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Gigabit L2+ Unified Managed Switches
- Product Status: Phased Out
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Compatible D-Link Unified Access Points include:
- DWL-2600AP: Unified Wireless N PoE Access Point
- DWL-3600AP: Unified Wireless N PoE Access Point
- DWL-6600AP: Unified Wireless N Simultaneous Dual-Band PoE Access Point
- DWL-8600AP: Unified Wireless N Simultaneous Dual-Band PoE Access Point
- DWL-8610AP: Unified Wireless AC1750 Simultaneous Dual-Band PoE Access Point
The DWS-4026 is D-Link's next generation Unified Wired/Wireless Gigabit Switch with an array of advanced features and 802.11n support. With the ability to manage up to 64 unified wireless access points by itself and up to 256 unified wireless access points in a switch cluster, the DWS-4026 is a full-featured and cost-effective mobility solution for mid-to large enterprises and service providers. Extremely versatile and flexible, the DWS-4026 can be deployed as a Wireless Controller in the core network or as a L2+ PoE Gigabit Switch at the edge depending on the requirement. By centralising WLAN configuration and management functions, DWS-4026 enables network administrators to have control, security, redundancy, and reliability needed to scale and manage their wireless networks easily and efficiently.
Adaptable Wireless
Most of the current Wireless LAN controllers' architecture requires wireless traffic to return to the controller for centralised processing, causing unnecessary traffic delay. The DWS-4026 offers network administrators additional options: depending on the wireless application, wireless traffic can either be tunneled back to the switch for better security control, or locally forwarded at the Access Point for optimal performance.
Comprehensive Wired/Wireless Security
The DWS-4026 offers a state-of-the-art Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS), which empowers network administrators to detect rogue Access Points and rogue clients as well as anticipate wireless threats, preventing them from causing damage to the network. With WIDS, administrators can activate various threat detections and use RF scans to sweep the entire wireless network for any possible security breach in advance. Other wireless security features include WPA/WPA2 Enterprise, 802.11i, Captive Portal and MAC Authentication.
Seamless Mobility
Wireless clients can enjoy seamless and uninterrupted roaming from AP to AP managed by a DWS-4026 even if they are not in the same subnet. Because the DWS-4026 employs various mechanisms such as pre-authentication and key-caching, wireless users can freely "roam" the entire network without needing to re-authenticate. The additional Fast Roaming feature results in disruption-free, reliable wireless connectivity crucial for mobile applications such as Wi-Fi IP Phones and wireless PDAs. Furthermore, the DWS-4026 supports advanced "AP-AP Tunneling", which is used to support L3 roaming for wireless clients without forwarding any data traffic to the Unified Switch. This can help to significantly reduce network traffic and save bandwidth.
Voice-Optimised Quality of Service (QoS)
The DWS-4026 is specifically designed and optimised for Voice over Wireless traffic with features such as Auto-VoIP and Voice VLAN. The Auto-VoIP feature explicitly matches VoIP streams and provides them with a better class-of-service than ordinary traffic.
Network Resiliency
The DWS-4026 offers a "self-healing" network capability to increase the resiliency of the entire wireless network. To make up for a sudden RF signal vacuum created by any "dead" AP (AP with DC power failure, for example), the DWS-4026 automatically increases the transmit output power of the neighboring APs to expand the RF coverage, thereby "healing" the network. Also, to ensure continuous connection for current clients, the DWS-4026 performs load balancing across access points when network traffic reaches a certain threshold by forcing additional clients to associate with other access points.
Maximised Flexibility
In addition to all its wireless capabilities, the DWS-4026 also excels as an advanced L2+ PoE Switch. Complete with dynamic routing using RIPv1/v2, ACL security, multi-layer QoS, comprehensive VLAN support, IGMP/MLD Snooping as well as dual 10-Gigabit uplink support, the DWS-4026 truly enables network administrators to integrate their enterprise class wireless network with their wired infrastructure. Businesses contemplating upgrading their current wired or wireless network can deploy the DWS-4026 to take advantage of its dual-role flexibility.
Simplified Management
Multiple DWS-4026s can form a Switch Cluster, which enables network administrators to manage and configure all switches from one single "Cluster Master." In addition, the Switch Cluster also manages information of all the Access Points as well as their associated clients. This helps to significantly simplify management and reduce maintenance efforts as the network scales up.
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Number of 10/100/1000BASE-TX ports
- 20 ports
Number of Combo 1000Base-T/SFP ports
- 4 ports
Number of open slots for optional 10 Gigabit module
- 2 slots
RS-232 Console Port
- Yes
PoE Support (Standard(s)/Number of Ports/Maximum Power Budget)
- 802.3af/24 ports/370W
Switch Capacity
- 88 Gbps
64-Byte Packet Forwarding Rate
- 65.47 Mpps
Packet Buffer
Physical & Environmental
- 185,540 hours
Power Input
- 100 to 240 VAC, 50 to 60Hz Internal Universal Power Supply
Power Consumption (maximum)
- 525 W (with all PoE ports in operation)
Dimensions (W x D x H)
- 440 x 389 x 44 mm (17.32 x 15.31 x 1.73 inches)
- 6.0 kg (13.23 lbs)
- Operating: 0 to 40°C (32 to 104°F)
- Storage: -10 to 70°C (14 to 158°F)
Operating Humidity
- Operating: 10% ~ 90% Non-condensing
- Storage: 5% ~ 90% Non-condensing
- FCC Class A, ICES-003, VCCI, CE, C-Tick, EN 60601-1-2
- CB, UL/cUL
Software Feature
WLAN Management Capability
- Up to 64 APs per switch
- Up to 256 APs per cluster
- Up to 2,048 Wireless Users (1,024 Tunneled Users, 2,048 Non-Tunneled Users)
- Fast Roaming*
- Intra-Switch/Inter-Switch Roaming
- Intra-Subnet/Inter-Subnet Roaming
- AP-AP Tunnel
Access Control & Bandwidth Management
- Up to 32 SSID per AP (16 SSID per RF Frequency Band)
- AP Load Balancing based on the number of users or utilization per AP
Managed AP
AP Management
- AP Auto-Discovery
- Remote AP Reboot
- AP Monitoring: List Managed AP, Rogue AP, Authentication Failed AP
- Client Monitoring: List Clients Associated with Each Managed AP
- Ad-hoc Clients Monitoring
- AP Authentication Supporting Local Database and External RADIUS Server
- Centralized RF/Security Policy Management
- Visualized AP Management Tool (Supports up to 16 jpg files)
- Unified AP Support (DWL-8600AP): Managed/Standalone mode
WLAN Security
- Wireless Intrusion Detection & Prevention System (WIDS)
- Rogue AP Mitigation
- Rogue and Valid AP Classification Based on MAC Address
- WPA Personal/Enterprise
- WPA2 Personal/Enterprise
- 64/128/152-bit WEP Data Encryption
- Wireless Station and AP Monitoring on RF Channel, MAC Address, SSID, Time
- Encryption Type Support: WEP, WPA, Dynamic WEP, TKIP, AES-CCMP, EAP-FAST, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, EAPMD5, PEAP-GTC, PEAP-MS-CHAPv2, PEAP-TLS
- Captive Portal
- MAC Authentication
- Station Isolation
L2 Features
- MAC Address Table Size: 8K Entries
- IGMP Snooping: 1K Multicast Groups
- MLD Snooping
- 8021.D Spanning Tree
- 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree
- 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
- 802.3ad Link Aggregation: Up to 32 groups, up to 8 ports per group
- 802.1ab LLDP
- One-to-One Port Mirroring
- Many-to-One Port Mirroring
- Jumbo Frame Size: Up to 9KBytes
- 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
- VLAN Groups: Up to 3965 entries
- Subnet-based VLAN
- MAC-based VLAN
- Double VLAN
- Voice VLAN
L3 Features
- IPv4 Static Route
- Routing Table Size: Up to 128 Static Routes
- Floating Static Route
- Proxy ARP
- RIPv1/v2
Quality of Service
- 802.1p Priority Queues (Up to 8 Queues per Port)
- CoS Based on: Switch Port, VLAN, DSCP, TCP/UDP Port, TOS, Destination/Source MAC Address, Destination/Source IP Address
- Auto-VoIP
- Minimum Bandwidth Guarantee per Queue
- Traffic shaping per port
- Per-Flow Bandwidth Control
ACL (Access Control List)
- ACL Based on: Switch Port, MAC Address, 802.1p Priority Queues, VLAN, Ethertype, DSCP, IP Address, Protocol Type, TCP/UDP Port
LAN Security
- RADIUS Authentication for Management Access
- TACACS+ Authentication for Management Access
- SSH v1, v2
- SSL v3 , TLS v1
- Port Security: 20 MAC Addresses per Port, Trap Violation Notification
- MAC filtering
- 802.1X Port-Based Access Control and Guest VLAN
- Denial of Service Protection
- Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI)
- DHCP Snooping
- Broadcast Storm Control in Granularity of 1% of link speed
- Protected Port
- DHCP filtering
- Methods Web-Based GUI
- Switch Clustering
- RADIUS Accounting
- Telnet Server: Up to 5 Sessions
- Telnet Client
- TFTP Client
- SNMP v1, v2c, v3
- sFlow
- Multiple Configuration Files
- Dual Image Services
- RMON v1: 4 Groups (Statistics, History, Alarms, Events)
- BOOTP/DHCP Client
- DHCP Server
- DHCP Relay
- Dual Images
- Port Description
* To demonstrate fast roaming in a PC, a wireless NIC (Network Interface Card) needs to support the fast roaming feature
- How to Access Web UI when Managed Mode - DWC and DWS- Series Read Answer
- How to Find the IP Address via Console - DWS-4026 Read Answer
- DWS 4026 How to Upgrade Firmware XMODEM Read Answer
- What is the default IP address of my D Link Managed Switch ? Read Answer
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MSOC: UD Drops 3-2 Heartbreaker to UMass
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MSOC: UD Drops 3-2 Heartbreaker to UMass
In a battle for 1st place in the A10 standings, Dayton jumped ahead early, fell behind, then pulled even in the 2nd half before surrendering a game-winning PK in the final 10 minutes as
defeated the Flyers 3-2. The Saturday night match under perfect late October conditions at Baujan Field was highly-competitive throughout and may be a precursor of a possible rematch in the A10 Tournament. UD falls to 7-7-2 (4-2-0) while the Minutemen improve to 11-2-3 (5-0-1).
In a game with significant implications, Dayton and UMass squared off looking to create some separation at the top of the conference standings with two weeks remaining in the regular season. Coming off a 4-0 clobbering of
Saint Louis
earlier in the week, the Flyers came into the game with a ton of confidence after playing well in prior matches. Getting off to a good start against UMass would go a long way toward continuing that theme.
It worked out that way -- at least the fast start Dayton was looking for. Freshman Jonas Fjeldberg made a crafty dribble along the right side of the UMass goal box but was tugged in the process. The referee waited until the advantage played out uneventfully, blew a late whistle on the play and pointed to the spot. Rok Taneski polished of the PK to put UD up 1-0 in the 8th minute.
It was exactly where the Flyers wanted to be -- front-running against the only team ahead of them in the conference standings. With so much offense over the last two weeks, fans expected another onslaught of Flyer goals -- if nothing else an onslaught of shots that might lead to goals.
It was tougher sledding however against UMass. The Minutemen's defense comprised of large bodies with excellent athleticism and a strong soccer IQ. For much of the 1st half Dayton attempted to play balls over the top of their back line and that was met with a consistent lack of success. During the few moments UD played the ball on the ground and tried to attack through UM's back line, the results were much better.
Dayton had their moments on offense. Several times they pushed forward into the offensive third and seemed to have the numbers in place to find a vulnerable spot on the field to exploit. UMass was compact, always kept their shape, and were extremely difficult to unravel however. The Flyers generated some shots, but most of those shots were not on frame. In many cases, UM recovered in time to block the shots entirely with a leg or other body part -- their recovery speed and instincts were top-shelf.
On the other end of the field, UMass experienced similar trouble hacking apart the Flyer back line. Dillon Nino was especially resilient in the defensive third and battled physical UMass strikers blow-for-blow without conceding an inch.
Unfortunately, the 1-0 lead only lasted until the 26th minute. Flyer GK Justin Saliba tracked a high ball in the box but got caught in no-man's land and left the net unattended. Unable to reach the ball for a punch-out and beyond the goal line to protect the net, UMass capitalized with a header into the empty net to tie the match at 1-1.
Over the last 20 minutes of the half, the run of play swung back and forth as both teams had extended periods of possession that would ultimately manifest into a turnover or missed opportunity deep into the opposing half of the field. That's a credit to the back lines of both squads as the game turned into a defensive battle. The team that made unforced errors in front of their own net would probably concede the result.
Halftime stats favored UMass in shots (9-6) and corner kicks (2-1). The only Flyer shot on goal in the first 45 minutes was the PK conversion by Taneski.
The 2nd half restart might determine the match -- the run of play and general tempo suggested the next team to score might have the defense to hold on for the 2-1 win.
If the Flyers had high hopes, things turned south in the 51st minute when UMass took the 2-1 lead on a superb speed-rush dribble-drive along the left side of the UD goal box that split a pair of Flyer defenders and beat Saliba to the lower far post. Saliba had little to no chance at the save; it was poor defending all around.
With work to do, Dayton had to find a goal somewhere. Unable to generate shots on frame however, it seemed for the longest time that no further goals were out there to be found. The Flyers spent the next 10 minutes dominating possession however and leveraged the speed of Taneski along the left side of the pitch to dribble-drive past UMass defenders for crosses near the baseline. The Minutemen were unable to slow him down as time and again he rounded the corner, tap-danced along the end line, and shoved balls into the mixer for teammates to hopefully deflect in.
Those deflections never materialized for the game-tying equalizer, but it didn't matter because Taneski took care of everything himself in the 64th minute on a bazooka from outside the box that cleared the UMass goalkeeper and tucked inside the far post to even the match at 2-2. The curving, dipping ball was UD's best shot on goal up to that point; the Flyers redirected a ball from the 6yd line just minutes earlier but were stoned by the goalkeeper.
Now 2-2 with less than 30 minutes to play, the match was once again up for grabs and this time the next team to score would almost certainly go home the winner.
UD continued to generate the better run of play over the next 10 minutes, but every time they entered the offensive third, UMass was there to clean everything up and frustrate the Flyers. Numerous high balls made their job easier and only when UD kept possession on the ground did they force the Minutemen to defend more honestly. They also exploited UMass much easier this way.
Defensively, Dayton remained pretty solid. The best UMass scoring chances came on counter-attacks when UD failed to get numbers behind the ball and were caught out of position. Saliba came up huge on two 2nd half saves in the box when he came out of his goal mouth and challenged balls with sliding deflections.
The match was ultimately decided in the 83rd minute when Saliba once again challenged from goal along the right side. David Lianes trailed the UMass player approaching Saliba and a collision of bodies ensued. Lianes was whistled for obstruction in the box with an apparent grab and issued a straight red card. The referee awarded UMass a PK they converted moments later to go up 3-2 and eventually win the game. Dayton played the last 8 minutes down a man but had the better chances in the waning moments. Still, the foul call, ejection, and PK was a harsh decision on a play that seemed to warrant far less.
UD outshot UMass 9-8 in the last 45 minutes while corner kicks were two each. In total UMass outshot UD 17-15 and 9-4 in shots on goal. The lack of strikes on frame were the storyline of the match.
It was a tough defeat considering UD probably did enough to at least earn a tie. A couple bounces their way and the Flyers would have been in 1st place in the conference. If nothing else, the match showcased UD's significant improvement over the last three weeks as they went blow for blow with the top team in the league and had their opportunity to win it outright.
With two A10 matches remaining in the regular season, the Flyers can still put themselves in the great spot by jockeying for seeding with two more wins. The A10 Tournament is hosted by UD so they have a chance to do some tourney damage if they finish strong and punch their ticket.
UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system, sits on nearly 1,450-acres in the scenic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The campus provides a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to major urban centers. UMass enrolls over 20,000 undergraduates and 5,000 post-grad students. Fellow members of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Minutemen. Women's teams known as the Minutewomen. Sports achievements include NCAA Final Four appearances in men's basketball and women's soccer.
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Saint Louis University is a Jesuit, Catholic university ranked among the top research institutions in the nation. The University fosters the intellectual and character development of more than 12,700 students. Founded in 1818, it is the oldest university west of the Mississippi and the second oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Located in St. Louis, MO, and just five minutes from the Gateway Arch, SLU offers 85 undergraduate programs and over 50 graduate study tracks. Over 99% of the SLU faculty hold the highest degree in their respective fields. Fellow member of the A10 Conference. Nickname is the Billikens, but also commonly known as "Sloo", the phonetic pronunciation of the school's initials. Athletic claims to fame include multiple national titles in men's soccer and men's basketball star Larry Hughes.
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The Victory neighborhood is located in north Minneapolis west of Penn and Newton avenues, east of Xerxes Avenue, between Dowling Avenue on the south and the Humboldt Industrial Area on the north. The neighborhood was named after Victory Memorial, a memorial to World War I veterans and fallen soldiers. Victory Memorial Drive is part of the Grand Rounds parkway and bike path circuit. The neighborhood contains vintage homes from the 1920s and 1930s through the 1960s, some which are being rehabilitated today. There are many first-time homebuyers in Victory.
Victory Memorial, located on Victory Memorial Drive (along the Minneapolis Grand Rounds, an official U.S. Scenic Byway) was constructed to commemorate all local soldiers who died in World War I.
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UPDATE: Train Cars Derail in Western Minnesota, Spill Crude Oil
PARKERS PRAIRIE (AP) - Crews have controlled a crude oil spill after a Canadian Pacific train derailed in Minnesota.
The Otter Tail Sheriff's Department says the 94-car train was headed south near Parkers Prairie on Wednesday when it lost air pressure and went into an emergency braking mode. Fourteen tankers derailed. Three either leaked or spilled oil.
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency spokesman Dan Olson says an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 gallons of oil spilled or leaked. The agency says the spill is under control.
Olson says one heavily damaged car spilled much of its 26,000-gallon load. He says the oil is "just oozing out" in the cold.
Olson says because the ground is frozen, there's no threat to water.
Canadian Pacific spokesman Ed Greenberg says the railroad is cleaning up the spill.


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From Bruce Chatwin's 'In Patagonia': "The tenant of the Estancia Paso Roballos was a Canary Islander from Tenerife. He sat in a pink-washed kitchen, where a black clock hammered out the hours……………….. …………….Homesick and dreaming of lost vigour, the old man named the flowers, the trees, the farming methods and dances of his sunlit mountain in the sea."
My – but Chatwin's way with words was poetic and his early death a sad loss to the world; and my – but that old man's dreaming speaks volumes for the magic these islands weave. "My sunlit mountain in the sea" – meandering the foothills of Tenerife's west coast the other day it I couldn't get it out of my head…..whatever parts of the book were, as some claim, a fiction, I haven't the slightest doubt that the exile's story is a true one.
It's January, and, effectively Springtime in these islands, sometimes called "The Islands of Eternal Spring" for their generally balmy climate. It's likely that we will have more rain before Summer comes, possibly snow on the high peaks, but all along the coast and on the lower hillsides spring blossoms and flowers are vibrant. I think the old Canary Islander in Patagonia would have loved it his year. We had around two years of very low rainfall, none in many places in the south of the island, but this Fall brought enough to revive the landscape, coat the parched vistas with greenery at last, and imbue our walk from Chirche to Arguayo, near Santiago del Teide, with a sense of the earth's renewal, as well as present us with a feast for the eyes.
It always amazes me that folk actually live in Chirche, but according to figures I looked up around 224 people do. It perches on the heights above Guia de Isora, its streets seem almost vertical, and require a confident sense of balance, but I totally understand the attraction, it has a serenity which is palpable, even when we returned mid-afternoon to collect the car we'd left at the beginning of the walk it was utterly peaceful.


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by Shawn Hart
"I Think That I Shall Never See A Poem Lovely As A Tree"——Joyce Kilmer
The world — as Chestnut "Hill" will attest — is not flat. Nor does wealth trickle down, nor might make right, nor cats reincarnate, on average, eight times, even when "fixed." And while age and experience may disprove many axioms and much of what we know as magic, there is always Christmas.
Christmas — December 25 for those who follow the Gregorian calendar — is always and ever about the pursuit of the perfect tree. I was born into it, like a bird's egg in a forked branch.
My family's maniacal Christmas tradition worked like this: My siblings and I (the oldest) would retire on Christmas Eve, climbing the stairs to our beds from an utterly unadorned, everyday living room. Overnight, the "miracle" of Christmas would transpire. Before dawn, a train platform would levitate into place, its tracks encircling a tiny village lit up and bustling beneath a fully decorated tree.
The smells of ozone and oil from the transformer would breathe an atmosphere tangy with evergreen resin into the happy valley, like the aroma of real life upstate somewhere. The penumbra of tree lights haloed the top of the steps where we crouched and counted packages before our parents wearily called us down to see "what Santa had brought."
Abracadabra! Ho ho ho!
We soon grew too old, or our parents did, for these eight-hour transformative marvels to enchant. At age seven or so it was time for me to see how the sausage was made.
My dad's pursuit of perfection would begin just after supper on Christmas Eve. We'd walk to a nearby tree lot when the night cold came down hard on the shivering attendant who'd already spent a long day hawking a dwindling forest of balsam firs. (This "11th hour" negotiating tactic, now maddeningly familiar to taxpayers, was a revelation to me.)
Dad would make a deal for a cheap (or free) tree, along with permission to gather from the ground as many branches as I could carry. At home, he'd drill holes in the trunk of the shabby, shapeless thing we'd dragged back to our yard, and he'd fill in the bare spots with the limbs I'd collected. Alacazam! The perfect tree…until my scavenged branches began to brown, spilling an avalanche of rusty needles onto the tracks and the village whenever the front door was opened or closed.
After leaving home, my search for evergreen trophies continued, interrupted only by my travels, including one hallucinogenic Christmas in San Francisco when I costumed one of those cheesy, tri-cone, floor-to-ceiling pole lamps in tin foil and colored light bulbs to masquerade as a tree. Bummer. Shamefully, I was once forced by finances to "liberate" a tree from a fenced lot with an old friend from Chestnut Hill who shall remain nameless. To his credit, he blustered quite a bit about the larceny but nevertheless opened the sunroof on his VW Beetle so I could shove almost all six feet of the tree into his car. More damning, I'd persuaded him to cruise by the lot several times slowly in the dark, so I could case the inventory before making my selection.
Later as a husband and father, my quest instinct grew stronger, albeit with little family cooperation until my youngest daughter was born. My wife, Kari, a pastor and trained professional when it comes to patience, stopped accompanying me when our older daughter, Katie, made manifest her inherited (from her mother) impatience with the process.
Apparently, visiting eight or nine tree lots over the course of a weekend was too much family fun for them; the only reason I'll even mention the hours we'd spend traipsing through snow at tree farms in Bucks County and New Jersey to cut our own tree is to illustrate the investment I was willing to make at forging unforgettable holiday memories.
But then came Amanda, our youngest, whose name in Latin means "she must be loved." Or as I translate it: "she who gets it." After she'd found her first bird's nest in a Christmas tree as a toddler, the ante on our excursions shot sky high. The perfect tree had to have a bird's nest. Put simply, without a nest a tree could not be perfect. Axiomatic.
If she'd been born into the Weyerhaeuser family, I have no doubt she'd already be chairman of the forest products giant and protecting more birds than the Audubon Society and Sierra Club together. The girl loves the trek for the perfect tree. She's restored my arboreal brio, and if it weren't for the fact that she now lives in the Pacific Northwest, I'd take up the axe again and we'd hike into Fairmount Park, or drive to Maine if need be, and spend a week searching for a miniature version of Rockefeller Center's heaven-spearing spike. We might even sneak into the northeast quadrant of the White House and take that old evergreen outta there. If you suspect an obsession at work here, you're not far off.
For perspective, however, I recall an unrelenting storm two years ago that delayed Katie's return home from school in Scotland. For a solid week, polar winds poured into Western Europe while Katie, her bags packed, clutched a useless airline ticket to Philadelphia in her empty Edinburgh dorm. Amanda was already here, having arrived from the west coast with plenty of time to help me find the perfect tree. We did, and then we waited…for days and days for Katie to help us decorate it. But she languished overseas, her loneliness evident in her eyes whenever we could raise her on Skype. On Christmas Eve, without her, we finally dressed our Fraser fir with treasures that have been in Kari's family, my family and our family for generations.
At last, on December 26, 2010, Katie landed at Newark International in a blizzard that was dumping more than two inches of snow per hour on the runways. Hers was the last international flight allowed to land. It had taken me nearly three hours to drive up the turnpike to meet her —Amtrak had shut down service throughout the northeast corridor — and six and a half hours to drive home to Mt. Airy through 20 inches of snow, gridlock, exhaustion, frustration and at last gratitude.
We'd saved the angel for Katie, to place atop the tree.
Shawn Hart is a Mt. Airy resident and a former editor at the Local.


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Ask A Bartender: What's Your Favorite Dive Bar?
You ask, they answer.
It's hard not to love a good, grimy dive bar. Even if some of your evenings are spent at classy cocktail dens or wine bars, you've got to appreciate somewhere a shot and a PBR cost you $4, a place where the bartender will never cut you off. (And, judging from what these bartenders have told us, a place the Jameson flows freely.)
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Monad Transformers Tutorial
From HaskellWiki
Think about code in IO that needs to be able to break out of a loop:
forM_ [1..maxRetries] $ \i -> do response <- request i when (satisfied response) break
Reminder about "when":
when False _ = return () when True a = a
So, how would you implement "break"?
Another example:
Clearly we want something like Maybe's
do mc1 <- tryConnect "host1" case mc1 of Nothing -> return Nothing Just c1 -> do mc2 <- tryConnect "host2" case mc2 of Nothing -> return Nothing Just c2 -> do ..
here to catch the Nothing, but instead of Maybe values and functions we can combine with
, we have
values. So the "trick" is to implement the
IO (Maybe a)
monad again, this time, on
values instead of
IO (Maybe a)
Maybe a
newtype MaybeIO a = MaybeIO { runMaybeIO :: IO (Maybe a) } instance Monad MaybeIO where return x = MaybeIO (return (Just x)) MaybeIO action >>= f = MaybeIO $ do result <- action case result of Nothing -> return Nothing Just x -> runMaybeIO (f x)
So now we can replace the above boilerplate code with:
result <- runMaybeIO $ do c1 <- MaybeIO $ tryConnect "host1" c2 <- MaybeIO $ tryConnect "host2" ..
Or if the tryConnect function wrapped its result in MaybeIO then we just have to use runMaybeIO there, and that's it. What happens if we now have some "print" in between?
This wouldn't work, because the type of each statement in our do block is
result <- runMaybeIO $ do c1 <- MaybeIO $ tryConnect "host1" print "Hello" c2 <- MaybeIO $ tryConnect "host2" ..
and not
MaybeIO a
, so a (print "Hello") which is
IO a
cannot be put in there. This is where we want to "transform" an
value to a
IO a
value. All we have to do is convert the
MaybeIO a
to an
IO a
that doesn't "fail" our Maybe monad. So it just means putting a
IO (Maybe a)
in there:
transformIOtoMaybeIO :: IO a -> MaybeIO a transformIOtoMaybeIO action = MaybeIO $ do result <- action return (Just result)
And now we can do:
result <- runMaybeIO $ do c1 <- MaybeIO $ tryConnect "host1" transformIOtoMaybeIO $ print "Hello" c2 <- MaybeIO $ tryConnect "host2" ..
Now we can also break from the first example's loop!
But, all of this code, while useful, is not in Haskell's spirit. Because MaybeIO really could work for any monad wrapping the Maybe, not just
break :: MaybeIO a break = MaybeIO $ return Nothing forM_ [1..maxRetries] $ \ i -> do response <- transformIOtoMaybeIO $ request i when (satisfied response) break
. The only IO operations all of the MaybeIO code performs is return and bind! So let's generalize our MaybeIO definition to all monads:
IO (Maybe a)
newtype MaybeT m a = MaybeT { runMaybeT :: m (Maybe a) } instance Monad m => Monad (MaybeT m) where return x = MaybeT (return (Just x)) MaybeT action >>= f = MaybeT $ do result <- action case result of Nothing -> return Nothing Just x -> runMaybeT (f x)
That was easy! I just replaced MaybeIO with MaybeT, IO with m, and added an "m" type parameter (with Monad constraint).
Again, really easy, just syntactic replacement of IO with a type parameter. Now, this "transformToMaybeT" operation is really common, because we don't just have
transformToMaybeT :: Monad m => m a -> MaybeT m a transformToMaybeT action = MaybeT $ do result <- action return (Just result)
, we also want
(when you want to break out of the loop or fail with a result!), ContT (lets you do really crazy things), ListT and many others. All of these have in common a
operation which is very much like "transformToMaybeT". So if we have:
transformToMaybeT :: Monad m => m a -> MaybeT m a transformToEitherT :: Monad m => m a -> EitherT l m a
It seems we can capture this pattern with a class:
And now "t" is our
class MonadTrans t where lift :: (Monad m) => m a -> t m a
(of kind
, i.e: two type parameters) and
(* -> *) -> * -> *
is our transformToMaybeT, so:
Why are they named
instance MonadTrans MaybeT where lift = transformToMaybeT
? Note the kind signature of instances of the MonadTrans class:
Monad Transformers
. That is, every monad transformer type constructor takes a monad (kind
(* -> *) -> (* -> *)
) as an argument, and returns a monad (also
* -> *
) as a result. So all Monad Transformers are basically type-functions from monad types to different monad types which have additional traits.
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NEW YORK Instant replay might be coming to Major League Baseball in an instant.
Moving faster than expected and coming after a rash of blown calls, baseball wants to put replay into effect by August for home run disputes in hopes of fine-tuning the system by the playoffs.
MLB and the umpires' union need to reach agreement before replay can be tried, and the sides have started talking. Previously, it was thought replay would get its first look in the Arizona Fall League and then the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
"The game needs it and I think it does need it soon," Chicago Cubs pitcher Jon Lieber said Friday before a game at Toronto. "With technology the way it is today, there's no reason why it shouldn't be a part of the game."
Jimmie Lee Solomon, MLB's executive vice president for baseball operations, is pushing for replay by Aug. 1; Rob Manfred, MLB's executive vice president of labor relations, suggested Aug. 15.
"It's all still premature," MLB spokesman Rich Levin said Friday. "A final decision has not been made."
USA Today first reported on its Web site Friday that baseball planned to use replay this season, saying MLB wanted it by Aug. 1.
"I don't think it's needed at all, to be honest," Cubs manager Lou Piniella said Friday. "How many times do you see players make errors? Baseball has talked about speeding up the game. It's all you hear. All of a sudden, they want instant replay? You're going to have slower games and more restless people in the stands."
Commissioner Bud Selig will ultimately decide when MLB wants to put replay in place. A staunch opponent in the past, a spate of missed boundary calls fair or foul, over the fence or not last month left Selig leaning toward its limited use.
The NFL, NBA, NHL, some NCAA sports and major tennis tournaments all employ replay in various forms.
A person briefed on MLB's preliminary plan told The Associated Press that baseball wants to create an NHL-style "war room" in New York where video feeds would be reviewed by a supervisor. The umpire crew chief wouldn't see replays instead, the supervisor would describe what he saw, but leave it up to the umpire to make the final call.
It was not certain whether managers, umpires or the video supervisor would ask for a replay, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because negotiations were in progress.
Last month, after Carlos Delgado of the New York Mets and Alex Rodriguez of the New York lost home runs because of missed calls, umpires said they were open for discussion.
"We'd be all in favor of listening to whatever proposals they might have," veteran ump John Hirschbeck, president of the World Umpires Association, said then.
Umpires, however, remain adamant that they do not want replay used to review close plays on the bases or ball-and-strike calls.
"I think the umpires do a good job on it. If they would like some additional help, I would find nothing wrong with it," Baltimore hitting coach Terry Crowley said Friday night before the Orioles played Pittsburgh. "Every once in a while they get one wrong, but I would bet they get 99 out of 100 right, probably more."
Last November, general managers voted 25-5 to try replay on boundary calls. At the time, Selig took the recommendation under advisement.
Selig, like many of the game's traditionalists, always liked the human element of baseball, and that meant tolerating an occasional wrong call by an umpire. He also worried about further bogging down a sport that has been criticized for its slow pace.
Count Pittsburgh outfielder Jason Michaels in that corner.
"Here's the thing: I guess I'm old school, but I think human error is part of the game," he said. "It's always been that way. I would think I'd be against it."
In recent years, the new and cozy ballparks have made it more difficult for umpires with their quirky dimensions, odd angles and yellow lines that denote home runs.
"As I've said before, tradition is a wonderful thing, but it can also be an ump killer," Colorado manager Clint Hurdle said before the Rockies played at the Chicago White Sox.
"We're putting these umps in a very difficult position making a call that is already challenging just because of the dynamic of the play. We live in a technological society right now that we can get it right. The guy at home sees it right. That for me is where it really gets confusing. You can sit in your chair at home and make the right call, but the man getting paid who's the expert is put in a box where you don't know."
AP Sports Writers David Ginsburg in Baltimore and Andrew Seligman in Chicago and AP freelance writer Ian Harrison in Toronto contributed to this report.


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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - The Illinois Wesleyan football team opened its home season with a 14-7 nonconference win over Hope College before a "Family Day" crowd of 2,600 on Saturday, Sept. 28, at Tucci Stadium.
The Titans improved to 3-0 and will open College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin play next Saturday at Millikin. Hope lost for the first time this season and is 3-1.
All the scoring was in the first half. The Flying Dutchmen opened the scoring with 05:17 to go in the first quarter when Shawn Jackson rushed in from 24 yards out. Evan Finch added the kick to put the Dutch ahead, 7-0.
The Titans answered with a touchdown pass from senior Rob Gallik to sophomore Artie Checchin with 1:45 to play in the first quarter, ending a nine-play, 71-yard drive that took 3:24. Sophomore Michael Kelley's kick tied the score at 7-7.
The final TD of the game came with 10:36 to go in the second quarter when Gallik found senior Taylor Dee on a 5 yard pass to end a 72 yard, six-play drive that consumed 2:43.
Gallik completed 22 of 38 passes for 227 yards and two TDs, hitting senior Alex Garvey for eight balls and 105 yards. Checchin made four grabs for 18 yards and senior Tate Musselman had three grabs with 41 yards.
Senior T.J. Stinde had 129 yards on 17 carries with a long of 49 yards and senior Devonte Jones rushed for 16 yards on 11 carries.
Junior John Worley had three quarterback sacks for -21 yards of loss and senior Joe Schneider made two sacks for -14 yards. Titan junior Connor Klein had 12 total tackles and Tim Hollowed made 11 tackles with an interception. Junior Tyrell Bolden also had an interception.
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Ronnie Dunn Learns to Deal With Challenges of Being a Solo Artist
After spending years as half of one of country music's biggest duos, Brooks and Dunn's Ronnie Dunn has taken a leap out into the genre on his own. He has already produced a critically-acclaimed solo album, as well as three hit singles from the collection of new tunes.
While things have always been somewhat smooth for the singer who once concurred the charts, touring scene and country music as a whole, he admits there have been some unexpected obstacles along the way this time around.
"The first would be the label restructuring," Dunn tells Taste of Country. "Right off the bat we lost Joe Galante and Gary Overton came over. It takes everyone a while to get in the saddle, you know what I mean? We're working with that right now, trying to get the singles worked out."
Dunn may be on his third official single from his self-titled debut album, but in his heart his latest release, 'Let the Cowboy Rock' is the first. "'Let the Cowboy Rock' is the song I wanted to name the CD with," he says. "That was the first thing I was thinking we would come out of the chute with. The power of the committee felt it was a little to close to Brooks and Dunn, and I thought well a lot of what I'm doing is going to be close to Brooks and Dunn because that's what I am. That's the stuff that flies when we play live. I've learned over the years, that's what people gravitate towards."
"Oddly enough," he continues, "the last No. 1 record that Brooks and Dunn had was 'Play Something Country.' It's kind of along the same vein. I wasn't thinking that, but those are the songs that I've found that people react to, especially in live shows. They're there primarily to have a good time. If you stop it with the 'Cost of Living' or 'Believe' every now and then, you can get away with it, but for the most part, this is the meat and potatoes of what we're running with – cross of rock and country."
Dunn co-wrote 'Let the Cowboy Rock' with recurring Songwriter of the Year Dallas Davidson. The writing session with the Peach Picker was the brainchild of Joe Galante, dating as far back as before the split of Brooks and Dunn.
"One day, I got the title [of the song] in my head, and I was driving through town," recalls Dunn. "Joe sent me Dallas' phone number. I called him and said, 'Hey man, it's Ronnie … I got an idea for our first song already!' He goes, 'Who?! What?!' I said, 'Here's the title to the song – the first one we're going to write: 'Let the Cowboy Rock.'' He goes, 'Let the good times roll!' And away we went. It happened so fast. We went back and forth, and then came back [to my barn] and wrote it here."
Dunn is quickly learning the ropes of being considered a "new artist" in country music, and knows he still has a way to go to gain the accomplishments he once did with former music partner Kix Brooks. But Dunn is ready to fight any battles thrown his way, all while enjoying the new sense of freedom that comes with it.
"I don't know how anyone beyond a duo – like a group – gets anything done, from the album cover to the promo shots and anything else that goes with it," says Dunn. "That tension that Kix and I had, and it's a certain dynamic that was a healthy thing, but it just wears you out. For us to last as long as we did was a miracle. Looking back at it, the Eagles only lasted what … six year or eight years?"
As far as his solo career, Dunn looks forward to making music on his own for years to come, but for now, will remain focused on his current project. "I want to work this [album] more [before even thinking about the second album]," he says. "I feel like 'Let the Cowboy Rock' is the first single, the other two ('Bleed Red' and 'Cost of Living') I just walked through the process. There are a couple of other songs on there that I would really like to see get to radio after this one. It's breaking a mold and it's against the grain, but maybe I can push it through."


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I agree that this is a really good love triangle. And I hate that...
For obvious reasons Maria and Kobato can't be seen as love intrests. Yukimura... Doesn't stand a chance, really. Rika is probably the best choice, because she is the only one out of all of them who really understands Kodaka and his view on the whole situation. But... Yeah, doesn't really stand a chance either. And she probably understands that, so she will probably just stay supportive as a friend.
That leaves us with 2 candidates: Yozora and Sena. Poor Kodaka... With either of them as his girlfriend, he's doomed, with their personalities and all Anyway, I don't really know who to choose either. I like Yozora (rooting for the underdog, or maybe because she was the first one introduced), but if she won, poor Sena, I'd feel sorry for her. And while I like Sena as well, if she won, hooo boy, I have no idea what would happen to the poor Yozora, who had been thinking about Kodaka for 10 years. A sadistic choice either way. That's why I hate good love triangles. No happy ending
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the first one to appears is not always the one wich the protagonist ends with, good examples would be bakemono or index, but on the other, hand the forgotten childhood friend is the one who most of the time the protagonist ends up with, usually after a lot of drama.
Spoiler for also:
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-First to appear in Bake: Hitagi. But in the prequel... its Kiss-shot.
*Forgotten Childhood friend: It usually applies to Key, but yeah, there is no way to end with them as long as you don't pull out a lot of drama that usually makes dislike the character more rather than making it likeable.
*TAW (tsundere always wins): Don't ask, but population seems to got hooked to this kind of pairing and most of light novels has tsundere x MC as the favourite couple and usually ends like that (except for Shuffle! and AkaneIro being the first time I find tsunderes losing to other girl).
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Long story short, it doesn't matter the Archtype- if you're not a main character, your chances at love is whatever number that is just above zero.
There are exceptions, but there's a reason why they're called 'exceptions'.
Now the reason why I said 'a' main character instead of 'the' main character, is because recently I find a number of titles that the lead female character is not a target of romance and instead it's the second main girl that gets it.
In summary, it's a toss-up between Yozora and Sena, and it's still too early to say for certain (especially with Kodaka as he is)... I mean, we're only at the 7th volume and things are only now getting serious... Well, assuming the author doesn't drop the ball like his previous works or something...
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about the tsundere, the problem with that is that this LN as many others nowadays both of the girls in the usual triangle are tsundere
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[/QUOTE]also is almost a rule those childhood friends that got forgotten become really broken, actually yozora ended quite good compared to other cases....[/QUOTE]
Still ended with a serious obsessiveness personality problem, she is not to far to get into yandere territories.
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Still ended with a serious obsessiveness personality problem, she is not to far to get into yandere territories.
Because I saw a good number of light novels ending when they're around at 10 volumes.[/QUOTE]
I also see a good number of them stretching till 20 and beyond. Though I agree that a series of such a genre shouldn't go beyond 10 or a few more. The antics will get repetitive and it should not go about changing its direction to a serious romance. Besides it's already the longest series for the author.
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But even worse is when you forgot her name
Well technically she's nowhere close to yandere, not when the whole worlds knows her character and she's not trying to hide it.
Remember back in Hidan no Aria? When people were going on about the big bad yandere? Yeah, she wasn't a real yandere either.
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well the worst case of "forgotten childhood friend" i can recall is yasu from umineko, now that i think about it, she also had "air friends" due the lack of friends...
and i dont think the series would end at then, if you look at it the story havent moved forward that much, other than a little of development on some of the characters, my bet is that we can expect at least other 5 novels.
|2011-10-13, 22:23
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About Yozora vs Sena, people are arguing that Kodaka admires Sena because she can try her best at anything all the time, but that level of admiration is actually kinda shallow. If we go by that then Kodaka is honestly grateful to Yozora for actually going ahead with the club because he has have a really fun time on it (which is also, pretty shallow romantically wise). Personally I do feel that the developments that are yet to come are going to be stronger for the shipping camps than what has already happened up to this point.
The thing that makes Yozora "Yozora" as of now is that she really is demanding from Kodaka the amount of attention and loyalty that one has towards a lover, however she conveniently labels that as "friendship". Probably this misconception comes as a result of her clinging to their past relationship that had no gender difference.
It's probably gonna be interesting getting to a point where either Yozora or Sena (or both) realize that they actually like Kodaka and then see them trying to phrase that feeling into acts or words; even if it is to themselves. Right now they act on impulses without realizing that they want him to themselves; romance wise the series has room for a lot of developments and stuffs.
|2011-10-13, 23:15
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After watching episode 2 of the anime, they did rearrange the storyline. We'll get the pool and Sacred Blackstar chapters next week.
Yukimura's debut and join chapter and Kobato's first appearance will definitely shown eventually, but I wonder if they will also animate Momotaro and cell phone novel chapter too or just omit it.
|2011-10-14, 00:46
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Just a question that's not really important more of curious type of thing. Maybe it's been answered, but haven't seen it brought up. Has Yozora always known that Kodaka was the one from way back when? You would think he would be hard to forget with the hair. I take it it was her social ineptness that prevented her from approaching him before if she had known...?
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Man charged with embezzling $40K from Westport Little League, softball teams
A former member of the Westport Baseball & Softball Board of Directors has been charged with first-degree larceny for what police said was embezzling more than $40,000 in money and equipment from the organization, which oversees teams with about 1,200 youth players, including last year's title-winning Little League and softball teams
Kevin Hlavac, 39, of Grey Stone Road, Bridgeport, was arrested Wednesday following a criminal investigation by police that began in March, according to Capt. Vincent Penna, police spokesman.
Police were contacted by leaders of Westport Baseball & Softball after their yearly internal audit, which "showed that over $40,000 worth of funds and equipment were unaccounted for," Penna said. "All of the items were found to emanate from one individual who was given authorization from the board to order equipment and submit expense reports for reimbursement."
Penna said the investigation then focused on Hlavac, who was interviewed by police detectives and eventually admitted to falsifying invoices, cancelling orders after submitting invoices for equipment so that payment was made to him by the league but the goods were never delivered, according to the report.
Hlavac also admitted to billing the league for clinics that were never held, having parents pay for hotel rooms and expenses for out-of-town games, police said, but then failed to pay them back even though he submitted invoices and was reimbursed by the organization.
He also is accused of selling league merchandise and keeping the money.
According to a website with the biographies of local youth coaches, Hlavac has been a coach at Staples High School, and was "responsible for the creation, development and vision of Westport Youth Travel Baseball 8-12."
He attended the University of Connecticut, according to the website, is "an ordained minister, certified teacher and child development specialist ... He is also currently working with several youth organizations as pro-bono parent and teen conflict mediator and life coach."
The scandal came to light in the aftermath of what had been a banner year for Westport Baseball & Softball in 2013.
The Little League team of 12- and 13-year-old players won both the state and New England championships, and advanced to the national championship game in the Little League World Series last August before losing to a team from Chula Vista, Calif.
And the 11-and-under Little League girls' softball team won the state championship.
News of the funding problem became public Tuesday night when Jeff White, chairman of the Westport Baseball & Softball Board of Directors, released a statement saying that the apparent misappropriation had been turned over to police.
He said the board began an internal investigation in the fall into allegations that one of the organization's board members misappropriated funds in "multiple ways for his personal gain."
He said the board member -- the suspect identified by police as Hlavac -- "resigned and is no longer affiliated with the organization," whose teams have children of all ages on their rosters. "We asked for his resignation," White said.
White said the funds taken by Hlavac would not hinder the organization's "operations and commitment in any way" to the youth ball teams.
However, he added, "We are obviously watching the expenses" to maintain playing fields for the coming season. The teams play on town-owned fields, but the organization is responsible for the cost of maintaining them, White said.
"Maintenance is our biggest expense," he said. "We have enough, but we might have to put off things like repairing fences."
White said since learning of the funding and equipment losses, in order to protect Westport Baseball & Softball for the long term, the organization has taken several remedial steps, including new financial procedures and tighter reviews and approvals for reimbursements and expenditures.
"Westport Baseball & Softball has a long and successful history of serving our community," White said. "We are proud of what our children have accomplished over the years, and the Board of Directors takes all aspects of our work seriously."
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Coral Pereda, a student from IE University's Bachelor in Communication, interviews Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Freedom of Speech & Communication History at IE University, on the issues of public interest, journalism and government control surrounding the controversy created by the release of the Wikileaks documents.
1.To what extent do you think the cables released by Wikileaks are of public interest?
There are documents that were prior to the cables release, there were documents dealing with the warlogs in Afghanistan, the warlogs in Iraq and the cables. The documents from the warlogs are of public interest because we get a greater picture of how many civilian casualties were in both in Iraq and Afghanistan which has not been fully transparent and fully disclosed by the US government . In terms of the cables, it is in public interest in the sense that the public gets to learn how the US government functions. You can say those are public goods.
2.Do you think the information could have ever threatened national security?
The critics who argue that it is not a public good would say that it is a threat to national security particularly to American national security as well as security about the Heads of States that the cables discuss. In terms of revealing how the US conducts intelligence or diplomacy the critics would argue that it hurts America's War on Terror. Other critics would say that the documents reveal scandalous material about the government in Tunisia and perhaps that was one of the factors that lead to the revolts. Even now Wikicables about the government of Egypt are being faxed into Egypt. In this case the information is becoming a tool of revolution. Again, it depends on your perspective. For the national security elites, whether it is in Egypt,Tunisia and the US, it is a threat. But in the case of the protesters the information is transparency. It is a public good for them.
3.How do you think Wikileaks will affect the world of journalism in the future?
Wikileaks will not affect the world of journalism because journalism has always been based on reliable sources, varying the source and seeing if the source is reliable. And this is not new. You have always had journalism as a tool of government: if someone wants to undermine an opponent, if there's a story which has to be released, government officials have always done so. Wikileaks is not affecting journalism . What was different was the sheer volume. There was just so much material. What was different was that new technology allowed so much material to be transferred to an USB drive. But journalism has always been searching for sources to get those stories to check on government power.
4.Do you think the organization attempts to criticize what journalism has become in the past years?
No, in fact Wikileaks says "we are a journalistic organization, we are a scientific journalist organization" in the sense that we just give our readers raw data. Julian Assange has criticized the NYT journalists for writing stories about him. But the thing is he can't have it both ways. He wants transparency in the US government but the journalist's job is to always search for the story. They have responsibility to search for the story about Julian Assange as well. But that's the only critique. Otherwise Wikileaks is now trying to sell itself as a scientific journalist outlet.
5.Do you think governments will ever succeed at controlling the release of documents?
Governments can be more vigilant, they could probably create new computer technology that does not allow such a massive download. But governments will never be able to stop an insider wanting to leak information because at the end of the day he or she could smuggle a document out of that government office. Even the word of mouth is still a means of communication. Sometimes an insider can give a valuable story and if the journalist sees that source as reliable, just word of mouth can transmit sensitive information. That will never end. What can be controlled, is the scope, the amount of information that gets out there.
6. Julian Assange said that the existence of secret information implies that its release must make some good. Do you agree with him?
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7. How does the arrest of Julian Assange pose a threat to freedom of speech?
I do not think his arrest poses a threat to freedom of speech because he wasn't arrested on the grounds of releasing the documents. And if there was kind of a conspiracy to use it as an excuse to arrest him, we will never know. So the arrest initially does not pose a threat. What I think are counterproductive to freedom of speech are the calls to execute him, which some members of the US government's political elite have made. That is against freedom of speech and the US government's first Amendment. Even if you don't like what he has done, it is still a matter of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is about listening to the things that we hate. Maybe you might hate the fact that he released the documents but you can't kill him for that.
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His neighbor opened fire during an argument in Texas. The shooting killed Jamie Schnider and critically injured his friend in the city of Killeen.
Schnider was based at Fort Hood; he served two tours in Iraq.
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If you've been wondering exactly what "just bein' Miley" entails these days, well, Miley Cyrus recently tweeted this pic of herself driving around with an anatomically correct blow-up doll, so, that's what. Said the 20-year-old pop culture phenom: "Does this count for the carpool lane? Such a nice Xmas gift."
Ah yes, so very nice. One might even call a blow-up doll the "gift that keeps on giving." Unfortunately Miley doesn't say who, specificially, gave her the lovely present. (Fiancé Liam Hemsworth, perhaps?) But personally, I think Miley bought the dang thing herself, just so she could take and tweet the pic. For "shock value." Because frankly, the girl is running out of ways to "shock" her fans.
I mean, I get it. The whole thing makes perfect sense, really: Miley is essentially going through a belated adolescent rebellion phase. Usually this type of thing -- the bad hair/fashion choices, the raunchy, look-at-me! public behavior -- would occur during one's early teen years, but Miley didn't have that luxury, so to speak, as a kid.
Imagine how Disney might have reacted if Miley shaved most of her hair off and bleached the rest of it when she was still contractually obligated to be Hannah Montana! Sweet Niblets! Or grabbed her crotch onstage or dressed like a hooker or squeezed herself a nice big handful of bare stripper bottom?
I think it's safe to say Disney would have been very, very disappointed. (And I shudder to think what happens to those who dare to disappoint The Mouse ... for some reason I keep picturing Miley handcuffed to one of those little boats being forced to ride "It's a Small World" for all eternity.) Anyway, point is, Miley Cyrus didn't get to screw up as a kid because she had a job, and now that she never has to work another day in her life, she's hell-bent on recapturing all of the oh-so-shocking opportunities she missed. Only it's not working.
Miley Cyrus needs to either give up this particular ghost or buckle down and venture into Lindsay Lohan territory: Addiction, shoplifting, gypsy-punching, etc. (Now that's a girl who "can't be tamed.")
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"It's great to be back in Cookeville with the opportunity to be involved in the community that gave me the chance to play and coach for several years," Boyd said. "I enjoy the people I'll be working with, both the coaching staff and the players, and I look forward to contributing to what I think will be a successful season in Tennessee Tech soccer."
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