bound and gagged them and someone stuffed a sock in the woman's mouth and then the suspects put the victim in a GMC Yukon, according to the complaint.
Reid, at some point, was shot in the neck. The suspects then dumped the two on Brussels Street, police said. A motorist spotted the pair and called police.
On Monday, the suspects destroyed evidence in the Yukon by spraying cleaning fluid and removing a blood-stained carpet and foam padding from the vehicle, the complaint says.
Not all attorneys were available for comment Wednesday, but Bell's attorney, Deputy Public Defender Stephen Olmo, said his client "is adamant that he did not commit this crime." Manalastas' attorney, Daniel Byrne, also defended his client, who could be charged later with murder, saying there is nothing in the complaint to indicate that she committed murder.
In the 48 hours after the killing, police investigators developed information, they won't say exactly what, that led them to a condominium at 9 Pinnacle Court in Hercules, where they made contact with the suspects and took them to San Francisco's Hall of Justice for questioning. A woman at the residence late Tuesday declined to speak on the "advice of her attorney."
The case remains under investigation. Anyone with additional information should call Sgt. Scott Warnke, Inspectors Daniel Dedet or Robert Velarde at the homicide unit at 415-553-1145.
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We were driving to Yosemite National Park from San Francisco, when we passed several dusty, small towns between Stockton and Mariposa. One had just a few houses and a closed general store with a sign "Chinese Camp". The name of the town made us all smile, as it certainly looked like a ghost town from the Gold Rush era. A few miles later I remembered that one of my distant Wilkinson cousins in my genealogical database was buried in the cemetery at Chinese Camp, California. We vowed to stop again for a photo the next time we passed by.
|An abandoned building at Chinese Camp
|This was the old post office, and
also served as a Wells Fargo office
|This appeared to have once been a home
We drove around the town, but it seemed to be mostly abandoned buildings near the highway, with the houses near the store apparently lived in, although we only saw two people. The general store is only open on weekends. Across the street from the store is the gate to the cemetery, which is not visible from the road. It is located about a half mile up the dirt road, and through another gate. Neither gate was locked, but we had to get out of the car, open it up, and then close it as we passed through. I'll post the cemetery photos for Tombstone Tuesday.
For the truly curious:
History of Chinese Camp, by the Tuolumne County Historic Preservation Review Commission, 1994
Woman Keeps Chinese Camp History Alive, The Union Democrat, 29 November 2009, by Joshua Wolfson, story at this link http://www.uniondemocrat.com/2005112985769/News/Local-News/Woman-keeps-Chinese-Camp-history-alive
A slide show of abandoned Chinese Camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bloCr4PI3nk
Click here for a blog post about our visit to the Chinese Camp cemetery:
Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Chinese Camp, Tuolumne County, California", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 5, 2011, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chinese-camp-tuolumne-county-california.html: accessed [access date]).


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Tangerine Tango is The Color Of The Year, which is cool and all, but what is up with the model in this Sephora ad? Aside from being almost bald, which is an obvious style choice, and which we can assume is the Hairdo Of The Year, there is something off about this lady. And we suspect Photoshop is to blame.
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For starters, if her ears are around the same height on her head — and surely they are, since she is so damn symmetrical — shouldn't you be able to see the tip of her other ear? Assuming she has two ears? Also, what is happening in the area where her shoulder meets her neck? We did some experimental posing in the office, and when you raise your arm up so that your forearm rests on your head — as hers does — you do not have all this… space between your neck and your arm. Seriously, try it. What happens is your arm is very very close to your ear. Hers is not. Maybe her upper arm bone — the humerus — is four feet long, and her forearm is about three and a half feet long? Also, if she is raising her arm in order to rest her ulna on her skull, wouldn't we be looking at her armpit? That armpit has no pit in it. Because it's not an armpit, it's an unspecified chunk of body created to look like a chest/pit, but really just a bit of digital sorcery. Unless she's an alien, in which case, sorry, Xorblofp, you look great.


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Janet Leigh, the demure but sexy blond movie star of the 1950's who will always be remembered for the 45-second shower scene in which she was slashed to death in Hitchcock's "Psycho" in 1960, died on Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 77.
The cause was vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels, said Heidi Schaeffer, a spokeswoman for the family.
"Psycho" was a landmark in Hollywood moviemaking, both controversial and shocking, partly because of its violence and partly because the director did the unthinkable and killed off his star one-third of the way through the movie.
As Marion Crane, an embezzler on the run with $40,000, Ms. Leigh made the mistake of stopping for the night at the Bates Motel and taking a shower. She was apparently stabbed dozens of times, although the movie never showed the knife touching her flesh. Bernard Herrmann's shrill music underscored the slashes; the scene is beloved of both serious movie scholars and parodists.
"It took us seven days to shoot that scene, and there were 70 camera setups for 45 seconds of footage," Hitchcock said in "Hitchcock" by the filmmaker François Truffaut.
After "Psycho," for which Ms. Leigh received her only Academy Award nomination, was released, Mr. Hitchcock told his star that they could never work together again.
In a 1998 interview, Ms. Leigh remembered the director's words: "Whatever I put you in, the audience would immediately think of 'Psycho.' It wouldn't be fair to the picture or the character."
In a career with many forgettable films, Ms. Leigh starred in two other classic movies. She was the woman who met Frank Sinatra on a train in John Frankenheimer's thriller "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), and Susan Vargas, the threatened American bride of the Mexican narcotics cop Charlton Heston in Orson Welles's film noir "Touch of Evil" (1958).
She played the role in "Touch of Evil" with a broken arm masked by a coat. "I broke my arm doing a TV show the week before we started," Ms. Leigh told the interviewer Patrick Giles in 1998. "I had it set at a 45-degree angle, not a 90-degree angle."
When she told Welles, he said: "Oh, that's no problem. When I heard you'd broken it, I thought about showing it like that in the picture. But Susan's on her honeymoon, so that's too weird, even for me."
One of the first of a crop of post-World War II ingénues, Ms. Leigh was the love interest of Van Johnson in her debut film as a mountain girl in "The Romance of Rosy Ridge" (1947).
She became the darling of the fan magazines with her marriage to Tony Curtis in 1951. Ms. Leigh and the good-looking boy from the Bronx were the perfect embodiment of the young Hollywood of the 1950's, as they starred together in four films, including "The Black Shield of Falworth" (1954) as a medieval lady and her would-be knight suitor. They were divorced in the early 1960's, and Ms. Curtis soon married Robert Brandt.
She was born Jeanette Helen Morrison on July 6, 1927, in the Central Valley town of Merced, Calif. Her parents moved from apartment to apartment and town to town. At the age of 14, Ms. Leigh escaped from home by eloping. The marriage was later annulled, and Ms. Leigh returned to high school, graduating just before her 16th birthday.
The 19-year-old Jeanette Morrison became a movie actress in classical old-Hollywood fashion. The MGM star Norma Shearer saw her photograph at a ski lodge where her parents were working as desk clerk and maid. A screen test at MGM was followed by a contract at $50 a week.
By 1949, a second marriage had ended in divorce, and Ms. Leigh was making five movies a year. The most memorable were the all-star "Little Women" (1949) -- in which June Allyson played the tomboyish heroine, Jo, Elizabeth Taylor played the selfish Amy; and Ms. Leigh was the nurturing, practical Meg -- and Anthony Mann's rough western "The Naked Spur" (1953), which pit the bounty hunter James Stewart against Robert Ryan, with a crop-haired Janet Leigh in the middle.
After 1966 Ms. Leigh turned to television, although she did appear with her younger daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, in John Carpenter's horror film "The Fog" in 1980.
Ms. Leigh is survived by her husband Robert Brandt and by Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis, her daughters with Tony Curtis.
Ms. Leigh's own reaction to "Psycho" was visceral. After she saw the movie, she said many times, she never wanted to take a shower again.