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What does it mean to have your data in digital form?
Kodak: From "Remember The Day In Pictures" to "Remember using a Kodak camera?"
For nearly 125 years Kodak's reason for existence has been to provide the tools for people to create memories.
"Remember the day in pictures."
"Keep 'Family History' in snapshots."
"Remember the visit with snapshots."
"For over 100 years people have trusted their memories to Kodak film."
Kodak, the company that started in 1880 and popularized the film camera and invented the digital camera, recently announced that they're no longer going to manufacture digital cameras and photo frames. How does one think of a dying behemoth? And not just any corporate behemoth, but a company that has been integral to capturing and storing our memories? Their 1970s ad said, "We're America's storyteller celebrating life with you –picturing the stories of everything you do." Now Kodak is transforming into a memory.
There are three ways to consider this transformation.
The "Wow. Just wow." factor
Most of the stories I've seen fit in this category . Wow. Kodak is no longer making digital cameras. Wow. Kodak is the company that invented the digital camera. The company has been around, like, forever. Look at that. Such a change. Wow. It just takes your breath away.
Over my lifetime, I've shot pictures with an Instamatic camera, and a Pocket Instamatic (using Kodak film, of course.) When I got a 35mm Single Lens Reflex, I kept using Kodak film—lots of Kodak film. When I took a photography class, I bought Kodak chemicals and photo paper. I got a Kodak slide carousel projector ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 29, 2012 in
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Shocking Truth about Thin-skinned CDs (or why you should never write on a CD with a Sharpie)
I'd heard the adage that the top surface of a CD or DVD is thinner and more fragile than the bottom surface, but until I went on a cleaning bender, I didn't get it. I reallly didn't get it. It's true, it's true– the top layer of CDs and DVDs are thin. Shockingly thin. Here is a photo gallery of the CD that taught me just how fragile a writeable CD is.
After the holidays, I went on a desk and home office cleaning frenzy. Under a pile of papers, I discovered a disk that failed when I'd burned it. (also known as a "coaster!")
"Oh bummer," I said. "A Bad CD. What's it doing here? I should toss it out." Then I remembered that I've wanted to destroy a disk just to see how it was put together. "Allrightie, then! I'm going to break this lil' puppy!" I began to bend the CD. I figured that it would soon snap, but it bent and kept bending. At the crease, I noticed that a ripple appeared. It looked like a buckle or oblong bubble in the rainbow foil.
Strange! What is that? I bent the CD some more, then dug at the bubbly area ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 22, 2011 in
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• Audio: Hardware
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My Christmas: A Shrine to Obsolete Technology
The centerpiece of my Christmas was inspired by a two-month old news story: Sony Walkman Cassette Player Dies In Japan, Lives On in U.S.
Launched in 1979, the 31-year-old portable media player will no longer be sold in Japan. (It will continue to be available in the U.S., but not indefinitely)
How did that news story turn into a work of art celebrating obsolete magnetic media technology?
I saw the story. "Hey, Doc M, Sony has stopped making the Walkman tape player."
(No, I don't call him Doc M; I call him by his real name. But Doc M is the ablogymous name I use for him when I write about him on the internets.)
Doc M: "I have a Walkman. I wanted to sell it on eBay, but it's busted. So now it's just a piece of junk. Typical."
Susan: "Oooh. Can I see it? Can I photograph it?"
Doc M emerges from the other room with the player.
Susan: "When did you get this?"
Doc M: "I'm not sure exactly. It was top of the line in, like, the early 90s."
We pause, looking at the black and silver case. It feels heavy and solid. Green surrounds the play button.
Susan: ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on January 03, 2011 in
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The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States
Catching up now that I'm back from a family reunion: The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States: A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age. What is happening to our collection of sound recordings now that we're turning the corner to digital formats? This August 2010 publication is published by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Library of Congress.
Background, as stated by Librarian of Congress: A collection of "disturbing anecdotal evidence" described the thread to sound recordings (dating back to the 19th century) came to the attention of Congress, which passed the The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-474). That law directed that the Librarian of Congress "...implement a comprehensive national sound recording preservation program…" and study the issues that need to be addressed in order to preserve our national heritage in sound recordings. This publication is part of the result.
From the abstract:
This is the first comprehensive, national-level study of the state of sound recording ...Read More
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Digital Family History as understood by Digital Natives with 500 IRL Facebook friends
It's not the same thing as what Ye Olde Maiden Aunt used to collect and curate. An intriguing article by fellow Association of Personal Historians member Jane Lehman-Shafron, she notes the current trends (look! TV shows! Newspaper articles!), but also points out how family history in digital form is being used by the next generation, the Digital Natives who grow up immersed in computing technology.
The form that family history is taking changes with the times.
Today's younger generations are more interested in family history than ever before. The whole country is. But they are demanding that those maiden aunts (and all the rest of us who fulfill the function of "family historian") get with the times. They want their family history accessible and they want it compelling.
Speaking as the
single Aunt whose spent a lot of time in the technology industry—I'm even called AuntiAlias—it's a computer graphic pun (know what anti-aliasing is?), I'm one of those Aunts who is pushing everyone forward in digital pursuits when it comes to family history.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on May 26, 2010 in
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I'm following Digital Death Day today. Remotely
What happens to your bits after you die? That's the premise behind the Digital Death Day unconference, currently in progress. (On twitter, check out the #ddd2010 hashtag). I'll be posting provacative tweets and topics here on an ongoing basis.
Why does Family Oral History deal with digital death? The recordings of conversations that are saved in digital formats is the deliberate creation of digital bits that are meant to last longer than the speakers whose voices are recorded therein. It's an edge-case of the central phenomenon explored at the conference. What happens to your bits once you die?
Here, in no particular order, are tweets from those in attendance, as a kind of thought-piece about the digital lives we have. Plus, for me, having experienced three deaths of people close to me in less than a year (and many more remote as friends' parents shake off this mortal coil), it's highly relevant.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on May 20, 2010 in
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Digital Death Day
What happens to your bits when you die? Digital Death Day takes place on May 20, 2010 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. It's an unconference set to explore what happens when a person dies. What happens to your digital assets? How do you probate digital assets? What about jointly held digital assets? What happens to your digital avatars? What are the policies about your email account upon death?
Since this is an unconference, the exact agenda will be created the morning of the conference by attendees. Conference price is $75 before May 13, and $100 thereafter.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on April 13, 2010 in
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Not your father's iPod… well, actually it is (a Walkman)
For Sony Walkman's 30th anniversary, 13-year old Scott Campbell tries it for a week. Hilarious for us oldsters to see our old fave equipment through a young-person's eyes.
My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day.
He had told me it was big, but I hadn't realised he meant THAT big. It was the size of a small book.
Size? cumbersome. Handy belt-clip, but with that weight? (you hafta read the article to find out its effect for current 13 year olds).
When I wore it walking down the street or going into shops, I got strange looks, a mixture of surprise and curiosity, that made me a little embarrassed.
Though one teacher got nostalgic. Two tantalizing questions:
How long did it take for Campbell to figure out that there was a side B to this tape?
And how did he create his own impromptu "Shuffle" effect?
You hafta read the article to find out the ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on June 29, 2009 in
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London: Digital Lives Research Conference
Feb 9-11 in London: 1st Digital Lives Research Conference is from the project of interest to "individuals who wish to manage their own personal digital collections for family history, biographical or other purposes."
There's a blog associated with the Project/Conference. Have no idea if there'll be postings from the conference, as the blog's author, Jeremy John said, "My new year resolution is to blog more frequently." (ahem, Jeremy. I can relate!)
Conference topics include:
- Digital Lifelines: Practicalities, Professionalities and Potentialities
- Aspects of Digital Curation
- Digital Economy and Philosophy
- On the Monetary Value of Personal Digital Objects
- Digital Preservation
- Practical Experiences
- Professional Matters Arising, Options for the Future and Resolutions
Personal Information Lifecycles: Creator, Curator, Consumer
- Personal Information Management and Usability
- Forensics, Authenticity, ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 08, 2009 in
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Preserving Your Digital Memories
Digital Preservation -dot- gov's What You Can Do page : highlights your biggest digital at-risk items: email, computer files, storage disks, digital files, and the needle-in-a digital haystack problem of finding what you want in a pile of digital material.
Preserving a digital object is not the same as preserving, say, a book or photograph. You can put a book on a shelf or a photo in a box and (if kept dry and safe) look at it 50 years later. The same is not true with a digital object. This is why, in many cases, digital materials are considered more fragile than physical ones.
OMG! You can take a DID YOU KNOW? quiz, too.*
*I took it. Missed one because I was thinking more of my own "don't break the web" habits than, say, how quickly news stories disappear from news websites.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 11, 2008 in
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Archiving Geospace
Kewl! UCSB Librarian Named "Pioneer of Digital Preservation" … by the Library of Congress. The pioneer? Larry Carver. At first glance (all I've taken), it looks like a cross between Google Earth and an über reference librarian.
"Geospatial technology in the context of libraries is to create software to search for information by pointing to a place on the Earth's surface and — say using the Internet — ask what data, books, art, etc. is available for that spot or location. It searches by using longitude/latitude coordinates to look for information about that spot. So, the technology is a complex software that can search over millions of maps, aerial photographs, satellite imagery, or any other information that has location information in its metadata [catalog record]."
Okay, it has nothing to do with oral history. Unless you've got a project that calls on lat-long data. (latitude longitude) But it's cool ...สล็อตออนไลน์ ได้เงินจริงRead More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 10, 2008 in
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CDs and DVDs: Tons of good info
The Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs, A guide for librarians and archivists. Found while researching the layer-cake sandwich of materials in an optical disk. Disk structure page. Did you know that the top side of a CD-R is thin and fragile? I mighta mentioned it before, but this underscores it, in a big way.
Also of note: the tests for aging and shelf-life of CDs and DVDs that you can burn yourself is that their pre-writing shelf life is limited to some 5 years or so. By all means, stock up, but don't stock up too much.
Gold disks are the best. But that's a topic for another post.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 19, 2007 in
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Motion picture sci/tech report on archiving
[updated] Hollywood Reporter reports that (the Oscar organization)'s Science/Tech council's released 64-page report on archiving. From the looks of it, the limits of digital are being manifest. I'd like to look closer to see how much of an overlap there is for motion picture industry's archiving existing work and how to preserve audio and visual recordings that are born digital.
Update [18 November]: I went to the web site and inquired if the paper was available. Not in downloadable form, but if I supplied my name and address, they'd send me a copy. I did. The paper just arrived. It's 74 pages (full color, nice production!) I'll give it a read and report on any findings relevant to people doing family oral history.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 06, 2007 in
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Family Visiting Headaches thanks to Digital Tools
At a family gathering, an internet cafe: "I wasn't a house host anymore, I was running a Kinko's. […] with a house brimming with guests, a cousin cornered me in my office with a multimedia challenge. She had brought a DVD made from family movies shot in the early 1930s. I was able to play it on my computer, but I ran aground trying to make a copy of it."
Uh oh, I recognize myself there!
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on August 31, 2007 in
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Tribal Linguistic History using Digital Tools
Chuksani-speaking Native Americans preserve language using military-tech translators. This is what happens when speakers of a nearly extinct language get their hands on the latest DoD-inspired smart electronic gadgets. [via Dangerousmeta]
Jane Wyatt, 62, of Coarsegold, and her sister, Holly, 65, were among six tribal members who gathered Friday across the street from the Picayune Rancheria's busy Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino in Coarsegold to try out a newly acquired "Phraselator."
The electronic translator was developed just a few years ago from technology used for military translators, said Don Thornton of Thornton Media Inc., based in Banning. Thornton Media is working with 70 tribes in the United States and Canada to preserve native languages, he said.
"What's my name?" he asked the box in his hand. He pressed another button and it replied in what Thornton said was Chukchansi.
The Wyatt sisters learned the ...Read More
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Services set for Skip Harvey
Services for Skip Harvey have been set for tomorrow (Saturday) at Canyon Lodge.
The service will begin at 3 p.m.
Harvey, who left an indelible mark on Mammoth as a restaurateur, ski instructor and, most recently, a town council member, died early Monday, according to town public information officer Stuart Brown.
"Mayor Harvey had been battling cancer for several years," Brown wrote in a press release Monday evening.
"Family members and close friends were with Skip at the time of his passing."
Police Chief Dan Watson delivered the news to members of the Town Council, and others.
Watson said Harvey "took a turn for the worse" over the weekend, and was receiving hospice care at his home in Mammoth when he died.
"This is a sad day for Mammoth," Watson said on Monday. "He was a good guy. He never took any position that he felt was not to the benefit of our community here in Mammoth Lakes."
Harvey stepped down from the council in June after serving eight years and two terms as
Mayor on the Mammoth Lakes Town Council. He had intended to run for re-election, but withdrew his nomination papers, saying at the time, "I just want to go back to being Skip."
The owner of the Base Camp Café on Main Street, Harvey also was an accomplished athlete, and served as a ski instructor and department manager at Mammoth Mountain.
"I'm really heartbroken," said Mammoth Mountain CEO Rusty Gregory, who often joked with Harvey before, during, and after council meetings.
"Skip was a good friend, a longtime ski instructor and supervisor at Mammoth Mountain, a great councilman and a great mayor," Gregory said. "He will be sorely missed."
Wrote Brown in the press release:
"The Town Council and staff of the Town of Mammoth Lakes extend their sincere condolences to Skip's family and friends."
Rick Wood, who was Mayor at the time Harvey won election to the council, said he got to know him well in the eight years since then.
"What I'll remember most about him was that he was such a decent man," Wood said on Tuesday.
"I've thought about this overnight. A lot of good things are said when people pass on, and certainly good things I've read have been said about Skip. He spoke from his heart—always.
There was never any guile; never any hidden agenda. What he said is what he believed. And I think that's a wonderful human quality, especially in this day and age."
Harvey, 60, a native Ohioan, moved to Manhattan Beach as a partner in a delicatessen. He established a permanent presence in Mammoth Lakes in the early 1980s. Recently he has suffered from throat cancer, he himself acknowledged. He had been receiving treatment for the illness in Southern California, at one point receiving experimental treatments, he said.
Mayor Matthew Lehman spoke for many in his remarks following Harvey's death.
"I think the one thing I think of when I think of Skip, he was a guy who never, ever really was too influenced by people and I don't think he ever had a true agenda," Lehman said.
"His focus was strictly the community.
"He thought a lot with his heart but in a very positive way. We disagreed on a lot of things, but at the end of the day, you knew when he was voting, his intentions were always with the community as a whole.
"That was the basis of his decisions. That was unquestionable."
Gregory, meanwhile, was jolted with the news, saying he did not know the extent of Harvey's illness.
Town Manager Dave Wilbrecht said he heard the news from Chief Watson early Monday.
"It's really sad," Wilbrecht said. "Skip was a pure gentleman with me. He was always thoughtful and considerate, just one of those kind persons.
"I found him to be someone I had great respect for. He had great integrity and was committed to the town and what the town was all about.
"I just really enjoyed working with him. It's just sad to hear. Obviously he was a great contributor to what he felt were important items. He had some important accomplishments, like getting the ice rink going.
"I was delighted to work for him."
In his last appearance before the council, June 6, Harvey made an impassioned speech about his love affair with Mammoth.
"I have to say, I came back up from Santa Monica last Monday. I'm just in awe of the high mountains and the deserts.
"The farther north I come, the better it gets. I can't help staring at them.
"It is beautiful, and then as I turn up 203 to come up to town, (I slipped in between rainstorms), I could see the beauty of the crest, I could smell the pine. It's gorgeous, it's enchanting and it's beautiful.
"No one, no matter what, can take that away from us. I love this town. It's a wonderful place."

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Clashes in Xinjiang Expose Ethnic Stresses
A week of clashes in China's Xinjiang province between members of the Uighur minority and the military has raised tensions there. WSJ reporter Brian Spegele tells us about the Chinese government's efforts to calm the region.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Chinese state media has been very aggressive ... in in in talking about how it's it's it's targeting potential terrorists in another another measures like this ahead of the anniversary ... is that ... China's new leadership under President Xi Jinping ... handling the response to these attacks ... in Egypt lead and then than their predecessors or or is it too early to say ... this is true to say ... of a will there there's a lot of belief out there that the Sheehan's government ... um she Jinping himself might be a little bit more amenable ... to reform ... are some other countries' policies toward epic minority groups of than its predecessor Hu Jintao who was generally seen as a hard liner by analysts but from what we can tell so far from the responses that it has been ... on a pretty decisive crackdown on St John ... in addition I think it's important to note that we seen a continuation of the government line ... that this is a matter of religious extremists extremism percolating in in in sin John ... the many critics of the Chinese government will say this indeed is is is a matter of of marginalization of an epic minority group of the week of minority groups on and they say that that's part of the reason that's that's spurring discontent among these people ... the Chinese government as a Jew rejects the idea and they say this is simply a matter of religious extremism and they say you know the world over needs to be in support of what they're doing to try to quell that the air ... when Brian as as you ... alluded to ... um that where few days away from the ... the fourth anniversary of the two thousandnine ... of clashes in the ... capital of change on where ... the mobile almost two hundred people died ... aam of of of the clashes between build Though weaker minorities and the ... dominant pun group in China ... as the friction has been going on for a number of years what if the government done and in the recent years to help mitigate her to promote a more harmonious society ... we've seen in sin Jun is ... a a a concerted effort by the government to promote basically development economic developments at all costs ... we seen aam we we seen further trade connections with ... other neighboring Santa countries in Central Asia ... I we seeing due to a greater exploitation of the energy resources this in John for example hole ... aam ... and and what with that as broad as it certainly brought economic development in the region if if you look good GDP of the region has grown quite significantly ... but the same time when you talk to folks out unseen John ... um there's a there's a feeling that many of these opportunities are only going to ... come to the Han ethnic minority group ... many of the weaker ... at the minority group there there on they will this be ... the same level of of of standard Mandarin Chinese ... on many often lack the same level of education as ... on counterpart ... and its economic development has really spurred an influx of from other parts of China ... of entrepreneur is of my co workers of all types ... as I think the question becomes is is is is their copper is there a chance that indeed these type of drama policies ... are ... on the R and D no further for renting some of that discontent out there ... deftly ... think we showed we will simply be watching ... for more developments in exchange on price Biegel edition reporter thank you so much for joining us ... for the story and much more do visitors at the beest dot com ... for The Wall Street Journal I'm sure freeing ...


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Actually, I shouldn't say I've lost it, as much as it's been worn down by red tape.
Yesterday I turned away a good hospital case, and told them to find someone else.
The patient was insured. The patient was interesting. Not some run of the mill chronic back pain case.
28 year old guy admitted for abdominal pain and weight loss. Large mass found (possibly lymphoma). Within 2 days of admission he developed 2 separate cranial nerve palsies, on opposite sides.
Now, I know you residents and medical students are out there, holding up your hands and yelling "Oooh! Oooh! Mr. Kotter! He could have meningeal lymphomatosis with cranial nerve palsies! He needs an MRI and spinal tap."
Hell, you think I didn't know that? Like I said, these are the interesting cases that make the job fun.
So why did I tell them to find another neurologist?
Here's why:
The patient had seen another neurologist (who didn't come to my hospital) about a week before. He'd had an MRI done as an outpatient. He'd had a spinal tap done as an outpatient.
And yet, no one, including the patient and his family, had ANY FREAKIN' IDEA about which neurologist he saw (beyond "his office was on the west side"), or where the MRI was done, or where the spinal fluid had been sent for tests.
I don't care that someone else had already done the key parts of the work-up. I'm not looking to stand up as the great Grumpy, solver of the unsolvable. Any competent neurologist would know what to do.
And getting results is reasonably easy IF you know where to fax a release.
But in order to get the answer here I'd have had to try to track down a neurologist, an MRI facility, and a laboratory. And there are no shortage of any in Grumpyville.
And from personal experience (particularly involving tracking down labs) I knew it could easily take an hour or more of phone time to do this. I've found that when you want something specific, delegating it to an order in a chart ("please get outside labs from Planet Phlebotomy") will often get you nowhere, or some results you didn't want. So I'd likely be doing the calling, and getting transferred between departments, and then cut off, and having to call back... you get the idea.
When you have a full-time office practice, and a family of 5, adding an extra hour or two to the day isn't something you want to do. Especially when you're going to get paid the same amount for the consult no matter how much work you put into trying to track the results down.
And so I quietly told them to call another neurologist.
I still like what I do. But the realities of time, money, and frustration can dull the scientific curiosity of anyone. Even me.


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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A painting previously thought to be an 18th-century copy of a work by artist Jan Steen is actually an original by the Dutch master, a museum announced Friday.
Researchers at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague made the discovery while preparing for a new exhibition.
The museum's director, Emilie Gordenker, said curator Ariane van Suchtelen suspected that the painting, "The Mocking of Samson," was an original Steen.
"After further research, restoration and technical examination, we have come to the conclusion that not only is this painting by the master himself, but that it is still in excellent condition," Gordenker said. "It's as if the canvas is fresh out of Jan Steen's studio - thrilling!"
The painting is part of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts collection in the Belgian city of Antwerp. It's to be displayed at an exhibition "Jan Steen's Histories," that starts Feb. 15 at the Mauritshuis.
Unusually for such an old painting — Steen completed it in 1676 — the canvas is still attached to its original wooden strainer with the original nails.
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The Associated Press is reporting injuries to 16 actors on the Toronto set of Resident Evil: Retribution after a platform collapsed. Paramedics found it difficult to assess the actors' injuries because of the zombie costumes and make-up they were wearing. The victims suffered leg, arm and back injuries but none were said to be life-threatening.
The accident—which happened around 8 a.m. Pacific Time—apparently happened as a platform the actors were standing moved moved just as they were going to another platform. Milla Jojovich plays lead character Alice in the action/horror series, but wasn't on set when the mishap occurred. The incident's being investigated by Canada's Ministry of Labor.
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Brent Burns helped San Jose jump off to a fast start with his second goal of the postseason and the Sharks tied their second-round series against Los Angeles at two games with a 2-1 victory over the Kings in Game 4 on Tuesday night.
Logan Couture followed up his overtime game-winner in Game 3 with his fifth power-play goal of the playoffs to add to the lead and Antti Niemi made 22 saves as the Sharks matched the Kings' two home wins to open the series with two of their own.
Mike Richards scored a power-play goal and Jonathan Quick made 21 saves for the Kings, who have lost 10 of 11 road games dating to the end of the regular season.
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The US Consulate in Jerusalem has announced that its new facility in the capital's southern Arnona neighborhood will open for service next week. The site where the new consulate building sits had previously been slated for the US embassy.
The new consulate is going to make life easier for all the US citizens who live on the western side of Jerusalem, as they previously had to use the cramped and inefficient facility on the capital's eastern, Arab-dominated side.
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Beautiful Games: the golden age of surfing
With his waterproof camera and pioneering approach, John Witzig was one of the most forward-thinking surf photographers of the early 1960s – the so-called golden age of the sport. Along the beaches of Sydney, Australia, Witzig documented life on and off the waves for a small community of enthusiasts, just as short, lightweight boards were transforming and popularising surfing. His subjects became his friends and, for 15 years, he built up an archive of beautiful, intimate and mellow pictures which seem to perfectly represent the surf culture of those days; the rich, golden hue of his images further heightens the sense of nostalgia. 'I had a lot of fun,' he says of a career which ultimately took him around the world, 'until the late 1970s when it was apparent that I'd better get a real job!' Witzig's work has been celebrated in a book called A Golden Age published by Rizzoli


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New Delhi, August 07, 2012
UPA candidate Hamid Ansari was on Tuesday re-elected India's Vice President, defeating NDA nominee Jaswant Singh.
Lok Sabha secretary general TK Vishwanathan, the returning officer for the poll, made the announcement about Ansari's re-election minutes after the counting ended on Tuesday evening at Parliament House.
Ansari polled 490 first preference votes out of 728 valid votes cast in the election. Jaswant Singh polled 238 votes.
Polling in the vice presidential election was held earlier in the day.
Vishwanathan said that 787 members were eligible to cast vote and 736 exercised their franchise. Eight votes were found invalid.
He said that Ansari needed 365 votes to be declared elected.
"Therefore, Mr. Ansari is duly elected as vice president of India," Vishwanathan announced.
Ansari, who sought re-election for a second term, was backed by the Congress, most other parties of the ruling United Progressive Alliance, those supporting the alliance from outside and some Left parties.
Jaswant Singh, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader and a former minister, had the backing of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as well as the AIADMK.
The vice president is elected by members of an electoral college consisting of members of both houses of parliament in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of single transferable vote.
Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha are also entitled to take part in the election.
47 out of the total 787 MPs in both Houses did not cast their votes, who include ailing Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh who is admitted in a Chennai Hospital.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said 21 members from BJD, 11 from TDP, 6 from Congress and supporting parties, including Deshmukh, and two nominated members did not cast their votes.
BJP members Shatrughan Sinha was sick while Dilip Singh Judev could not come as his mother was not well. Trinamool Congress members Kakoli Dastidar and Kabir Suman were abroad. So was SP member Brij Bhushan Singh.
Out of the total 790 members of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha that form the electoral college for Vice Presidential election, 3 are vacant with Pranab Mukherjee becoming President, Vijay Bahuguna Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and the election of BJP MP J Shanta having been set aside by a high court.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and BJP leader LK Advani were among the members from both houses of Parliament who voted Tuesday to elect India's 14th vice president.
75-year-old Ansari, whose candidature has been supported by Left parties and UPA allies like SP and BSP, appears set to fend off the contest put up by NDA nominee Jaswant Singh.
BJD, TDP and RSP had declared that they would abstain from voting. Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is ill and admitted to a Chennai hospital. The three parties together have 34 members in both Houses of Parliament.
With the total number of voting members reduced to 752, the halfway mark for Ansari has become 377. UPA managers claim to have the declared support of nearly 500 members.
BJP leaders LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Murli Manohar Joshi, BSP supremo Mayawati and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had cast their ballots before noon.
It began at 10:00am and continued till 5:00pm. The counting of votes took place at 6:00pm and results declared at around 7:30pm.
A career diplomat and scholar, 75-year-old Ansari appears set to get a second term as Vice President by emerging a clear winner in a direct contest with veteran BJP leader Singh, a former finance, defence and foreign minister of the country.
Ansari is the second person after philosopher and statesman S Radhakrishnan to hold the high office twice.
UPA managers were confident that 75-year-old Ansari was set to get at least 500 votes in a contest in which Ansari had a definite edge as far as the arithmetic is concerned.
Congress itself has 204 members in Lok Sabha and 71 in Rajya Sabha. UPA constituents Trinamool Congress has 19 MPs in Lok Sabha and 9 in Rajya Sabha, DMK has 18 members in Lok Sabha and 7 in Rajya Sabha, NCP 9 in Lok Sabha and 7 in Rajya Sabha and RLD has 5 in Lok Sabha. National Conference has 3 in Lok Sabha and 2 in Rajya Sabha.
Besides, SP with its 22 members in Lok Sabha and 9 in Rajya Sabha and BSP with its 21 in Lok Sabha and 15 in Rajya Sabha were backing Ansari who was also being backed by the entire Left block with 38 members in both Houses of Parliament.
Unlike the Presidential poll held in July, which had split NDA with JD-U and Shiv Sena breaking ranks to vote for UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee, Jaswant Singh has the backing of a united NDA for his vice presidential bid.
BJP has 114 members in Lok Sabha and 49 in Rajya Sabha, JD-U 20 and 9, Shiv Sena 11 and 4 and SAD 4 and 3.
While AIADMK, which has 14 MPs in Parliament, on Monday announced its support to Singh's candidature, BJD with 18 members in Lok Sabha and 7 in the Rajya Sabha has decided to abstain from voting.
Ahead of the poll, UPA chaiperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday hosted a lunch for UPA constituents and the parties supporting it from outside, which projected a complete picture of unity.
Trinamool Congress MPs attended Gandhi's lunch and the party is expected to go public with its support Ansari ahead of the polls.
Not only all UPA constituents but also the chiefs of Samajwadi Party and BSP Mualyam Singh Yadav and Mayawati attended the lunch.
The two leaders, arch rival in Uttar Pradesh politics, had not attended any such programme together for several years.
At the AICC headquarters, party general secretary Digvijay Singh held interactions with several MPs, especially those from UP, to ensure voting is done properly during the Vice Presidential poll and no vote goes waste. The balloting will take place from 10 am to 5 pm.
A total of 42 papers were filed by 31 candidates during the 14-day nomination process, of which four sets of papers submitted by Ansari and three sets submitted by Singh were accepted. The nomination papers of 29 others were rejected on various grounds.
Though the numbers are stacked highly against Singh, BJP is making all efforts to put up a respectable fight.
In Chennai, Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa on Monday extended AIADMK's support to Singh, saying she firmly believes that there has to be an opposition in a true democracy.
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Playlists are lists of HASA stories put together by authors and readers, just as music lovers put together lists of their favorite songs.
- Stories in a series put in reading order.
- A collection of similarly themed stories, such as Hobbit romance or critical essays on Men.
- A reader's "favorites" list, complete with explanations of why the reader likes them.
- A collection of stories by multiple authors.
There are three types of playlists, each featuring a slightly different set of perspectives.
The first type, Reader Lists, is for readers to put together collections of stories that you like, for whatever reason, in the order you like, and by as many authors as you like. Put together a reading tour of HASA!
You can add playlists as follows.
If you do not yet have any playlists, you can make one first:
- Go to the Playlists section.
- If the Main Menu is not open, click the header to unfold the menu.
- From the menu, click on "My Playlists", and choose "Playlists I share" from the righthand column.
- You will now see a form for creating a list.
Type in a title. It cannot be more than 50 characters, including spaces. Make the title distinctive. Do not use double quote marks!
Type in a description of the list. Use key words like your screen name, characters featured in the stories, and so on. Each one of these words is searchable. Click "Add new playlist".
- The playlist is created and you end up on the "Playlists I have created" page. You are now ready to add stories.
Or, when you are in Stories (and this works both for creating a new list and adding a story to a playlist you made earlier):
- While you are reading a story you like, click on the "Add to Playlist" button in the Readers Toolbox located at the top and bottom of every chapter page.
- If you do not have any playlists at all, you will immediately see a form like the one described above. Follow those instructions to create a playlist.
- If you already have playlists, you will see a drop-down list of your Reader playlists, plus a link to "Create new Playlist."
- Once you have either created or selected a playlist, you will be prompted to add the story to the list.
- Provide a brief explanation of why you are adding the story to the list and click "Add".
- The screen refreshes and you can see the story in the list. It is added at position "0". You must set the story to a number other than "0" for it to show on your list.
- Use the small ordinal drop-down boxes to put the story in position.
- Click "Reorder List" to update the order.
NOTE: When a playlist is created, it is set to Inactive. This is because when it is created, it doesn't have stories in it. After you add stories to it, you must set the playlist to Active to allow others to read it.
The second type of list is the Author List. If you write multiple stories that should be read in a particular order, or if you have different sets of stories (these are my Dwarf stories, these are my Hobbit stories, etc.) you can group them together. The only limit here is that any story included in the list must be Beta, General, or Reviewed status.
Creating an author playlist is also a great way to promote your own works. The most recently updated playlist appears on the home page of HASA, which is a good way to bring a set of stories to the notice of readers.
- Go to the Playlists section.
- If the Main Menu is folded up, click the heading to unfold it.
- Choose "Playlists I Write" from the menu.
- On that page, if you do not have an author playlists yet, you will be prompted to create one.
- Enter a title and a brief description of the playlist, such as "This is my Legolas AU series set in chronological order."
- Click "Add".
- When your list is first created, it is set to Inactive. This allows you to put your list together before releasing it to the public. You must set your list to Active to make it viewable.
Now that your list is created, you can add your stories to it.
- Navigate to My Playlists-->Playlists I Write in the Playlists section of HASA
- You will now see the list of all Author Playlists you have created. If you don't have a playlist yet, you'll be prompted to create one.
- Click "Update List" to add stories.
- The screen will refresh and you will now see all of your Beta, General and Reviewed status stories in a drop down list.
- Select the story you want to add from the drop-down list and click "Select".
- Provide a brief explanation for the story. Use keywords that readers might use for searching, such as characters names or story genre. Take time to say something that will spark curiosity about your story and make a reader want to click. If you are putting together a thematic series, put that in.
- Click "Add".
- The story and reason are added to the list.
- Be sure to set the order of the list after adding a new story. Use the order drop-down numbers to do this. The stories that are left set to "0" will not show up in the playlist.
After you have added a story, you will need to reset the overall playlist to Active status.
- Click the "Edit Playlist" button in the top table.
- The playlist will open in a form.
- Make changes to the description if desired and change the status from Inactive to Active.
- Click "Edit Playlist".
Workshop Lists. These are the most specialized. These are lists of stories by authors who belong to a particular workshop. If a group of authors is conducting a writing exercise, they could gather the stories in a playlist. Or if the authors are jointly writing stories, they can compose the joint works in a workshop, then put the stories into a playlist with commentary about writing them.
Adding stories to a Workshop List works the same way as described for the other two types of playlist. The only other thing you need to keep in mind here is that only stories that are in a Workshop can be added.
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The region of endless horizons
The Hortobágy National Park area offers you the experience of getting out into some big open space right here in the heart of Europe, with nothing else in sight but loads of cranes and other birds, plus the native horned grey cattle. In the summer, the quivering hot air over the endless grassland creates funny illusions and mirages. This is where gulyás (aka goulash) was invented by herdsmen who dumped all their food in one pot over a fire, added some paprika, and left it to cook.
This region, and the park is also home to Lake Tisza, a wildlife wonderland as well as a sports paradise. You can go hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, horseback riding, biking, swimming, jet-skiing and even banana-boating in this idyllic environment. The Bird Reserve in Tiszavalk is not only part of the Hortobágy World Heritage Site but is home to around 200 bird species, including herons, egrets, and wagtails.
Bird and bike lovers can also ride on bikes through Körös-Maros National Park starting in the town of Szarvas, or make a pilgrimage to the historical centre of Hungary. If you hike around the area, you'll see plenty of tiny mounds along the way. These are not just welcome changes in the landscape, but the places where the first human inhabitants of the land used to live, love and die.
The Plain is not only about rural idyll though. There are cities too with all the mod cons, culture and fun. Debrecen, Hungary's second largest city, known as the Calvinist Rome, stands on the edge of the prairie with its gorgeous main square and huge university. For a culture fix, check out the centre of contemporary art with the largest exhibition hall in Central Europe, Modem. Visit Szeged and its cathedral in brick almost as red as the native paprika, salami and fish soup. For a truly Hungarian experience hop on the yellow tram that runs in both cities.
Although the Great Plain is the driest and sunniest part of the country, there are plenty of spa cities here where you can soak, splash, and heal. Why not start with the largest spa complex in Europe, in Hajdúszoboszló, where they know the secret of how to cure back pain? Or how about heading to Gyula where the beautiful spa was built with spectacular views in mind? A tropical spa in the greenest part of Debrecen where you can recuperate and take a break from the hustle and bustle of the city sounds like just the ticket, right? But if you need more space, there's a 4400 m2 of water paradise in Szeged to refresh you after all those Puszta explorations.


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Linux Top 3: SUSE Secures Boot, Ubuntu Boots Wayland, Slackware 14 Boots Up
1) SUSE Secures Boot
Every Linux distro in one way or another is trying to come to grips with the upcoming Secure Boot problem that Microsoft is unleashing on the hardware world with Windows 8. Red Hat has outlined its plans, which are to acquire a key and then to essentially 'play along' with the Microsoft Secure Boot.
"These variables are accessible to any code that runs during the boot process," SUSE developer Vojtěch Pavlík explained. "After the boot process ends and before the OS starts, the bootloader must call the ExitBootServices() call. After that, these variables are no longer accessible, the OS can't touch them."
That doesn't mean that the SUSE approach is entirely different than the Fedora one. Pavlik noted that that SUSE with use a Fedora based shim, that could be signed by SUSE or a Microsoft-issued certificate.
The SUSE approach is not quite a done deal in terms of implementation yet, but it does offer a marginal alternative to what has been suggested to date.
"Our approach is just making sure that a feature like this is available everywhere," Pavlik said. "To keep the 'PC' a free platform."
2) Ubuntu Boots Wayland
Yes this title is (a little) misleading. Ubuntu is not booting Wayland in the software sense, they are 'booting' Wayland in the kicking out sense, for now at least.
Wayland has been touted as the next generation Linux desktop compositing manager and a future replacement for the aging X11/x.org. Ubuntu had been trying to get Wayland ready and fully integrated as part of the upcoming 12.10 release, but it's now clear that's not going to happen. "descoping the compositor work from quantal, good progresses have been made but it doesn't seem realistic to enable it by default, we will revisit that next cycle," states the latest updateon Ubuntu's launchpad site.
3) Slackware 14 RC1
Slackware has never had commercial backing behind it like Ubuntu or SUSE, it is very much a community effort led by founder Patrick Volkerding.
Slackware 14 is now rounding the corner and headed for home. This past week the first release candidate for Slackware 14 debuted.
"Mercury went direct early yesterday morning, and it was like the bugs started to fix themselves," Volkerding wrote in the latest changelog. "It's almost enough to get me believing in that hocus-pocus nonsense! So, here's a bunch of updates that fix all of the reported issues in the beta, and we'll call this the 14.0 release candidate 1. Still some updates needed for the top-level documentation files, but we're clearly in the home stretch now (finally)."
The last Slackware release was number 13.37 (leet) and came out in April of this year.
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.


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August 3, 2012
ACT UP Philly reports that Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has cut General Assistance funds for people living on disability (while cutting corporate taxes). This program provides a measly yet critical $205 per month to 70,000 residents in the state who use it for housing, health, and transportation services.
Many people who need HIV, recovery, and housing services will become homeless and even more impoverished. We know this will inevitably increase the risk of HIV and morbidity among people living with HIV and drug users.
Many of the Philly-based We Can End AIDS mobilization marchers will suffer from these cuts. PA activists staged a demonstration and plan further actions, including a meeting with the Governor's office on Tuesday, August 7.
We need to show our brothers and sisters that we stand behind them.
HOW? Let's flood the Governor before Tuesday, August 7th with emails and phone calls at 717-787-2500 and firstname.lastname@example.com.
WHAT? Demand that he restore the funding for General Assistance, and provide more funding to house and care for people with disabilities. Take the money out of the corporations, NOT from people living with HIV and other conditions.
WHY? You can read more and view the demonstration here: Philadelphia Inquirer article and video.
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Clam Bake at St. Basil's/St. Francis Knights of Columbus, Saturday, June 9, at St. Francis Pavilion, Mildred, 2-6 p.m. Limited tickets available until May 19 at Dushore Agway or Bill's Hardware, Dushore or call Paul, 570-928-8911 or Ron,746-9498. Donation of $23 per ticket includes 6 doz. clams, steak and sausage sandwich, beverages. Proceeds benefit local activities. K of C, Dushore, Wyalusing and Mildred Council #12406.
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Today's Echo Park neighborhood council election ended with Ari Bessendorf, a first-time council candidate running for president, holding only a two-vote lead over long-time council member Francisco Torrero, according to preliminary results. Bessendorf garnered 268 votes versus 266 for Torrero, according to a canvass of votes in the the Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council election. While Bessendorf was the top vote getter, four provisional ballots have yet to be tabulated, said Jay Handal, an independent election administrator. All the ballots will also be recounted since the race was so close, he said.
With four provisional ballots to be counted and two votes separating the leading presidential candidates, "anything can happen," Handal said.
Handal said he does not know what information was missing or what are the issues with the four, uncounted provisional ballots. But those four voters will have probably until Wednesday to go to the election office in Van Nuys and provided the necessary information before their ballots can be counted, he said.
The position of Echo Park council president was left open as former President Jose Sigala runs to replace Eric Garcetti as representative of City Council District 13.
The results for Echo Park council president were among the closest in today's elections by neighborhood councils in Atwater Village, Elysian Valley, Los Feliz and Silver Lake. Handal said he was not aware of any other "surprises" in those elections.
However, he noted turnout in Los Feliz was much lower than expected. According to preliminary results, 655 ballots were cast in the Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council election. The council had teamed up with neighborhood business to offer discounts to those who had voted in an effort to top the record-high 1,500 votes cast in the 2010 election.
The lack of contentious issues or district races might explain the lower than expected turn out, Handal said.
Click on the links below to find out who won based on the semi final results.
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July 17, 2014
Aries March 21 – April 19
Creative opportunities, romantic dalliances, and a sense of fun and enjoyment will be augmented as Jupiter moves into Leo midweek. Your confidence in yourself and your abilities will gradually return, making you more willing to take a risk and explore fresh options. Along with this, Saturn's forward motion in your zone of shared resources is also excellent news, especially if you've suffered with problems in this area. There are also plenty of options for friendly get-togethers and parties on the home front.
Taurus April 20 – May 20
Domestic life and relationships take a turn for the better this week. Regarding home and family, over the next twelve months you have an opportunity to expand in this area. Perhaps you want to buy new property, start a family, or increase the one you have. Regarding your love life, if you've been through a trying time lately, things should gradually begin to ease in the weeks ahead. You can emerge from this phase stronger, with a greater sense of what's needed to make a relationship work.
Gemini May 21 – June 21
You'll be in your element from this week on as communication matters move to the top of the agenda. If you've considered writing, online marketing, or simply selling your talents, Jupiter's move into Leo can help you excel over the months ahead. And as Venus dances into Cancer it may be time to splurge on one or two luxuries, but keeping on track with your budget is also important. Later, Saturn's forward movement may ease any pressure associated with work or health matters.
Cancer June 22 – July 22
You may get the financial boost you've been hoping for as Jupiter jogs into Leo this week. It will stay here for the next twelve months, bringing many opportunities to increase your earnings and perhaps find a more lucrative job that uses your creative skills. At the same time, Saturn's forward movement in Scorpio may help unblock any feelings of insecurity around expressing yourself. If you've felt fearful about putting yourself out there, you may begin to feel less so.
Leo July 23 – August 22
You'll be in your element from this week as Jupiter hikes into your sign for a twelve-month stay. Over the coming weeks you may have more opportunities to expand your options and explore new horizons. Travel may feature, as well as a desire to challenge yourself to achieve bigger and brighter dreams. At the same time, Saturn's forward movement might bring a chance for matters on the home front to improve. Taking the right kind of action now can produce positive results.
Virgo August 23 – September 22
You're moving into a phase when taking the time to recharge and chill might be very good for you. For the next twelve months your luck can improve when you pay attention to your dreams and focus on listening within for that subtle guidance. Doing so could save you time and money in the long term. Plus, any barriers to communication may gradually ease as Saturn changes direction. If you've had a hard time getting through to someone or getting returns on your advertising, you may soon get better results.
Libra September 23 – October 22
Your social life explodes into action this week, bringing opportunities for plenty of mingling, dating, and networking. You may find that you get your best breaks when you're out and about and enjoying life. However, career matters continue to be important, and as Venus glides into Cancer a relationship with a boss or superior might begin to improve. You have a natural intuitive ability when it comes to career and success and this will be enhanced, so make the best use of it.
Scorpio October 23 – November 21
You'll be the star of the show for the next twelve months as Jupiter jogs into your career sector. This isn't the time to hide your light but to let it burn more brightly. Showcase your skills and abilities to the world and you can't go far wrong. Along with this, Saturn turns direct in your sign, which suggests that the brakes are off and progress is now possible. If you've felt like you were treading water, you'll soon find yourself swimming in the direction of your dreams.
Sagittarius November 22 – December 21
Good news this week as Jupiter, your personal planet, zips into Leo and your sector of travel and adventure. The next twelve months can be a time of exciting opportunities, study, and experiences that you'll relish. At the same time, the cosmos hints that finances still need careful handling. Shrewd decisions and excellent budgeting can lead to cost-saving measures and a chance to accumulate more cash. On another note, personal development increases in importance with Saturn's direct motion encouraging inner transformation.
Capricorn December 22 – January 19
Your zone of shared resources gets a long-term visit from Jupiter this week, which is great news for your business and finances. This lively energy is excellent for promoting your goods and services, finding the perfect business partner, and earning big bucks. There's also another shift this week as Saturn turns direct in your social sector. As it is also your personal planet, you may notice improvements in other aspects of your life as it speeds up the pace of change on your path to success.
Aquarius January 20 – February 18
This may be your year for love and romance as Jupiter moves into your partnership sector for a long stay. There's every chance that a relationship could become more committed, with a desire to get engaged or even tie the knot. Along with this, someone you meet may have soul-mate potential. Yet there are other changes, too, as your career sector gets a boost. Saturn turns direct in Scorpio, encouraging progress at last. If you've been working hard and getting nowhere, this may be about to change.
Pisces February 19 – March 20
The move of Venus into Cancer spotlights romance and sensitive feelings. It remains in this sector for a little while to encourage heart-to-heart conversations and indulgent date nights. There's also more news as Jupiter zips into your zone of work and wellness. Your energy may soar, making it easier to adopt a new diet or exercise regimen and lose any excess pounds. On another note, a desire for something different might encourage you out of your comfort zone. Travel may be in the cards!


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by Clark Groome
The late great Andy Griffith first made a name for himself with a monologue called "What it Was, Was Football." That routine appeared in 1953, just three years after a young Brown University football coach named Joe Paterno followed his mentor Rip Engle from Providence to Penn State.
Sixteen years later Paterno succeeded Engle as the Nittany Lions' head coach, a job he held until he was fired last November.
While everyone knows the horrors that took place at Penn State over the last 14 years, it's necessary to put some things into a perspective that is at once realistic and fair.
Former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky committed unspeakably horrible acts, sexually abusing little boys repeatedly over at least a dozen years. For those acts he has been tried, convicted and will spend the rest of his life in prison. That's the good news.
Exacerbating the situation was the inexplicable cover-up of Sandusky's acts once Paterno, president Graham B. Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz learned about them.
According to an investigation led by former FBI director Louis Freeh, those four knew about Sandusky's behavior in 1998 and never did anything to stop it.
In 2001, graduate assistant Mike McQueary caught Sandusky sodomizing a young boy in a Penn State locker room shower. No action was taken. Sandusky continued to have total access to the athletic facilities.
The reason nothing was done, Freeh reported, was that they were trying to protect Penn State and their own reputations while totally ignoring the damage that Sandusky had done to who-knows-how-many little boys. By not being taken off the street in 2001, Sandusky was free to continue to commit the heinous acts that led to his arrest in 2011.
If the four horsemen of the Sandusky cover-up had actually said something in 2001, explaining that they thought after the 1998 incident that Sandusky was getting help and had reformed, the issue would have caused only a momentary furor. The powers-that-be in Happy Valley would likely have been congratulated for doing the right thing, if a bit late because of their misguided loyalty or lack of understanding about the irremediable nature of pedophiles.
But they did nothing. They went into a complete CYA (cover your "tail") mode. The results were several more destroyed lives, the self-destruction of the reputation of one of the greatest college football coaches in history and the ensuing catastrophic damage to a great university.
On top of that, the NCAA recently delivered its sanctions to Penn State. Principal among them were a $60 million fine to establish a foundation to help support the victims of child abuse; the reduction of football scholarships from 25 to 15 annually for the next four years; ineligibility for bowl or other post-season play, again for four years; allowing Penn State football players to transfer and play at another school without the usual one-year waiting period; and the vacating of all Penn State victories from 1998 to 2011.
I agree absolutely with what the NCAA did in all cases but one. The vacating of all the victories over the period Sandusky was known to be a predator seems a bit harsh and transparently aimed at hurting Joe Paterno who, until this action, was the winningest coach in Division I history.
This measure unduly and undeservedly hurts the kids who played. For all the horror of what went on at Penn State and for what Paterno failed to do, he did do a great deal that was positive. His teams were a model of decorum. His athletes graduated in large numbers. His football program – its successes and the money it drew to the university – helped to turn Penn State from a backwater state college into one of the great state universities. He gave millions of dollars to Penn State, not to athletics but to the library.
What the NCAA should have done is vacate the team's six post-1998 bowl victories: the 1998 Outback Bowl, the 1999 Alamo Bowl, the 2005 Orange Bowl, the 2006 Outback Bowl, the 2007 Alamo Bowl and the 2009 Capital One Bowl.
This would have justifiably and appropriately punished Paterno, dropping him from first in all-time victories to second, with 403, five behind Grambling's legendary Eddie Robinson. It would have been fair without piling on.
Penn State's football program got out of hand. Paterno likely stayed too long. Spanier, Schultz, Curley and Paterno were irresponsible beyond measure.
For all that, the students at Penn State and those who were part of Paterno's fine program don't deserve to be hurt unnecessarily. Eliminating those 105 regular season victories from those kids' history is the unnecessary part.
What it was, at least for a while, was great football, but football that was totally out of control. What it also was, was an inconceivable horror. The damage has been done, the punishments meted out. It's now time to hope that Penn State recovers, and that the kids who serve and are served by this great university can have the kind of experience that, for the most part, was what should have been but no longer can be Joe Paterno's legacy.


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Eagles improved performance not enough to overcome Samoa
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The USA Eagles certainly gave the thousands of fans at Sam Boyd Stadium moments of excitement and agony on day one of the USA Sevens Tournament as they almost scored near the death to defeat Samoa, but ultimately fell 7-12 to the Pacific islanders, just short of an upset.
Earlier on in the day, the Eagles lost 26-7 against Australia, with a lack of possession and unforced errors being key in the match.
Eagles Head Coach Alex Magleby made one change to the starting lineup against Samoa, putting Carlin Isles on the wing. Additionally Colin Hawley was used at flyhalf instead of his usual role in the forwards.
The Eagles brought the stadium to life during the opening minutes with a fantastic passage of play, setting up four phases of attack. Captain Matt Hawkins was prominent linking up with Colin Hawley for a linebreak, but the USA just missed out on a scoring chance. Hawley made the break down the touchline, patiently feeding the ball to Blaine Scully who nearly executed the kick and chase for the speedster Isles.
Samoa responded by working the ball from side to side, eventually sending Levi Asifa'amatala over in the corner for the first try of the match.
Folau Niua sparked the Eagles with a superb grubber kick for Zack Test, who used his speed on the outside to collect and score for the USA. Niua added the extras and the Eagles led 7-5 at halftime.
The second half saw Samoa strike first with Reupena Levasa burning on the outside of the Eagles defense, putting his team back into the lead, 12-7. Lolo Lui kicked the conversion.
Substitutes Nick Edwards, Shalom Suniula, Rocco Mauer, and Luke Hume entered the match with under four minutes remaining.
The Eagles defended well in the final minutes, and after creating a turnover, brought the crowd to their feet as they attacked upfield. Unfortunately Mauer's grubber kick rolled out of bounds, and Samoa held on to a 12-7 victory.
In the Eagles' pool, Spain caused a massive upset on day one by beating Australia 24-14. They also held Samoa at bay for most of the match, just losing out 19-12. The HSBC Sevens World Series is now seeing more and more teams able to beat any side on a given day.
"There is a lot of parity in the teams. We have to reduce our errors, and continue to improve. We look forward to the Spain challenge tomorrow ," Magleby said after the match.
The Eagles will face Spain next at 2:34 p.t. PST on Saturday, February 9. NBC Sports and Universal Sports will be broadcasting the tournament. Check here for times.
For live updates follow the official USA Rugby Twitter account@USAEaglesRugby. Use hashtag #USA7s to join the conversation. For the full schedule of matches visit www.usasevens.com/las-vegas.
USA Men's Eagles Sevens | Las Vegas Sevens
- Andrew Durutalo
- Nick Edwards
- Jack Halalilo
- Matt Hawkins (Captain)
- Colin Hawley
- Luke Hume
- Carlin Isles
- Rocco Mauer
- Folau Niua
- Blaine Scully
- Shalom Suniula
- Zach Test
Eagles Schedule | Las Vegas Sevens
vs. Spain – 2:34 P.M. PT Saturday, February 9
Eagles Results | Las Vegas Sevens
USA 7 Australia 26
USA 7 Samoa 12


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The problem lies in everyday web hosting firms which often seem to employ old versions of PHP. The user is therefore stuck. They may also be at risk as security patches won't be present. Users might also like to use the latest features in PHP5, but the host may still be using PHP4.
Hosts might also be running with register_globals on. As reported elsewhere in the comments on this site, when some hosts turned it off, they got several emails about broken scripts. So the hosts simply turned register_globals back on.
The only solutions, besides pestering the web host to upgrade, are to change to a different, more modern host, or consider renting a virtual server where you can set up PHP yourself. Of course this is likely to be more expensive and so not suitable for the average person. It just seems a shame to be stuck using older versions of PHP which are less secure than the latest one.


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The NMUSD Board of Education at its February 28,2017 meeting called for the equalization of trustee area boundaries by population, and initiated the change to voting by trustee area elections, commencing with the November 2018 Board of Education elections.
As part of the adjustment of trustee area boundaries, the District will conduct two initial public hearings to review trustee area boundaries and receive public input.
Please read the attached press release for public hearing dates and more information.
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. - Pfeiffer University would kick off the 2013 men's lacrosse season in style with five players recording hat tricks during a 24-0 rout of Lees-McRae College on Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday marked the first regular season and Conference Carolinas match for both teams.
Pfeiffer would fire off 64 shots on the day with 44 of those being on goal. Special teams accounted for four man-up and two man-down goals among the two dozen. Steven Tilmon (Orlando, FL), Jordan Michele (Rochester, NY), Cole Sheen (Edmonton, ALBERTA), Elliot Gilbert (Corning, NY) and Derek Thomas (Georgetown, OH) would each find the back of the net three times in the win.
Pfeiffer would force 37 Bobcats turnovers and scoop up 55 groundballs as a team. In net, Hayden Kirk (Farmingdale, NY) would make five saves in 48 minutes of action while Joe Capstaff (Leonardtown, MD) would turn away one shot in relief. Ryan Harrison (Lake Mary, FL) would make 17 saves for Lees-McRae.
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Mount Airy Forest, Hamilton County, Ohio
Established in 1911, the Mount Airy Forest covers an impressive 1,471 acres and includes natural areas, planned landscapes, buildings, structures, and landscape features. The numerous hiking trails, bridle paths, walls, gardens, pedestrian bridges, and various other improvements within Mount Airy Forest reflect the ambitious park planning and development that took place in Cincinnati in the early to mid-20th century. Conceived as the nation's first urban reforestation project, the park has developed over the years—especially during the Depression and post-World War II period- into a park with a variety of areas, spaces and structures designed to accommodate recreational, social, and educational activities. Today it continues to offer a large expanse of protected land within the city limits where the public can enjoy the richness and diversity of nature.
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