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INDONESIA: Blood boils as mud volcano swallows homes
THEY come in pairs - the prophets, pious and psychics - to cast spells, prayers and offerings on a vast mud lake that has subsumed nearly 700 hectares around the town of Sidoarjo, forcing more than 43,000 Indonesians from their homes.
Dwarfed by an enormous dyke ringing the centre of a mud volcano in East Java, they kneel before the bubbling ooze, with reverential followers held back at security checkpoints.
Donning a black headscarf and a Javanese blend of Islam and mysticism, Sri Sunarti scatters water gathered from the grave of a 17th-century Muslim missionary. An ancient spirit, Semar, had told her she could halt the mud with prayer, she says.
Others do not share her faith. Excavators continually strengthen and heighten the main dam as plumes of toxic gas mushroom overhead, with hot mud shooting up to 30 metres into the air.
Authorities have barred more than two citizens from entering the site at a time, and then they may only walk a few metres along an outer wall, one kilometre from the central dam. The sacrificial throwing of live cows, goats and chickens into the mud has been banned.
One year ago this Tuesday, a gas-exploration well part-owned by the Australian mining giant Santos blew, sending a geyser of mud and toxic gas into the air. Nearby villages and factories were flooded, then a big highway and railway were covered, and later East Java's main gas pipeline ruptured.
Despite all attempts to plug the flow - drilling relief wells and even dropping concrete balls into its centre - more and more mud spurts from the volcano, around 1 million barrels each day. The rising tide covered thousands more homes in March.
It is the region's worst social and ecological mining disaster, according to a leading Indonesian environmental watchdog, Walhi. The displaced await compensation, mitigation efforts are farcical and arguments continue over who will bear the multibillion-dollar cost.
There is no end in sight. Optimists hope the mudflow could dissipate in 30 years, but experts suggest it may continue for centuries. Twenty-three kilometres of earth dams have been built in an unsuccessful attempt to contain the mud, 20 metres deep in parts, and channel it into the nearby Porong River, then into the sea.
When the Herald visited the site last week, just a trickle of ooze dribbled from one of eight large pipes above the river. The director of operations of the mud disaster team, Sofyan Hadi, admits they are pumping only a fraction of what emerges from the volcano because the wrong pumps were installed.
"They are used for water, not for mud," he said.
The only short-term proposal is bigger, better pumps, with little immediate prospect of fulfilling the instructions of the President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to "kill" the mudflow.
Arguments about fault and liability have spread into Dr Yudhoyono's cabinet. The company that owns 50 per cent of the well, Lapindo Brantos, belongs to the family of the Minister for People's Welfare, Aburizal Bakrie. Thirty-two per cent of the joint venture was held by another Indonesian company, Medco, with the remaining 18 per cent held by Santos.
The Adelaide-based firm has now doubled its provisions for potential compensation payments to $89 million - 18 per cent of the predicted "mud management" costs - but admits there are no guarantees it will not blow out.
Owing to the "complexity of the incident and the dynamic nature of the ongoing work, there is significant uncertainty surrounding these issues", Santos has warned in a report to shareholders.
In a presidential decree last month, Dr Yudhoyono said his government would pay the billions in infrastructure costs arising from the mudflow, including moving transport links. Direct mitigation of the mudflow and buying the land and houses it covers would be Lapindo's responsibility - an estimated $540 million.
Parliamentarians have threatened to overturn the decree, complaining that all costs should be met by the miners. Walhi describes it as a political conspiracy to avoid corporate responsibility.
A Santos spokesman, Chris Bennett, says the company admits no liability and is aware of the political dynamics. But all requests to aid the clean-up program have been met "given the magnitude of the social dislocation". As a minority shareholder, Santos had limited influence, Mr Bennett says, urging a greater focus on long-term "mud mitigation to prevent further social, economic and infrastructure degradation".
Mr Bakrie has denied that the volcano was caused by the gas bore - blaming an earthquake two days earlier near Yogyakarta, more than 200 kilometres away - but says his company will compensate local victims because of "Indonesian values".
His claims have been undercut by the third partner in the well, Medco, which said Lapindo's drillers had been negligent in not inserting a casing around the gas bore, which would have enabled the flow to be plugged after the drill hit a huge mud bubble, pressurised by gas underneath.
Medco launched a negligence lawsuit against Lapindo in the US, but the case will not reach court after a Bakrie company bought out Medco's share of the well, and its liabilities, for a token fee last month.
Last year Indonesia's Finance Minister blocked the Bakrie group's attempt to sell Lapindo to a shelf company offshore, believing it was an attempt to evade responsibility for the incident.
Instead, Lapindo has launched a public relations offensive, funding studies and a geological seminar. Only geologists who said the volcano was a natural phenomenon were invited to contribute. If consensus emerges of a natural disaster, Lapindo argues, the matter should be a government, not a corporate responsibility.
A police investigation has determined that negligence was to blame and recommended 13 Lapindo officials face criminal charges. Local prosecutors seem reluctant to proceed, sending the brief of evidence back twice for revision.
The head of the Disaster Research Centre at the Surabaya Institute of Technology, the geologist Amien Widodo, also has no doubts it was the failure to install a casing along the drill shaft that caused the disaster. "Because they didn't use a casing, the mud went wild," he says.
Sidoarjo's catastrophe is "just beginning", he says, and with no known way to halt the flow it could last hundreds of years.
Meanwhile, most of the more than 43,000 victims await compensation, many in ramshackle, open-air refugee camps. Lapindo says it has paid more than $180 million towards the clean-up, evacuation, and rent and food relief. But only 185 people so far have been compensated for the loss of their homes.
The problem, according to Lapindo, is that locals must produce evidence of land ownership and most lack official certificates.
The village of Balongnongo was the first hit by the mud. Zaenul, a mechanic, did have land title and has received an initial payment, but he says no compensation can replace the daily village life of community celebrations, traditional music and Koran readings.
His family is scattered in rented homes across the district and his two children must travel 20 kilometres to primary school.
"It was my pride to have built a house from my own sweat, but now it is gone," he says, adding: "What we need is a place to rest, a house of our own."
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- 185 Corruption
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-Installing OpenSSL on Unix
-[For instructions for compiling OpenSSL on Windows systems, see
+ ---------------------------------
-To install OpenSSL, you will need:
+ [Installation on DOS (with djgpp), Windows, OpenVMS, MacOS (before MacOS X)
+ and NetWare is described in INSTALL.DJGPP, INSTALL.W32, INSTALL.VMS,
+ INSTALL.MacOS and INSTALL.NW.
+ This document describes installation on operating systems in the Unix
+ family.]
- * Perl
- * C compiler
- * A supported operating system
+ To install OpenSSL, you will need:
-Quick Start
+ * make
+ * Perl 5
+ * an ANSI C compiler
+ * a development environment in form of development libraries and C
+ header files
+ * a supported Unix operating system
-If you want to just get on with it, do:
+ Quick Start
+ -----------
- sh config [if this fails, go to step 1b below]
- make -f Makefile.ssl links
- make
- make rehash
- make test
- make install
+ If you want to just get on with it, do:
-This will build and install OpenSSL in the default location, which is
-/usr/local/ssl. If you want to install it anywhere else, do this
-after running ./Configure <system>:
+ $ ./config
+ $ make
+ $ make test
+ $ make install
- perl util/ssldir.pl /new/install/path
+ [If any of these steps fails, see section Installation in Detail below.]
-If anything goes wrong, follow the detailed instructions below. If
-your operating system is not (yet) supported by OpenSSL, see the
-section on porting to a new system.
+ This will build and install OpenSSL in the default location, which is (for
+ historical reasons) /usr/local/ssl. If you want to install it anywhere else,
+ run config like this:
-Installation in Detail
+ $ ./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl
- 1a. Configure OpenSSL for your operation system automatically
- Run
+ Configuration Options
+ ---------------------
- sh config
+ There are several options to ./config (or ./Configure) to customize
+ the build:
- This guesses at your operating system (and compiler, if
- necessary) and configures OpenSSL based on this guess. Check the
- first line of output to see if it guessed correctly. If it did
- not get it correct or you want to use a different compiler then
- go to step 1b. Otherwise go to step 2.
+ --prefix=DIR Install in DIR/bin, DIR/lib, DIR/include/openssl.
+ Configuration files used by OpenSSL will be in DIR/ssl
+ or the directory specified by --openssldir.
- 1b. Configure OpenSSL for your operating system manually
+ --openssldir=DIR Directory for OpenSSL files. If no prefix is specified,
+ the library files and binaries are also installed there.
+ no-threads Don't try to build with support for multi-threaded
+ applications.
+ threads Build with support for multi-threaded applications.
+ This will usually require additional system-dependent options!
+ See "Note on multi-threading" below.
+ no-zlib Don't try to build with support for zlib compression and
+ decompression.
+ zlib Build with support for zlib compression/decompression.
+ zlib-dynamic Like "zlib", but has OpenSSL load the zlib library dynamically
+ when needed. This is only supported on systems where loading
+ of shared libraries is supported. This is the default choice.
+ no-shared Don't try to create shared libraries.
+ shared In addition to the usual static libraries, create shared
+ libraries on platforms where it's supported. See "Note on
+ shared libraries" below.
+ no-asm Do not use assembler code.
+ 386 Use the 80386 instruction set only (the default x86 code is
+ more efficient, but requires at least a 486). Note: Use
+ compiler flags for any other CPU specific configuration,
+ e.g. "-m32" to build x86 code on an x64 system.
+ no-sse2 Exclude SSE2 code pathes. Normally SSE2 extention is
+ detected at run-time, but the decision whether or not the
+ machine code will be executed is taken solely on CPU
+ capability vector. This means that if you happen to run OS
+ kernel which does not support SSE2 extension on Intel P4
+ processor, then your application might be exposed to
+ "illegal instruction" exception. There might be a way
+ to enable support in kernel, e.g. FreeBSD kernel can be
+ compiled with CPU_ENABLE_SSE, and there is a way to
+ disengage SSE2 code pathes upon application start-up,
+ but if you aim for wider "audience" running such kernel,
+ consider no-sse2. Both 386 and no-asm options above imply
+ no-sse2.
+ no-<cipher> Build without the specified cipher (bf, cast, des, dh, dsa,
+ hmac, md2, md5, mdc2, rc2, rc4, rc5, rsa, sha).
+ The crypto/<cipher> directory can be removed after running
+ "make depend".
+ -Dxxx, -lxxx, -Lxxx, -fxxx, -mXXX, -Kxxx These system specific options will
+ be passed through to the compiler to allow you to
+ define preprocessor symbols, specify additional libraries,
+ library directories or other compiler options.
+ Installation in Detail
+ ----------------------
+ 1a. Configure OpenSSL for your operation system automatically:
+ $ ./config [options]
+ This guesses at your operating system (and compiler, if necessary) and
+ configures OpenSSL based on this guess. Run ./config -t to see
+ if it guessed correctly. If you want to use a different compiler, you
+ are cross-compiling for another platform, or the ./config guess was
+ wrong for other reasons, go to step 1b. Otherwise go to step 2.
- OpenSSL knows about a range of different operating system, hardware
- and compiler combinations. To see the ones it knows about, run
+ On some systems, you can include debugging information as follows:
- ./Configure
+ $ ./config -d [options]
- Pick a suitable name from the list that matches your system. For
- most operating systems there is a choice between using "cc" or
- "gcc".
+ 1b. Configure OpenSSL for your operating system manually
+ OpenSSL knows about a range of different operating system, hardware and
+ compiler combinations. To see the ones it knows about, run
+ $ ./Configure
- When you have identified your system (and if necessary compiler)
- use this name as the argument to ./Configure. For example, a
- "linux-elf" user would run:
+ Pick a suitable name from the list that matches your system. For most
+ operating systems there is a choice between using "cc" or "gcc". When
+ you have identified your system (and if necessary compiler) use this name
+ as the argument to ./Configure. For example, a "linux-elf" user would
+ run:
- ./Configure linux-elf
+ $ ./Configure linux-elf [options]
If your system is not available, you will have to edit the Configure
- program and add the correct configuration for your system.
+ program and add the correct configuration for your system. The
+ generic configurations "cc" or "gcc" should usually work on 32 bit
+ systems.
+ Configure creates the file Makefile.ssl from Makefile.org and
+ defines various macros in crypto/opensslconf.h (generated from
+ crypto/opensslconf.h.in).
+ 2. Build OpenSSL by running:
+ $ make
+ This will build the OpenSSL libraries (libcrypto.a and libssl.a) and the
+ OpenSSL binary ("openssl"). The libraries will be built in the top-level
+ directory, and the binary will be in the "apps" directory.
+ If "make" fails, look at the output. There may be reasons for
+ the failure that aren't problems in OpenSSL itself (like missing
+ standard headers). If it is a problem with OpenSSL itself, please
+ report the problem to <firstname.lastname@example.com> (note that your
+ message will be recorded in the request tracker publicly readable
+ via http://www.openssl.org/support/rt.html and will be forwarded to a
+ public mailing list). Include the output of "make report" in your message.
+ Please check out the request tracker. Maybe the bug was already
+ reported or has already been fixed.
+ [If you encounter assembler error messages, try the "no-asm"
+ configuration option as an immediate fix.]
+ Compiling parts of OpenSSL with gcc and others with the system
+ compiler will result in unresolved symbols on some systems.
+ 3. After a successful build, the libraries should be tested. Run:
+ $ make test
+ If a test fails, look at the output. There may be reasons for
+ the failure that isn't a problem in OpenSSL itself (like a missing
+ or malfunctioning bc). If it is a problem with OpenSSL itself,
+ try removing any compiler optimization flags from the CFLAG line
+ in Makefile.ssl and run "make clean; make". Please send a bug
+ report to <firstname.lastname@example.com>, including the output of
+ "make report" in order to be added to the request tracker at
+ http://www.openssl.org/support/rt.html.
+ 4. If everything tests ok, install OpenSSL with
+ $ make install
+ This will create the installation directory (if it does not exist) and
+ then the following subdirectories:
+ certs Initially empty, this is the default location
+ for certificate files.
+ man/man1 Manual pages for the 'openssl' command line tool
+ man/man3 Manual pages for the libraries (very incomplete)
+ misc Various scripts.
+ private Initially empty, this is the default location
+ for private key files.
+ If you didn't choose a different installation prefix, the
+ following additional subdirectories will be created:
+ bin Contains the openssl binary and a few other
+ utility programs.
+ include/openssl Contains the header files needed if you want to
+ compile programs with libcrypto or libssl.
+ lib Contains the OpenSSL library files themselves.
+ Use "make install_sw" to install the software without documentation,
+ and "install_docs_html" to install HTML renditions of the manual
+ pages.
+ Package builders who want to configure the library for standard
+ locations, but have the package installed somewhere else so that
+ it can easily be packaged, can use
+ $ make INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/package-root install
+ (or specify "--install_prefix=/tmp/package-root" as a configure
+ option). The specified prefix will be prepended to all
+ installation target filenames.
+ NOTE: The header files used to reside directly in the include
+ directory, but have now been moved to include/openssl so that
+ OpenSSL can co-exist with other libraries which use some of the
+ same filenames. This means that applications that use OpenSSL
+ should now use C preprocessor directives of the form
+ #include <openssl/ssl.h>
+ instead of "#include <ssl.h>", which was used with library versions
+ up to OpenSSL 0.9.2b.
+ If you install a new version of OpenSSL over an old library version,
+ you should delete the old header files in the include directory.
+ Compatibility issues:
+ * COMPILING existing applications
+ To compile an application that uses old filenames -- e.g.
+ "#include <ssl.h>" --, it will usually be enough to find
+ the CFLAGS definition in the application's Makefile and
+ add a C option such as
+ -I/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl
+ to it.
+ But don't delete the existing -I option that points to
+ the ..../include directory! Otherwise, OpenSSL header files
+ could not #include each other.
+ * WRITING applications
+ To write an application that is able to handle both the new
+ and the old directory layout, so that it can still be compiled
+ with library versions up to OpenSSL 0.9.2b without bothering
+ the user, you can proceed as follows:
+ - Always use the new filename of OpenSSL header files,
+ e.g. #include <openssl/ssl.h>.
+ - Create a directory "incl" that contains only a symbolic
+ link named "openssl", which points to the "include" directory
+ of OpenSSL.
+ For example, your application's Makefile might contain the
+ following rule, if OPENSSLDIR is a pathname (absolute or
+ relative) of the directory where OpenSSL resides:
+ incl/openssl:
+ -mkdir incl
+ cd $(OPENSSLDIR) # Check whether the directory really exists
+ -ln -s `cd $(OPENSSLDIR); pwd`/include incl/openssl
+ You will have to add "incl/openssl" to the dependencies
+ of those C files that include some OpenSSL header file.
+ - Add "-Iincl" to your CFLAGS.
+ With these additions, the OpenSSL header files will be available
+ under both name variants if an old library version is used:
+ Your application can reach them under names like <openssl/foo.h>,
+ while the header files still are able to #include each other
+ with names of the form <foo.h>.
+ Note on multi-threading
+ -----------------------
+ For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what compiler options
+ are needed to generate a library that is suitable for multi-threaded
+ applications. On these systems, support for multi-threading is enabled
+ by default; use the "no-threads" option to disable (this should never be
+ necessary).
+ On other systems, to enable support for multi-threading, you will have
+ to specify at least two options: "threads", and a system-dependent option.
+ (The latter is "-D_REENTRANT" on various systems.) The default in this
+ case, obviously, is not to include support for multi-threading (but
+ you can still use "no-threads" to suppress an annoying warning message
+ from the Configure script.)
+ Note on shared libraries
+ ------------------------
+ Shared libraries have certain caveats. Binary backward compatibility
+ can't be guaranteed before OpenSSL version 1.0. The only reason to
+ use them would be to conserve memory on systems where several programs
+ are using OpenSSL.
+ For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what is needed to
+ build shared libraries for libcrypto and libssl. On these systems,
+ the shared libraries are currently not created by default, but giving
+ the option "shared" will get them created. This method supports Makefile
+ targets for shared library creation, like linux-shared. Those targets
+ can currently be used on their own just as well, but this is expected
+ to change in future versions of OpenSSL.
+ Note on random number generation
+ --------------------------------
+ Availability of cryptographically secure random numbers is required for
+ secret key generation. OpenSSL provides several options to seed the
+ internal PRNG. If not properly seeded, the internal PRNG will refuse
+ to deliver random bytes and a "PRNG not seeded error" will occur.
+ On systems without /dev/urandom (or similar) device, it may be necessary
+ to install additional support software to obtain random seed.
+ Please check out the manual pages for RAND_add(), RAND_bytes(), RAND_egd(),
+ and the FAQ for more information.
+ Note on support for multiple builds
+ -----------------------------------
- Configure configures various files by converting an existing .org
- file into the real file. If you edit any files, remember that if
- a corresponding .org file exists them the next time you run
- ./Configure your changes will be lost when the file gets
- re-created from the .org file. The files that are created from
- .org files are:
- Makefile.ssl
- crypto/des/des.h
- crypto/des/des_locl.h
- crypto/md2/md2.h
- crypto/rc4/rc4.h
- crypto/rc4/rc4_enc.c
- crypto/rc2/rc2.h
- crypto/bf/bf_locl.h
- crypto/idea/idea.h
- crypto/bn/bn.h
- 2. Set the install directory
- If the install directory will be the default of /usr/local/ssl,
- skip to the next stage. Otherwise, run
- utils/ssldir.pl /new/install/path
- This configures the installation location into the "install"
- target of the top-level Makefile, and also updates some defines
- in an include file so that the default certificate directory is
- under the proper installation directory. It also updates a few
- utility files used in the build process.
- 3. Build OpenSSL
- Now run
- make
- This will build the OpenSSL libraries (libcrypto.a and libssl.a)
- and the OpenSSL binary ("openssl"). The libraries will be built
- in the top-level directory, and the binary will be in the "apps"
- directory.
- 4. After a successful build, the libraries should be tested. Run
- make rehash
- make test
- (The first line makes the test certificates in the "certs"
- directory accessable via an hash name, which is required for some
- of the tests).
- 5. If everything tests ok, install OpenSSL with
- make install
- This will create the installation directory (if it does not
- exist) and then create the following subdirectories:
- bin Contains the openssl binary and a few other utility
- programs. It also contains symbolic links so
- that openssl commands can be accessed directly
- (e.g. so that "s_client" can be used instead of
- "openssl s_client").
- certs Initially empty, this is the default location
- for certificate files.
- include Contains the header files needed if you want to
- compile programs with libcrypto or libssl.
- lib Contains the library files themselves and the
- OpenSSL configuration file "openssl.cnf".
- private Initially empty, this is the default location
- for private key files.
-Additional Compilation Notes
-These notes come from SSLeay 0.9.1 and cover some more advanced
-facilities (such as building a single makefile for use on Windows
-# Installation of SSLeay.
-# It depends on perl for a few bits but those steps can be skipped and
-# the top level makefile edited by hand
-# When bringing the SSLeay distribution back from the evil intel world
-# of Windows NT, do the following to make it nice again under unix :-)
-# You don't normally need to run this.
-sh util/fixNT.sh # This only works for NT now - eay - 21-Jun-1996
-# If you have perl, and it is not in /usr/local/bin, you can run
-perl util/perlpath.pl /new/path
-# and this will fix the paths in all the scripts. DO NOT put
-# /new/path/perl, just /new/path. The build
-# environment always run scripts as 'perl perlscript.pl' but some of the
-# 'applications' are easier to usr with the path fixed.
-# Edit crypto/cryptlib.h, tools/c_rehash, and Makefile.ssl
-# to set the install locations if you don't like
-# the default location of /usr/local/ssl
-# Do this by running
-perl util/ssldir.pl /new/ssl/home
-# if you have perl, or by hand if not.
-# If things have been stuffed up with the sym links, run
-make -f Makefile.ssl links
-# This will re-populate lib/include with symlinks and for each
-# directory, link Makefile to Makefile.ssl
-# Setup the machine dependent stuff for the top level makefile
-# and some select .h files
-# If you don't have perl, this will bomb, in which case just edit the
-# top level Makefile.ssl
-./Configure 'system type'
-# The 'Configure' command contains default configuration parameters
-# for lots of machines. Configure edits 5 lines in the top level Makefile
-# It modifies the following values in the following files
-Makefile.ssl CC CFLAG EX_LIBS BN_MULW
-crypto/des/des.h DES_LONG
-crypto/des/des_locl.h DES_PTR
-crypto/md2/md2.h MD2_INT
-crypto/rc4/rc4.h RC4_INT
-crypto/rc4/rc4_enc.c RC4_INDEX
-crypto/rc2/rc2.h RC2_INT
-crypto/bf/bf_locl.h BF_INT
-crypto/idea/idea.h IDEA_INT
-crypto/bn/bn.h BN_LLONG (and defines one of SIXTY_FOUR_BIT,
- SIXTEEN_BIT or EIGHT_BIT)
-Please remember that all these files are actually copies of the file with
-a .org extention. So if you change crypto/des/des.h, the next time
-you run Configure, it will be runover by a 'configured' version of
-crypto/des/des.org. So to make the changer the default, change the .org
-files. The reason these files have to be edited is because most of
-these modifications change the size of fundamental data types.
-While in theory this stuff is optional, it often makes a big
-difference in performance and when using assember, it is importaint
-for the 'Bignum bits' match those required by the assember code.
-A warning for people using gcc with sparc cpu's. Gcc needs the -mv8
-flag to use the hardware multiply instruction which was not present in
-earlier versions of the sparc CPU. I define it by default. If you
-have an old sparc, and it crashes, try rebuilding with this flag
-removed. I am leaving this flag on by default because it makes
-things run 4 times faster :-)
-# clean out all the old stuff
-make clean
-# Do a make depend only if you have the makedepend command installed
-# This is not needed but it does make things nice when developing.
-make depend
-# make should build everything
-# fix up the demo certificate hash directory if it has been stuffed up.
-make rehash
-# test everything
-make test
-# install the lot
-make install
-# It is worth noting that all the applications are built into the one
-# program, ssleay, which is then has links from the other programs
-# names to it.
-# The applicatons can be built by themselves, just don't define the
-# 'MONOLITH' flag. So to build the 'enc' program stand alone,
-gcc -O2 -Iinclude apps/enc.c apps/apps.c libcrypto.a
-# Other useful make options are
-make makefile.one
-# which generate a 'makefile.one' file which will build the complete
-# SSLeay distribution with temp. files in './tmp' and 'installable' files
-# in './out'
-# Have a look at running
-perl util/mk1mf.pl help
-# this can be used to generate a single makefile and is about the only
-# way to generate makefiles for windows.
-# There is actually a final way of building SSLeay.
-gcc -O2 -c -Icrypto -Iinclude crypto/crypto.c
-gcc -O2 -c -Issl -Iinclude ssl/ssl.c
-# and you now have the 2 libraries as single object files :-).
-# If you want to use the assember code for your particular platform
-# (DEC alpha/x86 are the main ones, the other assember is just the
-# output from gcc) you will need to link the assember with the above generated
-# object file and also do the above compile as
-gcc -O2 -DBN_ASM -c -Icrypto -Iinclude crypto/crypto.c
-This last option is probably the best way to go when porting to another
-platform or building shared libraries. It is not good for development so
-I don't normally use it.
-To build shared libararies under unix, have a look in shlib, basically
-you are on your own, but it is quite easy and all you have to do
-is compile 2 (or 3) files.
-For mult-threading, have a read of doc/threads.doc. Again it is quite
-easy and normally only requires some extra callbacks to be defined
-by the application.
-The examples for solaris and windows NT/95 are in the mt directory.
-have fun
-eric 25-Jun-1997
-IRIX 5.x will build as a 32 bit system with mips1 assember.
-IRIX 6.x will build as a 64 bit system with mips3 assember. It conforms
-to n32 standards. In theory you can compile the 64 bit assember under
-IRIX 5.x but you will have to have the correct system software installed.
+ OpenSSL is usually built in its source tree. Unfortunately, this doesn't
+ support building for multiple platforms from the same source tree very well.
+ It is however possible to build in a separate tree through the use of lots
+ of symbolic links, which should be prepared like this:
+ mkdir -p objtree/"`uname -s`-`uname -r`-`uname -m`"
+ cd objtree/"`uname -s`-`uname -r`-`uname -m`"
+ (cd $OPENSSL_SOURCE; find . -type f) | while read F; do
+ mkdir -p `dirname $F`
+ rm -f $F; ln -s $OPENSSL_SOURCE/$F $F
+ echo $F '->' $OPENSSL_SOURCE/$F
+ done
+ make -f Makefile.org clean
+ OPENSSL_SOURCE is an environment variable that contains the absolute (this
+ is important!) path to the OpenSSL source tree.
+ Also, operations like 'make update' should still be made in the source tree.
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Neil Thewarapperuma (or Neil T to his friends) isn't a man to mince his words. He was the European marketing boss for EA Sports back in 1993, the year the publisher would launch its first ever football game.
He wasn't wrong. EA didn't care about FIFA, or soccer at all for that matter. The US publisher had no interest in a sport that was practically non-existent in its home country.
But the persistent bloody-mindedness of EA's European outfit made FIFA happen. And it was this team who would go on to work alongside a small group of talented developers some 5,000 miles away, to build what would become the biggest video game franchise in the world.
This is how they did it.
"They didn't think we were going to sell a single copy of this.
They thought it would be a complete disaster."
- Marc Aubanel, FIFA International Soccer Assistant Producer
The voices calling for an EA football title were numerous.
In the US, EA Sports Network (or ESN, as it was called back then before ESPN asked them to change it) was a sales juggernaut thanks to the likes of NHL and Madden. Over in Europe, however, these games were non-entities.
"We did some research and found that 90 per cent of C&VG magazine readers loved football," says David Gardner, the sales and marketing boss for EA Europe at the time.
"So we realised that if we wanted to bring the EA Sports brand to Europe we needed a football game."
Members of the UK team lobbied the US to let them build one. And even EA Canada's Bruce McMillan, a Chelsea supporter who would go on to lead the FIFA development team, tried to persuade the EA hierarchy to build a football game.
"I said that we should be in the worldwide football business. But when I first said that, EA was like: 'well we are already in the football business with Madden.' I said: 'No, I mean proper football'."
EA eventually said yes, driven in part by EA Europe's lofty sales predictions. Yet the UK team didn't have a development studio at the time, and Mega Drive dev kits were hard to come by. So the team set out to find some local devs to help build them a prototype.
"Myself and my colleague Jon Law were developing something and we were hoping that EA would sign it," explains Jules Burt, a UK indie developer at the time, working in Widnes, Cheshire.
"I remember someone from EA travelling all the way up north to visit us, where he told us our creative project wasn't going ahead. However, he also had news of another game they wanted us to help develop – soccer."
That 'someone' who visited them was producer Matt Webster, one of the few members of the original FIFA team that still works at EA today, now at Need for Speed developer Criterion.
"These guys had a Sega Genesis development kit," recalls Webster.
"I don't know where they got it, I probably don't really want to know, because at the time EA couldn't even get one.
"Jon and Jules had done three tests for us. One was a side scrolling pitch, one was a forwards into the screen pitch, and the other was an isometric pitch.
"I remember going up there and saw the isometric pitch and thought: 'Wow this is interesting'."
Burt adds: "We'd already created a prototype for a beach volleyball game on the Sega Genesis [Mega Drive in Europe], so the first attempt we had was to create a similar soccer experience.
"It was rendered side on and layered with parallax to give the depth effect – similar to a moving TV camera on the sidelines.
"We realised the view just wasn't right – although it looked good – for soccer, and that we needed to see the field and goals for strategy. So at the time isometric was the potential alternative, and certainly would suit a more real TV view."
Jules Burt and Jon Law never got to turn their prototype into a full game, although EA did go on to hire the pair of them. Instead there was capacity at one of EA's new studios to build EA Soccer (which was the game's working title), 5,000 miles away in Vancouver, Canada.
"At the time it was soul destroying to see it go to Canada for development," says Law.
"But in truth there was no way that we'd have been able to deliver the game to the quality needed."
The original EA Canada FIFA development team was tiny. Barely ten full-time developers worked on the project. Bruce McMillan led the team, alongside his good friends Jan Tian and new recruit Joey Della-Savia.
McMillan says: "The original team was very small and I worked very closely with the lead programmer, Jan Tian. Jan was Chinese and had a real passion for football.
"Joey was my development manager, and we had this team that seemed to get better every day. He and I were very, very close. He hadn't shipped a game before but was a super people person. The team loved him. So that gave me the chance to be a super hard-nosed producer."
THE FIFA TEAM: (Clockwise from top left) Jon Bruce, John Santamaria, Jan Tian, Linda Stansfield, Bruce McMillan, Joey Della-Savia, Lee Patterson, Jeff Van Dyck, Kevin Pickell, Mike Smith, Suzan Germic, Dianna Davies, Brian Plank and David Adams. Not pictured: Marc Aubanel and George Ashcroft
FIFA had plenty of competition at the time. The market leaders were Sensible Soccer and Kick Off, with their top-down viewpoints. If EA had any chance of competing, it had to do something different.
"Sensible Soccer was very popular at the time," recalls Tom Stone, who worked under Gardner in the UK team, primarily on FIFA.
"But that was a top-down game and we thought if we could bring all of the values of EA Sports to a football game, with the realism of Madden or NFL, then we'd do well."
McMillan adds: "We really tried to live by the 'If it's in the game, it's in the game'; it had to be authentic, it had to feel correct."
Central to this realism was this new isometric viewpoint, originally proposed by Burt and Law, but then improved upon and finalised by EA Canada's Jan Tian. It may look old today, but at the time this new look was revolutionary.
"Everything about that first game was like: "How the fuck did they do this?' You had the isometric view, you had these player animations, which I put on the box," says Neil T. "They were so impressive."
"It was only later we discovered there were no player names,
likenesses, or team logos included with the FIFA licence."
- David Gardner, former EA Studios boss
Part of the game's quest for realism saw the UK team seek out an official licence. EA had secured official player names, stadiums and teams for its Madden and NHL games, and EA wanted the same for its new football title.
"We started discussing a name for the game. It was just called EA Soccer at this time," says Webster.
"And a few of us said that if we were follow the EA Sports tradition, then we should go for the official association, which was FIFA.
"I ended up making the first call to FIFA's press secretary, I explained who we were and he gave us the details of the FIFA marketing agent. Then I handed it off to Tom Stone."
Stone continues: "My first job at EA was to get on a plane and fly to Switzerland to see FIFA.
"We met the head of ISL marketing who were the representatives of FIFA, and we shook hands on a deal there and then over dinner.
"The deal lasted through until 1998, it was a five-year deal. I'm not going to reveal what the royalty payments were, but it was miniscule."
There was a reason why EA managed to secure the FIFA licence for such a small amount of money.
"It was only later we discovered there were no player names, likenesses, or team logos included because football wasn't organised in a commercial way like the US Sports leagues," laughs David Gardner.
"In hindsight it is all quite funny and a great stupid American story that turned out quite successful anyway after hundreds of deals later."
Stone adds: "In many ways our asking for these rights helped football become organised.
"I went to the Football Association, the Premier League, the PFA and so on. I got to know those people quite well and they were like: 'Oh right, who has the rights to player likenesses then? Who has the rights to the stadium? These guys are asking for those rights.' So in a way we actually helped the association work all these things out."
But the full licensing deals would have to wait for later FIFA titles. For this first game EA had to go without. And so the dev team decided to put themselves in the game. Matt Webster went upfront for England. Joey Della-Savia was in the Italian squad. Assistant producer Marc Aubanel became a striker for French team.
"Just recently I stayed in hotel in France and I had someone come up to me and ask: 'Hey weren't you the striker for the French national team on the first genesis game?'," says Aubanel. "I couldn't believe they remembered that."
McMillan even put his own child in the game: "I had a new-born son at the time that I wasn't seeing much, and so I put him in the game and I gave him really good stats. Now my son is 20 but even today fans of FIFA – real hardcore fans – remember him. It even happened at E3 this year."
"You'd see people at 8am, because we were working on UK time, too.
We'd do this right through the Spring and Summer to hit our deadlines.
We were working 16 hour days."
- Bruce McMillan, FIFA International Soccer producer
At this point, EA Canada and Europe were working side-by-side. Canada would stay up late to liaise with their UK counterparts. Webster would fly over for weeks on end to work besides the studio. It was a partnership unlike any the industry had seen before. Yet EA US remained unconvinced FIFA would be a success.
Marc Aubanel remembers: "At the time the American football league had collapsed. There wasn't one. And even worse we had this licence which EA had never heard of. They didn't think we were going to sell a single copy of this. They thought it would be a complete disaster.
"We fought pretty hard to keep the FIFA brand and we thought we would sustain a market outside of the US. There were many, many meetings where it could have easily been cancelled. We had to constantly re-justify it."
He adds: "This was a time where our budget was in the $50,000 or $100,000 region, so these were small budgets. If it was millions we would've been killed immediately. There was no way we could have justified that kind of expense. We were small enough to not really get noticed but I remember several meetings where people would say: 'Didn't we already kill this game?'
"I am sure that if it wasn't in Canada and we were under the noses of the Americans it would not have survived. We just kind of just slipped through the cracks."
There were other concerns, too. FIFA International Soccer (which was its eventual name) was scheduled for a Spring 1994 launch, just ahead of the World Cup in the US. But that would put FIFA up against the official World Cup game from rival publisher US Gold.
McMillan recalls: "I said to the team: 'We need to beat them to market. We need to be on the shelf for Chrismas.' So the team just aspired to that. We shrunk our schedule dramatically and worked around the clock. I remember in our old studio we had a kitchen downstairs and I remember Joey Della-Savia making spaghetti for the team. I mean we were working 16-hour days.
"You'd see people at eight in the morning, because we were working on UK time, too. We would be giving builds to the UK for feedback. We'd do this right through the Spring and Summer to hit our deadlines. We were exhausted but inspired because every day the game got better. It was just an exhilarating experience.
"When I called the team into the boardroom and told them we had to be out by Christmas, I said: 'This is going to be really hard but I can assure you this is going to be something you will remember for the rest of your lives.' And I know that kind of speech is corny but it kind of turned out to be true."
"We had David Platt come to the office and we were all suitably star struck.
The games industry in those days didn't have stars."
- Tom Stone, former EA Europe boss
Meanwhile, across the pond in the UK, hype was building rapidly. Neil T was busy promoting the title, taking the latest code out to the press: "There was no beta or alpha back then, normally you'd just show the full product. But it looked so good in development that we did sneak previews for the press. We showed them and they went bonkers. Then the sales predictions went up. The US didn't have high hopes for it, but we had huge expectations."
Webster adds: "Our PR guy was saying that the reviews were going to come back extraordinarily strong and that Virgin [Sensible Soccer publisher] was worried. It even delayed its game because the team there knew we were going to hit really strong."
Sales expectations for FIFA were rising. The game was looking great. All the team needed now was someone to put on the box.
"We contacted the agent of David Platt, who was a real star at the time," explains Stone.
"We had David Platt come to the office and we were all suitably star struck because, you know, the games industry in those days didn't have stars."
Webster remembers that day well: "It was when he had done his ankle in, and I happened to have injured my cruciate ligament and had an operation. So we were both in plaster and we just traded mutual plaster signings. That was quite fun."
Everything looked to be in place for a blockbuster launch. There was just time for one last interference from the US management.
"It was very late in the day and the proposal was to call the game Team USA Soccer in North America and not FIFA globally," claims Webster.
"I remember Nancy Smith (VP of North American Sales) and Larry [Probst, president and CEO] were involved in those conversations and in the end it was a case of: 'Hey look if we do that, we are going to have a significant inventory risk. If you don't believe in FIFA, you can always shift the cartridges back to Europe and sell them. Whereas if you keep it to Team USA you're kind of stuck'
"I think this was a swinger really you know, if it was going to be called Team USA it wasn't going to be a global product and that didn't really make any sense."
"I took the game home. I played it.
And I said to the UK guys: 'It's time to ship this thing."
– Bruce McMillan
It was September 1993 when an exhausted development team finished FIFA International Soccer. And it's a moment that has stayed in McMillan's memory.
"It was two in the morning and Joey, Jan and I were sitting at a desk. Jan liked to fiddle with the game and I'd say, 'Okay Jan, leave it alone now.'
"Joey had Jan's key to his PC. So he burned this cartridge and locked Jan's keyboard.
"And Jan was like: 'Wait a minute I just wanted to add this and that'. And we said: 'No. It's time to let go.'
"Joey wrote on the cartridge, handed it to me and said: 'Take this home it's yours.' And I still have it right here.
"I took the game home and played it all night. And I just said to the UK guys: 'It's time to ship this thing'."
After an intense few months, FIFA was finished. The EA Canada team could finally go home to their families, not to mention their beds. However, the UK team had plenty to be getting on with and took the game to Wembley.
"We hired the Wembley suite for the England vs Poland match, it was a World Cup qualifier. We invited 150 guests and we announced, very proudly, that we had signed a deal with FIFA," says Tom Stone.
Neil T recalls: "We booked out some seats where you looked down on the pitch at roughly the same angle as you would in a game.
"People saw FIFA before the match and then immediately went out and watched the game from the same angle. It was kind of genius."
EA expected to sell almost 300,000 copies of FIFA across Europe. But Neil T believed they could do more, and he was right. The game only launched in December, but still shifted almost half a million copies in just four weeks, becoming the best selling game of the year.
The story doesn't end there, of course. Over the next 20 years, FIFA would go on to become the biggest video game series in the world.
And everyone behind the FIFA franchise would go on to achieve big things. Many are in charge of their own companies. Some are still building video games today.
That's everyone except Joey Della-Savia. Shortly after the release of FIFA International Soccer, and while working on the next game, the popular development manager was tragically killed in a car crash on his way to work.
That's the real reason Bruce McMillan still has that very first cartridge. Not because it is a piece of video game history, but because it was Joey that gave it to him.
"I was offered $1,000 for that cartridge recently," says McMillan "I just said it's not gonna happen."
He adds: "You know, at least Joey saw the success of that first game.
"He was Italian and I remember going over to his parent's place when his aunt and uncle showed up. They spoke no English at all and they kept smiling at me so I asked Joey: 'What have you drawn on my face?' and he's like: 'No, no. They're just so happy that we work together because mum has told them what we have done.'
"Joey had built this soccer game that was number one all around the world, and they were just so proud."


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Please note: Until further notice, there are no events taking place at the university. Our calendar of events will be updated accordingly in the next few days.Summer School "Speech Acts"
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|International Short-Term Programs Göttingen
|Seminar für Deutsche Philologie
|Prof. Dr. Anke Holler/ Jun.-Prof. Dr. Marco Coniglio/ Prof. Dr. Markus Steinbach
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|While communicating, people not only exchange information, they also deal with linguistic utterances and thus regulate social coexistence. This activity includes very different acts such as informing, asking, requesting, promising or baptizing, which sometimes have very different constitutive properties. Since the groundbreaking work of Austin and Searle in the 1960s, speech acts have been an established research topic of pragmatics, which is now once again moving to the forefront of recent linguistic investigation. The interaction of sentence type, sentence mood and illocution, the form and function of different illocutionary indicators (such as sentence types, particles and intonation) and the formal modeling of sentence type, sentence mood and speech act play a central role at the interface between semantics and pragmatics. In addition, there is an increased interest in a broad empirical-experimental foundation of these models within the framework of more recent developments in experimental pragmatics. One last important point is the research of the basics of our linguistic activity against the background of current developments in the field of political communication, as the discussions about lies, fake news and bullshit show.
This summer school aims to bring excellent international students and doctoral students who are interested in the topic of speech acts from various perspectives to Göttingen in order to promote the exchange with the local participants and the invited lecturers. Within the framework of this intensive two-week cooperation, a professional as well as intercultural exchange between German and international participants is made possible.
The intensive courses in English will offer international participants the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of speech acts and gain credit points without missing courses in their own country.
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No wonder President Obama is taking his time making a decision regarding Afghanistan. The New York Times has just revealed that the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) and is in also a major player in the illegal opium drug trade.
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'More broadly, some American officials argue that the reliance on Ahmed Wali Karzai, the most powerful figure in a large swath of southern Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgency is strongest, undermines the American push to develop an effective central
government that can maintain law and order and eventually allow the United States to withdraw."
To read more, here's the link: Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll – NYTimes.com


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MONROE COUNTY, Ga. (WGXA) - A major anonymous donation is letting the Monroe County Sheriff's Office in Georgia get into the Christmas spirit.
The sheriff's office said an unknown person gave them $9,000 to carry on a Secret Santa Mission again this year.
"Well, several years ago, a few unnamed benefactors came forward and they wanted to spread the holiday cheer by giving us some money to hand out to people that we pull over for some very minor violations, and basically try to make their holidays a good holiday," said Monroe County Sheriff Brad Freeman.
Participating deputies give out a $100 bill instead of tickets to unsuspecting drivers.
The sheriff's office said the holiday project gives them a chance to keep ties strong between law enforcement and the Monroe County community.
"And we look for some very minor violation. Maybe it's a break light out, or failing to maintain their lane for a period of time, pull them over, the deputy will then hand them some money," Freeman said.
Deputies also want to remind drivers that they'll still be enforcing the law and shouldn't expect a $100 bill if they break the law.
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There are many times when I curse the autocorrection mechanism for changing what I typed, but overall, much of the corrections are welcome so I don't really want to disable it. I do want to have it do it's work but alert me when it makes each change so I don't have to proofread everything or focus with perfect attention to the screen to see the momentary red and/or blue underlining that alerts me to the machine override.
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It is definitely the season for soups, chowders,and stews. I made a killer beef stew on Saturday evening. We had company over and we knocked out that stew. Completely gone.
Just so you know... we knocked this chowder out too. It's completely gone. And that wonderful, but picky husband of mine? Absolutely loved it, hands down!!
Cheeseburger Chowder
1 pound grass-fed, low-fat beef
3/4 cup chopped onion
3/4 cup diced carrots
3/4 cup chopped celery
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried parsley
3 tablespoons butter
2 cloves garlic, crushed
3 cups gluten free chicken broth (I use Herb Ox Chicken Bouillon)
4 cups sweet potatoes, skinned and cubed
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
2 cups organic milk
- Italian parsley
- crumbled turkey bacon
- shredded cheddar cheese
In a large dutch oven, melt 1 tablespoon of butter over medium heat. Add onions, celery, garlic, and ground beef. Cook until beef is browned. Stir in parsley and basil. Add chicken broth and sweet potatoes. Bring to a boil and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 10-12 minutes. In a glass measuring cup melt remaining butter in the microwave. Add milk to measuring cup with melted butter and whisk in cornstarch. Gradually pour milk mixture into chowder, stirring constantly. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to simmer. Stir in cheese until heated through. Let cool for 5 minutes and serve. Sprinkle bowls of chowder with toppings. Enjoy! Makes 5-6 large servings.
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A 'soft' Kentucky team steps closer to the edge with loss at Arkansas
- If Kentucky manages to eke its way into the NCAA tournament%2C it will require a two-week grind
- A 73-60 loss at Arkansas only reaffirmed how small Kentucky%27s margin for error
- A 30-point loss at Tennessee serves as a huge resume stain
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — John Calipari says he wakes up every day without a clue how his team will play. He says some freshmen remain overwhelmed. And today he watched players choose not to fight back against a desperate Arkansas team and its physical defense.
"Their staff's saying as we walk off, 'They are soft,' Calipari said after a deflating 73-60 loss to the Razorbacks. "And I have to say, 'That's what it looks like.' It's just, when you get overwhelmed, you get anxiety, that's what happens. You back up. And we got a young team."
Kentucky is now squarely on the NCAA tournament cut line. There is no shame in losing at Arkansas – Florida did the same Feb. 5 – but the loss reaffirmed how small the Wildcats' margin for error is with two weeks left until selection Sunday. They may have to beat SEC-leading Florida in the regular season finale or in the SEC tournament in order to squeeze into the NCAA tournament.
Of course, it could be worse.
What the Wildcats (20-9, 11-5 SEC) have not done is play their way out of at-large consideration. One team that took a significant step in that direction today was fellow SEC cohort Mississippi, which lost in Starkville to the worst power conference team in the nation, lowly Mississippi State, which is ranked 237th in the RPI.
At the time other bubble teams such as Ole Miss and Virginia possess flawed resumes, Kentucky has a less significant problem: a bland profile. Though the Wildcats have just one quality victory, Feb. 23 against Missouri, they have not lost to a team outside the RPI's top 100 all season.
A bigger problem for Calipari is what to expect on a game-to-game basis with this bunch, which has to re-prove itself to the NCAA tournament selection committee without star Nerlens Noel, who suffered a season-ending knee injury Feb. 12 at Florida.
In his absence, Kentucky has been nothing if not uneven. A 30-point loss at Tennessee. A season-stabilizing victory against likely NCAA tournament team Missouri. And now another setback against a team that has won all but one game at home all season.
The statistics spoke volumes about Kentucky's inability or unwillingness to match Arkansas' physicality. Arkansas forced 19 turnovers and outscored Kentucky, 30-2, in points off turnovers. The Razorbacks grabbed 20 offensive rebounds and attempted 26 more field goal attempts than the Wildcats. On top of all that, Kentucky's five assists was the lowest total for the Wildcats during Calipari's four-year tenure.
"I'm real surprised," Kentucky's Willie Cauley-Stein said. "To me, it felt we had turned the corner from this right here, what we just went through. It seemed like we were past that. But we've got to go back to practice and try to fix it."
Calipari said he didn't know if his team was past any type of relapse or regression.
"We're different because we are brand new …" said Calipari, referring to the loss of Noel. "But you must fight. You must have a will to win. And winning must be important, not just how you played. And you must want to be coached and challenged and pushed, from not only the staff; from within. You've got to accept that."
Another problem, Calipari said, is that when some players embrace success, "especially when you think the other team's just going to play like it's an AAU game, like they're just not gonna play hard. You think, 'Why are playing so hard? Why are you up all over me?' Because they want to win."
No season at Kentucky is ever devoid of pressure. Almost every game serves as a referendum on players and the coach. But there has been less than usual for Calipari this season because of two accomplishments: last season's national championship and the historically strong recruiting class that he is assembling for next season.
If this group of freshmen (minus Noel) can't carry the Wildcats into the NCAA tournament, a new crop that includes touted guards Aaron and Andrew Harrison from Texas and wing James Young from Michigan, among others, will be expected to do so as soon as they arrive on campus in the fall.
For the past three years, the formula has worked nearly perfectly for Calipari: Recruit the best players in the country, win a slew of games and then bid most of them farewell and best wishes in the NBA. And repeat.
This year has brought more challenges. But in a season as volatile as this one, how it concludes is anyone's guess. As usual, Kentucky stands as one of the nation's more compelling story lines as the season nears its climax.
It was not hard to see why Arkansas entered the game with a 16-1 record at Bud Walton Arena while having won just one of 11 games in road or neutral court contests. The student section was rocking, stirring memories of Arkansas' glory years nearly two decades ago.
One student sitting front row even dressed up as Calipari and displayed a sign that read "Archie I can't coach you," in reference to Archie Goodwin, a native of Little Rock, and Calipari calling some players "not real coachable" after the 30-point loss at Tennessee. Calipari then backpedaled on those comments the next day on his personal Web site.
But concerns about this team's willingness to match an opponent's fight persist. And now the Wildcats must walk a narrow path for two weeks if they hope to return to the NCAA tournament. As Calipari knows, the key during this topsy-turvy season is just to make the field of 68 because the only thing expected this March is the unexpected.
"We're still there," Calipari said. "Again, we've got a 7-footer that can play and block shots. We've got shooters. We've got enough players and enough athletes to do this – and really make a run – if we choose to. But you must fight."


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A Miami Police officer was arrested Wednesday on charges of armed sexual battery by a law enforcement officer and armed kidnapping, police said.
Luis Hernandez, 27, a seven-year member of the police department, was arrested by internal affairs detectives after DNA evidence backed up a woman's claims he kidnapped and sexually battered her in November 2011, police said.
"The findings were enough to have a Miami-Dade County judge sign an arrest warrant and charge Officer Luis Hernandez with sexual battery by a law enforcement officer, and armed kidnapping," Miami Police spokeswoman Officer Kenia Reyes said.
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The charges stem from an early morning alleged attack by Hernandez on Nov. 26, 2011. That day, he was called in to relieve an officer going off-duty by transporting a 44-year-old woman to to the Miami-Dade County Jail. She had just been arrested after an earlier bar fight, police said.
Hernandez picked up the victim from a colleague at police headquarters just after one o'clock that morning. Soon after, she said, he drove her to a parking lot off the 2500 block of Northwest 2nd Avenue. She recalled that Hernandez told her, "I'm going to help you," police said.
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The victim told police internal affairs investigators that Hernandez gave her some gauze and told her to clean up her face. With her shirt torn from the fight hours earlier, she recalled Hernandez poured a liquid onto a scratch on her breast. Then, she said, Hernandez lifted her shirt, and began fondling her.
Police documents note the victim told investigators that Hernandez, dressed in police uniform, removed his duty belt and exposed himself. According to the victim, the officer then told her to "get down," a demand, she believed, for oral sex.
The victim refused, and she claimed Hernandez began fondling her private parts. According to police, she said he then ordered her to turn around, and she begged him to stop.
Officer Arrested After Woman Accused Him of Having Sex With Her: Report
After the encounter, the victim said she was handed off to a detention officer, but because of her wounds, that officer asked Hernandez to come with him and the victim to jail. While being processed, the victim, who is a Spanish-speaking undocumented immigrant, felt comfortable sharing the story that would launch the investigation, police said.
Within months, DNA evidence linked Hernandez to the crime, they said.
Mayor Tomas Regalado told NBC 6 the investigation and arrest proves the city demands the best of its officers.
"To me, this is not a scandal, this is a clean up of the department," he said.
Hernandez is being held without bond, online Miami-Dade Corrections records said. It was not known if he has an attorney.
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Terry Riley on giving up self-publishing and his new concerto for electric violin, being performed this weekend
If only on the merits of his abiding influence, Terry Riley should be one of the most acclaimed American composers of the twentieth century, and his chamber and symphonic music some of its best-known. Yet that's not exactly the case.
"Well it's not well-known because it isn't played very often!" Riley told me on the phone last week, with precisely the cheerful lilt that any fan of his blissed-out music might expect in his voice.
His landmark piece, "In C," written in 1964, did as much as any single work to launch the style of minimalism in contemporary music. And so long as the hippies were clambering to hear the improvisational jams that followed it—with Riley behind his keyboard, blending the spirit of Indian ragas with jazz and rock textures—Columbia Records proved happy to release them. Around the same time, The Who halfway named a song after him, as a way of acknowledging the originator of the synth sound used in "Baba O'Riley." Even to this day, when Big Boi spotted the composer and instrumentalist at a Burger King (near a festival where they were both on the bill), he knew to pose for a picture and put it out via Twitter.
In this way, you might think of Riley as a blue-chip modern-art stock. But once a listener moves beyond Riley's sixties-era work, and the enduring pop-culture legacy it has earned him, the composer's efforts can seem surprisingly ignored. Though his chamber music champions are notable, they have not been large in number (if not for the Kronos Quartet's commissioning and performance activity, Riley's latter-day catalogue might not amount to much), while his symphonic works are largely absent from the modern repertoire.
This counter-intuitive, outsider aspect of Riley's persona is what makes this Saturday's concert at Carnegie Hall such a must-see event. By bringing his new 35-minute concerto for electric violin—titled, with characteristic idiosyncrasy, "The Palmian Chord Ryddle"—to town as part of their "Spring For Music" concert, the Nashville Symphony will be providing New Yorkers a rare opportunity to get at the Riley beyond "In C" (which Carnegie-ites heard as recently as 2009). A brief hint of the piece's sound is given in a recent promotional video for the Nashville players, who are taking Riley's latest work around the country.
Speaking on the phone last week from Nashville, where he was attending rehearsals, Riley placed some of the blame for his contemporary anonymity on himself, given that he handled all his own publishing—a rarity in the classical world—until 2011.
"We were having a lot of fun self-publishing; we had a little Internet site, and we were sending out C.D.s and scores. It just got to be a little too much for us to handle, and to do all our other work, too. So I thought it was time to let a publisher take it all over." (He went with G. Schirmer.)
Riley said he thinks of his symphonic music in much the same way as his celebrated works for keyboard.
"If I do a multi-track work for synthesizer, I'm using software to create instrumental colors. An orchestral piece I view much the same way: I'm trying to design the orchestration so that different things stand out at different times." And if his orchestral pieces are less popular, he says that's only because they've been heard so rarely.
"I have about six orchestral pieces—or maybe eight with the string orchestra pieces—and I don't think my music's really on the orchestral circuit as well as it should be, for sure. Some of the pieces have only had one performance. … I think now that I have a publisher, there's a little bit more chance of my [orchestral] work reaching a wider audience."
If you can't make it to Carnegie to hear the local premiere of "Ryddle," you might not be totally out of luck, either. According to Riley, this piece—unlike many of his recent orchestral pieces—is going to be recorded at each stop during the Nashville players' current tour, with an eye to a future release.
"I have a violin concerto for acoustic violin, too, that I wrote in 2009, called 'Zephir.' And I think what we're going to try to do is have [soloist] Tracy Silverman play them both, and make a release of those two together."
About the title of his electric violin concerto, Riley says: "I started with a mode, or a chord, of about 10 notes that seemed to generate the ideas for the opening, so I call that the 'Palmian mode.' It isn't a real mode, like a Latin or a Greek mode, but it's one that I made up. And the 'ryddle' is the idea that, when you compose, you're really trying to solve the implications of that mode as you go along through the piece."
And so far, Riley thinks his commissioning ensemble has done an admirable job solving the mysteries endemic to the piece.
"Giancarlo Guerrero is a young conductor who's really passionate about bringing lots of new music to Nashville. And he's got a young and very good orchestra. For me, it's been one of the best experiences I've had.… These young performers are coming into these orchestras [at a time when] orchestras are struggling to survive.… And I think a lot of young players have feet in both worlds: rock and roll, jazz and symphonic music. So, to me, that's the way it's gonna survive."
While he's in town this weekend, the future of the orchestra won't be the only musical matter on Riley's mind. He's also due at Le Poisson Rouge, where he'll be performing alongside his son (on guitar), Silverman (again on violin), as well as percussionist David Cossin.
"It'll be definitely improvised, because we won't have any rehearsals before we get there," Riley said of Sunday's set. "It'll be about as spontaneous as it can get!"
Yet precisely because it's this improvisational side that has been better served on record—including on this year's fine double album, Aleph, from the Tzadik label—it's the Carnegie Hall show that offers the greater chance for the modes of mystery and exploration that we tend to think of whenever Terry Riley's name is spoken.


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It's been 54 years since an atomic blast awakened the slumbering reptilian monster Godzilla, and the fire-breathing, fin-tailed beast has been terrorizing downtown Tokyo ever since — in more than two dozen movies, on television and in comics and cartoons.
But Godzilla is a pussycat compared to the coterie of lawyers and investigators in Los Angeles and Japan who aggressively protect the radioactive behemoth from anyone who dares to appropriate his lizardly image for profit.
Toho forced Adler Fels Winery of Napa Valley to dump an undisclosed amount of wine for using the Godzilla image without permission.
Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com. Hurling hundreds of lawsuits and takedown notices like so many fireballs, Godzilla's owner — Toho Co. Ltd — has roasted Hollywood studios, automakers, toy manufacturers, rock bands, book publishers, national food chains, record labels, bloggers, wineries and just about anybody seen as capitalizing on the monster's unique features, name or theme music. When it comes to policing trademarks and enforcing copyrights in the United States, intellectual property attorneys say Tokyo-based Toho is easily a match for Walt Disney, Fox and Lucasfilm in terms of courthouse zeal.
"I think they have got litigation in their reptilian DNA," says Jonathan Handel, a Hollywood IP lawyer. "They're afraid that their intellectual property rights will suffer the same fate that Tokyo has in many Godzilla movies."
Nobody is immune. In 2002, Toho stomped on a Cabernet Sauvignon produced by Napa Valley's Adler Fels Winery. The "Cabzilla" wine — its bottle labeled with a screeching Godzilla toting a glass of red — is no longer on the market. The winery's inventory was destroyed in a legal settlement (.pdf). In 2003, Toho went after Yankee Stadium vendors for hawking Godzilla wares after the Yankees picked up Japanese baseball slugger Hideki Matsui, who is nicknamed "Godzilla." And this month, the company ordered Arizona rock band Asshole Godzilla to forfeit its internet domain and stop using Godzilla in its name.
Such legal jockeying is paying huge dividends. Toho, a diversified media concern whose income stems from movie theaters, Godzilla and other films, generates millions annually licensing Godzilla music, movies, toys, posters and other tie-ins. The company reported overall profits of 6.4 billion yen, about $66 million, for the half-year period ending Aug. 31.
Douglas Masters, a Chicago attorney charged with defending the intellectual property estate of Elvis Presley, says Toho "has been very aggressive. They take a broad view of their rights."
But the rampage of litigation, real and threatened, isn't naked aggression. The company's lawyers say they're just trying to keep their flagship property from slipping into generic status. For Toho, too much unlicensed or misappropriated Godzilla could irrevocably free the monster from the protection of trademark law.
Godzilla attorneys Aaron Moss, left, and Charles Shephard show off unlicensed Godzillas that Yankee Stadium vendors were hawking without Toho's permission.
Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com. "As a trademark owner, one of the requirements is to police your mark to ensure that it does not become generic, that it does not become a common word for any fire-breathing monster," says Aaron Moss, a Toho attorney in Los Angeles. "If you don't, the trademark becomes devalued and hard to enforce."
That policing is a full time job, in part because of Godzilla's uniquely embedded place in U.S. culture. Unlike E.T., the Predator or the slimy extraterrestrial from Alien, Godzilla is often regarded by the public as community property. People don't understand or believe that the character that first appeared in a Japanese black-and-white in 1954 is a closely guarded piece of intellectual property, and rarely do suspected infringers know that Godzilla's movie music and pictures are copyrighted, and that his distinctive features and name are trademarked.
While Godzilla's onscreen friends and foes vary from film to film, in real life the U.S. court system is one of his staunchest allies.
Toho, like other intellectual property rights holders, is emboldened by its use of the power of prior restraint — the ability to block a publication's release — an exercise the U.S. Supreme Court has called "the most serious and the least tolerable infringement on First Amendment rights."
In 1971, the U.S. government failed in its efforts to block the publication of the Pentagon Papers, an internal and classified government review of the Vietnam War, from appearing in the New York Times. But in 1998, Toho stopped publisher William Morrow and Company from releasing the book Godzilla!, which included some 90 unauthorized copyright photographs.
In blocking the book's publication, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that the book would likely hurt sales of a licensed and competing book from Random House. And the court set aside Morrow's assertions that the name Godzilla, which is a combination of two Japanese words for gorilla and whale, didn't deserve protection because it did not have any real meaning.
Godzilla, U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian wrote, is "a fanciful, arbitrary word used to describe a fire-breathing, prehistoric, often-schizophrenic dinosaur. This court finds that the mark is very strong, as it requires a large amount of imagination to associate the mark Godzilla with the character it represents."
And it's not just the beast's name that enjoys the protection of the courts; it's also his distinctive looks. If you want to get a rise out of the soft-spoken Moss, ask him something like, "Isn't Godzilla just an overgrown Tyrannosaurus rex?"
"He's erect-standing. He's got muscular arms, scaly skin and spines on back and tail and he breathes fire and has a furrowed brow," Moss says, repeating arguments Toho often makes in its lawsuits. "He's got an anthropomorphic torso. The T. rex has emaciated bird-like arms and stands at a 45-degree angle."
Policing Godzilla's rights, or the rights of any fictional character, has become a Sisyphean labor with the explosion of BitTorrent, video and file sharing sites, and direct-to-consumer sales in an ever expanding online world. But it's not just the underground and gray-market profiteers who've been accused of violating Godzilla's rights.
Warner Bros., for example, didn't know it needed Toho's permission to use Godzilla in a 1985 chase scene in Tim Burton's Pee Wee's Big Adventure. The Hollywood studio paid an undisclosed amount to Toho after it was sued.
The U.S. division of Honda Motor suffered a similar fate for displaying a Godzilla float in the Rose Parade, and paid an undisclosed amount to settle a 1991 lawsuit.
"I don't know if it even occurred to them that the character was protected," says Charles Shephard, a Los Angeles attorney for Toho, whose office is adorned with a poster that says,"If you thought Godzilla was scary, wait until you meet his lawyers."
Shephard speculates, "If they used Star Wars or Simpsons characters, I guarantee you they would have sought permission. It's surprising how much this character is misused in a variety of contexts, especially by major advertisers."
In September, for example, Doctor's Associates, the owner of Subway, settled a lawsuit brought by Toho over its "Five-Dollar Foot-Long" sandwich campaign. As a result, Subway removed a seconds-long snippet in its broadcast commercial showing an animated dinosaur meandering through a downtown — in what Toho argued was a depiction of Godzilla stomping through Tokyo. Terms of the settlement (.pdf) were not disclosed
The Arizona rock band Asshole Godzilla lost its name and internet domain. "We gotta change the name of our band, because we're so scary hard that Godzilla and the people surrounding Godzilla want nothing to do with us," lead vocalist Nick Danger writes on assholegodzilla.com, which is being shuttered.
The rock band Blue Oyster Cult paid an undisclosed licensing fee to use Godzilla's copyrighted roar in its 1977 hit song, "Godzilla."
David Linabury, the operator of humor blog, Davezilla, also got an earful of Godzilla's roar. Toho said the blog's logo of an emaciated dinosaur, coupled with the suffix -zilla, went too far. A 2002 Toho cease-and-desist letter to Linabury said:
"Please be advised that your use of the Godzilla mark constitutes a trademark infringement and confuses consumers and the public into believing that your 'Godzilla' character originates from Toho, which it does not."
Linabury, of Royal Oak, Michigan, initially placed a disclaimer on his site notifying readers he was not related to Godzilla, and later abandoned the logo altogether, he says. "It was ridiculous."
Toho's Shephard defends the move against Davezilla. "There's a lot of zillas out there that use that suffix. We try to deal with them on a case-by-case basis and ask whether somebody is trying to profit from the name and a dinosaur motif."
For that reason, Toho has kept its paws off the Mozilla Foundation, freeing the Mountain View, California, nonprofit to continue using its well-known dinosaur icon in its open source software.
Godzilla, of course, isn't the only monster battling to protect its profits and name. Nintendo, the maker of videogame Donkey Kong, was sued by Universal in 1982 for trademark infringement. But the courts ruled that there was no way the public would confuse the game with King Kong.
In trademark terms, King Kong's got nothing on Godzilla. The hairy ape beast is basically an oversized gorilla, making it harder to protect as intellectual property. A toy gorilla might look like King Kong, but without a reference for scale, it also looks like the rank-and-file gorillas in the zoo or in the wild.
Experts point out that Godzilla knockoff toys can do more than financially harm Toho and its licensees. Earlier this year, Hong Kong's Toy Major Trading Co. was caught selling unauthorized Godzilla figurines through U.S. retailers, where they were marketed as the "classic Godzilla-saurus."
The rip-offs were removed from stores after testing determined they were tainted (.pdf) with too much lead — 60 times the legal limit.
Abusers of Godzilla's music can also succumb to a Godzilla pounding. In 2001, Toho forced Rawkus Entertainment to discontinue Pharoahe Monch's rap hit, "Simon Says," after Toho accused the rapper of sampling Godzilla theme music without permission.
As in the cinema and in real life, sometimes Godzilla's friends turn into foes.
In one of Godzilla's few U.S. courthouse losses, a federal appeals court sided with Sears, Roebuck, which marketed "bagzilla" garbage bags as "monstrously strong bags." The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in essence, said Toho's arguments were rubbish.
The court ruled that Toho's claims of infringement and trademark dilution were "implausible." Sears, the court found, "means only to make a pun."
Funny to some, but to Davezilla's Linabury, Godzilla's attack was no laughing matter. He says when he received Toho's cease-and-desist letter, "I just kinda freaked out. I didn't want to fight Godzilla."
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The most exciting thing about the Zboard is not the bizarre lumpy growth to the left of the board, but the ZEngine software which allows you to remap said lumps to all sorts of exciting functions.
The app is one of the most powerful remappers we've ever seen, and configuring the panic button to equip grenades, face the floor and let rip is extremely amusing.
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Fancy Restaurants Should Implement an Early 'Baby Seating'
Isn't it hilarious how your friends come up with a million business ideas involving babies as soon as they become parents? Well, I had my first kid three and a half months ago, and, as much as I would have liked to resist becoming a new parent cliche, I have an amazing idea to benefit, well, me and any other parents of small children.
Don't stop reading yet, it doesn't involve onesies with hipster slogans or starting a useless "food my kid likes" blog. It involves eating out.
See, I really miss eating out at nice restaurants with my wife. We'll occasionally drag the baby to lunch at a semi-nice place (such as Kefi, Salumeria Rosi, or Company), but for dinner I am one of those people who feels incredibly guilty bringing my newborn into a place where he is clearly not welcome. So here's my idea.
Restaurants all over the country, but especially here in New York, are struggling to find ways to bring in customers. Recession specials, bar menus, and and a seemingly permanent extension on Restaurant Week prix fixe menus have become commonplace as everybody tries to stay afloat by attracting customers who would otherwise save money by eating at home or finding cheaper, more casual options.
Well, what about a baby seating? If movie theaters have mommy and baby showings at 10:30 a.m. on weekdays, why can't restaurants have an early family seating? And we'll even pay full price.
Babies are expensive. But if you're used to eating out at nice places all the time, then having a kid actually saves you money. I would kill for a chance to spend a couple hundred bucks on an amazing meal at a new restaurant (provided I could park my four-month-old in his stroller next to the table.)
The "family seating" could be once a week, one seating, and would be a perfect way to fill up a restaurant during an early hour that would normally be empty. And when regular customers call and make reservations, you could just let them know that they are more than welcome to dine—but they'll be surrounded by babies. It's a foolproof scheme.
The first three places I'd like to see this at: Corton, Scarpetta, and Irving Mill.
Any places in other parts of the country with baby-friendly dining hours?
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We are proud to feature our flameless candles made by Candle Impressions well known for producing an expertly crafted product made of 100% real wax. A bonus with the 8, 10 and 12 inch flameless candles include an automatic timer. The timer is a 24 hour timer which will come on at the same time every evening and then automatically turn itself off after 5 hours of use. This flameless candle uses 2 "D" cell batteries and will run approximately 700 hours on one set of batteries. The battery compartment, on / off and timer switch is conveniently located on the bottom of the candle.
Candle Impressions Flameless Candles can also be used at your office, school, church, hospital or nursing home. Beautiful and elegant this candle leaves no soot or fumes and the unique wick mimics the behavior of a real flame burning candles.


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Two years after a Boston Bar Association work group issued recommendations for preventing wrongful convictions, both the Massachusetts Senate and House have passed legislation providing for access to post-conviction forensic analysis. The legislation was drafted by the BBA Task Force on Preventing Wrongful Convictions and filed this legislative session by Senator Cynthia Creem and Representative John Fernandes.
"Today is a great day for Massachusetts," said BBA President Lisa C. Goodheart. "When the task force began its work in 2008, the Commonwealth was one of just four states without a statutory right of post-conviction access to DNA evidence. In working on this legislation, we have had the benefit of the experiences in other states, and this bill represents a long-overdue step towards a stronger and fairer criminal justice system for the Commonwealth."
Given the role DNA testing has played in exonerating innocent but wrongly convicted people, the legislation now on its way to the Governor's desk was the most important recommendation of the BBA task force. The task force was appointed by then BBA President Kathy Weinman, and co-chaired by Martin F. Murphy, a partner at Foley Hoag, and David Meier, a partner at Todd & Weld, and included a broad range of professionals from both ends of the criminal justice spectrum, including prosecutors and defense attorneys.
"This legislation is a victory for justice, but it's also a win for public safety," added Goodheart. "When the wrong person is convicted, a criminal remains at large, free to commit additional crimes against other victims."
Goodheart credited the strong leadership of the Senate and House throughout the process that led to today's result.
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The 7th panel is amazing.
I love Tess' pretty blonde hair. :)
Superbly illmuitnanig data here, thanks!
Window-refelction-shadow = EPIC WIN!
The artwork here is AWESOME. I am constantly astounded by the level of depth that your art has grown to have–BRAVA!!! :D
I didn't notice the window-reflection-shadow until I saw that comment, but it is, indeed, verifiably epic. Its awesomeness has been proven by science, and they (science is plural?) found out that it was AWESOME. Excellent writing, too, I love how she just tries to bulldoze through Tess' "whatever you say…"
Oh! I love the reflection! And warm colors and hair and… Yay.
Tess is so pretty with her hair down! I love the colors in this! And Charlie's hand in that one panel is /awesome/.
I don't think this comic will ever not be awesome. I can't even pick out a favourite panel or feature of this page; it's just all so great!
OHYAYOHYAYOHYAY! Lovely warm lamplight and I just LOVE the expressiveness, not just the facial expressions but the whole body language. And we finally have the answer to what Charlie was seeing while we were focusing on Ben. Epic!
Amazing art as always and the second to last panel is pure gold!
The amazing colouring, the drawing, the ART and the consistently amazingly written humor!
(…and yay first time we see Tess' hair undone! :) )
Right, so back when you started the ghost sequence with the push I was like, OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD and I was practically frothing at the mouth. SO FREAKY and yet so cook at the same time. And also, I love how you showed Tess in undergarments with her hair down. Because, the only time you saw a woman back then with her hair down was if you also saw her undergarments. Loose hair practically meant undessed-ness all by itself. I personally think that's where the phrase 'loose woman' came from, either from loose hair or loose corset strings… though I've never found any sources to back that up. And… that's a tangent.
THE POINT IS: awesome work, I love coming back to a nice big chunk of pages from you guys when I surface from real life.
*so cool
I really love Charlie on this page. I dont quite know why. Shes just very pretty here, to me. It makes me hope that the comic focus shifts back to her after this ghosty thing is sorted out. XD
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Yes, we've been on an extended hiatus — but we're back with some very exciting news to announce. In early 2013, we'll be launching a new venture called Hank. Our mission is simple: we want to support American manufacturers. We'll help them sell their products to a wider audience and grow their businesses. Hank will be your source for high-quality American-made clothing and goods.
We've already identified over 150 American companies, from one-man operations to organizations with over 1,500 employees, that make outstanding products in the United States. Despite the abundance of products out there, it's not always easy to discover and purchase them. Hank is changing that. We're working with several manufacturers and building a collection of goods and clothing that's made in America. We've detailed a bit more in our introductory post: What is Hank?
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India Clean Sweeps Sri Lanka; Won Third Test By An Innings And 171 RunsAugust 14, 2017 10:18
The Indian Cricket Team led by captain Virat Kohli, has added another feather in their crown as they beat Sri Lanka in the third Test of the ongoing series by an innings and 171 Runs. With the win, India has also attempted their first clean sweep outside of home in minimum 3-Test match series.
India had scored a mammoth first innings score of 487 with the help of centuries by Shikhar Dhawan and Hardik Pandya. In reply, Sri Lankan side was bundled up at just 135 runs. Follow-on was enforced by the Indian captain only to shatter the Sri Lankan side for 181 runs in their second innings.
The series had already won by India after winning the Second test match in a similar fashion. However, there was no quality resistance from Sri Lanka in the third Test as they showed in the second.
With the series loss, Sri Lanka has suffered a clean sweep in a Test Series at home after losing to Australia in 2004.
India's bowling attack, led by spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who took 4 wickets in the second innings, was supported by Kuldeep Yadav, who was playing in place of Ravindra Jadeja and the quality fast bowlers, Mohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav.
One of the best positive for India in the series has been Hardik Pandya, who scored the fastest hundred and accumulated 108 runs in just 96 balls and took a crucial wicket in the first innings of Sri Lanka. The all rounder played a high quality cricket with hitting the ball impressively. He is also a contender for the Man of Match award for the third Test.
Overall, it was quite a one-sided Test Series, where Sri Lanka looked no way near to top-quality Indian side. The two teams will now be preparing for the ODI series starting from August 20.
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CSM overcome shaky phase to take first Challenge Cup title
CSM Bucuresti are celebrating today after claiming their maiden trophy in men's European club handball, having seen off Portugal's AM Madeira Andebol SAD by six goals in a winner-takes-all second leg in Romania.
CSM Bucuresti (ROU) vs AM Madeira Andebol SAD (POR) 26:20 (16:9) First leg 22:22, Agg. 48:42
An impressive comeback by Madeira at the beginning of the second half was not enough to rob CSM Bucuresti of the first Challenge Cup triumph in their history.
In the first half, the game seemed to be smooth sailing for the Romanian home team. Madeira, who were in their first European final, just like their opponents, produced an aggressive defence - extremely aggressive at times - but that did not help them much, as their attack had huge problems with the effective CSM defence.
The Portuguese visitors only managed to score one goal within the first quarter of an hour, and CSM made use of this to take an 8:1 lead. With the home team still being seven goals up at half time, nothing indicated any problems for CSM.
Madeira got fresh hope, however, as they scored the first five goals after the break, while CSM were unable to score for the first eight minutes of the half. The away team never got any closer than being two goals down, though.
For a long time, the score changed between a two and a three-goal lead for CSM, and in the closing stages, the home team were able to increase their lead to five goals again and six by full time.Author: Peter Brunn /at


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It's official: hip-hop duo Mobb Deep's putting their beef on the back burner and officially heading out on a 20th anniversary tour later this spring.
Havoc and Prodigy were entwined in an intense rap feud ever since Havoc tore into Prodigy on Twitter claiming among other things that Prodigy had engaged in a slew of jailhouse relationships during his 3-year stint in the slammer.
But now, the two rappers have let bygones be bygones and recently announced they're headed back on the road together. First stop? The Paid Dues festival in L.A. this March.
Sources close to the group say it's just the first of many shows and will act as the unofficial kickoff for their April world tour where they'll be celebrating 20 years as a group.
FYI — Mobb Deep's got a contest going on their Facebook page where they're looking for a rapper to open an upcoming show.