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Hacker is a term that has been used to mean a variety of different things in computing. Depending on the context although, the term could refer to a person in any one of several distinct (but not completely disjointed) communities and subcultures:
Today, mainstream usage of "hacker" mostly refers to computer criminals, due to the mass media usage of the word since the 1980s. This includes what hacker slang calls "script kiddies," people breaking into computers using programs written by others, with very little knowledge about the way they work. This usage has become so predominant that the general public is unaware that different meanings exist. While the self-designation of hobbyists as hackers is acknowledged by all three kinds of hackers, and the computer security hackers accept all uses of the word, people from the programmer subculture consider the computer intrusion related usage incorrect, and emphasize the difference between the two by calling security breakers "crackers" (analogous to a safecracker).Contents
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Currently, "hacker" is used in two main conflicting ways
The controversy is usually based on the assumption that the term originally meant someone messing about with something in a positive sense, that is, using playful cleverness to achieve a goal. But then, it is supposed, the meaning of the term shifted over the decades since it first came into use in a computer context and came to refer to computer criminals.
As usage has spread more widely, the primary misunderstanding of newer users conflicts with the original primary emphasis. In popular usage and in the media, computer intruders or criminals is the exclusive meaning today, with associated pejorative connotations. (For example, "An Internet ''hacker'' broke through state government security systems in March.") In the computing community, the primary meaning is a complimentary description for a particularly brilliant programmer or technical expert. (For example, "Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is considered by some to be a hacker.") A large segment of the technical community insist the latter is the "correct" usage of the word (see the Jargon File definition below).
The mainstream media''s current usage of the term may be traced back to the early 1980s. When the term was introduced to wider society by the mainstream media in 1983, even those in the computer community referred to computer intrusion as "hacking", although not as the exclusive use of that word. In reaction to the increasing media use of the term exclusively with the criminal connotation, the computer community began to differentiate their terminology. Alternative terms such as "cracker" were coined in an effort to distinguish between those adhering to the historical use of the term "hack" within the programmer community and those performing computer break-ins. Further terms such as "black hat", "white hat" and "gray hat" developed when laws against breaking into computers came into effect, to distinguish criminal activities and those activities which were legal.
However, since network news use of the term pertained primarily to the criminal activities despite this attempt by the technical community to preserve and distinguish the original meaning, the mainstream media and general public continue to describe computer criminals with all levels of technical sophistication as "hackers" and do not generally make use of the word in any of its non-criminal connotations. Members of the media sometimes seem unaware of the distinction, grouping legitimate "hackers" such as Linus Torvalds and Steve Wozniak along with criminal "crackers".
As a result of this difference, the definition is the subject of heated controversy. The wider dominance of the pejorative connotation is resented by many who object to the term being taken from their cultural jargon and used negatively, including those who have historically preferred to self-identify as hackers. Many advocate using the more recent and nuanced alternate terms when describing criminals and others who negatively take advantage of security flaws in software and hardware. Others prefer to follow common popular usage, arguing that the positive form is confusing and unlikely to become widespread in the general public. A minority still use the term in both original senses despite the controversy, leaving context to clarify (or leave ambiguous) which meaning is intended.
However, the positive definition of hacker was widely used as the predominant form for many years before the negative definition was popularized. "Hacker" can therefore be seen as a shibboleth, identifying those who use the technically oriented sense (as opposed to the exclusively intrusion-oriented sense) as members of the computing community.
A possible middle ground position has been suggested, based on the observation that "hacking" describes a collection of skills which are used by hackers of both descriptions for differing reasons. The analogy is made to locksmithing, specifically picking locks, which—aside from its being a skill with a fairly high tropism to ''classic'' hacking—is a skill which can be used for good or evil. The primary weakness of this analogy is the inclusion of script kiddies in the popular usage of "hacker", despite the lack of an underlying skill and knowledge base. Sometimes, hacker also is simply used synonymous to geek: "A true hacker is not a group person. He''s a person who loves to stay up all night, he and the machine in a love-hate relationship... They''re kids who tended to be brilliant but not very interested in conventional goals It''s a term of derision and also the ultimate compliment."
Fred Shapiro thinks that "the common theory that ''hacker'' originally was a benign term and the malicious connotations of the word were a later perversion is untrue." He found out that the malicious connotations were present at MIT in 1963 already (quoting The Tech, an MIT student newspaper) and then referred to unauthorized users of the telephone network, that is, the phreaker movement that developed into the computer security hacker subculture of today.Computer security hackers Main article: Hacker (computer security)Bruce Sterling, author of The Hacker Crackdown
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In computer security, a hacker is someone who focuses on security mechanisms of computer and network systems. While including those who endeavor to strengthen such mechanisms, it is more often used by the mass media and popular culture to refer to those who seek access despite these security measures. That is, the media portrays the ''hacker'' as a villain. Nevertheless, parts of the subculture see their aim in correcting security problems and use the word in a positive sense. White hat is the name given to ethical computer hackers, who utilize hacking in a helpful way. White hats are becoming a necessary part of the information security field. They operate under a code, which acknowledges that breaking into other people''s computers is bad, but that discovering and exploiting security mechanisms and breaking into computers is still an interesting activity that can be done ethically and legally. Accordingly, the term bears strong connotations that are favorable or pejorative, depending on the context.
The subculture around such hackers is termed network hacker subculture, hacker scene or computer underground. It initially developed in the context of phreaking during the 1960s and the microcomputer BBS scene of the 1980s. It is implicated with 2600: The Hacker Quarterly and the alt.2600 newsgroup.
In 1980, an article in the August issue of Psychology Today (with commentary by Philip Zimbardo) used the term "hacker" in its title: "The Hacker Papers". It was an excerpt from a Stanford Bulletin Board discussion on the addictive nature of computer use. In the 1982 film Tron, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) describes his intentions to break into ENCOM''s computer system, saying "I''ve been doing a little hacking here". CLU is the software he uses for this. By 1983, hacking in the sense of breaking computer security had already been in use as computer jargon, but there was no public awareness about such activities. However, the release of the film WarGames that year, featuring a computer intrusion into NORAD, raised the public belief that computer security hackers (especially teenagers) could be a threat to national security. This concern became real when, in the same year, a gang of teenage hackers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, known as The 414s, broke into computer systems throughout the United States and Canada, including those of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Security Pacific Bank. The case quickly grew media attention, and 17-year-old Neal Patrick emerged as the spokesman for the gang, including a cover story in Newsweek entitled "Beware: Hackers at play", with Patrick''s photograph on the cover. The Newsweek article appears to be the first use of the word hacker by the mainstream media in the pejorative sense.
Pressured by media coverage, congressman Dan Glickman called for an investigation and began work on new laws against computer hacking. Neal Patrick testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on September 26, 1983, about the dangers of computer hacking, and six bills concerning computer crime were introduced in the House that year. As a result of these laws against computer criminality, white hat, grey hat and black hat hackers try to distinguish themselves from each other, depending on the legality of their activities. These moral conflicts are expressed in The Mentor''s "The Hacker Manifesto", published 1986 in Phrack.
Use of the term hacker meaning computer criminal was also advanced by the title "Stalking the Wily Hacker", an article by Clifford Stoll in the May 1988 issue of the Communications of the ACM. Later that year, the release by Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. of the so-called Morris worm provoked the popular media to spread this usage. The popularity of Stoll''s book The Cuckoo''s Egg, published one year later, further entrenched the term in the public''s consciousness.Programmer subculture of hackers Main article: Hacker (programmer subculture)
In the programmer subculture of hackers, a hacker is a person who follows a spirit of playful cleverness and loves programming. It is found in an originally academic movement unrelated to computer security and most visibly associated with free software and open source. It also has a hacker ethic, based on the idea that writing software and sharing the result on a voluntary basis is a good idea, and that information should be free, but that it''s not up to the hacker to make it free by breaking into private computer systems. This hacker ethic was publicized and perhaps originated in Steven Levy''s Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984). It contains a codification of its principles.
The programmer subculture of hackers disassociates from the mass media''s pejorative use of the word ''hacker'' referring to computer security, and usually prefer the term ''cracker'' for that meaning. Complaints about supposed mainstream misuse started as early as 1983, when media used "hacker" to refer to the computer criminals involved in the 414s case.
In the programmer subculture of hackers, a computer hacker is a person who enjoys designing software and building programs with a sense for aesthetics and playful cleverness. The term hack in this sense can be traced back to "describe the elaborate college pranks that...students would regularly devise" (Levy, 1984 p. 10). To be considered a ''hack'' was an honor among like-minded peers as "to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style and technical virtuosity" (Levy, 1984 p. 10) The MIT Tech Model Railroad Club Dictionary defined hack in 1959 (not yet in a computer context) as "1) an article or project without constructive end; 2) a project undertaken on bad self-advice; 3) an entropy booster; 4) to produce, or attempt to produce, a hack(3)", and "hacker" was defined as "one who hacks, or makes them". Much of TMRC''s jargon was later imported into early computing culture, because the club started using a DEC PDP-1 and applied its local model railroad slang in this computing context. Initially incomprehensible to outsiders, the slang also became popular in MIT''s computing environments beyond the club. Other examples of jargon imported from the club are ''losing'' {"when a piece of equipment is not working") and ''munged'' ("when a piece of equipment is ruined").A Hacker Emblem proposed by Eric S. Raymond.
According to Eric S. Raymond, the Open Source and Free Software hacker subculture developed in the 1960s among ''academic hackers'' working on early minicomputers in computer science environments in the United States.
Hackers were influenced by and absorbed many ideas of key technological developments and the people associated with them. Most notable is the technical culture of the pioneers of the Arpanet, starting in 1969. The PDP-10 machine AI at MIT, which was running the ITS operating system and which was connected to the Arpanet, provided an early hacker meeting point. After 1980 the subculture coalesced with the culture of Unix. Since the mid-1990s, it has been largely coincident with what is now called the free software and open source movement.
Many programmers have been labeled "great hackers", but the specifics of who that label applies to is a matter of opinion. Certainly major contributors to computer science such as Edsger Dijkstra and Donald Knuth, as well as the inventors of popular software such as Linus Torvalds (Linux), and Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson (the C programming language) are likely to be included in any such list; see also List of programmers. People primarily known for their contributions to the consciousness of the programmer subculture of hackers include Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement and the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and author of the famous Emacs text editor as well as the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), and Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and writer of the famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar and many other essays, maintainer of the Jargon File (which was previously maintained by Guy L. Steele, Jr.).
Within the computer programmer subculture of hackers, the term hacker is also used for a programmer who reaches a goal by employing a series of modifications to extend existing code or resources. In this sense, it can have a negative connotation of using inelegant kludges to accomplish programming tasks that are quick, but ugly, inelegant, difficult to extend, hard to maintain and inefficient. This derogatory form of the noun "hack" derives from the everyday English sense "to cut or shape by or as if by crude or ruthless strokes" and is even used among users of the positive sense of "hacker" who produces "cool" or "neat" hacks. In other words to "hack" at an original creation, as if with an axe, is to force-fit it into being usable for a task not intended by the original creator, and a "hacker" would be someone who does this habitually. (The original creator and the hacker may be the same person.) This usage is common in both programming, engineering and building. In programming, hacking in this sense appears to be tolerated and seen as a necessary compromise in many situations. Some argue that it should not be, due to this negative meaning; others argue that some kludges can, for all their ugliness and imperfection, still have "hack value".
In non-software engineering, the culture is less tolerant of unmaintainable solutions, even when intended to be temporary, and describing someone as a "hacker" might imply that they lack professionalism. In this sense, the term has no real positive connotations, except for the idea that the hacker is capable of doing modifications that allow a system to work in the short term, and so has some sort of marketable skills. However, there is always the understanding that a more skillful or technical logician could have produced successful modifications that would not be considered a "hack-job". The definition is similar to other, non-computer based uses of the term "hack-job". For instance, a professional modification of a production sports car into a racing machine would not be considered a hack-job, but a cobbled together backyard mechanic''s result could be. Even though the outcome of a race of the two machines could not be assumed, a quick inspection would instantly reveal the difference in the level of professionalism of the designers. The adjective associated with hacker is "hackish" (see the Jargon file).
In a very universal sense, hacker also means someone who makes things work beyond perceived limits in a clever way in general, without necessarily referring to computers, especially at MIT. That is, people who apply the creative attitude of software hackers in fields other than computing. This includes even activities that predate computer hacking, for example reality hackers or urban spelunkers (exploring undocumented or unauthorized areas in buildings). One specific example is clever pranks traditionally perpetrated by MIT students, with the perpetrator being called hacker. For example, when MIT students surreptitiously put a fake police car atop the dome on MIT''s Building 10, that was a hack in this sense, and the students involved were therefore hackers. Another type of hacker is now called a reality hacker. More recent examples of usage for almost any type of playful cleverness are wetware hackers ("hack your brain"), media hackers and "hack your reputation". In a similar vein, a "hack" may refer to a math hack, that is, a clever solution to a mathematical problem. The GNU General Public License has been described as a copyright hack because it cleverly uses the copyright laws for a purpose the lawmakers did not foresee. All of these uses now also have spread beyond MIT as well.Home computer hackers Main article: Hacker (hobbyist)
In yet another context, a hacker is a computer hobbyist who pushes the limits of software or hardware. The home computer hacking subculture relates to the hobbyist home computing of the late 1970s, beginning with the availability of MITS Altair. An influential organization was the Homebrew Computer Club. However, its roots go back further to amateur radio enthusiasts. The amateur radio slang referred to creatively tinkering to improve performance as "hacking" already in the 1950s.
A large overlaps between hobbyist hackers and the programmer subculture hackers existed during the Homebrew Club''s days, but the interests and values of both communities somewhat diverged. Today, the hobbyists focus on commercial computer and video games, software cracking and exceptional computer programming (demo scene). Also of interest to some members of this group is the modification of computer hardware and other electronic devices, see modding.A DIY musician probes the circuit board of a synthesizer for "bends" using a jeweler''s screwdriver and alligator clips
Electronics hobbyists working on machines other than computers also fall into this category. This includes people who do simple modifications to graphing calculators, video game consoles, electronic musical keyboards or other device (see CueCat for a notorious example) to expose or add functionality to a device that was unintended for use by end users by the company who created it. A number of techno musicians have modified 1980s-era Casio SK-1 sampling keyboards to create unusual sounds by doing circuit bending: connecting wires to different leads of the integrated circuit chips. The results of these DIY experiments range from opening up previously inaccessible features that were part of the chip design to producing the strange, dis-harmonic digital tones that became part of the techno music style. Companies take different attitudes towards such practices, ranging from open acceptance (such as Texas Instruments for its graphing calculators and Lego for its Lego Mindstorms robotics gear) to outright hostility (such as Microsoft''s attempts to lock out Xbox hackers or the DRM routines on Blu-ray Disc players designed to sabotage compromised players.)
In this context, a "hack" refers to a program that (sometimes illegally) modifies another program, often a video game, giving the user access to features otherwise inaccessible to them. As an example of this use, for Palm OS users (until the 4th iteration of this operating system), a "hack" refers to an extension of the operating system which provides additional functionality. Term also refers to those people who cheat on video games using special software. This can also refer to the jailbreaking of iPhones.Overlaps and differences
The main basic difference between programmer subculture and computer security hackers is their mostly separate historical origin and development. However, the Jargon File reports that considerable overlap existed for the early phreaking at the beginning of the 1970s. An article from MIT''s student paper The Tech used the term hacker in this context already in 1963 in its pejorative meaning for someone messing with the phone system. The overlap quickly started to break when people joined in the activity who did it in a less responsible way. This was the case after the publication of an article exposing the activities of Draper and Engressia.
According to Raymond, hackers from the programmer subculture usually work openly and use their real name, while computer security hackers prefer secretive groups and identity-concealing aliases. Also, their activities in practice are largely distinct. The former focus on creating new and improving existing infrastructure (especially the software environment they work with), while the latter primarily and strongly emphasize the general act of circumvention of security measures, with the effective use of the knowledge (which can be to report and help fixing the security bugs, or exploitation for criminal purpose) being only rather secondary. The most visible difference in these views was in the design of the MIT hackers'' Incompatible Timesharing System, which deliberately did not have any security measures.
There are some subtle overlaps, however, since basic knowledge about computer security is also common within the programmer subculture of hackers. For example, Ken Thompson noted during his 1983 Turing Award lecture that it is possible to add code to the UNIX "login" command that would accept either the intended encrypted password or a particular known password, allowing a back door into the system with the latter password. He named his invention the "Trojan horse". Furthermore, Thompson argued, the C compiler itself could be modified to automatically generate the rogue code, to make detecting the modification even harder. Because the compiler is itself a program generated from a compiler, the Trojan horse could also be automatically installed in a new compiler program, without any detectable modification to the source of the new compiler. However, Thompson disassociated himself strictly from the computer security hackers: "I would like to criticize the press in its handling of the ''hackers,'' the 414 gang, the Dalton gang, etc. The acts performed by these kids are vandalism at best and probably trespass and theft at worst. ... I have watched kids testifying before Congress. It is clear that they are completely unaware of the seriousness of their acts."
The programmer subculture of hackers sees secondary circumvention of security mechanisms as legitimate if it is done to get practical barriers out of the way for doing actual work. In special forms, that can even be an expression of playful cleverness. However, the systematic and primary engagement in such activities is not one of the actual interests of the programmer subculture of hackers and it does not have significance in its actual activities, either. A further difference is that, historically, members of the programmer subculture of hackers were working at academic institutions and used the computing environment there. In contrast, the prototypical computer security hacker had access exclusively to a home computer and a modem. However since the mid-1990s, with home computers that could run Unix-like operating systems and with inexpensive internet home access being available for the first time, many people from outside of the academic world started to take part in the programmer subculture of hacking.
Since the mid-1980s, there are some overlaps in ideas and members with the computer security hacking community. The most prominent case is Robert T. Morris, who was a user of MIT-AI, yet wrote the Morris worm. The Jargon File hence calls him "a true hacker who blundered". Nevertheless, members of the programmer subculture have a tendency to look down on and disassociate from these overlaps. They commonly refer disparagingly to people in the computer security subculture as crackers, and refuse to accept any definition of hacker that encompasses such activities. The computer security hacking subculture on the other hand tends not to distinguish between the two subcultures as harshly, instead acknowledging that they have much in common including many members, political and social goals, and a love of learning about technology. They restrict the use of the term cracker to their categories of script kiddies and black hat hackers instead.
All three subcultures have relations to hardware modifications. In the early days of network hacking, phreaks were building blue boxes and various variants. The programmer subculture of hackers has stories about several hardware hacks in its folklore, such as a mysterious ''magic'' switch attached to a PDP-10 computer in MIT''s AI lab, that, when turned off, crashed the computer. The early hobbyist hackers built their home computers themselves, from construction kits. However, all these activities have died out during the 1980s, when the phone network switched to digitally controlled switchboards, causing network hacking to shift to dialing remote computers with modems, when pre-assembled inexpensive home computers were available, and when academic institutions started to give individual mass-produced workstation computers to scientists instead of using a central timesharing system. The only kind of widespread hardware modification nowadays is case modding.
An encounter of the programmer and the computer security hacker subculture occurred at the end of the 1980s, when a group of computer security hackers, sympathizing with the Chaos Computer Club (who disclaimed any knowledge in these activities), broke into computers of American military organizations and academic institutions. They sold data from these machines to the Soviet secret service, one of them in order to fund his drug addiction. The case could be solved when Clifford Stoll, a scientist working as a system administrator, found ways to log the attacks and to trace them back (with the help of many others). 23, a German film adaption with fictional elements, shows the events from the attackers'' perspective. Stoll described the case in his book The Cuckoo''s Egg and in the TV documentary The KGB, the Computer, and Me from the other perspective. According to Eric S. Raymond, it "nicely illustrates the difference between ''hacker'' and ''cracker''. Stoll''s portrait of himself, his lady Martha, and his friends at Berkeley and on the Internet paints a marvelously vivid picture of how hackers and the people around them like to live and how they think."Filmography
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Wabash's Dean of the College Mauri A. Ditzler '75 has been named the 13 th president of Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois and will begin his presidency on July 1. In between meetings with Division Chairs and Department Chairs at the end of a busy school year, we sat down with Dean Ditzler to talk about life as President Ditzler.
JA: Let's start with your time at Wabash these last six years.
MD: "It was a special opportunity to come back to Wabash College after having been away 25 years. I had consciously stayed away; I didn't come back to reunions or football games. Part of that was simply being a faculty member and administrator at other schools, so when Wabash had reunions, we had reunions where I was teaching. But the other part of it is more personal. I had such a good experience at Wabash and I didn't want to go back to 'test' the experience. You see, faculty and administrators view a college very differently than students do, and I didn't want to 'test' my student experiences; I wanted to hold on to this mythological view of Wabash.
"What was special was that the magical picture I took away from Wabash as a student in 1975 was real and it hadn't changed. When I came back to test my memories, they held up. So these last six years have been very much like my four years as an undergraduate. Wabash is a special oasis in higher education where teaching and learning is done the way it should be."
JA: Why is it that you are attracted to Midwestern liberal arts colleges?
MD: "All colleges are special to the students who attend them. And I try hard to find something I like in every campus I visit. But there is a special place in my heart for Midwestern liberal arts colleges. They are counterintuitive. If you think about when and where they were established—on the western frontier in the 1800s—and they found it important to understand the classics, to understand science and philosophy. That doesn't sound like the kind of education needed on the frontier in the 1800s, but it was a way of teaching and learning that has endured.
"When I was a student at Wabash, one of the things we talked about was how remarkably hard students work. Students could catch up and surpass students from other colleges with more sophisticated backgrounds. The high school I attended, for example (Rosedale), had only one math teacher. There was only one English teacher. There were students who had the same math teacher for six years; the same English teacher for five years. So I came to Wabash having written only one essay in my life. Wabash was a place where you could come with holes in your academic record and still catch up. And it still is that way today.
"That's one of the things that attracted me to Monmouth. I asked them, 'Do you like your students?' And they said, 'Yes, we do.' Like Wabash, Monmouth is a school far more interested in who the students are when they graduate than when they started."
JA: What do you consider your hallmark achievements at Wabash?
MD: "I was talking with a senior faculty member on Friday and told them I was leaving. And this faculty member said to me, 'This is a really fun place to teach.' That's one thing of which I'm most proud. If the faculty are having fun teaching, they will teach remarkably well.
"Colleges ought to be places where faculty can express their creativity as teachers. One of the things we've done over the last half-dozen years is make it possible for faculty to get together and say, 'What if we were able to take our students studying the European Union to Belgium?' Through the efforts of a lot of people, we've created an environment where faculty can be creative as teachers; they can ask, 'What if?' and we have been able to make it happen.
"And finally, as best as I can tell, Wabash students enjoy learning and their four years on campus. I try to interview every graduating senior and I ask them what they'd change and what they'd keep the same. And every year the list of things they would change is remarkable short. I think our students enjoy their experience at Wabash because of their engagement with the faculty. Any time you can put students and faculty closely together, good things will happen."
JA: What about moving away from your small town, Parke County roots?
MD: "When I was recruited out of Rosedale High School by Steve Grissom, people said he was the first college recruiter they could ever remember coming to Rosedale. And I believe I was the first graduate of Rosedale to graduate from Wabash.
"I've really enjoyed reconnecting with Parke County alumni of Wabash at the annual Parke County Scholarship Dinner. It allows me to see how Wabash has had such a positive impact on small Indiana communities. We tend to focus our attention on our alumni in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles who make a name for themselves nationally. But if you look closely, what you really see is that Wabash men become the backbone of small communities. Parke County's leaders—the lawyers, judges, and business people—came to Wabash."
JA: Other than meeting people and getting to know the place, what's on your agenda for Monmouth?
MD: "One of the things I've learned at Wabash College is for an institution to really thrive, everyone has to understand the mission and core values of the institution. So, we'll spend our time as a community discussing the mission and core values; we'll need to be able to articulate those things clearly. If you have a place with a shared understanding of its mission and core values, then you can become very creative in teaching and learning.
"Like every college in the country, we'll work on improving graduation rates. You do that by getting students more engaged with faculty. When students get together and engaged with faculty, they succeed. When they succeed, they graduate.
"And a significant part of my new job will be raising funds to allow faculty to achieve their teaching goals. We'll need to raise some funds for a student center, a building for the business program, and probably down the road a science building.
"The Monmouth campus is growing in number. We'll have to decide where to cap it. A dozen years ago enrollment had dipped to around 600; now it's between 1200 and 1300. We'll continue to grow, but at some point we'll discuss how big we need to be."
JA: Care to reflect on your time at Wabash?
MD: "I love this college and the people here. I enjoy living in a small Indiana town. I'm lucky to have the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts here, and we just got a grant to promote Indiana culture. All these things make being Dean at Wabash the best job in the world. And I enjoy being able to be involved in all aspects of a college. I suppose I could have been a Dean forever, but I would have missed the opportunity to put all of the pieces together for a whole that benefits students, faculty, and alumni."
JA: Why Monmouth?
MD: "I think this country needs more outstanding colleges; colleges like Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, and Bates that don't have to worry about attracting faculty or running out of funds. Wabash is a place like that. And Monmouth is at a place in its history where it could be seen as a stalwart amongst this country's educational institutions. I'm intrigued by the possibility of participating in that process."
JA: Are you leaving Wabash in a good place?
MD: "Wabash was in a good place when I came here. I was fortunate to be here at a time when there was a marvelous team of faculty and administrators who had a shared sense of the mission and core values of the college. We've hired a remarkable number of very talented, young faculty members, so Wabash has a very bright future.


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But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. And it shall turn to you for a testimony. Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. But there shall not an hair of your head perish. In your patience possess ye your souls.
(Luke 21:12-19)
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
We behold today three events. We are still basking in the radiance of the feast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple. For mankind, this is one of the brightest, most wondrous feasts: One of us, the Virgin Mary, entered into the very depths of God's mystery. Her Entry into the temple, her life in the Holy of Holies are an image of how from an early age she entered into Divine realms, into the very depths, the very treasure-house of relationships, communion of the human soul with the Living God in prayer: not into the saying of prayers, not into many words, but into the deepness if the sacred shrine which made her the Mother of God. On the day of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Pure Theotokos the greatness of man is revealed before us, for man is able to enter into these mysterious, wondrous depths and commune with God in His holy place.
We celebrate today also the day of St. Catherine of Alexandria. She was also young girl, eighteen years old, when she had to stand before human judges. Betrayed by her pagan parents for believing in Christ, she was abandoned by all her blood relatives, the closest people she had, and she was left to stand alone before the judge from whom she could expect no mercy, surrounded by a crowd from whom she could expect nothing but enmity.
And to her also occurred what we read today in the Gospel passage appointed for her commemoration day; about what will happen when the end of time approaches: There will be wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, people will rise up against people, nations against nations; hatred will possess thousands of people…
This hatred first of all crashes down upon those who believe in Christ, because we who believe in Christ—like the Mother of God, like the young, fragile and unconquerable Catherine—believe in the one Lord, the one King, and worship God alone, refusing to worship those idols, be they the authorities or others set up around us. We must be ready to be like Catherine and be brought to human judgment to witness, as Christ says; in order to stand before people, and while condemned to imprisonment, to torture, and death, we would triumphantly preach our love for God and our faithfulness to Him, and demonstrate our unfailing love not only for those who love us, but also for those who hate us, who wish us evil, and who do us evil. Then, we will not need to search for words of wisdom; then, we will not need to find convincing arguments—faithfulness, love, truth, and holiness can shine forth in that moment before people through each one of us far more convincingly than any words.
Therefore, when we see that the prophecies of Christ are now being fulfilled, and love truly is going cold, that there really are rumors noised about wars, kingdom is rising against kingdom, nation against nation, betrayal is increasing, and people of faith, people with pure hearts, even the closest relatives of persecutors and man-haters are giving themselves into their hands, we should remember Christ's words: When you hear all this, look up, and lift your heads (Lk. 21:28), because it means that the time is nearing of the final freedom, the final victory of God, the triumph of love, the triumph of Christ…
Therefore let us learn from the Most Holy Virgin and the fragile and unconquerable Catherine, and from the innumerable witnesses of Christ, to live without fear in a terrifying world, to fearlessly await all that can happen, and be afraid of only one thing: that faith fade in our hearts, that love die in our hearts, that we would cease to be faithful to the end. In patience, in firm faith we will save our souls from destruction and decay, and then thousands will be saved around us; in the words of St. Seraphim of Sarov: "Acquire the spirit of peace, and thousands will be saved around you." Amen.
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Remember about this time last year when the Taliban had its own Twitter account? They were using the service for a misinformation carpet bombing, sending dozens upon dozens of tweets out every day about how many vehicles they had successfully destroyed, despite the fact that no one else in the world was reporting anything similar.
Apparently, the group gave it up sometime in the intervening year and went back to posting propaganda only on its official website.
It does seem that everyone gives this "Twitter thing" a try at least once. And apparently warlord bosses of tiny former Soviet republics are no exception.
That's right, everybody, warm up your hashtags — Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has a Twitter account. After talking to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday, he suddenly got an urge to explore the Twitterverse.
Unlike the Taliban, Kadyrov has tweeted only a couple of times in each of the few days since opening the account. Mostly it's innocuous stuff about how certain bits of government are running smoothly. One such tweet from June 21 says (courtesy of Google Translate, since he tweets in Russian):
"Today, traffic police chief ordered a CR at the Chechen sector of M-29 the most favorable conditions for transit vehicles and drivers."
There's no way to tell for certain what the intent is here. But if Kadyrov is trying to mask Chechnya's rather extensive human rights abuse record, he is going to have to tweet about a lot more than the traffic.
It's interesting that he has almost 7,000 followers but is following exactly nobody. I guess that dictator mentality also extends to social media.
You have to wonder who exactly his audience is, since most of his own country's people have limited access to the Internet. It would seem more plausible that he is trying to rebrand his image on the world stage. Well, Mr. Kadyrov, good luck with that.
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Well roared, Lion! Many countries have the big cat as their national symbol, but others prefer smaller animals as emblems – some of which are even quite bizarre.
It doesn't always have to be a tiger, bear or eagle. Scotland has the unicorn as its national symbol, North Korea, the winged horse Chollima – and Costa Rica, a sloth.
In the U.S., 46 of the country's 50 states have an official insect, with 16 honoring the honeybee. The monarch butterfly and ladybug are also surprisingly popular.
The Japanese? They love the cherry blossom. In Taiwan, people prefer the more robust plum blossom, and Hong Kong has the Hong Kong orchid on its official flag. But botanists beg to differ, maintaining that this last is not a true orchid at all, but a tree belonging to the legume family.


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Steve Jobs is not known for being an active tweeter and there might be a reason why.
The former Apple's CEO's first authorized biography was released Monday and tidbits of "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson are beginning to leak out. The book was released Sunday, earlier than expected, on Apple's iBooks and Amazon's Kindle.
One is his vendetta against Google and a second is his admiration for Facebook's young founder Mark Zuckerberg.
"I admire Mark Zuckerberg," Jobs says in the book, where he gave Isaacon complete access to his life and allowed himself to be interviewed multiple times by Isaacson. "I only know him a little bit, but I admire him for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that, a lot."
Jobs was not as kind to his longtime rival and Bill Gates. In the book, Jobs says he met with Gates last year and that the Microsoft founder was not a product person and was "unimaginative."
"He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger," Jobs said.
As for where Apple might go next, Isaacson said in an interview with "60 Minutes" Sunday that Jobs was interested in developing an easy to use television.
"He had a few other visions. He would love to make an easy-to-use television set," Isaacson said.
But towards the last two years of his life, Jobs began focusing on his family more and searching for purpose.
"But he started focusing on his family again as well," he said. "And it was a painful brutal struggle. And he would talk, often to me about the pain."
Jobs says in the book that he gave up religion at a young age when he had a moral complex with how God could allow children to starve in Africa but thoughts of God and a higher calling began to fill his mind when he was forced to deal with his own mortality.
"Ever since I've had cancer, I've been thinking about (God) more," Jobs said, according to Isaacson. "And I find myself believing a bit more. Maybe it's because I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn't just all disappear."
Isaacson said of Jobs, "Then he paused for a second and he said 'yeah, but sometimes I think it's just like an on-off switch. Click and you're gone. He paused again, and he said: And that's why I don't like putting on-off switches on Apple devices."
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You've got your summer all planned out.
Weekends with family are starting to fill in between trips and festivals. You've got a few household chores planned, some exploring around town, a bit of a roadtrip, and plenty of dates with a cold one in the backyard.
So what are you going to read this year? How about these great suggestions….
Start your summer off with a little history and "The Civil War in 50 Objects" by Harold Holtzer or "American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms" by Chris Kyle and William Doyle.
There are plenty of books due out in May that will whip you into shorts-and-swimsuit season, including "Hungry Girl 200 Under 200" by Lisa Lillien, "No Bake Makery" by Cristina Suarez Krumsick, and "Fresh Happy Tasty: an Adventure in 100 Recipes" by Jane Coxwell, as well as new foodie books by Guy Fieri, the Batali Brothers, and Art Smith.
May will bring new memoirs by Burt Bacharach; Donald Rumsfeld; and the original MTV VJs. You'll also find new novels by Clive Cussler, Neil Gaiman, Dean Koontz, Kimberla Lawson Roby, Walter Mosley, and Wanda E. Brunstetter.
Once summer officially starts, load up on more novels. Mary Kay Andrews has a new one coming out; so do Carl Hiaasen, Dorothea Benton Frank, Jeffrey Deaver, Jeannette Walls, Barbara Delinsky, Marsha Clark, James Patterson (with Howard Roughan), and James Rollins.
There's a new bio on Willie, Waylon, and Kris Kristofferson due in June. Jen Lancaster comes out with another great book. You'll also find biographies by farmer Mardi Jo Link, and a new book about President Obama.
Historians will love June's offerings: a book on the 1936 Berlin Olympics; one about the wives of early astronauts; a book about the Revolutionary War; and a book about American prosperity in each of the 50 states.
There's also a great book for dog-lovers coming up in June, as well as some fun crafts books, yummy cookbooks, and a new Dr. Who book.
Summer might be halfway over, but the parade of new books is not!
Jump into July with a new novel by Laurell K. Hamilton, Jude Devereaux, or Karin Slaughter. Then work your way through the month with others by Catherine Coulter, Chuck Klosterman, Iris Johansen, Chris Bohjalian, Carole Radizwell, Zane, and Danielle Steele.
There are a lot of books for self-improvement coming out this month: one on dating, one on mating, some on making your life better, and a humorous book on epic fails in life and love. You'll also find some great summertime cookbooks in July, too.
Look for a new book about Orson Welles; a book for new teachers; a rockin' new book on the Rolling Stones; a book about the Outlaws motorcycle gang; and some fun new crossword puzzle books.
You might be winding down your summertime, but the books keep on coming…
Look for last-minute-of-the-season books by James Patterson (with David Ellis) to begin the month. Then plow through new novels by Faye Kellerman, Anne Rivers Siddons; Erica Spindler, W.E.B Griffin and William E. Butterworth, Karen Robards, Debbie Macomber, Thomas Keneally, Diane Mott Davidson, Edwidge Danticat, Emma McLaughlin, and Kathy Reichs.
There's a new financial book coming out by Clark Howard in August; a history book on the Middle East; a cool new business book about the shipping industry; an autobiography by Ricky Skaggs; a book of letters from John F. Kennedy; and a pile of new cookbooks to take you into fall.
And now for the disclaimer: Some books can be canceled or rescheduled. This isn't a definitive list. And if you didn't see your favorite author or subject on this list, then ask your favorite bookseller or librarian for more excellent suggestions. Guess what? They love to tell you about the books they love!
Happy summer and happy reading!
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The fish was delicious, no doubt about it.
Perfectly seasoned and cooked just right, the broiled grouper on the Texas menu last summer tempted Donna Schroeder to eat every bite.
The only problem? It was poisoned, tainted with a hard-to-detect toxin that produces symptoms so bizarre, they put peanut-linked salmonella infections to shame.
"It's horrible, I'm telling you," said Schroeder, 65, a retired Beaumont, Texas, realtor, who is only now recovering from the worst symptoms of ciguatera fish poisoning, an exotic foodborne illness that health officials say may be dramatically under-recognized in the United States.
The malady afflicts at least 50,000 people a year worldwide — and the real number may be 100 times that many. While ciguatera fish poisoning is largely unknown in most of the U.S., several recent cases have attracted growing concern, officials say. They hope a greater awareness will help alert consumers and doctors and improve treatment of the incurable illness caused by coral algae toxins that accumulate in large tropical reef fish.
Within hours of the July dinner, Schroeder was stricken not only with typical nasty food poisoning symptoms — diarrhea, vomiting and fatigue — but also with a dangerously slow heart rate and neurological problems that caused her hands and feet to tingle painfully and, oddest of all, reversed her sense of hot and cold. Some patients also say they feel like their teeth are falling out — and the symptoms can linger for years.
"Whatever I touched, if it was hot, it would feel cold. If it was cold, it felt hot," Schroeder recalled. "I couldn't walk on the tile floor. It felt like it was burning me."
That should have been a clue to emergency room crews and doctors, but it wasn't, said Schroeder, who was sent home with a general diagnosis of food poisoning, but nothing to explain the odd reactions or why they lingered so long.
"Doctors don't even know what it is," she said. "How sad is that?"
Ciguatera fish poisoning often is missed, even though it is the most common seafood-toxin illness reported in the world, said Richard Weisman, a toxicologist and director of the Florida Poison Information Center.
"If you go to the Caribbean Islands, you can't find anybody who hasn't had it," he said.
Residents there and in other tropical places — Hawaii, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico — know that large, predatory fish caught by sport fishermen on coral reefs are common sources of ciguatera fish poisoning.
The actual toxin is produced by microscopic sea plants, which are eaten by smaller fish that are, in turn, eaten by larger fish such as barracuda, grouper, sea bass and snapper. The toxins become increasingly concentrated as they move up the food chain.
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In the continental U.S., reported cases have been rare, typically confined to tourists who become ill after returning home from tropical vacations or to fishermen sickened by their own deep-sea catches.
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Recently, however, worries about the illness increased after it cropped up in unexpected places. In 2007, 10 people in St. Louis who ate imported fish at two restaurants were sickened with ciguatera.
Last year, several unspecified outbreaks of ciguatera linked to grouper and amberjack compelled the federal Food and Drug Administration to expand guidelines warning about the risk of ciguatera in fish caught in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
And just last month, food safety inspectors in Canada issued a health hazard alert for ciguatera-tainted frozen Leatherjacket fish after two people became ill in that country.
Symptoms mistaken for multiple sclerosis
Part of the problem is that ciguatera fish poisoning is hard to detect for seafood suppliers and consumers alike, said Melissa Friedman, a neuropsychologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami who studied victims of the illness.
"You can't tell from the way it looks. You can't tell from the way it tastes. There's nothing you can do in terms of storage. There's nothing you can do in terms of cooking," she said.
Instead, people simply eat the toxic fish and become ill. Baffled doctors often confuse ciguatera symptoms with those of multiple sclerosis, or else they come away empty-handed, Weisman said.
"There are people having CT scans, MRIs, all these tests." he said. "They do million-dollar workups, but no test will ever come back positive."
Three-day window for best treatment
That can delay one of the only treatments for the illness: an intravenous dose of a drug called mannitol, which can reduce or prevent the neurological symptoms. The drug is most effective, however, within the first 72 hours of illness, Weisman said.
The worst of the illness usually lasts for a week or two, and it's rarely fatal. But in some victims, the effects linger much longer, or never really go away. Many patients find that certain foods such as other fish, nuts or alcohol trigger relapses, and that overexertion can send the symptoms flooding back.
One of the most pressing problems with ciguatera is that, although the illness has been chronicled since Christopher Columbus' crew ventured to the New World, there is no baseline data about incidence — or prevalence.
Between 1998 and 2002, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logged only 16 foodborne outbreaks of ciguatera affecting 73 people in the U.S., a 2006 summary showed.
But only 2 percent to 10 percent of ciguatera fish poisoning cases are reported to authorities and many health officials don't realize it's a reportable condition, said Dr. Lora Fleming, a ciguatera expert from the University of Miami. Using data from Dade County, Fla., where about 50 to 60 cases are reported a year, experts estimate that for every single case of ciguatera detected, between 10 and 100 cases go unreported.
Just last month, the CDC launched the Harmful Algal Bloom-related Illness Surveillance System, a monitoring system that will track ciguatera in people and animals, among other things. First results aren't expected for a year, however, said Lorraine Backer, a scientist with the National Center for Environmental Health.
One outcome of the project may be to further discussions of whether global climate change is influencing ciguatera outbreaks, Backer said. Some scientists believe that ciguatera is moving north as ocean waters warm, and that increased numbers of hurricanes and tropical storms may cause disturbances in coral reefs that make them more hospitable to the toxic algae.
'More prevalent than we think'
In the meantime, it's hard to convince victims like Donna Schroeder that ciguatera is not a serious, growing and misunderstood problem. She only discovered she had ciguatera poisoning by asking her daughter to research fish-borne food illnesses on the Internet and then matching her bizarre symptoms to those listed online.
"I feel it's more prevalent than we think," Schroeder said. "There's a lot more of it and people are getting sicker."
Schroeder has filed a lawsuit against the place where she ate the meal, the Stingaree Restaurant in Crystal Beach, Texas, and against Katie's Seafood Market of Galveston, Texas, which supplied the seafood.
The legal action was inspired mostly by a desire to raise awareness about the illness, Schroeder said. "I really wanted to get the word out about this fish," she said.
But other victims have been less altruistic. Todd Stewart, a lawyer in Jupiter, Fla., has handled a dozen ciguatera cases in the decade, including the largest-ever settlement for the illness in the state's history. It was in the six figures, he said, declining to be more specific.
Stewart argues that seafood suppliers and restaurants have an obligation to research so-called "ciguatera hot spots," places in the world where the ciguatoxin is common, and to avoid buying fish from there.
"They ought to be asking: Did you take this from a ciguatera area?" he said. "You could potentially be exposing customers to a poisonous fish."
Brad Vratis, general manager of the Stingaree Restaurant, said he couldn't even pronounce "ciguatera" before he learned of Schroeder's illness. "We haven't served a piece of grouper in this restaurant since then," Vratis said.
It can be tough for consumers to protect themselves against a poison that can't be detected and can't be killed by freezing or cooking. At least one Hawaiian company, Oceanit Laboratories Inc., markets a $30 ciguatera fish test kit that claims to successfully identify the toxin within an hour, said Dr. Joanne Ebesu, a senior scientist with the company.
But the paper co-authored by Friedman and Fleming concludes that no commercially-available fish testing product has been proven to be accurate by independent tests.
Mostly, Fleming said, consumers are on their own.
Fish-lovers hoping to avoid ciguatera poisoning can take a couple of steps. First, ask where the fish is from. If a restaurant or supplier can't say, be wary.
Second, eat small portions of different fish instead of larger servings of a single fish. That will perhaps lessen the dose of any toxin present.
Finally, consider avoiding certain fish altogether.
"Personally, I don't eat large reef fish," said Fleming. "And I don't eat fillets of fish because I don't know what the original fish was."
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Where Ya At
I am a chef in Seattle but my home, that I miss and love, is New Orleans, LA. I live and breath the New Orleans hospitality and of course good food, mostly the street food ie: Po-Boys, Muffulettas, Beignets and good coffee. This Spring, I am starting a food truck here in Seattle that will feature all of my favorite street food from New Orleans. Food is my life and passion and nothing sums it up better than the New Orleans saying, "Most people eat to live but in New Orleans we live to eat!" (would like this used on the truck)
I am fun, out-going, and spontaneous. I know what I want and go after it. I think that my food is amazing but not pretentious. My food is clean, simple, fun and sometimes bold.
The name "Where Ya At" is a phrase used in New Orleans to mean, how are you or how are you doing. I like it for that reason as well as the fact that we are a kick a%s mobile food business and people will wonder where we are located day to day. My website will be http://www.whereyaatmatt.com. Matt coming from my name Matthew, of course!
The target audience will vary, from infants to tourist to foodies and everyone in between. The good thing about my food is that I think that everyone can find something that they like.
There is somewhat of a hippster following of food trucks and generally these people are between the ages of 25 and 35, professionals, and technologically savvy enough to be on Facebook and Twitter.
This design will be digitally printed and then wrapped on the truck so the sky is the limit as to what it can look like. The best way that I can describe the shape and size of this truck is picture a UPS or FEDEX (See links to truck while being built out below) truck as your canvas. I want the base of the truck to be black and the rest of the design to be sleek, sexy and not too cluttered. I like clean lines and bold colors. I do not want any clip art or cartoons used. This truck will be a mobile billboard we will drive to a different location daily, and we want to let people know what we are all about, good times and great food!
I am open to suggestion, so please do not hesitate to email questions.
I do need the design to be in a format that the printers can manipulate ie: Photoshop, Illustrator, Publisher, etc.
I have attached my cooking bio for those of you who want to know more, but I think this should sum it all up, if not ping me!
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We've been having a little problem with birds hitting our front windows lately. It used to happen a couple times a year, but recently it's been happening a couple times a week. We have some feeders near the windows and we don't want to move them because they are fun to look at (and the cats really enjoy it as well!). I've noticed black bird decals on windows of some buildings and at the zoo, so I thought we'd try that at home. Of course, I wanted something more colorful. So I found a flying bird template (
), printed it out the size I needed, and traced it on black construction paper. Then I traced around it, about 1/4" away from my original tracing. I cut along the outside line first, then along the inside line so I had a nice thick outline of the bird. I put it on the inside of a laminating sheet and my daughter filled it in with colorful tissue paper squares.
We didn't use any glue. Everything just sat on top of the laminating sheet. You can also use contact paper, but I like how the laminator makes it extra glossy. She covered the entire inside of the bird.
We didn't worry about staying inside the black outline because it was getting trimmed after it was laminated.
Only one side will have the black outline, but you could always use a Sharpie to draw in an outline on the other side. I didn't mind. I just made sure the outline was facing in when I hung them in the windows. I also decided to hang up the black bird that was cut from the middle. The display looked beautiful this morning!
Yes, that is a squirrel down there eating all the leftovers! And no, I didn't wash my windows before putting them up. Don't judge me! We ended up making a couple more today for the bottom windows as well. Hopefully we won't have any more feathered friends flying into our windows!
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I would love the chance to be a mobile insider. I use social media very often and love playing around with smart phones etc to see what they can and can't do.
I have had some issues with Telstra customer service but would love the oppurtunity to be shown that Telstra are a great service provider and believe i can offer solutions to problems a lot of people are having trouble with in regards to customer satisfaction.
I have been a loyal Telstra customer for over 15 years.
Thank you for your time
Jared Woodhouse
I am just an ordinary person who likes thier technology and works in a wharehouse. I am on twitter (@mheron7), google+, facebook and instagram. If you want video of the equipment in action then I can do that. I'm honest and always tell people how it is. If I don't like something I will say so and I will tell you why. I also have no problem people asking me questions about.
I have always been keeping myself updated with latest technology news. I am also able to get used with new gadgets within a short period of time, giving me advantages in offering supports to other users.
The water-proof and dust-resistent features of the Zperia Z2 are the best and latest technology to date, which attracts a lot of people in giving a test.
I am a frequent user of Facebook, but I don't post public posts much. I have a twitter account @winmas, which I could post more tweets if I could be one of the Mobile Insiders. I also have a YouTube channel if you want me to offer some videos related to Xperia Z2.
I've previously reviewed the Telstra 4G dongle when it first came out and believe that review was quite successful (I had random people I know telling me they were researching it and found my writeup!).
I have a strong twitter presense on @AdamFowler_IT and adamfowlerit.com including reviewing several products.
I do enjoy playing with new gadgets and devices while putting them through their paces.
G'day Telstra Crowd Support,
If afforded the opportunity to exploit the capabilities of the Sonz Z2 + accessories, I would prosecute it through a range of evolving activites in both a tempest rated environment and various limited general access areas in NSW and possibly other states.
I'm an avivd user of Social Media, endeavouring to provide technological influence, and to a small extent affect change to behaviours, based on observations, insights and lessons (i.e. Lessons demonstated through predictive behaviour mannerisms, etc)
Please consider me as a potential candidate.
Mark V
Twitter: Vermark26
I would love to be able to test this product! I am a uni student and rely on technology to study. When i first began studying i would myself looking a technology reviews to see what was out there to help me achieve. I would like to provide the same experience for other people! i dont have twitter but i wouldn't mind getting it if i meant i could provide detailed reviews to proucts to help others out.
I like tech news and gadget, I have been reviewing and taking video on youtube for quite a long time.
I have own a few sony (ericsson) xperia include the arc, play, S and Z before and have been using different brands of android phone include samsung, HTC, motorola, sony, xiaomi, and huawei.
I am interested in reviewing the smartband since I have never own this kind of gadget before.
Hello my name is Alison.
I take pride in my technology and devote my time to figuring out whether the technological item is good or bad, and I'll be straight out honest on my personal opinion!
The specifications I look for in technological objects are the technical features, camera, MP, social networking, general speed, internet speed, technological adjustments, lighting and sound; depending on what the specific item has to offer.
Although I'm a technology geek I am just an everyday genuine citizen of Australia, I do not have any expectations as I will not judge/underestimate an item until I've tested it.
I am interested in the way our world is developing technologically and I believe my judgements are important; in fact essential for honest and genuine feedback on the newest/previous technolgy.
I personally love all technology from phones to tablets; they all have their unique importances which I believe are essential for our generations daily life. Technology is striving for perfection and it's certainly at it's highest point in the year 2014, but I believe technology has a lot more potential and if you allow me to test out the products I promise I'll provide you with detailed feedback!
I am prepared to help the community and answer questions on Crowd Support, I believe everyone who's with Telstra deserves special service; and I'd love to help out!
Love Alison
Twitter: @AlisonHawky
I love social media and am online literally 24/7! Whether it's on my Phone or my Computer I am always online and will always be ready to help!
Well, let me start of by thanking you guys for giving us a great opportunity like this. I believe that i will be the best person to review technology. You know why? Because i am a teenager. And who better a person to review products of the future, than a person who is the future of this country. If you look around in our society, you see teenagers constantly on technology, on the train, buses, shopping centres, etc., with phones in their hands. We practically live and breathe technology. Why not have a person who lives and breathes technology, instead of someone who just uses it. And you know why it is good to have a person who is the future of this country? Its because i know how to appeal to the future of this country. I know how to speak the lingo people understand. I know how to make people interested in technology. I know how young people think. Teenagers are constantly using technology, every day of their lives. Wouldn't you prefer someone who knows and lives technology, instead of someone who just uses it? I believe that i am the correct person for this. I have Facebook, and was considering getting twitter. If you want to review products of the future, why not get a person of the future to review it?
would love to sign up to be a mobile insider and reviewer
With a long history of wanted to be an earlier adopter, but not the budget to do so, i've always loved playing with new tech.
From cameras to phones, i've blogged, emailed, photographed and tweeted about them all.
From my first Android phone through to my latest S4, I've enjoyed playing with the platform, pushing my devices hard in both the real world and in the virtual.
I am an honest but fair reviewer as well.
Now, who do I have to beg...
as a testament to my love of social media and phones i can present RSI certificates and thumb calluses.
but I believe I would be a great addition to the #mobileinsider crew because of my ability to test the device in all facet of my life and that of the devices.
Being able to test them in a corporate environment and also as a father with young kids and even a meme tweeting nerd with mild fitness tendances.
In the household we cover all platforms IOS and android etc so integration and syncing can be explored
So in short vote 1 Kodos. Um i mean @damien_77
I would love to review as i work in the IT Industry and are always reading about the latest technology news on Twitter and Facebook
Twitter : Wombat_100
Since I'm an IT guy who deals with 0s and 1s and on testing quality software products and raising a number of bug reports on the ones I have found, I'd be more than happy to get my hands on one of these to test and provide an impartial feedback.
I would test its features including VPN connectivity, synchronisation, network capabilities, DLNA for I've been using these technologies on mobile day in and out.
twitter handle : @bershath
I'm the enemy. An iPhone user. I'm on my third iPhone.
I've been around technology for longer than I care to think about, I've worked in tech support on and off for many years, and I'd like to think I have the ability to answer technical questions with layman-level language. I work on a Macbook Pro, built an Ubuntu-based media server for the living room, and I use a Windows 8.1 system for gaming. I'm platform agnostic when it comes to using the right tool for the job.
I've had several friends try and convince me that I should give Android a go, but because of my investment in the Apple ecosystem, I've been content to stay.
I'd be willing to give the Z2 a real, serious shot as an alternative to the iPhone.
Twitter handle: WarWraith
Well I guess I'd be an interesting reviewer in that I'm a fairly committed Apple user but I have an open mind to exploring alternative brands to test that resolve.
When you've used the same brand for years and years making a change to another phone or device can be a little daunting especially when locking yourself into a contract. But I'd certainly love the chance to have a look at a Sony and give it an honest chance.
My twitter profile is leesargent I also podcast, blog, am on tumblr, Facebook, instagram etc (I'm a social media manager).
my cat also help out when doing tech reviews and unboxing
Hi there!
I think it would be fantastic if I could become a Telstra Mobile Insider!
I am based in Darwin, NT and I work as a Civil Engineer. My work requires me to often travel to remote areas of the Northern Territory, most of which are remote communities. It's very important for me to carry a smart phone out with me to site as I frequently need to make calls, check emails and take photos while I am out bush. I would be able to give this phone (Z2) an all round work out. That experience would result in some very thorough feedback for sure.
I would also be able to test out the phone's dust and water resistance as those are common occurences for me out on site. The camera is something I also very keen to test out as I know it is supposed to be very good. As an amatuer photographer, as well as needing a camera for site visits, the camera is something that I would look at closely.
Additionally, I am a bit of a techie and I love to keep up to date with the latest gadgets. I use twitter (@mrmattfong) to keep up to date and follow companies, such as telstra, for all the latest releases. I am active on other internet forums as well, including Reddit. Discussing technology and comparing devices is almost a hobby for me.
I enjoy providing feedback on experience with many of my gadgets. If I can help someone make a decision on their next purchase, I am more than happy to provide them with my thoughts. I would be delighted to answer questions and provide my opinion on a device such as the Xperia Z2.
If I get the opportunity to be a mobile insider, just tell me where and when and I will be available to provide information and feedback with my experiences with this phone.
I promise I won't let you guys down!
Twitter Handle: @MrMattFong / https://twitter.com/MrMattFong
Thanks everyone for the interest, and for sharing your experience and thoughts.
@katroberts wanted me to let you all know the person will be chosen this Thursdays.
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Hi there!
I'd love to be a Crowdsupport Mobile Insider. I'm a tech lover and regular reader of tech sites like Engadget, Gizmodo and The Verge and I love keeping up to date with the latest tech trends happening around the world. I'm currently an iPhone user, but have used all 3 major mobile eco systems (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) at various stagesover the past few years.
My professional career as a Digital Communications expert, not to mention my personal life, leads me to be heavily involved in social media, mostly centred around Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. I am also well versed in writing for print and the web, and even had a reader review published on Gizmodo earlier this year, so my writing can be verified! (https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/01/gizmodo-reader-review-bose-quietcomfort-20i-noise-cancelling-head...
I can also guarantee my reviews will be honest and accurate, plus I never miss a deadline and am happy to engage with users who have additional questions (see that Giz article's comments to see my follow ups).
I regularly use my mobile device for music and media consumption, especially at the gym, and am always on the look out for a new way to improve that experience and make life easier. My Twitter handle is @wazman21. I have also developed many mobile websites and an iOS app in the past, so putting a mobile device through its paces would be right in my wheelhouse.
I am a developer and have deloped apps fro iPhone and Android. Would love to be a mobile insider.
I am a tech savvy and read too many tech news daily.
I use Twitter 16 hours a day. following various accounts mainly tech related news and insiders.
I'd love to be on your review team, living in rural NSW and working in a media production company gives me a lot of opertunities to work with the latest equipment & experience the real benefits of the Telstra network!
Love Twitter & I'm on there very few minutes @CameronGilroy reading the latest & answering questions.
Thank you again everyone for your interest.
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i would like the awesome chance to be a mobile insider, i've been a mobile enthusiast for 8 years and been with the telstra network since 3G 2100 days. to be honest this is my second account with telstra as the first account phone number was always hard to remember so i got an new account and number. I've used phones includeing the HTC One (M7 and M8) Iphone 3GS,4S and 5S and many more. In the past i've done reviews on forums on a few devices includeing the ipod touch 5th gen and Iphone 3GS,4S And 5S. i've been intrested in the Z2 for a while after useing the Z and Z1 both really nice phones, i have youtube account where i could upload a review and a twitter account to upload photos
Thanks top250
Legendary effort Telstra! It's great to see community involvement and crowd support initiatives.
As a creative digital startup / small mobile dev team running on Telstra, Zero Blink can't wait to pitch in and put this tech through it's paces. We'll keep the start-up eco-system informed and look forward to responding to all the buzz.
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I use my current phone all day every-day! Whether it's staying organsied for University, texting friends, posting pictures to Instagram and even letting the world know what I'm eating via Twitter.
My twitter handle is allenjschofield and I'm always updating! Twitter and Instagram follower account is getting bigger everyday and I love looking at new ways to gain followers and get my opinon out there.
Hi there,
I think I would be a valuable member of the Mobile Insider Team.
I started my career as a Telstra graduate in 1998, working in both Australia and the UK. I was then hired as the first Googler (Google employee) in Singapore, working throughout Southeast Asia, before returning to Australia. I now work for LinkedIn, based in Sydney.
Throughout all of these phases of my career, despite being a non-technical person, I have been at the forefront of mobile and Internet technology.
My social media presence is diverse, with a substantial professional network on LinkedIn, a large community of friends on Facebook, a swag of Google+ connections and a decent number of Followers on Twitter.
My Twitter handle is @dkeppie
I hope you will select me for the team and look forward to providing honest, genuine and useful review of products.
Kind regards,
Darren Keppie
As the General Manager of a M2M business utilizing Telstra's NextG network in thousands of devices, testing and proving devices is within my comfort zone. Also, as the responsible person who decides the mandate to which devices we provide throughout the business, it is crucial that I understand where new devices fit within a corporate environment. The Xperia Z2 was already on my radar due to it's IP rating, however the change to Android from the apple ecosystem we're currently engaged in requires some serious due diligence and I would be happy to share my findings to other Telstra users.
My twitter handle is @darrenkwok and I welcome any correspondence.
Thanks and regards.
ide like to try one out as using a smasung galaxy 2 ,and need a new to update and get in the know with and Ide like to see how well it goes here in Wallabi Piont as you reckon your service gets anywhere ,well not here
I am an active supporter of Telstra having worked in many roles in the company for over 34 years. Reired for 10 years I have a very active interest in technology and as well as my own enjoyment I teach seniors about technology through the local University of the Third Age. I like to keep up to date with latest trends and would welcome the chance to review and report on this phone. Thanks for asking
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STATE HOUSE — The state this year could again fall short of a Patrick administration goal of building 10,000 multi-family homes a year.
Preliminary numbers through the first quarter show Massachusetts is on pace to hit around 8,000 multi-family homes, similar to 2013, when 8,101 multi-family building permits were pulled. The administration is using the number of building permits to track progress towards the 10,000-a-year goal.
"This year, during the first quarter, we're very close to last year," said Aaron Gornstein, Gov. Deval Patrick's undersecretary of housing and community development.
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Aside from hot markets in the Boston area, the state's overall housing recovery has appeared to slow down since last year, according to Michael Goodman, associate professor of public policy at UMass Dartmouth. Single-family housing construction has also decelerated.
Part of the reason housing is not affordable is the difficulty in developing new housing, particularly multi-family units, he said. "The long-term reason is we are burdened here in Massachusetts with some very antiquated zoning policies," he said.
Communities are also sometimes resistant to more housing, raising the cost of housing, he added.
Gornstein said the administration has been focusing on a regional planning process with cities and towns, identifying areas for development and for preservation.
The administration is also making planning grants available to cities in towns, such as MassWorks, which provides money for improvements to roadways, streetscapes and water and sewer infrastructure. The deadline for the 2014 round of MassWorks grant applications is Aug. 29.


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