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Ubellacker picked up a pair of individual wins for MIT that helped the No. 4 Engineers down 10th-ranked Amherst last Saturday. He started his individual victories with a 20.86 time in the 50 Free that was good for the win as well as an NCAA "B" cut. He then came back later in the meet in the 100 Fly, taking that event with a time of 50.77. Ubellacker also helped the Engineers score wins in the relays. He swam the third leg in the opening 200 Medley Relay that defeated its counterpart from Amherst by nearly 1.5 seconds in 1:33.23, another NCAA "B" cut performance. In the 400 Free Relay he swam the leadoff leg and helped MIT to another win as they finished with a time of 3:07.07.


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While the solution template utilizes sophisticated Microsoft Research technologies and a whole range of Azure services, it is very easy and quick to set up. All you will need to get started are the search terms you want to track and an Azure subscription. Behind the scenes, we create an ETL pipeline that sets up the whole flow.
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I mean, really, it's all their fault that I turned out to be a novelist, because they were the one that got me hooked on books. I've been thinking a lot about what makes a person a reader and what makes someone out a non-reader and after a lot of thought and discussion with Lover, I'm pretty sure that it's all my parents' doing. (cue photograph of Baby Maggie doing the Writing Thing:)
In an attempt to be more academic and responsible sounding about it, I'm going to break down the anatomy of this particular reader into three big parts. I think these are why I'm a reader:
1) Enabling. My mom was a big enabler for our reading, growing up. She not only bought us books and took us to the library weekly, but she let us have a lot of autonomy as to what it was that we picked out at those places. I only remember one book being taken out of my hands, ever, and the rest of the time, I was pretty much allowed to read what interested me. There was never anything negative associated with reading, and in fact, it was a great way to get out of chores, because if you were reading, you were doing something useful. Unless you were reading DOGSBODY for the sixth time in a row, in which case she could think of better things for you to do with yourself.
2) Modeling. This one is definitely my dad's fault. It wasn't that my mom didn't read -- she did, especially non-fiction -- but it wasn't like the rabid novel consumption of my father. By the time I hit my teens, my father had walls of bookshelves, all full of paperbacks stuffed in sideways and longways and upways and downways because they wouldn't fit on the proper way any more. Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, Tom Clancy, Jack Higgins. Guys with Guns Doing Things and Women. And because I wanted more than anything to be like my dad, and because I wanted to be able to talk to him about things that he was interested in, I read his novels. I jumped from Madeline L'Engle to Jack Higgins. When Jurassic Park came out in '93, I was 12, and I'd already read Crichton's original novel three times by the time we went to see it. (doesn't this explain a lot about me?) Most important, though, was the fact that my father never told me to read a book or that reading was fantastic for your brain. I just saw him with a book in his hand. So I had a book in my hand.
3) Participation. My parents both did this, but it's my dad that I remember most vividly, because he read the longer novels to us. He loved to read out loud. I have two brothers and two sisters, and the older three would all sit on my brother's bed while my dad read us Nancy Drew and Trixie Beldon and Tom Swift books. I'm pretty sure he read the old Nancy Drew books, not the sexalicious new Nancy Drew/ Hardy Bros. combination mysteries that I took on myself. And I'm pretty sure it was the new Tom Swift that he read, not the rather moldy smelling old paperbacks from the library. I remember he did different voices for all the characters, something that I found myself doing when I read to my two youngest siblings, years later, and still later, to my own kids. Reading could be a solitary thing, if you wanted it to be (and in a house with that many people, often that was a positive, not a negative), but it was also a way to be together.
So really, by the time I was a teen, I was sucked into reading without quite realizing why. (much like this rubber frog that I accidentally vacuumed up the other day)(it's fine)(really)(no, seriously, it's rubber, it takes a lot of punishment).
I still can't figure out why some of my siblings are big readers and some aren't (three are, two aren't), since we all had the same background. I don't think that those three things that made me a reader will make everyone a reader, but I'm developing this thesis (ohmigosh, I wish I had convinced my husband to name his new dog "Thesis" - how fantastic of a dog name is that?) that you definitely won't be a reader without them.
I sort of want to know more, though. What made you guys a reader? Are your siblings readers? If not, why do you think there's a difference?


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Amber Heard Talks Coming Out in Hollywood
Amber Heard fills up her Mustang at a gas station on Friday (December 16) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 25-year-old actress opened up about coming out, telling AfterEllen.com that she didn't want to "be a part of the problem."
"I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong. I don't feel like I'm wrong," Amber said.
"I'm proud to be on the right side of history and I can do nothing more than encourage people to look at their lives and ask, 'What side of history am I on? Am I doing the right thing or am I doing the wrong thing?'" she added.
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The 27-year-old Swiss star is looking to get back his mojo after having a rough couple of months. Roger lost to Andy Murray in three straight sets on Saturday at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. He also to Rafael Nadal at the finals of the Australian Open earlier in the year in a hard-fought five-set match.
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In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. I do not have any further information on the people mentioned.
Photo taken by me, September 2012. Click to enlarge.
Name: General-Consul Jānis Berķis, born September 3, 1875, died June 1, 1934
Longer Title: Ārlietu Ministrijas Saimniecības un Finanču Nodaļas Vadītājs (Chief of the Foreign Ministry's Economics and Finance Division)
Bottom Inscription: Ārlietu Ministrijas Darbinieki (From the employees of the Foreign Ministry)
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The Ticking Fear
John Kerrigan
- Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems edited by Peter McDonald
Faber, 836 pp, £30.00, January 2007, ISBN 978 0 571 21574 4
- Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems edited by Michael Longley
Faber, 160 pp, £12.99, April 2007, ISBN 978 0 571 23381 6
- I Crossed the Minch by Louis MacNeice
Polygon, 253 pp, £9.99, September 2007, ISBN 978 1 84697 014 6
- The Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography by Louis MacNeice, edited by E.R. Dodds
Faber, 288 pp, £9.99, September 2007, ISBN 978 0 571 23942 9
As Louis MacNeice lay dying in 1963, his last major work, a radio play called Persons from Porlock, was broadcast by the BBC. It is about a painter called Hank, who starts well in the 1930s, but whose development, as MacNeice explains in a note, 'is interrupted by the war . . . Subsequent interruptions and frustrations include those occasioned by the lure of commercial art, by drink, money troubles and women.' Hence the title of the play. Hank (an anagram of Khan) might have built a stately pleasure dome, but instead he dies, his promise unfulfilled, in what Coleridge's poem calls 'caverns measureless to man'. For Hank has an unexpected hobby, potholing, and at the end of the play drowns in a cave. Death turns up there, announcing himself as 'a noble person from Porlock'.
There is a lot of MacNeice in Hank. After the high promise of Poems (1935), he began to disperse his energies in money-making prose books. Hank spent the war in Burma. MacNeice shuttled between neutral Ireland and the US, uncertain, like his friends Auden and Britten, how far he should commit himself to the war, before finally settling down in London. In 1941 he did his bit by joining the BBC. For the next two decades, the corporation gave him a steady income and plenty of creative scope. Yet the fluency he developed as a radio features writer was not always good for his poetry, and he came to think of his broadcasting career as a chronic interruption. By now, like Hank, he was numbing his frustration with alcohol. Both, however, pulled through. Hank got out of advertising and painted enough to hold a one-man show. MacNeice went part-time at the BBC, cut back on his drinking, and worked up the concentrated, parable-like lyricism of his later poems.
That the radio play fed off MacNeice's own experiences is not surprising. To read The Strings Are False, the posthumously published autobiography (drafted in 1940) that Faber has reissued to coincide with the centenary of MacNeice's birth, is to find many such connections. He says in his book on Modern Poetry (1938) that 'literary criticism should always be partly biographical.' This may be theoretically unsound, but it springs from something he knew about his own creativity. Yet his strength was not self-disclosure. Although he never subscribed to the Modernist cult of impersonality, he rejected the idea that poetry is self-expression and argued that even the lyric voice is dramatic. During the postwar years, when his poetry became too discursive, part of the problem was that he was pinned to the centre of his writing by an ethic of honesty without wanting to be confessional. His later, parabolic lyrics have the clean intensity that comes when an inner life has been condensed and generalised into structures as formulaic as nursery rhymes.
Hank converged with Louis to an extent that was finally uncanny. To prepare his play for transmission MacNeice went down a pothole with a BBC sound engineer. He had always obscurely relished going underground; caves, tunnels and passage-graves run through his poems and plays. In Persons from Porlock, Hank's liking for potholes is mixed up with both his drive to paint and his early abandonment by his mother. MacNeice, whose mother was taken into psychiatric care when he was five, and died just over a year later, seems to have diagnosed a similar complex in himself. Certainly, he put into Hank's cave system features of the salt-mines at Carrickfergus which, we are told in The Strings Are False, he visited during his childhood. It was not a good idea to repeat that visit fifty years later. Chilled, drenched and weary, MacNeice came down with pneumonia. Friends listened apprehensively as the 'noble person from Porlock' carried Hank away. A few days later MacNeice was dead.
Interrupted, for sure. His last book of poems, The Burning Perch, appeared ten days after his death; a potboiler on astrology in 1964. When Derek Mahon declared, with resonant finality, in an elegy published in January 1965, 'All we may ask of you we have; the rest/Is not for publication,' he could hardly have been more wrong. Within months, MacNeice's friend and first employer, the Greek scholar E.R. Dodds, brought out The Strings Are False, a book of unrevised lectures called Varieties of Parable and a Collected Poems. Even now, with Peter McDonald's intelligently re-edited Collected, we do not have all the MacNeice we could ask for. As McDonald points out, a Complete Poems would be considerably larger than the 600-odd pages of verse plus seven appendices of fugitive poems, prefaces and variants that he gives us. It would include translations, many poems that appeared in small magazines, and others abandoned in manuscript. Though the typical MacNeice poem is decisively thought through, it is caught up in a lifelong, interrupted process. Collected editions often have a sepulchral air; the unfinished nature of MacNeice's corpus helps makes this one a living monument.
As with the output as a whole, so with its local energy. The Collected is a vast compendium of forms, issues and ideas, but it is animated repeatedly by interruption and its imminence. To be visited by a person from Porlock could be damaging, even fatal, but it was never entirely bad. Those who 'lay the blame' for failure on interruption are in denial about other, internal blocks. Interruption administers doses of the worldly impurity that MacNeice wanted to get into poetry. Its imminence makes moments of love, drunkenness and fantasy more sensuously consuming. Interruption could even be chosen. To go on a journey or start a romance was to break life into episodes that made sense where the big picture did not. Above all, interruption shook up habit, rebooting the imagination. Persons from Porlock was itself the product of elective interruption. As Jon Stallworthy points out, in the 1995 biography that we depend on for MacNeice's later years, he was 'making a fresh start at 54' when he went half-time at the BBC.
It was a bold but characteristic step. Auden said in his memorial address that, in technique as well as the search for subject matter, MacNeice 'shared Cesare Pavese's belief that "the only joy in life is to begin."' And Spender, in a late poem, wrote of MacNeice and Bernard Spencer:
Each poem
Is still a new beginning. If
They had been finished though they would have died
Before they died.
MacNeice did have favourite forms and topics, and often flogged them hard. When he tried to break new ground, he was by no means always successful. But Auden's troubled awareness that his own verse was becoming at once mechanical and arch, and Spender's recognition that poetry had abandoned him, made them the more respectful of MacNeice's indefatigable ability to break off and start again. There is enough truth in what they say to suggest why he was happier writing lyrics than the long, argued sequences and narratives of the postwar years.
Time was the germ of the problem. How to use it and prevent it petrifying us were deep issues for the young poet. They went back to his Church of Ireland upbringing (his father was rector of Carrickfergus, later bishop of Down) though they were given distinctive shape by his classical education at Marlborough and Oxford. Probably no poet since Milton has been as preoccupied with the Pauline injunction that time should be redeemed and talents put to use. When he catches himself 'killing time' in I Crossed the Minch (1938), a book about visiting the Hebrides, he is gripped by the horrible thought that time is killing him, and writes an anxious poem about 'The taut and ticking fear/That hides in all the clocks/And creeps inside the skull'. Reading Greats at Oxford had taught him more enjoyable, pagan reasons for seizing the day. But the reassuring idea that the cosmos was a Heraclitean flux was compromised by the philosophical idealism still current at Merton (the college where, a few years earlier, T.S. Eliot had written his thesis on F.H. Bradley). 'Time's face is not stone nor still his wings,' he concluded. 'Our mind, being dead, wishes to have time die/For we, being ghosts, cannot catch hold of things.'
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Philosophy, History and Humanities Department
Silkscreen poster. Atelier populaire de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
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The department has a large number of Catholic parish bulletins. It also compiles compendia of short-lived publications: propaganda flyers, mail order catalogs, advertising materials, etc.
The collections of Philosophy, History and Humanities Department are indexed in the Catalogue général de la BnF.
Sociétés en débats resource centre
Located in room J, the Sociétés en débats resource centre makes available major debate magazines: Esprit, Commentaire, Critique, Le Débat, Cités, Les Temps modernes, Études. These publications play a major part in the French intellectual life. They offer fundamental analyses, take a stand in the public space and propose a temporal point of view different from papers specializing in analysis and commentary. They allow to focus on major issues of our contemporary society from a critical and absolutely essential point of view.
Portail Sociétés en débats
Online documents to complement the collections about societal issues in room J. A pluri-disciplinary approach combining history with philosophy, sociology and anthropology is used to analyze today's issues.
History of the department
The decision to create the Philosophy, History and Humanities Department was made when designing what was to become, in 1994, the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
This institution was formed by merging the former National Library with the Établissement public de la Bibliothèque de France.
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The conviction last week of a well-known hacker accused of breaching thousands of email addresses of AT&T customers brings to light the often treacherous path the government and computer security community have to navigate in the burgeoning cyber crime frontier. It also serves as an important reminder of the law of unintended consequences.
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Andrew Auernheimer, known in hacker circles as Weev, was found guilty last week of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization and fraud in connection with personal information. Auernheimer allegedly worked with Daniel Spitler in a scheme that exposed 120,000 email addresses of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad users on AT&T's (NYSE:T) 3G wireless network.
In early June 2010, Spitler found a security lapse in the system AT&T customers use to update account information. He realized that if one feeds the system an ICC-ID number connected to an iPad registered on AT&T's network, the system will return a webpage with the email address associated with that iPad, along with a box to enter a password. An ICC-ID is simply a 19 to 20 digit number that identifies a device on a wireless carrier's network.
Looking to automate the process of mining email addresses from AT&T's system, Spitler developed a program called the "Account Slurper," according to a complaint filed in U.S. federal court in New Jersey by the Justice Department. The program "was designed to mimic the behavior of an iPad 3G so that AT&T's servers were fooled into believing that they were communicating with an actual iPad 3G," the complaint alleges.
Full Text: Criminal Complaint Against Spitler, Auernheimer
The program functioned by "randomly" guessing ICC-IDs and punching them into AT&T's system through a website address, or URL. A successful guess returned an email address of an AT&T iPad 3G customer, and an incorrect guess provided no additional information. The program could be run in "brute force" fashion, meaning it would try over and over again in a bid to glean as much information as possible.
On June 5 that year, Spitler logged on to a popular online instant messaging platform called Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, to discuss his findings with several individuals whose identities were not revealed, according to the complaint. Initially, Spitler called the findings "boring," although the individuals with whom he was chatting suggested he could either sell any potential email addresses to spammers or use them to "tarnish" AT&T's reputation.
Full Text: Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Auernheimer Case
Later that day, Spitler again logged on to IRC where he bragged that he "harvested" 197 email addresses. At this point, Spitler specifically reached out to Auernheimer in the chat-room and described his exploits. Auernheimer responded by saying that the vulnerability is "hilarious HILARIOUS." Apparently realizing the significance of the findings, he said it represents "big media news" and at one point suggested it could also be used for a "massive phishing operation." Phishing is when nefarious individuals send emails purporting to be from legitimate organizations asking for account or other personal data.
The following day, Spitler gloated that he had "hit [expletive] oil," and asked Auernheimer who he should send the list to for maximum impact. Auernheimer recommended collecting "as much data as possible." Auernheimer also hinted that he could potentially send the list to people he had previously encountered at Internet magazine Gawker.
Full Text: Objection to Motion to Dismiss Auernheimer Case
Forebodingly, Spitler grew nervous about potential legal ramifications as the list grew longer and longer. He asked Auernheimer if he had to get involved with the press blitz, saying he wasn't clear "how legal this is or if they (AT&T) could sue for damages." Auernheimer obliged, and noted that there "absolutely may be legal risk … mostly civil … you could get sued to [expletive]."
Auernheimer appeared to take over the operation from there, asking for the computer code for the Account Slurper and saying he could "wrangle the press."
Full Text: Spitler Plea Agreement
As the operation widened and continued snagging more email addresses, Auernheimer, Spitler and other members of a loosely-defined security team called Goatse Security, continued discussing ways of leveraging the data. One unnamed individual, referred to as Rucas, suggested sending out phishing emails and deploying an iPad trojan. However, Auernheimer remained stuck on the idea of sending the list to media outlets.
"If we get a reporters (sic) address with this somehow we instantly have a story," Auernheimer wrote to Spitler, according to the complaint. "The best way to have a leadin (sic) on it … HI I STOLE YOUR EMAIL FROM AT&&T (sic) WANT TO KNOW HOW?"
Auernheimer allegedly did just that. According to the complaint, he emailed an unnamed member of News Corporation's (NASDAQ:NWSA) board of directors whose email address he mined and described his exploit. He said that he would be happy to discuss the issue further with a journalist at the news giant and "would be absolutely happy to describe the method of theft in more detail." (News Corp. is the parent of FOX Business Network.)
A brief by Justice Department attorneys filed with the court ahead of the trial said Auernheimer made similar offers to describe the methods behind the "theft" to other major media outlets including the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI).
As the day progressed, Auernheimer, Spitler and other members of the Goatse group continued discussing ways of utilizing the data. At one point, a person nicknamed Pynchon suggested shorting AT&T's stock ahead of any release – essentially a bet the share price will fall. Auernheimer said it would probably be illegal for him to do that, but told others to "go nuts" if they would like to. He went as far as to say he didn't want to know about it if anyone did short the stock.
By June 9, the list swelled to 120,000 users. The Goatse team decided to send it to Gawker, the Internet magazine, which ran parts in redacted form along with an article describing the exploit. The list published to Gawker included many prominent individuals, including media executives, tech company employees, and military and civilian government officials.
Auernheimer went to his personal LiveJournal blog that day to boast about the exploit and Gawker story. He gleefully described how the story was picked up on Google News, Drudge Report and elsewhere.
Spitler's reaction was tenser than Auernheimer's. The complaint said he suffered from "post-troll paranoia" and "solicited advice from other Goatse Security members." Rucas gave him a couple pointers presumably aimed at avoiding criminal charges. Among the suggestions was taking down security on his WiFi network to create "plausible deniability" about who was using the Internet. He also advised Spitler on invoking his Miranda rights. In Rucas' view, Spitler committed a federal crime. Rucas wouldn't be alone in that assessment.
Later that day, Auernheimer essentially admitted on IRC that he did not tell AT&T about the security lapse before publicizing it through Gawker, adding that he hopes AT&T sues him. In comments to FOX Business, Auernheimer claims the vulnerability was fixed before the article was published. That claim could not be independently verified.
He also said repeatedly on IRC that Goatse won, and even dropped AT&T's stock price. It's unclear as to whether the breach had any material impact on AT&T's stock price.
The next day, Spitler and Auernheimer grew more fearful of "the criminal repercussions," according to the complaint. The duo discussed destroying the list of email addresses and the script that was used to obtain it. It wasn't clear from court documents reviewed by FOX Business whether the list or program were, in fact, destroyed.
While Spitler and Auernheimer didn't apparently benefit monetarily from the heist, AT&T was stuck with a sizeable bill. According to the complaint, it cost AT&T $73,000 to remedy the breach, including reaching out to the customers who were impacted. AT&T declined a request by FOX Business for the full cost of the breach.
Why Bother?
With no apparent financial incentive, why did Auernheimer and Spitler embark on what both knew could be a perilous project? Notoriety seems to have been the key driver, at least for Auernheimer.
When asked what he wanted to achieve by exposing so many email addresses, Auernheimer said through his attorney, Tor Ekeland, that "the public embarrassment of a corporation that was displaying a cavalier disregard for its customers (sic) safety" led to his decision. He went on to say that the iPad is "a very hip device," and that Apple and AT&T are companies he was "very interested in issuing criticism of."
Auernheimer said he doesn't regret turning the data into Gawker: "We have the right as Americans to inform the press of matters of public concern," he said.
Research or Crime? That is the Question.
In the world of cyber security, gray area abounds. The line separating research and crime is often blurred in this new world.
Auernheimer's and Spitler's intentions in this case weren't purely motivated by research, of course. As evidenced by the complaint, the team went out of its way to exact as big a reputational toll as possible on AT&T, and even Apple to a lesser extent. It cost AT&T money to make the situation right for customers and certainly compromised the privacy of innocent third parties who merely registered on AT&T's network.
Hence, the Justice Department pursued criminal charges against Auernheimer and Spitler. Specifically, both were charged with conspiracy to access a computer without authorization and fraud in connection with personal information.
Spitler pleaded guilty to both counts in June 2011. Auernheimer was found guilty on both counts in federal court in New Jersey last week. His lawyer has vowed to appeal the verdict.
What has some in the security community concerned is the definition of unauthorized access in the first count. The portion of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) that the two were charged for breaching makes it illegal to intentionally access a computer without authorization and thereby obtain information from a "protected computer." AT&T's Web servers represented protected computers because they affect interstate commerce, the government charged.
However, the issue, according to some in the security community, is that the team essentially entered numbers into URLs, which yielded the email addresses. Does that constitute unauthorized access?
"Web crawlers … are automatic indexers which search through content on a website and index the information for easy access in search engines. This is a regular part of the Internet that is essential to the functionality of websites such as Google and Yahoo," analysts at one well-respected security consultancy wrote to clients in a report. The firm requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
"Most commentators believe that if data is revealed to un-authorized users who use the above technique, then the responsibility is on the data owner to secure that information behind a password or some other authentication mechanism. If [these individuals] can be arrested for adjusting a URL in a numerical sequence, then to what degree can other users be arrested for entering any URL?"
An analyst from the same firm jested in an interview that Auernheimer probably "would have faced a lot less severe penalties if he just sold the information to the Russian mob." The person said now individuals performing such exploits, either for good or bad, will be "much less inclined to be upfront with the companies about the vulnerabilities that they find." Christopher Soghoian, a senior policy analyst with the Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, expressed similar concerns.
"It is alarming that AT&T has not been held accountable for its awful security," he said in an email. "Had AT&T employed the most basic security mechanisms, weev (Auernheimer) would never have been able to download anything."
An AT&T spokesperson declined to comment on the matter.
Neither Soghoian nor the ACLU have any connection to Auernheimer or any involvement with the case. Soghoian, who is also a visiting fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project, has a long history of exposing and publicizing security flaws that compromise security at major companies and government agencies.
Auernheimer's attorney, Tor Ekeland, plans on taking a similar argument to Soghoian at Auernheimer's appeal.
"The key fact here is that no password or security was bypassed. It was essentially information AT&T servers published based on a query from a web browser," he said. "This is no different from when you type" a URL into a Web browser.
Ekeland said he took the case on a pro bono basis because he is worried about the broader implications it could have.
"The theory of unauthorized access the government pushed is that it is unauthorized access because AT&T said it was. That to us is a dangerously broad and vague interpretation that criminalizes what people consider normal behavior," he said.
Attorneys for the Justice Department declined to comment specifically for this report, citing the ongoing nature of the case. However, they point out the fact that Auernheimer was found guilty on both counts by a jury of his peers. They also defended the basis for their unauthorized access charges as part of a 48-page brief filed with the court in opposition to the defendant's initial motion to dismiss the case.
"The relevant definitions of unauthorized access are clear and unambiguous, and provide reasonable persons with fair notice that their conduct puts them at risk of punishment," the brief said.
The brief suggests the ICC-ID number is similar to a person's social security number in that it is "unique to every iPad (and) qualifies as an individualized grant of access."
Then there is the matter of Auernheimer's intent when he accessed AT&T's systems.
"Rather than remain silent about his criminal conduct, the defendant boasted about his crime on his weblog and posted a link to the Gawker article," the brief said. The brief also noted repeatedly that Auernheimer "described his conduct as a 'theft'" in emails he sent to media organizations.
Daniel Stein, a lawyer at Richards Kibbe & Orbe and a former U.S. prosecutor, who isn't involved in the case, said proving criminal hacking doesn't always need to rely on a defendant's motive to make financial gains. The intention of ones actions are important when mounting such a case, he said.
"In a criminal case it's ultimately what you can convince the jury of based on the circumstantial evidence," he said. "These guys were trying to get attention for this security hole. It strikes me as fairly straightforward application of that statute."


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BUIES CREEK, N.C. _ Lipscomb's Lady Bisons softball team won its first Atlantic Sun game of the season as part of a split of a doubleheader with Campbell University.
The Lady Bisons won the first game 3-1 and lost the nightcap 2-1 Thursday night. It is the second of five straight A-Sun road doubleheaders for the Lady Bisons. They travel to Boiling Springs. N.C. Saturday to face Gardner-Webb.
In the first game at Eakes Athletic Complex the Lady Bisons scored one run in both the first and second innings and another solo run in the seventh.
In the first inning Niki Bails reached base on a one-out single to left field. Julia Davidson walked. Both then moved up one base on passed ball. Heather Collins walked to fill the bases. Jessica Wilson drove Bails home with a single to left field.
Alysha Forsythe started the second inning by being hit by a pitch. Kate Richards moved Forsythe to second with a sacrifice bunt to the pitcher. Leigh Little then singled up the middle to send Forsythe to third. Forsythe scored on a fielding error by the second baseman.
In the seventh inning Ashley Villalpando reached base on a fielding miscue by the third baseman. Falon Catalano entered the game as the runner for Villalpando. Catalano stole second and advanced to third on a single through the right side by Richards. Little hit a sacrifice fly to right field to score Catalano.
In game two the Lady Bisons spotted Campbell a run in the fourth inning, but came back to tie the game in the top of the seventh. That set the stage for extra innings with Campbell winning in the bottom of the eighth.
Richards opened the seventh inning by reaching base on an error by the third baseman. Little moved her to second with a sacrifice bunt to the catcher. Richards went to third on a wild pitch. Bails scored Richards with a single through the right side.
In game one Lipscomb's Sara Meek scattered four hits and gave up one earned run. She struck out eight and walked two in seven innings.
The Lady Bisons also only had four hits in game one.
Meek also pitched game two, allowing only three hits while striking out six and walking three.
The Lady Bisons countered with seven hits, but couldn't put enough runs together. Davidson and Little each had two hits. Davidson had one double.
The Lady Bisons are 10-19, 1-3 in the conference. Campbell fell to 20-18, 2-2 in the A-Sun.


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The area codes are 787 and 939. When dialing a number outside the local area you must dial "1" and the area code for the number. The emergency number is 911 and the information number is 411. The major wireless providers in the island are Claro, AT&T, Sprint PCS, and Open Mobile .
The electric current used troughout the country is 110 volts, 60 cycles. Special fixures allow the use of 220 volts, 60 cycles. PR is on Atlantic Standard Time all year around, which is one hour later than Eastern Standard Time from October to April, and the same as Eastern Daylight Saving Time from April to October.
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The US Department of Agriculture prohibits the movement of certain products to mainland and to the island from other countries. Please contact the US Department of Agriculture for more information, TEL. (787) 253-4510 or the US Customs at TEL. (787) 253-4533.
All US Federal laws and regulations apply in PR.
Tho official languages are Spanish and English. Classes in campus are offered either in english or spanish depending on the professors preferance. Almost all textbooks are in english. Administrative paperwork is available mainly in spanish. Most locals understand and speak english.
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It is critical that you meet with your advisor and department student services staff member to make sure that you have successfully completed all of the academic requirements for graduation. These include (but are not necessarily limited to) ...
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Degree-seeking student must be registered for at least one credit or for FTDR (for doctoral students completing full-time dissertation research) in the term of graduation. Students planning to graduate in June must register for at least one credit or FTDR in 6-week session 1. To graduate in August, you may register for summer term, or for any summer session, including 6-week session 1. If you applied for June graduation and registered for 6-week session 1, you can apply for August graduation without further registration.
Note: international students need permission from the Office of International Services to register for less than a full-time credit load.
Students graduating with a certificate only do not need to register in the term of graduation, as long as they registered during the 12 months prior to graduation.
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You must apply to graduate by completing an Application for Graduation (PDF - form must be printed in landscape orientation) and a Prior Degree Form (PDF) and submitting them to the Pitt Public Health Office of Student Affairs, G011A. Deadlines and instructions are listed in the table below. Late fees must be paid by check or money order payable to the "University of Pittsburgh" and be submitted with the application. Contact Joanne Pegher with questions.
Be sure to list your Pitt e-mail on the Application for Graduation and a non-Pitt e-mail on the Prior Degree Form. Your name on the application must be the same as it appears in the PeopleSoft system. You will be required to provide legal documentation (e.g., marriage certificate, divorce decree, valid passport) to the Office of the Registrar to use a different name on the graduation application.
If you are graduating with two Pitt Public Health degrees, or a Pitt Public Health degree and a Pitt Public Health certificate, you may enter all information on one application form. If degrees and/or certificates will be awarded by another school in addition to Pitt Public Health, an application must be submitted to each school. If you are graduating with a joint degree, please indicate this on the second page of the graduation application beneath the area for degrees.
Note: your Academic Department/Student Plan is PPBHL and your Department is BCHS, BIOST, EOH, EPIDEM, HPM, HUGEN, IDM; or MULTI PROGRAM. For Name of Degree/Cert, list degree and/or specific certificate. Only IDM-MPH and Peace Corps students will have an area of concentration (IDM-CHID for MIC; IDM-BID for PEL; PCORPS for BCHS; PC for IDM; PCMI for EPIDEM).
Titles: Only doctoral students who intend to graduate in April need to provide the title of their dissertation. Those submitting an essay or thesis never need to include their titles on the application.
Applications for graduation are valid for only one graduation date. If you postpone graduation, you must reapply by completing and submitting another application.
Apply for April 2019 graduation (term 2194) with no fee. The final deadline to apply is April 1. Fees apply in a tiered structure between January 18 and April 1.
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Initial upload of your essay, thesis, or dissertation is due to the D-Scholarship system. The file may be a draft. Notify Joanne Pegher of the status of the file. Format is PDF for thesis and dissertation, Word or PDF for essays. April 2019 graduation. Term 2194.
Your document must be reviewed for format. Contact Joanne Pegher to schedule an appointment. April 2019 graduation. Term 2194.
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The department student services staff will publish your dissertation announcement on the departmental and school dissertation calendars, and dean's office communications team will then copy the posting to the University Calendar, etc.
Every graduating student must complete an online exit survey. Upon completion of the survey, you will be redirected to a separate page where you will be prompted to enter your name and department. Your identifying information will not be linked to the survey, so your responses will be confidential. When you submit the form, your department and the Office of Student Affairs will receive notification that you met the survey requirement.Add Content...
International students whose F1 status will be ending must log into My OIS to complete the Departure Notification Form. Once the form is completed, you must forward the confirmation message to your departmental student services staff, who will then send the Office of Student Affairs a copy.
See the Pitt Public Health Academic Handbook for complete descriptions of formatting requirements. Make sure you are also aware of any departmental rules and of your advisor's preferences.
Check with your departmental student services staff to confirm that your essay/thesis/dissertation committee has been approved by Mary Derkach. See the Academic Handbook for committee composition rules.
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Some students have their graduation announced in their hometown newspaper. We suggest that you submit information to the editor of your local paper in the following format:
Ann Smith of River Forest, Ohio, received a Master of Science degree in human genetics from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. She is the daughter of Lea and Bill Smith. Ms. Smith will work at Harvard University as a prenatal genetic counselor. Ms. Smith completed an internship at West Penn Hospital, and was awarded the xyz scholarship for academic excellence.
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You will receive an e-mail letting you know when your account will be transitioning to an alumni account sometime in the term following your graduation.
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For walk-in times or to make an appointment, see the ETD technical support form.
Students can also use the technical support form to request assistance with LaTeX.
Students may request preferred first and/or middle name for diplomas with the Diploma Request Form (also available in hard copy in G-3 Thackeray). Forms must be submitted in person with valid photo ID.
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Diplomas are mailed by the vendor to graduates approximately six to eight weeks after the actual graduation date. Students will be notified via their Pitt e-mail address when the diploma ships.
Certificates are printed and mailed by the Office of Student Affairs approximately six to eight weeks after graduation.
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When a cure is not possible and you and your family decide comfort and quality of life are most important, our team is available to provide hospice care.
Hospice is available for adults or children whose life expectancy is six months or less. Should you experience a change in prognosis, however, other options remain available to you.
Hospice Services
- Pain control and symptom management, including home medical equipment
- Physical, speech and occupational therapy
- Admission to the hospital if acute symptoms require a short hospital stay.
- Volunteers to help run errands, sit with you for short periods, and, at times, provide transportation.
- Inpatient, residential or respite care through our Methodist Hospice Residence.
Hospice Helps Families
Our hospice team also supports your family during this time by providing:
- Caregiver education, so your family and other caregivers can care for you
- Personal attention that emphasizes your role in making decisions
- Support groups and counseling, even after hospice care ends.
- Bereavement consultations and services to anyone in the greater Memphis region.
- Camp BraveHearts, a family camp for who have experienced the death of a loved one.
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Our team of physicians, nurses, social workers, home health aides and chaplains work together to develop each patient's personal care plan. We offer on-call nursing support 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. The nurse can answer questions, provide support and send an emergency visit nurse to the home if needed.
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Conference Co-Chair: Kim Wilson, The Fletcher School
Conference Co-Chair: Nicholas Sullivan, The Fletcher School
Conference Contact: Miranda Fasulo, The Fletcher School
Free and open to the public Registration required
As mobile money quickly replaces tangible cash, poor, unbanked populations enjoy more choice in how they save and how they pay for goods and services. Cell-phone transfer options, debit and reloadable cash cards, and other forms of e-cash now augment services of brick-and-mortar banks.
This conference debates the impact of a new kind of cash delivered in new kinds of ways on households and enterprises in frontier markets.
Is Cash the Enemy of the Poor? This Oxford-style debate explores the pros and cons of mobile money versus tangible cash. Debaters include representatives of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Federal Reserve Bank, CGAP, Bankable Frontier Associates, Boston University and The Fletcher School.
Is E-cash the Ally of Criminals and Terrorists? Terrorist financing experts Katherine Sikora Nelson, Managing Director at The Bank of New York Mellon, and Ibrahim Warde, Adjunct Professor of International Business at The Fletcher School, discuss the challenges posed by mobile money.
Is Grandma Ready for This? Mexico Kills Cash-based Pensions and Welfare by 2012Fletcher and Bankable Frontier Associates explore the extraordinary decision of the Mexican government to abandon cash welfare payments in favor of mobile money.
What is the Future of Mobile Money? 2020 ScenariosIgnacio Mas, Senior Advisor in the Financial Services for the Poor program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and David Porteous, Founder and Director of Bankable Frontier Associates, illustrate the impact mobile money could have by the year 2020.
Where do YOU Stand?
Audience members engage in a spirited round of flash debates on the day's most contentious points.


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Albuquerque's Opera Southwest closes its 42nd Season with four performances of Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème," which run from this Sunday through March 29 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St., SW.
Bohème musically intertwines the youthful gaiety of the 19th Century Parisian Latin Quarter with the despair of poverty, cold and death and the passion and eloquence of young love.
Leading the cast in her OSW debut will be soprano Emily Dorn, whose credits include the roles of both Carmen and Micaёla in "Carmen," Violetta in "La traviata," and Fiordiligi in "Cosi fan tutte" at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Finland, and the Dresden Semperoper, Germany.
Additional cast members include Sarah Asmar, who sang Desdemona in 2012's "Otello," as Musetta; her real-life husband Joshua Kohl, Pinkerton in the 2013 "Madama Butterfly," as Rodolfo; baritone Timothy Mix, our 2013 Don Giovanni, as Marcello; former apprentice artist Joseph Hubbard as Colline; and local favorites Paul Bower as Schaunard, Joseph Cordova as Parpignol and Sam Shepperson in the double role of Alcindoro and Benoit.
Maestro Anthony Barrese will conduct, with Maestro Domenico Boyagian conducting on March 25. David Bartholomew will direct.
Love, betrayal and forgiveness reign as the New Mexico Dance Theater Performance Company presents "Giselle."
The ghostly love story will be performed 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Duane W. Smith Auditorium.
NMDT-PC has made a huge impact on the Los Alamos community.
During its 14-year existence, NMDT-PC, directed by Susan Baker-Dillingham, has presented at least 19 original and/or classical ballets including "Dracula," "Snow White," "The Sleeping Beauty," "Cinderella," "The Wizard of Oz," "Alice in Wonderland," "Aladdin," "A Christmas Carol," "The Nutcracker" and several Mixed Bills.
"Giselle," first performed in 1841, is one of the most famous of the ballets blanc or white ballets. The term "ballet blanc" refers to scenes in which the ballerina and female members of the corps all dress in white.
NMDT-PC's production of "Giselle" will feature Sarah Dale as Giselle, Devon McCleskey as Albrecht, and Frank Macias as Hilarion. Company members Louisa Belian, Rebecca Cai, Akane Dunn, Naomi Joyce and Megan Hemphill will also stand out. Sets are by Holly Haas and costumes by Marcy Anderson.
The Gordon's Summer Concert Series is in need of financial support for the upcoming season, so organizers are bringing out the big guns.
Specifically, Igor and the Red Elvises.
Igor and the Red Elvises, a staple at the Summer Concert Series and what principal organizer Russ Gordon calls "Los Alamos' favorite band," will perform at the Los Alamos Posse Lodge Saturday. Show time is 7:30 p.m.
Gordon is currently in the process of booking acts for the summer, but said funds are needed to bring those acts into town.
Tickets for the Red Elvises show are $20. All proceeds from the show will benefit the Summer Concert Series.
The series brings bands, both local and from out-of-town, to various sites around Los Alamos County. While Ashley Pond is one of the usual place for the concert to be set, there have also been concerts at the Smith's parking lot, Los Alamos National Bank, Overlook Park and other spots.
As one might guess, band founder Igor Yuzov is from the former Soviet Union and started the band in 1995 to play what he dubbed "Serbian surf rock" — rock and roll was illegal in the Soviet Union. Yuzov, a master showman, claims a vision of Elvis Presley came to him and told him to start playing rock music.
Views expressed on programs shown on PAC8 do not necessarily reflect the views of the manager, staff, or board.
Friday, March 13, 2015
06:00 AM Democracy Now! – Live
10:00 AM The Tom Hartman Program
11:00 AM County Council Meeting Replay 3-03-15
02:00 PM MPL Authors Speak Series
03:00 PM Gallery Discussion for Edith Warner & Tiano– Bridge Between Two Worlds
04:00 PM Uprising
05:00 PM Democracy Now!
06:00 PM United in Christ
07:00 PM Los Alamos Historical Society
08:30 PM The Garage
09:00 PM Bongo Boy Rock and Roll
09:30 PM Community Central
10:00 PM Los Alamos Historical Society – "Now It Can Be Told"
12:00 AM Free Speech TV
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Free Speech TV
Sunday, March 15, 2015
05:30 PM Key to the Kingdom
06:00 PM Drawing Men to Christ
07:00 PM United Church
08:30 PM Trinity on the Hill
09:30 PM Generations
11:00 PM That Which Is
12:00 PM Free Speech TV
Belisama Irish Dance Company presents the 8th annual of its Rhythm of Fire performance on Saturday at the James A. Little Theatre in Santa Fe. Showtimes are 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
The high-energy show features award winning Irish dancers, as well as young up-and-coming performers in a family-friendly, foot stomping performance of traditional and contemporary Irish dancing.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors, and $10 for children under 12 at ticketssantafe.org or 988-1234. The theater is located at New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Road.
This year's Rhythm of Fire features live music with fiddling and singing by Maria Jones, Adrienne Bellis and Lisa Carman. Audiences will also enjoy both new and well-loved favorite choreography by company directors Adrienne Bellis and Celia Kessler, champion dancers Maria Jones and Shannon Kossmann and former Riverdance lead Michael Patrick Gallagher.
Welcome aboard a U.S. Navy Cargo Ship the USS Reluctant, which is operating in the back waters of the Pacific in the spring of 1945. This is not a very happy ship.
The sailors aboard are suffering from the deadly boredom that comes from the routine delivery of cargo during wartime. To make things worse, the ship's captain is a cantankerous, small-minded man who refuses to allow the men liberty. The only ones making life on the ship tolerable are "Mister" Roberts, Doc and the feisty woman-chasing Ensign Pulver.
Mister Roberts shares the crew's dislike for the captain, which is one reason for his popularity. Roberts joined the Navy to fight and hates being inactive almost as much as he hates the captain. He's eager to get into the war before it ends. He is repeatedly writing requests for transfer off the "Reluctant" to a combat ship. This infuriates the captain, who is struggling to get a promotion to commander.
Brad Lounsbury, director of "Mister Roberts," shares his vision for the production.
What do you do when you can't sleep at night? Make some lopsided pottery in your garage? Amuse yourself with hand puppets? Gaze at the stars? Sign up for an all night dance marathon?
For the three intertwined couples in this tale of domestic woe, that is exactly what they do — which opens up many proverbial can of worms at 3 a.m.
The first act centers around an older couple that has seems to have lost their spunk. Caught between what he was and what he has become, Marty (Steven Oakey) is trying desperately to make everything "fine." His wife, Carol (Kat Sawyer) tries to snap him into reality and is very belittling at times. A new hobby of Marty's brings out issues that are not so easily resolved.
At the same time, a younger couple, Andrew and Jessica (Alex Thorne and Stephanie Dees) are dancing in a marathon try to stay awake by talking about their sons, when ideas of expanding their family are discussed becomes an argument.
A dream sequence that is comedic, as well as terrifying plagues one of them.
Moving on to a year later, past issues are resolved — to a point, as new ones arise — and again, no one is getting any sleep. The couples are still trying to live as though everything is "fine."
Friday, Feb. 20, 2015
06:00 AM Democracy Now! – Live
10:00 AM The Tom Hartman Program
11:00 AM County Council Meeting Replay 2-17-15
02:00 PM MPL Authors Speak Series
03:00 PM Gallery Discussion for Edith Warner & Tiano– Bridge Between Two Worlds
04:00 PM Uprising
05:00 PM Democracy Now!
06:00 PM Senior Olympics
06:30 PM Africa: Mothers of Invention
07:00 PM Los Alamos Historical Society – "Ernest Taylor Pyle"
08:30 PM The Garage
09:00 PM Bongo Boy Rock and Roll
09:30 PM Community Central
10:00 PM Los Alamos Historical Society – "Now It Can Be Told"
12:00 AM Free Speech TV
Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015
Free Speech TV
Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015
05:30 PM Key to the Kingdom
06:00 PM Drawing Men to Christ
07:00 PM United Church
08:30 PM Trinity on the Hill
09:30 PM Generations
11:00 PM That Which Is
12:00 PM Free Speech TV
Just in time for Valentine's Day, the Española MainStreet Theatre put on a series of romantic and not so romantic productions. "Love is Never Easy" is 10 separate vignettes adapted from various works centered around a love theme.
The production spanned through a number of genres and time periods — and not all stories concluded with a happy ending.
The first two short segments were a quick cappella of "Fly Me To The Moon," sung by Don Hassemer, followed by the sonnet "How Do I Love Thee," from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and performed by Shirley "Joan" Walker. The skit was pulled off as a sweet serenade between two strangers of the older persuasion.
The story of "Bluesman" was worthy of a mention. The story from a character named Suzanna about Herbert Jackson Walker, who left her in a favor of a music career. A blues guitar wails off stage, played by Eric Archuleta. Janet Rodriguez does a sultry, dramatic and slightly bitter monologue about the wayward lover.
"He Said and She Said" was a painful back and forth with a manipulative gossip queen (played by Kaitlin Calkins) at the helm. Her "idle tongue" almost destroys the lives of everyone around her.
The Santa Fe Community Orchestra (SFCO) presents works by Nielsen, Sibelius, Bruch and Vivaldi at its mid-season concert. The show begins at 2:30 p.m. March 1 at the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art in downtown Santa Fe. Admission is free, however, donations are appreciated.
Brian Newnam is a Los Alamos resident and a well known string player in the area. He will be a soloist at the SFCO performance. He will be playing viola in the Bruch Romance for Viola.
This concert features Nielsen's Symphony No.2: The Four Temperaments, plus the symphonic poem, Finlandia by Sibelius. The program also includes winners of the SFCO Concerto Competition, along with Newnam, Eve Kaye and Anne Hays Egan will perform the first movement of Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Violins in A minor. Music director Oliver Prezant will serve as conductor. For more information, call 466-4879, or visit sfco.org.
The award-winning Santa Fe Community Orchestra, established in 1982, is made up of volunteer musicians from Santa Fe and surrounding areas. The SFCO presents five free concerts every season, education programs for public school students and concert audiences, and special events like "Let's Dance!" an annual swing and ballroom dance at the Convention Center.
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About the Studio
Rosan Bosch Studio is a creative, Copenhagen-based company, working with interdisciplinary projects through art, design and architecture. The driving force of the company is the experienced artist Rosan Bosch who has worked professionally with art, design and architecture for almost 20 years.
Through interdisciplinary projects, Rosan Bosch uses creativity as a tool for innovation and change, questioning deep-rooted cultures and traditions, creating space for new ways of thinking and acting.
About Rosan Bosch
As a Dutch-born artist, Rosan Bosch has had an international launch pad for her professional work. She is partly educated at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht, Holland, and partly at Universitat de Bellas Artes, Barcelona, Spain, and has for many years lived in Spain and Belgium, among other places. She now lives in Copenhagen with her husband and two boys. From 2001-2010, Rosan Bosch was cofounder and partner of the art and design company Bosch & Fjord, which was a professional cooperation between Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord.
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Media coverage and publications
Over the years the work of Rosan Bosch has been fetured prominently in a long list of world known media. Several written newspapers, magazines, books and electronic platforms have published interviews, videos and pictures about the educational and developing projects by Rosan Bosch. Among other media can be mentioned The Guardian, Frame Magazine, Wallpaper, ArchDaily, BBC, CNN and Euronews.


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FOX Business: Capitalism Lives Here
U.S. stocks enjoyed solid gains Wednesday morning as enthusiasm for the beginning of earnings season helped put the markets on pace to end their two-day retreat.
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Today's Markets
As of 10:38 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 74.47 points, or 0.56%, to 13404.00, S&P 500 advanced 6.31 points, or 0.43%, to 1463.46 and Nasdaq Composite rose 16.76 points, or 0.54%, to 3108.48.
With enthusiasm over the New Year's fiscal cliff deal fading, the markets have struggled to keep the positive momentum going in the last couple of sessions. Indeed, the broad S&P 500 has slipped 0.64% over the past two days as traders have braced for what could be a hectic earnings season.
Starting earnings season on a mostly positive note, aluminum giant Alcoa (NYSE:AA) posted fourth-quarter earnings of 6 cents a share, matching Wall Street's expectations. Revenues of $5.9 billion topped analysts forecasts of $5.6 billion. The Dow component also said it sees global aluminum demand growth of 7% this year, up one percentage point from 2012. Yet Alcoa's shares traded flat to slightly higher Wednesday.
Still, market participants have generally subdued expectations for the fourth quarter. Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG, wrote in an email that Wall Street is expecting 3% growth for S&P 500 companies, down sharply from 10% at the end of September. He said to pay especially close attention to technology names -- like heavyweight Apple -- as analysts have had to pare back expectations for the sector.
Elsewhere, German industrial production data released on Wednesday came in far short of expectations. The factory sector in Europe's biggest economy revved up by 0.2% on a month-to-month basis in November, compared to forecasts of 1%. The report highlights the extent to which the eurozone's debt woes have begun infecting even the continent's most robust economies.
The U.S. data docket is bare on the day, but will pick up during the final two days of the week. On Thursday, traders will get a look at weekly jobless claims and then trade will be in focus on Friday.
In corporate news, Boeing (NYSE:BA) rallied 2% as traders bet safety worries regarding its highly-lauded 787 Dreamliner may be overblown. "Sell the flap, buy the weakness," Oppenheimer advised investors.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) plans to cut around 1,500 workers, representing about 6% of the company's workforce, sources told FOX Business's Charlie Gasparino.
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) also revealed that it will provide daily pricing of U.S. money market funds starting immediately in a move it believes will increase transparency. According to Goldman, current regulations compel companies to report on a monthly basis with a 60-day lag.
PNC Financial (NYSE:PNC) disclosed more than $300 million in mortgage-related costs, but said it still plans to beat fourth-quarter earnings estimates.
Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) is said to be mulling a potential lawsuit against Activist investor William Ackman. His allegations that the nutrition company is a "pyramid scheme" sent the stock plunging late last year, although it rallied on Wednesday after Daniel Loeb's Third Point disclosed an 8.2% passive stake in Herbalife by acquiring 8.9 million shares.
Oil futures ticked higher. The benchmark U.S. contract gained 5 cents, or 0.05%, to $93.20 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline slumped 0.66% to $2.776 a gallon. In metals, gold fell $6.10, or 0.37%, to $1,656.10 a troy ounce.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 rose 0.52% to 2705.43, the English FTSE 100 climbed 0.86% to 6106.53 and the German DAX edged up by 0.37% to 7723.02.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 jumped 0.67% to 10579 and the Chinese Hang Seng advanced 0.46% to 23218.


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This is a set of contour plots using data from the NAM model. The output fields are consistent with other models so the models can be compared. This model gives forecast information out to 48 hours and plots are sorted 48 hour 4 panel plots where each plot has a panel for the 12, 24, 36 and 48 hour forecast and individual forecast times from initialization to 60 hours in 6 hour increments. These plots are updated once every 12 hours at roughly 11:15 EST.
These images are generated by geostationary satellites orbiting 22,000 miles above the equator looking at the United States. These include visible, infrared and water vapor images. The images are updated once an hour at about 30 after the hour.
The ECMWF has made a change as of 12/1 in which they are no longer distributing the 2.5 degree model products to NOAAPort. Therefore, Unisys is no longer receiving the ECMWF grids to make the forecast images.
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Meet the little man:
|Put up your dukes.
|I made something with my vagina that's not gross to look at! Unprecedented!
|They have the same little bitchface.
Of course, I also let my son pee in his own face on his first day of life, I'm unable to move somewhere discreet when I need to fart, I can't go to a pizzeria because someone might try to knead and toss my belly and cover it with sauce, and my nipples might break off sometime this week. So don't worry, there's lots of fodder for whenever I emerge from this totally surreal, sleep-deprived, sappy, weepy stupidly happy stupor.
I've decided not to use his name on the blog just because I don't want him to be Google-able before he's a week old, and will refer to him by S., which is his first initial. But you guys have followed me for a long time and so I want to tell you his name without typing it. The photo below--an art project I worked on in the weeks before his birth--should do the trick.
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Eco-friendly Camping Tips
Camping is for everyone. Undeniably, people of
all ages cannot help but have an innate fondness of packing their things and
spending the night outdoors in an open environment. Basically, camping is one
of the most productive forms of recreation. It does not only serve as a
precious bonding moment for large groups and couples alike. Instead, it can be
a very informative and educational tour.
Before you set out for camp however, make sure that you are
well aware of the following camping tips:
a. Before you plan for your camping vacation, make sure that
you have checked the weather forecast. Obviously, you will have to avoid storms
and hurricanes. If your vacation is set on a day that will have an unpleasant
weather, it will be best if you reschedule your camping adventure.
b. In preparing for your camping activity, the first thing
that you should do is to pick a camping site. The choice of camping site will
tell you what equipment, tools, food, and clothing that you ought to bring
during your vacation.
c. In preparing the equipment, make a camping checklist
first. Without a checklist, you might end up forgetting a thing or two of the
most crucial equipment that you need. Pack your things according to your list
and make sure that you have categorized the gear and tools.
d. Before setting your camping tent, make sure that you have
thoroughly checked your camping site. Check your surroundings for nearby
warning signs and advisory regarding poisonous herbs, fruits and vines. Watch
out for warnings about bear, snake, or lion sightings. Make sure that the place
is genuinely safe. To be certain that the place is really secure; find out if
the local authorities and officials recognize the site as an official camping
e. Before you set your camping tent, you should remove all
the rocks and branches from your camping grounds. Make sure that the ground is
flat so you can set up your tent quite perfectly.
f. Choose a campsite that is generally peaceful and
interesting. Bear in mind that the main purpose of camping out is to relax and
have fun. Make sure that your campsite is comfortable for sleeping at night.
g. If you are camping out with your family and friends, make
sure that you have packed enough food and clothing. Check if the tent sizes are
appropriate for the number of people who are going to occupy the tent.
h. If you are camping out with your kids, make sure that you
have checked their packs. Although you can let them pack their things,
supervise your kids. It will be best to pack extra clothes and food for them
since they are more likely to end up wet, dirty, and hungry most of the time.
i. Keep in mind that most tent sizes do not include spaces
for your gear, tools, food stocks, and beverages. That is why it will be better
if you bring an extra tent that will serve as your storage area. Do not forget
to bring a separate cloth bag for your dirty laundry.
j. Keep your campsite safe and clean. Make sure that your
gears, tools, and food are properly stored. Keep your food in close containers
that are compartmentalized. Make sure that your camp fire is far away from your
storage area and never leave the fire unattended.


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Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report, one of the biggest and most successful hedge funds is indicted. Does the move signal a fresh push to make Wall Street fairer for investors on Main Street? And, NBR's special series on how to not outlive your money continues with a look at the benefits of downsizing your home. D
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NOVA "Ghosts of Machu Picchu" NOVA joins a new generation of archaeologists as they probe areas of Peru's Machu Picchu that haven't been touched since the time of the Incas. They unearth burials of the people who built the site, and seek answers to origins of the city, high in the Andes and deserted by the time of the Spanish conquistadors. Recent work has uncovered new areas of the city and advanced new theories about it.G
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Nazi Mega Weapons "Atlantic Wall" To protect occupied Europe from an Allied invasion, Hitler demanded the construction of a defensive wall stretching thousands of kilometers from France in the south to Norway in the north. This is the story of how this vast engineering project sucked in huge quantities of raw materials and men from all over the Third Reich . and faced its ultimate test on D-Day. D


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Company Press Releases Back
CytoSorbents to Exhibit at the ISICEM 2013 Critical Care Conference
Wednesday March 13, 2013
MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J., March 13, 2013 -- CytoSorbents Corporation (CTSO), a critical care focused company using blood purification to treat life-threatening illnesses, announced that it will exhibit its European Union approved CytoSorb® cytokine reduction technology at the 33rd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) in Brussels, Belgium from March 19-22, 2013. In addition, Dr. Dirk Schadler, from the University Hospital, Universitatsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, at Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, was selected to present a poster (#P062) at the conference entitled, "A multicenter randomized controlled study of an extracorporeal cytokine hemoadsorption device in septic patients." Finally, CytoSorbents will also host an evening that will bring together current and potential customers to talk about critical care medicine and to share real world experiences using CytoSorb®.
Dr. Phillip Chan, Chief Executive Officer of CytoSorbents, stated, "We are pleased at the growing recognition and usage of CytoSorb® by leading experts in the field of critical care medicine in many different applications. We have already seen exciting cases in such areas as sepsis, burn injury, trauma, lung injury, cardiac surgery, liver failure, pancreatitis, influenza, and other indications. Users have confirmed the simplicity and ease of use of the CytoSorb® therapy. As we expand our commercialization efforts, we look forward to beginning a number of investigator-initiated studies this year in many different areas that may help drive future adoption and awareness for our technologies."
About ISICEM
The International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is organized by the Departments of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine of Erasme University Hospital, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, in association with the Belgian Society of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. This annual conference was started in 1980 and has become established as one of the largest in its field, now attracting more than 6,000 participants from countries worldwide. The objectives of this four-day symposium are to provide participants with an up-to-date review of the most recent, clinically relevant, developments in research, therapy, and management of the critically ill. The meeting is open to all physicians, nurses, and other health professionals with an interest in critical care or emergency medicine.
About CytoSorbents Corporation
CytoSorbents Corporation is a critical care focused therapeutic device company using blood purification to treat life-threatening illnesses commonly seen in the intensive care unit such as sepsis and infection, influenza, severe lung injury, trauma, burn injury, and pancreatitis. Its purification technology is based upon biocompatible, highly porous polymer beads that can efficiently remove toxic substances from blood and other bodily fluids. The Company's flagship product CytoSorb®, a first-in-class extracorporeal cytokine filter compatible with standard hemodialysis machines, has achieved European Union CE Mark regulatory approval and is now being commercialized in Europe. The goal of the CytoSorb® cytokine filter is to prevent or treat multiple organ failure, the leading cause of death in the intensive care unit, by reducing the excessive production of cytokines, or "cytokine storm", that could otherwise lead to deadly inflammation, organ injury, and death. Organ failure represents one of the most serious unmet medical needs in modern medicine, claiming millions of lives around the world, at a cost of tens of billions of dollars, each year. By actively addressing one of the most important underlying causes of organ failure, CytoSorb® represents a potentially revolutionary advance in the treatment of critical illnesses.
CytoSorbents has been awarded $5 million in contracts from both DARPA and the US Army, and continues to invest significantly in its research and development pipeline. One of its most advanced products under development is HemoDefend, a blood purification technology platform for the blood transfusion industry intended to reduce transfusion reactions and improve the safety of "old" blood by removing many substances, such as antibodies, free hemoglobin and inflammatory mediators that can cause potentially serious and sometimes fatal transfusion reactions.
CytoSorb® and HemoDefend are just two of a number of different polymers the Company has developed for various medical applications, including improved dialysis, reduction of post-surgical complications in cardiac surgery, treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders, radio-imaging contrast removal in imaging and interventional radiology procedures, and the treatment of rhabdomyolysis, drug overdose, and others. Additional information is available for download on the Company's website: http://www.cytosorbents.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements in this press release are not promises or guarantees and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These statements are based on management's current expectations and assumptions and are naturally subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by the statements herein. CytoSorbents Corporation and CytoSorbents, Inc believe that its primary risk factors include, but are not limited to: obtaining government approvals including required FDA and additional CE Mark approvals; ability to successfully develop commercial operations; dependence on key personnel; acceptance of the Company's medical devices in the marketplace; the outcome of potential litigation; compliance with governmental regulations; reliance on research and testing facilities of various universities and institutions; the ability to obtain adequate and timely financing in the future when needed; product liability risks; limited manufacturing experience; limited marketing, sales and distribution experience; market acceptance of the Company's products; competition; unexpected changes in technologies and technological advances; and other factors detailed in the Company's Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 31, 2012, which is available at
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Tividale 3, Coalville 0
THREE late goals saw newly-promoted Tividale beat Coalville Town in their first home game of the new season.
Tivi made sure of the perfect start to life in Division One of the Northern Premier League as they took three points from last season's runners up.
The win follows last weekend's 3-1 away win over Lincoln United during the campaign's curtain-raiser.
Against Coalville, the contest stayed goalless until the 85th minute.
Tividale hit the front when Matt Jukes hit a stunning strike.
It mean Coalville had to push forward in search of an equaliser.
As the game reached the 90th minute mark, Tividale hit a second.
This time Tividale substitute Leigh Downing was brought down in the area. He got up to slam the ball home.
However, Tivi were not finished there, and deep into injury time Jukes hit his second to make it a memorable night at The Beeches.
They will now take on Sheffield at home on Saturday (3pm kick off).