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<title>Rics Site</title><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/index.html</link><description>News</description><dc:language>(null)</dc:language><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2009 Dirk Eckert</dc:rights><dc:date>2012-03-12T23:20:18+01:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:21:17 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title>Moving site soon...</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2012-03-12T23:20:18+01:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/seite34.html#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/seite34.html#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Currently, videos are not available. due to a server problem.   Since I do have to move the site, it may be a while until I get things running smoothly again.   So please be patient.   Thx.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Little Changes...</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2011-08-23T18:46:39+02:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/seite34.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/seite34.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Having found two sites, that do offers scans of basically all yearbooks, i will not pursue scanning the few I have anymore and deactivated the page containing the little I had been able to scan so far.   Please go to http://aisr.org/alumni/yearbooks.html if you want to look for scans.


I&rsquo;ve not received any response to the idea (see news of 07/22/10) of posting formers&rsquo; current pics, so this section is currently closed to.


Welcoming ideas for new content!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Reunion Added&#x2c; Guestbook fixed</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2010-07-22T21:59:14+02:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/seite34.html#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/seite34.html#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Yesterday I received a note, that my guestbook was assumingly under a spam attack, please read note &bdquo;Important Note on Guestbook&ldquo;, should be working now.


Upon request, I added the few pictures I have of the Washington Reunion.   Sorry, I was somewhat sick those days, that&rsquo;s why there are only few. 

...&bdquo;Thanks lots and lots for doing a wonderful RICS SAIS site. the 80s RICS was truly amazing times.   Would be nice to see yearbook entries next to pics of those today with their names, for ex, pics from last year's Washington reunion.&ldquo;


...On linking current pics with old yearbook pics... that would be a lot of work....


My idea, if you like: I could open a section with current pics of alumni; to show you how it could look, I started with a current pic of myself in the new section &bdquo;Folks currently&ldquo;.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>More Donated Pictures&#x2c; Comments disabled</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2010-05-14T18:43:42+02:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/seite34.html#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/seite34.html#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, the servers of Haloscan, whose service I used for the blog comments closed its service. ...  Post your comment, if you&rsquo;d like to see it back. 

...Tami Gentil had already sent me some of her pictures in February.   Today I finally got around to adding them to the site.


A new photo section integrated, where I post some of my personal Rics pics, outside the big feature events.


I do welcome any pics donated for use on this site.   So if you have pictures which relate to schoollife and school activities on and off campus, and would like to see them posted here, please do contact me! 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Still active&#x21;</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2010-01-22T20:29:46+01:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/seite34.html#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/seite34.html#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I have neglected the site for a while.   Will come back once time permits!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Reunion in Washington D.C.&#x21;</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2009-08-11T16:46:36+02:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2009#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2009#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The first Reunion (to my knowledge) of former student of Rics will be held from 10/09 to 10/11 in Washington D.C..   If you are registered with Facebook.com, you can find further information on: http://www.facebook.com/l/;riyadhbrats.eventbrite.com.


I am not involved in the organization, so please use the given link.


Work and other events have  kept me from adding more material to this site.   Not forgotten, just postponed....


Dirk]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>...back to more&#x21;</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2009-04-16T21:01:03+02:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2009#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2009#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This time, a pic from John Daniels, which I already received quite a while ago (check Donated Pics).   It&rsquo;s from a time, when I think I hadn&rsquo;t even heard of Saudi-Arabia, not to talk about Rics! 

...Today I started scanning the 83/84 yearbook, the pdf&rsquo;s for the covers and pages 1-50 should be online with this note.


A general note on the scan: They may not always be ot the best quality. ...  With the amount to scan, I may not rescan every page if it happnes to be a little crooked.   I ask to understand that I may also cover up or skip pages which contain personal comments I don&rsquo;t want to publish online.   In this sense, should you find a picture of yourself you wish to be excluded, please do inform me.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Interest in Scans of old yearbooks?</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2008-10-20T23:23:13+02:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2008#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2008#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the projects I anticipted was to scan the yearbooks I have and make them available.   Problem is, I am not quite sure about Copyright.   Anyone got any ideas?   My idea is, to make this available through a password, that a person may receive from me, if they give me their name and a reference to where they appear in one of the yearbooks I have available ( schoolyears 78/79 through 83/84).   What do you think.   Without any promise as to when this will happen, as in incentive for actually getting into the works: The first person to ask for the copy, his or her yearbook of choice will be made available as the first to go.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Section: Donated Pics</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2008-10-19T18:12:11+02:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2008#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2008#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sari Jurvanen from Finland sent a few photos of 1976, offering, they could be published on the website.   Thus, although one offer alone does not justify a whole section; I still decided to start such a section, where other people&rsquo;s pictures will be sorted by their names.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Spring Concert 1983</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2008-06-14T17:14:39+02:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2008#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2008#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The latest additions of today are: Spring Concert 1983, Scan of the Program as a photo page, the video of the concert on the video page, as usual ;-)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Choir Festival &#x27;83 Online</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2008-02-03T11:34:59+01:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2008#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2008#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I fixed the movie file.   It is up and viewable.   As with the others, allow for possible a couple of minutes until the file starts playing.   It may seem not to load at first..]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Corrupted Choir Festival &#x27;83 Movie File</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2008-02-02T00:34:08+01:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2008#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2008#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Just happen to find, that the movie file of the Choir Festival '83 does not download well, respectively not at all.   To spare viewers unsuccessful downloads, I temporarily removed the file, to fix later.   Sorry for the delay.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Features</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2008-01-27T22:28:24+01:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2008#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2008#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After receiving two new guestbook entries, I added, provided the upload works, the Choir Festival of 1983 and scans of the program of the Talent Show of fall '81.   Enjoy.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Great Response and Some Stuff added</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2007-10-22T22:45:47+02:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2007#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2007#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After receiving some very encouraging remarks and feedback to this project, I now got around to add another main feature: A recording of the Talent Show of November 17, 1981.   But please: If you run across this page, do leave a trace in the guestbook, kinda the motivation I occasionally need to keep adding the bits and pieces I have.


I have written to Rics, now AIS-R, about this project, for possibly present day students may be interested or in lack of knowledge if furthter video / audio material is available at Rics today, offered to make what I have available.   Should I receive a reply, will report here.


Besides the videos which I will convert for this site one by one, I am also in possession of a couple of audio recording, which are not digitized yet.   Maybe I will get to those, too.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Videos</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2007-10-14T23:56:08+02:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2007#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2007#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As of this weekend, I added a compressed video of our performance of "You're A Good Man, Charly Brown!".   Since the files are pretty long, I have for now decided to upload them in a small format, simply to allow for an acceptable timeframe for download.


Depending on the response I get or not, I may at a later point put up a download section for the full sized mpeg2 files.   Though I will only put this effort into it, if there are actually people asking for it.


So, basically at this point  just waiting to see, if this site is receiving the attention, that I hope it will.


Dirk]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Relaunch</title><dc:creator>webmaster@rics-sais-r.info</dc:creator><category>Ohne</category><dc:date>2007-10-12T18:04:46+02:00</dc:date><link>http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2007#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://homepage.mac.com/dirk_eckert/Rics/page34/files/2007#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A long thought of attempt to possibly relocate former schoolmates, teachers and other, who like myself, may be using the net to search for folks we were around with.   I was really thrilled to receive a first response to this project by mid of 2005! 

...The site was originally published under www.rics-sais-r.de.   Though after initial responses, I added www.rics-sais-r.info.   I guess a more general domain seems more appropriate than a country's domain. 

...As of last year, I had the chance to restore those old Betamax tapes of recording of concerts, musicals we performed at Rics (or SAIS-R, for the last years).   I do plan to include them in compressed form, once I get around to convert them.
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