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Posted by Stephen Mann on April 10, 2012
You think that this blog title is bad? Be thankful that I didn't try something like: "There's No Obit For COBIT."
Anyways, today sees ISACA (an international professional association for IT Governance) release COBIT 5 – the latest version of its internationally recognized "Business Framework for the Governance and Management of Enterprise IT."
As in previous blogs such as "It's Time To Realize That ITIL Is Not The Only Fruit," the industry's obsession with ITIL needs to be both tempered and supplemented with more pragmatic guidance on IT management and IT service management. COBIT can help with this in spades. In fact, some would argue that ITIL should be used to supplement COBIT – try some of Rob England's (The IT Skeptic, and a great supporter of COBIT) short COBIT blog posts on for size: "The difference between ITIL and COBIT for consultants: four words" or "COBIT 5 will be released in April."
So What's New?
ISACA states that:
"COBIT 5 builds and expands on COBIT 4.1 by integrating other major frameworks, standards and resources, including ISACA's Val IT and Risk IT, ITIL ("the IT service management best practice framework") and related standards from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)."


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Canada won promises from China in backing Nexen deal - minister
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada wrested "significant" commitments from China's CNOCC on issues of corporate governance and transparency as part of its approval of the acquisition of a swath of Canada's valuable oil sands reserves, Industry Minister Christian Paradis said on Sunday.
Defending the $15.1 billion takeover of Nexen, one of Canada's largest independent oil companies, in the face of grumbles from the left, Paradis said that Canada won "significant undertakings" from CNOOC.
Canada announced on Friday that, after months of study, it would allow CNOOC's $15.1 billion acquisition of Nexen Inc, a controversial ruling given concerns from some in the ruling Conservative party about China's human rights record.
Paradis said CNOOC made promises involving the management of Nexen and that the Chinese company would have report back to the Industry Ministry to ensure conditions are being met.
Canada made "sure that we had significant undertakings in terms of governance, about transparency, about disclosure," Paradis told CTV's "Question Period" program.
Paradis said he could not provide details for commercial reasons.
Under the deal, CNOOC will get full control of Nexen's Long Lake oil sands project in northern Alberta, properties containing as much as six billion barrels of recoverable crude and a 7.2 percent stake in the Syncrude Canada Ltd joint-venture.
The ruling, closely watched by investors, followed months of heated debate over how much of Canada's energy sector, and especially its oil sands, should be absorbed by companies run by other governments. Continued...


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A big day for your fantasy team is being met with a lot of big questions on the injury report. We'll be here all morning long to give you the latest on the injured stars of today's early games. And it's a who's who list -- Calvin Johnson, Andre Johnson , Michael Vick , Darren McFadden , Stevie Johnson , C.J. Spiller , etc. Keep refreshing this post from 11: 30 a.m. until about 1 p.m. Eastern for all of the notable actives and inactives.
-- NFL Network's Stacy Dales has been told by a Raiders source that running backs Darren McFadden and Rashad Jennings will both be active today versus the Chiefs. Both were listed as questionable on injury report. With Marcel Reece also likely active, McFadden is just a mid-range flex play against a very good defense on the road.
-- Bucs WR Mike Williams is inactive. I originally read that he was active. It means Vincent Jackson is going to be a target monster against the Eagles.
-- Calvin Johnson is active and will start! Great news for all Lions, especially Matthew Stafford and Reggie Bush. Get them all into your lineups. He will not be restricted today.
-- Vikings RB Adrian Peterson is active. He will be playing with a very heavy heart. Play him. Root for him.
-- Eagles QB Michael Vick is active, but he's the emergency third-string quarterback. As expected, Nick Foles will start. He's worth a shot in two-quarterback leagues.
-- Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie is active despite suffering a knee injury during the practice week. The Jets' defense has top-10 potential today versus the Steelers.
-- Bills WR Stevie Johnson is inactive due to his back injury. Robert Woods moves up to the No. 1 WR spot in Buffalo, but he is just a WR3 play in a tough matchup and with Thad Lewis at quarterback.
-- Vikings kicker Blair Walsh is active despite being listed as questionable with a hamstring injury. He's a bit risky, but start him if you need him.
-- Bills RB C.J. Spiller is active. It's not a great matchup versus Cincy, but he is still well worth a spot as an RB2 in your lineup.
-- Rams RB Zac Stacy is active, as expected. He was limited a bit in practice with a rib injury. He'll get 15 or more touches, but he is just a flex option
-- Chiefs CB Brandon Flowers is inactive. That hurts the Chiefs a little bit, but Flowers has been hampered for a few weeks. They are still a solid start.
-- Ravens WRs Jacoby Jones and Marlon Brown are active. They are shot-in-the-dark starts versus the Packers.
-- Texans WR Andre Johnson is active despite his shin injury. He is a must-start versus the Rams.
-- The Bills have CBs Jarius Byrd and Stephon Gilmore both active today. That could make things very interesting (read: tougher) for A.J. Green.
-- Chiefs WR Donnie Avery is active. He's a low-end WR3 at best.
-- Panthers TE Greg Olsen is active. He had his foot in a walking boot earlier this week, but he is a fine TE1 against the Vikings, who are allowing the most fantasy points per game to tight ends this season.
-- Vikings QB Josh Freeman is inactive. But he'll probably be starting before long. Christian Ponder will back up Matt Cassel today versus the Panthers.
-- Ravens RB Bernard Pierce is active. But with Ray Rice healthy and getting most of the carries, Pierce should be on your bench.
-- Jets RBs Mike Goodson and Chris Ivory are both active. They will mix in with BIlal Powell, making all three risky in a plus matchup. Powell is flex-worthy.
Players who have already been ruled out for Week 6 include E.J. Manuel, Brian Hoyer, Blaine Gabbert, Kellen Winslow, and James Starks.
Fantasy Analysis:
Last week was rough for some in the QB2 group in fantasy. Hoyer is out for the season with a torn ACL. Manuel could be out for two months with a sprained knee. Gabbert will probably miss multiple weeks with his strained hamstring.
Brandon Weeden steps back in as the Browns' starting QB, and while he won't crush the fantasy values of Josh Gordon and Jordan Cameron, you have to scale back expectations slightly. They are still healthy starts today versus the Lions.
Thad Lewis takes over for Manuel, and I want nothing to do with the entire Bills passing offense today. Lewis faces the Bengals, who held Tom Brady out of the end zone last week for the first time since the 2009 season.
Chad Henne is the quarterback I want the most out of these three backups. He has a couple of solid wideouts, Cecil Shorts and Justin Blackmon, at his disposal, and the Jaguars will be throwing the rock all day long in Denver. He'll throw a couple of interceptions, but a couple of scores and maybe 300 yards should be there, too, for Henne.
Apparently "soldiers" need PEDs. Winslow has been suspended four games for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing drugs. Jeff Cumberland is the Jets' starting tight end, but he's a deep TE2 versus Pittsburgh.
Starks is still nursing the knee injury he suffered in Week 3. Eddie Lacy has a tough matchup versus the Ravens, but he's an RB2 based on expected workload alone. Johnathan Franklin is no threat as he keeps fumbling away every chance he gets.


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Posted by Thomas Husson on the B2C Marketing Professionals Blog on May 17, 2013
My colleague Reineke Reitsma recently published a blog on the limited but growing uptake of QR/2D barcodes.
Let's face reality. Usage is low and marketing execution is poor to date, with too many campaigns that lack a clear consumer benefit and that provide a bad user experience by not offering mobile-optimized content. Today, mobile bar codes are an interesting tactic to engage with early adopters.
However, moving forward, we expect QR codes to gain traction and to be increasingly mixed with other technologies (including radio technologies like NFC) to provide extended product packaging solutions. Bar codes do not have to be just cold, emotionless, black-and-white squares. Solutions now exist to personalize QR codes' designs and seamlessly mix them into a logo or band chart – even merging QR codes and NFC tags, as in the example below from mobiLead solutions.
The 2D bar code market will follow the same path as the 1D bar code market: fulfilling the need for certified and scalable platforms dealing with millions of standard code generation. Mobile bar code vendors will have to move into scalable mobile engagement platforms, progressively integrating multiple access technologies, such as Near Field Communications (NFC) tags, image recognition, or audio tags such as Shazam, and offering deep analytical tools. Beyond the emerging role of 2D bar codes in sales, we expect a growing number of brands — especially in the nutrition and health space — to systematize the use of bar codes on product packaging. Consumers want access to more product information, and brands can leverage mobile technologies to create a consumer relationship.


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Posted by Eve Maler on February 13, 2012
In approaching the research for my recently published TechRadar™ on strong authentication, at first I struggled a bit with overlapping concepts and terminology (as can be seen in the lively discussion that took place over in the Security & Risk community a few months back). The research ultimately revealed that form factor matters a lot -- smartcards in actual card form, for example, have some properties and use cases distinct from smart chips in other devices. So smartcards became one of the 14 categories we included.
The category that quickly became my favorite was "bring-your-own-token." BYOT is Forrester's term for the various methods (sometimes called "tokenless") that leverage the devices, applications, and communications channels users already have. The classic example is a one-time password that gets sent in an SMS message to a pre-registered phone, but we see emerging vendors doing a lot of innovation in this space. You can get a surprising amount of risk mitigation value from this lightweight approach, in which you can treat provisioning not as an expensive snail-mail package, but as a mere self-registration exercise. In a world where hard tokens and smartcards prove themselves to be, shall we say, imperfectly invulnerable, lightweightness can have a value all its own. In fact, BYOT showed up just behind these two venerable methods in the "significant success" trajectory on the TechRadar.


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Back in my early programming days, every team had their "script guy" (or gal). There was always the need to automate some task, whether it was backups to tape or a cron job to check for a new file to FTP. The sys-admin community was always the go-to group that had long ago figured out that a good script was worth its weight in gold. I was fortunate to work for a DoD-aerospace company on a secret project right out of college. The amount of process and governance that we were under was tremendous now that I look back (I thought it was normal back then, yea right). We created a truly continuous delivery environment, albeit some of the steps were manual. Each night, all of the change sets for all of the finished change requests were examined. Each file that was changed was checked to insure that there were no other changes that it depended on that were not on the completed change request list. Using VAX logicals, we were able to have code at different deployment levels (DEV, INT, QA, STAGING, PROD) and use the same build mechanism.
Fast forward 25 years. The challenges and demands for DevOps are the same, yet the size and breadth of "common" everyday IT applications today is comparable to the Air Force project I was on 25 years ago. And if you look at the current DevOps solutions out there today, you see the same script guy mentality all balled up in the open source solutions and niche players being increasingly utilized. Hudson, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, etc. are all the result of a group of smart "script guys" that needed a way to get something done without having to stay late or come in on weekends.
DevOps is a very big and wide buzz word today getting lots of traction. And like other groundswells, it got its start as a grassroots effort by "script guys." But some new factors have caused DevOps to be embraced by enterprise companies like IBM. Cloud computing is a dream come true for the DevOps community. To not only be able to continuously build and deploy but also provision without the 6 month lead time to procure hardware, we now have a much more flexible and dynamic environment to answer the more than often asked question. "Can we quickly stand up an environment to fix <insert problem here>?" Without a cloud solution, this often meant out-prioritizing other efforts to steal their hardware.
The IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery solution encompasses all of these good things in one product. Out of the box is the SmartCloud Provisioning solution as well as Rational Team Concert for a nice and robust build engine. If you want to plug in your open source solution like Jenkins or Hudson, feel free. You can also take advantage of IBM Rational Build Forge and Rational Automation Framework if you choose. Want to use IBM Workload Deployer or IBM Pure Systems, be my guest.
But don't look now. A quick search on Google shows a slew of open source cloud solutions. Stay tuned for more DevOps fun.


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Ermmm, very gritty!
You'd be better off posting in the Gallery if you want more comments on your work.
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I cannot see the photos. Perhaps it is my computer, or the coding or something, but I would suggest posting in different places to get more reviews of your work.
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Canisius College head men's basketball coach Jim Baron announced today that the Golden Griffins will play a road game at St. Francis Brooklyn Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, with tipoff set for 4 p.m. The game against the Terriers replaces the previously scheduled game between Canisius and Stony Brook, which will now be played in the Koessler Athletic Center during the 2014-15 season.
St. Francis Brooklyn went 12-18 overall and 8-10 in Northeast Conference play last season. Junior forward Jalen Cannon averaged 14.7 points and 8.8 rebounds per game last season to lead the Terriers' attack. This will mark the 11th all-time meeting between the Griffs and the Terries, with Canisius leading the series 6-4. The teams last met Dec. 10, 2010, in the Koessler Athletic Center where St. Francis Brooklyn, a 76-58 win for the Terriers.
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Cheryl from Caldwell Oh. writes:
I have heard that you should shut your monitor off but leave the CPU on, what is the reasoning for this?
Hi, Cheryl. This is actually a question that has plagued geeks practically since the beginning of computers – and if you ask three geeks, odds are that you'll get three different answers. Since you asked this geek, here's my answer…
The idea of turning monitors off when not in use goes back to the days of monochrome CRT's, PSS (Pre Screen Saver). These things suffered a malady that has returned to plague plasma TV owners called "burn-in". That's when an image is left on a screen for a long period of time, it literally "burns" into the screen. Here's a pic of an old Pac-man video arcade screen that has burned in.
Bear in mind, as you look at this, that the screen is not only off, but also removed from the video game. The situation is less serious on Plasma TVs, because a plasma screen will eventually "heal" a burn-in when it has had enough varying images displayed on it, whereas old CRT's wouldn't.
So back in the old days, when you had a mainframe or something that you had to leave on all the time, the common wisdom was to turn off the CRT's when not in use to prevent burn-in. Screen savers eliminated a lot of these problems because they could be set to display a shifting image of some sort. With the advent of LCD's, burn-in became largely a thing of the past for computers.
Now the main reason to turn your monitor off when not in use is to extend its life. Modern LCD life spans are calculated in display hours. The thing to bear in mind, though, is that the life expectancy of most modern LCD's is somewhere around 100,000 hours. How long is that? Let's put it this way… if you left your LCD on twenty four hours per day for ten years you would age it about 85,000 hours. In other words, it's not a real worry.
The primary reasons to shut off your CPU (tower) are two-fold.
This first is that you may want to shut it down when you're not using it to save wear and tear on your machine. Lots of little moving parts and things carrying electricity and stuff that wear out more quickly the more that they're used. There's also the possibility that a power surge or something may hit that damages your machine if it's on.
The second is that, every time that you run a program, little bits and pieces of that program are left in your RAM. Enough of these little bits and pieces will eventually cause your machine to slow down. Because of this, I'd recommend that you reboot your machine at least once per day to clear these out.
The main reason to leave your CPU on is that it's constantly in a "ready" state,so when you go to use it, it's all ready to go.
One way to fix all of these problems (except for the bits left in your RAM) is to use your machine's power options to turn your monitor off and put your machine to sleep after a certain amount of time inactive. Then, when you're ready to use your machine, all you have to do it click or move the mouse to wake the machine up.
Hope that this helps.
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Posted by Brian Lambert on October 11, 2011
Technology vendors continue to focus on implementing sales coaching programs. I'm finding that sales coaching programs mostly focus on providing sales managers the skills they need to be more "coach-like" with their reps. When you step back and look at what kind of skills sales managers need to be more coaching oriented, you end up with a broad ranging list like objectively assessing reps and where they're at, or clearly defining future rep behaviors, or using technology to help inform sales coaching decisions. Along with this focus on skills, some sales coaching programs focus on defining the critical elements of each sales coaching conversation (like increased relevance, giving developmental feedback, and providing motivation). Yet, despite these efforts, the sales enablement professionals we talk to share their frustration that sales coaching doesn't quite take off with frontline sales managers like they were expecting.
For example, in one technology vendor, sales coaching didn't take off despite sales coaching training, top-down sales leader support, and feedback from reps demanding more coach-like interactions with their managers. In another technology vendor, it seemed massive communications and sales coaching training efforts were a non-starter (and dare I say it, dead on arrival). Why is that? Why are technology vendors seemingly doing the right things, but not getting the traction they expect?
It seems that one critical and often overlooked aspect of helping sales coaches be more successful is the ability to help coaches get started: 1) defining their sales coaching approach, and 2) starting each and every interaction with reps in a valuable and meaningful way, especially when those interactions are around previously identified sales coaching scenarios.


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Members of the association's board of director and its Government Affairs committee, as well as "emerging leaders," will meet with members of Congress representing the districts in which they live and work. Discussions with elected officials will focus on health, nutrition, and wellness; electronic payment fees; coin and banknote design; and the effects of federal regulatory expansion on small and midsize businesses.
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Brian coaching Courtney while Richard, scoreless, shows confidence.
Richard is still looking confident, despite the close score
Of course he is giving the evil eye to the photographer (and opponent)
Melvin's (now) famous "two handed belly flop" delivery
A more sedate delivery by his better half Courtney.
Send it back, we'll throw it again
Positioning the stone-cold turkey. It was 32.8 inside the ice shed, no problems with global warming here.
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MOM... Put me down!
Now can I push it dad?
Note the extension, excellent form
Now that's what I came for!
The younger one reluctantly volunteers for a turn
Dad's busy, kids must wait
Photographer busy too, I think it was Courtney that grabbed the camera
Thank goodness I hogged it
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Have an MSR Hubba or Hubba Hubba tent stashed in your backpacking bag? Add an extra 26 square feet of covered vestibule storage just outside the front door with the MSR Gear Shed. With the Shed's simple tent attachment, additional weatherproof coverage is just minutes away. Complete with a partial, integrated floor and hooped roof that stands 35 inches tall, this spacious attachment gives you lots of storage for packs, boots, or man's best friend.
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Not necessary unless you in a rainforest
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
If you go backpacking, you don't need this. Why adds weight? It's great to store more just outside of your tent and use low profile chair to watch the rain. For the money, it's not worth getting this. The fly does a job for my Nook tent. I can sit inside the tent just like the shed to watch the rain. Shed to me is a waste of money and weight to your backpacking. You're better off with Hoop tent.
Alright, but not exactly great.
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
I purchased this so I had more space for my gear, along with space for my dog (labrador) to sleep inside the gear shed space. Kind of awkward set up and I think it could benefit from an extra tie down or two. It was also pretty hard to climb in and out of comfortably. I have set it up twice now and have been debating returning it.
Double the space
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
I purchased this to accompany my Hubba Hubba NX when I take an extended bike trip this fall. I have used it when car camping to become familiar with it. It's doubtful I would backpack with this as it's about the same size as my tent pack, and not too much lighter. So keep that in mind in your use case.
This fits great, using OEM attachment points and quality straps and loops. This indeed about doubles the tent space, keeping in mind it's mostly useful for weather protection. With the majority of the vestibule open to the ground, I'd still worry about gear with rain/water flowing along the ground, but it'll def protect from overhead.
My star reduction is for a few points
1 -- it's very hard to move in and out of this. The ceiling gets very low.. due to how it attaches closer to the tent body. I found myself using the regular vestibule entrance as my 6"1' frame didn't fit well in the shed entrance. While zipping up the door one night, I routinely snagged the zipper on the fly fabric, causing horrible zipper jam. I feared I had damaged the fly or zipper in backing things out , all a struggle in the dark. Looking close, I found it easy for this to happen if not being very careful when moving the zipper in any direction. Also, I feel the unit would benefit from additional tie out points, as there aren't any besides the tail end. Wish they'd have included a nicer stuff sack with compression straps as well; the existing one works to transport, but not much to lessen the size of this beast.
I think this will work well for car and assisted camping ventures. A nice addition to my favorite tent.
How long is the pole and how many sections. I was wondering if the poles could be replaced with shorter sections.
does this work with the mutha hubba? if...
does this work with the mutha hubba? if not is there a gear shed for the motha hubba?
Hey David, the Hubba gear shed only works with the Hubba and Hubba Hubba tents, not with the Mutha Hubba. At this time MSR does not list a gear shed that is designed to work with the Mutha Hubba.


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O'Donnell's LinkedIn Profile Raises More Questions; UPDATED: Another Site Lists Oxford?
posted at 10:07 am on September 29, 2010 by Diane Suffern
Remember those fights on the Right we had over Christine O'Donnell's candidacy? It seems so long ago when conservatives who had serious questions about her credibility were put on a RINO purge list. Ah, well. Water under the bridge, of course.
Except, she appears to have "enhanced" even more of her school record, and the Left has noticed.
Most are aware of her previous claims of graduating from Fairleigh Dickinson University and attending graduate-level courses at Princeton. O'Donnell supporters were satisfied with her clarification of owing the school money before she could technically graduate from Fairleigh (receiving her degree only last September). Her explanation for the reality that she hadn't attended a single course at Princeton? Simple mistake. (I know I mix up my real school history with my fantasies all the time. In lawsuits.)
Yet, on her LinkedIn profile she also lists Claremont Graduate University and University of Oxford as further educational experience:
Gary Scott, former reporter and producer of To the Point, investigated locally:
The same resume lists O'Donnell as having attended Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. The claim seemed suspicious since O'Donnell had yet to receive her undergraduate degree, from Farleigh Dickinson University, until last summer. So I asked CGU's public relations officer, Rod Leveque, if the school had any record of O'Donnell attending classes there. His response:
In short, no. Claremont Graduate University has no student or education record for an individual named Christine O'Donnell.In 2002, O'Donnell was listed as a "Lincoln Fellow" at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank also based in Claremont. However, the institute is not affiliated with the Claremont Graduate University or any of the other Claremont Colleges. One of the Claremont Institute's fellows, Harry Jaffa, did teach at the Claremont Graduate University back when it was known as Claremont Graduate School.
Got that? Claremont Institute is a think tank, not a graduate school as she claimed. Quite a difference.
Then there's Oxford. The Oxford. Greg Sargent of Washington Post's Plum Line reports:
Asked to account for the claim about Oxford, Diana Banister, a spokesperson for O'Donnell, told me it was a reference to a certificate she obtained from a course at Oxford overseen by the Phoenix Instutute, which "runs summer seminar programs at universities around the world." The Phoenix Institute defines itself as an institution that runs summer sessions "on three continents" in the quest to answer the question, "What is it to be human?"
But Chris Fletcher, who oversaw the Institute's 2001 Oxford Summer Programme, which included the course O'Donnell took, tells me the course was not overseen by Oxford.
"We never represented it as a course run by Oxford University," Fletcher, who is now an assistant professor of religious studies at Benedictine University in Illinois, told me. Fletcher said the only connection to Oxford is that they rented space there and organized some lectures with "guest lecturers from Oxford and Cambridge" as well as from other institutions.
"It wasn't an official course of Oxford University," Fletcher said. "It wasn't sponsored by Oxford University. We rented the space."
"It was our curriculum, and we did the grades," Fletcher continued. Fletcher's conclusion about O'Donnell's Oxford claim: "It's misleading."
Once is misspeaking. Twice is an odd coincidence. (Kindly, please don't do it again, Ms. O'Donnell.) Three times is clearly an issue. But four or more? That's a pattern and crosses the threshold into character. For someone with no record, we have only her character to recommend her. Because of the high-profile endorsements she garnered, based on said character and her word alone, she's now linked to both the Tea Party movement and Sarah Palin, among others. This isn't okay.
Admittedly, the Delaware primary wasn't a simple race to parse. Opinions spanned the gamut with plenty of vitriol on both sides. Yet, can't we all agree that her habitual "misspeaking" is, at the very least, a problem? This isn't sexism. This isn't personal attack. It's getting ahead of an issue we wouldn't even tolerate in moderate Republicans, let alone our opponents on the Left. Is our new motto "just words, just speeches" at the expense of reality? Are we changing the rules because she's "one of our own" and we're hoping for a win? Why, that seems remarkably…pragmatic.
For unity!
See Patterico's related post and other articles on O'Donnell here.
UPDATE: LinkedIn profile is fake? Katrina Trinko at NRO posted this statement from the O'Donnell campaign:
There have been reports that I have released false information on a LinkedIn profile under my name. This is categorically untrue. I never established a LinkedIn profile, or authorized anyone to do so on my behalf. I have always been clear about my educational background. I completed undergraduate work at Fairleigh Dickenson University. After my undergraduate work, I completed a summer program run by the Phoenix Institute, at the Institute's Oxford University location. The Institute runs programs around the world at various universities, and participants study issues of human dignity. I also completed a Lincoln Fellowship at the Claremont Institute in Claremont, CA. We would encourage LinkedIn to remove this profile.
Trinko also quotes Greg Sargent's response to statement:
As the person who first reported yesterday on the Oxford claim on O'Donnell's LinkedIn profile, let me be clear: I asked O'Donnell's spokesperson, Diane Banister, for comment on the profile's Oxford claim last Friday. Banister never once claimed the profile wasn't put up by O'Donnell. Indeed, in response to my inquiry, Banister justified the claim on the LinkedIn profile by pointing to O'Donnell's stint at Phoenix University.
Nor did O'Donnell's spox dispute that the LinkedIn profile was hers when I again emailed her yesterday to let her know I was close to publishing.
UPDATE: Greg Sargent at WaPo reports LinkedIn's response to O'Donnell:
LinkedIn has now responded to Christine O'Donnell's claim that she had no role in posting her online bio, which falsely claimed she studied at Oxford. But right now, LinkedIn says, it's not yet in a position to determine whether or not O'Donnell is telling the truth.
"We have taken the profile down. That's all we are confirming," LinkedIn spokesperson Shannon Stubo emailed me. "It was taken down in response to Christine O'Donnell's request. This is not an acknowledgment that the profile was fake."
To reiterate: O'Donnell's campaign spokesperson didn't indicate that the profile was unauthorized when I contacted her for comment last week, or when I contacted her yesterday before publishing.
UPDATE: Patterico notes here:
Since O'Donnell says the LinkedIn page was not created by her, or anyone acting at her direction, it's time we uncovered the imposter. Someone has gone to great lengths to build a lengthy, mostly accurate profile of Ms. O'Donnell, which included subtle puffery about her educational background. Assuming this person is not Ms. O'Donnell, this is a clever plot, as it feeds into the narrative that she has previously fibbed about her education. If we take Ms. O'Donnell at her word, then whoever perpetrated this travesty is likely an identity thief out to destroy Ms. O'Donnell's reputation. I assume we all agree that this person must be exposed.
How the imposter got O'Donnell's spokespeople to initially react as though the profile was hers, I'm not sure. It just goes to show that his or her access to Ms. O'Donnell may be more intimate than anyone imagines.
Meanwhile, O'Donnell's imposter had 84 connections on her LinkedIn page (which has now been deleted — but don't worry, there are screengrabs all over the Internet and the cache is still alive here). Perhaps one of those people managed to communicate with the imposter. These communications might reveal something about the imposter's identity.
He's right, of course. If someone is fraudulently creating highly-detailed, favorable social networking sites for active politicians, this could be a criminal offense and the perpetrator should face charges. I urge both O'Donnell and LinkedIn to file a report and cooperate with law enforcement immediately. This is tantamount to identity theft and certainly qualifies as cyber crime and all of us should be concerned. We're all Christine O'Donnell now!
UPDATE: Jeez. Another site lists University of Oxford as part of her educational record (though manages to get the Claremont Institute right). h/t Patterico and Ben Smith.
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"In his scholarship, George Thomas demonstrates an expansive curiosity about criminal law and criminal procedure," said Dean Stuart L. Deutsch, "effectively and engagingly exploring some of the most challenging issues in the criminal justice field." The resolution naming Thomas Board of Governors Professor of Law notes that he has written the definitive work on Miranda and confessions and that his insightful analysis of the concept of double jeopardy has shaped the debate on the issue since the early 1990s. The resolution also cites his exceptionally far-reaching impact on rising generations of legal scholars through his widely-used criminal procedures textbook.
Professor Thomas is the author of the books The Supreme Court on Trial: How the American Justice System Sacrifices Innocent Defendants and Double Jeopardy: The History, the Law and the co-author of The Miranda Debate (with Richard Leo) and Criminal Procedure: Principles, Policies and Perspectives (with Joshua Dressler). His next book, The History and Future of Confessions (with Richard Leo), will be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Thomas has also published more than 60 articles, 10 in the last three years alone. Some placements include the law reviews of Michigan, Virginia, Texas, UCLA, NYU, California, and Northwestern.
Professor Thomas has a B.S. from the University of Tennessee, an M.F.A. (creative writing) and J.D. from the University of Iowa, and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 1986, he practiced law in Tennessee and was a member of the University of Tennessee faculty.
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05/14/08: Name a sewage treatment plant after George W. Bush!
What better way to pay tribute to Dubya than to name a waste facility after the President who flushed everything down the crapper? The Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco wants to rename The Oceanside Treatment Plant "Mount Flushmore" in honor of George W. Bush. They need 10,000 signatures to get on the ballot by July, the text of which will read "Should The City And County of San Francsico Rename The Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W Bush Sewage Plant?". Click here to get involved! We at Alternative Tentacles look forward to the day we can say "Mission Accomplished" every time we flush!
05/12/08: House passes RIAA/MPAA-backed PRO-IP Act
The US House of Representatives passed HR-4279, the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act, a.k.a. the PRO-IP Act, backed by the RIAA and the MPAA. The PRO-IP Act proposes to create a Cabinet level position to enforce intellectual property rights, as well as expanding forfeiture penalties that would allow federal law enforcement to seize computers and other private property. Please contact your representatives to express your concern regarding the PRO-IP Act.
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+ HR-4279 info on opencongress.org
We just got word from our friends at Sudden Death Records that DOA will embark on a 30th anniversary tour. Check it:
For Immediate Release: May 5, 2008
Over the past thirty years D.O.A. have released 12 albums and sold one million copies during their storied career. Band Leader Joe Shithead Keithley has gone on to start his own label Sudden Death Records and, with members of D.O.A, started a side project called Band of Rebels. Keithley captured his musical history in his Canadian bestseller autobiography I, Shithead - A Life In Punk (Arsenal Pulp Press). In 2003, Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell declared December 21st to be "D.O.A. Day" in honor of the band's 25th anniversary.
Keithley has teamed up with co-conspirators bassist Randy Rampage and drummer James Hayden to come up with a ton of great new songs for a new album to be released this summer. Bob Rock has produced albums for Metallica, Pointed Sticks, Young Canadians, Motley Crue, Cranberries, The Cult and many others. Bob Rock is producing D.O.A.'s 13th full length album Northern Avenger in time for their 30th anniversary.
What did the Canadian godfather of punk rock have to say about working with Rock? "Working with Bob Rock is fucking cool," says Keithley. "D.O.A. and Bob go a long ways back to the early days of Vancouver's punk rock scene. If there ever was a guy who can record a heavy sound, it's Bob and D.O.A.'s a heavy band, so it bloody well makes sense!"
D.O.A. has always maintained an uncompromising anarchist populist political stance using the slogan "TALK - ACTION = 0". The band is known for its outspoken political opinions and has a history of performing for many causes and benefits. The band has been active on many issues, including anti-racism, anti-globalization, freedom of speech and the environment.
Thirty years later Joe Shithead Keithley and D.O.A. are still just as outspoken and continue to fuckin' rock!
Need I say more?
DOA 30th Anniversary Tour:
Tuesday May 6th, The Casbah, Hamilton, ON
Monday June 9th, Wild Bill's, Banff, AB
American, European and more Canadian tour dates will be posted soon!
BloodHag Adults Only All Ages Tour
Skarp Grind Til the Wheels Fall Off Tour
In addition to the "Lovesong for the Botfly" video we posted earlier, there are other Triclops! happenings, both virtual and reality-based (or "IRL," as the kids say). We just posted a new AT podcast episode all about Triclops!, which you can download here (it's 18 megs/19 minutes). If you're in the Bay Area, you can catch them live tomorrow at Amoeba Music in San Francisco (1855 Haight St is the address). It's a free show that starts at 6pm--why not cut outta work early for some R-n-R?
Here are all the Triclops! manifestations in the near future:
04/25/2008 Amoeba San Francisco, CA
Check out Triclops!'s new video for their song "Lovesong for the Botfly" on Out of Africa (Virus 380). It is entomologically educational and awesomely heebeegeebee-inducing. (Make sure to subscribe to the Triclops! Youtube channel for updates!)
There won't be an official Alternative Tentacles SXSW showcase this year, but there will be some hefty AT presence in Austin for the music festival. First of all, old school AT bands the Dicks and Half Japanese (with the original lineup!) will be playing some shows. Slim Cessna's Auto Club will have a few appearances, too, and they will have copies of their new album Cipher (Virus 383) on CD for sale. (The album doesn't officially hit stores until March 25.)
Here is a roundup of all that's Alternative Tentacles at SXSW:
Half Japanese
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We are incredibly saddened to hear the news that Mike Conley, the singer of M.I.A., passed away last Friday, February 29 in Chicago as a result of an accidental fall. Originally from Las Vegas, M.I.A. became one of the pillars of the emerging Orange County punk scene in the early 1980s. More recently, Mike has been known as the owner of the Avalon Bar in Costa Mesa, bringing live music by independent musicians and revitalizing business in the area.
There is a really nice tribute to Mike from the Daily Pilot, a Costa Mesa newspaper. You can send or post messages of support at M.I.A.'s MySpace page. Also, there is a Mike Conley Family Memorial Fund where you can make donations online or through the mail to help the Conley family.
Our heartfelt thoughts are with Mike's family, fellow members of M.I.A., and the punk community at large as we all mourn Mike's untimely passing.
Like a grizzly bear coming out of hibernation, Alternative Tentacles is saying "fuck it" to winter dormancy and releasing new records! In addition to the Triclops! record we announced earlier this week, we will be releasing a new, hotly anticipated album from our dear friends from Denver, CO, Slim Cessna's Auto Club. It's been four years since SCAC's last release Bloudy Tenent Truth and Peace (Virus 317), so you're probably chomping at the bits for more of their country gospel awesomeness.
Cipher (Virus 383) is scheduled for release on March 25, but you can catch Slim and company on the road in early March. There are a few songs from Cipher up on SCAC's MySpace page. Yes, the song titles make no sense but that's the point of Cipher--on the artwork for the CD and LP, all the song titles will be in code and you'll have to figure them out.
For more info on Slim Cessna's Auto Club, please visit the official SCAC website or their MySpace page.
If you're new to the wonderful and mysterious world of SCAC and the Denver music scene from whence they hail, you've come to the right place! We have a whole slew of music from Denver artists including Munly's solo release, Tarantella, and 16 Horsepower.
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We at Alternative Tentacles are totally gloating over snagging Triclops! as a new addition to our roster.
Just who the hell is Triclops! (yes, the exclamation point is a part of their name!)? They're one of the best bands to come out of the Bay Area in the past few years, featuring Christian from Bottles and Skulls on guitar, John Geek from Fleshies on vocals, Larry from Victims Family on bass, and Phil from Lower Forty-Eight on drums. We are soooo glad Jello chased them down and signed them to Alternative Tentacles, and are excited to work with them. AT will be releasing Triclops!'s first full-length Out of Africa (Virus 380) on CD and LP on March 25. (Of course, figuratively speaking, there is no birth without some kind of pain and we must note with sadness that Gold Standard Laboratories, who was set to release Triclops!'s debut album, recently announced they will no longer release new records but will continue to keep their existing releases in print.)
We just posted on the AT MySpace two songs--"March of the Half-Babies" and "Freedom Tickler"--from the upcoming Triclops! album (MySpace is taking forever to "process" one of the songs so there's only one song up at this second...). Please check them out and let us know what you think! In our mailorder, we carry the Triclops! Cafeteria Brutalia EP on Sick Room Records, so check that out too.
For more info on Triclops!, please visit their website http://triclopsband.com or their MySpace page.
Just a quick reminder about The Eat reunion show happening in Miami this Saturday, February 2. This is the first time they're performing in 12 years. The Eat anthology It's Not the Eat, It's the Humidity (Virus 377) 2xCD/2xLP here on our website or at your local record store. (Their "Communist Radio" 7" showed up on eBay recently for a starting bid above $1000. Yikes!)
Who: The Eat
If you go to the show, please hit us up with a recap and/or photos and we'll post 'em here!
Akimbo have spoken and we have two winners for the Navigating the Bronze contest. Thanks for all your entries, everyone! A special shoutout goes out to the most supportive band parents of the year, Mr. and Mrs. Weisnewski, for participating with their entries!!
"When I was younger we all had infatuations with
genitalia on bronze statues in our city. Those who
stared too long at them were labeled "bronzies". To
me, navigating the bronze means....spending the night
pursuing useless sexual pursuits."
"this phrase has no meaning, but has a purpose"
Here are a few honorable mentions that we (Akimbo and AT staff) loved:
"I think 'Navigating the Bronze' should be the name of a tasty eggnog cocktail. The recipe could look like this:
2 oz light rum
"Navigating the bronze- Steering to be mediocre: doing just enough: no ambition or drive to be the best.
Our president is navigating the bronze so the public doesn't think he's totally worthless."
"navigating the bronze (phrase) - Making it through to the your next pay check without any money. One does this by eating things that are found in the back of the refrigerator for meals (old hot dogs, cold and forgotten leftovers, etc.) and also bumming food and/or car rides from your neighbors and friends.
(usage) - shit man, I spent all of my cash on beer last night and I don't get paid until Friday... looks like I'm gonna have to navigate the bronze for a few days."
"navigating - to find or give directions
therefore, navigate the bronze must mean to 'give anyone who is pissed off or has given up some kind of reason for being.'"
"Making your way through a sea of tan people.
We saw an albino navigating the bronze."
"The Bronze Age of Comic Books is an informal name for a period in the history of mainstream American comic books usually said to run from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s. It followed the Silver Age of Comic Books.
The Bronze Age retained many conventions of the Silver Age, with brightly colored superhero titles remaining the mainstay of the industry. However darker plot elements and more mature storylines called "Navigating the Bronze" featuring Real world issues, such as drug use, prostitution, and punk rock began to appear during this period, prefiguring the later Modern Age of Comic Books.
Example: Spiderman was navigating the Bronze hardcore in that last issue, smoking grass and going to a concert with his spidey senses altered."
"1. The aimless wandering through the fatuous blogosphere, jumping from link to link, reading post after post and taking in none of the meaning or content as time slips away with amazing speed as you ruminate on how banal most people truly are.
2. I'm so out of it I spent the last three hours just sitting at my
computer navigating the bronze."
"In my mind, navigating the bronze is all about living in the the DIY world of punk and underground music. As sad as it is to say, legitimate alternative music won't ever reach the top 10 on Billboard, but then again who the fuck cares. I see the really successful bands as being the gold medalists, because they get to be on top and sell everything. Then the guys that still get their videos played all the time, but don't quite reach the forefront of music, they get silver. Then there are the bands that not enough people know about, that bust ass year round and make great music that so many will never hear, I'm afraid they get the bronze. The title has to do with navigating our lot in life, through all the run down bars and all-ages venues, through the troubles gone through to put out records, and the struggle to keep going when you gotta struggle to play the bills and buy that new guitar because some asshole at a squat stole your last one. All of that is what navigating the bronze means to me."


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Man builds snow cat for girlfriend
MISSOULA, Mont. - There's some exotic wildlife attracting attention in the middle of Missoula. He rests in a residential yard on Stephens and Mount. Passersby can't get enough of him.
The white Bengal tiger called "Shere Khan" is a popular photo op.
He's twice, maybe three times the size of other tigers, but he's only days old, and sadly he won't live long. He's melting.
Ben Woods' girlfriend Nicole Warren loves tigers. Ben loves Nicole.
"I looked up and I saw one of my girlfriend's tiger posters," said Woods, "and I saw a white Bengal tiger and I was like...that's perfect."
Nicole had a bad day at work, and Ben wanted to cheer her up. He enlisted the help of Nicole's little brother and they started moving snow. It took them four hours.
"We had a shovel, a knife and a little bit of black spray paint," said Woods.
The end result was an amazingly lifelike tiger.
Ben went to pick up his girlfriend. He made her close her eyes. When she opened them and saw the snow cat in the front yard she thought it was an over-sized stuffed animal.
"I was really surprised," said Warren.
Ben was surprised that Shere Khan was such a hit.
People have been coming by to get their pictures taken with them.
Ben is certainly a hit with Nicole.
"It's an adventure with him," she said. "I love him a lot."
The couple are both University of Montana students. Both have jobs that keep them busy.
Shere Khan's visit may be short. But he's made a lasting impression.


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The astounding succes of scientific empiricism over the last 300 years has left us a reality that is, in many ways, much poorer than the magical universe it replaced. A whole menagerie of supernatural beings has become extinct from the ontological landscape.
For over fourhundred years the State Oracle of Tibet has been cloaked in secrecy, now the Dalai Lama has granted the filmmaker permission to portray this strange and mystical side of the old Tibetyan tradition that has been epxlored by the filmmaker as he plumbed the unconscious yearnings of the modern Western pilgrim, while at the same time trying to balance his own rationality with an openness to a distinctly other view of the universe
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Monday July 23rd, 2012 4:37pm
AMHERST, Mass. - Jackie Lyons received a few extra birthday presents on Sunday as the No. 15 UMass women's lacrosse team defeated Richmond 14-4 at McGuirk Stadium to clinch the Atlantic 10 Regular-Season Championship. The win also gives UMass the No. 1 seed in the A-10 Championship Tournament which will be held in two weeks at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Sunday's game was a match-up of the two previous unbeaten squads in the Atlantic 10 standings. The win improves UMass to 13-2 overall and 6-0 in league play, while Richmond falls to 8-8 overall and 5-1 in the A-10. UMass will wrap up the regular-season next weekend at Saint Joseph's.
Lyons led all scorers with two goals and two assists as she celebrated her birthday and Senior Day at McGuirk. Alongside her, seniors Nazy Kerr and Haley Smith were honored in a postgame ceremony. Smith scored a pair of goals on the day, while Kerr anchored a defensive unit which surrendered just one goal in the first half to the Spiders.
The Minutewomen used a balanced attack with 10 different players scoring goals. Alongside Lyons and Smith, Katie Ferris and Dayna Defliese each recorded two scores in the game. Keeper Katie Florence won her 13th game of the season making seven saves.
Caitlin Fifield scored two goals for Richmond, while Hayley Ross and Gabi Wiegand had the others. Victoria Roebuck took the loss in goal making 10 saves. The Spiders were without the services of Mary Flowers, Richmond's top scorer and one of the top midfielders in the league, who has missed the last three games due to injury.
Fueled by the excitement of the day, UMass jumped out to an 8-0 lead holding Richmond scoreless for the first 23:34 of play. Smith and Lyons combined to score four of UMass' five goals, while Ferris capped the 8-0 run at the 8:41 mark.
After Wiegand put the Spiders on the board with 6:26 left in the first, the Minutewomen responded with a three goal run in the final three minutes giving UMass an 11-1 lead at halftime.
Defliese and Cori Murray scored the opening two goals of the second half to put UMass up 13-1 before Fifield's two goals and Ross' marker closed the game to 13-4 with 9:43 left in the game.
O'Donnell finished the scoring on an empty net free position goal with 4:15 left in the half and UMass was able to retain possession afterwards to run out the balance of the clock.
UMass outshot Richmond 27-to-13 for the game including an 18-to-4 margin in the first half. The possession battle also came out in UMass' favor winning 15-of-21 draw controls and holding a 24-to-13 advantage in groundballs.
Lyons' two assists in the game moved her into 2nd all-time at UMass with 75 for her career. She now has 130 goals and 205 points which both rank third all-time. On Friday, she became just the third player in program history to eclipse the 200-point mark.
Smith's two goals give her 75 for her career along with 10 assists in 72 games. Kerr continued her strong senior campaign as one of the top defensive players in the Atlantic 10 as she now has 31 career caused turnovers, 52 groundballs and 20 draw controls in 66 games.
The A-10 regular-season title was the second for UMass in the past three seasons. The Minutewomen have won the last two Atlantic 10 Championship Tournaments for berths to the NCAA Tournament.
UMass' 14 goals today also broke the program's record for goals in a season as the Minutewomen have 220 for the year. The previous record was 210 set in 2009. UMass needs 25 more points to break the program's all-time points record for a season which is 308 set in 1978 - one of the longest standing team records.


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I received this in my email this morning, she asked that those of us who can to please help get the word out about this. I'm gonna go ahead and post this here because this section of TDH is where 99% of the talk on EU mandos takes place. Anyhow, here is a message from Karen Traviss concerning costumers who have emailed her asking character specific questions to fill in costume gaps:
*** With full permission to copy in its entirety ***
Folks, I'm getting a *lot* of mail from costumers asking for detail
on various characters. This is from all sorts of places, but I
mention it here because some of you have links into costume groups
and might get word out.
I can't give detail that's not in the books. Sorry, I want to help,
but this is causing me all kinds of problems. Nor will I share my
thoughts on what I might do with characters' costumes any longer,
because it's just made a rod for my back. I made a mistake helping
out one or two people in the past, and it's now getting in the way of
the stories - not through volume of mail, but because it's asking me
to pre-empt quite a complex worldbuilding process.
If it's not in the books, inventing it solely to fill in costuming
gaps causes real problems. Remember that long thread we had about
random continuity, inventing detail for the hell of it to "tie up
loose ends" and then finding some time later that it's cut across
some story further down the line? Even small detail can do that. If a
character carries a certain kind of bag, it's not just cosmetic -
they may well have a whole story to go with that about how they got
the bag and what it's made from. Imagine if someone had hassled to me
to find out what kind of gloves Jaing wore, and under pressure, off
the top of my head, I said blue.
Actually, Jaing's gloves ended up being grey, because what they're
made from and how he acquired them is a huge element in the plot of
the RC books.
Do you see my point? This is not actually small detail, however much
it might look like it. Detail has to grow organically from
storytelling. Otherwise it's the tail wagging the dog, and that kills
the books.
I love the costuming community, but I need folks out there to
understand why I can no longer give them any unpublished detail or
suggestions. Any help you can give me in getting word out will be
You may reproduce this message if you need to. In fact, it's probably
better if you use it, because paraphrasing might end up making it
look as if I can't be arsed, when in fact I have a very valid reason
for not providing information that has nothing to do with spoilers.
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'"We still watch for sure and there's always little jabs going around the room with all the different countries represented in our dressing room," said centre Daniel Briere, a two-time gold medallist with Canada at the tournament. "Guys are watching and it's fun to keep an eye on."'
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How could anyone not notice the small box of growing vegetables sitting atop a large fish tank sitting outside the zero energy house at the entrance to the PCBC and West Coast Green conference? Sure, this unusual fish and vegetable combination drew a lot of eyeballs but did anyone stop to ask what the heck this sea-veggie contraption does? We did.
For those outside of the land Down Under, most people remain unaware of aquaponics. Australian farmers continue to use this sustainable way to grow fish and vegetables due to their continuing extreme drought conditions.
The concept behind aquaponics can be explained rather simply. The water and fish poop from the tank move upward into the stone filled bed which feeds the plants. The hydroton pebbles, imported from Germany, have bacteria that absorb the fish poop then convert the poop to nitrites then nitrates which is fertilizer. Okay, we're not chemists but when Kevin Warnock who put this contraption together using parts from Costco and a fish supply place shows us that the plants grow six times faster than in dirt and the fish grow twice as fast as in the wild we have to think that this may be a good idea.
Even better, consider the water that can be saved. Not only do the vegetables use about 1/10th the water of vegetables grown in dirt but the systems needs no chemicals to clean the water. Kevin only adds water (for the fish and fish food) but no cleaners, chemicals or pesticides.
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Cocktail 012 — The Best of
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In Cocktail 012 — The Best of we would like to introduce our audience selection from our past and present repertory.
The evening is a representative display of various subjects and artistic practices, which are used by Laterna Magika in its performances. It enables viewers to get to know many different approaches and maybe help them to decide which performance to visit next. We pick up selections from past (e.g. Variations, 1963) as well as present projects (Casanova, Graffiti, Legends of Magic Prague).
Programme includes a short revue Code 58.08, which was created to celebrate 50 years of Laterna Magika in 2008. Code 58.08 is a small sight into way, in which film or digital technology can hand in hand with choreography work in the imagination of young generation. A little bit of "retro", peek off-stage or, small walk through some places connected with the history of Laterna Magika and many more, together with a couple of dancers, who will guide you through the entire performance.
theme: Václav Janeček
dramaturgy: Václav Janeček, Zdeněk Prokeš
stage director: Jan Loukota
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camera: Jan Loukota
music: Stanislav Abrahám
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Before Leaf fans get all over me, let me say that there is nothing wrong with being a complementary player. Every team has and needs them and they can be valuable pieces of the puzzle. When I say complementary player I mean he is a player that needs others to help him get the most out of his game rather than someone who can elevate his game and those around him on his own. The complementary player isn't as valuable as the guy who can elevate his game and the game of his line mates on his own (I call this a core player) but every good team needs a good cast of complementary players. Let me explain further with this chart of 2007-12 (5yr) even strength 5v5 data.
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In my opinion, the two best (offensive) players that Kessel has played with over his career are Marc Savard and Joffrey Lupul so I focused on Kessel's play with and without them. In the chart above, you can clearly see that Kessel has been substantially better when he is on the ice with either Savard or Lupul and in reality somewhat ordinary otherwise. When those two guys are on the ice Kessel's shooting percentage, and thus goal production, sky rockets. Whatever Savard and Lupul are doing, they make Phil Kessel better. Does that make Savard and Lupul core players and Kessel a complementary player? Maybe. Let's take a closer look at Lupul and see if his boost in Kessel's performance extends to some of the other line mates he has had over the years (again, using 5 year 5v5 shooting percentages).
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Aside from Tyler Bozak (and Kessel may be a factor as he has only played with Bozak when Kessel is also on the ice), he has improved the shooting percentage of each of his line mates over the past 5 seasons. This is fairly significant evidence that Lupul is in fact a core player that improves the performance of his line mates.
Every team needs core players, but there aren't enough core players in the NHL to fill out your roster so every team also needs quality complementary players. From my perspective, Kessel is a good complementary player that guys like Lupul and Savard can elevate into very good very productive players, but because Kessel is also dependent on Lupul to be highly productive, Kessel isn't worth the money that you would pay a core player. For this reason, if I were the Leafs management, I'd be very cautious about paying Kessel big money (i.e. in excess of $7M) on his next contract since, if something happens to Lupul (as is the case right now) he quickly becomes ordinary.
Now with that in mind, and the fact he is currently on a significant goal drought (12 games dating back to last season, mostly without Lupul) I think it is up to the Leaf coaching staff to mix up the lines and see if you can find another core player that can maximize Kessel's production. Bozak and van Riemsdyk don't seem to be the guys. Personally, I'd put him with Grabovski but it might also be interesting to see him with young energy players like Kadri and Frattin. The coaching staff has to do something but the current line is not working at all.


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