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Discover a selection of top forums paper rebirth on the internet. Come to share your passion on forums paper rebirth and meet other fans of paper rebirth. Then, why don't you create your own forum of paper rebirth ?
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Wingate, N.C.- The Brevard College women's tennis team fell to the Wingate Bulldogs 7-2 in a South Atlantic Conference tennis match on Tuesday afternoon.
Brevard's Michele Prata defeated Wingate's Ali Evers in three sets 7-5, 5-7 and 10-7 on the number one singles court. Claire Dillman, meanwhile, topped Becca Thomas 6-0 and 6-3 on the number two singles court.
The Bulldogs, however, swept the rest of singles competition in addition to doubles competition to improve to 10-5 (5-0 SAC), while the Tornados fell to 2-7 (0-1 SAC).
BC returns to action as they host the Anderson University Trojans at the McCoy Tennis Complex on Friday afternoon. The match will begin at 2 p.m.

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Tying together remote offices has long been the playground of expensive, dedicated circuits, and lately, MPLS services. However, the spread of business-class DSL and cable Internet services has led to higher-bandwidth links becoming available in more places.
The downside to that is that most business-class broadband connections can't be relied upon to deliver consistent bandwidth, which can cause reduced service and WAN problems.
Sampath Ramaswami is the Senior Director of Strategic Development at Hughes Network systems. In this blog post, he details how Hughes is addressing this problem by constantly measuring the available bandwidth of a circuit, then adjusting dataflows accordingly. -- Paul Venezia
Making broadband enterprise-ready with end-to-end quality of service
MPLS has for years remained the preferred choice of many IT managers to connect their branch sites together -- despite the limitation of speeds capping out at 1.5Mbps (T1), few evolutionary improvements, and bandwidth costs more than 10 times that of broadband. Meanwhile, broadband infrastructure, driven by major investments in recent years, is affordable, robust, capable of delivering high capacity, and available almost everywhere, with major providers delivered an average of 97 percent of advertised speeds, even during peak hours.
A key reason why enterprises are willing to pay the MPLS premium over the possible alternative of a broadband private network is that broadband cannot provide end-to-end quality of service (QoS)/class of service(CoS). While a residential consumer might be willing to tolerate slow performance on a key application (such as online banking) due to the impact of lower-priority traffic (say, a streaming movie), such a trade-off is not acceptable in an enterprise environment.
In the past, QoS over broadband end to end has not been achievable. Key parameters like capacity, latency, and packet loss may change abruptly as the network experiences congestion, without providing any indication to premises devices. Furthermore, bulk traffic is handled exactly the same way as real-time traffic, since the broadband network doesn't honor CoS markings set at the edge.
WAN optimization with a twist
The good news is that viable solutions are now available for the next-generation distributed enterprise WAN over affordable broadband-- without paying the MPLS premium. Hughes ActiveQoS is a performance optimization technology that enables real-time QoS over broadband connections, capable of converging real-time voice, video, and data.
ActiveQoS is WAN optimization with a twist. Whereas typical WAN optimization delivers QoS control, application acceleration, and increased virtual bandwidth, the QoS is effective only over leased access circuits such as a T1, with fixed deterministic capacity end to end. Broadband networks, on the other hand, have a variable delivered capacity, and typical router-based prioritization methods are fundamentally ineffective in delivering end-to-end QoS control.
Hughes ActiveQoS employs a number of innovations to deliver true QoS control over broadband. ActiveQoS analyzes the end-to-end broadband connection at each branch location in real time to determine the current capacity, then rate-limits traffic based on the observed capacity. By dynamically balancing ingress traffic to available network capacity on a site-by-site basis, true end-to-end prioritization is enabled, as is the delivery of real-time traffic with controlled jitter and packet loss. For example, ActiveQoS-optimized VoIP can deliver toll-quality audio (MOS 4.0) even on a congested link, and Web performance improves by a factor of four.
Enterprise broadband: Enabling the next-generation WAN
Recent major shifts in business and IT strategies have put a significant strain on data networks, especially for highly distributed organizations, such as those in retail and related industries and government public services departments. The rapid growth in the use of cloud services and mobile applications, including guest access, Wi-Fi, and video usage, are demanding high levels of service and performance availability across the WAN. Next-generation networking solutions for distributed organizations need to deliver on five major requirements:
- High capacity: Up to 3Mbps to 6Mbps for small branches, and up to 10Mbps for others
- Robust security: Premises and network-based security
- Flexible connectivity: Secure connectivity to the Internet directly from branch sites
- Application performance: Consistent, predictable performance for real-time and data applications, including emerging cloud-based services
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FBA Launches "America's Bowl Tradition - It's Worth Keeping" Ad Campaign
Sunday, December 5, 2010
The Football Bowl Association announced today that it is launching a nation-wide, online advertising campaign entitled "America's Bowl Tradition - It's Worth Keeping." The online campaign begins tonight and will highlight America's multi-day bowl celebrations and is timed to coincide with Selection Sunday and the beginning of bowl season. The ads will run throughout much of December. To view the online ad, visit http://footballbowlassociation.com/bowls/ad.php.
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SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced significant updates to the SAP Travel OnDemand solution, including broader country coverage, support for the Physician Payment Sunshine Act and new analytic, mobile and integration capabilities. SAP Travel OnDemand is a cloud-based, end-to-end, one-stop solution designed for seamless travel and expense management. The announcement was made at CeBIT 2013, being held March 5-9 in Hanover, Germany.
"SAP Travel OnDemand helps reduce our travel expenses and makes booking and expense reporting and reimbursement so much easier," said Corby Brendle, practice director, UST Global. "We've seen a tangible business ROI since our implementation of SAP Travel OnDemand and the integration with our other business software has created a seamless end-user experience."
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Self-sustaining cyclic reaction, like the Bethe solar-phoenix.
Bethe, Dr. Erich, his attempt to trace "tribal history," 183-5.
It was sunlight; a Bethe solar-phoenix reaction, and it would sustain itself for hours.
Why it isit must Bethe heirloom that Katura showed me at the American Club this morning, he uttered.
A technique for initiating and controlling the Bethe carbon-hydrogen cycle.
It is the last thing I wish to Bethe recipient of another persons secrets.
Bethe was able to prove by special experiments that these reactions of ants are not learned by experience, but are inherited.
I have dealt with only one of the groups of names treated by Prof. Bethe; but it is the one which he has discussed most fully.
Bethe's first test is unsatisfactory because the crabs have a strong tendency to hide from the experimenter in the darkest corner.
Five or even twenty-five repetitions of such an experiment would be an inadequate basis for the statements made by Bethe.
German-born American physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum physics. Bethe also played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, later working to educate the public about the threat of nuclear weapons. In 1967 he received a Nobel Prize for explaining that the Sun and other stars derive their energy from a series of nuclear reactions which came to be known as the carbon cycle, or Bethe cycle.


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I have been researching dogs n have been very impressed with Cane Corso's. They seem ideal temprament.
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how about a fila brasileiro, they'd eat anyone who got into your shop
man, when you're the nail, hang in there....until the day you become the hammer
if you find any for sale in england, let me know, i'd love one
If you are choosing between an APBT or an American bulldog make sure you know a bit about the breeds as the time and responsibility is a lot more with these breeds than say a german shepard etc. The main reason is the dog agression particularly with the pits. They need taking care of all day. You Cannot leave them alone by themselves outside as they have a tendency to escape any confinement.
Also when out walking you have to keep them on a leash as it's too much of a risk if it gets a hold of another animal. It will more than likely kill the other dog as all apbt have been bred to be killing machines. Also if it's ever out of line it will get taken off of you sharpish as they are of course illegal ( search BSL for the info)
If you choose to go with a pit make sure you can handle it and have th time to spare as too many people don't know what they are in for and a lot of the breed end up disgarded and put down which is terrible.
If you do end ul with one you will be fortunate to own a very loyal and extremely energetic dog that if looked after correctly is hands down the best pet to own
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I think i wil b getting a blue staff and thanks for the info im better with staffys as i had one b4 and can train it myself
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Thought Id create a damn good post and have us ladies post our goofy ass pictures of us in labor with our previous children.. Like being drugged up...looking haggard.. to make light of our situations..
I have no shame in my game. LOL. I had some pretty effed up pics taken of me while I was in labor and looked like shit.
Can't wait to see everyone elses pics too!
Just wanna add I didnt have time for makeup and stuff. lol.. This is about as haggard as it gets.
^^when i got my pitocin/epidural, I was all loopy, kept holding up my pinky and being ugly lmao.
^^ Cry/Laughing, DH (dear husband) Laughing at me cause i was apparently all effed up. lmao.
^^ My favorite one of all, the most embarrassing one, God damn i look drugged.. Again with the cry/lauging. hahah
He looks cute and I wasnt paying attention. ^^
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Greeneville, Tenn. - Riding a two-game winning streak, the Brevard College women's basketball team entered South Atlantic Conference play on the road against Tusculum College on Saturday afternoon. The Tornados were led by Amanda Whitaker's 14 points, but ultimately fell to the #14 ranked Lady Pioneers, 98-57.
Brevard remains winless away from the friendly confines of Boshamer Gymnasium as they fall to 2-4 on the season, 0-1 in the South Atlantic Conference. The Lady Pioneers improve to 7-1, 1-0 in the conference.
Tusculum jumped ahead early, taking a 9-4 lead four minutes into the contest. A three by Brevard's Amber Roberts narrowed the Lady Pioneer lead, but Tusculum went on an 18-2 run on their way to building a 56-28 lead at the half.
The Lady Pioneers dominated the paint against the Tornados in the first half, scoring 34 points to Brevard's two. The fast-paced game also affected the Tornados play as they turned the ball over 12 times to the Tusculum's seven. Coach Shannon Reid's squad shot 19.2 percent from the field in the first half, compared to the Lady Pioneers 55 percent.
At the half, the Tornados were led by Amanda Whitaker with nine points and five rebounds. Lindsay Brendle showed a hot hand for the Tornados, connecting on all of her shots in the first half in recording seven points. The Lady Pioneers were led by Ashli Oliver with 12 points and eight rebounds.
Anna Schlobohm and Kelly Hudler came out of the break firing for the Tornados with Schlobohm recording eight points in the second half, with Hudler adding seven. However, the Lady Pioneers rallied behind Oliver's 11 second half points to take the win, 98-57.
The Tornados shot 26.3 percent (15-57) for the game, while Tusculum connected on 54.2 percent (39-72) of their shots. Points inside proved to be the difference of the game as Tusculum was able to record 58 points inside the paint to Brevard's six. Brevard was able to convert their attempts from the free throw line as the Tornados went 20 of 24 from the charity stripe, outshooting Tusculum 83.3 percent to 72.2 percent (13-18).
Brevard was led offensively by Whitaker's 14 points and four assists. Whitaker was joined in double figures by Schlobohm's 13 and Brendle's 11. Samantha Winn ruled the boards for Brevard in recording nine rebounds for the contest.
Tusculum was led by Oliver's 23 points and nine rebounds. She was joined in double figures by Catherine Hintz (12) and Nikki Van Dine (10). Jasmine Gunn led the offensive attack with seven assists.
The Tornados will take a week off for exams before heading to Gaffney, S.C. on Thursday, December 18th, to take on Limestone College. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tusculum stays at home as they host Livingstone College on Saturday, December 13, with a start time of 8 p.m.


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Two unlikely young men charged with desertion and facing execution in the besieged city of Leningrad are charged with an impossible task: they can have their freedom if they can find a dozen eggs for the wedding cake of a powerful colonel's daughter. The two make an odd couple: one a scrawny Jewish outsider, the other an erudite charmer, and their journey takes them from the war-torn city to the snow-covered countryside. Sound like the basis of a classic movie? That might be because the author, David Benioff, is a successful screenwriter, and City of Thieves is halfway between movie-script and roman-a-clef, between airport blockbuster and serious literature.
It's a difficult balancing act, but it succeeds here in no small part due to Ron Perlman's unforgettable narration. His voice is as full of character as his celebrated face, and his bar-room drawl brings a hard-boiled noir quality to the narration. It's a voice dripping in contraband and cordite, easily navigating the Russian names and injecting a sly, seductive humor into the dialogue that offsets the occasional lapse into sentimentality. It's a fantastic performance that succeeds in tying together the disparate elements of this rich tale.
Perlman also takes great relish in conveying the myriad of tiny details that Benioff weaves into the narrative, and which lend a cinematic quality to the work. Indeed, the author's screenwriting background is evident throughout: there's a tightly-constructed plot that never loses a sense of forward propulsion, even during the quieter moments; there is a skilful interweaving of film-school tropes the buddy movie, the coming-of-age tale, the WWII film. And there's that attention to detail. Although Benioff has clearly done his research, it's the off-beat imagery that brings to life the reality of living in a besieged city: concrete dragon's teeth are arranged to hinder the approach of enemy tanks; leather boots still bloody from the feet of the previous owners; malnourished children's bones break easily.
A slightly superfluous framing narrative alerts us to the novel's more literary aspirations. The art of storytelling is central to this tale, and the narrative brims over with literary references: doomed poets, scabrous novelists, callous propagandists. The picaresque plot recalls A Hero of Our Time, and the main action begins with a German parachutist's corpse drifting down the empty streets, an image halfway between a movie storyboard and Lord of the Flies just one of many evocative set-pieces in this highly entertaining adventure. Dafydd Phillips
When a dead German paratrooper lands in his street, Lev is caught looting the body and dragged to jail, fearing for his life. He shares his cell with the charismatic and grandiose Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested on desertion charges. Instead of the standard bullet in the back of the head, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful colonel to use in his daughter's wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt to find the impossible.
A search that takes them through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and the devastated surrounding countryside creates an unlikely bond between this earnest, lust-filled teenager and an endearing lothario with the gifts of a conman.
Set within the monumental events of history, City of Thieves is an intimate coming-of-age tale with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.
©2008 David Benioff; (P)2008 Penguin
"Loved it"
At first, I wasn't sure I would like this because the narration seemed so flat, but it totally grew on me and fit the book and story perfectly. The story is compelling and memorable; the characters will stay with me for a long time. Highly recommended.
"A Story To Savor"
This is "plot-driven" fiction at its finest and a superb audiobook. Highly literate, compelling characters, riveting story line set in the vicious German siege of Leningrad in WWII, and laced with wit and humor. The construction is the classic 'quest', a mismatched couple of underdog heroes set off on an impossible task under appalling conditions. We see the story unfold through the eyes of bright, naive Lev but it is his companion Kolya who you fall in love with, a bombastic, pretty boy Cossack with irrepressible charm.
The story gallops along and there is no fluff or filler, though you wish there was because it is over all too soon. There are cinematic touches -it is easy to believe that Benioff is an accomplished screenwriter - but none that bothered me. I appreciated the historical accuracy and insight in a story so lively, entertaining and rich in humanity. I also like the teasing hints that this is a true story passed along from the author's grandfather. And Ron Perlman's narration is very good.
I still hold The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty as the best audiobook I've listened to, and I've been impressed by Bryce Courtenay's stories, but City of Thieves is a very close number two.
"Stunning Tale. Great Narration."
1st, Ron Perlman (Hellboy)is a real suprise. Excelent reader, great tone and pacing. Is he Russian? Story is very engrossing, the details make the book. Grim tale and plenty of misery, don't listen if you've just gone off your meds, but worth the effort for the real emotional attatchment you build w/ the players.
"Beautiful Book"
Because so much has been written about this book, I just want to note that it is everything that its supporters say it is. I found the ending touching, without being overly sentimental or maudlin. The author is a talented writer and the narrative proceeds swifly and economically. It would be difficult not to be taken with the two main characters, and the WWII Leningrad locale lends historical interest to the novel.
The narration was excellent and added greatly to my enjoyment. The length was perfect for the intermittent listening that I do. An altogether satisfying listening experience.
"My Best Yet"
I thoroughly enjoyed, "City of Thieves" what a great story. Great charachters, I could picture myself in in St Petersburg under siege fron the Germans. This has been my favorite audiobook so far and inspired me to go see Russia in November. You'll never regret this one!
The Path Between the Seas to The Great Bridge ~ Kagan's Peloponnesian War to Gaddis' Cold One ~ Mornings on Horseback to a River of Doubt ~ Tom to Huck ~ Lennie to Charley ~ Cadfael to Cross ~ Rhyme to Reacher ~ Blomkvist and Salander to Wallander and Wallander ~ Moving Cheese or Eating Frogs ~ On the Road and Into Thin Air ~ The End of History to A Short History of Everything to ... well ... everything else.
"You Will Cherish Your Next Omelet"
Leningrad, in winter, is brutally cold. Real hunger is a gnawing beast. Relief from either, as welcome as it may be, merely releases the exhaustion that the pain of cold and the ache of hunger had kept at bay.
We know this, not because David Benioff told us, but because we experienced it through the remarkable characters of City of Thieves. Benioff crafts his characters so deftly, and with such originality and empathy, that we are drawn into his story completely. We don't read it; we live it.
City of Thieves is a character-driven tale set in Leningrad at war. We travel with Benioff's protagonists, Lev and Kolya, through this besieged city, on a quest that is both trivial and life-threatening, to find a dozen eggs. Their fear, their hunger, their rage, their hope, their grief ... these aren't emotions we read about. We feel them, and empathize because Benioff has drawn his characters so robustly.
Benioff has done this, in large part, through the little details he has sprinkled so generously throughout the narration. In many ways, the details carry us forward, through a very tight plot, that never really loses intensity. The details create the mental images that endure ... the *giant's" rooms, the city's defenses, the Colonel's petty corruption, the Nazi's instances of unimaginable cruelty, and much, much more.
What might otherwise be a soul-crushing story, is made bearable (and even somehow ennobling) by regular injections humor ~ often war-weary or cynical ~ but real enough and creative enough, that you will find yourself smiling and laughing much more often than you would expect. At least I did.
Even the profanity is wildly imaginative and, far from being gratuitous, is an important, and welcome, part of the story.
City of Thieves is narrated wonderfully by Ron Perlman. Here, the narration really does add to the story. Characters are presented faithfully; their voices ring true and are just what you would expect for them. Pace is flawless; pronunciation equally so (something that is increasingly rare in audiobooks these days)
City of Thieves is more than worth the time and the credit. This one is a keeper. Do yourself a favor.
One of the very best audiobooks ever! Shocking vignettes of war-torn Leningrad combined with laugh out loud humor and real excitment. Heart rending characters. Ron Perlman does a wonderful job narrating. This is an easy 5 star. Terrific.
"City of Thieves"
This book reminds me of The Twelve Chairs. I've listened to it several times and it just gets better and better. Perlman's performance is perfect
"Great Story!!!!"
I got this book on a sale. I probably wouldn't have gotten it otherwise, based on the description. I sure would have missed out, because this is a fantastic book! Well written, fast paced and just a great story. I can't imagine anyone NOT liking this book. I highly recommend it. Narration was excellent, as well.
"Fabulous, a real pleasure"
great narrator, good solid story never flags. devotees of WWII and cold war thrillers will like the taste; like a good solid modern Russian WWII DVD movie.
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The relationship between feminists and our bodies is a complicated one. Where as our general goal is to have ownership of and the ability to make choices about our bodies, we're stuck in a society that wants to take that control away. We're bombarded with images of exploited bodies every day. We're told what our bodies should look like (the anatomically ridiculous stick with giant balloons attached to our chests) and what we should do with them (be sexually available but, for the love of God, not slutty. But not prudish either).
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BG: Before my mom passed, my mom would always bully me (yes I allowed it) into buying my sister and her kids very expensive gifts. My mom's reasoning was that my sister can no longer work (she has an autoimmune disease) but she gets disability and has a husband who works a great job full time. I have spent hundreds at Christmas and on birthdays buying enough American Girl doll crap that I should be getting some kind of vip card or something. I also sent her a check for baby furniture which was instead used to buy a treadmill.
Last month was niece's birthday and I asked what she wanted. Well I was told she wants "julie's" car which costs I think around 3 or 4 hundred bucks. I don't even spend that on my own kids. I said as diplomatically as I could, I'm sorry but that's out of my budget could you find something a little less expensive? Well she put together about 150.00 worth of stuff and I delayed buying it because I think it was still too much. My fault for not giving her a set amount. I will own that.
So this week while sis and kids were in town, I agreed to go to the American Girl Store. We live about an hour away from one so I drove, paid the gas, paid parking in garage which was about 30.00 and then I somewhat supervised what niece picked out so that I ended up spending around 75.00 I think 50.00 would have been more in line but I let it go. Neither my sister nor my niece said thank you. I don't expect people to kiss my ass but just a quick thank you would have made me happy. From there we had lunch and when it came time for the bill my sister left the restaurant with my niece to go back to the store! no mention of leaving a tip or paying her share, nothing. I paid the 60.00 bill and later dropped everyone off. I also paid a few hundred this week for some of the funeral expenses for grandma which sister offered to chip in for but never did. I had a long talk with husband last night and have agreed to be more direct with my expectations and figured I wouldn't need to say or do anything for a while....
Until... this afternoon she left a voice mail saying they want back to the American Girl store to take another one of my niece's dolls there for a trip to the salon but did not have time to pick her up before they flew back home today so could I go get the doll? Unreal. I work in the same city as the store but it is all the way across town and if I go on my lunch hour it's going to be about a 25-30 dollar cab ride back and forth plus I'd have to pay for the doll's salon service and then pay to mail the doll back to her. I AM LIVID. I have not responded yet because I need to cool down, I have a very high risk pregnancy and doctor keeps warning me about avoiding stress. What do I do? How do I tell her no? or do i bite the bullet and spend yet again.


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I have found myself with a problem that I don't know the answer to .
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So what I did was : 'I download the ISO file from 'http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/' BackTrack Version 5 R2, KDE Windows Manager and Architercture 64 bit , Download type was Direct.
After the download of the file I check the ISO on the MD5 With the tool 'hashcalc' at 'http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Downloading'
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As summer begins, so does the invasion of what I like to refer to as the "Boardshorts Crowd". They only surf when the water is warm and are more than pleased to look you in the eye as they drop in on you.
I am not talking about kids learning how to surf on foam boards, I am talking about fairly good surfers who only come out when they don't have to put on booties, gloves, and a wetsuit. Definetly a bad vibe in the water with the crowd today.
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Hate. It's such a heavy word, isn't it? We look into the eyes of a sweet orphan child and recall the words of some great prophet or other and say to ourselves, hate is such an evil thing, destroying our hearts and bringing things to a dark end and all... we shouldn't hate, we should love.
Or something. Whatever.
But I HATE SPAMMERS.
They steal from me.The rob my time.The break my tools.
They make everything suck with their sleeeze. THEY are a source of suckage.
Read this. Please.Google's decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search.
Someone invents an awesome tool. It's useful and we use it. Like teh interwebs, a way to spread useful information.
Spammers break it.
Someone invents e-mail. We can contact people!
We switch to something else: MSN, bloggities, social networks.
We try twitter.
Spammers break it. The number of spammer followers I've blocked is twice the size of my actual followers list. I mention Vim Golf; some GolfUSA starts trying to follow me, hoping I will buy golf garbage. I don't golf. I hate golf. It's a retarded game where rich old men wear ugly clothes and hit little balls with metal sticks. You didn't even read what I said: GOLF in programming ISN'T HITTING LITTLE BALLS SO GO AWAY. But you ruined my day with your garbage spam. I had to waste time blocking your garbage and reporting you... which will do nothing, because if someone closes your account, you'll make another. Or 10.
We use search engines to find information: the web is just too big to find everything we want by reference alone.
Spammers break it. You can't find anything useful on more and more topics because people use the words you look for to say NOTHING. They somehow get paid because you were fooled into clicking, if only for the moment it took for you to realise they've wasted your time and you hit the BACK button. YOU SHOULD PAY ME FOR THAT CLICK, BUDDY.[You convince teh SE's to tell you what we are searching for so you can ruin our lives even more. (Oh and I don't use Duck-duck-go; there's [url=http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm]Scroogle and [url=http://ixquick.com/]Ixquick](http://donttrack.us/) and who knows what else)
And the worst thing is, many of these spammers don't think they are spammers. They're sitting right here, on SitePoint forums and other forums, asking about keyword density, SEO, whether content scrapers and spinners are alright (wtf? DIE) and which types to use. SPLOGS. How to use affiliate marketing, affiliate links, affiliate spam. Spam spam spam. You can have what you want so long as it's spam spam spam. Affiliate is now a dirty word, thanks to you! "But wait, I'm not garbage, I'm an SEO professional!" Uh, exactly: your job is TO BREAK THE GOOGLES, to make something come out on top REGARDLESS OF HOW USEFUL IT ACTUALLY IS TO SEARCHERS. Now those who really DO have the content and the products we want have to come to YOU just to try to rise above the spam... and still fail.
You owe me for my time you've stolen when I looked for something, signed up for something, tried to talk to someone, and YOU answered with nothing but empty nothings, sales, promises, marketing, and garbage. AND PILLS. You know, why don't you try to sell me a bazooka so I can track you down and tell you what I REALLY THINK.
I want to take you and use you as personal pets to fetch me beer out of the fridge for a year. I want you to physically carry me and my friends and my things on your backs to wherever I want to go. Then I want you to go away and do something useful like make me a sandwich.
Hate is a strong word. When I'm robbed, of time and energy, I think I can say I'm not enlightened enough (sorry Siddharta) to turn the other cheek and say I love you. I hate you. I hate you all.
Because you get away with it. You never die. You never go away.
But the Internets, they exist for companies to earn money, right? I can't just sit back and expect free content like some entitled dirty hippy scum, right? Uh, no, I'm paying for access to information that other human beings (IE NOT SPAMMERS) are already offering for free. And if I'm looking for a product someone is selling, I don't want YOUR VERSION. Don't stop me from finding those who are actually selling what I DO want. Don't steal their content and spout pseudo-babble to "push them down in the rankings" because I don't want you, I want THEM. SPAMMERS, you prevent legitimate businesses from earning money on the Internet. Your arguments are retarded, because any "information" you think you offer (which you stole from others), someone else has already offered without ADS FOR HERPES TREATMENTS and GIVE HER THE HANDBAG SHE DESERVES. You offer NOTHING of value. You only destroy.
First WE built everything, developers in their free time, people's time building communities. What's the value in facebook and twitter and mailing lists and forums? The people who spend their time there, offer their knowledge and support there (for FREE), that's what. And you come along and break it all. We leave, fleeing the garbage. We try a new area, and for just a fleeting moment, there is relief. But you follow, and break everything, stink it up with your GET RICH QUICK, LIST YOUR SITE, EBAY CASH MACHINE, CHEAP DRUGS, EMAIL LISTINGS and MAKE HER SMILE garbage.
Of course, the absolute worst thing about it is, some of us are listening to you. Some of us are answering you, giving you money, spreading you around. Because if nobody replied, clicked on those links, bought those enhancement drugs, you would vanish. I hate you because YOU ARE ALSO OUR OWN FAULT. I hate me, even though I never clicked you, never bought you, never read you, but enough of my friends did that you could tell YOUR friends "this is the way to go".
Spammers, I HATE YOU. I hate you with all my worth. Sorry Confucious, I'm not a lady. Sorry Jesus and Muhammad, I cannot love here. No higher standards for me I guess.
All is doomed.
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But let me tell you this: you ARE a lady
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excellent post
regarding the impact in sitepoint forums, naturally we ban spammers, but i have always felt strongly that anyone who posts a fake sig should just be flat out banned immediately too
~especially~ the seo kiddies
I had an e-mail address (back before I knew that mailto: links are a bad idea) that used to get about 300 spam e-mails a day.
Actually, it's also a bit of fallout from when I tried using Blue Frog / Blue Security (see Sitepoint thread).
So I started saving some of the funnier/weirder ones with the plan to make a mini-website of cartoons drawn from the subjects.
Such classics as, "Your manhood will fly like a white dove - independent and free."
I got this really funny one from the alleged Bill Gates Foundation, offering me a pile of money I won in a lottery I never entered.
You need to see the graphic though.
Actually, it's also a bit of fallout from when I tried using Blue Frog / Blue Security (see Sitepoint thread).
So I started saving some of the funnier/weirder ones with the plan to make a mini-website of cartoons drawn from the subjects.
Such classics as, "Your manhood will fly like a white dove - independent and free."
I got this really funny one from the alleged Bill Gates Foundation, offering me a pile of money I won in a lottery I never entered.
You need to see the graphic though.
Wow flying, it didn't know it could do that... How do you train it to fly? Maybe I need to start a topic similar to JREAM. 'How to make my parts fly?'
Look on the bright-side Poes it gives you more focus on what to legitimately hate in the world, i.e. Spam.
I have said the same thing about search engine results before; looking to buy a TV and you get the electrical sites selling the TV and a few hundred sites - some rated higher than the one selling the TV - with links to the same sites Google has found :mad:
Want to research a programming problem? One site has posted the answer/information you want but even more sites have copied the information from the site with the answer and reposted it or just posted a link to the first site. :nono:
Sometimes you have to wade through pages and pages of crap to find what you want.
All just to make money and make my life harder.
Email spam is not to bad now as I filter it on my server and delete it straight away and 99% of what gets through is picked up by my email program and moved straight into the junk folder. A quick scan through every now and again to make sure there is nothing in there I want and delete it all.
I suppose it is not all the spammers fault its the idiots that buy from them.
Careful there, it's a fine line between love and hate
Most people filter it, but since my online web-based mail system was losing too much in the spam folder, I have decided not to configure the spam folder in mutt for my other email address. This means I see it all, and since I use this email address almost entirely to make comments on web development-related articles, most of my spam is SEO-based (so when they claim they do NOT give your email address away, at least some of them must be lying).
Deleting it is easier in mutt than web-based email anyway : )
I blame Google for its poor search results. Over the past couple of months I have noticed that I have not found what I was looking on Google for more often than usual, and it made me think whether Google really needs to improve its search quality. All offerings from Bing and Yahoo have been poor, and largely I've found DuckDuckGo, a search engine made by one person to be the only other search engine that can be relied on for simple searches.
Spam isn't a new problem, yet the latest wave of SEO-touting spammers and compromised websites are starting to fill up the results. YouTube is almost a no-go area for me any more as any video I try to find is either a fake, has been removed or is an advert elsewhere. For less popular, but competitive searches it often takes some searching to find exactly what I need.
In a way I really hope that someone comes up with a viable opponent to Google, because search needs to be competitive again to boost the quality for us.
Why don't you blame your own inability to use it effectively
I for one am satisfied with Google results and always easily find what I'm looking for. Of course it returns more "poor quality" results now than before - the web keeps growing and you will see more of those in the future. But it's a search engine, it's supposed to find everything, then it's up to you to qualify the results. I'd be very pissed if it didn't return me everything because it somehow made a decision for me of what I was looking for. That decision is for me to make, dammit.
If you want a decision engine, use Bing ^_^ Otherwise learn to use Google.
The only way I see how Google can pre-qualify the results is through personalization. But lo and behold they try to do it and become the bad guys again what with all the privacy issues, etc. Whine, whine, whine
I can use it effectively, but it takes a couple of tries.
In all seriousness, My searches are often niche (e.g. my latest search being "sitecore sc:link control") and it's these situations where Google is becoming worse. This may not seem like a bad thing, but I bet even the average person makes a number of searches on niche subjects, and they're the ones with something to lose should they find a page with popups, spam, etc.
In a way, Google already makes this decision for you by pushing these pages right to the end. I do agree that Google should let you see everything, but it would be nice for Google to give us some form of gauge so we can see if the remaining pages are going to be of any help.
The name Bing just makes me cringe, and that's coming from someone who likes the idea of a search engine named DuckDuckGo.
I had high hopes for Bing when it acquired Powerset, but the last time I used Bing it was still awful.
I think this is more to do with the medias lack of knowledge regarding personalisation algorithms. My parents will happily use personalised searches on Google or Amazon until the Daily Mail tells them that they are being tracked and watched whenever they search on their Internet connection.
Either way, for anyone that follows search engine research and progress it seems that Google are struggling for their next move. With Norvig behind them you'd think that AI would be the next best place to push to, and it's probably where they're going, even though real-time search is a big topic at the moment (and a load of nonsense IMO). The only thing I learn when I read popular Tweets is how to hate society.
We're heading back to human control? There is a critical point for Google now. SEO seems to be a hopeless job to me, with no future.
It's always taken me several tries ever since I started using Google in 2002 - I can't see any significant change there, I'm used to it.
Sure, it can always do a better job pushing down the most obvious spam, but it is doing it. The results could be much worse than they are. It's similar to email spam filters - it works but it's not perfect.
The problem is that most results that you think are poor quality are not what can be single handedly defined as "spam". Usually they have some substance and they can be useful to some people more than others. Most of the websites manipulate the results and the manipulation will only increase, dare I say, it will reach a point where it simply equals out.
Actually I think it really is a non-problem. Google reflects the web for what it really is, and there's no point in trying to skew the reality, even if Google itself is to blame for what the web has become.
There's room for tools that can learn from your searching behavior and make it easier to find the results you personally find useful. Personally being the key word, so inevitably there are "privacy issues" and resistance which, I think, is the bigger problem than technology.
A long, long time ago... I used Yahoo, but then I discovered that Google gave much much better results. So I switched, and I never looked back.Google still gives me what I'm looking for, although there are moments in which certain searches give loads of nonsense pages, but that usually doesn't last long. In a couple of days the real results starting coming up on top again. It's a race between Google and 'SEO experts' I guess.
I just put in a search for one of my website and on the first page I get:First 4 pages my website5 results saying how much my site is worth and giving details of how long its been up etc.Last result one of my pages.
Second page:9 results saying how much my site is worth and giving details of how long its been up etc.1 useful link to my site
Third page:10 results saying how much my site is worth and giving details of how long its been up etc.
What use to anyone are the links in blue ? One site with this information might be useful to a small amount of people.
So out of 40 results 36 are basicly junk.9,340 results were found does this mean that 90% of the google results are rubbish ?
No, that means there are few results to your query. As I mentioned before, it's supposed to find everything.
I suppose it means then that the people that are creating usless websites have better people doing their SEO ?


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Toxin-producing algae have been found in areas of the open ocean where iron has been added, increasing concerns about proposals to use oceanic iron fertilization as a way to combat global warming, according to a team of marine scientists.
The findings, reported in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that adding iron from natural or artificial sources stimulates rapid growth of blooms of dangerous diatoms, which scientists had previously thought were limited to coastal waters.
"There have been a lot of ideas about how to remove CO2 from the atmosphere," said Dr. Claudia Benitez-Nelson, director of the Marine Science Program, a professor in USC's department of earth and ocean sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences and one of the study's authors. "One of those proposals has been to fertilize the ocean."
The idea is similar to adding nutrients to a garden in hopes of improving plant growth. By adding iron to the ocean, the theory is that single-celled algae -- called phytoplankton -- will grow, consuming carbon dioxide. When the algae die and sink to the bottom of the ocean, so the theory goes, they would take with them the CO2 that otherwise would contaminate the atmosphere and contribute to greenhouse gas accumulation.
"It's an interesting idea," Benitez-Nelson said. "But this study has shown that when you add nutrients to the ocean, sometimes you have organisms grow that are really bad for you."
What's "blooming" is pseudo-nitschia, a diatom that produces a neurotoxin called domoic acid. When large blooms of that same species have occurred in coastal waters, the toxin entered the food chain, causing widespread shutdown of the seafood industry. Domoic acid causes amnesic shellfish poisoning, characterized by both gastrointestinal and neurological disorders. Gastroenteritis usually develops within 24 hours of the consumption of toxic shellfish, with symptoms including nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. In severe cases, neurological symptoms may also appear and includes dizziness, headache, seizures, disorientation, short-term memory loss, respiratory difficulty and coma. In 1987, four victims died after consuming toxic mussels from Prince Edward Island, Canada. Until this study, blooms of these algae in the open sea have not been studied.
Iron can be naturally deposited in oceans by dust storms, volcanic eruptions and other airborne sources. Those natural, sporadic occurrences have likely been going on for millions of years, but adding iron to the oceans on a large scale could be dangerous if it causes these neurotoxins to get in the food chain, researchers said.
"This is one of the first studies to convincingly prove one of the detrimental impacts of marine iron addition," Benitez-Nelson said. "It shows that one solution you think may work, in the long term, it may even be worse than your original problem."
Benitez-Nelson said fertilizing the ocean with iron is viewed as a serious solution for combating global warming.
"There are companies thinking about all sorts of ways to offset CO2 emissions," she said. "This is one of several that people were thinking could work. Everyone gets a little worried when you start tinkering with Mother Nature. When you change things dramatically, there can be unforeseen results."
Benitez-Nelson and fellow USC researcher Emily Sekula-Wood collaborated with researchers from the University of California - Santa Cruz and Louisiana State University. Mary Silver, professor emerita of ocean sciences at UC-Santa Cruz, was the lead author.
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We are doing an external penetration test to our client network but can't proceed further as our scan/request are timed out every time we start the initial scan. As an example, we knew port 21 is open and could connect to it, but after we did a scan to check any available open ports, all requests(pings, etc) are timed out without any results and we can't even connect back to port 21. This would last for 10 mins and ping replies would return to normal.
We're thinking this might be an issue(or feature) on the ISP's side because all the IPs in the network block behaved in the same way. Is there any advice on how to proceed with the pentest? Should we notify the ISP or the client about the issue? Results would be very minimal and inconsistent and i am sure the client will be not satisfied if we mention the problem at the end of the day.


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Police called to a home found the girl dead of apparent self-strangulation Sunday in London, about 25 miles west of Columbus.
London police Chief David Wiseman told The Columbus Dispatch the girl hanged herself overnight in her bedroom. He said the investigation of the fifth-grader's death is ongoing, and police haven't made any firm connection to allegations of harassment.
Her parents told reporters the girl wore thick glasses, had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and was teased by other youngsters outside of school. Her mother told WBNS-TV the girl frequently came home crying.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7 review - Expert Compact: Panasonic is back in competitionBy Kevin Carter - Monday February 18 2013 Sensor Review
Even though smartphones have eroded the sales of digital compacts at the lower-end of the market, the high-end models using relatively large 1/1.7-inch type sensors continue to be popular. The DMC-LX7 is Panasonic's compact "expert"' model aimed at amateurs and advanced users alike, and replaces the previous iteration, the highly regarded DMC-LX5. This new iteration might represent a serious challenge to both the Canon PowerShot G15 and the Nikon Coolpix P7700.
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7 was introduced in July, 2012 and includes a number of refinements over its direct predecessor, the DMC-LX5 (there was no LX6, in spite of the rumors circulating of a compact boasting a 1-inch type sensor). Like its rivals in this segment, the LX7 ditched the long-standing CCD sensor for a 10.1-Mpix 1/1.7-inch type MOS type (CMOS based) sensor allowing increased sensitivity up to ISO12800 (with boost) and full HD (1080p) video at 60/50/25fps. At 720p, output is 30/25p but there's a potentially creative 100fps high-speed option as well.
The DMC LX7 can also boast of a classy Leica branded image-stabilized 4.7-17.7mm (24-90mm equivalent in 35mm terms) Vario-Summilux zoom lens with a variable maximum aperture of f/1.4-2.3. This is instead of the slower Vario-Summicron (f/2.0-3.3) designated zoom of the LX5. Although a slightly shorter focal range than most current rivals, it's the equivalent to a 24mm at the widest setting and it's the brightest available for low-light photography. It also focuses to 1cm (0.39-inches) and features Panasonic's Nano Surface Coating for reduced flare and ghosting. Not only that but it rates as one of the most impressive lens specs we've seen in a compact. Of the 11 elements in total, two are made from ED glass (with one of those being a double sided aspheric) while a further four also make use of aspherical technology, making a total of nine aspherical surfaces in all.
Weighing just 298g (0.66 lb) and measuring 111 x 68 x 46mm (4.37 x 2.68 x 1.81") the LX7 has a decent but fixed 3.0-inch (920k dot) LCD, however this is one of just two models (the other being the Olympus XZ-2) that can use an optional articulated electronic viewfinder (EVF), greatly enhancing usability. This segment is hotly contested and at $450 (finder extra), the LX7 isn't exactly cheap (although it is one of the cheapest), so let's see how well it did in our lab and if it's worthy of your cash.
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Why do you always ignore the lens?
Per your final comments that the G1x and RX100 should be considered for low light performance, you fail to mention that their fixed lenses are slower, thus needing an 1~3x increase in ISO to achieve similar exposure. To match the Lx-7 @90mm F/2.2 ISO 800, the G1X needs ISO 6400! If both images were compared the LX-7's is cleaner.
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Added by roger cooke | February 19 , 2013
This is a good review, but you don't mention prices? the LX7 is now going for $300. Another point is Silkypix which is given free for Panasonic cameras. For me this was important, as I find that very good and intuitive software for RAW processing. It would be good to compare Canon and Nikon in that regard also.
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Mr. Prokofiev would surely be surprised by the sheer versatility of interpretation that his 1936 children's composition has inspired. (As would many of us who grew up with the basic Bernstein or Disney version of the simple tale about a boy at his grandfather's dacha.)
Yes, "Peter and the Wolf" has legs. Long, multicultural ones.
This month, Prokofiev's work comes to Palo Alto in four languages. A quartet of narrators will present four performances of "Peter": in English, Mandarin, Russian and Hebrew. Ming Luke, a guest conductor at the San Francisco Ballet, will conduct a chamber orchestra. (At press time, tickets to the English program had just sold out.) This will be the first Mandarin-language program held at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center.
"We're embarking on a new journey," said Ronit Widmann-Levy, the center's director of arts and culture. "We do have some members who speak Mandarin, at the fitness club, but we have not been programming for the Mandarin population."
Widmann-Levy, herself a seasoned opera singer, joined the JCC five months ago and is on a mission to expand the center's multicultural offerings beyond the Hebrew and Russian programs that currently exist. "Peter," with its wide appeal, seemed a good fit.
Prokofiev's composition follows a boy (Peter, played by string instruments) who goes out exploring in the forest and meadow, where he meets up with such animals as a duck (oboe), a bird (flute) and, of course, a wolf (French horn). Grandfather is played by an authoritative bassoon. Young listeners learn about different types of instruments, as well as what might happen if you're a duck and a little too slow.
Luke, who makes music education a major focus of his career, calls "Peter" an unusual schooling opportunity as well as a musical classic. "Seeing the instruments and how they can directly portray various animals, with the colors of the sounds, is timeless. There are not very many pieces like that, and it's so ingeniously composed," he said.
Interestingly, while the piece was written for children, it can be a challenge for adult musicians to play, Luke added. The flute part is often used as an excerpt to test musicians on how well they play. "It's very tricky to get really precise."
The Palo Alto performances of "Peter" are scheduled for Feb. 10, with the following narrators: Susan Pari (English), 12:30-1:30 p.m.; Derek Tam (Mandarin), 2-3 p.m.; Boris Vladimirsky (Russian), 4-5 p.m.; and Ilan Vitenberg (Hebrew), 5-6 p.m. Before and after performances, kids can make animal masks at an arts booth, or take part in an instrument "petting zoo," where they can touch the types of instruments played in the concerts.
Luke is a fan of the "zoo" idea. "Music should not be simply about sheer exposure," he said. "It's one thing to see people perform. It's another thing to have the opportunity to try it yourself."
Besides serving as assistant conductor of Opera San Jose and associate conductor of the Modesto Symphony, Luke is also associate conductor and director of education programs at the Berkeley Symphony. There he makes great efforts to involve kids in classical music, and not just as spectators.
One of his favorite Berkeley programs is "I'm a Performer," a partnership with elementary schools. First, professional musicians go into classrooms to meet the students and talk about why they love music; next, the kids go see the players perform. Lastly, the kids get to perform side-by-side with the musicians, playing simple arrangements. One can imagine the little ones, piping away on a recorder or singing.
"All musicians need to be involved in every level," Luke said. "Just being a conductor is almost a disservice," he said.
What: "Peter and the Wolf" by Sergey Prokofiev, conducted by Ming Luke and read in four languages
Where: Schultz Cultural Hall, Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto
When: Sunday, Feb. 10, with performances at 12:30 p.m. (English), 2 p.m. (Mandarin), 4 p.m. (Russian) and 5 p.m. (Hebrew). (Tickets to the English program just sold out.)
Cost: Tickets are $18 general and $15 for JCC members, students and children ages 14 and under.
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Some One Direction fans have been misdirecting their anger about British "GQ's" new covers of the boy band members.
The American edition of the magazine post a special blog post on Wednesday to clarify, after receiving death threat tweets from the group's fans. The U.S. counterpart reminded angry fans that British and American "GQ" are "two different magazines," joking that it doesn't deserve "all the praise." It's unclear why exactly the group's devoted fan base is so up in arms over the covers.
It appears many seem to be unhappy with the way the magazine's pull quotes for the covers took the boys' words slightly out of context. On Liam Payne's cover, his quote reads "Groupies? You're going to get me in trouble." The full quote from the article however has Liam saying "Groupies? We don't have time to party! I'm not even single... This sort of talk will get me in trouble."
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