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Penn Picked to Repeat as Ivy League Football Champions
Looking to accomplish the unprecedented, the University of Pennsylvania football team was picked as the preseason favorite to win the Ivy League title on Tuesday at the annual Ivy League Football Media Day teleconference.
Penn has won three of the last four Ancient Eight titles. All outright. No school has ever won four outright titles in a five-year span.
The Ivy League Football Preseason Media Poll has 17 total voters consisting of two media members from each school and one national media representative. Eleven members of the poll picked Penn to repeat as Ivy champions.
The Quakers have now been selected among top four of the preseason poll for 21 consecutive seasons. The last time the Quakers were not predicted to finish in the top half of the Ivy League was in 1992, one month prior to the program's first game under the direction of head coach Al Bagnooli.
Penn earned the top spot in the preseason media poll for the second time in the last three years and garnered 129 points. That was just eight points ahead of Harvard, who received five first-place votes. Brown earned the other first-place vote and finished a distant third in the voting with 88 points. Dartmouth rounded out the top four with 76 points and was followed by Princeton (73 points), Cornell (57), Yale (46) and Columbia (22).
For the fifth straight year, Penn and Harvard claimed the top two spots. In each of the last six seasons, either Penn or Harvard has claimed at least a share of the Ivy title.
The Red and Blue will be looking to buck a trend, however. The team slated to finish second in the Ivy preseason poll has gone on to win the league title in each of the last four seasons, including the the Quakers in 2009, 2010 and 2012.
Picked to finish as the runner-up last season, the Quakers (6-4, 6-1 Ivy) won their last four games – all in dramatic fashion – to earn the program's 13th outright title. Penn returns 40 letterwinners and 20 starters from that championship team, including eight All-Ivy players (four offense, three defense and one specialist).
The Quakers report to preseason camp on Monday, Aug. 19 and will officially open their 137th season under the lights at historic Franklin Field when they host Lafayette for a 6 p.m. kickoff on Sept. 21. That matchup will serve as the only night game at the nation's oldest collegiate football stadium this year will also mark the first game on Franklin Field's new SprinTurf.
Season tickets are available by calling the ticket office at 215-898-6151. Individual game tickets go on sale August 15.


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3 Benefits of Polling Your Audience
By: Tami Munson | 4 November, 2016
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A polling campaign provides insight into what your customers want as well as their expectations. For example, a retail store may ask their subscribers what holiday deals they are looking for this upcoming season. The store will then learn what it is their customers are wanting and the customers will feel appreciated that their opinions are being heard.
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Getting Started
Financial advice for young adults entering the workforce
Laying the right foundation as you start your career is the key to future financial success, and at this lifestage, TIME is your greatest asset. Consider that each dollar you save in your 20's can be worth ten times as much as one saved in your 40's. Through the magical power of compounding, the beginning of your working life is the prime time to start saving towards retirement—even though many people don't want to think about, or worse yet, act on this principle.
During this time, young adults have the exciting task of learning how to manage the spending and saving of their money within the constraints of their income. Here are some steps to take now to put your financial future on track:
- Identify your short, medium and long-term goals and budget your money accordingly – Your short term goals of less than five years might encompass a wedding, honeymoon, furniture or a new car. Medium term goals could include the purchase of a home and financing your future children's college education, followed by long-term retirement goals. These goals will help you determine how to spend and save your money.
- Build assets through saving at least 10 percent of your income – It may be wise to invest in CD's or money market funds for your short term goals and the stock market for your longer term goals. Historically, the stock market has outperformed other types of investments over comparable time periods, but it's not for the faint of heart. You may also want to join a 401K plan if available from your employer or open up an IRA account.
- Establish an emergency fund – A good guide is to save three to six months worth of living expenses to cover rent or house payments, utilities, car payments, food, transportation and insurance into a separate bank account that could be easily accessed in the case of job loss or uncovered medical expenses. Don't use the money for anything else.Farmers State Bank recommends this account for the establishment of your emergency fund: Statement Savings
- Conserve time, money and paper with Farmers State Bank's convenient checking accounts with online banking and bill pay and no-charge ATM services – You'll reduce the time it takes to pay your bills and save on the expense of printed paper checks and postage while helping the environment as well.
- Borrow wisely – Avoid high-interest credit cards and pay off your credit card debt monthly. Work with Farmers State Bank for your major lending needs including personal and vehicle loans, home mortgages and home equity lines of credit.
- Understand your credit report - Your financial behavior over the past seven years, including how much credit you have, how long you've had it and whether you pay your bills on time is information included in your credit report. Three credit reporting agencies — Equifax, TransUnion and Experian — maintain these reports, and lenders buy them to help them decide whether to offer you a prequalification. Your credit report also carries your credit score ranked between 300 and 850 that many lenders use to decide whether you are creditworthy and will repay a loan. Your credit score can also influence the interest rate you pay. In many cases, the higher your score, the lower your interest rate. Your credit score is available from the three credit reporting agencies:
Tips for Effective Financial Management
- Pay off your credit card debt. It is senseless to pay 13 – 20 percent interest on credit card payments while your savings accounts earn one or two percent.
- If you cannot pay off your credit card debt, pay more than the minimum payment each month which in some cases will only cover the interest charges.
- Don't worry too much about paying off student loans early. These normally have a much lower interest rate than credit cards. By making low payments on student loans, you'll have more money to reduce high-interest credit card debt.
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'Wearable of the Week' # 4
'There is a whole world inside me. I often dream of something deep and colourful which moves and which is very mysterious. There are many corners, strange places, folds and holes. I have an enormous need to express that world.' Marjolein Dallinga I love the above quote from Marjolein Dallinga.Read more


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From the webcast yesterday, the JooJoo (previously named Crunchpad) seemed flimsy and barely working. But now that we spent a good deal of hands on time with it, we can say that Fusion Garage executed an internet tablet quite well.
Here are some new facts I gathered from the meeting. First, the device runs a 1.6GHz Atom processor with 1GB RAM. The guys at JooJoo said they weren't ready to reveal specs yet, but I saw the bootup sequence—a standard BIOS setup that displayed what it was booting to—and saw the specs. Chandra, CEO of Fusion Garage, says that the demo hardware was basically the final hardware, so it's easy to put two and two together.
As for the graphics card + CPU combination, it's probably an Nvidia Ion chipset. They claim that it handles 1080p YouTube video fine—we only got to see a few seconds of 720p and 1080p HD YouTube video because the internet connection was acting up—so it's probably an Ion. But the HD video we tested looked just fine on its 12-inch, 1366x768 resolution screen. Again, the Ion chipset is just an educated guess, but there are few other hardware options that can handle 1080p video smoothly, and an Atom CPU by itself (which we did see) can't do it on its own.
There is a headphone jack, a microphone jack, a built-in webcam at 1.3 megapixels, a charging port and a USB slot. The external card slot present in the prototype isn't going to make it to the final version, but they are thinking of making it available to put a 3G card in there in the future. No TV out/HDMI out yet, but they are thinking about that. There are built-in speakers for playing back audio without headphones, and they're decent enough that you can actually listen to them, but you'll want to plug them in to speakers for any kind of extended video consumption.
The tablet actually handled pretty well, with browsing web pages, transitioning between tabs (windows) and opening up new web pages working fine. There's an accelerometer in there to detect between vertical and horizontal orientations.
The body is solid, sturdy and graced with a bright 12-inch screen. The back is curved and made of a plastic that feels nice in your hand, and the whole thing doesn't seem too heavy to prop up on a bed or a toilet.
In short, it's an actual web browsing tablet that you'd be perfectly fine using.
The software
The entire system is basically a gateway to your browser, which is based off WebKit, the same code that powers Safari and Google's Chrome. It's fast, and handles gestures (pinching to go back a level, swiping to move up and down) just fine. There are other gestures that will be included in the final build, like two finger swiping for going back and forth in history and a bookmark swipe, but we didn't get to see that. But, you can't zoom into text. That's partially because the pinching is already used for going in and out of your windows into the home screen, but also partially because the screen is 12 inches. You don't need to really zoom into text on a laptop-sized screen of 12 inches. And they also said they may make LARGER sized tablets as well, with 12 being their smallest size.
JooJoo's keyboard looks like this, and takes up only a portion of the screen. It's usable, but you don't want to use it to bang out a blog post; this is mainly for consuming media.
Fusion Garage's concept for the product is that the "internet is the application", which means you can't save photos or files locally and you can't access any of the 4GB of storage to do any user level stuff. The most you can dictate is how much each internet application (e.g. Gmail or Google Wave) can have for a local cache.
It does support Flash as usual, except when you play HD Flash it'll force you into fullscreen mode to render better/faster. And if you want to read PDFs, it'll force you into Google's web-based PDF doc reader. So it handles PDFs, but not "natively".
Your home screen is composed almost entirely of icons—shortcuts—to web applications. The screen is customizable with your own applications, eventually, and has a weird feature where it displays a different color background whenever you go back to it. Fusion Garage is thinking of taking this out, or swapping it with some other feature.
As for multitasking, Fusion Garage says that they will have specific APIs available to webapps to incorporate in order to pass notifications up to the user. For example, if Twitter refreshes in another window and you're watching a YouTube video, a popup will show and tell you you have something else going on. The APIs will be available at launch, but it's up to websites to support them.
How good is it?
Despite its weird birth issues this past week with all the Arrington trouble, the JooJoo is surprisingly solid. You can tell Fusion Garage spent a good deal of time polishing the hardware, by the fact that they managed to include a 12-inch screen that's decent enough to not have lousy viewing angles, plus support 1080p HD video playback.
The only trouble right now is software, which is only about 75% done. Fusion Garage plans to ship devices about 8-10 weeks after preorders, which start this friday. If FG can manage to finish the software and get it to a point where it's transparent to the user who just wants to get online, $500 isn't too outrageous a price to pay. Decent netbooks are around that price, and it's about the price you'd expect Apple to charge for their tablet, if not even more. We'd of course be very happy if it were down at $300 or $400, but it's basically a new device in a new market, and you'll have to hand over a little extra for being an early adopter.
So right now we're at a wait and see status. The JooJoo seems good, from our time with it, but it really needs to be taken home and thoroughly tested with different webapps, watching a lot of HD video and streaming music. At the very least, we'll see how much of that 5-hour battery life stands up to constant use. You can pre-order it yourself this Friday, but, since there's some legal troubles on the horizon, you probably want to wait until the whole thing clears up first before putting any money down. [JooJoo]


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Sara isn't just cycling 180 miles with MITIE Revolution for fun – she's also aiming to raise money for the next Kuapa Kokoo kids camp. Here's a post about how you could help…
I'm fundraising for a Kuapa Kids Camp, being held from 11th-13th July 2013 in Kumasi, Ghana.
The Kuapa Kids Camps are residential camps for young people from rural cocoa growing areas organised by Trading Visions in collaboration with Kuapa Kokoo. Trading Visions is an educational charity set up by Divine to amplify the voice of cocoa farmers in West Africa, and particularly to link young people in Ghana with their contemporaries here to learn more about issues at either end of the supply chain.
The Kids Camps are brilliant for boosting the confidence and educational attainment of the students. They also help to energise their schools by increasing the active participation of teachers, parents and the local community in the schools.
We also use the Kids Camps to work with the children in Ghana to help create educational materials on Fairtrade chocolate for young people in the UK.
At the next Kuapa Kids Camp, around 70 children from rural cocoa growing families will be coming together for three days, many of them leaving their villages and mixing with children from other schools for the first time.
They learn about Fairtrade and their role in the global chocolate supply chain, and issues such as nutrition, child labour, health, and girls' education.
The Kids Camp cost will be £7,000. The Hull Fairtrade City Project has pledged £2,000 to help fund it, plus another £1,500 of match funding for any money we raise.
Please help by donating to this important education project for children living in rural farming villages in Ghana. Click here for my fundraising page.
Thank you!
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Google has shown off new features that can reduce data consumption and improve Web performance on Android-powered mobile devices, drawing partly from capabilities already supported in the Chrome desktop OS.
The improvements include new file compression formats for images and video, and a new commerce system that makes shopping easier on mobile devices, Google said at its I/O developer conference Wednesday.
[ Also from Google I/O: Android tooling? Yes. New Android OS? No. | Get your websites up to speed with HTML5 today using the techniques in InfoWorld's HTML5 Deep Dive PDF how-to report. | Learn how to secure your Web browsers in InfoWorld's "Web Browser Security Deep Dive" PDF guide. ]
The idea is to bring some of the capabilities that Chrome offers on the desktop to the Chrome mobile browser, said Sundar Pichai, head of the Android and Chrome operating systems at Google.
"Our goal is to make the Web better, both on the desktop and mobile," said Linus Upson, VP of engineering for Chrome.
The mobile Chrome browser will get faster, for instance, by incorporating Google's WebP open-source image compression technology. The format creates image files that are 30 percent smaller than JPEGs, which will help reduce data use and also conserve battery life, Upson said.
WebP also supports lossy and lossless image compression, transparency, color profiles and animated images, meaning it can be a replacement for GIFs. It also supports the photo metadata supported by other image formats.
Images comprise 60 percent of the bytes downloaded with Web pages, so a better image format can speed up mobile Web browsing, Upson said. Some online services, such as Google+ and Facebook, have already adopted the royalty-free WebP format.
Google's VP9 video compression format is also being brought to Chrome on mobile devices. It's designed to deliver better quality video at lower data rates than the widely used H.264 format, Google said.
VP9 offers roughly a 50 percent savings in data bandwidth usage over H.264, Upson said. That could make a big difference to people struggling to stay within their monthly data usage limits.
YouTube will start supporting VP9 later this year.
"We want all websites to take advantage of these new technologies," said Upson.
In the interim, Google will offer a "data compression proxy," currently in beta for Android, which provides an alternative way to reduce data usage and speed up mobile browsing, by using proxy servers hosted by Google. The technology can reduce data usage by 50 percent, Google said.
Google also wants to improve the buying experience on phones and tablets. The average check-out process involves filling out 21 fields on a smartphone, according to Google, with an average abandoned shopping cart rate of 97 percent.
To address the issue, Google has built a feature into Chrome that collects the user's payment info and makes it available across other devices. At participating shopping sites, when the user goes to check out at an online store, a form will appear with the person's payment information already filled in. The person can just review the billing and shipping information and hit "submit," Google said.
For Android developers, Google highlighted a new way to build their own HTML tags. Pitched as the "first toolkit to natively take advantage of Web components," the feature is designed to let developers reuse bits of JavaScript, CSS and HTML code across different device platforms to simplify app development. This is an early stage project, Google emphasized.
"The goal here is to be able to allow developers to create their own tags, use them on a phone, and then take those same components onto a tablet," said Upson.
There has been a lot of speculation that Chrome and Android will be brought closer together now that they are run by the same person. Google's Andy Rubin left his post as head of Android in March.
Use of the Chrome browser has been growing steadily over the past couple of years, Google said at I/O. At the time of last year's show, there were 450 million monthly active users, and there are now more than 750 million, Google reported.
"We're just beginning to push the mobile Web forward," said Google's Pichai.
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What are Public Performances?
What are "Public Performances?"
Suppose you invite a few personal friends over for a dinner and a movie. You purchase or rent a copy of a movie from the local video store and view the film in your home that night. Have you violated the copyright law by illegally "publicly performing" the movie? Probably not.
But suppose you took the same videocassette and showed it at a club or bar you happen to manage. In this case you have infringed the copyright of the movie. Simply put, videocassettes obtained through a video store are not licensed for exhibition. Home video means just that viewing of a movie at home by family or a close circle of friends.
What the Law Says
The Federal Copyright Act (Title 17 of the United States Code) governs how copyrighted materials, such as movies, may be used. Neither the rental nor the purchase of a videocassette carries with it the right to show the tape outside the home.
In some instances no license is required to view a videotape, such as inside the home by family or social acquaintances and in certain narrowly defined face-to-face teaching activities.
Taverns, restaurants, private clubs, prisons, lodges, factories, summer camps, public libraries, day-care facilities, parks and recreation departments, churches and non-classroom use at schools and universities are all examples of situations where a public performance license must be obtained. This legal requirement applies regardless of whether an admission fee is charged, whether the institution or organization is commercial or non-profit, or whether a federal or state agency is involved.
Penalties for Copy Right Infringement
"Willful" infringement for commercial or financial gain is a federal crime and punishable as a misdemeanor, carrying a maximum sentence of up to one year in jail and/or a $100,000 fine. Even inadvertent infringers are subject to substantial civil damages ranging from $500 to $20,000 for each illegal showing.
How to Obtain a Public Performance License?
Obtaining a public performance license is relatively easy and usually requires no more than a phone call. Fees are determined by such factors as the number of times a particular movie is going to be shown, how large the audience will be and so forth. While fees vary, they are generally inexpensive for smaller performances. Most licensing fees are based on a particular performance or set of performances for specified films.
In other specialized markets, such as hotels and motels, many Hollywood studios may handle licensing arrangements directly.
Why is Hollywood Concerned About such Performances?
The concept of "public performances" is central to copyright and the issue of protection for "intellectual property." If a movie producer, author, computer programmer or musician does not retain ownership of his or her "work," there would be little incentive for them to continue and little chance of recouping the enormous investment in research and development, much less profits for future endeavors.
Unauthorized public performances in the U.S. are estimated to rob the movie industry of between $1.5-$2 million each year. Unfortunately, unauthorized public performances are just the tip of the iceberg. The movie studios lose more than $150 million annually due to pirated videotapes and several hundred million more dollars because of illegal satellite and cable TV receptions.
Copyright Infringers are Prosecuted
The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and its member companies are dedicated to stopping film and video piracy in all its forms, including unauthorized public performances. The motion picture companies will go to court to ensure their copyrights are not violated. Lawsuits for example, have been filed against cruise ships and bus companies for unauthorized on-board exhibitions.
If you are uncertain about your responsibilities under the copyright law, contact the MPAA, firms that handle public performance licenses or the studios directly. Avoid the possibility of punitive action.


text: Back Medicine 2.0: How Technology Can Help Your Health You may already use Facebook to find old friends and your smartphone to check email. But did you know high-tech gadgets and networks can also connect you with medical resources? Depending on your health needs, technology may be just what the doctor ordered. If you're looking for: Up-to-the-minute news about disease outbreaks and disasters. Turn to Twitter. The CDC sends instant updates, or "Tweets," that are 140 characters or less. Personal stories about a medical condition. Search blogs and the video site YouTube. About 30 percent of patients who go online already turn to blogs to read about others' health experiences. One recent study found that cancer survivors and caregivers who share their stories on video improve their own health in addition to that of their audience. Help managing chronic conditions. Try a smartphone. Programs for these phones are called applications, or apps. Some might give you reminders about checking your blood glucose if you have diabetes. Others can send test results to your doctor. You can also download a stress management app from the Department of Defense. Health messages to share with friends and family. Send an e-card. Have a cousin who is newly pregnant or a parent with diabetes? Share words of support that link to reliable medical information. Find a few from the CDC or the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Timely reminders about health topics and wellness events. Find out on Facebook. Hospitals are most likely to post news and health messages on Facebook, the largest social-media site. Associations such as the American Academy of Family Physicians and the National Institutes of Health also provide Facebook updates about medical issues. Take steps to ensure your high-tech sources are reliable. Look first to pages and services sponsored by reputable organizations. These include the U.S. government, a university, a national association such as the American Heart Association, or a hospital. Also, carefully check privacy policies before sharing personal information.


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'Nightmare' scenario: Hurricane menaces East Coast
NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) - Farmer Wilson Daughtry shrugged off an evacuation order and raced to harvest all the corn and squash he could hours before the initial waves churned up by Hurricane Irene started bumping the outer islands of North Carolina. Far away in Maine, lobsterman Greg Griffin reported his colleagues were stowing traps and tying up boats, heeding forecasts of 30-foot battering waves to come.
For hundreds of miles, as many as 65 million people along the densely populated East Coast warily waited Friday for a dangerous hurricane that has the potential to inflict billions of dollars in damages anywhere within that urban sprawl that arcs from Washington and Baltimore through Philadelphia, New York, Boston and beyond.
The main thrust of Irene wasn't expected in North Carolina until sometime Saturday. But heightened waves from the storm weren't waiting, already hitting the Outer Banks early Friday where many tourists and regular islanders had packed up and left, the National Weather Service said.
Meanwhile, the hurricane warning area was expanded and now covered the coast from North Carolina up to Sandy Hook, N.J., which is just south of New York City. A hurricane watch extended even farther north and included Long Island, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Mass.
Irene weakened slightly Friday, dropping down to a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds near 110 mph (175 kph). But some re-strengthening was possible and the storm was expected to be near the threshold between a Category 2 and 3 storm as it reached North Carolina's coast, the National Hurricane Center said.
Buxton, N.C. real estate agent Danny Couch owns a bus tour business on Hatteras Island and worries about Irene's damage potential in unexpected ways. Not the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse or other icons of the Outer Banks, but N.C. Highway 12, the two-lane road that runs up and down the vulnerable barrier island.
That's a lifeline for the community, along with the aged Bonner Bridge, the only connection to the mainland other than two ferries.
"It always the road," he said when asked what he will check when Irene passes. "That's your way in, that's your way out."
North Carolina was just first in line along the Eastern Seaboard - home to some of the nation's most heavily populated areas and some of its priciest real estate. Besides major cities, sprawling suburban bedroom communities, ports, airports, highway networks, cropland and mile after mile of built-up beachfront neighborhoods are in harm's way.
"One of my greatest nightmares was having a major hurricane go up the whole Northeast coast," Max Mayfield, the National Hurricane Center's retired director, told The Associated Press on Thursday as the storm lurched toward the U.S. "This is going to be a real challenge ... There's going to be millions of people affected."
The hurricane would be the strongest to strike the East Coast in seven years, and people were already getting out of the way. After dousing the Bahamas, it was again moving over warm Atlantic waters that will energize it.
The center of the storm was still about 420 miles (675 kilometers) south-southwest of Cape Hatteras, N.C., and moving to the north at 14 mph (22 kph).
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were told Thursday to pack a bag and be prepared to move elsewhere. The nation's biggest city hasn't seen a hurricane in decades.
Farther south, tens of thousands packed up and left North Carolina beach towns and farmers pulled up their crops.
Daughtry has lost count of how many times his crops have been wiped out by storms that regularly blow up from the tropics.
"That's the price of living in paradise," he said of a fertile farm belt that's weathered an unusually hot and dry summer. Any deluge from Irene's rain bands could wipe out many crops just when they are ready for harvesting.
What's at stake in North Carolina? Latest figures show coastal North Carolina's fields earned nearly $6.3 billion in farm income in 2009 alone from its tobacco, corn and other crops.
Risks are many from Irene's wrath: surging seas, drenching rains, flash floods and high winds are all possibilities the Federal Emergency Management Agency director wasn't counting out.
"We're going to have damages, we just don't know how bad," Craig Fugate told AP as FEMA readied plans in many states. "This is one of the largest populations that will be impacted by one storm at one time."
Not just infrastructure, but jobs are also at stake.
Take Mary Thomas of Nags Head, a 34-year-old motel worker.
"We depend on tourism," said Thomas. "If we're hit, the motel will be shut down for a while. Businesses will be closed. People will have to rebuild. And that means I'll be out of a job."
The Outer Banks attracts thousands of tourists each year who stay in hotels and motels or the upscale homes lining the oceanfront. Many workers, like Thomas, earn a living by working in restaurants that cater to the tourists - and some were struggling before the storm barreled toward North Carolina.
"I just don't know what I would do if I lose my job," said Thomas, the mother of two.
Latest forecasts had Irene crashing up the North Carolina coastline Saturday, then churning up the East while drenching areas from Virginia to New York City before a much-weakened storm reaches New England.
Even if the winds aren't strong enough to damage buildings in a metropolis made largely of brick, concrete and steel, a lot of New York's subway system and other infrastructure is underground and subject to flooding in the event of an unusually strong storm surge or heavy rains, authorities noted.
New York City's two airports also are close to the water and could be inundated, as could densely packed neighborhoods, if the storm pushes ocean water into the city's waterways, officials said. The city had a brush with a tropical storm, Hanna, in 2008 that dumped 3 inches of rain in Manhattan.
All told, Irene could cause billions of dollars in damages or more along the Eastern Seaboard in a worst case scenario, said Kathleen Tierney, director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado.
In the last 200 years, New York has seen only a few significant hurricanes. In September of 1821, a hurricane raised tides by 13 feet in an hour and flooded all of Manhattan south of Canal Street, the southernmost tip of the city. The area now includes Wall Street and the World Trade Center memorial.
New England is also unaccustomed to direct hits from hurricanes. Griffin, who fishes from Portland, Maine, still recalls the clobbering when Hurricane Gloria struck in 1985 and said this one is not one to ignore after years without a large, dangerous storm.
"We have a young generation of lobstermen who've never experienced a full-blown hurricane," Griffin warned.
The first U.S. injuries from Irene appeared to be in South Florida near West Palm Beach where eight people were washed off a jetty Thursday by a large wave churned up by the storm.
In Washington, Irene dashed hopes of dedicating a 30-foot sculpture to the late Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall on Sunday with the help of President Barack Obama. While a direct strike on the nation's capital appeared slim, organizers said the forecasts of wind and heavy rain made it too dangerous to summon a throng they initially expected to number up to 250,000 strong.
CoreLogic, a company that provides strategic information to businesses and others, issued a statement Thursday that its data showed some 1.8 million residential and commercial properties in the region were at potential risk to storm surge flooding. It said those properties are in 12 major coastal metropolitan areas within Irene's projected path and added Long Island, New York, faced the highest risk with nearly 388,000 properties.
Heavy rain and possible floods were big worries in the Northeast. The potential for flooding and wind damage are Irene's greatest threats to Rhode Island, still smarting from the 2010 spring floods that devastated parts of the Ocean State.
In Connecticut, Gov. Daniel P. Malloy declared a state of emergency and warned there could be prolonged power outages if Irene dumps up to a foot of rain on already saturated ground as some fear. He said emergency responders must be ready in event of any evacuations from heavily developed urban areas.
"We are a much more urban state than we were in 1938," he said, referring to the year that the so-called "Long Island Express" hurricane killed 600 people and caused major damage with 17-foot storm surges and high winds.
The urban population explosion in recent decades also worries New Jersey officials. Gov. Chris Christie encouraged anyone on that state's heavily built-up shoreline to begin preparations to leave.
Hurricanes have made landfall on New Jersey just twice in the last 200 years, in 1821 and 1903, the latter battering the Atlantic City area. But the state now has 8.8 million people and coastal areas packed with homes and businesses - and 11 major casinos in Atlantic City.
The beach community of Ocean City, Md., was taking no chances, ordering thousands of people to leave.
"This is not a time to get out the camera and sit on the beach and take pictures of the waves," said Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.


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Friday, July 31, 2015 - 2:15pm
The Cadillac Three set to open for Rice on fall headlining tour; special guest Kelsea Ballerini to join Rice for Atlanta show on November 12
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 31, 2015) – Country music maverick Chase Rice has been teasing his widespread fan base with a series of social media posts about his fall headlining tour for weeks, and finally today,July 31, they will have the chance to get their hands on tickets to see the "ferocious" (The Tennessean) performer in his element. Tickets for select dates on the JD and Jesus Tour 2015 will go on sale to the public today starting at 10:00 a.m. local time at www.ChaseRice.com.
With major stops that include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh and New York City, the JD and Jesus Tour 2015 is slated for 24 shows and more to be announced in the coming weeks. Rice will be taking Big Machine Records' raucous Nashville trio The Cadillac Three on the road for most dates, and chart-topping Black River Entertainment artist Kelsea Ballerini will join as a special guest at Rice's Nov. 12 show in Atlanta.
Upcoming dates for the JD and Jesus Tour 2015 are as follows:
Thursday, Oct. 1 – The NorVa – Norfolk, Va.*
Friday, Oct. 2 – Stage AE – Pittsburgh, Pa.*
Saturday, Oct. 3 – Lifestyle Communities Pavilion – Columbus, Ohio+
Sunday, Oct. 4 - Route 91 Harvest Festival – Las Vegas, Nev.*
Thursday, Oct. 8 – Hard Rock Live – Orlando, Fla.*
Friday, Oct. 9 – 440 Foundry Pavilion – Athens, Ga.*
Saturday, Oct. 10 – Track 29 – Chattanooga, Tenn.*
Wednesday, Oct. 14 - The Fillmore –Philadelphia, Pa.*+
Thursday, Oct. 15 - The Egyptian Room at Old National Centre – Indianapolis, Ind.*+
Friday, Oct. 16 - Aragon Ballroom – Chicago, Ill.*+
Thursday, Oct. 22 - Nutty Brown Café – Austin, Texas*+
Friday, Oct. 23 - Cowboys Dancehall – San Antonio, Texas*+
Thursday, Oct. 29 – 7 Flags Event Center – Clive, Iowa*
Friday, Oct. 30 – Sokol Auditorium – Omaha, Neb.*
Thursday, Nov. 5 – Myth Live Event Center – St. Paul, Minn.*+
Friday, Nov. 6 – The Rave - Milwaukee, Wis.*+
Thursday, Nov. 12 - The Tabernacle – Atlanta, Ga.+
Friday, Nov. 13 – Iron City - Birmingham, Ala.*+
Sunday, Nov. 15 – Ribfest – St. Petersburg, Fla.*
Wednesday, Nov. 18 - The Emporium - Patchogue, N.Y.+
Thursday, Nov. 19 - Lowell Memorial Auditorium – Boston, Mass.+
Friday, Nov. 20 - Terminal 5 - New York, N.Y.
Saturday, Nov. 21 – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, Ont.*
Thursday, Dec. 3 - Comerica Theatre – Phoenix, Ariz.
*Denotes dates with The Cadillac Three as special guest
+Denotes tickets on sale starting today, July 31, at 10:00 a.m. local time
Rice, whose current single "Gonna Wanna Tonight" is Top 20-and-climbing at country radio, will continue on The Big Revival Tour with Chesney through the end of August and play select solo and festival dates throughout the summer. For more information or to buy tickets, visitwww.ChaseRice.com and follow on Twitter @ChaseRiceMusic andwww.Facebook.com/
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Chancer punts cig pack case for Raspberry Pi
Holey smokes
With the Linux-based Raspberry Pi now available for purchase, punters have started to push their own home-made chassis for the case-less computer. But one opportunist is touting this customised cigarette box.
Yes, you can bid on eBay for this craftily engineered Marlboro Light packet from one 'Hackneywhacko'.
Fags a lot
When I say craftily engineered, I mean, he's poked a hole in the top and described it as a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a collector's item alpha-prototype case".
The creator also highlighted the foil backed paper lining which "may or may not stop your weirdly small computer from bursting into flames".
Unlike the Raspberry Pi, the container was made in a British manufacturing facility, he says, before assuring potential buyers that it will make you look very cool.
Unfortunately, neither the cigarettes nor the computer are included with the case.
The 'recycled' custom case for Raspberry Pi Model B can be yours for a fiver, including P&P, although we suspect if you keep your eyes peeled on the floor next time you head to the shops, you'll probably find all the materials needed to make one yourself, absolutely free of charge.
Not that that would bother HackneyWhacko, who tells one inquiring punter that they can "can stick your dick in the mashed potato" for all he cares. ®
Thanks to Paul M and John C for the tip


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Immobilarity, 1m 58sec
[Song starts with conversation]
Come here you oven head
Yo what's the word
Dred upstairs
Passing all packs escorted from Kinetta ear
Yo the nigga's name unknown
Kingston, had it sown
Never rocked the combs
His wig was big
Rob robs on the side , little lucky charm
Dred with jars , flooded graveyard
Brown clarks on
Playin feds in the shark bar (la la you ? ? star)
With another dred named Gov
Both diamond jimmed out
Rockin rentals, spittin phlegm out
Sucked his teeth, two fingers pointin down
What up bonna, passing marijuana to Tanya
CEO of Benny-Hanna, he fucked, sent her to Ghana
He's Benz nigga, rocked shorts, beige Tims nigga he real
Took us to Switzerland, dressed us all ill
Smoking ganja, rocked Anacondas, on next border Elantra
Sent it to his mama
Now that's a major move, the nigga love family
wouldn't hand me no drugs, showed me his jammi
Bulldog Stanley
Flexin on kinal, sit down, do it Chinese style
On graduation day he threw me a towel
He came through, heavy like fuck, suit flammable
Ill pair of gators he copped in Beirut
Had his man wit him, just stare , don't stand wit him
If assassination strike, he gotta make plans wit him
Roll a joint, keep him on point 'Don Troing poing coin'
Freaked it, members like that I want to join
The next day I heard he got knocked , fucked me all up
We felt it on the block, let the seeds rock
Peep what the nigga got rocked for
Smuggling dust in Rushmore, four more he went to war for
Moral of the storo, conspiracy smacked mortals
I'm outta here showin love like Zorro
Written by WOODS, COREY / KELLY, SEAN
Published by Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics Provided By LyricFind Inc.


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Law of Sines
|Law of Sines
Law of Sines
- The law of sines is a tool commonly used to help solve arbitrary triangles. It is a formula that relates the sine of a given angle to its opposite side length.
Basic Description
In any triangle, there is a relationship between the measures of the angles and the lengths of the sides: the largest angle is opposite the longest side, the second-largest angle is opposite the second-longest side, and the smallest angle is opposite the shortest side.
The law of sines is an equation that more precisely expresses this relationship between the angles of a triangle and the length of their opposite sides. The law of sines states that the ratio between a length of one side of a triangle and the sine of its opposite angle is equal for all three sides. Specifically:
Given a triangle with side lengths and opposite angles ,
The law of sines is used to find all of the lengths of the sides and the angle measures for an arbitrary triangle given only some of this information. This process is called solving a triangle. To use the law of sines in solving triangles, at least three elements of a triangle must be known. Whenever a side length and two angles are given, the law of sines can be used to solve the triangle.
In some cases, the law of sines can provide multiple solutions to a triangle. If two adjacent side lengths are given with one of the opposite angles, the law of sines cannot definitively determine the triangle, but instead offers zero, one, or two possible solutions in what is known as the ambiguous case.
The law of sines does not help with solving a triangle in several cases. With two known side lengths and the measure of the angle between, there is no way to use the law of sines to solve the triangle because no pair of opposite angle measure and side length is provided. The law of sines by itself is also not able to provide solutions when three side lengths are provided. Instead, the law of cosines is often used for solving triangles in these cases.
A More Mathematical Explanation
Two DerivationsThere are at least two different ways to derive the law of sines: using the area [...]
Two Derivations
There are at least two different ways to derive the law of sines: using the area formula and using the definition of sine.
Using Area
The formula for area of a triangle uses the lengths of the base and height. By using these lengths and the angle measures of a triangle, we can derive the law of sines.
A triangle can be oriented so that any one side can be used as the base. Depending on which side is chosen as the base of the triangle, the height may be different. Let be the height when the side of length is the base. When is the base, is the distance from a vertex to the opposite side, such that is perpendicular to the side. When is oriented as the base of the triangle, runs perpendicular to side and is the distance from side to the vertex .
First, we must determine the height of the triangle for each orientation of the base.
In any triangle,
Since the area of the triangle is the same no matter how the triangle is oriented, the area of the triangle with as the base is the same as the area of the triangle with as the base.
Substituting the formula for the area of a triangle,
Both and can be written in terms of side lengths and angles as shown in the "More on Height" section. Therefore, we can substitute for and for , giving us
Multiplying both sides by and dividing by gives us
Then, rearranging once more gives us our equation in its most common form,
Since we can orient the base differently and go through the same process with other variables, we know that , so
which is the law of sines.
Using the Definition of Sine
We know that, in a right triangle,
Letting represent height and represent the lengths of the sides opposite , respectively, plug in the appropriate measures to solve for .
Clearing the fractions,
Clearing the fractions,
Set both equations for equal to each other to get
Divide both sides by for
Since we can go through the same process using a different angle and different variables, we know that , so
A Geometric Extension
For every triangle, there is some circle for which the vertices of the triangle lay on the circumference. This triangle is known as an inscribed triangle, and the circle is known as the circumcircle or circumscribed circle.
By the extended law of sines,
where is the radius of the circumcircle.
Let there be two inscribed triangles on a circle of radius . Let be a triangle that has a hypotenuse that goes through the center of the circle. Let be an oblique triangle that shares with .
For ,
Angle is equal to angle because they are both inscribed angles that cut the same arc. According to properties of inscribed angles, two inscribed angles that cut the same arc in circles of the came radius are equal. Since and are the same, so are and .
Substituting for gives us
Solving for gives us
Since is the diameter,
or equivalently,
since is the length of the side opposite .
By the law of sines, we know that
and therefore by the transitive property,
Example Problem
Solve the triangle. Find all of its parts, , given , ,.
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Immigration backlash is on the rise in Europe
BERLIN – Parties backing crackdowns on immigration are ascending to new heights in Britain, France, Austria and elsewhere in Europe by tapping into worries that the open-borders policies of the European Union are diminishing local culture and costing jobs.
Backers of immigration that include the business community say the fears are irrational but supporters of stricter limits on immigration say the EU has gone too far and need to be reined in.
Swiss voters in February approved a measure that tightens immigration quotas despite threats of penalties by the EU, though the vote was close. France's anti-EU National Front party, which supports limits on immigration, won control of up to 15 municipalities in elections Sunday, more than tripling its previous high of four municipalities in the 1990s.
Anti-immigration candidates are predicted to make a strong showing in EU parliamentary elections in May.
Leaders throughout Europe say people are increasingly pessimistic about the bedrock EU principle of open borders, which allows citizens of EU member states to work and receive social benefits anywhere they choose. Anti-immigration activists say governments know this, and are loath to allow referendums that expose the divide between elites and the citizenry on the question of EU migrant policies.
Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's U.K. Independence Party, said that if the British are allowed to vote on a referendum like the Swiss, "the result would be the same – but by a landslide."
Business and political leaders who have always envisioned a United States of Europe that allows people to go where the work is say the sentiment against immigration will hamper economic productivity and increase the risk of conflict.
But the Euroskeptics as they are known say they feel vindicated, that mainstream parties are out of touch.
"There is a huge immigration flow coming into this country and it puts an enormous strain on all our public services – our hospitals, our (doctors') practices, our schools," said John Mills, golf course marshal from Sussex.
"We are full, this is the thing, it is simple – we are on course to reach 70 million people in our population and we cannot take any more people."
Governments are responding. Britain is facing legal action by the European Commission over attempts to limit welfare benefits to immigrants in a case to be taken up by the European Court of Justice soon.
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has set up a panel to find ways to cut down on "benefit tourism" in cities that complain they are overwhelmed by unemployed east Europeans arriving not to work but to take advantage of the country's health care, schools and welfare.
"The number of immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania and the social problems linked to some of them can be managed nationally but in certain regions it is alarming, and the rise in numbers is alarming," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told Reuters. "So we must take measures to avoid this becoming a problem."
Many Europeans say their national leaders have been trying to repress debate on the costs of immigration rather than address it, and that has fueled a backlash against immigration as a whole. He says "political correctness" is cowing people and politicians worried about being labeled "racists."
"None of the U.K. governments in the last two decades has addressed this issue but the political party to do this would probably win the next election," Mills said. "Often people coming in are completely unskilled, or can't speak English, so integration is a huge issue."
Such sentiment is also strong in other countries such as Sweden, the Netherlands and France, where France's National Front is now supported by one in four voters in the country, recent polls show.
But the anti-immigration stands have also given new life to hard-right parties, or worse, say critics.
"We're not the world's welfare office!" scream fliers from the German neo-Nazi party NPD posted on Facebook in March, to hundreds of Facebook "likes" and shares. "Out with the freeloaders!" read numerous comments in response. "Don't even let them in!" read others.
Johannes Hübner, official for international affairs for Austria's Freedom Party, says his party's resonance with Austrians is due to an anti-immigrant stance "ordinary people" can relate to. The party won 21% of the vote in parliamentary elections in September.
"The mass influx of foreigners of the last 20 to 30 years has hurt ordinary people because it pushed salaries down," he said.
"What we definitely don't need for the time being is immigration because right now the EU has the worst employment crisis since World War II."
The message has growing resonance.
"What we do know is that the Freedom Party is going to rise even more in the coming years," said Thomas Hofer, an independent Vienna-based political analyst. "I expect it to be in the running for the number one spot next time."
Immigration remains a necessity to iron out labor shortages and high unemployment, say analysts. The hangover from the sovereign debt crisis is hamstringing growth in Europe and anti-immigration policies will make it worse, they say.
"With the aging population, we are desperately in need of immigration," said Ben Tonra, the head of the University College Dublin School of Politics and International Relations in Ireland.
"Also, the reality is, jobs need to be filled, particularly in service sectors, particularly in low-wage sectors, which immigrants are willing to take up, which local people are unwilling or unable to take up for whatever reason."
Analysts say immigrants are a convenient scapegoat for the difficult problems plaguing the continent such as slow economic growth and unemployment in the double digits in some countries.
Worse still is that with the growing clout of the right-wing parties, mainstream politicians are being pulled into the populist debate, instead of concentrating on delivering real solutions.
Some, especially the more established center-right parties, even co-opt the rhetoric of their more populist counterparts, "instead of offering rational counters," said Karin Boettger, deputy director of the Berlin-based Institute for European Politics.
"There really are social consequences to EU integration – things that have to be tackled but that won't happen if we hide back in our homes, draw the curtains and think that if we shut the foreigners out everything will be OK," she said.
The business community in many parts of Western Europe, especially in Germany, has begged their governments to open doors to skilled labor, warning that a failure to do so would hurt competitiveness.
German factories, labs and offices are already staffed in part by highly skilled workers from around Europe, Asia and elsewhere who help fuel Germany's export-led economy but shortages persist.
That echoes in Switzerland where business groups such as the Swiss Bankers Association warned that restricting immigration would hurt the economy. Switzerland's export-oriented economy needs open borders to supply the labor needs of its large companies, they added.
But that reality comes up against a big disconnect with voters.
"The Swiss voted regarding their emotions and fears about what could happen if more foreigners come to Switzerland," said Yves Flueckiger, professor of labor economics at the University of Geneva.
"It was quite an irrational vote because the current economic situation in Switzerland, as well as the unemployment rate, is very good," he said. "Our economy, in fact, improved since the liberation of the mobility of workers with the EU, but it's quite difficult to explain to people that the overall situation has been quite profitable for the Swiss economy."
Such divisions are common when it comes to immigration issues: Most of the districts that supported the measure are rural and don't have many immigrants. That phenomenon is also reflected across Europe.
Also, countries with strong anti-immigrant parties such as Austria and Sweden are doing well economically.
In Norway, like Switzerland, which is not part of the EU, the anti-immigrant Progress Party joined the governing coalition for the first time late last year – meanwhile, rich Norway has virtually no unemployment and some of the highest wages in the world.
Still, Don Flynn, director of the U.K.'s Migrants' Rights Network, says he is not surprised by the growing backlash.
"There is still a very strong sense of crisis and a lot of insecurity across the economies of the entire region," Flynn said. "This is exactly the sort of situation you would expect nationalistic attitudes to flourish in."
Some say voters blame Brussels, the center of the European Union, for forcing immigration and other unpopular policies on them such as bailouts for countries such as Ireland and Greece whose banks were shattered during the euro crisis. They say that explains the rise of anti-euro parties such as True Finns and Alternative for Deutschland.
"There is much discontent about the way European affairs are run," said Hübner. "People are against giving more control to Brussels and are certainly not happy about the rescue packages for Greece, Portugal and so on."
In January, Bulgarians and Romanians won the right to work across all EU countries, a development that has populist parties up in arms warning of "welfare check" migration. The United Kingdom even considered creating a campaign in Bulgaria telling locals that conditions were better at home and to stay there.
"If you look at the statistics you would see that hasn't happened," Böttger said. "Romanians and Bulgarians pay more into the social security system than they use. Most of the people who come here actually contribute to the economic wealth of the country, and are not, as some suggest, here to live off welfare."
Many people agree.
"London is a great melting pot of different cultures and backgrounds that have enhanced our own city so much – long may it continue," said Londoner Christopher Ward, a software developer. "Immigration provides huge boosts to our economy, as well as making our society vastly more diverse."
Contributing: Meritxell Mir from Basel, Switzerland; Korolyov reported from Vienna and Stephanie Jones-Berry from London.


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Eldorado Peak Climber's Log
jtschanz - Jul 22, 2003 5:56 pmRoute Climbed: Eldorado Glacier Date Climbed: July 13, 2002
Impressive mountain! The approach to camp was interesting to say the least - we were surprised by how much snow was still around. Great views from camp of Sahalie Peak and Boston Basin. The summit knife-edge ridge was truly breathtaking - we placed several pickets for protection.
tonybell1 - May 21, 2003 7:04 pmRoute Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: May 13, 2003
Long difficult approach in early season but well worth it. The summit is one of most exhilarating I have visited.
krishna - May 12, 2003 1:57 pmRoute Climbed: Eldorado Glacier/ East Ridge Date Climbed: Aug 19, 2001
One heck of a climb. Be extra careful at the top (last few hundred feet), we had a little "incident".
geoffcasey - Sep 19, 2002 11:15 amRoute Climbed: N. Ridge (?) Date Climbed: September 15th
This mixed route is a little trickier than the standard route. The mixed rock and ice climbing, remote setting, and exposure really add to the alpine ambiance. We backed off a few pitches up as the weather really started to move in, we were already pushing the limits of our mixed climbing skills, and were nearly out of slings from the other climbs we had done in the tepeh towers. I guess I would rather back of and live to climb again.
geoffcasey - Sep 19, 2002 11:11 amRoute Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: September 14 2002
The east ridge was in great condition and the weather was wonderful. The Knife-edge mollows out at the top this late in the season to a slightly wider style of knife before one reaches the rocky area just below the summit.
Joe Hanssen - Jul 29, 2002 6:05 pmRoute Climbed: Eldorado Glacier/East Ridge Date Climbed: June '01
Another amazing classic in the North Cascades/Cascade Pass area. Camped at the edge of Eldorado Glacier. Ascended the East Ridge and climbed the corniced summit during a minor summer snowstorm. The clouds opened up enough to see Eldorado Glacier a few times, other then that there was no view, even so, it was more then worth it.
Hammer - Jul 15, 2002 7:51 amRoute Climbed: East Ridge Date Climbed: July 13, 2002
Wow, what a climb! After the strenuous hike to where we camped at 5700', summit day was spectacular. For only being a peak at just under 8900', the 3500'+ of elevation gain to camp will definitely stand out in my mind as "fun". We spent the night at camp before summiting and left for the summit at 0530 and were back by noon. Spent the rest of the day and evening relaxing and enjoying the North Cascades. We descended the next morning which took nearly as long due to havig to negotiate the talus fields.
CCorbin - Apr 4, 2002 5:30 amRoute Climbed: Eldorado Glacier Date Climbed: July 28, 2001
Climbed out of the fog to a beautiful sunny day!
ericd - Oct 8, 2001 3:22 pmRoute Climbed: Eldorado Creek to east ridge Date Climbed: October 4th, 2001
This was a two day climb. The toe of the Eldorado glacier seems to be unstable, as it was cracking and breaking underneath us in the early morning! Lots of crevasses to negotiate with. The views are breath taking from the ridge crest on. The talus field is the worst part of the climb! A must-do climb!
cc2001 - Jul 28, 2001 5:55 pmRoute Climbed: Eldorado Glacier Date Climbed: 7/21/2001
Great climb. After slogging up the hill to the toe of the Eldorado Glacier and sitting all night in the rain, we headed up through clouds for the summit. Just as we stepped onto the Inspiration Glacier a rousing cheer broke from our group. The summit and a cobalt sky were visible through the fog. A few minutes later we were in the sun and heading for the top...
See our photos at http://climbing.olycon.com/Frames.cfm?id=69
climbit - Apr 1, 2001 5:27 pmRoute Climbed: East Ridge / Eldorado Glacier Date Climbed: 6/22/98
Eldorado Peak - ONLY successful climb of the year in 1998... and what a climb! The approach 'hike' was steep, scary, wet, cold, and almost not worth it until… the next morning we woke up... I never want to go into the Pickets if they'r worse than this...
But see the photo of Dirk and Miguel above the clouds at the high camp 7500ft on the Inspiration/Eldorado glacier massif just below the summit block itself.
For complete details see my account that will eventually be published on my website www.ieway.com/climbit/ that starts:
I'll Never Do this Approach Again (or)
Did Someone Say the Pickets were Worse?
After the first six hours I began to make an attempt at amusing myself to take my mind off the pain, cold rain, overcast skies, and ridiculously steep slope of this approach. I had just been to Spain earlier in the spring and since Miguel was along as our 'hired gun' I figured it was as good a time as any to practice my Espanol. I led with my best. Stopping long enough to dig a toenail into the toe box of my new (e.g. painful) La Sportivas, I said Hey, Miguel. Have you ever heard the expression: 'Cuando cerra la voca, no entran moscas.' He looked at me with a bewilderment that quickly turned to a feisty glint in her eye. 'Hey, I didn't know you spoke Spanish. That's cool! Where did you learn.... blah blah blah etc. etc. etc.' Hey this was working! I had moved up a good 25 meters without noticing how cold and miserable I was. When we got to camp three hours later in the fog, I could only tell because 1) it was flat and 2) it was the right elevation. We were the stupidest men on earth. No way we'd see the summit (or even the mountain) the next day. I was doomed to a nine hour 5400 ft nightmare of an approach (why do we call it that, anyway - its more like sheeetty-steep-hike or stupid-no-trail-visible-through-God-knows-what-all-kind-of- loathesome-rainforest-crap-trip) without the tangible payoff of a summit. Life sucked. I stewed inside my tent internally and froze externally in the driving 40 mph sleet blizzard. Loco. Tonto. Es-Stupido. However, I would certainly pay my debt to the old saying in the morning when I woke up to Miguel saying 'Hey, guys I think you should come out here...


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A Reader's Perspective: Entering the Minds of the Patent Trolls
An reader whom we spoke to, who also prefers to remain unnamed, has shared the following bits of insight with us.
From Louis Villa:
…if you want to see what the most advanced patent trolls are thinking, this paper (co-written by a brilliant stanford IP prof and Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures, formerly Microsoft) is a really interesting read. It deserves much broader coverage and interest than it has received.
So, this is what they are thinking when it comes to "patent reform"; by no means do they want to abolish the patent regime over pure software and generic ideas, they just want the patent trolls out. On the other side, we, the Free Software Community should fight for a complete abolishment of software patents. We must discourage the EU authorities from legalizing software patents, so the US can take that as a model and not the reverse, where trans-national corporations are trying to export the corrupt patent regime to Europe and elsewhere with the aid of WIPO. If the problem becomes global it will be much harder to correct afterwards.
In this video you can watch Steve B. cynically asking for patent reform, but "not throwing the baby along with the bathwater". This is what he refers to:
The only thing is that is an interesting part about patents in Ballmer's video starts from minute 1:00 on (the first minute is a question by someone from Vodafone).
"The solution is straightforward: require publication of patent assignment and license terms. Doing so won't magically make the market for patents work like a stock exchange; there will still be significant uncertainty about whether a patent is valid and what it covers. But it will permit the aggregate record of what companies pay for rights to signal what particular patents are worth and how strong they are, just as derivative financial instruments allow markets to evaluate and price other forms of risk. It will help rationalize patent transactions, turning them from secret, one-off negotiations into a real, working market for patents. And by making it clear to courts and the world at large what the normal price is for patent rights, it will make it that much harder for a few unscrupulous patent owners to hold up legitimate innovators, and for established companies to systematically infringe the rights of others"
As stated by Louis Villa:
'reform' by itself will not be sufficient to protect anyone, since trolls with a dozen strong patents will be just as threatening as trolls with hundreds of patents of unknown quality.
We MUST defend the latest software-patents-free area of the western world before the WIPO tries to take over the EU and tries to standardize the corrupt US patent regime in Europe as well (also as a stop in the middle of the way towards trying impose patents to China, as a requisite to allow that country into the WTO, but that is another story).
To fight the FUD and make people wake and be aware of the colossal TRAP for our future that Microsoft is trying to lay in front of us.
We thank the anonymous contributor for this analysis and welcome further commentary.


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UNH Football loses season opener at Toledo
UNH Press Release:
Sean Goldrich (West Haven, Conn.) matched career highs in passing yards (291) and attempts (39) with a personal-best 27 completions for the University of New Hampshire football team, but the University of Toledo overcame a 14-3 deficit to prevail 54-20 in Saturday night's season opener for both teams at the Glass Bowl.
UNH, ranked No. 4 in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), lost to a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) opponent for the fifth consecutive year; the current streak was preceded by five straight wins against FBS foes. Toledo, the preseason favorite in the Mid-American Conference West Division, finished with 674 total yards of offense (314 rushing, 360 passing).
Goldrich threw for TD passes of 35 yards to R.J. Harris (Odenton, Md.) and eight yards to Nico Steriti (Toms River, N.J.), and also ran for a four-yard score to account for all three UNH scores. Harris led the 'Cats in both catches (nine) and receiving yards (149), as well as rushing yards with 16 on his only carry of the game. Jared Allison (Cliffwood, N.J.) finished with a career-high seven catches for 55 yards.
UNH's defense was led by Daniel Rowe (Orange, N.J.; career-high 10 tackles), Nick Cefalo (Basking Ridge, N.J.; career-high nine tackles) and Akil Anderson (Morristown, N.J.; eight).
Toledo's Phillip Ely was 24-of-34 for 337 yards and four TD passes. Alonzo Russell was the top target with six catches for 78 yards. Corey Jones had four receptions for 78 yards and a TD, and Justin Olack had a pair of TD catches on three receptions for 24 yards. Kareem Hunt was the Rockets' top ground gainer with 20 carries for 136 yards and two touchdowns.
UNH won the coin toss and deferred, then Rowe broke up Ely's pass attempt on 3rd-and-6 to force Toledo to punt. The Wildcats began their first drive of the 2014 season on their 29-yard line and Goldrich completed 5 of 6 passes for 72 yards to lead the 'cats to a 7-0 lead at 9:08. Harris caught three passes for 56 yards, and he capped the drive with a 35-yard screen pass on the right side in which he was sprung by a crushing Austin Heter (McKees Rocks, Pa.) block at the UT 30.
The Rockets responded with an 11-play, 78-yard drive that culminated in a 22-yard field goal by Jeremiah Detmer to pull within 7-3 at 4:46. Toledo had 1st-and-goal at the UNH 9, but the drive stalled when Anderson stood up Marc Remy at the UNH 4 on second down followed by Anderson and Cefalo dropping Hunt for a one-yard loss.
After the teams exchanged punts, the Wildcats extended the lead to 14-3 at 7:43 of the second quarter on Goldrich's five-yard quarterback keeper up the middle. After a UT pass interference infraction set up 1st-and-10 at the UNH 35, Goldrich completed four consecutive passes to Allison (eight yards), Kyon Taylor (Springfield, Va.; eight), Harris (12) and Mike Kelly (Merrimack, N.H.; four) to set up 2nd-and-6 at the UT 32. One down later, Goldrich ran around the left end for a nine-yard gain and a Rockets' personal foul made it 1st-and-10 at the 12. Three plays later, the QB's scoring rush capped a 13-play, 87-yard drive that consumed 6:04.
Toledo responded just 1:48 later on a 64-yard TD connection from Ely to Corey Jones to trim the deficit to 14-10 at 5:48; that score began a 27-0 surge by the Rockets.
On UNH's ensuing drive, the Wildcats advanced the ball to the UT 47, but that's where the drive ended. Brad Prasky (Groton, Mass.) booted a 43-yard punt that was downed at the UT 4 with 2:11 remaining in the first half.
Ely quickly guided the Rockets to the UNH 2 on five completions for 60 yards and Hunt took an inside handoff around the left guard for a two-yard scoring scamper to give the home team a 16-14 lead with 24 seconds on the clock; the snap was mishandled on the PAT to keep the margin at two points.
New Hampshire received the opening kickoff of the third quarter and on 4th-and-1 from its 38, Prasky was dropped for a one-yard loss on a designed fake punt to give Toledo 1st-and-10 at the UNH 37 with 13:00 on the clock.
Seven plays later, Hunt scored on another inside handoff in which he went around the left guard for a three-yard TD rush that extended the Rockets' lead to 23-14 at 10:49.
Following a 3-and-out by the 'Cats, Ely engineered a 7-play, 72-yard drive that ended with a nine-yard TD pass to Olack in the back of the end zone and gave the home team a 30-14 advantage at 7:02 of the third quarter.
UNH ended Toledo's streak of 27 consecutive points on an 8-yard TD pass from Goldrich to Steriti, who caught the ball at the 6-yard line and battled through traffic in the middle to cross the goal line and bring the Wildcats within 30-20 at 4:33. On the 2-point attempt, Steriti's run up the middle was initially ruled successful but was overturned upon review.
During that drive, Harris' 32-yard reception, which gave the 'Cats 1st-and-10 at the UT 35, put him ahead of John Perry (1989-92) for No. 4 on the program's career receiving yardage list. Perry ended his career with 2,873 and Harris increased his overall total to 2,926 with his 149-yard effort.
UT closed the game on a 24-0 spurt. Olack's second TD catch of the third quarter – this time from eight yards – capped an 11-play, 75-yard drive that gave the Rockets a 37-20 lead at 1:16 of the third quarter.
Jones-Moore scored on a four-yard scamper to extend the advantage to 44-20 at 12:10 of the fourth quarter and Ely's 40-yard TD pass to Terry Swanson pushed the differential to 31 points at 10:27. Detmer's 27-yard yard field goal closed the scoring, 54-20, at 4:05.
New Hampshire returns to action Sept. 13 for its home opener against Lehigh University.


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ISTANBUL — After weeks of sometimes violent confrontation with police, protesters in Turkey have found what could be a more potent form of resistance: standing still.
The trend was launched by performance artist Erdem Gunduz, who stood silently for hours in Istanbul's central Taksim Square on Monday night, in passive defiance of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's violent crackdown on environmental protesters at a park adjacent to Taksim. The square has been sealed off from protesters since police cleared it over the weekend, though pedestrians can still enter.
As Gunduz stood there, others gradually began to join him — and later to replicate his protest in other cities in a wave of imitation driven by social media.
Gunduz apparently made no announcement before he paused Monday evening in the square and didn't move. He stood with his hands in his pockets, staring at an image of Turkey's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, whose admiration is rooted in his success in imposing secular values on a largely Muslim nation after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire 90 years ago.
When police arrived an hour later, Turkish news media reported, they searched his pockets and his backpack, then left.
Gunduz stayed put. For hours.
When asked by reporters what he was doing, Turkish news agency Dogan said, he responded: "It's evident. The people are not being allowed into Taksim."
Witnesses began calling him "duran adam" — "standing man." Some joined him in Taksim, while others began doing the same in other Turkish cities. In Ankara, the capital, a woman stood still at the spot where a protester had been killed.
Early Tuesday morning, police intervened and dispersed the crowd around Gunduz, detaining several protesters. It wasn't clear whether Gunduz was among those arrested, though he was free later Tuesday. Later Tuesday, others returned and began silent vigils.
Patrick Adams, an American freelance journalist, said his friend and neighbor is a dancer originally from Izmir, Turkey's third-largest city. Gunduz has a degree in fine arts, he said, and has been doing street performances for years.
Adams said he doesn't know Gunduz to be politically active, but isn't surprised by his silent act.
"He's completely courageous," Adams said.
Adams said Gunduz sent him a message Tuesday to say that he was at home and doing fine. Gunduz couldn't be reached directly.
Gunduz's act, amplified by social media, had a remarkably swift effect on the protests.
Erdogan appeared to be seizing the initiative after large weekend rallies in which he ordered Taksim Square to be cleared. The government has capitalized on sporadic scenes of violence amid the generally peaceful protest movement.
Gunduz's act of non-violence could be harder to deal with, as it could pressure the government to arrest or disperse people who are doing nothing more than standing still.
Interior Minister Muammer Guler said authorities wouldn't intervene against any demonstration that doesn't threaten public order, but that pledge could be tested quickly.
Activists called for a nationwide standing protest later Tuesday.
"We need to congratulate him (Gunduz)," said Ozgur Volkan, who joined the standing protesters in Taksim. "He started up a very great movement."