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The marsh harrier was the star on the closed-circuit TV cameras at the Hawk and Owl Trust's Sculthorpe Moor Community Nature Reserve, north Norfolk. It has also been featuring on BBC TV's Springwatch. Click here to see their first weeks from recorded webcam images.
Visitors to the reserve, just west of Fakenham, could view the private life of these rare birds of prey on the large plasma screen in the Visitor and Education Centre between 10am and 4pm, Tuesday to Sunday.
A specially sited 'nestcam', hidden in a log beside one of the harrier nests, relayed film to the centre and one of the hides. Visitors could watch the harrier chicks being fed by their attentive mother and view the intimate family life of these rare birds.
A competition was run to ask visitors to name the chicks and win a picture of the bird they named.
"This is a dream come true for the Hawk and Owl Trust," said reserve warden Nigel Middleton. "Marsh harriers are extremely wary birds and we were uncertain if the female would accept the small camera so close to her nest.
"We are delighted that she has and believe that this is a first for this particular species. We can now offer our visitors unique views of these spectacular birds."
Visitors could also watch the harriers for real from the raised hide that overlooks the restored reed bed where they nest. The two males regularly brought in food and nesting material for their partners. Male harriers can be bigamous, and one on the reserve has two females.
The marsh harrier has returned from the brink of extinction in Britain, and Norfolk is now its stronghold. It is protected by law, and so wildlife cameraman Martin Hayward Smith needed a special licence to place the camera close to the nest.
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|2006-08-24, 18:06
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Age: 40
One that hasn't been mentioned yet:
Trickster Online~
Is Emil Chronicle getting an English release?
|2006-08-24, 18:38
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Join Date: Nov 2003
|2006-08-24, 20:20
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: 大陸の片隅
|2006-08-24, 20:38
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Explosive Magical Girl
Join Date: Aug 2006
Age: 40
I tried this out awhile back when it was free. I loved it, but didn't get very far because I had no idea what I was doing. Still, the design and overall cuteness factor still tugs at my whiny "I wanna plaaaay" strings.
|2006-08-24, 21:04
|Link #45
kimee ~
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: UK
Age: 31
omg lol u ppl...
i posted like a week ago on the 1st page and got a few ppl to play FlyFF LOL
didnt expect that to happen....xD!!!
anyways after u bought back memories of my flyff time 2 months ago
i loggd on yday and alot has changed O.o
flyff is packd full of updates every week with something different
i admit with every game the lvlin is hard but its so worth it =D
im lvl 75 healer type person (assist >> ringmaster) on aibatt server
lawolf is the oldest server, aibatt 2nd, mushpoie is 3 months old and mia is a month old. fast growin community =P! u prob wud settle in better in the newer servers
im addicted again coz of the new items i cud get for my character.
stuff that is worth keepin until u know the market value:
rare items have their name in green. worth from 5000 to millions just depends wot u got.
the normal items with special bonuses name is brown ~ which is also kinda rare
any jewellry. from 100000 to 50million+ again it depends wot u got..and how much stats it adds.
powerdices are needed to upgrade ur equip in the future. price value from most expensive to least expensive: pd12 = several million, pd4 = about 150-300k dependin on server, pd6 = 50-200k dependin on server, pd10 = 20-70k, pd8 = 5-50k dependin on server. those r jus estimates ive only playd on aibatt so could be very differnt on other servers.
monster drops/quest items...are indeed quest items and can gain u equip,money + exp ~ u can sell the extra drops if u have any to other players who mite need it.
cash shop items (worth millions of ingame money coz bought with real money~ u can check what they are if u look @ the flyff shop.)
if ur unsure ask players around u
some can be very friendly and others look down at u as in every other game
so dnt be put off by a few pooheads lol
usually i just look at other ppl shops and compare prices
use the forums ~ i find them highly useful
or u can search for fan information websites.
its more enjoyable if u made some friends and lvld together in parties
its more fun bein noobs and become pros together isnt it? lol
oh and about the questing thing. its only necessary if u need money and exp.
u can find walkthroughs of the quests online with what reward they give so u can decide which quests u do.
i rather jus lvl with 2-5 lvl higher monsters than me and do the quests i need only :P oh and i love tradin
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|2006-08-24, 21:44
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As for the items, thanks for the info. It's a bit general, but it still helps a lot.
|2006-08-24, 23:44
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: 大陸の片隅
You got that right. The game has everything I want in an RPG - customizable character options such as face, clothing, hair, even weapons. They all have different looks and it makes for great variety in a character, even if everyone goes for the same armor and weapons. Though armors and weapons do have durability, so you have to watch out: if the item's durability gets worn out, the item breaks and you have to get it repaired. At least, that's what happens now in Saga 2 onwards; before in Saga 1, items would just vanish. XD Man did I burn through a lot of Long Spears.
The emoticons were also fun to play around with. They would actually make your character move and act out: made some great and hilarious moments for RPing, or AFKing. Seeing a Swordmaster in full Swordmaster suit (meaning he/she had to be around 35, which was pretty high back then) AFK while in /orz while having a text sign above his head was so hilarious.
Plus, the world is also vast. Travelling through the various areas makes for great RPing, and some of the fields even suit their nature. In the implementation of Saga 1, the snowfields around the Northern Promenade would take away 5 HP per second due to the freezing cold! The bonfire skill would allow one to recover 5 HP per second to counter this effect, and it was just plain awesome seeing several characters lounging around a bonfire in the middle of a snow field. I hear that with Saga 4, many more fields have been added, and the camera angles are even able to provide more cinematic perspectives.
Let's see...I went through several characters in this game. First I had Ailysse, a Fencer who specialized in Spear Mastery. Then I went with Alkenshel, a Swordmaster using Two Handed Swords until I got tired of them. Then I created Katarina, a Scout who used Daggers, and Kirisawa, my Merchant. In another account I had an Archer, Vates (the healer class), and a Shaman, Mizuna. Three accounts per character, and I had to have a friend help me level my own characters, lol. XD
The "hyoui" system in this game is great. It allows you to endow your character onto any piece of equipment such as shields, weapons, and armor, and allows any other character to pick up that equipment you are currently possessing. It not only allows you to gain experience while that person fights with your equipment, but also has the advantage of possessed equipments not having any reduction in durability as they are used. It also allows the character in possession of the equipment to assist the character using his equipment through his skills.
Plus, the greatest experience during the whole thing was how the whole Japanese community was just so fun to be with. Chinese farmers aside, the whole player community was so nice to be with, and some were very friendly to the English-speaking players. The game designers also held several many fun events resulting in exp and great items, and it was also wonderful when they remodelled Acropolis City during the Halloween event, and gave us all floating brooms as a quest reward.
...Don't mind my ramblings, I'm just reminiscing about my time in ECO.
|2006-08-25, 17:44
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kimee ~
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: UK
Age: 31
and another tip i didnt think about wen i was lower lvl
as soon as u change class at lvl 15
u get to redistribute stat points again right
choose carefully on what stats u do
and think about what type of build u want
like aoe (lots of sta), quick (dex), powerful (str/int) dependin on class
and think about wot 2nd class u want to be when u hit lvl 60
as it'd be permanent unless u wanna spend about 20 million + / 2000 gpotatoes for a Scroll of Restat....(i had to do that LOL ~ coz i had the totally wrong build)
u may not have seen it but ive heard of some mages with str...lol xD
plan ahead ~ coz wrong build = weak char xD
u shud either specialise in aoe or 1 on 1 attack. its better that way
like either full sta with little str/int or full int/str with little sta
or full dex with little sta (acro) or full sta or full dex or full str or full int lol
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|2006-08-26, 08:32
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Aria Company
Join Date: Nov 2003
Thewanderer also has a character on mushpoie, so that would probably be the best choice.
|2006-08-26, 09:25
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Aurora, Nebraska
Age: 29
Mushpoie it is then... any particular class I should pick? I'll go with any. Btw, having Gameguard problems...is there a site I can directly download it from?
EDIT: Got it. =) Name will be Sayfer.
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|2006-08-26, 13:27
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Singapore
If by real time battles, you mean giving commands to your pet in a real time battle, then its already been done, but with digimon (Digimon world, on the psx). Of course, its not a mmorpg, so...
If case you don't know, Flyff was originally created by the Koreans, and Korean-created mmorpgs are known to have insane leveling rates. And yes, most of the quests ARE about getting quest drops/killing X amount of monsters. As of now, majority of the mmorpgs that you see online (meaning games that are F2P and have cash shop functions) are translated korean mmorpgs.
The only reason that I can see why you are complaining about the leveling rate of FlyFF is that you are not the average mmorpg gamer. The act of "grinding", which just about ANY mmorpg experienced person should know about, requires you to have the patience of spending an entire day, for weeks and months, killing monsters to gain experience, and nothing else. Getting 0.2% per kill is considered FAST by many people's standards.
You would probably say "I have a life, unlike those Koreans/Japanese", but in the end, thats the way it works. The only reason GW has fast exp rates is because:
1) There is only a total of 20 levels, with grinding only used for getting skill points, or so I heard.
2) Unlike MOST mmorpgs, GW is basing itself as a PVP game rather than "In the battle of level XX vs level XX, and the higher level will most definately win unless the lower level has godly items and the higher level doesn't." Your level doesn't matter in GW, skills and how you execute/time them is.
So yea, I really don't see why leveling in FlyFF is "fucked up".
|2006-08-31, 19:46
|Link #58
kimee ~
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: UK
Age: 31
lol i am on aibatt server..always have been always will be. i have a lvl 75 ringmaster and a lvl 30 assist...
if u ever wanna see me i would be on server 1 in darkon city
i would probably be shouting advertisements saying wot i wanna buy and sell lol
and the names kimee60 ;D
|2006-08-31, 22:37
|Link #59
Aria Company
Join Date: Nov 2003
Seems like flyff's been having server problems the past two days. I was just dced and can't log back in... Plus earilier today lawolf was down. Mia server was flooded with lvl 1 characters from people with characters on lawolf. I got to level up res with my assist thanks to them.
Anyway, my characters are:
Kozue4356(f)- fs assist, lvl 28, mia server. My favorite character. I say she's full support, but really I put a few points into str and leveled tamping hoe so I can defend myself a bit. Still, I can barely fight one on one with mias, which are lvl 23 monsters.
Nanoha4356(f)- mage, lvl 24, mia. My strongest character by far, Such devestating spells. Now if I can just find a staff that looks like raging heart...
Kamui4356(m)- merc lvl 21, mushpoie. Not a bad character, but I have't really played much with him lately as I haven't decided whether to go knight or blade...
Nadia4356(f)- bow acro, lvl 18, mia. Got off to a slow start, but now that she's gained a few levels, I'm starting to like her. shame junk arrow misses so often. Though if it didn't the game would be horrible unbalanced, as if all 4 shots hit it'd do about 1000-1200 damage almost immediately. *250-300 x4*
I want to make a combat assist at some point, and a yoyo acro. That can wait a bit though.
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Augsburg running back Tyler Maxwell (FY, Prior Lake, Minn.), playing in just his third collegiate game, tied single-game school records for touchdowns and points for the second time in his career, rushing 30 times for 144 yards and scoring four touchdowns – three rushing touchdowns and a receiving score.
With the win, Augsburg remains unbeaten at 4-0 overall, 3-0 in MIAC play, setting up a matchup of unbeatens next Saturday (10/8) at 1 p.m. at Edor Nelson Field, as Augsburg hosts St. Thomas (5-0 overall, 3-0 MIAC). The 4-0 start marks the third time in school history that Augsburg has started a season 4-0 (1973 and 2008 seasons), and the fifth time that Augsburg has been unbeaten after its first four games of the year (Augsburg started 2-0-2 in 1928, 3-0-1 in 1929, 5-0 in 1973 and 4-0 in 2008). Carleton falls to 1-3 overall, 1-2 in MIAC play.
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Auggie quarterback Marcus Brumm (SR, Lakeville, Minn./Lakeville South HS) completed 17-of-22 passes in the second half for 186 yards, en route to a 25-of-39 passing day for 251 yards overall.
Maxwell rushed 21 times for 92 yards in the second half, scoring all four of his touchdowns after halftime. He rushed for a six-yard score with 6:09 left in the third quarter, caught a 33-yard touchdown pass from Brumm with 1:35 left in the third quarter, and had rushing touchdowns of three and five yards in the fourth quarter.
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In 2004, Parke had just completed a two-year road trip with his partner and fellow photographer, Narelle Autio, documenting the full spectrum of life around Australia. The photographs taken during this road trip resulted in his acclaimed series, Minutes to Midnight.
The Christmas Tree Bucket, his next work, started at the close of this journey, when Parke and Autio had their first son, Jem. "Wanting more space, family support and a change of scenery, we moved from Sydney to Adelaide, where Narelle grew up," Parke tells TIME.
"One afternoon, I decided to venture to the local mega mall — specifically to the hairdresser. After removing all of my very long hair, the very young hairdresser said: 'There you go, a new hair cut for a new start'.
On returning to the in-laws that evening, I started to feel very odd and a little queasy. I started vomiting violently and uncontrollably and grabbed the nearest thing I could throw up into.
"And it was there, while staring into that bright red bucket," says Parke, referring to red buckets which act as the base of Christmas trees (slide 1), "vomiting every hour on the hour for fifteen hours straight, that I started to think how strange families, suburbia, life, vomit and in particular, Christmas really was."
At this exact moment (captured on film in slide 12 above), Parke decided to continue photographing the holidays as they unfolded in his home.
The Christmas Tree Bucket: Trent Parke's Family Album, recently published by Steidl, captures the uncanny and surreal air of the holiday season. Perhaps amplified by the oddness of seeing sunburned Aussies barbequing next to tinsel and pine, Parke's images capture an ideal of Christmas somehow familiar and foreign.
"I'm always documenting life in the moment, but I try to photograph and compile it so that the pictures can be looked and felt by different people. At the time, my children became my life 24/7, just as photography had been. I became a sort of alien, where everything was new and I saw the kids as something totally new. It's a whole new experience and I totally immersed myself and my photography in the moment — because that's the closest point you can get to something. That's where this project came about."
Alexander Ho is the Digital Art Director of TIME.com. Follow him on Twitter @alexandermanho.


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Wavepower 2012/15 is the ASA Child Safeguarding Policy and Procedures manual and replaces all previous ASA Child Safeguarding Policy and Procedures documents. All ASA affiliated clubs should adopt and implement Wavepower 2012/15. Brighton Dolphin SC's Welfare Officer is Sue England who teaches on a Tuesday evening in the flexi pool or can be contacted via [email protected]
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If you feel more comfortable talking to someone else at the club then your swimming teacher, Neil Davies or Pauline Freestone will all find time to listen to you.
The theme of Wavepower 2012/15 is to safeguard children and young people in line with current legislation and guidance. The responsibility to safeguard children in our clubs and related activities lies will all those involved in the sport and is not the sole responsibility of any one person at club, county or national level. Safeguarding children should become an integral part of all club activities and create a culture that provides a safe, happy and fun environment in which children can learn to swim and develop to a level appropriate for their ability.
The aim of Wavepower 2012/15 is to enable everyone in our sport to play their part in safeguarding children offering practical guidance for those who are directly involved in working with children and providing awareness of both mandatory requirements and good practice guidance.
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The document will be fully updated in 2016 but in the meantime if there are any changes in Policy of new guidance becomes available new pages will be added to this section of the website.
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- Section 1 Introduction to Wavepower 2012/15
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- Disclosure and Barring Service (previously CRB). Important information for clubs.
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Candice Reed is a semi-retiree who lives life with her husband in a 28-foot motor home, and she writes in the Los Angeles Times that they have plenty of company traveling the nation's highways.
But she's not referring to hipster campers among the younger set. "The people who are usually our fellow travelers are in their 50s, 60s or beyond: retired or something close to it, but not exactly living a leisure life."
For the Reeds, the decision to hit the road took shape in 2009 when they realized that their San Diego home was simply too expensive to keep. Now they live far more economically, traveling around, parking at camps for typically $500 a month, and picking up jobs where they can (Reed as a freelance writer, her husband as a handyman). But the essay is anything but a complaint.
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We started making these bows about a year ago when we found this awesome tutorial from Natty By Design. {You may also remember them from my Kite Wall Art.}
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MEN'S BASKETBALL: Golden Grizzlies open with going away party vs. Albion
Because of a manufacturer's error, Oakland was forced to play the second if its two preseason exhibitions Tuesday at the O'rena in its road black uniforms. After the Golden Grizzlies open the season Friday at 7:30 p.m. against Albion, they can put the home whites back into storage and slip back into the visiting black-and-gold garb.
The Grizzlies hit the road for a seven-game road trip that begins Sunday at Louisiana and ends Dec. 1 in Kalamazoo against Western Michigan. In that time, Oakland will visit Pittsburgh (Nov. 17), Tennessee (Nov. 26), and East Lansing (Nov. 23) to take on Michigan State -- which is the closest thing they'll have to a home game for nearly a month -- among others.
Oakland coach Greg Kampe is confident in the team he has and its ability to handle the stress of life on the road. With four returning starters, Kampe's group has experience and leadership at several positions.
"It's not going to be easy criss-crossing the country for the next month," he said. "We just need to get off to a good start Friday."
Oakland is coming off its fourth consecutive 20-win season, in which it also was 11-7 in the Summit League, where it finished third. The Grizzlies were unceremoniously dispatched in the first round of the conference tournament after blowing a late lead against Southern Utah in their quarterfinal matchup. Oakland was picked to finish third in the conference this season.
Prolific shooter Travis Bader is showing no signs of rust, averaging 22 points over two preseason games for Oakland. Senior forward Drew Valentine, junior guard Ryan Bass, who Kampe expects to shoot more often and be a nuisance defensively for opponents, and sophomore forward Corey Petros round out the returning starters.
Much attention has already been paid to Providence transfer Duke Mondy, who has assumed point guard duties from departed high-scorer Reggie Hamilton, who led the nation with 26.2 points per game last season. In recent weeks, Kampe has likened Mondy to former Golden Grizzlies point guard Johnathon Jones, who once led the nation in assists, as well as former Michigan guard Darius Morris, now a member of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Mondy was one of Oakland's leading scorers in the preseason, but Kampe expressed concern about his new point guard's struggles with turnovers, albeit with a point of praise.
"I don't know if he's run an offense like ours," Kampe said of Mondy. "He's a guy that wants to throw touchdown passes. He's going to throw passes we've never seen before."
The 6-foot-4, 208-pound Mondy is also renowned for his defensive ability. He led the Big East in steals his last season of play, 2010-11, and had eight of Oakland's 20 takeaways Tuesday against Defiance College.
"If I bring energy, it spreads out to the entire defense," Mondy said. "If they see me going hard, they've got my back. They're going to go hard as well. They're trying to get stops just like me, and they have pride in defense just like I do.
"Last year, we were one of the best-scoring teams in the country, but we still lost games. We know we can score, we just have to get stops. We know that this year."
Another transfer expected to have an impact is forward Raphael Carter, who will miss time with a deep bone bruise suffered last week in practice. Kampe said he hopes to have Carter back in the lineup in time for Pitt game, but his return will be based on practice this weekend.
Although the Grizzlies will be spending quite a bit of time off campus in the next month, each road game is broadcast on WDFN-AM (1130). Several of the games will also be televised. See Oakland's broadcast schedule here.


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Feb. 11, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT's squash team recently competed in stand-alone matches against both Wesleyan University and Colby College, with the Engineers falling to both the Cardinals and the Mules by similar 9-0 score-lines. Tech traveled to Middletown, Conn., on Thursday evening for its meeting with Wesleyan, before returning to Cambridge to host Colby on Saturday morning.
The Engineers' record dropped to 2-9 with the pair of losses, while Wesleyan improved to 9-7 with its third straight victory and Colby moved to 7-15 with its win.
Freshman John Kucharczyk came closest to preventing the shutout against Wesleyan on Thursday evening, as the rookie won the first game from the No. 9 spot, 10-8. However, he then dropped the next three games, 9-2, 9-5, 9-0. Junior Saad Zaheer was also resilient, falling in his match from the No. 3 position, 9-7, 9-1, 9-5.
Against Colby on Saturday morning, sophomore No. 1 Andrew Yoon nearly got the Engineers off to a great start with a win in his first game, but he ultimately fell, 10-8, before dropping the next two games, 9-1, 9-3. Fellow sophomore George Pratt also put up a fight, falling 9-6, 9-2, 9-7 from the No. 5 spot.
The Engineers will conclude their regular season schedule on Tuesday, Feb. 12, when they will host Brown University at 6:30 p.m. and Northeastern University at 8:00 p.m.


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Quote from: JediJman on March 1, 2013, 07:17 PMThey have the 2012 MH case expected on 3/15 Pete.I know - but my order for it already shipped back on Feb 11th - and I still don't have it.If it does indeed seem to be lost, here's hoping that Toy Palace will be decent about it and ship me a replacement case when their new shipment of them arrives.
It's most likely a Customs delay. That's the hitch with international orders. Your parcel might just be waiting to go through the Customs clearing process, and then you should eventually get it.
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African U19 qualifier sets Tunisia against Egypt in opener
The competition acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Boys' Youth African Nations Championship to be held later this year in Mexico.
Play starts on Tuesday, and the feature match will be between defending champions Tunisia and the runners-up, Egypt, at 15:00 local time in Setif Hall. Tunisia won the last competition in 2010 after beating Egypt 3-2 in a thrilling encounter.
The opening day will also have the hosts, Algeria, battling against newcomers Rwanda at 17:00.
Match Schedule
22-Jan-13 1 17:00 Rwanda v Algeria
22-Jan-13 2 15:00 Egypt v Tunisia
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Column: Sloppy win shows Russia may be in trouble despite home-ice advantage
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SOCHI, Russia – The hometown lads started so fast that you half-expected to see Vladimir Putin, the 60-year-old president who suited up for an exhibition game here last month, slip back into a uniform and take a few shifts. Maybe Maria Sharapova, too.
Russia vs. Slovenia was always going to be a mismatch. But the hosts' shaky 5-2 win in Thursday's opener turned out to be cold comfort for a nervous nation hoping to reconnect with its glorious — but increasingly distant — hockey past.
Russia got the first goal when Alex Ovechkin roofed a wrister just over a minute into the game. The second came less than three minutes later when Ovechkin, who plays for the National Hockey League's Washington Capitals, came up with a new variation on the old Statue of Liberty play. He stopped the puck just outside the Slovenia blue line and then stood still, dummying the defense while speeding teammate Evgeni Malkin scooped up the disc and zoomed in untouched for another easy score.
The cheerleaders lining every staircase at the Bolshoy Ice Dome began swaying in unison, and fans wearing the blue, red-and-white Russia jerseys — including a few sporting throwback red "C.C.C.P" versions, evoking memories of the old Soviet Union's "Big Red Machine" Olympic dynasty — responded by howling at the top of their lungs.
But things got quiet almost as soon as the second period began. After managing just four shots and one legit scoring chance in the opening 20 minutes, the Slovenians notched an early goal from Ziga Jeglic to pull within 2-1. The building went eerily quiet for the next 15 minutes after that, then revived briefly when Malkin netted his second during a power play, on a snapshot from the slot, with some two minutes left in the period.
But barely a minute later, back came Jeglic, squirming between two Russian defenders and finally slipping the puck past keeper Semyon Varlamov with all the oomph of a hotel bill arriving under the door. No matter. It counted, and suddenly Slovenia was back within 3-2 and hardly looking like such a pushover anymore.
"Didn't seem like in that first period they were nervous," recalled Jeglic, who plays professionally in Germany. "Then we said in our locker room, we have nothing to lose."
We can only imagine what Russian coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov told his charges after the second period.
"We have 15 players from the NHL, they have one! And his father is probably the only man in the country who knows enough about hockey to be the coach! We have 27 shots, they have eight! We have 70 times more people, 825 times the number of square miles — and some of you are going to wind up living in a very remote corner, with very few inhabitants, if you don't go out there and turn this around!"
What Bilyaletdinov said he told his side was slightly less dramatic.
"Lots of beautiful passes, but at the end of the day, all that matters is scoring goals. I tried to explain to them," he said, "there are some things we need to fix."
So they did. Valeri Nichushkin and Anton Belov scored for Russia three minutes apart, the second coming after Slovenian netminder Robert Kristan had dropped his knees expecting a low shot from the point. When Belov's high drive hit the net and the goal horn sounded, Kristan pitched forward and lay face down on the ice for a few seconds, knowing his side wasn't going to find its way back from the deficit.
Beating Russia at home was always going to be a big ask for Slovenia. As for other teams, "it's going to be tough," said Anze Kopitar, who plays for the Los Angeles Kings and is Slovenia's only NHL entrant.
"It's kind of like going in a road rink in the NHL, and some rinks are tougher than others," he added, "and I'm sure this is going to be no different."
On the contrary.
If the Russians can't play any better than this, they're going to get bounced from the tournament by the time the medals are being handed out and perhaps even sooner. Considering their lineage — after the Big Red Machine made its debut at the 1956 games, the Soviets won seven of the next nine (and an eighth if you count the Unified Team in 1992) — and adding that Putin himself has said anything less than a medal would be cause for some serious reflection, this Russian team is in trouble.
How much depends on where you sit. After the game a reporter asked Bilyaletdinov whether it would be "a death sentence" to leave Varlamov in the net for Russia's next game against the United States, which pummeled a much-better Slovakia team 7-1 in its opener.
"Every player," the stone-faced coach responded, "has a chance to be in for any of the games."
At this rate, maybe even Putin.
Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow him at Twitter.com/JimLitke.


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Why Do Copyright Maximalists Think That Lame 'Education' Campaigns Will Brainwash Children?
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But, here's the thing: all of these programs seem to assume, falsely, that kids are complete idiots who can have basic common sense brainwashed out of them. That's not the case. As we've seen for the better part of a decade, kids who attend these "sessions" know a lot better than the people teaching them just how ridiculous they come off, and don't take them very seriously. No matter how many times this strategy fails, however, some clueless adult decides that kids can be brainwashed if they just try again. It's even better when they include silly mascots.
While it's amusing sometimes to watch the maximalists flail around like this, you have to wonder if they'll ever recognize that kids aren't stupid, and pushing obvious propaganda to them doesn't make them unable to understand how technology works.


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Every morning at 9:05 AM sharp, a strikingly dapper octogenarian saunters by Zoe Spawton's coffee shop on his way to work in the Berlin borough of Neukölln.
That man's name is Ali.
He is an 83-year-old Turkish tailor who has been living in Germany for the past 44 years. He has 18 kids, and an impeccable sense of style.
Many of the clothes Ali wears were handmade by him, and he rarely wears the same thing twice.
His uncanny sartorial elegance so fascinated Spawton, that the Australia-born photographer started a blog dedicated to "what Ali wore."
After getting his permission, of course.
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Uncle Ali, as he likes to be called, does have some restrictions, Spawton says.
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Spawton and Ali have bonded over the course of their joint project, and Spawton says she now considers them to be close. "Once we went together on a trip to pick apples, which was very nice," she said.
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The rapidly expanding palm oil industry in Southeast Asia has come under attack by green groups for destroying rainforests and wildlife, as well the emission of greenhouse gases.
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30 January 2013
I welcome today's debate on cybersecurity. This discussion could not come at a better time.
Every day, people across the world use digital technologies for all kinds of activity, from communication to healthcare, from entertainment to banking. Not to mention businesses and governments using these networks to deliver their many services.
The digital transformation offers a boost to all. A stronger society; a more prosperous economy; a platform to exercise human rights. We must ensure that our citizens and our businesses can get all those benefits, securely.
Overall the internet offers a boost to productivity, innovation, economic growth. It creates 5 jobs for every 2 lost. That's an opportunity we can't turn our backs on: we should do everything we can to achieve them. But rising threats, rising vulnerabilities, and lack of trust all stand in the way.
The reasons for these risks vary. Sometimes it's about outright attacks; sometimes it's people making mischief; sometimes just mistakes or natural disasters.
And indeed some of these cases are high-profile. In 2011, for example, you may recall the case of Dutch certification company Diginotar; or the security breaches at national registries for the EU's emissions trading system. Two years ago the Dagmar storm wrecked millions of communications links. And so on.
The costs of insecure systems are high. According to the World Economic Forum, over the next decade, there is a 10% chance of a major breakdown costing over a quarter of a trillion dollars.
In just one year, PWC found that three quarters of UK small businesses, and 93% of large ones, had suffered a cybersecurity breach. Bear in mind each breach can cost tens of thousands of euros; for a large business ten times that. And the cost of data breaches can be millions, not to mention the reputational damage.
And risks are mounting. According to Symantec, the total number of attacks increased by 81% in just one year. And in ever more forms: denial-of-service, Trojans, worms, identity theft, botnets, phishing, you name it. And I know that many of you will yourself have experienced incidents with significant impacts.
Such events undermine trust, and often mean vital services or transactions need to be suspended.
Yet in spite of those issues, most ICT users are not aware enough of the risks they face online: and many are insufficiently prepared. And the majority of incidents could be prevented, by taking just simple or cheap measures.
These risks aren't constrained by borders – neither within or outside the EU. They don't stay meekly contained within one sole jurisdiction, under the watchful eye of a single authority. On a globally interconnected network, they travel freely, and they seek out the weakest link in the chain.
And if threats do not stop at national borders, nor does the responsibility to secure ourselves against them. This is a global problem needing a global response.
Fragmentation and duplication won't help: we need to cooperate, in all kinds of ways. We have long supported measures to boost that cooperation within the EU. But as its importance rises, so does the imperative to do more.
Our EU Cybersecurity Strategy will propose a comprehensive approach. To improve the resilience and security of network and information systems, step up the fight against cybercrime, strengthen our international cybersecurity policy, and explore synergies with defence.
Alongside the Strategy will be a proposed Directive to strengthen cyber resilience and network and information security, within our internal market.
Let me outline our objectives. I've already mentioned the need for cooperation. And that will take place on several levels.
For a start, we need cooperation between policy areas. There are many aspects to cybersecurity: like prevention, resilience, law enforcement and defence. That calls for collaboration between those responsible for digital affairs, home affairs and external action. And that is exactly why I have been working closely with Cathy Ashton and Cecilia Malmstrom, and we will be presenting this strategy together.
Second, cooperation means cooperation between the countries of the EU. But that can only happen with some consistency, involving everyone: it shouldn't just be an exclusive club for the top performers. And across the EU, some countries are still not prepared enough: there are gaps in their capabilities. So we will propose that all EU countries equip themselves properly for network and information security: like by requiring each to have a well-functioning Computer Emergency Response Team. Member States would also need a competent authority for network and information security, who should cooperate at EU level, supported by the European Network and Information Security Agency.
Third, we need cooperation between public and private sectors. On the one hand, the public sector can set the framework, providing the right incentives to secure their systems, and can lead by example. On the other, it is the private sector that actually owns and operates most of the networks.
There is already much, welcome cooperation happening between public and private sectors. So we will encourage and develop Public-Private Partnerships, by leveraging existing work, like the European Public-Private Partnership for Resilience.
But we all need to do our bit. Did you know, for example, that as of last year, only one in four EU companies had a regularly-reviewed, formal ICT security policy? Even among ICT companies, the figure is only one in two. That's not enough.
Here's one way to help. In the Diginotar case, they did not report that their systems were hacked, nor did they revoke the digital certificates. That resulted in certificates being fraudulently issued and circulating online; ultimately undermining trust in the system.
In the telecoms sector, we already have obligations to report significant incidents. And some Member States have taken similar measures in a number of sectors, including the Dutch, following Diginotar.
The fact is, more and more sectors use telecoms networks in ways vital to our economy and society – energy, transport, banking, healthcare, and key internet companies. So we should extend those reporting obligations to those new sectors.
Fourth, we need international cooperation: this isn't just the EU's issue. We need a coherent international cyberspace policy for the EU.
We will strengthen cooperation with key international partners like the US, Japan, OECD, OSCE, UN and ITU. We will take an active part in the global debate to develop norms for responsible behaviour in cyberspace. And we will help build cybersecurity capacity in third countries.
Overall, our international actions must promote EU core values and fundamental rights: like freedom of expression, access to information, privacy and data protection.
Fifth, we will develop an integrated market for secure ICT solutions. With initiatives and incentives so all players in the ICT value chain embrace a cybersecurity culture. From equipment manufacturers to software sellers; service providers to operators; online banks to online retailers.
With the right investment in R&D, and the right policy framework, we can turn research results into commercial reality. And indeed the new European research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, will be a key instrument. To boost our industrial policy, promote a trustworthy European industry, advance the internal market and reduce our dependence on foreign technologies.
Sixth, there will be a number of other measures: like stepping up the fight against cybercrime. Like improving EU coordination. And indeed the European Cybercrime Centre, recently opened within Europol in The Hague, could gradually serve as a voice for the law enforcement community, in the EU fight against cybercrime.
Plus we will take further measures to fight botnets; improve the security and resilience of Industrial Control Systems and Smart Grids; and make users both more aware of risks — and empowered to tackle them, so we can all play our part in this common responsibility.
In short, this Strategy will help Europe get its own house in order — and become an even more trusted partner at the international level.
I hope that this Strategy will open a constructive debate: and I hope you will take part in it.
As more people come to rely on the Internet, they rely on it to be secure. And as the online world becomes a part of everything we do, securing that world is essential to ensuring a society that remains secure, prosperous and free. Thank you.
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I know that my decision (though prayerful and long thought out) to convert to Holy Orthodoxy, is going to disappoint my grandparents. They are very traditional Southern Baptists and believe that Orthodox, like Catholics and pretty much everyone else, are going to burn forever. I know that it will cause fights, but I must do what God has called me to do.Has anyone else caught flack from family??? If so, How did you deal with it??? I don't know how my parents would be, but I think they would be alright with anything as long as it wasn't Islam (I'm being totally serious).Thanks,Adrian Davila
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Hey all, One thing I can say is that Orthodoxy is fairly prevalent, but quiet here in my part of the world (San Antonio, TX.)
I am going to meet Fr. Iulian on Tuesday and he is going to take me to church on the first Sunday in March. I am so excited!!!!
Just out curiosity, which small town? I grew up in Brownsville, TX and had my exposure to Orthodoxy in Pharr, TX.
In any case, living an Orthodox life is a much better witness to the faith than discussions on theology
I know how you feel. I am a 'secret' convert to the orthodox faith (my parents spent years in Russia/ukraine converting people to the protestant faith). One day they gave me an icon from russia, and out of curiosity i studied what icons were about, and eventually it led me to study the orthodox faith. My grandparents also converted from orthodoxy to protestantism. One day i will soon make my stand and make public my conversion, but yes, it is very hard to do, especially when your family consider they are following the true faith. i have spoken to my sister about this, and she has already turned her back on me and told me that i am being 'stupid'. It is difficult, but in time, God's time, you wil be able to make that stand, as i will soon be making. I wish you the best, and god's peace to be with you.
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I'm quite shocked and annoyed that non-Orthodox Christians perceive Orthodoxy as if it were Communism. Are we that distant from other Christian denominations?
That worked well and he now smiles when his stepfather talks about the church and understands that his step-father is not lying about the church, he just does not have a full picture of it that my grandson he as an Orthodox Christian.
Interesting story, jayjay and welcome to the board. Maybe it would be helpful to find that "legendary" (I think baptist) Manual to Convert Eastern Orthodox and point out its flaws to your relatives. You might be able to find it on yahoo or google without too much trouble.
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