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Though the lead actress, newcomer Jordana Beatty, gives a spunky performance as third-grader Judy, her character's borderline bratty charm wears thin fast. Mostly it's undercut by the movie's irritatingly antic slapstick style.
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The lesson is that fun can't be planned, but the film is so airless (think iCarly as a videogame) that there isn't a truly playful moment in it.
A film that little kids might find perfectly acceptable. Little, little, little kids. My best guess is, above fourth-grade level, you'd be pushing it.
The film wants to put on screen the sense of random play and concentrated games that fill a child's world for a few summers. In this it succeeds, but the film does not welcome others who might still retain memories of those NOT bummer summers.
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OK for kids 6+
Popular book heroine gets a bummer adaptation.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this big-screen adaptation of Megan McDonald's popular kids' books follows elementary schooler Judy Moody as she experiences a summer of fun that's fine for younger audiences, especially those familiar with the stories. The humor does veer toward the potty variety -- expect a couple of scatological words like "crap" and the sight of Judy covered in blue vomit and a toad peeing on her friend -- but otherwise there's not much that parents are likely to find objectionable. And Judy learns a valuable lesson: that having a meaningful summer isn't about ticking off "thrilling" activities on a chart but rather enjoying your family and each day's adventures.
Educational value: The story isn't meant to be educational, but kids will learn about the Bigfoot myth, as well as the definition of a "guerrilla artist."
Messages: Judy's summer experience offers some positive messages about the importance of not trying to force yourself to do exciting things but instead simply enjoying the moment and finding what's amusing in your everyday life. When Judy and her family come together for the Bigfoot escapade, she realizes that she really can have a fab summer even without her chart and her friends.
Role models: Although she's a little bit flaky and irresponsible (and not exactly a safe driver), Aunt Opal is kind and willing to help Judy in her attempts to win thrill points. Frank, despite being bossed around constantly, is a good friend to Judy and has the courage to tell her when she's being inconsiderate. Judy learns to appreciate her family, friends, and time at home for the summer.
Violence and scariness: Some slapstick comedy -- like kids falling and tripping and cars hitting things -- but no one is hurt. Kids cross a creek unsupervised on a tight rope. In scenes featuring wild driving, it doesn't look as though anyone is wearing a seat belt. One scene features three kids on the same bike, with only one wearing a helmet.
Sexy stuff: Aunt Opal wears some pretty short shorts and has mild cleavage in one outfit.
Language: Infrequent use of words like "dumb," "stupid," and "oh my God," as well as scatological words including "poo," "crap," and "pee."
Consumerism: A few noticeable product placements -- like a Dyson vacuum, the Apple MacBook computer, Microsoft's Bing search engine, the Toyota Prius, and the website GiantHello.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not applicable
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Regularly scheduled guided tours offered on weekends during the summer through October, as "trail rangers," tell stories of the events and people that shaped the development of the Port City. Tours leave from the Kiosk in Market Square and admission is charged.
The Harbour Trail passes more than 70 points of scenic and historic significance in Portsmouth, N.H. Along the way are 10 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings, 10 National Historic Landmarks, and three homes maintained by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
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SOURCE: Digirad
February 07, 2013 07:30 ET
Jeffrey E. Eberwein Named Chairman
Jeffrey E. Eberwein Named Chairman
POWAY, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 7, 2013) - Digirad Corporation (NASDAQ: DRAD) announced today R. King Nelson, former Chairman, and Gerhard F. Burbach have tendered their resignations from the Board of Directors after more than a decade of service to the Board and management team at Digirad. Following the resignations, the board made the determination to reduce the size of the board from eight to six members, and Jeffrey E. Eberwein, a board member since April 2012, was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective immediately.
"On behalf of the shareholders and employees, we extend sincere gratitude to King and Gary for their years of dedicated service to Digirad and for their exceptional counsel over that period of time," said Eberwein. "Their guidance was pivotal as the Company managed its way through a number of difficult external and economic factors."
Nelson, who was Chairman, had been a member of the Board since March 2004. He had also previously been a Director from 2000-2002. Burbach, who is a former President and CEO of Digirad, had been a member of the Board since October 2004.
"In keeping with the continuous focus on shareholder value and corporate governance that was enhanced throughout 2012, we believe that going forward a streamlined board can be more nimble and economically beneficial to the Company while maintaining a broad perspective from management, industry and shareholders," continued Eberwein. "It is noteworthy that the majority of the current directors were either nominated or suggested by the Company's largest shareholders and have taken those board seats within the past year. Needless to say, shareholder value is the top priority as the Company embarks on strategies to move the Company in the right direction."
Eberwein has 20 years of financial sector experience including 16 years in investment management and 4 years in investment banking. He brings to the Chairman role a wealth of Wall Street experience and an intense focus on creating shareholder value. He was a Portfolio Manager for 11 years, most recently at Soros Fund Management and prior to that at Viking Global Investors and Cumberland Associates. In addition, Eberwein currently serves on the Board of Hope for New York, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to serving the poor in New York City. He earned an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BBA with High Honors from The University of Texas at Austin.
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August 31. 2013 11:35PM
3 Nashua murder convicts notified of witness issue
By NANCY WEST
New Hampshire Sunday News
Timothy Brown
Ronald Schultz
Eduardo Lopez Jr.
Information given to three men convicted in unrelated murders between 1987 and 1994 may open the door for them to seek new trials.
The men have little in common except they were found guilty of Nashua killings and one of the witnesses who testified against them was John Seusing, a police officer who had been disciplined for lying to his superiors once in the mid-1980s. None of the men had been informed of the potential credibility issue before trial, as required, according to Associate Attorney General Jane Young.
Seusing is now Nashua's police chief. Commenting for a related story last month, Young said Seusing has had a "stellar'' career and she would not hesitate to call him to the stand to testify in any case. "This incident happened a quarter of a century ago,'' Young said.
The inmates' lawyers now have been notified, along with the families of the murder victims, according to Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin.
On Friday, Strelzin identified the three homicide convicts as Eduardo Lopez Jr., who has been incarcerated since 1991; Timothy Brown, who has been in prison since 1987, and Ronald Schultz, locked up since 1994.
Concord attorney Jim Moir, an expert on the highly secretive police personnel discipline disclosures known as Laurie issues, said he believes the men will ask the court to grant them each a new trial.
"They now will have the opportunity to move to have a new trial," Moir said, adding the process is likely to be complicated and expensive.
Moir expects they will each file a motion to set aside the verdict, but there are hurdles to clear and no guarantee of a new trial for any of them, Moir said.
"The defendants basically have to establish that the failure to provide this evidence was so important that the integrity of the trial was undermined and the verdict suspect," Moir said.
Lopez, 39, was convicted of the 1991 first-degree murder of Robert Goyette in Nashua during an attempted robbery when Lopez was 17, according to reports in the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Last month, a judge ruled Lopez and three other men convicted of unrelated homicides will get a new sentencing hearing to allow them to introduce mitigating factors because they all killed when they were teenagers.
Brown, 48, was sentenced to life without parole for first-degree murder for throwing an unconscious neighbor, Neil Watson, who had been beaten with a pellet gun, into the Merrimack River in January 1987, according to published reports.
Schultz, 49, was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1994 shooting death of his brother-in-law, Russell Jalbert, and sentenced to 22 years to life. Schultz is eligible for parole Feb. 8, 2016, according to Jeffrey Lyons, spokesman for the Department of Corrections.
Moir said the Supreme Court case State v. Laurie makes it clear defendants have the constitutional right that all evidence favorable to them be turned over before trial, including evidence that could cast doubt on a police officer's credibility.
"The burden is going to be on the government to prove this would not have affected the outcome of the case beyond a reasonable doubt," said Moir, who represented Carl Laurie at trial.
The state Supreme Court overturned Laurie's first-degree murder conviction in 1995 because the Attorney General's Office knew, but never told the defense, that a key police investigator who testified was known to be dishonest.
"The inquiry the court will have is going to be fact specific to each case," Moir said. "In other words, the question will be how important this information is and how important (Seusing) was as a witness in each case."
Twenty-seven years ago, Seusing told superiors that he hadn't made an arrest that led to an excessive-force lawsuit.
He later corrected the record on his own and was disciplined. Seusing did not respond to a request for comment on this story Friday.
Disclosure was made in the 1995 murder trial of Michael Monroe, but a judge ruled it inconsequential and it could not be brought up at trial.
No further disclosures were made in later cases in which Seusing testified, Young said.
In a news release issued Aug. 22, Attorney General Joseph Foster said: "Since the incident was found to be 'inconsequential' in a first-degree murder case where John Seusing not only was a lead investigator but also was involved in obtaining the defendant's confession, the state is confident the incident will not be used for impeachment of Seusing in any case."
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The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, wrote an unusual and lengthy response to the magazine, correcting some errors in its reporting but agreeing that the Holy See was "absolutely convinced that the massacre of elephants is a very serious matter" and could do something about it.
Lombardi pledged to have Vatican Radio's Africa programs report more on the fight against the illegal trade in ivory.


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Accelerated Learning is possibly the most over-used buzzword knocking around education circles at the moment, so hopefully I will attempt to shed a little light on
1) what exactly Accelerated Learning is (and isnt)
2) how much it can spur creativity in teaching History
First of all Accelerated Learning is essentially a brand name. This is why when you type Accelerated Learning into Google you end up with 2.4 million websites most of which are trying to sell you training/videos/magic wands and so on. However this is not to say that the ideas the brand is based on arent fantastic, or that some of the trainers and their material arent brilliant too we had a whole day Inset by Alistair Smith two years ago and he was inspiring. In fact it pretty much kicked off a mini-revolution, both in my History team and across the whole school!
So what is this Accelerated Learning malarkey all about? Well, its about using the way the brain/humans learn to help us get the most out of all our students. It is not about making them learn faster, or putting them through exams early. The name is misleading in this respect, and at times causes confusion/resentment so much so that at Rush Croft we have renamed it Smart Learning.
Underpinning this is the idea that we all learn in slightly different ways that we all have different preferred learning styles. Thus the talk of Visual, Auditory or Kinaesthetic learners many learn/remember through pictures & sounds and especially movement/touch as well as just words. From Boys to EAL students via G&T students in fact all of out students! People like Howard Gardner developed the idea of Multiple Intelligences, that we do not just learn in different ways, but that there is no one fixed idea of intelligence from people skills to number skills. Add on to this Mind-mapping from Tony Buzan, Brain Gym, colour, music, positive visualisation and always having water available to keep the brain hydrated and you are getting close to what Accelerated Learning is about. It also makes learning good fun and a positive emotional experience will of course reinforce the memory!
At the end of the day all these ideas can be summed up as simply good, imaginative practice. And even a quick glance at some of the threads on this website will throw up hundreds of examples of these very ideas in use from Ian Dawsons Active Learning to using music in lessons! We are doing it already, and Accelerated Learning really just ties it all together.
However there are some aspects I feel are worth looking at initially in more detail, before I pause in case people have comments/questions:
> The Learning Cycle
> Learning to Learn
> Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs)
The Learning Cycle
This is a structure to lesson planning, which we use in the following way:
. Starter activity/Bell work short activities as soon as the students arrive through the doors. These can be hooks, mini-reviews, sorting activities anything.
. Big Picture how the lesson fits into the enquiry/scheme of work, to put the individual lesson into some sort of ongoing context
. Input the new information the students will need
. Activity(ies) what the students will do to process the information. Short review s are helpful here (eg hold up 5 fingers if you feel confident, 1 if youre baffled)
. Demonstration how the students feedback their new learning (including paired/group discussion, self-assessment, Q/As using a koosh ball to stimulate nerve endings, rhymes, mindmaps)
. Review/Plenary/Next lesson reinforce the lesson, and to start framing ideas/make links about the next lesson before they arrive
The lesson cycle has evolved a little to fit our schools particular needs, and Alistair Smith seems to have recently reduced it to four parts, but it is a key structure underpinning our lessons. Having our lesson plans this way, with reminders to use a range of activities to meet learners needs, frames and supports the planning as well as the learning it takes away thinking about what should come next. This learning cycle is important, and we make our students aware of it too. The KS3 strategy 3-part lesson also fits neatly into it, which is handy!
Learning to Learn
This is a course we deliver to year 8 students, 1 period a week for 1 ½ terms, which teaches them how the brain works, how to revise, to use mind maps, etc. The idea being that the students think about the process of learning, so should be more effective at doing it. They certainly seem to enjoy it year 8s who have a range of revision techniques at their fingertips that they dont forget is wonderful! - and they do take discussions about their learning very seriously. We also introduce them to the smarts Howard Gardners multiple intelligences in student speak.
Gardner has 8 Intelligences, which we have renamed thusly:
Linguistic intelligence = Word smart
Visual-spatial = Picture smart
Bodily-kinaesthetic = Body smart
Musical = Music smart
Inter-personal = People smart
Intra-personal = Self smart
Logical-mathematical =Number smart
Naturalist = Nature smart
Whenever we do an activity that touches on one of these smarts we highlight it to the students eg those students who are people smart light up when we do group work, which pays dividends in terms of motivation when they come to the written work. Students strengths in different smarts can be harnessed for Historical understanding!
We also have smart weeks where all staff incorporate as many activities using one particular smart as possible into their lessons. During music smart week History teachers used rhyme/rhythm for difficult spellings (our MFL colleagues use this routinely clapping out new words rhythm), music linked to the lesson (egg Suffragette City by David Bowie for Protests theres many more on this thread) or to set an atmosphere (world war II songs), poem/rap plenaries and so on.
Interactive Whiteboards to support learning
Interactive Whiteboards are incredibly effective at supporting these Accelerated Learning ideas. Colour. Sound. Interactivity. Video. Learning disguised as fun. These are all available at your fingertips if ICT is provided and used properly/with vision. Penalty Shootout combines all these!
For us History teachers it means oral sources can be used, video clips are at our fingertips, visual sources can be used in all their glory rather than badly copied OHTs, colours can be used to reinforce concepts (eg if teaching N Ireland, Unionist always in orange, Nationalist in green), the internet can be demonstrated and used, sorting activities, Inspiration software, lines of decision/agreement, etc. It brings History alive visually/sonically, and motivation levels rocket. And whilst it was not impossible to do this before, now all the resources are in one place and their quality is much higher. As I am not the tidiest/best organised teacher on the planet having them stored on computer is particularly useful!
In reality it took a trip to Cramlington school in Northumberland to open my eyes to just how useful a tool IWBs can be. There I saw classrooms with IWBs, decent sound and lots of support for staff dedicated IT bods who had digitised all videos, converted lesson ideas into IT activities/slides and groups of teachers given time to research, try out & evaluate new ideas. If you can get your school to pay for it it really is worth the trip! Seeing Ben Walshs workshop at the SHP conference was also an eye opener.
Ill pause here for now, but have practical ideas to try out coming up on:
Brain Gym
Body Smart
People Smart
Mind Maps
Anything else that might be useful!
Of course none of this happened overnight its been 18 months of continuing development so far. It has meant lots of teamwork both with my History team, and with the Learning Group - trying new ideas out (even when youre uncertain), sharing failures and successes and of course sharing all our resources. Oh and lots of patience with frustrating computers! There have been plenty of frustrations with colleagues who baulked at the idea of changing long-set practise too especially when we started implementing Accelerated Learning across the whole school. Weve stolen ideas from pretty much anyone and everyone, in the name of raising attainment of course, and along the way its been the most creative & rewarding time of my teaching career.
PS As for letting the students bring bottles of water into lessons, this is just common sense really. The nerves in the brain need water to work a dehydrated student will be performing way below par! When we first started with this particular reform (!) we all had concerns about the students being responsible enough but that seems ridiculous now. On hot summers days in particular (which seem so far away now!) I cant believe we ever said no.
Oh and if you want to find out more about Alistair Smith, this is his website: www.alite.co.uk They do a neat free newsletter each month. Finally, more details on Cramlington can be found here:
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Hanefeld tied for lead at NEPGA
August 21. 2013 12:12AM
New Hampshire native Kirk Hanefeld enters today's final round of the 2013 New England PGA Championship in a three-way tie for first place at the Wannamoisett Country Club in East Providence, R.I.
Hanefeld's two-day 67-69-136 total ties him with first day leader Robby Bruns (65-71-136) of Shelter Harbor GC of Charlestown, R.I., and Jim Seavey (66-70-136) of Maine's Samoset Resort.
Hanefeld is a three-time New England PGA champion and a two-time Senior PGA Professional National Championship winner. Hanefeld, a native of Claremont, started Tuesday's round two shots behind Bruns.
Hanefeld will be among a field of 65 golfers who made the cut of 150.
Daniel Wilkins of Laconia CC (69-73-142) and Matt Arvanitis of Concord (72-70-142) are tied for 14th place.
Greg Sandell of the Golf Club of New England of Stratham (71-74-145) is tied for 27th.
Two other local golfers who qualified for the final round are Bill Andrews of Portsmouth (73-75-148) and Todd Rollins of Laconia (75-74-149).
ForMatt tournament
Jeff Lombardo's hole in one was the highlight of this year's ForMatt Foundation Golf Tournament, which was played at Derryfield Country Club recently. Lombardo's ace came on the par-3, 157-yard 12th hole. His playing partners were Bill Haubrich, Billy Haubrich and Kristen Haubrich.
There were 84 players in the event, which was a four-person team scramble. John Raleigh, Tom Thornton, Jeff Duval and Chris Stamoulis took first place with a 57. Mike McGuinness (eighth hole) and Bob Kelly (12th hole) won closest-to-the-pin prizes among men, and Ali Puffer (eighth hole) and Kristen Haubrich (12th hole) took closest-to-the-pin awards among women.
Ryan Blossom and Kristen Haubrich had the longest drives (17th hole) among men and women respectively.
Proceeds from the tournament will benefit The ForMatt Foundation
Derryfield women
Andrea Morrell and Louise Billy each teamed up to win the women's member-member gross title with a 136 score at the Derryfield Country Club.
Deadlocked at 150 were the teams of Tara Watt and Roberta Cullity along with Joanna Teas and Liz Lafferty.
The first net winners were Kim Hughes and Eileen Conway with a 119 tally followed by Carla Pratte and Anita Aubin at 123.


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FLAGLER BEACH — Already the owner of four successful Burrito Works restaurants — two in Flagler County and two more in St. Johns — Nicholas Kimball has his sights set on a bigger project.
And he's determined to keep that dreamalive, despite some setbacks.
Kimball is renovating the former Mother's restaurant at 608 State Road A1A in Flagler Beach to open a new restaurant, Fuego del Mar, with plans to hire 100 full- and part-time workers. But the project has hit a snag with the need to install an elevator onsite to provide full access to the expansive upper deck Kimball installed on the beachfront facility, pushing back the planned Feb. 28 opening date.
"This is the last hurdle in a long journey," Kimball said. "I was in my 20s when I started this project, and I'll be 33 next month."
But Kimball is upbeat about Fuego del Mar.
"I'm fixing stuff that I would have waited to do until after we opened," he said. "I have people working doing other things."
Kimball said one of the things that has kept him excited and focused on the project is a recent fundraiser he held to help a local family.
"We had a benefit after a friend of ours passed away and his mom and dad didn't have any money to bury him," Kimball said. "The city allowed us to use the vacant lot next door, and we raised $5,000 that day. It was really cool to see the town come together."
Kimball said one of the biggest problems he has faced in getting the restaurant ready is trying to pull together all of his ideas for the space.
That includes tiki torches lining the walkway that came from a streetscape project as well as reclaimed bar stools and reusing other materials.
"Seventy percent of the lumber in construction was reclaimed," he said. "And we took those tiki gods that were going to be tossed in the garbage and turned them into functional art. There's nothing that snags you more than creativity."
Kimball said his goal with Fuego del Mar was to build a landmark in Flagler Beach "and turn it into a nicer casual-style cantina."
Kimball said another challenge has been finding qualified people to work at the restaurant, a task that was harder than he expected.
With other restaurants opening, such as the Funky Pelican down the road at the Flagler Pier, the number of restaurant workers with experience is limited, he said.
"Fortunately, we have a really strong following with the Burrito Works chain," Kimball said.
Flagler Beach Chamber of Commerce Chairman Mark Gerling said Kimball's project and the recent opening of the Funky Pelican and the Flagler Beachfront Winery encourage him.
"Nick Kimball has been around here a long time and is a solid entrepreneurial young man," Gerling said. "It's exciting, and I give him a lot of credit for the viewpoint to go all out to put a restaurant together."
Gerling said the addition of Fuego del Mar, along with the other new restaurants, and the community's existing businesses will add to Flagler Beach's niche as the county's playground.
"The dollars that will be spent in Flagler Beach and Flagler County and the tourists that come here are coming back year after year make it an exciting time for growth," he said.
For his part, Kimball said working with local officials has been a good experience.
"Not only have they created a great place to do business, they've been very helpful in the process."
That has been important as Kimball keeps coming up with new ideas for the restaurant. And with the process almost complete, he has another dream for the restaurant's grand opening.
"My goal is when we have the grand opening is to get the FPC marching band to play 'Low Rider' out in front," he said. "That would be really cool."
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FLAGLER BEACH — Already the owner of four successful Burrito Works restaurants — two in Flagler County and two more in St. Johns — Nicholas Kimball has his sights set on a bigger project.


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NC teacher accused of peeping on student
A Catawba County middle school teacher has been suspended with pay after his arrest on a peeping charge.
Authorities say 50-year-old Scott Grantham is charged with two felony counts of secret peeping. He is free on $10,000 bond, and it's not known if he has an attorney.
The sheriff's office said a student told investigators that the teacher used a video camera to shoot down the student's blouse as he approached her from behind.
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I just bought a 2008 Dodge Caliber. My new toy has everything I love, including cruise control. I do a lot of highway traveling, and I love my cruise control. My fiance says it's no good that I use cruise control all the time, and that it's bad for the engine or transmission. Is he right? Is using my cruise control too often bad for my car — will I break my cruise control if I use it too much? If so, why, and when should one use cruise control? Love you guys!
RAY: If you think of the engagement period as a sort of test drive, Sara, your fiance just backed into a tree.
TOM: Yeah. He doesn't have half a leg to stand on here. Using the cruise control won't wear anything out. In fact, because it helps you maintain a constant speed, it actually prevents a certain amount of wear and tear that comes from accelerating and decelerating more frequently.
RAY: The engine and transmission couldn't care less whether the electronic inputs are coming from your right foot or the cruise control system. And neither should your fiance. So, tell him if he doesn't offer more fact-based advice in the future, he's going to lose his male automotive-pontificating privileges for the duration of the marriage.
TOM: Plus, highway driving is exactly the time you DO want to use cruise control — when you're maintaining a constant speed for a long period of time, when traffic is thin and moving predictably, and when there are few unexpected obstacles that get in your way (like pedestrians, bicyclists, crossing traffic or aggressive squeegee guys).
RAY: The time you don't want to use cruise control is in dense traffic, or in stop-and-go traffic, where you could be expected to have to slow down or stop frequently or unexpectedly. But even that's a safety issue, not a wear-and-tear issue.
TOM: Right. In the old days, the cruise control used a separate cable that physically moved the throttle. So there were a few small parts that could wear out over time back then. But cars don't have throttle cables anymore. Everything's done electronically, through the computer. So there's nothing to wear out, Sara.
RAY: So, suggest that the future hubby concede defeat on this one. And if he tries to argue that he's still right because you're going to use up your lifetime allotment of electrons, run.
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Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)
Benvenuti nella home dell'EPEL Special Interest Group.
Cosa è Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (o EPEL)?
'Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux' (o EPEL) è un gruppo speciale di utenti (Fedora Special Interest Group) che si interessa di creare, mantenere e gestire pacchetti RPM addizionali di alta qualità per Enterprise Linux, includendo, ma non limitato, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS e Scientific Linux (SL).
I pacchetti EPEL sono solitamente basati sulla loro controparte in Fedora e non saranno mai in conflitto, e non saranno mai un rimpiazzo, con quelli base per le distribuzioni Enterprise Linux. EPEL usa parte della stessa infrastruttura usata per Fedora, inclusi buildsystem, bugzilla instance, update manager, mirror manager ed altro.
Per saperne di più su EPEL, seguire le seguenti pagine:
What packages and versions are available in EPEL?
You can take a look on any of the available EPEL mirrors from our mirror list
Alternately, you can browse the package set using repoview:
How can I use these extra packages?
EPEL has an 'epel-release' package that includes gpg keys for package signing and repository information. Installing this package for your Enterprise Linux version should allow you to use normal tools such as yum to install packages and their dependencies. By default the stable EPEL repo is enabled, there is also a 'epel-testing' repository that contains packages that are not yet deemed stable.
If you are running an EL6 version, please visit here to get the newest 'epel-release' package for EL6: The newest version of 'epel-release' for EL6
If you are running an EL5 version, please visit here to get the newest 'epel-release' package for EL5: The newest version of 'epel-release' for EL5
You can verify these packages and their keys from the Fedora project's keys page: https://fedoraproject.org/keys
History and background of the project
The EPEL project was born when Fedora maintainers realized that the same infrastructure that builds and maintains packages would be great to also maintain add on packages for Enterprise Linux. Much of the early need was driven by what Fedora infrastructure needed on the RHEL machines that built and maintained Fedora. From there things have grown to a large collection of varied packages. See our history and Philosophy page for more information.
How can I contribute?
The EPEL SIG is always looking for interested folks to help out. We always need package maintainers, qa/testers, bug triagers, marketing and documentation writers. Please see our Joining EPEL page for more information on how to join the SIG.
Communicating with the EPEL SIG
There are many ways to communicate with the EPEL SIG and it's members:
- The #epel[?] IRC channel on irc.freenode.net offers real-time support for EPEL users and developers.
- The epel-devel-list is for general developer and SIG discussion.
- The epel-announce mailing list is a low volume mailing list for only important announcements.
- The epel-package-announce list is a list that gets information about package updates as they happen in the stable repository.
- If you find a bug in a EPEL maintained package, please report it to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ under the "Fedora EPEL" product.
- The EPEL SIG meets every week in the #fedora-meeting[?] channel at 20:30 UTC. Feel free to join us! Logs of past meetings can be found at: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/epel/


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In three weeks' time, the 2013 season gets underway for all three Grand Prix classes, and motorcycle racing's winter will finally be over. Before that, there is a week of testing at Jerez, where first the Moto2 and Moto3 classes get their final run out on the track from Monday through Thursday, before MotoGP takes to the track on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
Testing at Jerez may be affordable for GP's junior classes, but it does not come without risk. Moto2 and Moto3 tested at both Valencia and Jerez in February, and while conditions were sunny and dry, if a little cool at Valencia, the test at Jerez was very mixed indeed, with rain disrupting two of the three days of testing. This test looks just as likely to be disrupted by rain: while good weather is forecast for Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, Tuesday looks like being a total washout.
That will leave the riders with two full days of dry testing – for some arcane reason, IRTA has decided to spread the three days of Moto2 and Moto3 testing over four days, with the test starting on Monday afternoon, and concluding on Thursday lunchtime.
There is surely method to this madness, but unfortunately, IRTA does not have a press office, and so nobody to explain it. In the absence of an IRTA – the International Roadracing Teams Association, the official body representing the teams – press officer, the media are left to scratch their heads, speculate, and all too often, concoct explanations for themselves.


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Acrochordus javanicus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Acrochordus javanicus Hornstedt, 1787
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|Taxonomic Notes:
|Independent molecular markers suggest A. javanicus includes two species: the first occurring in Thailand, West and East Malayia, North Sumatra and Riau, the second in Jambi and South Sumatra, Java and Kalimanatan (Sanders et al. in review).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Sanders, K., Grismer, L. & Chan-Ard, T.
|Tognelli, M. & Bowles, P.
This species is wide-ranging and common. It is heavily harvested for the leather trade throughout its range, however, there is no evidence that this is causing declines in the population. This species is highly fecund and reproduces quickly. Habitat destruction may affect this species in the future, and so populations and harvests should be managed and monitored. This species is listed as Least Concern.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|A. javanicus is found in central (Riau and Jambi) and northern Sumatra and around the west coast of Malaysia, including the islands of Penang and Langkawi, and east Malaysia in Sarawak. It also occurs in southern Thailand to Bangkok, and in Indonesia (Kalimantan, Java) and it may occur in Bali, but not east of the Wallace Line or in Viet Nam (K. Sanders pers. comm. 2008). It is restricted to inland freshwater and brackish habitats. This species occurs between sea level and 150 m.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Indonesia (Jawa, Kalimantan, Sumatera); Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak); Thailand
|Additional data:
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|A. javanicus is often locally abundant in degraded and agricultural as well as natural habitats. There is no indication that catch rates or individual size have declined in the past ten years (Nijman et al. in press 2010). It is likely that a fairly high level of harvest is sustainable. However, there are large rural human populations in much of the species' range, and harvest is intentional as well as opportunistic.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|A. javanicus is found in inland freshwater habitats and the brackish zone of rivers, streams, and estuaries. In Thaliand and Malaysia they occur in peat swamps and rices paddies.
Shine et al. (1995) found that larger female A. javanicus produce larger litters, and about two-thirds of the adult females sampled were reproductive that year. The Javan Wart Snake bears live young, about 20 to 30 offspring at one time. It has amniotic eggs, which are retained in the oviducts of the snake and are fertilized internally. The young snakes are semi-terrestrial, until their baggy skin is fully developed. Reproduction is seasonal in all three acrochordids, with ovulation around July and parturition five or six months later.
It feeds primarily on fish and other aquatic animals including frogs.
|Freshwater; Marine
|Use and Trade:
|This species is collected for pet trade and for its skin.
|Major Threat(s):
This species is used for the commercial skin industry. The annual trade in A. javanicus (in five cities in East and South Kalimantan, and North Sumatra, Riau (central Sumatra) and South Sumatra, 2005-6) was estimated at around 300,000 individuals from Kalimantan and 30,000 from Sumatra, exceeding the national quota of 200,000 individuals per year (Nijman et al. in press).
The biology of A. javanicus, and the ways in which this species is collected for the commercial skin industry, suggest that the current harvest is unlikely to seriously reduce wild populations (Shine et al. 1995). The relatively aseasonal precipitation regime in much of its range, the extensive (and largely inaccessible) habitat, the lack of specific and efficient techniques to capture snakes, and the high reproductive output of the snakes are some of the factors contributing to this continued sustainability (Shine et al. 1995).
|Conservation Actions:
There are no known conservation measures in place for this species. This species is not listed by CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). In Thailand there is a prohibition to export any living snake.
An effective and successful method of captive breeding is not available for this species, although they are often kept successfully by zoos and private collectors. This may reduce capture in the wild.
This species is present in several protected areas in Thailand in Malaysia.
|Sanders, K., Grismer, L. & Chan-Ard, T. 2012. Acrochordus javanicus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T176718A1443749. . Downloaded on 20 September 2018.
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to switch gears on more than 30 years of regulating the muddy water running off logging roads into rivers.
At issue: Should the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency keep considering that muddy water the same as water running off a farm field, or start looking at it like a pipe coming out of a factory?
The case being heard Monday in Washington, D.C., originated from a small environmental group in Portland, the Northwest Environmental Defense Center. It sued the Oregon Department of Forestry over roads on the Tillamook State Forest that drain into salmon streams.


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Percona has implemented several changes related to MySQL's fast index creation feature. This feature extends the ALTER TABLE command by adding a new clause that provides online index renaming capability, that is renaming indexes without rebuilding the whole table.
Fast index creation was implemented in MySQL as a way to speed up the process of adding or dropping indexes on tables with many rows. However, cases have been found in which fast index creation creates an inconsistency between MySQL and InnoDB data dictionaries.
This feature implements a session variable that enables extended fast index creation. Besides optimizing DDL directly, expand_fast_index_creation may also optimize index access for subsequent DML statements because using it results in much less fragmented indexes.
A new option, --innodb-optimize-keys, was implemented in mysqldump. It changes the way InnoDB tables are dumped, so that secondary keys are created after loading the data, thus taking advantage of fast index creation. More specifically:
- KEY, UNIQUE KEY, and CONSTRAINT clauses are omitted from CREATE TABLE statements corresponding to InnoDB tables.
- An additional ALTER TABLE is issued after dumping the data, in order to create the previously omitted keys.
When ALTER TABLE requires a table copy, secondary keys are now dropped and recreated later, after copying the data. The following restrictions apply:
- Only non-unique keys can be involved in this optimization.
- If the table contains foreign keys, or a foreign key is being added as a part of the current ALTER TABLE statement, the optimization is disabled for all keys.
- This optimization won't work in case the index is dropped and added in the same ALTER TABLE statement because in that case MySQL copies the table.
Internally, OPTIMIZE TABLE is mapped to ALTER TABLE ... ENGINE=innodb for InnoDB tables. As a consequence, it now also benefits from fast index creation, with the same restrictions as for ALTER TABLE.
InnoDB fast index creation uses temporary files in tmpdir for all indexes being created. So make sure you have enough tmpdir space when using expand_fast_index_creation. It is a session variable, so you can temporarily switch it off if you are short on tmpdir space and/or don't want this optimization to be used for a specific table.
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Current Law Students / Re: Is it possible to publish a comment in another school's secondary journal?« on: August 14, 2007, 03:24:26 AM »
I'd imagine that it's possible, because journal candidates are supposed to try and publish their articles in other school journals if they don't make their own. However, it may be an uphill struggle because you'd lack the whip (aka editors) to make you complete the article within certain deadlines. Writing an article while school is in session isn't easy, even with research assistant experience. Not to mention your experience may not be all that relevant to the researching/writing of an article. Good luck.


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MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Struggling for an edge, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum campaigned Wednesday into the 20th and possibly final debate of the roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Struggling for an edge, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum campaigned Wednesday into the 20th and possibly final debate of the roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul rounded out the debate roster six days before primaries in Arizona and Michigan.
In the hours leading to the event, Romney called for a 20 percent across-the-board cut in personal income taxes as part of a program he said would revitalize the economy and help create jobs. The top tax rate would drop from 35 percent to 28 percent, and some popular breaks would be scaled back for upper-income taxpayers. However, aides provided scant details.
"We've got to have more jobs, less debt and smaller government, they go together," Romney said in an appearance in nearby Chandler. "By lowering those marginal rates, we help businesses that pay at the individual tax rate to have more money so they can hire more people."
Romney's proposal sharpened his differences with President Barack Obama, who favors allowing tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush to expire on higher incomes.
Santorum, who has emerged as Romney's leading challenger in the Republican race, campaigned at a tea party gathering in Tucson, where he said his rival's new tax proposal largely mirrored one he had had already made.
"Welcome to the party, governor, it's great to have you along," he said.
The debate came as yet another pivot point approached in a campaign that already has had more than its share of them. With a decision by Romney, Santorum and Paul to pull out of another joint event that had been set for Atlanta, there were indications this debate could be the last.
While some public polls show a close race in Arizona, Romney's campaign seems confident of winning the state's primary next week, so much so that it hasn't aired any television commercials to date.
But the former Massachusetts governor faces an unexpectedly strong challenge in his home state of Michigan, where Santorum is hoping to spring an upset. Santorum's candidacy has rebounded in the two weeks since he won caucuses in Minnesota, Colorado and a non-binding primary in Missouri on the same day.
The result is a multi-million-dollar barrage of television commercials in Michigan in which the candidates and their allies swap accusations in hopes of tipping the race.
A victory in Michigan — no matter who claims it — would also provide momentum for the 10 primaries and caucuses a week later on Super Tuesday. In all, 518 Republican National Convention delegates are at stake between Feb. 28 and March 6, three times the number awarded in the states that have voted since the beginning of the year. It takes 1,144 to win the nomination.
Romney's decision to unveil elements of a new economic program during the day coincided with a fresh call for a corporate tax cut from the Obama administration.
In a statement, Obama said he was presenting "a framework that lowers the corporate tax rate and broadens the tax base in order to increase competitiveness for companies across the nation" in the name of fairness.
Corporations would have to give up dozens of breaks and corporations with overseas operations would also face an unspecified minimum tax on their foreign earnings.
Romney, like other Republicans, said that was a tax hike in reality.
"We have a very different course set out," he said. "The president will take us in one direction. He wants to raise taxes. That will kill jobs in this country."
But in fact, according to Romney's aides, the Republican's proposal for personal income tax cuts would include reductions in existing tax breaks to avoid raising federal deficits, the same claim that the administration made for its corporate tax recommendations.
Santorum's rise in the race has left Gingrich and Paul on the outside looking for a way in.
The former House speaker has yet to recover from a campaign nosedive that began after he won the South Carolina primary on Jan. 21, and he is pinning his hopes on his home state of Georgia to begin a comeback on March 6.
His campaign announced plans Wednesday to buy 30-minute blocks of television time in upcoming primary and caucus states for an infomercial on reducing energy prices.
Gingrich's decision not to campaign in Michigan so far has allowed Santorum to compete against Romney without also having to fend off a rival for the votes of conservatives.
Paul has yet to win any primaries or caucuses.
He has weighed in against Santorum, though, airing an ad in Michigan that challenges the former senator's claim of taking a conservative line against federal spending. The ad says Santorum voted to raise the debt limit five times, and also supported legislation that created a prescription drug benefit under Medicare.


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Make sure that the office chair that you will choose is capable of supporting the lower back as well as the users spine. If you can afford to, its best to go for ergonomic chairs because it is especially designed to give safety and maximum comfort. Be on the lookout for chairs that have the most adjustable features, but as a warning, do not choose office chairs that are way too comfortable. You do not want to see your employees getting too relaxed to the point that their chairs will make them fall asleep do you? Not to mention that they are taking a nap during office hours, at your expense.
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CIU's Daniel Mallard Named NCCAA Student Athlete of the Week
Columbia International University sophomore Daniel Mallard was named the Student Athlete of the Week by the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) for offense in Division 1 Soccer.
Mallard, a sophomore forward from Greensboro, N.C. has had a strong start to the season, scoring eight goals in three matches to lead CIU to a 3-0 start to the season. For the week of Aug. 26, Mallard scored six goals in two matches including four goals in a 5-0 win over Lagrange College and two goals in a 3-1 win over Point University.
CIU men's soccer coach James Whitaker says Mallard deserves the award.
"Daniel is such a tough competitor and hard worker," Whitaker said. "So it's great to see him honored in this way."
As for Mallard, he says he is "very thankful and honored" to be named student athlete of the week.
"I could not have done it without my teammates and coaches," Mallard said. "We worked very hard during the off-season and are seeing the benefits of that hard work."
Mallard, the first CIU soccer signee, also has the distinction of scoring the first goal in CIU history in a 1-0 win over Toccoa Falls College in August 2012 – the first intercollegiate athletic contest for CIU since it was established 90 years ago.
For more on CIU athletics check out www.ciu.edu/athletics.


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Clockwork radio pioneer to float company
Cash for aspiring inventors
The man behind the clockwork radio - Trevor Baylis - is to float his incubator company in a bid to generate more cash to help fund the work of aspiring inventors.
Trevor Baylis Brands was set up in September 2003 to help inventors get their ideas to market. During that time Baylis Brands has scrutinised more than 200 ideas and made commercial agreements with over 60 inventors.
Said Mr Baylis on his website: "Our novel approach of finding the right route-to-market for inventors' ideas so that they can realise the value of their intellectual property is proving very popular. The response we've had has been tremendous and convinced us that we need to expand our services. We've decided to raise the funds by making a public offering for shares in Baylis Brands."
Financial sevices outfit, Capital Index Group has been hired to handle the offer, which could be sorted in the next month or so.
Speaking to the FT today, Mr Baylis said: "If you can solve a problem you are on your way to being an inventor. Your idea might be unique but you probably think it's been done before. Then a few months later you see it in a shop, you slap your forehead and you think 'I thought of that!'" ®
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State police arrest teen who plays cop
Investigators describe 18-year-old as 'dangerous'
State police arrest teen who plays cop
Investigators describe 18-year-old as 'dangerous'
REVERE, Mass. —
State police have arrested convicted felon who has a history of pretending to be an officer.
Sandro Anaya, 18, was arrested Thursday morning at the Maverick MBTA station in East Boston.
Revere police officers said Anaya had a gold badge, handcuffs, a baton, a BB gun and a dash-mounted emergency light when he was pulled over last weekend for making an illegal left turn in a stolen pickup truck.
He was released on $1,000 bail but did not show for his Monday arraignment in Chelsea District Court.
Lt. Amy O'Hara told the Boston Herald that Anaya has a history of approaching youths at night, pretending to be on officer by flashing a badge or handcuffs, and then stealing wallets and backpacks. He was convicted of one such crime last May.


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Life is better with a little lace! Inspired by our tour of blogger Kate Gabrielle's bedroom, we set out to find the greatest (and girliest!) dresses of the season. While the fabric might be fancy, these easy shapes are versatile enough to wear wherever. Of course, they're also super simple to dress up—just throw on a statement necklace and a pair of printed wedges! Our top picks include a breezy blue number from Aeropostale and a cool cantaloupe frock from Joie.
Click through to see summer's best lace dresses, and tell us which is your favorite!


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Lester Bangs' Basement
What it means to have all music instantly available.
Lester Bangs, the late, great early-rock critic, once said he dreamed of having a basement with every album ever released in it. That's a fantasy shared by many music fans—and, mutatis mutandis, film buffs as well. We all know the Internet has made available a lot of things that were previously hard to get. Recently, though, there are indications of something even more enticing, almost paradisiacal, something that might have made Bangs put down the cough syrup and sit up straight: that almost everything is available.
Music and movie fans of a certain age and a certain bent have strong visceral responses to this issue of availability. We grew up in an age of excited, roiling change in the music and film worlds, but the vicissitudes of the technologies and industries involved made the logistics of merely keeping up—much less being an expert—a time-consuming, expensive, and sometimes impossible chore. I won't bore you with the details, but let me tell you—it was a drag.
Actually, I will bore you with the details. The music you wanted to hear wasn't played on the radio and you couldn't find the records you wanted to buy. You couldn't even find the magazines that told you what records you should want to buy. It was almost impossible to see filmed footage of the artists you wanted to see. And movie fans? We scurried like rats after what could be, for all we knew, once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunities to see this or that film at movie theaters or in unexpected showings on television.
Fast forward a few decades, and we're approaching a singularity of sorts—one in which the digital convergence, in a gradual warm flash, is nearly complete. If you were born to this it's an unshakeable, seemingly permanent feature of the world. The rest of us marvel that a significant part of everything out there that should be digitized and made available has. And once it's out there, getting your hands on it is a fairly simple process. The concept of "rarity" has become obsolete. A previously "rare" CD or movie, once it's in the iTunes store or on the torrent networks, is, in theory, just as available as the biggest single in the world. (In practice, there are marginal differences, like having to do a few extra searches or wait a bit for a download, but that's a big difference from, say, driving across town to a Tower Records to find that they don't have a CD in stock.)
A rarity might be less popular; it might be less interesting. But it's no longer less available the way it once was. If you have a decent Internet connection and a slight cast of amorality in your character, there's very little out there you might want that you can't find. Does the end of rarity change in any fundamental way, our understanding of, attraction to, or enjoyment of pop culture and high art?
The phenomenon crystallized for me while working on a story about the Rolling Stones. I wanted to see the 1972 documentary Cocksucker Blues again. The film, a porny, drug-soaked cinéma vérité by the noted photographer Robert Frank, was never officially released. Indeed, under some sort of legal agreement with the Stones, Frank can show it publicly only when he is physically there. It tends to be presented at college events or in museum screening rooms.
The film took me about 30 seconds to find on the torrent networks, and perhaps half an hour to download. The movie was in great condition. Indeed, I was surprised at how explicit the sex scenes were; although I'd seen it twice before, I didn't remember them. I wouldn't swear to it that they hadn't always been there, but it made me wonder whether Frank had shown expurgated versions at the showings I'd seen in the 1980s and '90s—and that the illicit one on the Internet was the definitive version.
Later, I noticed that I'd made the process unnecessarily difficult on myself: The thing is on YouTube, complete with gobs and gobs of sex. And if you're into the Stones you can of course find tons of other footage, right down to a circa 1964 Rice Krispies commercial. All the Ed Sullivan performances; odd documentaries, like one from Australia, or another bit of foofara called Charlie Is My Darling.
Sometimes the quality isn't great, but on the other hand they uniformly lack the bad aspects of official DVD releases: No intrusive previews, many fewer commercials; no security warnings from the FBI or Interpol in multiple languages or legal announcements regarding the commentaries; no inconsistent navigation; and so forth. The so-called "illegal media" are often more consumer-friendly and easier to use than the legal.
On a roll, I looked for Let It Be, the wan Michael Lindsay-Hogg feature documentary on the making of the Beatles' penultimate recording sessions, never released on DVD. It took maybe an hour to download. (By the way, I'm sure some of the hard-to-find works I'm talking about technically had a release, whether as an import, on laser disc, or whatever. Let It Be, for example, was put out early in the VHS era; here's a copy of it for sale on eBay for $200.)
I like the director Richard Rush—he did The Stunt Man. Long ago, Rush did a buddy cop movie—arguably the ur buddy cop movie, Freebie and the Bean. I don't think it was ever released on DVD, is entirely absent from Netflix, and was only recently put up on Amazon in a printed on-demand format. That's been on the torrent networks for a while.
Occasionally, you see major finds appear and then vanish. One of these for me was Hard Rain, an hour-long Rolling Thunder-era Bob Dylan concert broadcast on NBC in 1976. Like the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, it was broadcast only once in the pre-VCR era and never released commercially in any form. A couple of versions, one from Japanese TV, appear on the torrent networks intermittently—as does Dylan's other important TV appearance of that era, a 1975 PBS special on the work of producer John Hammond, released on VHS but long out of print. (That's a great example of the way fans' abilities to see their icons has changed as well: Through the bulk of the 1970s, Bob Dylan appeared on TV in any substantive way twice.)
You've heard of the Concert for Bangladesh, certainly, and maybe The Last Waltz; what about the San Francisco all-star benefit concert called S.N.A.C.K., which featured, among others things, a rockin' Bob Dylan/Neil Young set? The audio from that, drawn from a contemporary live broadcast, is easy to find. You can hear a powerful audio track from it, "Helpless," on YouTube. You a Stanley Kubrick fan? His early films— The Seafarers, Flying Padre, and The Day of the Fight—are a few clicks away.
And let's remember that on a level below the finished artistic works we're talking about here are untold thousands of pieces of creative endeavor, of interest to scholars and fans, of a different sort: Outtakes, demos, and rehearsals from the sacred and the profane, the high and the low. Eighties-arena-rock scholars take note: After I told a friend about this article, he volunteered that an acquaintance of his had given him a large set of rehearsal tapes from …. Van Halen's 1984 album.
The singularity isn't quite here: Over on Jeffrey Wells' Hollywood Elsewhere blog, the left column features a list of films never released on DVD. I found many of these just with cursory checks of the major torrent sites—just about all you could want of Peter Greenaway's penetrating film work, Bogdanovich's At Long Last Love, and the evanescent '70s cause célèbre Looking For Mr. Goodbar—but there were a few I couldn't as well. (Wells' position, incidentally: "If a film is not legally available, I don't want to know about it.")
And there are a couple of broad categories we might never see. The thousands of films and TV shows forever lost by careless storage or deliberate, if misguided, destruction—like most of Jack Paar's Tonight Show and the first 10 years of Johnny Carson's. And there are some films (and far fewer albums) made, but never released in any form and not yet seen, so to speak, in the wild. Jerry Lewis' The Day the Clown Cried has famously never been released and is not to be found on the Internet (at least by me).
With exponential increases in storage space and even faster download speeds, the best way to find a lesser-known song or album is simply to torrent a discography of the artist in question. Interested in Frank Zappa? There's a 70-disc, 10-gigabyte collection—with about 250 seeds and peers participating on just one torrent site. By my crude estimation, you can probably fit whatever your definition of the pop music canon is on the 1 terabyte hard drive most desk computers come with these days—that's 1,000 gigabytes. Let's say that's the equivalent of some 15,000 albums, depending on the sampling rate of your MP3s, or the equivalent of an average of three releases a week over the last 50 years.
As a new generation of music fans comes of age unimpeded by moral or technological roadblocks to this form of collecting, even discographies will become too minuscule to play with. It will be increasingly easy for fans to share massive archives containing the complete works in given eras of music: the Complete British Invasion … Singer Songwriters from Dylan to Oberst … punk and post-punk—you get the idea.
Soon, we'll all have Lester Bangs' basement in our pockets. And it's just a matter of time that we'll be able to do something similar for film.
Torrenting and other file-sharing sites remain an ongoing nightmare for the large media companies. The vast majority of it involves current and popular movies and music, the illegal sharing of which unquestionably takes money out of the companies' pockets. Yet as technology evolves, the ways we share media—new and old, ubiquitous and "rare"—is changing in different and even paradoxical ways.
Consider that the industries are beginning to recognize that a danger greater than torrenting is represented by the so-called cyberlocker sites—places like Megaupload and Hotfile. (These sites conveniently don't leave the swappers legally exposed the way torrenting does.) Their growth is extreme even by Internet standards; according to the Alexa rankings, several of these are creeping up a list of the most popular sites on the Internet worldwide—a sobering indication of the amount of media being moved around. These sites allow users to put up anything—from a song to, say, a pristine HD version of a new movie—and tell their friends (or the world) that it's there for the downloading.
Personal websites, like the MP3 blogs, do the same thing. Here's one known as Never Get Out of the Boat. (The title's an Apocalypse Now reference.) NGOOTB Redux, as it's called now, after having been kicked out of its previous blogging home, specializes in uploads of and links to big collections of out-of-print and obscure rock and film nuggets, from unreleased early Stones blues material to an unreleased Jim Morrison-directed movie short to, um, a long unheard-of Hudson Bros. album.
The patron of the site goes by the name of (what else?) Capt. Willard. "Nothing's rare anymore," he responded flatly when I queried him. "If someone's got it, or done it, it's likely online somewhere." Willard has a mutual admiration society with the site And Your Bird Can Swing, which purveys the same sort of stuff, with an emphasis on fairly large archives of material, like this five-CD compendium of Peter Townsend's Who demos. A lot of these places allow immediate streaming as well. That creates a new, insanely broad game of Whac-a-Mole for the companies fighting illegal use of their intellectual property.
That's one way in which new online developments are creating previously unimaginable tsunamis of media. Another is more insular: Invitation-only archives, the private tracker sites, that share content, often with a thematic bent. These are basically no-trespassing media sandboxes in which members swap films and torrents (or just pass around cyberlocker links). They have sophisticated setups that reward you for uploading new product—and punish you if you're just grabbing stuff and not bringing anything to the table. They often have well-defined spheres of interest. One called Cinemageddon, for example, says it specializes in "the finest (ahem) rare, obscure and of course trashy horror, martial arts, gore, exploitation and action flicks."
The company Big Champagne has found an ever-more-influential niche tracking modern media usage on the Internet. (It's sort of like the Billboard charts of the dark side of media consumption.) John Robinson is a Senior Media Analyst at the company; he watches the flood of media professionally from his office in Atlanta. "Scarcity doesn't exist in the way it used to," he agreed, when I asked him about my interest. "There's still scarcity of a version of it, that is, a product a consumer would want to own in the physical world. But there's generally a way to find something."
I asked Robinson whether he had noticed previously unobtainable nuggets coming to the surface. "Visconti adapted The Stranger, starring Marcello Mastroianni," he responded. "If you hear about it in film school it's, 'Forget about it, you're never going to see this film. He hates it, his wife hates it, everyone hates it. It's completely buried. Forget about it.' " Citing online discussions, he said the film emerged in 1999 at a meeting of a group of cinematographers. One showed the film on VHS, and a copy eventually made its way to a private tracker site.
Robinson said some fans take a stab at restoration by running poor copies through programs to better their quality. "You can read whole threads going down about correcting the timing of the subtitles or running [the movie] through Avidemux," he said. "It gets incredibly technical." (Avidemux is an open-source video processing program.) Others annotate the files and create synopses. "All of this technical and academic-level stuff is happening totally behind a wall," he said. "You can't Google it, but it exists." But fans can't keep their digital creations behind a wall any more than the movie studios can. Luchino Visconti's The Stranger is now easily findable on any of the open-torrent networks.
The tracker sites' memberships self-select for obsessiveness and an interest in the unusual, so it's not surprising that they are at the forefront of this de-rarefication process. Poke around, and you can see some serious movie fans getting their geek on, keening for foreign obscurities, cult titles from the 1960s or '70s, C- and D-grade U.S. releases, ancient soft-porn films, and elaborate combinations thereof, like The Sinful Dwarf, a Danish adult-horror drugs 'n' sexploitation flick made in 1973. One site works at collective subtitling of foreign films that haven't seen an English release.
Given smaller file sizes and a decade's head start into digitization, the music world, by contrast, has seen an enormous percentage of its product made available. Genre is a consideration; jazz fans, I assume, aren't as Internet-minded as rock fans, so there's a lot of things that aren't online. On the other hand, perhaps because fans in that world are more likely than emo-loving college kids to pay for their music, a lot of material is available through legitimate channels. I don't know if this is representative, but I've noticed that the iTunes Store has the entire discography of one of my faves, the nutty Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo, while he's virtually nonexistent on the public file-sharing sites.
You can see the holes, slowly, being filled in the holdings of the legitimate online music services. I've always liked the ersatz novelty number "Fowl Owl on the Prowl," from the soundtrack to In the Heat of the Night. I used to troll the Internet for a copy of it, but always unsuccessfully. Now the Quincy Jones soundtrack album, complete with "Fowl Owl" and the soulful title track by Ray Charles, is in the iTunes Store. Similarly, I collect versions of certain songs—"Walk Away Renee," "Wichita Lineman," "Stardust," "Don't Fear the Reaper," "Ain't Misbehavin'," etc.—and have always had many more than the iTunes Store has traditionally offered. Now its selection is pretty good, and I occasionally can find versions I wasn't aware of.
But once in a while I still stumble across something that, to me at least, still qualifies as rare. I've always collected live albums, but I've never been able to find a digital copy Rod Stewart and the Faces' 1974 live effort, Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners, for example. It was a fairly noted album at the time, as major-act live sets often were in the '70s, and was apparently released on CD out of Japan at some point, but interest in it seems to be absent on the file-sharing networks. It's available on CD or LP on eBay, for a price. I asked Capt. Willard if he'd ever seen it; he told me I just hadn't been searching for it correctly, and pointed to a cyberlocker site that had it.
So the Internet today is very much like Lester Bangs' basement. In its vastness, cacophony, and inaccuracy, it's also very reminiscent of Borges' Library of Babel. Just as that library contained books made up of every possible combination of letters, in the corners of the Internet I'm concerned with here you can find similar chaos: The song "Let It Be" by the Beatles, sure, but also mislabeled as by the Stones, by the Kinks, by the Hollies, by the "Battles" … and also with, of course, those same labels attached to entirely different songs (like "Let It Bleed").
Anyway, is it enough?
For some, the enjoyment of art or culture has fetishistic aspects. To them, being a fan is about something more than just experiencing the art. There will always be collectors, fixating on the physical objects, like the great LP jackets from the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1990s, in the underground and alternative-rock worlds, labels like Sub Pop, exploiting their brand, played to this side of their fans' nature with innovations like the singles club, convincing people to shell out serious money for nonalbum Nirvana and Mudhoney 45s. (Their descendants today are coughing up for old-fashioned LPs of hep new releases.) And there will always be people who can't be happy unless they have something regular fans don't. Indeed, a friend of Bangs', long after he died, said to me that the unspoken corollary in Bangs' mind to his fantasy was that no one else would have access to it.
Still, it's all fun, and back in the day it could, sometimes, give one a thrill, like when a band in concert, say, played a song you knew but the rest of the crowd didn't. Those days are probably over. But I also know what fans don't always admit: That the vast majority of the rare stuff wasn't all that good. It was rare for a reason, however much the collectors and completists talked it up. A good rule of thumb is that if the fans (or the PR person) are talking about how you're hearing the music rather than the music itself, the music might not be that good.
It's probably still theoretically still possible for something to become rare—if only a few fans have digital copes of this or that movie, a few years could go by with no calls for it on the torrent networks and it might fall out of sight again. It might take just a few discarded hard drives for it to be come inaccessible. But again, with many terabytes of storage easily available to fans—and now with cloud storage becoming the norm—that's pretty unlikely.
In a recent issue of the New York Review of Books, the poet Dan Chiasson wrote at length about Keith Richards' autobiography and made an interesting point near the end, about how scarcity and rarity, long ago, actually fueled artistic endeavor:
[T]he experience of making and taking in culture is now, for the first time in human history, a condition of almost paralyzing overabundance. For millennia it was a condition of scarcity; and all the ways we regard things we want but cannot have, in those faraway days, stood between people and the art or music they needed to have: yearning, craving, imagining the absent object so fully that when the real thing appears in your hands, it almost doesn't match up. Nobody will ever again experience what Keith Richards and Mick Jagger experienced in Dartford, scrounging for blues records.
Point taken—but let's remember it's a small sacrifice. I have this or that fetish object—the White Album on two 8-tracks in a black custom case, for example, or a rare Elvis Costello picture disc. And I remember the joy of the find. But it's hard to feel bad about the end of rarity; didn't a lot of the thrill come from feeling superior when you had something others didn't? You really want to get nostalgic about that? We're finally approaching that nirvana for fans, scholars, and critics: Everything available, all the time. (Certainly Richards and Jagger would approve.) It's not an ideal state of affairs for a rights holder, of course. But for the rest of us, what is there to complain about?
For more on how the Internet has corrupted the thrill of the hunt, read Matthew J.X. Malady's Slate essay " Eureka Lost!"


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The largest indoor farm show in America is about to begin. More than 300,000 visitors are expected at this year's show, which begins tomorrow, Feb. 15, and runs through Saturday, Feb. 18. Twenty-seven acres of indoor exhibit space will be chock-full of 850 exhibitors.
One highlight to look forward to this week is the Championship Tractor Pull, which will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. inside Broadbent Arena each day of the show. Those who attend this competitive event have the opportunity to walk beside the trucks and tractors and meet the drivers by visiting The Pit. Tickets for the Pull are on sale outside Freedom Hall at the administration offices.
Seminar topics throughout the show include smart grain handling, trends in new equipment values, new 4-wd tractors, volatility and risk management, and new telemetry products.
The Family Living Center, located in the East Hall, offers a break from the exhibits with plenty of unique gifts, antiques, collectibles and more.
Farm Industry News editors are now at the show and will bring you all the latest updates, from the hottest new products to the much anticipated Championship Tractor Pull. Follow us on Twitter @farmindustrynew, on our Facebook page, at www.farmindustrynews.com, or look for our updates via the brand-new NFMS '12 app.
The new smartphone app provides the ultimate guide to the show right at your fingertips. It features a full list of the exhibitors with contact information for each, an interactive map of the show, quick social media tools, Louisville dining options, helpful PDF downloads and more.
The app is available for download by searching for NFMS '12 in your app store or by snapping the QR code on page 24 of the printed Show Guide located throughout the show. Visit one of the Farm Industry News booths for more information or for help with downloading the app in the East Hall Lobby, South Wing C Lobby or the West Hall Lobby.