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all me a conspiracy theorist but I grew up on the internet and its my opinion that the new mises.org navigation system as well as the new community as well as the disrepair of this old community are entirely intentional. The new navigation of the main website is a brilliant way to shut off anyone trying to find media on mises.org, it wasn't always like that. And since these forum problems can be noticed by a 5 year old and fixed by a high schooler I feel its reasonable to conclude that they remain unfixed intentionally.
I'm curious to hear more on this. Of course it was no secret the "new community" was overridden with problems from day 1. I don't think it was ever even made clear why that project got started in the first place (at least in the way it did). If you check those links you'll see there was plenty of discussion about it, and virtually no response from the powers that be (not unlike the sudden blog shift...which, if you'll notice, after only 3 days that thread was locked without notice, and then graveyarded so it wouldn't even show up in search results. We are left to only wonder why.)
As far as the issues you mention with this forum, they are ridiculous, and it is laughable that an organization this size, and more importantly, with a community this size, has one of the worst platforms still working on the web. (Well, two, if you count the "new community". Anyone been by there lately?)
As far as "fixing" these issues, in the Institute's defense, I'm not completely sure a lot of these can be "fixed". From what I gather, Telligent is a pretty terrible platform, and there's no easy way to correct a lot of these problems, short of going into the bowels and manually coding in the changes. (Which, on the other hand, may not be that big of a task for some things, but it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of tech personnel to go around. However, one would think if the whole point of the Institute is to publicize these ideas and bring more people to our side of the fence, one would think having a decent online community would be kind of high on the priority list.)
I'm curious to hear more of this theory that it's intentional. What would be the purpose in intentionally having a sub-par site?
I'm also curious to hear any other thoughts on this issue.
I think it's far more likely that the people running the site/Mises Institute just aren't as tech savvy (or as young) as the users of the forum. They are probably more interested in the publishing of Austrian/Libertarian literature and the lectures/events than the forums. And with all the social networking going around, they probably thought that it would be a good idea to jump on that bandwagon.
gotlucky:I think it's far more likely that the people running the site/Mises Institute just aren't as tech savvy (or as young) as the users of the forum. They are probably more interested in the publishing of Austrian/Libertarian literature and the lectures/events than the forums. And with all the social networking going around, they probably thought that it would be a good idea to jump on that bandwagon.
Not a chance. There's no way you could maintain a website like this without knowing something. Plus, we already know the main people in development:
David Veksler does this for a living.
It sounds as though this is BK Marcus' main gig.
C. Blake Barber appears to do this for a living as well. (And it looks as though he spent a decent amount of time trying to improve the new community)
These are not old geezers who just don't know anything about this "Internet" thing. There are at least some professional developers on staff.
Its easy to forget that the forums and even the website are not the main focus of the LvMI. The institute publishes tons of books, puts on tons of events, and runs an online academy - all things which will always take precedent over the forums. From the point of view of people who actually work at LvMI, there are other pressing issues like payroll and day to day tasks, paying the bills to keep the electricity on, etc. This is a non-profit entity, and we have no idea what their books look like. Maybe it makes more financial sense for them to invest the time and resources into the academy or ASC.
I have a feeling that the mass majority of donations to the LVMI do not come from the guys hanging out in the forums trying to figure out whether its ok to rape someone who stole your bicycle. As long as there are bills to be paid, the insititute is absolutely going to focus on the events which bring in donations.
So yeah, its intenttional, but for totally justifiable reasons.
they said we would have an unfair fun advantage
I was looking here to see who worked at the Mises Institute. I only saw BK Marcus listed on staff out of the 3 you listed. I wonder who calls the shots - how much creative control does BK Marcus have towards developing the forums/site? Or is he given project objectives and can work within certain parameters?
gotlucky:I was looking here to see who worked at the Mises Institute. I only saw BK Marcus listed on staff out of the 3 you listed.
Then you didn't look hard enough.
Look again and tell me who's the Mises.org Technical Lead/Architect with the "webmaster" email address. (And also tell me who was your very first friend when you signed up on this forum).
Okay, so there are 2. My mistake. But how much creative control are they allowed by their bosses?
Depends on how you would define "creative control". Can they just turn the site into whatever they want? Obviously not. Can they make it so that the quote function of the forum works? I don't exactly see how Rockwell would have a problem with that.
But either way, I don't see how that's relevant. In just the context of the site (the community section in particular) not being "up to par", your defense was essentially "well, maybe they just don't know any better because they're just old geezers interested in printing books and aren't as tech savvy as us young whippersnappers who hang out on forums."
I will grant there did seem to be a decent amount of "ooo that sounds cool...lets do that", without a whole lot of concern for the actual userbase (as I mentioned here), and there were definitely a number of displays of the kind of technical ignorance you're talking about (mostly from one specific individual) some of which I went into here and here.
However, this in no way means that the Institute simply lacks the technical understanding or skill to address these issues. It has been brought up multiple times that labor resources may be a large contributing factor, and I'm aware of this. But again, that's largely irrelevant to the points raised here, namely (1) the notion that the neglect is purposeful (which I'm still curious to hear more from Hashem on), and (2) even if resources are limited, meaning certain things would necessarily take time and can't be done right away, etc., it by no means necessarily follows that the userbase should be completely left in the dark, with virtually zero communication from the powers that be (be it in the form of a simple request for suggestions for improvement every now and then, or at the very least a response when questions and issues are raised.) Anything other than complete silence and followed shortly after by censorship.
When I sent in my donations I always specified "To improve Internet services". I am not exactly what you call technically inclined (it took me years to discover Skype and even then almost a year to discover you can send SMS to people) but I believe the Net is the best divulgation tool available. Last year, due to the colossal blunder of the New Community I decided to withold any donation (which instead I sent to LRC, mostly because they host Thomas Sowell and Fred Reed) until they decided what to do with their online community and made my displeasure known. If they don't want to support an online community, I am fine with that. There are plenty of young, technological types who can use WordPress or whatever to make an online community without any links to the Institute, which in turn can continue to host free ebooks, Rothbard videos etc, all good stuff.
Personally I believe the community started out as a joke of sorts or a minor service and quickly overtook the Institute. They weren't aware of how much people are starved for alternatives to Disney-Communism and Keynesian mumbo-jumbo (as proven by Ron Paul: I confess I am surprised by his success). The Community became a rallying point for people from India, Spain, Thailand, Germany, South Africa, Brazil... And at that point the Institute didn't know what to with it. They tried to "fix it" and it went as we all know. It was an half-hearted attempt given by the fact the Institute has no idea how to channel this popularity.
Those are some pretty strong conjectures. I don't think I would go as far to say the community "overtook the Institute" and that it "didn't know what to do with" all that interest, but then again, you were here a long time before I was, so I can't really speak to what the site and community were like when the latter got started.
The lack of neglect is old news now, but still something to bring up. Current forum had problems, tried to put a new, better forum in it's place that turned out into a clusterfuck (I never figured it out), and still none of the problems on either were fixed.
Regardless if the forum is a non-profit, non-production part of the LvMI, it's where people who are interested in econ/libertarianism go to. The forum serves as a more direct means for discussion. You'd think that your means of communication would be in the best shape possible as far as "customer relations" goes (when I checked who's online there were 10 members and 1,195 guests.)
I don't know why the idea of fixing it eventually fell out the minds of whoever, but maybe they see it as, "Well, you've put up with it for this long and don't have anywhere else to go, so yeah..." Luckily some users do stick around in spite of a decaying user interface and surprisingly this forum attracts more users. If anything, they should delete the old forum and direct all traffic to here - whatever resources went into that was a waste, and it does not seem to reflect any suggestions of what the new forum should have been like.
If need be we might as pull our resources together and find a possible way to update the forum by our own means, if LvMI would allow (maybe we should appropriate the forum.)
Seeing how the forum is the only affiliation of LvMI/LRC I actively engage on I wouldn't be hesitant to donate to upgrade on the forum on our terms.
There was actually an older forum before this one. My impression through both changes is that a friend of someone at LvMI who knows a little web programming said "Hey, I can improve your website" and whoever makes these kinds of decisions at LvMI said (without sufficient probing) "Great! Do it!" What we got is this home-brew interface and the brokenness we've all come to endure.
What I have suggested from the beginning is that LvMI simply choose from one of the dozens of existing forum software rather than trying to reinvent the wheel - after all, they are not a web programming company. The best forum software I've ever interacted with is vBulletin but I understand there are some (fairly modest) license fees. If even those modest license fees are a problem, there are dozens of free, open source forums software packages that could be deployed.
I'd willingly transition to a new forum - the number one thing I desire is that the interface is reliable (doesn't eat my posts) and improves the usability in obvious ways (quoting, for example). I think my expectations are representative.
Clayton -
the mass majority of donations to the LVMI do not come from the guys hanging out in the forums
If they were using 3rd-party forum software instead of paying someone to hick-rig their own custom forum software, they could focus on doing things like putting a PayPal donate button on the pages that are served. They could also consider putting in some advertisements to generate revenue. The advertisement-serving companies handle all the technical details so this would have zero development costs. There must be thousands of clicks per day on this forum - I alone contribute more than a hundred clicks a day.
What would be the purpose in intentionally having a sub-par site
Not much reason at all, so need need to speculate
"As in a kaleidoscope, the constellation of forces operating in the system as a whole is ever changing." - Ludwig Lachmann
"When A Man Dies A World Goes Out of Existence" - GLS Shackle
I've sort of already come to the conclusion, so I guess I just have to unravel the reasoning in my head. Let's see if I can recall how I came to this conclusion...
A) Forums are easy. It's just that simple. It doesn't take a brilliant genius with tons of resources. At this point in internet history, anyone with a few bucks and even less brains can open up a flawlessly operating, standard ass forum. One of the first forums I ever used was run and maintained by two guys with almost no forum knowledge or funding (they were always asking for help and donations).
B) Mises.org cannot possibly be unaware of how easy forums are, or the fact that their forums are in disrepair. According to Clayton this is their 3rd attempt.
C) Mises.org has plenty of resources (money and manpower) to achieve flawless forums and to at least revert to the old website navigation.
D) Therefore, the disrepair is intentional. At best, they are aware of A, B, and C and have simply neglected to do anything, intentionally. At worst, they knew the effects that would result and just did it on purpose.
In an interview with Stefan Molyneux, Jeff Tucker said the website has some of the most brilliant web developers. They know what they're doing. There is no excuse.
The idea that the forums are some obscure underground place that nobody at Mises.org cares about is a plain fallacy. This is their 3rd attempt at rejecting universally recognized forum options in favor of some crummy BS. And the old website navigation, imperfect as it was, was infinitely more usable for the purposes which Mises.org mainly exists (in my opinion): access to media content. Again, you don't just develop a website and not know that, but you definitely don't be some professional with an already-functioning website and think that abomination was an improvement. It was intentional.
I think it's far more likely that the people running the site/Mises Institute just aren't as tech savvy
Simply untrue. This is their 3rd attempt at building custom forums instead of choosing universally aknowledged, established forum options.
Its easy to forget that the forums and even the website are not the main focus of the LvMI.
I would say that in the first place, that is untrue because they have devoted resources into building 3 entire forum systems. But its also irrelevant because a functioning forum doesn't require "main focus" from a pretty big institution. They are forums for petes sake. There are plenty of well established, flawlessly functioning options.
So yeah, its intenttional, but for totally justifiable reasons.
Intentional, yes. There is no justification for lame forums from 2 guys with maybe 15 regular users. There is definitely no justification for a massively important institution with plenty of resources on their 3rd attempt.
But how much creative control are they allowed by their bosses?
Enough to ruin the anarchist hub of the internet instead of simply having a decent website. Enough, clearly, to turn Mises.org from a site with decent navigation and decent forums into what it is today.
"Well, you've put up with it for this long and don't have anywhere else to go, so yeah..."
Precisely. They are in the absolute position of calling the shots. So they won't just obliterate the forums, they'll just allow them to be ever shittier.
My impression through both changes is that a friend of someone at LvMI who knows a little web programming said "Hey, I can improve your website" and whoever makes these kinds of decisions at LvMI said (without sufficient probing) "Great! Do it!" What we got is this home-brew interface and the brokenness we've all come to endure.
And whether you're right or wrong, clearly it was never an accident.
I just don't find any reason for ex post facto rationalizations of things people did on purpose. This is a professional website with plenty of resources, there is no excuse. I see it as objectively, empirically, obviously intentional.
To me its not important to figure out the whos and the whys. Its enough to know that a high schooler could see the mess and fathom several solutions. Its enough to know that things worked before, and now they don't. Its enough to know that things could very easily be different, and yet they aren't. Its enough to know that the input of the entire user base was never even requested, and has not been considered.
What's the big change in site navigation you're talking about?
Jeff Tucker said the website has some of the most brilliant web developers
Oh come on, it's Jeff Tucker, he says those kinds of hyperbolically polite things all the time.
I agree that it's at least intentional neglect but I think the dichotomy is not between "old geezers who don't get it" and "young nerds who do" but, rather, between people who are enthusiasts for Internet forums and (most) people who are not. The people who are not enthusiasts for Internet forums just generally don't "get it"... you write some stuff, push the "Post" button and it appears later, what is all the griping and hand-wringing about? So what if it doesn't always work, as long as it's 90%, why keep screaming about the 10%? These are people who have never had the experience of spending an hour typing a 1,000 word post and clicking the "Post" button only to have the entire thing vanish into thin air.
Clayton:I agree that it's at least intentional neglect but I think the dichotomy is not between "old geezers who don't get it" and "young nerds who do" but, rather, between people who are enthusiasts for Internet forums and (most) people who are not. The people who are not enthusiasts for Internet forums just generally don't "get it"... you write some stuff, push the "Post" button and it appears later, what is all the griping and hand-wringing about? So what if it doesn't always work, as long as it's 90%, why keep screaming about the 10%? These are people who have never had the experience of spending an hour typing a 1,000 word post and clicking the "Post" button only to have the entire thing vanish into thin air.
Which is why the crux of my whole beef with the whole thing is not that they don't "get it" but that they don't seem to care about the userbase itself. That's perfectly fine if they don't "get it" and don't care about forums. They care about spreading the ideas and getting more people to our philosophy, right? That's essentially what the slogan at the top of every page on the site says. I would have to assume that's essentially Rockwell's entire purpose in founding the thing. What else is it for if not that?
And my whole point is, if that's the purpose, why in the world would you not only neglect the "community" part of the online presence of the Institute to a point of sub-par functionality, but to a point of almost complete ignorance of feedback from the very community they're trying to foster? (And of course, as I mentioned in the OP, when it's not being ignored, it's being censored.)
That's what really bothers me. It's as if the powers that be are just too busy to be bothered with the actual concerns of the community. So much so that actually responding to a request or a notice about issue with the site is just too much to ask, and they'll get around to it if they feel like it, and if they don't, meh.
I think this is a definite side effect of the people in charge largely not being interested in the online universe themselves. Sure they recognized the need for it, and the reach it could provide, which is why the Institute had a website even before most people were dial-up with AOL. Jeff Tucker talks about it all the time in his lectures and interviews about technology. And you can see how excited he gets about this kind of thing and the possibilities and potential of it all. He likes that it's there, but he doesn't really participate in it himself, so in that sense gotlucky is right, he was (or at least appeared to be) the main driving force behind all this kind of "developement", but doesn't really fully "get it" (as evidenced here and here).
And again, that's fine. They don't have to "get it". I would just think that in the interest of spreading the ideas and expanding the LvMI community (and of course the larger Austro-libertarian community) they would be interested in listening to and responding to the userbase, instead of just operating from more of a centralized top-down manner of "whatever I think is best, is best, and I don't really care what anyone else says. They're wrong. I'm not going to bother myself with something that doesn't really interest me."
Like this response from David Veksler: A thread on the forum had been hijacked by a spammer, and when a request was made to fix it so that it was again visible and open to new posts on the forum, his response was:
I see it here: [URL]
But I don't like Paulspam nor do I approve of people wasting money on politics, so I am not going to spend too much time worrying about it.
I think that pretty much sums up the attitude.
John James:What's the big change in site navigation you're talking about?
It was a major change with minor changes since—like how modern PC game developers will release a buggy beta product developed for a different platform, and then "fix" only the things that are absolutely critically necessary. I learned about mises.org some time in 2007 or 2008. I really don't know the exact time it happened, I know it was in or after 2010, surely everyone here will know what I'm talking about, but mostly the way things are listed changed. That had the effect a buggy transition, ridiculous load times when you aren't on a decent connection, and now it takes forever to download several things at least recently text didn't even show up properly a lot of the time (a problem with the old layout as well, but that was offset by the fact that everything about it was better IMO).
For example, if you wanted to download The Ethics of Liberty in the old layout, you would navigate to the audiobook and see a 50 item list (if it was 50 chapters long) of links to mp3s. You would just right click and save each one, or if you have a simple downloadhelper addon you can choose to download all the, say, mp3s on that page, or even all except A, B, C. Now, you navigate to the audiobook (which may take really long because something about the new layout—I don't know enough about java or whatever the hell it is that is making it so slow and ugly—seems to have either really poor coding or be made only for people with decent connections, which anyone knows is a terrible principle to develop on), and see a list of maybe 20 items, with huge thumbnails next to each one that kinda serve no more purpose than a simple elegant button would, and you have to navigate individually to a separate page for each item, whereupon you wait for that page to load AND the audio to start loading automatically, before you can finally right click something to save the audio—then you go back and wait for the list to load again before you can move on to the next item. It could be objected that you can open each item in a new tab to eliminate the need to reload the list; my answer would be there is no need for the redundancy, especially since the old way was faster and (in my opinion better looking and) didn't have the redundancy.
Basically, the "new navigation system" is the html5 or java or whatever the crap they are coding onto the page that makes it load slow, look ugly, and stupidly hard to download multiple media files within a group. The new filters (authors, category, subject, and the box they are in is an example of the type of flash or html or whatever that loads slow and is buggy and looks ugly) can't be stacked or combined or whatever the word would be, and it doesn't even show what you select anyways.
I guess there's probably a bunch of things that would take some of me navigating around the site but I've become so turned off to (from?) it and I'm tired right now.
Okay, you're right about the need to open each individual page. That sucks. I never really went that route, so I wasn't aware of how cumbersome it became. I get all the audiobooks from the Mises section on iTunes U. Yeah, you need iTunes (or some kind of effective client), but it's a hell of a lot easier than downloading manually.
One of the things I think would be a nice addition would be to actually have a link to the audiobook from the resource page. So for example, I went to the main site and pretended like I was new and just browsing. I clicked on the literature section, then used the search feature in that section, which, it appears has now been fixed (did not work before). So Ethics of Liberty came up and I clicked, and was taken to the resources page, which is now called the "document" page which includes links to all the incarnations of the text...except for the audiobook. If I was a newbie, I wouldn't even know an audiobook was available. I never understood why such a link wasn't included.
I suppose it largely had to do with the book being in the form of several different files, and there was no way to have just a single download link for the whole book. But still, that's no reason to not have some kind of notice that the audio exists and is available for download on the site. This is part of the reason I did all the work I did in gathering and presenting the links relevant to each book on the Mises Wiki. Obviously there's not yet a wiki page for each book in the online library, but I was able to create quite a few. (Keep in mind there are sub-categories within that one containing more titles).
Which, the Mises Wiki brings up another example. That thing is almost entirely the result of basically three people...none of whom are employed or in any way officially associated with the institute. Virtually every single one of the more than 1000 articles was created and expanded by less than 5 people. Almost every template, which provides a great deal of behind the scenes backbone functionality of the wiki, was created solely by me. I'm not looking for praise here, I'm just pointing out that if a small handful of community members had not taken it upon themselves to build something there and volunteer their hours to improve it, it would almost certainly look a lot like the "new community".
And we were doing it with virtually no assistance from any of the development team. Anytime an issue arose or we came across something that needed to be changed or corrected, or found an extention that would improve the functionality of the wiki, it would sometimes literally take months before we even got a response from a site admin who had permissions to make those kind of background changes. Months.
And this persists to this day. Of course, as usual, when project started, Tucker was all about it. It was the next big thing, it was awesome and the potential was limitless. It got brought online, and then was essentially immediately abandoned. Even Dick Clark seemed to almost disappear right away, and never seemed to make any real contribution to the project (at least not a visible one, anyway).
I would like to know why. The only thing I can figure is the team of "brilliant web developers" consists of less than 5 people, all of whom likely have other gigs and aren't as concerned with all of this as one might think they would be. And I'm not saying they aren't doing anything, because it's obvious Veksler always has a Mises project of some kind in the works, and BK seems to be doing behind the scenes work a decent amount of time. But the impression I get is that they have a few overall directives and maybe every now and then get a request from the leadership or have a meeting about trying to implement something new, and they try to do some work on that, but are pretty much left to handle everything how and when they can...and if there's a problem with or a request made about something they don't really participate in or care much about, it just for the most part gets ignored (which, again was literally admitted in quote above.)
austrianforum.com was the first bulletin board service for AE, btw. There was the same complaining about the creation of this BB compared to that as there is about the "new" (Facebook driven) one.
Are you sure the resources/document page didn't used to list the audiobook? I know that that page uses the old template I was referring to, so I know there used to be versions of pages like that for each audiobook that listed all the chapters, but I'm not 100% positive that specifically the resources/document page used to list the audiobook even though I feel like it did. Then again, maybe I learned to navigated to the audiobooks section specifically because it did, in fact, never list them on the resources page.
hashem:Are you sure the resources/document page didn't used to list the audiobook?
Positive. At least as of late 2010. Like I said, I created almost every book article on the Mises Wiki. I made it a point to include all relevant links, and you'll notice even ones created a year ago needed a separate "audiobook" link.
I'm pretty sure I can even find a screen shot of the previous resources page layout.
Is anyone else getting this error lately:
It's been happening a lot to me today.
Yeah that happens. Sometimes more often than others. I have to assume it has to do with work going on behind the scenes.


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1731: The Library Company of Philadelphia, the first lending library in the United States, hires its first librarian and opens officially. The organization, which still exists today, was founded by Benjamin Franklin and other subscribers who invested 40 shillings each and promised to pay 10 shillings a year thereafter to buy books and maintain a shareholder's library.
1840: Painter Claude Monet, the founder of French impressionist painting, is born in Paris, France.
1851: Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" is first published in the United States by New York City publisher Harper and Brothers.
1864: After ordering the city evacuated of all citizens, Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's army burns most of Atlanta, Ga., to the ground. The troops burn all but about 400 buildings, including homes and businesses, with estimates of the total number of buildings destroyed ranging from 3,200 to 5,000. The next day, Sherman's army would begin their march toward the port of Savannah, which would become known as Sherman's March to the Sea. Pictured are ruins of the Atlanta Union Depot after it was burned by Sherman's troops.
1896: Mamie Eisenhower, the first lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961 as the wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is born under the birth name Mamie Geneva Doud in Boone, Iowa.
1907: Author Astrid Lindgren, best known for the "Pippi Longstocking" book series, is born under the birth name Astrid Anna Emilia Ericsson in Vimmerby, Smaland, Sweden.
1908: Politician Joseph McCarthy, noted for making claims in the 1950s that there were large numbers of Communists and sympathizers inside the federal government and elsewhere, is born in Grand Chute, Wis. The term "McCarthyism" was originally coined to criticize the actions of McCarthy, who served as a Republican U.S. senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.
1910: Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Va., taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher aircraft.
1915: Educator and activist Booker T. Washington, who was the dominant leader in the black community in the United States from 1890 to 1915, dies of hypertension at age 59 in Tuskegee, Ala.
1916: TV writer Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch," is born in Passaic, N.J.
1919: Actress Veronica Lake, known for her roles in movies such as "Sullivan's Travels," "This Gun for Hire" and "The Glass Key," is born under the birth name Constance Frances Marie Ockelman in Brooklyn, N.Y.
1922: The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1927: Actor McLean Stevenson, best known for his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the TV sitcom "M*A*S*H," is born in Normal, Ill.
1948: Charles, Prince of Wales, is born at Buckingham Palace in London, England.
1954: Political scientist and diplomat Condoleezza Rice, who would serve as the 66th secretary of state of the United States from 2005 to 2009, is born in Birmingham, Ala. Rice, who was also President George W. Bush's national security advisor during his first term, was a professor of political science at Stanford University before joining the Bush administration.
1954: Musician and composer Yanni, who has blended jazz, classical, soft rock and world music to create predominantly instrumental works, is born Yiannis Hryssomallis in Kalamata, Greece. Yanni achieved international recognition by producing concerts at historic monuments and by producing videos that were broadcast on public television, including his breakthrough concert, 1993's "Yanni Live at the Acropolis."
1965: The Battle of the Ia Drang, the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War, begins.
1966: Baseball player Curt Schilling, who won World Series championships in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks and in 2004 and 2007 with the Boston Red Sox, is born in Anchorage, Alaska.
1967: American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
1969: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the moon.
1970: Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, W.Va., killing all 75 people on the plane, including members of the Marshall University football team, who were returning home after a 17–14 loss to the East Carolina Pirates in Greenville, N.C. Among those killed in the crash were 37 football players, eight coaches, including head coach Rick Tolley, and 25 school boosters. The crash almost led to the discontinuation of the university's football program, but a group of players who were on the junior varsity football team during the 1970 season, as well as students and athletes from other sports, were recruited to form a 1971 football team.
1970: Santana's "Black Magic Woman" is released. The song, which was previously recorded by Fleetwood Mac in 1968, would reach No. 4 on the U.S. and Canadian charts for the band and become more closely associated with Santana than Fleetwood Mac.
1971: The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet when it reaches Mars.
1972: Actor Josh Duhamel, best known for his roles in the "Transformers" film series and movies like "When in Rome," "Life as We Know It," "New Year's Eve" and "Safe Haven," is born in Minot, N.D. Duhamel also starred in on the soap opera "All My Children" and the TV series "Las Vegas."
1973: Britain's Princess Anne marries a commoner, Mark Phillips, then a lieutenant in the 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards, in London's Westminster Abbey. An estimated 500 million television viewers from around the world watched them marry. They would divorce in 1992, with Princess Anne re-marrying that same year.
1986: The basketball drama "Hoosiers," starring Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Sheb Wooley and Dennis Hopper, premieres in theaters. The film, about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team that wins the state championship, is often named as one of the best sports movies ever made and would earn Academy Award nominations for Hopper and Best Original Score.
1991: Thomas McIlvane kills four people with a Ruger 10/22 rifle in the Royal Oak, Mich., post office after being fired from the Postal Service for "insubordination." He then shot and killed himself. The shooting was one in a series of incidents from 1983 onward in which U.S. Postal Service workers went on a shooting rampage, giving birth to the term "going postal." McIlvane is seen here in an earlier mug shot from when he was charged with making threats over the telephone.
1991: English film director Tony Richardson, whose five-decade film career included "Look Back in Anger," "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner," "Ned Kelly," "The Loved One," "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Tom Jones," dies of complications from AIDS at the age of 63 in Los Angeles, Calif. Richardson, whose five-year marriage to actress Vanessa Redgrave produced daughters Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson, both actors, won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director for "Tom Jones."
1991: Michael Jackson's music video "Black or White" premieres on MTV, BET, VH-1 and Fox. Along with Jackson, it featured Macaulay Culkin, Tess Harper and George Wendt. The video, which was directed by John Landis, who previously directed "Thriller," was shown simultaneously in 27 countries with an audience of 500 million, the most to ever watch a music video. The last four minutes of the video, which featured Jackson performing sexually suggestive dance moves, smashing windows, destroying a car and making an inn explode, generated some controversy and led to an apology from the singer and an altered version in which Jackson is destroying racial graffiti messages on windows.
1993: Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula becomes the winningest coach in NFL history with a win over the Philadelphia Eagles, giving him 325 for his career, one more than legendary coach George Halas. Shula would raise his career win total to 347 before retiring following the 1995 season, setting a record that remains to this day.
1995: A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs. The shutdown would last through Nov. 19 before ending, with another shutdown taking place Dec. 16, 1995, to Jan. 6, 1996, for a total of 28 days.
1995: Author Jack Finney, whose best-known works were science fiction and thrillers, including "The Body Snatchers" and "Time and Again," dies at the age of 84 in Greenbrae, Calif.
1995: The crime drama "Casino," starring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci and James Woods, and directed by Martin Scorsese, premieres in New York City. The movie would earn Sharon Stone a Golden Globe for Best Actress and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
2006: The James Bond movie "Casino Royale," featuring Daniel Craig in his debut as the spy, premieres in three theaters in London. The movie proved to be a huge box office success, earning more than $594 million to become the fourth highest-grossing film of 2006, and the highest-grossing installment of the James Bond series.
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The Underworld uninterrupted. This allows fast access to all layers.
The Hellevater is not often built all at once. Generally, it is slowly built down through the Layers as the character(s) progress the game as a means to get ores and treasures. They are typially 2 or 3 blocks wide with many horizontal tunnels branching from them.
- Protection: Protecting the tunnel from enemies with blocks on either side even through large cavers is recommended so that traveling characters do not end up being attacked (and potentially knocked off the shaft's path). Doors where there are horizontal tunnels is also a good idea as it prevents monsters from walking into the shaft and falling with the character. Background Walls may also be placed to prevent mobs from spawning in the tunnel, though, this is extreme, especially in large worlds.
- Lighting: Lighting, typically Torches, helps a player know in what part of the shaft his character is as well as illuminating enemies and collectables. Choose one side of the shaft to place them.
- Rope: A character can travel down a rope or chain as fast as falling with out suffering fall damage upon hitting the bottom. Further more, little effort is needed to move back up. Choose the opposite side of the shaft from the lighting to place the rope as they are on the same Placement Layers
- Check Points: Having a check point or outpost at the top or bottom of each level with a bed, campfire, a few Chests with basic needs, and doors allow a character to respawn where he is working without having to travel back every time for being killed or disconnected in Multiplayer. It also serves to provide a hiding place from enemies for low health characters.
- Clear Liquids: Remove all liquids along the Hellevator. This is prehaps the most tedious part of the construction, but well worth the effort. Water can be blocked off and drained, but Lava will either need extensive effort to move, or be made into Obsidian and mined through.
If rope is not used, one of the following options is available:
- 2 blocks deep of Water at the bottom, just before the Underworld begins.
- grappling device, Rocket Boots, any item that allows flight, or use of a Cloud in a Bottle/Balloon shortly before hitting the bottom, although this method requires some timing and accuracy.
- A Lucky Horseshoe or wings are also favorable as they negate all fall damage.
- Place Wood Platforms all along the Hellevator at intervals that are under the falling damage threshold.
- Use Climbing Claws or Shoe Spikes and grab on near the bottom, then slide down, or drop down if the fall won't harm you too much.


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See more info on this item Highlights:built-in stereo amplifier rated at 80 watts total into 4 ohms DirectDigital amplifier design renders digital music sources with fine detail, even at low volumescommunicates with other Bluesound players via your home network (wired or wireless)control the system with a free app for your smartphone, tablet, or computer (Android™, iOS®, Kindle Fire, Windows®, and Mac®)plays MP3, AAC, WMA, OGG, WMA-L, FLAC, ALAC, WAV, and AIFF filessupported sample rates: 32kHz to 192kHzplays Internet radio stations from TuneIn RadioSpotify Connect lets you play Spotify's streaming music library through your Bluesound system via your smartphone or tablet (requires Spotify app and a premium subscription; firmware and app version 1.10.0 or higher)plays streaming audio from TIDAL, Rdio™ and Murfieplay music in multiple rooms when you add other Bluesound playerstop controls for volume and mutingUSB port for connecting a thumb drive with music filesspeaker terminals accept banana plugs or bare wireRCA output for connecting optional powered subwooferEthernet portcompatible with Windows® (XP or higher operating system)compatible with Mac®operates on AC power (detachable cord included)weight: 4.2 lbs.9-3/4"W x 7"H x 8-1/2"Dwarranty: 1 yearOur 60-day money-back guaranteerequires smartphone or tablet with free Bluesound app for control of system playbackrequires high-speed Internet connection Hands-on research from the Crutchfield Labs (what are the Labs?) What's in the box? | In-depth notes Product Research What's in the box? Download owner's manual Amplified music player 6.5' AC power cord (120V) 6.5' AC power cord (240V) 6.5' Ethernet cable 4 Self-adhesive rubber feet Screwdriver Quick Setup Guide Safety Manual Our Product Research Team At Crutchfield, you'll get detailed, accurate information that's hard to find elsewhere. That's because we have our own in-house Product Research team — they open the box, verify contents, check the owner's manual, and record dimensions, features and specs. We stay on top of new products and technologies to help people make informed choices. Features Direct Digital Amplifier: The Bluesound PowerNode employs patented Direct Digital amplification by NAD Electronics. The Direct Digital amplifier is rated at 80-watts total power into 4-ohms with 0.005% THD. Direct Digital amplifier technology provides rich, clear, and distortion free sound. Note: The Bluesound D30 2.1 Sub/Sat system (813D30B/W, sold separately) makes the perfect companion for the PowerNode. Wired or Wireless Network Connection: The Bluesound PowerNode can be connected to your home network and Internet provider via a hardwired Ethernet (RJ-45) jack connector or wireless WiFi (802.11n) connection. Either network/internet connection allows you to stream music from your Windows or Mac computer and NAS drive (such as the Bluesound Vault, sold separately); as well as stream select online music services. Computer Audio: Thanks to its network connection, the PowerNode can access your digital music stored on your network connected Microsoft Windows (XP/2000/Vista/7) PC or Apple Macintosh OS X computer. You are able to select and playback the digital audio files that are on your PC or computer via the free downloadable app on your iOS or android device. The PowerNode supports MP3, AAC, WMA, OGG, WMA-L, FLAC, ALAC, WAV, and AIFF music files with bit-rates of 16/24-bit and native sampling rates of 32, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, and 192kHz. Online Music Services: With a network and internet connection, the PowerNode lets you access select online music services. TuneIn: TuneIn is a free online music service that offers over 70,000 Internet radio stations; including music, sports, news, and entertainment. You can listen to local stations or discover new stations from around the world. You are able to search for music by genre (Adult Contemporary, Classical, Country, Reggae, etc.), location (continent and country), and language (English, French, Spanish, etc). You also get access to talk radio and podcasts. In addition, you can save your favorite Internet radio stations as "My Favorites". Rdio: Rdio is an online digital music with a catalog of 20 million songs and interruptions or advertisements. Rdio makes it easy to find what you're looking for, whether it's an artist, album, song, or a custom playlist. A $10.00 per-month Rdio subscription is required. Spotify Connect: Through Spotify Connect, you can enjoy over 20 million songs, easily streamed to the Bluesound device through your home network, either via Wi-Fi or Ethernet; with simple control on any iOS or Android device. Requires Spotify app and a premium subscription; firmware and app version 1.10.0 or higher. Note: This device needs to be connected to your home's network and the internet in order to access music on your computer, Internet radio stations, and online streaming music services. A paid subscription may be required to access some streaming music or internet radio services. An internet connection is also required for software/hardware updates. This unit can be connected to the internet using a LAN-based, DSL, Wi-Fi or cable modem connection. USB (Type-A) Input: The Bluesound PowerNode features a USB (type-A) port to directly connect your USB mass storage class (MSC) device; such as your Android smartphone, digital music player, thumbdrive, or external hard-drive. The unit's USB port supports music playback from these compatible USB devices formatted in FAT 32. The USB port is not compatible with the direct connection of an Apple iPod, iPhone, or iPad. Note: There is also a mini-USB (type-B) port that is used for service purposes only (not for consumer use). Only authorized service personnel can access this USB port. Free Control App for iOS & Android: You can download the free Bluesound Remote App from iTunes or GooglePlay in order to use your Apple iOS (5.0+) or Android (2.1+) device to control the PowerNode. You are able to browse your local music library from a NAS or Windows/Mac computer on your network. You can also search for and listen to online music from TuneIn and rdio. In addition, you can create, edit, and retrieve your favorite music playlists. The Bluesound Remote App even provides artist/song/album information and Album Art. The remote app can be used in portrait or landscape mode. There are three main screens; the Center Screen which has the playback controls and source information, the Menu Screen which is swiped in from the left side, and the Players Screen which is swiped in from the right side. Simply pinch, swipe, and tap the screen of your iOS or Android device to make selections. If you have multiple Bluesound devices on the same network, you can use the Bluesound Remote App to control each of them separately. You are able to play the same music track or different music tracks at the same volume or different volume level. Note: You can also download the free Bluesound Remote App onto your Windows (XP/2000/Vista/7) PC or Mac OSX computer. Spring Post Speaker Terminals: The Bluesound PowerNode is equipped with four spring post speaker terminals to connect a pair of loudspeakers. The terminals will accept single or dual banana plug connectors or bare wire. The plastic terminal caps must first be removed in order to use banana plugs. Subwoofer Output: The PowerNode features a mono-RCA subwoofer output for connecting an external powered subwoofer to your speaker system. Detachable Power Cord: The Bluesound PowerNode is powered by standard household current using the supplied 6.5' detachable AC power cord. Review this product Submit a review and then enter to win a $500 rewards card Bluesound Powernode Reviews Average Customer Review: 2 people say: Review this product: Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences about this product. Please be sure to focus your comments on the product itself. Read our Review Guidelines for more information. Review title * Email Your email won't be visible. 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Please see our Review Guidelines for more information. We reserve the right (but are not obligated to) review all submissions and edit or remove any review in any manner which we deem necessary. Your review should be posted within seven days. Filter by rating: 5 Star: (0) 4 Star: (0) 3 Star: (0) 2 Star: (0) 1 Star: (0) 5 out of 5 Sound quality far superior to Sonos Written By Jon W, New York, NY on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) I auditioned this next to a Sonos Connect:AMP. There was no comparison. The sound quality out of the PowerNode is heads and shoulders above the Sonos. It's no surprise, really, given that this uses NAD's excellent DirectDigital amplifier technology. This is true even on regular 16-bit / 44.1 kHz files. The BlueSound sounds even better on high res files, which the Sonos won't even play. The BlueSound products also provide more flexibility by allowing me to use the existing 802.11n access points in my house rather than purchasing Sonos repeaters. I also like the Bluesound controller app better, especially the "New" tab which shows songs that have recently been added to the library. Pros: Sound quality High res file support 802.11n support Cons: None Was this review helpful? Yes | No 5 out of 5 Excellent Products Written By Tom, Rochester NY on Thursday, September 26, 2013 I was late to the streaming party, but in the past few years I've bounced around from Airplay to JRiver and others, hardware from WD TVs to Apple TVs to Marantz NA7004s, files from ALAC to ripped FLAC to HiDef downloads, and more apps than I can count, which mostly worked OK but overall never was a coherent, consistent, "whole house system" with quality sound. Had to settle with all of the options out there, or pay ridiculous prices. Sonos always was intriguing but limited by lack of hi-def, didn't want to paint myself in a corner. I got NAD M50, M51 and M52 about a year ago, and that took care of my main system for streaming high quality files. I had heard about Bluesound, and followed its debut in Europe. When they began selling in the US, I tried a Powernode for the patio, and a Node for the basement, as a trial run. Those worked so well that I got another node for the master bedroom. They work flawlessly with the NAD components, and the apps are great -- I've had no issues with dropout or any other problems, and the apps are updated often. I have everything hard-wired Ethernet, not wireless, because of the hi-res files. The Powernode has great sound, actually more than I really need outside with my current speakers (Polks) -- will try it out with some speakers inside during the winter, as a test run for future options. These components from Bluesound have brought everything together for my systems, and I couldn't be more pleased with the quality and ease of use. Pros: Sound quality, network/app reliability, ease of use, whole-house control Cons: none 22 out of 22 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No 1 question already asked What about multi channel sound, i.e., 5.1 feasibility? Does this 'system' support? Sounds like a winner is your main listening room could be enhanced with either 5.1 or 7.1..... [ Tom Jan 12, 2014 ] 2 answers No, this is a 2.1 channel setup. 5.1 means you have 5 satellite speakers and 1 subwoofer. I bought this for my daughter's room and it sounds great for her. If you want 5.1/7.1 you'll have to get the appropriate receiver and speakers. [ Michael Jan 16, 2014 ] We have not received any answers from other customers on your question. This system is only designed for stereo operation, but I would recommend reaching out to an Advisor by phone (1-800-324-9695) or online chat. They should be able to help plan your system and find solutions that may work for you. 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Welcoming a visitor to her in-house studio on Parkside Drive, Shrive proudly displays some of her unique creations throughout the room. Among them are a layered gown constructed of thousands of black and red condoms and a dress decorated with countless gold and black popcorn kernels.
Shrive started designing club clothing for her friends while she studied fashion design and marketing at University of East London.
"It's so unique," Shrive said. "You go clubbing there and people say, 'Oh, my God, who are you wearing?' Everybody pays you to be different."
In a little more than a decade, the 41-year-old Philippines-born designer has worked her way into the San Francisco fashion world.
"I love clothes," she said. "I've been making clothes since I was young."
After graduating with a bachelor's degree, Shrive left her London home of 10 years and moved to San Francisco in 1999 to be close to her mother. She settled in Tracy with her husband, Damon, and her daughter, Kalila, now 7, in 2009.
Since her arrival in the Bay Area, Shrive has taken part in charity events and fashion shows that highlight her whimsical side.
The dress she made of layered red and black condoms was for an AIDS fundraiser called Evening of Hope on Oct. 25 in San Francisco. She said each of the dozen or more designers who were invited to participate received boxes of condoms to create their pieces.
Shrive used close to 5,000 Trustex condoms, including lubricated strawberry-flavored condoms that had to be washed individually by hand before they could be sewn onto the garment.
"I like putting a lot of details," she said. "I work better under pressure."
To be ready for the benefit, she made the dress in two days.
"I sew really fast," Shrive said, "and when I put my heart and soul into it, I burn the midnight oil."
Shrive also often uses edible materials. Among the results are a dress pieced of seaweed strips with a halibut skeleton belt; one made of halved mangos with a pineapple headpiece; and one with a coffee-bean covered bustier and a skirt of plastic coffee cup covers.
The coffee dress, which was pictured in Italian Vogue magazine, is on display at Barista's coffee shop, 112 W. 10th St.
"We do crazy stuff," she said. "It's a lot of experiment, trial and error."
Shrive said she likes to create outside her comfort zone with pieces that have an avant-garde flair.
"I like being different. I like to push the envelope," she said. "You can be as creative as you want."
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In the coming year, Shrive plans to begin mass-producing some garments, which will be highlighted on her website, www.gbshrive.com. She is also creating a coffee-table book showcasing her work.
Some of her creations are available at Wonderland SF gallery and boutique, 2929 24th St., in San Francisco.
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