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AT LAST - A MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE CLASSIC AND CULT FILMS OF THE 1960's AND 1970's
THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY ME TO SAY THAT!"- Sir Roger Moore,
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of advertising for DVDs and promote the latest product placement-infested film
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Do you remember the days when cinemas showed 'Double Bill'
programmes, Road Show films with intermissions, and sold souvenir brochures?
Do you long for those
days when you could read great film magazines like ABC Film Review, Photoplay and
you must remember that the 60's and 70's were probably the greatest period ever
for the film industry - an era that brought the cinemagoer a choice of several
classic movies released every week, film posters that were works of art, and
ice cream usherettes that brought your ice pop to your seat - and wore stockings
was a wonderful period in cinema history, and Dave Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer,
authors of the best-selling book The Essential James Bond and The
Great Fox War Movies have brought those memories back and recreated some
of those fabulous publications that we all still long for.
CINEMA RETRO: the Essential Guide to Cult and Classic
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It wouldn't be an Eddie Alvarez fight if he didn't get dropped, and in the headliner of Bellator 76, the ex-champ didn't disappoint.
Alvarez hurt Patricky "Pitbull" Freire early in the first only to get rocked seconds later with a burst of punches on Friday at Caesars Windsor Hotel & Casino in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
But in the end, Alvarez ended his Bellator contract with a bang, capping off a night of tournament action that saw Rad Martinez, Wagnney Fabiano, Mike Richman and Shahbulat Shamhalaev advance in the Season 7 featherweight competition.
Bellator 76's main card aired on MTV2 following preliminary-card matches on Spike.com.
Resetting after the near-disaster, Alvarez caught Freire leaning to his left and threw a high kick that knocked the Brazilian out. Precision punches followed as Freire toppled to the mat. Referee "Big" John McCarthy called a halt to the bout at the 4:54 mark of the first frame.
"It happens to me every fight," said Alvarez of the punches that nearly put him out. "My boxing trainer, we work on it and work on it. It's just something I'm learning to deal with and embrace it rather than try to resist it."
Alvarez, who this past November lost his title to Michael Chandler, now moves into free agency with another highlight-reel knockout to his credit. UFC President Dana White already has expressed interest in the Philadelphia-born lightweight, who now makes his home with the Blackzilians in South Florida.
But Alvarez wasn't in the mood to talk about his future career.
"It's just another win, that's all it is," he said. "The goal never changes. It's always to beat the guy in front of you in the cage. No legacies, no money – it's all b—s–t. It's about beating the guy in front of you, and that's what I'm here for."
Alvarez (24-3 MMA, 9-1 BFC) is now 2-0 since his title setback while Freire (10-4 MMA, 3-3 BFC) drops to 1-3 in his past four outings.
Martinez successful in first Bellator tournament appearance
Judges said Rad Martinez won every round against Nazareno Malegarie, and yet the fighter shook his afterward.
"I'm feeling a little bit roughed up," he said.
Martinez, who made his first Bellator tournament appearance, had to earn every point in the highly competitive fight, which left both men exhausted.
From the outset, Martinez looked to strike from the inside while Malegarie worked kicks on the outside. When the two clashed and it appeared as though Malegarie could go for a guillotine choke, he instead reset.
Malagarie found success using the clinch to stop the advance of Martinez, but he was dropped by a stiff left hand as he disengaged. Another big left hand scored for Martinez before he secured a takedown to seal the round.
Malagarie switched things up by shooting for a takedown early in the second, but Martinez blocked his attempt and secured a clinch. With the American unable to take the fight down, Malagarie pressed with faster punches that repeatedly scored.
By the third round, Martinez was running on fumes as Malagarie appeared the fresher man. His takedown was quickly reversed, and Malagarie scored with a stiff right hand. But yet again, the Argentinian was caught in transition with a left hand and badly wobbled. Martinez couldn't secure the finish, but with a last-minute takedown left an impression with judges.
Surviving and winning, though, wasn't entirely satisfactory for Martinez.
"This tournament is the toughest in the world," he said. "If you win and you make it to the champion, you've definitely earned it."
Martinez (13-2 MMA, 3-0 BFC) earns his fourth consecutive win while Malagarie (22-3 MMA, 1-4 BFC) sees a second tournament opportunity dashed after a loss to Marlon Sandro in the season 4 competition.
Fabiano's persistence pays off with first-round sub
In his first appearance since a submission loss to Joseph Benavidez nearly two years in the now-defunct WEC, Wagnney Fabiano didn't miss a step against Akop Stepanyan.
The Brazilian submission specialist persisted with takedown attempts until he put the fight on the mat, and it wasn't long before he secured a joint-popping submission.
Stepanyan hardly had time to defend himself as Fabiano took mount and transitioned to an armbar. The Armenian fighter at first refused to tap, but tapped after several gruesome twists of his arm and a full hyperextension. The official time of the stoppage came at the 3:24 mark of the first.
"I want this title shot," Fabiano said afterward.
Prior to the setback, Stepanyan (12-4 MMA, 0-1 BFC) had won 12 straight fighting on the regional circuit in Russia. Fabiano (15-3 MMA, 1-0 BFC), who ended his WEC tenure with a 4-2 record, gets back to the winner's circle.
Richman wows with head-kick KO
In his first tournament appearance for Bellator, Mike Richman delivered another highlight-reel performance.
A picture-perfect head kick sent Jeremy Spoon crashing to the mat 23 seconds into his meeting with the former Marine, who now moves on to the semifinals of the season 7 featherweight tournament.
"You better go buy some lawn chairs or hammocks," Richman said afterward. "I'll buy them for you, because you're getting laid out."
Richman announced his intention to focus on his boxing game in opposition to grappling specialist Spoon. For the first few moments, the two pawed at each other with strikes, and Spoon's aggression telegraphed a possible push to the cage.
But before he could do that, a high kick had knocked him upside the head and sent him stiff to the mat. A perfectly placed left hand further removed him from consciousness, and referee "Big" John McCarthy stepped in to stop further damage.
"One of my specialties is lolling people into a boxing match, and then I've got a pretty sneaky high kick," Richman said. "We worked on that a lot, and I looked to set it up right away."
Richman (13-1 MMA, 2-0 BFC) now boasts a four-fight win streak with three stoppages. Spoon (12-1 MMA, 2-2 UFC), meanwhile, has now fallen short in his second straight Bellator tourney following a loss to season 6 champ Daniel Straus.
Shamhalaev pounds out Bollinger
Shahbulat Shamhalaev may have earned recognition for his kickboxing pedigree, but he bested Cody Bollinger with an impressive ground and attack.
Cody Bollinger hardly used the wrestling he claimed would sweep the featherweight tournament and spent most of the fight on his back, where he took a flurry of punches that forced a stoppage at the 4:49 mark of the first round.
After tumbling to the mat on a caught kick, Bollinger attempted to tie Shamhalaev up with rubber guard and managed to get into position to use the rarely-seen gogoplata. But Shamhalaev recovered position and began to dole out harder and harder punches.
Bollinger, who bled generously as the result of an early glancing kick that sliced his face, did little but defend himself from the punches, which came down with increasing severity. He several times adjusted position, but didn't do enough to appease the referee.
A five-fight win streak is snapped for Bollinger (13-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) while Shamhalaev (10-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) notches his fourth straight win.
The full Bellator 76 results included:
- Eddie Alvarez def. Patricky "Pitbull" Freire via KO (kick and punches) – Round 1, 4:54
- Rad Martinez def. Nazareno Malegarie via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) – featherweight-tourney opening round
- Wagnney Fabiano def. Akop Stepanyan via submission (armbar) – Round 1, 3:24 – featherweight-tourney opening round
- Mike Richman def. Jeremy Spoon via KO (kick and punch) – Round 1, 0:22 – featherweight-tourney opening round
- Shahbulat Shamhalaev def. Cody Bollinger via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 4:49 – featherweight-tourney opening round
PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike.com)
- Jason Fischer def. Kyle Prepolec via submission (arm-triangle choke) – Round 3, 3:19
- Chad Laprise def. Ainsley Robinson via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Ali Mokdad def. Simon Marini via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Dom O'Grady def. A.J. Matthews via unanimous decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
- Magomedrasul Khasbulaev def. Nayeb Hezam via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 0:24
For more on Bellator 76, stay tuned to the MMA Events section of the site.
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Consistency ruled the day at the East Hampton Village Board's organizational meeting on Monday.
A number of terms were up on the various appointed boards, and the village board voted to reappoint sitting members for new terms. Bruce A.T. Siska and James McMullan will continue on the design review board through July 2014. Frank Newbold and Lysbeth Marigold will keep their posts on the zoning board of appeals through July 2017, and Richard Roberts, Pam Bennett, and Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman will remain on the village's ethics board, with Mr. Roberts serving as chairman for a year as of Aug. 1.
Stuyvesant Wainwright III was reappointed as chairman of the design review board. Carolyn Preische will continue as that board's vice chairwoman. Rose Brown will retain her post as chairwoman of the planning board and Donald Hunting will continue as vice chairman. Andrew Goldstein will serve another year as chairman of the zoning board and Mr. Newbold will continue as vice chairman.
And, although there was no question that they would continue in their current posts, the board approved the continued employment of Larry Cantwell as village administrator at a base salary of $192,772, Jerry Larsen as police chief at a base salary of $171,023, Michael Tracey, police captain, at $156,634, Scott Fithian, superintendent of the Department of Public Works, at $105,423, and as code enforcement officers, Thomas Lawrence ($89,156), Kenneth Collum ($103,356), and Daniel Reichl ($73,031).
The board's July 20 public meeting has been rescheduled for July 31 at 11 a.m. at the Emergency Services Building on Cedar Street.


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Big Wild Goose Pagoda, also known as Great Mercy Pagoda, located in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China the southern suburbs Daci'en temple. Situated in Jionji West hospital, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, formerly known Jionji West hospital Buddha (Buddha that is the meaning of the tower). Chinese Tang Dynasty Buddhist architectural masterpieces of art.
Big Wild Goose Pagoda was built in 652 AD (the Tang Emperor Yeonghwiwon three years). The Xuanzang worship Buddha, brought back from India the relic and Sanskrit classic, a five-story brick tower in the the Xita hospital Jionji built. In Wu Zetian Chang'an years to rebuild. Later, after several dressing. Big Wild Goose Pagoda is a famous tourist attraction in the Tang Dynasty, thus leaving a large number of literati inscriptions, only Ming and Qing Dynasty Title monument there are more than two hundred pass.
Big Wild Goose Pagoda is a pavilion-style pagoda tower through 64.5 meters high, for the seven-story tower takes the shape of a square pyramidal tower, bay formed by the wood structure, bottom-up reduced proportionally, tower wooden ladder can be disk Teng And on. Each of the four sides of each layer an arch openings, you can lean on a railing overlooking. Grand boldness of the entire building, modeling simple, steady, moderately proportioned, stately ancient style, is preserved intact pavilion-style tower. In the tower overlooking the ancient city of Xi'an.
Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an iconic buildings and famous monuments, is a symbol of the ancient city of Xi'an. Therefore, the the central Xi'an emblem drawn is this famous ancient tower.
Xi'an, ancient said that "Chang An", is world famous world one of four big civilized ancient capitals, comes first in of Chinese ancient capital, is in the Chinese history the founding a capital time is longest, the founding a capital dynasty to be most, the influence biggest capital city, is Chinese nation's cradle, the Chinese civilization birthplace, Chinese culture representative. Xi'an, unique ancient and modern fusion perfect city. Now Xi'an is the People's Republic of China Shanxi Province's provincial capital, Chinese one of seven wide range key cities, Asian knowledge technological innovation center, new Europe and Asia continental bridge China section with Huanghe River valley biggest key city, Chinese big airplane's manufacture base, Chinese mid-west area most greatly most important scientific research, higher education, defense-related science and technology industry and high technology and new technology Industrial base.


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A lot of people loved killing zombies in the original Dead Rising. But almost just as many hated using guns to do so. Why? The controls.
That was one of the big things that Canadian developers Blue Castle worked on with Capcom while developing Dead Rising 2: Creating solid shooter controls for the sequel.
How did they do? Pretty damn great, just check out this shooting spree I sent Chuck Greene on in Dead Rising 2: Case 0. Shotguns, pistols, machine guns, even compound bows sight and shoot perfectly. It's almost like playing a third-person shooter at times.


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"As North As It Gets" GC5803 GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – June 25th, 2010
Just in time for the beginning of the best weather to travel north, is our Geocache of the Week GC5803. The geocache titled, "As North As It Gets!" takes you up to N. 82 degrees.
Besides the wolf above, cachers who've logged GC5803 say you'll also be walking among foxes, lemmings and even polar bears. The cache is just outside what's reported to be the northernmost permanently inhabited place on earth: Alert, Canada. The Canadian Air Force staffs a station there. Temperatures in Alert average about -30 degrees Celsius most of the year.
Now is the perfect opportunity to plan your northern caching adventure. July is typically the warmest month. The snow melts to reveal a rocky terrain of jagged shale. Temperatures average a scorching six degrees Celsius (42 Fahrenheit). You could be among the nearly two dozen geocachers to earn a smiley for logging this cache and take away memories of a rarely visited northern landscape.
What to explore more geocaching adventures? Take a look at all the Geocaches of the Week here.


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Author Notes: I love the combination of spinach and mustard. I typically take this fresh, zingy pairing in the form of a salad with some meaty sautéed shitake mushrooms on top. But the first time I made this recipe combination it was wet and cold and dark outside and I just needed some stick-to-my-ribs food and spaetzle fits that bill to a tee. The tricky part of this recipe is pushing the spaetzle batter through a colander with big enough holes to yield the necessary sized squiggly bits in the boiling water below. I find that a colander with holes at least 1/4 inch in diameter. —cheese1227
Serves: four for an appetizer or two for a main course
eggs, slightly beaten
ounces milk
ounces Dijon mustard
teaspoon salt
pinches white pepper
pinches nutmeg
ounces all-purpose flour
Olive oil
medium sweet onion, medium dice
ounces shitake mushroom, thinly sliced
cups spinach, chopped slightly
- Whisk eggs, milk, mustard, salt, pepper and nutmeg in a medium sized bowl.
- Slowly stir the flour into the wet ingredients until the batter is smooth. The consistency should be halfway between that of pancake batter and pasta dough.
- Let the batter rest at room temperature for at least 30 minutes or as long as an hour.
- While the batter is resting, set a pot of salted water to boil. The pot you choose should be a bit smaller than your colander so that you can set the colander over the pan without it touching the water.
- Once the batter has rested and the water boiled, set your colander over the pan and pour the batter into the colander. Using a rubber spatula push the batter through the holes and into the water. This process will take a little elbow grease.
- The spaetzle will first sink to the bottom of the pan and then rise to the top. Once it has risen to the top, let it cook for another two minutes and then remove them with a skimmer and shock them in cold water and drain them well and set aside.
- Melt one tablespoon of butter in one tablespoon of olive oil. Sweat the onions for 3-4 minutes and then add the mushrooms and sauté them until slightly brown. Add the spinach and let it wilt slightly.
- Add the speatzle to the pan and stir completely. There should be enough fat in the pan to coat all spaetzle, so if there is not enough, add a bit more butter. Allow the speatzle to get a bit crispy in spots and be completely heated throughout.
- Serve immediately.
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Spinach Recipe
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The Daily Word 07.14.10: Fleeting Expletives, Beavis and Butthead, Bad Yogis
Someone in Utah leaked a list of 1,300 supposed illegal immigrants.
Turns out Toyota may not have been at fault for all those sudden acceleration accidents.
New Orleans police officers are charged with the murder of two unarmed people during the post-Katrina chaos.
Teagbaggers place a billboard in Iowa comparing Obama to Hitler.
Apple is censoring discussion of the iPhone 4's antenna problem.
An appeals court strikes down the FCCs ban on fleeting expletives.
So keep fucking that chicken!
These Mel Gibson quotes are adorable.
Another idiot, another Craigslist story.
What's with all these jackasses trying to patent yoga moves?
MTV is bringing back Beavis and Butt-head.
Have scientists solved the chicken-egg riddle-with science?
Be the first to regret ordering your Betty White calendar.
Are the Jonas Brothers dorks? (YES)
What is really being taught in Bible Belt science classrooms?
Has the Higgs Boson been found?
Unintentionally hilarious infomercial of the day.
Oldest written document found in Jerusalem.
Who really makes money in the record industry?
Two words: FOOTLONG CHEESEBURGER.
Two more words: LASAGNA SANDWICH.


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Science Friday® is produced by the Science Friday Initiative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Science Friday® and SciFri® are registered service marks of Science Friday, Inc. Site design by Pentagram; engineering by Mediapolis.
Forget the fireflies, some millipedes glow in the dark too, we found out from SciFri listener Chris Lavin. Chris stumbled upon a millipede glowing blue during an evening stroll in Canyon, Calif. Entomologist Paul Marek digs into the science of why and how these insects luminesce.


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Among our busy team of experts, our engravers see a lot of action. After all, we engrave 450 rings, lockets, bar necklaces, and bracelets in a week—that's a lot of "I love you," and "Forever." Read on for some expert engraving tips for maximum memorability.
With 16 years in the engraving industry (and a number of years in the printing industry before that) engraver Eric Quinn certainly has a keen eye for (and a strong opinion on) how words and fonts look on our engravable jewelry. Here are a few of his observations, in his own words.
"When engraving a monogram, the Roman (serif) font is a popular and visually pleasing choice."
In General
"If you'd like your engraving to be in all capital letters, I think the Roman or Block font options are the way to go. The script fonts we use are designed to mimic cursive handwriting so using all caps can look awkward."
"When considering an engraving on the interior of a ring, all caps takes up a lot of room and depending on the ring size, I have to make the text size smaller to accommodate the capital letters—which can make the inscription hard to read."
"When engraving lower-case letters, certain letters, such as y, j, or g, may extend down toward the edge of your ring."
On Names and Dates
"A lot of our customers will buy items and have a name and date engraved on them. Typically the name is engraved slightly larger than the date. (People like to read their names.) If the customer wants to emphasize the date, they should be encouraged to put the date before the name. This is true for pretty much any item that gets two or more lines of engraving."
Narrow Bar Bracelet in 14k Gold
"This is one item where all capitals (Roman or Block font) look the best. The bar is narrow enough that engraving in all capital letters is much more readable."
Heart Shapes
"A common mistake I often see is a shorter line of text on the first line of the two available lines of engraving. This makes the text very small on any heart shape. I encourage customers to utilize the space at the top of the heart because it is much wider than the middle or bottom."


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Atlassian Sourcetree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Windows.
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Generic contact forms for Django
This is an application which provides generic, extensible contact-form functionality for use in Django projects; for installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.txt in this directory, and for documentation see the files in the docs/ directory.
The latest versions of these documents can always be viewed on the Google Code project web site for this application, which is located at http://code.google.com/p/django-contact/form/.


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Haz-Mat Team Sent to Brick Home
Chemical fumes fill a Brick Township home sending the resident to the hospital. Police say it was the Reedy Drive homeowner's attempt to unclog a toilet that created the haz-mat situation.
74-year-old Robert Byrne attempted to clear the drain with bleach Wednesday night and when that didn't work, he poured in sulfuric acid Thursday morning causing a volatile reaction. Police say when the chemicals combined the mixture foamed over and quickly filled the residence with fumes.
Byrne was transported to the Ocean Medical Center after complaining of having difficulty breathing. His dog was also affected by the exposure to the fumes and was turned over to a family member at the scene.
First responders and the Berkley Township Hazardous Materials Response Team ventilated the residence and declared it safe to re-enter by 1:30 Thursday afternoon.


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Enable building dynamic haskell executables since dev-lang/ghc-7.10.1_rc3.
Add support for ghc-7.10 registration. User visible changes: ghc-package stopped exporting pkg_* phases and now they are reexported by haskell-cabal. pkg_* phases do not install any additional files anymore.
Add support for parallel building (ghc-7.8+). Disable dynamic library stripping and respect --sysconfdir (Cabal-1.18+).
Add 'ghc-supports-interpreter' helper to detect interpreter support.
Added 'ghc-supports-smp' and 'ghc-supports-dynamic-by-default' helpers. Added hint for users to run 'haskell-updater' if configure phase failed.
Added 'ghc-supports-threaded-runtime' function. Removed implicit RDEPEND on 'ghc'.
Restore dynamic linking of Cabal's ./setup and add building of shared libraries for ghc-7.7+.
ghc-pkg --global-conf parameter is renamed to --global-package-db in ghc 7.6.1
Remove outdated bits for <ghc-6.10 and <cabal-1.8. Switch from 'eerror' to 'eqawarn' as suggested by Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/251259). Install empty '.conf' files for binaries to help 'haskell-updater' pick binaries built with onder haskell toolchain on ghc upgrade.
fix up copy & paste errors (same func/var name)
fix random bugs in eclass documentation, and convert to new @AUTHOR tag
speed up package deregistration, add 'ghc-supports-shared-libraries' helper - 'pkg_prerm' could take up to minute in a loop of checking protected packages. We don't need to protect anything on modern ghc (6.12+) - ghc-supports-shared-libraries returns success if installed ghc is able to build shared objects
Added EPREFIX support, added documentation stubs.
ghc-package.eclass: Fix for GHC 6.12.3 when having broken packages in your environment.
Update ghc-package eclass to make it work with >=dev-lang/ghc-6.10, and ghc-reregistering to work with paludis.
Update ghc eclass for new ghc-6.8 quirk
Fix use of $(which ghc) for $(type -P ghc) that somehow crept back in.
Updates to ghc and cabal eclasses to go with ghc-6.6.x upgrade.
replaced "which" by "type -P"
Add place holder for virtual/ghc sanity check
Use best_version with a fully qualified package name, fixing bug #147685.
The change about how we pick a version of cabal to use as described in the previous commit. (Oops, committed in two bits, never mind)
Ask portage rather than ghc-pkg about which version of cabal to use. This way we build packages using version of cabal from portage that we tested rather than a version that the user installed. This is important as many packages are sensitive to changes in the Cabal API. Make ghc-getghc and ghc-getghcpkg functions return absolute paths and fix up one place in the haskell-cabal eclass where this had a knock-on effect this should fix bug #140589
Note that the ghc-package eclass is maintaind by the Haskell herd.
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Astaro: A "Swiss-Army Knife" of Security Software
Astaro Features Bundled Security Package
As more servers open themselves up to the benefits of online communication and e-commerce, it is good to know that there are open source software firms stepping up to fill the security needs of this online world.
One such company, Astaro, released the latest update to its security software for Linux this week, a downloadable product combining firewall protection with intrusion detection, VPN support, and content filtering.
Touted by German-based Astaro as a security "Swiss army knife," the Astaro Security Linux (ASL) software is also resold by Astaro partners such as Cobalt, Pyramid, and EDS in their Internet appliance hardware.
The software product is aimed mostly at mid-sized organizations that don't want to invest in more expensive solutions from vendors like Checkpoint, says Steve Schlesinger, Astaro's managing director. Astaro is also targeting branch offices of big corporations.
ASL brings together Astaro's proprietary middleware, user interface, and Web-based administration tools with a hardened Linux kernel and several open source security components.
Bundled in, as well, is antivirus software from Kaspersky Labs. "We also resell (SSH's) SSH Sentinel as a VPN client for road warriors. Or, you can use a PPTP client, which comes with practically every Windows machine," Schlesinger says.
"Astaro has a strong, vocal, easily targeted market in the open source community. The active support and contributions in the community often point to lower support and development costs, as do Astaro's modifications to existing open source databases," according to a recent report by Hurwitz Group.
Specifically, Astaro's open source componentry includes an Apache Web server; IP tables, for stateful packet inspection; FreeSwan, for VPN services; and two proxy servers: Squid and eXim, Schlesinger says.
"We want to provide a supported hybrid which is based on open source. We pick the best components that RedHat, SuSE and Mandrake have to offer. Without middleware, though, the onus would be on the user to glue everything together," he contends.
"Open source is probably the most tested of all software. Bugs are reported as soon as they're found. We not only do we use open source, but we improve on existing open source stuff by posting fixes back."
Astaro got its start in January of 2000 in Karlsruhe, Germany. More than 185,000 users have downloaded trial versions of ASL by now, according to Schlesinger. "We're on an honor system," Schlesinger adds. The company also has more than 5,000 paying customers at this point.
Many users say they like the fact that Astaro pre-integrates Linux security components for them.
Joe Little, principal systems architect at Stanford Universitys School of Engineering, has been testing USL for use as a general proxy server and VPN server for deployment among 60 Macintosh and Windows users at Stanford University.
"ASL is a catch-all solution for a lot of different security needs. You could combine a bunch of off-the-shelf components by yourself, but the integration and testing wouldn't be trivial. There are a few other 'catch-all solutions'out there, but none offer the same combination," Little maintains.
Little is also pleased that ASL lets administrators isolate, or "sandbox," various security functions. "People get nervous about 'featureitis.' But with Astaro, you can do sandboxing, so if someone accidentally misconfigures one thing, it doesn't necessarily open up the entire network."
The graphics group within Stanfords engineering and computer science schools is looking at using ASL in conjunction with a "virtual environments" Web server, Little says.
For its part, EDS is using ASL in a firewall and VPN appliance for credit unions. "Each credit union has its own Internet connection. The credit union resells the box to its own customers, integrates it, sets it up, and does monitoring," explains Buddy Baxter of EDS.
"Credit unions don't want to spend $20,000 on a solution. They want to spend on the lower end, but at the same time, they don't want to compomise security."
Baxter is likewise impressed with Astaro's performance "Astaro's product is very reliable, almost like a lightbulb," he says. "The company is also very responsive. At one time, the software supported IDE drives only. When we wanted to use SCSI drives, though, Astaro added SCSI support."
Astaro issues bug fixes and minor enhancements through the Up2Date Web-based service. Version 3.051, the latest update, includes fixes to IPsec security, to HTTP and DNS proxies, and to the "look and feel" of WebAdmin.
In an earlier bug fix in February, Up2Date 2.022, Astaro responded to some users complaints of an "improper file permissions flaw" by remedying the problem.
Wrote Astaro's Markus Hennig to the Bugtraq Newsgroup: "All Astaro users please note, (though), that none of the wrong permissions (were) usable for an exploit to gain root privileges, and none of them (contained) any remote vulnerabilities."
Astaro provides VPN support through IPSec and PPTP. Proxy support includes SMTP, for virus protection; HTTP, for content filtering, cache, and authentication; and HTTPS, DNS and SOCKS 4.0/5.0, also for authentication.
WebAdmin, Astaro's proprietary administration tool, incorporates SSL security. Astaro offers a free demo of WebAdmin on its own Web site. Alternatively, ASL can be remotely monitored through SNMP or Syslog, according to Schlesinger.
ASL is priced from a low of about $400 to $5,000 for an unlimited license. Astaro also offers optional service packages, ranging from 24-by-7 support to smaller call packs. For round-the-clock worldwide phone coverage, Astaro runs call centers in the US (Massachusetts); Canada (British Columbia); and Europe (Germany), for example.
For free user self-help, Astaro operates a bulletin board on its Web site (http://www.astaro.com ). Recent postings have included "RoadWarrior configuration," "SMTP relay from Internet," and "VPN using 3.050," for instance.


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My two oldest teens volunteer with a food bank. Salmon from our state's fish hatcheries that would otherwise go to waste is donated to the food bank. It's a huge task to clean and can the fish, but obviously worth doing. The majority of the fish is given out locally, but a portion is shipped around the world.
By now, you're probably wondering what this has to do with travel vaccines. A dozen of the food bank volunteers will be going to Guatemala to do some disaster relief work (hurricanes, volcanos), including helping distribute some of the salmon that they've helped can. My kids get to participate, and one of the requirements was for them to get the vaccines needed for travel to Guatemala.
We've learned some interesting things.
Where does one go to get travel vaccines? I initially called our family doctor, but it turns out that he doesn't do travel medicine. It's not cost-effective for him to stock every possible vaccine, so he suggests that people go to the health department. That's one option.
There are some medical clinics that run a travel clinic; we found one that does travel vaccines two half-days a month. With such limited access, slots fill up quickly, so it's important to plan ahead.
We also learned that some pharmacies give travel vaccines. Your state's health department website should have a complete list of places that provide travel vaccines.
There will be both consultation fees and vaccine fees. It's expensive. It's also likely to be out-of-pocket. Insurers figure that if you have the money for travel, you have the money for your shots. Just consider it all part of the trip. Ask before making any appointments, though. Costs vary widely.
The health department here, I discovered, charges $140 to talk to someone about travel vaccines, plus the cost of the individual vaccines. They don't however, volunteer that information over the phone. A few people in the group made appointments at the health department, and were shocked at the cost.
The family physician I found who holds a travel medicine clinic twice a month charges $215 plus the cost of the vaccines, but offers a discount for additional people in the group seen at the same time (only $125). This place was up-front about the fees and made it clear that payment was expected at the time of service.
Pharmacies are definitely the least expensive option for a single vaccine. You just tell them which vaccine you want and pay for the shot; there's no extra consultation fee.
The vaccine fees vary widely, too. A typhoid vaccine costs $99 at the health department, $56 at the FP's travel clinic, and $75 at the pharmacy.
Which Shots Do I Need?
If you pay a travel clinic or the health department for a consultation, they should tell you which vaccines are appropriate. Should. Our group has discovered that different people were told different things, and that the shots given at the local health department depend on who happens to be working that day. Not everyone received all the shots recommended by the CDC.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has excellent information online. Anyone with internet access can learn which shots are recommended for the area to which they're planning to travel. In fact, the travel medicine doctor we saw gave the kids handouts that, it turned out, were printouts of the CDC's website.
What About Prescriptions?
There's more to travel than getting a few shots before you leave. My kids will be in an area where malaria is a concern, so they needed a prescription for an anti-malarial. It depends on which part of the world you'll be seeing which anti-malarial(s) will be effective – fortunately, the CDC provides that information.
It's the little things, though, that make me think it might be better to see a travel medicine doctor instead of the less expensive pharmacy-based-travel-vaccines – at least for the first trip or two. The doctor my kids saw also gave them a prescription for a medication to take in case they get a case of traveler's stomach, and a lot of good how-to-stay-safe-while-travelling tips. The people in the group who got their shots at a pharmacy don't have those just-in-case meds, and they didn't get the helpful tips.
Check your medications. Some prescriptions specify that you shouldn't get vaccinated until you've been off the med for a while. Thus, if I ever need to discontinue my mtx & biologic, I'm planning to get some basic travel vaccines while it's possible. The hardest part of seeing my kids go is knowing that if something comes up, I can't go get a few shots and then hop on a plane to go help them. Check your current medications carefully to be sure it's safe to get travel vaccines.
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Setting up a Linux-based Open-Mesh Wireless Network, Part 1
Hardware and Software
Mesh networks are a type of wireless network. As you'll discover, mesh networking is great for blanketing Wi-Fi in larger areas. They are especially useful in places where the environment changes frequently, such as people and walls moving around in malls, trees and buildings growing around an apartment complex, boats moving around the docks, and trucks coming in and out of stops. Additionally, they are perfect for locations and applications where it's hard to run network cabling.
Instead of having to run Ethernet cables to each of the access points, mesh networks work wirelessly. Only one mesh node (or more for larger networks) must be grounded and plugged into an Internet connection. Other mesh nodes, acting as repeaters, can be placed throughout a building or outdoor area, only requiring power. When someone surfs the web from a repeater, the traffic hops from node-to-node, making it back to a gateway. The hops can vary depending upon the current signal levels among them all. Hence the common saying about mesh, "self configuring and healing", and why they are perfect for busy areas.
Where does Linux or open source come into play? Well, there's Open-Mesh, a volunteer-based organization that provides hardware and services for mesh networks. The comparatively low-cost hardware, or nodes, are loaded with open-source firmware.
The service or dashboard is provided for free by Open-Mesh and lets operators manage their mesh networks online. Then for user authentication (username and password-based access) or pay-for-use applications, there's the free CoovaOM or CoovaAAA services in addition to other paid options.
In this two-part tutorial series, we'll set up a mesh network using the Open-Mesh gear and services. First we'll gather the hardware, create a Dashboard account, and configure the network settings. Then in the next part, we'll experiment with the internal splash page, third-party captive portal, set up web filtering with OpenDNS, and finally install the nodes and test coverage. Now lets get started!
Gathering the Hardware
First you need to estimate how many mesh nodes/routers you need to cover the desired area. Each node provides about the same coverage as a normal wireless router or access point. However keep in mind, each node needs to at least
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overlap in coverage with one other node. You can mount them anywhere with a power outlet, however, if the budget and time is limited you'll probably want to stick with indoor locations.
Don't forget about pumping in the Internet. You must have at least one node hooked to an Internet connection. You'd then call it a gateway node; other nodes that aren't directly connected to the Internet are called repeater nodes. For larger locations and networks, you'd use two or more gateways, thus multiple Internet connections would be required. This would provide users with better bandwidth, as each hop between nodes cuts the bandwidth in about half. It would also provide redundancy for the Internet access; one goes down you still have the other.
You can refer to the guide from Open-Mesh for help on designing and deploying your mesh network.
You can use the Open-Mesh line of hardware. Prices range from $29 for lower-grade nodes and $49 for professional-level--both very affordable. The professional node includes the hardware watchdog chip that auto restarts the node when errors or problems are detected. It also supports longer Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) runs. Additionally, it has both a 2dbi onboard chip diversity antenna and a removable external 2.5dbi antenna.
The following features are on both the lower-cost and professional nodes:
- Use of the Open-Mesh Dashboard to control and monitor your networks.
- Dual ESSIDs (network names); one open for the public users and another one that's firewalled and WPA-encrypted for secure private access.
- Optional splash page feature for the public access that's fully customizable with the HTML/WYSIWYG editor.
- User authentication and billing options via third-party solutions from Coova.org, WiFi-CPA.com, WorldSpot.net, or any RADIUS server.
- Redirect users after they view the splash page or login.
- Bandwidth (speed) limitation settings for the public access.
- Wireless bridge mode on non-gateway nodes lets you plug in a computer for the public access.
- Automatic firmware downloads and updates.
- PoE support, with longer runs supported by the professional nodes.
- SSH and Telnet redboot access.
You could alternatively flash your own supported equipment with the Open-Mesh firmware. Remember, the node features can greatly impact the design and installation. So make sure you carefully compare the features between the vendors and nodes.
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Brothers Revive a Fellow FirefighterLYNNFIELD — Fire Lieutenant Keith Gauvreau, 48, had just arrived at a brush fire Thursday when he said he was not feeling well and then collapsed and fell to the ground. He was not visibly breathing, and his fellow firefighters could not find a pulse. The 27-year Lynnfield Fire Department veteran had suffered a major heart attack. "He was in trouble,'' ...Published over 8 years ago |
City Agreement Puts Eight Firefighters Back on the JobLAWRENCE, MA- Eight of 24 city firefighters laid off in July are being rehired immediately after Mayor William Lantigua and Lawrence firefighters came to a long-awaited cost-savings agreement yesterday. The Lawrence firefighters' union voted 57 to 7 to make $241,000 in contract concessions, which include each firefighter working 24 hours overtime for free and giving up a week's vacation. Firefighters voted ...Published over 8 years ago |
Naked Firefighter Might Lose His Job Over PhotoWASHINGTON, DC - They say women love firefighters. And men who can cook. One D.C. firefighter seems to have tried to combine the two -- naked! The Washington D.C. fire and emergency services department has launched a probe after a photo surfaced of a naked firefighter apparently cooking for a party in a firehouse, NBC reported. The photo was turned into ...Published over 8 years ago |
VIDEO: Alaska Wildfire Eats Up Over 700 acresFairbanks -- Hot, dry and windy weather stoked Alaska's first large wildfire of the season from a quarter-acre blaze north of Fairbanks on Friday afternoon to more than 700 acres of burning hillside by Saturday, fire officials said. The Moose Mountain Fire ignited near the well-populated Goldstream area, but it was burning away from residential areas on Saturday, according to the ...Published almost 8 years ago |
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NFL Bengals Player's Home Total Loss After FireMASON — Investigators at the home of Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Antwan Odom said a fire that started just before 3 a.m. Tuesday morning destroyed the house. Continuing past dawn, plumes of white smoke billowed westward from the home, which is a "total loss," said Mason Deputy Fire Chief Craig Bryant. No one was inside at the time of the fire. ...Published about 8 years ago |
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New Details Emerge In Incident of 2-Month Rookie's DeathNew details about the death of a rookie Homewood firefighter were revealed Monday in a scathing report that indicates the suburban fire department was ill-prepared to handle a fire of the magnitude that killed two people and seriously injured another in March. An investigation into the extra-alarm house fire on March 30 that killed firefighter Brian Carey, 28, determined the Homewood ...Published over 8 years ago |
NYC Fire Marshals Arrest Bartender for Fiery TrickNEW YORK (AP) - A barkeep whose flaming liquor show was featured in "Real Housewives of New York City" has been arrested for performing the fiery feat. Authorities said undercover fire marshals arrested the barkeep about 2 a.m. Sunday after he set alight Apotheke's bar top, where he had poured various liquors. Chief Fire Marshal Robert Byrnes said the stunt sparked ...Published almost 9 years ago |
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An "out of control" financial situation. An "ugly situation."
A city that's "handcuffed." Not just a "Costa Mesa problem."
Those were a few of the words used to describe the city's employee pension program through the
Eight of the nine newly appointed committee members, as well as Mayor Jim Righeimer and Mayor Pro Tem Steve Mensinger, attended the meeting in a City Hall conference room. Bobby Young, the city's finance and information technology director, was also present and is expected to attend and help guide the meetings.
Jeff Arthur, a retired financial professional and administrator with the Coast Community College District, was chosen to chair the committee. Ralph Taboada, a semi-retired accounting professional, was chosen as vice chairman.
"I'm a PERS retiree ... and I'm interested in preserving PERS, but at the same time know that it's a tough nut," Arthur said.
He added that he seeks to understand the problem, communicate it to the community and find solutions.
"I don't think it's going to be easy," Arthur said. "It's not an easy problem."
The committee will meet from roughly 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays at City Hall for its first month, after which time its meeting schedule is subject to change.
"We've got a problem, and there are people that are just skating over this stuff," Righeimer said. "So this group needs to know more than anybody else because we're gonna need recommendations to the state or to other cities of what we think it's gonna take to get this thing straightened out. And none of the answers are pretty."
In February the council approved Mensinger's request to create the standing committee. He had asked for 12 members, including three from the employee associations. City CEO Tom Hatch later advised against having employees present, however, as he felt it would present risks with the state labor law.
Part-time city staff help for the committee, for an estimated annual cost of $20,000, is also planned.
Mensinger said the board is not made up of "everybody from the same party or same ideology."
He said he hoped the members could "look at the issue and speak as one and share ideas like a jury board, and come out of deliberations with ideas that aren't political in terms of an ideology, but are inherently going to have a basis of fact, a basis of ideas."


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Since the conclusion of the 2013 football season and the Music City Bowl victory, eight Rebel seniors were invited to participate in college all-star games across the country.
Beginning on Jan. 11, Emmanuel McCray played for the National team in the Medal of Honor Bowl in Charleston, S.C. A native of Jackson, Miss., the left tackle started every game as a junior and was a part-time starter as a senior.
A week later, on Jan. 18, Ja-Mes Logan represented the Rebels in the East-West Shrine Game in St. Petersburg, Fla. A wide receiver for the East team, Logan caught three passes for 23 yards. The senior from Houston, Texas finished his Ole Miss career tied for seventh in school history with 136 career catches and 12th with 1,734 receiving yards.
On the same day, Tyler Campbell, Mike Marry and Charles Sawyer played in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl in Carson, Calif. All three played on the American team, with Marry posting four tackles and Campbell making five punts for 216 yards.
A three-year starting linebacker for the Rebels, Marry, a native of Clearwater, Fla., had 233 career tackles and finished among the SEC's active leaders with 23.0 career tackles for loss.
Campbell, from Little Rock, Ark., was a four-year starting punter for the Rebels and ranks second in school history with a career average of 44.6 yards per punt.
Sawyer, a cornerback from Miami, Fla., had 28 career passes defended and eight career interceptions while with the Rebels, placing him among the SEC's active leaders.
To finish the all-star game series, Jeff Scott, Evan Swindall and Pierce Burton played for the American team in the College All-Star Bowl on Feb. 14 in Greenville, S.C.
Scott, a native of Miami, Fla., is one of the school's all-time leaders in rushing yards (2,297), all-purpose yards (3,668), rushing touchdowns (17) and 100-yard rushing games (nine).
Swindall, the Rebels' starting center for each of his last 33 games in an Ole Miss uniform, has twice been on the Rimington Trophy's watch list, and at the conclusion of the 2013 season was recognized as Ole Miss' Most Valuable Senior by the coaching staff and honored during a ceremony by the Jackson Touchdown Club. The LaFayette, Ga., native helped the Ole Miss offense to two of its highest scoring seasons ever over the last two years.
Burton started at right tackle in all 26 games of his Rebel career. A native of Sacramento, Calif., Burton helped produce two of the top three seasons in Ole Miss history in total yardage.
These seniors, along with junior NFL Draft entrant Donte Moncrief, will hope to get selected in the upcoming NFL Draft, May 8-10, or be picked up by an NFL team as a rookie free agent. Moncrief is among 48 wide receivers invited to participate at the NFL Scouting Combine this weekend, Feb. 22-25, in Indianapolis.


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What do you get the person who has every scifi TV series in a DVD box set, all the latest scifi hardbacks, plus every gorgeous comic book collection and all the action figures you've ever heard of (plus probably like 20 more)? There is an actual answer to this question. You get them the books that helped create the world of SF, but which have been out of print for decades. Two indie publishers, HiLo Books and Singularity&Co., have spent the past year bringing old SF classics back into circulation.
Photo of Singularity&Co bookstore via Wired.
HiLo Books
Run by io9 pal Joshua Glenn, HiLo specializes in Radium Age SF, defined as early twentieth century work (1904-1933) that came out before the Golden Age of more familiar authors from the 1940s and 50s. Glenn has been writing about Radium Age work for years now, and it's been a longtime dream for him to publish high-quality re-issues of these out-of-print gems. This year, HiLo published five books, all with fascinating introductions and gorgeous covers. They're available as print or e-books.
Jack London's The Scarlet Plague, Introduction by Matthew Battles (On Amazon)
Rudyard Kipling's With the Night Mail and "As Easy as A.B.C.", Introduction by Matthew De Abaitua and Afterword by Bruce Sterling (On Amazon)
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt, Introduction by Joshua Glenn and Afterword by Gordon Dahlquist (On Amazon)
H. Rider Haggard's When the World Shook, Introduction by James Parker (On Amazon)
Edward Shanks' The People of the Ruins, Introduction by Tom Hodgkinson (On Amazon)
They're a bookstore in Brooklyn and a publisher devoted to one cause: "Save the Scifi!" Singularity&Co. sells select vintage science fiction and pulp books in their store and online, and also devote considerable energies to scanning out-of-print science fiction books to make them available as e-books.
Spend many delightful minutes browsing their incredible selection of vintage scifi, or sign somebody (including yourself) up for their e-book club which delivers their electronic re-issues of classic SF right to your inbox every month. Or you can sign up for the "very random book of the month club," which gives you one e-book and one random vintage SF paperback every month. They even sell cool t-shirts. Bonus: io9 contributor Kaila Hale-Stern works at Singularity&Co. so stop in and say hi!


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It shouldn't happen to a piano…
Laurel, Hardy and an unforgiving staircase
In 1931's The Music Box, Laurel and Hardy famously spend hours trying to get a piano up some very steep stairs, only to be met with a horribly ungrateful recipient:
It's the taste
Never leave your upright in the hands of a pair of chimps. Especially ones that like tea. But that's what PG Tips did in 1971…
Up, up and away
The American desert. A large catapult. A piano on fire. And wheeeeeeee! What fun… for those who are easily pleased:
A little woodwork
Here's footage of a 'recital' given by experimental music group Fluxus in March 2006. You'll notice that there are a lot of empty chairs. And why does the chap with the saw give up halfway through? Did he play a wrong note?
Lunch time
Frightening footage from Japan, in the form of the 1977 horror film Hausu. One to bear in mind next time you sit down to have a little go at a Mozart sonata…
Science explained
Some of the world's greatest scientific brains attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Here they prove that force = mass x acceleration with the aid of a baby grand and a tall building:
For nine other examples of gratuitous keyboard maltreatment, take a look at our July issue, out on 11 June!
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Camille Montes, played by Olga Kurylenko, in Quantum of Solace (2008) wears some of the stunning pieces from Jasper Conran's Summer 2008 collection.
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I finished my "real" rendition of Simplicity 2360, which is a pullover dress with an elastic waist. My muslin is in this post. Here's the pattern:A couple of things I did differently on this version: first, I made this one with short sleeves, rather than the sleeveless version, which I like, but it makes the bodice less fitted; I actually like the fit of the bodice better on the sleeveless one. Second, I narrowed the skirt pattern so that the skirt finished 2 inches less wide at the hem. Third, I made the elastic shorter, thus tightening up the waist, which was very much needed. Finally, I made no sash. Frankly, I ran out of fabric because I incorrectly sewed the bodice pieces together, and of course, I had already surged the seams. So instead of ripping out, I just cut new pieces. I think the dress needs a belt or sash, so I'll look for a suitable white fabric in my stash, or order more of this Kaffe Fassett rayon online. Right now, I'm wearing it without one:
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I can explain the boots! I wore this to work on Wednesday, and it was a rare rainy day - I wore boots and jean jacket with the dress, and the boots were so comfortable, I just never changed out of them into my "work" shoes.
Overall, the dress is extremely comfortable and easy to make. I was thinking of doing a fall version with three-quarter sleeves out of a wool challis, but I think it is time to put this pattern away for awhile. I like it, but enough is enough and it is time to move on!


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It's been 10 months since a groundswell of discontent engulfed the country, and Occupy Wall Street and Bank Transfer Day emerged. Public outrage in fall 2011 contributed to behemoths like Bank of America reversing plans to force monthly fees on account holders. But did people really cash out of corporate coffers?
Kristen Christian thinks so. She launched Bank Transfer Day with a Facebook invite to 500 friends. Her Facebook profile has since been revamped, displaying professional headshots and the declaration that "every day is Bank Transfer Day!"
Christian has been able to use the momentum of her event to fashion a new career for herself. She's a freelance consultant and public speaker for organizations (including credit unions) eager to entice young, tech-savvy folks into their ranks. She says she's driven by the nonprofit cooperative principles of credit unions—a stark contrast to the bottom-line motives of other financial institutions.
"If they operated like banks and didn't help communities they way they do, I wouldn't be advocating for them."
Christian says stats about how many bank transfers happened mean less to her than personal anecdotes. For instance, the San Francisco Fire Credit Union told her the uptick in memberships created 20 new positions.
She was fed up with the lack of personal service at Bank of America, and the announcement about monthly fees pushed her over the edge. She decided to join a credit union in the town where she grew up, hours away from her home base in L.A.
"The kicker for me was when my mother decided to join the same credit union." Her mother is older and not able to travel easily. The credit union rep asked where her mother lived. When Christian replied that her mom's home was just on the other side of the freeway, the rep said: Great, we'll send a branch manager over with a notary. This was before they knew she was responsible for Bank Transfer Day, says Christian. "That's how they treat ordinary people."
A nationwide study shows that in October, 610,000 people changed where they invest their money. That's 11 percent of the 5.6 million people in total who switched banks before 2011 ended.
New Mexico's numbers are sketchier when it comes to the new ranks of credit unions. Robin Brule, vice president of membership development for the New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union, says Bank Transfer Day and Occupy Wall Street coincided with a push to increase awareness about their services in rural and underserved areas. So it's hard to know what actually factored into new membership, she says. "We did see more people coming onto our website or calling to find out more information."
The Rio Grande Credit Union has more specifics. Dohnia Dorman, vice president of marketing, says when they compared the number of people applying for their basic, free services between 2010 and 2011, "we saw a 42 percent increase."
"If they operated like banks and didn't help communities they way they do, I wouldn't be advocating for them."
Kristen Christian, Bank Transfer Day founder
Corporate banks appear to shrug off all the ruckus. Wells Fargo reps couldn't be reached for comment. Colleen Haggerty, Bank of America's spokesperson, wrote via email that the company has no comment on Bank Transfer Day or other protest activities. "We value our customers and take pride in their loyalty as they continue to grow their personal and business banking needs with us."
But Haggerty notes that the bank's deposits in New Mexico add up to $3.8 billion, "which is an increase from the prior year of $3.6 billion."
The history of credit unions begins with people banding together to survive bouts of economic difficulty. The prototype was developed in Europe when a beleaguered group of workers in Britain realized they could combine their resources in a cooperative store. Poor, urban Germans expanded on the concept in 1849 by pooling their money for lending to each other, which helped ward off the 19th-century versions of predatory payday lenders.
In the U.S., it was the unexpected partnership of a banker and a successful businessman in Massachusetts that helped establish the first state law allowing for credit unions. By 1925, new credit unions laws were in place in 25 states. The onset of the Depression and a desperate need to unfreeze credit for everyday people only kicked the movement into higher gear.
A 2009 report from the Credit Union Association of New Mexico says early credit unions in the state "were small, unsophisticated operations, run out of parish offices or even from the kitchen table at an organizer's rural ranch home."
Corporate banks have never been thrilled about credit unions cutting into their customer base. The industry argues that because credit unions have grown to offer increasingly sophisticated, bank-like services, they should be taxed just like for-profits. In terms of PR, there's really no competition. Big banks have the benefit of serious leverage (and marketing budgets) when it comes to philanthropy and other community investments.
"Bank of America has provided over $2 billion to New Mexico's low- and moderate-income communities and customers since 2009 in the areas of affordable housing, economic development, small business and consumer lending," writes Haggerty. And that number includes almost $600 million of lending in underserved areas of the state in 2011 alone, she adds.
Unlike banks, credit unions are not-for-profits owned by their members. Instead of siphoning earnings up the pipeline to shareholders and CEOs, they can invest them as they see fit. This can take the form of lower interest rates and fees, or member-directed donations to local charities and community groups. Perhaps most crucially, they can respond to local economic conditions and offer loans to people who might not qualify at a big institution.
Brule at New Mexico Educators explains it this way: If a partner organization has been forced make layoffs, her credit union has the flexibility to create special loans and services to ease the burden of any members who lose their jobs.
She also points to their partnership with La Montañita Co-op. The organic grocer decided it was time to increase business with local growers and food producers, but conventional banks wouldn't lend the money the vendors needed to expand operations.
"In my mind, I thought that meant they kept the mortgages there."
John Poston
"We did a unique service program with them called a pledge line," says Brule. La Montañita took some of its membership fees and used them as collateral. "We were able to provide capital and resources for folks that might not traditionally qualify." New Mexico Educators had the non-corporate perspective and established relationships to understand the circumstances of everyone involved. The lender could overlook small shortcomings in vendors' business plans in favor of the guarantee that every applicant already had a contract with La Montañita.
"We really try to provide solutions to challenges in the local economy and what's happening in the work force," says Brule.
John Poston and his wife, Jessica Billey, were two of the thousands of people who decided to make the switch from a big bank to a credit union.
"We thought it would be a great idea to move our mortgage over to New Mexico Educators and refinance it and kind of keep the money in the local community," says Poston.
They closed their Wells Fargo accounts and refinanced their home mortgage. They also noticed in their new loan terms the credit union included rights to sell it to another financial entity. Poston asked their adviser about the fine print.
They were told that in the past, mortgages had been sold in packages as other banks do, but lately it'd been easier for the credit union to service its own mortgages. "In my mind, I thought that meant they kept the mortgages there," says Poston. "In reality, servicing the mortgage just means managing the payments."
Before they even had time to make a payment, they got a notice from Fannie Mae, one of two government-backed institutions that help banks and credit unions fund mortgages. Poston says they were disappointed to realize their money ended up with Fannie Mae. Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have come under fire after their federal bailouts of more than $150 billion.
"I know they had the right to do that, and I'm sure that it's standard," says Poston. "I don't think any bank is going to loan thousands of dollars without the option to sell it."
Dave Jansen, New Mexico Educators' senior vice president of mortgages, conceded as much. He says it's simply common-sense lending policy to sell 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages to entities like Fannie and Ginnie Mae because the credit union borrows most of its money from members in the form of shorter-term, lower interest-rate investments.
"It's probably not a good idea to take a one-year CD and lend that money to another member for 30 years at fixed rate of interest," says Jansen. "It's not an acceptable rate of risk," especially in the hawk-eyes of regulators and examiners who watch for such hazards. They could shut down the credit union if they find too many high-risk transactions. Without Fannie and Ginnie Mae, the credit union would only be able to make 15-year and adjustable rate mortgages. The fact is that most members want the option of 30-year, fixed-rate home loans.
Jansen says people like Poston shouldn't be worried about these "very typical" lending practices. He's reassuring; today's mortgages sales don't have the same kind of problems that contributed to the disastrous implosion of the housing bubble. "The systemic risk with the mortgage crisis really didn't have anything to do with Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie getting into 30-year, fixed-rate loans," he continues. Instead, it was the mortgage industry making risky loans to people with bad credit and low down payments. "The pendulum has swung back from where it was in the mid-2000s, and I do truly believe the loans being made today will perform excellently."
And what if, for the sake of argument, a majority of members aren't so convinced? It brings up one of the last key distinctions of credit unions compared with banks: They're democratically structured. Members have equal ownership, equal votes in board member elections, and they get a say in how their institution is directed. People like Poston and Billey can take their concerns to the leadership of where their money's managed and have some hope that they'll get a personalized response.
But the world being the way it is, it's hard to imagine a majority of people would turn down the ready availability of 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages. And as long as most members want to have their cake and eat it too, they'll accept that credit unions sell their mortgages in bundled securities, just like corporate banks. Changes to that bigger financial system will require appeals to a much higher power—even higher than Facebook.


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Rush Join Fundraising Drive for Needy Canadian Musicians
If you see Rush in concert during their string of Canadian shows this summer, you won't just be treating yourself to some great live music -- you'll be helping a good cause in the bargain.
The band has announced that it plans to contribute a dollar from the purchase price of every ticket sold for the shows -- five in all, taking place between July 10-26 -- to the Unison Benevolent Fund, which offers "counseling, emergency relief, and benefit programs for the Canadian music community who face personal or professional challenges due to hardship, illness, unemployment or economic difficulties."
The Fund announced Rush's involvement in a press release, saying, "Whether it's a favourite song or an album by a treasured artist, music impacts our lives. Every recording and show requires an invisible network of professionals working collectively to create all the music that is important to you. The majority of this team are self-employed or freelance contractors. They usually live without the support of a safety net and when a crisis occurs its impact can be devastating. Thanks to Rush, Unison will change that."
As Unison points out, most musicians -- in Canada and elsewhere -- are self-employed; according to recent labor statistics, most Canadian musicians earn less than $20,000 annually (and have college degrees). While none of the guys in Rush need to worry about where their next meal's going to come from, they clearly remember what it was like to struggle financially, and their efforts to make a difference deserve to be commended.


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Vermont: Personally important because it is the State where I get many of my bow ties (along with the ones for the high school mock trial team I coach).
Vermont is legally relevant because it is the land of a state Supreme Court decision on whether you have a legitimate expectation of privacy in IP addresses and warrantless searches of MySpace and Verizon.
The Defendant in State v. Simmons was arrested for stealing a laptop. The appeal focused on whether the subpoena to MySpace and Verizon was a violation of the Vermont Constitution, which offered broader protections then the 4th Amendment. State v. Simmons, 2011 VT 69, NaN-P1 (Vt. 2011).
4th Amendment case law has held that "Internet users have no reasonable expectation of privacy in their subscriber information, the length of their stored files, and other noncontent data to which service providers must have access." Simmons, P8, citing, United States v. D'Andrea, 497 F. Supp. 2d 117, 120 (D. Mass. 2007).
The detective investigating the theft of the two laptops got an anonymous tip that someone named "Graham" had one of the stolen laptops and was accessing his neighbor's WiFi signal. Simmons, P2.
The tip said the alleged thief lived on the same street as the victims who had their computers stolen. Id.
The detective determined through public records the Defendant identity and that one of his neighbors (who had her laptop stolen) had a Verizon Internet account. Id.
The detective conducted informal discovery on Myspace, finding someone by the same name as the Defendant, who lived where the laptops were stolen. Simmons, P3. The photos on MySpace resembled the Defendant's DMV photo. Id.
The detective served a subpoena MySpace for the Defendant's IP address. The information from MySpace showed the Defendant's IP address was a Verizon address. Simmons, P3.
A second subpoena was issued to Verizon.
The records from Verizon showed the IP belonged to the neighbor who had her laptop stolen.
The Defendant did not have permission to use the neighbor's WiFi and the evidence showed he had been accessing her wireless network. Simmons, P4.
The detective then secured a search warrant for the Defendant's home, where they found the stolen computer. Simmons, P5.
The Defendant moved to suppress the evidence, claiming the IP was private information that required a warrant under the US Constitution and Chapter 1, Article 11 of the Vermont Constitution. The trial court denied the motion. The appeal focused only on the Vermont Constitution. Simmons, P6.
The Vermont Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's ruling. Simmons, P1. The Court stated:
Nothing in our Article 11 rulings suggest that an internet subscriber address and frequency of use data, unembellished by any personal information, should be treated as private. Article 11 declares that "the people have a right to hold themselves, their houses, papers, and possessions, free from search and seizure." Vt. Const. ch. 1, art. 11. Absent exigent circumstances not at issue here, Article 11 prohibits a warrantless search of "only those areas or activities that a reasonable person would conclude are intended to be private."
Simmons, P14, citing State v. Geraw, 173 Vt. 350, 352, 795 A.2d 1219, 1221 (2002).
The Vermont Supreme Court then analyzed whether someone has a legitimate expectation of privacy in an IP address.
Under the Vermont Constitution, a person must have an actual expectation of privacy that society recognizes. Simmons, P15, quoting Justice Harlan's concurring opinion in Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 361 (1967).
The Court found that IP information could not reasonably be private. As the Court explained:
Given the necessary and willing exposure of an Internet user's access point identification and frequency of use to third party Internet service providers, such information cannot reasonably be considered confidential, especially when a provider such as MySpace openly declares a policy of disclosure. The information appears no more private than a phone number and the number of calls made, or a street address or post office box and volume of mail, neither of which could plausibly be considered private.
Simmons, P15.
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It is important to remember this is a state Supreme Court opinion about a state Constitutional right. However, the logic parallels Federal precedent. Additionally, the case is scheduled for re-arguments and subject to revision.
The established trend in case law is that ISP information is not protected by the 4th Amendment. Moreover, this information lacks actual content of communications. Furthermore, the information is generally limited to IP addresses and number of times an account was accessed.
There will be many cases addressing privacy issues of electronically stored information, such as the warrantless GPS surveillance case to be heard by the United States Supreme Court.
Josh Gilliland is a California attorney who focuses his practice on eDiscovery. Josh is the co-creator of The Legal Geeks, which has made the ABA Journal Top Blawg 100 Blawg from 2013 to 2016, the Web 100 from 2017 to 2018, and was nominated for Best Podcast for the 2015 Geekie Awards. Josh has presented at legal conferences and comic book conventions across the United States. He also ties a mean bow tie.


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