Executive Drive Time

I used to do a radio programme on GLR. We called one of the regular features Executive Drive Time. Trevor Dann came up with that. The idea was to play driving records for people returning from their places in the country. This morning I've been trying to think of the records that were staples for that slot. These are some of them. There's a Spotify playlist here if you want to hear them.1. Bob Seger: Roll Me Away.When music critics use that horrible cliché "wide screen", this is what they're trying to describe. A few years ago I heard Alan Bleasdale on "Desert Island Discs". He picked this record. Said he'd heard it once on the radio while driving into London. I like to think that was me.2. Freddie King: Going Down.Texas bluesman King made a few records for Shelter in the early 70s. They were produced by Don Nix and Leon Russell and they're the last great blues albums. Nobody made anything in that idiom that sounded half as good again. There's a very good American comedy series at the moment called "Westbound and Down", which is all about a dumb redneck ball player. This is the theme. Perfect.3. ZZ Top: Jesus Just Left Chicago.Always makes me think of the adjective "thixotropic". Don't know why but dear God, what a rhythm section.4. Ray Charles: Mess Around.Danny Baker says this is the only record that never lets you down. I'm with him. Nothing illustrates the ecumenical nature of pop music better than this. It's all about a catfish barbecue and yet it was written by the son of the Turkish Ambassador to the United States. This record's out of the house and hot wiring the car while you're still looking for your keys.5. Richard Thompson: Keep Your Distance.The great thing about Richard Thompson is that he can sing the worthiest sentiments over the most impious noises. He knows the whereabouts of a chord that absolutely nobody else can strike.6. Montrose: Rock Candy.Ted Templeman produced the first Montrose album in the early 70s. He then made the same album with Van Halen who sold millions. All the records made since which purport to be hard rock are essentially pale copies of the first Montrose album. Every time we put this on in the HMV Shop we would sell ten copies.7. Jan & Dean: Surf City.The first record I ever danced to. I think the dance was called the Twitch. It was in somebody's living room in the West Riding of Yorkshire. We didn't even know what surfing was but we knew there was two swinging honeys to every guy and all you had to do was just wink your eye.8. Warren Zevon: Searching For A Heart.Men driving on their own are prone to maudlin sentimentality. I saw this used in a movie called "Grand Canyon" to underline just such a point. "They say love conquers all, you can't start it like a car, you can't stop it with a gun." Like he said in his last days, "enjoy every sandwich".9. Bruce Springsteen: Drive All Night.I once asked listeners to nominate records that they found erotic. The men's suggestions were terrible - a grotesque combination of lewdness and correctness. One woman rang up and suggested this. It's about a man being prepared to drive all night just to buy her some shoes. Not dinner. Not an iPod. Not a new summer outfit. Shoes.

FRANK RICH: The American Press on Suicide Watch

NYT IF you wanted to pick the moment when the American news business went on suicide watch, it was almost exactly three years ago. That’s when Stephen Colbert, appearing at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, delivered a monologue accusing his hosts of being stenographers who had, in essence, let the Bush White House get away with murder (or at least the war in Iraq). To prove the point, the partying journalists in the Washington Hilton ballroom could be seen (courtesy of C-Span) fawning over government potentates — in some cases the very “sources” who had fed all those fictional sightings of Saddam Hussein’s W.M.D. Colbert’s routine did not kill. The Washington Post reported that it “fell flat.” The Times initially did not even mention it. But to the Beltway’s bafflement, Colbert’s riff went viral overnight, ultimately to have a marathon run as the most popular video on iTunes. The cultural disconnect between the journalism establishment and the public it aspires to serve could not have been more vividly dramatized. The bad news about the news business has accelerated ever since. Newspaper circulations and revenues are in free fall. Legendary brands from The Los Angeles Times to The Philadelphia Inquirer are teetering. The New York Times Company threatened to close The Boston Globe if its employees didn’t make substantial sacrifices in salaries and benefits. Other papers have died. The reporting ranks on network and local news alike are shriveling. You know it’s bad when the Senate is moved, as it was last week, to weigh in with hearings on “The Future of Journalism.” Not all is bleak on the Titanic, however. The White House correspondents’ bacchanal was on tap for this weekend. And this time no one could accuse the revelers of failing to get down with the Colbert-iTunes-Facebook young folk: hip big-time journalists now stroke their fans with 140-character messages on Twitter. Or did. No sooner did boldface Washington media personalities ostentatiously embrace Twitter than Nielsen reported that more than 60 percent of Twitter users abandon it after a single month. The causes of journalism’s downfall — some self-inflicted, some beyond anyone’s control (a worldwide economic meltdown) — are well known. To time-travel back to the dawn of the technological strand of the disaster, search YouTube for “1981 primitive Internet report on KRON.” What you’ll find is a 28-year-old local television news piece from San Francisco about a “far-fetched,” pre-Web experiment by the city’s two papers, The Chronicle and The Examiner, to distribute their wares to readers with home computers via primitive phone modems. Though there were at most 3,000 people in the Bay Area with PCs then, some 500 mailed in coupons for the service to The Chronicle alone. But, as the anchorwoman assures us at the end, with a two-hour download time (at $5 an hour), “the new telepaper won’t be much competition for the 20-cent street edition.” The rest is irreversible history. This far-fetched newspaper experiment soon faded, even in San Francisco, the gateway to Silicon Valley. Today The Examiner, once the flagship of William Randolph Hearst’s grand journalistic empire, exists in name only, as a flimsy giveaway. The Chronicle is under threat of closure. But this self-destructive retreat from innovation is hardly novel in the history of American communications. In the last transformative tech revolution before the Internet — television’s emergence in the late 1940s — the pattern was remarkably similar. The entertainment industry referred to TV as “the monster,” and by 1951, the editor of the industry’s trade paper, Variety, was fearful that the monster would “eventually swallow up practically all of show business.” Movies had killed vaudeville a generation earlier. This new household appliance threatened to strangle radio, movies, the Broadway theater, nightclubs and the circus. And newspapers too: “NBC’s New ‘Today’ Attacked by Papers as Competition” screamed a front-page Variety headline in 1952. The vulnerable establishments in all these fields went nuts. Most movie studios pushed back against the future by refusing to sell their old movies to television or allow their stars to appear on it. Few seized the opportunity to produce programs for the new medium. Instead, some moguls tried to compete by exhibiting sports events by closed-circuit in networks of movie houses. In 1952-53, Cinerama, 3-D and Cinemascope were all heavily promoted to try to retain movie audiences. None of these desperate rear-guard actions could slow the video revolution. Movie newsreels, movie palaces, radio comedy and drama, and afternoon newspapers, among other staples of the American cultural diet, were all doomed. And yet in 2009, Hollywood movie studios, radio and the Broadway theater, though smaller and much changed, are not dead. They learned to adapt and to collaborate with the monster. In the Internet era, many sectors of American media have been re-enacting their at first complacent and finally panicked behavior of 60 years ago. Few in the entertainment business saw the digital cancer spreading through their old business models until well after file-sharing, via Napster, had started decimating the music industry. It’s not only journalism that is now struggling to plot a path to survival. But, with all due respect to show business, it’s only journalism that’s essential to a functioning democracy. And it’s not just because — as we keep being tediously reminded — Thomas Jefferson said so. Yes, journalists have made tons of mistakes and always will. But without their enterprise, to take a few representative recent examples, we would not have known about the wretched conditions for our veterans at Walter Reed, the government’s warrantless wiretapping, the scams at Enron or steroids in baseball. Such news gathering is not to be confused with opinion writing or bloviating — including that practiced here. Opinions can be stimulating and, for the audiences at Fox News and MSNBC, cathartic. We can spend hours surfing the posts of bloggers we like or despise, some of them gems, even as we might be moved to write our own blogs about local restaurants or the government documents we obsessively study online. But opinions, however insightful or provocative and whether expressed online or in print or in prime time, are cheap. Reporting the news can be expensive. Some of it — monitoring the local school board, say — can and is being done by voluntary “citizen journalists” with time on their hands, integrity and a Web site. But we can’t have serious opinions about America’s role in combating the Taliban in Pakistan unless brave and knowledgeable correspondents (with security to protect them) tell us in real time what is actually going on there. We can’t know what is happening behind closed doors at corrupt, hard-to-penetrate institutions in Washington or Wall Street unless teams of reporters armed with the appropriate technical expertise and assiduously developed contacts are digging night and day. Those reporters have to eat and pay rent, whether they work for print, a TV network, a Web operation or some new bottom-up news organism we can’t yet imagine. It’s immaterial whether we find the fruits of their labors on paper, a laptop screen, a BlackBerry, a Kindle or podcast. But someone — and certainly not the government, with all its conflicted interests — must pay for this content and make every effort to police its fairness and accuracy. If we lose the last major news-gathering operations still standing, there will be no news on Google News unless Google shells out to replace them. It won’t. One of the freshest commentators on Internet culture, Clay Shirky, has written, correctly, that nobody really knows what form journalism will take in the evolving post-newspaper era. Looking back to the unpredictable social and cultural upheavals brought about by Gutenberg’s invention of movable type, he writes, “We’re collectively living through 1500, when it’s easier to see what’s broken than what will replace it.” So who will do the heavy journalistic lifting? “Whatever works.” Every experiment must be tried, professional and amateur, whether by institutions like The Times or “some 19-year-old kid few of us have heard of.” What can’t be reinvented is the wheel of commerce. Just because information wants to be free on the Internet doesn’t mean it can always be free. Web advertising will never be profitable enough to support ambitious news gathering. If a public that thinks nothing of spending money on texting or pornography doesn’t foot the bill for such reportage, it won’t happen. That’s why the debate among journalists about possible forms of payment (subscriptions, NPR-style donations, iTunes-style micropayments, foundation grants) is inside baseball. So is the acrimonious sniping between old media and new. The real question is for the public, not journalists: Does it want to pony up for news, whatever the media that prevail? It’s all a matter of priorities. Not long ago, we laughed at the idea of pay TV. Free television was considered an inalienable American right (as long as it was paid for by advertisers). Then cable and satellite became the national standard. By all means let’s mock the old mainstream media as they preen and party on in a Washington ballroom. Let’s deplore the tabloid journalism that, like the cockroach, will always be with us. But if a comprehensive array of real news is to be part of the picture as well, the time will soon arrive for us to put up or shut up. Whatever shape journalism ultimately takes in America, make no mistake that in the end we will get what we pay for.

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In The News: Game On!

Today's Los Angeles Times reports on the subtle nutritional shift occurring at Dodger Stadium and other massive ballparks across the country -- healthier food!Although 1,000-calorie nacho plates and 300-calorie cups of beer are still present, they are now joined by "wholesome new neighbors: curried chicken salad made with low-fat mayonnaise, turkey sandwiches on whole wheat, and fruit and yogurt parfaits."And, oh, be still my heart. Not only will fresh fruit skewers soon be available, but "for the first time, a registered dietitian, also part of the Kaiser link-up, had a hand in fine-tuning the items."This nutritional "aha" moment isn't just limited to the City of Angels."This year, the [San Diego] Padres are expanding their FriarFit program... which includes $1.50 healthful menu items for kids such as whole wheat animal cookies, a fruit cup, and 1% milk, plus a FriarFit cart offering fruit salad, sushi, veggie burgers and dogs, and a mandarin salad. This food, too, was created with the help of a nutritionist, from UC San Diego."Now it's time for zoos and amusement parks to step up to the plate. Keep the curly fries, cheeseburgers, and jumbo hot dogs on the menu if you want, but also offer options for health-conscious patrons.

Nigerian Internet Scammers Now Operate From Homes

Nigerian Internet Scammers Now Operate From HomesTo escape from the long arms of the law, the notorious Nigerian Internet scammers, popularly known as ‘Yahoo -Yahoo!’ have moved from cyber cafes to the privacy of their homes.After an investigation by a reliable news reporter who visited Lagos in the last week of June, he found out that the “Yahoo -Yahoo!” boys have gone underground since the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) swooped on the cyber cafes frequented by the Internet scammers. They now use laptops to contact their ignorant targets in the United States and other developed countries.The successful “Yahoo -Yahoo!” guys are well known on the campus of the University of Lagos in South western Nigeria, where they cruise about with their fair-weather girlfriends in their flashy cars and bling bling fashion, while their admirers and hangers-on cheer them on.“There is always a greedy Maga online who will fall for any of their various methods of Internet scams,” said an investigator. Most of the “Yahoo-Yahoo!” boys are located in both the densely populated urban areas in major cities in Nigeria, with the largest numbers in the mega city of Lagos.“In Surulere, Fadeyi and Ikeja areas of Lagos,” the investigator said. He could identify many of them in his neighborhood.“Some of them even go about with their laptops concealed in their shoulder bags,” he said. He noted that one of them nicknamed ‘small jesus” made millions from Internet scams, spent part of the money on helping the poor and the needy in his locality and returned to school and he has stopped his life of crime after graduating from the university. But only few of them have stopped Internet scams. Thousands of them are still using their laptops to hunt and scam every Maga who would be willing to believe their cock and bull stories of money laundering, oil contracts, romantic relationships, etc.If you do not want to be the next Maga of the notorious Nigerian Internet scammers, delete their unsolicited e-mails as soon as you see them in your in-box.By Ekenyerengozi Michael ChimaShomolu, Lagos, Nigeria.June/September, 2008.

Hypnosis Necklace

LED corset

Drawing black

Marriage-Hunting Bra

This bra installed an electronic clock, a small speaker.

When her husband put a real wedding ring on the bra , the bra will be about to separate, electronic clock will be stopped, record the time of this sexy, and a small speaker next to get married march played at the same time.

At the same time, the following heart-shaped pockets can store a marriage certificate.

CCP Games to revamp the lore of EVE Online

The sci-fi MMO EVE Online has a rich backstory that now spans 6 years. That backstory is coupled with the many contributions of (volunteer) in-game journalists who report both on the actions and machinations of EVE's players and alliances, and who also write news-style fiction that helps drive the game's storylines forward. EVE Online's Lead Writer CCP t0nyG (aka Tony Gonzales, author of Empyrean Age) has made some major announcements this week regarding changes to EVE's storyline and lore, in a dev blog titled "The Rediscovered Scrolls". The dev blog focuses on how CCP plans to address some of the issues players have noted in terms of the backstory and how it relates to them as 'capsuleers' in the setting of New Eden, given that official fiction and lore are now being released quite frequently. Gonzales says, "Unfortunately, we haven't been perfect in the execution of this effort. A balance had to be maintained between keeping the storyline fresh and dynamic while also holding fast to the core attributes of foundation material. That led to mistakes, contradictions, and general inconsistencies in the canon. We took that personally, and decided to do something about it." Continue reading CCP Games to revamp the lore of EVE Online.

Perhaps I should just call it a golf blog.

I went to see my golf coach with my spare time on Saturday. It is a testament to the quality of this guy that driving 100 minutes to get there and then 100 minutes home again at the end of the session was totally worth it. One of the attractions of dilettantism is getting new shiny stuff into your life on a regular basis. New skills are even nicer than new things for me and so getting some more advanced abilities for my golf game is more satisfying than a new piece of equipment. I felt like I was 10 feet tall for chunks of the session as I went from woeful to good in an aspect of my game that has been plaguing my scores. Im still buzzing now to tell you the truth. Any readers in the Melbourne area looking for a golf coach should check out David Williams. I ended up purchasing neither Wii nor PS3. There was finally an announcement of the Australian release date for Rock Band. The one game that would determine my ultimate console decision. It is finally coming in October. Around the same time Rock Band 2 will be released in the US. And the price gouging for this will require the Australian musical gamers to bend over and grit their teeth as they get reamed with neither reacharound nor lube. The total cost for Rock Band, 10 months after its original relase is $410 FOUR. HUNDRED. AND. TEN. DOLLARS! Dear MTV Games, GET FUCKED YOU GOUGING ARSEHOLES! Love Bruce I can buy an entire Wii for that price. On the current exchange rate, gamers in the US can purchase the same components for AU$180. Why the more than 100% price premium? It cant possibly be shipping. Australia is region free so you shouldnt have to recode anything. Why the fuck do you think you can get away with this exorbitant pricing regime? And so the dream dies. What would have been a guaranteed, day-one sale has now turned into a disgruntled non-customer. One who will actively discourage anyone I know from buying your game at that price point. Who do you think you are? Apple? So the list is now: Glenelg Motor Inn Something or someone (I cant remember) MTV Games.

Bjorn Freeman-Benson

Revisiting my "Not A Product" column with a new proposal. (Again, for the record, these are my personal opinions and not endorsed, approved, or even reviewed by the Foundation.)While I'm sure that my proposal for the Foundation not to distribute binary builds for users is the best solution, it generated quite a hostile reaction from some people so perhaps an intermediate step is the best compromise.Recall that the twin goals of my binary distribution proposal were (1) to educate the users that Eclipse is not a product and that if they want a product, they should get one from a member company and (2) to send more eyeballs to the members to provide more membership value. So if you all1 don't like sending users to the members for distros, today's proposal is bringing the members to the user distros. Specifically, advertising of the member companies in the binary distros that the Foundation hosts.Firefox already does this:So how might this look in Eclipse. Perhaps a new splash page listing all the Strategic members:And a revised help menu explaining to the user where to get support:Of course, a good UX person and graphic designer would do better than I have - the key point is that the binary distros from the Foundation would push users to members.Obviously, most of the readers of this blog are programmers and could easily figure out how to defeat these adverts, but you are not the audience: these member advertisements are aimed at the vast number of pure-users who just download the free Eclipse. Similarly obviously, companies that build products on top of Eclipse would continue to do their own binary product builds and would not include these advertising plug-ins.Win-win.Before you comment on this column, be sure to have read "It's A New World" and understand that "I want things to be just as they are" is not an option. Also, you might want to read "Soul-searching for papers, Web 2.0, open source" by Matt Asay because Eclipse is not the only community facing these changes.1 When having a discussion via twitter or blogs, the "you all" is just the in-crowd. We're not getting the opinions of the larger pure-user community here. In fact, perhaps the pure-user community would be perfectly happy with my earlier proposal for binary distros - we'll never know.

What is too old for you?

Do you think that age is relative like riches. That we only get old as we think we are. and that we are not too old enough to be an achiever. what is too old enough for you to still believe that there is something that you can accomplish in life. do you equate old age with retirement. i would like to believe that even in old age that we can still bear fruit. do you still be able to help than a burden when you are already old?

Cornell Men's Basketball To Sponsor 3-on-3 Challenge

Men's Basketball To Sponsor 3-on-3 Challenge CornellBigRed.com* Register for the 3-on-3 Tournament by clicking here* Cornell Basketball 3-on-3 Tournament Flyer ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell men's and women's basketball teams will sponsor a 3-on-3 tournament on Saturday, April 18 beginning at 1 p.m. at Newman Arena. Prizes include and the tournament winner will square off with the Big Red varsity coaches. Cost of entry for a team of four is $40, with all proceeds going to the Ithaca Youth Bureau and the College Discovery Program. Among the prizes are two front row tickets to the Cornell-Syracuse men's basketball game in 2009-10, as well as autographed jerseys from this year's team and gift cards from local restaurants. Register below for a free t-shirt.

Unit Testing plugin.xml Files

In eclipse, the plugin.xml file is used to help setup the extension points used by your plugins. However, the requirements for this are not unit tested for regressions or to make sure that it is even setup correctly to begin with. Plugin.xml files can be unit tested the same way as Java methods and classes can be tested. Why would you want to do this?Verify that internationalization requirements have been met.Verify that appropriate Id values are being set.Verify that the plugin exentsion point has been defined and hasn't accidently been moved.Verify the integrity of your plugin.xml files.Now there are multiple ways to do this, and I hear people cringing and getting ready to throw bottles at me for suggesting this. However, this can be done fairly easily and quickly without having to walk a DOM tree manually. In fact, with a little bit of XPath, one can quickly determine if the values one is expecting exist in the plugin.xml. So without further ado here is a sample of how to test that a org.eclipse.ui.menus toolbar extension is implemented as expected.Setup:@Overrideprotected void setUp() throws Exception { super.setUp(); loadPluginXML(); initXPath();} @Overrideprotected void tearDown() throws Exception { super.tearDown(); pluginDoc = null; xpath = null;}private void initXPath() { XPathFactory xpathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance(); xpath = xpathFactory.newXPath();}private void loadPluginXML() throws Exception { File srcFile = getTestFile("/" + PLUGIN_XML); DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder domBuilder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); pluginDoc = domBuilder.parse(srcFile);} protected URL getInstallLocation() { URL installLocation = XSLUIPlugin.getDefault().getBundle().getEntry("/"); URL resolvedLocation = null; try { resolvedLocation = FileLocator.resolve(installLocation); } catch (IOException e) { throw new Error(e); } return resolvedLocation;}protected File getTestFile(String filepath) { URL installURL = getInstallLocation(); String path = installURL.getPath(); String location = path + filepath; File result = new File(location); return result;}Basically, the code above will load the plugin.xml file from the plugin to be tested. In this case, it happens to be the org.eclipse.wst.xsl.ui plugin.xml that is to be tested. It loads it into a w3c DOM Document, and also creates an XPath xpath parser/compiler to be used by the tests themselves.Testing the plugin.xml Requirements:The main work horse that keeps one from having to walk the DOM tree manually to find the items to test is XPath. XPath is a very simple, but powerful query language for locating nodes or a set of nodes in a DOM document. Leveraging XPath we can setup queries to test the requirements of a plugin.xml file as follows:public void testDTDToolTipExists() throws Exception { String xpathString = "//menuContribution[@locationURI = " + "'toolbar:org.eclipse.ui.main.toolbar?after=additions']/toolbar/command[@id = " + "'org.eclipse.wst.xsl.ui.newDTDFile']"; XPathExpression xpathExpr = xpath.compile(xpathString); Element element = (Element) xpathExpr.evaluate(pluginDoc.getDocumentElement(), XPathConstants.NODE); String toolTip = element.getAttribute("tooltip"); assertEquals("Unexpected value for DTD tooltip", "%commandTooltipNewDTDFile", toolTip);}This specifies to find all menuContribution elements that have a locationURI attribute equal to toolbar:org.eclipse.ui.main.toolbar?after=additions. Then get the toolbar element. Then the command element that contains an id attribute equal to org.eclipse.wst.xsl.ui.newDTDFile.This element when evaluated should return the element that matches that expression. If it can't find it, it returns NULL. If the element is not null, then it retrieves from the located command element the toolTip attribute's value. This is finally compared to see if it contains the value expected.I use something similar in the development of the STAR standards but use XPath expressions to evaluate XML Schemas to make sure they meet the specification requirements for the standards we develop. One could also use Schematron to evaluate the requirements, but by using Junit it interfaces nicely with existing eclipse plugin unit tests.The above unit test, is for bug 271784.

Recruiting News

Pictured above, Cornell's '83-'84 media guide. Below, some recruiting news from around the Ivy League...The Palo Alto Online announced the commitment of Gabe Harris to Stanford. Harris was recruited by both Cornell and Penn this spring.Scout.com reports that Penn is contacting Wayne Newsom, a 6'7" foward from Piscataway, New Jersey. He is also hearing from St. Francis of New York, Stony Brook, Iona, Drexel, Rider, Mount Saint Mary's, Robert Morris, and Quinnipiac.

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eBay sells StumbleUpon

A few years ago eBay went on a buying spree and started snatching up companies ranging from Skype to StumbleUpon. While it made plenty of sense for eBay to acquire PayPal, a company that many eBay users were already using to facilitate financial transactions, Skype and StumbleUpon seemed like odd fits. Sure, you could try to figure out a way to use a social web site discovery tool to promote auctions, and you could use Skype's communication tools to encourage communication between buyers and sellers. But both Skype and StumbleUpon seemed like square pegs in eBay's round hole.Now hot on the heels of news that Skype's founders are exploring the possibility of buying their company back from eBay comes news that StumbleUpon's founders did buy their company back.StumbleUpon is now back in th ehands of founders Garret Camp and Geoff Smith and a new group of investors. The official reason for the buyback? Camp says "there were few long-term synergies between the two businesses." We could have told them that two years ago. Oh wait, we did.[via TechCrunch]

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This financial turmoil...

Manual washing or washing machines ?

I thought I'd found a perfect partner in a washing machine that does everything...all I do is push some buttons, and presto water comes out, detergent, fabric conditioner and all.

After several try's however, I discovered that there are some clothes with streaks of white, apparently from the detergent which do not melt inside the machine. So after the last chore of spin drying, I have a few pants, clothes, shorts which need to be taken out and hand washed as the machine is unable to completely rinse off the soap, and leaves ugly white marks on the clothes.

The difficulty of trying to stop it happening ever again

Fifteen years on, the country is praised for salving the wounds of genocide. Yet that comes at the price of diminishing freedom. And now the economy is falteringEVEN today, it is almost impossible to imagine how so many Rwandans could have turned into coldblooded butchers. The memorials to the slain that now grace many of the towns and villages in the country provide only small glimpses into the collective insanity that gripped a whole country in April 1994, when the Hutu killers turned on their Tutsi fellow citizens and Hutu sympathisers, leaving over 800,000 dead in three months.Take the memorial at the National University of Rwanda in Butare, a couple of hours drive south-west of the capital, Kigali. Under a corrugated iron roof a long board displays the photographs of about 60 students who were killed. In fact, most of the staff and students at the university, over 500 in all, were slaughtered in just two weeks or so; only a few escaped across the nearby borders to Congo or Burundi. Many of the students were killed by their own teachers, specifically the dean of agriculture and vice-dean of political science. The former not only personally killed students but organised the campus massacre as well. What could have been running through their minds in the weeks leading up to the killings, as these highly educated people calculated how best they could hack or shoot their own students to death? ...

NEW COCKROACHES DUB MIX

./02/. NEW COCKROACHES DUB MIX sixty minutes of chilled out creative commons net audio! grab the hot pack and lean back. cockroaches20090204-netaudio-dubs.mp3 tracklist: 01. Guitoud - [Analogic Time CDFPR022 #03] Stepp Monkeys feat Algar 02. Blue Vitriol - [They Went To Titan #05] Re-Entry Dub 03. takomo - [enough dubs (enrcmp10) #03] mobula 04. disrupt - [JTR NET 16 #02] Last Blade 05. mattisson - [DubbteasR] ovate 06. LuKiss (Lukas Nystrand) - [http://ageema.com] Countrybridge Dub 07. Authist & Dub One! - [Dub Illusions #01] Inner wheel (Mushroom Dub) 08. desmond denker - [enough dubs (enrcmp10) #04] dust condition 09. Velure - [Songbox EP #02] What to do 10. Harbour - [lost séances #05] indulgent 11. mattisson - [DubbteasR] dentate 12. 12 i like this start 13. Tripper, mdS - [Selected Works 2] Lepposahelle 14. Duck - [One Way Back #06] Original activity 15. Messian Dread - [From Messian Dread With Dub EP #03] Dub From Vibes 16. 004 by quarta330 17. Finn The Giant - [Dub pon top] War Times Dub 18. elapse / mOOdSplateau - [electronic welfare EP #03] up to the e-economy 19. Kultiration - [Döden föder dub #01] Ananda 20. Lukas Nystrand - [Music for Francesca Vargas (2002-2004) #03] That Feeling Again yuuuuuuum !~

SOURCEFIRE EXPANDS IPS SUPPORT

New 3D6500 Sensor Provides Users with Cost-Effective, Scalable Appliance for Intrusion Prevention, Network Visibility and User Awareness Wokingham, UK, 14th April 2009 – Open source innovator and Snort® creator, Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), a leader in Enterprise Threat Management, today announced its new 3D6500 Sensor, offering up to 4Gbps of IPS inspection while providing the ability to interface with 10G fiber networks. Adding to Sourcefire’s 10G intrusion prevention system (IPS) leadership, the 3D6500 augments the scalability and flexibility of the Sourcefire 3D® System’s complete line of network security appliances, enabling customers to select the sensor that best suits their requirements. “Today, customers are not simply looking for network security solutions that solve their current needs, but ones that can easily scale to address future requirements, which is why Sourcefire is continuing to invest in delivering the most flexible products on the market,” said Tom Ashoff, vice president of engineering at Sourcefire. “With the addition of the 3D6500 Sensor, we are building out our support for 10G networks, so that customers can implement the exact solution to meet their ongoing needs.” Available now, the 3D6500 Sensor offers up to 4Gbps of IPS inspection in a 2U form factor appliance. As is the case with all Sourcefire 3D Sensors, the 3D6500 features integrated copper and fiber bypass (fail-open) technology—a critical requirement for inline IPS deployments—foregoing the need to acquire costly external bypass devices. The 3D6500 Sensor is optimized to support simultaneous execution of IPS, RNA® (Real-time Network Awareness) and RUA™ (Real-time User Awareness) processes, and is available in the following configurations: • 12 1Gbps copper ports • 4 10Gbps SR/LR fiber ports • 6 1Gbps copper ports and 4 1Gbps fiber ports • 6 1Gbps copper ports and 2 10Gbps SR/LR fiber ports The Sourcefire 3D System enables organizations to protect their dynamically changing networks with increased confidence, providing customers with a unified platform for protecting both physical and virtual systems. As the industry’s only “Adaptive IPS,” the 3D System enables customers to optimize the security and performance of their IPS systems based on the actual network assets they are protecting. The ongoing process of IPS tuning can be highly automated, thus increasing security effectiveness while reducing management overhead. Powered by open source Snort as its detection engine, the Sourcefire 3D System is consistently recognized as one of the industry‘s leading and most innovative intrusion prevention systems. Backed by the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team™ (VRT), a group of leading edge intrusion detection and prevention experts and a community of over 225,000 registered Snort users, the Sourcefire 3D System helps to protect customers from both known exploits and zero-day threats. About Sourcefire Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), Snort creator and open source innovator, is a world leader in Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) solutions. Sourcefire is transforming the way Global 2000 organizations and government agencies manage and minimize network security risks with its 3D Approach – Discover, Determine, Defend – to securing real networks. This ETM approach equips customers with an efficient and effective layered security defense – protecting network assets before, during and after an attack. Through the years, Sourcefire has been consistently recognized for its innovation and industry leadership by customers, media and industry analysts alike – with more than 40 awards and accolades. Today, the names Sourcefire and founder Martin Roesch have grown synonymous with innovation and network security intelligence. For more information about Sourcefire, please visit http://www.sourcefire.com. SOURCEFIRE®, SNORT®, the Sourcefire logo, the Snort and Pig logo, SECURITY FOR THE REAL WORLD™, SOURCEFIRE DEFENSE CENTER®, SOURCEFIRE 3D®, RNA®, RUA™, DAEMONLOGGER™, CLAMAV®, SOURCEFIRE SOLUTIONS NETWORK™, and certain other trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sourcefire, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other company, product and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.