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The International New York Times
on human rights in China
On Paula Modersohn Becker's 142nd birthday Google remembered her with a Doodle.
Read about her and see some process sketches of our illustration here.
The New York Times
Illustration for Golden Cosmos calendar 2018
screenprinted with 3 colors
Style Mountain Magazine
about mountaineering and finding oneself alone above the clouds
Editions Milan
Author: Arnaud Roi
A pop up book about pirates!
The New Yorker
Warby Parker
Illustration for a limited edition of Lens Cloths
Goethe Institut
A panorama for 2018 calendar
A bookcover for "Vingt-Quatre Heures Dans L'Incroyable Bibliotheque De M. Lemoncello"
2015 – 2016
Various Op-Ed illustrations
NYT Notable Opinion Art 2015
about four unproduced plays by the artist Fortunato Depero in Rovereto, Italy
Frame Magazine
for a piece about making films based on books
Nobrow Press
13,8×23,5 cm, 20 pages
The concertina book is an illustrated
factualguide to the history of train
engineering and travel – published by Nobrow.
You can read about the progress of the
making and look behind the scenes
of GOLDEN COSMOS on the Nobrow Blog.
Get your copy here.
A Magasinet
Coverillustration and several inside illustrations
about utopian communities in the USA
Charles Freger
We made over 50 illustrations for french photographer Charles Freger's new book Yokainoshima.
The book is a celebration of japanese folk rituals.
Yokainoshima is an artificial word and means Island of monsters.
More info and Charles Freger's amazingly beautiful photos on his website.
for the opening ceremony of National Sawdust, a new music venue in an old sawmill in Williamsburg, New York
Süddeutsche Magazin
Various illustrations for the Financial Page
For a piece of Martin Amis on a book tour and his observations in Germany,
that describes the Oktoberfesters juxtaposed in a subtle way with the influx of immigrants.
The Rencontres d'Arles
about "Guillaume Tell", an Opera by Gioachino Rossini
on misinformation on global warming
Bloomberg Businessweek
about the future of children's books
We were asked by The New York Times to tell a story on our childhoot pet:
When I was about 5 years old I took my cat, Heinrich, with me to kindergarten. I carried him in my arms on the way there, and left him to wait for me outside until school was over. When I came back he was gone. I walked home and hoped he would be there, but he wasn't. Every night I stood on the doorstep and called out his name — "Heinrich!" — into the dark garden but he never came. It was the first real loss in my life, and I was so sad.
Five years later my father came home with good news: He had found Heinrich! A colleague of his, who lived a few miles away had adopted a stray black and white cat at the time Heinrich got lost. I was so happy to get him back after all those years. But when we arrived at the man's house, Heinrich didn't recognize us. He was an old cat quietly enjoying the twilight of his life — so we left him there in his new home.
Map of Saxony (Germany) showing
recent events of xenophobia and its countermovement.
screenprinted with 5 colors
594×841 mm
Das Magazin
Coverillustration and 8 inside illustrations
based on stories of people living a double live.
for an article explaining how animals crossed the Atlantic thousands of years ago
Golf Digest
about accidentally hitting the ball twice when you're hitting in thick rough on a golf course
Howler Magazine
repeat pattern
275×390 mm
4 color screenprint
based on a fairy tale by Brothers Grimm
limited edition of 25,
signed and numbered
self published
18×25 cm
32 pages
4 color screen print
Edition: 45, signed and numbered
illustrated by Daniel Dolz
The book is about a boy with his binoculars.
He wears them wherever he goes and from a save distance watches intimate details of his fellow students.
It's the story of a silent outsider who longs for closeness, appreciation and friendship.
Illustrarte '16, Lisbon, exhibited
Art Directors Club Germany 2015,
Silver Nail, young talent
Nami Concours
International Picture Book Award 2015, South Korea, Encouragement
Buy it at the Frankfurter Grafikbrief.
Coverillustration for the
Review Section about US-American
policy towards China
Enorm Magazin
The New York Times
Coverillustration Sunday Review
screenprinted poster
for an exhibition of a selection of screenprints and Risoprints by Golden Cosmos
at Büchergilde Galerie Hamburg
limited edition of 50
International ZEITmagazin
WIRED magazine
Collection Büchergilde
Editor: Silvia Krysciak
313×588 mm
The wall calendar illustrates 24 international holidays and accompanies you through a year of quiet, peaceful, spiritual, festive, hilarious and crazy holidays around the world.
Variety Magazine
for a story about the upcoming American Film Market in Santa Monica, and the impact of Chinese investors coming
for an article making the case against homogenized medical care, in which
all patients are treated the same
3 color screenprint on tote bag
Should the Drama category be expanded to make the Emmy race a more compelling and interesting one?
Paradiso Magazine
for Private Lives section
based on an essay by Peyton Marshall about sparrows expelling the bluebird from its natural living environment
13,8×23,5 cm, 20 pages
The concertina book folds out to a 139 cm panorama detailing humanity's quest to conquer the skies and is published by Nobrow Press.
You can buy it here.
MIT Technology Review
Edition Büchergilde
9,5×12,5 cm, 24 pages
"Travel is fatal to prejudice" Mark Twain once said. On a trip through Germany he then observed with delight, how devoted the people there recover on Sundays.
"Sonntagsheiligung in Deutschland" was published by Edition Büchergilde. It is part of the series "petits fours".
Coverillustration for Sunday Review
Coverillustration and several section illustrations
Illustration for NODE Berlin Oslo
The contribution for a stamp design competition of the German Finance Ministry won second place.
illustrations for NODE Berlin Oslo
toilet icons for HKW Haus der Kulturen Berlin
The Washington Post
for a Q&A with the dining columnist
Human Empire
50×70 cm
3 color screenprint
59 × 84 cm
2 spot color offset print
Bloomberg View
why US government can't
pay couples to get married
22 × 31 cm
4 spot color offset print
Repeat pattern for NOBROW Magazine N°5.
Knack Weekend
22 x 31 cm
4 spot color offset print
Illustration for NOBROW Magazine N°6.
The Euro is dead, long live the Euro!
9×12 cm
3 spot color offset print
repeat pattern for a wrapping paper
Büchergilde Gutenberg
Cloth Binding
Cover artwork
Supalife Kiosk
42×59,4 cm
edition: 100, signed and numbered
17 × 24 cm
3 color screen print
Text: digital print
Edition: 7, signed and numbered
illustrated by Doris Freigofas
Peter Schlemihl's Remarkable Story is a german novel written in 1814 by Adelbert von Chamisso. In the story Peter Schlemihl sells his shadow to the devil for a bottomless wallet, only to find that a man without a shadow is shunned by human society.
Neonchocolate Gallery
6×11 cm
A series of 20 matchboxes for an exhibition
"Ein Haus für Immer" with Cristóbal Schmal
in Neonchocolate Gallery, Berlin.
What is the percentage of women in the gun club, shopping, or in perfumery?
Starting from the debate on a government-regulated rates for women in high management positions, the ZEITmagazin has found out how high is the percentage of women in other fields.
The higher the "women's quota", the more magenta in the illustration.
24 × 37 cm
3 color screen print
Edition: 50, signed and numbered
"Von einem, der auszog das Fürchten zu lernen" is a modern interpretation of the well-known Grimms' fairy tale "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was." In eleven double-page spreads it tells the story of a boy on his way to adulthood, who explores and crosses his own borders in search of himself.
The pictures tell the story without text and try to leave scope for individual interpretation. An extra booklet containing the original text is attached into the jacket flap at the end of the book. The book was awarded in the international competition "Best Designed Books from all over the World 2010", it won "Gold" in 3x3 Pro Show, New York and it was rewarded in Picture Book Awards, Korea, among others.
paper collage
10×15 cm
edition: 80 sets of 6 postcards,
21 × 29 cm
2 color screen print
Edition: 25, signed and numbered
For an exhibition of the German
"Stiftung Illustration" about childhood
at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
by Daniel Dolz
"Children's noise is the sound of the future."
by Doris Freigofas
"The children of today are tyrants.
They contradict their parents, spill their
food and tease their teachers." Sokrates
60 × 37 cm
found and painted wood
The masks represent the three elements water, air and soil.
They were made for an exhibition showcasing the work of the design studio HORT in Gallery Vallery, Barcelona.
24×50 cm
edition: 25, signed and numbered
about school-time reduction from 9 to 8 years
15×15 cm
screen print
24×37 cm
edition: 40, signed and numbered
"Glorious Types" is a symbiosis of illustration and type design. On eleven double-page spreads Daniel Dolz illustrates a complete team of legendary football players from various nations and from different decades. The book shows a varied mixture of most diverse characters (goalkeeper, strikers and defenders) which also is reflected in the choice of fonts. For each player Daniel Dolz designed a special font which coheres with the illustration.
In the side flaps of each illustration spread you can find a list with facts and short anecdotes of every player and the complete alphabet A-Z.
22×31 cm
3 spot color print
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Stalks-The-Wind's-Shadows wrote:Yeah... although I always try to attach celebs' voices (such as Dennis Miller for Matt and the actress who did snow white for Alex, Cap'n) to the characters --- doesn't that get a little monotonous, Matt? Having several characters sounding like you in your head (well, besides the regular voices in our heads ) --- maybe storylines would take on new twists if they were in individual voices... the plotlines might write themselves (ask me about the Drow Child turned Demoness for an example)
Stalks-The-Wind's-Shadows wrote:I can only imagine Portia then --- a high pitched male voice a la drag queen, seeing you said it's different tones of your voice *is promptly BRR-ZOTTED out of existance* --- that's a good idea... but I don't think your 3 panels a strip would fit a "voice talent" list because it would repeat too much if the same characters are in the strip for a few postings; you need defined voices
We're anxiously waitin'for that guide --- got anything for it at the moment? Put up what you've got to avoid the appearance of laziness. First step in the mile journey, or something
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Anyone ever heard of such a thing? The tongue feels as if its been scalded, sore spots or areas in the mouth, throat yet, the mouth looks perfectly normal? Feelings of dryness or sticky-dryness at the corners of the mouth with repeated bacterial infections (pneumonia, plugged ear ducts, bronchitis) of the respiratory system including the sinus and ears?
Postmenopausal female? Bariatric surgery patient? Male in the early forties? Afraid of oral cancer?
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When I got home with my beloved jar, I immediately popped open the lid, snipped half a tomato, and ate it. Mmmm. The flavour is hard to describe - sweet, yet a little sour, with a deep flavour that I was hooked with at the first instant. With the ones in oil, I made the Sun Dried Tomato Pasta Salad from Pioneer Woman and a Pesto Pasta from Use Real Butter. Both were delicious as they contained my newest favourite condiment and well, Parmesan cheese.
As for the baking side, I bought another variety of the sun dried tomatoes - the dehydrated packaged ones and used them for a Sun Dried Tomato Flatbread. Thinking about it, the last time I made bread was way back in...April! I was sure excited about making this, and I thought the dough wouldn't be hard to handle, but unfortunately, the dough was super sticky and I had to add around a whole extra cup of flour to get the dough firm enough for me to even knead it.
So, when the kneading was done (which took a while, but I'm not complaining - the action of kneading is just so relaxing and allows me to punch, whack and tear it as much as I want) I let it rise (which took a while too, because I forgot to preheat the oven to create the 'warm environment' for the yeast to do its thing) and finally, it was done and the whole flat smelled heavenly! I pulled it out of the oven just to find that the sun dried tomato pieces I placed on top were burnt. But fortunately, it didn't stick down, so I picked them off, resulting in the ugly surface. I immediately cut off a bit to try, and it was so good.
So taste wise, it didn't disappoint! The mildly sweet tomato pieces in the bread was a great contrast to the crunchy sea salt on the surface, and the dried basil really rounds the whole thing off with a lovely, mellow, Italian flavour. And the texture is something between a thick crust pizza and bread, but slightly crunchy crust is definitely the best bit!
I still have a few dried tomatoes left, so I think I'm going to make more bread with them too - maybe some tomato buns. Since I'm on Challenge Week and half term holiday (which means no school for two weeks, but nonetheless, a heap of work to be done), hopefully I can set aside more time to bake and update this space more!
Sun Dried Tomato Flatbread
Adapted from Donna Hay Magazine, via Evan's Kitchen Ramblings
2 tsps active dry yeast
1 tsp caster sugar
1 1/3 cup lukewarm milk
2 1/2 cups plain flour (I had to add almost an extra cup of flour)
1 tsp table salt
1 tbsp olive oil + extra for brushing (I used the oil from the jar of oil soaked sundried tomatoes)
1/2 cup/1 oz sundried tomatoes, rehydrated and snipped into small pieces
sea salt, for topping
dried basil, for topping
1. Place the yeast, sugar and milk in a bowl and mix to combine. Set aside in a warm place for 5 mins or until bubbles appear on the surface.
2. Place the flour, salt, tomato pieces, oil and yeast mixture in a bowl and mix until a smooth dough forms. Knead on a lightly floured surface or a standmixer fitted with a dough hook for 5 mins or until smooth & elastic. (I kneaded by hand, took around 20 minutes and adding extra flour to get it to the right consistency)
3. Place dough in an well-oiled bowl and cover with a tea towel and set aside in a warm place for 30 mins or until doubled in size. Punch dough down to release air. Press dough in baking tray, brush with olive oil, sprinkle with sea salt and dried basil. Bake in a preheated oven of 180C for 15 mins or until golden.


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These three authentic roundwood log cabins in a stunning location in the heart of Scotland boast elevated unspoiled views. Affording every luxury this eco holiday destination features new ground source heating and water and a weather compensated system using wind turbine that generates electricity. The meadows of its farm setting encourage wildlife and wonderful walks from the door can take in a viewpoint to the Ochil Hills and Lomond Hills of Fife. In the perfect location to enjoy a wealth of activities and places of interest around central Scotland including Perth - home to fine city and leisure facilities Scone Palace 10 miles Falkland Palace (NTS) 7 miles and Edinburgh Castle Stirling and beaches at St Andrews approximately 25 miles. Golf cycling gliding riding and fishing are all nearby. Glenfarg a historic village offering a shop and excellent hotel restaurant is 0.75 mile and there are five local produce farm shops within 10 minutes' drive.
Detached Non Smoking Four Poster Enclosed Garden Private Hot Tub Pub Close By Short Break Romantic Break Ultimate Pet Friendly Easy Walking Access
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Speaker, mental health advocate and an impolite woman of the south, here to share my shamelessly honest opinion on important social topics.
Occasionally, I'll discuss my travels, but mostly I'll be talking to women of color, specifically black women who are on the brink of journey or in the thick of the journey. Wherever you are, join the convo!!
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This event runs from 10:00am on the 1st August 2014, to 4:00pm on the 31st August 2014 and will take place at The Bramble Patch, West St, Weedon, NN7 4QU. It is a Guild event being organised by TQG in conjunction with Bramble Patch, 01327 342212.
Traditional Quilt Group exhibition at Bramble Patch, a show case of members' work with over 100 quilts ranging from smaller items such as Suffragette and Maritime Moments Challenges to large bed quilts. All welcome.
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derek13 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 306 diseños de 81 diseñadores freelance.
We recently changed the name of our company from Ting Interactive, Inc. (http://tinginteractive.com) to Enflick, Inc.
We are looking for a new identity for our new company name.
Our company specializes in software for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Our most recent application is "Unlimited SMS", which allows users to send unlimited text messages using the application.
link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/…16233&mt=8
We also developed a couple of games, iDance and Lemonade 2
Our target audience is people between the age of 11-30. Majority of our customers are very young. Female and Male.
The 'flick' in the name represents a 'flick' on the touch screen because our software is designed for touch screen devices. Perhaps a design that incorporates that would be a good idea. We are open to any designs though, so feel free to be as creative as you want.
The logo should be unique so it can be easily identified.
The logo should not look too boring since we don't make traditional software. However, the logo shouldn't look overly flashy either since we are printing it on name cards and other official company documents.
The logo must print well on name cards and documents.
The logo must look good with a white background. An additional dark background version would be a plus.
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It occurs to me now that I may not have yet mentioned on this blog that my wife and I are planning to take an extended vacation.
I've brought it up on YouTube, mentioned it casually on TV in Saga, and actually gone ahead and launched another website (running total : 4!) at 国際結婚旅, which is a succinct, apt, and catchy name in Japanese. In English (maybe "Mixed Race Marriage Trip?"), it sounds terrible.
But for readers who follow The Yo-ji exclusively, I'll bring you up to speed: My wife has long dreamed of going on a 世界一周旅(sekai isshuu tabi; round-the-world-trip) and before we start thinking about family and kids, we're gonna go ahead and do it. We've been planning and saving for about a year and a half, and we leave on April 4th.
Less than two months from now.
You can follow along with us on the blog mentioned above and on YouTube, and I'm sure I'll have occasional things to say that would fit best here as well, so don't go deleting your bookmarks just yet.
Today, for instance, I want to talk about what this trip means for me in terms of work.
As of now I'm still doing "Bobby's Kitchen" on Saga TV, which is every other week, plus occasional guest spots on other corners. Still on the roster for TNC's Gee Bee, and Mezase Golden. And the cooking show on KBC, which I talked about last October, has become a regular thing. It's 4 days a week, 2-3 weeks a month, and it's equal parts awesome and taxing.
The producers and directors are extremely kind, and I hear nothing but good things from everyone about how I seem to be so "used to being in front of the camera." Plus, apparently they see a ratings spike every time I'm on, which is fantastic. Today after we finished a segment on making chocolate mousse, one of the producers said "It's really such a shame you're leaving so soon. We'd been hoping to do something more regular with you."
I wrote about this on the travel blog if you'd like to check it out, but there's something really difficult about having made it to EXACTLY this point, and then walking away for a year.
Breaking into Fukuoka, being able to actively contribute to a show, feeling like I've finally started to get good at what I do. I feel like I've built up a lot of momentum... and am now letting that go to waste.
But those feelings are tempered by a couple of things.
First, the more I develop the ability to work on larger and larger platforms, the more limited I'm becoming in how I can move. Over the last three weeks, I've spent most of my time in either TV studios, on location, or at home in my kitchen building recipes to introduce on the shows. Add part time job and commute to that, and that's my life.
I would love to become a regular on some show somewhere, but that comes with contracts, appearances, and other obligations that I wouldn't be able to set aside to take a trip with my wife. It would be cool to have that level of exposure at some point, but if I'm going to pursue that, taking this kind of trip will only work... now.
Then, there's the fact that the trip doesn't mean I have to stop what I'm doing completely. Not only can I keep doing my internet stuff, which is how I got into all of this in the first place, but I'm hoping that there are TV shows and magazines that would be interested in showcasing food, photos, and stories from our travels. Saga TV is trying to work something out, and I'm headed to Tokyo next week to test the waters with an outdoor magazine that I've been working with recently.
So there is hope for the future.
The problem, in the interim, is keeping my motivation up.
I go through regular cycles of ups and downs triggered by... well, pretty much anything.
If I have a great show, that can make my week. If I have a subpar show, however, that can ruin my month.
Today, the chocolate mousse went really well, the on-air interactions were crisp, fast, funny, and I felt great about it.
Then I was hanging around Fukuoka with Micaela, and we were approached by a crew filming on-the-street interviews for TNC. This isn't uncommon; there are 5 or 6 TV stations based in Fuk, and there are always crews filming around Tenjin and Daimyo. But I work with TNC. As they approached, one of the crew members was like... "Oh that's that guy," and I said "Yeah, hi, I'm actually お世話になっている (currently involved with) two of your shows, so..." and they were like "Oh, yeah! But that's cool, if you don't mind being on, we don't care."
So they interviewed us anyway, which was fine. Except that at no point during the interview did they say "Oh, hey it's Bobby! He's totally on our network!"
I felt kind of insulted. Like... it didn't matter that being on TV was my job... that they as a TV station are currently paying me for. Whatever I am to them, it's not enough that it's worth mentioning. I can also be used as just a man on the street.
I know, I know... there's nothing wrong with being just a guy on the street in an interview, but as a person who craves recognition, it blew. Especially because I felt like I'd gotten to a place where I ought to be able to expect it.
Part of it is me being overly-sensitive, another part is ego. But things like this tend to happen, and sometimes they make me feel like I haven't really accomplished anything at all.
When those co-workers go "We can't believe how used to the camera you are!" in praise, a part of me goes "Why the hell not? It's been my job for over a year!"
But as others are quick to point out, some people try to do the same thing here for years and years and never make it this far.
I'd like to take it further... but I don't really know what I'm trying to prove. And sometimes I don't know if I really believe it would be worth it.
In any case, starting in April, I should have about a year to figure it out. Hope you guys will still be around if I ever do.
Monday, February 6, 2012
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The engine which has emerged victorious from the past four World Computer Chess Championships, Rybka, has been banned for cheating. But, uh, how can a computer cheat unless it's programmed to?
The answer lies not in its programming, but in its construction. The International Computer Games Association, which has both an awesome name and which runs the computer chess championships, has found that Rybka's creator, Vasik Rajlich, essentially plagiarised the work of other existing chess engines in creating his software, and has been stripped of all his titles and ordered to return all his prize money.
Funnily enough, the ICGA didn't take the action because Rybka had stolen code. They took it because Rybka had used other people's code and not given credit.
It's of course, bizarrely, not the first time scandal has hit the world of computerised chess. In 1997, chess superstar Gary Kasparov was defeated by IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, only for the Russian to accuse the computer (well, its technicians) of cheating, claims that were never proven.
Rybka, the world's best chess engine, outlawed and disqualified [ExtremeTech]


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DULUTH, Minn. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica football team defeated the coaches' preseason pick to win the UMAC in Greenville College (Ill.) today by a score of 45-3 to win its fourth straight Homecoming game.
The story of the game was the defense. Defensive Coordinator Allen Smith coached his team to the lowest scoring outputs by an opponent in program history. This was the first time a Saints defense has not given up a touchdown. CSS scored 28 points off of five Panther turnovers.
The Saints would score on their first two possessions of the game, while simultaneously halting the vaunted run game of the Panthers and causing a turnover and a three-and-out on those two drives.
Mike LaValley intercepted his first pass of the season and returned it 27 yards to set up an 11-play, 27-yard drive by the Saints that was capped of by a 13-yard scamper from Tyler Harper. Mike Theismann's extra point was good to make the score 7-0.
The Saints defense would force Greenville to a three-and-out and would get the ball at its own 46. The Saints would go 57 yards in 11 plays again to make the score 14-0 by a TD pass from Harper to Cory Gebhard from 10 yards out. The PAT from Theismann was good to make the score 14-0 at the end of the first quarter.
The second quarter saw a stall from the Saints offense. CSS would get the ball back on the next play as Tyler Zurn forced a fumble from Immanuel Gamble that was recovered by Sherome Milon. CSS would capitalize yet again on a Panther turnover with a Jake Jensen TD run from three yards out nine plays later. Theismann's kick was good to make it 21-0.
The Saints defense would force another three-and-out from the Panther offense and would get right back to their scoring ways. Harper engineered a 12-play, 56-yard drive that was capped off by Theismann's first field goal of the year. The 19-yard field goal was good to make the score 24-0.
Greenville would make it interesting before the halftime by driving the ball 58 yards before coming up short with a 30-yard missed field goal.
Greenville would come out strong in the second half by forcing a fumble on the Saints first offensive possession of the quarter. The Panthers would get their only points of the game as they capitalized on the short field and turnover by kicking a 27-yard field goal. Josh Frewin's kick made the score 24-3.
The Saints next two offensive and defensive possessions would end the same way with a touchdown and an interception. Jensen scored his second touchdown of the game to close out the third quarter from three yards out to make the score 31-3 with Theismann's extra point. 13 plays later, Sherome Milon would intercept his first ball of the year in the end zone to halt the Panthers scoring efforts.
Harper would drive his offensive unit 80 yards in 17 plays eating up over seven minutes of clock on the next possession and would take it into the end zone from one yard out to make the score 38-3 in favor of the home team with Theismann's extra point.
The Saints would cap off its scoring efforts with the longest interception returned for a touchdown as LaValley returned the ball 73 yards to make a final score of 45-3 with the extra point from Theismann.
Chambers was 5-for-13 for 61 yards and three INT's. Immanuel Gamble has 135 yards on the ground to lead his team to a ground attack of 253 yards. Defensively Cody Lopez dominated the field with 18 tackles total.
Tyler Harper led his team to their second win of the season going 12-for-18 for 90 yards and the one touchdown throw to Gebhard. Jake Jensen and Travis Nehowig led the rushing attack for the Saints by combining for 162 yards on the ground to go along with Jensen and Harpers two touchdown runs.
Alec French led the way defensively for the third consecutive week in tackles with nine overall. Keaton Rush and Steven Perry were close behind with eight. The defense forced five turnovers, highlighted by LaValley's two INTs.
The Saints (2-1, 2-0 UMAC) will be on the road for the first time the next two weeks as they take on Martin Luther in New Ulm on Saturday. The game is scheduled for 1 p.m. The game can be heard live on Saints Sports Net.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
EEOC Said Augusta Car Dealer Violated Federal Race Discrimination Law
ATLANTA – S&H Thomson, Inc., doing business as Stokes-Hodges Chevrolet Cadillac Buick Pontiac GMC, will pay $140,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The agency had charged that the Augusta car dealer allowed a white male management consultant to subject an African American sales manager to a racially hostile work environment over a four-month period.
The EEOC first filed the suit in April 2009 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. According to the EEOC's lawsuit against S&H Thomson, Inc., the white consultant visited the car dealership three to four times a week and never missed an opportunity to make racially derogatory comments towards the black sales manager. The sales manager was subjected to humiliating and degrading comments every time the consultant visited the dealership and almost always in the presence of other people. After the black sales manager complained about the derogatory comments, two white managers asked the consultant to stop his discriminatory behavior. The consultant ignored their requests to cease and continued to make the derogatory comments at every opportunity.
The consent decree settling the suit, in addition to the monetary relief of $140,000, includes provisions for equal employment opportunity training, reporting, and posting of anti-discrimination notices. In the suit and consent decree, S&H Thomson, Inc., denied any liability or wrongdoing.
Race discrimination violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement. In the lawsuit, the federal agency sought compensatory and punitive damages for the harmed employee, as well as injunctive relief designed to prevent such discrimination in the future.
"This is an outrageous case where an African American employee was subjected to humiliating and degrading behavior," said Bernice Kimbrough, district director for the EEOC's Atlanta District Office. "What is also disturbing about these allegations is that the white management consultant ignored requests by other white managers to stop making the racially derogatory comments."
Robert Dawkins, regional attorney for the EEOC's Atlanta District Office, added, "We are pleased with the employer's efforts to quickly resolve this dispute, while taking positive steps to remain in compliance with the law in the future. We are committed to eradicating this type of discrimination in the workplace."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Obama to Commemorate 60th Anniversary of Korean War Armistice
(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama will commemorate the 60 year anniversary of the Korean War armistice Saturday, marking the end of hostilities on the peninsula.
Communist North Korea invaded South Korea with 135,000 troops on June 25, 1950, and three years later with more than 2.5 million dead, including more than more than 36,000 Americans who died in combat, the war ended.
Joined by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Obama will lay a wreath at the memorial in Washington, D.C.
On Thursday, Obama issued a declaration making today National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, noting that the conflict "defined a generation and decided the fate of a nation."
"We remember ordinary men and women who showed extraordinary courage through 3 long years of war, fighting far from home to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met," Obama said in his proclamation. "This anniversary marks the end of a war. But it also commemorates the beginning of a long and prosperous peace."
It is often referred to as the "Forgotten War," because fighting half a world away garnered little domestic attention at the time. But the remnants of the conflict are still felt today. North Korea and South Korea remain divided, and there is still no peace treaty between the two countries.
According to the Department of Veteran's Affairs there are still 2 million living veterans of that war.
"No monument will ever be worthy of their service, and no memorial will fully heal the ache of their sacrifice," Obama said in the proclamation. "But as a grateful nation, we must honor them — not just with words, but with deeds."
Copyright 2013 ABC News Radio


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Yes, we should make Town Meeting more efficient, but that's no excuse for incorrectly characterizing it as typically requiring 5 or 6 sessions.Originally Posted by Winston Churchill
We also agree that it's not typically 5-6 sessions.
Where we disagree: I think the phrase "no excuse for incorrectly characterizing it" goes maybe a bit far.
He was just writing his thoughts, and I'm glad he shared them. If he exaggerated a bit, I think I'm willing to grant him license given the validity of his main points. If he edited that one sentence to say typically 4 nights (or typically 5-6 nights per year when you include Special Town Meeting), you'd be on board, and we could come back to his main points?
[caveat: I didn't look up the actual length of past Special Town Meetings, so I could have over- or understated the typical length of the sum our annual ATM and STM; numbers provided are a rough estimate]
No Special Town Meeting in the last four has required more than 1 session. Three of the four lasted less than 2 hours, but we were at it for 3.5 hours in 2010.
The last four Annual Town Meetings have required an average of 4 sessions, with 2012's 5-session anomaly balanced by a 3 session Annual Town Meeting meeting in 2011. Total elapsed time averages 12.5 hours, ranging from 10 hours in 2013 to 15.5 hours in 2012.
Since the fall of 2010, we've averaged 14.5 hours per fiscal year in Town Meetings.
Ideas discussed in last night's "Town Meeting Forum" hosted by Moderator Dennis Berry included:
- Develop completeness criteria for Board-sponsored Articles, and ask the Selectmen to defer any Board-sponsored Article that does not satisfy these criteria
- Hold a "Petitioner's Workshop" with Town Counsel and members of the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee present
- Suggest to the Board of Selectmen that they estimate the time that will be required to address each Article at Town Meeting, and use these estimates when organizing the Warrant and deciding which Board-sponsored Articles to include or defer
- Use the Warrant Hearing to expose weaknesses in preparation or organization that can be corrected before Town Meeting
Without limiting speech on an Article, it's hard to see how it will be possible to speed up Town Meeting. And without speeding up Town Meeting, it's hard to see how the problem that Dan Hill raised gets addressed: people don't like and/or can't get to Town Meeting, especially when it lasts four excruciating nights.
We can hardly tout attendance in the 400s as success--that's on the order of 5% of the Town's population.
A few other things that might help:
- Quickly rule out of scope motions that are out of scope.
- Step through the operating budgets line-by-line in order, with the understanding that while circling back to a line is allowed, that it's poor etiquette.
- Implement voting from home.
Had the Articles we passed over not been included in the Warrant, we'd have saved 36 minutes.
Over the course of the entire meeting, 2.5 hours of the 12.5 hour total occurred with no one speaking. That could be reduced.
Eliminating the need for the Moderator to (sometimes reconstruct and) read each motion before we vote would also save considerable time. This could be achieved with displays appropriately positioned throughout the venue and a means of updating these displays as motions are changed.
- no one was presenting a motion or amendment
- no one was speaking pro or con
- no one was asking or answering a question
- the Moderator wasn't providing an explanation
- we weren't voting
The wishful thinking is on my part--I wasn't presuming to speak for them.
This letter appeared online on the Crier today: http://wayland.wickedlocal.com/artic...NEWS/140416407, which I thought was a fair brief summary of Town Meeting problems.
I haven't fact-checked the average age comment, though Dave Bernstein probably has this info on the tip of his tongue to confirm or correct. Also, I know the hours/year number is overstated since the Fall sessions tend to be considerably shorter.
Still the basic points are fair, and consistent with the debate here to date. She views the cost of attending Town Meeting as a "poll tax", calculates it at over $250-375/year/household (using her babysitting rates and Dave's hours/year, adjusted for extra time for getting to and from town meeting, the actual cost would be $170-$255), and wonders how to improve the system so it doesn't work in favor of those without young children.
Originally Posted by Jeanne Brown
The provision of on-site child care has repeatedly been proposed as a way to improve Town Meeting attendance. This would be more practical if Town Meeting were held on weekend afternoons.


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Shorts / The Conservative Lorax
As seen on Fox Seuss.
The Conservative Lorax
By Adam Conover
The LITTLE BOY from the Lorax stands in a grove of Truffula Trees, planting trees and tending after the forest. A much older voice -- the boy, all grown up -- narrates. NARRATOR (V.O.) Way back in the year Six Hundred Sniggledy-Sneeze I was taking good care of the Truffula Trees. I gave them fresh water, and fed them fresh air I planted new Truffulas and grew them with care. The boy kicks a bunch of Oncelers in Seussian tree-chopping machines out of the forest. NARRATOR (V.O.) I kept the trees safe from the axes that hack so the Lorax and all of his friends would come back. The boy finishes hammering in a sign reading "Truffula Preserve" and looks at it proudly. NARRATOR (V.O.) When all of a sudden I heard a ga-ZUMMER! And a strange little man popped out of a Hummer. A Seussian Hummer limo rolls up. The door opens, and the Lorax pops out, dressed in a sharp suit. (Parentheses indicate the narrator reading part of the line) LORAX What's going on here? (he said with a shout) What's the meaning of kicking these good axe-men out? BOY But you're the Lorax! (I said), You speak for the trees! LORAX I was! But that was before I read these. The Lorax pulls out some books. LORAX Atlas Shrugged, End the Fed, and the National Review (aside) Not to mention a well placed donation or two. One of the Oncelers hands him some cash. LORAX Now I am the Lorax and I speak for free markets! So why are you making the Thneed industry targets? BOY I'm trying to care for the Truffula trees Because trees are the one thing that all people need! LORAX Won't you think of the poor little Wall Street Tycoots, prancing so free in their Brooks Brothers suits? A ways away, a group of fuzzy little bears in expensive suits huddle on a Seussian trading floor, looking pathetic despite the wads of money sticking out of their pockets. LORAX They provided capital to finance ThneedCo If they don't make a profit they all will go broke! The Tycoots are the economic engine today. We need regulation to get out of their way! A few of the Tycoots faint, dramatically, as though from hunger. The boy holds his nose up self-righteously. BOY Why should I care for those fatty Tycoots? I think they're greedy and all in cahoots! I'd rather the forest be wild and free You can't put a price on a Truffula tree! LORAX As a matter of fact, you can, to the cent! This park is maintained at Jaxpayer expense. Nearby is an area full of pitiful-looking "Jaxpayers", Seussian-Americans with "Jaxpayer" written on their shirts waving little American flags. Honestly the conceit is getting a little thin at this point. LORAX If you keep it open they'll be pounded to jam By the Uvvulous Gruvvulous Unkulus Sam! Jaxpayers run in fear as a slavering monster in a red-white and blue top hat advances towards them. It catches the slowest Jaxpayers and pounds them into the ground with its giant fists, greedily consuming the cash that falls out of their pockets. The boy looks startled and afraid. BOY (unsure) But isn't it worth a hobuck or two to save a green spot that all people can use? The Lorax claps his hands together with glee. LORAX Well that's just it boy, you've said more than you knew! ThneedCo's a person and it has rights too! A nearby ThneedCo factory sprouts a face and looks sad. It has nowhere to play! LORAX It's not fair to keep Truffulas for just folks like us when corporate entities love trees so much! The factory sheds big wet tears. The boy looks at the sad factory, the sick Tycoots, and the injured Jaxpayers. His heart swells, and he feels sorry for them. The Lorax puts his hand on his shoulder. He speaks tenderly. LORAX And come now my boy, we have bigger worries! Like deficits, debt, and Illegal Imgurries He points aways away, where a bunch of sombrero-wearing fur balls with teeth gnash behind a wall. The boy looks fearful. LORAX (quietly and persuasively) When Gramerica's facing REAL beasties like these, ss our biggest concern really Truffula Trees? The boy stares at everything the Lorax has shown him. It makes a lot of sense. NARRATOR The Lorax was right -- he was sharp as a tack. Who was I to hold the economy back? Holding an axe, the Lorax looks at him expectantly. The boy nods in resignation. The Lorax chops down the sign, and The Oncelers stream into the forest and start hacking down trees. Nearby, the Tycoots, suddenly flush with cash, smoke cigars and review profit projections while the ThneedCo factory whistles happily. The boy watches all of this while standing forlornly on a pile of stones, which reads "UNLESS." NARRATOR And then from the sky, I saw something fall, the last Truffula seed, the last one of all A seed falls into the boy's palm. He closes his fist over it resolutely. BOY (to himself) Unless someone like me cares a whole awful a lot, nothing's ever going to get better, it's NOT! The Lorax bends over his shoulder and grabs the seed. LORAX Sorry my boy, but that seed's GMO. It's patented property of Monsanto. Iris out on the Lorax, who winks at the camera.
- Lorax - Josh Ruben
- Boy - Mark Page
- Narrator - Sam Reich
- Producer - Lacy Wittman
- President of Original Content - Sam Reich
- Vice President of Production / Executive Producer - Spencer Griffin
- Director of Production - Sam Sparks
- Director of Post Production - Michael Schaubach
- Assistant Production Manager - Jeremy Reitz
- Animation - Studio Joho
- Post Production Coordinator - Amanda Madden
- Music - Dan Gross
- Production Accountant - Christine Rodriguez
- Assistant Production Accountant - Erin Marshall
- Eddie Kim


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There can be a lot of pressure amongst teen girls about who's shaving their legs, using make up and the type of deodorant they're using. The question for most mums is, when is the best time to start encouraging or allowing this type of grooming?
Hair removal
With the arrival of puberty comes the arrival of hair – in the armpits, on the genitals and thicker hair on the arms and legs. A lot of young girls will find this quite strange and even embarrassing. When this hair arrives, your daughter may want to start shaving or waxing. While there is no physical reason she can't start hair removal, you may want to remind her though that once she starts it's generally a routine that we keep for many years to come. She may not be ready for the responsibility of it. Remind her that it isn't necessary to start shaving or waxing and just because 'everyone else is doing it', she doesn't have to feel pressured. If she would like to start hair removal, you can explain to her what the options are, such as shaving, waxing, depilatories or plucking. You can also point out the pros and cons for each, to help her decide what the best choice for her is.
With the fashion for extreme hair removal 'down there' in full swing - especially in the form of Brazillian waxing, your daughter may be left wondering why women have hair there at all. Pubic hair does actually serve a purpose, both as a barrier to protect the vagina from bacteria, and as an aid to help with ventilation so you don't get to hot or sticky.
Deodorants and antiperspirants
When your daughter reaches puberty the glands under her arms will start to become more active and she will probably need to start using an antiperspirants or deodorant. She will also need to be vigilant about her hygiene and showering each day.There are many brands of antiperspirants and spray aimed at teens on the market (I'm sure many of us remember locker rooms reeking of Impulse), but it's not necessary to use one of these. Any antiperspirant will be fine. Remind her to use each morning and after showering.
Dental health
Your daughter probably has many of her adult teeth now, so dental hygiene is a priority. Ensure that she brushes morning and night and flosses regularly too. Dental health is especially important for children of this age as they may need to start wearing braces or a plate. Make sure your daughter is confident in looking after her teeth.
While many girls have their ears pierced at a much younger age, there may be a lot of pressure for those girls who do not. If your daughter wants to get her ears pierced, remind her and inform of the responsibilty of looking after piercings, such as keeping them clean and disinfecting and turning each day. A lot of young girls are so influenced by fashion that they will rashly go into getting a piercing without thinking it through. Many may want to get their ears, nose or even navel pierced without much thought. It important to discuss what is involved in piercing, such as possible scarring or infections.
This article was written by Corinne Draper for Kidspot. Sources include Child and Youth Health and Children, Youth and Women's Health Service.


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Liberty News
Liberty ranked among most influential, engaged colleges on social media
Liberty University has been ranked in the top 20 Most Influential Colleges on Instagram and in the top 30 Most Engaged Social Media College Communities by College Atlas. Liberty was ranked alongside major institutions across the U.S., including state, Ivy League, and other private institutions. On both lists, Liberty was the only Virginia school recognized.
College Atlas, an encyclopedia of higher education, studied the social media efforts of more than 400 colleges and universities in order to compile the lists. The ranking included the top 30 colleges for influence and engagement, as well as the top 20 on five of the most popular social media platforms.
Liberty was ranked No. 17 for its Instagram presence, which was determined by number of followers (Liberty currently has more than 13,400 followers on Instagram) and average number of likes per post.
The Most Engaged Social Media College Communities list, on which Liberty was No. 28, focused on the depth and frequency of engagement by the school's social community. Metrics from all of the five major platforms were analyzed.
Liberty provides several ways for people to get and stay connected with its community. A variety of social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, and LinkedIn, provide everyone with a way to stay digitally connected to the university. Liberty also features Online Communities, an interactive website that connects online students to campus.
Liberty Today, the university's official mobile app, provides instant access to the latest updates and happenings at Liberty University. From news stories to streaming videos, Liberty Today is the fastest way to get acquainted and stay connected with the world's largest Christian university.


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Serve couscous and buttered carrots with this main course. Purchase fresh rhubarb tartlets for a seasonal finale.
- Yield
- Makes 2 servings; can be doubled
- 2 skinless boneless chicken breast halves
- 3 teaspoons chopped fresh tarragon
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter
- 1 shallot, chopped
- 2/3 cup small green and/or red seedless grapes
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- Place chicken breasts between sheets of waxed paper and pound to even 1/2-inch thickness. Peel off paper. Sprinkle chicken breasts with 1 teaspoon tarragon, then salt and pepper. Melt butter in heavy medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken breasts to butter; saut until brown and cooked through, about 4 minutes per side. Transfer chicken breasts to plates.
- Add shallot and remaining 2 teaspoons tarragon to drippings in skillet. Sauté over medium-high heat until shallot begins to soften, about 2 minutes. Add grapes, wine and cream and boil until sauce thickens enough to coat spoon, about 5 minutes. Season sauce with salt and pepper. Spoon sauce over chicken.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories486
- Carbohydrates18 g(6%)
- Fat32 g(50%)
- Protein22 g(45%)
- Saturated Fat19 g(97%)
- Sodium69 mg(3%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber1 g(6%)
- Monounsaturated Fat9 g
- Cholesterol160 mg(53%)


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Location: Great Lakes
Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2008, 05:21
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it's a shame there are jerks out there that would do such petty things. they probably sell it as some type of "service" to.
That or some parent will get arrested by Homeland for what their unsupervised child found on some underground site.
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Location: Heart of Texas
Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2008, 05:38
Post subject: Satellite signal goes far
I noted that MAC addresses to filter out everybody else's traffic can be changed via software on DVB based two way traffic. It is not that hard for a well funded black hacker to capture all traffic via someone else's MAC and decode it remotely. It may be a good idea to ssh to your remote servers and change password. Using secure FTP as needed.
Many of your hosts have been hit, think about it.
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Location: Paradox Realm
Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2008, 07:14
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Barry and many of the coders here would class themselves as hackers. However it is used in the sense of a coder. In popular language hacker means someone who is a 'black hat coder' or cracker (breaking systems or into them).
I was recently 'hacking' into one of my own computers - A second hand Mac with password protection . . . that makes me a 'white hat' cracker.
Most of us are probably crackers at some point in our computer usage.
(in my case completely crackers!)
The fact that Barrys sites have been targetted by the insertion of porn links, gives an insight into the motivation and reason. They probably think of it as nothing worse than pasting ads over a disused building.
Let us make some good of this. How can we proactive and supportive?
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Location: Hayslope, near Middlemarch, Midlands, England
Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2008, 08:10
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Sometime pretty soon, when a consensus emerges, it would be very helpful if someone could summarize the things us ordinary penguins need to
to protect both ourselves and everyone else we may inadvertently spray crap out to. I guess that it's servers that are most at risk, but as it's so easy to leave a port open (for example) I think we would all value a checklist of what to set in Puppy.
I'm afraid that I am guilty of smug complacency relying on (a) the firewall in my router and (b) "it's Linux so I don't have a problem". Bah, such naive folly!
I recall that Fedora had 2 modes when installing: "Normal" or "SE" where SE is something like "Secure Edition" or "Security Enhanced". Is it time to create an SE Puppy? Or is that only relevant for Servers? Or maybe it's already possible and all that's needed is a bit of RTFM?
Education needed, wanted, and requested. Please!
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Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2008, 08:19
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Again, this is not a Linux-bug, but a PHP or better application problem.
A firewall or such would not help in this case, because the bugs or better the way things were programmed are an open invitation to do everything on the machine that runs it.
Also note, that this usually just affects Web-applications.
A Desktop-User will not be infected by such mechanisms.
Unfortunately, such things make peole very frighten.
Even my colleage reported, that he found forummessages somewhere else about this "Linux-trojan", which it is definately
One thing that is important is, that the firefox-team resolves the problem of 100% processor usage on this file not found error.
This is nasty (though not dangerous in a way that a virus would be installed or so).
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Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2008, 08:25
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another issue is, that still many webhosters use PHP4.
The PHP-group has stopped support for this because version 5 fixed several vulnerabilities.
PHP 4 is officially been announced as dead, and hosters are urgently proposed to drop it.
Unfortunately several old content-management systems that are developed no further, still rely on version4.
So hosters still use that.
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Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2008, 10:39
Post subject: psychology of attackers
Something has been missing from this thread. I've held my tongue and lurked, mostly. You are the experts on networks, Puppy software, etc. All I can contribute are observations on the psychology involved in these attacks on the Puppy community. Here's what I think is revealed about the attackers.
1) They're persistent. There has been a pattern of exploits getting increasingly severe over a period of months. (If wingruntled is right, and this is the same bunch, over a very long period.)
2) They're fascinated by Puppy Linux. There's evidence they have been stalking Puppy, studying its software and creator, even learning about the user community, over time. This effort is disproportionate to any possible commercial gain. A distribution which commonly runs things as root represents a challenge, and they must have been frustrated that most of their attacks were shrugged off.
3) They're vulnerable, if exposed. There have been clues pointing in just about every direction, except toward themselves. This looks like deliberate misdirection. The effort put into hiding is a substantial fraction of the total effort. "Previously known as Guest" has seen evidence of real-time monitoring by people, (as well as those IP addresses which could form the basis for a novel). There are patterns here, but the most important is that they are very careful about hiding. Why? If they were planning to announce their exploit to the world I don't think they would be as careful. If they were in a safe haven they wouldn't be as careful. They must fear criminal penalties. Their victims and patsies should all be under different legal systems from the perpetrators.
4) They're immature, and, aside from bragging rights in a closed community, their big motivation is Schadenfreude.
This does not describe a Turkish spam king, who probably hasn't heard of Puppy Linux. It doesn't describe any professional black hat. The market for Puppy hacking skills is still very limited. Where 'bots have been used in these attacks they have had a lot of interactive assistance. The payoff doesn't justify the effort.
This group is small, they are not great intellects. They have spent a lot of time trying to cause trouble before the tools they needed were created by others to attack other systems. (As MU observes, the tools were not specific to Linux. The attackers didn't create them.) They have been using whatever came to hand, and most of it didn't serve their purposes very well, until just recently.
As an example of the importance of a psychological slant, I offer this story about a student who cracked a professor's directory of test material when it was locked down even tighter than Barry's. (Directory 700, files mostly 600.) He created a fake copy of the directory with executable files whose names he guessed. He was able to place it where a common typing error would take the teacher. He used the teacher's habits to trick him into executing a file with his own permissions. He covered the computer activity with fake error messages, indicating typos. He did not crack the entire system, so he didn't have to worry about logs. (In case you're wondering, he was caught when he overreached himself. The administration was not amused, and I was very glad to be innocent, for once.)
The techniques are all ancient now, the thinking is not.
This may stir things up. I hope it will stimulate a shift in perspective. Too much of the response has been simple reaction. The attackers are used to manipulating people, and easily predictable responses will only take us so far.
As for attackers reading this, I think you deserve a share of the angst.
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Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2008, 10:57
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well all this talk of breachs I went out and installed a security plugin
in firefox called finjan when I went to google to search puppy
forum it said this link was bad http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25237&view=previous&sid=fc9f781fc7379d981107afa7b8af387e
can someone tell me if this is a false positive?
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Location: Great Lakes
Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2008, 12:46
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It mite be because you posted in that thread. LOL
I don't know to how deep that plugin searches but it appears that the hostfile.org link you have in your sig line has a direct link to alt.2600.
nuff said?
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Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2008, 14:54
Post subject: Hacking Toolkit Compromises Thousands Of Web Servers
Subject description: Not just Puppy or WP
Hi there, according to this:
Hacking Toolkit Compromises Thousands Of Web Servers
In December 2007, Finjan identified more than 10,000 Web servers infected with a malicious hacking kit called "random js toolkit." In June, the company found an average of 30,000 newly infected malicious Web pages every day -- the result of "random js tookit" -- and the company claims the situation is much worse today.
This could be why Puppy web pages are suffering, and also would explain about the Finjan plugin issue that willhunt mentioned
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I use wordpress too, and to get rid of all spams I use a custom plugin called "Peter's Custom Anti-Spam". It forces everyone to type in a visually displayed word when posting comments. This saved my wordpress as I had to delete tons of spam everyday.
As I read through, your problem seemed to be more or less a server hack issue, this could save your time and get back your comments though.
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Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2008, 19:04
Post subject: Re: psychology of attackers
prehistoric wrote:
All I can contribute are observations on the psychology involved in these attacks on the Puppy community.
I agree with most of that except the comment that they are immature and only winning bragging rights/schadenfruede. While this may be true, I suspect a more sinister motivation.
It is well known that most spam and phishing is related to organised criminal activity, and that for the teckies willing to do the clever stuff there's money to be made. It seems possible to me that either someone is being groomed/trained, or else they think that they have a new angle - they are certainly very good at masquerading - and are wanting to perfect it somewhere (relatively) harmless. When they are ready they'll launch an attack on a more rewarding target having practiced on us.
Is this plausible?
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yes and not only plausible but proven
Be not afraid to grow slowly, only be afraid of standing still.
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Here's an outbreak just reported:
(This may or may not be related to this discussion.)
But in case you're not aware of it yet, spammers put up pages and links to get high search rating (a Google algorithm uses links to drive up a site in searches). If, for example, many links point to puppylinux.org than to puppylinux.com, puppylinux.org will have the higher placement in search results.
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Although these attacks are seriously annoying....the one good thing is
that they happened before Barry travelled to India.
So hopefully these vermin can be defeated....or better detected.....pretty much once and for all.
I don't know what measures Barry has for emergencies in regard for
someone here to put things to rights......but at least there is now time to
address all these issues.
Of course not everything can be predicted or planned for....but for the spoilers who delight in their moments of glory....now is the time to employ
different tactics.
Pissants like these will always be around....take away their pleasure.
When grafitti is around you paint over it quickly.
"One of the things we know is that continually removing graffiti and keeping the building up will actually lessen the amount of graffiti the building will get," Bowman says. "In some cases, we've had program member buildings that were hit two or three times in the first two months.
"In a short while, those same buildings may get graffiti once a month and in smaller amounts."
Take the pleasure away by not talking too much about this event on the forum.
The same tactics we used with our beloved Catilyns'? review of Puppy.
Ignore the spoilers......put them in the Naughty Corner.
PM the appropriate people on this forum if we think somethings happening.
Personally in retrospect...the slowing down of this forum lately may have been an indicator.
Let's not live in fear.....while Barry is sorting this out he cannot work
at Puppy with his usual talent.
Don't laugh at this....but maybe Intel could monitor and out this crumb.
They have money, resources etc....why not use them whilst they are
using Barry.
Plenty of talented types here to give advice.
Let's not feel insulted in being given advice......no-one here is the ultimate Font of Wisdom.....but we can still gather around the water cooler and have a sip.
" Four elements required to form a wise crowd
Not all crowds (groups) are wise. Consider, for example, mobs or crazed investors in a stock market bubble. Refer to Failures of crowd intelligence (below) for more examples of unwise crowds. According to Surowiecki, these key criteria separate wise crowds from irrational ones:
Diversity of opinion
Each person should have private information even if it's just an eccentric interpretation of the known facts.
People's opinions aren't determined by the opinions of those around them.
People are able to specialize and draw on local knowledge.
Some mechanism exists for turning private judgments into a collective decision. "
Do what we do best. Keep going...have a laugh together and or at each other. Enjoy our fellowship in the knowledge that Puppy is about more good coding happening than bad....that sometimes there's a Blooper...
but we can most times get around this....that our pleasure is more than their pleasure...So They Lose.
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Post-Potter: Daniel Radcliffe goes from Hogwarts to Inishmaan
Famous since he was 12, Daniel Radcliffe is all too aware that 'Harry Potter' might be the biggest part of his career, but he is sure it won't be the best
Daniel Radcliffe: 'I never want to settle for where I am.' Photograph: Larry Busacca/Getty Images
'It is almost a problem how much I love my job," says Daniel Radcliffe. "I have been thinking I have to find some outside interests. I went rock-climbing a few weeks ago. I need to find other stuff that I enjoy, because I will never take a break."
Earlier he had bustled into a room in the building where he and other actors have been rehearsing Martin McDonagh's play The Cripple of Inishmaan, which is soon to open in the West End of London. Radcliffe seems unaffected by fame, despite being famous globally for more than a decade for playing Harry Potter. He apologises profusely for being late, then matches a politeness and interest in the people around him with, apparently, a curious insecurity – or, at least, a realisation of the frailties of stardom.
Nearly everything about the 23-year-old works at speed, and his enthusiasm for acting shows no sign of abating, 14 years since he was first noticed in a 1999 TV version of David Copperfield.
The opportunity to play the lead in The Cripple of Inishmaan was unbelievably fortunate, he says, following an offer from the theatre producer Michael Grandage to appear in any one of three or four plays given to him to read.
"I read Cripple last because as soon as I saw Martin's name on it I thought, I will probably want to do that one. And if I read that one first I won't pay proper attention to the other plays. And as soon as I read it . . ."
Radcliffe's interest in McDonagh dates back to In Bruges, the playwright's cult film from 2008 about two Irish hitmen, played by Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, hiding in the Belgian city after a job goes wrong.
It is one of his favourite films, "an obsession of mine for a period", he says, his words tumbling out. "I loved that kind of dialogue, that kind of economical dialogue where there is a real joy taken in every character having their own rhythm. I think that is always a sign of great writing.
"If you took the script for Cripple and covered up the names on the left you would still be able to work out who is talking every time, because every character is so distinct. I have always loved that."
Man of Aran
Radcliffe plays Billy, a disabled 17-year-old living on Inis Meáin who desperately wants to escape his dull life by travelling to the largest of the Aran Islands, Inis Mór, to win a role in the 1934 film Man of Aran.
An explanation for Billy's disability is never given in the play. Radcliffe has chosen to play him as a man with cerebral palsy, helped by a coach who has the condition. "It has been amazing to learn from her the mechanics and what causes it. It is just another thing that I know about that I didn't know about before.
"Really, I don't want to say how amazingly hard people's lives are. I recommend that you watch [the documentary] Don't Drop the Baby. It's about a couple with cerebral palsy who are getting ready to have their second child. They want to have it by natural birth. That really showed me. Our perception is that their lives must be an incredible struggle all time, but actually it is just their life. They don't particularly think about it on a day-to-day basis," he says.
"One of the things that was important for me to get across with Billy is that he is a 17-year-old boy, so there's disability on one side, [but] it is important that his other side, a side that is incredibly strong and incredibly adept, also gets across.
"Because that is what one notices: that people are so skilful at coming up with solutions. That is one of things that I have taken away from it," says Radcliffe, who enthuses about the performance in rehearsals of Pat Shortt, who plays Johnnypateenmike.
"I knew him from Father Ted. He is going to be amazing in this show. His work is brilliant, hysterical, inventive. I am very grateful for working with him."
Born to a Northern Irish father and a Jewish mother, Radcliffe grew up listening to stories of his father's life in Banbridge, Co Down, before he left for England – "the music they listened to, the Troubles, everything". "My dad, rather wonderfully, was the All-Ulster Latin-American dance champion when he was in his late teens, and when all his peers were joining the territorial army my dad was leaping about in a Strictly Come Dancing costume.
"It is one of the things that I love about him," he says, adding that his father's accent was "beaten out of him" at drama schools in England. "It was just before having a regional accent was a boon to your career. He now sounds more middle class than I do."
Radcliffe enjoys both of his tribal identities. "It surprises people about me. When you say either of those things, people go, 'Oh, I didn't know that.' I take pride in it, but I wouldn't be one of those annoying British people who say that they are Irish on St Patrick's Day."
His Irish connections are strengthened by his regular appearances on the The Graham Norton Show, on BBC One. "He has created something very unusual. It is special. It is the one we all want to do. It is so relaxed, and not because there is booze on the table but because you are all out there together," Radcliffe says.
"He's like a host in the true sense of the word. He is just like a host at a dinner party, making sure the conversation bounces along. He will take the piss, but he comes at you from such a good place."
Far from Hogwarts
Even before the Harry Potter films ended, two years ago, Radcliffe seemed to choose roles that would take him as far from Hogwarts as possible – although, he says, "they weren't chosen because one was a horror and the other was a historical drama. It was that the scripts were brilliant."
He is keen not to become another child actor to fall by the wayside. "None of us wanted to let that happen. I fell into something that I adored and that gave me a sense of identity and purpose and a sense of community. That is not the wrong word to use.
"I want to work hard enough so that I can always be a part of it. One of the things that leads to people fizzling out or getting forgotten is when complacency or laziness sets in, rather than challenging themselves consistently."
Playing Potter was "an incredible stroke of luck". The price is the nagging feeling that the world will never be convinced he earned his position. "I don't want anybody to be able to say that of me. People say things like, 'Potter will be the biggest thing that I will ever do.' And that is absolutely true, but nor do I think that it is going to be the best work I ever do – and that absolutely satisfies me.
"It is amazing how well Potter did, and how many people saw it, and that is fantastic, but it's not the end goal. What I want to do at this point is get better and better as an actor and keep learning. And I think I am.
"I never want to settle for where I am and go, 'I'm happy with this, I can stop challenging myself, I have done it all.' I don't think that is my make-up."
This year Radcliffe will appear in a number of films, including Kill Your Darlings. It helps that he enjoys being on film sets. "I love working with film crews, and I love technicians. I got to work with some amazing crews on Potter, and I have been able to work with more since.
"I was very worried about working in the US, because I had always heard that the crew are not allowed to talk to the actors and stuff like that. That's completely untrue. There are some actors who won't talk to the crew, so that is how those rumours get started.
"For me there is no point doing it unless you are going to enjoy it. I don't know how people go to work on film sets and come in grumpy every day, especially people who do my job." What's more, he says, he has never worked with a horrible director.
"I am of the belief – I am not sure if I can swear in your newspaper – that life's too short to work with a***holes."
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The announcement was made as a part of a press release breaking down what's new for Toyota in 2014, but for now, it doesn't look like any Toyota-branded product will fill the Matrix's spot. The Matrix and its sister car, the defunct Pontiac Vibe, were the final vehicles developed under the joint venture between Toyota and General Motors, an arrangement launched back to 1984.
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The would-be candidates touted their small-government bona fides and hammered prospective Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama on issues ranging from the Middle East to health care to Obama's golfing.
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Cruz and Perry got among the lustiest responses from the nearly 3,000 grass-roots activists at Americans for Prosperity's annual Defending the American Dream summit. But Paul and Pence, who on Thursday night dined privately with a more exclusive group of major donors and VIPs including AFP foundation chairman David Koch and columnist George Will, appear to have made the best impressions on the elite and moneyed class.
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Now in its eighth year, the AFP summit has become an increasingly important stop for aspiring GOP presidential candidates since the Kochs' robust political network, which spent more than $400 million in the run-up to the 2012 election, emerged as a preeminent force in conservative politics.
This year's meeting featured a mix of hands-on training (breakout sessions on social media, phone-banking and converting liberal relatives were well-attended), fun (a mechanical bull was a big hit), private meetings and whip-up-the-base speeches from big names.
It also, however, exposed some potential fault lines, both among prospective candidates and among the Kochs' brand of libertarian-infused conservatism, social conservatism and hawkish national security conservatism.
The billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch and their political network, including Americans for Prosperity, are animated in their political activity by free-market domestic economic policies. They are leery of military intervention, mostly agnostic on social issues and have been supportive of efforts to reform immigration laws. AFP largely shies away from those issues (though other groups in their political network have taken divergent stances), and even the more socially conservative politicians like Perry mostly avoided topics like gay marriage and abortion rights in Dallas.
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At one point, some in the crowd appeared to push back on Perry's hawkish foreign policy pronouncements. Ticking off the crises in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Perry declared "the world needs a president who is not one step behind, who is lurching from crisis to crisis, who is always playing catch-up." That prompted scattered shouts of "Rand Paul," the Kentucky senator whose noninterventionist foreign policy stands in stark contrast to Perry's and in some ways seems a closer fit with that of the Koch brothers.
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Hooray for Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden! He is correct — our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. Since the vast majority of Americans still support them, why should the ACLU and the "PC police" exert their tyranny over our country's traditions by insisting on white lights, no wreaths, and no Christmas trees? Our heritage is important and needs to be protected. We must tell these minority vanity groups that seek regulations for their own pet issues to direct their attentions elsewhere and keep our traditions alive.
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I am in 100 percent agreement with Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden, who wants to make sure Christ is part of Christmas. But at the same time, I would think the sheriff and true Christians like him would forgo the Dec. 25 celebration and observe the birth of Jesus in the late spring, when it actually occurred, according to biblical scholars.
Dec. 25 has nothing to do with Christ. The Dec. 25 celebration originated centuries before Christ was born, and was intended to mark the winter solstice.
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