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Chester-East Lincoln Board of Education holds 1st
Q-and-A session
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[November 20, 2012]
Prior to its monthly meeting on
Nov. 13, the Chester-East Lincoln Board of Education conducted a
special question-and-answer session for the community. This was the
first of the Q-and-A sessions the board plans to have once every
three months in order to hear concerns and feedback from the parents
in the community.
The board responded by saying that they have been very happy with
Kascel's performance so far in both of her positions.
While on the topic of medical-related news, Superintendent
Jennifer Hamm gave an update as to the large number of students with
the norovirus that caused the school to let out early Nov. 2.
"It was not a foodborne illness," said Hamm. She said the school
has been working with the health department in making sure the
school has stayed clean. Hamm also said she has heard that the
virus, commonly associated with the stomach flu, has hit a few other
students in other school districts in the area.
A guest in the audience asked how the board felt about the new
buses they have been using. These buses also feature cameras as part
of a security system.
Hamm answered by saying that the new buses have been proven so
far to be a great improvement. While on the topic of transportation,
Hamm also said that the school has gone from five bus routes to
A question as to the state of the education fund was raised.
Hamm took the opportunity to give a brief explanation as to the
fluctuations in the education fund over the last 10 years. The
education fund is used primarily to pay teacher salaries and
benefits for teachers.
While some people may believe that the school is spending too
much from the education fund, the real problem is not the spending,
but much lower revenue to draw on. The school could not have
predicted the educational support fallout that began in 2008.
"Say what you will about Blagojevich, but he spent a lot of money
on education," said Hamm.
During 2008 and 2009, the state withheld nearly $107,000 from CEL.
Between the change in state spending and the late payments, CEL,
like other schools, has had a difficult time adjusting to such
financial instability.
Furthermore, the school has been able to refrain from terminating
faculty due to a relatively high number of retirements. In the past
two years, five faculty members have retired, and the school did not
refill those positions.
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Guests asked for an update on the problems the school is facing
in following new USDA lunch guidelines.
Hamm said the issue would be revisited during the board meeting
following the Q-and-A and that on Wednesday the students would be
eating a Thanksgiving-style meal, regardless of the new guidelines.
Hamm said this would be a very exciting day for the students, and
the special meal would be a relatively formal event. More than one
parent in the audience said their child was very excited about it.
Board member Leslie Starasta commented on another lunch issue
that was raised last month. Some parents are worried that their
students are not being given enough time to eat. Starasta said she
sat in on a few lunches and that there is "plenty of time for the
students that want to eat their lunch."
A question was asked as to the progress on the plans for new
building projects. The board is still in the process of deciding
what will be done, though there was a presentation on a possible
time frame at the board meeting after the session. Hamm also
reported that so far, $8,500 has been spent on the resident
engagement process.
Hamm also emphasized that the money used to pay for any school
upgrade will come from the 1 percent sales tax, not the education
fund. Furthermore, the board is looking into a bonding process to
help pay for the improvements, and Hamm said they will do everything
possible to keep the tax rate at 2.7 percent.
Hamm also reported on the recent upgrade of the windows in the
section of the school that was built in 1967. The new windows are
coated with a special tinting that makes it very difficult for
anyone to see into the classrooms, yet natural sunlight is still
filtered inside.
Board members present were Keith Birnbaum, president; Kenny
Golden, vice president; Tina Warfel; Larry Hall; Ben Roland; Leslie
Starasta; and Superintendent Jennifer Hamm..
[By DEREK HURLEY]
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IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad moving back to native Sweden after 3 decades
STOCKHOLM – Ingvar Kamprad, founder of home furnishings company IKEA, is moving back to Sweden after more than 30 years in Switzerland.
Family spokesman Per Heggenes told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the 87-year-old will move "before the end of the year" to a farmhouse near his native Almhult, in southern Sweden.
Heggenes said Kamprad started thinking about moving when his wife died in 2011, and "decided to go back to Sweden to spend more time with his friends and his family."
He said Kamprad's three sons don't live in Sweden but spend their summer and Christmas vacations there.
The news was first reported by Swedish newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
Heggenes said Kamprad, who often appears on lists of the world's richest people, no longer has an operational role in the company.

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This website is for all Grand Banks Owners and those interested in the Grand Banks Trawlers, including Alaskans, East Bays and Aleutians. Please register, join in and help us to build this site for the benefit of all Grand Banks Owners. Make suggestions here. The GB Owners Board contains posts from many knowledgeable Owners and is a wealth of information
There is something magical about the Grand Banks Trawlers that draws out the best owners and bonds them together. How often are we asked when out cruising from a fellow GB cruiser, "What's your hull number?"
The Grand Banks Trawlers have evolved over the years to their current look, which is really little different from the early "woodies". They are imitated by many and are the gold standard against which all other trawler yachts are measured. However, few measure up.


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Apple: iPad May Have Smaller Legacy than iPhone, Says UBS
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UBS's Steve Milunovich today reiterates a Buy rating on Apple (AAPL) shares and a $500 price target, despite cutting estimates for 2014 after concluding that the iPad, despite being a tremendous success, will probably be a less significant product for the company than was the iPhone, based on weaker-than-expected growth for the market overall.
Milunovich cut his estimates for the fiscal year ending in September of 2014 to $179.9 billion and $42.29 per share win net profit, with a gross margin of 36.6%, down from a prior estimate of $185.1 billion and $43.36 per share, in part because of lower sales of the iPad than he'd expected, and in part because of the potential profit erosion of the rumored lower-cost iPhone, which he calls the "iPhone M."
On the latter score, he expects the iPhone M to arrive this fall, and thinks it could take 3% of total iPhone unit sales this fiscal year, before leaping to 53% next year, without necessarily cannibalizing the high end of the line:
Our colleague Gareth Jenkins recently documented the maturation of the high- end smartphone market, which is a challenge for Apple. Most of the growth is at low price points, even $100-200. As shown in Figure 3, in 2014 we expect the $300-500 range to represent just 10% of phone volume. We assume the 5M is priced near $379. Although 10% of the market is millions of users, it does raise the question how much incremental market opportunity the new phone addresses.
Milunovich thinks the M will reduce Apple's profit:
In our model, the iPhone M is dilutive not only to gross margin but to gross profit dollars. The impact of the M depends on assumptions. We estimate the 4/4S, which the M would replace, currently have a gross margin of 55% because of the low cost of older components. We also assume the gross margin of the M will be near 32%. And we estimate shipment of 92mn iPhone M units in F14. Because the M has such a lower gross margin than the 4/4S, the M reduces earnings in our model. iPhone gross profit declines by 4% or $1.6bn with the iPhone 5/5S profit up $4.9bn and the 4/4S/M profit down $6.5bn. The net iPhone impact is a reduction to F14E EPS of $1.16. In this case, Apple would be looking to add new users to its ecosystem at the expense of short-term profit, which CFO Peter Oppenheimer said the company occasionally does. To show how sensitive the profit impact is to assumptions, if Apple sells 99mn instead of our 92mn M units, the gross profit impact would be neutral. Similarly, different gross margin assumptions will vary the result.
As regards the iPad, Milunovich notes it got a faster start than the iPhone, but its rate of growth is now trailing the iPhone:
The good news is that the iPad's take-up has been even faster than the iPhone's. About three years after introduction, the iPad has tallied over $80bn in sales compared to the iPhone's less than $50bn and more than double the units. The iPad benefitted from greater consumer familiarity with handheld devices, a lower ASP than the phone, and broader distribution. The bad news is that the rate of increase looks lower than that of the iPhone. A similar unit levels, it appears that the iPod is growing less quickly than the iPhone did. If we extrapolate current trends, the iPhone could overtake the iPod in cumulative revenue after five years from introduction at $170bn in sales.
Here's Milunovich's info-graphic comparing relative rates of shipment growth of iPhone, iPad and iPod:
He points to data from a colleague that shows the total tablet market growing more slowly than expected:
Our colleague Arthur Hsieh last week published new tablet estimates, commenting, "We are very surprised that the global tablet market shipment units do not have further upside to our prior estimates, yet PC units continue to decline." He fine-tuned 2013E/14E/15E global tablet units from 236mn/314mn/367mn to 235mn/301mn/367mn units, factoring in lower iPad units and higher Samsung and Lenovo shipments. Given little unit change and a greater ASP decline, tablet market revenue growth was cut from 26% to 21% in 2013 and from 29% to 17% in 2014. On our new estimates, Apple will grow less than the market as it has during F13.
Those remarks are somewhat supported by data this morning from IDC showing a tablet market decline in Q2 from Q1's level for the market overall, not just Apple.
"Given the iPad's fast start and leading share position, one can only conclude it has been a huge success in establishing a new category as did the iPod and iPhone before it," writes Milunovich, which causes him to wonder, "Is something wrong with the iPad?"
He ponders a number of possible answers -- given faster growth, maybe the iPad is cooling off sooner, too; maybe the upgrade cycles take longer than for phones; maybe people are experimenting with the cheaper tablets before finding their way to the iPad; maybe the iPad just has a narrower appeal than the smartphone or the PC.
Milunovich concludes:
With two new tablets anticipated over the next few quarters, perhaps the iPad is in a lull and will jump to a higher unit plateau as seasonality proves more important than saturation. Our view is that the iPad is being accepted faster but likely will not be as important as the iPhone over time. This story could play out in other new categories Apple proposes—a fairly fast benefit with rapid acceptance but a shorter half-life of earnings impact.
Milunovich expects iPad units to rise to 84 million from 72 million next year, 17% unit sales growth. But he notes that the number is below Street consensus of 87 million units.
Apple shares are up $6.73, or 1.4%, at $469.19.


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The boys snow gloves from O'Neill are the only thing you need on the mountain! Warm, breathable and available in multiple cool colourways. The on-trend shape and multiple use options of the boys gloves will certainly make them a favourite this winter. Match them with a O'Neill beanie and scarf for ultimate co-ordination.
There's nothing worse than being on the mountain with gear that you can't count on. We believe that a pair of boys ski gloves should be dependable, warm and robust. So, we made our boys ski gloves the right choice for all your ski adventures this winter. The patterns will have you looking great, and they're perfect for doubling up if you need extra protection. Age doesn't determine how you ride and at O'Neill we make the best gloves so that you don't have to worry about cold fingers.
The Fun Times boys gloves come in two different colours so that there's always a perfect pair. The Aztec pattern is a great way to add that extra spice to your look. Next time you grab the lip of your board when you're airborne, you should have the perfect glove for that moment. The dots patterned gloves feature the O'Neill winter logo. These gloves will stand the test of time and keep you warm on whatever mountain you find yourself.


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Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time, the '72 Stutz Blackhawk blackjacked the Buickborghini and stuffed it in the trunk, for disposal in a hole in the desert later on (the way so many Blackhawk owners in Vegas solved their problems back in the day), according to the 71% of you who voted that way in the Choose Your Eternity poll. Today we're going to go with a couple of choices that allow me to use not-often-seen-in-PCH flags in the poll: Romania versus the Soviet Union!
1989 wasn't such a great year for Romanian strongman Nicolae Ceauşescu, but, even as the rabble beat down the jeweled doors to his palaces, he could console himself with the inspiring thought that the "Romanian Jeep," the ARO 244, was available for sale throughout the world. Even in the evil, decadent United States, a truck shopper could march right into
a seedy office above a taxidermy shop in New Jersey an ARO dealership and obtain the product of the glorious workers of Câmpulung. Sadly, few did so, but don't fret about your ARO-less state; we've managed to find you not just one but three 1999 ARO 244s (go here if the ad disappears). You see, even after the fall of the Ceauşescu regime, the ARO-American dream was kept alive, and these trucks were brought over in order to try to get EPA certification for legal sale in the United States. One is equipped with '97 Mazda MPV running gear and allegedly runs (though it "needs some TLC work from bouncing NY roads"), and the other two seem to be parts trucks. You'll have one good one running fine in no time… at which point you'll discover little-known sections of your state's Vehicle Code, as you attempt to register it. Thanks to Aircooled_Poirot for the tip!
If you're going to buy a commie Jeep, you might as well buy a serious commie Jeep, from the home of the revolution itself: the USSR! Yes, the GAZ-69, which served as the main light off-road vehicle for the Red Army for decades. You've got to figure that anything built for the Red Army is going to be simple and sturdy, like a good pair of Russian winter boots, and that you'll be able to use tallow, mud, or even nothing at all as an engine lubricant in one. We'd all like such a hammer-simple machine to take off-roading, but where could you possibly find a GAZ-69 here in the home of retrograde imperialist capitalist warmongering? Why, Hemmings Motor News, of course, where this 1961 GAZ 69-M may be seen in all its glory and fame. Fame? That's right, the makers of the last Indiana Jones movie used this truck- which was allegedly driven by some famous actress or other in the film- and now it can be yours! The price tag is
ridiculously somewhat steep, no doubt because the seller believes the aura of such a glamorous cinematic appearance multiplies the truck's value by a factor of three, but just let him or her sweat out a few more weeks of recession and you'll likely be able to score it for a far more reasonable sum. Supposedly it "RUNS AND DRIVES FANTASTIC" and there are probably other details in the description, but they've been rendered indecipherable by the CAPS LOCK FAIRY, who has sprinkled her headache dust all over the words. We're guessing that it ran and drove well enough for 17 seconds of filming, and that you'll be on the phone to Semyon, grumpy sales rep for a truck-parts house in Vladivostok as soon as you take delivery, calculating how many rubles you'll need to get this thing back to Red Army specs.


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Develop a system to make welders certicates more effective and improve distribution and access to the certificates through the internet. Also including information about the european welding federation education scheme.
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Raising the productivity and competitiveness of European businesses through technology. Boosting national economies on the international market, and strengthening the basis for sustainable prosperity and employment.


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The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series of Hope College will feature novelist Mark Winegardner on Tuesday, March 26, at 7 p.m. in the Knickerbocker Theatre.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Winegardner, who writes fiction and nonfiction, is the Burroway Professor of English at Florida State University. He is the winner of a University Teaching Award (2004) and a University Mentoring Award (2006). He has also won grants, fellowships and residencies from the Ohio Arts Council, the Lilly Endowment, the Ragdale Foundation, the Sewanee Writers Conference and the Corporation of Yaddo.
His works include "The Godfather's Revenge" (2006), "The Godfather Returns" (2004), "Crooked River Burning" (2001) and "The Veracruz Blues" 1996.
Winegardner's books have been translated into more than 20 languages and sold almost two million copies worldwide. They have appeared on the "New York Times" Bestseller List and in best-of-the-year lists by "The New York Times Book Review," the New York Public Library, The American Library Association, "Entertainment Weekly," "USA Today," "The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer," "The Los Angeles Times" and "The Chicago Sun-Times." In 2004, "Cleveland Magazine" named "Crooked River Burning" the best book ever written about Cleveland.
His work has appeared in magazines such as "Doubletake," "The New York Times Magazine," "The Oxford American," "Ploughshares," "Story Quarterly," and "TriQuarterly." The varied subjects of his nonfiction have included art forgery, Cuban defectors, Congressman Louis Stokes, the Clown Prince of Baseball, the Southern Literary Mafia and beer. He also helped write the script for "The Godfather" video game (all platforms), creating original dialogue performed by actors such as James Caan, Robert Duvall and Marlon Brando.
Additional information about the series is available at hope.edu/vws.
The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.


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Pie can be the sweet, gooey goodness of a warm slice of apple pie or the hearty, savory satisfaction of a flaky chicken pot pie. "That's the thing about pie," says Mary Ardapple, owner of Apple's Bakery Northside Market.
If mom's apple pie is all-American, then it must be un-American not to enjoy a slice. Pie can be the sweet, gooey goodness of a warm slice of apple pie or the hearty, savory satisfaction of a flaky chicken pot pie. "That's the thing about pie," says Mary Ardapple, owner of Apple's Bakery Northside Market in Peoria, Ill. Historians believe pie loosely can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians with the bakers to the pharaohs incorporating nuts, honey and fruits in bread dough. But the first pie recipe was apparently published by the Romans - a rye-crusted goat cheese and honey pie. Pyes (pies) originally appeared in England as early as the 12th century, and the crust of the pie was referred to as "coffyn," according to The American Pie Council. "There was actually more crust than filling. Often these pies were made using fowl and the legs were left to hang over the side of the dish and used as handles." Pie came to America with the first English settlers, eventually becoming ingrained in our culture, hence the saying, "as American as apple pie." "My grandmother made two pies every day," says Ardapple. "One, my dad, his father and the hired (farm) hands would eat at noon, and the other was for dessert at night." Ardapple well recalls growing up picking and pitting cherries from their trees - "pitting cherries is no fun" - but the results are worth it. "When you make a pie, you are expressing to your family that this is a special occasion. Pie, I think, rivals cookies as comfort food. Those two bakery products are probably wrapped up in more sentimentality than anything else. "Everybody likes pie." Ardapple's personal favorite? "My mom made a rhubarb tapioca meringue - I probably need to find that recipe and make one." One? Ardapple's business makes dozens of pie a day - all from scratch. They peel the apples, make the fillings (no additives - just sugar, cornstarch and spices, if needed) and make the pie dough fresh. The only convenience over the way grandma made it is a machine called a dough sheeter, which rolls and flattens the dough. "Up until three holidays ago, we rolled all our own pastry," says Ardapple. "When we got this, I thought angels were singing from the sky. We now own two; it saves us so much time." Especially considering that on the day before Thanksgiving, Apple's Bakery made "in the neighborhood of 500 pies." Peggy Callahan, former owner of the Kaffee Haus in West Peoria, has given up making her own pie crusts, but her award-winning pies live on at her daughter's restaurant, the Hog Trof in Hanna City, and another daughter's Springfield business, Coco Pies & Confectionaries Inc. Callahan, who won Taste of Peoria's best pie award all five years she participated, might be best known for her peanut butter pie, a creamy confection that is still a best seller for her daughters. "I wanted a good peanut butter pie," says Callahan, who recalls her serendipitous moment of creation years ago at the Kaffee Haus. "I wasn't having much luck getting the exact consistency I wanted, and then one day the cook up front got real busy and I went to help her." When she came back to her pie, the mixture was all runny. She put it in a pie shell anyway and tucked it in the refrigerator, joking to her staff that they would all have peanut butter soup. Instead, it turned out to be the creamy perfection she was looking for. Her other specialties just come to her, she shrugs - like her banana split pie, which is a white chocolate mousse layered with fresh bananas and strawberries and homemade fudge. "It actually tastes just like a banana split," she says. Both pies were winners, along with her triple fudge, caramel nut fudge and apple caramel pies. Callahan knows she's not alone in missing her little coffee shop, but she only leased the building. She closed in 2004 after the land was sold for a new Walgreen's. Still, she happily creates her favorite pies at the Hog Trof. "If I'm making five or six pies, I'll make my own (pie crust), but when I'm making 40 to 50 pies, I don't," says Callahan, who adds that everything else is from scratch. Ardapple notes that as a child growing up in the '50s practically everything she ate was from scratch. "We thought Chef Boyardee pizza out of a box was uptown." She worries that today's children think anything not out of a box is homemade. "As a culture, we seemed to have tipped towards, 'How much can I buy in one location so I don't have to go anywhere else?' Are you shopping for all your staples, all your treats, all your gas in one location so you have higher quality use of the time you've saved or are you someone who finds value in seeking out higher-quality goods?" Ardapple counts on people who value that swirl of homemade frosting on a cupcake or hand-sprinkled sugary pie crust oozing with fresh berries. "We have an older woman who comes in all the time and always orders coconut cream pie. "When I see that little twinkle in her eye, I know that we've done our job for that day." Jennifer Davis can be reached at email@example.com. Fun facts about pie First slice always the hardest: Apparently the poem, "Sing a Song of Sixpence," which included the lyrics, "Four and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie" wasn't just a fairytale. In the 16th century, the wealthy English were known for their "surprise pies" in which live creatures would pop out when the pie was cut open. Birds move outside shell: At the coronation of 8-year-old English King Henry VI in 1429, a partridge pie was served. This dish consisted of a cooked peacock mounted in its skin, placed on top of a large pie. Other birds like partridges, swans, bitterns and herons were frequently placed on top of pies for ornament and as a means of identifying the contents. Taken for granted: It also wasn't until the 16th century that recipes for pie pastry began appearing in cookbooks. Before that, pastry was such a staple ingredient in medieval menus and so taken for granted that recipes weren't included. Sweet treat: A pie of sweetbreads was one of President George Washington's favorite pie recipes. His wife Martha authored a cookbook, which is a prized possession of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. A recipe for such a pie is included. Huckleberry lunch: Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, was a big fan of pie. His lifelong housekeeper and friend Katy Leary often baked Huckleberry pie to lure Clemens into breaking his habit of going without lunch. Not just dessert: Pie was not always dessert. In the 19th century, fruit pie was a common breakfast food. Not Thanksgiving original: Pumpkin pie was introduced at the pilgrim's second Thanksgiving feast in 1623. Too good to be legal: At one time, it was illegal in Kansas to serve ice cream on cherry pie. Sources: The American Pie Council and What's Cooking America.net. Pie perfection Mary Ardapple offers the following tips for making perfect pies: - For pie crusts: If you want a more tender crust, add more shortening. Ardapple's favorite pie crusts growing up used lard, but she doesn't do that anymore for health reasons. - Do not overwork the dough or you'll make it tough. "We're used to putting our hands in something and squishing it. You don't want to mush it together," she says. "You want to handle it as little as possible. Just push it together." - Trust your senses. Ardapple says not to follow the recipe exactly. "When you put in your dry ingredients and shortening, you're making a marriage of the two. Add just enough water to hold it together." - For fruit fillings: Ardapple likes to use about two parts sugar to one part cornstarch to get the perfect fruit filling base. She also uses individually flash-frozen berries in the winter. For her famous apple pies, she uses Golden Delicious - "not because they are the best for pies but because their availability is consistent year-round." - For meringue: "No recipe is written, in my opinion, with enough egg whites. I always add a couple extra egg whites, and eggs are cheap. I also don't think they add enough sugar. You want it to look like shaving cream, with a high gloss on it." - Room temperature egg whites will have more volume. Don't get any yolk or have "even a speck" of oil, butter or shortening on your bowl, hands or beaters while making meringue, she adds. - Secret ingredient: "I had a cousin growing up who was a great meringue maker and she always added cornstarch so that's one of my secrets." - Outside in: When putting meringue on a pie, "it's mandatory to make sure you have no air pockets between the meringue and the pie" because that's what causes it to be slick and watery. Ardapple suggests leaving a half-inch space between the filling and the lip of the pie crust and then lay the meringue on top from the outside in, working the sides into the center. Most people do the opposite, working from the center out.


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If you haven't seen the information about the Mount changes in 3.2 go look.. I'll wait.. Go. 🙂
Ok.. Now that we are all on the same page. I'll tell you why I like this. I'm sure that I will go over this again in Episode 48 of TNB, so if that is out already, go listen to it (and you can skip the rest of this I guess). If not, then, as Arnold used to say, "Read me now and listen to me later!"..
Moving regular land mounts to level 20 ( and associated cheapness ).
I like this for a few reasons, none of while have anything to do with my alliance toons (since all of the ones I am going to be leveling are >= 58).. Ok.. This is about new players, specifically my son. My son plays WoW and has for a while. He doesn't have as much time to play as I do, so his time is split between leveling and battlegrounds (which he loves with a passion). He is not yet level 30 on his "main" (although he will be, hopefully when 3.2 hits) and so can't ride yet. It does slow down the leveling process quite a bit because running from place to place is much slower than riding, even on a slow mount. Secondly… HORDE.. Yeah, at some point I might want to level my horde characters. In that case, I'll be in the same position as my son and stuck starting from low level to do it (unless I break open the piggy bank for a 3rd account just to get them through..). It would be nice to be able to get a mount early on in that and I have at least 1 if not 2 or more Horde toons ready to get their regular mounts when this comes out.
Epic land mounts at 40.
I like this for the same reasons as above. The whole point, in my opinion, of why they are doing this is so that we can level up to 80 faster overall. Nice, fast epic land mounts at 40.. Of course, because they used to be 60, they had to do this since you head into outland at 58 or so and the next change is…
Regular flying mounts at 60!
Wow.. this one will be awesome for leveling through outlands. Plenty of quests and such are much much much easier if you can fly. So, they had to change the epic land mounts lower or you would never use it! (since you would be in outland at 58+ and be flying at 60 anyway)… Why did they move this one? Well.. lets think about this.. If they left the flying mounts at 70 minimum.. How many people actually would be flying at 70 (other than farming around Outland)? NONE! You move on to Northrend at around 68 (if not 70) and just as you would be getting flying (if you wait until 70) you are moving to a place that you can't fly until 77.. So.. why get flying? why use flying until 77 at that point.. I did this for my mage. I didn't even buy non-epic flying until 77..
In addition to all of this, they have increased the speed of regular flying mounts to 150% (from 60%).. Believe me .. the 60%.. OMG .. WAY TOO SLOW! I had the normal flying mount on my mage for about 1/2 of Grizzly Hills and just couldn't take it anymore. So, I got back on my 80s and quested and quested until I had enough to pay for the faster mount.. (BIG SIGH OF RELIEF).. Now, it's not as fast as the epic flying, but double what the regular flying was before.. I'll take it!
When this comes out, all of my "main" toons will be getting some form of flying (if I have the moola) except my DK, whom I guess I should get up to 60 before it hits, eh? :P
I don't think this will take much of anything from the game and will serve to increase the speed of leveling (which Blizzard has been working a long time to do) without increasing the amount of XP you get from quests or mob kills, etc..
So… go forth and mountify! Oh.. Have to wait for 3.2..
P.S. I hear from my "sources" that, as she put it, this is just the "carrot" for 3.2.. The stick is coming soon.. And there will be much QQ..


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The eejit (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 4:10amHmm...maybe /b/ just got fed up of being blamed for all the media's problems, so they decided to make sure they were blamed legitimately.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 4:47amYou left out that the attack included the firm in India who claimed to have carried out the exact same style of attacks on behalf of these 2 companies on websites not willing to bow down to their demands.
Maybe one could read this more as you reap what you sow.
bryan (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 8:21am
This DDoS attack was in response to the MPAA and RIAA hiring an outside firm to execute DoS attacks against sites that refused to just give in the their demands.
Just a reminder to the MPAA and RIAA not to piss off the internet as a whole. It is not a fight that the MPAA/ RIAA is prepared to win.
Killer_Tofu (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 12:47pm
Re: Re:It is not a fight that the MPAA/ RIAA is prepared to win.
This is why they are pushing ACTA. They believe that it will help them win that battle.
Killer_Tofu (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 12:48pm
Re: Re: Re:I meant to say that it is one of the reasons they are pushing ACTA. There are of course a lot more control related reasons.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 1:06pm
Re:I thought that the attack was initially going to be limited to that firm in India doing DDoS attacks on behalf of **AA, but that site went down before the /b/ attacks even started thanks to some folks with real botnets at their disposal.
Then the RIAA/MPAA takedown was passed around to essentially give them something to do.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 1:06pm
Re:I thought that the attack was initially going to be limited to that firm in India doing DDoS attacks on behalf of **AA, but that site went down before the /b/ attacks even started thanks to some folks with real botnets at their disposal.
Then the RIAA/MPAA takedown was passed around to essentially give them something to do.
RadialSkid (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 1:29pm
The **AAs are engaging in DDoS against sites like the Pirate Bay, and this is sending them a clear message in response. They are outnumbered.
What would you detractors propose as a method to fight the industry's DDoS attacks? Just sitting back and complaining on a blog a little more? Some of you have been doing that for a decade now, and note that it hasn't accomplished a hell of a lot.
The RIAA, MPAA, et al need to be taught that they can be fought on their own ground.
jupiterkansas (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 4:48amIt probably has more to do with that average citizen being so powerless to anything against such a well-funded, government-friendly organization. But they could have been a lot more creative. They didn't even do it during the week when people are actually working.
ofb2632 (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 4:53am
amusingSometimes even the most dumb ideas can be VERY amusing. Yes, hacking is a crime, but if you have to go after heartless bastards, they 4chan picks the right ones!!
abc gum, 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:17am
Re: amusing"Yes, hacking is a crime,"
Apparently, DDOS attacks are illegal only if you are not a large politiacl contributor.
Also, DDOS is not hacking.
chris, 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:18am
Re: amusingSince when is "hacking" a crime? I think you misunderstand the meaning. Hacking can be something as simple as modifying a tv remote, is that illegal?
paperbag (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:22am
Re: Re: amusingDepends, is that remote protected by the DMCA? :)
Chris in Utah (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:46am
Re: Re: amusingThe term is phreaking if its hardware :)
Re: Re: Re: amusingphreaking is confined to telephones and telephone systems.
fone phreaks actually predate hackers by a significant margin.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 1:08pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: amusingIn my experience, phreaking usually means a hardhack of a transmission or traffic line, or the dumb endpoint of such a system.
Witness: Van Eck Phreaking
Joe King, 20 Sep 2010 @ 7:24am
Re: Re: amusingDon't be so literal. The term has transformed for better or worse from its original meaning.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 4:57amThat what I've been saying all along. It just makes "pirate" look bad and childish. Btw, nice to see that you finally got some nicer URL's.
CharlieM (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:05amDid you actually write that /b should know better? This is 4chan we are talking about - right?
I do agree, they can be incredibly original at times, but I believe the string of text "/b should know better" is entirely original to the internets.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:08amI dunno, I got to say that the fact that the first target was a company who admitted to using ddos attacks against sites and effectively on behalf of MPAA and RIAA, it seems to me that many would feel that turnabout is fair play.
Although they can only feel that way if they are given that information in the first place.
If you make it look like it was naughty juvenile geeks just picking random authority targets then that will naturally be the story,
a pity when it could have been large companies using criminal methods to shut down websites they don't like got their backsides well and truly spanked.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 6:15am
Re:"it seems to me that many would feel that turnabout is fair play."
While I agree with MM that a DDOS attack is the wrong approach, I do agree that the MSM will never mention that the MPAA started it. In light of the fact that the MPAA started it, retaliation is fair play, but unfortunately everyone else is held to a higher standard than big corporations that control the government. and I do believe that we should hold ourselves to a higher standard and set a good example for everyone to follow so that people can see that it is the big corporations and the MSM that are nefarious and that those questioning them are more than overly tolerant (fair play doesn't make something the right approach). I think that would be a better long term approach than to counter attack with a DDOS. But if the MSM does focus on it, hopefully more people will be smart enough to see past what the MSM merely tells them and actually research and discover the fact that the MPAA started it. This possibility might make the MSM ignore the issue altogether. However, unfortunately, even if the MSM doesn't ignore it they will only be one sided and most people will only see one side of the issue and either way the politicians will only see one side.
If politicians decide to start arresting people for this I predict it won't do much to curtail these attacks. If anything, it could even make them worse. Things could get very interesting from there and there is no telling what could happen.
Kevin Carson, 30 Sep 2010 @ 12:02pm
Re: Re:Oh, come on. That's like arguing the Massachusetts militiamen at Lexington and Concorde should claim the moral high ground by coming out from behind the rocks, putting on bright red uniforms, and marching in parade ground formation.
We're fighting an enemy that controls an increasingly absolutist state, in an environment where the very idea of democratically challenging its control of the state is a sick joke.
If everyone played by "the rules" (rules set by the people we're fighting), we'd eventually wind up in the totalitarian society Stallman described in "The Right to Read."
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:20amAre those sites in top 100,000? I think they took down some websites that nobody visits.
scarr (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:28am
You called something /b/ did dumb?I won't expect to see anything else on here the rest of the day. :P
wtachi, 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:36am
TPing the InternetI've always thought of DDoS attacks as similar to, say, parking your car sideways in front of the company parking lot. It's a form of vandalism, not a form of organized protest.
Michael, 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:48am
Re: TPing the InternetI have always thought of them as similar to a picket line in which nobody remembered a sign to explain to people why they were picketing.
You cannot get into the door, but the only reason you get is that the door is too busy.
Anonymous Coward, 21 Sep 2010 @ 5:59pm
Re: Re: TPing the Internetu dont need signs for people to know why
its like someone chaining themselves to a tree after the plans to cut down the forest are released, only people who dont know anything about trees would wonder y
hacker, 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:46am
@14parking ones car sideways in the wy of a parking lot entrance
IS NOT vandalism as nothing was damaged just as in this case nothing was damaged ONLY there ability to get there lies and crap out to the public
we have allowed you for ten + years to try and solve these morons only to have them continue to harm the greater societal mantra.
so #14 you consider it vandalism when a group of environmentalists block a road to stop logging?
YOU consider it vandalism when protesters gather and block off a road?
YOU sir need your head re examined
and i will say it.
if your not with us you are against us. THE time for being nice has ended.
Michael, 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:51am
Re: @14One of the keys to a picket line is the picket sign.
If people do not know that you are environmentalists blocking off the road to save some trees, they just think you are some annoying nut in their way.
DDoS attacks don't send a message to anyone, so they tend to be ineffective. A picketing effort needs to educate the people that would have been customers so they do not come back.
Chronno S. Trigger (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 7:42am
Re: Re: @14It seems to be doing a good job getting the message out there. Someone living in a tree means nothing. It's the others on the ground that spread the message.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 1:12pm
Re: Re: @146! 7! 8! 9!
We don't need no stinking sign!
Dark Helmet (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 6:29am
Re: @14"THE time for being nice has ended."
Actually, I agree with you here. It's high time to start dipping our feet in the water of actual rebellious actions.
That said, /b/, or whoever this actually was, would do themselves a favor by figuring out a way to get an actual public message out to go along with their "attack". Doing this on the weekend, and going with the relatively benign DDoS style attack, makes the purpose of this "attack" clear. It wasn't an attack at all. It was a warning shot across the bow, letting these people know that they aren't the only ones on the high seas with cannons.
My problem is that 99% of people who hear about this aren't going to know WHY it happened. If they did, they'd see the story in a different light....
Re: Re: @14Actually, I agree with you here. It's high time to start dipping our feet in the water of actual rebellious actions.
DDOS is a really good tool if you want to get people involved in a protest:
1) anyone with a computer and internet access can participate
2) it doesn't require much actual skill, once the vulnerability has been identified. you just download the script and run it.
3) with thousands or millions of hosts around the globe it makes it very difficult to determine who was accessing the site legitimately and who was part of the protest.
4) with thousands or millions of hosts around the globe it makes it very difficult, if not impossible to stop such an attack.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 8:20am
Re: @14I love it when 4chaners, or /b'ers, or whatever you call em start getting all puffed up.
"we are watching you"
"not with us you are against us"
"legion... blah blah blah"
I have no love for MPAA for sure, but your little escapades will not accomplish anything.
Anonymous Coward, 21 Sep 2010 @ 6:05pm
Re: Re: @14well ddos attacks beats out the current internet protesting of Facebook groups
vivaelamor (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 10:50am
Re: @14"we have allowed you for ten + years to try and solve these morons only to have them continue to harm the greater societal mantra."
What time frame is that? From the time you started caring until now? Get some perspective, your arrogance is frightful.
"YOU consider it vandalism when protesters gather and block off a road?"
I'd consider it manslaughter if they flooded the road so that one person died due to lack of access. You have no way of knowing what effect a denial of service attack may have as collateral damage; for all you know the websites share a pipe with a doctors surgery. An unlikely scenario but not as much of a stretch as comparing a denial of service attack over the internet to blocking a road. The people blocking a road are at least there in person to take responsibility for their actions.
"YOU sir need your head re examined
and i will say it.
if your not with us you are against us. THE time for being nice has ended."
You try to justify denial of service attacks as being harmless. I hope routers become sentient and drop all of your packets out of disgust.
Prowler, 14 Aug 2011 @ 12:54am
Re: @14Get off your high horse because their cause is not so noble,
they are not protesting logging or the parole release of a serial rapist. They're protesting that they have the right too steal Intellectual copyrighted material and distributing it illegaly, giving it away. Who's going too pay $200 million for a strait to utube movie? You maight as well ask for free money.
If U want free music, sing to yourself.
If U want a free movie, go to a school play, kids are funny.
If U want free software, learn to program.
If U want a free game, remember sports or what your toes
look like?
And if you want free pornography, girl + camera = :)
Liam (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:49am
Only a dumb idea...You need to assume the /b/tards are actually doing this for anymore then the lulz.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:55amIt was not that bad imagine if people have used the geo-location features in browser to go after them LoL
Photos with geolocation data are also not great if you are an RIAA member.
Shills be warned your browser can tell others exactly where you are writing from LoL
Be nice to people.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:58amoops!
Forgot to give the time stamp.
The geolocation discussion starts at 16:44.
People can find you!
iamtheky (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 6:13amDear /b/
Please include USCG and Copyright Enforcement Group in your efforts as they deserve it more than most.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 8:54am
Re:USCG - What does the Coast Guard have to do with any of this?
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 6:15amKeep in mind that there's some dispute as to whether the people who started the whole thing were /b/-tards or just eBaumsWorld forum users trying to take a stick to the /b/ hornet's nest.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 6:24amjavascript: function UserPosition(position) {alert (position.coords.latitude + " " + position.coords.longitude)};navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(UserPosition);
This will show you where you are typing from.
http://hacks.mo zilla.org/2009/06/geolocation/
All browsers apparently implemented already the geolocation API.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 6:25ami think not even 1% of /b/ is partaking is this one
most of the threads are 404 before they hit the bump limit
i think the sites are designed to go down if a doss happens
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 6:28amMy 2 cents: I think you guys are on the same side on this, with different techniques, and you shouldn't fight.
Having said that, I agree with Mike on the DDOS not being the best weapon against RIAA and friends. I mean, the power of those groups is AFK, that's why they hate the internet. Who visits their sites anyway? They serve absolutely no purpose, and people wouldn't notice if they went offline completely. But the RIAA will then bitch and whine on them being poor victims of the anarchy of the internet. And they will make it easier for paid-for congress people to pass absurd laws. Flood the congress... DDOS'ing RIAA makes no sense. Attacks from /b/ are always interesting to watch, DDOS are not interesting at all.
Last, I think this is a good teaching moment. The original fight with Ebaums was on uncredited use of images from /b/. Remixing is important to the internet and should not be a problem, as it is for the RIAA&MPAA. Fighting Ebaums is fun and should continue, but images from anon are by definition uncredited, and Ebaums is not important (or fun) enough to deserve the attention it has from /b.
vivaelamor (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 10:59am
Re:"My 2 cents: I think you guys are on the same side on this, with different techniques, and you shouldn't fight. "
Having one thing in common does not make a good argument for agreeing with something else. I have no qualms about infringing copyright, that's my choice. I'd not expect Mike or anyone else to cut me any slack just because we both disagree with the current system.
"Last, I think this is a good teaching moment."
There's a trite phrase I could stand to see copyright protected.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 6:52amBut they're right. It is a bunch of unruly kids that don't like them and proud of it. Truth!
Chris, 20 Sep 2010 @ 6:59amIts the cancer that's killing /b/.
I apologize, but I just had to say it.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 7:00am@28 yep, but those kids happen to be right... so it's important to focus on the message, not the messenger.
Brian, 20 Sep 2010 @ 7:08am
OR...They could find and DDOS nonstop the main routers for the executive offices of the RIAA and MPAA. What good is attacking the organizations' public websites?
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 7:39am
Re: OR...I was thinking if they really wanted to make a difference they should DDOS a relevant govt website (maybe ohttp://www.copyright.gov/ ). Doing so at least directs the attack to the appropriate organization (the govt) and which site receives the attack somewhat serves the purpose of somewhat communicating what the attackers are mad about. For instance, attacking the USPTO website could serve the purpose of saying, "we don't like patents" or "we don't like our current patent laws." Attacking www.copyright.gov at least directs their anger against copyright law. Still, I think such an approach isn't the right one regardless. For one thing it doesn't express what is wrong with copyright law (perhaps they can place messages in the packets, messages that the MSM will merely ignore of course).
At least these attacks show some level of organized protest, which is better than not being organized, but it's not exactly the approach I was hoping for. I want to see something more along the lines of a whole lot more people marching to congress and the white house and demanding that our legislators fix our laws. Or we need to find more creative ways to manage our govt and not let the corporations completely control it.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 7:14amThe only denial of service I'm interested in is denial of money to the punks that finance things like the RIAA and the MPAA and other fine institutions like it.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 7:18amThere's nothing at all creative about taking down the MPAA and the RIAA -- and all it does is serve to reinforce their misguided prejudices that it's just a bunch unruly kids who dislike them.
Why do you assume their children?
cc (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 7:22am
Re:Are you accusing Mike of kidnapping?
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 7:58am
Re: Re:Make that uneducated, unruly kids.
Call me Al, 20 Sep 2010 @ 8:11am
Re: Re: Re:"uneducated, unruly kids" who are able to crash websites and wreak havok with near impunity. I'd hate to see what educated ones could do.
While I don't like DDOS attacks I can understand their position here. RIAA and MPAA lie and cheat and bribe and bully and, above all, they get away with it. The frustration with them is enormous and the temptation to respond with attacks like this is entirely understandable.
Free Capitalist (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 9:26am
Re: Re: Re: Re:
"uneducated, unruly kids" who are able to crash websites and wreak havok with near impunity.
Where I work we call people with this ability "users".
If you can install an app, you can keep up with today's /b/
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 10:24am
Re: Re: Re: Re:When do these geniuses start DDoSing techdirt for disagreeing?
It does not take much in the way of education to do this stuff. It might take some amount of education to figure out that it is counterproductive.
Atkray (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 7:34am
Re: TurnaboutAnyone that watches any sports or has children of their own knows all too well that it is the one that retaliates that gets in trouble.
darryl, 20 Sep 2010 @ 8:03am
Its the general attitude, expected and confirmed.At least these attacks show some level of organized protest, which is better than not being organized, but it's not exactly the approach I was hoping for
A DDoS is not or does not have to be 'organized' it can be a single person, (called the 'botmaster') controlling a bot net. Yes, all his computers in his botnet are organized but it certainly can be, and often is a single person behind it.
as for damage, yes, it will do far more damage than good. making the attacked marters to the cause..
this is ofcourse playing right into their hands, even to the point that claiming a DDoS would benifit them.
And promoting their attack helps them as well. and shows the attitude of those who oppose their views.
So its actually putting your 'cause' backwards, not forward.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 8:21am
Re: Its the general attitude, expected and confirmed."A DDoS is not or does not have to be 'organized' it can be a single person, (called the 'botmaster') controlling a bot net."
But that's not the case here. In this case it is a bunch of people voluntarily participating, not a botnet of users with their computers unknowingly under the control of a single person.
Also, make sure you click reply to this post when responding.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 8:25am
Re: Its the general attitude, expected and confirmed."and shows the attitude of those who oppose their views. "
Unfortunately this is how the MSM may see it, but the fact remains, it's the MPAA that started it.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 8:38am/b/ is a bunch of ugly kids who dislike them.
TDR, 20 Sep 2010 @ 8:40amIs it possible, I wonder, to hack a site so that instead of any link to it taking visitors to that site, they get redirected to another page instead - in this case, one addressing the reason for the redirect and the issues at hand? Because that seems like it might be a more effective "virtual picket" as it were.
Also, how long can a DDoS be maintained? And what would happen if a coordinated, simultaneous attack were made upon sites like copyright.gov and the USPTO site as well as the major record label, movie studio, RIAA, MPAA and other MAFIAA sites and maintained for a long period of time? Or a redirect as I mentioned above? Not just for a weekend, but continuously, day after day, month after month.
Might be interesting to find out.
NullOp, 20 Sep 2010 @ 8:47am
Ha!"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one
useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or
more is a congress." -- John Adams
The above statement pretty much says it all! I started laughing when I read the word "lawyer"! If a lawyer is involved expect anything to take twice as long, cost four times the original budget and meet half of less of the original requirements!
lux (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 9:20amThe point of /b/ is to have no point. And Mike, who's to say a DDoS attack had no real effect? They got you to write about it, didn't they? They got a lot of folks to cover it:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/19/riaa-at tack/
Just because folks like yourself fail to quantify its effects in a nice paragraphs post the morning after, doesn't mean it was worthless, or all for nothing.
vivaelamor (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 3:58pm
Re:"And Mike, who's to say a DDoS attack had no real effect? They got you to write about it, didn't they? They got a lot of folks to cover it:"
Mike said point, not effect. Regardless, was that the first and only idea they managed to come up with to generate press? I'm confident that you can generate better press in less stupid ways even if you really don't have anything constructive to say.
"Just because folks like yourself fail to quantify its effects in a nice paragraphs post the morning after, doesn't mean it was worthless, or all for nothing."
What was it worth? For the few sites that covered this and didn't cover the original story of the anti pirate outfit DoS attacking, I can't imagine that the coverage was a good thing.
Rick, 20 Sep 2010 @ 9:33am
Just my $.02 worthI have to play devil's advocate here on a few things, and for the record I'm not taking sides i this, just some observations.
From the comments I've been reading it seems like the consensus is that the DDoS attacks were "ok" because it was against the RIAA and MPAA. My first question is, when does it stop being "OK", when it's against something that you support, or is it not what you do but who you do it to that matters?
Secondly, am I the only person that can see a day come when /b/ and 4chan are deemed to be "domestic cyber terrorists" due to their actions? Not that I would want this, far from it, but I can see something like it being done.
Personally, I think if given a message with the actions, it's a valid form of protest, but I always think of what the repercussions would be.
vivaelamor (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 4:02pm
Re: Just my $.02 worth"From the comments I've been reading it seems like the consensus is that the DDoS attacks were "ok" because it was against the RIAA and MPAA."
If anyone thinks that then it would seem to be more because of the 'reap what you sow' angle than general hatred for the targets. Why anyone sane enough to hate the RIAA and MPAA would want to stoop to their level is beyond me.
abc gum, 20 Sep 2010 @ 6:38pm
Re: Just my $.02 worth"From the comments I've been reading it seems like the consensus is that the DDoS attacks were "ok""
Which one? The one perpetrated by Aiplex?
Bengie, 20 Sep 2010 @ 9:35am
They're not doing their jobWell, the government is suppose to be *for* the people and *by* the people.
Both are false right now. The government is for the money and bought by the corps.
The government is lucky we're not exercising our RIGHT and civic DUTY to replace the shit it's become.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 10:06amDDOS attacks are not the answer. This can only lead to the escalation of the "war". "We" shoot them with DDOS attacks, and they hit back with "cyber-terrorism" legislation.
Who wins in the end? They are the one with the law on their side and can claim the moral high-ground. Worse, they can shoot back with their own DDOS attacks against anyone they disagree with (EFF, FSF, CC, TPB, etc) under the pretext of enforcing the law and protecting their interests.
This attack was no good for anyone.
Christopher (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 11:47amHey, when regular methods of making our unhappiness don't work? You resort to other methods to make your point clear.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 1:30pm"I think that denial of service attacks are a pretty dumb idea. It does nothing but piss off people and doesn't make any real point at all."
We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
vivaelamor (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 4:06pm
Re:"No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."
Nailed it.
weneedhelp (profile), 20 Sep 2010 @ 2:50pm
It's a dumb moveBut feels so gooooood.
Anonymous Coward, 20 Sep 2010 @ 5:23pmWhy is it bad if internet users team up to do exactly what the MPAA has done by hiring a contractor earlier?
The internet's DDoS on the MPAA is worse than that Indian companies hired DDoS attacks against sites the MPAA doesn't like?
I see some flaws in the author's logic.
Also a DDoS attack isn't a crime. It's basically a digital sit in. Civil disobedience at max.
Anonymous Coward, 21 Sep 2010 @ 4:04amWhats needs to happen is that the RIAA and the MPAA gets blackholed forever!
Call me Al, 21 Sep 2010 @ 8:42am
Amazed by the BBChttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11371315
I'm quite amazed to say this but the BBC appears to have accurately reported this story. They haven't just said that 4Chan have attacked the RIAA and MPAA, they've explained that it is in retaliation.
Even better this is one of the most read stories on the BBC News site which suggests that a great many people will have seen the this surprisingly unbiased piece of news and seen that the RIAA and MPAA have reaped what they have sown.
If you look at the links on the bottom of the article it also seems certain other MSM news provisers have not just taken the industry line but explained it is about protest and not just spite.
Schulerbub, 26 Sep 2010 @ 7:53am
Dumb Idea?http://torrentfreak.com/acslaw-anti-piracy-law-firm-torn-apart-by-leaked-emails-100925/ A week into Operation Payback and the first casualty.
Anonymous Coward, 5 Mar 2011 @ 4:06pmthe anti piracy groups hack them selfs and dos attack also they should of been sued years ago for invasion of privacy with thier spyware and virus's they pack on every p2p network its all about greed now that the economy isnt as good people actually have to work back when napster was around no one could care a less what was downloaded online or shared now all the sudden they make a big deal about it and try shutting everyone down why cant the internet just be free like linux why do people have to charge for music dont they make enough from concerts music should be free you dont own sound no one does god made sound how can these companys think they own sound its stupid if people didnt download songs they would record them from the radio or tv or copy cds or tapes or even make thier own music no one is paying nothing for them expecially for modern music that most of it isnt good anyway who wants to buy a cd with songs that suck just cause one has a ok beat or better yet who wants to buy cds of bands you have not even heard cause they dont play them on the local radio when you can download them and see if you like them first we all know that the musicians are not hurting they can go perform a concert any day and sell out they dont need cd sales to make a living
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This should be an easy bolt-on upgrade considering no hardware was needed except the carriers.
We should also mention, we chose Adam's AR Race rotor design because of its double slotted design. The benefits of slotting are simple – the slots disperse heat, keep the rotor surface cooler, remove dust and gas from the contact patch and give the pads extra bite when applied.
With the parts loaded in the trunk,we took the short trip to our friends at Raven Motorsports in Long Beach, CA. Although they were probably glad to see us gone after building our 2.0-liter stroker engine, the brake installation would be fast and painless. Even with an oil change, we were in and out within a couple of hours. But we'll show you how to do them at home…
|Adam's Rotors
|front and rear rotors
|front carriers
|front and rear Street Performance pads
|$110 front
$71 rear
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Once our GTI was back on it wheels, it was time to break-in the new pads and rotors. If you're doing this at home, don't drive normally after the installation because you could ruin the performance of your new parts.
The bedding-in process helps prepare the pad and rotor surfaces for safer braking while also promoting even pad wear.
Heating the rotors and pads will ensure the pad is transferred evenly onto the rotors, while also burning the top layer of zinc away from the new rotors.
The process is tedious and we recommend doing it at night on an abandoned road: We performed two sets of ten continuous stops from 60-10mph. You don't need to come to a complete stop, nor do you want to allow the brakes to cool in between the stops.
After the first set of ten, wait for the brakes to cool and then repeat the process. Once the brakes cool again you should find the pedal is firm and responsive. You might want to change your brake fluid before doing this if the fluid is old.
Our brake upgrade was overdue. The rear pads were beginning to show some metal and could no longer be considered safe.
With that said, once we installed the new StopTech pads and Adam's rotors, the car stopped better than new. The brake pedal is much more responsive, whether it's a slow-speed stop in traffic, or hard braking when I'm trying to have some fun.
And we're very happy it's not twitchy or over-sensitive, as compared to some massive four- or six-piston big-brake solutions we've sampled.
The new brakes feel safe and perfect for daily driving. I'm not going to be putting Silverstone through 30min of track abuse, so can't imagine wanting anything more aggressive. The 20AE upgrade in rotor size and the slotted design also gives a sportier appearance.
Another mission complete, we've got more upgrades coming for Project Silverstone. If you noticed, it's on the the stock wheels because our BBS LMs are being refinished by Rotiform and should be back soon. We'll have a story on that along with an install and test of a Wavetrac differential.


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Gentrification is a word so oft-used in conversations about San Francisco that it's easy to forget what it means.
A report released yesterday by the advocacy group Causa Justa/Just Cause titled "Development Without Displacement" breaks down gentrification into a set of digestible, understandable policy decisions, while identifying which communities even now are still at risk of displacement.
"This report shows that there are many reasonable policies at the local and regional levels that can help hold back the tide of gentrification and modify the worst effects of urban transformation," said one of its authors, UC Berkeley Geography Professor Richard Walker, in a statement on its site.
The report provides many solutions, but is largely a 100-plus page tale of 20 years of the destruction of brown and black communities in San Francisco, beginning in 1990, and the ripple effects of that displacement on the people of Oakland.
The "Stage of Gentrification" map in particular details San Francisco and Oakland Neighborhoods as being in early, middle, late and ongoing stages of gentrification. Each of these classifications is determined by the population — are they susceptible to displacement? — as well as the housing market prices in the neighborhood. Not surprisingly, the Mission and the panhandle are labeled as ongoing gentrification zones, with the southern neighborhoods of San Francisco are labeled as in early stages of gentrification marked by a rise in property value.
Robbie Clark, 33, the housing rights campaign lead organizer at Causa Justa, said the map details the challenges facing the Latino and African American communities today, a challenge she's also facing herself.
"For me, I'm born and raised in Oakland, and it's been a challenge as an adult to find stable affordable housing," she told the Guardian. She has a huge family that used to live in Oakland right near one another. The displacement broke them up. "Everyone is spread out throughout the greater Bay Area and beyond. It used to be very normal for every weekend to have family dinners, and now that happens much less."
In recent years she's moved seven times as rents in both cities skyrocketed, and she was even in the process of moving again while we interviewed her. The need for the report, she said, was stark.
The findings put specific numbers to a story of loss we all know well. Between 1990 and 2011, over 1,400 Latinos left the Mission district. In the same time, white households increased by 2,900 in the Mission. In the same period, Oakland's black population declined from 43 percent of the city to 26 percent. Many in San Francisco argue that increased affluence helps beautify neighborhoods and makes them safer, but that misses the point: the neighborhoods may be safer for newcomers, but the old residents get kicked out in the process.
The report states that outright: "While gentrification may bring much-needed investment to urban neighborhoods," it states, "displacement prevents these changes from benefitting residents who may need them the most."
Causa Justa Just Cause displacement report EXECUTIVE SUMMARY by FitztheReporter
A summary version of the 110 page report.
And the responsibility of these injustices should be laid squarely at the feet of neoliberal policies, the report states, including reduced public funding, privatization of public programs, relying too much on the private sector to drive economic growth, and a political system susceptible to hugely influential private corporations.
But ultimately, Causa Justa concludes, there is still hope.
"Gentrification can be stopped!" the report states. To right the wrongs done to communities, "We also recommend policies that regulate government, landlord and developer activity to promote equitable investment, affordability and stability, and maximum benefits for existing residents."
Causa Justa, Just Cause, is selling the report for $25, but also includes a form for those who cannot afford it to apply for a free copy.
A high resolution version of the "Stage of Gentrification" map:


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Saturday's trip through the minors. The AZL Cubs and Daytona were both postponed on Saturday, August 18.
It was a nice night all around for Boise as they beat Tri-City 8-2. Boise's pitchers only gave up two hits and one earned in the win. Jose Arias got the start and was brilliant pitching five strong innings not giving up a run and allowing only one hit. He also struck out five and walked one in getting the win. Hayden Simpson had been struggling, but pitched better tonight giving up two runs, one earned on one hit in four innings. He also struck out five on the night and got the save. Not only did the pitchers do their job, but the offense did as well. Stephen Bruno was great once again ending the night 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs. He is now hitting .332 with Boise this year. Rock Shoulders had only one hit, but it was a big one, a grand slam in the third inning. Marco Hernandez was 2-for-4 with a run and Gioskar Amaya had one hit, two walks, and scored three runs. Dan Vogelbach only had one hit in this one, but did have an RBI. Albert Almora was 0-for-5 in this one, hitting into some tough luck. Boise continues to roll and this team is getting more fun by the day.
Peoria got back on track Saturday beating Wisconsin 9-2. The offense pounded out 14 hits to go along with those nine runs to back Michael Jensen. Jensen pitched well going five innings allowing two runs, one earned one three hits, while striking out seven. Pete Levitt pitched well in relief pitching three shutout innings before giving the ball to Sheldon McDonald who recorded the last three outs of the game. Jorge Soler was outstanding in this one going 4-for-5 with a home run, a double, and two RBIs. Timothy Saunders and Jacob Rogers also had good games as each went 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Yaniel Cabezas had a nice game of his own going 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI. Zeke DeVoss didn't have a hit, but he walked four times, scored a run, drove one in, and stole his 35th base of the season. It was good to see the Chiefs come back after a rough stretch.
Tennessee won 2-1 in a rain shortened game. Austin Kirk pitched a five inning complete game giving up one run on three hits. In his first start with Tennessee he got his first win. The offense did just enough for the win in this one led by Junior Lake. Lake was 2-for-3 at the dish with two doubles and a run scored. Michael Burgess and Justin Bour each had a hit and drove in a run a piece. Matt Szczur also contributed to the victory with a double and a run scored. A win is a win anyway you can get it, even if it only lasts five innings.
Iowa made it two in a row beating Memphis 3-2 on Saturday. Ryan Rowland-Smith got the start and the win giving up one run on five hits in five innings. Blake Parker continued his rehab assignment pitching 1.2 innings and allowing one run. After a scoreless 1.1 innings Marcus Hatley turned things over to Jairo Asencio who notched his third save of the year. After a big day yesterday, Dave Sappelt did it again as went 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs. Alfredo Amezaga, Jeff Frazier, and Brian Esposito all had two hits a piece. Tony Campana also had a hit and scored a run in the Cubs win.
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Newark students learn techniques to support emotional health
For one-day, students in Newark are trading in textbooks and calculators for lessons on relieving stress.
The move to focus on living stress-free was the goal of the district's Social and Emotional Awareness Day.
"Some of our students are dealing with a lot of stress in their lives and that is as important to us as a district as it is to add, subtract and write a proper sentence," Superintendent of Newark City Schools Doug Ute, said.
At each grade level, volunteers from all walks of life are helping students cope with an emotional and social level.
Educators in the Newark City School District are confident by learning to relieve stress and problem solving, teachers, students and their families will benefit.
"A healthy child both physically and mentally is a child who is going to learn at a higher rate and be more successful."


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Fire water good.
I really like some of those formerly Communist Chicks in the Porno Industry now....Does that make me un-American?????
Imagine whirled peas
Peace, Love, And Superior Firepower
Why embrace it...
Its being shoved down your throat.
God so loved the world He gave his only Son...
...Believe in Him and have everlasting life.
John 3:16
fact that disarming the population has resulted in some of the most horrific massacres in human history. The following is from the Warrior Times
1911 Turkey disarmed its citizens, and between 1915 1917 they murdered 1.5 million Armenians.
1929 Russia disarmed its citizens, and between 1929 1953 they murdered 20 million Russians.
1935 China disarmed its citizens, and between 1948 1952 they murdered 50 million Chinese.
1938 Germany disarmed its citizens, and between 1939 1945 they murdered 16 million Jews and others.
1956 Cambodia disarmed its citizens, and between 1975 1977 they murdered 1 million Educated people.
1964 Guatemala disarmed its citizens, and between 1964 1981 they murdered 100,000 Mayan Indians.
1970 Uganda disarmed its citizens, and between 1971 1979 they murdered 300,000 Christians.
This totals to 87.9 million people killed after Gun Control! These numbers are from the Jewish pro gun group-Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JFPO).
All of this happened during the 20th Century. The Russians committed many other murders such in places like Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and many others. Hitler killed his millions, but the Communists killed their tens of millions. And, this may be what is in store for Americans!


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Deb.bhattacharya necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
ACCESS Health International (http://www.accessh.org)
ACCESS Health International believes all people, no matter where they live, have a right to access high quality, affordable healthcare. Our mission is to improve delivery of high quality affordable healthcare services in low, middle as well as high income countries. We operate in South Asia (India), South East Asia (Singapore) and South America (Brazil) and are headquartered in Washington, DC. We are a non-profit foundation.
Healthcare researchers, policy makers in governments, healthcare providers, investors, grant organisations, international development organisations
Need a logo for ACCESS Health International. The logo should incorporate opening door(s) to symbolize "access creation". ACCESS should be spelt in capital letters only. No green color please. Logo needs to be seperate from the words ACCESS Health International so that it can used seperately and exclusively as well. Small enough to look good on top corner of a website, but bold enough to project all letters & logo details clearly.
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The sequestration that is about to take effect imposes too much austerity too soon, does so in a nonsensical way, and yet does little to improve the long-term U.S. fiscal picture.
Far more beneficial would be to make sure that the deceleration in health costs we have been enjoying continues. This is why medical-malpractice reform, although far from a panacea, is worth trying.
Most of the costs in the U.S. health-care system are incurred in a small number of expensive cases. The top 25 percent of Medicare beneficiaries ranked by cost, for example, account for 85 percent of total spending. And the expenses in those cases are driven significantly by the recommendations that doctors make to pursue one treatment path and not another.
In making these choices, doctors are influenced by various things, including medical-school training, traditions among their peers, financial incentives (which are distorted by fee- for-service payments) and, yes, the medical-malpractice system. Improving the criteria for what constitutes appropriate care could significantly change doctors' behavior and also save money, recent research by Michael Frakes of Cornell Law School suggests.
Customary Practices
Most proposals to amend medical-malpractice law would limit liability in cases where doctors are found to be at fault. But they neglect to address the more important issue of how guilt is determined in the first place. The malpractice laws are generally based on "customary practice" — that is, a doctor can be considered guilty of malpractice if he or she fails to follow customary practice. This is a nebulous concept, however, that only pushes doctors to look around and mimic what their peers seem to be doing.
Other doctors, however, vary widely in their practice of medicine. And just because one treatment or diagnostic procedure dominates in a particular situation doesn't mean it is the most medically effective one.
Many states have, in the past few decades, altered their customary-practice standard to base it on national medical practices rather than local ones. And the change has had a stunning effect, as Frakes's study shows. Since 1977, he found, the differences in the medical practices he studied between the 16 states and the nation as a whole diminished by 30 percent to 50 percent. And this suggests, as Frakes says, "that standardization in malpractice laws may lead to greater standardization in practices." What's more, this can bring down the cost of medicine without making it any less effective, because the more costly procedures are often not the best ones.
Notice that the effect that Frakes found is more noticeable than what other research on malpractice laws has turned up. That's because most studies have examined only how variations in health practices can be explained by variations in liability limits, and have ignored the crucial role of how the standard of care is defined. A slightly higher or lower liability limit in a given state doesn't have that much effect because doctors are still influenced by customary practice.
Presumably, then, health-care costs could come down if all states' malpractice laws protected doctors who followed national standards of practice. Yet the missing piece is to make sure the national standards are based on good medicine rather than tradition. That's why the Center for American Progress, among others, has proposed providing a safe harbor, under the medical- malpractice laws, for doctors who follow evidence-based guidelines published by medical associations. This makes a lot of sense.
Safe Harbor
An entity such as the National Guideline Clearinghouse or other public-private partnership could determine standards for the qualifying guidelines, and say which professional associations could issue them. As more doctors and health-care centers adopt clinical-decision-support software, it will become easier for them to adhere to such guidelines. Basically, then, a patient would not be allowed to sue for malpractice if the doctor could show that he or she was following a best-practice guideline. Patients would also be able to use the guidelines; a doctor's failure to follow them, assuming the patient is harmed as a result, would give the patient a basis for suing.
The Frakes study is at least suggestive that such a safe- harbor approach to reforming the malpractice laws would have a big impact on doctors' behavior. Along with other steps to improve value in health care — including shifting away from fee-for-service payment — that change in behavior could, in turn, do more to improve the U.S.'s fiscal picture than implementing the sequester would.
(Peter Orszag is vice chairman of corporate and investment banking and chairman of the financial strategy and solutions group at Citigroup Inc. and a former director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama administration. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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niko2pico wrote:Dreamaniaccomic wrote:After talking to Niko at school today, I feel I should clarify my moral philosophy.
1st Law: Nothing is absolute, universal, or definite, including all of these laws. The world turns. This too shall change.
2nd Law: The ends do not justify the means, but the greater good is still important. It simply has the same level of importance as immediate, short-term good.
3rd Law: The balance between good and evil exists without your help. "Providing contrast," is not a legitamite excuse for bad behavior.
4th Law: Your life does not need to be absolutely dedicated to charity. Improving your own life is as good an act as improving someone elses, as long as you don't drag others down so that you may rise.
5th Law: Honesty and humility are important. Humility allows you to accept the honesty of others, and honesty allows you to remind others of the importance of humility.
6th Law: You reap what you sow, so plant kindness, generosity, and joy. There will be weeds, and not all of the seeds will sprout, but the one's that do are worth the effort.
7th Law: Desentization cripples your empathy. Do not allow yourself to be conditioned to atrocities; when a million deaths seems like a statistic, remember that a million is a multitude of individual and tragic deaths.
8th Law: Concentrate on the now, for it is all that exists. The past has been destroyed and recreated into the now, and since the future doesn't exist yet it isn't worth worrying too much about.
1st: And thus it is that all these laws should be disregarded because as you admit they aren't absolute, and also based upon a completely arbitrary method
2nd: So then do means justify ends? I can't agree with this one because the long term is the most important part of doing good. Simply put "You give a man a fish, he's fed for a day, you teach a man to fish, he's fed for a lifetime." Naturally there are means that are not to be allowed, but still many times horrible action can be justified by the outcome.
3rd: Never said it was an excuse for wrongs, just a reason why all life has value even wretched life
4th: Given. but also isn't the very act of raising one self the lowering another just by virtue of the fact that you are raising yourself. Just as if someone were to move up in a race from 5th to 3rd place, then the old places would be lowered simply by him raising himself. All life is like this analogy.
5th: Lies often protect more people than the truth. The truth can hurt.
6th: You reap what you sow. But often times the seeds of generosity and kindness can look a lot like the seeds of hate and other negatives and vice versa. Just sow what you think is best, for that is all you can do
7th: Death is a part of life. I fear the deaths of those close to me to a degree that I can't even really fathom. That being said, none have enough tears to shed one for every life lost, many only have enough for those they love. I admire the strength you had during your tragedy Jake, you contended with something that haunts my deepest nightmares. In that respect you are a much stronger man than I.
8th: The now exists only on the instant, concentrate on the next now, for that is what the now effects. To focus only on the now would be inaction.
1st: Nothing is absolute. One may think so, but no matter what circumstances come up that may prove something correct, we will truly never know.
2nd: The ends do justify the means. The fisherman analogy is a great example of this.
3rd: No idea what you're talking about.
4th: Both of you make sense, I'm conflicted on what to put here.
5th: This is where I lay down the law. Humility is something humanity will never grasp. If humility existed for everyone as they abide by these laws, the world would be perfect. In Thomas More's Utopia, the Humanist describes a perfect society with the use of education, morals, and reason. However, the basic corruption of the human soul is at fault when pertaining to making utopia unattainable. More himself said his society will never come to frutition, nor do I believe the same. Honesty, on the other hand, is an investment anyone can make. Lies can protect, but only in the present tense. Living lies will destroy your soul. For this, I refer back to the fisherman analogy, that the ends justify the means, as a way of saying that telling the truth may hurt, but in the long run honesty is a virtue. Also unlike me, I would also like to cite a memory from my childhood, an episode of Veggitales. Oh, the Christian propaganda. Nevertheless, moral lessons can be learned from such. The episode I am referring to, from a metaphorical standpoint, is one where a boy tells a lie, and as he lies, he creates a monstrosity within his soul, one that plagues him and the people around him, and eventually the entire city. Lies build up, and they cannot be stopped unless honesty is achieved.
tl;dr version: Screw your bluff check, I have logic.
6th: Seeds are seeds. Your own farm is what you must keep watch of, not others. To other farmers, your seeds of kindness may seem like the bane of their own crops, but those are trivial worries that shouldn't occupy your mind.
7th: I've...had no tragedies in my life. No comment.
8th: Niko's philosophy makes more sense on this one. Now only exists for the smallest amount of time you can possibly perceive; Future nows are what you must live for, future nows that disable the inaction of the present now. "Now" is a figurative term; it comes from the brain's perception of the present tense. Now can be a moment, and it can be a period over the course of weeks. This is why it's always beneficial to work for the future, and use "now" to aim for your future goals.


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Apr 30, 2013 | ISBN 9780553593143
"One More Kiss sets itself squarely in Pride and Prejudice territory, both in sentiment and conclusion, with Beatrice and Cecilia playing the parts of Elizabeth and Jane Bennett. The book is light in tone and surprisingly literate in execution. One section has the characters delving into the nature and societal underpinnings of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in a manner worthy of literary fiction rather than a mass market romance; another passage skews off into a discussion on the genius of Rembrandt's sketches. Dialogue is more witty than suggestive, characters more chaste than reckless. . . . One More Kiss is a delightful combination of social comedy, slight mystery, and sweet romance. It's a thoroughly charming novel, well worth a read."—New York Journal of Books
"Delectable . . . a fun, marriage-minded . . . Regency romp that showcases [Mary] Blayney's knowledge of the era. One More Kiss is a charming double love story."—RT Book Reviews
"What a fun romance. Oh, the sparks that fly between Lord Jesse and Beatrice are so hot it is surprising that the pages do not sizzle. . . . This story is witty, amusing, steamy and romantic."—Night Owl Romance


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SPEISEKARTEN, 10 Stück von Bord des Passagierdampfers "Hamburg" auf "KdF"-Fahrt, meist entsprechend inspirierte Bildgestaltung der Deckblätter mit Bildern heimatlicher Trachten und als Begleitung "... KdF Marschmusik", dazu 2 Stück von Bord der S.S. "New York" und ein Prospekt der HAPAG für Fahrten zum Nordkap
Auction #161 Philatelic & Numismatic
By: Auktionshaus Ulrich Felzmann GmbH & Co. KG
Auktionshaus Ulrich Felzmann GmbH & Co. KG Auction #161 Philatelic & Numismatic
161st International Hall Auction at Felzmann – Philately 8-10 March 2018
Please read and accept the terms before bidding.
The start of this year's hall auctions is just around the corner. We will be beginning the auction week in style
with around 4,600 top philatelic lots.
It all kicks off with our special airmail auction "Per Ardua Ad Astra" which, in three chapters, gives a detailed
overview of aerophilatelic history, from the beginnings with ballons montés, to the pioneering achievements of
Zeppelin and airmail all the way to the modern cutting-edge technology of rocket mail, including astrophilately.
Another part of the special catalogue is a fine selection of Zeppelin memorabilia, including a thank-you card to
balloonist Eduard Spelterini written and signed by Count Zeppelin himself (Lot 3169).
There are also many highlights to be found in the field of terrestrial communication. The high-quality material
on offer includes surprising European rarities such as the Red Mercury in Type Ib in excellent quality (Lot 4460)
or Lombardy-Venetia's unique four-colour franking (Lot 4505).
Philatelic gems from the Old German States include Lübeck's exceptional specimen of a misprint ("ZWEI EIN
HALB S") with perfectly positioned town cancel ("LUEBECK BAHNHOF 20/1"). The German Empire section
begins with a 3-kreutzer breast shield in carmine in MNH condition (Lot 4885) and a 9-kreutzer issue in lilac
brown in extremely fine MNH condition (Lot 4901). The Chicago Flight from the Third Reich with a photo
certificate (Schlegel) unsigned and in "… perfect condition" (Lot 5086) – incidentally, all top material auctioned
by Felzmann is certified by experts. World War II field post enthusiasts can look forward to a Kuban admission
stamp for field post parcels in Type III (Lot 5804).
Finally, the German Post-War Philately section includes the title item – and undisputed highlight of the 161st
Felzmann auction – the legendary Gscheidle postcard, the first known complete article of mail, franked with a
60-pfennig stamp commemorating the 1980 Olympic Games, the entire printed issue of which was destroyed
following the Western boycott of the Games. A small number of specimens that survived were used unwittingly
by the wife of Minister of Post Kurt Gscheidle two years later – this is known in philatelic circles as the
"Gscheidle error". Having already generated extensive media coverage on two occasions before, we are proud
to offer a third opportunity to acquire the "crown jewels of German philately" (Lot 6095). With a "Transport
Exhibition souvenir sheet" on ungummed handmade paper to commemorate the 1953 Transport Exhibition, a
further gem is going under the hammer in a complete presentation booklet (Lot 6090).
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The former chairman of President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Paul Manafort has pleaded guilty to federal charges Friday morning as part of a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller that includes his cooperation as a potential witness.
Manafort's deal with Mueller allows him to avoid a second trial that was scheduled to begin on Monday in Washington D.C. It related to his time as a political consultant in Ukraine, and included charges like conspiracy, money laundering, and failing to register as a foreign agent.
The court filing showed that Manafort pleaded guilty to two of the seven crimes he was facing, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Prosecutors said Friday morning that the former Trump campaign chairman has agreed to cooperate with Mueller's ongoing investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election in exchange for the deal.
The document shows Manafort admitting to having funneled millions of dollars through offshore accounts in an attempt to conceal income he made from the Internal Revenue Service. It also delves into his work to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of his clients in Ukraine.
As part of the deal, the government will also seize at least four properties owned by Manafort, including a $2 million home in Arlington, Virginia, which is currently owned by one of Manafort's daughters. The former Trump campaign chairman will also give up four financial accounts and a life insurance policy.
Jury selection for Manafort's trial in Washington D.C. was set to begin on Sept. 24 in U.S. District Court.
Last month, Manafort was convicted of eight financial crimes in a separate trial in Virginia. He faces up to ten years in prison under federal guidelines for the charges against him.
President Donald Trump has not ruled out a pardon for his former campaign chairman, but a deal with the special counsel would likely preclude Manafort from accepting any kind of pardon from the president.
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Have an app that uses WinSock.ocx for communications across client
network. Client insists that SPEED is NB!
Client does NOT believe that speed is dependent on network, how
busy, etc. and is CONVINCED that writing a custom DLL (probably
in VC) will speed comms. Personally, I DO NOT BELIEVE!
Anyone know anything you would like to tell me?
API calls to the WinSock32.dll? Faster than OCX?
(I understand that the 32 is a thunk to call the 16 bit version,
which I understand to be the real comms. True? Is the OCX then
also a thunk? Or does it call the 32 bit DLL ....?)
All info welcome. Thanks