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I think we should mandate legislatively that all video created should use this technology from now on. TV shows, documentaries, big hit movies, home movies, birthday parties, independent films, security cameras, everything. This way, we can clearly establish ownership of video content in all cases. Anyone who has digital video not maked per frame with ownership should be prosecuted immediately.
Furthermore, we should mandate that all hardware created in the future, including TVs and cable boxes, computers and everything capable of reading video - all of it should only be able to play video with the new "who owns this frame" technology - otherwise, people might play video that doesn't belong to them.
And we should include vetting of licensing terms into the hardware system; so that only with the correct license can the hardware play back the video in question.
And we should impose fully automated reporting systems in hardware that detects and reports tampering to the local authorities. Open up that computer case and put in a non-approved, black market video driver: the machine sends and email to law enforcement. Connect a pirate cable box to your TV, and then your TV immediately stops working, and broadcasts a wireless signal that only law enforcement can detect.
I think this technology for copyright enforcement should be placed into prosthetics that sits inside the eyeballs of everyone who wants permission to view video. These prosthetic devices could similarly verify the authenticity of videos frame by frame, check for an approved license, and send out signals to law enforcement if pirated video is detected. Approved prosthetics should be compulsory to obtaining permission to view all videos.
Finally, we should up the penalties for copyright infringement, to instant death - basically we should have our eyeball prosthetics simply explode when unverified video is detected.
I would mandate the opposite legislation. Any device that's sold or rented to consumers must also include all contained cryptographic keys in an easily accessible manner (e.g. on an accompagning CD). That way it is guaranteed that consumers can always, and without limitations, accesss the data they paid for.
OMG, you must watch kiddie porn!! Witch! Witch! Burn it!!
Shut up. I watch kiddie porn, and I don't want to be compared to this pirating bastard.
Who modded you insightful instead of funny is beyond me
I'm sure looking forward to the future when I'll be prosecuted by the patent and/or trademark holders of both 'Do Nothing' and 'Do Something' for doing something and/or doing nothing at all.
Of course, Apple will offer their 'Doing Apple' to give us all some choice - but at the same time will sue anyone trying to 'Do Nothing' or 'Do Something' and not 'Doing Apple'...
Of course, Apple will offer their 'Doing Apple' to give us all some choice - but at the same time will sue anyone trying to 'Do Nothing' or 'Do Something' and not 'Doing Apple'...
Not to mention all the early adopters of the first-gen iDo are gonna get screwed when the new one comes out next year
wow, i finally figured out what will kill mariage in western culture, it wont be rising divorces, or just outright oligarchy with harems, it will be an apple trademark...
Don't worry. That's actually a digital haircut.
And bring back the Clipper Chip!
...and Minority Report is ON.
Finally, we should up the penalties for copyright infringement, to instant death - basically we should have our eyeball prosthetics simply explode when unverified video is detected.
Hollywood is already way ahead of you - they've already developed "Dreck Technology" incorporated into many modern films, which can result in eyeballs exploding without the need for any prosthetics.
Of course, they didn't do it deliberately...
Hollywood is already way ahead of you - they've already developed "Dreck Technology" incorporated into many modern films, which can result in eyeballs exploding without the need for any prosthetics.
Of course, they didn't do it deliberately...
And amazingly, it didn't result in box office losses - Avatar made the most money of any film in history. *shrug*
Hollywood is already way ahead of you - they've already developed "Dreck Technology" incorporated into many modern films, which can result in eyeballs exploding without the need for any prosthetics.
Wasn't that invented by Michael Bay?
No, he means Half-$hit and Half Drek!
Hey, you've got some good ideas! Interested in writing legislation for the State of Arizona? You'd fit right in 'round here
Actually if we could convince the federal government to be as lax in enforcing IP laws as they are with enforcing immigration laws, we'd be in great shape.
Its interesting that immigration laws are very very poorly enforced and yet the gov't doesn't really want to fix the situation, but the fact that someone might download a movie and watch it, omg release the hounds!!!
Everyone in Arizona is getting all up in arms about a law asking evernone to present proof of citizenship papers. In this IP battle, they're consistently asking us to provide proof of purchase papers at every step to view content, and no one in the general public bats an eye.
But there is one obvious parallel here. In both immigration and IP law the government we're getting is acting exactly how the big companies in control want it to.
You're joking, but the media cartels are dead serious. You've pretty much described their utopia.
Wouldn't that circumvent all this? There are other standards...
Even the thought of re-encoding will result in the subject being terminated. Move along and continue consuming, citizen.
I suspect the next step is to try to get device makers not to support any format that does not have MPEG 7. And the one after that to prohibit any that do not, if that's still necessary.
How many physical dvd players nowadays do not enforce region codes?
I was more thinking in the line of privacy: if every frame can have a signature added, then every single copy can be "watermarked" and tracked to an individual.
Otoh, they talk about adding subtitles etc to "completely change the signature of the video". How is that different from the current situation? Thinking of "signature" as MD5 hash or something equivalent. Any change to the file will change it's hash. This part is nothing new.
I was more thinking in the line of privacy: if every frame can have a signature added, then every single copy can be "watermarked" and tracked to an individual.
I was thinking of privacy, too, but not with regards to content from big media, but rather self-produced content. Based on the description, it sounds like some sort of "original creator" information will also be added to the video.
With this technology, when you record a video of your child dancing to some copyrighted song, big media will have 100% proof that you were the one that did it and will be able to sue you more effectively.
The same goes for any anonymous videos of police beating a suspect, etc. Un
So it sounds like the easy way to upload "protected" content would be a quick transcode with a slightly different bitrate, thereby removing the per frame signature, causing it to be unrecognizable by the automated checker...
Where the fuck did MPEG 7 come from? I refuse to accept that I, sitting here in front of my 4 screens with a laser mouse, grazing the internet for Roomba cat videos, have never heard of such a thing.
And next, MPEG is in the anti-piracy business now? What the fuck?
Hmmm only 2 expletives up there, good things come in threes. Fuck.
I'm with you there.
Unless MPEG 7 have been sneaking around by another name, this is the first I hear of it.
MPEG-7 is a metadata standard for multimedia. It is not involved in the actual encoding of the content (like mpeg 1, 2 and 4 are). Basically it attaches a chunk of xml to a timecode. Look up wikipedia if you want to know more.
There also exists an MPEG-21, for those interested.
Actually, MPEG 21 seems more like what this story is about - MPEG-21 is a license framework for MPEG.
Where the fuck did MPEG 7 come from? I refuse to accept that I, sitting here in front of my 4 screens with a laser mouse, grazing the internet for Roomba cat videos, have never heard of such a thing.
Dude, you don't even want to know how much your mind is going to be blown when you find out that there is an MPEG-21 already. Yeah, really.
Yeah, this is pretty hilarious, also your comment is a bit misinformed, but I don't really blame you for that, so here's the low down...
MPEG-7 is a content description standard - that is, it can be used with MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (which includes h.264 quite notably...) to add metadata to the data streams.
Okay, so now we're talking about an NEC extension to MPEG-7 that they're trying to sell - even though MPEG-7 is largely unused right now. Also, notice I say unused now, implying the standard is done. That's because it is done. MPEG-7 isn't "going" to contain anything - it already exists! This is just an extension to it being proposed by someone who has a new patent and wants to get in the patent pool doubtless.
Okay, now to address your comment. MPEG has nothing to do with patents or licensing. MPEG = Motion Picture Experts Group, they help design and create video standards, and they're very intelligent people. The people you want to be mad at is MPEG-LA - no relation to MPEG whatsoever except their name. MPEG-LA creates patent pools for "essential" patents and then license them to implementors, distributors, and anyone who they can convince people needs them. MPEG-LA is pretty bad, but compared to some other patent people (look at Via's licensing for AAC...) they're not so bad - first 100,000 units sold don't have to pay royalties, any freely distributed videos don't have to pay royalties. Not saying they're good, but they're just not quite as bad as everyone else out there doing patent enforcement...
So please, don't blame the kind people a MPEG for MPEG-LA. Blame MPEG-LA themselves, http://mpegla.com/
Your friendly codec developer/implementer
So please, don't blame the kind people a MPEG for MPEG-LA.
The MPEG people created a standard without considering the patent impact, including costs both explicit and hidden. That's at least negligent and makes for a potentially poor standard if for no other reason than it can't be freely used.
Personally, I wish it wasn't so but unfortunately because of the rise of the patent parasites all technical standards have to consider this now.
How many million man hours has the advertising industry cost today?
So please, don't blame the kind people a MPEG for MPEG-LA. Blame MPEG-LA themselves, http://mpegla.com/ [mpegla.com]
It's that blasted media franchising culture again, isn't it! CSI, great. CIS-Miami, wall to wall sunglass gestures. CSI NY, ghastly. MPEG, lovely. MPEG-LA, rubbish. And you just know the next one's going to be MPEG-Hawaii or something equally horrible.
I think you meant Hawaii MPEG 5.0
Ah, the friendly folks over at Red Vs. Blue did a public service anouncement about this a few years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvNeHthx3Ng [youtube.com]
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch some MP48's on my HHD DVVDD BVD player.
Obviously, it's the next version of MPEG. And the one after will be MPEG 11. Sheesh, can't you handle simple arithmetic progressions?
This does bupkiss to aid consumers.
This does very little to deter 'real' pirates who mockup fake merchandice.
This does very little to deter downloaders.
What it does do is try to provide a frame-by-frame signature of video, so if a video's been ripped, they know which copy it was.
Until, of course, those in part 2 and 3 above start detecting and scrubbing that data.
Meanwhile, you're going to charge your customers more for a product that's crippled, and therefore inferior to the pirated version.
It's honestly like you guys are determined to kill yourselves in the most expensive, controversial way possible. May I humbly recommend the Hutchins/Carradine route instead. It's a lot more pleasant and leaves a lot less mess.
What it does do is try to provide a frame-by-frame signature of video, so if a video's been ripped, they know which copy it was.
Until, of course, those in part 2 and 3 above start detecting and scrubbing that data.
At least the screeners we download will no longer need to have a modest portion of the image blurred to cover the serial numbers previously used to determine where the video came from.
So actually, they may be doing the downloaders a favor.
It's honestly like you guys are determined to kill yourselves in the most expensive, controversial way possible. May I humbly recommend the Hutchins/Carradine route instead. It's a lot more pleasant and leaves a lot less mess.
Except that it runs the risk of giving the cleaning crew a coronary...
"In related news, the Chairman of Box Networks is being prosecuted for Copyright Infringement. The release of "Last Blockbuster" to P2P networks from team XYZ had the Digital Rights Information of the Chairman imprinted in every frame."
Would be awesome that the crackers found a way to alter the information in those frames (I realize that it would be encrypted, but a man can dream...).
I want a hundred fans, 200 teeny boppers
I want police protection from 87 coppers
I wanna go gold even better platinum
If you wanna be a star you gotta kill yourself, man
It's the truth step back, take a look around
Elvis is dead for being fat - 500 pound
Kurt Cobain's rich as fuck he's buried in the ground
Jimi Hendrix and his amp still ain't makin' no sound
Michael hutchence, he's one of 'em too
Made a hundred million quid dying tossing on the loo
Committing suicide to enhance my career
It worked for Mickey and Tupac Shakir
Jesus was nailed up to some wood
2000 years later and book sales are still good
I heard in a song suicide is painless
And it's 80% sure to make you famous
Wanking with a bag on yer head tied to a door
That bloke from INXS he knew the score
- Goldie Lookin' Chain [azlyrics.com]
A new algorithm to crack, Math is Fun! (They don't realize that some of us do this as a passion, no I endorse fully supporting those companies that deserve it, but not everyone does this for piracy, its just a hella lotta fun to crack the reported "uncrackable".)
Just my take, I love math.
A new algorithm to crack, Math is Fun! (They don't realize that some of us do this as a passion, no I endorse fully supporting those companies that deserve it, but not everyone does this for piracy, its just a hella lotta fun to crack the reported "uncrackable".)
Just my take, I love math.
Which I find curious, considering the number of people in creative industries who are working because they too are driven by a passion and (were it not for minor irritations such as paying the mortgage and eating) would happily do it for free.
Which I find curious, considering the number of people in creative industries who are working because they too are driven by a passion and (were it not for minor irritations such as paying the mortgage and eating) would happily do it for free.
I used to do it for free, before uni (fun and interest), during uni (fun and experimentation) and after uni (worked 5 months on a project, only thing I asked in return was to repay my lunch) until these minor irritations you mention became more pressing forcing me into
Not even a frickin' press release.
Is somebody just trying to generate a few cheap click-throughs? A few unique hits?
Yeah, of course they are farming unsuspecting visitors [zweistein.cz] is long time
Like is possible to stop a particular set of bits to move from network node A to network node B.
Uh, it's not? I'm having a remarkably hard time finding your credit card number here on network node B.
I was guessing they're just trying to stop more of it than they are now, hoping that will mean more money for them. They don't need to make it completely impossible in all cases. Their people come up with a way to detect when someone uploads a clip from the NBC olympic coverage to youtube, and this method will detect it 2 hours faster than their current method, so they can take it down 2 hours faster.
No, this won't detect anything any faster than before. As has been stated above, the metadata will just be removed (probably automatically) as part of the ripping process. Transcoding would destroy it entirely, so it would have only worked on bit for bit rips of the original stream anyway.
It's simply another astoundingly stupid and completely ineffective idea for the media companies to waste their money on.
I RTFA, and I still wonder what, if anything, changes with this tech.
Short of some draconian player mandate, how could this possibly matter?
You can pry my NZB sourced mkv playing laptop from my cold dead hands.
plus can you imagine the processing power that would be needed to check each frame in every movie being bit torrented? yes yes, i can see now this will definately stop those pirates.....
Is that this changes absolutely nothing whatsoever.
Pirated videos? Invariably re-encoded into something smaller. Bam! Checksum completely obliterated!
Videos provided by the PR firm, placed on Youtube? Invariably re-encoded into something smaller. Bam! Checksum completely obliterated!
Videos ripped straight off the DVD or Blu-Ray disc, byte for byte, then redistributed? Data not changed! Bam! Checksum . . . completely intact!
So as I understand it, detecting an unauthorized video with MPEG 7 means you have to download it, determine what it's actually a video of if the checksum is utterly missing, and then, even if the checksum isn't missing, determine if it was authorized. This differs from the current approach, where you have to download it, determine what it's actually a video of no matter what, and then, despite the fact that it never had a checksum which would probably be gone now anyway, determine if it was authorized.
Can anyone out there describe a form of copyright infringement that this actually helps detect?
One that isn't invented for the sole purpose of being detected by this technique?
For the technically curious, there's a high-level overview of the technology in an NEC media release here:
http://www.nec.com.au/News-Media/Media-Centre/Media-Releases/NEC-Develops-Video-Content-Identification-Technology-that-Detects-Illegal-Video-Copies-on-the-Internet-in-a-Matter-of-Seconds.html [nec.com.au]
Thanks for the link. That press release is surprisingly technical makes it clear that this has nothing to do with a successor to the MPEG4 codec / container format. It relates to:
*2) MPEG-7 Video signature tools:
This is an amendment to MPEG-7 Visual, a standard for content description interface for multimedia content that has been established as an international standard for identification technology of video content, as ISO/IEC 15938-3/Amd.4.
There currently exist handful of different techniques for creating small signatures (76 bytes in this case) of a video frame. Content companies create sequences of signatures for all their videos and distribute the sequences. Youtube can then create a sequence of signatures for an uploaded file, compare it against all known sequences, and then do whatever with that knowledge.
The MPEG group is just standardizing on one particular technique for creating the signatures, distributing them, and comparing them. In that case this is something sensable for the MPEG group to do, and isn't really good or evil.
MPEG-7 is not a video standard. MPEG-7 is a content description standard, developed starting in 2002, and without a phenomenal deployment. Having the ability to add metadata at the frame level would be a great boon to video editors, but from reading the article I have no clue what MPEG-7 has to do with their digital signature scheme, or why they think Yet Another Digital Signature Scheme will achieve what all of the previous Digital Signature Schemes have so obviously failed to.
The secret sauce actually fingerprints video frames in a way that is invariant against most common alterations
Finally, a post that actually informed me of something, with a decent link.
OTOH, the system seems too fragile to resist any simple attack directed towards it. So if this ever gets enough attention, several tools will be created to specifically destroy the blueprint.
barring hardware hacks on specific devices, or really stupid mistakes in media design).
Stupid mistakes like making the next gen disc media format even less versatile than the first gen, when fewer and fewer people are interested in the diminishing advantages to newer media formats, and streaming/downloaded videos are on the rise?
Then again, blu-ray 1 seems to be gaining ground so slowly, it might not matter at all what is in blu-ray 2. I know few people with TVs that will show much of a difference between blu-ray and DVD, fewer people who have bought a blu-ray player, and no one who has boug
Perhaps it would have helped if the press release had called it a digital watermark instead of a signature. One is supposed to be resilient to changes and to allow the author to claim that they created the original material. The other should break under any changes and is used to attest that the material is unmodified.
When a company uses the wrong name for their product, some confusion is understandable.
Can it detect me refusing to watch...and finding better things to do with my time than either listen to a bunch of anti-piracy propaganda, or risking 5 years in jail every time I circumvent it?
Keep freaking going. You wanna brainwash my kids? Well every anti-piracy disclaimer I have to sit through with my kids as they grow up, I'm going to explain that uncle Disney is so concerned with his cut that he's calling you a thief and making you wait 10 minutes and watch lies equating crimes to one another that are different. Every time they want to use a tune or video snippet in a school project I'm going to explain that we can't do that because it's not worth risking going to jail or selling our house to explain to a judge that we believed it was fair use or paying thousands of dollars in extortion money. Every time they hear about a film or tv show coming out overseas months before it does here in Australia, I'm going to point out that I'd love to buy them a copy but we can't break the law and the studio refuses to sell it to me until later and for much more money. Every time a DVD store rents us scratched DVDs I'm going to point out that no one is allowed to back up them up and that the reason that we can't have more is that the DVD store is too busy taking advantage of us to care about whether or not we can actually watch the DVDs (Seriously I just had 5 out of 10 childrens DVDs - weekly movies - scratched to hell and some with cracks on their spindle have major glitches, refuse to play etc and all the DVD store would do is buff the CDs and give the same broken DVDs back - of course they didn't play)
Keep going till you have no customers you greedy cheap exploitative pigs.
If I'm recording / ripping, then I'm making my own original source. And I would imagine a re-encode to a codec like divx would strip the info. So what's the point?
It prevents people from claiming content to be unedited, original content.
The firm touts the efficiency of its algorithm, saying that a bog standard PC can search through 1,000 hours video in just one second. Quite what the firm's definition of a "home-class" PC would be interesting to know as we can't quite figure out how even a dual core 3GHz box can go through the 104 billion checks for 1,000 hours of video in a mere second.
1000 hours of video has close to 104 million frames; that would yield around 60 cycles per frame on a dual core (i.e. old) box.
The innumeracy of the author aside, what does this technology even do? Apparently altering the video, even minutely, will alter the "signature." Much like...CRC-32...very cutting-edge. We should name this startling development; I nominate the word "hash." Stupefied by the summary and the "article," I turned to the actual press release [nec.co.jp] to find out what the technology really (purportedly) does.
1. Accurate detection of copied or altered video content
Video signatures are extracted for each frame based on differences in the luminance between sets of sub-regions on a frame that are defined by a variety of locations, sizes, and shapes. Video signatures represent a unique fingerprint that can be individually detected frame by frame. This technology is capable of accurately detecting video content with that was created with such editing operations as analog capturing (*3), re-encoding (*4) and caption overlay (*5), which was conventionally very difficult to detect.
4. Compatibility with home PCs By designing a compact signature size of 76 bytes per frame, the storage memory required for the matching process is minimized. As a result, a home-class PC (*8) can match approximately 1,000 hours of video in 1 second.
It turns out that a home-class PC ("A single core CPU with 3GHz clock speed was used for testing purposes. Signatures were stored in the main memory.") is able to match 1000 hours that have already been hashed in a single second. No doubt it takes considerably longer to actually calculate the signatures. The power of the algorithm is that when the video is altered (in human-recognizable ways) the signature doesn't change much. Ah, things are starting to actually make sense. The truth is (surprise!) the opposite of the linked phrase in the summary.
This technology may allow automated, accurate matching of copyrighted video on youtube or other video sites...who cares? That is already being done, only less accurately. The law would have to change rather drastically for it to be mandated that everyone includes correct hashes in their MPEG-7 video. That is hardly necessary--I'm sure someone will spare the cycles to hash the videos and inform content owners. Like they do now...only better. Maybe next time we can all have fun panicking about the "FaceRecognition descriptor" [webstore.iec.ch] (only the TOC/summary is free) instead. Really, the 76-byte signature is just an implementation of the metadata schema for MPEG-7. The algorithm should work for any format, however (otherwise it would be rather trivial to evade!).
The only interesting thing I have learned is that NEC's algorithm uses robust, compactly representable edge detection (maybe) to compare short clips of video with extremely high accuracy; yay, computer science. All of this escaped Lawrence Latif, author of TFA (such as it is), who didn't see fit to RTFA himself before he started blogging his paranoid fantasies as fact. I wonder just who the "anonymous reader" that submitted the summary was?
At what point is a work a new derived work. If I were to alter every single frame with my own signature, does that mean it is a new work?
It's like dealing with fractals. How long is a coastline/how much is original work. You could say that since every single frame has changed it is new. Or you could say that since only 1 percent of each frame has changed it is original.
At what point is a work a new derived work.
Just imagine what a judge or a jury would think.
To a judge, intentions are important. A judge doesn't look at a problem like a computer would.
Does this mean that when I make a backup copy of a DVD to a web-based storage system (which should be perfectly legal imho), that my ISP will block me automatically?
According to NEC this will allow the owners of the video to automatically 'detect illegal copies' and 'prevent illegal upload of video content' without their consent.
If I bought it, that owner is me.
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"Will miss you Jack Wagner!" she wrote. "So sad you will be leaving B&B ... Please let Jack know how he has been appreciated by all of us! I think he is over in April -- then he will go to GH."
We will wait for confirmation from ABC and GH, but what would you think about Wagner returning to his own stomping ground as Frisco Jones?
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LONGMONT -- Phone service remained out for several locations in downtown Longmont on Tuesday afternoon, following an overnight fire that brought down the roof of Howe Mortuary, 439 Coffman St.
A CenturyLink repair team arrived in Longmont on Tuesday morning, but wasn't able to start work right away. The site needing repair is within the fire investigation area, CJ Powell of CenturyLink said, and police and firefighters didn't let the workmen in until late afternoon.
As of 4:30 p.m., Powell said authorities had let the team in, but that he wasn't certain when everything would be back up and running.
"Our repair team is working as quickly as possible to restore services for our customers," he said, "but I haven't been given an estimate for restoration yet."
Another representative earlier in the day said that three cables were damaged; one serves 300 customers while the other two serve 100 customers each. In the worst-case scenario, he said, service would be restored by Thursday.
Predicting which phones were out and which were on seemed to be just as difficult Tuesday. For example, phone service failed at Boulder County's local offices in the St. Vrain Annex, just a block north of the mortuary. But Turner Realty, Howe's next-door neighbor for 50 years, never lost service at all. Loan officers were still on the phone across the street at U.S. Bank, 436 Coffman St., while the Times-Call offices at 350 Terry St.
-- a block south and west -- saw the line go dead.
Boulder County communications specialist Liz Donaghey said the county had found a temporary workaround. The internal phones still work, she said, so calls to the main switchboard at 303-441-3131 can be routed to the appropriate department.
"Our IT crew was able to get it fixed to where we can call out," she added. Fortunately, she said, the incoming call volume had been pretty light.
The offices affected include Housing and Human Services, Fleet Services, the Boulder County Fairgrounds, Public Health, Parks and Open Space, and the county extension office.
"It's business as usual here," a front-desk employee at the county's human services office said. "We're just using a lot of e-mails."
The fire also led to a power outage, this one on purpose. Deb Cameron, a spokeswoman for Longmont Power and Communications, said a city crew cut power to a three-phase line in the area "for firefighter safety." Power was down from 2:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. from the 200 to 500 blocks of Coffman Street.
"Everyone should be back up," she said. Anyone who is still experiencing power problems should call 303-651-8386.


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Damage at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactor no. 4 and no. 3.
Because of the earthquake disaster in Christchurch, New Zealanders right now are probably feeling more deeply for those affected by Japan's earthquake disaster than they might otherwise.
That's human nature – empathy comes from shared experience.
It seems likely that at least 10,000 people in Japan lost their lives on Friday. It's certain that many more are homeless, as in Christchurch.
But Japan's earthquake and tsunami disaster is being overshadowed by its nuclear emergency. That crisis is one that has the potential to become a far worse disaster than either of the first two. It's also one that can continue to have an impact for decades. There have been explosions or fires in four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. A full meltdown in any one of the reactors, combined with a North-easterly wind, could have consequences that do not bare thinking about for the 11 million citizens of the nearby city of Tokyo.
I greatly admire the courage of the staff at the Fukushima plant, who are exposing themselves to such grave danger, in order to try and bring the plant under control.
The Chernobyl disaster is used as a yardstick for nuclear accidents, being at the top of the scale at level seven. But few people know the enormity of that disaster.
That is probably because the statistics around the number killed are so hotly debated, and because the Soviet administration distorted the numbers in order to downplay the accident. But according to government agencies in the three former Soviet States affected, about 25,000 'liquidators' (members of the clean up crew) have so far died. Estimates provided by the liquidator associations in the three countries are well in excess of the official figures. The Chernobyl Forum's (a multi-agency grouping) report in 2005, on the other hand, attributes a far lower number of liquidator deaths to the reactor disaster. Those figures do not account for those civilians who have died as a result of their exposure to the fallout from Chernobyl. The nuclear industry itself estimated that 40,000 across Europe would eventually die of cancer due to the radiation exposure they received. Independent radiation experts put the likely figures up to ten times higher.
It is with some guilt and relief that I can say that I am thankful that Christchurch, and New Zealand, has not had to deal with a nuclear disaster on top of the devastation caused by the February 22nd quake. Those challenges alone seem so great.
May New Zealand remain nuclear free forever.
Bunny is a long-time Greenpeacer who started off as a deckhand on board the original Rainbow Warrior, then became campaign leader for the Pacific, then Executive Director of Greenpeace NZ, and is now executive director of Greenpeace International.


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I have a dream…
I can sit online for hours per day just chatting to mates and making money.
Ok, so I have two dreams.
Sitting online hours per day, chatting to mates and making money, and…
Becoming the CGO (Chief Gnomish Officer) of my own transport company.
I would call it...
The Gnomish Taxi Cab Co.
We would have two arms of the business, all provided by Gnomes of course.
Gnomish Portal Division
Gnomes would be spread the length and breadth of Azeroth, Outland and Northrend.
Their role will be to spruke and sell Portals to all the major cities, and maybe a couple of minor ones.
For a small fee, let's say 5 gold (group discount for 5 or more), my Gnome Mages will Port you to your desired portal equipped city.
I would even put one in Dalaran, right next to the incoming spot… Why run to your factions portals when you can just port to Dalaran and open a trade window.
Value Add
What's more, for a low additional price, you could pick up some Mage food for your journey.
My other division would be:
Gnomish Summon Squad.
This division is primarily staffed by Warlocks, who generally located with the Mages, can call for support in fulfilling all your summoning needs.
Middle of nowhere, yet you need to get a "port" to Ironforge?
Don't waste time searching your zone for a Mage, a friendly Mage, a friendly helpful Mage…
No, just put in the call to the Ironforge Summoning rank, and get yanked direct to your destination.
Mid raid and the Uber Item of Superior Upgrade drops… Prove your need to NEED by calling on our friendly, yet satanic, Lock crew to summon you directly to the AH. That's right, no need to run from the Mage quarter, go straight to the Auctioneer.
For those of you that are really lazy, we can even arrange a continuation of your journey from the AH to the mailbox.
Cursed in the field, desperate for a decurse? Call on our emergency Lockulance to get you to our friendly Mage decursers… Yes our Mages not only know they have a decurse spell, but they know how to use it!
For a low introductory price, we will throw in the odd curse or two!
Of course our Warlock's services do come at a price, and that price is your soul, just one or two teeny weeny pieces of your soul…
But hey, isn't your soul worth it for the convenience?
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I must warn you up front, during holiday events, the price of Ports and Summons will increase, but once again, don't you want to get to Ungoro crater immediately? Don't you want to get back to Stormwind and offload that annoying orphan?
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Today, Governor Mark Dayton announced the appointment of Catherine (Kate) McPherson as District Court Judge in Minnesota's Tenth Judicial District. Ms. McPherson will be replacing the Honorable Dale E. Mossey, who retired earlier this year.
About the appointment, Governor Dayton said, "Ms. McPherson will make an excellent judge; she brings a high level of professionalism and diverse legal experience to the bench, as well as a strong commitment to community service."
Ms. McPherson is currently an Assistant County Attorney and Head of Operations for the Anoka County Attorney's Office. She previously worked as an Assistant Hennepin County Attorney and an adjunct professor at William Mitchell College of Law. Ms. McPherson has worked in a number of areas of law including juvenile, criminal, and civil. She received a B.A. from the University of St. Thomas in 1985; M.S.W. from the University of Minnesota in 1990; and a J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law in 1994.
Additionally, Ms. McPherson is a current Ethics Investigator and Past President for the 21st District Bar Association. She has been an active member of her community, including volunteering as a mediator for Mediation Services of Anoka County and serving on its Board of Directors. She is also active in her church and volunteers in the Anoka Hennepin School District.
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Citibank Must Pay Back The $14 Million It Stole From Customers Over A Decade
Between 1992 and 2003, Citibank operated an "automatic sweeping" program that would without notice remove positive balances from customers' credit card accounts—mainly those of the poor and the recently deceased—and pocket the money. Now it's paying back $14 million dollars to the affected customers, plus another $3.5 million in penalties to California, thanks to that state's Attorney General.
From the Associated Press:
Citigroup's "account sweeping program" automatically removed positive balances from customers' credit card accounts, Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. said. For instance, if a customer double-paid a bill by mistake or refunded a purchase for credit, that positive balance was then taken from the customer without notification, Brown said.
The news stories that announced the settlement last week don't explain why the sweeping program was set up in the first place, or why it ran for so long. They do point out, however, that a whistleblower brought the program to the attention of an internal audit team in 2001, but that person was ignored and later fired.
One unnamed Citibank executive explains Citibank's position pretty succintly in the AG's press release:
In the words of a Citibank executive, "Stealing from our customers is a business decision, not a legal decision." The same executive later said that the sweep program could not be stopped because it would reduce the executive bonus pool.
Citibank says it admits to no wrongdoing, although we're not sure how you can characterize pocketing overpayments and credits for yourself as crime-free.
According to the settlement (PDF), Citibank must identify all affected accounts and mail a notice via first class mail to the account holder's last known address, or to the person in charge of the customer's estate. You'll have to respond within 60 days of this notice, and then will be reimbursed the skimmed fees plus 10% interest. The bank has until June 1st, 2009 to refund the money.
"Citi pays $18M for questioned credit card practice" [Associated Press]
"Citibank Stole From 53,000 Customers" (Thanks to Claire!)
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[QUOTE=shuler82;4783130]that's a horrible match with Sanchez.. so if he is the hire, it has to be confirmation that Mark is out the door.
I think the match is perfect for Mark. He is set up to be a West Coast style qb.
@adbrandt: RT @schadjoe: woman tells ESPNs Shelley Smith that man confessed to orchestrating Te'o hoax & that Te'o didn't know..
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What would you do if you could take a pill while pregnant and greatly reduce your child's chance of becoming obese as an adult?
It may sound fantastical, but that is the option being given to morbidly obese pregnant women in four British cities as a result of an NHS trial to try and counteract the "programming" that babies receive in the womb. In the case of pregnant women who are obese or have gestational diabetes, too much insulin is made, meaning babies get too much nutrition, and are born overly large themselves.
Being born very large as a result of this kind of atmosphere in the womb is correlated with becoming obese as an adult. And the last thing populations need, according to health authorities, is even more obese and/or type 2 diabetics. The treatment being proposed in this trial is to give the pregnant woman an everyday diabetes drug, Metformin, which lowers levels of insulin in the pregnant woman and may also help redistribute fat which might otherwise form problematically around the vital organs of the unborn child.
But the trial is not without its critics. For some, the issue is one of massive over-medication, of 'Big Pharma' finding a new, potentially lucrative consumer base (if the trial becomes successful). They point out that not all large pregnant women are either obese or diabetic - some give birth to small and average children who are the absolute pictures of health. Why should they be medicated?
For others, it's basically society giving up on the idea that we can somehow encourage and coerce people to follow a more healthy diet, and medicating the problem away without looking at the more fundamental causes of obesity (diet, exercise and so forth).
Certainly there are more and more large babies being born to larger and larger women, leading to a whole new suite of health problems and birthing risks. It costs money, in terms of the pregnancies themselves, but also down the track when seemingly an even bigger swathe of our population will be type 2 diabetics.
Like the current proposal from a diabetes specialist in South Auckland that obese people be 'treated' with gastric banding as the cheapest, quickest, and most successful option to weight loss, this issue of treating of obesity in the womb seeks to acknowledge the basic fact that humans are not going to drastically, in large numbers, modify their dietary habits - even when their own pregnancies and children may be at risk.
I'm sure the UK trial will be watched eagerly by all countries struggling to contain health costs, including New Zealand.
What would you do if you could take a pill while pregnant and greatly reduce your child's chance of becoming obese as an adult?
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— Ace So, how about them Cowboys?
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— Ace This is actually just a work-in-progress site. It's half-done. Right now it's not used, except as an emergency back-up when the main site goes down.
The actual site is at http://www.ace.mu.nu, or aceofspadeshq.com, which will redirect there.
If you're not seeing pictures on this site, it's because it's not really working yet.
If you've posted comments and no one seems to respond -- that's because most users can't see them. Comments from the real site get posted here, but comments from here don't show up on the real site.
Basically, you should come to the real site. It looks a little crappy right now and it breaks down a lot, but this one isn't quite ready yet.
Sorry.. should have put up this notice long ago.
Note from Pixy: Posts and comments automatically sync from the old site to this new site within 60 seconds, but some authors aren't set up on the new site, and will show up as Open Blogger. We'll get those sorted out soon.
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— Maetenloch
Have to leave the bunker because social function. So everyone tonight enjoys an AoSHQ Premium early ONT.
Here some of the current bills that have been introduced:
Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act: Would establish the Apollo Lunar Landing Sites National Historical Park on the moon. - Chief sponsor Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.)
Read the Bills Act: Would require legislation to be posted online one week before it comes up for a vote. The House version, sponsored by two Republicans, would exempt declarations of war. The Senate version, sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), would require that lawmakers sign an affidavit, under penalty of perjury, attesting that they "attentively" read the measure or were present throughout the entire reading. They do not have to sign the affidavit if they vote against the bill. - House Bill's chief sponsor Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-Mich.)
Department of Peacebuilding Act: Would establish a Cabinet-level federal department, headed by the secretary of Peacebuilding, dedicated to reducing violence domestically and internationally. - Chief Sponsor Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland)
(The idea of a Department of Peace had been championed for more than a decade by then-Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio).
District of Columbia-Maryland Reunion Act: Would address the District of Columbia's long-standing grievance over lack of representation in Congress by turning over the district to Maryland except for a "National Capital Service Area" that includes the Capitol, the White House and monuments on the National Mall.SPA Act: Would prohibit the operation of the House gym during a government shutdown. The Shutdown Prioritization Act was introduced during the 16-day federal government shutdown in October.
The Beautiful, Cheerfully Optimistic Cynicism of Uncle Milton
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— Open Blogger Not everything Seth McFarland touches smells like cow farts. This is actually quite clever:
Then there's this, which has nothing to do with McFarland, but definitely does not stink:
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Welcome again to the Spaced-Out Challenge! Whether you have a question about equipment, a new astronomical discovery you want to expand on, or just want to kick back and enjoy the cosmos above, come one come all on our weekly astronomical journey.
With Saturn at opposition yesterday, now is a great time to observe the crown jewel of the solar system with even a small telescope. This week, we'll point it out, along with elusive Mercury, and expand on smartphone astrophotography tips. more...
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— andy This Week's Post Is Dedicated To Moms With Guns
If there are topics you're interested in seeing in the gun thread, please send them to AoSHQGunThread at gmail. You can also send them to me on Twitter at @AndyM1911.
The owner's manual for your concealed carry permit: The Law of Self Defense
Defend the Second Amendment. Join: The National Rifle Association * Gun Owners of America * The National Shooting Sports Foundation * Your state's second amendment org.
Celebrate America's firearms heritage: participate in Project Appleseed.
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— Open Blogger Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms and moms-to-be out there.
The rest of you... CALL YOUR MOTHER!
In honor of the day, here's a sweet story about two sons' gift to their mom:
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Libary Annex at Casa de Muse*
*no, not really. This is the library of the Harvard Club of New York City, in midtown Manhattan. You have to be a member if you want read one of the 30,000 available books. (From the article Secret Libraries of New York City.)
Good morning morons and moronettes and welcome to AoSHQ's stately and prestigious Sunday Morning Book Thread.
America's Favorite Books
The Harris polling company asked 2,300 people to name their all-time favorite book. Here is the top ten:
1. The Bible
2. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
3. "Harry Potter" (series) by J.K. Rowling
4. "The Lord of the Rings" (series) by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
6. "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
7. "The Catcher" in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8. "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
9. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
10. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dropped off the list in 2014:
The Stand by Stephen King (was No. 5), The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (was No. 6) Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (was No. and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (was No. 9)
What Our Kids Are Reading These Days
I thought this study was interesting. You can download the pdf document that breaks it down by grade. There's a mixture of contemporary (The Hunger Games, Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and classic (The Diary of Anne Frank, To Kill a Mockingbird). Depending on the grade-level of course.
In Honor of Mothers' Day
Mrs. Muse is out of town visiting relatives for the next week, so we didn't plan anything and it kind of crept up on me. So all I'll do is point you at a list of 10 of Literatures Most Horrifying Mothers. Grendel's mom, Emma Bovary, and Scarlett O'Hara are here, among others.
I think that Mrs. Bates from Robert Bloch's novel Psycho would be a worthy addition to the list.
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If the Yellowstone Caldera erupts, supposedly the U.S. has sooper sekrit contingency plans for Brazil, Australia, or Argentina. Hmmm. Not sure about Brazil or Argentina but dang, the ecosystem in Australia is killer. But the beaches are nice. I think I'd opt for Australia. more...
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— Dave in Texas And their families, whether it be K-G or Middle School, High School and Collegiates. Many congratulations. I have been there with you all right up to college 2x. I know you are proud of them, because I know you helped em get there.
May God bless them on their journey.
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— Open Blogger Continuing with Dave and Y-Not's bipolar theme, I present the Saturday Evening Potluck thread.
First up: NASCAR
NASCAR takes the show to the 1.5 mile track at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, KS for the 5-Hour Energy 400 Benefiting Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
Whew! That was a mouthful!
The flag waves at 7:30 ET and will be aired on Fox. Click here to read more about the Special Operations Warrior Foundation
Leading the pack today are Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano, clocking speeds of 194.253 mph and 193.910 mph respectively. The full lineup can be found HERE.
New paint schemes this week and, of these, I like this the best:
although I bet this will look sweet on the track:
Last week's race at Talladega was a drama-free event for most of the race, save for Keselowski short-cutting across Danica's front end, then this happened. Brad Keselowski, winning friends one accident at a time.
Now, to switch gears...
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— Open Blogger Here's a thread for those of you who really want to talk politics. Content courtesy of "Hot Gas:"
Longtime Hot Air readers may recall that the first winner we ever had in these surveys was Chris Christie. Four years ago he earned 29% of the vote, but my, how things change. Christie now has 1% of the vote and sits well behind everyone except Mike Huckabee, who he ties, Rick Santorum, and Joe Scarborough, who out of over 3000 votes received a grand total of 6.
Your current leader? Ted Cruz, who earned 29% of the vote. The top five is rounded out by Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.
Follow the link to see how the issues tested.
You all know I'm a Perry-loving RINO. I denounce myself.
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— Open Blogger I didn't have time this week to research for a car thread, so you get this instead.
Frost wrote "Good fences make good neighbors" and, frankly, I couldn't have said it better myself. I want just enough familiarity with my neighbors that they'll make note of a strange truck hauling away my stuff.
I don't want to know about their kids or grand-kids.
I don't want to know about their problems.
I don't want to know about their dreams in life.
I want to recognize the car in their driveway and for them to do the same for me.
In any neighborhood, good or bad, there are bound to be good neighbors and bad: The ones who play loud music at inappropriate hours, who leave their trashcans by the curb for days, who peer through their window and lie in wait to gossip at the first crack of your door on a Saturday morning.
Still, it could be worse.
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Please welcome Moron Top.Man back from his generation-long quest for the perfect tropical drink. He has spent years in an open boat, lashed by the wind and the waves, fighting off sharks with just a drink umbrella, traveling from beach-side bar to beach-side bar, seeking the best in the world. [CBD]
Mai Tai. The name translates to "the best" and, for those of a certain age, conjures images of tropical shores, scantily-clad wahines, and the music of Martin Denny. more...
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— Open Blogger In 1964 Reagan made an impassioned plea for Goldwater. The whole thing is worth listening to, I do a couple of times a year. It's his A time for choosing speech.
Listen to it:
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My first thought was: "Oh, it's calico week". My second was: "These are great photos." And then I recognized Peggy, Luna's and Lily's auntie. (Isn't that what you are called if you are a half sister of their meowmie?;))
Peggy, we have not seen you for a long time and we missed to hear about you and Dino and Emma living in the woods in wonderful Hannoversch Münden. But now we see you installed as our queen kitty of the day and we know that there will be lots of celebration which you deserve as you are such a pretty and special girl:)


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Let me give you a piece of my mind (not that I can spare too much) this morning:
1. The Dolphins are stunning in their defensive fall from grace so far this season. They got lit up by New England. They improved somewhat against Houston but still, it wasn't good enough. And then, most disappointing to me, they gave up a game-winning drive to Colt McCoy and a Browns offense that was without running back Peyton Hillis and the club's starting right tackle Tony Pashos this past weekend.
So the Dolphins defense is ranked 30th in the NFL so far this year. Terrible, right? Team can't win until they get better, right?
Yeah, well, the Patriots have the No. 32 ranked defense in the NFL this year. That is dead last.
The difference is the Patriots have the best QB in the NFL so having the worst statistical defense in the NFL is not quite as painful as it is in Miami. It's vexing. But season-killing? Not when you can light up the scoreboard.
For the record, the Dolphins averaged 17 points per game last year and that was obvioulsy not good enough. This year the new, revamped, rebuilt, refurbished offense is averaging 17.6 points per game through three games.
2. As you might know, I reported Monday that the Dolphins are in money-saving mode. I've been told this by very high ranking sources within the football side of the organization. [UPDATE: Another high-ranking and annoyed source within the organization says the team is not in big money-saving mode, it's just going by a budget and there is no big deal afoot.]
Anyway, I got a call from yet another source within the organization Monday explaining that the team's salary cap space -- estimated between $7-$8 million under the $120 million -- will eventually be used this year.
I was told the space was left with the thoughts of using toward signing extensions with certain players whose contracts expire after this year. Among those players are Kendall Langford, Chad Henne and others. The team might even visit the idea of signing Cameron Wake before his deal expires after 2012.
Except, I asked this source, why such a need to save cap space for players who are basically taking you to a winless record? What's so great about them?
"That's a consideration that we might have to re-examine," the source admitted.
I would think so.
Yes, Langford is nice player. But he's not great. He's basically a space eater. He's got two tackles in three games so far this year. Igor Olshansky had two tackles in one game against Cleveland. Jared Odrick has four tackles. Randy Starks has 10 tackles.
Look, the Dolphins can sign Langford to keep him from hitting free agency. But the hope is the deal is modest. Because his playmaking has been modest.
Henne presents another interesting situation. Do the Dolphins sign him to an extension now? I say if the season continues on its present course, I would absolutely not do that.
Simply, if the Dolphins continue to stink, they will be in favorable position to pick a quarterback very, very early in the draft. Andrew Luck, Kellen Moore, Landry Jones and perhaps Robert Griffin III might all be available next draft.
So why invest in Henne now?
Now, if Henne goes crazy the next 13 games, absolutely, you re-sign him. Why? Well, if he goes crazy, he will have proven his worth and at the same time would have probably played the Dolphins out of the top rung of the draft anyway.
But again, you don't do that anytime soon. You let it play out until late in the year or even after the season when teams have an exclusive negotiating window with their free agents.
So again, that cap space now makes no sense.
And while we're on the topic, Phillip Merling is out of contract after this season. Two words following his one tackle against Houston and coming off what was apparently a healthy scratch last week: Bye. Bye.
[NOTE: By the way, I'm thinking I've got to start cutting down on sources particularly when they all work for the same team and they're not all on the same page. Sheesh.]
3. I wrote in my column that coach Tony Sparano struggled to walk out of Cleveland Browns Stadium, moving gingerly and stopping once to, ahem, adjust because he was in obvious pain as he continues to recover from double hernia surgery.
I'm told by a source close to Sparano the coach was told his surgery required a short hospital stay followed by 10 days of bed rest. Sparano was in bed for one day and walking the next. While in bed, 75 minutes after the surgery, he was breaking down tape of the team's final preseason game.
Does that make him a great coach? No. Does it make him one very tough and dedicated dude? You betcha.
4. Thinking back to No. 2, there are other players who are likely in their final years with the Dolphins:
Vernon Carey, Will Allen, and possibly Paul Soliai because he's expecting a big payday after this year and the Dolphins might not be willing to meet his price -- as they've not been able to do in three separate contract offers since last October. Yup, three total offers aside from the franchise tag tender is what the team has put in front of Soliai's agent.
5. I like Jimmy Wilson. He's a rookie. He's a seventh round draft pick. And he took responsibility for "losing the game" against Cleveland Sunday. For the record, Wilson gave up the catch that resulted in the winning touchdown.
But he didn't lose the game.
Football is a team sport. It's won by teams. And lost by teams.
You have to admire Wilson's view anyway. He's a no-excuses guy. And he didn't much mention the interception he had earlier in the game, which happened to be the first of his career. Wilson, by the way, has one more interception than either of Miami's starting cornerbacks -- Sean Smith or Vontae Davis.
That means Davis and Smith have zero interceptions.
I cannot decide which is more disappointing: That Smith and Davis had trouble holding on to balls that would have been interceptions last year. Or that this year they haven't had any passes in their hands that they might have converted into interceptions.


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I bought a castle motor and ecu for my slash.the ecu has a fan on it but I also have a fan for motor.does that get pluged into the traxxas receiver? it has the same style plug a the traxxas receiver has
not knowing the fan you have or what esc you have....
Sound like you should contact the manufacturer or shop the product you are using came from
yes, the motor cooling fan plugs into the receiver
although I couldn't begin to tell you what port on the stock Traxxas receiver, as I've never owned nor used one all my stuff uses Spektrum
yup thats the fan.I will call traxxas tomorrow and find out what port it is.thanks
well I'm not so sure Traxxas will be of any help, since it's an aftermarket fan. what model receiver is it, the 2.4ghz or the 27mhz? I believe they both have a CH4/BATT plug (the upper-most one) and I'm pretty sure that's where it would plug in.
if the plug on the fan doesn't have the little alignment thing for the slot on the receiver, just be sure to get the orientation of the plug right; the black wire will be on the right and the red wire in the center
I have called traxxas on some other stuff they were very helpfull.there is a spot on the reciever marked bat
I'm 99% sure that's where it would plug into, if someone else can chime in and confirm that plug should have a constant voltage when the ESC is on
Batt is where mine has been for the last year. No problems, what so ever
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well there you have it
It's good to ask questions here first before you can into Traxxas. A good amount of time someone on the forum has had and fixed the problem that you are having. The truck had been out for awhile so the new people ger to reap the benefits from those of us who went through the early days of figuring things out. That is why I always say," We are here to help!"
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Mine is plugged into #5 as well.
thanks all.I have been learning allot on this site
You can plug accesories into any unused reciever port. The connectors have 3 wires, red which is +, black which is -, and white which is signal, as long as the white wire is disconnected, you can use the 6v red and black to power fans, lights or most anything else, you can even use y connectors for multiple things. You can also power most recievers from any plug, nitros usually have the reciever pack hooked through the battery lead, and electrics power the rx from the BEC through the throttle port, but any other port will do. Internally most recievers are simply wired in parallel for the red and black pins, you can see this by using an ohm meter on the black pins of any 2 ports, there will be practically no resistance. In fact because of this you can run more than 1 reciever pack as long as they are the same voltage. The only thing wire that is unique for each port is the signal wire, that sends each signal to servos or the ESC, but all the servos, RX itself, and accesories are powered parallel. In the case that you have to power a large accesory, like an onboard starter, then you are best off running it directly to a battery instead of sending all that load through the reciever.
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I have both the Integy dual fan and the Castle fan havent had to hook niether one up
yet no heat issues. But i just got some a XL tires that i know it going to add some heat
which one do you guys think i should use?
KOOL.. that makes sense
Thanks Chub5.......


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"To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." - Oscar Wilde
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Intriguing surnames from the Necropolis: Publicover
I photographed this marker because I think Publicover is a very interesting surname. After a little research I discovered that George Roy Publicover had worked as an accountant with the National Fish Company in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Also, the marker bears the emblem of the fraternity of Freemasonry, and both Mr. Publicover and several members of his family are on the rolls of the Freemasons.
Curiosity about the origin of the name led to a little more 'digging', and the discovery that there are many Publicovers in Nova Scotia, all of whom can be traced back to one Peter Bubickhoffer, who emigrated from the Palatinate (southwest Germany) and came to Nova Scotia in 1752 at the age of 34. Publicover is the anglicized version of the name Bubickhoffer.
According to Wallace Gray, a Publicover descendent: "There are many variations to the spelling of the surname. The name was anglicized around 1764 when Peter's last children, Maria and John Peter were the first to be christened with the surname Publicover. There are 50 [variations], counting the present spelling." When you consider the number of variations of the original name, Publicover stands as an excellent example of the intersection between oral and written history.
For more information visit Wallace Gray's website: http://www.drack.info/wallygray25/publicoverfam.htm


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Authorities say the son of Bernard Madoff's longtime accountant, who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in the scandal centered on the financier, committed suicide in central Ohio.
Police say 23-year-old Jeremy Friehling was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Columbus apartment on Thursday. He was a second-year student at Ohio State's medical school.
Franklin County's coroner says there's no indication that the Madoff scandal had anything to do with Friehling's suicide. Police say he left a note but they would not give details about it.
His father, Madoff accountant David Friehling, pleaded guilty in New York in 2009 to securities fraud charges and awaits sentencing.
David Friehling's attorney says the family declines to comment.
Madoff's own son hanged himself in 2010 in his New York apartment.


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Crosslake photographer loves 'shooting' families
Local photographer Kelli Engstrom is a family-focused business owner and personal trainer who has lived in Crosslake for 17 years.
Kelli grew up in Ham Lake before moving to the lakes area after frequent trips to a family cabin. Her family used to own Kent's Atwater Resort in the 1920s on Island Lake and still has a cabin there.
"As a kid I always wanted to live here, so when I was 15 my mom said, 'Well, if you get a job, you can live at the cabin.' So I got a job and I've worked at all the restaurants," Kelli said.
She then went to photography school, took business classes and got her degree in business.
"I started taking pictures when I was 18 and I just started growing," Kelli said.
Rick Hammer, a photographer now based out of Duluth, helped Kelli start in the business.
"Rick Hammer is amazing. He showed me the ropes and helped me out and taught me a ton of stuff," she said.
Making a photography business successful in the lakes area was a challenge. At first, Kelli was busy in the summer months but the winter would be quite slow.
"It was hard because I would shoot for three months out of the year and then I would be like, 'I'll forget how to use my stuff,'" Kelli said.
From there, her business has grown significantly, often through word-of-mouth referrals. She now runs Kelli Engstrom Photography full time.
"It definitely is hard to make it. Luckily now, after 17 years, I feel like I have a fantastic client base," Kelli said.
Her work last month alone confirms this. Kelli shot photos for 42 families in July. Also, she photographs about 17 weddings a summer.
Kelli shoots a variety of subjects from high school seniors to weddings. Her favorite subjects, however, are families.
"I really love big family reunions," Kelli said. "Family is so, so important to me, and I feel that if we don't record the families they're not going to have their blueprint in history."
Many of Kelli's clients come from the Twin Cities area and are people who come up to area resorts or cabins.
"Some of them I've been photographing for 15 years," Kelli said. "It's very cool, especially when I see my work on their walls in their cabin."
Kelli frequently shoots outside and on location.
"A lot of people ask me why I don't have a storefront," Kelli said.
Her lack of a storefront is deliberate. "A storefront for me would not be able to let me go out and have that creativity," she said.
Kelli also thinks that a studio dynamic does not fit well with the atmosphere of the lakes area.
"Most people that come here to vacation don't want to come to a studio to be photographed," she said.
Ultimately, Kelli's photography is more than just a job. "It's not about the money. Recording the history is so cool," she said.
"You look back at our Crosslake history books and they are so neat. My grandfather is in it, we have friends in it and their parents are in it, and I think it's so neat and I get to be a part of that, which is something super cool," Kelli said.
Besides photography, her primary focus is her family.
She and her husband, John, have three children — Maverick, 13; Beau, 9; and Mercedes, 7. John Engstrom owns J.T. Construction of Crosslake.
"My kids do everything with me," Kelli said. "I've always wanted them to be a part of everything I do."
Family activities are her main hobbies. As a family, the Engstroms often spend their free time going to motocross races and hockey games.
Kelli is also a personal trainer.
"I love to do that, I love to work with people," she said.


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Essentially the game's single-player campaign, Mission Mode provided players with hours of additional gameplay through various objective-based fights, and also served as a means to unlock new content. All of the unlockable items, such as characters and concept art, are now immediately available at the game's outset. nope
Mission Mode's absence eliminates the bulk of the single-player gameplay from the fighter, which was released yesterday as a $10 download on the Xbox 360.
All of the title's other modes--Arcade, Time Attack, Team Battle, Practice, Survival, Extra Survival, Museum and the offline-only Vs Battle--remain intact.
Namco has yet to comment on the reason behind the exclusion. It is likely that the 188 MB title entered development while the previous 150 MB XBLA file size limit was in effect, though prioritizing bonus artwork over an entire gameplay mode seems curious.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A person close to the situation says restricted free agent Gordon Hayward has agreed to a maximum offer sheet with the Charlotte Hornets that would pay the small forward $63 million over the next four years.
The Utah Jazz would have three days to match the deal once Hayward officially signs the offer sheet.
The person commented to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday because Hayward can't officially sign the offer sheet until Thursday.
It's unclear at this point if the Jazz would match the offer or consider a sign-and-trade with Charlotte.
Hayward, who visited with the Hornets this week, averaged 16.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game last season for Utah. Hayward has spent all four seasons in the NBA with the Jazz.


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Go Wireless
Editor's note: David Karp's Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks, 2nd Edition, offers tips and workarounds that let the geek in you customize Windows XP to your liking. In this selected excerpt from Chapter 7 of the book, David shows you how to get unwired.
If you're on a wireless network and you're not using Windows XP Service Pack 2, it means you're still suffering with the weak WiFi support built into the original release of Windows XP. Go ahead and upgrade to SP2 now; don't worry, I'll wait.
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{Sounds of fingers tapping and whistling off-key.}
Got it? Good. The solutions in this section show you how to set up a simple wireless network and connect that network to the Internet, as well as connect your wireless devices to other people's wireless networks, and prevent others from sneaking on to your network. All of this is possible without wires, and the most amazing thing is that it actually works.
TIP: If you want to do a whole lot more with your wireless network, check out Wireless Hacks (O'Reilly). Among other things, it shows you how to extend the range of your wireless network from a few yards to several miles with home-made antennas. Very cool.
Set Up a Wireless Router
If you've read other solutions in this chapter, you've probably seen routers mentioned several times.
A router allows you to connect your computer (or your workgroup) to the Internet, while simultaneously protecting you with its built-in firewall. A wireless router does the same thing, but it also adds a wireless access point, allowing you to connect any number of WiFi devices to each other and to the Internet.
A typical WiFi setup is shown in Figure 7-3, but you'll probably want something closer to the setup shown in Figure 7-6, in which a wireless router provides Internet access to all your computers. Here's how to set this up and configure the security measures that should have been enabled out of the box:
Editor's note: Because we have selected a section of Chapter 7 to showcase here, rather than the whole, some references to figures in other sections will not be available.
Plug your DSL or cable modem (or whatever broadband connection you're using) into your router's WAN or Internet port.
Dispense with the software that comes with your router. Instead, open a web browser on one of the computers and type the IP address of your router into the address bar. In most cases, this is
192.168.1.1, but your router may be different; refer to your router's documentation for details. (You may also need to log in with a username and password at this point.)
Choose your connection type from the list. If your Internet connection requires a username and password, select PPPoE. If your ISP has provided an IP address for your connection, select Static IP. Otherwise, choose Automatic Configuration - DHCP.
If you've selected PPPoE or Static IP, you'll probably need to enter the IP addresses of your ISP's DNS servers (your ISP should provide these numbers for you).
Click Apply or Save Settings at the bottom of the page when you're done.
At this point, you should have Internet access; go ahead and test it by opening a second browser window (Ctrl-N) and visiting any web site.
Choose a new name (SSID) for your wireless network, and turn off the Wireless SSID Broadcast option.
WARNING Your SSID is the backdoor into your wireless network. If you broadcast your SSID, anyone with an SSID sniffer will be able to find it in a matter of seconds (see Section 7.5.2 later in this chapter), and connect to your network. The same danger exists if you use your router's default; probably a million people around the globe are using the SSID "linksys," which makes it a good guess for anyone trying to gain access to your network.
Choose WEP for the security mode (if available), and then choose the highest WEP encryption level supported by your router (here, it's 128-bit). Higher levels provide better protection, but also mean longer (and harder to type) WEP keys.
Once you commit this change, you'll need to enter one of the keys that appear here into each computer that connects to your wireless network, so take this opportunity to record the key before you save changes.
Highlight the first key (Key 1), and press Ctrl-C to copy it to the clipboard. Then, open your favorite text editor (e.g., Notepad), and press Ctrl-V to paste it into a new, empty document. Save the file on your desktop; this will allow you to easily paste it into various dialog boxes later on, which is easier than having to type it.
WARNING If you enable WEP for your wireless network, but you subsequently can't connect to it wirelessly, it most likely means that you've gotten the WEP key wrong. To fix the problem, you'll have to either connect to it with a cable and change the settings or, as a final resort, reset the router as described in your router's documentation.
Click Apply or Save Settings at the bottom of the page when you're done.
See the next section, Section 7.5.2, for help connecting your computer to your (or someone else's) wireless network. See Section 7.5.4, later in this chapter, for ways to take advantage of your new wireless network. See the sidebar for ways to improve reception (and thus performance of your wireless network).
Sniff Out WiFi Networks
Probably the most significant change in SP2 is the substantial improvement of the WiFi support built into Windows XP. The centerpiece of these improvements is the "Choose a wireless network" window shown in Figure 7-20.
Figure 7-20. The WiFi sniffer in Windows XP SP2 lets you connect to any available WiFi network
A WiFi sniffer is a program (or device) that scans for and lists the WiFi networks within range. This is where the Broadcast SSID setting discussed in the previous section, Section 7.5.1, comes into play. If you're broadcasting your SSID, any sniffer within range will see it.
In the Network Connections window, double-click an unconnected Wireless connection to open the "Choose a wireless network" window. (You can also right-click the icon in your system tray or Network Connections window and select View Available Wireless Networks.) Windows XP will automatically perform a scan and display the results; in all, it should take less than 5 seconds. Click Refresh network list to repeat the scan.
To connect to a network in the list, highlight it and click Connect. If no security is in effect, Windows
will establish a connection without any further ado. But if
there's any WEP encryption, you'll
be asked to type a WEP key. Note the little padlock next to the first
network listed in the dialog box in Figure 7-20,
which tells you that the only network with encryption is
annoyances; you'll be able to
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Oooh crap. It's being widely-reported that Bud Norris will not be making his next scheduled start Saturday because of what is being called biceps tendinitis, and the Astros' streak of using the same five starting pitchers will end at 48 games.
He will likely return to Houston to be examined by Astros team physician Dr. David Lintner. Norris came to the clubhouse Thursday morning and saw trainer Nate Lucero, complaining of soreness. He last started Sunday against Tampa Bay, giving up five runs in five innings.
Back in February, Tom Verducci listed his ten pitchers who should be red-flagged for injury, and of course Bud Norris was listed because of the IP increase from 2008 to 2009. So now he misses a start. You could probably throw darts at a list of pitchers and hit a couple who are going to be injured at some point in a season, though.
If he goes on the DL, it's hard to say what will happen to the rotation. Hopefully Moehler will not be called upon for the spot start, so that's probably exactly what will happen. If Easy Eddie brings up somebody from Round Rock, here are a couple of candidates:
Josh Banks (27 years old): 63IP, 60H/21ER, 26K:15BB. 3.00 ERA/1.19 WHIP.
Gustavo Chacin (29): 25IP, 24H/10ER, 14K:6BB. 3.60 ERA/1.20 WHIP
Andy Van Hekken (30): 52IP, 53H/24ER, 39K:16BB. 4.15 ERA/1.33 WHIP.
Polin Trinidad (25): 48IP, 53H/24ER, 31K:15BB. 4.50 ERA/1.42 WHIP.
It's a shame that Norris wasn't lined up for Friday, as the Reds have called up Sam LeCure to pitch against the Astros tomorrow night.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Norris out for his next start
Labels: Biceps, Bud Norris, Injuries
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I'm not paying Brian Moehler all of that money for him to be the last man out of the pen. He'll start in place of Norris, even if I have to fire Ed and Brad to make it happen.
- May 27, 2010 at 5:35 PM
- The Constable. said...
+1 to Drayton.
- May 27, 2010 at 8:11 PM
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A Veteran Appreciation Day will be held at the Tennessee National Guard Tullahoma Readiness Center, 1402 East Carroll Street in Tullahoma, on Monday, Jan. 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for current and prior service members and their families.
All services are free and include health screenings, employment and education resources, legal advice, VA mobile unit, and more. There is also food and fun included. No registration is required.
For more information contact the Coffee County Anti-Drug Coalition at (931) 570-4484 or the Franklin County Prevention Coalition at (931) 967-7825.


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by Peter Saint-Andre
Discussions of XML can often seem dry, abstract, and even hopelessly arcane. (Have you read the XML Schema spec lately?) So it can be refreshing to look at a powerful (even fun) application that's built on XML. One such application is Jabber, an open source instant messaging and presence system that is beginning to garner a lot of attention from the open source community and large corporations alike.
Eric S. Raymond's first lesson of open source software development declares that "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." That was certainly the case with Jabber. Jeremie Miller, the founder of the Jabber.org project, got sick of using four or five applications to keep in touch with friends on different instant messaging (IM) systems and to monitor various IRC channels. So he started to think about building a cross-platform, open source IM system that would speak to all the other messaging systems.
From the beginning of the project in early 1998, Jeremie resolved that Jabber would stand apart from existing IM systems by being based on a foundation of XML. Indeed, XML is not an afterthought or a cool buzzword in the Jabber world, but, as we shall see, simply the way things are done.
The basic architecture of Jabber is extremely similar to that of e-mail: there is a network of distributed servers, with a user connecting to their host server and servers transferring messages through one or more hops to a destination server for delivery to the intended recipient. From the perspective of the user, Jabber IDs are identical in form to e-mail addresses (in my case email@example.com), and one registers with a Jabber server in much the same way that one creates an account with an ISP.
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News -- view a week's worth of Jabber news via Meerkat.
The server perspective is somewhat more complicated -- and in fact, this is intentional, because the relative complexity of the server offloads responsibility from the clients, thus making it easy to write Jabber clients for a wide variety of platforms. In essence, however, the server is made of two basic components: the core Jabber libraries and optional "transports."
The core libraries handle communications within the Jabber system. An example is when I send a message from my Jabber account to a friend who is also using Jabber. In this case, all the messaging occurs in the format of the Jabber's open XML protocol, so the communications are "native" to Jabber. Although there is a lot of code that makes this happen, in a way it is relatively simple.
The transports translate Jabber XML into and out of what we might think of as "foreign" protocols. An example is when I chat with a friend who's using another instant messaging system (such as AIM, ICQ, or MSN). Another example would be when I use Jabber's groupchat facilities to join an IRC channel, as shown below:
IRC over Jabber
IRC over Jabber.
It's in the world of transports that some of the "black magic" of Jabber comes into play, especially when the foreign protocol is not well-documented. When you use Jabber to connect to non-Jabber systems, it is as if the relevant transport is "masquerading" as you on the foreign system. When you register with the transport, you tell it about your user information on the foreign system, and in the future it acts on your behalf with that system, sending and receiving messages and presence information in that foreign protocol. The result is that your friends on (let's say) ICQ think they're communicating with you on ICQ when in fact you are using Jabber, and specifically Jabber's ICQ transport, to speak the language of ICQ. In this way Jabber is somewhat like a universal translator, although at present Jabber is not "universal," since transports do not yet exist for all messaging systems. (And no, we won't get into the politics of interoperability in this article!)


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Scott had a putt for birdie on 16 holes in a second round that was without a bogey and without much stress. He wound up with a 5-under 66 that left him one shot behind 31-year-old rookie Shawn Stefani.
Stefani had to scramble more that he would have preferred, though he converted all the putts he felt he was supposed to make in his round of 70.
Temperatures finally began to warm, and without much wind throughout the day, the tournament was wide open going into the weekend. Stefani was at 7-under 135, one shot ahead of Scott and past champion K.J. Choi, who had a 67.
Twenty players were within five shots of the lead at the halfway point, a group that included everyone from Sergio Garcia and Matt Kuchar, to 19-year-old Jordan Spieth and Erik Compton, the two-time heart transplant recipient whose 65 was the low round of the day.
It was the highest score to lead at Innisbrook in five years.
Scott was right in the middle of it all, which is where he wants to be.
The Australian hasn't shown too many scars from making bogeys on the last four holes to lose the British Open last summer. He finished the year by winning the Australian Masters, though it was a month later when he was working on his game at home on the Gold Coast that he experienced a significant turnaround with his short game.
"Just had a really nice feeling going that day, whatever it was, and I managed to get through the whole shag bag of balls hitting every chip the same," he said. "Everything was very controlled and consistent. ... I've felt my confidence grow on the course with the pitching and chipping."
Scott said when he was hitting the ball poorly in 2009, it put extraordinary pressure on his short game because he was missing greens. In this case, he said a solid short game has relieved any tension in the long game, and it's starting to show.
He closed with a 68-64 on the weekend at Doral, and carried that to a tougher Copperhead course at Innisbrook.
Scott has a limited schedule before his next crack at a major next month. The Tampa Bay Championship is only his fourth event this year (and fourth in the last five weeks), and then he plans to shut it down until going to Augusta National.
Choi has switched to a claw grip for putting, and he likes the results. He took only 12 putts on the back nine Friday, including birdies on two of the par 3s.
"Sometimes very nervous, but I keep going more in line," Choi said. "But still, 6-under-par, a very good position. My confidence is very well."
John Daly registered his 15th score of 10 or higher on a hole in his PGA Tour career when he twice tried to get out of the trees, took two penalty drops and made what he called a "beautiful chip" to get up-and-down from 30 yards on the par-4 third hole. He made a 10 and had an 81.
Jee Young Lee leads
LPGA Founders Cup
PHOENIX -- Jee Young Lee birdied three of the last four holes to take a one-stroke lead over Ai Miyazato on another hot day at the LPGA Founders Cup.
Lee, the South Korean player who won the tour's 2005 South Korean event, had a bogey-free 8-under 64 on Friday to reach 15-under 129 and break the tournament 36-hole record. She played in the morning wave before the temperature climbed into the low 90s at Desert Ridge.
Frost fires 63
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- David Frost shot an 8-under 63 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead over Fred Couples after the first round of the Champions Tour's Toshiba Classic.
Frost had eight birdies in his bogey-free round, four on the first five holes on the back nine and another on the par-5 closing hole. Three of his approach shots stopped within a foot of the hole for tap-in birdies.
Chapchai, Liang tied
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GREATER NOIDA, India -- Chapchai Nirat and Liang Wenchong each shot a 6-under 66 Friday to tie for the lead after the second round of the Avantha Masters, two strokes ahead of four others.
Chapchai and Liang were even at 132 total at the Jaypee Greens.