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A New York City man claims that his ex used fake Grindr profiles to send an unending procession of men to his door looking for sex, with some of them becoming verbally abusive when he tried to explain that he didn't actually meet them online. But his suit against Grindr — which uses a novel legal approach — has some free speech and Internet advocates worried about the wider effects a ruling in his favor could bring.
The plaintiff in the case, Matthew Herrick, is an actor and model, Cosmopolitan reported when profiling his case in 2017. The ariclt noted that the harassment started in October of 2016, and at the time of the article's publication Herrick had estimated that the total of strangers showing up at his door thanks to his ex spoofing him with multiple fake profiles had exceeded 700.
Fast forward to now: That number has shot past 1,000, an article posted last September by Electronic Frontier Foundation reports. EFF goes on to say that Herrick's original suit had been tossed out, but that he has filed an appeal. EFF's worry: That a successful appeal could mean a significant loss of freedom of speech for users on the Internet if Herrick succeeds in convincing a court that Grindr's app is, in effect, faulty in a way that can be dangerous to consumers.
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Section 230 encourages intermediaries to host a vast array of content, without having to worry about the devastating litigation costs they would incur if they could be sued for what their users says online. Without Section 230, intermediaries would likely limit who could use their service and censor more speech than ever before. Smaller platforms that could not afford to take these steps would cease to exist, meaning users would have fewer tools to communicate online.
In talking to the tech magazine Wired about the harassment he has endured, Herrick described a nightmare scenario of men unwittingly barraging him with unwanted messages and photos, as well as showing up in person at his home and the restaurant where he's employed — more than a dozen per day, sometimes. Herrick claims that he has attempted time and again — more than 50 times by his count — to contact Grinder about the problem and never gotten anything but an automated message in reply. He's also gone to the police, who, Harrick told Wired, have suggested that he move — a decidedly low-tech, and quite possibly ineffectual, solution to a high-tech problem.
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Since it was Friday, I wanted to "reward" myself with a longer, less trafficky ride in and since I now live in Armory West, I was vaguely aware of the fact that I sort of have access to the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail which sort of connects to the Rock Creek Trail which sort of connects to the Capital Crescent. So, I decided that I would take the long way in, working my way through, and hopefully out of again, Southwest and along the river and eventually to work. Turned out this added about 4 miles to my morning ride, something that my legs weren't quite expecting and something that my poor, uncleaned, neglected through lack of maintenance bike didn't necessarily seem to appreciate.
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Waterfront revitalization, please.
DDOT is currently working on Maine Avenue in an attempt to convert two blocks of it into something less terrible than what currently befalls any pedestrian or bicyclist trying to use it. To that end, they've closed the sidewalk which is pretty much ignored by all bicyclists and pedestrians, including me this morning. Here's a map:
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Per usual, I refused to dismount my bike along the stretches where NPS advises me to do so and neither did anyone else. I don't know if the signs by the Kennedy Center are still there.
I rode through the Georgetown waterfront park, which is nice, and sure beats riding along K and I picked up the Capital Crescent after passing two MPD cars near the exit of the trail. I don't think the officers were doing any bike enforcing today and that's fine with me.
I didn't get the memo that I was supposed to be wearing long sleeves since that was the outfit du jour amongst the CCT set. 103 bicyclists coming in the opposite direction between the start of the trail and the Manning steps. Not bad. If you didn't ride your bike today, you missed out. It was beautiful.
By the time I got across MacArthur my legs were done with me and I slowly rode the remainder of the way in the small front ring. I arrived at work thoroughly exhausted, though not nearly as gross as I have on more humid days. Progress.
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Lime Angel Food Cake with Lime Glaze and Pistachios (Adapted from Bon Appétit)
For the cake
1 cup cake flour
1 1/2 cups superfine sugar, divided
1/4 teaspoon salt
10 large egg whites (about 310 grams), at room temperature
2 teaspoons fresh grated lime zest
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
For the syrup
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1/2 cup unsalted raw pistachios and pinch sea salt, finely chopped in a food processor
For the glaze
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
To prepare the cake
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Into a medium bowl, sift together flour, 1/2 cup superfine sugar and salt. Repeat sifting three times.
In a large mixing bowl, using the whisk attachment on a mixer, beat together egg whites, lime zest and vanilla until frothy. Add cream of tartar and beat on high until soft peaks form. Gradually add remaining 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, mixing until stiff peaks form.
Scoop about 1/3 of the dry ingredients into the bowl with the beaten whites and gently fold the two together by hand until combined. Repeat two more times, mixing just until the dry ingredients disappear.
Place the batter into an ungreased 10" angel food cake pan with removable bottom. Use a knife to cut through just the batter to break any large air bubbles, then use a spatula to smooth the top. Place pan into the oven and bake until the top springs back when lightly pressed or a wooden skewer placed near center comes out clean, about 36 to 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and immediately invert pan to cool completely. If your pan doesn't have feet around the edge to allow for airflow, invert the tube of the pan onto the neck of bottle.
Use a long, thin knife or metal spatula to gently loosen the cake from the sides and bottom. Invert the cake onto a rack, then turn the cake over with the rounded side up. Place rack onto a rimmed baking sheet.
To prepare the lime syrup
In a small saucepan, stir together sugar and lime juice. Place pan over medium heat and cook, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved. Remove from the heat and brush syrup all over the top and sides of the cake. Immediately press pistachios onto the top and sides of the cake.
To prepare the glaze
In a small bowl, stir together confectioners' sugar and lime juice until smooth. Drizzle mixture over the top of the cake - set aside and allow the glaze to set before serving, about 10 to 15 minutes.
Makes about 10 to 12 servings.
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The shuttle Endeavour is rolling again early Saturday after an hourslong delay as crews prepared it to cross over a major Los Angeles interstate overpass.
The shuttle began a journey early Friday being towed slowly through the streets of Los Angeles to a museum where it will go on permanent display.
Friday evening its stopped as crews spent hours transferring the shuttle to a special, lighter towing dolly. Then around midnight, it began the trip over a bridge across Interstate 405, one of the trickiest parts of its complicated journey.
The shuttle was pulled across the Manchester Boulevard bridge by a Toyota Tacoma pickup, and the car company filmed the event for a commercial after paying for a permit, turning then entire scene into a movie set complete with special lighting, sound and staging.
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The Orioles have confirmed they've re-signed right-hander Eric Beaulac to a Minor League deal on Tuesday.
Beaulac, 27, has pitched the past two seasons in the O's organization as a reliever. He was 2-0 with a 1.96 ERA in 12 appearances last season for Class A Advanced Frederick and Double-A Bowie.
The Orioles selected Beaulac's contract from Bowie on Sept. 1 and immediately placed him on the 15-day disabled list in a move that would have created an extra injury-replacement spot for a postseason roster. They reinstated him and outrighted him to Triple-A Norfolk in October.
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Just heard this very shocking and sad news.
Just heard this very shocking and sad news.
This is appallingly sad.
Struggling what to say and think actually.
More thoughts to follow.
Never met Mark but I greatly admired his writing, even (as was often the case) when I disagreed with him. Shocking news, he must have been relatively young.
R.I.P. and commiserations to those of his friends who post or lurk on here.
Αι ψυχαί οσμώνται καθ΄ Άιδην.
I'm struggling for words too.
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On January 13th 2017, an old friend a real friend, an ally and comrade Mark Fisher left this world. Mark was the author of Capitalist Realism, and Ghosts of My Life, and is behind the blog k-punk. His new book, The Weird and the Eerie was recently published on Repeater Books. He was an architect of thinking that helped to combine ideas and concepts that have shaped much of contemporary thinking across the world today.
He, with the sensitive brilliant mind that he had was a troubled being full of anguish and despair at the political crisis that faces us. He struggled bravely with depression yet sadly it overcame him. But he was winning, he was winning in his writing, he was changing things with his words. He was giving generously the tools with which to invent new political worlds, and we are totally devastated by this loss. We had so many plans.
The world is a colder place. Kodwo Eshun, Mark's close friend for over 20 years and academic collaborator, and others will soon be writing more detailed essays and texts as Mark deserves. But for now one of Mark's favourite pieces of music to help him on his journey.
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I am deeply saddened and stunned.
That's no good. Goodbye Mark. Just getting started really.
Feels weird after all the ribbing to be somber, but yeah, a real shame.
I have the Post-Punk: Then And Now book on my phone and today I flipped to his lecture on The Jam, having that sort of sensation of context draped over this now is quite the thing to weigh, morbid as that sounds. And as much as I still stand by the shots I took at Capital Realism, I did like a lot of his writing.
We had many good times together in our golden days of blogging. from 2003 till, probably, 2005.
I first contacted Mark when he had set up k-punk. I offered to help him with some technical things. Small beginnings.
Many memories of meeting for walking, talking and usually a little drinking.
At Mark's flats (warm embraces). By the sea with luka (the two of us suddenly in the dark in the countryside without a light fumbling our way to a train through a wood). The Stratford wastes. In Soho watching Desi and Grime at the old Astoria. Hampstead once - again just the two of us. At my place (Lulu in the bath). Many other meets. And phone calls.
And then setting up this place together. Mark provided the name and the theoretical heft and stuck with it.
A sense that here was someone very special, intense and impassioned but at the same time fragile; someone who needed care and protection.
I saw him last year - charisma intact, surrounded by acolytes - at a Repeater launch and it was good to catch up. Strange to think the sight of him climbing the stairs from the Waterstones' basement will be the last I see of him.
Thread to remain as a sticky.
very very sad news, the world needs k-punk more now than ever RIP mate
so sad.
Not posted here in a very long time. Sure for lots of people it is a logical place to return upon hearing the terrible and unexpected news,so glad to see the forum is still going strong and that this thread had been started.
Im probably among quite a few members here in that I found K-Punk from blissblog, and all the amazing correspondence going back and forth between Woebot, Marcello Carlin, Luka and many others, from which dissensus seemed like the next logical step. I think that period around the formation of dissensus will be looked back upon as a special moment in online culture like the music criticism of the 80's that allot of the participants were exiles from.
Just seen Mark's wife Zoe post on his facebook page that Mark had taken his own life after a recent, extended bout of depression.
Mark succumbed to the demons that he had fought with his whole life. It seemed on the surface that he must have been past the worst of it, being a happy husband, father and published author, with books actually about his struggle, but of course you never really know.
Zoe said that she will post details of the funeral and that everyone is welcome.
Discovered k-punk via Hyperstition and CCRU in 2005, I think. I remember how intellectually impressive they all seemed, and how serious -- it was like philosophy and theory and being critical about the world actually mattered. Very inspiring for me, at the time. Sad news to hear that he's passed.


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Editor's Note: This is another in a series of stories by MSNBC.com about Elkhart County, Ind.
The Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds turned into a caravansary for more than a thousand wandering RVers this week. Roughly 440 RVs showed up to the fairgrounds for the 24th Newmar International Kountry Klub Rally.
The most RVs, 42, came from Florida. Another 35 were from Michigan. Thirty were from Missouri, while 16 were from Indiana. Two rigs came all the way from Alaska.
But the gathering of RV enthusiasts falls under the shadow of a devastated industry. Since a peak of 390,000 RVs sold in 2006, sales have dived 65 percent. Experts aren't expecting much of a sales rebound any time soon.
The RVers at the fairgrounds aren't ignorant to the industry's woes. Many are well grounded to the troubles plaguing RV manufacturers. Still, that hasn't stopped them from rallying behind the tattered flags of the RV industry.
Sitting in a lawn chair outside their 2002 Newmar model on Thursday (Aug. 6), Ed and Yvonne McGann discussed RVs with other owners. The couple are usually at an advantage in such conversations. For the past nine years, the Texas natives have been wandering the country, visiting all of the lower 48 states.
"We do not have a principal residence," said Ed McGann. "We wanted to get away from that traditional lifestyle."
Ed McGann says he and his wife are able to continue the gypsy lifestyle because of their retirement savings. For most of his working life he's set aside 10 percent of his gross income. Rather than investing it, he's saved.
"It's a very expensive lifestyle," noted Yvonne McGann. "It's a privilege to be able to do this."
It's a privilege the couple has cherished. Ed McGann says he's seen many fellow RV-ers settle down because their retirement savings was cut in half in the waning months of the recession. Yvonne says, Aside from their savings, Medicare and Social Security has allowed them to continue RVing.
"There are those of us who are too crazy to figure out we're broke," joked Ed McGann.
Several lots down from the McGanns was Tom Canerty. Like the Texas couple, he's been RVing for years and has been to a number of RV rallies. Canerty is a traveling salesman for Lee's RVs in Oklahoma. He says he's noticed several trends at the rallies he visited.
"If there's any demand, it's for the higher end models," he said.
The RVs on display at the Newmar rally range in price from $100,000 to $750,000. Canerty says that those who can afford the more expensive RV have been less affected by the economic downturn and thus will continue to upgrade for the upper tier models.
"We're also seeing people that would normally buy a new coach every three years are instead upgrading their coaches," Canerty said. Painting, carpet and upholstery vendors, Canerty says, do very well at such rallies.
But many note that the numbers at such rallies have been down. In 2007 the Family Motor Coach Association International Convention registered 3,822 non-commercial coaches at the event. In 2008 only 2,774 registered for the March convention. This year's FMCA International Convention, held in Bowling Green, Ohio, two weeks ago, registered only 4,226.
Barney Barnett, International Kountry Klub director, says despite a slide in registration at this year's Newmar rally, he maintains a positive outlook on the industry.
"I'm cautiously optimistic. It will come back. But don't get me wrong it won't get back to the level it was before," Barnett said. "Looking at it from the sidelines, there's a long way to go."
According to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA), a substantial number of Americans maintain an interest in the market. The RVIA estimates nationwide there are as many as 30 million RV enthusiasts, including RV renters.
At Friday night's closing ceremonies for the Newmar rally, over a thousand such enthusiast packed the largest building on the fairgrounds.
"The industry itself is getting stronger by the day," said U.S. Rep. Joe Donelly, D-Granger, before the cheering crowd of Newmar RV owners. "We're working real hard to have a stable fuel price and a low fuel price. I know how important that is."
Ed McGannon said he prays that fuel prices don't jump back up. In 2008, when the spike in fuel prices took many RV-ers off the road, Ed and Yvonne McGann were able to continue wondering the country in their RV. He hopes to continue to go to RV rallies and has even toyed with the idea of caravaning through Central America.
One thing is certain, he says. "We would absolutely never consider moving back into a house."
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Newmar had originally scheduled its annual International Kountry Klub Rally for Perry, Ga. However, with the harsh economic atmosphere in Elkhart County, Kountry Klub officials decided they would hold the rally close to home.
"Newmar is located in Elkhart County and we wanted to do something to help support local business and drive traffic to the county," said Barney Barnett, Newmar's International Kountry Klub director.
The change in venue wasn't the only thing the Klub did to support the local community. It held a food drive throughout the six-day rally to raise money and food for the Nappanee Christain Development Center. A total of $1,068.25 was raised and a truckload of food was sent to the center.


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Actor Joshua Jackson is adamant the cast of hit teen drama "Dawson's Creek" will never reunite.
The TV show, which ran from 1998 until 2003, was a success around the globe and catapulted Jackson into the spotlight along with Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams and James Van Der Beek.
Last month, Holmes spoke of her desire to reteam with her former cast mates for an update, but Jackson is happy to leave his character Pacey Witter in the past.
He tells Parade magazine, "I don't think we'll ever have a reunion, but I can't possibly put into words what an important time in my life that was. I was 19 and doing what I loved with a group of actors that became like family. I look back on it really fondly."


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TULALIP — The Tulalip Tribes are now one of just three Native American tribes in the country to take advantage of a federal program designed to better combat domestic violence on tribal lands.
In an agreement signed with the U.S. Attorney's Office Friday during a regular meeting of the Tribes' board of directors, tribal prosecuting attorney Sharon Jones Hayden was appointed Special Assistant U.S. Attorney with expanded authority over domestic violence cases.
Hayden's appointment is part of a federal pilot program to allow tribes to start exercising this new authority under the 2013 reauthorization of the federal Violence Against Women Act, which recognizes the authority of tribes to prosecute certain domestic violence crimes committed on tribal lands by non-Indians as well as Indians.
A 1978 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, prevents Tribal Courts from filing charges against non-tribal defendants, even if they occurred on Indian reservations, without special authorization from Congress.
The pilot program has three goals: to strengthen tribal justice systems, to decrease domestic violence on tribal lands and to ensure that criminals are prosecuted in the most effective manner available.
One U.S. Department of Justice study looking at crime from 1992-2002 found the majority of violent crimes against Indians were committed by non-Indians.
While the Tulalip Tribes have more than 4,000 registered members, the majority of people who live on their reservation are not Native American.
Tribal courts can only impose maximum sentences of three years in jail, which means the worst domestic violence cases wind up in the hands of federal prosecutors who often don't have the resources to take on any but the most serious cases.
In testimony before the U.S. Senate last year, Tulalip Tribal Court Chief Judge Theresa Pouley noted that while the Tulalip Tribal Court prosecuted 493 criminal cases in 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice's own statistics showed federal prosecutors brought just 606 cases that year in all of Indian Country, comprising more than 562 tribes.
"This number is unacceptable in the face of the staggering statistics of violent crime in Indian Country," Pouley said in her statement to the Senate.
Hayden has worked for the Tulalip Tribes since August 2012. She'd earlier led the domestic violence unit for the Seattle city attorney's office.
"I think, in addition to having the support of the members of the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI, I see part of my role as bringing the values of the tribe, of Indian Country, to them, too," Hayden said.
If the Tulalip community is better served by a case being tried in Tribal Court, Hayden's new role makes that a possibility.
Likewise, in a serious case such as murder, which needs to be tried in federal court to ensure a just sentence, Hayden's new status allows her to appear in federal court on behalf of the U.S., she said.
"I think it's a much more efficient use of resources we have," Hayden said.
The other two tribes taking part in the pilot program are the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Arizona. The program will become available to all other qualifying tribes in 2015.
"The Tulalips are one of the handful of tribes in this country with a robust enough judicial system to qualify for the program," said Jenny Durkan, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington.
Durkan added that Hayden's role in the tribal court system is also an opportunity to take a more holistic approach to crime in Indian Country because she can bring counsel and a tribal perspective that federal prosecutors might not have.
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Norman Macrae, Sound Money and the IEACommentary — By Alex Chafuen on July 29, 2010 at 5:36 PM
The late great Cambridge educated Norman Macrae, former Deputy Editor of The Economist reflected on the first 100 "Hobart Papers" published by The Institute of Economic Affairs. Sound Money got his attention:
"About 40 of the first hundred Hobarts have been on macro-economic subjects. For me, the most convincing has been the most radical number 70, by the Nobel Prize -winner Professor F. A. Hayek, which advocated the Denationalization of Money. It is probably going to be recognised during the period of the second hundred Hobarts that inflation has been caused by one particular manifestation of the age of growth of government power, namely, the nationalisation during the 20th century of the production of money. Before 1914 the gold standard prevented officialdom from increasing the
money supply. Private profit-making bank s could and did create paper Credit, but the attraction of such paper money remained limited by the security of the issuing banks. Since 1918, governments have acquired the right to print money and do so when ever pressures are put on them such as (a) 'print more money or there will be higher unemployment', or (b) 'print more money or trade union demands for higher wages cannot be met, and then there will be strikes'.
To many of us it once seemed ration al that governments should have the right to make such surrenders. But there have been two changes. First, the argument that it is sensible to allow inflation in order to keep down unemployment has lost its attraction as rich countries have decided that inflation is a main reason why they must continue to allow unemployment to remain high. Secondly it has become clear that, when
trade unions feel that governments will increase money supply in order to accommodate their demands, they will make higher demands. Everybody is intelligent enough to maximise his demands according to
the likelihood that those in power will give way to them. Argument s that wage demands are determined by any less logical reason (such as intensities of feeling about unfair distribution of income) are sociological guff.
Half-a-dozen of the Hobarts seem to me to have advocated the continuance of the main government monopoly over money supply, but with rules on stem targets about how much new money each central bank is permitted to create. The difficulties here are that any measures of money supply agreed as a target quickly become distorted because banks and governments then have an incentive to create money in some form just outside the reach of the target."
We all miss the clear mind of Norman Macrae. For several years he was a judge of Atlas's Fisher Book Awards.
Update on Reserve Currency Mess : The Economist 19 Jan 2011
America's currency punches above its economy's diminished weight in the world. America's share of global output (20%), trade (only 11%) and even financial assets (about 30%) is shrinking, as emerging economies flourish. But many of those economies, such as South Korea, still sell their exports for dollars; many, including China, still peg their currencies to the greenback, however loosely; and about 60% of the world's foreign-exchange reserves remain in dollars.
This allows America to borrow cheaply from the rest of the world. Its government has been able to overspend, secure in the knowledge that its IOUs will be bought by foreign central banks, which are not too fussy about price. America would show more self-discipline, many Chinese believe, if the dollar had a little bit more competition.
Could the yuan become a rival? China's economy will probably surpass America's in outright size within 20 years. It is already a bigger exporter. It is prodding firms to settle trade and even acquire foreign companies in its own currency. That is adding to a pool of "redbacks" outside its borders. These offshore yuan are, in turn, being tapped by borrowers, issuing "dim sum" bonds in Hong Kong (see article).
But as the dollar's history shows, economic clout is not enough without financial sophistication (see article). If foreigners are to store their wealth in yuan, they will need financial instruments that are safe, stable and easily sold. Dim sum makes for a tasty appetiser. But the main feast of China's financial assets is onshore and off-limits, thanks to its strict capital controls. The government remains deeply reluctant to let foreigners hold, buy and sell these assets, except under tight limits. Indeed, it is barely ready to give its own people financial freedom: interest on bank deposits is capped; shares are largely owned by state entities; and bonds are chiefly held by the banks—which are, in turn, mostly owned by the state.


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The King cycling team traveled to Statesboro GA to the 'Battle of the Boro hosted by Georgian Southern University. Competing in some of the largest fields witnessed in the conference in several years the King cyclists managed some excellent individual and team results to move them to the top of the points table in their division. Led by the Women's time trial team who beat some very strong teams to win. Spearheaded by MBA student Kate Ross with solid work by sophomore Stephanie Cucaz and freshman Megan Rogers the ladies beat their nearest rivals University of Florida by ten seconds to secure the win and maximum points for King.
The road race followed later in the day with all team members active in the races in cold, wet and windy conditions. In the men's races Derek Hurst sprinted to the line after a 40 mile race to beat out a group of challengers and finish third in the men's B race. In the men's C Freshman Paul Galewski, Dyersburg TN, placed 10 overall in a huge field for a great result in his very first collegiate race while veteran Reid Yoder, Hoagland IN, finished with a strong placing at fifteenth.
The men's A race was full of strong teams and individuals. After more than fifty miles of intense racing it came down to a sprint finish of the peleton with junior TJ Killelea, Redbank TN, coming in sixth overall while Julian Cabra, Greenville SC and Casey Stallard, Bristol VA, rounding out the top twenty.
The women continued their strong form with Kate Ross coming second with great teamwork from freshman Megan Rogers, Soddy Daisy TN, throughout the race who herself finished ninth overall and Stephanie Cucaz who battled through some early difficulties with her lungs came in tenth overall.


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High-tech product development projects are notoriously difficult to manage. They come in over budget and behind schedule, draining cash reserves and squandering revenue opportunities. Many fail outright. Often times, when customers hands finally touch the product, it is unusable, buggy, or defective. Worst of all, the software may work as specified, but there are simply no customers willing to purchase it. All of these problems share a common cause: the tremendous waste inherent in an undisciplined approach to imagining, designing, and building new products.
The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation.
This presentation will empower entrepreneurs and managers to:
1. Identify a profitable business model faster and cheaper than your competitors.
2. Continuously discover what customers want to buy before building or making follow-on investments in new features.
3. Ship new software at a dizzying pace: multiple times a day while improving quality and lowering costs.
4. Build a company-wide culture of decision-making based on real facts, not opinions.
In this presentation, serial entrepreneur Eric Ries will share practical solutions based in his work building IMVU to more than 25 million members worldwide and his experiences consulting to more than a dozen technology startups.
This is a designated Web2Open Hybrid session, with a follow up discussion scheduled in Web2Open at 2:40 pm.
Eric Ries became a Venture Advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, after co-founding and serving as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups including pbWiki, Bunchball, FooMojo, Causes and KaChing.
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Eric- As the CEO of a site just launched in January (www.awardsandhonors.com), I found your talk inspiring, intimidating and, ultimately, very helpful…. thanks!
Everyone around me in the session LOVED your presentation. Thanks for sharing your hard-learned lessons with us! And making it fun!
Presentation is available at bit.ly/leanstartup
Thanks to everyone who came – it was a real thrill to meet you all.
could you post your presentation?
This was a superb and inspiring presentation that cut right to the chase and addressed issues of high importance to those of us pursuing our start-up fantasies/dreams. Eric pulled no punches in exposing the key reasons most start-ups fail (which I can confirm from two previous personal experiences) but then provided concrete recommendations on how to overcome these kinds of mistakes and increase the odds of success. There was plenty to take away from his presentation and chew on, which is what I'll be doing for the next several months. Thanks very much, Eric!
Hi Eric, I am down to learn more about the Lean Startup Approach in my professional pursuits. I also feel the potential of applying the fundamental discipline principles in one's life, at least in mine!
However, I have a doctor's appointment at 1pm, so are there any other days/times you would be giving a similar talk?
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Sorry – I am still not up to my blogging best. I also need to respond to comments.
My laptop keyboard is not going to start working any time soon so a replacement is winging its way to me. But I am a creature of habit – once I have to start looking at a keyboard to find the "@" and "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" buttons, I get very grumpy.
Keyboard fixed = Me back to my old self.
Until then, a little review….
A few weeks ago this sample of Mememe colourama (UK spelling, be-yatches!) landed on my desk. I don't know who, when, why or how it was sent to me, but as my mother says, shut up and pretend it was for you.
Mememe is a brand exclusive to Superdrug. I have tried a few of their goodies in the past, and was not particularly overwhelmed.
Now – I LOVE cream eyeshadows. They are very much my 'thang' along with bacon themed snacks and black leather handbags, so I was happy to try this out. I think the shade is Azure, a light, metallic, bottle blue.
The applicator is a soft tipped sponge:
See what I thought after the jump!The texture of this is a light cream. It dries within a few seconds and locks *tight* – no budging. I remember when it was really hard to find a drugstore, low end brand that made a cream shadow that doesn't crease. Well, this doesn't crease (for at least 5 hours anyway).
The pigmentation is quite high – it doesn't get crusty when you layer it either:
The problem with this – not so much an issue for me cos I work fast – is that it does dry quickly and when it does, its on. Therefore if you prefer something with a bit more leeway so you can blend it for a while, then this is going to be a bit tricky.
It reminds me a bit of my Visee Cream colour shadows in texture but more pigmented.
I didn't blend this in but I wanted to show you the kind of finish you get:
This colour is not for me really – I've given up the light disco blues but I'd be interested in buying it in more gold-silver colours and if they have it, a neutral base. Its not sticky when it dries either (But I do prefer a sticky base as a primer for my shadow).
Anyway my verdict – this shade is not me but the product is very long lasting and pigmented for a cream shadow. It dries fast though, thats it only fault for those of us who are a bit dozy and tend to leave the house with out skirts tucked into our knickers.
Buy it at Superdrug – I think its about £5.60.


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Wandering around in my archives recently, I stumbled across a few pixel avatars. Here's a sample:
A crazy way for a designer to spend time, perhaps, but there was something challenging about trying to bring pixels alive and give them character and detail at such a small size.
This year, those little "avs" and The IT Crowd inspired a few pixel characters created for Chris Shiflett to add some fun to web app security presentations.
This is "CSRF", (pronounced Sea-surf).You might meet "XSS" and "2 point oh" in one of Chris' presentations but I'm reluctant to show them off before Chris has chance to. Please be gentle with them, like all Web villains, they're really just looking for recognition and a cuddle.
The little avs were created for one of the original 2–D graphical chat sites, OnChat which started in 1997 and, at its height, hosted thousands of visitors in hundreds of different rooms.
The avatars were mobile on top of a static room background with speech or thought bubbles that appeared when users typed. It would pale against Second Life or There.com today, but it was created by a couple of guys, and revolutionary at the time.
Looking back, part of the success was the simplicity. There was no requirement to join, users merely opened a Java applet in the browser. Before they knew it, they were immersed in a seemingly chaotic and infinite space, with little pixel avs all around them speaking and throwing thoughts to each other. Joining in was as simple as typing and using the mouse to move.
The avatar creators of 1997 have no doubt grown up, moved on and got a proper job, but finding these again reminded me that the things we do for fun are often the most educational. The lessons and skills stay with us. Something I try and bear in mind when my sons and I are playing Robin Hood versus the Robber Sheriff and the eldest wants to shoot him with his "arrow barrow" after tying him up with a grappling hook.


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For people in the business of protecting children, the allegations against Jerry Sandusky are sadly predictable.
While many were shocked that a well-regarded member of the football community could be accused of child sex abuse, professionals in the field say convicted offenders often appear similarly upstanding until they are caught.
"These (offenders) are not milling around looking like monsters. They are like all of us, they do a lot of good things, people love them, and then they have this other behavior that hurts people," says Deborah Rice, executive director of Stop It Now, a nonprofit aimed at preventing child sexual abuse.
Given that offenders can seem so ordinary to the people around them, preventing sexual abuse is not easy. In fact, studies indicate that at least one in seven boys is sexually abused by the age of 18; for girls the number is more like one in three — and perpetrators are nearly always someone the child knows, like relative, a priest — or a coach.
But advocates say there are established ways to root out abuse. The catch is that most sports teams and other "youth-serving" groups operate without the training or systems to do it effectively.
"Ninety-eight percent of the people (working in these organizations) are good people," says Wayne McNeil, co-founder of Canadian company Respect Group Inc., which provides abuse prevention training. "The problem is those good people are not given the right tools to deal with the bad people… to look over their shoulder, see something and say 'that just didn't feel right.'"
The training provided by the Respect Group starts with the premise that coaches and youth-organization leaders have power over the kids — a power that can be abused, or used constructively. It defines forms of abuse from sexual assault to bullying and harassment. It arms "by-standers" with information on warning signs of abuse, and the obligations — legal and moral — to take action, and who to contact in different situations.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published detailed guidelines for preventing abuse in "youth-serving organizations," but advocates want implementation to be made mandatory — at least for organizations that receive federal funding.
The guidelines address employee and volunteer screening, inappropriate interaction between adults and kids, and how to respond to questionable behavior, allegations of suspicious behavior and breeches of policy, and ways that the organizations physical space should be set up to avoid blind spots where abuse could take place.
"Decision-makers have to go beyond background checks," says Rice. "It's really about people being willing to say that we are going to commit ourselves to standards, policies and procedures… If allegations are brought forward, there need to be procedures that everyone on the staff is aware of."
The Boy Scouts of America is one group advocates say has gone farthest to institute such measures to safeguard kids.
After hundreds of cases of sexual abuse cases involving its volunteers surfaced in the 1980s and 1990s, Boy Scouts of America put in place a Youth Protection Program. All adults are required to take the training before being registered as BSA leaders and must be re-certified every 2 years.
But adoption of measures to protect children from sexual abuse in the United States remain ad hoc, and reporting requirements vary from state to state.
In Canada, however, sex abuse prevention is gaining traction and federal government support, in part because of a high-profile sex abuse scandal that shook the country.
The scandal broke in 1996 when NHL player Sheldon Kennedy went public with his story of sexual abuse by famed hockey coach Graham James that took place over a five-year period when Kennedy was a teenager. The case went to court and Graham pleaded guilty to 350 counts of sexual assault of Kennedy and another unnamed player and was sentenced to three years in jail.
"It was basically the Penn State case of Canada," says Wayne McNeil, a former gymnastics coach who co-founded a sexual abuse prevention firm called Respect Group, Inc. with Kennedy. "Graham was the Joe Paterno of amateur hockey. The team went on to win the Memorial Cup. This guy went on to be Hockey Canada's Man of the Year."
After the initial conviction, other players came forward with allegations of abuse by Graham, including Theo Fleury, who tells his story in the book "Playing with Fire," published in 2010.
Fleury has spoken out on the Penn State case, urging assistance for the victims, and urging swift justice for perpetrators and those who failed to take action.
For Kennedy, the takeaway is the need for education on the signs of abuse and what the legal obligations are for people who encounter it.
"We look at all the adults that surrounded the situation there and in my case and there were probably lots of people that had a gut feeling that something wasn't right. We need to give them empowerment and tools to act on their gut feeling," Kennedy told the Calgary Sun. "This is a platform for Penn State and the U.S. football and U.S. sport to get up to snuff, change and start the prevention thing."
An abuse prevention training program developed by Respect Group has been used by about 150,000 people involved in coaching, he said, and adopted by sports organization that include Hockey Canada, US Rowing and US Triathlon. The program is mandatory for every coach at every level in the province of Manitoba. Respect Group gives 10 percent of its profits to the Canadian Red Cross for a separate program.
Now, Respect Group is working with Canada's federal government on potentially creating a national program.
For Rice, of Stop it Now, the discussion needs to move beyond Penn State in this country too.
"It's not about one person, one situation, or one college scandal…" she says, but she hopes the high profile case might act as a catalyst. "Maybe this will be the tipping point in this country."
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how do you feel about the tv show Over There
ive heard alot of people say it discust them
and it shouldnt be show on tv, because if people
see how it is over there, that it could turn this war
into another vietnam.
as for me i think the show is great, and even if
it was the actual situation it doesnt change my view
of the war.
As a side not what do you think about
Penn and Teller Bull........ on showtime?
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Drag Queen Hands Bigots Their Asses at Gay Pride Parade
Well, this is cathartic. During the annual Gay Pride parade in Seattle, a drag queen who goes by the name of Mama Tits confronted a pack of garden-variety Bible thumpers telling the gays to repent. Ms. Tits called them on their shit while conducting herself in a manner far more "Christian" than they were.
Citing portions of Leviticus that conveniently tend to be ignored by modern types who use the anti-gay portions of that book to justify their hatred, Mama Tits contined:
Why don't you read your own book, and actually follow the teachings to the letter of God? And learn to support and love? You need to drop the hate. You are a sad, sad excuse for a human being. Once you learn to drop the hate, you too can find happiness because we will welcome you with open arms if you learn to open your mind. Not today, Satan. Not today.
That's so concise and correct, it sounds iconic.
Mama Tits issued a statement recounting the incident. It includes these words, which are also iconic:
I pushed his sign away from my face and hair, because you DO NOT TOUCH my hair. And, it was all I could do to NOT get violent, but I didn't because once that happens, we all lose.