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MUKILTEO — Better access for pedestrians to the Mukilteo waterfront — including for reaching passenger trains and ferries — could be in the works.
The city is studying building a footbridge over the railroad tracks, from the Old Town area to the waterfront.
The bridge could be built in the summer of 2014 if Mukilteo is able to raise the money, according to a city timeline.
The bridge could cost anywhere from $500,000 to $2 million, depending on location and design, said Patricia Love, assistant planning director for the city.
"We have a couple of grants that we're waiting to hear on," she said. "That will be the deciding factor as to when we move forward."
The city is paying $35,000 to ABKJ Consulting Civil and Structural Engineers of Seattle to study three possible crossing locations.
One is next to the current auto bridge on Highway 525; one is at Park Avenue, at the far western end of the parking area for Sounder commuter rail; the third would connect to Loveland Avenue and is the closest of the three options to the train platform.
The footbridge idea has been on the city's books for years as part of the long-planned move of the ferry dock to the former Air Force tank farm. The state now expects to begin building the new $130 million ferry terminal in 2015 and to finish in 2019.
The Air Force is on schedule to complete its long-planned transfer of the property to the Port of Everett early in 2013, Mayor Joe Marine said. The port is then expected to make the property available for the ferry terminal and other uses.
As soon as the land transfer is complete, the city can explore adding parking for Sounder, Marine said. The current parking area holds only 63 cars. Lack of parking in Mukilteo and Edmonds has been cited as one reason for low ridership on the commuter rail service. In Edmonds, Sound Transit has reached an agreement with a private property owner to provide more parking there.
In Mukilteo, a pedestrian bridge would provide one more way for passengers to reach the trains.
Chris Luscher of Mukilteo takes the Sounder train and likes the bridge idea.
"It would be great because you could access it without hitting ferry traffic," he said.
Of the three bridge options, Marine said the one closest to Highway 525 might have the edge. While it's the farthest from the Sounder platform, it also would likely to be easier to build, he said.
A bridge at Loveland Avenue, the alignment closest to the station, would have to arch high over the tracks to provide enough clearance for trains, Marine said. This could create construction complications and block some views from the nearby residential neighborhood, he said.
While pedestrian access is already provided on the Highway 525 bridge, the walkways are narrow, Love said.
Also, it's next to the Old Town business district where more parking is available.
"We want to keep an open mind about all the options," she said.
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How to Search for Loved Ones in the Boston Marathon
Across the country, people are sending prayers to those affected by the explosions in Boston today. As we all await news, you can find out if your loved ones were running or were involved in the marathon.
We are getting reports of several people from our area were running in the marathon.
Google has set up a search database where you can search for the name. You can search for names by clicking here.


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Icer/Glazer Applies Icing in Variety of Panned and Un-Panned Products
Hinds-Bock's icer/glazer will apply string icing and a waterfall curtain icing onto a wide variety of both panned and un-panned products. The icer uses a double-walled heated and agitated tank with high quality, variable frequency pump and filter assembly. An oscillating icing head is used for string icing and an adjustable waterfall trough is used for curtain icing. The icer rolls away from the conveyor for easy cleaning and loading of icing. The conveyor uses a two-part pass through wire mesh conveyor with catch pans and a optional removable center belt section is used for icing small un-panned products.


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Many people believe that intimate partner violence—also called domestic violence—is a concern, yet they still do not understand the full scope of the problem.
The CDC defines intimate partner violence (IPV) as actual or threatened physical or sexual violence, or psychological and emotional abuse, directed at a spouse, former spouse, current or former boyfriend or girlfriend, or dating partner.
An abusive relationship usually develops slowly. It may not be easy to identify abuse, which may not be obvious. Early signs may include extreme jealousy, controlling behavior, verbal threats, a history of violent reaction or abuse, and verbal or emotional abuse. Other signs of an abusive relationship include having to ask your partner for permission to make decisions; being accused of things you haven't done or of being unfaithful; having to limit time with your family or friends because your partner demands it; or submitting to sex against your will.
If you are a victim of domestic violence, or know someone who is, these suggestions may help.
Anyone in an abusive situation knows that trying to get out of the situation can be difficult and even dangerous. This doesn't mean that you don't have choices. First, contact your local domestic violence organization or the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. It provides crisis intervention, information, and referrals to local organizations.
A safety plan is a list of things you can do to help increase safety for you and your children. For example, identify areas in the house that are safe. These are areas where there are no weapons and where you can go during an argument. Try to keep a phone nearby, so that you can call for help (get a cell phone, if possible) and memorize important numbers. Let neighbors or friends you trust know about the situation and develop visual or verbal signals you can use to tell them that abuse is happening and you need them to call the police.
Changing or leaving an abusive situation needs careful planning. If you've decided to leave, here are some ways you can prepare:
Tell someone about the abuse. Know where you can get help and who can help you.
Find out about your rights. Learn about state laws that protect women. Also, find local resources like battered women's shelters and ask for help in preparing to leave.
Keep important documents like extra checks, credit cards, address book, identification cards, birth certificates, and documents of abuse, together in a safe place in your home or in the home of someone you can trust.
Put aside money if you can. Also, hide an extra set of car keys.
Plan for a quick escape and know where and how you will escape.
You can get a protective order from a court to keep the abusive partner away from your home and work.
Get job skills as you can. This can help you become financially independent.
While there is danger in leaving, it's also dangerous to continue to live with an abuser. The violence usually becomes more frequent and severe over time. You can't stop an abuser's actions. But you can take steps to get out of the abusive situation and begin to put your life back on track.
If you need help, call 1-800-799-SAFE to speak to a representative from the National Domestic Violence hotline.


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We always take things too far. That's our number one collective personality trait as a society. We find some injustice or theme of unfair behavior and we overcorrect with such reckless abandon in an attempt to change it that we start making an issue out of everything that even vaguely applies. It's why we're so obsessed with hunting bullies down now, and it's why some people apparently think talking about Wonder Woman's height and body shape is the same thing as body shaming a nice woman for having a slender build. Spoiler alert: it's not.
Yesterday, Fast & Furious star Gal Gadot was cast as Wonder Woman. Her choice was met with raised eyebrows, angry message board comments, loud high fives and pretty much everything else in between. In the twenty-four hours or so since the announcement, the chatter hasn't died down either. The reaction is just as polarized now as it was yesterday.
Here's a not even close to complete list of the questions people have obsessively been asking…
Is she too short? Is she too thin? Is she the right version of ethnic? How will she look in the suit? Is her hair the right color? Is her hair too thin? Can she stare down Batman and Superman without looking ridiculous? How will she fill out the suit? Is she a good enough actress? Is she famous enough? Are her shoulders broad enough?
You may notice a lot of those questions have to do with Wonder Woman's body. Other outlets certainly did, and as a result, the Internet is now being flooded with commentaries about why talking about people's bodies is never acceptable in any form. Apparently, if you're really nervous about Gadot only being 5'9" or you think she looks too slender to play the typically broad-shouldered Wonder Woman, you're a part of the problem and you may well also be a sexist.
Let's all take a step back and have a common sense conversation here for a second. Is making someone feel bad about the way his or her body looks a low class move? Yes, it is. We should be actively encouraging people to be happy and confident in their own shapes, especially when they're not at risk for health problems because of it. But there is a gigantic difference between arguing over whether someone looks enough like a beloved character and making a snarky comment about someone's eating habits.
Damn near every single person on the Internet with eyes thinks Gal Gadot is hot. There are entire articles devoted to her hotness. No one is telling her to gain weight or lose weight or not be happy with herself for how she looks on a day-by-day basis. She's already got that down. Instead, hardcore comic book fans are wondering whether or not that very pleasant appearance is right for a character they've come to love. In fact, this same goddamn argument has been happening on repeat with slight variations since the Internet began, particularly when it comes to comic book characters.
Remember Brandon Routh? For awhile the Internet was worried about, of all things, his dick being too big to play Superman. Remember Ben Affleck? People are still bitching about how he's apparently too cuddly looking for the Caped Crusader. People care about comic books and superheroes in an obsessive way, and because they're fans of different incarnations of the characters, it only makes sense they'd want to see a portrayal that matches the one in their mind. How could that be wrong?
And if it is, where do we draw the line? Is it okay to bitch if Bobby Moynihan is cast as Hercules? What about if Keira Knightley is cast as Mama Cass Elliott? What about if Freddie Highmore is cast as Shaft? Or is it our right as fans to judge the appearance, the acting ability and various intangible factors to make a personal decision as to whether we think someone is right for a particular role? I don't know about you, but I kind of like sharing my honest thoughts as a supporter of a franchise without being called names.
I'm sure some of these people complaining about Gadot are sexists and weirdos and assholes and probably racists too, but an overwhelming majority of them just care. They desperately want the final product to be everything they hope it can be, and we shouldn't be trying to stifle that fandom to try to prove a larger point about society that doesn't even really apply here.
Gadot is a fox. She should be very proud of how she looks, but I'm still not sure she looks like Wonder Woman. That opinion doesn't make me a bad person or a sexist or a body shamer, it makes me a fan with my own ideas about Wonder Woman.


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Leslie Holmes – the great British comedy singer with one of his best… I had this fun record in my collection 35 years ago! I played it for my second wife, she gave me a rather befuddled and annoyed look and said "where on earth did you find that"?
Leslie Holmes – the great British comedy singer with one of his best… I had this fun record in my collection 35 years ago! I played it for my second wife, she gave me a rather befuddled and annoyed look and said "where on earth did you find that"?
Naturist holidays are increasingly gaining popularity according to the latest statistics, and now nudists have no need to specifically track places where they can sunbathe in their birthday suits.
Source: sputniknews.com/society/201805071064224323-bare-minimum-nudists-lodging/
I'M ON holiday in Berlin, sitting opposite a tattooed stranger, chatting about where we're going clubbing tonight. He happens to be stark naked – and so am I. This should be weird, but it isn't. That's because we're in a spa where everyone is nude…
Source: www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/6127527/writer-30-reveals-how-she-used-to-be-mortified-by-nudity/
To celebrate her 40th birthday, Tracia Kraemer wanted to visit a nudist camp. She figured she'd wind up with a good story, but as she recalls with her husband, Patrick, she came away with a lot more.
Source: www.npr.org/2018/05/04/607764107/this-love-story-started-at-a-nudist-park
Most brides spend weeks searching for the perfect dress but I'm not wearing white – nude suits me better… Nicknamed the family naturist, everyone who knew me understood clothes just weren't for me…
Source: www.whimn.com.au/love/relationships/im-getting-married-completely-naked/news-story/9bd947a9a11b862ae690b8bd06a5a17f
I don't remember when I learned to hate my body, and I don't remember when I committed to becoming friends with this skin and these bones of mine, but I know one happened much too early and the other came much later than it should have.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/body-positive-boudoir-photo-session_us_5ad8dde0e4b029ebe02224f6
Recovery is possible… I wished away that part of my body for a long part of my life. But now, I was in the middle of a naked yoga class—something I would never have believed I'd be capable of doing years ago…
Source: www.self.com/story/naked-yoga-eating-disorder-recovery?mbid=nl_042818_Daily_Hero5
To support her husband, Ashley, who was very much affected by this, wanted to do and show how much this issue meant to her. She wrote a poem on her bare back and photographed the poem on herself as she held her husband's rifle above her head.
Source: www.catchnews.com/health-news/how-once-women-got-naked-and-wrote-poem-on-their-back-to-raise-awareness-about-ptsd-111115.html
A mental challenge as much as a chance to view art in a new way, Stuart Ringholt's unconventional 'naturist tours' have sold out again at the MCA with people from all walks of life scrambling for a ticket… Which begs the question, why?
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/why-sydneys-nude-art-tours-keep-selling-out-at-the-mca/news-story/0ca2b6d1f281290753675d1c0d150af3
The reason why we decided to write this piece is because we receive a lot of questions from our female readers who are curious about the nudist lifestyle but have a several doubts about what to expect, how to take the first step and whether…
Source: www.nakedwanderings.com/blog/2018/05/21/9-tips-for-the-first-time-female-nudie/


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SHIVA (Spam Honeypot with Intelligent Virtual Analyzer) is an open-source, high interaction spam honeypot developed in Python2.7 and is released under GNU GPL v3.
SHIVA provides the capability of collecting and analyzing all spam thrown at it. Analysis of data captured can be used to get information on phishing attacks, scamming campaigns, malware campaigns, spam botnets, spammers identity etc. Following are the features which describes the functionality of SHIVA:
To understand more about architecture, SHIVA is divided into two parts - Receiver and Analyzer. In short, the receiver part acts as an open relay SMTP server, collects all spam thrown at it and dumps them into a local directory. The analyzer, then, picks up spam and proceeds with analysis and extraction of useful information.
SHIVA, other than being used as traditional open but controlled relay honeypot, can be used for other purposes too. Listed below are some of the possible usage scenarios:
Installing SHIVA has been made pretty straightforward and simple. It is as easy as running a single bash script; given user have required permissions and prerequisites installed. Detailed documentation is available at github repository of SHIVA.
We expect following packages to be installed on system before user starts installation procedure.
Steps to configure SHIVA have been attempted to keep straight and easy. Everything that needs to be configured is in "shiva/shiva.conf" file. Detailed documentation is available on github repository of SHIVA.
For running SHIVA, open two terminals, one for receiver and another one for analyzer. Activate respective virtual environments and start SHIVA instances. Detailed documentation is available on github repository of SHIVA.
The project is in infant stage, contribution from community would be highly appreciated. If you find a bug, report it to us. If you have a patch or you have added some cool feature, clone our github repository, send us a pull request. We'll be more than happy to merge your patches.
Please note that while submitting patches make sure patch follows PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code.
SHIVA source code is available at https://github.com/shiva-spampot/shiva.
Following are the authors/developers of SHIVA please feel free to reach out in case of any queries or suggestions.


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Even after watching a half-hour review of the McLaren P1, I still wanted to watch more. So why not watch until I become one with the infinite?
I've not been the most vocal supporter of the design of the P1, but I do like the rear wing.
I plan on using this gif inappropriately in the near future.
It does look great on the road, particularly being passed by a Lexus driver.
And of course, powersliding...
...still powersliding...
...and still powersliding.
A 900+ horsepower supercar that's comfortable, skiddable, and could whip just about everything on the road short of that one Japanese guy's Porsche 962. I can't get enough of that.
And if you haven't seen Drive's video of the P1, watch it right here.


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tweetpig needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 55 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Tweet Pig
We are a startup company for creating various twitter related management tools.
We want to have a fresh, clean, identity, and we want this logo to represent us.
Any user who has a twitter account. Power twitter users.
Ideally I would like a fresh, clean looking logo. I like the style of mac logos and icons. I like the glossy look present in many mac icons too.
For example:
Here are some examples of artwork I think are nice of related companies:
Although I would like my logo to be much nicer than all of those icons I listed.
The company name is Tweet Pig. I am not 100% opposed to having a pig worked into my logo, but I think I'd rather go for a hefty bird. If you have a cool idea involving a pig though that is fine too.
That being said please feel free to be very creative. I want to stand out above other twitter tools and be immediately identifiable.
It should also be obvious just from the logo that the company is for Twitter related tools and not for any random product.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Bread Box
This beautiful roll-top breadbox features a unique graphic that will really make it stand out.ideas on the stands.
This is a really nice roll-top bread box that is only available here at CookbookPeople.com, because we do the custom design work on the top ourselves here in Boise, Idaho, USA. The delightful honey color of Bamboo is produced entirely naturally, without the use of stain or paint, through a special heating process that caramelizes the sugar in the wood. This is made bamboo, a wood that is a naturally replenishing grass and one of the world's most renewable resources. Dimensions: 15-3/4-inch by 10-3/4-inch by 6-3/4-inch. Extreme changes in temperature, humidity and dryness effect wood; store away from heat and sunlight in a well-ventilated spot. Wipe clean with mild soap and water and dry thoroughly; rub occasionally with mineral oil to maintain appearance.
Your engraved design will differ, but here's how it looks with bread in it:
Being made from natural wood and engraved individually, all our organization boxes are unique. Please be aware that the box you receive and the tone of the engraving may vary from the pictures on our site.
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You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).
You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the "Complete Orders" link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.
We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.
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Matthias Duwel's abundantly colorful paintings and black and white drawings operate in dynamic transition between clutter and streamlined clarity. Düwel's work centers on the idea of flux, excess and superabundance. At first glance, the environmental issues addressed in his pieces deflect recognition, due to the skillful use of unique color spaces-from chromatic grays to highly saturated pinks, greens, blues and violets.
The worlds Düwel constructs are reminiscent of amusement parks, camouflaging so to speak the seriousness of the subject-matter. His chaotically vivid, whirlwind compositions spin out of control, however upon closer inspection, little areas of respite, little Edens appear: a snow globe, an Airstream trailer, a suburban enclave.
These idealized enclaves produce the realization that only deep inside ourselves, within the confines of our own inner sanctum, can we find the stability that we as humans inherently seek…our personal Eden.
Martha Otero Gallery in Los Angeles opens a solo exhibition of Duwel's work entitled Eden on August 4th.


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MEXICO CITY — The Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador has abruptly closed its important human rights and legal aid office, which for years, and sometimes at great risk, denounced and investigated the most egregious atrocities surrounding that country's civil war.
The surprise decision became known Tuesday, when employees showed up for work at the Tutela Legal office in the Central American nation's capital, San Salvador, and found padlocks on the doors and guards who denied them entry.
Many in the international human rights community expressed alarm Wednesday and called for the preservation of Tutela Legal's extensive archive, considered a treasure-trove for investigators as well as a valuable repository of evidence in still-unresolved criminal cases.
For some, it was especially ominous that the closure came just after El Salvador's judiciary agreed to hear challenges to an amnesty law that, if overturned, might reopen several prominent human rights cases.
"It is a strange coincidence," Tutela's director, Ovidio Mauricio Gonzalez, said by telephone from San Salvador. "Just as they are talking about the amnesty, they close Tutela Legal, they close access to the archive, and abandon it to its fate."
The amnesty law, passed in 1993, protected numerous government officials, military officers and guerrilla leaders from prosecution for acts committed during the 1980-92 civil war. Late last year, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that the law cannot be used to protect those who ordered and carried out the single largest massacre in the war: the December 1981 slaughter of hundreds of peasants, including children, at El Mozote in northeastern El Salvador.
Last month, the Salvadoran Supreme Court in a major shift agreed to hear arguments that the amnesty was unconstitutional.
Tutela Legal said its shutdown was ordered by Jose Luis Escobar Alas, the archbishop of San Salvador. Employees said they were told that, with the war long over, the office was no longer necessary.
Supporters vehemently rejected that reasoning, noting that in addition to its archive, the organization also continued to do important legal work for the poor.
"I am worried about the bad signal this sends," President Mauricio Funes said in a news conference, adding he did not know the reasons behind the closing.
"The Catholic Church, and especially the archbishop of San Salvador, are not determined to accompany the just causes of the people," Funes, the country's first president from the left, added in unusually harsh terms.
Ana Marcia Aguiluz, Central America director of the Center for Justice and International Law, called the closure "a very worrisome and unfortunate decision."
"Tutela Legal is fundamental to the pursuit of justice, not only in the past," Aguiluz said. "Thousands of victims still long for justice. It has more reason than ever to exist."
Tutela Legal was founded before the war by the then-archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero. In addition to counseling the poor and oppressed, it became the driving force behind investigations of the most emblematic atrocities of the period, including the 1980 slaying of Romero, shot by gunmen linked to the military as he said Mass. Another crucial case was the military's 1989 slaying of six Jesuit priests (one of them the rector of San Salvador's University of Central America, or UCA), as well as their housekeeper and her daughter.
It was also Tutela Legal that pushed for investigation of the El Mozote massacre. For years, the Salvadoran government and army, and the Reagan administration that backed them, strenuously denied that a massacre had taken place. Tutela Legal investigators traveled the country, even at the height of war, to find survivors and piece together witness accounts.
"They were incredibly well trusted by Salvadorans," said David Holiday, who was the Central America representative for Human Rights Watch in the 1990s and is now with the Open Society Foundations. "Singularly … because of them … we had a very good estimate of what was going on in the war."
In addition to its historical role on behalf of justice, Tutela Legal had more recently turned its attention to the violence, insecurity and social inequities that continue to beset the tiny Central American nation, said Jeannette Aguilar, head of UCA's public-opinion institute. Tutela's work has recently included studies of gang violence, abuses tied to the expanded role of the military in policing, and reconciliation projects in the still-polarized country.
"The violation of civil, social and cultural rights is our daily bread here," Aguilar said.
Members of the Tutela Legal staff were examining alternatives Wednesday. There were suggestions that the office reopen as an independent human rights organization, without the auspices of the church. Gonzalez and some of his employees met with Pope Francis' San Salvador representative to plead their case.


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How To Publish A Fanzine
From ZineWiki
How To Publish A Fanzine is a book about how to write, create and publish a zine, written by Mike Gunderloy. The book was published in July 1988 by Loompanics Unlimited.
Gunderloy began publishing Factsheet Five in 1982 and had been talking about publishing a basic how-to book on fanzines for years before finally writing it during 1987. The next year Loompanics, publisher of a lot of underground and subversive press at the time, put out the book. This may be the first how-to book on zine publishing, coming out a good 14 years before Stolen Sharpie Revolution. It's 91 pages long, perfect bound, and has an orange cover. While long out of print, copies can be pretty easily tracked down through used book sellers on Amazon.com.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Why Publish?
- Types of Fanzines
- How to Publish - Production
- Printing & Bindery
- How to Publish - Mailing
- How to Publish - Promotion and Financing
- A Sample Fanzine
- Afterword
- Appendix 1 - Life During Wartime
- Appendix 2 - The High School "Underground" Paper
- Bilbiography
- Glossary


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text: Schleck has been runner-up at the Tour three times and was handed the 2010 title after rival Alberto Contador was found guilty of doping [EPA]Yellow jersey contender Andy Schleck has pulled out of this year's Tour de France due to injuries suffered in last week's Criterium du Dauphine race, according to his family. Schleck was among the favourites for the 98th edition, which will begin in Liege, Belgium on June 30 and end in Paris on July 22, but will take no part after being diagnosed with a pelvis fracture in recent days. The RadioShack climbing specialist, who has finished runner-up three times on the world's premier cycling event, had recently been crowned the 2010 champion following the disqualification of Spain's Alberto Contador for doping offences.Crashing out Schleck's joy at finally securing the yellow jersey was, however, tempered by the injuries he suffered in a crash last Thursday at the Criterium, an eight-day race which is a major tune-up for the Tour. During a 53 km time trial a strong gust of wind literally picked Schleck and his bike up off the ground and dumped him at the side of the road. Schleck continued, but complained of leg and back pain and despite beginning Saturday's sixth and penultimate stage he pulled out after 63 km. "He couldn't pedal anymore," RadioShack sporting director Alain Gallopin told the race's official website. "Since he crashed during the time trial, the whole right side of his body was hurting." Schleck returned to Luxembourg on Saturday and underwent scans at the beginning of the week which revealed the extent of his injuries.Poor season It will be the first time the 27-year-old Schleck misses the race since he made his debut in 2008 with CSC. However it will be seen by many as the nadir to a season which has been one of his worst to date. Schleck, 27, abandoned a number of top stage races, such as Paris-Nice, the Tour of Catalunya and the Dauphine, that would have been key to building his form for the Tour, and he has complained of ill health. At the end of May he cut short a training camp on some key stages of the Tour de France to have treatment for three days at a clinic in Basel, Switzerland on a troublesome knee. Schleck had planned to continue his training camp in the Pyrenees mountains as of Thursday, until hospital scans at the beginning of the week ended all hopes of competing in this year's race. Schleck's older brother Frank, who finished third overall on last year's Tour, is currently racing the Tour of Switzerland and is likely to spearhead RadioShack's yellow jersey bid this summer. The overall favourite, however, is Bradley Wiggins. He will aim to succeed Australia's Cadel Evans and thus become the first Briton to win the prestigious yellow jersey. SOURCE: AFP Sport Cycling Australia Belgium France


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Bus strikes
Bus commuters will be without transport on Monday because of a strike by Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit drivers, the city said.
The strike by bus drivers from Piotrans, the company which operates the Rea Vaya service, related to salary progression and the status of drivers who were shareholders in the company, the city said in a statement.
"We understand from Piotrans that the workers' demands are not the same as those of the workers involved in the nationwide strike as a result of the dispute at the SA Road Passenger Bargaining Council," it said.
Piotrans had advised the city that the drivers would be on strike from 4am, and that it would seek an urgent Labour Court interdict to have the strike declare illegal.
The SA Transport and Allied Workers' Union (Satawu) announced a nationwide strike on Thursday, which it said was a result of a wage negotiations deadlock. Workers were demanding an 18 percent increase.
While Satawu said employers had offered 2.5 percent, the Commuter Bus Employers' Organisation (CBEO) said the offer on the table was 6.5 percent.
The CBEO said workers were demanding a minimum monthly wage of R6000 across the industry, a R1000 housing allowance, and an increase in medical aid contributions.
Gautrain buses were not operating on Friday, but municipal buses were operating in Johannesburg.


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Martin St. Louis leads Lightning past Panthers
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Martin St. Louis had a goal and two assists and the Tampa Bay Lightning extended their winning streak to five games with a 6-1 victory over the Florida Panthers on Monday.
Valtteri Filppula had a goal and an assist and Victor Hedman had three assists. J.T. Brown added two third-period goals for Tampa Bay.
Alex Killorn and Tyler Johnson also scored for the Lightning.
Ben Bishop made 28 saves for his 20th victory of the season.
Sean Bergenheim scored and Scott Clemmensen made 30 saves for Florida.
St. Louis assisted on Johnson's tap-in goal off a wide shot off the boards by Hedman and added another on Filppula's power-play goal less than five minutes later for a 3-1 Lightning lead in the second period.
St. Louis scored his 16th goal of the season when his batted shot escaped Clemmensen for a 4-1 advantage after two periods.
With the game tied 1-1 entering the second period, Hedman took a pass in the left circle from St. Louis and sent a shot that went wide of Clemmensen. Johnson was in the right place and scored his ninth goal.
Florida then took a pair of minor penalties 6:48 into the period — Tom Gilbert for hooking and the bench for too many men on the ice — that led to full two-minute 5-on-3 power play for the Lightning.
In the slot, Filppula gathered a shot from Teddy Purcell that deflected off Marcel Goc's stick and sent it past Clemmensen for his 13th goal. St. Louis recorded the second assist on the goal, and scored an even-strength goal 4:06 later.
Florida had a second man advantage when Ondrej Palat went off for hooking.
Bergenheim scored his fifth goal when Aleksander Barkov stole Matt Carle's clearing attempt and deflected it to Bergenheim, who beat goaltender Bishop at 18:56 of the first.
Tampa Bay scored 19 seconds later on the next shift when Killorn's tapped in his ninth goal off a pass from Filppula to even it at 1-1.
Panthers defenseman Erik Gudbranson (orbital bone) had surgery Monday after being injured in Winnipeg. The club called up defenseman Alex Petrovic from San Antonio (AHL) earlier in the day. The 2010 second-round pick logged 13:27 of ice time in his season debut.
NOTES: Florida F Scottie Upshall (upper body) was hurt in the first period and didn't return. … Tampa Bay D Sami Salo (upper body) left in the second period and didn't return. … Florida G Tim Thomas remained on the injured reserve (retroactive to Dec. 12) and missed his sixth straight game after being hurt nearly two weeks ago in practice. … With the win in the teams' third meeting, Tampa Bay won the first annual Governor's Cup, created during the offseason by Florida Governor Rick Scott. … Tampa Bay and Florida are both idle through the holiday break before hosting games Saturday.


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THEY'RE BACK, and they're fast. By mid June, entomologists already had reported sightings of soybean aphids in the northern soybean belt. What's more, temperatures in the 70s to 80s and dry weather in much of the Midwest were providing the right conditions for further infestation. But with new techniques, such as "speed scouting," and an arsenal of foliar insecticides, soybean growers have some tools to keep pace with a pest whose populations can more than double in just a few days and put more than a dent in yield potential.
University of Minnesota entomologists developed the speed-scouting method to get crop scouts in and out of fields quickly. "It is essentially based on a simple decision: Does the plant have more than 40 aphids on it?" explains Ken Ostlie, University of Minnesota entomologist.
If a plant has fewer than 40 aphids on it, it should be considered noninfested; if it has 40 or more, it should be considered infested. At www.soybeans.umn.edu, the University of Minnesota provides a printable worksheet that growers can use to determine whether to treat a field or to resample it in three to four days. The speed-scouting method is designed to improve the cost (in time) of sampling because every insect need not be counted.
The university is quick to point out, however, that this is not a new economic threshold. Based on several years of study, the majority of university and industry entomologists recommends a threshold of 250 aphids/plant through pod set for most Midwestern soybeans. The speed-scouting plan uses the percentage of infested plants as an indicator of damaging soybean aphid populations.
Long residual
The University of Illinois recommends that growers treat at the 250 aphids/plant threshold. Kevin Steffey, University of Illinois entomologist, says that all of the currently available insecticides are effective, but adds that pyrethroids and chlorpyrifos (Lorsban-4E, Nufos) offer the longest residual in Illinois. The pyrethroids include Asana XL, Baythroid, Mustang Max, Proaxis and Warrior with Zeon Technology.
Steffey adds, however, that in areas with a lot of dry weather, spider mites also may be present. In this case, growers may be advised to use Lorsban-4E, an organophosphate, to control both pests. Organophosphates for control of soybean aphid include Lorsban-4E, Penncap-M and Nufos (a generic liquid chlorpyrifos).
Carbamates include Furadan 4F and Lannate. DuPont offers Lannate in two formulations: Lannate LV and Lannate SP. Lars Swanson, product manager, insecticides, DuPont, notes that Lannate provides rapid control of soybean aphid [2(ee) recommendation], but has less residual than Asana XL.
DuPont recommends application of Asana XL when aphids hit the 250-per-plant threshold. Growers can apply the insecticide at 5.8 to 9.6 oz./acre, beginning applications mainly at the R1 to R2 stage. Growers are encouraged to stay aware of local conditions and recommended scouting methods because aphids may reach threshold prior to the reproductive stages, Swanson says.
Like DuPont, Cerexagri, maker of Penncap-M, recommends that growers follow university guidelines for thresholds. Penncap-M is a microencapsulated product that can get down through the canopy. It is not a fast-releasing compound; instead it doses out over a 7- to 10-day period at the recommended rate of 1½ to 2 pints/acre, says Phil Robinson, manager, field development group, Cerexagri. In addition to controlling soybean aphid, Penncap-M helps control bean leaf beetle, corn rootworm beetle and Japanese beetle. The Japanese beetle has recently become more of a problem in eastern Illinois.
Dave Ruen, product technology specialist, Dow AgroSciences, says that Lorsban-4E's fuming action allows it to get well down under the canopy and disperse along the undersides of leaves to provide contact activity against soybean aphid. When pest numbers hit the 250-per-plant threshold, Lorsban-4E may be tank mixed with glyphosate or other postemerge soybean herbicides. It also may be tank mixed with fungicides or micro nutrient sprays, Ruen says.
Dow AgroSciences, through a joint venture company, also manufactures Proaxis, a pyrethroid for soybean aphid control, which is sold through select distributors.
Syngenta Crop Protection's recommended rate for Warrior with Zeon Technology is 1.92 to 3.2 oz./acre, depending on infestation levels. Zeon Technology uses an encapsulation process for improved insecticidal activity, including quick knockdown and longer residual control, says Scott Reasons, Syngenta brand manager, insecticides.
FMC Corporation offers two insecticides for soybean aphid control: Mustang Max, a pyrethroid; and Furadan 4F, a carbamate. "We recommend treating at 50 to 100 aphids/plant to get better coverage and to knock populations down," says Hooten, pointing to South Dakota State University research. (For more information, see agbionews.sdstate.edu/articles/catangui112404.htm.) FMC reports that insect pressure does not always mean a particular pest must reach an economic threshold before a grower acts. Multiple pests in the aggregate can cause threshold impact. The company adds that Mustang Max has extended residual activity providing more days of control.
Hooten adds that Mustang Max and Furadan may be mixed to help prevent resistance. "If farmers are not careful with chemical compounds, they could have resistance problems in the future," Hooten says.
Natural enemies
When outbreaks of soybean aphids occur, growers can either spray or wait it out and hope that natural enemies take action, Steffey says. In fact, there is a multistate effort to find more safe and effective natural predators of the soybean aphid. The research is a collaboration of Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin, Michigan State University, the University of Minnesota, Iowa State University, the University of Illinois, the Illinois Natural History Survey and the USDA. It is funded by the North Central Soybean Research Program.
A team of researchers, led by Purdue University entomology professor Bob O'Neil, is returning this summer to Japan, China and Korea where it already has identified seven species that kill soybean aphids. The researchers will try to better understand predators (such as parasites and fungal diseases affecting the soybean aphid) that are more specific to soybean aphid than, say, the multicolored Asian lady beetle, which has become a nuisance in residential areas. The researchers are searching for natural enemies that also will rid fields of soybean aphid without harming other ecologically important insects.
"Most of the soybean aphid's natural enemies we are studying are parasites," O'Neil says. "They lay their eggs inside the aphids. The egg hatches into a little maggot-like larva, which eventually pupates, turning the living aphid into a mummy. A new adult parasite emerges from the pupa/mummy, and the cycle continues. If you've seen the movie Alien, you have the general idea of the parasitic lifestyle of these insects."
The natural enemies that researchers identified on previous trips to Asia are currently quarantined at the University of Minnesota and the USDA Agricultural Research Service lab in Newark, DE. Researchers will test them further to understand their impact. "If all cards fall into place, we will do small-scale releases. But first we will need federal permits and state approvals to do them," O'Neil says. After that, possibly within the next five years, the researchers will do more widespread testing.
Asana XL
Mustang Max
Warrior with Zeon
Nufos (a generic liquid chlorpyrifos)
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Nov. 19, 2010
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Already ranked among the nation's best after last season's top recruiting class, the UC Santa Barbara baseball team signed seven standout players to National Letters of Intent who will join the team next season. Among the seven players the Gauchos will add are five highly-ranked pitchers and two infielders.
"We are very excited that we were able to address our biggest need, which was pitching," UCSB head coach Bob Brontsema said. "Each arm will have an opportunity to come and get innings right away. We didn't have a lot of scholarship money available but were able to sign seven quality student-athletes. All of these young men are outstanding students that will represent our university in a positive fashion."
Steven Fisher, an infielder from San Marcos High in San Diego, chose UCSB over USC, UC Irvine, UC Riverside and Indiana after hitting .426 as a junior and being named his team's MVP.
"At 6-foot-3 Steven is an extremely athletic and versatile player," Brontsema said. "He can play just about any position on the field and has during his career. He has a real passion for the game and has played on All-Star teams all over the world."
Joining Fisher in the infield will be Chris Paul, who is at Laguna Beach High and was an All-CIF pick as a junior after batting .490. Paul was the Orange Coast League MVP as a sophomore and after verbally committing to Cal, will join UCSB since Cal is dropping baseball from its athletic program.
"Chris is a strong and talented infielder in line with some of the great infielders that have come through this program," Brontsema said. "He originally committed to Cal until their unfortunate news, so we were very pleased to be able to land Chris."
Brontsema said of his infielders that "Chris and Steve are both athletic and strong enough to come in and win spots as freshmen."
Austin Pettibone is a right-handed pitcher from Esperanza High who went 8-1 with two saves as an all-league pick his junior season. Pettibone joins the Gauchos rather than Pepperdine, Santa Clara and UCR, who all recruited him.
"Austin is a very polished right-handed pitcher with great upside," Brontsema said. "He comes from a family of outstanding pitchers as well as a high school that has produced a number of great players. We really liked what we saw from him this summer."
Colin Reed will join UCSB from St. Francis High in Mountain View, Calif. The left-handed pitcher was 3-1 with a 2.07 ERA last season.
"Colin is a left-hander with command of three pitches," Brontsema said. He could pitch for us right away out of the bullpen."
Andrew Vasquez went 6-2 with a 3.26 ERA as a junior for Los Osos High and the 6-foot-6 left-hander is drawing comparisons to former Gaucho Jim Bullard, who reached Class AAA.
"He is coming off a solid junior year but we feel that he has only started to touch his potential," Brontsema said. "I look forward to what our conditioning program and Coach Tom Myers does for him."
Right-hander Campbell Ware will become a Gaucho after finishing up at Point Loma High and spurning offers from UCR and San Diego State.
"Campbell reminds us so much of (all-Big West choice) Jesse Meaux, and Jesse has been pretty good for us," Brontsema said. "Campbell has two `plus' pitches that he commands very well. He's another young pitcher that throws strikes."
Rounding out the Gauchos' top-notch recruiting class is Griffin Paul from Newbury Park High. The right-handed Paul did not pitch as a junior due to injury, but that should not affect his future in the blue and gold.
"Griffin is a right-handed pitcher with a plus breaking ball and surprising pop on his fastball," Brontsema said. "He flew a little under the radar because he didn't pitch much his junior year. He has good command of his pitches and threw very well over the summer and fall seasons."
The Gauchos return several key members from last season's team including all-conference pitcher Jesse Meaux, senior outfielder Mark Haddow and left-handed pitcher Kevin Gelinas, who was drafted in June.
To see the entire 2011 baseball schedule, please click here.
UCSB will host its second annual baseball fundraising dinner, which will take place on Friday, Jan. 28. After having special guest Tommy Lasorda speak, this year's ceremony will be called "A Night With An Angel" and feature Angels manager Mike Scioscia. For more information or details on this exciting event, please contact Christina Baglas at (805) 893-5372 or e-mail her at: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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creativelogic needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 269 designs submitted by 63 freelance designers.
Startup Software Solutions
We are in the process of launching our first web product! Once a custom software consulting business ... we are trying to make the leap to the software products world! Better late than never!
We are putting together a variety of entry-level web applications for knowledge bases, customer relationship management, status board and so on.
Small business owners, freelancers, schools, and custom software developers, as we will provide an API so our applications can be incorporated into existing enterprise applications.
We are looking for a logo, you know web 2.0 company needs a web 2.0 logo. To give you some further insight, all of our products will be prefix with "startup", for example, startup.KnowledgeBase, startup.Tasks, and so on. So whatever we go with for a company logo should play nice and/or transition to our product name.
The logo needs to be clean and clear, it should not be intimidating, but rather inviting.
No gradients, solid colors please.
We've been getting lots of "arrows" and while nice, I would like to see some more original designs, even a play on the arrow, like a rising phoenix? Cool!
I'll leave it at that for now.
Check out how our applications look http://99designs.com/contests/25349/entries/62 and
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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NEW ORLEANS – On Monday, February 11, 2008, four Coker College Cross Country Runners received national recognition for their exceptional athletic and academic performance. Coker Women's Cross Country runners, Dana Daves (York, SC), Heidi Rienstra (Brockville, Ontario) and Shannon Townley (Anniston, AL) were named to the 2007 U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division II Women's All-Academic Cross Country Team, while Coker senior Cross Country runner, Michael Koshis (Greenville, SC) was named to the 2007 USTFCCCA Division II Men's All-Academic Cross Country Team.
Daves, Rienstra and Townley were three of the 202 female student-athletes from 99 Division II programs named to the All-Academic team. The Conference Carolinas had 10 female student-athletes represented on the team.
Koshis was the only Coker runner to be named to the team of 127 male student-athletes representing 67 Division II institutions are on this year's All-Academic team. He was also one of only five Conference Carolinas runners named to the team.
To qualify for the individual All-Academic honors, the student-athlete must have completed 24 semester or 36 quarter hours and have a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 on a 4.0 scale. The student-athletes must also finish in the top 30 percent of individual participants at their respective regional cross country championships.


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Apparently I'm A Google Shill And I Didn't Even Know It
from the well-that's-awkward deptSo, there's been this slightly weird tangent in the Oracle/Google patent & copyright dispute, in which Judge Alsup -- for reasons that are still not clear to anyone -- ordered both companies to disclose the names of any "authors, journalists, commentators or bloggers who have and/or may publish comments on the issues in [the] case." Both sides made filings last week, with Oracle disclosing -- as was already public -- that it had blogger Florian Mueller on staff as a consultant, and mentioning an Oracle employee who blogged about the case. Google, on the other hand, told the court that it hadn't paid anyone to comment on the case at all, but did mention that in the course of its regular activities, it does give money to various companies, some of whom may have had employees who commented on the story. Judge Alsup came back earlier this week and told Google it didn't try hard enough and to find some names to name.
Earlier today, Google did its filing and apparently found some names... including mine! Yes, I know that we've had some haters declaring for years that I'm a Google shill, so this must be the confirmation of all their conspiracy theories, rumors and attacks, right? Well, no. I'm named in the section about CCIA -- the Computer and Communications Industry Association. Why? Because CCIA sponsored some research that we did. Here's what the filing states:
The CCIA has commissioned studies by Mike Masnick, CEO of Floor64. See http://www.floor64.com/about.php. Mr. Masnick has commented on the case on the TechDirt website and on his personal friendfeed.com account. See Ex. X (available at https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120523/11050519050/boom-jury-says-no-patentinfringement- google-oracle-case.shtml and at http://friendfeed.com/mmasnick/a3a94012/jurygoogle- did-not-infringe-on-oracle-patents).And, yes, CCIA has commissioned a study by my company (Floor64) which I co-authored. And that's, uh, public knowledge. Here's my post back in January announcing the Sky is Rising report, in which it says, upfront, that it was sponsored by CCIA. And, of course, you can go check out the Sky is Rising report yourself directly, which has a nice big CCIA logo on the front. Hell, if you want, you can also donate some money for the ebook version -- and it, too, will come with the CCIA logo.
I'm not sure how that has anything to do with Google. Google is a CCIA member, as are a bunch of other companies. And, honestly, if you'd asked me yesterday, I would have said that I thought Oracle was a CCIA member too, because it's an organization that represents a bunch of top tech companies, including Microsoft, eBay, Sprint, Facebook, AMD, Fujitsu, Dish Networks and more. However, it appears that Oracle is not a CCIA member, though I only learned this today from the filing, which also notes that Oracle and Sun used to be CCIA members. So, I'm not sure what any of that says about anything.
And, of course, if the point of this exercise is to uncover "shills" who are really speaking on behalf of companies without disclosing it, once again this argument falls down. My position on issues related to copyright and patents has been pretty damn consistent since before Google existed. And that continues up until today. I will regularly call out Google for patent and copyright behavior that I believe is bad. And that's because I say what I think. The editorial content of this site has never been for sale, nor will it ever be. Because the only way I survive in this business is with my reputation.
Also, I'm not sure what's with the Friendfeed link in the filing. To be honest, I'd completely forgotten about Friendfeed, which I thought was shut down after Facebook bought the company. But I believe my Friendfeed just sucked in my Twitter account and Techdirt's Twitter account into a single feed. And apparently it lives on without my knowledge.
Separately, because all of this struck me as interesting, I remembered that we did some work with Oracle too! And, just as with what we did with CCIA, it was disclosed publicly at the time. Oracle (along with Intel) sponsored a section of our site, and a series of webinars that we did. And yet, Oracle did not disclose me in their original filing and I don't believe that they filed a new filing here either. Of course, as with CCIA, our relationship with Oracle did not include them having any say in editorial either. In fact, with the order as broad as it was from Judge Alsup, I'd argue that there's a much stronger argument that I should be in the Oracle filing than the Google one. But, of course, Oracle didn't include us because it was a random blog sponsorship thing they did a while back which had nothing to do with editorial (or even intellectual property issues).
In the end, this comes right back to some of the concerns that were raised about Judge Alsup's broad order in the first place. If you want to find tenuous connections, they exist. In fact, Google's filing lists out a bunch of other names (including many people who I know or consider friends), almost all of whom have a long, long history of holding the exact same positions, and where the connection to "Google money" is, at best, weak.
Like many folks, I was curious to see who would be named on both of these lists, but the order was so broad that it seems to have swept me up into it (on one side, though a broad reading says it would make more sense for me to be on the other one!), and that's silly. I'm a big boy and I can handle people not understanding the details here and attacking me, but the fact that we did unrelated research for a different organization that Google is a member of -- and that gets me named on a list of "shills" just doesn't seem right.
Filed Under: bloggers, commentary, disclosures, shills
Companies: ccia, floor64, google, oracle


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Downtown Traverse City Prepares for Traverse City Film Festival 2013
Front Street is buzzing as Traverse City businesses prepare for the ninth annual Traverse City Film Festival. The festival is an important event for downtown area businesses and many shops are incorporating elements of movies into their storefront displays.
The 2013 Traverse City Film Festival, begins tomorrow, Tuesday, July 30, and runs through Sunday, August 4. Click here for the complete film schedule!
As the opening of the ninth annual Traverse City Film Festival draws near, downtown Traverse preps for the event.
Brilliant Books on Front Street gets in the spirit of the Film Festival by holding a contest for two tickets for the TCFF Closing Gala.
Stewart - Zacks, a home decor store in downtown TC prepares for the film festival by decorating their store front in a movie theme.
The Sunglass Shoppe incorporates the Film Festival into their display by decorating with film reels.
The Cherry Republic replaces classic movie title with the word "cherry" in their witty film-fest inspired display.


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Every so often, a new product comes along that's so great, it makes you angry it didn't already exist. This morning, that product is PrivacyFix, a free plugin for Chrome that tells you nearly everything you ever wanted to know about how your online activity is being tracked, and fills in your online privacy holes with a click. But that's not the best part.
Unlike other tracker blocker plugins, like Ghostery or Do Not Track Plus, PrivacyFix provides an estimate of exactly how much revenue you generate for Facebook and Google through your online activities. It's an insight into the inner workings of the Web's money machine that few of us have had access to in the past.
According to PrivacyFix, I am worth a whopping $0.51 per year to Facebook — a surprisingly low amount, though I am far from a heavy Facebook user. For Google, that number takes a wild leap up to $1095.17. Other Digital Trends staffers who tested out their PrivacyFix stats showed similar disparity between Facebook's and Google's earnings from a single user. Clearly, Google know something about online advertising that Facebook does not.
Of course, these numbers are only estimates, and do not come directly from the companies themselves. Instead, PrivacyFix, created by online privacy company Privacy Choice, has teamed up with stock analyst startup Trefis, which provides the figures.
"It's a very rough estimate, of course," said Jim Brock, founder of Privacy Choice, in an email to me this morning. "We included it because it's important for people to understand that their data has real value. When they use these services, they are exchanging data for value."
Though Facebook and Google are the only companies for which PrivacyFix gives per-user earnings estimates, Brock says that the company is "very interested in adding additional revenue information whenever we can find it."
The decidedly nifty data value estimate feature aside, PrivacyFix's primary function is to alert you to the porousness of your online privacy in Facebook, Google, and other websites. It automatically analyzes your Facebook privacy settings, and alerts you to areas that are leaking your data. To update your settings to the most secure option, just click "fix." The same goes for Google.
PrivacyFix also tells you which websites may share your personal data, plus which data brokers and advertising networks have installed tracking cookies on your machine, and provides an equally quick way to shut off the flow of personal data. Finally, PrivacyFix provides an optional "healthbar," which appears in the top-right corner of your browser at all times, and gives you a visual cue of how much of your personal information is being shared on each website you visit.
While other plugins provide similar services, Brock says that PrivacyFix gives users a number of benefits that competing products do not.
"Three things really distinguish Privacyfix from other privacy tools: it's super easy to use, it's comprehensive and it's balanced because we show you the tradeoffs in the decisions you make," he said.
To give PrivacyFix a go, click here and install the plugin. (Just remember: It only works for Chrome, at the moment.)


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Can a 12-Core ARM Cluster hit critical mass?
Subject: Processors | June 26, 2012 - 05:08 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: arm, cortex-a9, e-350, i7-3770k, z530, Ivy Bridge, atom, Zacate
Taking a half dozen PandaBoard ESes from Texas Instruments that have a 1.2GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor onboard, Phoronix built a 12-core ARM machine to test out against AMD's E-350 APU as well as Intel's Atom Z530 and a Core i7 3770K. Before you you make the assumption that the ARM's will be totally outclassed by any of these processors, Phoronix is testing performance per Watt and the ARM system uses a total of 31W when fully stressed and idles below 20W, which gives ARM a big lead on power consumption.
Phoronix tested out these four systems and the results were rather surprising as it seems Intel's Ivy Bridge is a serious threat to ARM. Not only did it provide more total processing power, its performance per Watt tended to beat ARM and more importantly to many, it is cheaper to build an i7-3770K system than it is to set up a 12-core ARM server. The next generation of ARM chips have some serious competition.
"Last week I shared my plans to build a low-cost, 12-core, 30-watt ARMv7 cluster running Ubuntu Linux. The ARM cluster that is built around the PandaBoard ES development boards is now online and producing results... Quite surprising results actually for a low-power Cortex-A9 compute cluster. Results include performance-per-Watt comparisons to Intel Atom and Ivy Bridge processors along with AMD's Fusion APU."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- AMD FX-8120 Black Edition CPU Review (with Asus M5A99X EVO) @ Kitguru
- Intel Core i7-3720QM: Mobile Ivy Bridge @ Techspot
- Sandy Bridge for servers: Intel Xeon E5-2600 review @ Hardware.Info
- Desktop CPU Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Workstation & Server CPU Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Mobile CPU Comparison Guide @ TechARP
A CPU Cooling Heatsink With Built In Computer From AMD
Subject: Cases and Cooling | January 10, 2012 - 08:43 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: nano-itx, heatsink, e-350, cooling, cooler master, CES, APU
At CES today we saw what at first resembles a Cooler Master V6 CPU heastink and fan combo. The processor cooler features a red 120mm fan housed in a black shroud which is then attached to the heatsink itself. The heatsink is a tower design with six copper heatpipes attached to a copper CPU block. The heatpipes then lead into a tower of aluminum fins to dissipate heat.
On the back of the unit; however, there's a little something extra in the form of a nano-itx motherboard and AMD E-350 APU based on the Brazos platform. The computer is self contained and provides a number of connectivity options. For more information on the Brazos platform and E-350 APU, see our preview and review articles. A quick run down of the E-350 specifications; however, is below.
- Two Bobcat CPU cores at 1.6 GHz
- A Radeon HD 6310 GPU with 80 processing cores running at 500 MHz
- A TDP of 18 watts
- DirectX 11 Graphics and DDR3 Memory Support
The bottom of the rear of the CPU cooler is the location of the nano-ITX motherboard's rear IO panel. The motherboard features Wi-Fi, HDMI, two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, VGA(?), and e-SATA(?) connections.
A side view of the Cooler Master heatsink is available below.
It's certainly a new idea, and it will definitely hit home for people that don't need or want to run their power hungry main desktop all the time. Because the system is self contained it does present some usability issues. Mainly that you will need to have a KVM or VNC connection to control it and the inside of the computer case is going to become a lot more crowded with cables. Further, it would be a pain to have to open up the main desktop system just to plug in a flash drive or cable. On the other hand, it'd make for a nice media or file server and would not require the desktop be on 24/7 without needing yet another box crowding my desk so I'd give it a shot. (The inside of my computer case is already a mess of wires so what do I have to lose?)
What are your thoughts on this somewhat strange CPU cooler?
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Introduction and Design
When the Apple MacBook Air originally debuted, geeks took note, and Windows laptop manufacturers ramped up efforts to meet that super-thin laptop on its own turf. Surprisingly, one of the first to respond was MSI, a company that is still struggling to define itself among a mainstream American market dominated by the likes of HP, Toshiba, Dell, and others.
MSI managed to significantly undercut the Air with its X340, but the build quality was also nowhere near what Cupertino's engineers had managed. Yet MSI is not one to give up, and they've made moves to refine the X series over the years. As the price has dropped further, and the processor selection changed, comparisons to the Air have become less obvious.
That's particularly true with this latest MSI X370, which now makes use of the AMD E-350 Fusion APU. This processor is nothing new, and we've tested it before at PC Perspective. Yet this laptop is different from any previously we've reviewed product with this processor because of its size.
Continue reading our review of the MSI X370 Fusion Notebook!!
ECS Motherboards on display at Computex 2011
Subject: Motherboards, Shows and Expos | June 4, 2011 - 10:42 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: x79, fusion, ECS, e-350, computex, 990fx
ECS, aka Elitegroup, had a large booth at Computex that focused more on its ODM aspects than consumer aspects, but there were still a couple of interesting designs to look at.
The board we spotted was the new A990FXM-A motherboard that is of course based on the latest 990FX chipset from AMD. Supporting the AM3+ processor socket and thus the pending AMD Bulldozer processors, the 990FX is going to be a long term product rather than a short term. One interesting addition to the board is found on the chipset heatsink that has a temperature reactive plastic on it that will turn from grey to orange-ish as the ambient case temperature increases. This could be a great feature to easily gauge the heat level inside a windowed case.
Also an interesting move, ECS has elongated the receptacle on the 8-pin CPU power connection to make it easier to plug in and to remove. If you have ever experienced a pinched finger or sliced finger nail from trying to reach down and unplug an ATX connector, you will see this as a nice addition.
ECS also had its X79 motherboard variant on display, showing the company's readiness for the pending Sandy Bridge-E release.
Also on the motherboard wall was the upcoming A75F-A with support for the AMD Llano Fusion-based processors that should be ready later in the summer.
Finally, a motherboard that we have just recently received for review purposes, the HDC-I is an AMD E-350 or E-240 Zacate platform mini-ITX form factor. This solution might be a great option for users looking to build an HTPC box so be sure you check out our full review coming shortly.
Computex 2011 Coverage brought to you by MSI Computer and Antec
Foxconn NT-A3500, AMD's Fusion E-350 is kicking Atom where it hurts
Subject: Systems | June 1, 2011 - 05:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: nettop, e-350, amd
When it comes to tiny systems such as nettops, AMD's E-350 Fusion is doing what the Atom and ION combo can do, only faster, cooler and quieter. While this is upsetting for NVIDIA and Intel, the consumer benefits almost as much as AMD does. techPowerUp just finished a review of a Foxconn product that demonstrates the abilities of the Fusion platform, the Netbox NT-A3500. It is not for sale yet in North America but when it does hit the market you can expect around a $200 pricetag, plus RAM and a storage drive. For that price you get the AMD E-350 and Radeon HD 6310 as well as Realtek ALC888S audio. Wireless and wired LAN, four USB 2.0 and two USB 3.0 ports, optical audio and analog audio, and DVI and HDMI outputs. techPowerUp covers the rest of the features in their full review.
"Foxconn has made some waves with their compact but very capable ION based NT-330I Netbox back in 2010. Now, almost a year later the market has evolved and Foxconn is sending their newest version into the race. The NT-A3500 is based on the AMD Fusion platform, aiming to be faster, cooler and quieter."
Here are some more Systems articles from around the web:
- My new PC- part 2 @ t-break
- The 27-inch Apple iMac @ AnandTech
- HP 100B All-in-One PC Review @ TechReviewSource
- Aria.co.uk Gladiator i5 4.4GHz Z68 Bundle @ OC3D
- $599 AMD Gaming PC Built and Tested @ Tweaktown
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Perhaps no other author has grown in my estimation over the past 12 months as much as László Krasznahorkai. An author known for his challenging grammar and long, complex sentences, he has previously published two novels in English translation, both by New Directions–War and War and The Melancholy of Resistance.
Animalinside, his third book in English, has taken a circuitous route, first being published in Paris as part of Sylph Editions' Cahiers series, in conjunction with New Directions. It has just been released by New Directions in the U.S. as a gorgeous 48-page pamphlet.
Though the book is short, it is intense and beautiful, as Krasznahorkai created it in conjunction with the German artist Max Neumann. The language throughout is excellent, and very literary. As I recently wrote in a review of the book:
The result of this international, multimedia collaboration is Animalinside, a book in which a galaxy of implication springs from Neumann's striking, muscular animal form. It is an iconic image, somewhere between a demented howl and a vicious leap, instantly recognisable, adaptable, enigmatic. The figure features prominently in each of Neumann's paintings, which are reproduced magnificently in the book. The reproductions' range of texture is superb, capturing the subtle, diffuse shifts in shade that characterise Neumann's backgrounds and the crisp blotches of colour that seep atop them.
I recently corresponded with the book's translator, Ottilie Mulzet, for some very interesting thoughts on Hungarian irony, the art of translation, and the use of graphics in literary texts.
To start, you're obviously someone who has spent a lot of time inside of Krasznahorkai's prose. I'm curious to know what kind of a tradition you see it coming out of, or continuing. Would you classify him as a "Hungarian" author?
Definitely, on one level Krasznahorkai's prose, and particularly a piece like Animalinside, has its "roots"—if one can put it that way—in post WWII European existentialism. Having said that, however, I do see much in his work that has its own uniquely Hungarian qualities, or perhaps has been shaped by a very specific mentality, which for me is intrinsically tied up with the Hungarian language itself.
As Hungarian literature entered the modern era (i.e. from the early 20th century on), Hungarian writers were always generally considered as either "népi" (i.e., folk, more concerned with themes having to do with the countryside) or "urbanus" (i.e., belonging to a more urban, cosmopolite sphere). There are of course quite a few writers, including, of course, Krasznahorkai himself, whose work transcend both these categories. I probably don't need to add that that these terms can be used as labels, and that in a way they also define what can be perceived as fairly harsh societal divides.
I do think there is a drive in Krasznahorkai's prose to push any given hypothetical event to its extreme and ultimate conclusion, as well as a willingness to hold it up to intense and unrelenting psychic scrutiny. For me, this is the most "Hungarian" aspect of his work. There is no Bakhtinian element of carnival here, rather the long sentences force the reader to suspend his or her own consciousness. Krasznahorkai forces the reader into an extremity of otherness, in this case, if you will, the performative "devenir animal" (to quote Gilles Deleuze) of the narrating beast in AnimalInside.
There is one pre-war Hungarian writer I would like to mention, however: Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938). He was primarily known as a satirist and humorist and in fact, his satiric writings were absolutely brilliant. In a series of longer short stories, though, he explored the themes of extreme psychic disintegration. Clearly he was trying to see how far he could push the Hungarian language in these stories, what happens to it when subjected to a maximum level of psychic breakdown. I see some of these experimental writings as something of a precursor to Krasznahorkai's work within Hungarian literature, although I have to add here I don't know if Krasznahorkai himself would consider this to be the case.
You've previously remarked on an odd instruction that Krasznahorkai gave you on the translation–you've said that he instructed you "there are many repetitions in the text, and this is very important; repeat everything exactly as it is in the original regardless of what the English language WANTS." As a translator, how did you react to such an admonition, and what did you feel that the English wanted vis a vis the Hungarian?
I think he was right to point that out, and I would have done so anyway. The repetitions are so integral to the text, to its absurdity and irony: they are almost something like apocalyptic mantras.
Of course, there are a number of real challenges moving from Hungarian into English, but I will just mention the more important ones in this case: you're translating from a left-branching agglutinative language to a right-branching isolative one. A "left-branching" language basically means that prepositional phrases are used in situations where English uses a subordinate clause (i.e. "I saw the man coming towards me," as opposed to "I saw the coming-towards-me man"), and that sentences are constructed—roughly speaking—in reverse order from English. The agglutinative nature of Hungarian means that an incredible amount of information can be expressed very tersely, in many fewer words than in English, and in addition, information can be encoded in other words (for example, objects included in verbs). This adds up to a considerable challenge for the English translator, particularly in this era of "globish," when English is in many respects the victim of its own success. There is, however, a bright side: I am more than convinced that many "minor languages" (to use a Deleuzian term again) exist within English: there is African English, Indian English, Afro-American Vernacular, etc. And so my goal in translating a text like Animalinside is—I would hope—to create a space for one of these "minor Englishes," perhaps an entirely new "animal English," while translating this work. A text translated in such a way could possibly fulfil the "task of the translator," as set out by Walter Benjamin, which is to maintain the underlying "foreignness" of the text even despite its rendering into the language of its presumed readers.
Perhaps what you're creating a space for is a Krasznahorkai-English. Regarding the Hungarian, could you compare the prose in Animalinside to the prose in some of Krasznahorkai's other books? Does he speak in the same "voice" as it were, or does he suit it more to the task of each individual book?
I certainly think there should be a space for a Krasznahorkai-English. As I said, I think contemporary English is infinitely enriched by all the "minor Englishes" out there, and yet English itself, as one of the dominant linguistic paradigms of our age (perhaps not forever though . . .) still needs this injection of "difference." English is the great normalizer of our time, while many smaller languages of the world are literally fighting for survival (and threatened not just by English) and as such, any crack or fissure where "otherness"—however unfashionable that term may have become—can creep in is, in my view, to be welcomed.
In terms of the question of "voice," for me, at least, what is very particular about Animalinside was not only the irony in the text. Any language like Hungarian, with a highly developed sense of registers of politeness, has a natural tendency to irony. Plus, there is the Eastern European "experience" (which has not necessarily ceased with the end of Communism). Actually, it is really the kind of irony being expressed that is so unique. Grave, terrifying, unrelenting, yet at the same time comic in its absurdity—this was actually the most difficult thing to convey in the translation. This was something well beyond your usual garden varieties of Hungarian or "Eastern European" irony, and I think it partially stems from the absolute intensity with which Krasznahorkai is able to "channel" the voice of the dog. It is irony saturated with a heavy dose of the uncanny.
Yes, I agree completely, the irony in Animalinside has a very particular feel to it; "uncanny" is a good word to use. I found it impossible to take anything in this book at face value, yet, oddly enough, this didn't undercut the sense of meaningfulness or "aboutness" so much as add to it. You've touched on this a little already, but I'd like to ask you directly about where you see this irony coming from. Did you feel that either the Hungarian or the English better lent itself to the construction of this irony?
As I mentioned, Hungarian has always struck me as a language full of irony, from the most casual exchanges on the street to high literary art. A friend of mine, who was visiting Budapest and speaks some Hungarian, was heading to the train station to return home, when a homeless man tried to sell her a copy of the Hungarian streetpaper Fedél nélkül (literally "without shelter"). She bought a copy, and then worked out that he was asking her where she was from: "mobilizing her Hungarian into action," she answered that she was from the Czech Republic. "Gratulálok" (congratulations) replied the man, in an utterly deadpan manner. My friend said it was absolutely impossible for her to figure out if he meant it seriously or not. And she mentioned that part of mastering the Hungarian language necessarily has to include a mastery of this 'technique' of irony.
At the same time, there's the irony of a writer like Imre Kertész—the one line that somehow is engraved in my mind is the statement made by the narrator of Fatelessness (quoting from memory): something to the effect that "I really would like to remain alive just a little bit longer in this lovely concentration camp." The irony in the original is so searing, so cutting. It's impossible to pin down what Kertész is really saying. If the classic definition of irony is that you appear to be making one statement but are actually making one completely different, I think what distinguishes Hungarian irony is the semantic fluidity of the "hidden statement." Hungarian, due to the linguistic features I listed before, can be highly ambiguous. In AnimalInside, Krasznahorkai really carries this ambiguity to the ultimate macro-level, as the reader can never really discern what the approaching "disaster" is, and yet the text is imbued with a sense of menace. I think this is one of the most brilliant features of the text, the highly amorphous quality of this apocalypse. In translating, it's very important to retain the ambiguity as much as possible. English can be ambiguous—think, for example, of Henry James, and those dialogues, particularly from his later works, where language is utterly emptied out, he turns it into a hollow vessel. And yet the amorphousness, in a text such as Animalinside, is different—you're dealing with a referent that simply cannot be pinned down, whereas Henry James makes it disappear altogether.
Given your remarks on the length of Krasznahorkai's sentences—the way in which they work with a reader's consciousness and force a reader into an "extremity of otherness"—I'm curious to know how you read the prose. And how does your approach change when you read it in order to translate it?
Péter Nádas noted somewhere that Hungarian is a "slow" language. There is a way, as I remarked, in which Krasznahorkai's prose forces one to slow down, something like when you watch a Noh drama (or one of the infinitely long cinematic takes of Béla Tarr, which express the dynamics of a Krasznahorkai sentence so perfectly). Krasznahorkai's sentences, particularly in Animalinside, are for me something like ever-expanding circles of repetition: on the one hand, he's something like a master tight-rope walker of verbal art (how long can he stay up there, keep this sentence going?); on the other, you are drawn into, surrounded, or for that matter engulfed, by the subordinate clauses piling up endlessly upon each other. The repetitions then shift direction. Like ripples expanding outward on the surface of a pond, the subsequent clause is always implicit in the previous one.
Of course, when you read something as a translator, your reading of the text has to be as absolutely close as possible, it is possibly somewhat different than the esthetic "jouissance" of the reader. You truly have to dissect it—actually, a perfect metaphor comes to mind from a chapter of Seiobo (Krasznahorkai's latest novel), which I am now translating, in which an ancient statue in a restorer's workshop has to be fully disassembled into its tiniest component parts in order for the restoration work to take place. The translator, of course, has a different task—but the process of mentally breaking something down into its tiniest component parts is the same. Instead of the parts of the statue laid out before you on the table, you have, as it were, on the table in your head, all the different phonemes of a particular textual segment, and you have to understand the function, the role, the purpose of each one exactly in order to transpose it to another language. The essence, though, the intangibility that needs to be conveyed—to continue with the metaphor of the statue-restoration—lies within all of these components, between them, and yet also beyond them.
I would imagine that getting that intangibility to come across would be the most difficult part. What sorts of things do you do to help determine when the various components of a translation are working together to achieve the desired effect?
Part of the answer, for me, is that I only translate texts that I feel very close to. As in the case of other writers whose work I've translated (Szilárd Borbély, Gábor Schein, to name just two), I felt that their work somehow demanded translation, this rendering into another tongue. I don't feel that I could necessarily do an outstanding job with any given piece of writing, although at times it is enormously useful to translate something that you wouldn't have attempted otherwise. Generally, however, I need to feel that I know what is behind the words, not only that I understand everything semantically, but that I can sense why the writer felt that it had to be written down. Somehow I need to go behind the sentences, to some pre-verbal space . . . It's almost as if the text has to "die" in one language and be "reborn" in another, a process which has to be extremely technical, but also highly intuitive.
And since we're talking about reading into the text, this would be the appropriate place to ask you about Neumann's paintings, which are of course part of the book and its interpretation. What was your approach to these? Have you ever worked with a text with such a strong graphic element to it?
I have actually never translated a text with such a strong graphic component, so that was fascinating for me. I looked at the images as I was translating. The image of the two-dimensional beast in the three-dimensional space—I think there must be something archetypal about it . . . A while ago I happened to be watching an old Mongolian historical film about the famous prince Cogtu Taiji and the internecine political-religious wars between different Buddhist sects in Mongolia in the early 17th century: one of the opening scenes of the second part opens up with an image of a two-dimensional beast in a three-dimensional space. It is so uncannily similar to the first image in Animalinside (and we are talking about a film here that would have had little or no distribution outside of Mongolia during early Soviet times), I think this must be a very deeply archetypal visual trope. Anyway, I wasn't sure, so I asked an older Mongolian friend about this image. It turned out that it is the skin of a dead horse, hung outside of the yurt—to warn other nomads, who could see it from a great distance—of the plague. The visual symbolism of the animal skin placed at an oblique angle (i.e. not pointing to the upper realm, to the deities) immediately conveys "don't come here, something is wrong."
(shot from the film Cogtu Taiji (Prince Chogt, 1945), directed by M. Luvsanjamts, M. Bold, and Yu. K. Tarich)
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